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THE _DAILY BEE. " B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ok TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally and Sunday, One Year .. . ae Mxhnnlhu. G aes shenberese "res Month . Sunday Nes, Weekly Bee, OFFICES. e, 881 Hogkery Butidin ork, fiootns 14 B b elbime Builde Ing, ‘Washineton, No. 13 Forrteenth Street. Connell Biufis, No. 12 Pear] Stroet. Lincoln, 1020 P’ Strcet, CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addresscd to the Editor. 1al Dopariment. BUSINE! Omans 3 LETTERS, AN Vmsiness letters and remittances shounld be addre « to The Bee Publishing Company, Omani, Drafts, checks and postoflice oracrs (6 e made payablo to the order of the company, The Bec Publishing Company, Proprietors Y f1ding Farnamnt and Beventeenth Strects, Bee on the Trains, 5 excuse for o fajlure to get Tk Bug o the traths, All newsdealers have bocn nott- Red to carry & foll supniy. 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IN wnE hurly-burly of pokitics the fight between the board of public works and paving contractors seems to have been forgotten. for freak » Tz double-headed is thor- oughly posted on “hiuls.” Ttis making a mouthly haul on the eity treasury with advertising bills without render- g uu equivalen I¥ TuE prevailing rule could be ve- versed and the office sought the man, nine out of every ten of the multitude of candidates in the field would not re- ceive the slightest recognition. Bos18N sports have invaded Omaha. It the cultured representatives of the +Hub will indicate their pleasure, they .can be accommodated with anything from a chicken fight to a championship base ball game. Tur paternal care and anxiety dis- played by street car corporations for the welfare of their men is purely un- selfish of course. Having designated a clothing house for their patronage, it is now in order to say where the men shall get ehaved and have their wash- ing done. Tue International Funeral Directors’ Association of the United States and Canoda, now in session in Toronto Can- ada, will hold its meeting next year in Omaha, While this climate is no stim- ulator of their business, the sad, solemn and wmelancholy directors of funerals will learn much to thsie advantage by eoming w Omaha, — DENVER and Kansas City papers are exceedingly disgruntied because their people will not have an opportunity of seeing the delegates to the Pan-Ameri- can congress. Ouo behalf of this hos- pitable community wo tender the free- dom of the city to residents of both towns during the coming visit of the cougress o Omaha, ‘Tik most important of county offices are scarcely given passing notice. The preciuct and ward nssessors,whose valu- ations of property affect every tax- payer, are dumped into the political cauldron with constables and other precioct ofticials thatare comparatively of little or no moment Lo taxpayers. GROFPPSAFIRST DECISION. The fiest decision of Judge Groff as commissioner of the general land office isof more thanloeal importance. It does more than settle a dispated entry of a poor homestender 10 Minnesota to to whom it confirms the title of his claim nssailod on o flimsy technicality of the law. It sounds the note which tho present administration proposes to 1teelf 1o adopt in dealing with land en- trics in tho west and gives welcome earnost that equity is to take the place of that inflexiblo and often cruel legal construction which prevaiied toward western homesteaders during the last administeation. For this reason Judge Grol first decision has been sent broadeast by the press throughout the country as one of national interest. In its far-reaching effect 1t will bring re- liof to the honest settlers in all the states and territories where the process of turning the prairie into the farm under the ionsof the general land laws is still in progress. The commissioner of the general land office was fortunate in the case pre- sented. Tt involved the cancellation of a homestead entry because the settler, a wretchedly poor man, was unable to finish his house on his claim in the six months within which the law re- quired settlement to be made. The proof showed that he worked hard to carn money to buy his lumber, finally erceted his home and put in his crop, finishing the required work a short time after the date fixed by the statute. Judge Grofl in his decision denies that any v cause is shown for the cancellation of the entry, and lays down the following important rule by which the land office will be bound in the future in dealing with kindred cases The rule requiring the maker of a home- stead entry to establish an actual fesidence upon the land within six months from the date of s eutry, like all rules, has its excep- tious, and is not to be imsisted upon where the eutryman’s good faith toward the gov- ument is suficiently shown or where bis acts ave not incousistent with an houest pur- pose to comply with the law. o decision is such aone as might have been expected from Lewis A. Groft. 1t ed on an equitable in- terpretation of the intent of the stat- ute and not upon an unyielding appl cation of its letter, arlless of cir- cumstances, Assuch itis in the line of a liberal construction of the land laws for the benefit of the honestly un- forvunnte, while leaving the land office e to construe them rvigidly as against the dishonest and the land grabbers. There onabie feel- west will be a general ing of rvelief throughout the over the ussurance thus given by Judge Groff that the general land office need not bhe looked upon as an in- strument for the oppression of indi- viduals or as an engine for the suppression of western de- velopment. The specific case decided is an interesting one, but its intevest is small beside the ruling which its de- termination called forth and infinites- imal in comparison with the broad and liberal and equitable disposition which in its consideration the general land commissioner has evidenced towards the west, western interests and the set- tlement of the frontier. That Judge Groff will prove equally eapable of deal- ing with still larger subjects when pr sented for his determination, no one who knows his patient industry and his sterling integrvity will doubt for a moment. THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT. At the November election Massachiu- setts will vote under the Australian bal- lot system, and as she will bg the first state to apply this plan with very little modification, the result will ne awaited with general interest. If it shall prove to be in Massachusetts an improvement over the old system an agitation for its introduction in other states is to be ex- pected, while if it should show no ad- vantages over the system 1t will supersede, in preventing the corrupt practices in elections for which it is claimed to be the remedy, the country will probably hear no move of it. It may as well be said in advance of the experiment with the new law in Massachuseits, that those who expect to absolutely banish bribe and other abuses at elections are very sure to be disappointed. In Australia and other British colonies where similar ballot laws are in force they have not been found effective in wholly preventing corrupt practices in elections. There was an extremely bad state of affairs in the Australasian colonies in couunec- tion with the suffrage before the ballot system now in vogue in those colonies was adopted, and it is not questionable that it has worked an improvement there, but it has net removed all the evils. A writer in the October Forum, who is perfectly familinr with the sys- tem because hé “has been both elected and defeated many times under the ballot,” says that while it affords complete protection against in- timidation, except in the case of people who ave so timid that they are scarcely fit to exercise any civie function, it is not so effective a protection against bribery. In theory, of course, says this writer, the ballot is a complote protection against bribery, because the person who gives the bribe can not be sure that he gets the vote he has paid for. Thus wholesale and sys- tematic bribery, such ns used to go on at open voting, hus been made impossi- ble, “‘yet there are devices by which bribery may be effectod,” says the writer in 7'he Forwn, and he states one simple method that has been often employed. It 1s this: An agent ar- ranges with n number of men that vhey are to receive s0 much for their votes, He then brings them to the voting booth in u body, and sends the first in with instructfons to put a piece of biank paper into the ballot box instead of his ballot paper, and to bring the ballot paper out to him, the ageat. This in- volves the sacrifice of one vote, but it insures all the others, The second man puts the first man’s ballot paper, which has previously been examined by the agent to make sure that it is correct, into the ballot box, and brings out his own, The thira man puts that in and brings out au- other; aud 50 on until the tale is ex- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY hausted. Shrewd and ingenious politi- oinns might find other expedients for evading the law, The result in Massachusotts with the now Inw will bo watched with great and general interest, and it will go far to determine public sentiment in other states in favor of or against this plan of ballot refor — THE MAN AND HIS RECORD. When a public man comes before the people for promotion he should at least have a clean record behind him. The admirers and supporters of Secretary Laws have essayed to secure his nomi- nation for congress under false pre- tenses. Their principal stock in trade has been Mr. Laws’ honorable earcer as register of the McCook land office. On that score the only proof to the contrary has been the well known incidant at McCook on the day Mr. Laws entered upon his duties as register. The back door of the land office was thrown open to a gang of claim jumpers, while honest homestead- ers were barred out at the front door. This has been scouted by the swash- buckler press of the Republican Valley as unworthy of attention. Now we are 1n position to further cor- roborate the well founded suspicion that Mr. Laws was not as steaight ‘n his of- fice s register as he would have us believe. No man can read the letter of R. H. Stewart, an old soldier and citizen of Sutton, in Clay county, without reaching the conclusion that the management of the McCook land office under Mr. Laws was not in the interest of the honest homesteader, but chiefly for the benefit of the land sharic and perjured pre-emptor. That these revelations have been withheld until this time aoes not condone the offense. It simply shows that the republicans in the Second £ trict, who have been wronged, have had o great deal of forbearance with & man who also had been a soldier. But there isno written or wnwritten law that justifics a man who has been unfaithful to a trust in demanding a position as representative in congress even if, like Corporal Tan- ner, he had lost both of his legs in de- fense of the union, The republicans of Nebraska have always shown the greatest considers tion for the old soldier, but they have not always been will- ing to sacrifice the interests of the state to crippled union veterans when they found them to be unworthy of public confidence. A very striking instance is the record of John J. Gosper. 1n 1874 Gosper was nominated secretary of state, with a hurrah, over all competitors, because Tom Keanard announced that he had left aleg on a southern battlefield. At the end of two years as secre- tary of state Gosper was retired from office and shelved because he had failed to inspire public confidence. This precodent might have been fol- lowed in the case of Mr. Laws very properly at the end of his first term but for his action on the railroad com- mission just before the convention, which led the people to believe that he desired to do his whole duty regardless of corporation pr The con- vention had searcely adjourned when Mr. Laws became a backslider, apd in violation of the pledges made in the ve- publican platform that the freight rates in this state should be reduced Mr. Laws voted to reconsider the action of the commission and to leave the rates where they had been. It seems to us, therefore, that Mr., Laws’ record in the land office, the office of secretary of state such as to warrant republicans in fore- ing him upon the Second district, and upon the state at large, in defiance of public sentiment. ssure. A RADICAL CHANGE NEEDED. At Lincoln the coroner’s office filled by a physician. this is now manifest. The third wife of a local physician has just died sud- denly and from a mysterious disease, Suspicions ‘of foul play have been aroused and citizens have petitioned the coronecr to make a post morfem in- The coroner can readily com- ply with this request without meurring necdless expense for Lancaster county Had this occurred in Omaha, where ac- cidental and mysterious deaths oceur quite often, the coroner would be com- pelled to cull an inquest and employ a physician, This is radically wrong, no matter from what standpoint it is viewed. A city engineer is expected to be a civil engineer, and a coroner should by all means be a practicing physician. Instead of that our coroners have for years been undertakers. Their interest in the sale of coffins and conduct of fu- nerals is paramount. As a consequence our coroner’s juries and inguests have often been farcical, and quite often there have been no inguests, because the coroner did not like to offend par- ties whose patronage he values. A new departure in the selection of coroners 18 in order. Thisis demanded, not because we have any ill-feeling toward John Drexel or Michael Maul, but because we believe that a radical change in the seleetion of material for coroner is tmperatively demanded in the interest of our is The propriety of quest. THE state constitution leav for doubt as to the manuner and method of filling vacancies on the supreme and district benches. It provides that in case of a vacancy in either court before the expiration of the regular term, *‘the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governer, until a successor shall be elected and qualified, and such suc- cessor shall be elected for the unex- pired term at the first general election that occurs more than vhirty days after the vacancy shall have happened.” This provision clearly gives the candi- date elected at the coming election his place on the district bench the moment his election is certified by the proper authority. There is no law to prevent him qualifying until the first of Jan- uary following. That would simply prolong a vacancy which he was elected to fll. The primary intent of our system of government is to have every department constantly administered. ‘There should be no interregnum on the bench any more than in the executive 4 100 room ¥ v DAL e s i R i OCTOBER 5, 1880, SRR 2 TN MBS 0 chair. Todthis end the broadest lati- tude must by given for filling vacancies. To take any other view would be dis- astrous and cause serious complica- tions, THEREis one feature of the Wyoming constitution, just completed, which merits special commendation. 1t is the provision which prohibits the importa- tion of armed men to suppress domestio insurrection. The effect of this would be to exclude from Wyoming, whenever it shall becomp a state, armed bodies of Pinkerton or other detectives such as invado the states whenever there is a contest between emplpyers and their employes, overawing the people and fre- quently commitiing the gravest out- rages. The people of Wyoming are content to rely upon the authorities of | their own creation for their protection, and in order to be sure that outside mercenaries shatl not be brought among them vhey huave built the barrier that shall keep them out in the organic law. [t is not the leastereditable part of the work done by the constitutional conven- tion. —— SENATOR FARWELL, of Illinois, ex- plains the high cost of beef as due to the fact that people will only eat the best cuts, The senator does not attempt to explain what becomesof the vast por- tion of Texus steers which are not sus- ceptible of choice cuts. Ie certainly can not think the people are verdant enough to believe that packers do not make a profit on those portions of the beef. If the senator cares to attempt n defense of the beef monopoly he should do tho subject justice and not shirk any portion of his labors. Those people who can not afford the best cuts are just as thoroughly robbed as those who buy the choice portions of the meat. Let the senator explain why beef on the hoof is 0 very cheap and dressed is so very dear. ACCORDING to a recent consular re- port, co-operative societies are becom- ing very numerous in Germany. It is said over four thousand are doing a profitable business in the empire. These societies, which take the form of asavings bank and life 1nsurance com- pany, have never been so popular in this country asin Europe. They might well attract the attention of wage- workers, especially those who receive small pay. They afford safer places for investment of carnings than most of the savings banks managed by private parties, and they also offer advantages not possessed by the banks. Now that brick is as cheap in Omaha as it is in Kansas City and Denver, the fire limits should be extended over the Kansas City and Denver derive great advantage from the fact that they are built up entirely of brick. They impress people by the substantial character of their buildings and that has helped them greatly with investors and proved of material advantage in holding up their real estate prices. If Omaha would now stop building frame hduses she would not only gain im- mensely in appearance but would soon overtake Kansas City in population and wealth. THE congress of the Three Americas causes commotion in the vicinity of the infantile throne of Spain. That mon- avchial reminiscence naturally dreads the growth of republicanism around provinces in which the people are de- prived of the right of government by the power of bayonets. Tho result of the congress will undou btedly strongthen and encourage the Cuban patriots to continue the struggle against foreign despotism. THE United States had navy in the world at the close of the civil war. It was the result of republican policy. Its decay commenced when the democratic party obtained control of the lower house of songress in 1875. Now that the repub- licans are again in the majority in both branches of congress it is certain that the government will soon have a fleet of war ships worthy of the country’s com- mereial impor . SHERIFF COBURN'S most ardent sup- porters are down in the Third ward among the class that is always law-de- fying and disorderl This is a very good reason why Mr. Coburn should not be given a third term. The trovble with him has been that he values the ood will and support of luw-brenkers and keepers of dives and dens a good deal moro than the respect of law abid- ing citizens. the best NOTWITHSTANDING the efforts of pa~ triotic gentlemen to make the Missouri navigabie, the murky peraists in a con- trary course. Even the goverament flatboat can scarcely wiggle through the islands of sand which piliow its bed. As an artery of commerce thé Missouri leads to bankruptey. THE British scheme to secure pay- ment of confederate bonds is more of a brace game than a legitimate business transaction. It will not work, It is not probable that foreign capital will be ket out of profitable investmentsin the south for the purpose of forcing pay- ment of spurious and illegal bonds. OMAUA has shown a very friendly disposition toward Sioux City. Now let us see how Bioux City will reeipro- cate. Up w this time she has thrown cold water upofi/ dvery enterprise that Omaha has undersaicen and her papers have belittledt #nd misrepresented Omaha at every turn. Tue explosion of the Mississippi steamboat Corona at New Orleans, by which upwards of forty lives were lost, still further strengthens the claim of 1889 to being the casualty year in the history of the country 17 took Columbus & number of yéars to hustle for the money necessary for the discovery of Awerica, It seems a much greater task, however, for New York to raise sufficient cash to properly celebrate the event. — JUDGE GROFF is a western man with western sympathies. His knowledge of the trials and hardshios of homestead- ing on the frontfer insure an honest and just administration of the land laws. His fiest decision is cheering proof of liis purpose to give honest settlers the benefit of the doubt in all contosts. e e OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The victory gained by the republicans in France is gratifying ta ail friends of repre sentative institutions, but there is a tendency to magnify it to an extent not warrantod by the facts. The republican majority in the next chamber of doputios will not only not be unexampled, but it will soarcely be greater than that held in the last chamber, and will probably be somewhat less. Nol- ther has thore been a uniform diminution in republican sentiment In tho past dozon years. | On a total popular vote which has nov varisd much in recent elections from 7,000,000, the majority for the republicans was about 800,- 000 in 1877, 8,400,000 in 1881, and but 400,000 fn 1885, The vote of the country in last Sun- day’s clections is not yot knoita, but it is hardly probablo that the popular majori for the republicans will bo much greater than it was twelve yoars ugo, Thore wo apecific influonces which affected injurionsly the foes of the republic in 1551 and its friends in 1880, but these influcnces we - nent. Boulangism is undoubtedly de to speedy destruction, yet he would bea rash man who, while kuowing anything about recent French history and the drift and potency of tha forces which combine to make French politics, should prodict that Honapartist and bourbou parties have made their last appearance in a national eloction. 1t is entirely probable, to be sure, that the revublican system in Franco will enduro the most exacting tests o which 1t will be sub- jected in the future, but many decades will undoubtedly pass beforo the foes of its ex- istence will become extinct. ot ) Russla is now engaged in rasing a now loan, and Germany repeats her oid tactics of making tho most of war rumors in order o frighten the capitalists. Tncidentally an un- sottled feeling will help Bismarck in push- inghis now scheme for the enlargement of the German army. We have had accounts of six Russiun regiments of eavalry sent for- ward to join the thirty-four regiments al- ready on the German-Austrian froatier. in- fantry from the Caucasus has also been sent to the western borders. Emperor Willi plans to extend his southern tour to Con stantinople, which in all probability he would not do if he were upon cordial rela- tions with the czar, who will be extremely irritated by the step. These incidents hiave caused a rencwal of speculation regarding the chinces of & Buropean war. It may pertinently be asked what clements are there 1 the present war scare more danger- ous than the many that have preceded it. The excitement in Europe just beforo the re- tirement of Gladstone was occasionnd by the ageressions of Russia in Afglanistan, A conflict between England and Russia would have been viewed by Bismarck with great complacency. Theactual danger of war was not great at any timo during that crisis, as Russia was cxperimenting upon the extent of England’s forbearance. The next serious crisis secmed to threaten an impending strugele between Germany and Prance. And yet this gencration 18 evidently not destined to see another war between the fatherland and the republic, as the senti- meut of revenge for the losses of the Franc Prussian war Is fast dying out in France. It was only when Russia interfered and drew down upon herself the wratlh of Bismarck and frightened the reichstag to pass his seven-years’ army bill, that the natural rivals of Europe came face to face. The danger of the present situation is that the two cwvilizations are now matched for a fight either on the field or in diplomacy and in- trigue. Irom now on the world may expect stirring times. The triple alliance is secure, and the czar must cither fight or abundon the bistoric policy and ambition of the Ro- manoffs. s The com pletion of 1,000 miles of rail way n Japan was colebrated on July 10 bya grand banquet. While Japan has 1,000 miles of road, China has only eighty-six and one- half miles; but it now seems probablo that in less than twenty years the “Middle King- dom” will huve as many miles of rals as may then be found in the territory of its more propressive meighbor. The recent do- cree of the emperor of China, directing that work on & railway 700 miles long should be undertaken at ouce, was issuod only elgut months after the sudden and unexpected in- terruption of work on the proposed extension of the Tien-Tsin line. A road eighty-six and a half miles long, conuecting Tien-Tsin and ‘Taku with certain coal mines, and lying wholly in that far northeru province whicn contains the city of Pekin, had been com- pleted and was in operation. Surveyors were atwork upon an extension of ivto Tung- Chom, and bad located forty-five miles, when tney were suddenly witharawn, Taq censors, the astrologers, and other consery- atives had overcome the liberals, and appa cntly had reversed the railroad policy of the government. There had been a great five in the imperial palace, and the astrologers were induced to declare that this fire had been caused by the malign influence of the new railway, ‘fhe conservatives urged that all European nations were tearing up their rail- ways, and were trying to unioad the aban- doned rails upon the Chineso people. ¥or a time they scemed to exercise a greater influ- ence than that of Li Hung Chang, tho great viceroy, and other liberal statesmen, 1t now appears that while the liberals scemed to be in disfavor, they had not lost the confilence of the emperor and the empress dowager, but were secking support and gathering argu- ments upon which they might rest securely when the progressive policy should be re- sumed. e T'wo thousana armed men, led by Euro- neans, are now following the beaten track toward central Africa, made famous by the great explorers who were the first to gaze upon the equatorial lakes, The paths which Speke, Burton, Grant and Stanley followed on their peaceful missions are now the route of anarmy beat upon destroying the rebel chief Bushiri, who, having beon driven out of all the const towns he defended, has taken refuge smong the mountaios It is a strik- ing illustration of the great chanee that has come over the east coast, that the main out- lev through whien the secrets of inner Africa have reached the civilized world is now the pathway of an invading army. No other vart of Africa has been made so familiar to us in the narratives of explorers a8 tne region through which Wissmann's little army is advancing. To-day he 18 pushing across the juogle and the dreaded Makata swamp, through which many a traveler has floundered, buoyed up only by the hope of reaching the great mountains loomiog belore bim scores of miles away. The warin cust Africa has entered upon a now stage. Most of the long stretch of coast where tho revolt against Gorman rule began is now cortrolled by the Germaus. A large part of the rebel force huc retreated inland, aad it is possible that Wissmann's advance may res ult outy in driviog them further toward the lakes, whence, like the Mahaists, they may be abie 10 menace white enterprises 1or au indefinite time, or as long as they can procure swug- gled supplies of ammunition His majosty the sultan of Moroceo, Nen- loy Hassan, has judiciously released the crow of the Spanish vessel captured by the Kiflaas on tue Moroeeo coast. Spain, from long exporience, undorstands how to handls her nolghbors across the Straits, snd the sul- tan concluded with groat promptitude not to o mar the comfort and splendor of his pres- ont visit to Tetuan, Tangier and other ports, by ranning tho risk of a bembardment from # Spanish floct. The claim of the Rifans is that the Spanish eraft was o smaggler, and some of the Madrid authorities seem to have thought this possible; but, knowing whom they ware dealing with, they demand- od relense flrst and got it. A peremptory method was also fonnd to be the most satis factory by our own consular officer at Tan- gier last yoar. Possibly Spain would have been as well ploased had the sultan yielded more slowly and givon hor a chance to land some vroops. In fact, tho incldent is not yo quite closed, as tho question of and compensation will come up, especially 1t be truo that the Rifans fired on the Span- the captired craft died of ill usage. Lord Salisbury has already the sultan to marke ample reparation probably he will consent to do so. 1t tho report from Clina that rich mines of gold-boaring quartz have been discovered in that anctont empire are conflrmed, one more illustration will be thus furnished of a won- eful fact in thoe world's modern progross, mely: The orient is renew its youth contact with the oceident. The roport s that Amorican machiery and Ameri- can workmen are to be emploved by the Chinese government to extract tho treasure from its fastness. Probably the fact is, if tho roport has a basis in trath, that this quartz has been known of for ages, and its anriferous charactor ofton romarked; but, until modern applied science came into the flold, no one was aware of uny process by which the gold could be separated from tho rock. In many parts of the ola world which have been thought to be lone ago worn out, or at.ieast, in rapid decay, where it was sup- posed that nothing new remained to be dis- covered, done or hoped for, new world en- terprise and intelligence are gradually prov- ing that early civilizatious only scrate hed the surface of the earth. « While sovoral nations are now blockading a long streteh of African coasts to keep slaves from tting out and fir rms from getting in, 1t is & little remarkable that in some regions improved weapons are pouring into inner Africa at a great rate, apparently with the connivance of the very nations on- gaged in tho blockade. Whoa the kmg of Matabele land recentiy nted to lot white men dig for gold in Mashona land, which is uow talked of as the coming Eldorado, he stipulated that 1,000 breech-loading ritles and 100,000 eartridges must be sent, to him. They havo just passed through British territory to the country of the bloodthirsty Matabele, With their own rude weapons they have been the scourge of South Africa, and it now looks as thongh the British were arming them the more effectually to wipe out all the surrounding tribes. In spite of the block- ado the trade in guns and powder seems to o on without let or hindrance along the Zambesi and in the Nyassa re Portugal, 10 serve her own purpose: sending the goods far and wide into the country. ‘Phe czar of Russia has interested himself in the subject of exccutions by electricity. He has more opportunities for exporiment- ing with it than any other potentate, and with his autocratic power can brush aside the eloctrical theorists hired to advocate one side or tho other and determine the matter by actual tests, regardiess of the effect the y have on the reputation for death-deal- ing power of particular systems of electric lighting. Ruuning Over With 'Em. Chicagn News. The new northwest was chock full of republicans on Tuesday. —_—— The Measure of a Tr Baltimore American, ‘Within a month su, st securities have declined from $123 to 6. This looks very much as if public confidence in that unhely combination is 0ozing out. - The Baby Couldn’t Stand It. Lewiston Journal. Howard Owen, the famous Augusta jour- nalist, and almost equally famous judge of baby shows, acted in this capacity us the Grange fair in Augusta this year. He ex- plains in his paper why he did not kiss the sweet Little things this ime: he kissed a col- ored baby in an unguarded moment and the unlucky darling died in three months from that time. st -~ Editor Halstead Was Satisfled. Cinecinnatt Commercial Gazette, Mr. Halstead, of the Commercial-Gazotte, has never opened his guns on nnyone who voted against his confirmation as minister to to Germany, and feels as well pleased with the result as any of the senators, though he 18 not delighted with thoir mothods. fe feels that he received two great compliments —one his nomiuation for president, the other his rejection by the senate Chicago Tribune: Guest (angrily) —Con- found your awkwardness! You'vespilt half thut soup down my back. Waiter at restau- rant (heartily)—Don’t mind 1t, sir. I’ bring some more. Bless you, there’s plenty of soup! Now York Sun: Miss Trimount—And to think that after all these thousands of years there shonid be so much water in the seal One would suppose it would have dried up long ago. Miss Kornpackir—Yes, that's so, But then, you know, it has heaps of salt in it, and papa says the way salt preserves things is wonderful. Detroit Free Press: Al he asked of the keeper of an eating stall on the market. *“Well, no; not exactly fried oysters,” she answered. * Whatis it1" “Cold corned beef.” “Oh, that's near enough, and you may slice'me off some. I expect it's ali in the name anyway.” New York Sun: Lord Bowbells (at his first ball game)—Aw, I think I understand the—aw—principles of the game now, but what-aw-—1s the basis of it! Tom Sport- ingblood—The bases! Confound it. I've told you two or three times that they are first, second, third and home, Chicago Herald: The Rush, after all, only captured the insignificant number of 2,500 seals, Asa Rush for sealsking it doesn't equal the one that will presently begin at the fur stores, Drake's Maguzine: Mrs. Blotterwick - Joshua, there was @ tramp here this after- noon, und he looksd so hungry that I guve him a large piece of goossberry pie, 1 won- aer how he feels now! Blotterick (gloomily) —1 know how ho feols. I had a piece of tha pie at dinoer, you remember, American Commercial Traveler: Nice, are you ill?" asked little Johnr dle the othor eveuing of his sister's best fol- low. “Why, no, Johunie: what makes you ask such a question?” “Ob, because I hoard sistor say to mamma that she thought yoa wust be sick to think she'd warey you for nothing but looks."” Burlington Free Press: Haldheaded and very homely old gentleman to photographer —Drat such pictures. Caw’t you make me look any better thao that after dve sittingst Pholographer (exasperated)—I thiak I can, sir, if you allo w me to take the baock of your ¢ friod oyaters 1" ish gunboat Cocodriloand that the captain of | head. Tt hasn'tso mnch expression Aa tha other sido, but 1's & blamed sight prottior. Olawrenco American: Mr. Goodoatoh (calling on the oldest sister) —Why, Johnny, how you are growing? You'lijbe a man be- | fore your sister, it you keep on. Johuny= | You bot T will. 'Sister'li never bo & man 1t | sho keons on boing twonty like she has for the last fivo yoars. Then thero was trouble | in the household. - GILBUERT M, LAWS ARRAIGNED, n O1d Soldier Shows Up His Record in the MoCook Liand Ofee. Surrox, Neb, Oet. 8.--To the Editor ot Tne Bee: Onthe 34 day of July, 1884, [ was at the MeCook land ofica and onterod | the soutneast quarter of section 22632 as a soldier’s homestead, In Decomber, 1884, [ went up to the land described to make set- tlement. But on arriving at MeCook I was | informed hy a fricnd that said land had boen entered by one Mrs. M. McGill. Imade my way to the land ofice and called up said land. Hon. Mr, Laws, the register, in formed me that the land in question had been ontered by ono Mra. M. MeGill. I told Mr. Laws that there must bo some mis- take, that 1 entored sald land on the 84 day of July, 1884, and had the receipt therefor. He .told me L didn’t, and aftor some words he orderod mo out of the land office, and sald he could do nothing for mo and that I would have to wait tll Mr. Babeock came from New Ou- reh, 1885, 1 went to the MoeCook land ofice, and ugain called up the land above de- ibed. Mr. Laws and Mr. Baboook wero both m the oftice, ‘Thay told me I never hud made an entry of said land. After somo talk [ produced the receipt of entry, Mr. Babeock turncd to the safe, got the duplicats entry, sud handoa it to me with my dis- charge papors, also paying me back my entry foe and said there had becn a mistake, and they conld do nothing for me. I left the land office baaly, I went to the land in question and found that the party who had eutered the above described land had not made sottlemont. I went back to the land oftice and tola Mr. Laws the above fact, and thav [ wished to cntor a contest. Ho told me e would nov accopt a contost on said land. I employed an attorney, made out the papers, presented them at the land office, and told him if he would not accept them we would send them to tho gencesl 1and ofico. Ho said he would accept to save time if we did that, and he took the contest fee und pigeon-holed the papers. I never ROt o hearing in the caso till August, 1887, and then oaly by seading an affilavit to tho secretary of the interior, stating all the above facts, when the secretary ordered a hearing in the case, Question 1.—Mr fecling Laws, did you not state in a letter to the cretary of the interior that the above described contest papers wore mislaid and you conid not fina themi Question 2.—Did you not write a letter, after [ entored coutest and protest, to Mrs. McCill and tell her that she must como_and live on the land in question, as her proof had been rejected by the se y of the in= terior, and tnat there had been a protest and contest filed ¢ Question Is it not a fact that you held those papers until after Mrs. MoGill came back and lived on the lind the required length of time to make proof, and you ad- vised her so to do, knowiag that my protest and contest were on fil Question 4.—I8 it not a fact that on careful inspection of the books of the land office they will sk P WAS . prior entry to Mrs. Me; erasod, or had been ! Question. ill's, and it Is it not a fact that while you wero register in the land office you acted in the capacity of advisor and attorney in this case for Mrs. McGillt Question. G—-Is it not a fact that vou took said contest and protest papers and destroyed them? Question. 7—Is it not a fa 1 me back my ent described land? Quesiion. S a respeciable cif you regre that the land ‘ee on theabove it not a fact that you told zen of McCoolk, Neb,, thut ted not issuing notice on this con- st 9—Ifitis a fact that you held i cuse above mentioned did so0? public why you Quostion, 10-Ts it not a fact that when Stewart made said entry he was asked the question, **Is this a Stinkmg Water mob you have got here this morning!” and he told you be knew nothiog of tae Stinking Water busi- nesst Question 11—Is it not a fact thatJ. W. Johuson, of Sutton, had some talk with you about the Stwart contest matter, aud you told him Lis statements were not true ! Question 12.—Is it not a fact that if the records of tho general ana MeCook land offices are properly examined they will re- veal the fact that Stewart' tatements a correct | Question 18.—If you are nominated and elected w congress will you handle the ofMice in the bungling way you did the McCook land office? R. H, STEWART. THE PORK CORNER, Another Sensation on the Boara of Trade. Cnicaco, Oct. 4.—The sensation on the board this morning was the aanouncement that the ctique had gone before Judge, Shep- ard and secured an injunction agawst the board of trade inspector to prevent hin from issuing certificates on newly packed October pork. The clique yesterdny received and paid for all the newly packed pork offered. But it now trauspires that this was the only pork so0ld to the clique ut a low price. Tné high- priced pork tendered them on late dehveric: yesterday was refused and an injunction to I tits delvery was asked for. The in- junctiou is not only aguinst the official in spector, but agaiustall the officers of the board. ‘The directors met in secret session soon after the board opened. ‘I'heir atlorney was presont with a copy of the injunc- tion and its allegations were carefully considered. The ijunction, besides prohibit- ing the delivery of the pork, also prevents the board from disciplining the members for refusing 1o take po: ‘The latter point, however, has been decided so often in tho courts that little importance was attached to it. The courts have alwuys conceded tho board the right of discivliving members for the infraciion of the rules, -~ - Stop coughing at once by the immediate use of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup; 2 cents & bottle. 1 860 @ star, Bve's first born,in whose train' Jomes tho damp twilight that brings pain’ r aches of bead, neuraleia, cut.and bruise, y Salvation Oil, these will you lose. - Secking beep Water, Colonel C. 8. Chase has returned from the Topeka deep-harbor convention. He says the body was a lurge aud uble one, and that several very eloquent sucoches were made by Rgovernors, senators, congressmen and others, tho most romarkaole one being that of ex- Governor Hubbard, of Texas, the Iate min. ister to Japan. ‘The governor, ho snys, held the convention speli-bound for’ over an hour, After a storuiy session of three duys the conventioa harmonized. and the result of the agreement will be found in I'ue Hee's tele- ph columns, ‘The colonel introduced @ s of resolutions, which will be published ater, Chicago CURES PERMANENTLY BACKACHE, HEADACHE AND TOOTHACHE. CURES PERMANENTLY ALL ACHES AT DBUGGISTS AND DEALYRS, THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Waltimore, M&

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