Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. ~ B. ROSEWATER, Bditor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ——— TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION Daily and Bunday, One Year ®ix months “Three Months ... .. sunday Hre, Onie Year, v Weokly Hee, One Year with Irernium, OFFICES, Omaha, Hee Bullding. Chicngo OfMios, 567 Ro okery Building. New Vork, Rooms 14 and |6 Tribuna Ballding. Washington, No, 513 Fourteenth Street. Council Blutts, No. 12 Pear] Street, South Omahs, Corner N and 25th Streots. CORRESPON DENCE, All communieations relating to news and edl- torinl matier shonid be nddressed to the Bditor- 1nl Depart ment. BUSINESS LETTERS, All businessletters and romittances should bo nadressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and Postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the Company, 'Phl] Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors. Building Farnam an teonth Streets. 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Notary Public. of Nebraska, | ouaty ot Douglas, {* George ‘B, Tzschuck, being duly sw poses and saya that ho 18 secretary of Puplishing Compauy, that the actual a daily circulation ot T I ary, 185, was 18, - 1880, 10,10 Coples: for Decomber, 1550 oples. GEORGE B, T/S0NTCK. to pefore me and subscribed in my this 4th day of January, A D.. 1t . P, FEw, Notary Publi latohstring is always out to B ains and bullion. LIRERALIT among men of large menns is becoming one of the lost arts in Omaha, A BUFFALO jury confirms the general opinion that as a political preacher the Rev. Bull is a howling failure. [INANCIAL and realiy transactions for the past week indicate that Omaha’s pulse of prosperity is uncommonly strong for midwinter. persistent zeal of Senator Blair ating his bill to promote men- aad thriftlessness in the south- ern states is deserving of a better cause. TuE uprooting of ‘Mormon power un- der the shadow of the temple and with- in sight of Brigham Young’s lion house is a futal blow to the political power of the church THE *“‘pressing needs” of Omaha are many, but the greatest of all is the need of an unselfish and generows Bpirit in contributing to the industrial growth of the city. Tue raids of the dukes of New Or- leans on North Dakota, and the capture of n majority of the legislature by a royal flush, furnishes valuable pointers to their namesakes in France. THE project to establish water trans- vortation between Pittsburg -and Omaha depends on floating five millions an stock. If this does not strike a snag it is certain that the boats will. ———— THE jobbers and contractors of South Omaha imagine that they can squeeze the municipal lemon unul dry and then dump the rind with debts on Omaha. In this they are liable to be mistaken. TiE home defense clubs on the North side, in the hands of determined, mus- cular men, possess the length and breadth to balk the mercenary schemes of the contingent road uts of Hel- fonstein. THE axe and edged tool companiss bhave formed a combwation, with a capital of four million dollars. The evi- dent purpose is to dull the edge of com- petition and provoke a sharp advance in prices. MANAGER BURT of the Elkhorn Val- loy road is quoted in favor of building cribs for the surplus corn in the state and holding it for.a rising market, free of charge. This is very generous, but a five cent reduction in freight rates would be more seceptuble. COLORADO is about to hold a conven- tion to advocate its light airy claims and convince prospective pilgrims to sottle there. The Nebruska Develop- ment socioty should improve the oppor- tunity to dispose of its plans and surplus projects. Colorado is sorely in need of socond-hand attractions. —e T erection ‘of the bridge viaduct on Douglas streot convinced property owners in that vicinity that they had ‘been damaged thousands of dollars, but the court and jury failed to agree with them. It is possible that the Tcnth street property owners will meet a sim- ilar fate in the courts with regard to viaduet dawages. THE construction of the Winona & Southwestern railroad to Omaha this yeus is practically assured. As the wompauy controls the line between Ma- son City and Fort Dodge, the distance 10 be covered is less than two hundred wiles. The completion and oporation of this road as a portion of the Delaware & Lackawanoa system, caunot fail to beuneficially affect the commercial in- terests of this seotion. It will open a direct seaboard route for the products of Nebraska and materially shorten aud cheupen communication with the piner- ios of the north and the veal marts of tho east, THE RESER President Harrison bas issued his proclamation declaring the Sioux res orvation lands open to homostead set- tlement. Between nine and ten mil- lion acres of agricaltural and grazing lands are thus tendered almost as a free Rilt to industrious home seekers. Under the act of congress providing for the reduction of the enormous area held by the Tndiuns, none of the land can be securad for speculative purposes. The requirements of the homestead law, so far as it relates to term of resi- dence, must be complied with, in addi- tion to the payment of one dollar and a quarter per acre, All lands remaining unsold at the end of three years are to be disposed of at soventy-five cents per acre, and at the end of five years at twonty-five conts peracre. Land offices have beon established at Pierro and Chamberlain, Dakota, for the accommo~ dution of settlars. The opening of this vast tract of land to settlement confers immediate and permanent benefits on Dakota and surrounding states. White under In- dian control the land was not only use- less, but a barrier to the development of the country. Now it will contribute to the productive wealth and swell the population of Dakota. Possessing in abundauce the elements of productive- ness, it ouly requires to be stirred by the hands of thrift to blossoin and bear frait, and furnish comfortable homes for thousands. Towns und cities will rise where wigwums formerly clustered, and the shrill sereech of the locomotive will soon reverborate through the virgin valleys desecrated by the yells of savagery in peace and war. It is a transformation from dark- ness to light, from idleness to activity, from barbarism to civiliza- tion, of a rich, fertile empire, capable of sustaining a vast population. To Nebraska as well as Dakota the event is of vast importance, und its re- sults will grow in value every year. The immediate effect will be to add two million acres of land lying between the Missouri and Niobrara rivers,and south of the Forty-third parallel, to the public domain in this state, besides giving to Niobrara City the island in the river for a public park. It is therefore matter of congratulation to both states that a struggie with the Sioux extending over adozen years hag reached a satisfactory and beneficial settlement. MONTANA'S FUGITIVE The democratic state Montana are acting most unwisely. deed, the entire policy and course the democrats 1n the new state has from the beginuing been & stupid blunder. The secession of the demo- cratic members of the lower branch af the legislature and the formation of a “rump” house, in the face of the de- cision of the state board of canvassers sustaining the refusal of the local board to receive the returns of the demo- cratic inspectors of the disputed Sil- ver Bow county precinct, was a most foolish jand unjustifiable proceeding, but this was a less serions blunder than the action of the demorratic senators in running away from the state. It was bad. enough that these senators, in order to prevent a quorumof the senaute, refused to receive the oath of their office until the lust day upon which they were compelled to qualify or lose their seats, but this was insignifi- cant compared with their desertion of tneir post and flight from the state after they had sworn to perform the duties for which they were elected. The decision of the supreme court of Montana, that the republican repre- sentatives from Siiver Bow county were entitled to their seats, and that conse- quently the ‘‘rump’ democratic house was illegal, should have ended all con- troversy. But the democratic senators seem determined to block legislation at all huzards. Oue of their number who was captured in his flight and brought back to Helena, and whose presence in- the senate would have made a quorum, 18 reported to have heen spirited away Sunday night. What must the intelligent, fair-minded and law-respecting people of Montann think of such a state of affairs? Isitto be supposed that they will be willing to entrust the affairs of government to men guilty of such revolutipnary and destructive conduct, or to commit their intevests to the care of a political party that will counte- nance and defend such con- duet? The democratic course in Montana has already cost the state heavily in mere dollars and cents, but the loss is much greater in the discredit the state has suffered and in what has been kept away from it. Doubtless the responsibility for the course of the fugitive senators is largely with their millionaire mas- ters, whose political ambition hus been disappointed and who ure unscrupulous enough to do anything to embarrass their political opponents, vegardless of the effect upon the interests and wel- fare of the state. But this fact rather emphasizes the offense, and shows more distinctly what class of men maunage the democratic machine in Moutuna, Itis a lamentable veginning for the new state, but it will not be an unmixed evil 1f it shall so arouse the popular resentment that democrati ascendency in Montana will be im- possible while that party continues under its present leadership. And this result it ought to be entirvely safe to count upon. —— NEW ENGLAND'S APPEAL. The petition of New Kngland iron and steel manufucturers to cougress, asking relief from the burdens which the present tariff on raw materials puts upon them, is so forinidable as to merit the attention not ouly of congress, but of the country. It sets forth that the signers, of whom there are nearly two hundred, representing the mostimport- ant manufacturing industries of that section, are membors of all political parties, and among them is the last re- publican govervor of Massachusetts, while the most couspicuous names in the list are those of republicans, These petitioners ask that the duties on iron ore, coal and coke be repealed, and that the dyty ou pig iron, scrap iron and scrap steel which prevailed iwmmedi- AT ORS. of ately before the war be restored. They urge this on the ground that in the ad- justment of the tariff a careful regard should be had to the rights and inver- ests of all sactions and of all the people, and that if the existing conditions are maintained the industrial interests of | New England must ultimately be ruined. The facts regarding the coudition of the iron and steel industriesof New England have been repeatedly pre- sontod, and they show astate of affairs which fully justifies the demand for re- lief. Within the past ten years there has been a decline of fully sixty per cont in the product of these industries, and they are still losing ground. Great plants representing heavy investments are either wholly idle or but partially operated without profit, Tt is said that only those establish- ments which are engaged in the manufacture of speciaities are paying anything, The competition of Penn- sylvamia and other sections botter favored as to raw materials, has pro- duced the condition of affairs that ex- ists in New England, the only remedy for which, in the opinion of the manu- facturers of that section, 18 in giving them free raw materials and reducing the duty on pig iron and serap iron and scrap steel. If they can obtain this re- liof, enabling them to get at least a large share of the raw materials from the Canadian provinces, these New Eng- land manufacturers believe they can revive their depressed and declining industries, and if they cannot restore them to their former activity and pros- perity, may at any rate save them from utter ruin. As was said some time ago by ex-Governor Ames, it is a question of life and death. Congress cannot ignore this appeal, and one effect it is cortain to have is to increase the perplexities of the majority in framing a new tariff bill. The New England demand will bo vigorously op- posed by the iron and steel manufactur- ers of other sections, and thus political or party considerations will euter into the question. In such a contest the chances wouid be largely in favor of Yennsylvania and Ohio, and it is doubt- less safe to prediet that New England manufacturers will not receive the re- lief they ask for. In that eveat what may be the effect upon the future poli- "tical action of New Engiand? This isa very serious question for the party in control of cougress and responsible for a revision of the tariff with reference to the rights and interests of all sections and of all the people. ALTOG t T00 SPICIOUS. The main objection to annexation raised by the men who spoke for South Omaha at the real estate xchange meeting was a suspi- cion of Omaha's good intentions. Every one of the speakers that sooner or later the two cities must of necessity be amalgamated, but the peopie of South Omaha, they said, were suspicious of Omaha’s unanimity in favor of annexation this spring. Now we should like to know what grounds South Omaha has of suspicion of foul play. First and foremost, Omaha owns eighty-five per cent of the proper- ty of South Omaha, and therefore pays all but fifteen per cent of the South Omaha taxes. Is it reasonable to suspect thut the men who practically own South Omaha will take advantage of the residents in South Omaha who own the fifteen per cent of the prop- erty? Does it stand to reason that South Omaha would he deprived of her due proportion of public improvements orpostal facilities, fire und water pro- tection, if the two towns were under one governmens? Are notall the suspicions which these South Omaha men pro- fess to entertuin about the effect of an- nexation really founded on the anxiety of politiciuns and local contractors to keep their grip on the Sputh Omaha tax payers? Is not the opposition chiefly inspired by parties who have compara- tively o concern in the future of South Omaha® But then Omaha has:levied a forty- onc-mill tax for 1890, while South Omana has only levied twenty-soven mills. This fact is trumped up as conclusive proof that city taxes are much lower 1in South Omaha than in Omaha, Now what ave the facts? Omaha has a large surplus in-ber treasury and pays as she goes. Her bonded debt is still over three hundred thousand dollars less than ten per cent of her assessed valuu- tion. South Omuha is literally in- solvent. Her levy does not meot her running expenses, and_ she is therefore. creating an illegal overlap that will in- volve her in absolute bankruptey untess her levy is doubled. Judging by the past a levy of fifty mills would not meet her runuing expenses, water rent and gas bills. A city that does nov pay its current expenses is like a train run- ning wild, that sooneror later must be- come a wreck, Let usexamine the figures, The cor- poration of South Omaha has been rununing nbout three yvears. At theend of the first year an overlap amounting to thirty-five thousand dollars was paid off by the issue of bonds, On Junuary 1, 18 another overlap amounting to over se y thousand dollars was paid off 1n bouds. Isut now no more bonds can be issued legally, because the bonded debt is nearly fifteen per cent of the assessed valuation when the law prohibits a aebt of more thun ten per cent. Before another dollar of bonds can be issued the assussment must be raised fifty per cent, and that means & raise of fifty per cent in the mmount of taxes. Our South Omaha friends are delud- ing themselves about the situation. They muy as well face the music and let Omaha assume her aebt while she isin a humor to do it. Six months herice, after the ceusus is taken, Omaha would not touch annexation with a teun-foov pole. The only benefit Omaha expeots to de- rive is from the census exhibit, and she will have to pay very dearly for this advertisement by assuming & debt which 18 out of all proportion to her own, and she will also obligate herself tw extend her police, fire and school systems over territory that mustcon- tiuue to yield much less revenue than she will be compelled to expend. amre—— THE presence in the city of General Manager Clark of the Missour: Pacific UARY 11, 1890, should be uti! d by the Dakots rail- road committees to obtain a definite an- | swer regarditifl the company’s inten- tions. - Much yaluable time has already been wasted in fruitless conventions, conferences dnd discussions. The time for action is @ hand, f the Missouri Pacific seriously contemplates an ex- tension northwdra the fact should be ascortained. , Bvery county along the route in Nebraska as well as in Dakota stands ready o tiberally aid the con- struction of the road, and Omaha and Douglas county‘will lend every assist- ance in theff ‘power. Tt is needless to point out the advantages of a a rond to the trade of Omaha. All busivess men are familiar with them. What is now needed is a declar- ation of intentions of the Missour: Pa- cific and the terms on which it will un- dertake the building of theline. This the committee should secure at once, so a8 to reiieve the annoying suspense and uncertainty I¥ the Douglas street property owners desire to have that street graded this year they will have to ahandon the pro- posed radical grade. A cut of ten feet at Seventeenth and Douglas is entirely out of question. That would involve a cut of at least five feet at the alley ad- joining the New York Life and Ber dings, which means thut each of the two buildings would be damaged not less vhan fifty thousand dollars, —— The Correct Theory. St. Louis Globe-Dxmoerat, The rules which the republivans of the Louse have prepared are framed on the theory that a legislative body meets to legis- late. Some Good Accomplished. Philadelphia Press. For one thing, at least, the country is under obligations to the demooratio obstruce tionists in congress. They have united, vital- ired, and solidified the republican party in the house more completely than all other in- fluences could have dome it. For which much thanks, — Recklessness In Politics. Philadelphia Record. With Infinite toil and trouble we gather money togother and build houses and ware- houses aud mills and manufactories, und dig and detve and buy and soll and pay taxes. And then we eloct men to haudie and spend the tax money who are incapable of properly managing their own affairs. Joey Bagstock in Ohio. Kansas City Star. When Governor Campbell of Ohio was asked the other day if he were not a candi- date for the presidency, he replied, with a far-away Look in bis eyes, tha he would sup- port the nomiunee. ; This is not quite as plain as the declaration of the Irishman that if ho were nominated ho would abide by the decis ion of the convention, butit is in the sumo general line. S STATE/AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jortings. A camp of Sons 6f Veterans 1s to be organ- izod shortly at Hebron. The Madison fire department 1s to build a tower aud purchase a licst class bell, The National bank of Ashland Dhas in- &l’)‘(l;lflfld its capital stock from $50,000 to $100,- Mr. and Mra, A.- Huler of Milfora cele- brated their silver wedtdfog annwversary last weok. ‘Che new Methodist Episcopal church at Ravenna will be delicated with appropriate exercises February 16, % Foar business houses at Hubbell, Thayer county, were burglarized the other night, but Little of value was secured. The total enrollwent of the city schools of Beatrice last month was 1,622, with an aver- age daily attendance of 1,103 Harry E. Metzger, foreman of the Aurora Sun, who was recéntly married, bas pur- chased a half interest in the paper. Ravenna has received the Look and laader outfit purchused from Kearney, ud a fire department will s0on be organized. A handsome young school teacher in Saunders county has' lost her reason and has been sent 10 tho Lincoln asylun. Rev. H. T, Kirsobstein has resigned the pastorate of the Christiun church at Ash- land to accept a cali to the church at Hust- ings. “Che Beutrice oatmeal company rocently sb:rpeu two carlosads of its product to Seattle, and will soon make a similur shipmeut to Reno, Ney. ) ‘The farmers residing near Champion are discussing the adyisabllity of erccting a mill at that place, as they claim the mill thers is churging exorbitant tolls for grinding their wheal. The Grand Army post and Woman's Relief corps ut Wisnor are prevaring & grand en- tertainment 1o be given ou tho eveniugs of February 26 and 27, According to the MoCook Tribune, Wal- ton, the man who robbed the express com- pauy at Dallas, Tex., of $35000, was for- merly an express messenger on the B. & M., and 18 well known in local railroad circles. A thisf who attemptea to burglarize the depot ut Stratton was somewhat surprisea when the telegraph opsrator, who was hid- den from view, opened fire with a- Winches- ter on the intruder, putting two big round holes through the ticket window. The burglar was not wounded, but he retreated in short order. lowa Items, o first-class hotel is wanted at Manchos- r. A farmers’ institute will be beld at Algona February 27 and 25. A big water tank wiil be bullt at Sloux Rapids for fire protection. The salaries of the teacners in tho public 0F the stuto last yeur amounied to Mrs. Potor Durfer, hiving near Muscatine, gave birth 1o triplets last week—two girls and a boy, The Davenport Domocrat-Gazette has quit the hyphen business and is now simply the Democrat. On account of ithe increase in legal busi- ness Jackson county lawyers are asking for a distriot judge. ' Over £17,000 has jalready been subscribed for the Ottumwa, Young Men's Christizn as- sociation building ; William Alexander is under bounds at Du- buaue for attetupting to sell counterfeit money in Buchanag county. Contracts bave been let for building the new Grace churth'st Cedur Rapids. When completed the edyfige will cost 850,000, Large numbengof Iowa horses aro shipped to_eastern cities (Bremer, Buchanan aud Johnson counties fijid the businoss both prom - ising aud profitablb, James Grahaus, 1o has lived the life of & hermit for many years on his farm near Lit- tle Sioux, was found {dead in his bed last week by neighbors, who had become uneasy atnot seeing him for some time. He was bighly educated and appavently io good cir cumstances. ‘The Business Men's Association of Iowa will bold their first annual couvention at Des Motnes ebruary 25, 36.aud 27. The associa- tion was orgauized about a year ugo with headquarters at Marsnalitowa aud now has ninety iocal branches, with the membership constantly increasiug, The Coust and Northwast. A scheme is on foot to introduce electrio roads at Anaconda, Mont. The Montana college at Deer Lodge has had extensive additions made to its labora- tory spparat Tacoma is troubled with fire fiends, the latest incendiarism bewng & dastardly st tewpt to burn the Fife hotel. Mrs. Byron Barlow of Tacoma was about to be buried the other day when it was dis- covered that the body was yet warm. was taken from the coffia, but life could not be reatored and the fumeral ocourred the next day. Thore arc ovor two hundred tending the aniversity faculty 1 kept very Surveyor Goneral Strauchan of Tanho has asked congress for an approvriation of §30,. 000 for surveys in the territory in 1500, An Indian buck near Pocatello, 1daho, stole two blankets, and swhen his squaw “told on him" and then shot himself, pudils at. While oxploring the country about the Tulare lieadwaters of the Kaweah river in county, California, an enginesr discoversd a tree which is velieved to be the RSt on the continent. It & sequoia gigantin 176 feet in circumference. The grand jury at Great Falis, Mont., critivises the past management of county affairs, They say that the survey of the county line botween Cascade and Meagher was defective, and that the dld board ak lowed erroncous bills for road work. The port has created a good deal of excitement. There are now 195 prisoners in the Mon- tana penitontiary at Doer Lodge, about sixty or seventy of whom find quarters in the kitchen, wash honse, coai bins and other out houses of tho pen proper. So far the insti- tution is behind only this month’s expenses, which 18 about #,90. United States Mar- shal Lrvio received a letter from R. O, Hick- ate treasurer, to the effect that noth d be done at present towards ameli- orating the condition of aftairs at the pen tentiary, owing to tho lack of funds for that purpose. Aspecial from Walla Walla sayar “A laughable incidert happened at Hubt depot yesterday ovening, Just before tho train pulied out Mrs, Loftus tramped across the mug toward the depot, took a hurried look in soarch of some oue, found Mr. Loftus, dragged him out into' the mud, threw him down, head foremost, and sat on him until the train left. Mr. Loftus had taken her littlo hoarding of money and purchased a ticket for Tacoma, He was about to leave hor a grass widow whon she 80 vigorously interrupted his plans, pliesie IR SOUTH DAKOTA AFFALRS. The Prohibition Law and How it Will Be Entorced. YANkTON, S. D, Feb. 9.—To the of Tue Ber: Both houses of the South Dakota legislature have passed the bill pre- nared by the preachers for the enforcement of the prohibition clause of the constitution, and April 1 will probably be named as the day when the state constabulary will com mence their nosing into other peoplie’s bu: ness. The new fangled sects who prepare the bill and lobbied it through have mag- nanimously (?) spared the communion wine (that in fermiented wine for sacramental purposes), and the clause for the indiscrimi- nute searching of private houses, was stricken out; and also the provision to com- pel physicians to stato the particular discase whereof the applicant suffered when o cer- tificate \fas givon u sick person. And yot, with these omitted, the South Dakota spiritual reform boomers claim the sirongest probibition law in _ the univgpse. In this city two brew- eries and one wholesale liquor house, whose proprietors have workod about twenty yoars 1o buld up their business,and who have made valuable improvements, will be closed up, and worse than all for the town, they will all leave the city and transfer their cap- ital 10 more tolerant fields. A few long- red “evangelists” may take their places. These will be sume of the *“first fruits” hore, and it will operate in like manner elsewhere, The revenue will coase, the traffo and drink- ing will go on, and conservative business mon and tax-payers are alarmed, and it is but truth to say that neither the population nor business of South Dakota are increasing, and what Tue BrE has noticed as taking vlace in sections of KKansns, as the result of prohibition is feared here. It was only voted by comnnecting it with and printing it on the samo ballot with the adoption of the constitution and the location of the capital at the October election, and the people who form the citi~ zenship of these frigid prairies do not want it. The New Euglander waats his tea and rye bread, and he would consider it a cruel law that would deprive him of them; and the German aud the Bohiemian and the Nor- wegians want their boor, because to them it is bohit meat and drink, and after urging them to come and help develop and buila up this “‘asylum for the oppressed of all nu- tions,* it 18 simply infamous and oppressive tyranny to take it from them. Mujorities may and do hoist scoundrels into oftice, but if they continue their opressions by the contiscation of property by logislative enact- ments, the results may be here as in other countries—revoit and bloodshed. One o your Nebraska countemporaries asks: “Has North Dakotaa venal legisla- ture?”’ Innocents abroad! Was there not an “oil room” at at Lincoln? Was there not a Pomeroy in Kansas?! And bas the declaration of Rhardic Smith, printed only last year. that the people woula be uston- ished to know how many seats in the United States senate were bought with money, uttered in the Paine case and which might be repeated in connection with tne election of Brice, been forgotten? Bought with money ! Hus it not become the rule? And 10 suppose that a legislative body snywhere would charter a lottery purely from patri- otic and philanthropic motives is preposter- ous, There are not many statesmen in North Dakota who are there for their Dealth, and as to the question of venality, your correspondent would refor the inno- cent to Hon, Judd LaMour, member from the northoast borough of Pembina, who is reported o have said to some of his legis- lativechums on un_important occasion, when some railroad or other bill in which' there was supposed to bo “‘business” was before them: “Wake meup when you begin to draw checks.” No, nn, North Dakota 1s not venal—Norih Dakota is all right. dstpicoge il fiik Washingion and Montana. The laborious and honest efforts of delegates in convention to frame the fundumental law for a new state are not 1o be Lightly passed as a trifling inci- dent in perennial politics, writes Prof. Thorpe in the February Century. These constitutions are peculiarly in evidence in the case of the American people versus themselves. Unconsciously have these two new states solemnly entered upon that wearisome and disappointing course which has been already run with error and regret by many of the older states. The northwestern stites can- pot avoid the evils of civil life by iu- corporating into their fundumental law the elaborate and repeated proofs of the distrust of the people toward those who snall be elucted to conduct the state government. It is plain that these con- ventions 10st the opportunity to remedy the acknowledged evils complained of by the people of some of the older stutes by uaking a simple organic lawand putting power and responsibility in the hands of those to whom the control of civil af- fairs is to come. A constitution cannot make a state. Ewh election makes or unmakes the American commonweath. One of our Inglish critics has wisely written: “To the people we come sooner ov later. It is upon their wis- dom and self restraiot that the stability of the most cunningly devised schemo of government will in the last resort depend.” A cursory reading of the constitu- tions for the northwestera states might suggest tosome the vision of an ideal system of state government duly antic- ipating and oroviding agaiust those evils which long experience in the east- ern states has chronicled with shame in volumes of statutes and session laws; but upon a more mature re- flection on these instruments, and on examination of the times in which we live, we are compelled to confess that the conventions.in Washington and Moniana framod a legislative code rather thun a body of fundamental laws for the new states. e Investigating Captain Healy. WasiiNGToN, Feb, 10.—The secretary of the treasury bus appointed the collector of custon t Ban Francisco, Captain White of the revenue marine service, and Dr. Bail- nache of the marine hospital service @ board 10 investigate the charges against Caplain , commander of Lhe reyonue steamer Hear, of crucity toward sailors durlog s rocent cruise to Alaska. She at Seattle, and the ne killoa her with a hatchet Editor LANCASTER'S COURT HOUSE | Dedicutod Yesterday With Interest- ing Bxercises. | REMINISCENSES OF THE BAR, Dandy Opsned tho Firsy Coart in a Cabin in 1864 ~Lincoln lrish National League Klection. Judge Elmer Tanoaster's Justice Temple. Lixcory, Neb., Feb, 10.—(Special to Tue Beg. |—~The now court house of Lancaster county was formally dedicated tod: exercisos commencing at 10 o'clock. casion, as well as the beautiful spring-like morning, was unusually inviting, and the spacious court room therofore was well filled by the bar of tho county and citizens of the city and country. It is not putting 1t too strongly to any that .he building is the finest of tho kind in the state if not in the “iuterior west.” The ex- terior is renaissance in style. Tue interior is spacious and finished with onk and cherry, beautifully frescood and very attractive to theoyo. Everything is i good tasto. The equily room is o handsome chamber well ar- rauged and finished, aud the room for jury causes is without exception tne handsomest 1n the state, but the bench 18 1ts most strik- ing foature. On a lofty dais sit the judges and somewhat lower the desks of the sheriff, clerk and reporter. This pieco of furniture is of cherry. Promptly at 10 o'clock Deputy United States Marshal Hastings sounded the gavel and in stentorian tones declared in the old timo style that court was now open for business. His effort was livorally applauded. Prosident Wilson occupled the platform as chairman and at his right was seated Judge Chapman and on his left Judge Kield. Mr., Wilson stated that tnis was an oc- casion when the judges had a right to talk back and introduced Judge Chapman. He paid a high comphiment to the new court house, 118 architecture and 1ts convenionc Judge Ficld was then introduced and entertained the large audience full ten minutes. He pronounced a fitting encomium upon the bar of the county and spoke of its relations to the bench during the yoars of the past. Judge Waebster followed with an interest- ing paper on the ‘‘History of the Lancastor County Court Honso. This he traced from the earliest organization of the county to the present time. Concluding, ho stated that tho first court of record was held in the cabin of Jacob Dawson, near the site of the St. Charles hotel, by Judwe Mlmer Dundy in November, 15i4, and that the first cause trial was that of Josial Chambers vs. Joha 3. Gregory. Hon. L. W. Billingsley was nexton the programme, and his address was listoned to with marked attentton. He cited the changes that had occurred in its member- ship during the past twenty years, compared it with that of today, and stated that the principal practice of the early days was be- foro justices of tne peace and in the United Stutes lund office. In this connection he also stated that a $10 fee was very tempting. Continuing he sald that twenty years ago there wero twenty lawyers, or one for every 150 persons in the county, while today there are 146, or one for overy 548 inhabitants. He then called at- tention to the old-time fistic qualities of the members of the bar sud made a huppy com- parison of thom with those of today . Hon, G. M. Lambertson concluded the exercises with the dedicatory oration, and s usual he acquitted nimself woll. ‘The members of the bar signed the record, after which the audience disporsed to iu- spect the building. LEAGUE, National league yesterday afternoon was largely attendod and very enthusiusti Charles McGlare presided. Election of oficers for the ensuin vear was the first business announced, whicl resulted as follows: President, John . Suttoa; first vice president, Michael Grace; second vice president, William McLaughling recording secretary, James J. Condon; financial secretary. Peter M. Hayden; treas- urer, Charles McGlare. On taking the chair President Sutton com- mended the work of Mr, Cassidy, the re- tiviog presigeut, very highly, Hon. John Fitzgerald also commended the work of the Lincoln brauch of the league and especially its officers and members. ~ He was followeil by Judwe Fitzgerald, of St. Marys, Kan., who made the address of the day. An effort will be made Lo celcbrate the au- niversary of Robert Emmet's birth, March 4, in this city and a committeo was appointed 1o make all nevessary arrangements. RECORDS AT THE CAPITOL The Lexington improvetneut company of Dawson county filed articles of incorpora- tion1n the ofiice of the secretary of state this morning. .Authorized capital stock $100,000. Incorporators: Albert Avle, N. O. Temple, E. M. Gamble, J. S. Thomas, Anton Able, F. Tewple, E. B. Smitl David Hanna, A. C. Maxwell, Ira W. Olive and J. W. Sm The following insurance companies filed annual statements with Insurance Auditor Allen today, showing the volume of bLminess transacted in the state during the past year The Navional Life of Vermont, risks, 180,600 $17,445.07; losses, $1,000; intereat on loans, §1,919. The Aetnu of' Hartford, Con 338,520; prem iums, $10,30.94; losses, ' Lifo of Brooklyn, N. Y. premiums, $12,746,99, County treasurers as follows settled with the auditor of public accounts today and pail into the state treasury the below: Kd C. Lockwood, Sioux, §! Samuel A. Stoner, Keith, $6,220.51; Cawpbell, Cass, $19,917.50, promiams, 1 D N0 Land Commissioner Steen is in Burt county, Auditor Benton and Secretary Cowdery are both down with the grip. Mrs, Spoouer, wife of Postoffice Inspoctor Spooner of lowa, Nebraska and Wyoming, is in the city, Brad P, Cook and Victor Abrahsmson, clerks in tho office of the commissioner of public lands and buildiogs, ure both seri ously ilL ‘The Knights of Pythias of this city hols open meeting again tomorrow nigit. ‘The roal estate exchaage and the board of trade will confer with them rogarding the contem- vluted $260,000 building. . W. Taylor, manuger of the Philadel- phia (Pa,) Times, is in the city. He met the board of the reul estate excuange today and wave a very interesting tals. He spoke in flattering terms of Lincoln and the prospects for her future. M. M. Marcy, probrietor of tne Transit botel, and Miss Minoie Rachelle were ma ried 1n the south parior of St. Paul's M. church last evening at the close of the regu- lar services. Pasior Stein performed tue cerewony. J. M. Burks sued J. C. Thomas in the county court today to recover #ib damages he claims to have sustained in the non-ful- fillment of & building contract on the part of the detendant. The cause will be tried on next Thursday, Arraugements have been made to hold special gospel meetings at Funke's opera house, commencing next Sunday at 3 0'clock in the afternoon. Sents freo ana no collec- tion, Gospel hymns will bo used. A cor dinl h&vll.lllou is extended to the public to attend. WHO I8 BLAME ? A Correspondent’s Views on the Pro; ent Extortionate Katos. RusuviLie, Neb, Feb. 10.—~To the Editor of Tx Bre: We learn from the governor's letters and the editorials in Tux Bex of & very urgent and imperstive existing ueoces sity for a reduction of freight rates on corn from Nebraska to Chicago. The fact is therein made to plaioly appear that unles ® ‘‘reasonable’ reduction is promptly wade much of Nebraska's magnificent corn orop will, a8 & consequence, rot on the ground, and the farmers will, as a result thereof, uot only suffer wcalculablo loss but that all kinds of business in our state, of which ag- riculture is the vrimsry and indispensable basis, will likewise be paralyzed and daws- astrously affocted. That such will be the ] inevitable effect from the operation of so gront and powerful & cause no intelligont | ¥nd sober minded person will attempt to ‘ de But suppose a reduction should be granted by the raiiroads, how much must it | bo in oraer to help the farmers out and en- able tham to make & new start on the ¥ ago of prospority on which they have been Journeying for lo, these many years, up and 10 the time when this recently pr: d for ro. | duction of rates bocamo 80 pres and fatefully necessary | . What would be a reasonable reduction Some of the farmers here would like Know. Say, for example, corn is worth 14 conts at Nebraska points, and the present freight thorson is 14 cents to Chicago. No if the roads would reduce the froight to conts would the other 7 help the farmers out! If the ronds would forsooth carry it to Chicago for nothing, it would be a most gonerous and magnanimous concession to the poor farmers, but would even the 14 boost them into the gilded reaim of ! aftiuence ! Missouri association that tho existing ratos aro low, further conocessions to Nobraska rmurs are impossiblo. Governor Thayer says the assoolution can give the reducod rates asked for and hardly feel it. Now here is a dif- forence, and an_apparently fatal one, bo. twoen tho disputants, and the interesting question is: Which is wrong! or in other words, which is right! Railroad conpanios aro supposed to know their own business, and the farmers ought by this time 10 have somo pretty clearly de fined ideas a8 to what their business is. Tha govornor truly savs that the farmors in tho Jrosent case are helploss to get their corn to market. Poor farmers! It is hard on them, 1o bo sure, but if th railroad compa- nios, as they say, (and who knows better than they), cannot afford lower ratos on corn’ smmlnn but corn) the poor, starv- ing and froezing farmors of Nebraska, or any other state, will have to stand the pinch. But what is this inexorablo, this morcile and deflant power that in the anguish o their extremity tho farmers and the gover- nor of Nebraska are 8o earnostly imploring %0 reacuo them from tho throes of inponding ruwi 1s it not something _comparablo to Chinese Joss! i creation declars and that 1 praotical instance of the tail wagging the dog! The cresture ruling the creatori It the farmers will knowingly, or even ignor- place themselvos at the mercy of I avaricious, cruel and hoartless be- iogs, they may expoct and must take char- acteristio treatment. 1f you purposely get in the way of a mad dpg snd get bitten don't blame the dog. So long as the farmers con- tinue to be the dupea thoy have becn, and largely nre, aud vote such tyrants into ex istonce and vote to keep them thero, it will Dbe in order for them to suffer the conse- aueucos of theirown folly, and when the squeezing comes, as it has in the presont case, they must 'grin, grumble, grunt wnd bear it, for certainly the sinner ought justly to receive the most if not ail the punisiment due for his own sins, be thoy political or otherwiso. Soeing that corporations have managed the transportation systom of the United States in a mannor a0 eminently satisfactory and profitable (to themsolves), hadn't tho farmers better give their powerful vote noxt in favor of surrendering the United States postal systom into their hands to be managea in the samo efficient nud profitable manuer ‘They would vote for sucha proposition il the matter of pushing it by their respective party bosses is not delayod till thay got their s open—judgiog by thoir past record Lk CUMMINS, —— A WONDERFUL MIRAGE. Remarkable Atmospneric. Phenc me- non Witnessed at Sundance, Wyo. Often have we read and listened to ac-, couuts of peculinratmospheric phenome- non, but never until Frieay last ware we permitted to look upon the grand illusion., At 6 o'ciock of that morning, looking from Sundance down the valley, townrd Spearfish, our people weve deiighted tosee what was first supposed to bo Crow peak, arise in all its grandeur until it appeared to be several times its usual size, then gradually another penk. inverted. appavently ubove it, suys the Buffalo, Wyo.. Echo. This, although constuntly changing appearance, re- mained for several hours. At 11 o'clock the peak gave place to a more extended view, resembling a panorama, and as we looked one range of hills after another lying west of us appeured upon, the scene until near the close, when the snowy range of the Big Horn mountaing appeared in plain view in the background. Much of the basin was quite plainly outlined, so that for fully fteen minntes we could look upon a stretch of country at least a hundred miles north and south,and full two hun- dred miles east and west. The ravines aud gulches were plainly visible, and it wus easy to sec the forests and to distin- guish the heavily timbered from the sparsely timbered or scattered trees. One feature, quite marked, was & long hill up which a wagon road was cut through the pine forest. Neur the bottom of the hill the timber was not so thick but the trees appepred to be of good size, while nearly half way up, the forest seemed auite dense, and as you neared the top the trees grew smaller and scrubby, terminating upon a bald summit, We sbouid judge that this road was at least a hundred miles west of this plac The scene was constantly changing. and was the grandest sight we ever looked upon. It beggars Republican. The description of the mountain road in the foregoing account tallies pr oisely as to location and appearnce with the Paint Rock road eighteen miles southwest of Buffalo, which winds up the steep slope of the Big Horn range, and there is reason to believe that it is the same oune that appeared to the vision of th people of Sundance a hun- dred and seventy miles wo the east of us, descristion. —Sundancs SICK HEADACH these Littie Pills, Puin in the Side, 0 PID LIVER, &c. They regulate tho Bowe aud prevent Constipation and Piles. smallest and easlest to take. Only onepill doso. 40 lnavial. Purely Vegetable, Pri 25 ceuts. OARTER MEDIOINE 00., Pro) LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subscribed & guarauteed Capital, $500,000 Paid lnn'.pun'f,.. AP T 558,%00 fuys and sells stocks and honds; nogotinies commercial Paper;receives and executes trusts: wels as Lrausfor agent and trustee of ogrpora- tious; takes clarge of property; collects rents OmahaLoan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK E, Cor. 16th and Douglas Etroets. #ald lo Capital ... A 50,000 Bubsoribed & guaranteed capital,... 100,000 Liability of stockholders, . 200,000 5 Per Cent Interest Paid on Deposits FRANK ), LANGE, Casbior, residents J.J. Browu, yiaD, LroARrer. S H. Ml Orri vice presi DIREOTORS: A. [ Browu, Guy ( Kiml Gvo. L:ln' in any amount made on City & m Property, and on Collateral Sec urity, at Lowest Current Rates