Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:; THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12, i889, THE DAILY BEE " B ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF S8UBSCRIPTION nd Sunday, One Yenr hs, One Year .. ... . Ono Year with Premium OFFICES, Iding, , 47 Rookery Tuliding Hooms 14 and 15 Trivane Build- Omaln, Bes I Chicago O New York, Fourtoenth Street, Pear] Street. . Washington. No Council Blufts, No. Lincoin, (=0 P Sueet, ¢ Bouth Omaba, Corner N and %th Streets, CORRESPONDE All communications torial matter should be ad¢ fal Department, BUSINESS LETTERS. A1l Lusiness letters and remittances should e addressed to The Bee Pubiishing Company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postofice oraers 16 be made payable o the order of the company, ‘The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors #ge liuflding Farnam and Seves ——e e Ine Bee on the There §s 1o for a fajlure to get Tar BEp on the trains, Al newsaealers have been noti- fied 1o carry & full supnly. Iravelers who want Tk Briiand can’t get i€ on trains where other # are carried are roquested to no- (R to news and adl- ed to the Editor. particular to give in all cases full information as to date, railway and number of train. Give us your name, not for publication or un- THE DAILY 8K Sworn Statement of Circalation, Etate ot Nobraskn, 0% County of Doujglas, — ( Georpe ' 13, Tzschuck, wecretary of The Bes F ubliching Company, does solemnly swear that thie ctual circulution of Tre DAILY BEE for tho ‘week ending December 7, 1840, w Average. Eworn 1o heforo me Presence thus 1l day ot Dec 3 (Beal,] P, FEI Notary Pubiic. Blate of Nebraska, | o County of Douglas, {° orge B, Tzechuck, bemg duly sworn, do- poses and rays that he'ls secrotary of The Bee Fublishing Company, that the aciual averags daily circulation of Tie DALY Big for the month of December, 188, 15.2% copies; for January, 1589, 16,674 copies:' for Fobruary, 1585, 38096 coples: for March, 1, 14,854 coples: £ April, 18, r' May, 1880, 800 copies; fe B8, 18- 0 copies; vember, E( K. Sworn o before me and snbscribed in my presence thus dth day of November, A oal. MONTANA promises to become a per- manent state of political donbt. —— Tie deadly electric wires continue roasting unsuspecting linemen in New York. The managers propose to bury the opposition as well as the wires, WiiLe Omaha is shouting for rail- roud connection with the North, Kan- v quietly slips into southern Ne- th a railroad to divert trafiic to the south. Tur: proposed rogue’s gallery de- ‘merves encouragement. The wvictures of Broatch and the solid twenty-cight would muke a handsorme and interesting collection to start wi * Tk objection of the prohibitionists to the confirmation of Judge Brewer will not hold water in the senate. A ibrief social session in the cloak room will produce a unanimous decision in “his favor. AT this distance it looks as though the credit of Colorado is suffering from golloping consumption. The ‘‘sani- tarium of the world" 1s developing into & large sized cemetery with all modern conveniences for disputching vietims. « ———— ~ No oNE supposes for an instant that a railroad will spend money building . branches 1n a territory the trade of which is absolutely controlled by the “company. Omaha must demonstrate her ability to build an independent line 10 Dukota before existing roads will come to her relief. ACCORDING to the Chicago Thibune, General Attornoy Thurston of the Union Pacilic thinks there now exists a sort of honeymoon of harmony between Ne- ‘braska and the railroads. But the con- duct of the corporations must be more ~eircumspect than in the past or the bridegroom will promptly institute di- voree proceedings. — THE new tariff on traffic between Omaha and Nebraska points removes the discriminations which opgrated to .the disndvantage of this city. With - rates based on the sum of the two locals, - Omaha jobbers are in position to com- ~mand and hold their natural trade ter- ritory and compete successfully with Chieago and other shipping points. ' » 'TALK is cheap, but it tukes money to build railroads. 1f the energy and breath wasted in discussing plans and making fruitiess appeals, were con- verted into vigorous demands, backed by a determined spirit, the railroad " gaps between Omaha and South Dakota would disappear in less than a year. ‘What we want is more action and less words. —— OMAHA’S commercinl prospects were never brighter and more encouraging than at the present moment, yet constant vigilance, energy and push care nocessary to keep pace with the growth and development of the country., Our business men must not rest with victories won. They must exvand, New and inviting commercial ields are opering on all sides, and Omaha must be prepaved, with goods aud prices, to command its share of increusing trade, —— THERE is probably no good reason for any present alarm because milk is served to the people of Omaha without being inspected. Doubtless the milk- men of this city are not generally dis- posed to dangerously adulterate their milk, though some of them unquestion- . ably dilute it. But still there should be inspection of all milk sold, both for sauitary reusons and in order that the consumer shall be honestly dealt with, The matter is one for the attention of the council,and a thorough system of milk iespection by a compe- tent chemist should be iwstituted in the near future, OMAHA AND THE BLACK HILLS. *The press and people of the Black Hills are justly indignant over the false and uncalled-for assertions of a corre- spondent of the World-Herald of this city, Under the eloak of cheap wit, the writer ridicules the enterprise and pro- gressive spirit of the people. There were no cut stone mansions on the hill- rides to excite his nesthetic taste, nnd from the car windows at Whitewood he made the astounding discovery that Deadwood was: A collection of vacant and dilapidated shanties and coutagious discases, wita noth- ing useful to speak of—and yet it retains a name, a dot on the map, forty-five saloons, an editor and an ambition. Trade seoms to be dull in Deadwood this fall—and there is another compliment to the imperious ferui- tude of those who remain there. Jack rab- bits is the only commodity apparent on the streets, and general rolaxation has reachod h & point that the leading citizens gather 1 the saloons and shake dice for fun Comitg from a n yor which pro- tends to be friendly to the people of the Black Hills, which has sought their patronage and favor, the above and many similar paragraphs clearly prove that the manugers of the concern care a8 little for truth as for the upbuilding of the commercinl interests of Omaha. How can our merchants establish and maintain friendly business relations with a people who are so indecently as- saulted and their growth and develop- ment assailed by an all d Omaha newspaper? Even if there was a scin- tilla of truth in the assertions no hon- orable publisher is justified in erying down a people who have wrosted west- ern Dakota from the grasp of the savage and have braved the hardships of isola- tion for over ten years to build homes and cities and to develop the resources of the country. What mattersit if they have no cut stone mansions on the hil side to tickle the fancy of msthetic pil- grims? A maun’s home is his castle, no mattor what may be itsexternal appear- ance. Beit frame, brick or granite, it does not increase or diminish the credit that is justly due to the sturdy men who risked the dangers inseparable from pioneer life and carvied civ tion to the Black Hills, It is natural that the people of Dea wood should indignantly denounce the author of the article as well as the pub- lisher. The depth of vhis feeling is shown by the following letter received by an Omaha jobver : OFFICE OF & WarDMAN, HARDWARE s Deavwoon, Dak., Dec. 4, 1850 Sir: With this mail we forward you copy of Black Hills Times, containing an extract from ao article in the World- Herald of your city, defaming our city and blackmuiling our interests and resources; and the same paper, under date of December 3, contains another scurrilous article relative to Load City and the Homestake mine. Now, we will not stand any such lying about our city, ro- sources and interests, and if Omaha wants any of our business they hud better shut off this tying execrescence on humanity. Peetiaps Omaha don’t want the Black Hills trade. Yours very traly. Avnes & WARDMAN, What do our merchants think of a paper which has the effrontery to seek their patronage at home while injuring their business abrond? Tie BEE voices the sentiments of our people when it declares that Omaha cherishes feclings of friendship and ad- miration for the people of the Black Hills. No reasonable man can hold our business men responsible for the vapor- ings of journalistic kids, without prin- ciple or discretion, and whose lack of judgment and experience has caused this city irreparable injury, The Dead- ‘wood people should consider the source. OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBOR. There is a good deal of political com- motion, though not of a conspicuously demonstrative nature, in the Dominion of Canada. There is a general feeling that a change must come sooner or Iater in the political relations of Can- ada, but there isa wide diversity of views as to what is most de- sirable, and upon the problem thus presented there is very oarnest and geueral controversy. There are three alternatives, imperial fed- eration, annexation with the United States, or Cavadian independence. One of these, the most intelligent observers think, will be accomplished within a generation. As to the first, a vigorous effort is making to effect its consummation by the imperial federation league estab- lished 1n England five years ago, and of which there are branches in nearly every Canadian city. But its progress is extremely slow, if it is making any advance at all, Itis not in harmony with the spirit of the time, and is especially repugnant to the young men who are interesting vhemselves in politics, The aspiration of this class very generally is for independence, rather than for)fa more binding allegiance to the empire. Their pride of nationality is not essen- tially British, but Canadian, aad they believe there is a future of power and prosperity for Canada which will be most surely and speedily attained when she shall have put on the national garb and assumed a place among the nations of the earth, The term **British colo- nists” is hateful to them and the sense of dependence upon the will of the imperial government is a con- stant reproach, As to annexation with the United States, the number favoring it is probably less than of those who support the alternative of imperial fed- eration. There is reason to believe that the movement in favor of closer trade relations with this country is growing, but only & small proportian of those who support this movement ave favorable to anuexation. The establishment of more intimate commercial intercourse be- tween the United States and Canada might in time produce a general de- sire among the peopie of the latter for @ political counection, butat present the annexation sentiment is confined to # few localities and a small body of the people, and it may be doubted if it is making avy progress. The attorney general for Nova Scotia said 10 a recent address, that if he read aright the signsol the times ampong the young men, “‘the time would come when Canada would put ou the vational Rgurb end it would not be uecessary for oue of her sous to say more than ‘Iam a Cava- dian,’” This is undoubtedly the most provounced tendency awmong that por- tion of the Canadian people which is coming into the domination ol the politics of the country, and it is certain 1o extend from year to year under the irresistible influence of the time until it becomes strong enough to achieve Caunadian independence TUE PLUNDERED STATESMEN. The congressmen who lost thoir money by the defaleation of Sileott, the cashicr of the sergeant-at-nrms of the last house of representatives, will not lack public sympathy. But they are not likely to be satisfied with this. In- deed some of them have taken very positive ground that they should be re- imbursed from the public treasury, and an effort to secure their money in this way is to bs expected. Doubt- less to some of them the loss is a havdship, and such can hardly be soverely censured for ndopt- ing auy sort of technicality in order to satisfy their conscience in asking that the government shall make good their loss. But the roquest should not be ac- ceded to. Public sentiment would not tolerate asalary grab of this kind. The simple fact is that so far as the govern- ment is concerned it has paid the sal- aries of the plundered congross- men and thoy have no further claim against it. The dofaulting cashier was not an employe of the gov- oernment, but of an officer of conge: and by practice an agent of congre men whose salarvies he drew from the treasury through their authorization. 1f they failed to require adequate pre- cautions and safeguards against being robbed they must suffer the conse- quences of their neglect. Theve would be palpable injustice in ,roquiring the people to pay twice for their services, and it would be a mighty bad procedent al It is hardly probable that they will obtain any relief in this way. The defalcation is likely to have a good result in reforming the methods which made it possible. Hon. A. U. Wyman, ex-treasurer of the Umited States, says that as long ago as 1875 it was recommended that the system in vogzue be abandoned and a disbursing ofticer appointed to attend to paying members of congress, but the suggestion received little attention. It may do so now. Obviously the present plan is un- business | and unsafe, and it is also, as explained by Mr. Wyman, more or less embarrassing to the United States treasurer, who pays the members of congress upon the certificate of the speaker accompanied by their recoipts. The senate has a disbursing officer, and there is no reason why the house should ve. Very likely it will make such on. Butat any rate the plun- dered congressmen have no claim for their lost money against the public treasury. SENATOR CHANDLER of New Hamp- shire has introduced a bill to amend the revised statutes of the United States upon the election laws. The measure, which is snid to have been drafted by General Chalmers of Mississippi, 1s de- signed te carvy out the suggestion of the president that congress should pro- vide for strengthening and extending the law relating to the election of rep- resentatives in congress, rather than to give the government the whole direc- tion and control of such elections which unquestionably the constitution gives cougress power to do. The funda- mental principle of the bill is that it provides for application to the courts at the outset to have afairelectior are doubts as to the probable fairness of it, 1nstead of resorting to a contesg after election, asis now done. It provides that the United States court shall ap- point officers, upon the recommendation of the respective candidates for con- gress, or of their party repre- sentatives, each to have an egual number, to hold the elections and to make returns to the courts, The clerk of the court is to make a canvass of the returns in the presence of the candidates, who can except to his re- port, and the exception is to be decided by the judge, which official will issue the certificate of election. This is only to be done in any congressional district where ten voters from each county or district will make affidavit that they be- lieve the election will not be fairly held by the state officers, and petition that the election be held by the Unitea Siates. The measure certainly appears sufliciently moderate in its pro- visions, and so fair that no one who de- sires iree and fair elections for repre- sentatives in congress can reasonably - object to it. It would operate, however, to place such elections in a large num- ber of the congress districts of the south under the directign of the federal courts, and it will therefore undoubt~ edly be strongly opposed from that section. — THE city council proposes to put a stop to unauthorized exmenditures of public money. No officer of the city should be permitted to incur expense without the sanction of the proper au- thority. The notice served on Chiel Seavey applies with equal force toother and higher officers. By what authority did the strect commissioner employ an army of workingmen a few days before the republican primaries? Who is re- sponsible for the sudden increase in the force at that time,and what was the neccssity? These questions can be readily answered by tne political need of the time, but the council owes it to the taxpayers to rebuke this scan- dalous abuse of power by refusing to pay the bills incurred, Let those in whose interest the men were employed foot the bills, And while the council is in the reform mood, iv might profitably inquire into the employment of a elerk for the street commissioner without the ‘“‘advice and coosent of the coun- cil,” as provided by law; who fixed the salary at three dollars per day, and by what authority the eity comptroller placed the name of the clerk ou the payroll? If the council is sincere in its veforw efforts, friendships should not be considered. Every department of the city government should be over- hauled. v of the big chiefs of the Chey- eane agency in Dakota are ou the way 0 Washington for & talk with the president, The purpose of the pilgrim- age is to socurg pledges that no further reductions will be made in the reserva- tions and that they shell be given un- disturbed pdssbssion of their “‘great hunting grounds.” Under existing law and treatiey’ the rights of the Chey- ennes are fully protected. No land can be taken from. ithem without their con- sent. Tho dags of the force argument are past. If, however, the governraent enforces the severalty plan, giving each man, woman utid child a tarm, there is 10 good reason why the government should not place the remainder on the market and devote the proceeds to the ed ucation of the young. THE prompt and unanimous con firma~ tion of Judge Groft as commissioner of the general land office was a deserved compliment to a zealous and conscien- tious officinl. The senate spurned the sourrilons mouthings of a madman, who, if justice had not miscarried, would now be decorated with Mosher’s stripes and steltered by the NEWS COMMENS, 1t is quite plain that Silcott aid congress a foo worthy of his steal, Dom Pedro says ho will go back to Brazil when the people call him. Too late. Paoplo don’t call after a successtal blulf, Several cities are making an attempt to in- fuse a martial spirit into the public schools, As it is well to begin at the beginning in such things it is horoby sugcosted that all kindergartens be supplied with Krupp guns. To a Chicago reporter goneral R. A. Alger explained his scheme for n special census of the soldiers thus: I want to see on file in ‘Waskington the personal war record of every man who eniisted, showing when he enlisted, every battle, skirmish, or engagement of any kind that he was in.” Progress 1s the characteristic of the ago. The first revolt by female daavicts on record took place in the Kansas penitentiary at Leavonworth the other day. They throw the husband of the matron of the institution to the ground and fatally wounded him. Here is another gleam of hope for Susan B. It 18 reported that Ben 13utler may become the prohibition candidate for governor of Massachusetts next year. The rumor is not confirmed but appears plausible. Ben is growing old and the probibition party is the ouly one to which hs has notbsion; He can bardly wish to die with his record thus incomplete. The Eeonomite socioty on the banks of the Ohio river in Penusylvania is an organi- zation which has for many years had a rula strictly forbidding members to marry. Timo has thus cut down their members and pued up their dollars until great wealth stares each one in the faces. To avoid tis evil the feasibility of revurmung to tho {nstitution of marriage 1n order to increase their popul: tion is now undef consideration in the so- cioty. As nearly all the mombers are quite aged their faith foust be very strong. Boscobel, the home of the late Rev. H. W. Beecher, at Pegkskill-on-the-Hudson, has just been sold toa New Yorker for $i5,000. The house alone cost 000 aud altogether Mr. Beecher expended about $200,000 on the property.” The mansion is supplicd with iras, electric bells, elegant bath rooms, @ billiard hall, all the modern conveniences. Some- body must have made a good bargain, or a boom in the wroug direction is going on in that locality. Tho New York World says gloomily that there isnousein asking coagress for the fair, as that body will grant nothing it can withhold to the meotropolis. “I'hus is nardly in accordauce with the facts. New York lias for many years occupied the position of u wendicant and has received mauy gifts from congress, Iut as to the fair, only the brave deserve it. There is now a prospact that the negotia- tions for the Cherokee strip will be brought 10 & closo in & few days. Thecommissioners are finding in Bushy Head and his colleagues diplomats and finsaciers worthy of their steel. In 4 communication to the commission the Cherokoe statesmen emphatically lay down the law in the matter, and declare among other things that *“1t is not business- Iike for the United States to settle our lands with boomers until e have been pad for them.” It 1s thought the land will bo of- fered to the government ut 83 per acre sua that the commission will refuse the offer. ity not find STATE JOTTINGS, Nebraska. Grand Island expects to occupy its new city hall by January 1. A chime of bells has been ordered for the Catholi¢c church at Atkinson. The first session of the Sioux County Teachers' association will be held at Harri- son January £ and 3. The American bank at Alliance will bo re- organized under the national banking law with & paid up capital of §50,000. A canal is being dug at Wauneta for the purpose of filling a natural basiu near town with water from the F'renchman river. York has had another failure, the jeweiry stock of Wes Fisher having been taken to satisfy the claims of two of the local banks, A Red Willow county justice of the peace refused to entertain & motiou made by an at- torney because no one volunteered to sec- ond it. ‘The farmers’ co-operative association at Mernn has been reorganized, and hereafter stock will be bought only from members of the organization., Carl Mueller, & Grand Island drink dis- muwr, is missing from bis accustomed Ls and the sheriff has closed his saloon, Mueller leaves debls smounting wo $9,000, Bill Thompson, ma individual who has been systomatically robbing the people of Carleton, was piaced under arrest snd a miscellaneous assortment, of stolen property has been recoverea. Bill was lLiberatea on the promise 1o leave the countryy Wh)e lowering A. B, Loose's drug store in Hartington ths building fell forward into toe street, piling the stock and fixtures into an inextricable mass, David Kvaus, who was beneuth the building at the time of the accident, escaped uninjured by throwing Limself into a depressiou i the ground. The loss is estimated at $1,500, The stockmen of nortuwestern Nabraska met last week at flyannis and- effected an organization to be known as the Northwest- ero Stock Growers' association. “The object of the association is to advance the interests of stock growers and dealers in live stock of all kinds within said territory, and for the protection of the same against frauds and swindlers, Aowa ttem. There are sever cases of malignant diph- theria in one family st Fort Dodge. Citizens of Clurénce and vicinity shipped three carloads of supplies to the Dakota des- titute last week. A fourteon-year-old Marshalltown boy chopped off a thumb with a butcher knife while trying 10 cut & brick. Burglars cleaned out a saloon at Clinton the other night as clear us could huve been done by a prohibition constable, ‘The nine-months-old chiid of H, P. Jen- sen of New Hartiord was choked to death by a nutshell which it picked up off the floor and attempted to swallow, While attending the Murphy temperance meetng ot Cedar Fulls Mrs. Johu Johuson, aged eighty years, was suddenly attacked m)m heart diseaso and died in herdaughter's The nine-monthe-old child of Mr. ana Mra. Charles Spirock of Elkhorn township, Web- sler county, was found lying de: in its crib Saturday worning. The ohiid had not been ailing in auy wanner, wod 1t 1s thought that its death was a result of suffocation caused by the pillows, 8. 8. Winall of Dubugue has received the yetoran's jowel fssued by the soversign lodge of Odd Follows to those who have boen in the order twenty-five He was in. itinted at Galena thirty-four years ago and is n past grand master and past patriarch. The jewel ts the first received in Dubuane and the third in Towa. - STRENGTH OF THE CHINESE ARMY Theoretically itis a Million Men—fis- tory and Organization, With regard to the military organi- zation and resources of China much might be written, but to summarize the chief facts it may be said that the mili- tary organization on paper is only slightly less elaborate than the civil ad- ministration, and that the emperor con- trols forces of nearly 1,000,000 armed men—only, toa large degree, the arms are out of date and the men untrained, says the London Times. Although ovents have compelled the authovities to show greater activity,and to incrense the number of troops by the formation of fresh corps, such as Li Hung Chang's trained regiments and th sion of the army remaius unchan and goes back to the date of the chu conquest.when it became ne rganize the permanent fo empitre, wwe then dividod into three separ composed of the races of which thoy belonged nehu, Mongol and Chinese. The Manchus num: 678 companies of 100 men each, or noarly seventy thousand fighting men. The Mongols furnish about hty thoa- sand men; and the two combined give what has gen been called the Tartar army. Chinese or Green Plag ariny numbers between six hun- dred thousand and seven hundred thou- sand men, but no attempt has yet been ize this force for modern . China is strong in numbers, even with vespect to her ‘army, which has ways been delegated to an inferior vozition in her community, priding 1t- self on the pre-emincunce of the edu- cated civilian, but she is lameatably deficient in organization. Of late years strenuous efforts have been made to render efficient thoso por- tions of the Chinese army which are entrusted with duties that are consid- ered of exceptional importance. The army of Li Hung Chang, garrisoning the metropolitan province of Pechihli, has for twent, ars been subjected to a stricter discipline than the rest. caused ms much by Li’s experience of war, gained agninst the Taeping rebels in co-operation with General Gordon, as the desire 1o save the capital. his force, known as the model corps or Black Flag army, numbers about fifty thousand = men, and is intrusted with the special duty of garvisoning Port Arthur, the forts at Taku, and on the Peiho and Tientsin. If China possesses such a thing as an eflicient corps d’armee it ic to be found in this for which is mainly recruited from the Chinese population. The men are well armed, and there are many foreign instructors, among whom Ger- mans are the most numerous. The late General Prjeval was skeptical of the military value of even this force, but other and equally comnetent critics en- tertain no doubt that it is a fairly el- ficient body of vroops, and that the work to be done—namely, the defense of forts is peculia suited to them. The son of Pekin is still com- posed exclusively of the Tartar or Ban- ner army. The Pekin field force is al- ways commanded by a Manchu of high rank, and latteriy it uuder the per- sonal orders of Prince Chun himself. The organization of this force is back- ward, and only feeble attempts have been made to bring wp its armameut to the exigencies of modern war. On the other hana, the raw material is the best in China. It consists of the elite of the Manchu and Mongol Banners, men of fine physique, who, unlike the Chinese, believe that the sword is better than the pew and that cou superior to chi- cane. 1f their training were taken seriously in hund China would possess in her northern province an army which could safeguard Pekin against any conceivable invasion. Groater progress has been made with regard to the Tartar army garrisoning the all- important province of Manchuria, Twenty years ago the-garrison of that partol the empire consisted of the tribal levies armed with bows and arrows and spears. A flint-lock appeared an engine of destruction. Today there are nearly 200,000 Bannermen on the rolls in Man- churia alone, and of these it is stated that one-third are armed with Win chester und other rifles, and are per- Jorming garrison duties at Moukden, Kirin, and on the Ussuri. It is not contended that these troops are yet as carefully traived us the model corps of Li, but they probably possess superior fighting qualities. Leaving a wide margin for exaggera- tion the the important fact that China now has one strong army to de- tend her capital against attack from the sea, and another to oppose any assault by land from the Amour and sian Manchuria, This really means a complete revolution in the military position of China. Prince Wang considers that the sys- tem of military competitive examina- tions should be whoily altered. The present dynasty owes its existence to the practice of archéry, but the condi- tions of warfave have greatly altered, and in place of the bow and arrow we have the iron sword and the terrible eannon, 50 that reliance can no longer be placed upon antiquated weapons, In western countries, says Wang, every man from the prince down to the hum- biest person learns the art of using fire- arms; and even foreigners in China practice vifle shooting perwodically. 1n this manner they become skilled marks- man and formidable ) xaminations, in. addition to the practice with the bow and arrow, lift- ing stones and other heoavy weights,the compentors be required to shoot at a target with a rifle, and that great honor be bestowed upon the best marksman. The successful competitor should then be appointed to teach rifle shooting to townspeople and others an the neigh- borhood of his. home, so that all the peo- ple may eventually ungerstand the use of tivearms, and he proposes that a de- cree should be issued that promotion in the army should in future depend upon the skilled use of firearms. —_— Brewer's Lucky Star, shington Correspondent Inter- Ooean: Hepresentative Wilson, who susceeded Mr. Burns of Missouri in the house, has been a life-long friend of the new justice of the supreme court. “Brewer,” ho says, “is one of the luckiest men I ever knew. We were in Kansas City together when we were bouh young men. I knew him when he began the practice of law. He wasa quiet, amiable fellow, not ag- gressive, Dut possessing ability, He was then and is now a great chess player, and that quiet attentive- ness which is observable in cne inteny upon that game was characteristic of him. He was never aggressive and did not appear to seck auything, buy luck always brought good things his way. He can hardly “e smd to bave had any practice at all when he was called upon to take the probate judgeship of Leaven- worth city. From that position, with- out having bad an opportunity to go into private practice, he was transferred to the position of county attorney. He had some practice in that po-ition, and then he was appointed district w judge of the state court. He next became justice of the su- preme court of Kansas, I saw him aftor that, and he was seeking the appoint, mentns Unitod States circuit judge. He asked me 1o write some letters for him, which {did with plensure, Whon Lsaw him again ho had got the appoint- ment. I told him to mark my word, that he would next be appointed to the supreme court of the United States, and that before he died he would be chief justice. His appointment to the first place has gone in; the other will come in time. With apparent indilference he follows his lucky star, and it leads him upward,” BALLOON, — HE WENT UP IN A First Authentic Acco betta's Fam ape from Paris, New York Sun: The Armand-Barbes was tne nume of the balloon in which Gumbetta accompanied by M. Spuller, the p resent minister of forcign affairs, escaped from Paris October 7, 1870. Tho air-ship landed at Epineuse, u lit- tle comm une of 1'Oise,not far from Cler- mont, and & monument has just been dedicated in the vills near the spot where it came to ancho This mon u- ment is asimple pyramid, and the clos- ing sentence of the inscription on it is of Gam- as follows: ,**T'his balioon, after having pussod through the fire of the encuy, landed in the woolls of Ferrieres, terri- tory of Kpineuse.” The little villnge was flags and trivmphat arches and flowers lined the routo thut taken by the presiding oflicer after the ceremon M. Spuller, who t eled with Gam- betta in the balloon in question. 1t is now nincteen s since that memorable trip wr and yet the ouly authentic account of it 5 just ap- red in one of the Paris papers, the being supplied by M. Spuller him- draped with When the goy fense ordered Gambetta to Tour appointed Jules Favre in his ple Paris, the Avmand-Barbes was inflated, and October 7, 1870, at the Pluce Saint Picrre in Montmartre, in presence of an immense crowd, Gambetta, Spuller, and the acronaut, Trichet, started on their journey. 'he idea of leaving Paris,” said M. Spuller, “haunted the mind of Gam- betta from the beginning of the invest- ment. ‘lam not minister of the inter- ior of ris,’ said he ‘Il am minister of the interior of France.’” The depar ure had been fixed for October 4, in the morning. but us the weather was foggy M. Herve-Mangon was opposed to it, just as he was on the 5thand 6th. G- betta was annoyed by these delays, and he was also troubled about the trip from his office to Place Saiut-Pierre, for, ns his project began to be public property, he wns afraid of a popular demonste: tion, Therefore he decided to go on the 7th, no matter how the weather was, M. Herve-Mangon recommended the travelers to provide themselves with warm clothing on account of the tem- perature, which he supposed would be extremely coid; and it was on that oc- ion that Gambetta purchased the famous fur overcoat with which the ar- tists have always painted him. But this turned out to be a useless precuu- tion, for the voyagers had hardly risen up into the clear air when the sun be- gan to shine upon them and warm them. The balloon drifted at first toward St. Ouen. In passing over the German lines it was saluted with artillery and musketry. Thesharpand roliing rattle from the lines of infantry accompanied the rapid and continuous artillery fire, while the bugle call told_of the “even- mg’s exciterent. and discomfiture as the big LaTloon soared serencly away to- ward Argenteuil. M. Tricket, accus- tomed to limited ascensions, wished 1o come down, but Gambetta and Spuller wanted to go as far as possible. DThe first descent was made near Chantilly at_a point that M. Spul thinks was Villiers. The weather was beautiful. The fields were full of peas ants at their autumn work. When they saw the balloon coming down they run to it and took hold of the netting at the neck and held it. Gambetta, with his usual warmth, told them the news of Paris and praised the patriotism and courago of the inhabitants en he askefl if the Prussiuns were near by. “Quite close,” was the *and you would do well to start off aguin. This advice was taken; some ballast was thrown out, and the balloon went up rapidly. Nevertheless, the tempta- tion to descend once more got the bot- ter of M. Trichet. Perceiving a fino farin, with arms stacked in the yard aud soldiers close by, he concluded that they were Franecs-Tireurs. But the moment the batloon commencad to de- scend the soldiers, who were Germans, sprang for Lheir arms and commenced a well-sustuined fire upon the Armand- Barbes. Hastily the voyagers began to throw out baltast. M. Spuller threw away Lis hesvy overcoat in the excito- ment of the moment, for the bullets begin to whistlo disagreeably close, while the rattle secmed to increuse with every second. Hut the balloon, free of ballust, bogan to rise again, 1a this engagement it was wounded, so to say. It was pievced by a ball; but spite of this wisfortune iv continued its route, Soon, however, it began 1o show signs of weakness. The gas was escaping and it begaun to sink rapidly. At this point they found themselves over a little river and they could hear the roll of the Prussian drums. Gambetta told Trichet that they should cross the river at all hazards. Tiey managed to do so. Trichet throw out the anchor on the border of the wood Ferrieres at Epi- neuse, It was 8 o'clock in the after- noon. Here as at Villiers the peasants, who were numerous in the ficlds, ran up to the balloon. Among the persous who gave assistance to the travelers was the mayor of Kpineuse, who brought them to his house. Guambettn and Spuller at first thought of the Parisins, and couctuded to send thew u pigeon, just as they had done after they had crossed lflu Prussian lives. They then sent off a few more, und the daughter of the mayor was the young lady who let them go, Tile oak upon which the anchor of the balloon Armand-Barbes fell in after years became a place of pilgrimage; but the proprietor of the land, a staunch monarchist, displeased at this evidence of sympathy for Gambetta and the re- public, cut”down the tree. When the tree wus gone the people of Epineuse determined to commemorate Gambet- tu's descent, and they erected the mon- ument in question. At the close of the ceremony a little girl presented a bfluaum to M. Spaller. Sne was the granddaughter of the former wayor of Epineuse, M. Dubus, and the daughter of Mme, Jolidon, nee Dubus, who nineteen vears ago was the young lagy to whom Gambetta gave the vrivilege of sending off the carrier pigeons to Paris. M. Spuller then visited the old farm house where he and Gambetta received hospitality after the landing of the bal- loon; and there he was presented to one Lechat, who really saved Gambetta and Spuller by putting the German dragoous chasing thew on a false scent, The proceedings finally eclosed with a balloon ascent. M. Trichet was the aevonaut, and he made a short trip, true to his old habits of twenty years ago. | ELMWOOD FARMERS' ALLIANCE A New Phase in the Complaint From That Body. A TRAVELING MAN IN TROUBLE, His Friends, Howevor, Inslst That flo Is Blameless — News at the State Honse—The Oty in Brief 1020 P Steser, Laxcony, Neb., Deo. The meeting of the state board of traus. portution called for today to pass upon the findings of the board of sccreturies on the Elmwooa, Cass-county, complaint was ad- journed until tomorrow owing 10 the nubility of some of the mombors of the state board The 0o nt, ue hus boen ts up Lthat olevator priviloges have 1 the Farmers' Allin No. 305, by the Missouri Pacific railroad company, while such privileges have beou grauted other corporations. ‘I'ne Bre stated thut @ majority and minority report would be sub- tutted. In this connection it is learned today that Secreturies Gilkison and Gilehrist en- tertain the opinion that the atlisnce in ques- tion has rights that have been refused and that an order stouwid from the board compeiling the Missouri Pu. cific folks to grant complamants equai privis leges and facilities for shipping gramn sud other commodities with other persons and corporations. Secretary Garber dissonts. Hesots forth his reasons at iength, and the diverging opinions promise interesting read- ing. 8. LaMaster, socretary of the alliance, was here today. He filed the following affidavit, which zoes to show thot the farmers in the vicinity of Elmwood ure laboring under difficuities that are beyond & passing fancy. This 18 to cortify thut we, the under- signed, havo this day havled corn_into the town of Kimwood, Cass county, Nebraska, and nave been unable to nnload our wagons on acoount of lnsuficient facilitics for hand- ling grain at the elovator. Somo of us have been here since early morning, aud are sLill unable to unioad at'8 o'clock p. m, C. H. GERDELING, IPRANK Domins, W, £, Grunenixa, I Lixcony Bureav or Tue Osmana Bes, } 11 to be present stated, been de issne KrrTLesoN, 1RE before W, J. December 10, 1889, Subscribed and sworn to Waters, notary pub Standing for His Right. Louis Bowers, a well known traveling man of this city, is in trouble. His friends, how- aim that be will come out without a tint upon his character in the end. It ap- bod, Bonbrizht & Co. of Phila- \ caused @ search warrant to be run upon his residence on tho cornmer of Tweifth and Q streets yesterday evening, The firm alleges that be made away with £00ds belonging o them while he was in their empl and during his tempor- ary absen from the city an effort was mude to get possession of them as indi- cated but withoet avail, Bowers' attorney states that he does hold goods that belongs 10 the company, but that he holds them to insure the payment of $200 which the hause owes him aba as yet has failed to pay. 1t 38 Suid that the goods hio holds are worth about ¥1.000, and thut the firm will have to come to time before he gives them u His attornoy further states that Bowers has acted under his instructions, und that the supplies will be checked up and turned over on the payment of $200 and not unuil then State Houso Jottings. The board of public lands and buildings hus accepted av invitation from tho lades in charge of the home for the friendless, and will dine .at the home tomorrow. It is learned that the members of the board will be accompanied by their wives. Secretary of State Cowdrey and Cominis- sioner Steen, representing the board of pub- lic lands and buildings, went to Kcarney today on offivial busine: The followiug cases were filed for trial in the subreme court: L..Strickler vs Mary E. targis; error from the district court of Lincoln counvy. Jefferson H. Foxworthy vs The City of Hastiugs; error from the aistrict court of Adams county. John Zimmerman et al vs Mary Kinger- man; ercor from the district court of Sarpy cousty. Audvior Benton received for remstration toduy $4.400 of electric_light and 35,000 of city hall bouds for 'Tecumseh, Johnson county; also $45,000 of Bulfaio county court house Yonds, The District Court. Appeal papers were filed in the McAllistor will contest this afternoon. It scems that a higher court is to pass upon Connty Juage Stewart's opinion. Hargreaves Brothers secured 4 judgmnent against Wilbam Rogzgenkamp for $40. The jury wrestled with the case most of the night, 118 ground work was recited by Tk ‘ this morning, The Stewart divorce case was submitted to the court this morning. It is said that the court will not puss upon it before to- morrow. Dzores for the wife, Lowever, is expected. City News and Notes. Deputy Secretary of State O, el and wife celebrated vhe fifteenth unniversary of their marriage last meht, An effort is being anage to influence cone gress to make an appropriation for an addi- tion w the government building in this city. A meeting was held at the Capital hotel this evening w form a real estate exchange, Steps were taken that insures an orguniza- tion in the near future. Louis Lucky, an epilipiic, was before the insano commissioners today. He was ad. judred a fit subject and ordered sent 1o the Lincoln asylum for the insane, Hon. J. C. Watson of Ncbraska City was in the city today on legal business. Hop. John Fitzgerald nas presented the Grand Army of the Republic people with a horse valued at $150, which will be among the valnables to bedrawn at the coming fuir. It is said that 2,000 of the 8,000 tickets bave already beou sold. The ladies of St. Paul's German church gave an entertainment at Funke's opera house tonigut. It wus largely ataendea and u finsncial suc , Dec. 11.—The English syndicate having completed ats large investments in mills and elevator property in and about Minneapolis, has moved over to Duluth and is taking i that town, @ $1,000,00) purchase having been made this moruing. Lewvi Meyer, the attorney who is acting for the Euglishmen, received a cable dispatch from Loudon clieuts this moraing in which it is stated thut the Daluth property snd the terms of purchase wore sulisfuctory, and which instructed him to close the deed jm- mediately. This was done, The purchase includes some of the Jargest mills and ele- vators o Duluth, Positively cured by]| CAK"EKS these Littlo Piils, | E & Tongue, Paln 1 the Side | TORPID LIVER. They| Tegulate te Bowels. Purely Vegetabls. SMALL PLL, SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE,