Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 14, 1890, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 14. 1890, THE === DAILY BEE. B. ROSEW ATER, Bditor. e T T T s FUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION nmhmn Sunday, One Year Fix Months . i Three Months, e unday Bes, Ono Year ... . eekly Bee, One Year with Preminm.... OFFICES, Omahal Bee Bullding. Chicago Office, £47 Rookery Duliding gehew York, Houms 14 and 1 Tribune Build: n, Washington, No. 613 Fourteenth Strost. Council Blufrs, No, 12 Pearl Street. Lincoln, 1026 1¥ Street, Bouth Omaba, Corner N and 25th Streets, CORRESPONDENCE. All communientions re Ing to news and edl. torinl matter should be addressed to the Editor- ial Department, BUSINESS LETTERS. All Unsiness letters and remittances should Ve addressed to The Iles Publishing Company, Omnha, Dratts, checks and postoftice orners {6 De mado payablo to the order of the company, Tue Beg Publshing Compny, Propietors srr Bullding rnam and Seve: enth Stre. Ine Dee on the Trains. 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It reserved its strength for St. Louis, Kansas City and other winter resorts T1 is worthy of note that the press of New York is partial to the elcetion of His eclevation to the senate lly gives the Empire statea third senator inancial and realty records for the first week in 1890 show a substantial advance over the corresponding week of 1839, and foreshadow an active de- mand for Omaha dirt. —— COLONEL WILBUR FINLEY SANDEBS and Major Sic Semper Maginnis, com- vetitors for senatorial brogans, propose to travel all the way from Montana to the national capital together Tur revort generally cireulated in Missouri thut Senator Vest **vositive declines to be a candidate for re-clec- tion to the senate,” lacks the autograph of the senator to give it force. PROIIBITION became the organic law of South Dakota two months ago. Asa consequence the number of suloons has materially 1ncreased in Deadwood, while the drug stores have multiplied elsewhore. A NEW oil combination has been formed, nominally to fight the Stand- ard monopoly, but in reality to tap its overflowing treasury. The Standard’s surplus is a constant bait to alleged competilor Tie bankers of Omaha propose to make the coming state convention a pleasure and proiiv to all participants. The arrangements being made for the entertainment of the delegates insure a social and business gathering of more than ordinary interest. THE city contractors should organize to make those club gatnerings o perma- nent feature of municipal life. The Dodlin feast was an auspi us begin- ning. Why should not the paving, sewer aud sweeping contractors testify their regard for the council with Mumm’s extra dry and quail on toust, Tme seramble for the honors and emoluments of a county morgue indi- cates that the prize is a profitable one. Persons contemplating violently shuf- fling off, need not defer uction, how- ever. The coroner will undertake to give certificates to ali patrons without rvegard to age, sex or previous condi- tion. WiteN the shotgun fails to hold aown a republican majority in a southern dis- trict the democrats do not despair. Just now they are stampediug the col- ored vote in the Second cougressional distriet of North Carolina, and hayve practically lured away a repuolican majority of fifteen hundred to the swamps of Florida. — Mavor CUsniNG should signalize his advent as chief executive by lopping off all sinecures and supernumeraries. ‘Within the past three years the city has trebled the salary list and enov- mously increased the taxes by the sub- division of the departments. A horde of barnacles has been foisted on the municipal pay roll, without rendering any substantial service. Deputies and clerks have not only multiplied, but salavies have been raised for political favorites, If Mayor Cushing wants to manage tho affairs of the ecity on business principles he should appoint subordinates who ure not only capable but willing to perform the du- ties of the resvective offices. It has be- come the fashion for every official to have a retinue of deputies und clerks, whether they are needed or not, and most of these subordinates are near relatives or political strikers, ” We are not looking for any radical reform in the civil service of the eity, but small favors will be thankfully received, side of the people against TRUSTS AND THE Toae New York Tribune suggests that while CH#airman McKinley is listening to the testimony taken before his com- mitte of ways and means, he has reason 1o be revolving in his mind the question of trusts, and ask “What is he going to do with them? While holding to the view that “in the long run and in most cases the protective tariff, by steadily encouraging home competition, will break down combinations to control price or proauction against the interests of consumers,” the Tvibune suggests that the people are not willing to rely upon that defense alone, as they show by laws enacted in gnany states. 1t has been observe 1 that the hearings bef, the ways and means committee have not heen directed to bringing out any information regarding the oper- ation and effect of trusts, but they are not yet completed, and it is but fair to t until the end before concluding that Mr. McKinley1s not giving any thought to the question of trusts. So far as we are aware the chairman of the ways and means committee has never detined his position regarding these combinations, but it is to be presumed that they are not in favor with him, and that whenever the question of legisla- tion vegarding them shall be presented for his action he will be found on the the trusts. But it is perhaps incumbent upon him in his position asthe lender of hisparty in the house, as implied by tho Zvilune, to take this question under consider- ation in advance of a forced demand upon his attention. It has some rela- tion to the tariff which seems to malke it very important that those who are charged with forming a new tarift measure should be as familiar as possi- ble with the extent to which combina tions to control price and production are benefitted by existing duties, or if the tariff gives them any advantage. There is & widespread popular belief that our system of protection is to a considerable extent responsible for the existence of most of the trusts. It 1s mainifestly the duty of those who are to reconstruct the tariff to ascertain what relation there is, if any, between protection and combinations. Very likely some effort to do this will be made before the ways and means com- mittee concludes its hearir Meunwhile the trusts are finding the situation, so far as public sentiment and the action of the courts is con- cerned, growing steadily more unfavor- abie to them. Wherever the courts have been called upon to pass upon the question of their legality they have en- countered hostile decisions. Owe of the first measures introduced in con- gr the present session was an anti- trust bill, and most of the legislatures now in session are expected to adopt legislation against these combinations. All the indications are that the era of trust monopolhies in this country is near- ing its close. THE MONTANA S ATORS. A great deal of political interest will be felt in the course which will be pur- sued by the committes on privileges and elections of the United States sen- ate respecting the claims of the four senators from Montana, whese credcn- tials will probably be presented this weel. Undoubtedly objection will be made to seating either the republican or democratic contestants, pending an investigation of their claims by the committee, and it is said te be the de- sire of members of the commilttee to go fully into the question of the organiza- tion of the Montana legislature. This should be done. The determina- tion of the issue in Montana, so far as the senators are concerned, should be made with the greatest possible freedom from partisan considerations. The ma- jority in the United States senate can better afford to lose the two vepublican senators from Montana than to seat them without the justification of unim- peachable facts showing their right to seats. If a fair, impartial and thorough investigation of the issue should show, as undoubtedly it woutd, that the organ- ization of the Montanalegislature right- fully belonged to the republicans, and therefore that the republican senators are entitled to their seats, the demo- crats could derive no political capital from the result, but to seat the repub- lican contestants without thorough in- vestigation and ampie justification in the facts would supply the opposition with capital that.it might here- after employ with considerable advan- tage toitself. Butapart from the po- litical or partisan aspects of the case the seuate owes it to its own character and dignity to demonstrate that in the exer- cise ofits coustitutional prerogative of judging the elections, returns and qual- ifications of its members it can rise superior to partisan influences and do exact justice. This issue 18 somewhat unfortunate for Montana, which is likely to be for some time without representation in the senate, but it is not so seriously com- plicated that a determination of it need be very long delayed. The whole mat- ter really rests upon the vote of a single precinet and the evidence regarding this is doubtless easily accessible. Au any rate it is the obvious duty of the senate committee on privileges and elections to go fully into the whole matter so that the result can be justifiod before the country, THE MISSISSIPPI METHOD. Governor Lowry of Mississippi, in his annual message to the legislature, makes an ardent defense of the state against the oft-repeated reflections upon its election methoas, denouncing the authiors of the charges in the strongest terms. If one were content toaceept un- questioningly the statements of the governor regarding the condition of political affairs in Mississippi the con- clusion must be that the people of that state have been most fagrantly ma- ligned, and that in nostate of the union are the political rights of all classes of the people more fully rvespected and cavefully protected than in Mississippi. Unfortunately, however, for the claims of Governor Lowry in behalf of his state, there is a great deal of testimony unfavorable to them. The most recent is that furnished by the election in Jackson, where intim- idation wasanost boldly employed. A letter of General Chalmers is just pub- % the mayor of Jackson was elected by Winchester rifles, and states that an armed band calling themselves ‘“‘Swamp Angels” held armed control of the voting place, “with rifles in hand, ready, willing, anxious, toshoot the first negro who in- sisted on voting.” If there are any not disposed to accept the testimony of Chalmers as trustworthy they will have no difficulty in corroborating it as to the general fact that the negro vote was suppressed at Jackson by intimida- tion. Other instances of no less fla- grant denial of the political rights of the colored citizens of Missis- sippi have occurred during the past half-dozen yoars, and while it may perhaps be fairly claimed for that state that its record in this regard. is nut so bad as that of Arkansas and Louisiana, it is not of acharaeter which s fnir-minded and law-respecting cit zens'can be proud of. Nothing is more certain than thatarepublican candidate for an elective office in Mississippi has very little chance of receiving faiv treatment, and yet unquestionably the republicans are in the majority in por- tions of that state if the negroes were allowed to exercise their political rights. In 1880 the colored population ot Mississippi was five hundred and eighty-three thousand, more than one hundved thousand in excess of the white population. The negroes in that state doubtless now number considerably over six hundred thousand, and should have at least one hundred thousand votes. Yet the total republican vote at the last presidential election was only thirty thousand.and it showed adecline in four years of thirteen thousand, while the democratic vote gained in that time ten thonsand and was nearly in the proportion of five to one of the white population. No better evidence could be desired than these figures pre sent of the general suppression of the negro republican vote in Mississippi, and no one needs to be told how this s accomplished. The negroes do not vol- untarily forego their vight to vote. The defense of Mississippi’s election methods fails when confronted by fiy- ures of official and unquestionable rec- ord,which show that more than half the citizens of that stote entitled to vote not allowed to exercise this preat privi- le, PREPARING A TARIFF BILL. There is an unpleasant monofony in the testimony adduced before tie and means committee which isnot re suring to the friends of a reasonable re- form in the taviff. Thesame old cries of the pressing need of continued pro- tection to great industries come from the throats of lusty infants. The sug- gestion of the smallest reduction in du tieson any line of home production is met with volumes of statistics showing that any morein the direction indi- ted would be a national ealamity. It is significant to note that the statistics proffered while very full and complete so far as wages paid and workmen employed are concerned, peter out decidedly when cost of production and manufacturers’ profits ave touched. It would be a pleas- ant relief to heur a few statements from “honest manufacturers confessing that the time had arrived when their long protected industries were able to stund alone and meet competition fairiy on the broad platforin of American inge- nuity and American energy and thrift. The country is ripe for such an an- pouncement with respect to a number of brawny industrial babes who have been fed for a quarter of a century upon artificial food and should now if ever bo enabled to exist and to subsist without stimulant. The republican party is pledged to a reform of the tariff, Ttisin power and able to make its pledge effective, and it will be judged by tho resultsof its efforts. What the people demand is relief from burdens of taxation most felt, which enter into their every day life and which enhance the cost of the common necessities. They do not ask an impracticable free trade, or n reduc tion 1n revenue, which will force an un- wise reduction in national expenditure. There is less a demand for cheaper to- bacco than for cheaper clothing, less for cheaper alcohol than cheaper sugar and cheaper lumber. Itis to be hoped that the present con- gress will not content itself with a per- functary reenactment of the senate bill of last year. That meas- ure, while u step in the right direction barely scratched the surface. It was drafted with no hope of passage and its most suspicious fea- ture was that it excited little protest from those who declared themselves prospectively ruined by the Mills bill. It was a revenue reduction rather than a tux reduction measure while combin- ing features of both. Evading gross errors of the Mills bill schedules it failed to reach the requirements of the situation largely because it wusan ante- election measure and doubtless forced to take political considerations nto ac- count. Politics is the science of avail- abilities. The available thing for the republican party to do at present is to convince the covntry of their sincerity in drafting and in passing a measure of genuine tariff reform. — THE annual report of the secretary of the Colorado Cattle Growers’ associa- tion shows that the business for the past year did not return the large dividends which marked the industey in the past. The Colorado cattlemen are now expe- riencing the effect of immigration, which has already dethroned the cattle kings in Nebraska, Kansas and Wyo- ming. Parmers are crowding in and taking up all desivable land along the streams, breaking up the ranges and forcing the ranchmen into narrower quarters. It is this history of the plains repeating itself. The stock- men must adapt their business to changed conditiovs or retive from the field. These changes will not affect the profits of cattle.raising. On the coutrary, they will improve the quality of the beef by greater care, winter feeding and shelter from destructive storms. Tne hcrds will be divided among a larger number of men, insue- ing greater attention, thus diminishing the chauces of loss in winter, It is un- doubtedly true that beef raising on the range 1is wo longer profitable. The new order will change cattle raising from a speculgtive to & permanent business basis. ] THE announded Purpose of the tory leaders to procipitate a genoral elece tion this year does not comport with the history of that 'paety, [ts caveer isa consistent efforts, o hang on to office until driven from power. Probably the “‘valor” displaged by the ministry in coorcing Portugal is deemed suff- cient to secure a vote of confidence from the country RAILROAD managers in Kansas gloe- fully announce that, they have “solved” the car heating problem, by the appli- cation of steam. Steam has been suc- cessfully in use on Omaha roads for over a year, but the slow going Kan« sans have just discovered it, Patience Rewarde Chicago Tribune, The bulletin maiers of the weather da- partment need not ba discouraged. If they keep that cold wave prediction standing long enough 1t will come true. - enator From New York. S s be-Demoerat. New York is a big state; but if she is to bo allowed three members in the senate tho constitution necds changing. Ol is ina position to head a movement in this direction. phelbmabh S Southern View of Donestie Discipline Attanta Constitution. ‘What is wanted is not so much outside law but moro law and order In the family. Men are e or marred atthe fireside. No arti- ficial daddy with a parcel of statutes, formal flubdub and text hooks can take the place of tho natural daddy witn nis love and common sense—and big hickory, - - Truth Frank'y kxpressod. Albany Evening Jowr nal, Grover Clevelasd was closely, very closely, identified with the legislation that gave to Jacob Sharp and the Broadway boodlers a vational notoriety. If Mr. Cleveland did not profit by Governor Cleveland’s signature to the general street railroad act of 1984, cor- taiuly his intimate frionds were the benefici- aries of the act; and equally certain it is that Governor Cleveland signed the bill despite its unsavory record in the legislature und vlentiful warning that a saturnalia of corrup- ton would follow in the New York city bourd of aldermen. e THE KORACKS. A Warlike Triboin the Frigid Regions s of Siberin. George Kennan lectured at Y. M. C. A. hall last night on “Tent Life in East- ern Stherin,’ the Tndinnapolis News. Before the laying of the Atis tic cabie the Western Union telegraph projected a telegrapn line from the United States and St. Petersburg, by way of Behring Strait. A party of American engineers was sent to lay out and huild this line from the northeast point of Kamtchatka across the.wild, unbroken steppes of Sibevin to its w ern termin Mr. Kennan was n mem- ber of this party, and his lecture lust night was based on his experiences during its stay of three years in that unkunown region of the globe. He described the climate of Kamtch- atka, which, in summer, is almost trop- ical, allowing the hilis and valleys to be covered with a luxuriance of folinge, roses, lilies and othen beautiful and del- icate flowers and in winter is arctic, the thermometer registering o temperature frequently as low .as fifty or sixty degrees below zero. The latitudes far- The Third thest north ure inhabited by the “Wandering Koracis,” a tribe of nomads oceupying tents and liv- ing wholly upon their great herds of domesticated reindeer For months the Amorican , engi- neers lived with thes dirange people, whose on and described by Mr. Kennan, horrible anu ludicrous. For these people worship the devii, and kill the old and infirm members when they become unable to care for themselves, This last custom is delicately carried out by separating the victims or crush- ing their heads with stones. Mr. Keunnan said that if anything would tempt him to go back o that desolate and frozen land it would be the mavvelous displays of the aurora boreali which ave to be seen there. One of theso splendid arctic exhibitions in which great waves and darting fiames of all the prismatic colors in their most brilliant beauty.swopt and flawed acro: the entire dome of heaven, was de- scribed by the lecturer in a manner thut fair ed the audience to hold its breath. The manner 1n which the abandonment of this great project of the Western Union company beeame known to the men at work upon it in the Siberian fastne: was peculiar. An American whaling vessel had landed upon tho Kamtchatkan coast. A news- paper which the crew had wis secured by the natives ns a rave curiosity, and carried fam into the interior. One of the American engineers eventually found it, and in cagerly reading it, found the following notice: *‘Because of the successiul completion of the Atlantic cable, all work upon the great Russo-American telegraph line has been abandoned.” e Competit on With New Encland, A few sheetings and drills have been exported from the southern factories and a few southern goods have been sold in the west, but at the same time there has been a constantly increasing domand upon the north for medium and fine goods, writes Kdward Atkinson in the Popular Scien Monthly, These southern goods which we have heard of toms, as from our salesmen were all made in larger factories, which are well equipped with modern machinery— muny of them being operated by men who would succeed pnywhere—but they do not yet constitute a rule, nor must we forget or disregiird the personal fac- tor in dealing with'this question. It is upon the personul factor, much more than upon proximity’ to the cotton- field, that the success of the southern factory will depend. Fhe advantuge of position was only measured ata cent u rmma four or tive year ago. The freight rom central Alabama to New England is now less than ‘three-quarters of a centa pound. Verywsoon it will be down to half a cent, thew what? The greater part of the southérn factories arve, as you observe, too smijl! to be economical- ly worked, averaging . but a fraction over five thousand ,spindles each. So lonz asthese smadlfactories are de- voted to supplying ssouthern neighbor- hoods and southern communities with checks, plaids, and heavy brown cot- tons, for which there is alwavsa de- mand in that section greater than any other, they will succeed or fail accord- ing tothe skilland aptitude of the owner or manager. - ‘anadian Banks. In 1891 the charters of all Canadian banks expire, und the plan upon which they shall be reissued will soon have to be determined, Whether it is better to continue the old system, or take pat- tern by the newer and simplér method in the United States, is the poiat to be decided. LINCOLN NEWS AND NOTES. County Superintendents of the State and Their Addresses. NO DRUNKARDS ON THE B, & M. The Q"' Issues a Temperance Cire Inr—Soldiors' Reliof Commission —State House Gossip—-The City in Brief. 1020 P Streer, LixcoLy. Neb., Jan. 12, The following is a list of the new superintendents Lixcony Buneav or Tue Omina Bee, } county this state who wilt be in oftice until January 1, 180 County | Namo. Antelove ... Win. Tl Adams Frank M Betteys Arthur 5 | Banner. ML T Shumway Harrisburg Bafalo. N P MeDonald Kenrney Hlatne. ..., R O Dunning [Dunning Box Bitte. . John Leith. el Boone © ESprar award Hrown J N Miler |atnsworti Burt, B 1} Atkinson, Tekaimuh Hutler. ‘woliy David City W Noble [Wrept'g Wave nm I C 8parks Valel Miss Lucinda FaiGr Tnperial TE Grimes, Hartiigton J N Hursh Clay Centre pagler 1vler West Poing |lsroken Bow |Lexinzton Chadron [iubbard Dani tophens | Fremont |A Mathews - Omatn Wi G 70 B0 o M ca . Motine rontier don Stockville Furnas.. trea . Cambridge Gage Miss Marvin ('pson,. Beatrice Mrs MR Flilhous M B Ounmpaugli, W E Row 3 Sprei'gs Hyannis Gurfleld ruver Miss Celin Is Grior.Tranton W Dualoy. . 0'Nelll 1Wm Anner {Mullen Howard B I Haywood. ... [St. Paul Jeflerson.. .| Ed B Cowles... " [Fairbury Johnson Keith J L MeBrien, G I Copper. 0 H Soas.. "Tecumseh Ogatalla Minden oya Palial Geo W Comdon. pringview Kimball. . Miss Eva Farmor. | Dix < WN Mctlintock.. . Niobrara rang McClusky . Lincoln Mis< MUk hosford . Watts PP O Miss Anin Glov Almeria Miss A D Stubbs. . Gandy 1L 18 Bohaunon. .. | Madison George W Ayers....|Central City MePhergon Nance. s, Lullorton Anborn it... .| Nelson Nebraska City Pawnee City Rawil Grant Airs Mina Hopwood Holdrege ACharles Gat ci 2 Lohn O Hea Willow Mrs 12 Richnrdson. Rock Satino * Ferrand |W.J Newman I Wat i Miss #C A !apillion Wahoo Minatare Bodare eward ‘l.uu p City Kushvitle Sheridan Stanton." .. Cnarles 8 Cony.. | '|Stanton Thayer. Daniel T Scovills, . |Hebron Tnomas. | 'Miss G M Cameron, [Thedford Thurston Tudley Pender ... SAParks’ . Ord ton J W Henderson.. | Blafr W EHoward. ... (Wayne stor, ts¢ Eva J King...[Kod Cloua heeler’, artlott 3 ork Unorganized, State House Gossip. The following partics were commissioned notaries public by the governor tnis morn- ing: Charles C, Gow, Kearney, Buffalo county: Charles H. Davis, Congdon, Dawson county; L. P. Maline, Omaha; J. W. West, Omaha: Mary Calkins, Omuha; A. H. Wil- belm, Grand Island, Hall county; E. J. Wadale, Auory, Hamilton county; N, G. Hurlbut, Niobrara, Knox county?! S. K. Merrick, 1attle Creek, Madison county; W, H. R, Deau. Fullerton, Nance county; Valen- H. Wheeler, Columbus, Platte’ county; W. H. Hagler, Dorenester, Saline county. C, T, Johinson, the reliring county super- intendent of Scott's Bluffs county, has just forwarded to the state superin- tendent the startling anuouncement thut & normal institute was held in that county beginning September 9. This was in rasponse o a circular sent out last July ask- iz information as to when their insiitutes for 1839 were Lo be held, The Westchester Fire Insurance company of New York has filed its annual statement with the insurance aunditor. Premwums re- ceived, §7,41 losses incurred, 6,95, ‘The state board of transportation meets in regular session tomorrow. The application for a rchearing in the Elmwood elevator case and the Osceola clevator case are likely to come up. It is a zood opinion to express, however, that the renearing in the Elmwood caso will be denied, and that if the Qsceoln case is decided it will be 1n favor of the Alli- ance. Johr Nightengale, treasurer of Thayer county, made settlements today with the auditor and paid into the state treasury the sum of $14,926.58, On Saturday $19,000 of the temporary school fund was paid out in the semi-annual apportionment, and up to noon today $52,000 wmore had been aistributed, In reply to a question rozarding the invest- ment of the permanent school fund, Deputy Treasurer Bartlett smd: **We have no dfi- culty in placing every doilar of this fund. It is practically all invested vow, and you may say more 80, as we have contracts for funds exceeding the amount on hand. Parties are simply holding the securities until we can collect in the mone; w has it been heretofore?” “Some dificulty was experjenced. When State ‘Treasurer Millard went out of office there was about $90,000 of this fund on hand, und you will rercember that joint reso- lutions were introduced in both houses of the 1asy legislature submitiing an amendment to the constitution providing for the investment of this fund in school district bonds. This failed to pass, however, but we found no dificulty in finding profitable investments for this fund. That $490,000 was nearly all placed bofore the close of January, and we have been bebind hand on orders ever since., The Burlington aund the Saloon. A circular has been recently issued by the Q railroud wanagement to the effect that wo one of intemperate habits will be employed by the compauny in any capacity, DI arge for a second offense of drunkenness is made obligatory en thesuperintondents and master mechunics, and those discharged for that offense cannot again be‘employed without the consent of the general manager. This is something of & surprise to the boys and is creating no little talk, The Foldiers’ Relief Commission, The last legislature passed an act for the relief of the indigent union soldiers, their wives, widows or minor children. It au- thorizes the county board to levy a tax not exceeding three-tenths of a mill to be col- lected with the other taxes, for the purpose of creating a fund for their relief and for funeral expenses. 1t provides that the board shall appoint op the second Tuesday in January, three persous, two of whém shall be old soldiers, to serve one, two and three years respectively, to be known as the Sol- diers' reilef commission, ‘The duty of this commission 1s to properly describe aud re- port the expenses of the work Lo the county clerk, who will pay the same by warrants. The comwmissioners of this county at their meotlng tomorrow will perforw this duty. Two gentlemen have already been agreed upon, Ihey are Joseph Teeter and O. C. Hell. The other will be & civilan. ‘The commission will be a labor of love, as there is no pay attached to the ofice, City News and Notes. Deputy Attorney General Joha M. Stew- art is the prond possessor of a braud new boy. J. B, Liddle of the World-ilerald is down with 1a grippe. A two story frame divelling house at the corner of Ninth and K burned to the ground botweon 12 and 1 last night. The origin s supposed to be incenaiary. 1t was owned by Will Lane aod rentod by Hert Palmer and family, who are visiting in Chicago. W. W. Carder entored on the dutics of night captain of tho police this evening. Miss Mollie Dean entertained a number of her friends Saturday evening at her home, 1082V, Last night was tho coldest of the senson. Beiweon 7 and § o'clock in the morning the theromometers here marked 7 and 8 degrees below zoro. Oscar Callaban, the now cashior First National bank, is in the city Tn the suit of Charles H, Waito ngainst the city of Lincoln and the Chicago, Burs Lington & Quincy railway company for dam- AKeS to his KK street property, the Burling. ton filod a demurrer to the plamtiff's poti- tion today alleging that thore was o defect of partics defondant. The Q 18 not a proper defendant 1 tho action John Gregory filed a potition this morning in the district court asking for the roniova of tho famous McAllister will vase to tho federal courts. I'he Lincoin Bailding and tion has_brought foreclosuro proceodings against N. J. Fox et ol for 100 on lot 49, block §, Hull's Capitol addition. et - WHERE IMMIGKANTS SETTLE, of the Loan Associa- How They are Governed in Choosing Homes in the New World Tt is interesting to observe how the different nationalities that make up the stream of immigrants which lands on our shoros have a cortain tendency to cluster in colonies, This is partly aue to n desive to associate with friends, or at least with people of the same lan- gunge and the same interests; partly also to the fact that cortain placesare better fitted for men of a certain class, siys a writer in the New York Tribune. Of course, individual s ot almost ever nationality are seattered all over the United States, but still, with thoe ox- ception of the English, Irish and Ger- mans, who aro about equally divided among the different states, the differ- ent nationalities profer some covtain lo- calities, The Welsh immigrants, most of whom are miners, go chiefly to Penn- sylvania, where their bLondquarters where thelr headguarters soem to be around Serunton. At this place during the winter, Welsh performance are given at a theater. The Scandinavians generally go to the northwestern states. The Dakotas, perhaps, get the largest shure of thei, although Missouri, Wisconsin, Michi- ean, iowa and Minnesota also got a part. Few of them are skiiled laborers or artisans, so must engage in farming. ‘The Danes of late have largely gone to Nebraska, and the Finlanders seem to find in the forests of Michigun and northern Ohio occupations and & clim- ate which suits them o xactly, The Italians may be divided into three classe Those who are merely common laborers, and who ecome chie from around Naplesto work on rail- roads, street cleaners, ete., ete., for a large part stop in New York or its vi- cinity: from here tiey are then sent by their bosses, or padrones, all over he country, wherever railrouds are being built. “From northern Ttaly comes a large number of miners, who chiefly go to the coal mines in_ Illinois or Michi- gan, or the mines of Arizona. Colorado and Montana. This class of people is of much higher inteliigence than the first class. Then u great many farmers and w growers from northern Italy goto California. To this state also go many I'rench farmers from the de: ments of Cascogue and Basses Pyrenees, as well as o few Swiss furm- ers. “Otherwise the Frenchmen, if they do not settie in New York, mostly go to New Orle or to French Canada, while the among whom are man y dairymen and silk weavers,chielly settie in this vicinivy. The Hebrews, from Austria. or Roumani: partsettie in Ne More than half of them are 5,about one-third pedlors, and the rest ave divided among the different trades. Of genuine Russians, only a few emi- grate to this countr) During the later 2 great many German Russians, forefathers” about a hundred yearsago emigrated from Wurtemberg have come to this country. They still keepjup their German language, tradi- tions and customs, and are all fariners. Most of them go to Dakota, They are large and powerfully built men when they come in' their shee overcoats, with a row of chiidren follow- ing them. all clad 1n the yythey form a pictures From the vo-Hungarian mon- archy come the Slavaks, Poles, and wns, most of whom go to Penn- where they work in the coal mines o0 coal yar the Bohemians, who go to the vicinity of Pittsburg and Buffalo; the Tyrolese. the Dalmatians, the Drontions, and Moravians, who gen- erally settle in Pennsylvania around Pittsburg. The Hollanders go to Patterson, N. J., or to Wisconsin, where their head- quartersis Green Bas, or to lowa, or to Michigan. The Belgians are either of I"lemish or French origin, The former are chiefly farmers and go to the same places where - the Hollanders 20, while the I'rench speaking Belgians are almost all either glas'workers or miners, L he former ¢o to the coal mines of Illinois or Pennsylvania, the latter chiefly to Tarentum or Pittsburg, Pa. Most of the Icelanders go to Mani- tobu; theve isalso a colony of them in Sayreville, N. J., where they work in the brickyards. The Avmenians, of whom a good many have arrived lately, are like the Arabs, peddlers or tradesmen, in which case they stay in-New York, or they are silk weavers and stay in towns, or they are common laborers. The last named, almost withoutexception, £o to Worces- ter, Mass,, where a large number of them are employed in wire factories. The Greeks have of late years begun, to crowd the [talians outof the fruit and flower selling trade in New York; scme of them also go west and south where they compete with the [talians in the work on the railroads, It may safely be asserted that those who maintain that the classof immi- grunts has deteriorated during the last decade or two have not given the immi- grant question a close study., If there has been any chunge of late years it has been for the better and not for the worse. ————— Bought the Concession ot King Milan, In a sensationul pamphlet entitled “The Bomb” a Servian railway official has just wold thé Servian people how M, Bontoux secured the concession for the construction and operation of the Ser- vian State railway, According to the aibphlet Bontoux bought the favor of I’u..g Milan with 2,000,000 franes, He also gave the minister president, Pi- rotschanats, 800,000 fran the Jeader of the progressive party, Garaschanin, 300,000; the Servian ambassador then in Constantinople, 200,000, and the minis- ter of public works 220,000, These as- tounding disclosures have turned Bel- grade topsy turvy. All of them save the one concerning Milan are thought 10 be substantiully correct. Russia, Poland, for the largest I SHALL WE HAVE THE FAIR? The Matter to be Decilded Thurs« day Night. A CITIZENS' MEETING CALLED/ The Annual Meoting of the Board ot Trade—~The Now Organizae tion—Ieports of OM Standing Committees, The Stato Fair Problem. The board of trade night for the purpose, principally, of tr: acting the businass of the annual moeting and incidentally to make another effort to secure the location of thestate fair in Omaha for the noxt five yonrs, This latter subject was discussed at length. The committes ap- pointed to solicit subscriptions mado a ro- POEL that was not highly gratifying. Somo of the members had worked hard, but & ma- jority of them had done little or nothing. “The workers reported that they had securod about $80,000 in subscriptions and pledges, and also an offer from tho streot rallway company to donato ono. fourth of the oost of 100 acres of ground in & certain location very favora. ble to the members of the committee, nnd oue of tho sites under consideration. —Tho railways and banks have prowisod to nid in the good work, but have no yot stated to what extent they would con bute. Aftor o longthy discussion it was decidod to call u mass meeting of citizens at the board of trade rooms on Thursday night, whon the question will come up for final dis- position. 1If the vity wants the far the men interostod must come up and subscribo or shutuy Roports are exvected at the timo from tho banks and railway companics us to what thoy will do in the furtherance sf tho enterprise. ‘The nunual meating of the board of diroc- tors of the board of trado was hold yester. day afternoon and ofticers elected for the ensuine year, The new organization of the board is as follows: Euclid Martin, president; D, 1. Wheoler, first vice president; B, E. Brooe, second vico president; H. G. Clark, treas: urer; W. N. Nason, soorotaty. Tho diro tors are Tuclid Martin, D, H. Wheeler, F E. Bruce, I. G. Clark, Max Meyer, (. I Goodman, C. O. Loveck, James Stephenson and John 'S, Brady, Tho following standing committaes for the year wero appointed by Presidont Meyor : Arbitration—k Brace, Dudley Smith, M. S. Liudsay, C. N, Doit Auditing—D. H, Wheeler, C. 1. Goodman, E. E. Bruce. Grain—Ciark Woodman, Ray Nye, F. I, White, N. Merriam, F. E.'\McWhorter Live Stock—James Stephenson, J. A. Me- shave, J. F. Boyd, Edwin Davis, d, Cudahy Manufactures F. Goodman, I S. Bailoy, Otto Lobeck, John G. Willis, Willian Cummin Mewbership—Max Meyer, D. H. Wheeler, J.S. Brady. Memmorials—C. S, Chase, J. M. Woolworth, E. Rosewater, John Evans, W. A. L. Gibbo Meteorology—dJohn Evans, John E. Boohu, J. B, Kuony, Propert, Max Meyer, Suclid Martin, W, N. Nuson, Provision—C. O. Lobeck, W. W. Bingham, E. Cudaby, H. H. Meday, P. E. Iler. Transportation—J. S, Brady, Thomas Kil- patrick, C. . Weller, Joseph Garneau, Allen T, Rector, Ways and means—H, G. Martin. C, O, Lobeck. Clark, Euclid ‘I'he ralway committee, which will viks the place of the freight bfireau committoe, has not yet been appointed, The auditing committee presented a report stating that they had found the books of the board correct in every particular. The com- mitteo also commended the valuable servicos rendered by the secretary of the board. President Martin read his annual address, of which the tollowing is a synopsis: ‘The vear, the president stated, was a very prosperous one for the city as well as the state in general. The number of resideuces, substantial business vlocks and flata erected was far in excess of the building improve- ments for 1885, There has been a very marked increase in the jobbing business for the year 1850, which is a fair index of the city’s growth and general prosperity of the cit; Omaha still maintains her position as the third hog packing center 1n the United States and a large increase is shown in the number of cattle and sueep slaughtered. Omana is rapidly becoming a oity of manu- factures as shown by the excellent anuual reviews published by the newspapers of the ity Omaha is still tho best paved city n the west and has tha best street railway service of any city of the size in the Unitwd States. Among the important public improvements to be adaed during the coming year are: Government building, $2,000,000; ity ball, $400,000; viaducts and union depot, $1,000,000; an additional bridge and several now schools authorizad at the last election. The grain crop is the largest Nebraska ever produced and the benefits that aiway: accrue to the city and state from bountiful crops will be received. Omaha continues to rank us one of the best school cities in the union, The board of trade Las entertained a largo number of different organizations during the year, notably the Pan-American congress. A numberof committeos appointed by the board did excellent service in various capac ities, Awong the projocts advanced by the board during the year were the organization of the State Development sociely and the orgen zed effort to secure the location of tho state fair, ‘The president closed his address by thanic- ing the members for courtesies extended and urging a more liberal attendance of the mem- bers during the coming year. The report was accopted and ordered pub- lished in the annual report, ‘The treasurer and secretary’s reports were received aud approved ‘The general fund account is as follows: MECEIPTS, On hand January 1, 185 Received during year.... $ 006,81 3,630.08 Total, s 8 4,077.49 DISHURSHMENTS, Warrants drawn. ... $ 4,346.02 1alance on hand., . Y3147 Total ARcrry L) ‘T'he real estate fund account is as follows: neceiers, = Rents, ete,. ... oo 8IS, 465,08 DISHUKS EMENTS Overdrawn account, 1858 8 808,55 Amount paid by voucher: 13,001,006 Paid for bonds. 5 per ceut. 2,2058.30 1Balunce in fund. 285717 Total .., ~ 18,405.08 A communication was read from the citi- zeus of Spencer, Neb., aud a number of Kan- 848 WWNS, Urging the necessily of securing an extension of the Chicago & Northwestern or tho B. & M. through Superior t Dedge City, Kan. The citizens of anumber of Kansas counties want to como to Omahs rather than go to Kansas City, and want Omaha to join them in sccuring the desired railway extension. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria, When Raby was slek, we gave her Castoria. ‘Whea shie was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When sho beeame Miss, she clung to Castoria, AVhon shehad Children, sho cave them Castoria INFLUENZA HAY FEVER, CATARRK, COLD "IN THE HEAD] ¢ night, whilo sicoping. Tho disinfoctant clements of our inhaiont are absorbed into the )| s hrousty the mucous 7| membrave, exterminating the Iierobo gera of diseiss wWhere, over located. i 14 also the best At Ghtedaen of resblind 0 ra orkans, ‘Wareanted: i hold a session last