Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 26, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVEAY MORNING. bt THERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ly (Morning Bdftion) including SUNDAY A i "s10 0 .8 i:",’fi-‘n’r.‘.'“flmm ; OMATA SUNDAY Bup, malled address, Ono Y ear, WeekLY Bek, One Ve 0 Ot ROOKERY BUILDING. 0OMS 14 AND 16 TRINUNE BuiLoixo, WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 618 FOURTEENTH BTREET, CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi. Porinl matter should be addressed to the EDITOR HEE, OFTHE BER G grNgs LETTERS, All business lettors and remiitances should be . Dral checks an« A payAIS 50 th Ordar Of the company. 46 Beg Pablishing Company, Proprictors B. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Gworn Statement of Circulation. tate of Nebraska, B onaty of I)mlxlll.}"' George B, Tzschuck, secretary of the Tiee Pub- Hishing comnny, does solemnly swear that the ctual circulation of Tie DAILY Bew: for the Week ending March 23, 1880, was as follows: 18,810 306+ Thurs: lday. Marcl aturday, March 23. Averuge. ... GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn to befors me and subscribad to in my presence this 2d day of March. A. D, 1839, Seal. N. P. FEIL, Notary Publie. State of Nebrask | County of Douglas, | George B. Tzschuck, es and says that he 18 socretary ot the Bos blishing company, that the actual average anfly circulatio of THE DAILY BEE for the month ot March, 188, 10,080 coples 1834 coples; | for May, 1 188, 10,268 coples; os; ' for June, X Subve ek, 14,0 for August,’ 1888, 88, belng duly sworn, de- ples: for Docember, 1888, 18,223 ary, 1889, 18,574 coplés; for Feb- copies. EORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in iy presence this 20 day of March, A. D. 1880, - R B VEIL Notary Public. 'M;“T :lfig;:n? Tae ruin of Sherman avenue dates _from St. A, D. 8-16-89. SHERMAN avenue is a highway of flourishing 1njunctions. . THE senate combination bafflles the state treasury burglars. Trepay of the legislators has stopped. That is a forcible reminder to close up shop and go home. NEGOTIATIONS are said to be on foot for the organization of a salt trust. This s a1to ;other too fresh. ALTHOUGH badly disfigured, the boodle.lobby at Lincoln is still in the ring. Another defeat will crush out its miserable life. ¥ — I¥ THE fool friends of Herb Leavitt persist in dragging him before the public, the public will be compelled, in solf-defense, to suppress him again. Ee—— BY ALL means, arailroad from Omaha . to Huron, Dak., and the Missouri Pacific should not lose the opportunity to build it. — OMANA real estate is looking up. A . Jocal clergyman declares that, next to a home in paradise, a cottage and corner ot in Omaha is the greatest treasure of lite, YANKTON {8 looking forward to an early railroad connection with Omaha. ‘ That thriving city: has been long fret- ting under the yoke of the Chicago rail- . roads. THE pork packers of Iowa are making “ouf a strong case before the inter-state commerce commission in reply to the * complaint of the Chicaga packers of un- Just discrimination. e = Ir18 high time to put another stave {nto Uncle Sam's strong box. The sur- plus in the treasury has increased at the rate of five hundred thousand dol- lars a day for the past twg weeksg. ——E THE president hes appointed T. H. Needles, of Illinois, United States mar- _ 8hal for Indian territory. There is no question that General Harrison wants a sharp-poipted man for the place. ——————— THE retirement of Bierbower and Pritchott from the federal building will periously ul}sot the importance of ‘ithg pousiuzlaw” in noliiles Postmaster Gal- v dagher feels decidedly lonesome and " westless, ——— THE profound solicitude of Mr, Hitch- ©cock for the Planters’ house site is purely in the interest of progress. A . Srifling matter of forty or fifty thousand dollars would not affect his devotion to the public. AEpNS——— Tir Herald denounces prostitution _ aud other infamies parading around the capitol at Lindoln. In view of private . advices from there, the Herald’s Lincoln represontative was not consulted when _ that editorial was written. . ——— Tue legislature has clipped the teeth of the two per cent sharks of the state. Hereafter mortgaged chattels cannot be selzed and sold for non-payment of prin- olpal or interest without the written ‘oonsent of the owner. 4 e —— ' Taefarmevrs of the northwest are a ~ Lunit against the binding twine trust. They have decided to go back v first nolples rather than pay tribute to an lious combine, This is the most eftec- tive means of smashing it. e——— ‘REPRESENTATIVE BAKER 18 slated ~ for United Statesdistrict attornoy. This a prompt reward for his advocacy of t, Kennard & Co., and e very bogus bill and olaim presented to the legisla- “ture. Turn the rascals in, em————— . TaE deplorable condition of the coal ‘mainers of Pennsylvania excites wide- ‘spread indignation, The pitiless ex- actions of the trusts have driyen thous- * mods to the verge of starvation. Even the miserable pittance of eight to fifteen dollavs & month, which the men earned during the winter, has been stopped, ‘the :nu olosed, and the miners, pen- “piless, turned adrifs, There is no spot ‘on the continent where grinding human s : .a:rw such & shocking extent THE TREASURY AND SILVER. Reoference is made to the position of | Secretary Windom in the past regard- | ing silver as warranting the ovinion that he will make no change in the es- tablished policy of the treasury depart- ment with regard to the coinage of silver. It is believed he will pursue the courss of his republican predecos- sors since the silver act of 1878, He will coin the minimum amount of silver re-- quired by law. He will not send four millions of bullion to the mint every month, but will restrict the coinage to two million dollars a month, as all of his predecessors have done since the Allison-Bland bill was passed. Mr. Windom was in the senate at that time and made a strong speech in opposition to the standard dollar bill. He was in favor of silver coinage, but he desired the dollar to contain, approximately at loast, one hundred cents’ worth of the metal, He ultimately voted for the measure, because he did not want te antagonize silver coinage, and douht- less also in the hope that before agreat while the promise of an international agreement settling the ratio of the metals would be realized. During the time that he was at the head of the treasury in 1881 the coinage of silver was kept to the minimum amount provided for by law. These circumstances appear to fully justi the opinion that the treasury volicy rt garding silver will not be changed un- der the present administration unless by direction of congress. It is impossible to forecast with any degree of certainty what the next con- gress may do respecting silver. But it is pretty well understood that after the revenue question isdisposed of, which will be the first to receive attention, the silver question 18 sure to be brought forward and urged as of next importance. The advocates of in- credsing the coinage of silver are not idle and although the efforts of their persistent leader, Mr. Stewart, to bring this about has failed, they are very far from being discouraged. This will ungestionably renew the contest in the next congress with increased vigor, and they may develop a great deal more strength than is now anticipated. As to their chances of succeeding much { will depond upon the attitude of the administration, which wiil be fully dis- closed to congress in the annual mes- sage of the president. If this is found to be adverse to increasing the coinage of silver the advoeates of that policy will have little chance of accomplishing any- thing, but if the position of the admin- istration should appear to be one of neutrality or indifference, showing a disposition to leave the decision of the matter wholly with congress, it is thought to be by no means improbable that the silver men may besuccessful in carrying out their policy. The advocates of silver have within a a few months been very greatly encour- aged by the evident change of senti- ment that is taking place i1n Europe in fayor of bimetalism. There has re- cently been manifested in Germany a strong feeling that the time has come for international negotiations with a view to the coinage of both metals at an established ratio. A similar sen- timent has developed in England, with the support of no less a personage than Mr. Goschen, chancellor of the ex- chequer. These facts are interpreted as showing that the bimetallic cause has made important progress, and there certainly is justification for the belief that the sentiment in favor of international action is stronger in England and Germany than ever be- fore. Under these and other stimulat- ing influences the advocates of an in- creased coinage of gilver are very sure to vigorously urge their policy, so that the question is likely to again bocome of commandipg importance in the at- tention of the country. e ] PENSION POLICY RGFORM. The old soldiers of the country, and those entitled to the heneficence of the government as the heirsof deceased soldiers, will welcome no change under the new administration more gladly and gratefully than that which gives a new head to the pension bureau, with the promise of-'much needed reform in the spirit and methods of that import- ant branch of the geversiment as thero bave yacently been exhibited. For more than three years the administration of this bureau by Commissioner Black, so far asofficient business methods are con- cerned, recelved merited commen- dation, So far as he dared, and as long as he was permitted. he used his position for rewarding politi- cal partisans, in doing which many union soldiers were replaced by ex-con« federates or by democratic politicians, but he exacted faithful service, reduced expenses, caught up with the work that was in arrears, and genevally im proved the practical working of the bureau. General Black was never favorable to a liberal pension policy, yet the pension list was largely increased during his administration, and at no time so rap- idly as in the few months preceding the presidential election, After the election, however, the commissioner of pensions lost all interest in everything but the mere routine duties of his office, and it has become notorious that while for months the press eentained daily & long list of pensions allowed notuing of the kind has appeared for the last two or three months. Washington advices state that since the beginniug of the year the issuance of pensions has been almost suspended, which of course explains the absence of the daily list. Commis- sioner Black had no further concern for the union soldier, or the widows and orphans of soldiers, alter the country had rendered its verdict against his party, and they appealed in vain to him for the berefits which the governs ment has assured them they shall have, There has never been a more striking example of partisan vindic- tiveness. Every old soldier, and all who are en- titled to the beneflcence of the govern- ment, as the heirs of the defonders of the union, regardless of their politics, will have a sincore and generous friend in thenew commissioner of pensions, Corporal Tanner. No one who can show & just olalm to a pension under the re- quirements of the law will seek it in vain. There need be no fear that the pengion bureau will become the almoner of the unworthy, but it will go to the farthest limit of its authority in benefit- ting thote who can establish an unques: tionable right to its aid, 1t will comply with the laws, but it will interpet them to the advantage of those they were in- tended to help. The appointment of Corporal Tanner has gratified the union soldiers, and it cannot be doubted that he will discharge his duties with satis- faction to the country. REVIVING THE DI.D'OA NG. The attempt of the Republican to in- jeot life into the old gang of corrupt councilmen, is a disgrace to the city and to journalism. A newspaper. which gives aid and encouragement to boodlers, and endeavors, by falsehood and abuse, to stir up resentment against the mayor for performing his sworn duty, deserves the contempt of honest men. The sensational report that the old combine had decided upon the over- throw of the present officers of the coun- il is false and absurd. Fven if the com- bine had a majority, they would be powerless to carry out their plans. The law provides that the officers of the council shall hold oftice for one year, and cannot be removed during the term without cause. The only “cause™ which could be drummed up by the combine is ¢he festering grievance of having been deprived of the power to damage the city and benefit themselves and the contractors. Beneath the surface of this wolfish cry is a deep design to secure control of the construction of the city hall. This is the goal of their ambition. The ad- vantage of having the contract and management of the work in the hands of Hascall, Ford & Co., gives eclat to the movement and enlists the support of the contractors who have fattened on the city for years. No honest coun- cilman can countenance such a mercenary scheme to delay and defeat the will of the people expressed at the ballot box last month. The claim of the boodlers that they simply want to force a modification of the Sunday closing order is too transparent to deceive any one. 'The reorganization of the license board places the question entirely out- side of the council, and the gang could not render the slightest reliof to the saloon men. The whole movement is a waste of beer and breath. It is a weak and puerile attempt to raise the wind and lighten the gloom which surrounds the old ring and the contraclors, for whom the Republican poses as an organ. Tho city council will remain in the hands of honest men, the legislative and execu- tive branches of the government will work together for the common good, ahd public works will be pushed as rapidly as possible without-the assist- ance of the hoodlers. Tue proposition to establish a court of claims in Nebraska, to be composed of judges of the district courts, has re- ceived a forcible argument in its favor from the boldness and persistence with which the lobby has fought for the mon- strous private claims before the legisla- ture. THE BEE has freely commented upon the shameless conduct of the lobby in behalf of the claims of Butler, Stout and Kennard, and the experience ought to convince everybody of the necessity of some other tribunal than the legisla- ture to pass on claims of this character. A court constituted as the bill intro- duced in the legislature provides wouid be inaccessible to lobby influence, and moreover such outrageous claims as have been presented to the present leg- islature, the suceess of which is so largely dépendent upon corrupt meth- ods, would very rarely find their way into a judicial tribupal, The recent ex- perience at Lincoln appears to have made a strong 1mpression in fayor of the proposed court of claims, and there is reason to believe that the bill provid- ing for it may become a law. No honest man or newspaper can counsel the mayor to modify the Sunday closing arder, ]t wasissued in compli- ance with the law, which the mayor is sworn to execute. Modificaticn would mean revonziion, It is useless to urge that he should have enforced this law a yearago. The attempt would have been a failure because the power to make the law effective by revoking the licenses of offenders did not rest with him. That was in the hands of the old council combine, which stooped to every disreputable means to annoy the mayor and render abortive every retorm un- dertaken, As soon as this obstacle was removed by making the police commis- sion the lidense board, the mayor ordered the enforcembnt of the law, and will see to it that his orders are obeyed to the letter. —— I 18 quite evident thaf the property holders of North Sixteenth street pro- pose to take a hand-in protecting thelr rights to that thoroughfare against grasping street railway companies, The injunction served upon the various rival com- panies one minute after twelve o’clocl Sunday wos in the nick of time to check these vam- pites. The time has come when a stop once for all must be put to the abuse of these midnight marauders, and it is to be hoped that’ courts will recognize this necessity. —— To THE credit of the saloon-keepers of Omaha, the Sunday closing order was again obeyed to the letter. The strict compliance to law speaks well for the character of the men engaged in the liguor business of our city. The very fact, moreover, that the high license laws of Nebraska can be enforced quietly and effectively in all their min- ute regulations in the largest city of this state, while in Iowa the probibi- tion laws are openly and wantonly abused, is a practical illustration of the merits of the two systems in regulating the liguor traffic not to be lost sight of. Em— IowaA has again demonstrated that call raising in that state is not a profit- able investment. Some years ago a Jones county farmer “lifted” four frisky young animals from his neighbor's pas- ture and turned them loose on the courts of the state. They thrived amaz- ofs, demurrers and up from forty-five | Rockbri y-five hundred dol- s the total cost of d by the courts, t must pay. The ent all round will dollars, and the litigants are nowfsuggling to raise the wherewith, N IT 18 highly ble that within a short time a qii“i_' of building brick will be made in _fll‘_1viv|n|ty of Omaha equal in finish. and durability to the well known Philpdelphia or St. Louis pressed brick. With a superior quality of home-made brick there is every as- surance that the cost of first-class build- ings will be materially decreased, and the use of pressed brick will become much more general IT 18 not at all probable that the mayor ever entered into a bargain with any man or set of men by the terms of which he was not to issue the Sunday closing ovder. Such a compact, the mayor could have plainly forseen, would certainly have resulted dis- astrously if made. TaE legislaturo of Ohio, which started out with a great flourish of trumpets to bring about needed rail- road reforms, has weakened under the thumb of the corporations. Comparisons might be drawn with the work of a legislature in corrvecting railroad abuses near at home—but then compurisons are odious. “No SURRENDER" should be’ the motto of every honest man in the legis- lature. The attempt of the treasury burglars to work upresentment against the action of the senate in weeding out the extravagant bills of the combine, must be combatted and defeated. e———— Tne brand of Stout on tap in Lincola is $XX8. Mr. New's Plum. Cincinnati Enquirer, Mr. John C. New's appointment way not be distinguished, but it is very lucrative, There is no fatter place in the gift of the government than tho consul.gencralship at London, SRRV New York's Relapse. s Boston Traveller. *New York is getting through 1ts talk of a monument to the late John Kricson, and will soon return to the standard tobic—a monu- ment to the lute General Grant. s Pecmabis, Before, anfl After. Phitadelphia Ledger, From all accounts pictures of soms of the visitors to tho national capitol, taken going and returning, would /do capitally for the “‘before and after, taking” illustrations in patent medicine advirtiscments. — Pauline's Hscapade. Chicago_Inter-Ocean, Miss Pauline Fuller gt judgment in the lower court, and it seerbs altogether likely, being a just and falp ayard, that the chief justice of the highest court will sustain the decision and everybody' Wwill be happy. s e Parliamentary Pistol Practice. Philadelphta Novih American. A member of the Hungarian diet shot some one as he was leavi ‘g the legislative hall after a lively discussion had been carried on regarding the integrity of the president. The pistol seems to be a necessary article in par- liamentary precedure in Hungary as well as in some of the western territories. 00 e Ty No Cuts Furnished. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was indignant when shown 8 paper published at Kearnoy, Neb., containing a picture of her, but bear- ing the name of an actress advertised to play there. The editor soothed her by saying: “We are young, haye only a barn-like build- ing for an opera house, and only a few ‘stars’ come our way: our artistic edutation has not yet reached that point where we can in- variably distinguish celebrities by newspaper portraits of them.” ARSI PERSONAL AND PECULIAR. A New York preacher claims that St. Patrick ywas a Methodist, and another con- vinced himself that be was a Baptist mis- sionary. These conclusions, added to the doubt which syrronzds his birthplace and age, makes him the most accomplished mug- wump of early times, %% rivaley between St. Paul and Minne- apolis was intensified last week by the hang- ing boom enjoyed by the latter. Minneapolis is 80 proud of her prosperity that she refers to hor loathsome rival us St. Pigseye, A charming fepture of Denver papers is headed **Walks About Town.” The fact that nine-tenths of the residents have uo other occupation gives the column the flavor of active life. Queen Victoriahas engaged a tutor and will study Hindustani. Coincident with this 15 the announcement that St. A. D. Balcombe will discontinue his private evening seauces, Anastasia Parsells, a New Jersey maiden, one hundred and three years of . age, avers that sho gave George Washington a rousing kiss when they romped toggther near New- burg. It was o wholesomo and hearty that she has studiously refrained from smacking another. A colored tough in Now York, who shot his wifo a week ago last Sunday, threw him- self on the mercy of the court by claiming that he was celcbrating the day, An Omaha paper last week made the aston- ishing announcement that ‘Mile, Smith went out to compliment ‘the band on General ‘Wheaton’s arm.”” I Ghosts at a dance Is the latest sensation in Kansas, It is the samie old brand, but the quality is steadily on'the 'declae, A Salt Lako citizen, who is under bonds to answer for polygamy, gives his occupation a8 agriculturist. Hysbaudman would be more graphic. Jernv Mrs, Humphry Ward wiites a small and neat, but eminently 'stfong and vigorous hand, with no flourishes: sometimes in eex- nest haste running seyeral words together. She signs herself: “Slucerely yours, Mary A. Ward,” with o siugle 'straight dash be- neath the name. 2 A temperance lecturer told his hearers the other day in Denver, Colo., that a law ought to be passed which would deprive of his vote any mau who got drunk ten times 1 & year. The assemblage inmediately walkked out of the hall in a body, Chicago is always ready to experiment on coonomical processes for malking business and life less burdensome. It is now talking of trying the method @f making gas from water. The Chicago river would furnish an inexhaustible supply if properly tapped and occasionully stirred. Cupid made sevoral judicious hits last week. Chief Justice Fuller's daughter eloped with young Aubrey, and the engage- ment of Associate Chief Justice Gray, aged sixty-two, to Miss Matthews, aged thirty, daughter of the assooiate chief justice, was made public. Colonel B. J. Jorean and Mre. | M. 3. Road were murried the other day in county, Virglnia, The groom is ve and the bride seventy. protbimi— bty STATE AND TERRITORY. soventy-| Nebraska Jottings. E. Ashoroft of Tilden is organizing an Ok- Iaboma colony at that place. Two of the Falls City burglars pleaded guilty when arraigned for trial. The citizens of Grand Island have nomin- ated Hon. W. H. Platt for mayor. There are 120 civil and 11 criminal cases on the docket of the York county district court. Henry Prigge, who was formerly a resi- dent of Columbus, committed suicide in Chi- cago by shooting. Frank Clark, who killed Dr. W. G. Han- lon, was tried last week at Falls City and the ury returned u verdict of not guilty. Sheriff Flynn, of Madison county, who was charged with bribery, was tried by the board of supervisors and honorably acquitted. The Nebraska City street car company has increased its stock 83,000 to cover the cost of building an extension to the stockyards. Work has been begun on the Chaso county court house at Tmperial and the cornerstone will be laid April 11 with appropriate cere- monies, The farmers of Holt county are feeling in excellont spirits, caused by the rain of last which will enable them to tinish Zura Yeoman of Tilden, who is ouly sixteon years old, has been sent to the Nor- folk insane “gf lum insanity having been caused by milk feve Rev. A. W. Snyder has rosigaed the pas- torate of the Baptist church at Columbus and will go to Red Cloud. He will preach his farewell sermon next Sunday. The citizens of Nowman G rove are excited ovel* what they think a valuable find of “silicia, or infusiorial earth,” which is used in compounding dynamite, glass, cement, ete. The case against Frank Wright of Wilber, charged with rape, has beeni dismissed on the second trial for want of prosecution. The case arose under the age of consent law of 1887, and at the first trial the jury found Wright guilty “with the consent of tho prosecutrix,” but the supreme court did not sustain the verdict. lowa. Glenwood now glories in a new board of trade, A half-mile track is to be built by Pauora horsemen. The Baptist Sunday schools of Muscatine have 763 pupils envolled. Genuine Chinamen make the tea for the church socials at Atlantic. ‘The $30,000 bonus for & new opera house at Ottumiva, has all been taken. The number of convicts in the Fort Madi- son penitentiary is steadily decreasing. A. J. Riges, the recaptured Glenwood horsethief, has been given the extreme pen- alty—five years in the pen. A man who looked 8o seedy that ho was taken for a tramp in Ottumiva, had $3.000 in Ale pockets and was a nraminent citizen, Paul Gauss, the Wappello traveling man who embezzled §1,000 from his tivm, escaved );unishmcul by his frionds making up the de- ficiel George Roebuck, of Rock Falls, bas of- fored a reward of §500 for the urrest of the person who set fir to his promises, and the insurance companies will probably increase the amount. Miles of new street railway, miles of street pavi a high wagon bridge ucross the river, with a pork packing house forming shaps and substance, are included in Clin- ton’s boom for 1889, A Dubuque noewsboy got even with a dead beat in great shape. The man owed the boy for papers und would not pay him; the boy wrote to_his (the boy’s) brother, who is at- tending school in Indiana, telling about the action of his customer, and on day last week the man received a box by express marked “C, 0. D.” 'The express chatges amounted to several dollars, and upen opening the box, it was found to be full of bricks. Wyoming. Sheep shearng will begin at Blartowan May 1. The trust company at Riverside expect to place 10,000 head of cattle on the Powder river range next summer. There 1s now a postoflice at St. Stephen’s ion, the priest acting as postmaster, The mail is carried once a week from Lander. Grading on the Cheyenne & Northern will begin early in April and the surveyors have been instructed to prepare for the builders with all possible speed. According to the Lander Monstrosity a ranchman at Red Canon has a prairie dog, a hoot owl and & rattlesnake, all of which oc- cupy the same gopher ,hole *'in perfect peace and harmony.' The citizens of Casper haye organized a joint stock company, with 1,000,000 capital, 10 improve and develop oil and mineral lands. The corporation is called the Casper Oil, Land and Petroleum company. i Dr. Hayford, editor of our most esteemed contemporary, the Sentinel, says the Lara- mie Boomerang, celebrated the seventicth anniversary of his martiage by welcoming the tenth accession to his family. It's a son and heir. . R. K. Milford’s Afdavits. Hay Serixes, Neb., March 23.—To the Editor of Tue Bee: In Tue DarLy Bex oo the 10th inst. therg wes tiblished an article made up of & number of falsehoods and slan- derous statements about me. I submit the following in refutation of it: STATE OF NEBRASK }“ Sheridan County. | R, F. Milford, being duly sworn, deposes and says thal the statements in tho‘above re- R. . MiLroun. . Bakor, being sworn, each for himself deposes and says that they have been intimately acquainted with R. E. Milford for threo yéars, haye read the articlo above referred to, wero in Milford’s office at the time of the troublo between him and Lamoreaux; that the statements in said ar- ticlo aro fulse. * J, B, AXTELL. N. C. Bake. Subsoribed in my prosence and sworn to before me this 23 day day of March, 1880, E. F. GAmparxott, Notary Public. We, the undersigned citizens of Hay Springs, Neb, have been personally ac- quainted with it. F. Milford for over two yours, know hia 000 @ good, law-abiding cit J: F. Powers, attorney; F. E. Boyson, en- gineer; H, C. Keonland, livery; . Cam- paniott, attorney : J. Thomas, grain dealer; T, 8, Tripp, attorney; 8. C. Wyndham, jew- elor; Thomas Edwards, ~attorney; George H. Ithodes, banker; W. H. Smith, draggist; £ & Hugiphroys, editor; " A, 4. Shetfuer, “iSlander, that worst of poison, ever finds An easy ontranes o ignoble minds." R. . MILronp. ———— The Old Regime SBustained. INpiANAPOLIS, Ind.,, March 25.—The late legislature passed a bill piacing the fire and volice departments of this city under control of a board of cowmissioners selected by the legislature; also & bill placing the streets, al- leys, lighting, water supply, etc., in the hands of the board of public works and affairs, lected in a similar manner, When the: boards sought to enter upon their du- ties the old board of metropolitan {)o“ua commissioners and the municipal su- horities declined to surrender their power, holding that the laws under which the legis- lative appointees probosed to act were uncon- stitutional. The case was heard in the su- preme court of this county, and to-day a de- cision was rendered sustaining the metropol- itan commissioners and the municipal author- ities. Judge Taylor ruled in favor of the new appointees, and Judges Howe and Walker on the opposition. . — e Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. ‘When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, ehe oried for Castoris, When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, Wh2u shie had Clildren, she gave them Castoria. LINCOLN NEWS AND NOTES. A Peoullar Oase on Trial In the Distriot Court. POLITICAL POINTS AND RUMORS, Something of Interest Concerning the Saline Lands—General and Personal Mattars From the Oapital City. LINCOLN BUREAU OF THR OMAT 1020 P Streer, i) LiNcoLy, March 25, In the district court, before Judge Field and a jury, the case of Benjamin K, Schaefte ot al vs George M. Traves, was commenced this morning. ‘Mis is a peculiar case, the trial of which has only just begun, In Feb- ruary, 1888, it appears that the plaintiffs de- sired to open a dry goods store in Sutton,and they mado a bargain with the defendant by which they purchased goods to the alleged value of $13,70S, vaying for the samo §5,000 in cash, and the residue intown lots in Hast- ings and Milford and lands in Cheyenne county. The plaintiffs claim that the goods thoy roceived did not reaily amount %o more than between $2,000 and $3,000 in value, they seek for a vordict which will rehubili- tate them. The defenso appears to be—the case not yet having gone far enough to fully state the defense—that tho plaintiffs have re- ceived the full amount of goods under the contract. This case will not conclude under four days, unless another break-down occurs, Plaintiils seem to be loaded and the indica- tions are strong that the case will bo the most bitterly contested of any during the term. The parties suing to_rocover practi- cally set up that they have been “‘skinned,” and the array of testimony they have on hand indicates that they aro going to try to prove it. The sued is strong in the faith that no court on earth can find against him, A Rippling,Rnmor. Only a rumor, but it is worth something. ‘The whisper goes that the saline lands, be- longing to the state, yield an excellent quality of clay, and that it is used by certain brickmakers who contract to do paving on a large scale. First, let it be remembered, however, the clay is manufactured into brick, There is nothing passing strange in this, but the query very naturally arises, what right have these contractors and pavers to o upon state lands to dig up a good portion of their clay? This hint is broad enough for the guilty parties, 1f such they be, to take & tumble. Lincoln Politics. Colonel I, C. Pace's politics secm to ba a doubtful quantity in the Sixth ward. For some years past, it is said, Mr. Pace has been claimed by the prohibitionists, and not without apparently good reasons. Two years ago he was a candidate for lisutenant governor on the prohibition tieket, but quite lately ho announced that he had come back to his ‘“first love” in an open lotter, and sought and secured the nomination for coun- cilman at a republican caucus in that ward upon a faithful promise of future allegiance, But this does not seem to be to the liking of alarge number of the republicans in the rural part of the city. Sixth ward republi- cans are on a bolt. 1t is now given out that a caucus will be held at Erb's hall to-morrow evening, when Fremont C. Smith will be put in nomination for alderman from that ward. The Third warders are beginuing to stir. Friends of General McBride are working up o dolegation that, it is supposed, will die by him for the mayoralty. City politics wiil soon be at a white heat. There is fun for boys a fow days hence, Charles Lincoln's Crime. The oscaped convict, Charles Lincoln, re- cently recaptured at 'Laurerce, Mass., 'will again soon occupy & cell in the state peniten- tiury. He was not under life sentence for murder, as is generally supposed.. He was tried and convicted on the churge of horse stealing at the late fall term of the district court in Douglas county in 1386, and on the 1st day of Decomber of that year was com- mitted to the pen to serve a sentence of one year and eight months. By good behavior he won the confidence of tho warden and be- came one of the ‘“trusties.” The sequel proves that the trust was not wisely reposed for on the evening of December 8, 1857, a year and seven days after his commitment, he came up missing and successfully bafied all efforts to effect his recapture. His lato cscapade in Massachusetts, how- ever, led to establishing his identity and the authorities here were promptly notifizd, when the necessary steps were taken to ac- complish bis return and an officer of the law 18 now en route to perform that ‘duty. Lin- coln has led a checlered carcer. He was once sentenced to the penitentiary at Joliet, TiL., to serve a life sentonce, having him con- victed of murder in tho second degree, bub was pardoned after haying served some oyer six years of the sentonce. Ho is six foet and throe-quarters of oo inch in height and woighs 155 pounds. Ho has a daric complex- fon, dark b and small bluo eves. Ho has several bivth marks and scars that makes it an easy matier to establish his idéntity, His forehead and nose are both marked by pa’ culiar soars and his loft ankle is out of place Joking Willlam, The boys best acquainted with W, T, Can- ada know him to be not only a wag, but a veritable joker. Time evidently hung a lit- tle'heavy on his hands one day last woolk, and he sot himself about to have a little fun at the expense of some of the “‘baldies of the house, oid timers, and, in the languago of the slang phrase, ‘‘up to snuff,” Meoting one of his victims on the street, he calied him to one side and unblushingly told him that on a cartain evening he would have {n his company two sisters, charming little ‘“tootsey wootsoys,”” who wore not averse to & guilcless flirt ation, and if he would only have the kind- ness to happen along and take ono of them Off his hands he would be under everlasting obligations Victim would bo only too g] d thus they parted. Canada poured this story into the willing ears ot other mashers, and ;he thing was sat- isfactorily fixed with all of them, The place designated for the meetin, the dark corner opposite Opelt's hot: the hour of 8 o'clook last id ov They wore all there, but no Bil ‘‘tootsey \\'(mt!ei"‘ sisters, The moeting vroved to bo a painful one, and in vulgar parlance soven mombeors of the house wera ‘in _the soup.” The bill boards hold their shadows but a moment, and vamoosing coat tails were in the air. Canada_and a party of friends were snugly domiciled in a room on the second floor at Opelt's, and to say that they enjoyed the situation is drawing it very nildly. Oity News and Notes. The governor to-day appointed the foilowy. ng notaries public: George D. Aspinwall, Cearncy, Buffalo county; Cornelius D. Mur« vhy, Humphrey, Platte county; C. C. Shinn, Hay Springs, Sheridan county. An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. B, P. Ewing died this morning, Funeral sorvices will be held from the residence of pareuts to-morrow afternoon. Contractor Sylvanus commenced to 6x- cavate this morning for alley paving. Stout & Buckatoff will commence the hnishing work on their paving coutract in paving dis« trict No, 2 to-morrow morning. Thus It can be seen that work on public improvements is commencing at an early date. The will of Henry A. Forthmann, deceased, was admitted to probate to-day, Mr. Forth- mann was one of the well-to-do farmers of tha north ert of the county. The will of Charles J. Hull, the millionaire, was also probated. Permits to wed were granted to the follow- ing parties to day: George J. Albrecht and Miss Sophia Hollman; rge F\. Loraine and Miss Mollie E, Young. 1 of Liucolny Lancaster county, ALL QU1ET IN SAMOA. Ofiicial Reports Received by the War Department. WasniNeToN, March 25.—Captain Schoon« maker, commanding the Vandalia, roports to the navy department, under date of Febru- ary 9, the arrival of the Vandalia, under his command, at Apia, Samoa, the day provious. He found in port the Nipsic, H. B M. ship Calliope and the German corvettes Adler Olga and Eber. Everything has been quiot sinco the last roports from Samoa sent home, and Commander Mullan, having pre- pared a full report ot the affairs in thae islands, it would go by the same mail. The Trenton has not arrived. Commander Mullan, commanding the Nip- 81¢, roports that on the 14th of February a severe gale visited the harbor, during which the American barkantine Constitution be- came a total wreck. Her officors and crev were rescued. The Constitution was owned in San Francisco. Other smaller vessels are reported to bave gone ashore on the west end of Upola island. Affairs at Apia have beon very quiet since the last dispatch to the do« partment. No molestation of foreigners or natiyes had occurred. On the Gth of Febru- ary Herr Brandgis, a Gorman subject and president of the so-called Tamasese govern- ment. is reported to have rosigned and left for Sydney. On the 3Rd of February tha Nipsic dressed ship in honor of Washington' birthday, and the foroign men-of-war. joine in, The indications are thatthe Tamascse party is losing ground. ————— Sam Small for Congress, ATLANTA, Ga., March 25.—|Special Tele. gram to Tig BEE.|—A political sensation has been sprung upou the voters of the Fifth congressional district of this state. Rev. Sam Small, the evangelist, will contest it next year with Hon. John D. Stewart, the presont’ congressmav. Small's adyocacy of prohibition has bronght him closé to the peo- ple of the yural precincts, while his long resi- dence in Atlanta makes him ncuce)m'blo to the people of this cjty. Besides this, it is suid ho will got the solid républican suppart. e Just Like Melican Man. Cnicaco, March 25.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bee.]—Charlie Fow, the trusted clerk of Sing Kee,n Clark street Chinese mer- chant, has disappeared with about one thous- and dollars of his employer's cash, repre- sentipg all the latter’s tuylns-. Charlig js supposed to have foined the Chinese *2 81 colony in Canada. b2 T3ing the third Mongo- Hun 6™Eszier to leave here in three months, Nrewark, N. J., Sept. 19, 1885, Messrs. ProcTER & GamBLe, Cincinnati, Gentlemen :—Although a stranger to you, and my testimonial entirely unnecessary as it certainly is unsolicited, yet I take great pleasure in testifying to the excellence of your “Ivory' Soap, and thanking you for putting it on the market at so low a price. It has entirely supplanted the use of Castile and other fine soaps in my houschold for several years past, being in no way inferior, and from fifty to seventy-five per cent. more economical. 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