Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EV RY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Morning Edition) including SUNDAY BEE, One Year For stk Montis, ‘or Three Months o Ovaua BUNDAY RN, mailed € any address, One Yenr WrRKLY IIEE, OBO AOFPICENOS 014 AN y OFFick 507 HOOKERY BUTL RROFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 1h NG, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. FOURTRENTR BTREET. #10 0 | 5 00 260 | 0 | RBUNE 613 | CORRESPONDENCR Alleommunications relating to newsand edi- Sorial matter should be addressed to the EiTor | B, bbistedgany LETTRRS, r ancas should be 11 busines ! t firesstt, 20 HING COMPANY, addressed to T OmAnA, Drafts, checks and Do made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company Proorietors ¥ ROSEWATER., Editor. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. »f Nebraska, 1oty of Dov crotary of The fles Pub swoar that the actual circulation of DAILY Bek for the weeh ending January 2. (880, was as follows: JostoMce orders 1o | | unimproved. grent and binding obl | ization in it than w 18,008 3 SCHU UK. Eworn to hefore me presence thisZoth day of Jannury Seal N. P. FEIL, N State of Nobras ‘a. . County of Dougins, orge B, Tzaciuck, boing duly sworn, de- sand says that he fg socretary of the live apany, that the actiial averags Wk DALY BeR for th D, 1880, v Bublic. 06 coples; for Kob- | ruary, 1834, 15, March, 1588, 19,65 copler ; for April, 185, 1K.744 copres; for May, I8 18 185 copies: for June, 18, 19.243 cobles: for July, 183 coplen: for Angust, 1859, 15,15} coples ptember, 1858, 15,164 coples:’ or October, JERS, was 180% coples: for November. 1535 1808 coples; for December, 185, 18,22 coples. Bworn to betors me and subscribsa in my Drescnce this grd day of January 1889, N. P. FEIL Notary Public. Direcror MILLARD, of the Union Pacific, still has o string tied to the union depot project. The string is the Outhwaite bill. T ice man wearsa broad and happy smile, while the poor man finds ample employment cutting the crystal blocks, thanks to 0ld King Borens. Tik Omaha chartor bill will be pres- ently scanned by the mombers of the logislature, and the action of the legis- s will bo carcfully scanued by the ’ lues the life of an employe who losos his life in the ser- vice of his employer at thousand dollavs, It remains for the house to set its seal on th ure WHILE national and state legislators are cracking their heads in devising laws to prevent pools and combinations, George M.-Pullman has eeured control of all parlor car copt the Wagner, 1n this count Tie national steel beam trust of Pittsburg, which has been mnstrumental in raising the price of building mate- yial, is beginning to show signs of structural weakness, and a split all the way up its backbone is imminent. A MOVEMENT is on foot to pay Chi- cago’s councilmen a salary of two thou- sand a year, providing they will ac- copt no other gifts. But the Chicago aldermen sadly shake their heads and profer to work at lower pay with per- quisites thrown in. Tue people of Nebraska will appre- ciatean offer of Major Powell, the direc- tor of the United States geological sur- vey, to do the topographic work for a goological survey of our state. But as the people of Nebraska do not feel able to spend twenty-five to fifty thousand dollars, the state will be obliged to de- cline Major Powell’s generous offer. NEBRASKA ranks fiith among the corn-growing states, according to the report of the statistician of the agri- cultural bureau, just maae public. The estimated production for last vear is, in round numbers, one hundred and forty- four million bushels, valued at near! thirty-two million dollars. Towa the head of the corn producing states, with a credit of over two hundred and seventy-eight million bushels. valued at nearly sixty-seven million dollars. [Illi- nois was but a very little behind Jowa in the wmmnount of her corn crop, but its value is given as thirteen million dollars more than that of fowa. Kunsas raised one hund- yed und fifty-cight million bushels, valued at forty-ono million dollars, Of corn, wheat and oats the aggregate yield in Nobraska last year is estimated by the statistician to have been one hundred and eighty-five million bush- els. The rapid progress Nebraska has made as a corn state warrants the ex- pectation that within the next ten years she will occupy the leading place in the production of this stap le. THEannual estimate of the production of gold, silver, copper and lead in the United States west of the Missouri river has just been made under the direction of the Wells, Fargo Express company. Although unofiicial these estimates have obtained a high reputation for accurncy. due to the excellent facilities posses by the Wells, Fargo compauy for the ©ollection of 1nformation. It appears for the year just ended that the mggregate production of the precious metals is computed at a value of over one hundared and fourteen millions, as compared with a value of one hundred and four millions for 1887, Silver leads in the value of the product mined, with gold, copper and lead following in the order named, Montana has now become the great mining region, whose mines yielded precious metals during 1888 to a value of thirty-two million dollars. Colorado follows with twenty-seven mili- ions to her credit, then Nevada, Cali- fornia, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Dakota, Alasku, Oregon and Washington Terri- tory. There can be wo doubt from the progross made, that the mining inter- ests of these states and territories are steadily belng developed due to the ad- vance made in scieatifie mining as well a8 the increased facilities of railway transvortation. | the senator it is better | exercise its power d in my | THE REFORM WILL BE URGED. Notwithstanding the severe oriticisms of the democratic press on the bill of nator Sherman to reform the method of electing representatives in congre the senator proposes to urge his measur upon the attention of the next congress He expresses the opinion that it will be one of the greatest questions hefore that | congress, and he anticipates a groat de- Ohio opportunity bate on it in both branches. The believes that the which the repiblican party will have to the integrity of elections for congressmen, and the right of voters to cast and have counted their ballots for representatives in every district in the union, north and south, should not be allowed to go Ho insists that there is a upon the senator insure tion party to do this. Regarding the objection to posed law—thay it would power and placa dangerous authority 1n the of the Sherman says there is no mor provide of the constitution. wd final judge of the elec- view of for congress to strictly in statutol regulation of elections, using the pr dent and the excoutive dopartinents as instruments of its will than to suffer its integrity to be smirvched by the admis- sion of men who have feaudulentlly ob- tained theivcortificatas. It is better to strike at the root of the evil than to do tardy and limited justice by tho slow and cumbersome method of i possossors of prima facio r constitution itself is the best reply to of centralization. The princi- livorcing national from state and and placing the undoer fe I con- trol, can be defended by very strong and convincing reasons, such will not fail mmeand themselves to men whosincerely desire the integrity of o prosorvation of tho rights of voters. Nothing is eloaror than that the framers of the constitu- tion contemplated this when they author! to congress to regulate the time, place and method of choosing representatives in congress. THE RAILROADS WANT IT. It transpives that the most pow force behind the demand for the mission of New Mexico to statehood is the railroad iufluence. Washington advices say that the most dangerous lobby that has yet appeared in Wash- ington, representing the combination of the Pacific railvoads, is back of the scheme. These corporations want the territory made a state because they ox- pect to strengthen their hold on the senate by naming the two senators. It is not doubted they could be able to do this, The most shameless trading is to be done in order to carry out the scheme. It is proposed to divide the offices evenly between the two parties, an arvangement which the delegate from the territory admits has been en- teved into. The plan is to have one publican and one democratic senator, the governor republican and the m: ber of the house of representati democratic, and all of them to be Pa- cific railroad men. This deal explains the recent developments in New Mex- ico, whereby both parties have uaited in their demand for statehood. It is by no means incredible that such a scheme has been arranged. It is entirely con- sistent with the charac of the corporations, and nobody can doubt that they would seck by every means at their command to dominate the new state. Their reasons for desiring this would be quite as strong in New Mexico as in Colorado, where they now have their trusted friends in the United States senate and are strongly in- trenched in the legislative and state government. The exposure of this scheme ought to insure the defeat of the opposition to admit New Mexico to statehood. (Even were that territory fully equipped to come in as a state, which is not the fact, it would be the duty of congress, having knowledge of any such arrangement as is v ported to exist, or reasonable ground to suspect a scheme of the kind, to reject the application for statehood. No peo- ple should be clothed with the high privilege and grave responsibility of organizing a state government whose right to do this freely and untrammeled has been bartered away and especially when such barter isin the interest of great railroad corporations. the pro- centratizo president—Senator central 1 by the Congross hands framer: is the tion of its membors, and in the ons former entively THE COST OF BE INSPE The boef packors of the east have been accused of forming combinations for the purposes of depressing the price of cattle ou the hoof, and of screwing up the prices to the consumer by fracz- ing out the local butcher. Though there may be substantial grounds for these churges, it may be questioned whether the high price of beef to the consumer can be laid entiroly at the door of the beef packers, An impartial inquiry was recently instituted at New York for the purpose of learning the price of dressod boef, svholesale and retail in that city. It was found that while the wholesale price of beef ranged from four to seven eents a pound, the consumer was com- pelled to pay the retail butchers as much as twenty cents a pound. The average wholesale price of a car- cass of beef weighing seven hundred and fifty pounds in New York City is fifty-two dollars. When ecut into loins, rounds, vibs, flanks, lsid- neys and necks the caroass re- tailed fotches ninety-two dollars, a profit of forty dollars, from which, of course, must be deducted the expenses of the retailers’ business. This would indicate that the retail- ers’ interests were pretty well pro- testod, though the price of meat be high to the consumer. But even with these profits the local butchers claim that they oannot compete with the western packing firms in the slaughter- ing of beef. They are clamoring for protection against the western beef packers, If their scheme of local in- spection were ounforced, the result would bs to incrcase the cost of meat AND LOCAL THE OMAHA DAILY BEE in order that ecastern butchers might do their own slaughtering. Such a course would bs in violation of all principles of economics, and the people would not long tolerate it. The factis that natural advantages combined with the concentration of capital, and casy communication of the railroads have made Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City the great slaughter houses to supply all parts of tho country with beef, Against this force local butchers cannot com- peta. It is folly therefore to endeavor to throw obstacles in the way of the beef packing business by the passage of local inspection laws. Such & courso would not only be repudiated by the consumer, but 1t is clearly unconstitu- tional interf, freedom of trade between the THE SENATE WILL ACT. There is very great probability that the United S will anti-trust bill during the prese When the bill of Senator man was up last Friday that gentleman notified the senate that when the meas- ure was n reached he would iusist on consideration, and that it should not be displaced for any other matter— whether the Lord’s prayer or the ten commandments pt by a vote of the This evidence of the strong interest of the senator in his bill ios the assurance that he intends to get the of the yon it as soon as practicable. and his champion- ship of the measure warrants confidence m its success. It is havdly to be ex- pected that it ean command the full re- publican vote. There are senators on that side sympathies are oo strongly with combined capital to allow them to support a measure to prevent and punish such combination, whatever its purpose. But as the bill proposes something entively outside of politi nd mo partisan advantage to be gained from its success or defeat, it will undoubtedly receive a large democratic support. The bill as originally introduced by Mr. Sherman contained some defeets and did not cover the ground so thoroughly as was desirable. It has been amended so as to remove the ob- jections to it in its first form, and 1t now sufficiently comprehensive to meot every requirement. Oue important amendment provides that any pecson who, ninety days after the enactment of the law, shall as o manager, ofti- e, trustee or agent of any such combi- nation shall be liable to the penalties provided in the bill. \We have not ob- served that any one in the senate had questioned, as wus done in the house, the authority of congress to legislate on this subject. 1f the bill passes the senate, of which there is now most favorable promise, there ought to be no doubt of it passing the house. while as to the president he is on rec- ord in favor of such legislation. With comprehen national and state legis- lation against trusts the end of theso unlawful combinations must speedily come. ring with the states. sonate pass an t ses- sion. Sh senate. sonsoe send whose is A TABLE of the number of strikes and employes involved for the past eight years hasbeen prepared by the Now York Commercial Bulletin, based on the returns made by Commissioner Wright, of the national labor bureau, supp mented by the figures collected by Brad- street’s for 1837 and 1838, Out of a vec- ord of more than flve thousand four hun- dred strikes since 1881, more than one million eight hundred and soventy thousand employes were involved. There has been an increase in the num- ber of strikes, as well as the persons en- gaged in them. In 1881 there were four hundred and seventy- one strikes, affecting one hundred and thirty thousand men. In 1888 there were six hundred and fifty-nine strikes, involving two hundred and seven thous- and omployes. The great strike year was 1886, when there were one thonsand, four hundred and eleven strikes, affecting half a million of men. There can be no question that these strilkes have been dirvectly or in- / effective. Although it were to encourage somo less o means of adjusting the wmces of employes against nst employers, the strike1s the onty wk of the wage earncr against arbitrary reductions of wages and unfair treatment. Were it not for organized resistance on the part of workingmen combinations of capi would drive them to the wall and force them to accept any scale of wages capi- tal was disposed to establish. Tie laws passed by the last legi ture prohibiting non-resident alie from acquiring or holding real estat in Nebraska should be repealed or mod- ified, Whatever may have been the purport of the act at the time, the dan- ger from foreign landlordisim is now re- duced to a minimum, and the law has worked to the detriment of the cities and towns of our state. What Nebrask needs is the influx of capital. But the alien act has kept out millions of dol- lars which otherwise would have €ome in to develop our resources, Omaha, Lincoln, South Omaha and other cities of Nebraska can testify to the injury done them, Not only did Scoteh and English capitalists withdeaw their in- vestments from tho cattle and packing industries of the state, but for a time the large eastern insurance and invest- ment companies refused to make loans upon real estate as a construction of the alien act might apply against them as well. Moreover it is a question, if the law be brought to a test, whether the courts would not rule the alien-act unconstitutional, The law works to the injury of the state by frightening for- eigun investors from putting their money into Nebraska. The potition which will be sent from Omaha endorsed hy her business men, should therefore re- celve not only the most caveful atten- tion of the Douglas county delegation, but the approval of ull legislators who are intent upon making our state an at- tractive field for tho investment of cap- ital, THE report of City Attorney Webster relative to the city’s litigation during 1888 is not of such & nature as to encour- age suits for damages of individuals apainst the city, The law's delay isil- lustrated in its full force, inusmuch as VDAY, out of a total of two hundredand twenty- six suits pendingfand begun during the year only sixty-four have been disposed | of. Morcover, the amount of judge- ments recovered: against the city num- bered but thres, and aggregated only one thousand three hundred twenty-one dollars, To these figures must be added, however, the judge- ments confessed by the city upon terms negotiated by the mayor and counc well us the suits compromised between the litigants, | as BOULANGER ho triumphs, row 1o one knows. in France than dreamed he would favor him, He.r to p at another more again he wins and that of F ing towards is a myste What he may do to-mor- Ho isagreatern his enemies be. Fate linquishes one prize alluri and y his dostir 2ly tend- seems to In some w ance seem sty common point. AT AN expense of some thirteen thousand dollars, and after two years' experiment, the silk commissionoe Kansas wore able to produce about two thousand dollars worth of raw silk. 1t isquite evident that the silk industry, like the beet-sugar cxperiments, can neither be coaxed nor forced into suc- cess in that state. Kansas had conse- quently botter confine her energies o sing corn and h s of PANELS FOR THE OABI ner Miller hias v the cabine speak, has works.” signed all hope of going into “The ealls ior,” 8o to rin *“fallen outside the breast Chicago Times: There will bo @ tendency to regard V maker as called and chosen. If tho plan for a Baropean trip is not resumed the impression will be deepenod. The eloth, ier is in luck. Mail and Express: Genoral master of the cabinet mak. ing business and the sole custodian of his own sceret purposes. And the people are en- tirely satisfied. Phiiadelpnia Record: If Mr. H: de- sires to pay a delicate and appreciative com- pliment to Br'er Dana, of the New York Sun, he should invite Ge 1 Benjamin I\ Butler to take a seat in his cabinet, Why wouldn’t John Wana- ter! As about from we on Chicago New maker mako a competent public | we understand it, he knows so litt printing as to bo unable to tell a pr a haymow, and that's the kind of a man must have for governmont vrinter unless is designed to break the record. Times: The Philadelphia papers announced with a great flourish that John Wanamaker had sailed for Europe. Two days later he called on General Harri- son. No we loarn that “Mr. Quay has left for Florida.” We may expect to hear of his arrival in Indianapolis to-da; Matt and John are allowing o possibilitics to escape, - - Nebraska Leads Themn All. Lincoln Call. Keep it before the people that Nebraska is the most effectuatly robbed state in the union by the rail within its bord s, g s Black Oaps Needed. Now York Herald. The only true antidote for the white cap is the black cap, and the sooner it is adopted the better. Down with the sccret tribunal and the midnight thug! e Says Max is Shallow, Philadelphia Ledge, Max O'Rell's first thought-—to write no book about his impressions of the United States, sceing that he was here but a few weeks—was a wise one. Had he stuck to it, he would not have shown to the people of this country what a conceited and shallow fellow he is, and how little his writings aro worth, It's a case of literari-cide, so to speak. Kansas City S e The Wool Question on the Stage. Chicago Herald, A rival actress insinuates that the lines of beauty into which Miss Lillian Russell’s lamb's wool tizhts shape themselves when fillea is largely the result of padding with that same lamb’s wool. This will open up a JANUARY whether or not there Is coal in that vicini An eloction to vote bonds to the extent of 8,500 is proposed, to decide the matter by boring. One_of the young Schuyler high school boc cause the janitor of th iss” at ber and made school board, The janitor apologize. 1t is roported that a system of “knocking down" has prevailed in the clerk's office of Cuming county for somo years past, and tho county commissioners have appointed a com mittes to investigate the matter and demand the return of all moneys wrongfully kept back by the ofticia 28, 1839. ady teachors in the me vory inds buil U complaint to was obliged to lowa. med that many lump-jawed cattle t Dubuque, tions have hoen so 'n saloons in Fort Madison Tho city ereamery at Munson farmers §1 per Tt is el old od against four: still run 100 pounds » Grove s) S with nine all the western for wolves one day r They Abbits and lost two dc Jacob Lawson, of Lincolu township, Guth ty, has boen suffering for seve s from an overdose of poison, He w preparing a mixture for rrts and nhaled some of tho stuff The family of Michacl Buliner, living near Dunkerton, was poisoned by partaking of meat from an - ani hich had b noaf fected with “lump jaw.” The condition of > rirl, fifteen yoars old, is considered dan gerous An Ade forties in ot five county man has dis punty have ented by the government mitted £1.95 por acro for the tract 1o general Land oftice and tho present occupants and supposcd owners aro liable 1o have some dif- ficulty in retaining possession Two strancers g few days ago und began the tors™ warranted to cure many The suspicions of the authorities were aroused and the stock seized. An investi tion showod that the bitters were two-thi poor whisky. The dealers we costs. Or d up and departed. other is boarding out his bill with the sheriff. pat Dakota, Dakota has righty-six orga nized and forty-six unorganized, Arrangements are being made to cstablish an oatmeal mill at Sioux Falls. The county commissioncrs of Union county have refused to grans liquor licenses, Tho Press says that two outside ivms ex press a desire to buila a street railway sys tem in Yankton, The council of Rapid City has been asked to provide for cultivating ana beautifying the ity park. Minnehaha county has seventy-two miles of raiiroad, upon which a rax of $1,000.51 was paid last year lie Pioneer proposes 1o kind in honer of Deadwood Central road svent will oceur shortly. Mrs. Annio Ticrence, of Grand Forks, was d a few days ago. Sho_long exnccted whome and thought her hapniness was complete, After her muaringze she found that her spouse had no home and was only a farm labo The blow drove the young Wi 1 with despair, The comumis: ed her sent to the asylum at countics big celebration of ie opening of the for traffic, which Jamestown. e HUMOR IN NEBRASKA. Itis in the State ) with Ocatrans, Neb., Jan. 26.—[Special Cor- respondence to Tt —Ogallala is 350 miles west of Omaha on the Union Pacific. From Omaha to Ogallala the country is louaed with corn and cattle, part of our country is blessed with such abundant crops. Sometimes the corn lays in great piles on the ground one hundred fect long and ten feet high This is the second good erop in the stute and s0 much wealth is _effecting the financial _states of your commonwealth, Around Plum creek and ad the crop simply prodigious. Three thousand c have gathered around Grand Island, try reduce the surplus corn. 1t is like ' coming from dadkness into sunlight to come out of Kansas where they havea half crop and drop down among the plethoric corn bins of Nebraska ROWING NEARASKA CITIES. The continued prosperity and growth of Grand Island. Hastiogs, Kearney and North Platte fills me with astonishment. Grand Island has become a of 15,000, with a carved stone hotel as handsome as the Pax- ton. Hastings has 14,000 people and Kear- .y has 10,000 and growing fastcr than any city in Nebraska. it has palatial hotels and the best water works in the world. The en- tire North Platte runs through an artificial canal up on the hill behind the town. The water makes a majestic water fall, furnishing a power cqual to the Merrimac at Lowell. Capitulists have now put in electric works in Kearney. The great water uporarily, at Least Al long and bitter controversy, and tte wool question may become as thrilling an issue of the stage as it is of politic UNDER THE CHLSTNUT TREE, Cleveland Union: An old lady’s idea of ballet girl is *‘an open muslin umbrelia with two pink haudles. New Orleans Picayune: Silence is said to be the wit of fools; but they do not always have it with them. Jeweler's Weekly: Never try to sell a wedding present if you wish to preserve your confidence in human natu Boston Cour Patti says plenty of sleep is the secret of preserving one's beauty, The hired girl believes this, Boston Post: There is a rock ahead life for every young man, and if he is a 1 ried young man it is aptto be @ rock-a. bab) Philadelphia Times: Big money has been appropriated for the navy, but what the country needs more is a big navy for the in neisco Alta: It was a Scotch who said: *“Trade’s vera dull noo. I have na huried & leevin’ cretur for a fortnight.” Burlington Free Press: The camel is said to have seven stomachs. He must fecl lilke & walking beehive full of mad bees if he ever has the colic, Philadelphia Ledgor: It is not true that Anthony Comstock is back of the men who are Jeading the fight at Harrisburg in behalf of dressed meats, Rochester Post-Express: sealskin turbans ure a trif son, according to the fushion more elaborate they are the come. The crowns of higher this sea- aper. The higher they i AND ‘l‘l‘JIfi-lll'l'()llY. Nebraska Jottings, A cigar factory has just been started at Ainsworth, ‘There are 840 students in attendance upon the York schools, A party of hunters, killed a twenty-onoe- pound wildeat near Weeping Water last woek Beatrice Odd Fellows are trying to secure the annual meeting of the Patriarchs Mili- tant of Nebraska, An Auburn mau has perfocted filling the decayed teeth of hor: o make a fortune: A stock company is being formed at Nor- folk for establishing's wholesale grocery house at that point. Articles of incorporation of & new bank, to be known as the Farmers' State bank, huve been filed at Loup City. The city marshal of Superior has been fined 50 for shooting & dog, but he has ap- pealed the case to the district court. The Keya Paha oounty bonds have been s0ld and better times are expected when the money received is put into circulation, Norden has two churches, but not a single school building, and the school board is called upon to do something so that the town need not be ashamed of 1tself. A Brainard wan has a tame goose which he has trained to follow him like a dog. When he milks the cow the goose keeps the pig away and does other helpful things. A man ana his wife, hopeless victims of the oplum habit, who live at Fullerton, bave pawned everything that they have, including the panes of glass from the windows, Lo sat- 1y thelr cravings for the drug. The citizens of Hubbell, Thayer county, wre becoming interested in the guestion of STA' system for und hopes pow shanged to clectricity and clectric or water power 1s for sale or rent. CET SUGAT IN NEBIASKA, I find G land in & delerium of ex- citement over the bect sugar plant to be es- tablished there by German capitalists. The sandy Platte bottoms are especially adapted to the raising beets, Fifteen hun- dred vushels grown on an acre. Tne German scienlists experimenting last season found the North Platto beet from 6 to 10 per cent stronge vine matter than the erman beet. Germany is now making more sugar from beets than she consumes. She 1s exporting sugar. A ( 1 capitalist in and Island told me yesterday that the day ald come when the Platte valley will fur- \ more sugzar than Louisiana. Theso ar hoets :d from Ogallala to Fremont, wherever there is sand mixed with the loam. Tho sugar beet will notflourish on wet, soggy soil. It must have air around the roots. Lins is supplied through the porus sand, HUMOR IN NEDRASKA, Humor is the absolute truth, while wit is an cxaggeration, ‘To-day a very truthful bit of humor bappened at Kearncy. 1 photo- graphed it truthfully on the spoi and” dedi- Cated it to Mr, Tebbets, of the Union Pa citic. An old ner daughter came into the Kearney station in a great hurry. They scemed to be excited about something Quic tepping to the ticket window the old knocked on the glass with her thimble and asked, nervousl, “When does the next train go to Om AU 11:30, madame,” said the agent. ‘Is that the first train!' sho gasped, ox- first train.!! “None, madam Isu't there a special !’ No." 1f thero was a speainl, would you know i “Of course, madame," “And there ain't any " “None,” “Well, I'm awful glad," said the lady, rubbing her glasses on her apron. “Now, Maria, we can cross the track KL PERKINGS, T The Inaugural Supper. Tt 18 understood that the catering at the inaugural ball, on March 4, will be superintended by George C. Boldt, of the Bellevue, Philadelphia, and the food, table service and servants will be taken to Washington from his establish- ment in this city. At one side of thoe pension building, in which the ball will be held, it is intended to build a wooden kitchen, in which will be erccted a twenty-foot vange and six steamors. It is estimated that 7,000 people will be fed. Two special trains will be run over the Pennsylvania railroad—one on the Saturday night before the ball, to waiters and provisions, and one 1oon of March 4, which will carry cooked food, dishes and sily ware. A departure will be made from the old plan, and an elaborate supper will be served instead of adinner sub-committee has appro Boldt as caterer and indorsec which will probably cause the contract with the main committee to be closed in a few days, - Angostura Bitters, endorsed by physi cians And chemists for purity and whole someness. Dr. J. G, 13, Siegert & Sons, sole munufacture Ask your druggist. LINCOLN NEWS A D NOTES. Items of Interest Gleaned at the State Capital. RAIDED' A GAMBLING HOUSE The Title to a Valuable Picce of Prop- erty About to Occupy the Ate tention of the La ter Courts. LiNcoLy Bune, 10 STRERT, LANCOLN, Another {ntoresting easo the title of Lincoln propor bids fair to soon ¢ the tract tern pa to He died n fow years ago, claiming to be nis solo heir the sale of the proverty to C. giving a warrantee deed, turn sold five acres of the land in tion to J. W. Winger, who, with one Culver, laid the land out into town lots and sold them to various partios, some of whom built house nd otherwise proved them, The fiv o8 thus pla P TR OMAA Bee, } Jan involving val tho at- s that a in the bo- qui courts. [t sec of ying of the city, sident of Pennsylvania. W a lady wuthorized H. Froy, and he tention ten aor south land onee Tov lie alos the Antelope, just of the to house. Now comes five me heirs, and they claim an vight to the property with the lady who sold it) claiming to be the sole and only heir, he situation is every but agreenble to the parties who pure i and improved the proporty, espeo M. | who still_owns ‘five aer and upon which he has built o valnable house. It now seems alto- gether probable that the matter will come up for settlement at the next term of the district court. Settlementscems to be impossible. PULL A JOINT. Tt is said to-day that the police raided a gambling joint on O street last night, and that some of y up” fellows were caught, It been impossible to get names, The boys gave bonds for pearance, and the police offic 15 mum as clams, Itis said that will be added to the city’s exchequer, but that names will be kept sub 1 In the language of a citizen of the cit) “If any of the poor devils had bec caught there would be no trouble in tting full particulurs. S0 it is, it will mother case of smuggling up devil- ment.” CITY NEWS AND NOT Somo of the university studen the Palladian society gave an oratovic: contest last night, Tt was the sixth annual Chase and Wheeler ¢ the socie The speakers wer Floteher, C. D. Sehill, I, C. Taylor, Miss Idna Bullock, Idwin P. Brown and Bdwin Farmer. Brown and rmer won the first and second prizes, $10 and $5 each, in the order ned. There is no spring balm in the atmos- phere to-day. Bverything scems to point to a blizzard of the pronounced Nebraska type. The German Military band vs W. L. Cundiff was the title of a cause on trial before the county court yesterday. It appears from the petition that™ the ntiff sued Cundiff to recover for services vendered the Lincoln delega- tion of democr: to Omaha, during the campaign = excursion last fall. The court held that was not porsonally liable for the 5 the band, and it looks just a littl E though it was a case of misplacod con- fidence. It does not appear who is lia- ble. Members of the house and senate from the bleak praivies of the west are objecting in vigorous terms to the fre- quent adjournments of the legislature of late. They seem to think that there ought to be more work and less play. Many of the taxpayers of the stale st fines doubt think thusly with them. Nebraska will have a representative m tho ladies’ six-day bicycle race in New York, which commences on Febu- ary 11, in_the on of Louise Ar- maindo. fee of $200 hs been subscribed and will be placed in her hunds to-morrow. Armaindo will be chaperoned by Kck, and feels confi- dent of winning the race. e o AS TO WEATHER. Kind That Has Been Visiting This Section. Fluttering snowflakes swirling in gusts of wintry wind from the north led many to be- lieve that there was a blizzard brewing carly yosterday morning. The weather was cold—it seqmed in pld—but the temperature was above day. Ttwasthe sharp and rigorous that made the cold so severe. People who had no business out, and folks who are not religiously remained indoors during the day. Those who did venture down street were wrapped in coats and furs from head to heels, and hustled along as if they had but littlo time to_be out. The bracing at mosphere, which was rovolving around at the rate of nearly forty miles an hour, not exhilarating. Cold as it might have boen, howe: perhaps it was the chilliest day of th if not the most disagrecable, the br blast 18 not even a suggestion of the viol and destructive blizzard that was experiy enced something over a year ago. 'The weather yesterday, according to the signal obsarver, was more hoisterous and rough in Omuha than at any point throughout the northwest. The tomperature was 15> above zero at 7o'clock in the marning.and continued stationary up till noon. After this time it varied from one to two degrees, This was considerable of o rise since Satu then it was 1= below. For next twelve or sixteen hours the indic: hat the woather still be cold and disagr ., but the harom eter indicates clen nd wurmer weather, Itis thought to-day will be clear and tmosphere will gradually moderate, rucsday the weather will bo much The ensely oro all wind inctined, entire as the The wind intermingled with those snow equal | porature rising rapidly dcations yesterdav morning at Aa a rule the sudden change in ther was a source of gr tho fuel deslors, and vendors: likewisa among the clothing morchants seye whom had already swung a placard conts at halt price” to the broc Liven the grocers stated that thoir business was sub served by the change, The railway depots presented a deserted appearance during the entire day, but mora especially when the wind rose nd the mer cury fell at nightfall Hackmon and others who were compellod to remainoutside took all semblance to humanity in their shaggy fur overcoats and the passengors dled around the stoves, where ablo positions were at & promium. The weather, however, had no apparent offect on the arrivals or departures, and tho trains moved in and out with their accus tomed r ity The street cars wero well patronized, and tho warmth of tho stoves ovidently appreciated. The motor line weross the bridee lost o fow of its Sun lay passengers, but not s sufticient number ton mny arked difforence in ripts, In the bottoms one or two cases of frost bite were reported, but up to @ late hour nothing serious happened A Word About Catarrh, 1t s the muc membrane, that wonderful semt-thuid enyelope surronnding the delicate (s sues of the alr and food pes, that Caiarrh makes 1ts stronghold, Onee established, it ety 1nto the very vitals, and renders life but a | drawn breath of mis ease, dulling the sense of hearing, tr ling the power of speoch, destroying the faculty of smell, tain ing the' breath, aud killing the refined plorsures of ta Insialously, by creeplue on from a stmpls cold in the héad, it assaults the mem. branous lining wid envilopes th aniing through 3 ate coats and causing intlum mation, slonghing and death, Nothing short of | total dradicat on will se uro health to ths patient, and alleviatives wre simply procrastin. 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Surplus 500,000 100,000 HERMAN KOUN| JOHN A, CRt ¥. IL DAVIS, Cashier. resident, 1TON, Vice Presidont, Assistant Cashie TCHURCHILL & CARR, Lawyers. flukes above mentioned, flurried around the corners of Omaha's blg buildings over and tin roofs, o of five miles an hour, [t was tryiug its speed with western valway trains,” and at 4 when o fast passengor {raih was caught napping at a station und the locomotive was panting, the wind would incrense its spoed to forty-ono miles an bour. It only did this once and then it was 11 0'clock, while the writer was in the weather bureau, but it kept up this gait for only two minutés, Of course it got only a little over a mile and a half in this tine. Then it subsided somowhat and chased L clouds from under tho sun. It was not oy, when S pt Welsh, of t au, left the government building to 10 his 5 o'clock dinner. Throughout the entire northwest there was a decided rise in the tomperature, with Jittle or no snow. In the Missouri valley there was no preoipitation of rain or snow, and the temperature took a big jump up wards from_where it was on the previous day. At Yaukton the thermometer rogis tered 142 above, with @ northwestern witd und cloudy. At Valentine it was 4= above, clear and with & northerly wind. At North Plutte it was 222 above, with a northwest eru wind aud cloudy, At Moorhead the ten perature was 52 bolow, clear and 8 southern wind On the Rocky mouutain slope the weather was quite wild, with no rain or suow. At Cheyenne it was 23% above, with @ north ern wind aod clesr. At Dodge City it 24> above, clear and north wiad. The temperature at Forts Buford, Assinaboine and Custer was ubove zero with & general northwesteru wind. The weather was clear and the tew under bur g0 Rooms 408 and 409 Pirst National Bank phoue 3 Telo MUSIC, CLINTON A. CHASE, Teacher of the Spanish Mendoline, With Max Meyer & Co. PHYSICIA Dr. Edward E. Sloman, 2208 FARNAM STREET. 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