Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1889, Page 4

- s Vel g THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. MAY 24! 1889.. _MHE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. 5 ——— TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily (Morning Raiton) ineluding SUNDAY BER, One Year. Al Six Months dress, Ono ¥ Okana Orsroa,Ho “"'dmnmuu Srnmem 0 X O G tam. S0t ROOKERY DU LDING. 0Kk OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUN® BUiLDING. WASHINGTON OF¥ice, NO. 618 FOURTEENTI BTREET. ORRESPONDENCR. ATl commupipations roliiing to Hews and eds- @orial matter should be addressed to the KDITOR THE BEE. e BUSINESS LETTERS, 11 bustness letters and remittances shonld be dressod to THE 1 BLISHING COMPANY, MAHA. Drafts, chooks and postoilice orders to ‘made puyable to the order of the company. ke Bee Pablishing Company, Proprieters E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BE| Sworn Statement of Oirculation. tate of Nebraska, B ot Poneias, | Grorge . Trschuck, secrotary ot The fiee Pub- AshingComna ny, doss solomnly swear that tho mctual circuiation of Tik DAILY BEE for the week ending May 18, 1550, was s follows Eunday. May 12 Thursday. May Friday, May 17, Baturday, Say 18 Averuge.. « CHUCK. Eworn to before me and subscribed to in my prescnce this 15th_day of May. A. D. 1889, el N. P. FEIL, Notary Publie, Etate of Nebraska, County of Douglas. }”- Georgo . Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de. oses and_says thut he 13 sccrotary of the' Bee ublishing company, that the actiel avers daily circulation of 'THE DAIL month of April, 18, IKT4} cop 83 coples; for June, 184 .:'-y. fla’!.lfl,lf{lcwplfl‘{; tor Augnst, 1 \183 Ccoples; for ‘Septembor, 1853, 18154 coples: ‘for Othober, 144, 1803 coples:_for Novomber, 18, 36,00 coples; for December, 1883, 1822} copies | for January, 1889, 18574 coples: for February, 1P80, 18,000 coples; for March, 180, 18834 coples. GEORGE B, TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 16th day of April, A. D, 18%. N. P. FEIL, Notary Publie. Ttk Dr. Cronin mystery is more than ever a mystory. JAKE KILRAIN is coming home. ‘Where is Champion Sullivan? PunLIC and private enterprises must g0 hand in hand in building up Omaha. TiE resubmission of school bonds in June to the voters of Omaha grows in favor. i overcrowded condition of the in- sane wards of the county jail calls loud- 1y for the early completion of the new hospital. A LONG pull, a strong pull and a pull all together on the part of our solid moneyed men will put Omaha on the ! high road to prosperity. THERE is an unwritten law that ought to prevent any man from holding more than one office. That law should be ob- served in the selection of members of the school board. ALL parties interested inlocal street railways violently protest against com- solidation. When corporations vigor- ously denounce each other, it is an un- failing indication of an early union. THE people of Omaha can take their choice and draw their own conclusions from the statements made by various directors whether or not the rival street railway companies want to consolidate, OMAHA realty is the cream of the country. Distance adds to its golden charm. The Tacoma gentleman who imagines he owns a quarter section of it, is voted the luckiest man in the wide northwest. A BEE line from Omaha to Green Bay, Wis., is one of the possibilities of the near future. It means for Omaha direct communication with the heart of the lumber region and another outlet to the great lakes. SEVERAL prominent eastern jobbing houses are looking about for quarters in «Omaha. They can not come any too soon. The larger the number, the wider the territory the wholesale trade of Omaha can command. ARE the British to own America? They are not only buying up breweries 8ll over the country; but are actually considering the proposition of purchas- ing the principal milling establish- ments at Minneapolis and other flour @nters. SAM SMALL asserts that state laws ave insufficient to enforce prohibition. A member of the Omaha prohibiton club recently declared that prohibition cannot be enforced until women are given the rignt 10 vote. Here we have two advocates of modern blue iaws sub- stantially agreeing that they are a fail- ure. Jam D. I"ism, the ex-president of the Marine bank of New York ecity puardoned out of Sing Sing, is now ex- pected by the people he duped to turn over a part of his ill-gotten millions, But Fish is not that kind of a gudgeon, Itwasn’t for that purpose that he served hig two years in the penitentiury. SPrECIAL attention will he given in the forthcoming census to the beef sup- “ply of America. It hus been decided that careful statistics shall be gathered ! on cattle growing and on our beef aud " pork products. It is claimed by experts that the statistics will be important on the ground thar the meat supply per hoad of population bocome a serious problem where ‘suflicient boef will supply the home demand, nothing of foreign consumption. in 1887 the proportion due to heavy loases wi one thousand population. ~ ~ment, while it may be true in itsolf, by 0o means establishes a law of diminish- fog ratio in the meat supply. The cur- went belief hus been that America has a supply wholly suflicient for present or juture demands, and recent investiga- us well as the coutinued low price eattle on the hoof would bear out this rpretation, is bocoming less from year to year and it may soon come from to o say It is _elaimed that in 1860 the number of cattle in this country was eight hun- dred to one thousand population, while roduced to seven hundred to This state- OUR SUCOESS AT BERLIN. It the reports sent out from Berlin are to be relied upon, the American commissioners to the Samoan confer- ence have been unexpectedly successful in securing a concession of the demands of this government. It would seem that about all they have asked has been allowed, greatly to the displeasure of the German press, which has critized the German government, with such plainness and vigor as it dare, for what it regarded as too great magnanim- ity. Bofore the conference met there was apparently substantial reasons for the belief that the American demands generally would fail, and that the conference would be either a repetition of the Washington finsco of 1887, or that Germany, with the aid of England, would be aliowed pretty much all she desired. The attitude of the English commissioners, however, has thus far shown no leaning toward the side of Germany, but has rather ex- hibited a desire to be absolutely fair and impartial, in view of which it would seem necessary to dismiss the idea that the visit of Count Herbert Bismarck to Lord Salisbury a few weoks before the mecting of the amonn couference had any relation to that matter. But despite the fair appearances and the assurances of correspondents that all is well, there is still a suspicion that Germany has not made so great a surrender us the newspapers of that country pretend. Very little that has actually been agreed upon has become publie, and it will be well to wait until the results of the confersnce are fully made known before indulging in con- gratulations. Mr., Phelps stated some days ago that it was not a one-sided af- fair, but that concessions had been made on both sides, and it may appear that in the reciprocity Germany has gained quite asmuch asshe has given up. But in any event the American government has been successful in thwarting what seemed to be the evident plan of Ger- many to obtain complete control of the Samoan {islands and turn them into a German colony dominated by the power of that government. - Whether or not we shall be able to secure for the people of Samoa that independence of foreign interference and control 1 their gov- ernment affairs which a consistent re- gard for our own political principles would lead us to desire, we shall at least. obtain for them a degree of home rule which they unquestionably would not have been allowed but for our in- terference, The autonomy of the 1slands will be preserved, and the gov- ernment that is established agreeably to the understanding reached by the :onferonce and approved by the inter- sted governments will be assured against the danger of overthrow from foreign machinations. Under the cir- cumstances this is perhaps the very best we could do. It would doubtless have been more consistent with Ameri- can principles to have demanded and insisted that the Samoans should be al- lowed to maintain such government as they please, instead of joining with Germany and England in deciding who shall be their king and the form of gov- ernment they shall have, but in view of the revolutionary and chaotic condition of affairs in the islands, is 1s very doubt- ful whether it would have been wiso to have left the Samoans to themselves to solve the questions confronting them. ‘When they are better instructed in the business of government, ns well as in the value of a stable political system, they will undoubtedly have no difficulty in securing therr full rights of self-gov- ernment and home rule. BRITISH DEFENCES. A dispatch from Ottawa, Canada, re- ports that the Canadian government has been notified by the imperial au- thorities that work on the Pacific coast defences will be begun this summer. The British admiralty last year de- tailed an officer to make an examina- tion of the const of British Columbia, between Vancouver and Esquimault, with the object of deciding upon sites for the erection of batteries command- manding the entrances to Puget Sound and protecting Esguimault, The matter had dropped out of the attention of the British government until the renewal of negotiations at Washington regarding the Behring sea guestion, when it was decided that the work on coast defenses should be begun at once. The fortifications alveady constructed on the southerly corner of Canada’s Pa- cific coast line, and which will soon be garrisoned by a big force, are the strongest on the continent. It is not easy todivine the motive which prompts the Britsh governméut to a further heavy expenditure for fortifications in that quarter, and it is a mat- ter regarding which our government might perhaps with propriety make inquiry. When the President of the Canadian Pacific railroad was before the senate railroad investigating com- mittee in New York, he replied to a question regarding the object of these fortifications, that they were intended 48 o precaution against pussible trouble with Russia. “This was obviously a sub- terfuge. Of course they are con- structed in response to & demand of the Canadian government, and the precau- tionury motive can have reference only to the United States, Doubtless the right of the British government to con- struct fortifications on ite own terri- tory can not be questioned, but its doing so at least suggests the ex- pediency of the United States provid- ing like defenses for the territory op- posite, which is now defenseless., If it is the design of the British government w make a second Gibraltar at the en- trauce of Puget Sound it will be the duty of the government of the United States to confront this menacing enter- prise with defonses of equal proportions und strength, We recently noted the opinion of & San Francisco paper thau one of the wost important matters which this government should consider is that of obtaining possession of British Columbia, and that to accomplish this the government could afford to puy any vrice. It is not improbable that Caua- dian statesmen feel that the possession of this portion of the Dominion by the United States may become & scrious’ question of the not remote future, and that it is well Lo be prepured for it. At any rate there seems no sound reason for the construction of an elaborate and expensive system of defenses on the Canadian Pacific coast unless it isin the apprehension of possible trouble with the United States. ELEVATE THE STANDARD. The board of education should be non- partisan in the broadest scnse of that term. Its membership should be com- posed of men chiosen because of their in- telligence and superior fitness for the management of our public schools, and not on account of their political creed. They should be chosen in accord with the spirit and letter of the law. The framers of our school laws have pur- posely separated the school board elec- tions from the general elections. They have extended the franchise to women, located the polling-places in school houses, and closed the public schools for that day with a view to awakening 1 live interest among the parents of children who attend the public schools. The manifest intent of all thess provisions is to divorce the school management from politics. But party hacks and political bosses have for years sought to override the will of the people. They have used the party machine with its packed cau- cusses and conventions of ward bum- mers as the source that supplics tho candidates for the board of education. The effect of this political interfer- ence could not but be demoralizing. It has exerted a most pernicious influence upon teuchers and janitors. Our school manugement has degenerated into a dispenser of patronge, and spoils-hunt- ers have dictated who should or who should not administer the affairs of our schools, ow there is no more reason why our public schools should be a partisan en- gine than our judiciary. Omaha has discarded the political bosses and snowed under yellow-dog candidates for judicial honors. Shall we permit our public schools to be prostituted for political ends? Ts it not our plain duty to elevate the standard of our school board, and place it above dependence upon party bosses and spoilsmen. Tnr Bee has for years refused to countenance partisan nominations for the board of educution. It is now more than ever convinced that its aims have been in the right direction. But when we advocate non-partisan nomin- ations, we do not mean crazy- quilt tickets made up from candidates that have been put in nomination by democratic and republican conventions. Those candidates are the product of the party primary and caucus. They are necessarily creatures of the machine, and cannot rise above it, any more than the stream rises above its source. What is needed to free our school system from partisan domination is a ticket made up outside of party lines, of material that cannot be used for political ends. Such a ticket can and will be elected two weeks hence. The people are ripe for a change. They have a surfeit of the party hack in the school board and are determined to break up the combinations which have their mainspring in party affiliation. THE manner in which the secretary of the navy is addressing himself to the business of the department in the mat- ter of the construction of new vessels, gives ussurance that the vresent secre- tary does not propose to be outdone by any of his predecessors in this particu- ar. Seven war ships are now building at various yards, and existing legisla- tion authorizes the construction of eight more at a cost of upwards of six million dollars. Secretary Tracy is de- voting himself assiduously to the pre- liminary work connected with the build- ing of these vessels, which he may have learned from the experience of his pre- decessor is no small task. Secretary Whitney was only able to begin twelve outof the twenty new war ships pro- vided for by congress during his ad- ministration of the navy, and he was ounly able to complete one. But he had to encounter all the difficulties incident to the initiative of so vast a work, and under the circumstances he really ac- complished a great deal. With far fower obstacles to overcome Secretary Tracy ought to have all the vessels now pro- vided for in commission long before the end of his administration, and doubtless he will. THE constantly increasing amount of deposits in the New York banks, despite the shipments of gold abroad, excites the wonder of financiers. Recent state- ments show that the deposits in that oity are fast swelling, and that the amount of loanable funds will soon reach the high water mark of four hun- dred and fifty millions. There has never been in the history of cur country a time when so much capital was idle in the banks awaiting profitable invest- ment. ATTENTION is directed to the in- creased activity in the shipment of corn from Nebraska. The grain movement, however, is not confined to our own state, Fourtcen hundred cars of grain were rectived at Chicage one day and two thousand another day this week. The recent unexpected foreign demand coupled with the anxiety to get rid of the surplus before the new crop, has stimulated the movement, which is likely to keep up until mid-summer, THE factional strifes ol officials and the imbecility displayed in the con- struction of the hospital combine to prove the utter incapacity of the county board to properly manage county af- fairs. The members waste their time in fruitless personal jangles, while im- portant matters requiring prompt con- sideration and action are allowed to drift from bad to wor “MERCHANTS' week” can be made a grand success by energetic action and unity. The carnival and trades display of past years demonstrated what Omahu could de on short notice. With an early beginning on & defloite plan of varied euntertainments, Omaha can attract tirousauds of people from the surround- ing towns and country, benefiting alike the visitors and the city, EpETe——a—e—— A Righteous Judge. Roston Journal, In court at New Bodford » day or two ago g Tudge Bordon refiised to issus final papers to a liquor dealer whoapplied for naturaliza- tion, on the groutrd §f having sold liquor to A man whom he knew to be of intemperate habits e was not a.persen of good moral character, and therefore gwas not eligible to citizenship. ! R S—— Reminded Him of Home. Chieago | Tribune, The gaunt, travel-stamed and footsore man was making bis way back from Okla- homa to Topeka od fobt. He looked hungry and felt thirsty. As the heart panteth for the cooling water ‘brdoks, so panted he for the drug store soda of Kansas’ fair capital. “'Stranger,” he #aid huskily, as he paused side, ““‘doth not yon singular shaped cloud near the horjzon's brim por- tend @ storm of no ordinary character, thinkest thou?" *“That,” replied the sojourner, looking at the cloud with the eye of an expert, “is an cyelone. Don’t you see it is fuunel-shaped, you chuckle-head? ~ “Methinks T do," rejoined the traveler in an eagor voice, “and its shape rejoiceth my heart. Since I left my loved Topeka, half a moon agone, mine eyes have not been glad- dened by the sight of anything as thirst quenching as even a funnel. 1 would fain have a closer view. And drawing the back of his hand across his mouth he hurried on in the direction of the eyclone, —— He Didn't Get There. New York Tribune. The opinion is boing expressed in a num- ber of democratic papers that Mr, Cleveland isto be ‘‘the Moses” of ‘‘tariff reform." Y-e-s. If we recollect distinctly, Moses (owing to circumstances not under his own countrol) never reached the promised land. "t An Empty Theatre, Kearney Enterprise. “This paper is a high-toned theatre, in which there are a certain number of reserved seats for advertisers, and each seat has its value.”—Omaba World, ad to hear it. Let us know how the ickets are selling. There appears t be plenty of standing room so far, e taderd, More Room for British Royalty. Chicago News. Now that Queen Victoria has another grandchild the British government will probably annex a few more Soutn Sea islands or the domain of some Indian maharajah or other. —_— Let's Hope So. New York World. It is now certain that ex-Secretary Bayard is to be married. Itisto be hoped that his domestic administration will be more of a success than his foreign policy. Sty v Prohibition Not Wanted. Kansas City Times. Tllinois’ legislature aecides that prohibition does not prohibit. The state will worry along awhile in the same olu way. e HITS AND MISSES, Pistols, gasoline, flower-pots and arsenic are making a combined effort to populate the suburban hillsides.| At last accounts gaso- line was several leagues ahead. “From a non-partisan standpoint,” ex- claimed Colonel Gallagher. ‘I consider the rehabilitation of Cleveland premature. I i laboring zealously th male the adminis- tration of General Harrison a whooping suc- cess. My official relations with him are so close and affectionate that it would be indel- icate for me to express my admiration for him publicly. Rethember Mulvaay " The pructice of showering living bouquets on passing pedestrians is not a success as an advertising medium, It s hardly fair to mortise a man’s skull with a pot to attract his attention to tho virtues of patent medi- cine. The union depot threatens to become the Tascott ot Omaha. e THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD. Within several years Chicago workmen have gained these concessions: Bricklayers have had their hours reduccd from ten to eight, and their wages increased from $1.50 and $2.25 to §.50 and $4: carpenters from ten hours and $2 to eight hours and $2.50 to §3.50; painters from as low as $1 and ten hours to $2.25 and eight hours, The New Orleans bricklayers will work for the old scale, 35 cents. A strike is threatened in the lace factories at Nottingham, England. The St. Paul & Omaha Railway company will no longer employ Italians, At Cleveland 100 girl cloak workers have had a cut from §1.25 to 85 cents for a cortain cloalk. Au Skowhegan, Mass., a factory for turn- ing out coats alono is being built. It will em- ploy 240 men. A New York woman's operativos' union 1s trying to bring before the legislature of tho state a bill providing that employers of work- women shall not require their employes to work in rooms which are so poorly ventilated as to endanger tho health of the occupants, The bill also demands that decent sanitary arrangements be provided, and the working girls bo allowed to sit down when not en- gaged in occupations which make standing necessary. The third annual report of the New York board of factory inspectors shows that the condition of workingwomen in that state has been much improved within the last year, The law prohibiting girls under thirteen vears of age from working in factories has been 80 woll enforced that mow compara- tively few of them are thus employed, The Hematite Iron works at Barrow-in- Furness, England, employ about 3,000 men, They are paid from $1to 7 a week. Locks are so cheap in Willenhall, Little London, England, which is Gevoted almost entirely to their manufacture, that when a workman lets part of, his work fall ke does not think 1t worth his while to pick it up aguin, The men carn from $3 to 85 a week. Recent revelations of the condition of factory girls employed in tue larger cities have stirred philavthropic women every- where to join hands /in Welping them. New York hasa very ablb organization of this kind, headed by w.bmcp who have both brains and money. Great preparations are bemng made in Paris for the international congress of work- ingmen, which is ‘40 thke place there in August. Questions’ felating to strikes and combinations will be among the matters taken up. The tailors aro the ‘best orgaaized workers in England, and are #ble 1o earn good wages in the large ciiies. ‘The Cincinnati Post says the wages of the 1,100 girl shoe-workers there have been cut 50 per cent in a year. g SEATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, A Good Templars lodge has been organ- ized at Holdrege. Stanley is to have a bauk, which will be ruu by Keurney parties. Tocumseh now has a Y. M. C. A. organiza- tion with & membershin of forty, Fiftcen newly arvived Norwegiso emi: grants settled al Humphrey this weok. A frisky horse kicked in three ribs for Eljah Jordan, & Seward young wan, but the youth will recover. ‘Two bundred prouibitionists met at Syra] cuse and formed a county organization for the coming amendment fight, Roligious excitement has driven Mrs. Elizabeth Bigelow, of Hastings, msane, and she will be sent to the Lincoln asylum, H. A. Harding, editor of the Oakland In- dependent, has gono to Washington to secure @ place in the government printing office. Cut worms have done considerable damage to garden truck in the vicinity of Spring- field, and in some instances have attucked the corn fields, Valparaiso is making a reputation as the boss scandal town in_the state. 'I'he latest Involves four married men, one young tnn, vidow and one wife, Tho gossips are was captured at York and returned to the scene of his orime. He has confossed, and says he was only trying to raise money enough to leave the countr H, Foxworthy, of i.incoln, who sued of Hastings for £10,000 damages for roceived by rolling throneh a defec- tive sidowalk, has again lost his suit in court and will now abandon the litigation. The widow Dennis, living near Aurora, be- camo dissatisfied with life on account of 1roublo with her son und his newly acquired bride, and tried to end her existence by tak ing laudanum, but was foiled by a cruel doc tor. Then she tried the butcher knife route, but friends interfered, and she still lives. A Columbus lawyes ery peculinr quest made of him th according to the Telegram. A Polander called at J. . Sullivan’s law office und said that a certain young Irishman was liablo to go on another tear, and that as he was ready to give him o warm reception, he would 1i ense 1o kill the aforesmid Irishman. The Polander was very much disappointod when Sullivan made it plain to him that it would be impossible to grant him the license. lowa Iten June 20 is the date of the M; old settlers’ picnic. E. 5. Elsworth, of Iowa Falls, has come out as a candidate for state senator from that district. The Atlantic police captured thirty-two Rgamblers the other night, cach of whom paid a fine of 89,85, Because her parents objected to the man she loved, Ida Yoberg, a pretty Clayton girl, took strichnine und came near crossing to the land where there is no marriage, or giv- ing in marriage. Mrs. Williams, a Corning woman, got & big revolver and chased the members of the Corning Gun club from close proximity to her promises, where they persisted in shoot- ingata mark, 10 the peril of passers-by. The mayor was among the membvers. George S. Boswell, of Des Moines, who was convicted of bigamy und fined §25, now has o divorce frow his first wife and everything is all serene, The light sentence 1nposed on him was because it was clearly shown that he supposed his first wife had obtained a di- vorce. Miss Hope Glenn, one of America’s finest singers and_worthiest women, was murried in London, England, on the 16th, to Richard Hearn, at Rev. Donald Frazer's Presby- terian church. Arthur Sullivan gave away the brid s Glenn was born and rearcd in Tow: s J her father was in trade. She has been a success uvon the concert strge for a number of years— much of the time abroad, Her parents now reside in Atlanta, G rshall county ity. Dakota. An electric light plant is to be put in at Mitchell atonce. 2dmunds couny; court house and j: The pupils of the Sioux Falls schools have set out 0,008 trees this year. Plans for anew city hall have been se- lected by the Watertown city council. Abordeen now claims a population of 6,876, based on the names in tho new city directory, The Deadwood Wells-Fargo express office stands third in the amount ol business handled in what is known as the Nebraska division. While crazy with whisky, a prisoner in the Sioux Falls jail set the buildiag on firo four times in onc night and narrowly escaped cremation. A fracas occurred between George W. Hopp, senior editor of the Brookings Press, and Kev. C. F. Finwall, pastor of the Norsk Baptist church, growing out of the cire tion of hand bills charging Mr. Hopp with \gmldm‘lm; to the democrat: condu ecoming a prohibitionist, and for the ci lation of which Mr. Hopp slapped tie minis- ter’s faco and the clergyman had him ar- rested. He was fined §30. W. H. and Henry Myers, of Rapid City, have sold to Gen. Boyle and Judge Pope, of St. Louis, the Gold Safe group of mines in ,000. The same capital- 50 purchased of Myers. Cook & Rogers the Grizzly Bear group, mn the same locality, for §25,000. The latter property includes a twenty stamp mill and & valuable site and water right. has voted bonds fora 1 e FINANCIER FISH'S MONEY. An Effort to Be Made to Force Him to Yield Up. New York, May 23.—{Special Telegram to Tue Bek.]—One of the penalties of the freedom that the ex-financier, James D. Fish, has ulready enjoyed nearly two weeks, will be the revival of numerous suits that were lying dormant during his convict days. There is an impression in wmany quarters that some part of his millions, which are rep- resented to have been swallowed up in the crash that startled Wall street five years ago, i8 where he can get atit. One of the most important suits in which he wilt appear as a defendant is that begun long ago to re- cover the money that the city lost by the failure of the Marine bank, of which Fich was president. When the bank closed s doors in May, 1881, in consequence of the failure of Grant & Ward, there were $1,000,- 000 of municipal funds on deposit. Tho United States bank examiner took charge of it. Several dividends have been declared al- ready, and another is shortly expected, which will bring the total up to about 75 per cent, 8o instead of losing $L1,000,000, the city will be out only a quarter of that amount through the ban| e ARRESTED FOK SWINDLING, Chicago Men Indicted on the Testi- mony of Nebraska People. Cricaco, May 23.—|Special ‘Tolegram to Tk Bee.|—Frank L. Loomis, Howard G. Loomis and Edwin L. Jewell, officials of tha Century Book and Paper company, have been indicted by the grand jury. For somo weeks the business methods of this company have been a matter of discussion in various justice courts, Witness after witness has taken the stand and testified to the alleged fraudulent practices of the company. Theso witnesses have, with one or two exceptions, been victimized, as they affirm, by the trio mentioned above, who were placed under ar- rest last ovening. ‘They became tired of the dilatory tactics the company’s aworneys were_pursuing in the justice courts und d their cases to the criminal court. g those young_ men who woro fuduced 10 put up their hard-earned money to secure alleged agencios of the company was one from Omuha, one from Lincoln and two from the state of owa, beside a number from Hli- nois, Indiana and Ohio, _The sums obtained from them range from $200 to $1,000 cach, The prisonors were baile . y & Big Fake, WasmiNaroy, May 22.—[Special Telegram to Tur Beg.)—There was a silly fake wn an evening Brooklyn paper yesterday annouunc- ing the probable resignation of Blaine, Windom and Proctor. Blaine is the only one of the cabinet oficers in regard to whom a suspicion of dissatisfaction is entertained, In reply to a card of mquiry, be pencilled, i big capital letters, the word, nsense, Secretary Rusk says there were only him- self, Blaine, Windom and Miller present at the last cabinet meeting, and the whole pro- coedings were of the most agreeable and harmonious character. Proctor was not there at all. e — KFear Trouble With Strikers. MixNgaroLls, May 23 —The Journal's West Superior special says the mayor of that twwn has closed all the saloons 1o anticina- tion of trounle between the coal heavers who have struck und the new men imvorted to take their places. ‘The new men are work- ing under strong police protection. STATUS OF NO MAN'S LAND. Indian Title to a Portion of Ne- braska Not Extinot. A PROCLAMATION NECESSARY. So Says Attornoy-Goneral KLocse— Striking Plumbers—~The District Court—Lincoln Council lavesti- gation—Wilcox's Deal. LINCOLN BUREAU OF THR OMAmA Ban, } 102 STRERT, LiNcowL¥, May 23, A Washington special to Trm Bee of the 15th, contained an item regarding the lands embraced in the strip ceded to Nobraska in 1882, by the government, north of and on the Niobrara river. It may be remembered that at the special session of the Nebraska legis- lature, in 1883, this territory containod nearly 700,000 acres, the best part of the Sioux rescrvation, which was duly acceptod by the state in accordance with the pro- visions of the bill. The bill providing for accepting this gift to the state was senato file No. 6, entitled **A bill for an act declar- ing the assent of the state of Nebraska to an actof congress of the United States, entitled *An act to extend the northern boundary of tho state of Nebraska, approved March 28, 185301 Tt was passed at the special session of the legislature, May 23, But the condi- tion still exists, that before it becomos a part of Nebraska the Indian title shall become ex- tinet. In its prosent condition it is not in the jurisdiction of Nebraska, and may really be called **No-Man's-Land.” With these facts in mind, suggested by Ed. A F of Niobrara, Tur Bee representa- led upon Attorney-General Leese, to- for the why and wherefore. In reply to questions suggestod by the existing facts, he said: 1 do not know about the ‘No Man's Land’ part of it. In my opinion, the federal courts of Dakota have jurisdiction over the territory ion, and will have uatil the president ues his prociamation declaring that the Indian title to said territory has been ex- tinguished. This has never been done to my kuowledge. Tho stato has dono its part, and it seems to me that the only thing to bo done is in the nands of congress, and that our delegation there ought to attend to the federal part of it. It is a nice tract of land, and ought to ne brought under the jurisdic- tion of the state as soon as vossible.’ Wilcox's Deal. The trial of the case of Hancock vs Davey, in the district court, brought to light an item of news that has been overlooked. Atten- tion will be attracted when the statement is made that the defendant is W. H. B. Stout's right bow: The suit was brought for an accounting ot the money expended during a vartuership that existed between the parties prior to the suiv at law. Among the items the defendent made in his statemont of the expenditures of the firm was one of §100 paid to Architect Wilcox. Investigation leads to the knowledge that the architect was paid this sum for *“‘passing” the class of lath used on the new capitol building. In other words, he hoodoed tne manufacturers and patenters, Messrs. Hancock & Davey, for recommend- g this patent luth, which, as a matter of course, the firm desired to have used. It turns out at the ninth hour that Hancock ob- jected to this class of deals, and hence sought an accounting in the public courts, New Notaries Public. The governor to-dny made the following notarial appointments: Levi H. Eib, Min- don, Kearney county; D. S. Josoph, Elsie, Perkins county; Marauis L. Depue, Mina- tare, Scotts Bluffs county; Milton M. Starr, Lincoln, Lancaster county; Elby C. Morden, Madrid, Perkins county; J. J. Ochsner, Sutton, Clay county: H. H. Buckley, Platto Center, Platte county; Eiva R. Kuiffin, Weeping Water, Cass county; William S, Hugnes, Oxford, Furnas county: Cyrus P. Flick, Lincoln, Lancaster county; F. C. Holbert, Plainview, Pierce county; J. J. Mc- Carthy, Ewerson, Dixon county; Alfred 1. Blaufuss, Omaha, Douglas count, The District Court. The case of Millard F. Gould vs Ada Van Pelt and A. C. Rickets, was on trial be- fore Judge Field, to.day. The action was brought to settle the rights of parties m the Railrond Remedy and Railroad cough cure, invented by Mr. Van Polt, de- ceased. The plaintiff was in partnership with Van Pelt and owned a_half interest_in his remedies. Van Pelt died, and his widow, the defondant, pur from Rick- cts, the administrator, ber deceased hus- band’s interest. The quéstion at issue in this wrial is to ascertain, determine and settle the rights of parties in'the remedies described, “The plaintiff claims that Mr. Van Pelt had acquired her interest subject to a settlement ne had made with the administrator, and further claims that if the whole case is gone into he 18 enuitled to $7,000, which_he advanced in the purchase of materialsto Van Pelt, and for advertising, which is the great cost for gewting up & profitable business in patent medicines. The defendants genorally deny the allegations of the plaintiff and scok to have a full accounting, and the inauiry promises to be protracted. In the case of Butler vs Baker the plal Y ot judgment for $1. 1t will be remeu bered that he wanted §25 for damages tnat defendant’s cow did 1o his growing crops. “Testimony in the case of Bun vs Lunca coutinucs before Judge Chapman and a jur That Investigatio On the 14th of April, and on prior dates Trr Ber published an exposition of boodlers and boodling in the old city council, aud iy has brought forth fruit, but nothing now in the way of developmonts, although some of the papers continue to tura the matter over, There 18 no doubt but what Tre Bre's ox- Pose at a timely dato led to the appointment of an_invostigation committes by the city r8, tnd the oatcomo is watohod with no little_intorost. The opinion, howover, 18 frooly oxpressod that it will prove to bo an= other onse of whitewash, So far ns Burng is concerned, tho charges he makes will b thoroughly yentilated . in sourts, 13ul tho Mayer ot al mattar bids fair to rench a obscure pigeon-holo. Messrs, Coopor an Dean can not escapo so woll. Distinol chargos stare thom in the face, and as they have not eyen ventured o denal, A'h committoe of investigation, consisting o Mossrs, Bushnoll, Hamilton, McLaughling Pace and Doan, have n good deal at stake and it is altogether probable that they will make somothing of a showing, “We are after thom,” thoy say, and tho fature will dotormine just how hard. ~ The muddlo in the Lincoln council will likely produce a profound stir whon the committeo com. mences to knock the bottom out of tha charges, Striking Plumbers. The striking plumbers in this eity admis that they can help their Omaha brothron very little by quitting work. *Tho reason,” said a prominent member of the union to Tie BEr ropresontative, to-day, “is becausa there are no hoayy contracts in progress in this city, and bofore any commences our places can b supplied by non-unionists, But the boys propose to do what they can, and L am with them,” City Nows and Notos. Hon, Tames D. Snoddy, of Lo Cygno, Kan., is in the city. Snoddy has served in the log. islaturo of that stato twelve torms, and five torms as spouker of the house of represoata- vos. Hon, Charles Casoy, the Pawnoo City banker, is in the cit ——n Ladies take Augostura Bitters gener- ally when they feel low spirited. It brightens them up. Dr. Siegert & Sons, sole manu facturers. At all druggists Betrlidle- " e Nebraska and lowa Postmastors. WasnINGToN, May 83.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bee]—Nebraska postmastors ap- pointed: George Banta, Colton, Cheyenna county, vice John Moyer, removeds O. M. TRoss, Mingo, Chey vice Frank Burs, removed; Mrs. C. M. Latham, St. Libory, Howard county, vice Ernst Weller, removed: W. V. Van Petten, Stanton, Hitche cock county, 'vice J. B. Slim, removed; J. I\ Gillmore, Wolbach, Greeley county, vice L M. Mulford, removen. fowa postmasters appointed: J. G, Por- son, Adelphi, Polk county, vice Noble John- son, removed; William Hoyle, Boonville, Dallas county, 'vice James Winter, removed ; D. B. Rice, Desota, Dallas county, vice . C, Payne, resigned; J. A. Henry, Durham, Marion county, 'vico C. H. Durham, re: moved; William Painter, East _ leru, Madison county, vice C. W. Wright, removed; J. H. Hoston, McCallsburg, Story county, vice A. B. Griflith, removed; Daniel Stoltz, 'Norwall, Warren county, vice J. A. Sierlie, removed; James Bartholemerw, Pale myra, Warren county, vice C. E. Reynolds, removed; T.J. Prentice, Pleasantvilie, Ma« rion county, vice G. (. Stevens, removed; P, W. Brown, Rannells, Polk county, vica L. T. Brown, removed; Sidney West, Tay- lorsville, Polk county, vice J. T. Harder, re- moved; O. B. S, Peterson, Story City, Story county, vice A. N. Torp, removed; J. W. Smith,’ Truro, Madison county, vice Ella Earl, 'removed; R. A. Givens, Umversity Place, Polk county, vice T. O, Mersham, re- . W. Welch, Van Meter, Dallas ice F'. M. Ross, removed. Big Schemes for Persia. BANGOR, Me., May 23.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee.]—Frank Clergue has {organized the Bank of Persia, the Persian Rallway and Construction company, the Persian Electrio Light company and the city of Teheran ‘Waterworks company, each with $1,000,000 capital, He has started for St. Petersburg, where he will complete his negotiations with tho shah of Persia and czar of Russia during their meeting there in June. Clergue carries with him strong letters of recommendation trom Secretary of State Blaine, Clerguo is heavily backed by the Reuters, e Much Railroad Property Burned. NorwALK, Conn., May 28.—The southern terminus of the Housatonic road at Wilson Point was entircly burned last night. A quarter of a mile of new wharf, freight buildings, coal bins, passenger depot und a large number of passencer and {reight cars were aestroyed. The New England Terminal company had expended $300,000 and the Housatonic company a like sum 1 _1mprove- ments there. Steamers and sail boate nare rowly escaped. ————— Crime of a Jealons Husband. Prr7spure, May 23—A Chroniole-Telegraph special reports that Frank Compton killed his wife, Dora, at West Pittston, this morn- ing and then cut his own throat, dying two hours later. Jealousy is thought to bave Dbeen the csuse of the deed. Lol e B More London Gamblers Fined. LoNDON, May 23.—The persons \aken Into custody by the police at the time of the raid on the Adelphin club, were arraigned for trial to-day. 'The proprietor of the club was fined £500 and the sccretary £200. The play- ers were discharged. - Fifty-cight Miners Entombed. Loxvox, May 23.—The roof of the coiliory at Merthyr Tydvil, Wales, fell in, killing one miner and_entombing fifty-cight others, They were all rescued. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, The makers of the Ivory Soap have been engaged in the man- ufacture of Soaps for over fifty years, and the *“Ivory” is the happy result of their long experience, and is unquestionably the soap to be used by all who value the advice (quoted below) of Ellen H, Richards, Instructor in Chemistry, Woman's Laboratory, Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, who says, ‘‘In the purchase of soap, it is afest to chioose the make of some well known and long established ““firm who have a reputation to lose if their product is not good,” A WORD OF WARNING, There are many w they ARE NOT, but 1i te soaps, each represented to be “just a5 good as the *Ivory';" all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remackable qualities of the genuine, Ask for “lvory" Soap and insist upon getting i, Copyright 18%, by Procter & Gamble