Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. = = ~ PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRAMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Paiiy and Sonday, One Year.. ... Fix Months ....." .. ...l Thres Months, . Bunday Hee, One Yoar ... 2 Weekly Bee, One Year with Premium.... OFFICRS, Omana, Bes Bu Chicago Ofic New York, ing. Rookery Building Hooms 1 and 15 Trine Build- } Fourteenth Street, 2 Pear] Street. Wastinaton. No ('nllm]fl ',“,‘,',,";" nN coin, 1020 P' St cet, Fouth Omann, Cornet N and 25th Stroets, CORMESPON DENCE, All communieations relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed (o the Kaitor- 1al Department, BUSINESS LETTERS, All Unstness cos should be adaressed Company, Omaha. Drafis, checks and postofiice s 0 bemade payable to the order of the company, The Bee Publishing Compauy, Proprieors Mrx Huilding Farnam and Se teenth Strects, he Eeo on the Trains. There {8 1o excuse for a fajlure (o get Try Bee on the trains, Al newsdealers have boeen noti- fi6d to carry full supply. Lravelers who want THe DER and can't get It on trains where other Omabia oapoers are carried are requested to no- ity Tur e “ Pleass bo particular to give in all cases full information as to date, railway and number of train, Give us your name, not for publication or un- Ty use, but as a guaranty of zood faith. THE DAILY BEE SBworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, Comnty of Donglas, 9% Ueorre B, Tzschuck, secretar: Fublishing the actual clrenlatic week ending Docember 1, 155 Friday i Eaturday, Dec. 14 AVBIAZO, ,civeasieatacntiiine GREORGE . Eworn to before me and subscribod to in wfs"n)te this 14t day ot December, A. D, onl,| my 1880, Notary Pabite. Etate of Nobraska, ) o County of Douglas, | Georgo I, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- pores and eays that lie I8 aecrotary of The Heo 4 ublishing Company, that the actual averags daily circulation of DAILY BEE for the month of December, 18, 182% copies; for Janunry, 149, 11,514 coples; for February, 180, 18,088 copi March, 1540, 1K 8% coples for April, lesitor’ May, 1580, ]N,ll“(‘(.‘v‘pln July, 1 epton: for October 18, 18997 c 1589, 10.310 coplea GEORG 3. TZSCHUCK, Bworn to before me and subscribed in my D presence this 3ith day of November, (eal.] coples; fc 18 1.+ cities in the year of grace cighteen hundred and ninety. THE citizens of Omaha will make the state fair a credit to the city and to the state. They can afford to do nothing less. THE clearings, building, realty and other records of progress combine to show that Omaha is girding herself for the grand march of 1890. VISITORS to the state fair in Omaha will see not only the magnificent agri- cultural products of the state, but the future metropolis of the whole trans- fitting that the state fair should be held hero just as the city is entering with ronewed vigor and con- fidence 1nto the race for commercial pre-eminence. —— ‘THE manner in which the honest vot- ers of Chicago smashed the machine ticket in the recent election is charac- teristicof that city’s thorough way of doing things. TaEChicago papers did not succeed in hanging the jury or any of the sus- pects. Itisnow in order for them to sot aside the verdict and hang the vie- tims of their wrath, 'MR. MCSHANE was fairly and squarely defeated at the polls, A con- test in the court will not shake Mr. Rush’s title to the office for the next two years. No judicial proceeding can wipe out seven hundred majority, WHEN we reflect that the greatest city in the country allows an electric lineman to be tortured to death at reg- ular intervals. and makes ita finable offense to feed asparrow it may well be questioned whether this boasted civil- ization of ours is such an improvement on the old style, after all, S— THE report of the grand jury on the management of territorial affairs in Utah furnishes convincing proof that the Mormons are not working entirely for their health, In the light of the de- welopments their professions of honesty and saintliness present a sad and sickly sight, emmsTe————— THE New York supreme court.in a seathing opinion disposes of the claim of the electric light companies that they possess rights which the public is bound to respect. *They are without excuse,” says the court, ‘‘and when they claim that the destruction of these fustruments of death maintained by them in violation of every debt of obli- gation which they owe to the public is an envasion of their rights of property, such claim seems to proceed upon the assumption that nothing has a right to exist except themselves.” The decision sounds the death knell of the mankillers. Let the burial proceed. —— - THE attempt o! & majority of the barbers to compel a minority to close oi Sonday will meet with littlo sym- wathy in this community, It is s spe- ‘ulu of covrcion doomed v failure. Barbér shops and bath rooms ave as | much o “work of necessity” as street prailways, livery stables and a dozen | other lines of business. To compel them to olose would work a hardship to the hundreds of strangers who epend Sunday in the city, If the sentiment of the people was in favor the movement, there would be no necessity to invoke the law in a ‘vevengeful spirit, As long as there is business in the line, men will be found 10 open shops and accommodate the pub- lic, and no amount ot coercion or spas- modic prosecution wili change this cous dition, The barbers desiring to ob- serve the Sabbath are at liberty to do #0, but we doubt if they can successfully others 10 think and act as THE CRONI VERDICT, The verdict in the Cronin case sus- tained the rule that verdicts generaliy are the resultof compromise. One mem- berof the jury was not convinced by the evidence that any of the men charged with the killing of Dr. Cronin were guilty, and he firmiy held to this viewagainst the opinion of the other eleven for nearly sixty hours. Then he agreed toa compromise by which he consenfed to find three of the men guilty as charged upon condition that their punishment, which it is the province of an Jlinois jury to prescribe, should be imprisonment for life instead of death. There is obvious suggestion in this ar- rangemaont for a fresh discussion of tho jury systom, It also suggests the ques- tion whether thelaw is wiss that per- mits the jury to fix the penalty for crime. The termination of this celebrated trial, which has consumed over three months, will give a senso of relief to the public generally. It has been marked by features which do not reflect credit upon the practice in criminal cases in this country, and it pr nts a striking example of the necessity of reform both in the matter of obtaining juries in criminal cases, as was pointed out by ex-President Hayes in his address at the last meeting of the National Prison association, and in the practice® of the courts. It exhibited to an extraordi- nary degree the loosoness and latitude much oo commonly permitted in our criminal teinls, Another fact in con- nection with the trial which cannot be | the too vigorously conddined was the course of the Chicago press, which was almost a unit in prejudging the ease against the indicted men. The killing of Dr. Cronin was undeniably a most brutal erime. Tn all its aspects it bore evidence of a conspiracy fiendish in conception tind in oxceution. There was every justification for the most de- termined effort in hunting down the porpetrators of the crime, and the press did well in spurring the authori- ties to the full performance of their duty. But when the men implicated were in the grasp of the law, and especially when their prosecution had heen en- tered upon, it was the duty of the news- papers to maintain silence regavdin the question of theie guilt orinnocence. The presumption of the law is that men accused of crime are innocent until they are proven guilty, and it is a prin- ciple universally accepted in ized communities that justice is subserved where the course of judicial investi- gation is kept free from all influence that might be exerted upon it by public comment. But this wise and sound principle was wholly disregarded by most of the newspapers of Chicago, and from the opening to the close of the teial these papers lost uo opportunity to prejudice public opinion against the ac- cusad and to prosent the information elicited on the trial to their disadvant- age. The effor!s of the attorneys for the defense were persistently denounced or ridiculed, and in every possible way the developments in the pro- gress ol - the investigation were shaped to the detriment of the accused. It cannot reasonably be supposed that all of this failed to reach the attention of the jury, and it is more than prob- able it had some influence upon them. But at any rate the course pursued by aportion of the Chicago press is a re- proach to American journalism. The evidence produced by the prose- cation was all circumstantial, but por- tions of it were of a very strong and convincing character against the men who have been convicted of the murder —O’Sullivan, Coughlin and Burke. The verdict as to these men will there- fore doubtless be very generally re- garded as just and the penalty pre- scribed 2s a merciful judgment, With vegard to the others, the acquittal of Beggs was necessary from the character of the evidence, which did not in the most remote degree connect him with the crime, while the verdict of three vears’ imprisonment for Kunze is of guestionable justice, since he was un- doubtedly a mere hired tool of the assas- sins, who had no knowledge whatever of their purpose. In moving for a new trial the attorneys for the defense probably simply desire to avoid the acknowledg- ment of guilt which their failure to take such action would imply, and do not expect the motion will ve allowed. Whether this famous case is really ended, however, cannot be confidently asserted.. Further developments impli- cating others in the great crime is al- together possible. OMAHA AND THE FAIR. ‘When Omaha had the state fair for five years it was found impossiblo to get any as- sistance out of her business men to keop the Rrounds In repair and make the fair attrac- tive to visitors. In consequence of the wunt of interest in the matter the fair never paid expeuses there, and when the state board came with it 1o Lincoln to recuperate it came heavily in debt for the expenses of the Omaha fairs,—([Lincoln Journal, Eocie 3 Omaha has never received and aoes not expect fair treatment from the Bur- lington organ. It is a part of its plan and policy to villify the metropolis and arraign the state aguinst her, so that Lincoln may hog the benefits at the ex- pense of every other community. What is imputed to Omaha in the above quotation is a picture of the treatment of the fair associa- tion in Lincoln, When the fair moved t0 Omaha ten years ago the tredis- ury was empty. Itis a notorious fact that the chauge was made to recuperate its finances, and the success of the first as well as succeeding fairs demon- strated the wisdom of the managers, Instead of being heavily in debt for the expenses of the Omaha fair, the as- sociation left this city with a snug bal- ance in the treasury. The exact fig- ures are not at hand, but we are in- formed on credible authority that the amount was between five and ten thon- sand dollars. This shows that the fair was not only a success as an exhibit, but for the ficst time in its history the state association was placed on a solid finaneial foundation. The charge that Omaha business men refused to assist in keeping the grounds in repair or to make them attractive is flatly contradicted by the fuct that a large number of firms erected buildings, cost- ing from five hundred to two thousand dollars, for their exhibits, The-charge comes with bad grace from Lineol When the fair was located there five yedrs ago the citizens gave a bond that they would make all needed improve- ments on the grounds. Did they fulfill the contract? The record shows that the board has expended fourteen thousand dollars on grounds because the Lincoln peoole failed to live up to the conditions of the bond, Although the fair was fifty miles away, the people of Omaha did not suli in their tents. Their patronage every year was worth in cash fully as much as that of Lincoln, But Omaha does not propose to enter into & controversy with Lincoln or any other city over the fair. For our purt the contest shall be one of friendly vivalry. If Omaha cannot offer better grounds, better railrond facilities, an unfailing supnly of pure water for all purposes, buildings superior to any yet used by the nssociation, and better ac- commodations for visitors, we shall cheerfully congratulate tho successful competitor. It is a fnir field open to all comers. IN ADVANCE OF HIS PARTY. It is due to Grover Cleveland to say that ho fulfils a requirement of leader- ship in keoping in advance of his party in most respects, He app to be freer than any ‘other democrat of the day from the influence of the traditions of the party, und to desire more than any other to elevate the toue and improve the character of the political organiza- tion of which he is a membar. The evi- dence of this is his advocacy of princi- ples and policies originating with and consisteutly championed by the repub- lican party which have been steadily opposed by the democracy. Conspieuous nmong these are ballot reform and reform of the civil service, Asto ¢he former Mr., Cleveland has taken most positive ground in its favor. [n his recent address in Boston he de- clared that nothing is more essential to the preservation of our institutions, nothing more urgently demanded by every consideration of patriotism and the future political welfare of the nation, than such reform of the ballot as would free the suffrage from the evils of in- timidation and corruption. He declared that it was too late t temporize with these evils, and he thanked Massachusetts, whose republican party instituted ballot reform, for the successful example she had given the country in this respect. While the republican press has very gouerally commended this attitudo of Mr. Cleveland, we have not observed that it has received any very marked favor from the organs of dem- ocratic opinion. The New York Sun for example, which speaks for a very considerable demo- cratic constituency, including the gov- ernor of the state, says: *“‘The demand for so-called ballot reform proceeds largely from two sets of people: First, the republicans, who want it because they think it will lesson the democratic vote in the state; andsecondly, from doctrinaires and persons of the mug- wumpian and Cleveland order, who shout for anything that happens to be labelled reform,and in that way achieve & prominence which they could never otherwise attain.” It is safe to say that this voices the sentiment of the very large majority of the democrats of New York. A law similar to that in force in Massachusetts has been twice passed by the republicans in the New York legislature, twice op- posed with vigor and unanimity by the democratic members and twice vetoed by Governor Hill. Clearly, therefore, Mr. Cleveland is 1n advance of the party in his own state on this question, and undoubtedly the party generally is not in sympathy with him, and for the reason that ballot reform would effect the substantial disfranchise- ment of a considerable pro- portion of thedemocratic party where- ever it should be applied. Mr. Cleveland is not any nearer to the general sentiment of his party re- garding civil service reform. The last democratic national platform gave no pledge of party support to this reform, and one of the measures earliest intro- duced into the United States senate at the present session was a bill by a demo- cratic senator to repeal the civil service law. Conceding to Mr. Cleveland sin- cerity in his position on this question, he stands almost alone among the leaders of his party in support of civil service reform, and the number among the rank and file who favor it is extremely small, Such effort as Mr. Cleveland has made to bring s party into sympathy with this reform has signally failed. Will he he likely to have better success in vhe future? No one doubts that' Mr, Cleveland de- sires to aganin be the candidate of his party for the presidency. The possi- ble effect upon his chances of his position regarding these . reforms is consequently un interesting ques- tion. Can he command the very neces- sary support of the democracy of New York, assuming that he will have to contest for it with Governor Hill, when holding views not in favor with a large majority of the democratic party of that state? And if he canunot will the party make him its candidate at any rate and run the risk of agaiu losing New York? Perhaps these questions have been duly considered by Mr. Cleveland and his friends, and that the course he is taking is the result of a careful and deliberate calculation of possible consequences. —ee ORATOR GRADY in Bostop and Edi- tor Grady in Atlanta display a cheerful versatility of opinion on the race ques- tion, The orator never consults with the editor when he hurries away to the Hub, nor does the editor at bome dis- play any regard {or the opinious of the orator abroad, The orator insists that the problem will solve itself, and urges uorthern men to send their sons down south to assist in building up the coun- try. But the editor serves notice that northern visitors who associate with or show friendship for the col- ored people will be socially o0s- travised, Recent incidents show that Editor Grady voices the sentiment of the south, Because My, Cable, the suthor, dared to associate oun friendly . terms with colored men, the Atlants DECEMBER 17 unce him nas “traitor.” fimnlrl(‘nl troupe at- tempted to play Qncle Tom’s Cabin" in a Texas to ut a boistrous mob prevented th ormance. The Con- Stitution approves this action and de- clares “there' 35 no reason why ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin’ shfuld be played down south.” All ¥hich proves that the versatile Grad§f pilssesses two coats of de- cidedly differeiit texture. Fransuiy B Gow who took his own life in Washington, Saturday, was a conspicuoud figure in railroad and legal circlos fifteon years ago. A man of uncommon, ability, and courage that did not quail in the most trying situa- tions, he forced his way to the frout ranks of railroad managers and organ - izors. The Reading railroad system was his creation, To him is due the credit of stamping out that murderous organization of miners known as the Mollie Maguives. Beyond that his ca- recr calls for neither commen- dation nor eulogy. Gowen laia the foundation of that odious conl monopoly which lovies tribute on the people. An inveterate onemy of labor organizations, he precipitated countless strikes among the omployes, and spread distress, despair and even death io hundreds of homes. His life was a continuous battle for tho strong against the weak, and the few honor- able deeds which marked his career were long since blotted ont by the tears wrung from his starving vietims. TiE mail sack vendor of stale slander attempts to vitalize the consumptive junk shop on lawer Douglas street by injecting putrid virusinto its curcas, Like all anonymous cowards, he sneaks behind a transparent mask and re- hashes the false and moldy chestnuts which have been peddled through the state by him and kin for years. Bark- ing curs never bite. The mail sack mongrel has had his teeth eclipped years ago. It was this same poisoned breath which compelled the Union Pa- cifiz, in self defense, to place tho owner on the compuny’s pay roll at one hun- dred and fifty dollars a month to pre- vent him from betraying confidence. For this salary the only service ren- dered was the corruption of legislators through the oil room in Lincoln. Such characters cannot cloak their infamies. Ir Mulhatton not taken perma- nent quarters in Sioux City, his reputa- tion is seriously endangered. The boomers of that burg can construct more fairy tale$'in a week than Mun- chausen in alife time. With a simple stroke of the penbridges and railronds rise up like magic. The latest attempt to build the Missouri Pacific to that point was undertak n without the con- sent of the company, but this trifling difference of opinion will not affect the prolific builder: !;enumo ‘air lines,” NEW. MMENL. Europe is lnet{ug at the ides of an out- break of Asiutic cholera. There is great activity in the sun and sun spot theorists arg breaking out. Now that cold'weather may be expected at. any time, 1t is to be hoped the thermometer will not take a drop too much. The matinee performance of Messrs. An- derson and Roche are getting to be regular features of themeetings of the county board, The Hon. Buffalo Bill may not know very much about keeping books but he seems to havea very intelligent and tenacious grip on the gate receipts. Senator George of Mississippi jomned the church before he left home for Washington, He evidently understood the nature of his future surroundings. The *Pigs in Ciover" have finally reached London, but they probably won't give John Bull half as much troublg as do the pigs the styes of County Cork. Cleveland has become very loquacious on political questions. He isno doubt trying to manufacture democratic sentiments for future campaign transparencies. Queen Victoria has taken several prizes for catvtle exhibited at an English agricul- tural show. Poor indeed would be the royal ‘“‘eritter” that would not get & premium. Last week a farmer's wife in Ontario eloped with & handsome mulatto, The hus- band is in hot pursuit, Whether he will overtake them or not is a race problem. Near Buffalo, New York, a railroad pedes- tram picked up a $40,000 package which had been lost from a railroad pay car. The com- pany gove him $10. 'Who says a corporation has no soul? z It issnid that 1t cost Mr. Squire $60,000 to be elected United States senator from Wash- ington. Flis term is one year and four months, This seems like a big price to pay for a little whistle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch informs a cor- respondent that *‘Abou Ben Adhem is found in Longfellow’s **Talbs of a Wayside In,” The esteemed P-D would do woll to Hunt up its authorities ngain. Prosident Harrison hasappointed **Dollie” Johnson of Lexwgton, Ky., colored, as cook for the white house. She was recommended oy Theodore Roosevelt, who no doubt sub- jected her to a rigid civil service ex amina- tion, The exact figures of ber standing in “ipies aua things” are not given, A bill has been introduced into the legis- lature of North Dakota to prohibit money lenders from taking more than 7 per ceny interest. The proposed measure contains a proviso that if more than 12 is exacted, prin- cipal and interest shall be forfeited, It is very kind thus to define the extent to w hich the law may be broken with impunity, —rt———— And This Town Wants the Fair. Ne: ?‘urfi World. It's sneezy thlu‘? for influenza to spread in Europe. Wk . Yt 2 oyt An Essential Faot. St. Louis Giobe-Democrat, Congressman Séneyhas entered the race for the Ohio senatorstiif! ¢ We could tell more avbout his chances 1f we knew more about his bank account. P> A5 S Boulanger asa L -cturer, New' York Worid, Boulanger, the blasted, 1s really coming to the United States w lecture, 1t used to be “said that patriotism was the last refugeol a scoundrel. The American lecture fleld, it seems, has charms for some people, C - A meeting of anarchists in Brooklyn one evening last weok was a total failure on ac- count of haviug been mistakenly located in & hall blocks from the nearest keg of beer. - An Jateresting Oolnecidence. 8t. Pawt Globe, 1t is an historical poincidence worth uot- ing that Jeff Davis was buried on the day that congress celebrated the centennial of ‘Washiogton's inauguration, Itis a linkiong together of events which tends to give em- phinsls to Androw Jackson's famous declara- tion—"By the Eternal the [ederal union must and shall be presorved." - - - BTATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, A Sons of Veterans camp has been mus. tered in at Juniata. A reading roomn has been opened at Doni- phan by the W. C. T. U, An Epworth league has been formoed by !‘P_m young people of the Methodist church at ork. George W. Mairbrother, jr., has sold the Nemaha City Times to W. W, Sanders of the Advertiser, The charter of the Woman’s Relief corps of Juniata, which was taken away a yoar 8go, has been restored. Willilam Robinson, ntenarian who had resided in Custer county for seventeen years, died near Calloway a fow d ago. All of the Humphrey liquor desaiers have been arrested for violating the law by con- ducting saloons under assigned licensos, An attempt is to be made to adjust the old olaim of Dawes county aguinst Box Butte, Which arose over division and which amounts to several thonsand dollars, There are throe veterans of the Mexican war living #in Nemaha county—S, Clayton. noar Peru, W. Torance, near Brownville, and Mujor J. W, Brush of Auburn, After a two week's stormy carcer tha Hastings Press, edited by the versatile Wait Mason, was obliged to throw up the sponge, but it performed the act very gracofully, In spite of quiet times Ord has had a build- ing boom this season. Two stores, a church and twenty-five dwelling houses have been crected and three more residences aro now being built. Mrw, B, E. Polley of Kimnball, while mak- ing molasses candy, tripped over the kettle, spilling the boiling liquid over both hands and burning them so severely that they may be permanently disfigured, Mrs. Larson, wifo of the man who was murdered by tramps nearJulesburg last Au- gust, died last weck at her home in Perkins county, She had been in a demented condi- tion ever since the murder of her husband. An ice company at Broken 15ow has con- structed a largo pond which will be supplied with water from the waterworks, serving the doublo purnose of a skating rink and an ice factory. A reception room will be erected for the convenience of skaters. The Nebraska Improved Stock association meets in Lincoln on the third Tuesduy of Feb- ruary and continues three days. Every effort i8 being made to gnurantee tiie success of the meoting und a programme of unusual inter- est i3 being prepared. All. farmors and stockmen of tha stute are invited to attend. L G. Rhine, o well-to-do farmer living fow miles north of Western, and a brother of J. W. Rhine, judge of Saline county, made an attempt to horsewhip Rev. B. K. Sum- mors. Rhine was promptly arrcsted and placed under $400 bonds to keep the peace. ‘Ihe ussault grew out of a supposed4nsult 1o one of Rhine’s friends. lowa Items, Fall plowing is still in progress In ail parts of the state. There are 702 patients in the Independence insane asylum. There are 364 children in the state orphans’ home in Davenport, The Lo Mars city council has passea an ordinance closing barber shops on Sunday. Isaao Garrett of Iudianola, who died last week, only lacked three months of being a centenarian. “Uhere is talk of building a chamber of com- merce, & Masonic temple and a memorial armory at Dubuque. @ l'ae editor of the Clarinda Herald made an editorial kick on cattle running at large in the streets and _his own Gows were the first to be impounded. A calf was born in Homestead which has 0o tall, only oae eye and u crooked jaw. The curious monstrosity is now four weeks old and has a good prospect for a long and use- ful life. One firm at Glenwood nas shipped out 4,900 barrels of apples to Loockport, N. Y. Altogether, since July 5, 1889, there have boen shipped out of Glénwood ninety-four carloads of avples. At Betle Plaine’ last week Ira Husted was acquitted of selling intoxicating Lquors. A celebration of the event was held in the evening at Husted's place, and Juke Hale, one of the participants, got so drunk that he ‘was unable to K‘fl home and was taken to the roomof one of his companions iu the de- bauch, In the morning he was found dead in bed and the coroner’s jury brought in a verdict that he came to his death from the excessive use of alcohol. The town of Dallas Center was in a fever of excitement the other night. The whole town assembled at the depot to meet the principal of the schools on his arrival from Winburn, where he Lad gone in the after- noon. But instead of gathering to welcome him with open arms they were propared to administer summary punishment. The day before the privcipal had brutally whippea a little son of Alex Justice, and as he had been previously charged with incompetency, bru- tality aud other shortcomings, snd only re. tained his position through influence with some members of the school board, the citi- zens determined to whitecap him, The prompt action of Mayor Richmond, who ap- peared on' the scene with the marshal and a posse of more cool-headed citizens, alone pre- vented bloodshed. A new teacher will be secured by tho bourd. Bryond the Rockies. Allthe public schools and churches at Heppuer, Ore., have been closed on account of typoid fever, A vein of sand corundum, much used in polishing metals, has been discovered in Churchill county. Nevaaa. The Elkhorn mine, one of the great min- ing properties of Montana, has been sold to an English syndicate for more than $500,000. Citizens of Seattle, Wash., have raised $50,000 towards securing the erection of an elevator with a cavacity ot 250,000 bushels of wheat. Farmer-Eachus of Oregon set a trap for coyotes in his chicken house and his first mght's catch was & lynx that weighed 110 pounds. C. S. Miller, an old-time miner well known ou the Pacific coast, 18 missing frotn Sparta, Ore,, and is believed to have perished in the mountains, The Helena authorities are taking 1o all the corner loafers who apparently have nothing to do but to sture ladies out of countenance, A Portland, Ore., democrat, in addressing 8 crowd said: *Jeff Davis was a — sight better man than Abe Lincoln.” A republi- can standing by knocked bim in the gutter, Sixty-two sticks of giant powaer gwhich were being thawed out near Oregon City caught fire and exploded, shaking every building in town buv fortunately doing but livtle damage. The towns of Logan and Payson in Utah are 160 miles apart, yet they are connected by a telephone which works perfectly, The line will be extended to Franklin, Idaho, in nl’%w weeks, a distance of 215 miles from Lohan. The Aunaconda smelter at Butte, Mont., is now handling about fifteen hundred tons of ore per dnn Since the starting up of the works sud up to the time of the fire in the mine, the smelter kandlod about twenty- five hundred tons per day. As soon as every- thing is in shape again, tho smelter will ais- pose of 3,500 to 4,000 tons every twenty-four hours, Samuel A, Linnox, a raucher, while on his way to0 Olympia, Wash., was halted by two armed men between that city sud Te- nino, who demanded his mon After du possessing him of &5) in cash and a gold watch and chain valued at $250, they com- pelled bim t strip off his clothes, which they appropriated, leaving him o go his way entirely divested of clothinz, Ifvom a prominent mining man of Dutte, who is a member of the Montana legislature, it 15 learned that @ new and rich vein of ore has been discovered in the north workings of the Alice mine. This, coupled with the re- port that President Walker of Salt Lake un agent in New York buying up stock for himself and fricuds, gives tho report u phase of reliability. ) Here is a bitof interesting history, given by the Salt Lake Tribune: On April 6, 1853, when laying the corner stone of the temple in this city, Edward Huuter sald, among other things: “What else do we behold? Wickedness, the hvdraheaded mouster, apostacy, dures to liftits head, Witha strong arm hush in eternal silence every in- grato spirit who profencs with his unholy 0ce this most hol‘y place. So shall rael put away iniquity from their mm ufllnw“:muulu the favor of the of Hosts, OLD-TIMERS OF MONTANA, i by Oontrast Batween the It of the Pio- neers and the Tenderfoet, The old-timers of Montana are now a proud lotof men. They have just rea- son to be proud, hecause it was they who | first blazed the trail and withstood the trials and tribulations which the wild and wooly west had only to offer the ones who fivst entered its domain, says the Butte Miner. Coming, as many of them did, from homes surrounded by all the luxuries and civi ¢ influ- onces necessary to malk h liv- ing, it no small task for those men to tear themselves loose from the world and enter a wilderness where for months at a time nothing save the blue canopy of heaven shielded them from the frosty breath of old Borens he swooped down on them from the ice-clad shores of Manitoba, Bacon, beans nnd flap- jacks comprised their bitl of fare, and the man who at all times was fortunate enough to have tho latter delicacy three times a duy was considered to be a dude. Flour in those days was not the cheapest article of diet the market afforded, as it had to be packed or hauled hundreds of miles. At the time when it was scarce hundreds of dollars were paid for a single sack. Money was plentiful, ns it was then that the placer clams were yieiding up their hidden wealth., These men who slept, ate, drank and worked toguther, ave the ones who now pause und glantve back at the rugged pathway along which thoy traveled. Some of these pionesrs have accumulated a handsome competence, while others have not beoh so fortunate and are now merely the shadow of their former selves. For those who have been fortunate nothing but praise can be spoken, because in their efforts to achiove that which every living man hopes to possess—plenty of mone,; hey had their ups and downs, more of tha lattor than of the former. Ior those o the old-timers who have ueither bef come wealthy nor achieved greatness but have, nevertheless, plodded along the rough road and withstood the vioissitudes so natural to life in a new country, nothing but pity can be ex- pressed, because they tried and failed. The pioneers, one and all, are a brave lot of men, and it iito their courage and enevgy that Montana is indebted for the vlace it now occupies among the galaxy The new-come ave a different class of peopie from the old, and although some of them are possessed of a got-up- and-get spirit, they have not the proper qualities to plunge nto a wilderness and stay with it until it would become a tenderfoot’s mecea, as the old-timers in Montana have done. Those who left eastern homes many years ago to invade the unknown precincts of aborigines did something which required grit. After they had crossed the pale of civ- ilization ‘they did not know at what moment they would fathom the great unknown at the hands of the red man, who at that time was monarch of all he surveyed. Many talesof narrow cscapes from lndians can be related by many of them. and yot there was something so fascinating about the out-door, rough- and-tumble way of existing that they even now breathe a sigh of rogret when they awaken to the realization that those days of bacon and beans have for- over vanished from view. Although the new men (commonly known as *‘tenderfeet’’) are virtually in the west, they do not know anything about west- ernlif2. Some of them left their east- ern homes with a goodly supply of lucre, earned. perhaps, their poor old fathers, and have never even suf- feredithe inconvenience of riding out- side of a Pullman sleeper. They did not pack their grub and biankets on their bucks and march hundreds of miles to reach the greatest silver pro- ducing camp on_carth, as did the pio- neers, but quietly snoozed in their cosy berths while the iron horse whirled them westward over the trail blazed by the hurdy gold hunters. It is safe to say that not one ovt of every 100 “‘ten- derfeet” who have left the east for the west during the pasttwo years but what before starting armed himself ‘‘to the teeth” with a 22-caliber pistol, with which to kil! buffalo and Indians from the train windows, and supplicd him- self with letters of recommendation to the “illiterate” people of Mon'tuna to the effect that the ‘‘bearer 1s so and so, and knows more than any one else in the state, and wouid like a soft job and alarge salary in consequence ‘of his smartuess.” This is the caliber of the average person who now seeks to usurp the place of the man who for twenty or thirty years has labored incessantly to establish a commonwealth, that the “tenderfoot” might not be subjected to the “horrible” fate of having to sleep outside of a parlor or subsist on a diet not fit for alord. e A MEAGER REWARD, The Pay Received By Hay and Nico- lay For Thelr Life of Abraham Lincol “Gath,” in Cincinpata Enquirer: ““What is to be the ultimate form of the publication of the life of Abraham -Lincoln which you (Colonel John Hay) nnl? (‘gloncl Nicolay are publishing ser- sally? It is to be published by the Century company in ten volumes, and I have Lunt been reading some of the proofs, It as now been nearly twenty-five years since you first announced 1 one of your newspaper letters that we were to write this book. I told you at the white house just after Mr, Lincoln’s death that we were resolved to undertakr i, At the time we commenced this pyb- cation a great deal was said and printed about the large sum of money we re- coived for the mauuscript. {tis true that the 350,000 we were paid between us was probably the largest sum that o serial publication had paid for any series of contributions, but I made a computation a few days ago upon what had been paid for our time in preparing this book. We have received $1.50 a day each and no more. The rest has gone for expenses. 1 have been com- pelled to buy hundreds of books and manuscrips, of which individual vol- umes have cost me #25 apiece, Look here.” Colonel Huy showed me from a dozen to twenty vol- umes of manuscript bound carefully, **These,” said he, *‘ave the original archives and letters of Jefferson Davyis, his cabinet and the contederate govern- ment. I bought them from Colonel Fickett, the same officer who sold to the United Stutes for $75,000 a similar set,” The colonel opened one of the volumes and showed me an endorsemeat in lead vencil by Jefferson Davis to Judah I%, Benjamin, bis secretary of state. whole penciling wasin Mr. Davis’ hand- writing. * He orders Mr. Benjamin to write a state letter to Mr. Mercier and Lord Lyons, calling them io take action upon Mr. Seward’s revealment of his policy toward the Freonch under Maxi- milian in Mexico. The letter was written in Davis’ generally passionate or oratorical style, with u{unduut ad- jectives. *Why, I thought that these letters were iu the state dopurtment.” “They ure; you see these official papers were very often issued in dupli- | cate or in triplicate, because a good many of them had to be sent by block- ade-runners between the south and Kurove, and if one set was to be lost another set would be vreserved, In that way the papers which I bought are frequent|y originals, while those ia the state department copies, and in other cases tho state department papors are original and mine are coples. I have thought after we finish the publi= cation of Mr. Lincoln’s life I would © a limited edition of these dispatches in o particular book.'” “Then you have not been getting for all your original contributions and com- positions upon this work of twenty-five yoars more than a laborer's wages up at the new library building by the capitol building. " ‘“Just that, Our partial papors in the Century Magazine will come to an end next February and will have occupred three yearsin their publication. Kyory- thing has been cut out of the magazine chapters which not directly bear upon Lincoln here in the east. Al rof- erence to Shormun’s campaign and im- portant matters in the west have been omitted which properly come within the compuss of Lincoln’s life, In the book publication this excepted matter will be contained.” - - CAPITOL CITY NEWS, Scrogeine vs. Mc Clelian, LINCOLN BUREAU 07 Tie OMAus [3gs, 1020 P Stieer, f Laxcowy,” Neb., Dec. 16, Hon. E. F. Warren of Nebraska City, referee in tho caso of L. K. Scroggins of Mount Pulaski, Iil,, va J. W. MeClellan of Edgar, this statoe, will hear the argumonts at the Capital hotel tomorrow, commonsiag at 7 o'clock. The testimony in the cuse was taken up at Nelson several weeks ago and at the time Tur Bre gave full particulars. * It is therefore euough to state that the cause is founded ubon an open account aggregating $23,000, which the PIaintiff seoks to recover, n 13, Wheoler of this city was engaged to tako a steno- v, and it proves about the richest piece of ‘what a printer would emphasizo as “phat’’ which he iias yot struck in his professional cageer, Ho has completed his tianseript of the testimony the case, It makes five large bound volutnes of typo-writton text. His foes for tram. scribing reach the handsome suw_of $1 384, o received an additional $185 for s services during the taking of the testimony, State House Jottings. Articles incorporating the Gate City Coal company of Omaha was filed today. Au- thorized capital stock, $10,000. Tncorporators; W. L. Weaver. J. 13. Huse aud T. E. Lee. The deputy labor commissioner goos to Grand Island tomorrow to look after the analysis of sugar made there during the sca- son. The commissioner is decply interested in the contemplated sugar industries, Tie Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad company notified the state board ot transportation today of its acceptance of the coal reduction ordors and filed_the schedule of shipping rates ns requested. It will thus be sen that uil of the kickiug voads have fallen iuto line. The convential protest of the Pullman Car company against tho payment of its tax as- sessments is at hand. Devuty Auditor Bow- erman seat out notices today thut promp paymenf sted. It is understood that 1he Pallman com, will make the usual fight. The courts may have to sottle the matter after all, New Notarics Public. The governor today made the following noturial appointments: George H. Bowning, Stuart, Holt ccunty; C. P. Lloyd, York, York county; W. Chumberlin, Clarks, Mer- rick county; Frauk L. Dunn, Licoln, Lan- caster county; A. H. Cramer, Adams, Hast- ings county: C. D. Stevens, Kimwood, Cass county; Irviug G. Barright, Omaha, Doug- lus county; R. S. Bibb, leatrics, Guge county; H. A. Edwards, Grand 1sland, Hall countyi Johu H, Christner, Hayes Contar, Hayes county, Supreme Court Oases. The following cases were filed for trial in the supreme court today : E. A. Fletcher vs R. F. Cummings: error from the district sourt of Franklin county. Edward A. Oliver et al vs the Chicago, Burliogton & Quincy raiiroad compan, error from the district court of Cass count; State ex rel. Martin L. Eastorcay vs Mar- tin Horn, couaty clerk of Lancaster county; mandamus, City News and Notes. S. C. Lippincott has been appointed cashior of the First National bank. The gamblers arrestod Saturday night nad a preliminary hearing today before® Judgo Houston and were admitted to bail, pending trial in the district court. The reunion executive committee mev at McArthur's drug store tonight at 8 o'clock shorp. Present, H, S. Hotchkiss, Silas Sprague, O. E. Gardell, Martin Howe, C, W, Lyman, W. M. Gillispio and N. G. Fraoklin, ‘The committee is making an earaest cffort to secure the Grand_Army of the ‘Republio re- union of 1890 for this city. ‘The funeral of Isaac George, who died last Saturday alternoon from the effects of the injuries he received at Crabb's mill, took place today from the family residence on west A streot. It was thought for a time that he would recover, but the shock and the attending operation proved too much for his constitution v stand. e 5 Crowding the Lizarasd Professions. The rush 1o the learned professions began, it is sometimes affirmed, after the depression in agriculture and the corresponding rebound from the com3 mercial prosperity of fiftecn or twenty yeurs ngo, says the London Standard "This may, no doubt, be partially true. But as the same phenomenon has been noticed in every other country, the ox- planation may be sought alittle deeper. The real cause will, we venture to thiuk, be found in the ever-increasin, tendency on the part of the parents an their sons to look to the ‘‘gentlemanly professions” instead of the mcre lucra- tive and more certain callings of u less “genteel” description. In Germany and America this trait is perhaps exhib- ited in its most exaggerated form, simply because in those countries pro- fessional training is cheap and the pre- liminary education uhundEmt or eusy to obtain, * But we see it everywhore olse* Siuce the school board ‘brought the three RX's within reach of every child,it is notorious that these youthful gradu- ates have shown a repugnance to the useful lives in which they have been born, ~They want to “better them- selves” by " becoming city clerks or nursery governesses, It is the first re- sult produced byan unwonted state of affairs, By and by education will get 100 common to be marketable. It will then bo regarded simply as a prelim- inary calling, and not a necessnay ante cedent of what the Germanscall **bread studies.” A carpenter, or a blacksmith. or a machinest, or a shoop-keeper will discover that he is none the worse for being a good scholar, and will even find that in the enhanced esteem, the greater pleasure and the enlurged chances in life, which it gives him, he is quite as much beunefitted by his edu- cationas if he had sought to earn hi Jiving by means of iv directly, SICK HEADACH