Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 8, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JULY 8, 1889 THE DALY BEE. il:lu:lfl";}l) ;: I-F Nl()ll\';\—(;.—- TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION, D nlly (Morning Edition) including Sunday Hee, One Year. LTI 810 Forstx Months. ... .. orThree Months ¥ " ' i Sunday fiee, mailed to” any me Year P4 kly Ilee, One Year § Omann Oftice, Bee bullding, N. W, Beventeenth and Farnam Streots, Cnleago Ofiee, 57 Rookery Buflding. New York Oftice, Rooms 14 and 15 Tribuno Bullding. Waslington Office, No, 513 Four- teentn Sfrect, CORRESPONDENCE, All corimunications relating to news and edi. torinl mattor should be addressed to the Editor of the Bee, NESS LETTERS, All business lotters and_remittunces*shonid be addressed to Thoe lles Publishing Company, Omaha Drafts, checks and postoflice orders to * bemade payable to the ordor of the company. o w0 5 0 5 2 2 2 [ 0 Corner Tho Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. E, ROSEWATER, Editor. _— - THE DAILY BEE. Eworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, ety of Dovgin, [ George I, Tzschuck, secrotary ot The fee Pub- 1ehingCompany, dous solemnly swear that tho actual circulaiioh of Titk DAILY Bk for the Week ending July 0th, 1569, was as follows: Eunday. Friday, July 5 Baturday, July Average....... GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Ewern to before me and subscribed to in my Stesence taiatth day ot July, A, D. 188, Beal, N. P. FEIL, Notary Publio. Stato of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, { % Georgo . Tzschuck, being duly swon, de- Joues and shys that ho s secrotary of ‘Tho iles fublishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of' Th moRth of June, 18, 1 oplos:~_for J T8, 18,033 coples; for Auiruat, 188, 18,15 cople for Feptember, 1485, 18,151 coples: ' for October, 8, 15084 coples 1568, 18,083 coples; tor Decem b B Junuary, 1889, 18, IR0 coples: for March, 1850, 15,54 copies: for April, 1850, 14,550 copless for' May, 149, 15,600 cop! iEO. B, TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to before me and’ subscribed in my [Seal.] 1;;‘;{»0!1\'0(11)4 74 day of June, A. Di 0. , Duily Beo for the T November, ry Public. a crusader of old, Kilrain was blessed by a priest on his journey to the fleld of battle. THE acho of the successful shooting of the American rifle team in England is heard all around the world. Tne rat-catcher of Paris did not make as much of a stir in the world as the dog-catcher of Omuha is likely to create. NonopYy will object to the state militia enjoying its annual encampment at the expense of tho majors and colo- nels. City government has become the Tuniversity of offleial boodlerism. Dis- hounesty is the only graduation neces- sary for a degree. Dror a nickle in the box and take your choice. Shall the strect railway <company absorb the motor line or shall the latter swallow the former? Nonrin DAKOTA is seriously consider- ing the advisability of having the legis- lature of that state consist of a single house elected by a vote of the people. North Dalcota s certainly young enough to try the innovation. L ONE of the principles of the Sulli- vau-Kilrain match should throw up the sponge the affair will be a hippodrome. If one of them be killed, it will be mur- der, but if both of them be knocked into eternity it will be a relief. THERre ave indications that the work of public improvements from now on will be rapidly pushed forward. Let the inspectors keep theireye on the con- tractors and let the board of public works watch the inspectors. ROPE-SKIPPING has been introduced by athletes to strengthen their muscle and to tone their system. The exercise should commend itself to oflice-seckers. The political rope-skipper might toughen his cheek and improve his nerve. Ir LOOKS pretty much as if the coul dealers of Omaha will have to pay that one hundred dollar license imposed on them by the council whether they like it or not. The great question to the consumer is, however, will the tax be saddled upon them when the coal tarift for the season will be put in force by the local pool. In the race for capital of South Da- kota, Watertown is by no means likely to be an unimportant factor. That city now claims about seven thousand popu- lation and is growing rapidly. Being an important railroad center, Water- town cannot fail to make herself felt in the final choice between a number of lively competitors. ——————— Tie cut made by the Baltimore & Ohio in corn ratesfrom Chicago and St. Louis to the seaboard is more than Mkely to stimulate the movement of Ne- braska'’s surplus product immediately. There has been an unusual demand in Burope for corn during the past few weeks, and it is evident that heavy ope- rators have taken advantage of the sit- uation. HeNuY ORGE is agitating a ays- tem for the abolition of poverty that once was tested in England before Hen- ry George was born. A wealthy philan- thropist bequeated an estate of £4,000 o year to the poor of three villuges. Within o few years the residents of this Snationalized” land were poverty stricken, and a special act of parlia- ment bad to be pussed revokiag the gift 10 avoid further misery. Idealistic theories will not minimise poverty. As MiGHT have heen expected, tho goroner's jury sitting in inquest over tho remains of one of the victims of the Johnstown flood has brougut in a ver- dict holding the membors of the South Fork Fishing club respousible for the fearful loss of life and proprty resuiting from the breaking of tho Conemaugh dam, The members of the club were repeatedly warned of the dangurous ohuracter of the dam, but took no menns to avert the catastrophe. It is a feartul yesponsibility which they ure uow called upon to shoulder, AN OFFER OF RECIPROCITY. Advices from the Canadian seat of government geport a purpose on the part of that government, with imperial approval, to propose reciprocal trade in lumber with the United States. So far as known nothing has beon heard of this intention at the state or treasary departments, but the information that comes from Ottawa appears to have the sanction of author- ity, and there is nothing improbable in it. The stant secrotary of tho troasury is quoted as soying that Canada has everything to by shipping its lumber free into this country, while we have every- thing to lose by such a transaction, from which it is to be inferred that no support for the proposal, should it be made, is to be expected from the troas- ury department. The matter, however, is one which congress alone can deal with, and in the vyent of its coming be- fore that body there might be found a very considorable popular sentiment in favor of it. There is already a considerable amount of lumber coming into this country from Canada, chiefly from Quebee, Ontario, Manitoba and the Northwest territory. The Canadian logs come almost entirely from these sections, while over three-fourths of the shingles, boards, planks, etc., re- ceived through the northern customs offices are from those Canadian locali- ties. A larger amount of unhewn logs was formerly received in this country, especially in Michigan, the lumbormen of the country bordering on the lakes being accustomed to tow their logs across to the American side and have them sawed by the mills there. The expostulations of Canadian millmen were responsible for the increase of tho export duty to three dollars per one thousand feet, and the pro- posed reduction would unquestionably benelit American millmen. The benefits of reciprocity would not, however, stop with th It would lower the price of lumber in the United States, and the far-reaching advant- ages of such a result cannot easily be ov stimated. It woukl enable hun- dreds of thousands of our peoplo to build homes who cannot do so under the present tax of two dollars on every thousand feet of lumber, and it would have the further good effect of re- ducing the tremendous demand upon our forests, under which they are rapidly disappearing. The theory that the price of Canadian lumber would eventually be raysed until it reached a tigure littlo below the price of Ameri- can lumber of the same grade will doubtless bo advanced as an argument against reciprocity, but 1t can hardly have great weight with those who aro not predisposed in favor of maintaining the.existing tax on imported lumber. The vast forests of Canada would supply all the demands of the two countries, it has boen estimated, for the next hundred years. and under a policy of reciprocity there would be every reason to expect & compotition hetween Canadian lumbermen o strong as to keep prices at an adeguately low figure. The west and northwest want cheaper Jumber. It would be a great boon to the thousands of settlers who will shortly flock to the prospective new states. It would bencfit millions of others of our people. It is one of the country’s most urgent neods. and in the event of Canada proposing a policy that would bring it about there is nothing more certain than that the proposal will have a wide and earnest popular support. EXTRA SES N GOSSIP. There is a renewal of gossip regard- ing an extra session of congress, but the uncertuinty as to whether one will be calied remains as great asever. Re- ported romarks of the president indi- cate that he thinks the reasons in favor of an extra session stronger than those against it; but he has given no indicn- tion from which it can be concluded that he intends to convene congress in advance of the regular date for its meeting. It is quite probable that a majority of republican represon- tatives beliove it would bo wise to have congress assemble before December, in order that an or- ganization might be effected before that time und the contest certuin to oce over a change of the rules entered upon, but on the other hand there is a consid- erable number who do not believe any- thing would be gained by this course. The latter argue that at the best the republican majority in the house, if congress should be convened in Octo- ber, would be only four, and it is ex- tremely doubtful whether they could command a quorum if called to- gether in advance of the reg- ular © session. If congress could be set actively to work in October there would be decided ad- vantage in an extra session, but it is obvious that with a majorty of three or four u party in the house of repre- sentatives can do nothing which the minority determines shall not be done. Thus the party calling the session would be held responsible for wasting time, whereas to wait until December, when the law requires congress to con- vene, the responsibility for delay would rost upon the minority, Besides, the vepublican membership will be in- creased by at least four, and perheps five, by tho elections to be held in the newly-formed states. The in- creased membership will give an aggrogate of three hundred and thirty, and increase a quorum from vne hun- dred and sixty-three to one hundred and sixty-six, Placing the republican strength at one hundred and sixty- eight, which it is likely to be, it will be seen that whether congress is called in October ur convenes rezularly in De- comber, the republicans will have u very slim margin upon which o starta cru- sade for radical ohanges in the rules, the determination of eleclion contests, and impovtant legislation atecting party dominution in the hoase, as well as material public interosts. It is im- possible to say whether the time gained by calling an extra would be of any renl advantage, except so far as it sorved to disclose the plaus of the minority, and it is pretty well under- stood what these age Lo be, bub at any vate it would clenrly not be udvisable sessicn to call an extra session before the rep- resentatives to be elected in the new states can thke their segts. The repub- licans in the house will not be safe without this addition to their strength. Smm— Tne English sparrow must go. That is the edict of the United States depart- ment of agriculture. He must be ex- terminated root and branch, body and soul. The indictment against him is voluminous. No lawyer’s brief can be more exhaustive in detail, more con- vincing by weight of evidence, or more thorough in logical deduction and ar- gument than the work of four hundred and five pages propared by the division of economic ornithology under the di- raction of the secretary of agriculture. The Euglish sparrow, or to be more exact, Passer Domesticus, is accused of being the enemy to the farmer, to the American song birds, and to man in general. An alien by nativity, he was brought to this country forty years ago by some well meaning though deluded bird lovers. Since that time the spar- row has increased his numbers so that his progeny isas thick as mosquitoos and his tribe extends from the Atlantic to the Missouri river and from Maine to Florida. Butnow he is a nuisance, and the crimes and misdemeanors laid at his feet make him a monster of such dreadful proportions that every man's hand should be raised against him, He is common, he is unclean, he is more prolific than an oriental sultan. He is saucy, he fights, he is a glutton and his habits are demoralizing to the bird kingdom. Alien that he is, he has never adopted Amer- ican ways of living. He has never become naturalized and never will. He is an anarchist and makes war upon the well-behaved American song birds. He does not help tho farmer in ridding the fields of bugs and insoets, but destroys his wheat and loots his orchards. Ho toilsnot neither does he spin, yet winter and summer he grows slecier and slecker and bolder and bolder in his depredations. Long suffering America can stand this no longer. Uncle Jerry Rusk has sounded the alarm. The war of extermination must begin. THE New York Sun finds fault with the recently published historical slketch of Iowa, by Justice Miller of the supreme court, because there was omitted from it any reference *“to the intonse vadicalism which rules tho peo- ple, and especially to that spirit of con- fiscation and of plunder, we might al- most suy of rascality and robbery, if the motive were not so highly moral, which they have displayed toward the unfortunate owners of railroad prop- orty who live elsewhere.” The Sun does not need to be reminded that Jus- tice Miller could not properly discuss the railroad legislation of Iowa 1na magazine article. His position as a member of the supreme tribunal of the country, which may at any time be called upon to consider this legislation, preciuded him from.referring to it, nor was it necessary to doso in a narrative of the material, political and social con- dition and progress of Iowa. But had Justice Miller referred to the subject which he omitted from his interesting paper we venture to think he would have said nothing to justify the Sun’s opinion of the spirit of the people of Towa in the efforts they huve made to protect themselves against the ex actions and abuses of ‘‘the unfortu- nate owners of railroad prop- erty who live elsewhere.” If the Sun is as well informed as it should be re- garding the history of railrond methods and practices in the west, its character- ization of the policy of the people of Iowa is only to be explained as the re- sult of a prejudice natural to its envir- onment. In either case, it is wholly unjust. THE action of the Chinese govern- ment in establishing at Canton the la; gost mint in the world for the coinage of silver has created a good desl of alarm in Mexico. For centuries the Mexican dollar has been the standard coin of the Chinese, and in fact of Asiatic commerce, and the purpose of the Chinese government to coin its own silver will, it is thought, result in driv- ing the Mexican dollar out of that coun- try. According to the leading financial journal of Mexico the effect must be that the Chinese government will buy its sit- ver in the United States, thercby de- priving Mexico of an important article of commerce. Tt is not questionable thay the action of the Chinese government may prove a serious matter to the silver mining industry of Mexico, but this will largely depend upon what efforts and inducements the miners of Ameri- can silver are willing to offer to get the Chinese trade. ln business affairs China is looking for the best advantages, re- gardless of their source, and if there is acompetition betwoen the United States and Mexico the country that can offer China the best terms will sell that coun- try the most silver. AN important decision has just been handed down by Judges Horton, Tuley and Collins, of Chicago, on the motion of the Chicago boardof trade to dissolve the injunction to prevent the board from withholding its quotations from the bucketshops. The judges, much to the surprise of the board of trade, deny the motion to dissolve the injunction oun the gronnd that the market reports are of $0 MU importance to the public that they should be considered public prop- This raling practically settles the loug-fought battle between the board of tradc and the bu tshops, It is not likely that the stock exchange will push the prosceution farther. Tt isa sub- stantial victory for the bucketshop, and the curb stone broker hereafter will be put on an equality with the high- toned member of the stock and produce exchanges to satisfy his eravings for gambling, Tng discussions of the international conference at Paris relative to the solu- tien of the labhor and land question have not produced anything very startling. In spite of abstract theories, the em- ployo is still anxious W obtain more for his labor, and the employer dislikes the of aging bis income. A ntof the difficulty is al- dueg most as pmhflfln as a united democratic party. TrERE 18 in unusual stir in building circles with the prospects of the early erection of & number of fine business blocks. It 18 cortainly a promising omen for the building and trade in terests of Omaha for the last six months of the year. —_—— H. B, G. K.'s Grievance, Chicago Tribune. Hadja Hassein Ghouly Khan Is asore disgruntled Persian man. His woundod feolings naught can plaster— The Yanks poke fun at his royal master, il by Very Decollette, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ‘The bathing suits of nandsome and fash- ionable ladies at seasido resorts this season are said to bo carried in the ladies’ pocket- books for convenience, e How He Differs From Cleveland. St. Louts Globe-Democrat. It may not be out of place to observe that President Harrison finds it possible to make vory agreeable spoeches to the people along the line of his vacation trip without borrow- ing a single fact or figure from the oyolo- pedia. stk mende Honorable. Kansas City Times. If at any time we have spoken disrespect- fully of the shah of Persia we withdraw the oftensive remarks and hasten to profess our regard for the departing minister, Mr. H. H, Ghooly Khan, Teheran Battle Cry of F'ree- dom please copy e g The South and the Negro. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The cry of apprahended negro domination is only a pretext and a sham. In sober truth, the ruling foar is that of republican progress and success. If the colored voters would all support the democratic ticket the pretended peril would at once disappear, and we should hear nota word about their al- leged extraordinary ignorance and indigence. It is against republicans that this infamous policy of ballot stealing is directed rather than against the blacks, simply because they are blacks, White men as well as colored have been bulldozed and murdered on ac- count of their republican sentiments. The line of discrimination in that respect is not one of complexion but of political opinion. TRIBUTES TO ENTERPRISE. The A World-Wide Roputation. Johnson County Journal, Tre OwmAA BEE has been edited and man- agod all theso years by Edward Rosewater, who has made for mmself and Tuz Bee a reputation which is world-wido and reaches even beyond the sea. Last Wednesday Tie B took formal possession of a new build- ing erected expressly for its own use by the Bee Publishing company at a cost of $400,000, that is not oniy the largest, but the best newspaper building in the world. Tur Baz is a great paper, having by far the largest civculation and greatest influence upon the public of any paper west of Chicago, Long may Tae Bee and its able editor live to enjoy the comforts of the new building. A Phenomenal Success. Yankton Telegram. Tae OMAnA BrE, which is one of the won- ders of this new west, celobrated its eigh- teenth birthday by a graud banquet in its new half a million dollar building on the 19th of June. The building is one of the finest and best newspaper edifices in the world,and will be a lasting monuinent to the enterprise push and pluck of Mr. Rosewater, the founder and proprietor of the paper. Tug Bek has been a phenomenal success. Its forcign and Washington correspondence is fully up to the standard of the best papers of the country, and in domestic and local news it rivais the best papers in Chicago and St. Louis. In the state of Nebraska, and especi- ally in the city of Omaha, it is a great power, and its vast influence is generally used for the greatest good to the greatest number of people. Mr. Rosewater richly deserves the princely reward that his superior business energy is bringing him, More Than All Others, Stromsburg Headlight. Tie Ber 1s the great paper of tho west, and has done for Omaha more than all other papers in that city, while its energy and en- terprise are without competition between Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco. Popular and Thorough. Aurora Sun. The ninotcenth anmversary of Tk Oxana BEE was celebrated by the formal opening of the massive Bee building, one of the very fluest newspaper buildings in the United States, and a monument to the enter- prise and ability of the editor of that always popular and thorough newspaper, Edward Rosewater. We congratulate Tie Beg and its editor on the successful completion and occupancy of its fine building. Entitled to Prosperity. Lead City (Dak.) Hera'd, Tur Beg has always been a valued friend of Dakota, and more particularly of the Black Hills, and we only voice the senti- ments of the people of this section when we wisi the great Omaha daily unlimited pros- perity, to which its enterprise so worthily ontitles it. Previous Enterprise Outdone. Abilene (Kan.) Chrondcle. Mr. Rosewater may well be proua of this crowing effort of his eventful life, Without overdrawing, we will say that in no part of the world can be found a finer printing of- fice. Omaha and her enterprising citizons have always endeavored to lead in every- thing, but they have outdone themselves in the erectlon of this magniticent structure. i b BTATE AND TERRITOKY, Nebraska Jottings. T, E. Casterline, bas sold the Edgar Post to W. H. Gotes. The now Johnson eounty court house was dedicated on the Fourth. ‘The peovle of Burivell are again agitating tho question of {ncorporating. ‘The new city hall at York was dedicated last weels by the city council. A Dakota City’ justice fined M. E. Ken- nelly #50 and costs for wife beating. The butcher shop 0f C. Ulrich at Pierce was destroyed by fire on the 4th, causing & loss of 81,000, A. H. Swart has sold the Tecumseh Chiof- tain to Dr. F. Mi Somors, formerly oditor of the Beatrico Express, Rev. W. 5. Barnes, of Corning. Ta., has been called 10 the pastorate of the Presbyter- ian church at Kearney, “The old Northwestern hotel at Fremont, which has acquired & tough reputation in late years, was burned last week, Tko Clarke, of Papillion, and Elmor Clarke, of Omaha, hive engaged in tho bauking busi- ness at Sartoria, Buffalo county. Two fine spans of horses and a double car- riage were consumed with the barn of John Clark, near Clarks, on the 4th inst. ho special grand jury whicn has been in session at Seward investigating the Leavitt murder mystery, bas adjourncd until Au- gust 1. Mrs. Weltha Libby, @ well-known resident of Elk Creek, died last week aged eighty-oue years. She leaves & family of seven grown children. ‘The assignees of the bursted bank of Hum- bolt propose to attuch the $500 wiiech Diven surrendered to Captain Humphrey after the failure was anuounced. During the celebration atSeward there were bwo runaways, Alonzo Stonecker being crushed against a tree and Miss Thrap, of Ulysses, having one arm broken in two places. The Tecumsch Journal asserta that no connty in the state can boast of three com- missioners who will average up_in avoirdu- pois, genoral oxponsivenoss and cussednoss with the board of Johnson county. The premium list for the fourteonth annual air of the Hall county agricultural society has been issued. The fair is to_be held at Grand Tsland September 24, 25, 26 and 27, and the attractions will be numerous. Horace Egan died at Chadron last week of brain_fever. The decoased was a son of John Egan, general passeuger agent of the Civcinnati, Indianapolis, St. Lows & Chica- go railrond, and had como west for his health, Thomas Sando, a Nebraska City well-dig- ger, had a_narrow escape from death re- cently. While cloaning & well ho was over- come by gas and was Lauled to the surface in an apparently lifeless condition, It ro- quired over an hour's work by physicians to restore him to consciousnes lowa Ltems. The new Emmetsburg opera house is nearly completed. The Atlantic cannery puts up 2,000,000 cans of corn every season. The Buona Vista county creame Lako opens for business July 15. There arc 099 patients at the insane asylum at Mount Pleasant and Clarinda. The First Iowa reeiment will hold its an- nual reunion at Dubuque August 7. Scott county has an orchard of 1,000 peach trees, 800 of which are loaded with fruit. A keg of beer seized last week at Pom- eroy was all consumed by the experts at the trial. The business men of Emmetsburg have ?’rmmizvd a merchants' protective assock on. Danison people have been notified by the sheriff that he will arrest all persons jump- ing on moving trains, Rov. Dr. Jenkins, of Freeport, Il been called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church of Sioux City. Sixty silver medals are annually disteib- uted to the pupils of the Duvenport schools, the expenses being borne by an endowment fuua for that purpose. Something new in the way of advertising has been adopted by the Kossuth County Agriculturaksocie The committee has se- cured 150 colored lithographs of a female head, two styles, and above the picture are printed the words: *‘I will meet you at the Kossuth county fair. They also obtained 100 lithograhs of a lithograph of Emperor William, of Germany, thirty copies of the present ruler, and thirty copies of Prince Bismarck., The date of the fair is Septom- ber 25, 26 and 27. Louis Allernaud, of Eagle Point, aged siaty-five years, fell in love with. Nora Mel- lin, a pretty lass of sixteen. For a while his addiesses were roceived with pleasure, “The ¢'d man’s darling” was the recipient of many beautiful and costly tokens of his affec- including a watch and a pair of brace- Touis pressed his charmer to name the ay on which they might be wedded. Nora was coy and unwllling to set the date. Finally she got mad and told the fond but foolish Louis to go and climb a tree. Louis demanded the peturn of the valuables, buy Nora refused, and now he has filed an at- tachment for their forcibie return. v at Storm has Inirst The Dakotas. The new tannery at Watertown is com- pleted. Eighty men are_employed in old Baldy mincs at Deadwood. The Intor-state Mmisterial association will meet in Sioux Falls next yeur. A £3,000 addition to the Lead City school house will be erected during the summer va- cation. Redfield, Aberdeen, Watertown und Huron are the four towns 1n'the South Dakota base bull league. The South Dakota Pharmaceutical asso- ciation will hold its fourth annual mecting in Aberdeen, August 20 and 21 Rov. C. C. Marston has resigned_the pas- torate of the B3aptist church at_ DeSmet and accepted a call to the Watertown church. Nick Boulder, a (looperstown tough, was caught in the act of assaulting a te; yeur-old girl and narrowly escaped rece a coat of tar and feathers. . G. Hagerty, commissioner of immi tion, is distributing posters ropresenting the two Dakotas arriving under a triumphal arch into the union, where they are being welcomed by their admiring sisters. Euch bears a banner upholding the figures of its growth. An effort is being made to select the col- lege lands iu the Sisseston reservation. Some of these lands are remarkable for their fertility, and as their location is excellent, it assures ‘quick sales and good prices and would give the college an establishod in- come in a very few years. Interest in the famous “Gen.” A. B. Ward, who so sensationally worked Dakota last year, has been revived by the report of letters from a Boston detective agency, stat— g the “‘general” has been located in New York under an_assumed name, where he is the husband of his eighth wife, a wealihy divorced woman. The Adveutists are going to build a coi- lege somewhere within tho four states sur- rounding South Dakota, says the Sioux Falls Press, and_they also have their ey on the new state. They have some $60,000 now in hana to put into a bullding and they are open for bids. Several of the states have already signified their intentions, and it wouldn’t be o bad idea for Sioux Falls to set aside a suitable site at least and_ offer it for the erection of the college. el NEGROES FOR OKLAHOMA, opening the The Emigration Scheme of a Kansas Colored Politician, Toreka, Kan,, July 7.—[Special Telegram to Tug Bk, |—Hon, W, L. Eagleson, a prom- inont negro politician of this state, is the prime mover in a scueme to induce the ne- groes of the south to emigrate to Oklahor He hus organized an omigration company, composed of some of the prominent colored men of this state, which will havo agents in all the principal cites of the south, their headquarters being in this city. He says he is roceiving lotters every day from peoplo in tho south inquiring about Oklahoma and how to get thore. He expects to have 100,000 col- ored people in Oklahoma by next July. He intends to go south himself shortly. Mr. Eagleson cluims that the negroos going into Oklahoma will bonefit Kunsas greatly, as they will raise cotton and KKansas will cstab- Lish tho cotton mills, He has publishod an address to “The Colored IPeople ot the South,” in which he says: “There never was a more favorablo time than now for you to secure good homes in u land where you will be frec aud your rights respected. Oklaboma 18 now open for set- tlement. Come in and help make it oue of the best states in the union. The soil 1s rich, the climate favorable, water abundant and there is plenty of timber, Make a now start. Give yoursclves and children new chances in a now land, where you willnot bo wolested and wnere you will be able to think and vote as you please. 13y settling therc you will help open up new avenues of in- dustry, your boys and giris will learn trades and thus be able to do business as other cople, Kive hundred of the best colored citizens of Topela have gone there within the last month. They send back word for others w come on, there i5 room for mauy more. h has secured 160 ucres of land, You can do the same for only $14, the cost of entoring it at the land office there 1n Okla boma.”’ e Death in a Peculiar Manne Larayig, Wyo., July 7.—[Special Tele- gram to Tug BEE. |—A peculur accident at & ranch twenty miles from this city resulted in the death of Mart Edson to-day, He was hauling fence posts and halted with a large load near a barbed wire f; The teau started, and in grasping the relns b did so in such & way as to draw the horses iato the fence. At the same time u whool struck hin, knocking him against the fence and unde the horses' feet. The wagon wiioels pas: over his abdomen, pressing a knifc blade which was in his poviet iuto the tesh aud ocutting a gash which exposed the intestine: £dson was formerly a well known Union Unlon Pacific engineor. - - iver try Beechaw's Pills l For a disordeved ! then she heard a littlo girl's voice A LETTER FIROM APIA. Mataafa Disporacs His Men—~Waiting For News From Borlin. [Copyright, 1889, by New York Assoctated Press.) Avia, Samoa, June 93, (per Steamor Ale andria), July 7—The steamer Alameda touched at Apia and took away nine officors and sixty men of tho United Statos frigate Tronton, who wore loft hero when tho steamer Rockton sailed for San Francisco Inst month with four-fifths of thesurvivors of the recont hurricane. Admiral Kimborly and two staff officers and five mon will ro- main in Apia. The admiral stated that the department had probably issued orders under the impression that the United States man- of-war Alert was here, but as no Amer- ican war vossel was at Apia now ho did not care to abandon the place entirely Hundreds of natives stood on the shoro and frave the Americau sailors & parting choor. Quiet has prevailed at the Samonn 1slands during the past six weeks, and the politieal situation of the country has sssumed a peaco- ful aspect. Tho only war vessel here now is the Gorman gunboat Wolf, which arrived from New Zoaland Juno 15, The Nipste has gone to Honolulu for ropairs under convoy of the Alert. Theso two ships loft here for Auckland May 9, but returned six days lator, the commanders reporting that aftor going 250 miles the Nipsic's broken and impro- vised rudder bocame 0 unmanngeablo thut slow progross was mado. It appeared impossible to_roach Auckland before the lust week 1 May, whon sovero weathor might be expected on tho New Zoa- land coast. Captain Mullen was reproved by Kimberly for having returned, whereupon the former asked to b relieved of his com- wand. Tho admiral at once detached him and ordered tho lieutenant commauder of the Trenton to take command of the Nipsie. Ho also ordered the Nipsic and the Alert to proceed o Pago Pago at once, talko in coal and again sail for Auckland. The orders wore afterwards changed and _Honolulu was mado tho destination of the ships instead of Auckland, The vesscls sailed for Honolulu June 1. Chief Engineor G. W. Hall, of the Nisic, being 11l with dysontary, was ordered home.' At Leon, while making for the stoamer, he died. 'His home was at Syra- cuse, N, Y. Some time ago Mataafa wrote to Tamaseso expressing the desire that peace be pro- claimed. 'Che latter replied that he was willing to stop_fighting for the present, but declined to make any negotiation tor perma- nent peaco until tho result of the Berlin conference was learned here. Mataafa abandoned his fortifications early m May, sent his men home and moved to the eastern ond of Apma. He said that he desired to sbow Kimberly and the American people ho would do all 1n his power to bromote peace. He said he was ready to abide by the decis- ion of tne Berlin conference. Matanfa gave n foast to which he invited 200 foreign residents and officers of all na- tions. No Germans attended. He made a speech thanking Kimberly for bringing about a peaceful state of affairs. Most of Tamasese's men have left camp and have gone gomo. A number of them visited Apia recently and were unmolested. A German saloonkeeper accidentally shot an American smlor named Barnhard Richlin while handling a revolver in his saloon. Corporal John Nichols, of the Trenton marine guards, was accidentally killed by falling lumber ' May 4. A box has been received from the state de- partment at Washington containing $1.100 worth of gold and silver watches and 3,900 in_gold coin to be distributed among the na- tives who rendered assistance to the Amer- ican ships during the burzicane, B e An Interesting Question. A very intrresting question has arisen In the courts of Philadelphia growing out of a marringe which took place in Washington last week. It scems that a cer.ain gentleman called upon a winister in the Quaker City, and requested to unite hum in marringe to a lady who accompamed him. The minister put some questions to the expectant bride- groom, uud learned much to s astonish- ment that the gentleman wanted to marry tus mothor-in-luw, his fivst wife having _died some time previously. The minister did not want to perform the ceremony without some Iknowledge of the law, and upon making in- learned that tho statutes of the com- venlth of Pennsylvania prohibits su ages, with a penaity fixed at a fine of 00 and imprisonment. The ceremony was efore off. fow days later, however, much to the astonishment of the minister and_other peo- ple who knew the couple, a marriage notice appeared in the Philadelphia papers, an nouncing that the ceremony had been' per- formed in the District of Columbia, Now the validity of marriage is agitating the minds of those learned in marriage law. and several hunts of musty statutes have been inaugurated to ascertam whethor there is anything in tho laws of the District of Co- Dia to prohibit such o_marriage. The stut- utes aro silent upon the subject, but it may b that thera ds a provision of common law or an old Maryland act which prohibits such marriages. If so they have not been found. S Patents For Puzzls. Some time ago the whole United States was excited over an alleged new puzzle known as “pigs in clover.” On every strect corner fakirs were scen selling card-board with three concentric eircles one inside another, and four marbles; and every fakir did a rushing business, Pigs m clover be- came an institution in the land, and the soi-. disaint inventor realized a handsome fortune in a very short tim The infernal machine was scarcely on tho market when inventors sprang up all over the country with “cows in the corn,” feal,”” “mice in the cheese,” and of other similar dovices. The pat 1 room was literally overrun v to secure the protoction of the United States for their inventions, but up to the present time not a single patent hus been granted. Allof theso toys claimed us originul priueiples are devices which were complete at the beginning of the century. patent can be granted on any ontrivances, and the inventors ave simply put to the expense of paying the witial fees without any returns. 1t is loarned, by tho way, that the so-called Pigs in Clovor schome was patented ten or ago, and that when the latost pplied for a patent e discove that it 1ablo for this reason. He is > realized more thin §100,000 of profit before the game played out, und he was only brought up with a round turn o short tima ago, when the original patontec secured an injunction restraining him from conducting his business any longer, —~~—— An Avsolute Curoe, The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT is only put up in large two-ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old_sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands, and_all skin orup, tions, Will positively eure all kinds of pilc Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETING OINT- MENT. Sold by Goodman Drug company at 25 conts por box—by mail 30 cents, Call Mor Dearest Everyono who has ever had the pleasure of meeting Mrs., Francis Hodgson Burnett in her own family circle, surrounded by her swoet little chilaren, bas been charmed by the pretty habit the children have of calling their mother -not “mamma’—but Hoearest,” always. You will remomber that Little Lord Fauntioroy in Mrs. Burnett’s most suc al play, always called his mother *d " gud Little Lord £ ’ ulso remeniver, is patterncd altogethor after Mrs, Hodgson 3urnett’s little boy, Vivian, But they tell A interesting story about this vory same habit of calling the mother “dearost.” A Boston lady, who is stopping hero just now, suys severil years ago she oc- cupied rooms in o hotel in T3oston udjoining thoso taken by Mrs. Buruett aud her family. She had searcolytaken nossession of Lier apart- ments when she heard a scampering of small foet through the narrow partition wall, and culling “Mamms, mamma,” whereupon sho heard a series of slaps and several small squeals, and finally & Woman's a0gry voice saying: *How often” shall I have to tell youto call me ‘dearest’ and not ‘mamma.’' " Query: Was Little Lord Fauntleroy spanked into calling his mother “dear est.” —— Nothing cont’s butes more towards a sound digestion than the use of the uine Angostura Bitters, of Dr. J, G Slegert & Sons, -Ask your druggist. *inventor' # . A PASSION FOR DRY GOODS Frankie Currie, of Lincoln Gets Into Serious Trouble. ASHBY & MILLSPAUGH TAKEN IN, She Uses Judge Mason's Name—The Culprit Offers to Settlo—~An In~ toresting Interview—Fitz. gerald’s Donation. 1020 P Stager, Lascouy, July 7. Frankie Currie, a voung girl who has beea living in Lincoln for several months past, was arrested last night for uttering forged paper, and committed to tho county Jail at midnight. It scems that on the 18th of June Frankio entered Ashby & Millspaugh's dry goods store and representod that she was Miss Savage, Judge Mason's houscke#per, and that she had been sent by Mrs, Ham- mond, tho judge’s daughter, to buy some goods on credit for ler us they intended to start for Colorado in a fow days. Knowing Mason's projudice agaiust the purchase of goods on credit, the firm denied Misa Savage's request, and instructed her to gey an order from him for tho gooas she wanted. Shortly afterward she again appeared and presented a note, neatly and intalligent written, of which the following is u cony Messrs. Ashby & Millspaugh:—I will seo that you get paid for thing that Miss Sav- age gots me. Send the bill to Miss Savage and sho will settle everything on wy account, I had not known that pa did not want a biil sent to him for us girls, 80 1 will sce that you lose nothing, Very re Mus, Kinny HAMMOND, 1689 L Street, City. This guarantee satistied the firm, and dur- ing the succeeding seventeen duys she car- ried from the store ¢ver $200 worth of goods. She came often and discussed Mason’s well- known peeuliarities and other matters with such familiarity that the firm entertainea no suspicions, and was wholly disarmed. But ame, and with it the denouncement. s soon thereafter learned that there was no such inmate as Miss Savage at Judgo Mason’s home; that thero had been such a person there, but that she was now in Omaha; that Mrs. Hammond did not contemplate malking a visit to Colorado, and that the note purporting to be from her was a very clever forgery. It did mot take very long after this to report tho caso to the police, and Ofcer Malono was detailed to look up the muttor and if possibie to effect tho st of the mys- terious shopper. All this happened yester- day morning. From the discription of the girl given by Ashby and Millspaugh, Mr. Hammond identitied the girl as Frankie Currie, who had worked in the family home a year or so before. Dilligent search on the part of the oficers located the girl atthe home of G. M. Andrus, at the corner of Eleventh and M strects, When first ac- cused she sloutly denicd her guilt, but weai- ened when Malone produced a pair of hand- cuffs, and promised to restore ail of the goods if the matter was kept from the pub- lic. This dodge would not work, how- ever, and the wirl was taken into custody. Search for the goods caled the fact that great piles of them were stored about the Andrus houso, It is understood that her confidence games ex- tends to other firms, and that her pillaging will aggregate over $400. Franlie tolls many couflicting_ stories, representing that she is a neice of Joln Fitzgerald to some and denying it to others, While not comely nor even nice looking, she has an intelligent faco and evidently a fair education. She will have her preliminar) mination before Judge Houston to-mor when she will doubtless answer to the charge of forgery, Lixcorx Bursav or Tas OMAmA Baw, } An Interesting Interview. “Lsce that Congressmun Dorsey says he has the renomination to congress in hand from the Third congressional district,” said a well known Dodgo county politician to Tz Bez ropresentativo this morning, “‘and it may true, but I want to say he must keap his hands of Richards n his candidacy for the governorship, or he will find a ‘nigger in the wood-pile’ right in his own county. It is tnderstood up our way that the poitical re- lutions are somewhat straightencd, and if it comes to a show down it will be found that Richards 1s tho strongest wman of the two at bome. Mind, I don't say that thero is an open ruptire _between Dorsey and Richards, but it borders that way. Morcover 1t nettlcs our peoplo to have Dorsey claim that he Las tho county in hand whencver he wants it. The boast he made in one of the stute papers the other day was not thatof a shrewd politician, and his friends are inclined to think that he was not correctly quoted, und some of the bo- twixt and betweens had.rather think that way." i3t Tsoo that Dorsoy is quoted by somo of the local papors as being a candidate for governor. Howisitt" I dow't think there is anyting in it. I think Mr. Dorsey prefers to continue in congress, as he suggests in a lato inter- view.” “You thinl th county’s prefer en that Richards is Dodge candidate for governor (" “1 certainly do, d Juck McCall is the only manin the race that can beat nim. Jolin Watson doubtless has some strength, but not enough to cut any groat figure.” Suppose Governor Thayer should be prung by his friends, or that Avtoruey Gen- comes a candidate, what then ! ko it from what tho governor suys in his morning, that he means just As for’ General Lecese, I'had a talk witli him ' few duys ogo, ana Le dis- tinctly stated to me that he ‘was getting 2 rost from public life, Besides, should become a candidate, the rail- turn the dogs of war looso against him, He would have an unpleasany fight, and 1 believe he appreciates it, but I esteem him ore of the best men of the state, There are a good many complications abead of the republiean party, and atthis time speculation is almost v {1 he ads would Nebraska's Incurable Ineane. Dr. Stone, superintendent of the Hospital for the incurable insane at Hastings, un- nounces that the asylum will be ready for the reception of patients ubout August 1. It is learned that the furniture of the institu. tion is nearly all in place and that wait wait is occasioned because of the mcomple~ tion of the boller and engine house. But work on it is pushing rapidly, Dr. Knapp, superintendent of the Lincoln asylum, in- formed Tug Beg roprescntative this morns ings that 130 putients, or about that number, would be transmitted to Hastings from his charge as soon as patients could be received there, It is understood that the Lincoln asylum is in a crowded condition, and that it is impossible for patients suffering tempo- rary aberations to improve with the ravidity desirable, }rom the t information that can be obtained, there are about 200 mcurablo insane patients in the state who will find a permanent Loe at the Hastings institution, City Nows and Notes The preliminary bearing of Frank Wil liams, charged with having committed the Welsh burglary, June 19, will conclude before Judge Houston to-morrow. rink, tho blacksmith, arrested for complicity, was dis- charged last evening. Rev. C. B. Newman, pastor of the First Christian church, left for Chkicugo to-duy to secure if possible the sorvices of Rev. Dr, Bilack to dc 6 the now church in this at an early day in Septotber. The first session of the Nebraska confer- ence campmeeting of the Methodist Kpisco- pal church comumoences at Cushman park on noxt Wedunesday, July 10, Five sorvices will be held each day. Evangelist J, H, Webber, of Olio, will reach Lincolu on the morning of the 10th, and will be prominent in the preaching exercises throughout the meeting, Bishop Newman vreaches the morning ser- mon, Sunday the 14th, Johu Fitzgerald has subscribed $5,000 o the building fund of the contempiated pew parochial bigh school. lr, Fitzgerald tele- phoued bis donation t% Bishop Bonacum this morning, and he says it was tho most joyful message he ever received over the 'phone. George M. O'Hrien and Frank L. McCoy, of Gmaha, L. H. Lawton, of Grand Island, and W. Moore, of F'remont, were Sunday Buests rogistered at the capital