Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 6, 1892, Page 4

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Trachuck, secrotary of The Brr Tublishine company, docs solennly swear hat the actual ofrenlation of THE DATLY Bre forthe week ending Junuury 30, 1802, was ns follows Eunday, Jan. 2 Mondny, Tnn. Tuesday, J Wednesday Thursday, 411 Eriday, Jon. 20 Buturday, Jan. @ Average..... ...... 24,460 EO. i, T2 Sworn to lefore me and subscribed n my presence this H0th day of Junuary. A, D. 1802, SRAL NP, Fein, Notary Public ———————————————————— THE principal courses at the Jackson ian-Samoset banquetto Governor Boyd will be Roast Thayer and Toast Boyd. THOMAS lifiil( 0 of Maine isenjoying the new democratic rulesin anticipation to his full capac ty, and he weighs fully 300 pounds. FREDERICK PAULDING hopes to be a worthy successor of Edwin Booth. Mr. Paulding heeds not Cardinal Wolsey's charge to Cromwell to fling away ambi- tion. Tae Hlinols Central will be cordially welcomed to a share of our traasporta- tion business if it will build nere to se- cure it, Tne Illinois corn crop for 1891 is worth $32,102,150, while that for 1890 was worth but $18,300,810. This proba- bly explains why alliunce politics in 1892 aro so unpromising in the Sucker state! CORN oil is the latest corn product, and Chicago boasts that it is made only in that city. The Peoria people are not disturbed over the new corn liquid, how- over, as it in no way interferes with the popularity of the old fashioned ccrn juice. TWENTY-FOUR days were consumed by the Fifty-first congress in the per- functory duty of eulogizing deceased members. Some day a congress will be elected with stamiaa enough to say that funeral orations shall not take up so much valuable time. TuE New York assembly has passed an anti-Pinkerton bill. Cong, may be precluded by the constitution from enacting laws covering the case of these Hessian thugs, but the states have a clear right to legislate upon the subject, and every state in the union should do €0 without delay. 5§ GENERAL BUTLER wiil discover that his fighting days are not over as soon as the newspapers of the south get around to reviews of his book. He will be on the defensive, too. If he attempts to reply toall the adverse criticism he has aroused he may as well abandon the practice of law entirely. THE people’s party in Michigan has made terms with the vrohibition party and the two organizations will attempt to@tvide the offices between them. If the people’s party is strong enough to carry this load in Michigan, it is useless for republicans to mourn over the demo- cratic clectoral gerrymander. SPEAKING of democratic candiaates for the presidency in a reminiscent way naturally brings t6 mind one Thomas A. Bayard of Dolaware. Mr. Bayard has been on the shelf about three years, but he has one point of merit which neither Hill, Russetl, Pattison nor Boies pos- sessos—he can carry his own state. m——— LorDp BACON was fond of office, and especinlly the emoluments and per- quisites thercof. This probably ex plains why Ignatius Donnelly, Bacon’s most modern champion, is so porsistent in his efforts to secure a political front sout among other cranks. In his study of Bacon’s life he has absorbed * some of his charactoristics, UNDER the democratic code of rules the power which was last year lodged 1n the speaker is now very largely given to the committee on rules. The chance of filibustering against the individual who sannot induce the committee on rules to take sides with him, however, is left oppen and the authority to count a guorum is denied. Before this congress snds the democeratio majority may find its hands tied by its own regulations. — OMAHA cannot ufford to drop into the rear in tho buse ball procession. Mil- waukoo, St. Paul, Kunsas City and Denver ave our competitors in the proposition for a team now before the sitizens of the city. The gentlemen in- terested in the great American gnmo ought to shake off their winter listless- ness and take a few shots of bichloride of snterprise. Our neighboring cities will rot be slow to bring this ity into the ridicule she will deserve if no games are arrmuged for the coming season. In these duys base ball is as much an ovi dence of metropolitan character as good performances ut the theaters. The geu- tlemen who are backing the latest en- deavor to awakon enthusiasm deserve encouragement. Every man whoenjoys the national game should give the effort t secure a club his hoarty, substantial assistunce. THE REVOLT AGAINST HILL Febroary 11 8 the date fixed for the | mass meoting of New York democrats | who are opposed to the Hill scheme of a | midwinter convention. This movement has the countenance and support of some of the most prominent men in the party and is reported to be gaining in force. The eall for the meeting has been very numerously signed and the projectors have received encourngement from all parts of the state, so that the promise is that the meeting will be formidable in numbers and representative of an influ- ential and important element of the party. The published namos oi those who are heading the movement, how- ever, do not show many of the active politicinns who do the real and effec! labor of campnigns by which success is achieved. Men like ex-Secrotary of the Treasury Fairchild, for example, while good enough parti not in the habit of taking their coats off and going into the thick of the fight, They huve a value in the counsels of the party and are usoful on special occasions in ex- pounding democratic doctrines, exerting in both relations a measure of influence, but they are not available for the rough- s, are and-tumble work which counts most largely in politics, One shrewd and in- defatigable wirepuller, who is not serupulous about methods, is worth half a dozen such men in a campaign, and particularly in a New York democratic enmpaign. The fighting politicians of the democ- racy of the Empire state are with Hill, ‘The men who are following his leader- ship and oboying his mandate make a business of politics and are proficieut in its tricks and artifices. They have no clevated notions about honor or honesty in the game of politics, No scruples ro- garding means or mothods trouble their consciences or handicap their offorts, Whatever appears to bo necessary to success they do not hesitate to adopt They are united for the spoils and held togother by the ‘‘cohesive powor of public plunder.” The men of this class constitute, together with those who give reandy obedience to their wishes, a very large majority of the democratic party of New York They compose the Tam- many organization, which is in complete accord with the designs of Senator Hill, and is by far the most powerful influ- once in the democratic politics of the state. They are potentinl at Albany, and it would be hard to find any part of | the state where they are not in _control From all appearances the political ma- chine that Hill nas constructed is com- plete and perfect at every point. Every piece is properly and firmly adjusted, theve is no screw loose anywhore, and overything is arranged to move along smoothly and without friction as the master mind may direct. It has taken hard and persistent work to accomplish this, and it is hardly possible that the men who have brought to such perfec- tion of organization the fighting and working element of the party will male any concession to those who can offer in justification of their demand for con- sideration only the fact that they have voted with the party, notall of them, indeed, being able to show a clean record in this respect. It is notatall probable, therefore, that the revolt against Hill will induce the least change in his de- signs as now disclosed. He is playing o game, deliberately planned, in whic caanot afford to lose a single trick. MBLING IN FARM PRODUC The memorial submitted by the Chi- cago Bourd of Trade to the house com- mittee on agriculture, which is hearing arguments for and against anti- option law, chavges the entire blame for the evils incident to gambling in agricultural products upon the bucket shops. The memorial vigorously de- nounces these institutions, character ing them asa national curse well de- serving the attention of congress, It frankly admits that gambling in farm products is an unmitigated evil and a fruitful source of ngricultural deprossion, and suggests that a rigorous federal bucket shop law, vigorously enforeed, might go far toward accomplishing the end that is sought by the proposed anti- option legislation. “The laying of wagers,” says the memorial, “in these thousunds of bucket shops on the quota- tions of produce as they are made in the great marts of teade creates a powerfui conventrated interest for tho depression of values,” aned it 18 suggested that the extent to which this influence is respons- an ible for the agricultural depression that is complained of is not fully apprecinted. There is nothing whatever to be said in defensn of the bucketshops. They are gambling institutions absoiutely, and there is no better renson to be given for tolerating their existence than may bo offered for allowing any kind of gam- bling to be careied on. But the misfor tune is that boards of trade, which it is rightly said are a necessity of modern commorce, are very largoly responsiblo for the existence of the bucket shops. These inscitutions are the excresences of Board of Trade speculation, and it is doubtful if they could exist without the support and countenance which men connected with the boards of trade in the principal commercial conters give them. Some tiwe ago the Chicago board carried on a vigorous but unavail- ing fight against the bucket shops, but, while & majority of the members wore doubtless in sympathy with the move- ment, it was well known that other mem- bers were heiping the bucket shop: Another unfortunate fact is that there is more ur loss gambling on the boards of trade of the kind that is carried on in the bucket shops. This is admitted in the memorial, with the extenuating statement, howover, that it is insignifi- cant in comparison with the transac- tions of lagitimate commerce and specu- lation, This may be granted, and still the question arises, why permit any gambling on boards of trade? It is no less an evil when done there than it is when practiced in the bucket shops, and it is likely to have a worse effect. The opposition to the proposed anti- option legislation certainly presents some cogent reusons why such legisin- tion might result to the disadvantage of the producer, but at the same time it gives testimony to the necessity for eliminating from the commercial system of the vountry the gambling and the illegitimate speculation which are pro- litic sources of evil Tux ellver guestion will probably come befors congress within the next week. It is understood that the finance committes of the senate will report back the bill of Senator Stowart with untavorable recommendation, and as the measure will go to the cal- soon an | endar it can e taken up at any time for action. The Nevada senator will take the very first opportunity to do this and a discussion may be started in the senate before nnother week has expired. It is expected that the house committee on coinage will present a froe silver bill some time daring the ensuing week. A caucus was to have been hbid to deter- mine what policy should be adopted by the majority in the houss regard- ing silver, but this was abandoned, and ulthough the anti-free coinage men claim to be gaining in strength they are evidently not strong enough to prevent the introduction of a bill for free coin- Tt is balieved that such u measure will pass the house, but its fate in the senate is problematical, In uny event there is no danger of n freo silver bill _becoming a THE house of representatives having finally adopted rules for its government should now go on with the work of log- islation without interruption and make up for soma of the time that has been lost. While in framing the new rules a studied effort was made to get as far vay us possible from those of the pre- ceding congress, in order that the demo- ts who versistently protested ngainst the “Reed regime™ should not be stultified, it isinteresting to note t the power which has been given to the committee on rules1s quito us extreme as any authority that was lndged in the hauds of the speaker of the last houso of vepresentativ In fact, it is, as said by Spenker Read, a more ruthless recog- nition of the principle of responsible go crnment in the house than was eve dreamed of in the Rifty-first congross. The extraordinary power given the com- wittee on rules, of which the spenkor is chairman, was strongly opposed by number of democrats, but the faction that elected the speaker was strong enough to curry this rule to stréngthen his hands. It may prove to be a fruitful source of party dissension. S0 A MILLING-IN-TRANSIT rate for grain is essentinl to the grain mrket of Omaha, Tho ¢ Board of Transpor- tation wet and has there- fore again requested the Nebraska rail way managers to muke the concession. What the request witl accomplish re- mains to be seen. Had the state board been a trifle more vigorous in its demand we fancy the communication would have a more salutary effect. The Nebraska companies are primarily responsible for the delay. Any attempt to lay the blame upon lines east of tho river is merely a dilatory proceeding. We are entitled to the milling-in-transit rate and the lines centering here can secure it for us by making the proper effort. GENERAL DYRENFORTH, Melbourne, Linden, Borden and all the host of rain- makers have well-nigh had their day. They have inflated thew balloons and public expectation and they have ex ploded vast quuntities of combustibles in mid air. The result has been dis trous to their theories, but the good people have recovered their increduiity and thiogs move on under the supervis- ion of Uncle Jerry Rusk just as they did hefore, The raio comes in season and out of season. The rainmakers nre cnught in showers just like other poople, but coincadences are so unreliavle that the rainmaker’s occupation is less cer- tain than that of the, witch hazel wizard. THE Minneapolis Jawrnal says: ernor Boyd of Nebras umph over Thayer, is freely classed b the democrats as a proper candidate for the presidency. Kven Governor Boies is gotting overshadowed as n possibilit by the vindicated Boyd.” Tne Bei asks permission 1o call a halt upon th itom early inits career, Inasmuch as Governor Boyd flrst saw the light in the north of Ireland, aud his parents were Irish, o, a presideatial boom cannot be worked up for the distinguished Ne- braska democrat COUNCIL BLUFFS was selected as the place of holding the democratic state couvention, and May 11 is the date. Our Towa sister will nccept congratalutions, not alone because she was honored by the lowa democrats, but because of the date selected for the meeting, Coun- ¢il Blnffs in May and June is ove of the most charming cities in the west, and her visitors cannot fail to go away from the conveution with good impressions, It is snid that Hiteheock will, ata banquet to be tendered Governor Boyd, rend his double-leaded editorial pub. lished a few months ago in which the declaration was made that Boyd had dug his political grave. When the ar- dent young convert thus turned Boyd's picture to the wall, it will be remem- bered, the Boyd train was going down grade. THE railways of Nebraska ave insuf- ferably deliberate in responding to re- guests from the State Board of Transpor- tation. A letter dated November 24 has thus far been entively ignored by the railway managers. The managers have no fear of offending the railroad secrota- ries or their chiefs. A'r THE general meeting of the Renl Estate Owners association Monday night there should be a large attendance. Under present circumstances this organ- ization must be looked to for & consider- able work the coming yeur. — NEBRASKA material should be given the preference 1n all the school build- ings to be erected in Omaha this season and the advertisements for bids should 80 specify. —— A ROLLING stone gathers no moss on its back, and therefore & mossback is never a rolling stone. Mossbucks do not move and thoy area longlived race of beings. —_— 19 #5000 is all that stands between Omaha und a car wheel factory, there should be little doubt about securing the industr) Tie Manufacturers and Consumors THE OMAHA DAIL r ! | | nssoctation noy has a memborship of 167. | This institution, js making its influence folt and establishing itself upon sound foundation. " —_— RETAIL dealgid in Omaha who rofuse to join in the eampaign for home indus- trie sitbri-sighted, ns somo of [ when it is too late. —— A SCHOOL ly#iiture factory in Omaha would be a profitable investment. A Wastern Favorite, Ao Demoerat There will be & ‘free-for-all raco in the dem ocratie national eonvention, but the man that the west enters will bo the favorite in tho Are very them will disogte pools. - Expla New York Commerciatl. It requires the destruction of General Grant's, Admiral Porter’s and nobody kuows how many more reputations 1o explain Gen- eral Butler's Fort Fisher fiasco; bat what is that to Benjamin? He explains. o David Works, it Advertiser. br Cleveland has consented to deliver an address at the Ann Arbor university Fooruary 22, The date has familiar sound. Ab, yes: that s the day David Bannett Hill will bo arraneing for a solid delegation to the Chicago convention, i, L Toadylng 1o the Tories. Salt Lake Tritune, We notice u congressman from Missonri has introduced into congross a resolution asking for the withdrawal of Mr. Egan. It amounts to nothing, of course; it is only a r0of that there is a certain class of partisuns in this country who are nlways studying how they best can toady to Great Britain, b~ Ll Last Words of ¢ New York Tritune. Blegant oxtracts from the democratic an tholog; | 0, go homo and soak your head. —Roger Mills, Tue hogs hadn’t the decency to stop eating when I got up to speak.—David B. Hill. Hats! Rats!—Roswell P. Flowgr. 2 Men, Lo The Coming Proble Deviver New: Deep water and cheap traosportation for western products to tne east 15 a problem which must b sooner or later solved by American statesmen. While we are fooling time and money away on political war scaves Canada is rapidiy constructing and improv ing n system of inland cans s alone tho lakes The erain surplus of the northwest will soek tho cheapest route to the sea. The Treiple Allinnee Plan, Philadeiphin Recond. The Gorman-Hul-Brico pian of throwing away opportunmity hy asking a house two thirds democratic not to lnzislate, but to con- tentatsell with shootng off resointions in re lation to the questian of tax ition und linance, meets with but seant coasideration at the hands of demoerats. Tho raprosentatives of the people were s#hit to Washington to act, and tiot to make faces at tho opposition and | fire blank onrtridgo ults T ifsme [nduastey Ca i SitoerLreek Times, Somo time last fajl Tire Oy Bae bazan | a vigorous azitation in favor of patronizing home industries, particularly in Omaha. This was meant to includa not only maunufac: taring ostablishipewts and jobbiax housos, but ratailing an 4 business enterprises of all kinds. The movemeat has sproad all over thestate. Not oaly busindss men oftny | towns, but the farmsrs are thinking-of theso mattors and the fadications aro that a croat | impetus is about to bz given to industrial en- terprises of every description, particalurly | that of miautactn Tnis is as it should | be, and the sizns of thy timos as | regards our material weli-beieg are most_encouraging Heretofore Nebraska has been essontially an agricaltural | state—a community of producers. Tae pro- | ducts of the soil huve had to be shippad long distances in or ler to raich th consumer and have thus necessarily brougat low pric Tne true policy now is 1o bring the consumer to our very voors. This is to be douo not only by patromzing industries alroady iu ex- | istence, but by establishing new onos, and | thus the prodicar aad the corsumer raceive | a mutual bonefit—the former getting a bottor | prico for surplus products, and both ‘ his being able to satisfy a very rge part of their wants at less cost, for the reson that they would then be abie in a large measuro to divide botwaen them what had previously been eaten up in freight charges and the | proiits of middlenen. It 1s pleasant 100 to veflect that 1 all this our poople can Wwo her in and goud will, free from the heat and vitterness engendored by parti sanstrife. Tur Bes and the pross of tio entire state are to be congratulaied on this | o0d work in which they are now engaged. FIVE MINUTES WILH TRE JOIERS, Atlanta Constitutio “Cheer up, fri sufd the pirson to the dy editor, “you hi a bright future before you, tow pea . That's what's hothering me.” gasped the editor. *1 ean seo it blazine" New York Hoeruld: | co says he sont the blank murria mal, but it neve Maud—it wus lottery ndvertisome srtifieato to uie by probably thrown out as a | : “Helio Unole! *Rustus Philadelphin Pres; darter Dinul now?" Jones courtin' you Yep, rockon | “Party light coo Yop, purty near 1o don’t mateh hor shide, oh? No, #uh; L Aud Us gwine to shaae mit Washington = “What's the o against Uhs man “Rosist n officer.” “Yer honor.” suid the prisoner never Imew he was an oficor. He never hit me with his club once.” Miss Amy (@b 115 p. )1 under- stand that you are very fond of travel. or. Codling. { Codiing ~Yes, inileed, Amy (with a ¢liance at the clock)=Yon hive not done much, tppvelins lately, have Mr. Codiing? Now certainly A 0o piiture for in aniuteur; vory good. How did wanaze 0 get such o Dloasant expressiol on the gentioman's face eI tolfl him 1 wasn't golng to yUhing, York Woep§: Photographer—Thut is l i “Mrs. Blicks ~What did Cooic her now dress made New ou mean by tolIfh per 1o Like the vision of i drean? York Hondl Hicks -Well, doesu't It 1) “Make her look 11 Chioago Time#) An Indians woman has eaton four dogs. he would make o tirst-rate Messi b for the nghle Sioux this summ Indiunupolis Joypn barbarians, pawsh, Mr. g—They ‘are | '.‘Q or spears tngwend of Tommy—What are ople who fight with pewting rifles. The lightest Jockey has n winning weleh Rl « patience a zood deal alr | subjec | specially constrncted by EBKUARY 6, 1892 OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, riting of the foreign policy of England, Sir Charles Dilke, one of the boest informed of Engligh politicians, assumes that the liveral party will certainly be in a majority in the next Parliament, although he thinks there is still a doubt whother the majority will be large enough to enable the new gov nment to carry out a foreign policy of its own, or to briug about any material chunge n England's relations with the continontal powers. And yot, observes Sir Charles, a hand-to-mouth treatment would hardly sut fice to meet tho dangers croated by Lord Salisbure, In regard to possible changes m England's foreign policy, Sie Charles arguo against an allianco with France and Russia, and builds high hopes upon detaching Italy from the alliance of the central powers and bringing her into a neutral maritime loague. It is significant, however, of the fear of foreign invasion which seems to be creeping over Englishmen that he should counsel the British publie to dismiss from their minds the possibility of anv re duotion of naval expenditure, oven though strict nentrality should be maintained. *“The French naval estimatos for 1802, he savs, “tcount thirty of theirironclaas s being it for immediate service against thirty-one of our:; and they will have actually at soa or in bar. racks more trained inen than we have, with a vast superiority in torpedo squadrons. As matters stand, in the evens of single-handed war at any time with France (and T adumit that the Russian fleet may for the present bo neglected) wo should bs unable 1o hold the Moditerranean, could only mask the Fronch fleets at Gibraltar, and might ind ourselves forced to undertake dangorous expedizions for the relief of Malta, while Cyprus would nave to be given up and the Suez canal and Red sea bo sealed. The Belgian socialists scom mined to insist upon the promises which were made to them in 1501, It will be remermbored that, on Lnbor Day of that y demoustrations, parades aud meotings took place in many eities of Belgium as well as throughout Europe. These demonstrations not haviog suceeeded in arousing in tho Brassels Chambers and government sufliciont interest in the ad vancement of the workingmen, animmense strike beran a fortnight later in the coal re- gions of the couniry. [t censed only on tho promise that the coustitution would be re vised and that the 2lectoral franchise would be extended. ‘The socialists are apparently tired of waiting, or, rather, they fear that the projectod constitutional revision will bea sham and much below thair expecta tions. What thoy claim, in fact, is tho e tablishment of universal suffraze, which will oe to them not so much a political as an cconomic weapon with which to imprave to bo deter fultfilmeot of the May, thenr miserable social condition. The coal miners, more than 200,000 in num- ver, uce ouly one portion of tho socialist army, woich ludes in its ranks he workmen of the iron foundrias and arm fa tories around Liege, the woavers of Ghent and Mulines, as woll as the poasants. The program of these people as advocated by An- secle, Volpors, Bertrand and other leaders is uot 50 sweepiug and ravilutionary as 1s that of the German and Froach socialists, The Belginns urge mainly the superseding of - dividual industries by co-operative societies, and tho superseding of the vresent limited suffrage by umversal suftrage. Out of a vopulation of 7,000,000 in Beigium, there are only 135,000 political electors, and 400,000 communal or municipal eloctors. If the socialists intend to put pressure upon the Chambers, through *daily demonstrations” outside tho parliamentary building, it is be ause they know that tha leaders of the political partics aca littlo disosed to go as far as to grant universal suffraze. M. Ber naert, the prime minister, would liko to tend the suifra v to the 400,000 muuici- val eleciors the conservative leader. wishes to retain the prosent state of affairs, and M. Frere-Ovban, the liberal leader, would give the right of safftage only 10 the midde cla: “The Gievman emperor has tried the public dy by his elaims to almo-t superhuman knowledge and sagacity, but none of his legisldtive undertakings bave been quite so serious As his educational bill now beforo the Reichstag, providing for the, relizious education of tho children in the public schoois 1 such creeds as the govern ment aporoves of: or, in other words, tio transfer of the chiidren of dews, Turks and infidels to the cure of the Christian clergy. The object of this lemslation is, according to the emperor, to abolish “atheism' amons his s, and bring thew into a relizions fokil himselt or under approval. Tho number of athe ists in Germany is very larce. The number of skeptics—that is, of persons who have a private religion of the own, the nature of which they consider no body else’s business—is still larzor. But larger than all 1s the class who dislike and despise the clerzy, aad will on no accoant permit them to educate their childven. All these classes tozethar include a very large proportion of the German culture and intelli gence. Toattampy to forca an official re- liglous creed on thew, after the fashion of Queen Elizaboth or King Charles 1., is ono of those fautastic ventures which shako thrones 1o their foundat ‘There is probably no courtry in Kurope in which it would be more preposterous than in Germauy, for in none have the commorcial and professional men got so far away from tho churol, his. The Spanish government declines to be come & commercial parusite of the triplo al- tince and proclaims its wish to enter into close trade relations with the ¥rench repub- lic. How difficult it was for .the Spanish cabinet to arzive ata decision, amid the con flict of opinion at Madrid, may be judged Irow the fact that it was not reached wuntil the last moment, It not until Pebruary 1, when the French protective tariff went into operation, that the Spunish ambassador at Paris, acting under iunstructions from Senor Canovas ael Castillo, visited the French minister of forsign affairs and ex- pressed the strong desire of Spain to bring about an understanding with rance eitner through & definite commorcial treuty or by 4 temporary agreement. The overture will, of course, be prompily and cordinlly ne- copted, France having strong political as i well as commercial voasons for wishing to avert the combination of Spain with the cen- tral powers, How welcome the prospect of iutimate trado relations with the lporian poninsula will bo to the I'roneh consuraers of Spanish products, and particalarly of Span- 1sh wines, may bo inferred from the fact thut for woeks all the railways runuing to tho F'rench frontier have been taxed to theiv ut most capacity in the effort to deliver goods before the uew Freuch tariff wontinto opera tion. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report. Baking Powder ABSCLUTELY PURE j MR, CARR'S FAMOUS CONTRACT The Grand Jury Investigating That Thir- toenth Street Grading. FIFTY WITNESSES TO BE EXAMINED Iges Wit f the Distriot he T Court K sy of Varlous Litigants That Wer Yestorday. opt n: Weard Owing to the absence of cortain witnesses, the grand jury let the Board of Education cnse go over for a day and yesterday moening commenced tne woric of investigating tho Soath Thirteenth stroot grading case. "This case was thoroughly aired before the Investigating committes of the Reul Estato Owners oxchange lust Sieptember. To begin with, Wiliam Carr had- a con- teact for South Thirteenth wnd other stroets in South Omata, Tho work was let in 1887 and completed 10 1500, In grading South Thirteonth aud intersecting stroets the sum of §04,067.71 was expend At the invesu gation fraud was charged, and that iustead of the work having been done to benefit, it was for tho purpose of enhancing the value of private property. The charge 'was also made that the money to pay for the grad- ing was misappropriated, ana instend of 'having been taken from South Omahw's share of the roaa fund, it was taken from the county road fand. = The committoo re potted that the charges woretrue and recom- mended that suit be brought against the county commissioners and their bondsmen Yesterday the same testimony that went betore the committee was listened to by the grand jury. Some fifty witnesses have been summoned, and it is not thought the case wiil be coucluded before the middle of next week. DECIDED THEIR DIFFERENCES, Litigants Secking Satisfaction for Griev- ances In the Distriet Court, ‘The courts were unusually busy vester. any attending to matters in litigation. Judge Davis and a jury have beeu trying to decide whether or not Cal Jonos is guilty > burglary. The information charges that during the n ght of November 25, with forco and arms and with malice aforethought, Cal broke into aud carried away taerefrom the proverty of one Louis Schmidt. Cal denics the statement. Judge Ferguson has before kim the case of Sam Elkins nguiost the Omuha_Streot Rail way company, Elkins wants £,000, and to show that he is entitied to the amount, avers that some time last fall while driving aiong South ‘T'wouty-fourth street his horse bo- came frightened ata passing motor train, took the in his mouth and struck out at 40 gait. The gait was too much for Ilkins and he was thrown to tho ground, thereby sustaining severo injuries. Judge Irvine is listening to the story of a family affair. a suit brought by Richard O. Hogoboom against his daughter, Eliza Rovinson. Just twenty-fivo years ngo Hogo— boom owned a lurge farm near the town of La- Platte. Eliza at that date was a mere child. o show iiis good will the tather deeded her torty acres of land, which in later vears be came valuable. As time passed on the father viewed the possessions with a longing eye and at last concluded that he wanted to agam be able to cail the farm his own. IDliza simply told him that he could do nothing of the kind, as the land was her own. Her husband, for she had married, told the old man the same thing, yud then the fun commenced by both varties hiring lawyers and going mto court. Wants Pay for 1is Land. Joseph H. Taylor would have Douglas county and the city of Omaha pay him the sum of $10,000, and with that idea in view he has brought suit azainst the connty commis sioners and members of the city council to recover that amount. For a cause of action he allegos that he owns u valuable tract of land on West Leaveuworth streot, just inside the city limits, Witbout consulting his wishes tho commissiouers and the members of the city cousicil, 50 he avers, conspired together and auring the yenr 18%) decidod to extend West Leavenworth street through his nremises. Beforo be know anything about what was to happen a gang af graders was at work on his land, chopping down his shade trees, plow- ing up the field and generally making them selves at_home. The work was continued until a cut somo twenty reet an_depth and 600 feet in longth was made.” Taylor now avers that the land was confiscated ana that be has never received aay tonder, nor has he ever waived damages. Pro JACKSON, Mich.,, Feb. 5.—Ihe prohubition varty in Michigan is to join hands with tho state people’s party. The parly leaders havo had secret deliberations in this city, and as a result resolutions were given out in which the co-operation of the two parties is agree upon in the coming state and township eloc tions, aud it issuggested thav the nominating conventions of the two parties seek merely to unite their votes, their platforms being substantially the same. Two Bry Grepxwien, Conn, Killed ina Wroek, Feb, Mwo brothers named Adams were killed this morning in an aceident to & mail train on the New Haven railroad at South Beach. | | THE NERRASKA GOVERNORSHIP, North Nebraska Eagle (rep.): Just as hay beon expected for somo time past and as it ought to be, James E. Boyd of Omaha will bo governor of the state of Nobraska. Butta (Mont.) Mimer (dem.): The peorle of Nebraska are to bo congratulated upon having elected a man who had_the nerve and the lovaity to carry their battla to the high ost judicial tribunal in the land. Yankton Press (rep.): Bovd will soon oc cupy the executive chair of Nebraskaand the enterpriso of Tur Ovana Ber in securing advance sheets' of the supreme court de. cision will be appropriately vindicated, Anaconda (Mont ) Standard (dem. ) : Lastly the decision is eratifying in that it pormts the populer will of Nevraska to bo confirmed and seats in the executive chair an honorable gentloman, 1 capablo statesnian and & mighty rood democrat Laramie Boomerang (rop.): All lovers of our free American institutions and every uo- holder of the right of tho majority to ruie are delighted to tearn that the suprome court of the United States has decided that James E. Boyd is an American citizen and entitled to ocoupy the office of governor of Nebraska, 10 which ho was electod. Auburn Post (vep.): Governor Thayer, wo hope, will yield to the will of the supreme court, and will probably bo as glad as any one that the coutest is ended. While demo crats are jubilant, republicans are submit. ting gracefully and cheerfully, as ood oiti zens should, fothe mandate of the highest trivunal in our froe and happy lana. Kansas City Star (ind.): Acting Governor John M. Thayor of Nebraska, having been appointed prosident of a ‘Texas ontorprise with A good salary attached, announcos that he will Field to tho decision of the supremo court and turn the govornorship over to Boyd, the rightful governor. This is 1n keep- ing with Thayer's charactor. He never lets #0 of ono office until ho 1s sure of another. New York Sun (dem.): Since the contro- versy aroso tho republicans bavo been critis cisea for raising such a tochnical point as the objection that Mr. Boyd was not a citi- zen. But the point was by no moans morely technical; it was substantial, just as was tho objection recontly taken by the democrats in this state to the eligibility of Mr. Sherwood the Hornellsville park “commissioner, to o seat in the legislature, Seward Revorter (rep.): Wo congratulata vornor Boyd. Throughout the entirs con troversy as to his citizenship and his right to occupy “the execative chair, he Las borno himsolf in o manly way, oxpressing entiro willingness to submit to the decision of the court. Wo believe he spoke truly when he snid e valued his citizenship more than the oftice. This paper will condnue to fight him and his party as_hard as it can, but as a man and a citizen of Nevraska ue is fairly entitled 10 congratulations. Chicago Herald (dem.): The friends of lawful government should assert themselvos and rid their state of the disgraco put upon it by this vulgar usurper. A posse should be organized, consisting, if needs be, of 20,000 citizons, and with the lawfully eloctod governor at its head it shouid go to the capital. Notice of its coming should be sent to Thayer 1n advaunce, aocompauiod by a ro- quest for his abdication. If, upon its ar- rival, the vain old pretender should refuse to step 'down and ou, he should be uucero- moniously ejected. Nebraska City Press (rep.): There is no bonest minded republican who does not con eratulate Governor Boyd ou recovering his position. The legal coutest ho has nm.rn«ml through with honor was a necessity. It was asubmission of the mujority to the laws of the land. But the cloud that threatened has disappesred; and, thanks to the law-abiding spitit of Americans, without a stroke of vio- lenco the whoels of state move on silently and firmly, Justice has boen done, we be- liove: and 1t matters not if this affects a partisan friend or enemy. All shoula rejoica in tho triumph of the state. Philadeiphia North American: Of courss the decision of the suprame court settles the status of Mr. Boyd, technically an alien, but elected governor zof Nebraska, and of course Governor Thayer will surrender the execu- tive office to Mr. Boyd, declared governor- elect. It is not a question of what Giovernor Thaver will do. Kven were ho of the sauma kidney as David B. Hill, he would not defy the supreme court ot the United States. Whatever defect there may have been in the title of Governor Boyd, the hichest court has healed it. There can, therefore, be no resists ance to all that its mandate implies. THE BACHELOR S TOAST. itticm H. Hilly. fair I'vo known. and potent eyes A heart of stone, lovely ave worshiped i Yioldod to their charnis; and yot 15 the best of thow is swoet, As the girl I've never met! They have witchiag listle w She enraprures when she smiles; Tlhiey enchant. anuse. ama; 2s e with her wiles. 'y charming, 1 agroe ure exauis aud yev Nonc of them entioe e Like tho girl I've never met. She has all their wianing grace, All their wit and beauty rare! Finshing eyes. u perfect face, Low, sweet forehead, rippling hafr. Fancy makes her all iy owi T cin seo hor now: and yet, Though full many malds I've known, he's the girl ['ve nover met. Shall Tmect her? Who ean t Lifo is short, the world i3 wiig. While I wait, | know It well. N b6 another's brido. Fate has kept us two apart: ay nOver u nd vo wtoust: 1 plede my heart the girl ee never met. They're all BROWNING, KING 8. W. Corner 15th and Douglas Stss Left Belund--- It is the absolute satisfaction we give - with every transac- tion that has been as much the means | of leaving all our | as the fact that we urduys tiil ngs il 0 p. m . Uther ev clothing at satisfactory prics. Our special January sales have encouraged us im- mensely as to bright prospects for 92, and during the month of February we propose to clear out the remainder of our winter goods, if prices will do it, and we think Suits, Overcoats, Underwear, ete, for men and boys will be cut right down. Genuine bargains all over the store, | are the recognized leadersin high quality - Browning, King & Co ll = 5@!‘@ | competitors behind | ? | j' they will. | 1 5. W, Co, th and Douglas Sts