Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1891, Page 4

THE OMAHA DATLY BEE. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 18901, THE DAILY BEE E. ROSEWAT Enrton, MORNING. PUBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF SUBSCT Dafly Ree (without Sunday Dty and Sunday, Oneo Yeur £ix Months ¥ Threo Months Kunday fe, One Yoor Buturday lioe, One Your Wookly Bee, Ono Yer. PTION One Year....8 8 00 OF FICES Omaha, The I 1ing Routh Omuhn, corner N and 20th Streets. Counoll w12 Ponrl Strect Chicago Office, 317 ¢ hamber of Commerce, Sow Vork Kooms1® 14 1nd 5. Tribune Buliding Washington, oL Fourteenth Strect INDENC relating to news and be addressed te the CORRES at r should rtment. BUSINESS LETTERS All business letters and remittances should bo addressed to The Bee Publishing Company. Omipha. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders to be n payable to the order of the coni- DANY. The Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictors THE BEE BUILDING Editoriul D) ade BWORN ETATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraskn | County of Douglas. ( Gea. I, Trwchuck, secrets publighine company, does that the actual eirealation of Ti for the weel ending Novenber -8 follows Eunday, Nov.'2 ... » Mondny, Nov. 7§ & Tuesday, Nov. 24 Wednesday, Nov. 2 Thorsday. No Friday, Noy. 7 Baturday. Nov. ss. ry of Tne Bes Holemnly sw DALY BEE 101, was a8 28,108 ] . R 411 Averago ket 3 GEO. . T/SCIT and subse ed vy of November. A NP1 No Bworn to | cforo R pressnce th s 25k BEAL The growth of the of Tur BEF for six y lowing tnble: TheT | i | 14,1081 15, 15 14400 19,680 I8, 1416/ 18,748 18 g 161 181 2| 14,147 | 1023 15, 1214 | 14,008 | 18,053 18,755 54| 14,161 | 1153 18,651 14030, 14,4458/ 15,154 18710 12,00 1453 | 18,084 18,5857 November 1508 1,225 18,086 19310 Decemb 12287 15,0811 18,225 20,048 —_— MR, MILLS of Texas will be spoaker next weck if Mr. Cleveland of New York has influence to give him the place. Jnnuary February March...... 1A% April. 1 May June July. enot THE blizzard has gone east. It is mak- ing life a burden now to the Virginians. Wo aro y for the victims, but can spare the blizzard until next year with- out inconvenience THE lubor troubles in France remain unsettled. Only at Lens can the author- fties sce signs of improvement. namoe of the town leads to the s that they may be deceived. THE irony of fate is often remarked. Itisonce more illustrated by the fact that George W. Allen, author of the homestead law, died in the county poor- house at Columbus. O., on Sunday. A DOZEN more national bank examin- ers are to be appointed. This is good. If oxaminers who know how und when to oxamine national banks to prevent them from imposing upon the people are appointed it will be better. COLONEL BRECKENRIDGE agrees with Senator Curlisle in the effort to burst Colonel McMillan’s little speakership boom. A Kentucky statesman is human. Hae likes to hit all heads that threaten to pop up higher than his own. OKLAHOMA now has a population of 80,000, and still the work of breaking up Indian reservations goes on. Oklahoma will bo populous enough for a state by the time Benjamin Harvison’s takes the onth of office as pr ucc PENNY postage will come in due time. Another Wanamaker administration will bring it about, but the people prefer at prosent to extend the free delivery systom and incrouse the fast mail service rather than inaugurate penny postage. NEBRASKA'S three congressmen will probably be sworn in next week. They will soon know how lone nd homesic three new congressmen can in the south end of the capitol. Isolation on a prairie is a pienic and shucking beo alongside of the desolate weariness which seizes upon the new member of congress. be THE lease system of Farming out peni- tentiary convicts in vogue in some of the southern states is thorougily inhu- man and ought to be abandoned. It is to be hoped the experience of Tennessce with those leased to Briceville miners will be a lesson to the legislators of all states where the lease system provails and will lead to its entire abolition, Jupar HAMER’S contost for the dis- trict judgeship of the Sixth district promises to be very interesting. If the grounds of the contest stated in the judge’s petition are good, it is to be hoped the individuals who sought to nullify the new election law in the in- terest of the independent nomineo may be dealt with as severely us the law allows. IN ONE column of the newspaper of yesterduy the telograph announces that a railroad tramm on a line between New York and Washington made the re- markable specd of soventy-five miles an hour, und ran the whole distance at an avorage spood of fifty-seven miles per hour. In another column is an account of a horrible accident, resulting in seven deaths and a large number injured. The two itoms ure suggestive, and perhaps the first expluins the second. We are in danger of sucrificing safoty for speed. —_—e REPORTS agree from all purts of Ne- braska that commereinl conditions are vastly improved and the agriculturists are happy over the prospects for the future. Corn and small grain are com manding good prices, Insome instances men have uctually paid for their land out of this yeur's crops. Scores of farmers aro cnabled by the results of their labors in the present year to pay off mortgage indebtedness, Every line of business in the interior und the jobbbing houses of Omaha are fesling the improvement in the tinancesof tl producers. Confidence is restorec and every mun frescoes the future in tho brightest vermilion, as Chauncey Depow would say. This is the farmers’ year all over America. The of are not unfamilinr upon Mr able to tak chargo of char compe tis! tising open serves and COWARDLY RUT CHARACTERISTIO On Saturday last th e editor ¢ f the World Herald (known in this cify as the Fake filed a co M. Rosewate BrE, charging him with to Factory ward peared 1n Mr. Rosew vas in th evening of the 17th, sjust one o complained of was published the artic editor of the is not a fair however making ar mplaint r, editor of 1 eriminal be libelov BEE of November he city unt Fak in nd the open agninst f THE 1ibel 18 ap- 10, il the week after habit fight Ho seizes the opportunity when his ad- versary has his back turned to attempt to inflict injury. with They con 1 ible nssnults by the Mr. Rosewat care of h iminal 1i the city h these or i abund imself, and . made lantly tho by his ompetitor to annoy him, will be met in due time upon his re Mr. Hite annot fr it claims of newspaper by s of eriminal ition will not putrons of eithe cure for the World-Hi cock udule meuns ¢ 36 ympetition where presented n sworn staten tion. [t should and pre Mr. Hitehec will expose uponadvertisers which libel. urn, bolster of o This s 31 Hewspap yald tho o each news ment of ¢! sbably will the he has pr THE DEPREDVIION CLALVS. The state of the Indian depredation cases, as set forth by Assistant Attorney neral Colby in Tik Bue the other duy thousands of claimants The number of claim amounts involved are enough to startle | most citizens. Over 5, filed a month ago, and before the department put on the claims and the attorney gener the an under ns filed 300 ¢l 1 some now. ims he ral believ up cireulation for his trumped his up ort of deceive the adver- er or dver ula- | now compute, says bring k into the contempt he de imposition ticed, makes interesting reading for th p law. d the were 6,000 ave valu is above $20,000,000, that not more than a third of the-claimants have yet put in their de mand The importance of the cases may be een from this review of f them. T he de- predations of the Indians, going on for over fifty v destruction nothing of loss of life. many of the claims beyond aestroyed. No presumed, has put actually occurred, that there are which everything al ears, have produced immense of private property, to . Probubly, the nssistant attorney general suggests it is it is ca the ne bout, os swelled far fair valuation of the property claimant, his 10ss below what and some to be rssible in claim may be fictitious. Such cases are nov un- known in the history of the government. laims are those honestly [ aims a; due. gainst But the majority of They are from men who have suffered heavy losses from the acts of the wards of the government. They rey tion that proper protection ment forces would ha present by destrud wovern- ve provented. The importance of the work of Tue ; can be seen from Bureau of Claims itement. ing the bureau was to p v t clai The object of establish- mants being robbed by irresponsible agents. Most of the claimants a pecple who are not proced who are not acquainted ton claim agents. For e in government re found familiar wi matters Washing who did with those am th the and not and do not know whom to trust with vices, commodation its estublishment. a larger numbe claims than shows anc It the need holds " their business the bureau offers its ser- The response to its offers of ac- | A for today 1 value of the Washington—even those longest lished.nind most wi It 15 we: thg capital. dely Few of the known, et can any of the agencies in estab- not surprising that peovle in the t should not know whom to trust at afford to take so long a journey and even if they wore on the spot they the hands of sharpe rascals who make the ing on the unwary and and some of them agency business, qre might fal 1 inexpor in the There s living by brey- 1 into are cneed, claim The arrest of an agent ns an eseaped embezzler after he 1 built up a flourish- ing business in Washington as a claim agent and had over a million of dollars intrusted to him for c lesson not to bo lost on the public. happened that he wi ollection was It s discovered before he had got along far enough to be able to collect anything, but it may be sur- mised how littie the have received if he hands on their money. claimants would had once got his In the uncertainty in regard to whow to trust, a bureau backed by Tue B is & boon that claimar clated. trusted thei the best service that mc they are spared any av to the safety of their mon, claims are allowed by t The claimants » business to it are getting 1 buy ty in regard y in case their its b who T ha moy 1 X he court. ARicae The secrotary of annu topic of g the al report, refers to irrig reat national importance con- 110N, interior, tio appre- ve in- nd in his nas a nected with the settlement of the public domain. It 1801, the vacant land States, not including Cherokee outlet or oth and certain other 5 of the Alaska or er Indian mall appears that on June 30, United the lunds, ptions, amounted in round numbers 10 579,000,000 nores, ubout hulf of which is yet un- surveyed. these vacant lands, it is estimated, are useless for agricuiture, that are now desert by irvigation so as cer siblo in the climate located. The comwmissioner of the general land | lessness annual ofti ring opinion would and water to his irrigation, that the w0 tran in to be the direct , but 120,0 o produc report, expresses wisest the control 000,000 may be redeemed e th ouls, fruits and garden produets pos- where the lands are refors plan lund of th states, subject to such limitations and restri tions as would insure the recla 2 ation of the land by the states and the transfer of title from the states, in the first instance, 10 actual settlevs in quan each settler, with prov. ure to the United S for fi in isior tates case | tities not exceeding 160 ucres of land to orfeit of any violation by the state of the con- ditions of the grant. The secre avy of | the intorior apparently concurs in this | the Ufited States ought to command | words, it has done about what it wa is | | | | | f liquor liconses lost in fair and | hoid er | ultimate distribution. | About 800,000,000 acres of | the | is to be found in lax discipline. view. He remarks that under the legis lution already enncted private corpora- | tions and associations are now substan. | tially given the field of the water supply for domain that may be deemed by irrigation, and that this field rapidly upon. The United States by islation, says tho secrotary, does not retain any control, and but weakly and inefficiently withority of the states or territories. The individ associations controlling the water will be driven to incorporation by the necessity there will be to avoid the frequent changes of the vast re- heing seizod existing le establishes the The people of Omaha | ownership and other difficulties arising tactics, call a hald dozen contempt- World - Herald mado Rosawater in his absence from from death or assignment of interests, and the owners of the water and the owners of the farms may be expected to become distinet bodies, with almost opposite interests, There will be general acquiescence in the opinion of the secretary of the inte- rior that while the states or territories may be expected to under the reservation of authority expressed in the statute, some control of the irrigation compunics and protect their citizens from oppression, the [United States gov- ernment, from whom these vastly im- portant and far reaching privileges em- anate, should not release altogether its the supply and its No one can the secretary, tho value that will econcentrate in these reservoirs and canals and ditches ing the water to the fields of the husbandmen, and upon which the peo- plo must depend for th raperity Che efficiency of loeal 1 ition may impaived by private intevests, and a few muy be enriched at th the *® % * It has been y an weiter on future of our v that child is already born who will sce 400,- 000,000 of 1nhabitants in the United States. Long before this stage of our development is reached the question of the water supply and its distribution will be one of vital interest, and its solution should bo given now. Referring to the action of the irvi- gation cong at Salt last September, which favor of the United States ing in trust to the states and territories needful of irrigation all lands now a part of the public domain, except mineral lands, within such states or territories. for the purpose of devel- oving irrigation, the secretary remarks that “it would seem absolutely essential that there should be reserved to the United States the power of forfeiture and resumption in case of great abuse or a conflict of ,interests between states threatening to lead to actual violence between their respective pop- ulations, or allowing the irrigation of vast districts to fall into the hands of monopolies without suflici=nt protection for the people.” The recommendations of previous reports are renewed, but un- fortunately there is little prospect that any attention will be given to them by the incoming congress, whose time will be more largely tuken up with political than practical affairs, 8000 upon water money conve be expense of safd the the many. eminent count in grant- BY RALL The present year hus boen excep- tionally prolific in rail accidents, There has been no disaster that shocked the whole country, such as b o curred in some previous ye , but hardly a week has passed without an we- cident that cost one or more human lives und the more or less serious in- jury of a number of persons, the last half of the year thus far making a worse record than the first half. The annual report of the statisti- cian of the Interstate Commerce com- mission, for the year ending June 30, 1801, presents what would be vegarded in any other country than this as alarm- ing figzures of the number of persons killed and 1njured in u single year. This report is undoubtediy us nearly authentic as it is possible to have sta- tistics of this kind, und it st the total number of persons killed on the railroads of the country during the year covered by it to have been 6,240, and the total numn- injured 20,034--a grand total of ailroad casualties in the United States in one year of 3527 Tt is true that the very large majority of the vietims were employes of the roads, but a rec ord of nearly 3,000 led and injured is sufficiently serious to warrant the observation that railway management in this country is not ns caveful and efficient as it ought to be. It is not remembered that any ono has been punished for any of these accidents, except such employes as sufferoed death for their carelessness inatiention to duty. Certainly no railrond official that we are aware of, has been called to account for any disaster and required to explain to a court why he should not be held responsible for loss of lile and injury to persons and property. Tho compunies paid the money penalties agreed upon und there the matter ended. The thought naturaliy sug, these accidents is that they largely due to the employment of cheap, and consequently incompetent, persons, It is unquestionably true with regard to some of the railrouds of the country that many of the and women in their telegravh service are not thoroughly quulified for the imnor- tant responsibilities devolved upon vaem, and it is true, also, that these and other omplc not infrequently greatly overworked, Engineers and brakemen who are required to remain at thelr posts of duty double the ordinary hours, as is often the ssurily have their faculties dulled, | tendency of such strain to induce indifforence or in the performnce Still another cause of CASUALTLE! av tes ber passongers or is are men 03 are case, ne psides which the is care of Its Men estab- duty long in the service, who have lished a character for trustworthin | & @ not held liraily to the rules and re | Wo | cuse in mind of ceurence the relaxation dieet company ulations. ve a recent of diseipling, in tion of the ilted in a disaster which caused the cath of two of the the oad, the more or less serious injury of other persons, and a considers ble loss of property. where lving viola- of the rules re- employes of d » several The statistics of railway easualties in attention of legislators, the seriov national ,4\ Improvement in the safeguards @ travel by rail Is certainly i the way to secure it Is doubtless in more stringent laws for the punishmentso*those responsible for the of railroads. We could learn g yaluable lesson in this mat- tor from Kuropean countries, where in off sufety at least the railroads which is entirely ement and wmore possibl managoment our respect are superior to ours, due to betfer mang efficient discipline. IN November, 1890, there were 88 rooms in the schools of the city with than 35 pupils per room and four with more than 55 pupils per room. In Octo- ber, 1801, there were 85 rooms with les than 35 pupils in each and seven with more than 55 pupiis each. There are 200 teachers and 10,900 pupils in attend- ance. The presont average number of pupils is about 36 to each teacher or room. The above figures do not show that anything has been saved to the tax- or that any consolidations of grades have occurred. They simply show that the school population has in- h in o single year to fill up rooms which last yoar were a trifle below the desired average in the number attending. The schools gradually approaching the limit of 40 pupils per teacher, but not by means of any read justment of in the number of teachers or other arbitrary or cconomical urrangement on the part of the board or superintendent, but by the growth of the city It is a fact, how- that something like 1,000 more pupil now being taught by practi- cally the swne number of tenchers as last yeur, but this is likewise due to the inerease of the popula of Owmuha. payers ereased enoy are grades, reduction ever, schoel ion CoroNpL W, HAMMILL'S excuse for violating the instruetions of the Col- orado republican convention favoring Omaha for th national convention 5o gauzy and puerle that it is worse than none. A five-line paragraph in Tue Bre, reading as follows, is seized upon and puraded before his con- stituents as the reason for his action: “Senator Stewart owns silver enough to excuse him as o business man for insisting upou free coinage, but he is a United States senator, and in the ca- pacity of statesman he eannot be ex for insisting upon congressional action which shall debuse our currency.” T railways of America employ 749,- 301 men, nearly all of whom are voters, An organization of railway men for po- litieal purposes might smash a good man, itical machines. 1t is hoped, that the American people have porceived the danger of arvaging ono cluss of citizens against another ana that we shall neyer be brought face to faco with o polificai party composed of railwuy employes mines used Louis Heniron,who was oil inspector long enough to'stand in the shadow of the truth at leas, says that Nebraska is the dumping ground for the rejected oils of Towa and of the states. Mr. Hoimrod's republica cessor should perform his duties so efi ciently as to correct this evil as far possible under our defective inspection law. mos eastern n suc- A LINCOLN daily bonsts that **Bok’s * will be a feature of its Sunday hereafte: A contemporar with pride to its telegraphic ch is carefully stevotyped in to the capital by in is big,enovgh nough to I ossip issucs points news wh Omaha and shipped Still Linec oaterprising newspaper. express. and RESPECTABLE people have pleasur in the thought thatnfter Januavy 1, Mr, Morearty will no longer be permitted to ise in the place which he has disgraced as a member of the city council and malign the credit and charactor of old, honored and honorable citizens, SEQUILIBRIUM will be achieved' when the new Board of Education gets its hand in and works out some reforms which the retiring organization and the new superintendent have talked about. WitaT style of bookkeeping is done by the county that can make it possible for two commissioners to be $75,000 apart in their statements of the condi- tion of the county road fund? MEETINGS of the Omaha eity council are dull. Sometimes they positively sensational. Saturday night s one of the latte never are wa Chicaro Tribune. The dispatches say Springer “has onened his beadquarters” in Washington. Krom which we infer that his mouth is actively at work. ————— Meritorious | Beatrt's Demoerat. Tue Owana Big is after the oil room bummers again, but Yhis time it 1s the bum- mers that do net insprect the coal oil as thoy should. ‘There is Tbrit in the fight, A omitture Boom, Chicany Tater-(sean Minneapolis may /oo a Blaine center, but there arc to be 8447 dole; \ the repu b tican convention, and they will come from every state in the nnioa. It will bo safor to wait until these s delegates get together bofore naming the §fiindard bearer. - ixposing,ghe »windle turors Sun, Tae Ovala Bee is showing up the swind- ling in illuminating ofls n groat shupe. Its representative has*wsited the warehouses, four least, und found that the oil was not being properly inspected in any of them, it inspacted at ull, It asserts that the people of Neoraska are using iu ai i properly od would be rej where, and are paying the price of good oil. 1S ight. oils tha cted the inspec any - Its En Lentie's. Contounii nivs, Frank On the whole the new tarifl is workin It wiil take a little longer to show what exuct effect will be; but so far it is faivly ju tifying the expectations of its friends, [t has not brought disaster it hus erushed our farmers, nor made the prices of ruinous to our uor blovked the whools of intersational com merce. We have bad a nrospersus year under 1t, nd we have lopped off £30,000,000 from our excess of uniual receipts, lu other well its upon us not anything consumers, aver do- signed to do, and it has failed of those results which its enemies confidently looked for s a justification of their vehement condemuation of it a i raska Grain a Cha Kearney Tun, The State Board of Transportation has made the reasonable to Nebrask railroads that they adopt what is known as a “milling in transit” grain rate—that is, to permit unloading, inspecting, grading aud reloading at Lincoln and Omahaand for- warded to the easterr: market at the single through rate, If this practice is allowed at St. Paul and Minneanolis, why should it not be pormitted at the chiof cities in this stato? Iho saving would be double. There would bo a saving on the froight rate, and as our geain would be graded higher wo would also #0t more money for it. Nobraska has been fleeced quite too long. Give N ce. requost it More Worlds t Norfolk N Even it Omaha didn't succead in captur- ing the republican national ention, tho commendable effort she made for itisa bie marl of enterprise to her credit. If Omaha men of means will now put as much ener, iuto tryi for ilroad into South Da- kota by way of Norfolk and Yankton the road will be an established fact before the nutional convention mect. Conguer, i Ydmirable Fichting Q Cheyenne Tribn Omaba fuiled to secure the republican na- tional convention, but she made o good fight for it. Wyoming would have been glad to see Omaba win the prize, but our people wiil be gratified that the convention will be held 1 the northwest VRS Will Make Her € Grand Tdand s pedent. Above all things else Nobraska shoula foster and encourage manufacturing indus- tries in our state. That policy persistentiy pursued will make Nebraska one of greatost and mont prosperous states in the rorthwest. 1t at. - ickled the Fatur Chirago Mail, Census Superiutendent Porter is in high favor in St. Louis. Io recently said in an interview that he expected to seo that town becomo “'the Liverpool of America.” AND THE FIR. Kearney Hub: Neoraska will come up smiling ut the World's fair all right enough with the greatest agricnttural exinbit shown by any section of the continent. And as to industrial exhibits there will be Kearncy cottou, Grand Island and Norfolk beet sug Indianola mneral paint, and paper, starc oat meal and a long list of lesser manufac- tures produced iu all parts of the state. Ne braska will make a great display Nortolk News: 'The Nebraska Worid fair commission may be doine somo good work, but that doesn’t atter the fact that Nebraska cannot have a creditable represen- tation on a 50,000 appropriation. If the state does not wish to loso tho prestige of this year's bountiful erop private oaterprise wusesupply the means for making an hibit that will bo a true and fitting represon- tation of tho vast resources of Nebraska, Grand Island Iudepondent: We do not believe there is @ newspaper in Neoraska that 15 not willing to do all in its power to promote the interests of the Nebraska e hibit at the World’s fair in everv way possi- blo. Kvery ecditor with whom we nave talked has been enthusiastic on the subjec and will gladly co-operate with tho commis- sion at all times, but they expect tho neces- sary information and pointers in regard to the work and aim of the commission, and, be- ing furnished the proper data, will soon wet all the people in every locality of the state interested, aud in that way insure a grand success. PASSING PLE S RUES. singer of Shell ereel, nubus Sentinel Al Bishy. the sweet pours out his soul in the Co thusly S 0s, we'ro living—that is stopping— T crand, precurious ' And, If hell were not & poppin To'Le dylng would be ereat. Star: “Dos Cot about the tarii Wash know very mucl r father, “replied the old zentle to talk u rrent do; “not much hout it and 'he Hot §prings Tonent suys: “We des] to warn those of our readers Wwho may bn in- clined (o rust the min wl oing around trects of Joi fnz to be John Buptist. Wo e P it Ak e 100k the matterup. and know that ho is not Whit he purports to be." Judge: Policemun—Move on! What yer doin’ i Mr. Gooder slot bulf un shown up yet. ¢ broe. ps—1 put a_nickel in the cablo hour ago and the ear husn't 1055 the gol-durned machi ist: The Kaiser—Fritz, o 1 had tonight? dy-dow, your highnoss. Ly VO 1nore zwei? you may turn out the I have wot to prepare i rath on the new tempor- Rochestor P low ny beers hu I'ritz—Dwe AW yOuT miLe The Kaiser—No. lights and 20 how paper for the bunde wnee bill. New ¥ remembe g besutiful, the L Miss Fiypp—Oh, Mr. den But'you may speak m Shall Kk Sun: Hanker -F Miss Fiyp) this is 50 sud- » papa. Lite: Morrison—1 hear last sunimer. Jansen Y s Morrison—What did §t Juusen—Apologized fc tivey met the prince oy say to him? belng un Amoric New Bafore the fir n And note that the ruddy giiro Of the conls was even rendered dim By the lizht from her solitaire, Indianapalls Jouraul: “Now,” hogau the lecturer, "1 wo' take consumption n its in olpiency’'— “1s it ever taken wiy other wiy? futerrupted the frivolous student Baltimore American: Although populur singer biz prices, the the fuct that they want'he Yor n song York Herald, Anazers do not services The in of 1 ale train 1s Glen Falls Republic seldom late, but the tr ways behind. is - THE TWO0 AG Drift. long tho swoetest of Our worid grows bl As Vhe pitiloss years hive folted Ve quite forgotien the Golden Age Aud coe 10 the Axe of Gold Time went by fn o sheopish way Upon Thessaly’s pluins of yore. In the nineteonth century lin bs at play utton and nothing more. Ao Tar 100 §igo f old, ok Of th Aze of Gold Golden Ag With & hook in | the mountales round From Corydon's Heard news of his lutost flanie And Tityrus made the woots ¢ With echows of Diplhine Phioy Kindly teft us m lustiog gauge Oftheir ninsieal urt, we're told And the Pandenn pipe of the Golden Age Hrinss mirth to the Age of Gold nd in marble halls, D L0 ueen +3 for shawls, Dwellers From shepl Cared Littlg for bounots wn And nathing for erinoline But now sinplicity’s not the rage, And I1Us funny o think how cold Thye e wore 1n the Golden Age Woul 1 the Aze of Gold peintinz, g nd sledm Eleetrie te Tobiae Are tttie byonts thil have come to pasy Siuce the duys of tho old rein Aud spite of Loiprier's dazzlin 1'd give, though it might ses A hundred years of the Golden Fura yeur of the Age of Gold graph puge hold, Aze THEY DESIRE STATEHOOD, Ar'zyna, Now Mexico and Oklahioma Knock- fng for Statehood, OBJECTIONS WHICH MAY BE RAISED. Mormonism Will Figure Very Large in the Question —~Other Intorests ing Gossip m the Na- tional Capital, WASHINGTON BUreat or 3 FornreryT Sti } Wasninato, D, C., N A very earnest effort will bo made at tho approaching session of congress to sect statehood for Arizona, New Moxico and Oklahoma. Such a thing as statehood is not likely for either New Mexico or Utah till both bave placed themsolves wholly within the control of Americans and American citt zenship and eradicated every vestigo of Mor monism, Statehood is ot improbable, how ever, for Arizona aud Oklahoma. Congressional Delegate Smith, a demo crat, of Arizona says this of the effort to be made for his territory: “Arizona is bound to be a stats beforo this congress goos out of ex istence. Why should it not bo! One of our counties is worth all of Idabo and Wyoming put together. far famed Southern California is inferior in many respects to it We raise vetter grapes than can be raised in Culifornin and we muke better wine. Any kind of fruit grows as it will grow in no other part of even this lighly favored land and our oranges aud lomons beat the world. With statehood all will prosper.” v the Postal Business, Itopresentative Owon Scott of Tllinois has some views on the vostal business derived from his nowspaber exporionco which be will lay vefore Postmastor General Wana maker und then put them in the form of a bill before congress, Ho pomnts to the incon gruity of tho postal laws which allow n monthly magazine to bo maited by the pound and delivored at the door of subscribers aud yet require it to pay 2 cents postage if sent ucross the street from the home office. He thinks the pound rate should be applicd to local deliveries, and Lo will endeavor to got a measure to this effect through congross. ity Stifl Leads, Little change as been noted in_the speak orship contest within twenty-four hours, Mr. Mills is apparently yet in tho lead and has the largest number of second choice votes. His reserve strongth is belicved to be far in advanco of any other candidate, M Crisp of Georcia is regarded as o waning “an- didate. Crisp's district has enjoyed a ir manufacturing boom within the past year. 1t owes ils prosperity to a protective tariff. Crisp st therefore favor protection, milu though it may be. If he1s tho least tamted with protection ho is not iu line with the vast majority of the democratic members of the house.” four-fifths of whom are out and out free traders, and thus he is between two fires. Should he desire the speakership more tuan & con- tinuance in congress he would renounce all tendencies toward protectiou, but if he would prefer to_return Lo cougress rather than a single term as speaker bs would hold to the best 1interests of his district and lose his present fight. Mr. Springer of Illinois continues to play fast and loose with everyone, claiming to be every and anything for tho purpose of antag- onizing no one, hopiug he may bo the cou promise cundidate. Mr. Mills yet “stands pat” on the Cleveiand free trade and aoti silver platform, believing that tno ex-presi- dont’s power wi'l pu'l him through. Other akershin Candidates. Hateh of Missouri and McMillan of Ten- nesseo are understood o be playing for com- mittee positions. ‘I'ne first wants to bo choirman of ways and means and the latter of appropriations. Byuum of Tudiana, Holman, MeMillan, iateh, Crisp and a half dozon others besides Mills exp the chairmuuship of avpropriations or ways and means, if not speaker. Bynum will prob- ably bo chaivman of ways and means and Suyres of ‘fexas ol appropriations, The entire Iowa delegation is now in the city with the cxception of White, who will reach ere toworrow. Oue of th t ar- rivals is Bowman of Council Bluils, who s cocds Reed. Bowman says ho is for Mr. Springer and he nas no doubt the entire del ogation will voto the same way. lu speaking of the presidential situstion, Bowmau said the democrats of lowa were for Cleveland, and when asked whothor the loca tion of the democratic convention would uffect the result be said: “lowa has no interest in the convention city secause we have no place where the conver- tion cowid meet. Omaha is close by us but it is utterly useloss 1o cousider hat city. 1 hope that the convention will bo held a5 far away from lowa as possible. 1f it is beld ueat 1o us thousands ot lowa democrats will attempt to bo present, and as ouly about in a hundred can sceure admission thero will bo a vast amount of disappointment that will bo sure Lo cause trouble.” Census Burcau Work, A congressman suid today : **Considerable fecliag is boing dovelopad in Girand Ary circles w this eity over the condition of the work 1n the census bureau pertaining to the roster of surviving soldiers of the war of rebellion. The superintendent is sevorsly criticized, inasmuch as it is understood that he practically suspended work on the roster, aud this iu the face of the fact that the statute providing for the taking of the eleventh consus plainly requires him not only to prepare but to publish the same. Tho veterans ana their interosts are being sacri- ficed for objects of less general concern and they do not propose to submit to that sort of business without a protest and a_very vigor- ous protest too. The national encampment of the grand army took action in the matter last September. The numerous posts throughout tho country will join in demaud ing that the roster shall be published as con templated and to that end congress will be askea by them to make a special appropria- tion that may not be diverted from its pur- pose.” Tie Ben, Even PWS ¢ Miscellaneous. Assistant Secretary Chandler re- the decision of the commissioner of cal laud oflice in the homestead entry Connor against Charies Morrisey from the Chadeon district The assistant secretary holds that the eniry may be allowed to stand subject Lo a future show- ing of compliances with tho law. Ho ais- missed the case of John M. Jones against Jumes T, Cutter, tunber culture entry, from the Grand Island ofice. On Novembe the general laud office forwarded to the se rotary of ihe lnterior a relinquishment from Coopi aking further action unnecessary “The comptrolier of the curroncy today ap. proved the following national bunks as re- vo ageuts for national bauks in Nebraska o Nationnl Bauk of Commerco of Omaha for the First National bank of Pawnee. Iu Towa: The Americ National of Chicago for the | h ional of Sheldou ; tne Omaba Nutional for the F'irst National of Tavor. Iu South Dawota: The Merchunts National of St. Paul for the National of Yankton. P. J. Cronin master at Paulio echtehoimer were appointed as o d the gene case of 1 was today apppointed post Adaws couuty, vice 5. K. psigned. Other postmasters follows: lowa—Hardin Clay county, J. J. Beedy vice J. C. Beady, resigned; Sargout, Floyd county, George Carr viee W. H. Shephérd, resigned. South Dakota—Cortland, Edmunds county, J. W. Nesbitt vice W. J. Hope, resigned; Cou lan, Buffalo county, J.~ W. Greeb vico J. W Longland, resigned; 1ounsbury, Day county, D, J. Markrud vice T, S. Johnson, resignaa; Phinney, Custer county, E. H. White vice H. P Graham, resigned PoS. I e REVIVING I'NF.‘J\QI ISITIoN lorado Criminals of Sweat Box to Make 1 Colo. Nov. 30, Tom Prank and John Price, “Pigieg” Will Perry and Jim Curtis, the gang held up the Rio Grando express teain near ‘oxas Creok two months ngo, never stood a botter chance of going to the penitentinry for life than they do tonight. The men were captured ona at a time, and were “dead game,"" rofusing to give up a singlo word of {nformation, although put to the torture of tho sweat box moro than once. When Perry, tho last one taken, was brought in, he wenk ened and told the officials everyt going {nto details of the robbory aud how the ga being hard pressed by ‘the United States marshals, had cached the booty ut the be of Brash' creek. Saturday night Supe tendont Kramor of the Rio Grande expross and a party of officers started for the placo whero tho valuables wore said to have been planted, and tonight returned, haviog found them exactly ry said. The money aud plunder is worth #5,000, aud the evidence is sufficiont to convict the entire gane, —— FoR 1HE Colorado Settlers, Dexver, Colo., Nov. 30.—Information from Sidney, Colo., today is to the offect that freignt teams which started for North PPark last week via the newly opened r 1, haul ing over the sarplus grain eroduced in that county, have returned with their loaded wagons. Four wiles from Bear river, on the summit of the Continental divide, snow drifts wero encountercd from ten to twelve feot deep. After working with shovels ana bucking with horse power for four days they wero obliged to return to the river. Somo har ship will result, for the ranchers were de. pending on tho procoeds of the grain sold in North Park for the purchase of their winter supplios. ut to Tor Them Cq ure 1 fosa McCoy Eldrich that WINTER, SHUT 1IN Snow in Inconven- fencing Deep - Western Pension Wasimsatoy, D. (%, Nov. 30, gram to Tug Ber|—Tho following list of pensions granted is roportod by Tue Bre and Examiner Buroau of Claims : Nobraska: Original—Samuel Haller, Hiram Campbell, Frod Douglas. Increase Henry Hurlbart, Willis A. Harding, Edward A. Mulick. Reissue—Fredolin Abley, Jacob H. Womeldorf. Towa: Orivinal—Alfred Hawver, zra B Champlin, Zacbariah Little, George May wouther, Jotn C. M. Hinricksen, Francis M Hicks. Adaitional—Elbridge D. Patterson Supplemented—Henry Koblo, ~ Renewal and increase—William M.” Richardson. Increaso Samuel C. Knight, Daniol Calkin, David O'Beru, Heinrich Witmer, Phillip K. Ward, Reissue -Edwin Moon. Origmal widow Lucy Jackson e NEW BOOKS AND PERIODICALS. Special Telo “Battlo Fields and Victory; a Narrative of tne Principal Military Operations of the Civil War from the Accession of Graut to the Command of the Union Armies to tho nd of the War," by Willis J, Abbot, is & vory valuable addition to our literaturo of the war. The writer wields a facile and graphic pen and tho scenes that took place during those stirring times are powerfully It is pro fusely illustrated by Jackson, and typographically it is everything that could be desired. PPublishoa oy Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, and for salo by J. 'S, Caul fleld of tins city. While theroaro fow names that have veen more prominently brought to the notice of students of geoeraphical research, during tho present coentury than that of SirJobn Frank- lin, nevertheless there does oot appear to have been any suthentic biography of this great explorer published. To supply this long felt want Captain A. H. Markham has just published througn Mossrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., Now Yorl, o “Life of SirJohn Frank- lin and the Norihwest Passago. For sulo by S. Caulfield, Omnha, Ladovie Halevy, tho autior of that de- lightful little story’ “The Abbe Constantin,” has written another equaily fascinating book, which has boen traustated by Frank Hun Portter, an vears the sh titlo of **A Marringa for Love.” 1t is boautifully illustrated by Wilson de Meza and a cheap cdition_tias just been issued by Dodd, Mead & Co,, New York, aud is for sale by J. S, Caulfiela of this eity. We have just received from Dodd, Mead & Co., nublishers, New Yori, thres little vol- umas which colitan a vast'amount of valua blo information for tLose who aro desirous of tearning something of the lives of the men who played prominent parts on our continent Tuey bear tho following “Sie Willian Johuson and the Six Nations,” by William Blliott-Grifis; **Phomas Hooker, Preacher, Founder, Democrat,” by Leon Walker, aud “Lifo of' General [loustou, 1703-15 by Henry Bruce. For wltield of this city. 516G Cincionati Commercial: M. de Giers Is pouring a great deal of diplomatic oil on the wounded feelings of the European powers, Kansas City Timos: Havine failed to kick up permanent rows ia Caili and Brazil, the British newspaper corrcspondents havo now turaed their attention to China, 1f thore be no wore truth in the new storics than thero was in theold, the Colos'ial em peror will not nced Lo stay up all night to get ready to floe from the rebels. “Tho czar of Russia recently held a grand roview of 250,000 of his soldiers. They marched past the imperial court, near tho foot of Mount Eibure, iu the Southern Cau- casus. 1t required two wholo days for this immenso army to filo past their majesties, who were endamped ot the base of the moun'- tain. Their guests, the princess of Waies and tho king of Denmark, were amazed av tho sigbt of such a mammoth army in such an unexpected place, Chicago Tribune: There is nothing pacifio in the now ailianco betweon Russin usud Frauce. It is tho first serious stop which has boen taken in the direction of war. Tho diplomatic war which it contemplates against the dreibund and Isngland will inevitably be followed by nctual wir, when i propitious time shall como, Tho dreibund allinnce was forined 1o presecve the stalus quo, the Russo- Iorench alliauce to broak itup, and it is directod as much ngainst Bugland as it is against Germuny, Franco or Italy, since it contomplates fo lngland out of Biyne, as well s strengtboning tho control of Russin over tho Bulgarian provincos. The new agroement, therefore, is big with the fate o future wars. The kauiser continues his sensational ut torances. Tho last to dato was in writing at Muuich in Latin that tae will of the sover. eign was tho supreme law. Tuis is not tho doctrine of Bavaria, Wo eannot escape tho conclusiou that the imperial coufaderation is not as coherent as it was, sud that wo must consider togethar in estimating tue decline of the communding power of Germany the facts First. Russia is alicnated from Germany and is the ally or Franco, Socond. Tho triparite allisnco would not hold good 1 war. Italy would avoid couflicy with F'rance and Austria aecline @ combat with Russin Third, France was never as strong as now, oranimated by a more warlike and danger ous spirit; and the presumption of the youag omperor of Gormany Las caused distrusy in the German uations that have been com. pacted with Mrussia. There is danger, thore. fore, of the substanual disestabiishment of German unity. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S, Gov't Report. Roal Bakin Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE ¢