Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 4, 1889, Page 4

DAILY BEE. NY MORNING, SRTPTTON 1nda; "s10 00 800 260 | TERMS OF D atly (Morning Edition) including Beo, Ono Y ear Forsix Montns. ForThree Months The Omaha Sunday Hes, mulled to an Adaress, One Yeir Sre % ey Weckly e, One Year Omana Office, Deo hfiding, N. W, Beventeenth and Farnam ) Chfeago Office, b57 Rookery Bullding. New York Offies, Rooms 14 and 1 Tribune Building Washington Office, No. 513 Four- téenth Street. CORRESPONDENCI All communications relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed to the Editor f the liee. e NUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should e addressed to The Bes Publishing Company, Omaha. irafts, ehecks and postoflice orders i0 ‘e made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, ditor. 20 2 00 Corner Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nobraska, l’”‘ County of Douglas, Georgo B, Tzschuck, secretaty of The Bee Pub- HshingComvbany, dovs solomnly swear that the tual circulation of Tne DAaiuy Bee for the ‘eek ending June 2uth, 1559, was as follows: Funday. June 2 Nonday, June 24 Tuesdav, June 2 Wecnesday,June 26, Thursday, June 27..., Friday, June 28, Baturday, June % Average. . 18,622 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Eworn to befors me and subscribed to in my presence this 2th day of June, A. D, 1831, Seal. N. P. FEIL, Notary Public, Etate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas. { %% George 11, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- posea und shys that hi s secrotary of The fico [ublishing company, that the actual avorage daily circulation of' The Daily Bes for the month of June, 185, 10,242 coples: for July, 688, 18,033 copies; for August, 185, 18,15) copies; for Feptember, 1883, 18,151 coples; for October, 1868, 14084 _coples; 'for November, 1858, 15,935 coples; for December. 188, 18223 coplés; for January, 1480, 1574 copies:’ for February, 183, 18,066 coples: for Marcn, 1896, 14,851 copios; for April, 188, 18,559 coples: for' May, 1840, T8, coples. 3 K 3. 17ZSCHUCK. worn to before mo and subscribed in my (Seal.] ~ presence this jd day ot June, A. D N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. As A city of harboring ‘‘suspect: Omahn wears her new honors with be- coming modesty. THE pale green two cent stamp must go. Postmaster General Wannamaker is determined to have nothing sickly about his department. T only thing to mar the sarene calmness of summer is the dread fore- boding that congress will be called together by the middle of October. HOoW long has that leak in the 2ccount, of the clerk of the police court been run- ning. The committee of the council ap- pointed to investigate the irregularities has only half completed its work. RARY to expectations the Union Pacific was not ready to submit its depot project to the cbuncil at its last session. Apparently the company is not in so much of n hurry asit professes to be. THE public debt was reduced during the month of June over sixteen millions and for the fiscal year justended nearly eighty-nine millions. At this rate the national debt will be wiped out within the next ten years. THE relations of Omaha to the state are purely reciprocal. Omaha endeav- ors to secure the bulk of the wholesale “trade, and the merchants of the interior find it to their advantage to deal with Omaha’s jobbing houses. r THE first surface road that reaches South Omaha is sure to catch the cream of the trade between Omaha and its lively suburb. That may explain the activity of the cable and the motor heading in that direction. ——— H. TAYLOR, a Wisconsin country editor, succeeds General Joseph . Johnston as United States railroad com- missioner. As the post is a comforta- ble one with no exacting duties, Mr. _Taylor will probably be able to fill the bill. THE American crack rifle team is showing the British how to shoot. Both the Honorable Artillery company and the Light Royal Berkshires were easily defeated by the Massachusetts militiamen. The glory of Kngland has truly departed. IT WAS a matter of regret that Gen- oral Willinm T. Sherman could not re- main louger in Omaha on his flying trip to Denver. Old Tecumseh” has a large number of warm personal friends and army comvades in this city who would have been pleased at least to grasp the general by the hand. Trr South Fork Fishing club, of Pittsburg, has been sucd for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars by a firm in Johnstown which claims to have been damaged to that amount through the bursting of the Conemuugh dam. The case will be watched with consid able interest. Should the plaintiff win his suit, which is understood to be a test case, it would become a precedent for the recovery of millions of damages. Tne reappointment of Mr. Willlam Kierstead to the board of public works for the term of three years, and his unanimous confirmation by the council, speaks well for the standing of Mr. Kier- stead. Asa memberof the board Mr. Kierstead has boen efficient and merits the high compliment paid to him. The citizens of Omaha, momwover, have been satisfied with Mr. Kierstead during his term of office and can therefore place confidence in his integrity and faithful- ness. MONTANA has every rouson to foel satified with the recent report of W. F. Anderson, an agent of the agricultural department, touching the resources of the new state, According to this re- port the northern and eastern seotions of the territory are capable of support- ing & large agricultural population, while the mountain valleys and plains are as fortile us the wheat lanus of Da- kota. Wheat is evidently to become a staple product in Montana, as the farmer 15 gradually pushing the stock- man furthey up the mountains, and con- yerting the grass lands into rich fields. Montann has a bright future before it, with its unbounded miveral wealth and stock: und agricultural prospects. THE OMAHA DATLY BEL: THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1889, TO-DAY IN THE TERRITORIES. This will be a memorable day in the history of North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington. In all these territories conventions will meet to pro- vide for state governments, and, except | South Dakota, to frame constitutions, the people of South Dakota, as author- 17ed by congress, having accepted what is known as the Sioux Falls constitu- tion, adopted in 1885. The conventions are also to provide for the elec- tion of members of congress, two from South Dakota, and one in each of the other proposed states, stato officers, and for members of the logisl: ture undor the apportionment of the conventions. These officers and the new constitutions will be votel upoa by the people on the first Tuesduy of next Oc- tober. Subsequent to the October elec- tion the new legislaturos may assemble and elect United States senators, who, with the new representatives, will take their seats in the Fifty-first congre: In the master of framing the constitu- tions of the proposed states congress has laid down certain limits within which the conventions must keep. These new state constitutions must not conflict with the constitution of the United States, which the delegates are r quired to adopt as the first business in order after the conventions are orga- nized. The constitutions must be re- publican in form, and must make no distinetion in civil oe political rights on account of race or color, except as to Indians untaxed. They must declare that “*perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be securel, and that no inhabitant of the states shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship.” These declarations must be inserted 1n such form that they will be irrevocable without the consent of the United States. It is also required that each constitution shall make provision for the establishment and maintenance of systems of schools which shali be open to all the children of the state and free from sectarian control, Upon the ratification of the constitu- tions by the people, duly reported to the president as provided by law, the president, if he find that the cnabling act has been complicd with, is authorized to issue a proclama- tion announcing that such s the case and declaring the territories admitted to statehood. Wit the presi- dent rests the quostion whether the law has been fuifilled in the framing of the constitutions. Congress has unothing more to do with the admission. From the day on which the president’s procla- mation is 1ssued the four states begin their existence on an equal footing with the states already in the union. With 50 pluin and simple a course of pro- cedure, in order to obtain statehood, there need be no aprehension that the convention of either terrvitory will tail to fully comply with the requirements of the law. As to the political complexion of the new states, the republicans are sure of the two Dakotas, reasonably certain of Washington, and should have at least an equal chance in Montana. Wash- ington has always been strongly repub- lican, and the only danger to the party there now is that men who are in alli- railroad The fact of the territory having been represented 1 congress for two terms by a democrat, was due to the desire of the republicans to rebuke their party for yielding to the influence of the railroad corpora- tion, which is very generally hated by the mass of the people. Last Novem- ber the republicans of Washington elected their candidate for delegate in congress by a majority of about eight thousand, buv some of the results in the election of delegates to the constitu- tional convention demonstrated that there are many republicans in Wash- ington who will not act with the party when the question of rebuking railroad intluence is presented to them. If the republican party in that territory is true to itself and to the party at large it will have no difficulty in securing control of the new state government and send- ing arepresentative and senators to con- gress. In Montana the democrats ap- parently ha an advantage, but it is not so great as to insure them control of the new state, and if the ropublicans will harmonize and put forth the effort necessary to succoss they may achieve it, It is said that the disaffection which cost the republicans the -control of ¢he constitutional convention has nearly or quite disappeared, so that there is good reason to hope that when the October election arrives the party will be again united and thoroughly organized, In that case Montana will be almost as safely republican as either of the Dakotas. Heveafter this anniversary of our in- dependence will have for the people of the four prospective states a double in- terest and si ance. It is to be hoped its patriotie influence and sug- gestions will be helpful to them in the performance of the very important work they have to do. NDEPENDENCE D. g So recently hasthe popular mind been filled with the contemplation of events in the early history of the republic, and the public patriotism been stirred by eloquent recitals of the wisdom, the heroism and thg sacrifices of the fore- fathers, that it is not a matter of sur- prise that general interest in the ob- servance of the Fourth of July will be somewhat less demon ive this year than usual, The youth of the land will undoubtedly be as earncst and exuber- ant as thoy alwa; in com- mewmorating in their own way the declaration of our independence, and they should be allowed to do so with all reasonable freeaom, Upon them will devolve the duty of maintaining what was achieved by the great men of one hundred and thirteen years ago, and the more of patriotic enthusiasm they imbibe now the better will be their preparvation for worthily dischargin the obligations of the future. But ex- cept in & few cities of the country Inde- pendendence Day this year will not re- ceive elaborate ob. ance. Yet in the hearts of all the peuvple the Fourth will be duly honored as the anniversary of the foremost event in our history, and perhaps in the polit- fcal annals of mankind. The recur- ronce of this day will reanimate the patriotic devotion to the republic of sixty millionsof free people, prosperous and happy beyond those of any other land under the sun. Nowhere on this day, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the northern lakes to the southern gulf, will there be a welcome place for the pessimist who would de- preciate the present condition of our country and cast a shedow upon its future. Surveying the past with its terrible trials of re- publican institutions all successfully passed, with the republic strengthened by every defoat of the forces that as- sailed it, the American people may well feel that they ave more secure in their freedom than ever before, and that their form of government has passed, heyond the stage of experiment and become so firmly established that no power of opposition or of evil shall pre- vail against 1t so long as the principles of the Declaration of Independence aro held sacred by the people. It is from the earnest reflection of the popular mind upon the character and significance of this anniversary, rather than from the parade and noise that usually attend its observance, that the best influence of the Fourth of July is obtained, and every citizen should give more than a passing thought to the event which this day commemorates. Let the boys and girls be told what the anniversary stands for and brought into sympathy with its true character, which is something more than a mere holiday. And as all of us reflect upon the unparalleled achieve- ments of our country since the bell in Independence hall, Philaaelphia, peal- ed forth, one hundred and thirteen years ago, the announcement to the world that the American colonies had declared their independence of Great Britain, we shall find abundant cause for pride in the present and faith in the future of this great republic. AN UNMITIGATED FRAUD, Assessments in this city have for years been vewy lonse and inequitable. Millions of property in the shape of mortgage loans and money investments have escaped taxation entirely and the owners of vast have eovaded their due share of taxes by tampering with and corrupting assessors and bull- dozing councilmen and commissioners. In many iostances platted addition to the city in which lots sell at from five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars havo been turned in at nominal figures as farm property. Thousands of lots are to-day practically untaxed because they are put in as railroad right of way, when in fact they are used for specula- tive purvoses and “form no pavt of the right of way. Against these “nbuses and wrongs this paper has battled in season and out of season for years, just as it has against public thieves and plunderers who have robbed taxpayers by paving frauds and crookedness in carrying on public improvements. Any citizen who honestly seeks to remedy theso abuses would receive our hearty support. 1f the complaints which James Creighton has entered with the commissioners against undervaluation of property were actuated by honest motives in the interest of the city, he would be entitled to the thanksof the community. But.Jim Creighton isan unmitigated old fraud, who has preyed upon the taxpayers for years asa con- tractor, and he has figured in the court house and ecity hall as a tax-shirker and bulldo: for We, Us & Co. Now that this old fraud has ventured before the community as a champion of fair taxation, we have a right to show him up in his true hight. 1n 1873 Edward Rosewater borrowed nine thousand dollars from what be- came the Creighton estate, of which Mr. Jim Creighton w an administra- tor. At the end of six years, in 1878, the Creighton estate was paid over ten thousand dollars of interest on the nine thousand dollars loaned. Several hun- dred thousand doll: loaned out by Jim Creighton as administrator were as profitably employed as was the money loaned to Rosewater. Why didn’t Jim Creighton ever insist upon having that money returned for taxation? People ought to be glad to pay taxes on money they inherit. 2 Why has he not entered protest against his millionaire relatives whose money and stocks are bringing enor- mous returns without paying a dollar of taxes? Did last estates Jim year Creighton enter when the block, corner Douglas and Fif- teenth streets, worth fully two hundred thousand dollars, was turned in for assessment at a valuation of one thousand eight hundred dollars, by mi take (7). Why don’t Honest Jim ask the county commission ers and council to raise the assessment, of his Fourteenth street property, which by his bulldozing tac- tics he has managed to keep down way below assessments on adjoining prop- erty? Jim only illustrates the biblical adage, that the mote in your neighbor's eyo is visible while you cannot see the beam in your own. Tug large amount of space which the newspupers are giving to all sorts of information bearing upon the Sullivan- Kilpain fight next week, ana the wide- spread popular interest in the expected great “mill,” ealls to mind the extraor- dinary public excitement that attended the Heenan-Sayres battle a quarter of a century ago. Then the interest was in- ternational, and for before the event it absorbed the public attention to the exclusion of almost everything Men in all walks of life can- the chances with as wmuch concern us they would & na- tional tion, id read with eager avidity every 10f intelligence that veferred to the condition of the pugilists and the possibilities of the fight. It was as 1f the honor and dig- nity of the nation depend upon the result. In the present case the interest is mainly with the people who give at- tention to sporting affairs, and it need protest Creighton weeks clse. vassed hardly be said that the number of such is large, but thore is no such general concern ns to theresult of the coming battle as therg was when the Benicia Boy crossed thp ogean to measure skill and prowess with the doughty cham- plon of Tiglind. Indeed, iv is probable that il the sentiment of a ma- jority of the pebple could be had it would take the fofm of a hope that both Sullivan and Kilrain might come out of their fight so badly used up us never to be able to participate in another. Such a result might*haye the effect of dimin- ishing the brutal exhibitions for which these bruisers-aré to a considerable ex- tent responsife. * e THE people of the Black Hills are complaining that many of the valuable claims in that region are being bought up for speculative purposes rather than for development. The great need of the Black Hills country is capital ex- pended in the work of actual develop- ment of the rich resources with which the hills abound STAID and sober Philadelphia is badly nettled in being called upon to make place for that mushroom aristo- crat, Chicago, who grew so big in a single day South Dakota. Mr. Perry 8. Heath's special tolograms to Tue Bex on the Sioux Falls constitutional convention will bo found highly interesting and thoroughly reliable. i R e Jndeprndence Day. David A. Curtis, in New York World. Sound the hew-gag. Play the vattlo-tong. Lot the jaw-bone jingle. For this is the Fourth of July. No crumnbling dynasty shall hush our noise, No bold policoman fright our bully boys; This is the day to make the welkin shake As once our fathers made their tyrants quake. Gotol Shall not all carthly things this day Be clashed togother, hard, in such a way That din stupendous, in stentorophonic clangs, Shall prove that patriots hearts now beat in bungs? Let orators by millions spout to-day; And whilo they do so, let the trumpets bray, Reverberating thunder split the sky, And lightning blazo, to lick the ocean dry. Set fire to everything, and jam around “The whole createa world, to swell the soun Kindle the poles, like two great cracker- strings, And fill Symmes' hole with things. dynamito and Anticipato the awful erack of doom, Fire off the cannon with a clangorous boom, And swell the noise with shouts; yell, split your throats, Beat on the bass drum, notes. blow the bazoo's Sound the hew-gag. Play the pattle-tong. Let the jaw-bone jingle. For this the Fourth of July. piy 5 bt Having Fun With Bismarck. Chicago Inter Occan. Republics seem’ to be poking Prince Bis- marck in the ribs, The republic of Switzer- land has just bahished a German oficial be- cause of s attempt to bribe a Swiss officer. - Best and’ Cheapest. Chicago Times. One of our esteemed contemporaries has devoted a column und a half to an articie telling us how to make a racquet. [t can be done in less space than that, Give your three-year-old 50.cents to spend on the glori- ous Fourth, duntielh B ince The Only Acceptable Credentlals, Chicago News. The governor of Louisiana has warned Sluggars Sullivan and Kilrain to keep out of his state. Perhaps they will be admitted, however, if each of them can display a lottery ticket as a certificate of good moral character. A Hotel-Keeper's Scheme. Ohicago Horald, 1t is said that Miss Dallas yorke, who re- cently wedded the Duke of Portland, was told about a year ago by a Brighton gyvsy, who read the lines of her hand, that she would marry a duke. It is expected that this report was set'afloat by the Brighton hotelkeepers to attract American heiresses, I ST A Suggestion to Uncle Sam. Boston Globe. The people should tolerate no more Samoan imbroglios—no more guarantecing of the in- dependence of countries that lic outside the ope of the Monroe doctrine, The Ameri- an people have no wish to take the risk of o costly and bloody war every time some Pa- coan savage shoots at a few Kuropean e ey A Center Shot on the Sun. New York Press. The Sun thinks that the appointment of Mr. Phelps as minister to Germwany is all right 1f made because of his character and ability, but all wrong if given as a reward for services in tho Samoan matter. “Wife,” said the old farmer, ** these ’ere D'iled pertaters tasto amazin’ good; that is, they’re good if they ain’t them that you gov of oldJones. His pertaters ain't fit to cat.” THRIREGON T Leopold Be Cautlous, New York Commercial Advertiser, King Leopold, if he is wise, will proceed very carefully in letting American railroad speculators, in the language of Wall street, et in on tho ground floor” of the Congo ailroad enterprise; otherwise he will find it necessary a little later to ship to Congo several cargoes of roceivers, masters, judges of bankruptey courts, and reorganziation committees, which, by all admissions, are worse than contract laborers, s TRIBUTES £O ERPRISE. An Example of koergy. Clay Center (Kan.) Dispateh, Tur Bre 1s one of toe best dailies in the west, and a good 'example of western push and onergy. A Great Metrppolitan Daily. Mapleton (Kun.) Dispatch, From a very suiall start Tng OMana Beg has grown to agreat metropolitan daily, which exercises uf wilich influence as any journal in the Unitod Staes, and which is a living monument ‘%f ‘what may be doue by pluck and cnterprise) We say, long live “Tue Bk, 1A 3% A Fittiyg Receptacle, Strombyrg Lepublican he new buil oted for Bk shows what erérgy do. For years Tk BEE has beeu the g est daily in the state of Nebraska, and in fact in the whole Northwest. ‘The building just compjeted, is but a fitting receptacle for such a newspaper us Tue BEE, 'iE OMAIA Yankton (Dak,) Telegram, The new B building will be a lasting monument to the cuterprise, push and pluck of Mr. Rosewater, the founder and proprie- tor of the paper. Tuk BEk has been & phe- nomenal success. Its foreign and Washing ton correspoudence is fully up to the stand- ard of the best papers of the country, and in domestic and local news it rivals the best papers in Chicago and St. Lous. 1u the state of Nebraska, and especially ia_the city of Omaha, it ia & great power, and its influence is generally used for the groatest good te the greatost number of poople. Mr, Rosewater richly deserves the princely reward that his superior business enorey is bringing him. At tho Sammit. Tlatte County Sentinel, Started as an advertising shoet meroly, Tir Ber has steadily grown in ciroulation and influonce until to-day it leads all papers published west of the Missouri river. It has passod through adversities of every sort in ita early history, all of which only gave it strength for future battles, To-day it is at the summit. Speaks Well For Omaha. Fender Times. Tue Owaua Bee has the largest nows- paver building in the United States, ana probably in the world. This speaks well for Mr. Rosowater and Omaba. No matter what his enomies may say against him, Ed- ward Rosowator isone of the most enter- prising newspaper men in the country, and Nobraska should foel proud of him. Hard to Beat. Leigh World, Only eighteen years old, Tre Brr is now not only tho leading newspaper of Nobraska, but ranks high among the dailies published in tho western states. Tho now Ber build- ing in Omaha, which has just been completed, is sald to bo tho finest newspaper office in America. Whatever his enemies may say of him, the fact remains that Edward Rose- water s a journalist and business man is protty hard to beat. May Tue Ber prosper in its new quarters. koromost Ranks. Howells Journal, Tie Omana Bae is not only a eredit to the city in which it 13 published, but a paper in which the ocitizens of Nebraska and the great west can take pride, and all wish it continued success in its elogant new quar- ters. Mr. Rosewater is deserving of no small credit for having placed Tie Ber whera it is found to-day, in the forcmost ranks of American journalism. ‘There 1s not an eaitor in - Nebraska who has' stood the amount of personal abuse that Mr. Rose- water has, and it is safe to suy that the pro- ducers of the state bave not a stauncher friond or a more faithiul advocate than the cditor of Tng B b g ARTERNOON TEA. Whatever may bo said of Arizona people, it is evident that when they come to make wedding presents they have their eye on tho practical every time. At a vecent wedding there the bride r ved, among other things, a furnished house, a mule, a heifer, a barrel of beer, a cask of wine, some whisky and a corkscrew. But poor folls who remain in town And with warm weather droop, Can whistle care and sorrow down And flirt on their front stoop. The first chapter in the history of a young woman’s love is chap, won. A Jersey City girl wears a dress made of cork. Itought to suggesy the idea of pop- ping to the young men. Love is blird, which probably accounts for the spectacles some young lovers muke of themselves. 2 “I'd rather,” mghed Miss Awayforthe- summer, pensively, “I'd rather be in the moon than here” “In the moon, Clara,” echoed her mother; why,what a queer idea.” “Not at all,” was the naive reply. “There's oue man there, at least.” Sho lifts her skirts from danger ‘With her left hand, while her right Grasps the nozzle, and the stranger Gets avery pleasing sight. In th THE The neighbors’ eyes all twinkie, And their interest daily grows, For they like tosce her sprinkle, And they like to see the hose. John Williams, a bachelor m Augusta, Me., was told that a certain widow had set her cap for him, and John was so afraid that he might be roped into marriage that he ‘went to the barn and hanged himself. Hurry to the door, Mary, and let Mr. Smithin, He has rung twice.” That isn't Mr. Smith; it is the other young gentle- man.” *“Weil, wait a minute, then, I must change the photozraphs on the mantel.’’— Life. It is the girl with the crsamy complexion that is soonest taken for butter or worse. Five girls in a Kentucky family are called Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ilorida and Virginia. If they are in a single state some young men should get their consent to be admitted into the union, Mrs. Grover Cleveland recently sold for $250 a calf from her celebrated Alderney which was presented to her by George W. Childs. Nina Van Zandt, who August Spies, the Chicago anarchist, in 1877, i8 now anxious to appoar on the stage. She wants to play the leader of the mob in “Paul Kauvar.” “There is o story floating about in England to the effect that the new courier who ac- companied Queen Victoria to Biarritz was a woman in man's attire. nted to marry Nebraska Jottings. Mrs. James Sullivan, of Beemer, recently presented her husband’ with a twenty-pound girl. Will J, Beckett, formerly a well known young nian of Kearnoy, died recently in Cal- Mfornia of consumption. William Boyles was arrested near Orloans “Tuesday evening on a charge of horsesteal- ing. The crime was committed two years ago in Thayer couuty. Stomsberg has just closed a contract with J.J. Bryant, of Burlington Junction,fan ex- berienced educator, for the establishment of a normal school in the college building be- longing to the city. W. W. Heron and Frank L. Gleun, who wero arrested at Croighton, chiarged with a murder committed in Foxas, have boen dis- charged, the ofticial sent after them failing sntify the prisoners, unty Judge Work, who formerly 1t out justice In Adams county, has been sentenced at Denver to six months imprison- ment for somo illegal transactions with the United States land office. 'rod BBrobst, who formerly ran a paper at Minden, has beon sentenced to eighteon months’ in_ the Colorado penitentiary for forgery. 13robst has recently been publish- ing a newspaper at Holyoke. An attempt was made to blow open the safe in Milligan & Leigh’s store at Hardy Tucsduy night, but the charge was not heavy enough, and 80 the cracksman failed to secure the $200 which was insido, While & perry Ruffner, of Plattsmouth, was playing with a toy pistol he shot his little sister kila. They were playing in the ham- mock aud in scufling the pistol was a dentally discharged, the ball striking Ella’s right viigh, penetrating an inch and rebound- ing out. 1t produced a painful flesh wound which bled fr Surgical ald was sum moned and the wound dressd. The little gird will bo unable to be about for some time. Towa Ite tonticello has fifty-nine churches. Madison wauts free postal delivery. An effors is beng made at Maquota to shut up the soloons. Oelwein has four saloons and four churches, but ot & single resident minister. Richard Williams, @ Clinton saloonkeeper, has been found guilty of selling liquor and is bourding for filty days in the county jail to sutisfy a fine of $150. A couple of smooth fellows took $275 from Osialoosa merchants by soliciting udvertise- ments for ciocks L0 be put in the postoitice sud court house. The advertisements were tobe shown by a patent flipping procoss whioch would work automatically every five minutes, The merchants are mad. B. A. Consigny, of Avoca, past grand com- mauder of tho Towa Grand Army, announces himself as a candidate for commander-in. chief of the G. A. R. 1t's dangerous to triflo with a Davenport girl’s affections, One of the young ladies there is out with a xevolver looking for a youth who invited her to a party and then Yook another girl. The farme s of Towa county are consider ably alarmed over the appearance of a dis- onse among the horses of that district which they consider contagious. They have called on the governor, who directed an order on tho state vetorinarian for the purpose of in- stituting an 1nvestigation of tho epidemic. Life In Wyoming. Sundance is now moving in the of $10,000 water worlks. The Buffalo Echo has the honor of intro- ducing the first oylinder press into northern Wyoming. William M. Masi, for four years assistant postmaster at Cheyouno, has been appointed postmaster. A prominent sheop man of Rock Springs has been offerea §2.15 per head for his entire herd of 9,000, but is holding them at §2.25, The west wing of the stato house at Cheyenno is rapidly nearing complotion, and the majority of the workimon are now en- gaged on the east wing, which is rising rapidly. Four prisoners were sentenced to onment last +week by Judes Magin- nis at Cheyenne—one for robbery, one for horse stealing, one for burglary, and one for forgery. Frank Zalondesk, the insano convict who was pardoned by Acting Governor Shannou, escaped from the asylum a few hours beforo his releaso papers arrived. He had only & few more months to serv et ool JOHNSON AND MORGAN. direction impris- The Late Chat Morgan Introduced Frank Johnson as His Partner, Sinxey, Neb,, July 8.—[Special to Tur Beg.|—An article appeared in Monday's Republican purporting to be from their Sidney correspondent, in relation to Chat Morgan of the State bank of Siduey. Frank B. Johunson, the president of saia bank, owns a Lalf interest in the Omaha Re- publican, This article was never telegraphed from Sidnoy, but was most likely a produc- tion of either Mr. Johnson or some one in the Republican office. Mr. Johnson day mornmng at 10 the depot a largoe crowd had congregated with eager expectancy to get a glimpse of the man who was to straighten the then unsettled condition of the vank's affairs. Morgan committed suicide on Thursday morning about 7 o'cleck, The news was d about 11~ Your correspondent imme- went to Joe Skarmer, the oid roliablo clerk in the bank, and asked him to nform him on the dead square if everything was all right in the bank, as it had become noised around that there was a deficit. Sharmer said overything was all right and nobody would lose a cent. e had “telegraphed to Frank Johnson, the president of the bauk, to come up at once,” and later he confivmed it by showing your correspondent a telegram from Johnsou Saying that he (Johnson) would be here i the morning. It wurned out that Sharmer was ignorant of the true condition of the finances of the bank. Upon Johnson's arrival here he immedi- ately repaired to the Morgan residence and examined the body in cowpany with J. P. Cavanaugh, an Omaha attorney. They subsequently came up town and entered the bank accompanied by Sharmer and Adam Ickes, the county treasurer, and James Suth- erland of North Platte. Johnson, Cavanagh and Sutherland began making an examina- tion of the books. This was about 12 o’clock. Av 2 o'clock Morgan's body was sent to Omaha and Johnson and Cavanagh returned to the bank alone. They saw enough of the baok to assure them thav there was a large deficit, but when interrogated on the subject they would in- variubly auswer, *We can’t make a report yet and it wiil take several day: books have not been posted iu nearly two weeks.” About 4 o’clock a crowd of excited depos- itors gathered in front of the bank and wanted an explanation, that they had been put off long cnough and it was time the true mwardness of the business, ult was o meeting was called for 7 the evening. C. D. Essiz was appointed chairman and Alfred Grantan secretary. A committee of threc was ap- pointed to wait upon Mr. Johnson at the Pacitic hotel and ask his presence at the meeting. Ho came over with the com- mittee to the pince of meeting, where about seventy-five per cent of the depositors had met. He was cordially received and intro- duced. A number of pertinent questions were asked of him, He denied being inter- ested in the bank, buv said that Morgan owed him $10,000 and he would net take it until all the other creditors had been paid. Jolnson has admitted right along being Morgan’s partner and, in fuct, was intro- duced by Morgan only last fall and during the winter as his (Morgan's) partner, even going so far as to tell a Sidney in Omaha, that he was not sat way Morgan was doing things in and if he did not change his tactic (Johnson) arrangemc AS 500 here on Fri- o'clock, At arrived that ho would have to make some other ts. us Jolinson left the meeting a fow of the cr 1d had papers servaed on Johnson as the surviving partner. When the west-bound train_arrived ot 10 o'clock p. m. and Sh Bubank was presenting s documents to Johnson summoning him to appear in courton August hese suits, he got abourd the hoyenne and Saturday afternoon to assist a committeo of thre in further exam- iuing the books, o nover returnc is learned that ho took the B, & M. train for Omaha. He never intended to come back he ‘The result was that County ‘I'reasurer Tckes, who has $17,000 deposited there, went to Omaha on _Sunday mn company with Mr. Melntosh, where thicy will probably enter suit, Johnson's deninl of @ partnership ith Morgan is all nonsense, as there will be plenty of proof to show they were partners and that there never was a dissolution pub- lished, The people hore are determined to make Mr. Johnson pay up every dollar, and no compromise will bo effected, That Mor- gan spent a groat deal of mo; question, H y have speculated home he e j0t_extravagant, There is no truth in the story of a r servants, e occupied a spiendid house, tre gift of Mr. Yates to his daughter, THI SIDNEY BANK. Johnson Rinally Admits His Partner- ship in the Concern. Mr. Mclntosh and Mr. Ickes, of Sidney, ure stopping at the Paxton, having come hero to have a conference with Mr. Johnson concerning the affairs of the bank at Sidnoy, of which Chet Morgan had charge. They say that at first Mr. Johnson was inclined to repudiate all connection with the affair, and denied that he was in any way interestad in the bank, but_after several lengthy confer- ences he admittea his partnership in the con- n and finally consented to assume all the liabilities and settle outstanding accounts, He inten ds leaving here to-morrow for Sid- nay, and will_at once procoed to straighten out' the books and endeavor to locate the cause of all the trouble, 1t has been impossible, so far, to get o statement of the affairs of the bank on ac- count of the confusion, but reliable estimates place the liabilitics at between $45,000 and $50,000, and the assets at about §25,000. 1t s expec at a thorough examination will 8how a considerable sbortuge, although notMng has been discovered to shiow whers the money went. It is stated that Mr. Mor gan was 1ot in the habit of gambling and no Wild speculations have been discovered. Tt is said that Mrs, Morgan insists there was no shortaze, and that everything is all right. She expects to leave for Sidn nextv Monday, and will assist at tho invostigation, Messrs. McIntosh and lckes expross thom- selves as woll pleased over the result of their wission, and say_it will be very satisfactory 10 the people of Sidney, some of whom had all their savings 1n this bank, - sterner—Is Nebraska a healthy state? Nebraska Man—Healthy! Well, sir, there's an old msu in Omaha named Willam Shakespears, aud haug woe if 1 dow't believe ne's the origiual, rain, si would by ol 0% TANNER VISITS ~ LINCOLN. The Capital Oity Citizena Give Him a Hoarty Roception. HE WILL BE AT CRETE TO-DAY., Whore He Will Speak Before the Culs tured COhauts Banking Reports—Warden Hopkin's Showing rws Notes, ans LIXco1X BURRAU OF TiE OMATA a8, 1020 PP STreet, ; LaNc July 8 Commissioner Tanner and party arrived in Lincoln this morning at 11:45, and were met at the dopot by & committen from Farragut Post, G. A. R, comprised of Capt. Joe Teeter, chairman, and Comrades 0. W, Barker, Silas Sprague, B. F. Stones, J. R, Haggard, J. W. Winger, John Wiseman, J. Baswich, D. T. Cooke, 8. S, Bell, H. C. McArthur, J. C. Bonnell, 0. C. Bel, J. R. Ring and W. C. Woodward, and escorted direct to the Capital hotel and assigned to rooms 37 and 38, where an informal reception was held for some timo, both before and after dinner, hundreds of Lincoln's bost citizons crowding to do the distinguished gontleman and party honor, The Sommissioners and purty, cons of Mrs. Tanner and two daughters, Misses Addio and Nettie, tho former of whom is Mr. Tannor's vrivato secretary; Paul Vandervoort, wife, son and daughter, Samuel and Miss ‘Grace, M. R. Risdon and wife; Mrs. Dr. Jensen and S. W. Barker, of Omaha, were shown the principal points of interest about the city, This evening a countersign meoting was held in_ropresenta- tive hall, which was largoly attended by the mombers of the G. A. I, the W. R. C. and Sons of Veterans, aftor ‘Which a public re- ception was tendored the distinguishod guest in the senate chamber. The party goes to_ Crete to-morrow moraing, whore Commishioner Tannor delivers the address of the day. Banking Reports. The reports of the banking institutions of the state are crowding into the state dopart- ment theso days very rapidly. 1t would seem that the majority of them realizo that the new law means just what it says, and it is probable that all will have reported on or before the 10th that intend to continio in the \king business, Some of the reports, it 1s learned through the board of inspector's, do not comply with the law and their showings are very imperfect, but it is thought that this is bocause “it i8 a new thing” and that those who have reported hopo to learn by experience, and will mako jzood w! they lack. 1t is understood that the inspec- tors will overlook diserepancies for a time, at least until the bankers of the stato can understand the full signification of the new law. But the cardinal features of the law will be enforced rigidly from the fivst. Quarterly Report. Warden Hopkins, of the state penitentiary, makes a very interesting report. Among otlier things. it shows that he now has in his possession tho sum of 1, which be- longs to convicts under his care and custody. It also shows a carefully prepared inventory of the bolongings of tho institution. 1t1s a8 verfectly completo as such a report can bo made, aud shows a_splendid condition of the state’s prison. at the penitentiary. y Black Hawk and ~ Whitewater will be given their liberty to-day, July 4. Washington Improvement Company. The Washington Land and Improvement company filed its articles of incorporation to-day. Business commencement dates from July 1 and continues fifty years. Its purposo is to acquire lands by purchase suitable for town sites and lay out and plat the same into lots, blocks, streets and alleys, and in gen- cral transact a real estate business, The company authorizes a capital stock of $§200,- 000, divided into 2,000 sharcs of $100 cach. The city of Omaha is fixed upon as the prin- cipal place for the transaction of business, Branch oftices, however, may bo established in Washington Torritory. Incorporators: Thomas R. Gibson, Andréw Haas, Bdgar H. Allen, Thomas D. Crane, Samuel Katz, Wil- liam Gibson and Walter Supply Contracts Awarded, The purchase and supply board met and awarded the following contracts to the dealers who will furnish the supplies to the various state institutions for the ensuing quarter. Institution for Blind, Nebraska City, meats, M. Gardner; groceries, S. T, Davis, Industrial School, Kearney, coal, George H. Dowing & Co.; groceries, R. Coddington flour, Kearney Milling and Elevator Co.; meats, Konrad Gebhort, Fecble Minded Institute, Beatrice, bread, A.P. Aperry & Co.; grocerics, Lang & Moschol; coal, J. L. McGee; meats, P. H. ice, W. Lehn Hospital, Lincoln; paints, ofls and darugs, J. H. Harley; groceries, Georgo Bos- selman; boots and ‘shoes, Pérkins Bros.: flouz, IKendall & Smith; butter, J. M. Betts dressed meats and fish, Hubbard Bros.; dry goods, H ) ; coal, Whitebreast Coal 'Co.; clothing, A. Hurlberv and Mayer Bros. Deaf and Dumb _institute, Omaha, meats, nuel Driefus; dry goods, Hayden' Bros. ; grocerics, Kenn & Blnckburng paints, Gils and glass, ( Drug Co.; bread, Otto Wagne Chicago Lumber Co.; 1 & Squ Hospital for Insane, ard, Bridges & Co. Co. drugs, Asa K. Leonurd; Rudat. Vorfolk, flour, urcl M ary & ©oal, Charles City News and Notes. Auditor Benton to-day registered 73,000 of Otoe county refunding bonds, Hon. W. H. Platt, of Grand Island, was here yesterday w have rogistered $25,00) of city hall bonds and §50,000 of sewor bons, C. E. Wilkinson, mayor of Broken How, Custer county, is in_tho city and will spor.d the Fourth with John M. Cotton, of the Omaha Herald bureau. A woman giving her name as Ella Hoggett, ovidently insane, stopped at the Depot hotol last night, accompanicd by a child of tender years, but sho suddenly disappeared. This morning, however, sho reappeared, but with- out the child, and as she uld give no intel- ligent accountof it, it is feared that sho has murdered it. The woman was taken into custody and search s boing” made for the cnild, Tho law requires that county clorks shall forward abstracts of assessmoots to the auditor of state on or before July 10, Up to this dute less than baif of tNe counties of the state have complicd with the law, Preparations for the reception of King ‘Tartarax and Coronado closed this evening, The city is already handsomely docorated and the finishing touckos will bo put on eurly in the morning. IUis enough to say on the eve of the great colobration that it will be a grand success. ‘The programwme and line of march has been repeatedly published and nothing is left but to wait for the finale. Senator Keckley, of York, was in Lincoln to-day. His many friends hore were pained to see him hobbling around on crutel When ho left tho senate at the close of th late session of the legislature ho was the picture of health. It scoms that tho wound he received in bis left leg during tho was hus ulcerated, breaking out asnew, and thus causes him a great deal of pain and snuoy- ance. CURES PERMANENTLY RIIEUMATISM, Chronlo Cases 0'407!!?! Cured, Hundreds Testify. No Return of Paln, AT DRUGGATH AND DraLERS THE CHARLES A, VOGE\ER CO., Baltimors,