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4 THE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER Eniton PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 81U BSCRIPTION, Dally and Sunday, One Year. Bix monthe A Three monthe, Bunday Bee, One Year. ... ....... ) Weekly Be PEITPTTH . 1 malia, The Bee Building N and th Streets. | 18treot., nber of Commeres, New York. Room 15, Tribune Buliding Washington, 513 ¥ nth street. CORRESPONDENC All communieations relating to nows and | o should be addressed 1o the tment. BUBINESS | All husinessletters and remittances should | bo uddressed to The Bee Pubiishing Compan O a. Drafte, ehecksand postofice or yable to the order of the o The Bes Publishing Comrany, Proorictors, | The 180 B'1d'g, Farnam and Soventeenth Sts BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, | Bt Nebra - County of Douglns. { Gee 3 Tzschuck, Publishing company that the tual circn for the week ending February 14, follow s rotary of Tre B 0, wis ns | rhraary 8. 1 February 0 Fohruary (0 Febraary i hruary 12 y I3 %410 25,654 20047 | 4 822 | hursdiy, F Friday, Febr Baturday, Febru Average. ...... « Bworn to before me cribed i my presence this 1ith day ary A, D, 1801, . I Kusry, ; Notary Publio. Btate of Nobinska, | County of Douglus, | George Tzschuck, belng duly sworn, de- poses and £ays that he 18 secretary of THE B Publishing company, that the actual avera, danly circalntion of Tik DALY I X 1800, Jil : for April, >3I~l> coples; FRANCE is coming to the world’s fair, Now let Chicago take pains to see that there is a fair. EVEN the incorrigble mugwumps take off their hats respectfully to Mr. Blaine when Brazil is mentioned. SONS who deny charges before aro preferred are open 1o the suss picion of being too honest. — Tr authorities are after the self- appointed relief agents, ana they may bein real need of charity before long. —— THE stato does not need a boiler in- spoctor halfas much as some political patriot hungers for the job of chasing feos. DEMOCRATIC eloctoral votes arenot among the products of the silver states, and Mr. Cleveland is well aware of that fact. TIME does not weary nor death dismay the consuming desire of St. Louis claim jumpers to secure by hook or crook a foothold on Omaha property. THE alacrity with which the postal department conceded the vigorous de- mands of South Omaha is an example the parent city might follow with profit. No rovised jury law will dovetail with justico that does not grant an annual va- cation to the professionals. Rotation and recreation 18 essential to their health, THE suggestion that young Emperor William may “suppress Bismarcl” sounds a little grotesque. The world has produced few men equal to that un- dertaking. —_— THE fact that New York casts more electoral votes than the silver producing states, with the Dakotas and Nebraska thrown in, goes to show that the prophet of William street isa close student of l oyclopedia. THE finance committee of the house displays commendable zeal in behalf of the taxpayers. To sanction extrava- gant appropriations or authorize new extensifis to state institutions atthe present timo would bo o gross outrage on the peoplo who pay the bills, ALTHOUGH the journalistic acrobat of Omaha has recently become enthu- sinstic for irrigation the people in the western part of the state have not for- gotten that ho was justas strongly in favor of turning their homesteads over to cowboys less than one month ago. — THAT was a very tender and touching sentenco in President Harrison’s mes- sago to the family of General Sherman | stand e | in his treatment of the me; | some "It will bo as if there wore one dead in every loyal household in the land.” Tho sentiment of universal mourning could hardly be more beautifully ex- pressed. Besddiios oo, SENATOR VEST is among the leading democrats who now haul down the Cleveland banner. The senator says noman can be greater than his party. But he forgets Mr. Cleveland’s first claim to distinction was based on the ground that he was ever so much better than his par! That was the mugwump idea, and @ worked fairly weoll THE experiment of conducting future campaigns in Utah on republican and domocratic lines will attract widespead attention. Heretofore wvolitics, strictly spoaking, formed no part of contests in the territory. It was the Mormon church against the- field—retrogression | he must against progression. The sharp dofoat of the church party in its strongholds, tho drastic decisions of the courts, fol- lowed by the official ropudiation of polygamy as an article of creed, com- bined to shatter its political power while foreing it to place itself in accord with law and public sentiment. ‘Whether three parties will flourish in Utah time must determine, Itis more than likely the Mormons will throw their power with one of the two parties and disappear as a united quantit y from the politics of the territory., That such is the plan is apparent from the desire of all classes to hasten the admission of Utah as & state—a result dependent on the retirement, temporarily at least, of ,gle church from active politics, BAOKED BY A ROTTEN CREW. The only paper that has so far taken up the cause of the locches and shyslors who fastened themselves upon the inde- pondents as lawyers in the contest is a blackmailing sheet published at Lincoln by a brace of boodlers, This immaculate set of reformers probably expectsa liboral divy of the avpropriation for the great galaxy of | law-expounders, In ecase the legislature votes away the piople’'s money to pay their pretended claims, These despic able merconaries twist and distort evory utterance of THE BiE, because, forsooth, it unmasked their hypoerisy and dishonesty when it publisied the fact that they had offered their support to the Bank and Business Men's associ- ation for fifteen hundred dollars. A specimen brick of their wnd malice is embodied in the following misquota- tion: Here is th Rosowater of whom anguage in which spoaks of the contestants, back 'y allianco man in the state: They will hardly be justitied in levying upon the tax payers for the pretentious claims of awang of mountebanks and blather skites who are trying to work them for all they can ot “Mountebanks and blatherskites!" tiaese ave the men who have built T by their patronage when its editor pretended to be their friend and champion, It was to hayve been expected that Rosewater would have proserved some sem s of decency who have made him, Nobody but a set of unblushing knavos would have been guilty of such brazen perversion. Who has built up Tug BeE? Was it the shyster lawyers and political road agents who instigated the contest for their selfish endswhen it had no better basis than reports gotten up by nset of professional agitators who had nothing to lose and everything to gain by crying fraud when there was no fraud and howling about riots and mobs which were forcordained by them before the election when they expected to carry prolibition by disfranchising Omaha? Cun any rational man see any connec- tion between THE s reference to the greedy lawyers and the contestants? Does anybody contend that these law- yers have not proven themselves wountebanks and blatherskites in the way they conducted the contest? Has not their perversion of the laws and the constitution been the chief source of all the trouble encountered by the inde- pendents since the legislature convencd? We repeat, why should the state be taxed to pay the men who forced them- selves and their worthless services upon the candidates of the independents? Is it snfo to establish a precedent that would offer a premium to mountebanks and fee sharks to induce defeated candidates to start contests for their benefit after every state election? THE TEXT-BOOK BILL. The committee on schools has favor- ably reported tho text-book bill intro- duced by Represontative McReynolds, an indepondent. The measure provides that school boards shall make contracts with publishers for terms not exceeding five yoars, whon so instructed by a vote of their districts, Such contracts are to be wade with the condition that the prices of books shall not exceed the low- est terms granted to any dealer in the United States, and that the arrangement shall bo null and void if it shall appear that the publisher has becormne a mem- ber of any teust formed for the purpose of raising prices. The operation of this bill, if it shall becomea law, will be an improvement on the present loose systom, becauso it will seeure a betwr uniformity in text books and give districts the benefits to be obtained by placing large orders. But it will probably do nothing to do- liver the public from the warm embrace in which it is at present held by the school boolk trust. Very likely the author of the bill aimed to abolish the mononoly so far as it relates to Nebraska, If so, he will learn that the remedy Is insdequate to meet the evil, *“The lowest price en- joyed by any dealer in the United States” will doubtless be the price fixed by the trust. Tho provision which attempts to keep the business out of the hands of “any trust formed for the pur- poso of raising prices” means nothing. All trusts ave formed for that purpose. In view of the lateness of the session, the multiplicity of import- ant bills to be acted wupon, and the labor involved inthe arrangement of a good system of state publication, it may be that the McReynolds bill is the best that can be carried through at this time. If so, there should be an effort made before another legislature meots to unite the western states on plan that will give their hundreds of thousands of school chil- dron the benefits of text books obtained at the actual cost of publication, I'he corner in school books is one of the corners that should be polished off belore many more years go by. —— MIGHT HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT, In 1884, before the meeting of the re- publican national convention, Gereral Sherman wus importuned by prominont republican londers to become n candi- date for president. Among them was Mr, Bluine, whoin May of that year wrote the general saying that his nomi- nation for the presidency wasnot im- probable and urging him, if noninated, to “accopt the responsibility and assume the duties of the place to which you will surely be chosen if a candidate.” M. Blaine was cvidently deeply in earnest in desiring that General Shermanshould be a candidate. He wrote to him that not look upon a nomina- tion as the work of the politi- clans. “If it comes to you it will come as the ground swell of populnr dewnand, and you can no more refuse than you could have refused to oboy an order when you ware a licutenant in the army. If it comes to you at all it will come ns & call of patriotism. It would in such an @ven injure your great fameas much to decline it as it wonld for you to seelk it.” Tt is clear that Mr. Blaine believed that General Sherman was the man for the republicans to nominate at that time, but the old soldier did not agree with him, The reply of General Sherman was characweristic. He said that having chosen his caresr when, ia 1861, he re- solved to stand by the union **as long as o fragment of it survived onm which to cling,” and his oaroer since then, through faction, tom pest, war and peace, having been all that his family and friends could ask, he would not depart from it. He thought that the military men who did their duty in the civil var were entitled to absol ute rest, and should leave the work of peace to be done by those who understood it. **T have my personal affairs in a state of absolute safoly and comfort,”” he wrote. ‘I owe no man acent, have no expensive habits, envy noman his wealth or power, no complications or indicect liabilities, and would account myself a fool, a madman, an ass, to embark anow at sixty-five years of agein a carcer that may be- come at any moment tem pest-tossed by perfidy. The civilians of the United States should and must buffet with this thankless office and leave us old soldiers to enjoy the peave we fought for and think we earned.” General Sherman had a genuine dislike of politics, and when a young man had resolved never to embark in it. “‘The hrighhw?.’m(l best youth of our land,” he said, *have beon drawn into that maelstrom, and their vrecked fortunes strew the beach of the General Sherman was to the end faithful to his early resolve. IMPRUDE; ONOMY. There is an economy, as every prac- tical man knows. that is impradent and unprofitable. The merchant who rarely lets the public know what he has to sell, and when he does endeavor to take it into his conficonce goes about it in a ggardly sort of way, is cortaln to be outstripped in the race by his more lib- eral competitors. The city whose peo- ple are content to sit still and make no effort to let the outside world know of its opportunitios and advantagesis very suro to keep in the rear of the enter- prising and wideawnke communitios which constantly urge their elaims upon public attention. The same prin- ciplo applies to a state, In this age materal progress and prosperity is in proportion to the degree of encrgy and enterprise put forth to securs it. In the sharp and eager comvetition on every hand the winning individuals and the progressive communiti e those who exerciso a wise liberality in ikeeping themsclves before public attention. Nebraska hus not always observed this sound practical prineiple. On the econ- trary, there has been for the last yoar or two far more offort to advertise her deficiencies than to make known the conditions of prosperity in whicn she excels. The Columbian exposition will offer to all the statesof the Limion the greatost opportunity they have ever had to make a thorough exhibit of their re- sources and advantages and most of them propose making liberal appropria- tions for this purpose. Even soms of the states of the south that are most heavily burdened with debt contemplate an ex- penditure of 250,000 for a display of their resources at the exposition. But there are men in the Nebraska legisla- ture who seem unable to appreciste the value of this great opportunity, and who would so dwarf the exhibit of the state as to render it worse than worthiess. In their unspeakable narrowness they talk of the paltry sum of $10,000as suficient for an exhibit of Nebraska’s products and resources, It would bo far better that the state should not be represented in the world’s fair than to make the in- adequate and insignificant display it would be comuvelled to make with such "an amount. In comparison with other $tates Nebraska’s position in the fair would by ridiculous and huniliating and the effect would inevi ablybe severely damaging. It would be regarded as a virtual acknowledgement of all that has been said in depreciation of the state,and the unfavorable im- pression created it would take years of effort to remove. Itis possible that $100,000 will be suf- ficient to enable tho state tobe properly represented at tho exposition, but un- doudtedly the larger appropriation asked for could be wisely and advantage- ously used. There are many directions in which the legislature can practice economy more profitably and judiciously thanin the matter of anappropriation for an exhibit at the world’s falr. Itis prac- ticable to save more than half the pro- posed cost of the exhibit without im- pairing the efficiency of any branch of the state government, and it is the duty of the legislature to do this. But itis of vital concern to the future interests of Nebraska that the stateshall muke the best display possible inthe Colum- bian exposition, NEBRASKA BELIEVES IN HERSELF. Ttis gratifying to noto that the coun- try is hearinga new story from Nebraska to counteract the damaging reports that have been spread abroad in the last fow months. Within two weeks at least five notable gatherings have declared, in their reso- lutions, that the people of this state havo the utmost. confidence in its future and that Nebraska is abundantly able to take caro of any of her citizens who are temporarily in need. A convention held in Kearnoy on Friday last declured as foilows: ‘Whereas, Certain citizens of Nebraska have beenand are representing at the national capital, and otherwise advertising the state as insuffering and need of help from the na- tional government becauseof a partial failure of crops; ana ‘Whereas, Nebraska is one of the only two stales in the union out of debt, and has more than §5,000,000 in her school fund; and ‘Whereas, It is our belief that no other agri- cultural state in the union has been more uni- formly prosperous from its earliost bistory to the present day: therefore be it Resolved, That it is the sense of this meot- ing that Nebraska is abundantly ablo to take careof her citizens who are in need of help because of a partial failure of crops. Itis not to be doubted thut these reso- lutions correctly represent the senti- ment of the wajority of the wpeople of thestate. They are indeed very differ- entin character from the lurid appeals for charity contained in bushels of cir- culars sent out by seltappointed relief agents. They express a confidence in the resourcesand u pride in the condi- tionof the state that is conspiouously lacking in the unfortunate and unneces- sary appeal to congress for £1,000,000 of aid from that source. But in spite of those discrepancics they are far nearer the truth, These facts furnish astriking commen- tary upon th Tanner in which indis- creot philanth#epists, mostly of & politi- cal charactefy 4dvertised the state as the home of destitution before definite information was available and without stopping to cohsider what the state could hope to_recoive as compensation for the damage:done by the eirculation of insational wtories of distress. What was done cannot be recalled, but the people cannot too often or too loudly express: thoir confidence inthe great state in which they live. It is well to let thes country know that Ne- braska belioves in herself. ——— LIABLETO GET OFF THE TRACK AGAIN. The legislature is liable to got off the track again, The proposition to elect a stato rilroad commission by its own members is manifestly unconstitutional. See. X, Article “Exocutive” provides that the govornor shall nominate and with the ddvice and consent of the sen- ate appoint all officers whose offices are established by the constitution or which may be created by law, and whose ap- pointment or election is not otherwise by law or herein provided for; and no such officer shall be appointed or elected by the legislature,” As amatter of fact, this would not only knock out a railroad commission elected by the legislature butthe state relief commission named by the legislat “rein the relief bill appro- priating the first $100,000. No AMOUNT of dodging or legal suh- terfuges avail the corporations in their strugglo against the railroad laws of Jowa. The joint rate victory in the state suprome court is followed by another, which indirectly forti- the position of the state com- mission. The case arose on the complaint of an Ohio oil dealer. He shipped oil to Eagle Point, a station on the Milvaukee road, four miles from Dubuque. At first the company did not charge for the switching from Dubuque, but at the suggostion of a rival oil company imposed a charge of $15 per ca The railroad commission classed the haul as a switch and ordered a reduction to 2.50 - per car. This oeder the company sought to evade by establish- ing a new station betweon Dubuque and Iagle Point and charging the local rate. The case was takon Lo the state courts, but was appealed to the federal court, the company claiming it involved inter- state features, The latter court has re- manded the cuse to the state court for trial, holding the' question involved to be purely local. The decision is an im- portant vietory for the commission and a sharp rebuke of corporation trickery. The railroads of lowa and other states will presently discover to their cost that there is nothing to be gained by refus- ing reasthuble public demands and ob- structing the operations of just laws. THE resolution which has been of- fered in the senate as a substitute for the memoriul to congress to foreclose the Pacific railroad morteage is a mere subterfuge:~ The original resolution should either be voted up or down. To say that Nobriska will endorse anything that congress may seo fit to do in regard to the Pacific railroad debt would advertise the legis- lature asa set of chumps. If they have anything to say on this question it should he said without equivoeation, If they want to dodge the issue they had better table the whoie subject. Other wiso their action will be misinterpreted. IF the county commissioners are dis- posed to pay the reward offered for the apprehension of Noal, the money should go to themen who tracked and identified the criminal. And they are not resi- dents of Kansas Cit, THE stringency in the circulating me- dium must have reached an acute stage when an alleged newspaper editorially advertises a scarlet social event, THE weekly bank statement shows the reserve has decreased $1.750,000. The banks now hold $18,493,000 in excess of logal requirements, THE disappearance of important school board papers indicates the rising temperature of the investigation, Bound to Rise. St. Josoph News, Jay Gould is going to have a Western Traf- fic association of his ownest own. The pub- lic will soon notice the effect of it in the higher rates. ——— Way it Lok Bostm Glabe. Rumors of great railroxl consolidations fill theair. Possibly the tendency of railroads to consolidate is only preliminary to the uni- versal consolidation, which mauny predict, under the control of the government, S Gooa Idea Boston. Glabe. Another Peunsyivania mning horror, and thistime by water instead of fire! It is little wonder that a movement is on foot in that staie to compel the mining barons to takeout life insurance policies on their men, payable to the bereaved familes in case of disastor Y Our Unly Hope. San Franeisco Chronicle, There is but one.agency which would con- sentto carry on railroads for their actual ex- penses, and that is the governiment of the United States, Jay Gould and C. P. Hunt- ington then may b sllowed to demonstrato the advantages of egusolidation, for the bot- ter the showing they make the moro potent will be the argumentn favor of the govern- ment assuming contkol of all the great lines of milroad in the Unlted States. ———— To Rickers. Salinas (C@l.) Jowrnal. 1f you aro a kickgy and sco the shadows of failure in everything that is proposed to help the town, for heavon’s sake g0 1uto some se- cluded canyon and kick your own shadow on the clay bank and give the men who are working to bulld up a town a chance. One long-faced, yellow-cyed, whining, carping, chronie kicker can do more to keep away business and capatal from a town than all the drouths, short crops, chinch bugs, cyclones and blizzards combined. Good Men Needed. Ez-Cong-essman Amos Townsend of Ohlo, Many have asked me whether I thought Senator John Shermap would retive from ac- tive politics after his term inthe senate ex- pires. Ido mnot know positively. Ido not think he will for two wressons, Kirst, he is in full possession of his vigorous mental fac- ultios and isapower in tho senate: aud, second, the peopleof Ohlio will not consent for him to retire just yet. Al hehas to do is to halfway consent and he will cortainly #0 back to the senate. I donot think he will be n candidato for the presidoney. petiins -l Welght or Cowardioe. Cinetnnatt Tmes-Star, "'Yes id the farmer to the deaeon, “I'll either attond the prayer meoting myself or send a hand.” But Mr. Cieveland will neither attend the Jeffersonian banquet at Springfield nor send a hand, and the banquet is declared off. I Grover is to koep the ban- queting up and his adipose down he can't stort his proxy a day too soon. —e Had Heard it Before. St. Paul Globr, A Kansas City congrogation was not per- ceptibly shocked last Sunday when one of the preachers took for his subject, “Stand Patand Keep Mum.” There was a very familiar sound to it, but some could not re- call the placo to look for itin the seriptures. No technical instruction was given in the dis- course, but the practical feature was that they should mind theirown business and let other people have a chance to do most of the talking. [ — We Ave Rich, Minneapolis Tribune, Nebraska has been advertised ina most unprofitable manuer by thoe legislature's ap- peal to congress for 81,000,000 for tho velief of settlers on the frontier. Nebraska isa rich state, well able to care for her own poor. Tho sensible peoplo of the sgato should re- pudiate the action of the legislature ina forc- ible memorial to congress, and at the same time hustle up abig relief fund. That is about the only way ont of the Atlanta Constitution: Foreman—They say 1d Jones died with his boots on. itor—Yes, Mean man. Afraid to pull ‘em off for fear his wife woul. make him have ‘e half-soled. Mr. Glim—This is a long farewell, Mrs, Gurgoyle,. I'm going to California for my health, Mrs. Gavgoyle—Indeed! How did your health get that far away from you? St. Joseph Nows: If “Mahomet wore to come tothe mountain in West Virginia ne would probably be shot. *Ts the fellow who holds_ four aces Who has the serenest of faces, New York Herald : *Your omelet would be a perfect poem, my dear Lthel, but for one thing.” “What s that?" “You have mixed at least ono eighteenth century lay with the other eggs, which are essentially modern,” Atchison Globe: A good way to settle the kuife and fork pie controversy. is to take the picce of pie up in yeur hauds, and do the rest s if you were o hungry boy at a picnic. The late duke of Bedford satin the houso of commons for twenty-five years, and in the house of lords for eighteen years, in all a parliamentary career of foriy-threo years, and never opened his lips. His estate cov- ered 118 acres in London, with about 3,000 residences or shops. Indianapolls Journal: Wickwire-I _tell you, Yabby, my boy, there is nothing like a baby to brighten up‘a man's home. Yabsloy—I havo noticed that the gas seems to be at full height 1 your house at almost any hour of the night. The Man and His Girl. New York Herald. He bought, on the instaliment plan, A necklace for his girl; From storied Rhine the dismonds came, ‘Tho glassworks yielded pearl ; But, careless of its gorgeousness— She scouted Hymen’s altar— She sent it back: you sco, she feared It was a wedding halter! gl i, Not in Omaha. New York Herald, City Parson—L have been appointed mis- sionary to the heathen and — Chorus of Parishioners—You are not goiog leave us, are you! City Parson—Noj; they told me to stay just where I was, O Teciprocity. Washington Dot Come in Brazil, gnd be not slow; With good for all intended You'll find your sugar gets a show With “frée list”” not “suspended.” ———— Couldn’t Miss That. New York Herald., Ho (on his knees)—-Miss Watelong—Edith 1am too full to speak. I— She (anxiously)-Go on, Mr. Bullion, not, wait until you sober up. Do et No Triumph So Swoeet. New York Herald. No after triumph brought such joy, Although our beards be gray, As. with our first wateh, when'a boy, We were asked the tine o' day. o You and the Devil. New York Herald. When the friends of o young girl who can recite “Curfew’ and like piccos in_a “hair- graying” way advise her to go on the stage, T'ho devil just stands around and feels happy. st ttsl g PERSONALITIES, Fdgar Pawcett is much opposed to the use of dialect m literature, Albani, the prima donna, has o cousin the grocery business in Lewiston, Me, Queen Victoria's son-in-luw, the marquis of Lorne, is_writing o novel called “F'rom Shadow to Sunlight,”” with an American girl whom he once met for a heroino, Governor Tuttleand council have appointed Miss Sanborn of Laconia, N. H., a notary public. She is the first woman uppointed notary publicin the state of New Hampshire. Editor Smith of the Punxatawnoy Spirit is one of the new members of the Pennsyl- vania logislature, and he writos homo to sy that the only reason why new members are tolerated at the capitol is because there is a law against murder. Jumes Clement, an oid resident of S, TLouis, has some interesting recollections of Charles Lever, the novelist. He remembers him as a dark-oyed, nervous man, very affeoted in his manner and as emotional, when excited, as a French dancing-master. Mr. Windom, like General Grant and Seo- vetary Manning, was a great smoker of cigars, and his excessive use of tobaceo is supposed to have aggravated bis heart trouble. Ho was disinclined to take any physical exercise and disliked walking. Fven in going the short distance from the treasury building to the white house he was accustomed to take a carriage, n — SHE'S WINNER, Wide Awale, Sha is modost, but not bashful; F'ree and easy, but not bold; Like an apple, rive ana melow-- Not too young aud not too old. Half inviting, half repulsive; Now advancing and now shy “There is mischief in her dimple, There is danger iu her oye. She has studied human nature, She is schooled in all the arts, Sho has taken her diploma As the mistress of all hearts, She can tell the very moment When to sigh and whea to smile; Oh, n maid 15 sometimes charming, But a widow—all the while, Aroyou sad? How very serious Will her handsome face becomo! + Aro you angry! Sho is wrotched, Lonely, friondless, fearful, dum Ave you mirthful? How ber laughter, Silver sounding, will ring out! She can lure and cateh and play you As the engler does tho trout, Yeola bachelors of fort Who have grown so bold and wise; Young Americans of twenty, With the love looks in your oyes; You may pructice all the lessons “Taught by Cuptd sinee the falt; But I know a little widow Who could win and fool them all THE EXPENSES OF NEBRASKA. What it Has Oost to Run the State the Past Two Years. FIGURES FROM THE AUDITOR'S REPORT. CeleBration of the Founding of the State University at Lincoln— Other News From the State Capital. Lixcoty, Neb., Tob. 15.—[Special to Tne Brr]—The biennial report of the auditor shows the following expenses to tho state auring the past two ¥ Loglslutive exponses « ernor's office. .o Adjutant gorn s offico Commission of labor . f,nlw "0 Secrotary of stat . 17 0 Auditor of public Troasurer. i Girssatil Superinwndent of pubiic Tnstra thon Jie v Attorney gencral AT Commissionerof publie lands District court ... ... 4 Board o nds and Dfidings wnal lands and d supplies nkin Trene BX100 00 « Ar Siesti 1381340 00| Institute for the blind 0.0 16,048 00 Institute fc 1 dunib 74,000 00 Home for 1 = Industrial honie. ... State board of transpo Soldlors' and saflors” homo e State university Total ff Willard Wilhite of Emporia, Kas., in the city with Frank Steadman heavily manaclod. Stead- man's home is Kmporia and he is wanted for criminally assaulting six-year-old daughter, Tho enild is physicallv ruined. After the crime Steadman flod to W yoming, where he was captured by tho sherifl a fow days ago. AtS o'clock this ovening Sheriff Wilhite left withhis prisoner for Emporia. SIE DREW A GUN. Shortly after 10 0'clock 18t night OfMcer Splain found Will Valhowe and Mrs. Ella Shutt occupying room 17 in the Sheldon block, When theofficer ontered tho room Murs, Shutt produced & revolyer and threat- This afternoon She: EINSURANCE STATISTICS, Business NDone by the Varlous Come Lixcory, Neb., Feb, 15.-|Sneci Tim Ber)--The following is a summary of the business done by the various insurance com- panies in Nobraska the past yoar and shows the premiums received by each company, { losses fncurred and the ratio of losses u premiums. It is of interest not only to every insuranco man in Nobraska, but also to every person concerned in any way in insurance Namo of Company. " , Boston. . American Contral, 8t Towis owark . | 0w York .. .. ., Philadel phia. . 1, Boston ¥ Awmorten, T Burlingt Caledon Callforn s, Clty of London. Dotrolt 1. aud M., D ¢ , Boston 0. Conunty plila, Phidndely Firoman’s Fund cls y ¥ riukn Tns, Portsmouth of the Sate of! nsylvanda, Jersey City, T encd toshoot him, She was quickly dis- armed, and_after she donned her garme was escorted, in_company with Valhowe, to the police station and locked up. The wor i attractive and stylishly dre She s the wife of Georgo M. Shutt, a cooper, but has not lived with lim for_over a year. Vallowe is the son of H. H. Valhowe, tho well known grocorat 711 North Fourteenth The polico have been shadowing the pair for some time, CHARTER DAY, Yesterday was the twenty sary of the founding of the state university and tho event was duly celebrated. A largo number of citizens, visitors in the city and school children availed themselves of the op- portunity to visit the various builaings con- nectod with the institution. I[n the evening o large number of persons gatherod at the university to attend the formal exercises. Addresses were mado by ChancellorBessoy and President Gero of the board of regents, econd anniver- and President Peabody of the Illinois state university, IRRIGATION OFPICERS, The law committee of the irrigation con- vention is still at work. The bill being pro- pared by them provides for a chief engineer at 82,500 a year, a deputy av §1,200, a superin- tendent in each district at 85 per day, all to be appointed by the governor and approved by the board of public lands and buildings. Water commissioners for sub-divisions or districts are to receive § per day. 0DDS AND ENDS, Among tho persons admitted to practice In the supreme court last ovening was a lady vamed Fannie O'Liun of Dawes county, The persons chosen last evening as mem- bers of the executive board of the state as- sembly of the Knights of Labor for the com- ing year are C. W. Miller of South Owaha, George W. Blake of Lincoln and M. Houck of Holdrege. ‘I'ne total real estate transfers in Lincoln during the past six days amounted to §2i7, 087, Judge Field has refused a new trial Henry Mohr, who was convicted of malie- fously shooting his wife., Anappeal will be taken, e NEARLY ASPHYXIATED. Mrs. Leigh and Her Little B Narrow Escape From Death, Mrs. Leigh and her little son, who reside at Thirty-fifth and Cameron streets, had narrow escape from death Saturday night. At 9 0'clock when they retired a hot firo was burning in the stove, and to checx it the cold air draft was pulled out. Assoon as the firo began to burn low the gas commenced 1o escape. This continued until tho coal burned out, some time during the night. Yesterday morning a boarder at the house in going to his breakfast discovered the house locked and the curtains drawn. He rang the bell, but as there was no response forced the door, to be met by the strong fumes of the gas The doors were thrown open, and going to Mrs, Leigh's room found her and her son un- con: us, Dr. Lord was called, and after administering restoratives the peoplo recoy cred, but are still in & very precarious condi- tion. — INJURED 8Y A MOTOR. A Messenger Foy Meets with a Pain- ful Accident. Melvin Baker, a lad thirteen years of age, met with a painful aceident yestor- day. The boy delivers messages for tho Western Union telograph company and was on his way up town. As he reached Six- teenth streét he attempted to cross just in front of a motor goiug north. The motor man saw the boy as he stepped on the track about six feet ahead of the car, and atonce reversed his machine, but before the train could be stopped the motor had struck young Baker and thrown mm in front of a car com- i from the north. This car caught him tossed him off the track. The two motor men carried the boy into Kinsley's drug store, where his wounds, which consisted of o fracture of the right arm and a severo scalp wound, were dres rozen, .—[Special Cablogram to —A heavy snowfall has blocked the railways in the mountain districts of Moravia, Silesia and East Galicia. The weather is very cold and the Danube is frozen from Pesthdown a distance of 186 miles, Smalipox in Kansas, Wiomirs, Kun., Feb, 15.~A number of cases of smallpox are reported among tho Menuonites of Marion county within tho past fow days, and foars are entertained of & repatition of the scourge of a few years ago. uri tion, London. Manclostor, Mar Manufaeturers and Bulle LT Norwlch Union, Oakland 1ome, Oaklan Omaha, Omahs....... Orlent,' Hartford Pravidence. Queen, Liverpool Tochester German, 180 itvekford. Roekf ord . Royal, Liverpool. K Westeho: ter, Now York Western Assurance, Toronto Western Home, Sbux City... i and Insuranco| | pany. Hartford. .......| | Lioyd Plate Glass, New York Motropoli Plato Glass, New yor! Raea 1001, 030 1365 All Quiet at Pinc Riage. Lieutenant Hutchinson of G troop, Ninth cavalry, came down from Pine Ridge agency yosterday and is stopping at the Paxton. Ho aro moving along in appar- ently good shapo at the agency. The Indians have distributed themselves around to their permanent habitations und seem 0 warrant the assertion that they will remain peaceable, at least until the winter is over. All but about five of the dozen or fifteen Indian vio- tims of the battle of Wounded Knee, who were brought into the agency badly wounded, have died. Taken altogether, the Indians at the agency continuo to discuss the battle and their heavy loss thercin, Nono of the whito residents of the agency apprehend any trou- ble befora spring, while opwion as’ to its coming in the spring seems to be divided. Lieutenant Hutchinson will remain in the gity but a day or so, after whioh b relnrns to his command, ol Asked to Appoint a Recoiver. Cimoaco, Feb. 15—The clrcuit court has been asked to appoiut a receiver for the pnoumatic power and railroad gato company ona bill by the Lodge & Davis machine tool company. The creditor company was_organ- ized in 1850 with a_capital stock of 830,000 and its property is largely in Michigan, where the plant is located. Arkansas Improvement Fund Stolen. Liriue Rock, Ark,, Feb. 15, —Investigation shows that about §40,000 betonging to tho in- ternal improvement fund, accumulated from the sale of lands granted Arkansas by the United States government, aro missing from tho state treasury. It is belioved that it con. stitutes a portion of ox-Treasurer Woodrufl's shortage. Charles E. Swift of Nebraska City was a} the Merchants last night, g sy Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889. Real Baking - Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE >, -

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