Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1891, Page 4

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State of Nebraska, = | o County of Douglas, { George I3, Tzschuek, sceretary of Ti Publishing company, does solemnly 8 that the actual eirculation of Tur DATLY B for the week ending January 24, 1801, was as follows Kunday, Mondiiy 2ith day of January A, D, 1801 N. P, FEIL Notary Public. ng duly sworn, de- 1y of THE BEE ual average v B for the for Feb- 815 ablish 1y ¢ uth of y, 180 copless fo of Tue DA ry. 1800, 19563 coples; Gl coples; for Murch, 189, 1l Apr $70 coples! for Novembe mnber, 7i copics. Sworn to beforo me, and subs presence, thls distday of Decem? THE more bri ier the competition, 08 the HE Omaha charter is now in the hands of the legislature, and ‘‘may the Lord have mercy on its soul.” Tne reduction of the tax levy for the current ris substantial evidence of *‘business methods in city airs.” THE congressionul silver prospectors have struck what promises to prove a paying lead of speculative plungers. Froy present appearances it would not requite much ready money to secure an interest in silver lodes in Wash- ington. UNLESS the board of trade promptly wakes up, the real estato exchange will make off with the prize for good resolutions. A DECT of 11 mills in the rate of taxation in two years is proof positive that Omaha has passed the period of ex- cessive taxation. THE shockingly sudden termination of the life of Secretary Windom lends a startling significance to the adage: “Death loves a shining mark.” Tur What-is-it wisely drops county affairs and takes up the bairpin and like articles of domestic utility topics it is peculiarly fitted to elucidate. ONE million dollars for irrigation and a like sum for tha drouth stricken shows the wholesome modesty of Nebraskans in disposing of the national surplus, THE Central Pacific owes the govern- ment $50,000,000, on which it pays prac- tically no interest. But this handsome “loan” is not included in Stanford’s 2 per cent scheme, Tue prolonged sleep of an Tllinois girl provokes widespread interest without cause. Hor sleep is a healthy precau- tion against the daily monotony of the senatorial contest. BY THE new apportionment bill Ne- braska will be entitled tosix represonta- tives in the Fifty-third congress. Am- bitious ots will now plant congres- slonal lightning rod! THE laborer is worthy of his hire, but. there is no valid reason why clerical help in public offices should be paid more thun like services command in banks and first-class business establish- ments. THE independent bosses will presently discover that their tyrannical methods will not be tolerated much longer, The prosperity of the state is of greater im- portance than the welfareof a fow selfish individuals, —_— ‘GOVERNMENT DIRECTOR PLUMMER 18 decidedly officious in the bridge contro- vor His efforts to induce the govern- ment to play catspaw for Sidney Dillon show him to be a corporation tool of very small calibr THERE is cause for congratulation in the fact that the statesmen from the Seventh ward are vigilantly watching each other, As long as they continue in that useful occupatign, municipal mis- chiefl must remain at a low ebb, — THE remarkable fasting feats of Tan- ner and Sucei are partially paralleled by the success of the majors and colonels camped around the Nebraska state capi- tol. There is this differonce, however, the former wax fat on water; the latter thrive on wind. ThEe hilarity occasioned in certain quarters by the transfer of Governor Hill to the senate is now enveloped in a wet blanket. The grip of David on the political machinery of New York is war- ranted tohold till 92 and after. People should not holler till they are out of the ool —— THREE hundred obstreporous Sioux Indians are closely guarded at Fort Sully, and 80 moreat Fort Sheridan. Theso comprise the most dangerous leaders in the recent outbreak, and their separation from the rank and file will haves tendency to make pence perma- nent on the reservation. A SIGNIFICANT VOTE. By a vote of 81 to 14 the house of repre- sntatives refused yesterday to counte- | nance the folly of recounting the votes t on the question of prohibition at November This 1s suf- ciontly emphatic to satisfy everybody that tho present legislature has no in- tention of ;.vamin-nr to subvert the will of the people 3y this de action the only escapes the enormous expense volved in the collection and recounting of the ballots, but it gains the assurance that its peaco of mind, and its business interests, are not again to be disturbed by & re-opening of the question. At a time like this in the Ristoryof the state, when all energies are bent upon an of- fort to recover what has been lost in the reverses of the last year, such an assurance is worth everything. There is another gratifying feature of tho vote. It indicates that here, us alsewhere, the decision of the people on a vital question is to bo respected. It would scem that such a proposition would stand in no need of demonstra- tion, especially when sustained by a majority in city and town, aggregating nearly 50,000 votes. But it is well known that ever since the surprising verdict of the people was rendered, cortain men and factions have plotting to over- throw it. Yesterdny’s vote in the house marks their final defeat. The state is to be congratulated upon the fact that this result has been reached by the votes of sensible men of all parties represented in the legislature. th election. state not been THE ALLIANCE CONVENTION. The National Farmers’ Alliance con- vention has concluded its labors and ad- journed, Composed in the main of men sincorely anxious to improve the condi- tion of the agricultural classes, it was boset by eranks and hobby ridevs and its true purposes perverted and damaged. The ills the producing classes are com- polled to bear depend largely ou local- ity. InNebraska and adjoining states the burdens consist of exorbitant tolls for transporting their products to mar- ket, clevator exactions, discrimination against them as shippers, and excessive cost of the government. These con- ditions which the producers justly de- nounce, but even with the power in their hands in sevoral notable instances they have as yet failed to place the knife to the voot of the evil. It was tobe ex- peeted the national convention would give these vital questions careful con- sideration and devise a practicable plan, just to all interests concerned, as a guide to legislation. Nothing of the kind was attempted. On the contrar, the convention was bullyragged by ionaries and dreamers and its endorse- ment given to impracticable schemes. The most notable of these was the scandalous jugglery of the convention at its close. While all the delegates were presont, and after a full discussion, the proposition demanding the loan of gov- ernment money at 2 per cent, on land se- curity, was defeated by a substantial ma- jority. The proposition could not be resurrected without a motion to recon- sider by a member voting for its defeat. But common parlimentary rules were 1gnored by the chairman, who rallied his followers after a majority of the del- gates had departed, and coerced a rump convention into an endorsement of the absurd schemo as a Part of its creed. Woman suffrage, prohibition, fiatis and similar idiocies ave parasitic theor sapping the strength of the alliance, and the soonev it rids itself of the in- cubus the better it will be for the or- ganization, It must shake off the cranks and fanatics, place itself on a broad, common-sense foundation, and thus secure the active support of thous- ands outside the order who are earnestly striving to better the condition of the industrial classes. RECIPROCITY AND THE FARMERS. The plan of reciprocity of which Sec- retary Blaine is the foremost advocate is commanding the thoughtful attention of the farmers of the country, The pol- icy of the secretary of state does not in- clude Canada, but there is a very earnest effort making, of which Mr, Erastus Wi- man is the moving spirit, to embraco the Dominion in the scheme. The for- eign affairs committee of the house of representatives some time ago recom- mended the adoption of & resolution providing for the appointment by the president of a commise sion to consider the best method of extending the trade relations between Canada and the United States, and to ascertain on what ter1os greater freedom of intercourse between the two countries can best be secured, whenever it shall be duly certified to the president that the government of the Dominion of Canada has declared a desire to enter into such commercial arrangements with the United States as will result in the complote removal of all duties upon trade between the two countries. The attitude of the farmers of the United States on this sabject of reci- procity is a matter of paramount in est, because it concerns agricultural products to a greater extent than those of the manufacturing industries, An eastern journal whose constituency is composed mainly of farmers has under- taken to obtain the bpinions of farmers on these questions: “Will reciprocity with South America benefit our farm- ers?”’ and “Will Canadian reciprocity Denefit farmers?” Over ninety thou- sand answers were returned, of which 68,000 were in the affirmative to the first question and 60,000 in the negative to thelast. This voto of course represents only & very small fraction of the farmers of the country, but if it may fairly bo accepted as indicating the gen- eral opinion, there is an overwhelming majority in favor of reciprocity with the countries south of us and almost an equal majority opposed to reciprocal trade with Canada. 1Inthe eastern half of the United States, where the compe- tition of Canadian farmers is most felt, the sentiment s especially strong agninst veeiprocity with the Dominion, while in the northwest and western states opin- ions are about equally divided, though & majority in both declared in favor of southern recl- procity. The very pronounced unpopu- larity of Canadian reciprocity with the agricultural interests may reasonably be | rocity in- | expocted to influence congress to defer action of any kind relating to such a policy while the strong sentiment in favor of closer trade intercourse with the countries to the south will give strength to the mévement for its attain- ment. It will be interesting to note in this connection that the agitation of i in the Dominion does to be muking rapid pro- gress, The influence of the gov- ernment is atmost solid against it and those who are hopeful that at the general elections of this year the friends of that poliey will be successful are not getting much encouragement from popu- lar expression on the subj The Can- adian farmers are pretty evenly divided, while the great majority of those en- gaged in manufacturing industries are favorable to existing conditions. Freer commercial intereourse with our north- ern neighbors may come in time, but it would seom that the time is yot remote. appear DEATH OF In all circumstances death carries shock, but the blow comes with peculinr and overwhelming severity when sud- denly and unexpectedly it strikes down one in the full possession of all his facul- ties and in the full tide of his usefulness. Then it is that the uncertainty of life is forcefuily improssed upon us, and all men are brought, if only for a moment, to reflect on the inevitable law of our being and the inscrutable waysof Provi- dence, I'he country will be profoundly shocked by thesudden death of Secretary Windom under circumstances that give the sad eventexceptional pathos and impressive- noss, and men of all beliefs and parties will sincerely regret the loss of a distin- ARY Wi .guished eitizen who in most responsible positions had shown himself a statesman of uncommon ability. Asa representa- tive in congress, a senator, and twice secrotary of the treasury, Willinm Win- dom had done valuablo service to the country. In congress he was recognized as one of the strong men of the nation in financial affairs, and with his lon, rience and clear judgment of the ) of public men President Garfield chose him, with tho gencral approval of the country, for the head of the treasury de- partment, He had brief opportunity then to demonstente his ability in pra tical financial administration, but as se retary of the treasury in the present ad- ministration he has most fully justified the confidence of the two presidents who made him the chief of the financial department of the govern- ment. At a time when vi- sionary schemes of finance are more prevalent than almost ever before, Sec- retary Windom has been careful and conservative in all his views and recom- mendations, and in the financial extrem- ities which the country has twice exper- ienced since the Harrison administra- tion came in, he has tothe extent of his authority protected the money mar- ket with notable wisdom. His last ut- terance, which can hardly fail to make a deep impression upon the in- telligent judgmeat of the country, was a plea for a sound cur- rency and a financial system that will furnish just enough of such a currency to meet the legitimate wantsof trade. His closing words of counsel upon a sub- ject he ' was most competent to discuss will not have been spoken in vain. The nation will sincerely moura the death of a citizen who had won general confidence in his ability and whose place in public affairs will not easily be filled, while the many to whom he had per- sonally endeared himself will feel his death as an irreparable loss, To his family the tenderest sympathy of all will be extended. E—— POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS TO WINDOM. The president will probably be in no hurry to appoint a successor to the late Secretary Windom. There isnothing in the condition of the treasury, or in the general financial situation, that calls for haste in selecting a now head of the de- partment, and there is still a month of the present congress during which the president can consider carefully the claims of the number of men who would be acceptable to the country as secre- tary of the treasury. There are many such men in tho republican party, and the only difficulty the president is likely to experience will be in choosing one who for all reasons is most worthy to ce- cupy this great office and most certain to command the confidence of the scountry. Already there is announced a consid- erable list of possible successors to the late secretary, and itis not improbable that some of these are strong in the confidence of the president. There is reason to believe that Congressman MeKinley is one such and Senator Spooner another, and both of these dis- tinguished republicans will retire from congress on March 4 The ap- pointment of either as secre- tary of the treasury woula undoubtedly bo regarded with very general favor by the republican pavty, and the selection of Senator Spooner would be a proper recogunition of the west that could not fail to strengthen the administration in this section. But there are other avail- able men and the important question is not one of sectional preference, but that of placing at the head of the department a man of sound and safe financial whose ability and influence will be exerted to prevent any ex- treme and violent departures from the policy by which the financial credit of the government and the commercial welfare of the nation have been con- served for a quarterof a century. With but ore or two "exceptions since the re- publican party first came into control of the government the administration of the treasury department has been sig- nalized by a very high order of ability. Under tho administrations of Chase, Fessonden, McCulloch, Sherman and Windom, no other department of the government brought greater oredit to the party or more respect for the country from foreign relations. Its vast powers w exercised hy these eminent financ with the single purpose of upbuilding and maintaining the credit and p ity of the nation. The high standard of finuncial policy they the present administration com- views, established is fully mitted to, a8 cannot be doubted that it will find the right man to maintain it. TaE rich [soff of the county building possesses adtoljishing qualitios, espe- cinlly when"properly cultivated. Not only do plumbimg bills thrive and wax fat, but $250 sprouts have been known to grow and floufish and by diligent culti- vation reach the amazing proportions of $700 in four shonths, Nearly thr hundred per ¢ent in a third of ayoar is certainly ample reward for toil and anx- foty. THE public appears to be much inter- estod in John J. Ingalls’ plans for the future. Now that he 18 defeated even his enemies speak kindly of his rare in- tellectual gifts. The general idea is that ho should embark in literature. Why not take up the history of the United States where Baneroft left off, or writo that long-delayed but well-adver- tised novel ? —_— THE electors of Douglas county been accused of all manner of crime 1 honest ballot, but it may be *ir eredit that they have nevor been guilty of packing a convention and galvanizing de- feated, after a majority of the delegates departed for their homes. THE last quarterly report of the reg- ister of deeds shows a surplus of public moneys in his hands of # ) This includes $4,000 for 3 None of this money has been paid into the county treasury. What has hecome of it? have a proposition, once THE legislature has finally provided $200,000 for the relief fund, but Messrs, McKeighan and Kem have not yet re- turned with the potof gold that the 2king the bottom of the congres sional FREE coinage will not see daylight in the present congress, after all. It 1s now generally conceded that the house will not concur with the senate. This prolongs the occupation of a good many orators, PRESIDENT HARRISON has decided il oceasions that his hinet should remain unbroken to theend of his term, but the angel of deathis no respector of persons, CHARLES DBRAD! on se AUGH has passed away at London, leaving a memory of a man of strong and brilliant parts who did not choose to use them for the best purposes. Ir1s [,{l.\\i[\ ng to note that the re- publican party still has power enough left to pass an apportionment bill. It will fill a long-felt want, Jay's Spleen. Chicagn Inter-Ocean, If thero is anything Jay Gould likes better than making money it Is getting even. He s engaged just now in squaring some differ- euces with tho good people of Omaba by keeping them from getting their much wanted union depot. Aide? S TR Brains ata Premium. Florida Times-Union. 1llinofs is not “‘stuck” on the money kings, either. The congress of the United States is going to bodn the next year or two more nearly a representative body than it has been since the war. The “man with the wad" will bo left at home, Our Danger. Chicago Post. Omaha, which has justly been considered ono of tho most progressive cities of the United States, has, unfortunately for its reputation submitted to a dictum of Jay Gould’s forbidding a new union railway sta- tion, If this sort of thing is to keep on, the Nobraska metropolis will shortly retrograde into the rank of St. Louis, {imstein THE ALLIANC The farmers' altianco of Missouri is circu- lating petitions in every county asking that the Paddock pure food bill, now pending in congress, be passed. The democratic Sioux Falls Argus-Leader declares that the South Dakota fusionists made a mistake in unseating the republican representatives from Lawrence county, Topeka Capital: Speaker Elder's message to the Illinois farmers, “*iold the fort for we are coming,” should have been supplemented by another line from the same famous hymn, The greater number of the leaders of the people’s party movement in Kansas aro infi- dels or free-thinkers, says the New York World. Some few of them are Unitarians, whose belief is much more liberal than that sanctioned by thewr church. “Sockless" impson is a pronounced unbeliever, and during bis campaign for congress in the Seventh district the whole force of the church was ai ed against him, Mrs, Lose is an infidel, and Mrs. Diggs, who, next to Mrs, Lose, was the most powerful cam- paiguer in the people's movement, is a very liberal Unitarian, PASSING JESTS, Mullicent (ruaning Ler finger ovor his upper lip)—Willy, why are you like the late King Kalakaua! Willy—1 don't know, Whv? Millicent—Because you haveno hair ap- parent. New York Herald: Gushley—Did you over, like the poet, “stand on tho bridge at midnignt? Rounder—No, | buf bob-tail flush at 'ab ing. I've often stood on a t that time in the even- St. Joseph News: Thero is so much being said about the somth and the fair just now that the idea will soon gain ground that brunettes are dying out in the south. New York Sun: 10ld lot you have my dauehter, ave able oo koop her, sirf Young Man (doubtfully) sir; but you kuow,this 1s U o o— Now York Hopald: ‘‘Let's seo; derfoot is in the soup, isn't he!" fes. Ho'd Jawp been better off if he'd stayed in the ye: X) . 53 Indianapolis Jaugnal: It is to be hoped in the interest of Wimony that the Docatur, 111, young womaf -vhose nose was patched up with the ribs of a cat may never mect the New York boy lately repaired from the leg of adog. Should 1 do. you think you I'll do all I can, ago. that ten- o To Cle an . Democrat and Chronic'e, Spare us your platitudes, Strike no vain attitudes, in these latitudes, Such stuff i olden; Solely we ask of thee Spealk thy opinion free Which should the coinage by, Silver or golden Play not the coward's part, Is there a chango of hearti Or did the rumor start F'rom some base miniout Others have spoken out, Lis1 to the Southern shout, Free us at last from doubt, What's your opiuiont OTHER LANDS THAN OUR The question whother the tories will dis- solve pariiamont is an interesting one in cur- rent British politics, and gives rise to much conjecture as to what the probable result of a general election this yoar would be. The most intelligent conclusion is that whilo the unionists have a fairer opportunity of suc- just now than thoy wi years hence, they must expect losses in the English counties and in the metropolis, Their chance of retaining their present majority over Gladstonians and Trish nationalists combined is small, and it would not be surprising if the appeal to the electors resulted, as it did in 1385, in giving [vish pa- triots the balance of power, Had the el tion, on the other hand, taken place three months ago, it is not improbable that the Gladstonians would have obtained, what they had in 1580, & majority over the joint forces of conservatives and Irishmen. It is for the students of Irish history to say which of the two situations would bemost favorable to Ireland. 088 two The general financial condition of Italy is growing more and more unsatisfactory. For- cign commerco was knowa to have suffered immensely through the stupid war ot tariffs with France, Since that blunder was re- trieved it was thought that things would be- gin to mend, but the returns show that they te golug from bad to worse, Importations have fallon off, and though the present pro- tectionist sentiment of the country would be inclined to see in this an evi denee of national prosperity it can hardly do so in face of the fact that exports have fallen off still moro. An cxcellent index to the financial condition of the country is the deposits in savings banks, and these show an alarming decline. Altogother, the government is going to have a very dificult time of 1t when it comes to devise measures to meet the increasing expenses of the nation - Many of the government candidates were clocted to the parliament under public pledges mnot to vote for an intaxation. At the same time, pledged not to cut down the expenses, The only way out of the dilemma is the negotiation of a now national loan, and there is every indication that such o stop is contemplated. Ttaly has alrealy agreat pub- lic debt; the interest on it is nearly as gr as that England has to pay on hers. A reck- loss use of the public creait might easil taken in connection with the general commer- cial embarrassient of the country, lead to another disaster like that of the Argentine. 1t is o striking fact that after the lapse of over two thousand years a Roman Cathol bishop of Carthege should resume the work of reclaiming part of the great Sahara desert, abandoned when Carthage fell beneath the power of Rome. Cardinal Lavigerle, whose general fleld is Algeria, but whose is also “Bishop of Carthage,” is well known for his zealous efforts to suppress the slave trade in northern Africa. This trade is largely carried on by caravans of Arab no- mads, who are believed to have in their veins a strain of the blood of the wanderiug tribes which furmished Carthage, as early as 500 B. C., the cavalry of its then powerful and conquering armies. The car- dinal, with practical wisdom, believes that the best way to puta stop to slave stealing and slave trading is to give a better occupa- tion to those engaged in these, He proposes to establish in the Sahara a series of stations manned by monks trained in engineoring md agriculture, Theso stations aro to be on the sites of the ancient wells, which aro to be re- ovened and others sunk. The surrounding desert i3 to be irrigated, reclaimea, and planted, and an effort is to be made to gather the slave-trading nomads in peaccful pastoral and agricultural communities. The cardinal's call for volunteers, to undergo training for five years, and then, if accepted, to dovote themselves for lite, has boen ac- cepted by nearly cighteen hundrad monks, of whom fifty are to go into training imme- diately, and after fiftoen months will be sont into the desert. Whatever may be the suc- cess of this undertaking, no one can with- hold adwiration from its authoror from those who pledge the scrvice of thelr lives to carry it out. s The continued movement wastward of Rus- sfan troops, the untiring energy of the Rus- sian general staff in the reform of all tho in- efficient branches of the service, cessant progress of the work of the western boundary, have so completely ab- sorbed the attention of German military men that the “lost provinces and the ‘‘war of rovenge" receive hardly a passing thought. To be sure the assurance was given recently in a semi-ofticial way in St. Petersburg that t1e westward movement of troops was under tho direction of the department, of transpor- tation, which believed the railroads unequal to the demands of a mobilization, and wished thereforo to learn whera the troublo would as well as to anticipato the in- ncy by getting troops beyond the al points in advance. In fact, how- ever, most of the recent movements of Rus- sian troops tave taken placo in districts where such tests were out of the question. “The imminenco of decisive action on the -part of Russia against Germany is variously esti- mated by German military authorities. An unexpecied check has been put on the enthu- siasm of the Russian war party by the recent revelation that the last maneuvers of Rowno were not so satisfactory as wus at first re- ported. The provision of food, shelter and transportation for the troops was so dofective that had not the men shown the wonderful patience and endurance characteristic of Russian soldiers, a disastrous failuro of the great shamn campaiign would have been nevitable, Tho czarand his geuerals also expressed deop dissatisfaction. with the discipline of the cavalty and the quality of the horses. The subsequent reports of the Russian oficers who observed tho Silesian mancuvers added to this dissatisfaction by dwelling at length on the perfection of the German arrangements for moving and fe ing the troopss “On the oth a German officer from St. Pete sia is strenggthioning for the eventual struggle all her fortresses on our border, and is draw- ing steadily troops to the wostward, While now Russia has but 2,000,000 carcfully drilled warriors, she will have at the end of five years at loast twice that number. The czar holds back from war because he fears everything that he cannot foresee. The quo: tion is: ‘Will he or the Cnauvinistic cle- ments behind him triuraph e L iy THE SCHOOL, GIRLS, Columbus Dispat ch, 0 not fairer fair that shine th the bat-brims of the school-girls, Just before the hour of nine. young man’s inspi ses them trooping rees that hear their lasughter And are eloquently dumb, To the old 'tis recollect Of those days that now are gone, Plauting smiles within the wrinkles, Swmiles that grow aud lingor on, Do you feel acjected, jaded, Try this rewedy of mine; Look into the schiool Just before the hour of nine, You may talk of morning zephyrs And of summer evening eool, But my tonicis the faces Of the girls that go to school e tten my grip,” re- hé hurlod bis h, but you have fo markedl the majestic insect as persecutor away into space. [ \ A GENUINE FRAUD JAILED. He Has Beon Doing & Thriving Business in Patching Up Domestic Troubles. A THIRTY-DAY JAIL SENTENCE IMPOSED. Tho Attorneys of Murderer Noal File Their Petition in Krror—Diph- theria Under Contr Other News. LixcoLy, Jan. 50. oclal to T Ber.|—Shortly before 1 o'clock today @ fraud masquerading under the namo of Will- fam Walters was arrested by Detective Pouna and thereby is reveated an astonish- ing talo of the bold charlatan and his cred- ulous victims, Walters has no visiblo legiti- mate means of support, and has needed none, for ho has been doing a land ofice business under the claim of being gifted with super- natural powers, Ho has been posing &s being who can bring together any two per- sous whom ho choses, and naturally the for saken maiden and the desorted wifo have listened hopefully to his misrepresentation and paid him liberally for a few profane in- cantations and lecherous actions which® ho claimed would bring the loved ono back How many victims ho has duped is not posi- tively known, but it is belicved that there arenlegion of them, as threo or four have alceady complained of the fellow in the courts of justice, As the nature of the in- cantations and ceremonies are of such a char- acter thata woman would shrink from re- vealing them, it1s probablo that there are many more, The lady causing the arrest of the fellow is Mrs, Sarah M. Jones, 1t appears that hor husband left her some timo ago, and simco then she has been compelled to do domestic for a living. Of lato her heart has ned for her husband and she finally foll s of Walters. This was on The fellow pretended that he could bring back the missing husband in two days, Mrs. Jones willingly paid the fellow y cent of money she had —822—and th incantations were gone through with, Mrs Jones waited two days, but her husband fuled to appear. A week passed and more ana still he did not come. She then realized that she had been duped and entered o com plaint for the fellow's arrvest. Auother victim who has complained Judge Brown of the fraud practiced on he: a young lady from Saward, who is emplo, 1t appears that after hav 1 advantage of the trusting . Although he proved such scoundrel the girl still loved him » looking to the timo when he would return and fulfill his promiso of marriage. She has waited in vain, and when Walters ~crossed her path she proved an easy vietim. As she willingly submitted to his lowd ceremonie it is allegea that the fellow afterwards i January to is sulted her, Not until that time did the gi realize his true character, She went to tho judge, but the magistrate advised her, s she had lost only 85, to avoid the notoricty that would result from an arrest and airing of the case. Other victims are cited, one of them a lady of. intelligence, but who is foolish enough to lfi‘(liuve in fortune tellers and frauds of that ilk. How a porson could be deceived by such a looking fellow as Walters it is hard to imag- ine. He is an insignificant appearing, under- sized man about s feet 2inches high. He wears a coarse mustache and has the repulsive air and swagger of the barroom rowdy. His eyes are marked with cunning, and altogether he is a person whom an intelligent person would look upon with distrust. He was taken before Justice Brown at 2 p. m. and admitted everything. Hesaid that as his supertatural powers failed ho had sub- stituted bimself for the woman's husband, The judge gave him the choice of paying the woman's money back and the costs accruing or be punished” for adultery. He chose the latter course and was given thirty days in the county jail. MURDERER NEAL'S CASE. Messrs. Gurley and_Estelle, attorneys for the condemned E. D. Neal, have filed their brief in support of their potition in error, Neal was convicted at the May term of the Douglas county district court in 1800 of mur- der in the first degree in the killing of Allen Jones at the Pinney farm, near South Oma ha, in February, 1860, Sentence of death was passed upon him, but the fling of the petition in error pending the execution of the sentence operated as a stay thereof until the supreme court shall have passed upon the as- signment of errors. The first assignment of error upon which Neal's attorneys place any stress relates to the method in which the jury was drawn., The testimony of the district clerk shows that the jury for the May term was selected by the officers named in sections 633, 639, 660, 651 and 665 of the code of civil procedure found as in the compiled statutes of 1857, and in attempted compliance with said sec: tion, when said sectious werein fact repealed and'not in force at the time said jury was drawn, The samo witness shows that the jury was not properly drawn, even under tho ol law, as 1t was drawn from a list of sixty names 'selected avoportionately from each precinet in the county, Atthe trial Neals attorneys, when a jury of twelve men was called into the box, before any further pro- ceedings were had, moved to quosh the regular panel for the term for the rea- sons above stated, but the motion was overruled, The attorneys maintain that the new law governing the drawing of juries in counties of over 70,000 inhabitants should have been observed in this case, as it went into effect March 8, 1880, and proof was sub- mitted to show that the county had over 70,000 people. The main reliance of Neal's counsel, ever, is in the assignment of error relating te tho failure to take the prisonor along when the jury visited the Pinuey farm o view the scene of the murder. T'he record shows that directly after the jury had been sworn a motion was mado by the county attorney foran order of court di- recting thatthe jury, accompanied by the proper officers, bo taken to view the prem- ises. This motion was made on May 15, and it was on the same day and at the same time that it is claimed that the prisoner by his council, in open court, walved his right to accompany the jury The journal “entry showing an absolute waiver” by the prisoner was not prepared by the court until May 20 or later, nor until court overruled the motion of council for the prisoner asking for an entry upon the journal of the proceedings of | showing that the prisouer was re- 0 jail at the time the how- jury wi r for the ng the premi: d by counsel showing no the prisoner and bemg drawn in couformity with the reportofthe proceedings had at that time, taken by the oficial stenog- rapher.” This motion was supported by affidavits of counsel, but after hearing the affidavits read the court overruled the mo- tion because it desired a full record and this was shown in the afidavits and report of the stenographer, “Tue affidavi rred to were some made and submitted by Neal's counsel d. that they had over formally waived the pris- oner’s right to be present when the premises were viewed, and they relied upon tho re- port of the ofticial stenographer for corrobor- This stenographi port did not that any W ud been made, but ation. show Roal T. J, Mahonoy, John C. Shea and C. T, Smythe, the two first named being of connsel for the state, tothe effoct that Mr. Gurley distinetly said, when asked by Mr, Muhonay in the court room if he wished the prisoner to accompany the jury, that ‘we will waive that right,” Three of the jurors also mado afidavits to the same offoct Tho brief also raises a polnt that “the right of the prisoner to be presont at the time the right whi list of citations 18 gl propositios One is first Nebraska, page 891, Jurley vs the State, it is held that “'in a cap- itis notin the power of the r by himself or his counsel, to srosent at the rendition ho trial.”? record must show that the prisoner was prosent at every stago of the trial, from the commencement until the seutence is pro- nounced A number of citations are mado to show that “a view by the Jury of the pre is evidence,”" aud a formidable list of decisions are cited to show that the prisone present during the entire trial; thatin carital cases the accused stands upon all his rights and waives nothing, and that in high felonies the prisoner's counsel cannot waive any of shits, ns even their own consent could not dispense w established forms and usages of the criminal laws. Another assignment of points out tho fact that certain tostimony of Coroner Harri- gan was admitted relating to the finding of tho body of Dorothy Jones. As tho pr ¢ was on trial for the murder of Allen Jones, it 15 contended that this was incompetent, iin material and ant, as the wheroabouts of the two parties respectively between the #d and 14th of February were not proven and the same person may uot have killed them both and they may have beeu killed on differcnt days TIE DISEASE UNDER CONTROL. The epidemic of diphtheria at the homo for tho friendless, which looked very alaeming at one time, has been checked by tho prompt and vigorous action ot ram, acting under nstructions from M Graham, There aro now five eascs of diph th a in the hospital, only one of which serious, Nino othrs who showed nounced symptoms of the disenso vight now.~ Tho home has been tnoroughiy fumigated, disinfectants placed ovorywhero, and sulphur candles burned for hoursat o time. Thero are ninety-four littlo inmates, but only one fatality resulted. ODDS AND ENDS, Walter Judah, the fellow charged with pawning a gold ring which was loaned to bim by a young lady named Miss Bell McDonald, was arraigned in Justico Brown's court shortly bofore 4 p. m. today, He bad wotten the ring out of pawn, bu n the Judge requi of the Suit he de ! jail. The judge threatened to give hina Sentence and b tho request of the lady he was released after paying the costs, The case against O. C. Knapp, who was chargzed with graund lareeny, camo to an un- timely end this morning” in police court. < is tho young railtoad laborer who i3 ree, of rob- 'reo was v vindictive until he learned that if Knapp was bound over tho £75 would be tied up in tho hauds of the court until tho case was finished in district court, As this would be a greater hardship on kim than it would be punishment for the prisoncr, ho withdrew the testimony already offered and the c: a8 dismisseid for want of prosecution, 1die McGeo and Oswald Sparschuk, the ungsters churged with tho theft of 'some Rrates from a planing mill, wero also dis- charged for want of prosecution. David Vance was_equally lucky, as tho man_who charged him with stealing an ovorcoat did not show up. Thomas Ryan was given a hearing this morning on’ the charge of robbing a poor dumb man who earns his living oy acting as a displayer of goods i front of Horn clothing store. He was found guilty auc tenced to pay & ine of #5 and costs, the nor possession of which caused his incarceratio 1n the county jail. Johnny Cox, who destroyed a_ half dozen blankets whilo a prisoner tu the city jll, paid the damages this morning and was re- cased. The case against ngineor Ford for running his train too fast was continued until next Tuesday. John Sebring alias Smith, who was ar- rested several mignts ogo' on suspicion of being 8 deserter from the United States army, was released this moruing after’ the judge listened to a statement of the case. The authorities at Fort Omaha and Fort Riley had been notiflod of the man’s arrest, but nothing having been heard from them the judge thought the man should be released. Ired Shinn, the tough little fellow who hns been in a peck of trouble for several months, was taken up before Judge Stewart yester- day afternoon; and after & heaving ordered sent to the reform school. Young Shiun's mother is dead, but the father was as usual on hana pleading w allow the court to let him keep F'red, and claimiug that he was ablo to keep him out of miscnicf, but the plea has beou made too often and this time was with- out effect, is -— The Traflic Association. The traffic managers of one of tho western roads ridiculed the report from Chicago to the effect that several roads were chafing under the agreement of the Western Trafic/ association. Ho expressed the opinion that this statement had originated with those roads which had refused to gointo the asso- ciation, and which would, therefore, bs glud to see the agreement fail through. Tho re- port was no doubt, strengthened, he said, by the collapse of the anti-pass agreement, but such a report had no foundation, as the trafic association had not been in existence long ve had a trial, so that no ono ther it would b a success or a failure, All the ronds in_the western association, the gentleman remarked, were disposed to give the now arcangement a fair trial, and this would take some time. The roads ‘wero represented in the association by those who were in actual control of the several rouds, and would make no_difference whether tho other oficials of those roads were dissatisfloa with the arrangement, it would be for thoso in control to say whether the agreement should be lived up to or abrogated. Tho agreoment which had been entered into was biuding on all alike, and its existenco de- pended on the honesty and fair dealing of those composing the association, The Belt Line Service. The attention of General Manager Clark was called to the fact vhat a petition was be- ing circulatod asking that the old service ou the Belt line bo restored. “Will the people ot there patronize tho lineif the seryicois restored!” ho asked. “Wo are willing to run the trains if the pat- ronage will warrant it, and are willing to run them even at a loss, but since the motor Line havo be ou the Bolt line has T n extendod the traflic atly decreased, Belt line has never paid, but 1t was run more to accommodate the people in tho suburbs than anything clse, but when tho trafic decreased it was taken as an iodication that the service was not desired and it was dismissed, “Wo are willing to run the trains but can not do s unless the people patronize them.” Paper Company Sus SPRINGFIELD, Mass paper compas Liabilities, $000,000, the assets will cov ends, The Winona oke has suspended The company claims the liabilities. - * Dry Goods Faily at Butte. Burrk, Mont., Jan, 50.—James R. Boyco & Co.,dry goods, were forced to assign lust night. Assets, §125,0005 liabilities, §00,00. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—TJ, S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889. Baking Powder . ABSOLUTELY PURE frise, jury viewed the premises was a. b 1o could not walve,”" and along\ in support of the must. DY..e Health Oficer Bite- - \'» /‘