Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 13, 1889, Page 4

© management . THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. sy TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. Daily (Morning Edition) including SUNDAY Bre, One Year. .- r lhl Mofl(hnl.h,' roa Mon! s < & OMANA SUNDAY DEE, malled to any address, One Year . . WerKLY BER, One Year.... OMATA OFFICR, Noa. 014 and 010 FARNAM Hookery Hu, - vt 3 =52 STRERT. ING. Yonk OFri¢ 5 TRIBUN® DING, WASHINGTON OFrFice, No. 613 0 OURTEENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE, All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addresséd to the EDITOR THE BEE. b RUSINKSS LETTERS, 11 business letters and remittances should be dressed to THE BEB PUBLISHING COMPANY, MAMA. Draits, checks and postoffice orders to ‘made payabls to the order of the company. k6 Bee Pablishing Company, Propietors, E. ROSEWATER, Edito THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement ot Circulation. tate of Nobraska, !lenl)' ot Douglas, }“ George I3, Tzschilck, secretary of the fics Pub- lishing company, does solemnly swear that the Al v-lr:-u‘lntlvm of Tur DALy Bee for the ek ending March 9, 1850, was as follows: unday, March 3 . onday, March 4. \Tuesany, March Wednesday, Mare nursday, Marcn w Average... I . GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. 8worn to hefors me wnd subscribed to in my presence this Yth day of Maxch, A. D. 1880, Seal. P, FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebrask: ‘Cotnty of Doutlas, |5 George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, do- ot and faya that i 18 secrotary ol the Bo Dblishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of THE DALY BEE for the month of March, 18%, 10,68 coples: for April, I8 1874 Ccoples: for May, 1884 18,18} es; ' for Juno, 10,214 coples; for ;“’.\’ I8, 18,00 copless for August, 1883, 81K copies: for, September, 18 18 154 covles for October, 188, 18034 coples: for Novem: ber, 1885, 18056 copies; for December, 1888, 18,223 mxm:| Jor .;gnm\’lflnry. K89, 18,574 coples; for F Fuary, 159, copies. EXORGR B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to beforo me and subscribed in my Drosence this 21 dag of March, A, D. 18, . P. FEIL Notary Public. 3 n CHURCH has been pounded Into obscurity by a Dakota Mellette. JTHE Jofterson nmmurs have transferred their hindquarters to Wash- ington. PuBric work in our city has begun, and private enterprises are following the lead. DAKOTA feels better now that Pres- ident Harrison has promptly given her & republican governor. THE baseball is accorded the freedom of the house of commons. America may well claim a home run on British soil. PRESIDENT HARRISON has given the consular tree a vigorous shaking and the foreign missionsare dropping around like ripe plums. e THE swish of the street-sweeping ma- chine will soon be heard in the land, but it is sweeping, not Fanning the streets that should be paid for. THE political guillotine constructed by the democrats is now sampling the blood of the builders. The days of offensive partisans are numbered. COLORADO’S legislature is said to be the most corrupt that state has ever had. Itisevident that the legislature of Colorado is trying for first place. THE statistical report of the depart- ment of agriculture for March relating to the distribution of corn in the lead- ing corn states is very favorable to Ne- braska. . CALIFORNIA does not propose to try the new-fangled Australian ballot sys- tem. The people will stick to their modified election laws which have given Batisfaction. POSTMASTER GENERAL WANNAMA- XER has given it out straight that all appointments to office under his depart- menl will be made only on merit. He * wants no misfits in bis shop. PrESIDENT HARRISON puts in prac- tice what he preaches. ‘‘Home rule for the territories™ is strongly exemplified 4n his last batch of nominations. The era of carpetbaggers is waning in the new west, EX-PRUSIDENT CLEVELAND, ex-Sec- .retaries Whitney and Fairchild as well 88 Dan Lamont have all gone into the employ of the Standard Oil monopo- lists. A private office is a private trust. ! THE long neglected ash pile and mal- prdorous garbage heap in backyards and alleys cry in vain to be removed. MThe spring cleaning should not be de- Jayed so long that diphtheria shall be Eiven a chance to begin its deadly work. — THE Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail- road is reported to have made a better showing during the three months in ~ which it has been under the receiver’s than ever before. At deast the road is now run on business E::‘elplsn and not in the interest of its er railroad-wrecking management. — SIGNING orders in a hurry by county commissioners without examining into their merits is a loose way of doing bus- Aness, which would not be tolerated by ., ®ny mercantile house in Omaha. There are soveral other affairs under the county commissioners’ control which ' have the ear-marks of having been done $n a hurry. E—— Tug Mercer motor line is incubating araid on North Sixteenth street. A “branch has been extended north on Beventeenth to Clark, with the evident ~fntention of making a mduight or Sun- dsy attack on the great driveway of Omaha. The authorities should keep a olose watch on the movements of the ~ motor. A — b e board of trade has appointed a committee to co-operate with Senator Mandorson regarding the location of Omaha. The general sentiment of ~ pur oty is that the present location B d not be disturbed but that addi- o ground be purchased. In . ylew of the possibility of losing the #ite altogether, it is high time that our pitizens bostir themwelves in this matter. | THE GOOD AND THE BAD. The Nebraska legislature has squan< dered over fifty thousand dollars and wasted fifty days of the session in pro- ducing a dozen laws whicu have re- ceived the approval of the governor. Few of them are of vital importance to the general public, and there is nolike- lihood that the few remaining days of the session will improve the record. Every effort has been in the direction of deiay—to defer action on vital meas- ures to the last moment, and by com- binatious make their passage depondent on countless jobs and organized raids on the treasury. the producers of the state will receive the slightest relief from railvoad dis- crimination and exactions present legislature. regulations corporate evil Tobby. is the grave-yard of all attempts to secure relief from and a reasonable ant freight rates. of trumpets and a desire to “‘dear people,” they propose to submit a constitutional for the election of three railroad com- missionors by the people. biind to defer action for two years. Tven if the amendment was adopted, the management and methods of poli- tical conventions in this state afford not the slightest hope that relief would be secured through elective commission- ors. nomination would control their public acts, There no hope that from the The friends of overwhelmed by backed by the a powerful the senate are strikers influence As of usual, domination xorbit- lourish ve the railroad eduction of With a gre amendment providing This is a The power that dictated their Many important measures are stil] pending in the legislature, but they are hedged in by downright steals and local jobs. A vet. eran of many years standing is masked in house roll 285, providing for a geological survey of the state, and the appointment of a geologist and as- sistants, and to bestow the specimens and fossils obtained, to the statp univer- sity. A more useless measure could not be conceived. To send a corps of sine- cures on a wild goose chuse over the state at an expense of $1,000 isthe height of folly. The state university is ulready over-burdened with fossils. Why increase its uselessness with more? House roll 333 provides for the en- couragement of silk culture and the establishment of a silk station at an ex- pense of $11,000. This sum is a trifle to the biennial raids that would follow and the product would scarcely ap- proach the vegetable wealth of the agricultural college farm. It is just as proper and certainly more beneficial to encourage the establish- ment of lemitimate factories as to squander money on theoretical institu- tions of doubtful utility. House roll 7, now on the senate file, providing for a reduction of the percen- tages of county treasurers, is a good measure, a8 it would effect a much needed saving for the taxpayers. Another important measure, house roll 42, securing the payment of me- chanics’ and laborers’ wages on public buildings, where lien loans do not now apply, is worthy of support. Omaha is directly interested in the success of four bills. The charter is the main bone of contention. 1t is opposed by the street railway corporations and a gang of+ mercenary lobbyists who never , miss an opportunity to strike the metropolis in the back for hire. Douglas county senators are thoroughly posted on the move- ments of these schemers, and fully com- petent to guard the intevests of the city and secure the passage of the charter. Houee roll 71, “‘requiring the comp- troller in cities of the metropolitan class to examine the books of the board of education every month and report to the city council,” will accomplish a much needed reform, and place a check on extravagance. Under the present law there is no examination of the books, and taxpayers have no means of knowing how the vast sums at the dis- posal of the board are svent. Senate file 174, providing for the arbi- tration of disputes between employer and employe, is likely to pass. The measure is harmless. No one com- pelled to resort to the ‘“‘zrbitration court.” Even should both parties sub- wit their disputes, the decision is only binding for two months. Senate file 210, limiting justices of the peace to six in metropolitan cities, stands a good chance of becoming alaw. The cost mills of this 2ity have for been a scandal and disgrace. By limit- ing the numberand concentrating the business of petty litigants, a higher grade of ability will be attracted, and the brainless bums who now infest some of the offices will be shut out. Last but not least, is'a bill providing a rigid system of registration of voters. It affects the entire state, but is partic- ularly needful in Omaha, where at present there is absolutely no safeguard for the ballot box and no restraint on illegal voting. —_— CONGRESS OF AMERICAN NATIONS. The proposed congress of American nations, for which invitations have been issued, and which is expected to meet in Washington in October next, will be among the very important events of the year if the countries invited to partici- pute shall take the interest in the con- gress it is hoped they will. This, how- ever, does not appear to be fully as- sured. The expressions of the Mexican and South Amervican press indicate a lack of concern in the matter, and a doubt as to whether any practical re- sult can come from such a conference. Very likely the failure of the late ad- ministration to appoint the ten delegates who are to represent the United States in this international congress has had the effect to create a feeling of indiffe ence in the countries asked to part pate. Itisunot unreasonable that they should construe such an omission by the country proposing the conference as in- dicating a want of confidence in the accomplishment of practical and bene- ficial results, And doubtless such was the feeling of the last administration. ‘The project was not of democratic ovigin, It was conceived by the present secre- tary of state, and although revived and supported by democrats in the last congress, the credit of its origin must remain with Mr. Blaine. It is to be expected that the present ad- ministration will therefore give the matter the attention it morits, and take whatever further steps may be deemed necessary to make the congress a suc- cess, The chief purpose sought to be ac- complished by this conference of Amer- ican nations is the, promotion of closer commercial felations, particularly be- tween the United States and the repub- lics of Mexico and South and Central America, but political considerations will not be ignored. The efforts of the representatives of this country will be expected to create a general American gentiment in opposition to any and all efforts of European countries to extend their possessions or their political power in this hemisnhere, and there is every reason to expect that this influ- ence will not be without effect. It ought not to be a difficult task to con- vinee the states of South and Central America that with respect to their po- litical relations they have an interest in common with the United Statesin keeping them free from all European control, and it is maunifestly important that they should be so convinced. The policy of this country regarding any ex- tension of Eurovean power or posses- sions in the western hemisphere, from which it cannot recede, should have the hearty supportof all Amevican republics, and not until such support is as- sured will the nations of Europe real- ize the full significance and force of the Monroe doctrine. ~ With fegard to closer commercial relations and the feasibility of-establishing an American “Zollvercin,” much will depend upon the willingness of the United States to readjust its fiscal policy. We cannot reasonably expect to very greatly en- large our trade with the countries south of us until we are prepared to offer them inducements to buy of us that will enable us to compete with the countries now 1 possession of most of their trade, and until we are able, also, to transport our own commodities at least, as expeditiously as European counties. The high tariff and the want of trans- portation facilities are confessedly the obstacles to commercial union between this country and other American states which warrant a doubt as to whether any practical results can come from the proposed congress. Nevertheless the conference will be important if nothing more is accom- plished than the creation of a senti- ment of mutual respect and confidence between the counties participating, and the arrival ata corvect understanding of the conditions necessary to bring about commercial reciprocity and po- litical allinnce between the United States and the ovher American re- publics. THE BUTLER CASE AGAIN. The statements of Mr. Rosewater, in the interview printed 1n TuHe BEE of yesterday, regarding his connection with the charges against ex-Governor David Butler which resulted in his im- peachment and removal from office, ought to satisfy all fair-minded men of the uprightness of Mr. Rosewater’s mo- tive in that matter. He had been the friend of Butler, and was elected to the legislature on the same republican ticket with him. There wasa demo- cratic charge that the governor had stolen and appropriated to his own use alarge sum collected from the federal government, for the school fund. It was certain that the democrats intended to ask for an investigation, and in order to shut them out from making any polit- ical capital in this way Mr. Rosewater decided to forestall them by offering a resolution calling npon the governor for an explanation. He appears to have had no doubt that a satisfactory expla- nation would be forthcoming, but at any rate his action wasentirely proper, with no end of precedents to justify it. It is a common thing when public officials are charged by political opponents with misconduct, for their political friends to demand an investigation. It isan expression of confidence by party friends in the ability of an accused official to refute the charges of potitical enemies and vindicate himself. 'That the result in the case of Butler was not anticipated by Mr. Rosewater is clearly shown in his statement, though he would simply have performed his duty as a.acmber of the legislature in call- ing for an investigation had he been fully awave of what the outcome must be. Regarding the claim of Butler be- fore the legislature Mr. Rosewater left 10 room for doubt respecting his oppo- sition to it in characterizing it as a job and an imposition. In view of the straightforward and historically accurate statement of Mr. Rosewater the effort to disparage his action in the Butler case by alleging that he was moved thereto by a desire to punish the governor and to effect ci tain political plans wiil fail with all right-thinking men who have knowl- edge of the author of the charge and understand that to gratify his malice toward the editor ol T Bee he would go v any extent in distorting facts and coining falsehoods. It is sufficient to say by way of conclusion to this whole mutter that Tue BEE is opposed to the claim of Butler for fifty thousand do!- lars or any other amount, and that it would regard the appropriation of any money vy the legislature to be paid to him as a gross injustice to the people of Nebraska, L o —— AS T0 PARKS. Almost every progressive city in the country is contemplating an exteusion of its park system. In the annexed dis- trict of New York upwards of three thousand acres of land, costing nine million dollars, are to be laid out in six publie parks, with driveways connect- ing them. The creation of a grand park near Washington and within the Dis- triet of Columbia is being talked of, and will doubtless be consummated. Chi- cago, already possessing two of the finest parks 1n the country, is considering the expediency of construct ing a grand boulevard extending over thirty miles along the lake front and terminating in a park. Denver is de- bating the establishment of a park sys- tem which if carvied out would be un- surpassed. It is proposed to secure tracts of land surrounding the entire city just five wiles from the center and make a chain of .pavks. Minneapolis has a most tdx?\i&h\e park systera in process of completion. Commencing with a fifty-acre tract in the heart of the ecity, Vhere are parks and boulevarded ! parkways over twenty miles in length connecting the city by way of the Lake of the Isles and suburban points with Fort Sterling reservation, which is to be a national park on a small seald, The completion of the Minneapolis plan will give that city one of the mest extensive .and beautified parkssystems in the world. St. Paul is to bave a fine system of parkways and boulevards that will con- nect with the Minneapolis parks, and the creation of a great state park in the neighborhood of the two cities is among the possibilities of the future. These facts show what other commu- nities think of the desirability and importance of parks, and with per- haps the exception of New York not one of these cities can present stronger reasons in favor of an extensive park system, with connecting boulevards and parkways than Omaha. Most of them have 1n close proximity natural attrac- tions offering recreation and entertain- ment to their people, while Omaha has nothing of the kind. But even where natural attactions are abundant they cannot fully supply the want of beautified parks. The most ardent admirer of primeval nature will still find delight in the artifices of human taste and skill as they are exhib- ited in a well-ordered and well-kept park, while the very great majority of peovle much prefer what man has ac- complished in making field and forest attractive, to the rough, even if grand and impressive, work of nature. The park is an expressiva of enlightened taste and desire, and the community may fairly be adjudged poor in these which omits to provide for itself ample and atiractive ‘“‘breathing places.” Omaha has no such spot, her one park remaining pretty much as na- ture left it, with no added attractions worthy to be called such. There 18 no improvement more necessary than that of creating a system of parks, and the work should be undertaken with the least possible delay and steadily pur- sued on as liberal a scale as shall be deemed wise and expedient. We can- not afford to continue behind every other onterprising and progressive city of the west in this very important particular. —_— THE Omaha, Dodge City & Southern railroad, the contract for the building of which from ‘Dodge City, Kas., to Superior, Neb., i§said to have been let, 15 looked upon ‘s dh extension of the great Santa Fe system into Nebraska. There can be little, question that a movement of thig kipd has long been contemplated on the part of the Santa Fe. The new roadis to be extended from Superior through Lincoln to Omaha, and in thit' event will be a bee line from the cattle ranges of Texas, Indian Territory and western Kansas direct to the begf packing establish- ments at Omaha; |'Such a line to our city isdestined capeofg:ent commercial importance. The, cattle industry of Texas is gradually being centralized in the middie and western part of that great state. The distance from these anges to Omaha and Kansas City in a direct line is exactly the same. With a railroad to the heart of the cattle region, Omaha will be able to dispute on equal terms with Kansas City for the bulk of the Texas cattle business. e THEcommunication from Stromsburg, published this morning, sets forth in a fair and rational manner the claims of that place for a normal school. It is central, and a fine building is already provided. It is hardly probable that the legislature will waste money on out- of-the-way places while Stromsburg is in the field asking recognition. Two of a Kind. Puck. The American speculative investor likes to “get in on the ground floor.” So does the Baltimore American , A western paper nominates Mr, Cleveland for president in 1892, The fuct, however, that Mr. Cleyeland is an ex-president doesu’t necessarily indicate that he is a next presi- dent. s L Hardly Consistent. Globe-Democrat, **As a political cabinet it is wholly Blaine,” says the Philadelphia Times; and yot os a matter of fact, there isu't a man iu it who has ever been known as an active champion of Mr, Blaine's interests it oA He Can Bympathize. Chicago Tribune. President Harrison (looking over his morn- ing paper) —*Earthquake shock in Iennsyl- vania—Portions of the stato severely sha- ken.” AllI've gov ta say is thav L feel a sincere sympathy for those portions of the state, Ben Butler's Eye, Chicago 1 imes. Ben Butler may represent the United States in the Berlin Samoan conference. He will keep an eye on Rismarck it appointed, and the only eye he's got; butit's a good one and bas never been slippad up on to any large extent 80 far as knowu. [ ey How's Bhis; Girls? Peoria Tramsoript, The young ladies of a /Kansas town have tormed an association'and will beaux home promptjy @t 10 o'clock. only reasonable solution «of this lies in the probability that the :Boys: have beeun in the habit of leaving th}! 9 ' Has Had Expericnce. New York World. Ex-Secretary Fairghild is coming to New York o take the pregidency of a trust com- pany. He has been connected for some time with & company ini 'Washington which, we regret to observe, wilk ot sufficiently trusted to warrant its continuance. —_—— Agricultural Reform. Cincinnatt Enguirer. Since the appointwent of Hon. Jeremiah Rusk as secretary of the agricultural depart- ment au importaut reform has already been inaugurated. He indignantly declares that it is not fair to make soup of beans aud peas before they are seut out for seed. This may be right, but it threatens & revolution. T The Janitor as an Autocrat, New York World. Maauy of the citizens of Waterloo, Ia., are surprised because a janitor defeated a law yor for mayor of that city. Their astonis. ment is hard to account for. The janitor of w-day is 4 mao who bas made his way ia spite of all obstacles. It must be acknowledgod, howover, that the elevation of janitors to high political positions is a blow to democ- racy. A janitor s an autocrat who has no sympathy with the theory that the majority should rule. ORI —, Benediot's Soliloquy. Chicago Tribune. “Shall I resign This job of mine!” Says Public Printer Henediot, “Or shall I stay Here m the way, And not get out until I'm kicked1" —— PERSONAL AND POLITIOAL. Six of the eight cabinet officers are full whiskered statosmen. The penetrating Labouchere paints Lord Woolsoley as “‘a porfect gasbag of seif- conceit.” The Marquis of Lorne is about to tackle a salary of $400,000 a year and the governor- ship of Ceylon. Lord Ashton 18 the Iatest matrimonial ad- vertisement in London. He has just attained his majority and £150,000 a year. Offensive partisans are lying low just now. Last fall they were lying for everything in sight. The certainty of sudden death has had a depressing effect. W. D. Washbarn, the new senator from Minnesota, is thoroughly equipped for sena- torial duties, being a millionaire ten times over. Senator Coke, of Texas, is a believer in spiritualism, but he is at a loss to know by what means the republican party material- ized so suddenly in all branches of the national government, Horatio J. Sprague, of Massachbsotts, is said to be the oldest oMceholder in the ser- vice of the United States. Since 1848 he has held the post of consul at Gibralter as firmly as the surrounding rocks, 3 The Kahn of Anam is dead. A palace revolution contracted bis thorax and cast a melancholy Hue on his untimely taking off. Kabndidates for imperial honors should pro- vide themselves with castiron windpipes. Itis reported from Paris that General Boulanger discourfizes war with Germany. The gencral’s head is level. It is safer to work his mouthat long range than to fool with Krupp's bulldogs at close quarters. Miss Cons, a member of the London board, claims to be the only alderwoman iu the world. She has not yet heard from Oska- loosa, Kan., wherea full board alderwomen and a mayoress covtrol the purse and destin- ies of the town. he lurid liar of Lander has transferred mouth to Cheyenne, where telegraph facilities affords scope for his murderous im- agination. He is a portable slaughter house of mental demons and has no opponent fo: the presidency of the Forty Liars. The country stands aghast before the modesty of Towa’s only Clarkson. His am- bition coveted a cabinet position, but there were not enough to go around, and now he refuses to serve in a minor capacity. Verily, Clarkson is the most inflated toad in the puddle. A unique chair made of the horns of Texas cattle is on its way from San Antonio to the white house. It is the gift of a San Antonio bauker to President Harrison, and it cost its doner $1,500. The horns are riveted with gold, and there are a number of gold plates used in its construction. From one of them glistens a very handsome diamond. 5 Two Ohio women have the grim satisfac- tion of reflecting that but for the opposition of their parents they might have been the wives of presidents of the United States. Thirty vears ago they lived at Bedford, a village of less than 500 inhabitauts, about twelve miles from Cleveland, and both were very attractive. To each of them at differ- ent times Rutherford B. Hays and James A. Garfield paid serious attentions, but the young men were poor and their prospects anything but bright, so the parents of the girls firmly and effectually checked the love- making. Enterprising journalism proves a winner in every fleld it enters. The Chicago Herald recently undertook to relieve the famishing poor of tha great city. Neither race or re- ligion, color or condition were considered in its work of humanity. No questions were asked when hunger appealed for bread. Every Saturday for weeks past processions of wagons loaded with food, fuel and cloth- ing, moved through the poor quarters, car- rying substantial comfort and joy to hun- dreds of squalid homes. The Herald’s great work of charity deserves the support of every generous soul. . —_— BLINKERS, New York World, The nick of time—Wrinkles. “Say, Pat, what do you call a cofin?" asked Mike. “A coflin,”” said Pat, ‘is a house that a man lives in when he is dead.” A physician in Albany county was lately injured by the caving in of a well. He will hereafter attend to the sick and let the weul alone. “Say, Smith,” asked Warfle, ‘“why didn’t you call in the aid of a doctor for your sick wife” “Oh,” replicd Smith, “I thought thata f(_)lflfln was less expensive thun ‘a doctor's bill. Mistress—Mary, go into the sitting-room. and tell me how the thermometer stands. Mary—(after investigating)—It stands on the first mantle piece, jest agin the wali, mum ! A cook in Sioux City was struck in the face with the contents of a boiled egg which had exploded. He afterwards remarked that his *‘yolk’ was too heavy and his burden too hot to carry on his present salary. ETATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. The Sidney Oddfellows contemplate the erection of a hall. The Beatrice board of trade is negotiating to secure the location of large engine and machine shops. A subscription paper to provide funds for equipping a fire department is being circu- lated at Springview. ‘I'he farmers of Cheyenne county are pre- paring to sow a larger acreage of wheut this spring than ever before. Mrs. Kate Towle, one of the ver settlers of Gage county, died at he Beatrice Sunday morning. 'he seconl annual convention of the W. C.T. U. of the eighth district is to be held at Holdrege, March 18 and 19. Four hundared and thirty quarter sections of land, comprising about seventy thousand acres, have been proved up in Dawes county during the past year. Hon. James Whitehead, Custer county's ropresentative in the legislature, is also o preacher, and occupled the pulpit of the Evangelica! church at Holdrege lust Sunday. Mrs. Moses Allen, of I3arneston, is not the kind of a woman to fool with. P. W. Baker made some aspersions upon her conduct, and the lady straightway sought him out and gave him a sound threshing. New York boasts of a cradle which has seen nineteen years of service and rocked 1,900 babies. This is just the agitator wanted at St. Paul, where triplets ure the rage and fathers are in the same condition, A number of people of Howelis and vicin ity have been swindled by s man named Gerken, who claimed to represent a German paper printed at Milwaukee. He secured about one hundred subscribers at $2.5) each, but the paper has failed to show up. Dakota City takes salvation in large and attractive doses. Last weck a wowan earliest home in swooped down on a fascinating officer of the Salvation army and lugged him off to some aftant retreat, leaving a husband and four children to hump themselves in a home with- out a mother. The Council Bluffs contractors who con- structed the sewers of Lincoin are not up to the times. TInstead of going to the expense and worry of litigation, thev should have filed bills in the legislature and sugared the Such a tritle as $10,000 could bo read- ily wedged in_betwoen Hutler's and Hoss Stout's. . owa. The bustle factory at Marion is rushed with orders. Vacant houses are very scarco at Mar- shalltown. The Shaven wagon works at Des Moines have been reopened by the lowa Buggy com- pany. The horsemen of Powoeshick and adjoining counties have arranged for an_exhibition of blooded horses at Malcom on the 23d inst. On the the 18t of this month thero were 782 patients in the hospital for the insane at Independence, 870 males and 253 females, against 716 at the correspohding time last month, The grand jury indicted three porsons or firms in Tama for keeping gambling houses, Just at the close of the great religious rovival in which over two hundred persons wero converted. John Schurke. the religious crank, who professed to be married by the Lord at De- corah recently, and who was sent to jail for refusing to take out a marriage license, has been adjudged insane and removed to the asylum at Independence. He refuses to eat and has not tasted food for soveral days, Ex-Railroad Commissioner Coffin, of Iowa, now representing the Brotherhood of Brake: men, in an address at Washington said that in ten vears 2,424 men have been killed in Towa by the pin and link coupler and the hand-brake, He strongly urged tho inter- state commission to use their influence to nave an act passed by the national logisia- ture compelling the adoption of safety ap- pliances, He further stated that last year in Iowa nearly thirty million passengers were carried by the different railroads and not one was injured bf’ the fire-heating stove, while in the same time 350 men wero lkilled and iujured bp the pin and link coup- er. Bryond the Rockies, Walla Walla’s sewers will cost $155,000, High license meetings are being held at Sacramento. Northern Pacific men have acquired com- Dlete ownership of the Tacoma street car system. Chief Avery and two members of the San Diego tire department have been arrested for stealing shoes at a fire. James Shiclds, collector of internal revenue for the District of Montana, has sent his resignation to President Harrisson. The estimated cost of cutting a canal from Lake Washington to the sound at Seattle, so as to admit deep sca vessels to the lake, is 1,500,000, Judge Ross, of the United States circuit court at Los Angeles, must serve his six month’s sentence for contempt in trying to Dbribe a witness. The Farmers' Union, of Livermore, Cal., has made an_assignment for the benefit of its creditors,to J. FI, Huli, of San_Francisco. The liabilities are estimated at §150,000. T.J. Cuddy, the Los Angeles chief of po- lice, who was sent to jail six months ago for confomptof court in trylngto bribe s wit- s moving ail the machinery of the law The sheriff at Townsend the other day examined the jail and found a subterranean passage which had been prepared by tho prisonere and everything in readiness for a jail delivery. e Use Angostura Bitters, the world re- nowned South American appetizer, of exquisite flavor. Manufactured by Dr.. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons. Ask yourdrug- gist. -— Stromsburg and the Normal School. StroMsBURG, Neb.,, March 11, 1889.—To the Editor of Tie Bee: The gaod people of Stromsburg certainly aporeciate the tireless efforts of Tur Bee to prevent a waste of public money by needless or reckless appro priations; but it seems that Tir Ber does not understand the question of “‘new nor- mal schools.” A demand was made on the state for money to enlarge the school at Peru. We do not wish to speak unkindly of tLat school, but the times seem to demand that the state should make some substantial move for one or more good normal schools, and that would be a credit to the people of the state. Stromsburg has a beautiful brick building, erccted for just such a purpose, warmed by a furnace and having all the modern conveniences indoors and out. Our people offered to give this property, with five acres of land on which it stands, and all within the corporate limits of this city; and we only asked the state to appropriate $3,000 for the ensuing two years. This property is worth $40,000. While we recognize that some other locations are offering good property for the same pur- pose, Stromburg is centrally located, has everything asked for to start a school, and is one of the best young cities of 1,500 popula- tion of the state. Now we ask, ‘Is this a wild move?!” Will it not be to the credit of the state that it takes advantage of the lib- erality of such loeations and the patrigtic . Yort of the citizens? Is it not about time that the Nebraska state normal schools should be placed on & footing tho neoeds of the state omnnd.c ITIZEN OF STROMSDURG: e WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT, Views and Interviews Oaught Hotel Corridors and Elsewhers, An 0ld engineer of the Southern Pacifle road, George Newcomb, who is now one of San Francisco's prosperous oitizens, regis. tered at the Paxton yosterday, ' Tie Bem caught him last evening for a short talk, and among other things learned that the Pacitio const People expect two new railroads jnto 'E'risco within the next fifteen months, Said he: “The Union Paocific 18 certain to be there, and we are also counting on a line {from Tacoma, backed by the Northern Pacific.’ At present evorything in that country is controlled by the Soutnern Pacific, A meaner corporation nevor existed, except the Boston & Albany, and the people have become very weary. are rejoicing to know that it 1s coming. booms of two_and three yoars ago," continued Mr, Newcomb, ‘“‘have passed but they will come again an m'orlythlnk legitimate is being done to push California to the front. Personally there is no other 1{‘"" of the country that 1 would live in. great many people come there expecting to find $20 gold pieces laying in the road, and they got fooled, but with the same amount of enterprise, economy and work displayed therc as here brings forth greater resuits. San Francisco and Oakland are growing" right along, business is good, and with the two new railroads coming our prospects for better times than over before are certainly as bright as we could ask.’ A fine looking gentleman with long red whiskers attracted considerablo attention in the Paxton office last evening, aud he was introduced as I. 1. McGiutie, o louding at- torney of Sallne county. *No,” said ho, “our ‘people, and Tam_spoaking of Wilbur, my home, are not making any effort to at- tract attention. They go along quiotly and are prosperous. 1t is over at Crete that every- body wants to boom things. That town trios to got up a boom every year.” Mr. Mc- Gintie is the partner in law businss of Hon. George Hastings. He says this gentleman has no aspiration to secure a federal appoin ment, but hones to succeed Jim Laird as the Second district congressman. “And I believe he will get there, Houndoubtedly has the i side track and is well liked all over- the dls- riot.” VAOATES HI1S CHAIR. Rev. M. P. Dowling 8. J., of Creigton College Goces to Detroit. Rev. M. P. Dowling S. J.,, who has been president of Creighton college since 1885, left Omaha yesterday evening for Detrolt, Mich., where he will assume the president’s chair of Detroit college, a Roman catholio educational mstitution of that city estab- lished somo years ago by the Jesuits, The assignment to his new post came in the nature of a surprise to Father Dowling, the first intimation of the change having been received but five or six days ago. It will be with feelings of the profoundest regret, that those who have been associated with Father Dowling or have known him during his residence here, 1n church, collo- giate, business or social relations, will bid him good-bye. During his administration he has done much for the-institution over which he has had control. During the past year, through his efforts anew wing was added to the college building, giving much needed additional accommodations. From a grammar school he has raised the course of study to a classical collegiate standard. After a week in Detroit, Father Dowling will return to Omaha to close up his affairs, but his ofticial connection with Creighton colloge ceased yoswrdzay. During the remainder of the eolleflnm year Rev.: R. A. Shaffel, 8. J., of the Holy Family church, will have charge of the col- lege. The institution was opened by him about ten years ago, and in that time many of the original studerts have grown to man- hood and are now either successful trades- men or occupants of respectable positions in mercantile and professional circles of Omaha. ——— Memorial Resolutions. Ata meeting of the Ladies Aid Society of Trinity M. E. church, held ut the church par- lors on February 17, 1889, the following reso= lutions were unanimously adopted: ‘Whereas, It has pleased Almignty God, in the order of His providence, to remove from our circle by death, our beloved sister,Sarah . Kemston, whose wise counsel, sweet spirit and prayerful devotion fills so large a place in oursociety; therefore, be it Resolved, That wo very greatly miss and d;al-uly mourn the loss of our dear friend and sister. Resolved, That we sincerely sympathize with the bereaved husband and family, and most devoutly pray that our heavenly Father may greatly bless them in their se- wvere afliction. 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