Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 25, 1889, Page 4

. [ Publishing THE DAILY BEE. . ROSEWATEIR, Eaitor. PUBLISHED KEVERY MORNIN TRRMS OF sfimumnn. tion) including Sunday, Omaha Sunday e [ress, One Yonr. Weekly Des, One na_Offoe, £, vonteenth and Farnam Strosts, Cnicago Office, 667 Rookery Buildiug. Now Forx Oiica, Hooms 14 and 15 Trigne Butking. Waahington Ofics, No. 513 Fourteenth Strsot. CORRESPONDENCE. i All communications relating to nows an torial matter should be addressed to the Editor o Lice. o BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and_remittances should be addressed to The llee Publishing Company, Omahn_Drafgs, ehecks and postoftice orders 1o bemade payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Propiclrs, Bee Buildiog Farnam and Seventeenth mailed to any Yoar ... . THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, L. County of Donglas. | %% George B, Tischuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, does solemily swear that the actual circulation of TiE DAILY Ik for the week ending July 20th, 1850, Was as follows: Sunday, July 1t Monday, Juiy 1§ Tuesddy, July 16 Wednesday, July 1 Thursday, July T day. July 1. Enu‘:-’l-y, Faly Average &) 8worn to before me and subscribed to in my presence this 20tn dny of July, A. D). 1880, (Seal.] N. P. FELL, Notary Publiz. State of Nebraska, i County of Douglas, { %% @eorgo It T78chuck, being duly sworn, de- 0868 and says that he 18 secretary of The Boe mpany, that the actual averago nily. crculation ofTite DALy BER for the wd: of June, 1888, 18,242 coplos; for July, 1688, 18,601 coples: for. August, 1888, 1,18] coples: for Ffl{) mber, 1888, 18,174 copies: for October, 1888, 18084 coples: for Novembar, 1584, 18,988 coples; for D ¢ Junuary, 180, 185 18,006 coples: for' Ma 11, 1889, 18,660 "i)PI: coples; b 3 Sworp to before me and_subscribed in my (Seal:] *_ pretence thiy ird day of June, A. . 1859, N. P. FEIL. Notary Publ As the center of the rain and washout belt, Denver’s reputation is established. THERE is an unusual hum in the streets of Omaha nowadays. It is the song of the electric motors. ANOTHER child life has been sacri- ficed through a demented Georgia crank. Where 18 Sam Jones? CHAMPION SULLIVAN has now twenty thousand dollars in cash, the diamond studded belt and the big head. HAVE the county commissioners taken any steps to levy on certain properties held for revenue by tax-shirking so- cioties? Two denths, caused by being run over by vehicles, within a week and nobody to blame. There is a screw loose somewhere. A CINCINNATI judge has declared ice cream a necessity, not a luxury. The ice cream “‘parlor” will now open wide both doors on Sundays in that city. Now that Senator Alger and party have returned from Alaska, the country snould hear something definite concern- ing the Alaska Seal company’s mo- mopoly. ‘THe new gun boat Petrel will be given another chance to demonstrate her sailing qualities. Judging by her former test she should have been named the Tortpise. THE regattaat Spirit Lake, Iowa, is attracting a great deal of attention throughout our neighboring state. Aquatic sports are legitimate and should be encouraged. that everybody's business is mnobody’s business is well illustrated by the persistency of the ice companies of this city in selling impure ice to consumers. THE old saying For the success of Merchants’ week *three things are essential: First, good * management; second, a sufficient guar- "antee fund, and third, the co-opecation of all business men. THE military is creating a little com- .motion in these parts. Between the court-martial now in session and the rifie competition here, the men of arms * can onjoy themselves thoroughly. —— WHEN Massachusetts can borrow one ‘and a balf million dollars at a rate of interest averaging two and six-tenths per cent, it is well to inquire why west- ern states cannot obtain money at five per cent. DESPITE the erection of a number of large business blocks for wholesale and warehouse purposes during the past two years, it is significant that there is to-day a scarcity of this class of build< ings in Omaha. e SALT is as much of a necessity to health and life as water or air, and any attempt to limit the supply of an abso- lute necessity to human existence by enhancing its price through trusts is a orime that should be punished. — Tne Cheyenne Indian policemen with the suggestive name of Hump, who resigned from the force because he weuld not sign the commissioners’ bill, bhas yot to lewrn that resigning from office has passed wholly out of date with white politician ep—————— 17 15 about time that Omaha should enjoy in common with Minneapolis and St. Paul the benefits of a watur route to the seaboard and a connection with the Canadian Pacific system as an offset to the present outlet through Chicago. There are stirong grounds for suspect- ing such a move on the part of the Union Pacifie, —— AFTER a delay of mauy days the post- office authorities at Washington have taken steps to improve the efficiency of the New York postofiice. The country at large 18 interested in this move, in- asmuch as New York is the gateway for the foreign mails, and an increase in the number of clerks will insure better service iu that depurtment. A2 0 AT T R S it saen » THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1880, WILL VIS OMAHA. A principal feature of the programme of the government for entertaining the delogates to the congress of the three Americas, which will meet in Washing- ton in Octuber, is a trip through the country. As now arranged, this tour is to extend from Boston to Omaha, taking in all the commercial and manufactur- ing cittes between those points. We are not able o say how many there will bo of this distinguished party of the representatives of the Central and South American countries, but every city visited by them should make the most generous provision for their roception and entertainment. Our Washington dispateh announcing the appoiutment of an agent of the state de- partment, Mr. Willlam E. Curtis, to carry out this programme, states that it is oxpectod the dities visited will co- operate with the department in entel taining the visitors, and that all pos ble help will be afforded in giving them a proper idea of American methods. Tt is probable that the board of trade of Omaha will, within a short time, be communicated with regarding this mat- ter by Mr. Curtis. Both rational and local pride should induce every city that will have the honor of entertdining this distin- guished company to spare no effort to render their visit as enjoyable socially and as profitable in information as pos- sible. The assembdling of this congress will be an event of no small import- ange, for although its immediate prac- tical results may not be all that is hoped for, there is every reason to expect that will “at least open the way to improved commorcial conditions betweon the countries represented in the congress, and particularly between the other Americas and the United States, to the advantage of all. It is obviously desirable that the foreign visitors shall obtain the best possible impression both of the character and enterprise of our people. They will reach Omaha during the most delightful season of the year in this’ locality, and also in the season when our business prosperity is likely to be atits Yest. We must not be behind any other city on their tour in giving them hospitable éntertain- ment. it S AN IMPORTA PROBLEM. As will be seen from the letter of THE BEE’S staff correspondent with the party of congressmen traveling in the west, the question of irrigation is the ono of supreme intevest to the people of the regions where this means of promoting agriculture is indispensable. He found everywhere that the people wore pro- foundly in barnest on this subject, and that the universal belief among-them is that irrigation ought to be provided by the government, since in no other way can it be successfully accomplished. The demand for this plan of reclaim- ing the arid lands and providing for the requirements of agriculture in sec- tions where the rainfall is not always adequate, is more carnest now than ever before becauso of the widespread and terrible drought that exists. The ap- peal from the states and territorics thus aMicted that will be made to congress can not fail to comwand the attention of that body and of the country. 1t will be strongly supported, also, by the personal observations of a number of members of congress, all of whom agree us to the necessity of a system of irrigation, whatever diversity of opinion there may be among them as to the policy to be pursued in providing it. The constitutional objection that the general government cannot expend the public money 1n improvements for the benefit of private individuals way induce many 1o oppose the proposition, that the government shall assume tha task of establishing o system of irrigation, the cost of which might reach hundreds of millions of dollars, but this objection appears not to be insurmountable. The federal government would confine its outlays to its own lands, the advantages to private lands, as observed by Senator Teller, coming incidentally. the improvements by the general gov- ernment, a8 in the case of rivers, for example, afford incidental benefit to private parties, and in this matter of irrigation it is not asked that the gov- ernment shall construct reservoirs on other than its own property. Regarding the system to be adopted our correspondent found the unanimous sentiment to be in favor of constructing reservoirs on the plains rather than in the mountain passes. The people of the regions requiring irrigation appear to fully roalize the danger that would be ever present in the existence of mountain reservoirs, and they believe that an effective system of irri- gation can be established free from this danger. Engineering opinion as heretofore vendered does mot agree with this, but the further investiga- tions now being prosecuted may lead the scientific gentlemen to modify their judgment in this particular. This irri- gation question, as our correspondent says,iscertainlyone of very great import- ance not only to the people of the states and terrvitories embracing the and regions, but to the whole country, If the problem can bhe successfully solved, it would add immensely to the agricul- tural vesources of the nation, and doubtless in the lifetime of a generation many times repay the cost. Thae sub- jeot is certain to cocupy a leadiag place in the attentign of the next congress, with more favorable promise than ever before of the inauguration of a general system of irrigation. E——— THE PROPOSED SALT COMBINE. Ingenuity in devising schemes of monopoly has. not been exhausted. Proof of this is supplied by the proposed salt trust under the title of the North American Salt company. This combi- nation professes & purpose to exist, and to carry on its operations in controlling # most important product and necessity, under the forms of law. It is incor- porated under the laws of the state of New York, thereby obtaining a legal status and amenability, It pro- poses something further in the way of a departure from the ordi- nary trust, which is to popular- ize monopoly by permitting any one to purchasc at par one or more fifty dollar shares of comwon stock issued by the Unquestionably most of | combine. The promoters avidently re- gard this as a particularly magnani- mous arrangement which eught to com- mend the scheme at once to universal popular approval, It will not serve, however, to conceal the fact thaw the project means a formidable monopoly for which the people of the United States will be annually plundered to the amount of millions of dollars. The company announces that it has made arrangements for the purchase or control of mearly all of the existing salt-producing properties on the continent. Such as it will not own outright it will control the product of, decreasing or enlargingit from time to time, as the interests of the combine shall dictate. Thusit is not proposed to purchase at present the salt works of Michigan, but the company will take the product of those works, the amount of this to be subject to its regulation. Doubtless, however, in any event the ownors of these works will receive the value of their whole capacity. Thus all competition in the production of salt in this country will be at an end as soon as the monopoly goes into operation at the beginning of next year. The pretense of this new com- bine is that it will find its profit, which according to its figures will be very generous, by cheapening production and practicing economy, and that it will turnish to consumers a better qual- ity of salt and keep down prices. No- body will be deceived by any such promise. Just as the sugar trust has made every consumer pay a higher price for that necessity, so will the salt monopoly compel the peopls to pay more for that commodity. In- deed, it is said to be the intention to ad- vance the price of salt ten cents a bar- rel at the outset. This scheme is far-reaching. The promoters of it understood that the peo- ple would seek relief from the threat- ened exactions of the monopoly by de- manding that the duty be removed from salt, and they have guarded against this by effecting an understand- ing with the English salt trust that will keep the product it controls out of the American markets even if the duty on salt shall be removed. It is thus practically an international combine, and nothing could make more obvious the purpose of the North American Salt company than thisarrangement. Never- theless there will bo & very general and earnest demand for the abolition of the duty on salt, which congress will be compelled to listen to. Thus steadily and surely are the peo- ple being forced to determine whether they will allow monopoly to take com- plete control of the business of the coun- try, or by radical legislation, national and state, provide for the abolition of all restrictions on trade by vast combi- nations of capital. A cAsEis now pending before the courts of Chicago which will attract considerable attention in stock shipping circles. It is brought by a prominent cattle shipper of that city to compel the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western to transport his private stock cars with the same privileges and facilities as ac- corded to others. This is a test case to decide the question whether railroads have the legal right to refuse to run palace stock cars owned by private par- ties on their road, and give preference to their own. During the past year or two it has become customary for large cattle shippers to operate their own im- vroved stock cars and transport their cattle from one market to another. The railroads have looked with displeasure on this growing luxury, due principally to the fact that by the use of these im- proved palace cattle cars, the stock yards along the line of the road, owned or controlled by the railroads, are not patronized. The various trunk lines leading into Chicago have consequently decided not to accommodate this class of patrons. The question is one which is likely to go from the courts into the hands of the inter-state commerce com- mission for solution, and will gpen up another phase in the transportation problem. Tie poople of Oklahoma have given' evidence that they want a form of gov- ernment something more substantial than the provisional laws now in force. A convention is in session for the pur- pose of drafling suitable and permanent laws, and in all probability a petition will be presented to congress early in its session asking for proper legislation. At any rate, one of the pressing duties of congress will be to provide a territo- rial government for Oklahoma. Now that the boom and excitement is over, the people of* that region are greatly handicapped by the lack of laws. Their prosperity is rotarded and confidence is shaken 8o long ae loose methods of ad- ministration prevail, Oklahoma needs » stable and cemplete territorial gov- ernment to insure permanent improve- ments and the investment of capital, em— A BERLIN journal has just published an interesting account of German emi- gration to America since the close of the Franco-Prussian war in 1871. It ap- pears that the total number of Germans who have come to vhis country during the past eighteen years is one million six hundred and eighteen thousand. The tide of emigration was highest in 1881, during which year two hundred and twenty thousand persons put foot an America, Lust year ninetyzeight thou- sand arrived, and about the same num- ber, 1t is calculated, will swell our pop- ulation at the end of the current year. The German emigrant has been a wel- come addition to our ranks. He has brought with him intelligence, thrift and energy, and quickly assimilates American ideas and institutions with- out losing his love for the fatherland. c————— A coLoRED democrat dismissed from the sixth auditor’s office at Washing- ton, who claims that his removal is due to his being a democrat, proposes to make a test case of the right of a head of & division to discharge an employe for voting with the party opposite to the one in power, This is a novel case, and one which the commission has never been called upon to decide. While it is clearly against the spirit of the civil service law to remove a man from his position for voting with the opposite pnr?y:horu is nothing in the lotter of th§ Tw prohibiting it. At least that ig the opinion of Commis- sioner Lymaty i1 St — THE whita, lead trust consolidated plants capitatized at fifteen millions. It immediately! thorganized and re- capitatizod them at eighty-three mil- lions. Can any one doubt why it is that trusts are lowt\'b lar when the people will be callad upon to pay for this watered stock by a tise in the price of whito lead? |\, CouLp anything be more flattering and encouraging w Nobraska’s corn erop than the current report of the de- partment of agriculture? Some twenty counties, representing different sec- tions of the state, reported, and the con- sensus of opinion is that the prospects for a large crop this fall are unrivalled. TaE dispatches from Dakota say that the funds appropriated for the two con- stitutional conventions have about been oxhausted. If this is true it will be surprising to note the celerity with which the Dakota statesmen will finish the work of framing the two constitu- tions. THE council took prompt action in providing means for the early erection and equipment of a fire engine house and apparatus at Walnut Hill. Other outlying districts of the city may read In this provision that they are likewise to be given ample fire protection, The Right Man in the Right Place San Francisco Chronicle, ‘We condole with our democratic friends in their disappointment, but really the United States could not spare James G. Blame at this time. He is tho right man in the right place, and there he should stay. 1t Tough One. Philadelphia ress. Uncle Jerry Rusk is wrestling with the knotty question whether the work of inquir- ing into the habits and character of the oyster plant belongs to the secretary of agri- culture or to the fish commission. —— The Robber Trusts Must Go. . Philadelphia Ledger, These trusts are becoming dangerously numerous and somoe of them aggressive to foolhardiness. But the tide of public senti- ment is already rising against them, and before It ebbs it will sweep them out of ox- istence. The Arkansas Style. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Sults have been brought against fourteen ex-county trehsurers in Arkansas who are short in their accotints. The missing money was probably éxpended in buying arms and ammunition to maintain the democratic ma- jority. ——— There Are no: Fiics on the Eagle. Baltimore American, After all, América 18 to got Millot's ““Angelus.” It’ will be observed that the cagle on the. gogd American dollar soars higher than any other bird of finance, and although its head“is bald, it is not bothered by flics and h& geta there just tho same. iz ah bndd ‘Would Answor the Same Purpose. Boston Herald, An annex to the white house for the trans- action of' publicbusiness 1 the latest idea in ‘Washington. It a reasonable suggestion, but a notice to oficeseekers who swarm the executive mansion and pester the head of the nation from morning till night, warning them to keep at a distance, would probably. ill the bill quite as well. ————— Unrestrioted Trade With Canada. Montreal Herald, ‘Why is not a commission sent to the United States as well as Sydney, Jamaica, Tim- ‘buctoo, aud other places to encourage tradei Because the commission would probably be compelled to make & report as would open up the markets of both countries and upset all the finest calculations of the combines. The plain and simple truth is that, though enlarged trade with the United States would be a great benefit to the farmers and gen- eral traders of the dominion, it would de- crease the profits of a fow combines and monopolists who practically own the Ottawa cabinet, —_——— THE AFTERNOON TEA. Now gay young men And maidens fair #To ocean’s shores In crowds repair, And on the sands And hillsides green, By day and night In pairs are seen. Or at the hops— 'Tis very plain That flirting-time 1s here again No dsughter of the late Emperor Frader- ick has the gift of beauty. The hereditary princess of 3axe-Moiningen has handsome shoulders when seen from behind, and so gets her head painted in profile, witn her back toward the painter. Princess Sophie is #8id to have the face of & ‘‘child staring at vacancy while it holds a spoonful of pndding in its mouth.” Wives should never conoeal anything from their husbands—excepting their faults, of course. “Can you manage a type-writer?" asked one married lady of another, “Can I man- age a type-writer! Ishould say so. I made three leave my husband’s office within the 1ast two months/ aud the last is 80 homely that Jon is almoat afraid of her. Th) man- agement of a typa.writer is an art, but I've got it down fines" To the queen 67 Italy belongs the credit of re-establishing the ymanafacture of Burano lacs, The industey had almest wholly died out. The queen found an old woman who know tho stitols uud had her teach & number of younger woihien, Ella—Madge had her batbing suit on six hours to-day. < wouder what makes her wear it so lonkt' Bella—Because it's so short, I suppose.; | “Style,” says awnter on literary topiocs, “meuns everythlog" ‘‘Yes," sald Gibson, whose wife is deYgthd to fashion, “it means everytning & man's gov.” ‘The latest feminine oraze, that of wearing the hair in a simple braid, doubled up once and tied with a piece of ribboa, school-girl fashion, bas sonse on its side in this hot weather, although it is rather harrowing to see when adopted by a shrinking, timid young miss of thirty or forty summers, It isn't falr for women with really long hair, though, for thew braid is so lomg that it doesn’t ook nice, and is in the way besides, e STATE AND TERRITORY. The citizens of York are working to secure the state militia encampment. A Masonic lodge has been organized at Gandy, with eleven charter members, Crops in tbe northwestern part of Holt county bave been badly dumaged by hail. The State bank of Oaks, Nuckells county, will be opened for business about August 15. Marsland will bo the name of the town now ealled Corbin, between Hemingford and Crawford, Norfolk’s new oroamery and choose factory is completed, and will beein opera- tions at once, 'The contract has been let for a $10,000 rick school house at Stuart, to be eomploted by December. J. H. Goodrich, jr., troasurer of Red Wil- low cdunty, has n?mwd and has been suc- ceeded by Willis Gossard. The boys’ branch of the state Y. M, C. A. is in session this weelk at Hastings, with 200 delegates in atteudance. Crelfihl Morris has beon elected assigneo of the defunct Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Humboldt by the creditors, Poter Jansen, of Jansen, Jefferson enunty, has purchased several thousand sheep ab Denver to be fed on his ranch. Tom Spaulding, & Dawson well digger, was robably fatally injured iast wock by a stona Iling on his head, fracturing his skull. A strange disease has attacked calvos at Sterling, the afflicted animals dying about fifteon minutes after showing signs of 3 noss, Pete Hatfleld, a deaf mute, was struck by A passenger train near Rulo, Tuesday, and fi) badly injured that he lived buta short me. Patrick E, Sullivan, a Wallace saloon keeper, has been bound over for trial on the charge of selling liquor without a li- cense. "The caving in of asection of the work' on the Fairbury coal hole has delayed matters, ‘l‘l‘;‘: ;ne"dl'lll has ulready reached a depth of eo A B. &M, section foroman at_ Lousville playfully poiuted a targot riflo at Samuel all tho other day, with the usual result, ox- cept that Ball may rocover. £ Superintendent Mallalien, of the Kearnoy reform school, has refused an offer of $5,000 for the products of tho school farm, which ho thinks will be worth fully $10,000. A farmer named Roor, residing near Dustin, haa his team of horses killed by lightnitg while holding whem by the bits during @ recent storm, but was only slightly shocked himself. lowa Itews. The state university re-opens September 11. h Inlliepenflcnce is talking of a new $30,000 otel. Astate bank has been incorporated at Maploton. A competitive examination for the West Point cadotship will be held at Oskaloosa August 2. A Sweatland, Muscatine county, man took a cold water bath and died suddenly from the effects. C. C. Dunham, a blind man of Belle Plaine carries the mall between that place and Irving three times a week. The sugar corn planted for the Davenport, and Milan mills promises to yield ® large crop and excellont in quality. Rev. B. O. Aylesworth, pastor of the Cedar Rapids Christian church, has been elocted president of Drake university at Des Moiues. Albert Smith, of New Hampton, charged with arson in connection with the LeKoy fire, has been held to the grand jury of Motwer county 1 the sum of $3,000. Mrs. D. F. Dufour, near Des Moiues, had a thrilling experience the other day. On reaching home in the evening she was at- tracted to the river by a child’s screams. “There she founa her little boy sinking in tho wator, Being a good swimmer she_went in torescue him but a piece of drift wood forced both into an eddy. Her daughter came in timoe to throw a ropo to her mother and thus the two were saved from drowning. The Two Dakotay. Brule county has a debt of but $8,000. The assessed valuation of Spearfish $162,800. The Presbyterian church at Sioux Falls is out of debt. Work has been begun on_forty aaditional starps for the Star mill at Lead City. Doadwood's olty council has ordered all PIg pens removed from the ocorporate limits, The Sturgis Record says South Dakota has less criminals than any other now state bad ‘when it entered the union. Frank Wilson is occupying quarters In the Sioux Falls pen on a two years’ sentonce for forgery 1 Codington count; Daniel Toomoy, & ranchman living at Spear- fish, was shot in the arm by his five-year-old son, and amputation of the limb was neces- sary. Miss Millic F. Tapper, of Sioux Falls, who graduated_at Cornell ‘with the degree of bachelor of letters, is to become pastor of a church in Kansas. Pat Mahoney, of Fargo, met _death in at- tempting to loosen tho barrel of a shotgun by placing 1t in the stove, The charge passed entirely through his breast. Now machinery and supplies for the tin mines continue to” arrive at Hermosa and Rapid City, and the work of building mulls, erecting machinory and sinking shafts gocs busily on. Horse thieves arc again_causing owners of horses considerablo trouble in the vicinity of Chamberlain, “With the present feeling among the farmers,”” says the Domocrat, *'no morcy will be shown any of the rascals should they be capturcd —— THE IRRIGATION PROBLEM. is Its Solution a Matter of the Utmost 1mpprtance to the West. Hamey, Idaho, July 24.—[Special to Trg Bee.]—In the two Dakotas, northwestern Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utan and Nevada, which sections I have visited during the past mouth, there is one subject which overtowers all others Wwith every class of people. It is irfigation. In all of these sec- tions, with the possible exception of & por- tion of western Nebraska, a terrible drouth exists, and the same condition and tho same sentiment on the subject confronts much of Kansas, portions of California, and all of Arizona and Now Mexico. There is only one way to make the territories and Colorado agricultural communities, ond one way only, and that s by irrigation. This, 1t seems, will never be done successfully except by the government, and the question of how far the general gov- ernment can and should go in the direction of improving either its own public domain or the property of private individuals will form o problom before congress, at its coming ses- sion, quite as overwhelming and comprehen- ve as either the tariff or the basis for na- tional blllklnfl. At no time during the past ten years have %0 many men from congress visited the northwest and west as during the present sea- son. This will serve to give impetus to the subject of irrigation and inorease in the mind of congress the importance of the subject. A special committes from the senate is looking into the subject by congressional authority, while Congressman George W. K. Dorsay, of Fremont, Neb., left his home on the 16th inst, with @ party of representatives from the lower house of congress, composed of Messrs. Burrows, of Michigan; Stewart, of Vormont, Goff, of West Virginia, aud Hay- den, of Massachusetts. Iam with this party and havo witnessed the Intense anxiety of the citizens of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho for some kind of action on the part of congrass. At Denver Senator Teller 8aid Lo me on the subjeot: “*I'he subject of irrigation will be pressed before congress Lthe coming session as no other subjoct will be presented. The west, northwest and southwest will stand together, and congressional action of some sort wust follow. Without wrrigation one-third or one- fourth of the entire country will be a desert forever. And irrigation for agricultursl purposes can only be successfully ac- comphished by the federal government, for two cogont roasons: K'irst, the greator num- ber of localities where the waler mus: be stored are on the public domain; and sec- ondly, the expense is 100 great to warrant T —— Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria, When Baby was siek, wo gave her Castorta, ¥ When she was a Cbild, she erled for Castoria, When she beoame Miss, sho clung to Cestoria, Whonsbehad Children, she gave thom Castorla private individuals in making the outlay, even though thay ad the money. Tho re- turns from the work cannot bo made in this generation in many instances. Hut this makes no difference to the general govern- ment. Yes, the conatitution will admit the expenditure. T oan be no doubt of that. A landlord eannot be prevented {rom improving bhis own property. ' The federal governmont has only 1o confine its outlays to ita own lands. The advantages to the lands owned by private individuals will come inci dentally, just as protection to our industries 18 incidental to our present system of impory duties.” At Choyonne congressional Delogate Caroy and Governor Warren both used the same words, when they said : “Only the constitution oan intervenoe to cause hesitation on the part of congress. I should thank, however, that the levee systom along tho Mississippi river has demonstrated that money from the general government may bo used to protect or improve private property so long a8 there s a primary aim toward federal interests. If the govern- ment can use s wonoy to koop water off private property along tho Missisaippi I am sure it oan use it to turn water on private property in the terri. tories, or oveu 1n the state, provided, of course, ‘bo work is confined to the public do- ;uu( No one asks for reservoirs on private an 1find that there is a unanimous docision in favor of the construction of reservoirs on the plains, at elevated points, where fall for the distribution of the water, which is col- lected during the snow or_rainy season, may be secured. Since tho Jobnstown disastor 1o one will listen to the original proposition of damming up the mountain passos, ua the pressure would be 8o great as td make danger from @ bursting of the dams or tvalls a constant menace. Then the sediment which carried down the mountain ranges and through the canons would fill the reservoirs made in the very community - where the water is collected. The idea is to carry the water down from the mountains to reservoirs out ou the plains, a short dis- tance, or reservoir the water from rains and streams and springs during the flood sea- sons, to be distributed to the avid sections by moans of ditches. THe government h to store the water on its own land: people will take it and use it judicious| in such a way as to make the deserts blos- som like gardens and secure a return for all :}lu outlay to the genmeral government, in we. Mr. Dorsey, who is a practical and success- ful businoss man as well as a statesman, be- lioves tbe federal government could well affora to supply a complete system of reser- voirs and artesian wells for irrigation, as it would be but an investment which would de- clare a splendid dividend in the way of taxes, Wherever the water cannot be secured from melting snow or rain on the mountains, streams or springs, artesian wells oan be had easily. ‘This problem is one of the groatest pos. sible interest to the entire country for at lesst two reasons: It contemplates the successful operation of more unused agri- cultural lands than there are now in any s revolutionizing agricuitural where; and it contemplates )y nywhere $50,000,000 to $100,000,000—that financially tho improvement will be notice- able in every commercial avenue. The struggle for it is made imminent and earnest by the terrible and destructive drought of tius season, Every member of the Dorsey party has been fully convinced of the wis- dom of the project; and what is true of the observatious of these statesmen is true no doubt ot the scores of others now in the arid regions. PERRY S. HEATH, —— MILWAUKEE IN A FIX. is Major Davis Speaks His Mind on Railroad Raves. Major J. B. Davis, of Wahoo, now is Chi- cago undergoing treatment, writes Tag Bem requesting the publication of the following letter, which first appcared in the prints of Chicago: If Milwaukee Is ‘“‘in a fix” let it be remem- bered, now and forever. that it is not due to any action of the Grand Army men. For years they have had rates from gencrous rallroad companies from ocean to occan for these annual encampments. A great blow is now made sbout the requirements of the inter-state commerce law, and how they pre- vent the granting of the old rute this year. This is all bosh. The requirements of the inter-state law were in force last year, and they did not hinder or_preveut the l-cent a mile rate which is now asked for. The trouble is not with that, law, which seems to be made a subterfuge, but rather with the two railroads having control of the ingress and egress of the beautiful city of Milwau- kee. The Grand Army made a mis- take at Columbus ~when they located the encampment in a city that could only be reached by and was at tho mercy of two railroads. Itis to be hoped they will not again commit a similar error. iut they located that encampment at Mil- waukee in good faith, thousands and thou- sands of the veterans deeiring to visit tho queen city of the lake, and then under tho provisious of a beral tckat to visit the old homes in Wiscousin, Iilinois and adjoinung states. But something told the delogates ut Columbus that safety required some action to preserve the l-cont rate 0 loni enjoyed, and s0 a resolution was pussed authorizing the commander-in-chief and his advisors to protect the interests of the order by holding at Milwaukee a delegate convention simply racher than one of the grand reunions which has hitherto been the pride of our order aud an object of attention and regard by the loyal vooplo of the city and the state in which such reunion was hold. Who is to blame for this ‘fix"1 Net t" Grand Army. Tho railroads have pool their fssues with the sceming ovident desir, 10 break the procedent given to the Grnng Army. Thelr actions, speaking londer thal words, igdicate this desire, while the com- mander-in-chief of the Grand Army, the council of administration, the department commanders, and thousands interested in the wolfare of the order desire to maintain for the futuro moro than for tho past this low rate for the reunions of the men who saved this nation They are not beggars; they simply ask for what they have hadand had a right to belicyo would bo ellowed. As given by railroad officml, under the lcent a mile rate the fare from Council Bluffs to Milwaukeo and return will bo $10.20. Under the rate a8 fixed by the com- bination it is §14.40—a diforence of $4.20 on ouch tickot, Kxtend this rato pro rata west and what is your prospect for a big vrowdi - A Suguestion. Baxororr, Neb, July 95.~To the Editor of Tie Brw: After readog your article on “Horse Talk® I would say, I fully agreo in all that horse man says. But 1 would go further and connect a Nebraska northern atate fair in counection with tho jookey club, locato the fair permanently at Omaha, then improve our grounds and erect proper build- ings and hold yoarly fairs in conuection with the horse club of your city. I hope the thing can bo started, as T feel suge it would bo a success. 1 would like to seo the nawspapers of this part of the state take up the subject and bring it before the breedeis. Yours respectiully, B, ———. HIS MARRIAGE MUST STAND, Young Viscount Dunlo Separated from His Music Hall Bride, [Copyright 18%9 by James don. Bannert.) LoxooN, July 24.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to Tue Ber]-—Viscount Duulo, by his marriage to Bello Bilton, of music hall fame, has given the paragraphers o rich fleld for inuendo, 1t secms that Lad Dunlo, before her marriage, had several ad- mirers, her husband being at the heel of the hunt. He lacked tho experiouce of his pred- ecessors. He wrote lettors, There was talk of a breach of promise suit, but it was atopped by the marrisge. It is now alleged that Barl Clancarty will invoke the law to aunul the marriage on the ground that his son is under age. A prominent queen's counsel told the Herald co rrespondeut that a marriage between a woman of fourteen and a man of sixteen was legal. The minister or Tegistor who performed the coremony could be prosecuted under an old act of parliament, but that would not affect the marviage. 1t must stand, as the viscount is tweuty years old, He sailed a fow days ago on & long trip, but his wife remains, -— RIPPER. 'm Plans for Hin THE A Syndicate to [Copyright 1889 by James Gordon Bannatt, | Loxnoy, July 24.—|New York Herald Ca- ble—Special to Tur Bgs]—Dr. Forbes Winslow, the eminent “‘mad doctor,” has a “plan” for detecting the Whitechape! mur- derer. Strangely cnough tho police refuso to experiment on the lines suggested by tho Qoctor, who has determined to operato inde- pendently. ‘The plan is to form a syndicate. Every possessor of a schome to capture tho murderer may lay it before the syndicate. The best plan, in the syndicate’s opuion,will be adopted. The ease with whioh tho selec- tion can be made can be imagmed. Whitechapel is calm. Even tho police have recovered their equanimity. The conditions will soon suit the “Ripper,” who has doubt- less put & new odge on his knife by this tune. s S STRUGGLE WITH A TORPEDO, Diver Barnsdale Nearly Loses His Lifo at Portsmouth, {Copyright 1389 by James Gordon Bennett.| Poxtsmovrn, July 24.—[New York Her- ald Cable—Special to Tne Bee]—A diver from the Verngn, the torpedo school ship, bad a ternble struggle under the water with a white head torpedo. The torpedo had been lost from o boat and Diver Barnsaale was sent down to find it. He recovered it and brought it—the air chamber being apparently exhausted—to the surface of the soa, when the torpedo became live Buarnsdale held it by the tail, the only sensitive part, and a8 the flus revolved they cut off his fingers. Hé struggled valiantly, but as the water became clear and his plood vecawme visible, he was quickly hauied up, but so terribly cut in the struggle that he was instautly vemoved the naval hospital at Haslar, e A Remarkable Uharge. New Yonrx, July 24.—|Special Telogram to Tne Bee.]—The Herald prints a long special from Washington this moming to the offect that the Samoan treaty may be re- jected by the senato on the ground that Pholps aud Kasson sacrificed the country's interests to personal ends, both wishing ' to got foreign missions and desirng to uceom. plish something definite. The Herald de- clares the Urfited States commissionors were outwitted by Bismurck, but does uot point out specific instances. 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