Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1889, Page 4

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Sworn to before me and subscrived in my presence thisiith day of November, A D., 185, [Beal.] N. P. FeiL, Stato of Nebraska, It buttle of the barbe be a war to the razor. promises to UNITED and vigorous action will open acommerciul highway to Dakota. — THERE is considerable meat in the merry war between the butchers. success as a boodler is explained. He is an Ohio democrat. S————— T barb wire trust is going the way of all mercenary combines. The grip of avarice Will soon choke it to death. v ambition has atlast been The Union Pacific will build around house and repair shop in the suburbs. Wi'VE got the union depot, the via- duct and the new bridge; now let’s have the line to Yankton while we've got our hands in. —— IN THE hands of a butcher truly great the cleaver is more cffective than the ven. The bloody brethreu should stick a skewer there. THERE is every prospect that within a few years Omaha will have a surfeit of bridges. There is room for all. The more the merrier Now that the leader of the confod- eracy has passed into oblivion the ora of “‘peace and good will” can secttle down on the country permaucutly. 2 boss barbers are really anxious 1o scrape an acquaintance with their fumilics on Sunday, there1s nothing to prevent them shutting up shop, Next. UNDER the new order of things in Brazil citizenship is limited to those able to read and write. The new re- public is proceeding on conservative lines. THE fact that the mayor-elect is en- tombued in the fastuesses of the Rockies, does not affect the energy of the faith- ful in parceling out the offices without his consent. R Wk wonderful ability “1n stock watering entitles him to a lead- ing position on an agricultural journal, The genius of inflation should not bo buried in Joliet. —_—— THE business men of Yankton are ex- hibiting the true spirit in their effort 10 obtain a direct line to Omaha, and if this city appreciates the value and im- portance of the rond they will be meét more than half way. SECRETARY BLAINE notifies the king of Corea thav he must fulfill his contract with Awmerican citizens, It that ob- streperous potentate does not come to terms, a poultice will be applied to his bead which will effectively reduce the swelling., THE fact that the association was ignored by the Ne- braskn roads in the matter of local freight rates created a lively breeze in the windy city, The agitation of the duterstate pool is wmerely an effort to prolong its uselessness, —— Tur flendish idiot who started the causeloss ory of fire in the Johnstown theater and precipitated the murder and maiming of men, women and chil- dren should be hunted down and his breath stamped out by an aficted populace, icago railroad THE vusiness of cattle lifting in Wy- oming suffered a fatal relapse recently Seventeen professionul rounders be- came tangled up in rope and lead with disastrous results, At an average of two and a half sittings a day the coro- ner will be able to dispose of the re- mains in o weel., 70 AID PRONIBITIO! Senator Moody of South Dakota has introduced a bill to prohibit United States internal revenue officers from collecting the special licenses for soll- ing liquors in states which have adopted prohibitory laws. Senator Wilson of Towa has introduced a bill providing that every article of commerce the man- ufacture and sale of which ace prohib- ited in any state shall not be transported and delivered within the state by any company. The distinet purpose of both these measures is to aid prohibition, and theyare virtually confessions that under existing conditions that policy is a fail- re. The bill of Senator Moody will doubt- y little conslderation from the senate, bacause 1t proposes to make the revenue laws partial and un- just in their operation. The laws of the United States are geuoral, operating equally in all the states, and thero is no power to arrest their enforcement at state lines out of consideration for Qos- tile local legislation. The constitution provides that “all duties, imports and cxcises shall be uniform throughout less roceive v | refutes itself. transnortation | the United States,” which obviously preciudes any such legislation as the South Dakota senator proposes. The bill of Senator Wilson is not more likely to receive serious at- tention from tho sewnate. The - son for introducing such a meas- ure is to be found in the decision of the supreme court of the United States that astate can not provent liquors being brought within its limits through the regular channels of teansportation, as to do this would be to obstruct inter te commerce. The contention of the senator is that when a state has de- termined to enforce a policy of prohi- bition it 18 wrong that its citizens should be free to import all the liquor they desire and thus defy the law of the state under the cover of the freedom of in- terstate commerce. It is doubtless a serious matter to Iowa that seveuor eight million dollars are annually sent out of that state by her people to pay for liquors munufactured in other states, but it rly not in the line of sound policy nor for the general wel- fare, even if it bo admitted that it is within the authority of congress, by virtue of its exclusive control of inter state commerce, to enact legislation inimical to the business of any state and to the transportations between states, in ovderto aid the enforcement of a local law. It is plain that such legisla- tion as Senator Wilson proposes would work greut injustice, and it is certuin that public sentiment would not tolér- ate 1t. There is not the slightest probability that either of these extraordinary measures will receive any serious con- sideration in congress, but they morit public attention confessions of the failure of prohibition in the states whose sonators have proposed them, and as evidence of the extremity to which the supporters of this policy ave prepared to go in their cfiorts to make it suc ful. AN OHIO EPISODE. An echo of the last Ohio campaign comes 1n the form of a resolution offered in the house of representatives by Cor- gressman Butterworth of that state, asking for the appointment of a com- mittee to investigate analleged echeme to defraud the government in the pro- posed purchase of a certain patent bal- lot box, in which it has been charged a number of members of congress wore involved. The matter is familiar to those who followed the course of the late compaign in Ohio as having figured prominently first against the democratic candidate for governor, Mr. Campbell, and then as something of a hoomerang more or less damaging to the republicans, The matter amounts simply to this: In the Fiftieth congress Mr. Campbell, now governor-elect of Ohio, introduced a bill providing that the government should purchase for use in federal elections a glass ballot box invented by some one in Cineinnati but the bill did not puss. While the Obio campaign was 1 progress what purported to be a contract for stock in the ballot box com- pany signed by several members of con- gress of both parties, among them Campbell, was submitted to Mr. Hal- stead of the Cincinnati Commercial Ga- zette. After a good deal of deliberation and consultation Mr. Halstead do- cided to give the matter to the public, but only Campbell was implicated, the other names to the alleged contract being withheld. It had a brief run as a political sensation when it was shown to the satisfaction of Mr. Hal- stoad that the paper he had received was a forgery, and upon this discovery he made a manly acknowledgment that he had been imposed upon. The®* mat- ter, however, was not allowed to die out with this, but has been more or less talked of ever since, with the result that it has finally assumed national in- terest in being brought to the attention of congress. Itis possible that a thor- ough investigation will disclose tacts not creditable to some of those whose names are identified with the scandal, but the probability is that the aileged contract will be found to be wholly the invention of an unconscionable secamp, as the Morey letter in the Garfield campaign was, It is perhaps best, how- ever, that the matter shall be fully cleared up by a thorough investiga- tion. TURPIE ON TRU 3 Senator Turpie astonished his con- servative colleagues in the senate Tue; day by delivering what is considered the most scathing denunciation of trusts heard in congress for years, The dis- tinguished Indianian announced his readiness to go to the extremity of sei ing and confiscating the product of trusts anda placing the proceeds of the sales thereof in the public treasury, to be used in defrayrag the expenses of prosecution and informers’ fees. He iusisted that congress had the power, under the clause of the constitution regulating commerce, to make it a penal offense for iudividuals or corporations ‘to combine, and con- trol the necessaries of life, and declared that the president should be given power to suspeund the collection of du- ies on all articles the pr was controlled by trusts, Mr. Turpie marred his otherwiso ex- cellent address by nssuming that the tariff rovision of 1883 and consequently the republican party were resnonsible for the growth of trusts. The assertion It is a notorious fact that under the late democratic administra- tion trusts and combines of all kinds on- of h | joyed their greatest growth and becamo more arrogant than under any of the preceding republican administra- tions. To carry Mr. Turpic’s political logic to ita natural conclusion, trusts would be impossible in a free trade country, yet the fact remains thatin Iingland, the pavent of froe trade,trusts are growing at such an alarming rate that their rogulation 18 one of the im- portans questions to be considered at the coming session of parlinment. Mr. Turpio effectively disproved his own as- sertion that trusts wore of recent growth by quoting Blackstone to show that thoy existed under different names over n century ago. It will not (be necessary for congress, even ilso disposed, to goto doubtful and dangerous extremes indicated by the senator from Indiana. Recent de- cisions of the leading courts in- dicate, clearly and emphatically, that trusts which scek to strangle competition and regulate prices, cannot ure legal standing in this country. It is a significant facty however, that the senate, usually slow to respond to vpopular sentiment, applauded Mr. Turpie’s onslaught on theso offensive monopolies, showing that the wembers are dispused to meet and legislate on the question promptly and effectively., DENUNCIATION OF PROCTOR. There is but one southern democratic newspaper, so far as we have observed, that has had the good sense to see and approve the propriety of the course of Secretary of War Proctor in refraining from any official action on the death of Jefferson Davi All other papers making any reference to the matter have with more or less harshness con- demuned the secretary of war, and most of those coming under our yobservation have admitted to their columns communications with which they wore presumably in sympa- thy roundly abusing and denouncing him. Seeretary Proctor needs no defense in this matter. IHis course is unquestion- ably approved by all urprejudiced men, and the delicate and discrect terms in which with eutire sincerity he justified refraining from official action were most creditable to his judgment. He wisely deemed 1t better for all that the death of Mr. Davis should receive no attention from the government, and he accom- panied the announcement of this view with the expression of a hope that it would not add to the sorrow of the family and friends of the dead. No fair-minded man will see in this any ovidence of prejudice and bitterness, as charged by southern journals and writers. The question that presented itself to the secretary of war was the possible effect upon the public mind throughout the country of any official action, and under the altogether ex- ceptional circumstances he concluded that is was best for all not to arouse controversy and contention by taking official notice of the death of Mr. Davis. Haud the southern Jeader been rehabi itated in citizenship the case would have been different. But he died as much an alien to the government as any foreigner who has not become a citizen, and thus all claim to the official consideration showu the dead who have served the government in high stations was cancelled. It is questionable whether Jefferson Davis would have de- sired to be regarded otherwise. The leader of the rebellion is in his grave. Itisto be hoped that ‘“‘after life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.” Buta perverse and resentful spirit survives amoug the people of the south which shows that thewr supreme affection is still for the cause he served aud that they esteem that the highest heroism which to the last refused to recognize the government it had failed to over- throw. . Tue efforts of tne Chicago managers of the Interstate commerce association to nulbfy the freight tariff recently adopted by the Nebraska roads are fu- tile and deservedly so. The animus of the attack is plain. Chicago has been beaten at her own game. The aiserim- inating rates which gave her advant- ages denied to Missouri river cities have been abolished and ne amount of false and misleading ussertions can alter the determination of Nebraska roads to deal justly with the local com- merce of the state. The claim of the association that the roads surrondered to political pres- ssure 18 absurd, The truth is that every city in the state is placed on an equal footing so far as rates are concerned. Chicago's squeal is proof that the new tariff struck a tender spot. THE question of Mormon citizenship will soon be determined by the United States supreme court, A case is now being argued which involves the points raised by the courts of Utah and Idaho, A fow years ago the territorial legisia- ture of Idaho enacted a law practically disfranchising Mormons, Under this law several persons were convicted and sent to jail for attempting to register us voters and for alleged perjury 1 mak- ing outh that they were not membors of an organization practicing the dogtrine of plural marviage, This is the ground covered by the recent decision of the lower court of Utah, which held that nn alien member of the Mormon ehurch who has taken the endowment house oath cannot become a citizen of the United States, The decision of the su- preme eourt will haye an important bearing on the political destinies ‘of both terrttories —————————— e most effective course to be pur- sued by the people of Omaha aud all in- terested in the north road is to draft a definite proposition and submit 1t to the managers of the Northwestern and Mis- sourl Pacific railroads, If these com- panies will not undertake the work, an ndependent o ganized. Th placed in th ny can then be or blo question should bo hds of an energetio committee of o sontative citizens of the communifi directly interested. By this means united action can be had und plans formulated for the prosecu- tion of the work next spring. rhu crop is moving to ly as transportation it. As a result busi ¢ill improve with the collections. market as rapid facilities will ad noss in all lines eusing of countr Perhaps. San Franetsco Examiner, Perhaps it 1s bocanse “silence is golden that there appoar to bo so many silver men in congress, A Doulle-Barreted Riddio. New York Commercial Advertiser. The question of the hour is o sort of douvle-barreled riddle, It is where is St eoter This Is Traly Alarmine. Louiseitle Cowrier~Journal, It 18 to bo recretted that women have taken 10 sword practice. Parasol thrusts are suf- ficiontly deadly. We want no additional tragedies, U A Like Renl M. P.'s Boston Globe, If Silcott's defalcation deprives the ocon- gressmen of their pay for a whilo thoy will know how the Briuish M. P.’s feol who don't get any pay at ail The Tickets Still Ther New York Commercial Advertiser, Silk watch chains are quite fashionable this season. Pawn tickets on the end ars also quite as de riguenr as ever. —— A Style of Wartare. New York World, The French goverament has sont a repro- sentative to this country to make a study of college athletics. K'rance loses no oppor- tunity to acquire the art of modern warfare, Newspaporial New York Commercial Advertiser. “Newspaporial” is a now word recently coined by a Washington Star correspondent. It 18 acceptable if it docs not establish a pro- cedent for magaziniferous, comicyeokolo- quial and society journalisticitous. fud e A Towa's Speed. New York Sun, The prohibitory law is so popular in Towa that constables procoeding under it are be- ginning to regard themsolvos as cincl bearers if they escape boing lynched. Towa is slow to start, but when she once gets off Sunol is an excursion bargo in compa rison. —~— Written the Morning After. Albany Journal. 10 known broadth of stenoh, ny, grdepth of degredution, or extent of covetopsness since time began, whose rule is mdre tyrannical, whose methods are more heartless and whose effoct upon the rights ofally citizens is more do- plorable and mnrfydgmning than are those daily exercised by 1 gin mitl, without heb- domadal hiatus, night and day, forever, For there i or height of in NEWS COMMENT. The voice of the office sesker sounds un- usually harsh to the president since he heard Patti, = On the stgepgth of the revort that Emperor William thinks of returniiz to Constanti- nople, the sultan has pluced the royal palace on half ratious. Miss Caldwell says she has ioved Prince Murat swce the first day she saw . This love does not go beyond the $10,000 a year line, however. ¥ Mrs. Hiller of Boston is having a shroud made which is to cost $20,000. At this rato dying will soon get to be such a full dress affair that ouly the rich can afford it. O The southern people are actively engaged in collecting funcs for Joff Davis. The late rebel will doubtless have a memorial long before New York builds one for Grant. Tho czar has become deeply interested in American poker. With Siberia to draw on his majesty of Russis ought to be able to play a very strong game of freeze-out. Wanamaker has.a double by the name of Gooduight. The latter is from Kentucky, has @ smooth face, loves Sunaay schools and in other respects resembles the postmaster general, 1t is said that the Comte e Paris has had a touch of gout of late. Should uny of the French liberals tread on tho imperial toe at the present time his grace would probably break his record on manifestoes. For the benefit of the New York gentle. man who thinks of providing Omaha with aqua amonia as @ motive power, it may ba stated that aqua fortis has been used for the same purpose with very flattering results, Boston is compluining because respectable citizens are arrested and clubbed by brutal volicemen, Boston's pugilistio pet, in the meantime, continues to decorate the city whenever he feels so inchned, and there is no wan to say him nay. Shakespeare was above the mouotonous sameness which usually attaches to the ap- pearance of ouc's name and spelled his own in vorious ways. The Japanese have discoy- ered a new variation and announce a new edition of Julius Cwser by Sekisupuja. Now iet us hear from Dounelly again, 1t now turns out that the Belgian authori- ties had dispatches from Stanley and were cognizant of his movements while crossing Africa. These dispatches were not given to the public for reasons yet to be ascertained. The wholo business hus an air of mystery which needs an explunation. . The time granted*drs. Robert Ray Hamil- ton, now confined ‘il the New Jersey state prison, i which to answer her husband’s di- vorce suit, has expji¥ed without any action on her part. This faffious case is thus prac- tically ended and**Booby” Hamilton will no doubt secure hid Felease from the adven- Luress, “Omaha av e Black Hills." Omaua, Dec, the Editor of Tug Bee: I wasgraufied to read your article this morning, “Omaha and the Black Hiils,” and 1 beg leave to supplement its statements with a few facts wiioll will be of consequence 10 the enterprising business men of this city whom you so ably represent, During my receft trip to the Black Hills for the parpose bf cxamining the coal do- posits and oil industries at Newcastie ,on the west sige, and thetin deposits about Harney's peak at Hill City and Custer City, an aceonnt of which was written for your columns, I spent some days at Deadwood and Lead City and thoroughly exsmined the conditions and prospects of the mines about there, aud of the reduction works in operation and pro- jected. Asmy object was not to furnish an iecount of the gold and silver mines in the hills, but only to examine the coal and tin deposits, I did not in my letters to Tukg Bre refer to the ge L mining and manufactur- ing interests ut Deadwood and Lead City. But L saw enough in the actual develop- ments at those luces, and espacially in tho possibilities of the near future, when once rairoads have opened those places to the markets of the country, to more than realize the expectation that Tnad form ed. The results of all the ovservations and ex- aminations whies Ihad wade muy be suw- wmarized in the ove stutement, that there is DECEMBER 13, i889. y veoded railroad communication and fucl (conl, and especially coke) to produce throughout the hills an era of prosperity un- exumpled probably in the history of mining enterprises in this country. Thero are within five miles of Lead City deposits of low grade ores sufficient to build up for genorations yot to come mining and manufacturing enter prises fully oqual in importance to those of the groat Homestake mine at Lead City. 1 spenta whole day i the examination of those deposits and speak only of what [ Lave seon and know. The Homestake mine mining enterpris s one of the largost in the world. From eighty stamps in 1878 it has developed until now two immense mills with 550 stamps are operatod by huge Corliss engines, The run- ning exponses are more than $100,000 a month and thero are 1,500 mon employod. The total recopts for the year ond- ing May 1, 1880, were 81, 3 aod the total disbursements for \he samo poriod were 81,114,655, There was paid for labor alone i and for timber and wood 8144407, he total number of tons of ore reduced was 935,744 and the value of the product therefrom was $970,028 -the product of gold being nbout & .50 per ton of ore. The result s been gratifying, 8o far as the quantity of ore uncoverad is concerned; and the indications are that the coming year will show a groatly incroased product. Thero is ore cnough m sight 0 keep the mills in fult operation for four vears to come. A lino of narrow-gauge railroad runs some twenty-five miles into the timber region to supply the works with lumber and fuol There ave six other mills, which incroase the number of stamps to nearly a thousand. Toe Caledonia mill produced last year nearly 300,000 in gold. The annual yield of these seven mills aggregates noarly $1,000,000, and the total yield of the entire rogion, including gulch and placor mining, 18 very nearly $6,000,000, Load City is a piace of some 6,000 inhat nants, It is aneat, bright and entorprising town. Its merchants and business men ave very nctive and prosperous. Its schools and churches in numbor and importance compare with those of any place of equal sizo in the interior of Nebraska. The I3. & M. road has survoyed lines into the hills, not only to Lead City but to Hill' City and Custer City also. The survey for the branch from Newcastle running to Lead City is very fa- vorable. It is some forty-five miles in length, and for the most part is of easy grade above the coal mines a tunnel of 9,0 through the dividing ridge will be necessary to take the railroad into Salt creek canyon, from the upper end of which it is an open, beautiful conntry parallel with the mountain range all the way to Lead Cit Deadwood is just now dull, yot her bank- ors and dealers ail feel cortain thut with tho coming railvoud conncction from tho west and from the east she will_more than regain her former importance, ‘The town has boen twice almost entirely destroyed, first by fire and then by water, and now presents nothing in tho character of its buildings to recall the features which atiached to it ten years ago, Its buildings, its stores and 1ts private resi- dences all have the look which business pros- perity imparts and its capitalists and busi. ness men express ontire confidence in the future of the place. The recent burning of the reduction works into which _the cit of Deadwood had placed oyer $100,000 w sovers calamity from which they are recov- ering by building new ones on an enlarged and improved scale. D. C, Brooxs. e R i MUST R D AND WRITE. Just feet No Others Can Vote in the Republic of Brazil. Nzw York, Dec. 12.—|Special Telogram to ‘'me Bee.|—The papers brought from Rio Janeiro by the s maay proclamations issued by the new gov- ernment of Brazil regarding the temporary transuction of busmess. One of the most important of these relates to the election which the revolutionists promised to hold at an early date, when the questions of a consti- titution and permanent officers of the now republic were to be submitted to the people. The tirst clause of this decreo shows that even in the revolutionary body which deposod Dom Pedro and sent the imperial family out of the country, there is-an_active conserva- tive elemont,” for universal suffrage is ro- jected, and only such voters as are able to read and write mer Bessel contain hall be entitled to citizen- ship. This loaves ail the freed slaves out and a lario part of the white peoplo as well, and confines the power of governimont to thé educated and moderately well-to-do. THE JOH 'OWN HORROR, No One Held Responsible for the Loss of Life. JonNstowy, Pa., Dec, 12.—The investiga- tion into the cause of the theater disaster ‘was concluded last night shortly before mid- night and a verdict rendered that death was ocuused 1in each case by suffocation and the Jam resulting from the panic precipitated by the false alarm of fire in Parke's opera house during the performance, The jury also found that owiug to the insufficient number of exits, tho narrowness and faulty construction of the only one to the house, the building was uusafe for any public gathering. The authoritics are requested to take proper measures to prevent any publio assemblies in tire building as now constructed. ‘T'hie funerals of some of the victims will take place this afternoon and others will be buried tomorrow. Although Parke's opera house has for years been condemned in pub- lic opwion, if not officially, there was today no suggestion of proceedings against the owner or manager for loss of life, and it is probable nothing will be done. — o WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Five of Montana's Democratic Sena- tors Ask For a Conforence. HELENA, Mont., Dec. 12.—Thoe senato con- vened at 2 o'clock. The lieutenant governor inquired of the sergeant-at-arms if he had found the absent senators. That official re- plied that he had, buv they refused to obey his summons. The doorkeeper then an- novnced that five democratic senators were in the anteroom and desired to have an - formal talk with the republican .members, A recess was taken and informal caucus began with closed doo It was learned that at the democratic senatorial caucus this forenoon the five senators announced their determnation o present themselves at the sonate chambor not later than nett Monday morning or W resign, The Presidential Nominations. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The president to- day sent the following nominations to the senate: Cyrus J, Fry of South Dakota, United States marshal for the district of South Dakota; also a large number of recess nominations, among them being the follow- : Joel B. Erhardt of New York, col. cotor of customs for the district of New York; David W. McClung of Ohio, to by collector of internal revenue for the First district of Ohio; Johw D. Sloane of Miune- H0La, Supervising inspactor of steam vessels for the Kifth district. ——— Broke Through the lece. Muwaviks, Dee. 12 —Joun Martin, aged eight, Ambrose Donnelly, uged ten, and Bert Sheldou, aged twelve, broke through the 1ce while skating on a pond at Ironton ,in Sauk county. Martin and Sheldon wero dead when their bodies were recovered, but Donnelly was resuscitated and may recovey. e A Money Loaner Arrestad, MixxgAroLs, Mion,, Dee. 12.—Julius Schutte, the well known money loaner and real estate man, was arrestod today, He was indicted by the last grand jury for forgery and for complicity in the alleged erime of J. Frank Collom, ki R Shot and Killed. Avoca, Wis, Dee. 12.—~Thomas Folliurd was shot aud instantly killed today by Lymauo Dewitt after the latier had ordered him off his premises four times, The shoot- fug was the result of an old fued between the two men. L 8 's Nomination Coufirmed. WasuIxNG7ON, Dec. 12.—The seuate this afternoon confirmed the unomwmation of Green B. Raum of Illinois as commissioner of pensious. Insist on having the genuine Red Cross Cough Drops, b cents per box. Sold everywhere. JUDGE MAXWELL MAY RESICN Tendered the Position of Counselor of Omaha Corporations. THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE WINS, Harry Hall Will Lsarn the Coopor's Trad “Three Omaha Jall Birds —A Big Cloak Factory for lancolr 1020 P Steeer, Livcons, Neb., Dee, 1 Judge Maxwell of the supreme bench has been tendered the position of counselor for two of the leading corporations of Omaha, and it is said that he has taken the mattoy under serious considecation. Ouno of his closest friends, however, informed Tin Br representative that ho belioved the judge would remain where he is. But continung, he said the proposition was a most flattering one, and that it might induco him to lay uside the honor he wears with sich distin- Ruished ability and tendor his resignation as a member of tne supreme bench. Lixcony Bureav or Tar Osmana Bee, } The Alliance Wine, The state board of transportation passed upon the Hndings of the secreturies on the complaint of Farmers’ alliance No. 65 of Elmwood, Cass county, vs the Missouri Pa- cific Railroad company, this evening, sus taining tho complainants and issuing an order compelling the defendant company to grant the elovator site as vrayed, The se taries were of ono mind as far as the ju. of tho complaint is comcerned, but ~Gurber dissented from the opinion of his conteni- poraries, that the law will sustain the order compelling the company to grant _the site, e decision is an_importaut one, however, und it1s said that 1t will be far reaching in 1ts effects. A number of other complaints of u similarnature have been hanging fire pend- ing this decision, and unless the railwa COMPANIES H pt it as final it 18 suggestea that endless litigation will follow, An Important Industry. New enterprises for Lincoln continuo to develop with a frequency that is almost astonisiing. The latest hus just been made public, and it is an undemable boom for East O street. Robert Moauheimer of Chicago has purchased the property at tho northeast corner of Eighteenth and " O, with 150 feet frontage on the latter street, for which he paia §1%,000. He made the purchase of A. D. Kitchen, who held an option on the prop- erty, Mr. Monnheimer represents one of the leading clock manufacturing companies of Chicago, which furnishes employment for 800 people, and the object of the Lincoln purchase is to establish a sumilar institution in this . It is given out that the company will commence to crect a factory 75x142 feet, four stories high, carly in the g, and that before the year closes a factory empoty- ing 200 workuen will be in operation. ness District Courr, The case of the Widow Tilfer vs the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad com- pauy, by D. H. Burnham, who brought suit 1o recover #5,000 dam: for the death of the widow’s son, H. C. Tilfor, was settled in open court this wmoraing. The defendant railroad company paid Mvs. Tilfer £1,200 and the costs of suit, and further proceedings were dismissed. Little Harry Tilfer, it will be remembered, was run over and killed by a Burlington passenger train at Stockwell's brick yards a littie over a year ago. James I, Lansing, Adaline R. Schooleraft, and Mary ownors of lots 1 and 2 in block 40, seck an injunction to prevent the city treasurer from collecting taxes by dis- tress warrants ou the lots named for paving un alley in that block. Itappears that none of the lots adjoin the alley, and the owners are not benefited therel On the equity sido a number of _delinquent ax cases were passed upon and decisions handed down. The day, however, was a dry one on both sides. Judges Chapman and Field were both ou the beach New Notaries Public. The governor today made the following notarial appointments: B. F. Good, Wahoo, Saunaers county; Andrew H. Gilmore, Auburn, Nemaha county; Charles Sher- land, Newman Grove, Madison county; W. W. Watson, Fairbury, Jefferson county; H. G. Bliss, Fairwont, IMillmore county; W. A. Stewart, Lexington, Dawson county; K- ward Stringer, Omaba, Douglas coun! ( M. Lord, Ulysses, Butler county; Eilla J. Reed, Omaha, Douglas county; Willam H. Roe, Kearney, Buffalo eounty. Supreme Court Cases. The following cases were filed for vrial in the supreme court today : Francis Walton vs Henry Ambler; eiror frow the district court of Douglas county. S. Openheimer vs Lorenzo Marr; orror from the district court of Hitchcock county. Samuel McLeoa vs Henrietts Gemn: et at: appeal from the district court of Doug- las county. Etban H. Cowles vs Stanley Thompson; error from the district court of Buffalo county Fraucis Waiton vs Leopold Doll; error from the district court of Douglas cotuty. Stato Honso Jottings. Auditor Benton went to Omaba this afte noon ut 4:80 to confer with one of the bank examiners on an important mattor, It is un- derstood that one of the suvings banks of the metropohs is signiog the exuctions of the banking law. The board of public lands and bulidings dined at the “*baby pasture” today, Mem- bers of the board, however, speak iu very complimentary terms of the management of the Home for the Friendless, It is under- stood that the board will next be entertained atthe Inlying Hospital at Milford. These institutions, be it remomberod, are rivals for the good will of the board. The Beatrice Electric Manufacturing com- paay flled articles of. incorporation today in the oftice of the scerctary of state. Its pur- pose is to manufacture electric fire-alarm apparatus and other electric appliances and also to sell the samoe in the best obtainable murkael Capital stock, $10,000. Incorpo- rators: 8. C, Jordan, L. E. Spencer, 1, 1. Walker, H. ¥, Slocum and A. J. Albrook, City Nows and Notes. State Treasurer J. E. Hill returned home from Beatrice today:. Hon. Charles I, C n the city. Secretary Cowdery and Comy Steen returned home from Keu: afternoon, ‘Tne state board of transpor sl wrestles over the Elmwood elevator com- plaint. Report upon the flading is deferred, The winter meeting of the state horticul- tural society takes place in this city Junuary 14, 15 and 16, An intoresting programme is promised, ‘The fair at the Plymouth Congregational church closed lust evening. It was u marked success soclally and by uo means u failure financially. The Misses Libbie Bowerman and Stella Gould of Springfleld, 111, urrived today and will spend the holiduys with Deputy Auditor Bowerman and wife, The forwer is u sister and the latter a niece of Mr. Bentou's chief deputy. Sheriff Coburn of Omaha committed Thomas O'Brien to the penitentiary today to serve a sentence of two years for burgiary ; also Willlam Shea for one year for attempred burglary and Wilson Lindsay one year for forgery. Douglas county, however, gots a release in the person of [attie Duke, whose term expired today. Harry Hall will learn the cooper's trade. Warden Hopkins says that he will be put to worlk as soou as be recruits up a little more, He also says that Harry can not expect any more soft snaps, as he hus forteited all cluims upon good time service, and that Le cannever bope Lo reap any of the benelits of tue good time law. He 1 a convict for life and will ive and die behund prison walls, The third week in Fobruary the depart- went of Nebraska Grand Army of the ie- public will meet in aunual convention at Grand Island. Al this convention a new de- partment commander wil be elected. 1t is ey of Pawnee City is nisfioner this ation learned that Hon. Brad P. urged for the position and that the Crete and North Platte Geana Army Republio POsts have instructod their delogatos to sup- port bim. S, H. Morrison of Nebraska City is ulso a candidate for the position. - STATE AND TERRITORY, Nobraska Jottings The Rock Island eating house at hias beon discontinued. New York people are in Koarney with a proposition to build an opera house. The West Point papor mill is now making from three to four tons of vaper daily. Several Kearney capitalists have ized & company to manufacture starch Tho Pawnos City waterworks hav tested by the fire compas 1sfactory in overy respec It is rumored that the notorious Dr. Gandy of Richardson county is about to suo his “persccutors’ for §30,000 damagos T. M. Hopwood hins sold the Holdredge Nugget to W. I\ Linasay & Company, fore merly of the Oxford Standara John Jose of Palmyra was dumved from Lis wagen fnto an elevator chute with his load of corn, but AS not serously inju 8 It is estimated that fally $13,000 has beon paid out for vroom corn at Gothouburg this son, tho ave ico paid belug $40 por. ton. Popeorn, fol Cook w1l be Pawnos organ- been o8 and proved sat- wed by dtinking sour milk, th of a hittle daughtor of A, rnolds of Fairfisld from rupture of ach, £ shurg zamblers have bo notified thut hereafter the law will be steictly en- forced and they have started for other nd greener pastures. Chere is an ordinance prohibiting®tha stacking of nay in the corporate limits of Springiield, but in spite ofthe law buy stacks. AF0 nUmerous right in tho center of tho principal business blocks. While fighting a prairie fire near Ulysses, a young man named Byro Beaver, while holding down o with his foot so that a team could p it und plow a + fire guard, had s aukle caught botweon tho plow pomt and the wire, severing his foot from his body. Physicians who wore sun- moned think the mjured man will recovor, The piles of corn in the vicinity of Wako- field, espocially to the south, are a wonder to behold says the Republican.” No one drives in_that diection without coming back filled with amazement at the sight. Of courso neariy all the farmers have eribs; but the proportion of the crop they hold 18 very smull, Such expressions a8 “mountains of corn” and *“‘oc2ans of corn” fili every uce count. for twenty miles —clear to Wisner it is tho samo thing, corn, corn, corn. Piles of it in every fisld, lik stacks of threshed straw. lowa lteis. Joe S pacher of Burlington has been seutenced 1o one year in the pon for adultery, For violating the scarlet fover quarantine, an Ottumwa citizen'was fined $20 und sent to jail. Out of twenty-six deaths reportec 1 Da euport for the' month of November, niue wers from diphtheria. Lang Sam, a Chiness laundry Kuk, has scet of Miss Edni It eost AL ed Ouk £75 to pull G. M, Weimer's ear b tho sher had called him a bootlog he thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Towa State Teachers' association will opea at Des Moincs December 31 and close Ju - ary 4. A very interesting procramme has been prepured by the general ussociation, Four Cedar Rupids small boys adjourned Sunday school in that city in a very sudden manner. They appeared wearing a very in- nocent Sunday school Jook, and each had little squealinx field mouss in_ his outsida pocket. During the services they reloased ie mice and in a moment a panic seized tho femalo scholurs and teachers. Finally the mice were driven out and quiet restored, but when the roll was called four small boys were conspicuous by tLeir absence. An uaknown young lady attempted| to cross the railroad at the depot in 801 18 A train was comine in. When sho u she stopped, dazed with fo as unable to move. Billing Clork Walker saw her danger, and dropping his books jumped on the track and dragged her to one side justas the engine went by, So closc was thie shave that tho young man was knocked by the tender striking him. In tho itement tho young lady stpped away without giving hér name. Lust week a geatleman presented himself at the oftice of the county cleric of Sioux county and desired o marriage license, says the Sioux County Herald. ilcing a stranger and not able to prove his elizibility to le wally enter the stute of matrimony he ex- plained his position, which is a peculiar one. Six year ago, in Dakota, he was married to his tirst. cousin, with whom ho is still living as his wife. He has receutly ascertained, however, that under the laws of Dakota first cousins can not marry, and therefore his marrisge is illegal and invalid, Clork Fincn could do nothing for him and the poor man who wanted to 12marry his wife, to whom ke had beon marricd for- six yoars, went sorrowfully away to hunt up the necossary evidence. The Two Dakotas, Piorre wants telephone connection Fort Pierre, A big planiog mill 1s to be built at Plorre in the near future. A Mystic Shrine lodge will be formed at Aberdeen this winter, Sixty men are employed on the soldiers’ homo building at Hot Springs, Colts and calves furnmh food for large tim3 ber wolves in the vicwnty of Tilford. A delegation of Watertown citizens is in Boston negotiating for the rcmoval of a walch factory to their town, It is estimated that the number of hogs marketed in South Dakota this season is larger by half tban for any previous season. W. H, Webber, the defaulting Spearfish vostwuster, will breath the air of freedom in about two months, when his sentenco ex- pires, ‘I'bio coroner’s jury, in investigating tho manner of death of John B, Winn, which oc- carred at Watertown on the 1st inst., found that he came to s death by the administra- tion of morphine and chloroform by imex- periencea personsattengding upon him while he was in 2 state of intoxication, Lehman, the man who about four months ago shot and kiiled Constable Burns at Oelrichs while resisting arrest, and who evaded the officcrs of the law for a long time but was finally captured, was tried in Custer county last week, found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged, Lohwan is the first person son- tenced to death under the laws of tho state of South Dakota, Judge Wells of Rapid City was tho victim of u peculiar runawuy lust week. Two of his cows escaped and be went hunting for them in a bugey. He found them, und, tylog ropes around their horns, atts 11 to Lho hind ond of the bugey and started for home. He had not gone very fur when the cows, concluding they wore going tho wrong way, turned fail and made off in an opposite direction, dragging the judze and rse and buggy after them ut a lively rate, I"inally the horse was jerked off his foot und rolled over 1n the ditoh, piling the judge and the buggy up in a promiscuous hoap by the roadsids Fortunally no damage was done except to the bugizy, After ‘Lylng the cows loosc" the judge went home and sent a small boy ufier them, with - The Kansus safferers. Ovarie, Kan,, Doc. 12.—~Thomas M, Sbil- lingtow of Morton county, Kausas, addressed o mass meeting hore last nigut in behalf of the people of Morton county. He said that about two hundred and AfLy familles were in destitute circumstances, and thut unless im- mediate aid wus given muny would die from want of food and clotbivg. A resolution to aid him in bis work was adopted, Noveral carloads of corn and clothing will be shippad immediately for the urgent uoeds of those in absoiute wint, S ———— London's Gas Strike Settied. Loxpox, Dee, 12.~A conference was held this afternoon between the arbitrators and represontalives of the gas companics and employes, It resulted in an amiable ar rangement of ghe existing troubles wud w goueral strike of the coal porters is averted. Complications exist, however, with the om- ployes of the Metropolitun (ias company, i powders have a vulgar ut Pozzonl's s ulrue boautilicr, whose wre lasting. Mogt complexion aresbut s effe