Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1891, Page 4

HE OMAHA vALLY BEE. MONDAY, APRI1L 20 THE E | DAILY BE SR Evrron, [rs i PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSORIPTION, Pafly Ree (without Sunday) One Year.. Daily and Sunday, One Y Eix months Three months. «, One Year... Weekly Bee, One Year. .. OFVICES: o Ree Bullding. in. Corner N and 20th Streets 12 Penrl Street. { Commerce, "ribune Building 8800 10 00 500 25 [ e ) Washington, b CORRESPONDENC All communieations relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed to the Editorial Department. BUSINESS LF i Allbusinesslettors and remittances should be addressed to tee Publishing Compan Omahu. Drafts, cheeks and postafiice orders 10 bo made payible to the order of the com- pany. "The Bee Publishing Company, Prourietors £ BRE BUILDING ' OF CIRCULATION. Btate of N County ¢ Seorge Publishing comy that the elreulat] for the woek cnding Al follows Bunday. April 12.., ay, April 13 V. ADHILIE Any, April i3 CApril 16 April 17 Batarday, April 18 AVeragoe ........... GRORGE B T Eworn 10 botore me and subscriled in my presence this 15th day of April. A. T 180 Notary Public. Etate of Nobrask County of Do ublishing 1y clreals onth of April, 1800, 20,180 coples’ f for Tuly. 1 1750 copi for October. e 1,470 copie: for Novem- cember, 1800, . 446 conle: L 1801, for Marc 005 cople TZSCHUCK. Eworn to Lefore me. and subseribed in my presence, thisid day of April, A\_ 1800, coples; for T i for Junuary, 1801, Not ITaffords tax payersno little comfort 1o discovor that the office of register of fleeds is again more than paying ex- pensos. RECIPROCITY Will bs personified at El Paso when the president of the United Btates grasps hands with the president of Mexico. PARIS rejoices over the discomfiture of the [ron Chancellor. This will help Bismarck to effect a reconciliation with the emperor., ANOTHER rich tin strike at the Black Hills. As Tur BEE has frequently remarked the richest mineral country {n the world is the Black Hills, IMMIGRATION and irrigation are an nlliterative team able to pull Nebraska over the roughest parts of the road loading straight to permanent pros- perity. I¥ the chairman of the board of pub- lic works will resign and the street cleaning contractor throw up his con- tract harmony will be restored and all will be forgiven, THE city scavanger continues to levy tribute upon taxpayers direct and tho city treasury under the very profitable deal he made last June with the present eity government. ONE of the immediate vesults of the election of a republican mayor in Chi- | cago is the indictment of a democratic election judge for demolishing a ballot box on election day. SEVEN additional trains go on the Bouth Omaha motor line May 1 This will enablo the packing center to pull through the summer evenif the new lino should not materialize. Tue most harmonious session held by the Kansas City congress was the olos- ing banquet. At tho last minute all who could sing joined in the familiar al- liance air of ‘‘Razzle Dazzle.” AN Italian newspaper in New York calls the civilization of America a bluff and a humbug. If itseaitor and bis pat- rons do not like America they will be permitted to return to the land of their nativity to make room for better citi- vens, THE citizens of Omaha are growing extremely weary of the continual bicker- Ing between Birkhauser and Squires, While these two gentlemen are calling each other hard names the street clean- Ing is neglected and the city’s interests suffer. 'WHEN Squires and Birkhauser get out of tho district court it is probable some stroet paving already contracted for will be undertaken. From the length and frequency of the afiidavits, however, the dato when the court will reach a conclusion is indefinite. THE new clty directory just published shows conclusively that the population of the city exceeds 140,000 and vindicates the figures of the census enumerators. It contains over 47,000 names, lating the population at three to the name makes the total 141, TEXAS acted as if sho wore really a part of the American union and gave President Harrison a genuine Amoerican roception. the executive is not in sympathy with General Sheridan’s sentiments relative to the Lone Star commonwealth, HEREAFTER the board of public works will require applicants for posi- tions as inspectors to file other evi- fdlences of their qualifications than faith- ful party sorvice. be., If the board continues to adopt the suggestions of THE BEE it will do itself credit and earn the good will of the tax- payers. —— CALIFORNIA has just passed a law re- quiring all executions of persons sen- tenced to hang to bo performed at San Quentin, within the walls of the state penitentiary. This is an idea worth {mitating. The publicity of hanging bees could thereby be wholly aveided and & wholesome influence would be exertod Caleu- | It is unofficially stated that | This is as it should | | and upon criminals THE COMMISSION BUSINES! The warehouse bidl in which Omaha and the whole state of Nebraska are in- | terosted is not confined in its operations to grain elovators, Under class C are grouped are all sorts of storage estab- s in which flaxseed, flour, sack- »d meats, petroleum, salt, poultry, ete., ete., are handled. There is no great provision market west of Chicago, There is center to which country merchants can look fora market or with which they may exchange products. The business hus been carried on ex- tensively, but it has not been systemat cally managed. Each commission firm has been the sereno reliance of its par- tieular line of customers, hoth buyers and sollers. Under the new law it will bo possible to establish commission e: changes in the larger cities of N braska, which shall be oqually as im- portant to the producers and small and large dealers as the grain exchanges, Tho commission business of Omaha, profitable as it has been generally to those ongaged in it, is conducted in an independent, haphazard sort of style, hardly satisfactory to either commission men or customers, ‘Yet the annual transactions of commission dealers lishmer grain, d provisions, no our te in amount the neat little sum $3,000,000. With proper effort intelligent appreciation of the " situation as it is now presented, Omuha can develop a in this line of 10 times as greata volume, Tho local exchange and the and storage warehousemen through connece tions in Nebraska and Iowa will control an immense torritory ana create a mar- velously profitable business. The board of trade committee ap- pointed to take the preliminary steps toward establishing a grain exchange should not overlook class C warchouses. Its membors will find it interesting and profitable to study the commission busi- ness and include it in its conclusions and recomwmendations to the board. We need large commission houses, wido awako commission men and a strong anization of persons engaged in this branch of trade as well as elevators, of business ymmission A\TING tar; IMMiGRATION, of the treasu and Senator Chandler, chaivman of tho com- mittee on immigration of the United States senate, a few days ago held a con- ference in New York on immigration matters. The committee of which Mr. Chandler is chairman is authorized to make an investigation before the meet- ing of the next congress, but this may not bo necessary if the new law is thor- oughly enforced, and Secretary Koster has assured the senator that this will be done. He proposes that not only shall all persons excluded by the law be kept out of our ports, but be pre- vonted from entering the country through Canada. Both of these gentle- men are looking into tho operation of the new law, and it is not to be doubted thav the secretary of the treasury will uso all the authority at his command to enforce it. It is understood that he is in favor of restricting immigration even beyond what is provided in the existing law. Tho final settlement of this question, which Senator Chandler refers to as one of very great importance, has not yet been reached. Further agitation of it is certain in the next congress, and it is clear that the Italian incident has cre- ated a sentiment more favorable to stringent immigration laws than existed before. Recently the Union League club of New York adopted an address and resolutions calling upon the general government and the several states to use all lawful means that they possess to prevent the importation of objectionable classes of foreigners, and urging that if the present laws are not suf- ficiout to do this, others should passed that will be. The eastern press very generally talks in a similar strain, a portion of it demanding the most radical measuves, even to the extent of applying the test of language. Undoubtedly at no previous time in our history was this question so thor- oughly considered in all its phases as by the last congress, and tho result wa that the only prohibited class, in addi- tion to those kept out under the old luw, are polygamists. The proposal to require an educational qualifica- tion was confronted by insu- perable difficulties. A number of bills were introduced requiring immi- grants to bring certificates from the con- suls, but very few congressmen were willing to make that a compulsory ro- quirement. It was proposed to exeludo socialists and anarchists, bui this met with little favor, for a man might theoretically be very much of either and yet not be a law breaker, and so, after consideration and discussion, extending through two sessions, congress simply added polygamists to the excluded classes and made more stringent the methods for keeping out these classas, RIn an interview Senator Chandler said that we have not yet reached that stage in the country’s growth when we want to keep out good immigrants. We have not reached the point. said the senator of saying *'you shall not come,” and are not likely to reach 1t for many years and therefore he could see no chance for enlarging the excluded classes. Every body who can take un intelligent and unprejudiced view of the question will concur with Senator Chandler. The prosent law goes ns far as it will be expedient to go probably for the next quarter of a century at least, and hence the agitation of this question is unwise and harmful. It keeps alive a preju- dice which ought to be discountenanced. A rigid enforcement of the existing law, which nobody can reasonably object to, will remove all just ground of complaint rogarding immigration, and until the government fails to do this the agita- tion of this subject is without excuse. RN LIBERALITY, Nineteen states have made appropria- tions for representationat the Columbian exposition. The aggregate wmount voted by vhese states is $1,200,000. Cali- fornia heads the list with the largest ap- propriation, $300,000, while Vermont is at the foot of the list with only $5,000. The Phjladelphia Press observes that 80 far as appropriations have been made the wostorn statos are showing farmore | Bk did not cffry up the cases because liberality than the eastern, and it is evi- dent that the great west intends to be a great and conspicuous part of the show. It cites in illustration the fact that while Now Jersoy has appropriated only $20,- 000 and Connecticut proposes but $25,000, Colorado has provided for an expendi- ture of $100,000. The wealthy states of New York and Massachusetts propose to appropriate $200,000 each, while Penn- sylvania is halting over a proposition to appropriate $300,000. But the con- trasting interest in tho exposition between the west and east does not fully appear in what has already been done for a numbor of west- orn states expoct to increnso their ap- proprintions and undoubtodly will do so. It is by no menns improbable that Cali- fornia will make hers a million. Illinois will appropriate at least half that sum, while Towa, Minnesota and Michigan will provide sums that will not be much if uny bolow the highest proposed by an oastern state. Our Philadelphin con- temporary is correct in concluding that the west is determined not to be over- looked. It has boen apparent from the be- ginning that the success of the Colum- bian exposition would largely depend upon the liberality and patriotism of the west, and this is made to appear more strongly by the disproportion in the appropriations of the western and eastern states when the difference in wenlth and developed resources ave considered. Such New York and Pennsyl- vania can covtainly afford to expend in connection with this great enterprise five times as much as Colorado, and it will be necessary for them to doso in order to make an equally com- plete display of their resour 1t will be impossible for New Jersey to have a respectable representation of her industries with the sum her legislature appropriated, hor manu- actuvors individually go generously into their own pockets, Massachusetts may make a creditable exhibit with the sum it is proposed to appropriate, but the state can afford to do better. There is manifestly lacking in the east that hearty interest in the oxposition which ought to exist, and the absence of which m: be due to a still lingering fesling of disap- pointment at the sclection of Chicago instead of an eastern city. It is unques tionable that there has been a sentiment in the east that the west, having secured the exposition, should be left to take care of it, and while this does not exist now there is wanting an earnest concern for the success of the great enterprise. Tt is gratifying to note that the east is not unconscious of the liberal and patri- otic disposition of the west toward the exposition, and it is to be hoped the ex- ample will be fruitful of some good re- sults, A fow of the eastorn states may later on see the propriety and policy of amorve genorous representation than they now propose. states o unless IMPOSTORS AND PERJURERS. Tue Bre has seen fit to attack the legality of the South Omaha saloon applications, as published in the World-Herald, and served no- tice of a possible contest. Tur Bre is trying the same unsuccessful game in South Omaha that it tried in Omaha, where it failed. The saloon keepers and druggists, who have prioted their notices in the World-Herald, need give thomselves no uneasiness, as tho World-Herald will fully demonstrate when the proper time comes that it is the legal paper in which to print said applications. To say that tho South Omaha druggists and liquor dealers feel very indignanc at Tne Beg forits bulldozing tactics would be putting 1t in very mild Janguage. The general opinion among them is the same as it was in Omaha a few months ago, that Tur Bee is blackmailing druggists and liquor dealers.—World-Herald. Tae BeE only repeats what it has been compelled to say heretofore with regard to the methods of Mr. Hitch- cock and his sheet. When you are dealing with common swin- dlers and impostors you cannot expect common decency or honorable dealing. There was never a more brazen exhi- bition of downright imposture than this man Hitcheock has pursued in trying to foist his paper upon tne community as the leading circulating medium in this county. The law directs that every ap- plication for license shall be published in the paper having tho largest cireula- tionin the county. The object of the law is to give the widest p ublicity to the application. Now Mr. Hitcheock, knows that he has no more right to claim the largest bona fide circulation in Douglas county for his paper than has the publisher of the South Omahe Stockman. But he deter- mined to play a bluff game and sent emissaries to the Omaha liquor dealers to solicit their advertising,g,and when they were notified that the Aorld-Herald could not fulfill the requirement of the law he sent out a circular let- ter to assure them that he would demonstrate before the police com- mission that the had the largest circulation, But with all the free distribution and piling up of sto paper in his pi nd with the rankest of perjury, he failed to meot the showing of Tie Bee, and the polico commission issued its order in January that no advertisement in the World- Herald would thercafter be recognized as legal. And yet this impostor and monumental fraud has the audacity now to nssert that THe BE beaten before the police commi. Aund adding in- sult to injury, this self-convicted impostor, who clubs merchants who refuse to patronize him and bulldozes members of the board of education into buying lots he cannot disposo of to any- body else, has the gall tostigmatize THE BEE as a blackmailer because it sees fit to insist upon its rights, So far as the South Omanalicense pub- lications are concerned they are merely a bagatelle, but the question involved is whether the law is to be mado a dead lettor as regards publicity and whether the rightful eclaim of THe BEE as the paper having the largest circulation isto be overridden by a concern that has built up its pre- tended circulation on wind and perjured aMdavits. In the Omaha contest the liquor deal- ors who weve invelgied into patronizing the World-Herald weve condoned by the police commission on the ground that s room, o ion. they did not know nny better, and THE World-Herald | | cuse, it was not dlsposed to the partiestlin view of the final deotsion fn| its favor. But the ith Omaha dealers have no such ox- They have had ample notice, and the board has ip fts possession the offi- cial copy of the findings of the Omaha police commission, If thoy still porsist in ignoring tha law they will do so at their own risRe @ie Bes Publishing company will spend $1,000 and $5,000 if need bo to enforce;its rights through the courts, prosecute VALUABLE time for street work is being lost by the inaction of the council and board of publie works. Cannot some energy bo developed in this direction? Tue board of trade is awake to the im- portance of taking advantago of the op- portunity for creating a great grain and commission market in Omaha, Lucid, Logical and Grammatical. St L ~Democrat. President Harri statement of his views on the silver question is lucid, logical and grammetical—threo points in which 1t differs from the recont lotter of Mr. Clove- land upon the samo subject. - end of the Farmers. Boston Journal President Harrison’s letter to the farmers is one of those wise, bold and statesmaulike acts that lifts the president’s oftice out of tho hurl y-burly of party politics and mark the executive conspicuously as what in times of stress and peril he should be—the counsellor and leader of the people, Kat: Field's Washington, Tt scems to me that American playwrights never had 80 good a chance as Tho public may waut to laugl, but thoy will not be hoodwinked by serious absurdities, Bet- ter tho veriest clowning of *‘farce-comedy" than the false sentiment of adopted dramas which fiuds no response from wise men or fools. o0l Teachers. s Weekly. That teachers aro now generally well paid, especially the women, who aro tho larger vart, cannot bo trathfully said. They must maintain a certain standara of living, and to do this and save enough for decent support when they vatire is impossible, The result is that teaching is very generally regarded as a temporary makeshift, not as a profes- sion. In the public school, teaching isan em- ployment rather than a profession. A clover lawyer or phy constantly enlarges his practico and his emoluments. How can a clever public school teacher do that? Only by leaving tho public school. The move- ment for pensions of teachers will do much it it leads to more liberal compensation, LU iy Journalists as Authors. Kate Fie d's Washington, rance tho eminent journalist is a man s0 distinguished as to be sought on all occa- sions, public and private. Yet French jour- nalism wields far less influence than Ameri- can. Tho best literary brains of the new world are put into-journalism, first, because book making does not pay; secondly, because Americans domand their literaturo served hot and fresh for breakfast daily. An author i3 & writer of anything oviginal, bo it book, voem, essay, sketch, story, treatiso, sermon, editorial, letter, reportior even advertisement. Lo shut out of any literary organization men. and women who are:shaping the destiny of this republic by devoting to journalism more brains than are put into nine-tenths of mod- ern books, s to be guilty of an inoxeusablo blunder. E eceni s fication. Washington Post. The president aud his party enjoyed a gen- uine ovation at Chattanooga, in which the whole city took a hand without distinction of party. Hr. Harrison responded to this col- lective demonstration of hospitality 1 one of his happiest specches. His utterances upon such occasions are always sensible, graceful and appropriate. His roferances to the war and its results— to the Chattanooga of 16+ and the Chatta- nooga of 1891 —were particularly well chosen and well received. There had been two con- quests, he said, one with arms and the other with peace, and the Jast is groater than the first. Thore was going on & “‘unification by commerce" that will in time erase all differ- ences and make us in sentiment 8s in com- munity of interest, one people. - Ralsed a 600-Year-Old Boycott, In the year 1400, or theroabouts, workmen were omployed to put choir stalls in Lincoln cathedral, England, and were tola in tho early English vernacalar of the day to hurry the job up, as several big functions were soon 0 come off. But lots of things happened; money got to be exceeaingly scarce, and the men weren’t paid very promptly. Although there were no Knights of Labor then, human nature was pretty much the sameas it is now, and tho men knocked off, remavking: “No puy, no work.”” Tho ‘clergy were so busy running the county political machine that they didn't have time to arrange the matter, and the finishing of the stalls was postponed frome time to time until the pres- ent day. At last, however, Dean and Chap- ter think they see their way to complete this fitteenth century job, and are calling for es- timates from woodcarvers. England is a lit- tle slow, but she does get there after a few centuries, She's All Right. New York Tribuns, Kings and emperors are kept busy nowa- days. William of Prussia is confident that there will be peace for sevoral years, but, as the Yaukees sny, he is “everlastingly laying himself out” to builg @ his navy and to gov the bigeest and straggsy army in Europe. Meanwhile the cz@ fof all the Russias is crowding his legions along the frontiers and strengthening all his fortifications, while his railroads are working lsteadily toward India. England is having a taste of her old troubles with India. Humbort of Ttaly doosn’t know which is the bettof®a triple aliiance or a general dict: lwrsmpkhu world. The em- peror of Austria is as Wuhappy as any one of them, for he shouts peace, but doesu’t be- lieve in it, nor knoy ich way to lpok for the war cloud so thi, 1 may como in out of the rain. 5o the dance of kings and queens and empero os on, and Ameri- cans sit back comfortably and say: *“What is the matter with uwnmd States? " NEBRASKA NEWSPAPER The Benkelman Boo has deserted the demo- cratic party and joined the independent for Editor Beck has retiroa from the Venango Independent and will become the pastor of the Methodist church at Grant. M. H. Barber, of the Fullerton Journal, has been obliged o’ put on a *sub® while he'bat tles with sclatica av Hot Springs. Traver, Sammons & Austiz have purchased the plaut of the Amelia Journal and will con- tinue the publication of the paper. rrington, editor of the Mason 3 while the youngest nows- paper man in years in Custer county, is tho oldest fu tho number of yoars of continuous service with oae paper. - Emerson Pursell of tho Moraa Itacord I3 te "next man ou-the ist. An attompt will bo mado to organizo an- other North Nebraska ditorial association at Wagne May 4, call having been issued to that effect by Wheeler & Woodworth of tho NEWS, Wakefield Republican, Every publisher is urged to be presont and seo if tho organiza- tion cannot bo mado of more benefit to tho fratornity than its predecessors. Tho Blair Pilot has entered upon its twe tioth year, and Selden & that they are proud of the record of their papor and will make the twentieth volume superior to any of its nineteen prede- cessors, Editor Gerrard, of the Monroo Looking Glass, claims that sometime ago he took issue with Prof. Huxley on tho religious question He now shakes hands with himself, bocause, as he says, Gludstone has adopted his views and joined him in tho crusade against Huxl M. C. Frank has retired from the editor- ship of the York Ropublican, his partner, Dayton, having purchased his intorest in the paper. 'Mr, Frank has been badly crippled in the past two years, Heo lost one arm by falling undor tho cars, and one foot was am- Putated as tho result of & gunshiot wound, Te will now confine himself to the justico business and leave able-bodied men to rustle in the newspaper busiuoss sl PASSING JESTS, Atchison Globo: It is a case of ‘heart failure” when you hold a flush of that kind and some other fellow holds a full haud. A “londing light'—The one in front of a locomoti v Milwaukeo Sentinel: This is the timo of vear when the grass has the best of the base- ball pitcher. It never fails in an up-shoot. : Ifparents woro as careful 1p their children s farmers aro rlive stock it wouldnw't bo long until_everybody would bo on their way to heaven, Munsey’s Weekly: When a man holds a straight flush he may be said to have “got the upper hand,” ChoeyenneLeader: The man who engineors a bill through congross can always get a job on the railroad. Buffalo Express: Baron Faya's eminent services as a diplomat should be rewarded by a now title. Ho should become Count Matiava. Albany Journal: at Stutigart, which one can with it. Electric cabs aro in_use Now for an eluctric cabbic turn off when one is done Louisville Times: It is reported that a Jasper (Ga.) man recently shot a huwk meus- urimg five feot seven inches from wing tin to wing tip. He evidently shot the bird with the editorial long-bow ‘so deadly in Georgia. St. Louis Chronicle: Vordi’s comic opera alstafi” is ta be produced at Milan next winter. It is expected that it will make a greut noise. wsas City Times: A Cedar Bluffs ) man shot a wolf in his dooryard the morning, Tho wolf at the door is not usually got rid of so easily. Chieago Inter Ocean: Somebody sy the lowest body of water on_the glol Caspian sea, which proves that somobody 1s unacquinted with the Chicago riv Cloak Review: Mr. Bingo (rushing in)— The barn is_burning down! Quick, whereis the fire extinguisher? Mrs. Bingo (excitedly)—It's locked up in the closet, and the key is 1n the pocket of my other dress upstairs. Bingo (resigned)—Then lot the barn burn, Washington Star: Italy has a fruit stand- ing army of about fifty thousand men in tho United States. Speie AN EXPLANATION. Judge Montgomery Makes His Posi- tion Clear, Youx, Neb., April 16.—To tho Editor of Tae Ber: 1 noticed in your issue of yester- day under the title, “Innocent, Buv Techni- cally Guilty,” that I sad that T believed C. N. Ray was innocent but under a technicality of the law I was obliged to bind tho young man over to the district court. I did not say 1 bolieved him {unocont; nelther did I say I velieved him guilty, but I said had I the right. to try and determine the case under the evi- dence given the defendant would have the benefit of every reasonable doubt in favor of his innocence, and was that the rule I would say not guilty. But as I understood the law, where I only bound over, the rule was differ. ent; that is to say, that if the crime had been committod and that there was probable cause that the defendant had committed the same, then it was my duty to bind him over to the district court, which I did under a bond of £500, instead of $30 as quoted by the York Republican. A. C. MoxTaomeny, County Judge. He Met Consul Manat. Cairo, Egypt, March 24.—To the Editor of Tug Bee: 1 thougnt I would drop you a few lines concerning my trip while awaiting breakfast this warm morning. We reachod here last evening, running along the Nile and through the Delta, both of immortal fame, aud a grander sight in the way of vegetation, people, donkeys, buffalo cows, oxen, sheep, dromedaries and in many other ways than was here prosented, I have yet to see. It was a panorama from Alexandria to Cairo. But T have not set out to write of these things. As the tourist would say, I have ‘*done’ Ttaly and Greeco, Rome and Athens. And to say T was charmed with the ~colossal ancient ruins of Rome and.the ruins and sconery of classic Athens, but tamely expresses it. What added much to iy already pleasant and interesting stay at Athens was the very great kindness and attention shown me and our party by our affable aud highly accom- plished consul there ~Mr. Manat. Surely ho is the right man in the right place. His ripe scholarship, especially his thorough acquaint- ance with Greek history and the Grecis lan- guago (which, of course, is there spoken, and Ahich Mr. Manat says i3 not and never was a dead language) eminently fits bum for his im- portant_position, Nebraska may justly feel proud of her consul at Athens; as well may the United States at large. 'Mr. Manat's family is just as genial, pleasant and accom- modating as he. 6 He says 1 um the second Nebraskian he has met, at Athens. Ho tells mo also, as it re- gards the Greok language, that it is the livest dead thing ho has seen. 1 is essentially the same language of Xenophen and of the New Testament Greek, and everyone should know the language. Well, to tell of what I saw at Athens aud how it impressed mo would require much time and space. _Very fraternally, Central City, No Burial of F The funeral of the late Frank Stockdale s condusted yesterday at St. Barnabas' \ on North Nineteenth strect a p.m. There wasa large gathering of rel tives and frionds of the deceased present aud the serv ry impressive, ‘Phe Omaha guards, of which the deceased was an_honoved meinber, were present in uniform and took @ prominent partin the ceremonies. : 4 Rey. John Williams, rector of St. Barn- abas’, officiated in & ministerial capacity. The floral offerings were both attractive and numerous, ‘The remains were taken to Pros- poct hill cemetery, followed to the grave by a long procession of carriages. el e b A SONG OF SPRIANG. Ladies' Home Journal. Blow, softly blow, sweet springtime wind, O'er budding lanes and fie!ds of green- (1 must get Mike to fix that blind; The back door needs u new wire screen), Brown robins flutter from the hedge Whero nests are hidden —(Gracious me, “The bovs have notehed this railing's edze Until it's really ruined—Sco!) Swiit lights and shadows on the hill, Bring back dear visions, dear, in vain— (We can't put up lace curcains till (Vo paint those window-frams again!) Oh, fairest droam! Oh, softest chavm! 1t 1 could scizo it—(Yes, I hear! Tell Kate to muko tho suds quite warm, Aud I'll be dowa directly, dear), Adieu to toil, to sordid cares — (The junk man, is it! Very w Just ask him if he'll step up stairs ‘And 500 these stoves I have to sell!) Alibery announce | DEATH ENDS A LONG SPREE. | Effocts of Liquor, Police of Lincoln—The T —Other News from Capital, ers he Lixcory, Neb, ~April 10.-[Speoial Tne Bee)—Henry Fix died in city fall shortly before 4 o'clock this morning. Fix was found by OMcor Bartram id & room on South Ninth streot yesterday crazy drunk. He was taken to the police station, and, his symptoms growing alarming, City Physician Giffen was callod about 9 o'clock last night and found the inobriato in dangerous condition. Medicines wore the man died about seven hours later, Fix was about forty years old and was a familiar character on the streets, as ho followed the occupation of a saw sharpener. Ho hias 1o frionds or relatives hore as far as can bo learned, His body is lying in the morgue at Heatou's undertaking establish- may turn up. Fix has been a confirmed drunkard for a long time. COLLEGE ATHLETICS, The inter-collegiate fiold day will probably be on Saturday, May 23, as that is the most convenicnt day that may bo well used. A programme of twenty-three numbers has b made out, and an excitiug time is ox pected. The contest will take placo at Crete, under the auspices of Doane college, Tho following is the programme: One hunared vards dash: throwing hammer, sixteen pounds; putting shot, sixteen pounds; polo vault with pole: pole vault without pole standing broad jump; standing high jumps, 440 yards dash; 830 yards dash; throwing basevall; one mile bicycle race; tug of war half mile watk; high kick; kicking football; ace; hurdle raco of 120 vards: heavy- weight wrestling; light-weight wrestling; standing hop, step and jump; three-legged Baseball will also receive some atte tion, The president of the Athletic as: tion announces that he proposes Lo orga baseball league as soon as convenient. various colleges have many good men for this purpose and undoubtedly some college base- ball will be witnessed this spring. TUE TURNERS, Tho_following members of the Li Turn Verein left for Nebras night to participate in the fir: 1801: Henry Bruegmann, R, C. Nobis, Alfred Bissner, Georgo Viola, Albert Urbalin, Joo Wittmann, Otto Wittmann, Erast Jurgen- sen, Herman Bruegmann, Fred Funke, Rob- ert’ Wolf, Louis Fritsche, Diek Hellwig Math Sommer, Max Poters, August RRade- bach. Delegations wero also to bo presont from all the other sociotios of Nebraska. The Lincoln turners wero accompanied from this ng Prof. Kostline and Mossrs. Reithling and Rahderbach, and they were joined at Woep- ing Water by tho delegation from Omaha, CLOG DANCING 1S NOT TAUGHT. The managors of tho conservatory of music receivo numerous letters from persons over this and other states making inquiries in ref- erenco to the course of study, tuition, etc. Tho director received a lotter tho past weok from o young man in a far-away state asking if “‘clog dances" wero taught in the conserv- atory. The principal wroto back that the school was not for the purpose of training aspirants for the varioty stage. NEW SOHOOL BUILDINGS. Tho troublesome school building question has at last boon amicably adjusted. Tho Sec- ond and Third wards aro to have one build- ing to cost 3,000; the I'irst a $1,000 building. Bethany Heights has boen satistied with a £1,000 building and_Havelock gets a building which will cost 2,000, Tho citizens will vote the necessary bonds in a fow days. WHO WILL BE MARSHALY Among the candidates mentioned for tho position of city marshal are the followin John Gillespie, B. F. Pinneo, Honry V. Hong- land, Charles’ Hoxie, C. M. Green, Jesse Moore, Cham Beach and Messrs. Blake and Kramer. S. M. Melick, tho present incum- bent, is mentionod as & probable compromise, Thero are ulso somo dark horses, each of whom secretly cherishes the hope of getting there. ODDS AND ENDS. The eloctric street railway company has a force of twenty-five men busily engaged at work sotting the poles on East Vine street, preparatory to stringing the trolley wire and changing from horse power to the electric system. The poles aro on the ground ready 1% be sot along tho route to University Placo. The mayor and excise board have taken under advisement the mattor of granting the saloon men the priyilego of keeping ol places of business open until midnight, the same as is allowed in Omaha. Adam Bolliett, who lives on H between Fourth and Fifth streets, complains to tho police that somebody has'stolen a cow from him. “The board of exciso commissioners has ro- fused permission to Teheel & Panzeram to run a saloon at 1837 street. Last evening Mr. Zimer gave a banquet, to tho newspaper men of Lincoln at his home on Fourteenth and N stroots. The most prom- ineut pencil pushers of the city were in at- tondance, and woro troated 10 8 splondid. ro- ast. P Hhio regular mooting of the Lincoln branch of the Irish national leaguc of America was held ut Fitzgerald hall this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. Poter McFadden delivered the addross of the day. A fine musical pre grammo was presented. > X As the baseball park near Crabb's grove is not yot ready for use there was no game toddy between Lincoln and Minneapolis, On Mouday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Lincoln ‘will cross bats with Milwaukee. Tho conservatory chorus has been rehears- ing Carpenter’s mass in G for some time, and as the music Lall is oo small for the large chorus and orchestra, by request the mas will be given some timo next month in St. Paul's church for the benofit of the pips organ socioty of that church. The chorus will be lareé and strong and will be_accom- panied by an orchestra of thirty pieces and the pipe organ. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, nurs, Mo, April 10.—To the Edit thre I the were th civil od u under of Tar olumns fivd most ar? 2 How Neveland's ) tant hatt administration, date of each?—Na Ans.—1. Gettysbur crness, Antiecam and There wero 61 union during Presid tration, namely: W, it Harrison’s adwminis- oming and Idaho in 1590, and North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington in 1830, There were no new states ndmitted under Clovelaud's ad- ministration, OMANA, April 13.-=To the Editor of Tg Bk {'Vou please answor the followlng gues- rouzh the colu of Tre Bee? W Widows of Prosidonts Grant fivld Hiving? How should lettors bo ad to reach them?—A Subscriber. Ans.—Mrs. Grant is now living in New York aud a letter addressed care of Colonel Henry. Fix Dies in the Oity Jail from the Aspirants for the Position of Ohief of to the a ad- | ministored, but they proved of no avail, and | ment awaiting the orders of any friends wha | Joing by tho Eromout deicgation, compris. | Fred Grant of that cfty would probably rench her. Mrs. Garfleld's address s Mor o Park, Cleveland, 'O, Souri [1rxD, Nob., April 14 of Tig Brk: Will you_ p! BER the !{Il\lll‘“)ll of Odgen, Utah torritory, ), 0 To the Ediioe 50 stato i Tiw alt Loko City and . M. Bunker, , und Ogden 14,919, March 4.-To the Editor of 0 anawor the following ques or, What I8 the i hiav branches in every stato logisluturo presentutive and senate?—E. Holr Ans—Tho principal_object in having two branches is to securo botter and more deliber. ate logisiation. Tho senate represonts tho states, or tho poopio in their collective ca pcity’s while the more numerous legislative hody, tho representatives, reprosents divi- sioas of the people, Rosenrn AGENCY, 8 Do, April 15.—To tho Fditor of Tue Bee: What I8 the law recently passed by the Nebraska legislature regardin the prohibition of the sale of fire arms am‘{ ammunition to Indians? Ans.—The law you rofer to provides that any person who shall soll or give away any fire arms, ammunition or other munitions of iny kind which can b used in fire arms shall bo deemed guilty of a_felony aud upon conyietion thoreof shill be imprisoned i tho ponitentiary fora term not less than two years or more than five, HADRON, L April 14 ik you ny Ans.—Salt Lako 4! OngstoN, Nob | Tue Bee: P | tlon in your pa) | INTER-COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONTEST. | ty -To_tho Fdltor of Kindly wnswer through tates hav lopted tho Australian systom and which o {5h Aus,—Twenty-four, namely . Montana, Rhdtie Island, Wis- Minnesota, Washington, ud, Vormont, North Da. braska, Wyoming, Maine, 1amp and Jersoy aud ns of tho Massa New York, y kota, South Dakot ado, West Virg Oregon, Cali entucky. In' Michigan, N Connecticut modified applicati Australian method of voting have been put in operation. The Hlinois and Ohio legisla. tures now have tho matter under considera- tion. o ELK Onepi. 8. D, April 11.~To the Editor o T ks Pleaso tell mo through the colimns of Tie Bek if an Englishman or any foreignor volunteered in the union army during the late ¢Vl war, and was honorably discharged, without thking out his nuturaiization pupers « he t 0 up and hold government land and 15 lie an American eltizon?—R. O. Robinson. A\‘H‘(. An alien who served in United States army during _the civil war bad tho privilego of taking out s naturalization papers at the close of the war without haviug to wait the usual length of time undor ordinary circumstances required by law. 1f he failed to avail him- self of this privilege of courso he did not be- citizen and as an alien he could not nt land, = ob., April 15.—To the Editor of Tue Bek: Please answer {n T'ne Bex the fol- Towing: How many feot of right of way hus the Unfon Pacltic "Railway company on thoir wmaln line through even scctionsi—J W Witche: Auns.—200 feot of right of way. OMAA, April 1 ) the Editor of The Bee: To settle a dispute | e Bk the following query ond from the Upper part of 4 hous ? Ans.—Yes, it will. The_den descend and affect all the low house. ickLEY, Nob, Will'y tho DUNCAN, o tho Editor o form me through 1 ving at tho h? is roputed to be tho 1g and his estimated wealth To the Eaitor of Tin ase answer through Tik s woro coined I eul” first found in v ending June 80, 1890 85,928,816 silver dollurs were coined. 2. The word ““appeal’” ocours in the new testa- ments in Act 1. Ttouly occ in the new testament and always in Acts, Norrork, April 15.—To the BEk: To decide u bot, who I3 the ricliest man, Gould or Rockefellor?--W Ans,—Rockefellor richer of the two, BEA ThE BE of your paper, whith Roason. J. Hofmbich, is' roputed to be the To the Editor of answer me, in the columns n rogard to Thomas Paine, \0 Wrote any more than the “Age of 1t 80, what, and where could 1 got it? What was be, and how long ago did he diup 18 Robert Ingersoll of lis belief in rogard 40 our future stater—Amelln G. Munstor. Ans.—Besides the “Age of Reason, ‘Thomas Paine wrote ‘‘Common Sense," “T'he Crisis,” “Rights of Man,” and 3 oral newspaper articles, the principal one boing “Thoughts Upon Slavery,” which attracted great _attention at the time it was written. You could probablo rocure his works through any reputable kseller. Paine was born at Thetford, England, January 20, 1737, and was the son of a Quaker. Was cugaged'in several busi- nesses and came to America in Decembar, 1 1774, and obtained immediate employment us editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine. Ho tool an active part in the politics in this country and visited France in 1751, and again 1n 1757, when e nventod an iron bridge; was ciceted to tho French national conven: tion and died in New York June s, 1809, Robert Ingersoll's views on o future stato are about tho same as those held by Thomas Paine, Husmworor, Nob., April 10.—To the Editor of ik Bee: Will you pleaso tell me how much land, if uny, allowed a mily Is exempt from, execution under the state law; also how much onal property Is exempt JOHN CASSADY. Aus.—Section 1, chaptor 3 of the compilad statutes provides for the exemption of a homestead not exceeding i value $2,000, con- sisting of the dwelling house in which' tho claimant rosides and its appurtenances aud tho land on which it is situatod, not ex- ceeding 160 acres of land, to 'bo so- locted by the owner thercof, and not in any incogporated city or vitlage, or in- stead thereof, at the option of the claimant, a quantity of contiguous land not exceeding two lots within any incorporated city or vil: lago. With regard to personal proporty all » londs of familios having neithor fands, town lots nor houses subject to exemption as homestead undor the laws of this stato shall have exempt, from forced sale on execution the sum of $300 in personal property. Lt WHAT HE WANTED, Mr. Martin Felt Sligh eral Governmn Major Benham, inspector of small arms practice of the department of the Platte, re- turned Saturday evening from Bellevie, where he haa a conference with Mr. W. F, Martin and others, who claimed that their consent had nover boen obtained by the goy- ernment to use cortain lots located in_the tract of land used as a riflo vange. Mr, Mar- tin owns three lots. One is right in tho ocen- ter in the range, another is noar tho officrs’ quarters and the thira ono is close to tha butts. Ho said it was not so much tho value of tho property that caused him to cd it s the fact that he has never been nizod as a property owner by the govern- ment. Mr, Martin thought that the govern- ment might recognize the small property owners who giva their lots for a range, just as well as those who own large tracts used in the runge. by the Gen- PARAGRAPHS, PERSONAL Tobias Castor of Lincoln is at the Paxton, C. B, Juckson of Lincoln is at the Paxton. Mayor Ireland of Nebraska Uity is at the Paxton. 1. I, Crosby of Lineoln is stopping at the Miliard . Y. Roberts and wife of Kcarney are av the Paxton. Dr. G, W. Paheck of Nebraska Ciuy the Paxton, James A. Gore of Washington, D. stopping at the Paxton. Jumes I Mathews of the City of Mexica is o cuest at the Millard, is at Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE