Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1890, Page 4

EBRUARY THE DAILY BEE B ROSBWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. i TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily and Sunday, One Year e B0 00 Bix months “ 500 “Three Months 250 Sunday flee, (e Vear, 200 Weekly liee, One Yen 200 OFFICES, Omaha. e Buflding. Chisago Oftice, 57 Ro ok: New Vork, Rooms 14 and Washington, No, 513 Fourteonth Street. Conneil Blutfs, No. 12 Pear] Streat, South Omaha, Corner N anl 2ith Streets. CORRESPON DENCE. All communications relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed to tho Editor 1l Department, BUSINESS LETTERS. All businessiotters and remittances snould Ve nadressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omahn, Drafts, checks and Postoffics orders 10 be mane payable to the order of the Company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. Bulldine Farnwn and Seventesnth Streets The Bee on the Trains, There is no excuse fora tailureto got Tre b r8 liAve been nof fall supply, Travelers who want 1 can't get it on trains where other Omaha_papers aro carriod are requested to notity Tiie ek, Pleass be particular to glve in all cases full Information us to date, Failiay snd number of train, Give s your name, not for publication or un- neccessary use, but a3 a guarauty of good‘faith. THE DAILY BEE. fworn Statément ot Circulation. § eorqe I, Tzschuck, secretary of Tie Brx Publishing Company, doe the actual cfrcylation of T week ending February 15, Thursday, Feb. Eriaay, Feb. 14 Saturday, Fob. 1h . Average..... ... GE B. TZSCHUCK. fworn to before me and subscribed to in my preseace this 1ith day of Pebruaty, Ac . 10, (Seal.] . FEIL, Notary Public. Etate of Nebraska, ! Conaty ot Douglas. | el George ‘. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Joses nd sivyn that ho s soorotary of Tk Tirx Puplishing Company, that the actual average daily circnlation of THE DAILY BER for the monith of February, 1880, 14906 coples; for March, 1846, 18,804 coples: for ApFl, 1840, 18,659 coples: for May, 1850, 18,699 coples: for . une, 1889, [REM Tuily, 1859, 1738 copies; for August, opies: for' September, 188, 1K710 October, 1889, 18,917 coples; for No- L 19,310 copl T December, 1889, for January, 150, 10, GREORGE B, T7SCHUCK. subseribed m my b 1890, St prico for its surgical whistle. TiE location of the Nebraska Central bridge has not suffered a change for six days. IN 11E world’s fair contest it is. not nbw a question of selecting a site, but ‘whether a fair shall be held. WILL the Pacific railroads accept the terms proposed by the senate commit- te6 ? Will a hungry dog accept a chunk of meat ? I¢ ALL the buildings planned by the architects are built this year, the record 0F 1800 will be the capstone of Omaha’s monumental growth. TnE probl of the Dakotasis the whenceness of the wherewith, or how to0 run stazs govern- mients on empty treasuries. THE search for the boundary between Omuoha and South Omuha is a needless undertuking. That indefinite line will Dbe wiped out by the people before long. THE increaso in bank clearings, build- ing permits and real estate transactions for the past week, furnish substantial evidence of the city’s progress in mid- winter. OVER in Towa they are still investi- gnting the causes of republican defent, but in the mass of causes assigned the leading one is forgotten—the rebellion of the voters agminst legalized hy- pocrisy. IT 18'evident that the unusual warmth of winter weather seriously aflected the weight of county coal, while being moved from the yard to the poor house. The fuel is of such delicate texture that it should be protected from shrinkage by exposure THE proposed Omaha Southern rail- road is another name for the Missouri Pacific cut-off between Omaha and Ne- braska City. The road will materially shorten the distance between the two points and give Plattsmouth the long- desired compeuing line, for which the town proposes to pay a liveral bonus, Tue hberality of the terms to be granted the Ceutral Pacific by the sen- ato bill, compared with the Union F eifio, both in years and interest rate, furnishes the public an accurate measure of the influence which the Central Pacific senator exerts in the house of lords. P.ivate affairs, SETTLERS in the surrounding states have shown their good sense in resist- ing the tempting inducements offered by the bgomers of the Sioux reserva- tion. Reports from Pierre and Cham- berlain indieate that the stampede was confined chiefly to townsite specula- tors. The number of genuine farmers was limited, although overy effort wus made to magnify the rush. plenty of land left for the lundless. But those who own an eighty or a quur ter section in Nebraska will do well by clinging to —— " IF THE county hospital contractors ence in the erection of large buildings, they cér- ainly lacked ueither in constructing lucked wbility and experi their bill of extras. Beautiful blonde brick of their own manufucture from eounty clay, are quoted at eleven dol- lars per thousand, while other yards bave during the past year cheerfuily ecopted soven fnd eight dollars for o better articles Cement at two dollars 8 pound may be eonsidered excessive, butiit must he remembered its cohesive qualities were superbly shown in bind- ing tho.contractors to the county treas- ury for wo years. Common labor at two sud a half & day is cheap when we con- sidér the character of the work aud the wunuffected liberality of the contractors ‘with the peoplo’s masey. Tt is evident that Leland Stanford is not neglecting his There is PRACTICABLE RELIEF. In an interview with the Lincoln cor- respondent of THE BEE, regarding the efforts of the board of transportation to secure a reduction of the corn rates, which resulted in theten per cent con- cession by the railroads, Mr. John Stoen said: “We are in justas good position today, even better, to demand a further reduction.” This may be the case, but the general feeling doubtless is that the failure of the board to obtain a more favorable concession has somewhat embarrassed tho situa- tion so far as the producers are con- cerned, to whom the proposed reduc- tion will Dbe practically worthless. While not necessarily operating as estoppel to a demand for a furtherre- duction, its effect certainly 1s not to encourage a renewal of the demand. Granting that the board did the best it could in this matter, did its duty end there? The people of Nebraska are urgently in need of relief, and there is no promise that they will get it from a reduction of through rateson their pro- ducts. The board of transportation has the authority to regulate local rates. Is it not practicable to do something in this way Lo give relief to the peopie of the state? We have no doubt 1t is, and we yenture to think that if the board would take such action 1t might have a very salu effect upon the railroad managers with respect to through charges. At any rate it could not re- sult in making these more unfavorable than they are, and a direct and decided benefit would accrue to the people. If the board of transportation will honestly endeavor to do something within the scope of its authority 1t is not questionable thatit can help the people of Nebraska quite materially in the present exigency, and perhaps strengthen itself in public confideace. The matter ought to commend itsell to the serious attention of the board, which hns never had offered it a more favorable opportunity to be of service to the people. AT, : T JVE 1T UP. The aemocrats of the house of repre- sentalives have wisely decided not to continue the contest in which for sev. eral weeks they have been uniformly defeated. Their ieader, Mr. Carlisle, after the reading of the journal yester- uid that inasmuch as the house dopted rules which allowed the ng of members present who re- fused to vote, he saw no reason why the journa) should not be approved, and thereupon the democrats for the first time voted to approve the journal. It was & complete capitulation, though made without projudice to the demo- cratic position of hostility to the princi- ple of the new rules. ‘ Mr. Carlisle said the democrats still protested against the practice of count- ing members present and not voting, hut the question could not be decided in the house and would be appealed to an- other forum. This; we take it, means the peop! Representatives to the Fifty-second congress will be elected next November, and undoubtedly the courso of the republicans in the pres- coun ent house will be made to figure prominently in the democratic cam- paigns. The republicans will be pre- pared for this. The course that has re- sylted in o change of the rules of the house, intended to facilitate and expe- dite the transaction of business, and to secure the rightful rule of the majority, was not taken without careful and thor- ough deliberation, and the republicans will not decliue the issue before the people. The reasons they have alveady given for it commend themselves to the intelligent and unprejudiced public judgment. The justification must be made hereafter, in the record of the business of the house. If the majority makes good its assurance to prevent unnecessary delays in legisla- tion and to carry forward the work of the session as rapidly s the proper and adequate consideration of measures will permit, the new policy will be ampty vindicated and its approval by the peo- vle be assured. The republi s in congress tiuve the matter in their own hands, and they will be judged by the result. Meuanwhile the more sensible attitude of the dgmocrats enzourages the hope that the future of the session will show a radical improvemeut in the character of the deliberations of the house, which thus far have not been entirely credita- ble to the intelligence and dignity of that body SCHEMING AGAINST ALLISON. The efforts which the democrats of lowa are said to be making to influence the Farmers’ alliances against Senator Allison ave not likely to prove very dangerous. 'I'hat gnme was played very vigorousiv before Mr. Allison received @ unanimous renomination to succeed himself, and its complete failure ought to have convinced thoso hostile to the senator, democrats and republicans alike, of the utter futility of any at- tempt to array any considerable nortion of the publican farmers of lIown against Senator Allison. The men who are now scheming to do this underestimate the intelligence, the party loyalty and the state pride of the famers. The producers ot Iowa ure familiar with the record of Mr. Allison and koow thut their confidence in him is not misplaced, und those of them who are sincere republicans understund that not only the party inthe state, but in the country, would suffer a great loss by the retirement of Senator Allison from pub- lic life. They appresinte the fact, also, that the distinguished position of their senior senator us u states- man, recognized throughout the country us worthy of the highest office in the gift of the people, reflects honor upon the state, giving it & prominence in national affaivs and before the coun - try which it very likely would not otherwise enjoy, and which every eiti- zen who has a pride in his state should desive maintained. All these consid- erations the republican farmers of lowa have not failed to duly weigh, and they will not now be turned from the con- viction that their own interests and those of the state demand the re-elec- tion of Senator Allison, while hisclaims us o distinguished party leader, emi- nent in the national councils, justify such an endorsement. « But there is another and mo less cogent reason why this schemiug THE Senator Allison must prove futile. Evory republican in the legls- lature ison record in favor of his re- election, and it is not to be presumed that thore is any one of them who could now bo induced t» stultify himself by against an act of recantation. The two or three wh were charged with being hos to Mr. Allison be- foro the caucus were found in line when the time for action came, thus dashing the hope of the opposition that & breach would be made in the republican ranks. The re- sult bound the republicans of the legis- Iature, by every coasideration of honor, to remain faithful t¢# Senator Allison, and every attempt to induce them to repudiate that ebligation implies an aspersion upon their integrity and good faith, which we venture to think no in- telligent republican farmer will allow himself to make. There is no veason, thercfore, to apprehend any great ddwewt _A;,u'l’r the demo- cratic scheming with #the farm- ers’ allinnces, The conditfons are all against the possibility of making such nmovement seriously effective. The republican party of Towa desires the re- election of Senator Allison and its rep- resentatives in the logislature will re- spect the desire. They are solemnly pledged to do this, and every man of them will remain taithful to his re- corded obligation. — PAY OR FIGHT. The Corners were crowded, unusually crowded, and the curbstone was lined with teams of all description. The Jones tragedy was the chief topic of conversation, though the ludicrous efforts of Edward Rosewater to create some disturbance and delay in the new rostoffice matter came in for a share of attention, Real estate and business men who condescended to discuss the dying ef- forts of tho sage of Eighteenth and Farnam were earnest In their denunciation of any attempts to retard Omaha's spring growth and development.—G. M. H. Our amiable and patriotic friend 1s evidently getting very nervous. He suspects that his cherished scheme to unload fifty thousand dollars worth of property upon Uncle Sam for seventy- seven thousand dollars is liable to be upset. Now, really, if Uncle Sam does back out of the bargain which was made between certain way-up dem- ccrats and certain way-up republicuns, before Grover went out of ofiice, who would be to blame? Sarely not the advocates of Eighteenth and Far- nam or Sixteenth and Harney. Who has caused the eight months’ de- in perfecting the transfer of prop- Did anybody opposed to the Hitcheock corners show the slightest disposition to undo the compact which had been ratified under the false pre- tense that it was designed to expedite the construction of the postoffice? Was it not manifest from the outset that Hitchcock and his associates had offered the government property which they did not own, had no right to offer, and the title to which could only be secured by the slow and tedious process of the courts. But we were told that these obstacles were & mere trifle. 'We were assured that even if the appraissment oxceeded the four hundred thousand dollars ap- propriated for the site the men who were backing this selection hud exe- cuted a bond' for fifty thousand dollars to make the title good. Now who has caused all the delay? Why don’t the parties who are going to reap the bene- fits put an end to all litigation by paying the price demanded by Byron Reed and the Folsoms? Is it not the essence of gall for their disinter- ested champion to talk about Rosewater trying to create disturbance and delay? THE BEE violates no confidence when it declares that there is a deep- seated, pent-up feeling of indig- nation among all classes of our citizens at the course that has been pursued by the promotors of = the Dodge street site and especially by Mr. Hitchcock in connection with the pub- lic building. = At the outset the advo- cates of other locations who had as much right to vheir opinions as they bad were shamefully abused, and those who wore in the least promineat were lampooned. They were stigmatized as enemies of Omuha and furiously as- sailed as selfish, mean and mercenary obstructors of the growth of thiscity. A delay of two or three weeks, to give the department exact information as to the relative merits and claims fo daf- ferent sites was magnified and sepre- sented as causing a loss of millions to this city in the way of palatial blocks that were sure to be erected in the im- mediate vicinity of the Planters house. The location was settled in May, and still the owners of the site are wrang. ling. According to Judge Woolworth, who is excellent authority oa title liti- gation, they will be no nearer settling the dispute pending in the courts twelve months hence. ‘We only express the prevailing uni- versal sentiment when we say that Omaha is now ready toasserther rights. Congress has appropriated four hun- hred thousand dollars for the purchase of a public building site more than a yeur ago. Further delay is intolerable. Something decisive must be done, and that soon. THe feeling expressed by Senator Ingalls regurding political affairs in Kuunsas is fully justified by reliable veports from that state. On,natioval questions the banner republican state is as firm us ever, but on loeal and sirictly state questions an early up- heaval is certain. The low prices for farm products has caused distress wnd discontent in the country, while in cities and towns confidence is nope- lessly shattered by strife and disorder produced by the enforcement of prohi- bition. Fullyone third of the republi- cans of tha state have signed petitions t0 be presented to the governor request- ing a special session of the legislature to resubmit the question of probibition to the voters next fall, and the governor is said v have promised to do so if any- thing lhike a majority of the voters ask | it. Ivwill require & two-thirds vole of the legislature to submit the guestion, and fully that nomber are on resord as opposed to resubmission. In the event of refusal, there is no doubt that re- submission will be the chiefl issue in the next legislative campaign, wipiog out party lines and involving the elec- -advertising medium in St, Louis. tion of ccessor to Ingalls. The struggle is no a partisan one. It is a mighty effort to overthrow obnoxious laws whichehve promoted disorder and stimulated adtiawry without producing corresponditrr benefits It is estimated that corn must bring the farmer tiventy cents a bushel to pay a fair interest'on the labor and money invested. T.tss than that price means 81085 to the tiller. The present price of corn in the state will average about fifteen cents a, bushel, which means a loss of one-fourth of the year's labor. This loss can| to a large extent, be pre- vented in the future if the farmers will take advantage of their surroundings, The stock ranges of Colorado and Wy- oming offer a permanent source of re- lief and increased profits. Comvura- tively few stock growers have provided for the feeding and sheltering of stock in winter, and frequent losses are suf- fered in consequence. The Nebraska farmers have a surplus of food and can readily provide shelter. Both interests can be profitably united, and two evils removed. Stock feeding is the best solution of the problem of low pricos. It means a local market fot corn at paying prices and security against loss of stock during stormy winters. THE fluent force of the various juukets tendered congressional commit- tees by the Pacific railroads is em- bossed in golden tints in the report of the senate junketeers. The view of the goyernmeut’s security through the plate glass of parior cars is eloguently painted and commended to the goner- osity of the nation. John M. Thurston could not have penned & more touching appeal for the relief of the stock-hold- ing widows and orphans. ity THE sinecure exploring committee is reported to have discovered a rare spe- cimen of this class, but so reduced in physique from the exhausting work of holding down a chair and drawing & liberal salary, that the members de- cided to give him a morocco cushion and beadrest and send his monthly check by express wagon. The commitee will not be outdone by the ecity in dis- bursing charity Mr. Springer, Be Seated. Chicago Tribune. The majority of the national house of rep- resentatives will now transact the public business. Sit down, Mr. Springer. A Democratic nstitution. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, North Dakota has acted wisely in defeat- ing the lottery scheme. Democratic states should be allowed to retain a monopoly of all this sort of rascality. P e Advantages of the Franch Style. St. Louis Globe-Demaorat., France escorts' the Bourbons ncross the froutier when it gets through with them. Unfortunately, the United States cannot zet rid of 1ts owh Bourbons 8o readily. T b A Vanderbilt Specter. Chicago Times. The family skelcton of the Vanderbilts is now airing itself and trying the music of its rattle in the New York supreme court. Al- though 1t hears the sweet and June-suggest- iva name of Violotitfino less ropulsivp than other witomical horrors of its kind. i il g Significantly Silent. Boston Globe. The queen’s speéch didn't have a word to say aboat the Parnell commission, and when Sulisbury’s attention was called o 1t 'he got up in the house of lords and talked for hatf an hour, and sat down without making any allusion t0 it either. The premier hasgtaken the celebrated advice to Corporal Tanner: “Don't Talk.” — A Common Thing with The Bee. St. Louis Post-Dispateh, That the Post-Dispatch is frequently com- pelled to do what it did yesteraay, publish o twelve-page, soven-column paper, something unheard of among the other afternoon jour- nals of the country, is due to its popularity with advertisers, which in turn is due to its popularity with the reading public. Having a larger local circalation than all the other dally newspapers put together, the mer- chants recognize at once thav it is tho best 1t goes to the people on whom they most depend for custom. Thus the reading public and the advertisers have created in this city the greatest afternoon newspaper in the Unitgd States. . STATE JOTUYINGS, Nebrask A Y. M. C. A. branch is soon to be organ- ized at Ashland. York needs a few more neat and tasty cot- tages to supply the demand. An alliasnce has been formed by the far- mers in the vicinity of Pender. Hastings Kuights of Pythias have declded to erect a building this summer, An Omaha firm is contemplating putting 1o & branch lumber yara at Aurora. Mrs. George Miller, wife of a farmer liv- g near Madison, has become violently in- sane. 3 As the result of the recent revival at Sur- prise thirty-five persons have joined the churen. Roy G. Coddlug of York is now on his way to Africa, where he will engage in mission- ary work. Fairbury had a genuine midwinter mad dog scare lust week and many worthless curs bit the dust. ‘The stars and stripes will bs placed over the Juniata schools with appropriate exer- oises February 21. The era for sod hblises is passing away in Blaine county, and Brewstor is to kave a first-class lumber yend. The Madison creamery has been purchased by Harding Brothepg and it wilk bé in run- ning order by Margh 1. ‘The ladies’ guild.of the Episcopal church at Crete gave an eptertainmeut lust week which netted about $100. Au effort is being- made to extend the boundaries of Hebrom so as %o bo prepared for the coming of the vensus vaker. Hitch & Rathbun,) merchants of Geneva, have been forcad to absign. Their assctsare about $20,000 and ligbilities $15,000. A company has beg’ formed at Hubbell to prospect for coal. drill is already oa the ground aad wo) ill commence shortly, ‘There is & prohaQility that Broken Bow will soon have elecirio lights, thy plaut to be owned by local capjtaliste. ‘I'he city council now bas the matter under sdvisement. Jan Melwr and Frank Prochuska were thrown from a wagon by s runaway teaw at Marsland. The former had by arm broken and 0136 of the latter's ribs wus fract Two gamblers from Aurors while at- temptiog to rob M. J, Kinsey of Hastings at Grand Island, stabbed their viotim twice and 100k his watch and $24 in money. Kiusey will proLably recover, 'Tae two thugs were cauglit and sre now in jwl. lows 1temi. The uew Hotel Juiien at Dubugue will be opeued April 15. ! Furtleld is to bave & new bank with #160,000 capital stock. An extensive creamery plant is to be erected at Seranton City. ‘The haudsome vew opera house at Chero- kee wili bo openea February 24. Burliugton proposes t put down nine TUK miles of paving this year at & costof $100,000. A kick from a horse fractured the akull of the Yittle son of Mr. Luuson of Moorhead. Ten thousand brook trout were planted in the streams in the neighborhood of Dudbuque last wook. For insulting a lady on the stroots of Mar- shalltown, Keese. Koo, an intoxicatod Indian, wis given thirty days ia jail. Walter Miller, a farmor living_near Br tol, bad his arm so badly mutilated in clover-hulling machine that amputation was necessary. One of the long lost dollars of 1506 has been discovered by A. M. lngersoll of Bur- lington. He found it on the leves noar the Mississippi river. Itisina good state of preservation. Wapello 18 serionsly considering tho advis- ability of putting in an_eleotric light plant, orgunizing a building and loan association; forming & company to manufacture paper i the erection of a iarge hotel building and many other needed improvements, Hon. Henry Sabin, superintendent of pub- lic instruction, has been notified that he has boen awarded a goid medal on the oxhibit he had at the Paris exposition. The exhibit consisted of a fuli filo of school reports of Town, together with the laws, circulars and documents, giving a fair exhibit of the man- ner of government pertaining to the state department of public instruction. In the federal court at Keokuk, 1n_the case of Shelby Johnson against Eugenoe Robinson for $10,000 damages, judgment was rendered against the plaintiff with costs. Robinson was proprictor of a “floating museum” and refused Johnson admission on account of his color. The suit was brought against Robin son, personally, on the supposition that he was the sole owner of the concern, but ho proved to be only a stockholder, and not in- dividually hable, The Two Dakot A creamory is talked of at Eden. Huron has secured Clara Louise Kellogg for a concert April 1. . Work has boen resumed on the big Red- water irrigating ditch in Butte county. Over aton of butter was shibped from Plankinton to New York the other day. Ten little Indians passed through Plankin- ton last weok on their way 1o the Genoa In- dian school. A woll defined lead mine has boen discov- ored Jess thau o dozon miles from Minnesola, accoraing to the Star, The dividing of Dakota into two states compelled a New York firm to destroy over thirty thousand new geographies. Henry Lyman a young half broed Sioux, formeriy of Yaukton, is studying in Yals colloge, whero he is roported to stand very high in scholarship. A Chinaman named Sam Kee Is camped on the trail of the reservation boomers and is prepared to open a laundry the minute a new town is successfully started, North Dakota aspirants for the West Point and Annapolis cadetships will be ex- amioed at Grana Forks March 17 and 18, ‘The state1s entitled to one reprosentative at each academy. Mrs, Nathan Stone, a ploneer resident of Yankton, died at her home in that city Tues- day, at the age of eighty-six years, During the war she rosided in Lawrence, Kan., where her husband, Nathan Stone. wa killed in the celebrated Quantrel massacre. Iu 1865 she removed to Yankton and had mado her home with her daughter, Mrs, G. W, Kingsbury, The Frankfort Advocate declares that from August 1 to February 1, that city shipped 827 carloads of wheat and twenty- two carloads of flour, and_ that thero 18 now on hand in the warchouse about 25,000 bush- els of wheat and io the hands of the farm- ers tributary to the town from 7,000 to 100,~ 000 bushels.” The Houring mill has been run- ning night and day to supply the local trade. PER o ONAL AND POLITICAL. Sioux City Journal: Senator Blackburn of Kentucky, is wnat may be termed a verbal hero. St, Paul Pioneer Press: Truly, North Dakota has sobered up, but for a while she had quite a jag on. Phifadelphia Press: Tt appears _that Brother Bynum of Indiana, is the Little Lord Fol de Rol of the presont house. + Iudinnapolis Journal: The ‘bettor ele- ment” in the democratic party 1s like tho milk sickness—in the next township, Phitadelphia Times: 1f the Euglish syn- dicate that is buying so many things Ameri- can would buy up our stock of political bosses, this might be a government of the people once more. Boston Globe: If anything was needed to complete Mr. Parnell’s vindication it was supplied on Tuesday night when the tory government consented to have the forged lotters officially described as torgeries. St. Louis Globe Democrat: Congressman Dolliver af lown, defines mugwumpery as “tan exquisite mixture of hesdache and gall.” | This shows that hoisa close and discriminat- ing reader of the New York Evening Post. St. Louis Globe-Demograt: The cattle barons were able to retain their hold upon the Cherokee strip during Cleveland's term, but®hey will find that the presont adminis- tration is not favorable to combines and monopolies. Portland Oregonian: The editorial remark that “King Milan will be heard from” was prophetic.” He has turned up drunk av Monte Carlo, without a cent, and besesching Queen Natalie Yo borrow money for him. His con- duct would disgrace even a Washington legislator, e STEEL SHIPS OF AMERICAN BUILD A Large Plant to be Established Near Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun suys: Nearly one year ago a promincat official of the Pennsylvania Steel works, at Sparrow Point, predicted that that great manu- facturing enterprise would ultimately include in its business the casting of heuvy guns and the building of steel steamships. A Bessemer and rail miil, for the conversion of the iron product into steel in its various forms, is ap- proaching completion, and now plants are being made that will result in the introduction of a plant by which the Pennsylvania Steel company will be en- abled in the near future to engage in the building of the largest steel and iron steamships. The first work to be done in the pro- posed shipyard will be two steamsnips for tho steelworks company, to be used in the iron ore trade with Cuba. Every movement of the company in increasing its machinery for the reduction of ore to iron has held in contemplation the eventual capability of turning steel into merchant bar, shafting, armor plates sud other shapes, so that when the company starts to ouild a ship every part of her will be made into shape at Sparrow Point. The huge machine shops, foundry and pattern shops which are approacning compietion have boen dosigned for the requirements of ship- building as well as for the present de- mands of the works. Colonel Walter 8. Franklin, the su- perintendent at Sparrow Point, says that tire company would confine itself at first to building constwise steamships, as the laws of the United States pro- hibited them from being built 1n a for- eign country, but after & while Sparrow Point would enter into competition with the great shipbuilding firms on the Clyde. He thought it possible for steamships to be turned out as cheaply in this country as thero, Ll Defaulters Wreck a Bank. LaNcaster, Pa., Feb. 17.—The Lincoln Nauoral bauk, which was plundored by Cashier Bard and F. W. Hull of about $40,- 000, bas closed ils doors by order of the baok examiner. 1t is reported this mornwg that the defalcation is much larger than first estimated. Prohibition Mak: Drugeists Rich, Arcmisos, Ken., Feb, 17.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—Attorney General Kel- logg hes instructed Couaty Attorney Pierce to proceed ngaiust the arng stores for vio- lating the prohibitory Jaw and Mr. Pierce announces that ne will begiu the war unless the druggists keep within the law. Some of the socaled drllf.xuu here have grown rich by selling whisky io the last four years. IMPROVED STOCK BREEDERS, Beginning of the Annual Sessions at the University Today. SCHOOL LANDS IN THE PLATTE. Capitol Records and Gossip—The Dis- trict Court—New Enterprises— The Capital Oity in Brief. An Important Gathering. or.¥, Neb., Feb, 1 Special to Tre At 8 o'clock tomorrow afternoon the annual session of the Improved Stock Breeders' nssociation commonces at the chapel of the state university. This is the most important association of the kind in the state and the meeting therefore cannot belp but prove to be an important one, The session closes Thursday ovening. At 9 o'clock Wednesday moruing the “Ox"! will bo taken up for discussion; at 9 o'clock in the afternoon the “Horse,” and at 1 o'clock Thursday the *“Hog," after which tho Lan- caster County Farmers' club meets, The evening meetings will be of special interest. 1t 18 aanounced by the management that the most prominent men engaged in the live stock industries of the west will be presont and participate in tho discussions. Tho meetings will all be hela in the chapel of the state university. Lincoln peoplo are urgently requested to atteud. THE DISTRICT COURT. On the equity side of the district court, Judge Field presiding, the case of Leighton Vs Clark was calied this morning, It was then announced that it had been agreed that T, H, Leavett should examine and ‘report upon the partnership accounts, and the causo was continued until such tine as he could pass upon them. ‘The case taken up next was that of Will- jam H. Tyler vs Matilda ., McConnell. The plaintift alleges §230 to ba due him for extra work and waterial on the McConnell dwell- 1ng house in this city. 1t appears that J. A, Buckstafl was the contractor for the whole of the buildiogs, and ho therefore becomes defendant-in-chief. Judge Field issued a bench warrant for the arrest of R. S. Young, who failed to ap- pear as a witness in the case of Tyler vs Mc- Conuell etal, but on appearing before the court and showing zood cause for s disobe- dience was dischargod and the costs taxed against the plaintiff, The case of Irving J. Manatt va_Charles M. Jagques was dismissed at plaintif’s costs. Judge Chapman will rush_the civil cases tomorrow and thercafter throughout the week. A REMONSTRANOE, Petitions are circulating throughout Lan~ caster county addressed to the Ncbraska delegation in congress remonstrating against the oxtension of the time on the obligations of the Union Pacific to the government. It is said that like petitions are also circulating throughout Nebraska. KFarmers overy where are signing them and whey will doubt- less be the most formidable papers of the kind ever sent out of the state. MORE SCHOOL LANDS, As is well known sections sixteen and thirty-six of each township or precinct are set upart and known as school lanas, and the commissioner of public laads and build- 1ngs has just received notice that Nebraska has a goodly number of acres that have not hitherto been taken cognizance of. At Kearney the Platte river is quite wide and doited with islands, some of which are quite large. They happento cover the section designated and petitions have come in from the citizens of that place praying for their apparsal, so that they can be put upon the market. Investigation led to the discovery that the lands ia question had not even been surveyed, but Con:missioner Steeu nas taken the necessary steps to have this done, when the prayers of the petitioners will be granted. AT THE CAPITOL. Governor Thayer is still confined to his room. He expects, however, to be at the capitol in a day or two, and will if la grippe doeen’t take o new hold. The following cases were tiled for trial in the supreme court today: Sallie H. H. Lowe vs The City of Omaha, on error from the dis - trict court of Douglas county, and the County of Valley vs A. D. Robiuson et al, on error from the district court of Valley county. The governor today made the following notarial appointments: Charles H. Farmer, Hastings, Adams county; George A. Hay, Wabash, Cass county; John S. Ruy, Not- pareil, Fraukiin coun H. E. Schack, Omaha, Doaglas county: J. F. Barnes, Min~ den, Kearney county; William H, Cowgll, Holdrese, Pheips gounty; C. Duun, Crete, Saline county. Secretary of State Cowdery is again at his post. He looks the worse for his tussle with la grippe, but is fast recovering health, Referring to the late criticisms of the Wa bash Farmers' alliauce he stated this morn- ing that Commissioner Stecn had covered the ground in the matter of the 10 per cent reduction on corn shipments to Chicage, and that the farmers of the state would not find the board of trausportation unmindful of their interests at ‘Thursday’s meeting. A decided tumble on local rates may be antici- pated. The following insurance companies filed annual statements with Insurance Auditor Allen today, showing the volume of their business in the state during the past year: Matual Benefit Life of $880,019, premiums §31,375.51, lossc Germania Life of New York, risks $14 premiums $0,548.63; Bauvkers Life o Paul, Minn,, risks' 60,000, premiums 835.40: Mavbattan Life of New York, risks $119,330, premiums $1,205.75. 1t will be secu that the last three comparies named suffered Do losses, AN ANNOUNCEMENT. C. J. Douglus of Fremont has leased the circulation of I'me Bk in Lincoln, and trom this date will have sole charge of it. His office at 207 North Eleventh atrest will be kept open until 9 o'clock every Saturday evening to give all subsoribors who prefer weekly payments au opvortunity to make them. Carriers will also make collections on Monday of vach week, 13ills of ali sub- scribers who prefer monthly settiements ili be presented promptly on the 1st, Sub- scribers for TuHE Suxpa¥ Bem who expect the d-cent or Lhree months' rate will be ex- pectéd to pay in advance, otherwise 5 cents for each cony. Carriers within o fow days will deliver the paper on horseback and sub- scribers may therefore expect early ana prompt delivery. NEBRASKA ENTERPRISES. ‘The Hun Publishing company of Aurora filed articles of incorporation u the secra- tury of state's office this morning. Con- ducting a general prioting and publishing business 18 designated as its objeq Capi- tal stock, #$10,000. Incorporators E. W, Horlbut, Harry E. Meusger, E. L. Hurlbnt, D, Hates and L, E, Hurlbut. The South Park Improvement company of Grand Island slso compliea with the laws of the state by filing articles of incorpor: tion. Its stipulated purpose 1s to buy, hold, improve und sell real estate and purchase notes, mortgages and whatever securitics may seem most profitable. Capital stock, $0,000. Incorporators: Isaac R Altes Herbert H. Glover, William Fraok, Charl P, Willinms and Ralph K. Horth, The Maxwell, Snarp & Ioss company of Lincolu also tiied articles. The busivess for which it 18 organized is designated 1o be the purchase and sale of roal ustate and per- sonal property of every nature aod Kind in the state of Nebraska, or oclsewhere, as may be determined upon by the company. Au thorized capital stock, $150,000. lncorporat ors: R H, Maxwell, Fraok Sharp aod Thomas Ross, CITY NEWS AND NOTES, W. R. Davis, late of Chase county, but at presont editor sud publisher of the State eralg, Holyoke, Colo., is iu the civy. His per hus eutered upon the fourth year of existence and for euterprisc and thrift sveaks for itsolf and of the town and country it represents. Mr. Davis is an old time No- braske journalist snd is well and favorably known throughout the state. E. H. Dove of Bennett is wanted for mort- gaging properly thut was not his owa, Com- plaiot was filed in the county court this afternoon sud & warrent ~placed in s deputy sberifl's hunds, whe is io pursuit of him. Harey Stevens, surveyor of Kimball county, is here making field uotes of the survey ot that part of the state. Auditor Beuton returns from Hot Springs, Ark., Wednesday, the day before the weet- fng of the stato board of transvortation. The meeting on that day will be a public one. There are strong roasons to_bolieve that the board will order Towa's schedule of local freight ratos for Nebraska John B. Knorr of Waco and Miss Mary Jacobson of this city were marcied by Eldor Howo this morning. . 'W. Holmes securea judgment county court this morning agains: ickson for §500 on promissory not in the J. A. Pierce of this city is in lettor from a sgentleman hich statos vhat the Rock Island folks aro making a survey from a point on the Platte river direct to Ashiand, e - LITERARY NOTES, Harper's Weekly of Febroarg 10 ia s specially number, interesting and attractive Its leading features are « pplement on ““The City of he GermanReichstug,” by Bigelow, with portraits of Poultney Barth Bamber, Richter, Virchow, Windthorst and Stocker. Benjamin Constant’s picture, “A Funeral in Morocco,” has beon repr duced in a double-page engr the number of Harper's B lished February 21. Mary phreys will coutribute to the number an article on ‘‘Plaster C and How to Use Them.” Mr. Arthur Brooks will contribute an article on “The Berkeley Ladios’ Ath- letic Club™ to the number of Harper's Young People to be published February 18. “Empty Bottles"—a story of great magician and an ambitious stu- dent—written and illustrated by How- Te, will appear in the same hum- Prof. William Knight of St. An- drew’s University, Scotland, editor of the great standard edit'on of Words- worth, writes to Dr. Willinm in regard to the latter’s recent work, *“The Select Poems of William Words- worth:”™ “Your selection is excellent, and must do greatgood. No better service can be done than to popularize Wordsworth in America.” An immeuse amount of good material has been prepared for Harper's Maga- zine for March. of illustrated articles on modern armies of the great powers will be continued with “The Army of the United States,” by General Wesley Merritt, U. S, A., illustrated by R. F\. Zogbaum. The fic- tion will include the first instalment of a short serinl entitled “The Shadow of a Dream,” by William Dean Howells. The short stories will be contributed by Margavet Crosby, Rebecon Herding Davis, and Lizzie W. Champ- ney Miss Crosby’y story is illus- trated by C. S. Remhart. Alice Thackeray Ritchie will contribute *John Ruskin-—--An Essay:” Dr. Samuel Kneeland has u paper on Manila and its surroundings; *‘How to Lasten to Wag- ner’s Musie: A Suggestion,” is the title of an article by H. E. hbiel, the musical critic; George William Curtis will relato some personal reminiscences of the late Robert Browning in the “Basy Chairs” Dr. Charles Waldstein tells of **The Restored Head of Iris in the Parthenon Frieze;” Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. Gerald Massey, Joseph B. Ghlder, Charles Washington Coleman, and Florence Henuniker will contribute poems and a half-dozen other features equally as attractive will complete this%y, most notable number. > The Ladies’ Home Journal of Phila- delphia_proposes to give to any young girl of sixteen years or over who will send to it, between now and “January 1, 1891, the lurgest number of yearly sub- seribers to the Journal, a complete edu- cation at Vassar college or nuy other American college she may select. The education offered includ branch of study. with Jour & expense involvel ) this is also pinned a second offer which guarantees to any girl of sixteen or over who will secure 1,000 yearly subseribers before January 1,afull termof one year at Vassar or any other proferred college, with all expenses paid. ‘Were grand old Dr. Rugby Arnold (so veverently eulogized by the author of “Tom Brown at Rugby,”) alive, his mind, on scanning the English literary field . would doubtless revert to tho time- houored maxim, *‘blood will tell.” His son, Matthew. has left an exalted and enduring reputation, and in *“Robert Elsmere”, his granddaughtor, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, has shown an earn- estness of literary purpose which has thrilled thoughtful men and women throughout Christendom. Ard now comes another granddaughter of tho good old doctor, Miss Ethel M. Aruold, who appears in the New York Ledger February 15 with a cultured letter on **The London Social World.” A great fenture of the March Cenvry will be entitled ‘‘Glasgow a Municipal Study,” by D’Albert Shaw one of the most thorough students in Ameriea on public questions; or Powell, direc- tor of the Geologicul Survey, will begin a series of three papers, ill ated with maps, on the subject of [rrigation, His first paper will be wntitled *The Irri- gable Lands of the Arid Region,” and Professor Fisher will close his very timely series of religious papers, the last one being entitled “*Revelation and ['aith.” These papors have a direct bearing upon the discussion now in pro- gress on creed revision. SAN ANTONIO, 1.—Lato re- ports from the smallp)x districts along the Rio Grande show an appalliog mortality list. Oueranch in Duval county, 147 out of the 150 persons employed there were stricken with the aisense and sixty-five of them died. There is & scarcity of nurses and physicians. Positively cured these Little Pills, "They also reliove tress frova Dyspepsia, In- aigestion and Too Tiearty| Eating, A perfect rem-] edy for Dizziness, Nauses, Drowsiness, Bad Tasi in (he Mouth, Coat Tongue, Pain 1n the Hido, TORPID LIVER. They) regulato the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SHALL PILL. SWALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Babrnng e quarantosd Capltal, 3900, 003 Buys and-welis stacks acts a3 transfer agout and trustoe of Corpora- tions; takes charge of proparty; collects rents Omahaloan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK 8. E. Cor, 16th and Doug! straots. Paid in Cavital. . , . ... $80,000 pltal, . 100,000 200,000 Bubscribed & guarau Ldability of stockholders, ... ..., - S Per Gent Interest Paid on Deposits FRANK J. LANGE, Casbler. Orvionns: A. U, Wymi ddeut; J.J. Browa, vice prosident; W.'T. Wyman, lreasiror, Kimball, Goo. i Lake, ¥ . Loans in any amount made on City & Farm Property, and on Collateral Security, at Lo Rata Currenttes J. 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