Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1890, Page 4

4 { 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, MUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1 THE DAILY E. ROSEWATER, Editor, < JBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERME OF SURSCRIPTION, Dafly and Sunday, O .0 00 BIX months 500 | Three months 5 | Bee One Ye w | Weekly Bee, One Year. 12 OFFI0 1, Tho Bee B On Kouth Ornaha, C Connoll Bloffs, 1 Chicago Of: New York, i Washilngto, CORRESPONDF All communieations rel editorial matter should by Editoriy tient BUSINESS I, s and Al sty | be addressed to The Beo Publishin i, ritts, diocky nnd pos nide payable to the order of the o pany The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee 131 s and Seventeenth Sts WORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btateof Netraska, ! County of Donglas, [ %9 Georee 18, Tzsehuck. soeretary of The Bee Publishing com V. aoes mnly awear that the netunl elreulation of ¥ DALY BER for the w nding Sept 27, 150, was as fol- Tows: Funday. & 23,085 Wednesday, Thursduy. s Friday. Sopt Baturduy, L 20,791 GrEOTGE B! T7801UoK. subscribed n ver. A, D)., 180, otary Public. Averago........ I€EAL | N Btate of Nebraska, ity of Do Gie B, Tzschuk, belnz duly sworn, de- o Wl says b I8 secretary of The Bee Pt Ching U¥ie et averago Auily circulati DALY BEE for the th of Septe . 1890, 18710 coples; for coples: yvember, 1850, mber 5 coples; coples: ‘or February, for March. 1500, 0815 copies! for Mz, 1500, 20,150 1 coples: for Juty, st, 140, UUUTE for April, coples Sworn to hefore me, and subseribed In iy prosence, this 10U any of September, A, D.. 00, NP, L otary Public. ——— Bovcicavrr dead will not soon be forgottens his will is to bo contested. — T national logislature, ns at pres- ent constituted, is at place for poor congressmen, notwithstanding the a tion of Congressman Wiley gress is no place fo i since the anti- tion, but the months trust lnw went into ope is no visible evidenco of its pow It is not too y totry it on the coal trust, which has luid its plans to levy tribute on the people. = gn progresses, the ad- ble nerve of MeKeighan in ranning on a platform of principle, instead of his personal record, is conspicuous. The lutter courso would have left him with- out aleg to stand on, —— Tae clergymen of New York have in- augurated a chureh movement looking toward the purification of Gothamn’s municipal polities. The outbreak is not contagious, howover, as Brooklyn has not reperted o single case of minis terial reformation among the local poli; ticians, I715 boldly charged that six United States senutors and fifteen representa- tives divided one million dollars as the |, result of asilver pool. The amount i slightly inflated, otherwise the div vy is quite true and lifelike. The aver statesman is not boosting prices by leg: lation for his health, AN INCREASE of fifteen per cent in the clearing house business of the country compared with the sime period last year, coupled with an inerease of the rescrves from two to fourtcen million dollars, shows a comfortable condition of busi- ness in the financial marts and signifi- cantly endorses the wisdom of the treas- ury in squelching a speculative panic, UNION PACIFIC officials have organ- fzed a company with twenty millions capital, in Wyoming, for the purpose of operating the coal mines now controlled by the railroad company and absorbing as many other mineral industries in the west as will benefit the company and its officers, The success of the railrond peo- ple in monopolizing the coal mines of Wyoming encouvages an extension of theirmethods to other fields of profit, Meanwhile prices for western coal main- tain an inflexible spinal column, THE republicans of South Carolina have detormined to put a full state ticket in the field, but not a candidate on the ticket will be a republican, At the democratic state convention there was a bitter fight for the nominations, and the candidates of the South lina republicans will be the most promi- nent demoerats who were defeated in convention for nomination. Such a movement would seem to be poor poli- ties from a republican standpoint, but as the new departure is chiefly intended as a wedge tosplit the democracy and force a freo ballot and fair count it may pave the way to future victory, THE congressional investigation of Pension Commissioner Raum ought to suggest to the average mind of those in- terosted that fow, if any, pension lawyers are needed at Washington tolook after the claims of the old soldiors, And yet there are swarms of them at the national eapital growing rich upon the fees paid them by voterans in order that their claims may be advanced on the calendar or rushed through the bureaw, It has been demonstrated time and again that the pension agencles at Washington have no more influence with the pens comuissioner than have the attorneys Nebraska or Illinois, Very many of the seandnlous reports about the pension bureau which are sent out to the newspa- persof the country are directly teaceablo o tho pension agencies at Washington. The new ponsion laws and the new rules 1o govern the action of the applicant for pension favors, which the bureau sent out and which wero published & fow months wgo, uro explicit enough and plain enough to gulde the upplicant or his attorney, and through the Raum investigation it trmnsplros that the same opportunity is #hown evory attorney who has a case in ohar von though promises of ‘“rail rosding " clalms through the bureau are &hwlutlnyly mude, PUSH THE CANVASS. The total vote of Nebraska in 1888 was in round numbers two hundred and two thousand, of which the republican party cast one hundred and and the democratic party eighty thous- and, In 1886 the vote of the state was one hundred and thirty-eight thousand, | the republicans casting within a few votes of seventysix thousand and the democrats fiftyiwo thousand. hus in the ty ears from 1886 to 1888 there was an increase of sixty-four thou- sand in the total vote of the stale, of which the republicans gained in round numbers thirty-two thousand and the democrats twenty-eight thousand, As- suming that during the last two years the inerease in the vote has bheen about equal to that of tho two preceding years, it ghould show a total in November next of two hundred and sixty-six thousand, and if the ratio of incre of the two parties is maintained the republican vote should be about one hundred and thirty-five thousand and the democratic vote one hundred and fifteen thousand. This would give the republicansa plu- rality less by seven thousand than they had two s ago. But 8 was o national election year, and the aggre voto this yoar will not cxceed two Fundred and twenty thousand. The conditions , however, materially changed, The defection to the inde- pendent ticket must bo taken into ue- count, and although wedo not believe that this will prove to be anything near 80 extensive us the leaders of that move ment profess to expect, it is a very im- portant factor in the situation which the republican managers can not afford to ignore. Tt is alsoto bo expected that the prohibition party will secure the votes of some republicans, though doubt- the number willbe small. Then are the dissatisfied and the in- ntrepublicans who will not vote, and the number of such may prove to be considerable unless extraovdinavy effort is made to remove their dissatisfaction e andarouse their interest. Meanwhile the demoeracy appears to be united and harmonious. Thers is no indication of any disaffection or discord in its ranks, and if it is not making its campuign as demonstrative as usual, that fast must notbe regarded a8 denoting alack of zeal or vigilane on the part of the managers At any rate it i not safe to assume that they are neglecting to make the most of overy opportunity which is of- fored them by the excoptional situation in the political experience of this state, While, therefore, the republican out- look is by no means discouraging, the sssity of pushing the canvass with zeal and vigor than have yet nifested is obvious. With only about thirty daysremaining of the cam- s have no time to give to anything but active and carnest work. Aggress political wfare, when the difficulties to he over- come are unusual and serious, and the enemy is well organized and adroit, camnot safely be delayed. Every day that it is delayed mnay bring losses to the party which it will be impossible to recover, 1t is less difficult to hold men to party allegianee than to draw them back to it when once they have strayed aw It is ne wry to say plainly that the republican party of Nebraska this year cannot hope to win unless the canva pushed more vigorously and fa The earnestly than it has been thus exigency ealls for an honest view of the and frank coun and T situntion t deems it its duty to spur campaign managers and candidates on to greator activity, 14 POLITICS. Pennsylvania will this year elect state officers, a legislature and twenty-eight congressmen, and not often in the histor: of that state, remarkable as it has been for spivited and bitter campaigns, has a canvass exhibited these characteristics more strongly than the present one. The salient feature of the campaign is tha revolt of republicans against the can- didate of the party for governor, Mr, Delamater. There is little room for doubt that a mistake was made in select- ing him, and it will not,be suvprising if the penalty is the loss of the governor- ship, atleast, to the republicans, [ nomination was dictated by Senator Quay, a fact in itself sufficient to dvive from hissupport many republicans, but a far more scrious matter is the charge, denied but not refuted, that Delamater purchased hisseatin the state sonate and while in that position was guilty of of- fenses of a most serious charact This charge did not originate with the democrats, but was publicly made im- mediately after the nomination by a republican ex-senator, whose responsibil- ity uch that the Philadelphin Piss s induced by hisstatement to eall upon Delamater to fully meet the charges. This he essayed to do weeks after th had been made, but the effort was far from satisfactory, and since then a number of prominent republicans have declared their intention to vote against Delamater, ,and only a few duys largely-signod address was issued calling upon republicans, for the sake of the integrity and good name of the party, to vote against .Delamater and for the democratic candidate, ex-Governor Pattison. The revolt isevidently sproad- ing, and it will pequireall the political skill and energy of Semator Quay to counteract it, with the chances, asthe situation now appears, decidedly ngainst his being able to do so, While republicans everywhere will regret this condition of affaivs in the Koystono state, which under proper political management ought alw to be safely republican, the party can better aflord to loose the state than to elect a candidate who has so serious a charge as bribery resting against him, made and maintained by republicans, and thus far not refuted by him or by any one in his hehalf, There may be com- paratively littlo importance in the alleged fact that Delamater is the creature of Senator Quay, That sort of charge against politicians is always to be taken with allowance, because those ambitious of political elevation must ordinarily seek the assistanceof men more powerful than themselves, This does not necessarily make a man the oreature of another. But the candidate of a great party for the executive office of a state ought to have a character free eight thousand | from any stain of corruption, and the re publican party can nowhere afford to elect a man who hus not. The defeat of Delamater would not necessarily carry with it the defeat of the entire repub- lican ticket, though the revolt against him in tho party involves this danger. I'he probabiliti re, however, that the democrats will elect only their governor, that the legislature will be republican, and that the delegation in congress will contain no more democrats than at pres- ent. Such an outcome would bring no political disadvantage to the republican party of Penrtylvania, and would bea valuable lesson as to the necessity of nominating for publie office only men of clean and honorable records, THE LARGED IRE LIMITS. M, John T Bell's objections to the proposed extension of the fire limits are noi well founded. He holds that the ordinance, if passed, will result in pre- venting the thoroughfares included in the limits from being improved for years, and that their semi-business character will be effectualiy destroyed. Mr. Bell’s apprehensions are not well grounded. The great deawback to the substantial building up of Omaha her tofore has been the prom cuous erection of frame firctraps, Enterprising property owners in scores of instances have erected solid blocks only to have their mosshack neighbors round them with framo shells, en- dangering the safety of the property, increasing their five insurance promiums and checking the erection of other sub- stantial store buildings The solidity and permanen s of build- ings proclaims the character of the strect. Cheap buildings ave costlyin the end, whereas a substantial brick block will in ten years prove a far more profitable Investment than a framo huild- ing of the same dimensions. The differ- ence in first cost between frame and brick building is so insignificant that it is sur- prising amanof Mr. Bell’s observation and experienco should take up the cudgol for the builders of tinder-hoxes, It is absurd to say that the ercction of frame stores will enhance the busine character of a strect, and that they would be moved aw when develop- ment warranted the erection of better buildings. The cheap Johns and the cent-per-cents arve not build that way. Look at the rooker las, and other le s on Farnaum, Doug- ding business streets. Have the owners shown a disposition to move them away or pull them down? 1f tenants were to suggest the erection of better buildings, it is probable they wouid harvestan advance of rent for their pains. What is true of the down town streets is equally true of the steadily de- veloping business tnroughfarc By keeping out the frame rookeriesat the . these streets will improve and elop with groater rapidity, and pre- sent a solid, progressive appearance which will count in the permanent value of the property. The agitation farming out against public funds for the benefit of tronsurers has produced good results in Colorado. One of the candidates for the ofice of state treasurer responds to the popular demand by publishing a card declaring that if elected *“‘all interest paid by person, corporation or banking associa- tion whatsoever, for the use or deposit of public money, shall immediately be covered by mo into the state treasury for the sole use and benefit of the peo- ple.” This action will doubtless force his competitor to give a like pledge. The feeling in Colorado on this question is 50 great that party ties will not hold the taxpayers, Lt is estimated that the treasurer of the state makes forty thou- sand dollars o year out of the publ funds. To deprive the state of this money is little short of robbery. Yet the law makes no provision against the farming of public funds, and putting the proceeds deep into the pocket of the treasurer. The practice isuniversal in the west, and prompt measures shoud be taken in every state to put an end to aspecies of fortunc-getting at the ex- pense of the publie, E16HT men were killed outright and two others maimed for life in a Balti- more & Ohio railroad wreek near Zanes- ville Sunday morning. The wreek and of life is due directly tothe careloss- s or to the megligence of the tele- aph operator at Bluck Hand. The operator is reported to be a mere boy, and he is charged with receiving im- portant train orders that he says he fo; got to deliver. Inthe event that the re- portof his extreme youth proves to bo true, is the “‘move boy™ or the company which placed him in charge of so re- sponsible a position guilty of the erime of manslaughter? Trainmen on all rail- roads would be justifiable in striking against the employment of incompetent or extremely youthful telegraphers, ocs: pecially when so much reliance is placed upon telegraph orders to move trains as there is nowadays. The Baltimore & Ohio is one of the wealthiest corpora- tions in the country, and itcan well afford to employ relinble men to fill re- sponsible stations, Tur first state republican rally of the campaign in Omaha will be held at the Grand opera house next Friday evening. It is to be hoped that business men and workingmen alike will avail themselves of the opportunity to acquaint them- selves with the issues of the campaign and hear the refutation of the wild as- sertions that have been made from the stump by democratic and alliance can- didates regarding the tariff, national finances and the industrial condition of the countr THERE is no truth whatever in the statement that Hon, John C. Watson has resigned the chairmanship of the repub- lican state central committee, and the report that he has been superseded by United States Marshal Slaughter is the veriest rot. Mr, Slaughter doubtless takes an active interest in the campaign, but he is not likely to make the attempt to usurp the position to which Mr. Watson was elected by the state con- vention, — THE union of the republican party and the farmers’ alliance people for offensive and defensive operations in the Fourth congress district of Indiana is of great concern to the Hon, William S. Holman. The combinatioh threatens todefeat him of re-elaction, "IT1s district is not over- whelmingly demoeratic, and if he is suo- cessful in the presant eace for congress it will not be by a old-time endorsement of the geeat objector, Judge Holman Is serving his thirtvsecond year as an [n- diana congressimay, having entered the house in 1854 and been a fnembor con- i with the exception of ars, and npw another break in his congressional ¢ is imminent. e y of New York Is giving its mombership kindergarten 08 well as primer lossons ns to how to et and to voto under the new ballot re- form law of the state. Voting booths are established about the city and the night schools are conducted upon scien- tific principles, Tt must come hard for the average Tammanyite tobreak away from all the old and dear associations of his time-honored customs of reveating and ballot box stuffing to the new and more approved order of conducting elec- tions, detocracy —_— Tue thorities of Grand Rapids, Mich., ordered the overhead wires from certain leading stroets, and on the re- fusal of the companies to comply, chopped down a few acres of poles. The vigor and energy of the Grand Rapids officials suggests to the council of Omaha an the pole evil effective way of uprooting S¥ A demoerats delude them- selves with the notion that Commis sioner Anderson will peacefully retire from the race. The fact is that the famous parlinmentavian of the county board is actively in the saddle for re- nomination, being convineed that there ts a wild clamor for hi election. CERTAIN politic seekers in the tion who imagine that a nomination is equivalent to an election in Douglas county doomed to disappointment. The votors of the county will insist on being represented by honest, capable and tepufable men in the legislature, 80 Mz, CLi lection of VELAND hasadded to his col- wbhits’ feet and horse shoes, w pair of gloves knitted from dog’s hair during afull moon, No wonder Dave Hill's presidential boom is lying low with 1 Nospecial Session Wanted. St. Louix Glohe-Demoerat, There will beno special session of congross for several good and sufiicient reasons, the principal one of which is that it is both un- ? s podient, g A Terrvible Afictio Binghamton Republican. Mindreader Johnstone is alleged to have suceeeded inreading a Chicago man's mind ar across the ¢ masic hall of that city. If he has to know all all that Chicago is think- eI Bt Slanders Which Hurt, Beatrice Kxpress, Tho injury which. Nebraska has suffered from the wilful misreprosentations by impor- ted prohibition spouters will do more harm than u total failure of erops. And there are citizens of Beatricn who. appland and gloat over the slanders of these paid adventurers. at are they made of ¢ Viewed from Afar, Dnver News. There is very littlo likelihos W dthat the pro- vear, 'T'he issue is tion aud high license, and Nebraska has seen a practical demonstration of the benefit and itage of the high license system. On the other band it has seen m Iowa and to sqme extent in Kansas and South Dakota, the wealkness and inad equacy of prohibition. e One of Mr. Godkins Jokes, New York Post. The way they have carted poor Mr. Cabot Lodge about in Mawe and made him at every meeting “saya few words about his force bill,” reminds us of the story about the Eng- lish showman who exhibited among his prop- erties a brother in apparently the last st: of consumption and wonderfully emaciated and always euded his account of the walady ‘ough for the gentlemen, Bill.” —~— Prohibition Inconsistencies. Chadron Journal. Whenever anybody says that prohibition don’t prahibit in Maine, the national third party organ, the Voice, will pronounce the statement a vile lie, and prove that it 15 a striking and unaniowous success. But now thut Sveaker Reed has been re-elected by double his former majorities, that paper plains 1t by charging that scoves of open sa- loons are running, and that republican sue- cess is accomplished by wholesale violation of the liquor law, and the support of hordes of liquor men. Thero scems to be something lacking somewhero to give these opposing arguments a little consistency. Ord iemocrat. ‘The biggest lie we have seen in many a day is the specialin Tuesday World-Herald from Ord in vegard to Kem's mecting Saturday. The special is a fake from begiuning to end, and is manufactured out of whole cloth, As a matter of fact thore was plenty of standing room to be had in the court room during Kem’s abortive attempt to make a speech, 1t was not the largest crowd everassembled in Valley county. The probi- bition nigger Hector fad a third more listen- s than did Kem) @ind he spoke from the me platform, Johh'P. St. John had a much Itis true the alli ance following ware all here, but throo- fourths of the attendance was made up of women and children,; The slush contained in this “special” is unworthy @ place inany newspaper, and 1f ghe, World-Herald manag: ment desires to maiutain a list in Ord it will refuse spice to every nincompop who plays upon the credulity vt the people. e Clean amdi Successtul, Sicmey Lelegraph. The full ticket igpow in the field. headed by an emingutly self-made man—a la- borer from his youth up. Not a breath of scandal attaches ifself to L. D. Richards His lifo hns been one of struggle and that strugele crowned with success. Tho boy sol- dierat fourteen years of age was simply in- dicative of the man, The courage that en- abled the boy to take up the musket 1 de- fense of the flag and fight the battles of his country is the same that sustained the young mau in the battle of life after arms were laid aside. will him a success in administering the affairs of state. The time has gone by when a failure at one's own business qualifies & man to do busiess for the public. Suceess in privute lifo means success in public. Purity in pri- vato lifo means purity in public. Stand by L. D. Richards, the boy soldier, the ener- getic laborer, the successful business man, if u would have a successful goveruor and & pure administration in Nebraska. orint. for Omaha NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST, Nebraska. A $20,000 school house i in course of erec- tion at Crawford. Frank L, Lemon has disposed of th Creek Oriole to L. S, McCoy. An effort is being made toorganize o daugh- ters of veterans camp at Juniata A large portion of tho burat districtat Arapihoe will be rebuilt before sbow flies. The bite of asnake killed oneof the best horses belonging to J. A. Dunlavy of Hold- roge During a_runaway at ‘Tobias, Mrs. Georgo Kruse was thrown from & buggy and her log broken. A camp of Sons of Veterans has been tom- porarily organized at Cambridge and officers electo A meteor which dropped off bright lights of various colors was seen at Juniata the other night. An irate baker of Neligh vented his rago on a theatrical advance agent by showering him with ancient eggs. Frank McCartney received what are sup- posed to be fatal injuries by falling from a stepladder whilo gathering apples, and rup- turing a blood vessel, [ rothers named Deal wero arrosted the other day near Superior charged with stealing stock and corn. One of the men has confessed the erime and revealed the fact that the brothers had been extensive in their thieving. Theyare all in jail at Mankato, Kan Two sturgeons about six inches lone, are on exhibition at_North Platte, They e ilver caught inthe North Platte river by Wiid Cat Sam, and are the first ever taken from v at that point. Years ago sturgeon vere plentiful in the Platte viver near it \fluence with the Missour Three ton-year-old lads from Beatric Bert Fiske, Itay Arnell and Bert Fulton, concluded (o leave home and _enjoy life the othe v. They carried their school books with them and tramped to Crab Orchard and Filley. At the latter place they were too tired'to preceed and gave up their secret At Arlington, Washington county, lives Miss Mabel Cook, who lacks buta few day of being fourtecn'yoars of age, She measures thivty-four inches in height and weighs thirty-cight pounds. She has no deformity and is in perfect health, The young Jady is as lacze, i ull probability, as she ovor will be. Let us hear no more about Tom Thumb, W. Hale and_wifoof Battle Crook, Nob., celebrated their golden wedding the other duy. They have thirteen children living, all of whom were present at the wedding and re- union. A perfeet shower of gold was heaped upon them-—gold watches, rings, pins, chains, butter ddnsses, cuff-buttons, mon °t e that could be made of gold. The high csteem in which they were held was also gold, pure and un- alloyed. A dome: ic ney near Ansle in the family of J. S, Wi , Custer county, caused A wock after and Atwood the his an hust doy nd to leave home, rture John Cavothers appeared at the home and represented to Mrs Whitney that it would be to her ad- vantige to place the stock on the farm P in their hands to keep for her, their suppose intention being to run_ off the stock. The woman consented, but Whitney's unexpected return puta stop to the proceedings, he got- ting out, warrants for the arrest of the two men. Carothers has been arrested, but Sloan Towa. doctors have decided to scale of prices 2 per cent, s danghiter of James Ferry of Washington is lying at death’s door as the n county result of cating a quantity of bedbug poison. I.N Harris, independent candidate fo the Eighth district, opened his riday ni at Riverton and nan entusidstic welcome, In a runaway accident, caused by the bark- ing of a cur, Conrad Gabricl, aged eighty, an old resident of Muscatine county, wasthrown from his buggy and fatally injured. I"rank Ellgen, the wealthy Osceola county farmer who eloped about. two weeks ago with pretty Mabel Frock, who lived in the neighborhood, is thought to be in Seattle, Wash. Ellgen is worth $50,000 and leaves a wife and three children, For a pure case of youthful depravity fourteen-year-old Minnie Hoffsmith of Clis tonville is probab! ut a parallel yu state, She h ested, charged with arson, robbery, attempted murder, overturn- ing a boe-hive, stealing watermelons and cut- ting up the vines and several other crimes of minor note, rbor commit- Octover 9, and in s Itis com- posed of from sixty to one hundrod men from different, parts of the west—appointed by gov- ernors of states--to consider the qucstion of a deep water harbor on tho gulf coast, and especially at Galveston, Tox., and to in- tevest the central states of the country in a Liarbor and outlet to the seaboard, A most remarkable incident occurred in Albert Duffus® family at Malcolm, which has set the neighbors to pondering and the ph s to studying, says the Brooklyn Chron- 2. Ou Wednesday, the 13th, Dr. Wile was called and soon presented the huw parents with their first born, a small but healthy five-pound girl. All were happy. Saturday, the 20th—threo days later—the doctor was sent for ina hurry. Nothing serious, however. Only another” girl which weighed nine pounds. Al are doing well. One of the most peculiar cases of burglary on record occurred at Eldora the other day. Ed Christy was put in_jail for drunkenness. In the jail was a lot of whisky that had been od by the sheriff and awaited destruction. broke into the cell whero the whi was and took some of the bottles, carrying them to his cell. The sheriff discovered the hed and found the stolen whisky. comes the fumny part. Christy was v arrested on a charge of commit ting burglary in the day time and was bound rin $500° bonds, thus being held for a rime committed in'jail while confined on an- other charge. Christy, in company with an- other prisoner, has since made bis éscape and is still ut largs. The Two Dakqgas, Sioux Falls’ new waterworks are now in opcration, Yankton county’s exbibit at the state fair toolk fivst prize. At the recent school election in Huron the woman suffragists cast 240 of the 4 voles polled A term of the supreme court of North Da- kota will be held at Grand Forks, commenc- ing October 7. The mnew stone Presbyterian Rapid City, costing 35,000, will be dedic: early in Novembe rega, a grocery merchant at Teaa City, who has been in the habit of storing the protits of his business for the list oight years in a nail keg down the e discovered that mice have made a ue: kezand almost wholly s supposed to be nearly $10,000. ff Hoffman of Beadle county, has taken throe boarders to the penitentiury ute Sioux Falls, all having a senten of one ye for burglay, Their names are Charles Mill Johu Kelley and John Moore. The two f 0ld offeuders and have not spent mas out of prison in the last eleven church in led he officers of the state W. C, T. U, for the H ident, Mrs, H. M. sident, Mrs, Emma -t rdecu; correspouding sec . Swift, Yunlkton; recording secre: D. W.' Myers, Vermillion; treas- Mrs. Steor, Poers state organizer, Dr. Nettie Hall of Wessington Springs. Ruilroad graders on the B. & M. cut through @ ledge of car Lead City, They didn’t pay an attention to it, however, not having been ed- ucated as geologists Or mineralogists, and not knowing what it was. Harry Damon of Deadwood came along, saw the ore, tumbled particulur there was 4 good thing iu sight and made a location, 0 the statement made by the press Anuna Shaw is not an ordained min- ister, Miss Shaw says she was ordained in the Methodist Protestant chureh: that sho studiod theology In a class of thirty-two young men in Methodist Episcopal semi- uary, and thongh her standing in examing- tion was as high as any of them she was not orduined by that dencmination becouse sue Was & Womun. As the Northern Pacifice: Grafton the other day little Violet McLeun sat on the track playing. Shewas soated in a low place on the track and the engivoer did not notice her until he was almost on her. While he reversed his engine and put on the air brake the fireman ran out ou the pilot and grasped the little one justas the first truck p ss approached had run over her leg, severing it, but in time to save her life, it is hopod. W. E. Rothermal of New Yorik, ropresen t Ing the American fiber company, with a cap- ital of §15,000,000, {s in Sioux iulli for the purposo of making the preliminary areange- ments for distributing 5,000 bushels of Bel- glan flaxseed. Ho will erect a plant in Sioux | Falls which will employ forty men, who will reduce the flax fiber raised from the Belgian seed. If the fiberis all that s claimed for it in that climate the company will erect ono of the largest tow mills in the United States, employing 2,000 men. - PROHIBITION IN KANSAS, How it Killed Moral, Social and Edu- cational Temperancoe Work, Mr. S. R. Shephord, ex-secretary of state of Kansas and formany years editor of the old Topeka Tribune, sends the following communie 1 tion toTnr Be VENworTH, Kan, Sept. 21.—To the Editorof Tur By Having a hundred or more relatives in Nobraska, quite a number of them have written to me for such factsand conclusions as I might be able and willing to give them concerning prohibition in IKansas, With your permission I will reply through the columns of Tir Ber* Fortwenty years priov to prohibition in Kansas I was an active Good Templar and worker in the temperance cause in Topeka, Valley Falls, and I'roy in this state, When the prohibition craze struck Kansas ten years ago there. were about four hundred lodges und organizations of various kinds in the state devoted to temperance work, In six months they were all dead. Prohibition killed them, Moral, social and educational temperance work was wholly abandoned, and compulsion, litigation, and} general hell- raising inaugurated inits stead. The infa. mous spy, spotterand informer system was adopted, and secret, star-chamber, inquisi- aw and order leagues” hatched con- aged bitter and vindictive prose. cutions, piled costs mountain-high upon the taxpayers, and converted socety into u seeth- ing caldron of warring clements, The golden era of sobricty was just begin - ning todawn in Kansas whenthe pernicious on of prohibition broke out like arag. ing pestilence and s pread over the land de. stroying temperance work and leaving moral desolation inits path. The consumption of liguor has bheen increased rather than dimin ished, and men have been made worse in stead of better. Prohibition has debauched our state, The attempted enforcement has drawn out the worst elements of human char- acter onboth sides. of thoquestion. Men who once had respect for the law have grown to hato and despise it, and their sons are fol lowingin their footSteps. In place of hon- est, old-fashioned saloons we have dreug storcs, joints, club-rooms, and secrothell lioles, where Vicious stuff issold to all who 1t'ity old or young. nee the withering blight of prohibition cast its dark shadow upon Ka and lowa, and converted those states into moral plague spots, the former lost_ 72,000 of its popu- lation and; the ~latter 165,000, while all sur- rounding states have gained frow 200,000 to 600,000 cach. And as many more people would fiea from the church’ ruleand bluc- lawisu of those two states if they could sell out and getaway, or if they did not hope for a chauge inaffairs For one, Tam not a law-worshiper. T never did believe in padlocis virtue, legal righteou ness, sherifl honor, execution honesty, Com- stock purity, or constable temperance,’ 1 do uot believe that state guardianship of men's appetites and morals and tho removal of all temptation from them is conducive to the best resultsin_developing human character. I do not believe iu putting a bib on amanand shutting him upin the nusery with old grannies, church and state, for h wet and dry uurses. 1do notbelicye in tra ing himup to the legislative porch like a morning glory, cultivating no power within bimself to stand alone, and sureto be cut down by the fist chill wind or autumn frost, nptation is as nec building up of character growth of astrong, healthy body. Without temptation it is impossible to develop a vigor- ous manhood, capable of resisting evil as the sturdy oak withstauds the fury of storm and tempest. Without temptation man would b o frail hot-house exotic, a thing of jell. out bone, sinew, musele, or vertel moment temptation is removed, m generation begins, Frce moral ageney s sential to manhood. No good can possibly come from the destruction of human libert ‘Po sum up the case, prohibition is on name for puritanic hydrophobia, ) ple itis false, irrational and unjust; spivitit is aggressive, ferocious und vindic- 1t the assassin of liberty, the for of free moral agency, and the desitoyor of temperance. It is social plague, moral pestilence, political contagion, commercial famine, and fivancial rumn, It is degrad- ing, enslaving, and demoralizing to a free and intelligent people. It bogets disrespoct for all law; it offers a premium upon vice and crime, and turns men into sneaks, spies, spot- ters and perjurers. Its enactment and at. tempted enforcement in the states of Kunsas aud Towa have been an infamous outrage ||[)un the natural and civil rights of the peo- ple opposed to it. It is the progenitor of dis- cord, hatred and bitterness, the instigator of contention, enmity and raucor, and the prop- agator of strife, dissensions aud violence, h 154 base conspivacy of raving cranks, froth- ing fanatics, gibbering lunatics, frenzied bigots, designing knaves, rotton demagoguos, and unprincipled politicians who would apply the torch of conflugration to the glorious temi- ple of liberty bequeathed us by our fathers, and dance in fiendish revelry around the smoking ruin, S. R. Sugpaerp, —_———— DICTATOR BURROWS RUBUKED. a factor inthe exercise is the avy Caustic Review of His Course by the Nebraska State Laborer, Too late for comment in ourlast issue came the news of the nomination by the congres- sional committee of Hon, Allan Root of Doug- las county for member of congress from tho st d) The vacaney on the ticket in the st district was as unfortonate as it was unnecessary. The course of the man who caused it is beneath contenipt. We wisn it was also beneath criticisim. Any delay in an- nouncing his decision as 10 accepting the nomination was unnccessary and without excuse, The delay has had the effect of de- liberate trenchery, has played right into th hands of Mr. Counell, and has worked irre parable harm to the people’s cause in the First distr Farmers Allian, ‘This editorial evokes the following rebulke from the Nebruska State Laborer, oftfcial organ of the Central Trades Union Theabove frow the lust issue of the Farm- ors Alliance, is a very signiticant article, as tes tho future policy of the s to, the sole leadership of the nd who has also undertaken to ab- trol the independent movement, by dicteting its nominations and crushing all opposition o his dictatorship by killing ofr cach and every min who stands ‘in the way of rished ambition of Mr. Burro k upon Mr. V; Wyck, is wholly uncallea for and find an explination in the evident intention of Mr. Burrows to destroy the iufluence of the man who has done more to call intg istenco this independent movem, balf dozen men in the state, in ondor that he (Burrows ) may build himsel'fup on the vuins of the most sincere and infiuential man i the alliance movement. With Van Wyek dis graced and driven from the ovder, Burtows' | claim us the ubsolute dictator of the allianee would be unquestioned, as it is well known that he dictated Powers’ nomination, pro vented Coleman from being named us Houton- | solutely ce ant governor, and succecded in controliing to | Buys and thites a large oxtent tho action of the indepondent | comn Al paper: roceives and executes nvention, Va k was dedealod for the | Trusis; mets as transfor agent and trustoe of nomination for g 3 aching pol- | itics 50 sev denounced” by the alliance in the other purt When Raby wan sick, wa gave lor Castorla, When sho was & Child, she eried for Castoria, When she beeatne Miss, she clung to Castoria, Whien she hiad Childron, she gave thea Castorla, | with the Butler C | Tue more, tioned it. 1 am studying a new systom of iu. proved memof told me ‘today that T dian't know enoy 0 in wh want of tact! x i than auy | Se— - [ Patd in Capteal alllance at the timo that McKeighan was nominated, and it was a very instructive spec. taclo to see Dave Butler, Chamborlain, Hall 3 Burrows and overy politicaster in th vention working to defeat Van Wyc nominate Powers. The labor men “wanted Van Wyck, os he had saved tho eight hour bill from an fgnominous defeat, and they also favored Coloman, but Burrows® ro- fusil to explain Coleman's alleged conneetion bory charge defeated him and again Burrow Fumphed, “Asfo Vin Wydl's refusal to accept the sop thrown to him in the congressional nomination, he has simply *reiterated his determination pressed by him before the nomination was tendered not toaccopt the same. Burrows belioves that ho has by his assault on Butlor got him out of his ‘way, and he has now ] turned his attention to General Van Wy ok, whom he s determined shall share 1 the samo fate. Burrows may succed in A reading Van Wyek out of the independent movement, but ‘when ho has accomplishod this therewon't be enough left to make a « porals” guard, This chargo of treachory pr- erred by Burrows comes with bad grace from a man who deliberately eut Van Wyck's throat in the convention and hautily refuscl to do Mr, Coleman justice by makitig the ex planation to the convention exorerating hin (Coleman) from any comnocticn with tho Butler bribery charge, which Burrows aftor. ward made to Coleman in private when tho demand was mado forit by Coleman-no ho waited until Coleman was defoated for nom- ination for licutenant governor, and a candi- date nominated whom Bu could use. pbizabeive’~akiad iy A NEBRASKA BIRD. W Story of the Man Who Broke Jail at Jackson, Neb, Cimeaao, Sept. 20.—~[Spocial Te Br James Johnson was osted last night as a fugitive from justice, he having brokoe jail at Jackson, Neb,, two weeks ago, A few days ago Burt MeClenick,alias MeCoy, wasarrested on the chargoof having passcd a forged or fictitious check last January, After his arvest it was learned that he was wanted for jail bresking at Jackson, Neb, along with Johnson and itwas presumed that he knew where the latter was. It was learned thatan actress named Annie MeMillan, 1i ingat 182 South Clark strcet, was to hay eloped with McClenick the day he was ar. rested. After much persuasion she toll where Jolnson was and ho was easily appro: hended. Johnson w at Jackson with M ogram to s in Jail for assanlt and robbery Neb. “He was there put in a coll kand held for forgery, Joha son is an ingenious fellow and he a key out of a picco of broomlandle wil # released himself, McClenick and — an- 7 other man named ' Frank Weir, Nothing is known of the whereabou Johnson is locked up aw of the latter ng requisitio papers from Nebraska. Should tho sher also have papers for McClenick ho will also have to be released s the grand jury has alveady indictud him there. Johnson tells o weind story of his tour from Nebraska to Chiciz, He traveled by foot and mostly at night. 1o was pursied most of tho time and wi watched s0 closcly that the only way i could cross tho Mississippi river was by swinming, ol T GuyotScores Boulange Paus, Sept. pecial Cablegmm to Tur Ber)—M. Guyot, minister of publ worls, ina speech at the opening of the noew bridge over the Seine at Hoporine expressed regrot standing the recent Boulangist revelations, there still existed in Frace persons wio were ready to support a flug other than that of the repub) Hearing some murmurs of disapproval in the crowd, M. Gnyot addoed “accomplices of the aspirant to the throne of r have no business here. Tho besy course his duper can take is to allow thon selves to be buried in oblivion.” When the ceremony was ove d Guyot was about to depart a Boulangist rushed toward the min isterusing insulting words and threatening to strike him. The man was promptly rested, Conflans Sainto that notwith st 4 More Prosecutions Tt Dunrry, Sept. 20.—[Special Cablegram to Tk Bre.)—It is likely that the last has not been heard of the collision between the police and the people in front of the court house at Tipperary last Thursday. 1t is roported this reatened. morming that the govrnmeut intends to prosecute many of the persons who were present in _ the crowd for inciting a viot. Mr. Harrison, a membor of parliament for the middle perary who re division of Tip- ved a severe blow over tho ead “from a policemun’s club, i mentioned as among those likely to be prosecuted. Colonel Cadell, the presiding magistrate at the Tipperary hearing asserts that John Morley appeaied to him to exelude the crowd from the court house. g2l An Interview with Crispi. Pans, Sept. 29.—[Special Cablegram to T Ber]—The Figaro publishes an interview with Signor Crispi, the Italian prime minis. ter, in which he denounces the attitude of France toward Italy and instances the annex- ation of Tunis fu spite of her promise to tho contrary, as a breach of good faith on the part of France. This action, ho declared, was o stabat the heart of Italy. He defended the alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy, negotiations for the rencwal of which, b said, are still pending. here is no danger of warunless it is sought by France. He de- plored the continued incr of their arma- ments by the nations of Europe and believed that this course would end in ruining Buropo . to the advantage of America, i Sullivan Will Not New ight Slayin. Yorx, Sept. 20.—|Special Telegram ' Richard K. Fox's ofter to against Frank P, 00, providing the big fellow Billy Madd, : Brk back John T.. Sullivan Slavin for & would cousent to have the train hiwm, is being discussed exten sporting circles. Sullivan himself, after read- ing the Fox intorview, laughed immoderatcly and scemed to look upon the matter as o joke, Hesaid Fox’s sole object was to try to find o man who could whip him (Sullivan). Joln declared he was out of pugllism forever, The Death 1y cord, . Atrcusox, Kon., Sept. 20.—[Special to Tig cr,]—Dr. . G. Nichols, o prominent phy ian of this place, died ' Rauiall, Jowol county, yesterday mmorning of hoart diseas ——‘* He was thirty-iive years old, rs Banqueted. Special Cablegram to Naval Officers’ club at night to the officers tates steamer Balti- Benrrs, Sept. 2 Ber.| The T Parson Bufl—Remember, ¢ an account of ali your ac- ds whon you goto the othie Fastboy—~I'm wld you m Yankee Blad you must g ions and de world, Jimm 1 guess DIl drop it now. - Bramford Life: Mr. A fellow gh to Whata Chappy t ramed Miss Edg rly OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Subsoribed and A in Capit ells stocks and bonds; ne; 50,000 350,000 uaranteed Capltal rporations, takes cha Leets taxoes, of property, co Omaha Lcmn&?"l‘rustCo SAVINGS BANK., S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts, Bubaoeined and Ounrantosd Gaplia. . 1o | Liabllity of Stockholders 5 Per Cont Interest 200,00 1 on Deposits. FRANK 3. LANC sl OMcors: A U, Wyman, prosident. J. J, Bre vice-president, W, T, Wyman, treasurer Dirvctors:~A. U, Wyuauw, J. t Brow y U Barion, B W L. Kimball, Goorge B, Lake. Millard, Nush,