Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 30, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. ' PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ——— - TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. lni!] mm-nlnx Fdition) including SUNDAY Y Nal.vu and 910 FARNAM Srarr. or, /07 ROOKRRY BUILDING. lmK Olrl('l‘ ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUN® mwum. WASHINGTON OFFice, No. 613 WTEENTH STREET, e SIEETIIN entions rela! h:ll fls":e‘:“l)‘:;lllfl be lddrel‘lod to the EDITOR or THE BEE, SINKSS LETTRRS, U bnmm’a‘zulten and remittances should be to Tie IIRI PUBLISITING COMPANY, IMAHA. Drllk\. and postoffics orders 8o made payable w I-ht ordtr 'of the company. %6 Beg Pablishing Company, Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor, THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of’ Circulation. State of Nebraska, w County of Douglas, f"'- George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Ree Pub- jgCompany, dovs solemnly swear that the actinl eirenintion of e DALY BEw for the week ending May 2. 1460, was as follow: “Eunday. May 1 Thursday, day, May 2 Baturday, May Average T Sworn to before :w n;n& su uacrlln«ds to in my ence 25th day of Ay, L NP, Fxn! Notary Public, .Btate of Nemnnkn. ’“ Gounty of Douglas. George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- s and_says thit he 13 secretary of the'Beo Biening company, that tho notual wverage @afly circulation of THE DAILY kg for t month of April, 158, 18,744 copies; for May, 1883, 18,183 coples: for June, 1884 19,343 <o) le! tor 18,633 ceptes; 'tor. H’Eunt. 8,183 cop Ol. ful chm-m r, 1 154 Bopmu fflr 54 cnpm. tor November, 1883, u,nnu crmw! for Decemnber, 1888, 18,223 coples for Janoary, 180, JRETA cobles: foF February, 6,0 coples; for March, 189, Jaeod coples. Bwo to before ma und subscribed in my presence this 16th degot A rru A. D., 1880, L, Notary Publio. — e KANSAS Crry paving adventurers should not be permitted to delay public works in Omaha. THE Lincoln investigation demon- strates that several aldermen were not in the business for their health. PROPERTY owners petitioning for cedar block on streets ordered to be paved are penny wise and pound foulish. IF A more rapid and frequent transfer of mails between Omaha and Council Bluffs can be effected, it should be brought about. THE repeal of the ordinance licens- ing pool and billiard tables was p-oper . There is such a thing as heaping too many burdens even on luxuries. A WELL planned Indian scare is more offective in stampeding squatters on the Sioux reservation than all the threats emanating from Washington. TEN per cent is the current rate of discount on jobs in the Lincoln city council. Contractors and claimants should regulate their bills accordingly. GOVERNOR HILL isa man of generous moods and surgical tact. It was exceed- ing kind of him to apply a sugar-coated poultice to the gaping wounds inflicted on Cleveland last November. THE expense of running the city. de- partments of our municipal government is estimated to be a cool quarter of a million of dollars. The pruning kaife could be used judiciously in lopping off some of the dead branches. THE Russian emperor ascribes his es- cape from a railroad disaster to Provi- dence. This manifestation of divine grace was promptly followed by a doubling of the imperial guard and in- creased deportutions to Siberia. I 18 now generally conceded that the voting down of the school bonds was a great mistake. It will keep hundreds of workingmen idle and our retail merchants lose many. thousand of dol- lars of trade, while the city gains noth- ing, since it must keep on renting stores and warehouses for school pur- poses and keep on paying more for rent than the interest on the school bonds would amount to. ‘PHERE is too much wifling with ‘bogus paving contractors, The board of public works should compel the low- est bidders to furnish bonds and begin operations promptly. Upon failure to do this the board should exercise its . "power to reject the tender and award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. The delay in beginning paving operations is a needless hardship on -workingmen. . EmEps— DENVER'S growth in orime over- # shadows the boom in other directions. . '"Within two woeks four murders have ‘been committed in the city. This alarm- ing deluge of blood naturally creates a demand for move rigorous execution of ~ the laws. Buf the record of modern _ Colorado justice gives faint hope that dhe murderers will receive their deserts. Tho law’s delay, the techni- calities which burden courts, and the sentimental verdicts of juries, all oper- ate to tho advantage of the criminal, Mu, HANscOM has planted a monu- mt for himsell that will outlast any It of granite or marble, by giving this city the land now known ns Hans- oom park. Why cannot some of our millionaire land-owners emulate his ex- smple? Why cannot ‘they generously contribute to the park system of Omnaha? It is not expected that each man shall ‘give eighty acres, but ten, or even five acres would keep their memorics ever green. —— THEuew ordinance regulating plumb- ing in Omaha is based on & wrong prin- ciple. Like the building ordinance, it dmposes an unjust tax on improvement. ‘The more money & man invests in a building, the more is he taxed by the city. Instead of encouraging building /enterprise by » maximum fee, the cty meets the builder at the threshold of in- westment and exucts a per cent of the oost. This Is all wrong. It forces ‘builders to under-estimate the cost, and the officiul statistics an unrelin- record of the eity’s growth. The lawis & premium on falsehood instead of A promium on enterprise. MEMORIAL DAY The return of the day consecrated to the patriotic and beautiful service of decorating the graves of the defenders of the union brings with it the usval store of memories and the lesson of heroism and sacrifice. To those who can recall the years of eivil conflict the recurrence of Memorial day is an op- portunity for retrospection, rvich in in- terest and in terder recollections. To those who have come later upon the stage of life it conveys an impressive lesson of loyal devotion to the highest duty of the citizen. Kvery nation has its galaxy of horoes. In every age men have given their lives in defense of their country. The blood of those who fought for freedom has enriched the soil of all lands. But history has no record of patriotism, of courage, of valor and of sacrifice grander than that made by the nen whose graves a grateful people will to-day strew with the emblems of affection and gratitude. This republic has been fortunate in its heroic charac- ters. It were easy to name a score al- most peerless in the world’s an- nals. But to-day -the heroes who speak to us are not these, or these alone, but the vast host that went to death un a hundred battle ficlds and in scores of prison pens, with those who, returning from the con- flict, . paid, untimely, the penalty of the hardships and privations of the camp and the march., These speak to us of a courage that never fal- tered of a devotion that never doubted, of a lofty and unselfish patriotism. So long as the memory of these heroes is cherished, and their great example held in honov, the republic will survive all dangers that may assail it. NULLIFYING THE LAW. The persistent effort to force our school board into politics and place the natronage of the schools at the disposal of politicians is nothing more nor loss than an attempt to nullify the law re- lating to school elections. What was the object of the legislawure in divore- ing the school board elections from the elections of city and county offi- cers? Why are the schools closed and the polling places located in school houses? Why did the legislature enfranchise the mothers of school children? Is not the manifest intent of the law to take the management of our schools out of the political cesspool? Why should we proceed in the usual way to nominate members of the board of edu- tion by party conventions, in defiance of the plain intent of the law? Does anybody who advocates partisan school hoard elections contend that the law is not in the interest of better government of the schools? Can any- body defend the nullification of a good law? Do figs grow from thissles? ‘What can we expectfrom a convention gotten up by political strikers and heel- ers? Why should members of the board who are notoriously unpopular and lack the confidence of the community, be the most outspoken opponents of a non- partisan school board? WHERE TROUBLE MAY ARISE. Official circles in Washington are represented to have been a good deal stirred up by the intelligence that the British government had sent two ships of war to cruise in Behring sea. Some time ago the president issued a procla- mateeg, Dursuant to an act of congress passed two days before the close of the last session, warning all unauthorized persons against entering Behring sea, within the dominion of the United States, for the purpose of taking fur seal or salmon. This action was regarded with a great deal of disfavor by the Canadian government, and as a number of Canadian vessels were then fitted out for seal fishing in the waters covered by the proclamation it is safe to assume that an appeal was made to the imper- ial government to dispatch war ships for their protection. At any rate the gonding of such vessels to cruise in Beh- ring sea is a very plain notification to the United States that theclaim to con- trol those waters is to be contested. The administration will undoubt- edly adhere firmly to the posi- tion it has taken, and it is an- nounced that besides Lhe two revenue cutiers already in Alaskan waters, three vessels of war have been ordered there. It is'the opinion of the president and secretavy of state that the United States has exclusive do- minion over all that portion of the Fa- cific ocean known as Behring sca, ex- cepting such as lies east of the treavy line bordering on the Siberian coust, and the power of the government will be used to the fullest extent in enforc- ing this view. There will be no toler- ation of such depredations in Alas- kan waters @8 were permitted during the last administration, until the demand for the interposition of the government became so strong that it could no longer be disregarded, and two or three Canadizn vesscls were seized. Undoubtedly the Canadian seal fisher- men, backed by British war ships, will endeavor this year to enter the forbid- den waters, in which event there will certainly be trouble. This would bring the issue squarcly to the consideration of the two govornments and lead to a convention for the permanent settlemont of the rights of the United States in Alaskan waters. Moanwhile this government will not rocede to the slightest extent, If tne views enter- tained by the presidentand secretary of stato are correctly reported, from the position announced in the president’s proclamation of last March. S A THREATENED RUPTURE. A rupture of the Inter-state Com- merce Railway association is already threatened. While it was very genexr- ally hoped when the association was formed thatv it wouid be able to curry out its well-defined object without serious friction, there were many who doubted whether it could keep in har- mony the many conflicting interests with whie¢h 1t would have to deal and continue for any great length of time without encouraging trouble that might imperil its existence, 'The purpose was good, but the obstacles o suo- cessfully carrying it out were seen by | those who looked into the watter iu-. telligently to be so numerous that they could not but feel some misgiving as to the result. The difficulty that now confronts the association grows out of the application of the Chicago & Alton and the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quiney roads to be permitted to reduce the lumber rate from Chicago to the Migsouri river. The executive bourd of the association refused the request, setting forth some cogent reasons in sunport of the refusal. It was urged that to allow the pro- posed reduction would be to bring on a conflict which might entail losses on the contestants amounting to millions of dollars. It was held that existing circumstances do not justify the reduction asked for,and that it would boe of no advantage to the roads which ask it. The board thought it neither business-like nor just to com- petitors to insist upon takiug unprofita- ble traffic merely for the sake of main- taining its possession. The arguments presented by the board are clearly in line with the policy of the | association, but the president of the Chicago & Alton appears not to be convinced by them. If he is cor- rectly reported, his company had deter- mined in advance not to submit to an unfavorable decision, and accordingly will establish the rate it applied for permission to make in the face of the decision. Of course such action would be a virtual abandonment of the associ- ation. Nothing is indicated as to what the Burlington may do, but even should the Alton proceed alone to establish the reduced rate it would almost certainly precipi- tate a war so far as the lumber traffic is concerned, and might easily lead to a general rate war. Of course but one such conflict would be required to put an an end to the presidents’ agreement, and this done a like arrangement could not be effected again soon, This issue serves to suggest the difficulties the Inter-state Commerce railway associa- tion is likely to encounter from time to time, and may also serve to prove how little warrant there is for public confi- dence in the most carefully-prepared and solemnly-made agreenients of rail- road presidents. E— “NO MAN'S LAND.” Mr. Ed. A. Fry, of Niobrara, Neb., writes to Tu BEE as follows regarding the strip of territory north of the Nio-~ brara river, which is to become a part of Nebraska upon the extinguishment of the Indian title: Attorney-General Leese and Tur Bee do not yet catch the real meaning of the claim that the strip of country to become a part of Nebraska, forming the northern boundry of the state from the Keya Paha east, will be “No Man’s Land.” There is no question as to the present jurisdiction of the federal courts of Dakota territory. Butas the two new states will come into the union during the next fall, and the Sioux commission will not have completed their work by that time, what will become of that.strip of country south of the forty-third parallel? It will not then be in Dakota, and Nebraska can not ac- cept it until the president issues his procla- mation; and it seems as if he would have the right 1o do that at any time the Indians select their lands. The territory in question was ceded to Nebraska by act of congress in 1882, and the state gave its assent, or virtual acceptance, in the same year. The juris- dicvion of Nebraska was not to be ex- tended over the territory, however, until the extinguishment of the Indian title. We take it that as soon as this result is attained, as provided for, the strip of country referred to will at once become subject to the jurisdiction of Nebraska. Our correspondent is doubtless right in the view that if the two Dakotas become states before the Sioux commission shall have successfully completed its work and the president proclaimed the result, the territory ceded to Nebraska would be ‘“No Man’s Land,” but what reason has he for assuming that the work of the commission will not be com- pleted befora the admission of the new states? If the outlook is not far less favorable than has been represented, and the Indian Defense association is not allowed to become too officiously meddlesome, the commission ought to bring its iabors toa successful conclu- sion within ninety days at most, or say by the end of August. It would require but a short time to verify the result to the president, who would doubtlesg issue the required proclamation very soon after receiving the vesult, Certainly if the negotia- ticns are successful there will be great pressure on the president not to delay proclaiming the opening of the reserva- tion. The matter ought to he concluded one way or ihe other by the first of Oc- tober. While, thevefore, there is a possibility of the strip that is to become u part of Nebraska being for a time **No Man’s Land,” the chances are that it will never be properly so designated. S——eer——— Tug senatorial committee appoin ted to investigate our relations with Can- ada ave now in Washington territory tuking testimony. The burden of compinint poured into the senators’ ears is to the effect that the people of Wash- ington territory aro sadly handicapped in all branches of industry by the com- petition of the English of British Col- umbia, 1t ischarged that the North- ern Pacific ean not compate with the Canadian Pacific on equal terms because the latter rond is subsidized by the Canadizn governinent. Our coasting vossels have beon driveu out of the lumber cuvrying trade of Puget Sound because Grent Britain and Canada have voted subsidies to their own marine, The lumber and nining industries of Washington territory ure said to be erippled becsuse the British employ Chinese labor in their mills and mines. The lishing interests of our country are said w be suffering from thesame cause. In short, it would appear that in spite of the nawural udvantages and rich re- sources of Washington territory its trade and industry ave paralyzed by the interference of the British across the border. (t would De inter- esting in this connection to hear from the other side of the house, If British Columbia is taking away all the trade rightfullsfbelonging to America, and to Washinglon territory in partic- ular, that country ought to be on the bigh road to success und its people roll- iag in wealth, The truth is, however, British Columyig, is laboring under trade deprossion more savere than that "ot Washington dwnpitory. The inhabi- tants of that province of Cavada, if in- torviewed, " cotifit throw considerable light on the nattrs of subsidies. Like the old man of\f}ig fea, they are bur- dens and ovils borrie on the back of the people of which! Washington territory happily is ignofan}. Sprir— NEWLY appointedt Indian agents will find accompanying their commissions lettersof instructions from the seorotary of the interior:” Thoy are directed that the office to which they arc appointed is one of more than ordinary im- vortance both for the interests of the government and of the Indians. They aro therefore charged that sobri- oty and intogrity shall mark their con- duct of the affairs of the agency, and that the proper training of the Indian children and the agricultural and other industrial pursuits of the Indians shall receive their constant and careful at- tention. The truth of the matter is that the average Indian trader cares no more than a snap of his finger for the moral and industrial welfare of his charges. He accepts his commission not with a spirit of philanthropy, but with an eye to money making. The pointed instruc- tious of the secretary of the interior are intended to impress the Indian agent thatthere are dutiesand responsibilities resting upon his shoulders, which the government has as much a right to de- mand as a correct balance sheet of the receipts and expenditures for supplies. THE anti-trust law passed by the Ne- braska legislature is bearing fruit inan unexpected quarter. A prominent to- bacco company which had bound re- tailers by an agreement not to sell its tobacco below a fixed price has recently issved a notice to retailers in.this state absolving them from their contract sell- ing agreement “‘owing to laws enacted in Nebraska against trusts and com- binations.” The tobacco firm denies that 1t is a trust or a combine, or that its contract with its customersin Nebraska was designed to suppress competition. But for all that the company saw fit to suspend its agreement fixing the retail price of its brands. The tobacco con- sumer of Nebraska, at least, has something to be thankful for, even though no other relief comes to the peo- vle of this state from the anti-trust measure. THE story of the Panama canal is a story of poverty, disease and death. The millions wrung from the counfiding people of France, and sunk in a pesti- lential hole in the isthmus, was worse than robbery. It was a confidence game of international preportions. It impov- erished the gflvc{r, and was the means of bringing thousands to starvation and the grave. When the flow of money ceased, the workmen were abandoned to their fate. Had it not been for the generous action of ‘the Jamaican gov- ernment, ten thousand people would have perished. Ovyer seven thousand people have already been shipped out of the country by thit government, and the remainder proverly provided for. — THE reaction in Wall street from the long period of depression in stocks has caused considerable surprise in specu- lative circles. There is apparently a strong bullish feeling in the stock mar- ket, which affects nearly all kindas of railroad’ securities. The increased railroad earnings for April and May are undoubtedly the causo of this unex- pected buoyancy. If Wall street re- flects the business situation of the coun- try, it would indicate that June will open with quickened pulse and confi- dence all along the line. THE garbage inspector makes a de- mand of twenty-five hundred dollars on the city for the expense of maintaining the garbage boats and for hauling away ‘dead animals. At least twice this sum will be collected from householders dur- ing the year. Despite the fact that garbage collection will cost anywhere from six to eight thousind dollars, the present system is thoroughly bad. The council should revive the crematory project at its earliest opportunity. ENDING April 30, 1889, the number of immigrants entering the United States was three hundred and eighteen thousand as compared with three hund- red and seventy-two thousand nine hundred during the corresponding period last year. During the past three weeks, however, there has been a large increase in the number of arrivals, and if it continues until autumn, the immi- gration for the year bids fair to assume mammoth proportions. THE coal mine strikkers in Illinois have adopted the best possible course to insure defeat of their cause. Riot- ous disorder and the cowardly attempt to wreck the train bearing the state militia, deprives them of that public support essential to a peaceful settle- ment of the trouble. E— Bottles For Kansas. Chi Lribune, Colorado has gope largely into the busi- ness of manufactyring glass bottles. The demand from Kansas must be pretty brisk, ol the justice, is on the nnd for a Rochester boot and shoe house, and 18 sending in good orders, notwithstapding his parenage, name and other obstacles, ———— Colonel Shbkfiard’s Position. Chicdgo ) Bribune. So far as the Bibletexts at the head of the New York Mail and: Bwpress afford any indi- cation 1t may be céucluded that Colonel El- liott I, Shepard 1s @etermined he will not ac- cept the position of United States minister to Russiu unless it is offered to him, -~ A State's Bad Advertisement. 3 Des Moines Register. When Arkansas has a little let-up in kill- g men for political reasons it will be in order for her immigration commissioners to send out some mora circulars invitiog psople to come there and live, or, rather, take their chanco of living. o iy Notaing Due the Spelibinder Iudianapalls Journa', ‘hero ave services for u party that ought 10 be recognized and suitably rewarded, but servicos that are bought by the day or by the spoech as the lgh figure thus speltbind- ors demand Iay the administration under no obligations to the orator or his private secre- tary. T —— Guthrie's Little Ads. Chicago Times, The young but enterprising ity of Guthrie, Oklahoma, is endeavoring in a humble way to keep itself before the public. An occa- sional murder assists in advertising the piace to the satisfaction of its citizens and is con. sidered both effective and economical. ————— Mr. Clarkson Keviews His Work. Towa State Register. A splendid list of honest, capable and ofcient employes is now being secured for the subordinate places in the goverument—a gratifying balauce against the dishonest, in- competent and unworthy classs that went in during the last administration. - An lnnrnauo and a Decrease. Canton Reposttory. Come to think of it, an increase of 234 United States liquor licenses in Iowa, the orack prohibition state, is not so bad after all. Of course, though, it doss not equal the decrease from 000 to 63 under Brooks' high license 1n the city of Pittsburg. il Democratic and Slightly Personal. San Franciseo Alta, General Juckson, of Georgia, whoso spoach gave Oh1o to the republicans in 1884, 1 suffer- ing from ‘a runaway mouth again. He re- cently observed that in the late war tho northern men were tho rebels, All right, general; tho rebels licked, then, and now let’s tallc about fools. How is your health? e Thrifty Pioty, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Editor Shepard of the New York Mail and Express advises christians to boycott Sunday newspapers and merchants who ad- vertise in them. There is reason to suggest that Editor Shepard’s idea of christiun duty in that respect is inspired by a desire to in- croase the patronage of his own paper by unchristian interference with the business of rival journals. Weather Irem. Pittshurg Chronicle. A Fourth avenue man explains the cold weather of the last two or threc days by means of this diagram : cc ST Which is, being interpreted, the C's on is backward, it How Did So Many Democrats Get In? New York Herald. We observe a_great hullabaloo about the prodigious number of postmasters removed by Mr. Clarkson. We suppose he is not turning out republicans. And if he is re- moving democrats, pray how did such a pro digious number of them get in? Mr. Cleve- land was in office only four years. His was a civil service reform administration. Is it possible that he or his postmaster-general re- moved & prodigious number of republicans and put in the domocrats whose heads are now being cut off, to the distress of the howl- ing dervishes of civil service reform? o i HITS AND MISSES. The public fountains are things of beauty and joy for the bill posters. District Attorney Pritchett has not threat- ened to resign for twenty-four hours. Prohibition in Council Bluffs is suffering from its monthly attack of delirium tremens. T'he title of city chemist would not sound half so sweet as the jgle of $300 a year. That is the milk of the proposition. ‘The Obio man was abroad last night. You can never cateh the genuine Buckeye aslcep while the spoils of the chase or the pantry tempis his chops. ‘Woman's hair is advancing into the domain of general usefuiness. It has progressed from the coat collar and the butter dish to the field of human sleuths, and furnishes clews to the identity of melancholy suicides. The Irvington mystery was solved by a lock of hair. Cyclone Charley is a terror on hoofs. The way in which he keeps apace of the laps of the ladies produces intense dismay in the canvas boudoir. And yet with all the at- tractions offered he declines to linger there. He proposes to give them a few manly laps to rest on. What a deah Chawley ! Police Judge Berka insiauates that the colored man is entitled to “‘an equal chance in the common race of life,” and tne pursuit of life, liberty and the foaming schooner in the vernal lair of the white man. To tax him 10 cents for beor and 90 cents for a peep at an imported Moneolian fractures the base of the fifteouth amendment. If the colored man cannot beer the Milwaukee in its native woods, the white man is not enticled vo a whit more respect. e GREAT MEN, Sir Morell Mackenzie has greatly regained his health at Madeira, Buffalo Bill and bis horse apvear to go far in Paris towara replacing the departed Boulanger and his black charger. Secretary Windom enjoys the reputation at Washington of being the busiest man in the cabinet. He works hard aight and day, and indulges in no known recreation. Henri Rochefort is much cut up by the sui- cideof bis eldest son. He was very fond of the boy, and father and son were much like brothers, Roohefort married the boy's mother on her death-bed. The popular impression of Mr. Parnell, that he 18 cold blooded and phlegmatic, is snid by one of his parliamentary colleagues to be incorrect; he really is highly nervous and excitable, but has the great gifv of abso- lute self control. President Harrison devotes about an hour a day to newspapers. He reads the editorial comments cut out for him by Elijah Halford, spends a few moments on the telegraphic news, and always looks over the bascball scores. Secretary Blaine will, it is thought, take a long vacation during July and August by his physician’s orders and by his own desire as well. He owns a fine house at Bar Harbor, and there the family may go. Miss Hattie Blaine finishes her education next month, Autograph’ hunters will do well to let Dr. Hans von Buelow alone. He has onguged a clever young Russian to write replies to such bores for him, and she does 8o in Ltussiai, Renerally with a touch of satire, as, “*Hans voun Buelow, commercial waveier in Hee- thoven.” Senator Quay declares that he has had no rupture with the president, though he was glad to have the impression go out that he was asking no favors at the white house, ns only in that way could he secure relief from the army of officeseekers who besieged him night and day. John 6, Wise prodicts that Presudont Har- rison’s recognition of ex-Senator Mahone will make Virginia democratic by a majority of 50,000, He adds: *‘Harrison is disgusted with the Virginia rapublican situation, and told me he wished we were all in the niddle of the ocean, or words to thut effect.’ Archbishop Corrigan 1s said ‘o be one of the best amateur podestrisns in New York, He never uses & carriago except in vad weather or when in a hurry. Helsa fine specimen of manhood aud, in wldition to presiding over the largest Uatholic see in the country, is the youngest bishop in tho United States. W. M, Thomas, editor of the American Art Journal, has presentod o life-size bronze bust of General Grant to the Caledonian olub of New York. Thia will probabiy fully satisfy the ambition and patriotism of the mendicant metropolis in the matter of a monument to the great gencral whose bonas have been profitably utilized in a roal estate speculation, Sir Edwin Arnold has received yet another decoration. This time it 18 a commonder- ship of the Order of the Lion and the Sun, and the shah of Persia is the giver. Sir Ed- win, who isa charming, good-natured old gentleman, has a mania for collecting foreign decorations. He is not content with his C. 8. L and K, I, K, but olaps an additional Aar on his poetio breast almost every yoar. He has been decorated by most of the orien- tal potontates—the khedive, the king of Siam, tho shah of Persia and one or two othors, i ilifpiieitsicen THE AFFERNOON TEA. A delegation of women recently called on President Harrison and asked him to ap- point Olive Logan’s son to one of the minor Engligh consulates. Christine Nilsson’s flaances may be jndged from her competition at an auctio n with the agent of the Louvre. To his bid of 87,000 francs for a Madona of Mabuze she offered 40,000 francs and got 1t. ‘‘Mr. Reed does not seem to make much progress in his courting,” said Jennie, “‘No," replied Gussie, "*he is so bow-legged & girl can't sit on his lap.” Miss Lou Gifford; of Richmond, Ind., yawned so widely the other evening that she dislocated her jaw, Sho has met with the same accident several times recently. Mrs. Smith (at the theater)—I don't think that woman is much of an actress. Mr, Smith—Why not, my dear? Mrs. Smith—She “has been married for two years and has not yet applied for a di- voree. 5o intent was the beautiful Moll On lugging hor long parasol That she passed the young swain With the cumbersome cane And never once saw him at all. ‘What a narrow escape for that swain ! Had she recognized him he would fain Have lifted his hat; But how could he do that And carry his cumbersome cane? Queen Victoria has sell honor, Miss Loftus, a n She is a pretty, bright girl, and went down to Nindsor before she was appointed to be inspected by the royal family, and being ap- proved of was gazetted. It is said that dur- ing the life of John Brown his approval of any new appointment was always a sine qua non and that he had strong likes and dislikes about many of the household, which he never faiied to show when the opportunity arose. The Counntess de la Torre, who used to make herself somewhat obnoxious with her tribe of cats in Kensington, Is now sojourn- ing atasmall inn at Gerard's Cross with a flock of goats. The noblo lady, clad posi- tively after the fashion of a herdswoman, in a full cotton skirt and blouse bodice, roams the country with her four footed friends— some times, it is said, ev’a sleeping among them at night, in truly rustoral fashion. She has not deserted her penchant for cats, of which she still kecps 4 large number. Mrs. Harrison w/.t spend the greater part of the warm wrather at Deer Park, where Mrs. McKee will take her children early next month. The family waata quiet, restful time, and while neither the president nor Mrs, Har- rison expects to be long away from the white house, they could not stay away long at a time from the children. Sarah Barnhardt has a new fad. She now has & habitof arising at 4 o'clock in the morning, dressing herself as a man, and prowling about the remote streets and by- ways of Paris until 7 or 8, Then she returns to her home, undresses, and goes to bed. Emma Juch was plumply asked her age by a Pittsburg reporter and responded: “Well” —with a laugh——*I will tell you truly, for T have nothing to hide. I don’tlook to be twenty-one, do 1?” “You most certainly do not.” “Well”—with a brilliant smile—“Iam just twenty-seven.” Mrs. Mackay has a dress with $50,000 worth of pearls on it. PSR STATE AND TEKRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Work is to be begun soon on a new Catho- lic church at Greeley Center. Callaway citizens have piedged £3,000 to secure the erection of a mill at that place. The need of & city park is being placed bo- fore the people of Kearney by the local pa- pers. L. Marrovski, a Hastings junk dealer, for receiving stolen goods has been held in $300 honds for his appearance at court. The Salvation Army’s seige at Beatrice has proved a failure, and the force has dwindled down to only two soldiers, but they still hold the fort. A number of Winnebago Indians have filed charges against an agency school-teacher named Fitzpatrick, accusing him of improp- er conduct towards his female pupils. The mad dog scare at Juniata is ended, it having been discovered that the canine sup- posed to have been afflicted with the rabies was simply suffering from a dose of strych- nine, The Western Nebraska State Sportsmen’s association holds a grand tournument at Hastings June 18,19 and 20, and $300 in special premiums has been added to the reg- ular awards. Platte Center now has the caral fever and a stroug orfimlmflan has been formed to tap e Loup fifteon miles southwost of town and carry the water to a poiut where u fall of fifty-eight foet can be obtained, The friends of K. W. Justice and Robert Campbell, of Grand Island, fedr that the two wen have wet with foul play. They started for Oregon with a car of stallions and haye not besu heard from in over two weeks, Delegations from Arnold and Gandy have visited the oficials of vhe Kearnoy & " Black Hills road at Kearney to secure the exten- sion of that lino from Callaway to their towns and have promised to vote bounds to uid in the construction, They hope for suc- 1o city council of Teatrico has passed a resolution egnsuring Mayor Kretsinger for discourteous and malicious action in accus- ing some of the members of being 10 i con- bine to defraud he oity in regard to testing water fitors. John Navock was instantly killed and Joseph Drischaeck had his leg broken at Schuyler in a runaway accident Monday evening. They were hauling piles when the team bocame frightened, throwing the men under the wheels, which passed over them. 13oth were married inen. George 2, Stiles, school-teacher, twenty- five years of age, was arrested by Sheriff Coble, at Alusworth,churged with the seduc- tion of Orilla Dodd, sixteen years of age, one of s pupily, and the stepdaughter of a well- to-do farimer, Mr. Kingman, When caught | Stiles agroed to marry the girl and tho cere- mony was promptly performed by Judge Farnsworth, yoming. The Fourdh wlll Do oelebruted. &% Landor, ‘'he wool storage compuny has comncnced to bale. A party of thirteen oil men aud custern mplv.ulllu are expected o make things buwm Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. e —— Whon Bady was sick, wo gave her Castoria. Whea sl was a Clild, she eried for Castorla, When she becamn Mias, shs sluag 10 Onatoria, VWi70 shiebiad Children, alie gavo tiow: Castoria at Lander. Thoy will arrive in _a fow aays, A fine church is to be builu by the Metho« dists at Cheyenne, ‘The only brick church in the wostern half of Wyoming is that of tho Mormons, which is now neariog completion at Evanstoa, The Union Pacifio is building alout seve enty-five mites of barb wire fence along the Wyoming division to provent car.le killing. The title of champion bear F.tier belon, to John Scott, & youth liv! Ir1 on Muddy creek, -oummm, of Buffalo, He went mn on a skirmish the other ¢ay and bagged eight bears and killed them. Tho first pationt deliverod to the Evans. ton insane asylum was brought in by the sheriff of Sweetwater county, but the rules of the institution forbid the giving of his name. A monstrous wildcat attacked a section man near Sage recontly, catting him bauly about the face and neck, but he succeeded in Killing the brute after a hard struggle, A Rock Springs saloon keonor named John Peterson committed suicide by hanging, and although the robe was too long, the viotim succeeded in shutting off his wind by draw- up his knees and letting all his welght rest on the rope. [US— GAGE COUNTY POLITICS. Many Men Willing to Sacrifice Thems selves for Oftice. . Beatrior, Nup., May 20.—[Spocial to Tng Bgr,]—Political matters in Gage county are already assuming an interesting crisis, and there are sufficient influences at work to make the campaign a lively ono and at the same ume one of extremely uncertain re- sults, o far as the perfection of states is concerned from a republican standvoint, The main fight will be centered around the nomination for county treasurer. The pres- ent incumbent, B. J. Roderick, is out of the race. One of the candidates is G. R. Greer, who is the owner of acomfortable ‘‘barl" that permits him the solace of popularity, as long as it is on tap, and gathers around him a corterie of cormorants who flatter him into delusive enthusiasm only to drop Lim when convention day arrives. This 18 the history of Greer’s political experiences for the past six yours and vill probably bo ropeatod this fenr. Harry Davis, deputy county treasurer, s presumably the cxm 1date of the Roderick Tauion Aed the entiro englnery of tho treas- urer’s office will be exerted in his behalf. But right here is encountered the formidable Euiery faction that is grooming the genial George E. Emery, the retiring county olerk, for the treasury nomination. This faction i working quietly but aed\lcuvo?r and on)o s the prestige = of success. a financier and banker of Wymuro. is nlno in the field with a strong following and havin, the backing of the rebellious south half o the county presents a candidacy of no mean dimensions. Then thero is L. E. Walker of Beatrice, a gentleman of much merit who ©enjoys the support of the conservative repub- licans of this half of the county. Mr. Walk- er is at present a membor of the city council and as such has won the respect and esteem of the people of Beatrice by his vigorous and manly course in that body. The county clerkship presents also sev- eral interesting phases. The most promi- nent candidate yet to enter the lists 1 H. 8. Greenwood of Blakely precinct, He is strongly backed by the granger eloment in his own locality, but is accused of bemg tainted with mugwumpery by those who fear his candidacy. He has thus far developed but little support 10 the towns, though he is making friends rapidly. Jake Emery, brother of the pre. sentincumbent, is a candidave, and while not avowedly in the field, is being pushed by the Emery faction for all it is worth, Here the treasurer’s office comes to the front again, and is puttlng{lflrth # candidate in the per- son of A. S. Keim, a clerk in that office, as an offset to the Emery aspirations treasury- wards. E. C. Salisbury is another aspirant for the clerkship, and but for his geograph- ical location, being a resident of Beatrice, xuuld muke u strong pull for the nomina: on.” For the county judgeship Judge Eulow, the present incumbent, seems to be in the lead. J. N. Rickards, of Beatrice, is being put in training by his friends for the ofce, and Wymore and Blue Springs have for cans didates A. D. Mc('andless and Judge Burke respectively. W. S. Bourne, of Beatrico, was & candidate, but_being recently elected to fillout W. A. Wagner's unexpired term as city clerk, is considered effectually shelved. kkebert Kydd, of Booneston, will wrestle with Fay Davis for the nomination for sherff, and Captain N. Herron is frequently spoien of in the same connection. A, N. Barnett, the present deputy sheriff, is not averse to succeeding his chief, and it is pos- sible that if Fay sees the cards are liable to g0 “f‘i"" nim, he will give Barzett a lift. Hayes, the genial register of deeds, will, in all human probability, succeed him~ self, as no one seems possessed of the hardi- hood to run against him. ‘Thus far the *’prentice hands of General « W. Colby and Colonel C. O. Bates have not been visible in the campaign, and it is hinted that they are, Achilles like, sulking in their tents. As regards the movements of the democ~ racy, but little is discerniple at present. There are wiso ones among the elect, how- over, who entertain the belief that the lack of republican harmony may be made to mil- itate to their advantage. S L e Affairs in Mexico. City or Mexico, May 29.—It is rumored that congress, in secret session, is discussing the question of ceding Lower Califor the United States. It is believed, however, that the rumor is groundless and is merely & strutegem of tho conservatives. Tho scnate has approved an_extensive colonization con- tract with Senor Ramirez Varela, offering him a cash bonus for_bona fide immigrants for the states of Vera Cruz, Chispas, Tabasco and_Oaxaca. Petroleum has been discov- ered on Ramirez Varela's lands, e e Ireland’s New Viceroy. T.oxpox, May 20.—The earl of Zetland has accepted the vicoroyship of Ireland. The deputation appointed by the meeting of un- jonist members of parliament held rocently, called on lord Salisbury to-day and pre- sented a petition adopted by the meeting, asking for the abolition of the viceroysmp of Ireland and vhe transfer of its functions to tho secretary of state, In reply to tho ad- e drens of the petiti alisbury prowisod t0 give it his car Want the Boundary Line Fixed. OrrAWA, Ont,, May 20,—Miners are flook- ing 1o the Yukon district in large numbers, ‘Phe dewurketion of the boundary line be- tween Alaska and the British possessions beco:nes more necessary damily, as the juris. diction of the American government there is questioned, many claiming that the territory referred tois British soil. 'The cost of de- marking the frontier is estimated at botween $4,000,000. . 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