Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 6, 1890, Page 4

- S THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1800. —————————————————————————————— et ————————————— ———————————————————————————————————————————— It fssaid to be the ecighth husband for the HOIST BY THEIR OWN PETARD. #rom the begitning of the Nebraska prohibition campaign upto the present day the mercenary crusaders agninstthe material growth and prosperity of this state have been fabricating falschoods to impose upon the credulous, the wenk- minded and the emotionally religious. At the outset the pair of reverend THE DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Editr. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally and Sunday, One Year 1 mon s . . hroo months 0L Bunday Beo, One Year Woekly Hoc, One Y ear. okp pharisees who conduct the New York ;’1’;"'1"‘?;,1"" - Corner N apd #th Streeta Voice, which will clean up more than “ouncil Bluff Ifll(‘o.:nrl Btrect. i 7 Chamber of Commerce, ma 13,14 and 15, Tribune Bullding 13 Fourt t L CORRESPONT 2 i All communications relating to news an {torind matter should be addressed to the itorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business lotters and romittances should be ndd ressed to The Beo Publishing Cotupiny, Omibia. Urafis checks and postofice orders o bo mado ble to the order of the som mpany, Proprietors, and Seventeenth Sts twenty thousand dollars out of the pro- hibition raid in Nebraska, organized a bureau of forgery for the purpose of slandering and libeling the Nebraska press that was not committed outright to the support of the prohibitory amend- ment, Farly last spring a decoy letter signed by Charles Turner, advertising agent, was mailed to each paper in Ne- braska mnot committed for prohibition. withan inquiry as to the price the re ts. | spective papers would charge for pub- OF CIRCULATION [ lishing matter relating to the liquor foof Nebagkt, L gy trafic and the('"m'tfll u: prohibition in ol A the states where it is in force. Oeorge B, Taschack, seoretary of The Ree | Coming from an sdvertlsing agency, Publishing companv, does salemaly swear Toat the netual oiroulation of Tue DAILYBEE | S0 i <o vagarded as logitimate ority of publishers, who quoted for the week ending Oct. 4, 1500, was as fol- rusuul rates and discounts, These lettors, garbled, falsified and forged in many instances, were published with nd flourish of trumpets by the Voice, coupled with the bare- ion that every editor who responded had offered to accept a bribe from the whisky trust for publishing a Chicago Offic ow Y o1k, ‘ashinglon uy Fridnv. Oct Baturday, Oct. 4. venal faced asse Average O N VAT £xorn o before me and subscribed In presonce tnis dtnday of Octoher. A, D.. 180, N. P, FE1i, Notary Publio. raskn, i lot of whisky lies ahout the effect of pro- i Lhlny hibi hen in fact the sample adver- Taschuk, being duly sworn, de- | hibition, when in fact the sample a nys that bo 18 sceretary of The Bee | tiging matter mailed with each pro- verage Aully ¢ DAl forthe | posul had been made up by the bu- month stember, 1840, 18 for | oy sgatv a s Btails i tor November. ths, | reau of forgery and lettor steal ember, 1930, ing, operating under the direction o e A BiatYs | of the Voice. This audacious and Tor April, 180, 2,56 for May, 130,018 | high-handed picce of rery was fol- coples: for Ju , 20,401 coplesi for July, 1800, 20,062 coples; for August, 180, coples | lowed up by another forge Letter Grondr B T780H1U0K vere mailed fr alia over 5 Bworn to befors me. and. subscribed in my | Wore malled from Omaha over the this 10th aay of sent A.D.. | forged signature of the late Thomas NP, , secretavy of the Business Men's tion, directed to Cyrus Turner, secretary of the whisky trust at Louis- ville, with pretended inquiries about campuign funds, What the object of this forgery was can readily be surmised. Mr. Moffat's death alone saved the forger, railvond company which knows itsown | who had rented a postoffice box in ratos for twenty-four hours. Omaha, from heing trapped by postal - ~ detectives and sent up. Tie American hog continues rooting | And now the New York Voie: has sig ftsway into public favor in France and | nalized itscffort to carry Nebraska for Germany, regardless of restrictive laws. | prohibition with another expose that is ————— destined to recoil upon the heads of the rogues who have worked up its disvepu- table schemes, About th lettor was W Notary Publie. i it Tie chilling reception giventhe dem- ocratic big guns in Lincoln is a foretaste of the November blizard, assoch ALL accounts agree that it Is a wise THE amount of Chieago in money invested by lubricating the wheels of the world's fair in congress has proved & mine of wealth weeks ago the following ceived: NEW YORK STATE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION, | Orvick or A. Lucivs Robaay, Secretary, - . ALBANY, Sept. 10, 1 ASSURANCES from come sources that MeKeighan is friondly “a drawing card.” No doubt ofit. Thero are sev- ey Bea Aty B oral peovle in Webstor county possessing: [ en #nd Bankes' assoctation. —Dear ALl by POSSESSING | Ay o meeting of our executive com- evidence of his taking ways. witteo last might, I was instructed to write you in reference to a subject of mutual interest. You are not perhaps of Sioux City petitioned for open saloons | aware that the last legislature of this state shows that the corn palace town hasac- | has voted fora special election, to be held quired a large contempt for prohibition | nextspring on the question of prohibition. with its areay of joints and bootleggers, | We have no fear but thate we shatl be able to defeat the fan: though it will involve some expense. It is important to us, however, that you shall defeat prohibition in Nebraska, and that will help us not a little, THE fact that two hundred merchants THE jackass battery deserves encour- agement. T.ike the mounted battery which the army experimented with in The committee discussed the matter last the mountains years ago, the gunners [ nightand concluded that if a few thousand ave In greater danger of destruction than | dollars—say £5,000—would turn the scales in R anan Nebraska against probibition, we could not expend thatsum to better advantage than by seuding it to Nebraska, We must be satis- fied, though, of two things before sending a dollar: First, that there is agood chance of defeating prohibition ; and, second, that the money willbe put to ood use. We don't want it blown in for public discussion, or for subsidizing newspapers, All the money we contributed heretofore from New York (in Penusylvania and Rhode Island) was sent through the National Protective association, Louisville, Ky., but wo have notso much THE estimated population of Wyom- tng suffers a severe shrinkage inthe census. It was generally believed that the oil and iron and coal territory would crowd one hundred thousand. The offi- cial count shows a seant sixty thousand people. THE failure of congress to enact alaw protecting the stars and stripes from the debasement of advertising schemes, leaves it still free to wave over the po- litical orator whenever and wherever he soreeches o scroed in behalf of country, homo and the candidates of his party for offices of honor, trust and emolu- ment. Congross was considerato to polities and political orator confidence iu them as we did have (we don't say o word agaiust them morally, only we haven't as much confidence in their tactics). Would be glad to hear from you in this matter. Our own opinion is that the best ght sort of men. What we want to know is what $4,000 or $5,000 will do for you in the campaign. Re- spectfully, A. Luas Robyax, Secretary, P. 8. Our state convention meets here next Monday. Would be glad tohear from you by that time. A L.R This letter is a base forgery, evi- denfly gotten up under the auspicesof the Voice, which now prints the re- sponses with glaring headlines that are entirely at variance with the contents of the letters. But the Voice very pru dently omits publication of the forged decoy letter which no honorable gentle- man, least of all a preacher of the gos- pel, would want to father, The great exposure which Tue self-chosen custodian of South Omaha sentiment recently declare *“Wo want to be let alone. We repu- diated annexation and can take care of ourselves.” From the manner in which taxes are piling up in the packing suburb, while economy is enforced at the spigot, it looks as though the town is ready for the appolntment of a guar- dian, Ttis the jobbers who want to be ““let alone” to riot on the substance of the people and imperil the business and industrial interests of the town, —_— has been TiE announcement that thirty-two | launched with such a hurrah amounts to young and protty women, converts to | just this: Mr. Roggen, in a brief and Mormonism, have arrived in Now York, will throw a shade of sorrow over the saints of Utah, Such interesting con- courteous letter, informed Mr. Rodman that his letter had been handed over to Dr. George L. Miller, member signments were heretofore received in | of the finunce committee of the open arms by the venerable shepherds | Business Men's and Bankers’ a8~ of Mormon flocks, But President | gociation. Dr. Miller thercupon Woodraft’s announcement that polyg- amyis a lost art,a susponded creed, robs of the apostles of any excuse to vo- coive and care for this bevy of Brigham- fte buds. Times avesadly out of whack in the lkingdom of the Lafter Day Saints, lifo is robbed of its joys and the aged voterans deprived of youth's earesses, —_— “The opposition of other labor organiza- tlons to the Knights of Labor in New York will hasten the dissolution of that once mighty union of workingmen. The condition of the orderin the Empire acknowledged receipt of the letter inthe absence of Hon, William A. Paxton, chairman of the finance committee. This letter contains in substance the follow- ing statements: That the active organi- zation of the business men's association consists of leading Omaha merchants; that the association has from the begin- ning of the campaign been in financial distress and that nine dollars in every ten that has been expended up to this date in the campaign was contributed by Omaha merchants; that with these meuns the association is doing the best stato is a veflex of its condition olse- [it can, and that the only assist- where. Disintegration set in the |ance from abroad has been a moment politicians were admitted toits |lot of postpaid campaign litera- ranks. Thousandsof political tricksters, | ture. Dr. Miller stated furthermore whose friendship for labor was measurod by the votes in sight, were permitted to dictate its plans and policies, and sacri- fice its well-being for their personal advancement. Whether the order will survive mismanagement and dictatorial recklossness remains to be seen. It is passing through the fires, and may emerge free from the political barnacles and wrockers. Inany event the cause of organized labor will be benefitted. Other and broader orgavizations are already rising from the ruins, strength- ened by the experience of the Knights, and managed by men who will not attompt to rule the world. Such a result will bring about a close ulllance among all labor organizations and harmonize the radical difference now existing between kindred orders. that the association is non-political, ro- publicans and democrats ulike hoing on- gnged in its work. In response 1o o second forged letter from Albany De. Mitler adds that the whisky trust has not contributed s dollar and its officers had turned a cold shoulder to Nebraska and that the only aid promised by local brewers has beon conditional upon the distillers matching their subseription, This correspondence nails the prohi- hition papers and agitators as infamous liars and unprincipled slanderers, They have charged everywhere and every day that the Bankers’ and Business Men’s as- sociation was organized by boodlers to handle and distribute the boodle paid in by the whisky trust. They havecharged that the campaign fund of this associa- tion was all whisky money, andthat its T ——— s organizers and workers were pald by the rum powor, They have charged that hundredsof thousands of dollars had been sentio Nebraska by foreign distillers and brewers to buy up the press, the po- litical leaders of hoth parties and to corruptly inflienco the election by wholesale bribery. They have repeated upon every stump, in churches and in school houses that THe BEE had been bought upby the whisky trust and that Rosewater had received fifty thousand dollars of whisky boodle for hisper- sonal services. The great exposure of the Voice gives the lio to all these de- famatory asse rtions. It also flatly contra=- dicts the mulicious fabrications of editorial blackmailers like the Lincoln Call, who having failed to secure subsi- dies from the business men's association have hounded and traduced its man- agers, —_— THE NEXT HOUSE Four weeks hence the country will know what the political complexion of the house of representatives of the Fif- ty-second congress will be, In the mean- time a great deal of vigorous polit- ical work is to be done in the three hundred and twenté odd congress dis- trictsin which clections are to be held. What is the prospect? When the Fifty-first congress con- vened the republicans had a working majority in the house of seven, which was inerensed by the unseating of dem- ocrats and the seaving of republicans to twenty-three, The eight democrats who were unseated being from districts in the southern states, itis not improb- able thata majority of those districts will return democrats to the next con- gress, andit issafe to predict the elec- tion of at least four democrats from these southern districts, The delegation from Ohio in the present house consists of xteen republicans and five democrats, but by the gerrymander in that state the democrats expect to reverse this, making the delegation from Ohi in the Fifty-second congress sixteen democratsand five republicans, It is not likely they will be able to quite ac- complish this, but a republican loss of six oreight representatives in that state may bo regarded as certain. The re publicans will guin two from the new states of Idaho and Wyoming, 1If the republicans 1ose no move than votes in-Ohio, and it is not probable that they will, and are able to hold four of the southern districts gained by unseating democrats, at the same time suffering 10 Losses elsewhere not offset by their majority in the next house will be four, Theobvious danger to republican supremacy in the next house of repre- sentatives is in Ohio and the southern districts in which contests were decided against the democrats, and doubtle the republican congressional committee will give its most careful attention to these danger scctions. But in any event, the promised margin is so small s not to encourage the most sanguine faith in the republicans retaining con- trol of the house, although the chances ave infavor of their doing so. If the re- publicans should fail to securea worl ing majority inthe next house, it is by no means certain that the democrats would control, since there will be a con- siderable number of alliance men elected from the south who may hold the bal- ance of power and dictute the organiza- tion of the house as well as exert a com- manding influence upon legislation. So far us preparation for campaign work is concerned, the republican con- gressional committee is reported to bein much better shape than the democratic, Tt was stated a week ago that up to that time the democratic committee had re- ceived only ten thousand dollarvs for its campaign fund, and that came from a single individual. The prospect of ob- taining subscriptions was then re- garded as decidedly gloomy, but it is posible tho sit- uation has improved somewhat since. On the other hand, the republican com- mitteo is represented to he well pro- vided with the sinews of war and to be actively at work. The situationat pres- ent isin favor of the republicans in the congressional fight, but there is neces- sity for hard and steady work. gains, FARMING PUBLIC FUNDS. The board of ¢ ommissioners of Hall county invites the co-operation of like bodies throughout the state inan effort to radically reform the laws governing the handling of public funds, In o petition prepured for presentation to the next legislature the board points out the defects of the lawand urges such changes as will author “public depositories™ and secure for the taxpayers the profits derived therefrom. The movement is timely and beneficial, and deserves the active support of all classes in the stato. The wmount of money Lost to the tax- payers under the present system of farm- ing public funds is enormous. In Colo- rado the profitsof the state treasurer ave ostimated at from forty to sixty thousand dollarsa year. The revenues of Nebraska ore greater, if any- thing, than those of Colc o and the opportunities for profitably farming the public funds are equally inviting. The Omaha treasurershipis fully asvich in perquisites, while the Douglas county office will yield hall as much. These three offices will net In the aggregute one hundred thousand a year, every penny of which goes into the pockets of the incumbents, Other counties and cities yield thelr treasurers a revenuo in proportionto themoney handled. It isim- possible tolearn the exact profits of the business, but it is safe to assert that the total will not falt short of a quarter of a million dollars a year in the state. This vast sum represents tho annual 10ss to the taxpuyers under the present law. No valid reason can be advanced for the continuance of a system which robs the many for the benefit of a fow. Nebraska has reached a point in its caveer demanding greater economy in its financial affuirs and the husbanding of every resource calculated to lighten the burdens of the people. Every branch of government will bear pruning, and the first to receive the attention of the logislature should be the farming of public funds for the benefitof treasurers. This question i3 one of the prominent issucs of the campaign in several west- ern states. Both parties in Wisconsin declared ngainst allowing treasurers to pocket the interest on public funds, and one of the candidates for state treasurer of Colorado gnticipated popular fecling by publicly announcing that all profits derived fronfldte funds will be covered into the tronflury for the benefitof the people. 1llifjois has sdopted a system of public devositories, and like powe have been granted to the counties and municipalities of the state, Similar laws are in vogue in Missouri and all cases have proven beneficial to the tax- payers. The time is peculiarly appropriate to bring about this desirable reform in Nebraska. Tet the taxpayers ofevery legislative district demand pledges from candidates that they will work and vote for a revision of the revenue laws to the end that public funds, both state, county and city, shall be invested forthe benefit of the public. The remedy rests with the people. If they fail to excreiso it by electing reputable men to the legislature they deserve o be plucked by the treas- urers. —_— A SUCCESSFUL ADMINISTRATION. “The administration of the postal sery- ice under Postmasgter General Wana- maker has been marked by reforms and improvements which have greatly in- crensed its efficiency and usefulness. me of the good resultsof the applica- | business principles to s ure set forth by the Wash- ington correspondent of the New York Tribune, and the review of what has been done shows an enormous amont of work accomplished. There s no department of the government which involves greater labor in keeping its machinery in mo- tion, or demands closer and more care- ful attention, and it ought to become the rule of the future to place a practical man at the head of the postoffice depart- ment, Perhaps the greatest improvement has been made in the railway mail se vice, to which the postmaster general has givena large sharve of his personal attention, and a characteristically 1lib- eral policy has marked his action with regard to it. Quick establishment of service invarinbly followed upon the heels of the track buildersalong the lineof new railroads, Wherever the facilities were insufficient for the quirements of prompt and eflicient se vice they were provided, and additional facilities found to be necessary were sup- plied. An iden of the growth of the railway mail service may be formed from the statement that since the beginning of this administra- tion the service has been iucrcased by overtwenty-fiva thousand miles. This means that, while the east me in for its share of additional tacilities, the wost promptly secured postal facilitie with the growth of population and rail- roads. As one important result of tho reforms introduced in this service, the two great entiy ports of the country, New York and San Francisco, have been brought nearer together by an entire day, and the pestofiice officials say that similar important gains will shortly bo made betweemother points, notably be- tween New York and New Orleans, Of course the commercial interests of all the intermediste country are benefitted by these improvomonts. Meantime there has been a large in- crease of the free dplivery systom, its e x- tension taking in fifty-three cities. Inci- dental to the establishment of th offices eight hundred new letter car have beet appointed and a large addi- tion made to the property of the depart- ment in the facilities required. This system isto be further extended under the bill passed by congress providing for its establishment in towns having a population of five thousand or returning postal revenue to the amount of five thousand dollars annually, a measure largely due to the recommendations of Postmaster General Wunamaker, who belioves that free delivery can not only be made inexpensive, but may be ulti- mately cheapened tosuch an extent as to bring within its compass the most in- significant places. He believes that everywhere in the country people can be found to do the work, and he expects to see the day when there will not bo a postofice in~ the country where a letter properly addressed will need to wait for transmission to its destination longer than it takes to pluce it in the hands of a messenge! Inother branches of the postal ser reforms have heen instituted that have facilitated work and increased efficiency, and on the whole, although the post} master general is still finding oppor- tunities for further improvements, it may fairly bo claimed for the postal service that it is in better condition now than ever before and is giving greater satisfaction to the publie, OPPOSITION to the renomination of Commissioner Anderson is dying out in the democratic ranks. A few petty up- starts imagined they could frighten him out of the race, but Lycardo Michael Aunderson is not built thatway. His record as an officlal isone of the lofty monuments of democratic management of county uffairs. As the watchdog of the treasury lg qhumbled Mike Roche, and his masterly inactivity in forcing Recorder Megeath to account for fees is o matter of recksl notoricty. Indeed, his official record is dotted with brilliant strokes of policy. From the Paully vault job to the county hospital, capped with his marvelous decisions as chair- man of the bowd, furnish a striking ex- ample of lofty purpose in common aflairs. The democracy usi thout Anderson would be as shallow A& tho play of “Hamlet” without the melancholy Dane. Heisthe corner-stono offthb purty. By all means give us Andersbn, unanimously if possi- ble. The counH' Lungers for a whack at him, 5 THE day and date of the democratic county convention {s fixed. So is the slate, with its vast and varied array of political and montal nobodies, State Traducers. Wayne Herald Between the home howlers who have dono everything possible to make the world be- lieve Nobraska fs ruiued finaucially, and the imported prohibition speakers who proclaim itto be a den of iniquity, the average citizen as apt to thinkit is agood state to keep out of. - An Alliterative Allusion. Chicago Tribne, Pallock, Plumb and Pettigrew, though painfully perceiving the peculiar prominence of their position, persisted in opposing the plan of proligous protection as pernicious pudlic policy, profitiess, pestiferous, pre- posterous, paralyzing the purchasing power of the populace, placingin peril the pursuit of popular professions, and palpably pro- ductive of plutocratic pretexts for putting the people ina pickle, Possibly they pre- ferred parading as pessimists, vt ket Prohibs Take a Bender. Phitadelphia Recont, it might be invidious to remark that the prohibitionists have nominated Mr. Bender for the logisliture, Seciiiseein FACTS AND FIGURES. The number of saloons in Nobraska in 1830 ‘wias over seven hundred, and of that number Omaha, with a population of 8,645 had 180 “Totaliznerease in the state in ten years, 1,500. Under the Slocumb law of Nebraska any town or county can vote absolute prohibition as provided by the local option clause. In 183 Nebraska had one saloon for every 125 voters, or one to about seven hundred and fifty of the population. In 1SH we have one saloon to every 262 voters, which is equal to about one for every 1,570 of the population. Within the past year therowas an actual decreaseof licensed liquor dealers in Omaha from 217 to M8, or thirty-nino less thau the preceding year, The revenue derived from lhiquor dealers under the high license system for the y 1880 was $700,518, Of this amount 3¢ was collected in various towns and cities as occupation tax, and $18,6i0 was collected by warious counties for saloons located outside of incoporated towns Seventy-eight towns in Nebraska have pro- hibition under the local obtion provision of ourhighlicense law. In these local com- mun s public sentiment is adverse to the saloons and prohibition is therefore absolute. The local option feature of the Slocumblaw is contained in section 25, the sulient part of which read “The corporate authorities of all cities and villages shall have powerto licence, regulite and prohibit the selling or giving away of any intoxicating, malt, spirituous aud vinous Liquors, withio the limits of such city or “vil- lage. This section also fixes the amount of the license fee, which notbe less than £500 in villages and cities having less than 10,000 inhabitants nor less than §1,000 in cities having a population of more than 10,000, Nebraska has Loss than 850 licensed liquor deae Michigan had constitutional and prohibition from 1855 to , when it was re. pealed. At that time there wore ,500 saloons inthe state, and under license regulation the number in 188 had been reduced 1o 4,373, Three years ago Michigan voted again on a constitutional prohibitory amendment as against high license. Prohibition was knocked out. The districtand county court Nebraska show fifteen cases keepers and their bondsnien logal x atutory dockets in against saloon- for violation of ilations which hold forth redress to injured parents of minors and wivesof drunk- ards, Without the powerful restraining - fluence of the saloonkeepers' bouds there would be hundreds of infractions of the law and no possibility of redress. T NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska. l'lrhe Risiug City Independent is ten years old. The Masons of Geneva will dedicate their new hall Wednesday. age county's flax crop wilt average about nine bushels to the acre. The addition to the B. & M. roundhouse at ‘Wymore is nearly completed. A stock company to_build a cheese factory has been orgauized at I2ushville, A dog fell into a 150-foot well at Gordon theother day, and w taken out uninjured. The republicans of the Twenty-second representative district have nominated J. D. Brewer for the legislature, George Martin, a farmer near Gresham, fell in frontof the knifeof a corn harvester and had his leg cutin afrightful manner. John Pierce of Phelps county has been nominated for the state senate by thesrepub- licans of the Twenty-eightn district, mes M. Cruckshank and Charles Feich- tinger have been nominated for the legisia- :pm by the Dodge county allisnce conven- ion, Bud Eleshire has been acquitted of burglar- izing the store of Hosford & Gagnoui at Rulo. It tookc the jury half a day toarrive at the verdict. Two valuable stallions, a pair of mules and three farm hol were eremated in a barn belonging to William Willis, near Gresham. The loss amounts to §2,500. The two-year-old son of J. B, Will of Curtis fell out of the rear of a wagon the other day and broke two ribs, the ragged ends of the bones penetreting the little one's lungs, David Huntington, ninety-five years old and a resident of Nemeha county for nine- teen years, died at his home near Nemcha City last week, He was a peusioncr of the war of 1812, While the family of John Colglazier, living near Verdon, was away from lome, except- ing the hived girl, a tramp entered the house and displaying a revolver commanded her to stand perfectly still while he went through the house. The frightened girl obeved. After oing the rounds the tramp proceeded to rost himself in the rocking chair and comment on the result of his search to the girl, whom he still_kept stading. He remarked that he gi_‘l,:";l et as good ahaul as he expected, only Lee Leake, the fifteon-year-old son of Goorge B, Leake, living on Spring creek, five miles southwest of Talmage, was accident- ally shotin the head bya younger brother, who was playing with a revolver. The bal penetrated the scalp just above the left car and was embedded in the skull so tightly as torequire & strong pull on the partof ~the doctor toextricate it The boy's parents were away from home at the time, and the young man cane to town by himself for med- ical assistanc The bogus lightning rod men have hit upon a new scheme, says the Table Rock Argus. “I'hey send a min abead who bargains with a farmer o buya horse. The bargain will be mado to pay for and take the horsein a day or two, but the horse buyer wishes the furmer to sign’ a paper as roforence, He does so. The horse is not eared for, but the other parties come along with a written contract for $150 worth of lightning rods. A dispute follows, and the farmer, to keep out of a lav promises for §0 or&0. Againwe s 1o papersif you wish to keep out of wee of Grand Island met with a peculiar accident the other day, While put- ting a bridle ona horse his right arm- sud- denly fell useless to his side, and he has ot been able to use it since. The arm seems to be so dislocated that the palm is tumed to therear. 1t requires considerable force with the other hand to bend 1t forwand at all, and upon relesing the pressure the hand imue- diately flies back. One physician annour:ced it paralysis and applied a thoussnd volts of electricity to it without effect. A number of intimate friends, however, thinks it is noth- ing more than thrown out of joiut. Some years ago, says the SargentTimes, what is now Douglas and Sarpy counties was under one county government, At the time it was proposed to divide there wero a fow croakers who said it would increase their taxes, and consequently they opposed di- vision. Nevertheless, the act was performed and Sarpy county was left with ouly i1 square miles. In spite of the predictions of theold croakers Sarpy county today is out of debt and spends mors for rads and bridges than any county in the state, in proportion to its size. They never had a bouded indebted- ness and the taixes on the average quarter section of land in Sarpy is actuall in Custer, although the value i great. lowa, There are 492 working 0dd foliows' lodges in lowa with a memdership of 24,626, Hog cholera is ieported provalent in al most every county inthe northemn portion of the state, The State Crearuery sociation will hold_ac somo time during November, At Deun, A ppanoose county. the other day a youth of eighty winters lod s maiden of sixty-five summmers W the matrimonial abtar, and Butter and Egg ion at Fort Dodge Thursday, Ootober 9. Sutton, Mouday, October 6. e e e . bride and the sixth wife for the groon. Tho State Tewchers' association will hold its thirty-fifth sonual session in Des Moltes the last of December and the fint of Jannary. Miss Kilgors of Washington posesse a thrifty little pla:t which grew from a_sed pimpod out of s doep wellat tas cousty poor arm, T, C. Morrell of the firm of Morll & Co. and Miss Gertride Rogers, daughter of the county muditor, wore marded at Red Ouk last week. “Thero are twenty-four divore suits on the docket for the next term of the district court in Mahaska county, In fourten tho wises are the pisintifls. Thirty-five mareiag liomses were issuod in Black Hawk county during the month of September, the largeit nunber in onomonth with one exception, since the organ iation o the coun L C. Wheeler of Odebalt, Sac county, has under cultivation tholargest farm i) Towa. It comprises 6,30 acres, evory foot of which is unoer cultivation. He manages his farm through a corps of about fifty men. Rey. Samuel Berger of Franklin Center, wholiad just conpleted his theological studies in, Leipsic, Germany, and was on his wiy home, stopped over” night at Lena, IiL, lst weekand was found doad in bed in tho morn- ing. He was twenty-nineyeavs of nage aud was soon to have married an estimable young lady of Dubugque. A, A. Carpenter, ® prominent business min of Lyons, has betn arrested, chargd with shooting with intent to kill. ~The complain- ant in the case is Willinm Wallice, s man of rather u savor de b charncter, who was wounded a shot alleged to have ben y carpenter. The troublo grew out of alawsuit over adead horso, N. W. Nutting, the preacher who_ has stirred upsuchu sensation in North Dalcota by assuming the roloof a Lothario, was at one time a practicing physician in Towa City. He has a wife, but_recontly elped with a young lady named Mills from Juckson, Mich Phereal Mrs. Nutving dedares that her en i is a bigamist and that sheis i he will Kill her, us ho has often thret- ened to do, William Benge, wlo at the ago of 102 years 18 as spry as theaverage man of se sides near Drakeville, Davis cotnty been a residentof the county for many and was in lowa years before the Indins left the tervitory, He works and maniges his farmand is ableto hold_bis own witl man younger men, His children are old g hcaded men, aad in appearance ave fully agedas ther pateiarchal parent Little Richan Levi T the albiio child born of full-blooded Afvican parents at Oskaloosa, diedat theazeof swven months last weel, Hewi Able baby, and, had he uld have developed into & conderful albino m Atthe time of his vered witha dense wih of curly hairas white a5 snow and yes were of abright pink color. His skin was of a milicy whitnessand e wasa perfectly formed ehild in every way. The Two Dakotas, A wolf was shot in tho outskirtsof Dell Rapids the other ds Plans are under w between Moorhead and Fargo, It is claimed that an artesian well can be sunk in fifteen days by thehy draulic process of drilling, A child was bor that weighed onl promises to live. Colonel M. M. Price of Letcher reports a yield of tw seven bushels of wheat per acroon a tract of six acres that was imigated. There are forty-three new cases onthe Oc- tober calendar of the supreme court, which will keep the judicial mill grindilg until January 1, Report comes from TLeicher that rcently the artesian well at that plice suddenly stopped flowing, and that at the Woonsocket wellthere was a trewendous increase in pros- sureat the same time, Elmer Wheeler was arreted the othe: at Rapid City ona warrantswor out b fathor, charging him with grand larceny seems that young Wheeler, who, since his misalliance with a colored wom: hus beon allowed tosbift for bimself, has, accordingto the father's story, been sy stematicallyswind- ling him. A short time agoe numberof a cles were taken from Mr. W heeler's houso during hisabsence. The prisouer was held i $400 bonds. W. A. Gray, an artesian well ontractor, is of the opinion that the main source of supply for the artesian basm underly river valley is in the 1s. He reaches this conclusion fre ations of the strata passed through, and the dopth ot different wells he has bored in all portions of Dakota, ivcluding those inthe Missouri val- ley from Bismarck tothe south line of the state. In the Santeo agency Mr. Gray his put down a well com pleted at 750 feet when a flow of 1,500 gallons per minute was found, The depth of wells increases from there up the Missouri valley till at Mandan a depthof 1,500 feet. is necessary to secure an artesian flow. The same is true of theJim valley, The artesian basin extends westward to tho Black Hills, — REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN DATES, av foran electrie railway in Sioux Fulls 1ast week one pound and a half. It List of Aunouncements Prepared by the Committee. Tho following is thelist of anouncements of republican meotings as far as prepared up 1o date by the state central committee: All meetings to be in the eveningunless stated otherwise, Colonel T, J. Majors and Hon. L. ) d, ¥aturday afterno: Monday . 0§ 1L SUick) day, Octol Hebmon: with g Fairbury. Sa . Octol LW ebstor—Iastings, Mo Octiber b cison, Tuesday, Octoner T rd. Thur ober 03 York, Ay, October 10; v, Oclober 11 N, V. Harlan and WS, Sunmers--W ilie, Thursday. Octobe &eA. Adams--Alms, Julbertson, Saturduy, Octo: W. Colby and Rev Tecuns Tues Octolier 85 N Plattsmotth, C. P. Halligan and 2 Cily, Mond: “to) v, Wed uesd ctober Joseph I detober O H v Hroken Bow, Tucsduy, 1 AL M, Long—Ord, sity, Thursday, 1awell—Wahoo Thusday sfter aud 11, 1. Baldridge at 7 p. October 18 (wfLernioon.) . W, lenwarden r Monduy, Octoler 6; Platte atre. Tuesd ay, October . Wodnes- day, Octobers rior, Thursd ay, October 9 W dny. Octobur I ieron and 1 Ins—Utica, tober; Bradshaw, Tuesday, Oo- Arapahoo, Wednesdiy. O« Harvard, hursday, October 9; y L Octaber 1. P Diayid featt, T ¥, Contre City. Satur- alls ity Mond ay, Sep >, Davidson LLW. . Mondy [ s Darnell-Brewster, Priday,Oc- ansing toher i, Hons. J. L Wobster. L. D). Ric ¥ Guriey oher i, Judge O. P, Masn—Red Clond. Friday, Oc- tober 3, Webster, L. . Richardi and son—-Weeping Water, Swturdiy, (afternoon nBeal-Linvood, Wednesday, Oc. toher §;° Codue Rupids, I October 10 Atkinson, Monday, George 11, Hustlig: W, . Andre ws Holieze. Tuesdy, Oxtord, Irl: 0. g H. Wastings and W. S, 8 MeOook, Wednesday, October 85 Be ards and W, —Opera hotse, Ouuha, Friday, Oc: Hon, 8. W. Chrlsty and George W. An When Baby was sick, we gave her Cutoria, When she was a Child, slo cried for Castorls, Wheu she bocarne Miss, she clung to Castoria, Whea shie bad Chailiren, the gave thom Castorla, OUT OF THE SWIM, Story of an Old Kawer Cast Aside ain Left toHis Fate, Bill collectors are ¥ rhially h heartod, but alittle incident relat; the ohserver by hisfriend of the mon bagrs and lux uriant check was told with an amount of feeling that plainly proy that familinrity with the struggles of the suffering poor had not bred contem)t for their unfortunate case inone ingtance at lenst, says the Syracuse Journal. “1 havehada soall bill for more thaa ¢ year,” hosaid, “agiinsta one promin mt but now almost superan nuated lawyor of this town Though I got smll encor ment, I made It a pointto visit him o ularly, prosenting the bill, and each tine he gave some excuse ind asked mo to ‘eallaround next weok.' Wo collectors are pretty closo observers, and I noticel when I began calling there that he hul afine law libmry, the collection proy ably of many yoars'of successiul proctic But it began "0 thin out, and as | mal my weekly visits I could see thatit wis slowly but regularly disintegrating, anl still my bill remained lll\]u\ht You muy think me hard-heiwrtod, but T say 1 hi he wis going 0 pieces and resolved () fut whaticould out of the wrodk, sol kopton prosenting the bl A week a0 I ealled again. There stood the boo case,an ornate afluir, with only two o three volumes, all that was left of t) once complete law librar; I presentol my bill. *Slean't pay it today,” said the oll lawyer. ‘I don’t know whenI can,’ anl thenhe went on for thefirsttime to ey 1 to me something about his affairn Ho had once had a successful lncrative business, but times lad vanced so rapidly that he had not be. able o keop up with this helter-skel o ages he had grownold fashioned and | was without a practice. *And now,” | said, ‘I lave just laid my Oalwood, the boy that 1 v to rely upon 15 tho support of my oli = age, and Lama very weak old man. | can’ttoll you any more. I shouldbr down’ And s0,” said my friend, thy collector, I left him, bowed with iy preat sorrow, surrounded by the thetic reminders of his formor sic whenhe was apower atthe bar, and bis : library sholves, T hadn't the 4 o pressthe bill then,” e MOQUITOES ALASKA, That FarAway Land Has Captivating Winters of Virginia Mildness. The wintersat Sitka, Alaska, are not unlike those of Norfolk, Va., stting much below freeing ghts there awe vory long:. ays ¢ insummer, The san was hotwhil we were there but theshade wis d licions, Threeblankets werequite con fortable atnight. In the strits and i lets the weather is not quite so mild on the open sew-shore, hut now here ar there scvere winters until the consl wountain range is crossed, writesa co respondent. There the sun inthe summer diys piercngly hot and mosquites are thick that thoy are almost un bl There thelong winters lock evorythin, up inthick-ribbed ice. Several porsons we met who lived in Ohio assured 1 that ns faras the winter climate wen Alaska onthe coast wis preforible to any state northof the Ohio. Weknow that nothing can be more delightful than whatwe found for summer, How- *. we have bem tunte. Tho minfall isgreat and rains and fogs fre quent, Wehave escaped both, Warm cloth- ing, umbrellas, watorproofs and water tight shoes are recommended by thos who advise how to go to Aliska, Wo have needed noither except the sho when climbing the glasicr. We havo worn overconts when the wind was against s, for a_ slightbreee and the nd made by tho speed of the ship usel adecided chilliness when ondeck, enremining still wohave required w w extra clothing. The Density of Thunderclo Anexplanation of the dense che of thunderclouds has been offc Sheiford Bidwell, 1 that whena jetof steam eleet its shadow on 1 wall instanily _grows darker, thereby proving that the donsity of thejet is inereased. 1t may ko be remembered that smoke when electrificd tends to condense into soot, and henc porhaps the popular notion that fallir “smuts’ ave a sign of thunderin the air, One may refer 1o a stuly vhich has been madeof the statistics of lightning strolses in Gernuany. From theseit ap pears thatlighting storms originte in the mountains and traveloverthe lowe lands, Strokes, it scems, aromor fro quent in flat, woodless ané low-lying grounds, sich a8 valleys, medows and marshes, than in high or wooded hills, mmler of strokes 1 year appears on the increase in Germany. They are commonest i July and August and in the hotter parts of the d e e Tho First Silkk Mill in Englar A portion of the oll mill built by Tombeat Derbyin mill ever erected in E Tapsed, and it Wiilding will uve tocomedown. Lomho worked as a silk weaver in Italy, and nt the risk of his life mude daw ings of tho machivery, says Galignani's Nessenger Tle then returned to England, bringing some [talian workmen, and built the tory onan island in the Deewent, having first patented the machine Ho d - soon afterward, and it s “said howas poisoned by a fomals enissary of the Italian manutaclurers, b~ Themill was worked for many yea ™™ but has long been disused. [t was last ulilized as 1 steam laundry, and on- demued some yeurs since us boing un sale. Lately John S-the first silk wland—ha Some workmen have been on gzl in horing up the building, Hut o Monday a large portim of the walltop- pled o into thoe river. The men were not at workat the time, und there was noloss of life, R e Indianapolis Journai: Watts — Do you bilieve overything your wife tells you ! Pots — Everything. ~Except when shelells me ] aman idiot. | can't quite go that, you now. Pharmaceutical Bra « In the Seatof Loarn- ing.—She (bashfully) —Do you sell mostyaint or powlor ¢ Clerk-aint, rel, tothe Harvanl boys i OMAHA ‘ LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Bubsorihed and Guirantod Copital Paid 1o Cap tal . 0,000 luys and sells stocks and Londs; negotlitos conmerclal paper; recives and exents trusts: aots as transfer sgent and truste of corporetions takes charge of proprty, ool= lLects taxes, .\ OmahaLoan&TrustCo \ SAVINGS BANK, N S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. 80,000 14l tn Capital B 5,000 Subseribod and Gusranteed Capltal. .. 100009 Ldabi11ty of Stoelkholders. 20,000 6 Por Cent Interest. Pald on Deposits. FRANK ), LANGE, Cushior. ra: A U Wynan, presidont. J.J. Bown, esident, W, T. Wymin, tronsurer. Direotor Wywman, J. . Millard, J. J. Browu, Guy O. Barton, E. W. Nasl, Thouss b ICimpull, Geore B. Luke