Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1891, Page 11

’t"WOHM RANK BIENNIAL CONCLAVES, 4 - Less than a yen GRAYD SIRE OF ODDFELLOWS, Bketch of Hon, Charles Manly Bashsz, Re- cently Elected Grand Sire. 1 nent to Organizs the U. it K P. Into Departinants for Hold- ng Conclaves—News in the Lodges. Hon. Charles Manly Busbee, who was chosen grand sire of the Independent Order Oddfellows at the last scssion of the sovereign grand lodge of the order, is the youngest man who ever neen elected to this high position. Me is in his forty-fifth year, having been born October 23, 1545, He is a native of Raleigh, N. C, where he was vrepared for college in of the local achools, He afterward entered the junior class at iTampden-Sidney college,in Virginia, He was not destined to remain long in the classic that old institution, as the out, and the cap and gown of the student were exchanged for the of the confederate soldier. In 1863, while not much over seventeen years of as @ private, and after some service he was appointed sergeant major of the Fifth North Caroliua infantry. On May 12, in the hard fought contest at Spottsylvania court house, he was captured and confined in prison at one walls of civil war brok uniform age, he enlis Fort Delaware, from which place he was subscquently transterred to Fort Puluski and Morris Island 1t wus while at the last named prison that be was forc to become exposed to n most unusual danger in the civilized warfave of the ninetcenth century. With 500 fellow prisoners he was placed in front of the doubts on Morris island and exposed to_the shells from the confederate batterics on Sul livan's 1sland. This act of the federals-was in retaliation fora similar act of the confed erates, who placed 500 union prisoners in the exposed portion o® the city of Charleston which was being shelled by the federal bat- teries Puassing through this orde: young soldier was afte; subscquently exchanged. He at onee joined bis regiment again, finding it intrenched b fore Petersbure, and participated in the last struggles of the war, surrendering with his command at Appomattox Returning home, he Jost no time in enroll Juge himself as a student of the North Caro lina universit, at Chapel Hiil, where he re- mained not all'of the whole session. He went to Raleigh and applied himself studiously 1o reading law, Tn 1867 he was licensed to from that date up to the pr Joyed a steadily increasing success as a law- yer. Heis a member of the Kaleigh law firm of Messrs Reade, Busbee & Busbee, who hold one of ihe largest practices in North Curolina. Mr. Busbee joined the 1 be: ng a4 member of N teo lodge No. 8, in the city of Ralewh. Hewas an_early recip fent of distinguished houors atthe hands of his brethiren of the three links. fter his {uitiation as an Oddfellow bie was elected grand patriaveh of the grand encampment. In 1872 ko becam a memver of the grand lodge of his natiy stute, and in 1580 this body elected him d puty grand mastc The year following tl highest ofice in the gift of the state orguni- Ation, grand master, was given to him. Tu 1874 he was electea as a represeniative to the supreme grand lodge, the national or wiization of the fraternity. It assembled ia tlanta, Ga., th and here it was he unharmed, the rds paroled und practice, and ont ho has en 0. 0. F. in 1871, A year male his first appearance among the broth > i - ren who have recontly imposed highest trust, For fifteen out un intermission ho has repr grand lodge in the national body, aud in 1585 he was made deputy grand sire, and in the pon him ars with- sented his mecting a short tinie ago at Topeka, Kan., e was promoted to the office of grand sire. From the first ho has_been an enthusiastic Oddfellow, and has made & painstaking and thorough study of the laws of the order. There are today fow men, if any, among the 0,000 members of the 1. O, O.'F. who are more familiar with the tencts of the order and its inside workings aud history. Mr. Busbee was marvied in July, 1868, to Miss Littlejohn of Granville county, N.'C., who died in 1857, He has six children, ‘While not & politician in the ordinary sense Mr. Busbee has several times been intrusted by his party with responsible leadership. In 1574 he reccived the democratic nomination from the county of Wake for a_seat in the North Carolina state senate. The county was publican in politics, and bad not given a democratic wajority since the war, Mr. Bus- bee's great popularity and eminent fitness won the day,and his entire ticket was clected, He was again nominated in 1854 and success- fully elected as a member of the state house of representatives, Ho is an eloquent speaker with fine address and pleasant delivery, He has a store of humor and a fund of ready repartee that makes him a popular und entertaining after- dinner talker. K. oof 1 Kansas City mtimates that she will put up £10,000 tor the supreme lodge meeting in 1502, ach subordinate lodge officer in Missouri is required to pass an_examination by the Qistrict deputy and must be able to confer the Curee ranks before he can,bo installed, and is eleted for one year, The lodke at Friend installed officers as follows: W. . Wolfe, C. C.; H. L. Lewis, P.C; J. D. Pope, V. C.i F Leonard, Pl D. G, Hopking, K. of R, chiaidt, M.'of E.; A. . Moetler, M. of F.; H. Wis senburg, M. of A.; W. A, Allsman, L. G.; J. Starkey, 0. G. : Star lodge Fo. 9 of Ashland installed the following officers for the ensuing year: P, J Hall, chaucellor commander; Shaler Wells, vice chancellor; R. E. Moon, master-at- arms; 1. C. Chamberlain, keeper of records and seal; Jeff Swith, master of finance, and Hobart Brush, master of exchequer. The following officers of Seward lodge 75 have been installed: G. W, Dickey, ¢ J. C. Mulfinger, V. C.; (. F. Burket, P. S. Weatherby, K. of 'R.and 8.3 L. Hyman, M. of F.; E.'B. Chase, M. of E.; George Schultz, M. A.; W. E.'Luugworthy, 1 G.; H. A. Graff, O. G.; J. C. Mulfinger, C. S! Allingand, G, F. Dickman, trustees. Omaha lodge No. 26 instatled the following ofticers last Thursday evening by J. P. Lund, p C.: William von Kroge, P. C.} Andresen, C. C.; Louit Metz, V. C. Frank Grossman, P.; Henry M. Johnson, M. of F.; Henry Hornboree Adolph J. Hartwig, K. of R. and 5.7 Jess Peterson, M. of A.; Chavies Rupp, G.: Henry Eblers, 0.'G.; Peter Hinz, J. 1. Lund and William von Kroge, trastees Gauntlet lodge of Plattsmouth has elected and instatled the following officers for the coming year: Past chancellor, E. W. Cook; ehancelior commander, Dr. C.' A, Marshall vice chancellor, M. N. Grifith; prelate, Fred Howland: keeper of tocords and seal. Prank Dickson; master of finance, Charles Wicker: shum: master of excheauer, C. C. Parmele; master-at-arms, Ben Hempel; nside guard, Otis Dovey, outside guard, G.'S. Sage. Nysiau lodge, No. 46, of Grand Island held installation services I'riday evening. The following officers were installed: A, C Lederman, P, ). A, Finch, C.C.; R J Bar, V. G5 O H, Bailey, P R. Powell, K. of R and ‘S.; Charles A, Wiebe, M. of E.; James Pederson, M. of 17, ; Fred Hannaford, M. at A A B Hwwriett, I, G.; William Murr, O. G Past Chancellor Al Lederman was presented with a beautiful £, C. jewel, the presentation speech being made by Will Dickerson. The iustaliation was followed by 8 banguet. The toasts were, *“The Press, Bion Cole; “Our Ladies,” Dr. H. C. Miller: “0ur Order, . R. Horth; “Our Visitors,” A Giles. Nysian lodge isin a flourishing coudition and under the charge of tho new officers will make a growth this yeur unpar- allelled in its history. The orders of the grand chancellors of Ohio, to their district deputies, says The Knight, are that no oficer of a lodge shall be installed iuto his chair if, after open exami nation before the lodge, he cannot deliver the work—written and anwritten *from memo Ty Asa sequence Ohio has today, 05 w beliove, in the priucipal chuirs of her lodges, more competent officers than auy iu the world, and tnis is as it should be. ‘I'he mem- ber who is not competent Lo “fill the chairs’ is inclined to stand back and let his No. more fuvored brother advance. We admit that there are many brothers who would otherwise make good officers who are cou THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, TANUIARY pelled tostand back hecause of lack of mem- on the whole, it _is an improvement on the old way of permiting av officer to sponge his way through and gain the honors of oftice by the work of others. If the grand lodge aud grand oficers do their duty it will sult in having better work everywhere, and that without the intervention of “fines,” | which never can remedy the deficioncies of the derelict officer. . A movement is on foot, says the Pythian Record, to organize the Uniform rank in the states and territorics west of the Mississippl river into a department, with the purpose in view of creating an {nterest in the rank mong the Sir Knignts by holding biennial conclaves, similar to those now held at the time and place of the supreme lodge mectiy but on the alternate years, in some part of | the proposed department that will be con venient of access to all, so that those Sir Knights who are debarred the privilege of attending the supreme lodge sessions may have an opportunity of atteiding some gen eral gathering of the rank, The propo that the rank, a so organized, shall camp for a weok or thereabout, and taste of military life without the irksome ties attached to the realty. IT this be accom plishied, there should be a revival of interest in the rank throughout the tervitory included | in the department, and naturally be large accessions 1o the ranks. Many of the Sir | Knights who are now prevented from attend- | ing the sessions of the supreme lodg participatipg in the festivities of such an | occasion would then, in all probability, be | able to attend such a conclave when held at | a lesser distance from their homes, thus re ducing the expense and loss of time conse- quent upon traveling so great a distance As the project meets with the approvaiof the Major General J. R. Carnahan aud is being widely agitated in the region to be included, thereis a strone probability of its success In fact it requires but an_ attempt to carey it into effect to prove its advantage and add to its interest, and each succeeding meeting would lend’ zest to the following one keep alive a desire and feelingto be present | in the interim between meetings, 1t willalso | have a tendency to popularize the rank among | the membership of the order, many of whon are woefully 1gznorant of the purpose of th rank and labor under & mistaken belief t it is a higher rauk of the order, and that its wembers are above the ordinary rules gov- erning the otder proper. Thus far in its his- | tory the Uniform ruuk has been productiv of only gencral good o the parent organiza- tion, and, while refused representation on the | fioor of thesupreme lodge, it yet coutributes | in a largo sure | to the income of the sunreme lodge, and in @ grater proportion than ~ the subordin- ate lodgees, Anything legitimate, therefor that will bring the rank more prominently before the order and the outsids world, ani make it more popular with those knights who are or have been opposed to ity should be adopted and carried into effect at once, to the end that the rank may contribute in a greater degree yet, if that were possible, to the further advancement of the order, and in this Inudable object the Sir Knights of the rank usk of the membership of the order a careful and conscientious study of its purposes and an honestand straightforward opinion of its me its, and such assistance and help as they can consistently accord it. 0. 8. « Clan Gordon No. 63 will the 152nd aniversary of Scotiw's minstrel, the fmmortal Burns, at Washingtoa hall tomor- row evening. An entertaining programme has been arranged, coasisting of an allress of welcome by A. C. Troup, chief of the clun, followed by a banquet, this to be followed 1 turn by tonsts intersparsed with songs and lustrumental music. ~ The following is the programme of Loasts, responses, ete : Musie There was o Lad was Morn in Kyio Bana Gists The celebrate jory of Rurns, . W.Shicids, Pust Chief Dooti ‘the Buirn, bavie Lad 1. Lorrine G. Pettis M, 80D Leck and Misses Bowie God Save the Quec St \nzled Banner.... by wst: The Land we' Left and tie Land wo Live in, A Response Clunsnian George MeKenzie Afton Water...... Miss Meldrum My Nannie's Awa. ... Kobest Ditlin Green Grows the lushes 0. Band ast: The Lussies 7 L~ Alex Lyall, J. H. ne l...Mrs. S D Lees Strathspreys and Miss Bowie, Mr. Miller o Pros Response Song Plano Trio Musie Musie Response. . . 5 g, Lang Violin Response. tor E, Bender Duct LSk ANy, i3 irs Findiay and Guil i 0 iirohum March ( Royal Arcanum, Fraternal council at its regular meeting Thurday evening installed the following officers, who had already béen elected, for the ensuing year: Frank L. Weaver, rezent: Robert M. Richmond, vice rogent; Georze KKer, past regent; Frank Gregory, secretary ; ; Thomas O. Bichel- berger, treasurer; Dean C. H. Gardaer, chap- lain; William E. Finley, guide; James S. Stone, warden; James Calder, sentry Deputy Supreme Regent J. W.' Maynard ofciated as installing officer and’ was™ aoly assisted by Brother Duval of Pioneer coun- No. 1%, Brother Frank Colley of Union Pacific No. 1069, and Brother Riddel of Cbi- There was a good attendance and all ont enjoyed a fine eveping aud fine at the expe e of Brother | Bofore the close of the meet- | it was ngreed totake steps at once toward having i the near futu ing of the tiree Omaba councils, one of the features of the entertainment to be a lecture on Robert Burns by Brother Riddell of Caicago. It is hoped by the members that the com tees will meat with success and that ameet- ing will 5000 be held and that it will be made an “open meeting’ in overy sense of the words, “Open’ not only to all_members of Royal Arcanum_but to any and all persons who may feel an interest in_the affairs of the order or in the subject of Brother Riddell’s lecture, “The Great R obert Burns.” Mason ic. John Finzer, a prominent Mason of Louis- ville, Ky, died at Berne, Switzerlaud, last Sunday evening. Mr. Finzer was well known as a tobacco manufacturer and was prosident of the Five Brothers' tobacco works at the time of his death. A cablegram announcing his death was the first intimation of 11l health which reached his family in Louis- ville, He had gone to Berno to visit his birthplace, as had been his annual customn. Mr. Finzer was prominent in Masonie eir- cles, was a Master Mason of Abraham lodge No.' 8, & wember of Kurcka Koyal Arch chapter No. 1013 Louisville council No. 4, R. aud S. M.: DeMolay commandery No. 12, ights Tomplar, of which he ias past commander; in the Ancient and Acecepted Scottish mite of Free Masonry he had at- tained the thivty-third degreo; he was also a wember of various other orders, prominently Oddfellows. Knights of Honor, Knights of Honor, Kuights of Pythias, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and for many years an honorary member of the Liederkranz soclety ; for years ho was & member of the famous +0ld Kaintuck” volunteer fire comvany, running through its active existeuce with engine No. 1. Royal League. | the The new officars of the rapidly growing onng eouneil of the Royal leagae, On No. 65, having been duly installed at their regular meeting held Monday, January 5, de- cided that same ovening to hold auopen | mooting Jauuary 19 at the Elks lodge room, where they meat the first ana third Monday of each month, with a view of becoming bet. | ter acquainted with the great addition of re- cently accepted members. The evening was very sociably and enjoyably passed. Ne- | braska's popilar game of hign-five prevailed. | Dr. R. M. Stone, the orator of the council, | delivercd an eloquent address of welcome to the visiting friends, impressing very forei- bly the sociability of the order and calling 1 uttention to_the many risks excluded ther with the low rato of assessment, | muking the exvenso of insurance sovery | nominal that it does not begin to pay for thio beuefits derived from its social feature, M. William Cox read in his inimitable ma selection from Mark Twain, which was ve well received, the Sutorius mandolin elub furnishied the music, whie was superb. A duet by Prof. Sutorius and Mr, Weidner, taken from the opera “Susette,” received loud applause. h a, LO O Silver Link lodge No. 69 has elected and od the following officers: (. W, But- A R Barclay, V. G.: J. W, Ste venson, R. secretary; C, D, Moffatt, per sec- retary; E. Whitcomb, treasurer; W. “J | tion of the_proverbial drudge, Wilson, R. & « T, S. Brow staff, LS. V.G R comb, conductog; W P. Schmidt, 1. G The following ofticers of Valloy lodge s of Superior were publicly installed last P, Youngs Johnston, B. Headritk, V G. M. Jacobs, per. Lollich, treasurer; E. Adams, Ry S Lewis, L._S. N. G.; John Bruc William M. Meki conductor: Owen, R. 8. 8.: W. A, Parks, W. Mitchell, I. G.: A, King, O. W. Hendegson, R S, V. G ohn M. Owen, LS.V 1 Androw. V. G.: N, Blicken- W. W.: A, Whit Thomas, O. G.; H- L. 8. N W N G secretary ; (B L chaplain; 2il M. W.of A, Omaha camp No. 120 will give a ball next Friday evening at Washington hall for the benefit of the wife and_family of John An captain of No. 5 engine company of department, who has been adjudged insane and sent to the asyium, The family fllicted brother are” in destitute cir- cumstances and the boys of Omaha camp ussumed the responsibility of looking | v their necessities, The camp has been coping up the assessments on the benefit rtificate of Neighbor Anderson, so that in the event of his death his wife wonld receive full amountof his policy, and they have been looking after the temporal needs of the afticted family. The ball is given for the vurpose of raising funds for the wife and children and is a most worthy object. AL OO UL W The officers of Omaha legion Knights, will be installed Weds ing at the hall on Douglas str Jan Hus lodge No. 168 of Schuyler in stalled the following oficers at its last meet- ing: John Havlovic, past master workman Thomas Molacck, foreman; Joseph Kubicek, overscer; T. E. Shouka, recciver; F. R. Chrastil, financier; John Calek, treasure Joseph Bartunck, guide; Peter Steinberger, inside watch Frank Bures, outside watchman, No. 6, Select sday even- n; K. of 1 Omaha lodge installed the following officers Mounday evening: J. W. McCane, P. D George C. Whitlock, D.; W. M. Carter, V. D.; E. A. Parmelec; A. D.: 'W. R. Matthias, J.B. Bruner, F. R.; Thomas F H. T, Cooley, G.: C.'J. Mentor, C.1 ligard, G.; C. L. Fritschers, S, Following installation the members adjourned to Getty's where a lunch was served. « Vesta chapter N will hold its seven- teonth aunual social at Freemason’s hall on Thursday evening, February 5, A jovial time is anticipated and master Masons with their wives aud daughters are cordially in- vited, Notes, Supreme Dictator A. R. Savage has re cently issued stirring address to the Knights of Honor of the country. He com- pliments them on the splendid position the organization occupies among frate * soci- cties and predicts still greater success for the future. ‘The accomphishments of this order in the field of charity and benevolence are certaiuly almost beyond conception. In less than cighteen years it has distributéd nearly £13,000,000 throughout this land. From a membership of 1 it has grown to 185,000 and is sing rapidly The report from Senate Secretary J. W, Myers of the supreme lodge of the National uniion for the year 1500 is truly interesting to the large membership of that order in this city. The National union tad a net increase of over six thousand members during the year and paid to the families of 141 mem ‘who passed to that bourne from which traveler returns” the snug amount of 156,000, nee the organization of the order, May 1, 1881, the families of 483 deceascd members have received benefits amounting to £1,527,000, the production of ninety ssments spread through the nine aod one- half years of the order's existence. There will be a great gathering of Odd- fellows® at Green Buy, Wis., next Friday to participate in the ceromoniés of dedicating the orphans’ howe. Promiuent members of the order from all purts of the state will attend. The Owls of St. Louis are preparing for a flight to Cincinnati, there to open the great incubator for fledging a brood of the ancient hooters. A car load of costumes, parapher nalia, and stage effect will be forwarded in charge of & trained corps of carpenters and costumers, and everything provided to hatch a great numper of the feathery tribe. The event is set for Jan. 24, and the banquet will be given at the Burnet house. 'Tis evident that a little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men. Among the Jewish population of this coun- try are many excellent and worthy seoret benevolent and fraternal orders, the purpose of all being to unito the people’ of that race and faith in bonds of fraternal fellowship and for mutual aid and protection, The aim and work of these various orders are in all rnw’fimtls similar and the question of consoli- dating all the orders into one has been di cussed for some time, but no definite action has been taken excopt by the loages of the orders in Cleveland where meetings have been held during the last week and plans for the proposed consolidation discussed. The B'nai B'rith society, which is the oldest fra- ternal Jewish organization in the country, is embraced in the plan of consolidation, —— ROM IRELAND, be no A CRY K The Condition of One District tured by a Clergyman. Cannowr, Galway, Ireland, Jan; 2.—To tho Editor of Tug Bek: On behalf of a large number of my poor peoplo, 1 carnestly re- quest you will allow me to bring under the notice of your readers the sad plight in which the calamity, with which It has pleased Providence to visit us, has left them, I write from a district, admitted by every Euglish visitor—Mr. Balfour, Mr. Wynd- ham, Sir West Ridgeway included—to be the poorest and most desolato in the whole of Ircland. It is also the most congested. We have over 1,000 school going children in a comparatively small area. The names of over 400 of these are on the rolls of one school, but owing to a want of sufficient clothing the attendance of this school hus fallen below 100, and is_ proportionately low in the other schools of the parish. By “sufficient clothing” 1 do not mean enough to shelter them from the cold. I do not mean boots for the boys o girls, for none of them possess such luxuries; nor do [ mean head covering for the boys, nor a warm wrap of any sort for the little girls, Few of them possess these comforts. 1 mean only as much as would cover their nakedness—a single whole garment reaching from the neck to below the knees with which they would be quite satisfied. But, unfortu- nately, hundreds of them are without that single garment, and consequently precluded from the inestimable blessings of education To any child this would be a serious and irr parable loss. To our poor children the loss is mubly deplorable, for they are almost ex- clusive Irish speaking and their parents are so illiterste as to be unable to instruct them even in the rudiments of Christian doctrine. What then is to bocome of them? They cannot remain here; the place is already over-crowded, Aud'if thoy emigrate they aro debarred from over risiug above the pos wers of wood and drawers of water,” while thei eternal welfure is imperilled by their ignor- ance of the fundamental dogmas of religious faith. ‘Their only chance then is education, their only hope the school, and it is to enable me to give them that chance and to realize this hope tnat I appeal to all those whom God has blossed with means to do so, promising them in return the fervent prayers of the little ones and of their pastor, Your obedient ser- vant, WaLTER CoNway, P, P, e Better St ck to Omah, But if 1it’s absolutely necessary to go east then be sure and travel on the great Chicago and Northwestern. Five east- ern trains daily. The two fast trains leave direct from the U. P. depot, Omaha,—make a note of this—at 4:30 p, m. and 9:10 p. m. daily. They are vesti- huled and carry tho newest and best sloepers, parlor cavs and **Northwest- ern” dining cars, City ticketoffice, 1401 Farnam stre Baggage checked from residences in any part of the city and sl\n-\)mg ar berths secured on all east- ern lines. R R Rrrenn G. F. WesT, Gen'l City Pass. Ag't. Pic- IS AUTHORITY IS LOVITED. | The Ccmm'ssioner of Indina-Affairs in an Anomalous Positior, | SHORN OF AUTHORITY, YET RESPONSIBLE. Ihe Relatons of the Inlian Wwith Active Manageniint ¢ dian Affairs a Figurehe Bureau - Somsthing of . Pamaveiei, Jan, 2. —[Special to Tue Brr.|—The discussion of the Sioux outbreak aud the relation of the government to its wards reveals the fact that very few of the people of this country, outside of immediate pMicial cir:les, understand the duties of the | commissioner of Tudian affairs orcomprehend the relations of the Indian bureau to the vex- atious Indian troubles, T'he oftice of Indian affairs is one of the Rumerous divisions or bureaus in the depart- went of the interior, Like the general land oftice, the pension office, the patent oftice and the educational bureay, its chief executive of- ficer is called the commissioner. The secretary of the interior subject to the president 1s the supreme authority in Indian matters, In the se somMcois a divis- ion of Indian affairs, presided over by & chief the secretary regarding Indian affairs opened. He has a half dozen clerks for performance of the detajls. “The Indian office is balf a square from the interior building, on the seventh and eighth floors of the Atlantic building, having many years since been crowded out of the larwe building known as the patent office by the growth of the patent and land bureau. In the Indian ofice proper are the com- missioners of Iudian affairs, the assistant commissioner and seventy clerks, One of these clerks is the private secretary of the commissioner and s appointed by that ofticer, The details of the oftice are referrved to the following divisious: Accounts, finance, education, land, fiies, depredations, ot 'of Which is in charg of a chief, who is appointed by the secretary of the interior, The clevks under the chiefs are civil service appointees, and are entirely spendent of the fluctaations of politics, “Ihe secretary of the terior, the commis sioner of Indian affairs and the assis missioner are appointed by the president Tho chief of the Indinn division in the s retary’s ofice and chiefs of divisions in th Indian oftice are apvointed by the secreta All these officials may or may ot be replac by cach change of administration. Generally not more than one or two of the cniefs in the Indian oftice suffer political decapitation at the quadrennial beheading. In the field are a superintendent of Indian schools, six inspectors, five special agents, fifty-nine Indian agents aud about three thousand school ana agency ewployes, be- sides a varying number of Special allotting agents and commissioners for negotiating rgains of some sort and wuother, The In dian agents, inspectors and superintendent of Indian schools are all appointed by the presi- dent, subject to the confirmation of the sen- ate. The five special vgents and the allotting agents are appointed by tho seeretary of the interior. The agency employes consist of clerks, physicians, farmers, mechanics and Indian police. With the exception of the physicians those employes are appointed b the agents, subject to the approval of tl commissioner. The commissioner reserves the right to_appomt physicians and school employes, Necessurily, however, :he most of these are selected by the agents. With the exception of the superinendents and teachers, it is safe to say that nine-tenths of all other'school employes are named by the agents and superinténdents. Among the 3,000 subordinate employes are something near 2,000 Indian apprentices, assistants, la- borers and policemen. There are seventy- six superintendents of schools drawing sal- uries ranging from §720 to £2,000 per annum. The agenis and specinl agents afterap- pointment perform their duties under regula- tions established by the secretary of the in- terior and report to the commissioner. The superintendent of Indian schools, the in- spectors and the moembers of special commmissions report to the _secretary of the interior. The superintendents of the schools report tothe commssioner through the agent. Bonded school supe tendents report to the commissioner, All the details of Indian administration are referred to the commissioner, such as ac- counts of arents, the expenditure, the educa- tional work, questions involving ' titles, gov- ernment upon the reservations, allotments. ete.. What he does is however, under the direction of the secretary. All positions not definitely created by law are authorized by the seerétary of the interior and permission must be asked and obtained from this mein- ber of the cabinet for every expenditure of money, for entering into contracts of what- ever sort, for every change of policy or modi- fication of the regulations and in fact for about everything else. The head of the bureau performes dutios of great importance and responsibility but the limitations of the service are of such a character that he is practically a bigh salaried clerk held to ac- count for all matters of administration but with only such power as may be especially delerated to him by his superior off With the exception of the school employes, physicians and private secretary there are absolutely no persons in the service divectl appointed by or removable by the head of this bureau which deals with the most perplex- ing question that comes forward for adminis- tration at Washington. Congress may fail to make appropriations aud Indian affairs are thrown into confusion. The secretary of the interior, with more by reafls under his supervision than one mun can properly manage, may tie the hands of the commissioner so that ‘he shall ve able to carry out no policy. The first assistant sec retary may, out of wanton indifference, op opposition or otherwise, thwart him at eve step, even after the secrotary has given a proposition his approval gencrally and spe- cifically. The chief of the Indian division in the' secretary’s office, though merely clerk, can pigeon-hole communications and prevent the consummation of the commis- sioner’'s most cherished plans. A chief of division in his own oftice, cr a combination of such chiefs, may hinder and delay the prog- ress of details essential to the succ administration. Agents ut the re and special agents in the field may defy his authority and refuse to_comply with his im- perative iustructions. The school emplo; and physicians, his own _appointe may be prevented by the agents from prope performing their du- ties, The superintendent of Inaian schools may go about the undoing the work of the sommissioner, und the inspectors may over-ride his authority on the reservatio All the commissioner can do under these ci Ccumstances is to appeal 40, the secretary to sustain him or resign. He occupies tae anom- alous position of figurehead and executive. Tf not sustained by the secretary as exceutive he becomes merely a tiguse head. Yet the newspapers charge the Indian bur- eau with all manner of evil deeds, such as the removal of good agents, ‘the appointment of bud ones. and the systehatic robbing of the Indian, when as a matter of fact, as shown above, the commissioner in charge of that bureau can be neither good nor bad, honest or dishonest, able or imbecile without th consent primarity of the department officials and secondarly of congress and the president. The trouble with the Indian burcan and In- dian affairs is that {he ofiéer responsible for both is the busiest man in the cabinet and is 00 removed from this ifportant branch of theeivil service. Cougress should either in- crease the power of the commissioner of In- dian affairs or the secretary of tue interior should delegate all details™ to the commis- sioner or a new department should be created which will relieve the secretary of the inter- ior of apart of his immense responsibilities B. W. Tuomss, ~~— ODDS AND E| are the DS, It costs the governuent £250,000 a year to print the Congressionel Record. A farmer in Norwalk, Colo., bas realized $1,200 this year from sixteen acres of onions. | A mau in Lancaster county, Peunsylvania, | catches rabbits with a hook und line. | . The largest county in the United States, it | 1s said, 18 Custer county, in Moutana, which contains 36,00 square miles, In Fall River, Mass., Anna Allen has sued James D, Grinuell for damages. She alleges that he had & wooden suake which she thought was real. He flourished the snake at + to whose desk all communications directed to | 1891.~-SIXTEEN )y her, and in endeavoring to run away she fell and broke her ankle, Beforo annexation Chicago contained forty- fivo square miles, or 28800 acres. Since an- | nexation 150 square miles, or 1,560,200 ncres. The Rev. David Kauffman of Indi | nimself asieep while in the pulpit p While | | puts | apparently asleep and unconscious, it is said | | that he quence The region at Lit ity is honeycombed which produce barrels of ol QUEDUL Was Worth &5,000,000 Henry Johnson, n slave with a history, who was set free by bis master, Mr. Poxall, and who waited upon Clay, Webster, Callioun and other great men, and who is said to have come in contact with every president save Washington, is living in poverty at the age of ninety years in Washington. It is not generally known that in the year 1815 a brother of the now celebrated Dr Koch of Berlin went to Nevada City and re- mained for several years, He wasa tall, soldierly-looking feilow, not_over twenty-six years of age, and was full of eaergy and am bition ana v positive in his convictions, He bad a sulphuret-saving machine, with which he experimented at the Providence mine, but with unfavorable results, Captoin John Eriesson, the inventor, body was returned by the United States gov- erninent to his native Sweden, made specific | bequests of £125,000 in his will, but it now appears that he left an estate not exceeding #0,000° For this reason the executors, George H, Roviuson and C. S. Bushuell, began 4 suit in the supreme court for a judi cial construction of the will. They wish to know whether or not guy of tho legacies should have a preferevce. The Marshal Ney myth, so d Carolinians until it was smotherd under the weight of evidence, is again revived and seriously advanced by Rev. James A, Westor an Kpiscopal clergyman of Hickory, N. ¢ He is firmly convinced that Peter Stuart Ney, the drinken schoolmaster who died in North Carolina forty-five years ago, was the veritable marshal ‘of 'rance, whose execu tion is minutely described by Vaulabelle, Bourrienne and Montholon. Convinced him self, this clergyman_has written a book to convinee other Stuart and Michael were oue and the delivers sermons of amazing elo- a, 0., and its near vieiu- with 2,000 oil wells, in the year 1800 14,000,000 They cost $1,000,000, and the those a to North Thero are nearly 25,000 school teachers in Penusylvania, Walter J. Quick of Columbus, Tnd., has ived a tender from the state agricultural colle t F't. Collins ot the professorship of the chair of agriculture and will probably accept A person wh present has e e name is witaheld for the just presented to the Beloit, Wis., college 2,000 for a new dormitory. ‘The building will be of brick, four stories high and will be built during the coming summer Professor R. H. Jesse of New Orleans has formally accepted the vresidency of the university of Virginia, unanimously tendered him last Decerver. lie goes into oftive July 1, 1801, at asalary of £,600 per year and the use of the president’s house, The fact that the average age of those who passed the examinations preseribed by the state eivil service commissioners last year was thirty-three years, while that of those who failed was thirty-five, seems to show that wisdom doesn’t always inerease with years, The young Polish Countess-Wanda Sezawinsh made_an M. D. | the university ieva, Her, graduation thosis was a remarkably learncd paper con rning the eyes of crustaceous animals and :t of light and durkness upon them The Countess Wanda will practice in Poland ira college at Elmira, N. Y., the oldest regularly organized college for women in this country, has recently been given 10,000 by a Mr, Gillett for the erection of a musical hail The students in this department of tne col lege have so increascd that additional ac commodations were imperative, Several Ne braska young ladies are atteading Flmira col lege, * The recent report of the Hungarian minis ter of education shows some remarkable pro- gress in_popular education in that country. The number of children of a proper age to d school Las i 4965 per_cent since 1860 and now reaches 2,408,525, The number actually attending school 'has increased in the same two decades fully 81.65 per cent and now reaches 2,015,612, The number of schools 16,702, an_increase of 21.04 per cent. The sum spent for elementary education is more than 000,000 flori annually, Of normal schools’ there are 71, with an attendance of 8,784, while in 189 it was only 1,556, These sehools cost 1,000,000 florins annually. Hun gary has 17 schools for the higher éducation af girls, with an attendance of 2,124, and cost of 287,727 florins per year. 1u 1561 there were 1,508 parishes without schools; now there are only 244, von by s ENDORSING THE BRIDGE. The Real Estate Exchange A New Bridge Charter. The regular meeting of the real estate ex- change W attended by a large crowd of members and interested spe ators. The pow- erful voice of Seeretary Wilson awoke the echoes throughout the building and every body in the vicinity came in to sec what wis going on. The first business was the consideration of the following resolution: ich wi intro- duced by Mr. D. C. Patterson and unani- mously adop! Whereas, The Interstate b railway company are now secking from con- ggress @ charter to construct & railrond, wagon and motor bridge across the Missouri river between East Omaha and Council Bluffs, and Whereas, Said company has promised assured us 'that if they procure such chartc they will build a railroad bridge assoon as possible: therefore, Resolved, That_we, the Omaha real estate wnge, extend to the said Interstate ge and street railway company our rty support in its efforts to procure suid charter, and we call upon every member of the Nebraska delegation in congress to put forth every effort to secure the granting of said chartor this session; also furthor Resolved, That from our knowledge of the men compoSing satd company and_the worlk already accomplished in East Omaha, w have every confidence that said company honestly intends to build a railroad bridge, and fully carry out the representations made by them. Rosolved, further, That Omaha noeds abova all things a bridge over the Missouri river that shall be indcpendent of any ofle railvoad, ana open to all railroads foren- gines, cars and trains on equal terms, and Resolved, further, That while we desire in said cnarter all the conditions necessary to attain aid object and all the safeguards nec. essary for public security, we denounce as unfair and antagonistic to the interests of Omaba a1y UNNECCessary or oppressive con- ditions. Resolved, further, That a railroad bridge, such as Omaha now demands, cannot be properly constructed in one year, and we consider the amendment of Senator Paddock requiring this as obstructive, A WATER HAUL. Highwaymen Hol L Up a Farmer With- out Profit to Themselves, Otto Lang, a farmer residing on the bot- toms north of the city, was held up by five tramps near the Klorence lake hotel, yesterday morning, Two of the highway wen held his horsés by the head while a third covered him with a gun and demanded his mouey. Lang had none to give up, but the robbers would ot be' satisfied until they had searched bis pockets and his wagon as well. When they were couvinced that he had told the truth they told him to proceed, and ho gladly availed himself of the permission. It was quite dark at the time, and Lang, who was badly frightened even aiter Lo appeared at the police station, could not giv very min- ute description of the hichwaymen, L Athletics for Ladies. Eleven ladies occupied chairs in the Y. M, C. A, gymnasium yesterday morning while four young ladies went through several exer- cises in calisthenics under the direction of Prof. Sheldon, the instructor of the gymna sium, A class of ladies is anout to be opened and the gatnering this morning was for the pur- pose of seeing the methods employed and learning the practical details of the plan Prof Sheldon announced that he propose er the idge and street pd PAGES. Tempting Are bei ng offered with the idea of Bargains reducing our stock « Men's Suits, at $12 and §$16. We are showing suils that would be considered ¢heap at a much hi gher price. | Do not fail to visit our Children's Department. It is i . > in favor cach day C.S.RAYMOND'S Sacrifice and Removal Sale We mean_just what w will tell. Our. Philippe & ( such sacrifica the 8:le of every CUR ART DF selling without r Our di. Eilver, Fine he pr ces low p_.»-nl able to This sale will 1t Jow nt article, PARTMENT wo ozard I tock 's Fine Watches) prices, s1y. that it ) Cost, 1 } Our prices (except Patel is on sale at should insure are simply count on Watches, Diamonds,Solid and o than our pe purchase this 1:st long, foods, maices o have ever 55 0F g0 C.S. RAYMOND. Douglas and 15th St. = Contractors” Supplics Wheel Barrows, Shovels Scoops, Bars. Hoes, Hose, Picks, Wire a nd Manilla Rope, Tackle Blocks, All Kinds Twines, | Butchers' Tools, Carpenter S Tools, Coopers' Tools, Machinists, Tools, Moulders” Tools, Builders’ Hardware AGENTS FOR Yale & Towne Fine Bronze Goods, Wm. T, Wood & Co' Ice Tools, James Morton & Son 1511 Dedge Street. Teleshone, 45 “A $5.00 17 you are think new’ baok, Palliner's i not 4 Builder wise terested that ca Work und everybady buys it ar book eher tsed €n Bulling A §E Dok i sice an styl, but we v ! 16 make It meet the pog it can be easily reactied T kcontains 104 0 wiess work, and VRIS Doubte 11ouses, suburbs, town and ¢ 3. Anel BOOK FOR o AreRtoctire TR A ny one intending ONLY $1.001 How to Build A House, _. Bs Your Own Architeot, This book wili 'save you hund ds of dollars i yon are thinking about building a house. he very ! ui'd or oth it be without . 1013 practical wlar dem, by all Vages 1 try, honses for the 1im and wor 1he bes Cheapest a Kearly' four hundred it etermined 10 sult the times, $o that {ng: om.ca for a1l sections of the country, and costing {rom also Hams. Stables, Schonl | ud other public buil ings, et cover by mar “Airess 2l ove 8. OGILYIE, P y one, Town Hial, cethier and x larce amaomt of & t)a1d, o receipt of site, em "Dt 1 wil send. it in pound in cloth, blisher. 57 Rose §t., New York, Are Yo;erhiuk;né About Gc/uing a Nico SENT? MAX TO WEAK MEN garly decay, westin 1 will send 'n valual full particulars for A sp) man who is Prof. F, v An MOUNTA IN guarantecd g cage v ko HARTZ CANARY, o singer, and an elégant 1 surprising present 1 further r stork ¢ vies, such as: o imported, commend my Fancy Norwicl, wolored; F d, uliost Cupptes and er heautiful canaries. wlking Parrots from #1250 globe for #1.63 GIISLIER, 417 S, 18th St,,Omaha. and Sufferlug from the youthful erron eifcots of weakness, lost lAnhood, ete. ble tres home 1id medical work ; sh and_debilitated. 0 WLER, Moodus, Conn Al i containing of charge Tead by every Address Tuesday mornings at 10 o'clock and Saturday mornings at 9 o'clock, clude twelve lessons, pler forms of The course is to in- during which the sim- ercises will be used. — A Flaning Mill Blaze, Ablazeat Abraham Rosenberg’s planing mill, corn 9 oclock y building to the amount of 300, The cause of the fire is not known, ted in some @ mann in r Fifteenth and Marcy streets, at erday morning damaged the It ori the shavings ute, which is constructed of brick and ex tends to the top floor, with & dust flue above the roof. The flames were quickly extinguished after the arrival of the departiment, covered by insur Mrs, A, F. | The loss is Bartlett is suing to fore- close a mortgage by her on the estate of 10 opeu a class for ladies, which could meet | Lena Aust, dece sed, Drs. Betts & Betts Paysiuns, Sueg2ons and Specialists, 1400 DOUGLAS STREET OMAHA, NEB., Tne most widely nnd fusorably known speo. falists inthe Unitel States. Their long ex- perlunce, remuricable akill gnd univeran suo. | coss In fhe treatuont und cure or | Chronie and Surleal Diseases, eminent physicians to the full confidence of the wfificted oyery wh T v too: A CERTAIN 'AND TPOSITIVE CURE for the awful effects of early viee and the numers s evils that follow in its trat PRIVATE, BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES 111y completely ntly cured. NERVOUS DERILITY AND SEXUAL DIs= ORDERS yicld readily to their skiliful treat~ t. FISTULA AND RECTAL ULCERS nteed cured” without pain or detention 1sine. nently’ SYIHTLLS, GONORIHEA, fomiual Weaknoss Aksions, Decayed 1 Kkness and uil delicute aisorders peouline ither sex positively cure well ns wl) functional disorders thist resuit from youthfu! follies or the excessof v 4|\lrl|-) o 0 TRICTII 1 Guaranteed permune n i SERICTURE Siates term s ‘P'""" 1 without cutting, constic or dilatation. Cures | effccted at home by patient without & mo= Tent's pain of annoyance TO YOUNG AND MIDDLEAGED MEN. A SURE CURE The awtul effects of S curly vice which brings oreanie weakness, destroying both mind and Pody. with all ts dreaded illi. permanently curod. DRS. BETTS proper ndulg ruin both mind Dbusiness, Address those who hiave im= pulred themselves by fm= o and solisary habits which nd body, unfitting them for ™ or those ontering on thay physioal debility, quickly ofr sucorss Is based upon facts. First—Practical exporl- ence. 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