Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 10, 1889, Page 4

i Tt RN o VBTN N JARGT 17 1850 - ke e — - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE TUESDAY, THE DAILY BEE, “E. ROSEWATER, Bditor. [ —— = —— 1 PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. OF SUBSCRIPTION ay, One Year TRHM Pally and Sun Fix Jiomiha Three Months, Bunday Hee, Ome Year ..., Weekly Bee, One Year with Premium OFFICES, Omana, Res Tutiding. Chicago Office, 7 Rookery Bullding New York, Hooms 14 and 15 Tribune Build top, Wasliington. No. 613 Fourteenth Streot Council Blufts, No. 12 Pearl Stroo Lincoin, 1029 P Styoat, Bouth Omaha, Corner N and 2ith Streets, CORRESPONDENCR. Al communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor- 181 Department, BUSINESS LETTERS. All Lnsiness lettors and remittances should he addressed to The Beo Publishing Company, Omaha., Drafts, checks and postoilice orders £ be made payablo to the order of the company, " Ine Beo on the Trains. 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State of Nebraska, | County of Dougfas, | George I Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Doses and says that he'ls secretary of The Heo Publishing Company, that the actual averags daily circulation of Tii DAILY BER for the month of Dacembor, 158, 183%) coptes: for January, 155, 18,574 coples; for February, 1589, 18008 copies: for March, 18, 15,854 cople for April, 1840, 18750 coples:for’ May, 188, 18,099 copiva; for June, 180, 18538 coples; for July, 183 3 coples; 1or August, 1880, 15, 51 coples: for September, 189, IS710_copies for October 184, 18,007 coples; for November, 1880, 10.310 coples ' GEORGE I CHUCK. fore me and subscribed in my Prescnce tis $ith- day of November, A (Seal.] N.P. Fit —_—_— KING KALAKAUA of the Sandwich felands, it is well known, has long been on the downward rond. Now he is ac- cused of having written a play. TrE Minnesota natural gas well will not thaw out the coolness between St. Paul and Minneapolis, nor effect the industrious dispensers of gas in both cities. THE Winona road is humping toward Omaha at a lively rate. The certainty of facilities for crossing the river re- moves all doubt of the early completion of the road. — THE movement for an advance 1n the salaries of United States judges is a commendable one. Five thousand a year is only moderate compensation for first class legal taiont. — LEYBOURN'S mammoth Catholic bank scheme was as short-lived as Count Metkicwicz’s gigantic Chinese mint. The latter squeezed his patrons, but Leybourn’s bait failed to get a nibble. TALK about robbing the government! Broatch draws a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars a year us member of the Missouri river commission without rendering the slightest service for the money. IF 17 is not too late, Tir BEE suggests that the coming prohibition convention be held in Council Bluffs instead of Omaha. No spot in the west can furnish more interesting object lessons on the effectiveness of prohibition than the metropolis of western Iowa. “GIvVE me free ore,” exclaims the president of the Pennsylvania steel company, in an interview, “‘and I will sell pig iron 1n Liverpool and steel rails in London.” There is little doubt that the request will be heeded. Pennsyl- vania rurely fails to get what she goes after. —_— LINCOLN has been shaken to its foundation by the discovery that the article which is mainly used on the side is “liquid death.” The product of the local wells is alive with wigglers, rank smells and other graveyard pro- moters, There is no immediate danger that the stuff will produce an internal commotion. ——— A7 took Carlisie a month to prepare the committees of the last congress. Speaker Reed performed the same work for the present congress in seven days, The incident illustrates the difference between democratic snail pace and re- publican speed, and indicates the en- ergy and dispatch which will charac- terize the business of the session. SpETemT——— BRroATen striles s Macbethian atti- tude and cries out: ‘“‘Lay on Macduff and damned be he who first cries hold, enough!” The attitude is decidedly pat and truthful, with this difference. Macbeth invited Banquo to his feast and cBuspired to murder him before tho “solomn supper” began. Broatch in- vited Lanivger to his feast and con- ‘spired to murder him afterward. From the whole range of Shakespeare’s char- aoters, Broatch eould not have sclected .one that fits him as effectively as the _treacherous, bloodstained Macbeth, RAILROAD managers express grave Jears that the legislatures of the two Dakotas will adopt radical measures regulating the powers and duties of common carriers. This is the usual ery when the people demand fair treat- ment, For years the railroads refused to listen to the producers. 'They rode rough-shodover the country,encouraged and supported elevator monopolies and exacted their pound of flesh without justice or mercy. Now thas the people have taken the reins in hand, the cor- porations beg fur quarter. 'They sowed the wind; let them reap vhe whirlwind, HOSTILITY TO FEDERAL COURTS. The smont of the attorney gen eral of the United States that in por- tionsof the country there has been shown hostility to the federal courts and officers as to seriously inter- fere with the administration of justice, presents a matter of the very gravest importance. For the most part this hostility has been developed in election casus, where federal prosecuting attor- noys prosecuted ngainst persons who had violated the eloction laws, but it has not been confined to this class of cases. The attorney general says: But it must not be supposed that hostility to the United States courts and United States officers 18 confined to election mutters. On the contrary, the records of the depart ment of justice show that in some districts the civil proceedings of these courts and criminal prosecutions wholly disconnected with the electivo franchise eannot proceed, because the lives of r ry witnesses are in such danger that it woula bo simply in- human to enforce their attendancs and the Riviug of their testimony; while the evidence is abundant that in certatn localities no oc- cupation is 8o dangerous as a faithful per- formance of duty by Unitad States marshals, Of course such lawlessness canhot bo toler- oted. In every caso the instructions to prosecute havo been coupled with the as- surance that no means within the power of this department will o spared to protect of- ficers and witnesses in the discharge of their duties, and to bring to punishment every man who illegally attempts to thwart such prosecutions. Certainly this is a matter should deeply interest every citizen who desires the conservatih of law and the constitutional exercise of the national authority. Great as 1s the wrong involved 1n depriving citizons of their political rights, itis not a more serious matter than that of interfering with and defeating the administration of justice in the federal courts, and the toleration of such interference any- where, under whatever circumstances, is to invite the growth of a more [for- midable danger to the perpetuity of our institutions than could arise from any other cause. If anywhers in this land justice is compelled to abandon the pursuit of those who violate the laws because the lives of the officers of the law and thuse who are necessary to the prosecution of the criminals will be imperilled if they perform their duty, there is a place where the power of the government cannot bo carried too far nor eserted too rigor- ously for the removal of the evil and every loyal and law-respecting citizen would sustain the mostextreme measure found necessary to protect the courts and the officers acting under them in the discharge of their proper functions, It cannot be necessary to indicate in at portion of the country the out- rages noted by the attorney genoral have oceurred, but no matter where the spirivof hostility to federal courts and officers of justice exists, and makes itself felt in a way to contravene the enforcement of the laws and defeat justice, it is the obvious duty of the government, and absolutely necessary to the maintenance of a general public respect for the laws, to crush out such hostility by the use, if necessary, of every power at the command of the government. Whatever diversity of opinion there may be as to the wisdom and expediency of a federal election law to protect all cities in the free choice of their representatives there will be none regarding the overshadowing nocessity of so guarding the national courts and those acting under their authority and subject to their commands that the ad- ministration of justice shall everywhere and at all times be free from all check or obstruction. such which THE HOUSE COMMIITEES. There is no more difficult or import- ant task devolved on the speaker of the house of representatives than that of making up the standing committees. The claims of individuals, the welfare of party and of politics, the iuterests of legislation, the precedents, alt have to be taken into consideration. Most speakers have found this task both laborious and embarrassing, and it has sometimes happened that a month or more has been consumed in completing it, as was the case with Mr. Carlisle in appointing the committeesof the fiftieth ngress. Speaker Reed hns sccomp- lished the most important part of this work with exceptional promptuess, the leading committees being alveady an- ndunced. The selection: for the heads of these committees are the gent!emen whose appointment hud been expected. Mr. McKinley of Ohio is chairman of the ways and means committee, with Mr. Burrows of Michigan in second place, and these gentlemen will have among their democratic associntes Mr. Carlisle of Kentucky and Mr, Mills of Texns. The republican membership cf the ways and means committee is not reassuring for a tariff bill that will re- vise the existing sthedule in the direc- tion of lower duties and an enlarged free list to the extent desiréd by a large portion of the republican party, and justified by present conditions, The attitude of Mr, McKinlay, who will be the controlling spirit among the repub- lican members of the committee, is well known te be that of pronounced oppo- sition to any conslderable reductions in tariff duties. It was understood that he did not approve of many of the changes reducing duties in the senate bill of the last congress, and his tariff spceches in Ohio during the late campaign showed that he was not in sympathy with the reform sentiment in his own party, He is distinctively the champion, and perhaps the ablest in the country, of the high protective policy. It1s pos- sible, however, that the position of the administration regarding the tariff, as well as of a large body of republicans in New England and the west, may lead Mr. McKinley to somewhat modify his views, and to agree to such a revision of the tariff as will prune it of such duties as arc no longer necessary to the pro- tection of domestic industries, but serve only to enable manufacturers to exact an unwarrantable and unjust tribute from the people. Mr. Cannon of Illinois 18 chairman of the committee on appropriations, a po- sition of honor and responsibility which that gentleman will undoubtedly fill with great ability. While Mr. Ran- dall was at the head of this committee he exercised a greater power over the couwrse of legislation, at particular junctures, than any other ome man in the house, and so objectionable did his tactics become to his own party that an effort was mado at the opening of the Fiftieth con- gress, by changing the rules, to greatly reduce his power to interfere with the course of legislation. There will prob- ably be no occasion for the republicans to find a like fault with Mr. Cannon, but the country may safely expect of him a vigilant and judicious guardian- ship of the public treasury. Mr. Hen- derson of JTowa is a member of this committee, and will take proper care of western interests which it may be called upon to consider. Mr. Kelley of Pennsylvania, the ‘‘father of the house,” is given merited recognition as chairman of the committee on manu- fActures, n position doubtless entirely agreeable to him as not being especially arduous, and yet of dignity ana impc tance. Mr. Reed has followed precedent in providing for his competitors in the speakership contest, and the result will be very gencrally approved by republi- cans. 1THE S 1R, The state board of agriculture, at its annual meeting January 21, will decide where the state fair shall be held for the cnsuing five years, There promises to be six competitors, Omuha, Lincoln, Hastings, Kearney, Grand Island and Columbus. Lincoln has good grounds and buildings, and her competitors for the fuir must be prepared to guarantee equally favorable facilitios and accom- modations, This would involve an ex- penditure of mnot less than one hundred and fifty thou Omaba should be able to readily i this sum, and morc if necessary, in order to secure the great advantage that would be derived from having the fair here. Itought to be obvious to our business men that such an annual at- traction to the whole people of Ne- braska and to many of those of con ous states would most certainly assure a handsome return on an expenditure of one hundred avd fifty or two hundred thousand dol- lars. Nothing draws so lurgely nsa state fair,and the great majority of those who attend it unite business with pleas- ure. If Omaha seriously desires to secure th at attract'on prompt ne- tiou is nece There is but little more than month for the work of securing subscriptions, and while that ought to be time enough, if our business men take a proper and practical inter- est in the matter, none of it should be wasted. Committees of the Douglas county agricultural society, the Omuha fair association, and the board of trade presented the matter to a meet- ing of the board last night. It was de- cided to malke a bid of two hundred thousand dollars to secure the fair. It is not doubted that there is a strong sentiment throughout the state favorable to Omaha, and if this city manifests a liberal spirit its chances of securing the fair should be first rate. But the competition to overcome is formidable, and Omaha can succeed only by supporting her superior cluims, as tho metropolis of the state, with a generous financial backing promptly provided. SIAY AT HOME. The Seattle correspondent of THe BEE condenses a volume of truth in the words, ‘‘Nebraskans, stay at home.” The new state of Washington possesses a variety of advantages for the-home soeker, as well as opportunities for the speculator, but every branch of busi- ness, every avenue of trade and labor is crowded by the multitudes gathered there by land and town lot boomers during the last two years. Wages are lower than in Nebraska, rents high and the cost of living greater. A man with a home and a position in Nebraska changes a permanency for an uncer- tainty and sacrifices five yeurs of toil by going to the aorthwest. The talk of the great value of the tim- ber land in Washington is all bosh. A farm in Nebraska is worth a dozen tim- ber claims in that country. All land adjacent to railvoads is taken up, so that the land hunter must plunge into the wilderness and pay a stiff price, in most cases exceeding the cost of im- vroved farm land in Nebraska, With- out a railvoad and a sawmill the timber is worthless, Even withthese facilities the profit is not great. In most cases the timber must be cut down and de- stroyed and the stumps uprooted, in- volying years of labor, and no little ex- pense. The mineral and agricultural wealth i3 unquestionably great, but it' is the worst of folly to exchange a farm or town lot in Nebraska for the fleeting vrospect of a competency in Washington. — BROATCH AND HIS GANG. Mayor Broutch’s latest scroed 15 truly. ‘o marvelous tale”—a collection of brazen falsehoods calculated to befog the issue and cover up the treachery of himself and his hired assassios on clec- tion day. He dared not defend the churges of THE BEE, but reverts to street gossip to mitigate his infamy. No amount ot self-praise and hypo- eritical pretense can wipe out the ugly fact that Broutch’s carcer as mayor. from begiuning to end, has been one of unceasing duplicity. A double-dealer by nature and training, he has paraded the upper wards with a sanctimonious visage, to hoodwink the law and order elements, while he was cheek-by-jowl with the lawless classes of the lower wards, He was all things to all men, provided he could use them to further the political fortunes of W. J. Broatch. Broatch waves aside as'a trifle the fact that he sanctioned the payment of & month’s salary to Tom Cummings,with- out warrant of law. This is doubtiess a specimen of the ‘“backbone” about which he prates. It is paralleled by his brazen conduct in fovcing on the pay- roll of the eity his chosen political pets, The power to create new offices is alone vested in the city couuwcil, but the mayor has ignored this express authority and created the office of clerk of the street commissioner, with & salary of three dollars per day, Placing H, L. Seward, an elastic tool, in that position, the mayor displayed his *‘backbone” to the comptroller and ordered that official to place Seward’s DECEMBER 10. 1880, name on the payroll without the authority of, he oty couneil, Broatch th God in one breath that Lininge not elected mayor, and shows his'@yflocrisy in another by confessing thd® 18 voted the straight republican ticket and forced his coach- man to do likewise Is that the act of an honest man loes hé not by his acts prove himself g linr and double-dealor? While he openly professed alleginnce to the republican ticket, ho had secretly scattered his hirelings over the city to work and Vote against himselfand his coachman! Mr. Broatch refers to private matters that have no bearing on the question. Tie BEE might if so disposed furnish a few chapters on his connection with certain disorderly houses; but let that We propose to hold up Broatch to the scorn of honest men on his record an official, and his duplicity as a poli- tician. Palaver and falsehood and con- ceit cannot alter the stubborn fact that he and bis gang outraged the ballot box in an attempt to continue him- self in power, and after being squarely heaten 10 the convention, notwithstand- ing efforts to bribe delegates, he conspived with tho leaders of the “*Solid Twenty-eight” to defeat the men they had publicly pledged themselves to support. They accepted democratic money to betray tho republican pa With treachery on their lips and malice in thewr hearts, they accepted Mr. Lin- inger's hospitality, while hours before they had perfected their plans to slaughter him at the polls. These are the cold facts haunt Broatch ment day. pass. which will and his gung till judg- JUDGE ANDERSON of Utah, who re- cently decided that a mormon alien had no rights which courts were bound to respect, is a democrat of the Towa vin- tage. This fact renders the decision all the more startling as it affects a large number of democratic votes and conflicts with the cardinal principle that guilt must be established befora convie- tion. Tre opponents of Gladstone fre- quently assert that the *‘grand old mwan” is in his dotage and this seems to be the strongest argument they can bring agniust the statesmaan. But from the way he has been “hustling avound” recently it is evident that he never has his dotage with him. Ax editor in Kunsas is accusod of hay- ing stolen the greater part of his Thanksgiving editorial from the bible, The plagiavism has, just - been discov- ered. It came yery near going unde- tected. od of advertising, marching throtgh| Africa, may be o little labovious§ byb it pays. Stanley has sold his forghedding book to a Lon- don firm for two hupdred thousand dol- TuE latest CoLORADO furnishes a duplicate of tho congressional forger and thief. Ir- rigation is at a mighiy low stage when the Centennial state cannot match the product of any séetion of the country. CONGRESSIONAL talk about beet cul- ture is timely: but effective mensures should Le taken to hold the beats after they are raised. Remember Silcott. NEWs coMM T California has a judge with a fine sense of justice. Ho indniged m a drunken spree recoutly and when sober fined himself He was fortunate in haviog the money with him or he no would no doubt have sent him- self up. Russian physicians assert that cholera is in the mr of that ompire, and. an outbreak of the dreaded scourge 18- feared throughout Europe. It will be well for the large cities in this country to look after the ccndition of their sewers, Mr. McGinty, the first baby hippotamus torn in this country, aied after a short o istence in Now Yorik city. He was evi- deutly afraid of being enrolled among the 400 and 50 hastened to fall down to the bot- tom of the great unknown whenco he came: A few years ago Southern California was enthusiastic over the prospect of ostrich farming, but the industry thus far has turned out very much like Colonel Sellers' schemes, ‘Tho “miliions in it” have mostly been on tho wrong side of the account, Af- rica chorges an export duty of $00 on each bird and $125 on eaci egg, so that it costs about $1,000 to zet an ostrich to this country, Under such conditions it will require a tinancial genius of high order to make the business successful. Mrs, John W. Mackay has won her suit for libel against the Manchester Examiner and Times, which accused her of being a washerwoman before she married the mill- lionuire. It would certainly have been no disgrace if she had been engaged in that us ful occupation, providing she did her ‘wash- ing well. The obsoquies of Dr, Lewis Meisberger, who died m Buffalo, N. Y., last week, in- augurated o new aeparture in funeral rites, 1y a codicil to his will, 8300 from s estate was devoted to & feast of champagne and oystors. A free concert was also provided and over two hundred people enjoyed the banquet. Everythiog went off as merrily as a marriage bell and apparently death was robbed of its sting 1 this 1nstance, Execution by electricity is evidently to be- come an institution in, New York. A brick building, thirty by thirty and twenty feet high is now In coursé of construction msido the walls of Sing Siu, to be used exclu- sively for electrical executions, Criminals are to be congratulated: They can now avail themselves of all the modern improvements and pass into thehereafter with neatne: and aispateh, gy Jus 3 ; Blaine, Philadelpl@ Record (Dem.) We may not ha¥d much adwiration for Secretary Blaine ities as a statesman, but we cannot cradit for one moment the idle and malicious dhtimation that the state department in Washington is restrained by British financial inliirests from regogniziog the Republic of Brazil. The Republic of Brazil is in no hurry for recognition, and will not suffer from delay. It can afford to wait until other nations stall have suthentic and official information that the republic exists, Mr. Kennan's Gre Detroit Free Press The Philadelphia philanthrovists who de sire the United States to impertineutly inter pose between Russia and her Siberian pris- oners way spare themselves the trouble. The force of puolic opinion can cross a frontier with no fear of espionage and 1t has pene- trated to the very beart of Russia, So we learn that Mr. Koonan's wonderful work in t Work. the exposure of the cruelties of Russian con- viet Iifo has had its direct effect and that the most autocratic monarch of the western world has boen forcod to ameliorate condi- tions that have eoxisted for generations. Printers’ ink nover had a greater trinmph, — Active Animalonle. Lincoln Call, A sample of Lincoln water taken trom an O street well, left in thia oftica by the heaith officer, last night at ¥ o'clock, walked off this morning at 2:30. - mancipation of Utah, Salt Lake Tribuns, After Fobruary next we trust that no man in Salt Lake will bo found mean enough to make roference to the past of viliainy and Blood. A new erais dawning, but it dawns not save under a liberal sun ana in the full glory of true Americanism, Let tho barna- cles and reactionists take notico; their night of darknoss is pust; with the dawn of the day of hborty thoy musthunt the gloom o vos with tho bats and tho owis, no more to afflict this fair land with their uncanny and dospicable mothods, a blight to progress, an insult to patriotism, and the scorn of honost men. Tho liberal torohes will light the way to the emancipa- tion of Utah. Th — Railroad Fallacies, San Franciseo Chronfele. Certain newspapers which are very friond- 1y to the Central Pacitic railroad are insist- ing that the corporation cannot pay its debts, and that if payment bo insisted upon tho road must be abandoned or the money to pay the debt be dragged out of the poople of Cal- ifornia by an increase in the rates of fares and froights. Neither of these positions is tenable. The past history of the Central Pacific railroad domonstrates that 1t has been a moncy-making road, and thare is no reason why it should be less profitable now, when the state has increased 1n wealth and population, than it was eight or ten yoars ago. As everybody knows, tho Southern Pacific road was built out of the profits of the Central Pacific; the quadrilateral accumulated immense pri- vate fortunes; a number of ancillary com- panies—both railroad and construction com- panies—were effriched: and enormous sums of money were spent in ways whicn will not bear the light of investigation: and all this was done out of the earnings of the Central Pacific. Is it not obvious, then, that if the Central Pacific were given an even chance; if traflic were not studiously diverted from it; if its rolling stock and equipments were kopt up properly; and if there were nnt a de- terunued and persistent effort to wreck 1t, it would be a paying property, and that, t00, without any increase in rates? Sebume sl 114 Up Omaha. i (Mo.) Avalanc There is no use i shipping stock and grain 500 miles when as good a market can be had at less than one-fourth the distance, This is especially true when considered with the fact that the building up of markets at Omaba and Kansas City meauns an ncrease in the value of the land bere and the general prosverity of tiis portion of the country. These cities already possess very good facili- ties, and with the improvements that will cowme with increased trade they will each equal Chicagoin all respects, They may not at first be uble to pay as good prices as that market, but the saving in transporta- tion, time and the many other good features of the short run will much more than: make up the difference. We believe too, that eventually the markets of Kansas City or Omaha, or both, will rule as high as those of Chicago. Oue great drawback to the states west of the Mississippi river, especially the territory on both sides of the Missouri, is the great distance to good grain and cattle markets, Nst only has such a state of affairs proved disastrous because of the high freight rates to the distant market, but the 10ss of time, the njury to stock by the long haul, and the many other disadvantages en- tailed have been such as to badly cripple the nterests of both the farmer and the stock- meon. This state of affairs should no longer be allowed to exist, and we believe it to bo within the power of the people to bring about a change, Letan intelligent and sys- tematic effort be made by our farmers and shippers to build up Kansas City and Owaha. Wateh the market at these places and when- over you can do 8s well by shipping there, don’t fail to do so. 1n the meantime propo- sitions looking to continued snipments to these places will certainly meet with a re- sponse from enterprising men there. Let us build up Kansas City and Omaha. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, An offort is being made to organize a camp of Sons of Veterans at Ceutral City. The corner stone of the Washington county court house will be laid at Blair De- cember 13 with fitting ceremonies. The Webster county Woman’s Christian Temperance union will hoid its fourth an- nual meeting av Cowles, Decembeor 11 and 12. ‘The first carload of eggs everstipped from Wakefield to New York went out recently, The value of the consignment 18 placed ut 2,000, “The Nelson creamery has shipped over one huodred thousand pounds of butter 0 east- ern marlets ths season, besides supplying- the local trade, York is to have a new national bank, with a capital stock of §100,000, mostiy taken by home capitalists, 1t will be known as the “Cnird Nativnal Baok of York, F. M. Barney, an Elm Creek young man, has invented a telegraph transwitter which holds letters exactly the samo as those made by the operator sending the message, ‘The merchants of Stratton havo organized a stock company for the purpose of buying grain and waking the town the best grain market in tho southwestern part of tho state, Two engines were almost completoly de- molished and oue fireman badly bruised by a collision of freight trains at Humbold, ‘The cause of wie accident was the failure of an enzineer to obey orders. W. E. Russell, a young man living av Gilead, carried off the maiden of his choice frow before an irate father's eyes nud mar. ried her. Kor thus bearding the lion 1 b den the young man was arrested and fined § Miss Auna Shafer, liviug near Cnadron, was thrown from a horse, dragged o long distauce, and kicked and trampled upon, but she will recover. Hogs were to blame for tie ucedent, frightening the animal sho was ridiug und causing it to run away. Some weeks ago Frank L. Hickenbotham of ¥Friend was treated to & charivari by u party of enthusiastic acquaintances who, e alleges, put him into # water tank in order t compel him to cash up, He has just commenced action in_ the districu court against the parties for $5,000 damages, - Says the Fairfiela Herald: The alliance sold a lot of corn at Edgar last week, deliv- erod on track, at 18 ceuts per bushel, but after ten cars had heen loaded (hey were no- tifled that the road was blocked, and hence the delivery direct by the alllance people was vefused. ‘e alliance people will promptly uppeal to the commissioners and claim heavy dawmages® as at the prices they were realizing the 10ss to the averago farmer will be fa0m §100 to $200, or many thousands in the county, whicn, if added to the scant profits of the farm, where it pelongs, would enable many farwers to lift mortga; live like white men and American citizens. The wrong will be righted if there is any justice or defonse for the oppressed left in Lhe law books of the nation. Wyoming and Colorado. The streat railway at Aspen, Col., is com- pleted and the cars have started. S. 8. Burton of Triuidad, €ol, has fled the town, leaving many mourhing creditors, It1s expected that the water works at Douglas, Wyo.,, will be completed in ten days. Coa! is delivered at Sundance, Wyo., for 0 a ton, with aliboral discount to hoavy purchasers. The Grooley, pump works ‘are not able to keep up with their orders, and their facilitios will be increased shor At the rato of incroaso in the past fow years the wool crop of Colorado will soon exceod in value the output of her silver minos, Tuo losses caused by tho fire in the Wyoming capitol have beon adjusted and tho building will be ready for occupancy whon the legislature moots. Yam potatocs around Stow: Col., do not yield many to the nill, but for Sizo they take the cake. A well known farmer says that some of his vines only had ono potato, bnt that it was so large that he t and ‘Towner, had to quarter it so as to bake it The Laramie, Wyo., eity council has passed an ordinance allowing gamblers .to operate on the ground floor. ~ Herctofore the fostive faro bank and seductive roulette table have becn confined to the sccond stories, while pokor games have been under the ban of the authorities, A man named Johnson was shot and fatal- ly wounded by & companion, while hunting a fow miles north of Ouray, Col. Tho men were looking for decr aud the victim of the unfortunate mistake was taken by his com: panion for an animal and received a well directed shot. Wyoming lins & pig baron whoso ostate is near Buffalo, in Johnson county. He is the only man who ever had any success in the hog business in the territory and, of course, i erman, He has just slaughtered eighty hogs averagiog 400 pounds each, They were fattened on alfalfa, While the prisoners in the county jail at Evanston were hauling coal from the out- side, a shoep thief named Pugm break for liberty. 7The deputy s| at him withput effect, but aftor a long chasa the officer recaptured his man on the river bottoms, where he ad hidden in the bushes William R. Allen, who skipped from Pue- blo, Col., with §1,300 belonging to Mr. Lup, his employer, has been eaptured, McCarthy, when'advised of his tlight, y his minions on the trail and Deputy 'Sk Le Claire found Allen at Coolidge, Kan., whero ho was sailing under the name of William Henn ‘While a boy named Mills was with a hunt- ing party in 4, canyon about twelve miles southeast of Sundance, Wyo., ho wi sud- denly gravbed by a bear that was hiding under a rock. One arm and a log woro broken and his nose and part of his face bit- ten off. Ho managed to draw a hunting knife and stabbed the brute, when the bear went away and left him. T.e boy may re- cover, A writer in an eastern papor, who went to the bottom of the Grand - canon of the Colo~ rado last winter, says: *‘[ have baen all through the Rockies from Montanato Central America and know what a chasm s, but; the sight of that abyss took my breath hway. From the top tothe bottom it is fully 6000 feet. Over a mile below you c# ses the river tearing through the gorge, but not a sound can be heard, it isso far ay From one bank to the other it is apparently not over a quarter of a mile, but as a matter of fact it1s fully nineteen miles.” Mention of the town of Bothwell, Carbon county, Wyoming, is tho ccho of memory. A month ago the place was a “future great’ with 1ts little buuch of houses, general store and postoflice, with & newspaper next door. Lots were on the murket and the land com- pany advertised it the ea dwelling esp cially on the petroleum prospects. Today the coyote lobes down the main street of Bothwell, for not a soul now li in the town. Everyone has emigrated. but the town site men will give the thing another whirl in the spring. The immediate coun- try is not without material resources and the Pacific Short Line hus a line surveyed through the valley. et oy THE TORCH AND THE BULLET. Joff Davis' First Speech as President Hostile to the North, Chicago Sunday Tribune, Avout rebruary 14, 1861, Mr. Davis started from Jackson, Miss. for Montgomery. While waiting at Stevenson, Ala., some of the citizens called on hun, Ho stepped out of the car to the plat‘orm of the station and made an extemporaneous specch. This speech was reported at the time by M Rosewater, now connected with Tue Odxama BEeE, but at that time telegraph operator and press agent at Stevenson, The following 1s an extract from Mr, Davis’ remarks: England will recognize us and a_glorious future is before us. The grass will grow in northern cities where pavements have been worn off by the tread of commerce. We will carry the war where 1t is_easy to advance, where food for eword and torch awaits our armies in the densely populated cities. The enemy may come and spoil aur crops, but we can raise them as before; they caunot rear again the cities which took years of industry aud millions of money to build. We are now determined to maintain our position and maie all who oppose us smell southorn powder and feel soushern steel. Mr. Rosewater, telegraphed the speech in full to the Associated press and it was printed in the northern papers the following day. It created quits a sensation, as it out- lined the policy Mr, Davis intondea to pur- sue and was the first intimation he had given of what his plans were, Iu 1875, fourteen years later, General John A.J. Creswell, who had been postmaster general under President tirant, tin the politi- cal combat in Maryland, charged Mr. Davis with the sentimients expressed in this speech, which had been printed in several histories of the rebellion, Oune of the prominent dem- ocratic leaders denied, on behalf of Mr. Davis, that any such language had ever been used by him, and Mr. Davis himself in a card vublished in one of the southern papers about two weeks later, denied ever having wmade any speech at the time and place men- tioned, or ever having said in substance what was attributed to him, In reply to this the paper with which Mr. Rosewater is con- nected replied editorially, giving the names of the members of the committes that waited on Mr, Davis and all the circumstances con- nected wilh his passage through Stevenson. Mr. Rosewater says thut as ho kept a diary at the time, and as the speech was reported to tne Associated (press within thirty min- utes after the aadress was delivered, itis hardly possible therecould have been any mistake made. PATTI COM AGAILN, Incidents of the Groat Singer' rivil in New York Oity, Patti, “over fair and ever young,” to use the language of hor favorite poet, entered New Yor'k again to begin another serics of farewell appearances, says the New York Times. With her was Signor Nicolini, the perennial Manfrod, two Mexican dogs anc sowme servants, An attempt was made to ia- duce the singer to leave the Tuetonie, which brought her over, for the steamboat Laura M. Starin while in the upper bay. The at- wempt appeared at the time to have boen an aceidental faiture, but later Mme, Patti took a reporter for The Times into her contidence aud explained that the failure was due Lo her hunger. “I was so hungry,” she declared, “that | was afraid to see the reporters then lest they should see how much 1 could eat.” But this difidence did not coutinue throughout the day, for the prima douna held @ reception in the evening at the Windsor hotel and, with Marcus Meyer as waster of ceremonies, related wany interesting particu- lars about herself. While she chatted she amused berself by stroking the fur of Ricchi, the tiny dog _which Mra. Diaz, wife of the president of Mexico, gave Lier, Patti in appearance has changed to a very markable degree. Americans have been in the habit of thinking of the great singe s & petite brunotie, with jet black hair, eyes and eycbrows, dark and richly colored com- plexion. ‘he Patti of this year is altogether i different looking ludy. Her hair bas taken on itself the color which gleams in the tresses of Titiau's Venuses; it is truo that her eyes are as black and as sparkiing as ever, that ber brows are as darg as of yore, but bier complexion has become that of a bloride, milk-white, with a touch of the strawberry-red, and it seems that with this transmutation of brunette iuto blonde there has come a langour in ner wanner better be- fitting her new self than that dash and sparkle which used to charm all who came within the influence of her personality. The explanation of Lue cuange, accordis to Mme. Patti's self, is that 18 weary ol wearirg blonde wigs upoun the 0. “You #ee,” shie explained, 'l am obli 0 bave Ar- 1ght hair as Jullet And in many other ohar- actors, Whatshould be more simple than that the change shouid be made ouce for al and that I should be rid of constant chang: ingl" Of course Mme. Patti was glad o gt nok to Amerion, she always is, and she is going to appoar in roles in which' sho has never sung before here. The one which sho has chosen this timo is “Lakme,” the ox- quisite work of Delibos and an_opera which 1s remarkably woll suited to a display of hor voice. When sho was asked whetlier 8he would appear with Tamagno sho replied in the negative. I do not sing in his oporas,” she adaed. “Thoy are tho heroic works. No, I shall” deal with the oporas that have boen inmy repertory for so long, including *Romeo and Juliet! and ‘Lakme,’ " Mme. Patti rolatod many of in France, Sp and Mox- onos Ayres, Montey ico and related how recontly sho had. in obedience to the entreaty of Guonod, gono to Paris to sing Juliet twice, but was com- polled to appoar ten times, making a trip to London between each poerformance in order to fulfiifhor engagements thore. During her last’ tour in Sonth America Mmo. Patti recoived eithor £,000 a perform- ance, with a percentage of the receipts, or an_assured €,000 a night. On her present tour sho will re moro than §5,000 for each porformance. ~ For thirty performances in Bucnos Ayres sho roceived $180,000, Since sho has heen here—appearing the lust time in the Metropolitan opera liouso in May, 1887 —she has been very hard at work sine- ing in concerts in the larger cities of Great Britain and the continent, ving for a coneert programme—usually two numbors— £700 or about §,500. Porhaps it1s becauso of these modest additions to hor wealth that she has added extensively to her casket of jewels, which Signor Nicolini guards with the most jealous care and usually carries in a sachel, and that she has built a beautiful littlo theatre as an addition to Crawg-y-N where she can assomble “a hundrod or two of my friends.” This theatre is to be opened soon dfter Mme. Patti’'s return home, and sho has hopes that Henry Irving will appear there when tho curtain is first drawn up. TN OPINIONS OF JEFF DAVIS, Blinde1 by Ambition. Philadelphia Public Ledger., Jefferson Davis had it within his power n 1861 to have aone a riceless and almost vital service to his country; but heallowed his sel- fish ambition to blina him and to allure him away from loyalty, patriotism, honor and duty. He was at the parting of the ways in January, 1861, *and was not man enough to turn to the right; and so A single turn, into the wrong has given His name a doubt to all tho winds of Heaven, Took His Stand With Traitors. North American. But the recollection of his perfidy must never fade. Ho deliberately chose to take no risk of standing with Arnold and Burr, and he must be hield to the consquences. It is no plensuro to turn the sinister traits of a man’s character to the light. But the prac- tice of converting the funeral pallintoa mantlo of oblivion for the defects and erimos of a public man is not to be tolerated. The press must reform its methods s regards the dead whose lives enter iuto history. Below the Herole Standard, St. Low's Globe-Dimocrat. It is not to be doubted that when Jeffer- son Davis was captured he w trying to escape from the country, under tho impres- sion that if caught be would be hanged. In other words, 1t is certain that when the col- lapse of the confederacy came he did not wait to set nis followers an example of manly submission to the inovitable, and to share with thom the sorrow and privation of tho situation, but fled from them as fast as possible, caring only for his personal safety. If they choso to forgive him for thus deserting them, very well; but the fact. remains, nevertheless, that his conduct fell far below the heroic standard, Called an Able Man. New York Evening Post. Nobody could have done more than Davis did to give success to the cause that was doomed at the outset to fall before superior force. It follows that he was one of the ablest men of his time, for it was by no stroke of chance that he was chosen to guide a masterful race through a strugglo for na- tional existence. He was selected bocause he was believed by good judges and with practical unanimity to be their best equipped representative and strongest man, Tarred With Treason. Cleveland Leader. The name of Jofferson Davis will always bo promiuent in Awerican history, but the odium surrounding it will augment as civil- 1zation, eauality and human rights advanco, Time can bring no changes that can efface the foul blot of treason from his name. A Picturesque Keminiscence. Detroit Froo Press. To the vast mass of the American people, south as well as north, he ceased long since tw be anything but a more or less pictur- esque remniscence. So far as he has had any influence upon this later time, it has been an obstructive one. But even as an obstructionist his influence has not boen felt seriously enough to make his death in any sense a relief. It is simply unimportant in all its respects excopt thbse personal ones vhich make every death important within a certain radius, A Monument of kol St. Louis Globe-Democrat, ‘The survassing misfortune of his life was his escape from the gallows at the close of the war. Had he been hanged at that time he might bave died with some hope of being esteemed in the future as a hero and a mar- tyr. But when the government spared him and left him to stand as the living monument. of hus owa folly and disgrace, ho forfeited all chance of such a compeusation. KFor the past quarter of a century he has lived merely to keep the country rominded of the fact that be sought to dissolve the union for the purpose of perpetuating slavery. A Man Without a Country. Chicago Tribune, When Davis visited England, as he did,nos long after his discharge from Fortress Mon- roe, he was virtually a man without a coun= try, since there was no recognized nation to which he could appeal for protection as & en. Mississippi could not give him a passport or interfers to protect his rights when abroad. An enemy of Awmerican navonality and a~ partisan of state sover- eigaty, denying American nationality, Jef- ferson Davis survived many years as a oiti- zen of no nation and practically & man with- out a country. e His Disabilities Hemoved, Philadelphia Record, Jeflerson Davis' disabilities in this world have been removed by death. He has gone to settle his account before a tribunal where @ just balance will be held between what he did with the approval of bis conscience and what he did ia disregard of conscience in the great part he was called vpon to play in the affairs of his country. 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