Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1890, Page 4

- for Junie, 1880, 18,58 “ THE DAILY BEE. B. ROSEW ATER, Editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 117 and Sunday, One Year s ix onths. ... “ "Thres Montiis . Hunday Dee, Otio ¥ Woekly floe, One Y 'ee Duilding. Mce, 667 Ro okery Bullding, Rooms 14 and [5 Tribuns Building. , No. 613 Fourteonth Stroet. ; uffs, No, 12 Pearl Streot, Bouth Omahia, Corner N an | 2ith Streets, CORRESPONDENCI Allcommimications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be nddressed to tne Editor- 1l Gepartment. BUSINESS LRTTHRS. Al businesgletters and remittances suonld b audressed to The liee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and Postofies ordeis 10 b made payasie to the order of the Company. The Bee Publishing Company , Proprictors. B Building Farnam andSeventoenth Streets. THE BEE ON THE TRAINS. ‘Thore s no excase for a fallure to get Tur Bre ou the trains. Al nowsdeaiars have beon noti- fled to carry & full supply, Travelers whio want Tuk Brg and can't get 16 on trains whera other Omata papars are carried are requasted to not I Please be particnlar to give in all eases full futormation as tu date, Tailway andnumbor of train THE DAILY BEE. £worn Statement ot Circulation, State of Nebraska, ok nty of Douglas, | * jeorqe 1, Tzschuck, secretary of Tie Publishing Company, does solemnly swear th the actual cirenintion of THE DAILY R for the week endin March 15, 18%), was as follows: Bundar, 35, Saturday, Mareh {5 Average..... . ee B EORGE B. TZSCHUCK. £worn to befors me and_subscribed to in my presaqce this Iith day of Marchy A D. 180, L1 . P. FEIL, - Notary Public. Erate of Nebraska, ' County ot Douglas, | 5% George ‘B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- ex and saya that he 18 secrotary of THE BER plishing Company, that the actual average « dally eircunlation of T moiith of March 1840, 18554 coples: for April, JES0, 18,630 coples: for May, 1840, 14,600 coplest coplesi for July. 184 nm'.‘fl capies; for August, 1880, 18,051 coples: for. Sep- tember, 180, IKTI0 caples; for October, 8,907 copies: for November, 1680, 19,310 for Decembor, 18, coples: for_Jan 1800, 19,555 coples: for February, 1600, % DALY BER for the ] it Gronae B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to pefore me and sub bed 1n my Presence this st day of March, A, D.. 1800, (Seal,) N. P. Friy, Notsry Public. cop GENERAL Denial hus taken command of the railroad forces, - WorLD a duty on stale eggs protect the head of the average freo trade orator? Where, oh where was Counsman when Jobst came in and captured the commission? CLEAN the streetsand alleys. Let us have an early spring—"it the rubbish heaps of winter, THE proposed duty on imported eggs opens a wider field of industrial ac- TWENTY dollars a month extra for office rent will enable Assistant City Attorney Shoemaker to keep his end of the string well waxed THE harmonious rolations beuvween the Dodlin combine and the mayor were rudely shocked and ruthlessly shattered by the appointmentof a city hall sup- erintendent, ' —— T apvointment of Jacob J. Jobst as superintendont of the city hall is fully in keeping with the political surprises which Mayor Cushing persists in spring- ing on the communi — ANOTHER southern colonel, this time the city auditor of Chattanooga, Tenn., has been caught short in his public ac- counts. Refrain—'‘He’s over in Can- ada now.” THE withdrawal of nine out™ of the twenty-two members of the interstate commerce railway association looks as if .the ‘‘gentlemen’s agreement’ 1s of no more binding effect than if 1t were somuch waste paper, PAraA’s boy Herbert has likewise handed in his resignation. What a field day it is for the German politicinng who have waited, lo, these many years, for a ministerial crisis by which some of them at least wight succeed to the emoluments of Bismarck’s patronage. —————e Irisn’t every Napoleon of finance that ean wipe out thousands of aollars of indebtedness by paying five cents on the dollar and walk the sireets of Now York city a free man. Wal street dofts itscap with deference to Henry S. Ives, - Tug valiant Cherokee boomer who boasted that he would vwist around his little finger anyone who interfered with his claim is now scurrying back into Kansas us fast as bis rattling vots and pans in the bottom of his wagon will al- low him, Wit its usual gall and recklessuess the daily fakir makes a causeless as- suult on the houor and generosity of the people of Omaha. Of all the nuis- ances thut aflict the city, the common #c0ld, under the mask of respectability, is the worst. D MiLLER, of the park commission, reports that Minneapolis land owners arve falling over each other iy their anxiety to donate park sites. There is no danger of a similur epidemio in this vicinity. Omaha land is worth good money. ——— IN REFUSING to pass the viaduet ordi- nance until the railroads submit and file & copy of the specifications of the same with the city clerk, the council has taken procautions such as any prudent business man would follow in his private affair ———— WHEN the movement for an alliance of the farmers of the country uppeared on the horizon no bigger than a man’s hand, not a politician took the trouble 10 lok over his shoulder at the coming storm. Now that the gatberiug elouds of discontent. are sweeping over the ‘heavens with the rapidity of a race hovse, there is & rushing together of politicians from the four corners of the land to be the first to vide oa the popu- lar wave, P THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. MARCH 20. 1890 THE NEW TARIFF BILL. The tariff bl which the republican members of the ways and means com- mittco have agreed upon is toa very considerable extent a compromise measure. - Phis was expeated, and doubtless it would liave been impossible for the majority to have framed a bill without such an arrangement. In the matter of the tariff on sugar, for exam- ple, there was at the outset of the consideration a wide diverg- ence of opinion, and a compromise of views was absolutely necessary to any readjustment of the sugar sched- ule. This was effected by a reduction in the duties of from fifty to sixty per cent. Under tho present fhriff the average ad valorem rate of duty on sugar is nearly eighty per cent, the higher rates boing on the grades from No. 13 Dutch standard upward. The proposed tariff makes the duty on all grades up to and “including No. 16 thir- ty-five per cent ad valorem, and all grades above No. 16 forty per cent ad valorem. Asabout all the sugar im- vorted under the present tariff is below the No. 18 standard owing to the practically prohibitory rates on the higher grades, and as sugars below that standard must be re- fined bhefore fit for use, the refiners have had absoluto command of the American market. The proposed tariff would allow the higher grades of raw sugars, fit for consumption, to come into compe- tition with the refiued, with the prob- able effect of materially reducing the cost of sugar to consumers. The an- nual revenue from sugar under the present tarifl is a little more than fifty million dollave, and it 15 estimated that under the proposed tariff the rov- cnuo from this source will be from thirty to thirty-Give million dollars a year. The falling off may not, however, be so great as this, as with a reduced price the consumption of sugar would doubtless be very considerably in- creased. Thero very likely would be not only an enlarged demand for do- mestic use, but also from manufacturers of preserves, confections and canned 200ds, s0 that probablythe dscrease in the revenue trom sugar, under the pro- posed reduction of duties, would not ex- ceed ten million doliars, The other question which gave the majority of the committee a great deal of trouble, the wool schedule, was also settled by & compromise, though this is not of a nature to insure very great ben- efit to the people. Asthe arrangement is reported, the wool growers would seem to have no cause of complaint, for if they have not received ail they asked there are conditions and restrictions provided which it 1s believed will be quite as valuable as a protection to their interests. The carpet manufactur- ers are not ignoved, but they do not receive the consid- eration they wanted. There is a cut of fifty per cert in the lumber schedulo, subject to the policy of Can- ada in Jaying an export duty, as has been proposed in the Dominion parlin- ment. The iron industeies will be little affected by the uew tariff as proposed, the only important change being 1n the rate on railw: on and rails, which is veduced to the conservative extent of four dollars a ton, leaving still an am- ple margin of proteétion. The pro- posed changes in internal revenue taxes are more conservative than had been expected, the estimated reduc- tions being between soventeen and nine- teen million dollars, The appeal of the farmers, ns voiced by the National Grauge and uumerous state organizations, for more liboral consideration in the diraction of protec- tive duties on such of therr products as are toany extent imported, is regarded in the new tariff bill, either by the im- position of new duties or ‘the increase of those existing. Of thisfeature of the measure, at least, the agricultural in- terests will huve no fair reason to com- plain. It is a liberal response to their demand that the products of the farm should have equal consideration with those of the manufactories ina policy of tariff protection. REDUCING INTERESI' RATES. The legal rate of interest in Iowa is ten por cent. - A bill to reduce the rate to eight-per cent has passed both branches of the legislatiye, and it is expected will be promptly approved by tho governor. There are pending.in both houses measures providing penal- ties for usury, and a stringent law to protect borrowers against the nsurious oxactions of money lendors wiil undofibtedly be pussed by the presont legislature, We do not know that Iows' has suffeved in this respect more than other western states, butat any rate the time has cértainly come for such legislation us is proposed, and it should be made so strong und guarded that the usurers wou'd find the greatest diffi- culty in evading it and receive severe and summary punishment if found guilty of its violation. There can beno question that usury constitutes a most sevore drain upon the resources of the people .und s ono of the greatest obstacles to their prosperity. Tt is a prevalent and cr, g ovil everywhere, aoting as a mo: oppressive hurden uvon honest indus- try und eating up the substance of tho groat body of producers for the benefit of a few grasping and conscienceless non-producers. In the New York legislature u bill is pending for reducing the legal rate of interest to five per cent, and in other siates measures huve been introduced prohibiting und punising usury. Most, if not all of the states, already have such laws, but they are either inade- quate or are not enforced. Luws of this kind need to bo of the most stringent character, with no loopholes for evasion and with penalties so severe that fow will take the risk of incurring them. In Nebrasku the legal rato of interost is seven per cent, with the right to con- tract for ten, but even the latter gen- erous rate 18 more often exceeded than obsorved, Usury is undoubtedly quite as common 1n Nebraska as in lowa, aod has been no less damaging to the interests and prosperity of the people of this state. Everywnere the usurious and unserupulous money lenders are do- ing business in violation of the law, finding an easy way of evading the statute, and the iustances are far too vare in which they ure made to answor for their illegal practices. The evil is remediable, and it is the Auty of the people everywhere to demand of their law-makers o rigid application of the remedy. THE NEW TERRITORY. The bill for making Oklahoma a ter- ritory will go to a conference commit- tee, the senate having non-coneurred in the house amendments to its bill, The chief point of Wifference relates to embracing the Cherokee ouatlet for judicial purposes. There is no doubt or question as to the status of Oklahoma, proper, or that of No Man’s Land. These are a part of the public domain of the United States. Accordingly in the secnate bill these two tracts are mecluded in the proposed territory of Oklahoma, al- though they aro in fact separated by a considerable aren not yet open to set- tlement. But the urgent necessity for giving a regular government to Okla- homa, and the almost equally urgent noeds of No Man's Land, which has a growing population without a proper judicial and legislative system, over- came the geographical objection, and after an extended discussion the bill uniting the two as a new territory passed the senate. Tn the house, however, tho view pre- vailed that it was desirable to include the Cherokee outlet for judicial pur- poses solely, although the right to do this, in view of the existing treatios with the Indians, was denied by the action of- the scnate. This tract is larger than the entire area embraced in the proposed new territory under the* senate bill, and belongs by treaty to the Cherokees, their ownership being prac- tically conceded by the fact that the government is negotiating with them for its purchase. The im- portant difference between the two houses relates to the outlet, which the Cherokees urgently demand shall remain as 1t is. The position of the senate appears just undoes the circum- stances, and will véry likely be accepted. Then if the government suc- ceeds in purchasing the outlet, which it undoubtedly will in time, it can be made a part of the new territory. ——r———— CLEAN UP S1REEIS AND ALLEYS. While the city physician is devising ways any means to secure a moderu sys- tem of sanitary inspection aod ‘regula- tion, there is no serious obstacle in the way of practical work under the prese law. The alleys, esposially in the busi- ness section, are rendered almostim- passable by the winter’s accumulution of rubbish and filth. Warm weather is rapidly decomposing these vile' heaps disseminating a variety of smells that suffocate and sicken. Pools of stagnant water, decaying refuse and ash piles combine to befoul the atmosphere and call loudly for disinfect- ants. There is nothing to prevent the present bourdof health from ordering and enforcing an im- mediate clean up. Pélice officersshould be detailed to notify the occuvants of the premises to remove the winter’s filth from the alleys, and accompar.y the orders with a notfce of the pennlties at- lflcheg to failure. By active, energetic work with the wmeans at its command, the board hasan opportunity to show that it is deserving of larger powers and more generous support. The season is ripe for nction. the alleys over-ripe and reudy to be plucked. Let the board suspend dis- cussion of plans for the present and en- force the law as it stands. enatorial campaign in Illinois is attracting early attention, owing to the purpose of General John M. Palmer 1o contest for the seat on the demo- cratic ticket and to appeal divect 1o the voters for endorsement. The dem- ocrats have virtually approved the plan of direct voung for senators and efforts are being made to induc the vepubli- cans to endorss it. Such action will have no binding force on the legis- lature. It is practically useiess unless both parties agree to submit the claims of the respective party candidates to vote of the people, and even then it is important that legislative candidntes should be men of character who can be depended upon to carry out thu decision rvegistered at the ballot box., The sentiment awakened in. Illinois in favor of direct voting for senators emphasizes a growing demand for reform in the election of members of the upper houss of congress. It is too much o expect that the senate will consout to a change in the organic law goviruing the election®of members, but the ends sought can be reached by forceful public spirit which will com- pel party conventions to nominate can- didates, and submit their claims to the hovarto n vote of the people. The senate has become . close ecorporation of money men, und every effort tending to popularize that body, and make its members accountable direct to the voters should be heartily supported by every citizen, Tue spectacle of thees courts-martial investigating tHe conduct of promi- nent army and naval officers is not cal- culated to inspire confidence in the ed- ucational systems of West Point and Aunapol The significance of the three trials is that Commmander Mc- Calla, Captain Healey and Lieutonant Steele are charged with like offenses— brutal treatment of their subordinates, FEducated at government expense and favored with responsible positions, these officers played the role of petty despots, as if the common sailor and and soldier wore mere slaves, without any rights which officers were bound to respect. The sooner these brutes ave kicked out of the service the better it will be for the army and navy.. Petty tyrants and monarchial sycophants are o disgrace to the goverment, and their room is far more desirable than their company. SOME two months ago a large delega- tion of Kansas agitators traveled to Omaha to tell the people of the city and state that they were plungiug headlong 10 destruction on the chariot of high licouse. They declared that Kansas was riding on the crest of prosperity’s wave, and that the only salya- tion of Nebraska was to ewm- GLruce prohibition. What are the fucts? In a letter addressed to Kansas cong®ésdmen, the Farmers’ al- liance of tha, state declares that ““Foreclosures: and eviotions nre tak- ing place fh ! many parts of our state and we noed not go all the way to Europe to withess scenes of cruelty in matters of A kind, All over the stute the homeos of our ppopie are im* porilled. The# aro struggling against advorse ciréppstances and almost against hope.o ho people believe that theso condifions are largely due to vicious legislafion.” While the far- mers of Nebraska are oppressed by ex- tortionate fraffnt rates which deprive them of ruunim’!flo prices for their pro- ducts, they are certainly 1n better con- dition than their neighbors in Kansas. In the hght of the facts set forth by the farmers'of Kansas, thore is not a ray to show wherein prohibition basimproved the condition of the people. On the coutrary it has been a positive damage. S— SENATOR HAwrey had some hard things tosay about the shortcomings of congress in his speoch opposing the Blair educational bill. He mraigeed the legislative branch of the govern- mont for its derilect duty in the man- agement of the Indians, for its failure to relieve the supreme court of itsover- burdened docket, for its extravagance in squandering the surplus, for its timidity in according relief to the de- mands of the peoplo for a reduction of the duties on the necessaries of life, and for its credulity in embarking on an unbounded sea of wild schemes. Senator Hawley steuck out straight from the shoulde If he hit a tender spot, it is to be hoped that he made an impress ch may bring congress to a sense of its obligation ONE of the stock arguments of prohi- bition advocates is that the law de- creases municipal cxpenses and re- duces theforce of police necessury to maintain order. After half a dozen years’ experience with the law. City reports one ‘hundred liquor joints in_active operation, while the mayor demands an increass of the police force to properly enforce the luws. Just where the municipal profits come in would be hard to discover. The con- stables and justices, however, divided twelvo thousand dollgrs in fees last yoar without materinlly diminishing the flow et liguor. Purysioy ADAMS advances the novel opiuion that the passage of the Frye biil extending the time for the payment of the {Fuion Pacific deht. is really ““in the interest of the states through whigh: the. rond passes, al- though the peovle of those states did not see it.” Mr, Adaus’ plansible as- sertions will mot improve their ‘eye- sight. The people, however, can see the naked fact that the bill imposes upon them the ontrageous robberies of the Mobiliers and Goulds, and compels them to pay the price of the rond three times over. ing pervades (k ehraska. Collec are reported tobe fair nod better than lastyear. * Coufitry merchanig'are lay= ing 10 sufficient: Stociks to supply the spring demand; although there is an absence of auy speculative tendencies. Caution and prudence uve the rules in purchases. These are healthful mai- cations portending o steady, legitimate trade for the state. A BUOYANT T bing trade of AN enlightened Missouri judge has dealt a erushing blow to the fashionable progressive euchire cruze by instructing the grand jury to der the gameo, when played for pr s a violution of the anti-gambling law. As the grand jury holds the pack, it is vot likely the members can be euchred out of the game unless Missouri society trumps in with clubs. I¥ DELAY shall follow and complica- tions arise over the failure of the Union Pacific aund Burlington to submit speci- fications of the Teuth street viaduot which shall meet the approval of the city engineer, board of public works and the council, the railroads will have only themselves to blame. n invited to attend a paving exposition to be held shortly at Indinnupolis. It is remark- able how well certain paving material looks when viewed through glasses of spavkling champagne and the haze of fragrant havanus. It is said that when Seuator Jones of Ne vada speaks on siiver he rises into a wild storm of eloquence. The fact is not to be wondered at, for hie 1s then upon his metile, — - Political Pos: R The United States of Australia and the United States of Canuda uve likely to be desigaations not remote that will help reduce the theory that the sun never sets on the British posses sions. - May Tuke Yankee Doodle Too, Wiiehita Eagle. It is now sunounged that Enghsh capital- ists want to buy the world’s fair. The list of belongings of English cavital increases daily in this country. “Whe only thing we will have loft, if this thing keeps up, will be Yankeo Doodle, o An' Effgetive Narcotic. Boaton Herald. The proceedings pf the United States senate aro gettiug %o be quite lively now adays. Somothing‘%lil have to be done to calm tha nerves of the senators. They are being deprived of ,their customary naps. Porhaps Mr. Evarts might be induced to make a speech and lull the exercises, -l Alwiih Proper. St. Loulg Globe-Democrat. Lioutenant Govegnor Jones, in the Now Vaork senate, has been counting aauorum, as Speaker Roed has done 10 tho federal house. ‘This practice has been in vogae 1n the upper branch of the New York legislature for a few years past. It is a good one, no matter which party is W¥rt or helped by it. hilcsophizing on Pat Crowe. Chieago Herald, Such froaks as Patrick Crowe, alias Joe Kane, who ran amuck the other day, cause the mind to rovert to Kdward Bellamy's theory of crime. This philosopher, or dreamer, whichever you choose, claims that all criminals are no wore not less than men- tally diseased persons, and should be so treated. This is hard 1o believe in the case of cold blonded villian who murders for gain, but the theory seems quite applicadle to such a hare-brained desperado as Kune, Insane people used to be treated with horrible severity, and they aro yet, for that matter but the goneral publio doos not approve ot it Perhaps, in the year 2000, all desperate oharacters will be locked up and regarded as objects of pity. ARy VOIUE OF THE STATE PRRESS, Cut Down In the Fall. Norfolk News. At lonst twonty counties in the ‘‘Big Third” distriot have a favorite son in trains ing for congressional honors. And the crop of candidates will bogin to grow with the grass in the spring, Out of His Place. Phelps County Herald, Mr. Laws is, of course, all right in his place, but his place is not in congress, Lot the Bourbons Show Up. Mead Advorate, Where are the Nebraska democrats? For throe wonths tho public has boon enter- tained by the discussion of republican poli- tics, but thus far scarcely a voico from the democratic camp has been heard. It would be refreshing, after perusing column after column about Reese, Richards, Thayer, Mc- Call and the rest, to see somo mention of Wolbuch, Bryan, Savage, Ames ot al. This is not un off year and our friends should not beso persistent in keeping out of sight. Porhaps influenced by the rumor that the prohibs will not put up & stato ticket, the dems have declded to remain indoors also. It Outdoes Them All. Niobrara Pioneer. Tar Bee in its stirring enterprise outdoes any other journal west of Chicago, and what is more, it takes a local- interest i every community in Nebraska, besides giving every bit of news there 18 to got. Just now Knox county is receiving from this enter- prise and push great advantago in advertis- ing its resources. Tus Bee more than any other Omaha journal has aided in bringing the attention of the world to Niobrara, The Karmers' Standard. Sutton Advertiser. The Hamilton county people are trying to decido on a man for stato senator in thostead of Senator Hurd of Clay county. We give you a fair noticé, gentlemen, that Clay, your- better and bigger half, is an agricultural county as well as your own, and that the man you put up must meet the measurement ac- cording to the farmers’ standard. ‘There is a ariners’ alliance in this county that sticks together closer than a brother. Red Cloud Republican. Tue Osawrs Bes always places beforo its thousands of readers the very latest, and most relinble statement of current events that brains, energy and money can obtain. ‘Ine Bee is a pioneer paper, and has Jead the van in the developmeat, of the great state of Nebraska. The city of Omaha may justly Dboast of this iustitution that has kept abreast of her rapid progress, and has added to her adornment one of the pulatial buildings that has helped to make ber the queen city of the trans-Missouri. Musrt M it the lssues, decumseh Repubiican. Toduy the farmers and business men of the great west are demaading relief from tho excessive railroad rates and the exorbitant rates of interest. The republican party must meet these growing demands of the west, and when the Republican stands up and de- mands a change of policy it is infinitely a Letter republican paper than those that live aud breathe in the past. Tho time has passed for branding papers as aliens that advocate reform. They are only blazing the way in the political forest for a bettor platform ou which the peoplo of this great west can stand. Challenges the West. Waune Gazette, Tho many excellent newspavers*published in Neobraska are obtaining a reputation which is enviale 1o the press of - the older settied states, and of theas publications thore is none which surpasses Tie OMAA BEE, 8 paper that in a few years has” rison from a small sheet to a paper challonging the west for an equal and having for its home one of the finest newspaper buildings in the world. Sl THE AFTERNOON TEA. Divorces can be obtained in four hours in Japan by paying § down. Men would not care to be wicked if women did not look on naughtiness with mingied dread and admiration, "Twas after the bail, *Twas dark in the hall, Hor “good nizht” was not very omphatic; "Twas such 4 ood cliance For sweetest romance, And I lingered with longing ecstatic. "Twas dark in the hall, "T'was after the bail. "Twas aftor the ball, 'Twas dark in the hallw ch a chance for a parting romantic! Aud—she was not cold; Why was I not bold ¢ When 1 think of 1t now I am frantic, "Twas dark iu the hall, Just durk—that was ull. At a recent great ball at the Itussian court all the Jadies appeared n white, without uny cther ornament than diamonds, pearls ana their own beauty. The empress herself was there and dunced in nearly every dance, A kiss on the forehead denotes reverence, uut it doesn’t tickle for shuclks, How many things thero are to laugh at in tho world to the girl who has presty teoth and dimples, Woman do not marry for money, hut they say it is casier to love a ricn man than o poor one. 1f she flies when you pursue, Dhef the best thing you can do 1s to chase her and to clasp her to your heart and keep her there. 11 you're timid sne'll be cold— Shio will love you if you're bold; Remember, faint heart never yet did win a lady fuir, Catler—"'Has your daughter's married life s0 far proved a happy one, Mrs. Vernon ! Mrs, Vernon—*Very; her husband, you know is o travelior sulesman.” -m-y d-d-dear, 1-I- Llove you! Wew- will youibe—'" began Mr. M. Podiment. “That will do,” replied the proud boauty. *I do not care 1o bo wooed on the installment plan.” When Arabelle was just twice ten And I was but eighteon, *twas then Her neart and hand I warmly plead +:0h, uo! you are too young,” she s When Arabelle was twenty eight She said, *Why longer hesitate?" 1l alivays be your friend,” 1 said, *“*But you're too old for me to wed," She—So you called on that hateful Mollie Flippe last week, did you! He—I did; but I won't do it again, nearly taliced my arm off, She—Off her waistt She—*'When did you first fancy that you toved me!” He—"When I heard that suoth- er fellow wanted to marry you.” No woman over pestered a man that she did not mention her great love for him ns an excuss for her action. She Hired Men to Kill His Father, Cranresroyn, 8. O, Mareh 19.—|Special Telegram to T Bie.|—~The trial of Kobert James, who hired 4wo negroes to murder his father, in order that he might inherit his estate, has been concluded. It was proven that James gave the negroes #3500 each for their bloody work and the jury found hum guilty of murder intho first dvgree, He was remanded for sentence. — - Bond Offe Wassixarox, March 19 to Tuz Hee.|—Boad off follows: §16, 10WA PROHIBITION AS IT 1S, Wasnisoroy, Ta, March 17,~To the Edi torof Tur Bex: Having since Decembor last spent my time in this state and during that time visited most of Lorcenters of popu- Iation, I will give you as briefly as [ can my observations regarding the workings of pro~ hibition and the true state of feolivg exist- il among the better element throughout tho state. Politically, the question para- mount with the republican party hore to-day is, How and m what way shall wo handle the liquor qyestion? In my opinion the rank and file of tho party have very little sympathy with the prohibitory ele~ ment of the party, and the foeol- ing is extending and growing rapidly that unless something is done (and that very soon) by the republican party to rid itself of the odium following and the responsibilty attaching itself to the party as the originator and promotor of this law, the party is in great danger of losing its entire vrestige in lowa, Taking the facts as they exist, nothing is more apparent than this fact. The rock- rooted prohibitionist as found in Towa today gonerally claims to bo a ropublican, and is only possessed of one idea, and that is that his pet hobby must be ridden, and all other interests must become secondary and sub- serylent to this one iden. No argument can convince him that tho law 1s inoperative and obnoxious, and has proven a failure for the suppression of the liquor trafic. He blindly affirms at home aud abroad that pro~ hibition in at least eighty-five counties in the stato is a success, and that tho law is vea- sonably enforcea as well as any othor law. Why such ignovance of the true state of affairs regarding this trafc exists among this class of politicians I cannot fathom. Be- ginning at the capital of the state, hundrods are engaged in the sale of liquor there. The sealger after tho knowledge has only to en- gago the services of u professional searcher, and tip him with a libersl fee, und he will show you these places by the score on prominent streets where one can obtain the vilest kind of whisky at 10 cents adrink. At Iowa City there are over thirty places where the stuff 1s sold openly, with very little concealment. At Carroll the open saloon is o fixture. In‘all she river towns bordering on the Mississippr on the east and the Missouri onfthe west, the samo state of affairs exists. Business men of all varties are disgusted and are clamorous for ahigh license law. ‘the efféct upon the Yyoung men of the state in my opivion is far more baneful and degrading than_the pres- ence of a iicensed saloon would be. In many of the towns they huve formed clubs, rented rooms in some upstairs block, removed the door knobs, supplied each member with a key, and nightly meet and carouse, I can not believe that the people of the stute expect any relief from the present state of affairs by any attompt on the part of tho present logisiature to patch up and further attempt to enforce the present law. It has proven a signal failure for the most part, and I can not understand how intelligent, thinking men and women (who can if thoy will acquaint themselves of the facts as they really exist) stould persist in their efforts to regulate this traic by mothods that have fully proven themselves wholly insufficient o0 accomp lish the eud sought for. But the adage that “‘there are none so0 blind as those who will not see,” seems to fit the condition of the average prohibition advocate of to- day. T can hardly conceive of any greater ca- lamity that could befall the fair state of Nebraska than the repetition of the same state of affairs a3’ today exists in this state. The inevitable resuit would be a depreciation in real estate, a crippling of wdustries, a driving beyond her vorders the coming emigrant. You have to- day less drunkards to the acre in Nevraska than they have in Iowa, and I believe loss liouor drank to the acre than here. 'rhe methods pursued and the class’ of men now engaged in the business all over our state debars the respectable mun who occasion- ally takes a drink from entering any of these places, consequently the drug store has been turned into a first class saloon. I have yet to find a man of honest convictions out- side of the prohivition cimp in the state who does not express himself freely that the present stato of affairs as regards this trafiic isa disgrace to the state and demands a speedy change, Viewing th@coming contest in Nebraska from my standpoint here, I will say that this question should ot take shape as a political issue, nor as 4 question involving the inter- ests and rights of the lquor dealer alone, The interests involved in this issue as re- gards this last named class are insignitioant compared with the direct injuries that will befall all the best industries of the state should prohibition become the organic law of the state. J. C. Swax, L STATE JOTTINGS. Nebraska, Wilber 1s to have a chemical fire engi A Demorest medal contest will be held in Mend Mareh 25, Wild geese are being slaughtered by the score in Phelps vounty. The farmers around Deshler will probably buila an elovator at that place, R. O. Willis has succeeded C. F. McDon- ough as editor of the Ogalulla Reflector, A fine library hus been purchased for the Sunday school by the Fairbury Baptists ‘I'he prohibitionists of Butler county have sed $500 v the past week for campaign expenses. Gresham has a haunted house which is at- tracting the attention of the courageous and timid residents alike, Workiuen let a bucket of dirt fall on a man in the bottom of an eighty-foot well uear Taylor, fatally injuring him, Murphy’s moetings at Crand re proving u great success and the blue ribbon market has advanced. The Nye-Wilson-Morehouse company’s elevator and coal business at Brainurd has been purchased by W. I'. McElwain, Two horse thioeves named - Erb and Bot. cher pleaded guilty at Seward and wero sen- tenced to two yoars in the penitontiary. A county Sunday school convention will bo held at Piorco March 20 and 21 under the airecuion of State Organizer B, I, Mernll, John Hoitkempkers, for many years a prosperous merchunt of Columbus, died last Friday after a weel’s illuess of poeumonin. ‘I'he editor of the Newman Grove News announced thgt hg cannot live on ozone and has therefore been compelled to throw up the sponge. The third annual encampment of the inter- state reunion will be held at Red Cloud April 4 and many prominent speakers are expected to attend. The Marsland Tribune 1s enjoying & boy- cott on account of its position in rogurd to tho Bux Butte county seat fight, but the editor isn't a biv scared, An elderly lady named Mrs, Brainard, re. siaing near Venango, was instantly killed the other day by a runaway teamof bronchos. She was thrown {rom the wagon, one of her logs passing through between tho spring and tho axle and her body being held tead down- ward next the front wheel, in which position she was dragged for six miles. Hor body was horribly mavgled ana was_entirely stripped of clothing excepting her shoo 2 bug crawled in Pete Kerker's ear on tho oight of June 5, 185, and caused him terrible agony for a few hours, but he finally got the bug killed wnd 1t has not given him any pain #since, says tho Newaha City Advertiser. On Wodnesday night of this weok he was pick iog hus ear when out came the dead bug. It was over half wo jnch ia length, aud had been in_ his ear for pine mouths and seven day He feels relleved to think it is out now, although it has caused him no pain except a slight feeling of fulluess in that ear ot Limes. lowa ite Whittemore has & board of trade, Towa City hos raised $28,000 of the §25,000 necossary to erect & Young Men's Christian octation building. 1he new croamery at Manilla will be in operation by June, Fort Dodge's new croamery largost in the stato. Greene, Jefforson, Montgomoary and Sioux ocounties are free from dobt. ‘The Dexter hotel, destroyed by fire last fall, will be succeeded by a now brick hotel built by a stock compaay, Tho ecighteen-months.old child of » Downs of What Cheer choked to death a grain of corn the other dny. Molvill Fisher of Maquoketa placed thumbs over the muzzie of a shotgun and will henceforth go through tho world thumbless. Mrs. W. D. Ransom of sfanchester awolco the other night and found her husband hold ing a bottle of chloroform to her nostrils, She screamed, and ho clutched her throat and attempted to stranglo hor but was pro vented by other inmates of the house rush. {og into the room. Ransom made good his escapo and has not been seen sinee. A case of considerablo interest to medical men 18 on trial at Corydon. Fiftoen years ago Charles Littoll, then a boy, foll from o horse and broke his arm at tho wrist. Dr. Everett sot the arm, but the bone did not nite properly and in consequence the wrist is almost useless, For some cause no action was taken in the matter until a short time hen Littell became cf age. Ho now uit against the doctor for #10,000 es for malpractice. David Emerick, an old gontleman of Silvor City, Miles county, failed to take Tony Wel Ior's advice and is now engaged 1o a lnwsuit on account of the witchery of & ‘“‘widder."” Some tima ago he contracted to marry a Mrs, Richardson of Glenwood, agreoing to poy 80,000 for the privilege, aud to mortgage 18 proverty to secure the money. His chil- dren enjoined the execution of the mortgage and now ask that a euardian boe appoiuted for their father, claiming that his infatua tico for the widow has unsettled his mind. Tha case is attracting considerable attention, as the partivs in the case are among tho most prominent people in Miles county. will be the The Two Dakotas. Sanborn county is 81,500 in debt. Piorre’s vroposed fire alarm systom will cost §1,200. The 'citizens of Brookings county huve voted for a poor farm. d ‘The Chamberlain land office will be ready for business next week, ‘The South Dakota inter-collegiate orator- ical contest will take place at Yuankton May 30, The only lady in South Dakota engaged in the title abstract business is Miss Letta M Whiting of Brookings. Lazarus Silverman of Chicago has donated 1,000 bushels of sced oats to the needy farm- ers of Nelson county. Faulkton's artesian well hasa flow ot gallons per minute and a pressure of f pounds to the square inch. The Butte county Farmers’ allisnce is building a largo general storo at Minuesela to be run on the co-operative plan, Religious excitement is tha cause which necessitated the confinement of Eli Hulter of Aberdeen in the Yankton insane asyium. The “‘grindstone buttes" in Nowlin county will s00n be put to practical use, as the stono 18 said to be of very superior quality for grinding purposes. A Minneapolis firm is fooding South Da- kota with wine and liquor price lists, which state that goods will be shipped securely packed in boxes ‘0 that no ono can guess at their contents.” Cheyenno is the name of a new town just started in Sterling county. It is located on the Cheyenne river at the proposed crossing of the Chicago & Northwestern and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pavl ro: ‘There is plenty of timoer, good water and excellent farming 1ands in the county aud tho great reservation coal beds are within a short di ance. S saed CROOKED CRUSADEKS, The Lathrop War Leads a Mimster to Apply for Diyorce. Prartsnvng, Mo., March 19.—|Special Telegram to Tue Brr.]—As a result of the recent Dbig temperance crusade by tho women of Lathrop, Mo., Rev. L. Carmi- chael, & leading minister of the place, has brought suit against his wifo for divorce on the ground of adulery with Wil Keed, u young church member. Rood was & strong backer of the crusado moveiment and a sort of attachment arose between him ard tho preacher’s wife who led the band of women in the crusade. Letters passed between tho two, and Reed's wife found one of them in the ‘pocket of ber husband’s cont. Rev. Mr. Carmichael considered the subjact seri- ously before bringing the suit, but last night ne filed the papers. Mrs. Carmichuel 18 the daughter of Colonel J. H. Fimms, a promi- nent politician. All of the crusadcrs aro wild over tho dire results of their move for good. HESS Some Crooked Transactions in Which He Was Engaged. Preree, S, D, March 19.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bre.|—Samuel Hess, the no- torious legislator who attempted suicide hero bocause of having been jilted by one of the demi-monde of this city and who tried tw dis- prove the story sent out in these dispatches by calling correspondents llars and scoun- drels, from develobments at hand is proved to be a rascal also, During the closing days of the session, when the chief clerk was rushed with work, Hess took advantage of the fact by duplicatiog his vouchers for per diem, State Auditor Tayior discovered it ana called Hess to account, but the latter tried to deny it. He then told the auditor if he would keep it secret ho would make it right by turniog in his per diem and mileage for the October session. When the session closed the auditor discov- ered that Hess had sold these to'Senutor Pet- tigrew, who is now the loser, but if iv hud not been discovered in time the stato would have bad to stand it, The auditor stated today that Hess coald have been arrested and expelled from the iegislature and other- wise punished, fle regretted that this had oot been done and thought Hess had not yet received enough publicity for his numerous rascalities, Another in tha Tofl New York, March 19.—Charles E. Hob- bard, a special doputy sheriff connected with the orderof arrest.dopartment in the shorifl's oftice, was arrested this morning on an 10~ dictment chargiog him with extortion, Tho prisoner was placed under §2,000 bail, Positively cured by these Littlo Pills, They also relieve Dis- tress frova Dyspepsia, In qtzx Mon and Too iiearty Eating. Drowsiness, tn tho Mouth, Tongue, Pain in the TORFID LIVER. regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALLPILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. 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