Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1890, Page 4

THE DAIL Y BEE. + B ROSEWATER kniron. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally and Sunday, One Year Bix nonth T hree n | it g\"c(-kl{ I e Omaha, The Bee Build wer N and 90t} Streota 12 Pearl Street., 7 Chamber of Commeree, 13, Wand e Bullding New York, Washington, 513 Fourteent! PONDENCE k. Roon All communications relating to news and rinl matter should be addressed to the ul Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances shonld be add ressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 bo mado payable o the order of the com fi:yficc Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee B'ld'g, Farnam and Seventeenth fte EWORN STATEM OF CIRCULATION Etateof Nebrasks. } o County of Douglas. Goorge . Taschack. secrotaty of The Ree Publishine compny. @oes solernnly swear tnat the sctual elroulation of THE DALY BEr for the weex ending Dec. 27, 18, was as fol- Baturday, Do Average... 1¥RA L. | NP FrL, ate of Nebraska, County of Dotiglas, George . Taschuck, belnz duly sworn, de- oses and snys that e §s secretary of The Bea listiing Company, that the uetual averace v circulation of Tre DAty BEr for the month of Decenber. 180, wis 2,48 coples; for January, 1600, 10,655 conies; for i'ebruary, 10,71 cobles: for March. 1800, 20,815 60p 564, " vies; for May, 1800, 180, 2001 cop'es: for’ July, for A ugust, 150.20,750 copies 1820, 20.870 Op|es: for Octaby coples; for November, 150, 2, Gronar I, TZ800UCK, worn {0 befora me. and subscribed fn my presence, this 6th ay of Decemler. A, D., 1 ', eI, ry Publie. Tie state “contest” ends today from sheer exhaustion, Now is the accepted tims to plant good resolutions, out of sight. GENERAL MILES inquired, *“Where is Big Poot?”’ Has he looked in Chicago? T rofusal of the Union Pacifio to take Milwaukee straight or on the side is asignificant reminder of the swear- ing off scason, — inful lack of unity among the Fronch tariff revisers suggests a splen- did ovening for Mr. McKinley’s talents after March 4, A NEW HAMPSHIRE courv has sen- tenced amanto be hanged in 1802. As time appears to be no ohject why not ex- tend it to 1803 and give him a chance to see the world’s fair? Ir THE tories fail to take advantage of their opportunities to secure a seven year leaso of official life, they possess a. larger stock of political hindsight than they are usually credited with. — JUSTICE BROWN'S enemies are trying to make capital out of the fact that he onceshot a burglar, Woell, what of it? He will have to face some bigger rob- bers than that when he begins business on the supreme bench. ATTORNEY GENERAL LEESE'S vigor- ousreport attracts considerable atten- tion throughout the country, but singu- larly enough, it does not appear to have excited tho interest of the Nebraska press. Why this silenice in a matter of such vital intorestto the state? . THE colored troops are leading the charge against the hostiles in the bad lands. This is the cruelest cut of all. It is the last straw on the overburdened backs of the redskins, and if they do not avenge this last insult to their pride by straightoning a few kinks in the diffi- culty, we mistake the temper of the ghost dancers, THE board of education appears in a cheery mood over its financial condition. There is a certainty of a small surplus in the treasury at the close of the year. The misappropriated Paul street school fund will be restored. Thisis very grat- ifying to members of the board, but it does not reflect any credit on its manage- ment of the school finances, THE tide of social reform in Germany is still rising, The leaders of the new party, who have already obtained so much from the young emperor, now de- mand tho same coneessions for farm hands that he has gran‘ed to mechanics. Meanwhile, the opposition appears to be rallying about Bismarck. Germany is likely tosustain the interest which she hasaroused in all mankind since the old emperor died, —_—_— MassACHUSETTS and Connecticut newspapers demand that the railroads shall no longor give passes to the gov- ernors and legislatures of those states, This will strike western people as a very mild reform. In thisstate the domand Is that railroads shall not only discon- tinue their passes to state officors, but that they shall also cease to buy with passes the conventions that nominate state officers, Woestern railroads would not be greatly alarmed at the belliger- ent reformers who ask only that the legislators shall pay their fare. STATISTICS of railroad building in the United States during the year show a marked improvement over the record of 1880, The total new mileage amounts to 6,080 against 5,200 miles in 1889, 6,670 in 1888, and 12,667 in 1887, The high water mark of railroad building during the decade was reached in 1887, In the following two years the decline was sharp ard rapid, but the record for the present yoar indicates a firm rebound. The greatest increase in mileage was in the south Atlantio states, where 1,275 miles of road were constructed. Add to this the mileage of the gull and Missis- sippi states and the southwestern states, the aggregate conmstruction in the southern states amounts to 8,043, or nearly one-half the total of the year. This brings the total mileage of the United States up to 167,000, one-fifth of which was counstructed in the last five yoars. — gy SUPERVISION OF STATE BANKS, The success of private banks is meas- ured by the confidence of the public in their managers and backers, This con= fidence in turn is accurately gauged by the number of depositors. The savings of hundreds and frequently thousands of persons are entrusted to the keeping of private banks mainly on the known in- tegrity of the stockholders. It isof the greatest importance, not only for the safety of banks - but for the security of depositors, that their solvency should be above suspicion, No other branch of business involves to an ecqual extent the well being of thrifty people. Savings banks are the financial strong box of the toilers They contain the wealth of a greater number of people than the national banks, yet their condition in various statos is treat- ed with a degree of indifference thatis nothing less than criminal, The collapss of two private banksin rapid succession in Chicago emphasizes the fact that states cannot be too strict in protecting the public from reckless financiering. Had Illinols exercised supervision over private banks, the in- solvency of these two concerns would have been known months before their collapse, and their managers would have been prevented from robbing depositors by accepting deposits up to the moment of suspension. The disastrous experience of several Nebraska cities with wildeat banks a fow years ago aroused public sentiment, which erystalized in the enactment of a state banking law. It provides every reasonable safoguard for the protection of depositors, requires not less than threo sworn reports annually from every private bank, their examination at least once n year by the state bank examiner, and the publication of a summary of their condition in local newspaper The last report of the state board shows the private banks to be insound finan- cial condition, a fact that goes far to- ward strengthening public confidence during the present monetary stringency. But the state board should go farther than the mere compilation of the collectivo reports. It should rigidly enforce every provision of the law, with- out fear or favor. It should display greater zeal in examining the secuvities of the banks, and should insist on the publication of.the report of their condi- tion, as is now-required from national banks. % No reliable banking institution will ohject to frequent examinations, It 1s to their interest to invite them and pub- lish the fact. It is the unroliable con- cerns that endeavor to evade the law, and for that reason the law should be the more vigorously enforced. By that means, the distrusning consequences of state bank failures will be averted in Nebraska, THE FUTURE OF OATTLE PRICES, The outlook for stock raisers and ship- persin all the great cattle markets of the west is more encouraging than it has been in along time. This is a develop- ment for which the producers of Ne- braska and other states have waited long and patiently and which will be es- lly welcome to them now. The opinions of the best judges agree on this proposition. They are based on obvious and reasonable grounds, Every- thing indicates that cattle receipts will not increase during the first half of 1891 in the same ratio as in the past. The great ranges of the wost and southwest have been depleted by hard winters and by unusual shipments to market during the last few months. Meaawhile, the purchase of feeders in the South Omaha market in the same period has fallen off largely, owing to the dearness and scarcity of corn in the country. The samo cause has necessituted the shipment of cattle to market that in other years would have been fed through the winter. The result is that the over-supply of cattle which has formerly existed in the coun- try and come crowding into the spring market to depress prices does not exist today. The best judges agree that we are soon to see the supply no more than equal to the demand, which must inev- itably result in higher prices. Through the whole long era of low prices, which have discouraged stock raisers and shippers, one fact has stood out prominently for their enlighten- ment. This is the fact that the better grades of cattle have always commanded a ready sale and the top of the market. Men who have raised fine beef cattle tegtify that it is the surest and choap- est way to conduct the business. Scrub cattle, like scrub horses, are unprofita- ble, and searcely less so in good times than in bad. If Nebraska producers have learned this lesson they may yet have a profit to credit to the era of low prices. ———— TEXT BOOKS IN NEBRASKA. Among the resolutions adopted at the recent session of tho State Alliance which TE BeE heartily endorses is the following: That it is the desire of the farmers here rep- resented that our coming legislature should adopt and promulgate ‘a uniform system of school books tobe furnished at cost to the school boards throughout the state. One of the most arrogant of all the monopolies that now oppress the people is the school book trust, Tt puts a. copy- right on the three R's and all other departments of *“knowledge leariied of books” and by virtue of its close combi- nation among publishers, charges the public what it pleases, regardless of the cost of production and of .a fair profit on the investment, The result is the annual waste of an enormous sum, takon from the poclets of parents and credited to the bank accounts of great publishing houses, There is neither rea- son nor justice in the present system. The coming legislature can confer im- mense benefits on the people and lead in a reform that, sooner or later, is bound to come in every state, by taking decisive steps to correct this evil, The way for Nebraska to relieve itself of the burdens placed upon it by the school book trust is to prepare and pub- lish its own text books and sell them to parents at actual cost, Since 1875 the state has pursued this policy with the supreme court reports, which in most other states are monopolized by law book publishers, and the results have been satisfactory. There is no l reason why the same plan would not bring I THE ' OMAHA DAILY BEE§ MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1890. the samo benefits in the case of text books. There is no copyright on the multiplication table, and no vatent rights conferring individual ownership in the English grammar, American his- tory, nor even the dead languages. The stato can command talent to prepare text books on these and all other branches taught in our schools. It can let the mechanical part of the work in open competition to the lowest bidder, retain the ownership of the plates and sell the books to the public at 'm‘l\ml cost, ‘Whether the state shall under- take to furnish text books free, allowing the people to pay for them by taxation rather than directly, asis done 1n Massa- chusetts, Kansas and clsewhere, is an- other questios, But ineither case the reform will be equally effective. A fair estimate of the cost of text books to each pupil in the Nebraska schools would be $5a year. To say that under the proposed reform they could be sold for 82 is certainly not putting it too low. When this saving of $3 upon each pupil is multiplied by the total membership of our schools the result is seen to be an enormous saving to the people. With our present population it would run from $250,000 to $500,000 an- nually in the next five years, and would be larger with every year of growth. Doubt much labor and ability would be requived to establish a com- plete system of state text books. The work would have to be under the super- on of our ablest educutors, and, pos- sibly, a board of education wouldbe re- quired. But whenthe work is accom- plished we shall have a uniform system, organized without regard to the inter- ests of school book agents, or the di ffor- ing whims of county superintendents, and we shall no longer pay anoutrageous tribute toa close corporation of school book publishers, Nebr con lead the text book re- form if the next leygislature does its duty. VIEWS ON THE FARMERS' MOVEMENT. The January number of the Ameri Agriculturist presents a colloction viows on the farmers’ political move- ment, which is interesting ns showing the varioty of opinions ontertainad ro- garding the moti and conditions un- derlying the movement. Secret; Rusk submits his views with character- istic bluntness, remarking that the farm- ers have become o accustomed to spell- ing national with a big N that they seem to have forgotten that while *‘the war decided the supremacy of the nation over the state it did not substitute na- tional for state government.” There is in this a sufficiently plain intimation that the secretary of agriculture is not in accord with some of the paternal schemes proposed in behalf of the farm- ers, which tend toward centralization, He admits that the farmers expected and desired a reduction of the tariff, but while he offers no defense of the new law, and thus permits the inforence that he thinks the expectation of the farmers ought to have been met, he does not commit himself on that point. Mr. Andrew D. White, ex-president of Cornell, ascribes the uprising to the feeling that the agricultural population has been made to bear an un- due share of the burdens of society, and he believes there is good cause forthis feeling. He re- marks that our taxation systems work to the material disadvantage of the pro- ducer. Thereis general need of tax re- vision and he suggests that competent commissions in each state again con- sider tho wholo question, believing that much might be gained from the trial of the various results by the different scates. Mr. White earnestly counsels the farmers ® bewareof the proposed remedy of an inflated currency, quoting the remurk of Webster, that of all the machinery for impoverishing the work- ing classes the most perfect is an inflated currency. Congressman Hatch of Missouri, who figures somewhat prominently as an advocate of the interests of the farmers, is of the opinion that they owe their ills in a material sense to silver demonitiza- tion and the tarifl, and takes occasion to urge free coinage as a sovereign remedy. Edward Bellamy, of “Liooking Back- wara” fame, finds in the farmers’ move- ment an encouraging step toward bring- ing the railway and tglegraph business under complete national control, and he of course takes a more hopsful view of the possibility of ultimately nationaliz- ing all industries. There is really not much of practical value in this convocation, and the ad- mission of all who contribute to it that the farming class has not obtained a just share of the material development of the nation and of the distribution of the rewards of labor sheds no new light on the subject. This hasboen repeatedly stated and as often conceded by all who are intelligently informed regarding the relative rewards of agriculture and other departments of industry, and its repeti- tion will hardly help to a solution of the problem which it presents. How com- plex and difficult this is one may easily learn from reading the various views of those who are presumed to have given it careful and intelligent study. Itis in- teresting to note that the wisest of these have no faith in the expedients which are now uppermost in the minds of many farmers and are advocated by a few men in public life, LINCOLN'S PROSPERITY, The splendid progress of the ety of Lincoln in the past year will bo noted with pride by all Nebraskans, who sece in the capital of their state a typical in- stance of its wonderful history and un- exhausted possibilities, Lincoln’s growth in population, never more rapid than in the past twelve months, has been remarkable from the time of its settlement. What magic figures are the following: 1870, 24415 1880, 18,003; 1890, 55,491, These figures tell the story of phenomenal results in the building of a city on the praivies of Nebraska, for Lincoln’s growth in all other directions has been in keeping with . its expansion in population. Its vecord of progress in the past year according to the State Journal may be beiefly summarized as follows: Public improvements, $259,660; semi-public, 112:!,000; residences, $1,725,800; business locks, $064,500; hotels, 883,000; 00ls, $105,000; fac- of colleges and churches, tories and,sheps, § 8370,000; railronds, $210,000; stmofstorail bays, 8190,000; total, Among thd ‘hore notable of Lincoln's long list of improvéments in tho past year is the ereqtion of three new hotels, including a sevbn-story structure, cost- ing $250,000{ the entrance of the Rock Island; the construction of an electric street railway, and the gain of threo new colleges. Thege alone would constitute agrent year'swork, though they are only features of whrt has actually been accomplishefl, s Tue BEE hoartily congratulates the people of Lincoln upon the splendid showing they make of their past, and adds its confidence to their faith in the great future which awaits them. EXPERIENCED MEN NEEDED, _ The Philadelphia Press bolieves that it is absolutely necessary to the solution of the Indian question that only men shall be appointed agents whohavesome knowledge of the work they have to do, and that men of. experience, nequainted with Indians, and of proved capacity and integrity, should be kept in office dur- ing good behavior and freed from polit- ical pressure. It remarks that whilo throughout the existing disturbance the Standing Rock ageney has been in much the greater danger it bas never been do- sorted. The Indian police theie have continued to keep order and itsdisci- pline has been fully maintained, The first collapse of authority camo at Pine Ridge, and the agency has been ga. soned over since, the military being in charge and substantially in commund. The Press says: The lesson of all this is as plain as day. If at all agencies wo had, as at Standing Kock, wen fu service for years, possessing experi- ence, courage and acquaintance with Tndi- ans, the [ndian question would be half solved. Why can we not have them! What other so- lution is possiblel Kyery rising means mur- ders untold, enormous oxpenditures and but too often hideous injustice to the Indian be- fore and after the rising. For all this the respousibifity lies with tho nation, and the nation will never meet this responsibility until Indian agents are selected solely for the work they have to do, kept in office dur- ing good behavior and freed from political pressure. If the present administration, which has appointed the best. Indian agent since General Walker, and which has as its head a God fearmg and just man, who hates wickedness and eschews evil, will work this reform, Indian wars will be overand Indian civilization begun, There are probably few who will ques- tion the wisdom of these observations, and they are fully in accord with the views of Commissioner Morgan and doubtless also with thoseof the secretary of the intorior. In the supplomental report of the commissioner of Indian affairs, just issued, he lays special stress on the desirability of selecting persons of un- usual qualifications for the Indian ser- vice, and he says that agents and em- ployes, if selected with special refer- ence to their fitness, should have a rea- sonable degree of certainty that thoy will be retained so long as they show fit- ness and fidelity in the discharge of their duties. *‘Uncortainty asto permanence,” says the commissioner, “‘broeds inde- cision of purpose, largely prevents the formation of comprehensive planswhich require years for their completion, and hinders the vigorous execu- tion of those formulated by the government.” The commissioner can “see no good reason why politics should enter as a controlling element in tion or removal of gove rnment in this service,” where he de- clares the employe “should feel untram- meled by mere partisan considerations and free to devote hisentire strength and time to the work to whieh he has been appointed, and where he is to be freed from the temptation to unfaithful- ness or dishonesty by the foar of ro- moval for mere political reasons,” He thinks the spirit if not the rulesof the civil service should be extended abso- lutely over this entire branch of public work. The I[ndians, he remarks, have no politics, “‘and those sent to them as agents ought to be concerned abso- lutely and only with the promotion of their welfare.” This undoubtedly represents the opin- ion of the administration, and it will certainly be approved by the intelligent sentiment of the country. The import- ance of applying to the Indian service the principles enunciated by Com- missioner Morgan has been impres- sively shown by the present uprising and this congress should not adjourn without giving the mattor the attention it merits. Tue life of a councilman after all is not a happy one. Just at the moment he imagines himself at peace with his ward and the rest of mankind, duty calls him to equalize assessments and trouble begins. Every man’s hand wildly reaches for his hair and if he escapes with his locks political retribution is piclkled for his benefit. No matter how valuable his services may have been, when he trenches on the domain of the tax-shirker all is forgotten and his life made a wearisome burden. “BirDS of afeather flock together It is eminently fifting that the sluyer of Pogleg Griffen should be employed by the prohibition slummers to concoct clection villainy for their benefit. The man who devised hn assault on the state treasury and killed the crippléd “high- wayman” is thoroughly competent to invent ridiculous yarns about colonized voters and earn (that $200 appropria ted for his benefit, ) Tue doublé-decker advances thd charming theory, that the city elerkship should be remoyed from political influ- ence by taking 4he appointive power from the council'and making the offico elective. W hat remarkable mugwump- ian reasoning. As though nominating conventions were above partisan influ- ence, —— The army’s holiday jaunt to tho trontier has settled down to a cold win- ter’s job. The General Sentiment. Portland Oregonian, The world at large is getting very tired of Mr. Parnell and wishes he would quietly marry Mrs, O'Shea and drop into obscurity. e e Politiod and Matrimony. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Cleveland was smartenough to marry while president; Governor Hill should go him oue botter and marry bofore trylng to be presie dent. There will be no yeast in his presi- dontial cake until he does. i Only Speculators in the Soup. Stour City Journat, The logitimato trade of the country s all right. It is the illegitimato trade of the coun- try that is causing all the troublo. oS bbby The Missing Ingredient. Rochester Demoera t, Tno trouble with Keely and his motor is & lack of “sympathatic vibration.” There is the some painful void in the relations botweon Cleveland and Hill, A Matter of Economy. Chicago News. At this season the economical young man pauses before giving his best girl & bouquot of roses ana determines to offer o casket of solitaire diamonds instead. ittt The Biggest Share. Philadelphia Times, O woman’s kindly heart! We'll bet 1f Eve did pluck the apple there And bit it first, that Adam got The fullest, biggest share, Olarkson’s Ridiculous Position, » York Evening Post, An editor has seldom found himself in a more ridiculous position than that occupled by tho Inwa State Register, Clarkson's news- paper. Tn last Sunday's issue ho published a diatribe against the national bunk law on this ground: “Every American citizen should have a prido in his own houor and credit, and itis always humilinting to men who know that their credit aud means are just as good and responsible as the bank itself to be com- polled to secure an endorser before they can borrow money of a national bank under the laws of the United States. This part of the banking system is vicious and degrading, and there is almost. unanimous demand for its speedy obliteration. Nearly every farmor and every business man in the nation has had his pride humbled and his finances greatly depleted by this unwise and unjust provision of the natior ¢ law.” In the very next issue he was forved to publish a lettor from the president of tho Des Moines Na- tional bank, which not ouly declared that “thero is nosuch provision in the national bank law, nor is tiere anything in the theory or practice of mnational banking to warrant any such statement as the above,’ but that he could “‘name scores of farmers, and there are hundreds who can and do borrow monoy at the national banks of Des Moines, on their own.name alone, without security”—in proof of which he exhibited to the editor the last oficial statement of the Des Moines National bank, which gave, among other required de the agere 0 of “‘one name loans." The editor's only excuse is that “twice dur- ing the last twen s wo have borrowed nioney from the same national bank, and each time two signatures were required to the note.” Inother words, his own credit not being ¢ood enough to get money without se- curing indorsers, he jumped to the conclu- sion that this was a part of the national bank law, aud accordingly demanded “its speedy obliteration ! NEBRASKA NE APER NEWS, The Brunswick News has suspe nded publi cation, but it hones to resume in the spring The Thayer County Mail is a new publi- cation at Hebron. Edwin B. Youngis the eaitor, Henry . Phelps of the Howells Journal announces that he ‘‘does not have to go into any new movement to be independent.” C. W. Beal of Broken Bow, who was elected a member of the state executive com- mittee by the alliance, is the editorof the Custer County Beacon.j Another paper has been stavted at Papil- lion and christened the Sarpy Republican. Ttis under the management of A. S. Weibel and Mrs. F\. A. Harrison. W. WN. Watson, editorof the Fairbury Democrat, has tired of the bourhon name of his paper and will change its cognomen this week and call it the Liberator, J. H. Dundas of the Nemaha County Granger last week issued his usual biennial message to the honorable senators and repre- sentatives of the state of Nebraska. R. A. Eaton of the Nebraska City Pross and J. W, Tanner of the Fullerton Post were two editors who speat a portion of* Christ- mas weelk in a visit to the metropolis. W. H. McGafiin, editor of the Bellwood Gazette, is having a tilt with the local Cath- olic priest as the result of the report of a ser- mon which the newspaper man printea re- cently, Ira Hamilton, who combines the business of editing a paper with acting as city marshal of Plainview, has killed eighteen dogs since May 1 last, aud but few unlicensed curs are left. John C. Sprecher of the Schuyler Quill, a convert to the alliance, faith, advocates the passage of alaw by the comng legislature that will require every lawyer aud doctor to give a heavy bond before they are allowed to practico. The Nebraska Press association will hold its annual meeting at Beatrice January 20 and 30, George P, Magvin, editor of the Beatrice Demoerat, is president of the asso- ciation and F. (. Summers of the Seward Reporter is secr Charles H. Challis, whose papér, the Ulysses Dispateh, supports the allince party, refers to Jay Burrows as a ‘revengeful, selfish, ambitious, vindictive, would-be leader,” and in the same sentences designates Van Wyck as “‘one of the best friends of the toiling masses who has lived since the days of Burke.” George M. Plumb, who has been editing the Red Cloud Republican, osteusibly a re- publican paper, has deserted tho party and his newspaper at the same time and will join George H. Gibson in the publishing of the New Republic, a prohibition organ at Lincoln. What will become of the Red Cloud paper is not known. A SMILE, L Washington peaking of Indians as hair raisers, the real hair razor, after all, is a pair of scissors. Pittsburg Post: Called to a count—A few American heivesses anuually, Binghamton Republican: Can the man who strikes you for a loan be charged with assault! Chicago Times: Cigar dealors anuounco that they will put up the price of cigars after January 1. But who cares! Weare all going to swear off on January 1, anyway. 8t. Joseph News: Tho foremanof tho composing room is one of those people who believe in @ personai devil. Munsoy's Weckly : She—T learned how to cooke when I was in boarding sehool. He (sampling her cake): And when dld you forget! St. Joseph Nows: “Under ordinary o cumstances,” said St. Agedore, musingly; like to sce a girl have some get-up about her, Except when one is sitting on my lap." Drake's Magazine: So it is—"Well, its all ova.” “What isi” “Au ogg." Boston Transcript: Solt seems that the Ammen vam is to be built in Bath, Me. This is the first indication of any intention to rec- oguizo the domands of the wool industry of New Englaad: Clothier avd Furnisher: Mrs, Bingo—You know you spoke about glving those old clothes of 'Tommy's to the poor. On the seo- ond thought, hadn't we petter send them over to the preacher's children Bingo—Capital. But in that case I guess you had better lot Tommy weas them a fow weoks longer. Loulsville Courlor-Tonrnal: The Chinaman who lighted his pipe while repairing a powder mill has given up smoking, 1t takess long time for some men to learn that tobaccols injurious. Jhicago Tribune: “Ave you disappointed in your Christmas gifts, Willie?" asked his mother, “N=no," ho answerod, looking them over again, “I'mnot 'xactly disappointed, butT don’t seo anything hero T can make a nolse with,” Drake's Magazine: *“You scem to be in poor spirits,” sald the fly tothe toad in alco- hol. “Yes, I'm in durance vial.” Chicago Tribune: “Hello, Bingloy. Just back from the westt Did you hear the Indians' war-whoops " “No, I heard they didn’s" “Didn’t what!" “Wear hoops.” B — NEWS OF THE NORTHW EST. Nebraska, A subsidy has hegn raised to secure o beet sugar factory for (Fbthenburg. Mason City fiasall the arrangements com- ploted for a system of waterworks, Mrs, O. A. Gilman of superior was severely injured Christmas day by being thrown from ahorse, A Republican City genius has invented a seissors sharpencr from which he expects to realizo a fortune, Schick & Meints, general morchants of Filley, have been forced to assign, Tho lia- vilities are about $2,500, with assets about the same. Walioo has expeaded £60,000 in public im- provements the past year, including tho opera house, city hall, Union Pacific depot, stone buildings and resideaces. The village board of Waco has voted to liconse saioons at 8500 each. This will mako the first town in York county where prohi- bition by ocal option 18 not enforced. A strong petition has been secured in Washington county praying tho board of supervisors to submit to a vote the question of returning from township organization to the commissioner systom. They bored a well 300 feet. deep out in Chase county and the water spouted up sev- cral feot above the surface. But the sand soon filled the hole upand the water ceased to flow. Thoy have solved tho water problem out there. The Stanton county old settlers organized an association at Pilger by electing the fol- lowingofficers: President, R. M. Lowry. vice president, J, G. Matlieson; secretary, G. Sonnenscheln; treasurer, Ferdinand Miler; trustees, Robert Humes, Jobn C. Wumer and Ernest Jaks George M. Baugh, who is an elder in the Ansley church aud an occupant of a front seat in the “amen corner,” sneaked down to the mill pond at that place carly in the morn- ing, one Sunday recently, to have a quict skate before church so know one would know it, says the Broken Bow Leader. But mur- der will out, and he broke through the ice and was ill for a week in consequence, mot vet b fully recovered. The Leaderhopes the event will be a lesson to the gentleman— and the next time to look for thicker ico, A young man at Ansley took a notion that ho wanted to get married last weok, but he was a little short of change, says the Merna Rocord, The boys around town passed around the hat and soon made a donation sufcient to defray the expenses of a cheap ceremony. The mother of the would-be groom soon appeared on the sceno and forbid the justice to proceed, as the kid was not, of age. Then the game was effectually blocked by the young lady stating that sho had no in- tention of getting marricd. The money col- lected was used to send the girl to her home in Wood River. . A mammoth boulder has been discoverod near Hartington on which are imprinted or carved a number of curious designs, Its upper faceis covered with inscriptions in the form of a trigent. Some of these are so worn by time and the elements that thay might easily be mistaken for the track of a huge fossil bird, which some have pronounced them to be. But the deeper incriptions have aconcave which is polished in a manner that would do credit to any marble cutter of this age. The engraving orimprint of the foot is just six inches long from tho ex- tremity of the heel to the end of the big toe, The three largest toes are oxactly the same length, The footis (doubtless an imprint of the original, or only its carved likeness) that of a primitive man. The toes spread out as though they had never felt the confinement of shoo or moccasin. The interior of the foot figure has suffered from tho action of water and the atmosphere and its racged surface has blacken and overgrown with licheus, until it leaves a field for speculation a8 to whether it is a track madein the mud of the tertiary formation, the work of tho copper instruments of the mound builders or of the Indian’s flint. Towa. Twelve saloons are running full blast at Oskaloosa. Thé oldest man in Towa is probably Mr. Gilligan of Dubuque county, whose ago is 110 years. A wealthy citizen of Cliuton has promised to give $10,000 for & Young Men's Christian association building. In South Ottumwa pretty youngladies pass tne contribution boxes in “the churches and the pastors’ wives buy buttons for the use of the family, like tho wives of other citizens. Towa county owns about three thousand acres of land in 1daand Cherokes counties valued at $15 per acre, It is_all leased and pays Towa county a rental of §1,700 per year, Mrs, George Buright is dead near Denison from injuries recoived by jumping from a wagon December 3. Hor husband, who is olind, was drunk in the wagon. She would soon have been a mother. The Iryins of Kirkville have agreed to dis- agree and the property has boen divided. Mrs. Iryin gets $405 in cash and tho real es- tate and Trvins takes $05 in money. Mrs, Trvin's disappearance some time ago led to the arrest of her husband on suspicion of murdering her. She left on account of his Rl UNION: PACIFIC ON SALE IPAL POINTS EAST, WEST, NORTH and SOUTH 1802 Farnam Street. Harry P. Deuel, City Passenger and Ticket Agent. ABSOLUTELY PURE ornelty. o drinks and appoars to b mone tally unsound. H id to n Kirkvillo man ““Tho people will see the time when thoy will rogret having driven me away, for T shall lob no moro rain fall to moisten the dry earth, Time and again when we have had a severo drouth T have gone out and prayod for eain and it has come at once. I shall do so no more and this country will suffer the worst drouth it has ever known." N. R Anders has been brotight back te Waterloo from Pennsylvania to answi charge of forgery. Ho (lm‘an erloo last Soptember, loaving his wife. Is sick now and his discarded wifo is minise toring to him. During the last eight months 4i0 searches for liquor have been mnde in Huw lington under the prohibitory law. These seakches cost the county about &18apicce, Some places have boon searched s often as three times in one woek. It is claimed that these searches are ordered to en prosecution to obtain evidence ag: saloonkeepors, sa, ent. The truo cause for theso frequent searches is found, however, in the fact that thoy yield fat fees to every one connected thorewith, Thoeso soarchos are but a portion and by no the groatost of tho uscless exponses si upon the county, o effort Is made to closo saloons—in fact the number of saloons in, crease steadily, During the last fow days o rof casos awainst snloonkeemess n_entored upon tho court 6 of the citizons of Bur- lington are disgusted with tho work of the prohibitionists for revenue only. odd The Two Dakotas, Grand Forks sent Dickey county a Chri st mas prosent in tho snape of o carload of flour, The Fountain flouring mill at Yankton will bogin running by artesian water powor this woelk, The Pierro Journal advises the legislature to reduce expenses this year by disvensing with a chaplain, Tho Brookings agricultural colloge has ro- colved §15,000 from the govornment for its maintenance and the support of the experie mental station. David Simmons of Nebraska City, Nel,, and his brother Curloy, mot at Load tho other day for the first time after a separation of thirty-ono years, The city council of Deadwood has passel an ordinanco licensing saloons, billiard hails and gambling dens. A saloon license costs §5 a month; with a gambling sunex, #23 more, A pair of moose aroto be broken to har- ness in South Sioux Falls. It is expected to dnive them in - Sioux Falls until the opening of the world's fair, when they will be taken to Chicago. The_ editor of the Bowdie Ploneer lately visited his farm noar Qary, and found that his houso and barn, which cost him §500, had boen stolen to the last splinter. The thieves did not take the well, M. B. Kent of Elk Point has boen notified that his examination beforo the civil servico commission, at Aberdeon Novembor 11, was entirely satisfactory, and that his namo h been entered on the list of eligible a pointment to department work in Washin ton. John Bagloy is under 3,000 bonds at Spring- field for shooting W. E. Owens. Owens rented Bagloy’s farm near town, and they quarreled about the owrership of some grain, The bullet struok a rib and glanced around, lodging in Owens' back. It has not been found. 5 Mr. Spooner of Spink county, who is very much futerested in the subject’ of 1rrigation ith Dakota, has gene to Colorado to_eet onal information on the subject. Whilo absentho will visit tho irrigated tracts in that state and elsewhero with a view to be- coming thoroughly familiar with the systems in use there and their adaptation to South Dakota, Hon. James Mathews of Larimore says ho came to North Dakota for his health, He has found it, hus weizht increasing from 136 10170 pounds. Incidentally he has gathered upabout four thousand acres of land, Ha had 2,00 acres a crops this year and sold his wheat at 81.25 per bushel. He has about two hundre sixty hoad of blooded horses that he has raised whilo he was resting. S N e VIOLATED THE CONTRACT. Spring Ranche, Clay County, plains Agalnet a Railroad. LiNcorN, Neb,, Dec. 28.—(Special to T Bre.]—Four years ago whoen the Kansas City & Omaba was building its line through Clay county it stipulated with the residenta of Spring Ranche precinct that for the cons sideration of §7,000 precinet bonds it would build and forever maintain a depot station, within 2,640 feet of the Spring Ranche flovr. ing mill. Trusting in good faith of this stipulation, the people voted luvm?urmr’ the bonds were issued and deliv€rod, and probably have been sold to wnocent purchas. ers. Yesterday afternoon A. J. Orendorft of Spring Ranche, Clay county, filed with tho state board of transportation acomplaint, setting forth the terms of the agrcement, and stating further that on December 2, 1890, tho company, neglectful of its agreomentwitn the people, ‘shut up and abaudoned tha depot of that place and cut them off fron the privileges of the road as xunranlzc:} in the sl(“ulll'.h)n above referred to, and for which they paid $7,000 in bonds, A recont decision of 'the supreme court in q caso from Soward in regard to a similor breach of faith by a railroad is cited as a precedent in such cases, The court held that the company was bound by any stipulations made by its agent before the bonds wers voted. The court went so far as to hold that where the proposition stipulated that tha depot building was to beon one section, it had violated its agreement if the dopot was' placed goon adjoining section, though just over the ne. Coms WON'T RETURN THE RING, Miss Annie Kramer, a young lady of -twenty, complains at policd headquarters that she is unable to secire a goid ring which a young man named John Wilder took away from her in sport while the two were play- ing croguet two or throo months ago. Mi s Kramer declares that she has ropeatocly asked him for the ring, but ho steadfastly rc- fuses toreturn 1t. She therefore asks the aid of the police in getting her property tack again. et ~ H. B. Hellman of Fort Madison, Ta.,was in o city last, night at the Murray. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U, S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889, Baking Powder LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Bubsoribed and Guaranteed Capital,.. Pald n Capital. 5 Buys and solls stocks aud bonds; negotiates commerolal paper; recolves and executcs trusts; aots ns transter agent and srusteo of corporations, takes charge of property, ool locts taxes, ~ Omaha Loan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK, S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. ¥ald In Capital Bubscribed and Guarantes Liablliwy of Stockholders. 6 Por Cont Interest Paid on Deposits, FRANK J. LANGE, Oushlor, OMoers: A. U, Wyman, president. J. J, Brown, vice-president, W. T. Wyman, troasurer. Directors:—A, U, Wywman, J. H, Millard, J. J, Brown, Guy O. Barton, E. W, Nash, Thowmas L. Kimvall, George B, Lake - — o g