Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1889, Page 4

| THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. APRIL 22. 18%9. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. — —— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily (Morning Rdition) including SUNDAY T Thres Months ... v b pAY Bk, matled to any 3 Nm.:lt'nlnd o FA;:!IAI:"::;IH- 10AG0 OFFICE, 107 ROOKERY BULL 3 v 1w, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBONE om, No. 618 New Yonk Ox} WASHINGTON O FOURTEENTH BTREET. CORRRSPONDENCE. 11 communications relnting to news and edi. Im‘iulot-)mm should be addressed to the EDITOR BUSINESS LETTER! 1 business letters and remittan Titr BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, Drafts, chocks and postoflice orders to ayablé to the order of the company. 746 Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. cos should b Notice 1o Agents anu Subscribers We wiil consider it a favor if agents and sup- seribers will notify us at once when Tie Ber fails to reach them promptly. cessfully reredy any (m papers, it 18 absolutely necessary that we know the date on which papers were late or missing. 1t late, give the time and train on which Tu® BEE reached your town, Qirection so that we can locate the trouble and apply the proper remedy. guentiy carrled by a town through the care- lessness of the route agents, ana when this oc- curs, we can, with full information, place the In order to suc t in the delivery of Also state from what Papers are fro- THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, George B. Tzschuck, secretary of the Bee Pub- company, does solemnly swear that the circulation of Tk DAILY iE® for the Week ending April 20, 1859, was as follows: Sunday, April 14 Monday, April 15.. Tuesdav, Avril 16 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed to in my preselico this 2th day of April, A, D, 189, L, Notary Public. State of Nebraska, County of Douglas. sschuck, being duly sworn, de- thut he 18 secretary of the Beo Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of THE DAILY 1) month of April, 18%, for June, 158%, 13 ceples: ‘for Augiist, 1858, for 'September, 1885, 1,154 “copies « Sworn to befors me and sul pril, A. D., 1880, presence this 16th (In;,()f Ap N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. ‘Wio is swinging the retrenchment axe in Union Pacific circles? It 18 already plain that Omaha has an excellent ball club, or Minneapolis a mighty po 17 is stated that the junketing mem- * bers of the board will not bring the Black Hills back with them, THE road to Oklahoma can not be In a few weeks it will be a trail of blood, flanked with new made —— THERE may be something in the project of a sugar refinery for Omaha, providing the cultivation of sugar beet 15 a success in the state. Tie appointment of Robert P. Por- ter, of the New York I’/ess, as superin- tendent of the census, is a bitter draught to many rival aspirants SENATOR PAYN is not a candidate for re-clection. will rob Ohio republicans of the cheer- tul duty of laying himout. nnounces that he Now let the cable road and the horse car company ‘‘go the motor one better” by extending a cable line to South Omaha via Twentieth or Twenty-fourth IT REMAINS to be seen whether the motor line will repay the generosity of the council by promptly giving the peo- ple of the South Side adequate street ear facilitie THE signal se weather all through the country for the The prospects never looked more encouraging for the agri- cultural inter growing crops. BOULANGER has been politely in- formed that his room is more desirable than his company in Belgium. eruclty will ha the blooming patriots of I ing effect on Tne sudden suspension of work on several feeders and branch roads of the Union Pacific, in Wyoming, would in- dicate that the directors of that road haye determined to retrench with a Smme—— DAKOTA’S political weather chart in- dicates stormy times. in the air that during that period of state-making, Dakota will be convulsed with the thunder and lightning of con- tending factions. There are signs Tie board of public works has just let the contracts for building sewers av what is said to be a reasonable price. Now let the board take the precaution to appoint honest and capable inspect- ————— Tk city is determined to push its claim for the reversion of some twenty- nine lots held by the Union Pacific un- less that road redeems its pledges by building & union depot. delay is excusable. S———————— SEVERAL newspaper men of this seo- undertaken to demolish the The contract isa in the course of years, attracted a number of enthusiasts * who have made little out of it, No further church militant. Wirn the motor on Sherman avenue, horse cars and cavle on Twenieth street, and horse and electric cars on Twenty- fourth street, the residents of North Omaha will soon enjoy rapid transit and abundant facilities for reaching the business center. meemm————— SECRETARY RRUSK, of the agricultural department, is discharging employes. This is hard on the employes, perhups, but as the corn planting season is ap- proaching, it will give them an oppor- tunity to learn something about farm- fog, and then they will stand a chance of gotting their pluces back ugain, OMAHA AND THE NORTHWEST. _ The Omaha board of trade exoursion, which starts to-dag up the Elkhorn val- ley for the Black Hills, vividly recalls the fact that the development of that rogion is largely due.to Omaha enter- prise. The early settlers of the FElk- horn valley, for the most part, went from Omaha, imbued with the spirit of enterprise which the growth of this city had inspired, and confident of the future growth of that fertile region hy reason of its proximity to the largest city beéween Chicago and San Fran- cisco. Thus, West Point, Wisner, Nor- folk and Neligh, all prosperousand pro- gressive towns in that far-famed valley of the Elkhorn, were peopled by sturdy pioneers from Omaha long before the railroad had begun to invade northwest- ern Nebraska. And when the Black Hills were first explored by venturesome miners four- teen years ngo, Omaha furnished her full quota of tenderfeet, and did her full sharo toward opening that rich region to the white man. It is a matter of congratulation that the first authentic reports about the mineral discoveries in the Black Hills were made through TuHre BEege. It was at the instance of THE BEE that Cap- tain Jack Crawford, one of the founders of Custer City, and the first newspaper correspondent to set foot in the Black Hills country, was commissioned as scout by General Crook and given per- mission to enter what was then a part of the Sioux reservation. The Black Hills invasion of 1875 was an extra hazardous ven- ture, but it culminated in the ex- pulsion of the Indians and the establish- ment of pormanent settloments of in- dustrious and enterprising men, who, within a very few years, have built on a most substantial foundation townsand cities that will ere long rival some of the most pretentious cities in the min- ing regions east of the great lakes. ‘While the people of northwestern Ne- braska and the Black Hills region al- ways have been anxious to trade with Omaha and maintain amicable commer- cial relations with our bankers, mer- chants, and manufacturers, Omaha has until recently been more or less ro- stricted in her trade relations by a lack of railway facilities and also by taviffs that have operated in favor of Chicago and against this city. Even with this embargo to embarrass her jobbers, Omaha still enjoys a very heavy.trade in the north- west, which is destined to grow mater- ially, as the northwest continues to ex- pand, and the recources of that region are developed. The board of trade excursion can not fail to impress the people of the north- west with the fact, that Omaha, with her great smelting works, packing houses, stock yards, manufactories and jobbing houses, is in position to supply their wants and exchange commodities to the reciprocal advantage of buyer and seller. MASSACHUSEITS SPEAKS TO-DAY. To-day Massachusetts will vote on the prohibitory amendment. The cam- paign has been of exceptional earnest- ness and vigor, both sides bringing into the contest the ablest speakersand the hardest workers whose services could be had. The ministers have been con- spicuously active, most of them for the amendment, though a considerable number, among them men of the high- est talent and influence, have, in the most earnest fashion. opposed it. Very generally the lawyers are against the amendment, and most business men are opposed to it. The distinctive in- fluence of the women is 1n its favor. The most influential portion of the press has doue battle against the amendment. Thus the people will render their ver- dict after as{ull and thorough discussion of the subject as it could possibly re- ceive. The result will be regarded with great interest throughout the country, and its influence can not fail to be. important. The indi- cations are that the amend- ment will be defeated, possibly Dby & very large majority. It is so short a time since Massachusotts had prohi- bition and added one to the many in- stances of its failure that it is hardly conceivable that a majority of the people can decide to repeat that ex- perience. Furthermore, there has been a great deal of testimony made against the policy of prohibition since Massachusetts had it, which the people of that state have had presented to them in a way compelling its consideration. They have seen their past experience repeated iu different degrees in every state that has adopted vprohibition. Whisky has been sold in_the prohi- bition states in defiance or evasion of the law. There has been less open drinking and more secret, more whisky drunk, and of a viler kind, and less beer. The theory of the law and the practice of the people has been in con- flict, with the effect of steadily lessen- ing the popular respect for the author- ity and sanctity of the law. Drunken- uess has not been banished, the cause of temperance has not been advanced, the material prosperity of the commu- nities has not been improved, but, in- stead, has declined, and in place of the healthy, progressive growth of local re- striction, to be obtained under a proper system of high license, there is a can- tralization grand in pretense and feeble in practice, although calling to its aid, as it must do, an army of spies and informers. Having had all this clearly shown them, attested by their own experience, it scems hardly possi- ble that a majority of the people of Massachusetts will be found in favor of constitutional prohibition. —— THE SUPREME COURT VACANCY. In filling the vacancy on the banch of the supreme court of the United States, caused by the death of Associate Justice Matthews, President Harrison will be called upon to consider the claim of the territory west of the Missouri, to a larger representation in that tribunal than it now has. The relative im- portance of this section in all material conditions entitles it, under a fair distri- bution of members of the supreme bench, to more than one, as at pres- eut. Sectional ocounsideration may have, had generally, less influence in determining appointments to the su- preme court than in other branches of the government, but they have not been ignored, and every other section has fared far better than that west of the Missouri, Twenty or even ten years ago this discrimination might have been justified on the ground of the great superiority of other sections in population, wealth and material devel- opment. But this will no longer serve. The vast empire extending from the Missouri to the Pacific has attained a development in population and interests, as well as in political power, that demands for it in the distribution of all offices under the national government at lonst an equal share with any other section of the country. As the supreme bench is now consti- tuted, the east has three members, the south two, and the other threeare cred- ited to Illinois, Towa and Califorunia. In.the history of the court Ohio has furnished five of its members, two of whom, Chase and Waite, were chief justices. That state now has five candidates for the existing va- cancy, and the principal ar- gument urged in favor of the appoint- ment of an Ohioman is that the new wan should come from the circuit which includes that state. There is no rule, reason or precedent for doing this. At one time Waite, Matthews' and Harlan were in the circuit embracing Ohio and Kentucky, and Harlan is still in that circuit. Obviously there 1s not the least bit of force in the circuit argu- ment for taking the successor to thelate Justice Matthews from Ohio, while there are very cogent reasons, that will readily occur upon a little serious reflection. why the vacancy should not be filled from Ohio. Judge Woods, of the United States district court at Indianapolis, has been spoken of as likely to receive the ap- pointment, but as Indiana has the president, the attorney-general, a for- eign minister and the best consulship under the government, it would seem that she is hardiy fairly entitled to a position on the supreme bench. Be- sides the territorial division embrac- ing Indiana is represented in the supreme court by the chief justice. All other sections, being, therefore, represented in the supreme court as fully as a fair distribution of these judi- cial positions warrants, the section west of the Missour: is clearly entitled to an- other represuntative on the supreme bench, and the president will do simple justice to this section by selecting one of 1ts many able jurists to fill the exist- ing vacancy in the nation’s supreme ju- dicial tribunal. PRESIDENT HARRISON appears to be a thoroughly systematic man. He has just introduced a reform in the way of giving consideration to public busi- ness, which promises excellent results. This consists simply in devoting one day in the week to the exclusive con- sideration of the affairs of a single one of the six principal departments—that is, Monday to the navy, Tuesday to the postoffice, Wednesday to the treasury, and so on. The practice hitherto has been to discuss the business of all the departments at the cabi- net meetings, and the result of this method of considering a great variety of matters having no connection with each other, the president found to be very unsatisfactory. Hereafter, each department will have its special day for the presentation of business requir- ing the attention of the president. and it is said that the good effects of the new method are already apparent, es- pecially in the matter of expediting the public business. It is a little re- markable that this simple and sensible system was not established long ago. It is estimated that it has already cost the the Minneapolis Street Railway company, in its stana against its em- ployees, more than the difference be- tween the old and new schedule of wages for a year. The company would have saved about twenty-five thousand dollars annually by the reduction from the old scale if the employees had ac- cepted the new schedule. The street railroad company may win in the end, but the victory may be more costly in proportion to the forces and capital in- volved than was the victory of the Bur- lington roud over the lrotherhood of engineers, S0 ex-President Cleveland does not desire to sacrifice himself on the altar of public duty for five dollars a day and the distinguished honor of being one of New York city’s functionaries, In something less than four years he will bob screncly up as a sacrifice on the altar, and so on, at fifty thousand a year. There are more dollars and dignity in a Washington situation than in one in the village down the Hudson, below Alban Grass-making west of the Mississippi is yet in its infancy, and the failure of the Laramie glass works does not neces- savily indicate that the task is hopeless. With the rich deposits of soda and sil- ica in Wyoming, there is every prospect that, with proper methods and financial backing, extensive glass works can, in time, be made profitable in that ter- ritory. Tue democratic managers of the Chadron land office have been smitten with a spasm of reform. Henceforth homesteaders will be given the privi- lege of selecting the paper in which notice of filings shall be published. This sudden and remarkable departure from partisan methods is due to the uncer- tainty of official life, and will tend to placate republican editors. e - SECRETARY JERE RUSK contemplates suspending the distribution of seed to the people of the country for the cur- rent year, owing to the niggardly ap- propriations. Putting tne department of agriculture on short rations, while its head is elevated to the dignity of a cab- inet officer, was hardly a fair deal oun the part of congress. E—— I¥ there is anything in brains, bustle and bullion, the Omaha excursion to the Black Hills will bring trade to this city, Our iradesmen are here for business, and once the fact becomosl;n.vlnm, he ;Nna attacked with a delirious impressed of tHe attention of the west- ern people the best results may be looked for. r—— The Cleveland Method. New York World, Grover Cioveland, attorney-at law, de- clines an offies and accepts & big dinner. That is the way to get on in local politics. cbob- At A Momentons Question. Chicago Tribune. Before going-uny further, let the question be sottled whether or not the president snubbed tho base ball players, Anson says he did, and Spalding says he did not. ——— A Hint to Officeseekeors. Chicago News, The Washinglon correspondents assert that the president’s family have suffered se- veroly from sower gas since it has been at the white house. It is a pity that the office- weokers cannot be prevailed upon to leave their breath outside when visiting that his- toric mansion . [ A Dishonor to Congress. Chicago Times. ‘The widow of tho late Chief Justice Waite has to earn her living by keeping boarders, There is nothing dishonorable in the business. But it is something disgreditable to the con gress of this country that it doesn't supply its chief justice with a salary sufiicient to keep his family out of the boarding houso business, e ciesi. Not Imitating George. Chicago Herald. Everybody connected with the manage- ment of the Washington contennial is calling each other a liar. If the spirit of George Washington, the man that never tola a lie, is not to prevail on an occasion commem- orating a great event in his own life, we may never hope to see a manifestation of it in this country. Brave Governor Richardson. Globe-Democrat, Governor Richardson, of South Carolina, has done a very creditable thing in pardon- ing two colored men who were sentenced to death for lynching a white man, who had criminally and fatally assaulted a colored girl; but at the same time he has defeated himself for renomination by the democratic of the state, AS OTHERS SEE US, A Chicago Libel, Chicago Times. Cry of the brakeman on arriving in Omaha: *‘Omaha. Five minutes to kill a man." ——— They Don’t Know How, West Point Republican. A number of Omaha sinners are trying to write down the churches. They should get down on their marrow-bones and pray in- stead. We Are One —Not Rivals. Farnam Caprice. Omaha had just worried through a murder trial, when Council Bluffs chipped in with a sensational murder and a first-class suicide. The rivalry between these two cities bids fair to eclipse that, of St. Louis and Chicago. fe'c o el A et Nebraska's Arbor Day. Denver News. Seventoen years ago Nebraska commenced the observation of Arbor day by planting 12,000,000 trees on the wind-swept prairies. There are now growing in Nebraska 603,- 000,000 trecs, largely the result of Arbor day observance, This should encourage tree planting in Colorado. e Al Ho Looked For. Orete Globe. The Globe representative studied Omaha’s commercial outlook last week. He is thor- oughly convinced that the Omaha papers are terribly in earncst when they say that pro- hibition would ruin the prosperity of tnat city. 1t would certainly close up onc-half of the business houses. At least that per cont of them are saloons. ~——— Still She-Gets There. Fremont Tribune, The Republican insists with brutal pug- nacity that the Omaha board of trade is dead, dead, dead. But we observe, all the same, that Omaha's bank clearings lead those of St. Paul, Minneapolis, Detroit and many other cities a great deal larger and whose boards of trade are smd to be aliva. There is something with vitality down at Omaha. We guess it's just a fair sample of the true Nebraska push. e ‘While sleepy contemporaries are beginning to think of providing news facilities Tur Bee has a man on the ground fiving in special dis- patches from Oklahoma. The right of “‘Judge” Hascall to display his assinine qualities should not be abridged. He is playing a farewell engagement in the city’s service and his disposition to bray should be tolerated within reasonable bounds. He has lost all power to do the city harm, The dog show is over. The base ball sea- son begins in earnest to-day. Following the first league game the Coliseum ovens up a six-day race. Sporting matters are looking up a bit in these parts. Tkey Hascall could not let the opportunity slip last night to harpoon Tur Beg when a resolution was introduced by Mr. Bailey in- structing the councilmanic committee on public property and buildings to look up new quarters for city officers. His harangue, however, was of no avail. The average councilmanic nose may be highly developed in the matter of smelling official corruption, but it revolts against inhaling the pestilen- tial stench which arises from the police stables and cells below. As the lease on the present quarters expires July 1, the mayor felt justitied in making a move for more de- sirable and convenient rooms. In this the council seems to be stipporting him. ! SBTATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. ‘Wallace bas a Lame Kiln club which holds quarterty meetings, Only three fires visited Schuyler last year and the net loss was $165. The inter-state firemen’s tournament will te held at Nebraska City May 25, The Schuy! A, R. post will celebrate 'Bhtl!LWnlhmzlun uu‘wnnml with an old time a Five hundred old'sgttlers will attend the reunion to be held at Lexington, Dawson county. C. H. Jaquette, au Elmwood jeweler, has been warned by White Caps 1o léave town or take the consequences. The gross receipts of the Fairbury post- ofice for the year ending April i, were #6,410.11, & gain ‘of $1,462 over the previous year, Tne supervisors of Harlan ocounty have called an election on the question of voting bonds to build a $5,000 jail and a §25,000 court house. The York waterworks have been sold by the sheriff, and wero bought by a local firm for §27,550, The works have been bonded at $60,000, “The recorder of Saunders county has taken in $1,002.70 in fees in the first quarter of tho year, the largestamount for a like period since the office was instituted. Sidney is in great need of a jeweler and watohmaker, Work of this kind is either sent 1o Cheyenne or North Platte, and is a source of much inconvenience to the people. While Abe Olmstead, of Mead, was con- fined in tho Sauadors county Jail it Wahoo, walting to be transferred "o the insaune e e e e lever and died. Mr. Brockenride, the gentieman who (rew the farm near the {enter, in the Osana F drawing, was in Wilber the foro part of the week, says tho Wilber Republican. He had his deed recorded. H. R. Bishce has retired from the editor- ship of the Ainsworth News, and 18 suc- ceeded by T, S, Armstrong, to of the Norden Borealis, Mr. Bisbeo will dovote his time to the duties of county judgo. The Oakdale Penand Plow has entered upon its thirteenth year, and the editor re- marks: “Under our management it has never went to bed excopt on its arms, nor 'l'mlu it over yet appeared except in fighting rim." A Ravenna blacksmith found a note for $200 the other day which had been lost by a Utica man, and promotly returncd it to’ its owner. By return mail the biacksmith re. ceived 8§ cents in postage stamps as a roward for his honesty. A potition is being circulated in Chase county asking Attorney-General Leese to an- nul the charter of the Frenchman Valloy & Wyoming road if it does not in a_reasonablo time lay the iron on its grade between Cul- bertson and Holyoke, Col. A Wymore man fishing in Indian creck,the other day, drew out a bundle containing the body of a male infart, which had evidently been strangled immediately after birth, An nquest was held, but nothing was developed in regard to the child’s parentage. A man giviving his name as Bancroft Good has applied for admission to the Nor- folk asylum, as he knows he is insane, io walked all the way from Bassett to Norfolk, and is now 1n charge of the sherifl, waiting until his relatives can be heard from. lowa, Clinton has 2,040 taxpayers, A Sioux Rapids man has invented an air motor wagon. The new court house at Carroll cost $37,500. The new Grace M. E. church at aBurling- ton is to cost $20,000. Marshalltown is proparing to build a new $15,000 school house. IPor selling what he called ‘'soda water," a Battle Creek man was fined $500. Itis estimated that the proposea high bridge at Clinton will cost $150,000. According o the new city directory, Fort Dodge hus a population of about six thous- and. The Denison Bulletin says that the aver- age consumption of beer there is forty kegs per week. Farmers insome parts of the state aro boiling their surplus potatoes and feeding them to their hogs with very gratifying re- sults, In fact they cause the porkers to put on fat quicker than anything tried before. The Gazette says that any gas company that will build works in Burlington can get @ guarantee of the patronage of %0 per cent of the gas consumers oi° the city. ‘The Ga- zotte explains: ‘“I'ne works here are in the honds of two or three young cockneys who came over to show Americans how the busi- ness is managed in London.” Landlord Remington, of the Barrett hous Dubuque, has brought suit against the D buque Times for libel, alleging damage in $10,000. The Times says: ‘It would natur- ally be considered a somewhat difticult thing to slander tho devil or to say anything libel- ous in regard to the infernal regions, Just what Mr, Remington finds to object té in an article which simply charges his house with being a resort for disreputable and degraded women it 18 hard to see.” Dakota, The Sioux Falls club has a membership of Spring opens at Yankton with no brick on hand. “The Rapid City board of trade has a foun- dry and & creamery committee. “There are 500 members of the farmers' alliance in the Hills country. An election on May 14 will decide whether Kingsbury county purchases a poor farm, Scotland will vote May 3 on the question of issuing §10,000 in bonds to build water- works. Lead City has a population of 2,150, ac- cording to the census just comploted by the assessor. The firsu territorial convention of tho Y. M. C. A, for South Dakota will be held at Mitcheli on the 31st day of May, and con- tinue in session until June 2. “The Sulem special runs the following as an advertisement: “If John Jones, who twenty years ago deserted Nis poor wife and babs, will return, said babe will lick the stuftin’ out of him.” The commissioner of immigration has de- cided to send a man mto the Oklahoma country in a few weeks who shall distribute onall sides articles and statistics of the growth, development and_ rosources of Da- ota. —_— DANISH ASSOCIATION'S OCHOICE. This Strong Organization Favors Eighteenth and Farnam. The following series of resolutions was adapted by the Danish association- at a re- cont meoting: Whereas, The proposition to locate the new United States postoftice and court house is pending before the supervising architect of the treasury; and, Whereas, ‘The Danish association of Omaha has recently erceted a large public building, costing over $50,000 on_Iightacnth and Harney strcets, which site was pur- chased because it is' centrally located and and near all the public buildings of Omaha; and, Whereas, "This society regards it as in its own as well as in the interest of the whole city to have the new postoftice located where it will be most accessible to our population; therefore, Resolved, That we respectfully recom- mend and urge upon Hon. Wm. Windom, the secretary of the treasury, tho sclection of block 115 fronting on Farnam and Doug- lass north and south and Eighteenth uud Nincteenth streets cast and west as tho most avallable location for "tho new post- office. S Bonds and Money Values. Probably the most comprehensive, exact and intelligible st of tables of bond values and ready interest reference in oxistence w-day is the compilation recently issued by S.A. Kean & Co., bankers, of Chicago. Thoy were prepared especially for this publi- cation by H. C. Chadwick, of New York, and they fully sustain the claims made for wvity, accuracy and conven- ience.”” They aré cortainly marvels of genius and the mathematics of finance, To people who lend monoy on mun bonds, there is no more valuable orr sary book of reference than the “New Digest of Laws of the Weatern and South- western States,” just issued by S. A, Kean & Co., bankers, and dealers 1n bouds and so on, of Chicago. The compilation is the work of ‘an able lawyer, who put_nearly two of conscientious and continuous stud, the subject, and has given, in a condensed and convenieut volume, the gist of the statutes of more than threc-quarters of the stites of the union, governing the issuance o municipal and_corporate bonds and obli- iations. The author isa specialist in his opartment of the law, and the publishers ure the most prominent dealers in that class of securitics in the west. To Old Soldiers. Information is .wanted concerning the whereabouts of Heury Richardson, who was lieutenant of Company M, Twelfth Illinois cavalry; is now fifty-two years old, six feet high, gray eyes, fine, thin gray hair, sandy brown full beard, mixed with gray, com- plexion light, four false teeth in front, nat- ural tooth gone from upper jaw, wore a sen- ior vice-commauder's hml‘z‘ of the G, A. RR.; was 8 good violinist, His home was in Pérry, N. Y., where his wife and children now re- side. He left home in search of employment. When last heard frowm, Decembor 14, 1558, was in Buffalo. He had beon enzaged in fruit-growlng, but may have sought any other kind of work. It is feared that his wind may be impaired, 80 as to cause him to peglect writing, und his family think he may have wandered westward. Any infor- mation coucerning him should be sent 1o , Buftalo, N. Y., or to Perry st, G. A. R., at Perry, N. X., or to Mrs, Henry Richardson, at Perry, N. Y. —— The rosy freshness, and a velvety softness of the skin is invariably ob- tained by those who use Pozzoni's Com- plexion Powder, - LINCOLN NEWS AND NOTES. BExtonsive Preparations For the Arbor Day Oelebration. AN ODD FELLOWS ANNIVERSARY. The BEarly Settlers of Lancaster County Organizing a Ploneer . Association—A Little Gamo of Poker, 1020 P Stregr, Laxcouy, April 2L Arbor Day will bo celobrated in Lincoln as nover before, Treo planting will bo general throughout the city. At University Place the edict has gone forth that property ownors shall plant trees whether convenient or not. In the event of failure, the marshal is in- structed to plant them and tax the expense up to the lots, and the order is backea by an ordinance law. Saturday was protty gener- ally devoted to tree planting in Bast Lincoln The suburban city, it might be said, took time in hand and performed the duties of Arbor Day a day in advance. But the mor- row will not be forgotten and it goos without saying that the day will be fittingly celebrated. to be pleasant, a largo num- ber ot Lincolnites will picnic at the City park. Class trees will be planted by the studonts of tho state university, the city schools will enjoy a holiday and there will bo parades and speeches and a good time in every sense of the word. The respective schools of the city plant troes upon their own grounds, Little folks will recite, read and sing, and such other exercises will be interspersed in the programmes as will tend to make them very interesting and enjoyable. Anniversary of Odd Fellows. The Lincoln lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows will go to Beatrice, Friday, April 23, to join their brethren of that city in the celebration of the soven- tioth anmversary of the ordor in ihe Uuited States, The excursionists wili be accom- panied by the order of Daughters of Ite- bekah. A special train will leave the city in the morning, and_will not_return until late at night, thus giving the celebrators a day the most beautiful city on the Blue. Canton Ford No. 2 will be m_uniform and accom- panied by the band. Quite three hunared members of the order will go from Lincoln. The only celebration iu this city on that oc- casion will be an_appropriate sermon in the evening by Rev. O. 1. Baker, pastor of the Freewill Baptist church. Lancaster County Pioncers, A meeting will be held at the council chamber to-morrow evening for the purpose of organizing a pioncer association. This is m accord with the custom in most all coun- ties when age has been acquired. It Is un- derstood that this associatiou will be formed by the early scutlers of Lancaster county, whether of the city or county, and a large number of them huve signed the call for the meeting. It will undoubtedly prove a suc- cess. Aside from holding rounions, the association proposes to do something, as soon as well organized, toward preserving the early history of this section of tne state, and in this work may prove a valuable aid to the state historical ‘socicly. A general invita- tion is extended to all old settlors, whether they signed the call or not, to be present and assist in making the effort at organizavion successful, A Falling Tower. “‘Great was tho fall thereof,” may be said of the standpipe of the Lincoln city water- works. It is evidently going to pieces. A large section of the brick coating has fallen off, and other parts show signsof speedy dis- solution. The whole tower will certainly fall if speedy precautions are not taken to pre- vent it.” How to take them, is a question that worries the city officials, for the trouble is in the foundation, which has settied. The opinion grows that there was fraud in the construction, A Whirl at Poker. The story goes that a couple of Lincoln’s veterans at draw poker were talken,in a night or two ago,by a slick manipulator of the tiny pastebourds. He came a stranger and went away without leaving a well defined im- pression of cither his name or place of resi- dence. The party, four in uumber, surround- ed the table, so it is said, about 10 o'clock at night, and it was agrced'to play the cuter cut and slash and _ everything was to_go. For a time the game was easy and dame For- tune smiled equally upon the quartette. No one of them was particularly the loser. But the hand fivally came. Raise and raise back was the word until over £00 was in the pot. Thestranger stood the racket and drew one card. Ditio two of the Lincoln boys. One of them, counting the cuter, held four big aces, the other a queen full on trays. A show for sight was finally called and in the lay down the stranger showed down a club flush, ten spot high in reguiar order down, and walked off with the pot. The boys took their medicine like little men, The truth of this story is vouched for by a reliable gentle- man who pretends to know. Easter at the Penitentiary. The convicts at the penitentiary were made to feel, to-day, that there might be some- thing left for them in this world. They were made to feel, at least, that they ware remem- ¥ were ushered into the ted by a delegation of bmen’s Christian anco union, and they wero given a sthing out of the ordinary. The t in the calendar of tne W. C. J. for special servic Jails and prisons. The programme at the state penitentiary to- day included a beautiful song by Miss Fthel Howe, and a reading by Miss Almena Parkor, the teacher of elocution at_the Weslyan university. Mrs, Angio F. New- man, who has spent a great deal of time in the study of prisons and prison systems, spoke in" behalf of the women, Governor Thayer, who was also to have addressod tho convicts, could not be there, Four hundred testaments and an equal numbver of Kaster cards were distributed among the prisoners. City News and Notes. Joseph Burns, the Lincoln well man, has secured the contract for furnishing the water for the reform school at Kearney. The contract price 1s $5,100. An attempt will be made to have the inter- state oratorical contest, which is thiz year held at Grinnell, Towa, heid next year in Lancoln. A woman went into a second-hand store on O street on Saturday and tried to commit suicide by spreading a banakerchief satura- ted with chloroform over 1 i tention was discovered in time restored without baving suffered scrious consequences, A boy who ran away from Galesburg, 11, some time ago, and who has been in the cus- tody of the Lincoln police, was taken home by his father yesterday morning, His name vlll;l Otto Snyder and he was fifteen ycars old, ‘The old Metropolitan rink was enlivened last night by a colored rivival service. The meeting was intended to represent a planta- tion revival, such as the negroes used to bave in slavery days, and an especially pleas- g feature was the plantation songs. ‘'he Semmons Lacrosse club has ordered new uniforms and will be completely equipped for playing as soon as they arrive. Miss Louisa Hill and Miss Edith Clark, of the State normal at Peru, are attending the college conference of the Y. M. C. A, and while in Lincoln, are the guests of Miss Snell, of the State univeraity. Through his attorneys, George Kirl, who has been in jail since the 4th of February last for cowplicity in the Quinlan robberies, has asked the county court fora writ of babeas corpus. He thinks heought to be tried or set at liberty, and the matter will come up for bearing Lo-morrow. ‘T'he board of couuty commissioners and the county officers are busily engaged can- vassing the bills that have been received for furnisting the new court house. Many of these bids are very low, even advautagoeous, and thero is pluntj)' of good furniture from which to sel t is hardly probable that the canvassing board will be compelied to go from Lincoln to select the turnishings for the new court house. e Valuable Papers. Oficer Newman yesterday found a deed and @ mortgage at the corner of Twenty second and Cuming. The parties to whe in- strument are 1%, J. Hefln and wife and Frank L. Eddy. The owner may find the papers at the police station. LINCOLN BUREAU OF Trir OMAns Ban, } THE GEORGITES, They Hold Their Weekly Meeting at Gate Oity Hall, The Omaha Single Tax club held its weokly meeting at Gato City hall yostorday at 2 o'clock. After the regular programme, consisting of essays, spoeches, declama tions, ote,, the socioty organized itself into a query club of the whole, one member taking the floor and answeriug questions propounded by thosa present, both members and visitors ~asort of froo-for-all oross-examination of the George theory. Questions hard enough for Solomon were answorod with seoming oase by this champion of tho new orusade, and several of tho lessor lights got into argu- ments with each other that would bafe the brains of a Nebraska solon, At the close a professional comedian brother was caliod on, and he delivered an original comic poem that set the audience in a roar. The club re ceived several now mombers, among them two ladies. To-night several of the members will address a meeting in Soutth Omaha, PR Sty Announcements, Messrs. Booth and Barrett opon their great engagement at the Boyd next Friday even ing in the Shakespearean play, “The Mer. chantof Venice.” No drama ocomd have been solected that would ha fforded these eminent actors the opportunity of displaying th transcendent powers 8o well as “The Merchant of Venice,” Hhe divine bard created two leading characters of equal im. portance in this play, and- consequently neither of the great actors will suffer vy the cast. Mossrs, Booth and Barrett represent in themselves what is best and highest in dramatic art in this country, and it is grati fying to know that wherevor they go, cast or west, they ave received as such. The union of theso two stars has had a benefioial effect on the theater, and it has afforded to tho lovers of Shakespeare opportunities to seo several of the greatest creations of tho moster dramatist impersonated as he in- tended they should be. It is perfectly befit ting that the engagement of these eminent actors should open with one of Shakespeare's Rreatest creations, *“The Merchant of Von- . The following is the cast: ie shylock e e ... Edwin Booth Bassanio, Lawrence Barrott Autonio, Jrederick Vroom Gratiano. .....John A, Lano ‘Lawrenco Hawloy William Stafford Churlos Kochler .Henry Duncan Charles Collins Beaumont Smith ..Bon J. Rogers Owen Fawcett William Thomas Solanio. ., Salarino. Launcelot Gobbo., Balthazar. Stephano, .1 Wolsely Leonargo. wero..Georgo MeCulla Portia.’..... . Miss Minnie K. Gale Nerissa. .Miss Eleanor Tyndale Jessy ..Miss Agnes Acros On Saturday afternoon “Othello” will be played, on Saturday evening the closing por formance will b a grand double bill—The Fool's Revenge" and *Yrieck’s Love." Dockstador's magnificent minstrels will begin an engagement for two nights only, to-mght and Tuesday, April 23 and 28, This superior organization will prosent all the popular features that were such a pronounced success at tueir own beautiful little opera house, New York city. Lew Dockstador will show up some of the follies of the day inhis own immitable way, besides present- g a number of new “Dockstuderisms.” Harry Pepper, R. J. Joso, John McWade, and several others, will be heard in pleasing ballad sclections, whilo George Marion, Luo_ Schooleraft, Barry Maxwell, Arthur Morland and Leopold and Burnell will un. dertake to convulse the audiencos with wit ticisms and comic songs. This company ro- ceived the warmest kind of wolcome while here a short time ago, and there is every in- dication that their coming engagoment will be a very prosperous one. In commenting o their performance tho New York Even: ing_Telegram r cently said: Mr. Dook- stader is not only w comedian of rare merit, but also a shrewd, sharp and effective stage manager. He is witty and well educated, and has been brought up to believe in_good taste, clean humor, excellent music and d cacy in all things that apertain to the stag He caters especially for the entainment of ladies and children, and has resolved that burnt cork and comedy shall, under his mau- agement, bo as free from vulgarity as “white-face” legitimate comedy has been in the best theaters in New York. Mr. [ H. Ragan will present another brilliant series of illustrated lectures at Boyd’s for nive nights, commencing Monday, April 20. The subject on that date will be “A Summer in Spain and Morocco.” Prof. A. J. Seymour, a mind reador second to none, will be the attraction at the Eden Musee this week. Prof. Seymour came to Omaha with a well-carned reputation as a master of his art. Hewill prove an inter- esting attraction to the popular family re- sort. All parts of the house will be filled with good attractions, and one dime will admit to all, Every lady visiting the Musee this after- noon and cvening will be presented with a handsome corsage bouquet of cut flowers, S Personal Paragraphs. A. M. Webber, of St. Louis, 1sa Paxton guest, A. V. King, of Adrian, Mich,, is at tho Millard. D. W. Hitchicock, of San Frar the Paxton, W. M. Walker, of Des Moines, Sundayed at the Millard A. 'T. Berchard, of Marshalltown, Ta., is a guest at the Paxton. J. H. Young and Miss Grace Young, of Salt Lake, are at the Millard. Lee Chi Ke and Chow Foo, of Cauton, China, are at the Millard. Walter P. Phillips, president, and Andrew 8. Phillips, secretary of the United Press association, are at the Paxton, Hon. 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