Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1888, Page 4

e T R atl THE DAILY BEE. FPUBLISHED K RY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Datly Morning Edition) incluging SUNDAY 11 v, One Yea " Forix Month or Three Months T add WhEKD OuAn CHICA 0 0 500 WMATIA BUNDAY BEE, mailed to any i, One Yenr . . ) 2 0 010 FARN A M STREET, T ROOKERY BUILDING. New YORK Okkic M8 14 AND 15 TiinUs B BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 013 FOURTEENTH BTUEET, CORRESPONDENCE Allcommunications relating t ol mat ter should be addressed OF Ti1E Bk BUSINESS LITTERS, N Alibusiness letters a mittances shonld he nddressed 10 Tik BEE PUBLISIING COMPANY, )N, Dratts, checks and postofice orders 1o e made payablé to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors Editor news and sdi. lie Epiron Bworn Statem! ot Circulation. Btatoof Nebraska, |, o County of Douglas, | 9 George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bes Pub- Nishing Com soleinnly swear that the g DALY BEk for the Friday, Baturda, CHUCK. Eworn o before me and ibed in my presence this Ist day of Der D, 1884, Real N. P, FEIL, Notary Public, te of Nebraska, 1 Jounty of Dowgins, | George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de. oses AN says that e is secretary of the llee bublisting company, that’ the actiial averagy dnily efrculation DALy Brk for th morith of November, 1867, was 13,22 coples: for Deceniber, 188 {1 coplos; for January, 185§ 15,206 copies; for February, 1888, 15, Dies; for March, 1888, 10.650 coples; for April, 188 X o for May, I8, 17,181 copless for June, 1883, 10243 coples; for July, 1888, 18,033 or Angrust, 1959, 18183 coples; - temiber, 1868, 18,154 cople s; Tor October, 193, was K054 cOpl GEO, B, TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and’ subscribed in my Presence this 7th day of November, 1883, N. P, FE1L_Notary Public. — e Y — WINE suppers, it scems, are neces- Bary to make the life of certain mem- bers of the board of cducation a thing of beauty and a joy forever. 58 NEW YORrK proposes to establish free warm baths during the winter. This is an opportunity not to be lost by the groat vawashed Tammany crowd. otal vote cast in Nevada at the presidential election, November 6, was 12,609. Nevada evidently needs a brac- fng tonic to stir up her sluggish indus- tries. T [ETrE Outhwaite bill to extend the pay- ment of the debt of the Union Pacific railroad fifty years is not likely to pass out of the door of the house in the light of recent disclosur GENERAL HARRISON is #aid to have bagged a brace of partridges, three canvass-backs, one grouse, and a score of tufted cabinet hunters on his recent shooting trip. It evidently takes a president-elect to bring down the game. It behooves every member of the Ne- braska legislature to keep in mind two broad propositions affecting revenue re- form. The first is to passlaws by which taxation may be equally and justly dis- tributed. The second is to cut down the extravagant expenditures and appropri- alions. ¢ AND now comes the Mexican poqfiul authorities and bring serious charges against the American postoffice depart- ment, accusing it of negligence and carelessness in handling Mexican mail. This, too, after Don Dickinson made his glowing report to congress of the efficiency of the postoffice department for the year. INVESTIGATION does not always in- vestigute. It was not to be expected that members of the board of education whoare mixed up with the school fur- niture traders would tell half they know about these peculiar transactions. It is not expected, either, that the furniture agents will give away the secrets of their trade. It is well known toall who are familiar with the school Book and the school furniture business that the influence of school boards and em- ployes is sought and procured through pervcentages and ‘“divies.” Tt is not to bo presumed that Mr. Morrgw, who plumes himself upon being *finfluential” with ¢ertain members of our board of education, and especially with the building committee, has invented the stovy he told "to a man whom, at the time, he believed to bo the agent of a gchool-desk concern. [f Morrow did weave this yarn out of whole cloth, he isavery bud mab to have about the premises of a school board; if he told tko truth, the premises need a very general overhauling. — e legislature of Colorado will, at its coming session, elect a successor to United States Senator Bowen, and the present indications are that Mr, Ed- ward Wolcott, & prominent railvond at- torney, will be the choice. This gen- tleman has a good local reputation as a luwyer, a more than local veputation as o poker player, and has made one or two clever efforts in the line of oratory. Dut his strength lies in the fact that he is a devoted friend of the railroad cor- porations, which are a power in Colo~ aado, and are using all their influence in his behalf. He is opposed by a large mujority of the republican newspapers of the state, mainly on the ground of Lis devotion to the corporations, hut the Colorado legisluture s largely composed of men who owe their political standing to railrond influence und ard,and with the brass-collar crowd ‘Wolcott could have no stronger recom- mendation than the fuct that he is the creature of corporations. It will be a matter for general regret if Wolcott is successful, However ample and bril- liant his qualifications, the United BStates senate already has too many members owned by the corporations, and there is reason to believe that ‘Wolcott would prove to be one of the most aggressive in their lnterest. The policy of the people should be to keep railroad attorneys out of congress and by statute prohibit a member of that Lody, as the bill of Senator Beck pro- poses, from accepting any employment from a railroad company. Oaly in this way can the people ever be assured that their Interests will veceive just consid- eration, ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME, No one knows better than the editor of Tue Ber that the question of location of the city hall has never been voted upon directly. WHEN! W A e Meantime, it (the Republican) insists that the question has never yet been passed upon by the people; that the bulldozing and under- handed methods of Tur Bee have aroused public sentiment to a degree which makes submission an absolute prerequisite 1o con struction, and, it may be truthfully added, doné more than almost anything else to preju- dico the public mind against the Farnam strect site.—Republican. The men who now run the Repyblican were not in Omaha when the city hall was located. Their persistent misrep- resentation of historic facts ean only be ascribed to ignorance and malica. The records are within their reach and the could tell the truth if they were so dis- posed. There are many people in Omaha who have been lead to believe that the city hall location has never been sub- mitted. Ior their benefit we repro- duco ex-Mayor Boyd's proclamation which was published for twenty days before the gencral clection held on November 3, 1885: Proclamation and ion Notice, Execvrive Derartaest, Crry or Owmany, NEBRASKA, Mavons' Orrice, October 14, 1885, By virtue of the authority in me vested, I, James . Boyd, mayor of the city of Omaha, do liereby proclaim to the qualiiicd voters of said city, and the respective wards thereof, and voting districts therein, that on the ith day of Octobe® A. D., 1585, an ordinance was duly passed by the city council of said city, and on the Sth day of October, A. D., 1885, the said ordinancs was duly approved by the ma, of which ordinance the following is & cony, to-wit: Ordinance No. 050, An ordinance providing for the construc- tion of a city hall and submitting the samo to tho electors of the city of Omaha for rati- fication. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Omaha: Section 1. That the city hall building heretofore proposed for the use of the city of Omaha and the board of education of said city, as provided by contract, and located on lots five and six in block one hundred and teen, in the city of Omaha, be and hercby uthorized to be constructed, the said ting to cost not exceeding the sum of 0 hundred thousand dollars, the construe- tion of said building to be proceeded with as rapidly as funds therefore can be provided and 1 accordance with the plans proposed by E. E. Myers, Sec. 2. That this ordinance be submitted for the ratification of the electors of the city of Omaha, at the general election to be held in said city, on Tuesday, the 3d day of November, 1835, and that for such purpose the city clerk cause to be printed in form suitubie for voting, copies of this ordinance, with the following question printed thereunder: “*Shall the ordinan of which the above is a_copy, be ratitied?" A suitable number of said ballots to have the word ‘‘yes.” and a suitable number the word *no,” printed thereon. Sec. 8. That all votes ‘‘yes” shall garded or considered in_ favor of said ordinance, and all votes “‘no considered against ratifying said ordinance. ec. 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Passed Octaber W, F. Becn President City Council. Attest: J. B. Sovtianrp, City Clerk. Approved October 8, 1885. Javes E. Boyn, Mayor, Now, therefore, in pursuance of the pro- visions of said ordinance, notice is hereby given that at the general’ election to bo held in the city of Omaha. Douglas county, stato of Nebraska, on Tuesday, tife 8d day of No- vember, 1885, the proposition recited in said ordinauce in regard to the ratification of said ordinance will be submitted to the electors of said city. All votes ‘‘Yes" shall be considered as in favor of ratifying said ordinance, and all votes “No” shall be cousidered as against ratifying said ordinance. On the day before the election the following editorial appeared in THE Bee: The City Hall Provosition. The proposition to erect a city hall costing not more than $200,000, on the corner of Eighteenth and Farnam, will be voted on to- morrow. The building, to be constructed on the lot opposite the court house, is to be a magnificent and substantial structure, planned by E. E. Myers of Detroit. The perspective view of the building has been on exhibition for several days, and has been pronounced by all who have seen it a sightly and tasteful elevation. While it is to be just as substantial in every respect as the conrt house, it has been planned expressly with a view to make a striking contrast to that classio building. That Omaha needs a commodious and per- manont city hall building is admitted on all hands. The old fire trap now occupled,’in part, as a city hall, wowld bea disgrace to any village. The quarters which the city has secured in the new court house for some of its officers must be vacated in three years under the contract, which is not likely to be extended, becauso the county will need the room for its increasing business. Next to having the city under the same roof with the county building, the location opposite to the new court house is the wost convenient and desirable. The property owner who goes to pay his taxes does not want to travel half amile from onesetof offices to the other. Lyvery year the city and county busiuess is becoming more clearly identical, and tho transactions between the officials of the onn and those of the other more frequent and important. A Viewed from the standpoiut of public im- provements it is to the interest of every of zen that the proposition should carry. Tho assurance of the construction of the city hall will stimulate property owners on upper Farnam to erect large and costly blooks of oftice and store buildings within the next two years, give employment to hundreds of la- borers and mechanics and add largely to the aggregate tax income. It will give Omaha a building boom duriug the coming year, which will soon place us by the side of Kan- sas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Every ballot cast on the city hall proposition on the 8d day of November, 1885, had upon its fuce the full textof, the proposition to ratify the location of the city hall on upper Farnam. The proposition was ratified by over three thousand majority. Even the Pifth ward, of which Jefferson square is the center, only cast sixty-five votes against it, and one hundred and sixty- eight votes in favor of it. And now let us ask where has the un- derhand work been with regard to the city hall? Who has been guilty of de- ception and venality in this connection? Look at the men who were making harangues in the council chamber before therecent election! Every oneof them was in Omaha when the location was made. Hascall was a party to the con- tract by which the ground was acquired for city hall purposes. Dr. Mercer bought the corner of Sixtcenth and Far- nan for thivty thousand dollars, and on the strength of the city hall location two blocks boyond resold that lot for soventy-five thousand dollars. Later on he and others bought the Richards lot, corner of Eighteenth and Farnam, for twenty-five thousind dollars, and they resold that iot to eastern capitalists for fifty thousand dollars on the assurance that the city hall was forever located on the corner opposite and cast. Tt was the most unblushing offrontery on the part of Dr. Mercer, after he had induced capitalists to invest enormous sums in Upper Farnam property to stand up and advocate a re-location. The other champions of violating contract obligations and robbing unsuspecting investors are on a par with Hascall and Mercer. They either have spite to gratify or Mercer-nary ends in viow. To keep up any further agitation of this issue, in view of the obligations which the city has assumed toward for- eign capitalists and its own citizeus, would be worse thun repudiation. A SUGGESTIVE BXHIBIT. There is one fact in the annual report of the secretary of the treasury to which little is which., vory prominence is given, but interesting and of American shipping in the world's car- rying teade. The report shows that while the imports and exports of this country have considerably more than doubled in the last thir years, the proportion thereof envried in American vessels has decreased from over sev- enty-five per cent hefore the war to less than fourteen per cent at the present time, while of thissmall proportion only fifty-three per cent was lust year c ried in American steam vessels. In other words, over 80 per cont of our trade with the world is done through tho medium of foreign vessels, chiclly those of Great Britain, Thus our merchants and manufactur- ers pay annually into the pockets of European ship owners nearly or quite two hundred million dollars for freight charges. wlile they are necessarily lso placed at a disadvantage in competition with the merchants and manufacturers of Europe, both as to rates and privil- leges. -Certainly among the disasters of the war havdly one was move serious than the destruetion it brought to our merchant marvine, and while nearly all else has been repaired our shipping interest, so the world’s trade is concerned, worse condition now than when the war ended. No statesman has appeaved capable of presenting a practicable and satisfactory plan for restoring this important inter- est, and year after year it has gone on of the world the American flag at the declining, until now 1 most parts masthead of a vessel is one of the rarest of sights. The next administration and congress will have an opportunity to consider this subject, and it is altogether proba- ble that within the next two years it will become prominent in public atten- tion and discussion. With the more im- mediately urgent questions of a re- vision of the tariff and the admission of the territories disposed of, which will be done at the first session of the next congress if not by the present congress, there is no question in sight of greater concern to the practical interests of the nation—to the future of its commerce and to its ability to successfully com- pete for the world’s trade—than that of rebuilding its merchant marine and re- gaining at least its former position in the world’s carrying trade. If the next administration shall beable to solve the problem involyed in this question, so that American commerce shall be sup- plied with American faciTities for its transportation without building up an interest to become a charge upon the public treasury, it will perform a service to the country of such inestimable value as to give it a most conspicuous and honorable place in the nation’s history. As yet an entirely practicable and satisfactory policy has not been suggested, although the ques- tion has been discussed in and out of congress for twenty years. nevertheless, instructive, It relates to the declin GET TO WORK ON THE CHARTER. Committees have been appointed by the city council and board of trade to prepare amendments to our charter, These committees, for the present, at least, ave acting separately, Their rec- ommendations may clash in many very esseutial particulars. Less than four weeks remain for them to complete their work, and the chances ave, teu to one, that by the time the legislature convenes the delegation will find itself loaded down with all sorts of recom- mendations, on which they will be as much divided as the committee., And then we ghall have another huggermug- ger for a charter, with incidental con- troversies that will retard its passage. In fact, if any radical reform is proposed that touches eorporations and syndicates on a tender spot, we are liable to have a repetition of the di graceful conflict of two years ago. This ought to, if possible, be avoided. The charter committees and members of the delegation should get togethe as soon as possible, talk over every change proposed, and harmonize differ- ences before the legislature convenes, Unless this is done, Omaha will again be the butt of jobbers and legislative mountebanks, who always take advan- tage of such squabbles and make moun- tains out of molehills, While the Omaha charter affects nobody ountside of this corporation, and Omaha pays one-tenth of the state taxes,and re- ceives in return less than one per cent of the appropriations, she is obliged to tussle and wrestle over her charter as if the state was contributing millions toward her institutions, S=mpreem—— THE report that the Chicago pork packers have formed a trust to embrace the packing industries of St. Louis, St. Paul, Chicago, Omaha, Des Moines, Kansas City and Sioux City is not at all improbable. It is well known that the pork packing establishments of Kansas Civy, Omaha, Sioux City, St. Paul and other cities are closely conneoted with Chicago firms, In fact, the former were originally branches of the parent houses in Chicago. An understanding there- fore may have been reached to concens trate the business as much as possible at several of the prominent packing centers, This woula, of course, neces- sitate the shutting down of houses in centers not so we!ll adapted and forcing smaller concerns to the wall. But the formation of a trust in the sense to con- trol absolutely the pork packing busi- ness of the country is out of the ques- tion, future the g OTHERLANDS THAN OU The relations between the United States and Samoa are not as well known as they should bo. The kingdom of Samoa is com- posed of that group of islands in the Pacific which was formorly known as Navigators' Tslands, the clief one being Tutuila, which has an excellent harbor called Pango Pango by the Samoans. In 1872 the chiefs of Tu- tuila requested the United States through Commodore Mead to assume the protectorate over this 1sland agd harbor, which the United States consented confer with the cijiefs of all the islands and show them the fecessity of extending the protectorat ovet the whole group. This was in 1575, Bt the Polynesian natives, with the frivolify and changeableness of their race had in the meantime determined 1o clect a king. and the special agent of the United States beeamo his prime minister. 1t is quite clean that the American nation can not iusist upon @ protoctorate which the Samoans desire to abrogate. The Germans have stepped in, and have assumed the pro tectorate, but they are a conquering people which we are not, and will not be, Somo very silly attempts Lave been made to do- fend Secretary Bayard, who has blundered as usual, for hie liko all southerners is always agog for foreign conquest, and the nation will not hear of them. The Dominican republic is enzer for a United States protectorate, but we h persistently refusad. That indeed should be a moat valuabls acquisition, but we do not want to enlarge our border, We have no ground of complaint against the Ger- mans, who have treated Americans in Samoa with more than courtosy, with real friendli ness, and it is out of the power of any sonth- ern demagogue to make any political capital out of Samoa. o do, and sent an agent to To the average Amérfean reader the one groat port of Japan is Yokohama, but thero is another port which has become more or less familiar, and that is Kobe, from which various shipments of conl have been made to Sun Franciseo during the rocent conl famine, An American Journal published in Japan— the Japan Herald—has been studying the statistics of the two ports, and has come to the conclusion that Kobe will bo in the t port of the Flowery King- dom. In ten years its forcign tradé has grown more than 100 per cent, while the foreign trade of Yokohama has only grown But the comparisons fo the 3 o still more striking, for the total e of Yokohama for eight months of 1888 bont two-thirds the amount for the whole year of 1857, showing no gains, whilst that of Kobe for the same poriod is_gre the total for the whole year of 1587, asingle year of 33 per cont. Kobo diveried from Yokohama much arn trade, and is beginning to securo some of the silk business. If, in addition, there should be developed atraMic between Tacoma and Kobe of coal and petroleum, Kobe furnishing the_Pacific slope with coal and Tacoma furnishing Japan with oil fr the wells of Wyoming, Kobe would at o far outstrip Yokohama, in spite of its vicinity to the capital, Tokio. Kobe is, 80 to sveak, the port for the greatcities of Osaka and Kioto, aundscommands the trade of central Jupan, so that it is well situated for the botroleum business. Signor Lanciani who has been for yoars the director of excavations at Romo for the Italian government and the city authorities, is a profound archieologist, and therefore his book entitled “Ancient Rome,” has been re- ceived by the Italians with great applause. Itsan account of his labors, explaining fully and clearly the importance of the re- sults, some of which were wholly uanlooked for. Hitherto nothing has been really found prior to the time at wuich Servius Tullius, the first of of the Etruscan kings of Rome is supposed to have lived. Such of the archaic fortifications as have been uncarthed from time totime have been nscribed to him, though perhaps he never existed, for it is ad’ mitted that the earlier books of Livy,and par- ticularly everything relating to the Ktruscan dynasty in Romey are all to be regarded with the utmost suspicign. Signor Lauciani has discovered a ncbwchwolnginl stratum, to- tally unknown v and antedating all the monuments ascribedto Servius Tullius. Thng is a necropolis or cemetery, from which Lave been taken some 5,000 archaic specimens bronze, amber, stone and terra cotta. As this bronze is made not of copper and tin, but of copper, lead, zinc and antimony, it is certain that it was'of Etruscan manufacture, sice the secret of making hard bronze, and more particularly bronze with a cutting cdge was unknown to every nation save the pre- historic Pheenicians who sold cutlery of this kind to the Egyptians of Memphis. B During the present week the blocicade es- tablished by the Euglish and German na- tions along the coast of Zanzibar goes into force. This, of course, is aimed at the Bel- gian and Portuguese traders who have been supplying the coast peoplo with arms and re- ceiving slaves in payment. Of these prac- tices, there is now no doubt whatever. The position of the German government is laughably mixed. A liberal in the reichstag declared emphatically that he was opposed to negro slavery, but that he would oppose all measures for putting down slavery in Central Africa until slavery is abolished along the coast and under the very shadow of the German flag, When questioned as to his meaning, he declared that he had infor- mation with re to the German colonists near the coast which reflected disgrace upon the German nation, if true. He was cred- ibly informed that tho colonists reduced their hired servants to a condition of abject slavery, chaining them at night-time to pre- vent them from escaping or from joining in the revolt against the Germans, "It seems that this vile inbumanity was ihe cause of the outbreak which has Fesulted in the total destruction of German property in the differ- ent stations and in the ports along the In- dian ocoan. Phe two fortificd harbors of Minengani and Tunghi were abandoned by the Gei'mans and bave since been burned by the natives, and _tho whole country is dis. turbed. The English bishop of Equatorinl A has ofticially recommended that all English missionaries bo withdrawn, which looks as if the potentato of Ugunda had really joined hands with the mahdi's suc- cessor. e The English are in a peck of trouble over the situation in Egypt. Therc is now no longer any doubt that the Mahdi has done something to the Nile which has essentially lowered its stream, 50 that not only has there been no inundation, but the great irrigating ditches have remained dry. Sir Samuel is of opinion that the great tributary, which rises in Western Abyssinia, has been turned. He says that it could easily be dong, and that the government at Khar- toum knows enough 1to do it, and has in the Soudanese abundance of strong arms that wauld accomplish auything he ordered. Other travelers m Eastern Africa support Sir Samuel Baker's hypothesis, and one s that the probable point where the de- ion has beeu’ made is near Kassal commands the roads to Suukim aud to Massowah. ke imagines that it has been turned into the Red Sea near Masso- wab, which has been given up by the Ital- ians'to the Abyssiuians. This would be looked upon by the Abyssinlans as an aot of great friendliness, and it would have a ten- dency 1o bring about a perfect understand- ing between the Mahdi and the Negus, who would in future work together as true allies. Truly the English have made a mess of it by dethroning Ismail; Khedive, for Egypt is almost doomed, singe it was the alluvium of he Atbara that was the fertilizing element in the yearly inundations. fake the Atbara away from the Nile, and food is taken away from Egypt. of money kings in state matters. In spite of the fact, tat it Germany seizes Luxemburg, and then Holland, upon the death of the old king now dying by inches at Loo; and Russia at the sawe time attacks Austria, having made all necessary disposi- tions for the onset; in spite of the undenia- ble fact that under such circumstances the solf-interest of F'rauce and England prompts thom to combiue together to put & stop to the ambition of Germany, it is clear that the two uo‘gntrlu are drifuing into something wore than coldness—iuto positive aversion. The great London dailies do not hesitate to afirm that the republic is doomed, aud sowme This comes of the interference form of government, There is no doubt that France is practically bankrupt, and that unfortunate country exemplifies the utter falsity of a system which allows wealth to become concentratod in a few hands, If “we take Into consideration the wealth of in dividuals, France is enormously wealthy— but the government is banirupt, agriculture is depressed, viticulture is ruined, and more than half the workingmen are without work. There is no doubt that France ison the verge of a revolution, out probably it will be al- most bloodless, Tho world will look on with A curious eye to see what now system I'rance will devise for the scientific distribution of national earning in such away that therc can not be any concentration in few hands —for that is the malady of which Frauce is dying. People of Omaha'who aro anxious for details of the marriago of the young Chinese cmperor will have to wait until the Chinese new year which will atrive on the 25th day of K As overy Chinaman spends all his available funds at his wedding the nuptials of the young emperor were to have been exceedingly ous, and an outl twenty millions doliars was contemplate But the bursting of the Yang tse Kiang fr its boundaries depleted the treasury consid erably, and the cost was pared down to fif- | teen millions. And now that the great island of Formosa is in_revolt it is probable that there will be a still further retrench. ment. The Princess Kang Sing who is the future empross is probably not so vexod about the matter as an American girl would be under the same circumstances, for Chi nese wives do not censider their lot to be a happy one. Formosa has been quiet for a hundred years for the last rebellion was in 1788, The island has never been thoroughly conquered by the Chinese, and the castern part still maintains its independence On this occasion it is the Chiness element in the d, which has revolted under the pressure of heavy taxation. If they are joined by the free ‘natives they may be able o make asuccossful stand more especially if they should bo assisted under the rose b; somo lEvropean power. bk P NEWS COMMENT. Thoy are short of coal in Butte City and Heleaa, in western Montana, for reasons whicl have not yet been satisfactorily ox- plained, but which possibly are connected with the desire of the Union Pacific to make mouey by seading coal from Rock Springs and Evanston to San Francisco during the recent coal famine. And i addition to this there is in Butte City a want of wood, for the local sources of supply have been exhausted. Two of the mines may have to suspend for want of fuel, and the Montana Central rail- rond is bemg petitioned daily to bring wood s, until coal comes. Noth- n better illustrate the paramount n ssity of not allowing a railroad which is a common carrier to enter into other business and the sooner this is made law the better, not only for Montana but for the whole of the United States. There is such a law in Pennsylvania, but what is wanted is a United States law. Australian merchauts have been buying wheat in Sun Francisco. What is the-cause of this marvelous occurrence! 1s it drouth or is 1t rabbits? All the territories of the northwest are in line waiting for the gift of statehood from their big sister Columbia except Idaho. It seems that the people of the northern section object to bearing their share of a burden which they claim will only benefit the south- ern portion of the territory. Very good. Idaho can go and sit 1n the corner with her face to the wall until she has composed her feclings. Columbia will attend to her case in good time. Dr. Williams of Toronte, the Canadian who was in Africa with Stanley, is convinced thathe is dead, m spite of the recent authen- tic news of him at the head waters of the Niger. Ho believes that Stanley was more desirous of making frosh discoveries than of rescuing Emin Boy, and that he struck out from the direct path with that object, and was massacred through the treachery of some of his own men, furnished by Tippu Tib, who led him into an ambush, ——— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, York wants & down-town telegraph office. There is talk of converting the old court house at Madison into an opera house. Two hundred tons of hay ave bemg held at Ewing for shipment to eastern markets. ‘The ofticials of Brown county have moved into the new court nouse at Ainsworth. Judge Gaslin is making the Adams county lawyers hustle whiie he is holding districy court at Hastings, Nebraska has a new lady attorney in the person of Mise Jennie Davis, who was ad- mitted to the bar by Judge Gaslin at Hol- drego. A move was made toward starting a gymnasium at Kearney, but it has suddenly come to a halt, the treasurer having skipped with the funds already collected. County Judge Kenaston, of Brown county, nd H. R. Bisbee, editor of the Ainsworth News, has been appointed to fill acancy. Bisbee is a democrat, Wk King, who has boen a respected resident of Paxton for two years, was caught stealing hay from a minister and forced to property several times it was worth. Whisky and cards to neglect his business at he raised the mone) property hie didn't 0wn. and his ereditors mourn, The Ewing Democrat reports a case of railroad robbery as follows: Two months ago J. W. Drayton, of this place, bought and shipped a carload of coal from Bloomington, 1lL, to Ewing, "The coal arrived on time, but when Drayton went to receive it he was in- formed that the froight amounted to the enormous sum of $134.50 for twenty tons of coal. How's that? §b. per ton freight, Drayton refused to take the coal, and it then laid on the track bere for over two months, when last week the railroad company ordered their agent to sell the coal for the freight, It was sold, and did not bring enough to settle the freight bill by over 45, and yet this Fre- wmont, Klkhorn & Missouri Valley is no monopoly! Where is your republican rail- road commission ! wsed Butehor Bussen orth Louv, but Y mortgaging 10 is mussing, 1o School teachers are very .scarce in Cul- houn county. There aro said to bo fifty-two empty jails in tho state. Policoman Donahue, of Creston, has re- coived an anonymous letter telling him to leave town or ho will be a dead man, About thirty persons were seriously pois: oned recently at Bush Creck, by eating head cheese. All were recovering at last ac counts, The scheme for the disposal of the Aborn house at Des Moines by lottery has not fallen through, but is going through at Helena, Mout. George P. Rose, of Dubuque, ha J an electrical dial by which all the clocks iu the different parts of any large establishwent way keep exactly the same time, at # small expense. The Orange City Herald says thes placid surface of Calliope society is again disturbed by a ruwor that a young gentleman of that town must either marry his lady love or bury himself in an obscurity so deep that the sheriff of Sioux county can't find hiw. Clark Androws, a collego student who in- jured his thumb with the point of an ink- rusted pen last week, is I_\'lufg i & very crit- ical condition at his home in Otho. Hicod oisoning bas set in and his whole arin is tudl)’ swollen. Fatal results are anticipated. They ave still talking base ball at Abor- deen, Saloons have been refused a license at Columbla, There will probably be no gourt Rapid City until next Maroh, There ure 240 cascs on the docket of the court now in session at Fargo. A It is expected the plaus for the system of sewers at Yankton v?m 8000 be cowpleted. Mitbank s -‘fiftmw the question of a public library, there may be & place held at for the foung men to spend thelr evenings this winter. C. C. Bassett, of Woonsocket, I8 trying nis hand atimproving the invention of Darius Green, @Mrs. Bishon, principal of the Rapid City schools, has resigned her position and will go to Florida for the winter season. A young farmer named Charles Brown, living near Ellendale, has mysteriously dis: appeared, and Frank Name. who lived with himy has been arrested on suspicion of being the cause of his disappearance A number of young bachelors at Deadwood are tatking of sending out for a carload of young ludies to spend th nter in Dead wood. There seems to carcity of them at present, and the consoquence is that sinch and high five are popular but expensive games, There is an organization in Yankton col lege called the Order of St. John, The most that is known concerning the ord \t pres ent is that the members have foresworn al association with the gentle sex. T'he amount of mor: age required 1o take this oath ended when it s known that all the knights are at that tender age when ions and mustach Just com mg to be felt. —— AMUSEMENTS, “Ranch 10," presonted at the a opera house last night, is intended, as its title im plies, t9 fllustrate phascs of life in the west, and for this purpose the author located his scenes and incidents in - Wyoming at a date seventeen years past. It is just possible that at that period thore were types of character in the western territory somewhat similar to a few of those presented in the drama, but as usual with such productions, most of its peo- ple are exaggerations or caricatures, How- ever, “Ranch 10" is no worso in this respect than all plays of its cast, and it possesses quito as much interest as any of them Love is the all-per. vading sentiment and moving force of tho drama--the love of a cultivated Massachu sotts girl for an unpolished frontiersman wiio is prepossessing, courageous and mani, and who has u twin brother the perfect counterpart of himself, Of course thereis a villain, and there is a judge of the kind sup- posed to have formerly admimstered justioe in the far west, a doctor who domin pretty much everything, a fighting lawyer, a parson, and a woman who has no confidence in mankind and no fear of anything. There is an abundance of the sort of heroie senti- ment which no one but a writer of west- ern plays ever uttered or thought, the rifle, pistol and Bowie knife come into f quent requisition, and, in a word, allgthe es- of o_thorough-going melodrama are vided. The most realistic feature of the play 1s the burning of the corral and ranch, and it was warmly applauded. Mr. J. Clinton Hall assumes tho dual role of the twin brothers, Al and Tom McClelland, and makes of fhew all that is perhuaps possible. Miss Fay Chester is the Massachusetts girl, Aunie Smalley, in love with Al McClelland, and she also does as well with the part as is necessary or as it werits. And this sort of comment might as well be applied to all the characte They make no demand for artistic or careful acting. The audience was small and not notably demonstrative. THE COURTS. United States Court, The case of Sheppard vs the Chicago & Northwestern railway, in an action to re- cover $5,000 damages for injuries sustained, has been continued to the May term of the court, The case of Dav land, to annul payment of a note for on trial before Judge Dundy. The federal grand jury rested the election frauds investigation ~temporarily in order to take up other business yesterd This matter i8 a pending in- dictment for perjury against William Dunlap, of Silver Creck, this stat It is stated that at a recent land trial in the courts at Grand Island testimony was given by Dunlap which is extensively questioned a5 to its truthfuluess. In the hearing before the jury to-day Robert Blair and Aloxander T, Steen gave testimony the tenor of which 18 said to have been strongly sustaining the charge of perjury. Dunlap'has not as yet been arrested, and in _consequence the mat- teris kept very quiet by the government of+ ficials, About eighteen witnesses have been summoned to appear and give testimon, The jury i the case of John Grant against the Union Pacific has not as yet reached a verdict. id H. Lincoln vs L. Hol- 50, 18 District. ‘The case of Marshal vs Goble, an action to recover 83,500 as commission on salo of real estate, has gone to Lhe jury. The case of Christianson vs The Nebraska and Iowa Insurance company, an action to recover $500 insurance, is before Judge Grofr. The Muller Music' company bring suit against Johnson Biehl for the recovery of 5,000 damages. The Muller company are an 1owa corporation doing business in Council Bluffs. Frank P. Hunlon has entered action against J. W. Phillips for the payment of $600 given in‘a promisory note datod Septem- ber 26, 1887, In defanlt'of payment plaintiff prays that certain real estate collateral be 801d and tho proceeds devoted to the liquida- tiow. of this claim. A. J. Poppleton has filed a petition against David Sinith and the county;of Douglus ct.al. The subject matter of this suit is a disputeas 10 4 right of way. o The Omaha and Grant_ Smelting company bring an action against Daniel Cathroe late i foreinan in thoie employment. On. Sept ber 17, 1857, a man named Brady was injured and subsequently recovered $00 dam “The smelting works company claim now that the accident to Brady was the result_of Cathroe's nealigene i Judge Doane is_engaged in hearing - the case of Mury A, Dugdale against the city of Omaha. Mis, Dugdale cluims $10,000 for al- leged damages done to her properly by re son of the gradiug of Dodge street between Eighthi and Ninth stree In Judge Wakeley's coiirt Nols Tieua Beuzon i on trial. . claimed for labor done and buildiug material supplicd. County. ‘Tne attachinent in the case of Maxwell Knight was discharged on motiou, George Berlinghof has entered suit_vs R. M. Genius in an action to recover judgment to the extent of §630, Oscamp & Hames were awarded a verdict in the sum of 200,92 against O. Newman, vs OBITUARY, Death of Mrs. Dr. Dinsmoo At noon yesterday occurved the death of Mrs, Orpha C. Dinswoor, wife of Doctor Charles M. Dinsmoor. The demise took place at the family rosidence, coruer of Twentieth and Dodge strects, The imme diate cause of death was upoplexy. The deceased, who was about sixty years of age, had cnjoyed excellent health up to the morn ing of her decease, when she complained of @ slight indisposition. Nothing serious was apprebended, and Dr. Dinsmoor made his usual professional calls, At noon when seated dictating o lotter o an amauucusis, Mrs. Dinsmoor was suddealy stricken, and before medical aid could be summoned had passed away. ‘The arrangewments for the fun- ©ral are not yot completed, but it will prob ably occur to-morrow. In tne death of this society bhas sustaived @ From her youth up Mrs. Dinsmoor has been & person of remarable capacity, display ing attributes of no ordinary® c! ter, and thi® lutter years of her life_bavo been devoted to the works of charity. “Indecd Mrs. Dins- itaph can hardly be written here. Her memory will bo kept green by countless people to whom she was ever ready 1o ex- tend & helping hand, She was a lady of very pronounced opinions upon certain sooial matters, notably the women's suffrage aues tion, and only a8 recently as lust Tuesd night, she was actively cugaged in this wo which had for her a great fascination, Mrs. Dinswoor was at the nead of the Omaha Creche association und was deeply intorested in the state home situa at Millford and organized for the reception of reformed women. Unity Unitarian congregation will feel her loss very wuch. She was greatly interested in the welfare of that pluce of worship, and there are few ladies 10 Omaha who have done more to further the cause of charity or public education. Omaha lady wroat loss. CRAWFORD ROOMING, Rallroad Work Instils New Vigor Into a Lively Tow Crawrorn, Neb, Dee, 1.—[Correspondence of Trr Bre,|—The minds of the dwellers in our midst have been easod of much anxioty ce the 13, & M. railroad company rocontly let to Mossrs, Kirkpatrick Bros, & Collins, of Beatrice, a grading contract which will employ 2,000 men ona lino commoncing at Crawford. and ruuning to a point ten miles due south, where a tunacl will be con- structed, and purchased six and a half ac of land adjoining the Fremont, Blkhorn & Mis- souri Valley railrond company’s town sito at Crawford, on the norid, east and south, Wao now look forward to commercial relation with Omaha, Crawford has prospored so far, and pro ises great growth in tho future. As an catnest, a bourd of trade, with B. S, Pad- dock, a liberal-minded and far-sighted busi. ness man of the northwest, as president, and Emmett Dally, a rising young attorney from Des Moines,” a8 secrotury, was organized a fow days ago, in a desive to direct the sur- plus labor and capital of the crowded dis- tricts of the country toa most productive use. W. K. Alexander, conducting various lines of business here, will soon wholesalo groceries. The Montana Catile company is 1o establish a canning plant of thiviy-man power; the erection of A croamery is prob- able: the New Hampshiro Cattlo company has headquarters here, with a_large foodin ranch in close proximity, and Prosident J. H. Barron intends making his home with us, Besides there is directly north and_opposite the Fremont, Flkhorn & Missouri Valley raiirond station & foundry, machine shop and planing il combined, cover- ing’ half and acre. The main building is a brick venecred structure with two large wings and an engine house, The planing mill is two stories high, and encloses ma chinery that will convert native lnmbor into lath, shingles, fooring, ete. Smelting works will also be oporated by this management. The White river rolling mills huve boen in operation but one year, and drawing wheat within a radius of eighty miles by wagon, coutribute materially to our prosperity. Crawford is in the White river valle mediately south of the military reser threo and a half miles cast of Fort Robinson, in the midst of rich farming land, with a view of the picturesque | - Crow Buttes to the southcast, The soil and climato cannot be surpassed for agriculture. Tron, timber, petroloum, marble, tin, gold, silver and coal are found in apundance, and, besides, there is water- power awaiting the application of labor and capital o these wonderful resoucces of na- ture. As an evidence of an increasing approela- tion of the truth of this letter, it might be asserted that within the past two months there has been n general advance in city realty of 40 per cent Persevering Civil Service. A. W. Grifi, chief clerk of the railway mail service at this place, has been removed, and I, T. Murphy, a_former messenger on the Burlington, between Council Blufts and Chicago, succeeds hiw. Superintendent White made the chunge, Grifin has beep in the office here for six years. Murpby as- sumes charge to-day. Buggies Collide, About 6 o'clock last night two buggies col- lided on Sixtecnth streetat the juncture of that street and Capital avenue. One of tho carriages contained a lady aud a littlo«child, who were thrown out, but beyond a severo shaking up they sustamed no injuries. Both rigs were badly broken up. Glass Worth $2,000 Broken. Yesterday morning at the Kennard Glas and Paint company’s store, on Sixtecnth street, a number of cases of plate glass top- pled and the entire contents were broken into fragments, One of the store men nar- rowly escaped being crushed by a cuse s it fell over. The total loss will probably foot up §2,000. 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