Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1890, Page 4

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Tie conerete harmony existing be- tween the mayor and the Dodlin com- bine is a source of growing admiration and profit for the members. 3 ——— DEMOCKATIC sympathy for the de- !feated Mormons makes the liberal vic- +tory all the more gratifying to repub- dicans aud all lovers of law and de- cenc ADMRATION for Senator Ingalls grows in proportion to the. abuse and “threats of the Aberdcon bulldozers. The country respects Him for the ene- mies he is making. Tur whisky trust has put on garment. Hereaftor it will be known as the Disuitlers’ association, incor- porated under the laws of Illinois, with headquarters at Peorin a new Tue opposition to annexation in South Omaha is chielly confined to the cluss of men who have plunged the city _into debt. Their early overthrow is es- sential to public safety i —e OTWITHSTANDING the agreements and ironclad contracts made by the railronds, it becomes move apparent every day that honor among the mana- gers hus become one of the lost arts. Masor WHEELER proposes to lock up public documents so as to pre: vent their publication without the con- ,sent of the council. The major and the combine imagine that city affa “are a private trust. Meantime Ti Bie will print the news, regardless of combinutions, Tikke is as much disaffection in - Kansas with existing corn freight rates as there is in Nebraska, The ten per cent reduction on through freight rates, which was so reluctantly granted to the Nebraska board of transportation, has + been given to the people of Kansas. But this concession is spurned as a de- lusion and a snare, ' : SENATOR PETTIGREW of South Da- kkota waxes indignant lmrlmfiu~ the ad- Tvance guard of the boomers on the Sioux reservation were urvested and hustled out of the promised land. He fenrs that the action of the soldiers and “police will keep away the honest set- “tler. Mr. Pettigrew’s pathetic anxiety for the “honest sottler” is decidedly at variance with the report that the senn~ _tor’s business partner and hewr pre- sumptive headed the horde of townsite speculators into the reservation. — Tur opposition to the resolution of Counciiman Bechel, providing for the reading of appropriation ordinances, shows 0 what unluwlul lengths the combine will go to cover up their . schemes. Rushing through ordinances by mevely reading the title is an un- ~ warranted assumption of power and o ~fraitful Source of jobbery. It 1s con- trary to the spirit of the charter that Jsny councilman shall record his vote *for one dollar of appropriation until he kpows what he is voting for. E—— BOOK~s have been opened for sub- seriptions to the stock of the new opera _ bouse. The location, plavs and cost offer tempting inducements to men of menns, uod iv is hoped tney will show « their appreciation of the importance of the cutorprise by liberal subscrip- signs. That it will prove a paying in+ vestment is beyond question. Manager Boyd gunrantees eight por cent inter- o8 on the stock and agrees to lease it for a long term of years. This, to- gether with the increase in the value of the property, makes the investment » profitable one from the start. | ous states, and that there shall be no | the reapportionment is made upon the | festly intended to thwart the avowed ! purpose T0 THWART GERRYMANDERING. | The bills introduced into both | branches of congress, providing that | representatives of the Ly-first con- | gress shall be elected from the districts | as they are now arranged in the vari- | redistricting of congress districts until reports of the censusof 1890, is mani- democ to the Ohio of lature of atic legis- redistrict that state in & way to secure a majority of the delegation in the next congress. Ohio has twenty- one reprosentatives, of-whom sixteen are republicans and five democrats, The democratic proposition is to so arrange the districts as to give that party seventeen of the representatives and the republicans but four. The ground of justification for this proposed action is the fact that the republicans several years ago vedistricted the state in their interest, though this was retal- iatory, the fiest gerrymander in Ohio having been made by the de mocrats. It is not to b denied that o fal ar- rangement of the congress districts in that state than now exists isto be de- sivod, but it is also apparent that the radically partisan scheme of the demo- crats would not improve the situation or bein the interest of a just representa- tion of the people. Admitting the par- tisan character of the present arvange ment, which gives sixteen republican representatives for four hundrod and sixtoen thousund voters, and only five demogratic vepresentatives for three hundred and ninety thousand voters, it most be obvious thatif the demo- cratic plan were carried out the injus- tico it would work would be much more seriou; On the basis of the last presi- dentinl vote in Ohio, the democratic representatives chosen under tha pro- posed redistricting arrangement would represent an average of only a little over twenty-three thousand democratic voters, while the average for the repub- ican representatives would be over one hundred thousaud vepublican voters. The most extreme partisan, with any sense of fairness, will not at- tempt to justify a plan that contemplates so pulpable and grave a wrong as th Yet it is not to be doubted that if no check is put upon the democratic legisluture of Ohio it will carry the proposed plan into ef- fect. Whether congress has the authority to provide such a check may be a ques- twun. The constitution confers upon congress the power to alter atany time by law the reguiations made by the state legislatures as to the times, places and manner of holding elections for repre- sentatives, but this evidently does not include the right to ssay how the congress districts in a state shall be arranged. That would seem to be distinetiy a pre- rogative of the legislature with which congress can not iuterfere, and the remedy for the wrongful and unjust em- plovment of which can be appiiel only by the peoplo of the state. Obviously if congress can interpose to provent a state legislature from redistricting, it ean go farthor and say how a legislature shall arrange the congress di triets, the one being manifestly a legical cocollary of the other. Gereymandeving is an abuse that ought to be done away with. Both parties have been about equally guilty of practicing it, and neither hus -de- vived any real or permanent advantage from it. But its removal must be ef- feeted by the people, and it is not clear that congress can do anything to con- tribute to that result. The matter raises a new question regarding the powers of congress, the discussion of which will be noted with ve consid- eruble interest. SILVER NOTES IN B London correspondents assert that Kngland is about to take the lirst steps in bimetallism by issuing one pound silver notes. According 1o the latost information it isuot proposed toi these notes on bullion, but on minted coin, following the present policy of the United Stales treasury, rather than the plan proposed by Sec- GLAND, continue to e | theiradvantage. retary Windom. [n this way it is suid the goverument will make a profit of near thirty-five per cent. It is undevstood that the chancellor of the exchegeur will utilize this to call in the present large stock of underweight sovereigns with which the banks are now encum- bered. The design of this 1s to quiet the scruples of the conservative bank- ers, who have shown a strong hostility to the : proposal of Mr. Goshen for an 1ssue of silver notes, Tt is natural that so radical a project as this, contemplating o most important departure from the long-muintained financial policy of Ingland, should have created a great deal of excitement among the bimetallists, and stimulated them to an of~ fort to better perfeet their organizu- tion for a vigorous campaign during the session of parlinment, The fact that nothing was said in the quoen's epeech vegarding this subject has uo parti lar significance, .It is well understood that the ministry as a whole is not com- mitted to the proposed plan, and it is not certain whether the chancellor of the exchequer hus any support for it among his .ministerial colleagues, Under these circumstances it would naturally receive no veference in the enunciation of the programme of the ministers. Besides, if put ioto effect it will be simply as an experiment, But it isby no meaus tobe assumed that because it does not figure us a part of the goverament’s an- nounced scheme of legislation it will not receive consideration, Further developments in this matter will be watched in this country with peculiur interest, not for the reason that an issue of twenty million dollars in silver uotes by England would have any vory marked physical effect upon the silver market of the world, but be- cause of the moral influsnce which such a doparture would have, For there is every reason to believe that once the people of England were made fu miliar with the use of silver notes that form of currency would become a permanent part of the circulation, with a steadily increasing demand for it. The effect of this would be to gradually and surely overcome the popular pre- judice in timt country against silver, | and to lend the nation by steady steps out of the monometaliic rut to which it | has &0 long persistently adhered, bimetallistsof England can be depended on to take full advantage of the encour= aging situation and to viorously press The party has gained muterially in strength during the past year, both numerically and in the character of its new adherents, and the silver question in Kngland is no longer a tabooed subject, but receives serious and respectful attention from ull classes. ONE OF OMAHA'S NEEDS. One reason why Denver and Kansas City have attracted a larger number of investors from abroad than Omaha is because those cities are built up solidly of brick. A city built of brick and stone creates the impression of stability that inspives confidence. But building of brick and stone 1s still much cheaper in Denver and Kanse y than it is in Omahu. This is al- most inexplicable. There is an abun- dance of the raw material for making brick cheaply in Omaha. Labor is, if anything, cheaper here than it is in Denver. It is simply a question of enterprise, capital and push. With all her brick- yards, and brick making facili there are not two millions of brick in stock in Omaha today. More brick huve been sold by our dealers this win- ter than during auy previous season, and at prices way above what they should be. In fact, the brick makers are in their own light. 1t is to their interest that every house built hence- forth should be of brick. When the frame house becomes untenable and brick structures are given the preference there will always be a demand for their wares. But before this change is brought ahout we must have n large and steady supply of brick at much lower rates than now prevail. Brick manufacturing has made great des within the past few years by the introduction of labor-saving machinery and improved processes. Omaha is up with the times in every other respect and there isno reason why she should be ingging behind other great cities in the building material that has been found most desirable. Morvever, the bulk of all the money expended in brick making would remain und circulate at home while the frame house necess involves the purchase of material must be imported from u great distance. THE meeting of the Interstate Com- merce Railway association in Chiengo on Tuesday apoears to have been fruit- less. The committeo charged with the duty of prepuring a revised agreement _had not completed its labors, and it would appear from the report of what transpired that there is little need of its continuing them. The principal object of a modified agrecment is to make it harmonize with the teaffic arrangement between the Union Pacific and Northwestern, which Chairman Walker decided was in violation of the existing agree- ment. Only by such molifications can these two rouds be held in the associa- tion. But if this concession is made to them several other roads will drop the assoclation. Thus the situation re- mains as perplexing and embarrassing as ever, and if Chairman Walker and his associates in framing a new agreec- went can find a wuy out that will be satisfactory to all theywill be entitied tothe very highest kind of credit. The obvious inferouce, however, from the present state of affairs is that there is no general desire among the railroad presidents to continue the **geatiemen’s agreement,” and that the efforts of their omployes to patch up some new arrange- ment is a waste of time. The associu- tion is now practically inoperative, and appears very likely to remain so. THE Bry observes with deep emo- n that the distinguished paving flvm of We, Us & Co. is creating o painful commotion in Denver. Here in Owaha, where it grew and fattened on the fa- vor of public officinis, its operations were limited to sowing rotten cedar blocks where they would bring the greatestrprofits, but in Denver the firm is musquernding under new colors. The Denver Republicun is so enthusi- ustic for asphalt that it commits the unpardonable blunder of dubbing We, Us & Co. as “the stone paving ring,” composed ‘“‘mainly of Hugh Mur- ph Con Gallagher and Jim Creighten.” Murphy has not been a member of the firm for these many years. [t was the one regret of his life that he was inveigled into the combin- ation, while young and unsophisticated, but a brief glance at its internal work- ings shocked his notions of fair deal- ings and forced him to withdraw. The Republican has been imposed upon. What it pleasantly terms the “‘mala- dorous firm of We, Us & Co.” of Omaha is in reality the asphalt ring of Denver. The firm was recently reor- ganized and reinforced in this city, and at once trausferred its hindquarters to the Colorado capital, where it endeav-~ ors to pose as a public benefactor. A leopard cannot change its spots, nor can We, Us & Co. do the ostrich act successfully. —— FOR ten years or more western states have struggled in the courts to compel the Pullman company to pay its just share of taxation. Every attempt has met with the assertion that itisa cor- poration of Tilinois, paid full taxes in that state and should ot beé subjected to double taxation. Ata recent meets ing of the Illinois stute board of equali- zation the company resisted assessment, claiming that its property was assessed in other states. Notwithstanding the ovidence presented to the board that the company success- fully evaded taxation in every state, the members reduced the assess- ment to one-tenth 1ts value, and made up the deficit by increasing the assessed value of farm property. This action demoustrates that the Pullmae com- pany is the richest and most suceessful tax shirker 1n the country. Possessing property valued at millions and operat- ing in every state in the union, it re- fuses to bear its proportion of public The | TOURSDUA™Y , e - burdens, while profiting by the privi- [ leges it enjogs. The Illinows incident disposes of the false claims of tho man- agers, and ‘the fact brought out should be laid belaee the courts in which tax suits against the company are now pend- ing. gy THERE is blood on the moon that shines upon : Kansas. Petitions are pouring in_ \ipon Governor Humphrey of that state urging the immediate re- moval of “Insurance Commissioner Wilder, who i3 charged with ‘‘using his official position for the purposo of advancing the interest of the old line monopoly life insurance organizations, diserediting and vilifying friendly so- oieties and life insurance associations, transacting business on the national premium plan of insurance, and thus preventing the citizens of the state from insuring their lives in other safe and relinble associations; all thisis in direct violation of the laws of the state and to the injury of the people.” Advices from Topuka in dicate that Commissioner Wilder is mot in the least disturbed. It is confidently predicted that he will not be removed because he is simply vursuing the policy of protecting the state against all assessment companies as provided by law, Kansas has per- sistently barred out all the mutual in- surance companies that are operated upon the assessment plan, whether by benevolent societies or by corporations. nce to Posterity, Chicagn Tribunc, North Dakota legislawors who ara selling themselves to the lottery swindlers are painting blushes of shame ou the cheeks of their unborn grandchildren gt e 1 An Admirable and Excellent Way, inaianapolis Journal, ‘There is only one way for & minority to rule, and that is to appeal to the peoplo and obtain a majority, This is an admirable and an excellent way, and bas the merit of boing in accordance with popular govern- ment. - Revolutionary Methods. Fhiladelphin Press. 1f the methods which the West Virginia democrats have taken o seat a governor and to secure certiticates for three congress- men from that state are to be permitted, then the experiment of free, representative government might as well be abandoned in this country. e Advantage of the L cense System. Roston Globe, “The 530 liquor dealers in Providence who are obliged 1o pay a licendo heve declared a war of externingtion upon the unliconsed dealers who coutinue to seli. Horein is seen auother advantage of the licenso system. It watkes the licensed dealers the most effoctive supnorters of the law. ———— b Oklanoma. Chicagn News, Another chaptor in the gradual foroing of the red man to submit to tho march o civil- ization 1s marked by the opening of the Sioux reservation to settlers. It is to bo noped that the disgraceful nistory of ihe Okalahoma scitlement will not be repeated in the opening up of the Sioux resorvasion. ‘Tho splendid heritage is worthy of a more honorabie introduction to the uses of civiliza ton, ) g Out Sadiy Decry et Seikee The lobby now 1s found not near so much 1n the house as in the senute, says the Cin- cionati Cowmoreinl Gozotte. Way?! The scnate represents lobbies rarely, winle the bouse 18 neurer to the provle. ‘There is a responsibility of the members of the house to the people that does not belongto the scnators, because the ballot-box in this re- ward is of far more consequence than a vote in the legislative body. The British govern- ment, 1w order W puta check uvon variia- men organized the beuse of lords. Thne members of this body are not elected by the people. They are born. But Liwe has out lived the lords. In like manner, or uearly 80, time Las outlived our senate. It is true, 1t is not blood that fills the seats in our sen ate, as in the house of lords, but we substi- tute money for blood, and of the two mouey 18 probably the worst. We should not care 1o be called upon to select between thesc, however. The real and direct voice of tho people 18 to be preferred to cither hereditary blood or accumulated wealth, Rem e R ‘That Corn Bat» R Atehison Champion. The resuit of the couference at Topeka on Suturday last between Governor Hum- phrey, the state board of railroad com missioners and otner promiucat Kuusas citizeus and the represeatatives of the various railronds doing business in tnis state, resulted in a reduction of the through corn rate from Kuusas points 10 Chic and St. Louis of ten per cent ou the 100 pounds. On its fuce this seems 1o bo quite a re- duction, but by examinng the matter closely it will bo discovered that, in fact, it is only a very slight reduction. in reality, by a careful reading of the lot- ter sent by the trafic managers to Goveruor Humphrey as published in the Topeka Capital of the 0th inst., it will b neen that the reduction only appliss to through rates, which means corn shipped from some in- terior I{ansus point to Chicago or St. Louis, but it does not upply to corn shipped from interior Kanwsas points to Atchison, Leaven- worth or Kunsas City, ‘Thus, the Kansas' farmer or denler ship- ping only to Missouri river points has gained ctically nothing by the reduction. ‘Tha benefit only uccrues to through shivments, the effect of whiol is & divect discrimination against Kaunsas buyers and shippers who ship only to Migkdliyi river points. ‘What then, the Champion asks, has been gained for the Kgnsas farmer, dealer and shipper by the proposed reduction? Practi- cally nothing at all, So far a8 having d rived any benefit of having seoured uny prag tical result the Kansas furinor and shipper stands iust where he did before the meeting of this conferonce. He Is still required to pay the sumo old fate on corn Kkipped from interior Kausay pownts 1o Missouri river points, and the only way he van derive even the small benefil, the reduction provides is 1o ship his corn through to Chicago or st Lous. e . ‘The farmers ¢f [Causas through their rep- resensatives as| for a reduction of 60 per cent on the corn rate in Konsas on Kansas roads, This wag, ranted, but a through rate instead was gri for the purpose of deceiving the pubjio, under tho pretense of benefting tl ‘I'he ral antl their allies, newspapers, etc., have, bending the sgitation of th emergenoy corn rate, been claiming that & reduction of the rate would not help the furmer; that it would only benefit the deal- ers at the laxge graia conters ke Clicago or St, Lous, substantiate this claum, and evidently with thay design 10 mod—to make Rood their prediction, they 'have, by refus. ng to reduce the local rate ana by placing the reduction on the {:ugl: rato, contrib- uted to that very end— able to turn around and say—''We told you so.” A reduction.in the local rate—in the state, would benefit the IKansas farmer and ship- r. A reduction simply in the through rate n-&h only tho dealers at the termival poin What the Kansas farmer and shipper de- mand and should have is @ reductiou of th local corn rate, and this aione 1s the relief required, 1u wuie instance the uflw &ers have tried, as often befo: trafic mana- re, to decelve and humbug the people. They have refused to grant the reduction asked and their re. fusal will resuit in continuing_the agitation and ultimately 1n compelling them to accedo to the reasouable demands of the Kansas farmers, The result of the Topeka conference, it may 88 well be understood, is by no menans satisfactory, having failed to securo the re duction demanded. Governor Humphrey and the committeo ropresenting the farmers did their daty, and although they falled to accomplish their ob- ject they are entitled to tho thanks of those whom they represonted, for trying to secure & helpful reduction, - Prohibition fn Kansas. Kansas City Times, A correspondent in Grantyille, Kan., writes that he voted for St. John when that emi- nent prohibitionist was a candidate for'ro- cloetion. Buing a strong temperance man ho accopted the conclusion that if the pro- hibition law were accepted by the groat majority of tho people and rigidly enforced 1t would be a long stop toward social moral- ity. He now, after obso tion and meditation of over seven years, decides that there is no patent process by which morality can be manufactured to order and that criminal law would be better confined to its province of punishing actual offenses against recognized public and vrivate righte, Politicians bave dragged the subject into the arena of partisan politics and undertake with whip and spur to drive thewr following in with it 80 thut their solfish aspirations for notorioty, oftice or plunder may be gratified. Private objects instead of the furtherance of moral- ¥ are toe uses to which prohibition 1s put. The correspondent behieves that the causeof temperance can be best advanced by going back and undoing what quack politicians have done. Privato morality and restraint in the use of intoxicants should be left to the family, the church, tho school and to socioty. The correspondent in his disgust at the re- proach which bad methods and bad politi- cians have brought upon prohidivion goes furthier than does the Limes. In these col- umns it has ulways been admittod thatethers arcmany counties in Kansas where the peo- ple ars so largely in favor of prohibition that it can be enforced. ‘'ho local option system gives t) them the privilege of pre- venting the sale of liquor and the judgment of most states has sottled down upon thav compromiso belween license and total pro- hibition. In Missouri the double system of high liceuse for large towns and counties of varicd populatiou and prohibition for agri cultural counties where public sentiment de- mands and can enforco it, has been found Kansas thore are many communities where prohibition is an unquestioned evil, The olections have proved that the peoplo wish to exchango it for a better law, Des potically insisting that the whole population of the state shall, like penitontiary inmates, wear one costumé produces discontent wnd hardship. Local government 1s the strength of the republic. - The people will not be contented or free under any other arrangement of so- cial affuirs. Under the contrary system which prevails in Kansas they ure not con- tented and nobody is_bettor informed of the content than each politician in Topeka who is tied by policy to constitutionat pro- uibition. Amoug themselves the politicians admit that unless the rising tide of resub- mission can bo checked soon, the point of stoppage will bo passed and constitutional prolbition wiil be throwu into the scrap heap with other broken up machiuery for doing what 0o varicd and prosperous indus- triul state wants or will hawe done. Among the voters who cali most loudly for the chunge to local government in strictly local affairs are thousands like our correspondent, who voted for St. John in 1852 and who are the more anxious to undo the wrong which , with the best intentions, but errono- belped to put into effect. THE AFTERNOON TEA. I kisseqt her lips, then “Pardon ! cried; I did not mean to do it, dear Marie,” @ kiss I might have pardoned,” she re- plied, “But never, never your apology "’ Cholly—Lam practiciog oa the typawriter every day now. Mol thought there s a remarkable improvement in your courting here latel Mrs. Secker—I have two daughters in so- ciety thi d I'm on the go all the tune. Your daughter isn't going out _much, e, Mrs, Found—Oh, no. You sce, rov eugaged last October and doesn’t have to. 1o an English theater recently the orches- tra between the acts was playing verv loud Iy and two ladies wnafront row were en deavoring to counverse at the same time. ‘They baa 10 raise their voices considerably, aud as the orcestra suddenly reachied a low passage the voice of one of the ladies becatne cruelly distiocr just as she remarked, I wear silk underclothes.” “I hear your busvand is quite a gallant. Do vou ever find any letters in his pocket! “Only the ones I give him to mail."” Duke—Be mine, Miriam. 1 lay ali me titles at thy feet. Miriam—Go slow, Duke. Idon't care for titles, LeU's s your deeds. Agnes—I should think those long tunnels would be very dangerous while \raveling. Mabel ~They are, if you are not engagod- T pushed the wavy golden locks IFrom oft her forchead fair, And where a frown had lately boen A kiss I printed there. 1 hold the tresses shinning fair As yollow buttercup, Was that a good Kiss, love?” said 1, Aud she replied, “Haog up. " Some girls want to bo safe, and 8o always liite to go well armed. How fraukly the girl of sixteen adwits that she 13 un old muid ! When a young wan of determination wants 4 girl he proposes to get her, 11 a follow. in the sprng, springs & pros posal on @ girl, he,in the autuimy, Kutumarey her. ‘e girl of the period is one the young fol- lows ali like to colon, especially 1f sue in vites them to comma-again, A love jubiles” is the latest velebration devised. On the occasion of “the <ixth cen- tenary of the loves of Dante and Beatrice' o grand demonstration in honor of the tender pussion will bo held at the Politeuma at Flor- cove, aad will be kept up for five weeks, bo- ginuing with May 1., There will be an oxhi- bition of the areat works of tha greatest women: 4 serics of tableaux vivants, re ducing the vrincipal scenes of the Nuova,” and a conference on love, at which vapers will bo read. A prize is offered for the most eloquent discourse, and the compe- tition ix open to all comera. Of course, there will be portraits of Daute and Beatrico and a complete collection of books about them, ~ STATE AND SRRITOIRY. Nebraska dottings. A musical society uas been organized at Republican City. A subscription list is being circulated to build a fifth German chureh at Sutton, The Thornhill murder trial has cost Ham ilton county in the neighborhood of $5,000, Louisville has voted bonds to build u free wagon bridge over the Platte river av that point. The Dodge County Teachurs' association wiil bold its quarterly meeting at Scriboer February 22. Cheyenne connty will pay 40 cents per capita & day for tho care of its baupers tho ensuing year. White Caps are causiug trouble at Peru by sending threatening letters to a number of residents of town. ‘The new opera block and bauk building Holdrege is nearly completed and will ba roady for occupancy soon, The Table Rock Creamery association last ear expended 83,163 on kmprovements wod Yut $435 on the year's business. ‘The editor of the Bertrand Herald has dropped the editorial “we" and now speaks o his subscribers in the first persvn. lifty citizens of Ainsworth have succumbed the gold fever and hava located claims in the Keys Paba county “mineral belt. Governor Thayer aod staff are to attend the aunual ball of company B, Nebraska Nu- tional Guards, at Sution on the 21st 1ost, Steps are being taken to organize a trot- ting cirouit embracing the towns of Albion, Ceuntral City, Loup City, Arcadis, Broken Bow, Ord, Greeley Center and Cedar Kap- ids or St. Paul. Tho schome Is to have ten towns in the circuit and operate it in con neotion with the fall fairs. Perry Yeast and throoof his hired men are under “arrest at Whitman, Grant county, charged with stoaling and batchering cattle, An extensivoand interesting programme has been preparcd for the meeting of the Nobraska Improved Stock Breeders' associ- Aation to be held at Lincoln February 18, 10 and 20, Throe young women of Chadron who do not figure vory extensively at ohurch socia- bles attired tflomncll’as in malo attire tho other might and for an hour or two they walked about the city, went in and out of the prinoipal saloons, thet dozens of men who are supposed to know them, and were unrecowniz The outraged dignity of the city authorities assorted itself and the mas quoraders were finally arrested and fined $10 and costs, Says the Valentine Republican: A young lad livine about fourteon miles northeast of this place brought to town a nugget of gold which he sold to O. W. Morey for §1.50. He claimed to have round the nugget in a can- yon in this county. This report created a Ygold fever' among some of our citizens, who immediately set out in search of the lad to obtawn his name and the truth of the re- ported gold find, He declinod giving his name or whore ho resided, buu after proper invostigation tho “‘George Wash youth was identified as being L v, who probably had ‘‘faked" et from his father, as it is raported . (George at one time was located in the mining district of California, and no doubt brought the nugget to this county. [f the investigation had not been made Cherzy county undoubtedly would have beeu re- ported as one of the “gilt-edged” counties of Nebraska, lowa Itews. Marshalltown's building improvemonts lust year footed up £300,000. There are 641 miners cmployed in the W peilo county coal mines, Ior threatening to kill bis wife C. E. Lind- quest ia in jail at eokuk in dofauli of $5,000 ail. £ldora needs moro school facilities and it is proposed to levy a $,000 tax to erect a new building. A $7,000 butter and cheesc factory is to bo erected at Adair, all of the stock having been subscribed, While nursing her sick mother at Spencer's Grove, Mrs. Sam Kelso of Walker dropped dead from apoplexy. Au Bnglish syndicate is reported to have sccured an option on four Dubuque brower- ies, aud will wake the purchase if the pro- hibition law is modified. Noel Bradford, who nearly four yoars ago attempted to murder a tolegraph operator at Davenvort, was arrested just as he had tinished u term for burglary in Joliet una has been brought back to Iowa to answer for the crime. Steps ave being tuken o organize an fown socicty of the “Sous of the Revoiution," and Bishov Perry of Davenport has been com- missioned by the national society to carry on the work in the state. Applications for membership are solicited from the dcacend- avts of any officer or soldier serving 10 the army navy of the United States during the war for independence, or as w member of congress or the state legislatures furthoring the cause of freedom. 1t is immaterial whethor tho line of descent is on the paternal or maternal side. An effort 18 being made to organizo the society before February 22. About taventy years ago Alfred Barr and J. K. Woods of Oskaloosn wero called on to pay a security debt for M. S. Barr, also of that place, for & They pail it becauso Mr. Barr was then insolvent. His son, Cary C. Barr, loft home shortly after and went wost aud south, but be did not forget the debt that his father owed and justly acknow!- edged. The other day Alfred Barr received a draft from Cary for §,470 and Mr. Woods ono for the samo - amount—being just doublo the original dabt paid by the men. When young Barr left home he hod mothingz but the clotnes on his back, an honest heart and o level head, but now he is comfortabiy fixed in worldly goods. Tho debt had been outlawed many years, the note had beeu caa- celled and there was no evidenco of the ¢ istence of the debt, suve in the mewory of those concerued. Wyamine. The Union Pacific contracted for 5,000 tons of Laramie ice for the Denver murket. Hon, W, H. Halliday of Laramio has gono to Washington in the interest of the statd of Wyoming. “The bivgest deal iu Cheyenne realty ovor consum mated was closed lnst weel, §350,000 being involved and 2,000 acres of laud chung ing hands, The latest sporting cvent at Newcastle was a fight last week between & bull dog and o badger. Tho battle only lasted sixteon sec- onds and the badger came out victorious. “Ihe seriff nt Laramie has roceived notico from the supreme court of its decision in the Bluck case, und an_order to execute the prisoner on ‘the 25th inst. The death watch has boen placed over the condemned man. With its center at Lusk, there is in the eastern portion o well advanced movement for the division of Converse county by the croation of Niobrara, with Lusk s the capi- tal, According to the Herald moetings have beon hela andthe project endorsed and a potition signed by 832 votors, Ora Macy, fifteen yoars of age, wentupon the Ietterman wood reservation recontly and bagged five of a band of seven black tail deer, says the Glenrock Graphic. The ani- iy were discovered in a deep pocket and tho boy shot with a rifle from o'orhend. Thoy apparently could not detormine the locality from which the shots were directed and knew not what direction to flee. On tho same day Ora's uncle, Charlos Macy, shot . fioo dey io the meadow a few rods irom the house, POLITICS IN SALT LAKE. Kighr of the Liberals Against Mormon Sapremac City, Feb. ecial to Tie 18k£. | Before this reuches your readers, the tolegraph will have done its work and the news, whatever it may be, of the resuit of the clection to be held next Monday, Febru- 10, will be koown to the world, Never- theless, and perhaps all the more, sinco the election has been held, an_account ot tho ef- forts made previous to the day of the great, battie by the two leading parties in the city may be of interest. The vopulation of the cily is so consiierably Mormou, in spite of the large a ion of liberals or Geatiles, that the idew of wresting from them the con trol of the city had something cbimerical, until the election of three liberals for the leglslavure last August showed that there was enough dlsloyalty in the ranks of the Mormon chureh to make the undertaking possible, or atleast plausible, It is true that the liberal element had placed a ticket in the field several times, before, but no ono ex- pected it 1o be elected, 'Ihis time, however, the chance of success seemed 50 great Lhat the most extraordimary efforts were made 1o gaiu the viclory, Ihese efforts had the ef- fect of stimulating the church party in their turn, and, s & consequenca, there ook place such an extragrdioary political campaign as but few cities have ever known, It was worse than & mere political campaign, 1t was really a fight for life by the Mormon church as u politicsl power on the one side, aud for American rule and the triumph of the priucipies on which A i i is based on the other, party west by the “people’s - part, the latter styled itself the party, That the liberal party, if 1t succumbs this time, 1ust surely triumph in vhe end, cannot be doubted by anyons who has noticed the immense - crease of the Cientile element during the past year. Unforlunately, only compara: tively few of the new cowers are entitled to vote, aud illegal voting will be strictly pun- ished. 1in order to have the right to vote a man must be an American citizen and have lived for six montha in the territory prior 10 registration, which is equivalent to nearly eight mantmrlor o eloction, because re, tration ce: about the widdle of - cember, The remarkable thing about the campaign was the enthusiasm dispiayed and the epergy shown by both partics, Yesterday and to- day brought the climax. Yesterduy in the oveniog, Friday, February 7, ocourred the final parade of the liberals and tonight wit. nossed the final parade of the people's party. It is not easy to estunate the number of men out in rank aud file on either evening, but it is safe to say that ubout 8,500 paraded Main street on elther night. Maix street, like all the original streels of the city, is & fine wide name of the stroot, linod with many Ane buildines Starts on the east side of the temple runs down southward about a mile. and On th owd was assombled to witness the parad: The liberals had the advantage of w brilli men on Main strect are mostly 1i Addod to the illumination there was « tinous blazo of red and greon firo and a per fect fusilade of sky rockets and Itora candles, ‘T'he offoct was woird and magi in tie extromo. Ae the troops pussed b choer aftor choor wont up, and, Lrass ban nowe as to remind onoe of the roaring of sen when it breaks its billows on a rocky ston Both parties had most of their mon uc formed, and the Iiberals in particular hal taken great paius in trainiug fora grand military display. o of their marchir clubs, notably the flambesux and Scots Zouave corvs, oarned great and deserved praise. All were armed twith torchos or flambeaux, and there was uo Inck of materia 1o add to the effectivencas of the dis The enthusiasm on the night of the libera parade was unquestionably far greater than that shown on the night whon the people's party paraded, that is by tho specululors for as 1o those who took an active part, nll showed the greatest animation and intes ‘The remarkablo thing about all this 18 that 80 many took part that the whole tered with an almost unparatled energ, devotion inwo the campaign, and that they succeoded 1n producing a spoct; s is seen but rarely, if at all, in place. ‘The battlo may bo lost for the liberals this time, but they are sure to win in the end. The city has sturted on a ocarcer of grout prospority, and it doos not seem likely that even another two years of Mormon ruly could check this career. The pressuro of the liveral element is too strong, and no power is able to understand it for uny lengt of time. Even the church party has be como awake to the demands of the new ora, as is apparent from their having introduced many improvements, such us an extensivo systom of electric car lines, sowers, ot Whether the liberals win or lose, the spirit of American progress has invaded tho and no other city on this continent presents finer chances for an advance in population and wealth than this, the home of the Mormom church, now tast becoming tho homo of Americans who see in tho Mormon caurch a danger and a disgrace C. A F . e ety A Protest from New York New Yonrk, Feb, 1 To the Tuk Bee: The deaf-mutes of this city have read the articles of Prof. Bell avout the mothod in the Nebraska institute for deaf mutes, ‘The articles ware reproduced in the Deaf-Mutes' Joarnal. We desire to criticise this theory in defeuse of the deaf-mute com- munity, We doclare that the articulation systems which are pursued in several deaf- mute schools are n farce and a humbue, Most ot the graduates from the respoctive schools are mnot using the lip readiag, but they aro confined to sign language The deaf-mute couventions have con demned Prof. Bell's theories on intormar ringes of the deaf, and when he tried to in duce congress to make laws probibiting deal mutes from intermarrying, wo fought tha propositicn successfully, as congress decitio.l that such a Jaw would 'be unconstitutional and void. JUNS O A Prosident National Republican Leag Deaf-Mutes. it THE LEAGU NEW TACK. Has Given Up Defeating tho Brotherhood by Liaw, NEw Youk, Feb. 12.—|Special Telegram to Tue Bee. | —The league managers have vir tually acknowledged that their suits against® the players will amount to nothing, and.that they must prepare to fight at ounce. Until lately they cherished a hope that their appoal to the law would bring about the extermin ation of their opponents and cven Judge O'Brien's decision in favor of Ward had lit tle offect on them at the time. All this hi changed now. The old bold front is now a timid one here in dow York, The matter was given dircet attention by representatives of the New Yorks, Brooklyns, Jersey City and Newarks. In a private meeting they had yesterday it was agreed that all cluby must stand together and fight the common enemy, let the outcome be what it mignt. A carcful wateh will be kept on the players' league clubs lerezbouts, ana when they arrange a game tho national league clubs will secure a club to play with them on the smwne day 80 as to draw a crowd from tho players’ league game as far as possible, An lnterview With oustice Brew LEsvENwoRTir, Kan., Feb. Spe to Tie Bee—Justice D. J. Brewer is the city and will remain & few days fimshing up some private busiuess, In an interview Justice Brower deniel the story gomg tho rounds of the press to tho-effect that or: his arvival in Washington he had registered “D, J. Brower, Missouri.” The rogistration was done by a clerk, and was merely a clerical error. Justice Brewer said that Spencer Reod was thoroughly in harmony with his party in his course in tho house. Speakiug of bis successor on the circuit beuch, the justice swid: I was told by the Attorney generul last week that in all prob ability a circait judge would be appointed a few days, My opinion is that the npnoint ment will g0 to either Judge Hallett of Col- orado or Judgo Shields of Missouri. 1 ut first thought it would be Judge Parker of Arkansas. - A Mother's Distress. BAy Ciry, Mich,, Feb. 12.—Fire destroyed the house of John Metevia, five miles from this city, last night during the temporary absence 0f the parents and an infant wis burned to a crisp. Mrs, Metavia is @ ruving maniac this morning. i R A¢ Damage from an Eenption. SN Fiaxcisco, Peb, 12—The steamor Gaelio, which arrived late last evening from Hong Kong and Vokohama, briogs aivices of tho eruntion of Mount Zoo, in Jupan, Ju Uary 16, wrich coused destruction to orov: erty aggregating $2,500,000. Only the loss of one life 18 received. SICK HEADACH Mouth, Couted Tongue. Pain in the Side, TO PID LIVER, &c. They regulato the Bowels. and prevent Constipation and Piles. The smallest and easiest to take, Only one pill dose, 40 inavial. Purcly Vegetable, Pri 25 cents. OARTER MEDIOINE 00., Prop'rs, Now Yor LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Subactibed & guaranteod Cupltal, '5%3,%%% Paid in Capital vy rd bonds; negotiutes Buys and sells stocks commorcinl 10061V eN Gud exeCutes Uity cl 4 sud trusteo of corpora- tlons; takes charge of propeity; collects tont OmahalLoan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK 8. E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Stroets. Pald {n Capital .. . ... $50,000 Bubsoribed & guaranteod capitul,... 100,000 Liability of stockholders, ... ...... 200,000 8 Per Cent Interest Paid on Deposits FRANK J, LANGE, Casior. Orricrns: AU, Wyman, president; J.9. Brown, vice president; W, T, Wyman, treasirer. unu‘xuruun. A, U, Wyman, J, H, Millard, J. J irown, Guy C. Barton, ', W, Nash, «hios. 1. Kimbull, Gieo, B, Lake, Loans in any amount made on City & Farm Property, and on Collateral Security, at Lowest Current Rates I | mreater part of this distance an im ) it illumination of the houses, for the business and drum corps holping, there' was such 4 ~ litor of_ -~