Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 30, 1889, Page 4

B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. THE DAILY BEE ;UDLiS!{BD EVERY MORNING. PO ——— TEAME OF SUBSCRIPTION Dang and Sunday, Oro Year. Rix Months ... “Ihres Mo Une . Ono Year with Premium. OFFICES, Omana, Deo Butlding. 747 Rookery Bullding oums 14 and 15 Teibune Bulld- rton. No. 513 Fourteenth Street. « Washin, y 2 Pearl Stroet. Council Iu”grrl-.flNo, g Lincoln, 1029 1¥ St1eef Eouth Omahn, Corner N and 35th Streats. CONRE i 11 communieations relating to news and edi- torinl mntter aould be addressed 1o ho Editot- 10l Depariment. BUSINESS LETTERS. ANl Unsiness letters and remittances should ressed to The Bes Publishing Company, Omaha, 1rafts, checks and postofiice orders to Ve made payabls te the order of the company, e Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors ‘“,w Hullding Farnam and Seventeenth Streets. Eee on the Trains. cun’ Oniaha pepers are carried are requested to no- Ay Tie k. Please bo particular to give in all cases full nformution as to date, railway and number of rain. Sl us your name, not for publication or un- necessary use, but as a guaranty of wood faith s THE DAILY BEE. Eworn Statemernt of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, i junty of Douglas, (5% George ' 15, Tzschiuck, secretary of The Beo 1 ublishing Company, does solemnly sweat that 1lie actual circulation ot e DALY BEE forthe week endine Docombor 23 1460, was as foligws: verens 10,974 GEORUGE ¥ CHUCK. Eworu to before me and subscribed to ininy Ppresenco this 2s5th day ot Decembeor, A. D. 1880, (Seal. | N. P, FEIL. ™ Pubiic. Btato of Nebraska, County of Douglas, George 1. ‘Izschuck, being duly sworn, do- pores and says that Lie s aecrotary of The Leo Fublishing Company, that the accual average dnily circulation of Tae DALY BEE for the T Docembor, 188, 1423 coples; for £,574 coples: for February, 1850, for March, 1850, 18,854 coples: 8, oples;for’ Mu(. 1880, Juhe, 1650, 18KS coples; for 5,733 coples: for August, 1889, 18, Beptember, ) 18,710 coples; for October 18, 16,007 3880, 19310 coplen Bworn to b nce thisiith day of Noveiube Avernge.... Notar 7 coples; 'for November, GrORGE B. TZSCHUCK, fore me and subscribed in my A D., 1880, A RAILROAD from Omaha to the Jim river valley would be a commercial Jim dandy. T Dodlin granite combine is des- perately anxious to keep its grip on city hall contracts. IrFord vetires from the council to ac- cept the position of chief of police, who will represent the bloody Third? — TiEe fact that many of the retiring county officials are going into the loan and insurance business is rather signifi- cant, 3 PRINCE BISMARCK is reported *‘ander the weather.” The announcement nceompanied with tions of pence. is renewed declara- For a delightfully dry climate com- .mend us to California. Twenty-four inches of rainfall in a month somewhat dampens the enthusiasm of the natives. ' ACCORDING to the Omaha World- Herald Councilman Davis is an honor- able business man. For further cre- dentinls and vouchers refer to Dave Kauffman’s inventory. An honoradle Dbusiness man, forsooth. 1r it is true that Pat Ford has been offered the position now held by Seavey in exchange for certain favors, the police commissioners must have under- ‘gone a great change of heart or must “be on the eve of experiencing one. Tie Chicago board of trade isvp in arms against the practice of actually buying grain and storing it for trade purposes. Such action is a violation of sthe revercd custom of the board of gambling exclusively in wind. SeNATOR BUTLER'S plan to encourage the emigration of negroes to Sierra Leone can not compete successfully with the prevailing methods, At present the shot-gun route appears to have a monopoly of the African deporting busi- ness. GOVERNOR THAYER has taken Vera Cruz without firing a shot. When he ‘makes bis triumphant entry into the City of Mexico on his return he will storm Chepultapec at the head of a wolumn of Nebraska militia, led by the adjutant general, ae——— NG BULL is highly indignant because he was not taken to Washing- ton with the other tripe-eaters who call themselves the Sioux Chiefs, and have & high old time every fow months at Tncle Sam’s expense. Mr. Squatting . Bison evidently realizes that heisin danger of becoming a reminiscence. E——————— NEBRASKA has not yet produced a pound of sugar from home grown beets, yot the state delegation in congress in- sists that the duty shall be maintained “on sugar. With local, state aud na- tional bounty this infant industry ought 1o thrive amazingly. It certainly does not lack nerve. . —— Tieie is altogether too much log- rolling going on an the interest of Coun- cllman Davis among the council com- bine that manipulated the city heill contracts, ‘The manilest object is to cover up the crooked work heretofore ~done and to take & fresh start at job- Jbery and boodling in next year's couneil, emT——— . ACCORDING to our Lincoln advices, 1¢ is currently reported at the state capital that Congressman Connell will retire from public life at the end of his term 10 accopt the attorneyship of the Bur- Jington rond. Without knowing any- thiug definite, Tne Bre takes the re- sponsibility of asserting that it is too early in Mr. Conpell’s term to retire bim to the B. & M. pay roll. If Mr. Connell contemplates retiring from ~ public hfe the fact will remain a pro- found secret for some mouths to come. THE PRESIDENT WILL APPROVE. Referring to the silver plan of the sccretary of the trensury, Prosident Harrison in his message indicated that the mensuro mot his approval. While he had beon able to give it only a hasty oxamination he thought the general plan suzgosted seemed to satisfy the purpose of continuing the use of silver in connection with the currency and at the samo time obviating the danger of financial disturbance. 1t is announced that the president will sond a specinl messago to congress im- mediately after the holiday recess en- dorsing the plan of issuing treasury notes against deposits of silver bullion. Since the plan has been publicly dis- cussed the president has conferred with leading republicans in both houses of congress, and also with conservative representatives of the opposition. With the exception of those who believe in nothing but the free and unlimited coinage of silver, Mr. Windom’s plan has been very cordially en- dorsed, and it is said that both tae president and sscretary have received thousands of letters from financinl men 1n all parts of the country commendiug the proposition, and they bave been furnished with a great deal of newspaper comment upon the plan. All this suggestive matter has been given careful consideration. Just what the president will say in his special message is not foreshadowed, but from remarks made to members of congress and others it 18 expected that he will give the Windom plan hearty endorsement, and recommend that congress at once puss the necossary logislation to carry it into effect. The views of the president will be received with very great and general interest. In his message at the opening of con- gress he took a very conservative position regarding silver. Admitting that the evil antwcipations which have accompanied the cotnage and use of the silver dollar have not been realized, he was nevortheless apprehensive that the free coinage of silver at the present ratio would force consideration in commepeial trons- actions of the difference in the bullion values of the gold and silver dollars, and he feared that even any considera- ble increase of the present rate of coin- age would be followed by the same re- sult. *““We should not tread the dan- gerous edge of such a peril,” said the president, *‘and indeed nothing more harmful could happen to the silver in- terests. Any safe legislation upon this subject must secure the equality of the two coins in their commorcial uses.” The conviction of the president thatthe perils he feared would not be- encoun- tered under the plan proposed by the secretary of the treasury, and that the benefits to be derived from the u: silver would be secured, is of very g importance for the influence it is likely to exert upon the opinion of congre: and the country, and its expression v consequently be regarded with the liv liest interest. If it shall appear that the president is fully committed in favor of tins plan, legislation to carr it into efect at an early time can bo re- garded us highly probable. AN EANTERN ENDORSEMENT. The Philadelphia Putlic Ledyer, one of the most careful and conservative papers in the country 1n its support of men and measures referring to the re- cent remarks of Senator Beelk of Ken- tucky regarding the possibility of Sen- ator Allison not being re-elected, and the great mistake which would be made in his defeat, says: The Ledyer is rejoiced to hear that Sen- ator Allison is in no such danger, or any other. Our further purposo in these remarks is te second Senator Beck in the reasons he Rives why Allison should be kept in the sen-, ate 8o long as ho is able and willing to serve. They are: That the Iowa senator is a man of large experieuce, ability and influenco in pub.ic affairs—occupying the front rank in tho senate—a statesman in the highest de- gree creditable to Jowa and valuable to the country; and that any new senator from Towa to succeed him would have to occupy a back seat and begin at the foot. That is true, every word of it, and it might be amplified and still Mot say everything justly due in praise of William B. Allison ot lowa. This expresses a sentiment very gen- eral among eastern republicans, pur- ticularly those of the conservative class represented by the Public Ledyer. These rogard Senator Ailison us one of the sufest as well as ablest statesmen of the country, and this view is shared in largely by intelligent democrats and by independents. Since the question of his re-election has been discussed we have nbserved nothing but favor- able opinion of him in the eastern press, the uniform expression being that it would be & misfortune to Iowa and to the country not to continue him in the senate. The state would lose the promi- nence it mow enjoys in the upper branch of congress, the republicans in that body oue of their strongest and most trustworthy counselors and the nation an experienced and clear-headed statesman, whose services have at no time been more necessary than now. The present indications, however, are that there is ‘extremely small danger of the defeat of Senator Allison. The republican majority on joint ballot is ndeed small, but there is excellent reason to believe that when the time of action arrives it will be found in solid line for Allison. Governor Larrabee has no doubt of the senator’s re-election and other careful observers are of the same opivion, Certainly if the repub- lican sentiment of the entire country exerts any influence upon the republi- cans of the Iowa legislature they will promptly and heartily return to the senate the distinguished swtesman whose fidelity to republican principles, and whose eminent ability in the coun- try’s service, have given him a place among the foremost public men of the time, E————— WINTER CORN EXHIBIT. In connection with the annual meet- ing, to be held in Lincoln January 21, the state board of agriculture has per- fected avrangements for an extensive exhibit of Nebraska corn of the crop of 1889, This teature of the board’s work 15 comparatively povel, yet the state has derived great benefit from past winter exhibits, The last one, it will be remembered, was & conspicuous part of the American display at vthe Paris THE OMAHA DAILY B exposition. made by world the an The favorable impression that small exhibit is wide. Secretary Furnas of state board has received official lettor from Paris nsking that the coming exhibit bo sent to that city, to be shown there next May, and also at Vienna and Edin- burg. The interest awakeéned abroad in Nebraska's great coreal can hardly fail to result beneficially to the state. Even if it does not result in broaden- g the market and creating a demand for it, the exhibit will be the best pos- siblo advertisement of the agricultural resources of tho state. The corn crop for 1880 has not been surpassed in quality and quantity by any in the history of Nebraska. It is important, thorefore, that the farmers should exert themselves to make the January exhibit surpass its predecessors. Ample space has been provided for an extensive display, and the premiums offered by the board, aggregating three hundred dollars, are an additional in- centive forn grand showing of every variety raised in the state, Secretary Furnas | informs Tie BEE that provision hus already been made for the distribution of the exhibit in the eastern states. To meet the foreign demand increased supplies are necessary. Will the farmers meet the emergency? The cost is trifling com- pared with the advantages to accrue to the stato from these displays of her resources at home and abroad. Every enterprising furmer is directly inter- ested in the growth and development of the state, and nothing contributes to this desirable end aseffectively as an exhibit of the products of the soil. Tiue Bek urges the facmers to make the winter exhibit a grand success. It was a very proper thing for the government to eall for bids for the new lease of the Alaskaseal fishing grounds, but the secretary of the treasury ap- 8 to have erred in proposing to limit the maximum catch to sixty thou- sand scals for tho first year, leaving the number for succeeding years indefinito and depending upon the discretion of the secretary. The authorized catch on the islands for the last twenty years, the term for which the lease is made, has been one hundred thousand annually, and why this *should now be changed is not apparent, unless the secretary has been somehow impressed with the notion that the cnteh now allowed threatens the exte ination of the seals. Itis quite possible that the Alaska commercial company has raised such an alarm in its own interest, for obviously new bidders would be setadrift in uncertainty with forty per cent or more taken from the possible catch, with no diminution of the original outlay and ruuning expenses, while the Alaska company, with its plant es- tablished and an accurate kuowledge of what it could make out of the business, will have n most important advantage in the bidding. The proposed reduc- tion in the number of seals thatshall be taken mexns the loss of a large revenue to the government, which gets two dol- lavs for cuch skin, and it is very likely to insure the lease for aunother twenty years to the monopoly which has grown immensely vich out of it. In thatevent the reduced catch would doubtless not be continuved longer than a year, the government meantime losing o snug sum without any compensating benefit to the fisheries, and the commercial company would thereuafter come into the full enjoyment of its exceedingly protitable privilege. It looks very much as if the secrotary of the treasury has allowed himself to be misled in this matter. THERE is a very active demand upon the treasury department for siiver cer- tificates of small denominations, and a remarkabie feature of this is that the New York banks, which are generally opposed to the silver coinage, are ex- changing considerable quantities of gold certificates for the silver certifi- cates. Of course this merely shows that there is a necessity for small notes, and that the demand can be satisfac- torily met with those which represent silver doilars. It is suggested that the silver men may avail themselves of the situation to urge an increased coinage of silver dollars, but unquestionably certificates issued against bullion de- posits would be equally acceptable, and in that case there can be no excuse for the expense of coining more silver dollars. GOVERNOR HILL is advancing by easy stages to the plane of a small bore statesman. His treatment of the Al- bany Argus meusures his mental and political calibre to a nicety. The Argus, edited by the son of Daniel Manning, committed the unpardonable offense of speaking of Cleveland in compliment- ary terms. This so enraged Hill that he took away the state printing and gave it to his personal organ. The attempt to punish a newspaper for its opinion will not redovnd to Hill's credit, but it serves Lo show the demo- cratic war is raging right merrily in the Empire state. PRIVATE enterpriee is gradually solv- ing the irrigation problem. A company of Boston capitalists has begun work on an irrigation ditch in northern New Mexico which, when completed,will add at least half a million acres to the tilla- ble avea of the territory. Similar en- terprise is rupidly reclaiming large sec- tions of the arid belt in Colorado and Wyoming. — Mg. JonN W. BOOKWALTER has entered the race for the succession to the seat held down by the Standard Oil senator from Ohio. Mr. Bookwalter will be remembered by many citizens of southern Nebraska asa far-sgeing philanthropist who invested in several sections of Nebraska lauds when land could be had for the asking. - — THE report of the Sioux commission has been completed and filed with the secretary of the interior. The procla- mation of the president is all that is now necessary to open to settlement be- tween nine and eleven million acres of land, and the law requires that this proclamation shall issue befure the 2d of next March, Not in the Canundrnm B St. Thnds Globe-Demorrat. Senator Morgan demands that ‘‘congress | shall determina™whother Brazil is an empire or & republic.”'+ But other people know that 1t is not the busiicss of congrees to guess ail the conundrunis that may be propounded. iness. e fivad, Let in the Light, Stedouis Republic, The longest single step that can bo taken towards reform ity the federal service is the considazation of wominations in open sessions of the senate. + While the evidence of mal- administration: edn be concealed behind closed doors, mialatiministration will have no effective chock uphn it Let in the light. e pon't Conflict, Washington Post. 1t is 80 wise us to seem almostiprovidential that the great American Fouh of July ComoA at a timo remote from the fall eleo- tions, I would be embarrassing for an In- dopendence day orator to elbow his way through the crowds of citizens yelling frand and corruption at cach other and take the platform and declare this to be tho grandost, the noblest, the most glorious nation of all time. - — Could Hardly Be Ac Springfield Republic Thero are too many cousins of Emin Pasha turning up, and the latest one zor of San Francisco, calls B by the name of Tsaac instead of Bdward. All the Schnitzors, says the author of this discrep- ¢, are related and came from Krzepic, a Polish village. The people of Krzepic get their mouths so twisted in pronouncing their geographical designation that absolute vo- racity is hardly to be expected of them. . -——— Grady on the Great Confl ot. Baltimore Herald. One of Mr, Grady’s last utterances was 8o bright, eloquent and true that it ought to find a place in cvery note book in the land. ‘““T'he great struggle of this country,” said he, “is a fight against the consolidation of power, the concentration of capital, the dom- ination of local sovereignty and the dwarf- ing of the individual ecitizen.”” This sen- tence contains the gist of all political prob- leme, a8 well as the coucentrated voice of discontent, as both appear in Americaa life at the preseut tume. -~ - Commissioner Mc n's Slanderer, Chicago Tribune. The slanderous assailants of General Mor- gan, the commissioner of Indian affairs, hav. ing failed to establish their false charge thut ho has been influenced by secturian cousid- erations in removing employes from his de- partment, who in every case had proved whemselves inefiiciont or unworthy, records show, are now seeking to pr the senate against him by malicious assaults upon his personal character, to the effect that whilo in tue army he was court-mar- tialed and convicted of conduct unbecoming asoldier and a gentlemen. This charge, however, falis to the ground like the other. The finding of 'the court-martial was re- viewed by his siperior officer, General Sted. man, who acquitted him of all was furthermoreicommended by M cral O. O, Howards who bears his testimony that ke was unfairly treuted by the martial, and by Ipspector General Howard, who testifies that the c against him were mere technicalities grow- ing out of jealousy ana spite. There should be no further delay in the confirmation of General Morgan,, The senate should act as s00n as It reassembles and end thisdisgrace- ful-hostility to the only commissioner who for many years has-demonstrated his fitness for his position. . Ay failure to confirm his nomination would be a damaging blow to the solution of the Indfan problem wnd a conces- sion to secta pite which the country would pever for; C. ERRITORY, Nebraska Jortings, Hastings is to buy a garbage cart ana hire A man to run it. A whist club is tho latest fastionable or- ganization at Norfolk. Wallace Congrezationalists are to erect a 3,000 church buildiog. . Eight Shelton young people Christmas by mal 3 Springneld elevators are fu! buyers have shut down until ¢ cured. R. B. Taylor committed suicide at Whit- man Ly taking poson, all on account of drink. A Young Men’s Christian association hus been organized av Albion with forty active mermbers. Mr. and Mrs. W, B. Sexson of Union pre- cinct, Furnas county, celebrated their wolden wedding on December 19, A company has been formed to sivk a shaft at the supposed silver mines at the mouth of Burton creek 1 ieya Paha county? The revival at Bostwick conducted by Rev. Mr. Morrison has closed with (ifty-tour coaversions and thirty-four additions to the ¢hureh, The Cambridee nicle is 2 thing of the past, the plant ing beon sold and re- moved to Stockville to found another paper, the Sentinei. ‘The snloons av Humphrey are preparing to oven up ugain with new licenses, the city council huving fixed the ordinances up ia proper shape. Frank Vickers securcd his release from juil at Plattsmouth by marrying Annie Krecelr, whose bouncing baby boy claims him as 1ts father. The Platte county farmers’ club has de- cided to hold a series of furmers' institutes at Columbus for Platto and adjoining counties during the winter, Lyman Catewitt, engincer of the Noligh waterworks, while taking down the old stack, fell a distance of twenty feot, land- ing on his head and receiving injuries from which he remaived unconscious for twelve hours. During a fight over a game of pool at Platt Center, John Oury, a sixteen-ycar-old ln'g,' struck Thomas Morrissey over tie head with the butt end .of @ oue, inflicting injuries which may prove fata Oury surrendered nimselr to the authorities, Gill Vanskike, living near St. Paul, heard a disturbance in his_chicken house a few nights ago and oh_investigating the causo found a wildcat Had" taken posscssion. He fired at the beast;‘which turned sud showed fight, and it required the coutents of five chanibers from his revolver to convince the animal that it O\IJ;L to give up the ghost. A serious caso pfsblood poisoning is ro- ported from Nor! nd, C. A. Day, of the STATE A celebrated f gram and can bo so- firm of Day Brof meat market, being the sufferer. tuad been troubled with salt rheum, and the supposition is that while handling hides about two weeks ago his blood became impregnated with the poison, His left hand first became badly swollen, and from there the inflammation graduaily spread 1o other partg of the body. Norfolk’s Chris stocking ‘was & very 1urge one, but it filled to overflowing with promises of gi things, saysthe News, There are threo railroads, a packing house, a beat sugi actory, several other manufacturing ostBhshments, & uaion stock yards and water power company, two new wholesale houses, an electric street railway, o federal building 4nd many other things too numerous to mention in the collection. ‘There is & big “kick” at Gibbon on the manner of distribyting fish from the state hatchery. **The commissioners have,” says s correspondent, *'played us for suckers for the lasy s1x years, promising big things-and putting worthless flsh gn us, and m&k}% few of them. ‘e had 8 180 of 10, lack 150 bullheads and pumpkin and labeled as ‘400 black bass.’ Two gentlomen spent the night and Pud for & team to secure this supply of fish,” Rev. Joseph Oesch, who has charge of all Lutheran church organizations in Chase, Hayes, Du) and & portion of Perkins raskn; Rawlios, Cheyenne and e bt s s0d, Fallin gan, uin, ington, Arapahoe, Kit Caraon, Blbert and Lincol ‘couaties in Colorado, has purchased eighty acres of land adjoining Champlon, Chase county, where he MONDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1880 will arect a church and achool buildmg and nlat the remainder to be sold to Germans who contemplate settli tows . Dandelions are in full bloom around Mar- shalitown, Francis Murphy will commence a tomper- ance crusade at Jefferson in January, Four clothes-line thiovos are in jail at Hampton and the stolen goods have bren re- covered. J. I Murray, an_employe in tho Rock Rapids tow mill, Jost his right hand in the machinery last week. . William Duggan, & Des Moines county farmer, raised 1,050 bushels of corn on eigh~ teen acres, or 10837 bushels per acre. Fletcher Howard of Sheldon s a candi- date for pharmacy commissioner under Governor Boies. The office is worth §2,000 a year, Lutber Cain of Amborst will 1ose his right arm as tho result of a wound which he acei- deutally inflicted on himself while out hunt- ing tast week, U W.J. Young, awealthy Clinton mill owner, gave thirty-four poor widows of that city a silver dollar and two sacks of flour each us a Christmus present. The lowa Falls ethodists will hold a corn festi {ew Yonr's day, with a bill of fare which includes overy produoct of corn except the “Juice.” A LeMars young man has entered intoa contract with onc of the wealthy citizens of that town to work for him for five years for his board, provided that at the oxpiration of that time ho gets §,000 and the rich man's daughter, John Silabough of Spirit Lake, candidato for shoriff on the democratic ticket last fall and for several years sheriff of Carroll county, died at his home of blood poisoning. ‘I'ne poisoning resulted from lacerating his hand with a husking peg, the poison circu- lating throughout his whole system, followed by violent breaking out aud fnally by his death. Nearly two years ago John J. Babcook, a Des Moines carpenter, had the misfortune to fall from building on which he was working, the accident resvlting in paralysis. At the time thore was a mortgage of §i00 on his home, and in his condition he wus unable to mect the payments. The Daily News interested itself in the case and started a subscription paper among the good people of Des Mowes. Christimas morning the unfor- tunate carpenter was made happy by being presented with the canceled mortgage on his little home, the final note for §100 having been taken up the day before, The Two Dakotas, An electric straet railway will be built at und Forks early in vhe spri A branch of the State Enforcement league has been organized at Iroquois. The First German Baptist church of Big Stone City has boen mcorporated. The first trading post with the Dakota Indians was established at Vermillion. Clarence Bradford, tiving near White- wood, is minus a big toe which he clipped off hile chopping wood. c school children of Sioux Falls shipped three dray loads of clothing und $51 in cash to the Miner county sufTerers, Aberdeen’s now gas works are completed and in operation, Aberdeen is the second city in South Dakota to use gas for lighting. “I'ne first term of the South Dakota su- preme court will be held at Pierre on the first Tuesday in February, Judge Carson presiding. A bill has been introduced into the North Dukota legislature requiring outside insur- auce companies to deposit in the state $200,~ 000 before being allowed to do businsss in the stato, Ho: Schnauber of Yaniton will introduce a bill into the leislsture pro- viuing for the registration of marriages and births, the returns to bo made by county 283 e860TS. Rev. I'ather Metzger, formerly pastor of atholic church in’ Lead City, has boen G county ¢ ¢ in a few days. v will take charge of the congregation Nels Martinson of False Bottom has a calf about five weeks old that was born blind aud apparently dumb, as it hasn't *blatted” nor made a noise, says tue Whitewood Sen- tinel. Itis a curious freak of nature, but the chances are favorable that itewill live and flourish. “lay county 18 sdly 1 need of o new jail, The present condition of the bastile in that county is such that if w prisoner wants any- thing from his friends on the ontside ail he has to do is to raise the window and get A prisoncr was recently confinec for drunk- enne much to the surprise of the oftic longer he was kopt in durance the heavier became his “jag,” and he had to be released to sober up. He had friends on tue outside, AGENCIES.* What the Move Means tothe Business Men of Omaha. Dec. 20.—To the Editor of Tnr Bee: The following is chpped from a re- cent issue of the Sioux City Daily Journal: CasTALIA, Neb., Dee. 23 —It is expected that the Indian agency at Rosebud will be moved toa point on Dog Ear creek, about forty miles from tho Missouei river. It is stod that a recommendation to do is in the report of tbe Sioux Indian com- issicn, and that Senator Pottigrew is actively at work to the same end. The re- moval will be a great benefit to Charles Mix county, und all our people are in favor of it and are at work 0 securo it. The Journal might have added with pro- pricty that therc was a sccret move wiso on foot to remove Pine Ridge agency north 1o Medicine Root. Let us see what the re- moval of these Ggencies means to the job- bing tradé of Omaha aud to Nebraska. Rosebud agoney contains about nine thou- sand Sio.ux and one thousaud whites. At Valentine (the railroad point from which its supplies are forwarded) stands a warehouse H0xi300 feet, through which pass goods to the amount of 5,000,000 pounds aunually con- signed to that ugency. These goods are freignted from Valentine, the Indians receiy- ing 50 cents per 100 for dowg the work. There aro 8,000 beeves sluughtered, the Indians getting the hides, which they sell nt about § each, some to the traders at the agency and somo ta the merchants at Valen- tine. In this way the Indiuns get bides to haul on their return wrips. They also deliver ‘ones at Valentine, for which they get $3-per ton, As many os eighty Indian teams have loaded there in a day, and thesightofa dozen to twenty teams loading for Rosobud can he seen Lhere any day. What this freight is to tho earnivgs of the Frewont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valloy railway that company can tell best, but what the trade of Valentine is to our jobbing trade any of our Jobbers will testify withouv any reluctancy. Pine iidge agency has very nearly as many Indwns as Rosebud, and its supplies nre forwarded from Iushville (which also hus a large supply warchouse) under the same conditions as those forwarded from Valentine to Rosebud, and the same may be suid regarding the trade of Rusbville. ¥ thermore, Forts Niobrara and tobinson bave been enlarged ou account of those agencies until they are now two of the largest and most substantial posts n the west. Taking the agencies away from the border of this state would of course to cer- tain c.tent take away their uscfulness, and these posts would be allowed to fall into ducay, while appropristions would be granted for building new posts in Dakota near the new agencies. ‘T'hiere is no reason why this move should be made exceptiug that Senator Pettigrew had rather bave an agency within forty miles of & Dakota town than within thirty miles of one in Nebraska. For this reasou large appropriations will be asked of con- gress for the removal of these agencies. The Sioux commissioner’s recommenda- tion of it in their last report is said to be in conformity to & promise made a fow of the Indians when the commission was on the resorvation Last summer, getting wthe signa- tures of the Indians to the troaty which is to open up part of their land to seftlement. .. To the writer it has ulways been hard to understand in what way the n:enlnz of the Sioux reservation could contribute 10 the ad- vancement of Omaha and Nebrasks, the Milwaukee road hflnf sure to build to the Black Hills from (bamberlain, making Sioux City much its nearer marke:. Now if the Milwaukee can remove these sgencies porth far enough to make them tributary to her roaa, then certainly the opening of the reservation is s positive disadvantage to us, The sttention of the busiuess men of Omaha aud our delegation in congress is respectfully directed to this watter, with & hope that they may deem it of sullicient importance to not allow this trade to be grasped from us witkout @ struggle. Of course the north- western towns luterested will sena_in their [ rotest, X Y. Z Oxama, above A LABOR BUREAU VICTIN Down Went McUarty to Old Ten- nessoe. ISLAND COMING. THE ROCK Lincoln Expects to Hear the Shriok, of Her Engines Before the Jane Time—A. O, U, W, Instal- lation Serv.ces. 1029 P STnesr, Laxcouy. Neb,, Dec. Under date of December 10, in receipt of a letter from W, M. McCarty, who is now at Memphis, Tenn., where he went several woeks ago under a guaranty of remunerative work from P, Coursey Ric! ards, ma: of tho Tenth stroot employ- ment bureau of this city, The letter rep- resented that Richards guaranteed him freo transportation, and wages at §2.50 to 8 per day, or 15 to 17 cents each, entting railrond ties, Further, McCarty states, that Rioh- ards assured him that thore was a demand for laborers in other pursuits, and that if tie cutung did not suit him other work at better wiages than ho couid secure here could b had. For this procious information Me- Carty alloges ho was chargod $2 50, accept- g the guaranty as indicated. This he also alleges was no good as none of the rail- roads would accent it. In this connection he takos occassion to stalo that the south is overrun with laborers; that work is hard to secure at #1.50 per day: that tie cutting by tho piece is from 10 to 12 conts. Ho advises Inborers to atay in the north, and furnishes this gratuitous statement that he has travoled the “‘sunoy south” ali over, and will return to Nebraska in the near future to remain in_contentment umong relatives and friends, Ho also injects the advice to laborors, who are seeking work, to beware of the swindles of the Lin- coln employment burean, Calling upon Mr. Richards, Tur Bee rep- resentative asked him what be had to say regarding the charge. In reply he said: “McCarty may have gone to Tennesseo to engage in tie-cutting through mv agonoy. presume that it I should examine my books I would find his vame, It is not true, however, that [ guaranteed kim fres trans- portation to Momphis. I am not a fool, and any one kuows that railcoads do not give freo rides unless to workmen in their em- poy. 1 have sont laborers into several southern states as ho alloges, but I did it in good faith and upon assurance from other employment bureaus that laborers wero wanted,” “What about McCarty's statement that vou charged him $2.50 above special rates, and represented to bim that wages were higher there than here? “If I did that X also did 1t in good faith. T exact what I believe to be a legitimate fee for my services, Any other professional man does the same.” Other questions, unimportant, were put to Mr. Richards, very vromptly uuswered. remaius jnst the . a similar character huve come in against hiw, and McCarty is not alone 1n his attempt to expose his ‘misreproscntations and alleec extortionate charges, LixcoLy Bungav or Tie Osams Bee, } Tur Bee is perhaps, and they were But tuis fact Other complaiuts of nd, The guaranty s given that Lincoln citi- zens shall hear Rock Island engines whistie before June 1, 1860, in thiscity, As Tac Bre has stated ofcials ot this road have beon getting their grading outfits together at Fawbury and now they have enough scrapers, plows, men and other utensils for such work to push things and execute somo very rapid grading. Yesterday » halt dozen officials of that road eame to the city in 2 special car aud took a good survey of Lin- coln and her surroundings. It 1s understood that the right of way between this civy sud Fairbury has been seoured for the most of the distance, and thatonly o fow miles out of Lincoln is needed to fill the gap. Why Gere was appointed. Since Hon. C. H, Gere was appointed post- master of this city speculation has been va- ried as tothe reasons for his appointment, especially among the opposition. WDl give it to you straight,” said a party supposed to be on the inside, to Tue Bee representative this morning. “The fact of the matter is Connell will not be a candidate for renomination to congress a second time. He has been offered the Burlington attorney- ship at Washington, aud I huve 1t upon the best of authorivy that he will accept the po- sition at the close of his term of ofive. As the matter thus stands he could not do any- thing else very wi Manderson and Pad- dock wanted Gera and he yielded to the pressure brought by them. If Connell had stood for his own wverests, political! oune else would have secared the prize,’’ Grand Pubiic installation. Upchurch Lodge, No. 15, Ancient Order of United Workmen, at its last meeting for 1880, after u spivited and exciting contest, elected the following officers for the enruing year: Past Master Workmai Master Workman—J. H. Burk, Foreman—(George V. Hail, Overseer—J. C. Richeimer, Recorder—C. ¥, Borras, Receiver—~A. N, Donnockdr, Financier—M. L. Unl. Guide—J. M. Vickers. Insiae Watch—J, I\ Hawkins, Outside Watch—W. P. Shanisland, Trustee, three years—George Scott. Medical Examiner—James R, Haggard. Friday, January 10, this louge witl pubticly install its ofiicers, and give a grand social en- tertalnment, City News and Notes. Farrazut post of the Grand Army of the Ropublic gave an open moeting av the Knights of Pythias hull last oveniug. Mrs, H, P. Foster und Mrs. A. C. will keep open house New Yoar's day. former will bo assisted by & number of known socioty ladies, Warden Hopkins of the state penitentiary and W. A. Dorgan of the' Western Manufuc- turing company jointly entertained u number of friends from Youkoo Hill last cvening. Marshal Carder and some of the day police force raided # number of gambling places last night, just bofore miduight. 1t is said 1uat $1,000,000 will be expended for jmprovements n Lincoln durlug the next months, Most of this sum will be cx- ponded in the erection of residences and places of business. Deputy Sheriff Hoagland has decidod to become u eitizen of Lincoln and will remove s family from Waverly to tnis city in a day or two. He will reside at the corner of Fourteenth and K stroets. BORIEe: -1 INTERMARRIAGE OF CONVICTS, A Medical Journal Thinks This Cus- tom is Dangerous to Society. In Italy, where all “questions” re- lating to the detention, employment and disposal of an abnormally numerous convict population may truly be de- seribed as “burning,” our annotation, which appeared on August 10, on the topic has attracted consid- erable nmotice, says the London Lancet, Our attention has just been directed to a recent number of the Opinione, the organ of the Italian right which perpetuates the liberal traditions of Cavour, and which translates the an- notation in exwenso, and introduces it with the following observations: ‘*‘Read- ers of the Opinione are probably aware how the French republic has constituted itself the apostle of marriage between felons, and it may not be without interest to them to know the comments made on this wild legis- lative mensure by the most authoritative | of the English medical journals, which also ranks Jamong the most cele- brated of the two hemispheres— the Lancet, It is superfluous to state that every one even moderately schooled in medicine, or in any degree acquainted with the laws of atavism, which mold in their evolution with equal potentiality the cellule and the moral life,must,whatever histheory . M. Zook, well of thoso laws, acquiosco unresorvedly in the pointed romarks of the most aceredited British journal” (nccredit- aussimo giornale Britannico). Then follows a summary of the oflicial apologla of the Krench government in its now legislative departure, and the translation of the reply which *“il cele~ ! odico Medico inglese” makes to To the Opinione’s article are ap- nded the initials of a distingnishod enetinn consultant, who offectively re- enforces the dectrine of which Dr. Lom« brose 1n Italy (like SirJames Coxe and Dr. Bruce Thomson before him) is now the most vigorous vindicator, as to the best mode of diminishing crime. Jreiovine i Sy WHAT IS CANADA'S DESTINY? This Canadinn Saye A Part of the U A letter on recontly t 1s to Beoome fled States. the destiny of Canada published in tho Victoria Times, is altracting considerable atten- tion in political cireles from the fact that the authorship generaily acerodited to & promincat politician of the PPacific province. **A ditficulty in the way of Canadian independence,” the writer says, ‘‘is Canada’s inability to defena herself. On this continent the United States is supreme. There are no rival nations to hor in check. Whatever she de- to ncquire shoe ontaing, Recogniz- ing this world ns it is, my opinion is that Canada, to have the right o exist as A nation, must have the might to do so. A nation existing on suffer- ance is not an independent nation, With a frontier of 3,000 miles adjacent to the states a clashing of interests will ariso in the futuve. They have hap- pened in the past. They exist now. their settlement the advantage will be 1o the stronger—that is, to the states, not to Canada, the weaker. Although Canada could be easily conquered by the United States, it will not in that way becomo absorbed. Whenever the slight connection at present ex- isting botween Canada and the ecmpire terminates, that self-interest which governs her now, and not the in- terest of the British empire, will cer- tainly bring about a union with the states. The advantages to be gained by union, und the disadvantages of sopura- tion, ave apparent to. any intelligent person who hus looked into the subject. An independent Cavada is a myth. There is oo indieation that Can- ada has an ndividuality of her own, and left undisturbed, it must eventuate a distinct nationality Canada and the United states have been peopled from the same Iuropean sources, The individual characteris- ties of the people north and south of the boundary line are precisely alike. It is impossible to distinguish an American citizen from u Cunadinn. They areulike in orgin, in language, in religion. While there is much to at- tract them together, there iy noth- ing to repel. The fundamental principle of government ‘ty the people and for the people’ is the same 1in the states and Canada, although 1n both the theory has practically been diverted to ‘the politicians and for the politi- cians,’ As rogards politics, it would make little ditfference to British Colum- bia whether its ropresentatives went to Washington or Ottawa, but as regards prosperity, rapia development, unre- stricted trade, the gain to British Columbia would be enormous.” WATER FOR THE DESERT. An lmmeanse Trae: of Land to be Ir- rigatea and Colonized. It is currently reported that a syndi- cate of Inglish capitalists, who have over 81,000,000 at their disposal, ave about to launch forth in an attempt to reclaim a portion of the Mojave desert by irrigation and then colonize it, says the Los Angeles Tribune. During the boom period several of the parties to the new scheme invested in southern Califoruia property ad- jacent to the desert, and since they have added to their holdings, until the property now owned by them embraces 57,000 acres. Toamass this enormous amount of land eighty-seven soctions of desert land have been broken ug. A trio of San Francisco men, Messrs. C. Abberger, Chester Cutter and Stan- tey Keeler, started to work on the scheme some time since, und through the eflorts made by these gentlemen the Bnglish capitalists were induced to combine and formulate a plan for im- proving the truct. Arrangements for irrigating the property have already been concluded —at lesst it is 80 understood. To peo- ple generally the scheme will no doubt appear to be impracticable and even impossible, but the syndicate, it seems, have confidence in the scheme. The soil has been refully analyzed and found to posscss exceptionally good qualities for fruit raising and farming purposes. Itisthe intention to build immense dams and reservoirs, into which water from the Rio del Llano will be turned, and from thence will be conducted by 4 pipe line to the land on which it isto be used. A point about twenty-six miles distant from Alpine station has boen sclected as the loca- tion for the first, or upper dam, ana o number of others will be decided on as s00n as the surveys are completed. ‘Work has already been commenced on & branch line from the Southern Pacific at Alpine to tho site of the first dam;, and work on the structure will bo ushod ahead as s8oon as transportation ;)-; rovided for the necessary materials. 'Fhero is to be n town site laid outat a convenient poiut, and a handsome hotel will be constructed for the accom- modation of visitors. The climate is said to be one of the most healthy that can be found, and mno expense will be spured to make a beautiful and thrifty spot out of what {s at present but a barren waste, After all the improvements have been completed the work of colon. property will begin, Itis the i of themanagement, who, by the way, are Californin capitahists, although English firms are bucking the scheme, to establish agencies in euch of the leading cities of Kurope ana the United Kingdom, where persons desiving to learn about the property can obtain the fullest particulars and may also nego- tiate for the purchase of tracts or farms, Should the syndicate. succeed in the venture there is no doubt but the prop- erty will soon be occupied; and the un- dertaking, if successful, will induce mwany others to adopt similar means to recliim land that is aimost worthless at present. B Lady Napier, who sccompanies Mrs. Hloomtleld Moore on her visit to this cou try, snd who will shortly be present at private view of the Keelr motor in Pnilas hia, is & motherly, gentie and refined-look- ng woman of some filty odd years, just stout enough to be comforteble looking, and wearing in her cheeks thay wholosome bloom which we are accustomed to associate with the faces of our grandmothers, Lady Na- pler is of the direct line of the Napier fam- ily, & collateral brauch of which prodaced Lord Napier of Magdala. She is the mother of Sir Archibald Naper, Miss Ameolia B. Edwards' who will soon cowe to this country on her lecture tour, s often confused with her cousin, Miss M, Botham Edwards, who is also a writer of novels, travels, snd with Mrs. Aunnio Eawards, who is ovelist, but not & rela- tive nor even & counoction by marriage. Neither of the latter, however,’has bocome @ student of Egyptology, so far as we know. A siwilar coufusion of authorship oblains frequenly with the novels of Thomas Hard of Eagltod mad Prof. A. 8. Hardy of thi countrys