Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 15, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY THE DAILY BEE. B, ROSEWATER. Edito Wi PUBLISHED EVERY MORN e TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, D atly Morning Edition) including Sunday Bee, Ono Y ear. el we wad 88 233 « i Itice, Jsuilg v W enteenth and Farnam Streots, Cnicago OMce, 667 Rookery Building. New York Office, Rooms 14 and Tribune Buflding. ‘Wasnington Office, No. 613 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENUE. All communications relating to news and edl- gflal mateer should be addressed to the Editor the Hee BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and_remittances should be addressed to The Bee Publishing Company. Omala _Drafts, checks and postofiice orders o ‘be made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Poblishing Company, Pmnrieturs: Bee Building Farnam and Seventeenth & Sworn Statement of Ciroulation. Btato of Nebraska, County of Douglas, George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Tiee Putlishing Company, does solemnly swear thit the actual eirenlation of Tne DAILY Bek for the week ending August 10, 18%, was as follows: Sunday. August 4 Monday, August b, s 1 {os A Wednesday, Augu: Thursday, August 8. ¥riday, August f Baturday, August io. Average.. G . TZSC 10! Sworn to hefore me and subscribed to in_my presence this 0th day of Augusty A. D 180, (Feal.] N.'P. FEIL, Notary Publiz. State of Nebraska, % County of Douglas. { % George B, ‘Tzschick, being duly sworn, do- poses and says that ie's secretary of The lise ublishing company, that the actual average daily efrenlation of Tue DALy Bee for the moNth of August, 188%, 18,15 copies: for Sep- tember, 188, 18,154 copies: for October 1884, K084 coples’ for November, K8, 1,985 coples: for December, 1K88, 18 fo1_January, 1880, 18,574, coples 1889, 18,944 March, 89, 18 i, oples; for ) 5% copl 1880, 150, 18,866, "coples; for July. A 4 subscribed in my presence this i day of August, 189, (sEAL.] N.P. FEin, Notary Public. THE umon depot project has gone up another notch. JAY GouLD is taking his annual fish- ing trip. Of course he catches all the “suckers.” LoCAL labor agencies report fewer 1dle men in Omaha than in any other central or western city. I is said the St. Lows Jack the Kisser 1is insane. Kissing fitty St. Louis girls within a week would drive any man crazy. CHICAGO has incorporated a world’s fair association with a capital of five millions. Chicago believes that money talks louder than bluster. THE Missouri Pacific has rightly gauged the wiches of its suburktan patrons by proposing to make a five cent fare between this city, West Side and intermediate stations. — THe Minnesota superior court has followed the rulings laid down by Indi- - ana judges in declaring local inspection laws unconstitvtional, Colorado alone remains to be heard from on that sub- ject. —_— MAJOR POWELL, of the United States geological survey, is doing good work in making surveys for the proposed ir- rigating reservoir system in the arid regions. His report to congress will bo a most interesting and instructive docu- ment, THE proper authorities should see to it at once that the grading of Sherman avenue leading to the fair grounds be fully completed and the street be put in proper shape for travel before the 1st of September. —— Ir some of the short-sighted people who leave good farms in Nebraska and Jowa for an uncertainty in Dakota or Oklahoma don’t get all they expect they are sure of one place to which they can go and always do well. That place is the one they left. — @HE resolution of the executive com- mittee of the national league of republi- can clabs to hold the next convention at Nashville, Tenn., looks like carrying the war into Dixey. In reality it is simply a desire to avoid twenty below zero weather in midwinter. IN a recent address Civil Service Commissioner Lyman is quoted as say- fog that to improve the government seryice it is necessary to improve the people who administer it. That has been the problem with which the American voter has been wrestling ever since the right of suffrage has been put into his hands. —— SUNSET COX enthusiastically de- scribes Washington Territory as being peopled with the cream of the land. This is spreading it on pretty thick, especially when Dakota tendered the New York congressman such a hearty reception. But it must be remembered that Sunset has been doing missionary work among the democrats of the far northwest. WYOMING 18 nov at all backward in pressing her claims for statehood. In weanlth, in natural resources, in the energy of her veople, in everything ex- cept the requisite number of population Wyoming is well qualified. A consui- tutional convention will be held at Cheyenne September 2, and a complete machinery for self-government will be perfected that can be put immediately inw service the moment congress gives the word of admittance into the Union. Tie western roads leading into Mil- waukee have given their ultimatum re- specting a one cent rate to the Grand Army encampment., They absolutely rofuse to make the reduction asked for by the veterans. This leaves the ques- tion exaotly where iv stood before. It is doubtful even with a reduction of rates at this late date whether the attendance would be materially in- creased. The general impression is that Milwaukee will have to content herselfl with the old soldiers from the states east of Illinois, Not more than twenty-five thousand veterans are ex- oted to be present, which is just sbout half the number who attended the Columbus encampment last year, OPPONENTS OF ANNEXATION. At the present time a very decided opposition is manifest in South Omaha to annexation, First and foremost come the dealers in liquor. They are a unit against annexation because the liquor license in Omaha is one thovsand dol- lars as against five hundred dollars a year 1n South Omaha; and because the Sunday liquor traffic in South Omaha has become very profitable since the rigid enforcementof Sunday observance in Omaha. Estimating the population of South Omaha at eight thousand, there is at this time one saloon for every one hundred and sixty persons, while in in Omaha, estimating the population at one hundred and ten thousand, there 1 one saloon for every four hundred and seventy-eight persons. The difference in the ratio between the number of saloons to the aggregate population of South Omaha and Omaha exhibits foreibly the differ- ence between the five hundred dollar and one thousand dollar license, and rigid Sunday observance as against no Sunday observance. It may be expected, therefore. that the liquor dealers of South Omaha will continue to oppose annexation until they are put on an equal footing with the liquor dealers in Omaha proper. That the license in South Omaha will be raised to one thousand dollarsa year 1n the near future is anticipated. Tho law provides that whenover a city has ten thousand or more population the license must be not less than one thousand dollars a year. Even if the census of 1890 falls below ten thousand in South Omaha, the next legislature beyond any doubt will raise the license in all cities of the second class to one thousand dollars. ‘While the Sunday traffic in liquor is tolerated in South Omaha, the dealers run the risk of having their licenses re- voked and there is very little doubt that the state legislature will extend the metropolitan system over all vil- lages and towns within three miles of any metropolitan cities and cities of the first class. Next to the liquor dealers the most formidable opposition to anuexation comes from the packing interest. It is an open secret that the municipal government of South Omaha has been, and is yet, under the absolute domina- tion of the paciing house and stock yards managers. Their opposition to annexation springs from the desire to keep their grip on the municipal ma- chinery and anxiety to avoid city taxes. They enjoy all the benefits that Omaha affords 10 its property owners in the way of fire department, water works, pave- ments, sewers, parks, etc., and in emer- gencies, such as great strikes and riots, they expect Omaha to give them police protection, but they do not want to bear tho burdens for maintaining city goyernment. This was the animus of opposition of the Chicago packers to annexation of their suburb to the city of Chicago. ' The question that confronts South Omaha is—what will their city do to keep up public improvements? The bonded debt of South Omaha is already two hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars. The ussessed valuation for municipal purposes is one million, seven hundred and twelve thousand, nine hundred and three dotlars. On the face of it, the debt is in excess of the limit fixed by law, which prohibits the issue of bonds above ten per cent of the assessed valuation. Every dollar of South Omaha bonds issued above one hundred and ninety thousand dollars was issued in violation of the law, and we doubt whether they are worth the paper on which they are printed. Before South Omaha can legally raise another dollar for pavements, sewers, fire engine houses, or any class ot public improve- ments, she must raise her assessment enormously., That means doubling her city tax,and raising it way beyond what it would be if the town was annexed to Omaha, Taxes in this city will be lower from now oun. Our property values ure constantly increasing by rea- son of the rapid increase of buildings, many of which are valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars, while the ex- pense of the city government has now reached its maximum, +HE KILLING OF TERRY. The killing of Judge David S. Terry, of California, will appear to many as retributive justice. The character and methods of the man invited such a ter- mination of his career. His life was stained with the blood of his fellow man. The pistol or the bowie knife he had relied upon as a means of vindica- tion from early manhood. A lawyer of fine attainments and abilivy, who had occupied high judicial position, his na- ture was that of the desperado. When he should have been the con- sorvator of law he was himself an outlaw. Even when a justice of the supreme court of Califor- nia, Terry in a street brawl stabbed a political enemy,and he had but just laid aside the ermine when he deliber- ately took the life of David C. Broder- ick, whom he had in the most cold- blooded way provoked into a duel. His killing of United States Senator Brod- erick was no better than murder, for not only was he a dead shot and had boasted that he would send a bullet through his vietim’s heart, but after he knew that Broderick had fired into the air, he, with devlish malignity, carned his purpose into execution. It was characteristic of the cold-blooded, relentless nature of the man, and it justly covered him with an infamy which he could never efface. Nor did he seem to care to, for his subsequent career is dotted with feuds ana diffi- culties which siow vhat he was utterly indifferent to public opinion and was content to follow wherever his reckless impulses should lead. Last September, while engaged in defending a case in court brought by the woman whom he made his wife, and whose nature ap- parently was in complete harmony with his own, he was sent to prison by Justice Field, of the supreme court of the United States, for contempt. Siucethe expiration of his term he threatened Field, and the well-known de:perate character of the man rendered the threat a matter not to be idly regarded. He appears to have improved iho first opportunity to provoke am altercation o: THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1889, - with Justice Field, and h® paid the penalty of that plece of rashness with his life. But notwithstanding the infamous character of Terry, and the danger that was known to lurk in his hostility, his killing under the cirgumstances was & crime. Had Justice Field, after he had received the slap from Terry, shot him down, public opinion would un- doubtedly have justified him, but there is nothing apparently to justify the deputy marshal in killing the assailant of another man, who was free to act for himself, and whose life does not seem to have been necessarily in jeopardy. The accounts indicate that the actof the deputy marshal was one of impulse, but as an officer of the law his first effort certainly should have been to arrest Terry, and it is not improbable that he could have accomplished this with no groat difficulty. At uny rate, it is clear, from the accounts at hand, that he was not called upon to use a revolver, and in having done so with deadly effect he committed a crime for which he de- serves to be punished. He was promptly arrested and the arrest of Justice Feld ordered, but it is probable that the lat- ter can be held only as a witness, since it does not appear that he was in any sense responsible for the shooting. It would seem that neither he nor the deputy marshal had any knowledge of the presence of Terry until he made the assault, so that there could have been no prearrangement or instigation to the shooting. It was one of those sudden and unlooked for affairs which in its result suggests, as we have said, the idea of retribution. The tragic event will be regarded with uaiversal interest, and there will be little sympathy for the slain or with the wrong-headed and bad-hearted woman who more than likely incited Terry to commit his last act of vindict- iveness. She wuas the first to notice the presence of Justice Field, and her con- duct strongly indicates that sho prompted her reckless husband to seek an encounter, tho impression being that Justice Field would promptly resent an insult. It has been written, ‘“Who sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” GOING A STEP TO0 FAR. There is evidently a desire on the part of some councilmen to make cap- ital out of the over-officiousness of the police force. An ordinance was intro- duced by Councilman Huascall prohibit- ing the avrestof any person excepting drunkards found lying in the strects before a written complaint is duly made and filed and a warrant issued. This is going too far, and would practically tie the hands of policemen in maintaining law and order. If such an ordinance were enacted, pickpockets, footpads and burglars could not be arrested by the police and held over might unless they were captured while in the act of housebreaking, robbery or garroting. Professional criminals could roam about the city at will, and Omaha would soon be overrun by them. The right to arrest suspicious characters is exercised by the police in every city. Such powers are necessarily conferred upon policemen in large cities to pre- vent depredations upon property and assaults upon defenseless versons, The trouble with the police of Omaha is that they have too often over-stepped the bounds of good judgment in making arrests, and the fault lies not with the system but with the men at the head of the police force. There is a well- gounded suspicion that certain police officers use this authority to satisfy pri- vate grievances against individuals or for the purpose of extortion. These charges should be carefully considered by the proper authorities, and if such officers or patrolmen are found guilty they should be dismissed. There are members on the force totally unfit for police duty. They lack common sense and judgment. They do not know the difference between an inoffensive citizen or stranger who hapbpens to be belated at night, and a thug or thief prowling about in quest of prey. Such addle- headed policemen should be weeded out of the forc The sweeping curtailment of the pow- ers of the police, as contemplated in Mr. Hascall’s ordinance, would only tend to destroy the efficiency of the police force. DEMOCRATIC LEGACIES. The incompetency and inefficiency of the last admimistration in nearly every department of the public service have frequently been pointed out. The wretched management of the postal service was a source of complaint from every portion of the country, a complete recovery from the demoralization hav- ing not yet been accomplished. The blundering in the interior department was extensive and much of it trouble- some. The treasury department only escaped a like eriti- cism because compelled to fol- low lines laid down by previous administrations. The follies of the state department are a matter of history which a majority of the American peo- ple would be glad to have eliminated. The war department did nothing the advantage or improvement of that branch of the publicservice. The navy department earned some credit, but not until it had leasned something from blundering. New evidences of the administrative weakness of the Cleveland regime come to light almost daily. Two have justde- veloped, one in the office of the sixth au- ditor for the postoffice department, the other in the public printing office. Iu the former the accounts are found to be very much in arrears, and besides a portion of the papers were left in such condition that great dificulty is being found in handling them. This is one of the offices in which economical re- form was said to have been carried to a high state of development. The result is that & vast amount of extra work has to be done by the present auditor, and such is the confusion of the legacy left to him that it is extremely doubtful whether the government will ever be able to accurately ascertain what is right and what wrong in the accounts remaining to be adjusted. As to the government printing office, there will be no surprise at the discovery of mal- administration in that branch of the public servicp. The man who was the head of that 4ffice was well known to be wholly withput. the qualifications to manage it judiciously, and besides he was the merest/creature of the demo- cratic politicfins, The institution offers opportiinffies more favorable than any other unddy the government for ex- travagance and corrupt practices, and the public ‘printer under the last administration . was not the man to successfully resist the tendencies in these directions, The wisdom of main-~ taining this office has been many times soriously questioned by those who be- liove the government could effect a material saving by having its printing done by private contract. ‘Whether or not auything remains to be disclosed as evidence of the want of oapncity and the shortcomings of the Cleveland administration, thero has al- ready been sufficient to deprive 1t of most of the glamour with which dem- ocrats have sought to surround it. The simple truth is, it was composed of men either without the experience in public affairs to render them good officials, or so entirely directed by their politicad ambition as to have no care for anything that did not contribute to this, Almost every member of the adminis- tration, the president included, was playing for a stake in the future, and politics, rather than the duties of gov- ernment, was the source of their con- tinual interest and solicitude. Under such circumstances an incompetent and inefficient public service was inevit- able. Tne Southwestern Mining association takes very strong grounds against the effort that is boing made to secure a re- versal of the policy that has long pre- vailed of allowing lead ores from Mex- ico to enter this country froe, and the fight over this subject is likely to be- come more interosting. The associa- tion say that if the policy is reversed it will destroy the smelting industries of the southwest, injure and retard the prosperity of that section. and prove dumaging to the commercial lations existing between Mexico and the United States, in all of which it must be confessed there is some force. There should be no hasty action in the matter, which is one that evidently merits the careful investica- tion of congress. If our lead interests can show that under present conditions they are subjected, as they claim, to an unfair and ruinous compstition, they should be given ttie relief they ask, but their case ought tp be very conclusively established before anything is done that might result ‘to the serious injury of interests in the southwest and to the detriment of our commercial relations with Mexico. —e WiTH characteristic pluck the people of Spokane Fallsare clearing away the debris of their great fire and are Yegin- ning the erection of a city grander and better than the ohe destroyed. IN all probability the undertakers will form a syndicate to buy up Dr. Brown-Sequard’s elixer of life. JONN L. SULLIVAN’S trials from all accounts have only just begun. Boston's Newest Verb, Boston Globe. Wad-el-Jumi has been John-L-Sullivaned at Toski by General Grenfell. ——— An Off Year For Both, Eansas Oity Times. The Gentiles carried Salt Lake City at the recent election. This seems to be a bad year for Mormonism and prohibition. ————— A St. Louis O ssion. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If it is desirable to treat foreign visitors to an epidemic of cholera, Chicago in her pre- sent condition of defective drainage, is the place for the world’s fair, e ‘What's the Matter With Hanna? Peoria Transeript. Anaconda 15 the name of Montana's new capital. The old capital will now go down hill. The Montanians won't raise Helena more. —— Don’t Tov With the Editor. Chicago Times, A bad man triea to kill an editor at Mount Vernon, Ky. Result: Editor still doing business as usual and bad man in jail. It is due to the kind-heartedness of the editor that the bad man isn’t now en route to another world. e The Musical Movement in Quakerville Philadelphia Age. One gentleman read a long essay about the “Absolute in the Beautiful; or, why Chopin would never have played well with the fourth finger of his left hand.” S THE AFTERNOON TEA. Consoler (to newly-made widow)—You won’'t have to go Into mourning, you know. Some very stylish people don’t. Widow— Oh, dear! Why, if I can't wear black I al- most wish John hadn’t died. Queen Victoria will have her colonel’s uni- form cut decollete. As a prominent warrior she thinks she ought to bare arms. ‘The seuside bathers institute A paradox iu action, Because with thém the less the suit The more the fdtisfaction, A bachelor who lives in Newark, N. J.,and who has always had w fear that his little wife might rule him, says now that anew idea has struck him. He 13 going to marry a type- writer girl because he can dictate to her, The fashionable Léndon wedding ring hi recently been of 'dyll gold, but Princess Louise went back 4o the old fashion and choso hars bright., A Pittsburg miss now in London is said to have witten to thy Friucess Louise, duchess of Fife, offering te buy one of the numerous sets of bracelets presented to ber on her re- cent marriage. J 0, George,” shié hurmered, “I know you are strong and will ‘protect me, vet even now, a8 we recline {n this swinging bam- mock, T am surrounded by fear." “Fear, wy darling!” said George De Romelyy, ‘what fear can surround youi” ‘*Atmos- phere,”” she chuckled, and the hammock broke down to punish her. “How dare you treat me thusi' he wrote, *“You saucy little shrew— To call me small potatoes just Because I'm mashed on you?" She seized the pen in willful mood, And these lines off she dashed, ““The smaller the potatoes are, The easier they’re mashed.” Miss Mary Lincoln, daughter of the Americau winister, says the Londoun Star, is very pretty, with a strong individuality of her own, She has the pale, smooth Ameri- can complexion, aud she has & charming swile, Then she dresses like & IFrench- woman, o the chances aro that next season Miss Lincoln will be an acknowledged belle, and the American embassy gayer than it h been for years. Mra. Mackay, since her residence in Lon- don, calls hersell Mrs, Hungerford-Mackay. The passion for double names in Evgland is row as groat as in Spain, where balf the people are called after both their fathers and mothers. Ho~—*‘What would you do if I wore to of- fer to give you a kissi” She—"See if my little brother is under the sofa.” When the young woman with the gorea dress falls in love with the young man with tho gourd head it's another example of the eternal fitness of things. A young man named Mitchell is trying to et the courts to annul his marriage, He says he was kidnapped and forced to marry & woman whom ho never saw before, whom he has nover seon since, and whom he wouldn't know again, Such being the oase Mr. Mitchell ought to be freed. A man is at leasy entitled to a speaking acquaintance with his wife. When he is denied this it is time to rebel. —_—— STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. There is only oue prisoner in the couaty jail. Syracuse has voted bonds for the building of a $10,000 school house, Two hundred and eighty-seven teachers attended the Holt county normal. [ Tho creamery at York will be completed and ready for operation September 1. The Soventh annual oxhibition of the Nemuha Valley Fair association will be held from September 9 to 13 inclusive. A section hand named Brueis in jail at Hebron for strikine his wife, fracturing her jaw and knocking out several tecth. The couple are residents of Davenvort. John Jessen, a Webster county farmer, reports that he dug fifty-five potatoes out of one hill, enough for three good meals. A stranger stole a team from Horry & Co., liverymen at Blair, but three days later the missing horses were found at i There are now 175 patients in the Norfolk insane asylum, thirty patients having just been received from the Lincoln asylum, Knox county's sixth annual fair will be held at Creighton September 17, 18 and 19, and promises to be a grand succes in every way. Congressman Dorsey has received a deed for 12,040 acres of land in Holtscounty, prob- ably the largest realty deal ever made in that county. Frank Pickett, of Creighton, had his eye- ball knocked from its socket by a sharp stick recently, but it was replaced and he will not lose his sight. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wall are the happy parects of the first child born in the village of Bayard, Chevenne county. It is & boy, and all the inhabitants are rejoicing. G. W. Mayfield, editor of the Lowsville Observer, has a curiosity in the shape of a petrified human limb which was discovered in a sand pit at Cedar Creek eighty-five feet below the surface. During the storm at Warner, George Daw- son was instantly killed by lightning and George Richardson wus severely stunned. Four horses were also kilied and much dam- age was done by the sudden rise of the Nemaha river. John Madder, & Custer county farmer, quarreled with his wife because she had punished one of the children and seized her by the hanc, dislocating the wrist and break- ing the laree bone. Alady in maie attire was recently arrosted at Alliance. The arrest took place on board an incoming train. She dressed in this man- ner for the purpose of seouring free trans- portation as a railroad laborer in company with her sweetheart. They were afterwards married at Alliance. The names of the parties are Joe H. Hill and E. Frankie Stewart, of South Omaha. Platte N Towa Items, No pools will be sold at the state fair this year. Apples aro a drug on the market in Mon- roe county. Durant now has a savings bank, $30,000 capital. A seed company has.been organized at In- dependence with $15,000 capitai. Seven business men of Ida Grove have gone to Texas with a view of locating. A squaro has been set apart at Ottumwa where farmers may hitch their horses. A pig and a steer were among the prizes raffled off at a Catholic fair in Ida county. Tho Mexican war veterans will hold their anuual reunion at Des Moines September 3 and 4, There are 301 boys in the Eldora indus- trial school, and 110 girls at the school at Mitchellville. The Tama Free Press savs there are too many drunken men on the streets of that thriving town. ‘The Davenport city council had a picnic the other day and were hauled to the woods in tne patrol wagon. Lon Bodel, a Webster county farmer, was thrown from a mule, and his foot catching in the stirrup he was kicked to death, A Dubugue young man who forcibly kissed a prominent society girl was arrested, but was discharged atter apologizing to the lady and her parents before the court. The eighty-first birthday of Mrs. Millicent Gregg, of Springville, was celebrated the other day, and seven of the guests who were present rolled up a total of 572 years, au average of ov:r cighty years apiece. A fish about eight inches in length was caught by a young man at Frentress lake, near Dubuque, the other day. It looked queer while hanging on the line, and after he had landed it be found that it 'had swal- lowed a water snake, which had made a hole in the side of the fisn. The snake had worked about six inches of its body through the hole and had turned around and swal- lowed about five inches of its own tail and the head of the fish. Wryoming and Colorado. Akron, Col., is four years old and hasa population of 1,000, When $500 15 raised the Laramie glass works will be started up. The fall term of the Wyomiug university at Laramie opens September 10. Fred Ford, a mining expert, was stricken with paralysie while walking along the street in Denver. Marsh & Cooper, of Laramie, have con- tracted to build twenty-one miles of wire fence for the Union Pacific between Lara- mie and Rawlins. A thief at Aspen, Col., who was arrested at the point of & revolver, nearly lost his life by lowering his hands to reach into his pocket after a cigarotte, Tur Bee has received from Mr. E. Q. Brainard, of Amherst, Col., some fine speci- mens of oats raised in the rain belt, iu the northeastern part of that state, There were 155 deaths n Denver last month, of which 111 of the parties were single, thirty-eight married wod six were widows, Eighteen died of consumption and two were shot. 1t is said thav the Episcopal miscion at North Fork, Wyo., which has experienced many reverses since it was first started five years ago, is now prospering. Some of those who attend the Sunday school and services travel a distance of six miles to do so, But few have less than & mile, Some time ago & Yuma firm failing to get logal possession of mortgaged property in Holyoke, other means were resorted 1o and the property brought to Yuma. The sequel was enacted & few days ago by an armed party from Holyoke marching into Yuma with a warrant charging the mortgagees with horse stealing, which warraot was served. The gentlemen were promptly res- cued from their captors by friends, who ac- complished the feat by arresting them for carrying concealed weapons. The Cheyenne Sun says that Douglas creek is on the eve of a great mining boow. ‘A group of placer mines have been pur- chasod there by an Euglish syndicate and extensive operations are to be carried on. The group sold includes the celebrated Key- stone lodge, from which over $100,000 has already boen taken. Thero are miny pri vate claims and quartz lodges in the vicinity, which will now be developed under the im- ulse of the recent investinents there. Doug- a8 creek prowises to be a steady producer of gold, und the Laramie people have reason to congratulate themselyes, as the city will undoubtedly be grestly benefitted by the output of the camp. with AFTER THE GREAT FLOOD, Sult to Be Instituted Againtt the Burlington For Damages. FIFTY PERSONS INTERESTED, Holdrege Loan and Trust Company— Stout and Chong Hong, the Ch'na. man, Taken to DoWitt For ‘Trial—Capitol Jottings. 1020 P Staret, LINCOLN, August 14, The flood tide reached its height last night about © o'clock. At 11 o'clock the waters commenced to rocede slowly and at daybreak they had fallen about two feot. It is estimated that there are 2,500 peoplo victims of this remarkable freshot that have beon compolled ut accept the cher~ ity of whe city. The Park school building, the old Metropolitan hotel and some of the public buildings of the city are full of home- less people. Although late, the trains wore sont out to-day, but it is stated that it will take several days t put the tracks crossing the bottoms in good or oven safe repair. 1t is yot impossi- ble to estimate the damage, for at noon to- day, save over raised grades, the water covered the low lands, It is still talked that two or three persons were drowned below the city in attempting to save stock, and verification is expected this afternoon. At least three are missing who were scen yes- terday morn and they have not reported J The city is providing the unfor- tunate peovle with provisio and will continue to do 8o as long as necessary. The opinion is general that the growing crops on thie bottom lands are greatly damaged if nov ruined. At 3:30 o'clock soveral partios, supposed to have been drowned south of the city, haa reported as ohirp as crickets. Tt appoars that. they got beyond their depth, and took the hazard of remaining 1 a house over night with water skirting its siaes ton foct from its base. 1t is reported that over one thousand head of hogs were drowned. A farmer who lives on the Oak creek bottoms lost three head of cows. Hesides tha two teams of horses reported drowned this morn- ing, & team of mules also perished in the waters. Their driver, Joe Deklotz, escaped by swimming toa tree and climbing among its branches, where he remained for more than two hours before he was rescued. It is safe to say that by to-morrow a fair approximate can be made of the damege done. H. F. Bruse, a grocer who lives near tho corner of Second and I streets, and some fifty others who reside on the It creek bottoms, announce their intention of bring- ing suit against the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney railroad company for damages re- sulting from the flood, Indeed, Bruse has employed attorn and he says that if the cause works out *‘For the good of God,” the echoes of uvhe receding waters will hurdly die away before others will squeal who have been less damaged by nature's handiwork. It appears that the Burlington grade is so constructod in that part of the city that there is no chance for the water to pass through, and as a result it backs up and forms a perfect dam, inundating the iands of that section to a considerable depth, whereas they would otherwise be high and dry. It is learned that the petitioner will set up this fact, and, further, that the lacds are much higher on the east than they are on the west side of the track. Now, with the idea in mind that the Bur- lington grade runs into the lower bottoms, forming an extensive embank- ment, and that the parties who oclaim damages live between the grade and the plateau upon which the city broper stands, some conception can be had of the bases upon which the complainants dropose to risk their cases. It is understood that Bruse and his attorneys claim that he and his neighbors would not have been damaged to any extent had 1t not been for the grade in n. In fact, he alleges that the foun- n of his house would have been above the highest mark the water reached while, as it was, the water covered the platform of his store and inunaated the floors of the homes of nearly all of his neighbors, utterly destroying some of their furnishings and washing out and undermining many of the be;: {fmudnmm' Bruse's case is to be mado a test LixcorN BURRAU OF THE OMARA t3en, } Stave House Jot ings. The case of the Chicago, ‘Burlington & Quincy Railrond company vs the district court of Lancaster county was filed for trial before the supreme court, to-day. The governor, secretary of state, treas- urer, auditor of public accounts, attorney general and commissioner of publio lands and buildings all hied themselves to Kearney to-aay to attend the reunion. Deputy Auditor George Bowerman is on- {oying 8 visit from esstorn friends. - Ho put n the day showing them over the city and his chair was filled by one of his clerical as- sociates. The examining board of the state board of pharmacy met to-day in the senate chamber to examine would-be practitioners. Quite a largo class folded manuscripts at 8 o'clock and will got their grades ina day or two. There was a full attendance of the board of examiners. President James ~ Roeed, of Nebraska City, registered at the Windsor last night. He reports the class a very in- telligent one to-day. Loan, Trust and Gas Companies. Articles incorporating the Holdrege Loan and Trust company were filed in the office of the secretary of state to-day. Business com- menced at Holdrege, Phelps county, the principal place tixed upon for the transaction of business, July 30, 1889, and continues thereafter fifty yoars, Thearticles stipulate its purpose to be the trausaction of a general loan, trust and gusrantee business. Cabital stock $20,000, which is divided into 200 shares of $100 each, all of which has been vaid in hand. Iacorporators: William E. Mainard, of Dayken, Jefferson county; John W. Lytle, of Western, Saline county, and Henry P. Camp, of Omaha, Douglas county. The Lincoln Gas company also filed amended articles of incorporation. Article 1 recites that the purpose of the company is to purchase, hold and own switable grounds in the city of Liucoln to erect and mainvain buildings and works for the manufacture and purification of illuminating and fuel gas and electricity for illuminatipi chanical aud chemical purpo: faoturing, selling and supplying electricity to individuals, corpol an associations, and to the public buildings and institutions situated in the city or adjacent thereto. Article 4 recites that the capital stock, together with that in existenoe, is in- creased to $325,000, and that $100,000 of the additional stock shall be issued and divided among the present stockholders; that the residue may be issued to others for money, machinery, patents or other property appli- ance that may be necessary or conveniont to carry on the business of the wstitution. Ar- ticle 8 recites that the capital stock shall con- sist of 8,250 shares of $100 each, Board of directors: H. J, Wals] . C. Saunders, George W. Hamlin, George M. Walsh sud Amanda M. Putnam City News and Notes. The case of Jobn Kiusilta, charged with assault with inteat to kill C.L.Thill, was compromised to-day. The parties lve in West Lincoln, and appeared 1n Judge Seell- ing's court. Fred Albers, of Cortland, and Mrs. Anna Deidrick, of Princoton, were licensed to wed to-day by Judge Stewart. W. M. Dennis and Miss Maggie Mcioberts were marriod at St. ‘Thercsa’s church this morning, Kev. Walsh ofticiating. efore Judge Stewart and ljlll’y the case of the First National bank vs J. C. McBride was tried to-day. Some two years ago M Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria, Wheg Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. ‘When sho was & Child, she eriad for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung 40 Castoria, WWh2a shobad Children, she gave tiem Castoria Bride purchased ten shares in the Rapd Transit com ¥ % ono-tanth down and mvlnf his note balance. This note found its way into; which now sécks to Pecover thoreon. Mo nndc'u!z,ranu.r that the understanding was that the 3; was to be an electrio rail- way, instoad oFWhich the motive power was mules, therefore he refusod to complete his purchase, The monthly soclal of Lincoln lodge, K. 0- P., which was to have beon held this even ing, has been postponed, owing to the death of a young son of J. W, Percival, one of the offioars of the lodge. Marshal Wilder, of DoWitt, was in the oity to-day and will take back’ with him W. Hong Chong and James Stout, who are wanted for robbing several residences thore on the night of June 12. Mr. Wilder was accompanied by Mr. Ribble, cashier of one of the banks there, who identified the gold wateh found on the Chinaman as the prop- erty of his wife. The gentleman's gold watch, found on tho street, was identified by the marshal as belonging to C. W. Roigh, also a banker of DoWitt. Mr. and Mrs. J, J. Lichty loft to-day for Detroit, Mich., whore thay will make their future home. Mrs. John M. Miller and daughtor, Miss Katie, of Lay fayette, who have boon visiting Attorney Green and family for several wecks past, left for home to-day. A. W. Ball left to-day for Washington ter- ritory to take charzo of his official position. It will be remembered that he_recently re. coived an appointment to the United States land office at Seattle. Ex-Chancellor Manatt expects to ho at Athens by October 1. He will leave Lincoln within ten days. * Hon. G. M. Lambortson and Louie Mayer returnod homo to day from thelr castorn visit, OMcer Kenney is enjoying his annual lay off of fifteen days on full pay. — AMONG THE RAILROADS, Will Cease Welghing Live Stook—A Railroad to Beateice—Other Notes, An order was issued at St. Louis Tues- day to the effect that in future the Missourt Pacific will ship no more cattle from Kansas City urder the weighing rule, but that they will return o the old carload method. The reasons for this action are not gi any rato the off ill be a practical d| tinuance of the woighing rule at Kar City and possibly other points. A Railrond to Beatrice. Work on the Kansas City & Beatrice, a branch of the Missouri Pacific, from Sum- mertield to Beatrico, a distance of thirty miles, was begun Tuesday and will b pushed to completion as rapidly as possiole. This is a part of a direct line from Kansas City to southern Nebraska, which has been con- templated by the Missour: Pacific for a long tune. Kansas City capitalists, anxious to in- vade Omaha's territory, are said to be be- hind the scheme. Official Returns. The Union Pacific roceivod its official re port from Lincoln regarding the Salt Creek flood at 11:80 yesterday morning. The banks of the stroam north of the station and south of the B. & M. tracks are fioodod, and tho the tracks are in very bad condition, Be- tween Lincoln and Princeton the tracks aro very bad, while at n poiot midway between Cortland and Beatrice they are especially bad. Asarulo the bridges are all right, with the exception of being badly washed at the ends. Change in Paul Time Card. The following important changes will be made in the time card of the Nebraska divi- sion of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, and will go into effect on Sunday next: No. 6, the north-bound Sioux City way froight, which formerly left Omaha at 3:85 a. m., will hereafter leave at 7:15 a. m. instead, Nos. 8 and 4, at present oben ac. commodation trains between Omaha and Oak'and. will hereafter run between Omuha and Sioux City, each carrying a coach and fast time freight. No. 4 will leave Omaha at 7:40 a. m., and arrive in Swux City at p.m. No. 3 will leave Sioux City at 2:35 p. m,, and arrive in Omaha at 9:15 p. m. This change is an important one, as it will furnish a quick through freight route from gulf poinis via the Missouri Pacific and the Chi- cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha rail- roads to St. Paul and Lake Superior points each way. Railroad Notes. The rumor published in the Lincoln papers a few days ogo, to the effect that the B. & M. would erect a storehouse at Wymore is densed at headquarters, the general manag- or's ofice having heard nothing of the matter. Paul Vanderbrook, traveling passonger nt of the Northern Pacific at’Des Moines is in the city. The proposed Union Pacific shops at Den- ver, au exclusive account of which appearea in Tue Ber a few days ago, will be erected at the junction of the Kansus Paciflo, Den- ver Pacific and Colorado Central roads. The shops of the Denver and South Park road will be consolidated with them. Paul Gruber., commercial agent of the Massouri, Kansas & Texas, at Kansas City, is in the oity. According to_recent figures, the expenscs of tho Burlington and Union Pacitic roads during the first five months of 1559 were as follows: Burlington, 70 per cent of the earnings; Union Pacific, 65 per cent. The operating expenses of the Burlington wero 1,400 per mle; Union Pacific, $1,51. The gross earnings of the Union Pacific were $2,123 per mile; Burlington, 2,004, 1. J. Mayes, northwestern passenger agent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf, and A. N. Webster, traveling passenger agent of the West Shore, are in Omaha, Yardmaster Hoyes of the B. & M. is oft on a ton days’ fishing trip. Assistant_General Manager Dickinson of the Union Pacific, accompaniod by Train- master Baxter, left for the west yestorday morning. The Missouri Pacific trains, which have delayed for three days on account of a washout near Falls City, commenced ruue ning on uime yosterday, e Never take cold drinks without Mi- halovitch’s Hungarian blackberry juice. e Mall Carrers Asked to Resign Portsmourn, N. H,, August 14, —Postmas- ter Sides last night refuested the mail car- riers attached to the postoffice here to resign, their resignations to takee ffect September 1. The carriers with one aloe&nlnn refused, proferring to receive their discharge from the postmaster general. ANOTHER CHILD LOST, Wholly Because of the Criminal Oarelessness of the FParent How Parents by a Lack of Precaution and Care ara Resonsible for the Deaths of Thelr Ohildren. Lost! Notin the streets of the city; not in the woods, but lost to tho parents through death! Tho report of the Board of Health in New York shows tiat more than one-third ot all deaths during #he Summer are childien, Cholera infantum, teething, Summet troubles, unripe frult—all are at war with the littie cres: tare whom 1t 1s the parcnt's solemn duty to protect, Nearly all these wad deaths might have Deen avolded. Parents tioughtlcssly neglect their children, but they are none the less criminally 1esponsible, Watch the tender child that hLewven has sent you. Do not wait for the ap- proach of sickness, but fortify its littlo body against the terrible evils of Summer. Milllons The simplest and surest way to do this is al- ways the best. Put two drops of Perry Davis® Pain-Killer in the chlid's Uquid food, This will Kill the germs; will provent disease, I is won- derful what an effect thissiinple precaution has One mother. writing on the subject, says;: “Money could not 1emps me to g0 through the Bummer without & bottle of Peiry Davis' Pain-Killer close at hand, Tlost one child that 1 am certain could have been saved had I used this remedy, and | haye always folt responsible for its death. None of my children have since been sick during the summer, which is due to wy and the free use of Paln-Killer,” ‘I'here are thousauds of parents following the same course, aud the constant death of their children 1s thelr reward. No parent can afford to risk the life of & child when so sure and simple a means of safety can be secured.