Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 3, 1890, Page 4

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Travelers who want T Bk and cun't gat it on trains where other Omaha Dapers are carried are requested o no- tfy T Bee Please be particular information as to dat give in all cases full liway and number of ‘s us your name, not for publication or un: necessary use, but as a guaranty of good faith. Sworn Statenient of Circulation. Etote of Nobraska, - County of Douglas, =) Ueorge 11, vschuck, sscrotary of Tho fiee Fublishing Company. does solemnly swear that the actunl circulation of THE DA1.Y BEE fortha week ending December 25 1850, was as follo! Sunday, Dec. 3§ Wil Monday, Dec Tuesday, De Wednesday, Dec, Thursday, Dec. 95 Friday, Dec. . Eaturday, Dec. Average. DGR 1. TZSCHUCK. BWwori to before me and subscribed to inmy presence this 25tk day ot December, A. D, 1850, [8eal.! LA Vx“ i Notary Public tato of Nebrasks, | 14 County of Douglas, duly sworn, de- retary of The Beo Dpany, that the actual average n ol D. ke for the for 1880, 18,854 c()n]l month of December, I January, 159, 18,995 co) g 3 _coples; 574 coplen; for February, March, 188, P! for 85, 18858 cople: , 184, 18,733 coples: tor August, 18 661 coples: for September, 159, 18710 coples for October 188, 187 coples; for Novemb 1980, 1 GEORGE B, TZ8CmUCK. worn to 1 o subscribed in my prescnce this uth day of November, A. D., 1580, (8eal.] N. P Fitn. nizing the county board the e should be forced to tie rear. Tie ving bombs at monarchs is useful only in sticring up sympatay for royalty. I is Four will be heard from during the coming session of congress, I 1K reports from Keya Paha county are to he relied on, Nebraska’s New Year clouds possess a genuine silver hing. JoHN Horsacu’s offer to take one hundred thousand dollars worth of stock in the Dakota railvroad should be _ takeni up before it gets cold. Tuw.great difficulty confronting Mr. Cushing in the selection of his cabinet is not the quantity, but the indifferent quality of the material offcred. T capitol of South Dakota' is a ninety days’ wonder as well as a monu- ment to the public spirit of Pierre in wroviding the new state with quarters free of charge. THE state convention of democratic ed- itors was an eminently respectable gathering, all the more so because the struggling brethren of that faith in Omaha were conspicuously absent. T adoption of prohibition by the Dalkotas has stimulated art to a wonder- ful degree. The Dakota painters are actively employed converting saloon s1gns into emblems of drug stores. Tue Dodlin granite gang arc indus- triously laying their blocks to capture ‘the presidency ot the council and the city hall committee. Honest council- men should block the game promptly. —_— NEPOTISM should be abolished in city offices. The fact that one member of a family is favored with office does not carry with it the right to quarter brother, sister or wiie on the city treas- ury. Our of the pensions paid soldiers during the last fiscal year, one million . three hundred and sixty-three thou- sand dollars were divided among pen- sion attornpys. These figures furnish _ the key to the furious clamors for pen- sion legislation emanating from pen- sion brokers, headquarters at Washing- - ton, ————— THE consecration of Rev, Anson R. Graves of Minneapolis as Episcopal bishop of the Platte, evidences the steady growth of that denomination in the west, and particularly in Nebraska. Bishop Graves’ future will be cast with the people of this state, and they will give him that warm welcome which bis eminent services and exalted position vommand, THr BER has repentedly called atten- tion o the reckless handling of motor trains and the failure of the company to provide proper guards on the cars, .especially on the Mercer line. Before the consolidation this fact was mude so prominent that the Sixteenth street or Stephenson cars were specially equipped with guard rails to vrevent passengers from getting on or off the left-hand side * of trains, This diminished the danger of accident from opposito trains, The Mercer cars, however, afford no such protection to patvons. The cars are without proper guards and _ passengers ave permitted to got on und off as best suits their convenience. Re- cent acoidents should serve as a warn- g to the company to stop this practice #nd to place railings on the inside of the platforms. Avother aud equally im- * portant reform should be enforced, and that is to prohibit motor men from speeding over a street crossing wherc a © wain is stopped for passengers. VANDERVOORT AND BROATCH. It does not take great bravery to shoot at a man when he is fifteen hun- dred miles away. All fair minded veo- ple must have regarded the assaults made upon me by W. J. Broatch and his running mate, Paul Vandervoort, through papers that have for eighteen yoars scarcely allowed n day to pass without some slanderous or scurrilous flings at me, as a wanton exhibi- tion of malignant cowardice. Many of the infamous libels which these dastavdly slandercrs have coined refute themselves. There are, how- ever, some falschoods so plausible as to be mislonding. These only I proposo to notice and contradict. Birds of a feather flock together, and it was perfectly natural for a man of the calibre of Broatch, who has been cheek Dby jowl with Ed Rothery and toughs of that ilk, whilo professing pro- found devotion to religion and morality to form an allinnee, defonsive und offensive, witha bummer who for years actod as procurer for the railroads at tha legislative rooms, in which members wi debauched with drink, and from which they were often led into the meshes of the bribe givers through houses of ill-repute. Vandervoort’s vindictive screed is so full of foul-mouthed lies that T ouly need call attention to one as a sumple of their wicked malignity. “I remomber,” says Vandervoort in one of his letters, ‘‘that whon a party of frionds went to Wisner after Frank’s (Welch’s) body that the miserable, snoaking cur crept into a private car without an invitation and went along. That no one spoks to or noticed him; and that he would have been mobbed at Wisner had it not been for respect to the precious dead. I also remember that I stoppod the friends from raiding him. for which I humbly apologize.” What abrazen and conscienceless falsi- fier! There is not a scintilla of truth in the whole story! I did not approach the funeral train on the way to Wisner. I did not cven see it leave thes town. 1 have passed through Wisner several times before and since the death of Frank Welch, but never in my lifle dia I step off the train at Wisner, and nobody has ever seon me in Wisner, Vandervoort concocted this atrocious libel jus he aid the libel about my being a rebel spy during the war and o dozen others that he and his vile associatesare constantly civeulating. The brute who not many months ago made a most shameful and veastly attaek on the fair fame and rep- utation of every woman who teaches in our public schools is capable of any- thing. It is hardly necessary to recall the fact that Paul Vandervoort came v near going to the penitentiary for inc ing au assault with a slung shét upon mo in 1876 for which Richard Curry was sentenced to four years penal ser tude. Aund now as to Broateh and his vin- dictive tirade. Broatch charges that I sought to use him in get- ting throngh & fraudulent printing contract and claims to have saved the city thousands of dollars by defeatine it Now what are the. facts? When Broatch came into office T Bee had tho contract for official adver- tising. In the memorable contest be- tween the police commission and the council I upheld the commission and tho law, and thereby arrayed Hascall and a majority of the council against me. When the council invited bids for official advertising, I found that the law did not permit the let- ting beyond January 1, which was only about four months., Thereupon Tue Bee’s bid was withdvawn. The Republican had filed three bids, and after Tne Bee had withdrawn its bid the two lower bids of the Iepun- licun were withdrawn and the highest one was left with the clerk. This bid, the only one belore the coun- cil, was acceptea, and the very next morning, before bregkfast, Broatch, the nonest, had already signed the contract which was ten cents per square higher than the rato charged by Trne Beg and at which rate THe BEE was bound to continue until another contract was let. This fraud was so palpable that upon my ap- plication for an injunction, the court declared the contract signed by Broateh void. New bidsavere invited and thereby, the city secured a reduction of fifty per cent from the Republican, which at that time was an active sup- porter of the lawless element in the council, and was thus rewarded forsuch support. Now who saved the city the money, and who stopped the fraud? Surely mnot Broateh, who was in collusion with Cadet Taylor at that time, and was a promotor of the fraud because at that very time he (Broateh) owned two thovsand five hun- dred dollars worth of stock in the Omaha Republican. Under our charter any officer of the city interested in a contract, directly or indirectly, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by six mouths imprisonment or a fine of one thousand dollars, or both, at the discre- tion of the court. Had I been as vin- dictive and malignant as Broatch he would have been deposed long ago in disgrace. . Broatch claims that I did not con- tribute to the police relief fund, when he knows the contrary to be true, as shown by the recbrds in possession of Mur. John L, MeCague, treasurer of the fund. Broateh talks about Shylocks in the face of the fact that I voluntarily placed mysell in positive antagonism 10 his enemies in the council and thase of the police commission, with the knowledge of all the consequences, which were the loss of the city printing and the damaging eftect of the city hall removal agitation and two years’ delay iu the coustruction of that bmiding. And while I subjected myself to these penal- ties for upholding law and order this imposter and double-dealing renegade was selling out everybody who stood with him in the fight—myself, the police commission, the chief of police and the credulous citizens who sought to prevent anarchy and misrule. In the midst of this confliot he was alwa secretly negotiating for compromises. Broatch had the audacity to charge that I “tried to impose THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. B RN S e THE DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. on insurance companies and applied for fifty thousand dollars insurance as col- lateral for aloan of like amount, but the medical examiners discoverea that my heart was badly disensed and re- jected my application.” What a black-hearted villain a man must be who would deliberately pen such a baseless statement. T had ono hundred and sixty thousand dollars of policies in first-class insur- ance companies in forco lust sum- mer and allowed several of them amount- ing to over thirty thousand dollars to lapse because I desired to reduce the aggregate. At the very time Broatoh was inditing his libols thore were over one hundred thousand dollars of polici on my life in the vaults of Tue F building and at my disposal for collat- cral had I needed thom. The truth is that instead of importuning insurane agouts, T have been followed from pi to post by insurance men who are anx- ious to increase their patronago. BDut even if it kad been true that T was suffering from a fatal heart d no decent man would gloat over Broatch, however, has passed the pe of decency and honor. His bratali unmasked itself when he expressed re- grets that I had not been killed out- right by a man.who assailed me with a wea pon. Broateh has the impndence to assert that all the jugglery and jobbery which he and two successive boodle gangs in the council have earr on in connec- tion with the city hall are entirely chargeablo to me, and in proof thereof he declares that [ foisted Myers as architect of the city hall when I would not employ him as architect of TiE BEE building. This is in perfect harmony with all of Broatch’s libels. Everybody knows that Myers was the architect of the court house. He was given the city hall centruct because the court house was tho best-constructed and chenpest building for the money in this section. Myers is a specialist in publie buildings and his plans for the ity hall are pro- nounced by competent judges superior 10 the plan that has been juggled through the present council. The N plans were to cost five thousand dollars payable when the building was com- pleted. The new plans are to cost twelve thousaud five hundred dollavs, which would have been paid over be- fore th was o stone laid on the foundation, had I not called a halt ba- fore the warrant was paid. [ did not employ Myers to design Tis Bes building b ise T knew that just such mean and wmalignant miscreants as Broatch would how! and whoop about Rosewater getting the city hall architect to make THE Bek building plans at the cily's exponse But Broateh knows vhat his manipu- latvion of the city hall foundations and contracts have been indefensible and disreputable. He never can expluin awsy to rational taxpayers why he vreleased the coutractors for the foundation; why he can- celled the Meyers plan; why he joined Hascall in resubmitting the lo- cation and caused a needless delay of,a year; why he joined with the inside ring thai adopted the new plans, wullod tho old and substomtial foun tions up by the roots and prescribog Dodlin as the only geanite that con- tractors should bid for. *There is such waupifest rottenness in all these deals that they always will remain indelible blots on Broateh'’s record as mayor. To vefute all the manifold slurs and slanders that Broateh has flung at me in his letters would be superfluous. FHis carcer in public Iife is near its close, and as a private citizen he will be per- mitted to pass into oblivion like other ATER. it. le ero THREATENED PRODIGALITY. There is danger that the present con- gress may be extravagantly, if not reck- lessly, prodigal of the public money, The propositions already introduced and in contemplation providing for heavy appropriations clearly indicate this danger, and suggest the necessity of calling attention toitby way of warn- ing. One of the first measures pre- sented asks for an appropriation of over one hundced and twenty-six millioh dol- lars, to be available in three vears, to construct defenses at nll the principal ports on the Atlantic and Pacific consts, tho lake ports and on the Gulf of Mex- ico. A large bundle of public building bills has been presented in both houses, providing for an aggregate expenditure mounting up into the tens of millions. The bill to refund the direct taxes has again been brought forward, providing for the distribution among the states of some twenty million dollars, and the Blair education bill 18 certain to again make its appearance, though perhaps with no better prospect of suc- cess than hervetofore. There is prom- ised a considerable pressure for liberal appropriations for river and harbor im- provements, and it is more than likely that the sum allowed for this purpose will be large. ‘I'here will undoubtedly be more money than ever before, to the extent of from ten to twenty miliions, voted for pensions, and there will be a host of smaller demands upon the treas- ury, the total of which will make a pretty round sum., The old gues- tion of furnishing eaech member of the house with a clerk is snid to be again aiscussed, with a strong proba- bility that a bill for the purpose will be introduced. Should each member he allowed o clerk, as is the case with sen- ators, 1t would increase the annual cost of congress nearly or quite half a mill- ion dollars. Thers will be a large ap- propriation for new warships, and every department of the government has asked for more money. The demand for steamship subsidies will be vigor- ously pushed, and some legislatjon in this direction is by no means impossi- ble. : It is thus apparent that the . present congress will not wantopportunities, legitimate and otherwise, to greatly i croase the national expenditures, uor will there be lacking strong temptation todoso. Some increase is to be ex- pected as a nevessity of the growth of the country and whatever islegitimate- 1y required for the greater usefulness und efficiency of the public service, or in making adequate provision for public improvements snd the national dafense, will receive popular approval. But there is little dispodition to' approve expenditures which canuth bo justified by any exist- g necessity, and the effect of which might bo t ! continue the burden of taxation from which the great body of the people demand and need reliof. The countrg'has a large surplus and it 18 rich and prosperous, but the condi- tions do notwarrant, though they may invite, waste and extravagance. Thers is a middle ground between these and Arrow economy which the repub- n majorityin congress will be wise not to pass. OBIECTION 10 WYOMING. The New York Sui objects to admit- ting Wyoming into the union at pres- ent on the ground that it has not suffi- cient population, remarking that “vop- ulation is the final test.” According to the report of the governor of tho tor- ritory to tho secretary of the interior, the estimated population was between ninety-five and one hundréd and five thousand. The Swn, taking the totul vote cast at: the last elec- tion of a delegate, in round figures hteen thousand, computes the population as between fort five and fifty thousand. - The eieétion was 1n 1885, and the vote cast was un- doubtedly two or three thousand short of the actual voting population. Malk- ing allowances for this, and assuming a reasonable gain for the territo n the fourteen months since the election, it will be an entively fair estimate to place eighty ty thousand, s a sufficiont number to qualify Wyoming for statehood? Perhups not under the theory of the Sun that population is the final test, by which it is presumed to mean that it should be oqusl to the present ratio of representa- tien, which is a fraction above ono hundred and ffty-one thousand. But there is no authority in the constitu- tion for requiring this population us n condition to the admission of n state, though it may be within the discretion of congress to do so. The coustitution simply says that ates may be Amitted by the congress into this umion,” and with regard to representution thas “the number of es shull not oxceed one for ¢ thousand, but cach state ast onerepresentative,” the matter of popul to statehood not the constitution. Nor has itas a rule been given counsideration 1n connection with the admission of states asa final test. The state of development and the resources, ns means of supporting "4 state govornment and insuving the growth of population, have been chielly consid- ered with resvect to the admission of most of the states. If this wiso, fnd just principle be ob- served regavding Wyoming the friends of the ndmission of that teveitory will have listle difliculty in establishing its clnim to be qanlitied for admi: the union. The a ed property lust your was neaply thivty-five million dollars,a real valup of about one hundred millions, The territory known to have almost haundless sources in oil, coal and other minerals, and ton million acres of timber, with as many of tertile valley lands. In short, Wyoming, which if admitted to the union would be eighth in size of all the states, having an areaof ne hundred thousand square mile far as her material development and resources are concerned, abundantly able to support a stute government, and though her population way not be wmuch more than nalf the present ratio of representation it is of a 8 gcter entirely worthy to be en- trusted with the respousipilities and obligations of stutehood. There would be no dangér of retrogression atter Wyoming was admitted, but on the contrary evevy assurance of u steady and rapid advance in population and material development. vepresents every th T duty on sugar is largely for reve- nue and yields between fifty and si million dollars to the public treasu Iv affords incidental protection to a comparatively small interest, the bene fit to which dves not make uny apprec able exuetion ‘upon the consumers of sugav. It issaid that the majority of the committee on ways and means arve disposed to rvemove the duty. There could be no object in cutting off this source of reve- nue except to protect the general sched- ules of imported goods, and perhaps assist the sugar trust to larger profits. A reduction of the duty might be ad- visable, but if this were done as to raw sugars there should be such a revision of the dutics on refined as would so adjust their relations to each other as to weaken tho powér of the trust to con- trol the market wholly to its own ad- vantage, It will be remembered that in both of the ‘tarill Dbills of the last congress, and partic- ularly in ti enate bill, the sugar schedules wi lvamed 80 as to increase the advantages of the trust while reduc- ing the. reve, of the government from sugar if#portations. Any action that will tal: e money derived from this source dut'f the public treasury and transfer it, or any considerable part of it, to the coffers of the corporation, or which in any event did not secure any benefit to the people, would be a gri6vous Dblunder. It s not appargal that the removal of the sugar could by any possi- bility do so thugh good to the people us would the removal and reduction of otherduties that might have the effect of cheapening® to them other neces- suries to an amount equal to the reve- nue of the government from sugar. —— THE Montana seastorial convention has been transferred from Helena to Waushington. - The republican mem- bers of the legislature, ‘constituting & majority ‘of the joint ussewmbly, have elected W, F. Sanders and T. C. Powers us United States senators, Both gentlemen are conspic- uous representatives of the business and professional life of Montana and both are residents of Helena. Colonel Sanders is considered one of the most eloquent speakers in the state and en- joy® unbounded populurity. Hou T. C, Powers is a millionaire merchant, and was the republican candidate for gov- ernor last fall. The democratic sec- tion of the legislature also elected two senators—Hon. Martin Maginunis of He- lena,late territorial delogate in congress, and W. A. Clarke, amillionaire mining speculator of Butte. As between the two sets the senate will have little dim- culty in deciding in favor of Sandors and Powers. They were elected by a majority of the logislature, the mem- bers of which possessed the certificates of the state board of canvassers. On the other hand the majority claimed by the democrats wns securdd through certificates issued by county clerks, and upheld by an armed force instignted by the democratic governor. The senate is the solo judge of *‘the elections, re- turns and qualifications of its members,” and it may be confidently expected that the majority will vindicate the cour: ous republicansof Montana who suec fully overcame the frauds and tions of the democrats, usu MAvor NOONAN of the boodle gas bill own will. The force of public ovinion was too geeat for him to resist. The veto saves the city several million dol- lavs. .« Louis votoed much against his Chtcago Merald. Thu new year, 1500, suggests the Chicago base ball club. ts uine is in next to the last place. - significant southern Sentiment, St Louis Globe-Demoorat, The best news that has come from the south in many aday is the statement that tho Grady monument fund is far aliead of the Joft Davis fund. AN Dangerous to Reputation, Chiicago Tritune. 1f Montana does not swear oft from hor oxcessive indulgence n logislatures sno will acquire a roputation that may takeher whole decades o outirow. pEE i But Heaven Help the President. Lowisvilte CourdersTournal. When steam cars run at the rate of 100 imiles an hour, the American citizen going to Washington to apply for an oftice will be greatly convenienced S Democratic Sympathy for the Hog. Whecling Intellivencer, It is greatly to bo feared that the ghost of that butchered hog may rise up against the resident in the next nominating convention. Tho whole opposition will bo on the side of the hoz. Wath all dne respect to Shakespeare, you cannot safely trust a man sunply because he has music in his soul. Many of our most prominent defaulters have showed a passion- ate fondness for the loot. e miligas For reonal Consolation. St. Lowfs Globe-Democrat. It is probably true, as asserted by a Wash- ington correspondent, that at least=a third of the congressional committees are practically usciess, but they provide piaces for members who would othiorwise have none, and so they are continued merely as sources of personal consolation. e STATIS AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Plattsmouth spent §230,6i9 in buildings nar 1830 ‘The Grand Istand Daily [ndependsnt hus pussed its seventh milestone. There was $111,150 spent in improvements at Columbus during the past year. Many Liocoln county farmers will set out a large number of fruit trees in the spring. The buildings erected in Fremont during tho past year nccessitated an outlay of £525,030, Ambrose Beck, lessee of the Bloomirgton Echo, has failed, with labilities of 8300 and 10 assets. The improvements st Kearney for t' e past v according to the Hub, amoun ed to 780 Seven per cent schcol bonds have just L een voted at Wellfleet, Lincoln county, to build a new school house. Gering, located on land where, threo ycars ago, theve was not a stick of tunber, spent £40,000 1n improvements the past vear. ‘rhe consolidation of the exvress oftices at Hastings announced o take place at the be- ginning of the new vear failed to materiaiiz us the companies could not reach an agr ment, Mrs. Schainast, who was_thrown into jail at Hebrou charged by her husband with an attempt to Kill him, bas been bailed out by kind-hearted ladies and has gone to work as u servant. Some of the farmers in the vicinity of Browaville are ready to begin planting for tho season of 1800, Stalks are cut and burned and the ground is all plowed. Othiers are still plowing, How is this for climate in Nobraska! A-Scotia man who learned that his wife had been traduced by a male resident of St. Paul, went to the latter city, called on the villian and gave him & most unmerciful but well-deserved arubbing, as a result of which the scamp acknowledged he was a liar, A uine-ycar-old Friend boy who was in the custody of the Crete marshal to bo taken to the Kearney reform school, made bis escape and ran all the way to Dorchester, a distance of ten miles. Hero he was ra- captured and is now safely behind prison walls, The Farmers’ alhance has incorporated as 8 company at Dwight, Butler county, with a capital of $10,000, of which §7,500 1s paid in. A general merchandise store will be started and grain bought and shipped. The officers of the company are J, C. Anderson, presi- dent; H. Glover, vice president: J, H. Burge, treasuror. Anson Morgan, who Jeft his home in Polk county balf a dozen years ago, has just been heard from for the first time. He is living in Texas and sent a letter to his mother tell- ing of his whereabouts. His father and mother, however, have both died since he loft, but the letter was delivered to his sis- ters, who will inform him of the death of Lis parents. lowa Itew A creamery is to be established at Ashton. The Catholic fair at Eldora netted over “Unele” John Bolton, ous of the pioneer landlords of the stute, died at Mason City last week. Captain Isaac A, Marland of Dyersville is a candidate for adjutant geuneral under the democratic admiuistration. Fort Dodge young ladies give dimo soria- bles, the proceeds of which are invested in clothing for the poor of the city. Two footpads held up Miss Kate Leaven- worth on one of the principal streets of Fort Dodge at So'clock in the evening, rob her of her pocketbook and made their es- cupe. Asf ok Waterloo damsel ran away from homo last week with the Wilson dra- atic pany. She got as far as Independ- eucoé when the mansger of the company found her out, aund after giving her sowe good advice sent her back home. Guthrie County Guthrian: The Red Oak Expross says that a school teacher in Moo~ roe township, Hutler county, taught an en- tire fall term without & scholar. At least, she went to the sohool house every day snd putin ber time, but no scholars came. this is nothing; & teacher sued Seely wwn- ship, tuis county, for wages fora whole term in which she did not go to the school Louse, “Fattier” Coffiu, as he is called by the railg road boys at Fort Dodge, wears a beautiful k-‘hl medal prosented W oiw by the Order of itroad Brakemen for his offorts 1a procu:~ wgglegislation looking to the preservation of the lives of railroad men and for tho mterost he bas taken in their general welfare. The modal was presented at the recent meoting of the national association held n St. Paul, Minn, A Rock Rapids business man tells a corne- spondent of tho Des Moines Leader that he knows of four republican senators that will vote with the democrats for a high license laiv in Iowa as soon as it comes bofore the senuto for nction, He gives tho namos of these senators and says that he has it as a vositive fact. One of them is his brother, another his brother-indaw and the other two represest counties in northwestern lowa, The Two Dakotas. There are oight candidates for treasurer in Clay county. A forest firo Qi great damage near Buffalo Gap last weok. Bismarck will have a new opora house the coming season. The Christmas ball of the Deadwood fire deparunent netted $300 Work has been commenced on a second ar- tosian woll at Huron, to bo completed by February 1. C. 13, Baker of Sioux Falls has _beon ap ated on Governor Mollotte's staff with the Kk of colonel A calf with two neads was born near Columbia last week and is still alive and in a healthy condition. A divorce was granted an Aberdeen man the other day and the ink wasn't dry on toe separation papers before he was wmarried again The fith anhual mooting of tho Lawroncs county teachers' institute has just closed at Dead wood aftor a very succossful session. There were thirty-five instructors in attond- auco. Charles Wilkins of Sjoux Falls has been bound over o the grand jury on the chargo of rape in spite of the fact that Klia Mur- phy, the woman in the case, refused to muke complaint against biv A sharper passed a 830 confederate bill on Len Poweil of Oelrichs last week, and after Len found it out he wont guuning for the party with a Winchester rifle. Ho found his inan and mado him fork over the money and pay him oxtra for timo lost in the chase. 1. 1, Slingslov of Fargo, while on kis way homo from St. Paul, Minn,, one night last week, fell from tho train while passing from one car to another and had bis left,_foot cut off. The accident occurred near Branerd, and when found next morning ho was nearly dend from exposure and his right foot was frozen. He was takon to Brainord aud cared for, but it is doubtful if he can recover. Mr. Slingsley is a promiaent citizen of Fargo. - - ROSEBUD AGENOQY. Several Important Reasons Why It Should Not Be Removed. VaLeNTINE, Neb,, Jan, 1. —To the Editorof Tue Bee: The letter of X, Y, Z m Tre Bes of Decembea 80 has placed before the people of Nebraska an item of interest to all, espec- ially the merchants. The removal of Rose- bud agency farther east on Doe Ear creek will be felt by them. In bis letter ho gives about all the points of advantage tho agency is to Nebraska, but I know the project for the removal of this ugency has been on foot for over two years. 1 notified merchants of Valentine what the Indiuns had said about it, but [ was not believed. The Indians tell me that it was secretly concocted by W. C. Curiis, a clerk und postmaster in I, J. De- bells' trading store. C. P. Jordon, also a trader, both squaw men, and the aent, L. ¥, Spencer (since removea), aud was finally brougnt out publicly when the Sioux com- mission came there last summer. Swift Bear. a small chief with about one hundred followors, refused to sigu the treaty unless the commissioners would recommend the removal of the agency to Dog Ear crecik, and it was agreed to by only this baud, The balance of the 8,000 were and are ugainst the removal. ‘Thie indians say also that this move is only for the special benefii of Swift l3ear and his followers. They live on the Niobrara viver below the mouth of Turtle creek, about one hunured miles from where now. But if removed to Dog be about twenty-tive miles, Then the bal- ance cf the 5,000 Indians would bave to go about ona’hundred miles for their provisions, uniessthey would tear down their houses (which two-thirds of them would do) ana fotlow up the agency. ‘Uhe main motive of this move is specula- tion for the traders: besides, about £50,000 would have to be appropriated for this re- moval. Now, what motive could this com- mission have in recommending the removal of this agency! Where it is now is tho only pluce east of Pine Ridge agency that there is any pine timber, and it is the only timber that the Indians will not destroy by cutting it down for their ponies to eat, as they did on the islands on the Niobraru in 1870. They cut timber down 8o thick that a horse could not go through it and somo of the islands they completely cleared off. At Dog Ear there are only a few scatteriug cottonwonds. Where the ageucy is now, within a radius of fifty miles, there are creeks—that the Indians are now sottled upon—where there are plenty of oak, box- elders and pine, and in tho same radius of Dog Iar there is not one-fifth the amount of timber. Agan, Dog Ear is a small stream that a man can step over and only ruus during the spring, In July it goes dry, Another thing aguiust the removal of the agency is that three-fourths of tne Indiaus tive west of the agency and it would be further for them to go after their rations than at Dog Ear and if thoy have a voice in the matter thoy will vole awainst it. Ke- spectfully, Kroxic Kicken, e COSTLY DRUGS. Medicines Used Modern Pharmacopin, Some medicines are very expensive. At a recent exhibition of the American Public Health association in Brooklyn one manufacturing chemist, E. Merck, exhibited a case of bottles abouteuough to fill an ordinary barrel, the total value of which was over $30,000. The most costly drug in the case was labeled **Hom-atropine hydrobromate, cryst,” It was all in one bottle, containing six pounds, and was valued at $12,600, or at the rate of §2,100 a pound. This drug is an alkaloid, artificially prepares from atropine. Its effects .ure similar to atropine, but nov ‘8o lasting., It is a preparation of belladona and chiefly used in treatment of the eyes, and ai- ways in minute quantities. It expands the pupil of the eyo. P This substance is a striking. illustra- tion of the applis well known medicines. The physician does not deal so much with substances in their crude form as with the guint- essences or active principles, says the New York Sun, By this means ali su- perfluous matter is removed and only that part which 18 needed to be used in the healing art is given to the patient, ‘Thus, not only have the roots, herbs, Hlowers, seeds, barks, juices, ores and earths of ancient medicine been forced to give up their cssential and active parts to the retort or ciucible of the chemist and to reappear freed from dross or inert matter, reduced in quantity, but vastly magnificent in intensity of action, but entirely new combinations of elements have been devised by chemical seience and formed by chewmical art, and wholly new and previously unthought-of modes of action in the human organism have been achieved by some of these new formations, As the healing art bas become speciulized, and no one physiciun claims to be able to treat all ailments, so the use of pecial drugs for speciul treaument has become neces- sary, 80 that it is difficult to find cven a drufiln who is familiar with every one of the drugs now in tho market. " The United States pharmacopeeia is & huge book with the contents of which but few are lhorn\lghl{ familiar. Yet to get a list of drugs in actual use it will be necessary to study also the German pharmacopaeia and the British pharma- Copasi [ the exhibition referred Lo one nouse shows 150 articles outof 6,000 produced in the laboratories. Among the expensive diugs isaconite alkualoid, an amorphous powder from scenitum napellus, produced from monkshood or woltsbune, Itis used in | Kxpensi in the fobrile disonses and neuralgin, A bot- tle of this ocontaining about threo pounds is valued at $189.50. A bottle of anemonia containing three and throe« fourths ounces, about _the size of & pony of beor, 18 valued at $101.45. There aro thirteen different preparations of caf- foine in small bottles at from 816 to 28 a bottle. This medicine haslately b applied successfully in Bright's disease, A small bottle of chelidonine alkny loid containining three ounces, mad, for tetterwort, used in skin diseases & sorofula and_ dropsy, is valued at $8, Cocaine, which has the power when ap- plied to any part of the body to render that part insensiolo to pain or touch during a short time, is rather anexpen- sive drug. A bottle contanining abouy four pounds was valued at $420. A bot- tle of canthardin crlytals, the old-timo blister in a new form, was valued at $143. Codeine phosphato is 8 propara- tion of morphine used to produge sleep. A fifteen-ounce bottle of it was valued at $185. A five-ounce bettle of cotoin, called “true cotoin,” costs about 70 an ounco. Digitalin germaine, n powder used to decreaso tho action of the heart, costs avout $70 a pound. Elaterin tals, prepared from the South American Indian arrow, a poison used as a medi- cine in lockjaw and hydrophobin, costs $45 an ounce. An ounce of hyoscine bydrobromate erystals costs $1,166.66, and 94 ounces of hyoseyamine alkaloid costs $1,406, These are preparations of henbane, and are considered excellent hypnotics. They are similar in general effect to atropine, but not followed by such dangerous symptoms. Among the other costly drugs in this collection were angaricin, 44 ounc $43.75; colocynthin, 5} ounces, $114.7; coniine hydrochlorate, 44 ounces, $ cyclamin, 8} ounces, $54.04; digitoxin, 14 ounces, 40; gentisin, 1% ounces, $91.15; hellotropin, 6 ounces, $61.25; hydrastine hydrochlorate, 63 ounces, £04.50; pupaverine alkaloid, a vogetable popsin or digestive juice, found in the melon troe in tropical America, about $120 a pound; papayoiin, used as a solvont for the diphtheritic membrane, 13 ounces, $189.58 There aro vavious preparations froni4 the Catabar bean that are very costl They are used in diseases of the e and lockjaw. One preparation is catled physostigmine alkaloid, and four ounces of it cost $487.50. Physostigmine hy- drochlorate crystals in a bottle about the size of a Coney Island glass of beer, containing five and one-fourth ounces, costs $303,14. A small bottle of physo tigmine salicylate crystals, containing three ounces, cost $1,810.06. Thero isa preparation from the leaves of taborana . pilocarpus pennatifolius called pilocarpiune nitrate crystal, used in consumption. A bottle of this con- taining one pound six ounces is valued at § . A preparation from quassin or bitter wood (picrana excelsus) is used for dyspepsin. A swmall bottle of ;his containing ten ounces is valued at 2187 HOW TO SHARP:N A PENCIL. A Little Instruction for Those Who Thnink ! hey Know it Al Tt veally makes me tired to see tho averago man sharpen & poncil,” said an old newspuper man in a stationary stord™ 10 a Star reporter, says the Washington Star. *‘He will cut his fingers, cover them with dirt and blacken them witi lead dust, and still will not sharpen tho pencil.” oy “There is but one way to sharpen a lead pencil, and that isto grasp it fivmly with the point from you and not toward you. Take your knife in the other hand and whittlo away as though you had lots of pencils to waste. By follow- ing these. directions and turning the pencil over you will soon have it neatly and regulariy shary en »d, and your fin ors will be unsoiled and you will not need any court plaster to put on the wounds, because you can not cut your fingers when whittling from them. *This method i¢ the best, whother the knife is dull ov shurp. If the pon- cil is u soft one there no sense in sharpening the lead mply cut away the wood, and in writing turn the pen- cil over, thus writing with the sides of the lead. “Another disgusting and senseless habit is p're ng the peneil in the moam when writing. This is a relic of the days when pecils w vass hard ns flint o and before the manufacturers were ablo to produce the smooth, soft pencils the s are used today. This continual damp- ening of the lead will harden’ even agood graphite pencil and make it hard und gritty. Itis simply & habit, anyway,and most of habits are bad oues. o —— Dueling in Europe, Dueling still fiourishes furiou Continental Europe, and the Hungar ans appear to gather in the largest crops in the fiolds of honor. The big- gest contract on record in this business was recently undertaken in Pesth hy Count Victor Orasitch. He challenged forty gentlemen and nobles to mort: combat because they criticised rather soverely some statements of his made in a club room. One of his invited vi tims was Count Francois Esterhazy entleman with no less than seventy duels and six dead mon upon- his con- science. He positively refused to vo p counted among the proposed cadavers, . s and gave no reason for the refusal. It is fair to suppose that he has retired ¢ from the field, »~ A PROMINENT REGULAR PHYSIOIAN Of Now York City gives the following di- : rections FOR PREVENTING AND CURING INFLUENZA OR “LA GRIPPE” Evaporate morning ovening a few table- spoonfuls of POND'S EXTRACT and hale the vapor. Pour the POND'S ‘FRACT into a tin cup, which hold over the flames of @ lamp; Lold the nose over the cup that the vapor may be inhaled. By this treatment the membrane of the nose and throat will be in such condition that it will esist the poisonous action of the germs which are the causs of this disease; and if the germs have already been innaled they will bo destroyed. The symptoms of “La Grippe'’ are inflam=mation of the ning of the mem- brave of tho nose, which may extend 10 the lungs, with cough, sneezing, runniug at the nose, and perhaps severe aching pains and high fever.” These awections are for POND'S EXTRACT only, It way be ua- safe 10 use any othor article this way. HAVE POND'S EXTRACT IN READINESS, Made only by the Pond's Extract Co, New Yorkand Loadon. MEN'S : Furnishing Goods A%