Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1889, Page 4

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FEIL Notary Public PIG-POISONING at a big salary is what smight be called a sinecure. But what of the poor pigs? ¥ THER a cailroad lobbist in Ne- thraska who isn’t a candidate for oftice just uow, he is-—-in the pen. MANY of the horses used on the streets ©f Council Bluffs have the appearancé <of being fed on a poor quality of barbed wire. OF course the rate in grain to Duluth was raised as soon as the tide began to et that way. Such is the manner of amonopoly. TiE habit of sending obscene lette “through themails is getting the senders This is the only redeem- ing feature of the habiv. IF BoTH parties to the tailors strike ‘were anxious to come to an agreement, -an amicable settlement could be affected dn less than half an hour. £ Froym the' threshold of his quiet In- # C@anapolis home to the cityof Washing- -« ‘ton, Gengral Harrison's journey was ©ne triumphal ovation. ETTER take the six thousand dollars M. Lamont, Modesty is very pretty in @ sohool girl, but in a business way it was never known to butter many w parsnips. PERHAPS there are other defects at - the county hospital than the question of the arches, which would stand in- ‘vestigation at the hands of the special committee. —— IT MAY cost the state over four thous- and dollars for having got rid of the ex- Honorable Mr. Morrissey. The bill is ‘high, very high; but atany price, the state is ahend, “NormiNag is impossible,” to a man dike Vandervoort, whose self-assurance would make Washington monument ‘tremble, should the oil room lobbyist “tackle the shaft. ‘WrrH a vecord of fourteen graduates in fifteen years from the agricultural eollege, no one can have the hardihood “to say that the institution hasbeen any- thing but an expensive and usecless burden to the state, IBER VANDERVOORT has ogain put up his lightning rod, and this time he seems to be expecting a ghunderbolt. One by one the railroad lebbist Lobs up with a boomlet for a awhack at the publie crib. DAVE Mercer’s hill for legal ser- wices in the Douglas county contest oases stamps him at once as a grent “awyer and financier, But in justice to him be it suid that he is the first man 20 put this stamp on his capabilities, Tue Chicago Herald, which believes ftself to be n great famly journal, tolls (& correspondent that it never heard of . #such a game as ‘‘sinch.,” Among the + ‘®owboys such ignorance would be looked mpon with pitying wonder. *‘Sinch” is mothing more nor less than “*high-five.” ———— WASHINGTON hotel keepers are view- ‘Mg the situation with a mercenary glitter in theiv several eyes. The only way the citizens can get the better of ‘$hem is to stay at home and saw wood, #ecure in the assurance that General * ‘Harrvison will be inaugurated just the e, — To-DAY a private communication, re- " ccived by Morrissey as a private citi- . zen, will be made public before a legis- lative committee, The expose may in- _ juro the author of the letter, but it will not stamp the recipient as a gentleman. . However, Morrissey wearing such & - stamp would suggest a package of rank ©leomargarine sporting a butter label. E—— CHIEr Seavey's regulations govern- . 'dng the police station are altogether too ® striot in some particulars, For in- satance, no reporter is allowed to use the jphone, nor can any newspaper office pmmnunicate ovor the wire to the police pporter. At a late hour in the morn- g tho ability to send a message speed- may mean a great deal to a morning per and its roaders. Reporters and log lawyers do not, us the regula- 8 pre-supposs, belong on the same ¥ i TOO LIBERAL BY HALFE. The resolution introduced in the house by Mr, O'Brien, authorizing the com mittee on aceounts and expendi- tures to pay over forty-three hundred dollars in settlement of, claims growing out of the contest cases in the house from Douglas county, will need to be materially modified. The sum it pro- poses to take out of the public tronsury duced neatly. if not quite,one- without doing injustice to any- body. Granting that there is precedent for paying ail the claims embraced in this resolution, hy the state, it must be apparont to everybody, save, perhaps, those who are after the money, that a portion of the charges are far beyond what 18 reasonable. This is conspieu- ously true of the amounts it is proposed to pay the attorneys. None of these lawyers could have devoted more than sixty days to tho proparation of the case for which he was retained, and very likely did not give to exceed thirty, while one of them, the attorney for the conteste at the same time drawing a at the rate of twenty-five hundred dollars a year prosecuting attorney of Douglas yetit is proposed to pay these attorneys an amount that some of them would doubtless regard asa very satis- factory income for half a year’s work. On thescore of professional ability the proposal to ny one of these attor- neys at the rate of thirty dollars or more a day for the probable actual time given to the contest case cannot be jus- tified, and the fact that they are woric- ing politiciuns should have no weight. The provision for attorne, fees should be reduced to at most fifteen hundred dollar: [t is probable that the sten- ographer’s fees might also be paved down, while the claim of contestants for attendance is at least questionable. But the clearly unveasonable and un- warrantable demand is that for attor- ney's fees, which, if cut down one-half, will still amply pay for the service ven- dered. as county GOVERNOR LARRABEE ACQ. TED The trial of Governor Larrabee on the charge of criminal libel terminated yesterday in an acquittal. No other rosult was expected by those who had taken an intelligent view of the mat- ter, and it followed of course from the position of the court that the pamphlet on which the charge was based was a privileged communication and there was no proof of malice on the part of the governor in issuing it. The trial has attracted widespread attention as the first instance of a governor of a state being indicted and brought into court to answer a charge of this natuve, and the result will be universally re- garded as u proper conclusion of 80 ex- ceptional a proceeding. The opinion has been quite generally expressed that Governor Larrabee would have been justified in refusing to answer to the indictment, protecting himself behind the authority and privi- leges of his oftice, but it is now appar- ent that he chose the wiser course That he would have beeu sustained by the courts had he refused to stand trial, as President Jefferson was sustained when he refused to be a witness in the Aaron Burr trial, is more than probable, but for the purpose of a complete vindication; with the effect of silencing all clamor, the governor acted judiciously in allowing the case to pursue the regular course, His enemies, and those who were in sympathy with the prosscution, can now have nothing more to say, whereas under other circumstances they would undoubtedly have maintained a vigor- ous clamor. It has been suggested that the woman who brought the charge was instigated thereto by strong enomies of the governor, but, howevor this may be, the effort to publicly damage him has been signally defeated. The case makes a precedent. The executive of a state may be arraigned on a chargeof eriminal libel, so thavany one who can satisly a grand jury that a governor has uttered or caused to be published regarding him something which he deemed libelous muay secure an indictment and bring the execcutive into the courts to answer to the char State executives who are worried to the point of exasperation by importunate politicians will need wo be careful of their speech, and they may find it expedient also to guard their ut- terances respecting public officials whose conduct may invite severe criti- cism. It is conceivable that a governor whe did not all the time excreise a pru- dent restraint upon his freedom of speech might get himself intoendless trouble. But it is probable tho Towae precedent wall stand alone fora very long time, One such in a century of government does not suggest that there is an imperative necessity for more se- curely guarding state executives against the possibility of a like annoy- ance. THE PARNELL INV] GATION. Every friend of Ireland’s cause and of its most distinguished champion, Par- nell, will read with unmixed gratifica- tion the latest developments in the in- vestigation instigated by the London Times, the result of which must inevit- ably be the complete vindication of the great [rish leader. Rarely in history was any man championing a greatcause made the tim of a more diabolical conspiracy than that organized against Parvpell, to which the leading news- paper of England became & ready party, but one by one the links in the thain have been broken, until nothing now remains of the most carvefully-plannced scheme to destroy the prestige and character of one of Ivelund’s gheatest and most devoted sons, The exposurc of the infamous LoCaron, whoss state ents huve been discredited the world over, is now followed by the confession and flight“of the arch-conspirator, Richard Pigott. This man appears to have been the “‘head and front of the offending,” from whom the Zimes ceived the information and the letters upon which it based its charges, und upon whom iy chiefly depended to maintain its cuse. No buser scoundrel ever undortook the task of dragging down an honorable man und injuring a just cause, The confession of Pigott that he forged all the letters secured by the Zimes and alleged to Lave beon weitten by 'aractl and othets prominent in the Irish cause, and his hasty flight, presumably with theaid of those upon whom he had practiced the deception, must bring to a sudden termination the investiga- tion 8o far Parnell is concerned, though it womld seemn to be the duty of the commission to allow the unques- tionable fact to be shown that behind Pigott and others engaged with him there was n foul conspiracy. Justice will not be fully tisfied unless there shall be some punishment inflicted for this most base and wretched business, and an effort should be made to ascer- tain who that can be held responsible were behind the miserable criminals that have fled from the outraged law, for there is reasonable ground of belief that they had powerful aiders and abetters. But tho commission was cre- ated for a definite purpose, and it may determine not to go outside of this, in which case the desire of Parnell’s counsel to extend the investi- gation will not be complied with. In this case, however, it is highly probable that parliament will be asked to extend the authority of the commission, so that the conspiracy may be probed to the bottom, and it is hardly possible that suchin demand would be denied. Unprejudiced men have never doubted the vindication of Parnell. All such accepted in full faith his un- qualified statement that he was not the author of the published lotters alleged to be his, His vindication will make him stronger than ever in the confidence and vespeet of Irishmen and of the world, and should strengthen among Englishmen the cause he champions. The investigation has placed on him no stain of disloyalty or of dishonor, but had only more fully shown him as the wise, courageous, tireless and patriotic leader of his countrymen in a cause the justice of which only the supporters of despotic pow [it as CHICAGO has become unduly alarmed over the prospects of losing its hold on the grain market of the west. That city has ccased to be the great wheat center, since Minueapolis stepped into the avena, and of late a complaint has gone forth that the corn, which Chicago claims legitimately to belong to it, is being diverted to Duluth, For the past fow days large shipments of corn from Nebraska to Duluth have taken place, influenced by the-low transportation rate and the specialinducements offered by the elevator men at that point. The diversion has caused considerable anxiety to those railroads which could not meet the competition to Duluth, and to the grain men at Chicago, who were losing busine The news, however, comes to hand that the grain rates to Duluth will be advanced next week, making it the same as the rate to Chi- cago from the grain belt ¢ Nebraska. This might have been expected. The prossure brought to pear by Chicago has been sufficient to readjust the rates to their former basis. It is likely, moreover, that Duluth has purchased as much corn as its elevators can at present accommodate, and the demand has consequently fallen off. Shipping corn to Duluth is an experiment, and the result of it will be awaited with in- terest. It is highly probable that the demand for corn 1z Duluth will increase as its elovator capacity is enlarged, and that city may one day become a danger- ous rival to Chicago. AND now it is said that there isa pro- ject on foot to build a short line between Denver and Salt Luke under the patron- age of the Union Pacific, in order to head off its ambitious rivals. As usual, the rumor is made up of whole cloth. Eastern investors are not anxious to ink their money in building parallel lines just now. Besides, the route said to be marked out i most expensive to build, owing to the heavy grades and the work necessary to be done in order to pierce the heart ot the Rockies. The filing of articles of incorporation with the auditor of the state and the forma- tion of a company with a fabulous cap- ital—all on vaper—by no means build railroads. If a quarter of all the roads projected across the Rocky mountains in the last ten years were built, the whole country w of the Missouri ver would be gridironed with steel 5 and the mountains would be ombed with tunn The incor- poration of a railvond company can be effocted by the oxpenditure of five dol- It often serves its purpose by keeping a rival from intruding ou its sod right of way. It creates a nt feeling among the counties and towns expectant of the benefits to be de- rived from the building of the railroad. It **booms”’ corner lots, and somehow has a tendency to put money in the pockeis of the projectors and thoir friends. Evrorrs are being made by repre- sentatives of the strect railway compa- nies of Omaha to induce the Douglas county delegation to adopt radical changes in the clause of the charter providing for the paving of such rail- companics’ right-of-way. The new charter as now submitted to the legisla- ture does not materinlly ditfer on this question from the clouse in the present charter, The new scction provides that “street railway compunies shall maintain and paveall the space between their diflcrent rai ana also a spuce outside of each outside track of ut least twelve inches in width and the tracks shall include not only the main tencks but also all side tracks, crossings and turnouts coustrueted for the use of such street railways.” Such also is the law in force in our city, and the rights of way of the various strcet rail- wiy compunics have been paved in obedience o these rules. There is no reason why the street rail- way compunies should sesk to modify this provision at the expense of the yand taxpayers. The new chavter oviginally ealled for the paving of a space outside of the Guter rail of at least cighteen inches, This was vhanged to twelve inches at the soliei- tuticn of the streot eailwuy companies. They should, therefore, be sutisfied with the liberal concession, and not play the whole-hog-or-nofe, Tie logisicture may pass laws pro- viding for the registeation dud the li- ceosiug of plumbers. Asbill is pending in the Youse requiring a three yours' aporenticoship @i a registration for journeymen plumpgrs and apprentices. The passage of guch o measure may be necessary as A tsanitary precaution, The health of citiesto-day hangsin part in the hands of the plumbers. Defective work on their pattdue either to incom- petence or will§l' ‘carclessness bring on the malignant am! insidious diseases, malaria and typhpid faver, aiphtheria and even cholera. ., For that reason stringent laws should ba enacted to pro- hibit incompetent #ind dishonest men from engaging in the plumbing trade just as laws regulate the business of physicians and dbuggists in the state. Such a measure causes no hardship to the plumbing trade. On the eontrary it elevates the profession and protects it from the competition and imposition of incompetent men. In case the legis- lature fails to see the merits of the bill, the city by ordinance can in & measure apply the remedy. Tie blatherskite General Rosser, who, it will be remembered, made an indecent attack upon General Sheridan about a year ago in a published letter, is again attracting unmerited attention by reason of a braggart speech made by him at a dinner of confederate army and navy veterans in Baltimore last weelk. One among his blusteriug dee- larations was “‘that a southern gentle- man can whip a Puritanical Yankee time,” the whole being vocifer- applauded by his auditors, among whom were a number of prominent southerners. It would be charitable to suppose that all of them were under the influence of some sort of intoxicating beverage, but in ahy event the eircum- stances showed the feeling that still prevails among the survivors of the rebellion. As to Rosser, he the last man who should boast of southern prowess, remembering how thoroughly he was thrashed by Sheridan, with a numes ly inferior force, in the Shen- andoah valley. ATTENTION is divected to the rapid absorption of the public lands of Ne- braska. The statement laid before Mr. Cleveland showing the area of the un- disposed public lands in the various dis- tricts of the state, would indicate that the day is not far distant when every acre still open to settlement will be taken up. In the ten land districts, the report shows that there is less than a million acres undisposed of. While it is true that much of this lazd.has been patented to bona fide i never- theless tens of theusands of acres of the richest sections of she public domain have fallen into the hands of specula- tors and syndicates, It behooves the proper authorities in charge of the re- spective land ofiiées fo prevent as far itis in their power, this wholesale ab- sorption of government lands for specu- lative purposes:’ The land that s yet open should by all means be reserved for actual settlers. EveEN New Mexito plucks up heart over the prospects of statehood. and the legislature propgses to educate its half- breed population toa sense of the re- sponsibilities of:citizenship. A terri- torial university, a school of.mines, an insane asylum and an agricultural col- lege are projected. If New Mexico will 11 on Nebraska, an agricultur: lege of fifteen years’ standing can be purchased, with Billings thrown in, dirt choap. ALL is not well in Southern Califor- nia. The real estate boom has flattened out in Los Angeles, public and private improvements have been discouraged, and several thousand unemployed work- ing men are walking the streets of that i This 1s certainly an unfortunate tates of affaivs, and should warn work- ing men of the east not to venture into southern California for the present at loast. EMPLOYES in the legislature are sit- ting on the anxious seat. Nobody can tell where the cyclone will strike. The Thunderers Want Aid. Chicago Tribune, nted—To borrow a supply of ‘thunder. unning low.—London Times. Wi Our stock is Facts Against Theories, Baltimore American. The facts of high license are increased rev- enues, Tewer saloons, fewer criminals, fewer arrests, aud the placing of the liquor trafic in responsible hands, T Horse Sense and Cult. Rock Istand Union, A lotof Boston aldermen are coming to Chicago and other western citics to inspect the electric light system. If the west has to go east for culture the east has to come west for horse sense. e Strange They Knew. Siour City Jowrnal, It was a remarkable scene i the Dakota legislature when the members joined in sing- ing “Prgise God, from whom all blessings. flow.” The most remarkable thing about it is that the members knew how. — Still in Suspense. Cliicago Tribune, All uncertainty in regard to the new presi- dent's cabinet will be dispelled next week but there will beiue: permanently settled condition of the public mind until Shortstop Ward decides where e will play this sea- sou, o The Kela ky Ideal, Bostan dprald, Henry Wattersé@#fibute to the memory of Sumuel J. Tilden, on the occasion of the latter’s birthday, fiun omuently character- istic of the bril fentucky editor, who wasa close pers friend of the subject. The public may said to be pretty thoroughly familiur Wb the statemanlike qualities of the say sramercy park,which Mr Watterson s ently described, but itbhas been reserve til now for the peo- pleto be told th y Tilden sipped his whisky and water on oceasion with a pleased composure redolent of ‘discursive talk. In this . respect he satisfied the Kentucky ideal of a gentloman and a statosman, - STATE AND TERLIITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Since last July Wayne has shipped 200 cars of fat stock. Sidney Magous are golng to erect a hall this scason to cost $15,000. A stoclk compuny has be kin to build ay op éra house. ‘Phe citizens of Gresham will vote on the -vllulllou of building a §,000 school house in arch. ‘The subscriptions for organizing a driving purk assbeiation al Nebraska City amounts to 4,750, Tue A. 0. U, W. lodge at Valeating will be » formed at Day- reorgan largo number of now members, Amos Ryan,who was injured wiiilo at work for the B. & M.at Orleans, has sued the company for $10,000 damages A Miss Burnett, living noar Bladen, robbed her father of #00 and fled, but the old man gave chase and_captured her und the money on a train bound for the west. It is said that if a person should stand at the corner of South Sioux City's vrincipal stroots and_shoot every man and every dog that he could sce. he would have ten dogs to every man. owa. A building boom is in sight at Sanborn. Mapleton wants a butter and cheese fac- tory. A Presbyterian church will Jefferson 1n the spring. A movement is on foot at Sanborn to or- ganize an anti-monopoly socioty. The necessary $10,000 has been subscribed in Monticello to secure a condensed milk faotory. Mrs. Delbridge, of Manilla, dead in bed the other morni lounge in a room without any fir A “Young Men's Legion of Honor' has been organizod in the public school at Indes pendence, which is to induce boys not to use tobacco. A prominent citizen at Osago City, hearing that there were tramps in town, nailed down his windows and went to bed leaving theo front door unlocked. ‘The Harlan Republican says: It is about time our law-abiding ocitizens awoke to the fact that the rum fiend is as live and active as ever in this community, A mass meetivg of the farmers of Sac county will be held in” the opera house in Sae City to consider the question of procur- ing seed grain, and to discuss other matters of importance and interest. A Lyons girl refused to_dance with a cou- plo of young fellows who were under the in- fluence of liquor, and in revenge they burned a set of furs which she had worn to the ball Elegant lodge rooms have been fitted up by the Kuights of Pythias of Jefferson, Beyond the {Rockies. There s § scarcity of houses to rent at Portiand, O There are no mew cases of smallpox at Carson, Neb,, and all patients are recovi ing. ome blackberry vines near Santa Cruz, Cal., presented the unusual sight of buds, blossows, green and ripe fruit, last week. Another paper was carried to the journal- istic boncyard last weck. This time it was the Spotted Cayuse, a Sunday paper of Seattle, Wash, Prospere Cartara and his wife, French Canadians, were arrested at Port Town send, W. T, with sixteen pounds of opium concealed in the woman’s bustle. For months past the Douglas county, Ne vada, jml has not held a prisoner.. Its door stands open, a shady resting-place for the panting billygoat by day and by night a har- bor of sweet repose for the homeless tramp. A bill has passed the Nevada assembly r quiring saloons und gambling houses to close at 12 midnight, and open at 6 in the morning. The same bill was introduced in the senate, but will probably be beaten. Major Norman H. Camp, assayer at the Boise City United States Assay office during President Arthur's administration, was al- leged to be a defaulter, was prosecuted, con- victed and sent to jail as a felon, President Gleyeland pardoned him. Suit was brought in Washington, where Camp's family had gone 1w live, and where he joined them after his pardon, to recover the shortage from Camp and his bondsmen. But the gov- ernment failed to recover,because it couldn’t show whether the money had been tuken under Camp’s or a previous boud. The pro-lottery men 1n Nevada are said to be preparing to contest the result whereby the lottery scheme was beaten at the polls. The proposition was defeated by ahout 500 majority. It is now claimed that 800 ballots tiat were cast against the lottery in Washoe, Elko and perhaps other counties were about two inches short of the regulation length, though perfect as to the make-up of the bal: lot. The opponents of the lottery claim that these short ballots were supplied by the friends of the lottery, on purpose to base a fight in the courls in case the lottery proposi- tion was defeated by the use of these snort ballots. A contest on such a technicality al- ready threatens much ill feeling. -~ be built at was found lying on a All lovers of the delicacies of the table use AngosturaBitters to secure a good digestion, but the genuine only manufactured by Dr. Siegert & Sons at all druggists. i The Niobrara Country. Crawrorn, Neb., Feb. 17.—|Correspond- ronce of Tur Bek. |—Leaving the railroad at Alliance, the present terminus of the B. & M., I started in a northerly direction across Box Butte, one of the finest counties in the state of Nebraska. At noon I reached the Niobrara river, but the oldest inhabitant thevre did not know it by that name, it is called “Running Water.,” Its source is a svring but a short distance west, and we seo in 1t here but little to suggest the immense body of water that it pours into the Mis- souri 400 miles east. On the north side of this stream begins the ascent to Pine ridge, a strip of rough land horse-shoe shaped, extending about one hun- dred miles to the northeast and the same di tance to the northwest. It is sparcely coy- ercd with pine and although the surface is very rough the soil 18 first class and being rapidly taken up for farming. The B. & M. is now building a tunnel through this ridge and has now nearly one tonousaud men and teams at work upon it. From the summit our attention is called to Crow Butte, which is on the north edge of the ridge and towers above all other points The descent from the ridge is down a roug and rocky road called *‘Devil il tingly named, for it leads into Crawford, one of the roughest places in the west to-day. It is located on the White river, adjoining Fort Robinson, and where the B. & M. will inte sect the Iremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad. All tl ughest element of the country is there congregated,ana the saloons huve never been shut si thewr doors w first opened. It is in & good farming district and has many substantial citizens; the rough- ness will gradually be overshadowed and finally eradicated, and we predict a future for Crawford that is in store for few other western towns. It was at this point that Mrs, Langtry was met by the English superintendent of the Anglo-Amer- ican Cattle company, and escorted to their ranch forty miles to the northwest in a tally ho especially imported for the occasion. This ofticer received a salary of £24,000 a year for his services as munager of the cattle com- pany above named, in which James Gordon Bennett is onc of the heaviest stockho'ders. I am told thatthe business has not been profitable and that it is to be closed out the coming season. Possibly they see the hand- writing on the wall and move to make way for the army of settlers thatare to inhabit that country almost immediately. ‘Ihe route was directly across their range, which is in Hot Creek valley, just over the line in Da- kota. I have never seen a more beautiful valley or a finer tract of land than that which is tributary to it, and here is the objectof this letter. [ want to advise those who are looking for homes on government land to first see this. I haveoften been asked tho question, Where is there a good place for u wan to locate with his familyt I huve never answered it before. Now I do with enthusi asm. There is one disadvanta The land is unsurveyed, and cannot be entered at the United Stutes land office. 13ut the occupant by continuous residence and improvements has & “Bquutter’s right'’ and there is no bet- tor title. When Fort Robinson was located there was one lone squatter in the way, hold ing down his claim of 160 acros with & sod house und a well. He asked and ob tained 85,000 for simply moving off. 1 think that a survey will soon be ordered and that in the vicantime thers will be 1,000 farmers invade that territory with months, I became acquainted with two ver intelligent gentlemen 1 Hot Creek valley who live bul six miles avart and who would, no doubt, auswer auy inquivies of home seckers, Their names aud addresses wre L. Lowe, Matthews Fall, River county, Dakota, and D, Auderson, Moutrose, Sioux county, Nebraska, Icontiated wy journey along Cheyeune viver across southwest Dakota into Wy ming. ‘Theuce returning along the base of the ifluuk Hills, we proceeded northeast toward Deadwood. At Rapid City 1 ox pressed my astonishuent at its size and prosperous appearance and asked for tho cause. The reply was minng io the hilie and farming. in-the nllnf-s Judge of my surprise to find successfnl farming carried onup to the very entrance. to the Black Hills as_well. as in_the valleys peretrating them. TLand is worth from £10 to $20 per acre, 1was shown thé books of an agricul tural implement dealer at \Whitewood and learned that over two hundred selfbinders and four hundred mowing machines had been sold at this point alone. The development of the farming industry in this vicinity was the greatest surprise 1 experienced on my trip. Jo—— NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS. A Slate for Chairmanships of House Committees. WasnINGTON, Feb. 26— [Special to T Br| —Thero 18 a good deal of speculation around the house as to whom will get the chairman- ships of the prominent committees in the Fifty-first congress. It is the almost unani- mous bellef here that President Harrison will call an extra scssion moot either in April or October, and specula tion a8 to the chairmen of the committoes is as legitimate this time as eculation on the cabinet. In the opinion of the best informed republican members-clect, the most promi nent chairmanships of the Fifty-fiest con- gress will stand in about the following order: Approvriations, Cannon, of Illinois; wa and weans, MeKlnley, of Ohio, if he i speaker, but since he will probabl apeaker, it will be Reed, of Maines elections, Houk, of Tennessec; judiciary, Kzra B. Taylor, of Ohio: banking and ' currency, Dingley, of Maine; odinage, weights and measurcs, Vandever, of Californin; com- merce, O'Neil, of Pennsylvania; riv and harbors, Henderson, of 'Ilinois agriculture, Funston, of ' Kausas; for cign affairs, Cutcheon, of Michi- gan; naval affairs, Boutelle, 'of Main ofticds and post roads, Bing] vania; puvlic lands, Payson, of dian affairs, Lakollette, of Wisconsin; orics, Baker, of New York; public buildings ‘and grounds, Lehlbuch, of New Jersey: Pacific railroads, Holmes, of lowa; education, O'Donnell, of Michigan; labor, Buchanan, of New Jersey; invalid pensions, Morrill, of Kansas: private land claims, Dorsey, of Nebraska; military affairs, Browne, of Indiana; patents, Spooner, of Rhode Island; claims, Bowden, of Virginia, and_District of Columbia, Grout, of Ver: mont. It is expected that the republican mem- bers of the committee onways and means and_ of appropriations who will not be given chairmanships will be retained in their pres- ont positions, There is a general impression among republicans that Holman, of Indiana, who 18 now chairman of public lands, will bo placed upon a committee where he will have no influence in the executive depart- ment, as he has used his committeo position for political influence to great advantage, and has succeeded in keoping in the _depart: ment as many fricnds during republican ud- ministration as most of the republican mem- bers. THE SPEAKERSTIP CANVASS, Itis improbuble that canvasses for the speakership wore ever conducted with so much good nature as those now progressing in the houscof representatives. [Sach of the five or six candidates for the speakership of the Fifty-first congress is a gond friend to the others. Frequently four or five of them ure huddied together on the floor of the louse, telling _storics or giving funny incidents of their present canv Every one of them wants an extra session of con- gress. They would, of course, like to have their campaign shortened, but their out- spoken desire for an extra session cannot be laid altogether to selfishness. Each of the candidates is a well equinped statesman, and ach gives the strongest reasons possible to show why an extra session should be called. Tho custom has prevailed for many years of opening headquarters at the popular hotels wlere the candidates for speaker have received and ontertained their friends. The have run sideboards, and in_some instanc have fared their friends_sumptuously. 1t not probablo that any of the present aspi ants for the speakership will open up regular headquarters. There 1s a kind of rambling, indefnite or general understunding among them that since they are all well known aud are runnning on the same platform extraor- dinary effort and expense is unnccessary. It is probable, however, that s the tmie ap- proaches for the convening of congress the interest. in tho speakership will very matc ially increase on the part of the candidate THE MEATHEN CHINESE. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, docs not be- lieve in the theory that a Ghinaman can pro- gress, althongh he may be Americanized in most particulars. The other day he was telling some of his strange _expericnces with tho sons of o Colestial empire, when hio snid; When we got our first Chinaman to cook, be didn't know a blessed thing about_the kitchen, and it became necessary for Mrs. vart to go down and show him how to do thing. When you demonstrate in au ocular way how a thing should be done John forgets. Heis very impressionable. s. Stewart showed him how to make bis- cuits, When she rolled the dough she took a cutter and began to cut out the biscuits. When the whole roll was done there was little triangular piece left, and of this she made a half moon, which is cus- tomary, 1didn’t know anything about it at the time, but at the end of three or four months 1 discovered that overy day when our biscuits were served there was a half moon among the lot. At the end of a year I made inquiry about the matter of Mrs, Stew- art, and she went into the kitchen and Eczema or [IE with K Cured by the Cu- v gone, aprions. maby bad with Fezema. Scatp covered Puysicians fal, ticura itemedies. Hair v Not a pimple on him noy I cannot say enough in prase of the C'vri- s REMEDIER, MY Doy, when one : of age, Was 0 bad all of is halr, His scalp was c up tions, which the doctor said was scald head, and that hs hatr would never grow again, Despui ing of a cure from physiciuns, 1 began the u of the CeTicuia RENEDIES, and, I um say, with the most perfect success. now splendid, and there is not a pimple on him. I vecommend the CUricuna NEMEDIES to :stored. motiers as the most spoedy, economical, and | sura cure for all skin diseases of infants and children, and feol that every mother who has an afilicted child will thank me for so doing Mas, M. E. WOODSUM, Novwiy, Me o Little Boys Cured, 1 am truly thankfui thers §s such a medieine s the Curicuies KEMEDIES. 1 have two little boys who hiave been afflictad with eczemi and seall head, which finally settled in thei e tried several good doctors and plenty of medi- cines, without relief. I procuved a hottle your CUTICUNA RESOLVENT #nd & Lox of (0T cuia and commenced g them, and happy to say that before the fiest bottle wis used thelr oyes were uearly well, and whex the second bottle was half used tiiey woro en- BUSAN M. DOBSON, Mtitord, Mo, d. ' yam a favmer, sixty-one years of age, and | sufTered froim babyhood with whit I heard | lled “honeycomb cczema’ on my | 0 I purcuased from my drugglsts, Messrs, Sanders & Lesesne, your | CUTICUIA REMKED Bnd nsed them according | 10 direc A cure was speadily uud thor- | ouglly , and I make this state other: ho venefited ACKBON, Georgetown, £48D | { Mosars, 1 Cuticura, yna, the great skin ntiy allays t agonizing itehing, burning, and . Hammation, ¢ the skin And sealp of crists and scales, wd restores the hair. COTICNRA S0P, the greatest of skin beautiiors, is fndiy pensable in treating xkin Gloegses and baby numors. [t produces the whitest, clearest skin | and softest hands, free from pimple, spot or lemish, CUTICEIA BESOLYES blood | puritier, cleansos the blood of nd | polsonous elements, and this removes the Iteferencs: Druggists. ou the o of congress to. appy to | His haiv §s | BOLYENT, one box of Curict watchoed the Chi oach time he out hi biscuits, and sho discovered that ho always made a half moon, and would spoil four or five biscuits to do so. He thought it was as necessary as the salt or the shortening.’ —— OUT ON BAILL. Gorton, the Alleged Train Robbver, Waives Examination Kaxsas City, Fob, 26.—[Special Tologram to Tne Ber]-H. L. Gorton alias ‘Jack Gorton," the alleged train and stage robber, was taken before United States Commissioner Wyne this morning for a pro- liminary examination on the charge of robbing of a stage coach in Sonoma coun California. The commissioner's office w crowded with postoMce inspectors, United States detoctives and shorifts from Califors nia, Kansas and Missouri, who had all had e hand in tracing him. When the case was called, Gorton's father, a venerable looking old o with a snow white beard, and other relatives and his attorney were present. The witnesses and spectators were dumbfounded when Clorton s lawyer aftor a consultation with his client waived examination. The commissioner fixed his bond at $1,000, and as so0on as possible Gorton will be taken to Californin by the United States marshal, to answer the charge before the district court having jurisdiction over Sonoma county. Gorton assorts his innocence, and also denies the charge that he and his brother robbed the Central Pacific train at Clipper Gap. il Surprisea the Politician, QTorexa, Kan, Feb. ~|Speclal Tele- gram to Tue Bee]—Govornor Humphrey surprised the politicians to-day by making o clean sweep in the management of tho stato penitentiary and the state reformatory, Ho appointed ex-Senator George H. Caso, of Mankato, as warden, to succeed G, M. Smith, and W, H. McBride, Wm. Martindale and D), . Cornell, directors. J, V. Admire, J. I’ McDowelland T. A, MceNeal were appointed directors of the state reformatory. To Solve the Race Problem. Bartivone, Feb A member of promi- nent colored men from Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia met in this city to-day and issued a call for a conferonce of colored republicans, to be held at Washington on March 15, They hope to have represonta- tives from every southern state, and say that the object of the conference is 1o urge upon the coming administration the necessity for the adoption of a conservative policy in tho treatment of the race problem. ——— Preparing For Dramatic Honors, Kaxsas CiTy, Feb. %0.—[Special Telegram to Tk Bee.|—Mr, Andy J. Snider received a dispateh this afternoon from his son Chestor, who married Governor Oglesby's daughter recently, to the effect that tho diamonds which had been stolen from the bride at San Diego, Cal., last week hud been ecovered. The thief was a hotel clerk, in whose charge the diamonds had been placed, and he was captured. The stolen diamonds were valued at §20,000 - —————— An Unfaithful Pair. WarenTows, Dak. ,Feb, 2.—Special Tele- gram to Tur Bee.)—H. W. Scott, an ex- marshal and ex-streot commissioner and a | marricd man, before Pierce to-day was hold to bail in the sum of #100 to answer to th charge of adultory, the alleged offenso | ing been committed with a married woman by the namo of Kuowlton. el The Bell Telephone Cases. Bostox, Feb. 26.—In the United States cireuit court to-day Alexander Graham Belt filed a plea and answer to the suit brought nagainst kim and the American Bell Tele- phone company by the United States to annul a patent alleged to have been procured by him by fraud. The ploa is a denial of fraud, aud the argument used aganst further trial is that the mattor has already been through the courts and decided. e S T The Death Record. pmiverieLy, TIL., Feb, 20.—Revrosentative John J. Teefy died at his home in Brown county 0 this morning. WasiiNeToN, Feb, 26.—John S. Leo, of Peoriu, 1L, a prominent democrat and’ ex- member of the legislature, died suddenly in this city to-da; e Ives and Stayner Arraigned. New York, Feb. 26,—Ives and Staguer, in the court of geueral sessions to-day, pleaded not guilty to the charge of grand larceny, with the option of withdrawing the plea within @ weel, Woodruff did not plead with Ives and Stayner. SER e oy Affairs at Panama, Paxawa, (via Galveston) Feb. 2. ~Thou- sands of laborers have left the isthmus dur- ing the past weel and work on the canal 18 almost stopped. No disorders have occurred and business is at a standstill, - day appoin! cneral Orlando 13, Wilcox (retived) governor of the soldiers' home at Washington, vice General Hunt, de- censed. Salt Rheum K worst stages, A raw sore from head to feet, Hair gone, Doctors and hospitals fail. Triea everth'ng, Cured by ihe Cuticura Kemedics for $0. Tam cured of 4 Lathsome disease, a,in ftsworst stage. 1 teled different doctors and Deen throwgh the hospital, but all o no purpose, The disease covered my whole body from the top of my lioad of my feet, My hair | all came out, 1 omplete raw soro. After trying everything, | heard of y - CURA RENEDIES, Andaftor asiug three hott) CUTICURA RESOLVENT, With CUTICURA CUrreuies Soaw, 1 ind myself enred at the ofuhout $5, [ would not he without the Cuy Leria ResgoEs i my house, as 1 nd th | usetul ny o and 1 think they ave tho only skin and blood v ISAACTL GI ema in s the £ol aving me o cremn ) 1 wa what 1 suftered ways shuved before, 1wastio pectacte you ever saw, Charles Iy, of this place, showed me your pamyh- Lot on skin diseases, and among them § found the deserintion suitable to my case, | ho the CUTLCria RESEDIES, and took (e & livections, and soon found myself i 1tonk seven bottles, with the Cvri- cora and Soar, and the result isa permunent 1 thonght | wonld wait and see if it would come baek, but it ha- proved all yousaid 1do. 1 fecl like thanking you, hut words cannot 4o it; 50 1 will eay, yours, tucked with eczema, I I dare not HOS. 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Hence the CUTICURA REMER(ES Cure LUK e | VLIS, biack-heads. chupped, rocshiod aud ‘ Pl“ oily skiu preventel by CUTICURA BOAR. - pisggos, 0 Llustrations, and 100 testamoniuly 1§ Bk and Healp presorved and boatitls BABY'S eyt isolutely pure