Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1891, Page 4

'I'Hh DATLY BEE. E lll’NP‘WATI‘ R Epiton, e —— PUBLISHED EVERY ‘\IHI!NIIVGV TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIC aily ani Sunday, One Year 1% mon hs . Phree nonths One Year One Year . OFFICES: Omaha, The Bes Bulldi Bouth Omaha, Corner N 1 Bii 178, 12 Pearl Ktrect > O mberof Commerce. York.Re 3,14 and 15, Tribune Bullding Washingto, ourteenth Streeh CORRESPONDENCE All_communieations relutin editorial matter should Edito partment. RUSINESS LETTERS Al business Jetters and temittances should be add ressed 1o The Bee Publishine ¢ Omuha, Dratts, checks, and postofic 10 be made payable to the order of the som pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors, The Bec I'la'g, venteenth St —— BWOKN STATEMENT Btuteof N Count f Dougins. Georee Trschuck, eretary of The Bee Publishing compuny, aoes s nly awear tnat the setual efreulation of Tur DALY Ber for the wees ending Jaunuary U, 1801, was as day. De Monday. Dec Wedanesd 1 Thursdn Fridnv unday fiee, Weekly liec. to news and ressed to the Farnam and & OF CIRCULATION Y 21,620 NUCK. bsonbed In my ry. A. D, 1801 IKEAL. | Notary Publio Btateof Nebroska, a County of Douglas, s Trschuck, beln ores and & vs that he Is se ublish v cirey the coples; for for March. 18 180, 20,004 coples: atlon nth of Janunry, February, 180, 10,% 0.815 l‘fl)!'(‘!u for May 1 cop'es 010k B, TZ8CHUCK, Fworn 0 Veforn me. ind eibscribed fn my retence. thisilstaay of Decemiter, A Do 1800 TR, Notary Publie. Daiy CircuLATION ~—THI8 WEEK.— Bunday,. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday 28908 Thursday 31,386 et AR S e PANDEMONIUM reigns at 3 the state capitol. And Brigadier Colby 800 miles away. 28,750 ...26,829 27,6872 For tho timo being tho Indian war is overshadowed by the political scalp Lift- tato capitol. REDUCTION and retrenchmont is the order of the day in Union Pacilic affairs, but there is a notable absence of reduc- tion in freight rates. ORLAHOMA, if we ever passed any re- flections on your peculiar modes of doing business in the legislature, we ask to be forgiven. Let all be forgotten, THE BEE'S corps of special war cor- respondents koep the wires hot with the details of the latest battles and skir- mishes, both at Pine Ridge aud Lincoln, arge lumps of nerve clustered on Meiklejohn’s backbone proved to be the rocks on which the lawless scheme to ®ize tho state offices was hopelessly arocked. HoNoR and self-respect have taken a fresh start in political life in Missouri. Five membors of the Kan City coun- cil refuse to associate with the indicted members of that body. INTHE broad light of the turbulent events in Lincoln, it will not do for Ne- braskans to speak reproachfully of the bulldozers of Mississippi or the political regulators of Arkansas, SEVERAL governors have been in- augurated this week, but none of them have had as much fun as the statesmen at Lincoln, who havo been waiting for that ceremony to oceur. Waueke did T Osana Ber get its figures for Kansas City's banking business whioh it uses in some comparative tables!—Kansas City Journal, From the Kansas City Times, o protty good authority on Kansas City affairs. MILITIA companies are being organ- {zed in Oklahoma to protect life and property from [ndian raiders. In reality, the country needs protection from law- less claim jumpers and promiscuous shooting. A PARTY organized to secure by legal means the greatest good for the great- est numbor courts political suicide by attempting to carry out the bohests of shyster lawyers who have no responsi- bility, and are only working for a fat fee. EVEN the heathen did not escape the far reaching clutch of Banker Kean. Among the many sums squandered was a snug roll of $12,000 intended to infuse civilization into the Congo savages. But Chicago flnancial heathens scooped it in the pile. Tue ghost dancers in Lincoln surpass the best efforts of the hostiles in the bad lands. The latter partinlly regained their senses when they found theirshirts weroe not bullet proof. The former will prosently discover they aro neither con- stitution nor court proof. — SENATOR TELLER is one of the few re- publican senators whose re-olection is a forogone conclusion. A majority of the Colorado legislature have unifed in a telegram of thanks, assuring him that whatever difference exists in the re- publican party, there isbut one senti- ment respecting the senatorship. —— AN ORGANIZED attompt wili be made in North Dakota to fight the harvester trust. The companies represented in the combine have $3,000,000 outstanding in notes in the state and the makers pro- pose to fight their collection onthe high ground that the trustis contrary to the laws of the United States and the state, and therefore had no legal standing in the courts, Every movement culculated to put the anti-trust law into effect will meet popular approval, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1891 REMEMBER THIS IS NEBRASKA. lvery citizen of Nebraska will do- plore the turbulence that has disgraced the opening days of the session of tho present legislature, That remarkable body is not only making history for it- self, but history for the state. The re- sponsibility for the indelible blot that has been cast upon the reputation of Ne- | | tration but invites it. braska does not rest so much upon the members of the independent party as it does upon the re lawyors and hangers-on who wormed themselves into the confidence of the controlling majority and advised them to commit acts which are inde- fensible. Nearly every member of the independent party in tho legislature is | a farmor, any knowl and very few of them have dge of the usages of legislatures or the con- struction to be placed upon the plainest provisions of the constitu- tion. They have brought to the dis- churgo of their task a firm determina: tion to e v out the pledges they have made during the campaign, and t trying to find the for bringing ahout Th do not m aware of fact even at this day that whoie contest from beginning to end was bogotten by vindictive prohibition wors, and engincered by prohibition awyers, who are trying to work apital for future prohibivon campai ides putting o few thousand do into their own pockets. Unfortunately for the people of Ne- the real state of facts not be known or under- abroad. The impr ated by the reports that have gone out of Lincoln will lower us in the esti- mation of the peoplo of other states to the level of Mississippi and South Caro- lina, where such riotous wrangles have not been uncommon. It is to be hoped that the second sober sonse of at leasta majority of the ind vendents will bring them toa reali tion of the damage done to the good name of Nebraska. A repetition of revo- lutionary methods will be ruinous, not only to their cause, but to the state at large. even shortest road that re- sult. ns, ars stood or THRO CONSPIRATORS. There is a set of conspirators behind the screenat the state capital who should be dealt with at once in accordance with law. No man has a right to coun- sol advise members of the legislature to violate their onths to obey the const tution and ev man who advocates lawlessness by the law-makers and re- sistance to the mandates of our highest courts is a conspirator and should be made responsible for the consequences of his acts. The flagrant violations of law and turbulent spirit manifested in the halls of legislation are due wholly to the machination of men who have imposed upon the legislature and ad- vised them to acts that have disgraced the state and ave bringing Nebraska on the verge of anarchy. The men who compose the majority of our legislature are nearly all farmers. Few of them know anything about law, and nearly all of them are credulous enough to follow the advice of men whom they have beenled to believe trustworthy, As a matter of fact they have fallen into the hands of a gang of conspirators who have advised and en- couraged them to pursue a course that has already done more damage to the state of Nebraska than four legislatures can repair. The time is at hand when outsiders who are fomenting conspiracy and pro- moting riotous disturbances should be taken in hand and made to feel the iron grip of the law. BLAINE'S STRONG POSITION. No fair-minded American citi vead the last dispatch of Se Blaine to the British minister at W. ington—transmitted December 17, and just made public, in discussion of Amer- ican rights in Behring sea, without ad- mitting that the position of the secre- tary of state is very strong. The dis- patch was in answer to the contention of Lord Salisbury that England never tac- 1tly or expressly acknowledged Russia’s right to exercise a maritime jurisd tion in the watersof Behring sea, and it must be conceded that it is a most effect- ualanswer. The historical point first sed by Lord Salisbury in his quota- tions from Minister Adams is conclu- sively answered by Mr. Blaine and the assortions of the British premier uve complotely disposcd of. It has been repeatedly asserted that the govornment of the United States do- mands that the Belring soa be pro- nounced a closed sea. Mr, Blaine says there is no foundation for such asser- tions. On the contary, the government has never claimed it and never desired it; it expressly disavows it. At the same time, says the secretary of state, the United States does not lack abundant authority, according to the ablest ex- ponents of international law, for holding a small section of the Behring sea for the protection of the fur seals, and he submits that controlling acompnratively restricted area of water for thatone specific purpose is by no means equiva- lent to declaring the sea, or any part thereof, mare clausum, The real issue involves these questions: Whether Russia did or did not claim and e 150 a special jurisdiction over Behring sea for the purpose of protecting its seal fisheries; whether this jurisdiction for this purpose was or was not denied by Great Britain and the United States in treaties in which Russia waived any such special jurisdiction over the Pacifie; and whether the character, ex- tout and exerciso of this Russian juris- diction to which the United States sue- ceeded give this country a just right to exercise, regardless of tho consent of other nations, such potice of Behring sen as is necessary to preserve the seal fishery owned by the United States from extermination. Hereis avaluable fishery, says the secretary of state in concluding his dis- patch, and a large and, if properly man- aged, permanent industry, the property of the nations on whose shores it is car- ried on. It is proposed by the golony of a foreign nation to destroy this business by the indiscriminate slaughter of seals, and it is asserted that we have no de- fonse against such depredations because the sea at a certain distance trom the en can ckloss and unprincipled | have | up | ssion const Is froe. Secretary Blaine justly says that the same line of argument | would take under its protection pirac and the slave trade when provecuted in the open sea, or would justify one nation in destroying the commorce of another by placing dangerous obstructions in the open sea near its consts, This government does not reject arbi- What it rejects are the terms proposed by the British government. Lord Salisbury wants ar- bitration on the single point whether this country can keep anybody and | everybody out of Behring sea on the ground that it is an enclosed sea. This government is prepared to submit to ar- bitration the question whether the prac- tice of a century has not given it the right to exercise tho authority it claims for the protection of its prop- orty in the seal fishory. It is not easy to see how Great Britain can deny the fairness and justice of this po- sition, This last dispateh of Secretary Blaino gives the controversy a moro favorable aspect, with the advantage distinctly on the side of the States, and it will remove all appre- lension of u rupture of the friendly re- lations beiween the two countr iy COURT MANDAMUS. The order issued by the supreme court, Elder to ¢ into ofiect the provisions of the constitution which require him to open and publish the returns of the election for executive officers, has been pronounced by the per- nicious advisors of the independents in the legislature as an unheard-of usurpa- tion of authority. Some of the boldor of the consj who are trying to mis- lead the le b oven gone so fa toadvocate resistance to the order and tir vengeanee upon our nigh- est judicial tribunal. Such seditious talk very naturally imposes upon men who in law do not know a hawk from a hand-saw, and er ing among our lay m y are above all courts and only responsible to their own consciences as to their actions during the session, In many respects this is doubtless true. The supreme court isa co-ordi nate branch of government and cannot dictate to the legislature on what subject it should legislate or how it shall frame its 1a. But the legislature has other functions besides lawmaking. the constitution and the laws enacted incon- formity therewith the legislature is made a board of canvassers for all elec- tion returns for executive off This duty is not legislative. It could have been imposed upon anybody or set of men outside of the legislature had the framers of our constitution seen fit do so. It was imposed upon the slature because members of that body voted for at a general state election can- not also be candidates for state office. ‘When the legislature convenes in joint session to canvass the election returns they are not acting in their law-making capaeity, but ina ministarial capacity, the same as a county board of canvassers, Now suppose tho state, at the last clec- tion, had gone democratic, and the re- publicans had elected the legislature. If the legislature was all-powerful in this canvass and its members were rvecklessly disposed todisregard the man- date of the constitution that commands their speaker 1o open and publish the returns in the joint convention called for that purpose, that would enable the republican state officers to hald over and keep the democrats out of the offi which the people had elected them, if the republ of every succecding legislature they could Loid the state offices perpetually. Would any veputable lawyer contend that the supreme court could not be in- voked to issue its mandate and compel the speaker to perform the ministerial duty of opening the returns and making them public and declaring the vesalt? Should there not be some tribunal that would compel canvassing boards, no matter how they are constituted, to give vitality to the people’s will as expressed through the ballot box? Instead of being a body of usurpers, our supreme court, has by its prompt and timel n checked a revolutionary movement that was threat- ening to precipitate this stato into an- archy and came very near ending in riot and bloodshed. SPREAD THE LIGH It has been woll said that “Judicious advertising is the keystone of sucec Itis one of the great truths of modern business life, and the merchant who ig- nores its force soon finds himself over- shadowed and hopelessly in the rear of the march of pro The benefits individuals derive from judicious advertising can be obtained on a larger scale by communities. The growth and prosperity of Omaha, its unsurpassed advantages as a commer- cial and industrial center, have not been advertised as they deserved tobe. The work has been almost en- cly left to the newspavers, yet there is wanting, unfortunately, a systematic effort to placo the facts where they will do the most good, The record of Omaha during the past year is not surpassed as a whole by any city in the west. Although theenergic of the people wero well nigh exhaustad in combatting the threatened blight of pro- hibition, the advance in all departments of trade and industry, public and private improvements, excceded the most sanguine expectations, Tho result is a tribute not alone to the un- bounded confidence of the people in the city’s future, but also to the supe- riority of its location and the conviction that it will for all time command the trade and manufacture the resources of a vast empire. It is already the stock market and packing center of the groat stock region of the west, its smelters command a large proportion of the min- eral output, and before the year wanes provision will be made to handle the last but not least of the threeleading pro- ducts—corn, Tt is not necessary to inflate the record of the past, nor indulge in prophecies of the future. A Dbrief and accurate account of Omaha’s progress — its marvelous growth in popula- tion as shown .by the federal census, its magnificent stridds as a stock market, as & manufacturing and jobbing center, its unequalled system of electric peak By ors, is could ele United | {,.ml cablo transit, its public improve: ments which{{f nine years have made it the best paved: city of its size in the union—all These and more, tersely placed beford,cistern investors, cannot fail to bear golden fruit, An carnest systematic offort should be | made by ipdividuale and organiza- | tions to spread the light of Omaha's growth, its Adyantages and resources, and thoroughly advertise its unpa alleled record at home and abroad. —_— A FAITHEUL PUBLIO OFFICER, Tho thanks of every law-abiding citi- zen arcdue to Mon, George D. Meikle- john, to whose lot, as lioutenant gov- ernor, there fell a very fmportant duty during the opening day of the legisla- ture, As prosident of the senate and of the joint convention of the two houses, Mr. Meiklejohn becameo the sole barrier be- tween anarchy and constitutional gov- ernment. He 15 a republican and in the great emergency with which he was called upon to deal he was alike indif- ferent to the advantage he conferred upon his political opponents and to the clamor of the imperious majority who demanded that the constitution should bo iguored. Ho kept his oyes on the law and “held the rudder true.” Ho was tho cmter of a storm of abuse and threatened with personal violeace, but nothing swerved him from the feurless di 'ge of his duty, Ho ulene had power to keep the law from being violated and a new and original procedure from being adopted, manifestly for the purpose of sotting aside tho verdict of the people. "he record of the plucky licutenant governor in the exciting scenes at Lin- coln is the most satisfactory part of the whole affair. He is entitled to the thanks of sl rejublicans and democrats and even the independents concedo that he is a clear-headed and courageous presiding ofticer UNDER MILITARY CONTROL. Tho action of the Washington author- ities in ordering that a military officer be placed in full control at the Pine Ridge agency s doubt- less under existing onditions judicious, Tvappears that the question of adopting this policy, which was suggestel by Gene Miles, ive careful consideration by the president, s ies Proctor and Noble, and Gene Schofield, so that the action must be ac- edas the deliberate conviction of s that it is necessary. It is afact that the agent at Pine Ridge had bscome so obnoxious to the Indians that his retention in con- trol there was avery great obstacle to negotiations with them for an abandon- ment of tho cohflict. For whatever causes, and - it is presumed thess will ‘appear in due time, it cvident that the In- dians had learred to thoroughly dis- trust Royer, and it was natural for them to reason that so long as he was per- mitted to remain in chargoe of the agency they could not depend upon any promises made by the goverfiment being kept. It is safe to assume that General w this difficulty immediately on at the scene of trouble, and henee his recommendation. While as a general and permanent policy we aro opposed to placing the Indians under military control, we ean readily unders that in existing cir- cumstances the action taken may be in the highest degree expedient. Its effect may be, and avleast at the Pine Ridge agency is very likely to ba, to re- store confidence among the Indians and make them more disposed to negotinte for bringing the uprising to an end. Undoubtedly this effect is expected and it would not be at all surprising to hear of its early realization. The disposition at Washington isto do all that is possi- ble by friendly overtures to end the trouble, while at the same time omiting nothing thutis necessary to its suppres- sion, re ver is BUSINESS FAILURES, Y The commercial agency of R. G. Dun & Co. has published a tabulated revi of business failures in the United States during 1890, the liabilities involved, with comparisons with previous years, For convenience the country isdivided into five groups of states—the eastern, middle, southern, western and Pacifi Out of a total of 1,110,500 business firms in the country, the number of failur. were 10,907 and the total liabilities $189,- In 1889 the number of failures were 10,882 and the liabilities $148,780,- 3 Of the strictly western states Kansas makes the poorest showing., The num- ber engaged in business 570, Num- ber of failures, iabilities, $4 In Nebraska, out of 22,041 engaged in business, there were 271 failures, five less than the prec:ding year, and the liabilities $1,573,500, or one-third that of Kansas, Iowa reports 35,420 in business, 241 failures und the aggregate liabilitios 32,424,545, The ratio of failures to number in business in the five groups was: In the enstern states, one: in every 90; in the middle statesy one in every 113; in the southern states, one in evi 79; in the western states, one in every 124, and in the Pacific statas, one in every 53. It will be seen thatin per cent of failures the western states have decidedly the best of the record, while the Pacific states and territories stand at the foot of the list. Thegouthern states, despite their tremendoug, advancement during the past few .years, do not make o favorable showing 1 business prosperity the /proportion of fail- ures being 45" per coent greater than in the westbih states. The num- ber engaged in ‘fiisiness in the latter group is 451,504, agaiost 411,926 in 1859 and 599,705 in 1888, an increase of 51,500 in two years, yet the per cent of failures actually decreased. The figures are undoubted ovidence of the substantial growth of business inthe great west. A CONGRESS of American republics will be held in some leading city of the United States during the holding of the Columbian exposition. Colonel Chase of this city has received the appointment of chairman of the leading committee of the congress, and it will be his privie lege to call one meeting of his committee at Omaha. The eminent gentlemen who compose it would be right royally re. colved here, and then a movement could bo made towards socuring the sessluns of the congress to be held in this oity. Omaha and Nebraska are exceptionally favored in boing giventhe chairmanship of the principal committee, no other state west of the Mississippi having the chairmanship of either committee, and but one of theso states, Kansas, has a member on either committee. LINCOLN county sends out a touching appeal for ald for 2,500 people, who are sufferers by the drouth. This is but a small proportion of the total population of that large county, butit is enough to touch the heart and the pocket of the veople of the state. Whatever is done for the sufferers must bo done almost instantly, For reasons of pride they have withheld their call until actually pressed and pinched by want and by the encroachment of winter. This is an- other reason why the legislature should cense to wrangle and squander the peo- ple’s time and money, and should speed- ily get down to tho pressing work of sonatorial elections 1n vartous states will ‘soon be coming on. There are twenty-cight places to bo filled and soveral eminent men will rotive. Among them are Ingalis, Evarts and Spooner. Blair may possibly pull through again in Now Hampshire, but it is very doubt- ful. The Kunsas fight is still very much inthe dark. Itis apparent that Voor- hees and Vest will be ro-clected. The most important result, from a political standpoint, is New York, whero the suc- cessor ef Evarts may have something to do with the nextdemocratic presidential nomination, TuEe deliberate defiance by the legis- lature of the order of the supreme court which directed the speaker to declare the persons having received the largest number of votes for the various stato offices duly elected is a very re proceeding and proves that the legisla- ture is following the lead of very dan- gerous advisors and downright conspir tors. The lawmakers should remember that such revolutionary action will not be sustained by public opinion, loss IN TIVMES of peaco the military should always be subordinate to the civil au- thovities. It is repugnant to the spirit of American institutions to invoice the power of the military in any state capi- tal while a legislature is in sion, If 20 policemen and deputy sheriffs cannot keep order 40 can; and if 40 cannot do 50, 100 or 200 will be able to do so. The calling of the mi into the state cap- itol while the legislature was in session was a great blunder, to use a mild ex- pression, TH2 halls of legislation should always be accessible to the people. If the peo- ple do not behave themselves the offi- cers of the legislature are always in position to enforce order. Ours is a representative government. Our law- ers are reprosentatives of the peo- ple and their procecdings should be given the greatest possible publicity without let or hindrance. I¥ Omaha would be free it must strike for an independent bridge. Emma Abbol Ixample. Kansas City Times, Not one who wrapped a taleat in a napkin andhid it was Emma Abbott. Nature's bountiful gifts to her were duly and faith- fully used. She leaves behind her a notable le of cheerful industry which should cheor every breast faltering in this hard race rext Books. One of the measures which will undoubtedly come before the ses- ion of tho lezislature is that of text books. This is something that should interest every taxpayeras well as parent in Nebraska. In ourjudgment it would not only iessen the expenses of our schools, but would also ad- vance the cause of education in our state. Probably a greater number of people are af- focted by book trusts than by any other trust in existence. The American book ompany has control of all the works of the standard authors, and undoubtedly kecps prices a great deal higher than they should be. Inour judgment the best way to deal with tho trust is to break away from it altogother, and to have a board appointed by the state to write anow serios of books, The state would then own the copyright and publish the books at, cost, doing away entirely with the expensive middlemen. NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska. Aurora's new opera house is ne: pleted. The Burt county band was organized north of Oakland. W. K. Peebles of Pender has gone to Wash- ington with a delegation of Omaha Indis The Geneva Natjoual bank b n ln| January 1 with a ]).ml up capital of ) E. R. Rodinburg lost a thum’ by @& buzz saw in the Seward lock rst National bank of Broien Bow has doubled its capital to §100,000. Itis seven years old. William Schacht was adjudged insane a the Norfolk asylum. Plattsmouth guards expect to be ordered to the front this week uuless the Iudian troubles are sottled. Coun 6 J, N, Kearne; v is dangerously tumor on the left side. Phelps county commissior male Hold wate townstip aud voting precinet as the citizens wanted, Hastings has no militia company, but there are are several young men who are willing to join & voiunteer cempany should one be called for. Dr. 1. Howard outran two footpads who triad to hold him up Monduy night at Harv- ard as he was returning from a professional visit. William Burgs was arrested in_ Pierco county on Tuesdny and taken to Stanton, being charged with disposinz of mortgaged property. C. W. Gardner's market at Harvard was broken into- An attempt to blow open the safe failed. All the thieves kot Was some butter and meat. Nolghbors of Trails Harroldson of Hen- dricks precinct, Otoe county are afraid of v Ro was cxamiusd a3 (o bis sanity 8 few days sgo but the peoplo waat him taken to Jail. Since the Indian troubles began the Elk- horn ticket agent at Chadron is said to have so0ld 81,200 worth of tickets to people who saw fit' o take vacations. They deelare they will return later, Farbury citizens have secured on twenty ducements to an eastern syndicate that talks of putting up a plant thero for making brivk and sewer pipe. 1t is claimed the elay is the Dost to bo found west of tho Mississippr In bandling a target rifle loaded with a 83 | caliber cartridge F\. C. Search was shot in | | hinieder of Columbus nd has been taken to Wolfe of ill with a refused to an_option the abdomen at Mason City, the gun being discharged while being laid down by W. N. Hurioy, who had picked it up to examine it. The wound was a dangorous one but Search will probably recover, Otoe County Modical socloty has_olected theso officors: Prosidont, Dr. D. W. Her- shey; vice president, Br. R. T. Dailoy; secre- tary, Dr, R. R. Ross} treasurer,yDr. O, Wat son. Drs, Watson, Parkhurst” and Dailev were appointed a committes to confor with the medical soclotios of Omaha and Lincolu with a view to securing better medical loxis- lation, Tho German-American bank of Fromont has been changed into tho Commerciol Na- tional. The officers ar hurman, brosident; Frank McGiverin, cashier; T. . hior, and B, Schurman, H. May, John Miller, . Georgo L, Loomis, William H. Kochnback aud H. Archer di- rectors. Dakota Yankton wants a pontoon bridge. Grand Forks banks hold §1,000,00 deposits. Judge Pratt, formerly of Grand Forlks, died at Duluth, A new memorial hall at Grafton has been dedicated by the G. A. R. o “original package’ honses are in tion in Scotland, The city exacts a tax per month, The Crow creok sottlers who were evictud under Prosident Cloveland's proclamation arepiling up a bill against the government. Hoenry Schlund, near Mitehell, has an artesian well that will fally irrigaté his qua ter section. It is 340 feot deop and cost &307 Armour’s artesian woll is dowh 700 feet, with the drill at work in the hard formation which usually overlies tho water-bearing stratum, The B. & M. road was comploted Saturduy night to the Montana mine, four miles north of Rockford, Worlk will suspend until the completion of the tunnel. Hill City is organizing a militia company for protection from Indian depredations, Citizens of Lead have also oreanized and the wovernor has been asked to supply arms, Tho First ward of Dakota has no water supply and cltizons demand that this bo at tended to. The Chlorinution works and big smelter thero would bo in - danger in ease of o tis expected that James H. Godfrey will be pardoned from the penitentiary when the board of pardons meets next week. His sen- tence of five years in 187 for assault was re- garded as severo, At a meeting of tho Harney Peak tin com- pany to be held in New York this weel, it 13 expected that somo conclusion will be reached about erectir tensivo concentrators and smelters nean uster City. Numerous rich strikes have beon made ro- cently in the Bald mountain district. Pros- pectors have begun work and men havo left Deadwood, The prospect of a railroad to the district stimulates work. The order of the health officer of Sioux alls that vaceination was a pre-requisite for dmission to public schools raised a bitof a 300 children have come forward with certificates of v ion, Scare the Hawk, an Indian of 8ad river, went to Pierre and got out papers for tho ar- rest of another Indian who tried to shoot him vhile drunk. The only thing that prevented a killing was that the gun missed fire, Arrangements have been made whereby the city artesian well at Mellette will irrigato four farms adjoining tho town the coming season. Much of the ditching has_aiready been done and the water is now ruaning upon the land. A committee to locate a North Dakota Methodist college will meet at Fargo January 20. By order of the conference no bid can be entertamed by the committee of less than teighty acres of land or its equivalent, and $10,000 in money.” Deadwood Pioneer: The prisoners at the jullissued s paper glving iho pedigres of those confined there and the items happening in the jail. It is to b issued regularly ever Saturday, and the subscription price is a hait pound of ' tobacco. Henry Christianson, who killed his wife and cuf his own throat lately in Chicago, for- v lived near Arlington. About two years ago the dead body of his son was found on the shore of Lake Albert. Christianson was sus- pected of murdering him, Jim Ball, Orin Mapes and others, presumed identified with the Hamlin county hay who shot George IKalil, haye received notices purporting to come from vigilantes to leave the country. Kahl has seven buckshot in his body, but will recover. Bes 20,000 sheep and expects to have mo A tract just across the line ssbury county ~has been o man who will go into 5 ralsing and wool growing business. This s the third lavge tract sold there for that purpose. Stockholders of banks in South Dakota have questioned the legality of the tax levy made on their stock. It is claimed to be ex- “The Sioux Falls National bank has raised the issue, and an injunction ain- ing the city and Minnehaha county from col- L ceting the tax will be argued in the United States circuit court E'riday of next week. J. C. Sanders, prominent among tho _early settlers of the Black Hills, died recently at Custer City in his sixty-third year. “Mr. Suunders. a soldier in Colonel Doniphan’s regiment and in Waitman’s battery through the Mexican war. He was aiterward a noted plainsman and scout, serving in the latter capacity with Generals Lander, Sumner and Fremont. Springfield has a remarkable artesian well. It'is down 600 feet. The borais eight inches, and the flow is estimated at 2,500 gallons a minute. The pipe extends two feet above the surface, and the well stream forced in a solid body ten feet above tho top of the pipe. The well is believed to have a pressure of ninety- six pounds 10 the square inch, and it is pre- sumed that soventy-five horsé power can be in K i youngsters hend named Wilson have been buralarizinis stores in Sioux Falls, Wilson was arrested in an Ttalian’s frait store late at night and a bi, bunch of keys to it various business place found on him, His father 1s in jail for con- tompt of court and @ brother was recently sent to the reform school. The son of & prominent ¢ was with Wilson, but es- caped when the ringleader was nabhed, John Milier, who od in jail at Red- fleld, got the laug uty Shovif Has- Since his confinement the cell door has wen locked and he has been allowed to o into auy part of the jailat will. The other by a boy NEBRASKA National Bank U. 8. DEPOSITORY, OMAHA, NEB, Capital, - - = = $400,000 Surplus Jan. 1st, 1890, - B7,800 torse, John 8. Colling, i C. Cushing J. N I Patrick. W. H. 8. Hughes, casliler. THE IRON BANK, Corner 12th aud Farnam St __A General Bankiog Business Transacted JOSEPH GILLOTT’S STEEL PENS. GOLD MEDAL, PARI3 EXPOSITION, 1889, THE MOSV VERFECT OF PENS. Rl dny Hassoll wont 1nto the country, and thini. ing he would use a little more precau tion than ususl_he locked Millor's cell. As about 3 o'clock Miller was seon on the streot and askod J. E. Underhill of the Contral house it he had the keys to the jail, saying: “I got out of jail, but d—d if 1 can get in again." fown is $4 The Keokul city council is disoussing brick paving. M. Grace, tho first sottior in Adair, died suddenly on Tucsday, . ® Towa Falls is considering a proposition te socuro waterworks, fuel, gas and clectrio lights. Captain Twombl urer, handiod 20,5 ho held ofice. 0. I'. McDon Moines saddler: vessel and died. A. P. Miller, o drayman at Oelweln, himself through the head a ed instant He leaves o wife and throo children, Mrs. Pauline Sax, wife of John Sax, is deadat hor homo near Farmington. She was a residont of Lee county since 1851, The vo askod the sistance of the state board of health to sccure for that town a good physician with *good horse sense.”’ Patrick Grant township, Frauklin county, diod recently from tho « f a kick from a horse, He was sixt ars of age. or Palmer thinks Sioux City has not izn polling pl Tuo mattor will ba ered at a spocial moeting of the council touight. Two now wards may be formed. Murshalltown business men gave a banquot at £ a plate, Their wives, unknown to them, furnished the banquet, and the proceeds, amounting to §1,000, were given to the poc The grand jury of Tama county has in- dicted Andr vounty's wealthiest citizens, on perjury in giving in Lis proper sessor. My : soventy-seven, died at Birlington on Mo in frightful agony from being burned woek before through her clothing takix ot a stove, D. Theilongerdes of Burlington wasjrobbed of £250 on Sunday night, 1000f which was money bolongine to the German Baptist church of that place, of whose funds Mr. is custoc C. G. McCarthy of Nevada, fifteen yours old, started out to fight the Indians. He got as faras Missouri Valley, when he was sent home in compliance with the instructions aphed by his fathor. The trades unfons of Dubuque will de- mand the establisnment of the eight-hour vstom by t A it is said that orgaa- labor will support only such candidutes ity oftices as favor Maxwell, the state librarian, is teying or statistics of public ries in Up to this time s} sded in gotting reports from forty-oi librarios containing 107,857 volumes.” The list is in- complete. “The famous law hbrary belonging to Judge it, which he once offered to donate to the bar of Scott county, provided a suitable building should be furnished, is offercd for sale in Davenport. This library is ot e of the largest in the countr Several St. Louis and Chicago firms have crows ready to eut 1co on the rivers and lakes around Mason City where the harvest usual ly amounts to thousands of tons, So far nothing has been done and the prospects are not encouraging cither. William Page and wife were driving homo from a meeting av Sergeant Bluft when a Sioux City & Pacific train struck their riage and threw it thirty feet. The occupants Wore not, injured but tha vehielo landed o & heap on the depot platform. Charles A, Warwick has_begun an aotig agaiust his partner, R. 8. Ransom, and asid that a receiver be appointed for the Keokul Constitution-Democrat, of which Warwick & Ransom are proprictors—Mr. Warwick claiming a four-sevenths interest. Fourteen hundaed horses were shipped out of Warren county in 150, bringing an_ a age of $115 per hoad. ported £1,400,168 of live stock dur 3esides the horses, this sum cars of hogs and 15,000 head of cattle were sold at anaverage of 0 per head. The artesian well at Mason City Is down 900 fect, and the flow has about coased. ~ Ata depth of 200 feet, the well flowed abont twonty gallons per minute, and increased gradu: until a distance of (00 feet below the surfuc reached, when it flowed about ninety allons per minute, Further boring scemed 10 tap the flow. 1t 1s feared that the railroad companies will enjoin the city from building the _pro- posed viaduct “over their tracks at Cedar Rapids, the plans of which have been ap proved by tho d commissioners, Tho y yor Snouffer in runniug without consulting the coun cil has actod ilogally, A bo ars old, named Drew Davil son, viewed at Cedar Rapids Wedn while on_ his way from his homo at Muscatine to Pine Ridge to shoot Indians The lad had a small amount of money and had ran away from home. His father is a traveling man, and his mother was almost crazed with grief. Drew was sent home. TheSSioux I'alls Argns-Leadersays: “Somo irresponsible persons are through Towa, Minnesota and possibly r states, begging for alleged drought s ars. Theso people ave frauds, and the people they sw dle should know "it. 1t is very unsafo to trust any one not provided with a o signed by the commissioners of nis The tenth annual exmbition of the Iown State Poultry and Pet Stock association od a four days' session at_Marshalltown rdnesday with 240 entvies and many othiers to follow. Theroisa fino display th Rocks and Wyandottes and sev- ods, The exhibition promises to bo tho largost in the history of tho association. The Oddfdllows of the state propose to erect a tomplo to contain the general offices of the grand lodge, library and archives and a hall for the annual meeti and lodge and_grand encampment. Th i has not yet been decided on, A eirc out by the buildine commitiee stat ¢ structure to cost from 30,000 to #:0,000 is to be an elegant building throughout. ' 1t wected that the city in which tho temple is b located will donate ground for the build. ing and perhaps & liberal donation in money.” the rotiring state troas. ) during the six yours 4, who worked for the Dea company, ruptured a blood shot (hu 0 0f the as Mr to gu Towa Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889, Baking Powder OMAHA. LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subsoribed and Guarantoed Capital Paid in Capital Buys and solls stocks aud bond commerelal paper; roceives and exccutes trusts; acts as transfer agent and srusteo of eorporations, takes charge of property, ool lects taxes, Omaha Loan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts a1 1n Copital... 2 subscribed and Guaranteed Oupl 2 10 Lisbility of Stookholders. 200,00 & Per Cout Intoreat Paid on Deposits. FRANK J. LANGE, Cushlor. OMoers: A. U, Wyman, presidont, J. J. Brow vice-president, W.'T. Wyman, treasurer. Directors:—A. U, Wywman, J. H. Millard, J. Brown, Guy 0. Burton, E. W. Nush, Thoniw Lo Klapall, Georao B. Lake, thates