Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 23, 1889, Page 4

AT XV PRET GOREPING [ TS AT s ———————— i —— en L R L T TR PRV, T T THE OMAHA DAILY ROSEWATER, Editor. i = FUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, » f‘ly Morning Edition) including Sunday tee, Onie Y ear. vowss o For orThr ee Months. .. tie Omahs Sunday Be addyess, One Year - Weekly Hee, One Year . 3 Omana Office, Beo butlding, N, W, Beventeenth and Farnam Stroets, Chlcago Office, b7 Rookery Buflding, New York Oftice, Rooms 14 and 1y Tribune Building. Washington Office, No. 513 Fourteentn Street. COR INDENCE, All communications relating to nows and edi- torial matter should bo addressed to the Editor of the lee. BUSINESS LEITERS, A1l business letters and remittances should Dbo addressed to The Ilee Publishing Company, Omahn _Drafts, checks and postoflice ovders 10 bomade payablo 1o the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. Ber Building Farnam and Seventeenth Sts, _— THE DAILY BE €worn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | Georgo I, Tzscauck, secs Publishing Company, does solemnly swear thit the actual eirculation of Tiik DAILY g for the week ending July 20th, 1559, was as totlows: Sunday. July 14 Monday, Juiy 15 Tuesday, July Wednesday, Jn Thursday, July 13 Friday, July 1. . Baturdiy, July 2 miled Vo any £ yof The Dee Average GE Sworn to before me and savscribed to in my presence this 0th day of July, A. D. 1850, [Seal.] P. FEIL, Notary Publio. Btate of Nebraskn, i County of Douglas, | %% George R, 'Tzschiick, being duly sworn, ‘de- gl)!ml and says that he 18 secretary of The loe ublishing company, that the actunl average daily" circnlation of THE DALLY BER for the month of June, 1888, 10,242 coples: for July, 1888, 18,(3) coples; for August, 188, 18,183 coples; for Keptember, 1888, 15,174 copies; for October, 1888, 8084 coples: for November, 1585, 18,04 coples; Tor Decenber, 188, 14,225 coples; for January, 189, 1%, les; for Febraary, 1880, 18,996 caples: for March, 194, 1864 coples; for 80, 18,650 copies: for May, 1840, 18,69 GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. 8worn to pefore me and subscribed in my [Seal.] " presence this ord day of June, A N. P. FEIL, Notary Public, THE paving now rule the streets. gangs A NATURAL gas trust is now an- nounced. Of course it is an inflated concern. A NEW railroad bridge spanning the Missouri river at Omaha can be seen in the mirage of the Gate Ci COUNTY TREASURER BOLLN'S semi- anoual report of the condition of Douglas county finances is a very satis- factory exhibit. IowA's gubernatorial canvass s likely to blow both hot and cold, and to reveal a number of unexpected sur- prises before the fall election takes place. MANITOBA reports a surplus yield of thirty-two million hels of wheat. ‘With such a dowry Manitoba should be invited to come into the union without further delay. NO one can read the encouraging re- ports of the prosperity and growth of the cities and towns of interior Ne braska without feeling just pride in the greatness of this te. THE highways of Nmerican newspa- trewn with the debris of inflated concerns steered by visiona- ries who were trying to lift themselves over the fence by their boot-straps. Wity cannot the county commission- ers invest the $42,000 now on hand in railrond sinking funds, in interest bearing city or county secuvities, or better still, if possible, redeem some of the outstanding raiiroad bonds? NoTHING very elaborate can be ex- pected this season from the park com- mission. With the limited funds at its disposal, and the narrow scope of its authority toacquire park and boulevard grounds, the commission is handicapped in every direction. Ler the council go slow in awarding the contract for street lighting for the next five years. With two competitor: in the deld, there is no reason why thi city should not be uble to male very satisfaclory terms as to price, quality and quantity of light to be furnished. A CHICAGO jury has just acquitted two attendants of the Cook county in- sane asylum charged with the murder of an inoffensive inmate. The verdict, however, should not be interpreted as # vindication of the course of brutal kecpers. It does not give the members of that craft a license to maltreat pa- tients with impunity, and an example sbould be made of one of them at. the wory first offense, You can run a locomotive on extra high pressure at seventy miles an hour, and run the risk of “‘busting” the boiler, followed by a general smash-up. You can boom the circulation of a paper by giving away thousands of copies on trial, und selling them below cost. You can stimulate your cash receipts by playing o confidence game on credulous patrons who are willing to pay for a yeur in ad- vance at half-price. But such high- pressure financiering is just as sure to end in a wreck as if a banker were to pay ten per cent to depositors and loan at eight per cent. THE announcement at Chicago that the [llinois Steel company has decided to go into the business of building steel veesels for employment in lake co m- merce is evidence that the lake traffic is noton the decline. The railroads to the seaboard from Chicago have for the last twoor three years recognized the lake route as a powerful competitor. Now that new and swift steamers are to be builtand equipped with sll modern appliances and equal to the ocean steamships in rating, there is little question but that the rivalry between rail and water routes will be intensified. It has been demonstrated already that with the present steamship service be- tween Chicago and Buffalo freight can bo carried fully as rapidly s by rail at from one-half to one-third the cost. It remains to be seen what can be effected in anpihilating time and diste nce when the new fleet of steel vessels will be put in Lo commission. NO CAVSE FOR ALARM. The secretary of the treasury has given a mensure of reassurance to the business interests of the country by the doclaration that he sees no cause for alarm as to the immediate future of the money market. From the fact that the offer of the department to buy sonds at figures regarded by the secretary as liberal is accepted to only a very moder- ato extent, he concludes that money is not tight, or, at any rate, that the sup- ply is quite equal to the demand. A similar view is expressed by the comp- troller of the currency, who does not consider the financial situation at present as threatening. The small offerings of bonds he accepts as evi- dence that there is plenty of money, and evidently relies upon improved of- ferings when the money is needed in business, Itisto be borne in mind, however, that the bondholders are not the persons who want money. But despite the opinions of the treas- ury officials, who it must be granted have superior opportunities for know- ing the condition of the money market, theroare indications that before the fall business is far advanced, it it shail prove to be as active as hoped for, the treasury may be called upon to help the money market. Gold is still going abroad, and the strong proba- bility is that the outflow will continue for some time, the rescrves of the New York banks ave low, and re- porte from some of the trade centers of the west show that money is working Bloser. These are conditions which, manifestinz themseives at this period of the r, pointto the possibility of a monetary squeeze two months hence. It is teue that the disbursements of the government are on a liberal scale, and ave likely to continue so for at least an- other month, but it is by no means cer- tain that these will be sufficient from this source to keep the money marlct in a healthy condition in the event of a largely increased business demand for money. As to the policy of the treasury it is evident that the present intention of the secretary is not to offer any better terms for bonds. *We dare not go to work,” he says, “‘and offer a price fur in excess of their value so as to induce the people to sell their bonds to the govern- ment, the price which we are now pay- ing being all that they are worth.” Obviously only an extreme exigency will enable the bondholders . to get higher prices from the government than are now offered. The secretary hus also plainly said that he is opposed to increasing the deposits of government money with the banks, and will not do 50 unless instructed by congress. Such instruction is mot likely to be given in view of the attitude of the re- publican party on this matter. The secratary is equally averse to increas- ing the purchase of silver, and undoubt- edly can not be induced to do so without action by congress. The country is thus fully informed of what may be ex- pected of the treasury in its relations to the money market, so long, at least, as the conditions do not vary materially from those now existing. The policy in all respects is manifestly to be one of rigid conservatism. AN IMPORTANT NEW RULING. The ruling of the secretary of the in- terior regarding timber culture entries is rather more of a reflection upon his predecessors at the head of the depart- ment than upon the commissioner of the land office, whose mistaken and unjust ruling, so far as it was retroactive, has been sot aside. In permitting the de- cision of Commissioner Sparks, which was coatrary to the practice of the de- partment and obviously wrong, to stand, Lamar and Vilas were both derelict, and the injury that has been done to a very large number of persous who had made entries and had fully com- plied with the requirements of the law and the long-prevailing practice of the departinent, the secretaries of the interior under the Cleveland adminis- tration are mainly responsible for. If they ever gave any attention to the matter, and they certainly had the opportunity to do =o, it would seem that the desire to do something contrary to the policy under republican administra- tions was stronger than the demand for justice to the farmers of Nebraska and other states who had made timber cul- ture entries and fulfilled all the condi tions required before the time of Com- missioner Sparks’ ruling. The action of Secretary Noble is 60 obviously just and proper that it must be universally approved. It sim- piy recognizes the principle that what has been done in good faith,and in con- formity with law and practice, must stand. Under this ruling all persons who bad perfected timber culture en- tries in compliance with the construc- tion of the iaw before the order of Com- misssioner Sparks was made, in June, 1887, may now secure patents, and the number who will be benefitted by this privilege is large. Entries mada sub- sequent to the order of Sparks wiil be subject to its requirements, thus accept- ing the construction of the law that en- tries should date from the time of final planting aud tree growth, VIRGINIA REPUBLIC ANS. The factional strife awmong Virginia republicans appears to have come to an end. For some time the represonta- tives of the warring wings of the party in that state have been seeking recog- nition from the administration, but President Harrson, adbering to the purpose he early announced of discoun- tenancing factional conflicts in the party, has consistentlyrefused to recog- nize either faction in Virginia, There was a report some time ago that he was inclined to favor the Mahone wing, but there is no ovidence of any such par- tinlity, all the wndications and the result showing that hisinfluence hasbeen used to bring the factions together and ren- der the union satisfactory and harmoni- ous. Those who are familiar with the bitter hostility that has existed between the Mahone and Brady wings of the res publican party in Virginis will under- stand that the task of uuiting them was no easy oo The causes of controversy between the factions it was mutually agreed should be submitted to the arbitration of five wembers of the republican uational executive cumitiee. This resulted in | of the cail an agreement under which General Ma- hone has called a state convention to be held August 22, the provisions being framed so as to remove the causes of com- plaint of past unfair methods preferred by the Brady wing. Senator Quay ex- pressed the beliel that the reconcilia- tion effected 18 honest and will thor- oughly unite the party. Republican success in Virginia was, of course, wholly out of the question so long as the party was split into factions warring more bitterly against each other than either did against the common enemy, and republicans everywhere will be gratified that the differences have been harmonized and the party reunited. But there are a great many republicans who would regret to see General Mahone again prominent in the councils of the repub- lican party. The disaffection in Virginia was wholly due to his unfair methods and discreditable prac- tices, as virtually admitted by the mem- bers of the national committee in con- ceding nearly all that was asked by the anti-Mahone faction for its protection, and such a man the party cannot afford to honor with its confidence. Mahone may have been sincere in seeking to unite the republicans of Virginia, but a long period of honest and straightfor- ward political conduct on his part will be necessary to remove the suspicion that there is a wholly selfish design m ovory thiag he does, to effect which no means he might deem nevcessary could be teco unworthy for him to use. It would indeed be most fortunate if Vir- ginia could be republican without Ma- hone in the ascendant. A WATERWAYS CONVENTION. A convention to discuss the qaes- tion of national provision for improv- ing the waterways of the country, and also to considor proposed new lines of water communication, will meet at Superio! Wisconsin, on the 6th of mext month. It is sugeested that the old danger of mis- placed energy, which has impaired the usefulness of previous similar con- ventions, is likely to injure the work of the coming convention. It is to be ap- prehended that the usual number of more or less impracticable projects will be urged upon the attention of the Superior convention, with the effect of wasting its time, and in so far as such projects obtain its countenance and support, reducing the value of its deliberations and ex- pressions. There are unquestionably among the schemes for extending the means of water communication some that are judicious and d ble, but there are others whiech are annually pressed upon the attention of conven- tions and of congress which are wholly without merit, and which if rried out would simply be an annual drain upon the national treasury without doing a service anywhere near proportioned to the cost. To separate the meritorious from the worthless will be an important duty of the Superior convention, and one necessary to be done in order that what is accomplished shall have its due weight with the public and upon con- gross. Improvements that ave clearly practicable and necessary should alcie receive the attention of the Superior waterways convention. Meantime it may be interesting to note that the indications are there will be a demand upon the next congress for unprecedented appropriations for river and harbor improvements. The estimates of engineer officers already handed in contain some items which serve to furnish an idea of the scale on which the next river and harbor pro- ject will be constructed. Such money-eating schemes as those at Sabine Pass and Sundy Bay will make the usual annual demand, and a number of lesser ‘ones with no greater morit are booked for sums ranging from twenty thousand to half a million dollars. Perhaps no government was ever guilty, in a mat- ter of this character, of greater folly and waste than our government is chargeable with 1n the millions that have been expended in such worthless and unwarrantable improvements as those at Sabine Pass azd Sandy Bay, the one in Texas and the other some- where on Cape Ann. There is scarcely any commerce going through the former, and the only excuse given for the waste of public money on the latter is that it will be a harbor of refuge. But these are only two of many examples which every river and harbor bill contains of congressional reckless- ness with the public money in this direction. It is not probable that the next congress will show any improve- ment, in this particular, over its prede- cessors. — WHATEVER contempt disgruntled politicians may aflect toward the civil service commission, President Harri son has given no greater proof of his fidelity toward his pledges to the people than by his approval of the action of the commissioners at Indianapolis and other cities. The civil service commis- sion compelled the postmaster of Presi- dent Harrison’s home to dismiss three republican clorks who had been illegally appointedand to put in gheir place three democrats who were on the elig ble ligt. InTroy the ggommission de- manded the re-examination of some republican clerks who had not fairly passed the civil (service examination. In Milwaukee the postmaster was quickly brought to a sense of his duty. The president heartily supported the commissioners through their trying or- deal to force the observance of the civil rvice laws on recalcitrant postmasters, Encouraged by this manifestation of good will, the commissioners will pro- ceed in their work, It will s00n dawn upon the spoils hunter that civil service reform s an estublished fact. Wuerner the man Kemmler, the Buffalo murderer, is to suffer death by hanging or by electricity is as yet an uncertain question. It will be remem- bered thut the criminal appealed from the sentence of death by the electrical process on the ground that the punish- ment is cruel and uonatural. The bur- den of evidence before the board of inquiry constituted for the purpose would seew t0 iudicate that electricity | redr is anything but a merciful substitute for hanging. Unless death be instantan- eous, it is shown by experts that oloc- trical execution may be excruciating, and thereforo cruel and unnatural. Of course, testimony diffors on this point. 1t is maintained by some that denth would be paftitess and instantaneous if a current of tho proposed strength were pussed through the human body. The evidenceof others was to the effect that the killing pognt of the electric current was ot fixed, but a varying quantity depending upln the resisting power of the victim, It is moreover maintained that if a current of great strength be passed through a subject and ho be not killed by the shock, the effect would be to burn the man, to char him like a plece of charcoal. In the face of this evidence, where considerable doubt expresspd as to the nature of a shock in causing o painless and certain death, the board of inquiry will be likely to weigh well whether it be not cruel and unnatural to dispatch a human being by a method whose power to kill is uncor- tain, and whose currents would entail indescribable torture unless death be instantancous. KANSAS C'1Y business men claim to have learned the secret of success with reference to the question of freight rates by which that city has been made a great commercial center. It lies in the fact that the jobbers have an under- standing among themselves to stand in with each other in all matters of ship- ment. The jobbers of Kansas City patronize those roads which favor them, and do not play' fulse to each other by one obtaining unjust ad- vantage and discriminating favors over the others. Omaha may well profit by Kansas City’s example. It is well known that the shippers and jobbers of this city have not been fair in their dealings with each other. There are firms and houses which are granted un- due advantages to the detriment of the business community. They have been a stumbling block to all, and overy effort made to correct the abuses, and have thrown cold water whenever a project was ripe to bring the railroads to terms. The very fact that the whole- sale houses of this city are obliged to haul freight to Council Bluffs destined for western shipment in order to secure reduced rates is self evident that a screw is loose somewhere in the trans- portation problem. The welfarc of this city, therefore, demands that the busi- ness commuynity come together and take a stand 1fke that of the business men of Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneap- olis and othercdmmereial cities for fair and impartial treatment at the hands of the railroads. —— THE decision of the district court affirming the'validity of the consolida- tion of the cable and horse car compa- nies dnd removing various legal hin- drances from their path is a subject for congratulation. In the first place it clears the way for the prompt extension of cable and viectric roads on several of our principal streets. So long as the title of the consolidated roads to their franchises was assailed, extension was impossible and the avenue of eastern capital was Blocked. The motor com- pany, which has been managed with consummate ability from its headquar- ters, was a vicious flanker both in the courts and on the streets and a victory in the last suit would have proved a Waterloo to the consolidated lines. Judge Doane’s decision, fortunately for the city as well us for the consolidated company, will permit a prompu exten- on of existing lines and the construc- tion of several new ones. The publicis assured that ten miles of cable and electric roads will be at once begun. South Omaha will be connected by rapid transit with this city. Farnam street will be cabled and Fort Omaha will be bought within a short time distance of the postoffice. Three quarters of a million of dollars will be at once ex- pended; a large part of it among Omaha workingmen. When these plans are put into exccution Omaha, with her cable, two electric roads and various connecting horse railway lines, will have the most complete rapid transit system of surface roadsof any city of her size in tne country. THERE is a little clause 1n the char- ter of the Northern Pacific railroad to the effect that 1ts right of way shall be exempt from taxation within the terri- tories of the United States. The ques- tion now cracking the wise heads of the constitutional convention of North Da- kota 1s whether the exemption con- tinues beyond the life time of the terri- tory or dies the moment it becomes a sovereign state, If left to the decision of the people the answor would not be long forthcoming. But if the query is to be submitted to twelve lawyers with corporation tendencies, heaven only knows what their opinion would be. I is a question often asked, when will the four new ssates be legally clothed with full statehdod! As the elections for state officers take place October 1, the president’s proclamation can be issued immediately nftér the election returns have been canyassed and certified to by the returning officers. The new con- gressmen shotild beable to present them- selves at Washiugton for recognition not later than the a8t week of October, and in the event of ah extra session could stop into theirseats immediately. ————— Mi. POWDEBRLY, in an address issued to the workingmen of Pennsylvania, again calls upon the wage-workers to ess their grievances through the power of the ballot box. If the work- ingmen of this country follow Mr, Pow- derly’s advice and use their ballots in the cause of good government and good laws, they nold in their grasp the key to correct the abuses to which they are subjected under corporate and political greed ; The Correct Thing in Suicides, Chicago Tribune, Fashions for suicide this year are more elaborate and expensive than ever befora. —— Disgraceful lcal Bulldozing. New York Press. Nothing in our political history is more disgraceful than the former prostitution of the public service te machine politics by the cowmpulsory, bulldozing sssessment of ofice- EE: TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1889 holders by officeholders for offioehold e and when congress made it a ponal offense it was doing everlastingly right, and doing it because an overwhelming majority of thoughtful citizens insisted that this great wrong should be broken up, —e. Pentecost's Prascription, Chieago Times, Hugh O. Pontecost believes that a revolu- tion in this country every ten years or so would greatly strengthen the republy. Mr. Pentecost doesn't know it, perhaps, but there is the making of a fine medical expert in him, P — An Awful Peril Averted. Pittshurg Dispateh, The Associated Press dispatches are now trumpeting with great gusto the fact that the railway combinations havo rallied to the defonso and promptly preserved the country from the peril of getting its grain transport ed to theseaboard at choap rates. — - The Dakoto Wheat 8t, Paul Pioncer-Press. The Pioneer-Press, after a protty soarch- ing investigation extending through several months, finds that the condition of affairs in Dakota is rather favorable than otherwise, and that it is 8o regarded by all who are not particularly interested in bulling wheat, ki I They Mean Well, but Don’t Know, Ainneapolis Tribune, Tt does mot strengthen the cause of tem- perance to denounce tho republican party, whether it supports or opposes prohibitory legislation. The great majority of the ro- publican party are sincere and weli-meaning people, and it is a pity that. they apparently are determined to disregard alike tho coun- sels of common-sense and the plain lessons of experience, WESTOP -/ SR Liet Congress Do 1ty Duty. o Philadciphia Telegreph. If congress can b induced by the country to repeal the duty on sugar it can get it as cheaply here as in England, or from one- third to one-half less, and it can let these trust and non-trust plunderers go hang. This and a good many other trusts formed to make viotims of tho publi exist only by tha sufferance of congress—a sufferanco which should end before the next session is o month old. p is Al right. TR R CLEVER WOMEN. The belle of the royal famiiy is said to be Princess Victoria of Teck. Mrs. Henry George is a Roman Catholie. Her only sister is a sistar of charity i Louls, Annie Louise Cary Raymond has grown very stout since her retirement from the con- cert stage. Mrs. Mary J. Holmss, the. Amercan nov- clist, is in Italy, whero she is gathering ma- terial for a new story. The descondants of Rebecea Nourse, who was hanged as a_witch in had 8 re- union in Danvers, Mass., Monday. Dr. Mary Walker announces that she is willing to accept the consulate at Valparaiso 80 haughtily spurned by Rosw G. Horr. The duke of Portland has been induced by his wifo to devote all his past and future carnings on the turf to tho erection and en- dowment of almshouses. Mrs, Emma D. E. N. Southworth, who has lived to write and publish forty-five novels, resides at Yonkers, and is engaged in filling orders for serials and sketches. Christine Nilsson may never sing in publi again. During a recent illness in Paris she was troubled with deafness and 10ss of mem- ory, from which she has not yet recovercd. Miss Juliet Corson, the well known teacher of cooking, is a hopeless invalid, and writes with a portable desi fastened before her. She is confined to her bed most of the time, The widow of John C. Heenan, once the American champion slugger, still lives in re- tirement atSan Francisco. She is an actress, and is known chiefly by her stage name,Sara Stovens. Tho woen of Boston havo named a com- mitte of fifty to carry on the plans of taking the city schools out of politics and sectarian interforence, and managing them for the public interest alone The Princess Louise, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, will receive a vast number of magnificent wedding prosents. The Rothschilds will give her a diamond and ruby necklace worth $20,000. Princess Clementine has made a good match for her granddaughter, the daughter of Archduko Joseph. Prince Thurn and Taxis has a ycarly rent roll of $1,600,000, and is the nephew of the empress. Mus. Ashton Dilke manages to take care of a houschold, run a newspaper, discharge the duties as & member of the London school board, and has on hand a scheme to defeat the wiles of certain French legislators. Miss Elizabeth Greenwood, of Brooklyn, the bible reader and lecturer and president of the Women's Christian Temporance “union on the hill,” has gone to Europe for the summer. The members of that union held ameoting before sho started and pre- sonted her with élegant gifts, Her state- room was flowers, and crowds of ladies waved her adieux as she sailed away for a long rest in England. e N STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Ericson is soon to have a hotel. The Gordon Odd Fellows will give a grand ballon the evening of Aug. L. The sub-alliances of Sherman county have formed a county farmer's alliance. ‘The First National bank of Wayne will erect a commodious building in the spring. The voters of Randolph have unanimously decided in favor of issuing $2,800 bouds for waterworks. Joe Gilchrist, of Benkelman, ran his arm through a pane of glass, severing an artery, and nearly bled to death, The O'Neill Frontier entered its tenth year last week in a healthy condition and with prospects for o long and useful life, The premium List of the fourth annual fair of the Dawson County Agricultural associa- tion, which will be held at Lexington, Sep- tember 24, 25, 26 and 27, has been issued. Mrs, A. M. Gaunt, # Culbertson lady, was struck by & fiying board during a recent wind storm and had ber left arm broken and was otherwise badly injured. Her life was de- spaired of for several days, but it thought she will recover, The Nebraskan says the members of Hast: ings post, G. A. R., are in uearty sympathy with the efforts being made to get the next national encampment at Owmaha—~the most centrally located city, so far as the soldier pobulation is concerned, in the union. The fourth annual reunion of the Repub- lican Valley Association of Soldiers a 1 ors will be lield at Camp Sherman, betwesn Hardy, Neb, and Warwick, Kan., Aug 21,22'and 23" Gireat preparations have been mada for the eveut, aud many prominent Grand Army speakers will bs present from abroad. is now 1owa Items. Milk fever is killing cows in Class county. The wife of an Early parson arives the fastest horse in that town, and last weck . Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. When Baby was sick, we gave her Cestoria. When she wes o Child, she cried for Castoria, Wiien she became Miss, sho clung to Castoris, Whzn shioha! Ckildros, she geve then Castoria distanced two of the brothren who tried to pass hor on the road. The Lyons paper mill will not be rebuilt and the peoplo are indignant. Crawford county votes next month on the question of building a £50,000 court house. A recent raid on the Wellsburg saloons re- sulted in a hanl of a big lot of intoxicants. The Southwest Towa Piremoi's assnciation will hold its annual tournament at Creston September 5. A woman has just gona out of the milli business in Toledo after a continuous of thirty yoars. Rev. Mr. Gavitt, who is still living, preached tho first’ Methodist sormon at Davenport fifty years ago. ‘o half million bushels of corn along the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northorn road have commenced to bo moved to market. William Langbridge, formerly a represen tative from the Sixth district i congress. now a physical wreck from repoatea attac of paralysis and s attompting to recupor: in a sanitarium in Pensylvania. _Chorokee has now one of the sian well in tho state, At a depth of 180 feot a flow has boen obtained which will when confined to the height of about twelve feet above the surface of the ground. A peculiar caso is working its way through the courts at Burlington, in which Richard Brown and Maggie Van Valkenberg, a board- ing house mistress of Sioux City, are the principals, Tho lady claims that Brown hoarded at her house four months and never settled for it. Hrown swears he never lived in Sioux City and never saw Mrs. Van Valkenborg, who, with her sister, swear pos- itively that ho was the man who' contracted the dabt. ~ Monntime Trown is 1 Jail await: ing further court procoedings. finest arwe Beyond the Rookies. Helena, Mont., is glutted with counterfeit money, principally $10 bi There is every indication that the rrass and hay crop will be a failure in most of the val- of Montana. wenty sea lions were captured recently near Santa Barbara, Cal., and shipped to Chi rom where they will bo sent to Pari The mine and miil_men have held a meef ing i Virginia City, Nev., to protest against the ranchers “logging” the Carson river water, and steps were taken to prosecute trespassers. The Mormons at Salt Lake City have be- come thoroughly disheartened over their ro- cant defeat at the polls, and their leadors are vainly trying to rally them for the Augnst clection. The indications now are that the gentile majority of a week ago will be doubled in August The nssessment roll of Los Angeles, Cal,, has been finished, and shows a total value of about $44,000,000. The nsseasor was orderod to bring the amount to §50,000,000, 80 as to OF: the government under the §1 limt, present figures stand every department will be put on short rations next year, In tho district court at Carson, Nev., the trial of Giuseppi Berni, aceused of the Iilling of an Italian Iast May, eamo to a sudden end- ing. At the opening 0f the court Judge Ed- wards, counsel for defendant, offered to withdraw the vlea of not guilty and pload guilty of murder in the secoud dngree, which was accopted. Surveys are soon to be made for the grand irrigation system near Minnedoka, in Cassin county, Tdaho, Snake river is to' bo raised by n dam thirty-three foet high, and canals will be taken out on both sides to 1rr ato 100,000 acres of land, and will also furnish water for placer mining. The cost will be about $100,000, George Nutting, sheep inspector of Crook cotaty, Oregon, has been missing for several weeks, and fear's are entertained that ho has been murdered, He started on foof, several weeks ago 1o visit a large sheep camp beyond Pinevitle for tho purposeof inspecting sheep, but never reached the camp and has not been Heard of since, ARG T DAKOTA'S GRAIN CROP. 1t Will ve Only a Quarter Yield at the Best, Owing to Drougnt, George Dorrington, traveling passenger agent of the Missouri Pecific, has retnrned from an extended trip through the Dakotas. Speaking of the grain crcp outlook in that territory, he said: *In the southwestern portion of both states the crop is an abso- lute failure. The grain is about cight mches in heignt, headed out, and has no berry to speak of. In the Red river valley, the prin- cipal grain belt, the yield will not agregate 60 per cent of a full crop, North of Aber deen the crops are better, and the yield there will be about 75 per cent. ln the | course ther burned up, no rain_ having fallen in that soction for months. Yos, the people up there are 1n bad shape and will require aid {n ordor to survive, ‘The ontire crops of Dakota, including tho sections not visted by drouth, will ot bo_over a yield of 25 per cent. In Nobraska the crops appeared moro encouraging and in the southern por- tion of the state the yield will bo heavier than it has been for yoars, The City Must Ante, Vico Prosidont olcomb, of the tnion Pa- cific, when questioned s to what would be done regarding the building of a Union dopot fu case the city should refuse to build the viaduct, said: *'I cannot say what would be done, as this would be a matter for the exceutivo committea of both companies to decide. In my own individual opinion, the company would not construct the depot un- Joss the city gives the required bonus, Of 18 1o need of a union depot un- 1088 w acquire the Tenth stroet territory for terminal purvoses, The running of nu. merous trains would endanger the lives of sle who would be compelled to cross its southwest portion the. farmers will not harvest the crop, which 1s fairly ) tracks on the surtaco, Hence, it a depot for the purpose of allowing the lowa lines accoss to Omaha be constructed a viaduct is abso- lutely ro Not on Account of the O, R. O, Several conductors on the B. & M., run ning trains out of Nebraska City, have been discharged within the past week. In con- nection with their discharge a report was set aflont to the effect that the action was taken by the company on account of the parties dishargod being meinbors of the Order of Ralway conductors. General Manager Holdrege, when _questioned concerning tho mattor, “The Burlington company has discharged no conduotor simply because ho was a member of the Order of Railway con ductors. The superintendent discharged the conduct at Nebraska City for some other cause, but just what the cause is T am not prepared to state, as he has made no report of it to me. Tf the Order of Railway conductors had anything to do with bringing about thoir dischargo I would be aware of it." The Kikhorn Wreck. Owing to the wreek near Norfolk on the Elkhorn Valley rond trains on that lino are temporarily suspended and through trains were ran via the Albion line. General Suporintendent Hughes and General Manager Burt will visit the sceno and ascortain if the trainmen wore inany way at fault either in rounding the curve at a too high rate of speed or not having examined their train to sco that 1o defects existed. Will Not Build to Hutchinson. Vice President Holcomb, of the Union Pacific, has written the committee which was sent here from Hutchinson, Kan., for the purpose of inducing the Union Pacifio to build to that point, that the latter will not do any building in_Kansas this year, and that while it has'a friendly feeling toward the people of Hutchinson the matter of a Line to that point cannot be entertained at present. Railroad Notes, Vico-President Holcomb, of tho Union Pa- cific, has returned from Deénvor. Superintendent Resscauie, of the Union acific has gone to Munhattan, Kan G. W. Loomis, chief clerk in the general manager's department of the B. & M., has gone south. Engnes 716 and 925, of the Union Pacific, have been turned outof the shops for servico on the maia line. General Hawley, genecal-attorney of the Elhorn, has gone' 10 Duluth. His family accompunied him. J. H. Goodman, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, passed through route east, accompanied by his famiiy. Assistant General Superintendent Olin, of the Milwaukee road, accompanied by his famity, passed dhrough Omaha en route to Jnder the new time-card the morning pns- senger on the Fremont, Ellchorn & Missouri v loaves Omaha at 8:40 o'clock instesd of at a, m. as before. Compulsory Charity. H. Ohling, » pamter, living at 2023 Seward street, while on his way home at 11 o'clock Sunday night, found himsclf looking into the depths of a shotgun iu_the hands of a stranger at the corner of Twenty-ninth and Seward. was in financial dis- tress and wanted refiof. Ohling contributed &2, all of the change he had with bim, and was allowed 10 go on home, THE MANAGEMENT OF DOGS. Editor American Sportsman: ._. I was much pleased and greatly interested in the article on the dog and their management that appeared in the SrorrsmaN from the pen of Mr, Hugh Dalziel, To advance the growth and beautify the coat, he adviscs the use of cocoanut oil, readers and lovers of the dog know that there is within their r amore simple and easier obtained article and at fz answers the same purpose of the oil, Right. But do your many ch less expense, that This is nothing more nor less than Ivory Soap manufactured by Procter & Gamble, of Cincinnati, 1 have used it for many years and far superior to anything I have ever used in my kennel, ing setters I have never found its equal, wonderful, and for sores and eruptions of any kind invaluable. find it for all practical purposes For wash- Its healing propertics are It leaves the skin soft and clear, furnishes life to the coat, produces a beautiful growth of feather and leaves it smooth and glossy’ and free from harshness. is the best. use of oils, eggs, etc. or indirectly, have never met, nor urers kennel purposes I have ever used, Kilbuck Kennel A WORD OF I use it with lukewarm This forms a rich, oily lather, and helps loosen all stubborn scales and blotches of the skin, condition for show purposes it is first-class, a: 1 have no purpose in advising the use of the soap only for the good of the dog. n water, which I find To those putting dogs in d does away with the 1 have no interest, directly. do I know any of the manufact- But T must give them credit for giving us the best soap for Jonn Borus, ‘Woeoster, Ohio, WARNING. Thers are manv white s0aps, each represented to be " just as good as the ‘lvory' they ARE NOT, but I'ke all counterf lack the peculiar and ren kable qualities of the geauine, Ask for "Ivary" Soap and insist upon getting it. Copyright 1686, ¥y Frecler &