Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1891, Page 4

THE DAILY BER E. ROSEWATER Evrron. = — PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TFRMS OF §UBSCRIPTION Dally Beo (with Iay)One Yoar.. . 18 00 ¥ and Sund 10 00 nth e 6500 Three months, 260 Bunday Bee, One Yer 200 turd o o, One Year Weekly Bee, Onc 10 OF FICES: o Bulldin Corner N and 2th Streota ) Poirl Stroet, Omahn, The | Bouth On Councll B Chieago Office, New York. Koon Washington, bid Fourte ne Bullding CORRESPONDENCE Al comninnieations relating to news and editorin] mantter should e addressed tc the Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS Allbusinessletters and remittances should be addressed {o The Bee Pubtishing Company, Omiha. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders 10 he made payible to the order of the com pany. The Bee Publishing Company. Proorietors THE BEE BUILDING, LATION., T OF CIRCS o The Be inly swear Lefrenlation of Te DALY Ber ending July 11, 1801, was us foi- Goorge 1t Publishing Eanday, July b 5 “ribins 20,710 Monday, Tuly 6 26,053 Taesdiy, Tuly 7 26,000 Wednesday. Tniy radny. Jiily Friday, July 10. Baturday, July 1., Average Lirante, GRORG Eworn ta botoro me and siiseribed Tn my resence this 1th day of July, 1391 L N. P. Frin, Notary Public. Ftate of Nebraska, Trschiu duly sworn. de- Y of Tik BER that the actual average dally circulation of THE DAILY BIE for the month of July. 1800, 20,662 copies; for August, 1600, 20,750 conlus: for § . 160, 20,870 coples; for October, 1800, 20,762 copies: for No- v ember, 1801, 12,180 copies: for 180, Decsmber, 1800, 24471 coples: for January, 181 28445 ples; for February, 1801, 23412 coples; for March, 1801, 24,065 coples: for April, 181, 4028 coplest for May, 1801, ) coples: for June, 191, T copies. Groar B, T7SCHUOR. Sworn to before me and subseribed in my presence this 6th duy of June, Ac D 1801, e vy Publi George H. Josch and says th Publishing compan ot THE people of this city will not per- mita book agent to superintend our schools. EVERYBODY in America hopes James G. Blaine is correct when he declares he is not a sick man. NEBRASKA corn leads the world in quality and Nebraska farms lead the world in the quantity raised per acre. GENTILES continue to hold their own in Salt Lake City. Their own is the school board of which they maintain control by 700 majority. THE watch trust has been wound up and stopped. This is a paradox in watches, but the 1llinois anti-trust law drives Elgin out of and breaks up the combination. Ex-SENATOR INGALLS at the Council Bluffs Chautauqua tomorrow afternoon will bo the event of the season. What- ovor may be thought of the ex-senator’s politics and religion, it must be agreed that he is original, startling, able and entertaining. A coxrrris looking to n consolida tion of Minneapolis and St. Paul having been duly constituted the union may bo rogarded as ono of the possibilities of the future. It may be, nocessary to makea good showing of population as against Omaha in the census of 1900. THE CHAUTAUQUA over the river is a joint attaction of Omaha and Council Bluffs, and this city hopes the lecturer and the association may both be pleased by a very large attendance. It will pay Omaha people to go to the grounds at any time, but especially to hear Mr. Ingalls, ILLINOIS could do a great deal worse without half trying than to elect Joseph G. Cannon governor. The ex-chairman of the committes on appropriations is a genius in his way and his way is honest, however brusque it may appear on first acquaintance. He is o fighter, too, and would make the campaign excsedingly lively. NizaNe NovGorop is a barbarous name, but it should be honored for the stand tuken by its governos against combinations to raise the price of grain and other unccessities. Ho warns the speculators that if thoy engago in cornering food products they will be punished and bunished from his juris- diction, HE American book company has a monopoly in the sale of all text books, supplies, apparatus, ete., in Omaha. Not content with that patronage it is now secking to control the election of school superintendent. Does that com- pany, which by the way, is the most un- scrupulous in the United States, want the earth? SOMEBODY ought to inject a little energy into the person or brain of the expert nccountant who is assigned tho duty of reporting upon the accounts of the Hastings insano asylum. An ex- port accountant is next to a treasury architect, the slowest being in business. The Lincoln expert engnged by the board is no exception to the rule, but we will be ns putient as possible. THE stato board of trunsportation 18 certainly deliberate enough in the mat- ter of establishing a maximum rate schedule. By August 25 the date of the Norfolk conferenc usiderable portion of the small in the southern countios will be ready for ship- ment 1f not actually marketed. The board should get up steam with less loss of time if it really means to do its duty. AN nnonymous correspondent affeots to believe that THE BEE was striking at one of the great religious bodios when it said the other day: “*No secret society in Amorica over has or ever will for any considerable time control the political affuirs of this free country.” Inasmuch as there is uo secret church organization in Ameriea ondeavoring to control the political affairs of his country, the anonymous correspondeat must have & de'icately balanced chip on his shouider if the sentence disvurbs hiw. 150 | A QUESTION OF CONSISTENCY. ’ The State Journal commenting upon | Tur Ber's efforts to interesy the citi- | zens of Nebraska and Montana in secur- | ing a direct rallway connection pre- | tends to see a very grave inconsistency | in the position of this paper upon the | | subject. According to the Jowrnal's | method of reasoning because THE BEE | in times past antagonized bond sub- | sidies to paper railways and both in senson and out of season opposed the greed and extortions of the corporate monopolies it should now refrain from urging the construction of a new rail- rond. In the mind of the capital organ of the railroads it was the persistent de- mand of the editor of Tur BEgR for rensonable rates, for the with- drawal of corpor influences from state politics and for fair treatment at the hands of the agers of the railways thut have caused them to couse building lines in Nebraska. Finally this stool-pigeon of the corporations asserts in offect that so long ns demands are made upon the republican party for the fulfillment of its plodzes o the peo- | ple in the matter of rates, so long will the poor railway owners sulk and tinue inactive in the matter of construct- ing new lines, The State Jowrnal editorially consumes a third of a column and the and conclusions are both as remote from the question of a railrond connection with Montana as Hel is from Lin- coln. The simple fact is that the mo- nopoly organ read General Manager Holdrege's interview in Tie BEE and j d at the conclusion that inasmuch . Holdrege had a souff box in his time for the Lincoln Jowrnal It sneezed, and the convul- it into the middle of next to mar on- premisos to sneeze, sion throw woek. When Tue BEE opposed subsidic subsequent events proved it to be col rect. When Tre Bex demanded a ro- duction of rates and insisted that dis- minations be discontinued the rail- roads udmitted the merits of the demand by reducing ratesand the laws vindi- cated this paper by prohibiting the dis- criminations of which complaint. was made. When THE Bes demanded, on behalf of the people, that the railways shouid take their hands off the throats of the political parties, the railroads ignored the demand. As a consequence both parties were demoralized and the railways suffered a fright from which they have not yet rccovered. If the railways had been wise cnough to adopt the suggestions of Tite Bek, reflecting the sentiments of the people, there would be less wailing and gnashing of corpora- tion tecth today. If the railways inter- fore now and provent tho cstablishment of aschedule of reusonable rates they will ve still further convinced that the people are not to be fooied by specious arguments printed in paid organs. But all this has nothing whatever to do with the Montana railroad. That road, if constructed, will run through three states and will be subject to the laws of congress and not of the states in the matter of transportation rates between Nebraska and Montana. THE BEE urges the construction of the line because it will benefit Montanu and Ne- braska. The railroad will not build it unless conyinced it will be profitable. If it will pay the stockholders are ready with the money to construct it other- wise not. What Tue Beg desires is to convince the road that the line will puy. It does not ask the rail road company to build it merely for the accommodation of the two siates. The position taken by this paper on railroad questions past, present and future has no more beaving upon the merits of the suggestion for a Montana railroad than the opinionsof the Journ«l upon silver legislation have upon the pork controversy between this country and Germany. SUB-TREASURY SCHEME DENOUNCED, The action of the convention of the farmers’ atliance of Texas, in denounc- ing the sub-troasury scheme, is the hardest blow yet struck at that crazy proposition, and ean hurdly fail to exert a strong influence againstit. The con- vention also endorsed the course of Mr. U. S. Hall, president of the Missouri alliance, in opposing tho sub-treasury scheme in the Ocala convention, and pledged him the support of the Texus alliance “in the able and manly effort to rid the order, state and national, of all shackles which will retard its strength,” When the sub-treasury schemo was presented at Ocala, Mr. Hall vigorously opposed it, declaring that *‘whenever we so far forget our al- liance ‘golden rule,’ which declares that we are for equal rights to all and special favors to none, as to advocate that spe- cial favors be granted to the raisers of wheat corn, oats, cotton and tobacco, that cannot be granted to the millions of equally deserving hard laboring poor of our land, we then declare to the world that our noble order is not complaining of the robbing of our government by class legislation, but that we are com- plaining because we are not among the robbers.” Further, Mr. Hall said he was uncompromisingly opposed to the sub-treasury scheme for the following reasons: “Iirst, it is in violation of the constitution of the United States; secondly, it is subversive of, and directly opposed to, the constitution principles and demands of our own orde thirdly, it i3 unjust and inequitabl fourthly, it is very extruvagant; fifthl it would bring ruin to farmoers of our country and to all other classes of busi- ness; sixthly, it will have, and is now having, the effect of drawing the minds of farmers and other laborers of our country from the greatest curse of the age, oluss legislation; and if adopted, it will commit us to that principle which will fasten thiese curses upon us for all time,” This vigorous denunciation of the sub- treasury scheme the convention of the farmers’ alliance of Texas unquali- fledly endorsed, and in view of the fact that the scheme has found its principal support, if it did not originate, in the south, this expression of the alllance men of the southern state is significant and impertant, and no less important is the demand of the Texas alliance that “those men whoare uot farmers bo removed from the natiooal and state those who have their intorest in farm- 10IH«'«~|'.—~ of our order, and that nonc but THE OMAHA DAILY BER ing bo allowed to fill such places Theso Texas farmers evidently under- stand that if the alliance is to be maintained and to be permitted to per- form the legitimate functions for which it was organized, it must et rid of the politicians and demagogues who by false pretenses have obtained prominence and influence in its councils; otherwise it will inevitably be broken into factions, to be followed by disinte- gration and ultimate dissolution. The Texas convention appealed to all honest members of the alliance throughout the United States to unite in putting down “thie common enemy and the disgrace of our order,” and to this recom- mended a national convention to be held in September. There is manifestly an awakening among the intelligent and true friends of the alliance in all parts of the country which promises disaster to the plans of the alleged farmors who make politics their business and the repudintion of the schemes with wh these men have identified the Tne clear headed and honest men in the alliance seo that its usefulness and pros- perity are seriously threatened by the false position in which it is being placed and they are preparing to save it bofore it is too late. The action of the Texas alliance is o step in this direction which ought to be followed by othoers through- out the countr The longee the work of salvation is postponed the move diffi- cult it will become TO INCREASE THE CIRCULATION. ocretary Foster is authority for the statement that the proposition to extend the 44 per cent bonds, payment of which is optional on September 1, at 2 per cent interest, is an % d success. In an article in the New York Recorder, signed by the secrotary of the tre y, he says: “The succoss of the proposition was sured before the extension was ordeved, and it is a matter of congratulation that the United States in this matter is able to show a credit higher than that of any other nation.” He alsosays: “We have reason to believe that from the re- ception already given to the proposition we shall be able to add about 000,000 in national bank notes to the cireulation of the country.” It is stated from Washington that the bonds hav. been coming into the department so rapidly for continuance at 2 per cent that no account has as yet been taken of the amount. The wisdom of the policy of extend- ing these bonds thus appears to be already justified. The treasury would probably have found some difficulty in providing for tha payment of theso bonds in September, but a far moze im- portant consideration is the loss of cir- culation thot would have resulted from tauking them up at that fime. As it is, not only will tho hanks continue the circulation they have out for which the 43 per cent bonds are socurity, but are buying moro of these bonds to be used for additional eircala- tion. An increase of $25,000,000 in the national hank currency within the next two months cannot fail to exert a very valuable influenco upon the business of the country, and particularly on the movement of the crops and the prices thevefor, It will go a great way to make up foir the loss of the country in specie during the past four or five months and will tead to im- prove confidence. There has been some carping criticism of the course pursued by the secretary of the treasury leading up to this very sati factory state of aff but the business interests of the country are only con- cerned about results, and there can be no doubt that the policy of the treasury department will have the unanimous ap- proval of those interssts. To havsat once demonsirated the high credit of the government and securod a much- needed addition to the circulation must certainly be regarded by all intelligent men as very good financiering, and all incidental matters are quito unworthy of consideration. Secretary Foster has in effect vepeated what he suid to the Ohio re- publican convention respecting tho ability of the treasury to meet its obligations, He says there will money enough to mect all the ox- penditures of the government und add a handsome sum to that alvendy paid on the bonded debt of the country. Never- theless the democratic press and leaders will doubtless continue to assert that the national treasury is bankrupt. The management uf the financial department of the government under the present administration bas been eminently wise and conservative, and there is every son to expect that 1t will continue to ond ssur as- be THE MONTANA EXCURSION, Omaha has an opportunity to further her commercial intere: such as does not frequently present itself, in this pro- posed excursion of business men to Hel ena. The wealthy little capital of the young state and the mining 1 stock growers of Montana are on fire with enthusiasm over the prospect of railway connection with Omaha, With the k s sense so characteristic of its people, Helena perceives thut such amedium for interchanging products will be immensely profitable. She has, therefore, taken the initiative and in- vites our best business men to a confer- ence upon the mutual interests involved. Omaha’s board of trade hasstuken the preliminary step toward accepting the courteous invitation, The excu will be arranged without doubt. It must be made up of our solid business men, It must not be an uproarious junket or even a quiet pleasure trip. The interests in- volved require that the best men of tho city participate. The usual free lunch- ers should stay at home. We want defi- nite, permanent and important commer- cial resuits to come from the inter- change of ideas which the pro- posed meeting of business men of Omaha and Helena will make possible. No more important business connec- tion can be conceived for this city than one with Montana. That state produces almost nothing which is included in the surplus of Nebraska. On the other hand, Nebraska enters into no competi- tion with Montana in any of her products. The business interchanges which a divect line of railway afford will be reciprocal and mutually profita- oparators en busine ble. A little opgprprise at both ends of the proposed kne will opon to Nebraska the stock ranghiand mines of Montana, and enable us. o exchange with thom our produce, ‘eigar, poultry, flour and hogs. Our stolk market needs Montana cattleand ourismelting works want Montana silverand gold. ——— Floridn is &edking immigrants, and has put into oporhtion a system which it is hoped will regult in increasing the population of that state. It appears that n prejudies against foreign immi- grants has for a long time existed in that state, but failing to realizo a satis- factory growth from the additions made to the population of citizens of thiscoun- try, public sentiment has experienced a change, and now a systematic effort is to be made to induce n good class of for- eign immigrants to go to Florida. The plan of colonization by communities is to be tried, and thero is no renson why it should not be successful. Florida ought to offer excellent oppor- tunities to industrious immigants, and with the invitation which the climate of that state affords there ought to be no difficultuy in securing thom. Itis per- tinent to remark that the time has not yot for shutting down on immi- wration, come A DRUG store in Topeka is more to bo desired than a patent medicine manu- factory in Buffaio. The ministers of that city declare by resolution that veral blocks in Topeka are devoted to drug stores in which alcoholic drinks are freely dispowrsed. The ministers discover by invostigation that stoady drinkers “'sign for” drinks for medici- nal purposes at drug stoves every day of the year. One systematic toper having a fever one day and a cold the next. Prohibition is 0 great thing in Kansas— for pharmacists MapseN and O. H. groat practical jokers. Tho one gives the othe: a check for #030 just for a jo an ordi- nance and cortain other papers in which he is interested. The other just for a joke gets a friend to present it for pay- ment at the bank, Paymont is refused and the usual chagrin attendant upon a joke follows. Neither of the jokers how- ever mention the 350 in hard cash or its equivalent which is said to have figured in the transaction in dead earnes COUNCILMAN Ballou are g hogus and secur FACTS continue to encourage the be- lief that, America’s crop of breadstuffs this year will bring exceptionally high prices. The most optimistic reports from Europe show a deficiency in the continental pioduct with almost no available surplus from former years. The wise farmer is the one who has grit and granarics enjugh to hold his grain for good prices. AFTER the “board of education has clected a superiatendent of schools let us all hope it will find time to do its business in a mora business-like manner. There is gross carelpssness if not corrup- tion in matters of detail. It would not be a bad idea to order a thorough non- partisan investization. There are too many holes in th= school skimmaer. )s: A HOSPITAL ambulance Is a great im- provement upon the patrol wagon as a vehicle for transporting sickand injured people to the iospital. The city should provide a more comfortable convey for its unfortunates also. By the way the emergency hospital scoms as far away in the dim future as cver. A crry officer should not offer a city contractor as bondsman. It looks bad and is usually accopted as an obligation to that contractor for an exchange of courtesies. When Lwo contractors go on one bond the infercnce is strengthened. THE board of trada is alive to the im- portance of railvord connection with Helena *‘the richest little city in the world,” and still more alive to that of opening. the Omaha stock markol to Montana cattle. BUSINESS men only ure expected to participate in the bosrd of trade excur- sion to Helena when it is arranged for. It will be a pleasure trip of course, but business is to be combined with pleasure. EVERY citizen of Omaha owes it to himself and his neighbors - to take hold of the exposition project in dead eurnest and malke the exhibit this fall the best ever seen in Om THE men who know most about it the most enthusiastic promoters of tho offorts being mado to create a great grain market in Omana. AT last the graders arve at work on the Douglas street grade. The unsightly hump will soon be of the past. Facts Riddle Fictions, Denver Sun. The bank deposits in Nebrasia show an average of $17 per; capita for its entire popu- lation. The farmpes and workingmen of that state can scarcely,bo in the distressed condi- tion represented by tho farmors! alliance leaders. are — - Invites Disaster. St. Louls' @lobe=Demuerat, About 40,000 or 56,000 republicans 1n Penn- sylvania refused to vote for Quay’s candidate for governor last November, and probably two-thirds of them actually voted against him. It Quay be aliowed to run the party in that state this gear a liko disaster is probable, o e — An AMiance Cipher. @hbago Times. The attempt of Ignatius Donnuelly to or- ganize the peopl¥party 1 Minnesota has endod disastrously for him. After figuring @ long time upon the personnel of the com- mittees which he wishod to have subsorvient t0 bum he had the mortification of seeing his slate wiped off by the couvention, leaving him ouly a ciphor, ——— In Dead Blair Piot, The frequency with which the Omaha pa- pers oxclaim that *Omaba is in dead earnest 1n ber contest for the republican pational convention!’ gives ‘the assertion somewhat tho appearance of a gigantic bluft, or at least indicates a foar that the outsido world will 30 consider it. But seriousiy Omaba should not be abashed by auy conflicting claims nor opposing sentiment. Omabs bas, in the light of facts and circumstances, at this time wore nearly a valid right to the convention of 1502 than any one of her compet- WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1801, itors, The logic of events is all in her favor, and every discussion of the pros and cons adds strength to her claims. Tho fact that sho is in tho center as it were, of the disaffected ropublican states that need the Invigorating influence of a ropublican convention, must necessarily oarry a conviction of expodiency in Omaha! selection that does not lie in favor of any other place. In fact sho nhas no comvetitors worthy the name except Chicago, and the fact that Chicago will be at that time all toro up with world's fair preparation, and over- flowing with workmen, delegations, commit- toes and visitors, makos it self-evident that Chicago not only ought not to contend for the national convention at this time, but that sho will be in no condition to do its hosts justice In tho matter of accommoda- tioas. With her hotels fillod with strangers, and the enorgy of her poople taxed in anothe direction, should the convention be located | in Chicago, it must nocessarily be ov shadowed by other intorests. Omaha is tho one proper placo for the convention of 92, and if her people pull together she has moro than an equal chance to win. The claim that Omaha cannot take care of the immenso crowd is simply bosh, and not worthy a moment's consideration. The con- vention will probably last forty-eight hours, and Omaha can house and feed an extra 25 000 people for that length of time, as easily as | she tisually handles groat enterprises when thore is unity of purpose, Omahba's contost should be pressed so that the people will bo assured that she is “in dead earnest,” with- out being specially so informed. Lot the ball roll solidly, and tho convention is protty suro to come hor way. Reason and rightous- ness of the cause aro all in her favor. If success crowns hor effort tho republican party of the great northwest will bo proud of her “whoop it up.” g Not a topeful Prospect. Grand Istand Indepondent. The republican central committee has as- sombled, has widely declared in favor of the long neglected reduction in favor of railroad rates, and has with equal wisdom declared 1ot to do anything for this reduction, becauso oncof its members, who also is a sccretary of the board of transportion, reported that this board was hard at work proparing such a roduction, and that tho result of their hard work would show itself pretty soon. Wo should be glad if anything satistacwory shoutd come out of it. this raiirond ridden board doss not oatitle the people to great hopas. The contral com- mittee puts so much contidence in the board of transportation that it did not think it worth whils to recommend the reduotion to them. ——— Turn the Rascals Out. Clay Center Gazette, During the investization of the charges preferred against the managing offcials of the Hastings insanc asylum some very start- ling and sousational things wore brought to light. 1t has not only been shown that thoy have appropriated the state's moncy to their own use, but also that the male employ and the fomale employes have had what migat be termed a hallelujah time, The monoy appropriated to bear the ex- vensoof the institution has boan expended wost lavishly for fine drinks used at ban- quets, balls, and social ontertainments, ete. Tura the rascals out. e Be Sane in Everything. Norfolk News. Tho republican state central committeo has taken a big step toward reform in purty mauagement by calling a day couvention. It this exhibition of sanity is followed up by placing a good ticket in the field, the party has a chance to win. Whother a late con- vention will bea good thing for tho repub- lican party or not, depends _entiraly on the kind of candidates put up. If the bad broak made at Hastings two years ago 1s ropeated, the campaign better bo as briof as possible to save funeral exponses. it oI The Brave Desirve the Votes. Philade!phia Ledger. Managers of the people’s party are at work in Kentucky trying to get out a big vote for their candidate on August 3 as an advertise- ment that will be of service to them in the full. There is nothing suceeeds like succos: If the people’s party can make a brave sbow in August, hundreds of vacillating peoplo will turn to it in November. Ou the other hand, 1f it should appear to be a small affair, that circumstance will help to prevent what would otherwise be its natnral growth. caliiussechidey sn’t This 1reason? Nt. Louis Republie. ‘Tk:e Republic does not know whether Mr. Cleveland is to be nominated or not. 1t does not wish to coneern itself with that now, be- cause it would be unwise to do so. But this is certain, that if he is nominated he must do, not as he pleases, but as the democratic party pleases. Neither he nor any other man can have u democratic presidential nomination on any other torms, GONE BEFORE, New York Mail and Erpress “There's a beautiful faco in tho silent air, Which follows me ever an With smiling eyes aud ambe With voiceless lips, yet with breath of prayer “That I feel, but can not hea: The dimpled hand and rivglet of gold Lic low in a marbio slee I streteh my hand for a clasp of old, But the empty air is strangely cold, And my vigil alone [ keep. There's a sinless brow with a radiant crown, Aud a cross laid down in the dust; o whero unever u shade comnes And tears no more from those dear eyes flow, 50 sweet in their innocent rest. Ab, well! And summer is come again, Singing her samo old song; But oh ! it sounds like a sob of pain As it floats in the sunshino and the rain O'er tho hearts of the world's great throng. There's a beautiful region above the skies, And I long to reach its shor For [ know I shall find my treasure there— laughing eyes and amber hair Of the loved one wone beloro. But the nature of | DELAYING THE ASSESSMENT, Eight Negligent Gounty Olorks Interforing with the Tax Levy: WATERWORKS CRETE'S LITIGATION, Suit Involving Much Valuable Prop- erty Finally Reached in the State suprome Court—Dbid Not Want the Skull, Lixcory, Neb,, July 14.—[Special toftTue Brr.| ~The county clorks of eight counties have thus far failod to send in abstracts of assessment to the state auditor. This neglect seriously interferes with the auditor in com- piling the grand assessmont roll and del the work of the state board of equalization in making tho state lovy, ho following counties aro Banner, Blamne, Box Butto, Dawes, Gar field, Loup and Platte. Tho law requires that'alljthose abstracts of assessment should be in the auditor's oftice on July 10. Four days boyond the logal date have nowjpassed and no word has been roceived from tho county clerks of those esunties. CRETE WATERWORKS SQUABILE. The Creto waterworks caso has finally got into tho suprome court. 1t involves a rather intricate maze of litigation and is filed under the name of Shickle, Har ompany vs Willard Kont g H. ‘Tarr appellants, impleaded with the Crote improvement and investment. com- pany et al., appellees, and Zephomiak Water man et al.’ Primarily the iron company sued Kent & v o - ment. Kont & Tare expressed a willingness to pay if the franchiso for the constri of the waterworks was good, but they as their defense the fact that it was bad. OMANA STREET RAILWAY CAst] Tho caso of John A. Horbach Omaha Hg Railway company | ofticers was taken up to the suy { today. This isa long involved piece of liti | gation in which Horbach claims that in (577 | W. W. Marsh atlowed tho firm of ller & Co. | to foreclose a mortgMge on the street railway for 700, when the road was weil worth £100,000 and bad vlenty of money to pay the indebtedness: that by skillful manipuli tion, meanwhile, Marsh inunaged to get hold of 716 shares, a wajority of all the sha the company, and, it lleged, made a | siares each to Frank Murphy . Smith. Horbach criticises the action of the directors thereafter to tho extent of nearly a hundred type-written pages. Ho claims that secret meotings havo been held of which plaintiff knew nothing at the time, aund business was transacted without his knowledge, although he was the owner of tweuty of tho 1,000 original shares. Ho there- fore asks that recoivor be appointed and au accounting made of the books aud affairs of the company. * In tho lower court, however, Harbach was clear out, but does not propose to give up yet. delinquent : vs. the and its ne court SHEEDY'S SKULL. There seems to boa mistake in tho ac- { counts published concerning the request made by Mr. Augustus Sanders for the skull of John Sheedy. Tho lettor sent by Mr. Sanders to Judge Field shows that ho asked for it merely o seo that it was properly buried in tho grave with thorest of the body. He says that he had no intention whatever of keeping the ghastly relic as a memento. Judge Field, however, belicves that i case the skull was buried that it would be dug up by some physician or scientist as it is & most remariable relic. ODDS AND ENDS, Roy Galbraith, a littlo colored lad of eight, was arrested last night on the charge of hav- ing stolen several dollars n cash from tho room of a lodeer in_the Davenport lodging house at Fourteenth and O strects. Tho voungster claimed ho had found the money and given it to Mrs. Daveunvort, who had thrown the pocketbook in the cellar. A search was mado for the book, but 1t was not found. This morning when the lodger woko up he was astonished to tind_the porketbook with his money in it, in the accustomed plac meeting of the state managerial board of agriculture will bo held at the Hotel Lincoln tomorrow. The work of preparation for the fair is recewving the undiviaed attention of the officers, and the exposition of 1501 will uot bo a whit behind any of its predecessors in interost. ‘The police board will have a meeting to- morrow evening. The audience will un- doubtedly bo a large one, as thereis consider- able interest manifested in_the result of the contest between tho mayor and the two membors of the board. I Mockett, Lincoln's champion bicyclist, has accepted the challenge of Wertz, the little fellow from Owaha, for a race, and will probably race Lwo heats of twenty miles each at Lincoln park next Friday and Saturday evenings. A telogram was received last evening from Mrs, M. W. Uhl, wife of the young man who suicided Sunday, stating that she was on her way to Lincolu, and will probably arrive to- morrow evening, when arrangements for the funeral will be made, Mr. Ubl's parents from Stromsburg are hore. - THEY LIKE IT. Beatrice Democrat: Tue Osana Bee last Sunday was a great paper. One of the most interesting features was a carefully prepared and well written colloction of ~statistics, showing tho growth and present status of tho state. : Hastings Republican: Tne Owana Brr, Sunday, gave a review of Nebraska. Fach county was epitomized in a graphic sketch that presented its truo industrial and manu- facturing possessions and its promises to the homesecker and investor. Tho write-up by counties and citios strack a gait of journal- istic eutorprise in keeping with tho record of Tuk Bek. Hustings Nebrasken: Lust Sunday's Owana Bee contained an exhaustive and comprohensive roview of Nobraska's growth and prosperity. Itis a wonderful array of facts and figures that ought to set st rest any doubts as to the general thrift of the state. ‘e compilation of the statistics given was a splendid pieco of work for which Tus Bee is outitled to a great deal of credit. Norfolik News: Tik Oxana Ber's roview of Nobraska's prosperity and progress, pub- lished yestorday, will be of incomputable value to tho state, giving a direct contradic tion, as it does, to the calamily stories that have been 50 industriously circulated of late i the east. N wero .Royal Baking Powder Is Superior to Every Other The United States Official Investigation Of Baking Powders, recently made, under authority of Congress, by the Department of Agriculture, Washing- ton, D. C,, furnishes the highest authoritative informa- tion as to which powder is the best. 'The Official Report Shows the ROYAL to be a cream of tartar baking pow- der, superior to'all others in , leavening power (Y554 fsrxis),, nover brightor than they are todag and the figuros prosentod by Tirk Bre will bring but cold comfort to the mon who have boon making thoir living by traducing tho state in which they live. Fremont Tribune: Tho inquiry made by Tre Omana Ber to ascortain the growth and vrospority of Nobraska and to furnish relia ble data as to tho amount of money in the, hands of the peoplo as shown by an exhibit of bank deposits for overy county In the to, Is the most eolaborate, exhaustive and valuablo thing of the kind ever undertaken in tho state, It is a great catorprise and onoe that will result in sotting Nobraska right in tho oves of those who have boen misled by political ngitators who have donouncod tho stato 1 order to promote a personal political thrift that grows out of the pov of tho peoplo—apparent or real. Tur Bri has performed & groatservioo in 1ty searching oxhibit. Its showing is text-book of facts for the annihilation of the delirious stato- ments of the demagogue, wherevor the dema- goggue is found PASSING JESTS, Indianapolts Journal: Mudge: 1t 1 can seo how Tinmins reputation as u wit Stories that ho tells, and thut s all Yabsley—He nover bonrds at the same place more thin « weok I'm hanged A% made such He has four pretty good Now ¥ “le s vory charitable, T “Charitablo! Why, he not only gives to others, but he 1 constantly ketting himselt into mischiof With his wife by giving himsoif wway rk Pross Mrs, Herfnepok—Does your husband well, Mrs. Dudelotte? Mrs. D, (earnostly) mind Ho hasn't any Photographic Tinoes 0 800 Abont some do you ch Visitor photozeiphs. e per dozen Plotoceapher—Cen dolla Visitor—What! ol, its too durk a for a photograph, anyhow Photographor—0h iy exprossion on your I've H e 1n auch oro's such . bright Now that wo greot the out-door time And ehilly winds are gono, We'll oneo moro in the hanimoek swing Ateven on the fawn WHCTO S0mo 0o miy, Cre summor's o'er, Propose and make us giad, Andif they don't wo're very suro Poor pa w!il just go mad, Peck's €un: An Irishman who had beon sick nong tme was one day met by the pur- 1sh priest. when tho following conversation ook place Woll. Patrick, [am glad yon have erod. Wers you not afralid to meet your God?" S0, 10, YOUE riverence? U was mectia’ the guiier purty that Twas afeared v replied at. recoy- hester Post-Expre Bobiey—A lot of archists must hive moved nto that house 0ss the way, See that rod flag \psey—IU's worse than that, Bobloy. hoy'ro holding an auction there today. DISCOVERED AT LAST. Pluladeivhia Times, Before lding. Tn ov e nizhtly used And "tw y married were That first 2 doubt For twas not until then that sho Began to find him out. y © had some ter- ourage. Yes, | suppose ali tho cen expecting to be ealled into Plold’s Wash Unclo, wh 0 you? god Newro—Bos hundrod yeahs ole, Museun Mana- <es yo tiaink that only nigger obe discovered by Uh Car'liny, dit hasn' us ackor all his [ifo. A Come rixht in. engaged for the seuso A RASH JUMP, Tudge, Miss Jones wis very nervous; could Not bear a soul around: Would fly to pieces atja thuch, And start at every sound Had palpitation of the | And trembled at a word. On evenings that | caliod on hor Isearcoly over stirred. Yet. ylelding to a strong desire, 110:d herof my love. Sho stariod, 4s you iy suppose— The sonsitive, swoet dove. T begged of her ry o W.th all & lover's for And what do you suppose she d1d? Why, Jumped at it, of course. Washingtonolest: “You are determined.” he said. with a sudness in his voice that wis almost pitiful, “not to change your wmind. You will be a sister to me?" “Yos," she murniured. A . he proceedod, as ho ves down over Iis wrists, “in my eupacity sther 1shall formally object to the at- tontions of uny of your ncquaintinces, and tuke active meins to'carry my objections into offect.” Lovod his cont Dotrolt I'ree Pross: Cleveland mi.lionair depth, t0 o pretty and smart Ciss avenus girl, “Yes?" she responded, with a cuto litt'e in- rrogation point humping ftsclf up under her eyebrows, I have hourd thut the shatlows murmur whilo the deeps are dumb.” Then he began to feel uncomfortable, and it wasn't long after that until he was on his wiy to cateh a night boat southward hound. ICERO rel utea that when D mosthenes was asked what was the principal thing in public spouking, hereplied, **Action.” When asked the second in importance, he re plied, “*Action.” The third? *Action.” In the same way if you want to know the most important thing in the pur- chase of & piano, it1s “QUATL~ IPY." The next in importance, “QUALITY." 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