Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 16, 1889, Page 4

S present year, collections THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WED) ESDAY, JANUARY BEE. G y THE DAILY PUBLISHED EVERY MOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTTON Daily (Morning Edition) including SUSDAY, BEE, One ) eat For ik Mon! ForThree Months Ty OMANS SUNDAY ik, address, Ome Yoar WKLY [TEE, One Year OMANAOFFICENOS I AN CHICAGO OFVICE 37 1to NEw VORK OFFICE, Tt BUHLDING, WASHING FOUITERNTH STREET. 210 0 y 00 ? 50 mailed 1o any 200 6 AN AM STIREET, KERY BUILDING ws 14 AND 13 TRIBUNE 0N OFFICE, NO. 013 CORRESPON DENCE Allcommunications relating to news and edi- matter should bo addressed to the EDIToR R - DUSINESS LETTER Allbiisiness lotiors aiw addressed (0 T 1 OmAnA, Drafts, checks and be i dé payabie to the order of the company, The Bee Pllh]ififlifl!rflflilfl'lfillv Provrigtors. E. ROSEWATER. Editor THE DALY § Sworn Statement ol Circulation. Btate of Nebra | County of Dougias, {3 rgo 11, 75 Lok, secrotary of Tho Hen Pub. Tishing Comipany, A wnly swear that the actual circulation of THE DAILY Bee for the week ending Junuary I 158, was as £ Sunday, Jan . 0. Monday, Jun. ; Tuesdny, Juli Wednesdny, Jan, o Thursday, Jan. 10 ¥riday, Jii. 1) Baturday, Jan 18450 AW 1824 HUCK. subscribed in mny ry, A. D, 188, Notary Publie. Average. . GEOR Sworn o before me and presence this il day of Jui Seul N. P. FEIL, Btate of Nebras a, | County of Dougins, George B, Tzsclnck, being oses AN says that e s se ublishing company, that th daily circulation ot THE DA th of Janiary, 188, 15,20 coples; for Feb- 188 15,082 Coplest Tor March, 1868, 10,659 r April, I8, 18744 coples; for Mav, I8, Dlos: for June, 15, 19,245 cobles: for July, 188K, 18,03 coples: for Angust, 1888, 15,13 copies Tor Boptember, 1558, 14,154 coplos IR8. was 18084 copies: for No 898 coplos; for Decenber, 1855, 16,223 ¢ Sworn to before me an‘t subscribea Dresence this 5rd day of January 15, N. P, FEIL Notary Public, 3 18T 85, Auly sworn, de- retary of th live actiial average LY Bek for the n my GENERAL MANDERSON now reads his title clear to that senator t forsix years mot department iscer- gnity why to fill it? I¥ the agricultu tain to attain cabinet d should not Nebraskn aspir T1 is really too bad that the men who went down to Hayti in our warships should be cut down by Yellow Jack. Tue anxiety over Me. Harvi cabinet soems 1o have given way in the public mind to a speenlation on the chances of an ice-crop this season. IT wouLp appear that despite the unfavorable ather for teade in gen- eral for the two weeks of the have been ts have in- m's we first fair in_Omuba, and depos ereased in the nks. CONGRESSMAN MCSITA ssurance that President Cloveland will approve the Omaha postoffice bill removes all further doubt as to the ercction of a million dollar public building within the next three years. IT was the cheapest senatorship that ever anybody has been able to procure in Nebraska. It did not even cost Man- derson a bushel of apples and two boxes of cigars, the price puid by Van Wyck eight years ago. TiE senatorial prize drawing is over, 2ud when the lucky numbers are pub- lished after the 4th of March all but possibly a dozen out of the hundred republican legislators will discover that they have drawn blanks. Wirn fifteen bills asking for the establishment of new normal schools, and cach of the eight members on tho normal school committes in favor of his own loculity, it looks as if it willbe a serious mattor to satisfy all claimants. SENATOR DAWES ucceeded in checkmating Delegate Gifford, of Da- kota, in his endeavors to open the Sioux reservation. The game will now end in a draw and legislation on the subject will be postponed until the next session of congress at least. IF a prohibitory amendment would be tacked on to the constitution by the adoption of numerous and sundry “whereases™” the liquor traflic in this state would pass over from the saloon into the drug store within the next forty-eight hours. Tms time Church Howe and Tomn Majors voted for the same seunatorinl candidate. In the deal Church Howe will doubtless pull the longest string in controlling Nemaha county postoflices, Majors will be content with a comission for his brother-in-law in the McCook land oftice. T does not reflect credit on the pub- lic spivit and patriotism of New York #ity to learn that 1t is with difficulty fifty thousand dollars are being col- lected for the Washington centennial eelobration to tuke place in that city. Perhaps, however, New York is econ- omizing to pay at least the interest on the great municipal debt created by its boodlers. m————— Tue revenue dervived by the state of Michigan from insurance companics during the last year isa fraction over one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars. Fully two-thirds of this sum was paid by insurance companies that also do business in Nebraska. This is suggestive, If this legislature would enact the Michigan insurance taxation law, the state could afford to patronize the insurance companies very liberally and still have o handsome surplus from this source. eemwTEmes——— THE vonference in session at Chicago betweon roprescntatives of western railronds and pork packers respecting an adjustment of rates to favor Chicago kers will be watched with no little terest. It is to be hoped thatthe ers of lowa, Nebraska and Mis- souri will be able to present their claims #0 clearly as to convince the railroads of the unjustuess of the Chicago ship- ' demands. Whether they will ap- to the inter-state commission 1d the railroads decide in favor of existing ratos remains to be seen. is highly probable, however, that in cago packers will accept the decision of the railroads as finul, HOUS PATRIO Hon. John L. Webster, Nebraska's cominissioner to the centennial bration of Washington's plae N v patriotic citizen to rislature o ble him to Ne- LUXU cele- Inauguration, York on Heis make a which takes ave \’ patriotic appeal to the l¢ wiil P marching down to point with patriotic pride ska's milit military patriotic in gorgeous eontenni Mr, W [ is expected otism i « ntopatr tact member. He will po fact that hundrads of thousands of %P8 lare rouse the lat ase natter- to the Fourth of J Why shou refuse wndles every \m roman ¢ patriotic youn ricans n patvic logislature ten George thousand dollars f Wa hington inang et rid vaults of the state ty ing Could the Lus in the rer in a glorious and patriotic more We \didly otism is one of that most tender chor confess the e especially where he the public expe thougit, howeve ur to nine-tenths of the lature that the people of Nehraska arc not just now 1 tion to indulge in luxurious patriotism. Whatever may be said to the contrary we believe very few, if any of the states west of the Mississippi will send state troops to the New York centennial, It is, of course. to be expected that the Atlantic seabonrd states, and especiilly the thirteen oviginal states, will make v geand martial display. The fact will havdly justify an appropriation for a junket for braska at the state’s ex- pense. Neb can guin little glory and advantage by pa- rding a few companies of militin side by side with the crack regi- ments of New York National guards and the thousands of well drilled and mag. nificently equipped soldiers from New England and Pennsylvania, At very best the 1 contingent would scarcely receive passing notice. That would be more mortifying to our state pride than being left ont of the parade altogether. Ttis not expected that our state should make a display of her military strength in the great me- tropolis. There are other ways by which Nebraska can loyally show her vegard to the memory of Washington without making a useless outl: eral thousand dollars for an unsatisfa tory showing of our militia. The ¢ lature will display its true patriotism by rejecting any resolution to squander the money of an already overtaxed peo- ple for the purpose. patri- inthe average feinn’s make up, wn exlibit his pat- riotic feelings at s On sober second | will o mem- bers of our leg no Nebraska ¢ of sov- TAX DODGING. dodging is a legal and moral wrong, vet it is of universal practice, and almost wholly hy people who have ast excuse for it. A striking aa- was made at the recent banquet of the Merchant’s associntion of Boston by the president of that organization,in which he showed irom statistics the larming extent to which tax dodging is practiced in Massachusetts, The value of the taxable property of the state, he said, was three thousand million dollars, while the assessed valuation was but five hundred millions. [n Boston alone the value of taxable property 1s twelve hun- dred million dolla t the assessors report only two hundred millions for taxation. The stupendous dishonesty which these figures show re- flects alinost wholly upon the great cor- porations and the wealthy individuals of Massachusetts, for there, as else- where, the people of moderate posses- sions cannot escape the scrutiny of the assessors nor afford to purchase their ucquieseence in obviously false returns. ‘What is true of Massachusetts is rela- tively true of perhaps every other state in the country. Everywhere wealth eseapes by falschood, or concealment, or corruption, its just share of sponsibility in maintaining govern- ment. Great corporations fostered and protected by law do not hesitate to evade the law when called upon for their fair share of the revenue neces- sury to carry on the machinery of government, Men who profess to abhor dishonesty and would exact for others guilty of 1t the severest punishment, will smile out of their presonce the de- ceived assessor and congratulate them- selves upon their shrewdness, as if robbory of the whole people were any less o wrong than vobbery of the indi- vidual, Undoubtedly in no otimer country comparable with the United States is shirking so generally and boldly prac- ticed as it is hel and with us it isa growing evil. This is shown by the very general attention that is being di vected to the question of tax reform in the states. In most of the legislaiures in session bilis have been introduced relating to this subject, the prime pur- pose of all of them being to remedy the inequalities of taxation and relieve the great body of the people from the undue and unjust burdon they are compelled to bear by reason of fulse veturns and undervaluations. Nowhero is there moro urgent demand for such legisla- tion than in Nebraska. re- NEVADA'S WESTERN BOUNDARY, Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has come out frankly as an advocate of the pro- posed readjustmentof Nevada's western boundary, which wus fixed by congress arbitrarily and without any regard to the future needs of the state. At present the meridians of 120% and 115° muke fine, straight lines upon the map, but it iu- terfere very materially with the efforts of the people of Nevada to do- velop agriculture, Nevada hecame a state under the fever of the discove- eries in the Comstock lode, but the wines that poured forth rivers of silver ure now famous for their assessments —-not for their divi- dends. Under these circumstances the only hope of the sturdy little state is in agriculture, which promises well wherever irrvigation is possible. But o glance at the map of California will show that the headwaters of all the streams running 10 the eustwurd of the Cali- line mountains are in natural boundary and Nevada ange avada fornia, he betwean California would be the crest of the that all streams going eastward would belong to Nevada. But congress chose the 120th s the and thereby meridian gave 1o ( g to the ex- houndary \litornia. accordi Wifornian laws, every right and to the w from the Sierea range siting ¢ title for ircigating streams that f1 into western Nevadu, It 1s clear much against the equity of the | in ( head purposes hat may be said sont system lifornia, by which the owner of the water of a stream water and can make all those who use it pay him egregious tribute. The irrvigation laws in Coloradoare infinitely more just and indeed it may be doubtod ther it would bo p to find botter. vada has th yre in the present condi- tion of the state's affairs no hotter policy than to take those laws for & model and toadapt them for herself. When this have by done the quos- would come up squarely tho boandary ling the two states, for thero would rect contlict of authority between California owners of the head and the Nevadian farmers who would use the streams for irrigation. This sitato a readjustment, which must D itively to the advantage of Névada, for the prosent houndary line is preposterous. But the Nevada must that nothing can be done until the questiou is opened, and this will not he untii there are adequate vewsons for it, The adoption in princi- ple of the laws of Colorado upon iveiga- tion would give this, For in that state it is held that all waters vhich exist natuvally, and can e applied to irvigation, aee owned by the state.to be held forever for the common benefit of all agriculturists. No man is permitted to pre-cmpt the mountain torrent at its source, or the lake at its niche among the eternal hills and peddle it out to the farmers of his section. But this is precisely what is donc in Cali- fornia, and tho people of Nevada recog- nize very clearly that in attempting to develop the agricaltural of their state they would simply be toiling for the benetit of Californians who would take measures to become owners of overy steenm likely to be of service to the farmars of Nevada. This is why Senator Stewart is urgent for a readjustment of the boundary line, but it difficult to ses why California should meet her daughter, Nevada, half way in the negotiation, for her own interests are not involved. When- ever a legal case presents itself that hinges upon the boundary question, it is not to be doubted that California will e both just and generous. owns the wh sihle shall m tion to as hetween be a di- the witers would n, poople of \ resourees some BEAUTIFULLY CONSISTENT. The question of the location of the city hallis a live issue. The Republican has not as yet taken any position in the matter be- yond insisting upon the right of the people to decude for themselves. That having been conceded, it is content to stand neutal, pro- viding the advocates of neither side resort to unfair methods or misrepresentation.— Re- publicait. Nobody expects the Republican to grapple with a live issue, and very few people care what position it will take with regard to the proposed relocation of the city hall. But what consistency is there in prating about unfair methods and misrepresentation on ‘‘neither side” and commending to the taxpayers Jim Creighton’s tissue of falsehoods? Could there be anytbing more un- fair than Jim Creighton’s assertion that the Farnam street site is not accessible to the general public? Could misvepresentation further go than Jim Creighton’s assertion that the Farnam street site is not on the line of travel nor in the direction of extend- ing commerce? Could any demagogue surpass Jim Creighton’s assertion that the Farnam street location is sought for selfish purposes, while the Jefferson square location is urged only for the public good? Could misrepresentation further go than Jim Creighton’s declara- tion that Farnam and Eighteenth is not centeal, while Jefferson square is central as to commercee and population, and will 50 remain by 1 of the prospective growth of this novth, south, east and west. Will the J&pul- lican kindly tell us how far east of Jef- ferson square thoe present population ctends and how much farther east it 1s pected to expand i the next hund- d years—unless the Missouri river changes its course and transfers several miles of lowa into Nebraska, Fair play is a rave jowel but the Republican was never known to possess it. TweENTY of New York's thirty-six electors signed a petition favoring the appointment of Tom Platt as secretary of the treasury. According to a dis- pateh that advoit politician gave the electors a dinner at which there was an abundant supply of punch, and pre- sumably when they were ina mellow mood, eaptured a score of them, How the other sixteen managed to escape re- mains to be explained. We venture to think that Mr. Platt could hardly have planued a scheme more likely to dam- age bim with General Harrison. The president-elect may have a hearty ad- miration for genuine politicul finesse, but it is not possible that he cun do otherwise than regard with contempt =a shallow trick of this kind. If Platt has ever had a chance of appointment to any cabinot position, and it has at no time been seri- ously supposed that he bad, this circum- stance ought to shut him out from all consideration. The statement that the Miller men are mad doubtless misrepre- sents them, since nothing better could have occurred to remove a supposed rival, Tue board of trade is to be congratu- lated upon taking up its work for the vear with unusually bright prospects. The new board of officers are repre- sentative men who stand high in the business communmty, and who have the best interests of our ity at heart, There is a good deal of earnest work to be done, requiring precision. New ontel prisos seeking encouragement from our capitalists aad business community are continually knocking #t our doors. Much devolves upon the judgment of the officers aud directors of the board 1o diserimi tablishments “asfars wants, from = ti which would superficial and § Aghd woight communi The hoard of trade over, represents fhie best and most servative elemond of ghe business ec munity, An official from its lips is o voice the of he lobbors, bankers, manufacturers and lo§ding business men of Omalia. For that®#enson its endorse- ment of matters pertaining to the wel- fare of our city should given only after deliberation should éarry it weighty To the officers and directors the under many obligations for unti oul The wonderful financial strength and comme Omaha is to a great their lubors, VOICE OF THE ATE The Price a Seeret, Beatrice. Demorrat The insurance (obb® at Lincoln will well paid for fighting legislation in the inter estof the people, Just how much tho Bew trice board of trade roceives for lobbying in the interest of insurance companies, we are not informed. Jugbetween such adapted o oue be to the more- w | n- e official supposed exprossion sentiment and state carcful with iring is and iR Muence, city their progress, the cinl importance of due to measure PRESS k v Have Endorsed Him. Wape Gazelte, ¢ General Leese may be made the ang, but Attor subject of ridicule by the oil room the people will endorse him every time. It is Alrendy Appreciated, NSouth Siowr City Sun and News, T Ovairy Bice is the best newspaper in the great wost, and north Nebraska peonle are coming to appreciate this fact more and more every Couldn't Beata @ull Hand, Kearney Hub, Attorney General Loeso deserves great credit for his determined stand for the elee- tion of the sceretaries of the board of t portation. There was & full hand aga him thouh, and the election was postponed until April. The Only Thi Ewing Demo more of the little banks in Ne- braska fail, the fellow who has any money will either have to bury 1t under the hearth or, what probabably would be better, hide it 1 his wife's stockine, and 1f he don’t wife—well, then the ouly thing he can do 15 to pay his wask: bills, T many 0ot of the Pudding. MeConl Tunetion Record. The raitronds of Nebraska are out of poli- ties. 'Plhis is to be very plainly seen from the flects of the organization of the legislature. It was not the influence of railroad politi cians, but the representatives of the people, who clected Churelh Howe, the Nemaha tesman and Missouri Pacific attorney, president of the senzte, without a struggle It was also the railvond and anti-submission- ist influence which defeated Dompster, of Fillmore eounty, and elected Watson speaker of the house, t Not Penurio York Tithes, Retrenchment does not mean penurious- ness in public matters. [t means cutting off useless expenditures and ' reducing extrava gant ones. Tmportant state institutior should be provided for with liberality. The people are willing to ‘pay” the necessary ex- penses of thew educational, reformatory and charitable ins itutions, but they are not in a position to squander money on public leeches and tinsed soldiers. They May Heed*This Time. Howells Jaurnal. The editor of T OwMaua Bee is giving the members of the Nebraska legislature some wholesome advice. If the members of the last legislature had foliowed his advice they would have squandered less money, and would have accomplished some good. As it was they simply squandered the people’s money. If we can read indications aright the present members are very liable to fol- low in the footsteps of their illustrious pre- decessors. e Leads In Everything. Cedar County Nonpar Tnr Omana Bee is getting there, 1t is the leading daily newspaper of the state and the west. It doubtiess pays more for its tele- graphic services than do all the rest of the dailies of the great state put together. Its last bold stroke is a special train from Omaha to Plattsmouth, where it makes connection with the “Burlington Flyer” for Denver. Whatever some may think of *‘Rose; they are forced to acknowledge that he is the ‘Get there, Eli" of western journalism, and that for news no western paper begins to compare with Tue BEE. Sick of Campaigning. Wisner Chronicle The CLronicle would like to see the statutes changod §0 a5 to do away with the annual campaigning with which this stato is at present icted. It was a county cam- puign fall before last, a national and state struggle last summer and tate in the fall, and anothe county contest coming right along for this season. It is a coutinual political agitation that is as uscless as it is disagre ble and unprofitable. Let the press agitat a reform and a consolidation of these e tions 0 as to have ouly bienniai elections, as is the case in most of the states, where the political cauldron is allowed to cool once in a while. Hands Off the Panama Canal. Providenee Journal, We cannot afford to tolerate a Furopean government controlling the commerce of the two oceans any more than we could one con- trolling the destinies of Mexico. Retrenchme ness. They Need Not Dispair. whiladelohia Record, As yet the women cannot vote in Pennsyl- but they need not dispair. When our put on gowns, petticoat government may 1ot be so far off as the opponents of fe- male suffrage seem to suppo e Nothing Mcan Atout That Town, Philadelphia Press, New Yorl is about to select the design for her Grant monument, Having performed that arduous task she will then sit down and kindly allow the rest of the country to put up the money to erect the structure, i LI ith in the Future. Chicagn biter<Ocean. President Harrisow will bave to have abundant faith that the next congress will do better than the preseut oue, o« he will never call un extra session, and will be even sorry when the regular scssion drrives. R A Ohicago Beauty. Chfeagr Tiimes. Tall, statuesque, graceful and queenly, Robed in a favric exhaling perfume, Languidly fanning, she sits there sorenely— Papa got rich by a real estate **boom’'— Knowing she triumphs, enjoying it keenly, Luring the bachelors on fo their doom. R The Remedy in Their Own Hands. Philadelphia Press. Rate cutting, commissions, and all the complicated pickiugs and perquisites which run railroads and make rate sgreements mere waste paper, will stop when railroads make it as impossible to get freight carried at a special rate as to get postago stamps at o discount, and not before. The War is On. Chicago Herald. Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Kilrain are talking ‘at cach otber in toues that are dreadfuily belligeren. But past expericuce has sbown that the fclouds of war loork most darkl, aver the path of the prize fightéw just before the effulgent dawn of peace. The blood thirsty ranting of these precious rufans 18 do that there will be no f btless a stra tip ht - D LAUGHS nterost in his AT m takes a painful 18 PROREECSS, The sun is very grand; but the moon takes the stine from it when she comes out 'l ar used by the clectric refining swindlers was aistinctly dead beat sugar s, while others will get omissi missions w nough to Dakota thinks that an intant old talk to be allowed the b nuwming People resolut itself wha are looking for Nev ns can got a second-hand lot by applying almost anywhere politely It would be an excell thiv White Caps Lo warn themselves to Leay country or take the consequences. o lust sickness did the business. The s jumped on him heavy, and poor S Hed up his laviat and passed over the ridge By the time Mr. Parnell gets Treland freod the Irish on this side won't have money enough left to pay their passage over there, A Cazenovia, New York, Sunday schos cher was prosented with a bible by h People can draw their own inferences. Yoar's cheap te The woman who came betwoeen another Wo 1 and her husband in Ohio was nawmed Over, and very properly, for all is over be tween them, Is there drafts " asks be, but we have drafts coms in. western town hauled 800 cart in one month, and the booming olished it s S0 transt of real estate for the month.” T —— 12 AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Kearney hopes to sceure the Doane o from Crete. The people of ‘Tilden are in mourning for Tom Adams, the town butcher, who has gone cast under a cloud. Ttis said that a hay buler could find em ployment at Madison tén months in the y and make lots of money. Revival meetings are being held at Broken Bow with Rev. Bennett Hughes, of Chie as the principal attraction. Nicholas Miller, living near Mead, only the thumb 1¢ft on his right hand. corn sheller shelled off all his fingers, The towa council of Howells has ordered a jail built and drunks are cautioned about caising shoel unless they wish to be locked up. A fire at North Bend burned the ofice of Cherney & Kavan's lumber yard, togother with a number of buggies and farm imp ments, entailing a tos of £4,000. Nota single teain has crossed the Mis- souri river at Niobrara this season. The crossing had heen all prepared, but just as it was completed the ice went out. A letter mailed at Ayr one year s just reachied the man to wuom it was dressed at Hastings, It had been lying the dead letter oftice for several months Miss Lou Royce, the heroine of last year's lizzard, is now attending Cornell college, at Mount Vernou, la. She has discarded utches and walis with the utmost case on her artificial limbs. “There was an exciting battle at other day between an owl and herd dox, the bird coming off victorid Another bout was then urranged betw the vietor and a briudie bull pup, and the big-cved fowl was the winner. Andrew Miller, a former resident of Knox Center, who was reported to died in Arkansas lastSeptember, il oving the fun of reading own obituary notices. He was seen last weol | a Knox Center man who was traveling in the south. Jugene Malroy, of Custer county, stole a @ from his brother-in luw and sold 1t to wd man for 535, He was arrested and coufessed, and as he had not spent. the money his brother-in-law refused to prose- cute him, but bought him a ticket to Kansas City in order to get rid of him. ivthing that wiill keep out correspondent. There may 10 desire to use it Let the STA remo of has A m Pierc large shep- lowa A pontoon bridge at Clinton will cost £50,000. farm products in 1853 were valued at 2,07 Nine young men Winterset families w nouse and fined. ‘The board of sup belonging to the best ¢ caught in a gambling visors of Lyon county reduced the salaries of the auditor, tre urer und clerk 3100 each. The district court, now in session in O'Bricn county, has 210 cases to grind _out, exclusive of probate cases and the celebrated squatter land cases. A newspaper man in the western part of the state had the skin knocked off his nose for announcing a child’s birth a week before it was born. He said hie did it to beat the rival papers. A Keokuk cigarmaker got a cord of wood sawed and split in & hurry recently by offer- ing a keg of beer to a crowd of loafers to do it, The job was completed in one hour and fifteen minutes, One of the curiosities of the Tama high school muscum is an insect or reptile which the T 1d describes us being a cross betwe wrasshopper and the horn toad. y caught it while fishing last week. The tusmess men of Muscatine are consid ering the feasibility of organizing a stoc compuny for the manufacture of several sl implements upon which patents are pending. The movement is being agitated by crn parties. The mysterious disappearance of G. Waltemuth, at Commer caused his fricnds and family o great déa agony. Mr. Walgemuth is an old gentlen of about sixty years, and is known at his place of residened to be of good habits, and a quict, steady and moral man, the Rockies. Montana’s 1888 wool Beyond It is estimated that crop brought #1,600,000. The Billings (Mont.) Clazette says the Rocky Fork coul fields are the greatest west of Pennsylvania. A number of Oregon farmers are being sued vy a 130ston company ona bond which they swear they did not sign. Northern Montana stockinen will use every effort to have a bounty law passed during the legislature for the extermination of coyotes, wolves, lynx and mountain lions which ard killing considerable stock The output of the Drum Lummnion mine for the month of December was £4,600, of which the ten-stamp mill produced $20,%00, the lifty stamp mill £33,500, and the sixty-stamp mill #19,000. T'he working expenses for the month were 350,000, The Reno (Neb.) Gazette remarks that Carson purposes entertaining the legislature during the winter with such elevating and refining exhibitions as prize fighting cannot bo regavded as complementary to either the good sense or good morals of that body. A rvather strange afiliction nappened to a Missoula, Mont., couple who were sicigh riding. The youhg wan's right ear and tho Iady's left ear were frosted, while the other two wero not cold at all. Why all four ears werc ot frosted 18 o problem which has Dboen submitted to the high school class in physiology. On Sunday nignt last, two tramps, who had managed to get into a réfrigerator car to ride through ldako, getting very cold, built a fire, which, on_arriving at Camas, got tho best of them and burned the car, they barely escaping with their lives, They were promptly arrestod and taken bofore Justice Adams, who bound them over to await the action of the next grand jury on the eharge of arsou. They gave their names as Frank Wilson and W. Lrown. - Death of a Reformer. Andrew Paxton, an organizer of law and order leagues and a temperance enthusiast, was buried in Chicago yesterday, where he died a few days ago from peritonitis. Judg Grinuell will deliver the funeral address, and many of the prominent ministers of the city will take part inthe exercises. Mr, Paxton will be rememberca in Omaha as having been instrumental in forming the Law and Order league bere a few years ago, and which bas since gone out of existence. The use of Angostura Bitters excites the appetite and keeps the digestive organs in order. Dr, J, G, B, Siegert & Sons, sole maunfacturers. THE LICENSE BOARD, It Decides to Close Up Soveral Dise roputable Places, The liconse board met again Monday af- The mayor, Michael Leo and ph Southard were present o board vork at once, and in a very short time ot through a bateh of business, The fol- lowing licenses wera granted, the bondsmon having qualified since the last meeting of the board ternoon. Jor av Rudloft )5 North L Vinton stre South Ninth stre South Thirteent { Cuming stroet; Honry Sixteenth street; Fred t; William Schmidt, Fred Hunlziker, 412 t: . H. Androsen, 1503 Douglas street: Andrew Scheid, 2000 Pierce street: August Schult 123 North Eloventh street; Bd Rothery, 1117 Dodge street; Henry Lenenberger, Hamilton and Thirty-first streeis: Jacob Poppieton avenue: Henry € nut street: Frank Carson, Douglas street; Marcus Hansen, 1008 North Twenty fourth stroet; Henry' Hornborger, 153 Dougrlas streety Codensen, 502 North Four teenth street. Simonsen ' & dohnson, 2101 Cuming streets Michacl Wallenz, 1320 Piorco streot I'his passed nside of the board ame the whom first was o preceding business pleasantly enou Ation_ of applicants against s had been made, Tho protest by fifty prominent citizens of the Pirst ward against granting a_license to Alex Miller of No. 1324 South Fifth street, near Williams, The communication stated that the saloon was near w school, and was not wanted the neighborhood, The ob- jection was sustained, and Millor refused a license. he applicatians of James Demp. ¥y 1205 Harney, anda Tom Foley, Thiv toenth and Farnam, and Sam Beatty, 2024 Caming, wore withdrawn at the instanee of the petitioners thers e bondstmen of tho following having failed to qualifty their petitions were laid” over until the nex, meeting: Henry Sclibueter, Peter Schultz, J. H. O, Cal 1002 North Sixteenth street; Mrs, J.O'Grady, 1024 Dotglus stre Jetter’ & Young, 1031 South Thirte street; and Frank Santler, 923 Baneroft ves Unless the bondsmen of these applicants qualify before Wednesday next, their licensos will “bo refused aud their saloons closed. 112 South Tenth oty fused a license,” Councilman Pat Ford, as u resident of the Third ward, entered a protest ainst a license being ited to Schipporeit. Mr. Kord in his pro- tost deseribed the plice as bemg a hell-hole. The police were questioned as to the charac ter of the place, and asserted that it was we which the vagrants and desperate characters of the city frequented. The bourd immediately ovdered the place closod The application for a license of C. Ober ton, who runs an auction shap at 416 Sovuth “Tenth strect, was referred to the next mect ing. The police were questioned on this subject and described the place as one in which persons from the country were steered and fleceed of all they possess by sharks inthe employ of Oberton. The chief said it was almost impossible for him to got aconviction against the place, for when he brought it before the police court and securcd a district conrt w that was the last e ever heard of the matter. The best thing to do with th places was to close them alt up by refusing thei licenses, These hepporeit, > nothing but robbers’ roosts, and not day passed but he had complaints from some one who had been steered into these holes and robbed. The board will consider the matter of granting a license at the next meeting. The board then udjourned until next Thursday, when all the liconses wiil be granted that itis its inteantion to issue this DRIZZLE D SLU 01a Prob Exhibits HimselfIn a Very Unpleasant Mann Sergeant Welsh, of the local weathe r ob servatory, sat in his oftice on the top floor of the government building Monday night and yesterday keeping his “weather oye” on the failing barometer, and caleulating that every time it dropped a noteh some unfortunate pedestrian dropped also on the ice coated sidewallss, or fell in the slush of the cross- ings. A mixture of raiu and slect began to fall at an early hour Monday evening, freezing on the walks as fast as it landed and making walking extremely hazardous. People on their way home from business were greatly annoyed, and it wasno better yesterds The slush of the streets was considerabl safer to travel through than the treacherous sidewalks, and but very few ventured on the latter. Throughout the forenoon a drizzling and peuetrating rain kept falling, and there were but little Lopes for a change before nignt. The wind was 10 a southwe dircetion, and was distressing to the barometer, which was low and sluggish. Until the wind shifts it will remain in this state, but hopes were entertained that it would change its course by nightfall, and with it bring some of the cold weather which is prevailing in the northwest. COURTS. lll;} District Court, Alonzo B. Hunt is the complainant in a suit brought yesterday against Anderson Chrisman to recover 8201 still due on r estate sold to the defendant in St. Patrick's addition. The city is Sehultz to” coll injuries, recciv falling sidewails on Thirtecnth str Judgze Doane, and probably will to-day hear the ar, suit against the Mo ilway injunc tion suit commenced some time ago. Suit was entered by Alonzo 13. Hunt t Auderson Chrisman and Lizz and foreclos mortgage given for , &8 sceurity for prowmissory 1otes. made defe et 810,000 ¢ lunt by Hederig nages for bodily v a dilapidatod . ncar Vinton udge Wakely ments in the County Court, Hannab E. Foster brought suit yesterday from Regan Bros. & (o the contractors, which it 1s alleged they ow for office rent. J. D, Iler & Co. sccured a judgment amounting to &7 against FL. M. Skowl, e following decisions was renderod. yes- terday : 1'red Krug vs Oleson, verdict for plaintiff, #6402, W. A, Paxton vs A. Stecr, jr.,, verdiet for plaintiff, $52. Oscamp and Aqines vs for plaintiffs, $201 Woodruff vs oyce, verdict for the plain L, §503. Brookme, plaintify, § to coliect Aslowitto, verdict rvs O'Mally, verdict for the To Day ha. Jones L. 18 L. 45 ~Connolly vs City of Om -Weber vs. Kirkondall, -Kirkendail, Jones & Crushed by an Engine. Late Monday afternvon D. W. Dy, of this city, met with the 1oss of a leg in an ac- cident at Valley, and narrowly escape being ground to utoms by the drivers of a lo- comotive. He is the representativo of a nur- sery frw in the east, and has beeo at Valley warketing his goods. He intendod to wmake the next station, was repairing to the depot to his_baggage chocked when he observed the rain approaching. He started on o ran, and wus compelled to cross the track in order to reach the stution. Ho reached the track about one hundred and fifty feot in wivance of the train but, it is said, stumbled and fell, his body Lying directly on the Lrack, Being aware of his dunger, he immediately forced his body frow the track, but before be could remove his lower imbs the wheels of |hv1 on- gine on No. 4 passenger train, on the Union Pacitie, passed over one of I legs, com. pletely savering it it in the region of the knee jomt. He was pluced on board the train, ht to this city, and conveyed to the St seph's hospital. e was restless Mondry hight, but it is thought that he will recover from the stock. Day is a man of family wife and child residing on Twenty-sixth und Chiarles strects, in this city. —— Wells-Fargo's Stationery Moves. The statwonery departmeat of the Wells Fargo Express company which for some time back has been located in the United States National bank building, under the management of W. M. Ashton, lias beon re moved to New York and with it have gone soveral employes who were given employ- and et ment hore, This move has been madoe bo. cause of tho possibility of making cheapor contracts for stationery and also because of & more oasy delivery which can bo had upon the Atlantic coast, The office was ostab. lished in this city 1oss than a year ago and was brought about by reason of th auire- ment by the express company mentioned of new territory which it was unable to supply from its ofMice on the Pacific coast 1'he still romains here, however, an offico wh will afford supplies for the various domands horeafter made by the company’s agents ia this soction WHITLOCK'S GALL, wears Out a Warrant Out of e« venge, Building Inspector Whitlock swore out a warrant yesterday for the arrest of tha editor of i Bre, chareing that building material had beon left in the stroet near tho new Bek building ufter tho expiration of the building inspector’s permit, Tho latter functionary is said to have gono out of his way to vent personal spite, and that thero was not the slightest cause for the action takon, The Location Kleetion, Mayor Broatch has issued a cal for a ial clection to bo held Tuesday, February as to the location of the city hall to cost 1ot to exceed £500,000; also to provide for 1ssulng bonds in the sum of &300,000 to pro- vide for the erection of the sume. The places of location to be voted upon shall be the site known on Farnam street, opposite the court house, lots 5 and 6,block 116 and that known as Jefferson square. The ratification of the ordinance, the issuing of 00,000 m city bouds and the site wil be the threo separato issues of the election. The polls will be ned at S o'clock on the morning of the election and close at 6 o'clock in the aftor- noon of that day at the following places. FINST WAK Pivst Distriet—Corner of Jones and Tenth street, barber shop, Second District Pacific and Prerco shop. Ihird District—Corner_Kleventh and Dor- a8 street, engine house No. 4, SECOND WARD, Pirst District—South end Sixteenth strec vinduet, Gibson & Hartman's building. Sccond District—Corner of Seventh and Vinton street, Arnot & Co.'s store. THIRD WARD. First District—No. 1006 Davenport stroot, Second [nstrect—Corner Tenth and How- ard streets, Oceidental hotel OUIRTIL WARD Planters’ hotel, No. 1505 St. Mary's ave- Sixth streot, street, botwoen Alvin's barber First District Second District nuc. PIFTH WARD, First No. 60 North Sixteenth street Second District-—Cor Lzard strects, engine house SINTI WARD, ‘Twenty fourth streoet, Sixth District er Sixteenth and Pirst Distriet Ward Republican club roous. cond District - -Twenty fourth street and Belt railway line crossing SEVENTIL WARD. Pirst District— orner of Woolworth aund Park avenue, Thompson's building, Second District ~Twenty-ninth and ley streets, near Qualey's sehool house, EIGHTI WAk First Distriet—No. 2105 Burdick's harness shop. Second District—No. 403 Cuming street, barber shop. Shir- Cuming street, NINTIE WanD, ‘Twenty-ninth and Jolmson's store, ct—Corner of Lowe avenuo street, Ryan's oftic: Farnam Siclk che is readily cured by Tood's Sarsapurilla, which tones and regulates the digestion, aud creutes an appetite. e Death of Mrs. Henry. Dicd, January 4, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Cade, in Taylor county, low with whom she was spending a few d Mrs. Laura Henry, wife of Andrew Henry. Lanra Wisel was born_in Geneseo county, New York, September 25, 1522, When about thirteen ycars of age she removed with hor parents to Steubens county, Indiana, wiere she was married 10 Andrew Henry, August 10, 1530, with whom she has lived for ncarly fifty years. In 1551 she removed with her family to Vernon county, Wisconsin, and from there 1o Taylor county in 1564, whero she has since resided, AU an early age sho united with the Christian church, but on re- moving to Wisconsin she united with the M. LS. church, where her membership has sinco remained.” She leaves an aged husband and five children, all of whom were present at funeral to mourn her loss. She was a sistent Christian, a true and devoted wifo loving moth Her last thoughts were for and of her loved ones. Many wero the prayors and tears offered up 10 the throns of grace in their bebalf, — —— FRIGHTFUL SKIN DISEASE. Sufferings Intense. Head nearly raw. Body covered with Sores. Cured by the Cuticura Remedies, Messrs. STEVENS & BRUNER, Monroe, N. O Dear Sirs—About two months ago, on your vecommondation, | bonght a bottle of CUTICU I ResoLyENT, one box CUTICURA SALYE, and one cike 0f CUTICUI S0P, for my som, aized thir- teent years, who has beeh afllicted with eczemi for a loi G Tam plensed tosuy that | red him, s suf- il Deig nearly raw, ars being gone oxcopt tho wristlo, and hig body wis covered with sores. His condition wits filitfu! to behold. 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