Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 18, 1893, Page 4

o #” « oliftor may become reassured. THE DAILY BEE. [ = . Faitor TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, mily Boo (without Sunday) One Year . 8 8 00 Daily and Sunday, One Year 10 00 i x .« mths 500 Monthe wrvrsrom R0 ay Bee, Ono Yonr.. .00 0000 200 inturday Bie, Ong Year 160 Peelly Toe, 0o 3oar 100 OFFICES, Omahia, The Bee Building South Onialin, co and 261h Streots. Council Rlufr el Stroet, Chicigo O hamber of Commercs, New York, , 14 and 15, Tribune Bullding. Washington, 513 Fourtoenth Stroet. CORRESPONDENCE. ymmunieations relating to news and Uimutter should be addressed: To the ERS, ttancos shoald All business lotters and 1 addressed to The Publishing Co mpany, Omuha. Drafts, chiecks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of tho com- pany. Parties leaving the eity for the summer can have the BEE sent their addross by leaving an ordor at this office, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. — — . SWOIN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. 1o of Nebraska, ) Conrty of Douglas, Grorue 1. Tachuok, scoretary of THx BEE pub. Mahine company, doos solemnly awear that the moturl circulat ¥ DAILY BEE for the woek ending Muy | as follows, Bunday, May . Mond; il 1803, wa my pres enco thils 13th day of May, 169, B Notary Public. e Averige Circulation for April, 189 , 24,281 1K s nothing discouraging about erop prospects in Nebraska this woek. Tne Chinese will be permitted to register but they will not be allowed to vote. C Epirors who have nothing else to write about are now discussing the pros- pects for a war with China. OuR own Julius Sterling Morton is pluming himsell over the weather service he is giving the country. The recent rainin Arvizona was the first in seven years, THE ghost dancers on the Sioux reser- vation are comparatively quiet, but there wre indications of an impending out- break among the ghost dancers in Ne- braska yiolit AFTER all, the Cordage trust, the Columbia National bank and the shell game do not difier materially from an sthical standpoint. All are swindling devices for fleacing the unwary. THERE are more evidences of crooked work at Lincoln in connection with the indictment of the asylum boodlers. The attorney for Lancaster county may yet be called upon for an explanation, THE installation of exhibits at the Manufacturers’ exposition is progressing . ‘e8 favorably as could be desired. With & large installation of visitors next week the exposition will be an unquali- fled succes A DENVER firm has appurently secured the contraet for the crection of the Omaha postoflice, While it is to be re- gretted that the contract could not come to Omaha, everybody will unite in the hope that work will be no longer de- layed. ¥ s THE administration has taken Albert Watkins in out of the wet. Watkins, it will be remembe is the Lincoln patriot who ground the knife which Secretary Morton artlessly thrust into Congressman Bryan’s vibs in the last campaign. —_— CENTRAL Wyoming will take a hand In state politics in 1804, The central and northern portion of the state will make large gains 1n population in time to participate in the next election and “the Union Pacific combine will be asked to take a back seat.” THE secretary of the navy has es.ab- lished the samo policy pursued in the War department respecting long grants of leave to offlcers to enablo them to en- gage in pursuits foreign to the service, Secretary Herbert says that he does not think that an ofiicer educated by the government should be permitted to util- ize his knowledge and oxperience for his porsonal advantagoe and still remain on the official pay rolls GOLDWIN SMITH'S outspoken opinions in favor of the union of Canada with the United States appear to have rendered his presence in the Dominion as dis- tasteful to the politicians of that coun- try as it was to those of England. An attompt has been made to expel him from the St. George society of Toronto, which would have proved successful but that the law protected his mermbership, Nevertheless, he goes vight on bravely fighting with all his old-time vigor in favor of continental union. o THE Pullman Car company still owes this eity and county thousands of dollars for delinquent taxes. This ¢ mpany Owns property in this city and enjoys the protection thrown about all property: it profits by the trafllc of this city. 1f iy i right for the railroads to pay taxes it is equally just that the Pullman company doso. Yot it has taken advantage of every legal technicahity to cause delay in the collection with the hope of com- promise or final evasion, The case now pending should be speedily disposed of. The road of the taxshirker should be “maftle rceky and unpopular, ———— PERSONS who have been apprehensive lest the Mexican boundary survey of the line bMween that country and the United States should slice off some por- tion of the edge of the territory of the There was no foundation whatever for the rumor that an ervor had been discovered in the original line that would throw several thousand square miles of Ari- zona and California into Mexico. And now Colonel Barlow, chief of the sur- vey, states that the survey makes no change in the location of the entire line whatever, Its sole purpose is to re- establish it where the monuments have been destroyed. OVERWORKED STATE OFFICERS. The attempt of the imponched state offic’als to pload overwork as an exouse for carclossness and neglect will not help their case with fair-minded people. Their own records show that during their first term of office they held but 174 board meotings, leaving 452 working days of the biennial period in which to perform the other duties pertaining to their respective offices. But even the record of 174 board meetings does not prove that they were overworked to any sorious extent. Facts will bear out the statement that the meetings did not cover an average of more than three or four hours each. By far the most important duties de- volving upon the impeached officials were those pertaining to the Board of Public Lands and Buildings. And yet this board held but sixty meetings in the two y At these ty sessions the board presumed to supervise ex- penditures amounting to neanly #1,250, 000. The appropriation for public buildings alone amounted to $271,000. And yet these officials have the assur- ance to claim ‘that they were over- worked when they devoted sixty sessions to inspect plans and specifications, ex- amine bids, select material, award con- tracts, audit claims and approve ac- counts for an expenditure af over $1,000,- 000 of the people'’s money. How the state officials must have worked during those sixty sessions! A MISTAKEN INFERENCE, It is truly pathetic to see how industri- ously the republican papers are now defend- ing the state officials whose impeachment wrials are now being conducted. The State Journal leads in the assault upon every man who dares to hint that the officials may be guilty ork Press., It is a fact much to be regretted that some of the warmest defend »rs ot g ross carelessness and criminal negligence in the management of state institutions are the newspapers which are of the repub- lican faith; but the inference that the republican press as a whole is defending the impeached officials is an entirvely mistaken one. To the honor of the re- publican newspapers of Nebraska be it said that a large majority of them take the position that if the republican state officials now on trial before the supreme court permitted the state to be defrauded when they might have prevented it they should be promptly removed from office and their places dlled by honest and capable men. But very few of the republican papers of Nebraska are attempting to shield dishonesty and carclessness in their party representatives. The fact that the State Journal “leads in the assault upon every man who dares to hint that officials may be guilty” pos- sesses not the slightest significance. That newspapor has for years been the self-constituted champion and apologist for the rings and corporations which have persistently plundered the state ever since it came into the union. It stands today self-convicted of an attempt to extract nearly $25,000 from the state treasury in the matter of state printing contracts. It has been built up and supported by the contributions of the rings and the corporations. It is simply the paid hiveling of the boodlers at the state capital and every word of invective and eve ault upon decency costs the taxpayers of Nebraska just so much a line. NG RADICAL ACTION. The directory of the Columbian ex- position has decided to take a radical course in the matter of Sunday opening. It proposes to pay back to the general government the money that has come out of the national treasury for the fair and thus relieved of all obligation to the government to open the fair on Sunday, the government exhibit alone, perhaps, to be excepted from this av- rangement. The bcard of direc- tors was practically unanimous in favor of this action and it seems to be practically assured that it will be carried ito effect. It is claimed that whereas congress withdrew a portion of its appropriation the effect was to nullify the contract with ti oral government for keoping the faiv closed and that it is now entirely within the power of the local management to pursue whatever course it shall deem to be expedient with regard to the question of Sunday opening. So far as the gov- ernment exhibit is conceraed it may be kept closed, but tho foderal authority, as now seems to be determined, will not be permitted to go further than this, The position taken by the local direc- tory reems to be entirely sound and tenable. Referring to the relations of the federal government to the fair the New York Sun takes the view that it has no right to interfere with the man- agement and no power to prevent the opening of the exposition on Sunday if the managers of the enterpriso think best to exhibit on that day, That paper sy “T'he government’s jurisdiction extends to the government's own build- ings, exhibits and employes, no further. To that extent the regula- tion of afairs belongs to Wash- ington. Beyond that it belongs to Chi- cago, subject only to the laws of Illinois,” The Sun takes the position that it is un- important whether or not the federal government has failed to perform its part of the agreement and says: *“What we wish to make clear is that even if Chicago, without plea or pretext, should disregard the Sunday clause in the act of congr and openly defy the federal government’s authority, she would be within her rights, and there would he no constitutional precess by which the federal prohibition could be enforced,” That journal submits the foilowing very pertinent questions: “Under what statute can the executive proceed through the civil officers of the United States to close the doorsof the builaings in Jackson park, or to arvest and punish any individual concerned in the Sunday opening? Will the president invade Iinois with United States troops, de- clare military law in Chicago and sus- pend the act of habeas corvus until the World's fair directors shall submit and obey? What section of what article of the constitution gives to the United States the power to regu- late the opening or closing of places of entertainment in Cook county, Illinois, or in any other county of any state of the union? Furthermore, whore isthe constitutional warrant for imposing upon Cook county, Illinois, a federal police regulation which applies to places of entertainment nowhere elso?" If it be contended that to open the ex- position on Sunday would be a breach of faith on the part of the management, the answer is that the government has not fulfilled its part of the con- tract. It it said that the local di- rectory has determined to adhere to the positicn it has taken and it would seem that it clearly has the weight of argu- ment and of authority on its side, as it unquestionably hasof intelligent and un- prejudiced popular sentiment. It is hardly to be expected that the course it has decided upon it will be permitted to pursue unchallenged, but there is every reason to believe that in whatever con- test it may be involved it will be able to triumphantly maintain its position. I'here is no power outside of Illinois competent to compel the closing of the fair on Sunday. A FEW FIGURE The agitation for a 5-cent bridge fare between Omaha and Council Bluffs is not likely to cease until the people of the two cities can be convinced that it is impracticable by better arguments than any which have so far been advanced. It cannot reasonably be urged that the company overating the bridge and the motor line cannot afford to lower the fare. A very brief analysis of the figures covering the cost of construction and eqnipment, operating expenses, capitali- zation and interest, will convince every fair minded business man that the plant canbe operated at a remunerative profit with the fare cut in half. The statement submitted to the city council of Council Bluffs, sitting as a board of equalization, shows that the entire cost of the bridge and motor plant was 655,305, These figures include cost of the bridge, cost of main line, with the Broadway extension and the Douglas street branch, electric plant and machin- ory, arc light plant, rolling stock, build- ings, stocks and shares, real estate, office Turniture, expenses of selling bonds, ac- crued interest and stationery. No item seems to have been omitted, The operating expenses for the first fourteen months of the plant were $50,- 944, while the earnings for the same period from all sources were $172,010. Deducting tne operating expenses from the earnings, the net income of the com- pany was $122,066. The company is capitalized for $1,500,- 000-—more than double the actual cost of its plant, and, in addition, it is bonded to the extent of $400,000. Thus the patrons of the bridge line are expected to pay the interest on an excessive bonded indebtedness and to earn a divi- dand upon a heavy capitalization. That they are doing so will be ascertained by carrying the (figures farther. The bridge company for the first fourteen months of its history earned a dividend of nearly 19 per cent on its actual cost. It carned a dividend of nearly 10 per cent on its capital stock. Granting that it pays 6 per cent on its bonded in- debtedness, the company would still be able to deduct the annual interest chargo of 328,000 from its net income and yet pay a dividend of 6 per cent on its capi- tal stock, or 12 per cent on its actual in- vestment. The above figures will convince even the most conservative that the bridge fare can be lowered without injury to the company. It may be fairly pre- sumed that the lower fare would greatly increaso the traffic between the two cities without a corresponding increase in operating expenses, and while the public would gain by the lower fare, the company would not be the loser, THE 600 delegetes, representing their respective prosbyteries, convene in ‘Washington as “The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America” today. Themostim- portant work which will engage their attention are the appeal in the famous Briggs case, and the question of the re- vision of the articles of the standard of faith. That the assembly will be overwhelmingly anti-Briggs is now con- ceded, but the probable method of its adjudication is wholly conjecture. The subject of the ecelesiastical doctrine of the church will take precedence of the caso, and it is altogether probable that the advocates of drastic revision will meot with defeat. That the president and vice president, the entire cabinet, with one exception, a majority of the supreme court, a heavy per cent of con- gress and a number of governors are Presbyterians and will be among the visitors or present as delegates will add greatly to the interest the public will take in the proceedings of this impor- tant religious convention. PROHIBITION stands in North Dakota. The supreme court of that state has de- clared that the law is constitutional. The points made against its legality in the test case at Bismark were recited at the timo in these ecolumns. They were based on the constitutional inhibi- tion, and are held to be of n» force, The court says that the prohibition article of the constitution which received a ma- jority of the votes cast, though not so Kreat as the vote polled for governor, is valid under the enabling act passed by congress; that the law for its enforce- ment was adopted by a regularly con- voned legislature and is not vulnerable to the constitutional objections that its object is not fully expressed in the title, or that it contains more than one sub- Jject, or that it is not uniform in its oper- aticn or that it inflicts cruel and unusual punishment, THE present favorable turn in the weather is most timely for the farmers. Notwithstanding the unusually back- ward season and the hitherto discour- aging crop outlook throughout the coun- try, this general outburst of sunny weather places a different aspect on the prospect. After all there is encourage- ment now for the belief that the general yield of all this year's harvests will be larger than the most sanguine would have predicted a few days ago. Where wheat has been injured boyond the hope of recovering to the extent of paying for haryesting farmers ave turning it under Preparatory to the planting of corn, and the indications are that the corn acre- DAILY BEF: THURSD/ ——- ago will be considerably extended be- yond the early ealoulations for the senson's operations, Doubtless the farmers will realize the profit for so doing in the market for the new crop. MINERS, like farmers, have their troubles with the railways on account of the rates for transporting their product. Thus the Idaho Statesman complains that these corporations re- fuse to make any concessions in rates on ore from the Cceur d'Alenes. The main reason for refusing the reduction asked for is that it would involve a re- adjustment of minerdf fates from all points. The rates now In Vogue threaten to paralyze the mining industry in that scction, it is claimed. To a man looking on it would seom that the conelusion reached respecting what should be the policy of the roads is correct. It should be to make rates that will keep evory mine working at its full capacity, pro- vided, of course, that a fair margin of profit is secured. WHATEVER may be the grounds to justify the intimation of the Salt Lake T'ribune that the law for the prevention and punishment of polygamy is being disregarded in Utah and just over the line in Idaho and Wyoming, if officials ignore the offense in the expectation of thereby obtaining political advantage their conduct is glaringly reprehensible. Be he democrat or republican, or of what- ever party, the official who would thus prostitute his responsibilities should be summarily removed and be held in the light for popular execration. Public interest has not yet boen entirely di- verted from Mormon affairs, and the ap- prehensions indulged iin by the 7'vibune will serve to revive attention to the situ- ation in the territory and adjacent states. THE new president of the National League of Republican Clubs, W. W, Tracy, isa prominent young citizen of the city that gave President Lincoln to the nation and where his remains now repose. The gentleman is an ardent political worker and possessed of fine ability and great energy. That he will address himself to the work that lizs be- fore him with all his characteristic ear- nestness and vigor goes without saying among those who know him personally. Clear Out the Leeches, Nebraske City I'ress. There is a general domand in_best repub- lican quarters for a renovation of leaders and a cleaning out of pretenders and leeches in high places. But who will begin the job? Symptoms of Coming Defeat. Mtuneapolis Tribune. Sir Charles Russell, the Enelish advocate beforo the Bering sea commission, has suc- ceeded in losing his temper, which is_proba- biy but the forerunner of his losing his case. oo ‘The One Sate Fleld, Gloke-Demacrat, Thecrash in_Australia grows worse and worse, while the wreck in Brazil and Argen- tine is very far from being repawed. The ouly safe fleld of investment open to the European capitalist is the United States. o b Consolation, Boston Globr. The western farmers will'have one conso- lation if the crop of wheat this year should turn out only medium. . They can sell their staple without delay and get good prices for it. Some of the Kansas grangers have a saying that a phenomenal crop is as baa as none at all so far as the profit to the hus- bandman is concerned. ————— Everlasting P St. Paul Pioneer-Press. The commercial persistence of the Ameri- can s illustrated by the effort to introduce the use of corn as food i Europe. Formerly it was insinuated into the digestive appa- atus of the old world in the form of vork, but objection having been raised to that in some countries, the scheme is now to give them the raw material in its simplest form. S e A Nulsance and an Evil, Minneapolis Times, The croaker is the cause of all the business troubles. If he was suppressed confldence would ren.ain, and confidence is about all that is needed to keep the country in a splendid financial condition, The croaker is usually a failure in some line of business. Perhaps his wife keeps boarders and he has nothing to do but whittle and croak. He is a rather funny fellow except when he bogins to be personal and name people who in his opinion are in a bad way. 7Then he becomes & menace to the community and should be suppressed. A Southern Hero, Washington Post Judge Chrisman of Mississippl has made for himself an_enduring fame by reason of his heroic attitude toward the rufflans, out- laws and bandits of his state who call them- solves white caps. He has had the firmness to punish them in their eriminal and to defy them in _their personal capacity. He has made it known thatso long as he occupies the bench, rapine, murder, persecution and brutality will be punished according to their deserts, and he interposes botween society and violence the bulwark of a fearless heart and a harsh and pot Hoad in & Bag. Philadelphia Telegraph. Thoso who have seen President Cleveland lately say that he is making use of u queer expression which shows that his mind is nov clear upon many matters brought before him. A banlker who spoke to him about the policy of issuing bonds saw Cleveland make a queer motion or gesture by which he seemed to surround his heud with both hands, and then he said: “My head is in & bag; I don't see my way clear; but I shall see through this by and by.” ‘Then a prominent New York man met the president by appoint- ment to talk with him about the political situation in that state, and while they were discussing the proper treatment of Tam- many and the state democracy Mr. Cleve land made a queer, waving wotion before his eyes and said My head 1s in a bag, but [ shall see clear in a little while, and then I shall know what to d Profits of ¥ New Yorl { The fact is, democraty*dbtained possession of the government on false pretenses. ‘I'he ovils it condemued it is now beginning to see ar: not ovils at all, and(theleading features of the policy it opposed will probably be adopted by it before thé (éveland adminis- tration comes to an en?l 'flh“ has been the history of the party dUrng the last thirty years. Nearly everyshing which it cou- demned in 1860 it suoports in 1803, Mr. Cloveland is wise in his policy of procrasti- natior. The Chicago platform, if fully carried out, would revolutionize the in- dustries of the country snd bring wages down to the lowest m’ll& they have ever reached in the repu “Mhe party which brought that ruin in its train might as well MAY 18, 1808, Abandon the flald of national politics for & rmmnwu to come. The longoe Mr. Clove: and persists in doing nothing the better s will be for the republie. —— Frime Causes for Hamilintion, Ohicago Post. No American has reason to be proud of what tho last few months have brought forth fromjthe three braneas of government. | Within a short space of time one or another branch of congress has passed and the supreme court or the executive has sustained a law abrogating trial by jury, the habeas corpus and the right to bail as regards citi- zens of the two most wretched nations on earth—the Russians and the Chinese. So much for liberty. ———— Tho Wild Race for OMo: St. Paul Ploneer-Press. The joyful signs of growing disgust with the spoils system multiply daily, That which the persistent efforts of zealous re- formers could advance to only a partial accomplishment is bringing itsolf to pa: ‘The distribution of patronage is becoming task so disheartening and so actually im- ible that those charged with it will be l'omgollcd presently to adopt some other method. Never before was the prospect of taking the offices out of politics as good s it is today. That the president is disgusted with his office as chief of the hucksters isno secret. Ho has secured for himself what re- lief he can by his orders forbidding office soekers to come to the white house. R N——— PERSONAL AND GENERAL, Queen Victoria has reigned for fifty-five years--about twenty more than Albert Ed- ward hoped for. The exvloits of new locomotives and ocoan liners afford proof that this age is traveling at a rattling pace. General S. C. Armstrong, founder of the normal institute for sIndians and negroes at Hampton, Va., is dead. “‘Woodly,"” President Cleveland's summer home, was once the property of Francis Scott Key, author of *'The Star Spangled Banner." An American company proposes to build a 2,000,000 hotel in the City of Mexico. An improved quulity of mixed pulque will be served. Zimvi Dwiggins is not a fascinating namo fora finan Naboleon. Under other name his operations would smack no less of robbery. Amid the crash of shallow banks and boom concerns, the voice of David Hill is heard not. An expedition to discover his where- abouts is in order. Fifty sideshows are connected with the World's fair, and probably twice that num- ber are operated outside the fence. Itisa wise dollar that escapes. Infanta Eulalie's hesitancy about visiting the United States was probably due to the report that fourteen pianos were to be played in her honor in New York. Mrs. Jennie Northen of Princeton, Ky., died recently from her st attack of measles, leaving a daughter aged 9. Mrs, Northen's reputed age was 110 year: The staff of the Americy ilate at o Liverpool presented to T. H. Shorman, the retiring consul, a superbly bound and 1llum- inated album, ornamented with the consul's monogram. Nat Brigham, the new United States mar- shal of Utah, was a leading tenor in his class 1u Harvard. ~ 1t is presumed his vocal notes will not produce discord by coming in f quent contact with the crisp notes of Uncle Sam. It was announced in court in New York one day last week that Edward S. Stokes, who shot James Fisk, jr., was purdoned and restored to all the rights of citizenship by Grover Cleveland in 1884, when the latter Was governor. Mr. t2dgar Scott, son of the late railroad kitg, Thomas A.’ Scott,on completing his 21 yexrs last August, came into the imcome of §1,000,000. At 25 years of age his income will be doubled and "his prospective fortune w_'lldl be something fabulous. He is unmar- ried. The notorious Blythe estate of cisco, valued at $4,000,000, is again involved in litigation. State courts decided in favor of Florence Blythe as the natural daughter of the dead millionaire, but the gypsy Blythes have taken the floor for the purpose of showing that Florence is a fraud. The youths' congress at the World’s fair will convene June 17, Delegates to this con- gress may bo cither boys or girls, and are drawn from the grammar and high school grades of tho public schools in every county in the United States and tof the public, pri- vate and parochial schools of all foreign countries, though confined to the ages be- tween 13 and 21 years. Mrs. Rachel Copper, a_colored woman, who died last week in Philadelphia, was in her 113th year. By the time she was 108 she had through thriftand industry accumulated several thousand dollars worth of property, of which she was robbed by an ungrateful young colored man whom she had adopted, and was left in terrible destitution in a little cabin in the woods, where she had lived all her hfe. The career of Hon. John Balance, premier of New Zealand, who_ died recently, was a romance of real life. In 1830 he waa born in a cabin in Glenavy, near Lough Neagh, and received his education in a parish school, Then apprenticed to an ironmonger, he served behind the counter until he was 27, whon, emigrating to New Zealand, he was for some time unsuccessful. Taking to journalism he achieved succoss, in time being eleoted to the House of Representatives and becoming its prime minister and one of the San Fran- most highly honored and respected of colonists, e JOYOUS RIPPLES, The young husband behind the perambu- Tutor of his eat bor mity bo sald to be right in the push. Boston Transcript: Bicyelo riding does not appenr to be couducive “to amiability. No sooner does w mun bestride a wheel than he Rets his buck up. Atchison Glob, he office never secks the man because it can't push its way through the crowd of politicians. Cleveland Plaindealor: Thero are more than 1,000 diferent things made from petro- leum, including angels. Do Pross: Naturally candidute who carries the New Orloans Pleayune: Kunowledge Is pow- wow when It meets in i go-us-you-pleuse de- bating society. it 1s the strongest duy. Elmira Tolegram: The greatest trouble with tho man who learns 1o pliny poker is thut when he gets the gume learned he hasn'v unything 1o play it with, Buffalo Courlier: Tho wide-brimmed stiff hat 15wt much on beauty, but when ivcomes to style no one can say iUs a slouck Indianapolis Journal: “You suy sho tried to stop a strect car by whistling atit. Did she make usuccess of ivd” Yes, inw way. It wasn't her whistling that atoppeil the car, though; 1t was the face sl made. Kato Fleld's Washington: Farmer (in pawn shop, surprised at tho diversity)—Pou my oui ! Dreiballstein—How much you vant ou it? THE CASE REVERSED, Puck, Out of the darkness and tho dew One star like & trembling tuper shown, I was walting, dear, for a word from you As we walked Lo the quiet street alone. One word—but ah, though 1 pleaded well, No answering sound from your sweet lips fell. we were wed. Last night in the same old street we walked Aud 1 listened mutety to all you said As you talked and talked und talked and talked. 1 was walting to get in a single word But 1o such ghost of a chance oceurred, Now it Is years si Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest \). S, Gov't Report, ol Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE DEATH OF JUDGE BROWN. Doug! County Mar Takes Approprinte Action- Sketeh of Wis Career. When district court opened yesterday morn- Ing in courtroom No. 1, with Judgea Keysor, Davis and Scott on the bench, & large num- ber of the members of the bar were in at tendance, and as soon as the jourfial of yesterday's proceodings was read Judge C. A. Baldwin arose and formally announced the death of Judge George F. Brown, He said that he had known the deceased from bovhood, having been schoolmates together. Their acquaintance had extended over a period of sixty-one vears, and he had been given an opportunity to more fully know and appreciato the many sterling qualities of the deceased than perhaps any of the other members of the bar. Thero were many others, however, who had been intimately acquainted and associated with him for o numberof years.and his personality had made 1tself folt by thobaratlarze. Tho speaker thought that a committee of the bar should be appointed to proparo suitable resolutions touching the death of this honored member of the bar association and report on next Saturday morning. Judge Keysor announced tho appointment of the following committee in accordance with the suggestion: Judge C. A. Baldwin, Judge Edmund Bartlett, Judge G. W. Doane and Judge E. Wakeloy Judge George . Brown, whose death oc- curred Tuesday evening at his residenco, had been for a number of yoars a member of the bar of this county, and was highly esteemed by tho legal profession and a large number of friends outside of that professior He was born and raised in Portage county, Ohio, passing the youth of tho average farmer boy He graduated from the Mead- ville, Pa., college ana then entered upon the study of law at Warren, Trumbull count; O.. where he was admitted to tho ba After his admission he opened an office at Parkman, Geauga county, O., but soon returned to Warren, where he was elected probate judge, ana he served in that capacity for two terms. At the close of the war he went south and located in Missis- sivpi, whero he was appointed judge of tho arcult court. From there he went to Kan- sas, where he resumed the practice of law, and subsequently removel to Omaha, and continued to reside here until his d which came at the advanced He wasa very conscientious an honorable and honored citizen, died here two years ago. sons and two daughters the employ of the Union Pacific, and the ter ape Mrs. J. M. Wolfe and Mrs. J. F. 1 bot. "~ A nephew. Zer of the Umon Pac take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the late residenco, 2009 Capitol avenue, with interment at Forest Lawn. SE REPOR His wife He leaves two The former are in F oF AILURES. New York Bears Succeed In Dopressing the London Stock nrket. NEW Youk, May 17.—It was learnod that the early weakness in the London stock ex- change this morning was the result of a bear canard. Rumors were sent t night to the effect that heavy failures were expectod here today. They were sent for reciprocal effect licre. neapolls Creditors Complatn, AroLts, Minn., May 17.—Holders of r of the Northwestern Guaranty Loan company ave displaying a good deal of wrath over what they assert is an attempt to sequester the assets of the concern. The papers filed are not a general assignment as expected, buta deed transferring from the Northwestern Guaranty Loan company to the Guaranty Builaing company the mammoth building of the concern, the consideration named in the deed being $2,000,000. The building is claimed to be free from in- cumbrance, except for a trust mortgage held by the Minneapolis Trust company. It is also asserted that such action was author- ized by a resolution adopted July 17, 1891. Possibly every act of the company is en- tirely regular, but holders of paper of the loan company want to know why the com- pany does not make a general assignment at ounce, when both President; Meuge and Vice President Lowry say they do not sce how an assignment can be avoided more than two or three days. There being no claim anywhere that the company can tide over trouble, people to whom the company owes money vehemently assert that the doors should be closed and everybody given a fair show at the ots. London Stock Market Flat. TLoNpoxN, May 17. tocks opened better, but weakened later. Buyers were scarce and thero were many hquiditions. At 2 p.m. stocks wero very flat and Americans dropped 2 to 24§ points. Almost to the close trading was disorganized owing to dis- quieting rumors and the genoral severe de- pression ot prices, which svere among tho lowest. Before the close the situation im- proved, owing to competition in foreign liquidation of large account. Another Minneapolls Isank Breaks. MixxeAroLis, Minn,, May 17.—The Citi- zens bank suspended payment vhis morning. A notice on the door says depositors will be paid in full. The officials declare the bank is perfectly solvent and the suspension is simply due to inability to realize on scouri- ties. The cashier says the bank will resume by Mouday next at the outside. The Citi- zens 18 one of the smaller state banks. It has a capital of #250,000, and its deposits May 4 amounted to $253,913, —— NERRASKA MINISTERS PRESRNT, General Amsombly of the Presbyterh ) Chureh In Sesston at Washington, - 1§ Wasmixaron Boagav or Tur l\nn 518 FounTrENTIl STRERT, Wasiixotox, D, C., May 17 | Among the commissioners of tho goner o | nssembly of the Presbyterian churchmre t » | following Nebraskans: A. C. Stark, Has 3 ings; John Bell, Aurora; Edward 1. Doddé o | Grand Island ; Sherwood Wilco: W. Harsha, Tecumseh; John Berk, Hic' man; N Harding, Nebr a City; Al Montgomery, York Sloan, Bellevy ! James F. Quarter, Ewing; David R. Key < nd C. A, Starr, Omaha, o The following are from & muel Miller, Andover; J. M mond; James H 'y W, Nugent, Rapid City; A' M. Work, Broo, Ings: Chauncey MeAllister. Woolsey; Lu, = wig Frigg, Lenox, and K. N. Smith, Bridg, = water, L Miscellane: A. U. Wyman of Omaha is in the city Kay was appo lwing, Holt county, Neb. removed. - e postmastor & 2y vice J. A. Woode - — RONOLULU REMAINS QUIET. Lorin A. Thurston Appointed Minister {e the United States. L~ N Praxcisco, Cal, May 17.—Mail o4g vices from Honolulu to May k= have beon received. Everything mains quiet in the to note inthe situation. The provisions governmont is on tho alert against any o tempt by the adherents of the late quoen 1 reinstate her. Iorin A. Thuraton, chairme of the commission sent. to Washington b, the provisional govornment to negotiate fo o mexation and practically the prime move - the revolution has beon Washington, to PN Now Doal in Oftioe Seeking. New Youk, May 17.—Sun's Washingto = speial says: Cleveland's experience with of = fice seekers has convinced him that the preéhe ent method of appointment to office throt political influence has bacome a scandal ang = he 15 revolving in his mind a scheme to di 34 away with it entirely by a complete re= organization of tho system, and he wi = probably recommend to congress the fram= ngofa law for a commission on appoint =! farremoved from political influenc 2 as the supreme court, to make all appoint w8 ments except foreign ministors and cortaiy= high ofticials nearest tha oxecutive, qual fication for place to be the ouly question il making appointments, Bullding Permits. -\ Fourteen permits to build were L'«uuog yosterday by the inspector of buildings aj= follows: T ¥ fi”'v R. \\'lml;wk arney, repairs K wenty-ninth Twent S Haldufr, y-ninth Tickory, wigwim 3 Twelve niinor permits. Total... - Today's Gold Shipments. Nrw York, May 17.—Of the 81,000,000 golé> to be shipped by the steamship Augustac ™ Victor $600,000 has already boon with = drawn from the subtreasu ‘The bank:, 2 will furnish the remainder. The assistan & treasurer received greenbacks for the golc furnished by the government and delivere it in double and half eagles. ZREIE I 8 KEEP UP WITH THE PROCESSION, Albany Journal, Thorc's an old and truthful suying Worth kuBPan in your mind, *Keap up with tho procession Or yow'll bo left behind.” The world admires the men in front And greets them with a cheer, But very little notice takes OF thoso who're In the rear. Although tho ranks be crowded, There's always room in front; 1f you expect to win the fight Thon you must bear the brunt. It yow'll observe this procopt nd Keop it woll in mind, Vhion Gabriel blows his trampos You'll not be left behind. ey A HINT FROM PARIS. Furopean Edition New Yorlk Herald, A o - A g = This stylish dinner dress has an auba velvet corsage draped around the bu: fastened with a jewelod buckle. | skirt is of nauve silk. We're Cleaning Up You've no idea what those everlasting hammers 4 get out of the store. years we've been hampered for room and for weeks we've been hammered for more room—andnow we’ve got it — then comes cleaning up. We'll be ready to show off our new room in a few days now. We're so glad to get done that we feel like as if we might present a house and lot to those who come to the grand opening in a week or so—provided they don’t say anything about hammers—and speaking of hammers reminds us that we're hammering out a lot of suits, the prices on which have been hammered down to the lowest ebb. BROWNING, Etore open every eveningtlil 61k Biturany il "® Largost Manutaoturers anl Rysllars of Clothing la tha Worll, a relief it will be when For ] the KING & CO., 1 8. W. Cor. 16th and Douglas St5,