Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 21, 1890, Page 4

bo bus! wor wol seul that ing dofe Und wou quig ' It joing the | Trug bling Spri soho trust the Spok toes for L. 3 of t o Ale 07| ll\‘l’l‘ trust AgriQ . 84 regot noth phion) Ma grany sociel Seple 1L, o nercl lard, ame 19 THE DAILY BEE. ___ B. ROSEWATER, Editor. i PUELISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSERIPTION A e 810 0 500 Datly and Sunday, One ¥ BIX months .. "Phree Montlis Sunday leo, Une Year. Weckly liee, One Year OF Omuhia, Fee Bulding. Ottice, W7 Ro okery K k, Reo Washinaton, N Gouncit i Bout ith #rommivini, . CORRESPONDENC) unications relating to news and edi- ATl oy torial BUSINESS [ETTERS. Al Lusiness 1etters and re e uddrested 1o The Hee Publi Omaia, Drafrs, checks and J 10 e miado pnyable to the ordor of the Company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, Bei Building Farnam and Seventesnti Streets THE BEE ON THE TRAINS. Thore Is no exeuse for a failure to get T on the troins, All newsdealers have bee fled to carry a full aupply, Travelers who want Ty e aid can't get 1t on traing whers other Omalia papers aro carried are requested to notify Tie Her. Plense Tio particnlar to give in_all eases full tnformation as to date, railway and number of traln THE DAILY BEE. o Eworn Flatement .n Cir State of Nebraska, s nee noti nlation Gty of hongins, (38 Geoigo B, Tzschuck, secretary of Tur Der Publishing Company, does solemnly swear that Tie DALY KR for the W, was a3 follow: theactunl cirenlation o week onding Mareh Sundav, Maren 0 Monday, March 1) Tuesany, March 11 Wednesday, Marcli Thursdny, March 13, Frigny, Mireh 14" Baturday, March 15 .. 21,070 /SCHUCK. ivscribod to fh 1y Dl P REIL y Public. Average..... GRO £worn to before me and preseiico this lith day of Ma (Seal.| Etate of Nebraskn, i County ot Douglas. {58 Georgr I8, Tzschy being duly 1at he 18 socratary o Company, that the actual o amily circnlation of ‘T month cf March 1840, 18 1840, 18,05 copies: for May, for urie, 1860, 1K,858 coples: for C . 188D, 18,651 for October, worn, de- ez erage 1), November, 1859, 19,310 coples: A 20,048 copies January, . coples; for February, 180), 19,761 copies, Gronar B, TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to uefore me and subscribed in my presence this fst day of March, A, D., 1860, [Seal.| N. P. Frir, Notary Public. THe interstate commerce commission has come and gone, and Attorney Gen- eral Leese stll liv WilN North Dalkot sced wheat bonds are'selling at par in the monoy mavket publie confidence is not shaken in the productive pow of Dakota’s lands. Now that the interstate commerce commission has loft the state, tho public may confidently look for the recovery and return of Messrs. Steen, Benton and Cowdery. it prospect of Juy Gould and Charley Adams locking horns on ‘the funding and telegraph bills can hardly fail to provoke a disturbance of the elements. T world’s fair bill has been com- pleted on the terms suggested origi- pally by Chicago and reported to the house. The grumblers and kickers of New York and St. Lou their own game. THe question of irrigation in the west has interested the railvoad corpora- tions directly concerned in the develop- ment of the country. xperience in ivrigating stock will prove invaluable in this new ficld of activity. MissISStPPI is congratulating itself that the statoe treasurer lelt the captol building bebind. The deficit in the treasur owds Major Burke’s best ef- forts for first place and throws in the shade the thrift of ‘“Honest” Dick Tate. Tue determination of the house tarift committee to place alcohol used in the arts on tho free list will attract con- siderable support to the MceKinley bill, provided the discussion of the section is Ik room or in the carried on in the clos staurant. basement v Tue jury which investigated the ve- cent wreck on the. Lake Shore road rendored a verdict censuring the com- pany and the superintendent and hold- ing tho conductorindividually responsi- ble for the accident. As usual, the un- fortunate subordinate comes in for the largest share of the wrath of the jur; while the corporation is turned loose with a mild rebuke. —— T Mongolian manglers of immacu- late ironts have organized a syndic to buy up and operate all the laundries in New Yor A similar organization hasbeen formed by the whites,who pro- pose to drive the Chinese out of the business or perish in the suds. The war promises tobe a lively cae, and it would not be surprising if the manglers wangled each othe IN o recent interview with a ropre- sentative of the New Yovk Star, Union Pael Thurston is quoted as find saying, *I myself in Nebraskn stauding almost alone as o firm and un- qualified protective tariff man.” The noted fisherman might have added with equal truthfulness that he is a firm and unqualified advocate of rg ad pools and trusts which ave sapping the substance of western industry by extortionute tariffs, —_— Ir is a velief to North Dakota that the state legislature died a natural death, What promised to be a beneficial body degenorated into a mercenary raid on the tax-payers. Itslife was blighted by the lottery seandal and its usefulness destroyed the moment the majocity em- braced the Louisiana siren. The men who struggled to fulfill the bargain and inflict the state with the iufamy of u lot- tery went down iuto thewr official graves with maledictions on their lips, Every porson who opposed and helped defeat vint infamous measure was de- nounced, his honor maligued and his motives mdicuted. The abuse of the depraved is preferable to their com- pliments. The struggle of honor against dishonor was a mighbty one, and the tri- umph of the former cannot be dimmed by tho painful death yells of Spencer’s roparceners, v L THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ¥ MARCH 21. 1890, MISREPRESENTING THE FACTS. The Springfield, Mass., Republican sharply assails Governor Thayer for his last lotter to the raiirond managers in Nebraska asking o further reductidn of ten per cent in the corn rates. The right of that journal to entertain any opinion that may suit its tomper or in- terests regarding the motives of Go ernor Thayer is aot questioned. judgment will have no effect upon peopla of braska Its the who know the value of the service the governor hag rendered them In this matter nnd the governor himself is too famil- far with being misrepresented and mis- judged to allow the Republican’s opinion to disturb him. But when that journal misrepresents the situation here, with the obvious purpose of contributing what strength it may to the railroad side of the issue, it is necessary to take notice of the fact. The Iepublican Says that when Gov- ernor Thayer *‘ealled upon the railroads some time ago to reduce rates on corn that the farmer might market the crop at a profit, it was patent to anybody giving a moment’s thought to the subject that tho reduction would only benefit the consumer by forcing more and cheaper corn on the market; but the reduction of tea per cent was made and this was the result.” Now the fact is, as our eastern contemporary could have learned from consulting the market quul,lln)nl that “on the day, February when the ten per cent re- duction on rates went into effect, corn sold in Chicago one-half of onec cent higher than on the day before the reduc- tion. Two days later the combination against the producers managed to drive cash corn down nominally one- half to one cent, only a single car load selling at the decline. Ever since that date, with the exception of a few days when the hammering of the speculators was temporarily successful, cash c has sold higher in Chicago than for ten danys preceding tho ten per cent reduc- tion in rates, and on several days has been strong at an advance of between one and two cents. TLese facts show that it was not the consumer who was benefitted by the [reight reduc- tion, but the producer, though the benefit ~was necessarily veéry slight to the latter under so trifling a reduction. But it sufti- cient todispose of the argumenf that the producers had nothing to hope for from lowering the rates of transporta- tion. One of the lavgest buyers of corn in Nebrasica has recently stated that he has paid the farmer more mouney for his corn since the reduction than prior to it. Such . and the general feeling that the railroads had dealt most meanly and unfairly with the producers of Nebraska in making a reduction of only ten per cent in the corn rate. warranted Governor Thayer in renewing the appeal to the managers for a more liberal concession, and his warning to the corporations is by no means so reckless and unjustifi- able as the Republican appears to re- gavd it. The people of Nebraska have much just cause for a feeling of resent- ment toward the railroads, and if in their extremity the corporations refuse them the ef they justly and honor- ably ask they will find an opportunity to redress their grievances. That the railroads are diseriminating against the producers of this state we bolieve to be unquestionable, and we have no doubt such will be the conclusion of the mem- bers of the interstate commerce com- mission who have investigated the situ- ation here. At any rate there can be no doubt, and for thas there is the au- thority of President Adamsof the Union Pacific, that the railronds can afford a reduction in rates very much larger than has been made. THE SILV. 'h-l,lu:ll? ORE DUTY. The new taviff bill proposes a duty of one and one-half cents a pound on the silver-lead fluxing ores imported from Mexico. This matter o sub- jeet of long discussion in the mmit- tee, the demand for a duty being vigor- ously urged by tha lead minc owners while the smeliing intefdst generall was equally urgent in asking that the o) be ullowed to come in free. An- other reason presented aganst placing adutyon these ores was tho effceb it would probably have upon the commer- ial rolations befween the United and Mexico. It will be remembered that \\h--n srotary Windom last year issu instructions to customs officors, re ing the long established ruling reg g the admission of these oves and al lowing them to come in free only whet they contained a preponderancs of sil- ver, the Mexican govornment soon after proposed a polic ation, It imposed a practically prohib- llm\ duty on corn, and high duties on and cattlo that would ve closed the Mexican —mar- ket to this couutry were also con- templated. Two-thirds of the Mox silver-lead fluxing ¢ were taken the smelters of Kansas, and o lay, part of the corn imported into Mex from thai state. The exchange was o profitable one for the peoplo of Kansas, but the treasuey policy matevi- ly reduced the supply of ores, & num- 0 was ber of the Mexican mines closing up while othors groatly reduced produc- tion, und under tho corn tavifi Mexico ed soon ced ad established K sendin nsus to that country any of her staple. A strong ap- peal was made from that state, in behalf of both the farmers and smul- tors, against lovying o duty on silye lead ov The smelters generally of the country fought the proposal for a duty on the ground that the Mexican ores ave absolutely necossavy for flux- ing the refractory ores of this count and that it would be disastrous to their business if the foreign ores could not be obtained. On the other hand, it was in- sisted by the lead producers that some duty necessary to save the lead mining industey of this country from becoming unprofituble The latter argument finnlly prevailed with the majority of the ways and means committee, but there is some un- certainty as to whether it will do so in the house when action is taken on this portion of the tariff bill,and perhaps still greater uncertainty us to its adoption by the senate in the event of 1ts pass- ing the house, The gesire to enlarge our commercial relations with Mexico soems incompatible with a proposal to erect a new barrier that will seriously effect, if it shall not destroy, an import- ant trade between the two countries, and this aspect of the case may lead the senate, 1f not the house, to reject the proposod duty on Mexican silver-lond ores, particularly in view of the fact that an important industrial interest in this country is opposed to a duty., It can doubtless be safely assumed that if this duty is levied Mexico will resort to further retalia- tion, and she will be all the more dis- vdsed todo this because she will soon bave railroad facilities from the lead mines to the Gulf of Mexico which will enable her to ship the silver-lead ores to England to be refined. The agreement of the majority of the ways and means committee on this subject cannot, there- fore, be regarded as finai. The chiel importance of the matter is obviously in the probable offect upon our com- mercial relations with Mexico, which we have professed a desire to improve and enlarge, rather than in the possible results to the home interests concerned In the one case we know from expe ence what to reasonably expect, whiie in the other it is a debatable question whether the benefit it is claimed the proposed duty would be to une in- dustry would not be nearly or quite balanced by the injury done to another. Tie district court at Fort Dodge, Ta., has rendered a decision sustaining the ruling made some time ago by the state railroad commission ordering the Rock Island road to rehabilitate and operate a section of abandoned track from Tara to Fort Dodge, a distance of some twelve miles. The road was origin- ally built by a local company from the proceeds of a state grant. Afterwards the company was absorbed by the Rock Island, ihe tracks were torn up and a leased line from Tara to Fort Dodge is used in its place. The question in- volved in one turning on the point whether the successor of a railroad is obliged to carry out the expressed terms of the original contract or whether it is absolved from the charter obligations binding on its predecessor. For that ason the decision of the court is one of importance not alone to the people of this particular locality, but to all other places where railronds by their manipulations endeavor to shirk their contract obligations. The trick played upon the people of Fort Dodge is an old one. Similar contracts have been made between communiti and railroads time and again. The stances wheve ueity or a county or a state failed to live up to the let of its obligations are rare indeed. But cases can be cited without number wheve rail- roads have ignored their part of the agreement and betrayed the confidence of the people placed in them. The Fort Dodge case has boen appsaled to higher courts, and it remuins to be seen how the upper beneh will regard the violation of a charter obligation. miners 1n the of the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, is re- THE condition proach to the nation. Right in the heart of one of the richest states in the uni surrounded by wealth in untold millions, are thousands of haman- heings deprived of means of earnipg a livelihood, turned out of their homes and left to sturve thro the pitiless greed of the coal Dist and misery stalk abroad, and no hand has been stretched out to relieve the suffering. It is shocking to read that hundreds of families are reduced to the last extremities and forced to beg or haunt the back yardsof the well- to-do in the hope of securing u few crumbs tosustain life. Destitution is wide spread. The situation is all the more aggravating because the people arve re- duced to poverty through no fault of theirs. The soulless owners of the mines rolling in the luxury of the mill- ions extracted from the sweat of toil, deny work to the men lest an over pro- duction of conl would result and force a reduction of the market price. The profits of the coal.trust must be main- tained at any cost to tne men depend- ent on the mines foraliving. Not- withstanding Penunsylvania’s boast of wealth, of industrial and commercial prosperity, no other state 1 equal its extremes of poverty and aflluence, of luxury and misery, or show a cegion to compi of the shado ve with what is traly *the vatley of death.” T on tho Tenth strect vinduct has been vemoved by the council passing the necessary ordinance authovizing the work to proceed. The event marks the satisfuctory settlement of a question that has agitated and irvitated the peo- ple for nearly twenty years. It removes the miserable excuse fora depot which disgraced the city and subsiitutes a structuro of such maguitude and impos- the ing appearance ns will redeem pledges made to the people of Omaha by the Uunion Pac 1t insures the city und the traveling public a depot in et as well as in name, and ends for 1 time this annoy’ng and disquieting contro- rsy botween the city and the Union Pacil Fhie construction of the viw- duet w nee purt of this great reaching the nd » con- worl. acilities for present depot were o menaco to 1 limb. The scores of tracks and v stant movoment of trainsover the Tenth streot erossing, rendered the consiruc- tion of an clovated rondway necessary for tho gecurity not only of the travel- publie, but for the people of the south side. The construction of both viaduct and depot, now definitoly set- tled, will prove o permanent benefit to the community and amply justify the wisdom of the vity’s investment. — 1 wonderful busin foresight of the Dodlin combine becomes more con- spicuous us work progresses on the new ing city hall, At the outset the combine formed a mutual admiration society with favoritets and victually forced contractors to bid on Dodlin granite, to the exclusion of material equaliy as good, thus vobbing the ecity of several thousand dolla As a reward for this favor, the combine rushed through the council, the sum total of the architects’ fear : o pro- vision in the eonteact giving tho archie tect the selettigh of the superintendent. T'hav surely wns n most considerate ar- rangement. - Jost why the city should abdicate its Mfihits to the architects 1s st comprobension, but it is on a par with the skuilfduggery that stamps the operations of¥lie combino from the be- ginning. Under this arrangement the superintendent’is simply the creature of the l\l‘l‘hlt(‘n.ly. Jeaving the city without an unbinsed official to vroteéct the vast intgredts involved in the con- struction of thebuilding A PRETTY '§tdte of affairs scems to exist in the sheriff's office of New York City which is now being ventilated by a committee of the legislamre. The testimony elicited is not only sonsa- tional, but discloses a seandalous sys- tem of extortion. Mayor Grant told the committee that during the time he was sheriff extra compensations and 1llegal fees were oxacted from persons under nfinement by the arny of balifis and depaties under him without his being able to suppress the system. 1 ons imprisoned for debt, millionaires like Ives, Franckiyn, Ward and others of that class, were a legitimate pr for plucking. Yot Mr, Grant was a “reform sheriff” and introtuced anumber of im- provements in his administration. The revelations of rottenness in this branch of New York City's government is only a fitting sequel to the corruption that has from time to time been exposed in other departments of the metropohs controlled by rings and bosse skn and other western states passed valued policy measures insurance companies ruised a hue and cry against the harm that would come from the encouragement of arson. Now, however, valued policy bills have ap- peared in the legislatures of New York and Massuchusetts with every prospect of becoming u The truth is tho arrogance of rance companies and the injustice done in the adjustment of losses have had the effect to so modify tne insarance laws of states as to give better protection to the insured. The false alurm raised that a valued policy promotes dishonesty and erime will no longer terrify logislators. The loss ratio of any state where it has been enacted fails to prove that the five loss was increased by reason of tho valued policy clause. Where the percen of loss has been groater it has been due to increased p: ion and insurance. 3| . HoLp 1 bis recent epistie "o Leese, violently as- serted that freight v were not lower during the rebate period than at the present time.. This assertion was re- peated before the interstate commerce commission, bup the artful dodger of the Burlington vefus to vroduce the vecords. 'The commission insisted, and the proofs are to'be forwarded to Wash- ington. By this means’we may secure an inside view of the notorious sy of rebates by which th iends of the corporations were enriched at the ex- pense of their competito DiscrssinG tho domand for roduced freight rates in Nebraska and Kansas, and the ten per cent cat ou the corn tarifl, the St. Panl Pios ? he only result was an immodiate do- cline in the mavket valus of corn to the full amount of the reduction made in rates.” Perhaps tho P.-I’. possesses more relinble intormation ne1s af- quotations of th ustain its assertion. its light under publie the fig- forded by the oftici Chicago market to s If so, it should not hide a'bushel, but give the ures, or retract. O — CAPITALISTS ave still prospecting to establish an wir line between London and Ch whereby the two cities may be brought within five and one- haif days of cach other by a combina- ton of water and vail route. Just how it is to be done secret locked up the hosom of its projectors. Butf it be promised in time to accommodate the p, it ousy 20 Euvopean visitors to the wovld’s fai will add another pang to the jou Tie requests of chatitable institu- tions for cush donatious from the city should be rejected, Even if the finances of the city were suflicient, the granting of one such request would open the doors of the tr UNDER the rod vestigation b tras promise sting fi county hospital bill of 10 become a public skel- eton, The fat ng off in huge chunks. Tie city sidewalk bills and the county coal bills posses h delicate constitutions that the breath of public rutiny threatens their existence s Only i Erooglyn. New Orleans Picayune, The Rev. Dr. Talmage says it is impossible for uu editor to become a Christian.s He means a iSrooklyn Christian, of course, The Dummy v . th Nepr Kk L're The successful{ay to rob u bank, judging from evidence in bank-wrocking cases, 15 o put dummies in''the board of directors in~ stoad of jimmies iif tho safe door. Apy Jimmy. A Myth Dispeilad. St, Loty Dennerat, Governor Campblell of Onio says hoe likes the infamous gurrymandering measure re cently enacted in that state, Thus is sum- warily and emphatically exvloded the pictur: esque myth that Campbell is better thun bis party. - - Danger of & Bull Movement. Piltalilig Dispatel. London repokts 'state that a real live countess is willing to inwroduce persons at court for the cash consideration of 5,000 “Tuat is 80 cheap that there s danger of the New York auistocracy rushing in and croat ing @ bull_movement in the introduction warket. - Salisbury Swaells the New York World, It is somethiug in Mr, Labouchere's favor in his contest with Lord Salisbury that tho noble lord is somewnat celebrated for pre- varication. In fact be has been repeatedly corpered in public aud private life, and has not hesitated to impart an unhealthy swell ing to truth, Truth, e The Rock Island Divide New Youk, March 20.—The directors of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad combany today declared & dividend of 1 per cent for tho quarter, STATE JOTTINGS, Nebraska. The Methodist church at Burnett is now free from debt. Box Butte will voto on the county seat question April 8, Swanton has & non-partisan league with 150 memoers. District court is in session at Hastings with 225 cases on the docket. The Grand Army reunion of Saline county has been located at Frienda July #, 4 ana 5. The Ulysses croamery has been sold and ;v.u probably be removed to St. Irancis, lan, The acreage of wheat sown this spring in the vicinity of Beaver City is double that of last year. A people’s and farmers’ union has been organized at Powell City with twoeaty-three members, The new Hastings gas well is now being drilled through the yellow oohre bed at & depth of 230 fast, The Republican Valloy Medical association meets at McCook, March 95, and a large at- tendanco is expected. A well digger at Bayard the other day dis- covered the bones of a prehistoric animal while at work sixty feet below the surface, There ure tevanty two alliance branches in Custor county, with an avorage me mbers ship of forty, and new ones are being organ: 1zed every week. Rev. J. P, Gilliland, a missionary to Chili, has returned to his home at Juniata and will spend a vear with his family before return- ing to his labors in South America. Mrs. J. C. Wharton, one of the oldest resi- dents of Sherman county, is one of the heirs of General John Hopper, who have luid claim to a slice of 1and in the heart of I.\'o\v York city worth several million dol- urs, Pierce people were calied out the other night to search for little Earl MeClure, who wus supposed to be lost on the prairie. After a long search the littie one wae found fast asleep ina hay stack about fifty rods from howme. It won't do to trifle with Scotia girls. “harles Cornell began alittle scuflling match with some of his-fair friends and was thrown bodily on a hot stove. He is now walkiog around on crutches und shunning the society of the ladies. The South Sioux City Sun has egain begun to shine ufter having been obacured by financial clouds for four weeks, and re- marks: *“*The Sioux City newspaper union was wmostly the cause of the delay, having the office closed under attachment. Their claim was not rightfully brought and the attachment was dissolved. The newspaper union now has a damage suit on its hunds.” A new scheme for city electiors has been sprung at Osceola. A mass convention has nominated a city tivket which will be cho only cne in the field, but there willbe a lively fight just the same. The question of se or no licenso will bo the issue, the will vote directly “‘wev’ or ‘‘dry,” eos huve pledged themselyes ordance with the wishes of the prohibition .um the non lowa ktems, trying to sccure a 85,000 cream- A doctor and drug store are nceded at Po- cahontas. Fenda citizens havo raised & faf this year. Dubuque proposes to secure the state and Army cncampment in 1891, The blue grass palace exposition at Cros- ton will open August 21 and continue nine aays. Daniel Bales, living near Viaton, has be- come insano and joined his unclo and _aunt \\'hll) are aiready inmates of the Independence sylum. Tuis charged that a Keokuk woman held her naked infant near a_red hot stove till its body was covered with blisters, and the au- thorities are investigating. A Davenport colorad man named Debarr vas kickod in the hoad by a horso which he s leading and was 8o badly injured that he is not expected to iive. One hundred ana seventeen been made for the stake rac: meeting of the , trotling ho breeders at Cedar Rapidas, * Lember 16, 17, 18 and 19, Andrew J. Davis, who died at Butte last week, and who was reputed to be the wealthiost man in Montana, was a_pioncer of Vun Buren county. He was one of the first men to engage in the dry goods busi- pess n Ottumwa. JFor many years before the war ho operated a distillory nt Black Hawk, in Davis county, “opposite Iowaville, and a largo and fino farm near that place in Davis county is still a pare of his estate. 13. 12, Jennings of Mt. Union, Henry county, left bus mfux table home, a IU\ wife and brigat little duugiter saven years of uge, on December 81, last, intonding to go to 13ur- lingion fo pese of making a payment of 500 on a steant tareshing machine which 500 for tho entries have in the coming ho nad purchased o few vrevious, His fauly and relatiy not heard from hiw since Lo le(t, and the supposition is that he was foully dealt with for the pur- pose of securing his money — - FO3STOKFEIC STOLE FUNDS, A San Francisco Clerk Kmbezzies evernt Thousand Dolla AN Fravcisco, Cal, March Chronicle says this morning oftice inspectors and assistant postmaster tiere commenced an examination last night of the accounts of James S, Kennedy, jr. foreign monoy order clerk ut the postofiic here, a.d that tho Looks show shortuge of money orders rang ing i fron §1 o 200, Kennedy stated he had been dricking freely and speculating, When ho was turned over to the United States marshal last evon- $2,000 was found on lus per Ho is stated to have told the al the umount embezzled would reach 00 or 15,000, IKennedy was appainted 1 the postofico in 155 A Linw @ .-~The that tho post- aluo son. cler Cnicaco, March o Tui i A jary in Judge Anthon court last evening roturned a verdict for £2,000 in favor of Hill P, Wilson of Hayes City, Kan., in his smt for £,000 azainst the law firm of Miller, Leman & Chase. The defendants were interested in haviog a rail- road extended through Ellis Iansas, wnd made un sment with Wilson that if he could indues tho voters of the county to sue bonds for § 000 and with the pro (00 worth of the stock of & Southwest- thoy uld pay all If the road, w consideration subscribed, would build its line lis county, Wilson was to have b0ds PUrCnuse $ the Kansas, ern road, b s expensea. of the stoc through E #15,000 worth of bonds. Wilson went to worl with the voters, secured u special clection and 4 the point, but the roud was Ho then asked Miller, Leman wse to Dy him the £,000 which he had expended in electioneering, and on their fail ure to do 50 brought the present su - swindled with Lovee Bonds, NEW Y ) 4 to Tuk Hue|—Rev. Fau pastor of the Church of the Assumption on West Forty-ninth street in this city, hus <hit suit aguinst 13 F 10 recover 35,000 which invested in supposed brou 1. Homer, a broker, the priest cluims he Austrisn g nment bonds, but which turned out to bo Rouman- iun lottery bonds on which he won four prizes worth about $i cach on his invost ment of 83,000, Tne defense cluims that the priest koew tho exact nature of the bonds, Father wenin, Homer ciaims, told him that he was iu partnership with a west- ern bishop to purchase lottery bonds. The caso is adjournea for u week Peculiar Libel Suit Decided, NEw Yous, March 20, —An odd case of damuges for ibel was decided against the Central safe deposit company in the supreme court. 'The plainti®®, Mrs. Lulan Nickerson, secured a verdict for $2,300. She was the widow of Captain J, K. Nickerson, who died 1838, ‘The captain left a box in the com pany’s vaults iu which was deposited u lotte 10 Presiaegt Vail stating > had been wamoral veforo and afv recting the giving of his proporty to his sis- ter, Mra. Lucretia Nurtis of Haogor, Me, The company made the letter public, hencs tho suit. - Signed the Australian Bill, Ouvyria, Wash, March 20.—Governor orry has signod the Australian election m bills, FROM THE STATE CAPITAL, The School Board and Oity Coun- ‘' oll at Loggerhoads. BUSINESS MEN'S CONVENTION, State House Notes—Tho Courts—New Notaries Public--Allegod Cruelty of a Guardian—2The Oity m Briefh A Conflict of Authority, Neb., March 20,~[Special to —Tonero is a little conflict of betwaeon tho school board and the city council which camoe to light this morn ing. It appears that the school board has decided upon o high school building to be erccted at a cost of 875,000, but fears to risk the subnission of the question at the coming municipal electioa for thereasons that bonds require a majority of all the votes cast. Tho board prefers to settlo the question at a special clection, but it finds a positive de- murrer to the proposition in the porson of tho mayor, who states very emphaticaliy that tne board will have to submit the ques- tion at the coming clection or put up &0V to pay the cost of registration and the attend- ing expenses of a special. election. The muyor 18 backed by the couucil in this de- cision. Laxcol Tue Bee. authority DUSINESS MEN'S CONVENTION Tho Nebraska State Business men’s ass clation convention is called for May 20, 21 and 22, Lincoln bnsiness men are falling in line and one hundred firms are expeotod for o starter, This gives Lincoln ton delegates besides the president, who is an_ex-oficio member of the advisory board. Matters of importance will come’ up--exemption laws, garnishee law for necessaries of life, trade lnterests, insurance, ete. © CAPITOL INTELLIGENCE, Tho Life Indemnity and Investment In- surance company of Sioux City, la., hus been readmitted, and is again authorized to traus- act busiuess in thid estate. 'Ihis company was withdrawn in 1388 Governor Thayer retarned home this morning from the west after a tour of three or four counties, Tho case of Arnold Brecher va. Julius Treitschie, on orror from tho district court of Douglas county, was filod for trial in tho supreme court today. Otto H, Steenis the guest of his brother, Tlon. John Steen, commissioner of public lands and buildings, . Attorney General Loese was at his office a moment this morning. His daughtor, Miss Clara, who was seriously injured 1n the runaway yesterday,is much improved today. Yesterday, however, she was unconscious nearly the entire day. ALLEGED CRUELTY. Lillie, wifsof Harrison Hodges, filed her pe- tition 1u the county court this morning, alleg ing that A. M. Garroute, who was appointed guardian of Christ Struble, aged flfteen, Prank, agel thirteen, Harry, aged eleven, Millie, aged seven, and Ida, agod turce, is acreiict in the discharge of his duties; that four of the children are iu the home for the friendless, and that he has been unkind and cruel to the older boy, who still remains with nim, She alleges that Garroute, on the 2ith ruary, choked and struck him vio- witholt any provocation whutever. Sho further sets up toat Garroute was up- pointed guardiaun of the children without her knowledgo or consent, and prays that the court will vacate the guardianship and ap point her in his stead, whon the children will receive the care and support they need. THE DISTRICT COURT. “The jury in the case of Charlos Crow va the First gNationai bank roturned a verdict for #50 in the plaintifl’s favor. I'tio case of C. C. Munford vs C. W. San- ford ot al ocenpied the uttention of Judge icld and u jury throughout the day. Mr. Munford brought the uction in replevin to determine the ownership of somo mules, The parties live in Wahoo, and the caso is being fought for all thera is in it. Patrick Grant commenced suit against tho city today to recover gradiog damages in the sum of §1.200. The property alleged to be damaged is located at the corner of Ninth and M streets. Tz SUPREME COURT. The proceedngs in the subremo court yos terday afiernoon and this morning were as follows: aring was denied 1 tho following cases: Paden vs Paden, Filley vs Walker, Dodge vs Keino, 13. & M. Railway compun vs Wallace, Rice vs Suxon, Reckaway vs Waltemath ana De Gette vs Sheldon, Rehearing was allowed in the following cases: Stewart Chute Lumber company vs Missouri I’acific Railway company, Schield’s vs Horbach, Buchanan vs Wise and Tucker vs Canon, The following ceses were submitted : Kansas City Rwlway company vs Tracy, Hammond vaCity of Harvard, and Hagler vs The State. Jewett vs Osborne, for restraining order, Kendall vs Aleshir Opinion modified. NEW NGTARIES PUDLIC. The governor today commissioned the fols lowing notaries public: Robert Craig, Al- vion, Boone county; John Iaufman, Cass county: ‘U Broderic Douglas County ; Belirens, Frauklin county Berka, , Douglus county: James IKrisl, Milli-, Ilmore county mes Kidston, Beat- rice, Gage coun T, Morearty AOmaha, Douglas county; A. 1, tHoughton, Hampton, Hamilton county; Harry A. Walker, Creiga- ton, Knox gunty; fohn J. Gilliian, 'Lincoln, Lan John W. Fread, Omab Dougtas county; Edwin Falloon, Falls Ci Richardson county; Lawrenco Phillips, Chs lumbus, Plawte county: Charles Lorce, Falls City, Richardson county: 4. N, Hilton, Dor- chester, Salino county. CITY NEWS AND ¥ A number of Lincoli’'s business men are inte ing themselves in a schemo foc the on of a coliseuu in this city. ho republicun city primary election will be held ‘Chursday, March 27, from 2 o'clock to 7in the uing, and on the following Saturday the convention will be held. One delegate for every thirty voters is the basis of representation. 5. M. Ashby, h Submitted on motion 8, vroprietor of the opera use dry goods store, was closed up on an execution this morning. 1t is said that his assets will fully cover all liabilities. Here- tofore Mr, Ashby has been rogarded as per- fectly solvent. Hon. ‘. M. Cook. supervisor of census, re- turned from Washington last night. He is now at worl praparing the commissions of census enumerators and will sond out his first List of appolntments in o duy or t tsabella Awarded Six Cents, New Youx, March 20.—[Special Telegram to Tup Bee ]It took a jury threo hours yesterday to decide that Miss Isabella Brady, the fifty-eight-year-old spinster, was eutitled to six cants damages from Musician Thomas 5. Miskell because he had rerused to take hor for his wife. They had a very difticult problem to solve, inasmuct as Mis kejl is only thirty-five yoars of age, aud de clared that ho never had any intention of marcying Isabe dthat all the loving was dond on her side. While Isabolin was not butisfied with the verdict, yet her law. yer considered thut she had been *'vindi- cated’ L a cortain extent, - - dweil's Hiness. ne Gwendo [Cojur iht 1890 by James Gordon Bannstt,| Ross, March 20.—|Now York Herald Cable—Special to Pue Bee. |—Miss Gwendo ‘aldwell, the famous American heiress, so sudden parting from her flancee, Prince Murat; recently was the talk of a fortnignt, is very ill of typhowl fover in Romo. Sho was o low soveral days ago that De. Rooker,vice reetor of the American college, administered the last sacratent, Miss Caldwell's recovery is now assured. tine ( Ange) Dolegates to Hoave Rockronn, 1L, March 20,—|Special Tel- egram to Tne Bek.|—The Schweinfurthites arc holding @ general convention at “Heaven,” five miles south of Rockford. ‘Today eight “angels”—women from fifteen Louisand copt tho I bo ex- ring of the to furty years old—came from St Kansas City. In all th formal rel Hus ones, the publi cluded. It'ls the first large gatb followers of Schweinfurth, | IN THE ROTU DA, Charlos B, Rics, & banker and attornsy of Stsole City, was at the Casey yosterday ovoning. “No, I know nothing new in polities down in Jofforson,”” ho respondoed to & question put to him by the rotunda lounger,‘but thece aro inflammatory times ahead. Congressman Laws is woll liked in our part of the county Haveheard of no dlssatisfaction on account of any of his appointments. “Most of the voters round about our wa think kindly of Governor Thayer but what have hoard with reference to a third torum favorablo, I cannot just name any ono whom I know to boa candidate, but thero aro candidates, and rumors of cand dates, till you can't rest. *'Theroe is littlo danger of tho prohibition ists carrying Jofferson county next fail, | the people shouldn’t be over-confidont, for they might. They are working industr ously, sending speakers to tho small toy and flooding the country with dry tracts and dryer papers. Thero was a slimly-attendod meeting in our city ono night last week, ‘which one of theso hired orators shot off 14 mouth. He was vory loud and full of pyr techinics and abused everybody who dared t differ from the views he was socking to dis seminate, Aside from his abuse, his dress was mado 1ip of thostnut stories, over which he did about all the laughing. His name I think was Hoofstilter, and tho quickor the prohibition managemont calls him off the bettor it will be for their cause, “Thero is no denying the fact that tiy farmers’ alliance is oing to be a most pow orful and influential organization. Thoy w make a cloan sweep in our county, as thoy aro thoroughly organized. ‘They hold meet ings in Steel6 City every Saturday afternoon. No, 1do not know the charactor of thoir proceedings as they admit nono but mem- bors, and I am nota member. I do know howaever, that theso meetings aro largely « tended and decidedly enthusiastic, Sowo of the leaders—lot me sce. Well, thero is I A. Buggre, who is a prosperous farmer witl a predilection for politics, who' is very con spicuous in the move; David Kozier, another leading agriculturist, is very active in tho interest of the cause. Yes, [ am quito sure that the alliance is not a prohibition scheme, if 1t was they would not be 8o strong in ou county. Their vrincipal mim, as 1 und stand it, is to influence legislation in the in terest of the farmers. They are of tho opinfon that they have been getting t worst of it: that the railroaders and gi speculators have been drinking the cr while they have been loft to lap up tho slammed miik, and T guess they are pretiy near right. It really looks to me as if tho farmers’ allianco would control all the im- portant law-making in the next legislaturo, and the railroads will probably have a rocky road to travel, that is if the alliance is as strong in other sections as it is in ours, “Yes I dud say that the prohibitionists cannot carry Jefferson county. What tho peoplo want down there is a good stout, high license. We are within two miles of tho Iansas line, and too conversant with the ef- fects of alloged prohibition in that state, ‘There is n general lack of confidence in all public affuirs down tiiere, and we do not wish to have a similar condition of things in Nebraskn 1f our votes will prevent it, There is just as big a liquor trafiic in Kansas as cver, and yet no local revonue or beuefits aro derived from it. So you see wo know what wo are about down there. There are none of our prominent politicians, or citizens either that [ know of who are proni- bitionists, but such men as S. M. Bailcy, our county treasurer, who, by the way, 18 one of the best men in the stato, and a man who is generally on the right side of all questions in which the commonwoulth 18 interested, and Captain Edwards, an old soldier, and another sterling fman, Johu Converse, the county clerl, and others of equal prominence ure arrayed openly and solidly ngainst it. Such men as these have s wonderful iutluence throughout the whols county and when the time comos will make it felt,” i d to Have Sold Out, 5, March 20.—[Special Telegr to Tue Bee.]—The story that the Hammond dressed beef company of Hamumond, Ind., and Omana, has been sold toan English syndicato is revived, It is said that the new eorporation has been cavitalized with #5300, 000, all of which has been taken n London. ‘I'ho details are lacking and some doabt is expressed as to the truth of the report. bt Two Express Robbers Arrested. Missovra, Mont., March 20.-—C, A. Searle: and W. C. Pame were arrested hero yester- terday for robbing the Nortnern Pacific ox press office at Brainerd, Mimn., of §13,000 about a year ugo. LONSUMPTION, N its firs ehecked Hammond Ciica stages, can be successfully the prompt use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, Lven in the later periods of that disease, tho congh is wonderfally relieved by this medicine. . “I havo used Ayor's with the best effect in my practice, This wouderful preparation once saved tife. 1 had a constant couglh, night sweats, was greatly reduced in’ flesh, and given up by physician, One Pectoral eured D., Middleton, half of the Gidson, M. bottlo and ars ago T was severely i1, Tho doctors said T was in consumpiion, and that they could do nothing for me t resort, to tr) Aftor tuking o monthy I smains gooil —James Birchard, tliis medicing was cured, and my to the prosent da, Darien, evernl years ago, on a passage homo lifornia, by water, I contracted 80 sovere a cold that for some days 1 was confined to my state-room, uid a ph n on_board considered my lifo in dange appening to have o bottlo of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, 1 used it frecly, and my lings we 1 restorod to a healthy condi inco then Bave invariably recommended this pr aration."—J, 1, Chandler, Junction, Ryer's Gherry Pectoral, PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mas Prico 81; six bottles, 35, . leta, Bold by all Dru OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. . fubseribed & guarantood Capital, 8800 Paid in Capital Buys and sells stocks ard ) commercial paper; recelves and Kots s transfer agent and Lruste tions; takes charge of propoerty; collects ront Omahaloan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK S E. Oor. 16th and Douglas Strools anital $50,000 & guarantood capital,... 100,000 Liability of stockholdors, 200,000 6 Per Gent Interest Pald on Deposits FRANK J. LANGE, Cashler, nan, president ; J.J. Bbeow, W, Wyman, treasiror 1 ML W, Nash, Orric Vi Dinkc Loans In any amount made on City & Farm Property, and on Collatera Security, at Lowes Rate Currenttes