Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 6, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Edltor. ;UBLISfiED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily and Sunday, One Year. Bix Mon: Pt e Thires Months, " i . Bunday Jiee, One Year . .. o Weekly Ree, Ouo Year with Premium. .. OFFICES, Omana, Beo futiding. Chicago Office, [67 Rookery Bullding York, Hooms 14 and 15 Tribune Build- Washington. No. 513 Fourteenth Stroet. Couneil Buits, No, 12 Pear] Street. Lincoin, 1029 P 8tieet, Eouth Omaha, Corner N and 25th Stroets. CORRESPON DENCE. ANl communications relating to news and edl- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor- 181 Departmen BUSINESS LETTERS, A1l Imsiness lettors and remittances shonld bé nddressed to The Teo Pubilshing Company. Omaha, Drafts, checks and postofiice orers fo be made payablé to the order of the company The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors see Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Streets, ‘Ine Bee on the Trains. There 18 no excuse for a faflure to get Tnr: 1 on the trains, | newsdealers have been fied to carry & supply. fravelers who want Tir Bre and can't got i€ on trains where other n A Dapers are carried are requested to no- ity Tie e Dlenns be particular to give in all cases full informution as to date, railway and number of in. ":‘;lr:‘e us your name, not for publication or un Decessary use, but as a guaranty of wood faith, THE DALY BEG Sworn Statemsnt of Circulation. State of Nebraska, {i County of Dougias, (% [ Tzschuck, secretary of Tho I Jublishing Company, does solemaly sWear that ihe actial etreniation of THE DALY IEx fort week ending January 4, 150, was as follow Sunday, Tec, 20, e e Eworn to befors me and subscribed to presence this 4th day or Junuury, . (Seal. N. B, FR Notary Pablic Etate of Nebraska, s, 2 duly sworn, ds- pos itetary of The Lee Fublishing Company, that the actual averazo daily circulation of THE DALY BEE for the was 14674 coples; for Februnry, i, 15996 coples: for March, 1580, 18,854 coplen:tor April, 18%0, 18,550 coples; for May, 18 IR0 coplens, for Juiie, 180, AN copled fuf July, 159, I8,733 coples; for August, 180, 18- €1 coples: for Neptember, 160, "18,710 coples: for Octaber 18, %7 coples; for November, 1689, 10510 coples: for December, 180, 20,04 copies, Gronae B. Tz3cn . BWoin to befors me and subscribed in my Presence thisdth day of January, A.D., 1830, {Beal: P. Frir, Notary Public is Tk democratic rump in Montana is Qivided aguinst itsolf. UNLESS Chicago bestirs herself St. Louis will capture the plume as the boodle center of the west. Tue exodus of negroes from Georgia and South Carolina will have a te dency to diminish the strain on the shotgun. Tur Dakota saloons are enjoying a season of profound repose pending the enactment of laws to make free whisky effective. THE opposition from his own party, to 8. 8. Brice of Ohio, the senatorial candi- date, is becoming very pronounced, and $t is doubtful if his barrel will carry him through A FEW obstreperous salaonmen, whose applications for license were re- jected, propose to keep open in defiance of law. From frame to ivon bars 1s hut a step. Shut up or go up. THE gamblers’ combine claim that they do not care a fig for what the papers say about them and the exten- sion- of their lawless business. They feel confident that thoy will not be molested. TUE report that a rival telegraph company is about to begin business in- dicatesthat the Jay Gould system is ripe for another swallow, The Western Union has not had a dose of water for WO yearsor more. ReLIABLE information from Wash- mgton exoncrates the preswdent from shooting a black pig under the impres- slon that it was a coon. The oppo: tion is cousequently disgruntled over the failure of their lutest attack upon the administration. FRIGUTENED by the probability of the pussago of the Mills bill, the jute mill owners formed a trust and squeezed two millions from their patrons. Now that the danger is past the trust shows - no disposition to refund the money or velease their grip on the people. E— I't 15 only by comparing realty values with those of inflated cities of less pop- ulation that Omaha’s conservavive pro- . gress stands out in relief. There isa total absence of feverish speculation, and nearly all purchases made during the past year were for permanent in- vestment ana imorovement. THERE were eleven thousand, seven hundred aud nineteen failures last yeur according to Bradstreets, with linbilities nmounting to one hundrea and forty million, three hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars, and nssets to seventy million, five hundred and ninety-nine thousand. By this showing itisevident that Omaha is far ahead of the general prosperity of the country. eE—eE——— ‘WHILE emperors and premiers are sounding the praises of peace and good will, there is no relaxution of vigilance on the respective borders, nor any visi- ble sign of a reduction of the millions of armed men ready to slaughter each other. Profound fear of the results, rather than a desire for peace, is what restrains European monarchies from recounstructing the mapol the conti- 4 o nent. —— I the bill to reimburse persons for Indian depredations becomes a law, Nebraskans will file some tall and won- derfully constructed claims., The home guards of Omaha who were frightened into activity and stampeded to Council Bluffs on divers oecasions are. entitled to compensation for scares endured as ell as for the valinnt efforts in hunting the red varmints in sections where the guards hud s reasonable certainty of uot finding them. THE OMAHA DAILY B LOOK 70 THE WEST. A leading New York daily has re- cently spoken some words of patronizing commendation for the west. It assures its readers in Wall stre that the great west is improving rapidly, especially in financial morality, and tells them that it apprchends no danger to a stable currency from impending, legislation, which, it assumes, will be largely shaped by western influences. This is gracious, of course, and may be comforting to the Cassandras of Wall street. Bat is it not a hittle ridiculous in the light of history? Who but west- ern men and western influences have shaped and modeled all important finan- tion for the past twenty-nine father of our present paper . the great war secretary of the mon P. Chase, found a worthy successor in John Sherman, the fatiier of resumption. Both were Ohio men. The author of rapid refunding, w am Windom,came from beyond the g \kes and is again as a western secretary of the treasury olanning measures for an expanding currency bused on the solid foundation of a great western productl. yoars? currenc Whatover has been original, progres- sive and approved by expericnee in financial legislation since the admin- istration of Buchanan has been to a very great extent the product’ of western brains, western ideas and western financial morality. The record of the past leuves no grounds for the nec essity for assurancesin the present. It is interesting, however, to note t the east, which is, afterall, only afringe on the garment of the west is begin- ning to avpreci that the terms west- orn and *“wildeat” are nolonger synony- mous and are willing to admit that all civilization or commercial integrity or financial soundness does not center around N York rbor and the At- lantic senbonrd, The trade, the manu- factures, the great internal transport tion system, the vast intorests which ramify and intertwine in a dozen mighty western empires have been built and developed and couid only have been founded and extended on the same lines of business morality and financ faith along which the wealth of the cast has nceumulated. It wus not remar! able that with eyes closed to the won- der-working energy and enterprise of western men, pushing their ideas into a thousand channels of trade and in- dustry and adding dai millions to the producti capueity of the great territory which they dominated, eagtern financiers should bave found it impossible to understand a sound reason for the western demand for a more expansive currency and o circu- lating medium adequate to meet the needs of such marvelous commercial growth, The much derided c for “‘cheap mone; cmed anavchistic to men who were loauing their millions on call at two per cent a year, but it meant a great deal to honest men and good citizens who were borrowing on the prairies at two per cent a month. There wus no lack of integrity,or, as re- sults have shown, of sound common sense in this western idea, for an in- creuse in the circulating medium, The logal tenders, the national bank notes and the silver certificates aro to-day as good money 10 receive in payment of debts as they are to gve in payment of obligations. The coinage law which Wall street denounced .as commercial dishonesty has mev every objection ad- vanced against its operations, The pre- dicted disasters to result trom western financiering have none of them mate- rialized. There isas little reason to be- lieve that future legislation dictated by western brains on western ideas of financial honesty ‘will be any more de- structive of public faivh or of private en- gagements. CANADIAN COMPETITION. Senator Cullom, chairman of the senate committee which last summer investigated the subject of Canadian railroad competition with the railroads of the United States, has employed the congressional recess in prepaving a ve- port which it is expected will be laid before the senate at an early day. In the meantime & part of the committee has been prosecuting additional in- quivies, obtaining the views, among others, of Mr. Erastus Wiman, the well known aud very zealous advocate of commercial union between the United States and Cavada. Mr. Wiman re- garded the Canadian system of rmlways as essential to cheap transportation in this country, Other rvepresentative men gave nearly similar views respoct- ing the competition of Canadian rail- way There is said to be an impression that the committee will report something in the way of . anti-Canadian legislation, probubly recommending that the Do- minion ronds be required tocomply with the interstate commerce law the suine as the American roads. As to the Ca- nadian roads which do business in this country, like the Grand Trunk, it has alrendy been decided by the ruling of the interstate commerce commission that they must conform to the law as to that business, and this has been gener- ally accepted as & Just and proper ra- quirement, But what it is thought pos- sible the committee will recommend is legislation that will force the Ca- nadian roads either to com- ply with the nprovisions of the interstate commerce law as to the scheduling of vates, the long and short haul, ete., or cease to do business in this country, It is not understood that a majority of the committes is in favor of any radical legislation, but that the view is pretty general that something should be done to afford a reason able measure of protection to American roads compelled to compete with the alien corporations. In order to recommend legislation de- signed to exclude the Caaadian rail- roads from American business the sen- ate committeo will have to ignore pretty much all the information and opinions it obtained in New England and the northwest. There was great unanimity awong the representative men of various intevests in these sec- tions, whose views were prescuted to the commitiee, in favor of non-iuter- ference with the competition of the Cavadian railroads. The proposal that these roads should be required to con- form to the interstate commerce law as to all basiness done by them within the United States encountored little opposi- tion, but it was insisted by merchants and manufacturers of both sections that it would be a serious damage to their interests and to the general wellare of New England and the northwest to shut off Canadian competition. Some mem- bers of the senate committee are snid to tako the view that whilo those sections may get some benefit from the Canadian lines it does not compensate for the damage done to the rest of the country. This the committee may.be able to show, though it will hardly be able .to do so from the testimony it has taken, The attitude of the senate committee on important subject,. which will ely determine the legislation of congress regarding it, is & matter of the greatest interest. Not only is it a subject of profound concern to millions of our own people and to the corpora- tions whose welfare is involved, but it is quite possible that it may crcate an international question of some maguni- tude and importance. [HE OHIO S TORSHIP. The very general interest in political circles over the contest in Ohio for the seatof Henry B. Payne in the United States serate i3 not due to the fact that the result wiil make any chauge in the relative strength of parties in the senate, for it will simply replace one democrat with another. The iu- terest grows out of the fact that it is distinctly a “battie of boodle,” in which the prominent contestants are two mil- lionaires who according to all accounts have been distributing their money with a mgst lavish hand. Theso gen- tlemen \\3\0 desire to vault into the sen- ate at any price are Calvin S. Brice, who lives almost us much 1n New York as in Ohio, and who has made his wealth, within a period of about fifteen es, in railroad manipulations and enterprises not all of which would ver- haps bear close examination, and John H. Thomas, a manufacturer. There are other candidates to the number of near dozen, some of them unques- tionably superior in ability s woll as in ex suce of public affairs toeither of the millionairs candidates, but they have never been considered seriously in the race. They have not the financial backing. The Ohio legislature will meet today, and as the situation appears at this writing, Brice or Thomas will be chosen to succeed Payne, the chances seeming to be in favor of the former. But whichever of these candidates is selected the democratic party of Ohio will continue under the stigma that has rested upon it for the past six years of being a party of boodle and corruption. Six years ago it won this title when its representatives in the legislature were bought like sheep by the millionaire friends of Henry B. Payne, who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to se- cure his election. After it became known that the present legislature was democratic the members were warned Dby some of the party papers that it would be most damaging to the party to send another millivnaire to the senate. The result will show how far this warn- ing has been heeded. If Brice goes to the senate, us now appears highly probable, Mr. Payne will be succeeded by a man quite as friendly as himself to corporate power, and the strength of the millionaire element in the United States senate will be unimpaired. THE MONETARY SITUATION. Ordinarily at this season the money supply at the eastern centers is super- abundant, however severe the previous pressure may have been, but the situa- tion this year is exceptional. The action of the sccretary of the treasury in anticipating the payment of the Jan- uary interest somewha! eased the money market for alew days and was an opnortune relief, but it was only temperary 1n its effect, because the amount thus thrown into the market was not large enough to be of very ex- tended and permanent benefit, There are soveral reasons for the present ex- ceptional imonetary situation in the east, chief among which is the business expansion, particularly in the west and south, from which the return of money to the centers is slow. In the south the enlargement of trade has been remark- ably great. More than four million bales of cotton, representing a value of over two hundred million dollars, have left the plantations in the last four months, the excess over the movement last year for the same period being more than twenty million dollars in value. The movement of the agricultural products of the west has also been much larger than last year, and especially from regions whence money returns slowly from circulation. The increase in business activity and population has unquestionably been larger than the increase of circulation of all kinds outside the bunks und the tronsury, and if these conditions con- tinue a greater stringency in money is to be expected. There is every indica- tion that business activity will be main- tained, though of course this will largely depend upon the supply of money. No- body will desire that business should deciine in order to make an easy money market, and the obvious alternative therefore is to increase the volume of currency. The secretary of the treas- ury might relieve the situation by larger bond purchases, but thisdepends upon the willinguess of holdevs to sell at the treasury price, He could also help matters by doubling the monthly coinage of silver pending the conzideration in congress of his bullion certificate plan, but he may not deem it expedient to adopt this policy at this time without instructions from congre The most direct way to the desired end is for congress to promptly pass the bill to be introduced providing for issuing certificates agaiost deposits of silver bullion. E——— Mr. Oxuard, the manager of the baet sugar refluery going up at Grand Island, is decidedly visionary. He as- serts that in less than ten yearsthe beet sugar industry, if the protective duty is maintained, will equal that of France or Germany, and be in a position to suc~ cossfully compere with the product of the old world without assistance. 7The caue growers of Louisiana advanced & JANUARY ¢ similar plea twonty-five years ago, and although they tero afforded overy fa- cility to supplgthe market they have not produced.one-twentioth of the quan~ tity requireds lOxnard is opposed to bounties, yet there is little doubt that he will gladly draw on the state treasury for one cent .on every pound of sugar produced. TRK BEE is in favor of giv- ing every possible assistance to such in- dustries as Will' enhance the value of s of the soil, but it does not ve in taxing the whole country while Nebraska or California or Louisi ana are experimenting with sugar beet culture. It is an O'erripe Plum, Memphis Advertiser. It is cortain thut Cuba must, before long, fall to the United States like a ripe plum to the ground. PR IR Where Jnckson Was Chicago Tribune, It is fortunate for Andrew Jackson that he lived in an age of the world when wealth was not the principal qualification for demo- cratic greatnes: Sl e Boodle, Not Brains, St, Louis Post-Dispateh. The contest over the Ohio senatorship socms to be narrowing down to Brice and Thomas, that is to say, it lies botween two long purses and the longest will win, [t is not a question of brains, but of boodle. Sdbutdn Lk The Next Sten. Baltimore American. Ohio, as usaal, steps brishY to the front, Her latest products are babies * born with tecth. Before long we shail probably hear of a few born with registration certificates and applications for office, all roady to bo put on file. SR Willing to Be Sought. Philadelphia Press, Donbtless the office will seek the man in 1802, It is likely that only a desire to save the office the trouble of making any tedious search impels Mr. Cleveland to make his whereabouts so well known in the mean- time. aott R i His Namn is Allison. St. Louls Gl Democrats On joint ballot the Towa lozislature has & republican majority of six when all the mem- bers are in thoir places. This is a small margin, but it means that a republican sen- ator is to be electod at the coming session, and that his name is William B. Allison, s Capilouain Always a Winner. Beatrice pemocrat. Tne Bee as usual, issued a finely illus- trated paper on New Ycar's day, one side of which was devoted to the buildings of Omaha, both residence ana business, with a critical view of South Omaha and tae stock ¥ nd manufacturing indus- tri s always o winner. As Fino as Fremont Tr Tue OwMAHA BEe's annual is probably as fine au edition as was issued by any paper in the United States, © A 1arge number of fine engravings show up the best buildings of the city. Tne business statement show that 312,- 000,000 were experided in improvements; the bank clearings werc 8308,631,000; the whole. sale trade amotated to £44,910,000, and the manufactured product 1s §23,500,600. U o COUNTRY ‘BREEZES, Dodging the Issue. Fricnd Telegraph. If asofedita Wells of the Crete Vidette hasentany better argument to offer to the people of Saline county as to why Hastings and Pope took $00 in notes from the Dadoes and the tax-payers are paying the expenses of thoseSuits than picking out typographical eerrors in any newspaper then he had better shut up shop, When a man of Wells politi- cal or moral record begins to pick out the mistakes in a newspaper article and hold thewm up for argument, it makes one feel like there was a skunk under the house, Now is the Time 10 Subscribe. Fremont Flail. 1f there is any poor sinner in the city that is mot a subscriber to the only religiol paper in the city he should atonco get his nawe on the hist, - The Flail proboses during the coming year to make the waste places of the earth rejoice and ‘cause the deserts of 1gnorance to blossom as the rose. In doing that the dry bones of sinners will be made to quake and the devil's fortresses will be stormed from land and sea. The guns are already charged and their great gaping muz- zles are turned upon the foe, Now don’t ran! Come in and be virtuous! Touched the Editorial Heart. Knox County Domocrat. We desire to return thanks to our esteemed friend, Isaac Davidson of Armstroug, for a fat goose for our Christmas dinner. And last but not least comes our ex-Virginia friend, A. Moran, on publication day with a magnificent turkey. Gentlemen, we appre nend your contributions financially at their market value; but over all the kindly spirit, the fellowship, the “f3on Ami” Isadc Da- vidson is the worthy supervisor and leading farmer of Bohemia township; 8 good squaro type of the English farmer Americanized. Mr, Moran, Canadian born, Virgiajan by ex- verience, a Nebraskan by choice, paie of gentlemen. Our best eitizens. Journalism Under Difficultics. Ainsworth Home Rule, We do not ask to be excused from duty since it has fallen to our lot to edit this paper, but since lam by force of circum- stances compelled to do it from my farm at Mabelo, which is twelve and one.half miles from Ainsworth, with ouly one mall a week, 1 hope my friends will all sllow me s ‘‘rea- sonablo excuse” if the paper does not como up to the standara which I naturally would love to see it. Wo Dow't Keed Copy. West Unfon Gazette, We have not had any copy since we took charge af the Gazete. We set everything up from the case by liver—that is, we make it up s we go alofiz; the same as the old man got his drove of sheep. Neither have we red any proaf.: We empy our matter in the forms and let her go Gallagher. —gacgst T GREAT MEN, B s Mark Twalo dogs not believe in authors’ readin " e The czar of Russia has become an expert performer on the violin, His troubles have eviaently made “W:Id"“"""' Senator Hearsj; hus been despoiled by his trusted valet to the tune of $300. Even a U:ii.uxl States seoator is not a hero to his valet. Dr. Hans Virchow, son of the famous Vir- chow, has been wade extraordivary pro- f‘nwr of anatomy at the University o r- ™ Tmnywn'l new book of poems will be en- titled “Demeter,” and will eontain about :mnl.ydni poems, including one on the jubilee. U WPk was vory graat, by ot drink weight, which was very , by uot drink- ing, resuited 1u & reduction of ten pounds in eight days. At the end of three months he bad lost forty-five pounds und was in much improved health. Munewmitsu Mutsu, the Japanese minister at Washington, who has been summoned home by his goverament, hus made o great mauy friends at the capital. He is a highly man, fond of society, and bis re- call is reg: uot understaod his unexpected summons. A aumber of promiaent English writers are gathering literary matorfals in remote localities. Rider Haggard has gone to Asia Minor, Robort Louis Stevenson s i the South' Seas and Sit Edwin Arnold is be- twoen here and India. Dr. Oliver Wondell Holmes will not fol- low in the footstops of Tennyson ana Hrown- ing and publish a volume of poems in his old ago, He has not given up his literary pursnits, but it is said that Le now destroys whatover he writes. John G. Whittier, the poet, has just cele- bratod his oighty-third birthday, Mr. Whit- tier said recently: “I have never been robust. From both my parents I inherited a ive, nervous tomperament, and one of my earliest recolloctions is of & pain in the hoad, from which 1 have suffered all my life. ' Lately I havo not been able to write for more than half an hour at a time—often not so long, But in many ways I feel that [ havo been blessed far beyond my desorving. I am gratoful to the Divine providonce, and trauquilly await the close of a life which has boen longor and, on the whole, happier than T'uad reason to expoct.” - STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A board of trade has been organized at Steriing. The total of city improvoments at Neligh for 1830 was $40,000. Geneva spent $125,000 in improvements during the past year. The Schuyler Herald eleventh birthday last week. Judge Russell of Cass county marriage licenses during 1850, With the new year the Nemaha County Granger began its seventeenth volume. Charles Wanzer has succeeded Sheriff- elect Crana as chiof of police of Hastings. The Cass county prohibitionists will hold a convention at Weoping Water January 14. Tho Ewing Item has boen transforred to O'Neill, the county seat, where it will be published in the fature, ‘The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Missouri River, North Platte & Denver railroad company wiil be held at Albion Wednesday. New directors will be elected. The premium list for the seventh annual exhibition of the Nobraska state poultry and Ppet stock ussociation has boen issued, The exhibition will be held at Lincola February Bto S, ‘The dead man found on the track betwoen Hartington and Coleridge has been identi- fled us Frank Arens, jr., son of a wealthy farmer of Cedar county. It is belisved that he was murdered. John McLaren of Sargont tested the actual cost of producing corn this year. After hiring all the necessary labor done he esti. mates that his corn cost him 13 conts per bushel, delivered in bis cribs. Engineer Stetson of the E M. passenger train which collided with a St. Joo & Grand Islund train at Hastings, has been discharged from custody. He had been heid on a charge of mansiaughter 1n causing the death of wis fireman, While Dr. Edgar of Edgar was attempting to remove a cork from a phial of elixir vitriol the bottle burst and the liquid was thrown into his face and eyes, burning him severely. Remedies were promntly applied, and no very serious results will follow. A contract has been entered into for the survey of a route for an irrigating ditch which will virtually cover all the land south of the North Platte river in Scotts Bluff county. ‘This is the greatest irrigation en- terprise ever attempted in Nebraska. celebrated its issued 151 Towa Ltems. Pomeroy Methodists will ouild a church. The Marshalltown soldiers’ home needs a hospital badly. 2 Burlington spent $400,000 in improve ments the past year. Work has commenced on the Kort Dodge creamery plant. Mason City can have a knitting factory if she will raise $2,000. "Thero are forty-five veterans of the war in the state legislature, « The commissioner of the poor al Rapids paid out $2,950.85 last year, than was paid in 1888, Coul miners will hold a convention at Os- kaloosa January 20 to prepare bills o be pro- sented to the legislature, ‘Tho number of patients in the insane hos- pitals of the state is as follows: Mt. Pleass ant, 807 Independence, 801; Clarinaa, 250, The finest annual issucd in the stite by any newspaper was that of the Cedar Rapids Gazotte. It excelled the attempts of most of the metropolitan publications. Gib Bailey and Frank Bruty of§Washing- ton got into a fight the other day over which was entitled to the largest share of four kegs of beer that arrived in town that day, and Gib tried to drive Frank ito the ground with @ hammer, cutting fifteen gashes through his scalp, while Frank re- taliated by trying to saw Gib's leg off with a big jack knife, making several bad wounds. They were arrested aud escaped with a fine of 5 and costs each for disturbing the peace. An economical Dubuque county farmer bad some dealings with # Dubuque attorney @ short time ago and in settling the bill over- puid the lawyer 1 cent. The granger wroto him a letter lust week, telling him he wanted to straghten up his books the first of the year and wanted a draft on Chicago for the ceut. The attorney boxed up the penny and expressed it to the granger, with cnarges to be collected. A rascal named Teeters, living at Burling- ton, deserted his wife just as she was about to become a mother, leaving her utterly des- titute. Her baby was still-born and the poor woman, without, friends or money, was compelled to dig a grave 1o the yard of the houso where she lived and bury her infant. The authorities discovered the fact and in~ vestigated tho cuse, giving the child proper burial and seeing that the mother was well cared for, A Dobuque minister has brought charges against a prominent business man of that city of criminal assault upon an eleven-year- old girl, the daughter of one of the members of his congregation. ‘The complaint says the merchant ok the child down in the cellar of his store and attempted to outrage her, but was prevented by the entrance of eus- tomers, He then offered to settle the affair with thie girl's father, but was indignantly refused. The matter will bo laid before the grand jury. 1he Two Dakotas, Yankton is to have another national bavk. An Aberdeen woman, Mrs, H., S, Leonard, has fullen heir to $10,000. Over one hundred buildings have been erected in Picrre since October 1. Wensington Springs is to have a course of lectures during January und February, A new graw elevator with a capacity of 50,000 bushels is being erected at Rapid City, ‘The North Dakota Teachors' association will hold its noxt aunnual couvention at Fargo. During the past year there were 1,823 transfers of real estate and 1,701 mortgages placed on record at Fargo. Work on the Indian school at erlfl City will be commenced early in the spring and the building i expected to be ready for occu- pancy by October next. During 1859 Sioux Falls expended $2,502,021 in building improvement bout four hun- dred and fifty resides d business blociks were erected during thoe year, A Huron brewer proposes to turn his brew- ery mto a beet sugar factory. He claims that the industry will increase the value of land in that vicinity to $100 an acre, An eastern capitalist has been look ing ovor the gympsum beds in the vlulnihiv of Rapid City with a view to putting in & plant for the manufacture of plaster of paris and stucco. The early closing movement has struck Aberdeen and foriy-five merchunts have de- cided wo shut up shop promptly at 7 o'clock in the evening, Saturday evening excepted. Large numbers of Miunesota people ure settling in the Cheyenne river country, and it ie thought that at the close of next year there will not be an acre of vacant land in that section of the country. A usury bill has peen introduced in the ture of North Dakota which provides that both interest and privcipal shall be for- feited where a groater rate of interest than 10 per cent s charged, no matter in what form the overcharge may be. Mrs, Cora Belle Chaska, wife of Chief Chaska and heroine of the sensational elope- ment about two years ago, played the role of BSanta Claus at Chuef Charger's camp, pear Forest City, Christas, and made the heart of each Littie papoose bhuppy with & preseot. Cora Lelle now has o lwle papooss of her owa, THE CAPITAL CITY GRIST. Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Stenographers. REMARKS ON INCOMPETENTS. The Supreme Court Dooket — New Fire Escaps Order—Electric Alarms--Building Permits — Lincoln in Brief. LiScoL¥ BUREAU oF Tie OMams Bee, 1029 P Staeer, LiNcoLN, Neb.,, Jan The Nebraska State Stenographers' ass ciation held 1ts rognlar annual meeting hers Saturday, A. M. Hopkins in tho chair. A great deal of important business was dis- posed of, including the election of oficers for the ensuing year, which resulted as fol- lows: President, C. C. Valentine; vice prosident, B. K. Mockett; socrotary and treasurer, J. W. Browster, Executivo Committee—Waring, Beardsloy, Potter, Wheeler, Poarsall. Examining Committee—Hopkins, Wheeler, Wilson, Trovitt, Megeath. Those present were: A. M. Hopkins, Omahaj J. W. Browster, Hastings; Charles Potter, Omaha; Thomas ¥, Wilson, Omahu; C. W. Pearsall, Columbus; 0. A. Mullon, Lincoln; P. E. Beardsley, Liucoln; B. R. Mockett, Fremont; H. M. Waring, Omaha; C. C. Valentine, Omaha: W. R. Kirby, Lin: coln: K. M. Hallowell, Kearney. Mr. Hopkins read a' paper on shorthand reporting, which was highly appreciated. A member from Omaha, at tho close of the meeting, said: *This association was organized two years ago with the understanding that it was to bo a representative association of the competent stenographers of the state, and that to be a momber of it was an equivaient to a certiti- cate of competency to do verbatim report- ing. Wit this idea in view a constitution and by-laws were framed providing that each appheant for membership should undergo an examination as to competency, unless his standing in the profession was such that his compotency was tion. So far thore has nevor smination made of a single applicant for membership, and the result is tht the as- sociation is made up of stenographers who rank s good, bud aua inaifferent, It doos not stop at this, but stenographers of well known and recognized competency huve asked and been used admittance av the time that others have been recoived whose incompetency was unotorious. Unless there is a rinid and wnpartial_enforcement of the constitution, the back of the u ation is bound to break of its own weight. The Supreme Court Docker. The January term of the supreme court convenes Tuesday mormng at $:80 o'ciock, with tho Hon. Amasa Cobb, Lincoln, us chiof justice, and the Hon. Samuel Maxw Fro- mout, and the Hon. T. L. Norval, § ay associate justices. The following is the docket for the First judicisl district, which wiil occupy the attention of the court for the first thres wooks: From Gage County—Ashby vs Greenslade, Greenwood vs Cobbey, Symns & Co. va Noxon et al, Jones et ul vs State, Cook vs City of Beatrice, Barmvy vs Plammer, Filley vs Walker et al, Midland vs County Board, Republican Valley Railroad Company ick, Mordhorst vs Nebraska Telophone Company, Watson vs Roodo, Beatrice Sewer Pips Cempany vs Erwin, Davis vs Giddings, Myera vs Bealer, Liningor vs Glean, Mitchel: son vsSmith, Hill vs Bub, Hale vs Hess & Co., Blakeley vs Chicago, Kansas & North- ern Raiway Company, \Weston vs Brown, Townsond vs J. L Case, Grecowood vé Craig, Dorsoy vs McGee, Siater vs Begole, Culver vs Omaha & Republican Valley Rail: way Company, Bull ys Wagner, Helmer vs Commercial Bank, Omaha & Republican Valley Raitway Company va Hall, Nutional Lumber Company vs Wymore, Chicago, Hutlington & Quiney Railway Company vs Bernard, Calland vs Nichols, Black vs Wetherald, Carson, atias Milier vs State, Guittard vs Robinson, South Branch Lum: ber Company vs Littlejolin, Keller vs Amos, Dickerson vs Michting. From Johnson County—Cheney vs Wag- ner, Bilby vs Townsend, Clienoy’ vs Camp- beli, Richardson vs Campbell, Foster vs Dovinaey, Weitz vs Wolfe, Russcll vs Long- moor, Brown vs Work, Aultman, Miller & Co. vs Dennett, Rickersey vs Waltemath gt al, State ex rel McLane vs Compton. From Richardson County—Gandy = vs Early, Ricbardson County vs Hull, Schuyler vc Hauna, Wicks vs Nedrow, Keeling vs Hoyt, Valindighum vs Scott, 'Deserer Ni- tional Bank vs Nucholls, Davis vs State, Atchison & Northern Raflway Company vs Forney. From Pawnee County—Ford va Steele, Gandy vs State, Dusenbury vs Albright. They Mast Adopt Fire Kscapes. Fire Warden Newberry is gettng ready to serve notice on all owners of buildings of tnree stories high or more, used for tene- ments or factories where ten or mora hands are employed, requiring them to put up reg- ular platforms at each floor with outside iron stairways and railings so as to facilitate the escape of the occupants of the building in case of a fire. Mr. Newberry says that the recent fires have caused him to see that such an order was an absolute necessity and that it will be rigidly enforced. Electric Fire Alarms, Efforts will be made in the near future to induce the council to adopt some method of olectric fire alarms. The firo Satarday morning bas emphasized this need.. There 18 no way of communicating witn the depart- ment except by telephone, and a messenger had to be sent from tho Star bakery av Thir- teenth and V to O street, soven biooks, over « half mile, to reach a telephoue, Bullding Permits. In compiling the city ordinances by an oversignt the issuing of building permits 'was taken from the chief of the tire depart- ment and given to the city clerk. His office was slready overrun with work and the consequence was that this work necessarily weant by default. From October 34 to January 1 only thirty-nine permits wers issued.” By resolution of the council at a recent session this work was chavged back to the chief of the fire department, who has discovered over two hundred parties who have erected buildings or made additions since that date and have not complied with the ordinan Thoy are being notifled of this neglect on their part and will be made 0 come to time. City News and Nores. Captain Ireland, who has been confined to his bed for some two weeks, is somewhat better, and will shortly be able to resume his duties on "‘OJJO“M force, ‘the Round Table club meotd Monday ovening ot the bome of S, H. Burnhaw, 1020 D streot. The subject of silver coinage will be under discussion, Auother state fair mecting will be held in the district court room Friday evening. “The Rov. Dr, Cartis talked tothe young men at the Youug Men's Christian associa- tion rooms this afternoon. “T'wo cases of acarlet fover are reported in the city. . ‘Che Knights of Pythias lodges will hold & union meeting night to von- sider the question of the erection of a build- n ‘Tho week of prayer, which begius today, will be quite m-nlfil observed in this city. ‘The First Universalist church will hold its regular annual meeting at the church build- g ut § o'clock Monday evening, The ltev. W. L. Terry of Gravd Island has received @ call tothe pastorate of Eust Lincoin Babtist church. A musicale will be given Thursday even- ing by the ladies of the Church of the Holy I'rinity, under the direction of Mrs, C, A, Lippincott. he ordinance of baptism wcs admiois- tered to & numbar of converts from Emerald at the First Baptist church this eveniug. 'he regular montuly meeting of the City Ministerial association will be held at the First Congregational ohuch Monday mofn- ing at 100'clock, A paper will be read by the Rev, Dr, K, H. Curtis. The Rev. Thomus . Hughes of rawnee City, president of the Youug People's coa- vention of the Baptist church of tho state rrfiuhfld to the young people at the First Japtist ohurch this avening George . Bigelow sul could obtain quite an additio water supply by utilizing the overflow fr his lake four miles southwest of thoe city His lake is formed by & dam across tio Halnes branch and that stream is freah wator springs. [t is saitl tuat the lak will be visited by a number of the counci mon Monday. The winter torm of the public schools be. ins Monday morning, Much enthusiasm prevailed at the meoti last night at Hoffman & Richter's in the interest of the tirst annual charity ball. The indications point to & very successful affair both socially and flnancially. Something like §5,000 has been socured by popular subscription to the new beef pack 1 houso for this city. J. B, Strodo has been appointed assistant y at a salary of §50 a month . Adam Bax went beforo the court yesterday wufternoon ana formaily oted Miss Mary Ellen Redin their nieco, agod sixteen yoars o was given the name of Mary Ellen Bax aud is endorsed with the full right of inheritance, Ao East Lincoln gambling shop in tho v cinity of Twenty-seventh and Vine has been reported to the police. Lew Regnier, a well man, formerly of this city but late of Kunsas City, came up Inst night on a visit to o friends. Dick s that the ocity known nowanapor Johnson of the Paddock at Boatrice, was in the city last night circulating aw his old friends. H. Bonnett, manager of the Cedar Rapids Compact, was in the city last _night visitine with his friend, Frank A. McBride. L. Walden, who has been a citizon of Lincoln some two months, has been made happy by the arrival of his family from Spencer, Ind. They have gono to houso- keoping on Twenty-fifth and W. s e A RICH FIE What Omaha Will Gain By Bullding nto Kouth Dakota. 5. D, Jan, 5.—[Special to I It is a matter of congratulation with people of Yankton and a large portion of South Dakota to seo what lively intercst Omaba is taking in the Omaha & South Dakota railroad enterprise, and as there is a good prospect of closer commercial relu. tions in tho near future, it has occurred to your correspondont that, the following s ment ofour operations in Yankton during t year just closad, may be of interost. propared by one of tho most responsiblo Yankton contractors and may be relied on uy Residences ... Public buildings, ., Miscelluneous improvement: Total. . This would seem & o operations of the present year will far ex coed it. Added to the above, the transactions in real estate during 1889 in and around the city amount to about £1,000,000. Four hun dred acres have been platted and added dur~ ing the ) and 1800 will be still larger. ankton’s exports and import: have been for the year as follows: Cereals (allkind)... Lumber. Cattle. Hogs . Flour and feed. Brick Flax and tow...... ... Beet (Yankton brewing. Hides and tallow. Butter and egyws General merchandise, Cement .. Coal oil. Beer Sioux Iails stone. . Agricultural implements. .. .. Cereal and transit,. ceressinen The cement works will be 1n operation by July, and it is expected the output will load one train of cars a day the year ronnd, ‘We have a growing and rapidly extending city, and the broad acres and fortile flelds beyond us, between the Missouri und James rivers, are equal to any in the northwest iu productiveness, and the aggrogate crops aro constantly increasing. Omaha will fiad this a most profitable field 10 which to buy and sell, provided the proper means of com- munication are established. It may be stated with certainty that two-thirds of the hogs packed at Sioux City the present sea- son went there from South Dakota, and at least one-half of them wouid go to Omaba if the Omuha & South Dakota road was built and in operation. This vast trade will augment with each year, and wo offer Omaha a large share in it if her people will come and takeit. Will'they do i#1 Three hundred thousand doliars put iuto the Omaha and South Dakota road by Omaha with what the people of this state and all wlong the line could and will do, will insure the capital to bring 1t. A road up_along the south side of the Missouri may be all very well and will come in time, but it will not reach Soath Dakota or secure for Omalia tho South Dakota trade, Omaha must enter at Yankton and build up between the James river and the Missour: river to share tno b Will Omaha act! — Making a Test. Chicago Times. Towa s taking the back track on prohibi- tion. The Dakotas having adopted a prohi- bition law make practically no attempt at its onforcoment. In Maine it was never anything but a farce. In Kan 1t 18 little more than a vexation. The ounly state in the the union wheré & zealous attempt is being made to give completo effect 10 tho decroe that the liguor trafiic shall be abolished 's New Hawmpshire. New Hampshire is & su state, both in territory and population. Itis & state which only & year ago abolisned the clause in its constitution denying the right of a Catholic to nold a civil oftica, It is a state in which, unlike Massachusetts snd Conneoti- cut, the New England element is sull domi- naet, Here, if anywhere, prohibition of the liquor trafic may be made a fact us woll asu law. But neither enactment uor vroclama- tion will of itself accomplish thut result, The yernor seems to be in downright earnest, t us nole, say o vear hence, the sum total of his endeavor to give effect to a law which is now wholly disregarded, it AMist iken Schem . Buston Herald, Of all methods of dealing with the negro problem at the south that of deporting the colored man away from that section is the most preposterous. Let all the shipping that is available be put to this work aloue and it could not carry the natural increase of ths negro out of the courtry. Tais was daumon- strated a half-century ago during the discus- sion of the colovization scheme. 1f the vosro 18 to remain in tha country there 1s no p #0 well adapted to his residenco as where Le nOW 15, A Handsome Hollday Number, Of all the gorgeous holiday numbers issued by New York journals, Freund's American Musician takes rank at the head of the proces- sion. A copy just received shows that the pub- lishers started out to accomplish somcthing very oreditable in the line of modern enter- prise und su most udmirably. It is not only haadsome in illustration and print, but coutains an immense collection of absorb- Ingly interesting matter. The front page contaius a bighly eolored #lor.un of Kmwas Juoch as Mun't::rln. with P'aust makiog oune of his polite bows to her, and old Mophisto- rhnlu takiog it all la from the background. t is un elaborately artisuc and extremely showy trontispiece, e Argentine Republic. Oxana, Jan, Ao the Eaitor of Tur Brr: Who is Awerican minister to the Argentine Repuplici Where and how shouid be be ad dressed by letteri How long does it take & letter to go from Omaba to the place at which he resides ! VERDANT. 1. B, W. Hoops, munister resident and consul general. dross: Huenos Ayres, 8. Ask steamship agencies,