Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1890, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE.| B. ROHF‘WATFR Editor. e PUBLISEED EVERY MORN[NGw o THRMS OF 8UI Datly and Sunday, One Year Fix months Three Months Sunduy fee, One Yrar, Weekly liee, Ono Year with Preminm. OFFICES, Omeha, Hea Ttullding. Chicago Ofice, 7 Ko oke New Y ork, ooms 14 and Washin Conncil By Kouth Omaha Building. Tribuns Ruilding. No. #13 Fourteenth Street t CORRESPONDENCE, Allcommunications relating to news and edi. torial matter shonld be addressed to the Editor ial 1 TERS, ot and remittances should | to The Bee Publishing Company, | fta, checks and Postoffies »rl-rll yabile tothe orderof the ( Tm‘ Bee Pblishing Company, Proprictors. Tew il Farnam and Seveniesnth umvvu THE BEE ON THE TRAINS. There s 1o excuse fora fatlureto get Tz Brr | on the trains. ATl nowsdealers have been noti- to carey A fall supply, Tur By Omal not i Plense be particilar to glve in_ all cases full information as tv date, rallway and number of train 5 At CATFIO0 AP0 reqiios THE DAILY BEE. £worn S tate Ftate of Nebraska, County of Geoirge "B, T ublishing Comy the actua) circul ation, y of Tnn Brx uly swear that DALY TiEe for the AVBIRREI (0 bl GEORGE It TZSCHUCK, SWOrn to before me and. subscribed to in my @ thix iat day of March, A. 1). 189 | s Bublic. oty of Douglas, Georgs I3, 'l‘/nhuvn |>4-In;: v|\||) aworn, de- ]wr #cs and says that he 18 secrets of 'l uplishing Conipany, that the actual averags anily circulation of TrE DAILY HEk for tne month of March 1850, 18,8514 os: for A'!rl\ 1640, TK.050 coples: for May, 150, 146 or June, 188, 15,854 coples bies fox August, 180 1 10 coplas: 20,018 copies nuary tor Febru copies, gzouar B, Tasouvok. Bworn to vefore me and subgeribe rice this 15t day ot March, A, D, | N n 1600, P. Feir, Not: county aff as ftirm and anyislding as the columbinds of the city council. Dodlin APRIL 30 is the day fixed by tho union of the drug store #aloon in South Dakota. of “blind pigs” day, law for and the The planting will also begin on that Tie bill of fare provided for indi- #gent veterans is sufficiently rich and varied o satisfy the epicurean tastes of Commissioner O’Keeffe. Perhaps Rich- ard wants pie, THE Hon. tephenson is one of the incorporntors of the Omaha, Supe- rior & Southwestern railrond. As a railroad contractor Jim is none of your slow couches. DESPERATE cases require desperate remedies. The prompt disposal of a pair of bosstful bad men in the west is caleulated to discredit the profession as nsource of longevity. of the Planters’ house ctfully but firmly notified to mak b the difference between the appropriation and the cost. Gentlemen, come down with the casl TOR BLAIR is not satisfied with the circulation given his speeches by the press. Space in newspupers is too valuable to monopolize it with the vaporings of a man who empties the senate every time he mounts his hobby. THE new lease of the Aluskn senl fisheries will net the government three- quarters of a willion dollars a year more than the old contract. An ad- vance 10 prices to follow will seal the cherished hopes of thousands of the fair »ex. THAT freight train carried a few thousand copies, did it? Why, bless your soul, do you think you can humbug this community with any such clap- teap? Your whole eirculation is only a few thousand, and those thousands can be countod on the fingers of one hand, with a stendy dropping off at that. THE vari and volumnious Henry Vitlavd 1s dispensing. plans and prom- ises of great imprevement with all the lavishness that characterized his dis- tribution of Dutch dollars five years 0go. Something more substantial than Villard caloric is necessary to brace up the saintly suburb of Minneagolis, —— WHEN trust meets trust in battle ar- ray, then comes the tug of war, The proposed pooling of the interests of swelting und refining companies to protect themselves from the muachina- tions of the lead trust.is not likely to wrove a great benefit to the miving in- torests of tbe west. No matter what necessitates a combination of common iuterests, the public cannot but view with alarm the destruction of comperi- uon. — Tur Massachusetts railroad commis- slovers have just discovered that pas- senger cars are deficient in ventilavion. They declare that a ear of sixty passen- gers should have whirty thousand feet of pure air, whereas the nverage capac- ity of ewrs is only three thousand feet. he commissioners overlook the fact that the railroads are not in the busi- ness for the health of their patrons so much as for the health of their stock- lolders, 3 E——— “THE controversy batween the wakers of pure lards apnd cowpounds has reuched o summer temperature and con= siderable ill-feeling hus been fried out in consequence. The efforts of the pur- ists to tax the compounds is evidently a tpecios of spitework. The government has already more tax gathevers than the needs of tho country demand, The ends sought can be gained by requiring the makers of compound or sdulterated lard 1o brand the article, and impose sovere penalties for selling the product under ruumu or misleading names, that there was necessity for reform, and | | fo | it can hardly fail to be an 1mprovement | system that will prevent fraudulent vot- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY MARCH 4. 1890 PROGRESS OF BALLOI REFORM. "I'he policy of ballot reform is making headway. The New York legislature, which has been struggling with the subject for sevoral years, and been twice thwarted in it eflorts to reform elec- | tion methods in that state by the oppo- | sition of Governor Hill, is again labor- | ing with the question, and with better ] promise than heretofore of accomplish- | ing something. The pronounced attitude of Mr. Cleveland in favor of electoral reform opened the eyes of Hill to the | y of putting himeelf in touch with the growing public sentiment on | this subjeet, and it will be remembered that in his last message to the logistature he surprised his fol- | lowers by announcing his conviction presenting some very cogent therefor. It is probuble, there- | that the New York legisla- | ture will give that state anew ballot | law at the present session, and although | it will have to be a compromise measure reasons | on the present system. The legislature of New Jersey is dis- cussing a ballot reform bill, which con- tains some of the more important fea- tures of the Australian system and pro- vides wholesome checks against fraud- ulent voting and the corrup- tion of voters, The governor of Ohio recommended a change in the ballot law of that state in the direction of re- form, and the governor of lowa is on record in favor of asecrot ballot and a % and the corruption of voters. Thére | is pevhaps not much to be hoped for from the democratic legislature of Ohio, but it is probable that something will be done to improve the electoral system in Towa in whatever respects experience may show itto require improvement. Mensures are promised in both Dakotas and in Washington intended to insure the purity of elect The only unfavorable reports regarding re- form come from Wes ginia and Maryland, in both of which there is most urgent need of i, In the former the bill proposed by the governor was defeated in the senate by the vote of both parties, while in the iatter the Gorman influence is solidly ar against any change in the clection likely to interfere with the methods of that element, and this is sufficient to defeat any effort for veform this year. On the whole the advocates of ballot reform ave warranted in regarding the outlook as very promising. The ox. istence of reform laws in half a dozen states, and their successful operation when elections have bee held under tirem, the confession of prominent lead- ersin both purties that there is urgent necessity for more rigid and effective regulations to prevent fraud and cor- ruption in elections, and the strong trend of public opinion in favorof a purification of electoral methods, jus- tify the hope that within a few years there will be laws for the full protection against all the evils and abuses which operato to degrade popu- lar suffrage and to defeat the will of the people. This is the desire of every good citizon, controversies regarding reform growing out of the diversity of views as to the merit and expediency of methods proposed. It was entirely natural that the attempt to import here for general adoption a foreign method, parts of which 1t was obvious could not be successfully ap- plied under our politicai system, should encounter opposition, but this did not argue any lack of desire or disposition on the part of the people to secure pure and honest ballot. The import- ance of having the suffrage free from all degrading and contaminating influ- ences is understood and appreciated by all, and the very general and growing interest in the subject fnsures the ulti- mate victory of reform in every state of the union. CANCELED FARM MORTGAGES. Congress will undoubtedly provide for the collection of statistics of farm mortgages at the coming census, but whether it will make the answers to census takers obligatory, as has been proposed, is yet to be determined. It is conceded that the effort to secure mortgage statistics without this provis- ion must inevitably prove a failure, and it is by no means certain that it would be successful with it. Doubtless a great muny wmore farmers would give the full facts under the menace of a penalty for withholding them than would do so in the absence of any penalty, but there is reasonable ground for a question whether congress can rightfully make an iuguisition of this kind into the debts of every farmer in the land. Itis pertinontly suggested that if farmers can be subjected to this sort of an in- vestigation and be compelled to disclose the detailsof their inancial affairs to the census taker, why shoula not the pro- cess be applied to manufacturers, mer- chants, bankers and all ether people? But with or without the pro- visiens making auswers obligatory the effort to secure farm mortgage statistics will be mude, since both purties in con- gress desive it, and it will he well for farmers to be prepared to supply the in- formation required of them as ac curately as possible. If there is any- thing to be gained from the collection of these statistics it is important that toey shall be as nearly as possible cor- rect. The suggestion is mude thut all parties holding canceled mortgages the cancellation of which was made prior to January 1,1800, have them all entered on the county records without de- luy., This will simplify matters for the census takers, besides contribut- ing to more correct results, he cen- sus inguiries will extbnd back six to ten yours from Jaouary 1, 1800, and mort- goges whose date of cancellation is after December 81, 1880, will Ebe con- sidered as existing, Undoubtedly a great number of farmers are holding canceled mortgages, the concellation of which has not been recorded, and as all such will uppear as indebtedness it can readily be seen that that they may play a large part in misreproseut- ing the real financial condi- tion of the furmers. The import- auce of having canceled mort- goges recorded is therefore obvious. There are numerous diflicultics in the way of securing even approximately ac- | curate farm mortgage statistics, and it is questionable whether the result wilf | prove to be of very great utility. How- ever, if the collection is made it is de- sirable that every care shall be taken to make it ns trustworthy as pos and to this the farmers, who are deeply concerned in the result, greatly contribute, can GAMBLING IN FOOD PRODUCIS, The action of the directors of tha Chicago toard of trade in deciding to abolish the gathering and dissemina- tion of quotations, with a view,to break- ing down the bucket shops, the approval of all persons who believe in honest teading. The board has made several attempts to destroy the bucket shops by refusing them quota- tions, bat these have failed because the course of the board was not sustained by the courts, which held t it could not discriminate in furnishing its quotations. The only retourse against the bucket shops was therefore fn the action just taken, which it is intended shall go into effect at the end of this month, If the result should be as desired it waill be a good thing, but it is hardly prob- able that the expedient will be long ad- hered to. At any rate the board should not halt with the one reform of wiping out the bucket shops, for these sources of reckless and damaging speculation are the natu:al offspring of the methods of dealing common to most commercial bodies; and in the practice of which the Chicago board of trade has been, if it be uot aow, one of the most prominent. It will need to purge its own organization of speculators in the products of the country, and permit only legitimate dealing within its walls, before it will be regarded as having anything but a selfish purpose in pro- ceoding ugninst the lesser iustruments of speculation. It will not be surpris- ing if the exhibition of virtue which the board is making proves to be short-1i , and the board of directors reconsider their action hefore ‘he time arrives for putting it into eff ishing the gathering and dis: of quotations will affect the terests of a great many persons other than the managers and patrons of the bucket shops, and there will doubtless bea vigorous remonstrance from mer- chants throughout a wide territory against the proposed action of the board. In no other country is speculation in food products carried on as it is in the United States, and the evil consequences of1t here 18 universally admitted. But how to prevent it is a problem no one has yet solved. Killing off the bucket shops would not do it though it might be a cons d- erable step in that direction. Congressman * Butterworth hus pro- posed national legislation providing for a tax on speculative transactions, such as ‘‘options” and ‘“‘futures,” but it is very questionable whether this would put an end to such transactions, grant- ing that congress has the right to enact such legislation. Any practicable and effective measure that would suppress gumbling in the food products of the country would be of immeasurable ben- efit to the whole people, producers and consumers alike. letter addressed to the old soldiers of Bourhon county, Kansas, Senator Plumb takes strong ground against the selfish spirit which ani- mates u certain class of veterans who insist on sosvice pensions. The senatc duclares that if service pensions were granted now it would be impracticable for the government to muke adequate provision for such veterans as are dis- abled. Why should men who are rich and healthy be given a pension which they do not need and thereby deprive the needy and disabled com- rades of that which they should otherwise receive. ‘I am in favor first,” says Senator Plumb, “of g pensions to those who need them not only this but to increase the rating 80 18 to make them comfortable.” This covers the just obligations of the gov- ernment to the veterans of the wa The people are in favor of liberal pro- vision being made for the care of the men disabled in line of duty and their dependents, and those whom the hard- ships of the rebelhion rendored prema- turely old. But the line must be drawn against those in the en joyment of health and ability o earn a livelihood. The pension roll has grown from eighty mil- lions to ninety five millions within a year, and there is every indication that it will pass one bundred million before 1891. This enormous increase naturally excites nlarm, not because of any tack of appreciation of the services rendered by the soldiers, but because the bulk of the increase goes to the undeserving, whose clmms are worked through con- gress by political influence. -The truth ite that the honest soldier who shoul- dered his musket from patriotic motives feels insulted at a movement to make him a pensioner on the government while he is able to earn a living. The scheme for service pensions is thée off- spring of the horde of pension sharks in Washington who thrive on the ills mld weaknesses of- the veterans of the IN A NE of our illustrious contemporaries hus gone iuto a caniption because the Union Pacific hus changed the time of a freight train oo which that public- spivited and enterprising sheet has been shipping its Saturday afternoon edition under a Sunday morning date to points on that road which are sup- plied by Tne BeE's special newspaper train every Sunday. Our disgruntled newspaper contemporary charges the managers of the road with eonspiring” to suppress 1t in the interest of Tue Beg, This is rather funny. Do rail- road companies schedule their freight trains to meet the wauts of any news- paper? Why should the Union Pacific managers give themselves the trouble of changing schedule time ou a freight train to curtail the circulation of a paper that eirculates loss than five hun- dred papers in the territory in which THE BEE'Ss special train distributes ueanrly four thousand copies? And why should the road favor THe Bee? Its views on rate reduction and railroad politics have uundergone no change. Tk BEE has not changed front on the ible, | most | will have | | steady advance in prices. | Omaha realty as an investment. Union Pacifiefusding bill or any other pet scheme of its'managers, which 1s at variance with public interests. TiHr BEE pays for its Sunday train just the same a8 any oghay patron pays for simis lar service. Qur contemporary has the same privilegés 'Tts wail is as puerile as it is ridiculyy THe veaity and building record for January and February furnish gratity ing evidence of the material growth of the ci The increase in both over the corresponding period of 1889 points to a yearof unsurpassed activity and sub- stantial prosperity. Stimulated by favorable conditions, the metropolis is advancing at a firm pace in population and wealth A significant feature of the inc 1 transactions in real es- tate for permanent investment is the A striking example of this increase is shown 1n the sale of the southeast corner of Seyenteenth and Farnam at an advance of thirty thousand dollars in two years. A profit of thirty-three and one-third per cent in two years is the best commendation for Build- ing permits keep pace with the in- crensed dealings in realty. With im- portant public improvements certain to be started with the opening of the build- ing season, the enormous increase in the business of architects, and the ac~ ity in all building trades, the year gives every promiso of surpassing all previous records in the history of the city. THE revival of the Omaha nand Dodge City railroad scheme gives promise of early beneficial results. The conven- tion of business men and representa- tives of boards of trade held at Superior exhibited an carnestness that insures activity all along the line. The project is one of vast importance to southern Nobraska and western Kansas, as was evidenced in the determination of the communitics along the proposed e to substantially aid the construc- tion of the rond. Considering the un- surpassed fertility of tributary country, the absence of parvallel roads, and the cheapness of the cost of construction, the proposed railroad would undoubt- edly prove a profitable 1nvestment for the builde: 1d the producers of the surrounding country. IT 18 now proposed to issue illumi- nated commissions to the overworked members of Mayor Cushing’s cabinet, Amid the toil and sweat of drawing their monthly stipends,they can extract consolation for the discomforts of their lot from an wmsthatie lithograph, framed in gilt, and hand.it down to their heiws as a memento of Om~ha's reform ad- ministration. . It is to be hoped the sinecures will not be overlooked. THE spasm of ¢conomy indulged in by the county. bourd concerning assistant county attorneys appears ridiculous in the light of ‘the expenses already in- curred. The 1 cost in three cuses amounts to more than the salaries of the two assistants for a month, and the criminal . doeket ., has scarcely 1+been touched. Windy. Chicago Tribune, March camo i like a professioual pugilist. —— Mutu Sluughter. St. Lowis Globe-Demosral, The Hill-Cleveland vendetta has made ono fact clear to the dullest comprenension, and that 18 that neither will ever be elected pres- ident, The e ns a Made!. Lincoln Jowrnal, The Journal printed yesterday morning fifty-eight columus of news and miscellany, exclusive of the market reports. The total of Tue Brs was fifty-threo and one-half col- umns, ol R shade of O1d Hickory, N Louisville Codrier-Jouwrnal, Can it be possiblo that the English aro to supply the United Statos with school books? Andare we to have an English account of the battle of New Orleans? laiers The Short Cut, Chicago Times. Virginia is strugaling hard over tho prob- lem how to refund her debt. The ecasiest way to refund 18 to pay. That is the sword t0 cut the Gordian kuot, and there is no pat- ent on at, o A ek On }is Last Lres, St, Louls Republic. Towa has prohibition by statuts, but not constitutional prohibition, Governor Boies is opposing it in a way that will overthrow it. If this legislature does not, the next will substitute a successful high license law for the prohibition failure. ey SRS TRAIN STARTS ON HIS TR1P, He Says He Will Circle the Globe in Sixty Days. 130870N, Mase., March 8.—[Special Tele gram to Tur Bee, | —Citizen Tran shook the dust of Boston yesterdoy. He gave aspread at the Purker house in the afternoon to the newspapcr men and telegranh operators of tho city. *1'm golng around the world, boys,” said Citizen Train enthusiastically, “and I'm going to circle it ia sixty days.” Citizen George bade farewell to Boston with a rattling lecture in Lethrop's museum in tho evening. 'Hé starts on his trip on St. Patrick’s day. ‘M will lay his bearings and take his timg from Tucoma and will pro- ceed thence westerly by a special boat across Puget sound, comnepting with the steamstfip Abyssinia at Vancouyor's icland, and in- tends to beat all vecords on his globe cir- cling trip. Traw/lefe Boston on the mid- night train, e The Burruy Habeas Corpus Oase, WasUINGTON, Murch 8.—[Special Teie- gramto Tur Bk ~In the supreme court of the United Staben this afternoon. Repre- seutative Counl r the petitioner, in the absence of the Hon, G. M. Lambertson, presented the perifion for @ habeas corpus for Tuomas F, Barrus, Mr. Connell does not expect actiol Upan the case by the court under some days y: i - S Young Ruflans Try Gremation, W Youk, March 3.—[Special legram to Tue'Bek.)~Two desperate little rufan: poured kerosene on Michael Gillet, a twelve- year-old lad Sawrday night, and then set fire W bim, How the lad escaped being burned to a crisp is & marvel. As it is his left arm and hand are blistered from his el- bow o the Lips of bis fingers wud deprived of their use for a long time. ———— Funeral of Commodore White. WasmixeroN, March 8.—The funeral of the lats Cowmodore White, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, took place this lnornin' from St. John's P. E. church avd largely attended. The remalas were canvayoa 0 Pm-flmhh for interment. BOARD OF TRANSPORTATION, The Reduction of Loocal Rates Discussed. Froizht MOST MASTERLY INACTIVITY. Nothing Ec! Done With Considerable at—State Treasurer HIl Fails to Avpear—Public tands and Bulldings. ne Resolutio; N eb., March 3.—[Special to Tae ]=The state board of transportation met as per adjournment this moraing to con- sidor the question of local freight reduction, } Aside from precious breath nothing was squanderod. As yet there is nothing that any assurance that the producors of Nobraska will enjoy & reduction of local rates, State Treasuter J. B. Hill was not present at the mecting, Secretary Cowdory's mo- tion to adjourn the provious meeting so that the treasurer could be in attendance to par- ticipate in the deliberations of to-day’s meet. ing failed to make him well. Hill is known to favor local reduction. Leese, however, will press his resolution for a reduction of rates in Nebraska to the Towa schedule at the regular meeting which takes placo on Wednesday, and if Hill is able to be present another lively skirmish will doubtless take place. He suys he will present the resolution at every regular meoting unless something is done to lift some of the burdens off the over-burdened people, Tho corn rate to Chicago was taken up and discussed bricfly, This resulted in tho passage of the following resolution : Whereas, The reduction of 10 per cent on the rate on corn to the Chicago market was t00 small to be of any great benefitto the producers of the state, and Whereas, The raiiroads decline to make any further reduction; therefore, be it Resotved, That the attorney general be requested to go beforo the interstate com- merce commission and use all honcrable mouna to secure a materipl reduction on interstate ratos. “Tho board is o bear his expenses in the event thav he concludes to make the at- LumFl ‘The skirmish was warm today. Attornay Geueral Leese indicated in his romarks that the day for gag rule had passed, and that tho board had better adjourn sine die than to meet from time to tunme without doing any- thing, enton, Cowdery, Steen and Leeso wero ent. “When Chairman Benton called tho ing to order the altorney general sug- wested that some mewmver of the board pres- ent ought to second his motion for the re- duction of local freight rates and adopt or killit by a majority. In this coanection he added that the conditions of the voard were precisely the same as at the former meet— i doption of the resolution to seek a reduction of iuterstate rates is re- garded as a bit of political buncowbe, PUBLIC LANDS AND BUILDINGS, The board of public lands and buildings did not meet in regular monthly session this afternoou us per adjournmont. Attorney General Leese concluded that he did not care to be “squelched” twi during the same day and absented himsell from the meeting, resulting in the board’s failure to et a quorum. [teports of state institutions, however, were filod as folloy Commandant Henry of the soldiers’ and sailors’ home recommends that the boiler of the boiler house be examined carefully before payment is made for 1t. Warden Hopkins reports 3381 convicts re- maining in the state penitentinry March 1. During the month of Iebruary 2 were par~ doned by the governor, 2 were released on commutation and 7 because of expiration of time, Twelve were secured from the courts. Superintendent Knapp of the hospital for the insane reports 164 male and 151 femaloe patients in the asyium March 1. He also filed the clinical history of Mary O'Brien and J. B. Rutherford, who died during the month of February. Sixteen paticuts were dischurged aud twelve received. Commandant Hammond of the solaiers’ avd sailors’ home reports 173 members in all admitted 1o the home previous to the month endiog IPebruary 23. Nine were ad- mitted during the month, making 152 all told. Superintendent Stone of the hospital for the incurable insane at Hastings reports the death of Jumes W, Faehr, a patient from Platte county, and Heory lSraun, a patient from Cummins county. The former died of uremic poisoning and the lattor of bneu- monia. NEW STATE ENTEKPRISES, Certificates of organization and articles in- corporating the Kearney, Deuver & North. western Ruilway company were filed for re ord in the office of tke secretary of state this morning. ‘L'his company contemplates a iine of road huving termim at Denver, Col., and Yanktou, Dak. 1t will pass through Buffalo, arney, Phelps, Harlan, Furnas, Gosper, Frontier, Red Willow, Hitchcock, Hayes, Chase, Dundy, Sherman, Hall, Howurd, Nunce, Greeloy. Boone, Wheeler, Antelope, Madison, Stunton, Pierce, Wayne, Knox, Cedar, Dixon, Dakota and Thurston coun- ties of Nevraska. Authorized capital stock $1,000,000. Iucorporators: Sylvester St. Jotn, Byron H. Bicknell, Willis L. Hard, A. Baker, H. G. Wiley, J. E. Milter, O, 8. Maraen, Wiil J, Scott and . M. Jud Ihe Bismarck, Kearney & Gulf Railway company iu_Nebraska also filed articles, Ihis roid 18 to trend the counties of Web- ster, Kearney, J3uffalo, Sherman, Custer, 13laine, Loup, Reek, Brown and Keya Paba, “'he intention is 0 bave it conuect some sys- tem of roads to ba built from the gulf to the narthern part of Dakots. Capital stock $1,000,000. Incorporators: Joel Neull, L. B. Cunninvham, A. H. Bolton, J. L, IBen- nett and T, J. Parris, TATE HOUSE MATTERS, Superintendent Mallaliou of the stato in- dustrial school, Kearnay, attended the meet- i0g of the board of publi¢ lands and build- ings This afwinoon, Secretary Gilchrist of the state board ot transportation left at noon today for Al- liance, Bux Butte county. While gove he expects to worl off the gall he swallowed duriog the morning session of the state board of transportation, Dr. Armstrong of the home for the feeble minded, Beatrice, presented s inmates to the board of public lands and buildines, He says that the unfortunates under his charge aro getting slong splendidly. In time, he says, the institution will become self'sup- POFLIng. The Union Central life insurance company of Cipcinuati, O, tiled 1ts_anuual statement with’the insurance suditor today. It shows \ I the following volume of business transacted in the atate during the past year: Risks, 514; inwuring, $470 3913 premiums, 238; insuring, 451 09, §4,000. Hhe Nonrasks & lows lasatance company has changed its name to insurance company. Amended articles to this effoct wero filod with Insurance Auditor Allen this afternoon. NEW NOTARIES PUBLIC. The governor today made the following nowarial appointments: George K, Sawyer, Wostern, Saline county; I'rancis Brown, Daver, Otos county; John J. Rice, Lincoln, Lancaster county; Vojlech Chladek, Dun’ 1an, Dawes ocounty; Willinm E, Johnson, Lincoln, Lancaster county; William Aley. O'Neill, Herlt county; Warren C. Fenton, Frontfor county: T, W. Whitman, Schuyler, Colfax county; Florence Ayers, Dakota_ City, Dakota county; Charles P Dick, North Platte, Lincoln county. CITY NEWS AND NOTES. Fditor Davis of the Herald, published at Holyoke, Col., is in the city, Church Howe is in the city. He denies the alloged interview between himself and Editor Burrows of the Alliance, Argumont of motions, demurrers and the like was the order today in the district court. Trial of jury causes will commeace again tomorrow morniug. - STATE AN RRITORY Nebracka dortinza. A building and loan association has been organized at Clay Centor. Alodgeof Good Templars with eleven mombers has been instituted at Hebron, Hebron will enjoy a “Kalendar Karnival" on Wednesany and Thursday of this week. The Clay county Farmers' alliance will hold a meeting at Clay Center next Saturs day. An extensive tanyard will Hebron if the business men required bonus, The postoftice at Brownville has been moved into new quarters and a number of improvements made. it is stated that the state military com- pany at Nelson will disband and a new one be organized at Superior. Itis reportod that actions will soon b commenced neainst all the *“2-per-ce month” men in Wayne to recover interest, A picnic association will probably be formed at Verdon and a forty-acre grove adjoining town fitted up for parties the com- ing summer. Percy Brown of Schuyler, who entered the West Point military academy last year, has returned home disgustea with the life of a soldier and will not go back. W, D. Vermillion, an old and well known resident of Thayeg county, died suddenly of heart disease at hls home last week. The funeral was under the direction of the Ma- sons, of which order the deccased was o memver in high standing, A cow belonging o W. . Uzgell of Dav- enport gave birth to a two-headed calf the other day. The body wns slightly deformed in the hind logs, two perfect heads, joined at the throat and neck, having four_cars, two mouths, ete. The animal was fully devel- oped and of large size. J. 0. Towell, editor of the Gandy Star, committed suicide last Suturday by shooting humself in the mouth. Ho was out at tho stable feeding his cows, and did the bloody deed while in the manger, and was found lying on the Lay that he had just thrown to them. The coroner’s jury afler examining the body rendered & verdict that he com- mitted suicide, He was just recovering from the effects of la grippe, saud it seems to have affected his brain. He leavos a wife and two daughters, sixteen und eignt yoars of age. be started at will raise the lowa items, The farmers in the vicinity of Randall will build a co-operative creamery at that place. The Keokuk medical college last week graduated sixty-two new doctors; five of whom were ladies. A Shetland pony breeding farm 18 to be estaplished by Captain Hoag of Maquotala, who has invested $12,000 in tho enterprise. Two Muscatine boys were fined for snow balling a citizen, but their parents refused to settle with the court and the youngsters are now meditating in jail. Rev. J. C. Maple has refused the presi- dency of the female Baptist colicge at Lox- ington, Mo., ana will remain pastor of the First Baptisu church at Keokuk. A great whist game was pluyed at Atlantic for the championship of Cass county. And- ressen and Eyler and Arderson and Gough were the contestants. ‘The former were victorious by a score of 52 to 33 J. R Creighton of Bloomficld has inventea & machine for weighing grain as it comes from the elevators and threshers, with a capacity of from 5,000 Lo 15,000 bushels per hour. The appliance will be manufacturea by a Keckuk firm. The whole town of Milton turned out on a rat hunt the other day and when the sun had sot 8,000 rodents lay dead upon the battle- field. The victory was celebrated by a bat quet in the opera house in the eveuing, at which the mayor presided. Nows has been received ut Ottumwa from Greensboro, N. C., of the shooting and prob- ably fatal wounding of Saudford Kirkpat- rick, formerly of Ottumwa. Kirkpatrick is a revenue collector and was shot during the seizure of ao illicit still. He is well known in eastern Towa and is considered one of the best revenue adents in the service. The Two Dakotns. ‘The first mining distriet in tne Black Hills was organized in April, 1 The Homestake mining company declared its 139th dividend last weeik, amounting wo $1,500,250. The bill locating the North Dakota state fair at Grand Forks has passed both branches of the legislature. A little son of Charles Lentez of Gettys- burg was scalded to death by being acei- .lcmuhv pushed ioto a pan of biiling water by his mother. ‘While prospecting for coal near Whitewood the prospestors hud to abandon the search after reachiug a depth of 106 feet by a flow of water, which, after the tools were re- ot nearly twenty feet into the air, Jens Svarstad, & farmer living on tho Jim river, five miles south of 13ath, suffered a heavy loss by fire. His barn, fifteen cattle, four horses, 500 bushels of corn and oats and l\ll of his farm machinery were burned. His loss is partially covered by $1,000 insurance. According to the Rapid Cityv Republican some parts of the recently openea reserva- 0 contains rich deposits of precious met- .\. Caotain Joun Swmith, an old prospector. exhibited in that city the other aay the finest svecimen of silver ore ever seen in the tlack Hills, which he claimed to have receatly found on the reservation, It is nutive silver in white quartz, The rock s alive with v, A twenty-stamp mill would pay off the na- tional debt in & generation with such ore to fcep it running at ite full capacity, been a constant Sufi'erer for om about Nov, 15t i we follow-~ ing JUNE) from severe colds in my head and throat, in fact the whole mucous tissue, from"the nose down to and includipg the bronchml tubes, was more or less affected. It was fast med most known remedies CURE. | HAVE T INVALUABLE IN SUCH CASES, developing into CHRONIC CATARRH, and was us POND'S EXTRACT, l‘"" swallowed it, IT BELIEVED NE Imuu AND HAS USED IT FOR BUHNS BRUISEB lll SPRAINB | BELIEVE ALSO TH | had V PPERSUADED last """n'.'fi:::‘fiflh"u ’3 T A RADICAL AND BELIEVE ¥ FAMIL BE WITHOUT (T 1N THE HOUSE. FEELING AS | D THAT IT mm A WHOLE PHAHMAOOPCEIA WITHIN (TSELF, FREDERICK E. FINCK, utho gsl(ulno. SEE LANDSCAPE TRADE MARK on CO., 76 Firry Avenve, New York, tho Nebraska firo. OUT TO-DAY. INSECT PESTS, o vernaens By Prof. Joim Henry Comstock. The first of & series of six articles showing the value of those insects which are useful to the farmer telling how to destroy harmful inseet These articles scientifically demon- strate how an average annual loss of #30,000,000 inas boen ocensioned in the South by the cotton-worm alone; and that an overage loss per year of nearly 22,400,000 has been brought about in the apple crop of Illinois by the ray ages T the codlin-moth. FIVE, YEARS IN AFRICA, KOG By Herbert Waid, ADVENTURES) These articles running through eight numbers of the Ledyer, are of the most vy interesting description, and five years of adventures in ca, and they are illustrated by sketches made by Mr, Ward, and by the reproduction of photographs taken by him in Africa. These pictures throw much tight upon the manners and customs of the hitherto unknown cannibal tribes of Africa, and they have the unique value of illustrating African life in many explored gions where no other white man, v even Stanley, has ever penetrated. THE JOURNEYINGS OF A JOURNALIST, By Murat Hals'ed, AN OCULAR DELUSION, sismesy By Frank Howerd Howe. This is a sparling and brightly writ® ten noveletto with New York society life for its frame. The characters ara types of uctual life. THE FAKIRS OF INDIA, cscsrconn By GBDI‘EB Frederic Parsons. > above wi 1A NEW YORK L DGER of March Ist. FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS, or The Ledger will be sent to you for one year, postage pmd, for $2. ~ Address ROBERT BONNER’S SONS, WILLIAM AND SPRUC yN.Y Cny. COLISEUM. TWO PERFORMANCES RY THE Grand Italian Opera Gompany Under the direction of Messrs. Abbey & Grau. MEB ADELINA PATTI SIGNOR FRANCISCO TAMAGNO, AND A COMPANY OF RENOWNED ARTISTS. Monday Evening, March 3, Verdl's Sublime Grand Opera, in four acts, IL TROVATORE, Sig. Francisco Tamagno as.......Maorico l\lmu Liltan Nur\lh‘ S onora ‘Tuesday Afte uon, March 4, PATTI MATINEE, Atwhich will be presented Hossint's Beautiful Opera, the Barber of Seville. ADELINA PATT . Al ROSINA, Grand Chorus and Ballet, Orchestra of 60 Conductor......8ig. Romulado Saplo, uiries should be addressed to BOYD & u.n"mca Local Managers for Patti Engage- ment, Omaha, Neb. The sele of seats will commence a9 &, m, Thursday, February 27, st the box oflice of Boydt Ofers, Houss, Mt 14 Eg —$3.75, 8250 and #2.00, General admis- slou $1.00, MuE, Thursasy Friday and Saturaay March 6, 7 and 8, and Saturday Matinee. Special Engugement of The Famous Bostonians SH OPERA. TOM KARL BARNABEE and W. Mac uoNALn Proprietors and Managers. R TOIRE: Complete Lhorus and Orchestra. 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