Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1890, Page 4

| S a , THE OMAHA DAILY BEEL TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1890, THE DAILY BEE. E. ROS] EVERY MORNING SCRTPTION, atly and funday, One Year X months, . veeee e hree months . fomday Hon, Orio Yeir. ockly How, Ono Yea OFFICF Omahn, The Bee Bullding. $outh Omaha, Corner N anc Pearl Stre f—— - PUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE A1l communieations reluting to news and E‘llmlnl matter should be addressed to the ditorinl Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business lotters and remittanoes shonld e addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omalia. Urafts checks nndl postoflies orders 10 be made puyable to the order of the com any. thc Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee W'ld'g, Furnam ahd Seventetnth Bts o = e vt FWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btateof Nebraski. bos County of Douglas. George 1, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing compuny. aoes solemnnly swear tnat the setual olreulation of The DATLY B or the woex ending Dec. 20, 1300, was as fol- uturday, Dec. 2 Average..... GRONGE. Il TZEONUCK. Fworn to Yefore me nnd subseribed In my presence tnis 20th day of Decermber. A, D.. 1890 1FEA N. P, Frin, Notary Publlo. Btateo i Geor auly sworn, de- o8Cs ary of The Bee ) impanv. that the sotual averace duily circulation of The DALY BER for the month of December, 1889, w; Janunry, 19, 10,565 coples 10,761 cones: for March. 640 vic 1806, 2, coples; forAu 048 coples; for or Februiry, 1800, pies; 1800, 20,815 ¢ i 1800, for fentomler, 1800, 20, for October, 1800, 2 coples; for No 1680, 2,130 coples, Grone TZSCHUCK. Eworn to before me. and subscribed in my presence, this ith asy of Decemher. A, | 1690 Notary Publie. Tur talk about an extra session of congress is needless cruelty. THE one important force bill needed at the present timo is one that will force open the vaults of scared bankors and restore confidence, THE rainhow hues of Cal Brice’s “bar’l” have not lightened the Moody surroundings of the South Dakota sena- torial contest, so far, Tie marked decreaso in the number of desertions from the army corresponds with the improvement in the treatment of privates by their superio A LARGE assortment of Manitoban days will comeand go in this quarterare hopeful democratic aspirants capture the chief star in the police firmament. A CONSIDERATE Jersey man has turned the hose on the sockless congressman of Kansas. The winter of his discontent is not as cheerless as many people im- ngine. — i people are going to take a large- sized interest in what the next legisla- ture docs. And there will be enough borious business 1o keep it profitably employed. THE general stringency in monetary affairs is sharply shown in the decrease of bunk clearings, The decline in the transactions of Omaha banks is notable because of its rarity. THERE is a rising clamor against Plattism in New York. It is doubtless well founded. The great republican army in the Bmpive state needs leadors, but not bosses and dictato 17 is announced on good authority that King Kalakaua will remain perma- nently in San Francisco, unless he suc- ceeds in borrowing the price of his re- turn fare. These are hard times for royalty. —_— New YORK proposes to divide with Omaha the honors heretofore enjoyed of being a tempting bait for claim-jumpers, A few Connecticut Heélfensteins are about to jump some Broadway lots valued at $200,000,000, P HENRY WATTERSON has celebrated his silver wedding. Ho is to be congrat- ulated upon the fact that his domestic affairs have gone smoothly for 25 years, in spite of his conspicuous attentions to the star-cyed goddess. MAN killing couplers and defective brakes have contributed the lion’s share of the 4,000 railroad employes killed and crippled during the year. Yot congress has taken no practical steps to diminish this slaughter and mutilation of human beings. Tae Wyoning legislature has placed on record a thesison the uses and abuses of water. The conclusion isthat the limited quantity in the state should be rigidly devoted to the irrigation of land. The fear of a radical change in the bev- erage of the residents is thus happily dissipated. BY all meags give us light and plenty of it on these luxurious furnishings of the new poor house. Just what relation lace curtains, brussels carpet and antique oak furniture bear to the prob- lem of feeding the county’s wards, should not be hid under the flicker of tallow and kerosene, —_— T Bee will forego publishing an {llustrated annual edition, but it will print a complete compendium of the trade, industry, improvements (public and private) during the year 1890, In so doing it has nothing to brag of, but it only pursues its custom of keoping Omaha to the front asthe unrivalled metropolis of the Missouri valley. Em——— _ Ir is characteristic for our double- decker contemporary to claim that it is the only paper that will print an Annual Review of Omaha’s business and mater- fal growth, just as though it had acopy- right on facts and figures that are ac- cossible to everybody, As s matter of fact the annual roviews (?)that have heretofore been issued by our enterpris- ing contemporary have heen the cheap- ost of knock-down furniture. It would be a great surprise to its patrons if they are given anything else this year. — GENERAL LEESE'S REPORT. The annual report of Attorney Genoral Leocso is o document of extraordinary importance and interest. General Leose declares that the pres- ent system of railroad control in Nebras- kn through the state board of transpor- tation isa completo failure. He urges the passage of a maximum schedule of rates on the lowa basis, arranged with a just regard for the difference in mileage and tonnage and the expense of operat- ing. He wouldl have this supple- mented by the appointment of three sccretaries by the governor, charged with the duty of preventing violations of the law. This avrangement, ho belioves, will furnish veliof and assure justice until an amend- ment to the constitution providing for the election of a railroad commission can be passed upon by the people. But the attorney general would go deeper, and attempt not only to rémedy the effects, but remove the causes of corporate extortions, He would have Nebraska lead in an effort to limit the carningsof railronds to a fair profit on the actual investment, as represcated by cost, labor and property contributed to the enterprise. This he would accom- plish by legislation, which he outlines in very definite terms, as follow 1 would recommend a law forbidding any railroad corporation from issuing any mort- gage bonds or stock until an itemized ac- count of the cash, labor or property, duly sworn to, has been presonted to some officer of the state for examination, and if found to be a true account of the money, labor or prop- erty received, to registerand certify the same as issued in pursuance of law, and as consti- tuting a part of the capital stock of such cor- poration. Such a law would strike out all fictitious mcrease of capital stockof all the roads now in operation, as well as all those to be formed hercafter, and with such a law the rates of transportation could be fixed so that an honest dividend could be made on aun hon- est dollar invested. This suggests a radical step, but what honest man or corporation can object to it? Why should a railroad be permitted to mortgage its property on any differ- ent basis t is enjoyed by the man who mortgages his farm, or his re dence? Such a lawas General Leese suggests would lay the axe atthe very root of the evil. Tt would put a stop to the reckless issuing of bouds and stocks and give the people low rates by restrict- ing carnings to a fair profit on the actual investment. And that would be just to stockholders and public alike. Unless such a measure s the attorney meneral suggests is provided and en- forced there is nothing that will prevent the systematic fleccing of the public by the present methods. It is a real and not a fancied evil. For instance, a rail- roud 65 miles in length was completed in central Nebraska during the past year, It cost to build and equip it $13,000 per mile. Bonds have been issued for $20,000 per mile and stock to the amount of 81,000,000, while bonuses for over ono ‘hundred thousand dollars were obtained from towns along tho line, The traffic is expected to pay interest on the bonds and dividends to the stockholders. Moanwhile, the profits of the projectors of the enter- prise will be further swelled by the town- site business, which is absolutely con- trolled by them. That such a one-sided transaction can be carried out in broad daylight isa commentary upon our laws and a justification of the term, *‘legal- ized robbery.” If the legislature acts upon the sug- gostion of General Leese it will put Ne- braska at the front of railroad reform in this country. It will confer upon the people of this state the honor of having taken the first steo in a path that the people are bound to tread, soomer or later. The report comments with equal vigor on the subject of Union Pacific indebted- ness and urges the government to fore- close. Theattitude of THE BER in this matter is well known. The report, as a whole, is one which should command great attention, not only in Nebraska, but throughout the United States. = TRAFFIC POOLING. The new agreement of the western railway presidents does not provide for a system of direct traffic pooling, but it proposes what in effect would amount to such asystem. The project is to create w advisory board, composed of the president and one of the directors of each of the roads subscribing to the agrecment, which shall have full power, by a four-fifths vote, to fix rates that shall apply to all the railroads con- cerned, and shall also have charge, through properly constituted represen- tatives, of securing traffic at competitive points. The obvious' purpose of this is to provide for the distribution or division of trafic on some basis decided by the board to be equitable to all the roads in L the agreement, and unquestionably this would be in effect, traflic pooling. The question is already raised whether this arrangement would not coatravene the provision of the interstate commerco act prohibiting pooling. The section of the act relating to this matter declares that it shall be unlawiful for common carriers to enter into any contract, agreement or combination for the pool- ing of freight of differentand competing roads, or to divide betweenthem the aggregate or net proceeds of the earn- ings of such roads or any part thereof. It is understood to be the opinion of Chairman Walker of the Inter- state Commerce Railway ussociation, who was formerly a member of the in- terstate commerce commission, as it is of some good railroad attorneys, that the law forbids n money pool, but not a poysical division of freight, but it is dif- ficult to seo how this parrow lnterprota- tion of the language of the interstate commerce act can be sustained. The pooling of freight is distinctly declared to be unlawful as well as the division of earnings, and it is not easy to conceive ofuny plan for a division of traffic be- twveen competing roads that would mnot conflict with this provision. This will question doubtless re- coive more caroful = attention at the next meeting of the presi- dents in January for final action regarding the new agreement, and it is not improbable that in the meantime they may get some light on the subject that will lead them to modify the powers of the proposed advisory board, 80 48 to limit its authority to es- tublishing and maintaining wniform rates between competitive points and de- eiding questions of common interest be- tween the mombers of the association. How far or how long such limited authority would be effective in prevent- ing the conflicts which the new agree- ment 1s intended to obviato, is very un- certain, but experience warrants the conclusion that the results would not be what are hoped for. The efficacy of the arrangements would depend, as did that of the former association, upon the good faith of the railroad presidents and their ability to control the action of their subordinates, and it has been demonstrated that such dependence is utterly insecure. The important relation that the ques- tion of traffic pooling bears to the rail- road problem is obvious, and the pro- posed amendmont of the interstate com- mercoe act 8o as to allow a system of limited pooling subject to the upproval and control of the commission ought to receive the early consideration of con- gress. It isto be noted that the com- mission, in recommending changes in the law, does not refer to this subject, but that is not a reason why congress should not give it attenti Ther wide difference between permitting a systom of limited pooling practically under the control of the governmentand repealing the anti-pooling provision of the inte ate commerce act, as desired by the LE The scheme of an unlimited issue of the government based on curity, which is championed in congress by California’s millionaire senator, Stanford, is not universally ap- proved by the farmers of the country, for whose special interest it was pro- posed. On the contrary, there is a very large opposition to it among this class of the producers, Conspicuous among the associa- tions of farmers which re- pudiate this proposition is the Michigan grange, which recently made public a vigorous document against the scheme of ecreating a system of government louns to the people whether upon real estate or the products of the farm. These Michigan farmers expressed surprise that any large body of intelligent citizens should be carried away by a clamor for what in the very nature of things is the worst mishap that could befall them, and which they are constrained to thinkorig- inates rather ina demagogical ambi- tion for political preferment on the part of its promoters than in any patriotic aspiration for the public good. The im- possibility of putting the plan into practice without promoting favoritism, encouraging depend- ence upon - the government, and 80 causing a relaxation of individual ef- fort, is stated inlanguage so clear and vigorous that no doubt can be felt of the earnest conviction behind it. It is de- clared that the adoption of such a policy “*would create a feeling of helpless de- pendency upon government aid by those whom it was designed to benelfit, there- by relaxing their individual effort, de- stroying their energy and self-reliance, andrendering them helpless mendicants of government charity, leading to thrift- less improvidence.” No practical man with sufficient intelligence to understand tho character of this remarkable proposition to reverso the true order, which requires that the people shall support the govern- ment and not the government support the people, can fail to see and acknewl- odge the wisdom and force of these views of the farmers of Michigan. No less forcible in the same direction was the address of the wmaster of the Maine state grange, whilo one of the first reso- lutions adopted: by the Noew Hampshire grange was one opposing the sub-treas- ury scheme for loaning money by the government on produce. Such expressions are reassuring in the evidence they carry that thore is a very arge body of American farmers who un- derstand their true relations to the gov- ernment as citizens and cannot be carried away by wild and visionary schemes, even when professedly devised in their special interest. No class of the American peo- ple is more fully imbued with common sense than the farmers, who are brought into daily contact with practical facts and compelled to base their calculations for the future on conditions which ad- mit of no favoritism or partiality. Prac- tical and self-reliant, they are not the men to ask for class legislation and put themselves in the position, asthe Michi- gun farmers express it, of ‘‘helpless mendicants of government charity,” while their love and loyalty for the gov- ernment which they did so much to pre- serve will not permit them to favor a policy which would in time reduce this nation,to the condition of the Argentine Republic. Senator Stanford’s object in fathering this scheme is transparent. He wants to be re-elected and secks to pull the wool over the eyes of the Cali- fornia farmers whom he has mercilessly floeced by extortionate railroad rates. Stanford has never offered to loan any part of his colossal fortune to the farm- ers at two per cent or even at eight per cent, and he has about as much sym- pathy for the poor farmer as his billion- aire partners of the Southern and Central Pacifie. THE SHORT-LIVED SHORT LINE. After a brief existence, dotted with spurts of much brilliancy, the Pacific Short Line drops into the capacious arms of a receiver. The actual indebt- edness of the company is well up in the millions, while the assets include 100 miles of mortgaged road and a future of hypothecated promises. The Pacific Short Line operated under anumber of aliases, but the main object of the projectors was to build a road from Sioux City w Ogden, Utah, It was essentially a spaculative road, not a genuine business venture. During the progress of the work, the public was frequently informed that the Ilinois Central, the Milwaukes or the Manitoba roads were successivoly backing the en. torprise. These announcements were evidently designed to arouse enthusiasm along the chosen route and correspond- ingly swell dovations of bondsand right- of-way. And for that purpose scheme wWhrked to perfection, The outcoms of the project clearly shows that none of the eastern railroad corporations backed theroad, inancially tho | man could seo that the road was prema- ture. It wm’fi conty years ahead of the country, W A s68e ekt 804 wost lices penetrating fNpbraska and all having direct or indircct connection with the Central Pacific at Ogden, the so-called short line would be as useful in a com- maercinl sense as a fifth wheel toa wagon, It would simply divide with the older lines the |)l|‘»ilf¥! of the region trav- orsed, while its share of transcontinent- al traffic,would be comparatively slight. Competition is no longer a factor in western railroads, hence roads are use- ful only in developing local interests dis- tant from existing lines. Ii is to tho permanent interests of the public to dis- cournge tie building of parallel lines which are undertaken to fleece counties and towns and be unloaded eventually on the older corporations. As long as there is a surplus of railroads and a lack of traffie, rates will be maintained at the highest practicablo figures, whereas a concentration of trafic must produce a stondy iecrease of tariffs, as has been demonstrated time and again in the east as well s in the west. The suspension of the Short Line will have no effect on the development of Nebraska. On the contrary, it will save taxpayers from the exactions of specu- lators, prevent a diversion of business from existing lines and strengthen the demand for an adjustment of transporta- tion rates on a basis just to the producer and the carrior, IMMIGRATION, SOUTH AND WEST. The recent interstate immigration con- ventionat Asheville, N. C,, is an object lesson that should not belost upon the west. When the south assembles such a ropresentation of its interests and throws its doors wide open to ‘‘home- seckers and manufacturers from tho north and west,” it is time for the peo- ple of this section to bo actively at work in the same direction, The un: feature of the Asheville convention is the fact that it included all the southern states. There is a forco about an appeal emanating from such a body that does not belong to ordinary immigration methods. In acer- tain sense it represents the reawakening of the whole southern people and the revival of that sectional pride which has formerly been both the strength and the weakness of the south. It is un- doubtedly an earnest effort to build up the material interests of the southern states with new population and capital. Commendable as such a movement is, there are two reasons why it may not be expected to achieve great results, In the first place, the south has been very heavily boomed in the last few years. Magic cities have sprung up at the junc- tions of paper railroads, and innumer- able Pittsburgs'have been founded at the mouths of newly discovered mines, Thousands of town lots have been un- loaded uponcredulousnortherninvestors, who, as inevitible collapses have oc- curred, have become so many tongues todecry tho south. It will take along time to outlive the resultsof this rock- less booming. There1s another obstacle in the way of southern immigration that bids fair to last even longer. This is the fact that northern men have yet to be con- vinced that they are truly welcome in the south, as they are in the west. They know that their dollars are welcome in Dixie, but they do not believe that the descendant of the Puritan is regarded as the equal of the descendant of the Cavalier. And they do not care to occupy any but the top floor in the scale of southern society. The lesson of the Asheville convention isthat western men should stand to- gother in an earnest effort to keep the tide flowing in its natural channel, which is ever toward the setting sun. ‘We need a revival of immigration meth- ods on a broad scale, and between now and the world’s fair year they should be fully under way. AFTER years of agitation and tribula- tion, Douglas county is now provided with adeguate facilities for entertaining guests, The old county infirmary lacked those modern surroundings so es- sential to a proper 'digestion of county fodder, yet it was a magnet of consider- able power in attracting transients and permanents, Under the new dispensa- tion a complete revolution is effected. Tnstead of fly-blown surroundings, wo have lace curt ains, brussels carpets, fire places, elevators to facilitate movement and railroads to transport the provender from stall to stall. The fa- vored wards of the county are in clover,and if they do not wax fat and beligerent, it will not be the fault of a trenerous publie, When the full details of the county’s luxurious hotel are thoroughly understood abroad, especially in counties and states that have herato- fore sent expicures to sample the public menu and incidentals,it is safo to predict that the hostelry on Douglas heights willbetaxed to its utmost capacity. Such elogant fittings, however, must not be marred with gallow dips or kerosene. Nothing less thap electric lights will ad- equately illunfing the internal beauty of the new poor house. mwpe— THIS is theHéason of the yen the energetic merchant usurps the col- umns of THE Beg and talks in thrilling pica lines with the public. So great is the pressure of these commercial “liter- ary fellers” that the regulars cheerfully abdicate in their favor. DOUGLAS county’s proportion of the state school fuad amounts to $16,224, Omaha’s shave Wwill materially lighten the weight of the Paul streot doficit. e — UNLESS the street railway managers promptly tighten the brakes on reckless motormen, the company will have a heavy bill of damages to settle, —— Wrrh $1,600 of good Alliance money in the socks, the prohibition inquisitors view the approachof Christmas with | boundless joy. TROUBLES multiply onall sides, but the prohibition contestants mainiin a cheerful grip on Burrows' boolle. em— Asa specimenof that charming Chris- | tlan spirit which animates the prohilis or otherwise, Any intelligent railroad [nmmp Worthington, Dr. Duryea, Rov. Harsha, Judges Dundy, Wakeley,Clark- | #son, Doane and all parsons who testified to the orderly conduct of the election, are offleinlly denounced ns liars, and heavy villains beyond the hope of re- demption. SPEED consistont with safoty is one of thoe lost jewbls of strect railway management, [0 THE asvirants for ‘ch First catch your governor. The Conviot's Adieu Puck, As down the wall the convict slid, When ho for freedom make a break, He murmered—in the shi xcuse the liborty Restrio-oducns Nebraska Stands Alone. St. Lowais Glahe-Demo-rat, Nebraska is the only state {hat gains threo congressmen under the new apportionment, and it is to bo hoped that sho realizes the fact that she ds expected to fill tho places with three republicans, » — The Dark Horse Wins. Chicago Tribune, Two mon fn Oregon, with a not that re- quired two horses and six or eight men to handle, “caught twenty tous of salmon in one haul at the mouth of Kol river” one day lately. This story comos lato, but it carries off the honors, NEWS OF THE NORTHWE Nebraska, William Deakins of Ogallala went hunting Sunday and 15 now minus a thumb. The Burr hotel at Alma has boer closod by creditors, T'he Liabilities are about §2,500. Gregory J. Campan, sr., formerly a resi- dent of Dotroit, Mich., but recently” vesiding at Redfern, Custer county, is dead. While the family was at_church the resi- dencoe of C. Roze near Auburn was entored by burglars and a number of valuable articles were taken. Railrond interest at Decatur hasagain boen d by an oficial of the Illnols Contral ng up real estate in that incighborhood, sting in lands heretofore considered ‘worthles: (. W. Jones, a Dawson barber, got on_tho train to go to' Humboldt, the next station, Wien ho got to Humboldt ho found himself minus §24, the recoipts from the sale of his barber shop and every cent he had on earth, Dick Moore, while digging a well on his place at Indianola, found part of a human skeleton ninety-four feet below the surface, jaw oone, collar bone, upper arm and one tooth were in anexcellent state of pres. ervation. The enamel was yet on the tooth, A petition is being cireulated in Fairbur, and extensively signed nsking Judge Morris to remit the fine of ex-County Commissioner Willey for offering to accept a bribe, The petition sets forth the previous good charac: ter, tho age, the poverty of the ex-officer and the childish credulity of My, Willey. The motion for anew trial in tne case of Richards, an infant, vs Kilpatrick Bros. & Collins af Chadron tias boen overrulod by Judge Kirkland and judgment rendered on the verdict for $5,000. This was a case in which the infant son of A. J. Richards was injured by the explosive used in_excavating tho tunnel on the Grand Island & Woestera Colorado raiiway south of Craw ford. The McCool Junction Record writes thus of a hog thief: A farmer by the name of Bratcher, living near Harvard, butchered a hog recently, leaving it hang out over night. Near morning the dog was heard to bark, which caused Mr. Brateher to spring froi his bed, and grasping & loaded shotgun ho silently stole toward the hanging porker just intime to discover a two-legwed ‘critter’ carving a_shoulder from the hog. The gun was raised, the srigger pulled, bt the shot was not large enough to bring down the game. Something _*dropped,” however, whick Ar. Bratcher found to be a sack con: taining & half bushel of potatoes which had been taken from his cellar, and which would, in a short time, have walked off in company with a_shoulder of a hog had not the cruel farmer -appeared on the scone just at that stage of the game, lowa. Alton citizens will petition the council for waterworks, James Dow, near Mallard, has a ram that chews tobacco. Samuel J. Kirkwood, Towa’s war governor, was seventy-seven years old last week. A state bank has been organized at Lake Park with a capital of $25,000, and with John W. Cravens president, and M. D. Green cashier. Thero is a man in the St. Joseph hospital, Keokul, severely cut and stabbed, who ve: fusos to give his name or tell who his assail- ant was, Muscatine has put $20,000 into streot im- provements this year, of which amount one- half was derived from what is known as the oon tax.” Governor Shoup, recently elected United States senator in Idaho, was a former resi- dent of Dubuque, and his brotber, Prof. W, J. Shoup, is principal of the Fourth ward school in the Key city. Rev. C. N. Liyman has tendered his resig- nation as pastor of the Congregational church at Onawa, to take effect January 1. Ho has served the church for twenty yéars and lays down the work of the chavge for lack of physical strength to carry it on. His res- ignation has been reluctantly accepted by the congregation, Mr. Lyman has rcceived a number of calls to other places, John Sturdivan of Laurens went to bed the other night leaving his wife writing & letter. He awoke about midnight and found She left a note to her hugband “Good-by. I am going away, God where—anywhere to get away from this accursed life, May the All Wise Fathor with you as you deal with my children,” Search has failed to find her. She left four children, the oldest aged fourt en, In the Lyon county district court Judge Walkefield dismissed the disbursement pro- ings against Attorney D. C. McCallum bley, with anadmonition to MeCallum to be wore carefulin his business methods aud let officers sign their own roturns, Mc- Callum was charged with making a false re- turn upon an original notice with intent to deceivo the court iuto the belief that it had been served npon the party defendant, Me- Callum averred that G, L. Van Eaton, tho complaining witness, “brought the docnment to him, said he had duly served it and ro- auested him to fill out and sign the return, which he did, The Two Dakotas. It is estimated that 150,000 sheep have been brought into North Dakota the past year, The water of the Vermillion river has beon found to be especially adapted to the manu- facture of linen. Twohundred and twenty-seven students were enrollod at Yankton cotlege the past year. Seven states were represeuted. her gone. John W, Allen, a former prominent citi- zen of the Black Hills, died recently at Ju- neau, Alaska, Mrs. J. A.Drake of Iriguols has been or- the first dained & Congregational preac lady in the state tohave that distine! One day last week eighteen pers fined in the Cass county, N. D., jail, nwaiting trial, were discharged because the witnesses bud all removed from the county, Two days after sixteen of the eighteen were again bo- hind the bars, principally for stealiflg. Twenty-six convicts are now out of tho South Dakota penitentiary under the parol law. Thirty seven were ‘set at liberty, but the terms of imprisontment of eleven hive ex- pired. The board of charities and corvection favorably on the operation of the law, Lions against its abuse. £400,000 was paid out in Armour the car for favm produce, including 275 cars of grain and 450 cars of cattle and hogs, be- sides butter, eggs, poultry, ete. The Armour Herald says the far of Douglas county have pad over £223,000 debts during the year, asum equal to §22 for every voter in the county. The Deadwood Pioneer says: *“A new dis- covery avas made in the wind cave last woek by which openings were found that took seven hours' tramp to oue of the subter- ranean chambers and rotuen. This cave is surpassing the famous Mammoth cave of Kentucky in magnitude, and will be & princi- al object of attracton W visitors Lo the tion party, it should be noted that | BlackUills." BURROWS WAS VERY SLICK. Au Alliance Man Tells How He Was Elected on the Executive Board THE RESIGNATION THAT NEVER CAME. George Bayley Sustains a Fracture of the Skull from a Falling Brick ~—A Detective Arrested ~Lincoln News. LixcoLy, Neb,, Dee, 22.—|Specipl to Tur Bre.]—“1 see,” says an allianco man, “‘that many persons think because Burrows ro- ceived so many votes for re-election on the exccutive committes that he was tho most popular person running, Now that is agreat mistake, Burrows is not popular but forces the farmers to fear him by a manner of biufl- ing that he has cultivated. Bosides, it was really an accident that ho ran ahead when it came to voting for mombers on tho executive committee. You soe there were five persons to be selected. Most of the candidates weroe not known outside of their own community, aud as a general thing nearly all the votes were cast for persons well known in the alli- ance. I saw a number of the tickets and no- ticed that as a general thing the fivst threo names written were those of prominent mem- bers. The fourth was geuerally the most prominent momber of the alliance in tho county whare the voter lived, while the name of Burtows never appeared except as tho last on the list, showing that his name was merely put on as a makeshift to fill up. As nearly all the persons voted thus, Burrows apparently received more votes than any otner candidate, when, in fact, ke was the hoice of nearly every man who voted, ow, I voted for Burrows, and will never forgive myself forit. 1wil tell you how it wis. After Burrows got up and said ho would not acceptany office, 1 supposed, liko the majorit, 5 i carnest, That evening a prominent alliance man came to me and said: ‘Burrows has done n good deal for us, and let us repay him giving him a compliment voto tomor- Of course he will decline, but it will make him feel good, and thea we will ele successor orlet the man who st fifth in the number of votes take his | T was quite taken with this idea, and like hundreds of other delegates put Burtows down as my fifth choice. “We elected him and bave waited for four da 10 receive s resignation. It has not yet been offered, and 1 am just boginning to realize that it never will be. Burrows has berately deceived us. We have been suckers and he has worked us. IfI had thought that he was putting such a game up onus I would never have voted for him, “Let me give you a private tip. A plan s on foot by Burfows to have his paper sup- port Tue” Weekiy Bee. Now 1 scrived for Tue Weekey Ber for nine years and don't propose to be deprived of it Iut wait and seo if you do not hear something about this from somebody else “‘Another thing 1 want to tell you. You know that the alliance appropriated $1,200 to ses_of the present contest for . Well, it is expected that tho legislature will make an appropriation to pay all the expenses of the contest and of 1 return this §1,200,” “ ELOPED WITH A WIHITE MAN. George Scraggins, a colored man, com- plained this aftnrnoon to the police that his wife, a handsome octoroon, who would read- ily pass for 4 white person, had eloped with a young man named Paddock. A DETECTIVE ARRESTED, Charley Crowe, one of Lincolun’s detectives, tod today on the charge of grand 1t seems that Crowe has got mixod up in & cuse in South Omaba in which two men, a father and son, wero at loggerheads over the proprietorship of a span of horses. The steeds suddenly disappeared. A CONFIRMED THIEF, L. W. Cosgrove, a notorious sueak thief, was arrested last mighton the charge of grand larceny, which was afterwards changed to petty larceny,as it was developed that the goods he had stolen were from different par- ties. George Smith, the white husband of a ored woman who I in the bottoms, had »n given charge of the goods, und he was discovered yesverday hiding the stolen s r the house of Mrs, Newberry, Sixth and N streets. The stuff consists of two lap robes, the property of W. A. Green, and which were stolen from his bug day evening, and two bolts of dress goods. Smith was locked up on the charge of secret- ing stolen goods. The fellows will have their tnial tomorrow. Cosgrove has just completed two terms iu the county jail for petty thiey- ings. PRACTURED HIS SKULL, (George Bagley, employed in the restaurant of 5. H. Wheeler and a brother-in-law of Deputy Sheriff Hoagland, was seriously hurt yosterdsy afternoon ' whilo passing the new school house on North Twenty- elghth street. He was walking past the school house leading his little child, when some hoys playing upon the building cither splaced a heavy pressed brick, Mr. Bagley on the head. For- unately for him he wearing a heavy cap, but the brick nevertheloss cut an ugly hole in the scalp. He was knocked senseless to the ground. He kad to be taken to his home on Pear street, just east of Twenty- seventh, 1n a carriage. He was reported as considerably tmproved this morning, al- though the physicians say that he has suf- fered a slight fracture of the skull. He had avery narrow escape from being killed. FOR TER BROTIER, s, 8 young girl of about four- teen or fifteen, was found wandering around the street y hour yesterday morn- ing, with her baggaze in hor hund, looking for her brother, William Criss Officer Harry took her to the station, where Sergeant Miller her stor) in Elsa, Perkins county, those who are unfortun failure of crops. A pari leaving the county to journcy eastward, and Martha came along with them to find her brother. After telephoning to various places her brother was found living iu Blodgett's pavk addition, west of the city, and she was taken out there, SIE PROVED IER GOOD CHARACTEL, This morning the judge guve Mrs, Laura E. Gilbert a divorce from her husband, David H., on the grounds of avandonment and cruelty, Gilbert had filed an answer chavging his wife with infidelity, but when she brought forwurd ministers and laymen to swear 10 her character, David concluded dis- cretion was the better part of valor, and left the city. Notwithstanding he did not ap- pear he was ordered to pay his wife §250 alimony in lieu of all dower in his estate, A VEIN OF FRESH WATER. Councilman Royce is showing some very strong indications that the experimental weil now being sunk about a half mile southwest of the penitentiary will be & great success, At adepth of twenty-three fect a vein of water beaving gravel was struck which ex- tended down to a depth of seventy feet. and are among oly destitute by of farmers were PERIMENTED WITH PROF, KOGH'S LYMPH, The results of his experiments will be mado public shortly, Both Prof, Koch and SirMorell Mackenzie have for yenrs used and rocommended the Soden “Min- eral Pastilles for Catarrh, Sore Throat, Coldsand all throat and lung Sir Morell Mackenzie said in the Jour- nal of Larnygology, edited by him (No- vember No., 1887): “The Soden Mineral Pastilles (Troches), produced from the Soden Springs by evaporation, are pur- ticularty servicenble in Catarrhal In- flammadion, Soro Throat, Coug hs, Bron- chitis and Lung Troubles.” Dr. Koch )éni‘fl: “A cough for which T tried many other medicines, which had not the slightest e wwon heeame bet- ter and has now entirely disappeared.” The genuine Soden Mineral Pastilles | must have the testimoniul and signature L of Sir Morell Mackenzie around each | box, Y Although the well 1s situated on the banks o Salt crock it furnishos good frosh water. HER NEIGUROR'S SWINE. Jndge Stowart has been listening to a num- ber of witnesses in the case of Mrs, Gottehall vs Mr, Brunson, ‘The partios sre nelghhors near Cheney, and tho plaintiff, who is widow, elaims that Brunson allowed his hur and_ealves to run viot in the cornfield she tenderly watched over, inflicting damoge amounting to $100, 18 ACCOUNTS BADLY MIXED, The financial affairs of D, II. Niemann, yie late in the gencral merchandiso business af, Hickman, aro sadly mixed up. Petitions wero filed by the 'First National bank in the county court today against him and sov- eral men” who had endorsed bis paper, the total ageregating nearly §000, Niemaun is still among the missing NOTARIES PUBLIC, Today Governor Thayer appointed the fol- lowing persons as notarics publio in the counties in which they reside: John Swen- son, Sartoria; W. S, Harmon, Preeport; V S. Clapp, Kearney; Emanuel Reisin Catheriue; James ¥. Morton, Mrs, B, Wheeler and I, W. Hander, Omaba H. Burton, Reatrice; J. H. Woole Island: Simpson M. Dav, Auroras Biack, Wilecox; A, H. Drain, Lincoln; H. W. Sink, Lincolny F. W. Bostrom, sr., Malmo; J. E. Orcutt, Milford, ODDS AND ENDS, R. P, Caves, a farmer living about seven miles from tho city, captured Chatles Tib- - botts fn his cormerib Saturday night by wielding a pitehfork, and brought tho young fellow and the team hie had in his possession tothe city, Caves was locked up, ponding a hearing. ~ He has a young wife, who is heart- broken over her husband's arrost. The hearing of the youths Sanford and Wheeler, charged with” burglary, was agam continued until tomorrow afternoon. San- ford's fathor arriv lust night to give his son whatever aid he ean, The case against John Rhykert, the boy vho would a-hunting for Indins go, is up before Judge Stewart this afternoon. Judge Field is ongaged in the task of clear- ing up the dockets preparatory to closing up the November term tomorrow. Judge Chap- man arrived at noon, and will lLim, The demurrer in the damage cases of the Misses Meloy vs the Eden Museo was with- drawn this morning, and the defense given ton days to file a motion to strike out certain parts of plaintiff's petition: § In the case of the State National bank vs F. G, Hamer the answerof garnishoe tho Union Savings bank was filed to the effect thut it held forty-seven shares of bank stock as collateral for'aloan of $4,200, and filed court orders that garnishee ' turn the stock over to the sheviff, by nim (o be sold to sat- isfy plaintiff's gmlm eut. The defendant is Judge Hamer of Kearney. vi sland officials were in ing arvangements for cars over the Rock Island January 4: General t Tohn Sebastain, ¢ Manager W. M. Sage and L. B. Gorham. the starting of branch to Lincol Passenge Gener Morrill, the groce first, street, was swindied out of today by a young fellow who worked the old-fashionod flim flam game. The Rock Istand’s New Branch. The new Lincoln branch of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacitic railvoad will beopened next Sunday, and the inspection of the new line has called a brigade of ofiicials to Ne- praska. The following prominent men with the road were in Omaha yesterday and left in the eveming for Lincoln: W, I Allen, as- sistant general manager, Chicago; C. Dunlap, neral superintendent, ‘Topeka, i3 John Sebastian, general ticket and passenger agent, Chicago; S. F\. Boyd, assistaut general ticket agent, Topeka; Harry Fox, train mas- ter, Des Moin A. H. Moffett, general ticket agent, Kansas City ; R. C, Rutherford, traveliug passenger agont, Topoka. i g To Resume Business. Hurox, 8. D, Dec. 22.—[Special Telegram to Tue BEE. |- Forefathers’ day was cclo brated with appropriate ceremonies by the Huron Congregationalists, A New England supper was served, speeches by Dr, Beaton of Redfield college, Hon. O. W. Bair and others were delivered, all being enjoyed by several hundred people, Arrangements Lave been made with the comptrolier of the treasury at Washington whereby the Huron National bank, wh suspended last weels, will resume _business in a few day J. M. Bailey of Sioux Nulls made the arrangement Lo Will Watch Exported Cattle. New York, Dee. ~|Svecial Telegram to —Dr. C. B. Mitchenor of the de- vartment of agriculture has just established in this city a branch of the burcau of aniwsd-. industry where with his assistart@he will’ carry out the provisions of the act of con- gress of August last relating to the inspec- tion and registration of all cattle exported from New York and will also inspect all cat- tle and food sustances arriving from other countries, aad where disease or iufection is found will condemn them acd have them sent back or destroyed. S o Chippewa Reservation Timber, WasHiNaron, Dec. 22.—The president to- day transmitted 10 the senate & communica- tion from the secretary of the iuterior in re- gard to the disposition of timber on certain Chippewa reservations in Wisconsin, togother with the draft of a bill prepared by the com- missioner of Indian affairs. Tho secretary suys the provisions of the bill are similar to those on the calendors on the same subject and recommends that one of the bills pass, . The Situation in the Senate. WAsTINGTON, Dec, 22.—There does not ap- pear 0 be any material change in the situae tion in the senate and it is impossible to pre- dict when the financial bill will come up. There are sigus of a change of some kind in the treatment of whe elections bill, and it is possible that the <loture resoiution will be submitted tomorrow, to lie upon the table until its calling up is deewed vecmsary or expedient, 3V Cuicao, Dec. state board of agriculture today visited Jack- son park and selectel vight acres of land for the 1llinois exhibit ul the world's fair. The governor thinks the state legislature will ap= propriate 1,000,000 for the state exhibit if deemed necessary. — TIFFNESS* ck.Sorenesg OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subsoribed and Guarautoed Onpltal,,.. 850000 Pald in Capital . e 600,000 Buys and sells stocke aud bouds; negotlites commeroial paper, rocelves and executes \ots a8 tranafer agont and trusteo of porations, takes charge of property, ewl- lects taxcs, { Omaha Loan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. Vaid In Capital. ...ooeeno $ 5,000 Subscribed and Guarantoed 100,000 Linbilivy of Stookholders. ............... 20,000 6 Per Oont Interest Pald on Doposits, FRANK J. LANGE, Uushior, OMoera: A U, Wyman, prosident. J. J. Brown, vice-president, W.T. Wyman, tressuror. AU, Wywnan, J. W Millu 44 E. W. Nush, Chomes L Kisapsll, Georgo B, Luke. A -—