Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1890, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1890, THE DAILY BEE !' ROSEWATER Emtor, ll BLISHE TERMS OF Patly and funday, One Eix rionths, Ihiree month Enndny I Weelly 'ERY MORNING SURSCRIPTION, Year 810 00 500 25 200 100 Kouth Omaha, Covneil BlofT, § hamber of Con w York.Rooms 13, 1 and 15, Tribun ¥ ushington, 515 Fourteen th Street. 1 26th Etreets ‘earl Strec nerce, Bullding All communieations lu\nlln to news and il matter should be addressed to the Yditorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittanoes should Ve addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Lrafts, checks and {m«lu“il'l'l)rdl‘n 10 be 1 vable to the order of the com pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors, am and Sevonteenth EMENT CIRCULATION Etatcof Nobrasks. County of Dougla rue i Tzschuck, Vishin inat the ’n' the w ows OF Lt retary of The . Bes compuny. Goes solemnly swear ctual cireulation of Tie DALY Beg ck ending Nov. 2, 1800, was as fol- Wednesday, Nov Thursduy, Nov Fridav. Noy Futurday, Nov. AVCrage...oe., GEORGE H TZ8CHUCK. Fworn to Yefore mi d subseribed in my Presence tnis2uil day of ver, A, D.. 189 1EEAL. NP FEi Notary I'ubllo 10k, beil Auly sworn, de- ne s s i Oeen y of The Bee b BN v, that tho actunl average daily circulation of Tur DALy Bee for hof November, 1580, was 19,510 coples: er, 048 copies; for | ary, 1800, % copless cop'es; for L0515 co) for Amu 1800, 20, 4 : for June cop' cples: for August, 150 iFer, 1800, 20,870 A ( Notary Publie. — e e “The impending sesston of the leglslature w11l be of vital concern to the peaple of this state. Tt 18 of the utmost importance that members of the leglslature shall understand ghe wants of thelr constituents and be pre- Y ared to grapple intelligently o visedly With the issues that must cc fore then. LT i thercfore invites suggestions from $hoso wh famillar with any particular rubject that is likely to eng: s attention ot thie legislature, Parties favoring us, how- vver, arc requested to make their communi- cutions as brief s possible and to the point Jt 15 to be understood that Tk Bee will not be responsible for the published views of con- tributors, and it reserves the privilege of d vussing them in its own way and from the #tandpoint which it desms best for the inter- ests of the people. —_—— Tue public does not trust the trusts, s presidential boom hus been dull of late, Tie verdict of the election 18 em- phatically in favor of business methods du city alairs, THE rather GERONIMO i8 not a conspicuous figure in the present uprising and Sitting Bull ©ught not to be in the next one. THE vote of public opinion, the world over, is against the continuance of Par- Yiell's leadership by a heavy majority. Tir spectucle of Parnell presiding over tho court which is to pass judgment on his own acts is a fit companion piece for the coer urts of treland, — W shall presently sce whether Mayor Cushing canenforce *“‘busin methods in city affairs,” with the new council in the hands of his party associates. It would accord with the eternal fit- ness of things if the Parnell squabble was transferred from Westminster palace 1o the historic streets of Donnybrook. —_— AMONG the distinguished independent patriots wintering in Florida, the names of eminent Nebraskans are conspicuous by their absence. Wy is this thusly? UNDER any system of apportionment that may be adopted by congress, Ne- braska is sure to double its representa- tion in the lower house. Congressional aspirants will govern themselves ac- cordingly. BrAzIL is no longer an empire, but 8ho has her little ministerial crises with unfailing regularity, just the same. She Ls no hereditary rules, but her states- men cannot forget that they are Castilian gentlemen. WHEN Buffalo Bill reached the tepee of S, Bull, esq., he discovered thatthe famous hairlifter was not hopelessly bad. However, he concluded that “dis- cretion was the better part of valor”and Mr. Bull was not taken prisoner, THE western railroad combine is in a fair way to follow the benavolent lines on which all trusts are vrojected. A radical advance of rates after the first of the year is substantial evidence of its philunthropie regaed for the public. —_— TrE pension bi'l for the ensuing fiscal year carries an appropriution of $185,- 000,000. And there are u fow pension agents in Washington shedding crocodile tears over “the penurious policy of the government” toward the veterans of “'the late unpleasantness, —_— THEY are having ahard winter over’| §n Europe. The Danube and the Rhine are full of floating ice, Spain has had soveral severe snow storms, the Pyrenees ura impassable and even the Mediteranean wears a wintry fringe of snow and ice. Fortunately for Europe, 4t does not haye to depend on the Union Pacific railroad for its coal supply. —_— SENATOR PLUMB loses no time in ca- tering to the demands of the Alliance ;;nl\ of Kanss Despite President arvison’s warning against “impulsive Yegislation” on the currency question, Benator Plumb has introduced a bill for frec silver coinage. There is no pos- sible chance for the passago of such a law in the lower house this session, but the politic gentleman from Kansas Views with alarm the perilous position of his colleague und takes ndvantage of the first opportunity to placate the Alli- ;In\'u and become his own successor in 805 THE OCALA CONVENTION. The natiohal convention of the Farm- ers’ Alliance and industrial union, in sesaion at Ocala, Florida, will command | the attention of the country, and partic- both the old o similar bofore. vitality ularly the politicians of nrtios, to an extent which convention has ever done The unexpected vigor and which the Alliance movement has recently exhibited in the south and west, marked by the election of be- tween thirty and forty congress: men, the prestige it has gained from political success in some states, and the uncertainty, not unmixed with anxiety, gurding the future course and policy of its loaders, give unususl significance to the national convention which is ex- pected to formulate the principles and demands of this formidable organiza- tion that now has astrong foothold in nearly every state of the union and gives promiso of further growth. A great variety of assurances have been given as to what this convention would do, some of them of the most radi- cal and ant chavacter, and 8o far as these have proceeded from sources supposed to be authoritative they have eaused some apprehension. The address of President Polk of the Alliance, in which he outlined its policy, shows that there is no ground for fear that the pros- perity and welfare of the count to be imperiled by that organization. In the main the policy announced by Mr, Polk is of an entir conservative nature, most of the features of which will be approved by all good citizens. It isa very pm er thing, for example, to dec seetiol sm. - in our |l(rllu. 8y n! which all patriotie eiti- zens will agreo the country has had far too much. If the Alliance can obliter- ato sectionalism it will do a most valu- able work. Another feature of its pro- posed policy is the equalization of taxes, and this also every citizen who believes in exact justice to all classes will ap- Prove The prohibition of alien owner- shipof land is a proposition which men of all parties favor, and congress has gone as farin this matterasit has the con- stitutional power to do, while a number of the states have laws restricting such ownership. The policy of limiting pub- lic revenues to an economic adminis tration of the government is also com- mon to all parties, in theory if not i ¢, and it is by no means certain that if the alliance were in control of the government it would have any better success than the old po- litical parties have had in carrying out this policy. As to tho ownership and control of transportation lines by the government, 1t is not an original propo- sition with the Alliance. There are a great many people outside of that organ- ization who believe, and have believed for alonger time than the Alliance hus been in existence, that in time such a policy is inevitable. Circumstances seem to be rapidly moving toward the adop- tion of that policy. As to restoring sil- ver to the legal tender vights and equal- ities possessed by gold, the issue of gov- nment curreney direct to the peonle, the graduated taxation of incomes, and the election of United States senators by a direet vote of the people, they are not new proposi tions and all of them have suapporters outside of the Alliance. Ass ming that President Polk represents the general and controlling sentiment of the body of which heis the head,and thathe has spoken freely of its intentions, thore is no cause for apprehending that the Ocala convention willdo anything or propose anything that will threaten the prosperity and welfare of the country, Nevertheless the vesult of its deliber tions, which are to be conducted secretly, will be awaited with great and general interest. OUR SOUTHERN TRADE. The statistics of the trade of the United States with the countries south of us during the last fiscal jear supply data from which a judgment may be formed as to the possible benefits to the producers of this country from recipro- city, The grand total value of our foreign commeree during the year was $1,647,000,000, the largest of any year in the history of the country, and of this amount the value of the trade with Mexico, the Central and South Ameri- can states, British Honduras and the West Indies was $289,000,000, or a little over enteen per cent. But while our commerce with FEurope shows an excess of xports over imports amounting in value to two hundred and thirty-three million dollars, that with the countries south of us shows an excess of imports over ey ports amounting to one hundred and eight million dollars. Thus while as the result of the year's business Burope was largely our debtor, notwithstanding the fact that we imported more largely than in any previeus year, the countries to the south of us were our creditors, and the balance against us was settled in gold. As compared with the fiseal our exports to the for the last fiscal y of eight million ports decreased eratifying gain, ures of trade oar 1880, southern countries r show an nerense dollars, while the im- about one million, a but -when the fig- with the ecountries with which wo do the largest trado are looked at, the disparity between the value of what we buy of them and what we sell them is very large. Thusour imports from Brazil during the last fiscal year amounted to $39,000,000, while our exports to that untry were of the value of less than twelve million dollars, From Cuba and Porto Rico we bought merchandise to the valve of nearly fifty-eight million dollars, and sold to them goods and com- modities worth $15,000,000; and from Mexico the valuo of the imports was $23,000,000 and of the exports $13,000,000, Thus we took from Brazil, the Spanish West Indies and Mexico merchandise to the amount of $98,000,000 in excess of what they bought of us. In our com- merce with the British West Indies and the Argentine Republic the balance of trado was in our favor, How much of the $108,000,000 against us in our commerce with the southern countries we can reasonably expect to pay in our own products under the pro- posed policy of reciprocity is a very un- certain problem. But there appears good reason to beliove that we shall in time be able to very largely increase our exports to Brazil and the Spanish West Indies, which sold us last year nearly ninety million dollars’ worth more than the y bought of us, and we ought also to be able to do s near neighbor Moxico, which 1§ unde stood not to look unfavorably upon the reciprocity plan, Butif we can do no more than secure from these trios a market for our products to the amount of 350,000,000 in addition to what they now buy of us it will be a substan- tial gain that is worth seeking. THE NEW COUNCIL, The new council stands tem democrats to eight republicans, reversing the pres- ent political order. Of the nine mem- bers elected Tuesday, six are now men, who, with five of the anti-combine mem- Ders, insure the retirement of that odi- ous gang from the management of muni- cipal affairs, This result is sufficient cause for gen- eral congratulation. The people of Omaha arve indifferent to the po- litical complexion of the council. The result of the election emphasizes the fact that our taxpaying citizens will not countenance star chamber mothods and corporation subscrvienc “The Fourth wird represents ina large degree the most enterprising and substantial cle- ments of our citizenship. In the crush- ing defoat of the recognized leader of the combine byan overwhelming ma- jority it discarded partylines and en- tered an emphatic protest against job- bery and extravagance. The city is onthe threshhold of an era of progress and prosperity, Con- fidenco and activity animates all departments of commerce and industry. The influx of outsidecap- ital for investment,the increasing num- ber of building enterprises, and the rap- idly developing projects of a public nature, demand the adoption of 8 broad gauge policy in city affaics. The coun- cil must lop off thetax eaters, ocono- mize ln expenses, rigidly prevent tax shirking, and thus not only encourage enterprise, but relieve tax payers of the onerous burdens imposed. The jobbers id tricksters must be sat upon, favorit- ism suppressed, and the interests of the city as o whole upheld agsinst the schemes of franchised corporations. THE recommendation of President Hurrison for a law compalling the adop- tion of safety appliances on railroad trains demands tho earnest attention of The subject is one that di- concorns a quartor of a million ilway employes and the security of millions of travelers, The last annual reportof the interstate commerce com- mission shows that out of 50,000 locomotives inuse on the railroads of the couatry, only one-half are equipped with automatic bi out of 1,000,000 freight and passenger cavs, not one- tonth are equipped with safety appli- ances, There is no scarcity of effective applisnces to romedy the ovils com- plained of for the second time by Presi- dent Harrison, nor can the power of congress in thematter be serionsly ques- tioned. The killing and crippling of railroad operatives by the continued use of defective couplings and hand brakes Justifies congress in bringing legal pre sure to bear on the corporations compel- ling them to equip their trains with modern appliance Tue statement of the condition of the state and private banks of Nebraska at theend of June, 1889, and on October 18, 1890, shows a fair growth of business during the fifteen months, the inc o in loans and discounts during that period having been about two million dollars, while the resources increased over one million. The account of goneral de- posits shows & gain of nearly three million dollars, the surplus fund was somewhat increased, and generally the stutement of liabilities is more favorable for the latter than the former date, The new banking law appears to have worked well, and thus far noneof the reasons urged in opposition to it have been justified by results, It is believed that Nebraska now has as safe and well- regulated a banking system as any in the country, and all that seemsto be required is that it shall continue to be faithfully enforced, Pror. H Smithsonian institute confir msthe report that the Alaska seal crop has suffered a marked decline. A careful examination of the sealing ground shows an alarming decrease in the number of animals, and unless vigorous measures ave adopted to suppress ponching and radically reduce the limit of the catch, the extermination of the seals is an early cortainty. Prof. Elliott reports that the seals have been reduced from 1,500,000 to le than one hundred thousand since 1872, and urges the government to syspend seal fishing for at least seven years. It s evident the authorities must show greater vigilance in excluding poachers, who have flocked to the Behving sea this year and captured a greater number than the authorized company, if they would save this great Alaskan industr THE importance of Omaha asan in- surance hendauarters is steadily foreing itsell on the attontion of the leading companies, The marvelous growth of city and surrounding country makes it o most desirable base of operations for the great west, The magniflicent Life build- ing was at fiest considered n reckloss in- vestment, an ext ant bid for busi- ness. A year's experience, however, fully justifies the wisdom of the invesf ment and makes it the envy of rival The erection of the building has been the means of attracting other wealthy inswance corporations to Omahu. The Atna company has decided to transfer its western headquarters from Cincinnati to Omaha. Gradually but surely the eity is becoming the hub of insurance business in the we — Tie National Farmers’ Alliance, now in session at a Florida town, should pre- parean address showing how it hap- pened that Jay Gould’s friend, Gordon, was the outcome of a legislature with 66 Alliance majority, PROFESSOR LAN| report of the con- dition of Nebraska schools shows the steady growth of the state. The in- crease in the enrollment since 1888 is withour | | berof sod and16f houses | ably inc couns | nearly twenty g ive thousand and in the number o!gg«-lmul buildings 750, penditures have alto increased by $200000, An interesting figure in the statistics of vhe schoolsis the num- Hundreds of these are in use gud they have consider- od' in number during the last twoyears. Thisis good evidence that the froutier is not yet wholly a thing of the pastin Nebmska, Whether ornot we have any Lifcolns or Garfields in embryo, we are sure at least that we have the sort of eradles in which groat- ness has often rocked heretofore. —e AMID the whole disheartening mess into which the Trish cause is plunged, theono poignaut regret to every lover of human freodom is that it practically wrecks what a few days ago promised to be the crowning et of Gladstone’s lifo— the granting of home rule to Ireland. Tothis cause he has dovoted an almost supernatural encrgy during the past seven years, Success was as certain as day follows night. Yet the hopes of Gladstone no less than the reliefof a people from the oppression of conturies are dasied o pieces in an hour, Such a disasteron the threshold of triumph is a source of profound regret to all friends of liberty and hum: ANOTHER state in which there will be acontested govermnorship Is New Hamp- shi There the fight will be more monious than in Nebraska, though is absolutely nothing but partisan back of it. The office of governor of New Hampshire isnot a place of vast povwer and responsibility. Now Hunp- shire is a very quiet and sedate little state, but she yields to no one in the strength of her politieal passions, Thera democracy and vepublicanism ave as h and set s the granite hills, and the test for the governorship will be of the same character. It willbeafight between Bunlker democrats and abolition republi- cans. ac Tt Duatch ropublicans are mak themselves felt, and suggesting that a very humble Hollander would look bet- terat the head of the nation than the late prolligate king. There can be no doubt about that, but Holland is a little country and the imperial bayonets that surround it will see that no popnlar movement, gets 4 foothold at present, The democeatic day will some time dawn on Burope, and whenit does, hrave little Holland will come in with the rest. ng CoxTROLof the eity councilis lost to tho republicans through the rule or ruin policy of the combine. The Twent eighters vesorted toevery disreputable method to perpetuate themselves, des- pite the repeated rebukes received from the rank and file of the party, with the vesult of losing the r\'nlcw-nldll\n ro- publi ward of the eity by an over- whelming majouity. Boss rule will not succeed in Omaha, Mi. CIAFFEE will not be president of the next councilfor the very good renson that without th parliamentary prompt- ings of themajor the member from the Seventh would ba as hopebe: «I\ lost as the curl of apig's tailin abarrel of pork. ert that Mr. Birkhau- ser's m-q)m tors hiave now reached “the completion of their ability to render service for the city.” They pulled Chaf- fee through a smatl knothole. e measure of the major’s popularity was taken in hishomedistriet, Out of a total of 325 votes,he received 120, In the whole ward, outof atotal of 1,357 votes cast, he received only 414, THE Thid, it firmed its alleg will becbserved, af- ance to the house of Ford by a loud majority. TrE returns from the First indicate a profound contempt for We, Us & Co. I't was acold day for the brains of tho combine. Could Give Them Points. Washington Post. Afterall their fuss the Indians will hardly be so successful in the scalping line as was the farmers’ allinnce. e New York Pays More Than London. Chicago Inter-Ocean. New York spends for city government about §13,000,000 per year more than the city of London. Theyhaveno Tammany society over there, L SO Where Itls Most Needed. Washington Pt A Chicago man has estabiished an institu- tion for the treatment of obesity. He should send a prospectus to the democratic majority of the next hou — - Unduly Severe. Chicay News, That the first snowstorm should fall on the day st for tho opening of congress will probably bo looked upon by Mr. Reed as abit of uncatled-for and wholly gratuitous sarcasin. — Lo Note This, Mr. Gould. Kansas City Times. Mr. Jay Gould ought to realize that the people of this countsy sre not scheminig after any body or anything, but. that they do want achance for an bonest liviihood is true and they are woing lu]lluqu it. Take asmoke, Mr Gould, e May Not Last Long. Now: ¥ork Sun Class movements in America, the banding together of mechanics, manufacturers, or land aultivators, do oy generally survive miore than one victory of one defeat. That of 1500 uay have more of. peril to the democrats, - whom it seems t¢' fevor, than to the republ- ans, to whom apg@rently it is most antago- nistie, because tho.former may misunderstand its meaning, and tHe latter evidently do not intend to. It —r r———— lea ning of Omaha. Minieapalis Journal. Omaha’s stock mavket and packing indus- try, established ouly six yearsago, has by Jjudicious push, become the third industry of that kind in the country. Last yearthe total receipts of the yards were 1,034,42! hogs, - cattle and 56,106 head of shecp In the winter season of 188900 thero were re- colved 1,210,772 hogs, 441,113 cattie and 101,158 sheep, That is a business worth building up. Omaha has corn belt and hog belt ad vanta, but the way is open to success in’ the same line at the Twin Civy stockyards near Minne- apolis, ‘There isin that locality the nucleus of @ great business. - The years like endless cuvrents flow And bring a change to me At twenty-one she told me no— "T'was yes ot thirty-three, THE MESSAGE. The Force BIll St. Lowts Globe-Dematrat, The preseut session of congress s limfted by law tothrce months, but the passage of the force bill, which the president recom- mends, and that of the regular appropristion bills could not be effected inside of six months, even if the republicans were prac- tically united in favor of this policy. The republicans are not united in this, A Democratic View, Chicago News, (Dem.) 1tis now more clear than ever that Secro tary Blaine's policy of rciprocity, however reluctantly adopted, is relied on by the bou bon republicans to lessen the nauseousnes of the McKiuley law in actual operation, The prosident writes of the reciprocity question with the unfamiliarity of a tyro, bit ho has at least made it clear that Janes G. Blaine will hereafter hold the republican policy on tarill matters in tho hollow of his hand. A PRusiness President, St. Paul Pioneer-Press., Mr. Harrison shows, in this message, that he has the intorests of the country as well those of his party close at heart, and he fol- lows carefully the course of legislation past and future, and that his views aro held wath courage and pertinacity, His bt recom mendation is thatnot amoment of the short session should be wasted, since all are needed forwork, Ifcongress shall heed this gen- eral admonition, it will win a more favoravle opinion than can ke purchased by the pursuit ofany special measire or particular policy. Carefully Laied. Minneapotis Tritune, As awriterof state papers Mr, Harrison model. He does not make Mr. Cleve- land's mistake of considering himsell the government and beginning every sentence with the pronoun I, nor does he, like Mr. Arthur, trip lightly over matters demanding extended discussion, on tho principle that ““the least said is soon d." He goes carefully into detal in reviewing the opera- tions of each departiment of the government, yethis message does mot greatly exceed in length the averagy of 1ts predecessors in - re- cent times. It has evidontly beon ‘‘edited.” Strony, Seasible. Patriotic. Denver Republioan. A strong, sensible, patriotic and well wiitten state paper is President Harrison's second annual mossage to congress. The argument advanced by the president in favor of alaw for the just regulation and control of federal eloctions is strong and convincing, but it seems lardly probable at present that the Lodge bill will secure the concarrence of tho semite in the present session. ‘The suggestion regarding the reclamations of arid lands in the west are in full accord with sound publicopinion on thatsubject, and we hope that congress can be induced to act upon them. Give tia Fair Irial Chicago Tribron, While President Hurison Is familiar with the results of the November cloction and knows what the now tariff luw has cost the republican party it was not to be expected that he would call upon congress to repeal it. 1t is for the republican congressmen who rep- resent their party—wlhile the president rep- resents all parties—to undothe work which resulted so disastiously for them, Nor is it tobe expectea that the President would con- demn in December the bill which e signed in Scptember. While aware of the fact that 1t has met with public disapproval he profers to wait and see how it will work before ho says that heis not satisfied with it, Ocean Subsides., Kanss City Journal. The argument and the facts of the presi- dent’s message touching the importance of subsidies to ocean steamships in the form of mal compensation will attract general atten- tion to buswesslike, patriotic and sound statesmanship. Much of the preeminence of England on the high seas and in the carrying trade of the world is from her liberal system of subsidies and bounties to her merchant marine, And notonly is this thesettled pol- icy of Euglaud, but it has becorne so in all the governments of Furope that have any mari- time pretensions at all. And how wein the United States can expect to compete with these pations without putting our own flag onan equality with the other flags of tho world is something our statesmauship cannot understand, From a Tariff Standpoint. Chicago Inter-Ocean, It is now a month since the groat political cycloneof 1500 passed over the country, The free traders cherished the hope that the very foundation stones of protection had been loosened, and that the edifice itself rocked to its overthrow. Benjamin Harvison, who was elected president on that issue, improves this the first opportunity to give the country to understand that nothing of the kind has hap- pened. A few shingles and clapboards may clatter in the wind, but the structure itself has not felt the blust. The republican party isas firmly grounded in the American doc- trine now as it ever was, and it is safeto say that the effect of this bugle callto the faith- ful will be to rally the party to the standard of protection with a stead fastness of purpose which wili take uo heed of the chatterings of mugwumps and semi froe traders, Candor and Common Sense, iouz Gty Journal, itral interest in the mes- sage undoubtedly is its statements regarding the tariff. The president speaks with no un- cortain voice, and what he says is charactor- ized by eandor and common sense. H states the main points of the situation show- ing the falsity of vecent represtations of the relation of the new tarifl to tho tendency to pase and also its effect on international trade, He says that when tho provisions of the law are ful tained and its effects expe ly demonstrated, it will be time enough to form a judgment upon its general char ter. He cites one highly significant fact, which certainly refutes a vast volumeof mis- ropresentation, viz: The fact thatthe imports atthe portof New York for the first three weeksof Novenber were nearly8 per cent greater than for the same period in 1859, and 20 per cent greater than in the same period of 1888, The president's counsel to let the lay s as it is, is wise not only in the public int est, but also as to the interest of the republi- can party. Tho record of the party has been made, and it is for time and the mature judg mentof the counteyto determine whether that record be wise. L s Jay Gould at the Day of Judgment. Christian Advocate, Jay gould was ‘‘dying,” was ‘‘practically dead,” was “losing his faculties,” had “given up ambition,”” was “‘rich enough,” was **leav- in matters to the management of younger persons,” was “incapabie of mental exer- tion,” was “a victim of nervous prostration,’” All these things have been declared at intor- vals for two or three years past; yet he is t figure before the country, his influence the greatest, and his bitterest foss are complimenting him for & great work in the restoration of values. Gould is the mys- tery of the age. Ome of the objects of a final day of judgment is to reveal the truth about inscrutable characters, -— An Irridescent | Kansas City Tines How happy all of us could be if esch re- maining day's session of congress were as de- l lightfully brief as yesterday's, The point of and THE CONTEST FOR OFFIC Politicians from All Over the State Gath* cring in Lincoln, TAKING OF TESTIMONY TO BEGIN TODAY. Rev. De. Martin Falle Of a Train and is Seriously Injured —Lawyers Must File Their Cases Withe out Delay, LixcoLs, Neb, Dec, 8. —[Special Telegram to Tur Bee.)—Already politicians from various parts of the statcare gathering in Lincoln to listen tothe testimony in the great contest of the state executive offices that commences tommorrow in Lincoln, The executive-clect and bis contestant each de- clares hinmelf ready for the struggle, The testimony Is to be taken in the rooms at 120 South Eleventh street, Eight notaries have been secured, being for each executiveoffice, governor down to superintendent of public instruction. A full corpsof short-hand re; porters will take the testimony. Theindependents are to be reprosented by Lamb, Ricketts & Wilson of Lincoln, Allen, Kobinson & Reed of Madison and V. O. Strickler of Omahn, Goveror-elect Boyd is to bo represented by Harwood, Ames & Kelly of Lincoln. Sceretary of State- elect Allen will be reoresented Aftorney Ditworth of Hastings. icutenant Governor-clect Majors has em- ployed Charley Hall. State Superintendent of Public Instruction-elect Goudy will be represented by his brother, Auditor Benton has employed Billingsley & Woodard, The interests of Attorney General clect Hastings will bo looked after by his partner, Mr. McGinty. H. M. Sulli- van of Broken Bow will appear for Land Commissioner-elect Humphrey, This evening tho republican officers-clect held a consultation and have about concluded to have one firm of lawyers handle all the conte: except that of governor. Tom Majors Is on deck and declares that he proposes to stay on Dech. Nearly all the other executive oficers-elect are also on hand There Is some talk of making a test case of tho licutenant governor contest and -letting the result govern all the other exccutive offices outside of governor. Both Majors and Dech are agreed on this point and all the other iuterested persons approuched are of the same mind. The notaries to whom the testimony will be submitted bave absolute power in the ac- ceptance or rejection of such thesti- mony as mimy bo rogarded as role- vant or slevant. Cousiderable interest therefore is manifested by the notaries chosen by Lamb, Rickets & Wiison the at- torneys for the independents, Ben £, John- son, who will take testimony in the guber- natorial contest, s @& Lrotherin-law ot Wilson. Fred Shepherd, who will hear testimony in the licutenant governor contest, is Lomb's clerk. W A, Green, who takes testimony in the fight for the position of secretary of state, is Lamb's son-in-law. The executive ofticers- elect have, therefore, decided to have some notaries of their own choice as well, The report that there would be no contest except for the gubernatorial seat s a decided mistake. The independents doclare with great emphasis that the fight is on all along the line and will remain on, Tho independendents have subpoenwd twenty witiesses from various parts of the state and have given them the option of ap- pearing here or at Omaha, Norfolk or Indian- ola, at their pleasuro, It is believed that the great majority of these will come to Lincoln. In addition 1o these twenty witnesses the in- dependents have made arrangements with a number of others to come on the receiptof a telegraphic summons. Tue presout indica- tions are that the taking of testimouy will consume sevoral days, probably & week. THE STATE'S MUNITIONS OF WA Adjutant General Cole will leave tomorrow for Rushville and vicinity to see what dis- position has been made of the 400 rifles sent to the front for the defense of the people liv- mg near the Indian reservation. General Cole says that appeals for munitions of war continte to pour in. Altogether the stale owns about fifteen hundred rifles, but about one thousand of them ure in the possession of the state militia, one from the executive REV. DR. MARTIN INJURED. Rev, Dr. George W. Martin of the relief committee for the destitute farmers uacci dentally fell off the rear eud of o train nea Shelton yesterday and is badly bruised about the face and limbs. No serious results are feared, but Dr. Martin will be confined to his room for several days, OF INTEREST TO TAWYERS. The next term of the supreme court com- mences January 6, 101, All cases to be ad- judicated during that term must be filed by December 17, or two wecks from tomorrow. All cases filed after that time will suffer nearly a year’s delay, as they have to go over until the September term of 1801, ODDS AND ENDS, An inauiry comes to Deputy Auditor Allen of the insurance department if the Manufac- turers' accident indemuity company of Geneva, N. Y., is entitled to do busmess in Nebrasia. Mr. Allen replies most emphatic- ally that itis not. A telephono message to the police station 1ast evening gave another chapter in the sad story of young Anuie Sher. It was a re- quest, for the immedute presence of the city physician at the bedside of the girl at 1347 1 street, Dr, Giffen was immediately notitied, and went to the house, where he found the young girl, her babe slowly dying. The mother is stiil in a dangerous condition. Be- lind this is a story which was told some six months ago, T ather of the child is Tom Myers, son of a saloon keeper on O stroet. Annieis a very pretty young girl, not over Ciighteen years of age, and Myers was a dash- ing young Germun. The young people mot, and” it was a case of tiue love, at least on Annie's part. In an evil momentshe listened 1o the tempter, Myers friends say that he loved the girl well, but his conduct doos not bear out this statement, He had promised to marry the girl, the wedding duy was set, and the guests invited, When tho uight came the groom was missing, and has not been seen Lincoln since, Alice Broadwater was granted a divorce to- day from her late husband, Alfred P, Broad- wate In her damage suit against Mrs. L, for $10,000, Mrs, Hattie Watson was i §l. hton arded They Favor Conk, Dec. 3.—[Special Cablogram to Tie Bee |—A committee of Cork’s Young Ireland society, of which William O'Brien is presi- as adopted 8 resolution supporting This action is conlrary to the d by O'Brien, who is one of the the nationalist party in the United States who advised the retirement of Parnell. Cotton Mills Padly Damaged. 3.—[Special Cablegram to Ta Ber | —The mills of the Coventry cotton spinning company at Coventry have been damaged by fire to the extent of many thou- sands of ;muml! The fire throws 200 hands out of employment. DON'T CHEAT YOURSELF, Tt puys to sseure the best. and this is spe- clally true when life or health is atstake tlow any mianor woman who is suffering from dysp 4, liver trouble or any similar afiction can dose the stomach with chenp nostrams passes all beliof, Thonsands of pec- ple so troubled go to Carlshad und spend lurge sums of money in doing it. Why not use the genuine Carlsbad Sprudel Salts, which is {mported from Carlsbad, and cun beobtained of any reliable druggist, They ure the con- centrated power of the water itself. They have the saac effect upon the systen; for uil disorders of the stomaeh, liverund kidnoy.the genuine Carisbud Sprudel Sait as without equal. It Is specially beneficlal for chronie constipation, gouty and rheuniatic affections Besure toobtaln the genuine article which s the seal of the ity of Carsbad wnd the signatuye of “Eisnor & Eeonelson 0o, ugents, G Barcluy Strect. New York,” on the neck of every bottle. Write for pumphlet. NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska. The pFoneral Banuer has been closed by & chattel morte vator at Minden was destroyed fire, together with 6,000 busheis of “vhea 1,500 bushels of peas and a quantity of four. The loss amounts to §16,000, with $12,60 in suranoe 1. J. McKenna, a farme nesr Tekamah, committed sui de by placing the muzzle of & double barrelled shotgun at his breast and pulling the trigeer. four smail children, « Down in Sarpy county the politicians had a y ot fight over the” county attorneyship All'parties com bined against James P, Grove, but he came out winner by S4 majority. It is snid to have been @ bittor contest, and Mr. Grove s recelving the congratulations of hig friends, Two young fellows of York wanted to have their pletures taken in wild west fashion and J. B, Shane, the photographer, loancd them rovolvers to add to_their woolly appearance Whiloin the act of being ““took'’ one of the revolvers went off and the bullet linded in Shane's right leg, near tho thigh, making an ugly but not dangerous wound. We have been thinking for some timo that, Barneston would take @ change for the better soon, says the Star. This week shows up finely; ‘one mew store, one new doctor, one new barber shop, a new sel of stockmen and agencral revival of trade in all kinds of bus iness. We aro reliably informed that two more new stores will be started in the noar future. Talk about Barneston beiug dead She has today moro lifo in her than many towns of two and threo times her sizo. A movement has been inftiated at Banner county, to securethe concerted of Kansas, Soutn Dakota and Nebraska in an appeal to'the nment for assistanco in irrigation projects, **to aid in the construction of canals where canals ave available, and to put down artesian wells wherea good water nead cannot bo obtained.” It was urged that all the Jocalivies interested in irrigation should at once hold meetings, endorso reso- lutions and petition for assistance, Promi- nent persons from Scott's Bluff and Banuor counties participated. shford, ction From Wyoming to the Qoast. A farmerat Riverside, Cal., has taken eight crops of alfulfa from one field this season, It is worth $17 per ton. Parties at Santa Cruz, Cal., are eugaged in salting and packing mackercl for the first time in the history of the town, IRooms fn the capitol at Cheyenne have been leased by the United Statos at $3,000 per annum, for the use of United States officers in Wyoming. Seventeen thousand sheep were recently suipped from Lusk, Wyo, to castern Ne- braska where they will be fed for the Omaha and Chicago warket. A town has been started at the hot springs rocently discovered in Nattona county, Wyoming, and a large hotel is alrcady belng buiit near the springs, The 76 cattlo company of Powder river, Wyoming, is bringing to eastern Converse county 2,000 head of "cattle to range on the Running Water this winter. S. Marquis and A. E. McCall quarrcled ver asmall debt, the former fatally shootine McCall and then stabbing himself. The af- fair occurred at Dayton, sh A caulifower measuring fifteen inches across the top and weighing seventeen and a half pounds, is the latest important farm pro- duet in Multnomah county, Oregou. Mr. B. Martin of North Yam Hil, Ore., sold his hop crop of six acres at 38 cents, the whole realizing 3,100, a clear gain of $2,700 on the crop, a big thing on a small acreage. A sheriff’s sale of three sections of im- proved farm land in Grant county, Oregon, realized $5,000. This, however, is one of the most remote and undeveloped countios in the state. Jarly next spring the N-N cattie company of Montana will drive through Lusk, Wyo., 10,000 head of cattle on the way from Texas to’ their northern range near the Big Mis- souri. The biggest sunflower on record has been raised this year by Mrs. Penschower of (lo- verdale (¢ ‘The staik is six inches in di ameter at the ground, it stands twelve feot high, and the Hower measures nine feet in circumference, Says the Pocatello (1daho) Herald: If the government of this city don't use more au- thority and precaution and force jnstice, wo fear the moral atmosphere will bécome con taminated beyond the limit of reasonablo decency and unplessant circumstances fol- low, ending in trouble all around Captain Powers of tho United necrs was at Miles City, Mont., last week making a prelimin survey of the Tongue riv He will report, the cost of altering the course of the whichhas for the past few years been cuttine into the town. 'The improvement will involve an expenditufo of $15,000 and materially benefit the town A barn owned by Thomas Ord, in Colorado Springs, was burned the other night. Inthe barn were twenty-two horses belonging to Mr. Ord. On discovering the fire the team sters ran to tho barn and cut, the ropes that fastened the horses and, by vigorous efforts, succeeded in geutin five horses out of the barn, but, the remainder burned. Loss, $4,500; insurance, $200, Messrs. Hanchett and Truman have organ- ized a company to work the famous State Lane gold mine at Gold Mountain in Nevada, Colonet Eliis of Carson City has disposed of his interest in the mine to the new company, Who are now (Ieveln)flu;x the property. It is proposed to work a few men this winter and next spring puton alarge forco of men and work the mine on an extensive scale. About five years ago W, S, Watkins was grazing £00 sheep in the lake basin on shares, says the Billings (Mont.) Gazette. His in- dustry and thrift pauned out big In these years and this week be sold to Thomas Bros. his accumulated possessions for theneat sum of $3,000. He had 1,385 sheep, 24 head ot stock cattle and a span’ of hoises s repre- senting his tive stock accumulation; also & ranch claim and improvoments, tes engi Seventeen Years for Forgery. New Yous, Dec. 3.-Albert H. Smith, member of tho firm of Mills, Hobeson & th, bankers and brokers, who was con- cted of forgory has been sentonced to enteen years' imprisonioent in the state penitentiary. e —— Gold at 208, Buksos Ayars, Dec. §.—[Special Cable- gram to Tik Bee.)—Gold today was quoted at 208 per cent premium. »\(gcm are cured bg J::::.fl?ng to ul] DIRECTIONS with each BamLE, #SORFTHROATe DUNDS, CUTs, SWELLINGS THE OWARLES A. VOGELER CO., Banlmr{. II—.__ OMAFHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Subseribed and Guarangwed Capital.. Paid in Capital % A Buys and sells stocks and bonds; o gotiates commerelal paper; recoives and excoutes Lrusts; acts as transfer agent and trustee of corporations, takes charge of property, eol- lects taxes. Omaha Lc;xrx&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK, S, E. Cor. 1'aid in Capital . Subscribed and Guaran! 100,003 Liabiiity of Btockholders. 200,000 6 Per Cent Interest Puid on Deposits. FRANK J. LANGE, Cushion. Ofmcers: A. U, Wy, president. J. J. Brown, vice-president, W. T. Wyman, treasurer. Dircctors:—A. U, Wywan, J. . Millard, J. X Brown, Guy 0. Barton, E. W, Nusb, Thoumw L Kimball, Georgo B, 16th and Douglas Sts. E A e 860,000 ed Cupltal stors of A. P, Robincon as S Ho leaves wife and, b S