Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 5, 1891, Page 4

:'J‘HE DAILY BEE. E ROSEWATER, Eotron PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN T HSCRIPTION. Daily B One Year...8 800 Daily ot 10 00 Eix_months £ 00 Three Months 250 Sunday Bes. One Yoar 200 Baturday Boe. One Yeir 15 Weekly Bee, Ono Year 100 OFFICES: Omala, The ee Bullding Bouth Omnha. cornor N an Bin e, 12 Pearl Str ) O Clya i by New York, Roons 18, 14 und | Washington, 513 Fourteenth Stre CORRESPONDENCE All communicntions relnting to nows and editorial matter should be addressed to the Editorinl Departient BUSINESS L AlL business letters and be addressed to Tl Omaha Draft 10 be made payable to the or pany. e Bee Publishing Company , Proprieters THE BEE BUILDING Zth Stroots, . of Commure e Bullding TTERS, mittancos should rof the com- BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btato of Nebraska. I'ié County of Douglas. | Guorge 1i. Tzachuck, secrotary of The Publishing compuny, does solomn thit the actual eirenlation of Tik DAL for.the weok ending August 1, 180, Baturday, At Averagn and suby of August Bworn to before preser Etate of Nobraska, 1 County of Doiiglas, | Georgo It Tzschuck, being duly sworn, do- poses and siys that he s secratary of THE izE Publishing company. that the actual av- erago daily circulation of Tie DALY BER for the month of Scptember, 1900, was 21870 coples; for Octobor, 1500, Coples: for November, 1800, 22,1M) ¢ Ople: ) 471 ¢ for 1801 for I y, Die: 1801, for April, 1801, coples: for 24085 copl Mny, 1801, for Ju coples ugust, 2 13 TZSCHUCK. nd subscribed In my o this Ist day of August, 14 1501, . FRIL, ptary Pubi v the In order to give every reader in this state and Towa an opportunity to keep posted on tho progress of the campaign in both these states we have decided to offer Tar WEEKLY BEE for the balance of this year for twenty-fivo cents. Send in your orders early. Two doliars will be accepted for a club of ten name Tne BEE PuBLIsHING Co., Omaha, Neb. ‘ampaign. HAND-ME-DOWN showers will soon be on sale by rain-makers everywhere if this thing goes on unchecked. PERHAPS it is all right, but people generally would like to know by what sort of trade a brother of a member of the Board of Education managed to be selected as janitor of one of the largest schools of the city. THE cotton crop of the south is as un- paralleled as the grain crop of the west. Providence has so arranged those inci- donts, because it is in the south and west chiofly that tho calamity shriokers are assailing His goodness, CoAL from Buffalo to Chicaga is 81.75 per ton; from Chicago to Omaha 33,20 per ton. This is not fair, and the rail- roads know it is not fair. Tho distance is practically the same from Chicago to Buffalo as from Chicago to Omaha. —_— WEBSTER FLANAGAN has been ap- pointed collector of customs for the port of Elpaso, Tex. This is What-are-we- hear-for-Flanagan. His appointment may b regarded as a proof of tho merit of the inquiry which has become associ- ated with his me. —_— DULUTH now enjoys a lower rate than Chicago on coal from Buffalo. Duluth and Omaha ought to be closer friends. ‘Wo should cultivate the acquaintance of aport on the great lakes which can undersell Chicago, ospecially when that port is neaver than Chicago to this city. ly captured the office of chief of the borticultural department at the World’s fair. California has her- self to blame forlosing this place, which to her is of parataount importance. It was anothor case of two dogs fighting over a bone and its capture by a shrewd crow. — ONLY twelvo veterans from Nebraska participated in the review at Grand Island, but they very appropriately marched behind a br band composed of Indian boys from the Genoa Indian school. When the civil war was on Ne- braska had more Tndian than white in- habitants. THE great American hog will here- after b given a fair show in Germany, provided he goes over properly tagged and certified to. Mr. Willium Waltor Phelps, minister to Borlin, may here- aftor woar his bangs without criticism. The American farmer is satisfiod they vover a groat head. , people’s party can- * didate for governor of Iowa, apnoars to be a rule or ruin politician. Huving ut- terly failed in his offorts to compel the alliance of the Eleventh congressional district to nto politics, he and his faction have withdrawn from the Towa organization and have declared thoir allogiance to the southarn alliance. Tursk howling calamity ovators who would inflate the currency in order that the per capita of circulating medium shall be increased, should go to .xrgen- tine Rebublic. That unhappy republic has “money” in circulation equal to 3200 por capita—enough to dc the business of the country on a cash basis. Neverthe- foss, agold dollar down there is good for about 33 of fiat money, and times are desperately havd, A WESTE RN Nobraska citizen claims to have discovered a process for melting the sand hills into glass of suitable shape for building material. It is to be hopod the gentleman knows what ho is talking about. The style of glass housos he would probably erect would be in no danger from neighborhood stones, but would solve a problem of considerable consequence in a treeless, stonoless re- glon so far from building material mar- kota, TIVO-MILE LIMIT SALOONS, County Attorney Mahonoy, in & com- munication to Tie Brk, points out the difficultios in his way of prosccuting the saloon keepers within the two-mile limit for selling liquor without license. M Mahoney very truthfully remarks that while it is mnade his duty to prosecute offenders, the law does not create him a detective or | oxpect him to proceed against violators of law without evidence of their mis- demennors. He therefore invites ties who know that saloon solling liquor formal complaints and give him the names of witnesses, nssuring the public that he will not be slow 1n prosecuting the offender The county attorney also calls attention to the fact that he is without the neces- 'y funds to puy the costs in such cases, The county commissionors can relieve him frdm this dificulty There should be, fthere is not, o special fund for the use of the prosecuting o “goncies not sufficiently covered by law. Probably if it became necossary to ad- vance any reasonable sums for the par- pose,the commissioners would cheerfully remuncrate the officer making the ud- vances, However, Mr. Mahoney should invite the attention of the board to tho alleged violations of the license law and ask for a Al fund for prosecu He should likewise inform the board of the proper method to pursue in securing the licenses to the county fund. It is clear thut unless the matter is brought to tho attention of the commissioners officially they will take no action. Tt is intimated that the saloonkeepers have been informed that they will not be dis- turbed and probably in return for the courtesy they will use their influence in the coming elections as may be desired by the accommodating board of com- missioners. par keepers By spo However this may be, the important fact romains that thero are anywhere from forty to fifty saloons in the hitherto prohibited district. The law exvressly provides that saloons shall pay a license of not less than $500 each in that district. The penalties under the Slocumb law for violations of its provisions are very severe, The natural inference is that saloonkeepers would not brave thesa penalties except upon an agreement or understanding implied or otherwise granting them im- munity from prosecution. The county school fund is losing at the rate of $500 per aunum upon ecach saloon which should be licensed, possibly $20,000 in the aggregate for the year, and yet no nction whatever is taken to collect this money, and o far as can be judged none is contomplated. This is all wrong and the county commissioners will hear something unpleasant drop if they con- tinue to neglect their duty in providing for the collection of the money due: the county under the law from the road- houses and saloons. EFFECTS OF THE TARIFF. There is a great deal of fiction and false representation regardiny the effects of the new tariff, which went into operation eleven months ago, and it is well to have official statistics show- ing the results undor it. These are furnished in an article by the chief of tho Bureau of Statistics at Washington, approved by Secretary Foster, and pub- lished in the New York Recorder. Tho act being designated “An act to reduce the revenue, ete.,” Mr Brock shows that this purpose has heen effected, the decrease of receipts from the customs during the ten months from October, 1890, to July, 1891, inclusive, being $26,660,311, as compared with a like period of the preceding year. But the duty on sugar was not removed until April 1 of the present year, and a comparison of the four months following that date with the corresponding months of 1800 shows the reduction in customs receipts to have been over 330,000,000, During this period of ten months after the onuctment of the law the imports of merchandise increased nearly $21,000,000 as compared with the corresponding months of the previous year, and the value of mer- chandiso imported freo of duty during the respective periods was 47.23 per cent and 34.09 per cent of the total im- ports during each period, it being im- portant to remember that in the ten months from October, 1889, to July, 1890, inclusive, the value of the imports was the largest in the history of the gov- ernment. The increase in the imports of merchandise admitted free of duty, in the period indicated, was about 3100, 000,000. Another very interesting fact stated by the chief of the Bureau of Statistics is that during each of tho fiscal years 1889 and 1890 the duty col- lected upon our imports was $3.62 per capita of the population, while if the duties for vhe twelve months of 1801 should continue us thoy have during the four months since April 1, the duty per pita of population will be $2.59, or #1.03 less than under the old law, which is the smallest per capita duty since 186 Our foreign commeres incroased the value, in round numbers, of - 000,000 during the ten months follow- ing the enactment of the present tarifl law, about 321,000,000 representing the increase in imports and $32,000,000 the increase of exports. The average annual increase of our foreign commerce for the past ten years having been about $18,000,000, it thus appears that the to augment of this commerce for ten months under the new law has been noarly three times as great as the an- nual average increasa. For the next ten months the assurance is that the in- crease will be very much greater, since Europe must have all of our surplus broadstuffs and the opening of the Ger- man and Fronch markets for our hog products will add largely to our exports, At the same time th) reciprocity ar- rangoments entered into will make en- larged murkets for our products, partics larly in the Spanish West Indios. Another valuable feature of this ex- hibit is a showing by a comparison of wholesale prices for the months of July, 1800 and 1891, that prices have de- sreased rather than ircreased. Cotton cloth, printed cottons, iron nails, steel nails, steel rails, binders’ twine and sugar are quoted as having been cheaper in July of this year than in the same month of 1800. These facts morit careful consideration, and without licenso to make | THE OMAHA DAILY dofenso of the | the opponents | ey difficult | present an argument in oxisting tariff law which of that measure will find it ve to rebut | THE ADVANCE OF RECIPROCITY. | The announcement is made that the ! president of Mexico has appointed a minister plenipotenti o ange o commercial reciprocity treaty with the United States. I% appears that this action had been expected at Washing- | ton, an understanding having been veached shortly after the adjournment of the last congress, between the Mexi- nd the Stato department, | can minister that tho subject would be taken up this fall. | resident of Mexico oms, been engaged in the work of a treaty, and vory thoroughly what is required from experience in the negotiations of the treaty made and ratificd during the administration of President Arthur, but. which was ren- dered inoperative by the action of the house of representatives, the diplomat- ist sent by the Mexican government to perform this duty ought to find little diffi- cnlty in coming to an agreement. The ac tion of Pposident Diaz gives renowed evi dence of his desire, hitherto plainly ex- pressed, to have establishod closer com- mercial relations between Mexico and the United States, and as the present condi- tions are more favorable to such a result than were those of sight or nine y ugo it is reasonable to be expected that o satisf; arrangement can be e focted without great trouble or dc That a faiv and equitable reciproc treaty with our neighbor, republic that will be mutually advantageous, is to be desived it is presumed few will ques- tion. When the extent of that country’s trade is considered, its proximity and its possibilities, it would seem that veciprocity with it promises larger ben- efits to the United States than can be derived from this policy with any othe of the republics of this hemisphere. As it is our trade with Mexico has been steadily growing; but under existing conditions it will be a graat many vears before our manufacturers can hope to dislodge Iuropean competition, whereas, The it minary he understands minister one that might be practically wccom- plished in a very short time under veciprocity. It s signifi- cant that every American interest in Mexico is favorable to closer commercial intercourse between the two countries. The treaty with Spain went into effect, in part, on the first of the present month, and good results are expected from it within a short time. Our ex ports to Cuba and Porto Rico in 1890 were to the value of about $15,000,000. “They are likely to be nearly double that amount next year. The latest informa- tion regarding the treaty with Venesu- ola is, that it has not been re- jected absolutely, but that the Ve- nezuelan government has asked that certain modifications be made necessary to prevent a heavy loss of reyenue which it could not stand. Salvador is seeking reciprocity with every probability of securing it. That policy continues to advance, and its progress will undoubt- edly bo accoleratod when Mr. Blaine returns to Washington, as it 1s now expected he will do, early in October. IowA members of the alliance will not be coaxed, bulldozed or tricked into the third party movement. They will stand by their own organization and permit the politicians who seek to make a polit- ical machine of the alliance to slough off into Colonel Polk’s southern con- glomeration. The Towa farmer knows too much to be hoodwinked by Ocala platforms, Cincinnati conventions and democratic manauvers. Tur movement for a free kindergarten and the organization of a Kindergarten association is making headway. Within a short ‘time one of the leading advo- cates of the Froebel system a lady who is in charge of an institution for the in- struction of teachers in Chicago will visit Omaha aud deliver a public address upon the interesting and important topic of kindergarten instruction. RY will call in his rain- maker from Texas, where paople care very little for water, and have him di- his time and means to “smudging” against early frostsdn this country, the old man from Wisconsin can have the Nebraska delegation for president in 1892, provided of course that the smudges successfully stave off frost until after our corn matures. PUBLIC sentiment in this judicial dis- trict probably favors the re-elec- tion of the present district judges. The cepublican and demoeratic ~ judicial con- ventions should keep this in mind and not fall into the independent error of at- tempting to replaco three of the best men on the beuch by threo aspiring pol- iticians who have yet to win their spurs at the bar. WARD organizations for the discussion of municipal affairs largely after the or- der of the Now England town meeting should be organized all over the city Nothing mukes and keaps an offivial con- solence so tender as the refloction that neighbors and acquaintances are caro- fully following the public ncts of the of- ficr with the conscience THe success of the Douglas county fair this week is sufficiently encour ing to warrant the hopo that hevealtor the * Douglas County Agricultural asso- ciation and Omaha eoxposition will unite to provide an unnual entertain- ment here which shall attract large concourses of people from the entire re- gion tributary to Omaha. Visions of luxurious apartments for ench other 'in the new city hall have boeu dissiputed in the minds of the city ofticials from mayor to dog-cateher by the discovery that the available cash for fur- niture is one-half loss than wus expoc ed. Loather topped sofas and muhog- any rolling topped desks vanished wich the dreams SoUTIt OMAHA steadily forging Kk market is prov- a8 sk to the front and ing its unequaled advantages and loou- tion by superior prices. As an instance the Buffalo Keho cites the oxperience of two cattle companies of northern Wyom- ing. One shipped to Chicago and tho | other to Omaha on the same day, The BEE SATURDAY Omahn pricovwss 33,35 and tho Chi price #3.15 « the ovation given him at the opening of his new theAte# and the cloquent trib- utes to his Mifprprise which fell from the lips of Hom dohn M. Thurston found quick response in the hearts of the citi- zens present,” The city of Omaha owos Governor Boyd: a debt of gratitude for two elegant amasoment palaces, T Burlingthn people here insist that they are not pushing the Montana ex- tension at provent. So much the worse for the Burlington people, for there is no line of railway which will bear push- ing so well or pay for enterprise so soon. The Rioting Stage. Globe-Demoerat, The harmony between Hill and the Cleve- Tand men in the gathorings of the democracy in New York has reached tho rioting stage In theso encounters, however, as well as with he ballot, the Hill inen always win. it That's What It Is. St. Paul Globe, Omaha is not_satisfiod with the plans for its federal building. It is spoken of as a “structure ordinary in conception and lack ing in distinguishing charactoristics.” That canuot be the design selected for the St. Paul adifice, o Emulating Great Men. PhiladelphiaPress. Cwsar crossed the Rubicon, Napoleon crossed the Alps, Washington crossed the Deluware, and now Bal maceda is crossing the Andes. But the last named gontleman is doing it as a matter of necessity, and, there- fore, with less digaity than his three military ancestors, One Year of San Reform. Sanitary Era. About two years ago, says an oxchange, there was organized in Italy the most com- plote sanitary system probably in the world. We now have one year's results. In 185§ there were recorded a total of 4 cases of the seven principal zymotic disoases; while in 1550 from the same diseases thoro were only 200,107 cases, or unearly 150,000 saved by tho first year's work! Rt B 'SBURG SCANDAL, THE HA Kansas City Star: Marie Votzera Is deua. It is positivoly koown that sho did not die of old ago or tha grip. In other respocts, how- ever, particulars vary, St. Louis Republic: The truo stories of the death of Prince Rudolph of Austria are all very interesting as showing the possible state of things in royal dircles. Philadelphia Press: Rudolph escaped in this world the punishment for.his double crime, but the extinction of tho direct line of the Hapsburgs, and the probably shaky suc- cession of the collateral branch of Este, will doubtless keep thie Austrian statesmen figur- ing on theamount of retribution due for the tragedy of Mayerling for generations to come. Chicago Post: Such is the hideous story now told with every appearance of truthful- ness of one of the most remarkable tragedies of recent years. The world has sympathizod abundantly with the stricken emperor and empress for the love of their son and heir. It shiould spare a téar, for tho less exalted but more worthy paren't whose causes for grief are even greater than theirs, Philadelphia Recbrd: It is poor business. Having dispensed with royalty in this happy country it may not be unwise to expose the occasional weaknesses, meanness and hypro- crisy of royal personages; but it is not worth whilo to rake over.old feculence in order to give a new fillip to disgnst. That task should be left to writers far the press in countries where it is necessaty to disabuse the popular mind by disrobifig ‘royalty of the divinity with which it fs hedged around and showing it up for what it is. e~ S, AH THER AN! New Haven Register: Ecan’s head should come off before it is forced off at the request of the noew Chilian government. Washington Star: Perhaps Minister Egan is keeping his address quiet so that any pos- sible ictters of rocall can’t reach him. Kansas City Times: The worst feature of the congressional victory in Chili is that Pat Egan will bo sent back to this country before tho expected time, Kansas City Swar: 1f Pat Egan goes down with Balmaceda it will be nec ary to buy more fireworks to celebrate in this “country the victory of the cougressionalists in Chili. New York World: Mr. Egan should be recalled at once. His punishment should not be left to Chili; it should be inflicted by the government whoso trust he has betrayed. Chicago Herald: Never in the diplomatic history of tho country has an American min- ister "so thoroughly discredited himself abroad and so disgraced and humiliated the nation he revresented. Chicago Times: Mr. Egan has lost an op- portunity for distinguishing himself a1d of enabling tho great American secrelary to present a sample of the spirited foreign policy of which tho repubiic has heard so much and seen s0 little. Buffalo Courier: If Minister Egan contin- ues to recognize the Balmaceda governmont, which is the only one that will recognize him, he will have to imitate John Pope and date his dispatches to Washington:* *‘Head- quarters in the saddle.” Washington Pos Can it be possible that the professional [rishman from Nebraska has been lost in the shuffio! Let us hopo that there is a bare possibility that this 1s the case. In any event, no reward should be offered for the houorable Pat's return to this country. Chicago News: The probabilities are that while the contending forces of the two Chil- ean parties have been at each other's throats, while the Dapartment of State at Washi ton has beon “‘waiting to hear from Ega Egan has been quietly takiog care of - Kgan in the casiest and most circumspect manner possible. ——— ING JESTS, The rural fad fs to name all boy bables born without socks Jorry Simpson. Buffalo Fxpress: Dolloy—Do vou think that marriue IS a deciining Institution? Maud-— Noi but refusing chunces to marry Is. Tho Now Jorsoy doz wno bit the dog eateher. lad his duy, unguestionably. Yank a wele Charl oloek o Blade: (Fred—Are 10 visitor at Miss Br Ch. yés. [Bho alwiys of the roam when T call. sure you are hi's house? takes the Now York Sun suld Mawson, as blessed good soud. “Why? “Think of what other side of the blessed 0od thing," on the oun, “its n s bottom 18 think: the oce: tysor there'd be on the ureh 11 it loaked?" Ipoch: olso? . Cholly—Aw yasasrI woll my own olgah- wet PhysiciansDo you ever take exer- What o titider walk Goslin has! obumper—Y ew, the latest -just oame over. 1t Koeh Somerville Jours the oislest M7 asked a he philusopher husha There's whiskers on the pyrauids, Those wonderful o'd props Of Isis und Osir And thoy ure " 1uitton Cheops.'” New York Herald oW evenin rJnke—~Come tomor- ar Cora -1 cun o tomorrow o Lam lald upon 4ecount of your papa's sors foot. JAKE. o I8 paint o hintout o Of spidos 0ot 5o bl foscriptions n about us diurk as the Cape Cod Item: It ls somewhat paradoxioal but nevertheless true Lhnt the man who Is in the hablt of getting tight s regardod us a wan whose habits are loose that when they on of [llinols of mad snd went off st 1L im sald ox-Congressman )ike Cullom he got Columb acoise | luok'n 1 RNOR dAMES . BoyD deserved | OTRER LANDS THAN OURS. ‘The English campaign for the olection of & new house of commons has already practl- cally begun, Candidates may not be named nor polls opeucd for mouths, oF m gear, to come. But the men who are to dispose of condidates aro named, and the books which are to govern the polling ars made up. The rogistey systom In Giroat Britain differs in #0me rospects from that in vogue hore, for one thing, in that the rogistering takes place so long before tho voting. It is, howe! vorhaps even more than here, the first skirmish of the electoral vattle, in which vory largely the fate of the whole contest is deciaed. On tho Ist of August the overseers published their lists of voters in various classes, These have been postod at the doors of churches, public offices and elsewhore, so as to give all persons opportunity to inspect them. For three woeks they were thus displayed, and Guring that timo claims might bo filad for tho insertion of new names or the removal of names no longer entitled to boe there. This period of popular scrutiny and revision ex- pired on August 21, and the lists were thon turned over to the registration courts, The latter will begiu their work this woek, con- sidering and investigating carefully all claims that have beon filed, and finally revising tho iists in accordance therewith. This task must bo comploted by Octover 12, Tho rolls of votors thus prepared will come into force at tho beginning of noxt year, and will form the basis of the next general election. Emperor William's pet project of a Contral European Customs league appears doomed 1o failure. Switzerland has definitely and curtly rejected the invitation of Germany to enter the zollverein. Her manufacturi ng in- dustries are already heavily handicapped by German competition, and far from being de- sirous to extend increased facilizies of access and trade to her teutonic rivals, sho has re- solved to bar them out by meaus of & high tariff wall. It is practieally certain that Switzerland's rejection of the Borlin over- tures will encourage [taly to follow her ex- ample. For the industrial and commercial crisis in King Humbert's dominions is too acute to admit of any treaty binding the kingdom to a commercial union with Gor- many, thoraby closing the profitable French markets to Italian produce. Nor is it by any means cortain that the zollverein recently concluded between Germany and Austria, and so exultingly announced by Em- peror William on the eve of his visit to Bugland, will receive that ratifica- tion of the German reichstag and of the Austro-Hungarian delegations which is requisite before the provisions of the agree- ment can be put into lezal force. All the manufacturing interests of Austria and Hun- gary are hostile to the convention, which, in affording froe access into the dual empire of German goods, involves disaster to thelr in- dustries. Nor is antagonism to the agree- ment confined to Austrian manufacturers, For it meets with an even stronger opposition on the part of the important agricultural inter- ests in northern, and above all, i southern Germany. 1t is as representative aud mouth- piece of the powerful agricultural element that Princo Biswarck is to take his seat in the imperial parliament when it next meets, for the purpose of leading the popular oppo- sition to the unpopular convention, which was devised by Emperor William, not in the interests of commerce ana industry, but with the object of binding tho treaty powers more closely to his government in a political and military sense. ' The navigation of the Dardanelles is again looming up as a disturbing factor in Europ- ean politics. Under existing treaties the control of the historic straits which connoct the waters of the Mediterranean with tho Black Sea is vosted 1 the Turkish govern- ment. Tho straits aro recognized as within the territory and under the jurisdiction of the sultan, and they are closed against war vessols of overy foreign nationality. This closure, while general in its application, affects Russia_vastly more than auy other country, and it has been the occasion of a controversy between the Russian and Turk- ish governments the conclusion of which is full of sinistor suggestivencss. A Russian vessel passing through tho Dar- danelies to tho Mediterranean had been de- tained by the Turkish authorities, and for this the St. Petersburg government de- manded satisfaction. The satisfaction has been given. After afeeble attempt to justify the action of his officials upon the ground that tho vessel detained was & transport, and therefore within tho prohibition of existing treaties, the sultan is said to have made a complote surronder of his position. An apology hus been offered and a precedont cstablished tho issues of which are likely to be momentous. As the matter stands, Russia nas scored larger privileges in the Darda- nelles thau are accorded to any other nation. A transpart is not exactly a man-of-war, but it 1s the uext thing to it, ana_having forced the one concession, Russia will not be slow to insist upon the other. Oughts That Tha f v Overlooked. and Istand ‘(ndepentent. Messrs, Test and Liveriughouse have re- signed and their resignations have been ac- cepted. This is good as fr as it goes. But it doos mot go far enough. Sufficient evi- dence has been brought against them to justify thoir suspension, if not aismissal, by tho governor. And tho governor ought have long ago acted promptly, svspending them. And ho ought to have sent back to them their rosignations, in which both of these men have the impudence to accuse and abuse tho Board of Public Lands and Buildings, acd to repre- seut themselves as the innocent victims of this board. A simple aud plain resignation ought to have boen demanded without denuu- ciations aganst the board, which sound rather indecent in the mouths of such men as Test and Liveringhouse. Here's a Democratic View. Beatrice Democrat, Test and Liveringhouse, a pair of ropub. lican rascals convicted before the eves of the puvlic if not before tho courts, have been al- lowed to resign their positions in the Hast- ings asylum instead of being punisned. They are neatly whitewashed, but there is not enough lime in the combination to disinfect them, My sw Century Brie-a-Iirac. Whenever I play on the old guitar ‘The songs that my swoeetneart taught me, My thoughts zo back to the summer timo When first in her toils sho caugnt me; And once again I can haar the sound Of hor gleeful voice blown over The weadow, sweet with the scont of thyme, And pink with the bioom of clover, The faded ribbon is hanging still here her dimpled fingers tied it— 10 envy it stealing round Her neck, for she did not chido it; Aud the inlaid pearl that her ringlets touchod As she leaned above it lightly Glows even now with a hint of goid That it ouce reflected brightly, 1u Whether her oyes wero bluo as tho skies On & noouday in Septemoer, Or brown like thoso of a startied fawa, 1 cau't for the world r omber; But. when she lifted them up to mine { know that my young heurt tingled | In time to the tender tune sho sang And the miry chords sho jingled Yot now, though | sweep tho dusty strings |~ By her givlish spirit haunted, | Tiil’out of the old guitar thero trips 1 A melody, blithe, enchante | MY pulses keep on'their even way | And my hoart has ceased its daneing, For somebody olse sits under the spell O the sougs and sidelong glancing. ANXIOUS TO GIVE BATTLE. Bloody Fight Over a School House Nar- rowly Averted, OFFICERS THREATENED WITH DPEATH, Charles Webster and Wite of Lanoas- ter Confront n Posse With Guns Ready for Action—Lincoln News Notes, Lixcory, Neb,, Sept. 4.—[Speclal to Tue Bk, |—~George W. Stablor, moderator of schiool district No. 120, North Bluft precinct, filed a remarkable suit in replevin in the county court asking for tho immediato pos. session of & school house which is being un lawfully converted by Charles Webstor and his wife Nancy. From Stabler's story it ap- pears that thero has beon somo exciting scenes connected with tho possession of tho house. About six years ago Mrs. Webster's for- mer husband, by the namo of Gerlach, of- fered the school district land on which to ovoct a frame school house. Tho district accopted the proposition und selocted a corner of Ger- lach’s quarter section where they put up a #100 building. Gerlach has since died. Last week tho diroctors decided to move tho build ing to anothor part of the aistrict and on Wodnesday started out with men and teams to move the building, but were consid- erably surprised when Wobster and his wife, guns in hand, met thom at the sctiool house door and dared them to touch the building. They attempted to oxpostulate, but Webster aaid ho would shoot tho first man who tried to move it. ‘Tho men thought discretion tho better part of valor and moved off. County Attorney Suell was informed of the matter, and wrote the woman a lettor notifying her thut it would be bottor tor hor to submit peaceably, but sho still romained defiant. Deputy Sheriff McEarlund went out with tho writ and his gun this morniag, but no word has yot been received from the seat of war. “he school house is located about four miles west of Waverly. GIAIN DISAPPRARED, The sheriff’s deputies and Francis Gel- linger, o farmer living near Waverly, have been having a lively tusslo for a week past. Gellinger is a tonant on S. It. Jacoby’s farm, and to secure the rent executed a chattel mortgage on the crops. 1.ast week ho throshed his grain and brought a lot of flax to this city, where he sold it to J. B. Wright. Jacoby heard of it boforo Wright had paid Gellinger and Deputy McFarland attuched tho money. Four nunared bushels of oats on the farm wero also attached, but tho shenff not wishing to remove it, took Gellinaer's receipt for the grain and left it there. The fellow then went to work and usod and sold part of the grain, and when Deputy Dillon arrived on the scene last night thero wero but thirty bushels remaining, Gellinger claims that auother man had a half interest in tho stuff, OPENING DAY OF THFE FAIN, "This was the day set for tho ovening of the state falr, but, s in former years, it was simply the time when the secretacy trans- ferred his office to tho fair grounds. The work of preparation is going on and the con- stant sound of hammers drowns every other sound. All mauner of displays are cozming in and there is every indication that when the fuir opens Mouday 1t will surpass all previ- ous exhibitions. X ‘The race track 1s in splendid condition and from the list of racers entered a magaificont speed display s anticipated WRTTER MAIL SERVIOR WANTRD, A patition has been presented to tho State Board of Transportation by J. V. Alnsworth and sixty-six other citizens of Tobias askin, that tho Kansas City & Omaha Raliroad company be directed to put on a regular train and mail servico for the benofit of the people along the line. It 18 urged by the Tovius people that they voted £10,000 bonds for the road witn the understanding that they weroe to have two trains daily, one a passonger and the other a freight. Until within the last fow months thore have boen two trains, but now thore is but onn and that is mixod. WANT THE TREASURER OUSTED, Application was made for a quo warranto In the supremo court tod William P county attorney of Pawnee county, do- es that Adam Ickos is not entitied to the cla office of county treasurer and wants to oust him from that position. Miles declares that A, Peass. W, C. Coneh, M. G. Barr, J. Neubauer, Robert Shuman and Adam Gunderson, all bondsmon of Iches, are insolvent and pos- sessed of no proparty, and that the Ameri- can bank, another nama on the bond, is not & sroporly qualified surety, its power to oind tself in such a manner’ boing doubtful in I As the remainder of the suroties are considered insuffioiont n demund wis mada August 10 that ho givo additional security, T'hits ho has refused to do and it is intendod to oust him out of the position as trensurer. STATE UNIVERSITY AFFATRS, Butranco examinations for tho stata uni versity will begin on tho morning of Septom ber 15 and coutinue two days. Lo bor 17 the sonior, phomora classes will meot (e at tho hours for assij of work, text books, ote. On the morning of Soptom ber IS the freshme and Latin school stu- dents will meot their instructors, On Friday, at 10:20 a. m., the usnal chapel hour, Hon. James Whitehond of Broken Bow will deliver the avnual opening address to the students, WORK OF AN INCENDIARY Last night two handsomo f the corner of Twenty-uinth and Washington streots, owned by Ceorgo Thompson, w burned to the ground. Tho buildings we empty, having just boen complotod. Thero was every evidonce that they had been set on fire. ~ Although tho firemon responded promptly they were powerless to give much me houses at aid, ns the nearcst hydrant was noar! milo away. Tho buildings were partially in- sured. ODDS AND ENDS, The county commissionors have issucd n call for a special election to be held Septem bor 25 for the purposo of permitting the | voters of the proposed sanitary disteior N of Lancaster county to deteruiive whet not tho district shall ba established. Beck R. Bonnoy savs that after boing mar ried only a few weoks his wifo Jessio was seized with a fit of the pouts one day and left him. She has never offered to return aga and ho asks for a divorce from hor so th may be able to try his luck again in tho mat rimonial market. Ono of the features of fair week will bo music by tho famous Towa Stata band. A special stand is being orected for them in Postoffice square and they will play daily, commencing Tucsday noon. Out of daforence to the fact that noxt Mon- day is Labor aay and also the day for tho formal opening of tho fair the officers of tho Lincoln Ministerial association have nost. poned thoir regular monthly meeting ovo week. Rev. Dr. Curtis, pastor of the First Pres- byterian church returned last evening from Chicago and it is roported that ho has ro- ceived an offer of a 6,000 pastorate in that Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Rl city. e Tue Suspax Bee is the business mau's paper. See the market foatures. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE CLOSE AND ECONOMICAL Clothing buyers casting about for the most de- sirable place in which to suppiy their wants for Fall and Winter use, should keep it well in mind that OUR HOUSE MANUFACTURES ALL THEIR OWN CLOTHING; manufacture “’em” expressly to supply the retail trade of our thirteen large stores. If you’ve never no- ticed the special care we take in the sewing, in the finishing up of a garment, or the taste in selecting patterns, to say nothing of the perfec- tion in the fit of every piece. It’ll pay you big, just at this time, to spend an hour meandering through our new stock. you’ll be posted where clothing that’s correct. make up any cheap goods, If you don’t buy now, to go when you want As to prices, we don’t but we DO make stacks ot good goods cheap. Our $10.00 Suit is its durable. worth $10.00, because Our $12.B0 Suit you might pay $18.00 for elsewhere, and then not get as good value. You musn’t forget that we take the same pains in making up our low-priced and medium grade clothing. WE FIND IT PAYS, [n Boys' and Children’s Clothing. We're ready for you with all the latest styles, neatand natty, with prices ranging from $2.00 per suit up. To those who are not yet ready to buy, we insist that you acquaint your- self with our handsome new stock now filling every department, You’'ll be treated courte- ously and may be converted to our way of thinking. BROWNING, KING & (0, S. W. 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