Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 21, 1888, Page 4

TRE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. 1888 DECEMBER 21, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF KUBSCRIPTTON, Pafly Morning Baition) including SUNDAY. Tioe, One ¥ ear L0 00 Yor six Months, . 5 00 ForThree Montlis P 250 T OMAHA SUNDAY Bre, mailed to any address, One Year. 2m WEEKLY [3BE, Ote Year. ... D OMATA OFF IR NOS. 014 ANT 10 FA U A W &7 CHICAGO OFFICE 0] ROOKERY BUILDIN NEw YORK Orricr, ROoMS 14 AND TrisUNE BeiLoinG, WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 013 FOURTERNTH BTREET. CORRESPON DEN( Alleommunications relating tonews and sdi- forinl matter shonld be addressed to the Epiton OF THE DEE. DUSINESS LETTERS, Al business 5 and remiftances should be Addressed to TiE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMA1A, Drafts, checks and postofice orders to bemade payable to the order of the company. 0o Bee Publsting Company Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Y BEE, Circulation, THE L Sworn Statement o Btateot Nebraska, | County of Douglas, { %8 George B, Tzschiuck, secrotary of The Res Pub- Tishing Com, , does solemnly swear that the actual cirenla ALY BEk for the week ending December 15, 188, was ag tollow: Funday, Dec. 0. ... R PR T M " w8 PRI 1)} | N Seiiis 81 s, sdny, De Thursday, Dec. 13 Frid Dee. 14 Baturday, Dec LORGE I TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 1ith day of December A, D, 1888 Seal N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Ktate of Nebraska, ! Jounty of Dougins, (%% rge I Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de-. es and xays that o fs secretary of tho 1ee Publishing company, that the actinl ave dally circulation of Tk DALy Bek for th month of December, 1847, 15,041 coplos; for Jan- V, or February, 1888, 1588, 19,089 coples; for for' May, 18, 17,11 1 coples: tor Jily, st, 158, 18,153 coples | \ Dias: tor October, , was 15084 copl November, 1888, 18,080 coples, GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subs. d in my Presence this Sth day of Decembar, 1538, N. P FEIL Public. — Tite property of corporations must be taxed at the sume ratio as that of the poor man. — I¥ HASCALL be made president of the council, the people will openly vesent the insult. Average, 11, 1888, 18,444 cople: o for Jiine, 148, 18,043 coples for Ang September, 1548, 15,1 for b Tk place hunters are camping round about the capitol, and will shortly move upon the citadel, IN THE heat of the charter discussion Jet us suggest that the school board be taken out of politics. THE next leg barnacles a vacation, and elect clean men to ofticial positions. LN is likewise anxious to “place the granting of liquor hcenses in the Lands of an excise hoard. s quite evident that General Har- rison is not losing any sleep over the composition of his cabinet. —ee WITHIN a few days at most the bat- teries now masked will be opened all along the line on the candidates for the ppeakership, SPECIAL meetings in support of the Outhwaite funding bill are bocoming an Omaha fad, The taxpayers denounce them, Ir there be any member-clect of the legislature who has not yet received a railroad pass, good on lines in Ne- braska, it is because he has refused to accept the bribe. e IT WILL be interesting to the next legislature to know just how many farms in Nebraska are mortgaged, and the total amount of mortgage paper drawing interest in the state. T7 18 said the legislative lobby is busy preparing the chestoutty blackmail bills which are regularly introduced for the purpose of bleeding interested par- ties. Some of them “are born to blush unseen’ and die in a pigeon hole. Nopopy can complain of the bank clearings and railroad earnings for the pust three weeks. Their reports show gains over the corresponding time last year, although the record for that period was uncommonly higl TuE acquittal of Constable Paul Stein for breaking the jaw of a person he was about to arrest was unpardonable. No officer, whether he be policeman or con- stable, has the right to exceed hi authority by a brutal attack in the or- dinary discharge of his duty. SENATOR REAGAN, of Texas, has ap- pointed his wife private secretary at six dollars a day. There were other candi- dates for the place with good backing, but the successful one had the advan- tage in being the power behind the throne. TweNTY thousand dollars were ap- propriated for the state board of trans- portation at the last session of the leg- islature. For all the good the board has ovor done the people of Nebraska, the money could just as well have bedn thrown into the Missouri rviver, Tue committee on public lands and buildings is a vich plum on which many n member: ot of the legislature casts & longing eyn. The railrond candidates for the speakership ave fully aware of its advantages, and hold the ¢hairman- Bhip of it up as & terapting bait for sup- port, — Every second mpan at the stato capi- tal is said to bo an office seeker, The members of the legislature on the ground are bidding for the speakership or chaivmanship of important commit- toes, and the peopleof Lincoln are after any appointment they can get at the publie erib, * THE settlers of the Des Moines river unds have cause to rejoice over the re- sult of the test case just decided to re- cover improvements made on the com- pany’s land, The plaintiff, an evicted settlor, hus been awarded full value for his improvements while the company bas been granted a fair rental during the settler’s occupancy. The decision 1ooks equitable and is one which will be rereived with universal approbation. The case has set a precedent and 1t will undoubtedly lead to an amicable settle- weunt of the whole guestion. A NATIONAL POLICY. General Harrison is reported to have said to the committee ot southern men who called on him Tuesday that it was not his intention to discriminate be- tweon difforent sections of the country by adopting a policy for one section that would not be applied to the other. Some time ago General Harrison made a similar statement in writing to the editor of a paper in the south regarding the southern question, and there has never been any sound reason for a doubt that his policy would be national, applying alike to all sections of the country. The professed apprehension of the southern politicians that the new administration would pursue a course of perseeution toward the south and seek by some ex- traordinary means to direct the politics of that section even to the extent of in- terference wish its local elections, did not find reant in the record of the president-elect, nor in anything which the republican party had done or pro- posed to do. The alarm implied n confession, and oexcept in this it had no significance. Unex- pected defeat had <imply “rattled” the southern politicians, and as the guilty flee when no man pursueth, s0 they, conscious of persistont wrong- doing, proclaimed themselves in dread of something that no ones had threat- ened aud of which they were in no dan- ger The policy of General be to appoint to the federal offices in the soutlf capable and honest republi- cans, ¥ho will faithfully and fearlessly diseharge their duties, and within4he limits of their authority sce that the laws aro respected. The United States Harrison will marshals and district attorneys whom he will appoint will not be men in sympathy with the southern dem- ocratic method of suppressing republi- can voters, They will undoubtedly be sclected with reference both to their regard for the political rights alike of white and colored republicans and their ability and courage to protect them in their rights. They will be required to see that the law 1s respected, and it is \fe to predict that no man will con- tinue in office in the south under the next administration who shall not fully respond to this requirement. Very Iikely a policy of this sort will be di tasteful to the southern democra politicians, for it would certainly reduce their powerin national legis- lation, but it will d nd of them noth- g that is not freely conceded by the poople of the north as just and neces- sary. They may continue in the course they have pursued so far as their local are concerned, but they will not mitted, there is every reason to believe, during the administration of General Harrison, to send representa- tives to congress whose voting con- stituencies in many cases do not number one-tenth of the ratio of representation and are but a small minovity of the legal voters in the districts repre- sented. This wrong to hundreds of thousands of zens in the south, and to the country, by means of which the demoeratic party has maintained its control in the popbular branch of con- gress, the next administration will un- doubtedly employ every legitimate means to remedy, and there are very satisfactory indications that a policy in this direction would be largely success- ful. The men in the south who are en- gaged in building up its in- dustries and developing its re- sources are heartily tired of the political views and methods that prevail in that section, and are prepared to organize a political move- ment hostile to the existing order of things, so Tar, at least, as it affects na- tional affairs. It will be possible for the next administration to encourage such & movement without recourse to any arbitrary measures, and very likely it will do so. THE SIOUX RESERVATION. The present congressshould dispose of the question of opening the Sioux reser- vation. It has all the information necessary to enable it to do this, ahd it would be a mistake to defer the matter to the next congress, thereby losing at least a ar and postponing contem- plated enterprises of great importance. T'wo bills providing for opening the reservation are now before congress. The measure of Delegate Gifford, of Da- kota, introduced some two weoks ago, provides for vesting the title of the reservation lands in the United States, and that the general government shall dispose of them and pay to the In- dians one dollar per acre for all dis- posed of within two years, seventy-five cents per acre for alllands sold between the end of the second and fourth years, and fifty cents per acra for all lands re- maining unsold at the expiration of the four years, The other bill was in- troduced a few days ago, and provides for granting to the Indians eleven mil- lion dollars, which shall be deposited to their dit in the navional treasury as a permanent fund, The interest on this amount ive por cent per annum shall be appropriated under the direc- tion of the secretary of the interior to the use of the Indians lawfully residing on the reservations, one-half the amount to be expended for the promotion of industrial and other suitable edpeation among the Indians, and the other half to be paid to them in annual instail- ments on a per capita basis, It is be- lieved an arrangement of this kind would be entirely acceptable to the Indians, and it is certainly as liberal a proposition as they could reasonably asle. ‘Phe position taken by the commis- sloners who failed to negotinte the treaty with the Sioux for opening their reservation, that the government should adopt a diffevent policy, appears to have strong support in congress, as it unquestionably has with the people of the west and northwest. The measure of Delegate Gifford is in line with with the recom- mendations of the commissioners, and is more likely to secure the approval of congress than the other measure, though tLat has some commendable features. But it ought not to be diffloult to frame a plan which, while dealing fairly with the Indiaps, shall have proper regard for publie interests, and the matter ought to he settled by the present congress. A delay of another | contered in“thé governor of the state year would rosult in no advantage to the Indians, and it would defer enter- prizes, the complation of which will be of very great importance to Dakota and the entire northwest, ——— THE COMBINATION OF MILLERS. The national convention of millers held at Milwaukee the prosent week adopted resolutions committing the flour millers of the country to a policy which contemplates dearer bread. The spirit that controlled the convention was expressed in the candid statement of a member that “‘we want cheaper wheat and deaver flour.”” As a means of reaching this result, it was resolved to recommend to all merchant mills of the country a curtailment of their out- puts for the month of January to one- half of their average capacity. A com- mittee was appointed to communi- cate with millers monthly as to their views and wishes regard- ing the output for the ‘coming month, and given authority to order partial shut-downs in conformity with the wishes of three-fourths of their cor- respondents., Under the impression thatthe world's wheat crop was extremely short, the millers and speculators early in the fall bought all the milling wheat they could obtain, The effect was to appreciate the price about twenty cents a bushel above the European markets, thereby checking ion and creating a congestion in y east of the Rocky mountains., sume time At the 0 there was a large advance in the price of flour, with the effect, as the millers admit, of reducing con- sumption. Flour is in great abundance, but, instead of stimulating a demand by reducing the vrice the millers propose to protect themselves by restricting production. If they can make their plan successful they will be enabled to holdup the price of flour and may in time force down the price of whent, thusaccomplishing what a member of the convention stated to be their purpose. The millers of the country have al- ways disclaimad any intention to form a trust, deciaring it to be impracticable. The policy they agreed upon in their convention certainly lacks some of the features of a trust, but its object is strictly in line with what trusts are formed to accomplish. The people may continue to protect themselves in still further reducing their consumption of flour. T Illinois bureau of labor has com- piled a table of statistics showing the extent to which that state ismortgaged. The total value of the mortgages ex- ceeds four hundred millions, one-third of which represent liéns on the lands alone of Illinois. Stock and farm im- plements are mortgaged to the value of seven million dollars, and household goods and chattels are mortgaged to the sum of four millions. Chicago is burdened with a huge mortgage.debt oxceeding the aggregate value of the mortgages in the rest of the state. The interest alone on this huge burden esti- mated at sut five per cent amounts to over twenty millions annually. There- port of the Illinois bureau is valuable in calling attention to the great debt which the people of that state are piling up unconsciously and which one day will have to be paid. TrE advocates of a deep water harbor on the Gulf of Mexico are in Washing- ton, und this scheme for taking any- where from five to twenty million dol- lars out of the national treasury will be sedulously dinned into the ears of con- gressmen so long - as its champions see any hope of accomplishing anything. An effort will of course be made to in- terest the present congress in the mat- ter, not with the expectation.of getting an appropriation from it, but so that the scheme shall be given a position that will make it comparatively easy to bring it to the attention of the next congress. But the probability is that the next con- gress will not be eager to spend the pub- lic money on projects of this character. Tue county auditors of Iowa have taken a practical and simple method for solving the problem of a uniform basis for assessments of property in the counties of the stat: They met in con- vention and by comparing the different modes of assessment, they have over- come the confusion and e¢mbarassment which result from the various methods now used. Having agreed upon a uni- form and equitable basis, the auditors urge all boards of supervisors to enforce it upon the assessors of the various counties. The county auditors of Ne- braska could well follow the Iowa ample in bringing about a similar re- form in our own state. AT a recent meeting of the State range, Patrons of Husbandry, a resolu- tion was acted upon asking that the farmers of Nebraska be represented on the state board of transportation. The request is a reasonable one. Hereto- fore the secretaries of the board have been attorneys or railroad men, who have taken good eare to protect the in- terests of the railronds. The farmers of the state should have the right to name one of the secretaries in order to voice their complaints in the issucs of the transportation question which will come before the board. Tk export of gold to England con- tinues. Nearly five and a half miilions of bullion were shipped from this coun- try during the past fow days. Although this iz a remarkable occurrence for this time of the year when gold ought to flow to America, there is no apprehen- sion in monied circles of a stringency. THE city charter committee appears to be getting along quite well in its work of revision without the aid of a similar body from the council, Perhaps the railvoads have instructed their tools in the council to stay away. It would cortainly be to their interest to do so. I'r HAS been showo in the working of our fire and police commission that better government 1s assurved to our city when the various branches of it are removed as far as possible from the con- taminating influence of loeal politicians and patronage. The appointive powers carry with them diveos responsibility. Officinls thus appointed have no axes to grind, no political debts to pay. are loss hampered it the aischarge of thei duties, and make far more efficient offi- cers than if thrust upon the people by rings and combines in control of the city's affairs. —_— The Kind the Leader Wants, Clepeland Leader, We have authentio and inside news ro- garding General Harrison's cabinet, 1t will be republican of the all woo! and a yard wide kind, and we believe that this is all the ro- publican party wants, —— Not a Difficult Task, Chicago Tribwne, It should not be a matter of extraordinary difficulty for the inter-state commission to establish standards of reasonable railroad rates. After the cost of the ser 0 is ascer tained and the amount of the capital actually invested is aetermined there should be abun- dant light on the other matters nvolved. Coming to Washington, Minneaolis Tritnne. When the Dakota patriots finish their fall plowing and market their wheat, they will begin to consider the propriety of a trip to Washington. After 10,000 or 15,000 of them have reached the capital, Mr. Springer will wish he had never been born, and will gaze into the black abyss of suicide with infinite longing for eternal rest - - Blaine Denes It, Globe-Democrat, denies that President-elect Harrison has ed him to take a place in the cabinet. On this question the Maine stateman’s word is as worthy of trust as that of any of the enterprising and vociferous gossips who have been contending that Hay rison has requested him to assist in running the exceutive departiment of the new govern- ment. Mr. Blaine e o Getting the Worth of Their Inflacnce. Washington Post, ancis Adams is of the opinion will combtne 1 the futuro, Charles F! that railroads and we shall have several systems of 20,000 miles or more, each under one management, Tt will be a decided improvement over the present short line system, inasmuch as when a legislator gets a pass over a line he can take a good long trip, and feel that he is not being stinted iu his rewards. - Good Suggestions. Denver Republican, ‘We are not aware that i3oston has any par- ticular right to express an opinion as to tho names to be given new states, but the sug- gestion that North Dakota be calied Pem- bina and Washington, Tacoma, is good. We have enough of the north and south designu- tions in the case of North Carolinaand South Carolina. South Daiota being the most poje ulous, should be given the name of Dakota, and the northern part of the territory should receive some such name as the one suggested by the Bostonians, B Reaping the Whirlwind, St. Paul Pioncer-Press. The outbreal in Mississippi between whites and negroes brings more conspicuonsly to the front than could any political event the inevitable consequences of the treatment given to the negro by the people of the south. It is the first looming of that dark cloud which overshadows any scotion where equal rights are denfed. It is an omen of the dread- ful punishment that the south has been pre- paring for itsclf, in these years of denial to the freedmen of rights that should be secured to them by law. e PROMINENT PERSONS, Dr. Tanner, the famous faster, is soon to marry the daughter of a Parisian millionaire. Mr. Hammer has been clected president of Switzerland. Now sce the merry punsters nail him. Patti charges moro every year for her warbling. Slie 15 now singing in England for 3,500 a night. President Cleveland is said to be entirely unnerved by his dofeat. But he will be moved March 4, all the same. Garfield, the new pitcher of the Pittsburg base ball club, is a divinity student. The umpire will have a pienic with him. Mr. Gladstone recently gavo a lot of books to the Chester free library, and among them were some devoted to tho unionist siae of the Irish question. Miss Chamberlain, the American beauty, is still the center of an admiring cirole in England. She was, one evening last weelk, one of the principal attractions in the royal box at the Patti coucerts at Albert Hall in London. Colonei Albert C. Rives, father of Amelie Rives-Chanler, sailed Saturday for Paris. He has been'for some years general man- ager of the Panama railway company and consulting engineer of the Panama canal, re- ceiving a salary of $25,000 a year. Senator Voorhees is syid to seriously con- template retirement to private life at the end of his official torm, March 3, 1591, Pos- sibly the reported fact that a majority of the democrats in the Indiana legislature ars op- posed to his re-election, has quickened his desire for private life. Mrs, Harrison is not expected to visit Mrs, Grant early in the new year, us has been widely published. It is not unlikely that Mrs, Harrison may go to New York after the holidays. A warm invitation was ex- tended to both General and Mrs, Harrison Ly Mr. and Mrs. Morton, and Mrs, Hacrison may take advantage of the invitation, el STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. 0. Rugg, a prominent shoe dealer of Fair- y, died of nervous prostration on Wednes- P, Losee, of A nine-year-old son of F o in the Bluo Seward, broke through the river and was drowned. Murderers Haunstine and DeMerritt, and Forger Welch pass the time merrily in the Custer county Juil playing bigh five Aftor doing business in the drug line at Benkeiman for three months, Sol Cain was obliged to shut up shop on account of his debts. A Ulysses man has built the “‘largest corn crib on carth,” It is 400 feet long, 12 feet wide and 12 feet high, and holds 25,000 bushels, One of the lady teachers in the public schools at Columbus is sixty years of age and has been engaged in the profession ever since she was twelve years old. supervisor-clect Alschmede, of Seward, is g in a critical condition on account of in- Juries received by falling from a load of Wwood. His Jaw is broken in threa places. Fifty men and thirey-five teams gathered at the farm of Polly “Roten, widow of the Custer county farmer who was murdered by Hauustine, and husked 1,920 bushels of corn for her the other duy. A human fiend, in the person of a farm- hand named Wistle, hus been arrested at Il wood on the charge of assauiting the thir- teen-year-old daughter of Farmer Myers, from the effects of which the girl is sufforiag with a loathsome discuse, Myers threatens to.shoot Wistle at the first opportunity. “That immaculate versonification of gall, egotism and partisan bigotry sometimes char- iably alluded to as our esteemed contempo. rary’—is the way a Furnas county editor refers to the engineer of the opposition paper, followed by three columns of expla- nation of the cause of the newspaper war. Two Cedar Rapids young men, Bowers and Bradley, paid dearly for a litsle fun they imdulged in the other evening. They start out in a bilarious condition, with a team, and ran into a bhorse on @ bridge, fatally injurio it. They were arrested,und contribuied §1 1o satisfy the damage, and escapod from the law’s clutches. The Wiunebago Indians are reported to have held a council at the agency recently for the purpose of voting on the proposition of selling & porti of the reservation ad- joining Emerson ou the south. Some of those present accused the agent of tryiog W cheat thew out of their luuds, and coreider able opposition to the agreament doveloped. Groey Wolf, head chief of the tribe, mmr:'n speech favoring the proposition, and was the first one to sign the agreement, being quickly followed by fifty others. It is still a matter of doubt what the outcomo will be. There are nearly four hundred men in the tribe. 8o it will require in the neighborhood of two hundred signers to complete the ar- rangements of selling the lands. If they finally agree to dispose of the tract, it is very likely th will consent to sell the 80,000 acres which will be remaming un- allotted, after the falloiment, which is now in progress, 18 completed. Miss Alice . Fletcher, the special Indian agent, who has this work in charwo, will completo the al- lotment this month #nd return to Washing- ton to make a final disposition of patents, etc, The Great Ng thwest. Bozeman, Mont., erec new buildings this year costing over §125,000, Thirty thousand dollars have been ex pended on se s at Laramie, W, Lincberger and Norton, the al Raw lins. Wyo., cattle thioves, have been held in heavy bonds to the grand jury. George Ginge ho has been in prison amic, 0., hus been pardoned by Governor Moon light Otto rts, of Santa Monica, Cala., is rest in connection with the disip. pearauce of his mother, whose remains he says he buried after she had been dead for weeks, All efforts to quench the flames in the Franklin mine, thirty miles southeast of Se attle, have been abandoned, and a buiwark is being built in the tunnel yacking tho scene of the fire, in hopes of shutting off the air. The cabalistic figures on the doors of various dives in But the other morning, with notices fo mates to leave town. This is the fi appearance of these figures there years, The pay rolls for 7, were found o, Mont., the in- st of the for six he locomotive depart ment of the Union Pacifi ut Laramie, Wyo., for the month of November footed up #101,- Six rs ago if an agerogate of §40,000 was reached the bovs considered that they were getting in g time. W. D. French, a cattloman of Greeloy. Col., had a lawsuit with Harry Woodbury, laborer. Woodbury won, and then French took six of his cowboys, lnid for Woodbury as he came home from his worlk that night, and riddled his body with bullets, Joo Hansen, an old Coloradan, well known throughout the state, died at Lake City from the effcets of a tree he was chopping near there falling on him three wecks before. He leaves an orplian son, who is living with Hen- sen’s mothier at Huntington, Utah. E. C. Waters, of Billings, Mont., isin Wash- ington, and will make an effort to have the Yellowstoue Park matters, which are now before the secretary, arranged. It is under- stood that ansfors of leases will take place soon, which will insure greater facilitios andcomforts for tourists during the coming season. Mettio Rogers, of Nevada City, while en- gaged to marry one man corresponded with another. The former finding this out, broke oft the match, when the girl attempted to Kill herself with poison, and failing i that, sought death with a sharp razor, but even that means was of no avail, for relatives pre- vented her from using the \weapon. Mrs. Mar. . of Portland, Ore., has b rimonial experience She separated from her first husband, George Baker, fourteen years ago, on agreement; then she married Winters; now she takes a fancy that she liked Bakor the best, and that their separation was not legal; so she g back to Baker at Syracuse, N. Y., and Win- ters gives her his blessing and $150' to see her safo to her old love, L S IN MEMORIAM, Sketch of the Gifted Vocalist Will S, Riggs. The late W. S. Riggs, a notice of whose de- cease appeared in yesterday’s Ber,will bo in- terred to-morrow at Forest Lawn cemetery Dean of Trinity cathedral, Rev. C. H. Gard- ner, will officiate. The services will be of an unusually impressive character, and the musical part of the programme is expected to be participated m by all of the leading vocalists in the city. Mr. Riggs was born in the city of New York and is oneof a family of four children. The elder brother is rector of the Stamford (Conn.) Episcopal church, and the other brother and sister reside in New York with their mother. Mr. Riggs located in Omaha about six years ago. Fora time he was mn the service of the Rullman Pulace Car com- pany as conductor, running between Omaha and Ogden. Leaving that service he spent some time in the land office department of the Union Paciflc company, under the direc- tion of Mr, Leavitt Burnham. After this ne cntered the employ of Max Meyer & Bro. in the piano department, and was ac- counted by this firm as a very capable sales- man, Funally, in 1885, Mr. Riges accepted a position with the Owaha Nutional bank of this city, in whose service he continued uatil the 20th of October of this year, when ho re signed for the purpose of locating in San Antonio, this change having become impara- tive by reason of his failing health. The benefit of this change the deceased was not permitted to experience In all of the positions he filled e has loft a reputation behind him such as any man might envy. Mr. Millard says of him: “Riggs was onc of our very best men and one in whom we had every i Mr. Riggs had cultivated few of the weak- nesses of the present day, and such as he had acquired were oftset # thousand tim by the many aelightful traits in his cha acter. K loving his wife and little ones tion as rare in these days as it was delight ful to contemplate, he was never happier than when in the society of these loved one Next to this domestic felicity of Riggs, must be referred his devotion to music Gifted with a voice of rare beauty and coupled with exceptional musical talent and some considerable training, Mr. Riggs was identified with all of the vrincipal vocal organizations in Omaha. He was a member of the old Omaha Glee club until that society broke up to be succeeded by the Apollo club, of which ho also became amember. He took much_interest in the new society and was one of its charter members; being amongst the most attentive and regular in attendance of all the practical members. — He was iden- tificd for u short time with Unity church choir, but for two years past he filled th position of tenor at the Episcopal 1t is no figure of speech to say U musician in Omaha will regrotfully hear of the death of genial “Billy" Riggs, Natu ally buoyunt in disposition, his presence al- wiys brought sunshine with it. With a large supply of animal spirits, he was the life and soul of any party he might be associated with. Outside of his wife and family he had concelved a deep & lasting attachiment for one of the Apollo members, Mr. W. . Downumg. Belw ever met with among m and poor Rigys liter- ally died on Thursday moruing in the arms of his devoted friend.” T st tears of the many shed yest Vi those from the eyes of this present friend, who, #s it was expressed to the writer, loved M with an affection like that betw and Jonathan, The macting of the Apollo club_last nizht was a sad one. [u all provious efforts of the anization Mr. Riggs took part, and last night the vacant space left by the first tenor sed many # high C to be somewhat blurred, and the 17 flats of the bass voice had an unusual “requiem” tone in their proporti When the gen- tlemen met bofore the concert there was an entire absence of that hilarity of disposition usually 80 noticeuble amongst the members. There we hand shakes, but little conv They all loved him, He was the “Touchstone’ of the club, and his loss was deeply felt. The writer of this has seldom feit his efforts to be so inadequate to do justice to any sup- ot as in writing this sketch. For two ra he enjoyed the dship of the de- to the delightful coased, and can testify character of the man. o pall bearers at the funeral will consist of Messrs, Howden, Kenpedy, Charley Du Dan Wheeler, jr., W. it. Dowhing Burkley. The Apollo club will supi priate music at the obsequies. A Tie for Council President. ‘There was another meeting of councitn Wednesday afternoon to decide upon & president of that body. resulted in 4 tie batwesn Hascal IS HE THE WHITE TRAVELER All the World Interested in tho Fatoe of Stanley. THE EMIN BEY EXPEDITION, History of the Enterprise, tho Events Which Led to It and the Principal Charactors Which Figure In It The False Prophet's Cantives. Has Stanley fallen into the hands of the False Prophet! This is the question which millions of persons, in every civilized land, are asking themselves to-day, says a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat The report which comes from Suakim, by way of Cairo, to the offect that Emin Pasha and a distinguished white traveler had sur rendered to the Mahdi, has an air of plausi bility about it. The report comes in the shape of a letter from Osman Digna, the Mahdi's most conspicuous licutenant, who commands the native warriors in front of Suakim. The letter is a reply to Major Run- dle, of the British army, who asked Osman last August for tidings of Emin. According 1o copies of letters from a dervish at Lado to a native governor, which lettors were in- closed in Osman's note, Emin and the white traveler were taken prisoners on October 10, Both prisoners, the report says, are to bo killed unless Egypt abandons Saukim, Is the white traveler Stanley! Many men who have had experience in African explora- tion think it is. The Emin Bey Reliof expo- dition commitiee in Europe, however, have not given up all hope of Stanloy's safety. They doubt the genuineness of the Osman letwer, That note also is said to have con- tained a letter which the khedive wrote to Emin and gave to Stanley to car to hm, The committee suggests that the alleged khedive letter sent by Osman may be a copy stolen from Cairo, or that if the letter be go uine Stanley may have sent it to Emin b carriers, and that it is these and not Stanle that are captured, N hile the wo anxiously awaits further tidings re the fateof the advenurous and intropid ex- plorer. A brief history of the Stanley expedition and the events which led to it will here be given, Emin Bey is not an Arab or Turk, as his name would seem to indicate, but an Au trian. - He was born in 1540, the same yes as Stanley, studied medicine, surgery and botany, became a medical attache of the Turkish army in 1868, and went to Khar- toum in 1876, where he ‘met al Gordon, who had been appointed governor general of the Soudan two years earlier. Gordon ap- pointed Emin governor of all the khedive's territory in the region of the equator. The task which Le set out to perform as governor was the suppression of the slave trade, and he prosccuted the work with such courage, enterprise and tact that by the close of the ) 1852 he had established a fair degree of order and security throughout his doma Id garding This was tho situation when the False Prophet—not the present Mahdi, but his prededess)r, who afterwards died of smallpox—began his _conquering march northward in 1888, Threo years later Khartoum fell. General "Gor- don was killed and General Wolseley's army was baflled and retired from that por- tion” of the Soudan, leaving the prophet in possession. Since then up to the latter part of 1557, when the last autheatic intelligence came from Emin, that individual has been in the neighborhood of Lake Albert Nyanza, h his headquarters at Wadelai, near the north end of the lake, Tippoo Tib is another character who figures 1n the Stanley expedition to relieve Emin, Tippoois an Arabian slave trader, daring, intelligent, unscrupulous and power: ful. Stanley has known him well for yoars, he huving helped the distinguished American during his exploration of the Congo and Lua- laba region ten years ago. Under a contract with Stanley in 1857 Tippoo was to furnish 600 men to the Emin relief party, for which the slave trader was to get $35 a head and be made governor of Stanloy Pool. Somuch for the three men most intimately concerned in the Emin relief expedition. Now for the expedition itself, A Russian explorer named William Junker left Wadelai on January 1, 1886, and pro- ceeded to the coast of Zavzibar, und thence to Europe. Junker was the last white man who saw Emin who has communicated with the world. The Russion told Europe that Emin's position was desperate, and that he could not hold out lon, thau nine months or a year more unless supplied with ammu. nition ana provisions. The Emin Bey Relie committee was then formed. Stanl asked to uttempt the roscue, and he upon.the task. On January 24, about thirteen montns. after Junker left Kiin, Stanley started from London, by way of Brussels and Cairo, to at- tempt to relieve the Austrian. Stanley, by the aid of Tippoo Tib, enlisted his expedition in Zanzibar, and left that place about the end of February, sailing around the Cape of Gooa Hope, and landing at Baual at the mouth of the Congo, on March 18, The force consisted of 620 natives of Zanzibar, seventy- Tho town of Yambugn Is 1,970 miles from the mouth of the Congo. Itis on the Aru- wini river, a short distance from the place whore that stream enters the Congo. The Stanley expedition reached Yambuge on June 19, 1887, When the Aruwinl cras reached, a few days earlior, Tippoo left the promising to send an additional forcs rriers to Stanley, When Stanley reached Yambuga, on June he had with him 580 Africans and five Europeans, losing many mon by sicknoss nd descrtion while ascending the Congo. rapids of the Aruwini at Yambuga pre- vented furthor progress in that direction by boats, It was at Yambuga that the carriers prom- ised by Tippoo, to the number of (00, were ta Join the expedition, but they did not come in time. Whether tho delay was due to treach ery on the part of the slave trader or not has not n definitely learned anley, tired of waiting for the forco which Tippoo sgid ho would send, left Yambuga about the begin- ning of July, and started northward, leaving Malor Bartellot with 100 men at that place to hold it a buse of operations. Bartellot's camp was fortified and made strong enough to rosist any hostile foree which would be likely to bo brought aganst it iley and party loft Yambuga / ried with them a stecl whale boat and some rafts, which they launched in the Aruwini, above the rapids. They proceeded along the river for soveral days, On July 10 they left the river and started overland due oast to Wadelai, which was about four hun- dred miles distant ‘The courier, which Stanley sent to Inform Barteliot that he had left the Aruwini with the intention of striking across the country for Emin's headquarters, conveyed the Intost information brought dircct from the intropid American explorer. All the intelligence which has come to the world concerning Stanley since July 19, 1587, has been brought by deserters from the expedition, by trad- ers, or by the follow of the Mahdi, On July 10, 1888, just one year from the time Stanley began' lis overland journey toward V dal, Major Bartellot was as- sassinated by one'of his African soldiors, and soon afterward Dr. Jamison, who succeeded Bartellot in command at Yambuga, died of fever. But from the time of Stanley's de. parture from the Aruwini up to the death of the latter, no tidings at all authentio had been obtained at Vambuga regarding the ox pedition. Stanley had about five hundred men with him when he left the Aruwini, on July 19, 1877, and ho expected, by traveling about six miles a day overland, on the average, to reach Wadelai about the bezinning of Ovto- ber. He did not arrive at that place at that time. A letter sent by Bmin on November 3, 1887, reached Europe, but it contained no fo- formation of Stanley's whercabouts. This is the latest direct tidings obtained from Ewmin. L"our months ago a report reached the out- le world from the interior of Africa that a cat white pasha’ was seen on the Gazel and that he was approaching Khar- The Gazel river is about five hundred miles north of the direct line eastward to Emin's headquarters at Wadelai, from the part of the Aruwini river to which Stanley had ascended when he left tho stream. Tho belief has beon moro or less general in Kurope and the United States that the “white paska" and Stanley were the same person. Stanley's presence in the Gazel region was explained on the hypothesis that he had for auy one of half a dozen reasons, which suggested thom- selves, abandoned the direet route eastward and had taken a northerly route instead, in- tending te strike the Nile and sail direct to near Wadelal, The latest report concerning Stanley, previous to that which has just come through Osman Digna, was broughtto Zanzibar about six weeks ago {rom Tabora. This was to the effect that a_party of Arab traders, about the end of November, 1887, met a dctach- ment of Stanley's expedition at u point west of the Albert Nyanza and southcast of the Sanga. The detachment consisted of about thirty men, whose leader told the traders that Stanley was two days’ march ahead. Many of the expedition, the leader is reported ‘to have said, had deserted or died of disease; others had been killed in battling with the natives, while forty had been drowned in crossing o great river, Stanley, according to his report, was well at the time, had 250 men with’ him, and hoped, by making a detour to the north, so as to avoid the swamps, to reach Wadalai about the middle of 1uary, 1858, And now comes the report of the capture of Stanley and Ewmin by the False Prophet. Regarding the history of the present Mahdi tho world knows hardly anything. He suc- ceeded the original False Prophet of recent times, the conqueror of Wolseley and the slayer of Gordon, who died about three years ago. Osman Digna, howover, from whom the intelligence of the cavture comes, has made himself tolerably well known to the world. He was the gost alert, dashing and intrepid of the licutenants of the first Mahdi, and hias been engaged in warfure against the British and Egyptians in_the Soudan since the ravolt under tne prophet bogun 1n 1883, Although defeated often he has never been conquered, and he still holds Suakim, which is garrisoned by British and Egyptians, in a state of siege, Indeed, with the exception of the onginal False Prophet himself, Osman appears to be the most daring, skilful and enterprising soldier which Africa, outside of Algeria, has produced in the present cen- tury “T'his Is the situation up to the latest ad- vices. 1Is the career of the great American soldier of science about to close, or will he, oven if the report of his capture be true, live toum, five other Africans, and Tippoo Tib, with forty of his men us carriers. In addition to v iad with him nine Europeans, anloy und to achieve further fame in the fleld in which he has so long and successfully labored! Whatever imay be the answer which time ies, the record of African e brilliant and tells of the will give these que exploration will contain no v inspiring pace than that which deeds of Henry M. Stauley. THOUGHTFUL SANTA CLAUS. “I've traveled through the sleet and snow, Across the country high and low, “To fill the stockings small and coming wait, That Lere in line n In creeping baby's tiny ‘The india rubber rattle A handsome doll, with Will much the little m reat hose goes ; staring eyes, S surprise ; And what will more delight the boys Than inusket, drum or bugle toys And now, hefore I climb the flue, T'll bear in mind the mother true, . Who works so hard by day and night To keep the clothing clean and white, And in her stocking, long and wide, Some cakes of Ivoky Soav I'll hid A WORD OF WARNING. 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