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

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A. D, 1889, Seal. N. P. FRIL, Notary Public, Btate of Nebrask Gounty of Donglas, }"" George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- es and says that i 18 secrotary of the es blishing company, that tho actual ayorage _daily circulatio of THE DALY DBEE for the month_of March, 1888, 19,680 coples; for April, 18744 coples; - for May, 188, 1818} es; ' for June, 1888, 1924} copfes; for Julye T80 Ccoplets for August, 188, 381K coples: for September, 183,18 I covles for October, 188, 18054 coples: for Novem. Der, 1888, 18,066 coples; for December, 1885, 18,223 copleat for January, 1850, 18,674 coplés; for Feb- ruary, 96 copies. wis BEdRGE B, TZ80HUCK, Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my presence this 2a day of March, A. D. 1880, . P. FEIL' Notary Public. It s the law-abiding street car com- pany which seems to be getting the right of way nowadays. . Sem— YANKTON has evidently caught on to the rising crest of a boom and is des- tined to press Sioux City pretty hard. ‘WiTH a hundred thousand dollar libel suit on his hands Russell Harrison has at one leap stepped into the front ranks of journalism, Ir the adventurer, fortune hunter and desperado were weeded out of the Oklahoma boomers, the United States would need very few soldiers to keep the handful of bona fide settlers out of the promised land. THE state university regeunts have banished microphobia frow the list of studies and will close the hog cholera ifactory next June. With Billings out of the way the swine plague will lan- guish for want of virus. COUNCILMAN FORD’S mouthings at the police are a pictorial representation of the ancient gentleman who hurled his jawbone at his enemies. The favor- ite son of the Third ward will never re- ocover from the dismissal of his boarders. THE fact that the appointment of the”| board of park commissioners devolves upon the judges of the district court of :this district is sufficient assurance to .our people that the selection of this moest important body will be made with ‘m view to the integrity and fitness of ¢ the member THE recent prodding of the Omaha road effected a mild reform. The com- pany has decided to carry stock shipped from northern points over its own tracks to South Omaha, instead of giving a short haul to the Missouri Pacific. The change will materially benefit shippers. COUNCIL BLUFFS cost mills are strug- gling desperately to evade the anti- . garnishee law passed by the legislature of Nebraska. Tlie task is a futile one, but they cannot peacefully relinquish a profitable source of revenue without a fight. The Omaha sharks who_are as- sisting them render themselves liable to prosccution and punishment. TiE annual report of the city clerk shows the indebtedness of South Omaha o be $850,678. This enormous sum was contracted last year, aggregating a debt of thirty dollars for every man, woman and child in that city. Who is to blame? In our opinion the responsi- bility lies with the men and papers that ' foisted a soparate city government on Bouth Omahu and boomed the bonding schemes of last summer. PRESIDENT HARRISON'S southern pol- - ley can hardly fail to beneficially affect the vepublican party in that section. By plecing progressive young men on guard, and carefully avoiding race dis- tinctions, harmony and unity will pre- vail, and recruits will be attracted in- stead of being repellod. ggWith the mosshacks and disreputables retired, the young, energetic blood of the south will agsert itself and rally under the re- publican banner of prosperity and pro- tection, Sm————— THe board of public works displays commendable vigor in the enforcement of the law relating to the tearing up of ‘pavements by street ocar companics. ‘Horetofore the companies recklossly tore up section after section of pave- ment without regard to the interests of tho city or property owaers. Now they are compelled to pay in advance the cost of paving botween the trucks, and the amount is divided pro rata among the taxpayers abutting the street, It sorves to check wholesale rdids on pave- .ments, and forcos the companies to ~bulld continuous lines, instead of strips _here nnd there to hold the street. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. ‘We have recently noted that there was an active demand in the south for skilled labor. and that the industrial enterprises of that section were stoadily advancing, The latost figures show that there is asubstantial foundation for these statements. None of the com- plaints that come from the industrial interests of the north are heard from similar interests in the south. On the contrary there is reported a steady pro- gress in that section, and the circum- stances of this growth may well chal- lenge the attention of northern manu- facturers, It will surprise all who take an inter- est in industrial progress to know that during the first three months of the present year the number of manufactur- ing establishments organized and pro- jected in the south exceeds those of last year by nearly three hundred, and those of the year previous by over three hundred. It will be still more surprising to know that the capi- tal stock represented by the list of new enterprises, and enlargements of old plants, during the first quarter of the present year, exceeded that for the corresponding period of the previous year by about twenty million dollars. Looking at these figures with reference to what they indicate, 1t is impossi- ble not to conclude that the industrial record for the year promises to be the greatest in the history of the south. How long can this rate of progress be maintained is a question of vital con- cern to the manufacturing interests of the north. We referred a few daysago to the conditions which were operating against the iron interests of Pennsyl- vania, and, in fact, the -entire east, to the advantage of the south, and to the outery which was being made by east- ern manufacturers for relief. Mani- festly, if this industrial growth in the south is kept up, and there seems every reason to expect that it will be, a revo- lution in the industrial interests of the north would be inevitable. At the present time the south is supplying more than the demands of that section. The pro- ducts of southern manufactories are in- vading every other portion of the coun- try. Whatis to be the ultimate effect of this extraordinary southern progress? The indications are that the whole in- dustrial system of the country must, within a short time, undergo a change, and that among the consequences to be expected is a radical departure from the policy under which northern manufac- turers have hitherto been sustained. It is a possibility of the future thatv the interests in the north which have per- sistently demanded to be protected by legislation, will be found asking the ut- most freedom of trade, and that the sup- port of the tariff will come from the growing industricsof the south. In that section a protection sentiment has been widely developed within the past few years, and isundoubtedly making steady progress. It is by no meuns impossible that ten years hence, or even before that time, the most ardent protection- ists will be in the south and the voice of Pennsylvania and Ohio will be heard in favor of free trade. THE BOARD OF TRADE. The bombardmentof the Omahaboard of tradc with cartoons, paper wads and mud balls may amuse some of our con- temporaries. Like the stocy about the boy and the frogs—it is fun for the boy but death to the frogs. The tirade of abuse may be regarded with indifference by individual mem- bers of the board, but it cannot help to be damaging to Omaha, The question has been asked, what has the board of trude done for the building up of Omaha, and what 1s the board doing toextend the commerce of this city? These questions cannot be answered in a half-column editorial. We will point to a few facts merely to show that the hoard of trade has been of some use in the past and is not an idle looker-on in Vienna at the present time. Years ago the hoard of trade was largely instrumental in solv- ing problems that confronted Omaha in the struggle for firmly estab- lishing hersupremacy as a traffic center. The board of trade is entitled to the credit of erecting the first office-build- 1ng in Omaha, and giving momentum to the movement that has resulted in the erection of great structures that would adorn any city. While in the nature of things the board has not been able to estab- lish a stock oxchange or a grain pit, it has done a great deal toward making Omalia the third meat-packing * center in America, ‘Within the past few months the board has, through its influence brought about the location at Omaha of several important manufacturing concerns, notably the casket factory, which will employ steadily more than one hundred mechanies. The board has just organized an ex- cursion to the Black Hills, which is already anticipated with marked inter- est by people in that region, and cannot fail to materially add to the commeroce of Omaha in the near future. ‘While some of our contempor- aries take delight in represent- ing’ the board as a body of Rip Van Winkles, the truth is that it is made up of the most stirring and suc- cessful of our business men, whose ab- sence from its.meetings is chiefly owing to the enormous pressure upon their time of the many important enterprises they have in hand, Who are these nlleged sleepy-headed idlers? Herman Kountze, J. H. Millard, William A Paxton, John A. Creighton, Henry W, Yates, W. V. Morse, John A. McStane, P. C. Himebaugh, John A. Wakefield, Fred Gray, Max Meyer, James E. Boyd, Ben Gallagher, H. H. Meday, Euclid Martin, Mr. Cudahy, Frank Colpetzer, P. E. ller, C. F. Goodinan, and more than two hundred other successful and enterprising merchants, manufacturers and capitalists, 1f these men do not take part in the discussion of every meeting of the board, it is not because they are indif- ferent about Omaha’s growth, but be- cause they have so many irons in the fire that they are not able to spare the time for awending these meetings. If Omaha was a dead town and all her merchants wore sitling in their stores A . SRS playing chess, the board of trade rooms Louis, and the Chicago, Minneapolis & would always be crowded at every | St. Paul desités to make the same rates chance for a lively debate, THE BROAD VIEW OF IT. Mayor Broatch is quoted as saying that the city council had no more right to investigato the police department than it had to investigate the city schools. The mayor’s version of the law is doubtless correct. It is equally true, however, that the council, which every year is called upon to levy a tax for the support of public schools, has a right to inquire into their condition and to ascertain whether or not they are conducted extravagantly or economic- ally, and whether the school accommo- dations are ample or deficient; whether the number of teachers employed is sufficient or excessive, ani whother the teachers and school employes are paid fair or extravagant sal- aries. If the right of the council to make this inquiry be denied the levy of aschool tax to any amount within the limit fixed by the law would be compul- sory. In other words, the council would be compelled, without investigation as to the wants of our schools, to comply with the demands of the school board as to the tax levy for school purposes. Mayor Broatch will hardly centend that such is the intent of the law. Now if the council has a right to in- vestigate the financial condition and managementof our publie schools, as must be conceded by all unbiased men, would not the council have a right to interrogate, under oath if need be, eny ofticer or employe of the school board? While the board is independent of the council and the council cannot raise or lower any salary or dismiss any teacher or janitor, would it not be regarded a breach of courtesy, to say the least, for any teacher or school officer to defy the council, ignore its summons and refuse 1o give it in- formation within the proper scope of any reasonable inguiry. If this be true of employes of the school board is it not equally so of per- sons under the direction of the police and fire commission? Suppose the conn- cil desire to ingnire into the condition of the fire department and its needs in the way of supplies, additional five en- gines, horses or carts, would its com- mittee on fire and police not have the right to send for the fire chief or any of his men and question them with regard to the equip- ment of the fire department. What would be thought of the refusal of the fire chief or his men to respond to a summons from the council? Nobody contends that the council can appoint or discharge policemen or in- terfere with them in the discharge of their duties, nor can the council legally interfere with the discipline of the police. But the right of the council to investigate the condition and general conduct of the police and fire depart- ments can hardly be called in question, in view of its duty to provide the ways and means for the maintenance of those departments. The refusal of policemen to respond to a summons from the council seems to us to be not only an act of discourtesy, but a defiance of authority. A poli man summoned before any magistrate, or any legislative body, has no right to question their authority to issu sum- mons. Itis his duty, just as itis the obligation of private citizens to respact the summons, and if the questions asked of him are improper or unlawful, he may decline to answer them. The council may have been rash 1n ordering an investigation into griev- ances that properly come before the police commission, and it is doubtful whether they have the power to rem- edy these grievances oxcept through the police commission. But the police should not be placed in a law-defying attitude, - dis- respectful 10 the body charged with the duty of maintaining the force. There is where we the line. Policemen have no right to assume that they are not subject to summons from the council, which may summon even the mayor and members of the police commission before its investigating committees. Tie Bee has always stood firmly in support of the prerogatives of the police commission, and against any interfor- ence by the council in the government of the police, but the right to investi- gate the condition of the department by the council must be conceded. There may be limitations to this inquiry, but these should be delined by the cityls legal advisor. SQUATTEI moving toward the Sioux reservation, prepara- tory to a descenton the land as soon as it1s thrown open to settlement. It is the height of folly to go there with the expectation of being able to secure a slice of the land at an early day. The commission to negotiate with the In- dians has not been completed, and will not enter upon its labors before the 1st of May. Probably two months will be required to complete the negotiations, and soveral weeks must then elapse be- fore the department examines and ap- proves the report. A vast amount of detail work must be done before the president’s proclamation, placing the land on the market, can be issued. Four months is a reasonable estimate of the time required to perfect all the d e- tails, and, if the Indians should seri- ously resist a reduction of the reserva- tion, a much longer period will be nec- essary, Settlers contemvlating a raid on Dakota will save themselves much expense and hardship by awaiting the result of the labors of the commission. e—— THE much talked of Inter-State Com- merce railway association that has figured so prominently before the pub- lic as the *‘gentlemen’s agreement’ and the *‘silk hat brigade,” hag finally come down to business. It proposes to settle all differences and grievances that arise between competing lines by a board of arbitration and so prevent the disast- erous rate wars und rate cutting of the past. With these laudible intentions, roads which have grievances, apd roads which have rate schedules to adjust, are laying their propositions before that body. The Wabash demands a differential rate on accountof fast trains on the Alton between Chicago and St. between points in northern Nebraska and Duluth that are now in effeot be- tween those points and Chicago. Other roads have similar demands to make. The question {8, how will the associa- sion adjust the'difficulties equitably and satisfactorily to.all? We shall presently seo what we shall see. The public will soon know whether the association is sufficiently stromg to enforce obedience from its ditsdtisfied membors, or whether it will pull to pieces like a rope of sand at the first strain, CONGRESSMAN MCADOO, of New Jer- soy, is wasting his energies on a meas- ure reorganizing and reforming the diplomatic service and abolishing the ministerial. The gentleman from Jer- sey groped in the dark during the four years of his party’s dominance. He persistently refused to see the enormities of foroign diplomoy, while his party friends enjoyed the privileges, but now that they are going with a vengeance, and repub- licans take their places, he seizes the ocension to pose as a reformer. The democrats, however, are a distracted minority, and their offorts to manufac- ture cheap buncombe will be overlooke d by a charitabl e public. ON the authority of the Railway Age sixty-six new roads, aggregating a mileage of over fifty-three thousand miles, have been projected sinco the beginning of the present year, of which some fifteen thousand mi ure under contract, and the remainder either surveyed or incorporated. In view ot the fact that the present year has been pronounced an off year for railroad building, the record is a surprise. It is hardly probable, however, that one- fourth of the ronds projected will be built, although there ave pressing de- mands for railrcad extension in soine localities. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The proposal of a local government bill for Scotland by the Salisbury ministry, upon lines more advauced than -had hitherto boen suggested by a tory ofcer of the crown, was a surprise t parliameat. The bill introduced creates county councils elected by household suffrage, having functions similar to the councils recently established in England. But the measure goes farther and surren- ders tothese councils the right to logislate on private bills. ‘This branch of legislation has always been exercised by parliament alone. No one supposed that the local gov- ernment for England would be the end of the movement. - Seotlaud and Wales were promised the like n due time. The dram- atic turn in the course of the Purnell com- mission nnd the hostile verdicts of the ecloctors . in the by-clections combine to quicken Salisbury's legis- lative pace. The iftroduction of the bill for Scotland comes in time to affact the Birming- ham election, and i3 may have a tendeacy to steady the waveriag columns of the union- ists. It is u matter of wonder as to how far Lord Salisbury is capable of carrying his concessions. He has railed at household suffrage, land expropriatioa, local autonomy, and so on,—and yet, when he gets to the jumping-off place, ke surrenders his princi Dles and takes thateap. A minister who can denounce forced landsales under a theory of dual ownership as brigandage, and then pre- sert bills perpetuating that thsory vpon the statute books,—a winisier who can deliber- ately confound the sentiment, for local auton- omy with socialism, and then turn atout and give England a county government and Scotland even a broader system of self-gov- ernment, needs but another twist of the screws to embrace homa rule itself. It has been the opiuion of many of the liberal lead- ers that a tory government is destinsd to give Ireland a Dublin parliament. -Captaring an enemy's supply train is war,—and Lord Salisbury, since he c¢ame into power, has made pretty free with Mr. Gladstone's bag- gage. *x The election for the seat left vacant by the death of John Bright will take place Mon- day, and the result will be regarded with great interest not alone in Bugland, but else- where, The conservatives and unionists have umited on the great orator’s eldest son, and the Gladstonians have an able candidate to oppose him. The Mr. Bright wio is run- ning, rather against his will, resembles his father 1 appearance and habits, but cannot make an average speech, or conduct the simplest kind of an argument. His younger brother, a vizorous homs ruler by the way, is, on the con! an able debater, and has made quite a reputation in parliamont. A similar condition of things exists in the Gladstone family. The ex-premier's cldest son is a very quist man, not troubled with even the average degree of intelligence. His young brother, Henry, 18, on the other hand, acapitul speaker,’an able financier, and is admicted, on all hands, to be a coming man. * *x The friends of Boulanger are making a great deal of noise, but every day their idol loses in the respect of the world, if not in that of sensible Frenchmen, Al roasonable men see that Boulanger at the helm of France would probably enter upon a period of storm, the ena of which could not ba fore- told. Boulanger is a man of intense ambi- tions, and experience shows him to be with- out scruple. He denies that he is working for a dictatorship, but that is of course. We doubt if France would tolerate the provosi- tion at this time. The history of Krance is oo recent for tolerance of that. Yet, Gam- betta dictasor in all but the name, and he was tolerated, and even more. He was worshiped. A mon of affairs in alarge sense, he was wise enough to conceal the sword in the scabbard. Boulanger lacks that in which Gampblifta excelled, He is es- sentially & military man, with the instincts ot a military charaeter. But he is a states- man of the Brummagem type. He may be called a Napoleon without brains, That be would endanger the peaceof Europe if at the head of the statainobody doubts. With such a man it would be the army against the people, and that wou):d mean war, - *a The most serious. danger, perhaps, that at present menaces tha.peace of Europe, 1s the illness of the kiogisof Hollana, William 1s now seventy-four yéars old, and has long been in feeblo health, The heir to the throne is & nine-year-old girl, during whose minority Queen Emma, her mother, will donbtless be regent. The aanger lies in the fact that Bis- marck has undoubtedly long looked upon Holland with louging eyes and the oppor- tunity which will be offered by the wepkness of a regency is one that he is hardly likely to let go unless compelled to do 80 by the united opposition of the other great powers, Holland has just what Ger- many most needs to increase her greatness. Besides her excel'ent sea ports and great commercial advantages, Holland’s colonies are large anda prosperous, and Bismarck is || particulacly intent upon securing colonies, It is not likely that the sturdy Dutch will look upon any such plan with favor. Their pres- ent condition is too prosperous to make them desirous of making such an experiment as amalgamation with imperial Germany, Be: sides this there are many other obstacles n the way of such a union. But Bismarck's wasterly skill and indomitable will may find away of accomplishing his purpose, though not without a bloody wi * The Russian minister of commerce has submitted to the emperor the plans for the great Siberian railway, The importance of this great trunk line cannot eafly be over- estimated. It will open up a vasi empire of wonderful mineral and agricultural re- sources and superior climate. Immigration will be attracted from ocastern and south- eastern Europe, and capital will follow in the wake of the emigrant. There is no doubt in the minds of well informed people that Siberia will ultimately become one of the richest and most prosperous countries in the world. The western terminus of the great Siberian railway will be Siatoust, a mining city in the province of Orenburg, connected with the general Russian railroad system by a branch road now in process of construction. It will touch the cities of Omsk, Tomsk and Irkutsk, and strike the great river Amur at a point which has not yet been definitely located. * The returns of the new railway enterprise of the Argentine Republic show a steady and remarkable development of that country. The report of the Buenos Ayres Great South- orn railway, recently vresented to its stock- holders in London, showed that in the latter half of 1838 the company had been called upon to ship to South America twenty-eight locomotives. twenty-four passenger cars and nearly nine hundred freight cars. This is a remarkable increase, vet it seems to be fully justified by the trafic returns. For the first quarter of the present year the railroad’s net earnings showed an increase over the same period last year amounting to $320,000. The secretary observed, in making his report: “‘The country has been advancing so rapidly that at times we feel that we have not been able to keep pace with it,” and the figures of the report show this to be no exaggeration, Ten years ago the district now traversed by this railway was almost uninhabited. The climate and natural resources of that coun- try are such as to assure it a great future. Its chief danger now lies in bad financial government. The crude principles on which ite banking tem 18 founded make the Ar- gentine Republic peculiarly vulnerable to financial disaster. A money crisis in London, under present conditions, would paralyze the industries of the South American republic. Fortunately, there seems to be little danger now to apprehend from that source. . M The proposed extension of the railroad re- cently opened in China has been stopped. The road is eighty-six and a half miles long, and the engineers in the field had located forty-five miles of the extension when they were ordered to return to Tien-Tsin. While the warning of the court astrologers that the recent fire in the palace at Pekin had been caused by the malign influence of the rail- road appears to have served as a pretext for the interruption of the work, the protests of thousands of boatmen and cartmen, who declared that the road would ruin their busi- ness, undoubtedly had some weight. It is feared that work may not be resumed for years. The mtroduction of railroads is fa- vored by the empress and the seventh prince, but the seventh prince is ill, and those who oppose the roads have their own way. There is danger that if the seventh vrince should die the road now in use would be torn up. The officers of the railroad company have repeatedly been threatened with assass- ination, even in memorials sent to the gov- ernment. viceroy, The influence of the progressive Li Hung Chaog, by whose labors ment was induced to perimit the on of the road, seems to have been overcome by those who cling tothe old ways. x. e : France, Austria and Germany have adopted smokeless and almost noiseless gunpowder for their armies. When the next great Kuro- pean war takes place the battles will bear but a faint resemblance to any that have preceded tnem. There will be little noise and less smoke, and if half the new inven- tions answer expectations, the loss of life wili be so0 terrible that the issue will be very speedily decided. - The Biechler Case. Chicago Herald. Miss Biechler, who journeyed from Chi- cago to Omauha and killed young King, escapes all pumshment save detention for tria) and acquittal. The jury at Omaha has not even resented the costs which the woman's act threw upon their civy. It may have been held to be an honor in the slayer to favor Omaha, when a hated rival might have worn the scnsation as a trophy of growing empire, The recurring discharge of female assas- sins indicates the existence of a belief in man—a belief above law and statute—that woman shoul 1 not be punished when she kills the lover or husband who has abandoned her. Her own character counts for nothing in the case. Certainly she was no worse before she was a murderess tnan after. How savage the people of America really are at heart is best revealed in the placidity of soul with which they look on the corpse of a murdered man, Horror at the deed does not exist. 1f there were excuse for anger, the American juryman will consider 1t due apology for slaughter. With such a premium on blood 1t is a mar- vel that American woten are not more gory. Men court their sweethearts with life in hand. Hersnot to reason why. Hers simply to shoot. His to die at her demand. The jury’s to weep upon the periods of the elo- quent counsel’ for defense. It is western human nature—that 18 beyond cavil. And a mouse will still scare Sorosis. Perhaps, too, if mon generally killed as justly as women, the social world would go better. —— Don’t Rush to Oklahoma, St. Louis Globe-Demo Those who are engaged in organizing Okla- howa colonies at various points cast of the Missouri river had much better turn their at- tention to something else. There are already enough persons waiting within sight of the coveted lands to absorb all the really desi able claims; and those who fail to take ac- count of this fact will meet with certain dis- appointment, —_—— A Sight of Great Interest. San Franelsco Alta, Pauncefote, the new British minister, is descended from the lady who ransomed her husband from the Saracens by cutting off her right hand avd sending it to them. If the new diplomat meet General Schenck and Dick Wintegsmith he will see some hends fully as remarkable as that of his ancestress, — A Tale of Two Republic Utiea Observer, Strange, isn’t it! The French senate was the cause of sending Boulanger out of the country, The United States senate was the cause of keeping Halstead at home, The senate must go. e Democratic Solicitade. Boston Herald, Every democratic officebolaer in this coun- try thinks President Harrison ought to take a vacation. e ‘What Does Ruody Mean? Chicago Times. Rhuode Island has elected & senator of mid- dle age who does not seew to te enormously 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BE& SATURDAY APRIL 13, 1839 rich. What does this departure from the genoral rule signify! And will the senate accept this choico as oligible for a seat in the rich man's club? - The Babies Conldn't Stand It Ohicago Tribune. There are no babics, 80 far as we havo been able to ascortain, named in honot of the Rov. Joseph Cook. To confer his name on a mere human baby would be anact of unpar- donable presumption, anyhow, —eian HITS AND MISSES, We have had enough of diseased senti- mentalism. The Bicchler woman is not a heroine. Editor Hitcheock is having lawn tennis grounds made on .his Twentioth street lots. 1t is not, as has veen charged, a dude pasture. There will be only tears of sympathy and a cageful of bouquets for the siren who may playfully kitl “her man.”” O, woman ! The Society of Christian Endeavor, it is snid, has expressed little hope for the genius who makes Soup for the Herald, or tho ass who grinds the Coffee of the Republican, Postmaster Gallagher says that there are a number of vigorous candidates for his shoos who are bocoming very impatient. 1lo thinks Major Clarkson, possibly, is in the lead, and is of the opinion that Senator Man- derson finds it difficutt to determine upon Clarkson, The postmaster has an idea that, 48 800n s an acceptable man can bo agroed upon, he will be asked to vacate the ofice, regardloss of the term for which he was ap- vointed. The only man in Washington who can in- terview Secretary Windom at all hours of the day and night, especially in the night, is the Washington (1) correspondont of the Herald, He seems to bo able to rouse the secretary from his slumbers at 2 a. m., but strangely enough the correspondent (1) never gets any information except that which Tue Bee prints the day before, Hugh Murphy's mastodon should bo care- fully and tenderly preserved. By scientifi- cally wiring the bones it can be utilized as a democratic candidate for mayor next fall. Ttis a significant fact that Con Gallagher threw up his aspirations on the ove of the discovery. The Omaha contingent of the Oklahoma boomers wisely views the distant landscape througb clouds of tobacco smoke. By con- tinuing to draw on the weed at home they will spare themselves and their purses a rude awakening. It costs an even §10 to call a man a liar in the Omaha police court. The assessment is increased in proportion to the vigor and venom of the assertion, but does not cover the consequences of a head-end collision outside, The thirty-third resurrection of the Omaha Humane society has been effected. This is refined cruelty to honored but neglected memories. Con Gallagher does not want to be congid ered a candidate for the mayoralty because he is interested in city contracts. It is bet- tor, he thinks, to put up one of his aspiring friends, provided, of course, he caa pull the strings. The police have been favored with & White Cap letter from Cut-Off lake. It is an mvitation to the sleuths to call in dis- guise, In sporting parlance thesfavorite way to throw a race is to ‘‘take a Knapp.” Itis more expressive and suggestive than taking headers. 3 ‘Why don’t Colonel Chase come to the res- cue of the board of trade? Somebody whisp- ers 1ts because he wants the postofice at Thirteenth and Dodge. e WHAT TICKLES US., Oll City Blizzard: The less head a man has the more frequently he loses it. Judge: DeGarry—I hear old Lordly is bemg sued for divorce. Bjones—Actress or typewriter? New York Mail: Noan would have failed as a ralroad man, He cven built au ark to kee stock from being watered. The death of the head of the groat distil- lery at Cognac removes a famous man, but his spirit is still with us. Boston Transcript: It is a little girl of five who makes the discovery that the shad is a porcupine turned inside out. Puck: Maud—And what will you do now that poor Flossy is gone? Sibyl (mourning the demise of a favorite poodle)—I shall marry. Binghamton Republican: A critie thinks the *'art of writing poctry is in decay.” It he means that modern poctry is mostly rot, we vote aye. Life: Miss Wabash—How delightfully your sister plays! Miss Waldo—Why, my dear, that's the man in the back parlor tun- ing the piano. Jowelers' Weekly: A scarf-pin shield tha t will protect its wearer from cntanglement from entanglement with a girl’s hair would be a boon to mankind. Texas Siftings: A Jersey City undertaker advertises that he furnishes “‘everything re- quisite for a funeral.” He must be a doctor as well as an undertaker, Life: *Hello, Brown! new typewriter, “#Good-looking! 1 hear you have a Is she good-looking?” Why, man, no; my wife selected her.,” ‘““Why, how did she come to select heri” ‘‘Well, you sec my wife was a typewriter herself before I married hei Judge: Colonel Gourker—It seems too good to be true. How did you come to ac- cept an old fellow like me! Miss Ingonue-- Well, you see, Colonel, mamma was begin- ning to act so silly and girlish over you that 1 had to step in to prevent losing ber. STATE AND T RRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Oxford intends to be in style with a brass band and a base ball club. “he Western Union is making arrange ments to open an uptown ofiice at Norfolk. £d. Hoare, of Platte county, has received the appointuient of farmer at'the Genoa In- dian school. “The Gothenburg roller mill company has been organized and will rebuild the miil at that place recently destroyed by fire. “The schiool census of Kearney shows 1,068 boys and 1,070 girls of school age, and' on this basis the city papers figure out a total po pulution of 10,660, The Madison county agricultural soclety will offer increased speed purses and hopos to make the fair this full the best ever he ld in the county. Arrangements aro being made by tho Te- cumsel Grand Army post to give an onter- tainment April 25, 20 and 27 to raiso funds to build a hisll for'the post. There are two cases of smallpox at Arapa- hoe, but the patients have been quarantined in & building out of town and there is no danger of the spread of the discase. The U:iysnul election stirred up some bad blood and resulted in a pugilistic engage- ment between two men and a poker. The e Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria, ‘When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, ‘When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, ‘When sho became Miss, she elung 1o Castorla, Wh2n she had Childrea, she gave them Castoria, poker escaped unhurt, but one of the mon received a bad cut on the scalp. A great discovery has beon made in Fron. tier county, about thirty-ono miles south of Curtis. Two farmers uncarthed an enor mous bono eight foot long and ton inches in dinmeter, resombling & mamimoth horn or tusk. Not being satisfied, thoy continuod their work and found the head of the anima which once bore this groat horn. The hoad was fully four feot across, and further dig: ging found the other horn or tusk, & perfect mate to the other, but broken from the skull and lying flat on the earth, Howard eounty boasts of the smallest liv ing perfect man outside of the traveling shows in tho world, in the person of Hans Hanson Westergaard, who lives on a farm ton miles from St. Pam, He was born in Denmark fifty-four yoars ago; has a wifo, Who tilts the beam at 235 pounds, is fathor of four children, all living, and enjoys per. foot health, Mr. Westorgaard is perfectly formed, weighs fifty pounds, and stands thirty-oight inches in height, 'He has threo brothers, who differ but a fow inches in height from him, His children ate all stal- wart, well-developed men. Ho can disposo of a glass of beer at u £:40 gait, providing ho can reach the counter to securo it. Town. Keokulk is after an electric railway. The deposits in the Davenport banks amount to $7,250,000, Bricklaying has commenced oa the govern- ment building at Ottumwa, Davonport is fifty yoars old, its first city election having been held in 1839, Fort Dodgo wants Governor Fifer of Il inois to orate there on the fourth of July. The railway commissionors' rates ploasa the Yuflph‘ of Ciinton and thero is talk of es tablishing a packing house. Mrs. Jane Wilson, an old resident of Scott cighty-two years of uge, died at Kan- , but her remains were brought to port for burial. A citizen of Conrad has been warnod to leave within a certain time and busincas men have been notified that the party noti fied to leave must depart within & week or the town would be burned to ashes. There is troublo in Lyons fhocauso the dis- orderly houso ordinance is not enforced. B, 118 terms the mayor out of the costs of pros. ecution would got $3 por month from each saloonkeeper. They are willing to pay $10 per month fine but ‘aon’t want to pay costs. Will Elliott, of Marion, has a_patent snoo button fastener. A Troy, N. Y., firm has offered to buy the patent from him and give him 81,500 per year as traveling salesman, with expenses, besides a royalty on every machine sold, and also send him to the Vi- onna fair and pay all his expensos. Dakota, Yankton is talking about a $50,000 hotel. Three men, named Lucas, Black and Mar- kol, have been held to the grand jury at Got- tysburg for setting fire to the prairio, For starting a prairic fire whicen did ex tensive damago in eastern Faulk county A. M. Strachan has been arrested and bound over to the grand jury. ‘While eating breakfast John Lecroix of Grand Rapids dropped over dead. He was a Frenchman and had reached the advanced age of one hundred and four years. Now that the bullding season is opening in Yankton the Press and Dakotian suggests that “it costs no more to put up modern style than to erect the dry goods box pattern of residences." “The people of Dakota have gone right to work to help each other out of the trouble caused by the prairie fires, and in a fow weeks the sufferers will be talking politics as cheerfully as over,” says the Aberdeen Re- publican, The city of Watertown is negotiating with William McIntyre for the construction of two railroads, the Watertown, Aberdeen & Northwestern, and the Watertown, Sioux Falls & Chicago. Companios have been or ganized and the Watertown peoble believe the mu\:]umeul will surely bring them more rail roads. ) The Kearney Postmastership. StockuAM, Neb,, April 12.—To the Editor of Tne BE| L notice by the daily papers that the friends of Moses H. Sydenhdm are urging his appointment as postmaster nt Kearney. Permit one, who has known Mr Sydenham for sixteen years, 70 express an earnest wish that this may be brough about. Evea sixteen years ago Mr. Syden ham was an old settler in the region about old Fort Kearney. His experience in the railway mail service for the past ten years or more has made him fully acquainted with all the duties that will devolve upon the post- master, Heis, besides, a man of wide in- formation, and most truly ‘‘a man without guile.” His upright citizenship from tha earliest pioneer days to the present time, hus builv up a cdmpleted claim to public recognie tion that, it seems to me, ought to be re garded and rewarded. That he has not, as is the case with many of the noblest souls, the gain-gotting faculty, is an additional reason for his preferment. Very truly yours, T. L. EVAN8. e Down on the Twino Trust, CraA1G, Neb., April 12.—[Correspondence of Tue Bee.|—The rain which has fallen quite heavily for the past two days, was baaiy needed and came none too soon. Corn ground is now in good shape, and a large per cent. of it is already prepared for planting, though none has been done yet. Wheat and onts are looking nicely, the former being up and growing rapidly. There are five acres of wheat this year to one last, also three of oats to oue last year. The Tekamah Creek grange,of this county, have decided not to use binding twine, i held at the present high prices, and have is- sued a request to all Burt county farmers ta join them, A card was also published a few days ago by a few representative farmers ta the same effect, and they will all, to a man, stand by their pledges made against thd uwine trust, E. F. Inwin. ————————————————— e LITTLE MARY CECILIA BRUNOLD Has just been cured of the worst Ed¢zema ever seen by the doctors who treated her. Krom head to feet a mags of diseased skin. Sev- eral physicians, a medical college, and all remedies fall. Cured by Curicura Remedies, My littlo daughter, Mary Cecilia Brunold, wns afllicted with the Worst 0ase of eczems 'ever Boon by the doctors whio traated her. Blie was Iiterally covered from head to foot with scabs. Thiesy pywicians triod thieir bost to cure hor, but 1 believe thoy were only expsrtmenting: Thuy kept on experimoutivg for over ten months, but instend of getting botter the child got worke, and [ did not know what course to pursue. My wife took her, after we had paid all we could aflord for medical treatment, (o a medical coliege where therd wer some twenty or thirty doctorsassembled, but the case buflied them all, My wife had to' go every day, and somutimes tivice a day. I fact the medicine they gave my child did not have time to act, cvon ‘if thers was any virtuo in it, it wad hanged 50 often by orders of the doctors. The latter part of J v, aftor everything had fallod, and patience and money wors both ex- haustéd, T made up vy mind to quit all doctor- ing and try the CuTicuia HesEDIK, 1 did 5o, and now. f can xay that my dawghter 15 cured, sound in health, nud well, to the surprise of M. Kruoger, corner 1ues, Who soid uk the I0UIA RENEDIES, 18 02 mich astonizhoed as of us, The CUTICURA KEMEDIES liave worked a comuleto cure, and wo Lave used put little more than tn fourths of a bot le ot CuTIOURA” RESOLVENT, ADA & proportionste Amount of CUTICUIA and CUTICUIA SOA, T an ready at any thne to make aBdavit that my Aanghiter had the worst case of eczemu, ns th doctors all admit, ever scen in this city, and that she Tiad heen ured solely by the CUTICURA HEMEDIGS, after the best physiclans and reme dlos failed. 1shall be glad to have any one call upon or write me wio hus & ohild siniflarly aflicted, oo auy person who b troubled with u skin dis thithe may soe for hinsolf whist Your Coricus Heseniks have done. 1 do this in gratituie for the cure that has heen effectod fn by child's case. CHAS. 1. 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