Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1889, Page 4

MORNING. }'UBLIBI:{ED EVERY TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally and Sunday, One Yeur.. ... . TR A e Three Months, Bunday liee, Onle Year Weekly Bee, One ¥ OF! Omana, Bes Bullding. Chicage Offoe, 47 Rookery Tinilding New York, Houms 14 und 15 Teibune Build- ucteenth Strest. Pear] Street. #10 00 o0 it Premium. ine Washington. No. 513 Councll Blufts, No. . LAncoin, 1029 P Sti 6 Eoutl Omaha, Corner N and 20th Strests. CORRESPONDENCE. 1 communieations relating to news and edi- Sonl matier should be addressed 1o the Editor. 1nl Department, BUSINESS L ANl Unsiness letters and remittances shonld e addressed Lo The Publishing Company, Omuha. 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FEIL, otary Public Btato of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | George B, Tzgchiuck, heing duly sworn, d poses and that he'ls secretary of The L Fublisbing Company, that the actual aye dmily circulation of Tie DAl month of December, 18, nuary, 188, \900 coples: for April, 8,000 coples: for Jube, 1850, 18,838 cop July, 184 3 coples; for Angust, 1 - o1 coples: for September, 1559, ‘18710 coples; for October 18%, 18,7 coples; for November, 680, 19.910 coples ' Growar B. T7s0muck. §Wworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this3th day of November, A D., 1883, (Seal.] N. P, Fi STAND back, gentlemen; give Cush- ing a chance to breathe. GRAND ISLAND has entered the race for the state fair. It behooyes Omaha 10 hump herself. copies; _for bruary, 185, 18,554 ‘cople: ay, i & THe attacl:s on Mrs. Harrison’s myth- ical punch bowl serve to show that there are a few lunatics outside the asylums. IN view of Mr. McGinty's proficiency with a revolver, as shown in New York, people of curious disposition should **look out for him.” Avrnouei he sank to sleep at the meridian of manhood, the works and words of Henry W. Grady will live and thrill both north and south in coming years. Tue pressure for office among the Town democrats is not surprising. Thir- ty-five years outside the “‘breastworks” is sufficient to produce o dangerous ap- petite. Tme greaitest problem which con- fronts the mayor-elect is how to crowd two thousand of his followers into fifty offices. There will be more disappoint- ments than appointments, THE persistent if not consistent cut~ ting of bills by the commissioners strengthens the belief that we are on the threshold of a season of enforced economy in county affairs, THE republicans have a working ma- jority of the council and will organize that body. Democratic candidates for the presidency are wasting mental and muscular tissue in struggling against this cold fact. Tix movement of the real estate ex- change to secure a knitting mill and boot and shoe factory promises to be a success. Members backed their faith with cash and stocksubscriptions. Such uction counts, * E— CurisT™MAS shoppers will find the teeming pages of Tie BEERa complete directory of the reliable business houses, It is a perfoct panorama of the holiday trade, and readers will profit * by patronizing those whoss wares are described in its columns. B e BANK clearings, realty transactions and the building record continue piling p solid evidence of Omaha’s prosper- ty. The sum total of each far exceeds the record of 1888, while the outlook for 1690 promises to surpass, in commercial and idustrial growth, any year.in the history of the cit, S ——— THE Dakota relief committee should not hesitate about going ahead with the work. Hundreds of families require not only immediata assistanco but suffi- cient aid to keep poverty from their doors until next year's crop is har- vested. The opposition to outside aid is confined to n fow persons who fear that unavoidable misfortune will re- tard immigration to the states. Gov- ernor Mellette declares that the dis- tress is too great to be adequately met at home, and assistance from Dakota's more fortunute neighbors will be thani- fully received. Let the good work €0 on, | e SECRETARY WINDOM'S refusal to re- new the lease of the Alaska Commer- cial company will go far toward break- ing up that odious wonopoly. Kor nearly twenty years the company has had absolute control of the seal fish- eries, and by manipulating the forces at its command dictated the govern- ment of the country. Itsinfluence has been a detriment to the development of Alaska, and if the secretary succeeds in breaking it up the interests of that re- gion will be materially forwarded. In any event the determination of the gov- ernment to relet the contract to the highest biader will bring a larger sum {rom the seal fisheries into the national treasury, SUGGESTIVE FIGURES. During the first ten months of the eurrent year the value of iron and steel manutactures imported into the United States was in round figures scventeen millfon dollars. In the same time the exports of these manufactures, includ- ing agricultursl implements, from this country amounted in value to nearly twenty-three million dollars. Thus we sent abroad manufactures of iron and steel, embracing nlmost every- thing produced from iron, valued at between four and five million dollars more than we received of the manufac- tures of iron and steel. We are mak- ing steady progress in this respect not- withstanding the heavy taxes on raw materials, and under more favorable tariff conditions it is not questionable that the advance would be rapid. The sign nce of these stavistics should not be lost sight of when con- comes to revise the tariff. The obvious fact is that with ove supersor machinery and the greater skill and energy of Ameri- can workingmen wo are now ablo to compete in neutral markets with Buro- pean manufacturers in a great variety ticles the production of which com- mands the highest wages. Not only do we offer an equal or better quality of goods—and in some manufactured arti- cles the United States is far in ths lead of all other countries—but as to muny of them can undorsell foreign com- petito Manifestly with cheaper raw materials our margin of advantage would be increased, and being in a po- sition to offer better inducements to foreign buyers our exports of manu- factured goods would inevitably grow. In thus enlarging our markets we should at the same time enlarge the op- portunities of our workingmen, and with the increased demand for skilled labor the wages of such labor would necessarily be maintained. Tur BEE has heretofore shown that o reduction of 4uties on manu- factured goods and on raw materials caif be made without the least injury to a pumber of industries, but on the contrary with advantage to them and material benefit to our own people. The figures of the value gress of the fmports and exports of the manu- facturers of iron and steel fully justify our position. Most of the articies comprised in our exports of these r ufactures, as stoves, agriculiurs plements, sewing machifes and cut- lery, are sold in the foreign markets at a less price than ow own people pay for them, an obvious in- justice to home consumers that calls ioudly for remedy. The farmers who demand protection for their products may be pardoned for complaining when they know that the agriculturists of Canada, or even those more remote, can buy their farm implements cheaper than the American farmer, and there is some reason for general compldiint when it 1s learned that many articles of domestic manufacture necessary to every household are sold cheaper in the foreign than in the home market. The ways and means committee of the house will, in a few days, begin hearing those interests which ave con- cerned in the tariff. It is not probable that much pew information will be elicited, or that these interests gener- ally will be found less earnest than heretofore in their demand that the tariff shall be modified as little as pos- sible. There has unquestionably been a growth of public sentiment within the past year in favor of a material reduc- tion of tariff duties,and the influence of this will doubtless be felt upon con- gress, But thore could be no better or more convincing evidence of our ability to remove some duties and modify others than that which is supplied by our trade statistics, DEATH OF HENRY W. GRADY. A brilliant intellectual light went out when Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, died. Mr. Grady had within a few years achieved na- tional fame as an orator almost peerless among his contemporaries, and asthe foremost exponent of the thought and aspirations of the south of today. A little more than two years ago he addressed the New England society of New York in a speech whose cloquence commanded the attention and admiration of the entire country, and on at least two notable occasions since his eloguent thought and glowing rhetoric have confirmed his right to a prominent place among great American orators, The last of these oceasions, when Mr. Grady surpassed his previous efforts. was only two weeks ago at the dinuner of Boston merchants. He spoke on the race problem, and no other recent utterance of auy man in this country attracted such gen- eral attention anda such ex- tended comment and discussion as have been given to Mr. Grady’s presen- tation of oneof the most vital ana im- portant questions before the American people. However strongly tho views and position of the orator upon this issue have been criticized and con- demned, there has been no difference of opinion respecting the rare and iw- pressive eloquence of the effort. The loss to contemporary thought of 80 bright un intellect is cause for gen- eral regret, but to the people of the south the death of Mr. Grady is a bereavement they will profoundly mourn, Not only did they honor him as the most brilliant champion of their political and soziai opinions, but as one of the most intelligent and earnest workers in promoting the material prosperity of the south. As an editor his pen was ever 1n sorvice for the ad- vancement of enterorises and industries for building up that section, snd the cause of education in the south had no more earuest advocate. Last year Mr. Grady was urged to be a candidate for the United States s2nate against Sen- ator Colquatt, but declined to do so, He was still a young man and had he lived might have commanded the highest public honor that Georgia could bestow. mm— THE RAINBOW VANISHING, The candidacy of Calvin Brice for senator in Ohio has received a decided check. Sixty leading democrats of the state, including Allen G. Thurman, and several members of the legislature, are out in opposition to the rainbow chaser, and it is not improbable that their in- fluence will overcome the power of the bar'l. That Brice depends solely on the power of money to succeed Payne is evident from the army of agents he has scattered through the state to work up support. The hold utterances of the opposition, and their decision to take an active part in the campaign next month, dis- sipates the impression created by Brice's tools that the democracy of the state was practically unanimous for the wentleman from New York. While the struggie of boodle against brains concerns Ohio directly, it also possesses national interest. It is a con- test of independenco against corporate power. Brice represents the corpora- tions. Nominally a resident of Ohio, his home and business is in New York. His surroundings, his associations and all his interests are dominated by corporate influences, It was this influence, in addition to a liberal fortune, which placed him in charge of the democratic national committee. Personally an agreeable young man, Brice lacks the essential qualities of a leader and manager. In a party sense the election of Brice would be a substantial gan for the ro- publicans of Ohio. It would clearly ate that the democrats of that state are nothing more than puppets in the hands of the cor- porations. The election of was a matter of barter and sale so open and flagrant that no denial- was at- tempted. Brice hopes to win by the same meuns and the same influences. But beyond party advantage lies nu- tional welfare. The monopolics are already too well intrenched in the vational senate. Thero are too many men there whose wealth, wrung from the producers of the country, is their chief qualification. Bvery well wisher of the country desires to sce the senate made the forum of beains and indepen- dence,not a collection of millionaires. For this reason it is to be hoped that the democrats of Ohio will spurn the “bar’l” and send a man to the senate whom the corporations can not control. THE establishment of a boot and shoe factory would be the foundation of a sevies of kindred industries in the city. The raw material lies righit at our door. The thousands of hides shipped out of this city offers unequalied inducements and certain profits for tanneries. The tauning processes hiave long since passed the stage requiring oak and hemlock bark, Tannic acid can be produced from sumac and that can be raised in Nebraska as well as in the east. Pine and fir bark is -considered as effective as either oak or hem- lock, and the mountaing of the west contain inexhaustible quanti- tits of both. With all grades and vari eties of ides to be had at the packing houses, sumac in abundance, and bark if necessary, within a reasonable dis- tance, al! the essentials for the success- ful opcration of tanneries ave right here, while a boot and shoe factory would furnish a steady home market for at least a portion of the manufactured product. Both industries are inter-de- pendent. By securing the boot and shoe factoy one or more tanneries would follow, insuring a diversity of industry of vast importance to the city. TnE latest advices from Brazil are to the offect that the political situation there is not so peaceful and reassuring as appears on the surface, and that a serious upheaval is still possible. It is said that there 1s a great deal of dis- satisfaction with the provisional gov- ernment, which has been pursuing in some reapects a ratherarbitrary course, and there are intimations that an up- rising may occur at any time. It is undoubtedly a fact that there are forces at work in Bra- zil inimical to the new republic, but there is probably no great danger to be feared from them ualess they can se- cure European countenance and aid, which they are very likely endeavoring to do. Under the circumstances, as the latest information presents them, the position of those members of the senate who thought the proposal that this gov- ernment should at once recognize the republic of zil to be premature was perhaps judictous, although our recog- nition might have an important influ- ence toward preventing an effort to overthrow the republi THEsubjecy of reclaiming the arid region of the west is making great progress in congress. A few years ago the question was not seriously consid- ered in or out of congress, but the grewth of the country and the practical disappearance of the public domain susceptible of cultivation by matural moisture, directs attention to the mil- lions of acres of arid land abutting the Rocky mountaing from the headwaters of the Missouri river to the gulf. Most of this vast region can be made pro- duetive by irrigation, and there is an ample supply of water, if properly hus- banded, to reclaim it. How best to hun- dle these resources is the problem. Both houses huve appointed special committees to consider the subjact and determine on a practical plan, and de- cisive action may be looked for this ses- sion. THE city council of St. Louis has passed an ordinance providing for the erection of gas works by a private com- pany, conditioned that at the end of thirty years the city shall purchase the plant for the snug sum of four and a half million dollars. As a further in- ducement the city contracts to pay five per cent per annum on that sum, ora lump sum of two hundred and twenty- five thousaud. The bowus is certainly a8 generous as any gas company could reasonably demand. The surprising part of the deal is that the council for- ot to turn over the city treasury to the combine. THERE is 8 significant similarity in all reports of “‘race riots” in the south. The latest from Mississippi show that the negroes were defeated as usual. Two were killed and several wounded. Of course none of the whites were harmed, It is a dull and lifeless day when the shotgun brigade cannot start 4 row as an excuse to slaughter a few “niggers.” Nl-?w‘s COMMENT. Rosa Bonhyer, the great animal painter, has just completod a pictare of Buffalo Bily. Parnell’s wansinew is swelling up again. He received Wchock for 817,500 at Liverpool last week with which to carry on the Irisn contest. There s progress In jurisprudence over in Towa. A jury in that state has decided that it ie justifiable homicide to kill a member of 8 charivar parky. The legislatiré of Virginia is squabbling over a bill recaotly introduced to allow women to practicn law 1 the Old Dominion, ‘The arguments prosonted show that old fos- silism has a firm frip on the state, The Yalo students who bought a bear and made him drunk on champagne in order to appropriately celebrate their foot ball vietory over Harvard, have now to sottle with the faculty for their fun, This shows that it is a disgrace to cause a bear 0 act like a Yale student. Dandelions are blooming in Tilinofs, butter- flies flutter among the flowers in Pennsylva- nia, and water lilios are unfolding on tho ponds of New York. Such universaliy mild weather throughout the country is almost unprecedented, but there 18 a general foeling of uneasiness that we will have to pay for our green Cbristmas with green graves later on, Ono by one the myths of history fall. ™ A French savant has just published a book in which he is said to prove that the swmted maiden, Joan of Are, did not save Franco from the English, Washington’s hatchet is in obscurity. Pochahantas did not throw her arms about John Smith's neck to save his life. Where will this iconoclasm endl Colonel D. Arnaud, a Russian resident of Washington, well known amoug his coun- trymen as intonsely hostile to nihilism, has received a threateninglotter from the cen- tral committee of the nihilist society in New York. The document states that it has been resolved to remoye him and closes with the usual red-ink signature and skuil and cross- vones. That sort of thing will hardly do in this country. i In the Dark. Washington Post. Now that the New York electric lights aro shut off the place is so dark that the peoplo over there can not see to put money into the world's fair fund. Reform, Bufalo Express. Edward Bellamy, author of ‘“Looking Backward,” has written o magazine articls on “What Can Be Done With the Servant Girl?" The right answer to this conundrum is: give her unrestricted use of the oil can. A ump.” New York Commercial Advertiser. ‘We have been asked to define the word chump. At this season of the year the only certain thing about the chump is that he is the man who would sit under the mistletoe with a pretty girl and never offer to do his duty like a man and brother. kil et A Terrible Revenge. Boston Advertiser Tho Chicago. 'Uribune avenges itsell by placing under the heading *‘The Country Editors,” a collection of quotations from Brooklyn, Philadelphia, New York and 1n- dianapolis newspapers, which speaks in words of sarcasm of Chicago aud her insti- tutions. MBS Hence a Prospective Law. Dubuque (Ta.) Times. There is a growing sentiment in the north that the time has arrived when the arm of federal power shauld be_extended to the col- ored people to protect them from the fraud and injustice to which they have been sub- jected ever since the passage of the sixteenth amendment. e A Ridicutous Pose. New York Tribune. Ex-President Cloveland gained his offico aud title by the worst and most dangerous crime against the freedom of suffrage, a crime perpetrated with system and organiza- tion throughout many southern states, and he sccks to pose as the champion of freedom of elections. MO S T The Windy City's Way. Chicago Tribune. “What will Chicago do to keep itsclf beforo tho public-after the Cronin case is settled?’ nsks an exchange. Construct the most com- plete drainage system in the world, abolish the smoke nuisance, hold a World’s Fair, and then, if mecessary, build & bridge across Lako Michigan. Don’t ask foolish questions, - Its Friends Ready to Do 1t. Philadelphia Enquirer, The country demands tariff revision, It has preferred to intrust the work to tho hands of the republican party, and for that reason has taken it from the democrats, who were making sucti ruinous botch of it. And the work must be done if the country is not to be disappointed in its trust. A e Oan’t bo Granted Away. Boston Advertiser, The telling blows which axemen In New Yorlk are striking in defense of linemen will serye adoublo purpose if they remind the whole country of & too easily forgotten truth, namely, that there are some rights so fundamental that no charters or vested priv- ileges can anoul them. This nation achieved its independence on the basis of @ deciara- tion which specified as the first of “inalien- ble rights,” the right to life, —————— SPATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Schuyler has the beet sugar craze, The farmers' alliances of Gosper county have formed & county organization. De Witt is to_have a fire engine and a series of cisterns for water supply. Fifty Beaver City ladies will give a mer- chants’ carnival on New Year's evening. Robert Eller is out $137 and a pocketbook which he drovped yyhile walking though the streets of Howard, Burglars are makiog numerous raids on Seward businessiouses and residences with & fair degree of success. The Franklin county poor farm bas more than paid expensos by several hundred dol- Lars in the past two years, ‘fhe elevators avlewis and Bertrand have hut down because they are full ana cars for shipping cannot be secured. Joseph Hulub, a fourteen-pear-old Tobias boy, fell under & wagon loaded with brick and had bis left arm and leg broken, The machinery for tho Noble sewing ma- chine factory is arriving at Weeping Water and the buildivg is nearly completed, W. P, Squire, an’old soldier of Fairbury, has gone to Washiugton to uccevt & position under the sergesul-at-arms of the house, Furnas county is being tborunfihly organ- ized for the prohibition nght and a central comklnll.laa bas been appointed to direct the work, William Kennedy of Colon, in & contest with Henry Burt, -husked 145 bushels of corn in nine hours and now challenges auny wan in the state for 8 similar contest on @ wager of from {100 W $1,000. A general store under the mansgement of tho Farmers' alliauce opened & fow days ago at Litchfield. ‘The first d; les amounted o $125, which is 8 splendid showing, con- sidering the size of stock. Iu the montn of March, 1870, Rev, M. Noble, the Baptist miuister of Fairbury, camo to Jefferson county from Fogland. in April of the sawe year he performed his first marriage ceremony in America. In 1585 the revereud gentieman had tiad his 100th matri- woulal knot, and in Novembor of this year the number had reached 200. There is considerable fault found with the appraisement of school lands up in the sand hitls, says the Minden Gazette, and the lassees, through A. H. Buraastt, are taking steps to have the appraisement ' lowered to something near the real value of the land. In some places the appraisement has beon made at #10 per acre, when in fact the land is pot worth more than $2.50 w0 $3and in other places it has boen appraised at #il, ‘when &6 or $7 would be a fair vaiue, lowa ltems, Porry 18 to be lighted by electrioity. Mr. and Mrs, Georgo Nutter of Pella celo- brated their sixtioth wedding annive rsary lst woek. Oyer eighteon hundred people signed the pledge at Cedar Falls as a result of the Mur- phy movement, Villisca 18 to have a broom factory employ- ing from fifteen to twenty men, which will start up tho first of the year. lugene Secor of Forest City has been elocted first vice president of the lnterna- tional beo keepers’ associution, 1. F. Ward, an_ ox-base bail player, who was Jailed at ort Madison for burglary, es- caped and made a home run tho other night. Tho second annual moeting of the biuo grass loague will bo hold at Creston Juno §, “I'wonty-five towns bolong to the organiza- tion. The organization of the Tri-State Canning company has been perfocted at Keokuk The capital stock of the combany is 100,000 mpany expects to turn out 50,000 cans and employ 125 men, Jeromo Baker, o _traveling salesman_for Sutcliff Bros. of Cedar Rapids, has disap- peared, and his frionds fear ho has been foully dealt with, e was on his trip home, but nothing hias been hoard of him sinco ho was at Carroll, ten_days ago. His child is dying and his Wife is distracted. John Speering attempted suicide by do= liberately lying down on the Rock Isiand track with his head on tho rail at Perry. “Tho engincer of the train, which was com- ing down the track, saw him_ take off his hat and lie down, but_could not_stop the eugine in time to prevent 1ts strikiag him. ‘The coweatchor struck him and thraw him off the track into tho diteh, but biyond a severo scalp wound bie escapod injury, No cause is given for the rash act. At Dacoran the othor night a young man named Self was taken from his room in tho dead of night by six masked White Caps. He was then taken to the woods somo distance from the eity, tied to a tree and made to con- fess all sorts of crimes, after which he w released and told to go home ana say noth ing. T'ne young man denies beiug guilty of any misdemeanor, and the whole circum- stanoce is very 1 terious, The authorities are searching for the White Caps. The Two Dakotas. Deadwood is having an electric fire alarm system being put in, Open-air concerts are still being given by the Brookings band. Judge Albion W. Tourgee will deliver a series of lectures in the Black Hills. A bill to prevent the sale of cigarettes to children has been introduced in the North Dakota legislature A prohibition paver to be called the Ex- ponent 18 to bo started at Aberdeen by George B, Ranshaw, 2 A masked ball at Grand Forks for tho ofit of the North Dakota sufferers netted v handsome sum, littlo daughter of T. F. Diefendort of Montrose while playing fell mto a kettlo of boiling water head_first, terribly scalding her face and neck. Sne lived twenty-four hours, suffering great agony, when she died, just twenty-four hours afier the accident nappened. A stabbing affray occurred at a_dance on Bon Homme island about s week ago, in which a woodcutter named McFadden terribly cut by a companion named Moor It was at first thought the wounded man would die, but the doctor now thinks he may recover. Moore escaped and is still at large. A peculiar acciaent happened at Rapid City the other day, A butcher was ariving a ond horse wagon heavily Jaden with meat over a bridgo across Rapid creek, when the vehicle became “'stuck,’ and in its efforts to pull it over the obstruction the horse swung around and went over the side of the bridge, which is about thirty feet high. The wagon was heavy enough to ikeep its place and the har- ness was strong enough to bear the weig the horse, so that the animal h downward over the creck. Help w but all efforts to pull the animal back onto the briage proved “meffectunl. Then the traces were cut and the horse plunged head- long into the water below. Fortunately the water was deep, and beyond running his noso into the mua in the bottom of the creex the animal was unhuri. -~ 2 LS Warm Under the Collar, Nortn PratTE, Neb., Dec, 23.—To the Ed- itor of 1Ine Bek: It is still A state secret, but nevertheless a settled fact, I understand, that the Nebraska delegation some little time ago recommended A. S. Balawin of Lexing- ton for remister and J. I Nesbitt of this city for receiver of public moneys in the North Platte land oftice, These wentlemen are ready and waiting. The four years of democratic occupancy which custom and civil service demand has long since passed. If there is _any reason why these offices and the post- oftica as well should not be filied by republicans an interested constituen and republicans . generally would like to knowit. In the summer of 1584 changes were made and new men ap- pointed to these offices. In March, 1855, Mr. Cleveland cawe to office, and 1t took but three or four months to secure the removal of every republican official in North Platte. ‘The reeister and receiver had sorved four- teon and sixteen months respectively, and the postmaste| 1y one year. Civil-serv- ice rules were disrezardea by Grover Cleve- land, and the republican incumbents were uncerewoniously bundled ovt to make room for democrats regardless of the term for which they were appointed, 1t i8 rather remarkable that after the pre- cedent established by Cleveland in bouncing republican oficials all through the country as soon after his accession as they could be renched—with comparatively few exceptions, and especially in view of his wholesale re- movals and appointments during the last few months of his presidency, and after his de- feat, there should be any delicacy in appoint- ing republicans to these offices now after the democrats have filled them four and one- half years. The most strict advocate of clyil service reform would hardly go the length to say that there would be any in- justice in immediately turning these offices over to representatives of the republican party. By Compound Intercst on a Quarter. About thirty-five yearsago a little boy was given a guarter of a dollar for spending money, says the Washington Capital. As he walked down the street very happily he mot with an older boy and showed him the money, saying as he did so, *'See what my good papa gave me Lo spend.” The older boy knocked it out of the little fellow’s hand, satched it up and ran away with it. The little boy was almost heartbroken, but when he went bome crying and told about it his mother gave him another guarter, This mollified him but he neverforgave that older boy. The war came on and the older boy was given a commission in the army, while the little one, too young to enlist, remained at home. After tho war the younger boy be- came a clerk in the war department. Within the last fifteen years®the older boy, who had become a lawyer and an orator, announced himself as a candi- date for United States senate, and he ‘had a large following. It looked as though he might be elected, But one morning the newspapers in many por- tions of the country, and especiaily those of his own state, published a state- ment to the effect that the candidate had been dismissed from the army for cowardice and other questionable con- duct. The lawyer denied the charge, and extracts from the records of the war department were published, show- ing that the charge was true, He was not elected, After his deleat was ac- complished, he received a letter post- marked Washington, D, C., of which the following is an exact copy: *‘Do you remembered the day you outraged alittle boy’s feelings and almost broke his heart by stealing a quarter from bim? That deed cost you a seat in the senate? MR. CLARKE IN A DUAL ROLE. His Connection with the Lincoln Paving Contracta. A RATHER SMOOTH TRANSACTION His Partners in the Busincss Would Like to Have an Accoant ing—The Pawnce OCity Bank Assignment. LixcoLy Bureau or Tur OMama Ber, 1029 P L As s been announ coln has been sued, with 1. party defendunt, in the distr Douglas county. The petitioners W. Gray and Hugh Murphy. The troublo grew out of the dual rola of H. T, Clarke as partner in the firm of I, T, Clarke & Co., contractors, and as financial agent for the city in the disposition of their Londs. The firm was organized a_yoar ago last June and consisted of L. C. Burr of Lincoin, H. T. Clarke, F. W. Gray and Hugh Murphy of Omaha, Tho firm took the contracts of paving districts Nos. 1and 2 of this city, amounting to about $400,000. Gray was to furnish the biocks, Murphy was to have en- tire charee of the work and Clarke and Burr were to furnish the money. Clarke was to have eutive control of the finances of the fiem, Murphy and Gray did their part of the work and Burr furnished di- rectly and indirectly about all tho money that was used in the business until money was paid on estimates. Soon after the tak- ing of these contracts Clarke took the job to sell the paving bonds for the city und was to turn the money into the city treasury as fast as it was required to puy for the paving work. This not only put Clarke in entire charge of the finances of the firm but also gave him entire charge of the city's paving finances, When an estimate was made and the war- rants therefor issued Clarke drow the war-~ rants, but instead of putting the money into the treasury to pay for the same he took tho warrants to Omaba and used them as collat- eral to borrow money on, and stood off the creditors of the firm. \When the warrants were not used as collateral Henry T. Clarke, the contractor, and Henry T. Clarke, the bond agent, turned them over to the city and got credit on the bond Ttis asserted that he £5.000 in cash into the city count of the bonds. _Ther any one time mvested in Clarke to_exceed 25,000 amounts of the estimates, The work was completed and accepted by tho city of Lincoln, Scptember 27, 188, 10 per cent heing withheld as a guaranty by the city for one year, which amounted to about §2.000. The city demanded that Clarke, the financial agent, pay the balance of the proceeds of the bonds " into the city treasury. To this Clarke, the contractor, replied that he had credited the city with that amount on the 10 per cent reserve, But when Contractor Clarke's partners de- manded of him their share of this credit Clarke, ~ the financial agent, said that Clarke, the contracto had made a mistake in crediting the ity and that Henry T. Clarke, the finan- cial agent, still held the funds, leaving Henry T. Clarke's partners and the city of Lincoin to *‘walk the floor” while he held the boodle, The reason given to his partners for this action was that the city wanted the accrued interest on tho bonds from Clarke, tho finan- cinl agent, and that they wold not issue any warrants to Contractor Clarke until it had a settlement with Clarke the dfinancier. Clurke’s partners have reconciled themselves t0 @ settlement some time in the dim distant, future. Meantima Clarke holds the unpaid balance on the bonds and compels his partoers and the city of Lincoln to furnisn him capital at 7 per cent interest, payable atthe end of a lawysuit. Lin- Clarke o court of never paid over treasury on ac was never at the business by in cash over”the The Pawnee City Bank Assignment, The assignment of the Nebraska state bank of Pawnee City is the immediate re- .sult of the late examination made by one of state bank examiners, who had, i compli- ance with the rules of the banking depart- ment, given the bank thirty days to fix up the irregularities found to exist in tho col- lapsed 1nstitution, promising at the end of that time to revisit the bank and make a re- examination to see tha% the instructions were carried out. It is learned that it was to verify the bank’s books that caused the ex- aminer to make his hurried visit to Omaha last week. In conversation with him this morning he stated that he received his last verification from Menaota, I, at which place the Pawnes bank had somo re-dis- counts, on Saturday night, and that he in- tended to go to Pawnee City today, but was stopped by the information published in Tne E DAY Bre that the bank had made an as- signment. In auswer 10 av inquiry, “Why did you not take immediate possession of the bank when you found it was in an msolvent condition 1 the exammner replied: ““There is nothing in the law that atlows us to take immediate possession of any bank, but provides that we must first muke our re- port to the board, and it in its discretion asks the attorney general to apply to either tho district or supreme courts for a re- ceiver.” *‘Why was this not donel” *My aear sir, in this as well as some other matters, 1 think our banking law is deficient, yet at the same tune 1 consider the action takon by Mr. Hempstead is as good as though areceiver had been asked for. Av least it was done to prevent the state takme the nec- essary action, My letter to Mr.pHempstead showing the condition of his bank and re- questing his immediate attention to the fix- ing up of the irroguluritios, was copied by the clerk of the banking department and goes to show that no blame can possibly be altached to tho members of the state bank- ing board. I want tosay in this connection that Mr, Hempstead is considered an honest, straightforward wan, and iu my examination he did not attempt to cover up any- thing, and 1 attribute this fail- urctoa lack of banking experience and ability more thun avything else. It seems to mo but justice, under tho banking law, that he should have had the thirty days al- lowed him by the banking board, whereby to make guod his capital, but it is evident that he thought best to make an assignment before the expiration of the time. Butmy letter to Hempstead, indicated above, fur- nishesall the proof necessary that the bank- ing board has not been lax in its efforts to protect depositors or, for that matter, to save the bank’s principai as far as the law per- mits, LixcoLy, Dec. 16, 18 E. P, Hemp- steud, Ksq., Pawneo City.—Dear Sir: In waking a thorough examination of notes taken 1n_my examination of your bank, I find that it is not 1n the condition it should be, and particularly at this time when I fear there will be @& stringency the money market. It is alwe detrimental to any bauk for its officers to wterested in outside business, therefore your business is liavle to suffer through Mr. Smit's connection with the Pawnee hay company. Your whole business wust be curtailod at_ouce, s you will seo by my statement herewith, that your capital i8 shown by your books 18 sadly impaired. 1 desire that you send me here, in care of the banking department, a statement of each of your individual assets and labilities out- side the bank, I also desire to kuow the prosvect you have of completing your organ- zation of & national bauk, as understand you have been u'vnz for some time 1o or- ganizo as such. our securities are, in my estimation, of a very poor class and u great portion of them would be hard to realize on in case you needed to. The bad paper, as designated by we when there, must’ be charged out. ‘The Dundas limit must be cut down 1o limit and properly secured, 'The $3,000 carried as profit and loss must be charged off. The item 81,412.50 carried by You as a cash item must be carried where it properly belongs and not as & cash item, and must be disposed of as soon as possible without loss, The $100 of stocks and bonds wust be charged off. The $15,000 of other real estate must be disposed of as soon o vossible, The Pawnoee huy company should secare the bank for its loan. Your own loan should also be securad to the bank. You have about $12,000 tied up in real ostate, This alone is sufiicient to cripplo a bank of your capital. I will visit you again as soon as 1 possibly can, possibly within thirty days, at which time if your organization is not complete for national I will make further suggestions, In the meantimo I would s ug- gest that you cannot safely loan any mon ey, DUt you must turn your attention to collec= tions and securing properly your loans. The amouut of rediscounts carricd by a bank ahould never oxceed two-thirds of its capital stock. Herewith is a statoment of your present condition as taken by me from your books : Total amount of resources £57,000.04 Liabilitios and amounts that should be cut out: Deposits Rediscounts. . . Iixpense. 3 Excessive roal estate okl Due w0 banks caee sesesns 303 Other stocks no good . 100.00 Indebtedness of president CBBHIOF. o voereiatis Bad paper under the and Woiived 250,06 pital, allowing that all por is good and roal cstate at full value, is 7,000, 74 Of this amount, §,000 of 1t is in building and fixtures. In' ease you do not nationalize yOU must (ix those matters up within thirty days. Respectfully State Ban| Distric) Court General L. W, Colby of Beatrico com- menced suit in the district court today to ene join the officials of that city and tho auditor of public accounts and secrotary of state from issuing or registering $30,000 of Kansas City & Beatrice railroad bonds. Ho sots up among other things that the company did not build the road into the city as agreed upon: that the company runs its trains over the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska for thir- teen miles; that it did not buila a 12,000 depot at Third and Elln streots ns agroed upon, nor a §1,500 freight depot, but is using the depots of the Chicago, Kunsas & Ne- braska Railwa) ipany 3 that it did not build a 15,000 round honse as agreod upon, nor erect repair shops. He also charges that on Decembor 10, 1584, one Aundrew J. Conlee commenced proccedings to enjoin the issuance of these bonds, but that the company by means of false and 1llusive promises of personal benefits, held out to Conlee and others, ho ced to dismiss the casc; thatona subsequent day a special and secrot meeting of the eity council was held, called av the instance and dictation of the raiway com- pany, when avesolution was rushed through, which declared, among other things, that tho company had comphied fully with all the pro- visions of the contract of the city regurding the bonds, and that the resolution is false in fact and in spirit. Etate House Jortings, Amended articies of the Christinn Park and Assembly association of Fremont were filed today. Capital stock is fixed at §16,000, s tenure is declared to be perpetual, Schnider, prosidect, and J., eisry. Labor Commissioner Jenkins is in Grand Island today. He went there direct from Omaha, He is collecting his “atuf®” to em- body 10 his biennial report, aud is enwaged at present especially in looking up statistics on the cultivation ot sugar beots. At Grand Island and Wilifleet both he is looking up the report. of experts who have put Ne. braska grown sugar beets to chemical analysis, State Troasurer Hill is at home. He es- pecially desires that tho state press shall note this fact and thus correct the impres- sion that he is abroad with the stato house excursionists, He further states that he is ready to meet any meetings of stato boards of which he is a member that may be called, Treasurer Hill and Secretary of Stato Cowdery go to Beatrico tomorrow to visit the institute for the fecble minded. They 0 10 visit the closing exercises of the school and o inspect some new buildings just completed. New Nortaries Public. The governor today made the followlng notorial appowmtments: H. P. Camp, Ox- ford, Furnus county; C. G. Gensen, Hoelus, Howard county: E. A. Arnold, Anselmo, Custer county; O. Horne, Syracuse, Otoo county; J. J. Brown, Broken Bow, Custer C.'C. Jameson, Harrison, Sioux . McClure, Broken Bow, Custer Q. Free, Earl, Frontior county; ", H. Claridge, Blair, Washington county, City News ana Notes. The Christmas issue of the Courier, Lew Wessel's paper, is the finest over issued from the Capital city. Editor Benziger is the father of its literary features, Congresswan Laws reached home today at 12 m. Ho will spend the holidays with his family in this city. Hon. C. W. Burtis of Clay countyis in the city. He says that the appointment of W. S. Randall as superintendent of census while not a star in Laws' crown, gives' alr satisfaction. Judge Norval of Lincoln was in Lincoln today. He will qualify as supreme judge the first Thursday after the first ‘Tuesday in Jan- uary. B FOUR MADCAP GIRLS, They Startle a City With Their Esca- pades' but Are Discovered. Savey, Mass., Doc, 23.--| Spocial Telegram to Ttk Bee.]—Four girls, whose fathers are among Salem's solid men, recently banded tuemselves together as tho “Girls' Invincis ble league.” It was aftor the style of “Kol- low the Londer” in that each girl pledged herself to do just what the leader did. Then followed a series of mischievous escapades that set the staid 0ld town agog because of the mystery which surrounded them. First, a flag was found floating from the tower of the Tabernacle church; then the orgun of the North church was nearly ruined by tam- pering with the water motor and the ceiling was cracked. Fially, in several of the choir books wera found tho names of the four girls writion. There was also tne dato on which 1t was evident tlie quartette had visited the church. Tho deacous took up the matter and the fathers of the young women were informod, The girls made & full confesslon and an ample apology from the parents followed. 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