Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1890, Page 4

JE———————— e — shall ac cept.” What rot. ll lHI‘-jH D ]-A\'l< Ry MOHI\I\(; TERME OF 8UBSCRIPTION, Dally and Sunday, Ono Year. N‘ months, . Three mont funday 1 Ono Y Weekly Fec, Ono Year OFFIOR Oahi, The Bee o g, Bouth Omaba, Corner N and 26th Etrects. Council Bluffs, 12 Pearl Stroet. Chieago Office, 811 Cham ber of Com ow YorieRoomath, 1and I Tribane bulidlng Washing ton, 613 Fourteenth St CORRESTONDENCE Al communications reliting to news and glitorial matter should bo adiressed to the ditorlal Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Al businoss letters and remittances shonld Ye addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omahi, Drafts, checks and postofiice orers 10 be mude payadle to the order of the cm pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprielors, The Bee B'ld'g, Farnam nnd Seventeenth Ste reet. — EWORN STATEMEND OF CIRCULATION Biateof Nebragkt. 1 4 County of Douselns. George 1. Tzscinek. scoretary of The Bea Publishing compuny, @oes solernnly swoar tnat the netual diroulation of Tie DAILY BER for the weex ending Nov. 1, 180, was @ fol- Nov. 0. Nov. 10 Eunday. " Wednesday, Thursdny. Fworn to before me and subseribed prenchine this15thdny of November, A, D150 1BEAL | N. P, K'EiL, Notary Pubilo. Ftuteof Nebrasks, } County of Douglas, George B Tzschuck, belng duly sworn, de- r.«-mm says thav ho Is sceretary of The Bee bubilshing Company,; that the actual averige daily circulation of the month of Novembor, 180, was 10,310 coples; for, Decombor, 180, 0048 copies; for Januur 100, for “¥ebruary, 1600, 16, 61 hnn-h. 1800, copies; for April. 180, 20504 coples; for M ny. o0, st coples; forJune, 1860, for .lmy, 01 l‘,&’m 1460, 20,062 coples; for August, 1 for ' Keptember, 1600, %570 coples: 100, 0762 copi es, OnGE B, Tz Burorn to bofors me. anA SUSEINOL 1 my presence, thls stany of Novemier, A, D.. 1590, 70 coples | A cOMBINE councilman s tho noblost work of the corporations. —_— G UBERNATORTAL kens should not Ye counted until they are hatched. 1N the multitude of explanations, the opinion of Corporal Tanner is notably nbsent. THE activity of the franchised cor- porations in behalf of the council com- bine bodes no good for the public. THE official footings of the election in Pennsylvania are intercsting chiefly for their forceful ynanamity against boss- dsm. THE state department keeps right on negotinting reciprocity treaties, regard- < less of the apprehensionsof the demo- cratic party. ‘WHY should the franchised corpora- tlons interest themselves in perpetuat- ing the council combine? Have they ‘not received all they asked for? Tney are laying wagers in Towa that the successor of Governor Boies will be an anti-prohibition republican. It is about time that the lesson was learned. Dr. Koci’s consumption cure should De taken in small doses for the time be- ing. The fate of Dr. Brown-Sequard’s elixiv of life is a matter of recent notoriety. ‘WiILE democrats are rejoicing over the possible retirement of three or four republican senators, they carefullyig- nore the elements which menace the leading brigadiers, GROVER CLEVELAND is reported as saying, in regard vo his presidential boom: I would prefer tocontinue in private life, but if the people want me I CorN is selling at fifty-six conts per bushel in interior Nebraska. This would mean a riot of prosperity for the average farmer except forone somber fact, that the average farmer has no corn to sell, Sovrn DAkorA gallantly refrained from plucking a single stem from the equal suflrage laurels of Wyoming. The Greasowood state will therefore enjoy for some time a monopoly of the favor of female suffragists, Em———— It 18 now fairly established that Gould’s raids in Wall street will bring about a general advance of railroad rates in the west and southwest. A more inopportune time ior a railroad squeeze could not well be chosen, E——— RESUBMISSION s growing apace in North Dakota. A year's experienco with a dead-lotter law resulted in an anti-prohibition majority inthe legisla- ture and their backbone has been ma- torially stiffened bythesplendidexample of Nebraska. THE Canadian boodle sensation, in- volving one and a half million dollars, leaves no room for doubting the ability of the dominionites to keep pace with the states in event of annexation. Mean- while the Quebec scandal throws the best efforts of the modern Tammany in the shade, aEE—————— IF republicans hope to maintain the present represontation in the council, it is vitally necessary that candidates be chosen who will command the active, united supportof the party, Havmony and success cannot be had with the Twenty-eighters in command. These wreckers must be put down at the prim- aries or defeat is inevitable at the polls. E—— THE clearing house record forthe past week is a notable one. Thetotal volume of transactions exceeds that of the corre- eponding week last year by twenty-three per cent. A large per cent of the in- crease is due to the speculative raids in ‘Wall street. Omitting New York we havea total increase of mearly twenty per cent. The figures furnish gratifying proof that the legitimate business of the Jountry isnot oniy steadily increasing, Jut is not affected in the slightest de- 4ree by the scalping warsof bullsand %ears. Another remarkable feature of ihe record is the fow cities reporting a decrease, Of the fifty-one cities in the \ssoclution, only three show a deoline. NEBRASKA APPROPRIATIONS. The comparatively modest demands made by Nebraska upon the present con= gress In the malter of appropria~ tions ought to assure the favor- able consideration of all she has asked, and there is favorahle promise that this will be the case, But a great deal will depend upon the con- tinued zeal of her vopresentutives, Itis presumed that this can be safely relied on; thut hor senators and congressmen will show no abatement of desire to se- cure forthe state the reasonable and necossary appropriations for public buildings that have been asked for, and notone of which ought to be re- duced. There is every réason to expect that all of the cities which require now or enlarged publie buildings will exper- ience a rapid growth for some years, and it is the part of a true economy to pro- vide building s whose accommodations will not be likely to be outgrown for at least ten years, The general policyof congress in this particular hae been un- wise, tothe enormous cost of the coun- try, and it should be reformed. At any rate there are cogent reasons why ap- propriations for public buildings in a growing state like Nebraska should not be meusured by the same rule that might properly apply in the older and less progressive states. Our representa- tives should be able to impress this ob- viously sound view upon congress, and it is perhaps hardly necessary to suggest that it s highly important to do so with the present congres DEVELOPMENT OF WESTERN COAL, The coal business in the west presents two striking features, The firstis that the Rocky mountains are full and run- ning over witha good quality of coal and thesecond is that in every city and town of Nebraska coal is scarce and high, Hereis a commercial anomaly that western enterprise and capital oughtto beable to remedy inthe interest of overybody’s comfort and prosperity. It should be much more generally the sub- ject of discussion and business eflort than it is, The people of Wyoming es- pecially should give 1t their attention. Their whole future depends on the energy with which they engage in the development of their resources, With anenormous supply at their back and: an enormous and growing demand be- tween them and the Missouri river, they are ina position to take a most profitable advantage of the situation., Coal occupies a most. important place inthe dailylife of the people, and in the problem of Nebraska's development, it is as necessary as the bread it bakes. “There is no good reason why it should not be as cheap and plenty as it now is high and scarce. Cheap fuel will have a greatdeal to do with making great in- dustries practicable here. For reasons both private and public, which aflect everybody’s pocket and progperity, it is important that the coal business should be done in a different and better way:. It is well known that uncommon diffi- culties hedge the problem about, thatit is by no meuns as ensy to remedy it asit would be if it deuwlt only with corn, wheat or any other cercal. State and national laws will have to be altered in order to make the development of coal mines an entirely safe business for capital toengagein, Unnatural conditions keep competition out and add fictitious profits to the price of the product when it reaches the con- sumer. Butnone of theso difficultiesare beyond the reach of legislation, and a matter involving so mucl to thepresent comfort and future prosperity of the peo- ple of the west should not stand back even inthe face of serious obstacles, The development of western coal, to the end that it should cost no more than it is fairly worth, considering that it is an inexhaustible product of the earth, is onoe of the live business problemsof this state and section, 3 BONDING PRIVILEGES. The secretary of the treasury again has under consideration the questionof bonding privileges to the Canadian rail- roads, under which those roads are en- abled to carry merchandise in bond through Canada to points in the United States. Tast woek a hearing was given by Secretary Windom to representatives of the proprietors of certain elevators in this country, who ask to have the sys- tem of stationing United States customs officials upon Canadian soil changed so that all cars transporting merchandise for delivery in this country shall be seuled upon American soil. The Cana- dian railroads were represented by their attorneys, and there wasa very full presentation’of both sides of the subject, It was maintained on the part of those applying for a change of the existing system that the theory and the practice of the United States government was that the bonding and the sealing of the American cars should be upon the American side, and that the system which had permitted a temparary change of that policy wasonly anex- pelient resorted to for a short period and ought not to becontinued. The secretary of the treasury was appealed to to rescind the privileges granted the Canadian roads on the ground that protection should be given to American shippers and to American commerce. On the other hand it was contended that no injury had resulted to the customs service of the United States from the existence of these privileges, that American shippers and commerce do not suffer therefrom, but thatthe former at least are benefitted, and that tho article of the treaty of Washington under which the privileges were granted isstill in force, Secretary Blaine, who was present at the hearing, lent itin- terest by suggesting to the representa- tives of the alien corporations that the Canadian government should grant to the United States additional bonding privileges in return for the friendly at- titude of this country toward the Cana- dian roads, This question isof much larger im- portance than may be generally appre- hended. It concerns extensive Ameri- ©an railroad interests which claim to be damaged by the bonding privileges granted the Canadian roads, and in an equal or even greater dogree it concerns the producers of the northwest and the munuficturers and merchants of New England, who rogard the existing con- ditions as most beveficial to them. A great deal of testimony has been taken by tenato committees on this subjoct, and it. is very largely against any interference with the bonding privileges. Notonly has such opposi- tioncome from the commerecinl interests of New England and the northwest, but as well from representatives of not less than seven thousand miles of railroad in the United States having connection with the Canadian system. It is be- lieved that Secretary Windom I8 not anxious to interfere with existing con- ditions, but it is not to be doubted that he desires such concessions on the part of the Canadian government ns will create a firmer arrangement than at present, and what may reasonably be ex- pected is that he will insist upon re- ciprocal privileges as a condition of con- tinuing those granted by the United States. There could be no valid objec- tion to such a demand, but it is certain that to rescind the honding priviloges to Canadian roads without an effert to se- cure reciprocal privileges would en- counter very vigorous and formidable opposition from our own people im- mediately interested, 70 G HITCHOOCK. In the editorial columns of your Mon- day's edition you have seen fitto take exceptions to some remarks I made at the dinner given by the Omaha club Saturday evening and you make use of language that I cannot afford to pass by unnoticed. Yousay: Editor Rosewater delicately insinuates that tho editors of the country papers of No- braska are a gang of blackmailers and thieves because they offerod to share with himthe funds of the Business Men's and Bankers' association iffthe work of propagat- ing antiprohibition sentiment, 1t is more than likely that our Seventeonthstreet friend ‘would not cherishsuch hard feelings toward the country editors of Nebraska if they had done nothing but ask for a share of the money paid to Tur Ber, What troubles him most is that they have all been busy singing the praises of the World-Herald and giving himand his paper “tho worst of it." This unprovoked peérsonal stab may gratify your personal spleen and soothe the feelings of the soré-headed boodlers and blackmailers whose admiration you have won by your peculiar eourse during the anti-prohibition campaign. But if you were a manly man, instead of a mis- erable, cowardly assassin of churacter, you would not seek to build yourself up by such methods, In order to pander to asetof vile and venal parasites, who at your beck pestered and harrassed the Business Men’'s and Bankers' association by their threats and outrageous demands, you stigmatize the finance committee of the association, of which I was not a member, as squan- dering the money contributed. by prop- erty owners and business men of Omaha in order to enrich me. Thatcommittee, of which Hon. William A. Paxton was chairman, % made up of well-known business men and bankers who have time and again invited you w0 examine their accounts in order to satisfy you that I was not receiving a dollar of pay personally ‘or for any - article written or advertisement inserted in THE BrE. Beyond all this, Mr. Charles A, Coe, treasurer of tho association, has pub- licly acknowledged that the work I did was voluntary and without price for either time or service. And yet you keep on repeating the base slanders and low-lived inuen- does that thefprohibition colonels and mediocre editors of your stripe have been rehearsing for months, In justice to myself and to the com- mittee I will now recall somo factsof the campaign that may not place youin the enviable light before the public in which you seek o pose. It is a matter of record that when the prohibitionists were clamoring for sub- mission you supported and urged their demands for the sake of apaltry few subscribers that they might add to the circulationof the Kuning World. While your influence was very limited, you did all you could to bring about the two years of apprechension and real estate ‘paralysis from which we are just emerging, When the eampaign was about to open lastspring, you turned your back on the battle field, started on a pleasure tour of Europe with the money Uncle Sam pmd you for your postoffice lots, and left in- structions to your subordinates to print nothing against prohibition until you got back. Meantime the battle began to rage, and the business men’s association was fighting the enemy in the fiold while it was constantly receiving shots from the ambushatthe hands of Broatch and his Jjanissaries. Within three days after your return from Europe, and imme- diately after the Beatrice debate, which more than anything else turned the tide of public sentiment against prohibition, youopened fire on mo and gave the pro- hibition invaders great aid and comfort by the following editorial, July 6: MR, ROSEW ATER—A JONAHL. It is no longer a secret that the leaders in the anti-prohibition campaign in Ne- braska are dismayed at the lack of popular support aud the prevalence of widespread and deep-seated dissatis- faction. While the prohibition party is vig- orously pushing its campaign in every hamlet in the state, putting speakers into the field, buying out newspapers, and giving other evi- dence of a strong and united purposeas well as a full treasury, the anti-prohibitionists are bogging in vain for mneyand appealing in vaiu forharmony, * Alloverthe state Mr. Rosewater's commlb teo receives the cold shoulder. In Omaha it is the Twenty-eight club and its sympathizers which retire from the anti-probibition camp when Mr. Rosewater takes command, They will not work under him. They will ot put money into a campaign for hinrto appropriate or spend, * Mr Roscwater isa Jonah, As lonz as he remains on board the craft he as- suwmed to command, the storm will rage snd thewaves beat Mxh about it and w’nuk and ruin will be its destiny, By this time it must be evident to Mr. Rosewater that he is doing the cause he es- poused far more harm than good. - His pres- ence and prominence have been a misfortune, * * = * Mr Rosewater will you vetire? If not, why mot? Right on the heelsof this assault came another shower of Partheon arrows in the following editorial of July 9: LET JONAH JUNP OVERBOARD, Itis due to the business men who compose the anti-prohibition organization that Mr, In all parts of Nebraska there is & similar prejudice against Mr, Rosewater. * Rosewater shiiita retire from the list of its executive offl His presence lns already estranged many citizens all over Nobraska who woula other- wise gladly cooperate withand support the workof the asbeidtion, * * * Not only isit true that M Tosewater's promincnce s chairman of the executive committee of the | Baokers’ and Buasiness Men's association is raising up a groat army of his potitical and personal enemies to impede the work of that organization fn'ovdor to wreok vengeance on him, but the Beatrice dobate proved that Mr. Rosewater wis intensely unpopular person- ally among votersout in the stat They believe that the smell of Petor Tler's goldand railroad preenbacks is upon his fin- gers, and belioving it they are not apt to look upon him with favor, If Mr. Rosewater does not retive from lead- ership in the antiprohibition association he will seriously handicap its eftorts and endan- gerits success. As long as ho remains where he is there must be the suspicion that he has private finaucial and political interests to subservo in manipulating the work and ex- pending the fund, for all now concede that as farns tho organimtion is concerned, Mr. Rosewater can be invalnable if he retires, andonly a Jonah if he remains. Was there ever a more infamous and dastardly article penned? You knew thal Peter Iler was in Californiaat the time you wrote this seandalous libel and hadbeen for months You knew and had abundance of proof that the whisky trust had paid no money, and you know that not a dollarof the association fund could touch my fingers without a vote of both the executive and financial com- mittees. You knew that no railroad had contributed o dollar to. this fund and you knew that you were a cowardly libeler when you accused me of receiving railroad greenbacks. It becomes youwell to play the ostrich actin this community where everybody knows that your prominente asa capi- talist and newspaper proprictoris due to yourinheritance of railroad gold and greenbacks and rapublican patronage. But while I was laboring night and day to protect your property interests, T had for the time being to bear contume- ly and abuscin silence, and let you and your boodling and blackmailing admir- ers of the country press keep on throw- ing dirt with their mud-swivilsin the campaign of detraction and defamation. The outeome has amply vindicated me s0 far as my conduct as head of the executive committee was concerned. But that you and oth- ers may have no further excuse for repeating the story that T had ab- sorbed vast sums of money in this cam- paign,and the “‘whisky people,” as they are termed, had paid enough to raisethe mortgage off Tir Bee building, I may be pardoned for giving a fow facts. The total amount of money expended on the anti-prohibition side in six months’ campaigning, was less than forty thou- sand dollars, while the prohibitionists are known to have expended more than double thatsum. More than thirty-five thousand dollars of the forty thousand were raised in the city of Omaha by property owners and business men. Had I pursued the course you have, ten times as much money would have been unavail- ing to stem the tide of prohibition. While Mr. Paxton and his finance com- mitiee were suaining everynerve and working night-und day, you were play- ing the despicable role of the war-time copperhead. You kept pouring cold water on their efforts, discouraging veo- plefrom subscribing, and inevery way sought to verify your predictions of dis- aster, so that you might in the end be able to cry, “Itold you so.” On your sympathetic breast every blackmailer and boodling editor who sought to bleed and hold up Omaha wept out his woful disappointment and cursed Rosewater for his greed in what you call refusing to share the money paid by the association. It was through your encouragment that they made such frequent and urgent business calls upon Secretary Roggen. Praises from such purchasable cattle be- come you very well, indeed. For myself, I defy you to show when or where I ever asked for or received a dollar directly or indirectly outside of actual money expended inlegltimate campaign work. Andi Tae BeE has not received a dollar for anything except a few thou- sand extra copies atdealers’ rates and such of the Beatrice and Grand Island supplements as wero mailed out inde- pendent of its regular editions. ‘With theso facts before you, perhaps youwill have the decency hereafter not to repeat the slander that I absorbed or appropriated a large part of the anti- prohibition campaign fund. E. ROSEWATER, FOUR OF A KIND. It is customary for public officials seeking re-clection to any positionin the gift of the people to urge their past rec- ords as a reflex of their future acts. ‘When men attempt to cover up their conduct, to throw dust in the eyes of the voters, and appeal for endorsement on personal or party grounds, it is time to expose their pretenses and put the peo- pleon their guard. The council eombine now In control of city affairs iS the most reckless and selfish gang that has afllicted the city since the: overthrow of the Holly crew. Brought into life by the cohesive !power of corporate boodle, it managed public affairs with but one object invisw—the perpetuation of itself and the fattening of a gangof sinecures on the substance of the tax- payers. Four df*the leaders of the combine, with the brazen impudence of the Holly crew.-seelk re-election, and areoperating on precisely similar plans. They know their public acts are a dis- grace to themselves and a damage to thocity, yet thiyf pope with the assist- ance of tho corporations which they have fostered, ereome public senti- ment and ride :ughahod over the voters, Wheeler, Chaffee, Davis and 0’Con- nor are employing every means to divide and distract the taxpayers of tneir respective wards @in the hope of securing a new lease of power. Have they in any manner earned anondorsement at the polls? It is a matter of common notoriety, attested by the financial recordsof the city,that they have recklessly squandered public money, combined to maintain the heelers of the Twenty-eight club in office, por- mitted a horde of taxshirkers to escape therr share of public burdens, repudi- ated the demand for economy in city af- fairs, and multiplied public offices in all demrtments, FEvery act was measured by the benefits it would confor on the gang. Every move was inspired by the guiding principle, **How much is there In it The progress and prosperity of Omaha | during the nest two yearsdemand a | radical improvement in the calibre of © councilmen to beclected next month. Selflsh mercenarios must bo kept at home and broad gauge men chosen to give usgenuine ‘‘business methods in city affairs,” —— e THE WAR DEPARTMENT REPORT, The annual report of the secretary of war, just made publie, refersto the leg- islation of the present congress vogard- ing the army as having already pro- dnced, so far as it has gone into effect, most satisfactory results, and predicts benofits from that to take effect in the future. Regarding coast defenses, Sec- retary Proctor favors a liberal policy. The country haslittle to fear from ih- vasion, so that it is not necessary to maintain large standing armies or to fortify against land attacks, but as our long coust line is peculiarly exposed to an attack from the seq, it is important to make adequate provision for the protec- tionof the exposed points, In the opin- fonof the secretary no great eivilized nation today has more just cause than ours to look well to the condition of its const defonse, and yet for yoars none has 80 wholly neglected them, Withan an- nual appropriation of cight to ten mil- lion dollars, says the secretary, only a little more than that of the present year, the construction and emplacement of guns ahd mortars, and works of torpedo defense, for the whole coast, can be car- ried on,andin ten years our principal harborsand cities rendered reasonably secure. There wero fewer desertions during the year covered by the report than in the preceding year, due toimprovements in the service under existing legislation, anda still more favorable result islooked for hereafter, The sccretary suggests that further. legislation is needed to make the punishment of desertion so certain that if more worthy motives fail men may be warned by its fear. The secretary repoats the observation of his previous annual report, that “the pith of the wholo ques tion is tomake the service worth secking, and then enough good men will seck it andbe glad to stay in it.”” But provision for the thoughtful and considerate treatment of the men is notsufficient. The individual elements of the army are separated by too large a gap for the best interests of either, The secretary thinks it would be a step in the right direction to increase somewhat the pay of the non-commissioned officers, so that every man whoenters the service may find in it the possibility of a modest future. Healso recommends a change in the law relative to the selection of en- listed men for appointment to the grade” of second lieutenant, which gives a great opnortunity for favoritism. He would permit any enlisted man, a citizen of the United States, who had served two years, to \compcto for a com- mission, thus making the operation of thelaw impersonal and impressing upon every man entering the army that he hadan exact and even chance for a com- mission, The incongruity of the present law re- garding the retirement of officers, the secretary suggests, ought to be cor- rected. The lawputs nolimitation upon vetirement for age or after forty years’ service, but the number of all other re- tirements isrestricted by the statutes to four hundred. Inthe opinion of the secretary retirements ought to be care- fully limited in some proper way, and he recommends that the law bo amended 80 as to provide for the transfer of offi- cers from the limited to the unlimited list. The results of the efforts of the do~ partment to encourage and aid the na- tional guard, so fnr as possible under exigting laws, hove been very satistac- tory, and the secretary heartily com- mends every intelligent effort to increase the militia force of the country and bring itinto closer relations with the war department. The secretary esti- mates the expenditures under his direc- tionfor thenext fiscal year at forty- three miilion dollars, which is less by twenty million dollars than those of the current fiscal year, the difference being, in the appropriations for public works, including river and harbor improve- ments. OMAHA ison the threshold of a year of substantial improvement and prosper- ity, Activity prevails in all depart- ments. Public confidence is attested by countless projects in the building and industrial lines. All indications point to 1891 as a year of great growth. It behooves the people, therefore, to place city affairs in the hands of strong, rep- utable, independent men to whom the common weal i3 paramount, Selfish combines and boodlers are stumbling blocks in tiie path of progress. Witha council in accord with the spiritof en- terprise, incalculablo good can be accom- plished for Omaha. — IN years gone by the Fifth ward was represented in the council by men whom threats could not coerce nor hoodle cajole. The time has come for the yeo- men of the Pifth to secure a representa- tive who will bea eredit to the ward and an honor to the city. Selfish nobodies and tricksters should be repudiated at the primaries if possible, at the polls if necossary. ——— Tue three leading pointers of public activity—bank clearings, realty transac- tions and building improvements—ovi- dence in gratifying figures the banish- ment of the dark clouds of depression in this favored corner of the foot-stool. . E—— After a Recent Sad Experience. Milwawkee Sentinel. General Sherman thinks “the telephore is the greatest of modern nuisances.” Eyi- dently he has never heard a democratic kazoo. Ril the Senatorship. Chieago Inter-Ocean. Mr. Cloveland’s friends want to send Gov- ernor Hill to the United States scnato, The is the support behind it, - —~— Thurman and His Party. St. Louls Globe-Democrat, The country recognizes the fact that Judge Thurman is a man of strict and perfect hon- esty; and it is also well aware that his party retiréd him from the scuate on 814t account, greatest objection Hill bas to the new honor. AN THE ROTUND A, There was one guost at the Paxton last evening who was dolng more rushing about the corridors than any other two men in sight. Evidently, in ordor to make a show- ing of being perfoctly at home, he was flitting through the crowds in his pare head. His name was Walter J, Lamb, and some people werounkind enough to say that he s just now doing the political wolf business for tho prohibo-alliance crowd. Ho bails from Lincoin, where he practices law, when not engaged in pulling political wires, At this particular time, it {s stated on good authority, Walter J. is running a drag to fish up some evidence of fraud, corruption, blood and riot at the lato election that would fur- nisha plausible pretext for throwing out Douglas county. Tho digaity of Lamb’s errand and mode of work, to ularge degree, will be better under- stood at the mere mention of the name of the main guy, Itis V. O. Stickler, an alleged lawyer of the city—the individual whose offico was the workshop of the prohibition gang of rounders, forgers and eavesdroppers, T'he fellows who were prominent as prohi- bition heclers on last election day hung vpon Lamb's footsteps, button-holed him in the lobby, ot his arms twined about their neck, and listened to his pledges of assistance to get them committee clerkships with a loving fondness that gave even the bell boys violent attacks of nausea. After watching the circus for some time ik Bee man got in his work. fr. Lamb of Liucoln, I believe!" *“Yos, sir.” “Member of the bar thore?” “Yos, sir? ““What about these reports that cortain Lincoln lawyers are to be picked up on ac- count of fraudulent pension practice?’ just s o blind, ycu know, to divert suspicion. “Hadn't heard anything about it—let's sit down a minute. You don't say that some Lincoln lawyers are to bo called to account for fraudulent pension practice! Did you hear their names ' I don't think your name was among them,” N6, T know it wasn't—come to think," A great election we had, wasn't it?" con- tinued the reporter, thinking it time to get down to business. Yes, yes—great clection that,” and the lamb rubbed its paws together with entire satisfaction. ““Great thing for the farmers to geton top,” urged the reporter. “Just “the thing exactly—and now we'll have some legislation that's liko something. Ibelieve that o set of meu in the country can dousso much good 1n our legislative halls as our farmers,” *“What's this I hear about a contest?” 40, there is going to bea contest—that's a sure thing,” and the lamb looked like deter- mination incarnate, *“Let nobody fool them- selves on that score.” *“Well, scems to mo that the farmers had most enough, and that, they would let the others fellows have tae governor,” said the reporter, ““The farmers propose %o have all that be- longs to them." “And does the governorship belong to them?" “Does it? long to see.” »'You must know something—must have some pretty straight information.” “I'm in a hurry—can't spend any moro timetalking with you, but see here!" and Lamb of Lincoln clenched his fist and shook his head. ‘‘Sec here,”” he repeated. “Mr, Powers knows at this minute that he is elected governor of Nebraska, and Mr, Powers knows at this minute another thing. Mr. Powers knows that he will be seated as governor of Nebraska—good evening!”! Does it? You wont have to wait PROMINENT AM. TCANS. Mr. Cleveland will be present at the Co- lumbus, Ohio, celebration of Jackson Day, January 8. He will be Governor Campbell’s guest, Senator Berry of Arkansas is one of the poorest men in congress, Ho lives in a very cconomical way and relies on his salavy to pay his bills. William P. Southworth of Cleveland has given §30.000 for a ward or wards in the hos- pital there to be devoted to the care of sick and disabled children, Rev. Edward Everett Hale is sixty-eight yearsold, He was a newspaper man in his youth, and even now, if called on, he could Set type or report a fire in an entirely cred- itable way. When Stanley was in this country before he received $125 for each lecture. Now he will receive $500 and for the grand opening in New York $5,000. His home will beina private car. Stephen Roach, son of the shipbuilder, says his family ave ready to sell their plant on the Delaware to an English syndicate for $3,000,000, the offer of §2,000,000 not being satisfactory. William E. Russell, governor-elect of Zas- sachusetts, who has ruined the traditions of republican things in a most radical manner, is but thirty-three years old. He was born in Cambridge and has been its mayor. He is a graduate of Harvard and of the Boston uni- versity law school. Twice before he has vun for the governorship, James Lick, thejphilanthropost, left §150,000 to San Francisco for freo baths—a real wash- houses for the working poor who have uo baths at home. The institution is now ready and open. It has sixty rooms for men and forty for women. The walls are of white tile. The tubs are enameled, Thirty min- utes is allowed for a bath, Justice Miller saw President Lincoln for the last time at the inaugural ball given in honor of bis second election. The president turned to hin with great cordiality and said: “How are tho justices and their gowns?' Judgo Miller roplied that they were all right, and President Lincoln went on, ‘“‘Miller, you were brought up on a farm weren’t you “Yes replied the judge. . “Well,” said President Lincoln, “you must have seen the breaking of land and the burning up of tim- bor in a cleaving. You have seen the heavy bark fall off from a half-decayed log, while out from under the bark would come great winged auts, which would waddle off with the funniest kind of clumsy dignity. Do you know, judge, I never see one of you justices with your gowns on but I think of these ants which we used to sce on the farm in clear- ing." e —— This is Nothing for Jay. Chieago News, Jay Gould has again performed the feat of swallowing o railroad or two before break- fast. ]{heumatlsm SCIATICA N umu.al ONEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska, Plattsmouth Baptists have decided to build anew church edifice, The novelty works at Kearney were gutted by fire Sunday. The loss amounted to #1,000. A fire company lias been organized at Ster- ling and tho town bourd has authorized the purchase of an ongine The ladies of Fremont have reorganized the charity club for the winter. About §00 raisod last wintor for the relief of the poor remains in the treasury, The principal of the Table Rock high school Prof. Justors, has secured a verdict against the school district for the amount of his sala- vy, for which hie was forced to sue, Frank Fowlerof Fremont, now traveling in Japan, nearly lost his life’ recently whilo running some rapids in a Japanese river. His boat went to pieces, but he landed on a rock and was rescued, Out at Curtis the other day an old man and a young one began scrapping and ended the matineo by trying to eat each other. The ol man bit ‘the young man’s thumb off, whilo the young lad bivoff oneof the old mam's ears.” It took two doctors a balf aday to pateh up the pugilistic fellows. The citizens of Hayes county will have a fi:flllll circular wolf and coyote hunt Noven- r 20, They will encircle ten townships and meet at & common conter at a specified tinie. They say there are plenty of wolves and coyotes in that region and they are confident they can round up many of them within the circle and bag many of them, Some one shot through the window at Georgo Garrison at his home two and ono- half miles north of Huntley, the bullet pene- trating his hand, A few hours before that time bo had caught his wife and the hired wan in & compromising situation and had driven them away from the house. Two hours afterward Garrison was shot. Ho thinks his wife did the deed, while she avers that Garrison must have done it through awkwardness, One of the peculiar freaks of the late elec- tion took piaco in Sherman county, Emmor- son Smith, county attorney-elect of Sherman county studieddaw for a fow months under Attorney Scott of Lous City, He was then admitted to the bar and a fow days later re- ceived the nomination for county attorney on tho alliance ticket.. His instructor, Scott, was nominated for the same position on the Re- publican ticket, but was badly beaten in the race by his inexperienced ‘pupil, who has nover yet had a case in the district court. The surgeons and scientists of the world are cited to this case which will astonish them all: One week ago Sunday Adelbert Higby, u boy sixteen yoars of age, rosiding at Al'iance, Box Butte county, was out hunting with an old rusty shot gun. The gun ex- ploded, striking the boy in the forehead just above the right, eye, crushing the skull until pieces of the bones imbedded the brain. Through tho aid of & companion, who was _with him, the lad was taken home and Dr. W. H. 'Smith was summonod. At sight of the wound the doctor wus surprised to see him alive, but judge of his amazement, when probing the wound, to find an old rusty screw, that had been in the stock, imbeded !ull\ an inchand ahalf in the brain. Further robing bronght to light two vieces of the L)y s hat brim and four pieces of the skull bone the largest of which was nearly the size of a silver dollar. Tnthe operation, the doctor also found it necessary to removo about halt i an ounce of brain After all that injury to the brain, the nerve center of the human system, and yet live! It is somethingno sur- | gical authority has recorded s possivle! But \ here itis proven. The injured boy has been consclous ever since the accident, and unless blood poisoning sets in stands every chance of recovering. Towa. Hog cholera is raging in Tama county. | Taero are fifty-four inmates in the Polk Vi couaty poor house, 1 The honey crop of the state is reported away below the average. The Union county seat will be removed from Afton to Creston about July 1 next. The third annual reunion of the Iowa sur vivors of the battle of Prairie Grove, Ark, will be held at Dos Moines December 8. The Buchanan County Poultry association has arranged for its aunual exhibition at Independence from December 20 to Janu- ary 3. A brute named H. B. Jones is in jail at Ot- tumwa charged with brutally beating his wife. The poor woman's injuries are serious and Jones may have to answer to the chargo of murder. The postmaster at Sigourney refused to allow the Review mnewspaper to go through the mails because it contained an advertise- ment of a piano drawing. The advertisement had to be cut out of the whole mail edition, Nate Hawk, a Pomeroy barber, left his shop in charge of a young shaver named Lee while he went on a hunting trip. While he was away, Leo folded up everything mova- blein the shop ‘and silently made himsclf scarce, 4 The Two Dakotas. Rev. Mrs. Wilkes, pastor of the Unity churel of Sioux Falls, has accepted a call to Alameda church, near San Francisco, Cal. Mr. Miller, the Gayville planing mill man, wanted §7,500 of the Elkhorn company for damages by reason of the appropriation of hlwm%crty. The appraisers gave him ich he refused to take, ana will go m]m court and leaveit to a jury to deter- mine. Henry Ford of Grafton township, Miner county, was carrying a lantern in his barn- yard, while engaged in doing chores, which oxploded, setting five to his barn, Tho build- ing was consumed and all nis stock, together with his granery, which contained no small amount of grain, The loss was not less than 1,000, on which there was no insurance, i An explosion of a can of powder in Web- ber's blacksmithshop at Parker created some excitement fora few minutes. The powder Yad been left there for some time, but the i can was supposed to bo empty and no atten- tion was given it. A spark from an anvil no j doubt, caused the explosion, which scared I the inmates of the shop pretty badly for a | fow minutes, “Na[ure ever Iailhlul is To such as trust her faithfulness.” EMERSON, The Natural Carlsbad Sprudel Salt (Powder form) s the solid constituent of tho natural mineral waters of Carlsbad. 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