Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY ER: MONDAY. MAY 20. 1889, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Delly (Morning Editdon) including SUNDA 1Kr, One Year. .. 8 For 8ix Months. ... For Three Months ../ 100" ga iy T OmAnA SUNDAY Tikk, malled o any e85, One Y onr. . 200 WeRKLY Die, One Year.... L. 200 OMA A OFFICR, Nos. 914 and 916 FARNAM BTREET, CHICAGO OFF 667 Rookmry But Nrw YORK OFricr, ROOMS 14 AND 16 TRIGUNE BUILDING, WASHINGTON OF¥ICE, NO. 618 FOURTEENTII STREET. CORRESPONDENOE. ATl communications relating to news and edi- Qorial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR oF THE DBEE. DUSINKSS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be addressed to THE Ber PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Draits, checks and postofiice ordera to be made payablé to the order of tho COmMpANY. k6 Bee Publishing Company, Propristors, E. ROSEWATER, Editor. e ——————————1 THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Btatement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, { %% secrotary of The Bee Pub- solemnly swear that the o 18.043 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK., Bworn to hefore me and subscribed to (n my ‘presence this 15th_day of May, A, D. 1830, Sel. N. P. FEIL, Notary Publle. Btate of Nebraskn, | County of Douglas, (58 George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- ses and says that he 18 secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actiial average dally circulation of THE DAILY BEE for the month of April, 1854, 18,744 coples; for May, 1838, 18,183 coples: for Jume, 1884 1,243 copiess for July, 168, 18,053 ceplos; for August, 183, 1,183 copies: for September, 188, 18151 copios; ‘for Octoher, 1888, 18,084 copies: for November, 1883, 18,080 coptes: for December, 1588, 18,223 coplos for January, 1889, 18574 cobles: for February, 1680, 18,546 coples; for March, 184, 18,854 v'nph-s. GEORGE B, T7SCHUCK. Bworn to befors mo and subscribed in my presence this 16th day of April, A. D., 188, N Do FEIL, Notary Public. IF the prohibitionists imagine they can accomplish social reform by falsify- ing facts, they will soon learn their mistake. THE railroads heading toward Omaha should be encouraged. The eold shoul- der is as discouraging to corporations as to individuals, NEW gold fields have been discovered in Utah, but it is doubtful whether the placers are sufficiently rich to warrant a stampede to that territory. SEAV has earned the ever- lasting gratitude of every lady in the city by ordering policemen to clear the prominent street corners of idlers and loafers, RAPrID transit in Omaha is an early certainty. The decision of the consoli- dated company to substitute clectricity for horseflesh will be an agreeuble sur- prise to its patrons, and a great benefit to the city. Ax a season of profound silence Abe Hewitt expresses his disappoint- ment at the foreign appointments of the administration. Hewitt is a back number. He has not sense enough to realize that he is dead THe report that the Omaha street railway company has let the contract to the Sprague electric motor company of New York eity, for a full plant of power machinery and motors is an indication that the days of the horse car are num- As SORS who put valuable property on the assessors’ rolls at four thousand when it shoula be forty thousand, may have committed clerical errors, but the truth i there are too many such slips of the pen in favor of the tax shirkers of this city. THE two per cent sharks will have a rocky road to travel in Kansas after the 25th inst. A new usury law goes into effect on that day. The contract rate of interest 18 limited to ten par cent, and the legal rate six per cent. The penalty for usury is double the excess of interest taken. CLEVELAND is making himself gen- erally useful in private life. He has been added to the committee to solicit funds for the Centennial arch in New York. Let him be vlaced on a con- epicuous corner, where people can ““drop a nickel in the slot and see the ex-president smile.” COLORADO has gone into the manu- facture of common glass bottles. This is an enterprise for which the silica deposits of that state arve well adapted. The failure heretofore of the glass in- dustry in'Colorado has largely been due to the unsuccessful attempt to make window and plate glass. VICE-PRESIDENT YKES, of the Northwestern, denies that his railroad pronoses to push its Nelwaska exton- slons to Denver. The Northwestern, apparently, is content to develop the mileage now under its control.. This will be u sore disappointment to Den- ver, which was bunking heavily ou the project. — THE re-appointment of James W, Bavage as a government divector of the Union Pacific keeps up the unbroken recovd of giving Omaha and Nebraska & representation on the commission. Judge Savage bus a great opportunity before him to secure for this city and state proper consideration at the hands of the Union Pacific directory. ». Tr street begging nuisance has be- cowme intolerable. Omuhashouldfollow the example of other cities by exclud- ang this form of vagrancy. Tramps abound in herds, and have captured all outlying streets. They are bold and im- pudent to ludies who refuse them meat and drink, Officers should scour the vesidence streets daily and run the will_x)ndsout of the city. Tue evils and inaccuracies of assess- ments complained of by the county com- missioners are not so great that they cannot be remedied without conflicting with Judge Wakeley's ruling. Clerical competenoy is the first necessity. Every assessor should be required to make er- rorless returns and make valuations conform without regard to ward bound- aries. The remedy is in the hands of the comnissioners. A BRAZEN SLANDER. The following extract from a lotter from a prominent citizen of Michigan explains itself: Bra Rarins, Mich., May 18.—To the Editor of Tnr Ber: A well-known temperance agi tator, Mary A. Lathrop, of Jackson, Mich,, in a spench to a large audienco in this city, last night, made the statement that thero were four thousand prostitutes in the city of Omaha, making their headquarters in tho s ioons of your city, and that they paid a li- cense 1nto the y treasury to the amount of £42,000 annually, and were liconsed and pro tected in consideration thereof, and that the schools of Omaha were built up and sup- ported, to a great cxtent, by the tax paid by prostitutes, Omaha is a nice town to move away from, with that state of facts existing. 1f the'statements are not true, they do your city no good, and your people should know that they are in circulation in order to refute them, This is a fair sample of the falschoods coined by the champions of proibition. It is especially reprehensible when we consider the source. A woman who will publicly insult and slander her sex is unworthy of the name. There is not a city in this country of equal population where the social evil is held so compleiely within bounds as in Omaha. Tt does not make its head- quarters in the saloons, and instead of four thousand prostitutes, as asserted by Mrs. Lathrop, there are only two hundred and thirty-cight. They are not licensed nor protected by the city, but are frequently arrested by the po- lice and fined in the police cour T'he manifest purpose of this brazen slander is to discredit high license and bolster up the waning cause of prohibi- tion. A cause requiring falsechood and calumny for props is very weak, The freedom and frequency with which these untruths are uttered shows a la- mentable lack of morality and integrity. The logic of facts and expericnce uare against prohibition. Its advocates can not overcome the stubborn truth that high license and rogulation as enforced in Omaha and Nebraska ave conducive to law and order. mpared with pro- hibition in Towa or Kan, it is an evil restrained aguinst an evil rampant. THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. The growth of interest in the cul- tivation of the sugar beet in this coun- try, and the promise that within a few years the beet sugar industry will have become one of very considerable impor- tance here, render interesting all facts vertaining to this industry in other countries. The May number of the Popular Seienca Monthly contains an ex- haustive article on this subject by Mr. v, which 8o far as the facts ve concerned, is exceeding- y instructive. The problem of success. fully cultivating the sugar beet and ex- tracting its saccharine principle, en- gaged the attention of the governments and people of European countries dur- ing the early pact of the present cen- tury, with no satisfactory results, until about twenty yearsago, when Germany, after many experiments and the pay- mentof a vast sum in boun tis olved the problem. As soon as the desived result was attained there followed an immense incrense of sugar production, and the German farmers found in this industry a source of profit and prosperity that they could hardly have dreamed of as pos ble. The value of their farms increased enormously, there was an added demand for labor which gave employment to thousands, and every department of trade and every channel of transporta- tion speedily oxperienced the bencfits of the new industr Thelead taken by Germany in the production of beet sugar she has maintained, increasing hor product from twenty-five hundved tons in 1875 to a million three hundred thousand tons in 1888. Theother Euro- pean countries which produce beet sugav are France, Austria-Hungary, Russia and Poland, Belgium and Hol- land, and the totul European product in 1885 was two million five hundred and forty-six thousand tons. This is some- what greater than the product of the cane-sugar countries. The value of the beet sugar industry to Germany is esti- mated at seventy-five million dollars a year for the sugar alone. The statistics of the cost of manufacture, under the simple and inexpensive methods adopt- ed in the Germun factories, show the in- dustry to be highly profitable, the prime cost for conversion being but one cent per pound of sugar, leaving out the cost of the beet root. The production of beet sugar in continental Burope has doublea in the last decade, with the effect of re- ducing the price of sugar in the markets of the world more than fifty per cent. With regard to the introduction of the industry in this country, the most successful experiment thus far has been in California, but Mr. Almy is of the opinion that various sections north of Mason and Dixon’s line, where the rain- fall is regular like eastern Pennsyl- vanin and New Jersey, with their long Indian summers, present all the condi- tions to produce thu sugar beet to per- feetion. The regions thus designated a8 especially favorable to this industry are doubtless no better than the se tions of Nebraska where the sugar bect has been to some extent cultivated with the most satisfactory results. So far as climatic conditions ave concerned, the portion of Nebraska whore it is pro- posed to try the eultivation of the sugar beet on large soile, is unguestionably as well favored as eastern Pennsylvania und New Jersey. All the facts vesfrding the develop- ment of the sugar beet industvy ara of a to encourage its introduction 10 this country. ‘'he growing of beets is not only profitable in itself, haviag averaged the farmoers of California, en- guged in it, over eighty dollars por acre, but it is a good thing for the soil. The beet root, says Mr. Almy, as n biennial plant, enters readily into rota- tion with annual plants, and with those plants known to exhaust the soil. It precedos barley, wheat, rye and oats, aud prepares the sofl in a marvelous manner for cereals, the subsequont fer- tilization of which prepares the soil for the beet. SOUTHERN S M The recent vigorous exhibitions of race antagonism in seyeral scotions of the south have to some extent renewed public interest 1n the vace issue, and both republicans and democrats huve considered the possible eleet they might have in shuping the policy of the adr tration in the sonth. Although merely local ebullitions, they ave recog- nized even by southern democrats as having a significance, and some of the more conservative of these have de- plored the occurrences as tending to defeat the hope of the wiser and better element among southern democrats for a policy of non-interference on the part of the national administration with po- litical affairs in that section. Of course there is not much that the admin- istration coula do, in any event, beyond vindicating the right of the colored man to political considera- tion by appointing him to federal office in the south, but congress may doa great deal, and the less reckless of the gsouthern democrats do not desire to provoke legislation which if it should not fully protect the colored citizens of the south in the exercise of their po- litical rights, would deprive those who deny them their rights of any advan- tage from such denial, The misfortune is that the num- ber of such democrats is not much larger and that they are not more influential. Thers is unquestionably a wide field for the missionary work of conservativ men, and while it may be believed that the field is gradually narrowing, a great deal of labor will yet be neces- sary before the obstinate prejudices of the majority shall be overcome. When one reads that a man can not be a publican in the city of New Orleans without inviting social ostracism, his faith is necessarily shaken in the pro- fessions that are made in behalf of the “new south,” and he is sompoelled to vegard with distrust the patriotic assu- rances conveyed by southern orators when they come mnorth. However, there are conditions at work in the south which promise in time to effect a radical change in the sentiment of at least a large part of that section. Much of the prevailing prejudice, political and social, must inevitably give way before the march of industrial progress and material prosperity. And perhaps the true policy is to leave the solution of the ‘*southern question™ to the op- eration of the new conditions that are at work there. NOT SO OVERWHELMING. In double-leaded brevier the Sunday Herald makes proclamation to all the world: The verdict of the voters is in, and it over- wiielms the advocates and supporters of the extravagadt demanas of an extravagant school board. There is recorded a decisive majority not only against the scheme to en- large the high school building, but also against the scheme of $225,000 for real ostate, ete. When it is remembered that to have carried the bonds required a two-thirds voto of ull the ballots cast, and that not even hulf of the total was cast in the afiemative, it will be seen how thoroughly in earnest the public became, This is enough tomake a horse laugh. “Overwhelming Defeat.” * Decisive Majority.” What bombastic rot! That editorial must have been written over at Maurer’s big turtle restaurant. Over- whelming defeat with a bare majovity of eighty. A decisive and emphatic popular verdict with nineteen thousand voters staying at home and less than nineteen hundred voting on theiissue. A change of forty votes would have carried the two hundred and twenty- five thousand dollar bonds, despite the opposition of the combine. It only re- quires n majority to authorize the issuc of school bonds. Tue Chicago Trmbune has taken the pains to refute the charges universally made that the price of dvessed boef to consumers has not declined during the past five ygars by giving the following prices per pound at which the carcass was sold at wholesale to retail butchers in eastern markets: Price range. ..8 @10 cents 7@ 9 cents 6500 8 cents .6 @ Tigcents 5@ 6igcents 4% @ 6 cents indicates o gradual falling in the price of meat amounting to at least forty per cent for the period covered by the table. The decline, however, is so gradual that the consumers hardly can be expected to note the differences. It stands to rea- son, however, that prices must rule lower now than they did some time ago. The price of cattle has fallen, freight rates ave lower, and the claim is made by the dressed beef men and loeal butchers that they are making less profits than five years ago. The truth is the cheapening process has affected the dressed beef industry as much as any other branch of manufacture, and the consumer in the long run reaps the benefit. e—— THE senate committee appointed to make investigations on rrigation in the western territories will presently take up its work in connection with the geo- logicul survey. Its object will be to ex- amine and report whether it be feasable to reclaim for agricultural purposes the immense avid tract comprising an aren equal to one hundred and fifty thousand square miles and stretehing from the head waters of the Missouri to the boundaries of New Mexico. It is well to” understand that the government doos not propose to irrigate this land for the people, but’ to determine whether or not private capital can be profitably employed in this enterprise. Congress, in other words, steps in as the scientific expert in behalf of the cople to settle a sclentific question, he actual work of veclaiming these lands devolves upon the staves and ter- vitories within whose boundaries the arid belt is located. If at all practicable private capital no doubt will be drawn into the enterprise and the task will nocessarily consume muny yeurs as well as o vast outlay, —_—— Tuk president is not expected to ap- point & successor to the late Justice Matthews, of the supreme court, before September, and eonjecture is rife as to who may be selected to fill the vacancy, the most common belief being that the chances of Attorney-General Miller arve the hest. It is intimated that this may not be the only vacancy the president will be called upon to fill before the close of the year. Justice Miller, who is eligi- ble for retirement, is said to seriously ratemplate taking advaotage of this early in December, Hoe was —— appointed by Pro and is now] i that he migh ago, thoe lad¢ the supren, yenrs may ré sident Lincoln in 1862, is seventy-third year, so have retired three years oviding that justices of urt who have served ten Yo on full pay at the age of seventy. Justico Miller's faculties are unimpadred, but 1t isnatural that he should desife, after twenty-seven yours of se s on the bench, to pass the re- maining years of bis life free from the cares and obligntions of judicial duties. Tue charge of six dollars for eve car lond of stock shipped from Iown across the . Union Pacific bridge to South Omaha, a distance of not over six miles, is a gross injustice and imposi- tion. Tl very fact that the road agreed to make a rate of four dollars a car for the service is evidence thay the Union Pacific acknowlegdes the charges to be exorbitant. The plea is made that a six dollar rate is necessary to pay for the switching and making up of stock trains, But even with the most liberal allowance for that expense, these chavgoes are out of all provortion to the service. A FLooD of light is being thrown upon the abuses existing at the Cook county, 1linois, insane asyluta hy the investigation conducted in the county court. If one half of the testimony be true, the treatment of patients is not only inhuman, but fiendish. The mi management is attributed to the inter- ference of polities and favoritism with the affairs of the institution. There can be no question that the evils which xist in nine out of ten public asylums, hospitals, poor houses and prisons through the country can be traced directly to the spoils of politics. , A DEAL is reported to have been ef- focted in New York city between rvep- resentatives of the American ment company and the American ecattle trust whereby the former will handle the entire product of the latter. This is an - ambitious scheme fatheved by Stephen S. Dorvsey in behalf of the cattlo industry of New Mexico on one hand, and New York capitalists on the other, who ave to erect large packing houses in convenient packing centers. It re- mains to be seen how muchof a figure the new company will cut in the dressed beef business of the country MANY of our German citizens will feel somowhat surprised at the an- nouncement that L. W. Hobercom has been appoigted fifth auditor of the treasury. Mr. Hobercom will be re- membered by njany of our citizens as a former resident of Omaha, who edited a defunct German paper, dabbled freely in local politics, and was a liberal patron of resorts that keep lager on draught. Now that he has becowme the head of a division in the United States treasury, he will have abundant means to make good all his outstanding pledgesand wipe old scores off the slate. THE upshot of the investigation of the interior department in the alleged irregularities connected with the open- ing of the Oklahoma lands has been the dismissal of Muarshal Jones. The president and attorney-general decided not to allow Jones to resign, but to re- move him at once. This fact strongly indicates that there has been gross mis- conduct on the part of officials in Okla- homa. The disgrace of Marshal Jones will be a wholesome lesson to those men who may be charged with the opening of the Sioux r vation. EMPEROR WILLIAM realizes that the best way to humble a monopoly is to strike its pocket. He has warned the mine owners who have ground their workmen to the limit of endurance that they must relent or suffer the abroga- tion of royal favors and profitable rail- road taviffs, This will soon put an end to the strike. If similar remedies could be applied to the grasping corporations of this country, there would be less disposition to force strikes and fewer conflicts between capital and labor. TuE unusuul large shipment of corn to Burope within the past few weeks has increased the complaint of export- ers that they have not sufficient stock on hand nor tonnage immediately avail- able to move it. It is doubtful, how- ever, whether the improved tone in the foreign market will benefit the farmer in obtaining for him more than tive market for his surplus. freights ave higher this year and ab- sorb a part of the higher price for that cerenl obtained abroad. Tue difficulty of separating the mica in the tin ores of the Black Hills has been o stumbling block to the develop- ment of the rich deposits said to exist in the vicinity of Haruey’s Peak. The problem, however, is now being solved by tin experts. If the ores can be re- duced effectively and cheaply, a great future is opening for Dakota, in the production and manufacture of tin plate. pride to son, of San Fran- L1 tickles tha native that Miss Sybil Sand: cisco, scored a inusical triumph in a new opera in Paris, Correspondents veport that “hoe Eiffel-tower notes con- stituted an @poch in the history of music,” This js to be regrevted, Their height places them beyond the reach of peonle of moderate fortune, Come down, Sybil, cotre down. STATE PRESS COMMENT, ‘Pho Wymore {nian notes the morked in- crease in the sLaLg's population. shown by the annual school census, and predicts that *during the next decade Nebraska will leave behind in the race many of her sister states.” Commenting on the fact that the prohibi tion pavers now admit that the day is past when they can secure prohibition by con- stitutioual amendment, the Sidoey Telegraph remarks that “before long thoy will be com- peiled to adimit that their field of labor is en tirely gone. The result in Mussachusetts gave their enthusissm a black oye.” The Howells Journal is awused to see the number of papers that are coming to the de fense of the iwine trust, and remarks: *It is ahabit with some papers to defend any kind of a mounopoly, and they do mnot seewm able to make uny exception of the twine trust, The paper that comes out and de fends the twine trust and advises the furm- ers not to orgaivize for their own protection sibuld not rocelvd vory cordial support from | the farmers of the country, and our own state is no exception. Let the farmers, while they are opposing the trust, also sit down upon this kind of papers.” The Kearney Enterprise expresses admira- tion of the admirable foresight of the gentle- men who were willing to revive the Hast- ings Gazette-Journal. ‘“They only suggost,” says the Entorprise, “that the great steut- ting turkey of succoss, all stuffed and bastod shall be served up to them on asilver platte: They leave no further triumphs for their own energy and brains to achieve, They would win them all in advanco at one fell swoop. See here, wo would like to enter this race. tor the sum of $50,000 a year, a furnished house, & coupe, a Victoria and a sablo conchman in livery, wo will go down to Hastings and run the best daily nows- paper in the whooping west.” - BTATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The village of Bancroft is out of debt and has £277.34 to loan. Red Cloud is very proud of her excellent waterworks aud eficient fire deparvment, The Anheuscr-Busch brewing company 18 to erect n large storage warchouse at Crete, 10 cost $3,000. The coming session of the Boone county district _court will try sixty civil and two criminal cases. Cuming county corn was planted two wecks earlier than usual this year and a much larger acreage was put in The court at Madison has grantod a change of venue in the case against Drs. Kelly and Hasson to Wayne county. Robert Barber, o farmer near Exeter, was bitten by u wad dog lust week, but no bad effects have yet appeared. In tie t six months Burt county has sentan average of one insano person per month to the state hospitale, The machinery for the Ewing creamery is ready to be placed in position, and will be started up as soon as possible. A fatal ranaway occurred at Stella, last Thursdi Mrs, W. T. Veach being the victim. Her husband was aiso severely in- jured. Oxford suffered from a hail storm last week, the stoues, 4s usual, being “as large us goose oggs and hens’ cggs.” But little damage was done. During a storm at Osceola, last week, the creck rose two feet in forty minutes, and two horses in the barn of D. B. Hakis were killed by lightning. One of the best ranges in the stato is that of Atkinson & Murray, eight miles south of Brainard, on which there are now 1,500 head of catule feeding. M. J, Fenn is in jail at Auburn because he left town while justice of the peace bofore resigning his office aund accounting for moneys collected. Dr. G. W. Johnson and John Barsby, well known citizens of Fairmont, have sailed for Liverpool on an extended. trip through England, Ireland and the continent. A Gorman farmer named Miller, living near David City, was kicked by a two-weeks- old colt fourteen days ago, inflicting injuries from which he died last Thursday. H. W. Potter, A. A. Martin Leftwich, of St. PPaul, have pur Fulierton tlouring mill and have removed to the latter place with their families. Central City will have saloons, Councilman Hays, who at first defeated a saloon ordi- nance, having changed his mind and voted for it at the last meeting of the city council. Nebraska City’s chief of police has run down and captured George Mapes and Jim Roney, who have for a long time lived on the proceeds of raids made on the chicken coops of that place. The Eagle says thata Dakota City man keeps his children out of school because he thinks the world is coming to an end, and for that reason 1t is not advisable to spend money to educate them, A man named Hadley, hving on Snake Creek, in Scotts Bluffs county, had a big chunk taken out of his arm and a hole put through his breast by the accidental dis charge of both barrels of a shot gun, but at last accounts he was doing well. A blacksmith at Bertrand dropped a red hot plow lay on his foot the other day, the point cutting and burning its way through to the floor, severing an _artery and inflicting a wound which wich will disable the unfor- tunate man for life, A. B, Vennum, an Bxeter citizen,"shot the dog of a neighbor named Ford the other day, believing it to be suffering from hydrophobia. "The owner of the canine became very mad, and threatened to shoot Vennum, when the latter drew a revolver. The town marshal, however, arvived just in time to prevent bloodshed, and ran in Mr. Ford. A streak of lightning plaved a queer freak at Schuyler recently. kd 'd Zeleny was sitting on the porch on the east side of his house when the flash came, which tove a splinter two feet long from the bottom of the screen door, chipped a piece from the siding over the door, and split the ceiling over the porch, A eottonwood tree standing on the north sidge of the house was badly shattered from the ground up, and a small sprout in the next yard had tha leaves scorched on top while the bottom was un- touched. Mr. Zeleny was not over four feet from the door when the shock came, and while he says it scomed to him that every- thidg was afire for a time, he was not in- jured. Towa Iteirs. Davenport savings banks carry deposits aggregating about §5,000,000, Hoone county’s suditor has paid out $1,000 for gopher sealps this spring. The Brush Electric Light company is put- ting in both arc and incandescent lights at Creston. A Washington boy shot an cagle last week, which moasured six feet and six inches from tip to tip. Bowe & Hinogardner, at Toledo, have a curiosity in the shape of a lumb, which has six legs, and its tail projects from one of its hips, Tho cows of Fort Dodgo will have to seok new grazing grounds hereafter, the eity council having refused them pasturage on the streets. The mayorof Croston has ordered all tho residences und business Liousos in the city numbered, and a man has boen appointed to do the business at 25 conts » num! Arthur Wimmer, of Corning, 18 but cighteen yours of ige, bul he has been preaching for over two years, He now has charge of a Buptist church in Madison county, Rev, James Niver, week, at the age of niunety-thr to losa in 1 preached mon ever delivered at Blvira, county Callioun county has undertaken the drain. ago of 50,000 acres of worthiess lake and marsti, herctofore used only by goose and ducke hunters. F'he estimated cost of the work 15 #35,000. The Great Northwest. The Laramie, Wyo., papers now aunnounce the arrival of faro onttits i the city, Counterfeit 810 greenbacks of the issue of are in circulation in Helena, Mont, 28 have been discovered and have crested considerable excitement. The district attorney of proceeding against druggists red-eye without u liceuse, Governor , of Michigan, proposes to erect the large w mill on the Pacitic coast ut Tacomn, Wash L' ‘The first pardon extended by Governor Warren, of Wyoming, was to Juck Walxer, a Johuson county horse thief. One-half more acreage is planted in Wash- ington territory than last year, and the crop Prospects were never bettos Two highwaymen held up the Heutou stage near Cartorville, Mont., aud captured but' did not secure any of Clinton, died last He came the first sox Clinton Nev., is dispense Carson, who 1L, a Saiidu, Col., jeweler, 4 of stock by Hurry i left in charge during . F. Corny was robbed of & whou hi ary absen Roach, the wholesale horsethief of Lander, Wyo,, hus been bound over to the district'court for trial. He got away with ity-one 8. widow of W. Drysdale, a miver killed two years ago while ascanding the Con. Virginia shaft on a cage froighted with it siys the Carson Appeal, nas recoived a check for 81,000 from the Con, Cal. & Va, Mining comp! o i was given the widow i the suggestion of Johu W. Muckay. Th about DOWN AMONG THE PELICANS, Architecture, Politics and Bthics in New Orleans. IS DYING Socia INTOLERANCE ouT The Day of Political Upheaving s Dawning—The Possibility of the Stato of Lowisiana Going Solid Republioan. Good-Byo to thy Shotgun Rule, New Oneeaxs, Lo, May 10.~[Special Cor- respondence of Tur Ber]—We are mn a transitory condition i Now Orleans—archi- tecturally, soclaily and politically. Many of the old rookeries that have for so long dis- graced this otherwiso beautiful city, are dis- appearing; old bases are falling in, and vropertics are being divided up, and put on the market, On all sides it is noticed that building is beiug rapidly pushed, indicating very clearly that the Pelicans are not auite inscnsible to the necessitios of the occasion. Kight stories is the highest elevation yot_at- tempted in New Orleans building, The reasons for that limit I cannot exactly say, but possivly the lack of suitable foundation may explain the peculiarity. There are no ars to any buildings nere. After the ex- cavator gets down two foot below thoe street level mud is met with, and a foot deeper brings him to water. So all our houscs gud public buildings, gencrally speaking, are BUILT ON 111 of tho usual brick or stone founda- tions. Of course it will take a long time before New Orleans is freed from the old “rattle trap” stores that now disticure our finest streets. Camp, St. Charles and Carondolet, with Canal and Rumpart, all magnificent thoroushfares, pos- sess all theso anomalies in_construction. It will take them another half century to wipe them away. Socially, T believe that the old barriers are being broken down. That hard feeling agminst the “Yankee" received its death blow. Of course for many years business rolations between northern” and southern people have been uninterrupted, and of tho most profitable character, but _the projudices of anti-bellum days have been cherished even to this day in the drawing and club room. In New Orleans the only possi- bility of entrce a man from the north can hope for, is to declare himself a democrat. Under these circumstances you may receive a sort of qualified recognition, but should you avow yourself a republican then SOCTAL OSTRACISM follows to the bitter end. This is no over- drawn picture. Iam fortified in my opinions by the information given to me by the ve best republicans in- New Orleans, and in- formation I may be permitted to give later on will confirm all 1 have now asserted. Yet despite tho discouraging aspect of affairs, 1 adhere to my original statement, that we are in a state of transition; because T opine that Dbofore many years will be witnessed a_ revo- lution in change of sentiment. The old “‘moss backs” are dying out; the daughters and s0ns of the old-times aré beginnine now to reign in their stead, and the plate-glass doors of the defunct brigadiers are opening to re- ceive the sometime detested northerner. 1f we are on the eve of a “change of front,” architecturally and socially, 80 can_it, with cqual confidence, be stated that we are about to soe A TOLITIOAL UPIEAVAL in both the ranks of republicanism and dem- ocracy. T BERE keeps its readers too well informed about southern affairs for matters of detail to be given now by your correspond- ent, but no _one could form the faintest con- ception as to the chaotic condition of political matters in New Orleans without being actually ou the ground. If this city is, as it has been deseribed to be, the “heart” of the state of Louisiana. that beats responsively to her actions, then it argues well for republi camism in the future. New Orleans' senti- ments can be accounted as the correct reflex of the state’s opintons. Now, I haveno hesi- tation in xuying that if some elucidation to tho *‘color” difticulty can be devised between now and the next presidential campaign Louisiana will go SOLIDLY REPUBLICAN, anc the same can be said truthfully of the greater part of the emtire southern country, such as Alabama, Mississippi and Tennesse The whole fabric’ of southern democracy is honeycombed with republicanism. The other night I spoke with a thoroughly represen- tative gentleman (State ator Barrows) of Bayou Sara, an old ex-confederate sol- dier, and now & planter, and in_the course of a very delightful conversasion I elicited the inforination that “if Harrison will only keep the ‘niggers’ in sucha condition tbat the whites way be couvinced that they will not be subjected to A NEGRO JUDICIARY and other indignities of a like nature, Old Tipnecanoe can count ou the solid south sup- porting him next time.” Senator Burrows’ pronunciation has been duplicated a dozen times to the wri It may be said, how- evor, that thesc opinions aro simply those of country delegates. Admitting that, T would in continuation say that precisely the same ideas have been communicated to your cor- nent democrats in this w0 discern, pectable democracy is thoroughly - tired of being ruled by “bum” clement, and parenthetically I would say rfeht herc thav this community is as full of *‘bums,” “ward heelers,” and POLITICAL ROUSTALOUTS as any city 1 evor struck, not even excepting Gothamn. ~ Proportionatioy to its population there are more respectably drossed *toughs’ congregated in New Orlcans than anywhere T have cver been. Municipal corruption abroad unchecked. The people have various forms of government. [irst th hud tho “Ring" ion, the square toed democratic rul ming dissatistied they fired them out and substituted a sort of compromise local government, better known as the Young Men's Democritic association —Y. M. D. A ceutive is a regular VOLYVER AND SHOT ruling power, Their ticket was elected by force of arms. 'This is no metophor, for the records show that there were all the way from 8,000 to 10,000 men under arms on ele tion day distributed about the polls, Lattle wonder they are on top to-day. ‘The men who came to vote tho old _ballot looked down the shining barrel of a Smith & Wos- son 38, received a chill, and ‘“‘reckoned they wouldn't vote that time, is government has had the bridle reins for a year, and now overy one is howling for removal. Ihe old democrats, I undar- 1, did fairly woll 1o power, but they kept od things of ofli 0 close,” 80 thoir genoral policy was attacked, and u'sort of AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE formed by the soreheads in tho democratic party, the Coleman faction of the republic id the negro voters, Combined, this tion downed the st democrats with the result as I said before, that cvery one who formed this precious combine, save the bosses of the Y. M. D. A., are Kickig themsclves for having effected the change, I predict a return to power of the old line domocrats, Before I close I would like to say o word about TILE PRESS OF THIS CITY, What do the r ¢ 13k, with its 20,000 daily cirenlation, think of the repro ative demo Sgwelling out” on 4,000 per ¢ thut is the m lieu ikl of the Times. Democrat's circulation. Allthe dailies aro acmocratic. ‘I'wo, the ‘limes-Democrat (morning) and Item (evening), area wes bit inclined to *flop over’” to republicanism, but the brightest, by long odds, of the en city, press, in'my opinion, is @ little shee that 1 sometimes read, calied the Daily News. It is managed by a gentleman named MeKeuna, and, though unswerving in its political faith "on national 1ssues, makes things lively all round for those who fall from grace ut the city hall and elsewbere. AT WILL BE INTERESTING In wy uext letter I will have somothing to say about th condition of the republican party, ballot-box stufiing and vote suppress- ing. T have been favored by Congressman Colewan, Mujor Hero and other prominent republican leaders with interviews, and I met ex-Governor Warmoutn the other day at the St. Coarles hotol. The lottery question is also Lkely to be one of the greal boucs contention in our next legislature, as is the question of the draiage of New Orleans. Tho weather at present is ¢ turn out of fasbionably dressed womor every ana women T must describe, fo all honesty, as being decidedly homely. They possoss ' wood figures and dress in ox- collent taste, but their sallow com. plexions, undemonstrativo boariug and_very ordinary foaturos can not fail to bo noticed by any one who has been_nccustomed to the sparkiing oves, rosy cheeks and “snap” that is met with up in the northw You see MORE PRETTY WOMEN on Farnam street, in your_oity, in_one day than you will notice in New Orleans in a wook, Yet withal the people here are de- ligntful to moet. They are polite to a degreo, and if somewhat bored in mannor, as though suffering from ennui, why I suppose the cli- matic surroundings is the cause. ANCIENT MARINER, R e IDAHO SPRINGS. A Town of Modeen Improvemonts Hid Away In a Canon. Ipanto SeriNes, Col,, May 10.—[Spocial to Tie Bee. | —If a man would feel diminutive Tot him get aboard of a train at Denver en route to Graymont, Col. As soon as the foothills of the Rocky mountains, if ho had nover beforo scen them, are reached, ho feols the impression of sublimity, which prosontly changes to awe as tho canon is farther pierced, and eyes discorn the piles of rook that nature has upheaved, Ha suddonly perceives thero is something far larger than ne is, and his self-concet, for the present, subsides. ‘Ihere is probably not to be found elsewhere on the continentas many miles, continuously, of majestic and wonder- inspiring scencry. Whoever conceived the project of building a railway up Clear crook canon must have boon & cOUrageous en- ginoer, Huvdly less adventurous wero the pid miners who sought out the way to Idaho Springs and Georgetown before the railroad was contemplated. Where there had scomed to be room ouly for the sinuous creek between the rocky walls of the mountains, the pioneer miners made a wagon road. Afterwards tho mountains had to give way to mako room for the locomotive to trayerso tho gulcl Idaho Springs is now tho chiof minig contor of this region. The oftices and ma. chine shops are hore. ‘Tho machinery of tho Louis stamp mills is repaired at this place, and any other machinery used in the mining and re- duction works. Building lumber is cut only a fow miles south, from the native pine, and a_lumber yard is maintained. Dimension stuff, sheot- ing and flooring made of the pine are used for building purposes in this vicipity. The species of wood 18 unlike any that s to bo found in the Omaha market—harder than the northern white pine, and not as hard as southern yellow pine, but full of small hard kuoots. of | lightful, and the | day is one of the sights in thws city. The The town has its waterworks, eloctrio light plant and a fire engine house. The ditch for conducting the water to the rosor- voir extends away up the mountuin side to the snow line, and the water is as pure, clear and soft as that from a Virginia spring. Water mains are laid in the streots and pip to the dwellings just asin Omaha. Iiro hydrants are placed at stroet corners and sprinkling hydraats in the dooryards. The reservoir is at such altitude as to make the pressure sufficient to meev all required wants, and hence a force-pump is necdiess, The tourist would scarcely expect to find such modern improvements so remote from any considerable city, away up a mountain canon, hid away from the vision of all out siders. The town is built upon a plateau containing about twenty-four acres of level land, and has four churches, a large brick school house, a stamping mill and bath house. The last is provided with the means of bathing in the hot soda water just as 1t comes from the spring a little distance above, and is a resort for invalids who come here seeking health. The mines hereabouts, giving employment to a great force of men, furnish the suston- tation of the town, and it the mines fail, so likewise will the town. gistr - BELLEW ON THE He Hunts For an Editor, Bu ful Not to Find Him NEw Yonrk, May 19.—[Special Telogram to Tue Bee.]—Kyrle Beilew was looking, yestorday, for the editor of Truth ever where except at that gentleman’s office, ana repeatodly swore, “‘upon his honor,” that he would kill him if he could catch him. e says: “Truth asserts that I make the dear girls pay for my laundry. bills, and warus them not to have anything to do with 50 ¢ pensive a lover. I must have satisfaction for this. I must.” Editor Dal: says: “‘I don't re a snap for his revolvers. Before he makes a motion to draw I will have knocked him into his own cocked hat.” WARPATH, 1s Oare- - THE ALASKAN'S CREW, Eleven of Them Come Ilorence, Ore Ponruanp, Ore,, May 19.—News has just been received that eleven of the crew of the foundered steamer Alaskan have como asnore at Florence, near the mouth of tho Suislaw river. On account of the hugo breakers, they wero unable to land their boat, and had to swim to the sbore. All were successful except one poor fellow, who, after enduring the horrible suffering of two nights and three days on the open ocean, lost his life. During the time they were out, all they had to eat was six cans of peaches. Four of the survivors ure quite ill from the effects of drinking sult water, The; ere ouly stopped from drinking unlimite quantitics by force e —— An Exaggerated Roport. New #Haves, Conn., |Speoial_ Telogram to Tur Bee.|—The people poisoned by ico cream at the Giastonbury fes. tival are all doing well, and it is not ex- pected now that any of them will die, The first reports sent out were much exagger- ated, as usual. The chemist investigating the matter is yet undetermined whether tho poison came from the flavoring extract or from uunclean froezers. e German Strike. BeruiN, May 19.—Delegates of the Rocham strikers have decided to resume work Tues- day. The strike continues at Wurten, the owners refusing to concede the demands of the miners. The mine owners of Sewicka at s meeting to-duy opposcd the cight hour shift, but expressed their willingness to negotiate on a different basis, A mugistorial warning against intimidation has been issucd, s, bt LA Marricd a Baron, SaN Praxcisco, May 19.—Baron von Wrede, of Goermany, and Ella Morgan Beve- ridge, daughter-in-law of ex-Governor Beve- ridge, of Tllivois, were married here this evening. Her [ormer husband, Philo Beve ridge, of Chicago, was granted a divorce a fow days ago at Anstin, Nev., on the ground of desertion, Ashore at " Sneezing Catarrh. The Qistress watery disch paintul intammation ext the swelling of the mucous Uning, causing chok- ing sensutio ringing nobses in the head and splitting headnches,—~how familay thess symptoms are to thousands who sufier periodi= cally from head colds or infiuenza, and wio live in ignorance of the fact that a xingle upplication of BANKOID'S RADICAT, CURE FOIL CATARII will atford instantanzous reluef, Jut this treatment o cases of simple Catarrh gives but a faint ides of what this remedy will don the chroulc forms, where tho breathing is obstrueted by ehoking, putrid mucous acel lutions, th ihg iffected, smell wnd atid and Lw'kin g iLsel upon the « den it 16 that the maryelo er ot BANVOIRD'S BADIUAL CURe e self {0 instantaneous and . Oure bejtns from the fivst wpj It 13 vapld, Talical, pOYmaneit, econ , ¥t BANFORD'S RADIC AL ( JsLsLS 0f oe bot tle of the HADICAL UK, 006 boX CATAWIAL BOLYENT 81 an IMeROVID INHALEIG price, 1. Porres Duve & CueMicar Corrok. ., Mos- S adlng to the throat, | CAN'T BREATHE. Chost Pains, Sorensss, Weakuess Hacking Cough, Asthmi, Pleirisy AN Indanimation KELIEYED 15 MINUZE and assisted Lo a npeody o by the CUTICURA ANTI-PAIN PLARTEN. A |6 ligtantanhous and urallible wiiddote Lo yu sflommation and weakiiess of (he Clie Og3t wid only putn wliog's V6 (or 81005 or purtuy Cuknigar, CORION {55, gt