Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1889, Page 4

NOVEMBER 20, 1889, THE DAILY BEE. " B. ROSEWATER, Baitor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally tnnh.‘lnmlny. One Yens Bunday Bes, One v . Weekly Bee, One Year with Pre OFFICES, Omana, Bee Ruilding. Chicago Office, #7 Rookery Bnilding New Vork, fooms 14 and 1 Tribune Buld- ™Washington. No. 513 Fourfeenth Stroot. Counci Biufty No. 12 Pear| Street. incoln, 60t Eouth Omaha, Cornef N and 20th Streots. CORRESPON DENCE. ANl communieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor- ial Department, BUSINESS LETTERS. A1l Uusiness letters and remittances should be nddressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoffice oraers be made payable to the order of thecompany, The Bee Pablishing @‘fnuanv Proprietors ser Bullding Farn enteenth Stre o0 « e Tratns, Thers 18 no excuse fora faflure to get Tar BER on the trains, Al newsdealers have been noti- fied to carry a full supply. Travelers who want Tik Bk and can't gat ii on trains whero other Omaha papers ave carried are roquested :to no- ueyTun e, Peare be particular to give in all cases full information as to date, rallway and number of train. Glve us your name, not for publication or un. necessary use, but as s guaranty of good faith, P THE DALY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Etato of Nebraska, [T County of Douglas, | George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Fublishing Company. does solemnly swear that the actunl circulation of Tk DAILY BEE forthe week ending November 16, 1880, was as follows: Tuesday, No Wednesday, Nov, ii, Thursdag, Nov. 1d. Friday, Noy Baturday, Nov. Average,..,. Etate of Nehraska, | County of Douglas, (5% Bworn to before me and subscribed to {n my Ppresence ths i6th day of November, A, D. 150, (Sea).] N. P, FIIL, Notary Publie. State of Nobraska, ) o County of Douglas, {®® George 18, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- wes and says that he Is sccretary of The Bee Publishing Company, ihat the actual averago daily circulation of Tk DAILY BEE for the month November, 158, 1838 copies; for De- cember, 18, 1822} coples: for January, 18, 18,574 coples; for February, 1889, 18,098 coples; for March, 189, 18834 coples: Tor April, 184, I8R50 coples; for May, 1840, 15000 cople: June, 100, T coples; for July, 1 coples; ror August, 1565 tember, 1869, 18,710 r 18997 coples. EoKaGE B. TZSCHUCK. orn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 2d day of November, A D., 158}, (e N, P. Fir, Witsne were St. A. D. and St. John B. when St. Paul went out to preach to the ministerial multitude? JostAn and Josephus impetuously brought up the rear of the attack on the ministers, as if their respective jobs de- pended upon success. It costs a plump five thousand dollars to stand as a candidate for alderman in Chicago. No wonder the city is over- run with official boodlers. ELEVEN democratic candidates are abroad for the council in the Second ward, and several subdivisiors of Okla~ homa are yet to be heard from. PAT Fomrp has finally prevailed on Jim Boyd to accept the democratic nom- ination for mayor. That settles it. ‘When Pat Ford exercises his left lung Mr. Boyd cannot stand out. TuE board of education evinces need- less anxiety concerning the majority for the school bonds. Why did not the board consult the returns for last spring’s election Dbefore it issued its proclamation? THE next thing our latter-day Apos- tle Paul wall commend to the ministe- rial asgociation will be a Sabbath school cocktail from the Full Dress saloon which is conveniently located back of the postoffice. TAMMANY is applying the whip to bolters by expelling all members who refused to vote the straight wigwam ticket. Mr. Clevelund did not vote, and Tammany, therefore, pitches him “‘outside the breastworks.” — Tue famous Nebraska brigadier, Vic- tor Vifquain, reports extremely hard times at Colon, cansed by the collapse of the Panama canal. “This doleful re- port is doubtless intended to discourage republican aspircants for the consulship, Wiy don’t the pious political proces- s10n right about face and march boldly upon the Salvation army headquarters, ‘The army would probably come to the rescue in the primaries, and with the help of Dan McGuicken they could .probably carry the Third ward, THE appointment of Judge Edgerton, of South Dakota, to the federal judge- ship in the new state, will undoubtedly give great satisfaction to the people there, Although he was defeated in his candidacy for the United States senate, he is one of the most popular and highly respected men in the state, #and the reward he has received for faithful and valuable service in pro- moting the cause of statohood will be very generally approved. E— TRE Louisiana supreme court follows closely the precedents of the leading courts of the country by declaring that *‘all contracts which have a tendency to stifle competition, to create or foster monopolies, with a view to unreasonably ~increase the walues of commodities against the public interests confers no rights which courts of justics can rec- ‘ognize or enforce.” The sentiment of the country, backed by the courts, will be able to deal effectively with trusts and monopolies E——— . THE Johustown relief committee will wind up its business this monsh, The total receipts fell little short of four million dollars, & magnificent proof of public generosity. Of this sum the committee confess that one million dol- lare was wasted, There was too much mouey. The supply exceeded the de- mands of the needy, and hundreds of unworthy persons applied for and were ven assistance. A surplus, however, ' is better than a deficit, and even if a per cent of the fund was wasted, the .Subscribers have the satisfaction of kuowing that the meaus were ample to relieve the distross. THE NEW REPUBLIC. Among the republics of South Amer- icn Brazil has earned the distinction of being the first to cast off the garb of monarchy without costing a eingle hife. The change from a monarchy to a re- public was effected without a disturb- ance, as if it was an every day ocour- rence. In four days Dom Pedro was dethroned and exiled, constitutional government established and accopted by all the provinces. It is a notable evi- dence of the spread of republicanism in the western hemisphere, anda will have the effect of loosening the hold u! European rulers on Canada, Cuba and other colonial possessions. Brazil has a territory nearly as lorge a8 all Burope, comprising three million two hundred and oighteen square miles, or three hundred thousand square miles less than the area of the United States. Its population is about thirteen millions, of whom one million are negro freed. men,and six hundred thousand Indians. The emancipation of the slaves follow- ing the failute of the coffee crop last vear, produced a partial paralysis of business. In Brazil, as in this country, the negroes flocked to the cities and towns on gaining their freedom, leav- ing the plantations without adequate help to harvest the crop. The govern- ment came to their rescue with liberal loans and organized an immigration bureau, which has brought the lubor market to its normal standard. Under its stimulating influences large’ addi- tions have been made to the population, new industries started and the develop- ment of the country pushed in every direction. In wealth of natural resources Brazil is excelled by few countries on the globe. The soil is uncommonly rich, yet only one-hundredth part of it is under cultivation. It is the great coffee producer of the world, while sugar cane, rice, tobaceo and tropical fruits are raised in abundance. Her wealth in valuable timber is incalculable. Rosewood, mu- hogony and rubber forests are as plenti- ful as the pine in the United States. F'rom these impenetrable forests shiver- ing mankind obtains the crude quinine and oinchonia, as well as bertholetia, the Paulist purgative, and the myrta- cious perfume tree. . In minerals the country is equall rich and prolitic. Gold, silver and dia- monds abound, as well the baser metals, such as copper, ivon, zinc and coal. The great commercial highway of Brazil is the Amazon river, which, with aflluents, affords thirty thousand miles of navigable waters, In addition there are six thousand miles of railroads in operation and sixty-five hundred miles of telegraph, and both have been pushed forward actively by the over- turned government. During the past year the foreign trade of the country amounted to two hundred and twenty- seven millions, an aggregate relatively as large asthatof the United States, population considered. The change of government will natur- aily have a stimulating cffect on the trade with the United States. THE INTERNAL REVENUE. In view of the factthat there is cer- tain to be a determined effort made in the Fifty-first congress to repeal a large part of the internal revenue taxes, the ligures presented in the annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue should receéive careful consideration. These show an increase for the last fiscal year of nearly seven million dol- lars, and are in excess of the estimate nearly six million. This evidence of growth in nearly all the sources of in- ternal revenue, especially marked in spirits, from which the treasury de- rived over seventy-four million dollars, an increase of more than five millions over the preceding year, proves that the leading interests subjected to ex- cise taxes are not suffering therefrom. They are growing with the increasing consuming power of the country,and there is no reason to suppose that they will not continue to grow if the taxes should be, retained. Manifestly these taxes are not, as is claimed by the advocates of their repeal, a burden to the industries which pay them, however great may be the annoyance connected with their collection. Nor can it be shown that they operate at all oppressively upon the consumers. Grant that the taxes on whisky and tobacco, the chief sources of revenue, are finally paid by the con- sumers, they Go not complain of them as a burden, and it is to be by no means regarded as cortain that the removal of the taxes would benefit the con- sumers. Possibly it might do so in the case of tobacco, but hardly in that of whisky, wor 18 it perhaps desirable that it sbould. A proposal to repeal the whisky tax on the score of advantage to the consum- ers of whisky would secure a very lim- ited support. The demand for an abolition of inter- nal revenue taxes comes from the pro- ducers of whisky and tobacco and from these who do not wish to reduce the revenues of the goverument by a revision of tariff duties. The most ar- dent advocates of a repeal of excise taxes arve the ‘‘moonshine” distillers and the tobacco manufacturers of the south, and their reasons for desiving it are so obvious as not to require explanation, The ques- tion which the next congress will de- termine is whether these classes shall be relieved of taxes not oppressive to consumers, or the whole people be given the benefit to be derived from a rovision and reduction of tariff duties. If the demana for the repeal of in- ternal taxes is acceded to, and fifty or sixty million dollars of reve- nue thus wiped out, very little change can be made in the tariff in the direction of reduction, and with increasing national ex- penditures from an enlarging pension list and other demunds, and the funded debt of the government to be provided for, it might be found necessary in the near future not only to restore duties that have been abolished, but toin- crease those retained. It being clearly shown that the interests from which in- ternal taxes are chiefly derived are not being ‘retarded or injured therefrom, and it being equally certain that ex- cessive and unuecessary tariff dutiesare & buraen upon the whole people and a drawback to the national prosperity, men of both parties in congress having the general public interests at heart ought 1o have no difficulty in deciding what course to pursucin justice to thoso interests. ——— PURELY A QU ‘TION OF BUSINESS. We do not waut to indulge in per- sonalities in discussing the yiaduct and union depot propositions. The inter- ests involved are too vasu and vital to the future of this city to be made the playball of rivals for public favors in the press. We cheerfully concede to Mr. Hitchcock whatever glory or profit he may derive from slurs and inuendoes about the alleged combine between this paper and the Union Pacific. But when any man or paper goes so far as to assert that Omaha can have the Tenth street viaduct and union depot built next year without paying a dollar of bonus to the depot company proofs should be produced for such nssertion. No taxpayer in Omaha would vote a dollar of subsidy to the union depot company or anybody else for improvements that they are bound to make within the next year or two. Wa concede that the Union Pacific and Burlington will build that depot and viaduct sooner or later without a bonus. But when will that be ? We have been waiting patiently for fifteen years and we may not secure better depot facilities for ten yearsmore. Can we better afford to wait indefinitely or pay the bonusde- manded, by which we insure the con- struction of the viaduct and depot in 1890, when Omaha needs every stimu- lant to make a creditable showing in the census that will represent her re- sources and population in all official documents and directories for ten years © come. This is purely a business provosition. Which course promises the best returns in the shortest time? Suppose the Union Pucific depot proposition is voted down, what assurance have we of speedy re- lief by a rival bridge’ That bridge cannot be built and operated short of two years and the bridge may not be built for twenty years. Is it prudent or safe for Omaha to stand out and take her chances of growth by the natural process, without bonuses. SILVER BULLION CERTIFICATES. It is said that the secrctary of the treasury will recommend in his annual report thut the coinage of silver dollars be stopped, and that the treasury be au- thorizea to issue certificates against silver bullion. It is vot known upon what basis of value he would have such certificates issued and redeemed, that 15, whether they shouid represent the coinage or the market value of the bullion, but perhaps this is not a matter of very great importance, sinee for all the purposes of circulation the certificate would undor any circum- stances represent and have the pur- chasing power of a dollar. Among the advantages to be derived from issulng certificates against the bullion pur- chases of the government are the saving in the expenss of coinage and the reducad outlay for transportation. The idea of issuing silver bullion certificates is not new. It has besn advocated by Senator Stawart and others, and although not widely re- ceived with favor, even among silyer men, it is certainly worthy of being seriously considered. Why should the government continue to coin dollars thatdo not get into circulation, every one of which representsa tax on the people to the amount of the cost of 1ts coinage? It has been amply demon- strated that silver certificates are an acceptable form of currency. They enter Ireely into the circu- lation and are everywhere current on a parity with every other form of cur- rency. They represent the coined dol- lars in the treasury which are no better than bullion except in having the stamp of the government giving them a mon- etary function and value. The proba- bility is that they will never bo called for to redeem the certificates issued against them, so that they will remain in the treasury just as bullion would, though they rcpresent o loss to the people which an equal amount of bullion would not. If the people will have the coined dollars ouly to a very limited extent, preferring the cer- tificates, why continue the expensive policy of maintaining mints to turn out such dollars, only to be hoarded, when a bullion basis for certificates would be equally safe and equally acceptable? It has been suggested thatthe author- ity of the government to issue a paper currency based on bullion is question- able, but this is for the determination of congress, and undoubtedly if it should authorize such a currency its right to do so would never be called in question. The wisdom and expedi- ency of the plan being shown, the ques~ tion of authority need not be a matter of serious concern. The idea of issu- ing certificates against pullion, as a step in the direction of solving the sil- ver question, so far at least as this coun- try is concerned, merits careful consid- eration, and should receive the atten- tion of the silver convention which will meet in St. Louis next week. ] Tne vigor and activity of the real estate exchange promises to supply what the city has long needed, a repre- sentative body of citizens to vigilantly guard the interests of Omaha. The ap- pointment of a committee to look after local train service is a move in the right direction, There is no reason why people living within & radius of at least one hundred miles should not be afforded facilities for reaching Omaha,transacting businessand return- ing home the same day. Local train service is & source o! profit to the Union Pacific, and similar success would undoubtedly follow the runniog of local trains on the Omaha & 8t. Paul and the Missouri Pacific roads. The committee is a large and repre- sentative one. Its duties should not be confined to the one objeet for which it was appointed, but should include inquiry iuto the entire railroad problem and its bearing ob the com- mercial interests of the city. The trade of bouth Dakota appeals to Omaha for railroud relief, and the committee should be instrueted to investigate and report on the best means of closiog up the gaps n?d'-hringhw the new state into a close fofamercial union with this city, . THERE is no lack of aspirants in Ohio to the seat i 'fhe United States senato now held byVHenry B. Payne. At loast hall adozen more or less prominent domocrats hayp been named as possible sucoessors to Mr, Payne, and so far as we have observed only pne—Mr. John R. McLean,of the Cincinnati Enquirer ~has declingd; to allow himself to be regarded as a,candidate. Meanwhile, it is not entirely certain what Mr. Payne proposes to do. It has been understood that he would not ask a vindication from the legislature, perhaps regarding the re- sult of the election sufficient for that purpose, but there are influences both 1n Ohio and elsewhere which may in- duce him to stand for re-election, and should he do so itis not improbuble that he would be successful. Mr. Payne is nearly eighty years old, but the fact that ho has recently engaged in large building enterprises shows that he still has sufficient vitality to discharge the duties of a United States senator. THE resolutions of the First ward re- publican club, endorsing both the union depot and bridge bond propositions now before the people, are suggestive. The club recognizes no imaginary divisions of the city's interest, buv declares that every measure of progress should re- ceive the hearty support of all. Thisis the spirit which should animate all classes of our citizens. ‘TRE representatives of the four new states have formed an alliance for the common good. Their example is com- mendable, If representatives of all western states were to unite to secure needful legislation the domineering arrogance of the east would soon be- come a thing of the past. NEBRASKA captured the first prize for the largest and best exhibitof dairy products at the Chicago fat stock show. Thus does Nebraska churn her rivals and roll on to the front among agricul- tural states. lowa Will fteturn. Wheeling Intelligence. And Town! fowa will come back when a presiaent is to bo elected. RESHEDES S Has One Great Advantage. Ohieago Herald. A “dog pianist” is adverlised as one of the attractions of ‘a' London show. The dog pianist would .seem to be preferablo in some respocts to the: incessant amateur. It plays with its paws while the latter plays with no pause at all. Gosnel For the Bourbons. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, It the bourbons who are inclined to shout becauso the solid south was not broken in tho recent election will take an intelligent glance at the situation they will be silent. So long as the south is held solid the demo- crats cannot elact @ president. This is @ospel. —— A Lesson in Froverbs. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The republicans of Towa and Ohio’ all dwn bibles, of course; and it is to bs hopad they wili turn to Provervs, iv., 7, and read care- fully what is there sot down asif with dirget reference to their present situation: “Wisdom i8 the principal thing; therefore got wisdom; and with all thy wisdom get un- derstanding.” i A Now, Canadat Kearney Enterprise, The people of Brazil have banished the lust throne from the soil of the Americas. They have uncrowned a good old king in order to do it, but not even the virtues of Dom Pedoo IL. couid stand between democ- racy and_independence when tho time was ripe for the great consummation, The peo- ploof Canada should bo thoughtful this morning. They alone, of all the millions in the westorn hemisphore, represent the power of a throve. It is & foreiun throne, which is 8o much the worse. Has not the time come for Canada to join the great pro- cession of American republicst Let the At- lantic ocean divide the old world of yokes and thrones from tae mew world of unfot- tored democracies ! —— AUTUMN SUNBEAMS, New York Independent: apples, Yonkers Gazette: Tho swallow tail 18 oc- casionally soen in the pigeon cote. Rochester Post Express: A syndicate of cattlemen has a perfect right to water its stock. Merchant Traveler: “Mucilage trust been formed,” said Jags to Cags. ‘“Somebody’s going. to get stuck,” was the prediction that followed. Pittsburg Bulletin: Gus (pathetically)— “How I do suffer with hay fever. 1'm al- most dead!” Jack (heartlessly)--'Sneezy death,” Martha's Vineyard Herald: - Among the 1,060 convicts of a Pennsylvania state prison there ara only nmineteen mechunics, Young wman, learn a trade! Harper's Bazar: I saw a goblet today made of bone.” “Pshaw! Isaw atumbler made of flesh aud blood last night" “Where?” At the circus,” New York In’ebndent: Bessie was look- ing at a pictureof &he Pilgrim Fathers,when she suddenly asked her mamma, *Are those our aunt-sisters‘ (ancestor’s) and aunt- brothersf” /¢ Judge: Kentlicky Girl—Is everything all ready, Georgel , Lover—Yes; all the prepa- rations have bgen made. Kentucky Girl— Have futher aud the boys got their horses all saddled and, ready to chase us the mo- ment. we elopa? (Lover—I have arranged everything. Kentucky Girl.—Well, then, I suppose we've gokito run for it. Life: Mr. tidodheart (to old friend at & banquet) —8ay, £olonel, it's gewting late, Why don’t you make a speechi Shall I pro- pose @ toast foryou to— Colonel Silver- tongue (noted’“after dinuer speaker)—For ke, not yer. It will ruin my repu- The audience isn't half drunk Cut and dried— Time: Doctor (to Kentuckisn) — Yes, you're & pretty sick man, but there is hope for you yet. You waat to try a water cure. Bluegrass patient (feebly)—Never, Idon't want to take uny of these new-fangied pat- ent medicines. The remedies of nature are good enough for me. Give me whisky or give me death, i a—— Dynamite Exploded Under a Theater, InoNwoop, Mich., Nov, 19.—Three dyna- mite cartridges were exploded under the Aleazar theater at Hurley, Wis., last night. The axplgl:vfl‘mr; lg‘ placed uu; the null;i- g was but sl wmaged l.% audience of 400 was xm:(lll. n’f‘rf-“n& tempted wholesale assassination caused great excitement. There i1s no clue to the perpetrators. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Norden will have two hog buyers this winter. ‘The packing house at Niobrara began kill- ing last week. District court Is {n_session at Red Clond with a very large docket. ‘T'he wife of Hon. Henry St. Rayner, mem- ber of the last logislature, died at Sidney Monday. 1t is predicted that not less than $200,000 will be expended in public improvements at Beatrico next season. ‘The apple shipping season at Union closed Inst week after 3,508 barrels haa been sbipped, for which §4,675 was paid. An effort tostart a_billiard hall at Fair mont was met by & remonstrance circulated by the boys and girls of the town and the license was not granted. The father of Andrew Richardson, the little Crawford boy who was 80 badly hurt by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge near the B. & M. tunnel, has brought suit against the railroad company for $25,000 damagos, The students of the Genoa Indian school have raised the following the past season: Corn, 6,000 bushels; oats, 1,874; cabbage, 2,500 head; tomatoes, 300° bushels; twenty acres of broom corn, twenty acres of millet, 1,000 bushels of potatoes, ‘100 tons of hay, besides beots, melons, radishes and garden truck enough to koop the whole school. Tho arrest of a saloonkeeper for selling liguor to the Santee Indians caused the Nio- brara Pioneer to remark: “It has been held that the Santee Indians, because they were votors, had a porfeot right to drink whisky and get drunk like other citizens. ‘Tho United States law, probibiting the of whiskey to Indians, contemplated the danger resulting from it, and it is & question with many as to the right saloons have in this respect.” A wavg of robbers, headed by a man named George Bullock, raided the residence of Gardner Stevens, near Ragan, last Saturday night. Tho thieves first fired through tho windows and then broke open tho door, and placing a revolver av Stevens' head de- manded his money, The old man finally gave them $12, saying it was all he had, and the robhers departed, taking four horses be- longing to Stevens. A posse was started in pursuit, and if the men aro caught they will probably be lynched. 1o Items, A most successful merchants’ carnival was hold at Iowa City last week, Independence will have a new bank Janu- ary 1, with a capitel of $100,000. For selling liquor to little boys, John Bereman, of Lyons, has been fined $100. The Des Moines Ministorial association has resolved not to publish church notices in the Sunday morningt papers. Miss Georgia Smellie, a Cedar Rapids ste- nographer, was left $10,000 in the will of a rich relative who recently died in Chicago. A bee flew into John Elbert's ear at El- dora the other duy, but a doctor removed the little stinger before it had done any great damage. I, C. Briggs, who has served two and fa half years for larceny a; Auamosa, has been vardoned by the governor on condition vhat he abstain from intoxicating liquors. The mayor of Dubugue has vetoed three electric hight ordinances on the ground that the councii failea to pat in the necessary \feguards to protect the city. The council will at once amend them #s suggestea and adopt them again, Mrs. Lipman, of West Bend, was terribly burned by a kerosene lamp falling off a sew- ing mackine, at which she was at work, into her lap. Her clothing was a mass of flames in an iustant and but for prompt assistance she would have been burned to aeath. A. W. Jones, of Fort Dodge, met with a peculiar accident, which may result in his losing his eyesight. He piunged n red-hot spade into a barrel of water without noticing toat the implement had a hollow banale. The scalding steam rushed up through the handle, scalding his face and burning his eyes terribly. John Butler and Willie Berkholtz, the lat- ter only sixteen years of age, are held in $1,000 bail av Rock Rapids to await the action of the zrand jury on the charge of entering the room of Annie Johnsou and Tillie Dahl, two hotel waiter girls, and threatening them with instant aeath if they did not sub- mit to their wishes, The girls screamed for help and the landlord succeeded in hold- ing the young rascals until the arrival of tho officers. 3 The Two Dakotas. A Norwegian night school has been estab lished at Sioux Falls. Sleighing is better at Deadwood now than at any time last winter. The Seventh Day Adventists are holding their annual meeting at Parker. A dog playfully jumped on a little four- year-old child at Manchester and fractured the infant's arm. Plans have beon comploted for a new hotel at Hot Springs, to be built of white sand- stone and to cost $23,000, One hundred and fifty tons of hay and other property furnished food for a prairie fire west of Minnewaukan. The Danish Baptist church at Daneville, which was destroyed by fire last spring, has been rebuilt and was dedicated last Sunday. Miss Nellie Hodge, of Jamestown, will re- cover from an attempt to hight a fire with korosene. She is wiser, but not as hand- some as she used to be. A Swede named Otto Nolson was taken to the Yankton asylum from Lincoin county lasy week. He had been an inmate of an asylum in his native land and was thought to have been cured. ¥red Faller, of Armour, was thrown from his wagon one day last week and dragged at the heels of his horses a aistance of half a wmile. He sustained fractures of both legs and one urm, besides being seriously injured internally. _ As the resnlt of a twenty-one days’ hunt- ine wrip four Spearfish nimrods bagged four- teen blacktail deers, fifty-nine antelope, threc wolves, four silver-gray badgers and a bald eagle’ measuring six feet from tip 1o tip. A band of about three hundrea Sioux In- dians are killing off stock belonging to ranch- men along the Little Missouri river, a few miles south of Medora, They are also slaughtering antelone by the wholesale for their hides. The cattlemen have telegraphed to Washington reguesting that the redskins be removed from that locality, e ey BROOKLYN NAVY YARD. To be Made the Greatost Maritime Depot in the Country. There is a big scheme on foot to im- prove the Brooklyn navy yard, says a New York dispatch. Secretary of the Navy Tracy has now before him the re- port of a board of permanent improve- ment, which was forwarded to Wash- ington on Tuesday last. Rear Admiral Braim and Civil Engineers Asserson and Craven constitute the board., It is proposed to expend in improvements upon this piece of property $8,045,711, The work is to extend over a period of ten years. The board has an idea that the Brooklyn yard can be made the greatest maritime depot in the coun- try. Commodore White, chief of the bureaun of yards and docks, has ex- pressed his approval of the board’s recommendavion, There are some rec- ommendations of an experimental na- ture, and only the future will determine their wisdom. Some others, such as the addivional dry docks, wet ‘mnlul, ete., might perhaps, Commodore Whitesays, be omitted until the increased necessi- ties of the service demaud their con- struction, thus reducing the aggregate amount to less than 85,000,000, Twenty- four new buildings in all are proposed. These are for storehouses, workshops, construction and repairing of ships, sailors’ barracks, forging shops, quar- ters for commandant, ordnance machine shops and electric power. The barracks for the sailors are to accommodate 8,000 men, and take the place of the receiv- ing ship Vermont, which is nearly worn out. T'he work mapped out for the first year is to cost $1,083,607. The board thinks that st least $656,610 of this amount should be spent in that period, THE CAPITAL CITY GRIST Governor Thayer Appoints Deles gates to the Silver Convention. DISCUSSING THE COAL RATES. A Meeting at the Offios of the State Board of Transportation — The Reed Mucdor Trial—Oity Nows and Notes. 1020 P Streer, LixcoLy, Neb., Nov. 19. This morning Governor Thayer appointed the following namad gentlomen as delogates to the national silver convention, which meets at St. Louis on November 20, viz: John R. Clark, C. W. Mosher, A. J. Sawyoer, G. M, Lamberison and R. B. Graham, of Lincoln; E. Rosewater, William Wallace, Mr. Nash, Herman Kountzo, H. W. Yates, J. H. Millard and Willlam Livesoy, of Omaha; E, K. Valeatine, West Point; C. C, MeNish, Wisn J. Roch, Nelig Connor anaA. S Kournov; . Enisel, Holarege: J. D. Moore and H. W. Koenig, Grand Island: Henry C. Smith, Falls City; C. E. Adams, LiNcoLy Bureav or Tar Omana Ban, } 0 8. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the following gentlemen met at the ofice of the state board of transportation to discuss the rcll“C“fl‘ in J. conl rates asked for bv tho board, vi O. Phillippi, of the Missouri Pacifict E. Dolman, of the Rock Island; John B. Hawley and K. C. Moorehouso, of the Klk- horn; A. B. Smith and Marqueute and De- wees, of the B, & M.; J. A, Monroe, assist~ ant general manager, P. A. Warrock, assist- unt general freight agent, and W. B. Kelley, attorney for the Union Pacific. The Reed Murder Trial, “Tho trial of Richard Fitzsimmons, charged with the murder of Willlam Reed, at Wa- verly, on the evening of the 20th of March last, 8 in progress in the district court bo- fore Judge Chapman and a jury. Tho state rested_early this morring, and the defense was offerini testimony at a late hour this af- ternoon. It is hardly probable that the case will be given to tho jury to-night. The de- fenso 18 seeking to make justitiable homicide out of the case. John Suprema Court Proceedings. To-day's surpeme court proceedings were as follows: The following named gentlomen wore ad- mitted to practice: John C.Barnard and Homer C. Atwood, of Omaha. In Pomeroy vs White Lako Lumber com- pany, leave was siven defendant 10 file writ~ ten brief instanter. The following causes were argued and sub- mitted: Vinneage vs Nicolai, Pratt v8 Saw- yer, Johnson vs Chilson, Simons vs Sowards, Howell vs Hathaway, Davis vs Boone county, City N and Notes. Govervor Thayer is in receipt of a com- munication requosting his presence at the meeting of the governors of the different states and territories, which will be hela in Washington on the second Wednesday in December, 1889, for the purpose of urging upon congress the appropriation of asum suflicient to secure the erection of a suitable monument in Philadelphia commemorative of the declaration of independenco and of the first 100 years of the constitutional history of the United States. Louie Meyer returned to-day from Chi- cago, where he made a flying trip on busi- ness. The state convention of the Young Wo- man’s Christian association will meet in the First Congrogational church Thursaay morn- ing. A lurge attendunce is promised and much good is expected to result from this session, The county clerk has just finished sending out tho 400 certificates of election to the va- rious precinct officers elected in this county at the late election. Robort N. Schenck was appointed this morning to be administrator of the estate of Jacob Grompers, who committed suicide near Princeton one day last week. Colonel Fred M. Dorrington, of Chadron, was in the city 10-day. Dr. McNeill Smith, of the New English colony at Wellfleet, in Lincoln county, is at the Capital hotel. George A, Stabler, one of the clerks at the Capital hotel, will be” married Wednesday afterncon to Miss Miunie E. Moore, a prom- inent society lady of this city. “Not another girl gets away from me,"” said Police Judge Houston this morning, after reading the criticism of *‘A Citizen” on the escape of Miss Dusky Winsor. *‘Here- after, girls will be treated just the same as men, If they are arrested and brought iato court they will have to give bonds for their appearance at the time of trial or go to jail.”’ M, Wittenburg, & prominent merchant of Sutton, was in tho city this morning looking after some parties who burglarized his store last Friday might. He found them in the city jail as vags, and labeled Frauk Howard, Louis Webber, James O'Hrien and James Wilson. They will taken to Sutton for trial. M. Goldberg, 8 Jewish poddlor, was ar- rested this morning on complaint of Mrs, Bailey, of 407 South Tenth stroet, cuarged with stealing §14.70 from her, He was searched, but the money was not found. A charge of peddling without a license was lodged azainst him, pending developments, Mayor Graham has suspended OMcer Ire- land, ot the police force, for rifteen days, on the charges preferred by Marshal Carder. i g MILLIONS CARELESSLY HANDLED How the Precions Metals are Trans- ported From the Montana Mines. Repeated experiences with the ups and J‘owns ol mining make men callous, snys a Granite (Mont.) letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. So, too, lon, fawmiliarty with the sight of gold ung silver galore breeds indifference. When the train from Phillipsburg arrived at Drummond, on the main line, yesterday morning, the expressman unloaded from the car thirty big bars of metal. ey rolled them out of the car door upon an open truck, trundled the truck down the platform, and left it standing where it would be convenient for the east-bound train a couple of hourslater. Waiting travelors, a8 they strollod aloag, stopped to look &t the big bars. Some of the more curious turned them over, “*hefted” them, and speculated on the value. The thirty bars were the semi-weekly shipment from ‘“‘the greatest mine in the world,” They might have been so many pigs of lead if one muzm judge from LLG manner in which they were handled and left exposed. But whew they were turned over there was asilver [ gleam where the precious metal was solidified at the bottom of the mould. Avnd when a knife or key was steuck against tho side of oune of the bars the sharp clear ring of the cart-wheel doi- lar was given forth. Each one of those bars contained $1,500 in silver, and the truck as it stood upon the platform held $15,000. Bt the silver was safe enough, just as certain to reach Granite moun- tain_stockholders in the next monthly dividends as if it had been inclosed in express safes, or as if X, Bledler, the still surviving and famous Montana pro- tector of Wells, Fargo & Cowmpany’s treasure-box of the early days, stood guard with his Winchester. The bars of bullion were *‘hefted” and *‘rung” until the depot loiterers tired of the sport and they thea were left alone in in their glory. in lhe‘niun’eurlng period the bankefs of Helena thought nothing of sending $1,000,000 worth of gold dust by the freighting wagons across the country 200 miles to Fort Benton for shipment by river. They intrusted the treasure 10 scquaintances who chanced to be making the trip, exdeted no bond, and felt no anxiety. through safoly, although the boundary of the British dominions is tomptingly noar part of the route to Fort Benton. Banker Hershtield, of Helena, tells an interesting story of A man by whom he once sent $100.000 in gold dust from Helena. The dust was put in the pook= ots of a jacket, which was worn next to the body. 'fhe man who carried the trensare was only a casual acquaintance of the banker. Twoor threo days out of Helena the stage by which the trip was being made, met with an accident, Itrolled down a hillside, and the treas- ure carrier was badly hurt. THe was taken to a cabin, and there ho lay with the dust still fastened about him, posi- tively refusing to let it be removed until Mr, Hershfield could be seut for and the trast could be returned to his hands, Men may not be more honest in Montana than elsewhere, but itis a fact that thefts of bullion have been of rare occurren R, CHARGE OF THE SIX HUNDRED, Some New Polnts Given by a Sur- vivor. The charge of the Light Brigade, called “The Six Hundred,” took place October 25, 1854, and is still a house~ hold memory with us, though thirty~ five yoars have slipped by, und I have been nsked by many to place on record this anniversary some occurrences other than mere galloping, cutting, thrusting, and strong language, all of which are very similar on like ocousions and are often told in prose and verse, writes a Balakiava survivor to the Lon- don Standard. Short and to the point is best suited to what is required of me. So to begin my story, Maude’s horse artillery, with me second in command, opened fire at day- light and kept in action until its am- munition wasexhausted, wheu it retired afow yards down hill' aud remained there for awhile, screened from the Russian shot and shell, with the hope of giving confidence to some wavering Turks. Maude was seriously wounded by ashell bursting in his horse, and there were also several casualtios among the officers, men, horses and gun wheels. Some of our field batteries soon arrived and continued the cennon- ade. In the course of an hour or so our two brigades of cavalry and horse artillery formed columns near the heights of the plateau of Sebastopol, when suddenly o line of cavalry, with supports in col- amn, probubly 5,000, poured down the grass slopes toward Balaklava,and were gioriously defeated by our heavy brig- ade of cavalry under General Scarlett. In the pause that followed I deemed it desirable to learn what the Russians were doing, and as the horse I had ridden was wounded by the splinter of o shell, I mounted a baggago pony and rode up the grass slope to near the crest of the now famed valley, where I teth- ored him to a tent peg,and crept on through the long grass until my tele- scope cautioned: Beware! The brushwood on the hills opposite was full of guns, and down the valley were troops by thousands. Captain Charteris, one of Lord Lucan’s aids-de- camp, now rode by, but ns he did nov see me I hailed him with the informa- tion, when he replied: ‘‘The Light brignde s ordered to attack;” and while we were speaking it hove in sight. advancing and deploying at the trot and canter, There was not time for warning, so I ran to my pony, and, getting back to the gunsas fast as ho could carry me, brought them up at full speed and placed them over the ridge, where best able to aid the remaius of the Six Hundred 1n their inevitable re- treat. At this time Lord Cardigan reined up and told me what had happened, at the same time pointing toa long rent in his cherry overails made by a Cossack lancer, who had otherwise missed his aim. Others rode or ran up to the guns. Among the last was Captain Godfrey Morgan, Seventeenth lancers now Lord Tredegar, whose horse had been killed and his helnet lost. How- ever, he came to me, sword in hand, and, speaking as cool 'as he would on arade, said: *‘'Is not this an awful {:usiness, Shakspear? Whatshall I do?” My roply was: “Quick; jump on a gun limber and go to the rear with us, or to the front if we go into action, when you may help fight a gun.” Weo must not forget the volley from the Ninety-third Highlanders, which emptied many Russian saddles near the entrance to the village of Balaklava; nor the attack on the Russian artillery in the brushwood by the French cavalry on white norszs. I can see them now, 80 conspicuous were they on the hill. So keen 18 memory formed on the bat- tle field that even now I fancy I see Nolan and his horse lying dead, like muny others whose names I did not know. Of my friend Charteris I have a re- markable foreshadowing of fate tore- late. On the previous evening he and I, while taking a guict ride, saw signs of a fight on the morrow, when he spoke very zloomily of it being his last. My saying, “*Well, we havz been under five together pretty often, and yet here we are again,” did not cheer him. *No; it would be hislast.” A round shot killed him directly we parted on the ridge bo- fore named. As the spot was debatable ground, my gunners buried him then ana there, e The Pine Tree State. Five hundred million feet of logs ave | cut in the stute of Maine annually. The name, Pine Tree State, was ac quired years ago, but Spruce Tree State would now be more appropriate. Although vhere ure millions of pino yet standing, the palmly days of that tree, 1 & commercial sense, long since de- parted, and the spruce, prolific and Bardy, is the ‘main stay of the lumbor trade. Whatover the case may be in other states Maine has nothing 10 fear from the denudati of her uplands. The spruce is a prolific tree, renewing its growth in a few years, thus filling up the gaps made by the lumberman’s axe, and soon producing a second growth or aftermath. Many townships on the Penobscot have lumbered over twice and some three times, while in Hancock county there is more timber standing to-day than there was twenty years 8go. Board of Public Works. At the meeting of the board of publio works yesterday only two bids wero re- coived for placing permanent sidewalks on lot 1, block 151, and ot 4, block 150, Ed J, Brennan's bid was $2,130 for each job, and James & P, Fox bid §8,555 for each job, The lans were 8o widely different that the mem- Rcrl of the board postponed action until the next regular meetiog on Friday, The following reserves were allowed J, 13, Swith & Company for paving: Eighteenth street, from Nicholas to Cuming. $ 798 61 The following Murphy for paving: Vinton street, from Sixteeath to Eighteonth $1,120 26 Twentieth strect, from Pierce to Center. .. 2,008 09 88 20 645 16 rves were sllowed Hugh Nicnolas street, The millions went « 18