Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 24, 1890, Page 4

HE OMAHA DAILY BE THE DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER kniror, JERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. d Sunday, One Year.... Eixmonths, o . e months Veckly Bee, One Year. OFFICE Omulin, The Bee Bullding. Routl Oy Corner N 20th Streets ] t ‘Commerce, rihune Bullding treet. CORRESPONDENCE All communieations reiating to news and ditorini matter should be addressed to the 1al Department. BUSINESS LETTERS Al business lotters and remittances should Ve mddressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omnlia. Urafts, ohecks and postofice orders miude puyable to the order of the cow ¥ The Bee Publishing Company, Propritors The Bec Wid'g, Furnam and Sevente EWORN KTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Etateof Nebrasks. } " County of Dougias. Georize 1, Toschuok, secrotary of The Beo Tublihing compuny, Goes solemnly swear tnat the sctual circulation of Tur DA {urlh(' weex ending Nov. 22, 150, was as fol- ows Eundav. Nov, 16, M I Now. 17, Thursdy Friduv. Eaturday, v s 20,7710 . F7sonuck. Average... presence tnis 2d day o ovember, A, D.. 150, 1eRALLL N. P, FriL, Notary fublio Etate of B County wuck, befng duly sworn, do- ys that he is secrotary of The Bee v panv. that the actual average dally ol lation of Tne DALy Ber for the month of November, 150, was 10,310 coples; pinber, 68 Iy, 3, for 890, 10,- Marcl coples; 00, 20,180 61 coples for April, 1800, Junic ,870 coples; for October, GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK, ator Burrows TuE Pine Ridge serial grows in inter- ©st with cach new instalment. Tur old Gould guard in these parts evinces strong symptoms of returning life, ailing color for signals of the Union Pacific is old THE pre distress on Gould. TuE board of public works is con- vinced that new brooms sweep clean, and actsaceordingly, waltzers into spells, a fatal wound would doubtless produce spasms. The experi- ment should be made in the interest of peace. E— A RESOLUTION of sympathy from the county commissioners to the board of public works is in ordor, in view of the latter’s experience with the ex-contrac- tor of the hospital. The commissioners know how it is themselve: ; THE anxiety of the infant smelting combine to take in the great Omaha plant recalls the story of the small boy who offered his father a half interest in his young but promising circus to sus- pend the operation of the paternal strap. Tie importation of a copyist from Plattsmouth to work on the Omaha tax- list does not imply a scarcity of com- petent penmen in this city. Tho trouble is the resident applicants did not plant their insurance where it would do the AND now Church Ho finds a con- tostant bold enough to dispute his sover- eign rights on the murmuring Nemaha. To accuse the famous farmer of buying his way to office shows that even the truly good do not always escape the ma- chinations of the wicked. E— Tue political pipe lines of the combine mre a source ol gravé mental anxiety to the plumbing inspectors. Their efforts to solder the leaks and caulk the decom- yosed joints havenot been equalled since they accepted demoeratic boodle to fight the republican ticket a year ago. S— BUFFALO BILL will be welcomed back 1o Nebraska tonight by the people of Omaha, who recognize in him the best advertised citizen of the state. There aro several paths to fame, and Buffalo Bill has discovered one of them. He personifies the chivalry of the plains, —— Ir 1s evident the news of Brigadier General Colby’s preparations to take the field in person has not reached the camp of the Messiah. As soon asthe thrilline orders to the veterans of the Nebraska First broaks like a cataclysm on Porcu- pine Creek, it 1s safe to predict the whole band will precipitately Sioux for peace. IN the long and lurid proclamation countersigned by Prittle, Dech & Co., there is one gaunt, gasping truth— o thing of substance amid a mass of hideous shadows and wierd fabrications. It is the pathetic appeal for more funds. Inthe whole range of ink-soaked jim- Jams there is nothing so painfully touching. THE affairs of the Columbian exposi- tion appear to be moving forward with a little more harmony and celerity than before This is well, as 1898 is steadily coming on without regard to the differ- euces of real estate boomers or rival commissions, It is high time that all preliminaries were settled and actual work begun. The west would never get done blushing for Chicago is there should be any failure about the world’s fair, E— REPUBLICANS are in honor bound to repudiate the men who deliberately couspired to slaughter the republican ticket last December. One of the most active and vindictive leaders of the traitorous gang was E. P, Davis. Although Davisaccepted the hospitality of the republican candidate for mayor and pledged loyalty to the ticket, he was one of the first to turn traitor and openly fought at the polls the party to whom he owed his election to the coun- cil, and rejoiced over the defeat of lifo- long, roputable republicans, Are the republicans ready to reward such scoun- drelly work? 1 | has had a similar eall | prise, and_the 5 A BLOOD-CURDLING MANIFESTO. In Mexico, Central and South America every revolutions movement is pre- ceded by soul-stiriing appeals from fac- tional leaders and “would-be dictators, For the first time inits history, Nebraska to arms. Three valiant swashhu have fssued the following furious ‘and fuming pro- nunciamento as a prelude to the contest for the governorship and state offices: To Friends of the People’s Cause: We congratulate you upon the part you have taken in winning on Tuesday, November 4, the grandest people’s v ever won in Nebraska. The encmy were taken by sur- cause of the people won all along the line, in places, too, where we least expected such strength. We believe that that victory was not a partial one; that the people of Nebraska expressed as their will that John H. Powers and the state ticket of the independent party, should hold the reins state government for the coming two years. But the people were not to rule, Never in the history of a free people was ever such a perfidious, promeditated and systematic attempt to defeat thelr will, On November 4 last, hell was geographically located, Robber viot and rascality held high carnival. IMiends, bullles, thugs, and cut-throats terrorized the populace, and decent wen were driven away from the poils, At whatever cost the will of the political harlots who managed the republican aud democratic machines, was [0 be foisted upon u righteous people. A most unholy alliance between the sycophaut hirelings who have y v fought each other like dogs for the power to plunder the people, was consum mated, and by specific contract, a plan was agreed upon to foil the just de- mands of the people. Corporate rule was to perpetuate its power by the clection of a democratic governor and a re- publican corps of assi; Men promivent in both organizations,were parties to the combination, and the most hellish methods imaginable were summoned to cute the behests of that damnable conspivacy. Men who had the courage of their convie- tions, who attempted to assist the people's cause at the polls, were mobbed, kuocked down, driven away or dragged off to jail on some fiendish pretext. Thousands of foreign- ers were voted on their fivst papers, paid for by the arch fiends of the unnatural conspir- Thousands more were falsely regis- ballot boses were secreted, results changed, ri of the people trampled upon, and every device known to political chicanery was brought to play. Despite these desperate resources, it looked as though the cause of the people would still triumph. Corruption, fraud, intimidation and violence haa not suc- ceeded in overthrowing the determination of the people. Alarmed at this, the metropolitan sheets, irrespective of pacty, jointly en- deavored to smother facts and vesults of the election over the state. Maudate after man- date was sent out from the headquar ters of the plutocratic combine, and tho ser- vile tools who held the sacred trust of the peopie, obeyed their commmands. Bailot boxes were stuffed, returns padded, canvassing boards packed, hundreds of votes swung around to their opposite, and every right of the people for a public canvass, a fair count, and honest government, was arbitrarily de- nied. Therosult was chauged. The people were not to rule. James E. Boyd with his republican lieutenants, were to prolong the reign of corruption. But we believe the peo- ple, in the intensity of their wrath, incensed by every wrong which organized capital has beenable to foist upon them, will avise in the might of offended righteousness, and de- clare with a force and power that capital will be compelled to acknowledge that jus- tice shallrule, that the will of the people shall be freely expressod and honestly counted, and that when so counted, shall be our law supreme. We,your state committes, propose todo everything within the bounds of honor, as your agents,to see that right and honesty shall triumph, and with your as- sistance, we know that we shall win. We are awake and alive to your interests and pledge our umiost to establish the goverment which your ballots commanded. To protect the rights of our people against the frauds and intimidations as mentioned above, procecdings have been commenced for a contest of the state ofticers. Such con: will be most stubbornly resisted by our com- mon enemy and involves a very large expense which must be met at once, We, your com- mittee in charge, ask youto at once collect and send as much moncy as possible to the undersigned secrctary, A receipt for the same will be given. Please lot this appeal be personal to each lover of justice, and act at once, C. H. Purre, Sec'y, 1084 P Street, Lincoln, Neb. ‘W. H. Deon, W. F. Waieur, Now itis eminently proper for any candidate who believes himself to nave been corruptly deprived of an office to which he was elected to use all legal means for asserting his rights, Itis right and proper for any citizen or any campaign committee to invoke the power of the legislature and the courts against any party or parties that are known or believed by them to have wickedly and lawlessly contrived to count out or count in any candidate or candi- dates. It is perfectly proper for these citizens or committees to appeal totheir party followers or the people for funds to enable them to carry on a contest in due form. But no man or set of men have the right toappeal to tlte passions ard prej- udices of any class of citizens or of any section by a distortion of facts and downright inventions of alleged crimes and a reign of terror that had uo place except in their own fertile imaginations, It is a disgrace to Nebraska that there is no law that will punish men for send- ing out such anarchistic firebrands, The wildest ravings of professional dyna- miters and soclalistic agitators can pr duce no greater harm than such slande ous sereeds against the good name of our state and its law-abiding citizens, They assert that ‘‘robbery and riot held high carnival on election day,” and ‘‘fiends, thugs, bullies and cut-throats terrorized the populace,” ‘What an infamous fabrication. There never was & more peuceable election held in Nebraskp or any- where else. There was no robbery, there wasno riot,there was no,bloodshed. Nobody was terrorized and nota man who desired to vote and had a right to vote was kept from voting anywhere, 8o far as wo have learned. No voter ers was driven away from the polls before he voted and nobody who wanted to vote the independent ticket was molested in the loust, This vaving trio asserts that “ballot toxes wore stuffed, returns padded and thousands falsely registered.” For this assertion they have mno proof whatever outside of the malignant, gang of professional prohibition agita- tators who plotted to throw Douglas county out because her vote was known to be almost unanimous against the pro- hibition amendment. All their energy and argument was exerted to create the - taxation, impression that Omaha was organizing a rald upon the ballot box and imports ing vast hordes of non-residents to de- feat prohibition, when as n matter of fact, every precaution was taken by the authoritios and citizens to have a quiet and fair election and an honest count, regardless of consequences. STUDYING AGRICULTURE ABROAD. One of the suggestions of Secrotary Rusk which should receive the prompt attention of congress and the general support of the farmers of the country is the desirability of adopting some method by which, as oceasion requives and with- out long delays, the department of agri- culture shall be enabled to send repre- sentatives to foreign countries in cases where only personal visits can be relied on to secure much needed information. Our farmers are met by an active compe- tition in evel ot where their pro- ducts nre offered for sale, and the com- mereial side of this condition of things is well understood, but the secretary re- marks that it does not secem to be so clearly und erstood or so well appre ated that there is an intellectual compe- tition which is eyen more serious than the other in that it is the basis of the other, There can be 1o question as to the soundness of the proposition that if the attainment of the highest.results in ag- riculture is sought we must be prepared to learn all that is to be -learned else- where and then wisely adaptthe infor- mation to the conditions of the Ame cau farmer. Obviously such information must be acquired by men who are vhem- selves familiar with our agricul- tural conditions. Our consuls may, and many of them do, furnish most val- uable information regarding agricul- tural conditions abroad, but there isa great deal of practical and technical knowledge to be obtained which cannot come within the scope of the observa- tion of these officinls, and to the ascer- talnment of which they could not devote their time were they specially qualified for such a work. The men necaed for this service, in order to give it any value, are such as have had a thorough practical experience in farming or given agriculture comprehensive scientific study, and who are also well informed as to the agricultural conditions of this count Men of this class, havinga deeper interest in their work than the mere remuneration it would bring, could unquestionably acquire a great deal of information in studying agricul- tural methods abroad that would be of the greatest value to the American farmer, It must not be supposed that farming in the United States has attained its highest possible development. We have yet much to learn of those methods by which the most advanced agriculturists of the old world obtain the maximum of production at the minimum of cost. And we are far behind the other nations of the world in our efforts to acquire larger knowledge on this subject, Un- questionably we are advancing in this respect, but there is hardly a European country where more careful attention is not given to the study and investigation of agriculture than is bestowed upon it here. Important gatherings of men de- voted to agriculturai science are con- stantly being held in various parts of the world at which this country is never represented. Last year at the groat in- ternational agricultural congress at Vienna, at which more than a score of countries were represented, the United States, the greatest of all, had no repre- sentative, although especially invited by the Austro-Hungarian government to participate, Here is a practical matter to which the farmers’ alliances may properly and advantageously give their attention, and if they will support the recommendation of the secretary of agriculture there can be no doubt of a favorable vesponse from congress, with ultimate results that cannot fail to be beneficial to the coun- try’s agricultural interests. ILLEGAL EXEMPTIONS. The state constitution explicitly de- fines the classes of property exempt from Besides public property it ex- empts ‘‘such other property as may be used exclusively for agricultural and hortieultural purposes, for school, relig- ious, cemetery and charitable purposes, but such exemptions shall be defined by general law.” The general law copies the words of the constitution, and vests no discretionary power in state, ¢ ounty or municipal bodies. There is no mistak- ing the language of the constitution. It specifically confines exemption o classes of property “used exclusively” for the purposes mentioned. But the city council of Omaha con- strues the constitution to suit the fancy of the combine, and without warrant of law exempted the following property from taxation: K tone Independent Orvder of Oddfel- lows, north 155 feet of the south half of lot 4, block 246, Omahs lodge No. 2, Independent Order ot Oddfellows, north half of lot 8, block 83, Masonic temple block. Young Men's Christian association block. German association, lot 6, block 122, Danish association, 71'¢x10, block 144, Omaha driving park, 87 acres. All this property, its value running into hundreds of thousands of dollars, was placed on the free list, notwith- standing the adverse opinion of the logal adviser of the eity. City Attorney Poppleton declared that the council had no authority to cxempt this property It was not “‘used exclusively” for the purposes numed in the organic law, therefore the council could not remove it from taxation without violating the provision of the constitution, It is a matter of general notoriety that the Masonic, Oddfellows, Young Men's Christian association, Germanin and Danish buildings afford scurces of vevenue, yielding from three to ten thousand dollars annually hey are not ‘‘used exclusively” for religious or charitable purposes and their total exemption from taxation is not only illegal but an injustice to the rs and a discrimination against organizations. There ave sixty orgunizations in the city, all of which are as much entitled to the favor of the council as the societies owning bulld- ings. Why are not the buildings, parts of which they occupy, exempt from tax- ation and the money thus saved the oy ers applied to the rent? Suppose each of these sixtf™ Brganizations ervected a building, we ypald have sixty-five val- uable blocks fi from taxation while the organizations waxed opulent on the handsome revenuce derived from rents. It requires a wild stretehof finagina- tion to class the “driving park as prop- erty “used exclusively” for “agricul- tural and hortfeultural purposes” in view of the faet that it is occupicd less than ten days.in the year as a fair ground. It ig neither owned nor con- trolled by agricultural or horticultural societies and hpays no closer relution to these objects than u prohibition colonel to the apostle of truth. Where will this species of illegal favoritism end? There is practically no limit to the policy adovted'by the council in ignoring the plain letter of the law. - Tollowed to its logical conelu- sion, all property controlled or partially occupied by benevolent organizations must ., be placed on the free Yist, There is no middle ground. It opens wide the door for tax shirking on flimsy pretests and ververts the generosity of the state Those who urged and inaugurated these illegal exemptions placed an effective weapon in the hands of the swelling army demanding the taxation of all classes of property, regardless of the purpose for which it is use NEBRASKA AND THE NEW COMBINE. Western people have several good reasons for regarding the recent gigantic railroad combine with+ apprehension. Aside from the vate question, which to a considerable degree is amenable to state legislation, theve is another vital point where it will touch the problem of western development. I all the newer states the matter of getting new Iroads and extending those already established is of first im- vortance. Nothing is more closely re- lated to the growth of cities as the com- plete and speedy development of sections now sparsely scttled, Heretofore the most powerful influence in this direction has been the rivalry of competing lines for profitable and promising business. Under the new era of absorption of great railroad interests in the hands of a few, and under the treaty of peuce agreed upon by sub- stantially all westorn roads, the clement of competition must largely disappear. Unless the policy of the trustis more liberal than is so far indicated, it will be a much more difficult matter to n- duce the railroads to extend their lines than it was when the old spirit of rivalry flourished. More than half of the state ot Ne- braska yet remains to be developed by railroad construction, A linedrawn from north to south, and passing through Grand Tsland and Hastings, would mark the western limit of anything like ade} quate railroad development. Beyond that line lie nearly two-thirds of the state. Ixcept inthe extreme northern portion, only two lines of railway run through this vast territory from east to west and none whatever from north to sonth, And yet it is to this section that Nebraska musg look for the larger por- tion of the growth she hopes to attain in the next ten years, Twice as many people as now live in the whole state could be comfortably accommodated be- yond the point where railroad extension has temporarily ceased. The natural competitors for this rich field are the Union Pacific, the Burling- ton, the Missouri Pacifie, the Atchison & Santa Fe, and, possibly, the Rock Island. But if these roads are nolonger competitors what will be the effect orf our undeveloped empire in the west? This is one of the several lights in which the new railroad trust is seen to have an important relation to the future of Nebraski ™ ant to beable to record that no person who has been notified that his election will be contested has yet said that he feared an attempt to cheat him out of his office if the returns show he was elected, 1If this spirit continues on both sides the outcome of the contest, whatever it is, will be accepted by the people of Nebraska without a murmur, —_— THE success of Gordon in Georgla demonstrates that it is one thing to elect an Alliance majority to the legislature and quite another thing to handle it as asolid mass. The Alliance man was defeated and the railrond man elected. All is not victory that glitters in the returns. I 15 pleas THE bloody scalpers now surround® Pine'Ridge agency clamoring for their rations, but the country is safe. General Colby is marching in dress parade order with his batallion and Buffalo Bill only four hundred miles away from the seat of war, ABRAM S, Hewrrr is the latest sug- gestion for the democratic senatorship from New York. It is likely, however, that the man who gets the plum will be much more of a pelitician and much less of a statesman than Abe Hewitt, ONLY two companies of soldiers are left at Fort Omgha. What would the metropolis of Nebraska do if the red- skins should decido to take an excursion down here? Butthen, there’s General Colby and the Omaha guar ——— THE new agriouliural implement trust still insists thatit: will sell its wares cheaper than formerly. If they do, the farmers will kney it, and we shall see a curiosity in the ghape of a trust that is popular, e p— THE linois democrats now claim that they can get along!without the three al- liance men in tho Jbgislature. If that is the case, three mere senatorial ambi- tions have gone glimmering. — Nebraska's Fortunate Escape. speka Republican. The prohibitionists of Nebraska on election day seut telegrams ull over the state saying that those who were attempting to vote for the amendment in the city of Omaha were being driven away from the polls, beaten and large numbers killed, and that one brave pro- libitionist was keeping count of the slain at the risk of his own life. The peoploof Ne- braska, however, were prepared for just such news and not one vote was made for the amendment by these lying telograms, When the whole thing was simmered down after the smoke of batue cleared away, it was tound that all the truth there was in the tel grams was iu the fact that oue prohibit.onist had been knocked down, but that he was the aggrossor and deserved the punishment he received, having grossly jnsulted a man who was handing out tickets against the amend- ment, Nebraska is to be congratulated on having escaped the ordeal of being ruled by suck lying fanatics as aro well represented by the authors of those false dispatchos, The Cause of the Indian Chicago News. The inearceration of Sitting Bull wonld probably take out of tho way all the really dangerous hostile Indians living, If one-half the energy that Sitting Bull has expended in consummating mischievous enterprises had been devoted to the civilizing of his race there wouldn't be a troublesome redskin in North America, — Paradoxical Position of Painted Horse Philadriphia Press. Painted Horse complains that while with Dr. Carver's Wild West show in Europe the Indians were given to much whisky to drink and too little food to eat. This is the first time on record where an Indian has been known to complain over an overabundant sup- ply of tirowater, Trouble, - Colonel Watterson on Wine. Kansas City Jowrnal, “No, thank you, no Califormia wine this evening,” says M. Watterson in the Cour- rier-Journal. Doubtless Mr. Watterson pre- fors the wine after it has been returned from France witha French label. Or else he is simply voicing the Kentucky prejudice against wild drinks. S — NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST, Nebraska. The location of the Ulysses postofice has been changed and a new outfit purchased. Rov. Mr. Queen of Oxford has accepted a call to the Baptist church at Wetmore, Kan. The finishing touches have been put on the new Episcopal church at Wilber and it will be consecrated today. The citizens of Cambridge are subscribing funds to purchasc fire apparatus aud a fire company is being organized. Rev. C. R. Faulk of Stromsburg has ac- cepted a call to the pastorate of the Swedish Mission church at Plattsmouth. ‘The new pipe organ for the Presbyterian church at Plattsmouth has been set up and au organ recital will soon be given, The new city hall at_Wahoo is progressing toward complction, and the fire bell which is to surmount the structure has arrived from Troy, N. Y. The school buildines at the Santee (ndian agency have no protection against fire and an appeal has been made for funds with which to build a water tank, ‘Theannual winter ;meeting of the state board of agriculture will»be held at Lincoln, beginning January 20 at the same time with the wintern corn exhibit. A Nebraska City young man named Eve hars took a big dose of horse liniment by mis- take for whisky, and is now suffering from a burned throat and stomach. The old settlers of Adams county will meet at Juniata December 12 to celebrate the nine- teenth anniveavsary of the county. They in- vite all old scttlers to meet with them and* participate, A gang of Osceola boys raided themills at that place the other night and broke thirty- six panes of glass. Their names have been learned and they have been taxed $21.60 by the proprietor. The county attorney of Jefferson county has commenced suit against John Curtin and Michael gins for $1,186 and costs in the murder trial of Patrick Shiel. They were Shiel's bondsmen, Two Friend boys, twelve and fourteen years of age, named Ad Dine and Ham Dil- lon, quarreled, when the former drew a knife and slashed the latter three times, one cut, across the face, being quite deep. Noarrests were made. Towa. Union county is talking of building a new fail. Orange City is to havea system of water- works, The Perry Methodists have decided to build a $10,000 church building. A big beaver was killed in the Sioux river near Sioux Rapids the other day. Creston has twelve saloons, from which $75 per month each is collected as license. A mysterious disease is killing large num- bers of cattle in the vicinity of Lawler. John G. Smith of Algona, president of the State Sportsmen’s association, has presefited to the Highland gun elub of Des Moines his collection of birds, It contains 125 specimens, mostly lowa game birds, and is very valu: able. Murs, Mollie Cloud. wife of GeorgeR. Cloud, has brought suit against six Carroll saloon” keepers for selling her husband liquor, claim- ing of each the sum of £,000. Cloud was formerly a member of the Carroll county bar and in 1886 was a candidate for district judge on the democratic ticket. - George Bowden of Sibley, has been bound over to the grand jury of Oceola county on a churge of seduction preferred by Katie Ring- ler. The Ringlers ave notorious ~anarchists, the father of the girl being an uncle of August Spies, who was hanged at Chicago two years ago. Bowden gave bonds and was released. Prof. Stalker made some careful tests at the State Agricultural college as to the rela- tive value of raw and cooked food for stock. He was astonished to find “not only no gain but an actual loss by cooking for hogs.” Prof. Henryand others make the same re port, and so far as experimental stations prove anything it stands that raw dry feed gives the best results. § Murs. Probus Eberle of East Dubuque, is probably the last survivor of the BlackHawk war. She is a full blooded Sac Indian and when a little girl was picked upon the bat- tle field of Bad Ax by Bun Jordan, & son of the first settier of East Dubuque, by whom she was afterward adopted, She married a German farmer named Eberle in 1854, with whom she lived happily until his death, a few years ago. She will shortly leave Ilast Dubuque to pass the remainder of her fife with the family of her foster brother, George Jordan of Wiota, Cass county, The Two Dakotas. Another artesian well is soon to be sunk at Madison. A merchants’ carnival will soon be held at Deadwood. “There ave cight patients in the hospital at Aberdeen, The Homestake ‘and Associate mines of Deadwood shipped out $150,000 in gold last woek, The ele stric light plant at Sioux Falls is to be increased from a capacity of 1,200 incan- descent lights to 8,000, Seth Clifford, sherift of Fall River county, has offered a re d of $200 for the arrest ana detention of Silas and Reuben Short- ridge, two brothers who left their home sov- cral weeks ago, and whose whereabouts is a mystery. The Northern Pacitic rai'road company will put down six artesian wells along their Dako- ta division, the first one to be drilled at Buf- falo. The sinking of these wells will be bene- ficial, as it will show farmeas where flowing wells cun be found, besides furnishing the roud with a more abundant supply of water, which is much needed owing to the increased trafiic, Information comes from Blue Blanket that five deaths recently occurred in a lamily of #he name of Hanson, living in southern Camp- bell county, and four deaths are also said to have ocewrred in another Hanson family neighboring and related to the former, in one night. No explanation can be found for the mysterious fatalities, The little two-yearold boy of George Pettie of Turtle Mountain disappeared Oo- tober 18 and it was supposed he had beon stolen. Recently a couple of boys found the dead blxlf' of the missing boy. Itlay in a clunip of dry bush about three miles from home and about twenty feet from Willow creck. The flesh was nearly all eaten oft from the face and neck, no doubt by mink and birds, The Moody county bank has secured & tem nmmn]um-nuu restraining the county auditor from delivering the tax list to the treasurer for collection against said bauk on account of the doubling of the assessment by the state board of equalization. This injuns- tion 1s one of the steps in a proceeding to test the legality of the action of ' tne state board and the constitutionality of the law under which the board acted in doubling the ass: ment of all moneys and credits in the state. APPEALS FOR AID AND ARMS. Governor Thayer Besieged With Petitious for Protection Against the Tndians, COL. BILES' REGIMENT READY FOR ACTION, Mickey Once More Insane~The Oaple tal Hotel Building Changes Hands —A Theatrical Company in Hard Luck. LixcoLy, Neb., Nov, 28— [Spectul to Tuw Bee. | —Since the publication in Twue Ber ex- clusively this morning of thejproposed plot of the supposed friendly Indians to murder all of General Brooke's forces a panic seems to have seized the settlers living near the Pine Ridge agency. Allday long telegrams have come pouring into Governor Thayer's office appealing for military aid and arms. Among some of the telegrams received are the fol- lowing: Copy, Neb., Noy. 2.—(To uis Excellency, Johin M. Thayer, Governor of Nebraska]-—We earnestly request you to sond us Immediately fifty riflos and aminition for defense against Indians. Please answer, A. D, CoLr and Other Cltize: Cuanrow, Neb., N To hfs Exo John M. Thayer, Nebrusks Pine Ridge 1, as mayor of Chad- ron, request i us 200 stand of aruis and supply ammunition, Answer. Henwen, ND REGINE N FATBURY. Y olin M. Tha, er, governor of e notified all companies of my rogiment to be n re for marching orders at one day's notice. awalt your furthor orders. Colonél Commanding Second fantry. Wirrsey, Neb., N John M. Thayer, gor 200 stunds of arms Settlers hav case answer quick, HFPADQUARTES SF( [Toh ( 1. Reglm 2. —[Tolis F: nor of Nebras S ammunition o Whit- t SpRINGFIELD, Neb,, Nov lency, John ayer, g —1 believe thit the peaple of danger trom the Indians on tho rescrvation and I request that you eause to bo sent to us elther a strong detachmont of militia or at loast u hundred good i 000 rounds of cartridges. We feel that we need help and at once. HUGH BooTH, Sherlft Keya Pahia County. Unfortunately all the available arms and ammunition have already been sen, out in re- sponse to calls and none are now left in the capitol, Adjutant General Cole, however, is making arrangements tc get the state militia in read- iness in case of an outbreal and he is busily engaged sending out notices to the state guards to make immeaiate reports as to how many men are available for immediate seryice in case of necessity. It is therefore possible that the state miliiia ma; ave a chance to see active service and prove that they are worthy of a better epithet than that of tin soldiers, 1 {To his Ex nor of Nebrasku.] my eounty are in MICKEY ADJUDGED TNSAN James B. Mickey, the wellknown and well- to-do farmer living six miles southwest of the city, was adjudged insane again yesterday and 'will be taken back to the asylum once more for treatment. It appears that the last time ho was at theasylum he was released too s00n ‘and overwork has since then brought on a repitition of bis former misfortune. PROPOSED CAPITAL HOTEL IMPROVEMENTS, Now that N. S. Harwood and J. H. Ames haye bought the Capital hotel building from J. B, Kitchen it is rumered that the purchas- ers intend to enlarge and improve the hotel by adding another story and by extending the buildingto the south'so that it will cover an_entire quarter of a block. It is also rumored that an opera house may be incor- porated withiu the new structure. IN HARD LINES, The present season is a pretty tough one on theatrical enterprises, and Rice's *World's Fair” company which appeared at Funke's last mght is no exception. The company ad- vertised elghty people in the cast, but, there was hardly one-fourth that number. It was no fault of Mr. Rice, however, that such was the case, but simply an example of very hard ines. When the company showed at Kansas City two weeks ago theré were fifty people in the company, but the weck's business brough Rice out #300 in the hole, and Manager Crawford of the Warder Grand, to whom this was owing, advanced enough to get the company to St. Joseph, sending along a representative to preside over the box office. 1il luck followed the company, and it was necessary to dispense with the services of nearly two-thirds of the company, and-the Crawford representative came with the com- pany successively to Beatrice and Lincoln, Last mght Mr. Elliott, Crawford's agent, attached thé scenery and costumes of the company to satisfy a claim of 3 CAPTUKED THE BRIDGE, It seems that the Lincoln strect railway, anticipating the intentions of the Lincoln electrio rallway company to oross Salt creeic at I]\(A:mu! luullllm\l;l ;I ne towards Cushman ric, has quietly takon mmgn hy n.\nunz down :h»m‘y‘u completely shutting out the electric com 8 the Lincoln street railway comn: promises to 0 run its cans by elece the faflure of tho electric street rail- capturo the bridge does not create the feeling of regret that it otherwise would. . IR CONTEST, Neither State Treasurer Hill nor Auditor iton, both of whom were notified yester- by the alliance lawyers of the propose appear 1o be in the least concorned concerning the outeome of tho affair, W uat both gentlomen dread is the expense it will incur, and both have had to make heavy drafts on their pockets during the late cam- paign, ONDS AND ENDS, The grand march at the charity ball on Thursday evening is to be lod by Governor and Mrs. Thayer. The Lotus club, which s composed of Knights of Pythins and their ladies, will give its first bail the present season at Ma- sonic temple Tuesday evening. - His Head Was Swelled. I witnessed a_strange anda ludicrous scene soeveral afternoons since on one ot the Kast Side stroets, says the Providenco Telegram, Some laborers, who were re- lmlrlng a portion of one of the sidewalks, had deposited a pitcher of thickened wator noar a free, visiting it vhenever their thirst became annoying, Whilo they were busy over the job a hound trotted along, and spying the pitcher at once set out to investigato it. Inserting his sharp muzzle into the interior hedis- covered the deliciousness of the contents, and began to lap vigorousiy. Of course the more he transferred to his stomach the lower he was obliged to push his jaws in ovder to keep the refreshing compound n range of his tongue, Finally he exhausted the beverage and started to _extricate his head. A difficulty he had not reckoned on here presented itself, His cranium, some- how, was too large to be drawn back through the opening into which it had slid so nicely, nor could he by the fiore- st of jorks or shakes get free, Then began an exciting performance. The animal howled lustily and sprang in all directions, rolling and pawing till it seemed as if he would work himself into madness. Bits of the pitcher wero broken mow and then, und orifices created in its shining sides, out of which burst, like echoes from & decp-sunken cave, sounds of the frightened fellow's terrific cries. Fearing the consequences of a hydrophobic fit, the workmen, who had watched the ludicrous spectaclo the beginning, siezed the dog and ched his clay prison into fragments. - The Woman Napoleon Hated, Tho lady whom the Emporor IIL. hated moston earth has just d During the brilliant days that followed the coup d'etat Napoleon made count- less efforts to live on good terms with the old nobility, There was no limit to the bribery, cajolery, and even threats to which he resorted in order to induco them to frequent his brand new court. The Marquise de Castellane, whoso death is just announced, took the lead in bidding him degance. She not only refused to go to court herself, but sho cut any of her acquaintances whom sho knew to meet with favor there, and as her salon was the most charming in Paris chance of being excluded from it was not so lightly encountered. The marquis was a grandniece of Talleyrand, and it was through her influence that the great diplomat signed an act of re- traction and became reconciled to the church of Rome, For some lived in retirement, but in e she was one of the most bri powerful of the grandesdames of Paris. e o Philahthrophy Doesn’t Pay Nowadays. Verily this is a_*‘perverse and unto- ward generation.” This latest bit of news concerning Sister Rose Gertude is that she and *‘her male carrier of possi- ble germs of leprosy (Dr, Lutz) should not be allowed to land in England,” and that “they assumed a post which nobody thrust upon them, and now, being parently tired of their gratuitous att tion to unfortunate wrotches who never sought them or their medicines, the are returning to civilization more ¢ less filled with the germs of the filth curse,” So much for heroism, self-sacr! fice and devotion to a repulsive cause in the year of our Lord 1890. Capoleon d. 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