Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WHKDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1889, PUBLISHI!D ) BVERY MOBNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION, D-“fly (Morr;;u Mlllon) includh Parulx Months . r Three Months e Omana Sund y addrcss, One Year Weekly Hee, One Yea Omana Office, Beo I||||l|llnk N. W. Corner Boventeenthand Farnam Streets, C Im-nv("!rn 7 Rooke Buiiding Now §ork. Office, Itooms 14 and 15 Tribune Bulling 'Wasiiington Office, No, 513 Fourteenth Strect. Council Bluffs Ofice, No. 12 Pear] Stroet. Lincoln Office, 1029 P Sticet, CORRESPONDENCE. All communioations relating to news and edi- ** torial matter should be addressed to the Editor of the Hoe, BUSINESS LETTERS. All Lmsiness lotters and romittances should be addressed to ihe Bee Pubilshing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoftice orders ‘e made payablo to the order of the company, The Bse Pablishing Company, Proprictors. sex Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Streets. Tne Bee on the Trains. There 18 1o excuse for a tailure to get Tar BER on the trains, Al newsdealers have been noti- Tied to curry & full supply. fravelers who want "k BrE and can't gat It on trains where other Omaha papers ure carried are requested 1o no- ity T Bre. T IHE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraskn, o glounty of, Doiiglas. rizo B, Tsciiuck, socretary of The Hes Puuunmnm ompany, does sclemuly swear Uit the actual circulation of THE DATLY Bee_ for {he weexending September 14 165, was as fol- lows : Sunday. Sept. & Monday, Sept, Tuesday, Hepz Wednesda: Sop! Thursday Eridny. Sept. 1. Baturdiy, Sept, 1é. Average,.... GEORGE B, 'rl.s(,u UK, £worn to before me and subscribod to in_my presenco this 1dth day of September, A. D 184, (¥eal.] . P, FEIL, Notary Publis. Etate of Nebraska, ). County of Douglas. { George . Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Jo5eh and says that ho is secrotary of The liso ’uMMxmg \Company, tint, the sctual averago circnlation of Tuw DAILY Bee for tho oty of eptember, 18K, 18154 coples: for Oc- , R, TR0 coples lws for' June, 15, coples; for Augu for May, coples: fo 8 18631 L.,pum swnm to betore me and subscrived i my presence this Sist day of August, A, D., 1850, [8EAL.] N. P. Frir, Notary Public IT LOOKS asif the county fathers won’t miss the money before the till runs dry. —_— Tue Tenth street viaduct scheme promises to rival the Cronin affair in lenguh, breadth and uselessness. Tig senatorial committee on irriga- tion has reached Denver. Denver isa mighty good place for an irrigation com- mittee to meet in. THE proper width of the proposed Tenth street viaduct is still exhausting all the mental resources of the city council committee. Wito would not be a policeman in Omaha so0 long as there is a chance to gleep in a silk lined couch at the expo- sition, with a reprimand as the only penalty. THE new capitol at Topeka, Kan., is about to take a tumble. This, to- gether with the alarming decrease in the state’s population, calls for the im- mediate attention of Hoodo St. Johwn. m——— THEnew registration law provides that the city council shall, during Septem- ber of cach year, appoint three super- visors of registration in every ward or precinct. This pointer is for the bene- fit of the city fathers. THERE is a scheme on foot to locate Swedish colonies on the abandoned farms of Vermont. If the flinty lands of the Green Mountain state can be made productive by anyboay the Swedes are the people to do it. IN A county campaign the early bird does not always masticate the worm. The number of candidates already abroad insures a blighting, blistering frost in October. The wise man re- sorves his strength for the home stretch. Ir 18 rumored that linois is likely to present a presidential candidate in 1892. “What! and hold the world’s fair the same year? Isn’t the Garden City and its stabe getting a large amount of hay down without an assurance that it will get it stacked safoly? DURING the extenuated preliminaries of the Cronin trial the question presents Atsolf, *'Is the Americun jury system a failure?” One fact secms to be getting around into the more clearly discernible foreground, and that is that the Chicago ‘system of securing an American jury comes pretty near not being a success. BisMARCK will soon be compelled to recall his embargo on the American ‘hog, whom Le has treated as a personal enemy. Twelve Germans have just died and eighteen others are lying at the point of death from eating diseased Prussian pork. The American hog is a nice, clean, corn-fed animal, WHAT irrigation will do for the arid lands of the west is well il lustrated in the case of Pasadena, Cal. Fifteen years ago land sold for seven dollars an acre which now brings from five hun- dred to one thousand dollars an acre for fruit raising purposes. The place is the most fertile and deligh tful por- tion of California, Emm——— THERE i3 & painful scarcity of first- olass timber to fill Judge Grof’s shoes. A raft of names ure mentioned in con- nection with the vacancy, and not a few wlleged lawyers are ready to saccifico thomselves for the good of their cred- itors, but their appointment wouid only increase the vacancy and seriously em- barrass.the dispatch of business in an already crowded court. —— THE German governmert has pur- chased the exclusive right to make and use the smokeless powderof its Austrian fnventor—Karl Falkenstein, Thenven- tion has heen thoroughly tested by ex- perts and is pronounced a complete suc- cess. That old standard phrase which says something about the smoke of the battle cleaving away may some day be- come obsolete. THE CAMPA!GN IN MONTANA. Our latest advices from Montana rep- resent the prospects of republican suc~ cess 1n the pending campaign as very doubtful. The republican campaign managers have, we are cordially in- formed, shown an unusual capacity for blundering. The most stupid of these blunders was the enactment of the cum- bersome Australian election law. The passage of the law was in the nature of a rebuke to the very men who contrib- uted largely to republican success last fall, Instead of encouraging the fac- tional fights among democrats, the tenderfoot managers of the par- ty plunged recklessly into ab- surd and needless schemes which only resulted in bringing their opponents together in a common cause. Fhe consequence, as is shown in a letter published in another column, is that democrats are united as they have ' boen before, and scores of repub- licans as well as democrats are prac- tically deprived of the right to partici- pate in the election of state officers. The napplication of the Australian system to o sparsely settled country like Montana is the essence of absurdity. Had the law been limited to cities and towns the results mighthave been bene- ficial, but to carry it to country districts and hedge 1t with a system of rogistra- tion which closes two weeks before the election, is an imposition on the people which deserves to be re- buked. 1t imposesa needless tax on the people without any compensating benefits. It compels voters distant from towns to journey from one to four days to the offices of regisirars to eXer- cise the rights guaranteed by the con- stitution of the country, and then re- peat the journey to the polling place. And that, too, during the harvest and round-up season. The needlessand onerous innovations introduced by the republicans were not justified by existing conditions. The party achieved success last fall on the merits of its candidates and principles, and had party leaders possessed the sagacity to let well enough alone, their chances of success in the present cam- paign would have been materially in- creased, If they suffer defeatin the coming election they will have them- selves to blame. JUDGE fl' OFF'S It is now a foregone conclusion that Judge Groff will resign his position on the distriet bench. It will be very dil- ficult to find as good & man as Judge Groff to fill the vacancy. While there are many eminent lawyers in Owmaha and in the distvict, those who rank high in the profession will not give up a lucrative practice for a place that only pays twenty-five hundred dollars a year. The empbatic expression in favor of a non-partisan judiciary which was given by the voters of this district two years ago * when the present judges were elected should not go unheeded 1n the selaction of Judge Grofl’s successor. The endorsement of the district bar should precede an endorsement by party couventions. It does not stand torea- son that the bar of Omaha, composegans it is of able men of both parties, would endorse an incompetent or disreputable lawyer for a position on the district bench. But while partisanship should be as much as possible ignored in the choice of Judge Groff’s successor, it must be conceded that all things being equal, the vacancy should be filled by a republican lawyer. There are already two democrats on the district bench; three out of four would be a partisan judiciary. This would hardly be desir- able, even by rank democrats, unless they want to make the judgeships in this district a reward for spoilsmen. It is idle to speculate upon what the course of Governor Thayer will be with rogard to this impending vacancy. It is not likely that he will make any selection, in view ot the fact that we are so neur to our general election. In any event we are safe in assuming that he will prefer to awaiv the action of the bar and the republican district conven- tion. SUCCESSOR. THE RACE WAR IN THE SOUTH. The Atlanta Constitution thus refers to the race question in the south: "It cannot be denied, that there is at present a more uneasy feeling in the south between the whites and blacks than has been kaown in twenty years.” It refers to two signifi- cant facts in evidence of this, one being nt proposal of a colored mili- mpany at Chattancoga to go to scene of a reported riot in Mississippi and take sides with the colored men, the other fact that the farmers of Mississippt are organ- izing companics in every rural neigh- borhood, arming themselves, electing oficers and pledging themselves to obey the ordcrs of their officers. ‘‘Does it noed wisdom,” asks the Constitution, *‘to see that this movement will spresd?” There have been many other inei- dents of recent occurrence quite as sig- nificant as the two noted by the Atlanta journal in evidence of the critical situ- ation of the race issue in the south, and in nearly every instance the lawless- ness of the whites has been responsible for them. Not long since a number of negroes, in- offensive s0 far as appears, were brutally whipped in Georgia by white regulators, and although there has been a demonstration of official authority looking to the arrestand pun- ishment of these criminals, we have not observed that any of them have been apprehended. The outrages and crimes committed against the negroes in Mis- sissippi, Louisiana, South Carolina and other southern states by armed bands of white men organized ior this pur- pose, ave not only unpunished, but no effort has been made to punish the per- petrators. Nordo the authorities in- terest themselves to prevent such out- rages by discountenancing the organi- zations that commit them, or are re- ‘spousible for their commission, That their existence is well known to the authorities cannot be questioned, The northern republican congressmen who weut down to the third congressional district of Louisiana had no difficulty in ascertaining that there was a band of regulators there organized to terror- ize the negro voters, and they saw mems= bers of it swaggering about with their revolvers publicly displayed, It would be midiculous to as- sert that the authorities were not fully aware of the existence of this organization and its lawless object, yet no attempt was made to interfere with it. Itearried oit its purpose with ab- solute impunity. Certainly no one should be surprised that such occurrences exasperate the ne- groes, nor will it be remarkable if that race shall develop desperate men who willincite it to retaliatory measures, and whose influence at last may override the counsel of careful and conservative leaders. Such men there are, and the course of the whites is contrib- uting to their power for mis- chief. The lawlessness which the dominant element practices and the authorities tolerate is teaching bloody instruction, which, being taught, may have consequences that will appall mankind, The duty of the whites fs plain. There is but one thing for them to do, as the Atlanta Constitution says, and that is to do right—‘to protect the negro in his rights—to give him justice and friendship and counsel—to punish those who wrong him.” If thegwill do this faithfully and honestly the solu- tion of the race problem will be re- lieved of most of its difficulties, and the two races may live and work together in peace for their mutual advantage. RIGHT AND EXPEDIENCY. THE BEE is not disposed to wrangle with local contemporaries. It cheer~ fully accords to them the right to hold and express any views they may enter- tain on questions of public policy, and has a right to expect that it will be allowed to exerciso this privilege with its motives unimpugned by con- temptible flings and inuendoes. We concede to Mr. Hitchcock the patent right to champion the scheme to dump eight million dollars into the Missouri river between Sioux City and its mouth, under pretense that it will build up a powerful competitor to the railroanas. But we resent most decidedly his im- putation that THE BEE has gone over to the railroads because it does not favor this job; or because it is disposed to pay tribute to the railroads for an imme- diate raising of the embargo, which has crippled Omana and stunted her growth these fifteen years. THE BEE has as much at Omaha asany of its contemporar has perhaps done as much toward build- ing up this city asall of them put to- gether. Tt has stood the test of undue corporate influence for eighteen years, and very often at a great sacrifice and under financial embarrassment. It has the courage now, as it always has had, to oppose cor- norate agaression when public interests demand it, and it also has the courage to refuse to join ia a fight in which the outcome is sure to be ruinous to the public. The prunu-uuon to pay a bonus for a union depot is a question of expediency. It is not pretended, even by the rail- rond managers, that the bonus asked for is a rightful concession. 1t is sim- ply a question whether Omaha can bet- ter afford to pay this bonus—or black- mail, if you please—in oraer to make Omaha the actual terminus of all the roads that run to the Missouri river, or drift along with the wretched facili- ties which make her merely a way- station on the A Union Pacific, with a stub connection to the trunk lines on the Iowa side. THE RELEASE OF NAGLE. Deputy Marshal Nagle, who shot Terry, has been discharged from cus- tody by the United States circuit court. The case will be taken to the supreme court of the United States, pending which the deputy marshal was ordered released on his own recognizance under bouds. The telegraph furnishes only the salient points of the decision of Judge Sawyer, which is elaborato. As to the most important question of juris- diction, the authority of the United States s declared to be com- plete. The principle is laid down that in such cases the national government is paramount, and that its jurisdiction is not affected by the location where the homicide occurred. The conclusion of the court was that the homicide was committed while Nagle was acting in the discharge of the duty imposed upon him by the con- stitution and the laws of the United States, and that the killing was neces- sary under the circumstances then ex- isting 1 order to a complets and full discharge of his duty, In the opinion of the court the homicide was clearly justifiable in law. No broader avowal of national sov- ercignty has ever been made than is contained in this decision. It declares, at least in eect, that the assault upon Justice Field was an aseault upon na- tional authority, an interference with the administration of national law, and that the fatal shot of Nagle was fired by a federal officer in obedience to federal orders and in dofense of federal au- thority, If this decision shall be affirmed, as in all probability it will be, the principle it asscrts will not be re- stricted to federal justices and mar- It must extend to all officers of the npational govern- ment from the president down—ex- ecutive, legislative and judicial. Wherever such officer may be in the actual discharge of his duty he'must be regarded ns covered by the official panoply of the nation, and the spot on which he stands deemed, for all pur- poses of his legal protection, federal soil. Any orlmo committed or wrong done by or inst him in his official capacity must fall within the jurisdic- tion of the United States. been a settled precedent that a pro- cedure against an internal rev- enue oflicer for homicide com- mitted in conflict with illicit distillers must be tried in the federal courts, a case of this kind having been decided by the supreme court against thestate of Tennessee more than a dozen years ago, Any interference with the employes of the postoffice de- purtment carrying the mails is also pumshed in the federal courts, But the decision of Judge Sawyer goes farthor than this, and asserts a broader principle of, federal jurisdiction and authority. » | Chancellot/®ant says 10 his *Com- meontaries:”, :’he mere circumstance that the party” injured by the offense under prosdplilion was an officer of the government of the United States does not give jurisdiction, for neither the constitution, nor the judicial acts founded upom it, gave the federal courts a general jurlsdictlon in criminal cases affecting the officors of government, as they have in cnses affecting public min- isters and cbnsuls.” But a differsnt doctrine appoars 10 have obtained since the day of the distinguished jurist who wrote the above, and it would scom that this is to be still further enlarged. The decision of the supreme court will determine whether such is to be the case. With regard to the opinion of Judge Sawyer that the killing of Terry was clearly justifiable in law, it will doubt- less be generally conceded that it is warranted by the evidence. The testi- mony of both Justice Field and Nagle leaves no reasonable doubt that the as- sault made by Terry was with murder- ous intent, and that prompt and decisive action was necessary to defeat his pur- pose, THE International American congress will visit Omaha during the tour over the country. As indicated by our dis- patches the party will be in this city during the latter part of Octo- ber. Asthe congress comprises leading representatives from all the” South and Central American nations it will be proper to allow the gentlemen an oppor- tunity to become thoroughly acquainted with Omaha’s business methods, its municipal features and social qualities. The necessary committees to formulute all necessary arrangements for the re- ception and entertainment of our dis- tinguished guests should be appointed in ample time so as to avoid any jar likely to occur on account of hasty action. As the affair will be a good ad- vertisement for Omaha in many ways it should be properly carried out. THE times do not seem to be favorable to the various third parties of the coun- try. Even prohibition appears weaker than for several years past. The re- cent greenback convention held at Cin- cinnati brought only twenty-five dele- gates from all sections of the country, although the gathering was to have been of a national eharacter. The pro- ceedings amounted to nothing more than an address by the chairman, who, at the close of his remarks, read Wash- ington’s favewell address, doubtless as a sort of requiem over the departed glory of the greenbacker. THE Mexican/people on last Sunday celebrated with appropriate ceremonies and festivities the seventy-ninth anni- versary ol their war for independence. Mexico has been much slower in devel- opment than the United States, but the Iast few years have brought many and important changes in that country. The building of railroads and telegraph lines and establishment of schools prom- ise still greater results for the future. SENATOR INGALLS must own a re- markable watch., He told the veterans at Arkansaw City, Ark., last Thursday that the wealth of the nation increased $420,000,000 every time it ticked. The senator may have been reading Baron Munchausen just before making this wonderful effort. But we suspect the watch has a broken spring and only ticks when the senator gives a twist to the stom. Entirely Too Sanguine. Chicago Tribune. The Boston Herald observes that ‘it now looks as if they might gev a Cronin jury some time about next Christmas.” There is a cheerful optimism about the esteemed Her- ald that ought to be contagious, but it isn’t— at this distance from Boston, —— The Sparrow and the Eagle. Chicago News. In this country the English sparrow is in- creasing by millions every year while the American eagle has become almost extinct, How long will it be before the former is re- cognized as the national bird? These be de- gencrate times, — The London Strike. Chicago Times, The big London strike lasted a month and cost $10,000,000. There are people who affect to think this cheap, but thoy probably wouldn’t care to buy strikes of this sort in unbroken dozan bunches—not at that fizure, ‘Three or four would be as much as most of thewm could stand 1n one summer, ——— The Degrees of Democracy. St. Lowis Globe-Dem ocrat. Ex-Senator Riddleberger is stumping Vir- ginia for the democrats, Riddloberger's politics varies with his degrees of bibulosity, When sober he is a republican, when ‘“half- seas over” he is 8 mugwump, when “fuller'n a goose” he is a demoorat, and when *'drunk- er'n a biled owl" he is a bourbog, B ON THE SIDE, A Chicago museum advertis 1 to hang a man at every periormance. With such an abundance of exeglient material on hand this cheerful littie diversion ought to become @ permanent attraction there, The shah of Persia while in Vienna deco- rated a premiere dapseuse with the order of the Lion and thid'Sun. If reports are aceu- rate his majesty, mubt be a pretuy giddy man when he 1 away from home, ‘The season of thoyearis approaching when the fish prevaricator gives way to the cham- pon corn husker, During these days when so many cranks are gowg through the Niagara rapids, have any of the machine poets discovered that whirlpool rhymes with blamed fool? Mrs. Langtry has at last secured her di- vorce, Mr. Laigiry is to be cougratulated. A San Francisco dispatch tells how a man’'s breath caught fire out there and buroed bim to a cnsp. 1f Riddleberger's | breath ever gets started won't there be a hol- 1t bas long | ocaust! The Poet of the Sierras insists in an east- orn paper that Omaha should be pronouuced with the acceat on ‘the “ma.” We don't want to wound your poetic sensibilities, Waukeen, but this wwa is too busy to toy much with pleturesque pronunciations of its | name fust now. Every man who meets the Widow Terry shbould pass her by with his eyes averted and bis hand on his pocketbook. A California wan writes 1 a New York paper that Sarah Althes is still quite s charming woman and prophesies that ste will yet add other names her list of victims. If the defense in the Cronin case were per- mitted to send a special venire to the Cook county insane asylum they would get that jury in no time. The utilization of one of the elogant silk beds by three policemen at the recent Col- mwoum exhibition, as a resting place from their labors, appeared to meet the entire ap- probation of the police commissioners, The men were suspended but the commissioners reinstated them, PR — OLEVER WOME! Emily Paxton, of Pike county, Missouri, has permission from the governor of that state to weard a man's dress “‘anywhere in Missouri outside of cities of 10,000 inhab- itants.” She works on a farm, and her fav- orite occupation is broaking horses to har- ness, Of these she herself owns three and has charge of thirteen. Queen Victoria’s recent visit to Wales brings out the fact that during her reign of over half a century twelve days only have been spent in Ireland. The ex-Empress Eugenie has lost one of her olaest and dearest friends by the death of the wife of Marshal Canrobert. Ethel and Blanche Wakefleld, the little Boston musicians, are being recognized in London both in public and at private recop- tions, and are meeting with great success. Agnos Huntington, the American prima donna, has made a professional and social succoss in London. She is a tall, statuesque womun, with a wonderful contralto voice. Mrs. Mona Caird, who has been somewhat out of health, is now in the Austrian Tyrol, undergoiug the “sun cure.” This treatment is a mixture of the grape cure and of sun- light. It is apparently especially succossful in cases of nervous exhaustion, The patients 1ie on the sand, bathing in the noontide sun- shine. The head is protected by a turban. Grapes form an important featuro of the vegetarian diet, to which they must submit during the course, Four girl students have takon houorsin the matriculation examination of the University of London this year, and ono of thom, Blanche Hewett, heads the list of candidates of both sexes. Mrs. Laulii Willis, the only Samoan woman in this country, has taken charge of the company of Samoan showmen who re- cently arrived in San Francisco, and will travel through the east with them. Threo American women reccive rewards from the international jury of fine arts at the Paris exhibition. Miss Gardoer and Miss Klumpke get third class medals in painting, and Miss Rosin & sccoud-class medal for drawing. Mrs, Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin is now living at Hyde Park, London. The English newspapers say that it is a strange coincidence that her husband is descended in a straight line from Mrs. Dandridge, the mother of Martha Washington. Fauny Bignon, who is praised by z00logists for a recent paper on the lachrymal gland of the green turtle, is one of the remarkable women of Paris. She studied zoology at the Sorboune, and has combined the careers of student and teacher. Mrs. Levett, an American lady, at present visiving Eogland, has for six years been traveling all over tho world working up a groat temperance crusade. She has gone across the continent from New York to Cal- ifornia, has visted the Hawaii Islands, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, China, Japan, India, East and South Atricaand a great part of Europe. IN HE OCOURTS. Creditors Sceking Money from the Debtors. Ex-United States District Attorney Lam- bertson, of Lincoln, filed two important suits in the federal court yesterday. One is en- titled the Moline, Milburn and Stoddard company against Dora M. Thayer ot al, and the other, Samuel P. Porter vs the Sherman County Banking company. ‘The first case wus commenced in the dis- trict court of Lancanster county against the Hart Hardware company to recover on an indebtedness mcurred by Berryman, Patter- son & Co., of Central City, wno sold out to these defendants. The plaintiffs contend that Hart had full knowledge of the debt. The suit is tor $2,500. Spencer, Bartlett & Co., of Chicago, intervened and had the case removed to this court. S. S. Porter’'s suit against the Sherman county bank is for $3,768, money deposited which he has not been able, since the concern failed, to col- lect. The case is taken in%o the United States court by non-resident stockholders, who seek to hold the individual members of the corporation responsible. Connty Court. Judge Shields had an unusually important case on trial before nim yesterday, ex-United States Attorney Lambertson, of Lincoln, being one of the legal representatives to make an argument. Waggoner, Henny & Co. vs David S. Palmer and Theodore O. Bivin is the title of the suit. It involves $1,000. The piaintiffs are commission mer- chants at South Omaha,and both defendants reside in Seward county. Last spring, Bivin, who is a stock buyer and shipper, went to the bank at his home and drew on the commission irm for $1,000, proposing to make a payment on some cattle for which he had contracted. Before he could use the money, and after having drawn it, the bank attached the amount to secure an olddebt. Wageoner, Benny & Co.,there- fore, were the losers, To get even they waited for Bivin to visit Omaha, where they could gev service on him, ‘he cuse was heard yesterday ov a motion toquash the service, Bivin claiming that the commission men enticed him here by traud- ulent means and on false pretenses, for the purpose of getting service. Palmer 18 made a party to tbe suit, on the ground that he is Bivins' partner, Lambert- son appeared for.him, while R. P, Auderson, prosecuting attorney of Seward county, represented Bivi Districe Court. John J. Hardin vs. John S, Prince, Mrs, Aunie Prince and the Omaha Carriage and Sleigh company is thetitle of a suit com- menced 1 tho district court. The uotion is brougiit to_secure payment on u note for S;;é made by Prince to Hardin February 11, Joseph J. Johnson and Charles W. Huli, have commenced proceedings against Mattio Martin ot al. for $51. Claimed as due them for goods purchased at different times, Geo. A. Hoagland has brought suit against A.J. Neimeyer for @ bill of $563.25 due for lumber. The Bobn Manufacturing company states in u pettion, that 1t obtained a_judgment against Sawual K, Felter for $105.75 in Justice Morrison's e u transcript of which was duly filed in the district court and an execution issued. The execution was re: turned unsatisfied because the sheriff could find no property on whicn to levy, The vetition further alleges that Felton pur- chased o lot 1 Orchard Hill addition and nad the deed made to his wife with intent to defraud, und asks that the deed be declared null and void and the lot ordered sold to satisfy their judgment. Matilds Williams has appliea for a divorce from her husvand, Isaac. ''he parties were ruarried on the 100h of September, 1887, and Isaac has made life a burden to Matilda since by kicking, beating and otherwise maltreating her, She therefor prays for an absolute divore L e — Angostura bitters says a long time sufferer from indigestion, thoroughly cured me. Sole manufacturers, Dr. J. G, B, Biegert & Sons, At all druggists, Poor European Crops, WasmINGTON, Sept. 17.—According to the recently publivhed ofticial report of the roysl Prussian statistical bureau furnished to tho state department, the crops of 1888, except of hndw.Tuokwlxm.t and clover, were decid- l& better than those of 1850, Winter wheat per cent below the aversge and only potatoes and hay reached tue average. ORI 2 THE MONTANA CAMPAIGN. Some Phases of the Contest Pre- liminary to Statehood. THE DEMOCRATIC BIG FOUR. Harmony Perohed on Last Fall's Po- litioal Ruins—The Race Between Maginnis and Oarter—~Rem- Inlscences. The 8econd Act of Statehood. Burre, M. T\, Sept. 15.—Two of the threo great acts in the drama of statehood have been performed in Montana. The first was the selection by the two great parties of nominees for the various state offices, mom- bors of thoe legislature and for congress, tos gether with a completo set of l'4|nl|ll‘(fll‘! for county offices. The second act was the com- pletion to-day of the registration of lagal voters who will participate in the election the first Tuesday i October. Judging by the number registered in Silver Bow county, in which Butte is located, the vote will fall materially shortof the vote cast at the general election last November. Various causes combined to produce that result, and it is necessary to recall past evouts to elucidate the priccipal phases of the present cau- paign. The revoiution which rcuted the demo- crats last fall was principally personal and factional. The tariff, too, cut a huge gash i the democratic vote, because the sheep men and many of the ranchers were stam- peded to the republican camp by the effsct ive cry of “free wool.” Calm reflection and republican success have materially modified their fears, and practically destroyed the tariff as a shibboleth in the present campaign. Last fall the leading democrats walked abroad with huge knives in their hands, slashing and gashing party candidates. This was the primary cause of the eruption which astonished the natives as well as the rest of the country, electad Carter, the ro- publican canaidate, to congrass, and buried W. A. Clarke, of this city, undor an aval- anche of votes. Marcus Daly contributed immensely to this result. He is a aillion- aire several times, is principal owner of the Anaconda mine in this city and general man- ager of the mammoth smelting works in the city of Anaconda, & position which nets him the snug salary of $30,000 a year. Daly is the prince of Anaconda, an imperions boss, with a rich mellow broque when at peace with the world, but a resistless mountain torrent when in a rage. A few years ago two of Daly’s employes, young men, persistently annoyed him with offers to seil for £10,000 certain water rights which were necessary for the life of the smelters, Daly refused to buy and dis- charged the men. ‘T'hey peddled their water rights in Butte, and finally sold them to Clarge for $25,000. Mecetig Daly on the streeta few weeks later, Clarke suggested the propriety of the Anaconda company pur- chasing his' water rights. The announce ment astounded Daly, and when Clarke placed the price at $100,000, Marcus re- strained his wrath and wave a check for the amount. The loss of §10,000 took deep root in Daly’s bosom, and when Clarke secured the democratic nom- ination for congress t fall he incautiously boasted to Daly that'ho would get there with- out the latter's assistunce. Daly quietly set 10 work to reap a huge harvest of revenge, and his influence, togother with his army of employes, buried Clarke so deep that it required the resurrection norn of hurmony at the democratic convention last month to bring him to life. Clarke was made cl man of that convention, and his wouuds wi made to bleed afresh by being made one of hich tendered Daly the aship of the state central comumittee. @ has smothered his wrath in s y to reach the United States senate, revelation of last fall also resulted in on of a republican legislature. Tho ct of thut body Wis the adoption stem in all its original offensivenes The iutent of this law was to curb the power of the demo- cratic *‘big four”’—Daly, Clarke, Hauser and Broadwater, but is certain to prove a boom- erang to the party. Had it been confined to the cities, beneficial results would doubtiess accrue, but its extension to the coun to sparcely settled districts, has created intense feoling against the = republican party and will be the means of 10sing score of votes among ranchmen and cattlemen. This larze class were distant ten to seventy-five miles from the offices of the registrars, and even if they wers not detained by barvesting and the sutumn round-ups, a large por cent of them would not undertake the journey to register for the privilege of voting at the coming election. The old-timers of the ter- ritory, particularly the clan called **Missou- riaps,” are furiously opposed to political in- novations, and denounce the registration law and its box oftice attachment, as the conspir- acy of tenderfeet, and they will exert an ef- fective influence in securing a legistature pledged to wipe it out. And this feehng is not confined to_democrats, Country ropub- Jicans are equaily emphatic in their opposi tion to the law. Observations and inquiry among the rank and file of both parties in Helena and Butte and along the Missouri valley leads to the conclusion that Montana will go democratic, Tho party leaders are united and working together on th ticket 18 ge the republican, and the further fact that tho big four are cundidates for the United State senate, with unlimited wealth to sat their ambitions, will exert a tremendous force in favor of democratic su 83, I\ C. Powers, of Helena, heads the repub- lican ticket for governor. He ranks high among the rich men of the territory and is a dealer in agricultural implements. His business will not materially assist him i|| vote gettitg, as the memoury of countless 2 per cent notes and foreclosures linger among the farmers, and they wiil not be slow in re: ciprocating his “kindness.” e is an en- thusiastic advocate of “‘proteciion of home industries.”” yet the labor organizations of that city assert that he has never had a bolt threaded or a nut turned in any shop in the territory, but sends his work to Chicago. ‘Tom Carter, the present delegata w con- gress, has been renominated by the republi- cans. Between him and Mayor McGinnis the race is decidedly close, and local political experts canuot pick the winnor, Carter is n hustling, hurrah worker, He wears a smile o yard long and all wool, and louves a ploas- ant impression on every hand he pumps. At the Butte and Helena fairs a few weoks ago, he buttonholed every man in the assemblage, smiled on the ladies and kissed the bubie: If the popularity racket counts o anything, Tom Carter will go w cou- gress with a whooping Maginnis is not as de; gone by. He is calm, dignified, cousiderably 1n love with himsolf and apparently content 10 rest on Lis record. He is unquestionab.y i hard man to b ‘arter will give him the liveliest r ¢ expericuced 1n Montana, Al present the odds are in favor of demo- cratic success, but no oue can forotell wi ik will develop. Hoth partics are very nerve and election day wili witness one of the hardest political battles ever fought in Montara. a8 1n yours VITZMORRIS, e STATE AND TERRITORY Nebraska Jottings. The Sarpy county fair is being beld this weelk. There are schools, The Chadron roller mills are ruaning night and day at full capacity A county Sunday sonool convention will be held at Burwell September 22 The York county te 8 will meet at York Soptemb: O scholars in the Chadron association ing of the State Dairymon's assooiation, which ocours in Decombor, Moritz Kline, a mule thief now confined in- the Dodge county jail at Fromont, is said to bo insane, and he will bo oxamined by & commission Says tho Hay Sorings Nowa: ‘A traveling salosman tiied to show tho efficacy of a now preparation for extinguishing fires, but he gave it up with the remark that Hay Springs was moro 1n need of a marshal than any- thing he had for sale.” Nothing hias been heard receatly about the coal prospects at Fairbury, but the Gazotte SAY' “The parties working the diamond drill on Whiskey Run make no aunounce= ments as to coul but seem unable to conceal the fact that thoy have found water,samples of which have been brougnt to town." The Exeter Knterprise says o runaway couple from Friend, en route to Geoneva, passed through Exoter at 0 o'clock Wedn day morning, and an irato father, driving & foaming toam, camo in about aa hour later, Horses were changed at Burnett's livery stablo and, taking a driver with him, the old gentleman o ulod tho runaways just as thoy were driving into Geneva, and brought the girl back. At a recent mecting of the Norfolk busi« ness mon's association 1t was decided to sond some suitable ana well accreditod busi- ness man to eastern cities, furnishing him with statistics showing tho progress of this city and the advantages and resources thereof, together with the surrounding country, for the purpose of inducing man- ufacturing enterprises of various kinds to locate and’ establish _themsolves in the olty. lowa l(v An epidemic of burglars is on at Fort Mad ison, Threo new churches are being erected at Davenport. aid to be thirty democratic can s for suerift in Davis count, Tho Hamilon County will nominate a full county ticket. A Marshalltown jury gave a doecision against the holders, of Bohomian oats notes and thoe caso goes to the supreme court. Henry Dinsmore, an old colored man of Keokuk, has gone violently insane over re- ligion, and iuiagines that Keokuk is the New Jerusalem. ‘There can be no shadow of doubt as to his insanity. An Ellsworth saloonkeepor sold liquor to a thirteen-year-old boy and the fathor de- manded §100 to scttle the matter. The was paid and the saloonkecper’s hreaten to tar and feather the boy's father uniess he leaves the plac A Charles City eirl of fourteon, who want- ed to see life, wrote a noto to her parents telling them she was t of ife and would seck the bosom of the cold, cold river, In- stead she sought a pair of boy’s pants and procecded to make herself scar ior be- reaved parents fished tho river in the hopes of finding her dead body, but did not “ketch’ anything. She made her uppear- ance shortly after, and sho “ketcned’’ some- thing that she will probably remember. The Decorah Ropublican says there was brought to that office an ear of corn which is A euriosity n its way, being at the stem end and for abont half its length composed of field corn; then a constricted part from which to the end is an ear of pop corn. fields of pop cor twenty rods aart, from the f mers’ alliance I'bho and field corn are about yetthe polen was blowa d of pop corn to the other field, ne fortilized, and thus caused this pe- culiar freak, instead of the intermingiing of kernels which usually oceurs. Beyond the Rockies. Politics absorbs the attention of the Mon- tana press and news s ut a discount. 2. H. Stoue, of Nestucea, Waah., vook 600 pounds of loney from tweive hives last week. More than 730,000 pounds of fruit, wino and wool were shippad from Pomona, Cal., during the wonth of August, Charles Atkins, ung cisco for eounterfeitin, in the business for s JoLn Faraham, has been senten: prison for selling whisky to the Inaiuns. S. W, Chubbrick, of Gold Hill, has been appointed lieutenant governor oi Nevada in place of H. C. sently deceased. John Da tramp who broko into a Nortk cific” freight car at Boul- der, Mont., and carried off a piil of oysters and a caddy of fine-cut tobacco, has been given two years iu the penitentiary. There is a stampede to what known as the Swank gola district, twenty-fivo miles north of Ellensburg, Wash, ‘The Motoer lodge, which produced from $10) to $i00 nu, gets, it is vonfidently belioved, is at last found. @ Agent McCaig reports that the gross earn- ings of the Northern Pacific for tihe month of Augnst were over two million dollars, Spokune Falls wus tiie basner station, its receipts for the monta being between $350, 000 and $300,000. ‘The Helena Herald says: A poultry car, one of the only eight in existence, arrived in Helena yesterday on the Northern Pacitio from lowa. It holds 5000 fowis and has the t at San Fran- hoen engaged years. of Winuemuces, Nevada, months in state Major | The Dodge county republican convention will be held at Fremout October 4. Chadron has secured the oigar factory which was recently located at Ainsworth. Old Settlers’ day will be -fittingly cele- brated at Kepublican City October 1 and 2. The democrats of the Second district will hold their cougressional convention &t Hastings October 10, Falls City is working 1o secure the meet- appearance of u large cage, affording plenty of ventilation. Only thirty chickens died on the trin. The entire lot were sold in Helena. The commissioners appointed by the gov- ernment to treat with the Caeur d’Alene In- dians for a portion of thewr reservation in Idaho' have accomplished their mission. Lhe rice to be paid by the government is but good authority says 500,000 was the amount agreed upon. The tract is valuable for timber and mineral resources, and will be thrown open for devolopus Mrs. Norton, who lives in Dayton, Ne da, owns a nice peach orchard. She nob some Chinese last week trying to steal s fruit, and they weve ordered off the pre: ses Last Saturday night Mrs. N. hoard some one prowling about tho orct f took a shotgun nd fi brought down two stalwart Chinese, w10 willeat their meals standin 7 for some tine LETTER FRCM A CLERGYMAN Grateful Acknowledzement of Cures by the Cnticura Rem=dies. A ministerand his littic by cured 1 Kkin diseases by the dies. Prawes them n the palpit, home, sirect. For about thirteen years [ iave been troubled emn of sowd otlier cutaucolls discuse yrds me much ple 10 KBy tat be two boxes of the CUri- CURA, four cakes of CUTICUXA BOAP, and one Botti¢ of Cuticuua kusoLVENT, T Wk outiraly oure 1 stunt How of p 10 to 100k lipou, besides two large tumor-like kernels on the bk of his acad. 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