Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1891, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE) WED DAY, APRIL 22, 1891 TERME OF £UBSCRT1 Datly Bee (without Sunday) One Daily and Sunday, One Ycat. Bix months . Threemonie. ' 0 unday Hee, One Vear, Weekly Bee, Ono Yenr OFFICES omaha, The Ree Bullding outh Oninhia, Corner N and 20th Streets Ponrl Strect 7 Chamber of © 18 13,14 and 15 1 J Fourteenth strec CORRESPONDENCE. All corimunications relatin to news and editorini niatter should be addressed to the Editorial Departr t BUSINESS Al husiness loft bo nddressed to T Omahn. Drafts, eheeks and 10 he made payable to the ord pany. The Bee Prblishing Company. Proorietors THE BEE BUILDINC MORNL 0N, Y fnerce, c Bullding ETTERS, d_remittancos shonld Pulitishing Coy o o of the comw- Etate of Coun 3 i , sccretary of Tne Bre loce solemnly swear of T DATLY BER for the follows: Eunday. April 12 Monday. April 13 Fesday. Apeil 14 Wednesday, April 15 Thursday, April 16 Friday. April 17 Saturday, April 18 oo 23,001 i B TZSCITUCK. 1 sibscrived fn my of April. A. D. 1801 | P, Fein, Notary Publio. Averago Eworn 1o Vefore presence this I5th . Etate of Nobraska, County of 1 Tz worn, de- Tik Bee vorage JAILY BEE for the 1504 conies: f +70_coples; for Novem ember, 180 1K01, 25,446 coples: fos; for Murch, , 24,003 coplos, ¥ I TZ8CHUCK. Eworn to lefore me, and subscribed in my presence. i ki duy of April, A, D Tl Notiry Publie. —_— THE railway commissi The demo- crats are not in it. THE city and county governmonts ®ought to sottlo this ugly controversy between the doctors I¥ Italy continues to attempt the col- lection of a poll tax she w ill have all the amusement she needs at home, — St ORrGE, Utah, is now the prin- cipal center of unadulterated Mormon- ism, but that had nothing to do with the earthquake which occurred there Sun- day, F'LORIDA is not unanimous for the re- election of Wilkinson Call, but unless 80mo moro popular brigadier can be pitted against him he will succead him self, MINNESOTA is feeling better, The legislaturo has adjourned and tho credit of the state is intact in spito of the threats of Tgnatius Donnelly and his followers, CAPTAIN JOHN G, BOURKE'S roturn to his regiment at Fort MeIntosh, Tex., brings the fact afresh to mind that the late General Crook’s friends are largely orphans under the present army rogime. THE death of D. Martin of Dukota City removes one of the oldest editors and citizens of Nebraska. He - was for many years the proprietor of the Dakota City Hagle and was familiarly known as Father Martin SI0UX 17y has just discovered that cheap cedar blocks for paving are dear at any price. Sioux City learnod this truth at about as much oxpense as Omaha experienced in acquiring knowl- edge in the same direction. LItTLE Portugal does not lack for nerve if sho 18 wanting in discretion, She fired upon Colonel Willoughby* and soized his two English steamers in the Pungou river in South Africa to ompha- 8izo her right in Delagoa bay. THE proceedings of the republican league meeting in Cincinnati this wook will be the gauge by which that of the alliance will bo measured next month, The spell-binders ot both parties will unquestionably be at their best, — As 120 is 10 2,639, s0 is the chance of one citizen in 2,639 for jury duty in the district court. As the 2,639 names were selected by taking every ninth name in the poll-lists, the professional talesman stands only a shadow of a show for a de- tail this torm gf court, THE new supervising architect of the treasury is said to be an energetic man, 1t 80 he will find his office in Washing- ton a clog to his enthusinsm. Thore is nothing else so deliberate in this world as a troasury architectural draughtsman. Time is no object to him. Ho is as oblivious to the movements of the heay- enly bodies as the contury plant, CHAIRMAN | BIRKHAUSER should re- strain himself, Exhibitions of temper and malice are not included in the duties of the board of public works. If the gon- tleman will hold his tonguo and attend strictly to his business he will not only learn more about public works and come nearer earning his salary, but will have no occagion to find fault with the news- papers. RECIPROCITY needs no defense. will take care of itself. The treaty Spain opens Cuba and tho Svanish Antilles to American farmers. The democratic newspapers will find it neces- sary to take water in the course of the noxt six months and will be howling themselves hoarse trying to convince the votor that reciprocity is distinot- ively the ideu of democracy. It with LyMrn hus proved to be o big bonanza for the doctors, if not for suffering hu- manity, With it the medics have made repeated injoctions in their code of ethics which prohibits paid advertising by any reputable physician. The result has been astonishing. The code has been warped and twisted to such an ex- tent that uny physician can now permit a freo newspaper pufl of his experiments with iymph. But if he pays for bis ad- vertising he becomes a quack, TIPS Fr D FISH Governor Boyd has been very patient in the matter of making exccutive ap- pointments, He has postponed changos pondiug the decision of his right to his | offico in some instances und awaited the adjournment of o possibly hostile senate | in others. The grist of appointments is now being ground out. Thus far his selections have generally been worthy of commendation. He has rosisted the prossure of democratic poli- tielans who have sought to foist upon him disreputable 'd bummers for €ome of the most important places and given them to gentlemen of recognized probity and influence. rnor is a democrat, It is ex- pected that he will appoint democrats | W office. 8o long as those he selects are men of character and of spocial fitness for the duties to which they are assigned republicans will find no fault. Tt will be a mistake, however, to re men of recognized fitness and large oxperience in the insane hospitals and other char- itable institutions and to place them at the mercy of empivics, The governor should go slow in making appointments and removals at the three insane asy- lums, He will also endanger the success of tho blind asylum, by plucing in it a man who has had no experience in teaching these unfortunates however talented and suceessful he may be in the public schoo! sorvica, The institute for the deaf and dumb and that for feehle minded should be kept under the supervision of the present officers unless men of recognized expericnce are found to take their places. Men cannot bo picked up from the ovdivary walks of life competont to manago these chavitable institutions. — THE RAILROAL RETARIES, The state board of transportation is reorganized. Threo now secreta have been appointed and the three old ones step down and out. The people will bid farewell to Messrs, Gil- christ, Gilkeson and rber with w spocial regret. They are clever fellows and they have been very methodi in matter of drawing their salavies, No fault can bo found with them personaily and no charge of negloct to draw pay as soon as it was due can be sustained against them, Further than this they have not pre- tended to attempt. much, and they could accomplish very littlo if it were at- The three G's have had a residence in Lincoln and the people have paid their expenses. The new trio of secrstaries who are to be supported at the cxpense of the state aro not rampant anti-monopolists. They will give the railroads no unnecessary troublo and will probably show up regu- larly at the state treasury for their sala- riss, Thoy will pocket 82,000 a year and perquisites, ride about over the state on passes, attend conventions and meet with the state board from time to time to congider railway transportation mat- tors, They know they have a good thing and as neithor of the throe gentiemon has ever before had such easy work for the same money they may be expected to hold office for at least two years, What does it all amount to so far as the interests of the people are con- corned? ove o8 th AN INTERNAT/ONAL GREETING, The most interesting incident of the prosident’s journey thus far was the greeting he recoived at El Paso yester- day from representatives of the presi- dent of Mexico. It was understood to have been the intention of President Diaz to personally meet President Har- rison, but this was doubtless a mistake, since there are obvious considerations of propriety that would interfere with his doing this under the circumstances. Were the president of the United States journeying in Moexico the chief magistrato of that repub- lic would undoubtedly spare no effort to show his respect and his friendly foeling toward this country. These, however, were amply and gratifyingly manifested in his send- ing to greet President Harrison dis- tinguished citizens of Mexico, charged with expressing sentiments of friendship and the wish for still closer relations between the neighbor republics, It was an international greeting with which the citizens of both countries may well feol gratified. President Diaz hasalways shown him- self to be an oarnest friend of the United States. Ho s a statosman of uncommon ability, who has done a wonderful work in promoting the development of Mex- icos resources and in maintaining good government. Heisnman of progressive idons, who has sought to put his country abreast with the spirit of thatimes, He has given Mexico a wiser and botter government than she ever had before, and has elevated the republic to a pos tion of consequence among the nations of the earth. Since his advent to power Diaz has constantly shown a strong de- sire to cultivate the friendliest relations with the United States, and if ho ha not been entirely successful, so far as commereial intercourse is concorned, | the fault has been largely with our own government. But Americ found large investment in Mexico and now controls the most important rail- roads in that republic and many other entorprises. The old prejudice against Americans has very nearly died out, and they are welcomed as heartily as any other foreigners who go there with o view to building up the material perity of the country, o steady growth of feeling that there ought to bhe, and ultimately must bo, a commercial system betweon the two countries that will be mutually helpful, and none have contributed so much to this as Ame \ns themselves who have invested their money in Mex- ican enterprises. With a better under standing than our home politicians can possibly have of the situation, these American investors in Mexico are unan- fmous in the opinion that the barrices which now prevent a large commerce between the territorially-connected re- publics, and which afford to European nations the opportunity to control the ter part of Mexico's trade, ought to moved, The policy of the pressnt administra- tlon gives promise that this will be done, and thero is veason to believe that it an pros- There has been earnost dosirve is shown by our govern- ment to bring it about Mexico will not | be found unwilling. The incident at ki Paso may huve no greot significance in this direction, but in existing cireum- stances it gives warrant for the most favorable inforences. At any rate it o gratifying evidence of intorna- | tional friendship and good will that will not be altogether profitless. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. President Harrison’s trip through the most prosperous and progressive portion | of the south has served to call general attention to the rapid growth of that section, and the effect upon it is likely 1o be good. There has been during the last two decades groater matorial prog- in the west, both actual and vela- tive, than inthe most favored portion of the south, but all things considercd the advance in tho latter has certainly been remarkable, and the onward march is to continue. Such examples of gress as Chattanooga and Birming- ham, for instance, although peculiarly favored in boing the centers of vast natural rosources, are in the highost de- gree creditable to American energy and enterprise, and these ave only the most conspicuous examplas of many. Some idea of how the industrial south is being developed may be obtained from the fact that in the last four years 14,000 new manufacturing and mining enterpri have been organized there, while sinca 1880 the railroad mileage has been in- creased in that section by at loast 21,000 miles, the estimated expenditure during the last decade in building new roads and improving old ones being $500,000,000. During the present y the record of new enterprises estab- lished and projected in the south shows o cight hundred, and it is predicted that the next three months will witne the most remarkable industrial develop- ment that has yet taken place, North- erncapital, particularly in New Eng- land, is being attracted to the south for investment in furnaces, iron and cotton mills, Labor is cheaper in that ¢ than elsewhere, and the industries of the north are beginning to feel the effoct of southern competition. It is certain that they will do so still move strongly in the future, President Harrison has southern people sound and whethe given the ical'advice, cor not they needed it. it is ovident they wero never in better tem- per than now to recoive it. They ap- pear to fully understand that while pro- ducing three-fourths of the cotton crop of the world there is no good reason why they shall not manufacture all or the greater part of it, and cotton mills are as rapidly as capital can be found going up to construct and equip them. At present the south spins only 8 por cent of its cotton crop, but it is by no means improbable that within the next 10 years it will manufacture half of the crop. In the production of iron it is not unlikely to supply within the same period one-third of the demand for home consumption. In the benefits of this progress the whole country shaves, It adds to the common stock of wealth, Every new furnace, or rolling mill, or cotton factory that is established in the south makes for the general welfare, and the people of every other section heartily welcome every such evidence of substantial progress. The growth of the south in material development and prosperity is threatened by two condi- tions: the devotion of the dominant po- litical party in that section tofree trade, and the demand of a large element of its people for a governmental financial | policy, which, if adopted, would in time bring the United States to the unfortu- nate condition the Argentine Republic isin. The latter is perhaps not very dangerous, but the former is a strong menace to the industrial welfare of the nation which is likely for the next two years to cuuse disturbing and injurious apprehension. THE EMERGENCY CASES. The city and county governments are supported vractically by the samo ex- penditures. Over four-fifths of the revenue of the county is derived from Omaha. Theso facts appear to bo over- looked by the board of county commis- sioners. In the matter’ of the case of the city poor and the unfortunate non-residents who are thrown upon public cha the county seeks to avoids its responsibility entirely. Tn law every pauper resident or non-resident and every unfortunate dependent upon the public for assistance for a short or long period is a charge upon the county. The county hospital should be open to them - having a special emergency ward for their ben- ofit. The police authorities of the city should be instructed to take such cases to the county hospital for treatment, The custom has grown up, however, for the city to assume the expense of treating non-residents, and for the city physician to take charge of their medi- cal treatment. To this end a con- tract has been made for the care of the sick at the city’s expense at t. Joseph’s hospital. Unfortunately for the afMicted the St. Joseph’s hospital is unequal to the emergency and conse- quently a good many pationts ave com- pelled to shift for themselyes. The controversy between the city and county physici may not bo 50 much a disposition to shirk work as appears on the face of things. The city physician is peoba- bly called upon to perform more profes- sional duty thun the county physici Itis a question of large expenditurcs and who shall meet them, 4 Some settlement of the disagreement between these two officials should be de- termined upon, so that the scandal of its discussion in the public prints may be avoided. The council and commission- ors are parleying over the question, ‘They should settle it absolutely between themselves if they can, If not, let the district court arbitrate their differences and decide what is law in the premises, 1E democratic leaders in Pennsyl- vania who fuvor again making Mr, Cleveland the candidate of the party are said to bave already begun work tor se- curing a solid Cloveland delegation in the next democratic national conven- tion. This early movement may have been prompted by the talk of bringing Governor Pattison forward as a possiblo ors candidate, but whatever the motive the friends of tie nt resident are not start- ing in any tod"’soon to overcome the strong tide of -opposition that has risen within the past fow months. Some of the stronghst democratic load- in the "untry are on re- cord s wnehangeably opposed to the nominatiop of Mr. Cleveland next year, and unless ]\ia friends can show an overwhelming demand for him from the masses of the Iparty they may have to encounter a formidable hostility in the national conveution, The obvious wonk- ness of the opposition is in the fact that they have no strongly available man to present. If Governor Campbell should be re-clected this year in Ohio, with Major McKinley as his op- ponent, ho woull undoubtedly acquire great prestigo as a possible candidate for the presidency, but this is a forlorn hope from which the enemics of Mr. Cloveland can at present derive little comfort. "The chances of the ox-presi- dent for securing the nomination are 2ood, but they may be improved, and the example of his supporters in Penn- lvania in going to work early may ly be followed by his friends else- where, THE present sunitary commissioner has had full swing at the garbage business for nearly cleven months, It has heen > profitable that one would suppose the ward politician engaged in that c ity had been rocompensed for all service thus far rendered the present democratic city government pac- continually thrusts itself modest Willinm A. Paxton. He ited Salt Lake and the local papers an- nounced that he had come to Zion to manage the Hot Springs hotel. That is what the gentleman gets for having a hotel named in his honor. pon SINCE the courts have enjoined the bourd of public works against canceling the asphalt contracts of 1800, hands be set at work to put the in question in condition to be We are moving frightfully slow on our public works, MosT people will agree with Mr. nsdorfl who was one of the repre sentatives of this city at the Kansas City commercial congress, that Omaha made a poor showing. THE city can well afford to take con- trol of the garbage business, put a stop to the extortions of the seavenger and save the taxpayers a few thousand dollars a year, ——— THE BEE is not a give-away concorn. It will reduce its rates down below bed rock, but it has no paper to throw over the fenco free of ¢harge. The War is Over, Providence Journal, The thirtieth anniversary of the firing upon Fort Sumter was observed in the country with appropriate forgetfulnes: ggsen s Way of the World. New York Herald, A woman may, do a.man's work at the counter or keep books as weil as a ‘man, and yet she can’t got a man’s pay. That is one of the mysteries which no fellow can solye. b i i Why is It? Kate Ficld's iVashington, What's tho matter with New York women? I counted six of them at one theatre last wecl with veils drawn tightly over their faces, aud it was not a matince cither. They looked like fools. Are they! Wero they so made up as not to dare to expose their art to the closer fnspection of the men next them? If not, what's the matter? —_———— nism Won't Work. Philadelphia Ledger. The communistic idea having proved at- tractive to roaders of Bellamy's book, a couplo of schemers out in California started a colony, got several hundred people to work for them for a long time, living meanwhile on cheap fare, and actually persuaded thom to pay for tho privilege of being duped. When one set got tired of this working of the Bellamistic idea others were found to take their place. The world is not yet old enough and good enough for communism. Thero aro too many wolves about to make the lot of tho shoep a happy one in any scheme of general partnership that car be devised. Comn e PASSING JESTS. Drake's Magazine: Shufiler—I have just heard that Jack Coldek is the father of trip- lots, and they're all doing well, hat's Jack overytime. He novor fails to raise the limit, The Epoch: Suspicious time is it? Traveler (prodnciuga pistol) ~Time to say your prayers, character—What Harper's Bazar: “What do_you do with that buseball masic? ““Why, Johnny is very vad sometimes, und the only closet 1 have to shut him up in is where the prese Ves are, I put the mask on him with a lock, and the preserves are safe,” WHOM WE NEED 10 PEAR, s Magazine, © the man who boasts, Nor yet the one who dolvos, The ones we néed to watch the most €3 Are just our procious selves, Jowelers' Weekly mourning jewelry interchan, blot Jeweler (taking in the situat madam, but if it {5 hut littlo w 75 nercent on it jn exchange fo goods. Widow—Is your =it Il allow wedding Fliegendo Blattor; Doctor's Servant Now, ['have sprinkled my master's coat thor- oughly with curbolie water and dusted it with disiufocting; powder, I am suro that no- body can fail to bshieve that he ts a tre- wmendous practico, — - Moaitiod Views, New Tyl Weckly, Mr. Nocastle (hotly): “It's a shamo, an outrage, a menuce o American Institutions for one man to have a million dollars, Think of the harm he cay do with it. Think of tho power e wields." Mr, Fortymillion : “That's s0. 1 guess I'll havé to change my will. Hay- iug no relatives I'had couclhded to divide my wealth amor.g my ¥lends and acquaintances, and as I loft you a'million——" Mr. Nocastle: “Um-—er—a “good deal dopends on the man, you know." e e THE CIRCUS, Browning, King & Co.'s Monthly, A wonderful feat With her wondertul foot, The circus girl does each day Aud the hippopotamus Who's uo ignoramus Helps er to please the jay, Who | rake and si And spends his last nic tako his best girl to the show, Where, with feet hanging down, Shelaughs at the clown, And hasu't the heart 1o say *#No!" To Jotn, who says * By goshuns! 'd like to get m For sho lomonado sucks, Aud eats peanats with shucks, And whispers a timid “John, do' HE SHOT I¥ SELF DEFENSE, Judge Houston Says Weir Had Oauss to %o Bhoot Johnson. WIENENGER SAYS HE WAS SWINDLED. Asking for a Murderer's Reprieve—A Wholesale Chicken Thief -Stole a Horse—Other Line coln News. Lixcory, Neb., April 81. —[Special to Tae |—The preliminary hearing of B. F. Weir, the colored fellow who was charged with assault with intont to kill Peto John- son, also colored, on April 3, was held bofore Juage Houston this morning. A large delo- gation of colored peoplo were vresont, and tho court room was crowded. Pote Johnson, who roceived two of Weir's bullets in bis body, was present, but he looked vory weak County Attornoy Snell prosecuted. The testimony elicited the fact that on the night in question Johnson had come into the Weir dive and accused Weir of sproading tho roport that he had sod somo frail fo- male's curtains, Tho lattor acknowledgod having said so, and Johnsin immediately struck him and continued ngating him until Jack Brown interferod anc ~aught hold of tho belligerent Petor. Winaly he broke loose and ran finto the bedcoom with Potor after him, holding him by his coat tail. Woeir picked up a revolver from a bed, and, pressing it againt Poto’s side, fired. Ho said he kept on shooting till the supply of balls gave out, and then ho prayed for more. Soy- eral of the witnesses wora positive Potor had of kuuckles in his haud, but Peter 10 had nothing. Johnson still carries the two balls in his anatomy. After listening to soveral witnosses for the dofeuse the court stated that it was not nec. essary to introduce any more testimony. Ho was convinced that the shooting wis done enti in_self-defense, that the law was clearly with the defeudant, that ho had a right to shoot if ne thought he was in dan- ger of groat bodily injury, and that he didn't belicve the county would care to go to the expense of a trial, which wo rtainly re- sult in the acquitfal of defendant. Mr. Snoll objected decidedly, as ho was opposed to allowing a man to'uso a revolver to defend himsclf with when attacked by a man with his naked fists, Weir was discharged. CLAIMED IE WAS DONE Ul Some time ago the Missourl Pacifie road compuny began suit in_district court fo setasido a_verdict for ned by Gottlich Wienenger against them for injuvies sustained in a runaway caused by tho com- pany's engines, alleging as grounds thereforo conipi et of Gottlich, his attor- noys and W. r. Today Weinenger filed his roply all the' charges set forth in plaintifl’s *petition, and as a dofonse tells a long story how Sawyer and Attornoy Orr did him up.” He says that Sawyer i portuned him for a long time to go to Der where Sawyer lived, and incidently assign his judgment to him! Sawyer told him that verybody was conspiring to defraud him,and that if Gottlieb did not muke the assignment he would get left and_have to pay the costs. Gottlieb withstood Sawyer's importunities for a long time, and one day Sawyer, accom- panied by one Cumming, an attorney of Lin- coln, presented a paper for his signature, but 1t was refused, Sawyer's visits bocame 80 frequent that the hospital authorities re- fused to let him enter. After Weinenger had been discharzed, but while in a feeblo state of heallh, Sawyer carted him off to Atchison, where'a confer- enco was had with Orr, the Missouri Pucific attorney, where they worked ou Wienenger 80 successfully that he signed a statement that he was drank at the time he was in- jured, and that 1t was ne fault of thecompany that the accident happened, For this Sawyer gave him his note for £3,000. After that im and then ho zed that he had been swindled, he says, and now he goes after the cash, APTER EXECUTIVE CLEMENOY, O'his oveniug John Sutton, secretary of the American branch of the Irish land league, left for Helena, Mont., to ask the governor of that state for the pardon of John Rowand, a young man_seutenced to the penitentiary about a year ago for the accidental killing of a Ireich-Canadian _prize fighter named Henry Labussiere, Mr. Suttou is well ac- quainted with young Rowand and his family nud he declares that they are the best of peo- It appears that Rowand was 1n a sa. oon at Helena and having have some words with a tough bartender, Rowand thougnt the fellow was reaching for a revolver. Ho pulled out his own weapon and in his excite- ment accidentally shot the prize fighter, who by tho way was taking the part of the bar- tender. There is a larze French-Canadian colony at Helena and it is believed that young Rowand’s conviction was for the purpose of appeasing the clamor of that class of peoplo for his lifo. M. Sutton took with him a strong lotter of introduction from Governor Boyd, A CHICKEN Thie There was & night session Jochran’s court last evening. arrest rail- at Justico Johu Ables and arraigned on the charge of y-three chickens from Farmer ankee Hill, Atter missing his chickens Wilson came to town and discov- ered his fowls at a poultry establishment. On inquiry ho learned that Ables had sold the chickens and had contracted to furnish the dealer with seven dozen fowls, Ables was arraigned, convicted and fined $50 and costs. In default he went to jail. A HORSE TiIRR, Mike Morri: is reaping the harvest of his misdeeds all in a bunch, About a month ago he found by Ofticer Kinney mean- dering down the street under the weight of a load of liquor on the inside and a set of har- on the outside. It developea thar he stolen the horse milliner: from Bohanan Brothers, and consequently spent the next thirty days in the county jail. His time was up yesterday, and he doparted from the bastile blithe and free only to run into the arms of Marskal Melick, who led him to the city jail, where he will languish until the coming of a sheriff from Leavenworth, Kan,, where Michael is accused of stealing a horse s0me two years NOY BURGLARS, J. A. Blair, who oporates a_small _grocery store at the corner of Ninth and Y strects, reported to the police this morning that his piace had beon entered by burglars last night and his shelves depleted of cizars, toba fruits, candios, a dozen pocket knive cash and a number of palate-tickling delica- cies. The thieves obtained entrance by forc ing open the back door. The total value of the articles taken amounts toabout §0. The theft 1s laid to a gang of boys. FELL INTO A WELL, A fiy Id child of Mrs. Wilson fell into a woll near Cropsey’s mill, on Thirty- third street, und would have been drowned had it not been voscuca by Mrs. I, E. Johu- son, The well was twenty feet doep, STATE HOUSE NOTES, The firm of A, B, Havens & Co, of Omaha have filed articles of incorporation, Tho general nature of the business to be trans- acted will b the buying and selling of coal and coke, by retail or wholesale, The state board of printing met this after- noon in_ the rooms of the s for the purpose of awarding decision of the board will not be r tomorrow. Attorney Gleneral Hastings left this after- noon for Little Rock, Ark., where he will take o week's rost. ODDS AND ENDS, Tt is currently reported v has sent a telegram to Flanagan, thoe big basemun of last year, instructing him come to Lincoln, "There is a big hole waiting for him to fill, Some baseball cranks profers to think that this mean euse, Lawyer Scott has boen d to the position of city attorney by Mayor Woeir. Ir, Ruodes will coutinue as meat” iuspector. Lol B R Worthy of Gratitude, Chicago News A Hawburg bachelor wh got even with a woman who leaving her a legacy of 1 marks and the followiug letter: ~ “Madam—S: thirty years ago I was a suitor for your hand in marriage. You refused my offer, consequeuco my days have beon passea in peace and quiot Now I roquite your goodness," died recently ilted bim by and ns a | NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska. Eightoon of Dawes county's citizens were lized vy Judge Crites at Chadron last woek. reparing to go out on the road as tho “Baby 3rass Band," Hurlburt & Loftwich's eombinod shows are outfitting at Noriolk and will give tuoir | Initial performance at that place next Satur- I d T'he spreading of tho track at Nomaha City resulted in tho aitehing of the engine snd ono car of @ passonger train, but nobody was hurt Judgo Gastin, who 1s holding court at Broken Bow, is 'forcing attorneys to wot up in the morning, as ho bas the docket calied at 7330 o, m, shavp, The Hastings prosbytory will meet at Bea- ver City April 35 and 20, John H. Powers, the alliance president, will be in attendance and doliver an address, Mrs. Anna Stamm of Wayne has been de- claved insane and has boen'sent to Norfolk. | Five yenrs ugo sho was an inmate of tho asy- | lum at Lincolu, but was aischarged as curod. Ray Thrasher of Loup City was serlously injured while trying to drive intoa barn with # load of baled hay, being caught between the hay and the loft floor. ~ His loft shoulder was badiy crushed und it is feared ho has roceived intornal injuries, Thero are but slight bopos of his recovery, lowa, Ottumwa is t®king of er. reting & monu- ment to the late Colonel Baliingall, The Towa Holiness association will hold its annual camp meeting at Des Moines Jure 5 to 15, The people of Van( vo want au enterpri ing man w locate th nd opon a general A new pipe ory is Marshalltown Presbyte of 82,000, Cedar Rapids is ¢ to enter tourname ng placed in tho an church, at a cost tions nual aling groat prep 1 tho fowa firomon at their tin that city June to 12, Tunson of [ s has a calf that is 0sity in that i's sex nnot be de mined from outside appenrances. Tt is months old, eats well and is of good sizo, Georgo C. Hull of Boone, a_marricd man and father of threo or four childron, an at- torney and a great temperance reforme as indecent exposuro of his persen to ladies. Charles J. Rogors, a fow years ago ono of the foremost of the state, several times a_r ive, a splondid orator, possessing a charming family, is in the poot house at Butte, Mont. Johin Phillips, a coal mner, Iying on a railway t Ottumwa asleep. him just a few loaded fro was drunk and ck in tho outskirts of ome schoolboys reseued seconds befora a heavily n passed at full speed. dissolute character of Cedar "alls, was confined in the city jail for drunk erness. During the night ho'sot fire to his bedding and was nearly suffocated by smoke n rescued. He was turned over to tho county jailor for thirty days, A farmer who attended tho Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Dubuquo and cents for tv,0 drinks of whisky fic had been robbed and wanted the saloonkeeper arrested. The Herald says he was evidently better acquainted with the Dan Kendricks, a Fort Dodge colored man, was married the other day and spent the night in jail instead of by the side of his new- made dusky wife. A party of “white trash" conceived atd carried ont ‘the idea of an old fashioned serenade, to which Dan strenuously objected. He was in the act of dispersing the crowd by using his fists as a persuader when a pollceman happened along and cavriod him off to jail. ~ His newly acquired fathe in-law protested and ho was also locked up. Both were fined the next morning. V-illiam Eberhart, who is known as “the Port Dodge boy without brains,” was a guest of honor at tho convention of the State Med- ical association at Waterloo. Willio is five vears old and possesses an ounce less of brains than he had a vear ago. Last summer the little fellow had his skull =o badly frac- tured thata portion of the brain oozed out, About an ounce of the brain was removed by a surgeon, aud strange to say the boy recov- ered. Heis suid to be as strong in mind and body as ever and is considered & rare curiosity by physicians. Wyoming. Medicine Bow has a barber shop in a box car. Prof. Merz of the university has started a state educational journal. Governor Barber issued a proclamation fixing May 1 as Arbor day. Methodists at Lander will build a church to cost from 5,000 to £8,000. The Suniance cont fields will be operated soon. Day and night sifts will be worked. Laramie's browery has started up again, The town uses 9,000 barrels of boer aunually, Water has been turned on in the big Pio- neer ditch ut Laramio, This is the sixth season. It is estimated 150,000 sheep will be sheared av Casper_this season, at Douglas 26,000 and at Lus{( 45,000, Hay is worth in Choyenne from §20 to 825 per ton; oats §2.25 per hundred; and corn §77%3 por hundron Robert Burkhart of Laramie has brought suit against that city for §,000 for the kill- ing of his dog *Bevis.” The Burlington raitrond sur staked off a town site on_Powder river Johnson county, 200 miles from a railroad. In Carbon county the commissioners have, for the purposes of taxation, valued hay land at gt an acre, agricultural 8 and grazing 195, A. H. Thompson, chief geographer of the interior department, writes that . geological y party will spend this scason in Wy- oming. In the Big Horn couutry cowboys are scarce ub $5 per mouth, and” many cowmen predict that a first class ' cowboy will get §60 efore snow flies, 4 The Union Pacific mines at Almy aro ordered to run five days in the woelk instoad of three, as they have been since the cut was made somo time azo, Tue Rock Springs coal company havo started up the Blair mine. The coal is now weighed after boing screened, and the men get 50 cents o ton for it. A new roud is being established betiween aund Lost Cavin, and a petition is be- ulated to have a mail route estab- lished over it into the Big Horn basin, About May 15 tho assistant_state enginee will begin tie measurement of the capacity | of Big and Little : crecks, their trivu- diverting water therefrom, Rawlins voted to issuc water bonds by wajority av the recent election, Mayor It musson (democrat) was re-clected by thirty five majority and Iteid (republican) received 136 majority for trustee, Newcastle Journal; Thero what 15 supposed to bo rich silver ore within ten miles of Neweastlo. Several prospectors intend makiog o thorough nvestigation as soon as the weather will permit. Considerable freight has been Green River of late and the Uuion detective: work to catch the thieves, said that some of the railrond men hayve been spotted und arrests are to bo made, L. D. Wicst has been appointed States deputy mincra district rict_embraces John- son, Sheridan 5 | portion of Fre- wont county west of the Big Horn river, Noar Steamboat Spriugs recently ono of John Hoover's cows mysteriously died and is a ledge of missing vred J. Childs and family of Stanton are | $28,000 worth of bonds, the total amount of To avold a similar nocident Hoover took the remaining sticks of powder to the rivor bank and fired the wholo lot at one shot, the report being plainly heard ut Hahn's ponk Commissioners of Natrona county, formorly a part of Carbon, have decided €0 bond that ounty and are ‘now advertising for bids on tho mother 000, association { Indobtednoss, Natrona owos county betwoen §16,000 and §1 ‘'he Big Horn Wool Growor: w anized at Casper. she tion decided that each shoep'man should bos his own shearing and hiro whom ho plensed, s0 lohg as he did not hire n shenrer that a shoop owner had discharged for cavse, Stato Engineer Mead has granted the ap. plication of the city of Laramio for an appro- briation of 10,000,000 gatlons daily from the Fiacamio river. 1o claitant will have throo years in which to complete pumping stations water, A cousus has been made of the six cavalry and infantey companios stationed at Fort \ KKinnoy, 1t 13 shown that 172 of the men aro | native Amoricans and 139 foreigners. Of tho latter the Germans are more numerous, there being fifty of them and forty-six other’ worq born {n Ireland. James Woods of Milwaukee is organizing A company at Casper to manufacture coal bricklots. “He is locatinge all the conl land on Salt croek, and oxpects to moet thero about May 1a Cerman who form had sonmie thing to do with manufacturing coal bricklots ot Krupp's celebrated gun factory, James Movizan, the new supord tho Union Pacific coal mines at chargo April4, Ho says the daily capacity of the minos can be raised o 400 tons casily and if the demand for coal incroases, the out put will be incroased from its prosent avor agoof 200 tons, At present there are only about cighty men altogetter employed in and out of the mine, and these men aro worklng on an ave of twenty-two days in tho month, The Wyoming normal and scientif loge has been icorporated at Rawlins. the trustoes: Prof, J E. Stuver, B. 8. Ross, Judge Homor Morrell, Rev. . R. Wotring, . C.” Miller ana J, (¢ Davis. " A uormal term will be heid in the public school building, begiuning June 1 las mado a proposition to' donate id for a permanent site, Tho ve normal, scientific ang riments, and' intends to orect utain college buildings, grant diplo- mas and confer degrees, The B. & M. has cont improved gondolas, or coal cars, for use in the Nowcastle qmines. About half of the { first order of 100 bave boen received and fyq to ten are coming in daily, The s high as a box car, without a of thirty tons capacity. Ord been pouring in rapidly since the roduction of ) cents a ton on freight rate nd this will re- sult i keeping up_the demiand through tho summer months, Neweastle coal now solls for £1.50 a ton less than other western o southern Nebraska towns, Work on tho new Union Pacific shop at Cheyenne s being rushed and tho contractor expicts to turn it over to the company the last of tho week. Tho new paint shop is nearly completed. It is the largest of tho shop ” plant, and” has inside fourteon tracks, long enough to hold twenty-eight Pullman cars while undorgoing ropa ho floor of the paint shop is of cement and cost 5000, On each side of the track guttors are placed as run off the dirt and the scrapings of paint from tho cars. The paint shop will soon bo ready for use. The car erecting shop will bo fitte: for all kinds of work. The engine in the now shops is set up and it will bo but a short timg before tro shiops ave full of workmen and ranning full time, Morgau lake, Carbon county, has an area of 160 acres of combined sulphate and carbon- ate. Inthe sume county are New York, Omaha, Wilkesbarre and” Wilmington lakes, aggregating a soda aren of 308 acres. Phila: deiphia lake, Carbon county, has forty ncros of ready mixed magnesium and sulphate, Chicago lake, same county, has sixt :s of the 'like meaicinal compound, Brooklyn lake, Carbon county, displays 100 acres of pure magnesium sulphate or Epsom salts. In the suburbs of the growing town of Saratoga are three lakes rich in Epsom salt deposit. All of these deposits aro callod lakes, ‘but of the entire number only two have water, the balanco being solid ‘soda, The famous Downey lakes, in Albany county, have from six to nine feet of solid salt in the conter of their formation; while in Wil- mington and Omaha lakes o boring of twenty feet has failed to pierce the deposit. K dent of . took cole Thesa R. Rollman, Dr. acted for 200 of the WORKS LOTTERY, Jury Drawing Scheme in Which Thero Are No Blanks. The drawing of the jury, according to the provisions of the new jury took place yesterday afternoon. Judge Estelle, Krank K. Moores and Peter O'Malley had a hand in the work. The plan isa new one, and con- sequently attracted considerable attention. Monday the county clerk had o list pro- pared containing 2,639 names of residents and others of the county. This list was taken up stairs to Moores, when the names were written on pieces’ of cardboard one inch wide and throe inches long. Moores’ stenographer was preprring these names O'Malley contracted with a tinsmith to build a box suitable for the drawing. Yesterday afternoon Moores entered tho clerk’s oftice, bearing a large envelope box that contained the numes. He dectared that he was ready. O'Mal ent to the vanit and brought out a tin machine that m many respects resembled a keno outfit or a smail barrel churn, This machine was duly in- spocted by Judge Estelle, and after deciding that it filled the bill, ho devoted his time to reading the law that' bears upon the case, Moures dumped tho contents of bLis en- velope box iato the machine, while O'Malley turned the crank. ‘The cover was locked kown and tie law was discussed, It was de- ided to draw out 180 names, tho owners of which will “ail have a chance to sit at the May term of court. Ninety of these men will report on tho first day of the term, stay three weeks and go home, after which the ra- nder will come upon the scene of action and stay until court adjonrns, Whei this question had been_sottled, Moores unlocied the tin can and drew out the name of J. A. Rosenbaum. 1'his was re- corded by O'Malley, and the work went on until the full number had been drawn. Judge Hopewell looked in for a short time and pronounced the system a success. Today Moores will record the names in a book, which will show the postoftice address ofeach. Each man so drawn will be noti- flea by recistered lotter of the time whon ho is to appear. T WHY IS 11?2 Chances for Garbage Fees Lie Around Untouched for Days, re is a doad dog lying at the rear of a vacant saloon at the cornor of Twenty-fifth and Leavenworth st The dog dica some time Thursday night. Twico on Fri- day the garbage master was notified and re- quested to romove the nuisance, Again on Suturday, Monday and Tuesdiy was ho no. tified. Tho police reported the matter, but that did not start the slow gomng machiner: of the garbage department. The an i lies thero, o nuisance to the community, There is also a dead dog lying 1n the gutter at the corner of Fifteenth and Wirt streots, and one near the corner of Thirtoenth und California. These have been reported to tho zarbago master by the patrolmen on those beats, but no attention is paid to the reports, S ick Noonan, & member of hoso company No, i, received _intetligence Mo Mr., Pa Jobu decided to hold ‘a post mortom to tind the cause. On opening the animal it was found she had caten a stick of giant powder, Highest of all in Leavening Pow Rl day ovening of the death of his brother, ®Lowmas Noonan, in Chicago, ana departod yosterday afternoon for that city. —Latest U, S. 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