Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1890, Page 4

HE OMAHA DAILY BEEj}THU RSDAY, OVEMBER 27, 1890. " DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, Editor, PWORN RTATENENT OF CIRCULATION Elute of Nebrusicn 1 County of Doustas.y 9 Gearge B, Teschuck. seeretary of The Ben Pellighing compune. does selemnly sweat o 100 the netual eireulatic IATLY BER the weexending Nov. 22, 1890, was us fol- riday. Nov Euturday, Ni 20,771 | TrRenUOK. « Fworn to before me and subscribed i m: presence tuis 22d dav of November, A, D.. 1 REAL | N. P FriL Notary Publie Btut o of Nebrs }'l County betng duly sworn, de- 1hat ne fs secretary of The Bee panv, that the actul average thtion of DALy Bree for of Noveniber, was 10,810 coples; er, 1860, 20,048 coples; for January, copies; for Febru 1800, 10,0 March, 160, 0815 cople 04 coples: for My, 1800, 20,15 1800, 20301 copies: for July, 1800, 90,750 copies! dully rire the month for Decen 1400, 1 % coples; e for April, 1600 e 18 12 copies, 10 before me, and subscribed in my .+ this 15004y of Nove AT, 1600 Notary Pu The lnpending session af the leglsluture Wit be of vital concern to the people of this state. It is of the utmost ireportance that saebers of the legisluture shall undorstand the wants of thelr constituents and be pre. pared to grapple lntellizently and advisedly with the fssues that must come re them. Tue Bee therefore fnvites suggestions from those who are famlliar with any particular Is likely to engage the attention ure. Parties favoring us, how- ever, ure requested to make their commun cations ns bricf as possible and to the point. 1t Is tobe understood thut Tue Bee will not be responsivle for the publishod views of con- tributors, and It reserves the privilege of dls. cussing them in its own way and from the standpolut which it deems best for the inter- ests of the people, Charles Francis Adams! And a pleasant Thanksgiving —_— ous conflict at the seat of war is the persistent conflict of reports, BURROWS has issued no edict st the observance of Thanksgiving, Let everybody eat turkey. Tr is to be hoped that the Sioux braves will not make hogs of themselves today on two ounces of heef per capita. — Mg, POWDERLY'S Omaha speech was, on the whole, sensible and dignified. It was considerably stronger in the setting forth of grievances, however, than the suggestion of remedies. action of the Maryland democracy yells for Cleveland, Boss Gorman is quietly bargaining to deliver the state to Hill in 1892, And Boss Gorman is o man of his word. —_— ABOUT all there is left of the spirit of the old Puritan Thanksgiving is the custom of family reunioa around the home hearthstone. But that is a still precious sentiment, and this is the day of days. Wit a ROBERT LINCOLN says America has do diplomatic standing at the court of St. James because everybody knows it Las not the power to support its de- mands. Has the British premier heard of the cruiser Maine? IN viEW of the alacrity with which munagerial heads are rolling into the basket, it is eminently proper that a meeting of railroad officials should be called in Chicago “to devise a scheme for ending the present demoralization,” —_— THE vegret which the republicans feel over the retirement of Roger Q Mills from public life is modified by the assurance that he will remain in the harness long enough to put his party in a hole during the Fifty-second congress, —_— ‘WHILE giving afull measure of thanks for capturing the state legisiature, the rank and file of the independent party should heed the painful cry of distress from headquarters. Give liberally, gen- tlemen, but don’t sk any impertinent questions, —— A DEFEATED candidate for the Cali- fornia legislature insinuates that Sena- tor Leland Standard’s bar’l was perni- ciously active in the election. Well, whatofit? Isnot Mr. Stanford committed to the policy of loaning money on in- different security ¥ — No workingman who has any self-re- spect will allow himself to be carted and driven about from ward to ward like vot- ing cattle at the orders of the bosses and contractars, When any contractor asks him to do such eriminal work, he should resent it as an insult. CORORAL TA v$ the republi- can party was rebuked by the old sol- diers because it failed to give them more Lonorable pension legislation. There is but one cominent that can be passed on the corporal’s ruggestion, and that is to put an exclamation point after it —ee WiERE ballots have been cast in the “‘mode provided by law,” says the state supreme court, *‘the presumption is that they aro logal, und this presumption canmot beoverturned by vague, indefinite and uncertain testimony.” This logical definition is commended to the sober con- sideration of Burrows, Powers & Co. —— PATRONAGE is a blight on any party, though a necessary accompaniment of success. Indiana went for Harrison when it was full of Cleveland postmus- oters and against the republicans when Harrisonians had taken their places. One reason why patronage hurts more than it helps is because it is generally distributed to political bums and loafers. — WHEN a workingman hires out to a grading contractor or puving contractor or any other employer he does not sell his vote with his labor. No employer has a mortgage upon the soul and politi- cal conscierce of his workmen, and es peclally those employed on publio works, It would be a base prostitution of the sacrefl franchise to have workingmen -employed by contractors take the risk of being sent to the penitentiary for fraud- ulent voting at primavies for the sole benelit of contractors who are under ob~ ligation to the corrupt vings that are manipulating our public works. TIHE NATIONAL THANKSGITING, No inst! tution for which we have the authority of the forefathors is move hon- orable to their memories than that which will be observed throughout the lund to- duy—the mnational thanksgiving. example they et of periodically giving thanks for the special favors of heaven their descendants have improvod upon by making the thanksgiving regular annunl ovent and distinguishing the day on which it is observed as 4 general holi- | There is ample reason for this in inthe steady progress of the nation, fur nishing cause for frequent thanksgiving. The occasion is rich in suggestions, all of which, together with the influences incident to it, are improving and elevat- ing. Tt sa good thing that the whole people should be reminded at least once a year that they have reason to be thankful for the continued benafits of free institutions, for the aggregate in- crense of prosperity, and for the unin- terrupted growth of the republic in wealth, power, and moral and intelloct- ual achievement. This observanee has no concern with the condition of the in- dividual, for did it so it would be a mockery to millions. It refers to the ganeral welfare, the aggregate benefits for which a Christian people should be thankful, and thus it is justified, for what people ave &0 favored as the Amer- ican people ? In its home gutherings and other pleasing features Thunics- giving day also has much to commend it, and in all respocts this peculiarly American institution has such strong aims to regard that its perpetuity for generations to come, with a steadily growing interest in it, is assured. NO EXTRA SESSION. Petitions are in circulation in various parts of the state and being numenously signed asking Governor Thayer to call an extra session of the legislature for the purpose of providing an appropri- ation for the relief of the drouth-stricken settlers. It is to be hoped that this work will not be persisted in, and that Governor Thayer will inany event not yield to the demand. The legislature will meet session within five weeks. In the mean- time, there are better means of provid- ing for the necessities of the affiicted sottlers than the costly method of con- vening an extra session. In every part of the state active steps have been taken to gather provisions and raise reliol funds. These mensures meeting with considerable success and meney and provisions are-being carried free by the railroads to the people who are in need. It isdoubtless true that the de- mand is still far from satisfied and that many thousands of dollars have yet to be raised in order to carry the af- flicted people safely through to the season when they can begin to renlize something from their own resourc But there should be no difficulty in pro- viding temporary relief from the meas- ures now under wny., After January 1 the legislature can deal with the mat- ter. There is one way, however, in which the extra session¥ petitions will do good. They will awaken the people to the necessity of pushing the worlk of relief and cause them to open their hearts and pockets without further delay. This happy Thanksgiving season should im- press every prosperous Nebraskan with the duty he owes his fellow-citizens, Common humanity should inspire our people to give promptly and liberally from their abundance. But the extra session is not necessary or practicable. The amount of money it would cost would go a long way to make the settlers in the seuthwest comforta- ble and secure. ——— A CRISTS IN IRISH AFFAIRS. A most serious calamity has befallen the cause of home rule in Ireland. What the full effect and the ultimate result may be cannot now be clearly divined, but it is plain that the cause is in greater jeopurdy than it has been before in a number of years, or atany time since in regular § Mr. Gladstone joined hands with Mr. Parnell and they became co-leaders of a united English and Irish party. That union is broken, so far at leastas the leaders are concerned, and they must hereafter act apart, possibly not without ameasure of concurrence, but certainly not with the force and prestige which their association gave to the policy they represent. The separation will perhaps not seriously affect the Irish party. The indications are that it will continue intact. But will Mr. Gladstone be able to hold the English liberals in line? Will that party, lurgely composed of men who look with aborrence upon every kind of socinl vice, and especially that particu- lar vice of which Mr. Parnell has been found guilty, continue to identify them- selves with a cause of which Parneil is still a recognized leader? It is said of the greater part of them that they put mor- als before politics and obedience to the decalogue before expediency. If this bo a true description of their character they may refuse to follow even Mr, Gladstone so long as Parnell is permit- ted to have any part in the common canse, The dacision of Mr. Gladstone in this most vital matter was awaited with great anxiety, although there was a general feeling that he would take the ocourse he has adopted. Manifestly he was constrained to make the decision he has by both pex sonal and political considerations, In his letter to Mr. Morley he of course considered the matter only from the po- litical point of view. Whilerecognizing {fully the splendid services of Mr. Par- nell to his country Mr. Gladstone de- clares that his continuance in the lead- ership would have consequences disas- trous in the highest degree to the cause of Ireland. This is the strongest lan- guage in the letter, the whole tone of which implies a profound sense of the immensely weighty nature of the exi- gency which made such a communica- ion necessary, It wasintended that the conclusions arrvived at by Mr, Gladstone should not be made public in the event of the voluntary retirement of Mr, Par- nell, but the Irisk leader seems to have been unwilling to make any personal sacrifice, and in retaining his leadership forced into publicity an ex- pression of the views of the English leader. Had Mr. Paruell given way to The | | of | ' a sucenssor, whom he might have named, and remained ina position where his vounsel would have heen avallable, the danger to the Irish canse from the pres- ent situation would have been averted As it is, the peril i unquestionably v groat. Mr, Gladstone may feel it In- ctumbent upon him to withdraw from the | home rule contest, and such an event, if it did not utterly wreck the cause, would certainly deprive it of any hope of success for many yeurs to come, The unfortunate ecrisis will be greatly deplored by all sincere friends Irciand, and we believe the best judgment of all who are in a position to julge candidly and without ymejudice wtll be that it was the duty of Mr. Parnell to have re- tired from londership, as the only courso certuin to prevent the disruption of the Anglo-Irish alliance, now, it is to be feared, virtually accomplished, His failure to do this must be accounted, in the present aspect of the case, thegreat- est political mistake of his life, LET US BE THANKFUL, Because the whole state has a better promise of rapid growth today than at any time gince her star went into tho flag of the union, Becnuse the sugar beet industry has taken firm root in our soil. Because the eicventh national census shows that Nebraska has distanced every other agricultural statein the last ten years, Because none of the hardy settlers on the northern boundary have adopted the vicious fashion of going without their scalps, Because there won’t be another big eloction for two years. Because Jay Gould has not yet fenced in the earth. Because the country has not gone to the bow-wows, in spite of democratic predictions, Because this is the best country on the footstool and its people havo the power to remedy all their wrongs. Because, finully, it is o good old-fash- ioned custom 1o be thankful once a year at this particular time UNION PACIFIC CHANGES The reorganization of the directory of the Union Pacific in the interest of Jay Gould has been effected. President Charles Francis Adams retives and Sid- ney Dillon resumes his place as head of the corporation, Mr. Adams came into the ment of the Union Pacific at a time when the affairs of the corporation were in a deplorable condition, The compa had beon operated as n flocter for vari- ous side schemes, the road and rolling stock had been run down and the earn- ing power of the rond veduced to the lowest notcl Mr. Adams infused life and activity in all departments, sub- stituted steel rails for streaks of rust and brought the road and rolling stoc upto & standmd surpassed by uone in the west. The administration of Charles Francis Adams has not been without damaging mistakes, chief of which were the division of authority, the multi pli- cation of subordinate managers and tho dismissal of tried and trusty officials who had grown up with the road. The change from Adams to Dillon, however, bodes no good for the corpora- tion or the people along the line of the rond. The experience of the west with both administrations does not warrant regrets for the old or cheers for the new. On the contrary, the people of the west whose industry and thift yields seven- tenths of the company’s revenue must trust to luck and keep their powder dvy. — HANDS OFF. Within the past ton days the grading contractors have very materially in- creased their forces. These men are camping in the western wards of the city and the manifest purpose of the con- tractors is to vote this horde of promis- cuous voters for the chiefs of the couneil combine at the republican primaries next Friday. The contractovs mako no secret of their intention to throw these men wheve they will do the most good for the councilmen that have favored them. It isalso an open secret that the gangs employed by sewerage contractors, puving contractors and the waterworks, gas and street car com- panies are to play a prominent part in the raid upon the republican primaries. The plan of campaign is not only to vote these workimgmen, who are for the democrats and independ- in the wards in which they have no residence, but o nse somo of them as repeaters and vote them sey- eral times in the various wards of the city as was done at the republican primariesa year ago in the interest of Broatch. In this conspiracy to overthrow the will and wish of republican citizens and taxpayers, democratic as well as vepub- lican city officials, from chairman of the board of public works down to sewer in- spectors, plumbing inspectors and pay- ing inspectors, have been enlisted, Now we serve fair warning on con- tractors and public officials who pro- pose to take a hand in this eriminal work that the election laws make re- peating and the voting of non-residents a penitentiary offense not only for those who cast the fraudulent votes, but their employers and abettors, The primury election laws were enacted to prevent the mefarious practices by which pri- mary elections had formerly been made a farce, The friends of good government in this city propose tohave this law rigidly enforced at the coming primarvies re- gardloss of whem it may strike. Em—— THE OVERCROWDED NORTHWEST. A former citizen of Omuhg who was beguiled to the Pacific northwest by stories of flush times, uncommon activity and unequalled opportunities for invest- ment, sends a warning note from Port- land, Ore. He says: Immigrants wre coming in now mt the rate of from three hundred to five hundred per day. Most of them go back dis- gusted, if they are able to get sway. 1 think it is safe to say that at least four thousand men ave out of employment in this city, and I caunot see what is going to become of ther The country is boomed too much. The condition of business and labor in Portland reflects the condition of Oregon and Washington, and yet advertise- ments are flaunted in Omuha and the | nearly three thousand dollars for the eust urging workingmen particularly to migrate to @ states, supplemented with temptingl offers of employment at liberal waged| The country is alrendy overcrowded; "with ‘both the working classes and buginess men, and the efforts being made {0 incroase the number of the former isa scheme concocted by meroenury employment agencies, Theve | are but two new railronds under way in | those states—oxtensions of the Unien Pacific and - the Northern, and the paralysis of ‘thte money market atthe present time will probably result in the suspension of building operations, which will still further intensify the glutted condition of the labor market. Oregon and Washiugton are states rich in mineral and agricultural re. sources. The former is old and well set- tled, while the latter is comparatively new. Butthe tide of emigration dur- ing the past three years has been enormous, far exceeding the necessities of the country and producing a conges- tion detrimental alike to the country and disastrous to thousands of energetic people, who exhausted their means to move to the northwest only to find hun- dreds of applicants for every vacancy, For the present at least the country is a first class one to stay away from. THE periodical purification of local politics is aguin under way. The dis- tinguished Twenty-eighters display symptoms of returning life, and are ready to rescue the city from the hosts of sin. Lversince the late “wise and vig- ilant™ mayor appealed to the ministes association for supportand failed to got it, his gang of sanctified pretenders huve scoured the highways nnd byways to bring the wicked to t} knees and ele- vate the tone of public morals. What they do not know about purity in elec- tions is not worth knowing. True they have diverged from the straight and narrow path so frequentlv that they hardly know its location. What if the Messith of the purists attempted to touch the First ward delegation to the republican city convention for four votes on their own terms, or accepted democratic boodle to defeat the republi- can ticket, contributed to the defeat of annexation, organized the council com- bine for the clevation of the political heathen, snd supported the candidacy of Mercer with whetted knives, All of these glorious acts were in the inter- est of “purity” in elections—such purity as enhances the personal welfave of the purists and the wolitical prosperity of | the Twenty-eighters. THE ladies who have blished the woman’s reformatory known as the Open Door, desdrve the most liberal en- courngement at the hands of our charita- ble and philanthropic ecitizens, The institution is one that appeals to the sympathies of all classes and should be generously supported. Every well-to- do household is in condition to contribute its mite to keep the inmatesof the in. | stitution comfortable and supply them with such articles of food as will make Thanksgiving day memorable. —_— Mayor CUsSHING'S veto of the street- sweeping claim fs a timely rebuke of the reckless methods of the council. Before approving the claim the council con- fessed that the work had not been done according to contract, and yet, in the face of this acknowledgment, the com- bine permitted the bill to go to the mayor for approval. The subine action of the council emphasizes the necessity of placing city affairs in the hands of men with sufficient kbone to insist on the fulfiliment of every contract, WiLL Councilman Wheeler, ‘“the watch-dog of the city treasury,” explain why he allowed the bills amounting 1o street gang that was hired last year for the sole purpose of voting for Broatch at the primaries? © Did not Wheeler know that these men rendered no service to the city and were not needed by the street commissioner excepting for politi- cal purposes? JusT as soon as the election is over next Tuesday the contractors and bosses who are now herding large numbers of, graders and other workmen and promis- ing them steady work will all be dis- charged and set adrift to hunt up such work as they can get. This isa game that is played by contractors and. politi- cal roustabouts every year just before election, THE Mivneapolis Tribune comments dubiously on the enlargement of the Omaha coffin factory, and suggests that the concern has u contract “to bury a very dead town.” Evidently the Min- neapolis branch of the factory struck a rich lead and is working it for allit is worth. This explains the necessity for an immediate enlargement of the parent wlant. We are of- assured the red-whiskerod abom- inations on the city hall front were im- ported from Gepmany, where the origi- nals did service probably at the portals of a graveyard in the Black Forest. — THE only way to down the rotten com- bine, of which Wheeler, Chuifee and Davis are the heads, is for every tax- payer and every: citizen Who dosives to promote the weNare of this city to turn out at the primaries. THE local Tanynany bra emulating their distinguished brethren of the Sioux tribe, are indulging in a ghost dance— the ghost of the gombine, and the voters furnish the music, “THE fairest eempetition ever held in Omaha.” Shades of Wheeler, Chaffee and Counsinan, come forth and don the ascension robes, — ACCORDING to Cavtain Powderly and Colonel Craddock, the Knights of Labor have become a- full fledged political party. E— IMPROVEMENT is the order of the day, even in the management of public affairs, EE—— What day Necds Now. Kansas City Journal. Huy7g secured everything in sight, Mr, Gould should buy a telescope to enlurge the range of bis vision. He might ulso go over the map of the United States with a micro- scope, LITTLE PLEASANTRIES, foston Courier ery enrnest worker Teols it to be his story duty to koep to the fare. Binglumpton Leader: describe a perfe: taut, Boston Courler: Culprit barber to man at guiilotine--No shampoo; Just a plain cut, please, St Joseph News: A cab dviver may not boa hard working newspaper man, but he does a good deal of hack work, none the less. Boston Bulletin: It is said thav the prices of some grades of carpets have gone up, but ‘then 1t is not difficu’t to put down carpets at any time, Boston Gazette: A poot says that & baby is “anew wave on the ocean of life.” It strikes us that “‘a fresh squall” would ex- press the idea better, Atchison Globe: When a big man in a littlo town moves to a larger town i is putting himself in a position to learn bis first big lesson in humiliation, . Fliegende Blatter: “Children today we are to have fish for dinner, and if you will tiry to be very good you shall pound me on my back if I get a bone in wy throat." Somerville Journal: T'he man who “never can find time" to do anything you ask of him may generally be scen looking out of the window when there is u brass band going through the street New York Sun: “That's a congressman- at-large,” said Glim, indicating a man to his cousin from the country. O, I ain't afraid,” replied young Meddergrass, “I've only got 17 cents about my clothes,” A rope cannot iy straight line until it is NEWS OF THE NORTH) Nebraska. ‘The foundation for the new Congregational churchat Crawford has been laid. The annual meeting of the Patrous of Hus- bandry will be held at Pawnee Civy Decem- Dber 9, Godfrey Carleen has disappeared from York and there is $600 worth of wailing and gnashing of teeth among his creditors. For stealing corn, Len Collins of Teka- mah is enjoying a dict of bread and water while serving out a twenty-day juil sentence. W. B. Woeks, ex-treasurer of Greeley county, has been ‘arrested on a charge of eni- bezzlement, but the amount of the shortage s not been made public. The boys of Daveaport who are allowed to prowl the streets after dark stole two and a half cases of pop the otier night, drank the contents and threw the bottles over the town. e at Riverton destroyed the livery barn of George Enos_containing eleven horses, a number of bugggies and Larness and » large auantity of foed. The barn of Isaac Shep- ardson, with two horses and two cows, was also burned. The fireis supposed to have been of incendiary origiu. Colonel Lewis Butler of St. Paul will spend the next year of his life in the pen as a penalty for disposing of mortgaged prop- erty. The colonel is sixty-five yoars of but he made a great run for committing the crime and was not captured until be had reached Corpus Christi, Tex. E. W. Ormsby and one hundred _other tax- pavers of Merrick county have petitioned the oard of supervisors to place a bounty on wolves. Ttis msserted that o thousandor more dollars damage is done yearly by these animals, on hogs, shoep, turkeys, cilves, etc., and something 'must be donc to protect our tax-payers on whom tho loss falls. The com- plaint iu this direction is becoming general. . Beyond the Rockies. A California man has started into the busi- ness of raising half-breed buffalo, A special ecnsus agent finds that there aro 5,500 Indians in the state of Washington Glass and iron men are in correspondence with capitalists of Spokane Falls, Wash., with the view of establishing factories there. A Culusa county (Cal.) man drove 28,000 sheep across the land of a neighbor the other v he has been sued for $3,850 dam- spussing, ‘The soug birds brought from Germany ana turned loose in Oregon last yoar have pros- pered, and a large number ‘of insectiverous song birds will be imported. ‘The volcanoes of Washington are so active that around O*Ounogan and Lake Cheban, cast of the Cascades, is & region of changing level and almost continuous earthquakes, A contract has been made at Portland, 1o dig a ditch three miles long for the dvainage of Lake Labish, by which moans 8,500 acres of valuable land will be recluimed. The bed o1 the Feather river in California, which has been laid bare, will yield from $10,000,000 to $15.000,000 of gold if the ground. proves us rich as that which has been worked. A petition was recently cirenlated in Fort Beuton asking congress for the opening of the Fort Assinibione hay reservation, which contains about 4,000 acres of the finest hay land in Montana. A Saeramento bookkoeeper reoontly ate four castor beans, He wishes now that he had not eaten them. for the beans had such an effoct on hum that at one time he was in a very dangerous condition and his life was despaired of. A natuval gas and hot water well has been discovered 500 yards from the Donahue rail- road and two miles north of Sowoma, Ci The flow of gas is romarkable and measures 0,000 feet cvery twenty-four hours. The well has now been bored to the depthof thirty-six feet. There was displayed in the window of the First National bank of Albany, Wa the other day the first gold brick ever proc by the mines on the Santiam river. The Al- bany mining and milling company has erected asmull millon 1ts property in that vegion, and & §200 brick was the vesult of the first five and one-half ton lot of ore worked. ‘I'he Catholie bishop of Nesqually brought suit m the United States court at Tacoma, Wash,, to secure the title to 430 acres of land occupied as a military reservation at Van- couver. The claim is based upon the estab- lishment of a misslonary station there by vonsent of the Hudson's bay company. The court decided that the United States govern- ment had a prior claim. An appeal to the supreme court wus taken. The land is now worth £00,000 to §1,000,000, 5 s b OF THANKSGIVING. TWILIGHT W. D, Kelly in Ladies' Home Journal. The day has lengthened into eve, And over all the meadows ght's silent shuttles weave Their sombre web of shadows ; With northiern lights the eloudless skies are faintly phosphorescent, And just above yon wooded riso The new moon shows hor crescent. Before the ovening lamps are lit; While day and night commingle, The sire and matron come and siv Beside the cozy ingle; And softly speuk of the delight Within their bosoms swelling, Because beneath theiv roof tonight “Their dear ones all are dwolling. And when around the chicerful blaze The young folks take their places, What blissful dreams of othor days Light up thelr aged face: Tho past returus with all 1ts joys And they ngain are living The years in which, as girls and boys, Their children kept Thanksgiving. The stalwart son recalls the time, When, urged 10 the endeayor, He tried the well greased pole to climb, And failed of fame forever. The danghter tells of her emprise, When, 05 & new begiuner, She helped her mother make the pis For the Tuauksgiving dinner, And thus with laugh and jest and song, And tender recollections, Love speeds the happy hours along And fosters fond affections ; While fancy, listening to the mirth And dreating pleasunt fictious, Imagines through the winds on earth That heaven breathes benedictions. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' TIOME Commandan *enty Gives Some Tntoresting Foots About That Refuge. WILLIAM WILLIAMS AND MOTHER-IN-LAW, Some Railrond Injunctions Amicably Settied —The Milwaukee May Strike Lincoln - Supreme Court Declisions. Lixcowy, Neb,, Nov. 95.—[Special to Tng Bre.]—Captain W, C. Henry, the command- ant of the soidiers' and sailors' home at Grand Island, submitted today his first bien- nial report to the board of public lands and buildings. The report is full of facts of in- torest, The homo was first opened July 1, 188, and the report is concerning the con- dition of the home from that date to today. The report shows that there ure five resi- dent officers of the home, as follows: W, C. Honry, commgndant; William H., Wesle; adjutant; N. H. Hurford, quartermaster; John Juuss, surgeon; M. 5. Hurford, matron, The home at presont is nearly full in all its departments, When the inmates now ab- sent on o furlough return ufl the vacant rooms will be occupied. Tho farm connected with the home consists of 640 acres, only fifty of which have been cultivated. The past summer ninety acres more of sod were broken and cross plowed and made ready to plant the coming season. The dry scason of the pres- ent year @ vory smull crop was raised. Eighty hogs have been raised almost entirely from the refuse of the home, and are now being slaughtered for consumption, Fourteen cows, fifteen calves and four head of horses coustitute the other stock on the farm. Nearly all the eggs consumed are furnished by the 300 hens on the farm. During the past two gears repairs have been made on the main builaing amounting 10 500 At presenta new roof is an abso- lute necessity, The diniug room and kitchen are too small, The system of waterworks is excellont and tho sewerage is now in good condition. The commandant says: **A soldicrs' home is neither a barrack, a factory or a prison Work should be provided for those who wre physically able 50 as to preserve their health and spirits. Enongh discipline should be en- forced to cause each member to respoct him- self and to observe o decent respect for the rights of others.” Tho building erected for hospital purposes capacity for twenty beds and’ already contains eighteen patients. The captain says A careful consideration of the wants and needs of this clnss of our comrades do- mands that more room beadded for their comfort at the earhest possible period of time.” The hospital steward and the three nurses are all old soldiers. Four patients are suffering with paralysis of the bowels. Captain Henry calls the atteution of the legislature to the clause providing for cot- tages for the wives and children of tho old soldiers. During the past two years there have been seventy-eight requests for cot- tages, representing seventy-two men, seventy women and 144 children, making a total of 214 women and children agninst seventy-two men. According to this system the captain inmimates that the expenses of the state will be made three times as great as they would _bo without the cottage system. The §7,500 approvriated for cottages is now consumed, and if the system is contimued it will require $30,000 for the next two years for cottages and furniture alone, to say nothing of th i tenance. It is believed t most cases the s and children can bo cared for by relativ 1t is asked that sufficient ground be platted and laid out us a cemetery. The entire expense for food, everything is per cupita of those L 25 per cent greater. The inmates admitted are as follows: Ex- soldicrs and suilors, 108; wives of soldiers and sailors, 25; boys of soldiers and suilors, 18; guds of soldiers and sailors, 205 army nurse, 1; total, 252, ‘The following have been dropped from the rolls for the causes given: Hororably dis- charged, 50; dishonorably, 4: summarily, 17; dropped from rolls, 0; died, 16; total, 96, There are sixteen pensioners at the home roceiving money as follows: Two receive an aggregate of #13 por receive §40 per year; 2 receive §141 per_year; 6 receive 2576 per vear; 1 receives $480 a year; total, #1,488, ouglas county has furnished the greatest number of inmates, there being 34 men, 4 women and 10 children from that county, Hall county is next, haviug sent 13 men, & omen and 8 children. Lancaster has fur- uished 13 men and 2 women. Adums has fur- nished 9 men and 1 woman, The great bulk of the inmates were pri- vates, thero beimg but 1 major, § lieutenants and 2 second lientenants, There are 38 different occupations repre- sented. There are 57 farm 33 laborers, 14 carpenters, 5 blacksmiths. 6 olerks. The other occupations represented average about 2 each. There is but 1 professional man and he is a druggist. The social condition is as follow 50, bachelors, 42; widowers, 65; separated, 83 unknown, 1. The oldest soldier admitted is eighty-four years old av uneest forty-one. Tho average age is fiftv-five und a half years, The pay roll is as follows: Commandgnt, per year, 0; adjutant, per year, $600; surgeon, ar, $600; quartermaster, per year, $1203 matron, per year, $300: extra duty y for nurses, etc., §1,014; -employes wages, + totiil, §7,986. clothes and per capita. The cost ug in cottages is about : Married, ivorced, 8 are as follows: Rheumatism 41, s anchylosis 2, 11, amputation 1, bronchitis 3, blind: 4 2, constipation 1, cancer 2, dvopsy 3, dhronic diurrheea 10, i cart disease 4, hernia 13, lumbago, ner- 9 parulysis, 143 piles, 73 sunstroke, 2; sc tumor, 1; urethral stricture, 1; varicose veins, al mind, 15 consumption, 1; spevmatorrh THE ROADS AGIEE, The injunction cases of the Burlingten railrond and the Lincoln city against the Rock Island road fore Judge Flield in the distriet court today. The Burlington showed that it was alive to the interests of Lincoln and made a generous proposition,which was immedintely acceptod, In view of the fact that winter was approach. ing, and the dificulties with whiech the Rock Island therefore be compelled to contend with, shutting them out of the city until spring, tho plaintiff announced its willingness to allow the Rock Island to cross at the point north of plaintiff's roundhouse, us the de- fendant had graded for and dosired to cross, with the understanding thaton the final trial of the cause, if the court decided against tho Rock Island, the latter would agree to take up its tracks and lay them where the court decreed. e Burlington attorney stated that his road had no desive to delay the Rock 1sland, ana therefore submitted the proposi- ‘would survavors e howded slmost steaight for Eagle, on the Missourl Pacific, just ehst of the Lancaster @ounty live. 1t is hintad that the Milwaukeo may forin & commercial unfon siinilar 1o that of the ! Pacific, ard as | third line Hetweon Lincoln and Umatia LOOKING FON A CATSFAW, The latest piratical attempt to do an fllegal insurance business in this state fs that of tho organization Learing the somewhat lengthy title of the Mutual Accident Association of the Northwest and Home Protection Aid as- sociation of Chicago. In order to ovade tho 1aws of the state of Nebraska this company#” sent a circular to Alfred B. Chivistian of Mc! Cool Junction offering him a poticy free until January 16 if ke would act as agent for the company, or in_other words for about seven weeks' insurance the company expectod Mr. Christian_to become & violator” of the stato laws and be in continual danger of bolug ar- rested and suffering a fine of #1,000 and a term of imprisonment lasting thirty days The circular sent to Mr. Christian is signed with the nawes of H. W. K. Cutler and T, 5, | Quincey. SUPREME COURT, Bailey vs State. Error from Saline coun Affirmad. Opinion by Justice Norval Macenau vs Fromont. ~Appeal from D county. Affirmed. Opinion by Justice val, Brown vs Work. FError from | county, Afirmed, Opinion by C Jounson hief Justice Jonos and Marathon counties. Bank Krror from Webster count nd remanded. Opinion by Ci tice Cobb. The following causes v rgned and sub- mitted: Coud vs Home cattle company; West vs Van Polt; Faulkner vs White; Gut ghran vs Cros Burkholder vs Founer, The following causes were continued Edie ve Sthunk; Barrett vs Ellis; Southard vs-B. & M. Ry Co; Pawnee county vs Storm, The following gentlemen were aduitted to practico: F. M. Flansburg, esq., of Hitch cock county; Jesse L. RRoot, osq., of Cass county “rawl vs Harrington, Ordered on doc s permitted to submit the causo at tho present term, with leave to intervenor to file a brief witllin _thirty days. Olds gon works vs Benedict. Plaintift pormitted to filo afdavits and motion for rehearing in ten anys. Smith vs Spaulding. Leave given de fendant to filo corrected trauseript. Den- mead vs Holley. Dismissod The following causes were argued and sub- mitted: Deiorac vs Conna, on motion; Blain vs Brewster, Askwith vs Allen, Case plow works vs Marr, Solomon vs Flening, Hunter vs Bell, Beor vs Thayer, state ex rel Brown vs McPealk, Roach vs Hawlkinfon, Union P cific rmlway company vs _Keller, Jacobs vs school district Chadron’ vs Foster. Leavo given Foster to file correctod traus- script. The following causes were continuod Sharp vs Brown, stateex rel S. D. 1, Hitol- cock vs Cornutt. Court adjourned to Frid tion, which was immediately accepted, and the restraining order set aside. Tn the other case the Rock Islund agreod to put in a standard crossing instead of the one which would compel the cleetric company o “Jump! their tracks ut Twelfth and Emerson, and the restraining order was therefore set uside, A TEKRIBLE MOVHER-IN-LAW, Mr, William Williams fited a veply today to the petition of his wife Agues for a divoree, ‘Williams is _u reporteron the Daily Intelli: gencer at Wheeling, W. Va. Ho says thut after he and Agnes were married they were hapoy, but his mother-in-law, -Mrs. Emma Morris, came to visit tl, and then the trouble began, He declares that Mrs, Morris assumed the dictatorshiv of the nousehold and made herself generally disagroeuble. Ho further declares that the motherin-law is a lewd wommn, and when she attempted to con- vert bis home iuto a house of ussiguation he objected and ordered hor out. She did so and took her daughter with her. Since then the wife refuses to return. MAY STRIKE LINCOLY. It has boen reported during the last fow woeks that the Ch st Paul, Minneap- olis & Omaha railrond company was intent on extending its lines into the South Platte country by way of Lincoin. Itis be d here now that the rumor muy prove a realiza- tion, us the surveying party for that com- pany bos reachod town 10eastof vange 11 and is staking its course in thut township wbont five miles cast of Greenwood, The morning, Novembar 2%, 1800, when et from the twelve districts will be called, ODDS AND EXDS, The Brown Brothers grain compuny of Omaha has filed articlos of ncorporation “The capital stock is fixed at £200,000. George W. Blakeley began suitin the county court today against tho Lincoln_paper manu facturing company to recover 1 he claims is due him for breach of contract, he having contracted June last with J fendnuts to work for ono year at a stipals price. He was discharged November S with- out cause or provocation, he says. Mrs Blukeley and her two sons, Eddie and Will bring similar actions against the paper coi- pany, claiming damages, Tho Lotas club, o now social organization gave 1ts initial ball at Temple hall last even: ing. There was a very good attendance aul the party is pronounced as a complete sociil success, The club Lias a goodly menibership and will give parties every two weeks during the winter., William Schipp, who attempted to kill a young woman at G34 South Seventeenth Street in Omaha, was brought to the peniteu- last evening. A’decidedly complicated case was the one heard in police court this morning, whore Johin Osburn, Peter O'Connor, William Coffec and Jumes Cassidy were charged by Dick Seward with stealing some clothes frorn him. Seward rooms at Ninth and R streots and is employed on_the Rock Islud grade work, The other fellows are also graders, and Osburn was found with the stolen clothes in his possession. He asserted that he had purchiased them from O'Connor, hut when O'Connor was arrested he assertod that idy had sold them to him, and when Cas. sidy was corralled he had purchased them from William Ceffee, 50 he said. Coffce was also arrested, and an interosting time was had straighténing out the story. The guilt was finally fixed upon Casssidy, and he was given £0 and costs and sent to the county jail. The others were discharged. ONCE MORE IN TROUBLE. =~ ¢ Hammond, of London Scandal riety, Jailed at Seattle. Seatrik, Wash, Nov, 26.—[Special Telo- gram to Tue Bre.]- Charles K. Hammond, who becane somewhat notorions on account, of his connection with tho Cleveland street scandal in London and who came here over & year ago, is again in trouble. He now oceu- pies a cell in the county jail on the charge of grand larceny, proferred by Mrs. Augusts Simmons, a barkecper's wife, who acouses him of stealing her sealskin sucque, valuediat £350, and a gold watch, The thelt is alleged to have been committed in Hammend's saloon October 1. Hammond was arraigned last night and Tield for trial in §1,000 bonds, which howas unable to furnish, . SnE G Stanford Shirked Examination. SaN Frascisco, Cal, Nov. 2.—[Spocial Telegram to Wnx Bre.]|—Senmater Leland Stanford left yesterday for Washington in spite of the summons from the superior court toappear before it and testify cou the alleged violation of the eloction laws which be is charged by ex-State Senator P. J. Murphy. Senator Stanford exercisod his official prerogative and signed un_aMdarit which stated that he was called to Washing- ton by his senatorial dutics, and unless ho started yesterday e would not areive in timo for the ‘oponing of congress next Mouday. Senator Stanford will probably be examincd by & ‘commission st Washiugton, £ o ith, superintendent of the Danver vande, is in the city. H. D, Pike, his private secrétary, accompanies hia, oto- OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. " Subsoribed and Guarangsed Capital....8500,000 Paid in Cupital......... .. caen 50,00 Buys und sells stocks and honds; negotiutes o i exeoutes ent and trustee of corporations, vakes charge of property, ool- leets taxos, Omaha Loan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. I'aid n Cupital . ... G .8 52,000 Subseribed aud Guaranteed Chpi 100,00 Linbility of Stockholders. 200,000 5 Per Cent Intorest Paid on Deposits, FRANK J. LANGE, Cushier. OfMoers: A. U, Wyman, president. J. J. Brown, vice-president, W. T, Wyman, treasurer. Directors:~A. U, Wyman, J, 1. Millard, J. J. Browa, Guy ©. Burton, E. W, Nush, Themas L. Knawall, Georgo B. Lake. » Rock Island and Unio rosult thero would \,.-L'\’ -