Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 17, 1890, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1800 DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Editor. _ = — = — PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally and Sunday, One Yenr.. Bix months. ... ‘Three months er N ind Mth Streets ‘earl treot. Thamber of Commeroe, ,14and 15, Tribune Buliding Vs hingto CORKESPON DENCE All communieations relating to news and ter should be addressed to the iditorial Departm BUSINESS 1 A1 bustness letters and e addressed to The Beo Publishing Company, . Drafts, checks and postoftice orde ade payable to the order of the cow Tie Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee B'II'g, Furnam and Seventeenth Sta RS, ittances should FWORN STATEMENT OF OIRCULATION Elufeof Nebras ounty of T t a8 Georie . T secrctary of The Bee Fublishing compuny, aoes solemnly swesr that the actual circulation of Uik DALY BER for the weex ending Nov. 1o, 1%, was as fol- Jows Eundav. Nov, Monday, Nov. 10, Tuesday. Nov. 11 Wednesday, Thursuy. Frid ay. 1 Euturday, Nov. 1 Average. ... Fworn to before me and subscribed In my presence toisloth day of Novemer, A, D.. 160 1EEAL N. P, FE1L, Notary Publio. - Efuteot Nebrask, I County of Douglas, { 5% orge B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- nd says that ne fs secretary of The Bee Publishing Companv, that the actual average dily circulntion of Tur DALY Bee for the month of Nover ber, 1580, was 19,310coples; 1 + for March, 150, 0, 20,504 coples; for 00, 0 ples Htemler, 1800, 0,570 coples: for Octobe 2 copies, GEORGE B, TZS0NUCK, Tefore me. and subscribed in ny . 1600, —_— lies the head that wears an Adams erown, Mz, JAY GouLp displays all his old vigor in his latest bear hunt, ramong the fireworks com- panies indicates an upward tendency in prices as well as in product. It will be interesting whether the railroads will be ¢short of acilities” at the next session of the legislature, to observe GENERAL demoralization has sefzed fnsurance rates in the Fourth ward. Voters can make their own terms during the ensuing two weeks. DILLONVILLE real estate is looking up. The proposed vindication of Sidney will have a tendency to transform Spoon Lake into a summer resort. Ir Diogenes went abroad in the Fifth ward at tho present time he would re- quirea portable arc light to discover a competent man among the aspirants for the council. I¥ the railronds wantto got the peo- ple “hot,” let them leave the people short of coal inthe face of a cold winter. "his process will make it warm for the railroads, too. THE council combine is ready to swap anything and everything for a new lease of power. The handwriting on the wall cannot be wiped out with cor- poration boodle. ‘WHEN local corporations actively in- terest themselves in behalf of boodle councilmen, it is time for business men and taxpaxers to get together to protect the common interests. "PuE franchised corporations are per- niciously active in pushing the interests of their tools in the council. Their sup- port of any candidate is conclusive proof of the betrayal of public interests, S— THE young emperor of Germany has given a quarter of a million dollars to the man who claims to have discovered a cure for consumption, What would he give to the man who should discover a cure for socinlism? FRraNcis A, WALKER is usually a foir-minded man, but too much impor- tance should not be attached to his criti- cisms of Superintendent Porter. He was the head of the tenth census and an unsuccessful candidate for head of the present one. Some allowance should be made for poor human nature. HENRY VILLARD, who has been in Turope for more than a year, is now on his way home, The upheaval in Wall strect has affected some of the prop- erties in which he is largely interestod und upset one or two of the firms with which he has dealt extensively, Itis announced, however, that he is himself in no danger of going down in the squall. The public genorally will wish to see this announcement prove true. Villard is a man of marvelous en- terprise and has rallied superbly from the disasters which have heretofore overtaken him. He has a side partner that never fails him in a financial cyclone. His partner’s name 1s Mrs. Villard and she has always managed to save enough from out of the wreck to keep the wolf from the door. THE production of steel in the United Btates, as shown by the investigations of the census burean,has grown enormously during the past ten years. The total output in the form of ingots and cast- ings nggregates in round numbers four and a hall million tons, an increase of two hundred and ninety percent. Ten Yyearsngo the industry was confined to fourteen states. Now there are nine- toen states engaged in the indusiry. Pennsylvania leads both in product and per cent of increase, followed by Ohio andIllinois. Alabama, California, Colo- rado, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia and ‘West Virginia are now producers of steel, and Rhode Island and Vormont abandoned its manufacture, The pro- duction of Bessomer steel rails shows re- markable growth, increasing from seven and a hall million tons in 1880 to two million tons in 1890, Ail branches of the steel industry have advanced in like groportion. 1 LICENSE NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Thesupreme conrt of the United States lnst week rendered a decision which de- clares that licensing the sale of liquors | is a mattey which does not come within the scope of the federal constitution or laws, and honce 1s to be controlled wholly by the states. The cuse was taken to the court from California, A retail liquor seller in San Francisco applied to the police commis- sloners for a renowal of his license. The application was ‘denied on the ground that his place of business had a bad veputation, He continued selling, how- ever, and was arrested for violating the state law which forbids fhe sale of liquor without alicense, Thoreupon he insti- tuted habens corpus procoedings in the federal circuit court and was by that tribunal discharged from the custody of the state officers on the ground that the municipal ordinance of San Fraucisco, ompowering the polico commissioners to grant or refuse licenses for the sale of liquor, was unconstitutional, inasmuch a8 it made the dealer’s business depend upon the arbitrary will of others, and in that vespeet denied to him the equal protection of the laws. The decision of the supreme court, Justice Pleld delivering the opinion, re- verses the decl n of the circuit court, and declares that the right tosell in- toxicating liquors is not an inherent right of the citizenyt the right of citizens to pursue any lawful business under the equal protection of the luws is subject to such restrictions as may be deemed essentinl by government to the safety, health, peace and good order of society. It muintains in its broadest ox- tent the police power of thefederal states to restrain the vetail traftic in liquors by means of licenses, It is held that in the regulation jof the traffic in liquars diseretion may be vested in officers tode- cide to whom to grant and to whom to refuse liquor licenses. Tho officers may not, the opinion, always exercise the power conferred on them with wis- dom or justice to the parties affected, but that is a matter which does not affect the authority of the state, or one which ean be brought under the cogn anceof the courts of the United States. The court could not perceive that the ordinance under which the arrest was made violated any provision of the federal constitution or laws and therve- fore reversed the order discharging the liquor dealer from custody. That this decision is good law and sound comnon sense doubtless will not be questioned. It fully disposes of all doubt as to the authority of the states, in the excrcise of their police powers, to regulate and control the sale of intoxi- cating liquors by license.” As the dec! ion deals wholly with the licensing power it is cqnelusive on that point, so that all states having license laws can feel perfectly secure against federal in- torference. TARIFF MUDIFICATION PROSPECTS. Colonel Carson, the clerk of the ways and means committee, who is also the chief representative of the Philadelphia Ledger at Washington, says in that paper that there is no likelihood what- ever that any effort to reopen the tariff question at the coming session will be countenanced by the republican leaders in either branch of congress. He ropro- sents these leaders as believing that in 80 far as the tariff act influenced the re- sult of the election it was because of mis- representation and lack of opportunity to answer the ussaults made upon it. They therefore will insist that the new act shall be given a fairtrial and will resist all attempts to make any changes whatever at the approaching session. Measures proposing modifications must gotothe ways and means committee, where,according to the excellent author- ity of the clerk of the committee, they will assuredly be entombed. In the opinion of the same authority there is reason 1o believe that if the house could have an opportunity to vote on separate bjlls to make salt, lumber, wool, binding twine and other comumodities free, and to restore the former rate on tin plate, some of them would prevail, but special care will be taken to preclude such an opportunity. “Indeed,” further says this authority, *it is doubtful whether the ways and means committee will even report a bill to correct an error made in engrossing the tariff act by which the paragraph allowing rebate on manu- factured tobacco was omitted, for the reason’ that should euch a bill be pre- sented to the house it would be in order to attach paragraphs to it in the form of amendments assailing the rates of the tarifl schedules.” This is not absolutely conclusive as to the intention of the ways and means committee, but it is very good authority regarding them, and therefore may be accepted as indicating that the pros- pects for any modification of the new tariff act by the preseut congress are very small. Tt is not difficult to under- stand that theve are strong objections to a general veopening of this question, but there is no valid reason why eight men in the house of representatives should refuse to permit any change to be made in a law which the popular judg- ment of the country does not sugtain, particularly in the event of proposed changes: coming from the republican side of the house,as doubtless some will, If the committee shall pursue the arbi- trary course suggested as probable by its clerk, the effect upon public opinion is very likely to be unfavorable, and as- suredly the republican party would lose thereby. The theory that there was not opportunity for the supporters of the new law to properly explain or for the people to fully understand its charactor will not be so generally accopted as those who oppose modifications may be- lieve. Any attempt to generally change the new schedules would undeubtedly unsettle business to a considerable ex- tent, but it is possible to make a number of very important modifications without any such danger, E— WYOMING'S FIRST SENATOR. The now state of Wyoming elected her first United States senator Saturday in the person of Hon. J. M. Cuvey of Cheyenne., The choice is & worthy one and much above the average of our new states, which the democratic press of the' east contemptuously describe as pocket boroughs und mining camps, Senator Carey is the most representa- tive man of Wyoming. He has grown with the growth of the territory and its admission to statehood was more his personnl triumph than that of any other man. He has represented Wyoming at Wushington as a delegate for several yeurs, A yearagohe roalized that the time for an aggressive fight for statehood had come, and hie left Cheyenne for the national capital with the determination of accomplishing it if slecpless energy could do it. It was well understood in Wyoming that if the thing was not done by the present repub- liean congress and administration it might not come for ten or twenty years. The fight was hard and, at times, almost hopeless, but it was won at last, and Carey receives his fitting reward in Wyoming's virgin senatorship. The senator from Wyoming is a large- brained man, in the prime of life, an able lawyer and a strong public speaker. He is thoroughly imbued with theenter- prising western spirit and a profound be- liever in the ultimate greatness of ‘Wyoming. It is refreshing to be able to say as much of a senator from a new western state, and it is to be hoped that Wyoming will keep up to her standard in choosing Carey’s colleague. COMPARATIVE PASSENGER FARES. Railroad statisticans have from time to time produced columns of figures to show that freight and passenger rates have been steadily reduced until now they have reached a point as low as those prevailing in Europe. Indeed it is no uncommon assertion that Ameri- can railroad rates, service and eauip- ment considered, are in many respects cheaper than in the old world, even where the roadsare operated by the government. And this is one of the strong points urged to show the sune- riority of private over governmentowner- ship of tommon carriers. Atarecent meeting of the manufac- turers’ club of Philadelphia, Prof. Ed- mund J. James delivered a lecture on passenger fares in Europe ahd produced figures to prove that no railroad in the United States has yet reduced fares within fifty per cent of those prevailing in portions of the old world. A year ago the government of Austria ordered a sweeping reduction of the al- ready low passenger faves in Hungary, and the success of the experiment was sufficient to warrant its introduction throughout the Austrian empire. The usual fave for third cless is equal to six and a half mills per mile. A thousand mile ride in Austria costs six dol- lars apd a half, about twenty dollars as in the United States. Suburban rates ave still lower. A trip of six miles or less can be made for two cents, twelve miles for four cents, twenty-four miles for eight cents, while monthly and yearly tickets can be had at a lesser rate. . Like service by the rail- roads at populous cities in the United States is rarely less than one cent per mile, or nearly four times the Austrian rate, while the long distance second class rate, five hundred miles and over, averages one and three-quarters cents per mile and two cents for first class, Admitting the claim of superior equipment, increased first cost and operating expenses, there is no valid rea- son why passenger fares in the United Statesshould be from three to six times greater. The density of population in Austria is vastly greater than in this country, but an American travels a thousand miles on the average to the hundred traveled by the Austrian. The experience of Austria affiirms what is frequently demonstrated in this country, that the lower the rate the greater the patronage. Traffic invari- ably increases in proportion to the re- duction, and the railroad profits by a policy which keeps all wheels in motion and its operatives actively employed. Prof. Jumes’ investigation throws a clear light on the exorbitant tolls of American railways and suggests the wisdom of applying in this country the principles so successful in the old world. — A NEEDLESS COAL FAMINE. The possibility of a coal famine along the lines of the Union Pacific railroad is a matter of very serious concern. Ac- cording to our advices the present sup- ply of soft coal is very short on the line of the road, and the incoming supply is unequal to the demand in spite of the fact that the mines:ave boing worked on half time. The only rational explanation is that the Union Pacific railway lacks suf- ficient transportation facilities. An ordinary winter.blockadeof a few days will cause the public to pay dearly for the Union Pacific’s failure'to provide necessary tramsportation facilitiesfor the conduct of its business, which is equally the business of the cities and towns along its lines. Notime should be wasted, however, in excuses or criticism, since neither will incrense the supply of coal or retard the cold weather which will enormously incrense the demand. What the com- fort of tho people of Western Nebraska now demands is that every effort be put forth to hasten the transportation of coal from the western mines and that arrangements be entered into with other railroads to forward enough coal from eastern sources to make up the short- age. And this should be done without un- duly increasing the price of coal or transportation to the consumers, who are the victims of the situation rather than the cause of it. A coal famine will be a needless calamity, The railroads should provide against it as far as pos- sible. This is not a good time to add any new bitterness to the feeling which the people of the west already entertain in regard to their treatment at the hands of the railroads. ——— Jay GouLp's figures on railroad earn- ings ave interesting, if true. He de- clares that the western and southwest- orn systems have lost twenty-two and a half million dollars during the past eighteen months through the failure of the compunies to maintain rigid rates. So 1ar as Gould is personally concerned, this enormous loss, caleulated from sec- ond-hand figures, does not trouble him, but his soul is plunged in grief as he thinks of the sufferings of others, “The stocks and bonds of ‘those properties,” he says, “are held by thousands of in- vestors in the east, and upon the pros- perity of these roads many small invest- ors depend for dividends upon which to live.” To saye fhem from starvation the generous .1& oaped into the market and risked his millions. Could philan- thropy do more? As a protector of in- nocent lambs, of widows and orphans, Mr. (jould takes the bakery. THERE are several loose planks in Chaffee’s polifical lumber pile. But friendly corpordtions are diligently spiking them down, e t—— T immediate and permanent welfare of the city demands honest and reputa- ble men at the heim of municipal affairs, e t———— THE old guard of political looters in these parts are donning their ascension robes in response to Jay Gould's trumpet. —eem THE Central American rovolution has ended, as usual, with the funeral of the leader who was vanquished. —_—— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS Peru Gazette: The amendment was badly defeated but please don't tramp on the ve- mains. Nebraska City Press: The defeat of pro- hibition by such an overwhelming majority is largely due to Tie Omana Bee and John L. Webster, Beatrice Democrat: Jay Gould will oper- ate the Union Pacific system as a branch of the newly-acquired Wyandoute, with head- quarters at Beatrice, .Charlie Adams, who has been president of the Union Pacific tem, will be tendered a position as baggage- master in this ci Crote Vidette: The imported colonels of St, John and Rankin have hied themselves to pastures green and ave jingling their mer- cenary change with apporent glee. They can doubtless be sccured in the future at from §20 to $100 per night to wage & relent- less war in Wisconsin or Texas., The more money they reccive the bigger will be their lies and the greater will be their abuse. Fairmont Signal: Thisrevolt of the farmer element of the republican party is not the product. of a day. Ithas been growing in numbers and increasing the force of its de- mands for recognition for eight years. Per- sistent disrgeards of the rights of the pro- ducers within the party—who by the way are as loyal to true republicanism today as ever—hasabsolutely forcedjthem to a remedy, not of their own choosing but of stern neces- sity, Had the party leaders heeded the warnings which the country press of the state has so earnestly declared; had they listened,to the voice at the people at large instead of playing the pliant tool of monopolies, the uprising would not have occurved. This action of the farmers in the party is noless than a stinging rebuke to dishonest party leaders; and the sting is made sufficiently sovere to penctrate the brains even of the party’s jool leaders. Lot these reckless tools of monopolistic greed, these cormorant bills, whose folly and servile devotion to their master cormorants has driven the old ship on the rocks, be relegated to the rear and the party reassumo its true attitude as the friend and champion of the producers, the brawn and sinew of the party, and the farmer crew will bear willing hands to set her “once more afloat on the sea of prosperity. GOULD AND THE UNION PACIFIC. Chicago Mail: Charles Francis Adams will not neglect to note that the first fatal ac- cident on the Union Pacific road for many years came immediately after the advent of Wrecker Could. Washington Post: ‘I he found that the Union Pacific stood n the way of his west- ern cominations, and especially of his great association scheme for circumventing the In- terstate commerce law, it wonld not be strange if he had also found tho key to its dircctory and taken full possession of the prope, i St, Paul Dispath: Jay Gould is sald to have secured control of the Union Pacific railroad and to have dealt some ponderous blows of scorn and satire at the management of President Adams. If this be soit is the very poetry of revenge. The doctrinaire Adams has in his essays on the science of railroading said some very vgly things about Gouldism in general aud Jasen Gould in par- ticular. But in the practical conduct o rail- road affairs, Mr. Adams seems to have lived as closely up to the Gould ideal as his brains would enable him to do. Now to find him- self supplantod and scoffed at by the imper- turbable wizard of Wall street must certainly appeal to the artistic tendencies of his Bos- tonian antecedents, Boston Advertiser:—Whiletherels much in the situation which induces the belief that an effort is being made either by the Gould in- terests or some other parties to secure con- trolling interest iu the Union Pacific, it may be questioned whether this proposed deal had its origin in any motive other than a consoli- dation of trunk line interests. It may be stated as an undisputed fact that the presi- dency of Mr. Adams has saved the Union Pa- cific from much oppressive legislation that would have been visited on that system, had not such & man as Mr. Adyms been in charge of its affairs, Only the undoubted probity and trustworthiness of its president has saved the system from congressional action looking towards the seizure of the road by the federal authorities on acconnt of the largo sums which still remain due from the road to the Uuited States government. e The Cheap Money Fall Minneapolis Journal. The monetary policy of the alliance-labor party is very shaky. Most of the lenders, not all, want the government to start presses and print mouey day and night continuously “for the people.” They don't want a metal- lic basis, These “cheap money” fellows would hardly think much of their scheme after it had been in operation a year or s0. It would take o team of horses to carry the paper trash necessary to buy @ pair of shoes orahat. Y. LAMEUeR L ) A Bit Complimentary: Salt Lake Trilmne. At the late olection' 1 Nevraska, prohibi- tion'was snowed under, We think @ great deal of the credit”of that was due to Mr. Rosewater of Tur Bife, He gave up his busi- ness ana went out and canvassed the state, making speeches 'day and night for two months, He is & bright man, a gifted man, one of the mgost tenagious men in the profes- sion, and his energy is simply inexhaustible. Ho ought to have full praise for the work ho did in the late campatgn. o Not Original, But Effective, Kansas City Times, Mr. Gould's idea of buying when things are cheap and selling when they are dear is not entirely a new one, but if persistently followed into practice it is one of those things which gets there. Mr. Gould himself, it may have been noticed, is one of those thlugs which gets there. Recognition for the South, St. Joweph Heruld. If Tammany shall name the next demo- eratic candidate for the presidency, the solid south ought to name the vice-prosident and the speaker. It is high time that the south should have full recoguition. it it The Outlook for Mr. Ingalls. Topeka Capital, The alliance has an undoubted joint ballot of the legislature, but is a little carly yeb to say how muay members of tho house are for Senator Ingalls. NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska, Fairbury's steam laundry has been de- stroyed by fire. Rov. F. M. Forbes hns resigned the pas- torate of the Congregutional ehurch at Ne- braska City. Wellfleet, Lincoln county, has just voted 5,000 in bonds for the improvement of the precinet roads. N. C. Hart, an old veteran of Campbell, been aamitted to the national soldiers’ home at Leavenworth, Kan, A colony of Gage county farmers will go to Washington next spring to settle. A few Beatrice people will accompany them, Herman V., Lyle, a prominent business man of Hebron, died while eating breakfast at his boarding house. Heart disease was the cause. , Dr. Latter, a prominent druggist of Fair- bury, was found dead on the porch of a hotel there [riday night. Hemorrhage of the lungs was the cause. Josenh Chez of Wahoo has been appointed first assistant secretary of the Indiana Young Men's Christian Association and will soon leave for Indiauapolis whore he will have his headquarters, The Harnes manufacturing company, with a capital stock of §100,000, has been incor- porated at Columbus, The company will manufacture windmilis, plows, cultivators, ete, and conduct a general foundry business. Mrs. Louisa Fiola of Schuyler took a five grain dose of strychnine Friday night which caused her death in thirty minutes, No cause for the deed 1s known, She had been married two years and leaves a husband and seven-months-old child. ‘The Niobrara Democrat, which bolted the nomination of Boyd, has been sold by John C. Sautee and H.'E. Bonesteel to Hugh Fowke of Sioux pity and E. G. Miller of Niobrara, who will run the paper in the iu- terest of straight democr: Wi Davenport is to have an art museum. Ottumya's coal palace paid $5,000 clear of all expenses, There are 50,000 bushels of potatoes stored at Storm Lake. Poweshiek county has paid out $11,000 so far this season for gopher scalps at b cents o head. ‘Phe state auditor has issned a warrant to the state university for §23,631.64 for building and other improvements, A river carnival association has been formed at Davenport with a view to the hold- ing of a gorgeous river display in 1891 similar to the one of 1890, A Brooklyn man named Snyder, while trimming a shade tree, sawed off the limb he was sitting on and tumbled to the ground, sustaming severe injuries, Adolph Moesner, living near Schalltr, Sac county, has been taken to the insane asylum. Ho was given to brooding over religious m: ters and at one time imagined himself Christ. Mrs, J. F. Clingeman of Waterloo, by acci- dent gave her daughter a tea made of stramo- nium leaves instead of princess pine, and but for prompt medical aid death would have r.sulted. Johann Hirsch, an unsophisticated living near Fairfield, fell in with a goods® man while on a visit to New York and traded £00 in-good currency for a small box of sawdust. It cost Polk county $1,511.40 for witnesses alone in the two trials of William Piper, the man charged with wrecking a Rock Island train near Des Moines last spring. The total cost of proving the man guilty was about §3,000. The proposition to bond the town of Coon Rapids for §2,000 to procure fire protection has carried by a voteof 95 to 6. This will be expended in tye purchase of au engine and hose, and sinking wells or cisterns in differ- ent parts of the town, Mr. and Mrs. Daviel Potter of Bethel township, Fayette county, are probably the oldest married_couple 1 Towa. They were married June 6, 1818, and consequently have been mated over seventy years. They have lived in the same house since 1854, ‘While a party of Anamosa convicts were at dinner at the state quarry one day last week, one Frank Ireland askel to leave the table. Permission being granted, Iveland walked slowly away fora short distance and then made a bold break for liberty, The guard on duty called on him to halt, but the prisoner Emd no attention, when tho guard brought is shotgun into service and succeeded in bringiug down his game, On examination it 'was found that several buckshot had taken effect in Ireland’s lumbs, but that his wounds were not dangerous. The prisoner had made arrangements to ward off the effects of bullets by padding his clothes with magazines, cot- ton batling, ete., and to these precautions he doubtless owes his life. His time would have expired next August. The Two Dakotas. Sioux Falls is to have a cheese factory in the spring. Aberdeen will have a course of popular loctures under the auspices of the Epworth league. A gang of men is traveling about the coun- try offering to paint the roof of a building for$5. When the work is done the farmer receives @ bill of & for painting the roof, just as agreed, but in addition thereto is the fotlowing: Forty gallons of paint, §1.50 per gallon, $60. A farmer named Duclow put up at the Parker house in Sioux Falls the other night. He failed to properly turn off the gas and was found in an unconscious coudition the next morning, but recovered in an hour or two. This is his second experience in the same house, Eaght mén have begun work on the Buxton mine in Ruby taking outore. The ore will be shipped by way of the Homestake and Ilk- horn roads to Omaha and smelted there. Tho total cost of smelting and shipping is $15, and as the ore will average over $10 a neat net profit will be realized. Another county seat fight in Traill county ison, This fall the people voted in favor of removing the county seat from Caledonis to Hillsbore. On application of several persons a temporary injunction has been ordered reventing the removal, and the courts have cen asked to make 1t permanent. There are oighteen students in regular at- tendance at the school of mines in Rapid City and several morc are making arrangements to attend. The students are fitting them- selves for practical work in chemistry, geol- ogy, assaying, civil and mining engineering, ete., and are all earnest, hard workers, The dead body of a man with the skull crushed was found on the ice under the Northern Pacific bridge at Grand Forks the other morning. It is supposed that he started to walk across the bridge, and a train came upon him, and in attempting to escape that he slipped and feli to the ice below, C. Clements and W. S, Peabody, attor- neys of Washington, D. C.,, have forwarded for collection a bill of $2,500 against the city of Aberdeen for services alleged to have been rendered in connection with the celebrated Dayton land case, They propose to sueif the bill is nov prompily paid or, settled in somo way. The school land case at Rapid Oty has been sent to the state supreme court by the United States _district court at_Sioux Falls. This is the celebrated controversy over a sehool soction ucar Rapid City, on wiich M. H. Day claimed to have discovered coal, The core which was offcred as evi found on measuring it, to be one-ei inch larger than the drill with which it was said to have been tAken out. There are niuety-six persons 1 the Sioux Falls penitentiary, thero being only ono womau in the prison. Owing to the prison having no contract on Land for work, the pris- oners are idle. A great deal of the summer work bas beon 0 tho prison quarty blasting out stone for the walt around the prison. Most of the appropriation, $2,000, has been used already in the furnishing of the quarry. A new mod of tactics has been adopted with Teference to the exercise of tho prisoners. An bour and a half a day is devoted to military arill, special effort being_ made in the foot movements. This hus afforded a great reliof 10 the prisoners, and on pleasant_days they are marched out on the gravel walk aud given @ good warch. Smith, Gray & Co.'s Monthly. The hour was late as the timid young beau From the home of his best girl wss creop- ing, $ And as he descended the frout stoop to go From the basement the watch dog came leapiny. A bark and a scuflie, and eries for “police!” The night air resounding with screcches, — And the dog had committed a breach of the peaoce, And had taken a piece of the breeches | POWERS IS AT THE CAPITAL Ho Says He is on Hand to Look After Fair Play. LATEST ABOUT THE PROPOSED CONTEST. The Festive Burglar and His Doings —~Work of Horse Thioves—All will Be Made Welcomoe—The Light- mng Rod Man Gets Left Lixcory, Neb, Nov. 10.—[Special to Tue Bee.]—The altiance feaders are still quietly proparing their forces for the contest that they believe will result in their secuving all excoutivo offices of tuo state, Last evening the commander-in-chief of the forces—“Governor'’ Powers appeared on the scene to take charge and his presence here scoms to inspire his Heutenants with still greater hope and confideace. Dech, Burrows and tho others who have been pre- pring the plan_of battle now make no bones of admitting that they will make @ contest for every executive office from governor to state superiatendent of public institutious. Doch says : “Wo must do it. The peonle who voted for us demand it. Only yesterday an alliance man said to me—‘Danmn you, don't go back onus inthis fight or we will treat you as we did Tilden for showing white feather —curse you_while you are living and after you are dead.’ So you sceit isa matter of hecessity—we must fight, or accept one of two charges—either that of being moral cowaras or| having sold out. The Omaha papers huve not been printing the correct returns from the various countics and I beifeve the discrepancies were intens tional. I have grown disgusted reading those roturns and have stopped it. I am now wait- ing for the final ofticial returns. There is fraud all along the livo and_ wo ro looking or it. “Governor” Powers was then sought and found at the Lindell hotel, about three blocks from the state house. Whether neighboring attractions had anything to do with this sclection is not known, At any rute the gov- ernor was_looking cheerful und very, very hopeful. He also appeared rested, ruddy and remarkably vigorous for a man of his years. He was as usual modest, and willing talk on any subject but of tho impending contest. That subject ho carefully and scrupulously boy- cotted, a Whon askod as to whether the common re- port was true that the alliance would make a contest, lie replied : “That is a legal question " “Your lieutenants adinit that preparations are being made for a contest; is it true?’” The old man turned his innocent blue eyes on the interviewer and with a look as ba loss as & dove, but words as wise s a serpent said: “I have been home on my farm and don’t know anything about the contest.” vBut vou will not opposo & contest” “Well, I'll tell you, I'm here to sce that there is fair play. That is all 1ask for. 1 haven't been worrying my head about the matterand don't propose 0.” The “governor’ said this in a manner that evidently meant “now that is all 1 will tell you about it,” and the subsequent conversa- tion showed that he meant that: TURGLARS ROB TARKLE Burglars entered W. E. Barkley Twelfth anggl) streets last night and stole 0 in greenSacks, a coat and vest, a watch and a number of bank checks and other valu- able papers. The thieves effected an en- trance, as usual, through a window in the kitchen that had not beon fastened. Al- thougn ail the articles stolen were taken from the reom in which Barkley sleeps, he knew nothing of the burglury until this morning. Barkloy is a ratlroad men and is at home only on Saturday nignis, and it is therefore be- lieved by the police that the theft was com- mitted by somebody who knew him and was aware of the fact that he nad come home with a roll of money. STOLE A HORSE. Thomas Brannigan complains at police headyuarters that some thief entered his barn near the Adventist college about 3 o'clock in the morning and stole a black h and also a saddle and bridle. Brannigan was awakened by the noise of the horse's gallop as the thief rode away and thought nothing of it at the time. About an hour later his suspicion became aroused and he decided to g0 to the barn to investigate. He then dis- covered thet the horse was missing. In the morning he found that the saddle and bridle had also been taken. THE CHARITY BALY, The charity ball on Thanksgiving evening promises to be the great social event of the season in Lincoln, as not only the beauty and chivalry of the capital city, but also the cream of soclety from other paris of the state will be 1n attendance. A general invitation to the respectable people of the state hus been issued. This does away with the serious oversights made when only special invita- tions were issned and also saves for the bene- fit of the poor the benefit of advertising. The following ladies are the patronesses of the great event: Mespames J. M. Thayer, Carlos C. Burr,J. D. McFarland, William M. Leonard, C. IH. Tmhoff, Joseph Boehmer, Cliarles S. Lippincott, Thomas H. Bonton, John B, Wright, R. H. Onkley, R. O. Phillips, Frauk L. Sheldon, Walter ‘B. Hargreaves Carl Funke, Ben R. Cowdery, Muyor R. B. Grabam, Arthur C. Ziemor, William B. Ogden, George B. Lane, Kent K. Hayden, A, C. Beeson, Licutenant P. W. Griffith, Lionel C. Burr, John Zehrung, Roscoe A. Perry, W. S, Garber, A. S, Sawyer, Wiltiam B. Wolcott, L. C. Richards, J. A, Buckstaff, 0. R. Oakley, S. H. Burnham, Charles E. Yates, Henry B, Lewis, Dr. B, F. Bailey, Whitney J. Marshall, Tsaao M. Ray- moud, Mason Gregg, ' William 8. Hufl- man, A. S, Raymond, ' David Wise, . D. Hathaway, rge 'Bosselman, Iugene B. Appleget, A. D. Bur, John Doalittie, O. M. Thompson, Henry W. Brown, A.G. Bill- meyer, H. H. Dean, James I, Lansing, L. W, Billingsloy, George M. Bartlewt, Carl J. Ernst, George H. Clarke, Frank W. Lewis William S, Latt MeArthur, M. Ackerman, Dr. W. L. Dayton, R. L. Rehlander, Newton C, Abbott. G. 'M. Lam- bertson, Robert S. McIntosh, Louje Meyer, Wilber R. Dennis, H. P. Foster, Fred 8. Kelly, H. B. Patrick, A, Hurlbut,' Fred W. Baldwin, Albert W. Jansen, Turner M. Mar- quett, Samuel B, Nesbit, Albert B. Har Havgreaves, Henry Zehrung, Isracl Putnam, John T. McDonald, Charles H. Gere, J. W. Maxwell, Sumuel 2. Moore, John H. Butler, Frank M. Hall, Douglas Schilling, Cal Thompson, General Amasa Cobb, Elmor E. Henkle, I B. Brown, Georgo Cook, E. K. Criley, Bd P. Ewing, Dr. BE. W.Tucker, Eugene H. Andrus, Richard O'Neill, Geueral J. C. McBride. BASEBALL MANAGER ROWE, Dave Rowo of Denver s said to_have pur- chased the franchise of the Lincoln baseball club, or at least owns enougn of it to be the manager and main moving spiritin the des- tiny of-the club the eoming season. Rowp is roputed to be a good manager, and the report of s having bought the Liticoln club franchise appears to meet with the_ap- proval of lovers of the national game in Lin- coln. The great question on which it 15 said that the financial success of the club hinges is whether the club will be allowed to play here Sunday or not and thereby atllow an in- nocent diversion to the host of indoor work- ers who have no other time in the week to at- tend 4 ball game. 1f Sunday ball playing 18 allowed it is prophosiad tat finaucially at least the club will prove a success the coming season. THE LIGITNING ROD MAN GETS LEPT. William Kurth, the lightning rod man, has brought unother law suit_on his hands ' this time with F. Sanders. The latter gentleman claimed that Kurth agreed to rod his_houso for # and he wave & note to the lightuing 1od wan for that amount. Later Kurth, with all the proverbial cheek of his class, de- manded §5 from Sanders and showed bim that the note'he signed was for that amourt, Sunders refused to pay the $55, 80 the case KOt into the courts. Yesterday Judge Stewart listened to the ease and desided that only was due Kurth from Sanders. THREATENED T0 OUT HER THROAT. Frank Boone, 4 colored man_living at_1020 17 street, nearly scared the life out of his wife by flourishing razor over hor head and threatening to cut her, throat. The screams of the woman attracted the neighbors and a number of them rushed in and knocked tho husband over. The razor was then taken wway from him, Boone then fiea before the police could wrrive on the scene. ODDS AND ENDS. John Wallace, a earpenter who arrivelk in the city last evening from Creston, 1a., com- y's house at plains that whilo en route some thief walied off with his overcoat and $10 in greenback that happened to be in one of the pockets of the garment. While Eugene Parks, a twelve.year.old lnd was fooling with a revolver yesterday he shof himself in the paln of the left hand, inflicting o most painful and ugly wound. e SPARKLERS. w York Morning Journal hand is worth two in the woods. Indianapolis Journal: At twenty a thinks he knows all; at thirty thinks he could have known it all tried. Now York Herald: Customer—Ts the m agerin? T want to buy somo doors. Boy--Yes he's in, but he's out of doors Somervill Journal: Brigiam Youug, says that Mormonism is mot & moral ques. tion. True, it isn't. It's an fmmoral que.- tion. Washington Post: “So's ye's back fron vouin'" 13 dey telis mo dat our car didate presented yoh wuf seven dollahs “Shoh nuff. How much did ke gib you' “Ohny five; dat jos goos to show how dis hones' politics s gettin' to bo.” Chicago Times: Bristol, England, prides herself upon & young man who paints wit his mouth, but the prodizy is so common America that no one thinks of boastig of i1 Somorvillee Journal: There Is no moncy in pootry—excepting for the fortunate composi tor, who can stick in big quads to fitl the va cant spaces at the ends of the lines and gt paid justas much asif hefilled them ou laborously with the leanest nonpareil, Jeweler's Wookly: Martha Washington (colored): “What's dat big dlamond wuf Jewelor: “That is a4 carat stono and I conld not soll it for less than §900." Martha Washington: “What's dat otlal un, *bout foah times as bigt" Jewcler: “O, Ican let youhave it for Kate Field's Washington: “Why is Ber- 1in the most dissipated of towns ! “Give itupr * “Becauso it is always on the sproe,” “Dreadful! But why is St. Petersburg froe from such scandal ! “You've posed me." “Because 1ts river Nova gots high." - CRUEL Efi?’]!b}&s ATHERINE, A Smile Which Cost a Young Officer Lite and Happiness. The Veritzins were nobles of enormous wealth and_power, says the New York Chatter. Paul had held a high office in court, One night, glittering with jewels and orders, the young prince, who was one of ‘the handsomest men in Rus- sia, danced in a quadrille opposite tho Empress Catherine. As she passed him in the dance she fancied that his eyes scanned her gross figure with covert amusement. After the quadrille she beckoned to him, and with a smile handed him her tiny ivory tablets, containing seven pages, one for each day in the week. On the first was written: “The imperial ballroom, St. Peters- burg.” On the last: “*The mine J Ho read it; his face grew gray as_that of a corpse; he bowed low, kissed hev hand, and withdrew, ““taking,” says tho old chronicle, **his wife” the beautiful Princess of Novgorod, with him.” He was heard to say as he left the ballroom: My minul‘es'm'u numbered, let us no lose a minute.” Flight or resistance was impo A turkey on man be moroly if be had ‘The hold of Catherine on her was inexorable as death. Prince Verit- zin was forced to remain passive in his palace, while each day the powor, the wealth and the happiness that life had given-him were eriu{md from him, First he was degraded from all his of- fices at the court: next his estates wero confiscated by the crown; his frionds wore forbidden to hold any communicu- tion with him; his very name, one of the noblest in Russia, was taken from him and he was_given that of a serf. Then his wife and children wore drivenout of the palace to-herd with the begg: “The last day,” says the “Paul Veritzin, in ragsand barefooted, _ chained to a convict, bade an oternal /7 farewell to his homeand departed to the dark and icy north. He was soon of record, men no more Tontine Systems in Life Insurance. The Russian ministry of finance has formed a plan to prohibit the operation of the tontine and semi-tontine princi ples of life insurance throughout the em- pire, says tho Boston Commercial Bulle- tin. Butsince there is no systematized set of laws in Russia regulating the work of msurance, the new plan will be held in aboyance until the imperial counc meets during the autimn and onacts such a sot of laws, Assoon as the new laws are put in force the charters of all the insurance companies will be revised with a view of preventing the operation of the tontine principle. This is in line with the Massachusetts law which prohibits our own state com- panics from doing tontine insurance, though companies organized in other states ave illogically permitted to write tontine policies in this commonwealth. A very large proportion of the poli cies written in this country embrace the tontine idea in some form or deg Especially in the west is the speculati feature of insurance attractive. It is not often that we can look to Russia for reforms, but in this matter she 1s cer- tainly loading the way to correct pri ciptes in life insurance. If life insurance is to be regarded as a benoficent institution for the protection of the widow and the orphan, und not as n business entorprise, all spaculative foatures should be rigidly excluded. Op.— this basis the tontine systems are wrong. Those who take these forms of policics simply gamble on their lives or endur ance; they who persist or survive, re- ceiving in addition to the accumulat dividends on their own policies, those which accrued on the policies of holders who lapsed or who deceased before the expiration of the distributive term. sl Love's Labor Lost. New York Morning Jowrnal, 1 loved her best of all my loves, For I was madly smitten ; We bifled and cooed tike turtle doves, And I called her my “kitten." 1 gave her many pairs of gloves, And sho gave mo the mitten. e e OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST Paid in Cupital Buys and sells stocks commereial paper; recelves and executes trusts; ncts as transfor agent and trustee of corporations, takes charge of property, col- locts taxes, Omaha Loan&TrustCo * SAVINGS BANK. S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. 1atd in Capital Subscribed and Guarantoee Liubility of Stockholders. Por Cent Interest Paid on Deposits. 4 AN ARG Caior. Ofcers: A. U. Wyman, president. J. J. Brown, vico-president, W. T. Wyman. troasurer. Diroctorsi—A. U, Wyuman, J. U. Miliard, J. J, Brown, Guy U, Burios, E. W. Nasb, Thomas L. Klmvall, Goorge B. Lak Oup!