Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY ___B. ROSEWATER, Bdi PUBLISHED EVERY MORNINI feoehe-windnd TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION and Sunday, One Yenr.. $10 00 Dail, dieve ot v o 1 | 200 | 200 20 ar v r with Preminm OFFICES, Neo Building, Office, 7 Rookery Building ork, Hooms 14 nnd 15 Tribane Butld- In; Washington. No. 513 Pourteenth Stroot, Council Biufs, No. 12 Pear] Street. Lincoln, 1020 ¥ Street, CORRESPONI All communieations relatin torial matter should be addre: i&l Department, DUSINESS LETTERS. iness lettors and remittances should ‘The BBeo Publishing Company, Drafts, checks and postoflice oraers to Be minde payablo to the order of the company, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors Brr Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Strects. ekttt Skttt b A AL IS o news and edi. sed to the Editor- he Bee on the Trains. Thero fs no excuse for a faflure to get Trie: NEw on the trains, Al newsdealers lave heen noti- fled to carry & full supoly. Iravelers who want Tk Bk and can’t got it on trains whero other Omahavapers are carried ave requested 10 no- ity Tirg: 1k — e THE DALY BE Sworn Statement of Cire Btate of Nebraska, [ County of Douiglas. | Georio B, Tzschuck, sweretary of The Beo Publishing Company, does solemnly swoar that the Actual circulation of Tk DALY BEE for the week ending October 10, 159, was as follows : Sunday, Oct, 13, . 21,000 Mondity LIe0T Tuesda X Weduosday, O Thursday ¥riday, Oct. 18, . Baturiay, Oct. 10 Average..... State of Nehraskn, County of Donglas. Sworn to before me and subscribed to in my presenco this 19th day ot October, A D, 1889, (Seal. | P, FEIL, N Georgo I, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- and says that hie Is secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, that the actual average daily circulation of Tk DALy Bek for the month of October 18, was 15084 coples; for ot for December, 1869, 1¥,574 cop- for March, 1865t coples Tor Jine, 1880, 18,858 3 coples; for for September, I GEON 1.l 10 before me and subscribed iu my this 4th day of O.tober, A L 4 coples:’ for April, 18 1880, 18,049 copies r July, 183, 15,601 copies; Tk illness of Governor Foraker will not lessen the soverity of the drubbing in store for Campbell und the demo- crats, Tt sale of the Omaha breweries to tho British syndicate will enable the Aunglomanines to beer the lion in his den, without undergoing the difficulties of & sca voyage. OMAIIA continues to add to the at- tractions which make her the envy and admiration of her sister cities. Now she is promised a new belt line to cost nearly twomillion dollars. sippi republicans have state ticket from theo field. They vealized that it was a waste of encrgy to vote, knowing that the bal- lots would not be counted. Borir candidates for governor in New Jorsey have agreed to couduct the eam- paign on the high plane of education. If Abbett sticks to the bargain the clec- tion of General Grubb Tie time is ripe for the city authori- ties to vizorously enforco the law regu- lating the speed of trains within the corporate limits. The recklessness of enginecrs should be curbed promptly T withdrawn the ticfricads of Adam vant it distinetly understood that Adam doos not hail from Germany. He wus born in Baltimove, the city of plug-uglies and oyster cans. Had he been born in Germany they would have o use for him. DR. SLOMINSKI is not the only man dealing in Poles in this city. There are hall adozen polyglots who claim to have a full and assovted supply of Poles to deliv on election day. The traflic in Loles promises to be one of the heay industries in th MEN who have greatness thrust upon them are never properly measured until death calls in the undertuker. The dom of the king of Portugal did not create vipple in the world’s affairs 46 great as u pebblo cast into the ocean, and his carecr was rightly summed up in a four line announcement. AMOs J. CUMMIN has been nomi- nated for the vacancy in congress erented by the death of Hon. S, 8. Cox. A worthier successor could not huve been named. Mr. Cummings’ recent visit to this section was in the nature of areveiation to him, and there is no doubt that the west will have in him a stauich, intelligent friend in congress. Tur anti-prohibitionists of North kota have raised an important point, which the courts will bo led upon to sottlo. The prohibition amendment did not receive a majority of all votds cast on election day, but a majority of all votes cast on it as a soparate propo- sition. I[n Nebrasika and other statos a majority of all votes cast is necossary, and it is not likely that the courts will malke a distinction in the case of North Dakota, 17 is refiued cruelty to propound im- pertinent questions to the Nebraska state bourd of transportation. The tangie produced by Senator Suther- land’s protest against railroad diserimi- natiou shows the board to be utterly in- competent to grapple with the intri- eacies of froight tarifts, The members do not show even speaking acquaint- ance with the law governing their powers and duties. If they were to re- sign to-morrow the vacancy could not be greater thun at present exists, emTm——— THE walevolent spirvit of Eaglish to- ryism is vividly shown in Balfour’s latest speech. That a man of his cali- bre is permitted to insult and decry the record of the liberals and pour ubuse on Gladstoue, the latehet of whose shoos he is unworthy to unloose, is & credit to the progressive British democracy, The veuom of Balfour displays the fatal force of the recent home rule vio- tories, and sounds the death struggles of bayounet and battering ram rule KLESS AND MISLEADING. I'or more than a wock the credulous patrons of the World-Herald have been craning thetr necks in expectancy of a greas treat, A standing notice in glar- ing type was kept before their vision with & promise of a revelation. The fate of prohibition in Nebraska was to be exhibited through the Herald'shoro- scopo in higures that do not lie. But the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse. The greatest eifort that our contemporary has ever made in tho domnin of political economy and statis- tics is a vouving fizzle. 1t is a most pre- posterous compound of gush and guess wor Tho total vote of the stato for 1800 is estimated at one hundrod and eighty-two thousand three hundred. 1t is safe to prodict that the total vote of this state will aggregate not less than two hundred thousand, and more likely two hundred and ten thousand. It was over ono hundred and eighty thousand in 1888, and two years’ growth of the state will show an increase of more than thirty thousand votes in n hotly contestea election. But even il the aggregate vote was only one hun- dred und cighty-two thousand the ex- hibit of our contemporary is utterly baseless, and forthe most 't shows a lack of common sense and a surplus of inexcusable recklessness. An Omaha paper of any pretensions should at least know enough about the population ot this county to make area- sonable estimate of its vote in 1890. Ac- World-Herald Douglas county will poll eighteen thousand votes for and against the prohibition amend- ment next ye The vote of this county on presidential eloctors in 1888 wasovertwenty thousand, and two years afterward it certainly will be not less than twenty-five thousand on the pro- hibition issue. That would only repre- sent a population of one hundred and fifty thousand, or one voter to every six inhabitants, In November, 1800, Doug- las county will have over one hundred ana sixty thousand population. Omaha and South Omaha together have one hundred and twenty-five thousand at the very lowest es! As a specimen brick of the farcical performance of the Wold-Ierald on its prohibition prophecy, we need only point to its estimate on Lancaster county: The total vote in Lancaster county will be as follows: The county clerk says 12,000, the county judge gave no estimate, the county s ‘The vote for prohibi- tion is estimated in this way: By the county clerk 500, by the county judge uo estimate, by the county troasurer 4,000. Kor high license the vote is estimated: By the county clerk 1,000, by the county judge no estimate, by the county treasurer §,000. Thereupon the lightning calculator of the World-Herald reachies the follow- ing conclusion: “Total vote in Lancas- ter county. twelve thousand; for prohi- bition, two thousand four hundred; against prohibition, four thousand five hundred.” This ouly foots up six thousand nine hundred votes. Whatis to become of the five thousand one hundred votes that are not accounted for on either side of the question? Ave they likely to remain neat The same recklessness in estimates of the probable vote on prohibition and high license pervades the entire page devoted to thissubjeet. The informa- tion furnished is misleading and of no value whatever to anybody who desives to formn cven the remotest estimate of the probable outcome of the prohibition issue in 1800 THE LEAD ORE DECISION. The lead-mining interests will be dis- appointed with the decision of the sec- of the treasury regarding the classification of lead and silver oves. Other interests of no less importance will be entirely satisfied with the posi- tion of the secretary. The matter is a familiar one. Tast May the treasur department was to revoke the nding ruling under which the silverores of Mexico were admitted free of duty, on the grdnd that these ores aro composed chiefly of lead which is dutinble. Tursuant to this request, and pending an investiga- tion, the secretary of the treasury rected collectors of customs Lo exercise greator cave respecting the admission of theso oves and to require the payment of duty on them when the amount of sil- in them was less than the amount of lead. The immediate effect of this was to close ip o number of the lead-silver mines of Mexico, and to lead that gov- ernment, as is ‘believed, to adopt policy of taviff rotaliation applicable to the live stock and dressed meats in- terests of the United States. This question has commanded a great doal of attention from the administra- tion. There has been astrong pressur from the lead mining interests for a re- vocation of the old ruling. Otherin- terests have been equally active in op- position to revoking it. The influence of the American minister to Mexico nas undoubtedly been thrown in favor of allowing the old rul- ing to stand, and it is be- lieved ho has beea supported in this by Secretary Blaine. The fact that delegates are here from other American countries to discuss a more liberal policy for extending trado rela- tions has exerted a measure of influ- ence, And besides all this was the force of the uniform decisions and prac- tice of the department for a number of vears, These decisions, together with the opinion expressed in a senate re- port submitted by the judiciary commit- tee of that body ounly last year, have been in effect that if the value of silver or gold in the ores imported from Mexico was greater than that of the lead, though the weignt might be less, the ores are not subject to duty. The reasonable presumption of the secretary is that it was the intention of congress, that body having kuowledge of the rulings and practice of the department, that the classification should turn on the question of vulue aud notof quantity, and he therefore deeides that the depuwrtment is without authority to change the departmental and congressional definition of these ores, and in faith of which large business interests have been established. The prescut classification, in the opivion of the sec- votary, bas attained the force of con- aske THE OMAHA grossional cnactment, and that a change must be sought in cougressional intervention. Undoubtedly the matter will be pre- sented to the attention of congress, but under the reumstances with little probability of inducing that body to make any change. As wo have heretofore said in refer- ring to this subject, the time is not opvortune for sotting up new restrictions and erecting addi- tional barricrs to our commercial rela- tions with other American countries. The tendeney 1s rather to finding prac- tieal ways for reducing the existing re- strictions. The policy this country is aiming to reach, with respect to all the countries in this hemisphere, if the Pan-American congress has any sig- nificance, is that of freer trade between all American countries. Senator Shor- man, inaddressing the foreign delegates at Cloveland, said he was almost in- clined to bo a convert to free trade il that free trade was confined to Ameri- can states, That is the idea which must prevail if the three Americas conference is to be fruitful of any good results, and it was distinctly contra- venod by the effort to revoke the long- standing ruling and practice regarding imported Mexican lead-silver ores. The decision of the secrctary of the treasury will undoubtedly be very gen- erally approved. ——— THE NEW COMMISSIONER. The new commissioner of pensions, General Raum, will assume the duties of the office to-day. He is well equipped for the position, having had a consid- erahle experience in public life, and being also a lawyer and an old soldier. Commissioner Raum will take charge of the office under circumstances de- wanding the most carveful, intelligent and conservative conduct in its admin- istration. The developmentsof the last few months have caused public atten- tion to be directed to the affairs of the pension office to an extent as 1t had uever been before, and the interest thus aroused will follow every act of the new commissioner. This fact, however, need cause him no embarrassment, for the course of his predecessor has not less- ened the desire of the country to do justice to the old soldiers in the matter of pensions, but simply created a public demand that the laws shall be strictly observed and that the national treasury shall not be subjected to the arbitrary policy of an individual. There is every reason to suppose that Genoral Raum is in full accord with the views of Secrotary Noble regavding the requirements of the laws and the duty of the commis- sioner of pensions under them, and while every interest and just demand of the pensioners will undoubtedly receive at his hands the most careful considera- tion, oxpect bo the that country may reasonably the pension office free under his ad- of its affairs from any ctices as have »d the recent andals and rendered that branch of the government service a source of so great solicituae to the administration, The president considered a number of men availabie for the position of pen- sion commissioner, and his selection of General Raum must be vegarded as evi deuce of his superior merit, particu- larly under the existing civeumstanc The immense proportions attained by the pension service malkes the office of commissioner one of the highest im- portance under the government. Ac- cording to the annual report of the com- missioner for the last fiscal year, just completed, the number of pensioners is within a few thousand of half a million, nearly fifty-two thousand having been added to the listduring the year. These of the governmentreceived over eighty-eight million dollars, and a larger sum will be disbursed during the current fiscal year. It is apparent, therefore, that the oflice of pension commissioner is one of ve at and grave responsibilities, requiring uot only exceptional ability but the highest integrit This se e is likely to be thoroughly i tigated by the next congress, and material changes in ex- aws are 1o be expected. A WESTERN PEN The oil fields of Wyoming have passed tho prospecting ~ stage. The quality and quantity of the fluid is no longer u question of experiment, but a demonstrated realit; These fields are divided into three distinet divisions— the central or Lander district, the Stockade distriet on the northern boundary of the terridory, extending toward the Black Hills, and the *Big Horn distriet. The first two districts have been thorougkly explored, and their extent and value as oil producers sottled beyond dispute, while the Big Horn district i8 in the dovelopment stage. These o1l basins are continuous and well defined, Flowing wells are the rule rather than the exception, and scarcely a drill has been sunk that did ot penctrate a vast internal sea of oil and gas. The importance of this vast oil beaving region to the commerce of this country can not be readily esti- mated, For thi years Pennsylvania has enjoyed a practical monopoly of the oil market of the world, and the pro- duct contributed as mueh as 1ts conl and irvon fields to make it the foremost in- dustrial state 1n the union. What oil done for Penusylvama it do for Wyoming and west, The output of the former is gradually decreasing, showing that the oceans of oil ave nearly deained, #nd new fields must be secured to supply the demand. The oil fields of Russia do not promise great re- turns. Lven 1f they supply the local markets of the east, it 1s notlikely taat, with government restrictions and ex- orbitant taxation, they can ever be- come n dangerous competitor of the American product in the markets of Europe. These conditions are decidedly favor- able to the active development of Wyo- ming. Alvendy Penusylvania cavital- ists ure turning thei tention to the uew fiuids, aud capital is flowing in at a rate thut insures great progress within the next five years, To Omaha enterprise and foresight belongs the credit of briuging the Wyo- wing ol fields to vheir present promi- DAILY BEE: MON DAY, nence. A fow capitalists clung to what at first appeaced to be a wildeat ven- ture, fought against the prejudice of credulovs poople, and went righton boring into the earth until success crowned their indomitable staying qualities. The number of flowing wolls controlled by them is a gusranteo that Omaha and Nebraska will reach a large share of the bonefit sure to follow. The railronds reaching out for the trafiic of this region, the erection of refinerios, ' and the widespread intorest manifested by capitalists placo the product of these fields in the market much earlier than is generally expected. Pipe lines will be laid to this city as well as to tide water south and west within a few y and the marvelous progress which Pennsylvania enjoyed in the sixties will be repeated in Wyoming. Next to the mineral wealth of the west, no field affords groater opportun- ities for profitable invesiment, and cer- tainly none insures greater returns. Oil and gas will solve the fuel problem which now rotards the industrial pro- grossof Omahaand Nebraska, Thatour people will realize the full benefit of this development there is little reason to doubt. Important schemes are now afloat, which, when consummated, will contribute enormously to the commer- cial and industrial strength of the city and state, and the entire west. —_———— DisasTER follows disaster with mourn- ful regularity in China. Whole pro- vinces have again been inundated by the Yellow river, and fully ten million people are objects of public charity. Tt is impossible fora bankrupt govern- ment to provide sustenance for a tenth of this number, and starvation with its train of evils will follow in the wake of tho flood. The loss of human life and property is simply appalling and ap- peals to the generosity of mankind. — ON THE SID) The Prince of Wales has been obliged to cut off eigarettes. The cigarertes would vrobably have cut off his royal highness if he hadn't. Cholera is ravaging the hog vens of Church Howe, yet the wily statesman of Nemaha escaped the contagion, notwithstanding his taking ways, Mr. Snyder's efforts to corral the German vote ure not a whooping success. The Gor- mans cannot be driven to the slaughter like 0 many cattle, And now it is the gas combine that is en- lightening the public with ‘‘Some thoughts on fuel gas drawn from the reservoir of nat- ural gas.” Itis a significant fact that no thought is given tg a reduction of the drain on the people’s pock VOICE 0]*; THE STATE PRESS. Wait For the Answer, Gosper County Citizen, Gibert L. Lav the successful candidate who carried off the honors in the congres- sional convention. Republicans of Gosper county, how do you like him? The majority given him in November shall answer, How 1t Appears to Casper. Bu'ler County Press. The nomination of Laws for congressman from this district does mnot appear to be tavorable with that'class of republicans who oppose chicanery and rank railroad dicta- tion. The People Begret It. Teliamah Burtonian, The majority in Nebraska were in favor of returning Judge Reese and had so suf- ficiently expressed themselves. But as had been predicted, Judge Reese was defeated by the railroads. For several years he has been one of the barricrs between the people and the greed of railroad corporations, No state oficial was honored and respected more than he and expressions of regret come from the people av the manuner of his defeat. Rebuke the ks Utica Sun. The struggle in the republican party for a successor to Laird isover, and G. L. Laws, secretary of state, cavtured the nomination, Of course tho Second congressional district is republican and his eloction is assured, but we surmise that some of the people will ad- minister a just rebuke to the B. & M., who dictated s nomination. Casper will have a lurger following now than if the conven- tion hiad nominated Harlan. Thayer's Opporcunity. Ncbraska City News, G. L. Laws has been nominated to suceeed 1in the Second congressional district. ain the hana of railroads and monop- is to be discerned. Thayer is now in o tty good position to featuer his nest for a third term by appointing a successor to L secretary of state, making three important appointments in his hands—that of Judge Norval, of Seward, aud Judge Groff, of Omaha. In a Comy omising Situation, Wahoo Wasp, Last week we promised to give the plan by which Judgo Reese was defeated. We can not devote space enough to give the de- tails of the work, but will say, however, before going further, that we are not mak- ing a fight on Judge Norval, but believe that he has been put 1to a very compromising situation by his friends and the railroad lobbyists of the state, Rocky ftepublican Conventions, York Times, This fall has wituessed some very rocky republican conveations Most glaring out- rages have been .committed in such a bold way as to challenge public censure, Such things create a strong disposition o bolt the ticket. Houest men cannot easily submit to such methods, nor appear to endorse thom, 1t is very sertous question with a good many whether to submit and appear to ac- quiesce or bolt ana denounce the whole pro- ceeding. The 'fimes will not stultify itself by endorsing the action of the managers nor will it acquiesce in them by keeping silence. Judge Reeae should have been nominated. He was entitled t it by his record and the people wanted him. . He was defeated by the most uublushing bribery and the grossest fraud, We have mo sympatuy with such methods and are, pot afraid to demounce them, but Judge Nesval was ouly an inci- deut. It is fortunate that he consented to take the nomination. They could have named a far worse man, and would proba- bly have done 0, had they known thelr strength. No Show Against the Hailroads. Crete Vidette, We veature the assertion that no man in the congressional contest takes his defeat 80 good-naturedly as does George H. Hastings. He made a square, maoly fight and has no occasion 10 regret the outcome. He eatered tne list with great odds agaiust him. The B. & M. influence was the ereat factor in the fight. With Alex Campbell, Attorney Mor- lau and Roadwmaster Highland tolding the western part of the district solid for Law and the eastern eod run by Marquette, Hall and DeWeos with Fraok Hall makiog headquarters iv Nocval's camp, it was evi- dent from the start that tho fiold had but a slight show for success. Our consolation is the fact that Mr. Hastings' frionds wore true blue, and did nothing of which they need feol asnamed; that while Mr. Hast. ings will not go to Washington, he will still remain our friend and mneighbor, ana ocan alwvays have a umted dologation from Saline county whenever he sounds the bugle blast to “fall in." Railroads Should Be Contont. Fairmont Signal, The action of the convention In the nomi nation of Mr. Laws will come before the people for ratification next month. That he is tho corporation candidate is well known and nover denied. That the republican ma- jority in the Second district will be very argely roduced, 18 gonorally concedod. With Norval for supreme judge—displacing Reeso, and Laws for congress, the railway maguates ought surcly to be well conteat. Weary of the Railroad Yoke, Schuyler Quill. The nommation of Secrotary Laws for congress in the Socond district is another imposition upon the people. He 18 another tool of the B. & M. railroad and should bs defeated, This act, togethor with the dis- gracoful defeat of Judge Rocse by the cor- poration influence, is too much and a throw- g off is nocessary. The people should sce that if the republican party will not keep cloar of railrond dictation it should be de- feated. Tho Quill urges all of its readers who live in the Second district to vote for Casper for congress, Corporate Power Again Triumphant. Nebraska Allianee. At the Second district congressional con- vention Mr. Laws was, aftec a brief strug- gle, nomiaated for congross. ‘We record this fact with foelings of pro- found sorrow. No excited or feverish de- clamation—no mere denunciation of the ag- gressions of railroad corporations—can ade- quately express those feclings. Nor does the question of Mr. Laws’ personal character have much to do with the matter, He may be a courteous gentleman, fully mindful of his cbligations as a man towards his fellow- men, and still that would make no difference. Tho pregnant, promineut fact stands out in all its nakeduess, that a corporation, an arti- ficial ereation of the law, with an undying existence, with no soul and no patriotism, and with a greed for gold and power unli ited by no known law of human action, stovs into the political arena with the people who created it, and within a week dictates to them who shall wear the judicial ermune n their highest court, and who shall sit in the highest place among their makers of laws, The peonle of the Second district have never yot been represented in congress. And under the prosent order of things it does not. seem that they ever will be. And whatever else Mr. Laws may do--whatever aid he may extend to the ola solaier element, or to this individual or that, in the way of special relief or special law—it is undountedly true that his best efforts will be given to main- taiviug the present order of things as they are. This will be true all along the line, This will embrace the present order in finance as well as the present order in rail- road domination, for these two powers are in full sympathy with each other. ch of them is keeping the masses in subordination to the classes. Each of them 18 wringing from the farmers and laboring men the last dollar that can be extorted without kiliing production. Mr, Laws is the creature of one of these powers, and he would be less than buman if he did not stay by and serve bis creator. With the hungry wolf licking his bloody chops before almost every door—with chattel mortgage sales of almost daily occurrance in all our principal towns—with the best bushel of potatoes, the best calf and the best colt y on the altar of the usurer’s claims e powers of money. these creatures of the people, these insatiable corporations, step into our conventions and scize the sacred ermine and the law-giver's power solely in order to stifle future legislation, and hold their grip upon the purses of the people. People, “what are you going to do about it?” ““Watchman, what of the morrow?” Condign Punishment. Chicagn Tribune. The oyster virates of Chesapeake bay threaten the ruin of Baltimore's principal in- dustry, and a paper of the Monumental' city calls loudly for “'some Napoleon” to lead the hosts of law and order in a war of extermina- tion against them. Inasmuch as the fighting ‘will have to be done chiefly on water, the need of the hour would scem to be a Lord Nelson or an Admiral Farragut, though somo Napoleon, it is true, might win another great victory of Oysterlitz—will somebody show us the scoundrel that threw thut potato? e 2 The Delegates Were Kxtra Dry. Detroit Free Press. The barrier erected by prohibition in M 18 not so strong but that several xtra dry” were brought through 1t entertamment of the South American dele- gates at Portland. And they did not have to g0 to one of the clubs eith 2 sl 'Twas Nobie Got the Drop. (. Louis Post-Dispaleh, ug to his re-rated vension, Senator Manderson says, “I will now drop the sub- ject.”” 1t is beligved that Seccretary Noble had “got the drop” on him, Refer: A Pres Americans. Louisville Cour wrnal, If we are to be truly hospitable, we shall place in the vest pockot of each of the dele- gates from the two other Amoricas a box of liver pills. So many bauquets, even whero the pie is fashioned in the lighest stylo of the art, are certain to affect tho human sys- tem unpleasantly. e Doing a Good Pivot Business, New York World, Montana is ambitious to become a state,” & drection, ivotal ic nas made fair progress in that GREAT MEN, It is stated that the estate of the late S, S, Cox will uet only about §5,000. Emperor William, of Germany, subscribed 10,000 fraucs to the fuud for the reiief of the sufferers by the explosion and firo at Aut- werp. Henry Watterson 18 totally blind in one eye and is able to see only dimly with the other. When he writes he bends lis head 80 low that his nose almost touches the paper. Massachusetts has probably sortment of ex-governors than commonwealth, They are, taken aiphabet jcally, Banks, Boutwell, Butler, Claflin, Gardaer, Guston, Long, Rice and Robinson. R. D. Urquhart, of Lynchburg, Va., 1s one of the big men of the country, Heis 6 feet @ ivches in height and weighs over 500 pounds. Urgubart was a trooper under Vitz-Hugh Lee and was only thirtcen years old when sabered in bis first vattle. He had been seven days in the saddle with Stuart's cavalry wien they plunged iuto the fight at Gettysburg, Ho ently remarked with wuch satisfaciion: *‘I uwm oue of the fow wen who were privates in the counfederate army,” After destroying a very large number of letters Mr. Gladstone bus selected 60,000 for preservation sud has built for them a fire- proof roow. When Lis biographer cowes to overhaul them be will find his work half done in WdVBLCR. o larger as- any other KEEP IT BEFORE TRAVELERS And Post Them About Trlcky Train Boys. A NEFARIOUS COMBINE, An Organized Bffort on the Part of Would-Be Rivals to Keep The Bee Out of the Hands of Fassengers. Reibing the Train Boys. Since the rovelations made some days ago councerning the reported combine of news- boys on the line of the Union I*acific to sup- press Tne Bez and push other papers, re- ports have reached this paper from other lines confirming the suspicion wo have long had of fonl play on the part of tram boys and news agents, For the general information of those who have not read the expose made by us, and who may be ignorant of the ways and means which liave been employed to keep Tue Bee from circulating on railroad trains, we re- Smduu the following 3from our issuc of Fri- Two days ago 0 young man came into the counting room of Tur Bk and stated that he wanted to have a confidential talk with the managor of circulation. He talked right to the point and explained that ho wanted to mako some arrangement with this paper whereby Tue Bie would be pushed ahead of other papers on the trains. He said it would cost Tur Brr about §300 to fee the newsboys on the Nebraska lines so as to make it an object for them to work the paper. He admitied that Tue Bre was everywhere in great demand and th it it was much casier to dispose of it than the others, butowing to the fact that other Omaha papers were feeing the newsboys and mak- ing it unprofitablo for them to sell Tur B at present it was placed ot a great di advantage. The young man_ was requested to call again and when he did so astenographer was in a convenient place to take down what he sad. The following is the exact conversa- tion between himself and the maunager of circulation. As stated before, the young man (whosename we deem best to suppress), is employed on the Union Pacifioc road by Barkalow Bros., railvoad nows agents: In what territo do Barkalow Bros. opevate ! In Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon and all along thatsystem, excepting the Soutbern Pacific. I understood you to say, when you were in here before, that that paper had seea you and fixed yout Ans,—Yes sir, And you, in consideration of a certain amount of money given you by them, sold their papers in preferenco to Tiir: 1t Yes sir, You say that you gave the man, who goes west from Rawlns, his papers at Rawlinst Yes sir. And then in coming back 1 ex- change papers with No. 3, T also exchange with trains 2 and 5. It 1s my duty to ex- chauge with other news agents so many pape: Q.—In all cases in exchanging papers you gaveonly a few Bees and more of other pap Yes sir. Every time I wonld come i T would kick to have more of the other paper than of Tue Beg. In coming in this morning T had only a few calls for the other paper and twenty-five for Tui Bek. In coming this morning 1 was pushing this other paver and some one called me down on it ard said that f 1 did not stop it that Rosewater would be after me. Q.—Tell me which paper it is that you are pushing. Is 1t not the Republican? —1 didn’t say what paper it was. The Republican is not the paper. The World- Herald is the paper that bas been giving us the mone —How long h vou been on this runt 1 have been back two months now. Where were you before this? 1 was in Califoru .—Were they doing re the consolidation of the World-Hers ~The Herald did it under the m t of Merritt, and it was continy Who disburses this money? I don't know. —Don't you know who zave it to you! I dou't know the name of the mau. How often was the mouey paid ! There was no set time for payiug the mouey. About §300 was paid iu one month. I received $20 myself. The other was given w0 the news agents west of North Platt —Who saw you to fix this matter? T dido'v sée anybody Q.—How do you kuow thiat this money came from the World-Herald! sse the man who gave me money iustructed me what to do with it. Q.—How many men could you see? A—Icould see them all west of North Platte. 1would give papers to all men going west of Rawlius. Q.—Have you been pushing the World- Herald from the time of leaving Oaha! A.—Yes. 1gothrough the train with a larger number of the World-Herald under my arm and the World-Herald in - my hand, ).—If o passenger refuses to take it, what do you dot Uzive passengers Tk BE: unless von it. Wo just give him a d-Herald and pass on and nothing avout it. Wehx it so -that he gets the World-Herald, but of course if ho makes a kick we give him Tur Bre But we tell bim the World-Herald is tho best aper in Omaha. 1n going through the train we always carry more World-Heralds than we do 13ees, although Tme Bee is really in greater domand. Q.—How many men do you could enlist in thiis scheme? A.—I can enlist everyone west of Rawlins. It is not necessary to enlist them uear Omaba. 1know theroisa biz grumble on st ena about the W ald: that of the boys were promised money, but aidn’t get it. Jo you uhink it would be the proper ue to give each of the boys a stipend ¢ A.—Yes, give thom each so much and el them just wiat to do, as I have done for the the suppose you BIATE AND TERRITORY, Nobraska Jottings, A camp of Sons of Veterans has beon muse terod in at Norfolk, with twenty-five charter members, R. G, Carr, of West Unlon, s to purchase an electric motor to run tho machinery in his roller milis, The West Union Gazotte has beon loased from R. G. Carr, aud Ham Kaotzman has assumed editorial control, Earmoer Church Howe is in hard luck, Out of his herd of 850 hogs 600 have died of cholera in the past six weeks. The formers of Custer county are making Proparations for a farmors’ institute to bo held at Broken Bow in Decem bor, ‘The remonstrance against a <aloon at Mo~ Cool dunction was not sustaed, and tho “drys” will appeal the casc to tho distrios court, Rev. C. E. Phinney, who has beon a pas- tor at Utica for sixtéen yoars, hias accopted a call to Holdrege and taken up his rosidence there. For not b(vlnf on hand when the distrios court convenod at Auburn, County Attorney Cornell and one of the jurors wero brought iuto court on a writ of attachment and fnod, ‘Ihe York canning factory has closed for the season after & successtul run, and the stockholders will realize agood profit in spites of the unfavorablo condition of the market. Miss Edna Rawnauser, of Herman, is in Joil at Blar, waiting to be sent to the Nor- folk iusane asylum. Too much religious fervor at u camp meeting is the cause of her deranged mind, Mrs, Alice Young, wife of the late Rov. J. M. Young, & pionser of the state and a resident of Laucaster county for twenty-five yoars, died at Lincoln Saturday, agod sev- enty-nine years. The Springfield Monitor says the farmers of that part of Sarpy county are experiencing a great deal of trouble on account of wells going dry, it being necessary in some in- Stances 1o sink old wells to'the depth of from 100 to 150 feet to secure an adequate subply of water, Three years ago C. B. Adams placed 200 carp in two small lakes of cloar, fresh spring ‘water near Superior. Last week when tho smaller luke was drained bandreds of thou- sands of fish of all sizes, some weighing eight and ten pounds, were exposed to view, Several bushels were sold in the market and the company now owning tho lakes proposcs going into the business on a larger scale. A peculiar accident oceurred on the farm of Gust Falk in Phelps county While a threshing macbine was running at rull speed an explosion oceurced 1n the mouth of the machine, throwing the feeder to the ground and setting fire to throe stacks of grain_and the separator. All were con- sumed, entailing aloss of $500. It is sup- posed that a cartridge had been lost by Lunters and was stacked with the grain. Jowa ltems., Eldora people have raised monoy to sacure anew depot. Daveuport’s $4,000 worth. Juckson county farmers are again stocking up heavily with sheep, There are 150 active members of the Mus- catine Horse Tuief association. Dr. M. F. S. Murdy, who killed Silas Tip- ton at Centerville, has been held for trial without bail “The Waterloo paper mill is running night and day, and turns out 3,000 pounds of paper every twenty-four hours, James Harney will be tried in Mabaska county this weok for the murder of his wife at Muchikinock last spring. The Grinuell carriage factory turned out 1,500 vehicles the past year and will moro than couble the output the coming scason. Henry McCoy, a blind man seventy-eight years of age, was sentenced 1o Lwo years in the penitentiary at Anwinosa from Dubuque, Two emploves of the Marshalltown glu- cose works fought a duel with brickoats, and after being badly wounded wera pullod in by the police and settlod their dificulties in the ety jail. A Waterloo justice filled a bottie with p: water and asked a party of prohibition perts to pass an opinion as 1o what the botile contamned. After testing and smelling of the liquid they finally ackuowledged that they dudn’t know what it was An lowa man has a theory that sunshine can be bottled up or imprisoned in such a v that it can be utilized on gloomy days, He has built a great tank for stormg’ it, but it looks a little queer to sce him groping about with a lantern to ascertain how lus sunshine is gettiog on, In the eriminal conrt at Montezumn, Ham ilton wus sentenced to ane year in the pent for porjury, Parker, the colored man from Marshailtlown. to three years for . and the Flora Lock charivari mur- was postponed_until tue December o ss of one of the chief witn agedy. Two Dubuque society girls thought they would investigate the begging business, and dressed themselves up in rags and started on the rocnds. At the house of a rich man of their acquaintance, who is noted for his strong religious fervor, they were gruffly re pulsed. At the house of o Woman who ac- knowledged that 25 conts was all the money sho possessed they were offored 15 cents of the quarter. The girls went home disgusted with charity. parks will be ornamented The Two Dakotas. There are 31,409 Indians in the two Dako- tas, Deadwood's new eity halt will be c this month. The Methodist completed and is € 2 Carvente niversity at Mitcheil is from debt. the Rapid City sch of mines, has ied in his resignation, Wolves are 80 bold in the county that they utta e vein of sult has be gton hills s Th dee ilills, Adolph Faust, of Sully county, has pat euted o stalk cutter toat will cut two rows at u time, The commissioners of Faullk county have Dbought £1.000 wortt of coal to help the needy Indians a killing off the 1d antelope for their pelts in the Black Word-Herald in tho past. Q.—You say thul this arra kept up by the Herald for one years, and that it is has been doing 1t tion? A.~—Yes, sir, Q'—Do you know the man who gave you the money ! ‘A—1 dou’t know his name, but T know him Dby sight. When be gave we §20 he gave me instructions what to do. Q- How ha u been mauter from Barkalow. A—It don’t make any difference to tnem 80 long as they sell 8o many papers, whether Vorld-Herald or not. It u very is they did not care so long as the run brotzht in 80 myuch moy Q-How many boys are U North Platte who would b A.—There are thirteen Platte, and these boys b for the World-Herald changed papers the same & exchunge. when we get a 10ad him down with World-Heralds and 1n- stract him to push them. Al of these thir. teen boys woild want $10 each, which would last for six months, and ' they would then push PuE Bee just the same as they * push th World-Hc My advice to you is 1o “get in” now, as the World-Herald is figuring on doing the saume thing again, I have Keptfaith with the World-Herald und would do the samo with ‘T Ber, | have always pushed the Heraid and suppressed Tne BEE, Q.—How do you fix it 8o the passenger: don't see Tui Bres! A.—We put the papers on top of our box in the smoking car, Tue Bres always at the bottom of the 'pile. When a wan gets on at @ station he sees tho World-Herald snd no Bies, 50 be lays bis money on the box aud takes & World-Herald, Sometimes I have come in and found a dollar or & dollar and a half on the box and the World-Heralds ail gone. Of course we don't hide inp Iees but they might be up in ths rack, whers they couldu't bo scen. When a man comes up to us in a car and asks for u BEe we would say I have none, Lhey are all away up at the other end of the train in toe box,"” aud woul him a World-Herald. Of course, was done o prevent the sale of T Sometimes we would Lave a cattio W come in with ten or Afteen drovers with bim. They would all want papers, and we l\;‘onld Kive them wuy otuer paper thuu Tik 8. gzement was r since the cousolida- able to P this west fixed? of North working and ex- we wmeot and cw boy on we of met through the winter. The Norwegiun Evangelical Lutheran nor- mal school atSioux Falis was dedicated in the presence of 1,000 interested spoctators, An extensive cavean occurred in the Homestake mine ucar Deadwood lust week and a large amount of work will be ueces- sary to clear away the debris. C. W. Snowden, owner of a stock ranch near Pleassut Valley, struck a match t light his pipe while at work in nis barn aud threw the lighted styb on the floor, Iighty tons of hay, a crib of corn, two good horses, a lot of farm muchivery aud harness and tho barn and sheds adjoining, in all awounting 10 about £1,500, were destroyed by that littlo watch stub, ——— Gatarrh to Gonsumption, Catarrh in frs destructivo fo and unboubtedly leads onto lierefore stugular that tho o tearful disease should thele lives to rid thomso! medies concocte: Al know of Uik tisod ¢ W life of misery PR’ aer (hall Lo With doubiiul patliatives. Bt t Winever d 4t wevery sthge o In muay us sy D ands next o \ption, Itis tod with this it the object of Decoptive enders to contl- in il ied to weivos Catarrh must bo met ombutted with all oue Ri Mowts e yvor 1o Do o S mnost foatasome ‘aul de tive siuges. It is local and constitutional. 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