Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 5, 1888, Page 4

~_ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5 A A b S TR Sl e . THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daly (Morning Faition) incluaing SUNDAY HEp, (ne Year e T For 81 Months, ‘ For Three Months { g TywOMAn A SUNDAY Tiew, malled to any address, One Year, 20 | OMAMAOFFICENOS, 014 VN1 018 FARNAM STRERT. .~ N ¥ )W Y ORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE BUILING, W ASHINGTON OFFICKE, NO. b13 FOURTEESTH STREET. CORRFSPONDENC All communications relating to news and edi- torial matier should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THE iE¥. [l IS, nittances should be COMPANY, | | ¢ 1o the order of the company. B¢ Poblishing Compeny, Proprictors. B, ROSE , Editor. The Sworn Statement of Circulation. of Nebraska, i unty of Douglas, | Geo. 11, Tzachuck, secretary of The Bes Pub- Hshing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of Tug DAILY BEE for the ng September 1, 15, was as follow 8.8, Friday, A Baturda; Average.. ... GEO. I TZSCHUC) Sworn to hefore me and subscribed i prosence this 1st day of September, A. D, 1885, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public, Etate of Nebraska, * | County of Dougias, | George B. Tzsciuck, wes and says th bublishing company, t Aaily circulation of T month of August, 18, was 14 for September, 187, ' 1440 les: £ r, 187, 11338 coples; for Novembe 4 coples mber, 147, 19,041 January, 18+, 15,206 copies: for T84, 165,442 copiex'; for March, 1K, 10,04 copies April, 148, I8 7i4 coples: for May, 1888, 18131 copies: for Jurie, 1K, 10,26 copies; for July, 1, 18,083 coples. GEO. B, TZ2CHUCK. Bworn to before me and subscribed inmy presence this st day of August, A. D., 18K, N. P.FEIL Notary Publ fznx BUTLER is again on the nlump: That looks like training rather early for 1892, CANDIDATES for congress are sprout- ing in this district on every quarter- section. THE man who comes to Omaha this week and fails to find amusements to his tastes will be hard to please. Mi. MCSHANE accepts, and there is much rejoicing among the great army of patriots who are hankering for “goap.” THE next time Mr. Cleveland loads his gun he should not ram his retalia- tory wad insohard. The gun came near kicking him over. WHEN a conservative institution like the Omaha National bank doubles its capital to a round million, it is a fair index of business prosparity and shows an abiding faith in the financial sound- ness of the city. VicroriA has knighted the Hon. John Thompson in recoguition of his abilities as one of the framers of the fisheries treaty. This looks like a left- handed slap at the senate for rejecting the unsatisfactory treaty. BY CLOSE attention to business Sheriff Coburn saved up fifteen hundred dollars in perquisites, and now the unfeeling county commissioners are kindly but firmly requesting him to swell the county treasury with that amount. Suoutrage! THE returning del deep water convention at Denver might have brought along with them a real live enthusiastic Texan. A little Texas gall in getting people of other states to help pull through their enterprises might be of advantage. EVEN Lincoln is casting about to do her marketing in metropolitan style by setting on foot a project to build a $75,000 market house. But Omaha is content to buy stale vegetables and rancid butter in the good old fashioned way at exorbitant prices. BEER and whiskey in “original pack- nges” is flooding Towa and the prohib- itionists have another handle to.their ecrank in demanding that prohibition be made more effective by national leg- {slation to prohibit the importation of liguors and inter-state liquor traffic. THERE is nothing new in the state- ment of Mr. Cleveland’s unfriendliness to the newspaper men. That feeling has been acute with him for the last four years, and he has never had the good judgment to conceal it either in private or in public. Yet no public man of to-day owes a greater debt to the news- paper men than Grover Cleveland, as well for what they have said regarding bim as for what thay have omitled say- ing. Ordinary gratitude should suggest to Mr. Cleveland to treat newspaper men who must in the performauce of their duty come in contact with him with the courtesy which every gentle- man should pay to others. THE railroad issue is the most impor- tant question in Colorado to-day. For years the state has been under the dom- ination of railroads, Its logislators ave mere puppets, and its laws bear the ear marks of railroad dictation. The op- tunity now presents itself for brush- ng wside railroad control and putting the legislative body in the hands of the ‘people. Great interest is therefore cen- tered in the state convention of the re- publican party now in session at Den- wver, Itishoro thatthe real fight for the control of the state for the next two years between the people and the rail- roads takes place. The railroad mana- gers are making a desperate stand. But the people of Colorado are alive to their interests and necessities, They are determined that the policy of dis- ‘erimination and extortion so long prac- ticed upon them must now come to an -end. They will look to it that the men ~who go to the state legislature will not shrink from the duty of passing such laws as will hold the railroad corpora- rations within due bounds. The evils of the present railway power are sapping the life out of the business interests of state for the beneflt of the railroads, ¥t checks the natural growth of Colo- and enriches monopoly. The Chinese Problem, As we predicted only a few days ago, both parties in congress are in active | vivalry for first place on the question of restricting Chinese immigration. The tiouse on Monday passed a rigid restrice tion bill which was immedintely sent to the senate and promptly taken upin that body. The avidity with which the august,upper house “tackled” this mens- ure was in gharp contrast to its recent conduct regurding one or two matters of quite as great and grave importance, and served to show very forcefully the influence of political considerations upon the Chinese problem. Still more distinetly was this influence exhibited in the senate debate, in which Senator Sherman unquahifiedly ad- mitted that the bill was inconsistent with and a virtual abrogation of the existing treaty between the United States and China. The term ‘‘viola- tion' was not admitted, but to the av- erage judgmenta measure that con- travenes a treaty and is in clear conflict with it is not rendered any the less ob- jectionable because it is not held to be a vielation of such treaty. The verbal technicalities of Mr. Sherman and My, Teller were not calculated to elevate those gentlemen or the senate in the world's regard, nor will it be eclaimed that the spirit manifested and confessed in this matter :dounds to the honor of the country. he right of a nation to provide for its own pre tion is not questionable, but only amind rofoundly impressed with the exigen- of a political campaign could be- lieve that this countey is in such imme- diate danger from Chinese immigration that it is necessary to its preservation to hurriedly push through congress a bill contravening a treaty obligation. It is a most creditable part of the toriul record of the republican candi- date for president that he refused to be a party to similar action. In this matter both parties stand on the same footing. Sen- ator Butler of South Carolina, who drew the admissions from Mr. Sherman, and who confessed his belief that “this whole Chinese business had been a mat- ter of political advantage, and that we have not been governed by that delib- eration which the gravity of the ques- tion requires,” still declared his inten- tion to vote for the bill. There was a party demand upon him that must be obeyed, at whatever cost to his convic- tions and conscience. If rigidly enforced this restrictivi bill ought to keep out all Chinese la- borers except such as may be able to make their way into the country across the Canadian border, a chan- nel of supply that s said to have furnizhed a considerable num- ber of Chinese immigrants during the present year. It is legislation that will satisfly the Pacific const, which is an essential condition of the political situ- ation, equally recognized by both parties, Of the possible future conse- quences of such legislation there is manifestly no concern, and meanwhile the whole country will doubtless expe- rience a sense of relief if the pussage of the restriction bill skall remove the subjectof Chinese immigration wholly and permanently from politics. va- enn- now Public Land Prodigality. In the debate in the honse of repre- sentatives last week on the bill to create the territory of Oklahoma Mr. Nelson of Minnesota made an argument worthy of attention against continuing the pres- ent public land policy, which he cHar- acterized as too prodigal. Mr. Nelson recognized the beneficent operation of the homestead law of 1862, but he also saw that the conditions of to-day are entively different from what they were at that time. Then we had a vast arca of unsettled territory, and we were in the midst of a great war, “It was then of the ut- most importance to increase and enlarge expeditiously our resources and our sphere of production, and under the circumstauces, with such a large area of unsettled land and with the burden of a great war upon our hands, it was one of the wisest possible measures to pass the homestead law for the promo- tion of the rapid scttlement and devel- opment of our country.” But what was good policy in this respect twenty-six years ago Mr. Nelson thought might not be good policy to-day. The time is come when there is need to be a little careful of our public domain, which has been “our great economic safety valve, the place where the tired and teeming thou- sands from our large and crowdéd cities have gone and found homes and rest.” Mvr. Nelson thought 1t would be well if some of our public lanas could be left for our grandchildren. The amount of public domain remain- ing, that is available for settlement, is not large, and with the rate at which the lands were taken up last year main- tained, they will all,in a few years have passed out of the hands of the govern- ment. During the fiscal year of 1887 there were nearly twenty-six millions of acres disposed of, of awhich about twelve millions were under the home stead and timber culture laws. It is estimated that within ten years all the now remain- ing public domain fit for settlement will have become private property. Very likely there will be no great change from the existing policy regarding the Aisposal of these lands, but there are perhaps one hundred million acres of Indian lands in excess of the wants of the Indians of which the government will from time to time become possessed, and the question is whether a differen policy, justified by the different condi- tions of the present, shall not be adopted with respect to these Indian lands as they ave acquired. The present con- gress has made provision for opening to settlement twelve million acres of the Sioux reservation at fifty cents an acre and four mllion acres of reservations in Minnesota at one dollar per acre. The proposed territory of Oklahoma would embrace about eight million acres, for which the bill pro- vides that all settlers shall pay one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre. It 18 very desivable land and would un- doubtedly be promply taken up at this price, which would fully refmburse the government, but it was contended that the homestead principle should be ap- plied to these lands, although it has | conditions at a faiv p been the uniform policy of the govern- ment in the case of Indian lands fe- quired that the settlers pay for the land. It is obviously n business question, as Mr. Nelson said, and not with which sentiment or politics should have any connection, whether the govern- ment shall dispose of these lands and those hereafter nequired under similar e, or give away o large part of them at the cost of the whole people, and it is hardly to be one | doubfed that the intelligent judgment of the country would approve the policy of a just charge. Nobody questions the beneficent effects of the government’s liberal poiicy in the past with respect to the public domain, buv the coaditions which suggested and justified that liber- ality do not now exist. There is not the same urgency to-day that there was twenty-five ) s ago for pushing our material development, while our then vast domain has dwindled to com- paratively small proportions. There is no renson why the government should be in a hurry to dispose of the small amount of land it has available for settlement, or may hereafter acquire, and some consideration for the certain wants of a fature generation reguires that we should be less prodigal of the public land A Little too 8po The board of education of its way to pass a set of ¢ lutions which on their face show the incompetency of its members as promotersof education, and are in every respect outside of the proper sphere of that body. It is cortainly entirely ont of place in a school board to commend or con- demn @ newspaper for any policy or course it may see fit to pursue. The board is not expected to be partisan or the champion of any particular paper. Ttis a piece of impertinence on the part of the board to single out and cast reflections upon any member of a co-or- dinate branch of city government as they did with regard Mr. Kierstead. is manifestly out of place for the rd to commend or condemn either the or or any other officer of the city ¢ what they may do or omit in the scharge of their duties. Above all things the board should not exhibit its ignorance of English and its defiance of the United States lan- guage in resolutions that are published and made matter of record. The reso- lution we refer to reads as follows: Resolved, That this board heartily endorse the action of the city council in creating the ordinance, and the mayor for his spontaneous action in ordering the enforcement of the same tending toward the purification of this menacing degradation of pupils; aud that we give them our moral support, and lend all possible ener, i out of the much and long-need The couneil cannot “‘create’ an ordi- nance;—it may enact one. But asa mat- ter of fact, the council has not enacted an ordinance directing the removal ot dens from the Third ward. There is a state law against disorderly houses, and the ordinance prohibiting certain indecent practices has been n municipal law for yes The council simply passed a resolution requesting the mayor and chief of police to enforeo existing laws. Spontaneous means, voluntarily, or from natural impulse. It is supremely rediculous to characterize the action of the mayor as ‘“spontaneous,” when he simply has acted in compliance with an order of the council. The ‘“‘purification of menacing de- gradation” is strictly oviginal. Nobody outside of the board of education h ever indulged in such **hifalutin’” Eng- lish. But, coming down to business, who is to blame for the impure sur- roundings of the Third ward school house? Surely, not the city council, which is mevely a law-making body. If the board or any of its mem- bers know that within sight and hear- ing of the pupils of that school there is lawless indecency why haven't they made complaint at the police court against the offending parties? Whose duty is it, if not theirs to “purify the menacing degradation?” Has this “menacing degredation” not existed for years, by their “‘spontancous” consen Has not the board reflected discredit- ably upon itsell by publicly confessing its imbecility in failing to protect the pupils of the public schools from the im- moral contazion of disorderly houses? gone out \p-trap reso- Tue Utes and Piutes out in Colorado are settling the Indian question among themselves in their own peculiar way, so that by the time the commissioners got around there is likely to be nobody but dead Indians to remove to another reservation. Andadead Indian isalways a good Indian. [ ] $10,000. Globe Democrat, No president of the United States except Mr. Clevelaud, it is safe to say, ever contrib- uted a dollar to the fund for his re-clection. Tt is also safe to say that no other president ever desired re-election so much as he does. Aoy Conscience Pricks Them. Fioneer Press. Nebraska democrats have nominated John A. McShane for governor. He 1s running on @ platform which strongly indorses high tariffand bitterly denounces *Pinkertonism.” Democrats appear to have a mortal dread of detectives. It must be on the theory ad- vanced by Shakespoare. ‘‘Tuus conscience doth make cowards of us all."” e A Chance for a Fatal Blunder. Epoch, The brief interval remaining before their state convention ought to be a period of anx- ious thought to democrats who desire the success of their party ticket in New York. A more vulnerable candidate for a great office than D. B. Hill has never gained control of a party machine, and there has been no greater blunder in our political history than would be a surrender to the arrogant demand for renomination of a mau 8o thofoughly dis- eredited with all voters of character or inde- pendence. ol The Oyste: New York World, Out from his eloister Comes the oyster, His fair fat face full of sorrow; Let him mourn for his sins, For his pennance bezins To-WOorrow, Lo-morrow, to-morrow | il ety POLITICAL POINTS. The oddest election bet yet is from New- ark, where twenty democrats and republi- cans have put up 8, to make 4 #100 pool, which the winning gidags to take and expend in a glorification bi¥hadue Mr. Blaine's next appearance s to be ba fore the Home Markey, club in Boston in tember. Congressman_ Malsost of Indiana has do clined to accept the sifter service presented to bim by the employch of the government printing ofice, on the ground that it is not proper for him to acoeps any reward for the performance of a duty imposed upon him us a metber of congre: oung man of Michigan wondors whether h i vote at the ngxt keneral election. He was born on November 7, 1867, at 4 o'clock in the evening, Whepher the polls close at 4 ock in the aftdrnoon or ut sundown will still lack several hdurs of being tweuty- one yeara old. He wants (o know. Robert Harding, & young English socialist, when he wants to make a speech on the streets or public squares, padlocks himself to an iron fence or some similar fixture, Then when the police come to take him in they have to ng time fn getting him un- fast » can make a pretty long speech before carried off. Congressman *“Billy" Mason while enter. taining and inste the republicans of Mount Vernon, N. Y., the other evening, was soveral times interrupted by a boozy demo- crat in_the rear of the hall yelling “Cleve- land! Cleveland ™ The speaker 1 th other interruptions, w but finaily turned to the fellg “Your breath is familiar, but T don't recall your face; come nearer, please,” Sleveland yeils subsided, will_be a redeeming feature to this gn. The women are taking a strong tin it. The Woman's National com have issucd a strong address 1o the v, It is an appeal for woman's influ ence 1 favor of the republican party as the best agency for theadvancement of the cause of temperance reform. The appeal is an elo- quent one for the party that it states declures for protection for the home, With the women on our side democracy can hardiy hope to be triumphant, STATE IRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A laundry and a canning factory are two of Unadilla’s wants. The farmers in the vicinity of Gordon, Sheridan county, have formed an alliance for mutual protection, Two of the oldest residents of G county, Lawrence Connelly ana Ab: Fordham, died last week . A fourteen-year old daughter of Jus Sherwood, of Custer county, has beca rested and will be sent to the reform school on a charge of | Father Love or M XC VIL and the hero has committed suicide after holding a revolver to his head for three W cat rfield ham 'he Conflict; 'he Plattsmouth Herald believes that the Siege of Sebastopol could be produced at that place at a much less cost when the sewer men have completed their work i throwing up breastworks. A Broken Bow man named 0 an inmate of the ins returned home cured, went to i and again n. He has been ret. usylum at Lincoln, John H. Bauer, a wealthy farmer living near Louisville, Ca: as assaulted by a crowd of d y nieht d b 'ninto inseusibilit al cuts from knives in the hands of ants. His son, who was in bed at the time, hearing the nose, rushed out to his father's assistance, and was also badly injured. The crowd then left, but on Sun- rested by Sheriff Eikenbary while asleep in camp at Stout & Busche's quarries, and placed in jail at Plattsmouth, where they will be held awaiting the resuit ier's juries, The names of the pris- s are given as Andrew Raub, John Ha gel, Rudolph Long, Harmon Horning, K Nevaded and Theodore Stolk. Towa. 20,000 people to his show at Waters, who asylum and Barnum drew Marshalltown. The price of hard coal at Burlington has been fixed at $7.50 a ton. Davenport will be representod teen young wen in the state fall. One hundred and fifty Dubuque factory girls were photographed in u group the other aay. The Eye is the name of a new paper started at Missouri Valley by M. 8. Cox. It 1son the lookout for No.land the union labor party. A Keokuk ex-saloonkeepor predicts that inside of six months intoxicating liquors of every character will be sold in original pack- ages iu every part of fowa, Dakoua. _ Hand claims to be the banner corn county of ceutral Dakota. The survey for the Deadwood street rail- way has been begun. Dakota republicans have subscribed $7,000 to the national campaign fund through Gov- ernor Mellette. The Aberdcen banks receive $£30,000 to £40,000 daily in currency to supply the de- mands of the wheat buyers, Deuel county is to have two fairs this fall; one at Gary on September 17, 18, 19, and one at Cedar Lake September 20,21 and 23. The Ipswich Gazette says every man or boy who can pick up a bundle of wneat or drive a horse is in the wheat field these days. There are sixty-seven school houses in Miner county. The school land in the county is valued at #8500, an average of #4.32 an acre, Yankton people feel sure of anew rail- road wo this season, and are confident that work will begin on the new railroad bridge at that point nextspring, if not be- fore. The Rapid City Republican propounds this query to a visiting lowa preacher: *Is it a successful method of converting sinners to tell them that they are the scum of his own state, and that he is thankful that he does not have to hive among them The Napoleon Homestead says that when the Dakota farmer knows the true conaition of the erops in many other of the coun- try he should feel well reconciled that his lot ast where it is, even if frost has slightly nipped the flattering prospects, —_— by cigh- university this An Era of Low Rates, Siowr City Jowrnal. The older western railrond companies, in their fight to maintain high rates, ave fighting against the inevitable.,The old high rates from Chieago through- out the nortwest have got to go down. They have got to gofar below the limit at which the corporations are now struggling so desporately to maintain them. The reduction may not come suddenly, but come 1t will in no great length of time, and the roads will save themselves much useles and costly of- fort by recognizing the This vexed novthwestern fr imbroglio which Iately sprung up, though it has profoundly stirred rail- road circles, is only an incident of the broader and more potential general tendency which decraes the lowering of rates. But the immediate occasion of the cut of northwestern freight rates is by itself sufficient, 0 overthrow the old schedules, An entirely new route from tide- water to the norfhwestern consumer has just been devefoped, It is shorter, cheaper and more ex ous than the old routes by way of Chicago. Tt is ab- solutely independent of the latter. Tak- ing the new *“S00” line as typi- cal of the new anti-Chicago route, even £ casual study of the situation discloses that it has many advantages over the old Chicago route—taking this term broadly to stand for the connections of the oldest northwestern lines via Chi- cago to the seaboard—and that it can profitably do business to-day on a deep cut below the old adjusiments of rates. This was the reason why this route was occupied, Experience has already demonstrated that the reason was suf- ficient. For it can do a profitable busi- wess on the present cut, when construc- tion has been hardly completed, much ight vate more can it maintain better facilitios nre udded and when en- larged and more advantageous connec- tions are made. The old Northwestern lines from Chi- cago have already for months protty thoroughly tested the question of fore- ing thenew and independent line to ad- vance rates to the high lovel of the old schedule. They have exhausted every resource known to the arts of railroad stratogy, and have failed, They have failed utteri The rival has wmore than vindicated its posftion, It has by this experience actunlly fortified itself inits stand for alower rate. And it ¢ now be accepted as finnl by the world that the line, or the route for which it stands. can and will con- tinue to do profitable business on a rate vastly lower than that of the schedule of the old Chicago lines, Well, what then? One of two things is porfectly clear and inevitable, either the old Chicago lines must meet the rate of the “Soo"—rates to the north- west must go down—or elsesthose lincs will be progressively crowded out of business in the northwest, The low tes by the upper luke route are based on w natural, an inherent advautage. This advanta, with new alize it. . his advantage will be cavried in ¢ irection through the northwest by further constructiony for it must be remembered that the uti- lization of the upper lake route only begun within a year or two. Wha does this mean? Why, simply the es- tablishment, according to the 'm of roads on the new route, of a new and independent hase of jobbing supply i the northwest, [t means, specifically that an immense and constantly en- larging section 18 to be carved out of the trade tervitory of Chicago and at- tached to St. Paul and other trade centers, ne with goods shipped dir water, without so much its position when 300" ct from tide- as puassing S ilronds to keep up the old system of rates or any schedule higher than that of the newupper lake route is obviously to ac- te this detatchment of trade tel from Chic This is onl \ying that it would from the roads interested in it distributed from Chi- cure the situation 3 wrrangements to tribute freight from the twin cities ¢ other independent upper lake for in order to do that they would ve to meet the low rate, and to do ter would only be to augment the diversion of traffic from Chicago, which would be to divert the same from their own main systems. The whole thing then comes back to the other alternative: the Chicago sys- tems have got to reduce ra 10 the new upper got to do this to save themselves; and they have got to follow the latter to whatever lengths of reduction it may go. There is absolutely no escape from this conclusion. Lven if it were in the power of the Chicago systems to buy outright the **Soo” lines and all their conncctions, that would be unavailing; the inherent advantages of the natural route would remain, and capital, enter- prise and th tive interests of the northw ainly utilize them by fresh construction. The plea or pretense of the Chicago systems that they cannot afford to mect these rates is not sound. That plea is a chesnut and has been cracked to frag- ments under the hammer of accom- plished facts. The inexorable ten- dency is tolower rates. Butitisnota auestion of choice but of necessity. The Chicago rates must perforce come down even 1f rivers of water are thercby wrung out of their securities. They must come down even if destruction falls on the fraudulent system which heretofore has been adding expense ac- counts to capital and extorting from the public undue contributions to pay in- terest on fletitious values. They must come down, and that very soon, in all probability much below even the Iowa commissioners’ schedule, which the same Chicago systems are now so bit- terly fighting. Unless all the signs ana the very logic of the situation are grossly mistaken an era of sonable freight rates is at last dawning in the northwest. ——— BULLYING ENGLISH TALK. Pall Mall Gazette Reads the Standard a Lesson. [Copyright 1858 by James Gordon Bennett.] Loxnox, Sept. 4.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tie Bee.]—The special correspondent of the Standard in New York cabled it as to the sensation its article created in New York and Washington last night. The Pall Mall Gazette editoridlly says: “Houty toity | What folly is this on the part of the Standard. We had noped that in this juncture the old country would set the re- public an example of good manners and of good sense. We haveno general election going on to excuse any such bullying click as this which, to_our shame be it spoken, disfigures the leading columns of the minis- terial organ. Its language is an ou upon the good feeling which should prevail be- tween two great nations enwaged in the discussion of a dispute like this, Its vuunting reference to iron clads, as if iron clads could at the ut- most do more than singe Uncle Sam’s beard, is made worse by the insolence of its allu- sion to the Trent affair. The British lion then, says this sapient chronicler, by no means came off sccond best, the Inferenco being, of course, that the United States then were coerced into giving up the confederate by the roar of the British lion. Even it this were so, 1t would be folly to thiuk that the United States to-day, powerful and wealthy, with fifty million citizens in pro- found peace, are to be compared to the north- ern states a quarter of a century since, when twenty millions of men were engaged in a life and death struggle with fifteen mil- lions of their fellow countrymen, and appar- ently on the verge of bankruptey, had face the prospect of a war with the Hritish empire, aided possibly by France,” e ARRESTING DESERTERS, Recreant State Malitiamen Forced to Go Into Camp. Licutenant Burr of the state militia, with adetail, composed of sergoant, trumpeter and two privates, is in Omaha to arrest recreant militiamen. There are a number of the boys who have failed to appear at the encamp- ment at Wahoo, and the arresting detail is here to apprebend them and take them to camp as deserters. While there is no com- plaint among the deserters, a member of the guards stated that the present law is a hard- ship. Said he: I will lose my position if forced to go into camp. Of course theer can come and take me, but the house for which 1 am working will discharge me for neglecting my duty,” “You bet it is tough,” stated Mr. Cannon, the trumpeter. There are details all over the state arresting militiamen who had not appeared at the encampment. The boys are having a jolly good time at Wahoo, dancing and other pleasant recreations breaking the routine of camp life. Fatal Floods in Japan, SAN Fraxcisco, Sept. 4.—The steamor City of Rio Juneiro arrived yesterday from Hong Kong and Yokohama. From Japan comes the news that at Tokushig, a town of ‘Awa province, a storm occurred on the night of the 4th ult.,and continued raging on the bth. In Mayosagori an inundation was caused by which 150 houses were destroyed and forty- six persons dro They have f re: The AAND TO HAND ENCOUNTER Such Dr. Miller Olaima Will Be tho | Presidential Contest, THE OLD GROUND OF 1884, New Yo New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana Wil Witness the Impending Po iu- cal Struggle. The Doctor's Views. Dr. George L. Miller has returisd from New York, and isat his home on Bu/ ¢ street. Though somewhat indisposed the docior was not too ill to talk to a reporcr tho campaign, its conditions and its proba- bilities, The doctor enjoys the confidencs his party’s leaders, and while in New Yor lie had access to the sources of informatis open to the demc tie national committeo. He also had the benofit of the opinions of the party’s compaign managers: Chairmen Bar- num, Bryce and others. “When 1 reached Chic said the doc- tor, “I heard hopes expressed of carrying 1linois, Minnesota and Michigan for tho democratic national ticket: In my opinion the battle will have to be fought iu the old fleld of 1854; in Now York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indian: 1 was asked in Chicago if th likelihood of a landslide for Cle not fully informed on the situation in the west, but th » will be no such ndshde in New York, Conneticut or New Jersoy *1t will be a_hand-to-hand encounter and a struggle to the bitter death. “The democrats might as_well know the truth, Per ps it will make them work bet- g0, Wwas not a 4. 1am ter. CIf the election in New York were to be held to-morrow, the result would be ex- sy doubtful, ation is confusing. It rd to formn un inteiligent estimate until thestate tickets are iu the field. The ma chinery for canvassing the state will then be put in operation, and it will be the 1st of October beforen measurably reliable opinion can be expressed. “Opinions are unsettled in New York. That state has a big independent vote—not mugwumps, but a vote that reads and thinks and doesn’t make up its mind until the cios- ing days of the campaign. New York is car- ried by that independent vote.” ‘“Ihe tariff question ha 1sed a disturh- ance, but there will be a readjustment. The republicans have misrepresented the issue to the classes who are sensitive upon the wage problem. They have been told that the Milis bill, if not positively a free trade me ure, is_ pointed that way, ‘an entering wedge, The democrats are applying correctives to the republican lies, and the outlook is im- proving every day. “Mr. Ford, of the Irish World, and others are striving to alienate the Irish vote from the democracy, but 1 think the most of it vill be loyal to the party. The mugwumps pposed to Governor Hill, but they are for Cleveland. However, Hill's nomination 4 cost the president a pare of that vote, he democrats of New York are confi- dent of being able to nominate and to clect Mvr. Hill for gove his nomina- tion a nec s i another complication, his veto of the high li- cense bill Hill has_captured the brewer and saloon support. Having lost that element, the republicans seck the support of proni- bitionists, by aring for the measure that the governor vetoed. Four years ago party pressure drove many prohibitionists baci into the republican ranks. Tt is too early to predict what will be accomplished in that di- rection this year. The prohibition vote de- feated Blaine, and is an important factor. “Republican free-traders will vote for Harrison, democratic protectionists will vote for Cleveland. Party bond 1s one of the strongest things on earth—strouger than kinship even, *I believe, however, that Mr. Cleveland ry New York, Indiana and New eaving Connecticut in the balance. eland has a national name for su- preme honesty and safety. It will give him many a silent vote. He will get a tremendous vote among business men in the large cities and commercial centers of the east on his personality and his record. There is a feel- ing that his personal honesty can not be bought or bullied, and he has a strong hold on that independent, unsottled vote. “But, as I said before, every inch of ground will be fought for desperately, and Cleveland can only win by the hardest and most persistent fighting." When asked about the prospects of Mr. McShane the doctor said he preferred not to express an opinion. He had not been home long enough to beeome fully conversant with the idea. He was not informed as to the rela- tion of the prohibitionists to the republican party. Being absent at the time of the convention the doctor was unable to judge of the “‘temper” of the factions. Of course the submission plank is intended to catch the prohibitionists, but the latter have been brought up in the John Finch school and taught not to rely upon the republican party. Dootor Miller approved the nomination of Mr. McShane. He thought it good politics; the best thing the democrat: uld have done. He himself had urged su a course ix months ago. Mr. MeShane, the doctor d, had as congressman aimed to treat both ons of the party fawrly and will have united support. The only appointment in which the doctor had interposed was that of United States Attorncy Pritchard and that had been conceded him. Mr. McShane will make a strong race, he 1, but for sons stated he preferred not EUess at & more precise stateme: will be Stockholders of the Republican Dis- satisfled With Cadet Taylor. There was a roport circulated on the stroet yesterday that the stockholders of the Re- bublican would petition the circuit court for areceiver, Cadet Taylor, who is now man- aging the destinies of that paper, is in bad odor with a number of those holding stock. W. R. Vaughn will petition the district court some day this week Lo appoint a_recewver for the paper, and depose Mr. Taylor. It is understood that Mr. Vaughn has purchused the stock held by C. H. Smith, of Denver, and together with the Rounds and Rothucker interests he holds the balanee of powe So far only a draft of the petition has been made. It embodies many complaints. The facts elucidated in the petition show that Mr. Taylor has grossly mismanaged the paper and shown favoritism to incompetent paople, It says that he has employed brothers and sons, who wero wholly incompetent, at large salaries. That he dischar ptent em- ployes and hired others, who were not able, av higher salaries: dispenscd adye ing favors without benefit to the stock ers, and for the personal benefit of himself or family. It also says that he disposed of $1,200 worth of the company's stock to an_ e firm and_ took iu payment §1,200 worth of worthless miningstock, which have since disuppesred. 1In fuct, the complaints against Mr. Taylor aro very many. Incom- petency and general mismanagement are mainly the charges. 1t is said that C. E. Yost or Fred Nye will probably be appoiated to the receivership. OHIO'S CENTENNIAL, The Exposition Opens at Columbus With a Grand Display. Covvamus, 0., Sept. 4.—The Ohio centen- nial exposition, which is intended to show the growth and development of the Buckeye state in the first hundred years of its history, opened this morning under favorable au- spices, On every hand there were cvidences of a gala day Notonly were the streets crowded, but almost every public and private building is with flags and bunting. At the state fair grounds, where the ceutennial is held, there is now collected one of the finest agricultural and stock shows ever scenin the northwest, while the mechanical and historical depart ments are_very complete. During the past week the Ohio National guard, 6,000 strong have been in camp near this city, and thi morning they broke camp, and at the same time inaugurated the cenl ial with a pa- rade, which was reviewed by Governor For- aker, The exposition will be formally opened this afternoon. —— Drink Maito at soda fountain. on | DIAMONDS ' Watches and Diamonds Found In Tea and Coffee---A Novel Way of In- troducing Coods. i The names of all persons finding dia- monds, watches, ete,, ure added to this list daily. The Overland Tea company of Sun k tiscohave refitted the store, 220 8. 14th St., ne irnam, Omaha, and in order to antroduce ther goods, this company put for 60 days, souvenird in every can of teaand coffee sold such as solid gold, silver and nickel watehes, also genuine diamonds, in solid gold setting: also money, and many other articles of less value, ILvery can con- tains a souvenir, The coffee, can and contents weigh about three pounds; tho tea, can and contents about one and a Lalf pounds. This expensive and novel v of advertising will bo discontinued witer 60 days, and these really choice goods will be soid strictly on tl its but without the souvenir. Of course every purchaser must not expeet Lo get adittond or watch. This company claim that they have just as good i right to yive away watches, dinmonds or other jewelry and money astheir coms petitors have to give awiy glusswaro, chromos, ete. Get up a club. Those who get upa club order most always get a handsome present. Orders by mail promptly forwarded to all parts of the United States on receipt of cash or post- office order. Terms: Single can $1; six for %53 thirteen for $10, and twenty-se en for $20. Address Overland Teu Co., Omaha, Nebraska, Andrew R, Wilson, S. 80th st, gent's hunting case gold watch in tea Rob's .. Brooks, S. Omaha, silver fruit stand: Alex J. Irvington, Fremont, Nob., mail order, 27 cans $20.00, found £50.00 in gold coin and gents’ hunting case gold watcehy David Greening, California st, silver hottle castor; Lda Grayson, S. 14th st, ladies’ gold lace pin,diamond, ruby and sapphire setting, in tea; Grace Arduce ton, mail orde Blair, Neb., $20.00 in gold in tea; 8. R. Dietz, Douglas st, silver pickle stand Miss Ruby Louening, St. Mary's ave., can money: Harey Baldaer, mail order.Grand Islund, Neb.,$10.00 in gold coin in can te Bertha Wilkins, Far- nam st., silver butter dish; Edward Tumblay, Ohjo st., cluster diamond ring in tea; Sum’l Benson, Seward st., can money; Carrie Lew O9th st., cluster diamond scarf pin in teat Bute ler Johnson, Davenport st., $10.00 in gold coin in tea; Ada Jones, Capltal av ilver cake stand; Chas. Anruson, Iiva E. Johnson, prder, Lincoln, Neh., gonts’ hunt< 1se gold watch and cluster diamond t stud; Ada Rivers, S. 16th st., can Bertha Miller, Leavenworth st., 5 ugar Henry Dresser, N. 25th st., solid gold ring, diamond ruby phire setting; John Winslow, City, mail order, chatalain ~ watch in tea} Dodge st., silver picklo stand; D Bushler, Farnam st., 810 in gold coin in tea; Idward Jacobs, of Missour1 Valley, visiting the state fair, gents’ hunting case gold watch, Elgin movement, in tea; David Pope, Fort Omaha, ladies’ hunting case gold watch in tea; Thomas Costin, Millard Station, Neb., diamond ring; Miss Annie Gar- So. Omaha, Neb., diamond ring in mail ¢ ng Henry M Mason, Blondo st., silver butter rs. C. H. Hansen, 17th st., silver sugar bowl; Mrs. Edward A. Roland, So. h st., diamond ring in can of tea; Mrs. J. C. Johuson, Cupitol ave., silver five bottle castor; Mr. Jim Metcalf, Seward st., silver pickle stand; Miss Hattie Calhoun, 27th st., ladies’ hunting cnse gold wateh'in can of tea; Mrs. John Howell, 40th st., silver sugar bowl; Mrs. W. A. Reynolds, 23d st., $20in gold coin in can of ten; Miss Lottie Moon, 18th st., silver pickle stand; Mrs. Chas. E. Freeman, So. Omaha, silver frait stand in tea; Mrs. A. C. Benson, 15th st., sil- ver sugar bowl; Mrs. H. L. Bigelow, 18th st., ladies’ elegant scarf pin, dia- mond, ruby and sapphire setting,in can tea; Mrs. M. H. Harvey, 42d st., silver butter dish; Miss Mary O’Conners, ‘apital ave,, silver pickle stand; Mrs. Samuel Bowman, gent’s hunting case gold watch, in can of tea; Mrs. Adam Burger, Davenport st., silver sugar bowl; M Lou Thatcher, Council Bluffs, [a., silver five-bottled castor in tea: Mrs. Fred Thorn, 19th st., $10.00 in gold coin in can tea; S. M. Martinwick, janitor board of trade, diamond ring in can of . Mrs. C. H. Hatton, Leaven- worth st.. & pickle stand; Mre. E ward L. Mayfield, 16th st., can money in tea; Mrs. J. H. Howard, 27th st., sil- ver pickle stand; Mrs. John 1. Chester, Dodge st., silver sugar bowl; Miss Della Scott, Capital avenue, #.00 in gold coin in can tea; Mrs. S. B. Brown, 11th st., silver butter dish; Mr. V. B. Cutler, Parke ave., gent’s solitaire diamond stud in can tea; Mr.C. D. Horton, Izard st., silver pickle stand; Mrs, T. Z. Sew- ard, 42d st., Iver butter dish; Mrs. A. R. Whitmore, 14th st., can money in tea; Mr. M. I Wilson, 12th st., silver fruit stand: Mrs. H. . Schut- tler, Cuming st., $15 in gold coin in can tea; Mre. Will C. Baldwin, 21st st., sil- ver sugar bowl; Miss May Stuart, ilver pickle stand; Mr.Chas. Saunders st., can money in Lillie Lorenz, Howard st., silvor pickle stand; Mr. Edward Phil- ips, Farnam st., diamond collar button Miss Dora Borganaue. silver fruit stand in can tea; Mr: Walbridge, silver sugar bowl Mrs. James Kenyon, S. 16th st., diamond ring in can tea; Mr. H. E. Swan, Dav- enport st., silver pickle stand; Mr. C.H, Hann, Seward st., silver butter dish; Mr. Wm. Harris, Howard sf gent's hunting case gold watch in can ten; Miss Kate Foley, Park ave., silve picklo stand; Mrs., John Harrigan, 14th st., silver sugar bowl; Mr. Edward Cook, Davenport st*, silver butter dish; Mrs, Samuel Jamieson, 18th st., $20 in gold coin in can tea; Mrs. S. A, Thomp- son, S. 19th st., silver five bottle caster in tes; Mrs. Edward Fiske, Capitol avenue, silver pickle stand; Mrs. I, A Jones, South Omaha, can money in tea; Mr. L. D. Irvine, Harney st., silver water pitcher; Fields, So. 14th st., silver butter dish; Mr. T. O’'Hearn, Darhurst and 20th st., diamond ring in can of tea; Miss D. C. Dunbar, 11th st., silver butter dish; Mr, H. T. Fillmore, 26th st., silver sugar bowl; Mrs. F. B. Benson, Dodge st., elegant ladies’ scarf pin, dismond, ruby and sapphire setting, in can tea; Miss Lou Kingston, South 21st st., silver pickle stand; Miss Peter Mies, Decatur, Neb., diamond ring in can of tea; Mr. Walter Hogan, Leavenworth st., $10 in gold coin in can of tea; Mrs. F. E. Santry, Cuming’ st., silver sugar bowl; Mrs.” Charles Sell- man, 42d st., silver pickle stand; Miss Maud Reynolds, S. 20th st., ladies; Hunting case gold watch in can of vea; Mrs. Edward Pellmann, 89th st., silver sugar bowl; Mrs. W lliam A. 'Dillon, 40th st., silver butteridish; Mrs. K. D. Courtney, Saunders st., can moucy in tea; Miss Hattie Woods, silver pickle stand; W. M. Chenoworth, Councjl Bluffs, In., silver pickle stund; G. E. Lawrence, 8. 20th st., dismond "f in tea;Mrs. W.A. Bates,Madison ave. silver sugar bowl, Mrs. Mary Rochman, Web- ter st., silver butter dish. 50. 19th_st., John