Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1891, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: S THE DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER kprron PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally and Sunday, One Year Bixmonths Three nonihs unday Hee, One Year eokly Boe. One Year. OFFIC) Omaha, The Bee Bulldinge Bouth Omnha, Corner N ana 2th Streets Couneil Blufla, 12 Pearl Strect J hamber of Commeroe. rk.Room 13,14 and 15, Tribune Buliding ington, 613 Fourteenth Street. IRRESPONT All communieations re news nnd editorial matter should be addressed to the Editorial 1 smittances should 10 Bee Publishing Company, sheeks and postoffice orders Drafis, bleto the order of the o mado j Tie Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Peo B'ld'g, Farnam and feventeenth Sta EWORN STATEME r OF CIRCULATION Janty of Doteiaa | 99 George 18, Trschuck. secretary of The Bee Publishine compunv. aoes solemnly aweat that the eireulation of THE DATLY BE for the weex ending Junuury 10, 101, wi follow . | Thursday. Jan. Fridav. Jin. 0 Baturday, Jin. 10, e 20, B. Tz8CH ribed Average...eu.. Grone Fworn to Yefore me and presence tnis 10th day IFEAL| NP tary Publio County George I 2 duly sworn, de- ary of The Bee ctuul average DALY Brr January, 160, 10, 1800, 10,%61 cov’ coples; for May, 1 cop'e: st 1:00, 20,750 cop o L470 coples: for Octobe: coples for November, 1500, for Decembor, 180, & \ples. Gronar, B. TZSCHUCK. ore me, and subseribed fn my 5tday of December, A, D., 1801 . NP, R, Notary Public. —e A ALL is quiet on Salt creck. at the i culi Tue month coples; for Febr for March. 180, for Evorn {0 1y presence, th TirE state militia finds itselt out of Colo in the dead of winter. has been lost in the shuffle, message ‘WE trust there will be no disturbance in the capital of Nebraska today. Tie valiant service of the Capitol guards in quelling the legislative mob eminently fits them for active duty on the frontier, It wAs peculiarly fitting that the late plenipotentiary at Colon should place a large period to the public services of an obstreperous adjutant, —_— THE harvester trust proved too much for its organizers, The collapse of the combine is not due to respect for public sentiment, but to a wholesome fear of laws and courts. sk there is a plum in sight the late watch dog of the city treasury fs always on hand. Itis now reported that he is laying for Kier: the board of public NOR MEIKLE- JOHN rotires to private life with the satisfaction of baving performed his duty fearlessly and fairly, and having earned tho commendation of all law- abiding citizens, THE recent gushing e the czar for kis deve liberty,” emanated from American rosi- dents of Petersburg. When it comes to tondying royalty, the American abroad has no equal. — THE reason the prohib. attorneyshave been making such a desperate fight aguinst Boyd is becauso they suspect that he might object to signing an ap- vropriation to pay their fees out of the state treasury. e e THE BEE has reached the high water mark on its Sunday edition, which this morning exceeds 35,000 copies. The In- dian war and the outbreak at the state capital have created an extraordinary demand for the only real newspaper in Omaha, istle praising on *'to religious — Tie independents still decline to notify Governor Boyd that the logisla- ture is organized. Within a very few days they will come down from their high horse. It takes money %o pay board bills and it will take Governor Boyd’s signature to draw upoit the state treasuror, — THERE has been a great deal of unfa- vorable comment as regards the course of Hon. J. L. Webster in acting as attor- ney for General Thayer in the contest over the governorship. A personal ex- planation made by Mr. Webster fully ex- onerates him. We are thoroughly satis fied that he is not playinginto the hands of the prohibition manipulators, Evrore is snow-bound, northern Africa has folt the fre of the blizzard. England is having the hardest winter since 1813. The eastern portion of the United States is also rev- eling in the pleasures of old-fashioned weather, Inthe west the weather has thus far been unusually mild, except in the immediate vicinity of the state house, and even sty breath THis week the leg make more progress and less history The appropriation for the destitute set- tlers ought to be passed without delay. Their need is very pressing and this is the dead of winter. Delay in this mat- ter is almost criminal, No session ever had a larger amount of important busi- ness to transact. None could afford to waste time and money by delay, slature should THE first state legislature of Wyom- ing as a state has concluded its labors. Its work cannot be moasured by the number of bills passed, but rather by the well-digested character of the few framed, Drastic laws were tabooed, and those enacted are wisely nimed to eecure greater development of the vast resources of the state, to cncourage set. tloment and provent burdensome taxa- tion. The work of the legislature can hardly failto secure these ends, and redound to the honor of the republican majority, A FEW OLD FACTS In active business life there are three unfailing guides to permanent success: Honest goods, reasonable prices judicious ing. Deceptive an- nouncements invariably react on mer- chants making them, and €0 conducted invariably degenerates and lapses into bankruptey. The guides of progressiye business life apply with equal force to communities, The record of Omaha's growth in the past is tribute not alone to energy of her people, but is & striking illusteation of her steadfast refusal to adopt the boom methods of mushroom ecities, Rigidly excluding bombastic reports and inflated statistics, the city hasadvanced in popu- lation, commercial and industrial strength and material wealth at a pace that is the envy of the west and the ad- miration of the countr Despite the assaults made last year caleulated to overturn the internal pol- icios of Nebraska, the wetropolis of the state overcame doubt and depression and made a record of superb growth. Although nearly 4,000,000 3 pended in building improvements, it did not exhoust the people’s ready cash, for the deposits in the banks increased by 000,000, making a saug roll of $21,- 190,6 laid aside for emergencies, while the transactions of the clearing house banks increased 21 per cent over the previous year. In the jobbing business 206 firms disposed of 0,000,000 worth of goods on an invested capital of $14,- 166,000, while 168 factor: exclusive of the packeries, turned out $25,000,000 worth of products, gave employment to 12,000 men, an incre of 1,000 in a year, and paid out nearly $1.000,000 a month in wages, pork packer adver business were ex- 50 sed 75 por cent of thereceipts of the stock yards, slaugh- tered 1,787,081 animals and added $29,- 000,000 in product to the world’s supply. An increase of 84 por cont isa pretty strong gain for an industry seven years old. These are but a fow of the cold facts which illuminate the marvelous incre of 358 per cent in the city’s population in ten yenrs Their suggestive force is further shown in the fact that the city has readily floated four and one-half per cent short time bonds at a premium of threo per cent. And this, too, when monctary centers were shaken by tho speculative fevers last fall, The simple record of Omaha's growth needs no trimmings. The facts speak for themseives. They furnish a re- liable index of the city’s future, its ad- vantages as a jobbing and industrial, conter and the splendid opportunities it affords for profitable investment. s IRRIGATION IN NEBRASK A THE BEE publishes today the second of a series of articles that are intended to present a complete exposition of the need of ivrigation in this state, of its prospective bencfits, and of the means by weich it can he realized. There is probubly no part of develop- ment now open to the people of Nebraska that promises so much for the future as that of making our arid and semi-arid rogions as prosperious as the irrigated districts of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and California. The subject is little understood, and yet it is the only substan- tial hope of (0,000 of our people. inhabit- ing over 18,000 square miles of our do- main, Andeven thess figures do not mark the limitsof its possibilites of good, for there are other large regions in which irrigation can materialy assist agriculture. There can be no question that when the matter has been fully presented to the state, capital and energy will go to tt wce of the brave men who are now strugling against great odds to developo the re- sorces of our froutier. To accomplish this is in part the object of the present articles, It is important to convert a popular misapprebension at the outset. This is the idea, that tosay a state needs irrigation is to advertise the impression that itis practically worthless, Noth- ing conld be more erroncous. The most profitable farming in the world is done by meansof irrigation, and the est and most even prosperity that e in the west today is in distr: lessly arid that th inhabitans lost time in praying fov rain. The day will come in Nebraska, as it has alrcady come in states and terrvitories to the of us, when the man who does his farming under the ditch will be re- gurdeed as the most enviable of all tillers of the soil. No western state can afford to pauso for & moment in its onward m: Irrigation isthe goal to which Nebr should press forward now. — A NATIONAL ART ( The people of the United States are becoming used to the contemplation of great projects. The world’s fair prom- ises to bring intoexistence some marvel- ous work’s of man’s ingenuity and skill, Intercontinental Iroads ave talked of as possibilities of the not remote future, a proposition for a national university that shall equal the greatest seats of learning in the old world has found its way into congress, and lnstly a Boston man has revived the projectof a r tional art gallery on o magnificent s in Washington. = All this gives evidence of the advancing and expanding ideas of the American people. There is asteadily growing desire for progress along all lines. All thought is no lol directed to the achiovement of more material results, but more largely than ever before the attention of the wealthy and the cultured is being de- voted to the accomplishment of those things which will contribute to the in- tellectual and moral elevation of the people. It is the devclopment of a spirit rieh in promise of splendid re- sults and on every account worthy of the heartiest encouragement. The project of & nationul grt gallery, with which Mr. Franklin W, Smith, a wealthy citizen of Boston, has pub- licly identified himself, is con- ceived on the broadest scale. We learn of this gentleman that he is not only a man of means, but that his ideas are as plenty as his money, and vhat he has tastes in art which he has cultivated highly and without stint. His plan, we are told, is the result of forty years of study and observation in the capitals of Europe, and he is in a position to aevote no and | the remaining y subject. What he proposes is a magnifi- cont structure, or groupe of buildings, to be erected on un eminence in a portion of Washington city variety of architectu building to be reproduction of the Parthenon. Avound these buildings will extend parks which are to enclose courts, and the plan contemp- lates r the central s of his life to this | tain American authors, with the result that a portion 9fthem reached the opin- fon that it is in ths interest of the publish- | ers at the mp.-.t. of tho authors, The prosenting o | outcome of th@view was the introduc | tion of a bill in the senate to provide for the compen the use of copy o of foreign authors for htin the United States, | Tneflect it prowides that publishors or | manufacturersdof foreign books, maps, nges of galleries descending from | the central edifice and appropriated to | various historie periods of art and arch- itecture. It is estimated that by con- structing these buildings of “ornamental cement” their cost will not exceed #5,000,000, a sum which there ought not to be very great difficulty in securing on the subscription plan which Mr. Smith About acres would be occupied, thus transcending over thing of the kind that has hitherto b conceived, It 15 an exceedingly ambitious proj but it cannot be said that it is cable, and if Mr, Smith is enthu tic and determined represented to be, the success project is more than possible, Its author believes it can be consummated within five s and he does not permit any y in bringing it to the public atten- tion in a practic Unquestion- ably it would be a great acquisition and its possibilities for good in an cduca- tional way cannot be overestimated. It has alre ived encouraging recog- nition, proposed. 250 man he is of the THE Fi 3 ; AND. The people of New England are in a Ve thoughtful mood these days. When thoy look to the west the what has gone out of the population of the old home, and they are pausing to considor with anxious interest what has come in to take its place. The current numbor of the New England Magazine contains a symposium, to which four prominent men contribute, on the subject of **T'he Future of New England.” Ex-Governor John D. Long writes hopefully of the prospeet. He clearly sees the chunges that the last forty ye have wrought. He admits that the } side farm has been deserted, and that the old families of New England have largely gone forth to bocome the of New Englands in the west. He notes the startling growth of the 1 ities and corresponding loss of the coun- try and villages. “But this is not final- ity,” he says. ““It is simply tr.nsition, 1t has been the result, not of depression, but of the prosperity of our country for the last thirty years.” He predicts that there will be a reaction, and that the tide will flow back again to re-people the country districts and revive the in- teresting town life of the old days. George B. Loomis, a resident of old Salem and now our minister to Portu- gal, reviews the changes of the last half century, and then compares the New England of the future to certain ancient and populous localities in France; “a section lying hetween Paris and Bor- deaux, marked by continuous cult tion, gardeus and vineyavds, thriving towns, g 1 estates, all radiant with historic interest, where man hus toiled for centurie: Rov. George A. Jackson puts the gist of his ideas into the first few sentences as follo “Will the country towns of New England again beeome productive? is often asked. Pro- ductive of what? Targe crops to com- pete with the decp-soiled west? No. Of New Ingland’s old-time and most precious crop-men? Yes.” Mr. Jack- son suggests i systematic effort on the part of New England’s leading peopie to revive interest in_country life and en- deavor to turn buck the appalling rush to the great cities. He believes the ay- erage man who leaves the farm to seck his fortunc in the clty makes a costly mistake. A discussion of the future of New Eng land has a lively inter for the thou- sands of men and women ‘scattered throughout the west, who look back to the dear little states for their ancestral roof-tree. A wostern man was recently heard to remar] Ithank God that I was born in New England, and 1 thank God that I had sense enough to leave it]” There is a measure of truth in the rough remark. New England is a good place to come from, with its proud his- tory and its air of eminent respocta- bility, but the opportunities now open Wiere to cnergetic' and ambitious men do not compare, as a whole, to those of- fered in a new country with superior natural resources. He is a fortunate man who can be proud both of his birth- place and of the home he has made for himself in another land. New England will never lose its rich historical interest, but before many coars it will find itself in lively competi- tion with the west for its peculiar dis- tinction in the matter of education and manufacturin of his essuy, INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. Tt is questionable whether any bill providing for international copyright will be passed by the present congress, More than a month the house pussed what is known as the Simonds bill, but it has not been very favorably received in the senate, This measure is similar in offect to those of other coun- tries upon the same subject, excopt it provides that no book can be copy- righted hero by vivtue of it unless said book shall be printed from type set or plates made from type so set in the United States. It pormits forcigners to take out copyright here fipon these con- ditions, namely: When such foreigner is acitizen of aforeign state or nation which permits to citizens of the United States the benefits of copyright on substan- tially the same basis as its own citizens, or when such foreign nation or state per- mits to citizens of the United States copyright privileges substantially simi- lar to those provided for by theact, or when such foreign state or nationisa party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the grant of copyright, by the terms of which the United States may at its pleasure bocome a party to such agree- went. It was largely the influence of American printers that secured the passage of this bill in the house, who held that they no less than American authors deserve protection. Since this bill passed it appears to bave been more carefully studied by cer- ago { | ing the vi ete., shall give ocertain bond for the faithful performanceof the requirements vlaced upon them by the bill, and also deposit with cortain specified officials ten per cent of the retail prico of such publications, the momev so deposited to bo paid as royalty to the authors thereof. There is a wide difference in the plans, and determined insistence upon either by its advocatos may bo fatal to legislation on this subjoct by the present congress, which eannot afford to glve much time to the discussion of in- tornational copyright. There are sovoral points of view from which to consider this question, and it is to be remarked that while there abounding solicitude respecting the in- terests of authors and of publisher: there is far less concern shown regard- nble effect of the proposed the interests of It s entirely proper to desire that justice shall be done to foreign authors, par- ticularly if at the same time American authors received encouragement and stimulus to highor offort. But if as the nrice of this authors or publishers, or the two interests in combination, are to be enabled to exact such tribute as they please from the veading public of the United the principlo of the greatest good to the greatest number should determine our policy. There is reasonable ground for believir that any plan of international copyright would have the effect to enhanco the price of books, This might mean an enormous increase in the aggregato annual outly for private and publie libraries, or the unfortunate alternative of buying fowor books, If a way ¢ found to do justice at the same time to foreign authors and to the b books that way should be adopted, but it will havdly be denied that sucha w has not yet be is an legislation American upon read. ates, 1 suggested, SHARING At about this time every y nublished showing the mer vantages of profit shari The lutest piece of intelligence of this kind comos from a town in Missouri, where a manu. facturing company has been cavrying on this poticy for five years, The business is managed by a board of directors. Regular wages and salaries are paid to all, and wages are rated as eapital and allowed 6 per cent. The net profits of the year are ascertained and n tenth set asido as asurpls fund. Another tenth goes to the provident fund, which is for all, and the remainder is divided pro -« rata the officers and opovators, or according o their several investments, This divi- dend is then converted into stock, which receives its dividend exactly as tho cap- ital of the original proprietors. The report of the company shows that in fiv years 43 per cent hag been paid in divi- dends on wages. Such operatives as choose to take their dividends in stock have received an average of 38 per cent in dividends and interest, with com- pound dividends on the first three years, The working day has been shortened ono hour, with full pay, and the presi- dentof the company has never had any dificulty with employes. The wages are paid and the best men em- ployed that can be had, who can belong to unions or not, as they ple The plan has thus far boen n complete suc- cess, and there is no reason to suppose that it will not continue to be. Profit sharing hasnot made marked progress in this country, but a number of instancos of the success of the expe ment could be cited. It has not been successful in every case of trial, but failures have been due to faults in the plan adopted rather than to any inhe, ent defect in the principle. The his tory of profit sharing in France, where it originated and has had the largest development, isone of uniform success, So far as we ave aware, the same is true of experiments with tho plan in land. In the opinion of those who have 1it most careful study, it offers the most feasible and certain solution of the lubor problem. Tts advantages arc ob- vious. It stimulates men to the employ- mentof their best offorts and to the practice of economy both to time and matervials. It elevates the standard of workmanship by making ever worker fecl that he has a dircet inter in building up the charactor of the tablishnent and thereby increasin business. It ereutes in employes u sei of responsibility and strengthens their iunce to employers. It has uniform been found a potent influence in pr venting discontent, combinations to o being almost impossible where this plan s in operation and tairly car- ried out. It enables employers to secure tho best men and to retain them, which means a high standard of work always maintained. There is a trustworthy force constantly at command, with no controversies to disturb the business, and with every fudividual doing his best for the general good, Given wise and careful managament the profit-sharing slishments ought to yield the best results on the capital invested, and the record of those abroad shows that as a rule they do. 1t is highly probable that within the next ten years great progress will be made with this: plan in the United States. It is gining adherents, and every noew evidence of its meri strengthens its claim to the considera- tion of manufacturers and others who employ largely and whose business is of a character that will admit of its appli- cation, Its unquestionable advantages would seem to certainly insure its ex- tensive adoption in this country. — TrEe mayor of New Haven is a suc ful man of business, and as such he hu practical ideas rogarding municipal affairs. He holds the opinion that works of & public nature, carried on mainly within the bounds of & municipality, and for the purposes of supplying the inhab- itants with certuin daily requirements of clvilized life, and requiring special rights acts av s and ad- among best, ase, ng- as of eminent domain to distribute their products, should be owned and oporated by the cityand in the sole intorest of the taxpayers, His iden is that the city should own its water works, gns works stroet railways and lightin plant, and in this he agrees with many others who have given caroful study to the subject of municipul governnent. The idea is not new, such a policy having long prevailed in the best governed European cities, but it is only begin- ning to take strong hold upon the public mind in this country, [n Philadelphin, Cloveland and other cities the discussion of such o poliey is active, and its exton- sive adoption bofore many yoars, as the only way to reliove the people from the exactions of monopolies owning works of a public nature, is by no means im- probable. It is not doubted that in most cities of the country such works, if owned by the municipalities and hon- estly managed, could ba mads to give ly good or better service to the peopleat less cost than at present. The only trouble with American cities, and esnecially westorn citie are not in condition finan to own all the public works and their crodit is exhausted in raising money for pave- ments, sewers, vinducts, bridges and the class of public worksthat must bo pro- vided for out of municipal funds. Tue legislativ At disturb of the country electric is one of the 1g eloments inthe business atthe presont time, This s ina larger degree to possible gressional legislation. In a lesser degree it appiies to Nebraska. Tho turbule t Lincoln at the opening of sssion has done the state serious in- It has created bad im- pression abroad and awakened grave fears of radical legislation. Bad ad- visors and mercenary schemers have led the independents into a falso position, The sturdy, honest memhership should lose no time in repudiating the radicals and returning to the paths of law and common The prosperity of the whole people isof greater impor than the political advantage of indi- A rocklessand lawless nolicy pple the state ata time when it needs a vestoration of confidence. No- body will suffer more ovor an unsottled condition of affuirs than the producers, The prosperity of the producers and the s+ of the ¢ demand from the slature prompt evidence of its loyalty to the interests of all the clusses and a determination to enact laws that will se- cure the “greatest good to the greates number” without damaging any ‘inter- st outlook sense, 100 DANIEL B, FAYERWEATITER, a New York millionaire, plodded quietly through life and laid up a large fortune, without attracting the bauble of fame, Yet half a dozen lines i n his will prom- ise to make his name famous in the annals of the courts, Fayerweather left an estate valued at $7,000,000, of which 100,000 was bequeathed to various itable institutions, $1,000,000 cach to three executors, while his widow receives $10,000 cash, a house and lot and an an- nuity of 15,000, The latter sum would supply the wants of ordinary widows but Mrs. Fayerweather proposes to dis- cover what influences secured such princely allowances for the executors, That portion of the will is to be con- tested, and if the developments already published are an index to the hidden truth, the details of a startling conspir- I soon be revealed in the New York court. The notoriely which the leather prince shunned in life will envel- ope his name and render infamous if it does not land in the penitentiary the executors who drafted and witnessed the will. AND THE .01‘"';‘11. on though the cash did not reach the city treasury, it s something to bo thankful for 1o plurmbing fee escaped. buildiug has become lifa insur- ance headquarters, Five life companies have alveady taken offices in the building, : The Northwestern Mutual of Milwau- the Massachusetts Mutual; the Con- necticut Mutual; the Equitable; the Peun Mutual: and the Manhattan life company will move into the building to-morrow. Our enterprisiug contemporary chartered aspecial train to carry Governor Boyd's ad- wivers and political friends to Lincoln, Ever mun was allowed to pay his fave. And the te carvied two bundles of extras and the busin the expense of the guests, Like all the public-spirited undertakings that b been set on foot by our contemporary, it was agenuine Kentucky treat, where every fel- low puys for his drinks, "Thero died not long ago in New York atthe ripe old age of seventy, an odd charac tor whio had endearcd himself to thousands connected with the telograph service of this continent and who will bo most sincerely mourned byall who came 1 contact with him, “Old Tom” ¥ as he wi familiarly called, knew more telegraph opera. tors than auy other man living, knew every one of the nearly a thousand cmployes of tho big operating room in New York city, and great deal about most of them. He hiad b in the service of the Western Union company for over forty in various ca latter bl muin operating room in New York city Rain or shine **Old 'Pom” was at his post of duty with a pleasant word for all as they pussedto and from their work. He was possessed of a faculty of recognizing “duns! which amounted almost to a sixth sense, and many are the thanks ho received for seuding away pressing creditors on one excuse or another, It was one of “*Old Tom's" to conduct visitors through the building and explain different parts of it, and that he did many prominent persons, including Dom sident Diazand the Pan-Ameri can visitors, If a visitor had kuowledgo enough about electricity to ask troublesome questions, Tom’s Irish wit was always equal tothe emergency, and the boys tell many rich anecdotes of bis reportees overheard by them, Oue of “OldTom's” oddities was that when inquiry was made for an operator, hoalways insisted on knowing what their “sign was, or, i other words, the lotters they used in travsmitting sud receiviog velo- grams, FEEEC Another religious innovation is In prospect. It is proposed in the Presbyterian church to revive the office of The proposi- tion is now under discussi the ous presbyteries, and their ¢ will ve re ported to the next general meets in Detroit in May. In some uges the Christiaa church such an > has ex- isted, and scholars maintain that YPhube, a servant of the church at Cen- chrew,” montioned in Romans, was au ofie! deaconess, Others who do not Jay much stress upon this passage authoritative think that nuegan, us doorkeeper of duties of some | Christian oLy, which | there fs a prosent need for such an office and 0 favor its futroduction. Such provose the establishment of “deoconess houses,”” which shall be homes and training schools for an order of deaconesses, who shall dovote their lives as officers under the direction of the church to parochial and work. Others insist that there is no positive evidence that such an office ealsted in the apostolic church, They also think that womeu aro likely to accom- plish quite as much by leaving them to the mothods of their own choice untrammeled by ecclesiastical induction into office. It is held too, that if trainiug schools for nurses and Christian workers geuerally are neaded, they can quite as well b provid- ed without the establishment of an of Deaconesses fn the church. Presbyter- fans aroalready at liberty to establish and endow such schools so that cougregatior may bo ablo to employ and sustain av womanas parochinl missionarics who may have approved themsclves worthy, discreet and eflicient. The preshytery of New York will cousider the matter January 12 and the discussion will doubtless prove quite inter- esting, The matter will also como up at the next meeting of the Omaha presbytery and a lively discussion is anticipate - NEBRASKA NEWSPAPER 'S, The Amel has be Journal has changed hands and me an alliane, Needham Brothers are conducting tho Bloowmfield Monitor, & uew journalistic cnter- prise. The Nebraska City News announces that it reg to learn it has been boycotted by the allisnce, but it predicts that it will sur- vive the attack, A North Bend crank tried to iduce the postmaster to exclude the Star from the mail use ined an account of a high five He didnt suceded. neoln just now is the Mecea of Nebraska newspaper men and many bright journalists are on hand to report the legislative proceed- ings snd watch the course of events, H. A McCormick has retired from the man- agement of the Dakota City Argus, after re- maini n ch months, and E. B. Wilbur has again assumed control of the paper, organ A gentleman named Smith, formeriy with the Seward Democrat, has founded an alli- ance puper, the first number of which made its appearance January 5. It is culled the Iudepdudent. C. J. Maxtin, foreman of ~ tho Fairbury Kn- terprise, is with the militia at the front help- ing to protect the settlers from the hostiles. Inarmiog himself he simply had to change his style of “shooting stick. There is a ramor that another daily is to be started at Hasti ber of journalistic enterprises that have gone down before the competition of the Ne- askan, one would judge that the maniee ment of the proposed new paper must be un- usually daring, The Geneva Republican excused itself for appearing as a half sheet last weck becaus 1ts mawstay in the mechanical dopartment had shoudered his muskes and departed for the front to fight Indians. The Republican was full of news just the same, oven if it was somewhat cramped for space. paper From the num- County editors sometimes have some very idents to record. Here is one Courier presents to its “Uncle Dave Sprouse isan expert veterinary surgeon, He pecformed an opera- tion on a sick cow's tail a fow days ago for what e took tobe acase of hollow horn. The next morning the cow was entirely cured. She also had a big red call with her when Unele Dave went out to try her with a new proseription he had studied up during the night. He says hell bo‘dogged if he ever saw the beat,' " €. H. Israel, who b and started t s just arrived at Oak » Cltizen, gives the following count of a visit to a fellow journalist: “The Superior Daily Journal we enter upon our exchange list and give ita hearty wel- come, it 13 a sixcolumn duly and is well patronized. We are well acquainted with its ditors, J. D. Stine & Son, for on our way from Benkelman to Oak we stopped off at Superior and called on the Journal with a lited cigar, and the first he done was to writs the words and have the devil print in lar letters, ‘No Smoking Altowed.” We will never forget him, for we dying for a smolce, for we ad just had out breakfast.” IDEAS ON THE INDIAN WAR, According to the York Times “Whiteliv- ered peace hus forsaken the Wounded Kneo 1 lands, Norfolk Nows advises that it “a few ud Indians are desired, with no court mar- tial proceedings on the side, turn the Ne- braslsa militia loose.’” It is the opinion of the Fromont Tribune that “it General Colby hangs on at the front ashe did at the late ropublican state conven- tion he'll be at the agency in the The Coleridge Sentinel is very congress “*should time in law providing for the imme of every Indian on the rese positive that lose 1o i . us a provision to prevent their quivingarms, Feod them, if necessary, but douotallow them to rifles, which tany time be used to murder white ple. Possess The Lincoln Journal has a good word for the militia boys and the service they domngs the “Under the protection of the Nebraska netional guards,” says the Journal, “the homesteadors of the nor counties are returni 0 thel al suming the functiops of the far boys got up there in the nick of tine. Had the panic continued a fow more days the des- titution among tho fug vould have been heartrendi The Sioux Cit rallant Ger Journal has a_criticism on al Colby for which nothing en atone. “General Colby,” says the Journal, “allowed his en thusiasm to run away with his judgment when he offered the services of his troops to the government, frec of ze. Most of the worl sularies and can not well afford to for nothing. When ordered out for service they draw §1 a day for two wecks and after that 813 o month This is not a princely salary for taking the chances of being . scalped and frozen.) Tho editor of the Journal had better fortify himself, for should Cclby re- sent theinsult, and, mounted upon Linden Tree, charge upon the defenscloss nowspaper man, the editor's scalp woula dangle from the belt of the Beatrico brave. The Indisn war causes the Papillion Times to become revrospective, After au- nouncing that Papillion people are resting safe under the shadow of the famous Omaha gatling gun, the Times say: “But things were different in 1576, Then Papillion or- ganizeda tull company of cavalry on two days’ notice, upon receipt of newsof tho In- dian massacre at West Point. Enoc now of RRed Willow county, wus e captain, A. J, Spearman, first liouteuant, and Judge Sam Waish, second liout Mr. Spearman still holds his con insue governor G Bruno Tzschucls, secretary of state, Jack is undoubtedly ber, @ | statesmor goneral Chbristian | THE BATTLE AT LINCOLN, “Nebraska's Melklejohn does mot propse to lot Maino havo a monopoly of backione s the Plattsmouth Journal slatire is in session the ngs Nebraskan warns Mr. Burrows to remember the fable of tho toad and the os. io Fremont Flall is dmong the many papors urging the logislature to immediately pass a bill granting an appropriation for the reliof of wostern sufferers, Aeutenant Goyernor Meiklejohn s a man vith considerable backoone and the liberal minded peoploof tho stato are proud of him and his rulings,” says the Nebraska City Nows. - A Lincoln ppor susgests thay Thayer did not take his jaunt to Mexico for nothing., He gained some wilitary points which he piaced on oxhibition at the stats house during the battlo at the capital, Speaker Eldor.may bo a little rust crude in parlamentary practice, s E'romont Tribune, but there is a protty gon- eral sentiment that an honest heart may bo found beating under the left iapol of his coat. The Beatrico ture shoulld pass a law so modifying the present township act thatin conntics the size of Gage, five or sevon commissioners could be elected to do the business of the presont unwieldy heavy mill handl “That there were many honest and con- scieatious mombers clocted by the alliance is shown by the failure of the Burrows gang t run things to suit themselves at Lincoln,** says tho Plattsmouth Joumal, If theJournal had substituted “the great majority™ for many’" it would havo hit the bulls-cye, The Grand Island Independent thinks it ““would be rathier tough on the alliance if tho present session should accomplish less and entail greater oxpense upon the people any previous session of the Nebraska lature.” From present indications, loweyr, the Independent’s tears, if fears they may bo called, will probably prove groundless, Licutenant Governor Meiklejohn is bo highly complimented by vhe stato pros: the firm stand he made during the storny scones of last week, Fle “wound up his term of ofice in a blaze of glory, Journal, *His work in the chalr joint session will be remen bel brilliant parlismentary seon in the state of Nebra The oIn Journal note Nebraska laws were adopted for the government of Oklahoma before the territory was fully or- wanized, Vebraska delicately ack edges the compliment by adoptit methods for the government of her legisli- ture, pending full organizition, In justice to (e republican party it should bo stated that this is not the kind of reciprocity that it is advocating,” This isthe way the Hastings Nebraskan views the recent remarkable proceedings in the legislture: 1t was almosta death blow that the alliance struck itself when it allowed Dictator Burrows to commit the unpardon- ableact of attempting to overthrow atl sense of viglit and justice. If the allianco intends o preserve itself intact a wiscr course and a different policy must hereafter guide it.” The K tionof officers by the legislaturo is extremel creditable, “Ihe alliance members,” 1t says. **have male a cloan sweep in s)edxg U ofticers of the organization, and there SN, many republicans who are glad of it, for one veason at least, that it lets down and out & gang of cheap bummers thut have party in Nebraska to its first. defeat, wasno other way to get rid of them," The Fremont Herald, referring to Ber's note of warning that it would be solute anarchiy to attempt to count in a stato clected, suys: “The physical power thing doos not carry with it the right to doit, and doesn’t make tho domg of it ight, by any man, Might t mako more witha people's independent anized asa protest against wrong- doing and dictation, than with any other c1dss of people who might be influenced to do what they shouldn’tdo. Rightis might, mia will win.” Tho Yankton Press and Dakotan pre thatthe Nebraska logislature v v its pects to the Union Pacific and Jay Gould in a manner that will convinee the great rail- road magician that the state is greator than the corporation or individual. Great pros- perity and uninterraptel suc hivo made Mr. Gould forgetful of bis obligations Hehas failed to properly recosnize the fuct thathe isaltogether indebted for his pros penity tothe peopleof the country who have created the ficld for his operations.” The Cass County Independent, an_ alliance organ, urges the farmers in the legislture to a realization of the respousibility that upon them and to improve their time,as their continuance in power will depend upon the wisdom of th tions this winwr, The Indevendent believes the best thing the logis- lature can do “is to revise many of the old laws, repeal as many moreand pass but fow newones, The people aroalready governed too much, There are too many dewd leter laws on the statute books, and the grangor legistature could make an honorablo record foritself by spicing its deliberations witlh common scuso, & hewtoforo unkrown quantity in thestate law-making boly, aud by placing 1ts seal of disapproval con- demnation upon every species of questionablo legislation that may come up.” The Venango Independent urges the news- paper men of westera Nebraska to o an editorinl associatior, and in reply Grant Enterprise editorinlizes s follo o years ago when this country, eazig intoa mushroon mirror, beheld i withy flay 53 who ¥ town lino was “the best plice to locate an in the west;™ when each cheoping sti pected and declired it would bea eity in o wncredibly short time; when the wholo co try was bloated, conceited and skittish, lik o wrecked fol on powder—in tho bainy days of foverish lunney, the pap ine favored this provosition, clato them: powger in the land; do it. Wil they doitnow? We need to mect and organize now not. so much to luy plans for the cditorial conquest of the beau- tiful west, but to weep over thoseof number who, roofless and hash fallen over the precipice of ¢ as thosego! our numver who now with in itable certainty are traveling the same f road. TLetus hear from you again.’ OMATHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Sabsortbed and Guarsntoed Capital, Pald in Capital b Buys and sells stock commerolal paper; rocolves transtor amnt ©orporations, takes chirgy Of property, Lects taxes, Omaha Ijgz;n&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK. S. E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. 1din Capital . Bubscribed and Ga ntoed Cupltal Liabllieg of Stock holders. od as the most gement over 10wl Oklahoma There Tire 2dicts 15808 uud sanizo thio 50 Thoy Lves together aad Buv they didu't havo and exocules and trustee of oul 0,00 an old man now, but his military enthusiasm has not died out, aud hesays ho will g teoto organize another company within two hours 1 case his services are nceded by the state.” an- 6 PerCent Interost I'a FEANK J ush lor OMoeers: A U. Wy min, presicd L J. Brown, vice-president, W.T. Wyman treasurer. Dircotorsi—A. U, Wyinan, J, H. Millad, J. J. Brown, Guy 0. Burtn, £ W. Nesb, Shauss L. Kizavall, Goorge . Liker 4 on Deposits NGE, ney Hub declares tnat the selec ( v R Tidden e - A 4