Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY APRIL 27, 1839. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ik~ TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION, Dally (Morning Rdition) including SUNDAY Bk, One Year...... o E" throo Months. . T Threo Months. Y s % OMATA BUNDAY Bre, mailed to any AAATERS, ON0 YORT, ... o eerieesianse oo WeRKLY Be, One Year. No8,011and 016 FARNAM BTRERT. %, 57 ROOKRERY BUILDING. kW YORK OFF1cR, ROOMS 14 AND 16 TRIBUNR UILDING, WASHINGTON Orrioe, No. 618 FourTEENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENOCR. All communications reluting to news and edi- orial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR ©F THE LEE. BUSINKSS LRTTERS, ATl business letters and remittances should be addressed to* ik Bre PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAWA. Drafts, cliecks and postoffice orders to e made payable to the order of the company. ke Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. -3 e oo 88 s33 CHICAGO O Notice to Agents and Subscribers, 1n order to successfully rectify any fault in the delivery of papers, it is absolutely neces- sary that we know the date on which papers were late or missing. 1f late, give the time and train on which Tix Bre should have reached your town. Also state from what direction, 8o that we can locate the trouble and apply the proper remedy. Papers are frequently carrlod by u town through the carelessness of the route agents, and when this oceurs, we can, with full information, place the blame where it belongs. Wo will consider it & favor if agents and suo- seribers will notify us at once when TiE BEF 118 to reach them promptly. AE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, 1 County of Douglas, | (George I, Tzschuck, secretary of the Tee Pub- 1ishing company, does solemniy swear that the actual circulation of THE DAILY BEE for the week ending April 20, 188, was as follows Sunday, April 14 Monday, April Tuesdav, Avril 16 Wednesday, April Thursday, April 18 Friday. Aprii 19 Baturday, April 18611 15,656 8 Average. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to hefors me and subscribed to in my ‘presence this 20th day of April, A, D, 1880, Seal. N. P WEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, [ County of Doug [ “George B. Tzscnuck, being duly sworn, de- 08 and says tha he 18 secretary of the Beo Publishing company, that the actial average Anlly circulation of THE DAILY liEg for the month of April, 188, 18,744 copies: for May, 1888, 18,i83 coples; for June, 1884, 10,243 copies; for July, 188, 18,033 cep! Auguist, 1858, 18,183 coples; for September, , 18,15 for October, 1888, 18,084 copie: 18,080 copies: for Dec for January, 145, 18, 1680, 18,144 coples; Tor March, 184, 15,84 coy GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my preseuce thls 1oth duy of April, A, D, Ttk N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. THOUGI often crushed to earth, the union depot project rises again. THE heart of the Black Hills beats warm in welcoming the visiting mem- bers of the Omaha board of trade. HURLING v © epithets at each other will in no way aid the county commis- sioners to patch up the bad work at the county hospital. JAY GouLp is taking upon his shoul- ders the arduous duties of president of the Texas & Pacific without salary. Whether his services are rendered without pay is another thing. M. GEORGE PULLMAN has had his exclusive rights to the vestibule patents confirmed by the courts. The great sleeping car magnate should now betake himself to Italy for another high sound- ing title from King Humbert. AT the farewell banquet given to Minister to France Reid, by a college society, Calvin S. Brice, the rainbow chaser, was one of the most conspicuous guests. The rough edges of the late cumpaign seem to be rubbed down pretty smooth. The people of Minneapolis can not raise fifteen hundred do!lars with which to celebrate the Washington centen- nial. Since the passage of the law ex- cluding dressed beef, it is all they can do to scrape up enough to pay their butchers’ bills. THERE is a brilliant future awaiting that young boomer at Guthrie who quietly laid claim to the lot on which the postofiice was pitehed, and ousted the authorities. In their haste to begin business the postoflice officials noglected smpt their entry, and so became sers when the formal entry was VERNOR I"RANCIS, of Missouri, advanced seven thousand dollars of his own money to pay the sending of Mis- souri’s militia to the New York cele- bration on the 30th. The governor ex- pects to be reimbursed by the legisla- ture, but that is somewhat dubiovs. There is probably more glory thau cash in Governor Francis’ investment. A DISAGREEABLE mess is likely to be turned up in the investigation of ir- regulavities 1n the Oklahoma land of- fice, Both civil and military officials of * the United States are said to have con- nived in securing for themselves and their allies the choicest claims in Okla- boma. This is a scandalous proceeding and deserves a thorough probing. The men who, in good faith, staked their all in their quest for homes, should be protected from the faudulent practicos of land-grabbing officials. But, after all, nothing better was to be expected from Jake Robberts. T1E time is ripe for the construction of the Omaha and Yanlkton railroad. " Other towns with less means but more energy are cutting 1nto Omaha terri- tory, and in a few years will divide the wade of North Nebraska. There is a deep significance in the determination _of the Manitoba system to enter the state from the north, It shows that St. Paul and Minneapolis realize the bene fits to gecrue from such u line, and back their faith with their money, The Pa- citio short line will penctrate one of the richest sections of the state and divert trade to Sioux City and Chicago. Omaha capitalists must bestir themselves. Talk will accomplish nothing, They nust demonstrate theiv faith in & north and south line by puttiug up the cash and proceading with the work., Out- siders can not be expected to invest in the enterprise if home capital refuse to touch it. Towns and counties along the line have heretofore indicated their readiness to substautially aid the com- pany, dnd it Omaha's millionaires take hold with the right spirit the road can be built and put in operation for & com- paratively smal! sum, FOREST DESTRUCTION. A committee of the American For- estry congress, of which Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, is the ohair- man, presented to President Harrison a fow days ago, an address regarding the condition of the public timber or forest lands, and the pressing need that exists for a radical change in their man- agement. The congross, at its last ses- sion, expressed its disapproval of the prosont method of disposing of the public lands, and especially the timber lands. The address presenls the vea- sons for this disapproval. It recites that hitherto these lands have been disposed of on the same terms as othor lands not mineral, no account being taken of the value of the timber, and thus the government has parted with millions of acres at a price, in many in- stances, insufficient for their survey. The purchasers of such lands have en- riched themselves by converting the trees, the growth of centuries, dnto lumber, and after gathering the rich harvest, have abandoned the land as comparatively worthless. Large areas of public timber lands have also been denuded by individuals and’ cor- porations without the preliminary pay ment of even the small pittance re- quired by the governmeont to secure the fee simple of the land. The addvess quotes from the records of the land office for seven years, which show that in that time the vaiue of the timber reported stolen was over thirty- six million dollars, of which amount less than half a million was recovered, a sum about equal to the appropriation for protective services. The great loss thus sustained by the government, and it is believed many timber thefts are not reported, is cortainly a very serious matter, to say nothing of the injurious consequences upon climate, rainfall, and in other ways of the reckloss de- struction of the forests, and demands stringent remedial legislation. This was suggested in a bill formulated by the forestry congress and pres to both houses of congre year ago, the most important provision of which was for the withdrawal of all public timber lands from sale or disposal, with aview to their examination and classifi- cation. It was proposed in this measure that classified lands, chiefly valuable for agrioultural purposes, though wholly or partially timbered, were to be open to entry under the homestead or other laws, au appraised sum Dbeing paid for the timber, while timbered lands on the headwaters of streams and other such lands, unfit for agricultuve, were not to be sold. but the timber on them to be disposed of from tima to time, under the direction of officers of the government, in such manner as to retain the forests as suck in perpetuity. The zeal of the forestry congress in this matter is certainly to be com- mended and encouraged, for unless some such legislation as it proposes for the preservation of the public timber lands is secured, in another generation there will be no forests to protect. [t is estimated that last year thirty billion feet of lumber of all kinds weve taken from our forests, and it is believed that the annual consumption equals twice the amount of materials suppiied by the anuual growth of the forests, It is therefore not difficult to understand what must be the result allowing the present condition of aff to continue. Iiuropean governments carefully pre tect their forests, and the wisdom they have acquired in this respect we can not judiciously ignore. PUTTING UP The Canad THE n house of commons has passed the extradition bill which pro- BARS. vides for the surrender of embezzlers, defaulters, forgers and other eriminals who may herenfter seek refuge in the Dominion, and as it is a government measure no doubt is entertained of its passing the upper house. The author of the bill desired to make it retro- active, so that C; da might be nmd of the colony of American scamps now harbored there; but, strange as it may appear, the boodlers had the sympathy of a very iarge portion of the house. It was contended that they had gone to Canada in good faith, believing they had the protection of the British flag, that muny of them had hecome spected members of society and most desirable citizens, and that it would be a great hardship to such as these to muke the law retroactive. This argu- ment was successful, and the embez- zlers and defaulters sojourning in the Dominion may remain there in safety, with the assurance that the door of Canadian society is open to them. But notice is served that no new accessories are wanted, and’ those who are contemplating a change of allegiance must make haste or the way will be closed to them. This action is commendable, whether the motive be that of friendliness to this country or a desire on thoe part of the Canadian governmenf to relieve itself of the stigma of offering a safe refuge to criminals and to contribute to the cuuse of justice. The fact that Canada has been an ‘‘open door” for American boodlers, who have gone there with their hands full of plunder, must have been a great humiliation to those of her peoplo who have regurd for justice aud the interests of morality, and the adoption of a policy in accord with tho sentiments of this class is reached none too soon, It is impossible v what may be the moral effect of ¢ uetion, but it ean not fail to have some, and it should induce our govern- ment to adopt some legislation that will allow Canada extradition riglits as lib- eral as those sho gives to us and to other countrics. In doing this there will be a step taken in the establish- ment of a better understanding between ourselves and our northern neighbors, which is the desire of all good citizens of both countries, THE WATERWORKS QUESTION. Tue ks prints the following paragraph: The wiseacre of the Ierald still insists that we can ignore the vested rights of the waterworks company acquired by franchise, and override tho blain provisious of the charter which restrict our municipal in- dobtedness to ten per cent of the eit, as sessed valuation, - With the sawe propriety we could override all charter limitations and pile upa mountain of debt atour pleasure. J3ut who would buy eur bonas ‘There is a clause in the franchise of the waterworks which provides that the city may at any time purchase the works at their ap- praised valuation. So much for the first objection. Secondly, a bond issued on the waterworks plant would not be, strictly speaking, a city bond, and would be readily nogotiable be- cause of the collateral, Charter limitations as to the amount of debt incurred being limited to ten per cent of the asscssed valuation wounld have noth- ing to do with a water bond any more than it would with a district paving bond. This much 1s true that the city would need a legislative act to empower it to issue such bonds, but that can be had, The only ques- tion isasto the wisdom and economy of such a measure. The Herald oconfesses to much surprise that Tne Bee has assumed the role of obstructionist without discussion of the subject on its merits,—Herald. It is an ensy thing to make assertions but another thing to prove them true. The franchise of the city water works company is embodied in ordinance No. 424, aporoved June 11, 1880. The clause referring to the right of the city to ac- quire the works reads as follows: ““The city of Omaha shall bave the right at any time after the expiration of twenty years to purchase the said water works at an ap- praised valuation, which shall be ascertained by the estimates of three enginecrs, one to be selocted by the city council; one by the aterworks company, and these two to select the third; provided, that nothing shall be paid for the unexpired franchise of said company.” The unexpired franchise refors to the clause in the contract with the water- works company by which the city obli- gates itself to pay hydrant rental for fire protection for the term of twenty- five years from the time of completion of said works. The contract required the works to be completed within one year and four months from the 20th of July,1880. This gives the ocity the right to purchase the works on or after November 1, 1901. There is only one way in which the city could acquire the works before that time by paying their appraised value, and that is by forfeiture proceedings, in case 1t can establish the fact that the company Itas failed to comply with ivs contract obii- gations. We cannot comprehend by what pro- cess of reasoning city bonds issued for the purchase of waterworks wounld not be city bonds just as much as any other bond issued by the city. The district paving bouds are simply mortgages against the private property abutting the pavement, and payable, principal and interest, by the owners of such property. The waterworks bonds would be a debt incurred by the city for the bene- fit of the whole city, payable out of taxes levied against the whole city.. No legislation can vitiate vested rights and annul acontract between the two corporations—the city of Omaha and the City Waterworks company. If this plain statement of the existing rela- tions befween the city and waterworks company places THE BEE in the role of an obstructionist, we are wiiling to have it appear in that role. The Herald may be ‘‘surprised that THeE BEE will not discuss this water- works question on its merits.” We con- fess that we are not in the least sur- prised at the utter inability of the Herald to sustain itself in this discus- sion. The Herald scarcely ever does Iknow what it is talking about. THE president of the Michigan Salt association has sailed for Europe, it is understood, on an errand the results of which will be felt from one end of the United States to the other. Report has it that he goes tosecure ten million dollars with which to enable the pool already formed in this country to con- teol- the entire salt product of the United States. There appears to be little reason to doubt that English capi- talists who have operated a salt trust in Great Britain are prepared to combine with a syndicate in this country in creating a gigantic salt monopoly, and it is believed the detnils have all been arranged. The assumption is that it is not the purpose of the projected combi- nation to put up the price of salt, but to inaugurate a system which will ma- terinlly reduce the cost of production, realizing its profits in this way. The familiarity of the public, howeve: ith the operations of this form of monopoly will not permit it to believe that a salt trust is likely vo be any more consid- erate than arve the sugar and other trusts. The creation of this new monop- oly will mean dgeaver salt, whether the cost of production is reduced or not, and it is absurd to suppose that it has no such purpose. AT a meeting of the trunk line ex- ecutive committee, at New York, it was resolved that in the future no more private live stock cars ‘are to be allowed on the trunk lines. Complaint has been made by both railvoads and shippers, that discrimination was en- couraged by the use of these private cars, For that reason it seems their use was ordered to be discontinued. THE admirers of the late Henry G. Pearson, postmaster of New York, pro- pose to erect a monument in his mem- ory to commemorate his unflinching fight for civil service reform. With the Grant monument fund still teus of thousands of dollars short, it is mock- ery to talk of a memorial to anybody in New York City to be raised by popular subscription, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Receut addresses of Lord Salisbury at Bristol and London demonstrated that the opinions of the tory leader regurding the Irish question have undergone uo change or modification, but are as uncompromisiug and hostile as they have ever been. He ridi- culed the agitation 1a favor of home rule in Ireland, declaring that the nationality argu- ment was insincere, and that it was wore fruitful of sophistry and clap-trap, and more barren of solid sense, than anything that was ever before the country. It would sac- rifice, he said, the first interests of industry and commerce to & mere empty sentiment. It can not be edifying to those not tories, but who have supported the goverament in its Irish policy, to hear talk of this kind from their leader, which simply flouts the intelli- gent opinion of the world opposed to gov- ernmental oppression. That cause is surely losing ground which must have recourse to ridicule, and Lord Salisbury oconfesses the weakness of his position when he has unoth- ing better to offer in support of it than was presented id his Bristol address. From this sort of argumeunt the friends Irish of howe rule can turn with reassuriog effect to the declarations 8"Mr, Gladston o regarding the change that bas takon place in English senti. ment oo the Irish question, and the expres- sion of his ‘Dilief that if that sentiment could have vgice in a general election 1t would declaré in favor of Ireland's demand. The tory gragp of power is menaced, and no one knows botter than Lord Salisbury how imperatively f¢cessary it is that the people shall not bo given an opportunity to pass judgment on the tory policy. . 0 Genoral Boilangor in London will be at much greater disadvantago than in Brussels, There is continuous telephonic communica- tion between the latter and Paris; there is none betweer the KFrench capital aud Lon- don, and telegraphic dispatches from Gen- eral Boulangor to his frionds in Paris would be subject to tho danger ot being offcially interoepted bofore arriving at their ultimate destination, His lines of communication will be greatly interfered with by his chango of base; his frionds will be fewer in cold Tondon than in warm Brussels, and thore will not be so many of his followers to cross the choppy channel to see him as there were 10 tako tho snug railway journey to the cap- ital of Bolgium, All the advantagos wore with him in the latter placo; all the disad- vantages will bo his in London. It would not be at all surorising, therefore, if Gen- eral Boulanger should prosently ceaso to be an objoct of absorbing interest m French politics fu_case he continues absent from ance. Parfiamentary government, which he would destroy, assures to him there, and every political refugee, absolute liberty and protection, but neither it nor British socioty is likely to offer him anything else of the least value whatever. . s The first of the memorable days of 1730 selected by the French government for con- tenuial celebration, is the 5th of May, when the states-gbueral opened its sessions at Versailles, It is announced that the French diplomatic representatives in foreign coun- tries are also instructed to hold meotings of French residents to observe the day. Cer- tainly, the begiuning of this constituent as- sombly or constitutional convention was fruitful enough to deserve the honors pro- posed for it. It was this body that, as the national assembly, abolished feudal briv- iteges, the titles of nobility, aud the orders of chivalry; issued paper currency based on confiscated ecclesiastical property; creatod a constitution for Frauce, which the king was compelled to accept; established freedom of religion and of the press.gand made a declar- ation of the rights of man, Its sessions, con- tinuing until the end of Sevtember, 1791, laid the foundation of popular government in France. It was in tiis body that tho third estate first successfully stood up for its rights against the nobles and the clergy, and successfully summoned these two privilegea orders to join it in legislation. . Its bold re- fusal to disperse and meet in the way and under the rules which King Louis XVI de- sired, practically marked the bezinning of the revolution, Very fittingly, therefore, does the Frengh republic honor the hun- dredth annivebsgry of the meeting of this assembly. X PN w* Reports are current that the emperor of Russia has of 1atd becomo extromely nerv- ous through copstant foar of assassination— a foar that i $aid to have been one of the chief reasons for the abdication of King Milan, of Séfvia, ana which might well make a coward of any man whose nerves were not of ifon. But it is not likely that the emperor will follow the examble of Milan and shirk the work which he conceives to have been laid upon him when his fasher was murdered. He is of stuff very differeut from that which enters into tne composition ,of Milan, and thus far he has shown himself to boa very good emperor, as emperors go, but it is not being a good man that will save him from assassination at the hands of the nihilists, who have taken up the business which used to be carried on—as in the case of the Emperor Paul 1.—by members of the imperial nouschold when the czar stood in the way of the personal ambition of his sons. It was the grand dukes that set the example of “tempering tyranny with assassination,” and the malcontents among the people have not been slow to learn the lesson. N No country in Europe, to-day, botter illus- trates the folly of a policy of militarism and war expenditure than does Italy. The ambi- tion of her rulers led to costly schemes of colonization and armament; and an increase in the tax burdens of the people followed. Then, in order to secure to the country that political recognition which it once enjoyed, an alliance was entered into with Germany and Austria, and the result of this has been that the French have given up a great part of their trade with Italy, while their new allics have not compensated for the loss by the expected purchase of Italian fruits and wines, A stagnation in those important in- dustries has brought about failures, and caused a greatly restricted market for lubor, Italy can not recede from Ler foreign policy ; the newly-created army and navy must be supported; furthier taxation is impossible, and the miserable peasants are quitting the country. Political folly has rarely gone further than this. e The very limited degree of coufedoration which the five little republics—Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador, Costa Rica and Hon- duras—have agreed upon in no respect what- ever looks toward‘a consolic overn- ment, but it is a wise and conservative ap- proach toward what may one day bocome a truo federal union. Step by step theso five republics will probably be drawn together toward a basis for the re-establishment of the old Central American union. Even it the federal government is never made as powerful as in other republics, it will yet se- cnro a certain degree of harmony in laws and volitical rights, The prospective opening of an inter-oceanic waterway increases the im- portance of political and commercial unity or co-operation between tue states, “u The trip which Emperor William proposos to wake to the North Cape, provides occupa- tiou for him during the coming autumn, while the journey to England will fill a part of the intervening pociod. With these plans in store, it looks very much as1f the coming year was expocted by him to b one of peace. The czar, also, is said to contemplate a visit to the Parls exuidition, thoreby setting a good example to tnose of his fellow-poten- tates who, no matter how much they might like Lo see the show, foar that it would not do to countenance a glorification of u revolu- tion of 100 years ago. The shah of Persiu will soon bo on his travels, so that a busy soason is at hand for the chroniclers of the movements of empe rors, The reported dementia of the Empre Elizabeth, of Austrid, is denied. The daugh- ter of the Archduke Maximilian, of Bavaria, the empress, was trained, in her youth, ro- bustly and is famous throughout Europe as @ horsewoman, Her feats in the suddle aro renowned wherever the houuds can run, and in her favorite huniing places, dn Ireland, she has been looked ypon as the last woman on a throne to b2 aff2otad by sentument, not even excopting Queen Victoria. Empress Elizabeth 1s fifty-two yeurs old. She has been on the throne thirty-five years. Ru- dolph was her only son, The eldest daughter is the wife of a Bavarian prince. The young- st daughter 1s ouly twenty-one. . o Mexico is making steady progress in rail- road building, @ number of liues being in course of construction, Now thut the onpo- sition of the native race to the railway has beon largely overcomo, by practical realiza- tion of the benefits acoruing from such im- provements, the work of development has gone on steadily and uninterruptedly. Pri- vate, as well as corporate capital, has become largely interested in new schomes for trans- portation, The government has continued its policy of financial or other aid to all pro- jects of this nature, and both Mexico and Central America are boing slowly embraced in a sorios of lines which promise, Within the next ten years, to fully open up the conntry to the outside world. The total mileage of railroads in Mexico is estimated in President Diaz's mossage at noarly five thousand miles. In the matter of telegraph construction, the showing is still more favorable. The state construction of new lines for tho last half year has amounted to an addition of about nine hundred miles, making the total length of the federal system on April 1, over thir- teen thousand miles, exclusive of double and and triple wires, and the lines temporarily transforred to the states. — - HITS AND MISSES, Douglas county needs an Anthony Com- stock to look after the county board. The indecent exposure of the members' mouths and the profanations indulgea in, should be violently suppressed. County affairs are now drawing two pairs. Councilman Hascall is sojourning in Okla- homa. If there are any town sites laying around looso down, there, it is certain that Isauc will build a wall around them, and starl a hotel. It is rumored that he will move the Cosmopolitan in sections to Has- callville, Ok. There is consolation for the home guard in the report that the board of trade “‘climbed the beetling cliffs and quaffed nature's nectar from gushing springs." At last, Horatio, Omaha will gev what was nominated in the bond twenty years ago—a union depot. Hastings should corral her human cattle at home. A combination of boer mugs, razors and an African tigress is a menace to verdant beauty. Fresh vegetables should be thoroughly dried before visiting the burnt district of the metropolis. Anderson and O'Keeffe would do the pub, lic a service by settling their differences ac- cording to the Queensbury code. There is ample room near the tottering asylum for a twenty-foot ring. The exhibition would un- doubtedly attract a large audience, and the result would be more manly and artistic than threatening attitudes and sulphurous caloric at ten paces. We mnominate Charley Good- rich and Mike Lahey for seconds. = SRRITORY. STATE AND Nebraska Jottings, Dakota City and Plattsmouth are singing the same old pontoon. The Methodists of Seward have set their Lat for a_£10,000 church. Commi'tees are now hustling for the funds. There are 63 organized school districs in Cuming county and 64 school houses, at- tended by 8,752 children and ruled by 74 teachers. The Morris Lock factory is the latest addi- tion to the industries of Seward. The fac- tory was started up this week, with a large number of orders booked. Several sportive youngsters in Bennott enlivened the Sabbath with a horse_race, and contributed the price of the pluks in poulticing the rupturcd law. Tho threat of a Grand Island doctor, to sue the West Point Republican for d has inflated the editor with the boll the sheet is sufiicieutly important to perpe- trate a libel. Grand Island 18 up and doing at a_lively rate. ‘T'wo bond elections will bo held next month—one on the 16th for $50,00) to be ex- pended in a sysiem of sewers; the other on the 21st for $25,000 for scnool buildings. Sunday observance is becoming gencral throughout the state. Even the liquid spoils of Jackson are corked on that day, and social scraps have suffered a radical decline. It is now possible to slide through the town with- out a running fight. A wise judge in Lineoln ha that there is 1o law which pre rufiling his wife” proclaimed ts a man whiskers, and the court will_proteet him in defending the rights of mankind. The destruction of femmine beauty with molish locks must bo _prevented at any cost to domestic paace and felicity, A man named Northcutt attempted to clinch the mortgage on a horse in Nebraska City, but failed. A stout club in the hands of a 000 laid open o large scction of his scalp. Northcutt rushed for a doctor, while the coon was hustled to jail. The horse and bis blanket were not disturbed. “The famous case of Dr. Gandy will come up at the present term of the dstrict court, now in session in Pawnee City. Gandy is whe Shylock of Richardson county. He num- bered his vietims by tho score, and, when the opportunity came, ahey vodnced upon and sent him to the penitentiary, but the supreme court graciously granteda new trial, Wagner filled himself with West about four weeks ago, und two ! was u corpse. Whether the rot- gut or the rope from which the body dangled, was the primary cause of death, un against the saloonkeepers, Wagner's heirs and as- signs insist that his life was worth &,000 to them, and are cheerfully praying, with two lawyers, for that amount. Dewitt's ne: | was dedicated a fow days ng ut was “a_recherche i, according to a local dramatic critic, and an unusual degree of intellectual in- wced by a large audience,” and everybody was **held en rapport during the duration of the play,” We congratulato Dewitt on the successful opening of her new smple, and the posscssion of & discriminat- ing eritic worthy of a great vccasion, ‘The York Times is out in a rich and elabo- rate spring boom cdition, in striking pink col- ors, It demonstrates the superiority of Ne- braska soil and climate, presents a statistical picture of York county’s fertility and thrift, and modestly points with pride to the sub’ stantinl growth and future brospects of the county seat. The illustrations of public and privato buildings are superb, and the whole work is & credit to the publishers and tho city. lowa Items, Towa ["alls insists on a population of 2,500, The soldiers’ home at Murshalltown has 271 inmates, Muscatine voted to invest $10,000 in a high school building. Tne Rev. H. E. Mott, of Dubuque, 'has been invited to deliver the Decoration day address in Omaha. The peculiarity of the Sunday law in Creston is that a democratic mayor is vigor- ously enforcing it. The council of North Des Moines has de- cided to relieve the prevailing paralysis by reducing taxes 25 per cent. A Chicago glucose works will be carted to Dubugque, where a bonus of 525,000 awaity it. The institution will employ 100 hunds, A flash of lightning cremated a hor: cow and several bales of hay wh animals were industriously chewing, in North Davenport, a few days ago. This little excerpt from the oficial pro- ceedings of the Dubuque city council te how prohibition prohibits: *‘On motion, the saloon license was fixed at §100, the same as last year."” ‘The public spirited citizens of Burlington recently raised the magnificont sum of 35 cents to improve and embellish a thirty- eight acre park. Such liberality is worthy o graveyard, Towa has the honor of furnishing the first postmaster for Oklatoma. kis name is acob Mills, and his residence Des Mol There are scores of patriots ready to take second or third place. The npert Business Men's association is seriously considering schemes to utilize the latent power of tho Mississippi river. At a recent meeting of the ussociation, the port of George H. Boynton, a civil was read and discussed. He submitted se eral plans for chaining the mighty force of the river and subjecting it to the will of man The one recommended as the most feasivlo was to build ko 83,000 feet long, capable of drawing from the river 4,500 cubic feet of water por second. With a fall of 9.10 feet, & horse power estimated at 4,640 could be ob- tainod, at a cost of #360,000. The figures did not appall the association, but the members wisely concluded to slecp on them. Dakota. orlans of Aberdoen are dise for & church, The contract has beon let for the erection of a city hall, in Deadwood, to cost 16,030, Out of 700 carp, recontly shipped from Plattsmouth, Neb., to Rapid City, two roachod their Bestination alive and wriggling. The commissioners of Lake county have offered a number of cesh prizes for the de- struction of gophers, Tho prizes range from 81 to $10. Thore is a great scarcity of cats in the ter ritory, and, as a consoquenco, rats and mice are overrunning the bins and grainaries, Somo enterprising lowaus are gathering in the surplus of felines and shipping them to Dakota, where they bring $3 each. Several southorn towns are quietly but vigorously pulling for the capitol prize, Huron is (n the thick of fight, and mutters dofiently that it does not “‘wint anything that comes too darned easy." The Cann Valley Chief rises poenix-like above the prairie flamos and utters the malediction that the newspaper corres- pondent “is the prince of all liars, beside whom Judas Iscariat is a molehill to a mountain.” The scorching breath of the Chief is more disastrous to truth than the hurricane of fire was to the country. This 18 the thirteouth year of tho opening of tho Black Hills country to settloment. The Rapid City Kepublican “says thirteen is commonly thought to bo an unlucky number, but the present indications are that in this i ce the number is decidedlya lucky I'he awful flames which recentiy ravaged large scctions ef tho territory loft a track of black ruin in the country and filled many homes and hearts with sorrow; the sequel of one sad death is reported by the Rapid City Republican. Eloise Madison met her death in the flames. The remains were brought to Rapid City for interment. Back at her old home she loft a lover, who was soon to make her his wife. He knew not the terrible fato of the girl. A few weeks after her denth he arrived in the Hills with all the ardor and happiness of a lover, and called unexpect- edly on a friend of the family. The restrained groeting did not arouse suspicion, and ad- dressing the lady of the house he asked, “Does Nellie sing and play as much as of old? “My God!’ exclaimed the lady, “don’t you know that Nellie is deud and buried! She was burned to death in a prairie fire.” The sudden anvouncement was too much for him. He passed from one fanting fit to an- other, and after a week's cure recovered suf- ficiently to journey home, braken in heart and strength, Three days after his arrival there he died. —-——— DISTRICT COUKT. Litigation Over a Big Barn—~A Hung Jury—Other Cases. In February, 1386, John B. Shaw and John Field, carpenters, entered into an agreement with the Standard Cattle company to con- struct a barn for the latter on its ranch near Ames, Neb, The foundation was of brick, and their contract called for the hardest burned, most durable sewer bri Plan- tiffs petition says the work was completed in August and paid for. Afterwards the company discovered that many of the bricks were of an inferior quality, and at great ex- pense it was compelled to rebuild the walls, Suit was then brought against Shaw and Field for $2,000, and the case is now on trial before Judge Doane. After being under lock and key for fort) two hours, the Efie Smith jury was final brought into conrt yestérday, and liber- ated. Each of the twelve men said that there was no possible show of arriving at a verdict. The stood eight for acquital to four for conviction. Judge Groff overruled a motion of Effie’'s attorney to release her on *her own recognizance and she was remanded back to jail with instructions to remain there until next term of court, when a new trial will be given her. That old litigatlon in which Messrs, Reeves, Christianson and others are suing the town company of Florence for possession of certain streets, was argued before Judge Wakely, in the eauity branch. Whichever A the c is decided iv will be carried to the supreme court. Judge Groff will hold court next week in Sarpy county. Thomas A. Creigh has brought two suits against Morris T. Heath et al. to recover on two prommissory notes of §350 each, made February 13, 1885, Daniel Jones filed a bill in the district court, yesterday, for divorce from his wifc, Maggie Jones. ~They were married at Fre- mont, Dodge county. Neb., in 1875. The husband claims that his wife is and has been a habitual drunkard and has been guilty of extreme cruelty; that his life has been cn- dangered and that his marital relations are now intolerable. Fred Christianson sued George Timme and Henry Kuhl for $330, allezed to be due on a contract for building a house in Benson's addition. A trauscript in the case of the state against Hattie Uble was filed in the district court yesterday. She is charged with perjury. 1t will be remembered that she swore that R. M. Patterson was the father of her unborn child, when she had him arrested. Judee Groff will go to Papllion Monday to try the murder case of Robert Smith, a rail- road brakeman, who is charged with killing a man by the name of Sullivan by throwing hiw from a train. ited States Court. Forty-four citizens of Nebraska have boen drawn to serve the country as jurymen in the United States court which convenes at this city two weeks from nest Monday. Half of these are designated as grand and the other half as petit jurors. 'The grand jurors are: Peter O'Rourke, Omaha, J. H. Ager, Ord, W. C. Austin, West Lincoln, T. W. Smith, MecCool Junction, L. B, Palmer, Hastings, Ernest Brandt, Omaha, D. A, Way, South Omaha, Prank Foster, Helena, Samuol I son, Ashl aud, Richard Coryell, Brock, D, V Randolph, ' fullerton, — Henry = Clark Swanton, ' William . Taylor, o bias, Peter . Hoysen, Omaha, Johu G. Little, Valeatino; B. Dixon, Omaha; J. W, Porkins, Niobrara; George West, Clurks; A. I, Gilletto, North' Platte; F. L. Blumer, Omaha; Henry Gosh, Spring: field ; George Benson, Omaha, The potit jurors are: A. R. Gooloby, Falls City; George W. Roberts, Omaha} Isaac Toland, Greenwood; Frank’ Coloman, ohn L. Stevens, St. Deroin; W. S. wan, Barada; Walter M. Sceley, 3en- J. D. Crans, Hasting: it. W. Hyer: oln; J. 8. Edwards, Lincoln; C. S. Baler, Beatrice: C. J.-Martin, Clay Uenter; Barreft Scott, O'Ne B.” Nicholson, Springfield: Bd Cofin, Ord; John Silvers, Superior; Kobert French, Kearnoy; Johi Muuning, Pawnee; Rovert' Doom, Ashland; James Warren, lted Cloud; W. C.Jolly, Tecumseh. County Court. David Landon commenced action agamst the Nebraska Edwards Burner company to recover $500 0N a promissory note. Hugh (. Clark sued Jetter & Young for leged to be due for rent of a building South Tenth streot, liar Justice. ay last, Peter Newland, assistant por- ter at the Barker hotel, went to Coun Bluffs to spend the day, and took his favorite canine along. As the eveuing approached, he repaired to the depot and purchased a ticket for Omaha. While awaiting his train, an officer arrested him, lociking him up on a charge of drunkenness. ‘The next morning the boy was wrraigned hefore the polico mag- istrate, and when he was told of the charge against him and informed the court that he was not intoxicated at the time he was arrested, the officer who had made the arrest stepped up and told the court that the boy had been arrested asa vagrant. The cotirt imposed fine of 83 and costs. Young Newland protested that he was porter at the Barker hotel, in Omaha, but to no avail The boy was held in custody until an attache of the hotel went to Council Bluffs and paid the fine. e Looking kor a Thief. nstable Hell, of Sabetha, Kan., is in the lo a horse at [e! city ing for a thief who s Jowa Foint, Kan., last week, sold it in Sabetha and purchased a ticket for Owaba. A colored man named James Dick has be arrested on suspicion of being the 1w wanted. The owuer of the stolen horse will arrive to-day to identify the prisoacr, ENDED RIS LIFE IN A CELL. On Old Omaha Man Suicides at Linooln. A VICTIM OF THE DRINK HABIT, Peculiarities of the Nebraska Legisiae tive Manual—Fine Crop Pross pects—Supreme Counrt Proceedings, 109 P Street, Lixcony, April 2. Last night at 10:50 o'clock an old, gray haired man, who gave his name as Thomas Kinney and his age as sixty-five, was brought to the police station by OMcer Morrisey. He said that he came from Omaha, or at least that ho had frionds there, and informod the captain that he followed the business of peddling. He wore a groy, checked shirt and a pair of joans pants. Ho had been drinking heavily, A short time before he was arrosted he was at Oppenhoimor's su 1oon, and suid thero that ho had been robbed of nis “littlo tin box,” and could not make a living without it. He seemod vory despond ent, and said ho might as well kill himself. The box, he said, had boen stolen from him in Carr's saloon, and he had been thero searching for it, He was scarched at the station and on him were found 15 cents, a knife and two small Late 1 the aftornoon he had gone to the drug store of Woompner & Hargis, on North Ninth stroet, where ho had procured several grains of morphine, which was vut in & small box brought by him for the pur pose. This, 1t soems, escaped the .offcers when they searched him, and botween 5 and 6 o'clock this morning he took five grains of the poison. When ho began to be sick an examination was made and the box wus found. Dr. Simmons was sont for, romodics were at once administered and tho pationt was walked about the floor, but_all efforts were of no avail, and at 8:35 he died. LINCOLN BUREAU oF Tits OMAmA Bis, } During the night ho wanted to have his friends in Omaha know that ho was going to die, and asked to see an Omaha roportor. Mr. A. Crick called at the station afterward, bringing the box which the oid man had lost. He had left it at the Kred & Joe's saloon, on South Ninth street. The coronert was called and the Lody was taken to Heaton’s undertaking rooms. Nebraska's Legisiative Manual, The Nebraska legislative manual has just been issued. 1t is bound in beautiful shade of blue cloth, and 1s a model of neatness and accuracy. One of the great morming news. papers of the state has tho honor of having igsuod it. Brad D. Slaughter aud Walt M are each accredited as being Presby- ministers in good standing, whilo terian Chaplain Tate is raised to the dignity of o Nebraska editor. S. L. Roberts, the chicken fancier, is recorded a pettifogiing lawyer and Joe Kasterday, the lawver, as a ‘“Jim printer. ‘It is intimated that the vs will institute suit against the manual for crimnal libel. Brad Slaughter and Walt Seeley feel the worst aggrioved. Fine Crop Prospects. Hon. L. W. Gilchrist, member of the board of secretaries of the state board of transportation, has just returned from a trip through the western and northern portions of the state, *I have lived in Nebraska twenty-five years,” he says, “and never saw such prospects for small grain as we have this year. In Custer county wheat, oats and rye already mat the ground. I think the year will bring forth. good crops generally throughout the state. Nebraskans are doiny botter farming than in former years. Tho ground was properly plowed and prepared before seeding. There is more in lrlih than in the season. I do not fear the drouth talked of by croakers, and you will find that the farmer who properly tills his soil will have fair corn in the event of dry weather, With favorable weather, though., Noebraska will have the best crops in her history. Supreme Court Nows, The following cases were filed for trial in the supreme court yesterday and to-day : Cordeha R. Sneel vs. John Rickott, Error from Fillmore county. Andrew Henry vs from Douglas county Josevh M. Feather vs the County of Kecar- ney. Lrror from Kearney county. George Burke ot al vs John Pepper. Error from Douglas count L. L. Lindsay vs. James Heaton. from Lancaster count, The Gale Sulky Has G. Laughlin, QCLark D, Osborne et al vs, Barlo field et al. Error from Douglas county. A Delerium Tremens Victim, Last night a man who gave his name as George C. Bonner was arrested and brought to the police station. He appeured to be sick and the complaint entered against him onthe books was suffering from nervonus disorder. The truth is, however, that the man was suffering from delirium tremens and had come to the last round in the ladder. He gave his occupation as that of an agent and was locked up for safe keeping, He was vlaced in a cell and was given a blanket with which to cover himself. Some time after. ward one of the officers went in to see that everything was all right, and found that Bonner had torn the blanket into strips and wus carnestly endeavoring to lynch himsolf Dby using the top of the coll asa gallows. The blanket was taken from Lim and he then se- cured a piece of old tin can with which ho tried to bohead nimself. This was also taken away and the man is still in the land of the living, He will probably be taken to soma lospital for medical treatment, Oda Fellows at Large, About one hundred d hfty persons left this city to-day on the special Burlington train chartered by the Oddfellows of Lin coln to carry thein to the stato gathering of their order at Beatrice. Phey were aceom panted by the cadet band and wove on their Taces the look of neople determined to have agood time under an, AN remain till late to-night, tirely subject to their crde About thirty also went over the Union Pacific, City News and Notos, Judge Poppleton and Judge Woolworth, of Omaha, transactod busincss to-day before the supreme cour Governor Thayer jomed the Odd Fellows celebration to-day in Beatrice, returning home at 10:30 to-night. He roports a very pleasant occasion James Vliet. Error Sreor ow company vs, E. Lrror from Cass county. A. Can- tho train being en- A suit was begun to-day in which C, B, Beach the plaintiff and Ex Police Judge Parsons defendant, which may prove to be of uncommon interest before it 1s finished. ‘Che petition of Beach alloges that during his torm of oflice Pursons was guilty of mis approvriating funds belouging to the city, to the amount of $1,000, and he sues for this amount. The defondants in this case are . Parsons and his bondsmen. . A. D. Cox, who was found to be lu- boring under an attack of nsanity, brought on by religious excitement, a fow days ago, was to-day before the board of insanity com’ missioners. Last December, about the middle of the month, an emery wheel in the foundry of C. B, Hedges burst, and a young man nu Knos Moyer, who wis working at the whoel was instantly killed, Ho was the only sup port of his widowed mother and his sistors This afternoon the mother brought suit ir the district court for dama in the sum ol $10,000, alloging that the aceident was due L & dofective whoel, iSRS An known Girl Sulcid s, Drrorr, April 26, —An unknown girl about nineteen years of ago, committed s cide this morning by jumping into the river ‘I'he body hus not been recovered. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. e Whon Baby was sick, we gave her Castorta, When sho wes a Child, she eried for Castoris, wn«.-h-mm-,muun:mmu.‘ Wron shohad Oflliren, b gavo Ui Castoris,