Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 23, 1889, Page 4

4 b THE OMAHA DAILY BER: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23, 1889. DAILY BEE. THE PUBLISHBD E’VERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION nnnhnnd Sunday, One Year.. #10 0 bW "Mhirce Momths, ... NoHHt 50 Sunday fe One Vear V.20 Weekly Bee, One Year with Prominm. ... 200 nuu ES, Omana, Bes Bullds Chicais Dftce, 161 Howk New York, Hooms 14 and 15 Telbuue Bufld- g Washington, No. 513 Fourteenth Strect. Conncil Blofts, Qior Tz Fenrl Strouts Lincoln, 1020 7' St éet, CORRESPONDENCE, All communications relating to news and edi. toriul nintter should be addressed 1o the Editor- ial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should o addressed to The Heo Publishing Compan Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoffice oraers be made payabls to the order of the company, T B Pt Copny, Proyit v Building The Bee on the Trains, There i8 no oxcuse for a faflure to got Tk BER on the trains, Al newsdealers have been noti- fied to carry m full supnly. Iravelers who want {Tum B abd can't gt ¢ 0n traing whers other pers are carried are requested to no- T CTHE DAILY BE Sworn Statenient, of Circalation. State of Nebraska, en, County of Dougias, . aeoro 15, yachuck, secretary of The Res Publishing Company. does solemnly swear that the metnal cirenlation of Tk DAILY BEE for the week ending October 16, 148), wis as follows: it i w.anwl-y.(kv. i "Thursda; Ul‘l g . Friday 1. Suumlny. UcL 10, Average, Btate of Nehrask County of Dougli Sworn to before me and snlvsrl‘l\)efl to in my presenco this 19th day of October, A. 4 P Sean] N. No George 13, T ., heing duly sworn, de- e AT says that Lo lx secretary of The tiee iing Compaiy, that the actual average dnb lation of Tk Dainy Bee for th month ol October 1884, was 18,084 mpln. an November, 18, 14, u; " for 1 1580 1880, |'& g, 18854 coples: for Ap for May. 184, 18,66 copir coples: Tor July, 184, 15, 18660, 14651 "copies; coples. Sworn to before me hea T8 ish day < Oitobe ‘for TIC eredulity ¢ fartifer than to entertain capturing lowathis fall, the hope of senatorial candi- in North Dakota. not seriously atfect SRE are seven dates in the field The drought did the crop. t Do NOT neglect to register, if you de- _ sive to vote at the coming election. The .vpgistrars will sit next Thursday from Ya. m. to 9 p. m. recent haul on 0 will strengthen sympathy between th Louisiana, knavery. T the finances of the bonds of t counfry and Both are vietims of official Tie manipulators of the pork corner in Chicago veceived a chilling rebuke from Judge Gresham for attempting to use the courts Lo squeeze the public, Judge Gresham is a terror to evil-doers of all grades. EX-Eprror WesT, the Chicago Zimes wrecker, proved himself a man of varied accomplishments. His fertile .pen will probably secure him a pro- longed engagement oun the staff of the Joliet penitentiavy RAPID transit on street railways is a good thing, but theve are times when it passes beyond the hounds of safety. Kight miles an hour should be the ex- treme limit, yet a fifteen to twenty mile sveed is frequently indulged in by reck- less motormen. The authorities should put on the brakes and protect the pub- lic, EMPEROR WILLS eiterates his de- termination to maintain the peace of Rurope “by cultivating friendly rela- tions with other powers. Ttis a sig- nificant fact that the emperor is also ultivating the reichstag for increased “ampropriations to strcugthen the army and navy. He will purchase peace at any. price, THE enormous incr in the traffic of the country tuxes the capacity of the railvonds. Every wheei is turning and the supply of cars is not equal to the demand. This unusual rush of busi- ness is not contined to the movement of the crops to market, but extends to all departments of commercial life, and is gratifying proof of u substantial re- vival of trade. Mgi. G. W. HILL, the republican can- didate for county superintendent of schools, should receive the un- divided votes of every citizen rogard- less of party. Mr. Hill is an old school teacher and a man of good executive the loss of an eye by the hand of a drunken ussussin, but this misfortune in no wise disqualifies nim for the performance of the duties of the office. Tue B commends him to the olectors of this county ondition of county affairs calls for a vadical change in the make-up of the county board. The republican candi- dates, Messrs., Berlin and Smith, are particularly well qualified by business training and ‘character to administer and guard the important interests of the county, A vote for the democratic can- didates is n vote to continue the loose and reckless methods which have fastened o horde of jobbers and schem- ers on the county treasu Tar decision of the Iowa supreme court divesting railvoads of their rights as common carriers the moment goods are unloaded from the cars and making them warehousemen, will hardly be sustained by the national supreme court. Jtisthe universal practice of the railroads to notify consignees the moment goods are received, but the failure of the latter to take the goods within twenty-four hours subjects them to demurrage charges, The railroads are responsible for the goods sud are bound to proteet them until charges are paid and delivery made. The Towa courts, however, strain at a goat to swalow a whole ecamel when they at- tempt to place a forced construetion in A& cuse iuvolving the mght of the state 10 regulate inter-state commerce. SPHAKERSHIP SURMISES. As the dato. of the meeting of con- press draws nearer interést in the spenkership contest will increase. It is now commanding a good deal of at- tention, and there is more or less sur- mise regarding the strength of the several candidates, the particular in- fluences affocting the chances of each, and the probable outcome. It-is repre- sented, also, that most of the candi- dates are looking carefully after their fences. The only thing indicated with any degree of certainty is that when the caucus of republican congressmen meets the contest will be sharp and earnest, Tt is genorally agreed that the men who will at the outset show the greatest strength are Mr, Reed, of Maine, and Majorr MeKinley, of Ohio, and the beliel is that they will not be very far apart. Just now the chances of the former seem the best. His leadership of the repub- lican side of the house in the last three congresses, and the fact that his claim tothe speakership has been so long recoguized, give him a strong position in the vace, and his qualitcations are unquestionable. Most of the New England representatives are conceded to him, and he is understood to have the nearly solid support ¢f New York and Pennsylvania. He iscertain, there- fore, to go intp the caucns with a for- mideble backing, Mr. McKinley has been conducting a quiet campaign, and his strength, outside of Ohio, is not so well defined asthat of the Maine con- gressman. Ho is expectod, howover, to get o considerable western support, and it is probable that the friends of some of the othercandidates will go to him when they have found the chances of their candidates to be hopeless. Mr. Bur- rows, of Michigan, is a candidate not to be ignored. He has been carrying on an_opan campaign and js believed to have done some offective work. He will of course have the constant support of his own state so long as there isany hope of his being chosen, and he counts besides upon the support of the repre- sentatives from the new states, with some other help from the west. Mr. Cannon, of Iltinois, is said to hopefully of his chances, but does not appear to have any strength outside of his own state, 1d it is reported that even there he is encountering opposition. M. Hender- sou, of Towa, is less talked of Ll\.m the othiot four gentlemen, but ha'fa by no menns to be regarded as out of the vace or as an impossible candidate. The indications are that there is go- ing to be more or less bargaining in connection with dhe speakership con- test. 'L'he southern republican repre- sentatives will support no one who is not in favor of the abolition of most of the internal revenue taxes, and any candidate they support will be required to pledge himself to this pol- icy. Very likely they will find no diffi- culty in gotting such a pledge from wost of them, It has been veported that there isto be a combined move- ment on the part of the manufacturers in behalf of MeKinley, and if such a thing shiould happen 1t would probably do him move harm than good. As to Burrows, if it should appear, as charged, that he the preference of tho subsidy séekors, his chances would rapidly diminish, There are special influer at work affecting the chances of all these candidates. and it would be hazardous to predict the success of eithor of them, although it is extremely probable that one of those named will be the next speaker of the house of rep- resentatives. It will be fortunate if the one chosen shall be he who is least hampered by pledges to any special in- terest or toany particular policy. THE SECRET ROLL It has been the uniform practice of the pension office, at least for some years, to keep the pénsion rolls socret. This rule has been rigidly observed so far as the general public is concerned, but it 15 said that pension agents and attorneys have no difficulty in obtaining access to the volls. It is suggested that the now commissioner would introduce an important reform and put an obstacle in the way of frauds, by abolishing this rule of secrecy and allowing the pen- sion rolls to be open to public inspection. It is assumed that such publicity would result in eliminat- ing from the volls a great many persons who are drawing pensions without being entitled to them, and also aid to pro- vent other unworthy persous from going on the rolls. There is something to bo said on both sides of this matter. [t is conceivable that if the rolls were open to public inspection the pension office might be put to o great deal of annoyance. Not only would there be much labor in- volyed in hunting up the names: of pensioners inguired about, which would necessarily have to be done by employes of the office, as the rolls could not be safely entrusted to ivrosponsible outsiders, but a great deal of time would be wnsted in heaving stutemonts vegarding pensionors be- lieved by such outsiders not to be en- titlod 10 a place on the public rolls. Not only this, but it would open the door for i great deal of malicious perse- cution of worthy pensioners, Il public inspection of the rolls were permitted as o means of detecting fraud, the logical duty of the pension office would be to investigate all allegations of fraud that might be presented to it, and it is easy to see that this might become a very annoying and embarrussing mat- ter, both to the office and to pensioners, the worthy equally with the unworthy. Personal enmity, cloaked under a pre- tense of serving the public intevests and the ends of justice, would have a wide field of operation, On the other hand, it is a sound prin- ciple, to be genérally observed, thatthe people who pay to support the government should be permitted at all times, under proper cir- cumstance: to obtain sueh . in- formation regarding what is being doune in any department of the govern- ment as may reasorably and in good faith he demanaed, the imparting of which would not be inconsistent with the public interests, The right of a citizen to expose fraud which he has found in the, publie service, or to indi- cate to the proper authorities where he pelieves frand may be found, s not questionablg. But it will not be co; tended that it would be wise or exp dient to throw open tho books of the trensury, or the accounts and official papers of any department or bureau of the government, to the promiscuous in- spection of everybody who should fancy that something wrong had been done, of that fraud was being perpetrated. Tt is quite possible that to open the pension rolls to publie inspection would result in freeing it of some pensioners who have no right to be there and oper- ato as a safeguard against fraud and abuses, but such objections to dving so ns wo have noted nare sufiiciently serious as to be worthy of care- ful corsideration As it is, any one who belicves a pensioner to have fravdulently obtained his pension can veadily bring the matter to the attention of the pension officials. A better proposal than that of opening the rolis to public inspection is that of pub- lishing the full list of pensioners at least once a year. ‘[hat would devolve on the pension oftice noadditional labor that would be either annoying or em- barrassing, and would he less liable to subject worthy pensioners to malicious persecution WHY WE OBIECT 170 COBURN. The question has been asked why TiE BEE refuses to endorse the candi- dacy of William Coburn. Our objec- tions to Mr. Coburn may be briefly stated. Mr. Coburn has held the office of sheriff during twd terms, and it is de- cidedly in bad tasto for him to insist that he should be given a third term when no onc eclse has ever held the office of sherHY for more than two terms. If Coburn isto be given three terms, why not four or five, or why should ho not hold the office for life? We object to Coburn tecause he has persisted in holding two oftices the same time. He has used his po tion as sheriff to keep machine politi- cians in the school board and demor- alize the whole school system by enlist- ing teachers and janitors as his partis- ans to keep him in the two offices. Waiving these very serious objec- tions to Mr. Coburn’s candidacy, we could not commend him for re-o hecause the sheriff’s office under him Las been prostituted in the interesy of criminals, It is notorious that the i who habitual outlaws have been the ardent supporters of Mr. Coburn, In- stead of assisting 1n the prosecution of crime and enforcement of the law, My, Coburn and his deputies and jailers have exhibited partiality for the law- breakers and given aid and comfort to men and women charged with the most heinous offens Two of the most fla Mr. Coburn’s partia will suffice When John Lauer was under indictment for murder in the i e, and after he had been con- victed ol manslaughter by the first ury, he was made baokkeeper for Coburn’s jailer, and placed in charge of the minor offend thenin jai ‘When the Beechter-King womun was in custody of Sheriff Coburn, while she was under indictment for murder, the most tender attentions were lavishe upon the murdercss, and heard of privileges were enjoyed by her pending the final action of the courts. An officer who is so anxious to make triends of dangerous criminals is havdly a proper person to fill the position of sheriff, are most, rrant instances of ity for criminals WE INS. ON PAIR PLAY. There are three copies of THE BEE sold on every train in and out of Omaha to one copy of either of its so-called competitors. But there would ravely be any other Omaha paper sold by train boys had there not been o systematic effort to push papers that are not in de- mand. No matter what the manager of the news agency says about ity the fact notorious that st of Grand Island ure ys told that “Tue B have all been sold,” on the road this side. This may often be true, but the lishers of are always ready to supply mand, and they have a right to insist that this demand shall besupphied by newsagentseven if it does practically shut off other dailies that only find sale when there are no copies of Tne Bk to be had. This is why we have given publicity to the disclosures of a train man who gave away thesnap. The afii- davit dgisclaimer of this fellow, denying what he stated and re-stated in the pres- ence of two credible persons will go for nothing. His story of the newsboy com- bine is corroborated by travelers nearly every day. The practice of pushing papers that are not wanted to the det- riment of THE BeE which 1s in general demand i» not confined to the Union Pacific system. Similar complaints reach us from. the Burling- ton and Northwestern line: his may not all be due to the trickery of train newsboys. It is barely possible that the dealers are receiving a rebate from other publishers which ThHe BEE does not give, But inasmuch as five cents is charged passengers for any Omaha daily, they ought to have the right to choose the paper that gives them the most for their money. THE BEE does not ask any special fuvors, bul demunds fair play. ne the xl¢_< THE domocratic policy of catering to the law-breaking elements for polit- ical favor is illustrated by the repeal of the anti-polygamy laws in zona. The vigorous enforcewent of the Ed- munds law in Utah forced many of the followers of Brigham Young to fly from a penitentiary term to more con- genial haants. Emigration north to Idaho and south to Arizona became o marked that laws were passed prohibit- ing polygamy, and disfranchising those teaching or practicing it. When Ari- zona secured a democratic governor the eight thousand Mormons in the territory traded their influence and votes for a vepeal of the law, and the demoecrats carried out their part of the bargain, En- couraged by this shameful favoritism, whe Mormons flocked into the territory and now hold the balance of power be- tween the two parties, Thus they can prevent u repeal of the repealing act and continge the practice of polygamy unmolested by territorial authority. Governor “‘dflev, in his annual report to the seeretary of the interior, calls attention to this point and urges that congress bd fisked to grant annulling - the repealing act. power lie® with congress, and unless action is tiken on the line indicated thero is grave-danger that the Mormon law-breakers will secure a firm foothold in the territoyy. THE extension of the Union Pacific’s Oregon ling to Spokane Falls opens a new and rich trade territory to the jobbers of Omaha. The business of that section is now monopolized by St. Paul, Portland and San Francisco job- bers. There is no reason why our me chante cannot divide this trade, now that direct communication is estab- lished. Kastern Washington ranks high as an agricultural and mineral country. Its resources are unlimited, and with tho influx of settlers now going on will treble in popula- tion in a few years. The construction of an independent railroad north from Spokane Falis to Cotville opens to set- tlement a score of fertile valleys up to the boundary of British Columbia, and will hasten the development of the mineral wealth that abounds on the western slope of the Bitter Root moun- tains, The forests of timber in that section will afford a valuable medium of exchange for eastern products. This new fleld is certainly an inviting one, and can be successfully worked for trade by our jobbers with the assist- ance of the Union Pacific, T example of the property owners on West Leavenworth street in donat- ing a strip of ground to the city for park purposes is commendable. Itisa strong hint to other large property owners to take advantage of the beucfits which park improvement will confer on the surrounding property. InAno will ratify the proposed state coustitution next month and apply for admission into the union. It is not likeiy that congress will give much at- tention to the vrequest. The mountain- locked territory must grow up with the country bofore its claims ean be seri- ously considered. ON THE SIDE. M. Festner's cravk organ isin favor of Adam Heimrod and George Snyder. With Pat Ford in the role of Rip Van Winkle, the democratic candidate for county treasurer wonid naturally foliow Ripas my dog Schueider. Adam Snyder Is banking on the Irish voto which Pat 1¥6¥d has promised to deliver to him. When Adam wont into the banking business Pat promised to deliver, him some heavy dividends, but when the bank closed Adam's dividends were on tho other side of the ledger. . 13y boodling ‘the train boys the Omaha aouble-header;hds been able to force a fow copies of 1ts pennywhistle sheet upon travel- ers who called for Tz Bee and could not get it. But the exposure of its ingenious com- has cut Short the contraband trade in second hand néws, Its rather dmusing how auxious every popinjay and adventurer who happens to nave control of an Omaha daily assumes thatho isin the way of Trz Brn and doing it up. If the slightest notice is taken of these newspaper wreckers they at once excluim, 'y burt by what losing ground aad pres- ouits last legs.” If, for in- stance, Tar Bee should remark that Mr. litchcock is making an ass of himself on every conceivable oceasion his toy grapho- plione cries i baby accents, “Poor Rose- water; he is in dispaic over my brilliant suc- coss a8 o, i U'm making lam awfully siclr by my startling enterprises.” Chicagy a Neck Ahead. Tndianapolis Sentinel. Chicago is making all the running in the race for the world’s fair, St. Louis 1s a fair second and New Yorka bad third, while ‘Washington is certain to be distanced in tho first heat. The race promises to develop into what the lorse editors call a “‘procession’’ long before the homestretch is reached on the final he we are doing; it is cntly will b e Thev O r a Varicty, Rochester Herald, They have come, the happy, careless, wig- pling prophets, We knew they would be here with thewr cracked goosebones, their wuskrat nests, wet summer, jumping chip- munks and sun spots. They predict a long, cold winter, an open winter, a wet winter, a suowy winter, a dismal winter. What com- fortable, self-contained feilows these weather prophots ar AR Probibition Which Never Prohibits. Rochester Herald, “Between a well regulated license sys- tom,” says the New York World, “and bogus prohibition—for prokLibition never vrohibits-—every inteliigent lover of law und morality must choose the former.” That is the argument io a nutshell. Theve is a aif- ference of opinion as to the rignt of the state to prohibit the sale of liquor, but in the light of the records there ougnt to be nove as to the inefMcacy of prohibition as a total or even a partial remedy. e LA A Job l‘ it of Boul Sun. the Courier-Journal, *4is the Boulangey of Virgima.” The Times- Democrat suys {iat Blaneh K. Bruce 18 the Boulanger of Mississippi. We have several opinions that the Hon. James G. Blaine was the Boulanger of America. Yet, though each of these gentlemen is either an adventur or adventurous, none of them can be justly calied a Boulauger, The most distinguishing characteristics ¢f Boulanger scem.to haye been a striking lack of iotellectual quality, absorption in his own interests and a ludi- crous seif-conceit. igers. - Parnum Will Own the Town. Londan Court Journal, It is gravely suggested that the newly chosen lord mayor of London should avail hiwself of Balfum's circus performers and meuagerio for the annual civio pageant, On very moderate terms the famous American showman would, no doubt, be willing to ex- hibit all the cars, carriages, clowns, athletes, cirous riders, horses, elephants, carnivorous beasts, camels, der and other animals that be has under his management, and the sight would be the most extraardinary witnessed in the London stréets within the history of the mayoralty, London, of course, would welcome tue spectacle. Nor of Recent Origin. Sivnr City Jowrna Tue Omaua BEE is uncovering a newsboys’ combine which has been in existence for some time to the prejudice of Tae Bex. Ac- cording to this expose the boys push the sale of that paper which will pay thew for doing 80, It is safe to say that this corruption is uot of recent origin. The exposure made by Tae Ber affords an explanation of the dif. culty the Journal has had to place the paper on sale on Nebraska roads. The service is bribed in the interest of Omaha papers. The railroad companies themselves should see to it that this dishonesty is not further permit. ted. They should exact from the men to whom they sell the routes that tho servico should be honorably conducted. It is due the public who patronize these lines of roaa that these impositions be no longer pormit- ted. Tue Bee's disclosure is that the boys demand a fixed corruption fund in order to enlist thom in offering for salo one or another of the Omaha newspapers. It is doubtless also truo that connivancs 18 practiced as to the price pmd for tho paper, ete. In such rascally dealing, of course, it is quite neces- 'y that the negotiations should be secrot and confidentinl and in person. The journal, it will be readily underswood by its friends in that state, residents and travelers, has stight opportunity, under such methods, of meeting the demands of the transient trade. if Tne Ber can succeed in mstituting reform the Journal will be pleased. Meanwhile this vaper desires to improve the opportunity for suying, in response to numerous complaints, that it is through no fault of its publishers that the paper has not been available on all theso trains to the full extent of whatever call there might be for it. THE S10U RESERVATION, fect of Its Opening on Omaha as Viewed By a Correspondent, LENT] Neb,, Oct. 22.—To the Editor of Tue Bre: To one acquainted with the general land laws, their practical workings, and the character of the people who avail themselves of its possession, and who has read the bill openiug up part of the Sioux reservation to settlement, the latter offers no special inaucements to home scekers. Im- migration will be heavy on the opening of that reservation, but will bo made up of the speculativo and adventurous class who will not stay long, and as for the settler, on ac- dount of the special features of that *‘Sioux' bill, he will lock the land over and move on. Let us make some comparison: Any one desiring to avail himself of his rights in this or any other state where the general land laws pre- vail can go into a United States district land office and enter a pre-emption and tree claim of 160 acres the same oay. Atthe end of six months’ residence he can pay $1.25 per acro or £200 and get a title to his pre-emption, and then file his homestead right for 160 acres more. With his homestead he has the option of liviug on it five years and getting his patent (at a total cost so far as land office fees are concerned, not to exceed $20), or paying for it after six months' residence ut the rate of $1.25 per acre. With a pre-cmption, homostead and trec claim he can be, within less than a year, in control of 480 acres of land. This 18 desired by most all land seckers, and is a greav ad- vantage, certainly to stock growers, The special act under which the resorva- tion is opened to settlement. does not recog- nize the pre-emption nor tree claim laws, and only allow entries under the ‘“fiual” or five- ear homestead law, and thon charges the homesteader 50 cents per acre. In other words, a scttler must actuslly live on his claim five years and pay b0 cents per acre before acquiring title to his land, and can then only acquire 16) acres. With the odds so greatly in favor of the scttler under the old law, your correspondent expects to see Nebraska get ber full quota of home- seekers, just the same as though no Indian land had been opened to settlement. However, the opening of this reservation will have this eff: 1t will allow the Cni- cago, Milwankee & St. Paul road to build to the Black Hills from Chawmberlaie and the 0 & Northwoestern, if it thinks neces- (rmu Pierre, It will place the terri- ¥ northwest of here, in which Omaha was \n'guuum; to get a hold, a little further from Omaba and ncaver Chicago. 1f both roads converge at Rapid City it wiil not be long be- fore she wil be o jobbing ecity, to Omaha’sdetriment. The live stock that was beginning to find its way to the South Omaha yards will surely go by the *long baul.” aud Chicago will get it, as hereto- fore. “Tho tin and other minerals we read so much about the Misscuri r veral hundred miles north of tho ( City, and your corre- spondent fails to find anyihing in the opening of that ation that bodes good to Omahy, orin fact any part of Nebraska, Another competitor soon for the traflic of vorthern Nebraska, to sty nothing of the Bluck Hills trade, is the Sioux City & Og- den, which, nothing daunted by its recent bridge trouble at Sioux City, is pushing right ahead with 1ts work ‘While one at a distance can sce all this, he does not feel like offering any advice or suggestions, but humbly places the facts before the citizeus of an_enterprising city, doubting not the ability of its capitalists and business men to successfully meet and over- come all obstacles that stand in the way of the materinl growth and prosperity of their pride, Omana, s 3 A PHENOM COLT DEAD. £l Rio Rev Succumbes to at Attack of Pneumonia. W Youk, Oct. 22.—|Special Telegram to Tne Bee.|—El Ro Rey, the sensational two-year-old of the scason and probably tho specdiest youngster of his day, died this morning at the track of the New York Jockey club at Westcliester. The great colt has been ared for like the infant of a quecn. ly st week EI Rio Rey had u slight attack of influenza. The colt was watched carefully, but acspite the best vet- erinary aid the disease developed iuto pneu- monia. B Rio Rey (river king) is a chestnut colt,_ by Norfolk, daw Marion, and is a_full brotuer to the celebrated Emperor of Nor- folk. The colt has started seven times this year and has always finished in front. His debut was made in the St. Lowis brewers' stallion stukes at St. Louis fune 11, and his last race was for the Dunmow stakes, three- quarters of a mile, at Westchester, which he won easily in 1:133¢, beating, among otners, Ruperta, Gregory and Ballarat, total winnings amount to $46,835. e R'S TOUGH SONS, The colvs MRS, TOLIAV They Beat Her Badly and Drive Her Insane. MoxTaoMery, O., Sept. 22.—{Special Tele- gram to Tk Bee, |—A peouliarly sad cas that of Mys. Craig Tolliver, wife of the no- torious Kentucky desperado, leader in the Rowpn county feud. Since thekilling of her husband at Moorelicad she has resided with a sister here. She has become hopelessly in- ‘This is almost wholly due to the con- t of her two sons, Joe, aged fourteen, and Bertie, aged eleven, Both are wild, vicious boys. A fow days ago they attacked their mother because she attempted to correct them and, knocking ber dowa beat her almost to death, The boys will be sent to the reform school, while Samucl Cochran, o rich relative, will provide the mother a good home heve e LEFT IT TO THE POPL, The Ozar Accepts the Vatic 'n's Arni- tration in the Balkan Question, Panis, Oct, 22.—~The Rome correspondent, of Figaro says that neral Igoatiefl has arrived there on @ special mission to the vaticau, The general, the correspondent says, bears an autograph letter from the czar accopting the urbitration of the pope iu the Balkan question and ving his holiness iree to convoke & congress or adopt any other course which in his judgment will lead to the establishment of a modus vivendi between l(luulm lmd AullrlL o il-ll'lefl :\m Major Murk& New OnLeaxs, Oct. 22, —[Special Telegram to Tue Bee |—Ex-Treasurer Burke having been indicted for forgery, and now being ex- truditable, the necessary papers have beeu duly prepared by the state and a special ofti- cer sent after the alleged defaulter. Maurice Hart, s promiuent financier, who is joiutly indicted witn Burke, ugly denies any criminal wtent. He says his trapsactions were perfectly legitimate, and to T Bee representative bitterly complained of being made the scape-goats nf political malevo- lence. Rogers, the attorney gencral, say will send both Hart and Burke to the tentiary, “for cach and ¢ JORN WALLISTER'S WILL. Neoglooted Heirs Allege Undue Ine fluence By His Attorney. THE OLD MAN OF UNSOUND MIND, The Missouri Facific Dofends Its Ac- tion in the Elmwood Elevator Incident--The Capital City in Briof. Lixcony Bungav or The OMana Bee, 1020 P Sreerr, } LixcoLy, Neb., Oct. 22, Some three wecks ngo the will of Jonn Me- Allistor, an aged resident of this city, was filed for probate in the county court. The will left his property, valuea at &0,000, with the exception of soveral small bequests, to his brother lphriam, and appointed John S. Grogory, an attorney of this city, who has had charge of McAlliter’s business for yoars, trustee of the estate, who was to give the income to his brother for his porsonal use. Aftor Ephriam's death tho residue of the estato wus to bo divided, one-half to go to Gregory's wifo and one-half to be used by Grogory as a trust fund, the income to be Qistributed among the poor of the city. ‘This afternoon the will was up for probate in the county court. Therc was a papor filed late this afternoon by some eignt heirs of McAllister who were “left” in the will, The petition sets up in brief that at the time McAllister made the will he was insane and mentally incapacitated from doing so; that for ten yoars he has been laboring under a delusion that he could teach a theory of logic that would tend to give universal happiness, and that he has offered to leave his property to two or throe persons if they would embraco his theory; that the instrument filed for pro- bate is not the will of MeAllister, but a doc- ument drawn up by (iregory, who induced him to sign through fraud aod undue influ- ence; that the said Gregory took advantago of the insanity of the deceased, gained his confidence, and induced him to sign. They object to the_appointment of either Gregory or J. H. McMurtry as administrator on the ground that they are not competent to serve. ‘Uhey claim that MeMurtry attempted to cheat and defrand McAllister by having him execute two certain mortgages aggroe- gating $0,500, The appointment of Dr, F\. A. Dann as administrator 1s asked. Gregory filed & motion later on requiring the attorneys for petitioner, Darnall & Bab- coclk, to give their authority for so doiug. ‘This is but the commencement of a loog liti- gation. The Elmwood EKlevator Incident. The Missouri Pacific railroad has filed its answer with the board of transportation in the case of the Elmwood Farmers' Alliance againstit. The Missouri Pacific claims that 1t denied the demand of the alliance for the reasons that therce were two elevatorson the side track, beside its other buildings, and that the side track 1s the length prescribed by law, 1807 feet, and that 1t would bo com petled to purchase right of wuy for more ele- vator room; that the two large elevators ave of suflicient capacity to haudlc the gramn products of that section; that the company did not decline to extend its track for the purpose of favoring Adams & Ghilbert, and Striplin & Fells, but solely for the reasons above, and also that the expense wouid be great to construct a new side track, and the business would not justify incurring such extra expense, ‘I'ne company asks that the complaint of the alliance ve dismissed. The Court House. There is almost constant inquiry concern- ing the time when the county may be able to get possession of its new court house. An ofcial said to-day that it would not be ready 1o occupy for fully two months yet, and that tho next term of court would have to be held in the old rooms. e also suggested that the county would be sure to enforce the forfeit of 850 a day which was stated in the bond, day after September. 1, 1880, that tho county was deprived of the use of the building. Supreme Conrt. Court met this morning and t following business: State ex rel Hoc case was dismissed. B. & M. R. R. R. Co. vs White. Defend- and was given leave to file corrected trans- eript, Russell vs Cornish & Tibbits. Leave was given defendant to file petition iu error. The following cases werc argued and sub- mitted: Galligher vs Smiley, Tarkington vs Uink, case of Ellis L. Bierbower ot al vs ohn T. Miller, error from Lancaster county, was filed to-day. wnsacted the nell vs Wallichs, The A Stove Foundry. Messrs. Charles E. Hatton, of Zanesville, 0., and Charles Gage, of Louis, repre- senting a syndicate of eastern capitalists, in the city to-d guests of tho b They are being shown the city by kle; Atkinson and cuss with the peoplo’s proposition to locate a stove foun- Rumor also says that they contemplate putting in an incandescent electric light plant, Swate House Gossip. The Richardson County bank, of Falls City, filed amended articles of incorporation to-dny with the secretary of state. The oath of office of Herbert J. Davis, judge of the Third judicial district, was filed to-day with the secretary of stab ity News and Notes. J. W. Parguson, of Minden, w in the city to-day, en route for howme from a trip eust. Mvrs. I. A. Johnson, of Indiana, who has been visiting her daughtey, Mrs. John Mc- Cotton, for u week, left to-day for Broken Bow, in response Lo a telegram announcing the serious iliness of another daughter, Mrs. E. Wilkinson, Frank Wallace, a well-known traveling man of Lhis city, left to-day for Chicago to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs, 1 1. Rosenbach, Attorney Van Etten, of Omaha, was in tne city to-day, Max Rich, one of the principal business wen of Bird City, Kan., but formerly an oid Lincolnite, is in the city, renewing old-time acquuintances. Kepresentative Home, of Otoo county, was in the city to-day. Joo kasterday, of Tocumseh, was at the state housc to-day delving among the books of the state library, buntine for precedents to prove that Tom Al Was insane when he committed that assault with intent to kill, for which he is now conhned in the penitentiary, Joe sccured a new trial at the supreme courl a year ago, Miss Lola E. Giles, sister of Mrs. L. C. Burr, left lasy night for Olywpia, Wash, Murs, Dr, Luwton left to-day for Los An i C. A, Jennings, sister of Mrs, J. M, Hoffmau, left last night for Anaheim, Cal., where she will make her future homw Phillip Fink, a prominent farm south part of the county, left for a visit to Watertown, N, . General Superintendent Caivert's car went west at noon to-day on the Brokeu Bow Le of the Burlington, with a party of Lincoln sportsmen ou i chicken Luuting ox- pedition, Awmoug the party were Tom Benton, W. 5, Garber, H1. D, Hathaway and others. . A gentle rain began faliing last night whick was kept up for the greater portion of the day. ‘Though not wuch water foll, it has laid the dust and wade the city much more preseutable. The work of registration goes on quite slowly. The average voler does not seem 10 have “caught ou’ 1o the fact that he bas 1o register. ‘There are yet four duys, viz: October 24, November 1 and R. W. Clark, of Grinvell, fa.: Dr. R. A Holyoke and wife, of Pacific Junction, and Miss Aonua Howell, of Centerville, Ia., were i the city to-duy to attend the' Holyoke- Snelling nuptials. At 11 0'clock to-day Dr. E. L. the republican candidate for corouer, from the this evening Holyoke, and Miss Grace Snelling, daughter of Justice Snelling, wore marr cd by Dr. Stem, of the 8t. Paul M. E. charch, in tho prosenoe of a few frionds. The presents wore numerous, costly and usofal. Tho happy couple left on the Burlington flyer for Chioago and points in the east, They will be at_home to their friends Thursday, November 21, at 545 North Twenty -oigl ith stroet. The Jowish society of the 1. O, B. 1. will celebrate its first anniversary noxt Sunday. No formal programme has you been mado out, but an attractive one 18 in preparation. The preparatory work for the building of the new Jowish templo at Twelfth and 1 streets is progrossing finoly. At a meeting held Sunday a building commitee was ap- pointed, with fnstructions to securo plans and specifications and report the same to the congrogation for app-oval. This committeo is composed of Messrs, Charles Mayer, A, Block and S. Selighson. The finance com mittoo has raised $2,000 and is meeting with substantial oncouragemont from all cla - HEAVIER RAILS. Progress Made in Roadbods, Tracks and Rolling Stock. The new rails which the Pennsylva nin company is laying on all its main lines fairly illustrate the remarkable vrogress of recent years in railroad scioncn, says the Now York Sun. They are of steel and thoy weigh eighty-five pounds to the yard. Twenty years ago an iron rail weighing fifty-six pounds per yard was considered large enough to carry tho heaviest and tasuest trains in safety. Now iron rails are no longer made, the weight of rolling stock in common use has doubled, the speed of trains has fircully in- croased and massive steel rails gridizon the country. The record of the change made on the Pennsylvania linesis a fair illustration of the progress made. In 1868 the compauny began introducing the Engiish steel rail, weighing fifty-six pounds to the yard, in place of the iron rail previously in use. These first steel rails were of the same general shape us those used now. They stood four and one-half inches high, and the first cost was somewhat in excess of iron rails of | home manufacture. Experience proyed that the life of the steel rail was fully three times that of the iron rail. = Assoon as this became apparent the occupation of iron rail makers was gone. They didn’t know how to make sweel rails in this country then; or, rather, they couldn’t make them as good and a3 chenp as those turned out by the, Eng- lish mills. The result was an immense unpmt.utmn of steel rails for several years. Then American ingenuity'solved the problem, and now domestic steol rails are as good and as cheap as the BEnglish, Anyhow the American mar- ket is now almost closed to Knglish steel rail makers. The English fifty- six pound rails were used by the Pen sylvania_company until 1874 or 1 Then a sixty-nine pound rail was suh- stituted, and that size was the standard on the main lines of the company for nearly ten years. Harly in the present decade camo heavier locomotives and heavier c: vith them came o ne- cessity for a heavierrail. In 1884 a T7s-pound steel rail four inches und threc-quarters high and with a somewhat broader base wus adopted. Mauy of these rails ave still in use, and they are larger and heavier than the average rail in use through the count But the tendency 15 still toward heavier rolling stock aud greater speed, and within a year or two the Ponnsylvania company has been substi- tuting an 85-pound rail for tne 75-pound railon its main !lIV\ ons as fast as n 'y, The new rail high, has a tome- what broader base than its predecs- sor, and .it is believed to he larze enough and strong cnough to any train running at the bighest speed scheduled, These rails are made by the Pennsylvania steel company. one of the four gre: concerns make nearly all of the steel rails in the countr The life of thess rails on the main line of the New York division of the Pennsylyania road, between Je City and Philadelphia, it is estimated will be between six and ocight y No main line of road in the country in more constant use for heavy 1.|'l|l1|c than are these tracks. The new rail has already supplanted the seveaty-five pound rail on the greater partof the di- vision. Representatives of the makers of some of the big vails now coming into general use said yesterday that the ten- dency toward the use of h or rails by the great railroads is universal. The change is demanded mot so much by the increase in speed as by the in- ight of rolling stock, whicn has boen in much greater proportio Nearly all roads which used a fifty-si pound or sixty-pound rail ten years ago venty-pound or seven- The life of n vail is somewhat longer in- pro- n to its woeight than that a light one; henco the cconomy in the adoption of the forn; The price of rails per ton is practicully the same, whether a 56 pound or & 75-pound rail be purchased. It requives 88 2,240-pound tons of pound vails per mile and 118 tons of pound rails for the same distznce, Tho life of a rail depends on the amount of use to which it 18 put, but it is n fact that a rail in ordinary use lasts much longer than one used very littlo or not at all, Just as a war ship in active vice will outlast two or three that lie in a dockyard, so the steel rail will wear out much more slowly than it will rust out and deteriorate. The question whether rails will grow still more massive is interesting. The henviest vrail in use on any wain line in this country s ono of ninety pounds per yard, racently laid on some portions of the Reading road where the traffic is heaviest. or two English lines ave e with 100- |u)und rail, but / roud men don’t sco the mlumm.,m to bo gained by the use of such n massive track where the rolling stock is much lighter than in this country The New York Central is said to be using 110-pound rail in one or two of its busi- est yards where the constant shifting of trains lkeeps up a continual wear and tear upon the track, It seems to be the general opinion that nothing is to be gained by increasing the size of rails ubove eignty-five or ninety pounds until there isa further mar increase in the speed and weight of trmins. The reuson for this opinion lies in the fact that the wearing out of a rail does not consist in-merely greinding away a half inch or so from its top surface, If it did the age of a rail might be indefinitely incrensed by adding to the thickness of its head. Afterafow years' use a rail begius to splinter on the edges, to wear away on the inside,and 1o become grad- ually misshupen aud rough. It is of no advantage, thorefore, to increase its original size beyond a certain point, with the sueed and weight of traius now in use. The klll'h of steel rails s kiting just now Vithio a month it has advanced from #25 to about #32 per ton, and it is said the figure will jump avother dollar to-day. No company will name n price for future delivery. ‘A mmu who wanted 1,000 tons yesterday asked one of the big companies to hold good its quotation for twenty-four hours., The request was refusod, and the purchaser thought he saved $1,000 by closing the bargain ou the spot. The cause of the advancs is suid to be n scarcity of ore rather than an unusual pressure of orders, S RO b