Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. ; E. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. | RME OF Dally and Sunday, ¢ Bx months ¢ Three month Eundauy I Weekly B e ¥ L, One Y ith Streots, rect kery Building, 5 Tribune Buliding. CORRESPONDENCE, All _communications relating to news an editorial n ddressed 1o the i 8 LETTERS, | Al hustness lottors and remittances shoutd he addressed to Th Publishing Any, O Drafts, 1 postofiee orders | tobe made puyable to the order of the Com- piny. The Bec Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee Wlding nam and Soventeenth Sts. Tho following 18 the rate of postage nec sary to mall shigle coples of THe Bekout of th ty. 8-y cents cents conts 2o paper < piper it per Forelgn INT OF CIRCULATION | Jnty ¢ I genren , socret Publishing does sols ation of TH k ending April 19, 1 DALY Bek nnly swear | | W inday, April 13 Monduy, April 14 April 17 April s Saturday, April 10,200 20,850 | iEORGE ZSCHUCK, | Sworn to hefore me and subseribed to in iy | 0 this 10th day of April, A. D\ 10, .1 N. P. of Nobraska, ty of Dougl 1. Tzsel nd snys th blishing Corm Average . P, FEIL, Notary Publie. sworn, de- ary of The the netu ny, tha pn of Tiur 1855 copless 1540, 18,K08 o Angust, . 18710 o 2 B TZSCHUCK. d subserfbed {n my April, A. D., 150, Publie. | Sworn to hefore me o co this sth day THE military barbers of Fort Robin- 80N possess the necessary talent and vigor to straighten Tangled Hair. — Wit Colorado developing a peculiarly fragrant tobaceo leaf, the chances of an- nexing Cuba become painfully remot Tue oleomargarine patents having heen oflicially pronounced dead, eve, boarding house can wow become its own bogus butter make: TH is a painful suspicion in the | Towa democratic wigwam that Governor Boies is sliding into the republican camp under th v RAILROAD activity is vitalizing the commere currents of the Black Hills, | (! lines under way will bring all | the Hill cities into communication with the outside before the close of the year. Tiez sheep men of Ohio ave applying all possiblo pressure to congress to sus- tain the proposed advance in the wool duties. It remains to be seen wheth, con try for the toneers, 53 will consent to shear the coun- benefit of the Ohio mut- Tie Louisville Cowrier-Jowrnal pro- Poses to add to its varied features o de- partment devoted to the great national game of poker. Since one of its editors dvopped nineteen hundred dollars in a social game of draw, the necessity of ed- ueating amateurs in the mysteries of the game justifies the new dep nrs IN its *“ponny wise and pound foolish™ policy the Union Pacific substituted Chinese for white men in its Rock Springs coal mines. The few dollars saved by cheap labor is now rapidly going up in smoke. Dispatches report adestruetive five, started by the cheap Johns, raging in the best mine owned by the company. If it becomes necessary to flood the mine the loss will reach one million dollars, a sum farin e amount saved by employing incompetent and cureless Mongolians, Cheap labor is dear at any price. (DF first of the annual state business men’s association will be 1- convention held in Omaha May 12, ization extends an invitation to ever, business man in the state to visit th metropolis, partake of its hospitality and participate in the deliborations of the convention. Questions of vital im- portance not only to individual intorests but to the commercial welfare of the state demand consideration, and it is ex- pected that the invitation extended will bring together representative business men from every community, An inter- change of opinion on the various mat- ters affecting the business interests of he local org i | is that the depression can be trr | combina | brac | of supply and demnand and of market actions of the middlemen, gambling in un- | farm products. | pass unchallenged. vemed the state will bring about a harmony of action and unity of purpose which can- not fail to produce beneficial results, | —_— TEN years ago the government and | the country were startled by the bold | efforts of adventurers to invade Okla- | homa. The names of Captain Payne and | Captain Couch became as familiar to newspuper readers as their actions were annoying to theauthorities, They w the leaders of the boome with a al worthy of a better 1se, persi ently ugitated and raided the prom land and suffered arrest and imprison- | ment for the sake of advancing the sot- tlement of the country. When Payne fell by the wayside in 1884, Couch as- sumed full command of the boome and for five years kept up an ince sant agitation and finally foreed the gov- | renment to open the country to settle- | | | | on which these depond in a great mons- s | | many of the Am: & RETARY RUSK'S CIRCULAR. Undonbtedly the farmers of the coun- try will read with great interest the ef ilar just issued by the secrotary of ag- ilture relating to the causes and pos sible remedies of the agricultural de- | pression, It s issued in response to numerous appenls 1o Secretary Rusk for an expression of his views on tho sub- ject, which he correctly concluded would be best given by reviewing in this way | the whole subject and considering it in | all its various phases. The secretary has found great diver- ity of opinion as to the cause or causes | of the agricultural depression, and con- sequently a variety of remedies pro- posed, some of which might bring about a state of affairs quite as objectionable ent situation, His own view red to a fon of muny causes, somo of which itisin the power of the farmers | themselves to remedy, while others must remedied, ns far as remody is possi- by law. In the former class he em- | s the deprociation of the productive rof the ladd due to carveless cul- business-like method and toolittle attention to the questions us the pr For all these the remedy is | within the control of the farmers, and it depends upon themselves to provide it. ‘The high cost of transportation, the ¢ and the existence of lawful combinations to lower the p of wheat the farmer has to sell on the one hand and increase the cost of what he has to buy on the other, all operate to augment the burdens upon the farmer and lessen the rewards of his industr Some of these it is the function of logis- lation to remedy. Butone of the gravest causes of the agricultural depression, in the opinion cretary, is the competition of products, The value of these annuatly imported, which come into com- petition with like products of our own soil, he states to be nearly one hundred | and fifteen million dol annually, while the total imports of agricultural products, including sugar and molasses, animals and their products, except wool, animal and vegetable fibers, fruits and tobaeco, amount to two hun- dred and sixty-six million dollars, the far greater part of which, says tle seeretary, amounting probably to not less than two hundred and forty or two hundred and fifty million dollars, could with proper encouragement he produced | on our own soil. [t need havdly marked that Secretary Rus 3 in favor of applying the principle of tarifl protection to agricultural products, in order to encourage adiversification of production and supply the farmer with a home market for all he may be able to | produce. This portion of the civcular of the secretary of agriculture will be read with pecaliar interest by the farme; it may be well to observe that its clusions, if not its fact re not lik; Howover, it is pro- posed in the new tavitt bill to afford pre tection to such agricultural products as | the farmers have asked shall be pro- tected, and a year or two will demon- strate whether there is any value in this | for agricultural depression, The secretary favors veciprocity when- ever protection is relaxed, ad v law | for a thoroughly efficient inspection of | meats for export, thinks some relief might be found in o veform of our system of ta ion and coneludes by cautioning farmers that they can find no relief and no permanent remedy for present ills in *me which are rather the outcome of rosentment than the product of reason.” The circular of Secretary Rusk is worthy of the careful attention of every farmer, although it offers noth- ing for the immediate relief or improve- ment of the agricultural situation. wes | | | | | | | | AN AMERIC ION. In view of the fact that it is proposed in congress to commit this country in favor of a policy of commorcialreciproc- ity with other American countries, it is interesting to know how this matter was regarded by a majority of the members of the Pan-American conference, The question of a customs union was considered in the conference by a com- mittee of’ ecight, and two reports were presented. The statement | of views adopted, with only the representatives of Chili, Par guay and the Argentine Republic dis- senting, was that unrestricted recipros ty was in principle aceeptable, because | all measures looking to the freedom of commerce must necessarily inerease the trade and the development of the mater- ial resources of the countries accepti that system, but the belief was expressed that it is at presont impracticablo as continental system, Among other rea- sons for this opinion is the fuct that the import duties lovied on foreign trade constitute the main source of revenue of all the American | nations, and_ such of them as are not manufacturing countries would thus lose more or less of such revenue | ure to defray their national exponses, while the manufacturing countr the United States, would have to aban- don, at least partinlly, the protective policy which they have adopted to more or less extent. It was suid besides that a reciprocity treaty mutually advan- tageous botween two contiguous coun- 33, A8 tries might prove onerous if extended to all as a continental compuct, especially as the products of | srican ropublics ave sim- ilar, | In view of these obstacles it was thoe | opinion that it seemod premature to pro- | pose unvestrioted reciprocity among tho | natives of this hemisphere, though that | end might be attained gradually and ment. Ono yoar ago last Monday Cap- | PArtially. It was suggested that the tain Couch was uwarded the honor of | st and most efiicient step in that di- | leading the stampede to Oklahoma, It | FeCtionwould be the nogotiation of par- | was a fitting vecognition of his work in | tal reciprocity treaties among the bringing the country to the attention of | American nations, wheveby each muy the world and in bringing together the | %§7¢0 to remove or diminish groatost army of lund-grapbors the | M8 respective import duties on World had ever seom. ‘O the. annl. | 5Ome of tho uatural e manu- vorsary of that remarkablo raid tho | lgtured products of ane or move of the other nations, in exchange for similar or father'of Oklahoma expired from the | equivalent advantagos. This would t effects of & gunshot wound inflicted bya im-jumper, Captain Couch was_ o brave, carnest and generous man, u self sacrificing lender, and the sudden and unmerited close of a lifé of cvaseless activity will be regretted by all. I | their inter , and it was re ernmoents as ma al reciprocity to with one or more untries, as it may be in m- ba go- merely experiments mended to such g sted in par such trea the It will be soen from this that the prom- | may be altogether desi | it 1% not lik | eountry shall ever enjoy an extensive | tries which now control that trade. | fora railroad through the game. Ifa chartor is granted 1o one | company, similar pr annot be | denied to others, The only safe course | benefit of the pople. | complete contracts based on pi Y BEE THURSDAY, APRIL 24 1890, ise of effecting anything in the nature of a custums union, regarding that as mean- ing unrestricted reciprocity between the Ameriean nations, is far from favora- able, and although an expression on the part of this government looking to the promotion of such an arrangement ble and proper, ¢ to nccomplish much, The | obstacles in the way ave «0 great and so numerous as to be practically insur- mountable, and it is obvious that if this share of the trade of other American countries it will be by concessions and enterprise on our part that will give us at lenst an equal chance with the coun- —_— DESTROYING THE PARK. When the natural wonders of the Yel- lowstone region were made known to the world by explovers, congress responded to the general demand of the people arid reserved it for the exclusive use of the public as a national . The purpose and spivit of the dedication was that the famous pavk should be preserved as nearly ns practicable in its natural state and that private interosts and corporate greed should not ber pearmitted within its boundavies. Reports from Washington indicate that mevce- navy schemers are at work to wside the spi dedication and. obtain which prompted the exclusive rights ark. For two y corporation known as the Montana railway company has main- tained a lobby at the national capital for the purpose of securing ~this important privilege. Under the plea that the rail- road is necessary to develop the mineral interests on the boundary of the park, the lobby has succeeded in persuading the house committee to sacrifice the rights of the whole people for the petty interests of a local corporation. The claim that there is no other practicable route to the mineral dis- trict than through the park is htor- fuge to gain a valuable vight. The truth is, if the mineral in the district was as valuable as the pavk raiders claim, they would not hesitate to tunnel the moun- ains, But the chief object is to obtain a foothold in the park for the exclusive benefit of the Northern Pacifie. The Montana Mineral company is merely o cloak for the pavent corporation, which seeks to obtain, by underhanded means. privileges which it dare not openly worl for: The people of the west, outside of the corporations interested, are a unit against the despoiling of the park. The e in thé proposed charter the entering | wedge that will eventually parcel out the | wonderland among the railroads, defac it< grandsur and destroy it as a preser for the remnants of praivie and mountain a st for congress to pursue is to re the overtures of corporations and rigidly maintain the park for the exclusiv THE prope to appropriate between three and four million dollars to reim- burse those who lost property by the con- nvasion of Pennsylvania, which has been approved by the house commit- tee on war elaims, may. if adopted, lead to the disbursement of a considerable part of the surplus for similar claims. | Perhaps the losses sustained by citizens | of Pennsylvania were greater in amount | than those of the people of other sta invaded by the confederate forces, but if it be assumed that three | and a half million dollars would | settlo th Pennsylvanin claims, which is improbable, thoss that would follow from the othe tates, and which could not be ignored, would swell the de- mand upon the treasiry for this purpose toa good round sum., The memorable Morgan raid in Ohio would furnish a considerable list of claimants for dam- agos; the loss of proparty from confeder- ate invasions of Maryland must have been considerable, Kentucky would be able | to make a large showing, Indiana could presentademand, and altogether twelver or fifteen million dollurs at least might be disposed of in this way. It isa mut- ter of no consequence that the southern members of congress ave up in arms against this proposal. They would nat- ly be. Bat it is questionable ther there is any just reason why the government should now pay for these losses, and manifestly in the pres- ent situation of the country it would not be expedient to do so. IF OMAHA capitalists are disposed to unloose theiv purse-strings, theve aro seores of interests of more importance to | the city than visionary scow lines. Why not give the time and promised means wasted on impracticable schemes to the construction of the Nebraska Central bridge? Why not aid a public enter- prise controlled by Omaha men, the | value and necessity of which is recog- nized by all? Why not assist the con- | struction of a railroad into Dakota, | whose trade has been knocking in vain at Omaha’s door for five years? | Compnred with those two enter- | prises a scow line between Omaha | and Nowhere is insignificant, The en- | s and means of our people should entrated on what is practicable profitable right at home. | hns v novthe ed a competing n road—two enter- ntial to her commercial pro perity—it will bo time enough to squan- der money on n wild goose chase after Pittshu trad Home intevests de- mand home support, THE carpenters’ union has wisely de- | cided to give the contractors a ch nee to evailing | hefore insisting on a revision of le. The y ent condition of wntions Omaha will not wage the building in justify radical mensures, and the build- sult their own as well rests by conservative ing trades will asthe public in action, — Tue intolerant ministers of Omaha are repeating the history of the brethren in fowa, Bofove und immediately after the adoption of prohibition in thut state, temperance men of the Murphy stamp were hooted out of the countr, The intolerants declared the statutes would truct the morals and appetites of the wultitude. ‘ive years' exp neo | excels most of the grafessio | her instruments, convinced thmgy of their folly, and for the past six months they cheerfully co- operated with' M, Murphy in applying the one trud'’ fomperance vemedy—ap- pealing to th¥ Better naturesof drinking people. It'fs safe to say that Mr, Murphy has” a¢complished move real nee peform than all the sump- ¢ laws enacted, or the combined labors of his.opponents in Omaha, rrt———— THE Philaflelphia purveyors of water gas in Omaha cannot see how a rival | company can dispense illuminating ‘fluid for one dollaf and a quarter a thousand. A fow years figo they could not see how | it was possible to furnish gas for two dollars until the city authorities per- formed a surgical operation on their short-sighted optics, e—————— THE tactics of the bulldozers in South Omaha against annexation should be encouraged and continued. Their des- perate efforts to perpetuate outlaw and municipal extravagance forcibly ap peal to the taxpayors and the better classes of residents to rally at the polls and vote for decency, economy and pros- pority. —_— CEMETERY vandalism should be promptly and vigorously suppressed. Despoiling burial places of flowers and shrubbery has become an unbearable an- noyance, especially in Prospect Hill, and active measures should be taken to cap- ture and punish the vandals, An Elisha Not Forthcoming. New York Tribune, vanted, but impossible to find: A demo- emough to wear the mantle that dropped from the shoulders of Samuel J. Randall. e Ll ‘We and Our Southern Neighbors, St. Lovis Giobe-Demoerat. s & substantial unanimity among the sses of the republican party as to the ne- ity for reci ity in trade between this country and the Central and South American nations, and therc is an equally close ag: ment as to the means for bringing this about. S Noted for Its Candor., t. Paid Pioneer Press, Tur OyanA Brr is one of the most candid journals in the wost. It editorially “'T'o make Omaha a great city we must stim- ulate the establishment of more factorie: mills and elevators,” and then T F B0 on to formulate a plan to steal from Dos Moines her pot staveh factory. Future copies of Des Moines journals will, doubtless, e printed in red ink. New York Herald, That was heroic thoughfaluess on the part of young Carpenter Wheeler, of Buy whose logs wore eut off b dictate a telogranm t his wife explaining his injurics before Lie wis removed to the hospi tal. Itiwas pluck fo bo able to dictate the message, but it was hinz far supovior to pluck to wish ia the height of his own suf- fering, to soften his wife's soccow at the shocking news. e STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska. A gun club has baen organized at Broken Bow. pib Grand Army post will be formed at | avd soon. "The Cass county faiewill s held Septem- ber 1510 18, A eamp of Sons of Veterans is to he orfzan- ized at Novden, 1 beoen or- A business men's association has ganized at Niobrara, A new bank has been organized at Stevling | with 225,000 capital, The Norfollk brick works will start up soon with orders for J0,000 brick. Postmaster Hudson of the Springview of- fice will vesizn on account of poor health. Editor Hamilton of the Plainview Hera has been apy d marshal of that town. A mad dor was killed at Odell after hay bitten a horse and a number of other dogs. ‘The stove of Jumes Myers at Odell bus been closed under mortgages amounting to Dodge young men have organized club and machines have been orde A $10,000 brick school housoe Christian church are being erected at Stes ing. N. G. Hoshaw has retived from the Greeley Democrat and M. B. Gearon assumes editor- | ial control. At Harvard four head of cattle have died with hydrophobia and three more are suffer- ing with the same complaint. James W. Pearce of Superior has been ap- pointed clerk of the distr county to fill the vac of . Hollingswe The T court in Nuckolls ¢ caused by the death it th, contest first will © county came up er died and left all his prope but his wife and children now put in a claim to the estate. The judge reserved his case ever tried in A drunken man who was refused credit at Jenkins' store in Coleridge took ngo b throwing a Kage through a show casc. destruct- Lo towns warshal stoppod further citizen in ion and placed the obstraperou Jail to cool oft, says the Bayard Transcript: Stage Con- Lo ( mude his fivst trip to Wellsville Tues il consisted. of one letter and one postal card, Nothing was returned. This line and the sand hills route are worth as much to the country as is Con- gressman George W, I, Dorsey. he county commissioners of McPherson county have rvequested all citizens of the county to turn out next Suturd. build a court house at the recently s county seat. It will be a regular old. ioned house-raisiug, but no_aunouncement is made as to who will furnish the necessary lub) ting fluid. Believing in the assertions of a drunken *hinese laundrymun, Platts mrn Quong Lee, the was made a vietim again, says tho outh Journal, Upon the maudlin tations of the uforesaid man, the Chinaman sent for his wife and children, and when the arrived in San Francisco last week the cu tom house officials, very properly refused them admittance, and the laundryman is out | $195 08 & consequence, At the concert given last Satu evening by local musicians,ut - Central City, assisted by Mr. und Murs, G, W, Ray Seward id Mr, C. (. Couch of Omahn Miss imbocker of Harvard, the feature of the evening was the viotin aud plano playmng of | Miss Limbe lady, “ corre- adent, se hat 50 1y pianists fail 10 achieve, secret of timent of the composer in plays, She is a brilliant s hor instrument with As aviolinist she is prob- ¢ but few. Though compara- mateur 3ith that instrument, sho 5 1n purity and ably excell ¢ un While John Jukfi‘o{» plowing on his farm near Berwyn, Cust®fvounty, the other day unearthed the skelotons of threo grown per: sons, a child and the skull of a dog. About a > and @ half from the find there is every in- D, A, Hewan, who settled in that locality eleven yoars ago, says that in- | dications of rifle pits were plainly defined at | that tim have found bullets and oth on the ground near the rifle pits. Mr. Ju last yoar found a knife, From appearances there was a eamp ground of generul resort on tho creck bottom about @ half from the locality whero the hones parthed. Here 'would evidently be eating locality for the mound digger Various parties at sundry times r evidences of war mile distant were o an inter Towa Ltems. CClear Lake wants an opera Work has been suspended ¢ vill coal shaft paid out The auditor of Powesheik cot ty on in handling | Broken Bow Republican, of | | ns bounty #150 on 1,500 gopher scalps one day last week. Six tons of croamery butter were shipped | from Pomeroy last week. | Improvements aggrogating $150,000 are under way at Emmetsburg. | Tho dentists of eastern Towa will hold a | convention at Independence in July. | A Masonie temple association has been or- ganized at Dubuqus with $100,000 capital | stock, | . .Mrs. Nancy Diggins, the oldest person in Union county, died at Cromwell Friday at the age of ninety-seven. A Muscatine watermelon grower says his crop averages about two car loads to the acre | and he receives 880 a car for them. An unfortunate family named Jensen, living near Moorhead, Monona county, lost seven children in the ‘past two weeks from | diphtheria and the eighth and only remaining child is suffering with the same’ dread dis- onse. B A Cedar Rapids gentleman recently wrote a letter to the postmaster at South Blendon, Mich., and not knowing his name addressed the lotter *“To the Postmaster,” ete. A week later the lotter was returned unopened and stamped “‘uncalled for.” An Akron boy attended school the other day in company with a bottle of whisky, and after imbibing education and the conténts of the bottle at regular intervals for some time | adjourned school by driving the teacher and the other scholars from the room with the stove poker. | Rev. G. E. Stump, | church at Pomeroy, denounced dancing as o | wicked amusement, and the other day found the following notice, signed “*White Caps,” tacked to the door’ of the parsonage: ““T'o the Preacher Stump: We hereby notify you that there is an organization in this commu- nity for the sole purpose and object of put- | ting a stop to so much lying about innocent | people, which has been going on in_this vicinity for so long. You being the chief liar | and ringleader, we give you fair warning the next time we hear of a lie that you have originated you will be taken from your bed and publicly whipped, if not tarred and feathered and taken out of town on a rail. Again we warn you.” The citizens of Pome- roy are indignant over the matter and prom- ise to make it warm for the writers of the notice if detected. An_interesting bit of fami brought to light in Clerk Bi oftice, ys the Davenport Democrat. Mrs, A, M. 200k presented the incomplete naturalization papers of her father, desiving their comples | tion, us she has a claim_against the United | States government, and it is required by law that she take out naturalization papers, she having been born in England, Her father, wsper Fleteher, took out his first papers in ambridge, 1L, in 1861, but before taking out he started overland for Cal- aud while on the wuy the party was | attacked by Indians, The mother was killed and the father, Mrs. Cool, then Mar a girl of fourteen, and her two- taken prisoncrs. Mr., Fletcl d_escaped, the clder daught 15 bought, While the younger si alive, is stillu captive of the Indian father went to Salt Lake d the sceond papers were never taken out. 50 Mrs. Cook got w completion of her father's papers and this makes her a natuvalized citi- zen of the United Stat The Tw Hermosads to havea s 5. Winter whe: nington count, A public formed at Abe B A new town in Jackson has been christened | Nobleton in honor of Secretary Noble. Hot Springs will have an_ electric light o Dlant in operation by the middie of June. | Alareer acreage of wheat will be sown in | MePhorson county this year than ever before, A combination of zunpowder is responsible for the desti of the barn, sheds and horses of Hon Crockett, near Hermosa, Hutchinson county wsheep farmin, v in South Dakota, <l the Parkston Advance wants a woolen mill located in the county A buffalo caped from a vanch near *day and was chased by whoys until it droppid dead from exbaus- The animal was valued at $500. an, at present pastor of ational church of San led to accept the pastor: ational church at Sioux stor of the M. E. ¢ history was The v, where he dicd, Dakotas, stem of water- high in Pen- tis four inches association has been s to be the lead- s pretty well “fixed.” There is £65,000 surplus in the county treas- wy and $4,000 has been appropriated” to buy wheat for the needy farmers of the | county. In the United ates court at Sioux Falls s in the peniten. nd to pay afine of $100 for selling beer | to 1dians. The Redwater irrigating canal, in Butto | county, is completed, and the large force of ) 1in its cons! finding on the different railrond extensions now being graded in the Hills country. tock men of Meade county are more tistied with the outlook it their pusi 1f crop is big, the colt crop most d the prospect for a good year all through, from range to market, is almost as- sured. A peculiar shaped mound was_discovered near Mitchell the other day, and in digging into it the skeleton of au Indian was un- carthed, with the trinkets and weapons | usually’ found in Tndian graves. The mound was covered by heavy sod and overything in- wed that many years had elapsed since it was made. Last week arich body of silver ore was dis covered on Jim creck, near Rapid City, on the property of Deacon Joues. The deacon had 1 away on a visit for some time, and when turned he found about a dozen prospec jumped his ranch and were sinking 1l directions. This made the deacon nd his wrath was added to by the ¢t that he had for years been 1 tatoes and other végetables on a picce ground that contained some of the riche: i verore in the Black Hills, ~ Hi ppeased, however, by the “jumpers” offos ing to give him an’ equal shave iu their loca- tions. e ST THE AFTERNOON TE. A Russian lady proposes, in the columns of o Russiun newspaper, that the women of Russia and France should join in forming a nazons to fight with the amuzons n educated. accomplished young lady at osky, Mich., has split twenty cords of wood With her’ own hands and has it piled | neatly to season for summer use. She (facetionsly) T suppe hourse Cupid because he 15 su horse. He—Not exactly, | blind “Miss B long love Bulliondollar, choeks with | pleasure.” I You of a he's) lov see wrrows, 1 offer yo you. L ““Sayno more, M 11 it is the bund you 'write you ofter me, I aceept with my hand. T have A London genius has apparatus to warm pi fingers may not be chilled, od a hot water 50 that dainty ow, Al r, I must make a confos- sion. My family is hot as perfect as I should like it—I'have several very unpleasant aunts | and uncles and cousins,” *Hush, Tom, don't say & Word—so have L' 1 have observed,” remarked { bachelor, trying to be funuy, *“that when one | has fortune’und adds miss 1o it he has mis- fortune thercafter”” “Then you ought to marry a widow,” responded a lady in bluck, | and the funny man went inte his shell, Bilkins—My langusge to_you has always en poetic und fowe When I first | b | you I called you a * After wo we married 1 called you pink.” Ms, Bil | kins—Aud now when you come home at 3 | lock in the morning and I have to come down to let you in, blooming cereus.” Cora Belle squaw, once you think I'ma “night- Fellows Chaska, the white belle of Washington, but th lately an attraction of the dime museurus of this “country, hus had some of her jewels stolen from her, and the countey will ‘await | with anxiety the aunouncement of the par | ticular rolés in light opera which she is to attempt Suitor (to he v)—Sir, Tlove the very | ground you daughter treads on 4 Father (grimly) -Well, young man, you ain't the fiest party that's had an attachment | for it; howsumever, if you love it well enou; to ¢ o the d help pay up Jacob did, you kin mar mor Su on § sing po- | e you call your | a mean old | The Reports of Destitution in Western Ne- braska True. GOV, THAYER REPLIES TO A ORITIO. Loose Business Methods of an Agent A Correction irst District Dis- tricted—-Capitol Intelli- gence ~City Items, Lixtoy, Nob, April 28.—[Special to Tur Ber,]—-In roply to an open letter pub- lished in Lincoln morning paper a day or two since regarding tho destitution and needs of tho farmers in the northwest portion of the state, especially in Bannor county, taking to task the assertion that assistance is noces- sary in that part of the state, Governor Thayer sa; 1 have incontestible evidenco that the farm- ersin the counties swept by the lato wind storms, which are known to the publie, were wholly unable to resow tholr fields beentise of inabifity to purchuso the necossary soed. Mr. Randalf, postmaster at Harrisburg, the county seat of Ban county, dki not overdraw t pleture o particle whon he sald that fully por cent of the farmers of lis sectdon would Buve to have help or quit. thele homostonds, Real estate denlers make a mistake when they try to cover up the destitution that surrounds them. The fmperative need of the hour prompted Mr. Greer, president of the state ricultural nssoctation, and myself, to take step we di nd the statement we made to public througl the state papers was cor- tin o sense, [ have a numberof let- T8 from farmers and business men of the de- asgated reglon, and [ repeat again the evi dence 1 ve of destitution in the countios we have so tto help, and have helped, is in- contestibl QUEER CAPERS OF AN AGENT. A traveling representative of the Sultan carriage company of Michigun gave J. B. McCoy of Cheney anthority to sell this com- pany’s goods at that place a few months ago on commission and shortly afterwards e ro- ceived an invoice of buggies, cav i phactons, Al went swimmingly for a time or McCoy sent a number of notes to the house and on the face it looked as though he was doing a splendid business, When the notes became dae, however, the repeated pr tests on them evidenced to’ the company t all was not right und an investigation was or- dered, when it was discovered that most of McCoy’s sales had been made to irresponsible arties, and he was ordered to turn the stock 1e hiad on hand over to C. W. Kaley, the rop- resentative of the company in this city. On his vefusal a writ of replovin was issucd and put in the hands of Deputy Sherift McFar- and for sevvice. MeCoy told him the goods were his if he could find them, and getting few pointers from a en’of Cheney he started out for that purpose. His soarch added surprises. Bugglos and carringes were found hidden under hay stacks and in out-of- the-way places, Criminal prosecution is probabie. A CORRECTION. Thereis bemg circulated throughout the state what purports to be an extract from the auditor's report of the condition of the Farm- Union' insurance company of Grand Islind. The extract shows the Farmor: union to be possessed of only $251.74 in cash assets, This amount 1s only one item of the scts of the company, viz: the cash in bank In addition to this the company is possessed | of over 172,000 of assets, leaving a surplus overall liabilities as shown by the report_on file with the auditor of $101,534. auditor hus never published o report ouly the fizures as shown in this cire All reports of companies are published in fi glving complete statements of the entive assets and labilitie: SETTLES WITI TIlE STATE, A cousisting of Auditor Benton, Treasurer Hill and Attorney General Leese met at the oftice of the former this morning tosettlo with W. H. Webster, ex-treasurcr of Merrick county forall money duc the state, and a full and complete settlenient was made. “This matter ha of Merr | Webster i dragging in the court o years past and Colonel lieved of the charge An interesting fact in con- n with the meeting of the board, which ited by law for the purpose of settling th county treasurers who have judgments against them, is that it was the first one ever held in the state, < ONCE MORE PR Charles Lewis again enjoys his He is the man who assaulted Repr tive nt ".\',:rink at the Hotel Tdeal about three | when cau in the act of robbing his | room. He was tried on the charge of assault with intent to kill and | sentenced to serve a term of fi state peniten Good behavior s Lim a lapse of eleven months and the crnor commuted the rest of I ntence. FIRST DISTRICT DISTRICTED, Hon. T, M. Cook, sup or of the census, First congressional district, transmitted his report to the department. at - Washington of the division of the district into enumecrators' precinets last evening, “There are 249 di tricts, and there will be a number of enumerators appointed. The city of Omaha has thirty-eight and the city of Lincolnseven- teen. The cities of Nebraska City, South Omaha, Plattsmouth and Beatrice have four each, while the cities of Falls City, Pawnce City, Wymore, Tecumseh, Woeping Wate, Withoo and Ashland will be taken separate from the precinets in which they are located. Other than this the precinets of the several counties will have one enumerator each. As soon 1 Mr. Coolk gets the O K to his report, he will commence to issue the commissions of the enumerators he will sclect. and was convicted cured gov- Is deny that they went fishing hey insist that the day was too ch pleasures. It can be said, Low- e of them went fishing und mosquito bite, I was at the state house this in ys that the question of a manent supreme court clerk has not hoen mentioned by any member of the beneh since | its action last Jubuavy and that he does not know when Mr, Leese's suceessor will be ap- pointed or who the fortunate man will i There was talk at the state house today tho cffect that some of the amendinent licans were urging Hon. John_ A, Dempster of Fillmore county'to be a candidate for gov- ernor, and that thie bee was actuallly buzzing in his bonnet. Horetofore but little stock has been taken in his all candidacy. Commissioner Steen i3 in Blaine county. He is there to look after the lease and sale of 32,000 acres of school lands. Deputy Curter expresses the opinion that the demand for these lands will make it an easy matter to dispose of them advantageously. '1f so, the interest on them will add a good many dollars to the school fund, 3 i CITY NEWS AND NOTES, It is rumored that the ‘“new hotel” going up at the corner of Ninth and P strcets s to be turned into tho Burlington headauarte 1L is said that the republican st committee will meet in this city at day. A number of politi opinion that i meeting is nec May convention convenes, Mack Bailey was arrested this morning for ever, th didn’t g Judge mor nearly be. John Coope son of Lincoln's ice king, and | Miss Bertl; Iderdice were licensed ‘:A wed by Jdudge Stewart tod Tho ceremony uniting thew for better or worse took pluce it the residence of the bride's mother this even- ing. The convention of the Woman's Presby- n bourd of missions, in session at the byteriun church, 15 laygol tended. arwell of Chic tendance and a number of other uent in the work of the church | pustor of the chareh, reports a live in today's program Lincoln lodge No, 138, 1. O, O. ., held an mportant weeting tonight. Work in the first degree occupied attention, This lodge Is one of the strongest of the order in the city. Tuitiations are reported at nearly oy gular meeting. The Odd Fellow lod, the capital city are in a very prosperous con dition, v interest - ‘The mourning costumes in different coun tries are vor ous. In England w widow walks looking like a mountain' of crupe Amorica sho is 1ess oppress 5001 becomes coquettish mourning clouk heard of has lat tor the Duchess d'Aosta, It is ¢ frimmed with lat bands of ostrich y and havi 1 its ed, lnished with fringes of pluies that have a jet band as their Lead lug, IT WAS NOT OVERSTATED. freedom. | | ars | 2 years in the | spb- | . | showed | assaulting his wife. This is the man who | | tried 1o shufle off this mortal coil a few | | weeks ago by taking strychnine, His do- mestic life is avidently not all thut it ought to ROTUNDA, IN THE Judge Kinkaid of the o!fth Judiclal dis. trict, and C. F. Boyd, district court clork ay Alnsworth, were found at the Murray last evening. “I happen to have four days with no cases to hear, and so I'm improving the lefsurve by attending to a little general busin sand the judge when approached by the votunda | talker, “The people up our way ave feeling ool Just now over the fact that the short | trains from Sioux City will be runnir P to us by June 1, continued the judge, “und Omata must be looking out or the oy palace people will have an fmportant wdvan. tage over her, Politics! Ah no, excuse me this time, | bo down this way again soon, when [ 1 know something new in politics, Roaliy, the fact 81 have been tending strictly 1, court matters for a long time and haven't had o bit of o chunce for anything 1 know this much, that this fall's fighy promises to bo a hard one.” “How are things looking for My, Dorsey This question caused a somos ing smile to make its appeatanco upon the face of the judge. The otner part of his an swer consistod in raising his hands with o hushelike gestuve and his politely offaciy e himself from the scene, leaving his folloy traveler to finish the story “The judge will © Dorsey a tight vub fo congross this fall,” said Me. Boyd, in quiet, confldtential tones, “And his bost posted friends think he will win, although | do not think it best to go into any discussion of the matter now. To change the subject somewhat [ will tell you of & vory late (i covery that has been made up in onr count i We have discovered that the alliance | tergperance folks are secretly aveanging 1, work together, T'he partnership means siderable, though just what it will accomplic), is as yet totally unknown even to the en bers of the new fiem,” Mr. Boyd added that the Koya Pala count gold diggers are doubling their offorts i have just put in diamond drills at bie ex- pense. There is no longer any doubt, he suy -, but that a continuation of the Black I mineral vift has been hit upon aud that the whole country will hear from the work oy being prosecnted. “Wheat is looking magnificently all th over power our part of the state, “We i just had some simply glov s, and th have given things such a start as makes 11 season one of almost unprecedentod proi « Jumes W. Brenuan, private sccrotary 1, Mayor Noonan of St. Louis, was at the ton yesterday, Mr. Brennan spent the iy visiting his sister, Mrs, Honr s, and friends here, He is a princely reprosentatiy . of the Mound city’s best young blood, and very thoroughly posted on the winning poin in that same city’s present and its immodio future. “We lost the fal d he, “hut we've ot aboom four times lavger that Chicago's wili est delivium ever pictured. Values aro vi ing daily at a rate which our oldest time sity never has been approached before in 1ho Iistory of the city. The latest thing in St Louis is the most perfectly coustructed ol vated railway of any city in the world. 1t is just building anl you may have noticed that the New York, London and Paris jour nals are guing little less than wild over it. | notice that Omaha is catehing on in the mat ter of lighting her streets with electvicity She will find it a humming success, just as St Louis has. Do you know that fn our town Omahu is understood to have streets w vival those of Paris for cleanlin I time one of our folks makes a t comes home talking about Omaha's mi cent streets, and after a big drive throus suchas I had over them today I find it n) wonder that people praise them as they do, nnan lea this morning for( distinguished Tlittle party of Towa poli- is that spent a half hour floating about various hotel rotundas carly lust cvening A | was composed of Sceretary of State Juckson | and Hon. Sidney A. Foster of Des M oines and Hon. John N. Baldwin and My, Geo Halden of Counc Captain John F. White was met at the Millard last eventng, He has just retuened '@ he submitted samples of oil obtained from his wolls in Wy oming to the Standard folks. “It is worth o trip to New Yo aid e, ““to pay a visit to the Standard Oil company s headquarters, No. 26 Broadwa found a combination of intel aggregation of capital which con cern is so well known to I found the men who have an ide surplus of $100,000,000 to rank with the le: ing statesmen at Washington, so fi funds of iuformation and power of clear cut cone and effective arguments go. But oh, how icy cold and cashy they talk. Forin stance, in talking to their leading and most active officer Tat one time happened to 1o omething about the conflict which w ragiug at fever heat in many parts of the west between capital and labor, when the ofticial in question remar “440h, well, my dear sir, we (mean the Standurd oil compuny) no missionaries and never le of attention to such | pussing trifles labor.’ “At another time,” continued Captain ‘White, “I went on to tell them something lof how and where my oil fields woere located. T had not gotten three sente ces out of my mouth Dbefore t gentleman pulled down an elaborate map, wnd not only pointed out the boundaries of every foot of ny lands but showed me the ¢ | spot where every one of my wells was | uated. Then he took down a file of reports and read off a minute description of ever bit of work done on each one, probable i pacity, and a fine analysis of the oil that hal been found in each one. The revelation fairly mado me blush with wonder and almost overpowering surpr Going on, he me that they had the same minute record of every square foot of oil territory notonly in all the United States wnd torri tories, but everywhere thronghout the liuown world, And in every instance the were up to within twelve hours of tho time [ wis talking to him, while m: up to within thirty minutes, Such a vast amount of accurate knowl was acty almost | fearful and staggering in its effects upon w and I considor that with my twent cxperience in such matters 1 am | posted in my business as the average wan * ~ OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Subseribed and Guarantoed Capital . & Paid in Capital v | Buys and sells stocks | commerelul paper; receives ports were Iy years of as W | honds; neg und ex t trusts; acts as trunsfer agent and trost corporations; takes churge of property lects taxes, |Omaha Loan& TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. S, E. Cor, 16th and Douglas St ald In Cupital ‘ Subseribed and Guaranteed Capltal Liubility of Stockholder | b Pér Cent Interost Pald on Deposit FRANK J. LANGE. Canhier o AU Wyman, proatient; J. J. Brown, vl prosidant 10 W i, treasror Directors: A, U Wyman, ). H. Millnrd. J. ). Brown, Guy C. Barton, K. W. Nuah, Thomas J. Kimball, 0 B. Lake ty and Furm urity. at Low n ¢ Loiis b wny amount niad Property, and on Collatoral | est rutes'curreat,