Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 7, 1891, Page 4

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Dec ay. oo pesd Thirad Friday. Jan. Eaturday, Jin NT OF CIRCULATION bos ‘24010 o1 21,620 HOCK. orn to 1efore me and subscribed In wy ? January, A. D, 18] EIL, Notary Publie Average. Fy presence tnis ud day 1EEAL.| N Etute of N I ¥ County of Douglas, [ George B, Tzschuck, beinz duly sworn, de- oses and says that i is seccretary of The Beo ‘ompanvy. that the aetual average jon ‘of Tuk DALY Bre for * the January, 1500, 10,56 coples; fc . 1800, 10,761 conies: for March, copics; for ~April, 1800, 20,064 covies: for May, 1890, 20,180 cop or June, 180, 20,201 cop'es; for July, 360, 20,((2 coples for Aucust, 150 Ocop es; for '€entemier. 1800, 20,870 copies: for October, 20702 coples; for Novembor, 1500, 22,13 for Decem ber, 1500, Leopios, Grovae B TZ8CIUeK. Eworn o Yefore me. nnd subscribed fn_my prescuce, thisilst day of December. A, D., 189 NP iR, Notary Publie. Day Circurazion ~—THI§ WEEK. Sunday Monday. ......28,780 ... 26,520 27,672 Tuesday. BURRows' preforred candidato for speaker wasn't in it el e Tik Nobraska militia is o welcome uddition to society on tho frontier. T force bill is shelved by a sly par- liamentary trick, and thus becomes a farce bill at last. Tie Nebraska house will resemble a Methodist conference in one particular, An Elder will preside. . l Ti farmers are in the saddle at Lin- coln sure enough. It is to bo hoped that nono of them will be thrown. l JAY Gourp is reducing salaries all along the line. Doubtless he is planning to reduco fares and freight rates in pro- portion, TiE Deuber watch company has gone to the wall. Scoreone for tho aggres- sivo movoment of the watch trust. Deu- ber was its leading opponent. TiE Montana leg ature repeats the folly of last division. There are no senatorinl prizes in sight, however, and an carly union is probable, record and the reputation of being level- headed. He lives in the neighborhood of Dan Nettleton, which of itself is a recomrendation. WHILE the hostilo Sioux are provok- inga wholesale exodusto tho happy hunting grounds, the Crows in Montana are jubiluting over the prospect of the extermination of their mortal enemies. A SUBSTANTIAL advance in prices has been ordered by the window glass trust, and dealers having a snug stock on hand aro corrospondingly happy. Meanwhile the anti-trust law continues a dead letter. THi lion roareth and the London press emits a chorus of denunciation of Secretary Blaine. The bitterness of British 'amentations proves that Mr. Blaine whisked the historical tail with uncommon vigor, A GREAT gob of regrot wells up from the national heart becauso the parasites whohave fattened on Indian fodder for years were conspicuous by the absence from among the dead or wounded, They aid not go to the front to fight, but for the money in sight. IN ELEVEN years the appropriations for the care of the Sioux were reduced in the aggregate $1,700,000 The amount thus saved will scarcely cancel the bill of expense incurred by the present outbreak. Fconomy in dealing with Indian wards is not a profitable in- vestmeut, — “I1 15 a lively, progressive city,” says the St. Paul Globe, referring to Omaha, “and there is no disparagement of its enterprise.” But the Globe disparages the city by quoting bogus statistics of its building record for 1890, The actual outlay on buildings during the year was 86,998,161, or nearly $3,000,000 more than the Globe prints, I7 18 painful to residents of this fav- ored region to read of destructive bliz- zards in Kansas, Buried and blockaded trains, suspension of traffic, death from exposure to the pitiless blasts, such as ocourred in that state last week, goes to show that Kansas is not securely ex- empt from the baneful climatic scourges of the east, Kansas should move north or west. — HoN. W, A, POYNTER of Boone county, the mew president pro tem of the state senate, is 8 man of ability and integrity, as well asof experience in legislation, He twice represented his county in the house, and was promoted to the senate at the recent election. In the high position with which he has now been further honored he will be a faith- ful and impartial officer, if we are to judge by his excellentrecord in the past. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, TANUARY 7, 1891 SHALL WE HAVE ANARCHY! The legislature is now duly organized. Its members have individually and col lectively assumed gravo dutios and ro- sponsibilities, TEvery member has taken asolemn oath to support the constitu tion and obey tho laws enacted in pur- The first duty imposed ature by the constitution | suance thereof. upon the legi is the canvass of the election returns for exccutive officers. Will they obey the plain mandato of the constitution or ar- bitrarily trample constitution and law under foot, pluinge Nebrasko into a reign of defiant lawlessness and open the door for anarchy The constitution clearly defines the po- sition of the legislature and the duty of its officers in conducting the canvass. Section 4, article 5, of the constitution rends as follows: The returns of every cloction for the of- flees of the executive department shiall b seiled upand transmitted by the returning officers to the sccretary of state, directed to the speaker of the louse of representatives, who shall, immediately after tho organiza. tion of the houso, and Ifore procecding to other business, open and publish the same in the presence of & majority of each house of the legislature, who shall for that purpose assemble in the hall of tho houso of repre- sentatives, The person having tho highest number of votes for either of said offices shall be declaret duly eclected, * * * Contested eloctions for all of said offices shall bo determined by both houses of tho legislature by joint vote in such manuer as may be prescribed by law, It does not take a great lawyor to in- terpret the Angman with good common sense can casily see that sions, @ provy| the houso and senate must assemble jointly to witne turns by the speaker, who s the opening of the re- is thelr sole The canvass must proceed until it is concluded, and custodian and pubdlisher, no other business can be transacted by cither housessparately orby both honses acting jointly, “T'he speaker shall open and publish 1 read within the hearing of the jointcon- the returns.” Thatis o say, he sh vention each return separately and make Inown to the public by reading them And have been duly aloud the footings of each return. when these footings added together in the presence of tho legislature tho persons baving the high- st number of votes for either of the state offices shall he declared duly elected. This declaration has heretofore alwvays been made by the president of the sen- ate, who presides over the joint conven- tion, There is nooption left to any oficer sworn to obey the constitution, Whehover the constitution provides that an act shall be verformed it must be performed. A rofusal to perform it is rank porjury, An atter pt to confound the cany: thereturns with the contest for gov andotherstate off would beaflagrant violation both of the constitutionand the laws. The West Virginia case of Groff versus Fleming affords no precedent for Nebraska, The constitution andlaws of West Virginia differ radically from those of Nebraska—as wo show in another col- Our constitution provides that contested elections for executive officers shall be determined by both houses of the legislature by joint vote in such manner as may bo prescribed by law. The clection laws of Nebraska provide: Sec. 67. The logislature in joint meoting shall hear aud determine casos of contestod elections for all ofiicers of the executive do- partment. The meeting of the two houses to decide upon such elections shall be held in the hall of the house of representatives, and the speaker of the house shall presido, of arnor umn, This within itsell clearly indicates that the joint convention to canvass the returns, over which the lieutenant governor always has presided, is not the joint convention for hearing and deter- mining contests; over which the speaker of tho house must preside. But the clincher as regards the pro- cedure 1n contests is embodied in see- tions 76 and 77 of theelection 1aw, which the tricky and unserupulous lawyers who are fomenting anarchy through our law muakers have purposely omitted from their misleading pamphlot. Sec. 76, On thesecond day of the organiza- tion of the legislature the secretary of state shall deliver to the speaker of the house all papers relating to contested elections of ex- ecutive officers, and to the presiaing oMcer of each house all papers relating to contested eloction Of the members of thelr respective houses. Sec.77. Uponwhe reception by such pro- siding officers of papers relating to contested cloctions they shall immediately give notice to their respective houses that such papors aro in their possession. Where the papers relato to the contest of any executive state officer the house of representatives shall no- tify thesenate and a day shall be fixed by both houses by concurrent resolution for the uniting of the two hiouses to decide upon the same, in which decision the yeas and nays shall beenterod upon the journai. Now mark you, the contest papors for executive officors must be delivered to the speaker of tho house. The speakor must immediately notify the house of their reception and the house must noti- fy the senate of such contestand by “concurrent resolution” fix a day for hearing the testimony in joint conven- tion. Section 11, Article Legislative of our constitution, provides that “‘every bill and concurrent reso lution shall be read at large on three different days in each house,” It is therefore manifest that a contest over the election of executive officers is by tho constitution and the law separated entirely from the canvass of the election returns, The canvass must be a continuous procceding, No other business can legally be transacted by either house until it has been com- pleted. The contest cannot be logally brought before the jolnt convention until after a concurrent resolution has passed both hou: h a resolution in this instancowill bo pending for six days because it must originate in the house and canvot reach the senate until it has passed tho houso at theend of threo s, and then must be read at large on three soparate dags inthe senato, Will our law makers bocomo law breakers with their eyes wide open? Shall Nebraska be disgracel by Missis- sippi and South settling disputed elections, or shall we follow the methods which the framers of our fundamental law and the law makers acting fa econformity thercto have laid down for the guldaaceof the people’s representatives? In behalf of good government and the good name of this appeal to the logislature to frown down all revolutionary methods, ILet them reassure all loyal citizens that ours isa government of law and order, Carolina methods of commonwealth we PACKING THE JURY. The proposition that the testimony taken in the state contost eases shall he referred to aspecial committee of 15 to beboiled down and submitted to the leg- islature like a canof condensed milk is on a par with all the revolutionar, schemes that have boen hatehed at L coln within the past sixty d The laws which they aro sworn to obey impose upon the members of the legislature the duty to hear and deter- mine tho contest. Iivery member is on his oath, acting in the capacity of o juror. His vote isto bogiven according tothe dictates of his own conscience and in conformity with the law and the evidence adduced. How can the legislature lawfully dele- gate this duty to any committ nd absolve any of its members from hearing and considering the testimony hefore they come toa vote. The whole thing ors too much of star chamber dicta- tion and certuinly ought not to b sub- mitted to without a very loud remon- strance. A CHANCE TOR DU R The displacement of the election bill inthe United States senate appears to open the way for some attention to ques- tions of practical legislation. The method by which this was accomplished may have been, as claimed by the sup- porters of the bill, in the nature of a trick, but the people will cheerfully con- done this if the result shall beto put an end to time-wasting discussion of a purely political kind and bring about the con- sideration of matters which have rela- tion to the material interests of the coun- try. Less than fifty working days of the present session of congress remain, and besides the appropriation bills to bo acted upon and some measure of roliof for the financial situation to bo consid- ered thero are other matters of impor- tanco which ought to receive the atten- tionand action of this congress. It is rather tobe expected that the support- ers of the election bill will make a de- termined effort to have it vestored tothe position from which it was displaced, and if they arenot uble to accomplish this they may obstruct other logislation, but it is atleast to be hoped that fow of them will be disposed to per- sist in a policy of this kind. It is possi- ble that some of them realize that pub- lic sentiment i3 not with them in this matter, and will take the opportunity now offered to abandon the embarrass- ing measure without stultifying them- selves. At any rate, the supporters of the election bill willhavegreatdificulty in replacing it if they attempt to doso, and it is probably safe to regard the tion taken as virtually disposing of it. The financial bill ordered for consideration provides for the ad- dition of $12,000,000 to the sil- ver purchases of the government during the year and ‘the issue of $200,000,000 of two per cent bonds to take the place of an equal amount of four and four and one-half per centsewhich are to be redeemed or purchased. The measure does not satisfy the freocoinage men, and they will propose an amend- ment to it providing for fre Goinage. If they persist in this demand there is not likely to be any financial legislation at the present session. A froe coinage bill wight pass the but thers is vory ne- small probability that it could get through tho houwse, and if it passel congress it would most certainly encounter the oxecutive veto. The bill of the senate finance committee would, it is balieved, give re- lief to the financial situation, buta free coinago measure would undoubtedly in- tonsify the stuto of affairs for which a romedy is desired. Financial confidence is being restored, and largely for the reason that the danger of immodiate ex- treme silver logislation has lessened. It is not to boapprehended that anything the silver men may now attempt to do wilt soriously interrupt the growth of a better feeling in financial circles, NEBRASK. A document, pr ND WEST VIRGINIA, pared by the most re- markable combination of lawyers who have ever been entrusted with the man- agement of a state ease has baen placed in the hands of members of the legisla- ture. In this extraordinary composition of tortured law the declaration is made that the constitution of Wost Virginia is identically likeour own and our law- makers are pointed to the late contest for governorship in West Virginia asa precedent for Nebraska. Now with all due deference to the great logal hights that have ventured to instruct the legislature on its duty, we most emphatically pronounce their as- sertion as untrue in every essential par- ticular, The constitution of Nebraska is no more a duplicate of the constitu- tion of West Virginia than the laws ot Missouri or California are duplicates of the laws of Nebraska. In West Virginia the state eloctions occur in December and the legislature does not convene until March, The gov- ernor appoints the seoretary of state, and all contested state officers except the governor have to fist bo declared elected by the legislature and then the contest is decided under the following provision of the law: Section 75, page 73, code of West Vir- ¢inia: Where the election of treasurer, auditor, superintendent of schools, at- torney gent® or judge of the supreme court is gontested the case shall bo hoard apfl @ecided by a special ecourt eonstituted as follow The person de- clared electod shall select one; the con- testant another, and tho governor a third | person, who shall preside in said court. This tribunal is vested with full power | to hear and determino the case. Now let ygycompare the procedure in West Virginia in contests for governor with those of Nebraska. In both states these contests are dotermined by both houses of the legislature acting jointly in such manner ag may be prescribed by law. Thero the parallel between the procedure ends, Chapter 6, contested elections, West Virginia, code page 728, reads as fol- lows: When the clection of governor is contested the petition of the contestant, and the depo- sitions shall b reforred to a joint committee of the two houses for examination and report which committeo shall consist of two sena- tors electod by ballot by that house and three delegates (mombers) elocted in tho same mannerby the housoof delogatos (reprosenta- tives), The contest shall be determined by the legislature, both nouses thereof sitting 1 Jolut sossion, in the hall of thehouse of delo- gates, and the president of the senate shall preside. Under such a proceduro it might be proper to connect the contest for the governorship with the action of the leg- islature in canvassing the returns, Even there it was a great strotchof authority, In Nebraska the law expressly pr vides that the contest papers and depo- sitions shall bo placed in the hands of the speaker and be heard and dotor- mined by the members of the two houses in joint convention, wnich meeting shall take vlace on a day agreed upon by con- current resolution. In Nebr: the constitution places a concurrent resolu- tion on an cquality with a bill. Tt must bo read on three separate days in ch house. Sucha thing as a concur- nt resolution is not mentioned in the West Vi constitution, and tho veading of bills ¢ ven on threo separate days muy bo susponded in that s a four-fifths vote of ent, Tt is nc to add that the West Virginia contest which the logal quacks have cited a5 a procedent is not in any sense applicable to Nebraska. tato by the members pros- SOUTH DAKOTA AFFATRS, The messags of Governor Mellette to the legislature of South Dakota starts out with the practical statement that tho first and most important subjeet for con- sideration the public financ Ho the financial condition of the stata could scarcely be more embarrassing an ) the rovenue system could scarcely bs worse. The governor tells the legisla- ture that there must by adopted a sy tomatic and comprehensive >do of enue laws aund a rigid re- striction of the expenditures to the revenues produced, or financial disastor will ensue to the irceparablo injury of the credit, institutions and business in- terests of the stdte. This plain and can- did statement.of the situation is fully warranted by thie facts, which should im press all parties in the legislature with the necessity of harmonizing upon the wisest and 05t plan that can bo de- vised for obtiining revenues without greitly Increwsing the burdens upon tho people, and of restricting e penditures to recoipts. The pub- lic indebteduess of South Dako- ta has reached the m.. :imumlimit under the constitution, and while this may have been unavoidable, as tho governor it isimpossible lon, to dodge th ssuo, *‘itis now retrenchment or dis- aster.” The experience of South Da- kota in this particular is not altogether coptional; most new states have had Butitis plain that heroic treat- it. ment will have to be applied to the situ- ation, both in the matter of providing revenue and reducing expendi- tures. The governor suggests that all offices that can bhe dispensed with be abolished and others consol dated; that salaries be diminished until the expense of administration is reduced to the minimum; that definite sums be appropriated for all necossary expendi- tures, and that no ofilcer, agent or board be allowed, under penaltics, to incur any indebtedness or expend any money ¢ as spoeifically author ture; and that appropriations for the public institutions be pruned down to the lowest amount consistent with the public welfare, closing some of them entirely if necessar, The public institutions of the state ave generally in good condition and well managed, but as to several of them the governor sugzgests that retrench- ment may be adg without impairing their eficiency. Regarding the . public schools, it is urged that no pains should be spared to make the system the very best, and the governor recommends the passage of a law which shall be com- vulsory in giving to every child in the the stato an English education and provide school books free or at actual cost, Legislation for the reform of tho. present ballot system is recommended, and on this subject the following observations of Govenor Mel- lette are worthy of reproduction, Ry government can survive all disaster except the pollution of the popular bal- lot by intimidatipn, fraud, or purchase, It can even withstand corruption in pub- lic offices, Thiscan be remedied 50 long as tho peoplo sfra honest, but whon tho fountain is coptaminated the stream must be impurs and death-dealing throughout "fts course.” The leglisature o South Dakota hus a great deal of important work todo which will prodint embarrassing and troublesome difficulties, and the gov- ornor urges thatsit address itself to the task without délay. There is unfortun- ately, however, a scnatorial contest to be determined, which, owing to the di- vision of partiesin the legislature, muy provent the prompt and constant atten- tion to practical affairs which the situa- tion scoms so urgeutly to demaud. I is safe to assert the Milwaukee and Rock Island would now give a small kingdom for a bridge. THe Omaha guards must content themselves by “sniffing the battle from afar.” *Tis better so, Mg. JouN D, HOWE has become a party to the suit to restrain the issue ot the viaduct bonds ponding a sottloment of tho bridge controversy in the courts, The importance of the issues involved cannot be ovestimated, While the city of Omaha is roady to fulfill its part of the contract with the Union Pacific and | the Union depot company, it must insist that every condition “nominated in the bond" shall be honestly carried out. The Union Pacifie is solely to blame for the stops taken to protect the interests of the city. It has gone into court and boldly declared that the company had no right to make a contract giving the right of way over its bridgoand tor- minals to other roads. Should the courts decido in its favor, the company topped from giving offect to one of the vital conditions upon which the so- called dopot bonds were voted. In be- coming a party to thesuit to restrain the issue of the bonds, Mr. Howe does so as citizen and taxpayoer determined to prevent a repetition of pnst mistakes, and his well known ability and zeal are an assurance that every legal expodiont will bo employed to defend the vital in- terests at stak THE provineial enstern press oxpresses amazement at the persistent push and progress of the west. The narrow gauge, methodical minds of our “esteomed con- temporaries” utterly fail tocomprehend the mighty forcoes, the indomitable enor- y and persoverence that has placed the west in the vanof national progress. The sturdy pioneer grit that rescued the country from savagery, plantod the banners of industry and enterprise en mountain peak and valloy ero the ten- derfoot shed his swaddling elothes, sowed the sced that has ripened into prosperous commonwenlths, The spirit that reared these stately templos of toil and thrift animatos their succossors, and development will continuo as long as the the west r ins the treasure house of the nation. ————— ACCORDING to the latest advices from Lincoln the list of supernumeraries will be cut down one-half. That is a step to- ward reform, but it does not go far enough. It would still eall for anexpen- diture of $30,000 for the employes of a session of GO days, If the expenditure is limited to $250 a day for that purpose it will be ample and will save another $15,~ 000 on the one item of employes. That iswhat is demanded, but much other economy will have to be practiced in order to get the figures down to the nsas basis of $78,740. After saving K 15,000 on employos there will still bo 60 to save elsewhere, Keep your eyes on Kansas, gentlemen, and remenm- ber that this is an era of reform. THE friends of the late General Crook, and thay are legion, will 1 with pleasure the appointment of a commis- sion having in view the ercction of a monument to his memory in this city. It is eminently fitting that Omaha should honor the dead hero, for here the gen- eral made his home for many yoars and s found a host of staunch friends and admirers. The duty devolv- ing on the commission is impor tant, but the members bring to it the enthusiasm of admiration and love, and we feel con- a splendid memorial to the gallant sol- dicr whose best years wore devoted to the defense of the western settler, Tie rank and file of the democrac are promised an enrly foast of political clover. A few of the more avaricious party workers naturally expocted a clean sweep of the municipal offices, especially those in control of the coun- I Even afew of the veterans went so faras to nourish hopes of capturing the city clerkship. That job was found to be oo i for their blood, Tt is bavely possible the democratic ton did not think it safe to entrust so re- sponsible an office to one of their party. However, they are welcome to the dep- utyships and clerkships, with which they ought 10 be satisfied. Surely the workers do not want the earth, by manner in which the Nebraska mil; has responded to tho call of the governor is in the hi reo credit- able to their courage and loyalty. Sov- eral of its members bhave left work in other states tofollow their companies into the field, and the ranks are better filled now, atthe time of danger, than they have ever been .t musters, The state is proud of her militia, and likewise of the uni ty boys who offered to follow their West Point instructor to the front, The spirit of '61 livesin the proesent gencration, s his mas- perienco at Licutenant Kinzie Wounded Knee illustr this fact. While bleeding from wounds inflicted by Big Foot’s balls, his trusty stecd faced about, plunged into the molee, and thus rescued his driver from the suspi- cion that he exposed his heols to the wily foe. tes DEMOCRATS at Lincoln are surprised that Representative Feichtinger of Dodgo **desertod them and voted with the independonts.” As a mattor of fact, he was nominated by ths Alliance and endorsed by thefrepublicans and the democrats nover hud any claim on his support in the contest for speaker, IN furthering the glorious causo of education, the school board proposes amendments to the laws which will transfor the polls from school houses to regular eloetion districts. The clos of schools on clection day has a t doncy to draw toachers into the political cosspool. P ——— THE whirlgie of time brings its ve- venges. For a long, v jaar Tom watched for mythical boulevards breastworks of the combine. re now turned, Lowry as the throne and Davis, Chaffeo & otire to the suburbs. HE stringency 1in the home rule treasury is tho most effective cohesive power silently ot work in the dismem- bered Irish party ranks. THERE 15 cause for public congratula- tion on the complote rout of the council combine, horse, foot and d ons, Municipal Conteol of Siour City Jo telephone pateuts elephones, nal As the expire soon what's tho matter with citios ownlng thelr own telephono exchangoes if the telophouo monop- oly continues to be too arbiteary! - - pid Stream. Chicago News, The impending cold snap threatens to harden the Chicago river so much that it will be 1o longer arablo and. plowing will have to be postponed until sprin, Chicago's 1 A Comment on Modern Oivilization. Toston Advertiser. One feols tempted to look at the date line twice in reading the article on the Mississippl killing. A “‘personal affair morely’, in the closing years of nincteenth century civiliza- tion! - A New Stylo of Serva Philadelphta Press, A servant girl in Now York fancied hersolf 10 bo an angel and tried to fly. Sho was seri- ously injured by failing whon she essayed to soar. Her hallucination is the most extraor- dinary on record, il iieiis tinTwo Directions. Chicago Tribune, enuyson has passed another New Year in good hiealth and spirits. His venerablo lord- ship is, porbaps, our greatost living poet and has arecord of havieg smoked more clay pipos than any great man of his time. nt Giel, Emine 1" Kansas City Journal, Tho negro postmaster at Catherine, Ala, has resigned. Thero was a little disputo among the citizens as to his eligibility for tho position and some shooting occurred. Moro- over, the Carrollton incident affectod his nerves, - Personal Rights in the South, Indianapolis Journat, "This second assassination of a republican pos tmaster will make it - dificult to il tho vacancy. The oftice should be abolished un- til the ood citizens of the place, if there aro any, furnish a guavanty for the protection of a postmaster. e e Newfoundiand Sctting the Pace. St. Louts Globe-Democrat. ewfoundland s anxious to socedo from England and annex itself to the United States. Tho only difforence in this rospoct between this province and the rest of Bratish Amerfca is that the latter is willing to wait five or ten years for annexation, b i Regulate it by Legislation, Denver Kepublican. The railroad business of this country must be regulated and controlled by just legisla- tion. The new railroad trust is the most dan- gerous combination of capital ever effected, and the government must bring it under sub- jection or it will soon run the government. Not Worth the Cost. Pittstierg Dispateh All the seals in the Pacific ocean are not worth one day’s suspension of the pacific re- lations between this country and ( ian, such as may be brought on by the course in which the two governments are drifting. As to the actual calamitios of war, to let them ensue would be insanity AR Not a Nutrit ous Dict. Intianapolis News. The London Telegraph compliments in highest terms the manner in wh! the American people settled Oklahoma, “making the wilderness blossom like a rose.” This would have been still prettier if the Tele graph had accompanied its compliment, with acar load ef potatoes for the Oklahoma peo- ple, who do not seem to be able to live on es. st AT TR More of J. B.'s pertinence, Chicaao Tribune, The Boglish oficials residing in Honolulu did not approve of King Kalakaua's accenting tho hospitalities of an American man-of-war and traveling on board of it to San Francisco, and it may be necessary for him to apologize -or abdicate when he retarns home. 1t would save a great deal of troublo if 1t were gener- ally understood that nothing must be dono without the consent and approval of the John Bull family, e £tanley and Omaha. 0., Republican, Henry M. Stanley spent Christmas in Omaha, io which booming city he was “at home" twenty-two years ago. As a high compliment to each we note a dificulty in de- termining which has grown the most in that time. Of the many incidents connected with the early life of that city there is one wo wi never forgot. ewing from the Union ¥ bridge the destruction of a great hotel (we think the Union ific) by fire. It was an awe-inspiring sight, —_———— How 18 1his? Towa Capitad, An Towa farmer seuds to a Dos Moine: per these figu acre of corn pa- as the cost of producing an d for planth 5t plowin, s per diy irth plowinz. cight acres perdiy Husking and eribbiuz, for self und tean 6o per busi 515 bushels. 2,00 Annual cost of bushel 1 ading of tof marketiig 853 busii 1cost of producingan acro of corn. 8.11 | a worse showing still than the onomade by Governor Boles. It looks now as though those who own Iowa farms had botter give them away. fZeeZ0)] NEBRASK A National Bank U. 8. DEPOSITORY, OMAHA, NEB, Capital, - - - - $400,000 Surplus Jan. 1st, 1890, - 57,800 Offieors Lewls V. Mors Pistrick THE IRON BANK, ) B v Corner 12¢h aud Farn A General ¥ nkiug Business Transacted, " JOSEPH GILLOTT'S STEEL PENS. GOLD MEDAL, PARI3 EXPOSITION, 1889, THE MO8 vLRFECT OF PENS. NEWS OFTHE NORTHY Nebraska. Mrs. M. Kingsloy, n_wonlthy T it Belvidere, died last'Saturday. Threo farmors living south of J \ have lost more than one hundred head of | ;s by cholera, During the last season C. M. Kaufts Johnson county sold and shipped to Cin nati over 81,000 worth of apples, besides a i of swall fruit, which brought good prices ‘The storm last week unroofed the houso ot W. A. Forsyth south of Loomis, Phelp county. The family of Eril Lock livi was forced to sook Shelter at a netrior's Charles Moor employea by Charles Culyer of Alblon, was kicked in the right ear by a colt last Saturday. Tho injury is likely to result fatally, concussion o tho bralu be produced. A proposition has been made by a_Chicago firm to drill for coal, gas oroil in Nebrask City. Sixty citizens are wanted who will pay & monthly apiece for four months to puy for the work, & s. L. D, home nea sixty-four y D. Lomon Cass county Lemon died of cancer at hor Rising on Monday, She wus rs old and mother of Rov. L, f Lincoln, Mrs, Lemon sottled in u 1857 and removed to Butler in of Western presented John Roberts with a small piz. He put the Dig in a grain sack and hauled it home, five wiles distant. ‘The next morning the littie follow was back at his old home at Thorne berg's While e odin_a quarrel with a Swodo at Juckson, James I3by, a well known sport, fired a shot at his oponent which may prove fatal, Tho bullet entered just below the 1ibs on the left sido and the doctors pro- nounce the Swedo's case as hopoless. ittsmouth dreads a famine in city wator 's have formed in the river causing to fall. The company furnishing to tho city is working nignt and Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S, Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1839, ABSOLUTELY PURE lay to lower its pipe line and contrdT nnel of the Platte, which is shifting rap- idents of Dorchester are justly proud of their new §10,000 brick school” house which isone of the' best in Saline county for ening took place Saturday ni There was a large attendance and the and litorary oxercises were . of an int character. Precautions are being taken towns in the Indian countr; families out of harm's way, J. ¢ strong, president of the Merchauts' by Rushville, took his wifo and Mrs, J. B, J and son to Norfolk, dreading an attack their home, Lathe Boyd, Peter Sailor vder of Bladen had a ¢ tthat place. They refused Lo 11 and the hall man locked their y broke in and got the musio, o arvested and will be tried by reside: to romove th Ar and Wil in the i anklin connty ne new jail. Stewart ind Floyd Sij rusted for steals t and awaiting teial in - the district pod from jail Sunday night. They pricd the bars off the windows and knockoed out tho wall 8o that thoy gained their free. dom. The she d a roward of $25 for their re lowa, Muscatine's building improvements last year are estimated at upwards of $100,000, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Jarding of Dubugue celebrated theit golden wedding on Sunday Rev. S, K. Farr, for tho past year pastor of the Dubuque Iirst Baptist church, hus res signed. St. John' al church at Keokuk waa consecrated on Sunday by Bishop Perry, ns- sisted by Bishops Tutile of Missouri, Bu and Quincy of Ilinois. The edifice cost The elevator occupied by M. E. Worthing Co. at Brayton was destroyed by fire 8 day. Loss 1,000 on griin and ubout i on building. The building was owned b M. Boormun of Atlantic and was fully 1 sured. Neola has a man who calls himself Texas Peach who is thirsting to show his valor + the Indian troubles. He writes to Tne B that any saldier boy wanting a substituto get one'at a reasonable vrice by addressin P. C. Kebble, Pat Morvisey got on a tear in Atlantic on Sunday and amused himself knocking out plate glass windows on Chestnut street. Ho ended up by entering a Chineso laundry on North Chestout streot and _throwing every- shop through the windows into He was arcested mony of consec cross wis performed in St. Raph cathedral in Dubuque on Sunday eveni Bishiop Hennessy, porformed the ceremony . The statues aro the work of sculptors i Munich, Bavaria. Onty one otuer church in ry, the cathedral at Philadelphia, nas statucs like them. Moss was shot at Turin by Anly Saturday night and died Monday 1 were runuing saloons in Turin and ot into a dispute. Moss leaves a wife wnd e children. Pavne went to Onawa and ave himsolf up as soon as tho shooting wus done, Moss had threajened his lifo two or three times prior to the shooting. The Dubuque ministers have abandon their Monday morning meetings, One of preachers is quoted as saying that the Y0 tempt to keep the proceedings of tho me ings secret was the cause of their failure The proceedings would leak out, the member were led to suspect each other of giving thei away and hence distrust and strained rely=y tions grew up. From the To Al of 1500 tho following statistics have veen gathered for the o IFifty-six missionaries have hees employed during ) ar. Appropriations for mission work 57.42; for church cdi fice worl A total of §13, 147,12 Member churches Towa during the year, ,957; the loss (by ter, death, ete.), 445; ‘net pain, Moneys raised by the Baptist churches during the year forall purposes, & a Baptist ann added to the 1 D e ess and the Election Laws, Indianapolis Jowrnal, A vast amount of alleged intellectual ene is being wasted to prove that congress bas 1o right to interfore with state election laws. Of course it has not and no one pr tends that it has, but it has a right to reg- late national elections, A state ha g to do constitutionally with the clc congressmen. Baking Powder OMATHA. LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Bubsoribed and Guarautsed Capltal....500.00 Pald o Capital......... coocovien.s 40,000 Buys and solls stocks and bonds: ithates oommerelal per, rocelves nnd execu trusts; acts as transfer agent and $ruste o rporations, takes charge of property, ovl- lects taxcs, Omaha Loan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK.. S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. 10 1n Oapital 000 Bubseribed and Guarant 100,000 Liability of Stockholders. 20,000, 5 Per Cont Interest Pald on Deposits. FRANK J. LANGE, Cusiilor. Wyman, president. J. J. Brown, vice-prosident, W. T. Wyman, treasuror Directorai—A. U, Wywan, J. 1. Millard, J. J. Brown, Guy O. Barton, . W. Nush, Fhoniag L. Kuapull, George B, Luke Capital