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

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"Feir, Notary Public. ‘T cash contributionsof the London Times to the cause of home roie are all the more gratifying because they were in voluntar, UNDER the decision of the supreme court the Mormon church must change its systom of morals or appoint a re- ceiver for its political department. Tite placing of the southern portion of the Sioux reservation within the O'Neill land office district will prove a great convenience to intending set- tlers. EYERY county, town and hamlet be- tween Omaha and Forest City, Dakota, awaits the action of this city on the Dakota railrond scheme. Tt is timo for decisive action for or against the pro- ject. ¢ Tue city council should not back down from the stand taken a week ago with regard to hydrant rental. A re- duction of the sixty do'lar tax should be insisted on before another hydrant 1s located. — 112 saddest feature of the tervible calamity to the Tracy household is the flood of alleged pictures of the bereaved Afumily which are hawked about by the newspapers. Death itself is preferable to the heartless mutilations of the wood butchers. — T illegality of the office of street Commissioner applies with equal force to other sinecures on the city payroll. Ibe city council cannot create aun office or {ix the salary by resoluiion. It must be done by ordinanc ADVICES from Atchison would lead the uninitiated to believe thata change in the channel of the river would cre- ate a domestic drought. Not at all. The supply of kegs and jugs at St. oseph is ample, and the facilities for shipping sufficient for all demands. 1is proposed reorganization of the fair association is a move in the right direction. In the hands of active, ex- perienced men, who are not afraid to put out a dollar to bring in two, an in- terstate fair and exposition canbe made profitable to the investors and the city at large., — TiE Chicago board of trade jobbers ave opposed to a reduction of freight rates to relieve the farmers of the west. They have been relicving the produc- ors of the profits of their toil so long that, like the railroads, they resist overy attempt to loosen their strang- ling grip. : E— » Mz. CLEVELAND expresses his fears that the waving of the bloody shirt will impede the progress of tariff re- form in 1892, Mr. Cleveland’s fears are not of recent date. The waving of the < gory garment in war times so fright- 6ned him that he sent a substitute to the front. CHARLES EMORY SMITH of tho Phila- deiphia Presy is said to have been ten- dered the Russian mission by Presi- dent Harvison. Mr. Smith would cer- tainly be an_ honor to the position, Few men in the party or profession would as worthily vepresent the gov- " ernment, and none could perform the duties of the office with greater credit 10 the country, * Tur ordinance to crente the office of city electrician with a fat salary at- tached is In accord with the spirit of this reform government in loading the treasury with sinecures. The contract for electric hights in the business dis- “ trict dispenses with gas lamps, and re- lieyes the gns inspector of nearly hulf . his labors. The luleation of the law is “ shat h> should have charge of all sys- tems of lighting. The mere fact that electricity supersedes gas should not «reliove him of his proper duties, which “are the inspection and supervision of -city lighting. If ihe gas inspector is unequsl to the Msk o competent us- sistant can be hired for one hundred Yollars per month. ‘ . ION MAY FAL Unless congress sets its face firmly against most of the projects for increas- ing the expenditures of the govern- ment, instend of reducing the burden of taxation it may hecome necessary to find additional sources of revenue. Mensures already introduced will swell materinlly the demands on the treas- ury, and others contemplated, if they should carry, would so increase the ex- ponditures as not only to use up the present surplus, but in all probability prbduce a deficit, Never in the his- tory of the government has the tend- ency to extravaganco in congress been more marked than at present, and there is very great danger that the limit of a prudence and conservatism will be overstepped. ere is no doubt that the dependent pension bill which has been favorably reported to the senate will pass, and it is estimated that this will call for an annual expenditure, in addition to the ninety million dollars now paid out in pensions, of from seventy to one hun- dred million dollars a year. The pro- posed expenditure for seacoast defenses, for which a bill has been intro- duced, is twenty million dollars a year, and it is contomplated to expend alike sum for a torm of years on the The prospects for the Blair edu- cational bill, which provides for an an- nual outlay of ten million dollars, are uncertaiv, and it perhaps may safely be omitted from the ecalculation. The proposal to pay steamship subsidies, if successful, will require an annual pay- ment out of the treasury of four or five million dollars for the next year or two, and how much there- ter it 1s impossible to say. Then there are projects for constructing national prisons, postoffice buildings, and orecting ne v bureéaus, which in the aggregate would take many millions out of the treasury. The present availablo surplus is only about twenty million dotlars, sufficient to provide for the repayment of the di- rect taxes collectod from the states by the government in 1861, should con- gress adopt the bill for such repay- ment, as it 1s expected to do. In that event it is likely the current fiseal year of the government wilk closo with- out any available surplus in the tr. ury. Placing the extraordinary in- come of the government at forty- four million dollars, as estimated in the report of the secretary of the treasury, it will b en that the additional ex- penditure under the dependent pension bill would take considerably more than this amount, so #hat if all the other pro- jeets for increasing the demands upon the public treasury fail there must be a deficit unless great reductions are made in the present expenditures. [tis therefore apparent that the out. look for a reduction of taxes is far from uring,, ‘he pressure upon con- for the passage of the dependent pension bill will be very great, and it is not probable that the almost unanimous demand of the old soldiers for this leg- islation will be vefused. But further than this congress cannot go on increas- ing expenditures without rendering impossible any reduction in the reve- nues of the government. Tho situation is very unpromising for any relief from the burden of taxation which every year oppresses the people more heavily and grows steadily more effective as a check to enterprise and a barrier to na- tional progress and prosperity. wise SCHEMES TO MULTIPLY OFFICES The disposition in congress to increase the functions of the government is shown by the fact thatalveady bills have been introduced providing for the creation of seven new bureaus. These measures propose bureaus for prisons, tariff statistics, appointments, public documents, information, harbors and waterways, and the fine arts. The work of a prison bureau would be to collect criminal statistics, examine penal institutions, ascertain their vari- ous methods, gather information about crime, and establish a central office for the identification of criminals. The idea of a tariff statis- tical bureau is to keep tariff laws on file and collect information as to their ef- fect on the prosperity of the countries which have enacted them. This bu- reau would receive and copsider propo- *sitions for tho amendment of the tarul laws and report to the secretary of the treasury. It would have a chief and four assistants at an aggregate annual cost to the public of twenty-five thous- and dollars, and a complement of clerks costing probubly as much or more. The purpose of the pro- posed bureau of appointments is to classify the clerks in the departments, apportion them smong the congress districts of the states, and all appoint- ments would be made through this bu- reau. The project of establishing bu- renus of information in different parts of the country, one for each two million inhabitants, is a conception of the philanthropic Senator Blair, and is in- tended to embark the government in a sort of intelligence office business. Per- sons 1n need of employment or relief could apply to these bureaus, which would be required to keep posted as to such information as would enable them to tell applicanws of the costof liy- ing, condition of trade and similar matters, One of the duties of these in- stitutions would be to publish 10 the newspapers instances of extreme pover- ty and distress and the needs of the destitute with a view of calling the at- tention thereto of the charitably dis- posed. The purpose of a bureau of pub- lic documents would be to relieve con- gressmen of the lubar of distributing to their constituents books ana pamphlets issued by the government, that of har- bors and waterways to report necessary improvements and their cost, and would be simply a consolidation of the branches of the government now in charge of this work, while the object of the proposed bureau of fine arts is to aid in their development by preparing and distributing plans for buildings, casts of statuary, and other articles for the use of schools uud academies, 1f all these schemes could carry, thoy would increase the urmy of officenolders by from one to two thousand and the annual expenses of the government by from one to two million dollars. But while it is uot at all probable that any of them will be adopted, except XN OMAITA that of arbors which might have re- to the public benefit, the fact that such innovations are seri- ously suggested in congress i3 worthy of attention as showing how strong the tendency is to saddle the general gov- ernment with duties and responsibili- ties wholly foreign to its legitimate functions, When a senator proposes that the government shall assume the business of supplying information to the unemployed regarding their chances of securing employment, and frnish the public with instances of destitution re- quiring the aid of charity, through a general system of intelligence offices, and another senator suggests that tho government = shall take upon itsell the duty of promoting art culture among the poople, it is im- possible to say to what extremes of ab- surdity our so-called statesmeén may go, particularly if they are unchecked by public opinion in consequence of the neglect of the people to give attention to cheir wild schemes and ridiculous and extravagant projects, HELFENSTEIN'S ROAD AGENTS. If John P. Helfenstein of St. Louis should venture upon a visit to Omahs at this time he would meet with a very warm reception. But Mr. ilelfenstein is only a straw man in the hands of designing villains, His pretended elaim to an in- terest in three or four hundred lots on the North side, and to which he has no better title than the man in the moon, isoneof those rascally schemes begotten by unprincipled lawyers, who are not a whit better than road agents. In fact, they are a great deal meaner than the desperadoes that formerly infested the overland stage routes and compelled passengers to give up their money and valuables at the muzzle of a revoiver. The road agent at least took chances on his life, and very often was known to spare people who were in actual distress, But Helfenstein’s road agents have no mercy upon anybody. They are holding up the wuge-worker who has invested a life’s earnings ina small home and seek to rob him and his family of the proceeds of the hardest of toil. One of theso legal shavks is very in- dignant becauso the citizens have banded together to protect their homes. He says that ‘‘the law of the case 1s with the plaintiff and that while the speeches at the meetings of the home defenders are of a violeat nature and smack of a revival of the old Omaha Claim club, yet the majesty of the law will prevail.” Majesty of the law, forsooth! If the majesty of the law, which means justice and equity prevailed, the rogues who are mauipulating the bogus Helfen- stein claims would wear zebra suits, They have already extorted money from some property owners who were not able to await justice by the slow process of the law, and their aim is and has been to bulldoze and blackmail others into paying a ransom for their families. Helfenstein himself probably did not get five hundred dollars out of the whole deal, but the sharks who are try- ing to bleed property owners expect to realize thousands upon thousands of dollars by playing upon the fears of three or four hundred peopie upon whose property they have thrown & temporary cloud. 1f Helfenstein believed that he had a title to this large tract which with the improvements s computed to be worth over a million dollars, he would have been content to muke two or three test cases; but the manifest ob- ject of his roud agents in pouncing upon every individual owner of land in the tract is to extort large sums for quit claims, which in the opinion of some of our bestlawyers are not worth the paper they are written on. and 1X REDUCTION. The message of Mayor Cushing to the city council urging a reduction of the levy for 1590 is commendable, but it does not go far enough. A reduction of five and a half mills is not suflicient to meet the demands of the people for re- lief from the burdens of excessive taxa- tion. The mayor estimates the total ex- penses to be provided for by the general fund at two hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars, yet he recommends a fourteeun-mill levy for this fund, which would yield nearly two hundred and eighty thousand dollars. A lurge num- ber of items are charged up to thisfund which are iudefensible; and exvenses increased without warrant of law. These items appear trifling separately, but in the aggregate they amount to a lurge sum, The levy suggested by the mayor can be reduced four mills and still sacure ample means for carrying on the gOv- ernment. What necessity is there for #one mill levy for the library fund which now contains a balance of eleven thousand three hundred and eighty dollars, or one and a half milllevy for the curbing, guttering and cleamng fund which .has a jbalance of twenty- eight thousnnd? There is no nccessity for makicg a levy for these two funds, and a reduction of two mills should be made in the general fund. This would muke an additional reduction of four and a half mills, or a total reduction from last year’s levy of one per cent. The municipal wachinery of Omaha, if run on economical business principles, can be successfully operated for a year on a levy of thirty-eight mills, produc- 1ng three-quarters of a million dollars, which, with the balance of a quarter of a million now 1n the treasury, makes a total of one million dollars. r—— THE democratic rump in Montana is gradually dispersing. The ‘decision of the supreme court virtually sealed its fate, and the usurping members are bowing to the inevitable as gracelully a8 circumstances will allow. Even Governor Toole, who at the outset ig- nored the constitutional right of the house to be the sole judge of its memm- bership, and denied admission to the court house to republican members, rvealizes the folly of his illegal acts aud admits, with cheerful condescension, that the decision of the supreme court is final. “Itis the decision,” says the Rovernor, “'of the highest judicial DAILY BNV, T U tribun 1 =~ the of judge whose S0 nrml:ll(rud as affected by the now famous precinet thicty-four. Whatever [ may think perdoriatly, ofelally T shall not resist it.” OTRis declaration is signifi- cant, because it disposes of the claim that the clection of the judges would have been “Affected by & decision ad- verse to the republican position. Apart from its political significance the se tlement of th legislative controversy will be of yast bonefit to the people. Although the termis short, thero is yet time to cnact such laws as ara nos- essary for the machinery of a new state and rovive the interests soriously re- tarded by the 1ogislative struggle. atate, posed eloction was not to be THE long fight of General Goff in de- fonse of his rightful oldim to the gov- ernorship of West Virginia has termi- nated against him, as it was expected to do by all who have any knowledge of the character ot the democracy of that state. I'rom the moment that the re- turns showed the election of Goff, and notwithstanding the fact that all the election machinery was in the control of the democrats, the party lenders de- termined that he should tot enjoy the fruits of his victory. His opponent for the governorship, Judge Fleming, was at first disposed to let the will of the people stand, but the party bosses would not have it so, and making charges of fraud, instituted a contest. The history of this contest is ome of the most shameless examples of a high- hunded disregard and defeat of the vopular will in political annals, and casily puts the democracy of West Vir- ginia in the lead for infamous usurpa- ion and political robbery. THuE greed of cattle barons in the west receives an effective check from the supreme court,in a doeision re- cently rendered. The court holds that ‘‘aman was not liable for tresspass if his cattie strayed from public lands into unenclosed private lands.” In various sections of the west cattlo companies control or own vast areas of land in al- ternate soctions. By this means they sought to exclude competitors from the intervening sections of public lands, and their pretensions were sustained by some of tke lower courts. Had the claim for damages been sustained, it would have wrecked scores of cattle growers, and concentrated the business in the hands of syndicates and practically doubled their landed possessions. Under the decision the barons must fence their land or waive tneir right to damages from trespassers. THE reported traffic arrangement be- tween the Omaha, Soo and Canadian roads, forming a through line from Ne- braska to the, seaboard, has been af- firmed by the ehairman of the Inter- state Railway association. The allied roads enablg shippers to reach the At- lantic cities without paying tribute to the speculative sharks of Chieago. In speed, convenionce and cheapness the route equals the best offered by the south side roads, and furnishes yhe corn belt a direct-onstet forits product with- out the wntervention of the roads con- trolled and operated for the exclusive benefivof Chicago. Falling Into Lisus~, St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. In tho firty-first congress filibustering will be one of the lost arts. . e What Montana Might Do, Chicag) News. Montana’s new state government is nearly out of casl. It should exccute a chattel morteage ou its_ceggdlock and permit the mortgage to be foreclosed. » e A Periinent Reminder. Pittshurg Dispatch, Does the science of politics ‘consist solely 1n squabbling over the spoils and fightiug for partisan control? It seems possible that it might be broadened so as to occasionally take ina few measures for the public wel- fare, st St Pl Alohshing a Bad Custom. Hartford Courant. Congress is organized snd established to legislute. The compulsory attendance of members is bascd on the theory that busi- ness must go on. Mr. Reed moves along on thai same theory, and puts an end to a bad custom, which each party in turn has advo- cated and antagonized, according to which one got the supposed advantage of the occa- sion, — Wise as Well as Jusr. New York Tribune. ‘Ihe south must make up its mind to con cede to the negro the owil rights eo dearly purchased for him. This proposition can neither be compromised nor. evaded. - It stands as the orgauic law of the land, and no reason has ever been suggested why it is not awise a8 well as just law. That the two races will remain and should remain socially distinet in no way affects the political rights of either, nor will that impression anywhera be found except in the imagination of south- ern politicians and tbeir personal followinz, B THe AFTERNOON TEA, It as been asertaiaed that it was a wo- man who could pever learn to dance who first saud that muppsn educated feot always accompanied thif Boorest educated heads. 0 how easily Somg ghings go wrong— A sigh too much, A k{88 Woo long.” Enamored Youth (to comic opera fairy)— “Cruel Mile. Pozzdlini! [Has no man ever made an impression on your flinty heart{" Fair Euslaver (with a sigh) —*Y 1 loved your grandfather, Ab, he was a noble young man, Mossaer I Mr. Poor (fepvently) —Will you bs minei Miss Rich (not; unkiodly)—No, no. Mr. Loor (interruptiag)—Do’ hot say that, my darling, Do not— Miss Rich (interrupting) —No, L cannot be yours; but if you are will- 1ug to be mine wemight arrange it, ‘The news comesabat the heir to the throne of Roumania husfallen in love with Queen Natalie of Servia. He is determioed to marry her, mugh. 4o the annoyance of his family, He may lose bis chance of the crown if ho gives way to his present infatua- tion. k oul for a romance in Roumania. Jack Rabid (behind the scenes examining @ coin suspended from the bracelet of The piemiere dansuesse)—Why, what a rare coin! Stamped with the old Roman eftigy, to. Where did you wet it! ilival corypbeo “(in an gudible “whisper) —She got it from Julius Caesar for a birthday gift. Courtship of the future: She—Charlie, I can 0o louger conceal my passion for you Do you love me in return?! He—You must ask'pa. He iknows more about such tnings than 1 do, In love, e'en with 8 homely man A girl way be enchanted; He's more than apt to please & maid Who shows he is a bit afraid, Aud don't take things for granted. Mrs. Blooblud—*Did hat youug New York person, Miss—aw—I3ly, really travel round the world with no more baggage thao ~ FEBRUARY a hand satohel ' Miss Rlocblnd mamma." Mes. Blooblud (using hor smell ing bottle) “Ibeg you will not mention her DAme 10 my presence again, Clara. She doesn’t belong 10 our set,” The man never renews 0NCe; A Woman renows he PUtaOU & new dress. The corset is a friond to all; the fat woar it to make them look thin, and the thin wear it to make them look fat. Miss Plymton—‘After all, Mr, Broughton, what 1s the advantage of having ancestors 1 tho seventeenth contury?' Mr. Brough - ton—“0, a great deal. They around ‘and mar your social today.” his youth but s avery time she can't hang aspirations - STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A camp of Sous of Vetorans was organized at Central City last week. ‘The gambling nouses at \Wymore have been closed by order of the mayor. Tho total amount colleoted by tho tr of Jinox county last yoar was £31,044.7:, Tho Grand Army post at Niobrara will give a grand ball and fair February 21 and 22, Over half a million pounds of flour have been ordered from tho St, Paul roller wmills by a firm in Georgia, ‘The lawyers of Falis City have organized a bar association and elected 1. W. Thomas president of the societv. The Farmers’ alliance at Mouat Clare, Nuckolls county, has a mombership of twonty-five, and is rapidly growing The Tecumseh board of trade has adopted resolutions favoring. tho passage by con Rress of Senator Paddock's postoftice build- ing bill, Rov. Leslio Stovens of Kearney will go as a wissionary to Nankin, China, about April 1, under tho auspices of the Methodist church. 5 ‘The citizens ot Osceola have raised a purse of §1,000 to help Theodore Beabe to ercct a #15,000 hotel on the site of the ono which was recently destroyed. The Grand Army committes on arrange- ments for the first reunion of Mebraska sol- diers at Plattsmouth this month, have pro- vided accemnmodations for 1,000 visitors, Fairbury presents a good openiug for a live furniture dealer. Kive thousand in- habitants, only cne man in the busines: and he doesn’t advertise in any of the new. papers. Seventy-throe of the G. A. R. posts have reported delegatos to be present at the state encampment, February 19 and 2 total number from said posts 1s 353, says the Grand Island Indepondent. If this ratio be kopt up in the 300 posts, it will be seen that the body will be the largest of the kind ever held in the state. According to report, says the Plattsmouth Herald, a very strango case of insanity ex- ists in Edward Post, a_young man, son of a farmer living near’ Waverly. About four years ago he was sunstrock, and each winter since then he has become insane, his mind nearlv righting with the returu of spring. Lust week his insanity beeame most violent, and after threatoning to kill Major Pierce, a ncighbor, and to do damage, he took a horse aud cume over near Weeping Water, where he was arrested. Towa Items. A store will be started at Linn Grove by the Farmers’ allianca, Francis Murphy will begin a temperance revival at Red Oak nexv week. Tipton will have an_electri operation inside of thirty d: The school superintendents of Montgom- ery, Mills, Page and Eremont counties will meet at Shenandoah March S, for the pur- vose of forming an interstate association. The Cce college museuw at Cedar Rabids has received a present in the shape of a live tarantula and a family of young ones which were recoutly hatched from eggs found in a bunch of bananas, Thomas Peterson, a burglar, and John Schnebly, sentenced for two years for at- tempted murder, escaped from the Chariton Jail by sawing the bars from the windows. They are still ut large. Biias N, Delaskmutt, a mach respected citizen and a resident of Des Moines county since 1834, died last week at the age of ninety. He enlisted in the union army 1o 1562 at the age of gixty, and served through the war until he 10st his eyesight in a heavy sandstorm, when he returned to his bome, where he remained continuously till his death. Several years ago Jennie Nelson had trouble with her wealthy father, i the southern part of the state, and left her home, gowg to Mason City, where she changed her name to Mary Nelson, and went o Work as a waiter girl in the Park hotel. Recently her father died and willed her the bulk of his fortune, but without her knowl- edge. The other day a strauger, who was stopping at the hotel, recognized her and in- formed her of her father's death and of the fact that she was an heiress. She returuea w0 her home with the stranger. light plantsin The Two Dakotas. Swureis now bas a Knights of Pythias lodge. Whitewood is moving for a system of waterworks, Cunton will votaon a proposition to reor: ganize the city February 24, There are 453'postoMces in North Dakota, sixteen of which are presidential, South Dakota has thirty-six and North Dakota eight assemblics of the Knights of Labor. ‘The houses of Aberdeen have just b numbered 1n order 1o be reaay for free i detlivery. Lincoln county farmers have subscribed $10,000 toward starting a paper wholly in the interests of the alliance. A census is veing taken of the Indians at tho Lower Brule and Crow Creek agencies by the Indian department. The dates for the state fair at Abordesn have been fixed for a week earlier than last year—September 15 to 19, Counterfeit quarters are 80 nuwerous in Desadwood that it is believed a private mint must be actively in operation, Mrs. Peter Peterson, while insane, banged herself to the timbers of a bridge near hor home in Richland county last weel. A four and one-half inch artesian well fur nishes power enough to run the Hitchcock roller mills, which have a capacity of forty- five barrals of flour per day, £od to grind feed and propel a dynamo for lighting the mill with incandescent lamps, . The farmers of Hand county quosted the board of county commis to petition the legislature to secure the nec- essary secd wheat for the county by allow= ing the county to issuc warraots instead of bonds of long standing, providing a market can be found for the warrants. Pantanta is tho namo of a new town just started 1n Ewing county. The town is lo. cated on the Grand river, 100 miles north of Minnesala and eighteen miles west of the Cave hills, in an almost unexplored country. ‘There are large devosits of lignite coul in the neighborbood. The survey of the Man- dap railroad runs through the town. O. L. Carr of Gettysburg has a cow that for some time past, with no apparent reason, has been short in her accounis—ibat is, in the quantity of milk she was supposed to furnish the family. The gentleman sus~ pected thieves and determined to keep & wateh, The other night he caught the depredator 10 the act. In the same stable with the cow was quartered a full grown pig and he discovered that the animal bad been in the habit of appropriating the lion’s shure of the milks, apparently with the full sauction aud consent of Lhe cow. Redu tal, New Yok, Feb. b5.--The certificate holders of the National Lead trust today voted to reduce the capital from $39,409,000 to §30,000,000, the present holders to receive one pew certificato 1o exchanze for three old onés, President Thowmpson read & re- pord showing that the trust, up to January 1, 1880, lost $203,000, but in the first six months of 1530 made a net profit of $792,000. e Paraell Will Demand an Inquiry. DusLiy, Feb. 5.—~The Freeman’s Jourual says that at the opening of parlisment next waek Parnoll will demand the ppoiutment of & committes to inquire into the “Times- Piggott”! couspiracy. : - - Suffring in Itussian Poland. ViENNA, Fgb, 5.—A meeting of the repro- sentatives of the agricultural sociotios has boen hield at Lomburg to provide relief for the sulerers from the famine in Russisn Poland and Gallcis caused by a failure of crops. INHERITANCE FROM A VICTIM, A Question the Supreme Court Will Soon Decide. SUDDEN DEATH OF J. B, LIDDLE, Lancaster Lawyors Wrangle Over a Banquet-Culliags at tho State House Uity and State News of Intercst. LixcoLy, Neb,, Feb, 5. Ber.]—The case of Joe Lee Shellenberger v John C. Watson und Frank Ransom occu vied the attention of the supreme court dur ing the morning hours, The case has 1ts groundwork in tho most terrible tragadv that ever occurred in tne state. IReaders o Tue Bee have not forgotten the murder of little Maggie Shellenborger whichg took place near Nobraska City during the spring of 1886, the subsequent trials of Loe and Miranda Shellenberger, the father and stop. motner of the little eirl, for the frightful murder, and the sad gad of Lee at the hands of the mob a few wmouoths later. It will be remombered that Loo Shellenberger ro- tained Messrs. Watsson and Ransom to defend him in his trials in the courts C rime as charged. For 'S ed of him a deed for the undivided half of the farm owned by u former twife, sho bhaving g died, and the title of the land having passed to her minor children, ~Eighty acres of land thus becamo the question of controversy. December 28, 1887, Messrs. Watson and Ransom filea their potition in the ditsrict court for a partition of the property, and set up that the heirship of Maggie, the mur dered girl, descended to the father, and they claimed title through him. Judge O. . Mason of this city was appointed guardian ad litem for tho minor defendant. In tho trial that followed the district court sus- tained the plaiutiffs and ordered the partis tion as prayed. ButJudge Mason appealed the case to the subreme court ou the grounds in chief that a murderer cannot inherit from his vietim, NEBIRASKA AND THE SUGAR TARIFF, Gevernor Tha today Bsent the following lettor to Hon, William McKinley, chairman of the houso committeo on ways and means : Permit me to express n.yself briefly to you and the memoers of vour committee, and very strongly, too, against any reduction of the preseut tariff on sugar. Nebraska is purely an agricultural state. Our peaple are now establishing bect sugar industries and they want every cncouragement the government can give them. They are in vesting largely of their means in beot sugar plants, Therefore, in their behalf, | enter a respectful protest acainst a modification of the tariff on this articl Our farmers are a long distance from market and it takes about one-half of what they raise to send the balance to market, By the manufacture of beet sugar a home market is created for them. They wili be able to sell their beets almost at thoir own doors. Very respect- fully and truly yours, Jou~N M. THAVER. DEATH OF . B, LIDDLE, J. B, Liddle, late representative ol the World-Herald in this city, died this morning uv 4 o'clock from hemorrhiage of the lungs, Few, if any, sadder deaths have vecurred in Lincoln during the past year. Some three woeke ago Jack, as he was familiarly callod, eutered upon a protracted spree and at divers times since made unsuccessful at- tempts upon his own life, When himselt he waz a bright, genial fellow, and quite gener. ally esteemed, but his uncontroliable appe- e for liquor wronght his ruin and bore him to the grave at the early age of twenty-nino years. A single dram of whisky only was necessary to throw hum into a delwrium thav made him anything but a sane man, and he invariably songht chloroform when in liquor with suicidal intent. Not a few times he was all but successful in his attempt to reach a suicide's gravp, and when intoxicated ne was the source of deepest solicitude on the part of his friends and they were always on the alert to prevent any rash act. Mr. Lid- dle’s father will ship his son’s remains, to- morrow, to Marengo, [u., his boykood home, where they will ve laid to rest. UNITED STATES COURT. William H. Ruggles of Burt county pleaded guilty today to the charge of sellin liquor without a liccuse and was fined $35 und costs. The jury in the case of William H. Ogle et al vs the Sherman County bank, aftor being out twenty-four hours, asked Judge Dundy for further instructions, which were given at 4 o’clock this afternoon. Grandpa Burrus will be committed for contempt of court tomorrow morning unless he tak “French leave, waich is alto- gether improbadle. Arrangements wera all made today, and it is indirectly understood by the attoraeys of both sides. Mr. Burrus says he does not like the idea of going to jail, but that be will stand it with the hopo and belief thut it will ultimateiy secure for him undisturbed possession or his lititie grandehiid, He will be sent to Omaha for commitment, A writ of habeas corpus will Toliow us s0oon as possible, COURT HOUSE DEDICATION, The formal dedication of the uew court house was the question considercd at a meet- ing of the Lancaster county bar last evening, Indeed, for some time past a grand banquet has been talked and thought to be the emi- rently prover thing fur such dedication when the building wes completed and occupied, ‘This the bar of the county met to consider last night, and such unother meeting was probably never witnessed in this or any other city, Tne (uestion of ‘“wine or no wine" was sprung, and it was discussed with such vehemence and temper thut adjourn- mont was taken without dotermining upon auvthiog definite. Now it is suggested by John D, Kuight, register of deeds, that the county officers give anopen:ug for the entire county, for the people outside oi the city as weli as withiu, and for tho ‘poorest and humblest as woll as for the opulent. Lhe sugeestion is moeting with popular favor, and it is thought that Mr. Knight's sug- gestion will take shape and waterialize. It was talked on thestreets today that the bar of the county will fall into line and assist in making such an opening the sucues it should be, {Special to L] STATE HOUSE JOTTINGS, Senator Jewett of Custer county was at the capitol this morning. Secretary Garver of the state board of transportation went to Nebraska City today. Smith Caldwell, state oil inspector, r ports. thut 11,465 barrels of oil were - svected during the month of January. The case of Toad et al vs Cass county, with 1ts voluminous record, on error, was filed for triul in the supreme court today: wlso, the case uf 1. N. beolt va Kuma Chope, on ertor from the district courtof Hall county, County treasurers as follows® sottled with the staie today und paid into the treasury the amounts stated below: W, C, Bidweli, ouaty, $11,572.50; C, H. Paul, Adams 188.84; A. Front, Valley county, 9,! J. 1. Likens, Rock county, 18 making settlement today. A moeeting has been arranged for Friduy between the governor and the state board of transportation on one hand and the railroad managers on the other. ‘'t object of the meeting 1s to consider the proposed reduc- tion of freight rates on corn. T'ho governor, if_possible, proposes Lo have the meeting publiic. ‘I'ne Nebraska Central railroad company filed smended articles of incorporation in the oftice of th cretary of state today. After the words “'extending through tho counties of Cedar, Wayn Kuox, Cumiog, Burt, Dodge, Washington and Douglas,” the foliowiog words were lnserted: “And to the Missouri river at such points in Douglas county as the corporation may see best; aud w build, construct, maintain, own. and operate 8 bridee across the Missouri “river from Omana to and upon the lows sbore as tne same way be hereafter authorizod vy the hen Daby was ics Whea she was & Child, she crind for Castoria, Wiien sho becatae Miss, sbo clung 4o Castoria, Wi 2o sbo hat Children, sho gave them Castoria Unitod States, together with all necossary Approaches “rom 81,000,000 the dompauy Authorizos an inoremse of capital stock to $1,000,000, THRE SUPREME COURT, The proceedings of the suprems couri™ voday were as follows : Albert . Ewan, esq., of the Otoa county bar was admitted to practice. Hendrickson va Sullivan. Dismissed. State ex rel day va Howo. Writ of mandamus a Dickerson vs Meohling. Leave given plodh. Ul to file amonded cortificate o transepfpt, The following causes wore argued and’sub; mitted: Stato ex rel Culver vs Sizer. Deer- ing v8 Ruftner, Shollenverger vs Itansom, Martin va State. Brownlce vs Davidson, The following decisions were handed down : Carlon vs Aultman & Co. district court for il Opinion by Norval, Hirdsall vs Cropsey. Appeal district court for Lancaster_county, for appollant. Opinton by Norvai, J. Searles va Averhoff. ~ Krror from the district court for Franklin county, Afiirmed. Opinion by Maxwoll, J Moilie va Poters. Krror from th court for Butler county, Affirmed by Norval, J. Reno vs Hale, ror from tho distriot, . court for Madison county. Afirmed, l}wl:r\ iou by Maxwell, J. Komp vs Westarn Uuion Telograpll Co, Krror from the disteict court for Madisoun count, Reversed and remanded, Ins. Co. of North America vs Molemans & Coyle, Error from the district court for Madison county, Afiirmed. Opiuion by Maxwell, J. Hayleu vs ‘he Missouri Pacific Ry Motion to dismiss, 13 Error from tho oro county, AMirmod from tho Decreo qistrict Opiuion irror from the district court for Lancastor county. Motion sus tained. Opiunion by Maxwoll, J. State of Nebraska vs Commercial State Bank. Original action, Dewurrer over- Opinion by Norval, J. endall, Jones & Co. vs Shorey & Co, Error from the district court for Autelops county. Judgment rostored and afirmed and remanded. Opinion by Cobb, Ch. J. CITY NEWS AND NoTRS, Van Ormer failed to secure us little girl through a writ of haveas corpus. Judge Pield awarded the tomporary care aud cus- tody of the child to his wife. Superintendent Mallalicu of the state in- dustrial school, Kearacy, left for home to= day after spending a couple of days in the bity. He says his boys and girls aro doing splondid work and that thoy cause him vory little trouble. C., Coms of Seward, W. O. Southwigk of Friend, B. Sprague, Henry Gibson ahil¢ E, P, Ely of Omaha, A, Hoghitt of Be trice, W. A, Dilworth of Hastiugs and G. V. Sim mons of Seward were prominent Nebraskaus in the city today. Josoph Hare, editor of the Hill ¢ Mir- ror, South Dakota, is in the city. Hill City is in the southwestern part of the state ¢ Mr. Hare is connected with the Lincoln land compau, Hon. O. H. Parker, land commissionor of South Dakota, n the city for a few days. He is studying Nebraska's system of loasitg school lauds, There will be general meeting and of the city ion of the Young I Society of Christian Endeavor, Friday even ing, atthe First Christian church, cornor of Fourteenth and K st Trading in Da The oriental mind is disposed to min- gle ail the dealings of life with an amount of “‘sentiment” which wonld bo scorned by the more literal business man of the west. A visitor at L cus gives, in Murray's Magazine. tho following description of a Lorse trado in that city: A long dispute took place betwagn the intending vurchuser and the nwx:& as the former attempted to heat down - the price by afew piasters. Thenwnes; however, seemed very sure of muking o fuvorable sale, even if the present cus- tomer should withdraw. So he re- mained silent, with an occasional consequent remark, sueh us, “Itmatters not,” “Waullah, whom am I toarguo with thee? S Wallah, my horse is as dust. Talke it without money.” All these expressions are equivalent to cold negatives, nnd might naturally have exasperatcd the other man, had beeu wasting oc2ans of. rhetor! persuasion. Fially he in his turn ex- claimed, with a heart warming show of generosity and philanthropy: “Wallah, are we not Wherefore all this noi. money Allah forbid! plastres? Here is the 1! Then he pr You want 1 money. - Tal od the bug of treas- ure into t he other’s hand and turned away. “Never mind about your horse. I cave not for it. Shall we part enemies because of money?” At this point the other, who now had his money secure, ran after his custo- mer, fell on on both cheeks, horse would henc him; that, since his brother wished for it, he must take it as a present.. And so the hargain was concluded. Offerzd Himself Up. Jacob Adell roasted himself alive this his sins and to P r of the Almighty says a FFairmont, Ind., dispatch. At 1l o'clock he left the store where he was ewpleved and went home. His wife was at church and his children in ool. Going to an outhouse he set himself on fire, having first thoroughly saturated himself with kerosene. Neighbos had their attention attracted by the noise of struggles, and a fow seconds later were horrified to see him run out into the yurd, enveloped in flames, whore a sories of horrible con- tortions ended in death. Adell wus fifty-five yours old and until recently - was & Quaker. A month ago he becumo u follower of I'rank Norton, who teaches self-sacrifice ns the only way to heaven~=—" Recently Adell showed indications of having gone slightly daft on religious matters and his act of self destruction is supposed to have been the result of a sudden fren itively cured by se Little Pills, They also relleve Dis tress fro-n Dyspepsta, Tn. digestion and Too Hiearty) Eating. A perfect rem-| edy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated) Tongue, Paln 1n the Side, TORPID LIVER. ‘They rogulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE, LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subseribed & guarautosd Capital, BT Capita e Ptak $500:009 I3uys and sells stocks apd bonds; nogotiates commercial paper ves and executos trusts: ACts s Lransfer ageut aud trusteo of corpora- tlous; tukes charge of property; collects tonts OmahaLoan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK 8. E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Streets. Paid (n Cupital .. . ... .. 8$50,000 Bubseribed & guaranteed capita 00,000 Ldabiitty of stockholders, ... ...... 200,000 8 Per Cent Interest Paid on Deposite VRANK J, LANGE, Cashler, OFFICERS: AU, Wymag, vice president; W. Digkorons: A, U Wyman, J, H.' Millard, J. J rowi, Guy O Hartou, | W, Nasi, +hos. T, Khuball, Geo, . Lake, Loans In any amount made on City & Farm Property, and on Collatera Security, at Lewest Current Rate' preaident; J.J, Brown, yiman, treasurer,