Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 14, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1880, DAILY BEE. THE = e B. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF S8UBSURIPTION, g‘“{'lnfl Sunday, One Year weeer .80 ix Months . e 1 Three Monthis, 9 sive § Bumday lice, Ofié Fai 0 AT | cekly Dee, One Year with Premium. ., 8 OFFICES. Omana, Nea Bollding, Chicage Office, 567 Rookery Tuljdinge New York, ltooms 14 and 15 Teibune Bulld- ng. ‘Washington, No. 513 Fourteenth Stre: Conncil Binfts, No. 12 Pear] Stroct. Lincoln, 1020 P St cet, CORRESPONDENCE. All communieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should bo addressed to the Editor- 181 Department. BUSINESS LETTERL All Vusiness letters and remittances shonld he addressed to 1 he Bee Publishing Company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postofiice oruora {0 be made payablo to the order of the company, The Beg Publishing Company, Proprietors #ex Bullding Farnam and S centh Stre Sworn Statement of Circvlation Etate of Nebraskn, County of Dotg) Georgo B, Tzsciuc y Fublishing ( omuly swear tht DAtLY Ber for 9. Was a9 fol- Thursday, Oct, 10, ¥riday, Oct. 11 Baturdiy, Oct, 12 Average Etate of Nebraska, County of Douglas. £W0In to before me and subscribed to in my presence this 12(h day of October, A. D. 1884, IEeal. GEORGE N. HICKS, Notary Publis George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de. d says that he 18 secretary of The Bes ng company, that the actual average ilation of ‘Tre DALY BEe for the month of October 1885, was 1808 coples: for 1888, 18,088 for 188K, 1823 coples; 18,574, coples; for February, 1489, capies; for March, 1859, 18854 copi April, TE, 18,550 coples; for May, 158 coplek: for' June, 15%0, JESD, 1%, for ‘September, bus. dally cf SCHUCK, EWOrn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 4th day of October, A. ., 18 [SEAL.] N.P. Frit, Notary Public 1K ilroads ure out of pc all political managers and subordinate workers will report for active d Hastings to-ds THERE are seven lon in the Wishington : they escaped the general slaught profound myste democ Tow isa T is such a thing repentance, of the Republican Clarkson shoul ns death-bed In this light the appeal on be Mr. be commended. BILL TURNER'S conlession to the grand jury that he “didn’t know much™ is interesting as a life-size picture of the mental condition of the county board. Noriceto B. & M. conductors: All passengers for Hastings presenting the usual courtesies of the company are en- titled to the freedom of the commissary car regardloss of expense. THr vrowmised Wolseley next De meeting of Lord nd Jeff Davis at Richmond *mber will enable them to meet ancw over the grave of the lost cause. Truly the confederates “gotting together THE collapse of the Republican em- phasizes the fact that it requives some- thing move than money to make a newspaper successful. It requires character, abiiity, honesty of purpose, and above all an_ unwavering advocacy of the public inter are Tur contractors of the hospital job succeeded in throwing considerable dust in the cyes of the grand jury to hide the defects of the building. But they cannot cover up their copartner- ship with the county board nor their crooked raids on the trea: The judicial convention which assem- bles in Omuha to-day should vigorously squelch Vandervoort and the roust- abouts who seek a repetition of the blunder of two years ago. The recommendation of Mr. Clurkson by the bar sociation should determine the action of the convention. He is a republican, thoroughly competent for the position, a no opponent worthy of the name. To reject a man of his stunding in the community and at the bar for a briefless blathoerskite will be an invitation to defeat at the polls. AT the present time Philadelphia has eight hundred and twenty-five and one- half miles of private wives and fifty seven and one-quarter miles of city wire underground. The cost or bury- ing the fifty-seven and one-quartee miles of city wire was only $8,20470, a small outlay when the permanency of the undertaking is taken into consid- eration, The system has worked ad- mirably. Tho companies protested at the inception of the scheme but they are now woll satisfied with the results. ‘Wind and snow storms, sleet and rain which do so much damage to telegraph lines both in citics and in the country, are avoiaed. Denver authorities are about to tuke the subject of under- ground wires in hand and our own city council should not be second to any city in the west in the burial of overhead wires. Me. Burrouvaus, president of the Farmers’ alliance, scores the railrond managors for the conspiracy by which they defoated the renomination of J udge Reese and suggests a call for a people’s state convention and the nomination of Judge Reese on the people’s ticket. ‘While nothing too severe can be said about the method by which Judge Reese was slaughtered in the house of his pre- tended friends, TrE BeEE doubts exceed- ingly whother the proposed move- meut could be made success- ful. In the first place, there is scarcely time enough between now and eloction day for organizing an anti- monopoly campaign that would sweep the state, and in the next place we doubt very much whether Juige Reese would consent to stand for an election as the independent people’s oandidate. To make a spasmodic effort that would end in a fizzle would hardly advance the cause of anti-mouopoly in this state, A WORD OF CAUTION. The railroad managers who are tak- ing such an active interest in the choice of a successor to the late Congressman Laird may not be aware of the fact that their high-handed attempts todominate the people is exciting intense resent- ment. If they learn wisdom from past experience, they will not folst Mr. Laws upon the people of Nebraska in the capacity of a representative in the national legislature. Have they forgotten the lesson of 1876, when Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon came to Omaha to force an offensive congressional nomination ? Gould and Dillon succeeded after tampering with the convention for four da; but the people resonted the outrage and the storm that followed the congressional onmpaign sent Gould's preferred candi- date for the senate into retirement, and two yoars later sent Van Wyck to the United States senate. A few years later the railroad bosses were tanght another severe lesson by a popular uprising which cost them mill- ions of dollars, The railrond managers have recently scored a victory in the defeat of Judge Reese which has reopened old sores in many places. If on the heels of this old attempt to control our supreme bench they foist a known railroad hench- man like Laws upon the people they will incite an anti-monopoly cru- sade that will sweep the state next year and drive every railrond sym- pathizor from place and power. Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. Unless the railrond bosses are stark mad they will heed our warning and content themselves with the over- throw of the supreme judge who had made himself offensive to them. A VISIONARY SCHEME. An important convention of the wheat growers of the Mississippi vatiey will be held at St. Louis, beginning the 23d inst. Itisthe outgrowth of the Farm- crs’ federation organized a fow years ago for the purpose of driving out mid- dlemen and bringing the producer and tog The pri- the convention is to trust, This announced consumer noearer ther. mary object of perfect a wheat growers’ purpose is publicly in civeular declaving that the association’s first move will be to sccure a monopoly of the commission business, which will not only enable the company to pay large dividends to stock- hoiders, but will give it power over shipments of farm produce and loc! the door to fair prices.” farmer who has raised five hundred bushels of wheat this yoarin any of the state territories is eligible as a dclegate, The deliberations of the convention will be watched with more than local intere It is practically the first at- tempt of those engaged in puraly agri- cultural pursuits to control or regulate the price of their products. 1t is the natural outecome of the pr ling spirit of combination in all departments of busines The prices of many of the necessuries of life are already subject to the will of a fow men, and the con- sumer i side with trusts to relieve of his surplus, We have had corne in wheat, Nour, corn, pork and in other commodities, and the manipu- lators, instead of being hustled into the penitentiary, were applauded as sharp, shrewd business men. Cevtainly the farmers ave justified in adopting every legitimate meauns to secure the highe: possible returns for their labor. But the project of the wheat growers ‘1o regulate the supply in the market and establish the price” is beyond the range of possibility. The authors of thi brained scheme cvidently do not comprehend the magnitude of the task before them. The twenty millions all capital of the federation. even if paid up and handled by Hutehinson, would net *“‘control the market or regulate the price” for thirty day However, if the farmers have money to squander they cannot choose a speedicr means to dispose of it. Greater benelits will acerue to the farmors if they unite for practical ends. The Patrons of Husbandry, the Grango and the Auti-Monopoly leagues of years pust were a source of strength as well as profit to the tillers of the soi Loy demonstrated that organization and unity of purpose were essential to combat growing evils, and par- ually accomplished the ends sought. But suce is out of the ques- tion if the convention sticks to the vis- ionary plans of the federation. Deliber- ating on the 1mpractical is a waste of ‘energy. Let the convention modify its scheme toa combined attack on the middlemen and the elevator monopoly, and good results will be achieved. A bold, united front and cautious, conserv- ative leadership, coupled with means to make the organization independent of gobetwoens, will soon bring the ar- rogant elevator men to terms and give the farmers the benefit of the ex- orbitant commissions now charged. met on ever him THE SECRET BALLOY. The elections in Montana and Con- necticut, under a moditied form of the Australian ballot system, have encour- aged the advocates of that system to re- newed efforts in behalf of its general adoption. It is highly probable that these efforts will be fruitful of a quite general movement by the legislatures the coming wintor to establish the Aus- tralian system, and doubtless in some of the states this will be done., The sys- tem will have another test in Massachusetts next month, and if it shall work well there the fact will be a further and o stronger encourage- ment to 1ts advocates, Every good citizen desives the purifi- cation of the ballot, and if this can be accomplished under the Australian system with whatever modifications are necessury to fit it to our political sys- tem it will uudoubtedly be finally adopted. But the elections in Montana and Conpecticut are by no means conclusive tests of the purify ing value of the Australian plan, It is smid to have worked satis- factorily in both states, rendering bribery and intimidation to a great ex- tent impracticable, but as anew ex- periment it was not assailed by any of those devices by which the ballot is cor- rupted, nor were the conditions, par- ticularly In Connectiout, such as to es- pecially invite such devices. A much better tost of the system will be sup- plied by Massachusetts, and its more ardent friends will do well to await the result there before becoming too enthu- siastio, The fact is that the Australian ballot system is not a complete and unfailing remedy for corrupt practices even in Australia, as is attested by Mr. Bdward Wakefiold, who has beon both elected and defeatod under its operation. He claims for it that it affords a protection against intimidation, but as to preveut- ing bribery he admits that it is not en- tirely effective, and he cites several methods by which the intent of the law in this respect is defeated, Perhaps it is not possible to make any ballot law which the ingenuity of practical poli- ticians can not defeat at some point, but it may faicly be questioned whether wo are justified in importing a system that has been shown to be defective in its operation in the land of its origin. THE GOLD SUPPLY. The recent discovery of rich gold mines in Queensland, Australia, and in South Africa, will quiet the foarsof those who have apprehended a steadily diminishing supply of gold in conse- quence of the declining product of the mines of Californin and of Victoria, Australin, The reports regarding the mines in Queensland represent them to be richer than those of Victoria over were. Their production i pushed by powerful London exports estimate that it will this year reach fifteea million dol- lars, nearly double that of last year. One mine in Queensland 18 said to be the richest ever discovered, examina- tions warranting the estimate that at least two hundred mil ion dollars worth of the metal can be taken out. The richest discoveries, however, have been made 1n the Transvaal re- public. Tt was long belioved that this region was peculiarly rich in gold, but its inaccessibility and the repressive policy of its Duteh inhabitants venderod experts for a time unable to obtain any knowledye of the extent and vichness of the deposits, Tempted hy the alluring reports of the mines. the English in atal and Cape Colony finally ove 1 opposition and en- teved the gold fields, finding their most line cxpectations more than realized, [t is believed that the gold mines of the Travsvaal will prove to be as rich, and possibly richer, than those of California and Australia. Thus far the yield has not been y great, but it is steadily incrensing, and with more ample appliances for mining and better facili- ties for v ortation, it is expected that the world’s supply of gold will be largely and rapidly increased from the product of these south African mines, Mecanwhile explorations are making farther northand discoveries have been made ch, if truthfully represented, promise in time an enormous addition to the supply of this precious metal. At any vate what has been developed in these remote regions is sufficient assur- ance against a diminished gold supply for many years to come. SILVER AND THE MONEY SUPPLY. The fact that treasury officials are discussing the expediency of increasing the coinage of silver to the maximum limit under the law of four million doilars a month, as reported in our Washington dispatches yesterday, 1s significant of the condition of the money market and the pressure that is being felt at the treasury for relief. For o veek or two past the mouctary situation at New York has been ciose, and there are conditions at work, other than those of a domestic nature, which threaten to make it closer. Sofar as the commercial outlook is concerned, it could hardly be more favorable, but the increasing demand for money is not met by a proportionate increase in thesupply. The treasury is getting very small amounts of bonds offered, and the relief to the mon market from this source is inconsider- able. he national banks are not adding to the circulation, ‘but on the contrary continue to surrender notes, this loss being mev by the issue of silver certificates, This is the state of affairs that has in- duced the treasury officials to consider the policy of increasing the monthly coinage of silver. Undoubtedly if this were done it would give at least temporary relief to the money market, but it is hardly probable that the secretary of the treasury will makeso vadical a de- parture at this time, with the meeting of congress less tham two months dis- tant. The position hitherto of Secre- tary Windom has not been favorable to increasing the coinage of silver, and when interviewed on the subject some two or three months ago, he distinctly inti- mated that there would be no increase of the coinage unless directed by con- gress. It is not impossible that his views may have since undergone a change, but it is quite safe to assume thathe will adhere to the policy pursued for the past ten years until conyress cun have un opportunity to pass upon the subject. Meanwhile, if the demand for vrelief of the money market should become more urgent, the sec- vetary may have recourse to two expe- dients. He can offer more favorable inducements to attract bond offerings and he can anticipate interest on bonds. It may happen that he will not find it necessary to resort to either, but the administration is pledged to avert any serious financial stringency, ana it will undoubtedly act in due time in the way that shall appear wisest. There is very slight probability, however, that there will be any immediate change in the policy vegarding the coinuge of silver, Tie anoval session of the American forestry congress will begin in Phila- delphia to-morrow. The congress will tuke steps to push a project to withdraw from entry and sale under existing laws the timber tands of the public domain, until a special commission can deter- mine how & permanent supply of timber way be obtained from them. The gen- eral public, after all that has been said regarding the reckless destruction of our Amorican forests, and the disastrous consequences, will (be disposod to sup- port the efforts of the congress for the withdrawal of the timber lands for the purposes propoged, though it must be said that publio sentiment, as reflocted in congress, is far: too indifferent re- gpecting this very important matter of protecting the forests on the public do- main. Unless congress can be induced to do something soon to protect the for- ests it will not be many years until there will be no forests to protect. JUSTICE to the vublic and it mands that the Union Pacific vigorously prosecute and punish negligent and dissipatod operatives. The rockless disregard of life and property shown in numerous recent cases does not reflect credit on the discipliue of employes, and an example should be made, and that promptly. It is sald that the scheme for the purchaso of tho Omaba beor factories by an knglish syndicato is still browing. Commissioner Mount says since the grand jury prevented his ronomination he don't Rive a —— what they do now. Althougu Croninville jis rapidly losing her prestige as a pork packing center, she still holas her lead in the jury packing industry, The state of Nebraska, of which Omaha is the metropolis, oxtends to her namesake the unfortunate steamer, her most heartfelt commiseration. Wichita claims to have forty two women's clubs, Yet there1s no proof that husbands m the Kansas town get home any earlier nIghts on this account. A man in Monroe county, Ohio, drove to town the other day aud learned for the first time that Harrison had been electod prosi- dent, The Hon. James E. Campbell ought to secure a large and enthusiastic vote in this man’'s district. In view of the fact that the democratic ticket is fairly bristling witn such French patronymics as O'Walley, Corrigan, and McGinnis, the appeal of the only Moriarity to the convention to sce that the Irish race was properly represented was little short of pathetic, Now 1t is stated that & trunk containiog three hundred thousand dollars 1n gold has been discovered in an old building sito in Mexico. The able bodica prevaricator who ularly startles the country with massa cres and other hair ug stories which nevar pan out is evidently still on deck. he coroner of Binghamton, N. Y., held b inquest on the bones of & man who has been buried for thirty-four yeu nd the coroner's jury found “the o of death uoknown.” The average coroner's jury woull have arrived at the same counclusion if the inquest had been held thirty-four min- utes after the decease. - The Outo Styte, St. Louis Republic. The whole art and method of Ohio politics consists of calling the other fellow another one and proving 1t on him. Base Ball and the British, Chicago News. A base ball league is forming in England. Still it is doubtful whether finglisnmen know the difference between a curve ball anda curvature of the spine. sy Getting Hot Ko Campb 1l St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The canvass in Ohio is becoming quite sultry, and the principal sweater is Mr. James E. Campbell, the man who foolishly ccepted a nowination aguinst Governor Foraker. - Gladstone’s | ent Nuccee: Philadelphia North Awierican, The capture of seats in parlismant by the Gladstoniaus has been so frequent lately that it bas become rather monotonous—for the other side. Ihat the liberals should have succeeded in clecting anothor candidate for the house of commons shows that tho tide is still running in the dircction of home rule. If it 80 continues for any length of time, Mr. Gladstone may have yet another term as prime miuister before his lifo is ended. Rights of the Common Soldier. St. Louis Post=Dispateh. The idea that a common soldier is a dog or a vicious vagabond following from choice a a servileand bratal trade, and entitled there- fore to just such treatment as a penitentiary conviet, is not tolerated 1n Germany, France or any other couutry that mainiains a great and well disciplined army. It is not a modern idea, and when put forward as an American idea it will be repudiated with in- dignation aud sbhorrence by the whole Awerican people, - IREAT MEN, Grover Cleveland has gained fourteen pounds in weight since his retirement from the office of president. Prince Louis de Rohan, oue of the fore- most of Austrian sportsmen, reccutly shot his 12,000th buck at Chaustrick. The king of Spain took his first sea bath at San Sebastian a few weeks ago. His elaest sister, the princess of the Asturias, aged nine, carried him n. George I2bers, the Egyptologist and novel- ist, is said to be a hopeless invalid. Heis paralyzed and very rarely moves out of his rolling chawr, His spirits, however, never flag and he still continues to wori. Frascuelo, the Spanish torero, has retired with a fortune estimated at $500,000, Al- though ranking among the greatest buli- fighters, he was freely criticised by many ex- perts for being unusually liable to accidents. The dukeof [dinburgh takes pleasure In repeating to his mother, Queen Victoria, the disagroeable comments that the emperor of Russis has mado upon the recent wurria of Princess Beatrice to Lord Fife, and it seems that these sentiments of eotire disap- proval are fully shated by the Empress Frederick. Lord Lytton, British minister to France, is said to resemble hia. father, the novelist, in personal appearance; having the same long face, sad looking eyes, full, straight beard and prominent nose. While literature has been his avocation, be hics made diplomacy his vocation and n\: erved at many of the courts of Europe. “His]most important posi- tions huve been that of viceroy of Iudia and his present one. As mfnister to rance he receives $60,000 salary fud & palace to live in. Herman Harms, of Utica, Minuo., is said to have been sleeping soundly most of the time for the past twelve years, Ho wakes up to eat occasionally and every few years he re- ns consciousness long enough to walk out for a time, but then sleep overtakes him again aod he is buried in slumbver for months, His latest nap is said to have lasted thus far two years, He is declared to be very weak with little probability of ever be- ing able to rise from his bed ugain, even if he wakes up. The oldest person who has died this year, according to the Jongevity sharps, was Gott fried Wapmarek, who passed away n Ger- many noL many weeks ago at the undisputed age of 128 years. The oldest person of wmodern times whose death 1s recorded ac- curately was Louisa Truxo, an English woman, who was 105 years old when she disd, fn 1780. There was a Don Cameron, who may have boen an ancestor of the pres- ent family ot long-lived Camerons In Penn- sylvania, who died in Scotland fn 1759 at the age of 130 years, Tt is said that Vice Prosiaent Morton's house in Washington will be ready for ocou- pancy early in November, The house was bought of Prof. Beil, of telephone fame, who bought it of Licutenant Broadhead for $100,000. The alterations and additions that have boen made by Mr. Morton will render the house ono of the handsomost private resi- dences 1 Washington, It Makes Another Great Trip Loaded With Sunday Papers. The second trip of the newspaver traln ohartered by Tie Bee to carry its Sunday edition over the Union Pacific railway to Grand Island, Hastings and intermediate points, was a pronounced success and met with hearty appreciation all along the lino. In order to reach Kearnoy and other points west of Grand 1sland earlier than before, the schedule of the flyer was made faster, 80 as to reach Grand Island at instead of 8:20. From Fromont, whero the first stop was made, to tho end of the run of the special and of onch conne ting train, agents and sub- scribers were on the watch and greeted the flyer with shouts of commendation. ‘Tie Bee special passed and loft far in the roar all trains leaving Omaha aftor 8 . m. Saturday evening, The two sections of No. 27 were caught and passed, one at Paddock and the other at Silver Croek, These trams feft Omaha at S p. m, Saturday night. Nos. 19 and 17, leaving at midoight and 1 a. m. v No. 17 at North @ and 10 at Clarks, the lattor having Omaha Saturday evening papers with a Sun- day date line, Superintendent Ressiguie made sbme im- provements in I'ng Bee aud Conductor Cunningham and rineor Patton did every- thing to insurs safety and to have the special sustain its reputation as a flyer. 1t 1s Appreciated. Sidney Tele; ph: Tue Ovana Bre begrun the delivery of its Sunday morning edition to readers west by special train, leaving Omaha at 4 o’clock a. m., and making the civcuit of Fremont, Grand Island and Hastings, In th ay all points on the Elk- norn, Union Pacitic and B. & M. are sup- plied e in the day with Tur MoRrNING Bre. Tk Brw s a great newspaper, and its entorpriso descrves the approciation of its readers, which is no doubt duly accorded it. has Always Ahead, Wooa River Gazotte: Tie OwmamA Ben has mstituted a special servico for delivering the Sunday morning o on to fts readers along the line of the Union Pacific and B. & M. roads by the aii of & special train, Tne Ber now reaches here early in the forenoon on u fast freight from Grand [sland, being brought there by the special. Tius BrE is always ahead. Nothing to Compire With 1t \d Independent:—Tiur OMAIA Bee fiyer will givo Tis BEa compiete mion - opoly of the Sunday paper business ia this section of tho state, as, besides being oy all odds the mnewsiest paper in the state, it reaches it patrons from flve to seven hours ahead of any other Omaba or Lincoln paper, and when you receive it, you never fail to find something i it. Ior genuine enter- prise thero is nothing to compare with Tix Brr, either in this or any adjoining state, and it has very few cquals anywhere in the Uwited States. Long may she buzz. A Bee Characteristic, Gothenburg Independent:—Tne OMAHA SUNDAY BEE 10w reaches Gothenburg at 2 p. m. on the day of publication. This piece of enterprise is only characteristic of Tiz Bre munagement, and will be appreciated by its patrous, A Great lmprovement. Seward Revorter:—THE SUNDAY Beg now gots to Seward before noon on the day of its publication, That is a great improvement on waiting till noon o . and_ought to 1 ¥ Suxpay Bre lo paper comes over the Elk- Lorn road. THE PAN-AM Preparations : Delegates Winile raha. A meeting was held at tho board of trade rooms Saturday afternoon to make arranges ments for entertaining the delegates to the congress of the Awecrican uations, who will arrive in Omaha Saturday, Octob The party will coma to Omaha from St. Paul, stopping at Sioux City, They will arrive Saturday morning and remain until Sunday night, gomg from here to Dos Moines, The attendance at the meeting was small, but the proposed entertainuient was talked over and the following programme was sug- gested Frid: mittee wi the tourists to Omaba, arriving Saturday. Tho guests will be driven to the Paxtou, where an_entire floor of sleeping rooms will be reserved for them. In the aft- ernoon a visit will bo made to the stock yards and smolting works, a drive about the city comp afternoon programme. In the oven et may be arranged for, or a visit will be tmade to one of the the- aters. The question of a banquet will be settled hercaft Sunday morning a drive to Fort Omaha will be taken. President. Harrison nas or- dered the commander of the Department of the Platte to have the troops prepared for the inspection of the visitors, although Sun- duy dress parades havo been aiscontinued for some time. 4 ‘After everything of interost in Omaha has been shown the delegates, they will be driven over to Council Bluffs, it there is suftlc time remaming. Sunday night tho special train will carry tho d Moines. This plau_of ent change. ‘The following committees w pointed to carry out the various dctail On Finance—John A. Wakefield, William wallace, G. M. Hitelicock, Max Moyor, W. [5, Nason, Frank Colpetzer and W, V., Morse. On Banquet -Mayor Broateh, Dr. George 5. E. Squires, Guy Barton, Judgo ‘George W. Lininger and Josoph Garnca, Reception —Mayor Bro Dr. George L. Miller, Aunin, D. H. Wheeler, nell, Senator Paddocis, John A, MeShane, I cock, General Bro H, H. Meday. N Tho members of the reception committee are expectod to leave for Sioux City on Fri- day night and accompany the party to Omuha Saturduy morning, Tho finance com mittee is expezied 10 got to work at ouce and raise the necessary funds Lo meot the expouses of the entertainment, aining the eption com- nd escort about noon h, Tudge Savage, 1id ‘Martin, W. E. Congressman Con- onator Manderson, %, Tler, W.N. Bab: o, John A.Creighton and Who Discovered Troy? At the anthropological congress, sit- ting at Vienna, the question whether Sehilemann discovered Troy came up with great earnestness, A'letter was reccived from Captain Botticher, of Munich, the well-known opponent of Dr, Schleimann, in which he rencws his violent attacks upon the renowned acchicologist concerning Hissarhik (Troy). Herr Bouticher contends that the inscriptions show that this was not Troy, but & necropolis used for burning the ashes of the dead. Professor Vir- chow called this theory of Dr. Behlei- maan’s opponent “ridiculous non- seuse.’’ - - Boston's Maratime Exhibition, Bostou’s iuternational maratime ex- hibition will open November 4, 1889, and close januury 4, 1890, It will admit exhibits of everything conneciea with ships, shipping and marine interests, and will be the first exhibition of the kind ever held, THE CAPITAL CITY GRIST. Reviow of the Operation of the New Banking Law, SOME CRUDE THINGS EXPOSED. A Bag as an Assistant Book-Keeper— The Bucchers Refuse to Join the Farmers in Fighting Armour, LaNconx B 1020 1* Stueet, Livcors, Nob,,Oct. 18, Hon.'A. P. Brink, state bank examiner, hed to suspend his work of examination la week on uccount. of a sickness severo enough to keep him confiued, 1 he three examiners have visited and gone through the books of about one hundred banks during the frst throe months of their service, leaving about four hundred yev to be examined. While many orudities in the methods of keoping accounts have been encountered and while there are some misunderstandings as to the provisions and requiromonts of the law, the examiners report that they have found the bunks thus far visited in a sound and satis- fuctory condition, with vory few exceptions. In only one case—that at Venango—have the examiners been compelled to resort to ex- trome moasures, und judicial proceedit are under way for the apporutment of a ceiver for the protection of creditors. eral of the largost banks in tho bave to undergo a re-oxamination becaus peculiarities in their manner of book-keep- ing, but the examiners give no intimation of a koowledge of anything to impair confi- dence in the institutions concerned. The examiners express surprise at finding the banks in 8o generally satisfactory a con- dition because of the crude and ofton care- less mothods of the managers of some of them. M directors are ignorant of the provisions in the constitution and by-laws of their corporations. Ior example, somo ot them huve a clauso in their constitutions prohibiting any indebtedness except that duo depositors, and yct they borrow thousands of dollars every year, One of the examiners who has consulted able counsel is of the opinion that the directors make themselves personally liable for such violation of rules. A cluuse in the constitution of the state re- quires hanks to publish quarterly statements, but an examiner says that mine outof ten, other than national banis, ignore tho injunc: tion. Ho suggests that, the statement made to the state auditor under the new law may, by publication, be considered as answering the constitutional requirement. Spoaking of constitutions, the first round of the examiners will require more timo and labor than subse- quent visits be of the necessity of carefully over the constitutions and by of incorpor: i tions and advise directors of inf will not be permitted in the future Apronos of conditions, an examiner found a bank that kept a sort of profit and loss ac count in a little sack. Whenover ceived cash for interest, oxchanes was put in the sack, and bilts for runnine s were paid out of the contens of The nioney remaining in the bag resented tie profits. Attheond of each month it was taken from tho safe and emp- tied upon u des| he resultant pile was di- vided into two equal parts, and ch of the wo partuers p ed ono of them as his share of the profits, There was nothing wrong in the ‘transaction. The exammer found the bank well managed, and the de- positors protected, But it was an original way of keeping au ont without running it through a book. ‘The ankers had gradu- ated from a farm, probably, and, being un- familiur with bookkeeping, Mcther Necessity iuvented an ingzenius substitute. The exam- iner supplhied them with a form and book for the account, and they have gratefully iled themselves of lis suggestions. tn ase a bank hud no system of carrying ard from day to day the Lalances of the depositors. To ascertain tho state of a man’s a3 about as teaious as making up v bill by going through the grocers 00k without the aid of a ledgor. ent banking law is a £ood one as far it zoe: ys one of the examiners, but itis_ina measura experimental. 1t could hardly be otherwise, but such gefects us ap- pea s will probably be em bodieain a bill for the next legislature, For example 1 stopped over in & town recently to examine s bank, and was politely toid by the proprietor that he bad quit business in August because it did uot pay. He had not reported that fact to the banking dopart- ment thera Is no provision in the law covering such a case, and I lost a whole day in consequence. Our attention has been called to one case in which a merchant cs deposits from one of his custom puys the moucy out ou the latter Under a st iuterpretation of the law the merchant would be classed as a banker. Then there is the case of the sav- ings bunks that do a commercial business. The banking board hold that they must ful- fill the requirements of the law for both kinds of banks. The operation of the bunkiug law is likely to resuit in an amend- ment that will compel all banks to have a chartor from the state, With such a pro vision in force the state bauks of Nebrask could within two years be controlled as wall as the national bauks, and depositors would ccted in one as in the other. 2 is & v general impression that the deposit nationul bauks the treasu; (AU OF e Oxams Bem, } ro- Sov- 150 and check: is an on deposit se cures the bank’s civeulation and is really for the protection of the government. What protection the government gives the depos- itors comes from the investigations of the examivers. Cho state can give coual good security. With our baoking law car- ried to its legitimate conclusion there is Likely to be quite a change from national to state banks within & fow years, and the state institutions will share tho prosti now monopolized by those undsr natwonal char Washing tloned at Aivision points, and J. A Cota gives train _and encine mon instructions in tho use of the air brake. This school car is now in Lincoln for & stay of two weeks or more. This is its first trip over the B, & M. for over a year and a half, Marsnal Cardor's 11fs is one of tribulation, Ho bought a ham in tho ovening and loft it at Opoenheimer's saloon until ready to go home. Before his roturn some ono had called and carriod tho ham away, C.S. Radmore, employed at Briscos & Cook's shoo store, lost from his pocket Friday night an envelopo containing a mort- gago and couvon noto from Ebenzer D. Hare ris to tho Nebraska Christian Kducational board for $1,000. ‘I'he envolopo was soaled and addressed to Samuel Gotuer, Omaha. il STATE AND TERKITORY. Nevrackn Jottings. O. P. Blilines has retired from the editor- ship of the Norden Borealis. Canned beof poisoned the family of J, Smith, colored, of Syracuse, but all of thom will recover, Largo quantitios of potatoes are being ro- coived at Arapahos, tho market price being 20 cents a bushel. The Fairfield oreamery has made 810,000 pounds of buttor this season and is still in actve operation, A thiel and a toam of horses stolen in Dixon couuty were captured in a Grand Island livery stable. C. I, Bonson, who loft Sargent for parts unknown, hias been loft a legncy of 1,000 by tho death of his fatner. Martin Tighe's bifliard hall at Valparaiso was onterod by burglars, who socurod some loose change and 80) cigars, No ciue, The voiers of Sarpy conuty will decide ay the coming election ‘whether the old court houso at Bollevue shall be sold or not. The wost end of the ecity pump house at Fremont caved in Saturday, caused by work- men excavating too ¢ 0 the foundation, A misstop by L. L. Ames while feeding o threshing machine in - Humilton county cost him two Hugors and a badly lacorated hand. Adolbort Schoenttal, the Bennott lad who was injured being thrown from a ho riday without huving re- gained consclousness, Rov. G. Poters and wife, of York. wero surprised by theic frionds on the occasion of their silvor wedding anniversary and were remembered by many valuablo preseats, Over eight hundred tons of broom corn have been bought - Pholos county this fall at an avorago prico of 15 per ton, thus spreading $85,000 in cash among the farmers, David Huntington, of Nemaha_City, 18 tho oldest man in Nomat county. He is nearly ninety-five, was u soldier in the war of 1813 and is still in tho possession of all his facul= ties, A leg broken by tho kick o crushed in a can mill and u badl! pants, the resuit of a runaw the casualties at Gothenburg week. “Lew" May, the well known commssioner, of Fremont, has from the firm 'of May Brothers, ness will be continued by the t men:be Prof. W. B. Backus, superintendent of the Genon Indian school, huas zone to the Wind I in Wyoming, with six Indian children who were taken sick at school, and 1t was found necessary o send them to their howes. A Chautauqua circle has been establisned atthe state penitentiary with twenty-five mombers, and an effort is being wade to raise the necessary funds for the purchase of the books and maguzines required in the r ading. The Ulysses Dispatch says a little more light has been thrown on the murder of the Leavitt children by the recent finding of & lot of bloody clothes buried in the field. It 15 not at all improbable but that the guilty parties to that awtul murder will be found and punished. Says the Norden Borealis: The band of Brule Indians who passed south to the sand hills for their annual fall hunt about two months ago returned last Friday and Satur- 1t seoms that Chief Whirling Hawlk, vhere on his travels, ot a bottle of v oud drank so much that be died and his friends were tuking hin home. They haa hauled him four days in the bottom of & lumber wagon, horse, a hand torn pair of ,, constituto in the past state fish withdrawn nd the busi e younger Town ftcms. The boast of Warren county is crop of upples. A flux paiace has been Grove, Tama county. There are 150 studer cal college at Dubuque. “Phe new $20,000 Catholic chiurch at Charles City was dedicated last weels. A local electric light company will put in an incandescent system at Corning. A baby weighing but three-quarters of a pound was barn at Clinton veck. Edward P, Gilehrist, of Fort Madison, has received the appointument of cadet at West Point. A thresking gang at Moreland ato pios made with poisonous berries and are ina critical condition. A weulthy Clinton cr died from an her fine cted at Baker's s attending the medi- county farmer named tack of hiccough from which he had suffered for two wecks. There were 201 convicts in the Anamosa penitentiary g September and the ex- pense of kéeping them was nearly 4,000, he State Woman's Suffrs sociation will hold its eighteenth annual convention at Oskaloosa October 30 and 81 and Novem- ber 1. Mamio Knapp, daughter of a Cedar Falls banker, eloped with A. Rawson, a Du- buque wsurance agent, and the couple were married at Waterloo. An investigation by the state anditor dis- closes the fact that there is nearly $200,000,- 000 of untaxed property m the state, which is more thun the taxablo property in some stutes, Two Dakotas room has The Additional school sity av Hu become & n Woodmen has been ine The loss from 10 fires in McLean county will reaca $100,000. Fighting Armour. An investigation of the meat trade of Lin- coln has been made in connection with the agitation against thouse of Armour's drossed meats, and it 18 cstimated that the packer's weat handled here amounts to $30,000 ver month, All the markets but two aro hand- ling Armour’s product. Some get only a thrd of their supply from the packer, while otners tuke as much as two-thirds, All the market men but Hohanan Bros. refused to sign an agrecmont (submitted by the farmers) not to handle tho packer's meats. Some intimated that they would do so if a forfeit wero providea for in the agrecment, But the scheme now is to secure the unused packing bouse at West Lincoln, it it up for he slaughter of beaves aund rup it on the co- operative plan. ‘Ihe idea is to utilize all the product the same as Armour and the other big packors, It is argued that the farmers of Lancastor county can thus meet Armour's prices and hold the local trade. By dressing ts hiere the home product will huye aavantage of saving the freight both ways, Several of the leaders in the move ment are planning to bo at the meoting two weeks hence with a defluito proposition ana pledges for stock subscriptions, City News and Notes The pol 0 50ld about 500 ticke their ball Tuesduy evening. Mr, and Mrs. W, E. Kelley, of Omaha, are visiting J. E. Houtz aud fawily. P, Barrewt, of the Council Bluffs Reflector, is visiting s parents, Paymaster Flovd, of the B, & M, and fawmily arve visiting W. J. Marshall, The Haycon Art club has secured Century art collection for an exhibition. L. B, Cunningham, of the Kearney Jour- nal, and fawly, are visiting W. Rev. J. S, W. Dean, late of P his first sermou in Grace M. k to-day, . 8. 12, Hanna, who represents Plummer, Perry & Co. on the road, is visiting at his old home, Cadiz, O, “Dick" Johnson, of the Capital hotel, has goneto visit @ party of Eoglishwen, who bave & rauch in Naoce county. A weekly report of the savings de- partment introuuced in the schools shows derosits of $108 in seven schools. The Chicago, Burlingtou & Quincy rall- wiy bas @ carfitted with the appliances used in the operation of air brakes. It is sta- s for the church Work will shortly be commenced on the new smelter ut Deadwood. ‘The North Dakota legislaiure will assem- blo at Bismarck, November 1. Bismarck wants a Methodist located in ber corporate limits, ( nnual meeting of the Farmers' ine stitute will bo held at the Brooking agri- cultural college from December § to 15, Charles Williams, one of the borse thie ves who broke jail at Chamberiain i short time ugo, has been captured in Buffalo county where he was working as a farm hand, CGieorge Barrett, of Cavour, found & hand- some boy baby on his doorstep the other morning. No clue to the parcuts hus beon found and George will adopt the infant. A Watertown man has_un ingenious de- viso that digs potatoes, picks them up snd deposits tn, and_at the samo vin aisposes of the vines and pulvor ground, Ira Oard and Lillie MoKinloy, members of the Pal company, gave up theator life at Aberdcen, went to Huron, got mar- ried and have settlod down, Mr. Oard was leador of the orchestra and his wife wus & member of the uniformod band, William Rettike, a (irant county farmer, owns & good farm and doos not owo a dollar, This year he threshea out 1,3.6 bushels of wheal from ninety-four acres—uan avera of 213 per acre, fourteen acres of oats, Vielding 500 bushels, and seven ncres of barley, yiclding 173 bushels. LR ople 0. Sing Sing, The inhabitants of Sing Sing, N. Y. are agitating for cithera changoe of name for their town or the removal of 1ts prison. There ¢ @ great many good people out of jail there, and they want the fact made plainer to the world at large. -~ New York Farms Going Dows In Niagara county, New York, farms sold at 8100 per uore’ fifteon years ago, They can now be bought at from 840 to #60, and almost every one in the county is for sule. TO‘_'I‘IHG ADILLS, Silverware Sale. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdiy, uns leard-of bargains in all kinds of silvor- ware. Come and sce. Kdholm & Alkin, cor. 15th and Dodge, opp. P, O. college