Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, Daily Morning Edttion) fncluding SUNDAY KR, One Year For Six Months For Three Months Tow OMAHA St nddress, O WEEKLY I1RE, ) OMARAOFFICEN o New Brirot N¢ ¥ou #10 00 ” . mailed 1o any 2 00 16 FARNAM STREET ERY BUILDING RoOMS 14 AND 15 TRINUNE ox OFFICKE, NO. CORRESPONDENCR Allcommunications relating tonews and edi- Sorial matter should be addressad to the Epiton OF THE BEE, ¥ THEDEE. 0 qinmss LETTRRS, Al biisiness letters and remitiances should be addressed 1o Ty BEE PUBLISIING COMPANY, OMANA. Dratts, cheoks and postofice orders to e winde payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company Proprietors E. ROSEWA N " THI DA Bworn Statement ot Circulation. Btateof Nobrask ins County of Douglas, { %8+ George BB, Tzach otary of The Bes Pul Nehing ot y. doss solemnly swear that the actual eire H[«Ium of Tuk DALy Ber for the week ending January 5, 1550, was as follows Bunday, Dec. §) . 20 Monday, Dec. 51 . . <A Tuesaay, Jan. 1 Wednesda Thursan: Friday, Jun . Baturday, Jau. b Average LORSE 1. TZSCHU C and subxcribed in my nuary, A. D, 1880, L, Notary Public. Bworn to before m presence this o1 day of | Seal evrac®y, NP of Nebras o, | ¢ Dougins, {5 sehuck, being duly sworn, de- ys that he ig secretary of the Bee Ablsling company, that the actiial average daily circulation of 'THE DALY B for tho month of 1888, 06 copic for Feb- ruary, 1888 1502 copies! TCr March, 185, 19,05 cople: 18 183 Copues; for . 1R85, 18,0383 cople for September, 1858, 18,151 cop 1888, was 18084 coples: for November, [588, 18,085 cop or December, 1588, 18,223 copies, worn to betore mo and subscribea in my Presence this ird day of January 1850, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Tie doluge has arrived—the deluge of legislative bills. BARRr s decision in the New York supreme court against the sugar trust is a sweet morsel to roll under the tongue of the consumer. TF DICK BERLIN doesn’t lose his head over the nauseating slobber thatisbeing poured at his foet by lickspittle report- ers and journal it will be a wonder. y about Horatio the against the But he cuts no figure at all Fillibustercr Weaver of Towa holding the house at THE British investor, botween buy- ing worthless American railroad stock and electric sugar socurities, will soon feel himself reduced to the level of the excluded pauper laborer. It was in accord with the eternal fit- ness of things that Mr. Seed ot Seward county should b put on the committee of agriculture and should be made chairman of the committee on grazing. Tk Honorable Roustabout Morris- sey has been assigned temporarily on the committees of banking and cur- rency, revenue and taxation and man- ufactures and commerce. Just think of this cminent financicr revising our banking system and our taxation laws! GOVERNOR-ELECT FRANCIS, of Mi souri, is eredited with making over n million dollars in the recent wheat speculation. That may explain why the retiring Governor Morehouse re- ferred to the necessity of stringent leg- isiative action to malke dealing in op- tions a criminal offense. NEW MEXICO has been heard from. The land of sheep, Spaniards, Apaches and buried cities does not propose to sit idly by and see Dakota walk into the union without a protest. Its delegate to congress, Antonio Joseph, has made an appeal for the admission of the terri- tory, but congress will take plenty of time to digest the claimsof New Mexico for statehood. FULLY tWo-thirds of the members of the house committee on public lands and buildings represent iocalities that have been favored with public build- ings and charitable institutions by the state, This makes the committce the most aggressive combine that has ever been welded together by the seductive power of appropriations. It is sufe to predict that that committee will, if it has its way, drain the surplus out of the state treasury and pile up the agony of liberal appropriations till the stato groans and staggers under the oppres- sive burden, Tr may be of general interest to the husiness community to learn that sta- tistics place the number of failures for the year just ended at ten thousand out of a total of one million and forty- six thousand business firms. In other words, there was one failure for every ninety-eight men ia business. This ratio will seem unusually high, taking into consideration that the year 1888 was considered a fairly prosperous one. The number of failures was higher than for 1887, when it was in the proportion of one to every one hundred and thirty. Trne appalling disaster which over took the populous cities of Pittsburg, Reading, and other towns of Pennsyl- vania, will send a thrill of horror through the whole country. The de- structive cyclone, resulting in the loss of 50 many lives and property, has not been paralleled for many years, It was known in the signal sorvice department, thatan area of low barometric depression extended from Nebraska to the Atlantic ocean and from Memphis to Canada, It was predicted that severe storms would sweep across the country and caution- ary signals were displayed, but no such violent manifestation of the fury of the elements was anticipated. There is a wide field for investigation in the study of the eyclone. With all our scientific investigations, our weather prophets cannot foretell when to prepare for these terrible visitations, and it would appear that Pennsylvania or any other section of the country is just as liable to be swept by the fury of the cyclone as Dakota or Louisiana, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY A NEEDED REFORM. The soonor a well digested hill rogu- lating private banks in Nebraska con be prepared and introduced in the legi the better it will be for all e cerned. The public have a right to de- mand it for their own protection as de positors, and bankers ought to join requosting it for the preservation their credit and that of the state. Five years ago the Chemical National bank of New York pad Nebraska bank- ing institutions the high compliment of of suying that in twonty years of ex- tensive business with the banks of this state it lost a dollar. But has three o in relations had never in five doubled in yoars . Neoraska population and recent bank failures indi- that it not doubled the safeguards thrown pound its banks, In each and every one of the noted, gross if not eriminal mismanagement was the sause of the failur None of the insolvencies would have boen prob- able under a law which provided as rigid for te banks thoso which apply to banks operating under the federal statute. An investigation of the books of the auditor at Lincoln, will show that there a are num- ber of - so called banks operating in Nebraska without a dollar of paid up capital. They ave doing business solely and entirely on the money of depositors, Whose funds they ave loaning and on whom the entire losses resulting from bad loans or mismanagement must fall. Organized under a state banking law, which giv in return for amere pre > stato supervision, the only duty in return an annual veport of their business, which is filed aw in the auditor's oftice and is of no practical yalue toany- one. There stringent ature has rostrictions st as state wisely chief bank of a whose state the t is urgent need banking law shall be a oxaminer, acting under urer with all the powers national bank examin Such an offi- cor’s salary coula readily be met by foes paid by the banks whose books are examined and whose cash is counted. In addition the treasurer should be em- powered to eall for quarterly statements, which, us 1n the case of those of the na- tional banks, should be printed conspic- uously in the home papers, so that every depositor could have aun oppor- tunity of knowing the condition of the institution with which he is deal- ing. The credit of Nebraska banks has heen so llent throughout the country that our bankers cannot afford to omit any opportunity which presents itself to preserve that credit and their own roputations unimpeached. GOVERNOR COOPER ROADS The new governor of Colorado, Mr. Cooper, took very positive ground in his inaugural address in favor of the enact- ment of a railroad law for the better protection of the people of that state against the exactions o1 the corpora- tions. He called attention to the fact that the republican platform distinctly pledged the party 1n favor of fair but stringent legislation respecting the ailways, and that the pledge should be faithfully and fully redeemed. “We declare,” said the governor, “that pools, rebates, and all diseriminations should be prohibited, and the prohibi- tion rigidly enforced by heavy penalties. We also demand legislation that will prevent the charging of exorbitant rates We also demand legislation pro- hibiting all officers—judicial, legisla- tive and executive—from accepting, di- rectly or indirectly, railway passes or free tickets,” It will thus be seen that the demands of the people of Colorado are very nearly in line with those of Nebraska, and unfortunately the chances of having them complied with are about even. In Colorado the legis- lative committees have been largely made up in the interest of the railroads, it is presumed at the dictation of the railway attorney, Mr. E. O. Walcott, who will next week be elected to the United States senate. In Nebrask: the chairman of the railroad committee is a notorious and unscrupulous railrond capper, who can be depended upon to spare no effort to shield the railroads. Under such conditions the people of neither Colorado nor Nebraska are war- ranted in indulging the hope of getting peeded and just railway legislation. AND THE RAIL- AN ANTETRUST LAW, The legislature of Nebraska ought to ennet an explicit and comprehensive law prohibiting combinations within the state to regulate prices and limit or destroy competition. Whatever power congress may possess to deal with trusts it is very evident there will be nolegs lation on the subject by the present body. The brave promises made at the first session by leaders of both parties have been disregarded, and a score of anti-trust measures are hidden away in committee rooms, very likely tobe swept away with the debris remaining when the present congress shall die. Whether from a doubt regarding the authority of congress, as some have professed, or by reason of the influence of the greatcom- bines, the representatives of the people in the national legislature plainly in- tend to ignore this question for the present, while freely admitting there is none affecting the intevests of the peo- ple and the commercial welfare of the country of greater importance. This situnation enforces the necessity of state acti A general policy of anti-trust legislation by the states would destroy the growing evil, and the right of the states to enact such legislation has never been ques- tioned. No defender or apologist of trusts has ever suggested a doubt that a state has the mght, in granting corpor- ate franchises, to make ita condition that such franchises shall not, under penalty of forfeiture, be alienated from the parties to whom “granted and sur- rendered to the control of trustees or agents without responsibility to the state, It is also not doubted thata state may prohibit and punish pooling and combinations between persons or corporations doing business within its jurisdiction,when the purpose of such ar- rangement is the regulation and control of prices and production. Tha judicial opinions respecting trusts and like com- binations, o far #s wo have observed, rocognize the right of a state to do these things, and we do not know that it has anywhere or by anybody, save the attorneys of the trusts, been denied or questioned, Tt is notabl in the decision just rendered by Judge Barrett, in the New York supreme court, sustaining the action of the at- torney 1 of that state to forfeit the charter of a sugar refining company which 1 disposed of its stock to the trust and closed up its works. Th Lintroduced in the state sen- ate by Mr. Keckley apnears to be acom- preheasive the provisions of which do not excecd the authority of the state to prescribe regulations for the conduct of business within its juris- iction. The importance of the sub- ject, howey requives that tho bill shall be the most careful con- sideration, and its timely introduction will pormit this to be done. A pretty general state movement against trusts and all forms of combination inimical to the freedom of trade and dangerous 1o the public welfare seoms assured, and Nebraska should show a proper concorn in this very important matter. But what is done should be carefully ma- tured, so that it will stand any test and thus become a permancnt bulwark for the protection of the people against all forms of monopoly and exaction, scognized ne measur LET THE COMMIT REPORT. What has become of the serious charges preterred against Building Tn- spector Whitlock in connection with the permit issued by him to the New York Life insurance company to occupy 68x44 feet of Seventeenth street for an underground power house? It will ha remembered that Whitlock deliber ately falsified the facts connected with this extraordinary transaction, and purposely misinformed the mayor and members of the council about the permit, and had the audacity in disregurd of the order of the council to the permit while injunction procesdings were pending, The com- mittee of the last council which was di- rected to investigate the charges of high handed insubordination failed to report, and the papers have been laid over for action by their successors in the present council. As a wat- ter of self-respect the council should make overy city officer understand that its orde should not be defied with impunity. Aside from this, how- ever, Whitlock’s course in this connec- tion leaves no other inference than col- lusion or spite work. Iun either case he has shown himself unfit for the place he holds, even if ho was a competent builder and brought to the discharge of his duties anything more than the ex- pericnco gained with a jackplane in a carpenter shop. issue THE present congre avpointed a committee, of which Tillman of South Carolina is chairman, to investi controversies last year betwe road corporations and their employes Peunsylvania, and to recommend what legislation, if any, was required of con- gre The committee has not yet re- ported, but promises soon to do so. It seems from expressionsof the chairman, however, that its conclusions are not likely to be of greatvalue. His view is that the inter-state commerce act has al- ready destroyed state control of railroads and it appears likely the committee will find the anthracite coal operators, railroads and mine owners in the enjoyment of a monopoly diffi- cult to If such shall bo the case the time and expense of the committee was worse than wasted, but it is remembered that the investigation was of the most perfunctory character, taking the character rather of a pleas- ure trip than a matter of serious busi ness, while the delay in making the re- port will bear & construction not alto- gother favorable to the committee. Nevertheless the conclusion of Mr. Tillman and his colleagues will not finally dispose of the question whether this grasping and merciless monopoly cannot be subjected to the regulation of law. TiE message of ex-Governor MeGill, of Minnesota, is reassuring to the ad- vocates of high license. He states that while no official data has been gath- ered, information to be relied on shows a decrease of fully one-third in the number of saloons in the state and an increase of one-guarter in the revenue derived from licenses. The consump- tion of liquor has been lessened and the cause of temperance materially pro- moted. There is less intoxication than beiore the law was enacted, the saloon is no longor a dominant power in the politics of the state, public opinion for a thorough control of the liquor trafic has strengthened, and in many ways, directly and indirectly, good has resulted to the state and people from the high license law. In view of these gratifying results the ex-governor, an- ticipating an effort to repeal the law, advises against the adoption of such a measure. The experience of Minne- sota i8 in accord with that generally following the application of high li- cense to the liquor trafiic, — GovERNOR Coorer, of Colorado, is sound on the subject o! corporations or others importing into the state forces of armed men to perform police duty in protecting their property. “Itis anin- sidious danger,” said the governor, “which canmot be too promptly checked,” and he thought the employ- meut of such men should be made a eriminal offense. The experience of Colorado in this matter was not so serious as that of Nebraska, but 1t seems to have been sufficient to fully impress her people with the danger of per- mitting a repetition of the outrage. It 18 the duty of every state to protect its people against this menace to their rights and liberties, and Colorado and Nebraska should unite in setting the example, m—— PAUL VANDERBUM, it seems, was not led to pay homage to General Harrison out of pure loyalty to John M. Thurs- ton. He told the president-elect that he wanted the place of superintendent of the United States mail service and was backed in his demand by the Grand Army. Mr. Harrison, however, will in all probability recall the fact, that not many years ago this same Vanderbum was dismissed from the postal sery by Postmaster-General Gresham for in- subordination find neglect of duty superintondent of the mail ser safe to predict, will not bear the of Vandervodrt name e sylvar production of petroleum 1n Ponn- is gradually diminishing, and threatens befora long to fall below tho demand, As the oil from the Ohio fiolds can not be converted into kerosena of the proper quality, it looks as if the shortage in the Pennsylvania supply can not made good drawn from new sources, This will be the op- portunity for the oil fie the west. The petroleum industries in Wyoming and Colorado will be given an impetus which will make them the leading mar- ket of the country. The day can not be far distant when this change will be brought about Tre outlook for the cattle g of Colorado and Wyoming for 1880 is ex- ceodingly y The rangoes dur- ing the year just n re- markably frea from and but very little loss was sustained by reason of severe weather. Another sign that betokens a prosporons season is that the number of cattle has been reduced in with the capacity of the ranges. This has been most beneficial and has corrected the abuses of former years, The vesult is that better prices have ruled the cattle market and have given the business a healthior tone. Tie pork packing interests of the western packing centers scem to be htening up as the season advances. The great deain duving the summer and fall which taxed the supply of the farmers still leaves a shortage. DBut it is more than probable that within the next thirty days South Omaha as well as Kan ‘ity and Chicago will gradu- ally their packing to very nearly the corresponding operations of last yoar. be unless 1 s of rOW omising. passod have b disense, accordance Ru-tiec Ha Philadelphia Mr. Harrison, jr., scems to be spelling his name Rustle. sSige for Immor Pioneer Press. Are you ambitious? Select an acceptable name for ou of the two Dakotas and go thundering down the ages. i b e 01 Hickory's Anniversary. Glol Democrat, Saint Jackson's day passed off very quietly. “The democrats were not in good celebrating humor. A Chan ality. e Something Too Much of Congress. Bufalo Brpress. The present congress is doing everything in its power to make necessary an extra se sion of the next congress, This country is congressed to death, e It's the Home of th The west, 18 already intoxicated with its hopes of the next census, wants hustlers rather than moral heroes. If the hustlers are moral, so much the better, but at any rate they must be hustlers, Applicable to Nebraska. Chicago Tnter-Ocean. The policy originally adopted by the United States in authorizing banks to be formed was to exercise a rigid supervision over them,and that policy has been faithfully adhered to. The policy of Illinois, on the contrary, has been to allow banks doing business on a charter to go on year after year, taking tho people’s money without having their sol- veney looked into. It is a matter of sur- prise that failures have been so few. It was certainly high time for a new departure, is not too much to say that the old pol the state has prevented the normal growth in our midst of the savings bank system, and no doubt it has cost the commercial bank ce- positors a great deal of money, taking the period as a whole, A A CHANCE TO LAUGH. Unto a little nigger, A-swimming in the 'Nil Appeared quite unexpec A hungry crocodile, Who, with that chill politeness That' makes the warm biood freeze, Remarked: “I take some dark moat Without dressing, if you please ! —Lift New York Sun: Do you think your sis thinks _cnough about ‘me to marry ni asked Merritt, trying to pump her brother, I guess she docs,” returned little Johnnie, “but I am not sure that you are sohd with the old man. So, perhaps, before you pop the question you had better question the pop.”’ Toledo Blade: Campaizn Echo—*Al! my darling.” murmurcd J. Court I’laster,as thoy saton the sofa in the softly-lighted parlor, “ou must forgive 'our ducky for what he said to littlo brother at supper” table, but lit- tle brother was naughty, 'ou know. ' What's the matter with Johnny 'lately, birdy, any- how" Johuny (from behind sofa) “He's all right!" Philadelphia edly, Record: Little Dot—Our winister prays ever so much loudor than yours does, Little Bob—1 dow't care if he does. Our minister jumps the highest when he preaches, 50 there now. Wife (who had been detained at home)— “Do tell me how the ladies were dresscd, dear! i'm just dying to know. Husband— Oh! all that I saw wore regular prize-ring costumes, ftings: Three of a kind would : the ark during the flood, for it only held pairs. Boston Beacon; What are the tronomers! The stars studded the hoayens fo Merchant Travelor: It was doubtless a trader who first remarked (and in all innocence) that he wouldn't givers dam. It is believed that the luckicst stone men- tioned i the bible is the one that David usod in his encounter with Goliath, great because they hi 108 Connova, Neb,, Jan. 8. Tup Bee: 'For the benefit of your many readers, please state the republican majorit last election, in thistate. C. H. BABCOOK. Harrison's majority, 23,243; ma- jority, 15,220, Thayer's Risixa Ciry, Neb., Jan. 8.—To the Editor of Tur Bee:' Ta settle a dispute among your many readers in this place, please pub- lish the age of John L, Sullivan A READER. Sullivan was born in Boston October 15, 1838, and is consequently thirty years of age. To the Sporting Editor of Tur Ber Please to state in Tur Bre what world's r ord, if any, John S, Prince holds at present. Reavx, Prince holds an American record of 100 miles in six hours, 50 minutes and 55 seconds, made ut Springfield, Mass., October 28, 1555, L Unconscious and Slowly Sinking. At noon yesterday Colonel A, H. Forbes was in an unconscious condition, and 1s re- ported to be slowly journeying toward the inevitable realm. Phe operation performed upon his skull has not brought about the re- sults that were anticipated, and his death now is regarded morely as a question of tim, The best medical talent in the city is in at- tendance, CURRENT TOPICS, Tho dynamite cruiser Vesuvius has bocn tried again, and has again proved herself faster than the con demanded, makiug oven be ime than on the first occasion The wind was blowing at the rata of thirty five miles an hour, and the sex was very heavy, and what was still more disadvan tageous, the trinl was made in shoal water, which makes the waves short and choppy, as well as high, But the builders, Cramp Bros. of Philadelphia, had such ccnfidence in their bantling that they said, *Lot her o, Gallaghor," and sho wont the measured two miles in 5 minutos and 54 seconds. She mado anothier attempt to beat this record but the seas wero too heavy, and one of tho alr-puny broke. There will bo still anothier trial when new gear has beon put in, and it is seriously believed that twenty two knots will be obtamed. Captam the perfecter, if the inventor, pneumatic dynamito g was on and was highly ified with the re T 1 with at present the most powerful ves n t world, and yet she is a little thing, costing but a trifle. With a mosquito fl of such boats America will be not invulnerable to the attacks of others, but wiilbe irresisti blo when she attacks. Let European nations spend the money of the people in costly arm cnts if they will at Yankee na tion fights with brains, the keep their gold and silver in their pockets, 1t is noteworthy that not one of the im mensely expensive armor-clads, with hun Qred-ton guns has ever been used in warfare, and the Vesuvius has already made them obsolote. S0 much for spendiug money out of pure panic, Zalinski of the board, sults, Vesuvius arm his gun is The gr and lets people Omaha purified itself from the gambling dens that 1afested it some eightecn months ), and those who were too timid to help in tho movement that drove them out, have ro- alized since that it pays to be moral, and to ho courageous in defense of public morality The good that was then accomplished is now acknowledged by all men, and therefore our citizens can feel sympathy for the people of Tacoma, in Wushington territory, who are in the midst of similar trouble. The Tacoma Ledger has been most outspoken in assaults upon a gambling house that has be come rich enough to buy seeret ofiicial su port, and to obtain a certain amount of police recognition and countenance. The average policeman never yet has been able to com pretiend that rich men can be criminally en- gaged. Marble halls and gilded saloons have such an effect upon his moral a8 to wipe out all idea of those infractions of law which he rccognizes easily when they are carried on in the back room of a cigar store. The best clement of Tacoma has been be- hind the Ledger, and that paper made such a hot fight of it that recourse has been had to incendiarism, and the newspaper officos were destroyed recently, with a loss of £30,000. Rewards have been offered of $1,500 for such information as will lead to the con- viction of the criminal, and the Society for the Suppression of Vice would do well to make the cause of the Lodger its own, and add another thou rs, virtue be as spirited in action as vice, and the latter will surely be conques usvan SH No Laplander has evor written and no Finlander has ever written No wonder they are a happy people. Mark Twain hasn't made a funny speech nor written out a joke for two or three years, but in explanation he says he has had two cradles to rock and a baby carriage to push around Among the Chinese neaven is odd, even, and the numbors one o, nine bolong to heaven, its'are of the carth e wenty years ago t . lightning-rod factories in the United Statos. To-day there are but three, und those doing atrifling business. The lightning-rod was the biggest humbug of the nineteenth cen- t . Out of fifty people at a Cincinnati banquet thirteen would not cat vemison, ten would not touch turkey, eighteen would have noth- ing to do_with s tifteen refused coffec, twenty-cight let cheese alone and not over twenty would touch cake, One of the Caroline islands is owned by an American sailor named Benjamin, who has sixteen wives, about fifty children, and has nothing to do’ but_smolke his pipe and boss the ranch. He published a letter in a Cali- fornia paper advising other sailors to do likewise. A correspondent of the Evening Post writes: ‘I ook a little friend of mine— d four years—to the Paulist church, cor- f Efty-ninth street and Ninth avénue, on Sunday, and he was so delighted with the procession—a usual feature of the church—that he exclaimed on sceing it: ‘I know what that's for; it's a parade, and God is ele ’ Joseph Liningor, who lives about twenty miles northeast of Wabash, Ind., is proprie- tor of & skunk_r; ovably the only one in that stato. M sor establishod his “skunkery” i th only a few an- imals, fifty in the corral. The skunk is an animal easily raised, and is quite valuabic for its oil and fur. The skin is worth from 7. 0, and the yield of oilis As this is the s ar for the exchange of gifts, St. John's county (Ga.) comes to the front with the most uovel on record. A young man near St. Augustine, though having sound tecth, had them too near for beauty, 8o he had his > tracted, took them to a jeweler, Where they were polished, dyed, and” mounted in gold as a pair of carrings for Lis best girl - WESTEI WALFS, Montana lynchers hung & couple of stock- ings upon Christmas cve simply because they had a horse thief in them yesterday the thern hed twenty- degree But the the 5 have been kept in warmer places this year. ‘The Pawnee Indians have become so civil ized that most of the bucks wear paper col- Lars, the squaws wear red stockings, and all are catehing ou to popular songs and slung words, The town of Dunleith, having _offorcd &00 and a town 1ot to the Jirst baby born within its li g 200 miles distant wont over, gave bi A houncing boy, pocketed her 8300 and the deed fc he town lot, and finished up the entiro transaction in less than forty-eight “And that is sily Snagys, a8 she examing looking mineral in a Den a song, a book. ore, is it!" said Mrs, a picce of curious o smelter, “Yes, ar,” said_her husband. “Aud how do cot'the silver out!” *Tney smelt it.” , that's queer,” shesaid, after applying her nose to the ore. “I smelt it, to, but didn’t gev any silver Two le horse thieves escaped from jail at Hutehinson, Kan., one v Thoy had been stealing horses for a y having run off thirteen, including two spl did animals from Hutehinson. Large wards had been offered, but until their at tompt 10 steal a carriage with the horses, they had successfully ecluded tno officers: The girls are of a dashing type, both blondos and landsome, One says shie 1s the daughter of a Philadelphia minister, and tho other claims o be the dauehtcr of a wholesale clothing dealer in Boston, Their nauwes are unknown. A goat caused the mers, a Union Pacific ming the other day. The animal belonged to a “Daddy Nolau” barnstorming cowmpany, aud got on the track at Choyenne, it is sup’ posed, fromw a low shed adjoining tho water tank, The goat was called “Oleo” and wus trained to clear the @ signal in the third act of the play. the train left Cheyenne, Oleo chewed the bell cord awhile and then drove two of the brakemen to the caboose, where they remained in mortal tor- ror, belloving the animal was @ wild cut. Summer was on the front of the train and had not seen the goat until the latter rushed at him full tilt. Inthe darkness he stag gered, lost his batance, and fell from the train.' His compauions, poeriag over tho top of the car, saw his lamp go out. They coul nol stop the train, us the bell-cord Lad beca death of James Sum- brakeman, in Wyo. chowed in two, btit the goat ing on the cord rang the bell in the engine cab, Tho train was stopped and then run back nock had beon broken. A cowboy lassoed the t when the train ar rived at Laran and the oo ner ordere lim to the pound o the pending inquest further graz - WATSON'S WORK, What Members Say About the Com- mittees—Other Gossip, sy, Neb,, gan. 10.—[Special to Tie There aro various opinions among the members in regard to the make-up of the house committees. The following, taken at random, will show tue drift of the prevailing sentiment Said & Lasc Ber are made ‘friends’ did not speakesship, principle, and the speaker in 100ks un farmer Watson of _ his 80 wh for the bad prominent as though Speaker the committe and slightod; favor his candidacy This, T think, a very should not have contro dispensing his favors A staunch friend of the speaker from the ith F untry remarked: “1 think tion over tho troated some of his friends.’? wostorn membor who did not got s Ksliip said well satisfled. Ho Al not pleas y A North Platte farmer monopolist, in commenting of the committoes, was heard to romark: It th, ol Wo w knocked out on the caucus and are still out.’ autious member from the North Platte v, who docs not wish his name men undor any eircumstances, whispered thusly to Tie BEE man in the strictest confl “Ihave not given the matter much e and staunch anti on the make up k ho made a very he commitrees.' \ csentative from tho float district, composed of Burt and Wash. ington, and who was a very zealons sup- vorter of Dempster and strongly favors sub mission, spoke as follows ¢ only fault 1 have 1o find is with the make up of the committee on constitutional amendment A Republ alloy farmor who mado an excellont record two yenrs ago remarked: 1 may think protty hard, but have nothing 1o say for publication A young member from who was “in the swim, ired a lead ing_chaivmanship, Y osaid: “Lam perfectly satist 1ot ail 1 asked for, and what other menib nsay as much A South Platte anti-mcnopolist and member of wide experience, expressed opinion as follows: “It is n genuine ‘give away’ to the railroads. The committees are do up in thoir intercsts. At least ten of the fifteen members of the railroad commit tea are ‘solid’ with the roads and will block all railvoad legislation orn Nebraska ex aldwell wears a broad He says: “‘Lincoln has no reason to complain, Shoe has two important commit tees, McBride is chairman of the committee of ways and means, and | have the committes on public lands and’ buildings, What more could we ask!” Gilchrist, the rustler from Box Butte, is chairman of the committee on _agricultire and is a member of the ways and means and other important_committ He says: T am satistied with the speaker's work so fav as ho is personaily concerned “Representative Westover, of has tackled the B, & M. i great. shape. He proposes pel them to pay their back 53 which they escaped by pic the manner in which the prope smile, Valley, railroad o com- s for 82 and flaw in Valley county will be the gainer if his bill runs the gauntlot by some $15,000 or $50,000 and Greeley is interested almost to the samoe amount ¥ n dozen other counties are in the , and the whole tax will hardly fall short of half a million. Westover was wise in getting it out of the clutches of the ralroad committee, for it never would have seen daylight. Hall and others on tho judiciary committce will male a hard fight for it.”’ The ways and means committee had a ses- sion yesterday to consider McBride's bill transmitting $129,000 from the insane to the general state fund. — The billis likely to o through with a rush and may be the first law enacted. THE PA What Ix-Consul Muttini Says of Do Liesseps' Project. Late Wednesday afternoon Angelo Muttini, ex-consul from Italy to Guatamala, ar ed in Omaha from the wost, en route to New York. M. Muttini 18 making a tour of the continent and is the owner of a large coffec plantation in Guatamala. He recently loft the great project upon which the eyes of the world, and particularly of France, are fast- cened—the Panama canal. In speaking of the matter to a reporter, he said: “It is a wonderful project, but there is a vast amount of crookedness in connection with it. 1know of several men who went there without a dollar that are to-day inde- pondently rich. The operating element form one vast combine, and it 18 composed of men from the chief engineer down to the gang foreman. They have exhausted volumes of money and collaterals, the major portion of which has been appropriated to their own private purposes. 1 can right now name over to you at least sixty five men that have already abtained fortunes running up into the hundreds of thousands by defrauding the projectors. 1 saw De Lesseps about ght months ago. That 1ty vefore [ visited his wonderful undertaking. He was badly confused over 1t, and told o mo that ha was in strong @, prins Fie also informed hopes of obtaining suppor in - Ame cipaily in the United States. I asked him about how much moncy was required to complete the work, and he told me that it would require a large amount, somewhera in the neighborhood of 000,000, He had hopes of securing the loan or advancement of that amount, 1 left him at Havre, and for & man of his age, ho is looking 'as well as could be expected “Now my idea of the canal is that whon completed, it will bo no_groat thing in tho line of a traMc channe In this country you are equipped with raile ways that give direct communication between all important points. The bulkof the marina traffic is destined to bo from tho eastorn s tion of this country, and for the reason that the commercial route 1 the shortest by crossing the Atlantic you have but one sys- tem to carry an inland trafic, the railway, and for marine trafie, the Atlantia ocean. Tho traffic that would call the 1nto sort 0 would be of minor importan and certainly would not warrant the cxy ture of all this money. Rapid trausit'is question that agitates the public to-day." In spenking of tho condition of tho in habitants of Guatemala, he stated that ha had men in his employ that whilo thoy wero not r led as slaves, he had the privileg of whipping them' when they no locted their work. The men work three days per wook and roceive 3 conts for the services for this period. The remainder of the weck it is customary for thom t bathe in the waters and enjoy themselves at various sports, The climate, ho stated, of the isthmus of Panama was unhealthy, and that threo Italisn consuls had died thera within the past two years, e lefu lasteven: ing for New York HAD A BARREL FULL, How a Dealer in Game Was Trapped Yesterday Morning. The Omaha Gun clib is not lotting up ona bit in 1ts raids on gamo dealers who are ex hibiting and offering for sule game out of season, and are active and watehful. Tho lesson taught a few dealers Wednesday in Judge Morrison's court is having its effect, and quail, prairic chicken and other birds that went out of soason several days ago and have boen opeuly sold by dealors have disappos like magic from public gaze But this, it laimed, is only a ruse to throw the members of tho gun club off the scent, which will be no easy task as was domon tratod yostorday morning whon a dealer was noatly caught, Ho was suspected, anda gon nanly Nimrod called and asked' for quail. The storekeepor said he had none, but when the gentloman represented that they were for his sick wife, the former remembercd that he had the birds and load the supposcd customer to a_wholo b of them. The birds were promptly confiscated under tho game laws, and the man will be. prosccuted, HANNAGAN FOILED. He Attempts to Smuggle His Effeots From His Oreditors, James Hannagan, the notion dealor at teonth and Burt, who has achieved much unsavory notoriety of late, attempted to leave the city yesterday without sauaring with his creditors first, but was prevonted by Dr. Beckett to whom he owes a_month's rent. A writof attachment was issued to prevent Haunagan from sending his trunk out of the city. 1t is said that the trunk is ‘kod to the brim with dry goods from his store which he is trying to smuggle away from his creditors. It is also said that Huu- nagan purposeiy remarricd to_defraud thoso to whom ho is indebted because s n single man he was not entitled to the &00 oxemp tion. His trick was to remove all but $500 worth of goods from his store, and then tell his creditors to whistle, ‘Pho trunk con 50 that he fearéd that the finances were des vined to fall far short of the required amount. TO PRESERVE THE SOFTNESS OF tained the most valuable] of his goods and was checked for Sidney. Al his goods aro under mortgage. chool District Divided. In accordance with the expressed wishes of the electors of schiool districts numbers 3 County Superintendent of Schools yesterday morning detashed a large section heretofore covered by number 35, and attached to it number 22, and has notifled the county clerk and county troasurer of his action so that the necessary changes can be 1 the tax list. An O1a “Bee” Boy. H. A. Kendrick, formerly an attache of the Br, but now employed on a Chicago paper, sent neatly engraved cards to Messrs, Drexol, Maul and Gish yesterday morning in- forming them of his marringe to an ostimab young lady, and stating that he and his wifo would be at home at No. 2132 Praie ave- nue, Chicago, after the 15th of the presenc mon th. The Lamp Upset. An upsetting of the lamp in one of the rooms of the old Brownell hall building about 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning called out the firo department. 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