Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 9, 1889, Page 4

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Sworn Statement of OCirculation, State of Nebraska, [T County of Douglas, (® George B3, Tzschuck, secretary of The Ies Publishing Company, doessolemnly swear that the mctual circulation of Tiw DALY BEe for the week ending September 7, 1850, was a8 fol lows: Sunday. Sept. 1. Monany, Sept, 2 Tuesdny. Se 18,600 dny, Sept. Baturduy, Sept. 7. AVErage......ieveinnis . GEORGE B. TZSCHU UK. Bworn to before me and subscribed to in my PRgALce this 7th day of Beptember, A. D, 1880, al. . P. FELL, Notary Publiz., State of Nebraska, County of Dowglns, { %% George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Joien and says that he ia secretary of The' fise blishing company, that the actual average dally eircnlation of Tug DAILY Brr for the Juonth of September. 184, 18101’ cople tober 1684, 16,084 copies: for._November, 1858, 1 986 copies: for December, 1888, 18,223 coples;’ fol January, 180, 18,174, coples; for February, 1850, Imn copies; for March, 1449, 14864 copte April, 189, 18,559 coples; for Mni’ 1 goplok: for' June. 1850, 18, conld 38 coples; for August, 1 Gro, B Tzse Sworn to before me and subscribe Presence this S1st day of August, [8KAL] . P, Frir, N AFTER exposition week the fires will be lighted under the municipal political pot. THE great question in the mouths of Washington politicians is, will Tanner resign? WHEN the grand jury gets down to work a caleium light should be turned on the county hospital steals. won is now ng by easy Let it come. at Des Moines, and is mo stages towards Omaha. HE a poor politician who can not get an mvitation to address a county fair or a cattle show through the state these days. A DENVER real estate firm avishes to give away a thousand lots in that place to Omaha people. The question is whether the lots are worth the taxes. BARON PULLMAN knows how to make humself solid with Chicago. He has juet subscribed for one hundred thou- sand dollars worth of ’s, fair stock. ARE the Omaha street railway and the electric motor companies to engage in another Murphy-Mercer wrestling mateh over the right-of-way on Lowe avenue? THE commercial agencies of the coun- try see improvement in almost every branch of business. This buoyancy is traced to the certainty of large crops, and there is every reason to believe that the fall and winter trade will equal the high expectations of the sanguine business world. THE secretary of war proposes to treat the subject of desertion from the army exhaustively in his forthcoming report and to suggest changes in camp and bar- rack life which will make the soldier’s life more satisiactory. True it is that desertion has become a growing evil in the service and must be checked before it demoralizes the whole army. THe geological survey during the month of July made good progress in the survey for the irrigation and re- clamation of the arid lands of the west. An area of over three thousand, five hundred square miles was covered, and operations were carried on in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and Nevada. It ishighly probable that the geological department will be able to lay before congress early in its ses- sion a pretty thorough report touching this subject, and will demonstrate whether irrigation on a large scale is practicable within the arid regions of the country. THE report received at the bureau of steam engineering of the navy depart- ment from the inspectors sent to San Francisco to test the new cruiser Charleston is somewhat disappointing. On its second and last trial the vessel failed to develop the contract require- ment of seven thousand horse power by throe hundred. This will subject ber builders to a penalty of thirty thou- sand dollars, It is possible, however, that the contractors will ask .for an- other trial before tendering the vessel to the government. This is not at all uncommon among the English, where a8 many as twenty-four tests were re- cently applied before a war vessel was accented by the British government. ALMOST every day repoet is brought from the Behring sea that a British sealer has been boarded by an Ameor- ican revenue cutter, its store of skins confiscated and a *‘prize crew,” cousist- ing of one seaman, put aboard the of- fender, with instructions to sail the ves- sol into some American port. Tnstead ot obeying orders, however, the British poacher either resumes its sealing depredations or sails away whither it chooses, despite the protest of the *‘prize crew.” This sorv of thing has been gowng on for some time, and it looks very much as if the British skippers treat the interference of the American revenue cutters wish their business as a huge joke, Itremaiusto be seen how long the Rush will keep up its bloodless conguests before it will receive orders toadopt more stringent measures Lo protect the sealing grounds. TRYING TO SERVE TWO MASTERS. The only defense that the organs of the railroad bosses have 8o far seen fit to make in justifieation of the plet to foist Gilbert M. Laws upon the people of the Second district as their repre- sentative in congress is that Mr. Laws has been a man of unimpeachable char- acter and spotless integrity. Asa pri- vate citizen, yes. But howdoes he stand as a public officer? How did he conduct himself as registrar of the MeCook land office? Itis a matter of history substantiated by reports of special agents, Green and Coburn, that high- handed frauds and.impostures were committed by the connivance of the officials of the McCook land office. The most flagrant of these frauds was per- petrated on the very day when the Me- Cook land office was opened. The special agents who made these charges were republicans, and therefore their reports can not be truthfully assmled on the ground of political bins. While it is true that these offenses wers sub- sequently condoned and whitewashed, every well informed person in the Sec- ond district knows how the land claims on Stinking Water creek were pro- cured. The conduct of Mr. Laws asa member of thé state railroad commission has been even more reprehensible. He has not only failed to live up to the pledges the republican party made for him, but he has made the commission a sham and a farce. When a public man considers his aliegiance to railroads more bind- ing than his oath of office and his ob- ligations to the people, he is not a proper person to represent this state in the national legislature. The trouble with the admirers of Mr. Laws in the Second district is that they have a very low estimate of the standard of public morals. A man may have been a brave soldier and he may be intelligent, sober and in- dustrious, but if he has surrendered his manhood and bargained away his free- dom of action for the good will and sup- port of corporate monopolies, he can not be safely trusted with responsibili- ties of public office. A man can not serve two masters. WHEREIN THEY ARE ALLIES. The prohibitionists and liquor sellers of the east are solid allies in opposition to high license. The liquor dealers of New York held a convention last week, and among their resolutions was one de- claring that **we are opposed to that at- tempt to regulate vhich seeks by high license to discriminate between the vich and the poor, or against one lo- cality.” The prohibitionists of New York and Massachusetts also held con- ventions last week, both condemning high license, those of the lat- ter state declaring that ‘“‘we heartily reject high license as opposed to experience and utterly misleading in its promises.” Thus the extremists join in condemning a policy which is steadily growing in the ap- proval and confidence of practical, con- servative men. . There is another respect in which these antagonistic elements are fight- ing for the same end. That is to defeat therepublican party. The New York liquor dealers’ convention dis- tinetly in the interest of Governor Hill, and was so pronounced in this respect that the governor has disclaimed any desire to pose before, the country as peculiarly a liquor deal- ers’ candidate. The real purpose, however, may not have been to promote hus political fortunes so much us to serve notice on other democratic aspirants and the party generally that in order to secure the liquor support they must be in accord with the policy Goyernor Hill has followed. The prohibition party in New York, as in Pennsylvania and Ohio, intends to direct all its cnergies for the defeat of the republican candi- dates, and ie figuring on making large gains, which will be drawn mai from the republicans. The suchusetts . prohibitionists passed a resolution roundly denouncing the republican party of that state, and characterizing the party generally as the friend of intemperan Against these forces, virtually allied so far as the republican party in the states named is concerned, that par fully committed to a judicious and practicable policy of restraining and controlling the liquor trafiic, will need to do vigorous battle. Asto Massachu- setts and Pennsylvania, republican suc- cess may be regarded as assured, though diminished majorities are to be expected. but the united efforts of the liquordealers and prohibitionistsin New York in the interest of democracy are to be feared, while in Ohio there is dan- ger from prohibition gains draw n from the re publican vote. was SENATORS AND PACKERS. The refusal of the leading Chicago packers to appear beiore the senate committee investigating the dressed beef trade has elicited general news- paper comment unfavorable to the packers. The ground of refusal stated by one of them, and doubtless concurred in by all, that the chairman of the committee, Senator Vest, is hostile to Chicago interests, and that therefore the packers could not expect fair treat- ment from him, is not generally re- garded as sound and tenable. The New York Commercial Advertiser says of it that it is no reason at.all, and that if the packers believe their business methods to be proper and legal the hostility of Mr. Vest was the strongest possible ar- gument for meeling the committee and vindicating the dressed beef business from the accusations of its enemies. If there is anything wrong with these methods the refusal to appear before the committee was the surest means of leading to & publie disclosure, The New York Zimes, while expressing the beliel that some of = the at- tacks upon the dressed-beef ring, so- called, are founded in ignorance and prejudice, says that “‘at any rate the principle enunciated by Mr. Armour would be extremely confusing if logi- cally carried out. If the witness is to be the final judga of the fairness and judicial quality of the court, the au- thority of the subpoena will presently fall into such contempt that that old and useful process will be abandoned. Moreover, the senate way find & way to make the dressed-beef men of Chicago regret having taken such lofty ground.” There is much other comment of a like character. The Chicago Tribwne thinks that there is no warrant for the opinion that the packers took an arbitrary stand, and says: ‘‘The real question is whether Vest, in his eagerness to serve St. Louis at the exvense of Chicago, was not try- ing to use the powers of the committee in an illegitimate manner and for an improper purpose in nrying into pri- vate matters and seeking to expose the business affairs of the Chicago dressed beet operators to the inspection of would-be rivals.” The T'mbune has no fears that the packers will suffer at the hands of congress. The St. Louis press is a unit in re- garding the course of the packers as insolent and defiant, and in insisting that it will be the duty of congress to take notice of it. It may be unfortunate that Mr. Vest isthe chairman of this investigating committee, inasmuch as he is supposed to Lave prejudicesto serve, but his selection was made agreeably to pre- cedent, and he represents the will and authority of the United States senate. Furthermore, he is but ono of several senators conducting this inves- tigation, and the refusal of any one to appear before the committee on the ground that he cannot expect fair treatment because he believes some member to be preju- diced aganinst his intervests isnecessarily a reflection upon the fairnessand integ- vity of the entire committee. Every member of the committee has equal power in conducting the investigation, and the reasonable supposition is that the aim of all of them is to- get at the trath. At any rate it is not reasonable to assume that the prejudicesof one would control the opinions of the others, so as to lead them to countenance unfair treat- ment, of any witness. It must therefore be obvious to any unpreju- diced person that the position taken by the packers was unwise, and the roason they gave therefor untenable. They did not ciaim that the senate had not the right to appoint the committee, but simply refused to respect the summons of the committee, for the protessed rea- son that they believed one of its mem- Dbers to be prejudiced against them. Their conduct is not justified by such a reason. It is very probable that the senate will take action to vindi- cate its authority in this matter, and it seems highly necessary that it should do so, if investigations by con- gressional committees are not to become wholly farcical and fruitless proceed- ings. It must beconfessed that they have been largely so in the past, owing mainly to the failure of congress to en- force its authority to inquire into public abuses, but either such inquiries should be abandoned or the power to make them be fully carried out. There is a wide public interest in this beef in- vestigation which will demand that it shall be continued until all the facts possible to be learned ave brought out. ki ENN. IS OURS. The eyes of the American people, or at least that great and increasing part of the American people which takes an interest in manly sports, are tixed on the base ball field with absorbing at- tention. The contests between the leading nines in the three ppincipal base ball organizations are close and excit- ing. The struggle in the Westorn association has particular interest for Omaha people for the reason that our team occupies first position. The team is almost certain to take the pennant. There are seventeen games more to be played and if Omaha takes five out of this number the pennant is ours. The remaining regular games to be played ou the home groundsare only three with Denyer, and two postponed ones with Des Moines. Base ball is now looked upon with favor by almost every elementand grade of society. HFastern people are more pronounced in ite favor, and cultured Boston is wild over the national pas- time. . The leading papers of the Hub gravely discuss the base ball situation from day to day in heayy editorials written by eminent journalists. n New York a company has been formed to erect a mammoth building in which the game can be played all winter long. In the National league the fight is close and hot between Boston and New York, with the chances in favor of the former. The American association presents the most exciting phase. The St. Louis Browns, champions for the past four years, have been overtaken for the first time by the Brooklyn team and there is aserious question whether the latter will not win the contest. In the make-up and material of the different associations, probably the league comes first, with the American association next and the Western a close third. Some local enthusiasts de- clare that Omaba has as good a team as any of them, but this is probably not true. It is a fact, however, that we have decidedly the best team in the Western association, and this is glory enough for the pres- ent. Iuna year or two Omaha may as- pire to & piace in the League, when a team will be placed in the field which will win even greater laurels than are now enjoyed. The managers and vlay- ers deserve the highest praise in thus presenting to the cities of this country the best club in the entire west. The advertisement the city eives from such a source is considerable, in the fact that the scores are printed ‘in the leading papers of the country and the standing agd character of the work done is commented upon by papers throughout the world. Next year the Omaha team will be further strengthened, and there is no doubt but that we will carry victory with us in the base bull as well as other fields of amusement and business. Tag indorsement of the bankrupt bill introduced by Judge Torrey, of St. Louis, at the adjourned meeting of the national convention of commercial bodies held at Minneapolis, is likely to be followed up by the introduction -of such u wmatter in congress. In eflect the Torrey M} s not materially differ from the ongmrwd for passage by the senate judiciary committee some time ago and wibsequently indorsed by the AmericA¥ Bar association. For that reason thixfforrey bill will receive a favorable reception in congress and stands a good ghance of becoming alaw. The purpose of the Torrey bill is to give the United States distriot court equity jurisdictidn in all cases of bank- ruptey. Thig" fhaicates that the pro- ceedings, 4K far as possible, are to be goVerned by the rules and principles of equity, ignoring both statutory. and arbitrary regula- tions, Such a law throws into the hand of the judges vast responsibilities, and for that reason is liable to abuse should for any reason the courts become corrupt or biased. It is difficult to see, however, in what way a bankrupt law can be enacted that shall be framed for the protection of commercial interests, as well as for the relief of honest debt- ors from their obligations, without giv- ing the United States courts jurisdic- tion and the judges the widest latitude in determining cases of insolvency. THE increase of hetween seven and eight million dollars in the public debt during the past two months furnishes a pleasing text for the papers whose po- litical capital isin criticising the ad- ministration. It certainly is not a fact in which anybody can find gratification. It is an evidence of carelessness or rock- lessness in some department which ought not to have been permitted. But it is not so bad as the critics of the ad- ministration would make it appear. Doubtless the explanation of the ap- parentincrease is that a disproportion- ate amount of money has been di bursed, or placed to the cvedit of di bursing officers during the past two months, but as the disbursements of all the departments must be kept for the year within the appropriation made by congress, it will simply happen that less money will go out in future months. Tie leading bankers of the east have not yet given up their idea of forming a “railway investors’ trust” to protect their interests against speculative rail- road managers. That looks like fight- ing the dovil with f They Are Gotting Together. Cleveland Leader, The way the democrats of Ohio are got- ting together just now reminds one of a bull- terrier championship contdst. g At o An Editors Ult St Joseph Herald. The mullionaires of St. Joseph must im- mediately subscribe at least £5,000,000 towara the world’s exposition, or the Herald will lend 1ts aid to St. Lou: Sitting Ball’s Honor. Chicago Herald, The charge ot poisoning preferred against Hon. Sitting Bull’ does great injustice to a gentleman whose services to his adopted country—or, rather, the country which adopted him—have always been marked by entire frankness and the absence of guile, It has never before heén churged that Mr. Bull assaulted a brother man with anything except a gun or a scalping knife. fus gotel 0 The Mystery of the Volts. Kansas City Times. Electricity hasn't been mastered yet by cousiderable of a plurality. Darwin A. Henry, an expert electrician, was killed in New Yorlk this week almost instantly by 1,000 volts of an alternating current passing through his body. Eugineer Leahy, em- ployed by the same company, had 2,000 volts pass through him, He says he felt as if he had been hit by a club, but was not seriously injured. Leahy 13 a very thin man, Henry was large and fleshy. However, it isn't safe even for thin men to experiment largely with the festive volts. bt R A Candid Opinion of Tanner. Fhiladelphia Press (Rep.) Commissioner Tanner is more foolish than vicious. He shows the bad manners of a spoiled child rather ‘thun the questionable impulses of willful perversity. His weak- ness is a loose and lawless tongue rather than a bad heart. His reproach is a lack of common sense more than a lack of upright purpose. He suffers more obloquy than he really deserves because bis truculent and silly escapades arm his foes ond disarm his friends. The result is that cager and ma- levolent eriticisin magnifles folly into wrong, while willing defense is halted by his gaucherie short of the measure of real jus- tice. We fancy that republican newspapers are not going to waste much strength in taking care of & functionary who shows no strength or sense in taking care of himself. If Mr. Tanner wauts the support which a public of - ficer may fairly expect so long as he moves in the line of his duty, he must not silenco oven fricndship by his senseless displays. He must not add to the issue, whether ho is honest and upright, the further question whether he has discretion and poise enough 10 hold any place, Tf he is going on opening s mouth, and if every time he opens his mouth he is going to put his foot in it, the conclusion will be that his footing is quite as slippery and uncertain as his tongue. P P STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jotrings, The three flour mills at Long Pine are run- ning mght aud day. The farmers in tbe viemity of Oliowa are talking of building an elevator, The Cass county republican convention will be hield at Weepihg Water, October 5, Elder M. 7. Hatigh, of Mortonville, Kan., has accepted o call tothe Christisn church at Fawbury. Delinquent_personal taxes amounting to #10,000 remain uncollected on the Webster county tax list. The corner stone of the new Adams county court house was laid iast week with appro- printe ceremonics. Burglars tried to blow a safe at Stuart the otiaer night, but they, broke their drill and failed in their underiaking, Mrs, Casta, living near Ci killed a Bftcen-pound bads ravishing her chicken coop. Hede and Stiva Junker, of Fairbury, who recently colobrated their goldeit wedding, have forty-three gragdehildren. Chadron voted down a proposition to issue $15,000 bonds to pay off the city’s indebted- ness and £,000 for the erection of a city hall. L E. Coapwan, of Lincoln, is building a grain olevator at Wellfleet. Lincoln county, 0 supply the demands of that new western wowu, James . Haviland, of North Loup, while cleaning a well, fell a distance of over one hundred feet in a bucket, jured, but will recover. Frank McConnaughay, a fourteen-year-old boy living near Superior, was kicked in the face by & vicious horse and severely injured. He will lose the sight of one eye, A young Fremonter is said 1o have fleeced professional gamblers of $300 and their atches' and jewelry in a quiet game of poker. He held four aces against four ings, The Lincola county commissioners have submitted a proposition to the electors to vote $150,000 1 bonds to the Missouri River, s, shot and r which was He was badly - North Platte & Denver railroad, on the con- dftion that the company has the com- pleted ana in running order by January 1 1890, no interest to acerue on the bonds untl the road I8 completed. The Red Willow county republicans have nominated the following_ticket: Judge, H. W. Keys; olerk, George W. Rope; treasuror, Ueorge Starbuck; sheriff, W. C. McCool; county commissioner, Stophen Bates. Coroner Oppermann, of Nemaha ocounty, vindicates himsolf from the charge of having buried the body of a floater in the Missouri without helding an inquost by saving that he was acting under speoial instructions from the county commissioners. The Grand Island Independent says that until the canning factory closes down for the season its operation will interfere to a con- siderable extent with the attendance at the public schools, about two hundred persons of school age being employed therein, Eli_Parks, a Holt county farmer living near Ewing, has decamped to provent arrest ona warrant oharging him with criminal assault on two little girls aged seven and nine years. There is ~great indignation n the neighborhood and if Parks is captured he may bo strung up. The Paxton Pilot says that Eva Yates fell into a big spring on the Birdwood the other day, yoing in_up to her chin just as the spring was going to bubble, and it threw her straight up and sho caught on to the limbs of a willow tree that was overhanging the spring and drew herself out. lowa 1tems, Hog cholera is raging in the vicinity of Britt. Allison Congregationalists are building a new churoh, Fort Morrison now has a fine artesian well 740 feot deop. Bmmetsburg oxpects to have a population of 10,000 within six years. The Lutberan college at Dubuque will be dedicated on tho 15th inst. There wera thirty-ono prisoners before the Dea Moines polico judge one mornfhg last weel. There were 101 arrests in Burlington dur- ing August, nearly one-half of thom boing for drunkenness. James Hilliary, who locate now the sito of Burlington, in 1992, dicd last week in the seventy-fifth year age. John O'Meara, for a numter of years em- ployed at the governor's oflice in the capacity of clerkand stenogrd@her, has been promoted to the position of chicf clerk, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of P. H. Bristow. A discussion of the light question has brought about the discovery that the Galena band, which was hired to heip celebrate the occasion when Dubuque began lighting her 8 with gas, 1554, has not been paid 8 services yet. . Colonel Ellsworth, who is actively ongaged in organizing the anti-prohibitionists of the state, has established headquarters in Des Molm» and will devote all his time and encrgies to the work he has undertaken. Ho has visited tho various towns and_citics of Towa and is convinced that a_thorough stato organization of those opposed to the prohibi- tion laws can now be effected. The colonel emphatically declares that there is no par- tisanshup in nis organization. on what is Ly Two Dakotas, Duel county farmiers complain of 00 much ran, It costs $20 Lo use indecent language on the streets of Sioux Falls. The work of excavating for the new col- lege at Fargo is under way. ater in the river at Bismarck is hes lower than ever before. The new seminary at Wessington Springs is nearly completed, snd the school will open September 17. Rapid City will voteon a proposition to bond the city for the purposo of subsidizing a railroad company. € Diwight L. Moody, the famous evangelist, will hold meetings in Sioux Falls tho ~ first two weeks in October. Liquor 18 sold without much _restraint in Ransom county and a fight will be made for high liconse at the next election. Frank Stickler, a fifteen-year-old boy, liv- ing near Wolsey, had both lezs broken by being run over by u loaded wagon. Several young ladies of Sioux Falls went on a lark the other evening and appeared on the streets in male attire. The Press says they were watched allthe time and intimates that if they continue such foolishness they will bo given a chanco to explain to one of the justices why things are thusly. The supreme court of the territory of Da- kota will convene in Yankton on the 25th and 26th of the present menth in adjourned ses- on. This wili be tho farewell gathering of he territorial supreme court and the last session of the appointed members of thut body. Itbegan its existence in that city twenty-eizht years ago, ~Jack Fassold, a Deadwood suloonkeeper, has a leg in a sling and & wife in jail. They have lived together unhappily for yoars, and when Fassold made an assault upon the woman she quickly resented it with a thirty- eight calibre_six-shooter, sending_throo bul- lets toward him in rapid succession. Only one took effect, that entering the fleshy part of the thigh. Life in Wyoming. A riding school has been organised by tho elite of Cheyenne. The Union Pacific shops at Laramie have started on ten hours time for the winter, Three new oil springs have recently been discovered about fifteen miles from Bonanza, A prominent citizen of Carbon county tells the Platte Valley Lyre that friends of the late Postmaster Averill and Cattle Kate are contributing to a fund to be used in prose- cuting the lynchers. A mare mule belonging to Commissioner Dyer, of Laramie county, has foaled a colt which is alive and well, This is said to be the second instance since the world began of amule bearing a colt. Crook county lcads all counties in the ter- ritory in the number of cattle returned. It is assessed for 124,116 head. Laramie county 18 second in cattle and first in horses, which are given at 14,661 head. Carbon leads in sheep by @ big majority, showing 154,613 head. While Mrs. Neil Harrigan and her two children were crossing a railroad bridge at Rock Springs, they were obliged to drop to the ground, a distance of fifteen feev, to avoid being struck by & passing train. Luck- ily they landed in soft dirt, and were not seriol injured, ‘The Buffalo ficho says that Johnson and Sheridan counties are forging to the front as corn producers. Scarcely a pound of corn meal is now imported by the merchants of the two counties, Yellow Dent corn is the variety chiefly cultivated, and constant ex- periments are convincing the farmers that it can be raised successfully and at a profit, Master DeForest Richards 1s probably the only fourteee-year-old boy in Wyoming, or possibly in thé west, who is entitled to tho crediv of having killed a cinnamon bear, says the Douglas Budget. This he did while out hunting with his father and Judge Dundy on the head of LaBonte one day last week, Mr. Richards also bagged a grizzly—whose strug- gles Lo escape from the cruel Jaws of the trap are described in vivid language by that geotieman, ‘The party had blue winged grouse in camp every day, aud antelope and deer were plentiful, - — A Fat Position For Dan, Dan Lamont will probably be elected president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, the largest in- dustrial corporation in the south, says a Birmingham, Ala., dispatch, = Ex- Governor Johu C, Brown, of Tennessee, who died about two weeks ago, was president of the company. Colonel J. 1. B. Juckson, who is second vice presi- dent of the company, returned to-day from New York. Hesays the New York stockholders of the company want La- mont elected president, and all the stockbolders in this city will vote for him. John A. Inman, of New York, who is a large stockholder, is backing Lamont for the place. A meeting of the directors will bes held in about ten days to elect a president. The Tennes- Coul, Iron and Railroad company owns over $3,000,000 worth of property in and around this city. The office of president pays a salary of $10,000 a year. - B Angostura Bitters restores the appe- tite and cures indigestior when all else fails, Manufactured by D. J. G. B. Sie- gert & Souns. At all druggists. EVERYTHING IN READINESS, The Fair at Lincoln In Apple Ple Order. A GRAND AND VARIED DISPLAY, The Trades Turnout Thuraday Even- ing—Emancipation Celebration Tenn's Tournament—A Labor Convestion, Streer, Lixoouy, Sept. 8. Proparation work continued at the exhibi tion grounds throughout the day, The cease- less activity there hardly impressea one with the fact that Sunday had come. Deft fingers and plenty of workmen brought order out of chaos, and before night the manage mentgp! tho state fair and exposition an- nounced that: everything was in readiness for the formal opening which takes place to- morrow morning, ‘The exhibit of 1839 18 beyond anything of the kind ever seon in the state. The boust of the state board of agriculture has not been an empty one in this regard. The day was a busy one at the grounds. This was especiaily the case at Agricultural, Floral and Art halls. Exhibitors were put- ting the odds and enas of their exhibits to- gether, and shaping things generally so as to catch the eye of the sightseer and especially the premium man. Agricultural ana Floral halls show up the ricnness of Nebraska's soil. Field and or- chard and gardun are all roprosented. Art hall is upon a higher plane than the one of Inst year. The stalls and pens are full of asfinea disvlay of stock as has ever been collected together in any state of the west. Indeed, it would be hard to surpass the stock exhibit anvwhere. The horses, roadsters and draft, are the marvel even of horsewen. Standard bred cattle also form aa attraction that will prove a drawiug one during the week, and the admirers of hogs and sheep can feast their eyes, mberless implement halls are filled with articles, both ornamental and useful. A good many visitors wore on the grounds during the day, and an_aceident occurred that nearly cost a young laay her life. As Miss Ollie McGee, who resides ‘au 1125 R street, was entering the grounds in her phaeton her horse bocamo frightened and ran away., Miss McGee was thrown from the buggy, and it is feared that shesustained internal injuries. In any event, three ugly gashes wore cut in her head and her back was bruised considerably. She was uncon scious when picked up.” A physician was promptly called who dressed her wounds, when she was removed to ber home, and at this hour she is said to be resting easy. . Laxcorx uv-nv‘ov‘l‘nl OMATA Bag, } Equine Jumbo. Among the attractions on the fair grounds is the largest horse on earth. He iwas bred near Toronto, Cunada, five years ago, and is owned and exhibited by W. T. Lundy. ‘Che horse 1s 83 inches in height, 54}¢ inches across the hips, 11 feet and four inches in length and weighs 2,760 pounds. No visitor should leave the grounds without seeing this wonderful horse. Madame Maraniette arrived last evening with Woodlawn and her famous double driv- ing team. She will exhibit Woodlawn every day during the week on the track. On ‘Wednesday, Thursday and F'riday she will show the temper and speed of her roadsters, The ostriches will bs on hand to-morrow. It is expected that they will prove one of the great attractions of the fair. The Trades’ Disp The trades’ display on Thursday evening of this week, promises much in the way of attractions. The committees having it in charge are working liko beavers and they are assisted by an_enthusiastic public. All the railroads will make displays. The arches arcall in position and are being pamnted and decorated. Tho business houses along the lne of march will be handsomely illumi- nated. Four local bands and one from out- sido have been engaged to do service in the parade. Tho fireworks have arrived, 500 torches have been secured ana will be loaned to organizations who desire to enter the pa- rade. The butchers, 100 strong have al- ready announced their determination to at- tend. The flambeau club and drum corps will b on hand, as will the traveling men in handsome uniforms. Harry S. Hotchkiss, the grand marshal, has issued an order outlining the line of march which he says will be followed to the letter. 1t is as follows: Tho parade will start from T'wenty-seventh and O streets, moving west on O to Eleventh, north to I, west to Tenth, south to Q, west toNinth, south to O, eéast to Eleventh and south'to J, where the parade will disband. The marshals of the divisions are requested to meet at McBride’s office, under Capital National bank, on Monday ' afternoon at 3 o'clock, to complete arrangements for the parade, Headquarters will be established at the Capital hotel Wednesday morning and re- main until the close of the parade. All parties wishing to place floats and who have not alrcady reported are requested to do so, when they will be assigned to pla will saye time and avoid confusion Thursday night. “Tho state board agiiculture, with tho state and county officers, will review the parade from the balconies'of the Capital hotel, The Tennis Tournament, The tennis tournament will begin on tho grounds in this city Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, and it is expected to continue for days. The prize in_ the singles will be a slocum racket, contributed by Spalding, of Chicago. The prize inthe aoubles will be two Wright & Ditsou’s sears special ono by Schmelzer & Son, of Kansas City. The event is looked upon by the young poople of this city us one of great social un- poctarce. Hastings will be_represented by O. G. Smith and P. L. Yoemon. The Elwood Lawn Tennis olub will send W. G. Doano and A. Guion; Kearney by L. C. Koch and . Y. Osborn,” A npumber of entries from other cities are expected. Lincoln will be represented by C. C. Burr, F. L. Sheldon, Hal Noutian, H.C. Young, Frank 8. Burr and 8. L. Gelsthardt., The Emancipation Celebration. “The colored people of this city have deter- mined on properly celeorating Emancipation day, Septomber 23, For a long time the col- ored people have been undecided as to what particular day they should observe. The Ist of August, the 4th of Augast and one or two other days commemorative of events of peculiar interest vo the race, but which hap- pened in other couuties, have been cele- crated, but no distinetively Awmerican day has been hit upon. ‘The Lincoln people be lieve that the day on which Liocoln issued bis preliminary proclamation is the most fit- ting and t nave sclected it, The follow- ing committee has been appointed Lo solicit aid in making this celel 3 Mossrs. 5. Graut, Eld ! George Mauaul, Major Moore, £ The Labor Picnic Cusbman park witnessed to-day an ad- journed meeting of Labor day. Owing to the rain of last Monday the picnic part of the programme was left out entirely and the picuic to-day was intended W wake up for this loss. Uwo train loads of the jolly pie- nickers went out and the grounds have not scen @ happier or pleasanter party. The principal feature of the afternoon exercises was the addresses made by Judge I, O. Cas- sidy, K Lituetield, J. H. Craddock, 8. G. Kent, L. Leyton, K. W. Maxwell, Mr. Scott, the ‘Hayseed orator,” and others. ‘These addresses were all Lo the point, the orators struck from the shoulder, and as the sudience was in entiro sympathy with the speeches the applause was generous and en- thuslasti ‘This is the first of a series of labor picnics that will be held occasionally ustil the close of the season. The “Lincoln” W. C. T. U. The “Lincoln” W, C. T. U. held its anoual meeting yesterday, and the following ofcers were elccted: President, Mrs. J. H. Mochett; recording secretary, Mra. A. Roberts; assist- ant, Mrs. Hogoe; corresponding lemg gn‘ Belle G. Kl“lgelow; treasurer, Mrs. D, . King. Tho #vlkvwln[ dologhtes wore oloctea to the county convention which moeota Monday at 9 a m., at the Albnr,‘ M. E. church, West Lincoln: Mesdamoes Bigelow, lvers, Wilson, Hogo, Sylvester an Floyd, the district convention, which Syracuse, September 18 and 19: M Mochett,' Buchman, vester, On Tuesday Mrs. Celste May, of Nelson, the stats superintondent of the “Y'a," will be in the ecity and it is hoped to be'able to arrange a meeting. - Klder Nownan, of the Christian church, was asked to ropeat his address on,"Pernicious Litorature,” so that the union might attend in a boay. The union will be represented on the state fair grounds, A Labor Convention. A labor convention will be held at the Cen- tral trades union hall, over Haker's clothing store on O street, Tuesday evening, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the various county offfces o bo filled at the com- ing Nuvember election, It I8 intended that this convention shall be thoroughly repre- sontative in_its character, and every trades- man, laboring man, farmer or othor person Wwho is in sympathy with tho cause is invived to attend and participate in the deliberations. oots at dames King, Hoge and Syl- City News and Notes. “‘Mayba it is all right, and maybo it isn’t,” said a prominont citizon this morning, ‘‘but it scems to me in very bad taste to allow the salooons, meat markets and other business places to scrub their rooms Sunday morning and flooa the sidewalks with the accumu- lated fiith. If this fllth must be sent out over the sidewalk und into the gutters, lot it be done at night and not pollute the streets on a bright Sunday morning. It scoms that it would be much bottor to turn this dirty water into the sewers from the wnterior of the building. The footpads, who always follow the crowd, are here and will stay all week. They would remain if the eity _had one hundred police, and each man with the combined ac- tivity an¢ energy of the entire present force, therefore the public will do well to be on their guard, Last evening about 8 o'clock Mrs. L. I'. Regnier had her purse stolen by two scoundrels who sought the cover of night to assault and rob a defenseless woman. In deference to the public sentimentof this city, which 18 decidedly ngainst it, the Eden Musee people made no attempt to open to-day, although they had previously an- nounced that they would do so. Miss Blanche Hargreaves was ten years old, yesterday, aud tho ovent was most pro- erly observed by her and all her friends and relations. She 18 especiully proud of the wew and handsome doil which Grandpa and Grandma Blair sent down to grace the ocoa- 1ill, one of the most prominent travel- ake the South Platte country, was in the city to-day visiting old friends and acquaintances. lke formerly lived bere, but about two years ago he moved to Holdrege, where he has since resided. Lincoln's new conservatory of music 1s an- nonnced to open October 1. The Lincoln Humane society is making it- self felt for good. An agent of the soviety caused the arrest yesterday afternoon of John Schmidt, o buteher employed at Coylo & Smith’s, 1218 O street, for cruel treatmént of a calf. Cards are out announcing that on Thurs- day evening. September 12, Mr. Paul F, Clark and Miss May Roberts will be married at the home of the bride's mother, at 124 South Thirtieth street. The funeral services over the late Dr. J. H. Rueb, toolk residence of Dr. R. S. Tenth street. Word was received yestorday at the bish- op's house of the death of Rev. Father H. M. Roth, formerly in charge of the German Catholic church in this ci His death oe- curred in Philadelphia last Thursday, and resulted from cousumption. Charles Thornberg lost a thumb yesterday while at work on the new bbiler house on the university The reception y afternoon at the residence of Dr. Norten, given in honor of Mrs, Quinton, presiaent of the Na- tional Indian Aid association, was woll at- tended by the ladies of this city. The time passed most ploasantly, and Mrs. Quinton gave a running informal talk on Indian aifairs that was both interesting and in- structive. This eveniug she addressed a Jarge nudience at the First Congregavional church on her favorite topi The Indian.” “The funeral of Johu FL Strubbe, late pri- vate in company H, Fourth Ohio cavalry, took place at 3 o'clock this af the corner of 13 soldiers turned ¢ funeral, Miss Lillian Sterling, stamp clerk at the postoftice, grected her many friends most coraially at the stamp window this morning, after a week’s visit to ber sister, Mrs. R. G. Gundry, at Topeka. William G. Smythe, of the Kearney Enter- prise, is at the Capital hotel. S, H. Robb, B. . Fenn and W.C. Bryant, of Owaha, and Thomas Fillar, of Fullerton, are guests of the Capital hotel, e, HIS SECRET IN THE GRAVE. Death of the Only Man Who Could Make Alumjnum from Clay, The manager of the American Alu num comp Seymour, died in this ci viday, and the secret of making aluminum died with him, ¢s a Findlay, O., disvatch to the New York world. He was the inveutor of processes by which this valuable metal could be profitably extracted from com- mon clay, and had put his invention into practical use. About four y ago, as the result of years of o ments, 1. J. Seymour, then a ci Detroit, secured patents covering pro- cesses for the manufacture of aluminum, He had little difficulty in inducing oapi- tal to take hold of the enterprise, and American Aluminum company, with General Russell A. Alger as president and Senator Palmer, of Michigan, s vice president. The discovery of natu- ral gas in this city caused the location of the laboratories here Expensive re- torts and valuable machinery were con- structed, und the manufacture was be- gun on a large scale, and proved so suc- cessful that lnrge quantities of the metal were placed on the jmarket at o large profit on the investment. The process, although nearly all of its points, has heen kept & religious secret, and no one has ever been permitted to penetrate the mys- ies surrounding it. A fifteen foot t fence surrounds the h‘uildiugn, the remains of place at the Grimes, 729 South patented in remnrks made by the chemists and other employes at difforent times 1t is gathered that the clay, after being ground in water and troated with vari- ous chemicals, is treated to a heat of 500 degr in large retorts, until it has become thoroughly fused. When it has reached the crowning tempera- ture the precious metal is separatod from the muss by the addition of a cer- tain caemical in speoific quantities, but the name aud nature of this chemical is not disclosed in the letters patent, nor has anyone employed about the works over discovered it. It is this se- cret that has gone down into the grive with I, J. Seymowr. It had been his invariable gustom to await the critical moment when the fluid mass had reached the right stage, and then all the omployes were excluded from the room, the doors were locked, and all alone he went through the mysterious processes of #he laboratory, adding a chemical that no one knows the name of, has never seen, and in guantities that cannot even be guesse . His death came us the result of a paralytic stroke, from which he never recovered consciousness, so that on his death-béd he had no opportunity of revealing the all-important secrat, ~ The stockholders of the company are undetermined what to do under the peculiar circumstances in which they are placed, but will prob- ably give some of their chemists full scope to endeavor o rediscover the lost secret. T R RO e v ety S