Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 26, 1891, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE;|THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1891 THE DAILY BEE " EVERY (without Sunday) One Year.. d Sunday, One Year. PUBLISHED MORNIN 2600 Eunday Bee, One Yea Weekly Bee, One Your OF FTORS: oo Bullding. « N and vl Street. Chamber of roe. c‘ w 1 Ve 18,14 and 16, Tribune Bullding Vashington, 018 Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. All communieations relating to news and editorinl atter should be addressed to the Editoriul Department. BUSTNESS LETTERS. AN businesslotters and remittances should be addressed to T Bee Pubiishing Compa Omanha, D ecks and postoflice orders 10 he made payable to the order of the com- vany. The Beo Publishing Comrany, Provrietors THE BEV BUILDING, Omaulo, Th ; th Streets, Counell ¥ Chiengo Office o Sy BWORN STATEMED Btate of Neb) T OF CIRCULA ke ) 10N, secretary of Tue Brr wolemnly swear ALY BER o1, was a8 Tubiiching comp; that the actuul o for tho week ending Murch follows: TIOMESEERERS FOR NEBRASK. The amount of misinformation that prevalls concerning Nebraska 1s sur- nrising. FEvery influence should be brought to'bear to correct tho false ro- portsthat have been published broad- cast and fo bring new peoplo to the state to study the advantages which it liolas out to homeseekers, Local boards of teade in several in- terior cities are making groat efforts at this time 10 attract a new and thrifty class of settlers to take advantage of present low prices of farm propor- ties. Somo ef these bodies have sent committees to Illinois, West Virginia and elsewhere, - They have encountered an obstacle in the shape of the refusakof the railronds to run the usual harvest excarsions, which furnish facilities for homeseclkers to soo the state to the best advantage and during the season of growing crops. This refusal, if por- sisted in, would practieally defent theso well meant efforts to dovelop the state. 1t s understood that the ground upon which the railroads object to the contin- uaneo of vho excursions is that they fur- nish an opportunity for sealpers to lond up with choap tic and that the ad- vantages intended ouly for genuine lhomeseeke diverted to the benefit Monday, vesdny. ‘ednesd £ B, TZSC Eworn to before me and subseribe presence thisulst day of March 4. D) Notary Public. Etato of Nebrasia, fos being duly sworn, de- 15 50 i that the dwily circul of Tik DA month of Murch, 159, was 20.8 April, 1800, 2,04 coples: for Muy, coples: for June 3 George Jores ana Publishiy coples; for 20,180 opie coples; for Nov for Doce 3 1801, 25,446 coD! 112 coples GEol 6 UCK. Eworn to before me. and subseribed in my - this 2eh day of Februgry, A, D. tes letters he frequently writes his own obituary no- tice. BETWEEN o municipal olection and the la grippe, Chicago i8 getting a good deal the worst of it. CHAPLAIN DIFFENBACHER’S prayer- ful roust of the traitorious Taylor was a work of art and worthy to be pasted in the stato scrap-hook. CHATTEL mortgage sharks will learn with alarm thatan act has passed the iouse which prohibits proceedings upon n chattel mortgage given to secure usurious interest. IT 18 painful to have to record that Banker Kean of Chicago, the eminent nuthority on the commercial aspects of prohibition, has been Indicted for do- frauding his creditors. GENERAL MILES will be escorted into Mexico by leading military dignitaries of our neighboring republic. When General Scott entered Mexico he was not accorded similar courtesies, but he ot thore just the same. CHAIRMAN BIRKHAUSER claims that he will save the taxpayers $15,000 by canceling the asphalt contracts not coin- pleted November 10 last. This is a bet- ter reason if correct than personal ill- will against the asphalt contractor. Ciry officials connected directly with the department of public works can earn their salaries while the winter lingers by performing a vast deal of the work preliminary to the extensive improve- ments to be undertaken this season. ITis tobe hoped that the story of Secretary Proctor’s approaching resig- nation is not true. He has been one of the most successful members of the cab- inet and should remain in the presi- dent’s official family to the end of his term, THE Central park elephant known as ip” has killed eight keepors and made a good boginning on his ninth, If the New Orleans mobocrats had got this “Tip”in time they could have accom- plished deadly rosults and incurred no international broil. THE California legislative bribery in- vestigation committeo traced the suspi- cious checks from the Southern Pacific railroad company’s office to the state library floor, but there the trail ended. Who got the boodle or what it was for remains a state secret, E—— A BILL requiring that a daily record of real and chattel mortgages shall be kept for statistical purposos has passod the senate and will probably become a law. It is a worthy measure and will present information to the public upon a topic in which all are interosted, TOoWA’s executive council, after hear- ing exhaustive arguments from the alli- ance for an inerease of the total railway assessment (romuz,&ifi.mmmaao,wo,mm and from railway attorneys against any increase, agreed upon $44,536,517 as the figuro for the next fiscal year. The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse, THE unfairness of the proposed logis- lative apportionment bill is patont upon its face. It re-enacts the apportionment law of 1887, which was based upon the stato consus of 1885, It jgnores the growth of the state in the past five years and discriminates against the more pros- perous soctions in the interest of coun- ties and districts which have not kept pace with the general forward move- ment of the state. — ‘TnE house knocked ono scheme of the Lincoln real estate ring squavely in the head. This was the bill providing for the construction of a boulevard through the university farm. The officers of the university did not ask or desire it. It had no supporters outside of the real es- tate combine and its servile tools in the house. It wasan attempt to use the property and money of the state to boom private interests. The house did a good thing when it sat down upon it, gently bat firmly, of the gencral traveling publie. One wilrond offiefal suzgests o way out of this difficulty that would doubtioss be profitable for the roads andacesptable to the public. He says that the present excursion r sed on a fare and one-third for the round trip, which amounts to about two cents per mile, He suggests that the railronds make & two- cent 1l lines from May 15to Sept which is tho period cov- ered by the harvest excursions, This would pravide for homeseckers, i crease general traffic and give the sc ers no advantage over the vonds. It would also give the publie the benefit of reasonable railrond rates throughout the west for at least one-thirdof the year. It 1s to be hoped that the rail- ronds will see the wisdomof adopting such a course It is essential to the development of the state that the present determination of the roads to discontinue the harvest excursions should be overcome. To drop them now would be to give credence to the stor of disnster that have wrought 50 much injury to Nebr: in the last fow months, It istobe hoped that the ciforts of local boards of trade to induce the Trans-Missouri association to recon- sider its decision wiil be completely successful, sk DIAN OUTBREAK. Space writers ave making the best of the question whether or not the Sioux will rebel again in the spring and space writers are doing northern Nebraskn and the two Dakotas incaleulable harm by t! ensational publications, The government is represented at all the Sioux ngencies in South Dakota by agents of the interior department and oficers of the United States army. It is in position to know definitely and promptly what the Indians ave doing and what they propose to do. At all the Indian agencies are squawmen half- breeds and thoroughly loyal full bloods who will immediately veport to repro- sentatives of the government any move of turbulent Indians looking forward to trouble in the spring. Self intevest if not loyalty would induce all these classes to desire peace. War moans the de- struction of their little homes, the loss of ponies and the hardships of hostility with no corvesponding recompense. Having already allied themselves with the whites and incurred the displeasure of their incorrigible nonprogressive neighbors, they cannot look to them for consideration. This is plainly shown by the incidents of the recent uprising. The white man’s proporty off the reser- vation was undisturbed while the little ranches of Indians known to be indus- trious and anxious to ** walk in the white man’s way,” were looted and destroyed. There are troops at every agency where trouble could occur., All around the Indian country others are stationed in forts and cantonments. Several hun- dred Indian scouts have been enlisted. These are trustworthy as recent events have conclusively proved. Every agent has a police force under his control and Indian police have likewiseshown them- selves reliable and loyal. At all the agencies excapt Pine Ridge, the agents are men of oxperience and of merve which has already been tested. At Pine Ridge an officer of the army is in charge with the Ninth cavalry, several compan- ies of soults and a large police force at his back. All the agents report the Indians quiet and no provability of trouble. All tho of- ficial reports of army officers are to the same effect. Level-headed frontiersmen agree that there is no occasion for trouble or fear of an outbreak., The government has removed all just causesfor complaint. by making provision for the fulfillment of treaty obligations. Agents, army of- ficers and the two departments at Wash- Ington are exorcising the utmost vigi- lance. i A war is almost impossible; it is en- tirely improbable. The space writers and alarmists would perform the public aservice by knocking off and taking a rost at least until spring. MINISTER ON THE SEAL DISPUT Secretary Blaine, in preparing his reply to the lust communication from Lord Salisbury on the Behring sea con- troversy, will not be able to obtain any useful suggestions from the contribution which ex-Minister Phelps makes to the discussion of this question ia an eastern magazine, but he may find a measure of roassuranco in tho very positive way in which the position of the administra- tionis approved. Mr. Phelps was the American minister to England during the Cleveland administration, and was thus enabled to gaina very thorough knowledge of the Behring sea issue and the contentions of the 1wo governments regarding it. Asa lawyer he stands very high, and the fact that he is po- litically a democrat gives especial force to his views sustaining the course of the government, Mr. Phelps argues that the United States hus a property right in the u?ullng idustry, and that it is the ob- vious duty of the government to protect that right, He maintains that the free- dom of the sea, which Is the right to pass and repass upon it, without hin- drance or molestation in the pursuit of all honest business and pleasure, does not authorize injury to the property or just rights of others, which aro as sacred at sea as on shore. The seals mako their home on American soil, and therefore belong to the proprietors of the soil and are a part of their property. This quality they do not lose by pussing from ono part of the territo another in a regular and periodical migration necessary to their life. Even though in making it they pass tempor- arily through water that is more than three miles from land. The sea is not for maradders, and Mr. Phelps remarks that its freedom is largely o figure of Tt is not froe, he s it has nover been fros for any purpose what- ever injurious to the rights, the proper- ty, or the honor of a nation able to de- fend itself, or even to those interests of & nation which are paramount in im- portance to the mere profit to be made out of an otherwise lawful act that en- dangers them. Mr. Phelps declares that the issue in the case, to which all other inquiries are only subordinate, is whether the Cuna- dian ships have an indefeasible right to (o precisely what they have done and are doing, and that supreme issuc the British government has not met and probably will not. As to the proposal 1o settle the cont.oversy by arbitration, Mvr. Phelps does not regard it favorably, his view being that there are but three methods by which the question can be settled: st, by putting a stop without further debate to the depredations of dual foreigners upon the breoding second, by conceding to these for- ght to destroy the fishery and withdrawing further remonstranc and third, by continuing the discussion with Great Britain of the abstract ques- tions supposed to be involved until the extermination of the seal is completed and the subject of the dispute thereby wste It is hardly probable that the article of Mr. Phelps was written before the last communication of T v was made public, minister could hardly have concluded that arbitration is out of the question. But in any event the intelligent opinion of the country will not agree with him that there is no other method than thoso Lo suggests for settling this controversy, the first of which would probably lead to war, and the second would he a humi- liating backdown. The consensus of opinion is that the dispute should bo sub- mitted to arbitration, and there is very favorable promise that this resource will be agreedon. The decision now rests largoly with the government of tho United States, and the reply of Secre- tary Blaine to the last communication from the British government will doubt- less determine what the future course regarding this issue, so far as the pros- ent administration is concerned, isto bo. —_— MEAT INSPECTION REGULATIONS. In view of the fact that the secreva of ugriculture is preparing to put into effect at once the meat inspection law passed by the last congress, a referenco to the requirements of the actwill be in- teresting to all stock raisersand to ex- porters of cattle and meats. It is a com- prehensive law, designed to remove all reasonable cause of apprehension re- garding the condition of cattle, hogs, and their products, exported from the United States to foreign countries, and if faithfuilly enforced, as undoubtedly it will be by Secrotary Rusk, upon whom is devolved the entire responsibility, it must oventually bave the effect of silencing all complaint from abroaa re- specting American meats, The nct requires a careful inspection by competent persons of all catile in- tended for export, the inspectors giving a certificate for cattle found to be freo from discase, which certificats must be presented by every vessel carrying cat- tle before a clearance will ba given, Cattle, the meat of whichis tobe ex- ported, must also be inspected and the same conditions as above complied with. The uet extends inspoection requirements 50 as to include all cattle, sheep and hogs which are subjects of interstate commerco and are about tobo slaugh- tered in any state or territory to bo transported and sold for humsn con- sumption in any other state or territory, and in addition to this there shall be a post mortem examination in any case deemed necessary to ascortain whether the meat is sound and wholesome. All meat and other animal produsts found to be free from disease and fit for human food must be properly marked as such, and it is made a misdemeancr to trans- port or offer for transportation carcasses or the products thereof whigh have been found unsound or diseased. Tho act does not apply to any cattle, sheep or swine slaughtored by any farmer wpon his farm, unless the carcasses are sent to any packing and canning establish- ment and are intended for transporta- tion beyond the limits of the state or territory. The value of this law is yet to be dem- onstrated, but there can be no doubt that it was absolutely necessary to make such provisions for national inspection in order to break down the barriers which foreign countries have enacted against our cattle and meats. With thislaw thoroughly and efciently en- forced, and the department of agricul- ture can be depended on to see that this is done, there will no longer be a justi- fiable excuse for the exclusion of Ameri- can meats from the European marlkets, and any country adhoring to this policy of discrimination against us will have no just reason to complain if we have recourse to & like policy. It Is ontly the Intention of the inistration to exhaust every means to assure foreign govern- ments of our desire to protect their peo- ple fromall danger of getting unsound or diseased meats from the United States—a danger, It may be remarked incidentally, that even under present conditions is extremely small—and if that fails to remove the existing restric- tions and to bring us fair and just treat- ment, the authority which congress has given the president to impose disorim- inating duties upon foreign products will undoubtedly be exercised, and it will have the very general approval of the country. Having met all the re- quirements which fos n governments ask in this matter, we shall be justified s LN 22 in adopting sovere mensures of retalin- tion if they still veiuse to deal with us fairly, in giving ur meats at least an oqual opportunily in fheir markets with those of other gountries. Tho new in- spoction regulations will also be #n ad- ditonal protection to our own people against unsound o disensed meats, PUSH IUBLIC, IMPROVEMENTS, The best investment Omaha ever made was her large expenditures for public improvement: lvery taxpayer has hoen diroctly benafited in the increased value of his proporty and has enjoyed the indirect advantage coming from the general prosperity of the city which fol- lowed and kept pace with those im- provements, The wisest and in fact the only way to build up this city is to continue public work. There ave still miles of unpaved streets in the midst of populous sections of Omaha, and sowers are needed in re- glons not far removed from business cen- tors. Many streets badly need grading. There is a vast amount of important im- provement work before the ecity, and nothing should be allowed to interfere with the progress in this rfht divection. The early passago of the amendments to the city charter and the approach of spring suggest tho proprioty of giving the subject immediate attention. Every contomplated grade or street improve- mont requires a cortaln amount of pre- liminary work in circulating petitions, drafting resolutions, satisfying intovest- «ed property owners, advertising, survey ing, ete. Now is the time to take these necossary steps, when the weather will not permit outdoor labor and when city officials are not purticularly busy Omaba should put on new. strength this scason, The money panics and business depressions have done their worst. Omaha sustained her eredit, increased her population and outstripped her neighbors in every direction during these dull and uncertain periods. Let her now assert herself and anticipate by a fow months the npproaching revival of business. Brery ta body will enterprise. Tt ¢ laborer, ever benefited by the city will give emple men to idle men; it will put into circulation large sums of mone it will bo the harbinger of the prosper: ity which good crops, good timos and Omaha’s good reputation all combine to bring to the ecity within a very fow months, The outlook is'encouraging. We can- not afford to be indolent. Our commer- cial rivals are wida-awake. They are sparing no effort to recover lost ground and gain other: advantages. Ag sive cities like aggresave peopleare the successful ones. & TH sumption of public work by the city will stimulate ghe loeal capitalists; will invite foreign enterprises; will arouse all the elcu‘mnbs of push, energy and hope out of Wwhich. cities prosper and develop. Thegeason of 1891 ought to be, and with proper attention to our business will be,.a red lotter year for Omaha. ER : be o A CHAIRMAN of & council, committee loses important papers referred to him, another chairman doctors them after the committee has passed upon their merits,. A third’ does nothing with those referred to his committee. All this merely points to the general ineffi- clency and incompetency of the. council if nothing worse, GOVERNOR PECK’S veto of a bill ap- propriating $50,000 for the support of the Waupaca, Wis., veterans’ home, has aroused a great deal of feeling among ex-soldiers in the Badger state. Al- though the governor has & national rep- utation as a humorist, the veterans re- fuse to regard this as a legitimate joke. ORT got a roasting in the e the pain from which it will take considerable corporation oil to as- suage. Ihrenpfort has an income of $130 as assessor of tho First ward. He was at Lincoln for weeks. Ehrenpfort can do a great deal with, 8150, NOTICE has been served on General Palmer by Cartor Harrison that the little mill now arranged betweon him- self and Mayor Cregler will be fought out without a referee and the senator- elect from Illinois is advised to keep his proper distanca — FIVE juries drawn the present term of the district court have failed to agree upon verdicts. This means five now trials and the consequent expense. E1aHT hours shall constitute a day’s work for the street laborers of the stroet commussioner’s force, unless the mayor shall again interpose his veto. THE working season promises to see a large number of enterprises undertaken in Omaha which will omploy labor'and circulate currency. e—— THE city council in its haste to ex- pend every dollay of the crosswalk fund, appears to have exceeded the appropria- tion by 20 per cent. | — DuURING these blustering days does the new time keoper who is to watch the stroet cleaning contractor, draw a per diem? } —— THE mayor’s vetoes reported atthe meeting of the epupcil were all based upon reasonable grounds and were sus- tained. 2k THE council threatens to dispossess the city scavenger ,of his fat contract, which one councifthan pronounces rob- ber SOONER or later public sentiment will compol the street car company to estab- lish a liberal system of transfers. Se——— WERE the newspapers less vigilant the city officials would be more delin- quent, Ege— Who asked the Electric lightcompany for a bid for a eontract for five yours? — Legisiative Profligacy, San Franciszo Call. A go0a many of the mon now making laws for us at Sacramento have no use for @ party that puts & limit on exponditures. pochilles e e Bid for a_Headstone, Truckee Republion, The Carson Appeal has @ uew bead, which oraapeniind i greatly improves its appearance, Tf some in- dustrious gentloman will serve the editor likewise, ho may also be benefited thereby, - Bellamy in Folitics. New Nation. The Now Nation roitorates its opinion that {In 1802 tho taviff will be a side show, aud the program of nationalism the main issue, - State Menagerie, Memhis Avpeal-Avatanchs. Toxas has a Hogg for governor, a Pig for judge, a Lamb for senator, a Durbam for reprosentative and a Buffalo for sheriff And the farmors’ alliance continues to stir up the animals. - Journalistic Magnanimity. New York Recorder, ‘Wo beliove that *‘thore isa great deal of human nature in all mankind.”” We beliove that there is much thatis very good and much thatis bad in both the great political organizations, Had Enoogh. San Francisen Call. The simple and natural remedy for this condition of things is the selection of a stato convention next year pledged to make o sen- atoria) nomination, and to require candidates for the legislature to pledge thomselves, if clocted, to support the candidate wamed by the convention. * * * The state can- not stand many more such seuatorial cam- paigns as that just closed. e A Rare Foast. Kate Fiold, in her Washington, says: “I am told that Mrs. Lease is an unusual woman. Ihopesheis. 1fshe isa sample of what is in store for us when woman suffrago shall navo puriied and refined politics, heaven help us. Her talk before the woman’s council at Washington was the languago of a maniac. Such vaporing may *go’ in Kansas, where fanaticism runs riot, but it will only disgust thinking Americans.” Education in California, Sacramento Bre. I don't see what we want libraries for, anyhow," said Matlock in the assembly yes- terday, “I've got along all my life without libra 1t was not necessary for the gen- tleman to bave so vehiemently declared o fact which no renders potent in every speech. Matlock rominds us of an ex-member of tho Sucramento city board of education, who was opposed to the teaching of geography i tho public schools, “What in the —— is the uso of ‘jography,’ anyhow:" he was wont to ask “It never doue me no go I World's Fair Appropriations. In the following states tho world's fair ap- propriation bills have been passed by both houses of th islatures and been signed by the the governors, and are in force: Caifornia Indiana. Idaho. fowa . Mont ,000 ., 000 20,000 000 100,000 2000 1000 7,000 100,000 150,000 , 00 100,000 50,000 Total 1,070,000 The only states so far which have refused to make an appropriation are Kansas, South Dalota and Arkansas. RGN PASSING JESTS, North Car Okluhoma. .. Oregon ., Pennsylvania . Vermont, Washington . West Virginia, * Town Topics: (ircene—They try to make out that Senator Brice is a resident of the buckeye state. They can't do it. Ho gets his washing done 1 New York, White— What of that! He gets his whitewashing done in Ohio, doesn’t he? Now York Sun—Dr. Brush—“Would you advise mo to have your picture hung?’ No, solitary coufinement ought to bo i Harvard Lampoon: Chiffoy—What's that T hear about young Checkerstripel Chaffey—His clotties, probably, Judge: Dasi seo that Robinson's engagement has been broken off, Cleverton—You surprise me, Robinson must have found out how poor the girl was. Dashaway—No; the girl found out how poor Robinson was, Mrs. Grundy: The fear of being an old maid induces many a girl to chooso tho wrong husband, Washington Critic: In poker parlanco Governor-Senator Hill is standing pat on & pair, Washington Post: I have always taken pleasurein your presence,” she said, as they were parting as friends and nothing more, “I beg your pardon,” he said, reflectively, “but would you mind spelling that last word Denver Sun: Miners are not naturalty des- perate, but they are frequently on the chute, just the same. Judgo: Young Man—Mr. Tapeline, can you put & new right sleeve in this coat? This one s gettang badly worn, Tailor—Certainly, Mr. Dowey. Allow me to congratulate you on the engagement, New York Sun: Critic—Thatis a beauti- ful portrait; but does it resemble the man it is supposed ‘to represent? Artist—Resemble the man! My dear sir, that portrait is a work of art. If there is any question about it, it is: Does the man resem- ble the portraitt Washington Star: “What time is it} whispered the young man to the young girl at 11:30 p. m. “It's fly time,” she murmured as sho heard her father's heavy tread along the portcullis, Jackson—T seo thata New York million- aive's daughter eloped With waiter the other day! Wrisght—Yes, porhaps that was the only way in which the old man's money could be kept in the family. TENNYSON'S IATEST, New York Continent, O sleep, O sleep, Oh sleep, On sleep, Oh sleepy, sleepy, sloep: 1 sleep, Oh sloep, thy sleepy sleep Aslecp in sleepy sleep, New York Recorder: “Afraid of work?' exclaimed Mrs, Jackson. “Why Mr. Jack- son can lie right down beside his work. John is no coward.” Brooklyn Life. A school of versifiers s sprung up in latter ays, Who shupe their witless verses in quite as witless ways. Their lines have nothing funny but their antics, like a clown; They run right on u little white, and then Jump down! Somebody else has iatroduced & different sort of verse, : "Twas better than the otherones, but now it's even worse; "Dis just as easy run 10 death by any common hack, It falls down, as MoGinty did, and baclk | walks then There's n good time coming, whon the publie will be freed F'rom tho halt who climb Parnassus, leaning on u brokea reed. Then on their own deserving heads will be thoir guilty blood, When they all go down together, with o deep P % thud ! NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST, Nobraska. The farmers of Dawson county are sowing a groat deal of wheat an I, Nelson, a druggist of Oakiand, fell while running and broke his log. Arapahoo is belng canvassed to ascortain tho feeling on the waterworks question. Brokon Bow can have a barbed wiro fi tory for & bonus of §1,300 and tawvo oity lots. Sumner businoss men have organized Roard of tindo and have takon stops the town, There are 154 cases district court now in of which arve crimin The well _for rlor's waterworks s down fifty-six foot and @ supply of water has beon found suflicient to sorve the city. Prot, Ostien of tho Neligh schools took tho young ldies of the high school to the district urt to practico takiog notos and to eriticize tho proceedings. Thove are two tickets in the fleld nt Neligh, tho licenso forces being hoaded by H. K. Kryger for mayor, the no-licenso peoplo hav- ing nomated W. 'H. iTolimos. Mra. MacColl, mother of #lon, ). H. Mao- Coll, ‘died at Texington Tuesday in tho eighty-eighth yoar of her ago. She was ono of the oldest residents of Dawson county. The wife of tho eity marshal of Humphrey has filed complaint for the arrost of four saloonkeepors on the chargo of having win ¢ curlains drawn down and kooping open unday. The winter torm of Gates collego at was the most successful in fts history. The examinations in both collogo and preparatory classes gave satisfactory evidence of tho thorough work done during the term by tho atudents and faculty, Over one hundred'and thirty students werg in attendance during tho last term, In thedistrict court at Seward Thomas Williams pleadcd ‘gullty to tho charge of horse stealing and v putenced to imprison- | ment for thirteen months, Peter J. Vaege | acknowledgred that o was o forger and was given o in the pen. Jake Andros and | T. L. Nush were given eightoon months on a plea of guilty to " to push ligh lowa. { Seven scholars will graduato 1rom the Clarinda schools this year, one of which is a colored girl. The livery and foed stables of Boone bave formed a trust, The prices have just beon doubled, and the object of the combi- nation is to maintain the new rate A corporation has just been organized at | Emmetsburg for the purpose of manufictur- | g oil from flax seed and for making tow and pulp from the flax straw which is abundant in that count W. Ruciue of Carroll attemptea to com- mit suiciie by drinking a combination of car bolic acid, shelle o tho timely inte, physician his sui- cidal intentions were foiled, < Residents in the northern part of Adair county are considerably excited over the find tensive vein of excellent coal, which | been discovered. A shaft $x16 in s e and tho find will be exten- sively developed A fellow at Keokuk stolo a forty-pound piece of beef from a meat market. A bout the time the theft was discoverad be walked into ot with the meat on his shoulder, saying in way of apology that his wife had made him return it. Clay has been found near Fort Dodge suit- able for the manufacture of pressed brick and acompany is talked of to develop the mdus- try. The quality of the clay 15 said to be equally as good as that used in the cele- brated St. Louis pressed brick. Mrs. Jane Blackman died at her home near Daveuport in the eightieth year of her life, She had been a resident of ‘that county for ~three years aud was a member of the The Towa band of Des Moines has sent out handsome souyenirs containing a history of the organization, u picture of its members and their instraments, a partial list of ropertoite and a compilation of the pre notices which it has received. Itis a han some little work and shows the band to be great musical organizatio; The Two Dakotas. South Dalcota has 234,000 sheep. Springleld claims the largest artesian well in the state. It is said that there is not a saloon in Bon Homme county. Theroare forty-tive camps of Sons of Vet- erans in South Dalkota. Ex-Senator Moody has sottled down Deadwood to practice law. Tho Bismarck State bank has boen incor- porated with £30,000 cadital, The Fargo mills are coaverting wheat into flour at tho rate of 480 barrels per day. The Davison county commissioners will loan sced grain to the farmers of that county. The Pierre Journal says the original pack- ago business is still being carried on in that city. . The Plerre pontoon bridgois being repaired soit will be in shape for use when the ice goes out. An entorprising settlor moved his one- story house all the way from Highmore to Fort Piorre. A largo number of Hollanders are moving from_Charles Mix and Douglass counties to Wright county. Thero are 108 Congregational church cieties in South Dakota. All except seventeen. Roadmaster Butler of the Burlington & Missouri at Dgadwood had a hand mashed whilo counling cars. The annual meeting of the South Dakota Sunday school assoclation will be held at Madison, June 3, 3 aud 4. The state agricultural collego at Brookings has reccived its first installment of tho gov- ermment uppropriation, $15,000. Rev. W. S. Peterson, formerly pastor of the Rapid City Presbyterian_church, has be- come president of a bank in Lakata. Wool buyers froin Philadelpbiaare already traveling through North Dakota malking con- traots to purchase wool next summer. The Deadwood Central has resumed traffic. The fare from Deadwood to Lead City has been reduced 10 45 couts for tho round trip. Browning Lawrence of Philadelphia, who owns 1,600 acres of Brown county land, has arrived to superintend the season’s opora- tions, Businass mnen of watertown have induced alarge German-Russian colony to sottle in Codington county. Three carloads of them have arrived. Mouatain lions are bothering ranchmen near vhe Black Hills, Besides kiling young caitle they have atticked and killea soveral Dorses and colts. The alliance wants Aurora county to fur- nish seud grain to the farmers who aro un- able to procure it for themselves and take se- curity on the crop. The national board of soldicrs' homes has decided to place South Dakota's Soldiers’ home on the accredited iist, “Chisinsures the | state $100 per inmate, The foeble-minded son of E. M. Stephens of Miller became uncovered in the night dur- ing the recent cold weather, and his limbs were froen to the knee. A fellow named Hermann, in jail at Dovil's Like, assaulted the deputy sheriff with a bed slut and would have killed him if another Drisoner had not interfered, Georgo Parker, a farmer living twelve milos south of Sioux Falls, laid out in a snow- drift all one night whilo in'an intoxicated con- dition and was badly frozen, The gold miners who staked out claims and m so- have pastors leave Piorro in droves ws son ws spring opens, 8o thoy ean commence active work. Some miscroants ontored tho room whers & corpso was laid out in Deadwood the other night and stole all the clothing belonging to tho doad man, oxcept what was on the body. The South Dakota Firemen’s assoolation hias chosen Sioux Falls for_its next mooting, to bo held Jauo 23, 24, 25 and 26, A ban tournament will aiso bo leld at the same timo, lie Baker, an emaclated, dying boy, are rived at Miller on his way to Howell, Hand county, from Pennsyivania, He took tho tago at Miller for home, but died on tho w An injunction will bo sorved on the com- missioners of Brown county to provent the expendituzo of §175,000 for seed grain for farmors. Othor countios havo not appropri- ated any dofinite amonnt. At Doadwood the Elhorn cont=notors paid out for labor during last summorand fall 0,000 Of this $400,000 went for board and clothing, §0,000 was taken out of the cou try, and #00,000 was spent for whisky. uvert do la Bache died at 1oyl 0. He had lived in e 1i sinve 1878, and was a member of it famous Jobn C. F'remont expedition wh crossed tho plains to the Pacific coast in 1315 Doadwood prospectors have ¢ rich find of horn silver near M, saw mill at the head of Jenny's g located about twenty-five miles 1 Rapid City in the edgo of Lawr Potor Soivillo of Guiena, an _old-timor i the Hills, died of pueumonfs, H soned whilo working in silver s while he was jn a delirious cor dored out into the cold without proper « ing apparel, Latouia is a new town which bas been sur- veyed and patted on the resorvation lauds, thirty-four milos west of Chamberlain, 1118 on thie survey of the Milwaukee roud. Freo lots aro offered to bona fide settlers who will improve the same, Watortown Knights of Labor ask that tho ity put in scales nate the offce of cily weighmaster. They claim 1,700 pounds docs not mako a ton, and by having the city do tho weighing dishonest dealers can be made to deal fairly with the public. The Fort Pi Horald says: The do. mand for marriageable widows and old maids was for a time on the inere: but since th can't take and hold down claims add _dr , it begrins to look as though the dusky wero golng to knock 'om out e Kimball Graphic says thata fermer driving into that city last woek discovered what he supposed to be a diamond willow cane by the roadside, which he threw into his buggry and the stublo boy took it into tho offico, but on thawing out proved to be & rat tiesnnke. Peter Shior, living near G in Emmons county, lost 150 la iar gecident. Whon ho_ent sheds the other morning ke found ber ot dead lambs piled in a heap, reason he can ussign for tuis shepherd dog cutally nong the she ight by nd the dog sta od the | compact mass and they smoth m that shape. lon postoftico bs by a singu the that & num The only is that his his herder bs nto ono d t death - FOR ) The exchange, now at work in I1linois terest of sccuring new settlors for central Nebraska, has been informed that the rail- roads intend to suspend tho usual havvest excursions to Kansas and Nebraska this year. “This decision, if adhered to, would nullify the labors of several local boards of trade, who have been soeking to attract large num- bers of homeseckers to take advantage of tho presnt low pric of farm properti various eastern states and are making unu- sual efforts to put Nebraska to the front and refute the damaging stories that have boen iu cireulation concerning the condition of Ne- braskn. “Tho Kearney people havosent letters to overy Nebraska board of trade, enclosing the fol- lowing petition to the cnairman of the tvar Missouri association, which is being numer- ously signed Hon. James H. Smith, O n Trans. Missouri Association, Kans Mo.— Dear Sir: We desire that your association ar- range for the vest excursions” at us early a time as it is possible. We would ro- spectfully roquest that for the season of 1801 excursions be on the following date , June 15, August 15 and September , 0rus near those dates as is practicable, tould you discontinue these annual excur- sions while the present false and malicious stories regarding Kansss and Nebraska nro in circulation it would give credenco to the stories and work great injury to the above states, Feeling confidont that your honor- able body will in the future, as in the past, doallin your power toussistus in induciog immigration, wo remain, “Tho promoters of the movement feol that a failure to push the harvest excursions vigor- ously this year would rosult i serious loss to Nebraska. They desiro the prompt co-operation of ail parts of the state in their effort to induce the railroads to reconsider their adverse docision. Tho railroad managers have ot yet azreed upon any plan_either for tho continuance or the discontinuance of the harvest excursions. The matteris being considered but no decs ion will bo reached probably for severl weeks. If the matter were left to the general pas- senger agents of the two great trunk lines that carry these excursions between Omabi aud the const tho harvest excursion ticket would die in its infancy. Mr. Francis of tho-3. & M. and Mr.Lomax of the Union Pacific owe wh wrinkles and gray - bairs they po worry induced by the abuses of the harvest excursion ticket, and goth have pronounced against it Mr. Irancis says the chiof result of thy schemo 18 to furnish scalpers aud bushwhacking railroads with u chunco to cut rates from tho timo tho tickets o on sale, ususdly in July, until tho last one dies by the statite of Limitation late in October, Mr. Lomax is equally opposed to the sys- tem on account of the abuses of it, but he goes further and offers a remedy. Ho would mako a flat excursion rate during the summer months of say 2 cents a mile between all sec- tions, This would equal one and ono-third fares for tho round trip, about the same as n passonger would get on an_excursion and would make scalping of the tickets impossi- ble, in the fn- L2 NO RELL Coal Rates Discussed, Butno Formal ion Taken. A meeting of railroad mon and cosl ship: pers was held at the Millard yesterday afto:- noon for the purpose of “adjusting” the rates on soft coal from lowa and Missouri points, hore were present F. M. Gaultof tho Wabash, Thomas Milier of the Burlington, J. Merchants of the Northwestorn systern, J, Bartleof the Kausas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs, A, G. Gower of the Rock Is- land, 8. M. Adistof theSt. Joo & Graud Is- laud, J. C. Lincolu and J, O. Phillips of tho Missouri Pacific, 1. 1B. Whitnoy and E. H. Wood of the Union Pacitic. Tne local ship: pers were represeuted by S. K. Knoiffon of St. Louis, H. ‘1. Teuins of Atchison and rop- reseutatives of a number of local coul dealers, These wentlemen talked the situation over in an informal manner, but no underst g was areived atand nothing of a for nature done, ‘The maeting adjourned with- out setting & timo for auother mecting aad the situation remains unchanged organized a town in the bad lands expect to Highest of all in Lsavening Power.— Rl U. 8. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE —— ——— lockea up e They bave sent commitiees to W, », 1y —— ~