Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 23, 1892, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. P. ROSEWATER, Eprron. - — PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly Bee (without Bunday) One Year Daily and Sunds e Year, “eee BixM onthe i W R0 10 00 500 250 00 15 y aturday Bee, Ono Yo Eaturday Hee, Onp Year. 1% Weekly Bee. One Year. OF FICE! Omaha. The Bee Bullding. EouthOmaha, corner N and 20th Streets Council Blufrs, 12 Pearl Street. Chiens o Offic Ler of Commerce, New York, Re d 15, Tribune Bullding Wushington, ¢ nth Street CORRESPONDENCE, Al communieations relating to nows and editorial i should Le addressed tc the Editorial Departmer BUSINES Al husiness letters an remittances should tenddressed to The Bee Publishing Corpany, Onaha. Drafts, checks and postofic orders 10 be made payable to the order of the com- DANY. Tic Bee Publishing Company, Proprictor FWORN STATEMENT OF CIROULATION. Matgof Nebraskn ey County of Douglas. Geo. . Tzschuck, secretary of The BER Jublishine company, does solennly swear hut the netual elrenlation of THE DAILY Bew for the week ending February %0, 1802, was a3 followa: . Eunday. Fob. 14, 28,150 Mondsiy, I'ob, b Lt Tueaduy, et 16 RYRTTRRTTCS X Wednesday, Feb. 1. I hursday, riduy. Euturdny. Feb. Avorage .. a Bwarn to ! efore ne and rresence this 20th day of February. SEAL NP BNV subscribed In my A. D, 1802 N. A Notary Pu Avernge Clrentation for January 24, ———r OMAHA gets nothing from the rail- roads unless she fights for it. TEXAS is on our side in the effort to open the Omaha market to the Texas cat- tle ranges, i Omaha man who smokes tene- ment house cigars ought to bo ashamed of himself. GARZA'S revolution having ended we may begin to look for one in Mexico with an entirely new name. Tie Now York express robber is not #0 successful as he of the west, but his style and grit gore picturesquo and sensational. ELECTIONS in Buenos Ayres posscss some of the characteristics of elections in some of the southern states in this country. The bullet and the ballot arce closely associated Loucks of South Dakota wiil have an interesting time of it making his St. Louis brethren believe the National Union company is not an offshoot of the National Cordage company. ORDINARILY the Mormons have been rather shrewd politicians, In vheir re- cont efforts before congress to secure tho admission of Utah their hands seem, however, to have lost their cunning. TIMENT in favor of the election of United States senators by direct vote of the peovle is so stroug in all sections of the country that oven the American House of Lords will be forced to yield obedience to it. THAT question of veracity betweeen Commissioners Timme and Berlin raised in October last has never been adjusted, and now comes one of a sim- ilar nature between Commissioners Paddock and Stenberg. PosT mortems continue to come high, but it is to be hoped the revublican cor- oner will be less curious s to the effects upon the human organism of accidents rosulting in death, and that heroafter post mortems will be less frequent. THE equitics are on our side in this matter of cattle rates from Texas to Omaha. We ought in all justice to have Kansas City rates, but when weare willing to pay a differential of $7.50 per car there should no longer be any ques- tion about it. THREF things we have a right to de- mand from the railways—willing-in- transit rates, the ubolition of the bridge arbitrary on traffic from Omaha to lowa points, and the adoption of differential rate of not to exceed $7.50 u car loua on Texas cattle, THE announcement is mado that Gor- man has parted from Brice and Hill. Possibly this is a mistake. If not, the shrewdest and deepest politician of the three has gone out of the combine. The other two will sadly miss his level head and remarkablo foresight. “OMAHA presents greater inducements tor the location of a beet sugar plant than any other place west of the Missouri river,” remarks a prominent Omaha business man, Everybody agrees with him on the proposition, but the stubborn fact stands that talk, res- olutions and beet sugar associutions will not build a 500,000 factory. LELAND STANFORD'S 2 per cent land loan bHl may make the subtreasury cranks of the country at large favoriible to him for president of the United States, but it does not cateh the alliance srowd in California. They declare they are not looking for a Ciwcsar, a Crom- well, o railroad monopolist or a mill- lonaire for a leader. They look buck still further and desire a Cincinnatus. — TowA republicans are not altogether the victims of circumstances if they are again hoist upon the prohibition petard, The democrats are interested of course In keeping prohibition in politics. For that reason they nave been insincere in their efflorts to pass the Schmidt license law. Nevertheless there is reason to believe that if the republicans favorable to local option and high license had united with democrats favoring the same methods of regulating the liquor trafie, a proper measure could have been pussed. Perhaps it could even now be carried through the legislature. The trouble is that the republicans have _ been ufraid to act in harmony with their honest views in gealing with the liquor traffe. CONCERNING WATER RIGHTS, An Idaho paper says that in the southorn part of that state corporations are cornering valnable water rights, and that it is beginning to occur to tho | farmers that this must ultimately | operate 1o their disadvantage. The | paper expresses the opinion that their fears are well founded and that it not conducive to the best interest of the | agricultural regions of the state to have the water which is essential to the land controlled by speculators, What is taking place in Idaho is doubtless going on in other states where irrigation will be necessary to the de- velopment of agriculture. Men zenlous in promoting the cause of irrigation ar at the same time engaged as members of corporations in securing control of valuable water rights which will eventually, if their expectations are realized, becomo tho source of large rovenue, paying A generous return upon the eapital invested. Tn his lnst annual roport the secrotary of the interior said that private corporations and nsso clations are now substantially given the fleld of the water supply for the vast domain that may be re deemed by irrigation, and that this field is being rapidly seized upon. Itis one thing, said the socretary, for is | the individual to own hisclaim on which he resides; it is quite another for him to be n member in o large association, or stockholder in a corporation controll- ing tho water necassary for the cultiva- tion of his claim. Existing legislation does not retain to the United States any control and but weakly and insulficiently astablishes the authority ot the states or territories. The control of the water is handed over to corporations or assoc tions., **These individual association: said the secr be driven to incorporation by the noces- sity there will be to avoid the frequent changes of ownership and other diffi- culties arising from death or assign- ments of interests, and the owners of the water and the owners of the farms may bo expected to soon bocome distinct bodies, with almost opposite interests.” Tt is evidont that this is getiing to be the condition of affairs In Idaho and in all probability elsewhere. Under thoe reservation of authority ex- pressed in the uct of congress of March, [to 1891, the states or torritories may exo cise some control of the water compan- ies and protect their citizens from op- pression, but as the secretary of the in- terior suggested the United States government, from whom these vastly important and far-vouching oriv emanate, should not release altogether its hold upon the water supply and its ultimate distribution. Tn order that monopo'ies and speculators shall not become too strongly intrenched in the control of tho water supply in the states und territories needful of irrigation there should be as little delay as pos- sible in providing required log og AN IMPOVERISHED PARTY. Senator Carlisle is reported to bave remarked recently that outsido of Mr. Cleveland the democratic party had no availuble presidential timber, and that it is the ficst tim: in many years that the democracy finds itself confined within a very limited cirelo in the selec- tion of a candidate. A little reflection upon tho political history of the last quarter of a century would nave sug- gested to the Kentucky senator that the democratic party has been as poor as it is now in available candidates for tha presidency in nearly every prosidential year since the war, In 1868 the party was practically con- fined to tho choice of one maa, Hovratio Seymour. Thers wero other men of a s0 little higher rank than most of tha can- didates of today, but all of them were lacking in availability for one reason or another and Seymour was selected as best representing the temper and spirit of the democracy of that time. Four ears later the party was in a still more impoverishad condition, and having no man deemed to be ayailable made Hor- ace Greeley its candidate. Before the presidential year of 1876 came round Sumuel J. Tilden, as governorof New York, had acquired national reputation by his efforts in overthrowing the Tweed ing and thus became an available can- didate for tho presidency and the only one of that year. He continued to fig- ure in that relation down to 1880, when it was found that his infirmities pro- cluded his nomination, and the party, after much casting about for an avail- able candidate, selected Goneral Hin- cock as its candidate in the hops that his brilliant military record would off- set h's want of experienco and knowl- edge in civil affairs. Tho phenombral majority received by ‘Mr. Cleveland when elected governor of New York made him the only availuble candidate of the damocracy for the presidency in 1884, and there was 0o one to disputo his claim four yeurs iater. Mr. Carlisle may be correct in the opinion thut he is still the most available man the demo- crats could nominate, but it is evident that he would not be permitted to car New York,ana without t state the democracy cannot win the battle of 18 It is unquestionable that the dewo- cratic party is very poor in availablo presidential timber, but tho cirele with- in which it may select a candidate is hurdly move limited than it has boenin any presidential yoar during » quarter of a century. The truth of ths matter is that in all thess years the democratic party has beon at war with every form of progross and out of sympathy with the aspirations of the Amovican people, and hence it has not developed Jenders who were at the same time statesmen. It looks now as if the party is about to pass entirely into the control pf such unscrupulous and self-seekiug politic- ians as Hill and THE SIXTEE) VIADUCT, The railway companmes diove a shrewd bargain when they paid thoi proportion of the ecost of the Sixteenth stroet viaduct, we must adwit, but that bargain does not preveut the city from compelling the companies to construct an entirely new viaduct upon Sixteonth street. Section 48 of the charter reads as fol- lows: The mayor und council shall havo power to compel any railway company or companies owning ov operating any | railway track or tracks upon or across | any public streot or streets of the city OMATA DAILY Bl erect, constrnet, reconstruct, com- plete and keep in repair any viaduct or viaducts upon or along such street or stroots, and over or under such track or acks, including the approaches to such aduct or vialucts, as may bs deemed and declared by the mayor and council as necossary for the safety and protec tion of the public, provided that the approaches of any such vinduct which any railioad company or companies may equired to reconstruct and keep in ropair shall not excoed for ench viaduct a total distance of 800 feot. * % % * The width, height and strength of any such viaduct and the ap- proaches thereto, the material therofor and the manner of the construction thereof shall be as required by the Board of Public Works, as may be ap- proved by the mayor and council. These provisions ave very specific. They leave no loophole by which the ratlroad companies may evade the man- dato of tha mayor and council to con- struct or roconstruct any viaduct they may deem necessary for the public con- vonience and safety. Whatever con- tracts have been made by former councils as rogards the present wooden bridge on Sixteenth street, the chartor for motro politan cities clearly ostablishes the right of the present council to order a new viaduct that will meet with the demands of the increased traffic and will afford safe passago for all vehicles and street railway trains, construct, Tne BEE has never had any difficulty in making itself clearly understood on anyand every issue which it has been called on to discuss, There are mind- readors who can even tell how THE BER foels on any question and what it intends to say before TarE Brg has said any- thing. It is exceedingly amusing, how- ever, to note how persons giftod with second sight do on oceasions shoot wido of onch other’s mark. On Sunday morn- ing tho Lincoln Ierald [ox-confod-demo- crat] announced Tur Ovana Bee s frantically hammering at Governor Bovd with the apparent pur pose of forcing him to call an extra sossion. It protends to chiefly want railroad regula- tion, Italways wants railroad regulation when the legislature is not in session. On Monday morning the Omaha World- Herald [independent-hippodrome-demo- crat], evolved the following startling picen of news: The Beatrice Expre s and other republican state papers oppose an extra session, Tho man who above all others dreads an extra session 1s I3 hitor Rosewater of Tne Bee, and his recent attacks on Boyd are due to the latter’s rofusal to pledge Rosewater that there would not bo an extra session. In view of the fact that THE BEE has, up to date, said nothing either for or against tho proposed extra session, the Omaha and Lincoln “mediums” are making themselves supremely ridicu- lous, TiE announcement of the intended resignation of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the American minister to France, will be re- coived with regret by those who are amiline with his valuable services abrond. Ho has labored with intelli- gence und zeul to promote American in- terests in France and has been signally suceessful, though owing to the minis- terial crisis in that country he may have to leave his work uncompleted. Such valuable concessions as he has obtained will, however, stand, regavdless of cabi- net changes, and contemplated arvange- ments of a commercial character aro doubtless in such shape that his succes- sor witl have little-difliculty in bringing them toa satisfactory cone usion. Few men in o brief a diplomatic experience have made so creditable a record, and Mr. Reid will retura home with an in- creased claim to the hearty respect of his fellow citizens. CONGRESS ought not to delay in pro- viding the appropriation necessury to rry out the act for the protection of the lives of the miners in territories. This act was passed by the Rifty-first congress, but so late in the session that noappropriation was made to carry it intocflect. It provides for public in- spection and supervision of mining in the interest of the protection of the miners. The president hus by special message called the attention of congress to the omission of an appropriation and urged that the money necessury to meet tho saluries and necessary expenses of inspectors be provided. The duty to do this is so obvious that there can be no use for delay in making vhe required appropriation. Tuk ladies of Omaha have done a good deal toward encouraging home in- dustr In all lines of houschold goods, where the ladies control the purchases, business has improved immensely sinco the beginning of the agitation for home putronuge. Betweon 200 and 800 addi- tional men are now employed us a direct result of the enthusiasm with which Omaha housekeepers have rallied to the support of Omuha industries. A reform never amimounts to much which does not enlist female sympathy, The home patronage movement has the sincere, carnest, substantial aid of Omaha ladies and therofore ha coedod how in Texas. Glohe-Demaocrat, It 1s gratifying to bear that perfect har- mony provails in the ranks of the Texas ro- publicars, wnich means that the democratic wajority in tho state this year will be kept down below 200,000, ad RSP IE Gotham's Mo Agony New York Record:r. he selection of General Horace Porter to be president of the Girant Monument associ- ation is us good & 010 as could have bosn made. Ho will work bard to houor the wewory of ais old vommauder, i Grateful Oblivion, . Louis Republ Mrs. James G. Blaine, jr., has her divorce at last, with alimony for herself and child, 1818 10 be hoped that young James will have 10 earn the woney 1o pay it and that she will rolieve tue country by relapsing into ob- seurity. e To Prevent Calamities by Fire, Harper's Weekly. The tiest thing which & civilized commun- ity should require in the erection of houses which are intended to ve used for botels and theaters and halls is that they shull be prac- tieally five-proof. 1f peopla are “willing to take L k" the public should refuse to perwit them Lo take it. If proper aud reas- ouuble precautions for safoty increase tho expense of building, vents may be iucreased, @aud the price of lodging. Toere ueed be uno fonr that a hotel which is known to be prac tically firo-piPof will ot be amply supported becnuse its rates,aro higher than those of a | death trap, Cmamities Iike tho burning of the Hotel Rovaf have becoms 8o common that it is not wAthout serious apnrehension that travelors inlw onter their rooms in ho- | tels, The coil of rope which is supoosad to bo designed to help them in a direful o ency merely féviiiuds them of their peril and of their probable wability in 4 sudden alarm } to copo with it | The Vital Tssues, nator Hale n North American Review, Tho republigap party will take its chances before the people upon the doctrino of pro- teetion as opposed to free trade, or what is called revenue reform; but this doctrine in 1802 will be onlarged and expanded and popularized by its now ally and hand maiden, reciprocity, which, when orotection has built up the produet of American labor, furnishes a market abroad for its overplus, without in the least endangering that pro duct by the compotition of forelgn underpald labor. The whole scheme of reciprocity, mainly directed to trade with the sister re- fpublics of the American continent, goes hand in band with protection. Tho democrats pervert its meaning, deride its uses aud yet, it is plain to see, are afraid of it. Woods Are Full of Them, *Gene Field in Chicago News. Now that Boyd has hoen reinstated as governor of Nebraska everybody is his Py friend, That man Thayer must bo a very romarkable individual to huve held the fort 80 Jong agaiust the multitude which is now fawning before the other fellow. Yetull the time-servers and bootlicks do not live in Nobraska, . JETER Nor the Subtreasury Scheme, Globe-Democrat, There is a good doal of uerve in the poti- tion of the California gold miners for an ap- propriation of $1,500,000 to enable thom to re- sume hydraulic mining; but it is not more notable in that respect than the appeal of the Colorado silver miners for alaw that shall add 30 per cont to the value of their roduct. o G HAT ARE ? FOR? Chicago Tribune: It goes without saying thut the members will rewurn to Washington all the better propured notouly for their duty immediatoly connected with the visit, but for all their duties by reason of their threo days’ experience in the great business and political conter of the coustry. Chicago Mail: Tell us if you honestly and candidly believe Chicago should contribute not only the brains, energy, genius, grounds and 10,000,000, but also the $5,000,000 which must be forthcoming if the fair is to bs the success which you and_the peoplo of this country want it to be. That, gentiemen, is whav fou are here for. Chicago Times: Chicago has not invited these members of the national assemoly to come within its gates for the purpose of belittling its own hospitality by auy solicita- tion for favors. Chicago wants no favors. Congressmen may judge for themsolves whether or not the city is redeeming its word and meeting fully its obligation. Chicago Post: /It has been truly said that the greatest erhibit at the World’s fair in Chicago will be Chicago itself. If this fact is borne in upen our visitors: if in viewing the fair they niso;catch glimpses of the city where such a ,miracle i3 possible—dazzling, bewildering, delightful—why, we can’t well help it. We are modest, but we trust we also know our own worth. Chicago Herala: No trumpery of class or heraldic device annoys the commoners and sonators who_arp Chicago’s guests. Like froomen they come. By freemen thoy aro welcomed. To investigate a great nationl undertaking 1s their first and chief mission. Incidentally to accept at the hands of their fellow countfymen courtesy of common fellowship is all that Chicago solicits, Chicago News: They coma west on a UNique excursionto visit a unique city. The hospitality of Chicago has been accepted in good faith, These senators and representa- tives will be treated to the oest Chicago has and thsy will not be asked to vote for a World’s fair appropriation, either. If old- fashioned hospitality counts for anything these days none of the party will recurn to Washington with anything save good wishoes for Chicago, THE! A Deputy Sheriff Disperses Had Broken Into Jail, OwiNasviLLe, Ky. 22, —About mid- night last night a mob of fifty or sixty men called at the jail 1n this place to have a pris- oner locked up. Jailer D. S. Nickson was suspicious, however, and refused to let them in. The mob then revealed their true inten- tion by, breaking down the front door of the jail and rusbiog in, saying they wanted u man confined there, at tho same ‘timo firing toward the head of the stairs whero tho jailer and bis son were standing. The jailer returued the fire and the mob rushed rapidly out. Itisnot known whethor auy of them were struck or not. Some think thoy wanted to relense Gieorge Green, sentenced to tho pon for lito for the murder of J. 8. Davidson, whilo others thiuk thev wanted to lynen the negro. Jones, who murdered Marshal Taylor of Sharpsburg, Christmas evening. - LAYS OF THE vLIGI Tribu Tho coffin trust will shortly rafse the vrice of cofling 2) per cent. The obvions duty of the public toward this monopoly Is to 1ive 1t down, Washmgton Star: The astronomer who has made a telescople discovery is naturally proud of his zood looks. Binzhampton Republican: Tt is the busi- ness of the newspaper editor to *make a long story short." -HEARTED, Dalias News: One of the hurdest iines of duty is the clothesline, New York Horald; Closefist, sr.—When I wis vour age I wasn'ta mule, as you secm to be, Olosefist, jr.—Eyidently not; the fathor of o mule usually isn' PERPETUAL MOTION, Chicago Times, The bunko-steerer tulks and chats, Whi'e playinz his deop game; The meter it&ays nauzht at all, But gets there just the sume, Boston Jester: “sn't ¢ takos a terribly ugly one: “Yes, but did you ever seo anyone moro nat- Iy zifted tor it?" 0 part Miss Wrinkle “Won't you smile, please?” said the Daripher (0 the sitter, rtainly,” wasthe re carry a lask, oz shitll street?" ly reoly. *Do you have 10 20 aown Heraid: Wiggs—Miss Loftover, horys £4r's, tells me sho will cel uticth birthduy on the last day 100k her aze. would take hoer to be K. A ROPULAR SONG, Atlaida Constitution, The muzwulip boom’s tn emply thing— Phey strivedg viin t sore her; Tho oy xowg Kie people si 15, “Hill's Uroke foose in Georgia!" fer? ®no of the most persistent o Wotho needlu, which uwlwiys vawad alwiys lias un eye out for i (The wan who really In o oston Bullesjs. e 'flh’su.-n.w fn drink® should tends Lo “arown Jump overboard §iftings: man sad to the tallor wh Elnira Gazette: Money taiks, and this is probubly why we hear s much about loud checks. u won't suit me ut all." as the | vafused him credit. e DAVID AND THE GANG. New York Tribune. Dayid had a little gang That triea Its best to ple: And every thume that Davic The gang was sure Lo snes 1t followed him to 10wn onw day o hrows the pusly rules It wade the parey ra " To seo such brizen f00's And 80 the party turned it down, Tut still ¢ lingerod neir Ant waited mourafully about For David Lo appesr. =W hat mude the gang luve David s Vhe enger proble ery; hy David fe i tae nE, you know, 1 KUOWIN 0008 £64 Y I curse WILD NATURE ROBEDIN WHITE Pen Pictures of Midwinter Scenes Betwe:n Cheyenne and Zion, DAZZLING MANTLE OF THE BEAUTIFUL Todustrial Gems Glowing in Flelds of Snowy Ing's Attrac Klection varnival in Salt Lake —Natural € Dinmonds—Wyo fons— Sa1t Lake City, U, T., Fob, 10.—[Spociag to Tue Bee.|—From Cheyono to Ogden the scenery, in summer time superb, clad in winter garb is wealthy with now and strange glories, The mountains are now what we fondly pictured them in youth, and when over tho tonderfoot period had our ideals rudely effaced by finding thera not only not inaccessible to man, but prosenting easy pathways by which the iron horse—‘the great clvilizer” —may climb over the most majestic and massive of the snow-crowned monarchs and carry the commerce of the world 1n bis train, The Sterman hill, once a holy terror to travelers, because at this season of the year trains woro likely to stick in a snow bank aud remain there for three weelks, has lost its prestigo. There are fow delays now in that district of the Wyoming division; in fact, the division itself is oper- ated so cloveriy that it has passed into a proverb, The Laramie Plai Dropping down from Sherman, threading our way through Titanic masses' of granito rock, dvifting in midair across the terribls chasm spanned by Dalo creck bridge, all the time in sight of towering peaks, and won- drously beautiful valleys, both mountain and vale ohanging with every curve that is made until it is like gazing through the kaleido- scopoe of the Almighty, the train suddenly dashes out upon the Laramie plains, ono of tke grandost, richest and most highly favor od sections in all the west. ““The Plains are moro rolling than the prairies of Ne- braska, They stretch away from Diamond Peak, near tho Colorado hne, northwost- ward across the state, until their domain is disputed by tho Big Horn and Wind river chains, sentinels whoso feet are so firmly planted in the rock that the most violent earthqunke could not send a_quiver throvgh their frames, and whose heads aro so 1ar above the clouds that they are nsver touchod by cloud or storm, bnt bathed perpotually in tho light of the' sun, the moon or the stars that march across the sky nightly tn splendid acray. The region 1s perhaps 800 miles in length and 50 to 150 miles wide. A Paradise for Colonlsts, It was apparently at one time the bed of a vast foland sea, whose shores have lonz since been transformed into mountains that now shelter the entire basin on every side and from whose snowclad summits como the sparklinz rivers that mako it possiolo for man to 1ive here and enjoy all the comforts of life. Besides the Big and Little Laramie rivers and their tributaries threading the plains in every direction, ure lakes of all sizes, and on the banks of all these bodies of water aro ranches where the ag cultural possibilities have proven as limitless us thosein tho department of mining or stock raising. Tivigation diiches ns long, as wide and as deep as tho Erie canal and costing fabulous sums of money, have been constructed,bring- ine hundreds of thousands of ucres under water, offering to the colonist who is looking for a home and 18 willing to reclaim it from ““the desert” the richest farming land in tho world, the water-right free, and absolute immunity from the drouth, flood or dostructive insects against which the' farmor at a lower elevation has to contend. A Frozen Ocean. ‘T'he Black Hills on the east and the Medi- cine Bow range on the west present just uow, in counection with the avove mentioncd plains and rivers, a landscapo that is marvel- ously beautiful. The snow that has fallen at short intervals ever since early October has given to tho basin ~of the pro-Adamite sea the uppearance of an ocean frozen over curing a calm; its billows sunatched forever from the power of the piti less storm, and at_the moment when the gentlo swell left all their graceful outlines perpotuated for future generations to gaze upon. On’ tho margin of this marble imago carved by nature, the bills that shelter the whole stretch of country from the storms of winter und- summer alikej rise abruptly. From their barren flanks the wind has whipped away every vestige of white, but above this a sbowy wave envelops thoir huge forms,and covering their rugged crests glisten in 'that sunlight with the satiny shsen of an angel’s shoulder. The ice-bound rivers, on which rest two feet of crystal surfuce, every inch as “clear and puro as the bosom of @ star,’ stretch like two silver chains across the entiro length of,tho plains. These, with the lakes, viewed from the dark brow of the Black Hills in the full glare of the morning sun, glow like diamonds set in opals they are so dazzling one eannot look at them for more thun a second or two—thoy fairly burn through the oyes and into the brain. A Great Silver Cam In sight of the lovely town of Laramio, “Gem city of the Rockics,” is the new silver camp thatis fondly hoped will become a second Leadvillo, or perhaps the greatest silver camp on the continent. It lies on the eastern slope of the Snowy range and under the evening shadow of ithe Great Divide, The belt so rich in this precious metal is not yet familiar to those who have located on aud aro developing it, but it has already been prospected for a distance of fourteen miles and the “lime dyke” is at least 100 feot wide on the average. The claims that have beon most extensively doveloped during the past year are the Brooklyn and New York, owned by the Lucky & mpany; the Red Bird, owned by J. J. Fein, and the Big Strike, Judge C. W. Brawel’s property. On the tirst named ledge a shaft has been sunk o a depth of over fifty feet, and the rock has been steadily increasing in value, Before they had suvk ten feet the owners were offerod 5,000 for the mine. Now (hey would proba- bly not consider any offer. The ove is mot only high zrade, but the ledge practically in- exhaustible. The whole side of the moun- tain is rich in the precious metals, if indic tions go for anything, for wonderful leads ot silver, copper and gold have been discovered everywhere from tho head of Krench creek to the head of Rock creex and at the foot of Old Spring, along Douglas creek and its tributaries, are placers thkat have boen workod profitably for the past twenty years, togother with rich quartz lodes, of which the Keystone and the Florence have been noted producers for a long time. from La Plata it is but six miles across the ridge to Gold Hili, which has been fully described many times in Te Bee, One can in miawinter snowsnoe it over in a very short time. he Laramie plains have been mentioned as a Lype of the whole state, for are left to be econsidered the vast oil basins, the im- measurable fields of coal, the rich agri- | cultural districts and other resources almost without umber that are to Do found on every side and whose development will produce an amount of treasure that Lo man can coun- pute. The Great Coal Ca Caroon, Hanna, Dana, Rock rings and Almy are all coal camps that are fast coming to the front. It is claimed by those well in- formed o the subject thal Hauua is the coming groat coal camp of the west. Itis cortainly growing like magic in population and as the population is cOMPosea Almost ex- clusively of miners it is 19 be inforred that the output is being proportionately in- ereased. Election Day. Owing to delays ou the Nevraska division, the train did not reach Salt Lake unul about 9o'clock a. m. It waselection day und every other interest was lost sight of in the strug- glo for suprew; betwecn the Mormous and tho Gentiles, It is useless to deny the fact U ame old battle is still on, Kepublicans and democrats here are what third parties are in the east. ‘They serve as auxiliaries Lo one of the old combiuations and invariavly ruin the very cause they seek o udvance—Lhat is, unless one party is so powerful that it cab overwhelm tue whole abooale. The colhusiasm on all sides was un- bounded. ‘There was the usual array of car- riages with flaming. bauvers, the salouns were closed, Lhero was a crowd surrounding overy polliug piace, and there was euough | squabbling and feaud to do credit to the old “Bloody Third" in Omaba. Thnsliberals won the day and in_the evening they celebrated their victory. The women, who once voted, wore disfranchised somo years ago, but thoy helped to “‘domonstrate” all the same, and 1 beliove I nover saw such a carnival befc Theroe wera bonfires on every hand, generally about six to tho block. “Men, women and bovs went about vlowing tin hoens until the din would hove shaken dowp walls ten times s strong as those of Jericho, had they kept up the racket Ladios who woro evidently respectable would walk up and toot their horns r the face of tho passer-by. Kids of voars swellod tho pandemonium played and men in uniforms of awako pattern marched un and stroets until long aftor miduight, foaturo I moticed was the appoar maskers in the crowd. It was a ton Bands the wide- down the A new neo of niaturo wardi gras, & mammoth bal masquo without | the music and the aancing, a carnival at Itomo or Venice. It was the wildest, most reckiess, most demonstrative night 1 bave over even read of, outside of Poe’s *Masque of the Red D ath Yet thoy say that thoy have had seven such contests in this eity and that this wasn't a marker to some of thew. Tho night wound up with a fire on the main street in which two prominent business houses were burned out, aad I verlly bolieve the peoplo would have onjoyed seeing half the town go, rather than forego tho delirious bliss of vic tor, ‘ A Big Strike, The second notable event of the wesk was the striking of auother big well of natural ®as on the line of the Union Pacific, twelve miles north of the city, by the American Natural Gas company, and "the cercmonies attending its first firing. After oight woeks of boring ana at a dopth of 715 feet the first sandstone of the carboni- ferous period was struck. It was the gonu- ine Trenton stone and, when the drill vene- trated it, it was hurled upward, the great iron mass not only coming to the surface, but flying fully feet higher in tho air, This was followed by a shower of earth and gravel, rock and debris of all sorts, that when it fell formed a crater- like circlo around tho hole and sunk into tuo surfaco to a dopth of seven feet. The man ager and his workmen were angaged about that time in bunting for the Union Pacitle track, a half mile away, or plainly speaking, for refuge from the shower that was as dan- gerous as that from an eruption of Vesuvius. The new strike naturally caused a great sensation in Zion, where they are banking heavily on the valuo that natural gss will prove 1o the city in the way of mviting man- ufacturing and Industrial flrms to locate here; public curiosity was excited to the highest piteh, and the Union Pacific ran a special excursion train to tha scene to enable the public to size up the situation to their own satisfaction, Arriving at the powt nearest the well, which is probably 1,000 feet from tho woll first discovered, two enormous torches were descried burning near the shore of the lake. Thero was also heard the melodious voice of a calliope, operated through the medium of a two inch pipe from the old well, set up near the Union Pacific taack. J. C. Elliott, an old timo and well known Omaha plumber, who has been located hers for the past three years, and who has done all the pipe titting * for these wolls, superin- tended the exhibition. Every fow minutes he would hold a handtul of red, biua or green tirc powder near the lower orifice of the large pipo stem, so that the suction carried it up into the torch, producing very fiue effocts, not to be equaled by the best spec tacular business in the country. Meanwhile tho scene was successfully photographed by two of the leading artists of Zion. Soon there was heard, off to the west a roaring sound like shat from a locomotive when tho blower is turned on, but many times louder, and the crowd began to surge that way. Arviving near the engine house of the now well, a grayish column was scen shooting upward from a six-inch pipe that extended twenty feet above the well and was guyed with ropes and fastened to the drilling rig. The column strengly resembled a huge fountain of sand, and was about 150 feet high, aud twelve teat wide at tho base. This was what the visitors had come to see, but they did not know it. It could only -bo lighted by of Roman candles, the many-colored balls from which were sent flying in_the di- reetion of the flame .which did not light un- til tully ten feet above the vent. Aftor sev- eral ineffectual attewpts, one of tho balls was sent directly through the gray column, there was a splash and Instantancously a Roar that mado overy man and woman horses that had been ridden or driven to the woll plungoed and snorted, and » pede seemed inovitable. Butthe fractions steeds were soon curbad and brutes s woll as men stood awe-stricken in the presence of the greatest toreh ever lighted in the Rocky mountuin region. The roar of the escaping Zas was awe-inspiring; tho flome us it shot upward was terrible Lo’ look at; the glare of the torch lighted the highest mountain and was visiblo ten miles away. Boys threw snowballs into the midst of the column of burning gas, and they were natched up and thrown 5u0 yards away. he full pressure of the gas was not turned on by any means, but there was enongh in tho spectacle- 1o confirm- thoso who nave scouted the idea of there being enough natural @as in this country to be ol practical advantage to manufacturers and for city heating and lighting. W. H. Ke~r. - COLORED PLOPLE SWINDLED, heir Homes on a Promise of K Passage to Afcica, New Youg, Fe, A party of colored mon, numbering about u hundred, arrived uero today. Tho famiiies are on their way from Indian Territory to Liberia, Africa, They were a curious looking lot of peoplo, Tho polico took them to Stophen Morritt's mission to give them shelter from tho rain and something 10 eat. One of tue number, George Washington, a venerablo darkey, told tho story of their wanderings, fle said they came from Redland, 1. 7., in the Cherokeo nation, fifteen miles from Fort Smith, Ark. Most of them owned property and raised cotton, but the last summer the crop was a failure and they became dissatisfied. Tha trip to Liberia had been discussed last June, Rey. Mr. Hill, their pastor, fuvored the pro ject and concluded to go with them as their ieader. Kev. Mr. Hill told thom that it would cost them $1,500 1o get to this city and that the steamsnip company would™ give them free passage to Africa. iis proposition was accepted, 3 Many of them sold their homes for almost nothing in order toraise the amount, He said that some time ago he received a cireu lar from a manr named Coppinger of Wash- ington, manager of the Awerican Coloniza tion society. T'he circular stated that negroes could go to Africa free of charge after taking the oath of allegiance to the Africon gov ornment administered at the custom houso, This they found was untrue. The pastor and bis people are left here without means aud all of them bereftof home nnd farms, A Public Entertainment. A free public entertainment will be given ut the rooms of the Omaba commercial col- lege over the Hoston storo, corner Sixteenth d Douglas streets, next Lbursday evening, bruary 25, The entertainment will con- sint of an a0dross by Bishop John P. New. man, and a literary contest hetween the commereial literary sociely and the Stenog- raphers' nssociation, interspersed with ex cellent music, On Friday ovening, February 25, the students and ox-students will give a %ocial and bauguet at the rooms of the coliege with an informal program. o public is cor Qiaily invited to sttend the entertainment Thursday evening. Admission both even- ings will be by complimentary tickets, which way be had at the college oM Owaha Medical Colloge Notes, Dr. Joseph Neville is about to rotive from the collowe and will be succeeded by Dr. A. 17, Jouas. Dr. Leiseuring, for many years locturer on obstetries, will lesve soou for a trip to Cali- foruia. Dr. E. W. Chase will fill the chair for the rest of the year. With the completion of the new St Jos- 's hospitul the Medical colloge wiil pro- bably either build ia the vicinity of the hos vital or will move to a more contral location, means start; ciose stam- They Sell S - wo Killed and Folr Injured. Fouest, Miss,, Feb, 22,—A gonstruction train on the Vicksburg & Meridan road was wrecked near this station. Two negroes, section hands, were instantiy killed, and Conductor Remsey, Section oreman Rodg- ors and two brakemon were fawuliy injured. 200" CARNS KEEPS THE RECORDS Thayer's Inspeotor Declines to Tarn Over Books and Papers to Heimrod, WHAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS AL Documents Per ng to the OMes Must Be Tarned Over on Loaving— Last of the Doputy Ol Ine spectors Named, Liscory, Nob., Feb, 92 I J~Although Louis Heimrod has had chiargo of tho oil inspection departmont sineo tho Sth instant, ho has as yot failed to re- ceive from his prodecessor, K. C. Carns, the vouchers for monoys oxpendod, statomonts of oils inspocted and stub books of the deputios showing rocord of oils inspected and foes ro coived, These rocords bolong to tho office and should have been loft thero whea Mr. Carns turned it over to Mr. Heimrod, At tornoy General Hustings has rendered an official opinior, in which he plainly says that “itls the duty of all retiring officers 1o do- liver over to their snccessors in offica all books, papers, records, vouchers, furniture, ote., pertafning to said oftice.” Tho law is clearon the subject, and if Mr. Carns kept such vouchors and doputy's roceipt books as ho was in - duty bound 1o do, he has no right to retain them after ho has retired from oftice, 1t is especially desirablo that the oxpe vouchers and deputy’s roceipt books should be kept on filo in the office of tho stato oil in- spestor. Inspector Caldwell's records of & similar nature are on file and so aro Inspoctor Heimrod’s. The public will naturally in: quire, “Why has not Mr. Carns complied with ' the law and vlaced his expense vouchers, ate,, on file!" Chief Inspector Heimrod has mada n soe ond formal demand upon Mr. Carns for the roturn of the expenso vouchers, ote., which properly belong to tho state. Mr. Heimrod today completed his foroe ot deputies by appointing C. K. Forbes of St Paul as tho fifth, Gossip at the State House, Today being V |Spacial to T ishington’s birthday and a legal Loliday, Governor Boyd gave his ofticial exccutioner a day of rest ) romovals or appointments wore made, but several wmay be expectod tomorrow. Pawnee City’s donation of 1,000 bushols of corn was inadvertantly omitiea from the list published in the daily papors last weok, but itaccompanied tho train nevertholess, A check for £72.40 was reccived today for tho Kussian reliof fund. 1t was forwarded to Akron, O., where it will be applicd to the purchase ol corn meal, Iditor Wablquist of the Hastings Demo- crat was a state house visitor today. Nelson McDowell, the chief clerk in tha oflice of the sceretary of state, roturnod this afternoon from Beatrice, whero ho spent Sunday. Warning to Oil Deal Oil Inspector Heimrod today sent out a cir- cular caleulated to remedy any abuse that had arison through the carelossness of formor inspectors. It explains itsell: To Doalers tn Petroleum OIL {n the State ot Nebrasicn: [t has come to my notlco that cers taiu dealers in potroloum ol have noglooted to remove or efface the brand of tho oll in- Spector on- empty barrels, casks or packages 1T herewith eall your attention to section 8 of the oft Insy ! s, einboforo spec isposo of any clupty bi » beert used fo such oils und been 1 by stute ¢ deputy inspector befa iy cancoel romoving or effacinz tho fnspection brand an the same, shall bo guilty of a nisdemennor and on convietion thereof shall pay a fino of ten dollars, 310, for eacn barrel, cusk or pack- aze thus sold or disposed of Asitis tho duty of tho state ofl inspector and s deputies” to_enforce this law. [ must and Wil lezully proceed awainst any person Violuting the sime. LOUS (1K o, State 01 Inspector, May b ething in It Yet, A sensational story was afloat today 1 garding a shooting aifray at the ponitentisr Saturday afternoon. A gentleman who w v the institution Saturday states that a bie negro, whom he was told had been sent up from Platismouth avd who oad beon om ployed in the harness department, was repri- manded by Warden Mallon for an’ infraction of tho new rules lutely put in forco there. The altercation took placo outside the bar ness building and tho negro becoming angered at the wardan’s tone started for him. Scarcely had ho taken two steps when a guard in tho tower leveled his Winchestor aud fired. The builet struck the negro on tha froutal bone, high up, and plowed through his hair, inflicting only u scalp wound. It failed to knock him down but dazed him, and be was casily overpowered and pluced in Ssolitary.” . J. Hyner, a clerk in the wardon's oftico, whn telephoned to denounced the story as i “confounded lie,? and Contractor Dorgan disclaimed all knowlodge of any such ocour- rence. Ready for € ment Day. Horare I, Scudder of Cambridge, Mass has beea engaged to deliver the common ment oration next June. Mr. Sendder is editor-in-chief of the Houghton, Mifilin Pub. lisning company. All the books published by this firm must fivst pass througn his hands. But Mr. Scudder is best knowu as the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, Ho has lield this important position for many ven and is known to many people through his writings, Ihis engagemout fills ono the list of the university orators for this year. Tho university authorities should fool proud that they have been able to engage such notod and learned men s KReov. Gladden, Rev. Kir- kus and Mr. Scuddor to deliver their ad- dresses. ensks or pue nen Oddx wnd Ends, William Beunot, an iomato of the _Lincoln fusane asylum, dica Saturday, aged 7. The remains were sent to Grand I5iand this aftor- noon. Hazel Washburne, daughter of Mr, and Mrs, William Washburne, ago 2 years, died yestorday. The funeral oceured this after- noon from the residence, 27 South Ninth streot. “Ihe funcral of N, 8. Scott, ono of Lincaln's pioneers, occurred yesterday aftornoon from the First Presbyterian ehureh, of which the deceased was an elder. Iuterment 100k place ut W uka. Tha ladies of Giraco Lutherau church will give & freo sew Eugland supper at the chureh, I 5 streets, on Wednesday ovening of this week. A cordial invition i3 extendad o ail to attond, Tho second annual entortainment given by the pupils of St. Theress high school will occur tonight and tomorrow night. A very interesting program has been arrauged for tonight, incluaing ehoruses, tableausx, ete, W. W. Kerling of West Oak procinet has taken the position in the oftice of the districy court clerk made vacant by Steve Jones' resignation. Mr. Kerbog is woll known throughout the county, and will make an of- ficient. cierk. “Tho pleasaut hour party, which was (ohaye been hield Wednesday evening at the Liucoln hotel, has been postponed on account of a propdsed loap year pary, wlch will bogiven at tho same place this weok, probably the same evening, Tho fuveral of Herman M. Cornell, who died Saturday evening, occurred at 2 o'clo this afternoon from the Rirst Baptist church, Deceased was a student in the Lincoln Bus: - noss college, and the school attended the funeral iu & body. e MASSACRED BY INDIANS, Ameriean Redskin War Path, L Paz, Bolivia, Feb. 22.—At Huairo, In the Meruvian department of Ayacuche, Bolivian Indiaus attacked a numbor of farm houses. Beforo the savages Lad forced au outrance, two reguments arrived and routed the redskins, killing twelve of their number and badly wounding threo others. Advices from othier parts of the stato tell of an - dian outbreais and tho MAssucre of & numbor of missionaries aud settlers Houth Go on the Say the Revolution Is Over, Ciry or Mexico, Fob. 22.—A thorough lo- vestigation of the froutier and the coasts in- dicates that there is now 0o danger of an up- rising in Mexico. The Garza bandits, who bad been operating in United Slates terri- tory, appear 1o have disbanded with no liko- 1ihood of reorganizing.