Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 21, 1890, Page 5

[ N — L & THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY,- DECEMBER 21, 1800--TWENTY PAGE We received yesterday a carload of Chairs and Rockers which were purchased expressly for the Holiday Trade and should have arrived some ten days ago---in consequence, this announcement. low prices inorder to close them out at cnce. tainly nothing more useful. In our Drapery and Upholstery Departments we have many novelties suitable for Christmas Gifts, and the public These goods are suitable for Parlor, Hall or Library; are of the very best make and finish, also of the newest patterns and designs. They will be sold at very As a gift to be appreciated, nothing more lasting can be found, and cer- Appropriate alike to both ladies or gentlemen. is invited to inspect our new sales rooms on the second floor, which contain a large assortment of very desirable picces marked in the verp lowest prices consistent with good workmanship. Our store will be open every evening until Christmas, and the building being thoroughly lighted by electricity, gives a pleasing effect to the surroundings. pretty things we have for sale. As previously announced we have come into possession of a thousand Children’s Books which we are unable to use We extend an invitation to all to visit us any evening this week to see the many for the purpose intended, and will give them away to our customers. They are good books, worth from 50c to $1.50 each. Our facilities for furnishing houses throughout and making fine goods to order were never more complete and no one should think of going east to purchase goods. CHAS. SHIVERICK&CO FURNITURE, CARPETS, DRAPERIES. 1206, 1208 and 1210 Farnam St, Omala. A TREASURER IN TROUBLE. The Trustees of Weslayan University Have a Bout With Tmhoff, .~ A LIVELY CHASE AFTER CORN THIEVES. Two Robbers Free Themselves with Drawn Revolvers—More Wildoat Insurance Companies—Other News Apout Lincoln. Lixcovy, Neb., Dec. 20.—|Spectal to T Ber.]—-The twenty-one members of the board of trustces of Wesleyan university, seven of whom are from each conference in the state, met in regular session at the wuni- versity Thursday ovening and an adjourn- ment was not taken until between 1 and 2 o'clock yesterday morning. The board was again called to order at 8 c¢’loock and the morning spentin discussing the affairs of the institution. The sessions were decidedlyy stormy, and there was a very general shaking up of the accounts of the treasurer, J.J. Imboff. Mr. Imhoff has been treasurer of the board for several years and his resignation has been before that body for some months, As o matter of fact, C. C. White was elected to succeed him at the June meeting, but has not taken charge because the accounts have not been settled with the auditing committee. Many friends of the institution have de- sired a change in the office of treasurer for many months, but the report was tardy in being made, which was the cause of much bickering, and the exhibition of a great deal of bitterness at the late meeting of the board. There wero many angry discussions, and it is said the good brothers paced the halls, and hurled anathemas at one another for several hours. Charges were frecly made that there has been much Juggling of the funds, and that the treasurer had refused to pay war- rants drawn on certain funds on the ground that there was no money on hand, when the treasurer's own report showed several thou- sand dollars to the credit of the institution. ‘When these charges were made Mr. lm” hoft rose in his seat and vehemently d nounced them as false, and a scene of groa! confusion ensued. The statement was made that Mr. Imhoft had agreed to make a com- plete report at this meeting, when his resiz- nation was to have taken effect; and the board not getting it, ordered a complete overhauling of the books from the beginning and will hire experts for the purpose. Al though these charges of juggling with the funds bave been repeated time and again, there seems to be no proof of any direct loss of property, . It is an open secret that Chancellor Creigh- ton and Treasurer Imhoff have been at log- gerheads for some time, and the latter has in- timated to the former that his resignation should be banded in. The charge has also been made by Mr. Imhoff that the proceeds of the sale of lots set aside for the endow- ment fund, about-§27,000, bas been wmisappro- riated, and the money spent on the build- ng. This Chancellor Creighton vigorously denies, and brings forward evidence that the money so used was from the proceeds of lots set aside as a salvago fund. "The building as originally planned was to cost §0,000, but as uvsual in such cases the cost ran up to some $20,000 more. The end of the fight is ot yet, and the report of tho examining commitice, which will be ready in about threo weeks, ‘will bring up the storm again. A LIVELY CHASE. For some time the farmers of Yankee Hill precinet, which lies directly south and west of the city, have been bothered with corn thieves, and & posse or vigilance committee has been organized to run the fellows to earth. Last night the thieves stole a load of corn from Willlam Randall, some three or four wiles from the asylum. The theft was complished, and a posse was hurriedly gath- ored together and the chase taken up. About 9 o'clock they overtook the fellows at Crabor's miils, where they were negotiating for thesale of the corn. The posse unfortu- natsly had no arms with them, but they velled to the feilows to surrender. The men in charge of the team were both strangers, but they were specdily captured despite their resistance. Omne of tho posse immediately started for a telephone, and informed the po- lico that they had the fellows under arrest. It was outsiie the police jurisdiction, how- ever, and an appeal had to” be made to tho sherifft. In tho meantime, the fel- lows managed to effect their escape, by taking to the woods which skirt the ereck. They did not stop to take the team and grain with them, aud one of the chaps even threw off his overcoat to facilitate his escape, The anger o(‘mo sosse can be better fmagined than described, and in half an hour there_were fifteen men on the warpath, all armed with shotguns, and although ~at this writing nothing has been heard from tlwryl: it is pretty certain they will be captured. The farmers were pretty angry, and evidently felt like stringing up the fellows if they caught'em. The team and grain were taken in charge and put under guard. THE WORK OF RELIEF. At the state reliof headquarters in this city the distribution of goods to western settlers is being pushed with all possible vigor by the committee under the special direction of Governor Thayer, At first there was some difficulty in getting county clerks and county commissioners to understand that there must be system in this work, and that only those actually in need should receive aid. It was and is yet difficult for the county clerks and the justices in these western counties to discriminate between the prewended and the real sufferer, The experience of the last ten days, however, has taught many lessons that will be valuable in the future. ‘A man who will impose himsell on & relief committee in his county seat, and procure these supplies by misrepresenting his condition snd thereby fraudulently obtain and appropriate to himself the contribution that was itended for one who is _actually in distress, deserves a severcrebuke. Only a few instances are reported so far from dis- tributing agents where this deception has o curred, and the people of the state who give can rely on the various departments of the relief work to guard against impostors and protect the worthy and distressed, The distribution so far has extended to seventeen counties. One hundred and eight carloads have already been sent, and much of this has been distributed. These supplies consist of coal, provisions and clothing, Of these 108 carloads already sent fifty were coanl and the rest provisions and clothing, "Tnis clothing consists of all manner of wear- ing apparel, such as second hand overcoats, men's and boys' suits, underwear for men, women and children, stockings caps and mit- tens., These articles are gathered by the variovs local committees in the cities and towns, packed in boxes and shipped direct to the county clerks of the western counties, who act as_the distributing agents for the counties. Besides clothing there are staple urticles of food, such as fiour, meal, ham, bacon, rice, beans and other substantials of diet. Then there are boxes of bed quilts and blankets and muny little articles of comfort that only women know how togathier upamong families who have such things to spare, Fifty-eight car loads of these goods have al- ready been billed to the different points and many car loads more will be gathered and sent before the winteris over. In all this work of relief the railroads have borne the largest share of the exnense. It would be absolutely impossible for this work to proceed if the freight were charged up on all these shipments, The commitiee has no money to pay freigkt, and the people to whom these goods are sent have no money to pa freight. In the matter of coal, it is well known that after it has been shipped six or seven hundred miles the freight billis the biggest part of its cost. One thousand tons of coal have been sent freight free, so far, and not one-tenth has yet been sent that is required to warm those families who have no fuel, except buffalo chips, and no money to buy. Many plans are belog dlscussoa by bust- ness men and farmers all over the state for the more substautial assistance needed by these western farmers next spring. It is es. timated that there are twelve or thirteen counties in each of which there are 800 farm- discovercd in o fow hours after it was ac- | ers who will not be able to put in next year's cropand remain on their land unless their seed wheat and corn for feed is furnished them, and not less than §1,000,000 will sufiice, allowing at the rate of §100 W each farm to be cultivated. The question of how this money shall bo appropriated is now a topic on which every man has a suggestion. Gov- ernor Thayer will makea report of all this relief work to the coming session of the leg- islature, TWO BAD MEX, The police are looking for two toughs known as Grant Hubble and Mike MeMen- amy. Itis said that last night these two fel- lows wero at an oyster supper among other guests ata farm house six miles north of this city and near the poor farm. Suddenly the fellows loft, and later J. A. Roberts, one of the guests, discovered that his laprobo and whip bad simultancously disappeared. Rob- erts learned that. the thieves had goncto a dance in the Irishsettlement, six miles above, and accompanied a friend hestarted in pursuit, He found the fellows thereand also discovered the laprobe on one of their horses. He thereupon went inside, and seiz- ing the thieves dragzed them outside and at- tempted to bring them to Lincoln toturn them over to the police, Both Hubble and McMenamy drew their revolvers and threat- ened Roberts with instant death if he per- sisted. He was therefore forced to let them go. Hecame on to Lincoln, awoke Justice Foxworthy aud caused the issuance of awar- Tant. Meanwhile the toughs also camo to town, and gathering together their effects they fled to unknown parts. Hubble roomed on Ninth street, over Kerry's billiard hall, and McMenamy lived at Seventeenth and P streets, DUPED BY INSURANCE FRAUDS. James K. Lane, who owns a flouring mill at Pleasant. Hill, has gone tothe expense of insuring his mill in four different cornpanies and yet an inquiry sent to the aaditor’s oftice develops the fact that pone of those four com- pavies are authorized todo business in this state, and in case Mr. Lane’s mill burns down he will probably not be able to collect a cent of insurance, The wildcat companies with which Mr. Lane has insured are the Milwaukee Mutual fire insurance company, Mutual Guarantee fire insurance com- of Clinton, In., the Northern Mutual fire insurance company of Sioux City and the Anchor fire insurance company of Creston, Ia, Inguiries at Mr., Allen’s office today de- veoloped the fact the following com- paies were not authorized to do business in Nebraska: T'he Home protection company of Chicago, the Mutual accident associat of the northwest and the Preferred Mutual accident company of New York. WANTS AN ACCOUNTING, J. H. McMurtry, who is probably the de- fendant in more suitsin the district court than any other man in Lincoln, appears in his usual role again. This time James A, Hartley has filed an order to compel Mc- Murtryto makean accounting of the prop- erty belonging to the aefunct Lincoln in- surance company, of which McMurtry was appointed receiver, BOARD OF R At the meeting of the the state university yesterday the university and library committeo submitted a report which was adopted recommending that there bo established ~ sub-stations 1 various pox- tions of the state under thodirection of the botanist of the agricuitural experiment sta- tion, the object of which sub-stations shall be to determine what varities of fruits and trees can be profitably cultivated in dif- ferent parts of Nebraska, provided that there sball be_ mo expense to the station for salaries, tools, grounds or appliances, The person in immediate charge of the sub-station shall make an annual report, which shall be presented to the state horti- cultural socicty aud may be published by the central station, Upon recommendataon of the committee on course of study the appointmentsof Mr, A. F. Woods as ls!lsl«lnl‘n the botanical labora- tory and Mr, T. E, Chappell as_instructor in mathematics in the Latin school were ap- proved, Upon the recommendation of the committeo on course of study it. was ordered that courses of instruction in astronomy and the mechanic arts be established as soon as possible, A BAILKOAD CASE PALLS THROUGH, The old case of the board of transportation vs the Fremont, Elikhom & Missouri Valley rallway company in which it was alleged that there was discrimination in rates in favor of Fremont and Omaba snd sgainst Lincoln, S, ard of regents of will disappear without trial in the supreme court as Attorney General Leese asks that it be dismissed. Leeso says that the reason for this1s that the Lincoln boara of trade and freight bureau has failed to produce any tes- timon, REE YEARS STAY OF FORECLOSURE. Among the measures favored in the late alliance convention, but not yet reported, is one which relates to the stay of foreclosure of mortgages. According to the present pro- visions of tho - atutes the mortgagor of property can now gointo courtand securo a stay of nine months after decree of foreclos- ure has been granted, The alliance proposes to change this by making the stay effective for three years, or just four times the length of the present period, AT THE STATE HOUSE. Ben R. Cowdery, secretary of state, will pass the fow remaining days of his oficial career at Hot Springs, Ark. The suit of the Omaha Fairand Exp osition association and & number of insurance com- panies againstthe Missouri Pacific railway company for $17,54.20 damages caused by the fire on the fair grounds October 23, 1887, wusnYlwnll)d to the supreme court today. Tho plaintiffs allege that the fire was caused by a spark from a locomotive on the Missouri Pacific line. & 0DDS AND ENDS, At tbe meeting of the Lincoln Humane so- ciety Rev, . H. Chapin was elected presi- dent, E. M. Parker vice president, Dr. G. H. Simmons secretary and Dr. H. Carter tressurer, The society will ask tho legisla- ture for more power to act in briuging cul- prits to justico whoare guilty of cruelty to animals. Detective Malone's services wererequested lastevening by an elderly lady who has been living in room 36, Appleget’s block. Shehas a daughter who has been omployed as a waiter in the Bond hotel. The family ap- pears to have been iu hard luck, and the com- missioners furnished them with tickets for all threeto Chicago. The landlord of the Bond, W.T. Sawyer, did not want the girl to go, and his request appears to hive had more weight with ber than the parents’ com- munds. Hence it was thatthe police were n]:}mulud to. . H. Hooper complains to the police that he was attacked on T strect near T'wenty- seventn last mght by four fellows who at- wlul)lml to dohimup. He managed to let forth several hearty yells, which nduced the men to take to their heels, Hooperis a stu- dent at the university e The Key-Note of Ohristmas. When you kneel in the green-trimmed church and say over, quite quictly, the little prayers whickh you love, just think, aminute or two afterwards, how youcan make somehody else happy on Christmas day, and I assure you that you will gain inthis way more absolute joy than has come from the Christmas presents sent toyou, says a writer in the Ladies’ Home Journal., The key-note of Ch mas day is the doing for somebody clse. The Christmas child came into the world, not to be happy, but to makehapj piness for others; to make the pathway of life smooth, and, toshow how forgiv- ing, even unto death, one should be, So muke that your Christmas. Make it the day when enmity and grudgesare for- gotten, when the l‘rienfly grasp is given where it has been withheld for a year, and where uvory(hluF is blotted outfrom yosr lifo except a blessed peace and an entire good-will to all the world. ———— Women in Wall Street. The widow of L. A. Pollard, the his- torian of the southern confederacy, has opened in Wall street a broker’s” office for the accommodation of women who deal in stocks, says the Indianapolis News, It is a curious fact that no woman who hasopened a stock specula- tor’s offte has as yet been permanently successful. Some, like Hetty Green, have been shrewd outside buyers and made money, but so far as I know those who have opened regular offices for stock transactions have one and all lost money and quit the business. Perhaps this is, after all, a compliment to women in one way. STANLEY'S PICTURE OF 0MAHA The Great Explorer's Letter from This City Twenty-Three Years Ago, NTERESTING REMINISCENCES REVIVED. History of the Territory of Nebraska and the Building of the Union Pacific Railway—The Village Omaha. Henry M.Stanley's pen picture of Nebraska and Omsha in 1807, presented hLerewith, forms a deciaedly interesting reminiscence in view of the coming visit of Stanley to Omaha, the sceno of soveral thrilling inci- dents in his early career, The letter was written from Omaha Feb- ruary 4, 1867, and was published inthe New York Herald, February 21, Tho twenty- three years that have elapsed have wrought great changes and the unknown newspaper correspondent from a territorial village in 1867 returns in 1890 the most famous living traveler and explover to the most prosperous state and the most progressive and rapidly developing city in the union. Much has been wiittenand said of Stan- ley's ca in Omaha and of his work as cor- respondent forthe New York Herald. Tue Bek presents herowith the letter of Stanley taken from the files of tho New York Herald of February 21, 1567 NEBRASKA, OUR OMAIA CITY (ORRESPONDENCE—TISTORY OF THE TERRITORY—UNION PACIFIC RAIL- ROAD—CHICAGO & ERN RAILROAD —NEBRASKA PAST A ENT. Owaris, Flob, 4, 187.~The prominent po- sition of {his territory now asking admission intothe sisterhood of states will warrant a short review of its history. Nebraska was originally part of the French province of Louisiana, ceded by France to the United States in 1803, It was soon afterseparated from the present state of Louisiana, and, to- gether with the vast_region now composing half a dozen states and territories, called the Indian Territory. As early as 1803 trading posts were established along the banks of the Missouri by French traders; but until about 1852 Nebraska had no ot ttlers than the numerous bands of Ind! who made it their hunting grounds. Nebraska then was er- roncously set down on the map as the great Aumerican desert, unfit for agriculture, On May 4, 1834, Nebraska was organizd into a territory by congress, aud in the fall of the same year the first leeislature convened atOmaha, its present capital. To show the progress of the territory the following figures will safiice 18 Population in 1835, 4,563 1860, about forty-five thousind.' The turas of last fall siow & popula- tion of at least seventy thousand at present, These figures exhibit an extraordinary in- crease in the past two _years, This will bo easily explained by the’ marvelous progress in construction of the Union Pacifle railroad, ot which I shall speak hereafter. The popu’ lation is mostly settled fn the tier counties, fronting the Missouri river, and in the far: famed valley of the Platte. Other parts of tho territory are also filling up rapidly. Itis in the valley of tho Platte, now tra- versed by the Union Pacifie railroad, that the wast agricultural resources become apparent, Thesoll s rich and well adapted to raising cercals, but. especially do theso prairie lands afford fine pasture for cattle. Sheep raising is now carried on extensively and._as_advau- tageously as on the plains of Saxony, To this valley thrifty immigrants fron the castemn states and Europe aro flocking to take advantago of the cheap landsand remunerative labor this country affords. Although farming is yetin its infancy, thousands of bushels of wheat were last fall shipped to St. Louls and Chicago, whero Nebraska wheat sold st the bighest market prices, The millions of ushels of corn consumed by the army on the P, tlains and tho non-producing mining terri- ories, are chicfly raised here. Nebraska is the natural feeder of these mining territories, and the farmer thereby is generally enabled to get tho hichest prices in the west. The people are alive to the importanco of taking thelr stand as a state of the union, This will give them the large land grants for school _purposes and enavle them to put the education of their children onasound basis The annual session of the legislaturo commenced January 10, The messago of Act- ing-Governor Paddock reports the financial condition of the territory was never better, there being a large surplus of funds on hand, with an_increase of taxable property. He recommends an immediate geological survey of the territory, the bridging of the Platto not far from ils mouth, favors state govern- ment and suffrage on’ the by of intelli- gence. The legislature is composed of a large majority of radical republicans, who, T believe, will “ratify Boutwell's Nebraska bill as s00n as sent here by congress, UNION PACIFIO RAILROAD. It is butayear ago since 1 nccompanied the government, commissioners on an exour- sion over the first forty miles west of Omaha. Today regular trains run to North Platte, 200 wiles west, and the road is_completed fifteen miles beyond that point. Over two hundred and fifty miles have been built in twolve months, includinga Howe truss bridge 1,505 fect long across the Loups fork and a pile bridge 2,640 feet long across the north fork of the Platte. This marvelous progress of o railroad, destined in afow vears to link the Atlantic to the Pacific, entiiles the company and its officers to the thanks of the nation. Under seemingly insurmountable dificulties id one and one-half to two miles of k per day. This extraordinary feat was witnessed in October by the excursionists to the one hun- dredth meridian. Tho company has at the same time erccted commodious station houses along the road, and machine shops and engine houses at Omaha capable of accommodating ity locomotives and turning out a car per “Their engincers are engaged sounding the river for selection of the proper point to locate the great bridge across the ) i Work unon_ this bridge, which is to £1,000,000, will commence as soon as the weathor will permit, ‘The construction of the road west will pro- ceed with the characteristic speed of the Union Pacifie. The dificult and costly trans- portation of rails and materials up the Mis- souri is now obviated by the finishing of the Chic & thwestern railway. road reached Council Bluffs depot y afternoon at 2 o'clock, link lakes and the Missour orthwestern tas great fic, and built nearly as much railroad in me length of time. Since July I last they built the road from Ogden to Council Bluffs, Ja., 111 miles, in amost substantial manner; 2,500 tics were laid to the mile and 50 pounds of rail to the yard. Now that all rail communication is finished from New York to North Platte the competition for the traffic of the rich mining regions of Utah and California between 1sus and Nebraska routes has almost ce To show the advau route it is only necessary to show the great difference in time, expense, and, what is more, the long, dangerous and unpleasant stage ride which the Kansas route makes as compared with Nebraska. Numberof miles staging to Denver via Leavenworth and Smoky Hill route, 453; via Omaha, 250; ing 178 miles more staging via Sm route, Fare, Leavenworth Omaha to Denver, 8100; making §15 more via Leavenworth, Through fare from Chicago to Denver via Omaba is § less than via Leaven- worth, Total saved going from Chicago to Denver via Omaha route $:8. The additional 173 miles staging makes the trip via Lea: worth one and a half v two days longer, The overland mail route to Salt Lake, Montana and California vasses through Deuver; con- sequently the above differences ave applicable equal to all overland travel, Omaha and Nebrasks can well congratulate themseives on the completion of the North- western rallroad, OMAIA OI7Y, the eapital of Nebraska and terminus of the Unlon Pacific railroad, is beautifully located on a high, level plateau, forty feet above the highest water mark, on the west bank of the Missouri. A low range of hills, gradually rising to an elevation of eighty to one hun- dred feet above this plateau, and about oue between the of the Nebraska milo from the river, affords fine locations for private residences.’ On ono of these hills is the torritorial capifol, surrounded by a pari 000 feot, square. Tho panoramic view from these hilis, and espeeially from Capitol Hill, is rarely 'if ever surpasscd in picturesquo beauty, and even grandeur. Below the city, with its wide, regular stroets, business blocks, churches and buildings thero, tho d winding from huge machine shops around thoe city, then cutting through the hills, passing on its way wills, warchouses and gardens. then takes In the darkly-colored s around lowa Bluffs the steamboats comiug, going or unloading freight and pas- sengers on its banks, here and there a raft or log carried down by the swift current of the river. Three miles back of the river, directly east of Omaha, Council Bluffs, half hiaden among the ravines, leaning up against tho high walls of the green bluff. This charm- ingz view of the river and city, hill and plain, affords a never-ending source of pleasure to the beholders, Omaha is situated very nearly on an air line, and_almost half way between New York and Fraucisco. Her com- nding position as terminus of a railway destined to carry tho great trafiio between the Atlantic and acific, probably to revolu- tionizo the Chincso and Japan trade of the world, gives her commercial ade vautages which in the last twelve months have doubled her population, and which sooner or later will make her one of the leading cities of the greavnorthwest, Preparations for building business blocks, churches and private dwellings next season are being made on a lai le, and although hundreds of mechanics are expected to arrive here in the spring, I doubt whether the sup- ply will be equal to the demand. THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PLATTE, Since the massacre near Iort Phil Kear- ney, the war department has come to tho conclusion to change the commauder of tho department. Yesterday ( Augur relieved General P, St Cooke from the command of the department, The staft is to remain unchanged for the present, Sev- sed throngh ¢ en routo and Phil Kearney, and an ampaign against the says nges i anticipated as soon as the forco and the weather will permit. The Indians aro daily committing small depredations, such as carvying off cattle and killing a man here and thera, The weather at Kort Laramio has n severely cold—as low as twenty de- ses below’ zero—and the number of troops too small to cope with the Indians, e Washington and Oregon, This new empire of the northwest s attracting universal attention and the reason for this is the almost unlimited resourees that huve recently been opened and the surprising growth of this region, Large agriculty areas; vast forests and immense deposits of precions metals are to be found in Oregon and Washing- ton, und by reason of the varied natural resources of the country this secti offers unequaled opportunities for investment of eapital and location of in- dustries that are not surpassed by the older sections of the United States, The Union Pacific on account of its fast time, through Pullman sleepors and din- ing cars, free reclining chair cars and free colonist sleepers from the Missouri river, is conceded to be the favorite route for persons going to either Wash- ington or Oregon, For pamphlots fully descriptive of the above named states, or for rates, time of teains or any information pertaining to the Union Pacifie, call onor address your nearest ticket agent or the under- igned, who will most chegrfully furnish any information thut may be desired. A.'P. Deuel, city ticket agent, 1302 Fare nams treet, Omaha, Nebh f— GoOn a Here 18 a chance isit. to go home and visit the old folks during the holidays, The Union Pacific will sell on December 24, 25 and 81, 1800, and January 1, 1891 round trip tickets to all Kansas and No: braska points for one and one-third fare for the round trip, good returning Janu- ary b, 1801,