Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. - TRRMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Daily (Morning Rdition) inclnding Su; Rk, One Year For 8ix Months address, One Year, ... ‘WKLY Ber, One Year. OMANA OFrICR, Nos,014 and 910 PARNAM § HICAGO OFFICR, 7 ROOKERY BUILDING. EW Y ORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 16 THIBUXE BUILLING. WASHINGTON OFFick, No. 618 FounTEENTH BTR! 1 m"t“ ‘S"()F“‘Nslfiam and edi. 1 jons reiating to - .ofum'm'e';"-fi;um benddressed tothe EDITOR THE BEE. 55 BUSINKSS LETTERS, 11 bustnoss letters and remittances should be dressod to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoflice arders to e made payablé to the order of the company. ko Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. 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Tuesday, April 2. eanesday, Apriid.. Thursday, April 4.. ny. Aprii b.. . Baturday, Aprilé Average. . 18,041 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed to in my wresence this th day of April, A. D. 1880, Seal. N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Btato of Nebraska, } glas, | 3% County of Dou George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- gotes, and says thnt b la soctotary ol the fiss 'ublishing company, t the actual average daily circulatio of Tik DALy B for the month ot March, 188, 10,080 coples; for April, 1 744 coples; - for May, s, 18,183 os; ' for June, 19,243 copies; ‘for uly, 188, 16,0 for August, 1588, 18,15} coples; for September, 1883, 18,154 conies: for October, 1838, 18,034 coples: for Novem. Der, 1588, 18,186 copies; for December, 1888, 18,223 coples; for'January, 189, 18574 coples; for Feb- ruary, 1680, 18,006 coples. $ EORGE B. TZSOHUCK. Sworn to before mo and subscribed inmy presenco this 2d day of March. 4. D. 188, P. FEIL' Notary Public, Tue Illinoi down submission and relieved that state from a prolonged period of depres- sion. BISMARC overtures of peace to rtmeat are of a flattering mature. It is dollars to dimes that he is laying a trap for the American eagle. THE fool friends of Postmaster Gal- lagher are liable to overdo the thing when they prod the friends of Senator Manderson who are waiting to step into Gallagher’s brogans. THE democrats are trying to squeeze enough comfort out of the municipal election in Montana to last them for six months. A surprising amount of con- solation is extracted from a trifle. NEBRASKA farmers are determined to give the twine trust a profound shake. Aslong as twine is so valuanle, they will resort to primitive methods and permit the trust to enjoy its monop- oly undisturbed. JARIZONA will soon test the efficacy of the territorial law, punishing train robbers with death, Four desperadoes from Canon Diable have been selected to sample ‘‘Hempenloop’s cure for throat troubles.” ‘WirTH a senator, a congressman and a judge of the district court, Omaha is supposed to have all the federal offices she is entitled to. Thisis why candi- dates for the minor positions must pre- empt a homestead up the Elkhorn or Republican valleys, DELAWARE is the latest convert to the Nebraska method of licensing and regulating the liquor traffic. The. fact that high license has been adopted by nine states since its introduction in Ne- braska goes far to prove that it is the only practical method of dealing with the trafic. T1E construction of the North Omaha sewer to the river front will materially improve the atmosphere of the bottoms and diminish the malarial vapors su rounding the workshopsin that section. Now if the garbage dump was hurled fnto the river, the levee would bloom @8 a health resort. THE April report of the department of agriculture shows that the condition of winter grain averages 89 per cent, only 6 per cent less than the April yecord of the great crop of 1684, The report is decidedly favorable for all sec- tious of the country. In the corn sec- tion of the west, spring work is uncom- monly well advanced, owing to the fa- vorable weather. The soil is in primo condition, and with an average rainfall Shis year’s crop will equal, if not oxe -®ead, the best on record. Hosrrurries have ceased for the present between the authorities and the Des Moines river settlors. Judge Bhiras, of the United States district court, has requested the marshal to sus- pend evictions, pending a decision of the attorney-general on the question of Pringing suit to determine the rights of the settlers. It is quite probable that further eviction proceedings will be deferred until this year’s crops are gathered or until congress confirms the title or reimburses the settlers, Eme—————— YANKTON and Southern Dakota ex- hibit remarkable patience and good will toward Omaha. hile Yankton is continually agitating, divect railrond gonnection with this city, Omaba has treated the question with indifferonce, and let slipgoldon opportunities tor ex- tending her jobbing trade. A united ‘effort on the partof our business men now would undoubtedly induce the St. St. Paul & Omaha to extend from Hartington north to Yaniton and give the people of both cities the long de- sired railvoad connection. GERMAN CONCESSION. The belief has obtained that Bis- marck, since proposing to renew nego- tiations regarding affairs in Samon, has been adroitly laying his plans to estab- lish German authority over the Samonn islanas in any event. Some time ago Count Herbert Bismarck visited Eng- land, and it was assumed that the pur- pose of his mission was to effoct an un- derstanding with the British govern- ment looking to concurrent action between Germany and Great Britain re- garding Samoa. The announcement that Germany had offered or ceded to Englana its fertile colony of Damarland on the west ‘coast of Africa, a tract of over one hundred thousand square miles, and the statoment that Count Bismarck, on his return, expressed en- tire satisfaction with his visit to Eng- land, strengthened the impression that the two governments proposed to stand together against the United States, and necossarily in the intorest of Germany. Bismarck has not been in the habit of making generous presents without re- ceiving some equivalent, and Great Britain might very well afford to give up what interest she has in Samon for the African colony, nor can there be any doubt of the willingness of the present government.in England to enter into a negotiation of this char- acter. From every point of view, there- fore, there was reason to suspect a bar- gain between Germany and England to unite in opposing any claims or de- mands of this country not agreeable to Germany, They were allies in the ‘Washington conference and why not be s0in the Berlin conference, particu- larly when England woula directly profit by it? The report that comes from Washing- ton of an unexpected concession from the German government appears, how- ever, to disarm suspicion of any other than the fairest motives on the part of Germany, The statement is that Bis- marck has made overtures of peace, to the extent of proposing that pending an adjustment of Samoan matters by the Berlin conference, the two governments shall be represented at Samoa by but one vessel each. This will be done, our government having promptly acceded to the proposal, and it is said to be the opinion at the state department that the business of the commissioners will be happily and immediately adjusted, and that they will ind no difficulty in up- holding the present attitude of the state department in the affair. This confidence may be justi- fied by the vresult, but it is not gasy to share in it at present. Richelieu says, ‘‘When the lion’s skin is short, eke it out with the fox’s.” It is not impossible that this is what Bis- marck has done. He has played the lion without effect, finding the govern- ment of the United States determined tomeet him half way in this sort of game, and he now intends to try the cunning of the fox. Having made, or rather bought, an ailiance with Eng- land that renders Germany. secure in the conference, that government can not only afford to make a show of peace- ful intentions, but it is obviously to its advantage to do so. Germany is practi- cally in controt of the government of Samoa. The nominal head of the gov- ernment is its creature, and the ad- ministration of affaivs, so far as there is any administaation, is dictated by the agentsof the German government, If the conference fails to accomplish any- thing, as we have very little doubtit will from the present aspect of the mat- ter, the German power already pre- dominant in Samoa will, in all proba- bility, at once be aggres- sively asserted, and there will be nothing to offer a successful re- sistance to it. American interests there can not be protected, but the wily Bis- marck, shielding himself behind the peaceful pretense of his government, will disclaim all responsibility for any lossos those interests may suffor. And when the power of Germany “ has been more firmly established in Samou, with the purchased acquiescence of England, this country may take what favors Bis- marek is pleased to extend, uniess it should be disposed to fight under in- creased disadvantages for the reeog- nition it demands there. Then we shall be able to see and appreciate the fox’s part in the gams of diplomacy which Bismarck is now playing, and which is represented to be so entirely satisfac- tory and reassuring to the state depart- mentat Washington. THE POLICE INVESTIGATION. The inquiry into the conduct of the police, which is now being conducted by a committee of the council, has brought up several questions as to the respective powers of the council and police com- mission, on which even the ablest of lawyers may disagree, The control of the police force and the authority to discipline its members is vested boyond dispute with the police commission. The council cannot legally dismiss, suspend or even reprimand a policeman, no matter what the offense may be. DBut the council holds the purse-string and makes the levy for the police, and may with propriety make investigation as to distribution of the force over the city and as to the service which it may or may not be rendering. For ingtance, if after inquiry into our police system, the council should reach the conclusion that we have more policemen than are needed for good government, it may cut down the levy for police purposes. If the council finds that our police protection is inad- equate, or the force inefficient, they may increase the appropriation for police or they may vrevise the ordinances regulating the police department, The latter, of course, mnust be done with the consent of the mayor and commission, The right of the council to cite po- licemen before its investigating com- mittees is implied, if not positively graunted, by the charter. The council cannot be expected to intelligently in- vestigate our police system without pro- curing testimony from the police force as to the individual expericnce of po- licemen, 1o making such an inquiry, it scems to us, the council does not nec- essarily trench upon the authority vested in the police commission. At best, the council can recommend to THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. APRIL 12. 1889. the commission any radical changes it may deem desirable in the police system and it is optional with the commission to carry out or reject such recommenda-~ tions, A REMEDY FOR PRAIRIE FIRES. The disastrous prairie fires which have swept a portion of Dakota, devastating miles of country and ruining thousands of people, have attracted widespread at- tention. Romedies without number have been offered to prevent their re- currence. . As a partial and permanent remedy the San Francisco Chronicle urges tree planting. The suggestion is a good one, if carried out systematically. Individual effort {§ useless. The authorities should encourage treo planting along all high- ways and along streams, by liberal bounties and premiums. It would not only limit the area liable to be swept by fire. but would educate the people on the great value of a timboer belt both as a wind and fire break, and shelter for stock. At present there is really noth- ing to check and break the force of storms, They sweep over an ocean of prairie without hindrance, gather- ing force as they proceced, and carrying destruction to life and property. Had the country over- whelmed by the frightful blizzard of 1888 been well timbered the disastrous effect of that storm would have been confined to a limifed area. But thero were no obstructions in its path and it moved south into Nebraska with irre- stible force. Similar conditious enabled the prairie fire to spread havoc over the great plains of Dakota. The authorities of Dakota should take prompt measures to encourage tree planting on a large scale. No more im- portant public work could be under- taken. The settler should be shown that a timber belt is worth as much to him as his fields of grain, and will pay him as well in the end. Itis a life in- surance for himself, his family, his home and hiscrop, and is the best and safest policy to invest in. The sugges- tion applies with equal force to the farnrers of Nebraska. THE PARK COMMISSIONERS. The amended act incorporating met- ropolitan cities provides that in each city of the metropolitan class there shall be a board of park commissioners, to consist of five members, who shall bo resident free holders of said city. The appointment of this board is devolved upon the judges of the distriet court of the judicial district embracing such metropolitan city, and is required to be made on the second Tuesday of May, which is about thirty days hence, It is important that the judges of this district should give this duty earity attention, in order that the selection of the mem- bers of the board may be made with due care and deliberation. It is of the highest importance that Omaba’s first board of park commissioners shall be thoroughly capable and trustworthy. In the creation of a park system success very largely depends upon beginning right. In many cities public improve- ments of this character have failed or been seriously crippled because they were started injudiciously. Entrusted to men who knew nothing of what was re- quired, or who had selfish inte s to subserve, such eunterprises were either abandoned after a great waste of public money or allowed to remain unfinished until the means could be obtained to complete them. Omaha must not have an experience of this kind. The city needs and our citizens desire a park system. The full accomplishment of this improvement must necessarily be a work of years, involving in the end a large outlay. It is not necessary that we shall start with the iden of at once rivaling sonfe other city having much larger resources upon which todraw for this object. But though progress be slow and sure, whatever is done should be well done, and with reference to a complete system of parks and connect- ing parkways and boulevards that will constitute one of the chief attractions of the city. The distriet judges will have no diffi- culty in finding candidates for park commissioners, but it may not be an en- tirely easy matter tosecure just the men to be desived for this very impor- tant duty. Hence it is desivable that the judges shall not leave the matter of selection to the last moment, and it appears to us to be none too farin ad- vance of the day on which the appoint- ment of the board must be made tor the judges to address themselves to this duty. — THE recent long distance runs of locomotives and crews on eastern and western railroads foreshadow an early radical change in the present system of train running. Forseveral months past new and improved locomotives have been in operation on the Pennsylvania road, making the trip from New York to Pittsburg without change, and also on the New York Centrgl between Now York and Buffulo. These tests have proved entirely satisfactory,and demon- strated the capacity of first-class engines for distance as well as speed. The annoyances of frequent crews are ob- viated and a considerable saving in time and money effected. Several such tests have been made on the west- ern roads, notably on the Union Pacific and Chicago & Northwestern. It is confidently asserted that in a few years four and five hundred mile runs will become the average of passenger crews. The time is not distant when trains will regularly run five hundred miles in from twelve to ten hours, —— Tue office of comptroller of the cur- rency is one of great importance. In the nature and extent of the duties of this official, he ranks only second to the secretary of the treasury. The national banking system of the country is under his supervision. He is not only required to see that the laws regulating this sys- tem are enforced, but he is expected to annually communicate to congress his views and recommendations regarding currency legislation, The office should be filled by a man of practical financial experience, and of the very highest in- tegrity., The leading candidate for the position,at present, is said to be ex-Con- gressman &. C. Parsons, of Ohio. Itis said that Secretary Windom opposes him, and, Uingugstionably, he has excel- lent reasons for doing so. Mr. Parsons is not a desitable man for the position. He has not {hé qualifications, even if he were, in all other respects, available. His only financial experience has been as a bank inspector. He has profited largely as a politician and congressional lobbyist. He was, at one time, marshal of the supreme tourt, and subsequently an attorney for the De Golyer pavement company, it having been through him that Garfield became associated with that swindling concern in Washington. In 1872, Parsons was elected to congress from the Clovbland district, and two years after was overwhelmingly de- feated by Henry B. Payne. His last public office, that of bank examiner, he continued to hold during the greater part of Mr. Cleveland’s campaiga, al- lowing his interest in the republican party to lie dormant during that time. ‘Washington dispatches say that the record of Mr. Parsons is being dug up. If the digging is carried to the bottom he will not be likely to get the office ho is seeking. GENERAL WARD HATCH. whose death occurred at Fort Robinson yester- day morning, made adistinguished rep- utation in the war of the rebellion as a cavalry commander. In the campaigns of the army of the Tennessee, in which he commanded a division of cayalry, he did most eflicient and valuable service, attaining to the brevet rank of major- general. He was at once gallant and discreet, and all the difficult duties de- volved upon him were performed with signal ability and courage. With but two or three exceptions no commander of cavalry during the war made a more brilliant record, and none enjoyed more entirely the confidence and respect of army commanders. General Hatch was highly esteemed by his fellow soldiers, and army civeles will regret his death as a serious loss to the s THE democrat s and gains in the late municipal elections in Mo tana are not reassuring to republicans who have expected a returh of republi- can senators and congressman when the territory becomes astate. It was reason- ably felt that the course of the last administration in the matter of terr) torial appointments. as well as the dem- ocratic policy regarding the territories, would insure republican success in Mon- tana, but these considerations secem to have had little weight. Although the result of municipal elections is not al- ways a sure indox of what will happen at a general election, it must ba admit- ted that at present the democrats have the best outlook for controlling the stute of Montana. Oun latest advices from Keva Paha county show that'we were misinformed in ascribing thé outlawry in that sec- tion to the greed of cattle men. Re- linble parties report that an organized band of cattle thieves has been commit- ting depredations, robbing the sestlers of stock, driving them through the re- servation, changing the brands and disposing of the plunder in Duakota. For two years thg people have been har- assed by this gang. They bad grown so bold that they drove stolen stock south through Keya Paha county to the railroad and shipped carload lots to Omaha and Chicago. Tho settiers have captured one of the leaders and dispersed the band, which is now ef- fectually broken up. THE county commissioners have en- tored upon anew departure, which may lead to a good deal of jobbery and speculative enterprise. The grading which the county commissioners have done in [this city has always been in the interest of favorites and against the interest of the taxpayers. It remains to be seen whether the proposed paving of certain streets, at the expense of the whole county, is a proper excreise of the road-constructing powers of the commissioners, or merely another scheme to take money out ‘the pecicets of the general taxpayer for the benelit of the few who own property on the line of the streets to be pav THE question of abolishing day dress parade in the discussed by the cubinet. The subject is not new, having been pretty freely talked about two vears ago, when the proposition was pretty generally op- posed by prominent army officers, as it appears to be at prosent. The argu- ment in favor of abolishing the pa is not based wholly upon moral consid- erations, but is chiefly that the soldie ought to have one day in the week for rest. This is not likely to have very great weight with those who know any- thing of the generally restful life of the American soldier, It 18 a common practice of valiant swashbucklers to put vp a straw man and then knock him down. This is forcibly illustrated by the **fake” inter- views which are being manufactured to order for the public-spirited amateur journalist, who has projected million dollar hotels, gréat railroads and costly public buildings for Omaha, but always takes care to remain a **dead-head” in every enterprise.: A fow credulous peo- ple may be gulled by bogus interviews. Intelligent people cannot but regard such underhanded and malicious bush- whacking with deserved contempt. the Sun- army is to be A PROMINENT member of the board of trade expressed himself very tersely on the caricature of the board of trade and the advice velunteered its mem- bers. The question was asked: “Why don’t the board redrganize into a mer- cantile club that wiill build up Omaha? Advice is very cheap. Why don’t the newspaper wreckers who have always failed in everything they have under- taken in their own profession, orgunize such a club? Nobody is in their way if they want to build up Omaha,” — A Dull Day in Chicago. Chicago Inter-Ocean, Ouly three divorce casns were heard in the courts yesterday, and they were hold-overs. B A Sensible Kentucky Town, Chicago Tribune. In Madisonville, Ky., the authorities have passed an ordinance forbidding brass bands from meeting “for the purpose of learning new pieces of music Wwithin 8300 feet of & dwelling house.” Tnis commends itself to the enlightened judgment of maakind, pro- vided the penalty for violation is made severe enough, PR G— A Natural Sequence, Philndetphia Inquirer, It is, perhaps, only a coincidence that about the time tho state legislatures begin to finish their debates and go home the cyclone season begins to unfold its windy wonders. pirdiat de Mg They Don't Let Go Worth a Oent. Philadelphia Press, Democratio officeholders are not resigning with that degree of choeerfuluoess and fluency which their ante-election promises had lod the publio to expect. They have ovidently heard that the weather is cold outside. W. T. Prize Ring Rules. Chicago Témes, Since there must be prize-fighting why not adopt the rules which govern the ‘“game” in Washington territory—soon to bo a statet In a mill at Seattle Monday one of the prin. clpals was killed and two of these spectators were shot. dihamiilianiras They Don't Apply Now. Westchester (Pu.) Record. Those democratic journals whoso editors are holding ofices under this administration are not republishing the articles they printed four yoars ago that an administration should have all officials under it in full political sym- pathy. ————— A Western Man. Cheyenne Leader. The Omaha press brings forward Hon. John L. Webster us a worthy successor of the late Stanley Matthews on the supreme bench of the United States. Mr. Webster is a cultivated lawyer of wide experience and eminent success in his profession. He has friends in this territory who wish him well, 1o matter to what heights he may aspire. il - Sadoartey Puns From the Public Ledger. Another female whistler, Miss Letta Ham- ilton, of Ellensburg, W. T., has been dis- covored, and she is bent on winning the championship. Her chiof rival will be more likely to exclaim, “Oh shaw!" than *Letta come!” Prof. James Bryce, author of “The Amer- ican Commonwenlth,” attained great emi- nence, years ago, by making tho arrest of Mt. Ararat, Living skeletons, who used to be in de- mand by inuseum managers, can now got only small salaries. Theirs are, truly,greatly reduced figures. Jumes Orrick, the well-known English artist, was a surgeon dentist in Nottingham many years ago. His drawings still bring him reputation. MISS BIECHLER'S ACQUITTAL. What the Chicago Times and Mail Say About It. Chicago Mafl, murder trial at Omaha went the usual way. Oceans of mud thrown on the Character of the man who, too late, nerved himself to sever relations which should never have existed. Miss Biechler, the “faithful and devoted wite,” comes out with a char- acter beautifully calcimined in white and a sprouting pair of wings. Sho depended on man’s inhumanity to man for her acquittal. And she got it. Chicago Times. The verdict at Omaha in the Biechler caso is another evidenco that public opinion is stronger than any printed statute. The womat is acquitted of the murder of young King. That she killed him was as certuin as that he is dead. The avenging shot was delivered openly. She went to Omaha for no other purpose than to kil a man who, hatever her own shortcomings, made a toy of hier for & tume and when it suited hjs pur- pose cast her aside. She way have lacked the diznity of womanhood, but bad as she was represented to be she was infinitely bett thau the scapegrace who cast her off when he thought it safe and desiva- ble to do so. They who treated her as a purchasable wanton standing in the light of a young man’s social advantage find that she was cast in the rugzed mold of ancient heroines who punished bet al with death. Such women are not to be played with. Practically the Omaha jury declares not that the woman was guiltless of King's blood, but that King was unworthy of life. “Thus is not the law of the books, but it is the law of rugged human nature, and from the finding of the twelve men at Omaha there is no appeal. Does it encourage murder? Lev us ask rather does 1t not discourage licen- tiousness! The outrage upon the person pre- cedes the outrage with the pistol. Had the man been loyal and honoravie he would g brigades are waiting for the verdict of the city attorney. Omaha is all right. Births for March, 1 death atural growth, 5) a mouth, 600 a or 600,000 in & centu According to the World bino company” that trilled opera house Tuesday night. Candidates for park commnssionerships aro badching. Until the appointinents are made the district judges will get an idea of what office-soeking really is. The big four of the county board continue tosit on Richard the Kicker with great unan- imity. Rules and regulations are of no con- sequence when the friends and favorites of the combination call for an appropriation, Tue Bee gave all its competitors the razzle- dazzle yesterday. The signal ‘‘scoop” on tho Biechler verdict absolutely killed all public demand for the cheap-john sheots, In ordor to get the news, and all the news, you have to read Tug Bee. The collapse of the Biechler case is ex- piained. According to the Republican the people entered into @ conspiracy dast fall to defeat Gurley for county attorney, thus pre- venting the possibility of a conviction. Sheriff Coburn has discontinued the szle of advance seats. The serio-comic aggregation has dispersed. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL, General McBride went fishing for the mayoralty of Lincoln, but he dido't get a bite on that line. The governor appointed him fish commissioner, The general will uow make the fish suffer. The decision of tha state department not to appoint any American citizen, as consul, of foreign birth, to a country in which he was born, is a prudent one. Those positions should be filled by men whose home associa- tions and kinship can not interfere with the faithful performance of their duties to this government, Idaho and Wyoming are moving for state- hood. The admission of the territories of Dakota, Montana and Washington have spurred the people of the former to unusual activity in developing the resources of tho ceuntry and inducing immigration. Both ex- pect an increase of from 10 to 20 per cent in population this year, and will' make & pre- liminary assault on the next congress for statehood. The great problem in Dakota s to find of- fices enough for the candidates. One-half the male adult population and several adult females are anxious to become sponsors for the embryo states, The contest in Rhode Island for tne United States senatorship was decidedly spirited. Nathan F. Dixon succeeds Jonathan Chace, It is hoped that Dixon will learn wisdom trom his predecessor's experience and keep it was “the Al- and warbled at out of the reach of terrapin and champagne. Miss Kate Fiold is lecturing in the east on “The Intemperance of Prohibition.” Itis a panoramic view of Kansas and Towa, with Maine and Connecticut on the side. The Minnesota cashior, whose doparture on a Canadlan pilgrimage caused widespread comment and lamentation, will add $100,000 to the American colony. The sufforlugs of family and friends are mitigated by the knowledge that our missionaries are carry- ing the banner of liborty and plunder into every section of the dominion. The Texas method of christianity should be frowned down. Injecting theology into mankind with a revolver stirs the emotions of the soul too quick and leaves the victim no time to draw on his stock of repentance. Sal- vation is free in Texas, if you take it with lead. . PORERS Y THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD. Ohio milk shippers have organized. Chicago lake sailors make from $1.50 to $2 per day; 2,000 are organized. Clothing-cutters and trimmers average §20 por week throughout the west. A Concord (N factory has declared a 6 per cent semi-anaual dividend. Jreat Britain has 203 tin-plate mills em- ploying, it it is said, 100,000 men, A New York cigar firm has cut wages 50 per cent, leaving a week's pay at Bookkeepers at Boston, Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas ¥ have organizea. Sydney, N+S. W., is said to import moro shoos than any other port in the world. Not since the war has there been such des- titution among the people of Orange county, N.C. The rotail grocers and butchors of Rens- selaer and Albany counties N. Y., have or- ganized. A Suncock (N. H.) company pays 200 em- ployes $600 per day for weaving 50,000 yards of cloth. Colonel John S, Cunningham, of Raloigh, N. C., owns 2,500,000 tobacco “hills" in Pros- ton county. . Denistown, Scotland, has the largest bread factory. The hittle baker is disappearing in Great Britain, Seattle (W. T.) common houses bring $40 per month, The poorest of dwellings rent for §15 per month, San Francisco musicians want the govern- ment to stop the competition of army bands ugainst regular labor. Ohio railronds must pay $1 per mile each year to support the railroad commission. Such a bill has passed the senate, Waltham (Mass.) watchmakers recently threatened to strike because of the imper- fect work of the young womea employes. Negro laborers in Louisiana are being supplanted by white families. Josoph W. Frellson, of St. Charles parish, says: *I have the land d ed out, and receive from each tenant one-quarter of the crop product. Each one of the men will do more effective work in one day than any two negroes I ever saw, because they work intelligently. The supreme court of South Carolina holds that the notice required to terminate a tenantey “from year to year’ must be given three months before the end of the calen- dar year, reckoning from January 1 to De- cember 31, ———— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Allston, Dundy county,now has a news- paper, the Times. The Strang Record has ceased to exist, and the plant will be removed to Genoa. Fourteen saloon licenses were granted by the Hasungs city council at its last meeting. The farm_house of Evan Williams, eight miles from Beatrice, with all its contents, has been destroyed by fire. A free medical dispensary for the poor has boen opened at Beatrice, under the auspices of the ladies of Christ's Episcopal church. While clessly handling a révolver, four- ar-old John Ellis, of Beatrice, shot olf in the leg, making a very painful wound. The Seward grave yard was burned over the other day, the fire cracking many of the tomb stones and destroyed ,the picket fences- and trees, Two thousands dollars have been offered for an exclusive license to sell liquor mn Oak- land, but the license board has refused to grant the privilege. The farm of the feeble-minded institute ex- pect to supply the Beatrice market with gurden truck, besides raising all that can be used at the school. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wooster, of Hastings, celebrated their silver wedding recently, the members of the G. A . post and W, R. C. attending the festivities in a body. The Lincoln Daily Call has again demon- strated that it's “‘a winner” by discarding its d coming out with an eight-page edition, The Call is in Lincolu to stuy and is now at the top of the heap, Twenty-four more men have been dis- charged by the Union Pacific at North Platte, making a_total of ninety discharges in the past few days. The citizens will ap- peal to the officials of the road to reinstate the men. Three special stock trains have left Ver- don for Chicago in the past month via the Missouri Tvcifio and Rock Tsland roads, in. stoad of gofng as formerly to Kansas City, Nearly forty of the cars in theso threo traing were Streeter palace stock cars. A plasterer living at Norfolk named Utak took a littlo spin on_the Elkhorn with a boat and was capsized. Ho was takon out of tho river apparontly. dead, but “after vigorous treatment was rovived for a day, but tho shock was moro than he could stand and ho died twenty-four hours later. The recent wind storm wrocked tho court house at Bassett. ‘The building is 160, and was standing upon blocks about two feot high, Thiore wero somo fifteen paople in tia building at the time it went off the blocks. A huge safo standing on the north side of tho building tipped over, smashing a-hole in tho 0oF. lowan, Tho artesian woll at Centerville is down 4400 foet. Dubuque now offors 9 cents a head for dead sparrows. The Hull Index says that thirteen jugs were dumped off that station the othor day, and some of them *‘were as tall as an old fashioned churn, too.” Tivelve yoars ago Dr. Konneday bought twelvo acros of ground on the blufl north of the river at Des Moines for $450, and ho sold it the other day for &24,000, A Burlington evangelist oponed with the hymu whoso rofrain is “Whero are tho Nine,” and somo ono in_the audience faintly answered, You'll find them in the soup.” A carlond of orphan girls, v ohargoo? Agont Curran, of the Now ' York Catholic passed through Dubuquo the 0 the Milwaukee road, on the ¥ to northwestern lowa, to be placed with farmers of the Catholic faith. The Towa railroad commissioners have de- cided that the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road must build and niaintain a depot on the gronnd donated for that purpose by the town of Bismarck, Clayton county, and accepted with that understanding. The question of tavping the Cedar river out near Moscow and diverting a largo flow of it to Muscatine through a scheme of large iron pipes is now boing tulked of. This isto furnish Muscatine with water for fire and domestic purposcs at a very low rate, as also to furnish ohoap eloctric power to be sold for mauufacturing purposes. Dakota, There aro twenty-two lawyers in Rapid City. The Deadwood teentn year. The poles are all set for Madison's oloctric light plant. The Sul v farmers’ boycotted binding tivine. The Beresford Methodists their new church May 20, Sioux Falls people have contributed gen- erously to the fire suffercrs. Fargo cast 524 votes at the city election, Grand Forks 556, Bismarck 538, The Homestake property in the hills has paia $5,000 in dividends this year, and total dividends to date of $4,308,750. The treasurer of Lawrence county, during the quarter ending March 31, redeemed war- rants to the amount of §39,501.83, The acreage of wheat sown in _the region tributary to Yankton is estimated us 30 per cent greater than that of last year. Many Pierre citizens signed the petition for the appointment of Dr. MeGillicuddy as a member of the Sioux commission. Extensive street improvements are to be inaugurated at Rapid City, and the money is in the city treasury to pay for the worlk. Under the new law a tax of $1 is imposed on each and every dog in the territory. It is calculated that there are fully 50,000 dogs 1 Dakota. The Huronite says the busincss men of Huron without _exception report an increase of from 25 to 50 per cent in the business of March lust, as_compared with March of last year. mes is now in its thir. alhance has will dedicate A Insipid Ridicule. Oxama, April 11.—To the Editor of Tur Bee: The penny-a-liners of some of the Oifialia dailies have been attempting to be fuuny of late. Their supposed sarcasm aims to throw ridicule upon one of the proposed sites which is now being urged for the new postofiice building. These so-called jokes, as Bill Nye says, “are not laughablé, and have not suflicient age to entitle them to re- spect” They are as silly as.*in the soup” i meaningless. The demagogue who has no argument ta bolster up a bad cause invariably resorts to insipid midicule. Eighteenth and Farnam may or may not be the site which will receive the approval of Secretary Windom. It is, nevertheless, a fact that Mr. Linton, who most people be- licve came hero charged in favor of tha Planters’ house biock, admits in his report that Eighteenth and Farnam is the most sightly location, but he says it is on a hill which has an clevation of four fect to the hundred for two blocks approaching it from the east. He omits, however, to state that the Planters’ house block ' is at the bottom of a hill_with an_elevation of nino feet to tha hundred for three blocks on the west, Good judgment would scem to indicata that the proper site for a public building should be remote from the hills or placed on a slight eminence. Buck in_ territorial times, when maha's commercial importance was not developed so as to create any strife in favor of pa streots, the qicstion of locating the c came up. Commercial interest did not cut any figure. The selection was made purely on account of its fitness, and where did they select? ‘The present high sehool grounds, L averag vi Iighteenth and Farnam! found in all citics where the sur Omaha, is undulating—the grand public buildings are placed upon commanding sites White :—Just as soon as cold weather scts in, my hands roughen and crack, has, but the result is just the same I buy the best and most expensive soap my druggist ; sore hands every winter, Brown :—1 had just the same experience, until I read one of the Ivory Soap advertisements, about too much alkali in some soaps, which draws the natural oil from the skin and lcaves it dry and lia- ble to crack, so I sent out and got a cake of Ivory Soap, and found it all the advertisement promised; my hands are soft and smooth the year round, A WORD OF WARNING, There are many white soaps, each represented to be " just as good as the * Ivos they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remerkable qualities of the genuine. 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