Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. " B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. (PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daile and Sanday, One Vear " 0 17 months o Three Months i Sona Orie Year, [ Weekly Oue Year with fPreminm.. . 200 OFFICES, Omaha, Itee Building, Clileago OMice, 57 Ro okery Building. New York, Rooms 14 and i5 Tribuna Building. Washington, No, 517 Fourteenth Stroet. Council Huffs, No. 12 P Son rl Street Omaha, Corner N anl 25th Stroets. CORRESPONT 3 Al communications relating to news and ed!- torinl matter should be addressed to the Rditor 181 Depart en I Al business et L agdressed to The Bee Publishing Company, om Dratts, choeks and Postoffice orders 10 b 1ide payable to the order of the Company. The Bee Pnhljshiug Cmpnauv. Prupl‘iutur‘& e s The B3ee on the Trains, no excuse for a failnre to get Trne Bee Thave | tho trains. A1l newsdeajers huve been not L 1o carry i full supply, Who want ¥ IBE and can't get it on traing whern other Omalin carried 1nested to notify § Please e purticnlar to give in all eases fall ntormation as to date, railway and number of train, 11 your name, not for publication or un- rF use, DL s A guaranty of good faith. THE DAILY B Sworn Statement ot Circulation of Nebraska, | County of Dougla (8 orge B, T: secrotary of Tie Brk Publishing Company, does solemnly swear that thie wctial circnlution of itk DAILY HEE for the week etding February 1, 180, was as follows: Sunn Mondn T we Fhursday, Friday, Ji 10,5614 Z8CHUCK, Sworn 10 before me and subscribed to fn my presence this Ist day of l"l-brunrg. A, D. 1590, {Seal N\ P FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nobraska, [ Conaty ot Douglas, | %% Georgo B, Tzyehick, belng duly sworn, 4 oses and says that he 18 secretary of Tie Ber 1ol ixhin that th verage v_BEE for the 4 coples; for for_ March, 1880, L 1850, 18,63 coples for June, 184 Jily, 1983, 1738 coples: for / 1 1 coples: for t\Jihfiml 1580 copivs;’ for October, 18 pies: for No- for Docomber, 183, yember, 1850, 10,310 cop\ 20,018 coples. GrOGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to vefore me and subscribed i my preseice this 4th day of January, A. D.. 1890, al.] N. P. Frir, Notary Public. e R e T T failure of the New York legisla- ture to pass the world’s fair bill vi tually leaves Chicago alone on the race wack, By an unequalled strateh of imagina- tion the democratic minority claim to have scored u vietory in the recent turbulent proceedings in congress. ‘I'ne railway managers should bear in mind that a **honeymoon of harmony’ can not be sustained in Nebraska on the basis of a ten per cent reduction. T alleged reduction in corn rates ‘will go humping down the corridors of history side by side with the skeleton of veform in Omaha municipal affairs. Tue Nebraska Central bridge com- pany has increased its capital stock from one to four and a half million dol- Jars. Now we are anxious to see them begin active work. Tie legislature of Wyoming proposes toseta good example for her neigh- bors by prohibiting treasurers from Yoaning out public funds, and giving the taxpayers the benefit of the interest. 11 export trade of the country was the greatest since 1881, exceeding the previous year fully twenty per ceat. “I'he prospect is favorable for an in- crensed foreign demand for American products this year, I'1vEe years ago the railroads carried grain from interior points in Nebraska 1o Chicago for twelve and fourteen centsa hundred. Now aten per cent reduction on a twenty cent rate is her- alded as an act of sublime benevolence 10 the people « ANOTHER St. Louis express messen ger is charged with the theft of thirty- five thousaud dollars. Thne costly ex perience of the compuny in the Fother- ingham cuse will ‘have o tondency to defer urrest until proof is obtained. Suspicious arrests are-costly affairs. iz only remedy which congress- men who ave starded by the appeals for relief from the excessive freight rates exacted by raiironds in this section have so far proposed is the vepeal of the tong and short haul clause of the inter- tate commerce law This is sugges- e, _ WirH refevence tothe distribution of oilices, Mayor Cushing assures the pub- Me that “'the city caunot be turned into 8 brokerage establishment.” ‘This would be gratifying if true. The list of officers alveady appointed showsa large fiumber of debts canceled by « system of hrokerage. Tk country is informed by Attorney Thurston of the Union Pacific that the Compuny is indifferent to the fate of the Outhwaite bill in congress, This lofty opinion is intended solely for western consumption. Meanwhile the company’s friends in congress ave puiling every string to secure the ox wusion., T flest year's experience with high Yicense in Pennsylvania is eminently sutisfactory. A Philaaelphia grand jury has just submitted the following roport to the cou “We have ob- served with gratification the diminu- tion of eommitments to the house of corragtion, brought ubout, we believe, by the beneficent operation of the high Jicense law of our commonwenlth,” — Tue meeting arrnnged by the real estute exchange to discuss snnexation should call out a lurge number of repre- sentative business men and the officials of both cities. Public discussion of the ndyantages of union will facilitate an early agreement as to terms and enable the councils to draft a proposition for submission to the voter The seni- went in fuvor of annexation is strong und steadily growing in the two cities and o time should be lost in reaching an amicable and hounorable basis for wniting their municipal inierests, IGNORANT EASTERN CRITICISM. Kastern newspapers, as was to have been expected, do not regard with favor the effort of Nebraska farmers to obtain from the railroads such a reduc- tion of rates as will enable them to market their corn without loss. It is perhaps natural that the attempt of the producers of the west to get some relief from the excessive charges of the rail- roads should excite eastern opposition. There is a widespread feeling in the easy that the competition of the west is unfavorable to the agricultural in- terests of that section, and whether well or ill-founded it is sufficient to areay eastern influence in hostility to any movement in the west inyolving the possibility, however remote, of in- sing that competition. The vast benefits that have been sccured to the consumers of the east from the agricul- tural development of the west are lost sight of in the reflection that the farms of the former section are notas profitable as they once were, and that this is due to the competition of the west. More- over, oastern sympathy is largely on the side of the corporations, and there is nothing. the people of that tion regard as of greater reproach than “grangerism,” & term they apply to y effort of the people of the west to secure fair treatment from the rail- ronds. In the criticisms of the eastern press upon the appeal of Governor Thayer in behalf of the farmers that have come to our notice there are both misrepre- sentations and ignorance. It is stated, for exampie, that tho governor has asked the roads to carry corn to mar- ket at the actual cost of transportation. He has done nothing of the sort. He has merely suggested that the roads could better afford to do this ‘than that the corn should be allowed to rot, the destitution among the farmers be increased, and atl classes of business in the state suffer greater depression. This proposition is neither audacious nor senseless, as it is characterized by castern newspapers, unless it be a: sumed that the railroads have no con- corn in the welfare of the people and the business interests of Nebraska. Nor is the appeal for charity, as onc newspaper interprets it, a call upon the stockholders of the roads “‘to put their hands in their pockets for the benefit of the farmers of Nebraska.” It is simply a request for fair and just con- sideration to a people who have given millions in bounties and bonuses to the railroads, and who for years have paid the corporations an enormous tribute most ly exacted, The farmers of Nobraska are not in this matter begging for favors. They are asking only for what they believe to be just, what they conceive to be not alone in their own interest, but for the benetit of all the veopls of the state, and what they are confident the raiiroads can well atford to grant. It is evident that when the eastern nowspapers assert that rates are not unusually high they are cither ignorant of the facts or guilty of a wiliful misstatement. The present rate on corn from almost every point in Nebraska is higher than the average vate of threa and four years ago, to say nothing of the rebates that were allowed before the interstate com- merce law went into effect. Is thove any good reason why the railrouds cannot afford to earry corn now at rates at least as low as provailed three anl four years ago? In what respect is the cost of transpor- tation to the roads greater now than then? Furthermore, what justification can be offered for charging twenty cents per hundred for corn from the Missouri to Chicago, a distance of five hundred miles, when the same corn is carried from Chicago to New York, a distance by the shortest route of nine hundred miles, for eighteen conts per hundred pounds. The simple truth is that in establishing rates on food products. the western roads have been governed by the principle of exacting all that the traflic will and their disposition this policy. The managers figure that sooner or later the producers will market their grain, whatever sacrifice they may have to stund,and they are determined to hold out for the pound of flesh. It is quite possible that their greedy purpose may not be realized. Meanwhile it is to be hoped the castern press will get a more intelligent and juster conception of the nature of the situation. see: bear, 15 to adheye to LEAGUE OF COLORED CITIZENS. The recent organization of the Afro- American league, and the national con- vention of colored citizens just held in Chicago, suggest o determination on the part of the colored voters of the sountry to make themselves moro strongly and distinetly felt in politics than heretofore. The ovganization of a national league will be followed by stute and local leagues, and thus there will be established, if the movement succeeds, o party composed oxclusively of colored voters, which in many por- tions of the country would hold the balunce of power between the pelitical purties, and in every portion wheve the vights of the colored voter are pro- e would compel the attention of the parties The obje of the movement asset forth in the constitution of the leugue and the addrvess to the country of the convention is to endeavor to se- cure for the colored citizens a fair and just recognition under the con- stitution and laws. They will protest ugainst tuxation without representation, demand o more equit- abie distribution of school funds where sepurate schools exist, insist upon huving all eivil rights vow anywhere denied them, and demand a fair and impartial trial in all causes of law in which they may be a party. The ad- dress declures that in’ many states col- ored children are not aforded the school facilities to which they ave en- titled, that the laws are wnot fairly and justly adwministered in a uwumber of states in cyses wnere colored citizens are charged with offenses, and with a view to reforming these abuses it is the purpose to so impress upon tho public mind the justice and fairness of*the claims of colored citizens *‘that no po- litical party can safely afford to ignore them.” They do not propose to concern themselves primarily about questions of administrative policy and the atti- tude of parties regarding such ques- tions, but unmindful of these to support the party and candidates who are known to be friendly to their cause until all political parties shall accord thom their rights, There is unquestionably something to be said in justification of this move- ment. Tho denial of rights and the | abuses suffered by the colored citizens in a large portion of the country war- rant some effort on their part to obtain remedy and relief. But the movement they have inaugurated cannot escape the objection to all attempts of distinct bodies of citizens to organize for the purpose of exerting an influence upon politics in their speoial interest. The prover and only wise course for_ overy citizen, so far as politics is concerned, is to connect himself withone of the great parties, and to bring hisinfluence to bear upon that party in behalf of whatever reforms, political or other- wise, he may think necessary. Organ- 1zations formed to receive the bids of both parties rarely get what they de- sive, or if they do fail to keep it long, and their tendency is to become corrupt and unscrupulous. It is very question- able whether the colored citizens will find distinct and exclusive party organ- ization greatly to their advantage, and it is possible that it might operate to retard rather than advance the objects they desire, with perfect justification, to accomplish. SPURIOUS REFORM. Mayor Cushing is fortunate in having at lenst one organ that commends his reform administration. The tax payers are assured by the official paper that they are indebted to the mayor and new council for the reform methods that have so recently been introduced in city finances. That depends very much upon what you call reform. The very first act of Mayor Cushing was to add a twelve hundred dollar private secretary to the salary list which is already car- rying any number of barnacles who could be dispensed with. Other mayors, including Millard, Chase, Murphy, Boyd and Broateh, paid for the services of u private sceretary .if they had any. Our hoard of health is made up of the mayor. city physician and chief of police. These three officers draw salaries aggregating seventy-two hundred - dollars a year. The chief of police and the mayor both have private secretaries at the city’s oxpense. On top of this, three thousand Gollars a year have just been appropri- ated for the board of health. What for? Suppose the pest housc Feeper, who has been without visible occupa- tion for years,is allowed seventy dollars a month out of that fund, what becomes of the balauce? The school board has an assured in- come of over three hundred thousand dollars this year from licenses of all grades, police court tines and the state apportionment. But the reform council has voted to levy a five-mill school tax which will yield nearly one hundred thousand dol- lars and gives the board four hundr\1 thousand dollars for runuing the schools one year. And this is entirely outside of the enormous fund at 1ts disposal for building purposes from the proceeds of the bonds that were voted last .all. But we are congratulated that reform methods have been introduced, and we arc bound to rejoice, even while tho taxpayers’ money 16 being squaadered. One thing, nowever, we would like to have explained by Mayor Cushing or some member of his kitchen cabinet. City Treasurer Rush, Councilman Bechel and one or two other members of the council, after making a carefut estimate of the funds on band and the wants of the city for the coming year, computed that a levy of thirty-five mills would be ample for ail purposes. Why did Mayor Cushing and his great finan- ciers make the levy forty-one and a half mills? A reduction of six and a half mills would have cut down the taxes for the yenr by over one hundred thousand dollars. Mes: Rushand Bechelare tainly more familiar with the real wants of the ity than Mayor Cushing, who scurcely hus been mitiated into the mysteries of city finances, and their conclusions were more sound and teustworthy than those of Me. Wheeler, Mv. Davis or Mr. Chaffee, neither of whom has been connected with city af- fairs more than twelve months. While it is hardly worth while to lock the barn after the horse 1s stolen, we do not want bogus butter and stale eggs dished upas prime articles for table use. ap- Tk senate of North Dakota has passed by a two-thirds vote u bill char- tering a lottery for fifteen years, with the privilege of a thirty year extension, on condition that the beneficiaries puy into the state treasury one hundred thousand dollars annually. Reports from Bismarck indicate that the Louis- iuna gang are behind the movement, and they have so thoroughly worked the members of the legislature that there is danger that the bill will be passed over the governor’s veto, The ridiculous plen is advanced in favor of legnlizing gambling that the money paid into the state treasury will relieve the prevailing distress, veduce taxation, and fill the vaults of state bankers so that they can loan money at a low rate of interest to the producers. WHEN the bogus rveformers of the city council point to the fact that they have reduced the tax levy from forty- eight to forty-one und a hulf mills they disereetly omit to romark that the lavy for the previous year was raised on pur- pose to meet overlaps, pay off the forty thousand dollar gas bill, and last but not least to give the late mayor a chance 0 boast wbout the big surplus he had in the treasury at the end of his term, ———— THE collection of food, clothing and other necessarivs for the poorin Dakota has taken practical shape in Omuha, aud it is hoped that the call for help will receive a prompt and lfberal re- sponse from our people. The need is urgent and should be met in a gew erous and neighborly spirit. ——— A SALARY of twenty-five hundred a yeur for an electriciun to do the work which properly belongs to the gas in- spector is ?ch and rare specimen of business ‘principles applied to city affairs. 3 Wit o Plenal clerk anda rocord clerk in the,pity clerk’s office, it is per~ tinent to intri¥e how much work is left for the city clark and his deputy. WE have - been with the forty-one-nfill’ levy and now we will begin to wrestle with the new asphalt paving combiab. ———— OTHER TANDS THAN OURS. he Judgmont in favor of Parnel! entered by confession against the London Times in an ordinary court will cause the forthcoming report of the commission to fall flat. No pretence of impartiality can be based upon the willingness of the three judges to ab. solve Mr. Parnell from an accusation whose falaity the accuser has acknowledged, Pub- lic sentiment will be guided by the maxim, false 1n ono false in all, aud it will refuso to follow the commission, if, passing from the particular inquiry which alone justified its creation, it procends to announce an unfavor- able opinion touching the relations of the Irish parlinmentary party to the advocates of violenca and crime, But the deliverance of such an opinion will place the unionist ma- jority in an unenviable quandary. They must reject the report, unless they are pre- pared to hola toa court qualified to solve probloms whose solution belongs to history and saddled competent to do what Iurke pro- nounced impossible—frame an indict ment agaiust m pation. Suppose, on the other hand, thoy feel constrained to ac- cept tho report of the commission and thereby endorso its adverso judgment, logio would impel them to carey out the judgmenty by a swoeping expulsion of Mr. Parne!l and tus colleagues, Th3re is no reason to believe, however, that the unionists will be thus rig- orously logical. The expulsion of the Par- nellites, based on ex parto findings of an anomalous tribunal, would bo followed by the departure of Mr. Gladstone and all of hus supporters from the house of commons. In the faco of such a trefiendous protest against the disfranchisement of Ireland the 1solated unionists would not venturo to at- tempt the work of logislation. They would have to fall back on the alteraative which they uaturally aread, namely, an immediate dissolution of parliament. But there is no likelihood that the unionists will have the courage of their convictions, Thev would rather confess themselves illozical than commit political suicide, The report of the commission, bowever adverse to the Irish party, will have no practical consequences. On tho other hand, the judgment rendered in the suit agaiust the Loudon Times, besidos taxing the already woakened vank account of that newspaper, will subjact its responsi- ble representative to, severe reprobation at the bar of parliament. Iberian union isa project which, although just now freshly/agitated on uccount of re- cent experienges’ both in Portugal aud in Spiin, nas been proposad suftl ciently long to develop the itrinsic objections toit. In earlier times the” theory of the ‘‘balance of power” or of the “‘equilibrium of Europe'’ might have sufficed to arouse external oppo- sition to such a dypastic consolidation of the kingdoms on the Peninsula, but nowadays nothing would balin the way but the indis- position of the people themselves. Portugal and Spain, however, have fought for the Inastery more than they have sought to coalgsco. Three centuries ago Portugal wis uader the dominion ot har larger naighbor.for sisty years; then she broke outin revelt and effadtaally de- feated the Spanish armies, although it was not till nearly seventy years afterward—in 1737 —that Spain fortnally renounced all claims to sovereignty over “Poriugal. In Napoleon's day the two kingloms were again ut odds, Three years azoa project was talked of for uniting them, aud lately it bus buen suid that o deputy wiil bring up the subject of Iberian union m geacral in the Spanish cortes. Still itis confidently declared that his own party will only counte naoce n friendly alljance, without any at- tempt at political amalgamation, Couflictlog reports ure publishad coacern ing the projected construction of u rairoad in Chioa from Pekin to tho Russian fron- tier. In one account it is said thav provison for this rosd was mido in the plan of the Russian government for a system of railways in Eastern Siberia, and that the conseat of the Chineae government for the construction of it from Kirin, in Manchuris, © the Chinese capitol has been obtained. In another it is stated that the Kussisu governwent has been made uneasy by the determivation of the Chizese governmont to build a road between the same points, It is probable that China will adopt positively a railway policy of some kind before reachg any decision as to the building of a line from Pekin northward, or befora permitting Russiu to build a roud in her territory. Wihen such a policy shall have been fixd, the lirst action under it will doubtless retate to the pro Jjected road southward from Pekin to Han Kow, a road for the construction of. which preparations were recently wade. But the extension of the Russian railway system in the region adjoining the northern boundary of Chnina will eventually compel China to inguire ns to the necessity for making sim- ilar roads on her side of the line, and the re- cent determination of rtussia to build a road from Lake Baikal to Stvetinsk, on the Chi- nese frontier, may hasten the development of Chinese plans in the north. * e Tho campaign m Germany is accompaniod by all manner of sensational narratives avout persons high in authority. The failure of Prince Bismarck to appear in the reichs. tag aud defend the socialist bili, taken in connection with his surrender of & small oftice and the appoiptment of von i3erlepsch, the miner's friend;to a cabinet position form the basis of a rumak that the chancellor and the emperor arenot on cordil terms. That the emperor in his speech at the close of the session was singulurly gracious toward the laboring classes is proof positive of his de- termiuation to bid for the support of men naturally open to socialistic propaganda, but that this was done.against the wish of Bis wurck is simply an wference. The young emperor is havini & fine time suwmoning Lo his council room §ha leaders of the various groups and talking over election campaiga- jug watters, He evidently believes that there is the making'of & politician 10 him, Tho socialists caugy upon winniog twenty- five government at tho olectioas. . A matter which is now engaging the at- teotion of the French and Gerwan war de- partments is the question of the exemption of the coal miners from sérvice in the flold duriog war time. Of the 130,000 mon en- .gaged in this brauch of industry in France, more than 80,000 would under present circumstances be obliged by law to cast aside thelr picks and shovels and to join the colors in the event of the mobilization of the army upon & war footing. In Germuny the situation is even still more serious, For of the 250,000 men who labor in the coal mines of that country, almost 200,000 would be withdrawn for regimental servico at the first outbreak of hostilities. The problew is one somewhat duficult to solve. For, while on the nne haud the war departments are reluciant 1o liberate such wmense bodies of men from active service ia the army, yeton the other it is obvious that their withdrawal from the mines will cripple if not entirely | suspend the supply of coal needed both for industrisl and military pur poses. The snccess of Italy in hor Fast African enterprises has boon due as much to fortu nate ciroumstancos as to the policy of King Humbert's government. Whatover may have been the hopes and ambitions of the Italians, the world little dreamed that their occupa- tion of the ill.omened port of Massowah would develop into a protectorate o7er a large empire and place Italy within easy reach of the upper Nile regons, No other European power can find i its newly ac- quired African possessions such promises of future growth and commercial importance as exist in the territory that has fallen, almost by accident, into the lap of Italy. She has good reason for confidence that the Red Sea colony sho has just organized under tho name of Krithrea, and with Massowah as its vort and capital, will have a prosperous de velopmient, since she has allied to it by polit ical bonds one of the richest and most prom- ising regions in Africa, D »o The German emperor and empress have been busy of late in unvacking and arrang- 1ng the innumerable and magnificent gifts presented to them by the sultan. A corre apondent at the Berlin court writes that those of the emperor include a splendid sword, valued at not less than 75,000, The blade 15 an old Damascus one, of remarkable beauty, being engraved with sontonces from the koran, The hilt is stadded with emor- alds and diamonds. ‘There are also whole cartloads of the finest Turkish cigarettes, which wero soecially made for his majesty, and a quantity of smoking necessarios, of which may be mentioned a chebook of amber, covered with precious stones, and a tobacco casket with the sultau’s initials in Turkish. The presents of the empress in- clude a pair of agraffos, composed of the most superb diamonds, from which hang scrings of pearls and diamonds, which can be formed into a collar. The value of this gift alone is said to be $125000. Hor maj esty has also received a quantity of costly silks, fine oriental carvets, fans, shawls, ombroidered slippers and other articles too numerous to mention. Perhaps, however, the most graceful act of the sultan has been to0 send her majesty a portrait of her con sort, painted cspecially: for tne sultau by au Italian master, which was hung, with great tact, i her mujesty’s bearoom st Yildiz Kiosk. Finally, his majosty has sent the emperor, empress and Prince Henzy of Prussia_eacii Syrina breod, magaificeny horse of pure T'rench engineers are planning for an at- tack upon that hitherto virgin peak of the Als, the Jungfrau. Thoy propose to continue the present line of railroad from Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen as far as Stockelberg, at the foor of the Jungfrau, and thence to mount up by a succession of slanting cable roads, forming a zigzag, to a height of some twelve thousund feet, landing nearly at the summit of the mountaia, where there will be ahotel for tho excursiouists who are ex- pected to make the trip by thousuuds daily. There will nave to be five steps to the great staircase, and a separate railroad for each stop make changes of ocars necessary to reach the summit, e S—— Wyoemmg and Colorado. The only saloon at Manville, Wyo., has gone dry, Akrou, Col., is to land oftice. Paddy Mack, who was blown up in a mine accident at Leadville, will lose the sight of both eyes, It is reported that 100 land patents will be issed for Wyoming parties within the next v days. ‘I'he Beeman coal company has ton, W. have a United States been or- ., With a capital “The famou8 rucer Wanita, owned by A. C. Beckwith of Evanston, Wyo., has been sold to Count Valenski of ltaly. La Junta, Col., s a horse that turos on the faucet when he wants a drink, butdoesn’t know enough to turn it off, Rawlins, Wyo., businoss men to boud the towa for 5200 tric lights und waterwork: All the gamblers at (Grand Junction, Col., have been gathered in by the authorities in spite of the fact that the grand jury filed to indict them. Adam Adamson, a settler near Bonanza, bas disappeared from s home and it iy feared that he perished in the cold while hunting for cattle in the bad lanus. As the result of un mvitation to the cou- gregation fo throw their filthy lucre away. the audience at & Sulvation army weeting at Grecley, Col.. tossed $40 on the stage. The_Converse county, Wyoming, pape are calling upon Mrs. Lusl, county superin: tendent of schools, for a statement of the cipts and disqursements of school moueys > apportionmen. might haye have voted ) to secure elec- u straighter ne second shipment of ore from the and Ouray mine in Colorado netted §700 per ton, ‘Ahe owners huve fifty tous more ready for shipment that will the neighborhood of 3500 per ton. rounding country is bein - vected and great developments are expected in the early spring from this new ore zone, The Cusper Mail says that the Botnwell party of assessment workers retarned Tucs- day from the Powder river couatry and_re- port that one of the best oil sections in Wy- oming. Outof four assessment holes aug ‘three had 01l and gas in, so much avd so stroug; that each. morning, before going to work, the men were compeilod to burn the Tun in T'he sur- thoroughly pro oil off tho water in the holes. Some fine specimens of the oil were brought to Casp or Lt dh PEN>ACOLA. Tue Flovida City's Deep Water Har- bor—Negro Lavor. PrNsacoLA, Fla,, Jon, 28.—To the Kditor of Tae Ber: This city has been overlooked as o decp water harbor. Here is the best and safest harbor in the south. About thirty foet of water there. 'Thero are av present at least one hundred ships loading aud unload- ing hore, but out of the hundred there are only two floating the American flag. Almost every nation is represented. [ went to the navy yard and found it almost abandoned with only two men on guard. I understand the government intends to abandon this navy yard, It cost originally about 9,000,000, ‘Phe buildings are all brick and in good con dition. ‘There are at least a thousand un finished canons, aud & great quantity of balls of every size. 1 understand that the Movigan steamship line has offered the gov- ernaient $4,000,000 for the whole navy yard, to be used for u coaling station, Kegarding the colored man in the south 1 wili say that Peasacola cannot do without him. Iearly ail of the loading and uuload~ ing Of the shipa is done by the colored mun. About the best Javor organization in the south is that of the Stevedores and the col ored man is in the majority. They receive the bost wages and I am told by the shin Ccaptains that they are by far the best labor the south has got. Wages ave from 4 Lo § por duy and there is plenty of work 1 load- Ing and unloading ships. ~ This 1 # quiet town, never had & boom, but the day will come when Pensacola will be e larc city. ‘Truly Yours, Joux K. Bru, s A Hundred and Fifty Bodies, Loxpoy, Fevb. 7. -The removiug of the bodies of the miners who lost their lives by the explosion in he colliery ut Abersychan vesterday is carried on s rapidly as possi- le. Already 155 bodies have been taken from the pit ana it is believed about thirty remain there. e Echooner and Orew Lost. Provioexce, R L, Feb. 7.—The schooner Minuehaha, loaded with crude oil consigned to the Standard ol company here, with her captain and six men is supposed to have Leen lost. She left Philadelphia January 17 and some of her cargo bas been picked up at sea. MUST BE MADE A PARTY 1SSUE The Rate Problem Shou'd Be a Re- publican Plank. WHAT POLITICIANS ARE SAYING. Attorney General Leese's Briefin the in the Elmwood Klavator Case— Matters at the Oapitol-— and State Irems. sue. LINCOLY, 4 Special to 1 Bee. |—Freigut rate reductions and refo ia tho all absorbing topie of discussion at the Capital eity. The result of the conference botween the members of the state board of transportation and the managers of Ne braska rmlroads at Chicago scoms to whet the appetite of extremists for sharp prods and caustio remarks, and even conservative republicans shako their heads as though @ mistake had been made. Not intrequently the remark was made today, the rate ques- tion must be mide & party issuo and tho re- publicans of the state can no longer dodge it. Indeed, some went 80 far as to adviso that an open letter be addressed to L. D. Rich- ards, chairman of the republican state oen- tral committee, urging him to call the com mittee togother for the purpose of prepar- ing to make the rate question tho issue of the comg campaign as suggesced. “L'll toll you,” remarked an old timer and one of tho best known poiiticians of tho state, “‘the 1dea is not a bad ono. It would put the boys on record and especially Mr. Richards, who is a promment candidate for governor; und, moreover, [ helieve that if the roads became convinced that the party meant business and proposed to stand by the interests of the people and especially by the interoats of the producers of the state, there would bo but little use for a state board ot travsportation. The roads would do som thing substantial aud without whining, 1 favor urging Richaras to make the call sug- gested, and 1f he fails to vespond to_the cry of the oppressed of the state, he will simply sign bis own political death warrant, Ihe time has come for such action as will insure the relief sought. The republican party must stand or fail with the people,” THE ELMWOOD ELEVATOR CASE. Readers of Tur Bee, generally, remember the facts in the Elmwood elovator case. It is, therefore, enough to add that the orders given by the state board of transportation to grant the alliunce the elevator site as prayed was ignored by the Missouri Pacific folks, whereupon Attorney General Leese, repre senting the board, applied to the suprome court for a writ of mandamus to compel the compuny to comply with the order of the board, It appears that there are w number of suci complaiats, already filed or in_prep aration, and it is understood that the several railroad companies of the state have agreed to mako the Eimwood case u test case, und fight it a8 long as there is auy hope of beat ingit. The following is a syuopsis of the attornoy general's brie : The case was heard by the boasd upon the pleadings, evidence and arguments of coun- sel, and the voard found : . That the road has all of its sidetracks within the limits of its right of way and depot erounds at said station, 2, That there are only two elevators at said station, baving the combined capacity of 10,000 bushels, and that they are insufi- cient to bandle the grain shibped, and that the owners and operators have entered into a combinatiou to fix the price of grain and prevent competition, and that there are not sufficient facilities for handling and ship- ping graiu at this station. 3. hat it is necessary for the convenience of the public, patrons and shippers of grain of said railroad company that another elevator be erccied and operated atsaid station, s 5. ‘That the road has permittod two ele- vators to be erected upon the grounds ut said station, and that the same are now being operated, and that it has refused to grant tne same privilege to the complainant, 5. That an clevator is necessary for the shipment of grain by railroad and that by reason of the sidetrack beiug placed within the right of way and depot grounds the com- plainants cannot ship grain without buildiug ator upon the company's erounds. 6. ‘That there is room upon the grouuds of the company av suid station for unother. ele- or. ‘The granting of the right and privilege 10 tho elevators now standing and refusing the same privilege to the complain- aut, is an unjust and unreasonable discrimi- nation. 8. That said company has discriminated against the complainants, and that 1t has un lawfully given and made a vroference and advantage to Adams & Gilbertand to Eels Brothers, owners and operators of elevators at said statiou. These findings are followed by the order of the board as above statea Tho brief states that it is clearly the duty of the company o coumply with the order in question. ‘Tho power of jurisdiction of the board extends to this class of abuse. To hold otherwise would nullify the manifest of the uct of the lezislature creating such board. It would louve existing abuse: as they fornierly s, without a remed 1he coustitution provides that the | lature snall pass 1aws Lo oreeet abuses and t unjust diseriminations, etc., and that heretofore constructen or that may hereafter be constructed are public high ways, and shall be fren to all persons for the trausportation of thair persons und property thereon, under such regulations us way ve prescribed by law. ‘The state board of transportation was created to carry out these provisions of tne constitution. I'ho first_ scetion of the act creating tho board provides that the term “railroad,”’ as used in the act, shall inciude the roud in use by wu corporation operating & rairond, wheth owned or operated under acoutract, agreo- ment or loase, and that the term “‘transpor tation" shull include ull instrumentalitios of ship or carringe, A MEMICAN ADDRESS TO GOV, THAVER, (‘Translation, ) A address delivered by Colonel Emilirus Corelle. (euginecr) to General John M. Thayer, governor of Nebraska, at tho recep- tion which took place on thoe ist inst. at the Awerican legation in the City of Mexico: “Searcely a fow years ugo the Americar and Mexicans were about as well acquainted with each other as with the people in the heart of Africa, It may Secin an exaggera tion, but it 1 the truth, The causes for such indifterence and isolation consist in o differ ence m race, in languago and in customs, tho oxistence of an imwense arid aud desert seotion, and possibly the remembrance of former bitternes. “Eveu in our day there are pervel men on both sides of the Kio Grande who occus siouully Engage 1 SLLFINE U PASSIONs: yuT these intriguos of rufilans aro shatiered ut the blow of good scnse by both people. Mexico has matured in the school of adver sity; ber experiones acquired LHrougtiout an existence of calamity has endowed her with goud judgment. Her sister to the north i wise uod just, and beiween the two the slatus quo shiould ever be presorved, the equilbrium ever maintained. It is not, therefore, fair to presume {hat in future rea sons may arise to prevent thecloser welding tion 8o ompty, so absurd. Neithor elements not facts can combine themsolves: men, it they combine to do evil, surely arrive at fail. ure, tha legitimate result of their error and shortsightedness. 1 refer here to the careor of our eminont statosman, OUF ProEressive and judicious president—the hero of peace— who with energetic spirit and high pro grossive tendencios and rare administrative weniuy has evolved from a state of chaos tho miracie of our present advautageous condi- tion. “At & day not far distant wowill have bet. , ter custom housoe facilities oporalive betweoy us and this will induce relationships and u derstandings ot more perfect concord be- twveen the two most powerful republics of the continent, *'You can say to our brothers of tne north that Moxico knows how to respect the rights of others and knows Al8o how to presorve her own diguity; that she has her doors wide open to the honorable and laborious forcignor; that tho sons of Montezuma are not inimical to their brothers on the north and delight to yield them fi hospitality. Wo ndmire their gonius and grandeur, and to paraphrase one of our literati, without enmities for the past nor fears for tho future, we aro actively engaged, inteili- gently and persoveringly, in the labor of evolving the high place Mexico is to occupy as the country of the world by the closs of he nineteenth century.” STATE HOUSE MATTERS. Gius E. Bocher, treasurer of Platte county, sottled with the ‘auditor of public accounts today aud paid 1nto the state depository the sum of $3,703,44. The Pacific Mutual Life and Accident In- surance company of San Francisco, Cal., flled a_statoment in the insurance depart: ment showing the amount of business trans acted in the state during the past year: Lifo risks, £111,000; premiums, $1,85288. Acci dent risks, $2,010,250; premiums, $19,107.43; of the relutions based on reciprocal iuter- , antil the last lement of dissutisfaction shall have completely disappeared. 1t s opportune 1o staw, und [ may state it right here, that the Mexican people, from their wost cultivated clusses to thuse of mediocre unuerstanding, hold the firm belief thut the United States of the uorth have no real reason to wisi otherwise than good to Mexico. Under the laws of evolution the uew era we huve entered cannot retrograde, aud it is absolutely necessary thav both e ters should be firmly upited. Our peace s permanently established with our growing credit and the powerful impulse given to weneral development by the inversion of the current of capital contirm the truth of what 1state. Meanwhile throughout all the coun- try 1s heard the whistle of the locomotive, and those immense plains, that arid and dosert section which separates us, is 1o longer a Chivese wall, while both peobles, clasping hands, Dow interchange thelr natural products and industries. SWith great satisfaction 1 can state to you that the time has passed when Mexico can be styled ‘the sick wan,' You have your- selves seen that I state a fact. ‘This work, however, is not & work of blind chance, nor merely the outcome of & spontaneous evolu- tion of matter. I do notadiiy an explans. Lossos, $18,1316,90. The Bank of Ogalalla filed articles of in corporation today and is now a legally au. thorizod institution. Authorized and paid up capital stock, §26,000, lncorporators: Leo Love, I G. Hoxie, D. A Brandoefer aud John ' Hulligan, ‘The caso of the Nebraska railway com- pany vs Helen Culver ot al, on appeal from tho district court of Lancaster county, wa filed for trial in the supreme court today. The records of this cass are probubly the most voluminous of any over filed for con- sideration before the highoest judicial tribus nal of the state. Secretary of State Cowdery, Auditor Bon- ton aud Commissioner Stetn, mombers of the ato board of transportation who went to braska railroads, returned howme today, They do not seem altogether satistlod with the ro sult of their trip, but stato that it was a 10 per cent reduction or nothing, and that thoy were forced to the alternative. Street criti- cisms are somewhat severe on the courso they pursued, and one and all who favor rad icul and helpful freight reductions pronounce it an unwarranted compromise, CITY NEWS AND NOTES, The Adventists have decided to locate their university buildings on the May farm, southeast of town. It is underatood here that Captain Teetor is to be made eiver of the Liucoln land ofice. He received congratulations of many friends today. General J.'C. MeBride is chairman of the Island to wrestle for the Grand Army of the Republio reunion in this city, A practical boot and shoe manufacturer from North Adums, Mass., has moved to Lincoln aund a corporation has been organ- ized to put in a $50,000 plant 0 Barn's addi~ tion to the ) part of the city. Work will commence on the building early in tho spring. ‘I'ne receipts show that 400 hogs were at the West Lincoln stock yards today. Mar- ket steady, ranging from $3.70 to 8.72. Bulk at § CGreorge § zen of Lincoln, died at Sutton yestorday. ‘The funeral of Louis Helmer's ten old daughter, who died Wednesd: noon, will take placo S the Church of the Hol; nity. Hon. G. M. Lambertson will leave for Washiugtou, Monday, to make application fora writ of habeas corpus in the (irandpa Burrus case. Councilman Louie Meyer will accompany him.y ihe deposits’ of the pupils of the public schools 1n the school savings buank of thiy ty amounted to $100.94 for this weels. overnorAlbinus Nance passed through Lincoln today, en routo to Kunsas Ciy, where he went'on business. He attributes tho depression in tho price of corn to the machinations of the elevator trust, Positively cured by| these Little Pifls, They also relleve Dis trovn Dyspepsta, Tu| digestion and Too Hearty| Eating, A perfect rem-| ody for Dizzines Drowasiness, Bad Tastel iz the Mouth, Coated) Tongue, Pain 1n the Side TORPID LIVER. They)| segulate the Bowels. Purcly Vegetable. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE, committee of 100 who go to Grand enr- after-__ rday morniog from O THREE NIGHTS AND MATINEE, Commencing Thursday, February 6th. Am s Queen of Drama, | MAGGIE MITCHELL Mr., Charles’ Abbott ing, Supported by Aud & Col Fridgy By el aToo ' FANCHON,” - Bovos (JPERA HOUSE , Wednesday, Feb, 10, 11and 12 Wedneaday.) Monduy, Tuesd (Special Sowvenir Matine THE KIMBALL Opera Gomigue and Burlesque Co Headod by the Charming and Peerless %] i CORINNE | % Tn thy surlesque, i 73— ason:| ARCADIA | 45| “Hosular prices. Mailoee 0o, Sewts will b put'cn sale Suturday. OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subscribed & guarantoed Capital, sgog_ooo Paid in Capital "380. 000 Buys and sells stocks ard bonds; nugotintos commerclal paper; recelyes and sxecutes trust mcty s transfer agent and trustea of corpor: tions; takes churge of property; colldcts rents OmahalLoan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Etreets. Paid in Capital... . .......... ... $60,000 Bubscribed & guarantood capital,... 100,000 Liability of stockholders, ... ...... 200,000 6 Per Cent Interest Pald on Deposits FRANK J, LAN shier, OrricERs: A U, W vice president DIREOTORS oresident; J.J. Browu, yinan, tronyiirer, L B Millard, J. J. Nast, :hos, I n, W, T, A. U Wyman, Brown, y (. Barton, Kimball, Geo, B, Lake. Loans in any amount made on City & Farm Property, and on Collateral Security, at Lowest Current Rates Vs W Chicago to confer with the managors of No o nkle, a former well known .:u\ 7