Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1889, Page 4

THE PLUNDERING COMBI| The plundering combine in the legis- lature struggles desperately to hang on to the spoils, - The exposures made in Tre BEE have temporarily stunned the ringsters, but did not affect their rapac- L THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. [ i TRRME OF SUBSCR(PTION, 1y (Morning Edition) including SUNDAY i g, Onie Year o " ¥or Bix Months Three Months ity nor their determination to rale and R i vob the tronsury. The facts and figura s WERLY BrE, One Year. L OMAWA OrricR, Noa, 014 and 010 FARNAW STIRET. 3 CHICAGO OF¥FICE, 57 ROOKERY BUTLDING. E“ YorK OFFICE, ROOMS 18 AND presented from day to day show the na- ture and extent of the raiders’ schemes to fleece the taxpayers without regard to the consequence: Eyery stato in- stitution soeks larger appropriations. New offices are boing created, increased salaries demanded, and extravagant sums asked for traveling expenses, re- pairs and incidentals, for which there is noearthly excuse. The representatives of these institutions, regardless of their solemn oaths, combine to carry through these appropriations and bring about an unparalleled reign of riotous extrava- gance. We have pointed out the enormity of the plunder masked in the four appro- priations for the Lincoln insano asy- lum, the needloss hasto to attach costly wings to the Norfolk institute, the normal school extravagance, and the UILDING, WASHINGTON OFFI OURTERNTH STREET. CORRBSPONDENCA. ' Al sommunications relating to news and edl. torial matter shoula be addressed to the EDITOR . ¥ THE BEE, A BUSINKSS LETTERS, 11 business letters and romittances should be ressod to THE BER PUBLISHING COMPARY, 4 MANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to 3 made pryabls to the order of the company. 7he Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictors, E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btato of Nebraska, | v " County of Douglas, { ** . George 11, Tzschuck, secretary of the Res Pub- III{H ‘company, does solemnly swear that the el u.l\fclrruln'.mn of THE DAiLy Ber for the ‘Week ending March 16, 1850, was as follow: Bunday, Murch 10 . § Mondat. March 11... shumeless and illegal inoroass of sine- h‘efl‘é‘ilin “in cures and salarlos in_ tho dopartmants iradny, Mar - ; ;rldly..lnwhl of the state house. The plundering raid runs in every direction, and its vo- racity is not confined to the money now in the trensury, but covers every dollar that can be squsczed out of the people during the next two years. This reckless waste of the poople’s money will do a lasting injucy to the state. Nebraska is already known in financial civeles as one of the heaviest Baturday, Marc! Average. 3 GEORGE B. TZSC s 4 Sworn to befora mo and subscribad to in my presence this 16th day of March. A. D. 1880, Seal. N. P. FEIL, Notary Publie. Btate of Ncbrukn‘ 5 County of Douglas, George B. Tzachuck, belng duly sworn, de- wes and says that he is nonrnmre' ol the Bas Dlishing company, that the actual average of THE DALy BEE for the | awily circulatio h, 1888, 10,080 coples; for Apgil, - i " : onth, of March, 14, 10,5 coplosi for APRL | taxad states in tho union. It will not os; ' for June, 10,54 coples; for | do to say that the, valuation is low. The for August, 1888 v fact that the per cent of taxes is above Juf 1 033 _"coples: ;slfi)c ;‘l&esxl&r sn&t‘omhsr, 1898718, 154 covies: i October, X 883, 18034 coples; for Novem. | the average is sufficient to frighten in- i £ , 18RS, 18,22 & e o, b coples Lor RGGSbSE ML) | vestors. Yot tho logistative combine, bl 08 COPIeS. om 1, Tzschuek, | heedless alike of the condition Ll RV S 'I;BM"HG"‘M‘IA"NIL;"I"&G immy | of the overburdened tuxpayers and prosonce this 2d day of Maroh. A fary bublle, | the crodie ot this &fate, rock- lessly press to passage infamous bills “MGENERAL? VANDERVOORT has been | which wil) drain the treasury for over kicked to death by a dark horse. Con- | one million dollars more than the ap- dolences are in order. provriations of two years ago. 4 e — The desperation of the combine has 4 THE postoffice site is not yet settled. | united the honest opposition. Under There’s many a slip between Linton’s report and Secretary Windom’s ap- proval. CHEYENNE * {8 up in arms against the Tocal liar who has flooded the country with bloody fictions. No man’s life is secure while he is abroad with his mur- derous pen, the leadership of Messrs. Corbin, Cady, Delaney, Gitbert, Swavtsley, Gates and Johnson, a determined fight is being made to lop off the plunder and bring the appropriation within reasonable limits. This braye minority have already knocked off one thousand dol- lars, and will continue the fight to the end. The taxpayers should encourage this gallant band to persevere in their efforts to protect vhe treasury from the ravages of the boodler: THE political demise of Bierbower, the main prop of the federal building, fills the remaining departments with a gloom dense enough to turn the edge of a cheese knife. SOME PLAIN TALK. The remarks of Chairman Cooley, of the inter-state commerce commission, to the railroad managers who have been before the commission at Washington were even more pointed than some of his previous deliverances insisting up- on compliance with the law. The mat- ter under consideration was that of ex- port rates, and it was shown that very generally the railroads have not for some months been living up to the pub- lished inland rates. The general man- ager of one road frankly admitted that his road had not for some time maintained a uniform inland rate. The excuse or justification offered for this bold disregard of the law was that roads which had faithfully adhered to their published rates had practically lost their export business. Judge Cooley very properly informed the mavagers that excuses of this sort for violating the law would not be re- garded. While1t is not the wish of the BECRETARY WANNAMAKER adver- f: tises extensively that ‘“To-morrow will be cold and stormy.” The officeseeker failing to take the hint will be liberally assisted with a club. THE determination of the friends of economy in Lincoln to demand an aye and nay vote on every item of increase fu the appropriaticns will bring the combine to terms by compelling them to show their hands. Time is no object when the interest of the taxpayers are imperilled. THE state printing steal gives evi- ;‘ dence of returning life. A plum of B seven thousand doilars a year and a monopoly of the business is too rich to ‘e lost in one round. The authors and beneficiaries of the bill are carefully nursing itand watching a chance to slip 4t through a small hole during the clos- 3 ing hours. Uncommon vigilance will | commission to do anything which would b 'be necessary to prevent its passage, cause the roads to lose business, its plain o —_— duty is to enforce the law, and in doing this it cannot concern itself with ques- tions as to the effect this may have upon the business of the roads. These must be determined by the results under a full and faithful compliance with the law, and remedies are to be sought from the law-making power for what- ever ill effects shall come from the operations of the law. Regarding the practice of railroad managers naming a rate regardless of law, Judge Cooley thought the time had long gone by for it. A wrong committed by one road cannot justify another in doing a like wrong, and the chairman bluntly re- marked that *‘one crime in railroad circles 1s no more to be excused by an- other than oue theft is to be justified by another.” This sort of plain talk is fully war- ranted by the circumstances, but is it not time that viglations of the inter- state law, proven and confessed, were treated with something more effective than advice and warnings? The com- mission has freely indulged 1n these, and apparently to very little purpose, Railroad managers listen and promise, but continue to disregard and violate the law. Thus they make a mockery of the commissioners’ counsel and of its conservative desire to give them every opportunity to voluntarily comply with the requirements of the inter-state act ., It would seem that the magnaminity and forbearance of the commissiop have been extended quite as far as the interests of the people and a faith- ful execution of the law yill justify, The public would like to see an application of the penalties prescribed by congress, and the com- mission owes it to itself, if it would re- tain the confidence of the publie, to try what may be accomplished by punish- ing violators of the law. It having been very conclusively established that con- siderate and generous treatment of of- fenses has no effect to prevent their re- petition, it is obously advisable to abandon that course and adopt a differ- entmethod of dealing with the law- breakers. When congress enlarged the penalties of the inter-state act it was not a meaningless proceeding, The provision for severer pumshment was the result of a conviction that such pun- ishment was necessary, and it was nov intended simply as a threat. The com- mission is derelict when, knowing that the law is being violated and able to put its hands upon the gwilty parties, it fails to bring them to deserved punish- ment. Such a course encourages disre- gard of the law, and it should give place atonce to & summary policy that will compel railroad managers to respect the law or take the consequences. Theevil example of permitting corporations to wullify the laws, said President Harri- Boss STOUT was not satisfied with se- curing forty-nine thousand dollars for alleged extra work, He had the gall to }:ennt another bill for thirty-five § housand dollars for interest on state 58 warrants. The claim was supported by X _Caldwell and Olmstead, notorious cham- k: pions of every job before the legisla- ‘ture, but the friends of economy planted it with Butler’s bogus claim. Let the good work go on till the cohorts of plunder are routed, T proposition to increase the sal- _aryof the adjutant general of the mili- _tia to fifteen hundred dollars a year ought not to prevail. The present sal- ary is more than ample compensation for the time and labor required to per- orm the slight duties of the office, and there is not a single sound reason why | the tax-payers of Nebraska should be & oompelled to pay a cent more for an of- ficial whose work does not occupy him to exceed three months in the year, and s at best highly ornamental., At the present salary this is one of the best paid offices 1n the state, considering the oharacter and extont of its duties. E— ‘Tue annual report of the Chicago, ‘Burlington & Quiney road shows a de- . @rease of the net carnings amounting to . meven and a quarter millions and an in- orease in the debt of over eight mil- lions. President Perkins honestly con- . fesses that this great loss was chielly - due to the strike, The benefits which pccrued to the road from a bull-headed oontest against the just demands of the ‘enginecors und firemen are not visible ‘o the naked eye, and the consequences will be felt for years to come. It was a _ wictory over labor bought ata tremend- pus sacrifice of lives and means, and amid the ruins stands a once great and prrogaut corporation humbled in pride ~ mnd purse. em——— Tue proposed action regarding the state live stock commission will ~ jmeet with popular approval. The gommission will be maintained with ample provision made to enable it to tect the live stock interest of Ne- A vkg::lku against tho spread of disease . brought into the state or originating . here, but the commission will be re- . quired to prosecute its lubors on a less ~ pxpensive svale than during the last #wo years, .Undoubtedly this can be one without impairing ehe usefulness effielency of the commission, a con- devable part of the cost of which in past cannot be successfully de- d. The importance of protecting live stock of the state is admitted, snd the only question is how to accom- plish this at the least expense consistont ‘with thoroughnoss and efliciency. son in his inaugural address, danger. Suchan example the inter- e - O < a—m. 2 o full of public money th s direction during the last two yonnh as had the one com - ponsating result of craating a public sontiment that will not soon permit a repetition of smok extravagance. In the next two years there will be less of the “‘pomp and circumstance” of mili- tary display in which the heart of the mi- litiaman delights but Nebraska will con« tinue to have a sufficient force for any probable emergdney and the taxpayers will be the gainers by a considerable sum, 1 state commerce commission has toler- ated for two years, and the time has come for a radical change of polioy. ———— HE GOES TO FRANCE. The unexpected happened in the se- lection of Mr. Whitelaw Reid as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten- tiary to France. He had been named only in connection with the English mission, the impression being that it was his particular ambition to repre- sont the United States at the court of PROMBITION has a rocky rond to travel in Pennsylvania. A number of St. James. Another distinguished journalist, Mr. Murat Halstead, was | religious denominations are ranged understood to have the first chance for | 8g0inst the measure and it s tho French mission, but there was an foredoomed. Public feeling is becom- ing firmly set against fanatical laws, which not only become dead,lettors but are a positive damage to tempoerance and morals. This feeling is tersely ex- pressed by Rev. Cyrus Cort, pastor of the Reformed charch of Greencastle, in the following words: **As a practical measure of temperance reform, prohibi- tion has been largely a failure, and tends to create a community of spies, the most abominable state of soclety, that we can conceive.” This 1s a picture of prohibition in Kansas and Towa from the hands of an artist. objection to him in France, owing to his supposed partiality for Germany during the Franco-Prussian war, and it is probable he was induced to forego his desire to reside in a ministorial ca- pacity at the French capital. It is hardly to be supposed that there has boen a “swap” by which the Cinein- nati editor is to go to England, though the missions ave equal in dignity and emoluments. Mr. Reid will ereditably represent the United States in France. He has wealth and brains, has the prestige of a successful journalistic career, which is as well appreciated in France as in any other country, is known to be a factor in the party of the administration and a close personal friend of the secretary of state, has a taste for the elegances of life which will commend him to French society, and is in all essential particu- lars except diplomatic experience well equipped for the position. He owes his appointment to personal friendship and useful party service, and quite as much to the formeras the latter. Mr. Blaine has had during the period that Mr, itrellad the columns of the Now York Thibune, which has been since the death of Horace Greeley in 1872, no more steadfast friend and staunch sup- porter, and their relations have been of the most cordial and confidential char- acter. Aseditor of the leading repub- lican paper, however, Mr. Reid had a very strong claim to the consideration of the present administration, and” ail republicans will approve his appoint- ment as a merited recognition of his party services, while from every other point of viow entirely fit and commsnd- ablo. Thus far the diplomatic appointments attest the desire of the administration to infuse into the foreign service new life and vigor, of which it is certainly in need. The English mission is now vacant and will probably be filled at an early day. No other name than that of Mr. Reid has thus far been connected with it, though it is to be supposed that the president or secretary of state has some one 1 view, and 1t1s quite possible Mr. Harrison hasa candidate of his own which may account for sending Reid to France. A change in the Ger- man mission may not occur until after the conclusion of the Berlin conference, as the service Mr. Pendleton can renaer our representatives in that conference may be essential. THERE arc renewed assurances that the Union Pacific intends builaing a union depot, and they come in a way that warrants confidence in them. Omaha has been so often disappointed 1n this matter, however, that it is not surprising there should be more or less populur distrust of prosent promises. There are doubtless stronger reasons now than formerly why the Union Paci- fic should desire the construction of a union depot, and it may be that these Sut of the project. Meantime, and until there is absolute certainty that the union depot will be built, it will be well for those interested in the new bridge entecprise not to abandon it. The railroads must run their trains into Omaba. Differs From ¥ edeCeRsor. Buffalo Comme Advertiser, President Harrison scoms to favor, in his appointments, the men who won a good rec- ord in “fighting for the union.” The Ohio Man's Mission. Toledo Blade, We violate no confidence in stating were it not for Ohio men sthis government would have a hard time in getting along. el e 1t Loots That Way. Ranss City Times. The press is indujging in a good many sar- castic comments on the prohibition defeat in New Hampshire. In fact it isa hard year for the prohibitionistd, who have been rather mercilessly &aygl sineo the last elec- tion. Is prohibition, on the wane? e < e To Your Faith Works, St. Low’s Post-Dispatch. Judge Cooley is'said tb have little faith in the new agreemont of ' railway presidents and great deal of faith in the new powers conferred on the Intersgate. Commerce Com- mission to maintain,rates. If the judge will add vigorous works,to his faith there is little doubt.that the latter will be justified. e f Onject Liessons in Prohibition. Globé-Democrat, The experience of Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island has shown the country that prohibition for the whole state does not prohibit. The individuals who are trying to get a prohibitory amendment tacked on to the federal constitution will find this out, t00, before they succeed in their task. Lot For Ice Cream Young Men. Chicago Times, Sixty people were poisoned in Boston by eating ice cream, The health board seized what was left of the delicacy and upon anal- yziug it found it to coutain arseuic. Wise young men will paste the above in their hats and so0 be prepared to *‘stand off” their best girls during the height of tho ice cream season. THE THE SHERMAN AVENUE OUTRAGE. Major Balcombe'’s action in granting a permit to tear up Sherman avenue and destroy the ono great driveway of the city, is one of the greatest out- rages perpetrated on this people by a public official. The circumstances point to a willful conspiracy to destroy the strcet, and Balcombe became the ready tool of the chief conspirators. He was well aware that the majority of the people, including the property own- ers on the avenue, were opposed to any change in its character as a family driveway and pleasure resort, and he cannot plead ignorance of this fact without exposing his anxiety to serve a grasping corporation. It was not neces- sary for Balcome, if he honestly de- sired to serve the public, to go to his office at 7 -o'clock Saturday evening and secretly grant permission to the motor company to despoil what the public had reserved for its use and benefit. None of his associates were consulted and the public was kept in the dark until the motor people had commenced their work. No explanation which Balcombe can make can clear up or justify his out- rageous action. If he was not an active party to the plot, what rule of luw or Quty compelled him to do a public act at an unreasonable hour without the con- sent of his associates and without giv- ing the property owners directly inter- ested o chance to protect themselves? But he was well aware of the state of public feeling and knowingly connived with Mercer and his gang to thwart the wishes of the people, Balcombe’s attempts to explain away these ugly facts are as ridiculous as the pleadings of an imbecile. It is absurd to say that the law compelled him to do it. Did the law compel him to assem- ble himself in the dark, act in the dark and keep his associates in the dark as to the result of the proceedings? The assertion that the name of Sixteenth street north of Nicholas was changed to Sherman avenue in 1877, and that the street car companies acquired rights on the street one month pre- vious, is false. The name was given to the street years ago, before the bridge which spanned the old creek was removed and before the street was graded, The city council should take prompt steps to protect the people in this matter. Stringent rules should be adopted to prevent Balcombe from usurping the powers of the board of public works and assembling himself at night for the sole benefit of mercenary corporations, e MERKYMAKEKS, Atchison Globe: A woman never wants tobe a man so much as when she scesa crowd gathering in the street, New York Journal: Why are the stars in the heaven like the American flag! Because 1t is beyond the power of any nation on earth to pull them down. New York Weekly: Hello, Blinks! Hear you had a great time getting married— eloped with the guwl—father and inother furious—gave chase, but they didn’t catch you, did they? Blinks (sadly)—No-0, Philadelphia Record: Rector — “Good morning, Miss Devout; delightful weather, is it not? True spring weather, indeed. By the way, Miss Devout, are you denying yourself anything during the penitential Lenten season!"” Miss Devout—*0, yes; D've left off my sealskin sack.” New York Sun: Mr. Mullin—**0i t'ought 0'd shtop in ¥ say’ure husban’ hus shtopped shmokin, Missus McCann.” drs, McCann —*"Saints be praised! It's sivinty-foive cints a mont! he'l! be savin’.” ‘Mr. Mullin-— +0l'm layin’ bets ho won't. He wor lightin his pipe in th' powdher Louso, an’ ho dropt th' mateh." Chicago Herald: “Husband, I've got very serious thing to tell you.” “‘What is it, Laural” “Oh, it's dreadfal, it's about Johnny.” “What bas he been domgi’ ““Well, he came into the house this mornin and, what do you think—he was chewing to- bacco.” ‘‘Pshaw! Don't give me such a turn again, Lavra, Ldidn't know but what he had been chewing gum.” Epoch: Gunllcmu""% village cobbier): “What's thav yellow. powhlor you're taking so constantly my fri " Cobbler — “It's snuff, catarrh snuff? JGentleman—*Is it any good! I'm someyhal troubled that way myself.” Cobbler (wWitthe air of & man who could say mord if He choose)—"Well, I've had catarrh for forc'n thirty years, an’ I've never tock nothin’ for it but tiis,” a0 Lty “I AM NOT MAD." An Exclamation Miss Beechler May Truthfully Make, It now transpires thut-the only foundation for reports publishipg ({n morning papers that Elizabeth Heechler, the slayer of Henry King, has lost her reasou, is the fact that sho is quite ill, and a phjfician was cailed in by Sheriff Coburn to treat her, This employ- ment for the unfortunate woman is no more strange or sensational Lhau & score of simi- lar incidents that have occurred. It is Mr, Coburn’s custom to gwe female prisoners decent attention, and in order that they shall not be neglected, or emburrassed he always employes women to attend to them, Assis- tant County Physician Harrigan says that no person has been authorized to quote ham a8 saying that he proposed filing an informa- tlon charging Miss Beechler with ifusanity. Under the treatment prescrived by the physi- clan she was very much better this morning, and will beall right in a few days. o ‘We recommend the use of Angostura Bitters to our friends who suffer with despepsia, but only the genuine, manu factured by Dr. Siegert & Sous. At druggists, I¥ the statement is true that Mayor Broatch was requested to defer the Sun- day closing order on account of St. Pat- rick’s day, the men who made it wan- toaly insulted their countrymen and disgraced themselves, Tt was not only a slur, but uncalled for and unnecessary. E—— THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, the amount which itis proposed to appro- priate for the state militia, will be an ample allowance if honestly and judi- clously expended. It has been esti- mated that even & smailer sum would be sufficlent to maintain the present force on au eficient basis. The waste of the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1899 are sufficient to compel the “carcying i IT MAY END IN A LYNCHING. Waverly the Scene of a OCold- Blooded Murder. INDIGNATION AT A HIGH PITCH. Edgar Farmers Take Action on the Binding Twine Trust—Pastor Minehart's Trial—Distriot Court Proceedings. * 1020 P Streer, LaNcouN, March 19, Nows roached Linooln early to-day that a heartless murder bad been committed at Waverly. The time was 11 o’clock last night, and the place the billiard hall of R. H. Cerry. A number of young men were in the hall, when Phil Fitzsimmops entered in & badly mtoxicated conditioh, He declared his in- tention to “dick” any Swede in the room, T'he gauntlet thrown down thus abruptly was accepted by a young man of that nativ- ity, who started for Fitzsimmons with a bil- liard cue. In the scufile that ensued the cuo was broken, but tho Sweda succeeded in knooking his man down and escaped in the confusion thab followed. Fitzsim- mons went out and told his brother Richard of what had occurred. Richard started for the billiard hall, jumped down the flight of stairs into the basoment, where the saloon is located, and shouted? “Whero is tho man that hit my brother—I'L1 Kkill him.” Asho was also intoxicated, but little attention was paid to him. He then ran to the end of the hall, and, grasping a teavy cue by the tip, without a word of warning struck William Reed, who was playing at one of tho tables, a terrible blow on the head, fracturing his skull. Recd dropped to the floor in an unconscious condi- tion, and was taken to his home a_haif mile from the town, A physician was called, who found the skull fractured in five or six places, picces of which were taken out. The victim cannot live. He was kiown 18 a quiet, inofferisive yoting man, is married m}d has three chilare 1 z Juring tha 25 tiSiGh tho murdersr Sicaped and mounting his pony, s“iartm fm-{u. fiop.:‘: in North Bluff precinct, about six miles northwest of the scene of his crime, A posse of men_started in pursuit and found him hidden in a hay stack about two miles out. He was taken'to the Waverly house, where he was guarded all night. Sheriff Melick went down this morning and took Fitzsim- mons into custody. He brought him to Lin- coln about moon to-day and locked him in the county jail, where he will remain until after his preliminary examination itzsimmons is a boy but 19 or 20 years of age, but heavily built, aud the son of a well- do farmer who lives in the north purt of the county. His victin is twenty-six years of age. ‘he prisoner-talks but very little He clams he was drunk and did. not know what he was doing when he struck the blow. It is now thought that he will waive examination and await the action of Lixcorx BUREAU oF Tir OMana Sen, } the district cour Tho witnesses of the affair generally pro- nounce it a cold-blooded attack, and some of them say that Iitzsimmons was not so much intoxicated as ho would now have people be- lieve, At this hour—3 o'clock—the news reaches the city that young Reed is dead, and that indiguation at Waverly is running high, Threats of lynching are freely talked of, abd it will not be surprising if an attempt of that, kind is made. Minchart Growing Confident. The constant expectation of “‘great things” in connection with the trial of Rev. Mine- hart and lack of realization has led to consid- erable fallingoff in the attendance at the trial. St. Paul's was not nearly so full to- day as common. But this fact did not seem to disturb the defense or prosecution. The trial was resumed this morning at 9 o'clock, The testimony of Simeon Brownell, Mrs. H. A. Outhwait, Edward Goodman, Rev. W. D. Smock and W. M. Giwits was clearly in vor of the pastor in _all his relations with urch, - Mrs, Outhwait's testimony was particularly so. “‘While I am not a member of the church,” she said, ‘I attended the meetings there a great many times, I always thought them deeply spiritual, and since the meetings over which this controversy exists, commenced, I have often thought that such meetings would help the church of which I am a member, and I often prayed for them. I believe that the opposition to Minchart is due to the work of the cvil one.” The testimony of the other witnesses went to substantiate the story of the good woman, E. G. Miller, Mrs. J. A. Miller, Mrs. ‘Kmma Patmore, Mrs. A. Hovey, Mrs. S, F. Howard, Mrs. El beth Eriche, Mrs. . Fryer, E. Hall a Dr. J. O. Dawson were on'the stand to aay. In the main their tes- timony sustamned the pastor in his work. They told the story already known to the public over and over again, = but the applic tien was 80 different that the old story seemed to boa new one, If twenty of the twenty-four witnesses called for the defense told the truth, Pastor Minehart 1s not a very bad man after all. This, however, does not alter the fact that there ave sad divisions at M. E. church. This afternoon the rat the opening of the continued in- vestigation was somewhat remarkable, Rev. J. D. M. Buckner peayed for God’s blessing on the prosecution and the accused and all interested in the trial. Dr. Dawson was recalled this afternoon. He testified that there had been no remark- able manifestations at Grace church during the winter; that there had been good order at divine service; that there had been no fanatical doctring taught by the pastor from the puipit since the commencement of his work; that he did not think he had any grave idiosyncracies: that he taught pure Methodism and pure doctrines of christianity a8 hio underatooh tho bibla: thay he sustained the pastor because hie believed him: to be in the right; that he was sure he had never taught heresy in any form. The Cross-ex- amination was sharp, but the witness ro- mained unshaken. Minehart becomes more self-po od as the trial progresses. His bearing is confident, and he moves asone with a clear conscience. War Upon Trasts Commenced. Edgar farmers are in earnest, and a move is on foot to carry the protest against tho operative intent of the twine binding trust into all- parts of the state. The feeling is strong that there is no sense of justice in the attempt of the trust to compel the farm- ers of the west to pay 25 cents per pound for binding twine, and in many localities farm- ors are signing the following petition by the hundred We, the undersigned farmers, agree with ono another and pledge ourselves and our honors as men that we will not buy any twine of the so-called binding trust at 25 conta per pound. And, further, wo agree not to pay above a price agreed upon av a meeting to be :d by five of the signers of this agreement. While at Edgar, the other day, Smith Cald- well circulated 4 petition substantially us stated, and in less than an hour he had se. cured the names of over a hundred of the substantial farmers of that vart of the state. This move is on to break the trust 80 far as its operative work in Nebrasks is concerned, even though the farmers have to RO back to the use of the sickle to harvest their grain, They openly state that they have stood the encroachments of trusts long enough, and that if the; unot get logisla- tive protection, other means, even more vig- erous, must he taken that thelr rights and pocketbooks may be protected. 1he District Court, The orange vider caso is still on in the dis- trict court. It will not be submitied to the jury before nightfall. Counsel for the prose- oution and defcnse are making # determined . Gotthelf, proprietor of the Arcade, clothing house, whose stock was severely injured by fire & few weeks ago, has joined i nt insurauce companies in & suit lalming #5,000. The com- on the grouuds soon after the fire and tried to adjust the ma but failed, Tney offered Mr. Gotthelf 2,000 in full for all damages, aud he indignantly re- fused to accopt the offer, and the suit re- sults, Al the time there wcre damaging storics afloat, and it is given out that this reason tempted the companies to stand suit rather thau pay & larger sum than stated. The answer of the compauies will be looked for with interest. Supreme Court Proceedings. The following gentlemen were admitted to ractice: Chris Hoeppuer, W. L. Marshall, eorge Lyon, James P ithea, C. H. Roberts, G. Morberg and A. H. Burnett. The following causes were continued : Hastings Improvement company vs Citi- panies sued w o T TS s S e e el s S R e i et San el S Ut e i B e ot e S e S e A e e e OSSR SR L S S e e e T zons’ Railway company, School District 40 vs Cooper, I'he following causes wore argued and sub« mittod : Barless vs Bronsoh, motion; State ex rel City of Beatrice va I3enton, Gifford vs Fau- bion, Buck vs Reed, Kearnoy county vs Steen, Adams County bank vs Morgau, The following cases were filed : o State Tnsurance company, of Des Moinos, Ia., va John Jordan, error from Madison county. John H, Dundas, as administrator of the eatato of Poter B, Borst, decoased, vs John L. Carson, as administrator, oo, of the es- tate of Matthew A. Hantoy, decoased, et al, error from Nemaha colmt{. (h‘or?e Wagner vs Willlam Breed et al, appeal from Adams county, C, Johnson et al va The First National bnnh‘ of Plum Croek, error from Phelps county, Oity News and Notos, Hon, John L. MoPhoeoly and Hon, A, H. Burnett, members of the barof that city, are in Lincoln attending supreme court, The Lincoln Social and Benevolent Order of Elks will entertain moembers of the house and senate and®other invited guests in their nmfnlflrant pariors to morrow evening. It will be the great social event of the wintor, Plots are forming thick and fast to capture the mayoralty of Lincoln at the coming mun- icipal election. Numerous candidates are suggested, but the prominent ones are Bob Graham and General MoBride. The univer- sity fellows propose to hang Mack’s scalp in their domioiles because he opposed the full appropriation asked for by the board of re- gents, ° “Will a nice bouquet catch him1" is the question the ladies of the lobby ask when they get after a vole for some favored meas- ure, and the ‘‘posies’ do the work. Albert Allen, a young man nineteen years of age, who has been attending the high school in this city, died yesterday, and his remains were taken to Hastings to-day from St. Paul's church for brial. Parents of the deceased reside their, The third annual ball of the Brotherhood of brakemen, lodge 170, of this city, given last night at Temple hall proved to be a most cujoyable affair, There were fully 100 couples present. The ball was beautifully decorated with mottos, colored lights and flags. The university cadet band led the march to the tables and furnished music during the banquet hours. The boys who had the managemont of the occasion in hand did themselves proud. STATE AND TR Nebraska Jottings. The Aurora waterworks have been tested and proved satisfactory. A red and green cyclone struck Kenesaw last week, but did no damage. Dr, George E. Brown, a leading physician of Albion, died suddenly Saturda) The Congregationalists of Clearwater, have commenced the erection of their new chureh, A town site has been platted i Lincoln county at Brady island and a store has been ouilt by Trenton parties. The Sidney board of trade has decided to purchase a 1 of seed wheat and sell it to farmers The Chr h people of Hebron collected $3,650 to erect a building and will soon have the necessary amouut secured. Christian Mahler, a Platte county farmer, died suddenly at nis residence in Duncan s.'upl\‘;raa_v night, the cause being a congestive chill. Joe Wing Fong, of Fremont has become a bloated monopolist, he having purchased and is now conducting three laundries at that place. A special election will probably be held in Dundy county in May-or June to determine whetlier the taxpayers want the county bonded. Two new bridges will be built across the Platte in Lincoln county, the commissioners having signed $25,000 worthof bouds for that purpose. Rey. H. H. Dunaway, formerly pastor of the Baptist churches at Ashland and St. Paul, has accepted a call to the First Baptist. church of Salina, Kas. H. R. Horton, engineer at the roller mills, at Bennett, hus received a warning from White Caps, and has prepared himself for forcible action upon a moment’s notice. It is said that the pastor of the United Presbyterian church at Benkelman has adopted the Salvation Army method of sav- ing sinners and is now holding street meet ings. A distressing accident occurred at Neligh, the fifteen-months-old child of 8. A. Schidler, falling into a pail of water in the kitchen and drowning before it was dis- covered, A gentleman from the east with eight sons with families and thirty-two grandchildren, has purchased 1,800 acres of land a few miles west of North Platte and will move the whole outfit on it. The citizens of Memphis, Saunders county, held a meating Monday ovening for the pur: pose of securing a physiciau to locate in that town, and guaranteéd a competent man a lucrative practice. RRITORY. Another brass band has been organized at Burlington. There are seven prisoners in the Page county jail, all charged with burglary. Two ladies—Miss Peet and Mrs, Bowers— are fizhting for the postofice at Tipton. Rev. 8. L. B. Speare, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been called to the Congregational church at Grinnell. O The board of supervisors of Buena Vista e county ordered thitty-five elsctrio lights for the new court house at Storm Lake. The citizens of Shenandoah have ralsad $5,000 in cash to be used in erecting addi. tional buildings for the normal school there. A Columbus Junction man has drawn $00 per month all winter for “‘superintending” a snow plow that hasn't been out of the round house, The druggists at Muscatine have laid n an oxtra supply of patont dyspepsia paralyzor on account of the opening of & cooking school. The state normal sckool at Cedar Falls has had _very prosperous year, 855 pupils being enrollod the last term, tho greatess number in attendance during i's history, Miss e Graham, the operator in the mloflhm. office at Clarinda, accidentally pricked her thumb beneath the nail a fow days ago and is now ina precarious condition with lockjaw. Bob Cranke, a saloonkeeper of Groene, 18 suffering from |n{nrln! that will probabl prove fatal. He claims that five men assaul! him one night and threw him from a bridga to the ice below. Dakota. Hay is a drug on the Sioux Falls market, Vermillion is cursed with four brass bands, Kimball claims to bo big enough to incor- porate as a oity. The G. A. R. hall at Miller has enlar ged to double ite original size. It is stated that eleven neighborhood farmers’ allinnces were organized in Law- rence county last week. The twelve-year-old son of Frank Austin of Clark, exatined a rovolver and dropp dead with a ball in his brain. Tho pastor of the Vermillion Congroga- tional church is endaavoring to raise funds to enlarge and remodel his sanctuary There are three Chinese laundries in Sioux Falls, and it is estimated that the city pays them from £10,000 to £12,000 per yoar, An order recently received at Fort Moeade, to go into effect May 15, Is pleasantly ro- ceived by the boys in blue, inasmuch as it provides that after the date stated no en- isted men shall be compelled to do manual labor. Heretofore all work in and around the post, including woodchopping, gardening, teaming, etc.,was performed by the soldiers, et ¢y ASSESSORS IN SKSSION, They afe Bntertained and Inatruoted by the County Olerk. Every assessor in Douglas county, except one, was at their meeting yesterday afters noon in the county commissioners' room, The meeting was called by County Clerk Roche for the purpose of discussing rates of assessment for this year, The county olerk entertained them liko a prince, having a box of oigars at their dlnmfllL The chairman stated that it would necessary for the county clerk to nouify the assessors of the passage of the new assoss, ment bill by the senate, The bill provides for the g of proporty at its full cash value. The asessment for tha present year will be made at the same rate as last year, Then tho averago rate was made at about one-third of the actual cash valuation. Each assessor was instru d to assess porsonal proporty whenevor found in i separate ward. Among the assessors present at the meeting were: Henry Ehrenpnort, First ward ; James Donnelly, Second James G. Carpen- ter, Fourth ward Waketield, Iifth ward; James F. Page, Sixth ward: H. R. New- comb, Seventh'ward; Silus I, Lako, Bighth ward: J. C. Christienson, ' Nith ward; N. Riechin, Chicago precinet; J, W. Moore, Blkhorn; Mitchell Chapman; Flors ence; Hans Nelson, Jofferson ; Eggert Speok, Millard; S. J. Bleick, McArdle; J. A. Ingram, Valley: 'L._C. Duclker, Union; Otto Vou Waterlgo; H. W. Coostlo, West Omaba, an John D. Meaghee, South Omaha. John Toner, of Dougjas precinct, has not qualified. il el Buffalo Bill in Paris. Hon. W. F. Cody came in from the east Monday afternoon, and was the guest of George Canfield. His great Wild West show js, at last, in readiness for the coming soason, and on April 27 will sail from New York for Paris, Mr, Cody says his present outfit far exceeds in merit any of his pro vious undertakings. New attractions, in the way of a largo band of wild Apache and Comanche Indians, under the chiefship of such famous old warriors as Red Shirt, Wolf ana Rocky Bear, over all; a large contingent of Mexican peons and cowboys, besides innu- merable otuer attractive additions. The en- tire year will be put in at Paris and London, and next season vthe show will exhibit through Austria and the German provinces, Sher- man Caunfield, Cody’s handsome private secretary, will again cross the drink with the big show, as will also Billy McCune, the lat- ter as chief of police. Cody is much elated over his prospects, and confidently predicts the most remunerative season in his career. B On to Oklahoma. Two hundred persons gathered at Good- rich’s hall, on Saunders street, Monday night to hear talk about fair Oklaboma. Messrs, W. J. Clair, M. P, O'Brion, Woat, Warner, and Captain Jesse Smith, the last mentioned president of the Omaha branch of the Oklahoma colony, told of the silvery streams, the grassy plains and spreading trees of the boomers’' Mecca. An oxecutive session was held during the evening and twenty-five new members wera admitted to the association, which now nuny bers 350 men and women. ~ Infantile Skin and Scalp Disgases Boy one year and a half old. Face and body in a terrble condition, being covered with sores, Sulphur springs tail. Uured by Cuticura Remedies. Thave used your COTIOURA REMEDIES In two cases where it proved to be successful. The first was du the case of a boy a year and a half old, His face and body were in a terrible con- dition, the former belng completely covered with sores. 1took him (o the Massena Sulphur Springs, but he Ald not improve any. I was then ndvised to try the CUTICURA REMEDLES, which 1did. 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