Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1892, Page 4

THE ——— DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, Emitor. MORNINC e PUBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF SUBSC DanlgBeo (without Sund T'nily and Sunday, One Yeur, E1xM onths ..o Ahree Months, .. tundny HBee, One Y Eouth On aha, Councii BI Ohlenzo O New York R & Wushington, Fotirteenth Streot. CORRESPONDF 3 A1l _communications reluting to news and editorinl watter should be addressed tc the Editorinl Depurtment. BUSINESS LETTERS ATl business lettors and romittances teaddressed to The Bee Publishing € ha. Drafts. checks and postoffi jo made piyable to the order of the coni- piny. e Beo Putlishing Company, Proprictor NT OF CIRCULATION, Fate of » County of Douglas. (%% Geo. B, Trachuck, socrotary of The BER Jublishine company, does solemnly swear that the {renintion of TiE DATLY BEE FWORN Thursdn Friday. Euturday. Fel Average.. GEO. Eworn to before ne_and rresence this 2th day of February. SEAL N. P FEL, ary Pablle. wish he had burned that letter. Mexico affords a living example of the effect of the policy of free silver coin- age. REJECT every proposal offered for the new Central school site, gentlemen, if by 8o doing better figures can bo ob- tained. THe hoary-headed rumor that Secre- tury Noblo will shortly resign from the cabinet has again hobbed itseil into prominence Emreror Wi M is not especially gilted as an orator, but lately whenever he has made a speech it has produced o decided sensation. JUubGE W, M. ROBER! 's retire- ment from the Neligh land office is probanly the preliminary step toward the cultivation of a Robertson congress- fonal boom, BRrAziL has aporopriated $600,000 for the purpose of making an exhibit at the World's fair. Brazil under the new form of government is progressive, even if it is also turbulent, IpANO is being well advertised by the discussion of the senatorial controversy in the United States senate, and the con- testant, Colonel Claggett, is achieving national notoriety which may be useful in the future, NEBRASKA’S contingent of eminent Irishmen is as much divided against it- self as that in the English Parliament. Land Leaguo President Gannon’s ad- dress has stirred up a hornets’ nest of no small dimension in these parts. RoAsTING David Bennett Hill is a harmless amusement in which the Cleveland democrats and mugwumps of New York are indulging just now. They ovidently think Hill will taste fully as well roasted as otherwise. ———— 3 IN ViEw of the courtesy extended to Omaha by the third party people at St. Louis yesterday we are estopped from criticising adversely the curious conglo- meration which is toconstitute the thira party in the national campaign of 1892, TOBACCO growing is a profitable in- dustry wherever soil and climate are adapted to it. The result of the experi- ments in Nebraska will be watched, therefore, with great interest, especially as they promise to be entirely success- ful, BouLy donations will be ac- cepted by the park commission until further notice. Park donations would likewise be cheerfully receivedif public- spirited land owners should find their hearts moved to this style of public benefactiol NO THOUGHTFUL, practical politician - will blame Hill for holding an early cut- and-dried convention. In the game of volitics the gambler who has a sure thing never takes in a partner, or post- pones the game morely for the sake of professional sentiment. — ARCHITECTS are to be invited to furnish plans for a library building to cost $80,000, but the unconditional con- veyance from the Byron Reed heirs of the library lot has not yet been placed in escrow to be delivered when the 880,000 building is completed. —_—— * THERE should be 25,000 names signed to the Manufacturers and Consumers as- sociation pledge to give home manufac- tures the preference in all purchases of Roods, prices and quality equal. With such a guarantee of business it will not be difficult to induce other factories to locate in Omaha, — HOUSEKEEPERS in Omaha have al- ready demonstrated their patriotism by the support they have so cheerfully given to the home patronage movement. They will now be given a further op- portunity to prove their fidelity to the city und state. The Manufacturers and Consumers association will have a can- vass of the city made by ladies who will distribute copies of a catalogue of home products and home manufacturers and at the same time invite siznatures tothe honorary memberehip roll of the asso- clation. These signatures involve no expense, but are agreements to give home industries the preference, price and quality being equal, in making pur- chuases for the household. Tue BEE bespeaks for the lady canvassers a cor- dial welcome ut all our homes, SOMETHING MUST BE DONE Ciicsco, fil,, Feb, . —John M. Ihurs- ton of Omaba will loave Chicago for Now York tonight, where ho will adviso eastern republican leaders that tho allianco is as strong as aver in Nobraska ana Kansas, and something must bo done to check it. “The wholo movement,” said Mr. Thurs | ton today, “has been given such a strong | volitical backing that it cannot be easily stopped. I think the republican party is ready to listen to tho griovances of the farmers and make laws to widen their mar Kets and givo better roturns to the farmors for thetr produce.” —Uniled Pre s dispateh, Yes, indeed; somothing must be done, and that thing must bo done speedily. The remedy must not be political catnip ten and soothing syrup, but blue mass and ipecac. The republican party can- not hope to regain the support of the farmers uhless they are given substan- tial relief at the hands of officials who are in position to do so. The way togive the Nebraska farmer better prices for his products is to reduce railroad freight rates. The State Board of Fransporta- tion should act at once and redeem the pledges made to the producers of Ne- braska in the republican platform of 1890. It is manifest that if the republi- can state board at the behest of the rail- road managers, who have a mortgage on them, refuse to do their duty, the democrats and independents will do it for them in an extra session of the legis- lature. But this actof deathbed repentance alone will not restore the party in popular confidence in Nebraska unless it is coupled with proofs of honest intention to give people ief from corporate The Iroads must vetire from politics in Railroad boss- other the misruie. fact as well as in name. ism must bo subordinated to the un- trammeled will of the rank and file of the party. Our conventions must ceuse to be mere ratification meetings of the caucuses held at railroad headquarters, Our candidates must be in touch with the producers and free from all corporate entanglements. Clean, capable and unpurchasable men must be placed in thelead and dishonest hacks and pliant stool-pigeonsof jobbery and monopoly must be relegated to the rear. Will Mr. Thurston prevail upon the railroad magnates to let go their grip upon the republicans of Nebraska and givethem achance to broathe once moro? Will Mr. Thurston and his associ the railroad lobby who wrecked es of and ruined the republican party in Nebraska stand aside and give the rank and file a chance to redeem it in this critical Let them understand clearly that a boodio campuign in Nebraska will The people are aroused as they never have been before. hour? not win this year. No loyal republican will waver on the national but a man’s shirt is nearer to him than his overcoat. The people of Nebraska are determined to govern themselves and party ties on local issues will snap like the hempen cords that bound the wrists of Samson. ues, LOUIS CON INCE. The conference at St. Louis, made up of people who are discontented with pre- vailing conditions—financial, industrial, political and social—decided to hold a national convention and nominate a presidential ticket. This result was reached after one of the stormiest ex- periences ever known to a political con- ference, and one which doubtless left much bitterness of feeling that will not soon be removed. There wasa vigorous opposition on the part of southern rop- resentatives to the plan of nominating candidates for the presidency, which disclosed the fact thut very ganerally the alliance men in the south will sup- \ port the democratic ticket. The north- ern aliiance people profess to believe that they have captured the southern alliance vote, but representatives of the latter resent the assumption. It will undoubtedly be found on election tod that the great majority of the alliunc men south are loyal to the political faith they have always held. The solid south is in no danger of heing broken by deser- tion from the democracy of any consid- erabic number of the members of the alliance. The new political movement has no terrors for the dominant party in that section. The harm it will do to either of the old parties will be izflicted chiefly on the republican party in the states where the alliance has & numer- ous membership. It may result in throwing the election ot president into the house of representatives and thereby giving the country a democratic execu- tive, for of course no rational man sup- poses that the new party can elect its candidates. The complaints made by the promo- ters of the new movement are not all of them groundless. Some of the evils they point out everybody will concede exist and ought to be remedied. But thero is & great deal of exaggeration re- garding prevailing conditions. It is simply absurd to say that the country is on The verge of moral, political and na- tional ruin. There is no evidence of de- terioration morally, the country never had a cleaner and more practical na- tional administratioa than it now has, and in all material conditions the na- tion is making steady progress. Busi- ness is not generally as active as could be desired, but the known facts regard- ing our foreign commerce and trust- worthy reports respecting home indus- tries show that business is far from being prostrated. The statement that labor is impoverished is another one that will not stand investigation. But it is the financial principles of the new party that will subject it to the severest criticism. These are of the wildest ana most indefensible character, which could they be put into practice would in a brief time destroy public and private credit and end in disaster to all inter- ests. It is most remarkable that practical farmers cannot see that vthe sub-treasury scheme, a fiat currency, and fres coinuge of silver are expedients from which they would be the first to suffer. Of ull classes THE OMAH of people none is more deeply concerned in having a sound and stable currency than the farmer and the laborer, and such a currency would be impussible in the plan of the new party. It does not appear that this movement is gaining in strength. It seoms hardly possible that it can do so with such a platform of financial heresies. It will doubtiess make some trouble, howover, for the old parties, and more particularly for the republic , toward which its now prominent leaders are especially unfriendly, WILL 1 LYING? Tie Bee contains & quite lengthy editorial explaining the whys and wherefores of the defoat of L. D. Richards for governor a yoar ago last fall and calling upon Nebraska re- publicans to get into lino again for the na tional campaign. But Rosey does not have a word to say concorning that little para graph thut appeared exclusively in the weekly edition of Tie Bee one week before election day of that memorable campaign.— Platt m wh News. "he only editorial paragraph relating to Richards that can be foundin the weekly edition of THE Brr of October 2), one week before election day, reads as foliows: Hon. 1. D. Richards began life as a pile driver and the present indications are that he will resume operations witih that useful but emphatic implement for ono day only o tho dth of November. Now what is thero in this paragraph that can be construed by anybody con- versant with the English language as a stab or a slur? Will the vile impostersand hypocrites who are constantly prating about the betrayal of Richards have the decency to reproduce the following editorial that appeared in Tue WEEKLY BEE of October 22, 1890, two wecks before the election: Mt RICHARD'S CAMPATGY, Mr. Richards carries on his canvass for the governorship with a modesty and dignity characteristic of the man. Reports from various parts of the state which ho has visitea show that he has evervwhere won popular respect and impressed the peoplo as aman who could be trusted to administor the affairs of the state honestly, wisely and 1n accordanco with the platform promises of his party. His speeches are plain, straightforward statements of the record and principles of the republican party in their relation to the issues of the present campaign. Thoy ara admiraoly adapted to tho situation. They refer, with a pride which every western re- publican should shave, to what the party has done for tho west in the way of homestead laws, the administration of tho land oflice, the increase of silver coinage, the admission of new states, and the application of protec- tion to the products of the farm. They de- seribo the development of the stato for thirty years undor an unbroken succession of re- publicun governors. They emphasize the promises of the present platform with re- gard to the regulation of the railroads and provision for public elevators. In one respect Mr. Richards’ speeches are of more than partisan importance, He ren- ders agoou service to men of all parties in branding as false tho stories of widespread depression and impending disaster which the leaders of other parties have scattered broadeast in the hops of getting nto office thereby. Incombatling these false but dam aging assertions he does a service for which every business man ana farmer should be grateful, whoever their candidate for gov- ernor. The facts and figures which he em- plovs fully sustain his position and the repu- tation of the state. Mr. Richards represonts in his life and character the best citizenship of Nebraska. His campnign is a good index of the sound and honorable administration which might be expected of bim as governor, LET THEM APPEAL, Tt is given out that the Union Pacific will appeal to the federal courts to en— join the city from revoking or modifying the grant of side-track privileges which the company has procured through the successive city councils within the past twenty years. By all means let the company appeal. It has already appealed to the federal courts to enjoin the asscssment of part of its property for city taxation,although it was listed at about one-fortieth of the actual value which the Union Pa places upon its terminal facilities in Omaha. We may as well have all these questions adjudicated by the supreme court of the United States and if Omaha has no rights which the Union Pacific railrond neelds to respect, the sooner we kknow it the better. A corporation within the city that enjoys ail the municipal privil should be willing to share the burdens of maintaining city government with all other property owners. If our streets and thoroughfares are to be used as u vight-of-way by railroads without any compensation, the railroads that use these streets for side-tracks should at lenst be compeiled to submit to reason- able regulation of switching charges. But if the corporation known as the Union Pacifie railway can defiantly over- ride ull the municipal prerogatives of the corporation known as the city of Omnha, we had better let the Union Pa- cific company assume the entire control and management of our municipal af- fairs. As a matter of fact they have had that control indirectly for the last twenty-five yeurs without let or hin- drance. The possible action of the republican members of the house of representatives upon a free silver bill is boginning to be discussed with considerable interest. Of the eighty eight republicans in the house it is stated that only about eleven are in favor of free coinage. Will the seventy-seven who are opposed to that policy vote according to their convio- tions when the time comes to act, or will they prefur, as a matter of party tactics, to throw the whole responsibility of dealing with this question upon the dem- ocrats? Ninety democrats and seventy- seven republicans would make a sale majority of the house, and it is believed that this number is against free coin- age. The obvious duty of the honest money republicans in the house is to support their convictions with their votes. There is nothing to be gained by & dif- ferent course, It -would not be in the interest of the republican party for its representatives in congress to atllow a free silver bill to puss if they can pre- ventit. On the contrary, it would be more likely to work to the injury of the party, since it would fairly be regarded as a desertion of principle sololy with a view to partisan advantage. Tactics of | RIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 that kind dg got strongthen a party in popular confidence. The democracy is alroady fullyséommitted, asa party, to the free anf \fnlimited coinage of sil. ver. Most ol its leadors aro favorable to that poli. though some of them thing it inexpedient to take action re- garding it at present. The defeat’of a free coinage measure in congress, due to republican votes, would not #éllove the democratic party of the chargd that will bo male against it in the coming campaign that it is the champion of' ¥ dishonest dollar, It is to be hoped there is no ground for the statement that there are ropublicans in the house of representa- tives opposed to freo silver who are prepared to evade their duty when ac- tion is to bo taken on a silver bill in order to throw the responsibility for the passago of such n moasure upon the democratic majority. Ivery considera- tion both of public and party policy dic tates that the republicans in congress who are against free coinage should manfully assert their convictions and honestly support them with their votes That is the true course in the interest alike of the purty and the eountry. THE disclosures regarding the heavy speculation in wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade came at a favorable time to influence sentiment in congress regarding anti-optiou logislation. They can hardly fail to have the effect to ma- terially wealken, if they do not countor- act, the arguments of the board against the proposed legislation. Certainly th furnish a very strong if not ubsolutely conclusive argument to the supporters of the anti-option measures, and they may be expected to make the best possi- ble use of it. Itis manifestly to little purposo to argue against efforts to sup- press specalation in the face of the knowledge of such vast illegitimate trading as has gono on in Chicago, and if members of boards of trade will toler- ate this gambling they must expect to suffer in public opinion. There may be, as claimed, legitimate speculation, but unquestionnbly the greater part of that which takes place is not entitled to be so regarded. Intelligent public sentiment is opposed to gambling in food | whethet it be carried on in bueket shops where anybody may risk his woney, or on the floors of bourds of trade not ac- sible to everybody, and this senti- ment is certain to crystallize, sooner or later, into legislation. roduets, THERE is ona democrat in New York who can be depended upon not to sup- vort David B: Hill under any civeum- stances or ‘for anything. He is ex- Lieutenant Goyernor Jones of freight- paying fame. Genoral Jones has a sub- stantinl and’ deep-seated grievance, which is nothiing less than the refusal v. Hill to’ permit him to act as 'nor. Jones very much desired to have his name: enrolled in the list of distinguished then who have been gov- ernors of the [mpire state, and when Hill was elected to the United State: senate he fahcied that nhis opportunity nad come.. But Hill had schemes afoot, since accomplished, that made it neces- for him to remain at Albany, and eral Jones failed to be governor of New ) The disappointment has quite naturally embittered Jones against Hill, and he will lose no opportunity to lev the world know how he fecls. It i expected that Mre. Jones will take his P nce to Chicago and pay all the freight. vork. I 18 gratifying to know, ns shown by the report of the Columbian commis- sion, that preparations for the World’s fair are making satisfuctory progre: and that there is every reason to expect all will be in readiness when the time arrives for opening the great exposi- tion, fourteen months hence. The pres- ident, in wransmitting this information to congress, made no recommendution regarding an appropriation, but the im- pression is that congress will not refuse additional aid, BuT two months remuin in which to complete preparations for the geneval conference of the Methodist Ipiscopal church. That event will b> most mem- orable in the history of Omaha, and every man, woman and child in this city is in- terested in knowing that the confere is well entertained. Omahwn will have a reputation of some kind, either good or bad, by the timo the conference ad- journs, We must seo to it that our visi- tors ave pleased with the cit co Wugrner Chili has cooled off enough to appreciate the fact or not cannot be told at this distance, but all the other South and Central American nations know that the United States is a firm, strong friend who stands between them and danger fror the other side of the Atlantic and on occasion can sottle dangerous disputes between themselves. The London liar at Santingo cannot destroy this great impressive truth by his misrepresentations. NEBRASKANA: looking toward the Cherokee Strip for homesteads will prooably havé time to havvest this year’s crop before there will be any occasion to move toward™ Oklanoma. The provi- sional agreemdnt with the Cherokee na- tion has not yet been presented for the ratification of{flie senate und there are a good many %y}ufls to be settled after ratifieation. t will probably be well on toward (all bdfbre the Strip is ready for settlers. —r——————— Knocked Out the Stufiing, rofew York Sun, Meanwhile the democratic eagle soars and screams in thoiJoyous consciousness that there is no stufing in the democracy of the Ewmpire state today. e Satan Quoting Seripture, New York Recorder, David B. Hill quoting Abrabam Lincoln and Cardinal Newman io a democratic state convention rocalls Lthe old saying about his satanic majesty quoting scripture. ————— Utah Below the Standard, Globe-Democrat. Utab's admission to statehood now would aad about four electoral votes Lo the demo- cratic total, When Utab mends her morals, however, she will meud ber politics, and sue will uot be admitted before that time. e s Advice to Tows Republicans. Chicago Tribune. If the republican members wish to get ut the real sentiment of the people, the way Lo 40 it 18 this: Pass & bigh license and local | make u ehiuny 189 option law. Those municipalities which do not, want liquor sold within their imits will refuse to grant liconsos and wiil s60to it that 10 whisky shops are ovened. They will at- | tend to that work moro efficiently than ever, aftor they have beon relioved of the duty of looking after the morals of other communi- ties, which has taken up most of their time sinco 1881, Citios and countios which prefer to licenso tho sale of liquor will do so, and, as tho saloons will bo a source of revenue, thoy will look after and rogulato them, which 1s not the case now. Within a yoar after the passage of the local option law it will boeasy to tell how many lowaus actually are for prohibition as against hign license. - se Ingratitude, Philadetphia Reconl, The frrepressible Blair prociaims himsolt a candidate for the Minneapoiis nomination. Blair is rather ungrateful. It was no fault of Prosident Harrson that ho could not crowd the Now Hampshire man ncross tho royal throshold at Pekin, —— DAVID B, HIL HIS BOOM. New York Morning Advortiser (dem.): Hill and his friends have the democratic party in this state by tho throat. What of- fect the spectacio will have upon the coun- try at large remains to ba soon. Kansas City Times (den.) : Iast prosidential convention Monday. He is agood man, but the country means that when Grover Cieveland 1s boaten no New Yorik opponent shall bo olevatod. St. Paul Globe (dem.): Lot it be said once for all that the attacks which have been made on the represontative character of the wather- ing, or the honesty of its composition, are but the'impoteut vaporings of the vangquishoed. Springtield (Mass.) Republican (ind.): Lt Hill’s performance is legitimate politics, any- thing is -bribery, bulldozing, counting out and fraudulent roturns, They aro all on the samo moral level aud equally dangerous to our institutions, Chicago Tribune (rop.): Whether tho Kodak convention will be & boomerang re- mains to be seen, Whether David B. Hill will bo nominated also romains to bo seen. ‘The only thing that seems to be certuin 1s that Cloveland is not “in it Chicago Mail (ind.): Because Now York democrats 1n_convention assembled have adopred a platform and ambiazoned the mag netic name of Huil on their standard it does aot necessarily follow that Mr. Hillis the democratic nominee for president. Boston (Globe (dem.): The anti-Hill_men call the convention that meets in Now York today to racord a solid delegation of soventy- two members in Mr. Hill's favor a ‘‘snap convention.” It deserves the name, too, for there is any amount of suap in the Hill move- ment. Chicago Tuter Ocean (rep): Mr. Hill's convention dia Mr. Hill's_work and thon ad- journed without day. Never was either barty in agreatstate so completely subordi nated to the personal ambition of one man us is tho domocracy of New York to that of David 8. Hill. Washington Post (rep.): The convention has done what was expected of it and its proceedings will be no surprise to the gen- eral pubiic. The great question now remain- ing to be determined is whether New York will be ablo to swing the rest of the country into the Hill line. forald (dem.): The regular de- mocracy of the empire state has ex pressed its prefercnco fora presidential candidato in a regular way. Dovs Mr. Cleveland recognize its authority or does ho give countenance and comfort to the kickers! These are pertinent and rover inquivies and thero is every rea- son why tho ex-president should show his hand. Philadelpbia Times (ind. dem,): If Sena- tor Hill possessed half the wisdom that many of his fricuds ne that he possesses, ho would manfully give the vote of his state for Cleveland’s nomination, lead the battlo for Clovetund’s olection, and thus prove that his leadership of tho democracy of New York means something moro than political theft and personal aggrandizoment. Atlants Constitution (dom.): After four years of discussion between those democrats who pave urzed the propriety of renominat- ing Mr. Cleveland, aud those who have urged tho claims of Mr, Hill, the party in New Y has mada 1ts choice. That cho:ce is D Bennett Hill, and it is the natural, alnost the inevitable, res whict: he has reudered to his party. Detroit Frea Press (dem.): It is unfortu- nate for the demorracy that there is this oreach in the party in the state of New York. Elsowherein the country the polit- 1cal skv 15 promising. It would be 50 in New York were it not for Senator Hill, who was unable t0 moderate his ambition sufli- ciently to wait fora convention held at a reasonable time and with proper notice. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (rep.): A coali- tion of this sort (Hill and Gray) would ces tainly be formidable. 1t would represent th two great debatablo states, The man who obtains the olectoral vote of theso two will secure the presidency, it is generally con- ceded, and the man who enters the conven tion with them behind bim will have an im- portant advantage over all his competitors. Philadelphia Ledger (rep.): The offico should seek the man. A senatorial offico has been sceling a mau, lo, these many weeks, but it-always found him out helping anothor oftico to scol o man by the name of Hill. It 13 understood that ho will now look aftor his senatorial dutios, and remove something of tho tension snsitive conscience has undergono while reccinting for his salary as United States senator. Philadelphia RRecord (dem.): There was probanly noever before asscmbled in the United States under the color of a party movement 4 convention of delogates such as the Hill convention gathered at Albany, having no mind of their own, aud acting in blind subservience to the private interest of u singlo person. Tho spectacle is still more amazing whon we consider that tno mover of these automatons is a candidate for the pres idency of the Unitoa States. Chicago News (ind.-dem.): The strength of David 8. Hill must not be undevrated. It is greator than his enemies wiil openly ad- wit and it 15 by no means confined to New York. On the contrary, the audacious sena- tor, the idol of Tammany, is the inspiration and hove of the grosser eloment of his party overywhere, His v unserupulousness commends bim to the ‘‘practical” spirits of the demorracy. He hus all tho prestige of success—and nothing succeeds like suceess, Chicago Herald (dem,): Senator Hill bad already become & conspicuous figure in poli tics. His cundidacy for tho exalted position of president is in no sense an impertinence. Ho has shown himself to be a bold, mtelli- gent and successful leader. He has re- deemed his state from every vistago of re. publican misrule and has placed it safo and securo in tho democratic list. Heo has many powerful recommendations in bis favor as the candidate of his party to tho natioual struggle this year, ——— Hill got his Venchor— w_from the Me flaide or— 147 Lee—Thiseo Prott d'to wit Sunday school? Wan Leo—Ye stoy here. P'retty Gir Wrat are you afrald of? Wah loap yeur. Whut! The e man now, his crop secured, Doth lont full muny w glont; dreams so sweet, baforo his oyes islol of wampum float, Puck: Proprietor—Look horo! Whutdo you mean by toiling (hal youne lady tht "wo hudn't wny rougues Clerk—I hadn'c the hourt tosell it to her. "Eb! What?' “Sho blushed Like a rose when su usked for it." Washington Star: Small Brother—Say, Mr. Jenks, If your not a clui, 48 you say, you'ro not mueli bixger, are yout Visitor—Why so. Willie? Suwiall Brothor—Hecause 1 heard sister say you were socinlly oyster-sized. George Washinzton ag'er told a lie," Tho people cried, und wi The politlclan heard Lo suld, “We have progressed since’ then," 0 Bullotin; Dressmuker—How would you like yourcostume mado, madam? Mrs. Clownricli—'8pose you make ‘it with one of those vestivule trafns tout I've heern talked of lutely. Biughamton Leader: Wo learn that the populir monetary institution known s the “sawbuck” 18 pursulng the even tenner of ity way. Columbus Post: Keeley says drunkennoss is @ dls aud the sywptoms are suid to be quite joyful. ra Gazotte: It s the fickleness of the contralt whieh compels the Quartovte cholr (o LEADVILLE IN THE SHADE Big Stampede to Cresds Oamp a Record Broaker in Mining History, GREAT WEALTH FOUND IN THE MINES in Narrow Mtain Sides Hod ns and Nailed on M —A Pen Pleta « Its Sur dings. Town and Ca ownsight Thostampode to Leadville in 1870 isn't & markor to the rush to Creedo, the now silver camp in Colorado. To reach Leadville in the oarly days meant mora than tho hardships aud dangers of stago riding on precipitous mountains, Creedo was almost born with a railroad by its side, enavling thousands to rush in with ittle inconveniouce at the Hrst blast of mineral riches, Creede is 100 milos southwest of Denver, on the Rio Grando road. It takes its name from its founder, N. C. Creode, an Illinoisan 50 years of age, who moved to Colorado in 1870, He summored in tho region of the camp, u huge crevice in the faco of the moun tains, sinco 1834, and now enjoys a fortune ©s tho result of his perseverauce. ‘I'ne minin < boom began last Septembor. Thore is no longer any question about either the extent of the mineral deposits or the ys the Denvor Re- publican. Tho daily 'output of the camp is about twenty carloads of ore, that roturn to their luchy owners an averago of $1,000 a oar, The Chance, Grauger, Dickson, others, is produci sending out an av ore that ru owned by Raiph ders, the Wolcotts and the mostore at this time, cage of nine cars a day of $170 & ton between walls. The Amethyst, on the same vein, for lack of shipping facilities, sends out about five by the burro route, out ' as soon us possible a tramway 7,000 fect long will be put in and the output more than trebled. The Holy Moses gets out from three to ton ©ars a day, and the ore runs about $100 a ton. Tho Ethel'ships from one to four cars of alena ore a day. Other mines in the camp ready to ship oro aro the Ridgo and Bachelor. A number of wood propertios could ship at any time tho owners so desired, The Last Chance and_Amethyst aro two of tho groatost minos in Colorado. Tho veins arv full of shipping ore, ard from tho surface bave been dividend-paying mines. Thoy buve produced over $250,000 since the rail- road was completed, and not a pound of ore has been stoped or taken out other than in development. The ore taken from sinking shafts or running drifts goes airectly into the sack or the sled and thence to tho smelter without sorting, and from the two mines not enough waste has been taken from the vein to make a descent for the ore car to run out ou. Dumps at thoso mines aro built up from country rock carriea from the mountain side or by driviug piles. Creede's ¢ logleal Aspect, What might be called the upper half of the camp, comprising the Campbell, Bach- elor end North Mammoth hills, boing the proaucing section, is accredited to be fissure veius veyoud question. There are those who dispute this fact, because of tho presenco of a porphyry wall near the foot. Practical men acquainted with the working mines in- sist thut this porphyry is, in fact, a portion of the vein mass and that beyond’ it lios the country wall. The dip of tho veins is 55> to the west from a horizontal and the strike is very little west of north. The width is in tho maia about fivo feot. Tho lower balf of Creedo cam, beginning at Jimtown and running south, is a great scove of lime formation, it being of the lower carboniferous, known amoug miners as biue limestone. Above 1t lies the porphyry. The coutaet bas a dip of 5) = from the horizontal at right anglo to the strike of the veins to tho north. Lt seems prooablo that at some geological age the older lime foriation may have been disturbed and broken up by the wruption of Lhe nower trachyto formation with its tissuro eads, This stretch of lime extends from where the fissures havo been traced almost to Wagon Wncel Gap, and reaches from the Sunnyside district probably into tue main range, Lo the contacts are iron carbonates, to what extent, aepth or richness cannot be told. Development in this has been most slack. A fow assuys have been had and in oune case it is said to have gone to forty ounces in silver. At the surface tney give a return of much less. Only a few ten-foot holes have been ruu in the lime. A competent mining engineer. who is fa- miliar with all threo of the sections, com- pares the lime of Creado to that of Leadville as being similar 1n all but the matter of dip, and says that the Creede contact has a sim- ilar dip 1o those of Aspen, which are really contact fissure veins. As this gentlemun is vetter posted with the formation in all these camps than any other man in_the camp, his opinions are most reliable. He declares that the upper country is all fissure and tho lowor all contact, and that there will be blankets tound in the camp. Iu contradiction to this theory dozons of miners are working on tho blauket vein 1dea and are willing to mako oath that thero is not a tissure vein in the country. Plenty of Temptation to Prospect, The whole section is alive with float and the country rock is overlaid with vein mat- ter wash and porpbyry, talc and unclassified promising looking rock that keep up confi- dence i discoyery holos, and in sinking these now and then good walls and mineral in placo are encountored. The country has not boen prospected enough 10 go behind the showings of the mines now in ore, and they have every ovi- dence of truo fissures. T rash following tho strikes on Bachelor was for the upper part of the gulch on Wil- low creek. There tho valley is narrow and tho canon walls precipitous. To the west o wreat wall of trachyte rises 1,000 feet per- pendicularly and to the east Mammoth moun- tain, though iess steep for @ short distance from the creek, discourages tho building of houses upon it and shuts off the slopa with a greut wall of rock. In this guleh the build- ing of the town became a booin about the 1st of September. Every foot of ground which looks at all foasibie for a building lot was staked and the buildiags followed as fast as 1ogs could be bronght down from the hills or lumber from tho end of the railrond track. The upper portion of the gulch looked to be full. Down Willow creok about one mile tho guich opens into & valloy much wider and with moro gradual bills on_either side, Here, despite the warnings of old-timers that in the spriog the bottom would be flooded with the waters from Willow, West Willow and Windy gulches, the town' build- ors set their stakes, first on the second bot- tom, then on the willow-grown Islands, then on tho hillsides, sud then in the crook, over tho croek, by fillingup the creek, on rock tides from the bluffs, on bluifs, by digging, lusting, upbuilaing’ or dowu'tearing, any- whore nid evorywhere & bullding eoali bo put, even after hundreds of men had passod by and said one could not b, Lendville's Legltimate Successor, *‘All aboard for Creode!” is the successor in business to the old cry of ‘‘Leadville or Bust.” ‘The world seoms to have caught on to the cry aud the tralos are going out loaded o the guard rails with all classes and conditions of humanity eager either to get & hand in the great game of boom or sce others make the play, 1T by popular vote the miners, speculators and merchants of & dozen western states had conferred together and given bonds to an agreemont to run a race in business at some spot, aud had by lot chosen the least unex- pected one in the hat, the result could not haye boen widely different from what is going ou in the three milos of Willow croek bottom known &s Creede. Six thousand people are piling over each olhier 1n the ice, suow or slush, seelng who can get up the biggest bullding the quickest, wto can get the best location in creek channel or bottom, in roc’s or on hillside, and fill bis bouse wilh goods for trade, hang out his shiogle und rope the professional business or find the most with whom 1o ply his trade, The honey iu the yock walled veins in the hills about Creede attracted a swarm of | buman bees, and they are bumping against other in Lhelr haste Lo get aL Lhe sweets, They cau sting i necessary, or Lhey cau join together Lo the common eud. Great Camp to Bo In. Creado is lu a good bumor. Everybody is laughing, making money and has hopes of making much more. The scofie of waost- ern lifo in the guleh, although in the gen- eral stylo of the camps, which have pre- ceded it, has a tone of its own that makas it worth a journey of days to see, if nothing moro. Thero is overy phase 1o it which attaches to booming mining campe, ing only tho tint of blood, [t camp, The houey is of so on that no one gots it all and all coma in for ashare. Thero is no noed to fight over tho stores and for this reason, though now and then a disputo may ariso, the fight does not narrow the limits so that one must dio to tanke room for tho other, 5o they laugh and €0 at it in a now flold, Tho real estate branch of tho big boom furnishes tho most disputes. The laws of the land do not bedge a lot stake with any rights to bo respocted, and public sen- timent aud common consont alone give it cast, In Creedo the stak ent a whole lino of t from gon- eration down, when accompaniod by posses- sion, makes a statutory enactment supported v the court of highost resort. The ingenuity and thrift of the Amorican peoplo is never shown to botter advantage than when quick thinking and prompt action is required, as in a camp Iiko Crondo. Whon this talont ' runs to the solection of buildiug lots and tho transformation of rock oliffs. bluft hillsides or ereck bods into business or sually wani is a poncoful FOUS @ qUAntILY is absoluto. It is pat- residenco lots of great value, the result is most taking. At Creedo the sight-secr will bo often improssod with this fact. Tt 1s u great cumps great in its mines, its rush, its boom, irs lifo in cvery vhase, and it will lust. It will settlo down to solid busj: ness with a population of 15,000 or 20,000 peo ple, aud, in its mines, must honcoforth hu\ rocognized as ono of tho great silver-pr. ducing sections of Colorado. It is groat to soc, great to know and groeat to he in, Sutton Adveruser: The soven column dissolving view—Sutton Registor—down the streot says we're no chomist, Strange! What does the record show that Dr. Clark has uccomplishod as a chomist in Nebraska! State vs Anderson, noisoning by arsenic; State vs Lee, poisoning by strychaine vs Lawback, poisoning by strychnino; Stato vs Morso, poisoning by strychnine; State vs Stevenson, polsoning by corrosive sublimate. In the caso of state vs Morso conviction followed trial of the caso, tho jury bringing in u verdict of guilty of murder in the first dogree; a now trial was granted from an error in the manner of the rowurn of the ver dict to the court by the jury and not either on the merits of tho case or the insufticiency of the chomical analysis, ‘I'ho jury that triod tho case nor General Colby, whose stubborn- ness in eriminal trials is proverbial, asked to have our work reviewed by another chemist. The court at its own request and on its own motion sent fhe chemist to the State univer. sity and Prof. Nichoison, its chemist, aftor a careful analysis contirmed the test and found the stomach of Mrs. Morso to contain polson. It might be well in this connection to simply refor to the fact that the jury in the Morse casa brought in their verdict of guilty of murder in tho first degreo. After M. Colby’s stagoy performance in his argument wherein he protended to drink somo of the poison in order to defeat the analysis, but which solution was never claimed 10 be uny- thing but bitter from the prosence of tho stryehnine and not in a poisonous dose. Tho jury recogmzed that und never paid any at- tention to it, but regarded it as o neat law- yor's trick on the part of Coluy to clear his client from the gallows. In the case of State vs Stevenson the jury brought in a verdict of guilty and tho court sentenced the prisoner to the penitentiary, it being & prosecution under tho pharmacy act. In three of the five cases of criminal pols- oning in which Dr. Clark was tho state chomist, the prisoners wero discharged, but in each of them the poisoaing was admitted. In tie other two the sufticiency of tho unaly- sis was disputed and convictions followed, No criminal lawyer in Nebraska will hazard his clients chances for lifo or liberty any more by disputing tho finaings in Dr. Clark’s chemical auyalyes in criminal poisoning. His work 13 _considered in medico-logal circlos simply impregnable. . Tosummarize: His testimony as a chem- ical expert bas sent one man to tho galiows, one to the pevitentiary, and now thesupremd court, tho highest tribunal in the state of Nebraska capable of judging, has passed upon his work and bas reversed u_decision of a district_judge ou the ground that he found a certain article of whisky adultorated as ne stated on the triai of the caso, What moro could ba _possibly found or needed 1o estab- lish Dr. Clark’s ability as a chemist. Wisconsin 0dd Fellows' Oficers, Searta, Wis., Feb. 25.—The forty-fourth annual grand encampmeont of the Wisconsin Independont Order of Oad Fellows closed yestorday, The following ofticors of tho grand lodge were electod: Grand patriarch, L. I Thisssen, Oshkosh; grand bigh priest, J.A. Fathers, Janesvillo: grand senior war deu, J. C. Oates, Darlington; grand scribe, L. O. Holmes, Baraboo: grand treasurer, William Humphbrey, Appleton, — Appoint- ments by the grand patriarch: Grand mar- shal, Oscar Smith, Whitow grand L S 5., J. D. Bradrord, Huason: grand O. 1K\, Al F. Baruett, Fond du Lunc. Tho nexi meeting will be held av Appleton. N Pirrsnune, Pa., Feb, 25.—A party of nine colored men from Arkansas passed through the city on their way to New York, from where they expect to make arrangements for transportation to Liberia, Thev stated that they had been working on plantations in tho southern part of the state, and had long been istied with their condition. Bishop Turner had told them that fre 15 porta tion to Liveria would be furnished by tho Luiverian cousul in New York, and they were on their way to arrange for their dopariure, Many other colored peoplo are seriously templating the sawe action. - Short and Then Insane ’ioK, Wis., I%eb. 25.—-An app cation was mado today to cause the com- mittal of E. I3. Beeve, manager of the North Amerioan Tolegraph company at this place, to the insane asylum, Heebe had been spec ulating in the provision warket and using oftice funds, He then took Lo drink. An iu- vestigation showed be was short in his ac- counts. He took sick and was removed to the hospital, when symptoms of insanity soon manifested themselves. In bis preseut condition no prosecution will be made. il Jordinge Trust Men Fighth New Youk, Feb, 25. —A disagreement has avisen in the Cordage trust, and tho first step in what promises te be along and lively logal war was taken. As a result of this disagreement the National Cordage com- pany, which is cupitalized at #15,000,000, will huve to make public its methods of consolida- tion and controlling trade. ———— HER FRIENIN Tom Massin "Twas n the Boston fust express o 1ittle mai- den sut; Sho occupled the seat alone, beside hor luy ber hat. She clutehed her dolly to her breast, In child- 1sh, WOLhor pluy, As If sho feared some dreadful glant would snateh (Uright awny. “Are you alone, my liitle girl?" I asked as [ stooped dow My mawma toid mo Dod was here,” she sald with half u frown. “She tissed me an’ my dolly, an' I dess [ don't know you " “But_dear I answored, smiling, whore You're golug (0. Sho Lwisted Inber seat, and then sho tossod 1od hair. n to Boston, au' my pop'll meot we “toll me I questioned, gently, choo cars should stop, *And you should walk, and walk, and walk, ‘and Then not And your pops “What would you do? The little malden hook her hoad and trowned. wnima says wheu pop is gone, that Dod 13 sowmo whero round." f the choo Tho tratn rolled into Boston town. I walted there awhile And watched my little blue-eyes, with hor Lalf-expoctant suile. “Dess waitln' for my pop," she sald, “with dolly fust asleep " And thén & man came rushiug in. by his leap. He suaiched his little daughter up, with frantic, feverish gloe: And then with father's Instinot, quick bis oyo wias turned on me. ‘Well, Bess," Lie askea, “who 1s your friend?" With quaiut, expressive nod Phe madd reoiled: 1 dess | know, [ fluk it must be Dod,"* I knew him hY v