Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1891, Page 4

i i | | | | | THE DAILY o E. ROSEWATER BEmror. PUBLISHED TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, Daly and Sunday, One Year. Bix months. B Threo month funday i Woekly Bee, On VERY MORNING. OFFIC Tiee Bullding. . Comer N and arl Street. amber of Commeroe, New York. Rooms 13,14 and 16 Tribune Buliding Washington, 513 Fourteenth strect Omaha, T Routh On, Mth Stroets. CORRESPONDE relating to news and id bo addressed to vhe All commy editorial Editorial De BUSIN i S LETT A1l business and ro s should e addressed to The Bee Pubiishing Company, Omahn. Drafts, checks and postofMee orders 10 he made payable to the order of the come fie Bee Fublisting Com~any, Proorietors, The see 13'ld'z, Farnam and Seventeenth Sts SWORN STA I EMENT OF CIRCULATION, Btateof Nebraska, | o ty of Donglas, { B, Tzschuck, se Pablishing company, do that the actaal circalation of 10 tho woe follows Funday, Monday, ¥ Tuesday. I ry of Tue Ben solemnly swear itk DALY BER ending February 7, 1501, was as Friday, Fobru Baturday, Fo Average. ., ORGE B, TZSCAUCK, Sworn to before me and subscribed fn my prosenco this 7t day of Februry A, D, 101, Btate of Nebraski Count George ‘I, duly sworn, do- poses und says that he'ls secretary of T Brr Publishing ny, that the actial average datly circal of THE DALY BEE for th ponth of | ry, 180 larch, 1800, 20,815 coples; for coples L 1§00, 20,180 1800, 20, y, 100, for ‘Auzust, 1400, 10.750_copie 1800, 0,70 Coples; for Oetbbe fos; ‘for Noven by cember, 180, 25,446 copics Sworn to before me, and subscril prosence, this distduyof January, A ¥ RIL, otary Pubiie. S ——————————————— IT would not be surprising tosee South Omaha taxpayers scam pering for shelter in Omaha before the year wanes, T condition of affairs in the office of register of deeds has reached a stage where friendship must give way to publio duty. WuaT the legislature has lost In ag- grossive charms is made up by un active, well oiled lobby, Lincoln has seen few surpassing it in numerical strength and persistence, THERE i3 no scareity of senatorial tim- ber in South Dakota. The trouble is to find a quulity capablo of rosisting the logislative ux. The joint convention is toving with sapling THE necessity for a state board of health is not appirent. Thero is a cry- ing demand for n muscular sanitary com- missioner capablo of abating the nuis- ances that permeate the state capitol every year, — ONE difficulty is scarcely settled before another confronts the world’s fair man- agement. The working managers ap- pear unablo to grasp the fact that o national enterprise should bo conducted on broad national principles. ekl i THE record of bank clearings for the past woek present some notable foatures, While the aggregate decrease amounts to 6.3 per cent, the number of cities marking a decline is only 20, against 27 lnst week. The decrease is due to the sharp falling off in Now York Oity, amounting to 11.9 per cent. Four of the *'big five” western cities mark a decline, ranging from 23 por cent at Omaha to 14.5 at Denver. The record as a whole shows a slight improvement over the January average. THE controversy betweon the commis- sloners and the council as regards the expenditure of the road fund is very much like a quarrel between man and wifo as to the control of the purse strings, The city practically con- tributes four-fifths of all the money raised by the courfty, and the city ought to have the benefit of at least the lion’s share of the money its property owners contribute for public roads. To be sure itis all in the family and thero is very little difforence who pays out the money solong asit isnotdiverted from the purpose for which it was raised. If the commissioners would guarantee that at least half the fund shall be expended for street grading it would not matter whether the money was paid by order of the commissioners or the city councit. * It 18 announced s very probable that an extra session of the United States senato will be called to meet immedi- ately after March 4to consider highly important business. Tt is a matter of conjecture as to what this business will bo, but doubtless a reciprocity treaty with Spain regarding Cuba will be a part of it, it being understood that nego- tiations are now in progress. Very little gets to the public as to what is going on at the state department, but doubtless other muttors connected with reciprocity, which will require to bo passed on by the senate, are under con- sideration with such promise of being soon perfected as to warrant calling an extra session. here may be some agreeablo surpuises for tho country be- tween now and the date of the expira- tion of the present congress. —— THE most important work devolving upon the legislature is the revision of our revenue laws. Our systom of assess- ment and taxation Is defective and un- satisfactory. Our appraisement of tax- able property is altogether too low and our tax rate too high. The burden of taxation is almost entirely borne by the owners of real estate, while the men who have invested in stocks, bonds and mortgages are allowed to shirk their taxes under various pretexts A joint committee on revenus and tax- ation charged with the duyy of formulnting a new revenue code should be appointed without delay to make & thorough investigation of the defects and abuses of our assessment and taxation wothods and recommend such changes as may be needed to equalize the burdens of taxation upon all classes of praperty. USNIFORM USURY LAWS, Tt has been proposed to hold a conven- tion of western states to consider the question of adopting uniform usury laws, and several states have given favorable response 10 the proposition. It ought to be safe to assume that none will decline to participate in such a convention, which, if it should accomplish mothing more, would give an opportunity for the discussion of the usury question from the point of view of the intorests of the several communi- ties represented. There is no difference of opinion regarding the wrong and in- justice involved in the practice of usury, but there is diversity of views, duc to different Jocal conditions, as to where the line should be legitimate and usurious charge for money. This isillustrated in the vary- ing interest laws of the states. Insome of them a higher rate _of interest for money than 7 and 8 per cent is usury, while in others 10 and 12 per cent is al- lowed to be charged, and in some no limit is placed upon the amount that may be contracted for. The variance in the interest laws of most of the western states is not very wide, but still they are not uniform, and it seems desirablo to ascortain whether it is practicable to cstablish among them a common maxi- mum rate of interest, This the proposed convention would at least he able to do. The peculiar cir- cumstances and conditions affecting the price of money in cach of the states would be presented and considered, and from the information thus given there could be no dificulty in determining whether it Is expedient and practicablo for the western states to unite in fixing arate for money beyond which would bo usur, There is small reason to doubt that if such uniform legislation were secured, with adequate penalties also uniform, the effect would be to greatly reduce the practice of usury now overy- where prevalent in the western states to an extent that is eating upthe substanco and causing great hardship to thousands of people. The problem of how to do away with this evil is as old as civiliza- tion, and it is questionable whether it will ever be solved while avarice and cupidity are characteristies of mankind, but it may be held n check and restrained from exercising its full capacity for wrong and injustice. In order to do this an essential requl ment would seem to be uniform legisla- tion by states having in this respect a common interest to subserve. A TROUBLED ORGANIZATION. The new Western Trafic association appears to be ving quite as much troublo as its predecessor, and the promise of its being able to accomplish anything by way of improving the rail- road situation is far from encouraging. What now looks like a serious difficulty is the result of dissatisfaction regarding the division of southwestern traffic, and itis reported that the Santa Fe com- pany proposes to givo immediate notice of withdrawal from the association. Meantime the efforts to get the Alton and other ronds which have thus far doeclined to sign the agreement to entor the association have proved unavailing, while a number of small roads within the territory of the associution obstinately remain on the outside ready to give whatever annoy- ance or trouble they may find opportun- ity for, Itis said that the number of roads which have not signed the agree- ment is larger than of those that have, and as many of the former are in rather poor financial condition and doing a light business, they cannot be depended upon to bold up rates if cutting them would increase their traffic, Thus up to this time the new agreement appears to have accomplished nothing toward bet- toring matters, while it is already threatened with disintegration. The New York Sun is authority for the statement that Mr. Jay Gould and Mr. C. P. Huntington did not entirely approve of the presentagreoment, which did not go far enough to suit either of them, and that they accepted it simply as a step in the right direction. That journal also says that sinca the associa- tion was formed mneither Gould nor Huntington has been idle, nor have they abandoned hopes of ultimately per- fevting an alliance between the rail- ways west of the Mississippi which will reduce the evils of competition to a minimum. A scheme these managers are said tonow have under considera- tion is the consolidation of the Missouri Pacific, the Southern Pacific and the Atchison systems, which have « mileage of over twenty thousand miles, If it be true that negotiations arein progress between Mr, Gould and Mr, Huntington the result will have great intorest for railroad circles if not for the general public, which it isnot to be expected would be benefited whoever of these two magnates should get the better of the bargain, One thing may be accepted as certain, if Gould and Huntington have concluded that the new agreemont will not work to their advantage, as would scem to be implied in what is reported regarding them, the Western Traffic association will not continue beyond the six months prescriboed for its duration, From pres- ent indications it appears quite possible that it will go to pieces before that time, In the campaign for union of tho two Omahas, the chief argument of the op- position was that anaexation meant a vast increase in taxation, It was claimed that South Omaha taxpayers could nov stand the Omaha levy, and that it was decidedly cheaper to main- tuin an iudependent municipal govern- ment. i These fallacies wore exposed at the time, and the people warned against the consequences to follow the defeat of annexation, A bl pending in the legislature, amending the act governing *‘cities over 8,000 and less than 25,000 inhabitants,” is designed to meet. the financial emer- n South Omaha. It provides for atax for the year 1801, of 18 mills for goneral purposos, 8 mills for police and & mills for the fire department, a total of 34 mills, an increase of 16 milis over the present law. After 1801 the levy 1s limited to 12, 6and 5 mills for the three funds respectively. But this is not all. The mayor and the council is author- drawn between a | 1704 tolevy “such tax for interest and sinking fund of the bonded debt as may bo requisite.” Even this increase in taxation, if authorized by the legislature, will not materially improve the financial condi- tion of the packing town. The running expenses of the city government for the fiscal year of 1880-90 were $86,745.48, The expenses for the first three months of the current fiseal year wore $19,944.50, or atthe rate of $80,000 a year. A 28- mill levy on the present valuation would yiold $62,580, leaving nearly 20,000 unprovided for. Last yoar the losy for intercst on the debt was 7 mills. The city now owes 810,000 interest, and thelevy to cover this amount and the interest on bonds due next October will be about 15 mills, If the bill becomes a law, the levy for 1891 will reach the snug sum of 49 mills, or1l mills greater than the levy in Omaha. In this calculation thero isno provi- sion for a sinking fund for the payment of bonded indebtedness, nor is the an- nual overlap taken into account. These deficits must be met or the credit of the city will suffer. The prosent cost of the government would alone require a lovy of 45mills. A radical curtailment of expenses must be had or bankruptey is inevitable. Meanwhile the costly folly of defenting anmnexation is brought home to the pockets of the taxpayers. SHIPPER AND COMMISSION MAN, The question has recently been re- d at South Omaha, as it also has at Chicago, whether a shipper shall have the right to sell his own . stock in the market, or to employ an agent who does not acknowledge the rules of the ex- change. It is reported that the South Omaha oxchango has taken decisive action in the matter, and notified an offending member that he will be expelled from its organization. His offense consists in acting as vhe agent of a party of ship- pers and transacting their business for a smaller commission than that fixed by the iron-clad rules of the exchange, in other words, he represents shippers who ask no favors of the commission houses and all not disposed tosell cattle through them, or to allow them to say what commission they shall pay. This is a blow at the present sy tem of putting catile on the market, and the exchange attempts to cast it out by denying the shippers’ repressntative the privileges of the yards, so far as it can control the market. It is difficult to seo on what ground the stock exchange can base such ac- tion, excoptupon the ground that it claims the right to handle all the cattle that come to market and to fix its own charges for the service, without regard to the wishes of the shipper. Commission men have been very useful to shippersand are, perhaps, quite indispensable tosome of them. Shippers who desire to do bus ness with them will not complain atpay- ing reasonable prices for their services. But why should men who do not require their assistance be compelled to pay commissions fixed by the rules of the exchange? Why should not every man have achance tosell his cattle in the open market, with or without the assist- ance of members of the exchange, ac- cording to his own preference? By what right does the exchange assume to say that the shippers shall not organize, appoint their own agent and pay for his services what may be agreed between them? The arbitrary course of the exchange will nov commend itsell to the judgment of the public, and tho legislature may try theeffect of law in dealing with it. CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE. Prof. Goldwin Smith, in a letter to the New York Zimes, forecusts the result of the coming parliamentary eiection in Canada as likely to be unfavorable to unrestricted reciprocity with the United States. Hesays that beneath the im- mediate question of trade with this country lies the broader issue between a continental and an anti-continentul policy. The liberals, whether they look for the ultimate absorption of Canada into the United States or not, regard the inhabit ints of the entire continent as partners with whom they de- sire to cultivate the closest rola- tions. The conservatives, on the other hand, wish to keep Canadu in all things divided from her continent and attached to Great Britain, where tho social cen- ter of their party lies. Practically they seck to make Canada, to state the situa- tion in Prof. Smith’s own way, the en- gine of the conservative avistocracy of Great Britain for averting the triumph of demoer: in the new world and keeping a part of the American conti- nent under aristocratic institutions or influence. The sentiment in favor of continental free trade has been making steady prog- ress among the people, and it is the ap- prohension that ayear hence it might be- come so strong asto overcome the con- servative influence that iaduced the government to go to the people at once for their judgment on the issue of en- larged and closer trade relations with the United States. In doing this the government has been mostcareful to de- clare its unalterable opposition to unre- stricted reciprocity and to any scheme of commercial union that would involve a diserimination against Great Britain, On this line the coutest will be fought, and as the government has all the political machinery in its control, and is not averse toem- ploying methods that are not strietly in keeping with fair and honest politics, thore is evory reason to expect that it will be successful in securing a popular verdict favorable to the programme of a new trade arrangement it hus announced, The railroad corporations and the man- ufacturing industries generally can be depended upon to support the govern- ment policy, so that its efforts will need tobe exerted only with the agricultu- ral producers, and while itis notdoubted that a majority of these are favorable to unrestricted reciprocity, they are not strong enough to carry the country on that platform. Whilo the conservative party in Canada is committed to an effort to se- cure partial reciprocity, ivis a question whether, in the eventof its success, par- ticularly if its policy should be endorsed jority ¢ it would make rlon o carry out the Aven. But in any caso Canada in behalf of o is not likely to go backward. Thelf new tariff of this country has, ns Professor Smith ree marks, irritated the Canadians while they have hardly yet had time to feel its pressure, but this feeling will pass away, any very groalel assurances it h the movemont continental free and perhaps the more rapldly when the | pressuro of ougtabiff begins to be felt. Meanwhile the Aperican people are in a position to regird the matter with a large measure.of complacency, if not indifference, in view of the fact that much promising progress 1s being made toward free trade in other directions. — GOVERNOR Boyp will render thestato valuable service if he will serve notice on officials and employes of state insti- tutions to attend to their respective duties and keep out of the lobby. If the legislature desires any information con- cerning the condition of state institu- tions, not obtainable from the biennial reports and governor’s messages, it will summon such officials as may be able toenlighten its committees. But the habit of officials to hang around thestate capitol for the purpose of lobbying for approprintions ispernicious and should be discountenanced. ———— THE political afiliations of candidates for the vacancy on the board of public works are of no consequence to the peo- ple. Ability and integrity should alone be considered. The board has charge of work aggregating nearly one million a year, the bulk of which s taxed against the real estato owners. The re- sponsibilities of the position demand that the vacancy be filled by a man of more than average ability, one who will protect the interests of tax-payers and resist the blandishments of contractors, THE treasurer of Arkansas adds a mite of 96,000 to the long roll of south- ern deficits, with several back number accounts to hear from. Like the dis tinguished Mr. Tate of Kentucky, tho Arkansis treasurer enjoyed a monopoly of the office—so much so that he re- garded it as personal property and dis- bursed the funds accordingly. NotIf You Dismount Before Entering. Williamsport Republiean. Is it wrong t rido a bicyele to church on Sunday. Wh RN S t0 Be Truthfal, New York Herald, Botween campaigns weought to be able to tell the truth about our public men. But a racy falschood always lus charms to soothe thesavage breast. - € seless Legislation. o Trihune, abundant in_proportion to the wants of borrowers it can be obtained at low rates of interest without theinterven- tion of law, and the law-making power can no more force the leriding of scarce money at low rates of interest than it can make water run up hill. A Grooming Ancther Horse. New York Herald, ~ If Messrs. Hill--and Cleveland conclude to knifo each other in 1802 the Boston Globe wotld ifks 1 triow how young*Gdvernor Russell of Massachusetts would suit. That isnota bad idea, neizhbor. Russell is vig- iiny, level headed and eloquent, He ohas the couraye of his~ convictions. It might not be a bad idea to give that thor- oughbred youngster a fulr show. Uniform Text Pooks Buena Vista (Col) Demoerat, The bill now before the legislature provid- ing that the state shall furnish school books free to pupils of the public schools should be- come aluw. The present lack of uniformity in text books throughout the state, combined with frequent changes, male it a great hard- shipon the poorer parents and an unncces- sary taxon those letter able topay. The school book monopoly, as at present consti- tuted, preys upon the public ina way that is little short of an outrage, 2= SR Beautitul Snow, Smith & Gray's Monthly., B Ball ow, Flies, Jox, Hat Know. Dies. Hands Gent Small, Mad Make Swears Ball. Bad. Gent Joy, Fat, Fun, High Boy Hat. Run, . PASSING JESTS. They made the stew in half a minute, The oyster chuckleq, “I aint in it.”” Atchison Globe: So many men are patri- otic to get even with an old eneiny. Wife—Do you really think, dear, that this bounet matehes my hawrt Husband (tired of wating)—~What does it matter? 1 it doesn't, all you have to do s to et another—set of hair. Harpers' Bazar: Hoffman Howes—The world owes everyone a living, doesu't it! Temple Court —OF course it does, Hoffmun Howes—Well, collect mine from it for me, and D11 give you hall. New York Herall; Hungry Jack—What haye you been doin’ lately, FPete? Bunco Pete—I did a man out of a thousand dollars about a year ago and since then I've been doing time. St Joseph News: Pig iron is provably ex- tracted from razor-baeked hogs. Greea—How was it the fox hunt turned out a falure " White—The fox striick; said he wouldn't run with non-union dogs, “Let me give you a weigh,”’ remarkea young Dilley os ho motioned Miss Amy to step on the scales, “My father is the‘only person who can do that, replied Amy] nchy. Washington Post: A current_varagraph states that antique spoons are quite the rage in Washington, Phis is, we hope, not a fiing at the very necessiry and estimable old beaux. e Now York Heralds" Coutempt is what we feel for the men'Who comuit tho sins we have no inlination fos 2 Lt S TR LOVE'S MESSENGERS, Kale Fleld's Washington. A bunch of violets, purple-twinged, Tied with a ribbon white— Like a tiny bitof sky befringed With a cloudlet steepea in silvery light— Lies on my desk toalght. “Ab! fragrant waifs of flower-wooed climes, Come, tell me, whenca areyet" Breathing lhmrf-)rrume into rhy mes And tones of richest harmuny, They fondly auswer me. *“We como from ouo whose love-lit eyes Would dim our doepest blue, Whose brow is fair as morning skies, Whoso ook s tho sunset’s’ softest ue,— Love's messengers 1o you." LITTLE OF EVERY' Blaine has bought a #95,000 house in Wash- | ington. It costs G4 contsto run & tealn & mite in England. Daniel Bandmann, the actor is ranching in Montana. From 188010 1500 the Indians decreased nearly 7 per cent, Telephones are now being introduced on board mon-of-war, The daily surplus of births over deaths in the United Kingdom is 1,5 There will be seven natives of Vermont in the next United States senate, New York and Brooklyn consumo dally about sixty thousand chickons. Alice, daughter of the poet, Longfellow, is a fine photographer of the amateur class. Six millions of dead lotters are annually torn and sold us old paper in Washington. The lurgest peach orchard in the world is at Blownwood, Tex., which contains 11,000 trees Theodore Calf and tamily have potitioned the Kansas legislature to have their names changed. There are §77.77 grains of purosilver in Moxican dollar and 371} grains in an Ameri- can doilu Queen Victoria was born on May 24, 1819, and succeedod her unele, William IV., on Juve 0, 1887, February troats tho days of the weck partially this year, 10 more of each, The Chinese have no stralght streots or walls, because they bslieve the dovil travels in a straight line, The first dictionary was complied by Pa- out-She, a learied ~ Chinaman, who hived in the year 1100 B, C, An oyster supper was given recently by the authorities of u Maine village in the interest of the “hearse fund.” The soreness can be extracted from a rag- ed wound or puncture by holding it over a quantity of burning svear. A London matrimonial agent boasts of hav- _ing arrauged 40,000 marriages between mem- bers of all classes of society, “Some people say,” says Evangelist Moody, “‘that s0 long as you are sincore it makes o matter what you believe or do.” In Aliska, 200 miles up_tho Yukon river, thesnow never melts, and in some places it is said w0 be fully two miles deep, The German emperor is a rapid talker, When he delivers an address in the reich! ho speaks at the rate of Previous to the time of Elizabeth tho only article to assist in eating was the jackknifo, which also served for sundry other purposes. High heels, it is said, owe their _origin to Persia, whero they were introduced o raiso the feet from the burning saads of that coun- try, John D. Rockefeller is a Pennsylvania Dutchman, who loves o quict apd simple home life free from extravagant surround- ings. Prof. Kocl's portrait has been printed on cotton handkerchiefs, which are advertised o be “good for nasal catarrh,” aud sell read- ily in Berlin, In Lake county, Tennessee, ashort time since, a young man'of twenty-seven married a widow of forty-nine, who has seventeen living children. AnnaC. Fall and her husband are ticiug law in Boston and present the bie spectucle of people doing their courting after marriage, Kato Field tells of a Washington woman wlho defines courage as the absense of petti- couts. I her lexicon it is clothes, not sex, 1 makes women cowardly. A horse treadmill grinding sugar cane and pressing out the juice for sale to passers by isan odd featurc of the wayside in Tampa aund one or two other southern cities. Auroe Brown claims the distinction of be- ing the lirgest woman in Georgia. She is forty-seven yearsold and lives in Houston county. Sheis b feet ¥ nches in loight and weighs over 300 pounds, Thomas Clark, who had kept the pledge of temperauce four years, was tempted by his aunt, Mrs. Riordan, to drink wine and went on aspree in New York, which ended in cut- ting her throut and killing her. . THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska, Rev. F. Moore has left Neligh for Texas. The Columbus police ran in ten tramps and a dog found in a box cartheother night, A special meeting of the Logan county al- liance will be heldat Gandy next Saturday, A Woman’s Relief Corns has been organized at epublican City with tweuty-tree’ men er John Penner of Gandy has killed thirteen s tuis scason, which brought him §2,50 im- There will be four and MNEWS 0. S. . Rounds has decided to remove the Hastings Gazette-Journal to Salt Lake A large number of counterfelt dollars, halves and quarters arc i ciroulation ab Pender. Fireman Hayes of the B. & M. had his foot badly mnshed in a collision in the Platts- mouth yards. Subscriptions are being solicitedin Schuy- ler to raise £,000 to secure the building of an oatmeal mitl. William Claypool of Cozaa has invented water wheel for elevating water into a tank for irrigating purposes, The coal shaft at Hubbell, which is now 300 feet deep, will be sunk toa depth 700 feet, “The citizens have raised $1,400 for that pur- pose. Abig bull charged through the strects of Ragan the other day and drove men, women and children in tho stores and houses for safety. There is talk of bonding Custer precin ct, in Keya Paha comnty, for the parposo of sinking an artesian well, to test the utility of Trrigation, H, B. Strong, the first postmaster and tho fiest B. & M. aizent at Elic Creek, diea Satur- day night, agea sixty-seven veavs. - Ho was a native of Onadaga county, New York, A shooting tournament s to be held at Valley Thursday, durmg which Jim May- head of Elkhorn’and Mark Turnor of Kik y willshoot a live bird match for 80 a W. S. Cormett has been appointed commis- stoner of Hitcheock county to succeed John H. Powers, tho contestant for governor, who hadw’t tme to attend to the duties of the oftice, Chief of Police Wheeling of Nebraska City 18 in trouble. e is charged with releasing o prisoner who had confessed to grand larceny upon the payment of 350 Wheeling asserts thut ke accepted the money as a reward for his services in runuing doivn the thief. Mr. Mack of Bennett, who discovered coal on the Winnebago reservation some weeks ago, is making preparations to sink a shaft iy thespring. He says there is rood coul and it burns as well asany coal ho has seen, He is making no effort to publish his find and will not until he sinks a shaft, Ernest Rottmann of Palmyra seemsto bo in trouble all the time. A few months ago he was arrested at Palmyra, charged with commitiing vape upon o farmer’s daughter living near Paimyra. Ho was acquitted, and the girl committed suicide, It was ma warm for him that he left Palmyra, rev ing ina few wecks, only to bo ai charged with selling liquor without a license. He got out of this scrape and found & dozen or more similar charges against him. Then he went to Corland. As soon @s he got to the town he was slapped Into the county jail on the charge of cohabiting with a_cerlain widow of that place. He was fined and went back to Pal- myra. In a day ortwo an officer from Cort- land arrived and took Rottmann back on the charge of carrying concealed weapons while there. He paid his fine, returned to Palmyra and is open for the next engagement. Towa, Mahaska county has about ninety divorce cases a year. “ Osceola county is moving for uniformity of school books, The chimney of the electric railway power- house at Burlington will be 107 feet high. Secretary Shaffer says, *‘the line of sugar beet growing includes all of lowaas regards climate,” Forty persons {mued the Methodist Episco- al church at Spirit Lake as the resultof the ate revival. The average number of patients under dally care at the Independence inssue asylum durlng January was 524, Charles T. Fenton and John Meeks, both residents of Webster City siuce 1556, died on the 1st Inst. The latter fell deat shortly after arising in the morning, Dr. D. J. Bunce of Nevada, once a _ noted {nmhl«\‘ and tippler, now doing Young Men's Christian association work. The rovival waveat Creston continues at high tide, Nearly five hundred converts havo Joined the Methodist church the past month, | Independence Journal: George L. Wooks | has recently rofused an offer of §,500 for | his yearling_colt Alltell, by Axtell 2:12 out { fi!lqAnlllu Dickinson, three-yoar<ld record Moadows, the oat thief who was arrested in Mills county recontly, 1s a half-brothor of Isaac Warren and a brother-in-law of Tony Gettlor, prominent and wealthy farmers liv- ing north of Glenwood. The factory of the Tri-State can company at Keokuk, which has been in operation less than a year, regularly employs 125 operativ and turn out 30,000 cans dail o monthly pay roll aggregates about § rmph(-t killed at Nauyoo, resides at Lamont, Decatur county, which 1 the headquarters of the non-polygamous reorganized church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Ho has lately given to the Aldrich collection in the state library steol engravings of his fathor, mother and their two sons, Elmer Warren, the suppesed murderer of Jumes O'Neil, who is in jail at Tama, is said 1o be insane, and there is a_ possibility after all that he is not the man, o confossed that he was to Detective Parcell, but some of the things he states are positively wrong, load- ing some to believe that he is notthe man, but only a weak-minded trarap. Courtship with a it of romanco in it has {usl closedin Dubuquo in tho marriage of lenoy 13, Hiebo and Miss Kate Spahn. The wedding was set foran earlier day, but be fore it arrived Mr. Hiebe, who is 4 tinuer, fell from the roof of s high school building and received injuries which were pro. nounced fatal by tho physicians. His be- trothed would riot surrender him to death, but followed him to the hospital and by as- siduous care and loving ministrations wooed bim back tolife, Utah, The supreme court has adjourned to meet April L. Tho Utah Central extension along tho Provo river is far advanced. Plans have been drawn and accepted for a fireman’s bulding in Provo. The Union_Pacific re month from tho ore busines station. ‘Phe Brigham Young cstate will have $00,- 000 worth of property to divide soon among the heirs. A 8,000 package mailedat Ogden Jannary 2, for Denver didi't reach its destination and two postal inspectors are looking it up. The supreme court _grantel Georgo W. Hancock anew trial. This is the noted Jonos Dhomicide iu Utah county more than thirty years ago. George A, Smith and John A. Van Pelt the Extension and other mining claims fn West Mountain mining dis- trict for £40,000, It is claimed that thereare $15,000 wor unaccounted-for terntorial warrants in cf 3 lation, issued in pastyears during the Mor- mon administration. ves $125,000 per done at’ Eureka wife have sold to At Coalville Fred Lowe, a barber, and Frank Repn, a quar, ‘man, quarrelled over a shaving bill, which resulted in Reppshooting Lowe to death in the stomach, Brigham Draper of Moroni_suffered from purtdal blindoess vesulting from smalipox. While lifting a hayrack he stooped down for something and a peg entered his loft ouly one in which he had sight, bursting the ball and renderving him now fotally blind. Mr. Draperis amanof a family, laviog a wife and four children, George Pearson, “40er?’ has operated in Park City ever since 'the camp began to grow. Hesecured a_group of twelve claims located near tho Anchor group and joining it on oneside. He has justsold this group to Dr. E. H. Taft of New York for a good round price. It goes s a lease duriug the time of payment, of three years, The purchaser is 1o pay $15,000 per year, one-fifth the ore in toyalty and spend not. less than ,000 per year in_improving the property until the final payments are made. Montana. Missoula is trying to organize a Young Men’s Christian associatioi. Bozeman citizens lave subscribed enough stock to have gas works put in. The Cumberlind mining company ercet a smelter at Castle in the spring. 1t i3 claimed that 60 per cont of all the ores mined in Montana are smelted at Anaconda, The censis bureau reports that 10,33 Indians in Montana. T than they numbered in 184, Victor Murray, employed in he will Enst Helena smelter, had boih arms crushed by the being caught in omo mas Prismersin the Dillor ure hours in rollor skating asmooth cement and skating floor, Of the six smelters of Butte now running only one is treating custom coprer oros. Some of the copper mines have been forced to shut_down on account of the staguution of the market. Hugh Byron, an old Montana pioneer who lives on & ranch near Silver City, went to Helena on the Montana_ Central train and as ho jumped from a car to the platform, foll and broke his collar bone, Three feot of high grado ore was tappod in the 200 south of the Mouitor, at Butte. I sinking theshaft to its present dej veins have been cut, from one of whi lower depth the last strike was made, In the Madison valley the rail almost impassaole, owing to the over water from the river. Porsons have been obliged to move from their hous safo quarters, This is almost & yearly occurrence. Five girls and a boy have been found guilty of systematically robbing n Grants- dile “store, The peculations amounted to about $500, None of them aro over twelve years old, and all belong to the bost fami- chinery. L puss their leis- The juil tloor mukes an excellent H lies in Girantsdale. Billings Gazstte: Tho B, & M. sur- veyors are still at work in the field, headed for Billings. The chief locating en- gincer is expected to be here within ten days and an_opportuuity will then be offered to talk over the route to Billings, whioh hus al- ready boen surveyed by Mr, Dowar, Wyoming. The Laranie gun club expects to purchase some quail and place them ou the Big and Little Laramie rivers and also in the Centon- nial valley, Burch and Rogers, the cowboys who fought a six-shooter ducl above Lander last week, are ut a lumber camp in the mountains. Both aro improving, but pneumonia is feared, as the lungs of each were strack by bullets, Wyoming jails need bracing, Two wecks ago three or four men, one ot them a United States prisoner, broke out of tho Sweot water Jail, and now' comes word that Woston county has o jail that was weak enough to let two men out, It is reported from Greon River that a scheme is on foot to divert the water of Boar river from its_original course by building a «canal from the head of Weber canon or some point on the Webor river to tap Bear river at Some poimt near the Utah and Wyoming line, A Cheyenne dispatch says that wyoming's clampion fat man is meeting with fair sio- cess in a desperate systematic effort to ieve himself of the belt and bull. In tho eatly wiater Robert Pilson of Port Stocle weighed 3% pounds. For months ho hus subsisted exclusively ou a diet of plain _strong toa and stale bread. Ho bas reduced to 800° pounds and hisheath is greatly ‘mproved,' Fora loni time Pilson coutd $leep only in i kncol- ing posture, and a fat growth about his heart, threatened his life. He 15 o morchant and an old timer, Joseph Smith, jr., the son of the Mormoh | | | | THE IRRIGATION COSVENTION, All Arrangements Completed for the Gath- ering Tomorrow Afternoon. The Belt Line's Route-The Sheedy Estate -Odds and Ends, Ber. ] —The which s stato irrigation convention, to bo hold in Lincoln on Wednes- portance of the matters to be discussed There will bo present probably fiftesn hun- dred delogates and the action taken by them will havo a porpotual effect on the faturo ssluterosts of the stato. Successive of erops in particulaly the wostorn they must beindependant of the rain supy which is somewhat uncortain. With such a ern Nebraska, with its rich soll_and superb climate, will bocome one of ‘the most pro- ductive states (o the union. Eniinoers aud men of svienco and practical information all i to agree that the remody lies almost at thedoors of many of the farmors, towit: The utilization of the water from the various great stroams that trave Length of the state, *“The question of bonefits is entirely beyond controversy. The benefits have boen dom. onstrated in neighboring states so completely that if wo had those we could draw a coir clusion, but wo hawe had atrial of irrigation in Nebraska sufticient, to confirm a conclusion that might be drawn from the exp furmers in neigh boring states, desirablo for every acro in the Missouri river to the C the eastern counties whol now thought of seriously double the yield. In cent treble or quadruple the natural rainfall. Aud in erncounties the products to non -ir, as a considerable finite quantity ‘The local arrangements for t have been atiended to. Irrigation is it would cetainly tho extreme w to zero.” will probubly preside. convention. Hon of trade and a les ding mem! the convi arorequested o name a chairman, make up a listof delegates and havo it ready for the 1tion to order. commitwe on enrollment. 1n 10 ANY COUNLY MUY PEISON OF Persvns p nt from such coun vited to sit in the tives from those counties. Reduced haye been securea on the various railronds. There will bo a committeo on legisiation appointed at the convention to act in con- 1cCook, Sidney and Ogallala, and possibly other points where action has been taken, to formulate bills and other matters for legisla- tive consideration and action. Tho legisla turo will also probably be asked to make an appropriation to assist m the beginning of irrigation enterprises. As tho the legislature are farmers it is believed that they will do all in their power in tho furthor. o of this great enterprise which it is bo- lieved will prove a boon to the tillers of the soil throughout the state, Tomorrow Ropresentative Oakley will ask permission of the house 0 have the uso of representative hall for the evening session. DISTRICT COUNT OPENS The February term of district court opeued this morning with Judgo Field presigiug. Before proceeding to thecall of dockets Hon. Charles L, Hall addressed the court ou the necessity of impressing on tho legislature the fact that Lancaster county should be created intoa separate judicial district, with threo judges, and submitted a table showing that the numbor of cases in_the district court had increased from 116 in the October torm of 1871 to Sit in the present term. il offered the following resolution which was unani- mously adopted: That it 1y the opinion of Lancaster bar on ac- count of the great volus zal business of Luneaster county that thls e should b placed in a judicial di by itself, with not 5 than three Judges for sald distriet, and that th Courtappoint wcommitteo of ton meinbors of this bar with 1 1. Wilson president of tho bar assoclition as 1ts chwirman to a0t with and seek | Third the com mittge already appointed by the caster bar association tosecureut the pre session of the legisiature, the redistricuing of thy «ln conformity with this resolution Thereupon the court. appointed the follow- ing commit HLoH. Wilson, man, O O. Whedon, E.P. Holmes, 1. . Brow, J. B. Stre 0. I, Dayi H. K. Rose, John L. Doty, W.'H. Woodward, A. J. Sawyer, T, C. Muiger. Tho following names have been drawn for jury duty during the two weeks beginning today: Webb Haton, Third ward; Waltor Deitz, Buda; James' Kyle, Mill and Rock Croek; H. B. Vaile, First ward; James G. Beck,” Pirst ward; J. W. ' Ruffner, ward; A. K. Hardin, Seventh ward; T." "B, Raymond, . First ward; C.' L. Harrison, ' Second ward! L. Baker, Sixth ward; 0, B, A oxan- ber, Birst ward: J. M. Meyers, Rock Creck; J. D, Bruuer, Fiest ward; D, I Tubbs, No- maha; P, M. McKiuney, Sceond ward; J. Johus, Nemaha John Doolittle, Pourth ward F. 1’ Pardoe, Second ward; J. C. Stire, Fourth ward; A. D, Grogg, Third ward; J. H. Hurley, Fourth ward; H. L. Audrews, Fourth ward; K. W. Pynchon, Seventh ward; . B. Davis, Third ward; Mike Pad- den, Second ward ; H. 5. Bowers, Fifth ward ; J. K, Adums, Pirst ward; Willism Robertson, Second ward; B. K. Young, Lancaster; K. Adams, Middle Creck, Henry Mohr, charged with shooting his wife with intent to kill, aud Tom McGuigan, charged with stabbing his mistress, will bay ¢ their trials tomorrow, T'ho court overruled the motion to dischargo Albert, Chnll, who s under_indictment for horso stealiniz, and Albert will have to faco the music Carrie A. Scholl this mornmg dismissed the potition for divorce against her husband, Johu G., rotaining the right to bezin anather one whenover she wantedto. Carrie securod a divorco from the court last November, but beforo she had time to get marriod again John had it set asido becauseof fraud and deceit. SUEEDY'S BSTATE, John Fitzgerald. admimstrator of the estate of John Sheedy, filed his inventory of prop. erty today in probute court Good judg however, say the realty valuations are only about two-thirds value, The Hotel Muack property is inventoried at $24,000; the dence property where the murder occurred is placed at £24,000; the half juterest in the lot on ¥leventh street, just morth of Rich- ard’s block, ad #,500; 1ot at Nineteen and Q, 2,000, and eighty ucres of land m Clay county, persoual property, mcluding fur- nivure, chocks and notes, but no money in banks or ou hand, 15 valuod at §5,000, 0DS AND ENDS. As tho prosccuting attorney in the Ne beny-Littlefield eriminal libel case is absent from the city, the warrant has not been served. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—1, 8. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889, ol Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURF FIFTEEN HUNDRED DELEGATES EXPECTED. Opening Session of the District Court Lixcoiy, Neb., Fob. 0. —Spocial to Tus part of the state have taught the {armers that dificulty removed, it is conceded that west- almost the entire A gentleman interested in the matter suys: ence of obraska trom rado line. In e irrigation is mot 1 Nebraska it wiil jeld produaced by io of possible irrigated ated products would bo 5 convention The fiest session, at 2 p. m. Wednesday, will convene at the state universi pel, ' Kx-Governor Furnas, the pioneer ate of irvigation in Nebraska, No individual in the stute could more fAittingly preside over such a 1. H, Oakley, president of the Lin- of house of the legislature, will call County delegations aso dele- gations have not been formally appointed v or counties will be in- convention as representa- ates nuction with the committee appointed at majority of day, promises to bo the most remarablo gaths___ - ering ever hold in the stato, not only la point of interest, but also in numbers and the im- ‘ 1 74 vt