Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 20, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE I BOSEWATER, Ediwr. ;‘UHI,IHHICD T EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Datly and Sunday, One Year Bix nonths. ‘ hree oty Omno Weekiy Hee, Ono Y 2. ha, CornerN and%th Stroets 1ffs, 12 Peatl Street. “hicygo Ofice, 317 Chramberof Commerce, u fork, 4and 15, Tribune Bullding Vshing ton, 513 Fourteenth Street & (‘nnkfisl’u.\'rr,‘.\u‘r‘,‘ il 1l communications relaling 0 news an editorial matter should be addressed to the Ediwrial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS, Allbusiness lotters and ~remittances should Be add ressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Drafts, e wiofiies orden eoks and er of the sow o the ore fhe Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The bee 1Az, Farnam and Seventeenth Sts OF CIRCULATION Btateof Nebraska. } » Countyof Douglas Goorge I, Tzschuck, seeretary of Tho e Pubiishing company, aoes solimnly swear tnat the netual oireulation of Tk DALY Bee for the weex ending Oct. 1§ 1590 was as fol- 0wy Bunday. Oct. 1 Monday. Dot Ti. Tuesday.Oct. 1, Wednesday, Oc Avrage. Eworn to before me and subscr In_m) presence tnis 15th dayof Octoner, A, 1. 1800, N. P. FEIL, Notry Publio. raska, " (vnl Douglas, George . Tachuck beinz duly sworn, de- oses and says that ni s secretary of The Boe Puiiicling Companv, thnt the setil Jirerage e (71 renlation of THE of Octaber, November, 1850, 10,310 er. 1850, ' 2,048 coples: 5 coples for for March for DALY 840, ) 20,18 ne I coples: for July, 2R00, 20,062 coples; for August, 1860,20, coples; Tor Scptember, 1890, NETO coples »iGE B. TZSCIUCK, Kworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this ith aay of October, A D., 189, Ti the sup mous, wspaper call for Gresham on ome bench is well-nigh unani- s miy bea little mixed in No- hut they aro hopelessly tingled in Kansas, TURN out at the Coliseum tonight and hear the issues of the campaign thor- ouglly and eloguently discussed. BosToN will raise a monumentto the memory of JouN BoYLk O REILLY with a degreeof haste creditable both to her heart and brain. FRANCE gives shelter to Dillon and O'Brien, but England isthe asylum fora gool many Frenchmen There is 1o causé for complainton that score. T¥ the matter of denouncing the new tariff tho American democrats and the London newspapers are ruminga very pretty rwe. But why should they have any interests in common? Tne political whattle in Colorado is raging flevcely, butit isa straight party fight. Thereare no decoy duckson the surfice (0 mislead oither vepublicans or democrats into the camyps of their enenies, WHEN the people of Servia talk about “‘competing with the American hog,” they do not reckon the number or qual- ity of that interesting animal. He is notopento cthe competition of any little European principality. Tue Florida allisnce men have got the call in the present political situation, That is, they have got Senator Call. 1t is unhealthy in that country fordemo- cratic statesmen to remain outside the lines of the alliance, — DoN DICKINSON has come to the surf- oceasgain forthe purpose of predicting that the democrats will carry Michigan, It was hardly worth his while tocome outof the cabinet of political spirits to airthis pieceof unreliable information. —_— Tie London Zémes mournfully says of theeffects of the McKinley bill: “Can- ada loses at o stroke her best mar- ket for agricultural products.” True, 8t isa loss of about twenty-five million Qollars n year, but the farmersof the west gadn it. GENERAL HUSTED has been nomin- ated forthe assembly in New York for the twenty-first time. What makes this still more remarkable is the fact that he Thasalways been identified with the Al- Dany rings, political wnd commoreial, andthathe his survived many storm dhat has carried his associates to defeat and oblivion. TiE provincial press of the east ro fuses to be comforted. The failure of the census toshow a population equal to the estimates in Wyoming and Idaho provoked a conmiption fit in Boston, The indignation of narrow guage or- gans is truly pitiful. Meanwhile the mew states will ealmly and peacefully move forvard to the greater destiny be- fore them, TiE frue inwardness of the independ- ent movement is now so plain that a blind man can see it. The leaders no longer attempt to conceal vheir purpose, and by concerted action their batteries on the republican party. From the Niobrara tothe Republican river, and from the Missouri to the waestorn boundary theussault is being made with all the force at the command of the managers. The democracy re- coives an ocwsional blank shot merely to keep up the pretense that the inde- pendents are not cheeck by jowl with the bourbons, ONE of the most interesting congress- donmal fights in the country is that in the district of Cunnon in Illinois, A dozen of the party editors have desertod him, and hisoppenentis havingan oex- traordinary amount of newspaper help from outside of the district. The cause of itall is the unfortunate outburst of vulgarity with which Cannon stained his otherwise creditable record in a recent exasperating debate. While his conduct on that occasion finds no defenders, tho cowtry would regret toseoa man of Cannon’s ability and faithful servico defeated at a time Jvhen hois likely to be most usefal. THE OMAHA DAILY BER. MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1890. THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE DERECISIONS The decislons of the United States cir- eult court at Topeka and of the superior eourt of Celar Rapids, regarding the sale of liquor in original packnges, de- clire the existing prohibitory laws of Konsas and Towa inoperative =8 to Liquows im ported into the state and sold intheoriginal packages. It is held that the Wilson law is necessarily prospect- ive in its operation, and that in order that a state may protect itself under this law & re-ensctment of prohibitory leg- islation is nocessary. The contention of the state of Kansas was that the act of congress enlarged the scope and opera- tion of the act of the legislature, mak- ing that which was a legimate business one day, made so by the decision of the supreme court of the United States, a crime the next, not under any law of congress, but against the law of the state. The court found nothing in the wording of the Wilson law implying that congress assumed the power or intention to give such effect to the enactment, When the law was passed the supreme court had de- clded that astate law prohibiling the sile of imported liquors in the original package was void. In other words, there was no law, and coull beno law, in existence making such business a <rime, The effect of the supreme court d clsion was to absolutely wipe out prohi- bition laws where they touched upon interstate commerce, for, observed the court “it must be kept in mind that & legislative act in conflict with the constitution is not only illegal or woldable, but it is absolutely void. It isas ifneverenacted, and nosubsequent change of the consti- tution removing the restriction could validate it or breathe into it the breath of life” This being the case it was held that until the state passes alaw thereafter forbidding such traflic it has never exercised the power or the dis- cretion lodged in itby congress. The view of the Towa court was substan- tially on the same line. It held that the act of congress known as the Wilson bill was not operative in reviving the Iowa prohibitory law which «he supreme court of the United States had held to be unconstitutional. The act of congress wus not intended to be vetro- activein its effect and does not rehabili- tate any statute thut had beer previous- Iy declared uncenstitutionl and void by the United States supreme court. It is simply permission to thesoveral states in the future to legislute, in the exer of state police powers, on a subject mat- tor which, priorto the act of congress, the states had been debarred by the constitutionof the United States from dealing with. The complete concurrence of the opinions of these two courts, one federal and one state, warrants the conclusion that their enunciation is sound law and would doubtless be sustiined by the United States supreme court. On this hypothesis the existing prohibition laws of Kansas and [owa are worse than worthless, since while they operate to prevent theeitizens of those states from engaging in the manufacture or sile of liquors they ave inopera- tive against the manuficturers and dealers of otherstates who may import liquors into Kansas and lowa to be sold in original packiges, Thesituation under high license is en- tirely different. The imposition of a license, levied uniformly and without discrimination as between the citizens of a state and ofall other states, isnot an interference with interstuto com- merce. Itdoes not operate to abridge the rights of the citizens of other states. It puts no embargo upon trade between the states. It is a legitinate and constitutional exercise of the police powers of the state for the regulation of the liquor trafle. Prohibition, bling essentially at war with our government- al system, involves interminuble con- flicts and difficulties, none of which are possible under a judicious license sys- tem. Referring to the reports of the un- friendly fecling In Furope regarding the Columbian exposition, and the proba- bility that the exhibits from European countries will not amount to much and that the number of foreign visitors will be small, President Palmer expresses the opinion that Furope will be liberally represented both in exhibits and in vis itors. Yetit must be confessed that the vesent indications are not suchas to quite warrant this optimitic view. The focling just now being manifested in the countries of Europe from which our world’s fair should réceive most con- sideration—England, France and Ger- many—is of a nuture to discournge con- fidence in the idea that any of them will be anxious to occupy much space in the exposition, or that any considerable number of their people will e eurious o see what we shall have to show them, Thereis time for a changeof feeling and itis to be hoped it will come, but at this fime the outlook is not encouraging, The very general idean abroad scems to be that it isthe inperativeduty of Europeans toboycott the Columbian exposition,and this sentiment may prove 1 be more deepseated and lasting than some now profess to believe. A signifi- cant indication of this is supplied in the fact that the committee nppointed to arrange fora proper representation of Italian artand industry in Chicago in 1898 had dissolved, for the reason that it fownd very few manufacturers will ing to send exhibits to Chicago. In the more than two years that must elapse before the Columbian exposition will be opened it is quite possible that Buropeanswill find that their present causeof complaint, the tarifl, will not have done them any such injury as they now profess to believe it will do, and in that case there will be nolack either of Buropean exhibits or visitors, This is very likely to happen, but meanwhile it is well enough for Americans not to count too confidently upon it, but rather to assume that the fact may be other wise,und therefore it is necessary for them to contribute the more largely of the resources of the countr, If the ex- position must be exclusively or mainly Amerlcan it can still be made grandly interesting and splendidly successful, It Is desirable that the whole ‘world shall participate, but the fair need not and will not bea fallure becuuse European countries may decide to show their hos- tility to a national poiiey by holding aloof from 1t, —— FIRST EFFECT OF THE TARIFF. The McKinley bill still continues to engrossthe attention of all Europe. The latest cablegrams to newspapers in all shades of political opinion, were loaded with comments on the offect of the new American tariff on foreign trade. Retalistion is still talked of in some countries, but no stepsin that direction have yot been tsken anywhere. The most gratifying reports come from Franee, where theauthorities have about decided to reopen the door to tho Ameri- cun hog, No item among Sunday's cable dis- patches is more pertinent 1o the present political situation than the following: Asignificant result of the McKinley bill has just been brought about at Bradford. Saturday's Cunarder conveyed to Now York Messes. W. Reixachand Watson, directors of the silk plush firm of Lister& Co, Man- ningham mills, Bradford, whose conversion to alimited Liability company witn o capital of over £2,00,000 took plice recently. Relxach is head of thevelvet department, aod Watson chief of tue spinning branch. Thejourney, which was undertaken quietly, andis not known of evenin Bradford, has for its object the examination of a site inthe United States for the construction of mills. The Listers transact a larger American plush business than any other wncem in Europe, and the McKinley bill hits them so hard that thequotations for their sheres, which were issued ata premium, have dropped sharply. Dho present action, therefore, in opening & millin the United States has been forced upon this great house, which gives employ- ment to over 5,000 men and possesses works the walls of which measure a mile in circum- ference,” 1t this report is fully confirmed the McKinley bill will producesome bencfic- ial results. . Tvidently plush is still to be made by Englisheapital and English labor, but on American soil. Now, if the duty levied by the McKinley bill on plush is tobe paid by the American consumer, why does the flrm of Lister & Co. want the expense of moving its factory, “the walls of which measure a mile incircum- ference,” to America? It looks asif the capital and labor of Eutope sereabout to compete for the American markets on American soil, thereby swelling our population, our in- dustries and the home market for the products of the farm. MR. BLAINE'S FUTURE, As long as James G, Bline lives he will always be accounted a possible can- didate for the presidency. Neither his avdent friends nor his bitter enemies will allow his name to have arest on that subject. Faithful admirers will continue to allude to him alwaysas “the next president.” Relentless opponents will continue to weigh his every act and speech s a bid for the office. In spite of all that, tho indications arethat Mr, Blaine does not desire or intend to again be acandidate for the presidency. He declined thenomination in 1888, and recentlythere have come from two differ- ent sources eyidences toshow that he isstill of the same mind. A personal friend has given the press a report of a conversation in which the secretary of state said he had enticoly recovered from tho presidential fover and that he had not the physical strength tolive through a term if elected. He also said tothe spokesman of an eastern club, who urged himto give them anaddress on the ground that it would help his chances: *‘I am past all that. My only ambition isto do certain work I have laid out and leave some foot- prints behind me.” Thereis no reason why Mr, Bline should not be taken athis word, having once proved to a mnational convention that hemeant it. Ho knows that the presidency would add little to his fame. Hoknows that he will be remembered when most men who have filled the office aro forgotten. But he appreciates the importance of associating himself tothe last daj of hislife with useful public afliirs,and he hopesto make the foot- prints that remain to be troddenthe muost notable of his carcer. Theso are thefairinferences to be drawn from what is known of Mr. Bliine'’s expressions. They arvesensible and honorable. Tae federal election bill is the chief issue inthe Sixth district of Massachu- seits. Henry Cubot Lodge, the author of the measure, ropresents the district incongress and his oclection or defeat will indivectly reflect the judgment of the Bay state on what is commonly called the foree bill. The democrats went out of the district to secure an op- ponent capable of meeting Lodge and selected Dr. Willinm Everett, a son of Ed- ward Eyerett. Both men representthe Dest ty pes of Massach ussetts manhood,and possess in o marked dogreo the ability tochampion thew principles. The re- sult of the contest will be watched with keon interest throughout the country, NiNgreEN million acres of public land, an empirve In itself, vere patented tosettlors during the past fiseal year, and the sturdy pioncers of the wost, profiting by the liberality of the govern- ment, show their appreciation by ively supporting the only party which has shown practical interestintheirwel- fare and progress. IN accepting & five hundred dollar bonus and unloading & gripsack of filse- hoods on the prohibitionists, McIntosh improved one of his sober moments to prove that a large juisy job awaits the fool-killer at the amendment head- quartens, — HEAVY investments are being made iniron proporties in Wyoming, but like the oil investments they are largely speculative and promise no immediate practical development, IN THE POLAITICAL SWIM, It is refreshing to kiow that therels at Least ono probibitionist in Omaha with man- hood enodghto resent the slanders upon the fulr fame of this city uttered by prodibigion funatics, Govemor Thayer, that old whed-horse of ropublicanism, takes tnestuwp Tuesday for the republican state ticket. The next two weeks will witnessthe flercest political bat- tleever fought upon Nebraska soil. While Omaha merchants wre advertsing goods at prices ridigglously low indemocratic papers tho editorials in those sheots keep on Insisting that. thing is deaver than ever. 1t s thought lIflTs Ale Johmson has corrupt designs upon the American vote of this city. Mr. Hitcheock has proclaimed his conver- ston to democracy. Tt is sald that he did this because the new postal law put a prohibitory tarift on prize-hox guessing in newspapers and thereby strangled a promising infant in- dustry, It is now feared by sn anxious rural constitueny that this law will pro- bibit Mr. Hiteheock from paying that vaunt. d $500 prize for the largest ear of corn. Tv'san ill wind that blows nobody good. 1f Sneak Johnson don't let up on his attack upon the census Mr. Hitchoock will have to declare all population prize-guesses off. Thus he will emerge from the smoke of battle $100 ahead. Bryan will go down booause he has no re- cord while MeKeighan's full is due to too mueh record. The Slotterhouse democrats in Douglas county areinsisting that Ford, Felker and Breen bo kicked off the legislativo ticket. This is good as far as it goes, but if the central committee would put up an entirely mew ticket, there might be a possi- bilityof defeating afew republican oppon- ents, If Van Camp's backers can afford to put up £10,000 to encompass his election to a county commissionership thore is certainly a fow large juicy contracts in sight. Lok for somothing to drop. Asintimated bofore, there isblood in tho Third ward moon. ‘When the eggs aroall hatched it will be scen that the republican hens proved true to their trusts. One by one McKoighan's supporters are deserting him. Just before doing so the MeCook Democrat gave him & grievous black eye. Sald Candidate Bryan at Weeping Water Saturday: “I am tired of hearing about laws made for the benefit of men who work in shops.” On November ¢ Mr. Bryan will probubly receivea fow rush messages from the men who work in shops. R g ey Dishonest and Contemptible. Lincoln Journal. ) The latest prohibition fake is the anony- mous raid on the cencus of Omaha which is alleged by the strikers of the Voiceand the Chicago Lever, was stuffed in the interest of antiprohubition, Tho object of this charge is to prejudice the people of Nobraska against that city because it is opposed to tho amendment by a good majority. The census report has nothing whatevor to do with the electionin any eveat. It is & stuffed registry list that would mean fraud. Nowit isthe easiestthing in the world to detect the stufiing of a registry list. Thero are the namas and residences of the voters in good black and whité, eud ivis the ecasiest thing in the world to verify or disprove the registration by examination. Every fulse registry canbe hunted down and in case the bogus elector casts his vote and there were enough of bogus votes cast to affect the returns on the prohibition or any other issue, the yote could be thrown out and would be by the proper authorities. There is no likelihood that the *‘political leaders” of Omaha contemplate any such 1m- becile move as stufing the registry list and polling “thousands" of bogus votes as is charged by im- plication by the annoymous emissaries of the voice, who havo resorted to falseimper- sonation and forgery from the opening of the campaign to the present. to cany their ends and fake public opinion. . A cause that relies on such dishonest and contemptible subter- fuge for its success is either unfortunate in its character orin the character of 1ts advo- cates, —————— A Pronibition Trick. : Plattsmouth Jowrnal, The general public is, perhaps, not aware that the high license amendment to be voted on this fall wasthe work of prohibitionists in the legislature, but such was the case, Thedemocrats and anti prohibition republi- cans voted against the proposition, and that is what everybodyshould do at the polis. The prohibitionists thought it a smart trick, and have banked on it all summer. The political preachers have doserted the pulpit, have forgotten the gospel of Christ and gone about lifting up their hands in sanctimonious and holy horror at the thought that high li- cense was to be fastened on the state—all be- causeof atrick of their friends. Vote it down, ———— A Disciple of Pythagoras. Scotia Herald, Ttcan be lawd down as the common law of thelind thata subscaiberto s newspaper who, after being askea to do so, refuses to pay for it, belongs tothe scabby, mangy part of the flock of humanity. He is the mildewed earin the crop of manhood. He is morally a blotch on his generation. The Lord has stamped him bolow par, base metal; his mau- hoodis counterfeit, If the soul of sucha man should transmigrate and enter intoa pig, the pig would shrink away in shame, feeling that he ranked among swinc as s eral points below the average level of swin- ish respectability, . el Famine Stricken Ireland, St. Paul Ploneer-Press. "The famine-stricken cotters of Ireland are already dying of starvation, whule the London Times, with its usual effrontery and disre- gard of facts, advises Americans to keep their money in their pockets, as the ery of famiue is only another Irish bull intended to mditate against the crown and further the schemes of the home rulers, Help should be offered and that promptly, as the direst dis- tress is reported from many districts. ——— One of Life's Mysteries. New York Tribune. One of the most venerable of the inhabi- tants of New Englagd has written an auto- biographical sketch, in which he states that he taught Mmssu\uuuy upon a clarionet while yet a young Jpan. It has generally been thought that lengtllohdays was not the lot of self-taught performegy on the clarionet. But this person, who begi to practice on the in- strument considerably over a half century ago, Is still hale and hearty. But then, lifo is full of unfathomable mysteries. i foaalls il i Willing to Jght the Proxy, Wahoo Wasp. I anybody was thrash the editor of this puper please in this weelk while we areaway. If the: in charge don't take thvethrashing in spirit that he should, or is guilty of striiihg back, report the samo to JusticoJ. W. and we will bave hin fired when we get Lome. P e S Country Breezes, Bedford (la.) Republican. The editor of the Republican is under obli- gations to Mrs, William Cole for a nice loat of her prewium salt rising bread, It was a real foast for us, aud reminded us of tho loaves our mother used to make. s car i A Common Royal Aliment. New York World. Au examination into the condition of the King of Holland discovers the fact that he is unflt to reign. The examination should bo extended to other kings, #s it is feared there are several in the same fix. Rather Contradictory. Cleveland Leader and Herald. The advertising columns of our freo trade coutemporaries give the lieto the tariff edi- torlals fn the samo papers. ‘The merchants are advertising and selling most kinds of goods cheaper than ever before, while the editorials deplore the “high prices’ caused by the new tarifl law, —_——— Joe is Diplomatic, New York World, Reporters 1n Richmond are unable to get an expression of opinion from General *Joe' Johnston, the ex-Confederate, rogarding the military services of the count of Paris. This wise discretion on the part of General Jonnston leaves the diplomatic relations be- tween France and the southern Confederacy wholly unstrained. S — Our Younger Sisters Ahcad of Us. Baltimore American, Our young sister republic, Brazil, has ro- sponded to France's proposal of an interna- tional copyright treaty. Already she is a stop ahcad of our model government. We can hardly afford to let the youngest of re- publics surpass us. e P S Fditorial Independence. Weat Union Gazette. Nobody has driven the flies out of this of- fice yet, and darned if we will, NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska. O'Nelll wants a starch factory. Wayno county claims to heve the smallost delinquent tax list of any county in the state, A Knights of Pythias lodge has been orga- nized at Yutan with sixteen charter mem- bers. Captain €. E. Miss_Arletta J. Budlong of Campbell and Fry wero married Octo- ber The Sunday schools of Custer, Loup and Garfield counties will hold @& convention at Taylor, October 26, The People's Banner has made its ap- pearance at, DavidCity with Frank T, Lemon as editor and publisher. Miss Jane Graydon of Indianapolis is the new professor of Greele at Hastings colloge. She is twenty-four years old. The Baptists will hold their state conven- tion at Fremont the 27th inst. There will be more than three hundred of them. A dose of arsenic ended the life of Phillip Burke, a farmer near Benkelman, whosui- cided because of trouble with his wife. A kick from a stallion broko the right arm of Benton I'reeman, who resides near Ains- worth, and otherwise injured the old man, Milford boys who backed a local sprinter against Edward Parkerof Dorchester went home broke in pocket and downcast in spirit. A fuel famine is on at Oxford, not a pound of coal being obtainable. It was neces to discontinue the holding of school for lack of fire Owing to the unsafe condition of the build- ing the public schools at O'Neill have dis- missed until the structure can be made per- fectly safe. A quarrel over children led Mesdames Mer- rick and Hamer of Ord intoa street fight, and they were forced to payn visit to the police court. George Malcom of Tmperial, Chase county, was bitten on the backof tead by a centipede the other day and was seriously ill for a few days. The ladies' bandof Clarks can now play six tunes without an error, and the village board, to show its appreciation of tho music, has given the band tho use of the town hall free to practice in. The citizens of Crab Orchard notified John Wilson to leave that town or take a dose of tar and feathers. John left. He is charged with prowling around town of nights and in- sulting young ladics. The little_four-year-old_daughterof J. F. Gereke of Seward’ was kicked in the face by acolt, and severely injured. She was chasing the colt around _the yard, when 1t kicked her full in the face, breaking her nose and other- wise cutting her face badly. A three-year-old child of James Lemon of Risings wandered into a cornfieldt and was lost. The whole town turned out to hunt for the little one. who was discovered asleep after a long search. The child’s mothor went, into spasms, and was ina critical condition for some time, Uncle Dino has been having some experi- ence in polecat trapping lately, says the Friend Telegraph, He caught oncof these varmits, killed and buried it. The next morning it had dug out and was still alive; and with a club he gave it a good beating, and again buried his polecatship: on the fol- lowing moruing he found that'the cat was gone. Recently the Herman Breeze, published by the Misses Harper, discontinued publication, the reason given for the suspension being that tne patronage was not sufficient to war- rant the continuance of the paper. But a litle event which occurred shortly after- wards cvidently had something to do with the case, for C. J. Martin of the Fairbury Enterprise came along and carried off Miss CoraJ, Harpor, aud_has taken her to bis heart and home. lowa. Palo Alto county will this year market 50,000 tons of hay. General George W. Jones of Dubuque is writing his memoirs. Monona county people will vote on the herd law at the general election. A boy living near Wesley died the other day from the effects of an overdose of whisky. Frank Florencourt of Carroll has fallen heir t0 $40,000 by the death of a brother in Germuny, Z. W. Bumham of Siver City is ninoty- one years of age and has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for sixty-seven years. John Kohler, @ saloonkesper at Grand Mound, quarrcled with his wife, and to spite her slashed his throat with a razor. He may die. The district court is now in session at Jef- i ghteen criminal and sevent, six on the calendar—the lurg number the county has had for somo years There will be an examination for stote teachers’ certificates conducted by the state board of examiners in-the rooms of the Cupi- tal City Commercial college in Des Moineson Decembe) and 3 Mrs. William Topper of Mason City, has left her husband and two little_children and skipped for parts unknown. She madeno oxplanation, but, her strange action is atiri- buted to over indulgence in ‘yellow back’ novels, i The Estherville Republican, in ady young men of the town to *‘brace _u there are more young ladies in Estherville without escorts than there ought to be, aud still the boys “sit on the fence and watch them go by. At Harlan a keoper from tho insane hos- pital ut Clarinda took charge of an escaped inatic who had been committed to jail for housebreaking on a large scale. Ho broke into & dozen houses in the southern part of the county last week and succeeded in mak- ing a small haul in each of thon. f As a result of the encouraging exhibit made at the Webster county fair the hog raisers of Webster county have formed them- selves into an association to be known as the Webster County Swinhe Breeders' associa- tion. Regular. meetings will e held and ideas and experiences compared. There are already quite a number of breeders of fancy grades in Webster county and it is expected that the organization of this association will largely augiment their number. : Fish story from Keokuk Gate City: A sulmon weighing about threo pounds was caught in tho river just outside the govern- ment boom Sunday, and when landed was found to have au eel about ten inches long firmly wrapped around his head in the viciu- ity of his gils, the head of the eel being i thio fish's mouth. The salmon had evidently intended to swallow the wriggler, but wus frustrated by having his head entwined us mentioned. A good looking young German of about thirty years arrived in Marion two weeks ago and put up at the Farmer's hotel, owned by a widow named Freisingeron the shady sideof sixty. He wooed and won the lanalady i an incredibly short space of time, induced her to draw $1,000 from the bauk in Marion to de- posit it lu @ Cedar Rapids bank, tucked the money away iu his inside pockot ana wended his way to parts unknown, leaying his young brige t0 mourn over the 10ss of both husband und Lucre. The Two Dakotas. The population of Garretsou, only one year old, 1s 341, The farmers in the vicinty of Valley Springs are building granaries’ wud storivg thelr grain at home Instead of hauling it to town ana storing in elovators, Contracts are being made to delivor hay in Deadwood this winter at £12 per ton. Typhold fever 1s prevailing among the graders at the B, & M. railroad camp in Pen- nington. The tri-state convention of the Young Men's Christian associition meets at Sioux Falls next Friday. The Sioux Falls brewery can not sell boer s & boverage, but it s manufacturing right along for sale to outside partics. The crack shots of Lead City are arrang- ing for m deer hunt of several weeks in the southern part of the Black Hills, A Wyoming stock man swam 160 head of horses across tho Missouri at Chamberlain the other day and did not lose one of them. D. T. Scott, who has been gathering statis- tics of the number of sheep in Lake county, has secured a list which places the number at 000, and the number is not yet complete. > he-Woods, the Rosebud brave, who stood off fifteen Iudian police, us long as his amnunition lasted, to rvesist arrest, was sentenced to eighteen months imprisoument in the penitentiary at Sioux Falls, The Russian thistie has already *taken o strong hold on the castorn part of Sully county, and will next scason cover the wesi- ern part. Some fear it will prove a lasting pest, while otkers think thatlike the mustard, which was such a pesta few vears ago, it will die out and disappear of itself. The North Dakota Woman's Christian Temperance Union, atits last convention at Jamestown, created a depariment of charita- ble work and elected Mrs. Linda Slanghter superintendent. The object of the depart- ment is to prevent sufforing among the poor of thestate during the coming winter. Owen Bosard of Grant county is before the United States grand jury ot Sioux Falls, charged with forging a pen: seems that Bosard's uncle re from the government and that the last quarter was sent tohim in a New York draft for $180. Young Bosard received the check first and indorsed his uncle's name upon it, draw- ing the money. State Veterinarian Langdon recommends to the governor that the sheep in Stutsman, Kidder and Logan counties be quara and that no sheep be allowed to be out of the state unless th of health from the state veter, v from a compotent fnspector. It would be well also if alisheep coming into the state should be subjected to a rigid inspection, as in the cases comug under his notice the disease came from the state of Washington. Peter Burrows purchased $10 worth of goods of Max Stern at Fargoand gave a check of $127.70 in payment, signed by John Johuson on s Moorhead bank. Stern paid him the difference, but mistrusting that all was not right, sent over to Moorhead and discov- ered that it was a forge When Burrows was arrested he was wearing the new suit and had the money on his person. He isnow i jail in default of $500 bonds. Bob-Tailed Crow, Fool Hawk and Woman Spook were all arraigned before the United States court at Si ng tim- ber upon the eservation. They are all Tndians and were caught inthe act of cutting timber unon their own lana. The court announced that it was very probable that it would rule the indictments out of court, ushe wasof the opinion that there was no justice in convicting an Indian of cutting timber off the reservation which he was part owner of. Considerable damage was recently done by a prairie fire west of Arlington. A man sct tire t the stubblo where he was plowing and it had no_trouble in eetting away from him. It burned the buildings on the farm directly east, and the trees on Miss Ida Southwick’s tree claim also became victims of the fire, It ot onto Christ Pegley's farm and de- all buildings but the house. John A. lost about $300 worth of grain. The latest reports say that the man who started the fire has not been seen since, when he was malking tracks for parts unknown. ST PEPPERMINT DROPS, Lowell Mail: A woman was respousible for the first Exveiction. Elmira Gazette: The artificial nose must have all-factory nerves, New Orleans Picayune: The fish that has felt a hook knows the danger of taking snap judgment. St. Joseph News: The tanff has put up carpets but the housewife will keep on put- ting them down. Texas Siftings: When the shark money lender closes a chattel mortgage he won’t oven let a sick man keep his bed. Binghamton Republican: *“This {s the worst snap I ever struck,” remarked the woodchuckas ke got caught in the steel trap. Spare Moments: *‘Don't you know, pris- oner, that it's very wrong to steal a pig?” 1 donow, your honor, they make such a row." ‘Washington Post: It has been hinted that the touching ballad, *‘Here Lies an Actor,” was dedicated to the man who is constantly talking about his salary. New Orleans Picayune: The professional waiters are by no means lazy people, but they want to wait for other folks and will not. work between meals. Drake's Magazine: MeCorkle: They that Snooper finds it diMcult to keop h headubove water. MoCrackie: That does not surprise me at all. He is anative of Kentucky. 5 St Joseph News: Judge—You confess to having stolen the money, do vou? Well, have you any exonerating circumstances to offert Culprit—Yes, your honor, my grandfather was an alderman, America: Teacher: Now, chiliren, which stato produces the most corn? Pupil: Kentucky. Teacher Why do you say Kenwcky! Pupil: Kentucky produces the most kernels. - IN TH HLACK HILLS. Rapid Progress Being Made in the Work of Developm: William . Coad of Rapid City, 8. D. spent Saturday and Sunday in Omaha. He one of the enterprising citizens of Rapid City and has lived there nine years. He was on his way home from Chicago, where he formed a company for the purpose of putting in a gas plact in Rapid City. The city has signed a contract with thecompany to use nnety-five street lamps and pay $1.2 per thousand for light equal to twenty-candle power, The plant will be put 1 as rapidly as men and money can do it. Rapid City is very much interested in the building of the B, & railroad from Hill City over to City, a di twenty-two is expected now, Mr. Coad that traius unning through thewe by the middle of November, T 11 help materially in the development of the tin mines about Hi City, and start emigration in that direction, tapid has some springs,” said Mr. ad, “that I believe will become as famous as the Hot Springs, They are about six miles west of the city and are called the Cleghorn springs, They are situated at the foot of the Black canon. Capitalists have ken hold of this property and a motor line il be built to the springs, where a hotel costuig $150,000 will be erected next summer. The canon will be dammed and a lake covel 1 be formed from the waters of Rapid creek.” **Are tho owners of the tin mines pushing forwerd the work in the tin region! “Yos, sir. The Harney Peak company, [ think, about four hundred m at work getting things in shape for great activ s00n as the railroad is completed tothe mines, There are thirteen different mines already opencd up and all of them will be active when the road is ready to ship out the ore.” A Slalifue Regularly ever ontractor . y six months, it is said, the treasury department ives a 820 or #50 bill which, from all appearance, Instand of being made from a plate, is executed entiroly with a pen. The work is of o very high order, and several times these have escaped dotection and gone into civeulation, The counterfeiter FROM THE STATE CAPITAL Polin, Who Killed His Wife's Paramour, May Yet Be Pardoned. HUMOROUS APPEAL FOR A MURDERER. Charged With False Registration— Prohibition Not Needed in Line coln—Dan Wheeler Called a Robber—0Odds and Ends, Liscory, Neb, Oct. 10 — [Special to Tur Bee.|-—There is a possibility that John R. Polin, who was sentenced to the poniten- tiary for life for killing Ceph Metteer, tho paramour of his wife, may yet treathe fre air, Previous to the tragedy Polin hind borno the bost of reputations. He hadknown noth- ing but adversity in youth, but through his own ambition suceoeded in making himsolf esteomed as a man of honor and ability. Ho finally beeame sheriff of Cass county and later warden of the penitentiary. Unfortu. nately forhim he bhad a wifo of striking beauty and easy virtue, aithough tho latter failing wos not known to him. Ceph Matteer was a worthless dude who devoted tho greater portion of his time to his porsonal appearance and to “mashing.” Among his victims he numbered Mrs. Polin. Under the pretext of wmaking @ trip to lowa Mrs. Polin met Matwer by appoint ment at Omaha. Polin was callut to Omaha on business about this time, and there aiscovered his wife's perfidy. At Plattsmouth he loarned t Matteer and b wife had been carreying on a secrot cor spondence, On October 2, 1882, the dudish rascal Matteer came into the restaurant eun by Polin and the ontraged husband had the satisfaction of killing him. Polin was tried for murder aud sentenced to_the penitentiary forlife. After passing nearly seven years in penal servitudo the hearts of his fellow-eit zens havo softened toward Polin and yoste day, A. Beeson, County Commission A.B.Todd, Mr. A. B. Taylor, Hon J. I Gilmi M, E. H. Woolloy went to Gove ernor Thayer and asked that” Polin be par- doned. The father of tho rascally dude wio debauched Mrs, Polin heard of the iutendol petition of these men to the governor and. ho wrote a letter full of invective to the chiof executive, almost daring tim to pirdon Polin The governor s taken the matter under al- visemeat, PROMIBITION NOT NEEDED IN LINCOLN, “I cannot see,” said Mayor Graham today, *‘what use the city of Lincoln has for prohibi- tion, Despite t ot that we have o many saloons, there is very little drunkenness much 1ess, in fact, than_there is in smaller towns in alleged prohibition states ample: During the last nine days th been only twelve arrestsin Lincc charge of drunkenness, makings a fraction m. these tawely v Afe to prosu ghtly intox for drunkenness, And vet the charge that the police force of Lin coluis not eternally vigitant caunot be made. The officers here are the most conscientions set of men I ever saw, and they are quick to arrest any man caught violating the laws they are sworn to uphold APUNNY PETITION, Attorney General Leeso is at full Charles Shephey True Pulsifer, who as been sentenced to be hung, in which the supreme court is asked to set aside the verdict of the lower court. The petition of Franse is a 1 curiosity and would er some doubts us to whether the composer of the document was really a law yeror not. It abounds only on appeils to tho ns and sympathies and is disting lack of legal points. The following is Bas not yot been elscovered. He soems to work for notoriety. he could not makea Living in thisinanner, a specimen sentence ; were true that ho committed tho erime charged, true that noerrovin the rec- ord were found, what would be gained b, judicial murder, by placing a rope avound his neck and suspending him between earth and sky until straugl with fustico standing by the side of Zibbot al and ashamed that ut the dawn of the tw I century the brutality and davkiess of the middle ages have not been dispelled by the progress and humauity of the bl nineteteenth century.”’ The document abounds in several hundred pages of such hifalutin, w! the principles of law which it is the duty of a court toconsider are almost 1gnored. The petition makes wmusing read ing for the lawyers despite the solemuity aimed at. It will be remembered that tho murder of Pulsifer by Shepherd was a col: Dblooded, mercenary and cowardly slaughter, and the brutal slayer con fessed Liis guilt. FIGNTING OVER LAND, The case of the Plattsmouth land and im- provement company vs Edwin J. Slaughter and others was appealed yestecday to the su- preme court. The dispute is over 12 acres recently laid out asan addition to Platts mouth {IV Dr. Mercer and O. H. Ballon Omaha. The land was owned by William M Slaughter 1860, but was sold by D. H Wheeler and David Sampson by powerof at torney while Slaughter was o Denver Slaughter afterwards repudiated the bar gainand wrote several insulting letters to Wheeler ond Sampson, caliing them rodbers and every other name he coald think of, ~ All of these are offered in testimony, ¥ Y KEGISTERED, A man named C. G. Bullock appeared in the county court late yes! and swore out warrant men who had, under istercd as voters in the naies of the men G iam Jamison, Hew Terrell. All four of the men are colored, they claimed _that they resided at 714 N Bighth street Bullock claims that these men haveno right whatever to vote in thit ward, The deputysheriffs have thus far been unable to find the would-be voters, ODDS AND ENDS While George O'Donnell and Ed. Harris were out on a lark last night they thought it would be very funny for them to turn out tho gas lightson the principal streets. They Were caught in_the act by Detective Malono and Ofticer Malone and wero promptly_ marched off to jail. 3 Tomorrow evening the coloved republ; of Lincoln will holda political meeting it Carr's hall, where they will be addressed by R. E. Moore, J. J. Gillilan, D.J. Courtney and other republican orators. 4 . R. Nissley of this city was marricd Thursday to Miss Jessic Sudduthof Wallace, Minn, Mr. Joseph Reynolds, recently of Philadc phia, succeeds Mr. H. J amark night clerk at the Capital ho Mr. Re nolds has been a newspaper reporter for ge eral years and is an accomplished gentlemuu - Mr.and Mrs. A. H. M and Mrs. C. H. Warner of Lincoln sp terday in the city visiting friends aud var’ points of interest. -— ) W. D. Craig of Logansport, Ind., is stop ping at the Merchants, OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY., Bubsortbed and Guarangeed Capltal. Paid in Capital. . i Buys and sells stooks and bonds; n rocelves aud Lrusts; or akent and trus! corporations, takes charge of property, ool lects taxes, Omaha Loan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. S. E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sta, Pald in Capital ... 45,00 Subscribed and Guaranteed Capltal 100,000 Liability of Stockholders. 200,000 Per Cel nterest Pald on Deposit 8 Per Cent Tk S LA R Cashion Oficers: A U. Wyman, president. J. J. brown, v {dont, W.T. Wymon, treasurer 1. Millard, J V. Nusky Thomus Lo Kimball, George B, Luke. A Uy Wyman