Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1890, Page 4

P— THE DAILY BEE. ~ B. ROSBWATER, Editor. FUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION Daily and Sunday, One Year 10 M Ex monthis " 80 "Three Montha Ttee, Une Year, 3 2 fiee, One Year with Premium, n Omeha. Ree Buflding. Chicago OfMice, 367 Ro okery Buflding, Now Sork, toms 11 and 15 Tribuns Buflding. Washington, No. 513 Fourtesnth Street. Council Blutts, Pearl Street, Sonth Omata, Corner N anl 2ith Stroets. CORRESPONDENCE, munications relating to news and edi. d be addrexsed to the Editor- [ All businessletters and remittances should be addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafrs, ecks and PostoMes orders 10 be maae payable to the order of the Company. "f;]]l‘v Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, Ituflding Farnam andSeveniosnth Streots. THE BEE ON THE TRAINS. There is no excuse for & tailureto got Trg BE All newsdealars have baen noti- y & full supply, Travelers who want i ean't get It on triins whern other aro carrisd are roquested to ticular to give in_ail cases full fntormation as to date, raflway and number of train THE DAILY BEE, £worn Statement of Olrculation, Ftate of Nebraskn, County of Douglas. George 1. Tzachuck, secrotary of T Bre Tublishing Company, does solemnly SWOAT that theactual circulation of Tue DALY BEx for the Week ending February 22, 18%), was a8 follows: Sundav, Feb, 16, fos. Average..... 19.800 HUCK. §worn 1o before me and_subscribed to in my a i preseance this 224 day of February, A. D. 1890 (Seal.] ] Notary Pubilc. State of Nebraskn, 155, Connty ot Douglas, | 5% George 1. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, do- Josen and sayn that ho i secrotary of T ks Puplishing Company, that the actual average dmly circulation of THe DALy BEE for the month of Felruary, 180, Was 16,906 copies: for March 185, 18,54 coples: for April, 184, 1465 voples:for M 1880, 18,609 conles: for June, 1889, 1R copl 1880, 18,738 coples :for Aug- s, 1880, for ‘Sebtember, 1889, 18710 coples; ‘for October, 1889, 1817 copieas yember, 1880, 19,310 coples £0,045 coples; for Jonuar: HAS the Omaha & Dakota railroad been hopelessly buried in the drifts? IT LOOKS as if Mayor Cushing was following after Grover, a long way, in the matter of vetoes. Tie Burlington road refuses tolonger father the reckless methods of the Bur- lington & Northern. Thisaction knocks the main prop from under a concern built to prey upon legitimate corpora- tions. 3 It 15 painfully evident that the crevice in the local democratic camp has grown to an impassable chasm. Harmony has fled, and war to the knife and knife to the boneis the motto of the contending factions. I't IS becoming more apparent every day that the firm of We, Us & Co., 18 the power behind the mayor’s throne. Those seeking favors from his honor must produce a certificate of character from the former combine. > —— THE regular weekly assuraunce is re- ceived thut rapid transit will be ex- tended to all leading thoroughfares next spring. Meanwhile the melancholy mule **plods his weary way” on Farnam strect as if he had eome to stay. THE attempt of the senate to plug the leaks in the secret session serves to in- creaso publi®@contempt for & custom that is more honored in the breach than in the observance. The best thing the senate can do1s to transact all public business in open session. IN THE opinion of councilmen who ought to know, Mayor Cushing can make as many pledges and keep as few as his *‘wise and vigilant predecessor.” Perhaps one of the modern require- ments of the office is an intimate knowledge and practice of prevarica~ tion, —_— THE ratification by congress of the troaty made with the Indians on the Fort Berthold reservation will add one million ucres to the public domain in North Dakota, The land is located in the western part of the state, adjoining the boundury of Montana, and is chiefly valuable for grazing purposes, The rapid contraction of range terri- tory in the west makes this addition to the public uomain timely and accepta- ble. — Now that the question of the site has been settled, there should be no time lost in passing the world’s faic bill and making its provision conform to the wishes of the representatives of Chi- cago. Local and personal pigue must not interfere with a great national un- dertaking. The enterprise and gener- wlship displayed by Chicago, and her masterly ability in meeting all emer- geneies, affords sufficient prool that Chicago is equal to the emergenoy, — PETITIONS are being circulated in various parts of the country praying the czar of Russia to stop the whipping of helpless women and the massacre of men in the Siberian prisons. The in- tentions of the petitioners are com- mendable, but they will huve only their labor for their pains. A government which iusults maokind with a denial of notorious shocking cruelties, permits Drutal officials to outrage eyery humun sentiment and refuses to heed the de- soairing cries that rend the solitudes of Siberia, will turn a deaf car to the ap- peals of outsiders, emm—— As a measure of justice to the fami- lies who suffered by reason of the gov- ernment’s breach of faith, the bill to compensate the evicted sottlers of Crow Creek regervation deserves thoapproval of congress. The people who entered the reservatiop on the strength of Pres- ident Arthur's proclamation, made many valuable improvemeots and in- Wsted their labor and menns in secur- ing bomes, of which they were ruth- lessly deprived by Cleveland, are en- titled to damages for Qulding and crops destroyed, and the hardships brought on by official perversity, THE NEW SILVER BILL. The prospect for silver legislation at the present session of congress apvears favorable. Several mensures have al- ready been presented for pablic dis- cussion, the latest the silver bill framed by the scnate finance committee, to which reference was mude several days ago. The introduction of this measure may be taken as a declaration on the part of the senate committee that it is unfavorable to the plan of the secre- tary of the treasury, and in view it 18 to be assumed as probable that the Windom silver bill will not again receive serious consideration in the senate, even though it should be favorably regarded 1n the house. Sec- retary Windom appeared before a com- mittee of the housen few days ago and explained and advocated his plan, but the prospect for it can not be regarded as at all hopeful in view of the attitude of the senate finance committee. The Windom scheme may doubtless, there- fore, be safcly dismissed from further consideration as not likely to be ac- cepted in either branch of congress, The senate silver bill provides that the secretary of the treasury shall pur- chase silver bullion to the amount ofs four aud one-half million dollars’ worth each month, and gold bullion to an un- limited amouant, paying thevefor trens- ury notes. These notes are to be re- deemable on demand in lawful money of the United States, and when, so ro- deemed shall be cancelled. They are made receivable for customs, taxes and all public dues, and when so received may be reissued. National banks may count them as a part of their lawful reserve. The secretary of the treasury is authorized to coin so much of the gold and silver bullion pur- chased under the act as shall be neces- sary to provide for the redemption of the notes, the gain or seignorage from such coinage to be paid into the treas- tiry., The bill provides for the repeal of the coinage act of 1878, This 1s in some respects a more con- servative scheme than that of Mr. Win- dom, and was iutenaed as a compromise botween his' plan and the views of the frec coinage advocates. It is reported to be accoptable to the latter, although it provides that the trea ¢ shall have the benefit of the profit arising from coining the bul- lion, which 1n of free coinage would be a v considerable amount to the advantage of the silver producers. The advocates of free cownage, how- ever, must have become convinced that they cannot carry their policy, and they cannot reasonably ask auything more favorable as a compromise than the bill proposed by the senate com- mittee. Under that more than double the amout of silver annually would be represented in the currency than has been employed under the existing law, and allowing for the probable increase in production from the stimulus of an enlarged demand, the government pur- chases of silver to the amount of fifty four million doilars’ worth annual would leave only a very small surplus of the Americun product. This should certainly be sufficient to satisfy the most extreme silver men. The addition to the currency annually under this bili, so far as silver is concerned, would be about thirty million dollars, which ought to be enough to provide for the incroasing demands of the country. The only object in providing for the coinage of any partof the bullion purchased is probably to avoid the objection made to the Windom bill that it would degrade silver to the position of a mere com- modity. The senate bill also gives no discretion to the secretary of the treas- ury in the matter of purchasing bullion. As a compromise measure the bill ought to encounter very little opposition from the friendsof silver, but it will doubtless be vigorously opposed by those who are hostile toany increase of the use of silver in the currency. This opposition, however, is_certain to prove futile if the silver advocates can be united. Washington advices indi- cate thatthe new bill has been very well received. THE SENATE'S DIGNI1Y. The United States senato has recently been the scene of heated and acr monious debate. The cause of it was the resolution calling upon the at- torney general for information regard- ing the killing of a deputy United States marshal in Florida. The public has been wmade familiar with the cir- cumstance. A number of persons had beeu indicted for election frauds, and the official was in pursuit of them, He was & fearless and determined man and had numerous eucmies. While in the discharge of his duties he was entrapped and shot to death. It was the duty of the senate to obtain official information regarding the murder of a federal officer, and Senator Chandler introduced a resolution forthis purpose, which was adopted, > In the debate on the resolution the Florida senators sought to palliate the crime by assailing the character of the federal court officials in Florida, in- cluding the one who was killed, One of them, Mr. Call, went farther than this and employed most ouensive and unparliamentary language rogarding Senator Chandler. Not satisfied with what he had said on the floor of the senato, the Florida senator inserted still more offensive language in his speech as printed in the Congressional Hecord. When called t account for this in the sennte he defended his course and churged Senator Chacdler with having made an untrue statement, also charac- terizing the New Hampshire senator as ucoward, Referring to this, Senator Sherman of Ohio said that when the United Stutes senate came to such a condition that the charge of cowardice could bo applied to a senator and that a senator could be charged with stat- ing a thing falsely, it seemed to him the senate was receding froim its dig- nivy, There cau be bt one opinion among fair winded men regurding the course of the Fiorida senator. It was a fla- graut breach of privilage and in every sense reprehensible, deserving the un- qualitied censure of the senate, Such conduct should be visited with suen summary sud severe rebuke that only the most reckless would veunture to thigy THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1890. commit it. But it be ob- served that it is not exceptional episodes as this which suggest that the senate is rve- ceding from its dignity. It would be difficult to find much in the general course and conduct of that body to justify the opinion solicitous now than formerly to observe the conditions essential to a true dig- nity, as well as to preserve a character for wisdom, statesmanship and patriot- ism. If that body has deteriorated in the reepect and confidence of the peo- ple the fact is due more largely to the decline from its former character as un assembly of statesmen, devoted to great principles of government and earnestly dosiring to subserve the general good, than to such personal violations of priv- ilege and lapses from decency and de- corum as have recently been witnessed. Bitter personal and political contro- versies occurred in the better days of the senate. Men whose names are ominent in our history have hurled in vective and denunciation at opponents 0a the floor of the senate, indifferent alike to parliamentary privileges and personal responsibili But if from such incidents the senate of an carlier time suffered an impairment of its dig- nity it maintained its cluims on the public confidence. It had not then become identified in the popular mind as the refuge and bulwark of monopoly and corporate power, but was regarded despite the occasional irruptions of individual anger, as the great conserva- tive power in our governmental system it was intended to be. It is well for the senate to preserva its dignity, but that alone will not restore it to the place it jgr- merly held in popular confidence. That will come only when it has recovered its lost character, abandoned its star-cham- ber methods, relinquished its false so- called *‘senatorial courtesy,” and put itself in full sympathy with the people. WE WILL DO BETIER. A reckless local contemporary has of- fered some tempting prizes to its pat- rons, with a view of raising the wind. Having definitely determined by a se- cret ballot of its own employes who will be the most successful and popular law- yern Omaha ten years hence, it now gencrously opens its purse strings and tenders its columns to ingenious pro- pounders of riddles-and conundrums, Now Tue Beg is bound to keep up with the procession. It will not allow such of its patrons as are not otherwise occupied to remain without employment highly intellectual as well as lucrative. In other words we will do better, and give genius of whatever sex,age and previous condition a chance to blossom out and -achieve remown. If we have any prodigies among us, clairvoyants whocan divine the future and box the compass of destiny, so to speak, we want them to shine in sublime effulgence and glory. Our irrepressible contemporary offers a prizeof one hundred doliars to any man, woman or child who can foretell the exact number of people who shall inhabit the state during the first two weeks of Juue while the census is being taken. We will do better. Tag hereby offers one hundred thousand dollars to anybody within reach of its voice that will figzure out the number of red-headed girls and white horses in the United States according to the offiicial censys returns which are to be distributed by tho national census bu- reau on or about the year 1900. Our public spirited contemporary of- fers a prize of five hundred dollars to any farmer who will harvest the largest crop of corn on any single acre of land in this or any adjacent state during the coming season. We will do better, Tug BEE offers tive hundred thousand dollars to the ranchman anywhere in the United States and adjacent coun- tries, ineluding Mexico, Central Amer- ica, South America and Patagoaia, for the largest flock of Rocky Mountain coats raised by them on a single acre. The contest to be decided and awards made by the Pan-American congress. Our contemporary 1nvites proposals from new subscribers, with prizes to be awarded on conditions that they will make the nearest guess of the nuwmber of boans in a quart jue. But we will do better. Tur Bee will mail or deliver a brand'new metropolitan paper three hundred and sixty-five dags in the year to every nfn woman and child that will forward or pay in the full subscription price. And any subscriber who will within the next.thirty days make un exact guess ns to the time when the new postoftice will be finished, will get a receipt for a paid-up subscription to Tue DALY BEE duriog his, her or its lifetime. Remember that these gencrous offers will only hold good for a limited pericd. may CONGRESSMAN MCKINLEY is not alarmed over the gerrymandering schemes of the democratic legislature of Ohio. He isnot in favorof con- greasional action, but prefers to let them run to the end of their rope,feeling confident that the reckless exercise of power by the democrats will bring their overthrow at the next election. Major McKinley's prominence and use- fuluess in congress cannot be impaived by legislating him into a democratic distriet. Twice within ten years at- tempts huve been made to force him out of congrese, but in each instance he turned a democratic majority into a re- publican triumph, Ohio voters are not backward in rebuking political trickery and chicanery ACTING MAYOR MORRISSEY has vetoed an ordinunce because 1t was pub- lished in a newspaper of general circu~ lation, which, of course, under the pre- vailing regime, is an offense againstthe taxpayers. Hereufter all proposals of the board of public works for paving, grading, sewers, etc., must be adver- tised only in the court organ. Hereto- fore, it was found profitable in such casee to advertise in such insignificant papers as the Chicago Zvibune. . ——— REPRESENTATIVE organizations of Owmaba'’s trade and commerce should tuke an active part in the movement to socure the early construction of the pro- posed extension of the Rock Island road southwest. Lincoln and Beatrice peo- ple are already at work. With the ac- tive assistance of Omaha business men, alone such | not | that it is far less | BEE. s e R i there is 1itts oubt that the constrac- tion of lhe{:‘i would be hastened ma- terially, and ‘secure for the city within o year an important highway to the trade of southern Nebraska, northern Kansas and (olorado. The importance of the road o the commerce of the city cannot be overestimated, and prompt steps should 1be taken to expedite the work. ————— THe pleadings of the railroads for exclusive wight-of-way through the military annexto Henry Clarke’s farm vroduced an opposite result in Wash- ington. The authorities proposo to set- tlo the question by granting right-of- way for such tracks as may be neces- sary and allow their use by all roads on equal terms. The decision is a just one. e e e Tne appointment of Tom Birming- ham ns sidewalk inspector is another striking illustration of **business princi- ples appplied to city affairs.” Birming- ham is a hustling business patron of the senior member from the Fifth. New York Knows v Chicagn Herald, Chicago is a dangerous town to fool with, For partioulars inquiro of New York. A S Gt Must Fut Op or Quit, New York Tribune. Tho Louisiana lottery is in that desperate strait when it is forced to ‘“‘raise its unte” and trust to luck on the draw. il R A Painful Reminiscence, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. That portion of Mr. Cleveland's speech on Washington which relates to virture and morality will cause & good many people to think of his celebrated letter to Mrs, Henry Ward Beecher, LR Stripued of All Disguises, Wheeling Intelligencer. No matter who holds to the contrary, 1t is not true that the southern whites desire to ret rid of the southern blacks. Colored labor is wanted 1 the south. The thing that is not wanted there is a colored voting population, gt by Making it Plonsant for Wilhelm. Boston Journal, Whatever elsc socialism aims at it is the implacable foe of the existing order of things. It will make German politics in- teresting and animated for a long time to come, aud will give the young emperor a domestic problem difficult and portentious enough to discourage foreign entanglements. AT T Meaner than Highway Robber;. Philadelphia Record, When wo consider that the distress in the Penusylvania coal regions nas been largely brought about by a systematic design on the part of the coal: companies to so overstock the labor market ad to provide for a year's cousumption with six month’s production, 1t is not difiicult to fix the responsibility for the starving condition, of the miners aud their wives and clildrep,i They aro the victims of deliberate greed, e THE AFTERNOON TEA. Sir Edwin Arvald ocalls the -Japaneso women ‘‘sem1 angalic.” Cu}xid saw thee—drew forth a dart— He tipped and feathered it, But, maigen fair, he missed thy heart; It 'was to small'to hit. Out of a population set down at 258,801,821 in Britsh India fhere are no fewer than 1,983,626 widows, of whom Bombay claims 1,075,763, Modras 8250011, Northwest Proy-. inces and Oudh 8,670,787, the Panjob 1,503, 253 and Bengal 7,401,020, *'Mind, I don't want to be flattered,” said a feminine voice confidentially, 'behind a photograpber’s screen, *but do try and ideal- izo it all you can.” Miss Priscilia (aged forty)—No, Edith, I dow’t beliove in these silly marriages. You'll have time enough to get sick of a man if you stay single for ton yeurs longer! Edith— ‘Time enough, auntie, but muyboe no vhance! 1t was a dainty Boston maid Wiio stood aud looked at Towser. She guzed a-whilo and then she sa “*How that poor dog does trous: Ella—Ma, Cousin 130b kissed me this morning. Motber—He did? T hope you re~ buked him, Ella, Ella—I did that very thing. L snid, “Bob, you be careful not to do that when pa or ma are ground, or you’ll hear something drop.” A Burlington irl, in a fit of abstraction, picked up a copy of “Kismet,” acratcned out tho ' t,” and randed the book to her lover. He caught on. De la Crome~-My dear L' Aubigny, you are too diffident. You are rich. talented, vitled— you might shine in socicty. Count D'Au- biwny—I detest society—that is, I detest—I hate women. De la Creme—You amazo me, An unfortunate affare du cour? Count D'Aubiguy (flerce.y)—Reginald, you will understand me when I tell you that before I came iato my fortuue and title I was a street car conductor, While worien's minds may be secure, Aad not so fickle as is said, A pussing bounet's aimost sure T'o turn a woman's head. And let two pass upon the street,’ Each wearing a bewitching gown, They'll turn oach other’s heads complete, ‘They're sure to look around. jabrielle Bompard is a singular_creature, Sincn she gave herself up to the Freach po- lice as accessory to thomuraer of Gouffo she has thouzht of nothiag but her own notori- evy, When she was confronted by a howl- ing mob of 10,000 paople. anxious to lynch ter, at Lyons, the other day, she smiled and said she **had no idea there would have. been 50 many people Lo moet her.” O, love. my love, has forgotten the hour, By pussion pervaded with a pulsating power? How love rushed upou us with a quivering ‘WBoop, And enswatbed our sweet souls in s wild swirlful swoop? Let me lusciously 1ift in luxuriant rhyme. Of the way that we kissed in the soft sum- mer time, il all of the shrubbery curled up and died, And the birds flew away Lo escape suivide. But, alas! love is dgid, and the summer has own, Yet 1 still 'live to maudlinly murmur my moan oy In sibilant stanzas 61 ‘élangorous crash (Which Il soll to siiie puper for cold, com- won cash.) e i AND 1ERRITORY, STAT Nebraska Jorrings, ‘The Nauce county commissioners have de- cided to bridge the Toup river at Fullerton, Custer county's ‘non-partisan_prohibitory league will hold & meeting at Broken Bow Murch 8. 1y ‘The second term of the United States court at Hastings will conyene March 10 with a ful) docket, e Arthur P’aul, 8 sectfon band at Elwood, dropped dead from heart discase Tuesday. He was sixty years oflige. Clay county baseball cranks propose to hi littlo league of their own and a meet- arrange matters will probably be beld ‘Tke public school at Hartwell is so *‘tough'" that of the fifty 1s who auended the teacher has been fi?llfl to expel all but haif & dozen. The Custer coun! meet st Broken addressed by Pr orgunization, ‘The revival meetings at Clay Conter, which bave been in progress six woeks, bave closed and over thirly persous have united with the church. . Farmers' alliance will w March 4 and will be ident Powers of the stato An jmbecile named Wenke, who has beo.. prowling around the vkxml? of Hebron, . Loverchook. burued & quantity of hay for r, Loverchook is » cripple usiog a orutch, He took bis sholgun, mounted @ horse sud hunted up Wenke and marched him into ebron, where he was locked up by the sheriff as a dangerous man, The general store of Veak & Lash at Grosh- am hus been fclosed by its creditors. The labilities are #4,000, with nearly enough as« | sets to cover them. Footpads have infested Syracuse and vicin- ity mucn to the alarm of the residents. An attempt was made 1o hold up the Rov. Gates by two masked men, but he whipped up his horses and escaped. Grant Shull was Knocked from his horse by a highwayman. It is reported that two lodges of the Knights of Labor at Red Cloud, numbering 180 members, and three Farmers’ alliances near Riverton, have united and purchased a building worth #1,000 and that their inten- tion i8 to establish a co-operativo store which all will be pledged to patronage. lowa ltems. The contract for building the new hotel at Eldora nas boen let. Justice Poters_of Davenport is proud of his record of 1,174 couples joined in wedlock by him, Burglars got away with twenty-six gal- lons of whisky from the drug store of G. W, Careat Rolfe. Rev. Father Carroll of Tama City nearly lost his life by escaping conl gas. = He re- mained unconscious for tiwelve hoars, A soven-year-old colored grl was burned to death at Clayton the other day. Her cloth ing caught firo while she was playing with matches, The Methodist missionary convention of Harrison couuty will conyene in Missouri Valley Friduy and a large attondance is an- tioipated. A Kossuth county farmer claims that last scason ho rased 1003 bushels of oats on soven acres of ground—au average of 156 bushels o the acre. M. H. Milier, the Cherokeo photographer who skipped with Miss Ellen Chase, has been indicted by the mmey county grand jury for bigamy snd Miss Chase has been held for adultery. Wyoming, The Sundunce public schools have been d on account of diphtheria. Evanston is short about twenty houses for which tenants are already in the city, An apparently unlimited deposit of brick clay has boen discovered at Saratoge. Nearly 812,000 was subscribod in oro day for the new Methodist ohurch at Cheyenne, A prisoner with the kicking powersof a mule knocked off the iron doorsof two cells in the Laramie jail, broke through a wall, and was finally released 1n order to proserve the building from compiete destruction, The Laramie Times is 1n receipt of a let- ter from Mr. John G. Jost, a well known sheep raiser of Carbon county. He started in the winter witu 4,230 sheep, out of which number ho has lost $50. One hundred and fifty of these were killed by coyotes, The remainder died from othor causes. ‘There was raisedl in this county last year, says tho Fremont Clipper, about 1,200,000 pounds of wheut. Of this the Lander Roller Milling company purchased sowmething like 900,000° pounds. The remainder is in the hends of the farmers, and about 75,000 pounds of 1t will be required for soed, leaving 125,000 pounds yet to be disposed of. On Tuesday of last week Rev. Hauoock received a dispaten from Caspar stating that 1Wo young people were anxious to be made happy the following morning, says the Lusk Herald. Accordingly he took the morning train for Caspar, where he was met by the bridegroom, who drove bim further into the country, where the bride aud party wero anxiously awaiting his arrival. The few words which made two hearts happy were so0n said, and Mr. Hancock returned, hav- 10g spent @ very pleasant time. There are snake stories, and again there are stories about snakes that are true, says the Sundance Guzette. Up noar the O K rauch, ou the head of the Belle Fourche, is a small rocky butte. In this vicinity upon any occasion when the weather is vrobitious, may be sean rattlesnakes, big, little, old and young; rattlesnakes in bunches any bundles as big 08 o barrel, twisting and squirming in all shapes. Round-up parties bave learned to avoid this spot and the last time it passed that way, men were sent ancad to clear the trail for' the horses, as upon a former oc- casion more than thirty of them were bitten, L KING OF ZIPILOTES. The Huge Bird Which Occupics a Cagen the San Jose Public Fark, ‘Where “could be found anything of the sort prettier than the square before the great whito cathedral of San Jose, Costa Rica? They call it Central park. It 15 enclosed by & high iron fence, with gates at each corner. Huge old trees afford sutficient shade at midday. Near the center of the park stands a dainty kiosk, decorated artistically with the blue, white and red of the nation’s colors. Here the government band plays twice a week of an afternoon. while all the world comes to parade in silk attire. The soldiers also drill every morning at 8, in_the broad path at the eastern end. Here, too, ihey come for review at 6 of the afternoon, the officers passing down the line, while the baud plays **La Oracion,” a sweetly solemn hymn, _Uhis liitle picture of vivid coloring is one which can never be forgotten, The scarlet of the band’s uniform is like a flame against the emerald and deeper green of folinge. And on every side the rarest flowers, carefully tended and al ways in full bloom, are seen. Birds of all kinds sing or chatter in the tree-tops, Seven gorgeous macaws ---huge creatures of splendid scarlet plumage---wander, unhindered by cord or cage, about the park. Half a dozen wonderful green parrots, of similar free- dom, carry on intelligent conversations with each other and with the people who approach them. A huge kind of zopilotes, an uncanny looking bird, oc- cupies a spacious care not far from the central fountain e Dr. Talinage Keeps the Golden Rule. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Academy of Music today a memorial sermon upon the late Heury W. Grady. Dr. Talmage believed that Mr. Grady embodied in his life the best answer to the question ‘‘Can an editor be a Christian,” says a New York dis- pateh. About a yeur before his death, Mr. Grady in & conversation with Dr. Talmage in Atlanta expressed his pro- ound fn.ilh in the gospel. He made 1t the guide of his professional as well as his private life, Dr. Talmage further discussed impersonally the subject of the newspaper press. Touching upon his own relations with newspapers and newspaper men, he said: U I amn asked why I speak so well of the press when I haye sometimes been unfairly treated by it, I reply that the newspa- per press of this and other countries by the opportunities it has given me to in- terpret the bible and preach the gospel to the nations has put me under so great obligations that I defy alithe editors and reporters of the world to write any- thing that shall bring forth from me one word of bitter retort from now until the day of my death,” The congrega- tion applauded, Ths Nicaragusn Canal. The latest advices from Nicaragua bring satisfactory information of the progress made with the important pre- liminary work of the canal, says the Engineering and Mining Journal, The pier, which is the first essential to en- able the dredgers t open to harbor, is making rapid progress, about two bun- dred and fifty feet being now completed. This work is progressing at about the rate of sixty feet per week, and its ef- fect hus been even greater than was calculated upon by Mr. A. G. Menocal, the chiel engineer, the action of the waves 1o piling up sand having so far saved brushing and filling, The health of the stafl continues excellent, and their time has been well occupied in working out certain wodifications and improvements on the line of the canal, which will reduce the estimates by st least $2,000,000, Harris & Co. of Lincoln Sald to Be Becuring a Monopoly. A PARTIAL DENIAL BY THE FIRM. The Knighl State of Labor Conterence-- House Matters—! preme Court—Lancoln in Brief, A Big Deal. LiNcoLy, Neb,, Feb, 26,—|Special Tels- gram 0 Tnm Bee|—A big deal 1s said to have been consummated in this city during the past few days. Its magmitude can be imagined when it is stated that it is nothing less than that Harris & Co., botter known verhaps as Harris, Woodman & Co., have se- cured exclusive chargo of fifty or moro of the bost elevators on the Burlington system of railronds in this state. Itis further sa‘d that this company is to hold precisely the same relation to Lincolu and the Burlingtoa that the Himebaugh-Merriam company holds to Omaha and the Union Pacitio. Since this secmingly well founded rumor bogan to circulate there has been more or less consternation in the ranks of tho lessor grain dealers of the city and state oporatme on tho Burlington system of roads. Some of them oxpress the opinion that the deal is 80 porfectly made that 1t must react upon the producer. Notwithetandiog the inter- state law, it is stated that favors can bo ' shown by the carmer that will make it absolutely impossible for grain dealers of limited capital to offer suc~ cessful competition. Producers, therefore, can not hopo for anything but minimum prices at points touched by this company. In this connection it is suggested that the members of Harris, Woodman & Co. are farseeing men and propose to take advan- tage of whatever action the state board of transportation may take. in the matter of freight reductions, 1In the event of a whole- salo slaughter of local rates it is argued that the roads will stand firm on the maximum through rate, and a corner on corn is thore- fore thought to be probable in a small way. In the other event, however, local rates re- maining unchanged, it 18 thought that a rad- ical reduction of the through rate on corn will bo made to Chicago, without further pressure, and that producers will flood and glut the 'market, making it possible for this company apa compunies equally strong to purcliase their owu sales, This cannot prove other than disastrous to the great mass of farmers of the state. 1t is not im- probable, it is urged, thut the Burlmgton will do everything possible to advanco the interests of @ company that bids fair to be strong and shrewd enough to accomplish this end. It is well known that the Burling- ton, as well as all other roads operating in the state, is very sore in the matter of con- tinued agitation of the roduction of freight tariffs,local or tarough, and will do anythin possible to throttle further pressure, I fact gives color 10 the statement that the deal as stated has been made. Such dealers as iKendsll & Smith, Gregg & Kyser and T. W. Lowrey express them- sclves a8 naving very littlo faith in this wholesale deal, They are in n position, however, to feel none of the effocts if the rumor, as stated and believed by many, proves to be true. In looking this matter up Tre Brr ropro- sentative dropped into Harris, Woodman & Co.’s Lincolu office this morning. He found the princival of the firm, Mr. J. F. Harns, a young man twenty-eight or thirty years of age, sitting at his desk busily enzaged in lookiug over roports and correspondence. But, however busy he may have been, he was not averse to talking, and to the initial question regardiug the alloged deal, he said : ‘“Phere i8 nothing in it. There ‘aro over three hundred elevators on . the Burlington system of roads in Nobraska sud we are op- erating but very few of that number.’ “How many, if you care to state!"” *Well, some thirty odd.” “*Are you negotiating for any more of them " I presume, sir, we will gather in a few more 1f we flad them inactive or purchase- able,” g Are you buying corn at any points where you have no elevators?” “Yes, sir." “How many " “I caunot say without reterence to memo- randum. We are ‘cribbing’ here and there ull over the state.” “*At any poiuts on other than Burlington lines of roaa(” *No, sir," **Are your relatious with the Burlington folks similar to ‘those of the Himebaugh- Merriam company of Oiaba to the Union Pacific” 1 can not say, for I do not know what the relations of the Himwebaugh-Merriam ele- vator company to the Union Pacific are.’” “Woll, are thoy intimute!” *1 can not say that our relations to the Burlington folks are any more intimate than those of any othor company operating on the company's lines.” ““You intimato that you are etoring corn. How many bushels do you expect to storat” *Possibly 10,000,000. We confidently ex- pect to buy and store 2,000,000 bushels. Wo are doing # legitimate grain business.”” “‘Are you paying any attention to the prob- able action of the state board of transporta- tion on freight reductions(” “‘We are sumewhat interested in what the board may do, but not half so much as weo are in the number of bushels of corn our agents buy from vlace to place.” “'What are you puying?’ We are paying trom 12/ to 15 cents per bushel.” *“¥'armers who hold thew corn may confi- aently expect a better price by and by, may they not?” *If not, we had better get to circulating our money in other channels,” KNIGHTS OF LABOR, Thoe Knights of Labor assembled here in state conventior have a disagreeable duty to perform, It 1s kuown, purbaps, that charges of mismanacement have beeb preferred against Secretary Blake, and they ure under investigation. Indeed, they have taken up a considerable portion of the time of the couvention. Bluke, however, is confi- dent that he wili come out all right. Still it is understood that @ wood many knights are not over-well pleased with his alleged inter~ ference with the state master workman'’s au- thority in caliing the present meeting. This assembly, let 1t be remembered, is not the regular state convuntion, as hus been stated. It was specially called to consiaer the eight hour movement iand to discuss some of the leading features of the Australian ballot system. 1t bus nothing to do with the propo- sition for consolidation with the Farmers’ alliwnce for political fellowship, This ques- tion will be considered at the regular stute convention, which convenes in May. ‘The present session closes tomorrow, Prominent knights state that the attendance at the present moeting is not what it ought to have been, STATE HOUSE MATTERS, Auditor Benton refused to register tho 000 Omaha school house bonds ved yosterday for the reason that they did not Ccontuin proposition providing for levying a tax. It s intimated on tho outsido that ey did not receive a majority of the votes cust, but the suditor did not take this into consid~ eration. Copy of the complaiut of the South Omaha stock exch cently reported, was mailed to various roads today, togethier with service for answer. The Omaha and Council I3luffs railway and bridge company of Owaha filed amended articles of wcorporation toduy increasing the capital stock from &75,000 to $1,500,00. ‘The Omahs & Southwestern railroad com- pavy also filed amended articles. ‘They pro- vide for branches from the main line ‘near the Tenth street depot of the Burlington, in the city of Omaka, to run to the stock yards, and also one commencing at La Platte, 10 Sarpy county, running north ito a point on the Union. Pacific near Gilmore, and thence W t-{‘aum Omuha, connecting with the stock yards. The Equitable Life Insurance company of Now York filed its anuual statement with the insurance auditor todev, showing the amouut of businesy transacted in tho state during the past year. Risks, $2.606,000; pol- icies issued duriug the year, 172, 1nsuring, $018,753; losses, §18,000, THE SUPREME 0OU “Tho following were the proceedings in the A RUMORED ELEVATOR TRUST | rt today: L. M. Shaw, esq., of amitted to practice. The following causes were arguod and Bohn Maaufacturing company o, South Omaha v Cunningnham, - va Berlin, Omaha vs Ayo Omaha vs Howell Lumber company, Oniaha vs Cochran. Tho Elmwood elevator case will be argued and submittea tomorrow or noxt day. Vaoiay Brass ot al_ve Sandwich Man facturing company . Krror to diatriot cour Saline county. Afirmed. Opinion by Cobl Ch, J. Grand Isiand gas company va Joln W. West, treasurer, ot al, Abpeal from district court, Hall county. Judgment modified, Opinion by Norval, d. 1. All oficers of a city are prohibited from being directly or indireotly interestod in any contract or agreement in which the city or anvone for its benefit 18 & party, and such contract may bo avoided by the city. 2. The Grand Island Lght and fuel com. pany, a corporation, contracted with the oity of Grand Island to light its streets with el tricity for a aefinite poriod at a fixed pric per month ; at the time of the making of sal contract, one W. was n member of the city council of Grand Island and also a stock- holder in, and the secretary and troasurer of said corporation. Held that the contract is illegal and that a taxpayor can maiotain an action to cancel the saun.e, 3. Held that inasmuch as tho city has ac- cepted the benufitsof the contract, it must do equity, and w do equity the city must pay 10 the light and tuel company not exceeding the contract price, the reasonable value of the light received by it prior to the com- mencement of the action, with 7 per cent in- terest thereon. William W, Davis vs board commissioners of Hoone county. district court, Boone county. Onbinion by Maxwell, J. ingfield fire and marine insurance com. pany va McLimaus & O Error to d trict court, Madison coun! Afirmed, Opia- ion by Maxwell, J. , William C. Braithwaite vs State. Error to district court, Boone county. Afirmed. Obinion by Maxwoll, J. Joseph Burns vs City of Fairmont, Error to district court, Fillmore county. AfMrmed. Opinion by Norval, J, Lewis Ley vs Hans H. Miller. district court, Madison county. Opinion by Cobb, Ck. Cassio Annie Small vs Joseph Small. Ap- peal from district court, Douglas county. Judgment woditled. Obinion by Maxwell, J. 1. On the evidence contained in the rec- ords, held, that the charge of adultery against the defandant was fully prove while a like charge ag: not sustained. 2. In allowing alimony the court will con- sider the ability of the busband, the estate, if any, of the wife, and the situation of the parties and will render such a decres as under the circumstances will be just and equitable. 4. Decreo for $20 per month alimony in addition to tho homestead, held, to bo ex- cossive. - 4. Custody of child was on the proof prop- orly given to the mother. Thomas L. Cornell v William H. uum. Error to aistrict ocourt, county. Affirmed, Opinion by Norval, J. CITY NEWS AND NOTES, Lce O'Brien, superitendent of the publio schools of Johnson county, is 1n the & Christian F. Loewell, aged eighty-thres years and twenty nine days, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. H. Doedd- cher, 1414 V stroet, this morn| Alton R. Beard was given permission to lead Miss Alice Martin of Cherokoe, la., to the marriage altar this morning. Governor Thayer attended the reunion of the First Nebraska at Plattsmouth today and tomorrow he goes to Juniata to attend o military ball. Hon, Tom Cook has received his commis- sion as commissioner of census and has com- ™ menced act:ve work. He entertaned o party of politicians from Saunders county 1ast night who ure anxious to have eaumer- ators appointed who will give general satis- faction in that county. ho has made no ap- pointments as yet, however, but will 1ssue his first grist in a day or twi Judgo Stewart wae engaged this morning in hearing the suit of Funke & Ogden vs I%. B. Floyd and Halter & Irick. At the lust Chautanqua assewbly at Crete, Floyd se- cured the loan of a lotof dishes from the plaintiffs, who claim that part were never returned and a portion of those brouzht buck were nicked and otherwise- dumagod. ter & Irick were suraties on Lloyd's un taking to safely return the goods. Plain- tiffs claim damages in the sum of $101.48. Coiiianls THE MODERN BABYLON, of county Brror to Aftirmed. Brror to Aflirmed. nst the plaintiff was Bar- Nuckolls A Canons’ Remarks on the London Marringe Marker, Conon Lidden yesterday made some strong observations from the pulpit of St, Paul’s on the marriage market of modern Babylon, says the Pall Mall Ga- zette. He had, no doubt, ample room for n pituresque satire in the familiar phenomenon of Londoun society; **Eager mothers, like generals setting out on a compaign, prepared to undergo an amount of fatigue if only they coul marry their daighters—not necessurily to a high souled man, but in any case to a fortune. They could see, too, a group of youug men, after, perhaps, & ecureer of dissapation, thinking that the time had arrived for settling respectably in life, and looking out—not for a gi/l whose graces and character would make her husband and children happy, but for somobody with wsuflicient dowry to enuble them to keep up a large estub- lishment. They could not wonder, when the most sacred of human relativus was thus placed on the bru level of cash, that such transactions were quickly fol- lowed by months or years of misery— miserz which, after séothing in private, was at lust paraded bole=e the oyes of a wondering world amid the unspeakablo shame and degradation of the divorce court.” “The brutal level of an affair of cash is the level at which French marriages are arranged without shame and without pretense. But are marria- ges arranged by parents on the whole more proue to end in the divorce court' than when young people are left free to arrange their marriages themselves? dose. 40 ina vial, Purely Vegetable, 25 cents. (QARTER MEDIOINE 00., Prop'rs, New Yorl OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subscribed & 00,000 Puid 1o Capita 3808:925 negotintes Liuys and sells stocks avd bonds commerc paper; recelves and executes trasts: acls as transfer agent and trustee of corpora- tions; takes charge of PFOparty; collocts rents OmahaLoan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK 8. E. Cor, 16th and Douglas Stroets. Faldin Capital... . .......... $50,000 Bubsoribed & guaranteed capital,... 100,000 Liabllity of stockholders, . 200,000 5 Per Cent Interest Pald on Deposits FRANK J. LANGE, Cashior. Orv10RRS: A, U, Wyman, president; J.J. Brown, Vice Drosidenti W T Wy uat. L ' Diskorons: A. U, Wymsn, J. H. Millard, J Brown, Guy C. Barton, . W, Nasb, - hos. 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