Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1890, Page 4

JLHK SAMAHA 2A1LLY (RER 3 THE DAILY BEE| B ROSEWATER. Editor. i'l'l'.l.lhl”’ll) 'ERY MORNING., b TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION | Dally and Sunduy, One Year £10 00 Bix months.... 6 sovsenserive B0 | Ll nontiis Bunday Bee, One Yenr Weekly Bev, One Year OFFICES, Omaha. The Beo Building. 8. Om nd Hth Streets, Couneil Blufrs, 1 Fl Strect Chicago Ofice, 317 Chamb Com New York, Re 14and 15 Tribune Building. Washiagton, 51 Fourteeath stre CORRESPONDENCE All communications relating to news ‘and | editorinl matter should be addressed to the | Editorial 1 BUSINESS I ERS s lottors and remittances should The Bee Publishing Com $ Drafts, checks and postoffice orders le payable to the order of the Com= ) y The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. .’I')u Bee Biding, Farnam sventeonth Sts, ¥ (N STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION of Nebrask 1 ou ‘ounty of I { B Bl crotary of The Bee lemnly swen lation of Tue DALY May 17, 150, was as fol Sunday NMonday, Tuesdiy. M Btate of Nebraska, Cannty of Doiglns, 5% George 8. Tzsehuck, being duly sworn, de- oscs und guys that he Js secretary of The Publishing Company, that the actual daily eirculaiion of Tur DA ¢k for the month of May, 18%), I8, copies: for_ June, 180, 1885 ' copies; for ), 18,708 coples; for August, 1599, 18,661 for September, 1880, 18710 coples; for 1, J880, 18,097 coples: for November, 1850, 310 copless for D Do, 1880 5 coples Jary, 100, 10,55 coples; ‘for Februaary, Gl coples; fol ch, 1500, 20,815 cople M dop) GEORGE B, TZECHUCK. and subseribed in my A D., 1800 Notary Publi ¢ POSTAGE RATES. 1 cent Foreign 2 cents 1%cent s cents cents {HAs Jailor Miller been rotain Pssist the defense in the the Neal trial? Wi Calislo out of the house the fainority ship loses what little ballast it possessed. 11 is worthy of note that every enter- | prising Towa town is pronouncing for high license in original packages. Tite proposed chain of stock yards from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast marksalong stride in the wostward ten- dency of a great industry. BerweeN original packages, licensed saloons and the steady increase of re- submission clubs, prohibition s being hopeles od in Kansas, engagement to one of the belles of Britain will doubtless prove more enjoyable than his engage- ments with the Bohoos and Wawahs of e dark continent. THE voc eepts the censure of the house as a de oration of honor. Before many years Bynum and his party friends will be hty glad to cast away the decoration and expunge the record. NDERSON is not ready to ngo his present position for a mis- sion to Spain, but there are a surplus of patriots in Nobraska who would cheer- [ully sacrifice themselves for the public service at home or abroad. THE latest deal of reform boodlers is to send three or four strikers out into the state to beat the bushes for the Broatch hoom. The expenses of these political missionaries ave to be borne by the riprapping contractor. T copious rains have placed ihe vamges of Wyoming in better condi- jion than for yeavs past, insuving a year rrity for the great industry of tory which will be felt mate- sially in the Omaha market. 10N of five dollars a mile in the cost of street sweeping shows the value of froquent compotition. Kven at the reduced rate there should be an im- srovement on the present method of fusting the streots and dumping the re- fuse on the sidewalks. T reports of the movements of the American squadron of evolution in the Mediterrancan cannot fail to thrill every patriot at home. Dull to every sense of national pride is he or she who will not rejoice to learnthat the new navy is evoluting baseball where Paul preached and filling the grotto of Calypso with Lhree-baggers and home runs. HE war raging between Major Pow- sll. divector of the geological survey, and Colonel Dick Hinton, recently ap- pointed to boss the artesian bores, has stiveed up the fossils in that department, I'he major assails the colonel with a jaw- boue of the tertiary period, insinuating that the boss of the bores does not know sough about the irrigation guestion to lurnish moisture for his tongue. The tolonel retorts with the neozoic bomb- sholl, pointing to the report of the sen- Ate committee accusing Powell of misap- propriation of funds. The friction be- tween those two distinguished surveyors at the public crib promises to bring to the surface the methods employed in scaftering government funds in annual western junkets, THE advance guard of an army of twelve hundred Mormon converts suc- cossfully passed inspection at the port of New York, and are now ou their way | to the kingdom of Brigham. The ad- | mission of this batch of deluded foreign- ers,while ministers and musicians com- ing to the country have been subjected | to annoying and costly delays, brings into contempt the enforcement of the contract labor law. It is a notorious fact that Mormon immigrants are brought over under & direct or implied contract. The church pays their pas- gage and thoy are compellod to work it out in the fiolds or workshops of the in- stitution in Utah, They ave the chat- | tels of Mormon power and their admis- | IRRIGATION The senate committee appointed to pro- slation on the subject of irrigas ing the magnitude and problem, divided upon the question of how much the govern- ment should PROSPECTS. | tion, while conce fmportance of th undertake. ement as to the expediency of congress continuing appropriations for y8, the selection of sites for water and the designation of lands which may be reel but a portion of the committec insisted in the actual work of irrigation than to provide for the establishment of ro sites, leaving the ditching private enter- adopted by congress, and it probably is, it is clear that a great apse before the vast unwatered of the nation will be reclaimed. them as rapidly as the demands of a growing population x ing authority to borrow money or to con- prise, the states can go on, as some of them have done, to work out s irvigation problem without any for themseclves sistance from the govern- ment, and this undoubtedly in time they s have no v if the government refuse beyond what the minority recommend as completion of do anythin, of the senate committee expedient, name tion of irrigable lands. The v the government refusing to do more than this must retard the progress of the ter- the time when they will be able to carry forward the work of irrigation. a formid- ar with it fully understands. a of the United Alaska, over one- third must have artificial irrigation to insure rqgular annual crops. o d it would become the most valua- ble land in the country, and would un- stionably many times repay the cost of redemption, granting that the estimates were equalled or exceeded. accomplishing miles embraced in the ar benefitted, a chief souree of objection to the gov- ernment making prov out of the public treasury, while there the general ground that the govern- sion for irrigation this is not work ment can properly engage, although the ssity for its intervention is obvious from the fact that the public lands in which the right of o ion for storage sites belongs to hostility to the government going into the business of completing the details of irvigation is manifestly time to permit the hope that a much lavger appropriation can from the pre vided by the 1 the preliminary work of invi too strong be obtained :nt congress than was pro- 'S POSITION 0. It is reported in the enstern paper ssident Harrison weeks past been in constant consultation with prominent men in both houses of s regarding the proposed silver It is also said in explar tion of the failure of the ences on this subject to rc scment, that the president has an- unwillingness to sign a freo logislation. nounced h! the positive statement that he a bill if sent to him, and that while he is anxions for the passage of a silver bill in order to made by the republican party to the people, he does not think that the Wy for free colnage. There is nothing improbable , in view of the ve attitude of the president regarding silver in his annual message to congress. will be rememb: will veto such ible in this d that while e; employment of silver in the currency was desirable, Mr. Harrison sug Timit to its use and distinctly his conviction that. free coins While it is probable the views of the president have since then undergone some modification, as is fairly to be inferred from which is understood to have represented the opinions of the administration, it be dangerous. communicated 5 to approve There has been no new jon by the advo- views on silver to froe coinage. light shed on the ques cates of unlimited coinage to produce a change of opinion, but on the contrar, the weight of argument in the discus sion of the subject is to confirm the con- t'free coinage would be a very grave mistake. But notwithstanding the attitude of administration and the undoubted ¢ of the people, the supporters of the danger to any silver legislation involved in their course. have o majority of votes in both hous though this is que ing that they have it is certain that they are not strong enough to pass a free coinage bill over a veto, and none of them uppear to doubt that such a meas- would encounter They do not expect the presi- dent to stultify himself by giving his ap- which he has declar stionable, but allow- | | | | proval to a policy nate adherence to their position by the e coinage, therefore, not logislation, but it n issue between the exe | utive and congress that would prove harmful to the party in power. is nothing more certain than that the in- igent and conservative judgment of the country is not in favor of free coin- uncompromising advocates of f only endange may result in pion 1s @ scandalous breach of law, D) making for it is doing the cause of silver gerious harm. AN AGGRESSIVE POLICY NEEDED. At this time of more than usual con- flict and disturbance in the railroad situation, it is natural to inquire whether the inte. © commerce commission is taking such vigilant interest in the con- dition of affairs as may be necessary to protect the public from evasions and abuges of the law. It is hardly to be presumed that the vigorous warfare go- ing on between the railroads is being prosecuted with absolute freedom from any violations of either the letter or spivit of the interstate commerce act On the contrary, few will doubt that infractions of the law are numer- ous. It would, perhaps, be a somewhat dificult matter to discover them, and yet the common impression is that this isone of the functions of the commis- sion, In its last roport the commission said that the educational process necessary under the interstate commerce act hav- ing been complied with, the time had come when more aggressive steps could properly be taken. No excuse can longer be made, nid the commission, that the law is not understood, or that sufficient time has not elapsed to give the carriers op- portunity to conform their methods to its requircments. This was in effect no- tice to the railv Wl the " country that the commission would tolerate no more excuses for a disregard of the re- quirements of the law on the score of ignorance, but would bring its penalties to bear whenever violations were dis- covered. This was an assurance the public had been anxiously waiting for, and the absence of it unquestionably had a measure of influence indiscrediting the law with some. A member of congress who is opposed to the law recently urged as one reason for its repeal that it is and is likely to be imperfectly enforced. The present extraordinary state of af- among the railroads imposes upon commission the duty of unusual ance. In a general way the law is perhaps being complied with, but that it is being violated in some “particulars is not to be doubted. It is highly proba- ble that before the conflict is ended the commission will find opportunities for showing the public what it means by ag- gressive step: THE legal department of the Union Pa- cifie, having met defeat in the Elmwood clevator case in the state supreme court, announces that the case will be appealed to the United States supreme court. This result was predicted at the outset. The sole object of the contest is to carry it through the vavious courts, to delay and harass the produ nd strengthen the grip of the clevator combine. The corporations employ their lawyers by the year. They can afford to fight an in- terminable legal battle, trusting to politi- cal changes or the demise of the original plaintiffs to score a victory. The assertion thavthe dec m of the supreme court is “taking property without due process of law me of the most absurd pleas ever advanced, but it serves the purpose to prolong the settle- ment of the issue. There h not been the slightest attempt to take property “without due process of law.” The vital principle involved is whether a common carrier can deprive producers of adequate facilities for storing and shipping g and compel them to patronize a monopoly of elevators controlled at least indirectly by the railronds. The common law sustained I court decisions prohibits discrimination by com- mon carriers against any class of shippers or patrons. The Elmwood farmers did not scek to take property ‘without due process of law.” On the contrary, they offered to pay for the privilege of trackage the charge exacted from the existing elevator, and the su- preme court confirmed the justico of their demand for equal privileges and facilities with the most favored patron of the railrond. On that issue there need be no fear of the final determir tion if the producers see to it that their side of the case is properly presented to the United States supreme court, THE petition of Madison county tax- payers for a radical revision of the pres- ent system of assessing property str atrone of the greatest evils in the state. Every county and rticularly the mu- nicipaliti seriously affected by a system of taxation which not only in- vites discrimination, but materially in- jures the people when the tax rate is placed side by side with that of other states and communities which property at or near its all comparativ per cent of levy appears e : tending investors who are not fa- miliar with the fact that the as- sessment of property in tho stato is scarcely one-tenth of its actual value. It is useless, however, to expect an equitable assessment of property under the prosent revenne law. Some n must be devised whereby the state will secure its revenue without ex- acting a per cent of the total a: ment. As long as that system places a premium on low valuations so as to eseape puying a faiv shave of the expenses of state government. Higher valuations and lower levies will remedy the evils pointed out by Madison county taxpayers, but it is folly for one county slutionize the system while the remaining eighty-seven stand aloof. Tue railway conductors in annual convention have taken a step which places them in accord with the labor or- gunizations of the country. The anti- strike clause of the constitution wus stricken out and western men placed on guard. This action was necess to pre- vent a disruption of the order, as the western members were determined to no longer hold aloof from kindred organiza- tions. The action of the convention is significant. It foreshadows a complete foderation of railway employes in the west,whose power, guided by intelligent, cons ative leaders, will prove beneficial to all concerned. Crude But Effe Machiavelism, Boston Journal. Having failed to crush that determined agi- tator, Captain Tillwan, by wilder methods of coaxing sud flattery, the South Caroiina which the advocates of that policy are | bourbons ure now resorting to threatening ———— and abuse. 1f Tiliman does not keep a sharp oye about nimx’ may go the way of John M. Clayton aud oYh&r men who have been bold enough to challenge the rule of the free-trade oligarchy in the southern states. P Tendency of Bogus Pension Claims. Pifadelphia Recon. Before many. years it will be the noblest | distinction and title to honor of the veteran | soldier that he'is not a pensiouer of the gov- | ernment, - The Lottery Must Go. T 1polis Journal. Congress will subject itself to severe cen- sure if it adjofirn’ without enacting a law to | exclude the lottery frwn the use of the mails, podfle--=dte Mr. Breckinridge's Graceless Attitude Philadelphia Press. his country would be much better satis- fied, also, if, instead of constantly repeating a wish that the committee would find out who killed Clayton, he would go to work and help it discover the guilty persons. - Petitions Backed By Bayonets. w York Herald. Petitions are being circulated, addressed to the czar of Russia, mildly suggesting that the outrages practised on Siberian exiles are “not in harmony with the bumanizing senti- ments of the age." Despotic governments, unfortunately, never been reformed by petitions except when the petitions were backed up by men ready to fight. - OUR CONTEMPORARIES. ) Tribune. Mr. Butterworth points out clearly that the trade relations between the people of the United States and their northern kinsmen have been to the advantage of the former to the extent of $250,000,000 in the last forty years. He also shows that during the same the balance of trade with the Latin | to the south of us has been over 00,000,000 against this countr, Yet every effort is making to establish unrestricted trade with Mexico and south Central Ameri while fresh difiiculties were thrown in the of trade with Canada, whi* more from us than we do from he! An Evil of the Registration Law. Chicago Inter-Oceai. The new law will make it necessary for the republicans of New York to be constantly on their guard and cach yearsee that the far- mers are registered, because when a man has to travel several miles over bad roads to reg- ister his name and then give up another day t0 go over thes: will become « It places a double bur- den on him simply because dishonest men have corrupted the bullot in the eities. The Supcrabundance of E NSt. Louis Globe-Democy Thousands of measures are introduced in | one branch or other of congress every which never ¢ d which the m bers standing s them know never ought to pass, cither body. Some, happily never get beyoud the committe some are not even considered in committee, nd these do not have much effeet toward de- laying legislation. But even these have a dotrimental influence in taking the atteation of the members responsible for them aw to some extent, frow legislation which is pos sible and needed. A Damper on Prohibition Spics. Phitadriphia Ttec Inder this decision and the interstate com- merce act, which it ' affirms, the states have ample power to utterly prohibit the internal liquor trafie or to regulate it in any manner they may deem fit. But they canmot sendl bles and spies to sniff into railroad and s pavcels in interstate transportation in ovder to confiscate the private property of the citizen, This, and only this, is what the prohibitionists scek to accomplish by the Boutelle amendment to the interstate com- merce law., The decision of the supreme court stands between the citizen and as mean a system of legislative espionage and tyranny as ever was perpetrated in a froe stat The Or of the Hoar Bill, Kansas City Jowrnal, If the southern democracy had been con- tent to conduct congressional elections de- cently and fairly Senator Hoar’s bill never would have been thought of. And even if that bill becomes a law its provisions will not be operative except upon the petition of a ce tain number of respectable citizens of a di who have reason to believe that the state s will not conduct the clection fairly. “The south has not been abused and will not be abused. But it will be made to behave itsell about election time. STATE JOTTINGS. Nebraska. Seward’s new Methodist church will be dedicated Junc 1. “'he Covington sehool board has decided to ereet a $10,000 school building. About one thoudhud acres have been sown to hemp in the neighborhood of Powler Rev. A. W. Cooper was lust week ordained as pastor of the Baptist chureh at Loup City. Kearney has another paper, the Denioc having miade its appearance, published b . Mason. “The second annual Sunday school convi tion of Perkins county will be held at G May 20 and All the merchants of Kearney have to close their stores at 8 o'clock every i cept Saturduy arles Dunn of Browster had his_leg so badly crushed by u hovse falling on it that amputation will b necessary wdy Blade hus made its appearance y Island, Lincoln county, with Stock- ton & Stockton as publishers. The sixteenth annual convention of the Adams county Sunday school association will be held at Kenesaw May 21 and Lightning struck the residence of John Hall in Blaine county Wednesday night, instautly killing a boarder nuined Dearn and badly shocking Mus. Hall. John K. Barron, agent of the Union Pacitic at Ord, has resigned to accept the position of cashier of the Ord national bank. He will enter upon bis new duties June | Daniel Hilbert, who had just completed a term in the penitentinry, wis arrest Al bion last week for moltgaging pro did not own and was tuken to Logan. county Tor trial. The Loup City Citizen has been d Farmers' alliance Tev. W. H. Ogle will act as editor, The Norfolk Congrogational church cele- brated the twentieth anniversary of its or- gunization last wi The church started with ten members, and today the mem ship numbers | san old veteran of Boone s been ‘adjudged insanc and sent to His hallucination is thut every- s trying to poisen him, and his actions led his wie to secupefy divorce several months ago, H Miss Kate Houstra, who resided with her pavents u few mligs north of Niobrara, drowned b elf in a luke because she did not want to marry John Holland, the husband | who had been s cted for her by her father. The wedding day was fixed for last Saturda Charles, Fred and August \meichel, | | and using them for firewood. It will be many three wealthy farmens living near Brownlee county, have s by the ff of Blaine o ¥, ol with burglarizing a store at Purdum. The stolen goods were found in the possession of the prisoners Chambligs of Paxton thought 1 1o vote he | midget calf, born a fow days ago. It is per- fectly formed, stands 194 inches in height, is hes long and weighs 23 pounds. Storm Lake ladies have organized a boat club, A missionary convention will be bheld at Vail May 28 to June 1. The new Methodist church at Muchakinock was dedicated Sunday. A Keokuk man has a fig tree which prom- ses to yield heavily this season The Kossuth county Sunday school conven- tion will be held at Algona Ma, and 28 The editors of Hamilton, Wright, Hancoe Winnebago, Kossuth, Humboldt, Webster, ahontas, Palo Alto and Emmet countie planning to get together to form an he one-year-old child of Carl Liverenz, of Paullina, while playing on the floor the other day found an iron staple about an inch long, nd before the mother could get it away lowed it. No serious result has as lowed. The Congregational churches of Towa con- tributed to home mission work in the state during the year ending April 50, $10,054.2 The year closes with $1,160,05 in the treasu The “plan was to raise $15,000, but the present is an increase over any previous yea he annual report of the Episcopal diocese of Towa shows the number of parishes in the diocese to be 49; orwganized missions, ! organized, 33; churches and chapels, i tories, 25: families registered, individ- ual members, 14,018 regular communicants, 6,007; contributions st year for religious | purposes, $14, ; value of property in the diocese, £1,271 iton City is threatened with a novel amage suit. = A well-to-do farmer named Colder visited the city on business and_after ing several “originals” found himself behind the bars of the city lockup, where ho remained all night. Ho awoke the next morn- ing with a severe cold, caught, he claims, | through the negligence of the city to furnish comfortable accommodations to guests, and thinks he has been injured to the extent of $5,000 or thereabouts. (reston stte publishes extracts tter written at Oslkaloosa, March 1 by the motherof a soldier in the Thirty thivd Towa, at New Orleans, but who wis then a prisoner of war. The' captain of his wot the letter and not being able to deliver it filed it away among his papers. In looking over his army effects a short time s0he found the letter and sent it to its rightful owner, whoreceived it on thetwenty- fifth anniversary of the day it was written. The Two Dakotas. There will b a band tournament at Doland May 22. The pontoon bridge justcompleted at Pierre cost &3 ars were killed near wer the other day. ort Picrre claims a population of 1,000, a proposition to incorporate will be voted The South Dakota theological institute w tat Yankton July 8 and continuc in s sion a weel. Whitewood is to have a new reser a capacity of 50,000 gallons, to bo lo feet above the town, s Josephine Crowfeather, a full-blooded maiden, has talen the veilat Yankton and become o Benedictine nun, Her father is @ Sioux chief. Charles Finch, a placer miner in Bear ulch, the other day stubbed his toe against u gold nugget weighing four ounces, the largest found in the Black Hills for some r of Census Wakefield, whose includes_all that part of South Da he has divided his district into 420 sub-dis- dricts, all the cnumerators for which have been uppointed. The expenses of the recent session of _the South Dukota legislature amounted to $05, 034.09. The sena st the state 5 and the house . while $10,000 was expended in legisiative printing. Elkton citizens, and farmersin the neigh- have raised a 3,000 bonus for the parties who are to build a £12,000 roller mill that place. It is expected the mill will be in operation by November next. A Northwestern train pulled into Redfield th or day and the engineer was some- at surprised on going to the front of the motive to find a sheep lying on tho pilot, uninjured and_contentedly ‘chewing its cud. The animal had evidently saved its life by a quick jump just as the cngine reached it. rading the railroad near Deadwood the other day a huge rock was blasted and behind it was found a small_cave or well full to the brim with snakes. Thousands of the reptiles o killed by the men, but not one rattler s found. They were of the varieties known as bull and garter snakes. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. bune: Tet nobody ask the old question hereafter: “What is Butter-worth Washington Post: The John M. Palmer senatorial boom is scudding along under a full head of wind. In fact there are some unkind enough to intimato that the propelling for about the only substance there is in the boom. Proyidence Jou The Boston Journal suys that the farmers of Vermont are greatly pleased with the McKinley tariff bill. Per- haps this is because the more intelligent and enterprising have left the state or have gone into more profitable business. St. Paul Pioncer Press: Hill may plant and Cleveland may water, but they do that next spring Governdr Campbell 1spl own little boom from the soil Ohio to the political hotbed, Minneapolis Tumes: Since Senator Sher- man declaved himself on the poker question the other candidates for the presidency have 1 feeling about in an uneasy manner for something striking to counteract the boom the distinguished Ohioan has given himself. From the Augusta Chironicle: But Mr. Wat- on is a_brilliant \ id o g speaker. He makes his mark wherever s, He wants it understood that he SL800 in- poker. Mr. Watterson is hera Puritan nor a prohibitionist, but, withal, is a striking figure in Kentuclky and the south. Washimgton Post: They have commenced putting Chicago democrats in jail for the re- cent election frands, and General Palmer's senatorial boom has fullen off twelve points within the last two days. Spriugfield Republican (Ind.): With such men as Vest and Cockrell posing as great leaders on the demoeratic side of the United Statgs senate, and “Cal” Brice on the way, it is fime that Carlisle was made a senator. Louisville Courier-Jou ! admission of Mr. Butterworth, that improved methods of manufacture cheapen munufac- tured articles, will “bust” the home market if hio persists in it Rowing Over Dakota Dirt. Cavserialy, S, D., May 18.~[Special to Tur: By A struggle that promises to be of several years' duration has commenced for tho possession of 320 acres of land which lies divectly north of this city in what was until ued and the plait has been sold to a company | *ecently a portion of the Crow Creek und that will publish a fgfes n thentorest o the Winnebs s When these lands w opened for settlement in 1585 the two claims above mentioned were taken by home- steaders, Upon the withdrawal of the ion from the public domain two months after it was thrown open, the original settlers left and the claims were shortly afterward taken by settlers, who have since remained upon the land. About four years ago the two claims were, by legislative act, included in the city limits of Chamberlain, I tly an organization of citizents put a town site fil on the claims, and attempts repented made by the town. thereon, but the settlers did not take ki to the idea of having buildings er their onion and potato patches, so they con fiscated the building material as fust as it was put upon the ground. The town-siters, be fore attempting to build, had the tract sur- voyed into two-acre lots, and now tho settlers are engaged in pulling up the survey stakes s before the matter will finally be sottled. The two cluims are handsomely located and are very valuable, - - Barn Fired by Lightning. Linenty, Neb, May 18.—[Special Tele he would like a pig for a pet and attempted to | gram to Tig Ber. ]—The first rain this spring take o v tail from a litter in apen. The old sow objected, however, and made a fleroo attack on the boy, biting' him badly, and would undoubtedly have killed the ellow had not a big dog taken a hand struggle and driven off the infuriuted Towa I 8. T. M. Condift, living near Bidy fell yesterduy eveniug. The farmers are jubilant, as the ground was very dry and all the smail grain suffering tly on account of the drouth, During the thunder storm a barn four miles southwest of town, contain ug & buggy, corn sh about five hundred s of corn and @ quantity of hay, was by lightning and burned.” Loss, $300 ance, $400, NO SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS. Acting Mayor Pace Oloses the Eden Museo at Lincoln PYTHIAN LIFE SHOWS FIGHT Replios Filed to the Charges Made by J. R, Powell- Arrested for La- boring on the Sabbath—Col- lision at Waverly. LixcoLy, Nob,, May 18, —{Special to Tie Ber.]—A mecting of citizens was called yes- terday to consider the best means to close up the Eden Musee on Sundays, There were nine men present and they unanimously passed a resolution demanding the mayor to see that the musee was not allowed to give any more Sunday exhibitions, Messrs, John R. Clark, C Dawes and A, H, Dc appomted a committee to call on the ch ecutive of the city and inform him of this action. Mayor Graham being out of the city, the two called on acting Mayor Pace, and he in turn called on City Attorney Holmes and asked him if there was any law under which places of umusement could bo closed Sun- days. Mr, Holmes said that there was, and the acting mayor instructed Marshal Melick wior if he opened his place . Lawler will not attempt to give any Sunday entertainments until the mayor re- turns, An officer was posted near tho musee and watched it closely all to see that no tickets were sold. THE PYTHIAN LIFE SHOWS FIGHT. Tiwo representatives of the Pyth association, Messrs, Bechtel and 1 in the city yesterday and in the aftern filed replies to the charges wade by Powell, gene ssociation is not ccret organization and is not, therefore, en- d to do business under the provisions of t governing such companies. These gentlemen in their reply make the following statements on was chartered according to legal requirements November 16, 189 rocation of the authority of the ussoc iness would cause it to suffer i parable injury. The members have now in force insurance amounting to $1,500,000, aud the business has been conduc in a thor- oughly le 4 y. The members deny that they wera incorpe r the seeret society det of 1857, although they have com- plied with its provisions. the association is a_fraternal and benevolent one as contemplated by th and the mer- bership is restricted 1o th embers of the order of the Knights of Pythins. They sub- mit the opinion that the auditor has no jurisdiction to he rmine the mat- ters and asse s set forth in Powell's complaint; Powell s a non-resident, as he malkes bis home in Mil- aukee; that he was not a member of the Pythian Life association, and thereforeis not | that heis traveling | a competent comp as a solicitor for ival company, and that the complaints him were simply in- tended to do injury to the Pythian Life and to 1 build up his own company. If the request of Powell is enforced it is claimed that it will drive out of exis also the endowment rank, the Masonic surance companics and many other similar benevolent associations counected with the secret orders. ARRESTED FOR WORKING ON SUNDAY. L. Walpa, while working in I. Sandusky’s shop at Seventh and Q streets this morning, was arrested on the charge of “laboring on Sunday.” Walpa was engaged in beating or brealding fron at the time, and the policeman claimed that he was making too much noi Mr. Sanduslk; was present and asked | the ofticer w! he did not go down to the depot_and arrest all the engineers who | runlocomotives into the city on Sund “one engine makes m “than a dozen blacksmith The officer, becoming somewhat nettled, told Mr. Sandusky to *“dry up.” The officer then attempted to drag Walpa away, when Sandusky seized his employer by the arm and released him from the policeman. The officer then placed Sandusky also under nd escorted both men to'the city jail. Walter Bohanan, a prominent citizen, went their bail until tomorrow, and employer and employe were both rele nan MBLING The officers have been suspicious for two or three weeks of the busines: ried on in 2 room over Hood 2 enth street, und finally were sat it was a gambling ecstablishment, raid on the place at 2 o'clock by the police proved their sus wae, as the room was found equipped with a full gambling outfit, while scated at one of the tables dealing cards at faro was J. R. Harvey, a knight of the green cloth well known in Omaha. About him were a number of sports well known i tho city, and tho entire company were placed under arrest and taken to the police station. “The chips,roulette wheels and other gambling parapharnelia were confiscated by the police, On being araigned all the men arrested pleaded guilty to_the charge of visiting a gambling den, and were each fined $10 uud costs. Q STREET SCHOOL ALL RIGUT. There has been considerable talk of late concerning the sanitary condition of the Q street school, but after i careful examination of the building yesterday Drs. Paine, Case- beer, Mitehell,” Lowry,” Hook, Garten and Dayton pronounced 1 fectly safe for the school children, They ussert that the base- ment is perfectly and wholesome; that the cesspools ard all right and that there are no noxious gases of any kind as claimed, Thes nimously recommended that in order to provide for any scares that are liable to result in tho closing of the schools, o board of physicians should be pointed whose business shall be to inv gate just such mattors. COLLISION AT WAVERLY. the B. & M. _at is morning, N cast bound, running into a west bound extra, Three box ' car badly damaged and both of the locomotives were smashed but nobody was hurt. CITY NEWS AND NOTES, The east Lincoln prohibition league at its meeting last evening adopted as a badge u button covered with the stars and stripes. ‘The league will hold its first meoting in its new wigwam Monday evening. J. Angle was arrested yesterday afternoon for’ violating the city ordinance requiring pawnbrokers to make a full list of all articles reccived by them. ‘The ofticers cluimed that Angle was not complying with the ordinauce, and fearing that ho might be keeping a “fence” for thicves caused his arrest. He was found guilty of the chi sainst him and was fined £5 and costs. pay the amount and took an appeal to the dis trict court. Hallenbeck attempted to kill o neigh- sted for dischurging ity limits . calizia pains have necessitated a tempo- of climate for Mayor Graham, lay he left for St. Louis, where he will stay least two weeks. Joe Wild, alias Joo Lockwood, wi from the pe sterduy af a two years' term fc tealing, and two hours aftor he breathed free nir again he was caught Stealing @ pair of shoes from an O street store. He was prompily arvested, il s A WOMAN'S DEVOTION, She Publishes Her Own Shame to Save the Man She Loves, A bigamy case having some remark able features was heard before Recorder J. . Bradner of this city, says a Mid lotown, N. Y., special to the New Yor- Times. The accused, a boyish-looking brakeman named Utter, employed on the Ontario & Western railroad, belongs to a respectable family of Warwick. ~ His father is an engineer on the Pough keepsie & Boston_ railvoad, Hls wife who was a Miss Edith Decker, and to whom ha was married at Goshen by a Mr. Winans on September 28, 1885, accuses him of having deserted her five months later and of having contracted a second marreinge on June 30, 1889, with | Miss Jannie Griflis of this city Th district attorney introduced proof | of the first marringe with the complain® ant. He next placed upon the witness stand Mrs, Harriot Griftis, mother of Jennie Griffis, who testified that Utter and her daughter went to NowYork, - June 50, 1889, and on their return exhibe ited n.marriage certificate showing that they wero married on that day by tho Rev. Richard Hartloy, pastor of the Laight Streot Baptist ehurch, and that they had since lived together as husband and wife. Utter went upon the stand in his own behalf, and testified that he / never was married to either of the women who claimed him for a husband. Jennie Griffis, who is a pretty and modest-mannered young woman, was then called as ness for the defonsc Apparently her only anxiety was to save from punishment the young who had basely deceived her, She testified, i flat contradiction to her mother, that she had never been marvried to Uttor nor exhibited a marriage certificate. Sho was shavply eross-questioned by the dis- trict attoriey, but stuck to the story of her shamo with a persistency that could could not be shaken, Her devotion and self-sacrifice w howeuer, unavailing. The recorder committed the young big- amist to the county jail in default ui' $2,000 bonds, to wait the action of th grand ju WANTED TO EAT HIM. But Sailor Skillings' Fatal Rifle Won the Respect of the Savages. Harry S. Skillings of Freeport husre-, turned home after wandering sinco 18 66 Ho left Portland the day after tho great five and shipped fl'(m# ston to San Prancisco, says a P nd (Me.) pecial to the Boston Glgbe. From there he went to the South seasand when near Manila was wrecked, Skillings and another man volunteered to swim hore with a line. They suc- ceeded after being dashed about, in reaching shore and in saving the rest of w. He then served on board an glish vessel and was in soveral bat- tles with Chinese pirates. He then shipped for Sidney, stopped at Pleasant island and changed for a ship bound for New Zealand. This craft proved to be a slaver and Skillings gave it the slip and returned to Pleasant island in the missionary schooner John Wesley. Then heshipped on a vessel that was short of provisions and all aboard nearly starved. Skillings at last made his home on Greenwich island, among the cannibuls. They wanted to try the flavor of a white man and Sk s s00n put to it to save his life. Ior two months he slept on his arms, expecting every moment to have (o fight for his life. One day a fleet.of thirty | canoes hove in sight and a herd of wild natives made an attempt to capture hinm, Skillings, who speaks seven language held a parley, and told them that if the made the attack he would kiil all he could with his rifles. e would die fighting. The natives w i the mysterious rifle, Skillings set them all to work and made each one contribute 300 cocounuts a da They buried spears in the gr: as they worked in the ticld, and times attempted to kill him by as they do missionaries, Skillings killed two or three and was afterwards vo- spected. He then went to Ponape, married, and made $10,000. July 1st, 1847, the natives rose in rebellion, and the massacro of Ponape followed. He saved himself and sixteen others by putting to sea, but nearly starved Skillings bought a schooner” and went back to Ponape, but the Spanish govern- ment would notallow himto land. Thoy drove him from another small island which he had leased for ten years. After many adventures Skillings went to Srn Krancisco, where he had sent his daughter to be educated, but sho wus dead when he got ther Then he concluded to return to Maine, and was rather astonished to find that he was the owner of a considerable for tuge here. Mr. Skillings proposes to o baclk for his sons, and will have them educated here, R The secretartof beauty lies notin cosmetics, | but is only in pure blood, and a healthy pe formance of the vital functions,to be obtained by using Burdock Blood Bitters, AMUSEMENTS. Béyd’s Opera Hou;e S MONDAY, MAY 19 Beginning, GILBERT & SULLIVAN'S Gondoliers Their Latestand Best Comic Opera. Sparlling Music, Inspiring Dances, Imperial Cast, Five Comediauns, Orchestra of 20, Chorus of 40. 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