Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 16, 1893, Page 4

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THE BEE PUBLISHING BTATEMENT OF CIRCU LATION Btato of Nebraskn, | County of Douglas, | Goorge I8, Trschuck. socrotary of THE BER Pub 1shing company s wolomnly swear that the netinl clreulntio ¥ DAILY BEE for the week ending March J, was a8 £0] 28,701 24,907 it TZSCHUCK. 1n'my presence, N. P, FEIL Notary Publ Sworn to bofore me and subscribe this iith day of March, 1505 [$EAL.] Average Circalation for Februn REPUBLICANS in the legislature should stand up for Nebraska and help the honest men of all parties to clean out the state house, THE only salvation for the republican party in Nebraska s to disown, re- pudiate and turn out every official who has been guilty of malfeasance in office. THE garbage question is apparently as far from a satisfactory settlement as ever. If any change from the present system is to.be adopted it should be done at once in order that the city may receive | the benefit this summer. THE new supreme eourt commission is composed of lawyers of more than average abi The members are all in their prime and will be in position to expedite the business of the supreme eourt and reduce the docket, which has becomo extremely voluminous. THE penitentiary contractor is under criminal indictment. The contract under which he was operating is pro- nounced by the very best of legal au- thority to be void, because the legis- lature had no authority to enter into any contract. In any cvent the stato should resume control of the peniten- tiary and arrange for properly hous- g, feeding, clothing and working the wrisoners. I'HE conscience of the Honorable Mr. Sheridan was smitten in a very tender spot when he heard the rumor that Rosewater bad been consulted by mem- bers of the investigating committee con- cerning its report on the cell house scandal. But the tender conscience of the gentleman from Red Willow ex- perienced no shock when he tried to hold up ex-Reprosentative Sternsaorff on the insurance bill IT WAS to be expected that all the gang of oil roomers and political pro- curers now congregated at the state capital would rally to the defense of of- ficials who have connived at the plunder- ing of the stato by tho penitentiary gang. The question is, will any decent member of the legislature, republican, democrat or populist, disgrace them- selves by playing into the hands of this gang? Stand up for Nebraska and turn the rascals out. THE action of the republican house caucus cannot be binding on any honest, republican who is not a railway poli- “tician. The impeachment resolutions are reaching after the men who form the majority of the State Board of Transportation, and the railroads are dosperatoly in earnest to keep them where they are, no matter if they were guilty of burglarizing the state troas- ury. Republicans should stand up for Nebraska and not for railroad corpora- ticns, THE corporations who own and con- trol the three members of the State Board of Transportation who are mixed up in the cell house embezzlements will make a desperate effort to keep them from resigning and to protect them from impeachment. Inall such emergencies the repuolicans ave dragooned into de- fending corruption and upholding ras- cality through the machinery of the caucus. Any republican who allows “himself to be used for such a vile pur- pose digs his own political grave and drives a nail int) the coffin of his own party. Ropublicans must stand up for Nebraska and quit f hting the battles of the railroad corporations and dis- honest officials who have betrayed their trust. THE organ of the penitentia solemnly warns the legislature against secret “star-chamber proceedings and nds that e man have his day in court before he is condemned, If ever f and swindlor who has pil- laged the state treasury had his day in court the criminal docl of Lancaster county would fill several volumes and the dimensions of the penitentiary would have to bo doubled. But this ory of star-chamber judgments is a mere sub- terfuge to shield faithless and dishonest ofticials from censure. When it comes to impeachment and criminal prose- cution they will have their day In court the same as any other culprit charged with crime. They will be tried in open court by judges and juries sworn to do justice according to the law and evidence. They will be given ample opportunity to confront and ecross-examine the witnesses and make any defense they may sce fit to justify their conduct. The star chamber inves- tigation of the committee is a grand Jury procecding, and grand juries do not permit parties charged with crime to browbeat and cross-examine witnesses aad set up specious pleas of innoceuce. THE OMAHA DAILY B LET THEM RESIGN AT ONCE, The three members of the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings who are implicated in the cell house frauds should tender their resignations at once. The severe indictment which the house has voted by an ovi in adopting the report of the investiga- them of all There is doubt whatever that their conduct con- whelming majority ting committes deprivi further public confidence. no stitutes an impeachable misdemeanor, whatever may be said to the contrary by certain eminent legal lights. (‘nn\'} oly | stated tha cell house investigation has disclosed these facts: The legislature of 1801 voted $40,000 for the erection of a cell house at the penitentiary. The Board of Public Lands and Buildings was by law made | the custodian of this fund and charged with its disbursement. How did they They did not hire an architect to make plans discharge that trust? and specitications; they did not determine the dimensions of the building and th invited nobuilder to make an estimate of They simply with the cost or submit a bid. entered into a criminal conspiracy Mosher to have the whole appropriation absorbed, and in pursuance of this con- they hired William s superintendent, to take charge spira Moshet of the construction and gave him full Dorgan, power to buy material, hire workmen Before a stroke of work was done they took 85,000 out of the state tre it in the hands of Dorgan to expend or pocket fit. This to time and pay what prices he pleased! sury and put as he might %ee was time until out repeated from all but $1,700 of the check upon Dorga had been drawn They an and did funds. had not try to have any. They allowed him to fix his own prico on the conviet labor and cashed his fraudulent vouchers ‘when they could readily have found out that When they | wanted to take a junket at the state's of prisons they requested Dorgan to put #500 of the cell house fund at their posal and used up or pocketed the whole | the state was being robbed. | 7 i expense under pretext inspecting dis- amount, Now ¢ will that this is only a case of gross negli- cchnical lawyers pretend gence. Suppose the manager of a pri- sorporation should be found” guilty would it be called gross negligence or would not the man be guilty of embezzloment either as vate of such ‘conduct principal or as acee Each of these men must have known that Dorgan's vouchers were frauaulent and they cor- tainly did know that more than half the money was being eriminally squandered. But a public offizer stands in a different relation from a private manager and such an officer does not need to commit a downight felony to be impeachable for in One against David office. 1t Butler was for sending false information to the house of repr own name as governor, misdemeanors articles of impeachme sentatives -over his It was an impeachable offense in the members of the board to let the cell house work without plans, without an estimate and without competing bids. They certainly laid themselves liable to impeachment for taking 5,000 out of the treasury before any service had been rendered any material furnished. They committed an impeachable misde: meanor when they approved vouchers for material at double prices and for labor that had never been rendered. They committed a misdemeanor in office when they took $50gout of the cell house fund for traveling expensos Each and all of these or acts were mis- s in office contemplated by the constitution as proper subjects for of dishonest or unfaithful officers, and we have no doubt whatever that an impeachment would hold against each member of the board now in office who was connected therewith. It seems to us, however, that the odium under getting rid which these men now rest should prompt them to vetire. Let them r ign and re- lieve the republican party, which is justly held responsible for the honest administration of the affairs of the state, If they declino to step down they should be impeached and removed. Publio Lands and Buildings whose criminal negligence and connivance with the in- dicted contractor of the penitentiar the cell house frauds have been made the subject of legislative iny estigation, have given publicity to an authorized statement concerning their complicity in the frauds perpetrated by Dorgan and Mosher. This so-called defense would within itself constitute an unanswerable avraignment of the board. It is admit- ted at the outset that on the 4th day of May, 1891, within thirty days after the legislature had made the $40,000 propriation for a new cell they appointed w H. as superintendent of the building, W Dorg#n was motoriously for Boss Stout's boodle lobbyist and was employed in the same capacity by Mosher to tamper with the peniten- tiary committee of 1891 and pull through the $40,000 appropriation for a cell house in the face of the fact that the peniten- tiary contractor was obligated by his | contract t7 evect the cells at his own ex- pense, which part of the contract re- mains unfulfilled even to this day. Every man on the board knew that Dov. gan was Mosher's boodle man, and yet they chose him of all others to super, tend the building, The next line of defenso is o' genoral denial of fraud in the price of labor and building material and the assortion that all the vouchers endorsed by the board and paid by the treasurer were absolutely correct aud every dollur house Dorgan no | of tho | represented thereby was actually paid and honestly expended. What a mon- strous falsehood! Competent builders and material men testify that the wretched shed called a cell house, for which over ,000 have been paid out already, could have been built for from 815,000 to 818,000, The price paid for stone, sand and other material was more than double the market price, and the price charged up for convict labor to the state was more than double that paid Mosher hy sub-contractors in the pen. Dorgan himself testified that the vouchers which the board endorsed as straight included charges for ten days’ cenvict labor during a time when the conviets did not do a stroke of work. The defense about the tumble-down wall is too flimsy to be worthy of notice. The board was guilty of criminal negli gence when it permitted the old worn wall which forms the enclosure of the penitentiary to be used asone of the walls of the cell house. The embezzlement of 8500 from the 1 house fund for a two weeks' junket s sought to be justified on the ground that the board desired to inspect prisons in different states in order to be able to model after them. If thisiwas true why did they not make the tour before they had begun building the cell house with- out plans and without specifications? What benefit did the state get out of the 00, and why did they not take the money out of the treasury directly in- stead of paying it over to Dorgan for cell house construction and taking it back from him as a present? The most pitiful plea of all is that the board has too much work to doto do anything honestly. They cite the many different duties they have to perform and ask indulgence for- deliberately | opening the doors to systematic fraud | and embezzlement of state funds. | With such alame defense the mem- bers of the board stand self-convicted before the state and no man who has any self-respect in or out of the legis- | lature can condone their conduct or give themn any countenanc THE LUMBE LERS. nvention of the lumber dealers of 1 ska now in session in this city is the largest and most important ever held by the association. The great ques- tion for the lumber dealers that of ailroad rates, and in this the general publie has a deep interest. Reduced cost of transportation would mean lowe prices for the consumer, and as there are thousands of farmers throughout the state who must build houses and barns and other buildings, to say nothing of | the growing demand for lumber in the | cities and villages, it needs no argument to prove that the cost of lumber is a question of great importance to the people of this state. An era of building among the agricul- turists of Nebraska must soon begin. Thousands of farmers who have practi- cally no barns or outbuildings of any kind are now getting into a financial condition that will permit them to as- sume the burden of expense incident to erecting farm building: This will createalively demand for lumber, which will inerease from year to year. If the dealer n secure such a reduction of transportation rates as they have long contended for, the benefit will be felt by the consumer. That ought to be one of the chief aims of the Nebraska Associa- tion of Lumbermen. THE PPRE Tt is evident that the suppression of trusts and similar monopolistic com- binations must be largely the work of the states. The federal anti-trust law, which is perhaps as complete and com- prehensive as it is possible to make such a law, has failed to accomplish anything. The combinations which it declares unlawful enjoy absolute im- munity and flourish as prosperously as though they were not obnoxious to the law and the public policy. It may be that it is not practicable for the general gov- ernment to deal with these combinations as the law contemplates, or pos- sibly the federal authoritics charged | with the enforcement of the law have | not been as earnest and zealous as they | might have been, but in any event it is obviously necessary to an effectual sup- pression of the trusts that the states shall leg te against them. speedily go down under the operation of a general system of hostile state laws, and there is no assurance that they can be suppressed without such laws. Anti-trust legislation has been pro- posed in some of the states. A compro- hensive measure for the punishment of persons engaged in trust combinations in Illinols is before the legislature of that state, the terms of which may furnish suggestions to other legis- latur The bill defines a trust to be a combination of capital, skill or acts by two or more persons or firms or other associations for any or all of the follow- ing purposes: *“To create or carry out restrictions in trade; to limit or reduce | the production or inerease or reduce the price of merchandise or commodities; to prevent competition in the manufactuve, T ebr j any standard or figure whereby the price to the public shall be in any man- ner controlled or established, or to es- tablish any pretended agency whoreby | the sale of such article or commodity [shall be covered up to appear to for vender or manufacturer; to enter into | any contract or ement not to sell be- low & common standard figure or in any other way to preclude a free and unr stricted competition rmong themsely or others in the sale or transportation of any articlo or commodity, or by which they shall agree to pool ‘or unite any in- terest 5o that the price may in any man- ner be affected.” It is provided that a corporation violating the act shall for- feit its charter held under the laws of the state, and proceodings may be instituted by the attorncy gen- eral or prosecuting att wney. Any foreign corporation dsing businass in the state and violating the act is to bo prohibited from doing busi- ness in the state. The act dec lation of its provisions ta ba weons piracy against trade and & misdemoeanor, and overy person who as principal, agent or employe, or in any capacity knowingly violates the act shall be pun ished by a fine of not less than $2,000 nor or made be the original Ares Vo= other or support. | They would | transportation or sale of the same; to fix | more than fl_r Any contract or agrooment madd n violation of the aot shall be void and not enforceable either inlaw or equity, bat the provisions of the act are not tagéxtend to agrioultural products or live sypok. If the states generally wore to adopt legislation of this Kind there would be an early end to tdéts and all combina- tions of like character, and it is the only certain way hy which to crush out these conspiracigy,against trade. At any rate an expepjence of three years since the enactmant of the federal anti- trust law has shown it to be without ef- fect and there is little reason to expect any better results from it in the future. The pointed condemnation by Mr. Cleve- land of “immense aggregations of kin- dred enterprises and combinations of business interests” cannot be regarded as necessarily assuring an earnest effort on the part of the administration to sup- press such combinations THE STATE OF TRADE, The financial disturbances have begun to effect general business unfavorably, and uneasiness is not confined to fluctuat- ing securities dn Wall street, Merchants and manufacturers are beginning to feel some apprehension on account of tho eontinuance of the gold exports. It is unfortunate for the business interests of the country that the last congress did not dispose of some of the more impor- tant questions that pressed for solution, and thus relieve the country from the | uncertainty that is so fatal to business | expansion. An important feature of last week's business' was the lively trade that was carried on in the Stock exchange in York. The stock gamblers held high carnival and many thousands of dollars worth of stocks changed hands, Various interpretations are placed upon the government report showing grain in the hands of farmers, some | brokers r rding it as bullish, while others think it beavish, and there is a third class which says that the report was what was expected and should have no effect one way or another. The onl thing that can bo positively said is that | the report has not determined the future of prices, and if the market is to advance sharply the advance must be | the result of a corner or of extensive damage to the growing crop. ow One Bright Spot in the Kansas Record. Springfisld Republican They may be crazy out in Knnsas, but_the povulist legislature has had the wit to head off an invasion of the stato by the endow ment companies—whieh is more than Mu chusetts can say foxits governing body. ———— The Haughty Missourian. Kansay City Journal, iovernor Franci he deesn't wan tion. That's the beauty of a Missou As soon as he finds hecan't get anything he | always has the pride to stand up and de- | cline to want it. Rl Pusey Gray's Snug Berth, Chicago wispateh. Before you poke fan at your Uncte I Pusey Gi Fox- anc , who bas just been sentenced to in Mexico, remember that is £9,000 a year, w the minister to Mexico is $17,000, e, Juley (perquisites on' tho re worse. things than escaping a vice presideutial nomination The Nebraska legislaturo has found big scandals in the management of the penitentiary and of the Lincoln i wsylum, At least it, thinks it has. has been so much uncertainty during the last fow years as to who wero the officials in Nebraska that it is small wonder if rogues have taken advantage of the situa- tion to plunder the state eyt s IO O rty Lines Should Be Obliterated. Grand Istand Ind:pendent. The charges of Nebraska railroads are on the average twice as high as those of other roads. A reduction of 20 per cent conse. quently will leave the Nobraska charges by three-fifths higher than the lowa rates, a suficieatly large margin. We hope that the house committee’s railroad bill will become a Luw by the united efforts of the independ- ents and anti-monopoly republicans. - it Reflections on Cleveland's Style. The New York Independent calls attention to somo literary blemishes in President Cleveland’s ‘inaugurai address, especially | his tendency to tautology. “He speaks,” it o ‘unreserved and complete devotion interests and welfare' of the people, growth and expansion, of ‘fru. | and economy orodigality and | extravagance,’ of ‘economy and frugality,’ of ‘strength and sturdiness,’ of ‘right and jus- e’ He says thata certain thing should ‘justly and fairly conceded, that we should have a ‘just and equitable system of federal tax he use of these synony- | mous terms in pairs is one o lloveland's | ar sins; and we noti 0, that he | iformly separates the sign of the infini- e from its verb; for example, 'to con- ntly watch,’ ‘to honestly and consider- very coming fault among American writers. 1tis very rarely | found in good literatury puicihel b PN Econon al False Pretensos, New York Tribune. The votrenching, reforming, e congress called in to cut down’ the “billion- dollar” appropriutions and stave off national disaster has lived its life, dono its work and passed jnto history. It reformed the ox- penditures by increasiug them more than 38,000,000 over the appropriations of the wasteful “billion-dollar congress” it was elected to rebuke. Queer, isn'tit? But is anybody bothered to understand it? Here is tie_explanation of it, fresh from the New York World of Saturday morning: *One of the effects of such a congress as the Fifty- first was is the transmission of the spirit of extravagance and the infection of it s with the invidiou " That 18, elected to rebuke xtravagance and refarm , it took the infection instead of furnishing a cure, and increased the ovil it promised to reform, Oh. Humbug! humbiig! thy name is do mocracy ! nomical Impalring Contract Obligatios Chicagh' Tribune, The Kansas houso of' r v bill which dé bo null g il contracts in th to that proy for payment in gold. - Undountedly the mem bers who voted for it, including some repub- licans who ! lists, may have good thing for the devtor class and equally it cannoy be doubted they la bored under a gr istake. The time oc- cupied in preparin ;\n{! discussing the me ure and voting upon iy is simply so much | time thrown a sq4ar as the people of the state are concornod. It is worse than | thrown away, since it has to be paid for by | the people anl to no purpose. For, if the senate should pass the bill and the governor | sign it, the monstrosity would not become a | law capible of enforcem The constitu tates oxpressly provides | shall pass any law impairing n of contracts.” ‘This is a \lwl; wall on whi rascals in Kansas, who want 10 ropu payment of one-third of | thew indebtodness, will butt their heuds in vain has nd ntative in Kansas, { the obli roral Nioeun March 15.—General interviewed this ornoon upon the subject of the recent dis patch from Washington which intimatod that he would bave been offored the position { com ion ions if he had physically able to parform tha duties of t ofice. neral said: If 1 was twenty I would ba glad to accept the BROOKLY™ | lin | opportunity for entirel | effect ponsible | trifle too much repressed to zain her the | Fowe position, but at my age T do not feel called upon to take such heavy work upon myself, I do no would a man for the sake of getting the fraudulent names out." Kans right, through pork from a consec Hobe-Democrat 1 m; itors will Cleveland's future speeches and messagos. India ption ats who held office under Mr. Cleveland before will be a death warrant to so many thousands. Wash analysi land'in preferment upon ihe editors of the party newspapers leads directly to the conclusion that h organs Minn 15 the writes “‘and th language," he adds in the ecs thusias postma Pione ing and sc ing sou that he fice twi be the on. ar lobe selectin men alre country, not likely t lie will looks af This | play produced for the first time in Omaha | the Boyd last evening. the son affianced to Pauline de Charmilles, daughter of a ri peasant edu Paris to be or duced t in love love. until ¥ | ner preave; | Pauline and is him herself know ( Beauy | her be: kills th ter, wh vais see absinth the in Then h killed Seine, both, a While closes the ro time fi The p touche . | Maupossa of an tensely but as limitat, success. of the evening. the di Ibsen’s, gested Absintheur stage pl might matter terest, have. Miss method though use N never gain the s) Aply that is all that needs be terpr definite of effec well filled, yet even here his strivings feil short o antithe: of posedly of drenche much h who opening Beauva and ent! Mr. Barry Johnston in the part of G Murgerf bers of of the ai sumed, plagued pression Prescot pacity of the playe tation. OMAHA'S C. City Treasurer Bolln City his state arious lowing and paid out during the month of February and the month: forced she f hy tations the the not scem indeed to be attempted. has comparatively little to do with the ct acter ef; i brought r T0 REWARD INDEPENDENTS Third Party Senators Given a Share of Fed- eral Patronage, OFFICE SEEKERS ALMOST DESPERATE t need tho ofce nor the salary, but nccopt the office if T wero a younger on the pension roll and casting them S — LAMENTS OF THE LEFT, City Journal: The prosident is Editors who told tin plate lies all i the campaign don't deserve any ated administration. The rule excluding ed- rom the service of the government aterially curtail the circulation of Exocutive Measures of the Senate Necessary 10 Give the Members n Rost from the Army of Place napolis Journal: As there are ex- i s 6 all rules, 90 per cent of the demo- s will now eling to the hope that they WasmiNaToN Brreav or tie Bee, the exceptions to the rule which was 513 FouxteeNTi StReer, } Wasmixaron, D. C., March 15, So many office seckers, many of whom are from Nebraska and surrounding states, ap- peared in the corridors of the capitol today, that when a rocess of the scnate was taken shortly after 12, till 8 o'clock, the doors lead- ing to the floor of the chamber were kopt closed “‘under exccutive orders.” Thus the scnators had a retreat free from callers. When the doors of the senate are closed in executive session a senator cannot be com municated with by any one on ths outside Cards are never sent to a senator when the senate is in executive session. So the ridors were thronged with office seckers today for two hours and a half and not a senator could be seen To Distribute Patronage. It is evident now that the populist sen- ators are to have a hand in_the distribution of patronage. The formation of the com mittee proves this fact ator Kyle of South Dakota has been made chairman of the standing committee on education and labor, which gives him a clerk who is paid 00 & year with a messenger at §1,600 und her perquisites Senator Peffer has been bountifully sup- plied with committee positions, while Sen ator Allen of Nebraska is made chairman of the committee on forest rescrvations. All of them will get their share of the senate | patronage, Every democratic and straight populist has been made chairman of a committee, | The democrats have also taken two special i.-umnnu‘-nw nd made them standin mittees, which increases their nnpe and gives them annual clerkships and i sengers, increasing their hington Post: A careful and candia s of the motives governing Mr. Cleve. his opposition to bestowing official © has no use for merely personal capolis Trihune: “Grover Cleveland most popular man in the world,” the editor of the Nashville American, he greatest who speaks the English sy of his en- i 't that man can never be ster of Nashville cor-Pross: The heelers are wonder- atching their heads and wonder- ‘e hoM Grover came by the idea is the only democrat fit to hold of- ce. He is determined, however, to only double-ex man in’ the agg; d that's all there is about it. »-Domocrat: When Washing s his first cabinet he said: 1 3 1y of marked eminence before the only because they are more ble, but bocause the pub- trust them.” Cleveland in another light. 0 be sef more readil t the mattes HUSE is the story of “L'Absintheur,” the at Gaston Beauvai: 1w ofu ian banker, loves and ich count. Silvion Gui ated fc 1, a Breton the church, comes to ned a priest and is intro- 0 the Charmilles. He promptly falls | with Pauline and his love is met by They keep their attachment sccret >auline's family insists on hurrying nged marriage with Beauvais. o confessos her linison with Guaidel L her flance to release he to refuse, when tells will Ak the bet 1 bonds and mg Guidel does not 3 ned 1 priest. 1d then rejects yuncil. The blow ¢ old count and maddens his daugh- 0 leaves home and disappears. Beau- ks solace in absinthe and becomes an heur. He meets Guidel while under fluence of the liqueur and kills him e meets Pauline and tells her he has her priest-lover. She suicides in the The morgue receives the bodies of nd there they are seen by Beauvais. in the morgue a door accidentally | on him, and he dies aloue locked up in m with the lifele body of his old- ancee. plot has the elements of power of it; by the genius of a Daudet or a de t, treated even by the el 1088 dgar Fawcett, it might make 1n interesting reading as a short story, a drama and bound within stage ions it has defects insurmountable to Miss Marie Prescott is the author ay as presented at the Boya last Her work has many excclien - gue is often as boldly direct as ) C! ter is not unsuce fully sug- but without subsidiary interest can mever be ‘a popular With a perfect cast, howey atisfy many for the subject of the su v have a morbid’ in- That pe :ast the play does not , with Calvin S, rt Brice as is to be made to re the Union Pacific railroad indebtedness. 1Tt is stated that the same | committee in the house is to be formed with | that view. Senator Allen is well pleased committee assignments. Scheme of Oftice Seckers, In office-seeking circles the circulated today that Hughes ka ton, S. D., who was private s Vice President Hendricks, had 'ys for the po of preme cour L an appli tion for an order “removing his disabi as an - ex-of hold Hug rogister of the land ofice at four years ago and is consequently barred out of another place by the Cleye rule. An ex-confederate colonel fr ginia went to Fast, it is r him that he sy o e securing an_ order from the which removed his politic there being a federal statute ex-confederates out of the came to the conclusion that ho could b sume process have his disabitities r and that he has employed attorne purpose. Yunkton, airman, me; with his rovi port fore was nik: © told £0 in urt abilities, barred i\ At c vs for that The laugh is now on the citizen of Miscellanecous. | In the homestead contest of F | Brown McCool. ~ Assistant & “nandler has Mirmed’_the decision of the commission wor of Burrell ista Secr 4 the cominis: timber culture against the he Blackfoot, 1 test in favor ¢ la; sfonor's ¢ contest of s of Josep! o, which disim the defendant, nith of the Interior depart- ment today told Maris Taylor of Huron, S, D., that no one but a lawyer would be ‘ap. pointed commiss of the general land office. As Mr. lor is nova lawyer he is out of the race for that office. 1t is under- stood that Judge Bartlett Tripp of Yankton | has as good as been tendered the commis- sionership. L. K. Church of South Dakota has also applied for this oftice. Mr. W. Anderson of South made application for the of Indian aff; W Warren, from Prescott | ssed the con- is i an admirable actress: hor »d by a fine distinction, ne 10 b iitie often leads her to I sardonable tions ave Just 4 D- of an average audience, but her per- e has features worthy of the highest The part as it stands at pro ympathy of tho on! art to As Pautine he Dakota has ,as in most of the char: commi he has ever ness of expre Is entively t. His renunc y and hopes to tion scene was fairly souri_rivi of complete expression. sis between the happy early scenes and debauched absinthe later was entirely Then the virtuous love the sup- drinker lost, did Dress A Fortunate Senator. Washin,ton Post. There is one advantage in not boing ocratic senator Allen of Nebr: a dem- just now, which William V', seems to thoroughly ap- 0 sooner was he eclected than he th applications from all oyer ative to tho distribution of pression, and nd drunken in the bois looked r calthier physically than the Beauvais onage, and it soon became evident to es to his sweeth in the Allen tha he undertook 1o give them rene. ‘\i;f whole Mr. f\l:‘\l'l« n's | consideration he would have his hands more 3 st ovening was unsutisfactory | than full, besides running tho visk of hepes irely unworthy bool : turned down by the administra. v tion at Washington, As the new senator is not a democr: an independent, he holds that he wh 0 do with the democ and that he w B tre P people’s preserves wi way of rec lendation was f ounex, the absintheur, a that at times reminds of the men t has immortalized. The other mem- the company have much yet to learn vt whose profession they have as- The really fine part of the passion- priest suffered most. The final im- 1 left by the | ance is that Miss t's play is haudicapped by the inca- 1in its presen- t, but s nothing \tron upon fore ation he to inte or dic —— ASH ACCOUNT. & Report of the Funds ollected and Expendod. reasurer Bolln has just completed ement showing the condition of the funds of the eity March 1. The fol- table shows the amounts re d balances the first of the present ! $ m Park Dog | Paving | Filling Sdewalk Omiaha s Special City rea In adg shows a turned over to the B Soldiers Cannot Ke Gurn strip is dreds of camped A troop of ¢ a point City, w! I Movers the st t is ovel Chorok fairne ion th seekers out. childr the seems | tlement trouble is inevitable, “peaiedey| v wintaining This position relieves Mr. Allon of what would otherwise be n most unpleasant and burdensome responsibility, and leaves him at Hberty to attoud to his legitimato business As senator unembarrassed As the adminiatration s demo L and the patronage belongs to the d cratio party, the Nobraskn domocracy must hustle for it as best thoy can without tho nssiste ance of their truly indopendent sonator, Silver Is Doome Philadelphia Record. As the recent speech of Mr, Gladstons holds out no prospect of bimetallism it is not probabie that the Bru confore resumo its sessions in May. The rence, or some of the delegates, ‘may mect in order toadjourn formally; but no plan of bimetal- lism will be discussed, for the simple son that its advocates have no plan. Gladstone says of the bimetallists that “not one of them has given the faintest, sthe moss s ey indication of the kind of change they would be prepared to discuss or adopt. 'his remark was designed to describo the English and continental bimetallists, and probably did not refer to the free silyer statesmen of this country. It is possible that Mr. Gladstone has never read the pon- derous treatises of Senator Jones of Nevada, in favor of universal coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold e MICAL CREW. Mr, THE ¢ Philadeiphia Rocord: The poor fellow who was killod by the fall of an elevator feobly mouned in his lust moments: I took a drop 100 much.” il hat she died of w broken heart after the e was granted 1 honestly do. You see, ho fallod a shors time after and could pay 1o more alimony.” Indianapolis Jour ou really hos love alr s the Ing husiness may s world, but It has its re- detective Is announc smile of n= ght credulity on a lis; s face. Clnell adelph tukes the best ca Every man, s Is two-sidod. ' A of his inside a Phil- A rule be Chester News Cool Head you huve just spol Hot Head—~Then I'm a liar? contrary, my dear fellow, o th tFuth Detroit Froe Press: Mrs, Plumpleigh ( her mirror - Who said I hadn't a good Mr. T didn't, 'm sure; but the glass seems 10 be casting a reflection. Tndianapolis Journal the wiy, what is your p Hunery i 4 mugwanp whisk politics sort of a is democrat, but mo 11k about air being t man in knickerboekers and Chicago Trih free!" said the y handing £150 0ve takin ine. thingon earth. You'n Of $37.50 on_the afr in th by gui, und T know it!" 1S the most ex making a clean profis s pneumatiy tires, SOUND, Vernon News, vessel is kes ob soun’, 5" kind ob smoke 1s Do leastest tive is foun’. vy De louder dat yo' hore de cry, De less you'll find ob wool, An' de man what talks de n Is de bigges’ kind ob fool, Mount Dt Lore »stest A CHALLENGE. Truth, ty littlo witch! k thealimpled niche shrine beguiling lefiling, 4 A « s hier mofst mouth's raddy eu | a siren singing there, ‘omie and kiss me if you dare!" Such an aggravating maid! ¥i an cyelid ambuscade ih her drooping lashes, Mischiof shot aliuring flashes, ing in ye, “Opportunit, Faint heurt Come und kiss mo if you fair; are! At the door, imes or mo and crowed with glee— as three. BROWNING, KING st Manufacturers an1 Rotallers of Cloching in the World. Speaking of Robins Reminds us that when geese fly north 400183 1.721.48 dnmngcn lition to the above the school fuud | collection of 861, 183.94, that sum being | rd of Education | | - - PERSISTENT BOOMERS. | » Them Out of the Cher- | okeo Strip. rig, Okl., March 15, being invaded by b fthem were soen the | 1 along the line of tio Santa Fe road. | has been stationed at | south of Ar from tho 'he grass through | 1 burned and hardships to | stock is apparent. There that an nvasion of the nreatened, and, in all 5, you? sspondent {s of the opin t the soldiers cannot keep the home M with their wives and | n, with some stock, iutend to invade mised land, and from indicatious it { The Cherokeo mers. Hun today en twenty hich is twelve mile re halted D has be with the vidence outlet is Btore open overy evening til 6 3k Baturday til! 10 f the land is not thrown open to set Our styles this season are mo ever both in overcoats and suits for boys and men and in spite of our torn up condition, occasioned by the remodeling of our store, we head the list for quantity, quality, style, it and price. it so when you look us over. In park The red bre and ornamental trees st robins sing; husy little honey bees g spring. An Other slgus proclaim it, to As the we v grows; And you must do us others dos Shod all your winter clothes. Safely, then. let the old duds go, We'll it you out in style; Then like the robins, don't you know, You'll be singing all the while. (R, Brarrox, Walnut, In. re.variegated than You'll find Don’t be a goose. BROWNING, KING & CO., S, W. Cor. 16th and Douglas 3¢