Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 23, 1890, Page 4

| | THE OMAHA DAILY THE DAILY BEE. . ROSEWATER, Bditor, PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION punnmfim Iy, One Year.. . (] ix months o T Eu vo Months “aiee day Bee, Onio Year, .. kiy ee, One Yenr with Prembim, . OFFICES, Omenha. ee Buflding. Ohieago Oftice, 507 Ro okery Bullding, ow Vork, Rooms 14 and {5 Tribune Bullding. Vashington, No, 613 Fourteenth Street, ‘ouncil Blutfs, No. 12 Pearl Streo outh Omaha, Corner N and 25th wrwes 88883 CORRESPON DENCE, All communications relatin should be adds to news and edi- ed to the Editor. snould blishing Company, Postoflice orders a06 payable to the order of the Company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. Bee Buildine Farnam and Seventeenth Streots The Bee on the Trains. There 1s no excuse for a fallure to got Ti e BER on the trains. All newsdealers have been noti- full supply, Travelers who want & anid can't get it on trains whera other Omahs papers are carried are requested to Bory Tt BEF Plea. intorn of tra vo 1is your name, not for publication or un- Neccessary uss, but as & guarauty of good faith, _—ee THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statement of Circalation, Ktote of Nebraska, . County of Douglas. L George” B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Ree Publishing Company, does solemnly wear that tbe actual circulation of Tk DALY BEE for the week ending January 15, 150, was as follows: particular to give in all cases fall o as to date, railway and number Tuesday, J Wednesday. Jan. Mhursday, Jan., 16, Friday, Jan. | Faturday, Jus Average.... EORGR . BSworn to before me and subscribed to in m: presence this I8th day or January, A, D. 159, (Seal.t N. P, FEIL, ™ Notary Pubilo. George B huck, belng duly sworn, de- poses and says that he Is secrotary of The Boo Jisbing Company, that the aciual aywrags irculation of ‘THE DATLY BEE for the onth of January, 188, -brunry.mv,m\r)dea]pm coDien:tor April, 1850, 18,5 IR609 coples; for June, 1880, 5, Etate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, daily 1589, 5858 coples: for July, 184, i8,738 coples: for August, 1880, 18- #61 coples: for Beptember, 1 18710 coples; for O« 97 coples; for November, December, 1859, 20,048 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, 10 before me and subscribed in my Presence thisdth day of January, A. D., 1800, Seonl. . Notary Public, TAX shirkers will not receive much comfort from City Attorney Poppleton. Tit harmony and unity ot the coun- cil combine grows delightfully discor- dant. Familiarity with the Dodlin gang breeds contempt. IN the Illinois senatorial spoils fight the Conkling episode will not repeat itself. Thero is no one to play the roll of ““Me Too™ to Farwell’s Roscoe. — Tur boomers of a deep water harbor in Texus are dredging the national treasury for six millions. If congress approves the job the svrplus will soon strike deep watel THE proposition to increase the city treasurer’s bond to a reasonable amount is right and proper, but the efforts of the Broatchites to make the amount excessive smacks of revenge. — SOME fifteen remnants of the late ad- ministration have been discovered short in their accounts. President Harrison promptly adopted the democratic slo- gan and “turned the rascals out.” THE spirit as well as the letter of the law require that city offices should be created only by ordinance. Yet there are sinecure salaries without even the doubtful authority of a resolution. — WHEN a railroad penetrating the corn belt of the west can earn six per cent on its actual and fictitious capital in eleven months of 1889 the corporate viea of poverty refutes itself. Down with the rates. s for Denver to groan and lament the commercial greatness of Omaha and Kansas City. Location and the laws of trade are against the Colo- rado “‘sunitarium.” Her jobbing trade cannot rise above a dispensary of ozone and cod liver ofl, I'r 15 usel. Bisinor HARE'S protest against the proposed probibition law in South Da- kota will call down ‘upon him the emo- tional wrath of the zealots. Every man who appeals to reason is denounced 4s in league with the rum power, and Bishop Hare's position and calling cun not shield him from the shafts of “the dolier than thou,” — Avruouan the electric wires anre Roing down in New York at a rapid rate, they succeed in roasting a victim occusionally. Monday last n laborer fell against an iron hitching post con- nected with a grounded wire, and was instantly killed and partly burned. It is evident that the mankillers will not #o underground alone. - E— GOVERNOR ABBETY of New Jersey joins the phalanx of democratic leaders in favor of ballov reform. It is evident that the governor understands the com- position of the legislature or he woula not recommend a measare caloulated to overthrow demooratic power in Jersey. A fair, untrammeled election will place the mosquito state in the republi- can column, | SENATOR FRYE ravely misses an op- portunity to do a kindly service for the Union Pacific. His action in recalling the Omaha bridge bill for the purpose of inserting the third of u mile clause recalls 1o mind his former efforts in the house to prevent the reduction of the Uaion Pacific bridge tax, when ten do}lars per car load and ffty cents for ‘ueh passenger was charged, m————— THE politiciuns of the state of Wash- ington threaten to repeat the history of Nebraska in the matter of contingent ‘congressmen. The experieuce of Pat O'Huawes and Farmer Majors is not en- couraging to the budding statesmen of the northwes! A contingent commis- sion to congress 1s equivalent to a polit- ical death warrant. Besides, there are 180 vacant postoffice pie stands for the victin®'to fatten on, FARM MORTGAGE STATISTICS. The opposition of the senate ceusus committee to the proposal to require the superintendent of the census to as- certain farm mortgage statistics was because the committee desired to avoid the danger of putting in such new work as would delay the census. It is quite natural, in viow of the experience with the last census, that there should be objection to saddling the one to be taken this year with work that would delay the result for years, until it became of practic~ ally little service except for the purpose of future compari- sons. We are not sure that all of the facts obtained in the census of 1880 are yet accessible to the public, but at any rate a large part of them were not pub- lished. for years. The late S. S. Cox, who prepared the bill under which the eleventh census will be taken, and who haa studied this matter ver vefully, reduced the number of subjects to be investigated about one-half, and this was v gonerally approved. To be valuable census statistics should be- come available as soon as possible after they are obtained. It is very gencrally agreed that it would be & good thing to ascertain what percentage of people own their farms, the number of farms under mortgage and the amount thereof, if this could be done with rea- sonable accuracy, but there is a great deal of doubt whether it is practicable to obtain this information in trustwor- thy shape. There are numerous diffi- culties in the way, and they are of such a nature that the most careful enumera- tors could hardly fail to make blunders. Moreover, statistics of mortgage in- debteduess derived from the rec- ords, as would have to be done if the task were notto be an endless one, would present very far from an accur- ate showing of the real condition of the farmers of the country. To be of any ue the statistics would have to show what is actually owing on mortgages, and anybody can understand how nearly impossible it would bo to get this infor- mation. The efforts of several states to get reliable statistics of farm mortgages have not been satisfactory,and it is hardly probable that the effort of the government would be more so. The census bureau will endeavor to do all that is practicable in obtaining statis~ tics of the recorded indebtedness of the country, and to require of it the new work proposed will materially increase the cost of the census, delay its comple- tion, and the result in all probability would not be satisfactory. INJUSTICE 10 ALLISON. It was not to be expected that the New York Zimes would be pleased with a re-election of Senator Allison. The prominence of Mr. Allison as a republi- can leader, and the respect and confl- dence in which he is generally held by h1s party, are sufficient reasons why the Times should regard his retention in public life as a misfortune. But that journal could have afforded to express its regret without being conspicuously unfair and unjust. Tn a recent 1ssue the Times said: **Mr. Allison has ‘secured’ his seat as an enterprising contractor secures a fat job. There was in the whole transaction, so far as we have beeu able to trace it at this distance, very little indeed of spontaneous action on the part of the people, or even of the party to which Mr. Allison belongs, or which for the time being appears to be- ‘long to Mr. Allison.” The implied imputation in the tirst sentence of this oxtract deserves very little attention. Everybody who is at all familiar with the campaign made by Mr. Allison and his friends knows that it was honorable and straightfor- ward from beginning to end. There were constantly on the ground vigilant correspondents of papers not {riendly to Mr. Allison, and none of these ever intimated that the senator, orany one in his interest, employed any methods or influence that would not bear the closest scrutiny. The two or three republicans in thelegislature who were unfriendly to Senator Allison and would have preferred some other republican to succeed him, were led to give him their support because the overwhelming sentiment of the republi- cans of Iowa was in favor of his re- election, and because it was made clear to them that the intecests of the state demanded that Mr. Allison be con- tinued in the senate. At no time was the fight against him really seri- ous, although every effort was made on the part of those who desired his defeat to make it appear so. The attempt to induce others to make a contest for the senatorship failed because no one could be found who was willing to jeopardize his political future by setting himself against the well known and almost unanimous desire of the party. As to spontaneous action on the part of the people or of the republican party, of which the Z%mecs was able to trace very little, it is sufficient to say that the senatoral question was one of the most prominent in the at- tention of the people of Iowa during the last campaign, with tbe full under- standing that Mr, Allison would seek a re-election. and it is by no means im- probable that but for this the legisla- ture of Iowa would be democratic in both branches. Mr. Allison’s share in that campaign fully demoustrated that he had lost little of his strength and popularity, and the fact that demo- cratic success in Jowa wus not more swoeping must be largely credited o him, The common assertion that he has lost the confidence of the farmers generally is not supported by u single fact, - A well- planned effort to array the producers against him in the last campaign signally failed of effect, and a more recent autempt to place the Farmers’ alliance in hostility to him as a candi- date for the seunate ,was equally futile. It is not remarkable that in his long public career Senator Allison has made enemies among his coustituents. He has undoubteuly been forced tw disap- point the political asmbition of some, and he has entertained views on public questions which did not conform to the opinions of others. There are political aspirants in Iowa, also, who would be very glad to have Mr, Allison out of the way. But that he still holds the respect and confidence of the great majority of the republicans of Town is not questionable, and his re- eloction to the senate will be grat ing to the people of that state gen- erally. It may be well to observa thav while the New York 7imes dould refer to Senator Allison as having ‘‘secured” hisseat as an enterprising contractor secures a fat job, it was extremely mild and inoffensive in referring to the elec- tion of Mr. Brice in Ohio, notoriously secured, if democratic testimony is to go for anything, by a lavish use of money. The explanation is obyious, LAND OFFICE REORGANIZATION. L'he bill introduced in the senate for a complete reorganization of the land offico is in pursuance of recommenda- tions made to congress by successive commissioners of that office for a num- ber of years. Owing to the parsimoni- ous policy of congress toward this branch of the public service, the groat importance of which scems never to have been fully appreciated by the people’s represehtatives, it has not for a number of years been sup- plied with an 'adequate force to keep up with the demands upon it. The result is an accumulation of thousands of cases which ought to have been long ago disposed of, in the interest of both the government and individuals, and under existing conditions not only must it be years before all of these cases can be disposed of, but additions to them are incvitable. It is the desire of the present administration of the land of- fice to remedy this state of affairs, and ahile it has materially facilitated the prosecution of business, so that the office is credited with having per- formed more work during the past few months than ever before in its history in a like period, it is found impossible to keep up with new business and lessen the amount of that which has accumu- lated, without increasing the force of the office. The senate bill provides for additional clerks to the number estimated to be necessary by the commissioner, and also for an increase of the salary of the com- missioner from . thirty-six hun- dred to five thousand dollars a year. It is to be presumed that the measure wili encounter very little opposition, since the necessity for a larger force is unquestionable, while the justice of a more liberal compensa- tion for the commissioner ought to be obvious. The duties of the office not only require that the commissioner shall be a lawyer of ability, but they are arduous, and the present salary is clearly not sufficient for the character and exactions of this service. Senator “Teller, who introduced the bill, is thoroughly familiar with the needs of the general land office, and his meas- ure, the details of which are not re- ported, may be presumed to provide for all the requirements necessary to place this important branch of the public service on a satisfactory business basis. — PAVING MATERIAL. After eight years’ experience the board of public worls comes forward as a sponsor of a uew paving material, for no other reason than thatitisa few cents cheaper than stone. ~ The board goes out of its way to plend for brick paving, as the best means of putting an end to cedar blocks, THE BEE has at all times opposed wooden pavement and pointed out the costly folly of paving streets with material which had been discarded in the older cities. The miles of decaying blocks visible in every direction con- clusively show that cheap material is dear at any price, and property owners on scores of streets will be compelled to uproot the wooden blocks and sub- stitute durable material long before the tenth tax payment is made. ‘To plunge into brick paving means a repetition of the costly mistakes of the past. There would be some excuse for encouraging it if the brick could be manufactured at home, but our clay will not produce a brick of the required hardness. The fact that brick has been successfully used in country towns does not commend it to a growing city like Omaha. The cost is nearly as great as stone block yet in durability, stone is far superior. Brick costs two dollars and three cents a square yard; stone, two dollars and twenty-eight cents. At best brick pave- ment is a doubtful experiment, while stone is a demonstrated success. Tur Bee does not commend sand- stone as the very best paving material. ¥or heavy trafic streets it can only commend granite. The vast difference in _ durability makes Rranite far more desirable and cheaper in the end. But the rage for reduced first cost i such that property owners overlook permanency for a temporary saving. It is time to stop experimenting and confine paving to material of pro- nounced durability and cleanliness. If cheapness is essential, it would be bet- ter to narrow the paved roadway and use first class material, On residence streets, where traffic is light, there is no unecessity for a concrete or even broken stone base for stone blocks. The sol is such that material laid on a sand base will bear the strain of travel and maintain an even surface for years, In this way tne first cost can be materially reduce d and a permanent pavement secured. —_— Tue diversion of grain trafiic from American toCanadian roads has reached the proportions of a blockade. Dis- patches frem Ontario report that ten thousand cars of Nebraska corn billed for Boston await transshipment at the straits. Trafflc isso great that every wheel and every man capable of hand- ling & train have been pressed into ser- vice. Commentiag on this remarkable condition, the Chicago Tribune points out that the Canadian rcads, notwith- standing the iocreased costof winter oneration, are able to make money at rates from three to ten cents lower than roads operated exclusively on American soil. The truth is that the Americap roads are now more thoroughly com- bined to maintain excessive rates than at any period of their history. The in- torstate commerce law has prevented pools on the surtace, but the fact that competition is practically wiped out, and the additional fact that rates are BEE: , THURSDAY. JANUARY 23 1890. rigidly maifitained and trafic diverted to foreign ro#ds, clearly shows that the trunk lines profer to sacrifice the grain business ratherthan give the producers of the count¥y rensonable relief. The object of this corporation combine is to make the law bdious and onerous, par- ticularly the long and short haul clause. With this clauso repealed the old ora of discriminations, favoritism and ro- bates could, b revived, while local traffic would bear the burden of extor- tionate tolls, —_— THE bill to create two additional land districts in Nobraska has passed the senate and awaits the action of the house. The same measure was pnssed last congress by the senate but failed to secure consideration in the ho of representati through the persistent objections of Holan of Indiana. Mr, Holman protested then that there was 10 growth in Nebraska to warrant this oxtension of laad office facilities in the western part of the state. It is to be hoped that before he again places him- self 1n the position of an obstructionist, he will read the statistics of our state’s growth and glance over a few of the boom editions of papers published in a soction which he pronounces a desert. There ought to be no delay in acting upon the Paddock land office Lill. The two new districts will supply an immense arca of country unsettled until within the past three vears, but which siuce the extension of the rail- road midway between the Union Pacifio and the Elkhorn Valley has been rap- idly peopling with an excellent cluss of settlers. It is ia the highest degree unfair to compel poor homesteaders to travel a hundred miles or more to make an entryor to complete & vroof, when oroperaction by the government would afford them proper facilities at half the present cost of travel. The inadequate land office facilities in the section cov- ered by the bill has greatly retarded settlement. For this reason Nebraska's representatives in Congress owe 1t to the state to use every effort tosecure the passage of the bill. —_— MAJOR POWELL, chief of the govern- ment survey, recommends an appropri- ation of six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars for continuing surveys in the west. He suggests that the money be expended equally among the thirteen western states and territories, and twenty-five thousand in Nebraska. This is one of the most important measures for the west and should be pushed to passage with all possible speed. The development of the country and the influx of settlers demand that the work of ‘surveying and mapping the public domain be promptly and thoroughly done. THE men who were chiefly respons- ible for the defeat of the market house proposition, now petition the council for three market places. One good market is worth a dozen poor ones, but as long as thé'gieen grocers and com- mission men can maintain their grip on the voor mun's-pocketbook and in- duce him to vote against his own inter- est, there is no prospect of bringing the producer and consumer together and dispensing with the middleman. —_— A Winming Loser. Philadelphia. Press, Tu1s all right to pity the man who has met misfortunes, but just now the fellow. who has “lost his grio'? 18 to bo envied. His loss a distinet gain. St sy The President’s Peculiar Way. Philadeiphia Ledger. President Harrison speods much of his leisure in playing biliiards, but there are some senators in particular that he declines to take a cue from, e An Effective Backer. Philadelphia Inguirer. A $300,000,000 nayy will be a powerful argument to back up Senator Sherman’s res- olution inviting foreign powers to settle all disputes with us by arbit ration. B ot The Knell of Monarchy. Chicago Inter-Ocean, The universal clock 18 striking the hour of monarchial dissolution. Few generations will be needed to shake even the czar from his throne, and he is the most securely fixed of the European sovereigns, and is tho last represeutative of absolute one-man power. s No Influenzn on the Sermons. Bufalo Express. Dr. T. Do Witt Talmage has canceled all his preaching engagements in Loudon and provinces on account of the influenza. The grip isn’t strong enough in this country, how- ever, to stop the regular publication of the doctor’s sermons on schedule time. e, TRE AFTFRNOON TEA, Some mon are like the silver mooun. When their first quarter's gained they soon Proceed their thirst to liquidate, Aud get into the fallest state. And yetthey differ from that orb, For they continue to absorb And keep their state of fullness on Till after their last quarter's gone. Tears are more eloguent than words; that's why a woman keeps hers oo tap. A womau’s happiness 1s in danger when she begins to compare .her husband witn other men, b Strange, isn't it, that a stately woman’s carriago shows to'tlie bost advantage when sho walks} The girl with & ‘new solitaire diamond en- gagoment ring doesu’t care a coutinental if her bands do get toid. “'Variety is the' spice of life.” truly; but I kne fellow into a piokje,! The girl who gety the most imvitations to go riding while w is on the ground may safely be caljed a sleigh bello, ‘The fraternity of disappointed lovers has been formed in Maryland and is establishing branches in Delaware. The members are mllolgnhh who.haye been crossed in love. They bind themeelves to avoid female society, *'You kaow what fashion Miss Ghawl- edeo has of quotiug proverbs at all timest" “Yes.” “Woll, ilast night as I remarked midnight theg I must go, she looked at the clock and murmured, ‘Better late than never,' " Hueband—How much did that hat cost! Wife—Five dollars, isn'vthatcheap! Hus- band—I don‘t know. Five dollars is a good deal of money. An hour later. Husband— How do you like that cigar! Five aollars a ::’o.:.m I!B—Twl a good ul‘lr.ulw\ b:.: you're getting extravagant. Huosban, —Novsense! Five fiuu.:- isn’t much mons _Miss Chestnut—Have you and Clarence’ set the dayi Miss Walnut—Mr. Callowhill aud I are strangers. iss C.—Why! Miss W.—We were on & train, We went through o tunnel, Of course I was frightened, and clung to Mr, Callowhill's arm, and— Miss C.—Clarence dido’t presume! Miss W.— No, Clarence did not presume. Miss ‘The mean thing. I don't blame you, dear. Ll Lorn Going by the “300' Route. Chicago Tribune: Great quantities of Ne- braska cornar e beiag shipped uorth to the “Aye, & varioty girl who got a “'Soo" and thence east through Canada to New England. I'he volume of such trafio exceods the capacity of the Canadian roads and a recent glut of freight is thus describod in a dispateh trom Ottawa, Ont.: “T'he passenger trains from the north have boen unusually late for some time past. The cause has not besn the suow storm, bat an accumulntion of freight at tho *Soo." As much as 10,000 car loads of corn from Na- braska have boen lying at that place waiting o0 be trans-shibped to Boston and other east- ern points, Kvery man who can run an en gine has boen given a froight train, and even passsenger train conductors, after finishing their regular trips, have been pressed into running local freight trains before their next trip comes around. The right of way has been for about fortnight given to the freight trains, and it is said that passengor trains are often delayed for a considerable tiwe till the next freight train passoes.' Lower rates of course explain why trafio passes from Nebraska east by way of the ‘Soo" route througn Canada instead of over the American truok lines. Two-thi of the 1,800-mile haul via the “Soo™ in American territory and the total distance is considerably greater than over the routes wholly insido the United States. The Cana- dian roads have greater difficulty keoping their tracks clear of snow aad run through a country destitute of coal. Yet they make lower ratos than the American roads, which run through coal flelds from the Missouri to the Allegheuies, and have no such trouble and expense as their northern competitors in keeping their lines open in winter, For two thirds of the distancovia Canada—from No- braska to the “So0" and from Montreal to Boston—the trafiic is subject to the “'short- haul rule” and all the rostrictions of tho interstate act. Nevertheless, the rate via Canada is from 3 to 10 cents per 100 pounds lower on particular classes of traftic than over the American routes. Hathor than lower their short haul rates to keep within n reduced long haul chargethe American roads surrender certain kinas of business entiroly to Canadian lines. Tho latter are allowed o differential and practicel monopoly of low class freight for which fast shipment is not required. The American lines decline to com- pete against the Canudian routes for long haul traffic in produce in order that thoy may keep up high rates on short haul business und freight requiring rapid transit. It it were not for the partial competition opor- ative on the Canadian routes all kinds of trafic from the wost to the scaboard would have to stand the high rates of the Ame; pooled lines. Another reason for the heavy shipments over the Canadian lines lies in o remarkably incrensed demaud for American corn in Canadian markets. —_— Wanted to Employ Patti. Chicago Herald: Patti might—and then again she wight not—feel fluttered at a little incident that happened just after the close of her engagement at the Auditorium. It will be remembered that while here the diva ‘was given a reception at the Chicago Con- servatory of Music, and the press comments upon the event were voluminous. It is evi- denv that they reached Moline, IIl. Prof. Samuel Kayzer had positive proof of it only 8 few days ago. The professor was called upon by a nice looking, middle-agod gentle- man and lady and 4 pretty young girl. They proved to be father, mother and daughter. The mother acted as speaker. She asked if Patti could be seen; was she at the conser- vatory at that nunute! When the protessor uttered ‘‘no,” the lady asked what her hours Jwere. The question threw light on the matter. ‘The professor concluded the visitors were under the impression that Patui taught singing at the conserva- tory, and his surmise was correct. When he explained the error, father, mother and daughter expressed much disappointment. The mother volunteered the information that her daughter bad taken singing lessons from a teacher at home and had also been sent to Rock Island, where 1t had cost a good deal, but they had seen in the papers that Patti had been 50 praised for her smging “‘Home, Sweet Home,” at the conservatory that they thought they had better bring their daughter to Chicago, “We have come on purpose for that and nothing else,” said mamma; *“we suppose it might cost a little extra to get Patti, but we didn’t mind that; we want to give our daughter the best teaching there is and we are so sorry that Pattihas left yous’ Aund the trio” went away, still believing that Patti was a sing~ ing teacher. Mr. Hy 's Appointment. Chicago Tribune, Mr. John Hyde of Omaha, lately of this city, has just received his appointment from the superintendent of the census, to take charge of the important department of cereals, sugar, cotton, tobacco and other special crops, Mr, Hydeis ayoung man admirably qualified for the work he hasin hand. He graduated from the map and sta~ tistical department of Rand, McNally & Co., some few years since and went to Nebraska, making his headquarters at Omaha, whero, a8 a railroad statistican and _expert, he nas made a national reputation, His success in this live is best attested by the fact that the officials of tnirty-one railroads asked for his appointment. If all the appointments made by Superintendent Porter are as good as this one there will be no room for fault-finding with the character of the next census. Another excellent, appointment is just an- nounced—that of Mr. Mortimer Whitehead of New Jersey, lecturer to the National graoge, who has the department of live stock and its products, wool and horticulture. ey AN INSURANCE SENSAYION. Grave Charges Against the Western Manager of the Phoemnix. Cmcaco, Jan. 22.—|Special Telegram to Tae Bee.]—The Times this morning prints two columns of sensutional charges against T. R. Burch of Chicago, western manager for the Pheenix fire insurance company of Brooklyn, the discovery of whose irregular- ities, it says, was the cause of Austin Cor- bin, H, W. Maxwell and W, H. Kendall re- signing from the directorate of the company. The articie says it is openly charged by those familiar with the management of the Chicago office that for years Burcn hi the funds of the company as ho saw fi he has had vepeated aisgraceful affairs with ‘women, some of ‘whom 'were employed by him in the oftice; that one of his escupades is now in the courts at Kansas City; that the farm departmont of the company has been so loosely and recklessly managed that a loss of nearly half a million dollars has ensued, while other companies have grown rich out of this branch of the business ; thatthe books of the company have not giVen a corrcct statement of 1ts financial condition because the cashier has been compelled to carry mem- orandum to represent tho cash which Burch had taken, and finally that fraud has been resorted to Lo cover up many gross irregular- ities. The Times says that when the expos- uie is made complete it will e one of “the Rreatest sensations the insurance world has ever known. —————y ARID LAND IRRIGATION, Major Powell Submits a Bill to the Senate Committee, WasniNeroN, Jan. 22.—The senate select committee on irrigation and the reclamation of arid lands held an extended session last evening to hear Major Powell, director of the United States geological survey. The wajor made a long statement to the commit- tev on the subject and then read a lengthy bill,drafted by him, which provides for a typo- grapbic and hydrographic survey of the arid region for the segregation of the same iuto irriguble, pastoral aud tunber lands, the two latter to remain the property of the United States for the use of the peoble of the irri gation districts, The bill provides for fea- eral control over interstate waters and the formation of water districts under the con- trol of the stutes and territories. e e La Grippe and Suaicide. SaN Axroxio, Tex,, Jun. 2U--Thomas Rainey, one of the best known ranchmen in Texas, died yesterday from la grippe. lw- mediately after his aged father went 1nto an adjoining room and blew his brains out, Father and son will be buried together. e e Trouble, Drink and Suicide, Mouxr Srentine, Ky, Jan, 22.—William T. Day, ex-deputy United States marshi committed suicide by takin, wmorphiug Family wouble and heavy drinking are we) tioned as the cause. | leave: LINCOL){ ETS ]‘ FA[R ings bank filed articles of Incorporation to. \ v | day. Capital stock, 500,000, 10 per cent paid in. Incorporators: A. U. Wyman, E §7: Nash, 3.9, Beown, . 1L, Millard. W, 15 Millard, Willlam Wallaco, Max M i Wyman, William F. Wyman, R. &. Hal E. Yost, Moritz Meyer, N. W. Walls, Wy KNOCKED OUT OF THE WOX, Mr. W. R. Davis, secretary of the Chaso Fifty-Six Votes Out of a Total of Blghty-Nine. THE OSCEOLA ELEVATOR CASE, Gilkison and Gilchrist Unreservedly Favor the Farmers—GarberAgroes On the Main Point—The Board of - Agriculiurs, markably fine extibit at the Iate state fai is in the city. Mr. Davis, it will be remem bered, was admitted to 'the membership ot the state board of agriculture at the Soptom ber meeting. For some reason, howeve, supposed to be “‘railroadish’ Ko was ro moved today and Charles Meokes, o member of the last legislative assembly, sub. stituted as o momber in his stoad. 16 that as it may, Mr. Dayis represents the people of that county and Mr. Moekes a sido issuo, - 10 CANONIZE JOAN OF ARG, Lincola Wins, Lixcow¥, Neb, Jan, 22—[Special to Trx Brr.|—On the second ballot of the board for a relocation of tho state fair for the next five years Lincoln had 56 votes, Omaha 10, Hast ings 15, Grand Isiand 6, Columbus 2. This the state fair in Lincoln for the term voted upon. STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. At the morning's session of the state board of agriculture a number of new members were admitted, Iu the caso of the contested delegations from Chaso and Saline counties, the report of the committee on credentials was adopted, which admitted Meeker of Chase und Ba stow of Saline, The following officers were re.elocted: President, R, R. Greer, Kearney; first vico presiden B. McDowell, Fairbury; second vice president, N. Grennell, Fort Calhoun; treasurer, L. A, Kent, Minden; seoretary, Cardinals to Take Up The French Heroine's Case. LCopiright 1590 by Jamas Gondon Beanste.] RowE, Jan, 22.—|New York Herald Cable —Special to Tue Ber.|—The causo for the canonization of Jonn of Arc will, as soon ns the documents relating to her life are ready, be discussed by the cardinals of the sacrod congregation, and tho rites of canonization proper will bo performed, when the celo brated French beroine will have then bo come a smnt. This will not be for many years, as she must pass through two gr beforehaud. She must first be made a ven- erable, then become a venerablo servant of God, and after that must be beatied. Every minuto particular relating to her lifo 1 being looked into with tho greatest care by FEANOFE W TRARC 1ePoREVTiTa: Monsignor Caprara, & learned advocato The members of the board of managers [ eMPloyed by the vatican o all who hold over are: R. W, Furnas, Brown. | matters concerning beatifications yillog k. N. Gronnoil Fort Calhoud; J. Jen | and canonizations. I puid th sen, Geneva: 1. A. Barnes, Grand 'Island; | reverend go i saived J. B. Dinsmore, Sutton; M. Dunnay h“.‘fif:""‘.fi”,"““;":"‘,“"’,",“"" i Omatia; R. K. Henry, Columbus; J. S, | ¥ LA e S Ld *Lam called by my colleagues,” he said, ¥ & name which will perhaps surprise you, Tam known as the L'Avvocate del Diavolo, because it is my busincss to find out all tho sins committed and all the worst points in the Life of a person to be beatified and canon- ized. Now in the case of Joan of Arc, this is rather diflicult, as there is not much in history to tell us personally of her privato lifo. However, we are making deep ro searches und shall be ablo undoubtediy to discover her weak points. When all the doc uments are ready tho case will be discussed before the congregation of cardinals by the Hughes, Hayes Centor; W. W. Harstow, Hum- Creto; &, W. Blako, Long Pine; A, phrey. Lincoln; Frank 1L Young, Charles K. Lawson, Hastiags; J. C, ner, Red Cloud. The following me mbers, whose terms ex pered January 1, were re-elected: L. A. Kent, Minden; J. 'D. McFarland, Lincoln; Ed. Melntyre,” Seward; J. B. McDowell Fairbury; S. M. Bavker, Silver Crook; J. M Lee, Oxford; S. H. Webster, Ord; R. R. Groer, Kearnoy: M. L. Hayward, Nobraska City; 'W. R. Bowen, Omabia, Tustead of Blewett of Fromont, Leach of Oukdale, Robertson of Madison, 1lasecki of St. Paul and Windham of Plattsmouth, the following were elected: W. L. May of Dodge county, M. Doolittle of Holt, W. H. Holmes | Mdvocate who pleads ber cnuse—Signor Ma- of Antelope, R. G.McCowen of Thomas and | rini—and by me, who opposes be E. L. Vance of Pawnee. cause of thoss bad points which OSCEOLA ELEVATOR CASE. The report of the secretaries of the state board of transportation in the Osceola eleva- tor case favors the farwers. It 48 in sub- stance as follows: 1. That the respondent ias the only line of railroad running through said station of Os- ceois, and that all of within the limits of aepot grounds. > have been found. If, however, the cardinuls Judge in favor of her cause, it is then pleaded before the pope by the consistorial advocute, Signor Marucet. The pope having given his consent, then Joan witl be made a vener. able. I think, however, that that will not v take place much before the end of the year. ( its side tracks are | "“Now, before sho is beatified, it is its rightof way and | necessary that in the course of her life she should® have acomplished four mir 2. Ihat there are only two clevators at | acles. It must not be supposed by saud station having the combined capacity of | that that she should * have restored 80,000 bushels, and that said elevatorsarein- | any one to life or done auything in sufficient 10 haudled the grain at said sta- tion; that the owners and operators thereof liave combined to fix the prices paid for grain shipped at said station and are practi- any way supernatural, but some particul episode must be shown like being wonder- fully cured or miraculously, for instance, saved from accident because 10 happoned 1d cally operated by one controlling head. her presence. ‘fhis may sound some 3 That it is necessary for the convenience | what ridiculous, but I can tell and protection of the public, patrons aud | you that this kind of wiracles shippers of grain at said station over the line of the respondents’ road, that another ele- vator be eregied and operated for the purpose of shipping grain at said station. 4. T'hat the respondent bas permitted two elevators to be erected upon its grounds ut said station adjacent to and in connection with its side tracks, by two shippers of grain, 2 That an clevator is necessary for the shipment of grain by railroad at said stetion, and that by reason of the side tracks being placed within the right of way and depou grounds of the respondent, the complainant | yoars before she will be canonized and it canuot ship grain.on the defendant's line of | nny be an indefinito time. So the reverend road without building 1ts own elevators on | genvleman remurked: the grounds of the respondent. here are many who were made blessed 6. That there is room upon the grounds of | years ago that we have not even thought of the resaondent at suid station for aunother | canonizing yet.” elevator without interfering with the opera- [ The reports curront that the pope is indis- tion of the railroad, and that the building of | posed have no foundation. Ho is perfectly the elevator by the complainants upon said | well and attends as usuai to his many duties, grounds will not materially affect the re- | beginning ut5 o'clock and continuing until spondent in the use of its grounds or be an | 10 ut night. His only trouble at present is unreasonable burden to the respondent. sleeplessness, When that comeson he sits 7. That the granting of the right and priv- | up during the night writing poetry. 1loge by the respondent to two snippers of grain to build elevators on the grounds of swd respondent et said station for the ship- ment only of such grain as is purchased by said shippers over and upon the respondent’s line of road, ana the refusal to grant the sume right and privilege to the complainants for the purpose of shipping grain is an un- just and unreasonable iscrimination 1n favor of the shippers at said station and against the complainants, and is Riving other shippers of grain a preference and ad- vantage over the cowplainants, and subject~ ng the complainants to a disadvantage and prejudice, and 18 therefore unlawtul. ‘This board was especially created by the law-making power of the state to guard this industry from corporate power and dis crimination of all kinds, aud this case clearly falls within the power of the board, and the relief prayed for in the complaint should be granted. ‘The report is signed by Seccreteries Gil- kerson and Gilchrist. Secretary Garber agrees in the main, but dissents from some of the arguments, though he has filed no dis- senting opinion, THE NEDRASKA TROTTENS. The following programme for the next meeting . of the Nobraska Association of Trotting Horse Breeders was adopted av & late hour last night. The meeting is ex- pected to take place in Aug “The en- ONE NIGHT ONLY trance fee to each race to bc §5, to which ——— - w the ussociation adds $100. ) _Thursday, January 23 Rigws No. LnEene fp all onle.of 180, Grand Production of BARTLEY CAMPBELL'S Stake No. 2—Nebraska foals of 1880. Greatest Success, which I mean have happened in our century. , If 10 her case they exist, they must then be ' ¢ most carefully and minutely examined. That takes time and must also be legally confirmed, and as far as I can judge she wiil not be made blessed for another eight or nine years hence. “*Once blessed, the necessary two other miracles should happen to persons who, im- ploring her intercession, get what they want granted, Then she will be canonized and become St. Joan of Arc.” 1t is evident from this that 1t will be maay 1 am told that somo of his pooms are magnificent. Mo L Mineral water depot, 2nd door west p, Positively cured b these Little Pl They also relleve Dis- tress frora Dyspepsia, In| digestion and Too Hiearty} Eating. A perfect ren-| edy for Dizziness, Nausen,| Drowsiness, Bad Taste o tho Mouth, Coated| Tongue, Pain In the Sido,| TORPID LIVER. They regulato the Bowels, Purely Vegetable. SMALLPILL, SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. Stake No. 3—Free for all foals of 1887, ol e AN Stake No. 4—Nebraska foals of 1887, IA | slBERlA | N Stake No. 5—Free for all foals of 1887, Stake No. 6—Free for all fouls of 1856, Under the management of MR, H. C. KENNEDY, Eutirely N Stake No. 7—2:40 stalliou stake. Stake No. Free-for-all two-year-old pacing race, Stake No, 9—Free-for-all stallions, ? H'ulke No. 10— Kuturity stakes for foals of 1859, Stake No. 11.--Futurity stakes for foals of 1800 to be trotted for 1893, Stake No. 12—Free-for-all stallions, Committees were appointed to receive hids for the location of the next trotting meeting and to adopt a plan of action for securing u permanent location for meetings of the asso- ciation, BOARD OF TRANSPORTATION, The state board of transportation met this moruing In pursuance of yesterday's adjourn- ment. There were present Secretary Cowdry, Treasurer Hill and Attorney Gen~ eral Leese, Auditor Benton was sick and Land Commissioner Steen was in Wahoo attending a funeral, There were also pres- ent Socretaries Gilchrist, Gilkerson and Garber avd Chief Clerk Holwes. The following resolution offered yesterday was adopted : Whereas, The rates of transportation in the state of Nebraska are unjust and unreasonable, and today are from 50 to 850 per cent higher tuan the rates charged by railroads 10 Jowa for similar services; there- foie be it Resolved, That the state board of vrans- portation be and they are hereby instructed to formulate a new schedule of freight rates oo the basis of the lowa rutes and return the same to this board within ten days from this date. STATE HOUSE GOSSIP, The State bank of Gothenburg filea arti- cles of incorporation today. ~Capital stock, $50,000. Incorporators: A. V. Carison and H. L. Carlsou. Hon, W, H. Munger of Kremont was at the Capitol today. Tbe following county treasurers made set- tlewents with the auditor today snd paid into the state ‘troasury the amounts stated : “Wrilling Tableaux aud A Powerful Company Rogular prices, Seats on sale Wednesday. 0YDS (JPERA HOUSE areapay’ 1 Jan, 24 8 25 five-year-old | Baturday § Matines Under the personal managementof M GRAU, 1n the following repertoire FRIDAY NIGHT and SATURDAY MATINEY BRIGANDS NATURDAY NIGHT | AMORITA | Both these operas are New York Casino, latest siicosses und both are new (o Jmaha, Rogular Prices. Sale of seats opens Thursdsy, oY DS SPECIAL LIMITED ENGAGEMENT ~O¥ THE— WORLD'S GREATEST TRAGEDIAW, ALVI Willia Fenton, Froatier county, $3,054.87: F. M. Memnger, Madison county, REPERTOINE: e $5,822.90: K. C. Hockeuberger, Hall county, | Monday, Jau, 27 T VTHE OUTLAW." $10,450 B4, Wedoesday, Jan. . "BAMBON. Thio Mechanios Fire Insurance company of [ Fuesday, dis, s Ty Philadelphia, filed its aunual statement with J CHILD OF NAPLES," e Trance auliior Looay, " PreminmS, oS8l of seats opeus aturday woralug, Ja. A meeting of the board of public lands d bulldings was held this afteruoon wo r mattors connected with the hospital for the 1ncurable insane at Hastings. The Omaha Loau snd Trust Company Say- tt'y at-Law, 1% Doar i T L Ay e Berlouce; bublucas quiotly and legaily iraus county agricultural and horticultueal fair o sociation, whoso organization made n r/ D - N