Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1888, Page 4

'HE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPFION. Pally Marning Bdition) including SUNDAY B, One Year o S1x Months oF Three Months We OMAN S SUXDAY BEE, malled to any addiess, One Year OMAHA OFFICE NOR 1L AND I8 FARNAM NEW YORKOFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TOILDIG, WARHINGTON OFFICE, YOURTERNTH BTRERT. 20 STneE WIBC K No. LSPONDEN, 14 relatin coRnr All communicatic toriul matier should i gl BUSINFE Allbusiness [ette adiiressed 1o 1 OMAIA. Drafea bemads payabis 1o theo S LETTERS. nd remitt IRk PUBLIS honld be COMPANY Tig Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. ROSEWATER, Editor. —————————————— 3 THE DAILY BEK. §worn Statement of Circulation. Etateof Nobraska, County of Douglas, | * 9% George 1. Tzschuck, Yishing company, do actual circulation of w nding October L, Bunday, Oct. 7 Monday, Oct, ® Tuesday, Oct, y of the Bee Pub- olet swear that the HE DAILY Bek for the s, was as follows secro Baturday, Oct. 13 v 15,088 1. TZSCHUCK. &worn 10 before me and subseribed in my pressnce this 13th day of October A. D, 1885, Beal.s N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Etate of Nebraska, Las anty of Douglis, | %% Georgs B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de. POy unt says that he b secratary of The lice ‘ublisliing company, that the actual average daily circulation of Tuk DALY Hex for the montn_of Octobe 14,833 coples: for No- vember, | % copies; for December, 1857, 15,041 copies; for January, 1845, 15,206 copies: for February, 18, 15,2 coples; for March, k8%, 10,540 coplos for April, 194, 14744 copie: My, 1965, 4,181 copies; for Jiine, 1885, 10,24 copios: for July, 18 for August, 185K, 18,153 coples; for 58K, wis 18, 154 coples. 3 CK Sworn to befol ence, this ith day of October, A. D, 1458 N.P. FEIL, Nofary Public. PO e Sl e Y W10 says the Douglas county cam- paign is to be one of intellect? Echo answers: Pat Ford. Conai adjourn this weelk. The people will get o rest, but mem- bers have only faivly commenced work- ing—the dear voter Averago THE fostive candidate will know you as he passes by, but after election he will know you no more forover. Just now there is method in his madness, M. MeSHANE'S local stav of destiny took a slight down-shoot Tuesday. His followers don't enthuse very enthu- siastically over tho county democratic ticket. Born the re publicans and democrats of Douglas county in their conventions denounce the submission plank. There fsn’t much difference, but some distine- tlon between them THERE is one straw man on the dem- ocratic senato ticket put up to be knocked down in the house of hi friends, who surmise that they have nothing to lose in any event. DEsPITE the improvements in railway service made during the year, it may be well to remember that the deadly car stove is still on deck and ready for bus- {ness during the coming winter. Between Judge Thurman's dry speeches and the succulent roast beof and mutton at the Fort Wayne barbecue, it wouldn't take much of a guest to say which feast the Hoosiers relished most, TuE spread not hover over the unterrified in con- 1g wings of Harmony did vention Tuesday. went in and car worth having. worked, The Boyd faction ied off everything And how quietly they — Docronr MAc IE expects to make two hundred and fifty thousand dollars out of his book. With his eye to the main chance, it is not to be wondered at that he salted and peppered his ac- counts to make them spicy reading. Niaurr schools for the old and infirm commence November 2. It costs the taxpayer o dollar an hour for every teacher who wastes time upon their in- straction. The law says that public monay can only be spent for instruction of pupils betweon the ages of five and twenty-one years. A COMPANY of six hundred is being formed in Kansas City for the purpose of invading Oklahoma and taking pos- sossion of the forbidden land. If the army of invaders will wait until after election Kansas and Nebraska will sup- ply them with o complete outfit of cast- off campaign uniforms ON the 7th of November, 1811, Gen- oral William Henry Harrison fought the Indian battle of Tippecanoe. Who could have predicted that seventy-seven years afterwards there would meet upon that identical battle field leading ora- tors of the rebublican party to advocate the eclection of his grand-son to the highest oftice in the gift of the people. Tue evil of g tho right of way on cvery streetin the city indiscrimi- nately to rival street car companies i now bearing fruit. A long and weari- some squabble is likely to ensue over the occupation of lower Douglas strect between the motor and horse car com- panies. Without going into the ques- tion of the right of one line over the other, it is sufficient to protest that it is 100 bad the people of Omuha must suf- fer without compensation, for the sole benefit of one of these contestants. — OMANA has added beef packing to pork packing. Fortunately for itself its sltuation will insure for it the retenti of thess industries. Omaha is the last Rreat city of the west where these pur- suits are practicable, and there can be no fear that they will pass further west, as has been the case heretofore. They were in Cincinnati, and they migrated to St. Louis; they were in St. Lou and they went westward to Kansas City. And 1if Indian territory should ever become a state Kansas Oity would be deseried in favor eof Vinita. But Omaha's position is impragnable, and to that fact the vity owes its recognition by the king ul tho Lee! packers, Armour. THE MEMORY OF HENDRICKS. There is a very large elément of the democracy of Tndiana which holds sa- whe -mémory of Thomas A. H dricks, - Hé was by all odds the ablest leader the democrats of that state ever had, 4nd he was admired and by them not only because they him as the pear of any man in the tion as a statesman, but for the reason at all times and 1n all umstanees faithful to them. No emi- nence of public station led him to for- got the peopie whose confidence and support was the source of his a quality of « e the democratic eandidate ident, who forgot old polit- cal friends and suppor as s00n he had no further iimmediate for them Those Indiana democrats who cherish the memory of Hendricks will not all vote this year for Mr, Cleveland. They remember what their late distinguishea leader suffered of contumely aud noeg- lect and ingratitude at the hands of this beloved rded na- that he was cir lovation, by racter not for pres- rs us s THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1838 county republicans, is sxhibited. by the democracy in their county ticket, which compels tho intelli- gent and voter © to L Tt and for in- competent, disreputable and notoriously ad men on his own party ticket, the andidates of the opposition, whom he knows to ba preferable, viewed from the standpoint of public intere The democratie candids for attorney is said to be an able and table lawye Richard O'Keefe, who is renominated for commissioner, is we As a whole, the ¢ will rank headed by the notor tho city council. But the democratic steering committes which promised such great things should have done better, diseriminating congelentions substitute county repu- I known. nocrati th ous bell w county ticket her of abova BEFORE Mr. Blaine went into Tu- diana the democratic organs persist- ently asserted that he was not person- ally friendly to General Harrison, and administration, in which he should have been a conspicuous figure, but which almost wholly ignored him. They recall the fact that IHendricks was powerless at Washington, so far as ¢ ing his friends was concerned, as any clerk in one of the departments, being unable to control ‘even so small a matter as the appointinent of a postmaster for his own town. They remember that there appeared to be, as undoubtedly there was, a deliberate and studied at- tempt on the part of Mr. Cleveland to destroy the political influence of Hend- ricks and to belittle and humiliate him before the country. And they do not forget, also, that the president could not find time toattend the funcral of the dead statesman, th implying more strongly than in all other re- spects his total lack of vegard for him. These facts have just been vigorously recalled to the attention of the Hend- ricks democrats of Indiana in a public letter of Henry D. Pierce. formerly a law pactner of Senator Turpic and for a time assistant United States district attorney of Indi- a who will give his support to Gen- eral Harrison. That the letter will have an important effect, especial among the democrats of Mr. Hendricks' home county, is not to be doubted. There are hundreds of democrats in In- diana who will feel with the author of this letter that it is their duty to rebuke the man who ignored and humilinted their greatest leader by giving theiv votes to Indiana’s honored and worthy son, General Harrison. HEWITT AND TAMMANY. The feature of general interest in the letter of Mayor Hewitt accepting an in- dependent nomination is his strong ar- raignment of the Tammany hall faction of the New York democracy as a thor- oughly corrupt organization. The fashion of plain-speaking peculiar to Mr. Hewitt is most vigorously shown in this letter. He declares that the ‘‘one dominant and ineradicable ideain Tam- many hall is that the city government exists for the purpose of securing offices and patronage to its leaders and follow- ers.” It subordinates the politics of the state and the nation to this idea, and any man who refuses to conform to it is certain to encounter the relentless hostility of this powerful political faction. It is a great machine whose fixed and unchangeable purpose is to secure the spoils—all that it can obtain in New York City, and when these are not sufficient to satisfy its rapacity, as much more as it can get from the state and national administra- tions. There is nowhere a more dangerous organization to honest governmeut than this organization, and yet it is admit- tedly the most aggressive and powerful force in democratic polltics—municipal, state and national. 1t was placated in the interest of Mr. Cleveland’s renomi- nation and became a leading influence in the nationaldemocratic convention. Up to within six months before that conyention the president had no more outspoken foes than the members of Tammany. His name had been jeered in their meetings and he was roundly denounced by leading mon in the organ- ization, . But Tammany sent the argest single delegation that went to St. Louis, and all along the route this delegation hurrahed for Cleveland, re- ceiving on its arrival an ovation ac- corded to no other. What inducement was held out, what pledges given to thi corrupt organization, with the memory of Tweed forever chinging 1o it, to give it such interest and zeal in the cause of Mr. Cleveland? Mr. Hewitt has had every opportunity to learn the true characterof hall, and his candid honest testimony regarding it cannot be confuted. It is essentially a corrupt, spoils-secking qrganization, using mothods and ercising an influence inimieal w0 good and honest government. Yet the hope and reliance of democratic s in New York, and therefore in the nation, vests very largely upon this dangerous machine, with the managers of which there is every reason to believe Mr. Cleveland has a thorough understand- ing. If the staud taken by Mr. Hewitt shall result in the defeat of both he will have done no greater service to the city and state of New York and to the coun- try. Andthereis very great probability that such will be the result, ammany and Suc FROM FAIR TO MIDDLING. The county ticket placed in the field by the Douglas county democracy would, in the parlunce of the board of trade, be quoted as “fair to middling,” and some of the srist ground out by the democratic grist-mill will scarcely pass for middling. It is absolutely spoiled, and should be classified as rejected. The senatorial section of the legisla- tive ticket with William A. Paxton, John T. Paulsen and W. H. Ijams, is manifestly superlor in point of charac- | ter if not in capacity, to the senatorial | ticket nominated by the republican convention. The nine candidates for the lower house are avidently distributed among the diferent nationalities to catch the foreign vote. The same dlsregard of qualification and chacacter s was shows by the that the latter did not feel altogether Kindly toward Mre. Blaine, After the arrival of the Maine statesman in In- diana and it became evident that he and Harrison were on the most cordial terms, it was necessary for the organs to take another tack, so their represen- tatives sent out the statement that Blaine and Hovey, the republican can- didate for governor, were not friendly. Nevertheless they appeared together at a number of mectings, notably the one at the Tippecanoe battle ground, making speeches from the same plat- form, and although they did not on any of theso occasions embraco, the at no time the least indication that ther wus not the best of feeling betwe them. In nearly every speech made by Mr. Blaine in Indiana he referred to General Harrison, always in the most complimentary terms and with evident i If he did not name Gene e he was there to speak for the national ticket, the suc- s of which would in all probabilit give victory to the state ticket. The truth is that the democeratic charge of ill-feeling between Blaine and Harrison or Hovey is clearly shown to be ground- less—a campaign fabrication to throw diseredit on the ab work of Mr, Blaine in the canvass. He has been dealing the democracy some heavy and telling blows, the force of which the party organs seek to break by intimating tnat his efforts are merely perfunctory he people, however, know better of Mr. Blaine, and they are carefully reading and pondering over his utterances in the full belief that he is entirely sincere and earnestly aesires the election of the republican candidates. ALL friends of organized labor will be gratified that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has gained 1n numbers and strength since its last an- nual meeting. The address of Mr, Arthur before the convention of the brotherhood, now in session at Rich- mond, Va., bears out this cheering in- formation, and is full of hope and prom- ise for the future of the organization. The address will commend itself to all fair-minded men as an impartial and impassioned statement of the Burling- ton strike. We learn that the strike was ordered only as a last necossity, when every expedient was ex- hausted in an endeavor to reach an amicable understanding with the management of the road. The brotherhood was always ready to refer the diffculties to an impartial arbitration and were willing to abide by the decisiou of any three general rail- road managers in Chicago. This was certainly a fair and sober proposition which the Burlington saw fit to reject. Instead the management preferred to pursue a disastrous policy which has been an injustice to its stockholders, its patrons and its employes. But the his- ¢ of the strike need not be repeated. It is familiar to every one. Through the long and trying ordeal the brother- hood won golden opinions from all men for its loyalty to the organization, its steadfastness to principles and its obe- dience to law and order. FroM reliable reports, itseems highly probable that the supply of hogs this winter for packing purposes will fal short of the demand. Already th leading pucking centers, with the ex: tion of Omaha, feel the pressure. This shortage, whether temporary or permanent, effects but little the pork packing interests at Omaha. In com- parison with other centers, Omaha has the advantage due to the favorable situ- ation of our market in the center of the corn and hog belt. It has been demon- strated that shippers of live stock pre- Omaha to Chicago and other cities owing to the fact that prices are rve tively higher here than elsewhere. As a result, our market has been well sup- plied all through the season and is likely to hold its lead. This is an ad- vantage which will become all the more prominent later in the season, and will influence the extension of the pork and Deef packing industries in our midst. THE unusual large vegistration of yoters reported from New York and Chicago is an index of the activity go- ing on all through the country. A presidential eloction undoubtedly ealls out more voters than elections in off years, Theve must be taken into ac- count the large number of new voters who will be entitled to cast their ballots for the first time, and those who emi- grating to this country have become naturalized within the past year. In Chicago, where the complete returns from the inspectors of registration have been made, there is a gain of almost one-third in the number of electors as. compared with the registration lists of 1534, If the addition tuthe voting cluss throughout the country is anything in proportion to the registration returns from Chicago it will not only add thirty- three and a third per cent to the voting strength of the people, but may lead to many surprises when the ballots are counted. THE rise in the price of bread may lead to serious consequences, ospecially in the mining districts of Pennsylvania, Iu spite of the protracted coul strilos of last yoar, tha miners ape agnin bhoecom- ing rest and appatently . with good cnu At the , theit payis a i ckgf-but by the nardest kind labor, * With the p of In- sod cosof living they would be the t to fecl the' pinch, It is said that tees have been appointed among of the gions to lay their wwances before th conl com- panies and request more pay to meet the increasad diving exper be hoped that the conl barons w the justness of the claim and avoid a ition of the suffering of last win- hould there be a strike in Penn- sylvania it would undoubtedly involvo the wholo anthracite region. of v poc comy the miners coal is to To 1aE uninstructed mind it is not why Secretary Vilas should ask the Sioux to sell their Dakota lands for fifty cents an acre, when the govern- ment price for the same land will be one dollar and twenty-five centsan acre. The Indian delegates have spoken in a sensible, manly way, and have treated the matter simply as a veal estate trans- action. They have declined to be ora- torical and have not made a single allu- sion to the graves of their forefathers and to the departure of the butfalo. The consequence is that sympathy has been aroused everywhere for them, and public feeling will doprecate any at- tempt of the administration to cheat them in the trade. The Indians know what they are doing, and wronging them will by no means be a benelfit to Dakota. ALL the news which is obtained from Fernandina comes through Jacksonville a clear proof that New Orleans is por- sisting in her rigid quarantine against tern Flor There is some just tion tor this in the fact that the pestilence is steadily increasing in Fer- nandina. On Tuesday there in that city thirty-seven new cases and three deaths, whereas in sonville there were thirty-six new cases and three deaths. This totally disprov the statement of interes! that Florida will be a safe ] and that Jacksonville was the only point of aanger. No one knows the truth which is kept concealed, but there are reasons for believing that no point 1n Florida has been exempt were Lost at Sea. Oregonian. The innocent crew of assistant d@mocrats, known as prohibitiouists, seems to have been lost at sea in the storm of politics. It is only conspicious now by its absence. o) The Days of Miracles Are Past. Dudianapolis Journal. Nothing short of a miracle can prevent Indiana from going for Harrison, and we dou't think there will be any miracle-work- ing in favor of Grover Cleveland. s No Use For “0ld Hutch.” Ploneer Press, Nebraska has, no use for *Old Hutch" or his pestiferous corners, The corn erop in that state has never been excelled, and equalled only three times within the past ten years, —_—— An Aboriginal 1dea. New York World. It is rumored that the American party will make an attempt to have the Sioux chicfs now in Washington stump the country in the interests of Candidate Curtis. This is an aboriginal idea. s Greater Than Eli. Deadwood Times. The most wonderful feature of the recent attempt at robbery was the report wired the Omana Horald. If Eli Perkins was in the country we would naturalty credit him with the compilation. Alas, greater than Eli is among us. e Volapuk Again. New York Sun. Volapuk did not die with Father Schleyer; and we hope there is peace in heaven for the man who, in translating into his new lingo two of the sweetest words in every language, deliberately called 8 maiden a vomul and a bride a ji-gam. ——— An Accomplished Spoileman, Boston Journal, Postmaster General Dickinson has not been in office very long, but he has had time already to turn out twenty uniou veterans from the mail service in Michigan and put a lot of incompetents in their places. Mr. Dick- inson is probably tho most accomplished spoilsman in the president's cabinet. e — Reform Inevitable. St. Louis Republican, Whatever else results from the present | campaign, a certain result is the virtual ob- literation of the political lines drawn by the war, After this campaign the politician will not be able to take his map of the United States and mark the half dozen couuties where money used may change the result of an election in the whole thirty-eight states. il Mayor Hewitt's Secret. Cincinnati. Enquirer. Mayor Hewitt refuses to say whether he has made any contribution to the democratic campaigh fund or not. He says that it is no- body's business but his own ; that it is as much his private affair as the sum he puts on the plate at church on Sunday. Nevertheless, a man brave in speech like Mr. Hewitt could afford to tell, The knowledge might be of real value to the public. The width of the opening in a man's pocketbook is sometimes an index to his heart i Within Three Weeks. Pioneer-Press Within three weeks a shower of freemen's votes will settle the questions now daily and nightly asked by thousunds of orators hout the length and breadth of the United States. Campaign speakers will then be at a discount, business will resume its norwal condition, cities and country will keep step in the ouward march toward the goal of prosperity, and, even with the schoolboy, strong men will wouder what all the present hullabaloo was about, About the same num- ber of candidates will bo defeated as will be clected, and it is not too much to say, that, in many instances, the future of the defeated will be far brighter thau that of the success ful. If this be encouragement, make the most of it. —— POLITICAL POIN Governor Church, of Dakota, New York state for Cleveland. John 12, St. John is stumping Pe nnsylvania for tho prohibitionists. e gets 0 a night for his labors. Ignatius Donnelly has withdrawn from the contest for the governorship of Minnesota. He wanted Lo become & ciphier in the battle, probably, Mr. Jolly is the republican candidate for congross in the Third Louisiana district, and the democratic didate is Mr. Gay. There is lots of fun in the cauvass, and the people think they “could be happy with either were vothor dear charmer away." Judge Arnold, of the Philadelphla court of couunon pleas, recontly refesed to naturalize & Hungarian who said he did uot believe in a Deity of any kind, ws he could not take the oath’ of altogiance He remarked: “We will stump don't want ang more infld | There's enough in it as it is. The Rev. Dr. Wayland H donies that he said ha wo! | nksgiving dinuer in ca | does say » subject of this el is the most important one sction of Lincoln, and I sincere | hope and wish for the eiection’of Harrison.’ in Massachusotts should carry ext month the governor of tha ynwealth, the licutenant governor and retary of state will all be graduates of sston University School of y somewhat noteworthy that outhful candidate for gov- serving his third term as of the city of Cambridge, the seat of rd University, and that the president his collego is understood to favor the of all three of the Boston University graduates, althou rinstitution is a rival of old comm the s is now - - BTATE AND T Nebraska Jottings. An oyster club has been formed in Beatrice, Over the door appears the legend “Don't be am." he Baptist association which has just held its meeting in Grand Island, consists of eigh- teen churclies, The champion jumper of Scot She covered U fect 2 inches iu woek without weights, The Fremont Hemp and Twine company bas been incorporated and elected office ‘The capital stock is $50,000. The ofMcial records show that it has been seventeen years since 80 dry o fall has vis- ited Nebraska as the present one The citizens of Surprise, Butler county, donated 135 bushels or potatoes, 145 bushels of corn and $16 in cash to the Home of the Friendless. Game must be plentiful around Minden when the cook of the Minden house was en- abled to kill a nice mess of quails by shoot- ing them from his bed-room window the other morning. A commandery of Knights Templar has been established at Norfolk, denominated Damascus commandery. After the installa tion cerenionies a banquet was participated in by the knights, Reports from Shickley are to the effect that during the absence of the proprietor the material of the Herald of that place was seized by parties claiming it, and in conse- quence the paper bas indefinitely suspended. The prohibition candidate for the legmsla- ture from Butler county gives as his chief reason why he shall be élected the fact that his childrén have all had the measles. Now the democratic candidate should go him one better and s children inoculated with the smallpox. Superior’s hosp luded to by the mayor of i a is a female. contest last ality is thus touchingly al Fremont Tribune: *The smont_did not remark to the mayor of Superior, when the F mont busi ness men visited that place Monday, as the governor of North olina is roputed to have remarked to the governor of South Carolina, The mayor of Superior was away from home, but had he been at home it Is said the reniark would not only have been irrele- ventbut lacking in veracit Two thieves named Thomas Ellis and John Westlake drugged, robbed and attempted to murder James Kehoe at_Plattsmouth. Sup- posing_ their vietum to be dead, Ellis took & ch they had stolen trom him to a jew- to be repaired. Kchoe, however, re turned to the land of the living and by means of the watch secured the arrest of the two men. They have been bouud over to the district court for trial. Kllis is one of the most notorious characters in that section of the country and has been arrested for many petty crimes. The most satisfactory explation of repub- lican defeat in 1554 yet made was that offered by a campaign speaker in Greeley county t other day. “Irom 1561 to 184" he said, “all the republicans were at the front in the army, while the democrats staid at home to atten(l to the women. Consequently all the boys born between the years 1561 and 1563, and who became voters in 1584 were demo: crats, and that is what downed us, But it will be differcnt this vear. The boys born between 1866 and 1808 will become voters this year, and they had republican fathers, and that is the reason we will win this year a million votes! low. Another case of small-pox is reported near Rutnven. A chautauqua circle is to be organized in Muscatine. Des Moines is positive it will have a union depot next year. It is reported that Revs. Brown and Mott, of Dubuque, are to fight a duel. Keokuk girls are wearing collars which reach above their ears and the papers protest against it. Sharks with shell games realized about $400 at the Palo Alto county fair after paying their licenses. The Sioux City Cable railway company, of Sioux City, has incorporated with an author- ized capital stock of §1,000,000. George Foor, arrested at Des Moines a week ago for incest, waived examination and was bound over to the grand jury. The able and versatile editor of the Fort Madison Plaindealer tigures up that it costs that town $33,000 a year to keep its dogs. One hundred and fifty cars at least each week are loaded with merchandise at Mus- catine. The largest single itom of freight continues to be lumber, averaging fifty cars per woek. Some Creston girls who were exploring tho upper regions of the new city hall stepped through the plastering whilo walking over the joists before the floor is laid. The report that a workman dropped a hod full of bricks through the ceiling is not true. The aperture ‘wus made by the Creston girl's foot, The Great Northwest. A chain-gang has been inaugurated at Se- attle, W. T The annual meeting of spiritualists is now in session at San Diego, Cal. The Judge mine at Castle, Mont., has been incorporated with a capitzl'stock of §2,000,- 000, Hiram Vickery was probably fatally shot while trying to éscape from Folsom prison, California. Thomas Seymour ended a spree at Farm- ton, San Joaquin county, Cala., by going to bed and dying. Mrs. C. Sackett was shot ¢ Santa Fe Springs, Los Angs and the tramp was killed, Cheyenne now has the best water system on the line of the Union Pacitic, and it 18 to be still further improved. A rich discovery of copper ore has been made on the Land Ranch, near Fort Collins, Wyo., and a shaft i3 now being sunk. They will have a motor railway in Helena, Mout., this week. The trial trip was had last Thursday and the result was eminently satisfactory Charles and Maggie in Denver on the charge of having mu their own child. Their preliminary h has not yet been held. The Helena (Mont.) Herald says that it is ated that the report of the grand jury tain some refluctions upon one or more » democratic aspirants for county offices. Falls, Mont,, has bhecome a city through the passaze of an act by the citizens for the incorporation of the place. The seuti- ment on the proposition was about unani- mous. The California state board of health recom- mends the killing of cattle having Texas fever or anthrax and burning both their car- casses and the feed on the ranges which they have run. AS named Pete Nelson made himself aterror to men, women and children in Jefterson City, Mont., but was finally killed by the rebounding of a log of wood he threw on a covered wagon. A fortune teller in Denver named “Jea- nette,” last name not known, was burned to death in Denver, Colo, She was intoxicated at the tune, aud it is said her lamp exploded and set fire to her clothing. She was horri- bly burned. News comes from Mouterey, Cala., that the daughter of a Mr. Piffeir, liviug twenty wiles down the coust, was brutally outraged by a tramp while at home and the family away Mrs. Piffeir has since become insane and is not expected to live. Mr. D. Black,_ the manager of the Union Telegraph company at Luran fined $100 and seut to Jail by Judge Saufle: for contempt of court inrefusiog to produ oartain Wiekrams Fequired by the courtin the Waguer assignument Case. On last Wednesday Heary a tramp near s county, Cala., wyer were arrested Aggens, living ir fact that in case the oldest | on a farm about “four miled from Mont., whilo crossipg the Northern track with his taam, wes instantly together with his team;, ty & passing tion train ble over Mra. Alper's fanch at Mon , Cal, culminated in & shooting scrape. Sho ordored two men named Richter and Dolohs o oust a tenant named Metole, 1n doing 0 they handed Mrs. MeHolme roughly and her husband shot them both, Richter will die. McHolme surrendered himself, The following have boen elected ofticers of the grand lodge of Masons at San Francisco, Cala.: M. M. Estee, grand master; A, Rus sell Couklin, deputy grand master; William Johnston, senior graud warden; M. D, Boruck, junior warten; W. Spaulding, treasurer: A, G, Abell, secretary, Colonel DeLacy of Helena, Mont., has pre- sented the governor with the first’ map of Montana, drawn by nim for the first le ture in 184, It is a valuable relic, and the governor intends to frame it and hang 1t in his office. It shows only seven counties, but ¢ complete for the data at haud when od. ull, of the Bridger canyon sur- ty, was in Bozman Mou and rted to camp that evening. He sal party killed about twenty rattlesnakes a day while at work on the Powder ri He remarked that none of the par a bite and that they had the same jug of whisky with which they started. Joseph MeGrogor, who had been for some time suspected by a man named Peter Klchr, living in Billings, Mont., of intimacy with his wife, was shot last week by Klehr, turned bome from an absence of a fe and found Mctiregor in tho house. red himself to the authorities. riously wounded. ‘There was a pretty fair clean up made by tho Mcthodist conference at Boise City, Idaho, last week. One minister deposed, another given a year's lay-off to straighten a few irreguiarities, and last, but not least, a presiding elder field to be 'reprimanded by the bishop. The brothers went in to clean the Augean stables and they did a good job, but, like the man_that routed the skunk, they had to bury thewr clothes. Mr. George E. Boos, of the Helena (Mont.) Journal, is in possession of a photograph of the Seventh Indians regiment as they ap. peared after the war. This was General Harrison's regiment, and the appearance of the flags bears evidence of the fighting they did. One is a national flag and the other regimental colors, Both are torn into frag- monts. The staff of the national flag has been shattered by a buliet and bandaged up. At the close of tue war they were turned over to the state librarian, but have been lost. Only the photographi of them nuw re- mains, Mrs. F. J. Cornforth, of Denver, is_the daughter of Mrs, Koper, of Glasgow, Mo., who recently died in that town. Mrs. Rope was the last survivor of the Danicl Boone party who went from Kentucky to Missouri in an Like the others in that oup she was o hardy pioncer enduring long privations and hardships with cquanimity, and meeting one dificulty after another wity perfect fortitude. The friends of this worthy woman frequently heard her her remarable early experiences, and never so happy en they could in- her to talk on this highly cutertaining Despite the rough advonturous life 1 she led for sars, Mrs. Roper was lently prese 1 did not look to be more than Sixty ) though she was all of eighty. ~ Mrs, iforth and son went to Independence since where they will remaiu until the last sad rites ave over. —-— Evolution on the Plains, Denver Republican. Although we are of the opinion that Prof. Powell is correct in saying that the efforts of man cannot change the climate of the arid region, we think it not impossible to develop agriculture along certain lines independent of irri- gation and regardless of the question of climatic chang Observation shows that for certain kinds of vegetation an annual rainfall no greater than that which prevails in the vicinity of Denver is sufficient. Several varietics of grass grow upon the plains, and the cactus, sage brush and grease-wood thrive with no greater rainfall than we have here. Of species of forest trees, the cedar and pinon need a less rainfall than 1450 1nches, which has been about the average an- nual precipitation in Denver for the last si xteen years. The question is whether varieties of wheat, oats and other grains could be developed that would come to maturity in a locality where the annual precipita- tion is no greater than it 18 here. In support of the hope that this ques- tion may be answered in the affirmative, we appeal to the fact—commonly called alaw of nature—that plants exhibit a tendency or an effort to adapt them- selves to their environment. Those that are best adapted to it survive. Those that are least adapted to it per- ish. The process of natural selection has developed certain species of plants that thrive in the arid region. If nature were to remain unaided, it is probable that a hundred years woutd witness uo groat change in the vegetation of this part of the world. But experiment has shown that the tendency in animal and vegetable life to repeat in the offspring the characteristics of the parent may b tuken advantage of by man to produce a certain varviety of a given species. Tt is by this means thata ring-dove ¢ in a few generations, by careful ding, be developed from the ord nary rock-pigeon. In the same way a gardener may, if he select the secds with care, produce a red flower in a fow years from one that was partly red and partly white jo .t In order to solve our problem it is but necessary for some one living in the arid region to apply this process of soed seloction to the effort 1o produce a variety of wheat that would mature with an average annual rainfall of only 14.50 inches. Experience has taught that the vari- eties of wheat now sown in Colorado will produce asmall,although generally unprofitable, erop without irrvigation. In conducting the experiments to pro- duce the desired variety,only the grain of the best matured heads of wh such o cvop should be selected for re- planting. They should be selected be cause they have, in the case supposed, best survived the conditions of their arid enviroument. It planted, it would be reasonable to suppose that their ability to survive with a small amount of water would be trans- mitted to their offspring, if we may u the term. In the second year the same .are should be exercised ‘and only the grain sclected for the third sow- Hetena, Pacific Killed, on duce, theme, wl b ing. ! Tt is possible that in this way a va ety of wheat could be developed that would be s0 adapted to an arid clima as to produte bountiful crops without irvigation. Of course wheat of thissort would have but little straw, and it would, in all probability, be hard and flinty. But notwithstanding these pe- culiarities, it would be service e a9 food for mankind. At our request Mr. Strong, who resides near Platte Canon, has begun an experiment of this Kind, and so the problem may yet be solved with the wished for result. A B. & O. Ohange. Prirssuna, Pa, Oct. 18.--[Special Tele- gram to Tan 13ze.|—-A local paper says that before long there will be a great chunge in the Baltimore & Ohio management. Mr. Garrett has rapidly improved in health Within three weeks he has had frequent consultations with Seaator Gormau und Thowas M. King, ex-vice president of tho company. It is said Garrets hus expressed a belief that the general financial situation is 50 much better than when the Beltimore & Ohlo troubles came to u urisis that u gemeral refunding schems car be carried out. THE CONVICT LABOR BILL, Thayer's Courne Endorsed By alroms inent Knight of Labor. The following lotter, by Mr.Joseph Butns, of Lincoln, will explain itself John Jenkens, 1., Omaba, Nob, Friond and_Brother: Yours of recent date received, asking me what, if any, conversa- tion was had between Governor Thayer and myself during the sesaion of the legialatura two years ago, rogarding the re-letting of the contract known as the conviet labor bill that was then pending in the sonate. I will bricfly state, a8 noar as possible, what was said at that fimoe and how it came abor The state exeentive board of the Knichts of Labor met in the city in the carly winter, and one of the matters discussed by board was the letting of the prison cont It brought ov 1 sion o mer 1, or neurly all, nvassod th od that no other method or substitnte to care for the convicts “ould be arrived at that would bo humane to the prisoners and justice 1o tho taxpayer So it was finally decided to leave the mat tor ent ce of our legisla ture to substitute or renew the old contract, us might scem best to them. Without ad vice or criticism from the Knights of Labor, atthat meeting the question of branding prison made goods next came up for consid. eration. At first 1t acomed that it was the general wish of all prosent, to have this bi passed if possible when some one asked, if thisis done will it also include the branding of prison made g0ods from other states boing sold in Nebraska. ‘This caused an adjourn ment of the members to the ofee of lend ing attorney for information on this point He informed us that Nebraska's laws could not be made to apply to the branding of zoods made in some other state and sold 1 this. On this information it was decided to no further effort in this matter, as 're wis 1o wish to discriminato agwinst ki, Again, when the state assembly met later on, and still during the session ot the logislature, the same question came up for discussion, some of the membors demand ing the ubolishing of the prison coutract, aud the others branding of all goods in tho prison as such. _ This, however, ended without any final action, leaving the matter where it was left by tho former meeting, as wo did not wish to appoar ridiculons to the legislature by fighting bills we could not offer & substi tite for. At this mocting a committes was selected to work in the legisla ture in the interest of some And against other bills then pending, amongst which was one to exempt cortain 1£00ds from debt. Also to perpetuation of the lien law us there were several bills: then on file look i to its repeal. Also the bill known as the land lord's lien bill, which was, if it became & law, a terridle engine of oppression to the po 1 wish to state that the only momber of the committee sclected by the Knights of Labor that showed up at the oapital was Hrother Holden, who speut s few « and then returned home. 1 havin lected by the Trades Assombly in e with the Knights of Labor of Lincoln, to work for the defeat of the landlord’s bill and against the repeal of the lien law, as well as for or against othor bills that might come up either for or ayainst the interests of the workingmun. - And being left alone I went to work with all the ability T pos ed, to down the landlord's bill and r. tain tho prosent. lien law, the best law on our statute in the nterestof labor. Aud notwithstanding the efforts of the mone loanors und those intorested, who worked hard for its repeal, the members of the houso und senate voted as the ropresentatives of labor requested them on theso two bills, Not knowing, however, what would be the final outcome, when the bills came up for final action, and desiring to leave nothing undone that would insure success, I weut to the governor and statod the caso to him showing him in my humble way and to the best of my ability, tho great bardship tho passage of the one or the repeal of the other of theao bills would be to the laboring men of Nobraska: and I asked the governor i the name of and behalf of the laboring men of Nebraska, to sign the above bill should they come for his signature. Ho hoard mo through very patiently and asked a great many questions, amongst others, what, 1f any, _general action had been taken by the Knights of Labor or labor unions in regard to the reletting of th prison labor contract. Istated to him the faots as above, giving him the result of the meetings referred to, that as I understood the matter, there was' no instruction, cither for or against the bill; that the bill as it stands was satisfactory to the Knights of Labor, and in accordance with their action in state assem- bly. Ishall never forget what the govornor said when I arose to leave him: “Mr. Burns, you can go back to the organizations you rep: resent and the laboring men of Nebrask and tell them for mo, that 1 will never knowingly sign any bill that will work them & hardship or an injustice, I was rafsed to respect labor: 1 am gratified to see tho labor ing men discussing these questions of state that intercst thom, that is what Faises men from the humble walks of life to tho hizhest honors their country can be stow. Capital has always boen able to take care of itself, and if anything is done towards logisiation, it should bo in the intorests of labor. I will be glad at all times to do all I_can toward that end; I wiil also bo glad to have you, or ny other man or committee, call on ‘me at any time, as am always pleased to meet thom; and should any bill that will be detrimental to the in torest of the workingman pass the houso and senate, come to me and call my atten tion to it, you, or any other man, represeut ing honest labor, will always reccive a wel come." This was, as ncar as I_can_romemiber, tho conversation between Governor Thayer and myself. And you will understand that this was not be tion, but at a time wheu lie was D n callers of all kinds The courtesy | roceived was granted to me us a representative of lavor. So 1 must conclude that any man who would say Governor Thayer is not a tried and true friend of labor is, in_my opiniony cither a knave or a fool. Fraternally yoursy Joseri BUKNS, Doar e Not %0 Unanimons. Bram, Neb., Oct. 13.—To the Fditor of Tur Bre.—Your correspondence from this place purporting to report the proceodings of the Washington county republican con- vention held here on Tuesday iust, which ap- peared in yesterday's BEE is incorrect. It is true a resolution was introduced endorsing the course of Hon. Charles . Mandersou and instructing the nominee for representa tive to support him in the legislature. This was promptly and hotly opposed, and when it was brought to the attention of the conven tion that Mr. Mandersot's return to the sen- ate was not ouly endorsed and supported by Jokn M. Thursion, the attorney of the Union Pacific railway company, but that the resolu tion was introduced by one Davis, who had wledge before the conveution that puss-rider over that company's roads, the convention, on_ motion, struck out s0 mtich of the resolution as favored the sen Aor's return by the vote given by your cor- respondent, namely Ho to 15. It n be' added, too, that inas much as Mr, con, the nominee for represent when called, to come b nvention, there is a suspicion that he dare not express himself upon this question and that of submission, and it is pretty safe to predict that he will not be heard of aftor November 6. 1 have troubled you with this correction in justice Jublican voters of this county, whose record has always boen straight on the question of railroad domination. ~ How- ever much other counties may be fooled, the republicans of Washington are slow to sup. port candidatos put forth by the.attorney aud pass-riders of the railcoads, Dernoate. he Safe Did Not Fall. During the removal of the ofice effects of the D. C. Dunbar Publishing snd Engraving company to the new quartors at 1018 Farnam street, the chimney went through the sky- light. A 8,300-pound safe was being raised 10 the second floor and guy ropes were fast- ened around a chimney on the roof. When the safe was within three inches of the win dow the mney, being unable ¢ stund the strain, was carried away tush with the roof, The brioks crashed through the skylight, breakiug ninoteen lights of tho heavy ~ glass, and the debris fell on the photographic ap- paratus below. Tho main guy was fastened 10 the scuttie in the roof, which alone pi verted the safe from dropping to the ground, Alilgvers of the delicacles of the table use Angosturu Bitters to secure o good digestion, but the genuine manulactured by Dr. Siegert & Sons. . T (R S