Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1891, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER Eprron. =t PUBLISHED JRY MORN TERME OF 8UBSCRIPTION, Patly Bee without Sund TN Inily nnd & wOne Y Bix months Three mont Bunday B §aturday 1 eekly Be e Year. ar. 1CE: Ttee Bullding and %th Streets rect. ¥ of Commerce, id 16, Tribune Buliding nth street. SPONDENCE s relating to news and 1l be addressed to the Omaha, Th Eouth On Counell shinglon, (13 ¥ CORR All communicatic editorial matter sh Editorial Departme BUSINESS LETTERS. Allbusiness lottors and remittances should be addressod to The Bee Pubiishing Company, Omuha. Driafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 ho made payuble to the order of the cow- vany. The Bee Publishing Company. Prooriefors THE BEE BUILDING LATION. BWORN STATEM Etate of Nebrus (0 County of Doy glas. ( George I, Tzscl uck, sccretary of Tne Bee Tublishing compuny, does solemnly swear that the aetual circalation ot TE DATLY BER for the week ending April 18, 3801, was us follows: Kunday. April 12, Monday, April 13 Tuesaay. April 14 Wednesday, April 15 Thursday, April 16, Friday, April i7 Baturday, April 1§ Average....... OF CI1 presence this 1sth duy of April. A. D1 Notury Publie. Etate of Nebrask County of Do George B, Trachuc osen and siys that he ublighing con par daily circulation of month of April, 180, 2,54 1800, 20,150 copless for Iy P for Tul 2 ) 20,750 cop rr, 1800720, for October. coples: for Novem- ber, 1600, 2 for December, 180, 24471 copl for Febr 1801, 2 Swor 1501, 28440 copes for i 3 TZSCHUCK. fore me. and subscribed in my Jd duy of Aprily |u'w| iry Public. ————————————————————— Dr. Derew hits upon a happy sseription of the manipulations of the nsas City congress in the two words “*peanut politics.” ENGLAND is working up a war spirit rior to swooping down on poor Portugal and vexatious Venzuela. Why does not John Bull tuke one of his size? SWEET cider is a dangerous drink in Towa. An amendment prohibiting its manufacture in Des Moines and sale to the mayor apnoars to be in order. Tue Union Pacific is safe from the deadly parallel. The Vanderbilts give assurances that they will not attempt the Nickel Plate game on their rival. —_— J. 8. CLARKSON has been elected president of the National republican league, und consequently the country is once more at the mercy of his garrulity. PRESIDE HARRISON continues to say exactly enough of the right thing at the right time. His speeches are simply incomparable and the maddest democrat in America has thus farseon nothing in- viting adverse criticism. HENRY WATTERSON says the Lord will provide a candidate for the democ- racy next year in case New York refuses to endorse Cleveland. The devoted Kentuckian’s faith is sublime but mis- guided. Democratic candidates do not come from that direction. — Sourn DAKOTA will no more be the vietim of drouth. Artesian wells and ir- rigations from them will make her in- dependent of the weather office. A new well has just been opened at Huron with the tremendous estimated flow of 10,000 gallons per minute. PENNSYLVANIA shows her enterprise and’ her patriotism by appropriating $300,000 for the world’s fair. New York with but $200,000 will be ashamed of herself. Nebraska with $50,000 will not be able to do herself justice. She must supplement the state appropriation by liberal private subscriptions, I ApMIT that the the system s wrong. I shall resist any alteration of the gar- bage ordinances. I hold the office of garbage master for what there is in it. I have invested nothing in it and would be afool to invest on an uncertainty.” This is what Mr. Morrissey says to the taxpayors. In the language of the late lamented Boss Tweed, “What are you going to do about it?” — CLEVELAND denies the reported in- terview upon the free coinage of silver and Mr. Lon Stevens of St. Louis sdys the interviewer did not take him ac- curately. He acknoweledges that he brought the question to the attention of Dana’s Stuffed Prophet, however, and bluntly asked him if he would veto a frae coinpge” measure in case he were elected president. The eminent letter writer made the diplomatic response that he “would not climb that hill until he got tg it.” —_— PunLic sentiment is not in accord with the ultra Sabbatarians who would deprive the working people of Chicago of all opportunity for enjoying the world’s f; It cannot be a desecration of the Subbath to open the groat ex- hibition to men and women and children who are necessarily busy six days and have but the remaining day of the seven for mental improvement and recreation, It is no more improper to open the gates of the world’s fair than those of the public parks and no more damaging to the moral character. GENERAL MANAGER CABLE talks business to a BEE reporter in his inter- view. The Rock Island and Milwaukee cannot afford to be shut out of Omaha by any bridge embargo. They are able and willing to construct a bridge of their own and Mr. Cable’s announce- ment that they will do so is public notice to Mr. Gould that they mean business. Fortunately business for the rallways in this instance is business for Omaha. The Interview also explains why the Rock Island purchased certain 1ands south of the city some months ago. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SATURRAY. APRIL 25, I[891.~TWELVE PAGES. BLET SUGAR CULT Nebraska is destined to be one of the leading, if not the leading, sugar pro- ducing state in the union, Her soil and climate are admirably adapted for that purpose, and in fact the ablest scientists have given Nebraska the pr over any other stato for su cultur nee ar beet The exhaustive raview of the sugar bect industry which Tne Bee prints nnot fail to throw a great deal of light upon the methods of Itivation and the machinery employed in sugar beet raising. The most extensive beet sugar manufactories will be in full o ation in Nebraska duving the present year, and the industry, with proper en- courngement, will expand and more important year by year. The beet sugar fuctory and the farmer will maintain exceptional reciprocal relations, Each will buy and sell largely to the other, and each is dependent upon the other directly for the product of his industry and skill. The relation of the grain grower and miiler is no closer than that of the beet grower and sugar maker. The article referred to is o review of the subject of cultivation of the sugar beet and contains the results of oxpe ment and investigation. It will prove of value to inexperienced growers. cessful beet growing involves conditions altogether new to grain and corn grow- ers. The questions of soil, moisture, become climate and eaveful cultivation are all unusual to the ordinary farmer, who rocognizes at sight a good corn or whent soil. The cultivation likewise requires knowledge and skill. A cultivated will produce no better than an unsuitable soil well cultivated. To make beet growing profitable to the grower and the sugar manufacturer, a cortain percentage of saccharine sub- stance must be realized. The experiments in Nebraska have covered a wide area and it has been learned thav there is practically no difference in the quality of the beet or its yield to the acre. The tests of soil, climato and other conditions wore all made in 1800, the most try- ing to farmers in 10 It is gratifying to observe beets suffered less from drouth than yood soil badly ono any other erop. There are two large sugar beet works already established in nd Isiand and the other at Norfolk, with encouraging prospects for the opening of others s the supply of sugar beots increases. The Grand Island works are successfully in operation,and Grand Island sugar is now sold in many markets. It may be assumed, therefore, that the sugar beet has come to Nebrasha for Nebraska’s good and to stay. the state, one at G UNTIMELY DISCUS All thoughtful republicans, solieitous for the unity and harmony of the party, must deprecate the discussion at this time of possible presidential candidates us being premature, and as being very sure to result, if continued, in creating TON. factional strife that could not fail to be damaging to the party. Especially is this true of discussion which places President Harrison and Secretary Blaine in rivalry for the next re- publican presidential nomination. The tendency to do this has become very marked, and in order that it shall. not bs allowed to reach a dangerous development, in- imical to the peace and harmony of the party, and painfully embarrassing to the relations of the distinguished lead- ors who have, in existing circumstances, an equal claim to the respect and confi- dence of all sincere republicans, it is the duty of republican papers to counsel against it. That President Harrison hopes to be renominated is altogether probable, and assuming such to be the case it is an en- tirely natural and worthy aspiration. He has given the country thus far an excellent administration, and there is overy rveason to oxpect that it will continue so to the end. He is entitled to the fullest credit for it, for whatever has been contributed to the result by the wisdom and states- manship of the members of his adminis- tration depended for acceptance upon his judgment of its wisdom and ex- pediency. Perhaps no man who has over occupled the office” of chief exocu- tive was more zealous of his preroga- tives than President Harrison, and it is safe to say there has been no act of his administration for which he wouid deny direct responsibility. Justice requires that while holdirg him accountable for mistakes and failures, he shall nave credit for success, and it is possible to give such credit without depriving any mewber of the administration of merited praise. - Every intelligent and unprejudiced man appreciates the dis- tinguished service that Mr, Blaine has rendered as secrotary of state. His emi- nent qualifications as a statesman are fully recognized amd cordially acknowl- edged. The greatest opportunity of his life has been most ably and brilliantly improved, and unquestionably he stands stronger in the erteem and confidence of the country, and particularly 1n the admiration and amection of his party, than ever before. But it is to be borne in mind that this has been made possible to him by the essential support and sympathy of the president, and no real friend of the seeretary of state will do him the injustice to pre- sume that he does not fully appreciate this and would not heartily acknowledge it. Yet the effort of those, like Foraker in Ohio, Cameron and Quay in Penn- sylvania, and equally injudicious repub- licans in other states, who are sceking to commit the party to the nomination of Mr. Blaine more than a year in advance of the national conven- tion, is in effect a denial that the presi- dent has any clain to consideration for the good results of his administration, and as the professed friends of the secre- tary of state these men are putting him in a false position which may easily be- come very embarrvassing to Mr. Blaine. 1f his injudiciously ardent friends go on in the coursesome of them have adopted, he will be compelled toeither retire from the cabinet, a step which all but the en- emies of the administration wovld most deeply regret, or again unequivocally declare, as he did three years ago, that he will not be a eandidate. There is no auathority for assuming that Mr, Blaine desires the nomiunation | A next year, or would nceept it. There are reasons for believing that he does not want it, and if these are well-foundad his influence will undoubtedly pe thrown in favor of the nomination of Harrison. There is no longer any doubt that the relations between the president and secretary of state are entirely friendly and harmonious, and it is not unreason- able to assume that they fully un- derstand each other with regard to the presidential nomination. At any rate, the present discussion of the subject, so far as it places Prosident Harrison and Secretary Blaine before the country as rival candidates, is obviously unwi from the point of view of party welfare, since its tendency is to create factional strife, it involvos an injustico to Mr. Harrison, and undoubtedly it is a source of embarrassment to Mr, Blaine, TO TEST THE LAW, A short time ago the interstate com- merce commission rendered a decision adverse to the Lehigh Valley railroad of Pennsylvania, in a case relating to charges for transportation of coal, These » declared by the commission to be sonable, and the company 1 to reduce the charges to fi designated by the commission, the time for compliance having oxpired a fow days ago. The company has refused to obey the commission and invites a con- test in the courts, setting up the claim that the cominission has no power to make or unmake railroad transporta- tion charges. It is understood that the company proposes to test the constitu- tionality of the interstate law, dnd if this intention is adbered to the pro- coedings will have great and general in- terest. o Such a test must be applied sooner or later, fact that it has not ai- perhaps to be ex- y the failure of the commission to enforce the law. There has been - sued a volume of decisions and orders, some of which have been re- spected, though the greater namber have been disregarded, but no case is ro- called in which the commission took such steps for the enforcement of the law as involved a question upon which the constitutionality of the act could be tested. It is time that such a test were made, because there is reason to appre hend that until there s a decision de termining wheth e the law 15 constitu- tional or not it will fail to accomplish whatit is intended to. Of course there no question regarding the power of con- gress to regulate commevce between the states. As to that the constitution is perfoctly plain, and numerous docis of the suprome court have recogni this authority, which is exclusive with congres But whether the oxisting law is in all its provisions constitutional is the question, and ae some very able law- ers have always maintained that it is not, the question ought to be settled as s00n as possible, Regulation of interstate commerce by act of congress is a policy that will not be abandoned. The results of the ex- periments have not been so entirely sat- isfactory as was hoped for, but a great deal of good has been accomplished by the law, and doubtless much more would have been if greater vigilance ahd enorgy had been used by those charged with its enforcement. Recently the commission, 80 it has been reported, hag adopted a different policy, and instead of waiting for complaints of violations of the and the v been done plained law, is sending out its own agents to ferret out abuses and irregu- larities forbidden by the act. It has been said, also, that the commission has determined to unsparingly prosccute those who are responsible for violations of the law, and that proceedings are now being prepared against a number of such, some of whom are very prominent in railroad circles. The general public would warmly welcome such: evidence on the part of the commission of an earnest purpose to make the penalties of the law operative. The aet affords all the authority necessary to enable them to do this, and no more effective way could be found in order to settle the question of the constitutionality of the law. That ought to be done with the least possible delay. —_— A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. The real estate owners of Omaha have been asked to form an organization for the general good of the city. Among ideas of the promoters of the or- ganizatiou is the purification of the city government and the protection of the city treasury from the raids of dishonest officials by coilusion with rascally con- tractors. It is hoped, by bringing into a degree of union the privato interests of a large number, to exert a healthful in- fluence upon city affairs from the caucus to the council und from the assessment 1o the issue of warrants, With the theory of the proposed or- ganization THE BEE in common with citizens und taxpayers generally is in hearty sympathy. It hopes to see the taxpayers aroused to an appreciation of the ugly facts which every man who holds relations with the management of city affairs perceives and deplores. Once they are made familiar with the situa- tion it is belioved they will awaken to their own responsibility for the deploh- able dishonesty, the reckless extrava- gance and the wanton disregard of pub- lic interests which long neglect of duty has permitted to grow into the fixed policy of the city government. The organization must have a definite purpose and work in a practicable man- ner to accomplish its ends. 1t is more than six months until election time. A sweeping victory next November must be followed by a methodical and intelli- gent attention to the detuils of govern- ment for an indefinite poriod. In fact eternal vigilance is the price of good government as well as liberty. The incentives to dishonesty in the city government must be counteracted by some form of censorship which shall mnke it dangerous to be corrupt. At prosont it is the business of nobody to detect and prosecute boodlers. They laugl the outery of outraged citizens and jeeringly adopt the sentiment of the king of boodlers, ‘o you going to do about it? The real estate owners should provide a secr fund which they should plice in the hands of a respousible, conservative, vigilant and persistent executive committeo whose business it shall be to detect, ex- t service “Italy and Russia, from which wo got b pose and conviewboodling city ofcials and bribe givifg contractors, corpora- tions and other iadividuals, Tt will cost some money but #0 will rid tho city gov- ernment of ragéals and crush the ambi- tion of disreputable bummers. This is the suggoestion. Tho dotails are left to thp gentlemen of the pro- posed organization and the executive committee THE ASSE The city nssossars are now presumed to be at work. Thay are making a house to house canvags of the city in the per- formance of their duties. Are thoy carefully searching for personal proper- ty or merely putting in time at 33 per day? The assessments in Omaha have hith- erto been inequitable and shamefully sliphod. Honest property owners have turned in their property and it has been assessed. Inaifferent and taxshirk- ing citizens have been overlooked, Cor- porations owning valuable franchises, and wealthy owners of securitios of one MENT, sort and another have largely es- caped their propar shave of the burdens. This state of affairs is not entirely due to the owners of personal property. The inefficiency and erimianl neglect of the assessors and fndifferonce of the county commissioners are largely responsible, The owners of small houses and of un- improved real estate have always paid move than their share of the taxes in this city. A reform is necossury. Hon- est and competent assessors and their strict attention to duty will largely in- 1se the personalty assessment. will take pains to jog the memory of the assessors and commis- sioners upon this subject from time to time, and when the rolls are completed pose the inequalities and gross favor- itism or discrimination, AN attache of the city engincer’s office takes some remarks made in these columns 1n regard to Park avenue pav- ing to himself and publishes a card else- where in this issue. The gentleman states that asa resident and proporty owner on Park avenue he has circulated a petition for the mosaic material with which it is proposed to repave that thoroughfare. As a resident property owner the gentleman has the right bo- yond question to sign a peti- tion for such paving materinl as pleases him. Of this there is no ques- tion. It isa different matter, however, for a city officiul to become the bei- ligerent and active agent of a particular material and the representative of a con- tractor. It is known that contractors remunerate their agents for services and it lays an honest man open to suspicion if he shall interest himself dirvectly or indirectly in a city contract which must be performed under his supervision and direction. If his collar wuxes warm from excitement whenever the top of paving is broached and a citizen opposes his pet mnorions, the suspicion becomes particutiirly positive and un- avoidable, WITHOUT extemsive depositories for grain in Omaha'a’ ‘grent market in that commodity is impossible. TiE Bek therefore notes with pleasure the tact that one elevator ficin has already de- termined to double its storage capacity in anticipation of the benefits to be de- rived from the warehouse law. It is also an gncouraging fact that ex-Mayor Broatch and other capitalists are in a fair way to succoed in securing the cap- ital for the establishment of a large malt house. Omaha cordially welcomes these evidences of enterprise. SECTION 168 of the charter provides ‘the compensation or salary of all offi- cers and agents of the city not herein [in the charter] specified shall be fixed and determined by ordinance, and shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which such officer or ageut shall be appointed.” No good lawyer will hold that this section operates to prevent the council from correcting abusos of the fee system or modifying the sunitary regulations of the city. COUNCILMAN BECHEL will earn and win the commendation of the entire city if he successfully carries through the ordinance for cutting down the Douglas street hog-back. He informs the coun- cil that he will be able to locate avai able funds for performing the work, and this ought to remove all possible ob- jections to completing an improvement $0 important to the appearance and wel- fare of Omaha. JouN M. RAGAN of Hastings, lawyer and democrat, is not a district judge, but has hopes that way. He thinks the wool sack is concealed in the lap of the Alliance and this explains his sudden conversion from corporation attorney to howling anti-monopolist. PUBLIC sentiment will always sweep away the musty cobwebs of legal techni- calities and that is why an appropriation of $1,500 for the expenses of the reception to President Harrison by tho council is both justifiable and gommendable. Moral Bjjllot Health, Bicghamton Repullican. Foreigners should g required to get pass- ports to come into theo United States to re- side. i bl ol G His Critis Admire Hi Springfield Repudlicisn: (Anti-Administration,) President Harrisof is making some very happy little speechel §s he goos swingiug around the circle, The Pahrr of View. New Times, The prohbitionist§kfy that the accident at the Shoreham, Vippk President Morton's Washington hotel, meant for asign that the wrath of God had been kindled against the sccond highest o@ijoer o the country be- cause he was renting pradises to a rumseller. Per contra, @ St. Louis journalist afivms thut the aceident s a visitation upcn the vice president to punish him for permitting the bartenders to charge 20 cents for a single drink of whisk, — How We Might Grow, New Yo'k Sun. The immigration to New York this spring is greater than (t éver has b2en at the sam> season in other years, and our advices from Europo lead to the belief that it will be ex traordinarily larze ol turough the year. We ot fully a balf of it from two countries, auy until two or threy years ugo, aud v many of the people who coms from these countrios are uadesiraple additions population ou several accounts, w our | OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. procoeding in the United Kingdom. It has seldom happened In the Mistory of British politics that so many bye-clection campaigns | were pending at the same time, and, as_the | districts to bo contestod are situated in widely distant parts of the country, it is felt by both the great parties that as they shall | be decided s0 will a general eloction be, Con- servutives and liberals have evidently mado up their minds to accept the results of these coutests as indicative of the bearing of the | Siximportant parliamentary contests are | | | popular will for or against the present | government. In all the many bye- | elections which have been held since Lord Salisbury’s government was estab- tablished the lberals have been successful in much the larger number, and Mr. ( stone states that this fact should give assur ance to the members of his party and keep them steadfast in their support of home rule. He urges that they siould not permit them- selves to be diverted from upholding this nciple by the division of tho Irish party in liament or by the contentions of its lead- s 1t is evident that “the policy of the government continues to reveal a disposition to revive the hostility of the two nations, English and Irish, which the liberals have foresworn,” ana that “the civil rights of Iroland have been unwarrantably abridged by the majority in parliament against whom argument is vain,” Only decisiye action, Mr. Gladstone dectares, “by the con stituencies will correct this evil.”” Witha courage and consistency which cannot be too much admired, Me. Gladstono still urges the liberals of England to make home rule for Ireland the chief object of their parlinmen- tary contentions. He will not abandon his principles, even though those who shoula naturally be their most strenuous defenders 40 s0; nor will he abandon them and adopt others which those nearer to him than the trishpeople are clamoring for, and which promise (if adopted) greater chances of vie: tory at the polls, Such devotion to principle as Mr. Gladstone evinces is the obvions ex- planation of his commanding influence in British politics, though for years the leader only of the minority. *'n The Italian government has just succeeded in carrying through the chamber of deputies a bill extending the age of liability to mili- tary service from thirty-nine to forty-two, or three vears. This measure not only in- creases the cost of the army, but makes a further withdrawal from the rauks of pro- ductive labor, thus adding to the burden of the people and lessening their power to sus- tain it. We are not at all inzlined to deny the of the Italian policy, but no wisdom friend of the young-old nation can deny that the necessity for it, if it be necessary, is a great misfortune. Undoubtedly the situ- ation of United Italy in the first years of the union was very precarious, and the entrance upon the triple alliance seemed at the time the only escape from threatening danger. But the policy of ‘*vigor” imposed by the relations of Ttaly to its great allies was full of temptations, and there has been a trace of *jingoism’ in the way in which it has been carried out. Tt must, by 1ts nature, be a temporary policy, since it would be ruin- ous as a permanent one. The question al- ways is when it can be changed, and ap- parently the present ministry is convinced that the time has not yet come. In the mean- time the Italian people foel the suffering en- tailed more than the advantages secared, and their discontent forces their government to take an attitude that it would not otherwise adopt. " Recent dispatches state that not only is Bismarck chagrined, but that there is very goneral regret throughout Germany because of his defeat, He and the better classes of his countrymen feol that in failing to honor him the electorate of his distriot have dis- honored Germany, and it 1s the general belief that at the coming election he will receive a decisive majority of the votes cast. No doubt many of the progressists and ultramon- tanes will vote for him in preference to the socialist candidate, and only those of either of these parties whose memories are longest and bitterest will stay at home, refusmng to vote at all. Should he be elected, the ex- chancellor is expected to take the leadership of the uvational liberal party, which, de- spite his former opposition, made him its candidate. He has not stated that he would accept the position of leader of any party strongly opposed to the government; he has intimated that he preferred to occupy an in- dependent position—one in which he could support or oppose the government, as the oc- casion or cause would, in good conscience, re- quire him to do, If he were to lead the lib- erals he would have a party at his back of considerable present strength and the num- bers and effectiveness of which he would, no doubt, largely increase. It is the knowledge of this possibility which induced the govern- ment newsvaper organs to urge the consery- atives, who had none of their own, to vote for either of the other candidates, except the socialists’, catuer than for Bismarck. o Tne proposed constitution of the ‘‘com- monwealth of Australia” 13 not so cordially welcomed in England as it was expected that it would be, and when the matter reaches the imperial parl iament—which will be some time hence—it will bo made the subject of vigorous discussion. Unquestionably the at- titude of the English at home toward the colonies has been very generous. The Aus- tralian federation means free trade among the different provinces and a tariff on Brit- ish imports, and that, despito the Baglish reputation for greed in trade, is not objected to. But the new commonwealth claims con- trol over some subjects that Eugland may ultimately .have to deal with and may profer to deal with from the start, Among these are the relatious of Australin with the islands of the Pacific, (the Hebrides, Samoa, Madagascar, ete.,) and in general ““Australian affairs which ave at present ox- ercised by the imperial parliament.” It is plain that such questions as these involve the possibility of ultimate appeal to force, and that force must bo furnished mainly by the mother country. The commonwealth would sustain a navy, as the separate provinces do now, but it is not and would not be one that could compel respect for a moment from Ger- many or France, ooth of which nations are deaply interested in the Pacific islands. The transfer of all the affairs claimed avove to the commonwealth would be for (ireat Britain like signing a check in blauk to the order of the Australians. Al Non-8:ctarian Itineracy System, Toston Advertiser. Were it not for the Methodfst Episcopal Drethiren the custom of moving on or avout May 1 would be ir dauger of falling into innocuous desuetude, THE PERFECE FACE, Tom Hall tn Munsey's Weekly, The Graces on a summer day, ow serious for a moment-—-yea, hoey thought in rivaley to traca The outline of a perfect face. Kach used a rosobud for a brush, And while it glowed with sunset's blush, ch paiuted on the evening sky, d cach a star used for tho eye. hey finished. F Drew back and e | 3ehold, we thry w'romn the same model ch a curtaining cloud oh exclaimed aloud = drawn the same Al! her numot 1 know. I saw the 1 saw thom falter, 1 know the moc My heart. Tho cture grow, ade and go. L ~oft she lures face,m w2ot, was yours, 'FROM THE STATE CAPITAL. Governor Boyd Signs the Papers Making Hastings a Firat Olass Oity, | PROSPECTIVE PETITIONS FOR PARDONS. Three Young Burglars Captured in the Act—Almost Starved to Death —sStruck by Lightning - Ouds and Ends, Livcowy, Neb,, April 24.—[Special to Tur Ber.|~Today Governor Boyd signed the legal documents that mako Hastings a city of tho first class, The new law that went into effect April 4 provides that nny cities having a population botween ten thousaud and twentyfive thousand is entitled to become & city of tho first class, aud as Hastings has a fow thousand more thau the first named figure she therofore entors upon groater dig- nities, ALMOST STARVED TO DEATIL About noon today & box car from Omaha which had not been opened for -three or four days was unlocked and a boy of sixteon, fairly well dressed, was found lying in almost & comatoso condition, His glazed eyes and shrunken checks showed that ho was almost acad, and it is belioved that ho was almost starved to death. ‘Tho railroad n could not arouse him and the polic were called. The officers examinea the contents of Wwis pockets, but could find nothing that would give any cluo to his identity. The boy could not Ho was turned over to tne city physician, The physician stated on investigation that the youth was suffering with malarial fover. It bas beon learned that the boy's namo is James Hammond. PROSPECTIVE PETITIONS FOR PARDONS. Charles Thomas, who was convioted of attemoting to pass & check on the Iirst National bank for $07, purporting to be signed by Osborne, Hosick & Co., and who was sentenced to five yoars in the penitoer- June 1, 153, will” appeal to Governor Bovd for a pardon shortly. The young man imed at the time that he was of noble birth and the son of a German count, The daughter of Henry Mohr, couvicted recently of shooting his iife in ' West Lin- coln, and who was seatup for a year, is cir culating a potition for ner father's pardon because of the alleged destitute circumstan, of the family, YOUNG BURGLARS, Ofcer Sipe, with the assistance of Officor MeWilliams, succeeded last night in_captur- ing a trio of 'burglavs, rather youthful, but who are seomingly destined to spend a few years in prison. About 12 o'clock Oficer Sipe heard a noiso in the Racket store av 1010 P street, and on investigating found two fel lows inside. He summoned assistance quie! and the fellows wero bagged. They were both negroes and gave thetr names as Charles Burns, eichteen, and Charles Miller, sixteen, Miller’ was very warm over his arrest and gave the officers a little trouble, but it cost him a swelled face and he got in jail besides. Shortly afterwards the oficers visited tho store again, and this time caught Clarence Downing, aged fifteon years, inside, he hav- ing evidently been a pal of the others, The storé doals in notions, and when caught the fellows had their pockets filled with jewelry, neckwear and other trinkets, A lot of canned fruit, taken from some other vlace, was also found in their possession. The young men refused to plead guilty this morning, and the county attorney was summoned to'draw up compiaints for burg- lnl;x. hen arraigned, however, they had changed their minds and acknowledged that they were inside the store, butsaid they hadn't broken iu;that arear window was up, and they didn’t suppose it was a crime to g0 inany place where a window was left open. The court thought different. however, and bound them over to the district court in £00 bonds. Not having that amount about their persons, they were taken to the county ail. d A RUINED CREDIT, Mr. dward T. Huff has filed a_petition in the district court asking for £5,000 damages from Daniel W, Haydock, Louis Helmer and John L. Daty. Huff gives as his reasons for the suit that Haydock brought suit against bim charging him with attempting to dispose of bis property and put it beyond the reach of crsditors and thereby secured an order of attachment against Huff for $25,000 during the period of twenty-six days, damaging him £5,000 worth. STRUCK DY LIGHTNING, Howard Penn, a well-to-do farmer near Waverly, suffered a severe loss on account of lightning in the recent rain storm. Nine horses were killed and bis barn set on fire by the destructive thunder bolts. PUZZLES FOR THE SUPREME COURT. Thomas Ross of Rushville asks the su- preme court to give him $1,000 damages from Studevant Brothers & Co. of Rushville for the four days detention of $,000 worth of goods belonging to him. Dr. A. D. Cloyd of Shubert, Richardson county, bas got into trouble over having some whisky and bitters in his possession. The whisky was ordered destroyed by Jus- tice Cornell, but the medicine was destroyed. Tho doctor doesn't like the way ho is being treated and appeals the case 0 the supreme court. Daniel and Willlam Binkley of Washington county have carried their case to the supreme court since the recent adverse decision agalnst them and file an affidavit gof poverty. STILL WANT DAMAGES. The Misses Libbie and Ella Melloy do not seem to abandon the idea of obtaining judg- ment agamst the Eden musee company for being ousted from that place of amusement because of theiralleged loud style of dressing. They have filed an amended petition making William T. Duncan a party defendant as an cer or agent of the company when they were forced out of the house as objectionable persons. Each of them ask £10,000 in judg- ment for their wounded feelings and dam- aged character. THE COUNTERVEIT CASE, In the matter of the case against William Nash for passing counterfeit monoy, a con- tinuance of invostigation was taken until next Tuesday at 2 o'clock, the young man being permitted to go on his' personal recog- izance, Dr, Kearns, his uncie, becoming se- curity for his appearance in the sum of - $100, A score of witnesses have been summoned on the case. ne SOLD BITPERS, Chris Silckler, the keeper of a sort of gen- eral store ina litle town in Richardson county, was brought before United States mmissioner Billingsley in this city on the charge of selling mait liquor without” special licenso. He denied any guilt, stating that ho had only sold a preparation in the form of a medicine or bitters. ODDS AND ENDS. Pennington and Sheldon, the suspect chicken thieves, were discharged this morn- for want of prosecution, the farmer who identified the fowls as his property failing to show up. Several hours after their dis- charge, however, Mrs. Griswold, who hves in University place. eame in and reported d | four of her pet fowls missing and ideatified | two of those confiscated as hers. Sho was willing to prosecute them and Detective Ma- lone went out to look for the fellovss once more. A little davghter of C. A. Morrill, living v Twenty-first and O streets, straved away | from bome this morning and was found by Major Frankiin at Sixteenth and L stroets, Sho was rostored to her parents, who did not even thank the officers, T, A. Wilson, for the past two years and a half in the Insurance business with Ciark & Leonard, has removed to Chicago. His wife's health Tias beon feoblo, and tho changoe fs mado in hopes of its betterment. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will visit i Concordin, Kan., for a month enroute to their new home. 1t is hinted that the full text of the chem. 15U's roport on the contents of John Sheedy stomach has not vet been told thoe publie, and that there is still something behind what has b ved hore from Butte, Mont., Mrs. Minnie Walker, a girl of nineteon, committed suicido in the Garrison house in that cit Marth vorco in imons filed a potition for di district court this moruing the ogainst Thomas J. Simons. - - PASSING JENTS, Sommervillo Journal: When a man in s hurry is trying to write with a fountain pen he réalizos how a man must foel who stutters, Iinoch: Bereaved Widow-—Why, doctor, you hiavo the effrontery to chargo mo #500 for troating my poor dear hushand, and ho diod, after all. Doctor—Well, didn't you collect 25,000 lifo insurance! ew York Herald: “It 13 nouse to loan Jimpson anything; you'll nover get it back.” “Noj; that beav won't return even a bow," Munsey's Week), Miss Frostiquoe —Mr, Brown mot me in the dark hallwag last night and kissed me. Miss Caustiquo—Mistakes will happen N. Y. World: “How porfectly flat Miss Passay is in hor efforts to rapture him " “Flat! T should rather call ber an in- clinod plain.” Washington Post : ount, is 18 in full of ac- keepor as he took tho “Also," replied the count of a fuil,'* said tho b out of a bill customer, “‘on ac Springfiold Sparks: Guazlor—You are od by your seutimental ideas, Gusher, You are i siave to woman's smiles. Gusher All right, old man. You're a slave to your own smiles, Philadelphia Bulletin: Florence--Mamma, t a lovely color Uncle Tom's nose 1s. What kind of paint doos he put on iti Mam. ma (grimly)—~Nover mind, my doar. 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