Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1890, Page 4

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[ S ALt Stk THE local independents ar the political swim, e again in THE resurrection of the Twenty- eighters will make their reinterment all the more emphatic, IN THE matter of bloody battles and wholesale sluughter the pencil is might- fer than the sword, so far. L¥ T1E northern country is not painted in loud and lurid colors, the blame will ot rest with the *‘war” correspondent. — ANOTHER man has been discovered to have “fraudulently appropriated public funds” in a county of theSecond district, Unfortunately for him he cannot be sent to congress until 1892, — Mg. GOuLD declares he is comfortable and contented. The condition of the temperature 1 the vicinity of the Adams mansion, however, is a mattor of intense speculation. Forty THO in six mouths represents the cost to the tax- payers of supporting the strikers and heelers of the combine. In a business sense, the combine 1s a hummer, WHEN the Barings fail with assets of more than one hundred million dollars it is little wonder that the western farmer in some localities is a trifle slow in meeting the interest on his mort- gage. Mg, BALFOUR has disposed of two more offensive opponents whose per- nicious activity seriously menacod the tory household. Pending their retire- ment to an Irish jail, Messrs, Dillon and O'Brien will secure much of the where- with to dispose of Balfour and his party. ONLY four thousand five hundred and eighty-one votes were cast for our dis- tinguished friend, Mr. Watts. The painful scarcity of genuine prohibition votes is evidence of a diabolical conspir- acy to deprive a dye-in-the-whiskers patriot from the emoluments of the office of sacretary of state, A TRUST has been formed in Chicago for the manufacture of farming imple- ments. It is explained that the object is 10 *‘cheapen the cost of machinery for Very likely, The trust purposes, and it is very unkind for peo- ple to insinuate that it is a scheme to squecze prices up by freezing out com- petition. RoBERT P, PORTER has exprossed a very clear idea of the Omaha census, whatever may be his obtuseness in re- gard to that of New York. He says he knows the figures are correct as re- ported, that the vote of the city confirms it and that the census office ‘‘can do nothing at the demand of election scan- dal and anonymous letters.” By the way, nobody has had anything to say about the Omaha figures since the de- cease and burial of prohibition. Mean- while the population gets bigger every day, —— SILVER is down again and the poor bullionaires will a¢ once renew the howl for free coincge. But wouldnt it bea much better exercise of governmental charity to issue money to the farmers who cannot sell their cattle ata profit or afford to buy high corn to carry them through the winter? If money is to be handed over to the public in exchange for wares that cannot be sold at satisfac- tory prices in the common markets, why not distribute it where it will do the most good? The man who owns a silver mine is just as good as, and no better than, the man who owns anything else. —— Tne precipitate departure of the colonels and majors from Nebraska is a matter of profound regret. The ap- proaching crisis on the northern borders makes their absence particularly pain- ful. The presence of such valiant do- fonders of our homes would be a source of profound security at this junctuve, when havoe rears its head and chaos threatens to come again, Had we the oelonels and the majors and tho captains, not to mention the troubadours and tam- borinists, with us, the country might “plod its weary way,” confident that the jaw-bone army would effectually rout the painted and plumed Sioux invaders with a battery of its breath, SOUNDING A WARNING. The New York Sun admonishes enst- ern investors to watch the granger legis- latures, It remarks that there “‘may be an element of danger to invested eapital in the control of certain state legis- latures by the Farmers' Alliance. Ex- treme views are likely to coms to the top wherever the Alliance is in power. Investors, therefore,” concludes the Sun, *'will do well to be cautious about inereas- ing their investments in the granger states before the animus of the leglse latures has been fully disclosed.” Tt is quite possible that this reflects a view general among castern investors, It was to have been expected that the press of the east would sound a warning of this kind, and undoubtedly the ex- ample of the Swun will be widely fol- lowed. Expoerience with granger leg lation has been of a character to dis- courage confidence, although results have never been quite so damaging as were apprehended. The truth is that more ills have been charged against granger legislation than it was respon- sible for. But there have been enough to supply ground for apprehension when- over the farmers obtain undisputed con- trol of legislation, and it would be foolish to shut our eyes to this fact. On the contrary, it is most necessavy to note it, and to make such intelligent application of it as the circumstances suggest. No argument can bo noeded to enforce the proposition that no west- ern state can afford to repel capital, All of them are capable of very much greater development than they have at- tained, and in order to advance they must have capital. There is no lack of this in the country if the opportunities and inducements are offered. Reason- able and just laws for the protection of the people from the extortion and rapac ity of money lénders nobody can fairly object to, but cxtreme measures whose effeet would be to banish all capital are to be avoided. Take Nebraska, for in- stance. It is unquestionable that her people should be better protected against usury, but her legislation in this particular should be framed upon such consevvative lines that it will not dis- courage mortgage investments here. intelligent furmer can understand that to do this would place him ata sorious disadvantage. Money can al- le cave of itself, It is wanted erywhere and generally may choose the place of investment. The people who want money must make whatever reasonable concessions are ne ary to obtain it, We ao not believe there is any danger that the interests of eastern investors will be unjustly dealt with by any west- orn granger logislature. The farmers of the west have also learned something from experience. Very generally they have a much clearer concention now than they had ten or twelv ars ago of the true relation of their interests to all other interests. They know more than ever heforo regarding the inter-depend- ence of the multifarious enterprises and industries of the people, so that the in- jury of one brings more or less damage toall, They understand that while the agricultural interest makes the largest annual contribution to the nation’s wealth, its growth and development are dependent on the progress of all other interests; that unless they advance it must remain stationary or decline, They appreciate the fact that agriculture re quires, quite as much as any other bus noss, all the facilities and aids to oxpan- sion and growth which this progressive age provides, and that they cannot arbi- trarily interfere with the orderly ope tion of any of these without Inflicting in- jury upon themselves, Confidence in the more enlightene® views regarding questions of public policy that now genorally obtain among the farmers of the west warrants the opinion that eastern investors have nothing to fear from the granger legis- latures. WHERE ECONOMY IS ] The election of a majority of both branches of the legislature from the ranks of theproducers gives reasonable assur- ancesthat economy will be the watchword of the twenty-second session. Keconomy and reform are the cardinal principles of the Alliance. Asa majority of the legislators are members of the Alliance or pledged to work and vote for the principles of the order, the taxpayors may confidently look for a wholesoms weeding out of taxeators and the stop- page of extravagance in all departments of the state government, The auditor’s report of the appropria- tions made and moneys expended by the last legislature is a record of wholesale extravaganco and reckless disrogard of the interests of taxpayers. The total cost of the session of sixty days was $190,000, of which the enormous sum of 80,000 was squandored for what is ealled “incidentals.” An army of employes were engaged by both houses. While the actual salary and mileage of mem- borsof the senate amounted to 811,517, the cost of employes reached the enor mous sum of $24,( In other wor the machinery of the senate cost $12,57 more than the senate itself, Iach sena- tor was provided with a clerk, for which the state paid an average of $270, and in addition fhere wore messengers, pages and committee clerks, whose labors were largely confined to drawing their sala fes. With ouly thirty-three membors, the senate surrounded itself with one hundred and eleven lackeys. The house was not as proud as the sen- ate and drei the line at clerks for mem- bers. Nevertheless, one hundred and ED. sixty-five employes were placed on the pay roll, costing the state thirty-five thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars, while the total cost of the mem- bers was thirty-two thousand five hun- dred and sixty-six, At the very outset the Alliance party in the legislature will be confronted with the usual horde sceking soft berths at the expense of the people, and its first acts will be a guide to fts future conduct, But the lopping off of legislative bar- nacles is but one of the many splendid opportunitiesawaiting the Alliance prun- ing knife. Almost every department of the state government invites redwetion and retrenchment. The charitable and benevolent institutions scattered throughout Lhe state are outrageously extravagant, Here is the state indus- trial school, with two hundred and ffty THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1890. boys and girls, costing twenty-five thou- sand dollars a year more than the peni- tentiary. Ixcessive salaries are paid officials and subordinates and the num- ber is needlessly beyond the require- ments of an honest and economical ad- ministration, A grave vesponsibility rests on the wture, and more particularly on the dominant party, While the members will have the assistance of the reformers of the two parties forming the minority, on the Alliance rests the duty of inaugurating and successfully carry- ing forward measures that will mate- rially lighten the burdens of taxpayers without impairing the efficiency of the state government, — THE CAUSE OF THE 'TROUBLE. The financial disturbance that has been more or less severely felt in two confinents, sending the century-old banking house of Baring Brothers into prolonged liquidation, wrecking several old financial houses in this country, and giving the European and American money markets the severest shock thoy have known in many years, was chiefly due to the extraordinary finuncial policy of the Argentine Republic, in which Eng- lish capitalists are deeply involved, In view of the fact that there are people in the United States who are clamoring for a policy here similar to that which has bankrupted the South Amerivan repub- lic and done widespread injury beyond the limits of that country, it will be in- teresting to note the character of the Argentine scheme for providing evory- body with money, The fiat financiers of the United States will find that it is practically identical with what they would inaugurate in this country. One form of the Avgentine debt is the cedula, which is o government guaranty of banlk loans of money on land mort- g When all other financial expe- dieuts had been exhausted, the Argen- tine government authorized the estab- lishment of two banks to issue loans of paper money to%ll comers on landed so- curity. The bank fixed the value of the land, took a mortgage from the owner, and gave him its own bond”or paper money for an equal amouat. The loan carried eight per cent interest, and when the borrower wished to pay it oft he bought deprcciated bonds of the same class and amount and presented them to the bank in settlement. Surely a very smooth and simple process, and as the cedulas had tho guaranty of the government, the bonds of tho banks existing by government authovity for this specific business, and the land valuos, they appeared, amply secured, At any rate the astute English financiers evidently thought them a good invest- ment, for of the amount issued, four hundred million dollars, those financiers took one-half. Of course land values rose rapidly under such an incentive, and as these ad- vanced the volume of the currency in- creased. Iverything boomed, and all sorts of speculation was rampant. The world was informed of the unparalleled progress of Argentine in material devel- opment, anda fulure of amazing pros- ity was promised by the nuthors of the boom. But after a time the inevita- ble effect of the stoadily incrensing volume of irredeemable paper currency began to be realized. Gold went to a premium, which kept going higher and higher until it reaclied two hundred per cent, Land values rushed downward more rapidly than they had gone up- ward, Confildence was destroyed, the crash came, the people revolted against the government, a political rev- olution cast out of power the m who wera responsible for the condition of affairs, and finally we see the effects of this notable wild-cat policy of finance reaching out to the London money mar- ket, dragging to the verge of ruin one of its oldest and greatest financial houses and seriously disturbing and un- settling the monetary affairs of two con- tinents, We cannot see how any intelligent man could require more than the merest statement of the course of events-under gos. the financial policy of the Avgentine’ Republic to satisfy him of thé utter folly of those who in this country are clamor- ing for the issue of currency by the gov- ernment on land security. All such ox: pedients violate sound financial princi- ples and must inevitably end in disaster if persisted in. ———— WORKING OUT ITS FATE. The politicians and the newspapers have very generally ceased to discuss the McKinley bill, but that measure is quietly continuing to work out its fate, It is still the law of the land. Before many months it will present the people of the United States with an answer to the question of its feasibility that will be wiser than the wisdom of political economists and more reliable than the predictions of either its friends or foes, Meanwhile it should be everybody’s business to watch the results as they de- velop day by day. Theve is evidence that the stories of new tin plate industries, denounced by the democrats before election as cam- paign buncombe, were genuine. A dis- patch from the capital of Illinois says: Alicense of incorporation was issued today to the Baltimore tin plate company, Chieago, to manufacture and sell tin plates and tin- ware ofall kinds; capital stock, $2,000,000; incorporators, Max Pam, Henry H. Kenncay and George Finstein, o The news columns of the Philadelphia papers of last Saturday stated that one thousand acres had been purchased near that city on which tin plate works wouid be orected at once, and that the same syndicate, in which Rockfeller and Wanamaker are farge owners, would put in large plants in at least halfa dozen other cities, The Boston newspapers contain ac- counts of very large addifions to New England woolen mills and the New York press speaks encouragingly of the brightening outlook for minor glags works and button frctories in New Jer- sey. Reports of similar tenor come from other parts of the country, in spite of the gencral feeling that the results of the election have condemned the Me- Kinley bill, Not until the people have had time and opportunity to measure the real im- portance of these enlargements and to observe the effect on agricultural pro- ducts and the actual cost of living, will the popular jydgment be made up on the workings of the bill. But in the! meantime, the people should not forght to study the everyday developments of the subject. We are living in ' onb healthy, non-partisan American dtmpsphere just now, and this —to borrow Garfield's felicitous phrase ie the “caln sen level from which to measure men and events,” Sr—— THE DEBTS'0F WESTERN CITIES. The, census bureau illuminates the question of municipal indebtedness with aspecial bulletin on the financial condi- tion of American cities. The figures from Nebraska arve more meagre than from most of the other states, but doubt~ less represent covrectly the general con- ditions here, A study of the statistics presented shows that the west compares very fa- vorably with all other sections in finan- cial condition, and disposes effectively ofthecharge that our people plunge into reckless expenditures not war- ranted by their size or prospects of growth. And when the debts of west- orn citles ave compared with the results which have been made possible thereby, they are seen to be the product of a wise and far-secing public policy. Between 1880 and 1890 the total bonded and floating debt of cities in Now England increased twelve per cent, in the middle states throe per cent, in the southern statos six por cent, in the western states teen per cent and in the territories two hundred and forty- three per cent. In the same period the total available resources of cities in these secti increased as follows: Now Ingland, fifty-one per cent; middle states, fifty-two; southern states, four; western states, soventy-two; territories, twenty. California stands at the head of the western states in theamount of increasod bonded indebtedness, its percentage being over eleven hundred per cent. Wyoming comes second, Oregon third and Nebraska fourth, our percentage of incrense 12z four hundred and twi The incrense of available resources Nebraska is considerable, although than one-half of the increased debt. The only figures bearing on the in- creased debt of Nebraska cities are as follows: Llumbus Qo Total.... These figures illustrate the truth th the size of a city’s bonded debt is fre- quently the measure of its enterprise and faith in its futuce. And the illustration would be yet more striking if the list in- cluded Omaha, Kearney, Beatrice and Grand Island. * During the last, ten years cvery one of these cities hos largely increased its bonded debt. During the same period every one of them has made a marvelous guin in popu ation andin the acquisition of matropolitan improvemsnts essential to its further growth, They have laid the costly foundations of large cities. They have encouraged the building of new railroads demanded by their whole- sale trade, erected beautiful and commo- dious public buildings, provided water worksand sewerage systems adequate to present and future needs, bridged streams and canons and begun to pave their streets. Such things are necessary when cities are to be builtand population and capital attracted. They have been pmad for with money raised by mortgages on future taxation, Hence these debts, and also the inspiring fig- ures of the last census and the glorious promises of the future, Viewed in the light of what it has ac- complished, not only in the ways enu- merated but also'in the encouragement of vast private enterprises and the at- traction of new population, the policy of " assuming these increased obligations is seen to be a wise extravagance. Nebraska has had every reason to be proud of her material progress as indi- cated by the results of the eleventh cen- sus. Sheis not at all ashamed of her showing in the tables of municipal in- debtedness. — HOW THEY BUILT THE CITY HALL. Among the things for which the pres- ent council is specially commended by its official organ is the economy and business-like management in the eree- tion of the city hall. This is decidedly refreshing, If there ever was a greater piece of jobbery and robbery perpetrated upon the tax-payers of Omaha nobody has ever heard of it. It will be two yeurs next February when the citizens of Omaha, by a most decisive vote, directed the city council to continue the construction of the city hall or: the site on which it had been originallylocated. TFour-fifths of the people who voted for the Eigh- teenth and Farnam site did so because they did not want to squander the wmoney that had already: been spent on the basement of that structure. The school board had. already put in over twenty thousand dollars of its money and thp city had paid out over thipty thousand dollars in addition to that sum. Now what would any set .of business men have done under like: circumstances? Would they not have ifiglsted that the revised plans for the strycture should. conform to the basement walls that were good enough to be used? But the combjaghad a scheme of its own. They advertised for plans and confiued the competition to Omaha arch- itects, The e tition was a farce It was an open secret that the first prize was to be awarded to an inexperienced young architect who had never planned a fire-proof building and had never even superintended the build- ing of one. But the young architect was very intimate with Chaffee and Chaflee had influence with the building commit- tee of which Wheeler was one. The plans were drawn under such instruc tions as to dimension; that every brick and pier in the fifty thousand dollar basement had to be pulled up by the roots which cost as much as the material was worth to the contractor, Before the new plans wero made there was a howl about the danger to the city hall foundation walls because they were not planted as doep as those of the ad- jacent Bek building. But the new plans set the now foundations no deeper than the old ones. Before the old basement walls had allowed the architect twelve thousand dollars, although he had not finished the plans and did not fnish them until about six months later. It was only by THE BEE'S exposure of this ex- traordinary raid on the treasury that the council directed the city treasurer to withhold over four thousand of the twelve thousand dollars, How much of that twelve thousand dollars was to bo ex- pended for the use of the Broatch cam- paign and for the individual benefit of the friends of the architect is not known at the present time, We don't blame the architect for working the combinein the only way in which sleek rascals of their stripe are worked. Wo are however justified in dencanc- ing tho plot by which the public inter- est was sacrificed, the basement walls destroyed and the new building delayed at least oightecn months as a pieco of knavery that should have sent every man who wilfully connived in it to the penitentiary, And yet we o assured by the offictal bine for the economy displayed on the city hall building. B — A RECENT canvass of Kansas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis, undertaken by interested hoomers of the former city, developed some important facts, It was found that Kansas City has eighteen hundred and thirty-three vacant build- ings, St. Paul ecighteen hundred and seventy-six and Minneapolis twenty-one hundred and ninety. Omaha was omitted from the comparison for the very good reason that the inquiry here showed comparatively few buildings vacant, and those belong to the vintage of the ties, While the three rivals are drif ing into vacancy, buildings are multi- plying in Omahy, rents advancing, and the demand steadily crowding the sup- ply. WHEN the motor compan; privilege of crossing the Eleventh street viaduet it was willing to accept any rea- sonable conditions the council might im- pose. But the distinguished business men of the council did not think it nec- essary to put the conditions in writing and presented the corporation with priv- leges worth thousands of dollars. sought the COUNCILMAN DAVIS is one of the shining lights in the business aggrega- tion of the council. The amount of city business which finds its way to his foun- dry tends to show that in lending the weight of his experience to the public he does not neglect the prosperity of his machine shop. TF the voters of the Fourth ward do not see what they want in the shape of public favors, let them apply to Major Wheeler. During thenext ten days the major will dispense promises and pledges with a luvish hand, o THE enterprising mauagers of the Omaha coffin factory evidently suiff business from afar, The enlargement of the plant just as grim visaged war frowns on the northern border is pecu- liarly significant. . the ven- nst Omaha will pub- nd apologizé, To do trength the remain- I is too much to ders of slande! lish a retrac 50 would tax der of their lives, EVEN the red-whiskered monsters plastered on the city hall are a grinning protest against the re-clection of the perpetrators of that architectural idiocy. THE brevity of the city campaign is doubtless a tribute to public heaith, but forty-eight hours is barely sufficient to decently irter the combine, THr sidewalk inspector is uncom- monly active these days in booming the Fifth ward member of the combine, His job depends on it. ————— A FEW solid unpretentious blocks of brick and stone would be an agreeable variation fwom the mania for *palaces,” — OUR GIRLS. Some people had rather hug a delusion than a pretty girl, A woman forgets when she forgives; a man forgives when he forgets, When a precty girl marics rich she has reached the sweet buy aud buy A woman may not be able to find her pocket, but she never has it filled with letters she has forgotten to mail. Mr. Callowe—TIs the report true that you are married? Miss Three Stars—No such luck! I'm even out of an engagement, He—Remember, you're taking my heart with you, She—You are the fifth man that tola me the same thing. You all must think 1 am a pork packer, She—I'm not going to come here again. Ho —Why, what's tne matter! She—Matter! I'm surprised at your asking, There is noth- ing to be scen but the naked mountains, A man who has been traveling in the “far west” says—but he probably misrepresents the matter—that when an Idaho girl is kissed she indignantly exclaims: *“Now put that right back where you took it from ! Boston Girl (wearily)—Ma, which is the easicst way to commit suicide? Ma—Hush, child! Do mnot talk that way. Try to éxist a little while longer. I am sure that in time some new fad will start up to interest you, “Why don’t you marry, Tom?" “Because matrimony is possible only under three conditions,” “What are they " “My wife must be rich, beautiful and a fool. Unless she be rich and beautiful I won't marry her, and uuvless she bea fool she won't marry me!" *‘0, would that hand were mine!"” he said, And smiled av her so sweet ; But not & tremor thrilled her heart; She coolly kept her seat, Because the hand he wished to own Of flesh and blood was not; "Tyvas Just a royal flusk She held that scooped the * pot,” e Of Course it Pleases * t, John, St. Joseph Herald. The only prohibitionist heard from since the election, s the notorious fraud, John Peter St. John, aud he was greatly olated over ghe defeat of the republican party, l- though bis own party was swamped out of sight. But then 5t John was pad by the | democrats, been entirely pulled up the combine paper of the council that our taxpayers are under lasting obligations to the com- FROM THE STATE CAPITAL. Capital Heights Street Railway Faces a $10,000 Damage Suit, INJURY OF AN AGED LINCOLN LADY. The Lost Diamonds Founl Near Home ~Trouble with illegnl Insurance Companies—Intentions of the New Journalistic Venture, LixcoLy, Neb, Nov. 20.—[Speciul to Tie A, Dutton has brought suit against the Capital Hoights street rail- way company for $10,000 damages. Mrs. Dut- ton says that on August 14 whon she was about to get off one of the cars at Twenty- fifth and Randolph streets, the driver started the car with a sudden jerk before she had alighted from the stop, and she was thereby Her thigh Dbone was broken just below the hip and she She is a woman sixty-three years old, and as a result the frac- ture proved very serious and has made her a She declares in her petition that she has been confined to her under the she of a Bee.]—Mrs, Susan thrown violently to the ground. was otherwise injured. cripplo the rest of her day: for over two months and is still physician’s care. Her physician sa; can never walk again without the erutch, TIE DIAMONDS FOUND, The Marshall diamonds have come to light. found the sparklers i the jewel box which had been placed on the floor in an upstairs room. one of the missing ornaments was in its accustomed place, and the rubber band Which enclosed the box waa all right too. Tho person mentioned yesterday as being ar- rested on suspicion, but released after being put through the sweat box, was the domestic employed by the Marshall family, but noth- vited from her except strenuous ofticers declined to believe her o her until 10 o'clock today to At that hour Detective Malone went up to avrest the girl, but when he reached the house the dinmonds had al- Mrs. Marshall defends the girl, who has been in their employ for two years, und thinks she is not the guilty This morning Mrs. Marshall Ever ing was el denials, Th return the diamonds. rendy been found, party, BILLS FOR PRINTING, The bills for publishing the notics for the three proposed amendments ave beginning to pour into tho secretary of stato's office. * these bills and the here is 1o money to pi payment thereof ds on the I making an appropriation for this purpose. THE NEW INDEPENDENT PAPER, The new independent paper ti started here will be run by Mr, Huc N and Knowles & Liste printers, of this city, the publishers to sheet is to be devoted mainly to labor - terests, INSURANCE PIRATES, 1t appears from a letter written by Andrew G. Haliberg of Plum Creek that the Farue and Stockman's vnion of Madison, S. D., which was exposed a few months ago by Deputy Auditor Allan, still insists on doing a clandestine business in this state, again declares that the comps Mr. Allan y has no right whatever to insure any stock or anything else in Nebraska. Complaints have been made also concerning the Mutual Accident Association of the Northwest and the Provident fund society. Neither of these have auy right to transact business in Ne- braska. STATE WOUSE NOT! The following notarial appointments were made today by Governor Thayer: William M. Orr, Lincoln; Wilson C. Lemon, North Platte; Gurdon B. Crippen, University Place;' C. H. Scoville, Creighton; John Hyatt, Fremont. Just a year ago Henry cott of Webster county got judgment ugainst the First N tional bank of Denver, Col., for 1,200 sacks of flour and 500 bushels of wheat and 1 cent damages against the bank for the detention of the cereal and flour. Today the banking company appealed the case to the supremo court. W. D. Hellerof Rlair has been chosen to succeed Mr. Cook of Red Cloud as pharma- ceutical examiuer for the state. Mr. Cook’s terms of office expires January 1. In the district court of Fillmore county Elisha L. Martin secured judgment against C. Aultman & Co. for §245," Today the Ault- man company appealed the case to the su- preme court., Alexander v. Wilcox. Appeal from Cass county. Reversed and dismissed. Opinion by Mr. Justice Novval, ‘Where a person has been in the open, ex- clusive, notorious, adverse possession of real tate, us owner, for ten years, he theroby acquires an absolute title “to the land free from the lien created by a tax deed on the property issued prior to_ the commencement of such adverse possession. D'Gette v. Shel- don, 44 N. W. Rep. 30. ODDS AND ENDS, James Port, the fellow who shot little C avis, the ten-year-old boy who left t's service because of alleged cruelty, ill have a preliminary hearing before Judge Foxworthy November 20, at 1 p, m. “Treasurer Snyder of Omaha has been in the city today on official business. Rolund Williams leaves tomorrow on a two weeks’ trip to Salt Lake City, 2. A tax deed issued more than five years after the expiration of the time to redeem from the tax sale, is mvalid and cre lien upon the real estate therein described, Kansas City & Omaha raitroad company vs Frey. Krror from Fillmore Afirmed. Opinion by Justice Maxwel). 1. A bill which has'but one general object that is fairly expressed in the title thereof, is not objectionable on the ground that it con- tains two or more subjects, 2. The act approved March 3. 1381, giving a laborer and material w o lien upon a railway for material furnished and labor per- formed on such railway, docs not contain more than one subject and Is not in conflict with the constitution, One of our leading jewelers would like to renew the acquaintanceship with a slick man who called for a lady’s watch that had been left with him to repair. The young fellow knew alljabout the watch and got it, but the owner say: 2 didn’t send the fellow for it. An_elderly gentleman named Haggerty asked the aid of the mayor and couniy com- missioners this morning to procure transpor- tation for a young lady named Higgins to Hutchinson, Kan, The girl is the daughter of a foreman of the packing house, who is now living at Hutchinson. She came to Lin- coln rather suddenly and appeared at the Haggerty mansion with the aunouncement that she had come to visit wi 3 them for a short time, Since arviving she exhioited signs of demeutia, geiting flighty at times, and she will be sent back home this after- noon, Last June Gottleib Weaninger was awavded $0,442 damages against the Missouri 1acific railway company for injuries received in o runaway caused by a Missourl Pac 1oco- motive blowing off steam. Today the mutter was carried to the supreme court by the rail- road company. h 113 —— An Ags of Commorce. Chicagn News, One fact which the recent flnanclal flurry must have impressed on observers with some- thing of tho emphasis of surprise is the mag- nitude of the world's dealings in finance- The relative importance of such an enterprise as that of Barings Brothers—a private cor- ration—has been revealed fn a new light, When one knows that abank can acquire such & position that nations rush to its sv p port in time of need ho perforce hasa re- newed respect for the business dealings of the day. Commercial enterprise is beyond doubt the lcndlnr features of this end of the contury, just as it is the basis und foundation of all the achievements of modern civilization, et Education at Faule, Boston Traveler. She was & schoohna'm, young and fair, Well educated, culture fine, And grammar was her strongest hold, ‘Thie bardest words she could decline, But one fine day along there came A man of handsome, noble carviage, And sho alas! when bo proposed, Could not decline that short word “mar- riage," ature NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST, Nebraska. York wants a beet sugar factory. The Febrou cornet band has been reor. ALY, » The Cozad Messenge by a Mr. Burrows ©. M. Ensterday, formerly a Tecumsoh boy, as been pure 1 | bas been elected a state oficer in Washing ton, ligh s raising 850,000 fora bonus for a 000 beet sugar factory to be built next spring. A grain warehouse from Hubbard has been taken up bodily and shipped on the cars to Claramont. The citizens of Neligh aro making an offort to have the proposed Pucblo & Duluth road run through their town During a runaway J. J. Dunnegin, a livery man at Milford had his arm broken and w.s otherwiso painfully injured, The Chase County Enterprise of Tmpeyial and tho Cord®va Graphic are the lat Journalistic enterprises in the state, A boy in Cpster county set a trap to catch game. One ‘day he ght a big black o fud the uext day he caught s young Dani: | 0y, The Woman's Christian Temperance uni of Grand Island is making a canvass of tiy deserving poor of the city for the purpose of dispensing chavity on Thianksgiving. Y The Toup County Alliance gives this o count of astrange discase up there: Sever horscs have dicd recently in Loup county, A post-mortem examination of one revealed th fact that the second or small stomach and {1 intestines connccting the two stomachs was filled with very fine sand, and the suppo tion is that that was thecauseof the animal s death. There is a query in the minds of sono as to how the sand gets into the stomach, 1, horses are not in the habit of eating sin We have an opinion that they get it frc cating corn fodder. The sand blows into t corn fodder and is taken into tho stom with the food. Now as a great many favmers will bo obliged to foed corn fodder to their horses thoy should be very caroful to shako t well bofore feeding, especially if it is shockea on or near sandy ground. lowa. Tho trial of J. J, Grinnell for tho murder of George Cornell will begin at Elkader Decem- bers. Fifty farmers of Muscatine county aro willing to_subscribe 8500 cach toward tho building of a boet sugar factory in that 3 county, A handsome flag has been received at tho Towa soldiers’ home at Marshalltown, a gitt from the ladies of the Grand Army'of tho Republic, department of Iowa. By the will of tho late I, B, Ja lington 5,000 is bequeathed { L. L. Estes of Webster City $1,000 to President Gates, ter is in the freshman class. Thomas O'Leary, the switchman who 1lost his life in the Santa e yards at. Fort M son last Tuesday night, w mous Mrs, O'Leary of Chic kicked over the lamp on Octoby caused the great Chicago fire, A Dubugue bridegroom who was ma by Rev. McCord at the Methodist parsons the other evening, got so rattled that he wore the preacher’s hat home instead of his own He was ashamed to go back and_gave a small boy a quarter to take the hat back aud ex- change it, Willie Rniggs, a twelveyearold Fort Dodge boy, while driving a cow o pasture near the city, was attacked by two largo tim ber wolves. - He mounted n high gate post and remained a prisoner until a dog put i an appearance an hour later and chased tho animals away, There has been added to the Aldrich col- = lectipn at Des Moines a picture of Wesley - & Elkins, the twelve-year-old boy of Elkader, whomurdered his father and step-mother o few years ago, 1t ropresents him as a quiet, aceable, loving little boy and oue would ardly suspect that he would be guilty of tho fearful crime that ke committed. He is now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary Ahorse belonging to Valentine Rovs h of 3 Westport fell into a well twenty-cight f ct deep, with only three feet of water in it to Dbreak the fall. ~ All the blocks and tackles in i hood were soon at hand, a tem- ck was erected and the work of raising bogan. After several ineffectoal at- tempts, by the breaking of ropes and pulleys, in which ‘the poor horse was dropped to iho bottom from ten to twenty fect cach time, sending the water, weyserlike, many foot in the air from the moutty of the well, the horso was finally landed on terra firma, and, strange 10 say, he scemed but little: affected by the tryiug ordeal. has ple Mr. Estes’ daugh- Beyond the Rockies, Ballard, Wash., is to have an electric streot railway in operation by December 1. A ‘“‘Matrimonial Burcau” with a capital of $10,000 has been incorporated at Tacoma, In Oregon 1,893 persous drew peasions during the fiscal year. Washington's number was 2,155, The Spokane, Wash., exposition ran_thirty (— days and the receipts were $15,000. Tho buildings, ete., cost §105,000, A California expert thinks thereis natural &as to be found in western Oregon aund Wash- ington and in great quuntities, Mrs. Garcelon has compromised with her nephews, the sons of the late Dr. Merritt of Oakland, Cal. The estate is estimated at $2,000,000, Edward Harrington, who has been incarce- rated in the county jail ut Mulian, Idahs, for five months vast on the chargo of killiny Charlos Kickeaitz of Kingston, has been ro- leased on bail of $3,000. William Linden of Helena, Mont., was dangerously cut on the face atd head' by o drunken blacksmith named Hess, the latter maiing the attack without cause. Linden may recover, but he will always carvy two long scars, Michael Shaffer, a miner in the employ of the Livingston coal and coko company, wis instantly killod at Cokedale, Mont, Shaffer was at work in one of the roows of the mino withhis partner. While he was stooping over a huge rock weighing at least five tons became dotached and fell from the roof of the mine, striking Shaffer squarely on the head and mashing him 0 a pulp. ’l'em other may was struck on the leg and escaped with light injuries, The Portland, Ore., chamber of commorco & world’s fair committee and the Press associa- tion agree upon the sum of $250,000 for ex- penses and each organization will proscat o memorial to the Oregon state legislature in January to that end. 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