Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BE DECEMBER 27. i8890. THE DAILY BEE. " F. ROSEWATER, Bditor, _ PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. e, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily and Sunda Bix Months, .. Three Months, . Bunday lice, Une Year Weekly Dee, One Yoar witl OFFICES Omana, Beo Bullding. Chicago Office, f67 Hookery Bullding New York, Houms 14 and 15 Tribune Build- o, I ashington, No. 613 Fourteenth Street Council Bluits, No, 12 Pear] Strect. Lincoin, 1029 P St eet, Houth Omuha, Cornet N and 20th Streets. CORRESPONDENCE. tlons relating to news and edi- 11 commu a1 T uld be addressed to the Editor- torial mat ial Departin BUSINESS LETTERY ANl Vusiness letters and remittances should e addressed to The Bee Pubiishing Company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoflice oraers to be made payablo te the order of the company, The Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors pre Building Farnam and Seventeenth Stroets. Ine Bee on the Trains, There 15 nio excuse for a faflure to get Tne Der on the trains. Al newsdealers have becn noti- fied to carry A full supply. Iravelers who want ’l id cun't got i€ on trains where other Omalia papers are carried ate requestod to no- tify Tue Brw. Piease be particulsr togive in all cases full informution as to date, rallway and number ot Give us your name, not for publication or un- Tecessary use, but as a guaranty of zood faith, RSt ——————— ) T 1HE DAILY BEE &worn Statement of Circalation. Etate of Nebraska, I County of Douglas, (5% Georze B, Trschuck, secretary of The Tee Jublishing Company. doss solomnly swoar that e nctual crculstion of Tue DAILY BxE for the week ending Decembor 21, 1880, was as follows: Bunday, De Monday. T Baturday, Dec. 3 Average. Sworn (o before me and subscribed to i my esence this 21th day ot December, A. D. 1850, (Seal.! N. . FBIL, Notary Pubile. Etate of Nebrask: County of Douglas George 13 Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- poses and says that he'ls secretary of The Heo Fublishing Company, that the actual averago daily circulation of Tie DALY HEE for the month of December, 188, 18.2% copies; for January, 1890, 15574 coples; for February, 188, 35,096 coples: for March, 1880, 18,854 copies for April s 80 copiesifor’ May, 1t 8,009 cop! T June, 1680, 18858 coples; for Jiily, 189, I87IS coples; for August 1889, 1. 1 coples: for September, 188, 'I8710_cople: for October 18, 1537 coples ovember, 3860, 10310 coplon GEORGE B. T 5 Sworn to before me and subscribed in my Tresence this Sith day of November, A D., 188 18eal.] N. P. Fit To the cyclone harrassed east: west nd escape the destruc ments. Come e ele- Por1TiCAL slate muking is one of the thriving industries of the town at pres- ent. Every councilman has a factory in full blast. Tue city hall committeoships will play no small partin the organization of the council. All combines tend in that direction DENY goes into ecstacies over the succoess of its first electric street rail- way. The example and enterprise of Omaha set the progressive pace of the ‘west. I¥ Chicago insists on fleecing the farmers of the wost in elevator rates, the farmers will find other markets for their broducts. ~ Chicago has not yet annexed the earth. SOUTHERN statisticians declare that the growth of the white population since 1880 is greater than that of the colored element. The information is 1mportant us it contirms the value and vigor of the shotgun in the hands of the ‘‘superior race.” THE elevators controlled by the En- gush syndicate in Chicago have ad- vanced storage rates from nine to ten cents a year per bushel. It is now in order for the Windy city to rise up and make a whisk-broom out of the lion’s tail, Tue leading papers of the country ave indulging in a good deal of specula~ tion us to why the southern blacks do not wigrate north., We imagine it is because they find the climatea little too chilly and uncongenial to their temper- aments. NATOR MOODY of South Dakota thinks that itisa mistake to send In- dinns eust to be educated. He asserts that the most good could be accom- plished by establishing Indian schools on the reservations. Seanator Moody is eminently correct. THE annual report of the state treas- urer of Minnesota shows a snug balance 4n the various funds aggrogating one million one hundred and six thousand 4ollars. It is only necessary toadd that Minnesota is a republican state, man- aged by republican oficials, . ENGLAND'S injunction to a mewly chartered South African company was ~—‘*put down rum and slavery.” There 15 no doubt that the jolly juck tars will obey the first half of the order to the letter. As to slavery, much depends on the nationality of those engaged in the business. — Tue Bell Telephone company is one of the richest monopolies in the coun- try, Thirty-two thousand instruments were turned out during the year ending December 21, an increase of twenty- two hundrea over the corresponding period of 1887-88. Unlike all other mo- mopolies, the Bell makes its profits hy the ear. BroATcn’s political free-booters are fetermined to ru'e or ruin. The fol- lowers of the defunct mayor in the council stand ready to combine with the democrats to organize the council ‘and preventthe election of a republican wresiding officer. To the credit of the democratic members, their overtures have so far been fruitless. — NEW YORK mugwump circles are ngitated over tho recent action of Gov- ernor Iill, who took the state prioting dvom the Albany Argus and gave it to the Albany ZWmes. The former is sup- yosed to be a Cleveland organ and the lutter a Hill organ, and so the governor has become' & bold, bad man to the mugwump mind, & bugaboo held up to frighten its political children after sunset. THE CAMPAIGN IS ON. The prohibitionists are orgamzing and perfecting plans to capture Ne- braska. They are flooding the stato with cireulars and tracts, rallying hero and there in little groups and laying the foundation for a campaign of emo- tional insanity such as has never boen witnessed in the west. Tie Boe has been favored with an outline of the prohibition plan of cam- paign, in which we are informed that the national third party “‘will do all in their power to fight outin Nebraska the battle of the home against the high license delusion and snaro.” must concentrate in Nebrask Miss Willard, *“*all the work pos 1890, for that dates, as we hop doom of the legalized liquor traffic in the state that opened upon the nation the Pandora’s box of high license.” Nebraska must be punished for origi- nating and putting into effect the best tem of regulating and restrict- the liquor trafMic devised by man. High license was the dawn of true tempecance reform. [t reduced the evils of the traftic, swept a the groggeries—breeding spots of vice— forced the business into responsible hands and surcounded it with safe- guards. The Slocumb law was an in- spiration. The author neverdreamed that the bill which he drafted in his quiet country home was destined Lo ba- come a shield to ward off the blight of prohibition. Nor did the most sanguine friend of the measure imagine that it would sweep the country and be in- dorsed by every conservative friend of temperance reform, both lay and cleri- cal. Tts adoption by Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsyl- vania and Vermont wasa complimont to its worth and beneficence. Even in the west it has become the standard method of regulation. Minuesota, Illinois and Missouri have grafted the principles of high license upon their statute and its suc- cess has extorted from general ske, the prohibition candidate for president last year,the compliment that it was the only effoctive measure of tem- peran reform short of national prohi- bition. But the third party is determined to change the signs and supplant the sa- loon by the drug store. It isa change of name, not of character. The advo- cates of prohibition and free whisky do not stop to count the cost, nor will they listen to reason and common sense. They are in league with the bootleg- gers, and care not what disaster they cause to the Dusiness interests of the state so long as they abolish high license and regulation and substitute outlawry and free rum. The Mexicans, whose motto has hith- erto been ““never do today what can be put off until tomorrow,” seem to be waking up. Thoy certainly have come to a roalizing sense of the cconomic value of railways in the domain of com- merce. The government is negotiating alarge loan to be used in enlarging and improving the Mexican, railrond system. In the northern part of the republic there are already four lines that connect with the American border. Two of these extend to the cap- ital and the other two to interior points. These lines have nu- merous lateral branches and” the Pacific coast 1s also connected with the City of Mexico. The northern half of the country is quite well provided with railways. Nearly all these ronds have been buiit during the last decade. t in southern Mexico the locomotive and railway train are unknown and a rail- way to the boundary line of Guatemala has been projected. This will be an important undertaking not alone for Mexico, but for the United States as well. A large and rich country will be opened up to industrial and commercial deveiopment. The road would also form an important link in the ruilway communication between the United States and South America, which will doubtless be one of the de- velopments of the near future. But the more immediate results of better trans- portation facilities would be the in- creased commercial activities between that country and ours, Too much of Mexico’s trade goes to Europe. We import much more from Mexico than we export to that country, showing a trade balance on the wrong side of, the ledger. With more railroads and increased facilities for in- ter-communication this state of things might be reversed. It is to the interest of this nation to encourage railroad construction in Mexico, and American capital should be in the field tocompete with the European and especially Eng- lish capital, which has monopolized all the avenues of commerce and industry in Mexico for many years. MR. SHEPARD'S RULL HAND. There is at least one eminent jour- nalist in America who pays tribute to the railroad kings with an unstinted hand, We refer to Editor Shepard of the New York Muil and Express. As sample bricks of the flattering com- pliments which Mr. Shepard regularly bestows upon his royal railroad patrons, we quote the following from a recent issue of the Express: Our cowpliments,to Marvin Hughitt, the brainy and brave president of the Chicago &) Northwestern railroad. Tong may you wield your great power for the advantage of the ncrthwest and the intercsts of sound railroading. T'o that courteous and accomplished gentle- man and efticient president of the Michigan Central, Henry B, Ledyard, we sond cordial greetings and the compliments he deserves, ‘We salute that well-balanced, decided and always reliable railroad president, John Newell of the Lake Svore e, Long life and prosperity to you. T. B. Blackstone of Chicago is not the suthor of Blackstove's commentaries, but the admirable condition of the Chicago & Alton railroad compuny is itself a splendld commeuntary on the executive abulity and in- tegrity of Blackstone. ‘To that universally esteemed head of a great system, President Roberts of the Pennsylvams rallroad, we teuder the renowal of our high regard for an oficial as modest as be is able, and with @ heart as big as his head. May that distinguished descendant of the Puritans, President Choate, who pleases the stockholders and the patrons of the Old Colony road, continue to add to the fame and reputatiou of a distinguished family, To the sagacious, firm, resolute and expe- rienced Nestor among railroad presidents, Samuel Sloan, of the Delaware, Laeka- wanna & Wostern railroa d, we oxtend our heartiest compliments and congratulations. Presidont Charles P, Clark of the New York & New Hampshiro raiiroad has had a great deal of varied experience and great success within the past decade, and is still a growing man, Long life and continued prosperity to him. To that distinguished yachtsman, Mr. R. Maxwell, the officient and energetic presi- dent of the New Jersey Central, wo extond our warmest, hopes that his sucoesses on laud will never be loss than his teiumphs at soa, There is no one among the younger genera- tion of railroad men who aftor winning fame us a lawyer has aisplayed moro signal ability than President M. E. Inzalls, whoso bri liant success in bringing out of bankru: and putting on a dividend basis the old Cin- cinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago has already made him president of two greator corporations, the Cleveland, Cincin- nuti, Chicago & St. Louis and the Chesa- peake & Ohio, What a galaxy of kings and jacks! But in his worship of these lords tem- poral Mr. Shepard never censes to be a devout worshipper of the lord spirit- ual. The topof his editorial column bears the foliowing significant seriptur- al text: 0O, praise the Lord all § Him all ye peovle. This reminds us very much of George Francis Train’s quotation of the late Enfperor Willinm’s message to Queen Augusta aftor the battle of Sedan: Bless the Lord, my dear Augusta, Napo- leon'sarmy 1son a buster. Ten thousand Prenchmen linve zono below. Praise God from whom ull hlessings tlow. nations; praise KEEP OUT OF THE PARKS. The street railway company is asking altogether too much when it seeks to encroach upon our park system, which at best1s very limited. Hanscom park was dedieated for park purporses only. Not an inch of that ground should be given up to street railway tracks or stations. The approaches to the park are ample for strect railway tracks, and there is no valid excuse for appro- priating any part of the park for the sureet railway. Even if the park covered eight hun- dred acresinstead of eighty it would be very questionable policy to allow any part of the grounds to be cut up by rail- 1y tracks. It would set a bad prece- dent: Sooneror later motor iines,cable roads, street and steam railways would wedge their tracks into our parks and not only mar the beauty of the varks but ultimately rob the public of the pleasure-grounds designed as resorts for popular recr: CORPORATIONS with enlargeme dence tending to show that they po: s0ss that organ, even 1n a° contracted form, partukes of the miraculous. For reason the action of the Louisville are so rarely affiicted t of the heart t| i gener: Last September Conductor Lemon was killed on that road by a raffian whom he had ejected from the train. Christmas e Mrs. Lemon re- ceived a package divect from the presi- dent of the company containing two thousand dollal worth of stock and a morocco bound memorial containing resolutions of respect 1o the memory of the deceased. The value of the gift as well as the time chosen for its prosentation are an earn- est of the company’s appreciation of [aithful services, as well as purpose to provide for the families of employes who lose their livesin the line of duty. This action is in marked contrast to the narrow gauged policy of railroad corporations in this section. Ceomparisons are odious. The court dockets tell of the struggles for justice of widows and orphans &nd of erippled men., Voluntary settlements are rarve. The corporations prefer to play a game of freeze out in the courts. They take adyvantage of the poverty and helpless- ness of omployes’ families when human- ity dictates fair dealing and gencrous provision for the victims of unavoidable accident. THERE is not much danger of a strike of locomotive engineers on the Erie sys- tem. Reports to that effect are over- drawn. The engineers cannot declare a strike divectly. If the regular griev- ance committeo fails to effect a settle- ment, the chicf engineer must be called in to negotiate. In caso he also fails, then o mejority vote of every brother- hood lodge directly intervested is noces- sary to order a strike. These proceed- ings require from sixty to ninety days— a period sufficient to cool down the hot heads, The dispute relates to a system of cxamination into the ability and efficiency of the engineers. As similar examinationa are in vogue on western roads, beneiitting the men and the com- panioes, the eastern engineers cannot se- cure popular support in resisting a proper test of their capacity and trust- worthiness, Railroad development has reached a stage which makes it impera- tive on the management to employ the best ability obtainable, and that ability cannot be determined without a thorough examinution of the applicant. — THE iron market shows signs of un- usual ac.ivity. During the last three months prices have steadily advanced and it is generally expected that by the middle of January bar iron will com- mand forty dollars & ton at the mills. The rise is ascribed to various causes, chief of which is an increase of orders for railroad and huilders’ iron for 1890, The decrensed production -of iron ore under the manipulations of the trust also stimulated the market. But con- servative manufacturers doubt the per- manency of the advance. Exorbitant prices are invariably followed by dis- astrous reaction. Purchasers will hold off when they see that the market is manipulated by a cowbine,. Every- thing points to & year of uncomuion activity in the country, but if the mills force prices beyond a reasonable limit they will puncture the boom. E— Irisa foregone conclusion that the Pacific railroad funding bill will be pushed through both houses ol congress during the present session. All the lubricating machinery that can be brought into play has been provided and placed where it will be mosy effect- ive. The committees of both houses are friendly to the scheme. In other words, the com in the intel nonolies, chairman ittoes have been packed of the subsidizod mo- ressman Dalzell, the 0. house committee, is one of the a 8 of the Pennsylvan- ia railrond, and the senate committee is headed by another out and out rail- roader, With the committecs organ- ized in theirfavor the Pacific railroad magnates expegt very smooth sailing. THE Chicagagpapers are still ham- mering nwn;’_‘a‘ the obstinate twelfth juryman in Cronin trial. Thoy want him indjcted for perjury and if the courts could only comply with their request they would re-try the whols Cronin case and keep up the Cronin sensation for another year or two. But even Chicago is beginning to tire of the everlasting Cronin racket. Unless the anarchists break loose again, or MecGinty gets on his muscle, the Chi- cago papers will have to dig up some new dynamite. Tre North Dakota legislators are en- joying the hospitality and right of way of the Northern Pacific. Of course the members are out for their health, So is the company. The influence of the Farmers’ alliance on the iegislative af- fairs of the new state is so strong that ashowing of liberality in the commis- department was necessary to delay “hostile” legislation. The junket isa repetition of the old game worked so effectively in these parts years ago. SINCE the appearance of ln grippe any number of home remedies have been recommended by peovle who always know n cure for every ill to which human flesh is heir. But thero s one simple prescription that few seem to remember: Keep your head cool and your feet warm. JusT now New York is very much worked up over the fact that a very big flow of corn continues to drift into the vort of Baltimore. Balimore has always been a big corn market and one of the reasons therefor is that she is favored by the trunk lines with differ- entials. The plumber and the coal dealer did not have a merry Christmas this year. Dom Podro cannot join the ranks of royal paupers. The new republic refuses to pay him the annuity promised. A new Congregational church was dedi- cated at Milwaulce last Sunday, constructed very closely on thg model of the caurch de- scribed in Robert Eismere. One hundred and twelve conuts have been found against Sileott but not one of s whereabouts has been discoverad. A New York Chinaman has embezzled £20,000 and gone to parts unkaown. A touch of evil makes the whole world kin. Tastern burklafs have begun to carry away the safes they cannot crack for subse- quent investicatigh, The buildings and vaults are left bekjnd, however. Connecticut liad i beggar who fascinates tho dogs. He ig.ugually followed by a crowd of from ten m!m{m.y curs who have for- saken comfortabie homes to revel in the wild Luxuriance of tramp life. California is 68xi0W8 to have the Pan- Americaus muke a visit to the Pacific coast after they have finished their arduous labors at Washington. If they are not too much coxhausted they will probably A resolution hias been introduced into the house of representatives providing for an investigation of the civil service commission, and now *Teddy” Roosevelt shouts in sten- torian tones: “‘Bring on your investiza- tion."” All tho inhabitants of the town of Sho- shong, in South Africa, to the number of 20,000, have left in avody and settled in a new place about ouo hundred miles north- west from Shoshong. Searcity of water was the cause of the stampede. outh Carolina has a colored girl named Duisy Robinson who has the mysterious vower-of breaking all crockery m a room without touching it. She is evidently capa- ble of giving pointers to the average servant girl. Mr. McGinty exerts an ovil and wide- spread influence from his seclusion at the bottom of the sea., Last week a murder in is name was commitied near New York City and a Boston citizon was arrested for assaulting o letter carrier who had sprung a McGinty joke on him. iRl 3 Jeff Davisand St. Paul Pioncer Press. The death that plunged the south in mourning a short time ago was merely tho passing of an unheultuful reminiscence. The death of Grady is a sorrow and 8 loss in which ber people may feel that tho regrot and the sympathy of the north are joined with their’s. —_——— Grady on Lincoln, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, It was the late Henry W. Grady who characterizel Abrabam Lincolu as “the first typical American, the first who com- prehended within himself all the strength and geatleness, all the majesty and grace of this republic.” e Thauks to Senator Manderson, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The farmers of the country who cannot sell their corn for as much as it cost them to produce it, will be thaukful, we presume, for the fact that congress has ordered the pub- lication of 400,000, copies of the agricultural report for their comfort and amusement. L For the Goold of the ladian, Denver Times. The members ofthe Indian Rights asso- ciation are doubtless, as a rule, honest, sin- core men, who are working disinterestedly 10 promote the good of the Indian and to se- cure his advancement. But the leaders of that organization haye uot all been of that kind. There hayebeen amoug them men who sought only personal ends, and who on Indian reservations ' enasted the delightful part of malicious meddlers, These, while professing the wost earnest devotion to the cause of Indian édudation, have given their sympathy and sugport to the disturbing ole- ment among the Indians that is opposed to education and hostile to the schools. Thus they have done what they could to embar- rass the government in its efforts to estab- lish schools among the Iudians, In this the members generally of the asso- ciation have unwittingly given to the dis- turbers their moral suvport. They have done 80 because they have blindly assumed in every controversy between the Indians and the government that the latier was in fault, They have especially been certain, when- ever there was any trouble betwoen the In- dians and an agent, that the former were wbused innocents and that the latter was 8 cruel oppressor or & wicked swindler, They have belioved that the Iudians were all truth tellers and the frontier whites all 1 In fact, in considering the Indian question the eastern people mauifest au in- tense passion for thinking the worst, the cruelest and the wiekedest things possible of their ojvn race, and their own particnlar els- mont of the race, too. Thus it has happoned that the Tndian Rights association has hinderod rather than heiped the object for which 1t was organized. It has seat no teachers among the Indians. hias contributed no money for their bonefit. Tho association is now, with its usual por- , Opposing the removal of the South- ern Utes from Colorado. 1t does so simply on tho genaral principle that overy chungo for the Indians desired by the frontier whitos must be wrong, must have a doep, dark, wioked purpose, must be a awindle upon the Indians and a cruelty to him. They do so oven against tho expressed wishes of the Indians thomselves. The leaders of tho Tndian Rights assocla- tion aro trying to capture Indian Commis- sioner Morgan, as thay have tried to capturo all his prodecessors. Ho should profit by their example of wisdom and refuse to be captured. - STATE AND TERRITOKY. Nebraska Jottings. Mrs, E. O. Wright, a resident of York, died at Anaheim, Cal., recently of paralysis. Three Nobruska City gentlemen returning from a dance saw a_burelar attempting to enter J. G. Hochstetler's residence and gave chase, capturing tha thief and landiog him in jnil. Martin Prokes, a Schuylor butcher, while returning home Christmas eve with & load of presents for his children was thrown from his buggy iind received injuries from which ho died the next moraing. Joscph Hanfek, a Schuyler constable, went to levy on Auton Mulacek's goods Fues: dny. The latter shot the constable in the arm with a shotgun. Malacek then returned 10 his house and after deliverately consider- ing the matter took his own life by shooting himself. York has n system of flags in_operation on the high school building. When the first bell rings @ white flag is hung out; With the second boll a blue flag appears, and when the 1ast bell is sounded the stars and stripes are flung to the breeze, wbere they float until school close: The coroner’s jury which investigated the recent wreck at Hastings in which a fireman lost ma life has returned a verdict of man- sluughter against Engineer Stetson and also holding the ofticials of the road responsible for tue accident. Stetson has been placed under arrest. Michael Abts, who attempted to secure Emma E. Saukey for a bride by instituting habeas corpus broceedings at Columbus, has ubandoned the case, the young lady’s parents having sent her out of the state. Mike says hie proposes to have 1mma, but” he will not call on the courts to secure her. “The students of Gates college, Neligh, re- cently devoted a fund of theirs, which' was wtended for some recreation, und applied it toward the payment of a 2 per cent note, which one of their number had beou obiiged 10 give, and which was about to overthrow all his' bright prospects of the immediate future, The Loup City Canal, Water Power and g . With acapital st iized December 21. The Drake, C. Ouundabl, A. J.R. scott and C. M. E. Hoath, ctors at once met and . Draice president, A, P. Culley surer and W. H. Conger secretary. This snterprise contemplates the building of a Al threo miles fong, tapping the Middle Loup river at a point near Arcadia and ex- tending dotwn the valley to a point near Loup City, where it cuts through a divide and en- ters u deep canyon, whero a lake will be fur- nished two and oné-half miles long and ono- half mile wide, with a dircet fail of 10 foet, making one of the best water powers in_the west and the finest body of water, either natural or artificial. The people of Loup City are in earnest about this matter acd will push it to completion early next spring. lowa Items, There ara seven creameries in Webster county, Many Marion county farmers are prospect. ing for coal on their lands. Two of the largest wholesale houses Dubuque have consolidated. Henry W. Meyers, of the Keokuk packing lLouse, has a record of killing 500,000 hogs. [lectric Light poles are being set out at Ottumwa and the city will soon be illumi- nated. Rev. G. I". Farr of South Bend, TInd., has accepted o call to the pastorate of the Du- buque Baptist church. The Buchanan county poultry and pet stock assooiation will hold its annual exhibi- tion at Independence Fobruary 10 to 13, There are only three natives of lowa in the new state senate—Gobble of Muscatine, Schiidt of Davenport, und Dodge of Bur- lington. Joe Kodig, a thirteen-year-old Creston boy, was probably fatally injured by the horse which he was riding rearing and falling backiward upon him. H. G. McCollum, a horse dealer of West Liberty, has paid the farmers of Muscatine county this year §53,000 for horses. He shipped a car load to Philadelphia last week. Spotted Woll, the crack shot of an Indian medicine company, entered a turkey shooting contest at Marion in disguise and bankrupted the projectors of tho scheme by killing all the birds. ‘'wo brothers named Reed were arrested at New London for burglavizing Price & Son's herdware stove at that place about two weoks ago. One of the ieeds, to save him. self, informed on hs brot the place where the goods were conc Henry Koesters, & Marshalltown boy, about ten weeks ago had buth legs broken by a rope giving away while working on a piledriver near Oskaloosa. He had almost recovered and wis s0 anxious to be out that the other day be got a young friend named Bach to carry him over to a neighbor’s to spend the afternoon, On the way home young Bach slipped and fell heavily on Kocster, breaking his left leg just above the old fracture ana wrenching and bruising his right ankle, The bono was reset and the patient is doing as well as could be ex- pected, but he suffers terribly and is greatly discouraged. The Two Dakotas. There are sixty-two wells in Yankton county. Rapid City has a population of 5,000 and 13 ouly ten years old, Blunt has a reai estate boom caused by prospective railroad Farmers in the vicinity of Harrold are talking of building a creamery at that place, A number of artesian wells will be sunk in Hund county next year. E., M. Coates of Yankton has brought suit against the Standard Oil company for §10,000 damuges for appropriatiog his tank cars to their own use. Specimens of ore have been forwarded from Alaska to the Rapid City scnool of mines to be assayed, a dispute having arisen as o its value, Prof. G. E. Bailey of the school will act as referee. A sayage snimal, dog and wolf, mixed, bit Iittle « Pearl Sedgewick of Kimball in a ter- rible manner last week. ‘The brute bit off a portion of the child’s scalp and a chunk out of her avm. The animal was shot, A mountain lion jumped on a boy named McAuley near his Bomo at Galena, and but for the timely arrival of o porty of wood~ haulers, who were attracted by the boy's cries, would have made short work of him. A decision was_rendered in Justice Jew- ott's court at Sturgis the other day which did not exactly suit one of the young lawyers in tho case and 1n the argument which fol- lowed he insulted the justice, who very promptly jumped down from the bench and Knooked tho logal light out o one very short but decisive round. The St. Lawrence board of aldermen has passed a series of resolutions thanking the cities of Huron and Milier for 80 prompily responding to the call for help issaed at the receut fire. The resolutions also thank the Chicago & Northwestern road and its em- ployes for their efforts in securing the quick trauspartation of the Huron fire depart- men! t E. P, Wanzer, teacher of the public schools At Armour, is havimg & circus with the bad boys of that town. Lastweek be had oc- casion to discipline one of the youngsters. Who immediately formoed an aggressive alli ance with his fellow bad boys and vrocured alarge quautity of doubtful eggs. They then proceeded to Mr, Wanzer's house and while one urcin called him to the door the others gave him the eggs. The school board upueld the teacher, but so far the parents of 1he young scamps bave done nothing towerd punisbing them. in THE 0XNARD SUGAR FACTORY Promising Future for the Sugar Bost Industry in Nebraska. AS STATISTICIAN JENKINS SEES, Rapid Work on the Great Building at Grand Isiand—Stato and City News of General Interest. 1029 P StrEet, Lixcony,' Neb., Deo. 20, *'Citizens of Nebraska are decply inter. ested in tho Oxnard sugar beet factory, going up at Grand Island,” suggested T Ber representative to Deputy Labor Cowm- missioner Jenkins, this morning, “‘and as you have just retirned from thero the situa- ation as you seo it would be road with inter- est. What is the promise, Mr. Jenkins, and what effect will the vast enterpriso have upon the comparatively undeveloped part of the state in which it is located " It certainly Wwill cause a great deal of land which now ramains idle to be devoted to tue culture of the sugar beet, for the profits arising from this farming industry are so much above any others that farmers will naturally sce tho necessity of devoting their attention toit, consequently it will have the immodiate result of enhancing the value of lands. Ana, moreover, it will lead to a more rapid settle- ment of the country. Tho ex- periments that bhave been carried on by the bureau in rolation to the culture ot beets, leave no dofbt whatever as to the fitness of the soil to produce a first-class quality of sugar beets. Speculation as to the question whether sugar can be manufactured from beets has passcd, and it is now a coin- mercial fact, When we take into considera- tion that Germany supports her vast armies from the revenue derived from that industry, together with the revenues that France aud Beigium derive, the matter is out of question. In my opintcn & bright day has dawned for the state.” ““How is work progressing on the building, aund what 18 it like!" ““The work is progressing very rapialy. In fact it progresses as though by magic. The material used in the buillding 18 first-class, and in keoping with the industry to which it is devoted. ~ On or about the 15th of January, 1800, the citizens of Grand Island ' ave = going to have & a jolhfication. The corner stone will be laid on that day. State ofcials and prominent citizens from all parts of the state will be in- vited. The length of the main building 1s 202 feet and the width S5 feot, and with the fact kept in mind that itis toto be four stories in height some idea of its magnitude can be ovtained. In addition to the main building there will be an engine and boiler house together with a number of small build- ings as necessary adjuncts. At least 150 wotkmen are e ed ou the building, and it is a caution the way they are pushing the work. A sand pit close to the building keeps two teams and two two-wheeled scrapers bauling out sand all the time. This must give some impression of the activity and bustle manifest on every hand. “The machinery is expected here next month, and there ‘willy be about ¢ forty men sent from the factory to put it in shape. My word for it Nebraska will have oue of the tinest sugar factories in the world before the close of 1500." “How about Willfieet, and what are the prospects for a factory there.’ *I know very little avout the prospects for a factory at that place. But citizens there have sugar bects on the brain as much as they nave at Grand Island. While there I noted the soil carefully and think it er ently adopted to the cultivation of sugar In my judgment, however, the Grand Island enterprise will be watched and upon 3 may depend tho erection of a at that place. Ican say this, also, of other points in the state. Schuyler and Neligh are growing anxious upon the ques. tion. Last week I received correspondence from both points reluting to the subjec Inquiries chiefly, are directed to the cost of production in tae manufacturing of sugar. These pownts I am investigating with great care and will report upon them at lengti in the near future, LixcoLy Bureavor Tas OMana Bee, % Wants » C mmission Back, John C. Williams complains in the district court that some mouths since he gave the agency of a picce of property on South Twenty-sixth street to A, W. Jensen and W. L. Murphy to be sold for_ $3,000, they to ro- coive §100 for doing so. Soon after they sold the property aud returned tho proceeds less the commission, over to him. He now dis- covers that they bought the proverty them- selves and wants the commission back, bringing suit in the district court to recover the same, State House Jottings. Articles incorporating the Bank of Ver- digre were filed in tho seorotary of state’s oftice this morning. Verdigre, Knox county, 18 fixed upou as the principal place for the trausaction of business. pital stock, Incorporators, ). 1. Johuson, J. H. Rothweil and E. D. Johuson. Amendea articies of the First Bank of Ulysses were also filed for record. The capital stock of the institution is incressed 10 £0,000. Signed, G. H. Lord, president, and C. M. i otary. Walter A. Lcese, clerk of the supreme court, spent Chiristmas at Seward. Ho re- turned home this morning and was busy at his desk durine the day. Secretary Gilchrist states that the state board of transportation is in recoipt of u letter from Mr. Holdroge, general manager of tho Burlington railroad company, stating that an agreement had been entered into between the company and the county com- vs of Johnson county which insures bead crossing at Crab Orchard, one mile west of the village, s sottles the complaint from that place. 1t will be ro- membered that one man was killed und another seriously iujured ot this point, and because of & bad crossing over the Burling- ton track there, New Notaries Public. The governor today made the following uotarial appointments: T. P. Young, At- lanta, Phelps county; Fraok McCartney, Nebraska City, Otoe county; George A. Brooks, Bazile' Mills, Kunox county: J, H Loma, Keya Paba county: M. D, Neill, Holt county; Nellio Watts, Tsland, Hall county; Jason C. Spark Concord, Dixon county: George Jeffroy, Omaha, Douglas county; Willinm A. Hamp: ton, David City, Butler countys; Eli Hodgins, Omaha, Douglas county: Henry McKendry, South Omaba, Douglus county, City News and Notes, A meeting of East Lincoln Oddfellows was held this evening at Baker & Smith's hall and final arrsugements wade for the in- stitution of the contemplated lodge, which takes place on the first Thursday in Jauuary, Fifteen now members will be initiated and with the twenty charter members of the third degree the state is most promising, Invitations are out at last for the charity ball. It takes place Jaunuary 14, 1890, at the state house. Hepresentative hall will be used by the dancers and if necessary®tho senato chamber, 1t is saud that the comumit- tee on privting is lkicking hard on the job pawned off upon it by the Journal pubiishjng company. ‘The invitations were to have boen thul:‘uphed, instead they were partly printed. Jobn E. Dye of Councordia, Kan, aged sixty, and Miss Sarah L. Aby of this city, SSent b Taye Wk Slowart: Fhu g6 even! y Ju A wart., ' to Kausas to mf: their future home. el Prof. Elton Fulmer of the state university was married at 10:30 yesterday morning to Mis» Helen, daughter of Prof. Anghey, at the residence of the bride's parents, Thirtieth and Vine strects. The youog couple took the afternoon traln for Gibbon on @ short wedding tour. Jobr, 5. Allen, a fireman at the F' street engine house, was tried bofore Judge Hous- ton this morning on the charge of maliciously destroying property. As stated by Tue Bee today he was arrested on the complaint of Harry Bell. After hearing the testimony, pro and con, Judge Houston seutenced him 10 thirty dags in the county Jail. An appesl was instantly filed and the' customary, stay of sontence given. Mary Lynch celebratod Christmas by throshing her husband, Thomas Lynch, after the most approved fashion, — As usual Thomas colebrated the day by gottiug drunk, and becoming abusive, Sho went at him with “fist and tongs"’ and compelioa him to cry for merc Ho caused her arrest for assauit and vattory and Judwe Houston gave hor &3 and costs tor the pastime, - - OMAHA AND YANKTON, A Mocting of Citizens of the New States to Consider the Projeot. Frank A. Everts, editor of the Journal at Ouida, 8. D., is aponding & few days in the oity. Ouida is on the Ine of the proposed Omaha & South Dakota railroad, and Mr. Everts nssorted that a lively interest was being taken in the road in his section. A meoting was held at Ouias Monday after- noon, prosided over by N. W, Porter, regls- ter of deeds of Sully county. Considorable interest was manifested, as Ouida will bo on the direct line of the road if built as pro- posed to It was thought best 10 thoroughly organize and bo ready 1o md the project s much as posaible, and nocord- ingly D. Q. Jordan was appointed chairman of a committes to examine the routo and sd the surveying party 1o secure a foasible line, with power to uppoint two additional mem- bers to assist. Charles H Aear, ox-county treasurer; John H, Gropengieser. oditor of the Watchman and James Otis were selocted as a committeo to securo mght of way through Sully county. W. N. Meloon, & banker; John . Cole, merchant; H. B, Kim- mel, county anditor, and G. W. Fisher and David Hall selocted'ns a_committeo on dona- tions, and William Toomey, county treas- urer; D, Q. Jordan and N.'W, Porter wero empowered to correspond with parties atong the line of railroad and ascortain what as- sistunce might be required. Dakota peoplo are anxious tohavea southern outlet, as nearly all Lines of traftc are now directly with the cast. Nearly all the business of central Da- kota is now done with Chicago, St. Paui, Sioux City and Duluth, aud if Omaha desires a portion of tho trade of the great artesian stato, sho must have airect connection by rail. ' Dakota people are willing to give ail the assistance in thoeir power, but much of the cost, a8 well as the benefit, devolves upon the shoulders of the people ‘of Omalin. GUATEMALA, The City of that Nam+ 200 Years Old limate and Products, San Freancisco Call: The eity of Gu temala was founded more than 200 years 20 by the missionavies, and the pre- vailing style of architecture is of the old Spanish type. The houses open directly upon the streots by wide pas- drive-ways, that open into gardens or pattios. These are filled with flowing fountains, statuary and flowers, large bushes of roses and hel- liotrope mingling their sweets with those of the orange, banana and pine- apple. The windows are barred as was the custom of ro when it was necessary to have protection from the war-like Indisns. The streets of the ty are paved with large blocks of one of u porous nature, and are kept scrupulously clean under the goveru- ment’s sanitary regulatious, which are very exacting. “The stonesare arranged in & concave form, forming gullies in the center of the streets, down which the water rushes during the rainy sea- son with o mighty roar, forming verita- ble rivers in the center of the streets, during which time everyone remains indoors, but should they have occasion to go out they will lind native Indians on the street corners who for a small sum will curry them across, The climaté is_semi-tropieal, varying from 70= to 50= the ar round, and as a dari or cloudy day i5 a thing unknown it makes life one perpetunl day of sun- shine. A peculiar f: f the rainy son-. sous which facetiousiy is said to begin at 2 o’clock in the afternoon of May, is that it never rains during the forenoons. The mornings ure as hright and pleas- ant as possible and the sky of the deep- est blue, until early in the afternoons, when the first sign of a coming storm males itself known by the light, fleecy clonds that come drifting in over the mountains.. These are followed by streaks of lightning and the deep roll of distant thunder, and it 1s then that the inhabitants seek shelter from the de- luge which quickly follows, the first drops to fall being very large ones, leaving marks on the stone blocks two and three inches in diameter, but in a very short time onc would think the heavens had broken lose; this lasts fora short time, when the sun shines out again and all nature comes forta in its most beautiful robss. The trees and shrubs are of the brightest green, and tho beautiful plumaged birds fairly burst their little throats with their songs of gladness; the people come out from their homes and pursue their tusks as though nothing had happened; the streets dey up in a few minutes, and such thing ns mud in the city is unknown. A mistaken iden scems to provail throughout the United States as regards the stability of the government of Gua- temala, and the common belief "that riots and revolutions are frequent should be corrected, the one ot a few woeks since ¢ seavcely more than a small sized riot and not atjaining the diguivy of a revolution. It was oceas) sioned by a disagreement with soimo students ~ of the polytechnic school, together with a misundevstanding in regard to the terms and conditions of o contemplated loan by a French syndi- cate. 1t was quelled in three days by the povernment under the direction of President Manuel Brillas, who prides himself upon his military ability in potting 6,000 troops in the field and ef- fectually wiping out all signs of dis- content, 1ts population is in the neighborhood of 70,000 person, the greuter number of whom are nutive Indians—a most intel- ligent and industrious people—meon woraen and children performing all kinds of labor. Thoy are very clennly, religious and affectionate, and it is an - imposing sight to see the hittle children file 1nto church at vespers and hear them chant their little hyms of praise. The uppor classes are very highly edu- cated and polished 1o their manners, so much so that our own nation could learn a great desl from them with advantage. Guatemala is plentifully blessed with almost overything in the agricultural ana mineral line, but at presont nearly all attention is given to coffee, sugar, rubber, chocolate and tropical fruits, of the lutter there heing 178 varioties, many of which are unknown in this country. The chief product and greatost source of wealth in Guatemala is its coffee, The greater partof the crop goes to Burope, principally to Bremen and Hamburg. Guatemalan coflee is usually sold in Lge market under the name of Mocha, as it resembloes closely the gen- uine Arabian berry, which 15 no longer produced in any quantivy. T Firit He Mast Be a Damocrat. Augusta (Ga.) Chronfele, The interest of the negro must lie with the interest of the white man. In politics he should ot antagonize the people Among whom he works and upon whom, it a certain sense, he is dependent, Let the negro divide &t the polls, as the Chronicle has always ade vised; let him show that be caunot be driven by the north and can not be bought by the south, sud his condition will improve at once. LA SR f Not a Russian Malady, Minneapolls Journal, A great many cougresswen aro suff ering from attacks of the influence,