Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 28, 1889, Page 4

__B. ROBEWATER, Aditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THRME OF SUBSCRIPTION Omaba, Bee Building. Chileagd Office, 57 Rookery Tintiding New York, Hooms 14 and 15 Tribuno Buila- g Washington. No. 513 Fourteenth Strect. (‘Anncn‘filnmn No. 12 Pear] Street. Lincoin, 1020 P Stroet, Bouth Omalia, Corner N and 2th Streets, CORRESPON DENCE. Al communieations reinting to news and odi- tarial matter should be addressed to the Kditor- 1a1 Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Al Unsiness letters and remittances shonld e adaressed toThe Beo Pubiish Omaha. Drafts, checks and postof e made payable to the order of the company, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors 1 Soventeenth Strects. ser Bullding Farmam a The Bee on the Trains. There 5 no excuse for fajlure to got 'fux Bk on the frains, Al newsaswlers have been noti- Ted to carry & fall supvly. Travelers who want Tre Bk and eun’t got It on trains where other Omaha vapers are carried are requosted to no- tify Tar B " THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, hraska, ek s, ¥ of Dougl Geotin 1, Trachuck, secretary of The Bee Pubiishing Company. dbes solemmnly swear thal the actual cliculation of Tie DALY Bes for the week ending October 24, 1850, was as follow: Average. ¢ GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. State of Nehraska, 1 Courty of Donglas, | Sworn to beforo me and subscribed to in my presence this 2ith day of October, A D. 18, (Seal,] . P, FEIL, Notary Pubilc. George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, do- Joyes and says that ho'fa socrotary of Tho tiee ablihing Company, thnt the actual ayerage daily circulation of Tk DAty BEe for the month of October I8, was 18,084 Novembor, 188, 15,96 v Tor Jmnary, 189, 16074 copt Ty, 185, 18,008 coplea: for March, 1860, 18,854 coples : for April, 1850, 18,550 x-o{)hm for dray. TR0, 14009 coplen: for e, 185, 4108 coj CoNSOLIDATIONS and allianc the order of the day among the rail- roads. THE presiden atehood proclama- tion awuits the unraveling of the Silver Bow knot in Montana. Moronr collisions, though frequent, do not attract the attention thoy did a few weeks ago. The public calmly 1ooks upon them as family SoME of the candid: public for justices of the peace are not on speaking terms with the rudiments of law. Pick them out and keep them in private lif Tne Union Pacific and its ally are grected with a declaration of war be- fore the traflic agreement is cold. It is not unlikely that the disturbance will in a divorce. SON's efforts to ard of aclerkship for Jouah Wesley Tucker were a total failure. The foghorn of the Minneca- dusa deserved a better fate SHMART! under the miserly in- difference of New Yorkers, one of the Astors declares he will plank down twenty millions for the world’s fair rather than see the city disgraced by defeat. Tt is almost certain that Mr. Astor’s motion will carry. I7 is possible that the supreme court will reach a decision on the constitu- tionality of the registration law before election day, but voters should not rely on the law being annulled. The safest plan is to register during the remain- ing two days—Thursday and Friday. on New York San Fran vin Omaha will materinlly bonefit the business intores of the west. By this action the p office department places every city on the great overland route on an equal footing, and reduces by ten hours the time between the two ocoans. Tne luunching of the cruiser San Trancisco at the city whose name it bears is cheorful evidence not only of the growth of the American navy, but of the ability of our ship builders to . compete successfully in material, work- manship and speed, with the old and famous builders of Europe. For beauty, perfection of equipment and nppointments, the Pan-American excursion train surpasses the famous “Golden Gute speeial,” which in its day was considered the Omega of comfort and luxury on wheels, Ingenuity can hardly go further in catering to the convenience of the traveling public. —_— 17 15 hoped the board of public works will stick to the resolution to compel contractors to velay sidewalks torn up by them., Property owners have lost thousands of dollars through the reck- lessness of the contractors in destroying walks, and the purpose of the board to remedy this evil isan act of justice to the people. ——— 1¥ ruE republicans imagine they can secure un advantage by sustaining the cumbersome and inadequate registra- tion luw, the returns will show their wistake. There are just as many re- publicans as democrats who will not go to the trouble of registering. The law will reduce the voting population of the eity one-third, and make the election a partinl expression of the people’s will, emm———— It is evidens the Umon Pacific and Northwestorn alliance will be the object * of a combined attack from all opposition rouds, ‘The ullied companies must cer- tainly hinve counted on a prolonged war as one of the effects of the union, and strengthened their fortifications for the siege. The St. Paul, Rock (sland and Burlinglon officials anuounce their pur- pose Lo uttack and break the agrecment at any cost. What the result will be Huwe will develop. SUBSIDIES TO OCRAN STEAMBERS The volume fssued by the government on trade and transpOrtation between the United States and Spanish America devotes considorable space to the pre- sentation of facts rogarding the pay- ment of ship subsidies by other nations. The purpose of this is obvious. There 18 to be a vigorous effort made to obtain an expresston frem the international congress favorable to a policy of stenm- ship subsidies on the part of this government, and the argument contained o the facts vpre- sented 18 to prepare the public mind of the country for such an expression by the congress. It is quite possible, how= ever, that it will be shown that theso faots, as presented, are misleading, in which caso the argument thoy are in- tended to convey would fail. The assertion is broadly made in this volume that all the commercial nations of Europe and most of the rountries of South and Central America pay subsidiey, or bountles for the encouragement of foreign com- merce, and figures are given of the amounts paid by each coun- try. For example, it is stated that England pays annually over four mil- lion dollars in subsidies, 'rance nearly seven millions, Italy theee and & half millions, and Germany over thrde millions. But do these governments expend this money on the subsidy plan which it is proposed the United States shall adopt? Take the ease of England. Consul General New, at London, has furnished the state departmont with a roport on British subsidies, and he states that that government does not grant subsidies, in the genoral sense of that term, to any steamship company. The postofiice authoritics make con- tracts for the conveyance of mails to the aifferent parts of the world with the steamship compauics. having steamers sailing to those ports, and no payment other than for the conveyance of maits is specially made for maintaining com- munication between Great Britain and Central ard South America and the Wost Indies. Companies building large steamships are granted somo aid by the government under coniracts that such vessels shall in time of war be called into the secvice of the government as war ships and transports and even in such cases the aid given is not large. Consul New reports that the amount paid for postoffice services for 1888-89 was a fraction over three mil- lion dollars, 2 compensation far from excessivo for a service of such vasy dis- tances and heavy proportions as the British mail. And the statisties for twenty years show the very suggestive fact that the charges for this service have been steadily diminishing, while the nmount of mail matter has neces- sarily been incrcased. As to the othor European countries, and particularly France, their grants are doubtless more in the nature of sub- sidies, but those of Germany and Italy are not on a very large scalo of goner- osity, and their system is evidently not on the tonnage-and-mileago plan which it is proposed this government shall adopt. If they were, three million dol- lars would go but a short way in the annual payment of sub- sidies. But the subsidy advocates have always cited the example of Ing- land as the one to be followed, and it is asullicient answer to them to show, upon the unquestionable authority of Counsul General New, that the British government does not grant subsidios, but simply pays for its mail service, gotling this done as reasonably as pos- sible. And England has found this policy, to which there can be no reason- able objection. sufficient to enable her to hold her own against the countries which have attempted by artiticial props to build up their mercantile ma- rine. VILLARD WARLIKE SPIRIT. Henry Villard signalizes his restos tion to control of the Northern Pacific with threats of war against the Mani- toba. It is given out in high official quarters that the latter must be hum- bled {u spirit and forced toaccept w ever crumbs of commerce the Northern choses to give it. Vilard is troubied with that domineermg spirit which afilicted the officials of the Union Pa- cific when that road had the monopoly of the traffic between the Puci and Atlantic seaboard. that the novthwest is hisexclusive terri- tory aud proposes to enter upon the hazardous task of crushing his chief rival, represented by James Hill, Villard’s plan of reorganization hav- ing been accepted by the stock holders, removes forthe time being the finaucial difficulties which beset the company and places about ten million dollars cash in the treasury for the sinews of war, This sum will not go very far if the plan of campaign is carried out on the scale announced. The fact that the new blanket mortgage on the Northern is to run one hundred years naturally removes from the preseut management the trouble of providing for the future. Coming generations must take care of themselves. Some idea of the result of this policy of retaliation can be formed by a glance at the condition of the contest- ants. The Northern Pacific is stocked and bonded for over one hundred and twenty thousand dol- lars a mile. The Manitoba is one of the few roads in the Country built as a business investment. Its cost was not inflated with watered stock and its in- debtedness is not ator than its selling value to-day. It virtually parallels the Northern Pacific through Mionesota, Dakota and through Montana to Butte City. It is closely allied with the Canadian Pacific at Winnipeg, with the Union Pacific at Butte, and has extended southwest to Sioux Falls, Dakota. In all but through business it1s in position to successfully compete with the Northernm. The moment Villard lets loose the dogs of war, Jim Hill will undoubtedly extend the Mauitoba through Idaho and either conunect with the Oregon Short Line at or mnear the Oregon boundary or go through to the coast, Hill's credit is gilt edge because he hos made railroad construction and op- eration a tegitimate investment, not a speculative veunture, and his road can carry traffic and earn money at rates that would inevitably bankrupt Villard and his backers 1if thoy attempted to meet them, The contest between these corporate giants will bring abont a radical change in the railroad mapsof the northwest. CANADIAN UNBEASINESS. The omission of Canadafrom the Pan- American congress causes a fecling of uneasincss among the peoplo of the Dominion. The liberal cloment especi- ally, ns the tono of its press very clearly indicates, makes ‘the matter a cause for offense against the government, and voices a demand that Canada should be given the right to make commorcinl treatics, since she is allowed to rogulate her own tariff and im- pose duties even on Koglish goods. These liberal papers assert that the Canadian people want frecr trade with the United States, and declare that if the liberal party were in power it would settle this matter by insisting upon the right of the Dominion to enter nto reciprocal trade relations with the United States, nud to that extent, at least, becoming independent of Great Britain, It is natural that the meeting of tho Pan-American congress should have renewed public 1terest in Canada in the discussion of reciprocal trade with the United States. The Canadians understand that if & union of commercial interests shall be effected between the United States and the countries of South and Central America, Canada’s position would be more isolated than it now is, while there mignt be less inclination on the part of this country to accede to trado reciprocity with the Dominion. The situation compels the Canadian people to realize their dependence upon Eng- Jand, and the effect is to irvitate them. The fact that their country is a nation is so strongly em- izod by the exclusion from tornational congress that an un- v feeling has been developed which finds expression in the demand for larger liberty and independence of action. Itis to be observed that in voicing this feeling grent care is taken to avoid the slightest intimation of disloyalty. While the liberal papers dec v the people ardently desive closer and freer commercial relations with the United States, they are ecareful to say that this cannot boe accom- plished at the cost of tion. There is no desire organs of liberal opinion would have it understood, to become a tesritorial part of the United States, but simply to be oue with her in commercial intarests. A commercial union is quite possible without any wolitical connection, but whenever Cang Wl enter into the former with the United States, which undoubtedly in time she will, a begin- ning will have been made toward either annexation or indspendence. So far as the great majovity of the people of the United States are concerned it i safely be said that thoy have no des for the former, but would heurtily wel- come the latter. The time may not be far off when iadian independence will be an accomplishod fact, and it is probable that England would make no y regarded as an “‘off” year in Iowa politics, the fact being that the election, so far as state interests are concerned, isas important as that of any year. The people are to elect a governor and other state officers and a legislature, which will choose a United States senator, besides which the most important county officers are to be elected. Thus, not only the people of the state at rge, but each separate communi has an interest in the election. Lvery- thing that can concern the people politically, and with referonce to the general and 1oeal administration of af- fa is involved in the election of this year, so that there is every renson why popular interest in the campaign should be strong and earnest, and doubtless such is the case, although the cs aign has not been so active and exciting as in some fovmer yeavs. It is emphat- ically an Towa year. in which the peo- ple will voto dirvectly upon lowa inter- ests, and the impor! ought to induce ever part in determining the vesult. OF the five so; linment contested for during October, the home rulers captured three out of five, a clear gain of one. This makes eightoen seats recovered by the liberal party since the general eclection in 1886, against three by the tories, a gain of fifteen. These facts are more potent than the weather vane opinions of for- cign correspoudents in showing the unmistakable drift of English public opinion toward the restoration of Glad- stone to power. HAVING made a few trifling conces- sions to his striking employes in the I1- linois coal mines, ex-Congressman Scott now demands that they sign iron- clad contracts, which the men refuse to do. Scott will be remembered as the mouthypiece of Cleveland who foamed and fumed when his pretended friend- ship for the working classes was ques- tioned in congress. His recent care shows him to be the Janus of demos racy—in public speech a friend of labor, in practice a grasping monopolist with- out conscience or humanity. ANOTHER important move in western railroading is reported. It is no less than a third broad gauge line between Denver and Ogden, backed by the tral Pacific. By bullding sixty-five miles of road to connect the Colorado Midland with the Rio Grande Junction and Rio Grande Western tracks a through line is made. This will develop into a strong competitor of the Union Pacific for Pacific coast business through an alliance with the Burling- ton east of Denver, — Tugk surplus continues to grow. It is now, in round numbers, forty-six million dollars, and will doubtless have passed the fifty million point by the tie con- gress assembles. The treasury has pur- chased sufficient bonds to provide for the sinking fund, aud future purchases will have reference solely to keeping = down the surplus as much as possible. But althghgh the offerings for soveral weoks hiye been liberal the surplus has stondily gniged, The :argument which this situation will present to congress ought n:l'ro',he without effect. TiE atthék of the political trade unionists ' 6h George Heimrod has fallen flag, The Cigar Makers’ union vigorously repudiates the action of an alleged momber who outraged truth and decenty'in slandering an honest and consistent friend of .workingmen. ALL the endorsoments which Mr. Snyder can purchase, from Pat Ford to the peddlers of workingmen's votes, cannot alter the fact that he is not com- petent to manage the financial interests of Douglas county. The Greenvack Remintsconce. Lowisville Conrier-Journal, The greenback party seems uncom fortably small for & party, and yot not small enough for a base ball nine. priveinedifs Y Assisted By Nature. New Yorl Hevald, The diseovery of natural gas n South Da- kota indicates that the elements have come to the relief of the land boomers, who really must be gettiug tired. —— Cotonel Smith's Mission. TLoutseille Courter-Towrnal, Porhaps Dr. Hacrison sends Colonel Smith to Canada to charm the Canadian ladies into favoring annexation. Once the ladics are won over to a cause it begins to prosper. e chicbu Ben ae a katerary Peller. 8¢, Lomis Post-Dispatch, Ben Butier's proposed volume of personal reminiscences will undoubtedly be interest- ing, but how will he classify it? Will it be issued as an historical romance or fiction suggested by facts? ———— Eminently Proper. Chieago Tribune. The motto of Ka Nupepa Elete, an es- teemed contemporary brinted at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, is ko Kiai! Heah ko kapo! I ola o Hawaiia mau loa!” This strikes us as being about the right thing. gttt 2shd el The Republican Theory. New Yorl: Tribua, It is still the republican theory, as it was i 1860, vhat the decsion of the people musy bo respected and obeyed, because in no other way can self-government be made a success: in no ather way can the interests of the people be served and the wisdom of their wishes tested b el oA Blunder Upon Biu Phitadelpiia Times. Senator Manderson committed a grevious blunder when he received a rerating of his pension with over §4,000 arrears without tho semblance of compliance with tue laws, and be now slmply makes the blunder more im- posing by his awicward blunder in attempt- ing to justify liig'acceptance of u notoriousky Luwless pe Secret Divore s in Colorado, Denver News. Colorado is pne of the states wherein the tsecret divorce? flonrishe: them are grapjed in Arapahoe county d of secking to stem the luture ev session increuses its volome, watil the livorce” in Colorado may now the dimensiors of a to e —— fimiadelphia Society. Bostan Heraid. There are a good many ways to secure social recoguition. 'Fhie Philadelphia papers tell of anewcomer to that city who has rented pews in three fashionable churches there in order to get into society. The wor- ship of God muy do him some good in Phila- delphia, but he musn't fory the reverence that is due the Biddles also, if he is socially ambitious. in e Fhe Glory of a Free Country. | Tndianapolis Jowrnal. The ranks of capitaiists are constantly re- crnited from those of energetic, industrious and enterprising men who, by sheer force of eharacter, aclkicve success in spite of circum- stances, and from wageworkers become em- ployers and millionaires. Such meu are the bulwark of the state, and their carrcers are a grand illustration of the possibilities open 10 every young American; for if 1t may not be granted to all to succeed in the sume large gegree, the fact that all way enter the race and achieve as much success as ‘ho capable of, is still the best feature of true liverty and the crowning giory of American citizenship, STATIS AND Nevraska Jottings. A figo church is to beerceted by the Chris- tians of Dewe Rice H. Baton has received his commission as postnaster at Kearney. Phe musicians of Gothenburg are attempt- ing to reorganize their band. The el at Hicikman has b from the I M. to the Missouri tracks. ‘The art club of Alma gave an exhibition last week at which over 150 pictures wero shown. Fhe Lanwood jail was wiped out of exis- tence the other night by a fire started by an incendiary. Thirty buildiogs have been Cozad since lust March, at an of §1,500 each, W. H. Coyle, a Hastings butcher, has sud- denly left the city and a number of his cred itors are 1n wourning, Fillmore county farmers have increasod toeir acroage of fall wheat thi vear, and much of it 18 up aud io splendid condition, The colored peoplo of Hastings have or- ganized the Hastings Literary and Debating club for social enjoyment and mutual un- provement in the study of literature and the debate of scientifie g ions, While rummaging in_the cell of Jacob Shields, confined in the «Lincoln ecounty jail for obtaining money under false protonses. an officer iscovered two jack-knives with suw blades, and found thav several bars of the ca had becn nearly sawed in tw: Mr. J. H. Miller has raised as mauny, if not more apples this year than avy other farmer 1 the county, says the Springfield Monitor, having in the noighborhood of two thousand bushels. He has already sold about one thousand busnels, at an average of 40 cents per bushel, and , hus made 1,200 gallons of cider, ‘The Broken Boyy Republican reports that ten-year-old 500 of & man named Youkam, liviug on the Dismal river, who wus tried wwo years ago fir the murder of one Down- ing and acquittod, shot and killed his one- yoar-cid sister the other day. No one was near at the time and the boy positively re- fused to say a word about the deed. William S. Roberts,who is a cripple, tavght school in the country uorth of Kearney and at the same tiwe won the heart of Miss Min- nie Bears, the result being au engagement. The fickle Mionie afterwards changed her mind and married another . For this breach of prowise Hoberts brought action in the court and obtained & judgment for dam- agos in the sum of 4,000, but as Miunie is wealthy in affection only 1t is probable that Mr. Roberts will be compelled to continue school teaching for a liveliliood. moved Pacific erected in uverage cost lowa Atems. A Davenport horse has just recovered from an attack of diphtheria. “The new $6,000 Methodist church at Wood- bine was dedicated Sunday, Farmers lu_the vicinity of Dualay are or- gauizing & stock company o start & cream ery. wo colts belonziag to a Washiagton farmer wore struok by lightning and killed 1ast weok. For stealing acow A. S. Kirtley, of Clin. ton, will spend two years behind the bars at Anamosa. Cedar Falls and Waterloo will be connected by electric railway as soon as the work can be completed, A female horsetnief with an’animal at Rock Isiand is driving through the state trying to elude pursuing officers. Rev. J. Gomer, a colored missionary, returned tg his home in Cedar mwx soventeen Years of active work in Africa. 1t 18 estimated that there are fifteen to oighteen huudred blind people in the state, over throe hundred of whom are above school age. Peter Muir was dragged through tho streots of Akron by a frisky calf which tnglod him up in the rope by which he was lending it. Cattle near Marcus are afflicted with a pe- culiar disease which manifests itself by a swelling of the eyes, and ia a very short time the animal becomes totally blind. Water is being shipped from the Storm lake mineral spring to ail parts of the state and even so far as Pennsylvania. . 1t is said 10 be especially adapted to kidney and liver troubles, Solomon G, Gee was sontenced to six months in the penitentiary by the district court at Keosauqua for adultory. Fis wife made the complaint against him, but after- wards ropented ond begged the judge to be lenient with him, Ths Two Dakota Knitting works aro soon to be started at Huron, A board of ‘trade is to be organized at Blant, A variety theater has beon opened at Pierre. The inmates of the Plankinton reform school are to publish a papar. A fine colt belonging toa farmer two miles from Huron was killed by a wolf rocently. The South Dakota Publishing company has becn organized with headquarters at Aberdeen. The winter meeting of the South Dakota Horticultural society will be held a tMadison December 18 and 19, A. L. McLean, while on a spree at Hill City, drank carbolic acid n mistake for whisiy and died in terrible agony. A nine-year-old girl of Spring Lake town- ship, Kinzsbury county, plowed elghty acres fll’ Innd this fall with a threc-horse sulky plow. even revolvers and two botties of whisky were recovered from seven pupils in the Sioux Ialls school as a result of & search by thoir teacher, An Indan wedding took place at the Fort Beunett agency Sunday, Rev. George Pay- Pay leading to the altar a beauteous Indian maiden named Hampton, he annual meeting of the Territorial ners’ alhance will be beld at Aberdeen oy mber 11, This will be the last meet- ing of the members in both Dakotas, and im- portant business as to the future of the or- ganization will be discussed. Two epieurcan red men, passing through Castalin the other day, wers afforded the requisite for a banguet by the town marshal. The marshal had just ended the career of a superfluous dog, which the children of the prairie dressed, cooked and stowed away in their “mnards’ before an admiring Castalian audicnce. The plan of the South Dakota prohibs Is to earoll all the prohibitionists of the state— vomen and children—as members of igue] charging $1 for adults and 25 for children per year. Life member- ship, $10. Thc league proposes in this way and by donations to create a fund of not less than $50,000 and possibly $100,000, which will be used in aiding the enforcement of the vrohibition law., —-— COAL IIELDS IN ALASKA. A New sourcs of Wealth Opened in the North, The United States revenue cutter Rush, which recently arrived here from Benring soa, placed in the warehouses of the Alaska mmercial company at “Oonalaska 2,400 sealskins takon durine the cruise from six different contraband sealers overbauled in Behring sen, writes a Sitka, Alaska, corre- spondent of the New York Times. Some of these vessels carried American colors and others were Briush vessels, the Black Dia- uiond among the rest, which made its escape with her prize master, John Hankmson, The sealskins, after beiug deposited in the ware- house at Ovunnlaska, were receipted for & the deputy United States murshal at that point and they will remain there until next summer, In the meungime they have vean lineled in si# diffcrent lots of parcels for condemna- tion in the district court, and unless the own- ers of the skins put in claims therefor they will be ordered to be sold at public sale, In the seizure of vessels and scalskihs in 1887, a scandal e out of the ordering of the skins to be sold here, and a suit is now pend- ing by the United States against a former deputy collector of customs for several thou- sand collars alleged to have been received Dy him in acorrupt combination and con- spiracy, which resulted in having an order made for the salo of the scizures here, and competition prevented. The evidence clearly stiows that one check of $1,100 was paid to him in furtherance of the conspiracy b tain speculators of Victoria, who are bey on of the courts of the United States, he disposition of the scizures of 1880 the court will endeavor to prevent a repetition of @ scandalous combination such as existed here in the case of the seizure of 1887, ‘I'nav year about one-third of the seizures were sola under the order of the court, i San Francisco, and the government gota fair market price for the skws. The order of the court in the case of theseizures of 1539 will be that the skius be i cisco at_public auction, This can not take place untii noxt year some time, because the last steamer to Oonalaska for the season has gone, und the authorities here will have to wait until the first steamers cun go in there pext yoar and bring them out. Noune of the sealskins taken in th band trade equal n market v t taken on the Seal islands, ' In the lattor the animals are driven off from the rookeries to the killing grounds, where they are dis- patched with clubs, and in that way no iujury is doue to the pelt, while, on the other hand, all the skins taxen by contrabund seal- ers; or even by the natives ulong the coa Aluska, are cuptured in the water by killing the animals with shot-guns, rifles and ar- rows, and often by small bombs or hand grenades, The method in killing the animals unpairs tho value of the pelt as compared with the market value of skins taken by the Alaska Commercial compuny on the Seal islands, Many pup sealskins are included in the in- ventories of those captured from contraband scalers. As thers is no opportunity for se- lection in contraband sealing, many of the skius are inferior in fur, Some important coal discoveries have been made during this summer's cruise of the Rush. A large depositof excellont coul has been found on the north side of Unga islund, one of the Shumigan group. This discovery was made through privato euter- prise, and the original prospector has been all summer with threo wen developiug the Phe vein wdics s of en s discovered on one of the liboriug islands of the same group, but its valuo is greatly impaired for steam coal by the fact that it 18 so saturated with wator that it can not bo used to any great advan- tage until thoroughly dried after being wmined, At Unga island, however, the coal 15 of great value, The discovery is about o wile nland from the Hehring sea side of the island. To reach a water front on the other side of the istand will require @ tramway about twelve miles long, which wid not be dificult to coastruct. he ap- proactes of Unga Island on the Bebring Sea side are exceedingly dificuit snd perilous to navigation, al Las been enlisted for the construe- f the SAry tramway ta got the coul to the coust, and when that enierprise is fully inaugurated it will be of great benefit to the entire Pacilic coast states. Naval off rs report the quality of the coal as cqual to that of the Wellington mines or Vaoe Island, now used by all steam vessels, and private, from Puget Sour Sea. The Alaska Commeraial company p consumes thousauds of tons of Wellington conl In its own fleot of ships and at its nu- merous trading ports to the westward of Sitka, besides bringing hundreds of tons for the use of tne naval vessols and rovenue cut- "l’l!h.: e f 1 at Cool outeropping of conl af K" Inlet is 80 extensive tmm crowy of the United States steamslip Thetis last Septom- ber, when the vessel was on her way here from the Aictic ocenn, went ashore and mined and put abrond sixty. tons from tho surface on the beach, and used it on tho wi down for steam with most excelient resul Afterthe Thetis got_here the writer used about half a ton of the samo coal in an open grato for warming purposes and found it gqnlllotha best Pittsburg for open grato res, The past two: years' axplorations in_ the supposed coal fields of Western Alaska have demonstrated that tho torriory prosents o new and inexhanstible source of wealth in its coal fields. There is overy indication that the, coal ean bo easily mined. This 18 the unvarging statement of evory person who has had the means of personal obsorvation. The Times' corre- spoudent has conversed with many naval, revenuo and other offcors and intolligent and cautious persons, who have been on_ the ground and made caroful estimates, ' Well- ington coal brought to Juneau and a year has cost, at the lowest possible price, $14 and £15 per ton. In August and Septem Dber of 1588 tho same coal sold in San Fran- c1sco for §25 por ton. Owing to the proxim- ity of the discovered coal fields of western Alaska to the beach land transportation will be a minor item in their development. The labor cost will be no more than that of the most favored mines in the states. The ten- doncy is constantly to keep down ocean freights where there is fi competition, which will certainly bo an element in the transportation of coal from the fields of western Alasica. ‘The supply scems {llimitable, the eonsump- tion will rapidly increase and tho business of its transportation to California, Oregon, and Washington will become enormous. With ocean transportion, it is not wide of the mark to say that this westorn Alaska coal from Cook’s Inlet, nnd Unga Island, aud from other sources along the coast, will re- duce the price to tho Pacitic states fully one- half its present cost. The material eloment in the present high price of coul insoutheas! orn Alaska is in the moropoly of transporta- tion which the Pacific Const Steal ip com- pany bas in the entire carrying trado in the waters of the Alexaudrian archivelago. The development of the industries of southeast - ern Alaska is becoming 80 great that one ‘of two things must occar -—either a material reduction in the rates of freight or competition will set in. Alrcady one new company has entered the field for the freight trafiic, by means of a steamer of 300 tous, trading from Seattle and ‘facoms to Junea nd Sitka aund interme- diate points. — GO:SIP FROWM THE COANT, Close of the C fornia Floral So- clety's Exbibition. 8u¥ Fraxcisco, Oct. Special Tele- gram to Tne Bre.]—The California state floral society tias just closed a very success- ful exhibition in this city. In the collection shown were some of the rarest plants known to florists in any part of the world. Most of these plants had been cultivated under glass. It was too early in the season to show the npatural flowers of California. The long dry season had just closed and the wet, one has Juse sot in, but had made very few flowers in the oven air available for public exhibitions. But there was such wealth and glory of chrysanthemums 9s had never been scen here before. A few of these probably were forced under giass. But this hardy plant does not require any such stimu- lant. ‘The Japanese have brought their nut ural flower to this comst, and they have shown the florists here what can be done with them. “T'he fight between Jack Delaney and Jimmy Murphy, at the Occidental club last evening, was most sensational. The ordinary patron of vrize fights has become 80 accustomed of late to forty and sixty- round contests, lusting tili tho eariy hours of morning, that a rattling zood fight at quick paces docs his heart good. The Murphy- Delaney mill was all that the lover of a hot contest could desire. Not only that, but it has brought_Jimthy Murphy, a new man, to the front. There can 0 doubt that, after witnessing lust uight's contest, some of the otber clubs will wish to match him against some leading tighter of his class. J. Triestail arrived from Melbourne this morniog with a stable of six thoroagh bred norses. Their names and weights are as follow: Bismarck, six years old, 2,500 pounds; Brown Ben, six yéars, 2,007 Boss, three years, 2,000; Young Malcolm, five years, 1,800, and Rose (also- Clydesdale), six years, 1,800. Triestail reports them in the ‘oest of condition after their long voyage. By the time ‘the rival cliques get through with their disputes over' the Sutro tunnel there will nov be much left for outside sharebolders. The mining companiee will not be losers pending a settiement, the sav- ing in_ royalty to Con California and Virginia alone amounting to nearly ,000 per annum. = Tho most probable result will be & surrender of the company’s property to the Comstock corporations, which shoutd have owned it long ugo. ‘There have been too many axes to grind in the management for along time past. R. E. Pineo, of Ura, Ceylon,arrived to-day onan Australiun steamer. With him were two scrvants, man and wife, natives of [ndza, but wno came frow Ceylon. They are of 4 dark comblexion, and the woman is probably first of 'her race that has ever greav at- at a ring is canuot be tention, fastened to her nose, and which removed. 1t is the cuslom of her people to wear such ornaments, The woman aud man were not dressed in_their nafive garps, as the weatier was oo cold. After remaining ys Mr. Rinco will t Washington to New York. His peculiar ted considerable atiention avout the Palace hotel. The husband and wife sp alose language, and as their master speaks it fluently, there is no trouble for him in understanding their wants, ‘Three years ago tl car loads of California fruit sent to New York. Last year there were eighty car loads of California fruit handled in New York. This year the total shipment to the eastern warket will be about two hundred car loads. The California people are naturally de lighted with this rapid development of i now market for their product, and are hurrying forward all they can this year and making great preparations for next season. Not less than 500 car loads is the estimated shupment next year. ‘I'here is an impression among the of California that the Chinese me this city are in favor of landing the Chine: This is & mistake, The evils of Chinese im- migration resulting in the passing of the re. striction laws hus ruined business, Larg arrivals within the pastiew years of C At this port has overstocked the labor kets, Huudrods of them are idle. The mines have become exhausted und the two other industries are now conducted with white lab Theso facts have been foro the Ch v the through the Chinese ve caused the government iying the ovil, he greater portion 0 who have come to this country have becouie thoroughi acquainted with its principal industries, aud with this fact in view, the Chinese gove m ent proposes to erect large manufacturing establishimen®, open up new industries, promote those al estublished, construct railroads, and in fact back syndicates in all enterprising schemes, Within the next twonty years thore will be an_entire change in the prescut customs of China, which the government is begioning o realizo aro a do riment to its progress, ‘This 18 the ouly s by which«China can proteet the intor- ests of its morchants abread and maintain its relations with foreigu government. - A New Lamp, M. Henri Picper, of Liege, has just invented & new incandencent lamp of very simple construction, It consists of two horizontal rods of copper, placed about four millimetres apart. A thin pointed rod of carbon, placed vertically, rests on the copper rods and forms a bridge between them. The current pusses between the copper rods through the carbon, which it renders incandes- cent. The copper rods are mounted on springs, which cause them to riso slightly when the carbon is totally con- sumed, and bring them against two contuet pieces, thus preventing the rup- ture of the circuit, people CUY A. BROWN PASSES AWAY, “I Guess I'll Go to Sleep,” the Last Words He Spoke. REVIEW OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE, At Sixtoen a Soldier, A Brovet Major at Ninetoen—After Many Battles Agrael Smites Him In the Midst of Peace. 1029 P Stiner, LaxocoLy, Neb,, Oct. 27 Guy A. Brown is dead. At 5 o'clock this morning, while lying om the sofa appafently as woll as he had been at any timo during the past week, ho re- marked to his wife: . T guess I'll go to sleep.” & These were the last words that ever feil from his lips. At 6:00 his pulse had ceased to beat. The sleep ho entered upon at that heur proved to e the sleep that knows no waking. His death, therofore, was calm and poaceful. Friends who hovered nesr wero uncon- sclous that the end to his eventful ife had come. Had he lived, in the month of December ho would have boen forty-throe yoars of age. At _sixteen ho enbisted in the Twenty-soc- ond New York light battery, which subse - quently was consolidated with tho One Hun- dred and Thirty-eighth, and together formed the Ninth New York artillery. Althouch but a boy, he soon ranked as sergeant major, rising in order because of his “meritorious servics to adjutant, captain, und at the age of nineteen to brevet-major. He partici- ated in all of the campaigns on the Potomuc, from the Wildorness to the close of the war, except when his regiment was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. ‘Thus it can seen he guve his country dis- tingished service during the dark years of the ereat robellion. He removed from New York to tbis state in 1807 and located at Nebraska City, and a year Intor was olected clork of the district court of Otoe county. In 1560 he was ap- potated clerk of the suvremo court, a po- sition he held until death, For years he was clerk, reporter and state librarian, In 1873 he was elected executive clerk of the house of representatives of the state legislature, and in 1875 he scrved as chief clerk of tho constitutional convention, For several years past he has been on tho decline. Two years ago nhe went to Colo- rado, hoping to regain his health. But it availed bim nothing vanless to vostpone tho hour of dissolution. He returned homo two or three months ago only to await the end. Ho wus an active member of the Episcopal church and gave liberally of his means and talents for its support” and maintainanco here and elsewhere. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his death. His funeral will take place from his lato residence, 221 South Twenty-seventh street, on Tuesday or Wednesday. coLs BUreAu or Tie OMAnA qu.} Hoste to The farmers of Lancaster county, who met_at Bohanan's hull yesterday afternoon in adjourned convention, for the purpose of downing dressed beef shipments iuto this market, especially, passed tho following resolution : Whercas, We believe that all trusts aro detrimental to the best interosts of the masses of the people in general and to the poorer classes in particular, in that they in- hance the price of the product to the con- sumer and reduce the price to the producer, thersby interfering with the regnlar and natural laws of trade, therefore, be it Resolved, That any and every combination of capital, whoso design and result 18 to con- trol tne prices, both to the trust compuny and the consumer, is criminal in its object and should be 8o considered and treated by the law making power, and that we are ia favor of a statute so definine it and punish- ing all persons so engaged in thoir formation or conducting the sam A. Craddock, president of the Union Labor organization, introduced the follow- ing: Rosolved, That we, tho farmers of Lan- caster county, demand the state legislature and the congress of the United States to make n statute to the laws by which it shall be criminal for any person to offer anything for sale without having the same in his pos- session, City News and Notes. J. W. Johuson, editor of the Sutton vertiser, spent Sunday in the city. Mrs, Helen M. Gouger held forth at the Pirst Curistian church this evening on the subject of prohibition. ‘The two Houston chemical engines of the fire department have arrwved. Ono was placed in the Central house and the other in the I stroet house, The corner stone of the Y. M. C. A. build- ing will be laud to-morrow afternoon. Kich ard C. Morse, general secretary of the inter- ational committce, will put on_the square.” The young men expect a large attendanc Even Ames, of North Adams, Mass,, 15 the guest of his sister, Mrs. A, W. Fiolds. 1t is learned that Mr. Ames and family will make this city their howme in the near future Bishop Bonacum is in Omaha giving con- firmation in the diocese of the metropolis. He wiil return bome to-morrow afternoon, The regular meeting of Farragut post was of unusual interest lust night. Muster ser- vices commenced at 7 o'clock, Hon. J. B. Strode was the orator of the ovening., His subject was “The Defense of Altoona Pass.” The W. R. C. met yesterday afternoon at 3 o0'cl Mrs, Mollie B, Cook presided Thirty mbers of tho society were it nttend Mrs, Dr. 'Woods, of Dennison, Tu., was president. She wiil toll the story of her escave from the seuth during the war ut the Y. M. C. A rooms Tuesday ovening. The Lincoln Gun club bas arranged for a grand _tournament to Le held atthe fair grounds November 28 and 20. It will bo styled the first annual tournament, and the contests will be open to all comers, Thera will be a number of prizes, and it is given out that no combinations will be allowed be- tween any of the shooters. All matches will bo governed by the American Shooting As- sociation’s rul Ad- T - The Orngin of A. H. Stephens, of G W member of congress in 1870, originated the phrase “too thin” (according to tho Pitisburg Dispatch). “Mr. Speaker,” he eaid, “'the gentleman’s arguments are gratuitous assertions made up of whoie cloth. And cloth. sir, o gauzy and thin that it will not hold water. It is entirely too thin, sir.” A Word About Catarrh, “It 18 the mucons membrane, that wonderful semi-finid envelope surrounding tho delicate tis= suos of (heairand food passuges, that Catarrh mukes 1t strongnoid. Once established, it eats 1110 the very vitals, and re s but u long- Lones, eating through the delicate coats aud causing inflam mution, sioughing and death. Nothing short of fcation will secure health to the pa- Il ulleviatives are slnply ]rrln(‘rl&gll- leading to & fatal term nution, L Cuick, by - Inluilabion and in stration, Bas never failed; o s soase hus made frightiul in: v ConsULONS, oaring, smell nnd taste huve boen re overe., and the diseass thoroughly driven ous BANFOUD'S 8 conststs of onn hot- tle of 1he RADICAL CURE, 006 BoX CATARKIHAL BOLVENT, and one TMIROVED TNIALER, Heatly i 'iu one packuge, With fuil direc (FOTHR URCG AN CikMicA . Boston, EVERY MUSOLE ACHES. Bharp Ackes, Dull Pains, Swains and Weukness, kel B ONE MINUTE by (he UUTICURA ANTi PALY PLASTER. A perfect mutidote (o piii inflammation, und weakiiess. ‘e first und only pain-kiling plaster, Instantancous, Anfaiible, Bafs Acknowledged by druggists and physi clivus o bo the bout yot propard, AL all drng e Gnta: Ave Jor Bl oF; postgy Tres, ot ¥ M DEUGAND CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Boston, Mass, .