Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 10, 1889, Page 4

HED EVERY MORNING. e PUBLI TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, s ity (Morning Rditlon) inclnding Sunday Bee, aeven s aveid One Year. . orsix Months, ‘orThres Months ¢ e Omaha Snnday fiee, wai wldg‘rtnll‘. Un‘;ni‘o;r veoee ‘eekly Tee, One Year. .00 Omana Offieo, Heo butiding, N. W, Corner Seventeentt and Farnam Serogte; Joago Offioe, 567 Rookory Bu b New York Office, Rooms 14 aud kA Tribune Bullding. Washington Office, No. 513 Four teenth Strect, CORRESPONDENCE. n imunications relating to nows and edi- o matier $houla be nadFacsed 1o the Raitor of the Hee. BURINESS LETTERS, ATl business letters and remittances should Db addressed to The Bee Punlisting Compny, Omaha rafis, checks and postoflice orders fo Bemade payable to the order of the compauy. The Beo Publisking Company, Proprietors. B, ROSEWATE Eaitor. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Ciroulation. Etate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, fom George I, Tzschuck, secretary ot The fee Pub. JishingCom pany, does solomniy swear thnt the actual cireulation of THE DAILY DER for the ‘Week ending July Gth, 1550, was as follows: L8 18581 Wednesday, Thursday, J Friduy, July Batarday, July 6. Averuge..... uly4, GEONGR B, TZSCHUCK, Evorn to before me und subscr bl & n iy renence this ith day of July. A, D. 1890, Phen. N8Pl Notary Buvtte. State ot Nebraska, Connty of Doulas. { ™ rge B, Tzschuck, bemng duly sworn, de- and says that ho'ls seoretary of Tho fies lishing company, that the actual averay daily circulation of The Daily Bee for the month of June, 1968, 19,242 coples: for July, JERR, 1%,033 coples; for August, 1! 18,18 coples; Tor Feptember, 1888, 18,154 copies; ' for October, 86K, 1,084 coples; for Novembor, 188, 18,08} coples: for December, 188, 18,223’ copie January, 1889, 18,574 coples:’ for Februar, 18,998 conles: for Marcn, 188 4 cop 1 for May, coptes. GEO: 1Y worn to hefore me and subscribed in my (Soal.] of June, A. D i old board of cducation is dead. Long live the board of education! THe great question is will the coun- il have the back-bone tostick together for the Tenth street viaduct. SCIENTISTS have discovered that the human brain is remewed every three years. The Chicago detectives must be Waiting for the triennial event. THE board of trade might well make use of Dun & Co.’s flattering report touching on the prosperity and business outlook of Omaha in advertising our city abroad. The fact may yet force itself upon the attention of railwaysin these parts that it will be policy to trent Omaha fairly in the matter of depot facilities. This is not a threat, but a prediction. I1 appears that loyalty for his ro master’s reputation was not the cause of the Persian minister’s resignation. He was mistaken for a ‘‘colored” gentle- man, and thereby felt annoyed. Rather tough on the colored follk. H Tue editors of two fowa papers mot on the street, and, after a heated dis- pute, exchanged five shots at close range, none of which took effect. The woolly Westeners are rapidly adopting the polished courtesy of Parisian man- ners. ‘OMAHA merchants have a just com- plaint against the Union Pacific for dis- crimination in adding bridge tolls for goods shipped from this city into Towa, while the rate from Council Bluffs to points in the interior of Nebrasia does not inciude this toll. THe Duke of Portand has decided to devote his past and future winnings on the turf to building alms houses for and improving the condition of the poor in Welbeck, where his country residence issituated. He is a successful and true sportsman, and hiswinnings are consid- orable. There isa vast difference be- tween a sportsman and a ‘‘sport,” Boss MAHONE is not altogether a crushed tragedien in Virginia politice. His fine Italian hand is detectod in the appointment of a district attorney for the western district of Virginia, which has stivred up the bile of the enti- Mahone wing. Taking itall in all, poli- tics in Virginia is mighty uncertain. Tur Rock Island has put on its war paint and vefuses to comply wita the order of the Towa state railroad commis- sion to relay six miles of track between Torn and Fort Dodge taken up some time ago. While six miles of trackage does not cut much of a figure in the railroad world, nevertheless the case is of oonsiderable intescst, and if brought into the courts will test the powers of the commission to enforce obedience upon the part of railroads. e A MosT sensible letter is addressed to THE BEE bv & citizen and old soldier, ealling attention tothe opportunity now presentod of securing the next national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Omaha. With proper in- ducements and encouragement on the part of our citizens, und with the neces- sary efforts on the part of the delegates of Nebraska to the cncampment at Mil- waukee, there would be a fair chunce of success. ——— SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CENSUS Porrer has silenced his critics by ten- dering the place of special ageut and expert on statistics on railroads, steam navigation, canals, telegraphs and tol- ephones, & most 1wportant position in the bureau, to Prof. Henry C. Adams, of the University of Michigan. Xr. Adams is widely known ns an able and outspoken advocate of free trade. But in his appoinment Mr. Porter carried out his promise to put the very best men he could find in the country for the places for which they were spo- clally fitted, irrespective of politics ar economic views. Superintendent of the Census Porter has cortainly started out well, and if he keops up his record of selecting the most competent men for the work of the eleventh census, thore nced be no carping that it will prove a failure. THE RIGHT OF TRANSIT. The Chinose question has developed a new and interesting feature. This relates to the vight of Chinese to travel ncross the territoryof the United States, and the matter is boing consid- ered by the secretary of the treasury. It appears that the ‘treasury depari~ ment has been informed that the Chi- nose living in Cuba and the West Tndia islands, in going to or coming from their own country, prefer to do so by way of New Orleans and San Francisco instead of by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and an applicction has been mado toallow them to go ncross United States territory. the exclusion act heing held not o apply to such cases, This view is sustained by an opinion of the solicitor of the treasury, who says there is noth- ing buta treasury regulation forbidding Chineso laborers to land in the United States for any pucpose. The mutter possessos interest as an international question, the decision of which will havdly fail to have & more or less important hearing upon our futura relations with China, If the deni of the right of transit by nese, made by the last administ tion, is reafirmed, the Chinese govern- ment may roasonably be expected to regard the discrimination against its peoplo as an evidence of a seated hos- tility to them which self-respect would compol it to resont. Thus far that gov- ernment has manifested no disposition to retaliate on account of the exclusion act, though Chinese mevchants have done so to the detriment of our com- meree with China, but a further evi- dence of American avarsion to the peo- ple of China may move the government of that conntry to tuke notice of the fecling '1n a way that might prove of considerabls damage to us. The fear that in permitting the Chinese to pass through our territory some of them might stop off on the ¢ ought not to weigh against the consideralion of giving further offense to n country with which we are doing an alvoady extensive and profitable trade, that with adequate effort and under the conditions of a just international spirit, such as we show to other countrics, may be increased to one of the leading and most important parts of our foreign commerce. But this is nos the sole consideration. If this country continues to vefuse the Chinese tho rightof transit they cun find their way to and from their own coun- try through Cavnada. British steamers will tuke them from the West Indies to Halifax, the Canadian Pacific will take them to its westorn terminus, and there they will meot a line of steamors plying to Yokohama and Hong Kong. Thus we should force a traflic upon British and Canadian steamship lines to the loss of our own lines, a policy certainly not to be approved on business princi- ples. Besides, the danger of our gete ting some of these Chinese would be hardly less if they went through Canada than if they were al- lowed traunsit through this coun- try. The fact is that Chinese aro con- stautly coming into the United States from British Columbia and Mexico, and no laws or regulations we can make will wholly exciude them. Thero would probably not be in ten years an addition of a hundred Chinamen to the number now in the country, as the re: sult of allowing them the right of transit, particularly under the pro- posed agreement of the carriers to give bond to deliver the same numbper of these pussengers at. the outgoing port as were received at the incoming port. . PUBLIC WORKS. Chairman Balcombe of the hoard of public works contributes an interesting chapter on cement. He discourses learnedly of their velative worth and value and of the manner in which they have stood the testof time in the public works of this city. He throws out broad bints that con- tractors in the past®have taken care to use as little of cement as possible in their work; that they are all sharp, shrewd fellows, up to all the devices, subterfuges and schemes to avoid a full complience with their contract obliga- tions. Now all this and more too is as true as gospel, and Chairman Balcombe has a charming way of telling it in vrint to the taxpayers and citizens of Omaha. But it is well to remind Chairnran Balcombe that the taxpuyer is apt to ask himself why these things should be. Why is it that contractors pull the mnose of the taxpayers and the board of public works- and foist inferior work and material upon this city? Why is it that tne board in the service of the city, know- ing the worthless character of the jobs, approves the estimates of thieving con- tractors and accepts their work. The duty of the board of public works is plain and laid down in black and white, It has the power to make contracts, it superintends all public works, it ap- points the inspectors, approves the esti- mates and accepts the work when com- pleted. Now if it turns out that the chairman of the board of public works himself condemns a8 worthless what is under his charge, what is the taxpayer to think? Let the board see to it that the best materials and work are given to the city of Omaha. Let none but compe- tent and honest inspectors beappointed, and let a tight rein be held upon them ws well as on the contractors, This is what the taxpayer demands, New Mexico will next month elect delogates to a constitutional convention to be held in Soptember, and will re- new betore the next congress her claims to be admitted to statehood. There was a very strong desire on the partof the democrats in the last congress to in- clude Mexico among the territories to be clothed with statehood this year, bus they were unable to show that she was possessed of the necessary conditions of population, resources and materialide- velopment, and consequently adandoned the effort to include New Mexico in the legislature for creating new states. That territory is no better off now, and judging trom the slow pro- gress it has mage as compared with the territories uow prepuring for statehood, it may be ouite ten years, and possibly more, bafore New Mexico will be ready to becorfo a state. The mixed pooula~ tion of the territory, of which Ameri- cans aro in the minority, is a very vital objection, and even were this not in the way the resources and material develop- mont of New Mexico are not suffi- clent to support a state. It is not impossible that congrees may consider the oxpediency of uniting New Mexico and Arizona and admitting them as a state, but there is not the slightest probability that the lormer can come into statohood within the next two years. Tor agricultural buréau has just pub- lished a report of the number of sheep in the United Stutes in January, 1889, as compared with the returns of 1884, Strange ns it may appear, a marked de- cline is shown in every group of states excopt two. There isa falling off of eight millions in the aggregate number of sheep for this year. The exception to the general rule occurs in the group of western states west of the Missis- sippl river, including Colorado and Montana, and in the group of four terri- tories, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Idaho. Nebraska shows n slight ad- vance over 1884, hor sheop numbering three hundred and forty-two thousand. But the greatest increase is credited to Montana and Utah, wheroe the oxtraor- dinary gain of one million sheep in oach of the territogies took place. Nev- ertheless, the showing for the country isnot at all flattering, and indicates that in spite of high protection the wool industry has declined fully fifteen por cent within the past five years. Ir any one imagines that the four ter- ritories soon to bo clothed with state- hood are to be quietly left alone to con- duct their own political affairs this fall he is very much mistaken. Both the republicans and the democrats all over the count taking an unusual in- terest in their affairs and the vepubli- can national committee, ns well as the democratic national committee, are f ful lest tho lambs should ray into the wrong camp. Political tors from both parties will presentiy invade Da- ka Montana and Washington and make the wellan ving. Undoubtedly Montana will be mnde the fierce battle eround where campaign wors Jlike Burrows and Butterworth will meet democrats of like mettle Both agree that Montana state, and it will be a feather ir of republicans1f they can capture the state and make sure of their majori the coming session of congre or TrHkRE ave evidencos that the power- ful copper trust is on the point of dis- solution. isthe combination which keeps the price of copper at tivelve ceats apound when it ean be laid down in N&w York city from the Lalke Superior mines at aboutlive. At any rvate, this would be a fine opportunity to test the acy of the new anti-trust bill of ean, under the laws of which state the copper companies are incor- ting the movement. 5 an ominous silence at the o ship yards concernin cruiser, Ch ston, which dicates that all is nov right with th much-praised muan-of-war. Since he trial teip the vessel has been put into the stocks and numberless defects in her struction roming to view. Whether the faulty plans and spe nished by Seerctary whether the Union lron Francisco are to blame for her to come up to thie require mains to be seen ificarions fur- Wiitney, work Two Foes of the Census, Chicagn Tribune, As adiscourager of the consus the tooth- some Fourth of July picaic ice cream has done its work this year about as well as its more noisy and pretentious colabore pistol. A Common Failure. Kearncy Enterprise An exchauge has n Who Tatked Too Much Jumied.! If everybody who talked too much were jaded it would be uncomfortably hot in the jails this summer. Can Give the Shhh Points, Piltsturg Dispadch, The Shah of Persic is arousing a greavdeal of interest in Europe by deciaring that ho can cut off anybody’s head in his kingdom. If this excites the Kuropeans they ought to get acquainted with C A High Liccnse Steonger Than Ever. Phitadelphia nquirer., ‘There is no danger that any of tho restric- tions of the high license law will be swept away. The whole tendency of popular senti- ment in this state since tho election is to even more effective témperance legislation, and with the aid of the practical people who voted for the prohibitory amendmeat and tens of thousands of those who dii not vote for it we shall be able to strengthon the present sys- em, SERNRGR Y Canada and “the Fourth." Toronto pire. Numerically weaker, but with institutions that promise a freer and more stable future, Canada cannot be indifferent to the loud re- Joicing of ner big neighbor beside her; nei- thor can the lessons which the history of the United States teaches be fignored by our people. The Fourth of July indeed com- memorates the achievement of independence, but much more loudly 1t procluims the tri- umph of unidh over disunion, the possibility of scattered communities being cemented into one compact people. That example is 80 impressive that only thoso will overlook it who do not want Lo learn from experience. i shaw! Chicago News. Pshaw! Hadjo Hassein Ghooly Kahn, Your master's but a mortal man; And though his harem stands in awe Of him, he's nothing but a— Pshaw! O Hadje Husscin Ghooly Khan, The press will joke, my liitle mau, At names as long as moral law, At bulging trousers, and your— Pahaw ! And, though you rage as infauts do, Give up your pap, and hasten to Your Persian master, they'li ha! ha! At Hadje Hasseiu and his— Pshaw! s ke — Probibition in Kansas Indianapolis Jowrnal I'he people of Kausas have tried prohibi- tion some ten yoars or more, and it is not un- her short-comings are due to ! Just to anyone to submit the continuance of such & MoASH® 1o a vote of the people. If it is the suqceds that many afirm, the people will not abandon it; if not, they will. Noth- ing has 80 much contributed to the unrest of the people of that stato as the averments of the prohibitionists themselves. If prohibi- tion is such W law that it cannot be enforoed us other laws, but must have a party behind it 1n order tavits enforcement, the sooner it is abandoned the better, No other law requires such a backing., —— WARM WEATHER WITTICISMS, f s Now York Journal: A canal-boat mule and a boy's &lice both woar out on the tow. New York Jouraal: An actor, like a bil- linrdist, will never make a hit if he forgets his cue, Atchison Globe; The poor man’s summer resort: 'The front porch. Whene'er n printer pianes a fyrm And batters down his fingers, The pain may soon depart, but warm The mallet-diction lingers. New York Journal. New York Epoch: Merritt—How are you getting on with your literary work? Your mother told me you were doing well, but your father said sou were not making much. Tubbs—That's quite true. The editor ac- cepted 50 cents’ worth of my article, but it cost me 75 cents for mailing. From tLe Gerinan in Texas Siftings: For- ester (to old woman): “What are you doing out here in the woods?” Old woman: “I'm just prowling around so that if ‘the master doesn't shoot anything he can say 1 scared the game away." Fliegende Blatter: In the bookstore: “You are looking for novels or poems—per- haps Goethe or Schiller?” “Oh, no poems. My son writes them every duy at home.” Atchison Globe: Man's first insurance against accident—the safety pin. Atchison Globe: We greatly admire a man who can enjoy his own company. Atchison Globe: Some men are like some medicines—for external use only New York Herald: Broughn—I thought you said that big fellow there ran a paper mill. Grean—So I did. Bronghn—- But he wld me himself he was a_profession ist. Grean—He is, but his mills never g beyond paper, New Orleans Picayune: The baker must, work at night to supply the knead of the hour. Washington keep the rhinoc somest beast aflo Raltimore merican: The average man is aptto be tho next thing toa fool whon e gots beside nimsell. Baltimove American: The tenor is neces- above eritivism, for one would only noraues by pronouncing himn a base itic: Tt beauty is only skin ro3 should be the hand- singer. Norristown Herald : sces when h ostlmg with a sovere at- tack of delirium tremens are mot ‘‘wator” sunkes. This is reliable. Glens Falls Republic The schoolboy who was wont'to have is days of learning blonded with doses of shingle remembers the pedagogue us his patterin’ saint. —~ AT JOTTING Nebroska, The Lutherays 6f Davil City are to build a chureh edifics. The Baptist- people of Merna are raising funds to build a church, Harlan ¢buuty teachers’ institute will U AL, cotlmencing August 16, ; Conter,.thougn only. two year 25,000 .in new bul The snakes a man old, ings this olie church at Grand Island was dedica 3 sing ceremonies lust Sunaay. May iilton have begun the pub- lication of the Courier, at Blair, democratic in politics James Cord, ono of the eariiest settlers of Liis home near Lable sk Inst week of consumption, ecn cars of the finest in Salive snipped cnester Mond They averaged 1,500 per head. The store of William Friedel & o, at Dorchester, was burglarized Sunday night, rying off about $200 worth of silk and jewelry, Do Fourth of July oration at Wellfleot was delivered by an Englishman, Dr. Bred- Lpkins, of London, but was very nevertheless, about vilio giris who accused their father of tempring unnatural libenties with them, been sent to the reform school. Two York boys, uged eleven and thirteen yeurs, bicked up on the streets tne Athor day dead drunk. York is a prohi bition town, und who sold the boys liguor is a mystery John Malson. a Phelps county farmer, who was suffering from a combination of noverty, il health and famly troubles, ended his existence last week by hangiog hiwseif in his barn., Tt 1s said that the bridge Y Nicic Foley up tho ghost at t st of a mob is haunted, nd the country people are afraid to cross it ds o Talmage macidne for scalping broken theimpurities ie has five machines s speak of the in- vention in the hizhest terims, A school district near Shickley, in Fill- mote county, is all torn up over the result of the annual school meeting and churges are made that the ballot box was stuffed. There were thirteen voters present, and the two candidates euch received six votes, where- upon the presiding offiver cast the deciding batlot. ‘Three of those present declared they nad not voted at all, and 8o the matter will be carried into co Tom Copock, & worthless devil who lives on the reserve south of Rulo, desertad his wife some time ago and left hor to si 't for herself. Last woek he came back, and when 8he refused to live with bim he vegan 10 beat her and break up the furniture, The 0ld woman stood the abuso for a few minutes, but a8 Copock announced that he proposed to kill her she drew o revolver and landed a bullet 10 his anatemy. The brute is now 1aid up for repairs, miller, has ated w by which ail Town ftems, A vummer school f lunguages has opened av Waverly. ‘The rye harvest i8 in progress in several Towa counties. ' There are 2 Soldiers' home. AMauilla Las twenty men Whose combined weight is two toBs, Dubuque hopes tfsecure 8 wateh factory employing 1,400 auds, Work hus commenced on the now Mothod- 18t church at Ida Grove, ‘The barbors of Sanborn have agreed to closo their shops enSunday. Liquid clay lies-close to the surface at An- amosa and makes {4 dificult 10 put down building foundations. Miss Ella Anderson, a Davenport young lady, while in Cticago, fell down a flight of stars and broke her ueck, A small Boone boy named Eli held s lighted fire cracker in his teeth and 18 now winus a good share of Lis tongue, People living on sugar creek, ubout eight wiles from Keokuk, are considerably fright- ened over the fact that & dog, supposed to be mad, attacked a wan nemoed Frank Gray, Saturday evening, und injured him so bad that it is though! he cau not recover, even if he is not afliicted with Lyhrophobia. Gray was walking in the road at the time the cur made his savige atiack, and was fearfully mutilated, The trustees of Towa colleve at Grinnell, bave elected Johu R. Wightman, Ph. D, Johns Hopkins university, to the professor- ¥hip of modern languages, w0 succeed Prof. Sicord, Tesigned. Also Barbour. & Yalo gradute, to be professor of natural his- inmates in the Marshalltown tory and biol to succeed, Prof. H. W, Harker, resigned, FProf. Barbour was for eight years 1n the Peabody museum, as ant to Prof. Marsh, The adjutant general of Towa has tixed the following dates for the beginning of regi- mental encampments of the national guard, ench encampment 10 _last five days. First regiment, Colonel W. L. Davis, Tuesday, August 30; Second reriment, Colonel P. W, McManus, Monday, August 5; Third regi- ment, Colonel J. G. Galchrist, Tuesday, Au- gust 20; Fourth regiment, Colonel A. G. Stewart, Monday, August 5; Fifth regiment, Colonei G. H. Castle, Monday, August 12; Sixth regiment, Colonel C. W. Boutin, Mon- day, August 12, The places for the camps havo not all beon selected, but the Sixtn reg- iment will camp at Iowa Falls and the Third regiment probably at Newton. A man employed in the Chiongo, Milwau- kee & St. Paul yards, at Dubuque, opsned & box car the other day and discovered a young man, a Hebrew about twenty years old, who seemed exhausted wnd dying. One log and the foot of the remaining one wero off. e said ho was & news agent running on trains until six months ago, when he met with the accident whicii crippled him. He had boen in tho box car for two days without food and water and so weak from the pain his legs ave him and his_hunger that, he was unable o move, and must have died had his Giscov- ery been delayed much longer, DIDN'T SEE THE PRESIDENT. The Brooklyn Navy Yard Commits a Breach of Etiquette. New Yorg, July 9.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bee. erybody at the Brooklyn navy yard was excited yesterday when it be- camo known that the usual nuval salute of twenty-one guns, rccompanied by the man- ning of the yards as requived by law, had been omitted when the government yacht Despatch, with President Harrison, Secre- tary Tracy and other oficials on board, steamed by the Brooklyn station in hroad day: light Saturday. The president’s flag was flying from the main and the vessel's signal numbers were displayed as the Despateh passed Blaokwell’s Island. The look-cut on the receiving ship Vermont and aloag the ordnance wharf did not notice the Despatch as she neared the navy yard, Commodore Rumsay, commandant of the navy yard, first heard of the approach of the Despatch from an old watchman who had been taking a quiet walk along the whart. He noticed the ship coming down the river and rushed up to the commundant's oftice to make his report. Commodore Ram- jumped from his cl d despatehed & enger with instructions to fire the prosi- dent’s statute. ‘The Despateh had passed the navy yard in the meantime and was already beneath the Brooklyn bridge when the fiest gun was fired. 1t was hen deemed best to stop the salute altogether and Commodore Ramsay dispatched an officer in a little steam cutter to apologize to the president. When the cutter caught up with the Des- patch the president wus about to land at the ity depot. He accepted Comuodore and nssured the officer that he had not been looking for auny salute, - A TRIPL AGEDY. A Color:d Man Kills Two Women Prrrsnur - . i the hill district of this city, was tho scene of & triple tragedy this aftevnoon. Richard Lewis, a plasterer, fatally shot Mrs. Elmira i Aot It is said he wanted Mrs, narry him, and he shot her fused to become his wife, Mra. s two children, aged six and ton All'are colored. — - Nebraska and lowa Pensions, WasmiNaro, July 9.—[Special Telegram Bre.]—Pensions ailowed Nebraskans : Origival invalid: Da vart, Chase Puetz, Erasmus Heathman, lins, Hartford Wood, J inm Abel, Orson W Rel Charles B. Bon mes W. MeCloskey. Towa: Original fnvalid— 1. Bacon, M. Young, C. A. Glasgo W. 2. Fordi Joseph son Watkins, 1 inc ard Perry, Michoel L. Jordan, Mathews. Reissue and inal widow, M. Lyons} Ruth, mother of Marcus Humphrey, st The Parncll Commission. Laxpoy, July 9.—Before the Parnell com- mission tc-day Mayne, member of parlia- ment, said he believed in boycotting and would itto the extent of refusing to sell a man the necessaries of life. If he wanted such necessaries he must conform to the viewsof his neighbors aud not endeavor their efforts. nuor, another member of parlia- ment, testitied that he denounced crime, which he regarded as the enemy of the league. He had mno sympathy with moon- lighters and_had no reason to shield them. He declined to apswer a question as o whether ie had not met John Devoy and others in Ircland in 1879, years. Carro, July ices were received nere to-day that Colonel Wodchouse's cav- ccupied the cnmp of the enemy, and found it deserted Dy all except several men, women and children, who were dymg from exhaustion and thorst, cnemy surprised _and k belonging to the Ninth battery. The cments have not yet passed Wad; Haifa. Otner udvices say that Colonel Wode- at Adendan last night with an vptian force, where an cugagement was had with the Dervishes, resulting i a few deaths to cach side A Missourt Murderer Surrenders. S, Lours, July 9.—A Post-Dispateh spe- cial from Springfield, Mo., states that Wil- iam Miles, who killed Sberiff Bronson and Deputy Funk, of Taney county, on the Fourth, surrendered to the stieriff of Greene county this morning at Springfield. He is 10 be tried Monday morning for killing Cap- tain Nat Kinneg, & I3ald inoboer leader. Great excitement provails in l'aney county, and it is feared Miles will be lynched, Lot DN . The Delagoa Say Affair. Lissoy, July 9.—The Portugese directors of the company whose concessions to build the Delagon Bay railway were cancoled by Portugal, have formally protested to the government agamst cancellation of conces- sions. A general meeting of partics inter- ested in the rond will be Leld shortly at which English shareholdors will be present. el Wants to Withdraw Its Answer. BosToN, July 9.~In the United States cir- cuit court to-duy counse! for the Bell Tele- phone company made a motion that the lat- ter be allowed to withdraw its answor i the government suit_instead of o plea. Judge Colt set next Saturday as the time for hear- ing the motion. The court ulso extended, on motion of the district attoraey, for three months from July 15, the time for tak ing the government's testimony, s e Made Sure of It. NEw Youk, July 9.—Albert Orlawski, German aged forty-four, committed suicide to-day. He hanged himself from a transom and then shot himself in the head with a norse pistol. The suicide was o well edu- cated wan. ATl Sleepless nights made miserable by that terrible cough. Shiloh’s Cure is the remedy for you. For sule by Good man Drug Co. B Boodler McQuade on Trial, tox Sra, N, Y., July 9.—An oxura- ion of the court of oyer and terminer, called to sit bere for the trial fo Arthur McQuade, one of the New York boodle aldermen, Wwas opened this morning, R SWirr's S PECIFIC has @ brisk and constant sale with_us, and the universal verdict is, that as & blood medicine it hus no rival. LaNKrorD & TOYMAYN, Druggists, sherman, Texas, e ore Bodies Recovered, Paws, July 9.—Thirty-seven more bodies have been taken from the coal pit at St Etienne, in which the explosion” occurred Last week. NEBRASKA'S BANKING LAW. The Attorney Greneral Explains Its Provistons. RESPONSIBILITY FOR BRANCHES. How Trast Companies are Affected ~The Frankie Curry Caso— Sapreme COourt—Oity News and Notes, 102 P Streer, Lixéory, Fuly 9. Attho requost of the examiners of the banking department of the state, the attor- ney ganorai to-day filed the following opin ions, placing banking law. “'In answer to the many inquiries for a construction of the various sections of the new law, T would most respectfully submit for your guidance my views on the following quostions: “Where a bank is doing business with the necessary capital and has & branch bank fn another locality, and tho branch does & do- Posit business, or buys and sells exchange, or discounts commercial paper and makes & report to tho bank proper every day, such branch bank comes within the law regulat- ing banks, and should be required to make tho regular reports ho banking law was designed as a safe- giard for tha poople, and every corporation, firm or inQividual that transacts a banking Dbusiness, by receiving money on deposit, or buys or sclls oxchange should have a cash oupital, as provided in section 1 of the act, and mao a separate roport. s required, oth orwise great abuse may creep in through such brauch banks. “If the business of the town is sufficient %0 require a branch, it i8 sufficient to require a report from tho brauch, and I am of the opinion that all such branch banks should make the same report as the parent bauk. “In answer to the question asking whether a mortgage and investment company thut saving department in connee- a report the banking law, conditional that company handles real estate, makes loans and deals in commercial paper and securities, 3 would say that 1 am of the opinion that all savings banks should ma he same report required of other banks, e cept the nmount of capital required. Seet 15 excepts savings banks from the provis- ious of section 1 of the act, and as section 1 requires ail banks to hayo property of the cash value therein provided, it is ot neces- sary for savings banks to have such capital, this being the excoption; it is also provided in section 15 that all_savings banks must have, in lieu of the capital stated in_section 1,8 paid up capital of not less than $12,000. ““Then, again, this same section provides that under the torm savings banks shall be included only such banks as do 1 savings business exciusively, paying out money only on prosentation of pass books and certificates of deposit, discounting and buying no cou- wercial paper. “It will be necessary for all such com- panies to have the required cavital as pro- ‘i ion 1 of the banking law. “In answor to the question relating to a loan and trust company making the same report us a bank, 1 would sy that whers the company does not receive deposits, uor by or sell oxchange, or handle commercial paper, it does not come Within the rulo and no report is required. “The law requires s report from every corporation, firm or individual domg n bank- ing bu Where a corporation docs the business the liability of a stockholder is limited to_twice the amount, of stock held by nim, and when an_individual owns the bank, no sueh limited liability oxists, because thers sto Under section 1 of the banking act, tho ue of the property necessary to run & bunlk must. be above all incumbrances, aad in oxcess I liabilities owinz by the cor~ poration, firm or wdividual, and it will bo readily observed that the statement, when made by the corporation, does not include ots or liabilities, but those of the hilo if made by a single individual a bank, the statement must include his individual assots and liabilities; he can not set_apart @ portion of his capital for a Dbank and not subject-the remainder of his property to liability for the debts incurred by him s & banker, and 1 am of the opinion that when a single individual owns a bank, it will be nccessary for him to set forth in his re- port his total liabilities. “Some objection is made to the form of the blank sent out, but the law requires that the report must bo made 1n accordance with the form prescribed by the auditor of state. “As the law was made to protect the peo- vle, it seems 1o me that it is tho duty of the cxuminers to ascertan any liabilities that might affcet the capital of the bank. *Inconstruing section 1, relating to the amount of real estate a bank can carry, 1 will say that all banks in cities of certain population shall have property of the cash value of certuin amounts. This property must be in money or commereial paper, bank furniture and the necessary bank buildings, with the lot or lo which tho samo are built and of the cash value of the amount re- , above all incumbrances thoreon, and s of all liabilities owing by the cor- poration, firm or individual. “The proviso that real cstate, furniture and fixtures shall not constitate more than one-third of the capital, refers alone w the building and lot or lots'on which it staids, as above set forth. “The law money or ¢ LINCOLN BURPAU OF THR OMAmA Ben, } not with to have a bank building to do business in, and _the lot or lots upon which it stands, this exception was made, and one-third of the capital of the bank was allowed for this purpose, and where the corporation, 3fira or individual docs not own the building and lot or lots on which 1t stands, then their capital must be in money or commercial paper und can not be represented by having one-third fn sther real estate, ho language used clearly indicates this; the words are “and the necssary buildings and lot or lots, etc., and as this with the money and commercial puper must repre- sent tho cash value of the capital, no other real estate must be included in the capital. Respectfully submitted, TLLIAM LEESK, Autorney General.” Supreme Court News. The following casos wero flled for trial in the supreme court to-duy : Nebraska National bank vs. Logan & Stanton; Sumuel D. Mercer vs. John L. Miller; John A, Smiley vs. William Ander- son; error from the district court of Douglas 1es of Incorporation, The Kansas City & Beatrice railroad com- pany filed articles of incorporation to-day. Business liconse Trom July 1, 1850, to July 1, 1098, inclusive. The purpose of the corpora- tion 18 to construct and operate a railroad in_southern and westorn Nobraska, with an i te termini, commencing at Beatrice, o county, Authorized capital stook, 1,000,000, Incorporators: Newman Erb, C.'F. Bosturton, A. L. Applewaite and C. J. Jowaty, The American bank of Silney also filed of incorporation, Capital stock, Tncorporators: S. H. urohaw, AL itaymond, George E. Taylom J. J. Mcin: . H. Jowott, C. W, Johuson and L. B, M. A. Hartigan and A. H, Castro, of Hastings, were in the city to-day, Grand Island registered 875,000 worth of bonds to-day. The sum of §25,000 was for a city hall and fail. John Graves was sent w0 the reform school to-duy on the charge of incorrigibility. Al- though but sixteen years old, he has been guilty of divers attewmpts at petty larceny. Preparations for the camp meeting are active st Cushman park. Lhe big tevt and 200 smaller ones are now in place. The initial service will be hold to-morrow. A successful meeting is auticipated. The city dads put an aonual tex of $3 on dogs last evening. Andus, the nan arrested for complicity with Fraukie Curry in the confidence game constraction on the new | vlayed on Ashby & Millspaugh, has boon ¢ chargod, The chanoss aro that Frankio will have to bear the blame alone. A number of Lincoln citizens are still_of the opinfon that sba s a kleptomaniae. She will have her ecamination before tho board ol INSARO com- [ missioners in a day or two. A st TN KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEAL. An Official About Whom Few Poople Know Anything at Al The fact that we have a “lord chan- cellor,” or “‘keoper of the great seal of the United State is probably not gen- erally known, writos a Washington cor- respondent of the St. Louis Republio. His name is Georgo Bar! Ho was born in Virginia, and was appointed to a clerkship in the stato |L-purnm-m. from Virginia by Daniel Webster forty- | threo yenrs ago. He is alittle, with- 1 eved up old man of pleasantly courtoous | manners, as befits a Virginia gentleman | of the old school, but so sccretive, partly by uature and partly by the habit acquired during tho forty-throe yonrs | of confidential service, that none of his fellow-clerks venture to ask him even the time of day without prosenting him with awritten requisition from his su- perior officers authorizing him to give the information. He hassole charge of the great seal of the United States, and the secretary of state himself cannot induce him to unlock the doors which guard that emblem of the country s lib- orties without a formal warrant signed by the president. When the president, the other night, on his return from Cape May, signed the exteadition pa- pers in the case of Martin Burke, the suspect hield in custody in Manitoba, for alleged complicity in the Cronin mur- der, he was both surprised and amused to find that the seal of the United States could mot be put upon the pa- pers without his signing Yormal e rant thevefor. Assistani Attornoy Baker, who was sent on from Chicago to earry back the extradition papers, de- sired to leave on the morning train, But “Lord Chuncellor” Bartle was ob- tho seal if tho president signed the warrant provided by statute, but not otherwise. He pro- duced an engraved document veading as follow: “I hereb; authorfze and direct the sceretavy of state to canso the seal of the Urited States to be affixed to — <=, dated this day and signed by me, and fow doing so this shall bo his war- rant.” As soon ns the president had signed that warrant the extradition papers were completed by the affixing of the great seal, but not before. The present seal of the United States was made by Tiffany & Co.,of New Y ork, after the design of Mr. Dwight,formerly 1.brarian of the state department. It is the fourth of the series and is a model o! construction and excellence. It de- piets the American eagle, holding n each claw asheaf of thirteen arrows and surmounted by a circular wreath inclos- ing thirteen stars, corresponding to the original states and encirclod by the motto, “E Pluribus Unum.” It 18 mounted upon a massive block, and is so admirably constructed mechanically that the slightest turn of the screw will de- velopall the pressure requived. The cost was over $1,000. The original seal of the United States 1s still preserved in the department. It is inartistic in de- sign and crude and clumsy in oporution. Tt was superseded by a second seal,more nearly appronching that now in use,but smaller in size. This, it wore out, guve way to a third, which was used for anumber of vears before the fact was discovered that the eagle, by inadvert- ence, had been given ouly seven arrows 1n 1ts claws, instead of thirteen. This defect has been remedied in the pres- ent seal, o The White Dragon tn China, Chinese superstition is illustated by the following story from a native paper at Sie-fu in Kiangsi: *'A white dragon was secn April 12, Dragons like water, and it had rained since about the mid- dle of March straight on, gnding thut day in & most tremendous hail storm, which smashed in the roofs of a good many of the country people’s huts about their oars. Suddenly a powerful fishy smell beeame porceptible, and people coming in from the fields reported the presence of a huge creature, extending about two mow (about a third of an acre), disporting itself by wrggling and squirming in a pool of water. The next day a few people ventured out to see it. It was quite white, with scales two feet insize,with horned head,claws, and a long tail, just as represented in pictures. 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