Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 23, 1893, Page 4

4 HE DAILY BEE um!):._ Hee, Ong Yenr .. Feckly Tiee, One Year OFFICES, N Building, Waslington, 518 Foarteenth Str CORRESPONDENCE. All eomniunieations reiating to news and ditorin] matter should be addressed: To the Lditor. BUSIN AN business | ances shoald nddres: to o Publishing Co mpany, Omuhin, Drafgs, checks and postoflice order's 10 be made pany. Partios leaving the city for the summer can have the BEE sont thelr address by leaving an order at this office, PUBLISHING yablo to the order of the com- = e = e— SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, l’ Connty of Donilas, o 1. Tazchuck, secrotary of THE BEE pub: company, doos solemaly swear that tho reniatlon of M1tk DATLY BEE for tho wook 3 fThursday, Friday, May 10 Baturday, May 20 24,208 GEo. . TRZCIUCK, Bworn 10 boforo mo and subseribed In my enco this 20th day of May, 1503, NIk Nota Avernge ¢ AN encouraging indication of the wholesome condition of the republican party is that it manifests no disposition for a renaissance of some of its recent leaders. 1¥ THE figures presented by the four Yretained” expertsare to be relied upon, we may soon expect to hear that the state owes Bill Dorgan quite alarge balance on the cell house contract. A VISIT to the Manufacturers exposi- tion will open the eyes of all Nebraska peovle who have not kept themselves fully informed as to the real extent of the development of the manufacturing industries of the state. —_—— A FREE bridge and a market house would revolutionize the retail produce trade of Omaha, which means that the cost of living would be reduced simply by reaching out for the natural advan- tages that lie just outside our gates. # IT WOULD appear, to judge from all accounts, that not a single state has yet expressed satisfaction with its own ex- hibit at the World's tair. “It is not what it shouid be,” and *it might have been better,” is the universal refrain. THE action of the city authorities in holding back the sewer bonds until the proceeds from their sale are actually , needed will be commended. Tt is by just “such close attention to cconomy that the city's financial credit must be main- tained. MR. JOHN E.UDT, the new freight ceommissioner for the Omaha Commer- cial club, assumes the duties of his offico today. He brings with him gratifying assurances that several new wholesale houses are likely to be removed to this city in the near future. MR. PETER ILER of the great corn- juice trust discredits the dispatch bear- ing news of the withdrawal of certain distillories from the combine. Mr. ller intimates that 1t is easier to get into such a corporation than to get out of it. Notwithstanding his complacency the report caused a break on the Stock ex- change yesterday from 174 to 13. THE violators of the drastic prohib- dtory law of Kansas, which does not pro- hibit the selling of intoxicants in that atate, are likely to escape any very se- were infliction of its penalties after all, The attorney general has issued instruc- tions to the county commissioners throughout the state that they are em- powered to discharge violators of the law who are held in prison and are una- ble to pay fines and costs. Herealter the poverty of Kansas saloon keepers may be expected to become proverbial, TaE determination of the attorney general of Kansas to enforce an old, for- gotten law requiring all corporations doing business in that state tofile with the secretary of state annual statements of al! business done has caused commo- tion among the foreign companies. The penalty for failure to comply with the law is $200 for each month of neglect. ‘The opinion of the attorney general re- quiring the establishment of state agents for fire insurance companies has also ereated a stir among insurance men,who make the threat that their companies will withdraw from Kansas if the law is enforced, 1P 17 is necessary for state officials to make common cause with indieted erim- inals—if they must stand or fali with men who are known to be dishonost—if, in fact, they hand in glove with a ring of conscienceless contractors who are moving heaven and earth to lkeop out of the penitentiavy—the sooner they are removed from theiwr offices the bet- ter for the good name of the state of Nebraska. The time issurely coming in this state when mon in public posi- tlons will bo required toreprove dishon- esty instead of condoning it—to punish rascality instead of befriending it—and o exact justice instead of evading it, THE BEE has repeatedly called atten- tion to the low assessment put upon the property of the Belt line in this county in the hope that it might be raised to a figure in keeping with the appraise- ments on private property. 'We have « heard of no action in support of THg BER'S suggestion. The matter has gone by defsult as far as property owners are concerned —and they are vitally con- corned. It has been left to the county assessors, whose returns are all but ir- revocable. It is safe to predict, how- ever, that the owners of the Belt line have given the matter special considera- tion. When the appraisement is made blic we shall see whether the Belt tax agent knows his business, THE OIA!E CANADIAN TRADE AND RECIPROCITY. | to interfers for the protection of Acoording to the report of the Cana- dian minister of finance the trade of the dominion with the United States last year deelinea nearly #5,000,000 as com- paved with that of two years before. He ascribes this to the operation of the Me- Kinley tariff, and doubtless correctly, sinceits effect was to largely exclude from the American market the natural products of Canada. It would seem to be a fair conclusion, then, that our own farmers gained to about the extent that the agricultural interest lost. At any rate, the competition of our north- crn neighbors being largely cut off, our own produ were afforded a better home market. There would seem to be no escape from the fact that in this respect the tariff law has not been abad thing for the agricultural pro- ducers of the United States. The com- plaints of the Canadian farmers show that they understand this to bo the case. Everybody who is familiar with our commercial relations with Canada must be presumed to know the history of the ef- forts to renew a reciprocity arrangement between the Dominion and the United States. It is entirely true, as stated by the Canadian minister of finance, that the government of Canada has several times, since the treaty of 1854 was abro- gated twenty-seven years ago, manifested a desire to enter into another reciprocity arrangement, but it has never shown a disposition to make the concessions nec- essary to tho accomplishment of that end. The old treaty was a one-sided af- fair, from which the United States got the worst of it during the whole twelve years in which it was in operation. The Canadian government has never pro- posed, in seeking to negotiate another treaty, to make any great departure from the old one, and so far as appears it does not now propose todoso. Re- ferring to the last attempt at negotia- tions, in February, 1892, the Canadian minister of finance says it was found impossible to frame a treaty upon the basis of the mutual free inter- change of the product of both countries alone, which &hows that the Canadians simply wanted tho old one-sided treaty renewed, and when our government pro- posed to include manufactures and the establishment of a uniform tarviff as to the rest of the world, the negotiations were dropped. The finance minister explains why in the statement that “‘this involved discrimination against Great Britain,” and in that is to be found the insuperable obstacle to mere inti- mate trade relations between the Do- minion and the United States so long as the present political conditions in the former continue. The Canadian minister of finance ob- serves that it remains to be seen how far the recent change of administration in the United States willaffect Canadian interests. There is, doubtless, a hope- ful feeling among our northern neigh- bors that their plan of closer commer- cial relations with this country will re- ceive greater consideration from the present administration than it did from the preceding ono, but we do not doubt that they are doomed to disappointment if thoy hope to effect a reci- procity arrangement on~ the old lines which proved so unsatisfactory to our people. A fair and equitable reci- procity treaty with Canada would be re- garded with favor by a very large num- ber of the American people, but an arrangement confined to the free inter- change of the natural products of both countries would have no advan‘ages or benefits for the people of the United States and no party, we confidently be- lieve, is prepared to enter into it. It would seem that so long as Canada is compelled to consult British commercial interests there will be small chance of establishing much closer trade relations with the United States than now exist, to the evident loss of a large number of the Canadian people. A MENACE TO COMMERCE, It is the opinion of New York mer- chants who have had long connection with the Chinese trade that the enforce- ment of the provisions of the Geary law would ultimately have a most disastrous effect upon our trade with China. While they do not believe that there will be any decided action in the matter imme- diately by the Chinese government, they do think that in time retaliatory measures will be adopted that will greatly embarrass and lead to a practi- cal suspension of trade relations. Theso effects, in the view of the merchants engaged in the Chi- nese trade,~ will not come at once. They will be brought about grad- ually. The Chinese government and people do not court international compli- cations. On the contrary they avoid them as far as possible. They area peaceable, temperate, commercial peo- ple, but they are not altogether incapa- ble of resentment, and when they come to more thoroughly understand the pol- icy embraced in the Geary law it is the belief of these most intimate with their character that some policy of retaliation will be adopted to manifest their resent- ment. As we have heretofore re- marked in reference to this, our se- curity against rotaliatory measures affecting the commercial relations of the two countries will perhaps be found in the fact that China sells to the United States about four times as much as she buys from us, and her mercantile interests may therefore reasonably be expected to exert theiv influence against any policy tending to injure commergial relations. The balance of trade has al- ways been largely in favor ot the Chinese and this is a very important considera- tion with them. There is another direction, however, in which retaliation may be applied with serious and even appalling conse- quences, This is toward the Amer- ican missionaries who are laboring to extend Christianity in the Chinese em- pive. These devoted and self-sacrificing people are having a harva enough time as it is to protect their lives and prop- erty from destruction at the hands of the antagonistic elements that surround them in the interior of the empire, and very little would be needed to induce these native elements to manifest their feeling of hostility to the missionaries iu overt acts of violence. In that event it is possible that the imperial govern- ment would not go to any great trouble the missionaries. It 1is this fea- tare of the matter which is now receiving the attention of the churches who have representatives in China, and it is proposed to unite all Protestant denominations in the carnest to secare the repeal, or at least the mod- ification, of the Chinese exclusion act. The Methodists, who have the biggoest force of missionaries in China, have al- ready taken action in this direction. It is probable that like action will be taken by the Presbyterian general assembly now in session, and it is not to be doubted that other denominations will join in the movement. These considerations are likely to have influence with the administration and with congress. There is the most valid of reasons for not enforcing the law in the fact that the treasury was not given the necessary appropriation to do s0, and if the law remains inoperative, as seems inevitable, until the meeting of the fifty-third congress, there is overy reason to expect that it will at least be modified to the extent of doing away with the penalty of deportation. That the intelligent popular sentiment of the country 18 opposed to the law as it stands has been most amply demon- strated. BREAKING UP THE TRUSTS The imminent collapse of the Whisky trust at a time when its officers and di- rectors were preparing to bond its al- ready heavily mortgaged property to the oxtent of $8,000,000, will prove a startling pieco of intelligence to the financial world. In the light of the de- velopments of the past few days, it would seem that the deliberate purpose of increasing the bonded indebtedness at so critical a point in the company's af- fairsamounted almost to a criminal intent to fleece the investing public. The Whisky trust comprises eighty distilling plants, seventy of which are nonproductive. The combined plantsaroalready heavily bonded and have in addition a large and constanly increasing floating indebted- ness. But by a system of financial de- ception the true condition of the trust’s affairs has been kept from the knowl- edge of the public; and had it not been for the action of four or five leading companies withdrawing from the trust, thus exposing the true condition of its affairs, the new loan of $8,000,000 would undoubtedly have besn madeand the in- evitable crash postponed a few years longer. The acute observer of the trend of events in the financial world can already see the evidence of an approaching crash in all the so-called ‘“industrial” stocks, and the next two or three years is likely to witness the complete dis- integration of many of the great com- binations of capital which now menace the business interests of the country. The action of the New York banks in refusing to accept trust stocks as col- lateral was the first blow at the trusts, and it went to the root of the evil, for as soon as the banks withdrew their sup- port the buying public refused to pur- chase the securities. Deprived of a market far their securities the trusts will simply abolish themselves, for the source of profit will have been cut off. Froman anti-monopoly standpoint the ‘Whisky trust is, however, the least of- fensive of all the great combinations. The coal mining trust, the millers and packers and other combines that con- trol the necessaries of life and pro- ducts of the farm and cattle ranch, are decidedly more dangerou OMAHA'S JUBBING TRADE, A brief glance at the present condi- tion of the wholesaling interests of this city will convince even the most conser- vative that Omaha's prestige as a job- bing center is steadily increasing. The dry goods, boot and shoe, hardware and grocery houses all report a heavy increase of orders, while all agree that collections are fairly good, if not per- fectly satisfactory. The rapid develop- ment of the great northwest territory is constantly opening new fields for com- mercial enterprise and the territory is naturally tributary to Omaha. The wholesale merchants of this city, realiz- ing the advantage they possess, are ex- tending their operations in this direc- tion, and their constantly increasing business, as shown to_a certain extent by the clearance reports, is a flattering indication that their efforts are meeting with success. In this connection the suggestions made by ex-Senator Paddock in an in- terview printed in THE BEE Saturday afternoon, are pertinent and timely. Omaha certainly needs more wholesale houses, especially in the dry goods line. It is undoubtedly true that other whole- saling points in the west have the ad- vantage of this city in this line of trade, and the suggestion that they have been downg a targe business in Omaha under the very eyes of the local houses may be founded upon facts. The new Commercial club may find it profitable to ascertain by careful in- vestigation the real extent of the busi- ness given by Omaha retail merchants to wholesale dealers outside of the city. The business turned away from Omaha undoubtedly amounts to several million dollars annually, A large proportion of this vast sum of money should be kept at home, and in order to bring about a more satisfactory state of affairs in this respect it may be considered advisable to inaugurate a new home patronage movement, this time for the benefit of local wholesale houses. RECOGNIZING the fallacy upon which much of the recent discussion of the Geary act is based, the New York Times defines its interpretationof the object of the law and makes suggestions as to its operations. The views expressed are not only valuable as those of the friends of the administration but as represent- ing the sentiment of the east, and in- deed of the whole country excepting the extreme Pacific coast. While the dis- cussion has persisted in the assumption that the object of the exclusion act was ‘‘the expulsion from the country of the Chinese laborers alread v resident here,” the writer points out that such was not its object. The primary purpose of the act was to revive the law for exclusion, which had expired by limitation, with more rigid restriction. This was ex- pacted to act as a deterrent to Chinamen DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, MAY 23 1893, 1 smuggling themselves into the country, and not ns a mednts of driving out those alrondyghdtd; The refusal of the Chinese o/ sregister and take out cortificatos was not expected, or its possibility even fhdfght of. Their failure to do so “‘hasgiven a phase upon its operation and efféct that was not anticipated, and has gjven all its present importance of the penak clauses, whose effect would be a barbarfsm not thought of when the act was pending, reckl the uction of congress indoubtedly was.” The other impracticability of comply- ing with the provisigns of the act aside from material impediments is fully recognized. “The only way," says the writer “in which it is now possible to execute the Geary act is to take ad- vantage of the discretion allowed to the officers of the government and not make the arrests that ‘may be' made of Chinamen who are in fact lawfully here. The administration can afford to 1gnore the ravings of sand lot politicians in Califorina who call themselves demo- crats, and who would take advantage of the situation for a wholesale expulsion of Chinamen.” THE organization in San Francisco of a company with a capital of 810,000,000, the purpose of which is to undertake the work on the western section of the Nicaragua canal, promises to give a fresh impetus to that enterprise. The company is composed of a number of California millionaires, so that there will be no diffieulty in raising the capi- tal for that portion of the undertaking which they propose to carry out, and moreover they are men who are familine with great enterprises and will not be dismayed at any ordinary obstacles. California has perhaps a greater interestin the success of the Nicaragua canal project than any other section of the country, and the financiers of that state who pro- pose to invest their money in the canal may safely be presumed to do so with a clear appreciation of the possibilities of the enterprise. It may as well be un- derstood that the completion of the canal must depend upon private capital. The popular opposition to ths govern- ment becoming financially involved in the enterprise is so strong that there is very small proba- bility that the next or any suc- ceeding congress can be induced to vote any government aid or support to the canal of the nature that has been asked. It is very likely that the organization of the company in San Francisco will have the effect to attract other capital to the enterpriso and give it the boom that it needs. THE World's fair is all right, but it will not send a dollar into Nebraska. The state manufacturers show in this city is a revelation of Ngbraska's manu- facturing resources. It will be the means of bringing many thousands of dollars into this state. Why Not? New York Sun. Why not. on the Fourth of July next, cele- brate American independence In the old- fashioned way, with modern improvements? - The Cana Style. Toronto Star. Under the agreement between the Street Railway company and the city the sum of $120,378.38 was received last year, $65,230.38 of which was_percentage of gross receipts and $55,134 milenge. ————— The Man for the Crisls. Chicago Inter Ocean, If Villard would only resign from his Pa- cific railroad and help Cleveland and Schurz and Buck Kilgour to steer the state craft through the breakers this summer he would prove his democracy by his works. They need a good railroader near the lever. e Mysterious Disnppearance. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Nobody seems to be taking the slightest interest in the_whereabouts or movements of the erstwhile robustious and numerous Adlai Stevenson. He seems to have been piled up somewhere in the political lumber room where all the useless odds and ends of the American political machinery are put when campaigns are ended. s S The lnsolence of Snobbery. New ¥ork Tribune. As Mr. Gladstone survived the insolent at- tack of the mob in the streets of London, so he will not be harmed by the bad manners of the rufians in velvet who have insulted him at the royal reception. History is not made by people of high or low degree hissing at a statesman whose politics they dislike. The flurry of excitement passes, and they are conscious of having beeun brutal or ill man- nered. The statesman swayed by moral con- victions and humane purposes perseveres in his work as though nothing had happened. — The Shrinkage In Valaes, Philadelphia Times, The loss in the industrial stocks alone since the 1st of Junuary last isover $100,000,- 000, and there 1s little chance that they will ever recover to an extent approaching the prices they commanded three months ago. ‘Fhe $100,000,000 of loss sustained in these securities represents about theamount made by the organizers of industrial trusts, ete., when they unloaded their shares upon the ublic. In other words, the speculators who inflated the induscrial stoeks to more thau double their value, as a rule, have their profits,while the public must pocket the loss. ————— The New Tarlll Bul, Bosten Advertiser, It scems beyond question that the tariff bill which the president expects to puss con- ress and to become a law is being drawn up by friends of the administration. Usually laws are made by the legislators elected for that purpose; but Mr. Cleveland was elected largely with the undersianding that he was to direct his party on the tariff question. It is to be hoped, however, that no tariff law will be passed by congress without a chance for the representatives of all classes inter- ested, both producers Wi 2 consumers, to be heard in the committ L in the debate on the bill, E Senstor Van Wyok, I’Mlmmdtjl uirer, The news of the idus illness of ex- Senator Van Wyck ofdiebraska will be read with regret by nearly all republicans. Until his defeat for re-election, old *Crazy Horse," as he was called, was one of the most pict esque figures in American politics. He was also one of the most forceful, and the countr; did not gain much bnl he was reurm{)., Van Wyck was an gldg New Yorker. He made several campaigns in that state which are still remembered. -there, but finall, drifted to the west, where his old-fashion ways speedily made him a great favorite with the grangers. — 'Tis English, You Know, Cincinnati Commercial, An interesting report from Washington is that the president has. in prospeet a change in the civil service idea to make it conform to the English plan. Mr. Cleveland and his l;zlluiel have uvm,‘- been highly appreciated England, and the president has recipro- cated with 8 warm admiration of British methods. It is not likely, however, that a stiffening and extension of civil service re- form schemes could meet with the indorse- went of democratic politicians and office- seekers, who labored "hard for Mr. Cleve- land’s election, believing that in the eveat of success they would, uee with party precedent, be rewarded, THRE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL Volee of the State Pross. Atkinson Graphic: The pitiful old World- Herald is trying to straddle tho impeach- ment hobby after the manner that distin- guished its political equestrianship, Douglas Enterprise: The defense in the impeachment trinl has commenced and if they prove all they claim in their opening statement it would hardly be suficient to clear them in the face of the damaging tosti- mony that the prosecution has produced. Fairbury Enterprise: The imprachment trial is progressing slowly. No matter what the end 1s, it will no doubt be the means of causing our state offictals to be on their guard in the future and not to be 8o anxious her their nests at the state's expense. Il Sun: Tie Osina Bee is doing good work in fighting the gang of state house thieves, The impeachment trial of the republican state officors discloses the workings of the most corrupt crop of vul- lvn‘s that ever preyed upon the ship of state. Merrick County Roepublican: The World- Horald has little to say on the impeachu cases. It confidently” expects tho ofic will be acquitted, because it avers the su- preme court is a' ring co Then it can turn around and say to Tug Beg, “I told you so." Tilden Citizen: The impeached state offi- cials now declare that their re-olection last full is a guaranwy of their innocence. This plon might carry woight buw for the fact that Nebraska “voters have become a few lines wiser since the last election. The in- vestigation has wrought a most wonderful change in public sentiment. Grand Island Independent: Mr. Humph- rey, commissioner of public lands and build- ings, has testified in his own behalf in the impeachment trial, and has tried to repre- sent himself as overworked and having no time to give attention to the detais of the ofice, This 18 a fhimsy pretext. It what he says-is true, he ought not to have accepted the office, or to have resigned. And we do not believe that these ofticers overworked themselves. How muny hours did they work? Fremont Herald: Those four architects who gave testimony that the cell hous an honest job, and whose estimates var but a few dollars, evidently had the advant- age of being called when the penitentiary robbers had to have them. One of the archi- tects called by the prosecution estimated the cost at less than £19,000, while the other sido ran it up as high as #38,000. There's somothing wrong here, somowhere. The highest estimate was made by the lately removed superintendent of the Omaha post- offico building. [ole R NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Chadron has concluded to celebrate the Fourth. Tobias claims to have more bicyclists than any other town of its size in the state. For a subsidy a_capitalist has offered to build a flouring mill and establish a bank at Hazard. A large number of beet workers have been put in the ficlds near Norfelk thinning out the beets. The Baptists of F'riend have just appro- priately celebrated the tenth anniversary of the dedication of their house of worship. John Menke, a wealthy farmer near Wil- ber, has boen sued fordivorce on the grounds of eruelty and violencs Mrs. Menke wants alimony and the custody of the seven chil- dren. A son of Martin Pinker, living near How- ells, was shot in the wrist and will lose his hand. He was standing with his arm across the muzzle of his gun, when his little brother 4 years old, crept up behind him and dis charged the weapon. He was in great luck not to be more seriously injured. Miss Emma Hutchinson, the young wo- mun who 1s_to participaté in the cowboy race from Chadron to Chicago, is said to be a Sunday school teacher. Cockeyed Bill, Rattlesnako Pete and other well known par- ticipants in the race, are reported to feel ‘‘dead sore” over the matter, as they claim its & put up job to beat them' by barring the usc of the only language known to the bronchos. The Beatrice Chautauqua assembly will hold its annual session in its beautiful home on the banks of the river Blue, June 13 to 23. Situated in the most beautiful park in the e, on the edge of a leading and thriving ty,with splendid railway facilities and with o magnificent history behind it, the Chau tauqua is certain to become the most pros- perous Chatauqua in all the west. Dr. W. L. Davidson, who successfully managed the assembly in 1890 and 1891, has been recalled to the superintendency. A few weeks ago he was in Beatrice and had a eonference with those interested i the work. He is now busily engaged 1n making the program for the coming season and says that it will be one of the very best that genius can de- vise or money procure, PEOPLE AND THINGS. Our royal visitor is 20. Mary Anderson's recollections of the stage will be published next fall. Five hundred dollars is offered for number one of the Isabella quarters. Chicagoans dined and wined the Duke of Veragua and considerately sent the bill to the state department. Denver claims & population of 182,000, based on directory names. The owners of a majority of the names are living, Something over $100,000,000 of water was squeezed out of various stocks during the past three montns, No wonder great floods ravage the east. Twenty-six governors have accepted Min- nesota’s invitation to meet in Chicago, June 5, and consider ways and means for throt- tling the coal trust. The deportation of Chinamen is about to begin. What remains of 600 buried in San Francisco have been boxed for shipment to the Celestial empire. The whisky trust was capitalized at $35,- 000,000, or nine times its actual value: Evi- dence of collapse now visible may be traced to an overdose of aqua, Haviug snubbed the presidentand rebuked the federal supreme court, Governor Pen- neyer of Oregon hungers for a few more ofti- cials to stifle with his caloric. It is in order for the husband of Mary Lease to send condolences to the husband of Infanta KulaMe, Both are necessary, though obscure, appendages to femining promin- ence. Sullivan's mouth was not equal to the ori- fice of a one-armed lawyer, so John lam- basted the legul luminary with his hams. Result, the bruiser in jail, the lawyer in the hospital. Let us have it right though a jaw breaks. Her full mame is Marie-Bulalie-Francoise d’Assise-Marguerite-Roberte- Isabelle - Fran- coise de Paule-Christine-Marie de la Picte. Infanta Eulalie, for shor Legislative absurdity is not confined to the rollicking west. The governor of New York has Jjust vetoed a bill making the use of cheese as an article of diet compulsory in the military ‘camps and prisons of the state. Tn the mterest of historical accuracy and tho unfuding fame of a neighboring city, 1t should be stated that the bloomer cositime, 80 much lauded m Chdcago, originated in Council Bluffs, county of Pottawattamie, lowa. Colonel Amos A. Parker, who recently died in Keene, N, H., at the age of over 101 years, is said to have been undoubtedly the oldest college graduate in the United States. He took his diploma from the University of Vermont in 1813, The defacement Gettysburg by a The national g of the battlefield of otor tine will be stopped. rnment proposes asserting the right of supervision over battlefields under un act of congross. wking greed which seeks to outrage sentiment will meet with popular approval, Mrs. Ulysses 8. Grant has decided not to buy the red house in Washington where Mr. Blaine died because of the protestatious of her family and near friends, who appear superstitious over the bad record of the mausion in the tragedies and recurring sor- rows of those who gavu inbiabited it. Rufus Hateh left instructions in his will that his sons learn & mechanical trade and receive a commercial education, He forbids them to gamble in any way for vuuner’. warns them against the use of tobacco in any shape, and the use of liquor in any form. Uncle Rufus probably thought he gam- bled enough for the whole family. Colonel Bob Infiemll once visited the stoke hole of an Atlantic liner. After seeing all that was to be seen he drew a sovereign from his pocket and said: “Boys, 1 don’t believe in hell, but I guess youdo. We won't lot our beliofs enter into fellow- ship, 80 here's a quid to deink my hoalth with." “And thon he wont into his cabin and wrung out his clothes, Jennie, the last of tho Rogue River Indians Ore., last woek, S FUNDS ARE RUNNING SHOR fam, tribo of died at Jacksonville, lad anticipated her death by with hor own hands a buclkskin ial robe, ornamentod \eith beads, sholls, transparont pebbles, ete., to an extent that brought the weight of the queer looking shroud up to nearly fifty pounds, Roasous Why Granite May Not Be Used Omaha's Federal Building. CHEAP MATERIAL MAY BE REQUIREM - The Newspaper Reading fabit. New York World, The newspaper-roading habit is ona which Supervising Architect O'Rourke Ssrious) Considering the Tdon of Roudvertising for Bids Along this Line Wil grows by what it feeds on. and tho nows paper is its apostle and missionary, More Oocasion Much Delay, than all othor forms of publication combined, | it cultivates the habit of reading, and it is the wide prev; causes books to to the magazin ence of that habit which ell and circulato and gives the phenomenal success A d in the last ten year Our public schools teach all our people to aper supplios them with profitable matter for reading, and stimulates them to make use of the key of intelligence furnished them by the school Frankly considered, tho increase in the habit of newspaper reading must be ad- Judged to be altogether for good and for the enlargement and enlightenment of the popu- lar mina Was FOURTREN TR STRERT, Wasmivatoy, D. C., May 23 Senator Manderson telographod Supervis ing Architect O'Rourke today that he woul me to Washington to advise with hing in regard to bids on the Omaha buildiug, b had alrowdy writton a letter which will o rive here tomorrow. Mr. O'Rourke call attention today to the wide difference bg tween tho different matorials of constructio in the bids submitted. The lowest granite bid—that of Gedde Seerie & Co. of Denver—is §821,000. Th lowest bids on other materials range i th neighborhood of £230,000. For buff Bedfor ono firm proposcs the lowest bid, « which. § 8227,000, and another of blue Bed ford $287,00 while there is stiil another for §236,000. T view of the fact that thero is yot availabl only 351,214 of the appropriation, the super vising architoet is considering seriously thy offer for readvertisement for bids and thig 1‘(0“!“‘“0!!0“ in cheaper material than gran TON BUREAU OF iR Brg, % - TART AND R BuifTalo Chips: Why doosn't somebody get up a yeast trust? It would be suro to work. TORT. Haubley, Flipson: such a very large Philadelphia Rocord: Flopson: tho artist. has a groat deal of taste.” “Hle ought to, he uses palette.” od;" murmured John with a satisfied gein, “mo alloo sameo organ glinder. Melican nian say, ‘Miove on.' Mo sy, ‘Mo mlove, you | Washington Star: Tarper's Bazar: of the ¢ o. Senator Manderson's lotter will probablyy aid in solving tho problom, Sdward A, Kreidler of Montana and at'y ex-soldior, who has been chief of the pre! emption division of the land oftice since 4 14, 1800, and whoso resignation was acc recently, has been succeeded by Flasch of Richmond, Ind. The salary of th position is 2,000, ccretary Noblo has written to off friend in the Inteviov department that hel has no intention of chauging his residence, from St. Louis to Oklahoma. 1 beond reported that tho ex-secretary intonded re-§ moving to Oklahoma and soeking election to nited States senato when the territor, admitted. M. Burkes of Lincoln has s Philadeiphia Ladgor: 1t the Princess Eu- Ialie yiclds to the wishes of thoso who aro planiting royal welcoues for hier she will b cillodt with “kindness, and that would bo a Spanish Infantacide. Inter Ocean: As sovero as rhoumatism Is a great many aro bont on having it. firm of plastoring con- nd has gone to the wall. Chicago Tribune: tractors in Rhode I A tack machine ought to put up i strong argunment. It makes its point so easily. Troy Pross: Journal: Knowledge is power, ise of the man who knows he is Indianapoli oxcept in the licked. Bldora, Ta.,d Clovel That was a o Treasursi pretty. shrow of Smith's at Chicago. tmont. .I.’xl-ln M.r‘n\g«li ou lwlu two weeks, Westorn Penslons, R Jinks . ? i y arant biscults and selling The following pensions granted are reg 1t dollars.” vorted s i Lathrop les L. Kiverg, .. —Mary Jano Laws Ylosson.” Original Hollonb Tut) We look on with good humor When, with martyr spirit fired, Reformers don the bloomoer And stand forth to be admired; The thought of all our women, thoush, Young, old, thin, plump tout, In bloomenr ach to mako A fellow " ( Westfall, Conrad crease—Reuben W, Huff, ngs. Original Oreutt, Emily Wist Towa: issue Original widows, . Tomporanco Quick, THE DAKOTA BRONCHO, d riginal—Joseph S SONR0 I John Potts, James L widowa, ' eio.—Aunisy ;) minor of Georio Plerce, & New Nebraskn Postmasters. 4 The following fourth-class postmastel were appoinied in Nebraska today: Bl Creek, Jobuson county, J. W. Youngman; Graf, Johnson county, George Hohout; Ros land, Adams County, W. Carter. P. S H Army Oficers for Indinn Agonts. 3 Wasuizorox, D. C., May 22.—Upou the ! request of Secretary Hoke Smith the secre- tary of war has furnished the Interior de- | partment with a list of army ofticers from hich he recommends that seclections be made for Indian agents. Secretary Smith ¥ said today that in cases where the civil agents were il ient or for any other reason were unsatisfactory, they would be displaced by army oficers.’ It was his pur- pose to plact anarmy officer in charge of except those where the Indians were in an advanced state of civili- zation, and that within a reasonable time he | ted to have at least two-thirds of the s under the control of army officers. Original Yankce Blade. ver, moth He was littlo, he was wicked, and they fed him with i stick; And they took him out to water by just bring- ing him the creek; And they built a barn around him, and they Wroto upon a bowrd “Here's a keg of matches stored. Sing hey, this little broncho owned by Jones! nt powder with a box of Once a fellow came to ride him—vowed to ride him thon and thore; Jones entreated, pra. he only wasted He had heard about this broncho and he didn’t and warned him, but 1 and ho'd do it-—so they took his little broncho owned by They wont and got & windlass, and a hawser from tho ranch And they hitche o the broncho in & man- id stanch; Wo teamsof horses,—made them rly Ned, until they pulled that little ough the shed, Sing hey, thislittle broncho owned by Jones. agen Will Make a Porsonal Investigation, 3 ., May 22.—-Mr. Alfred ninister from Switzerland to. the United States, left Washington for Chis cago this afternoon to investigate the arrest * of P. B, Nemitz, agent of the Swiss exhibit- i ors at tho World's fair on the charge of sell- ing & diamond brooch held in bond in the government customs oftices. A dispatch was received by the minister from Wiliiam Per- renoud, Swiss commissioner to the World's fair, stating briefly the facts in the case and giving notice that he had dismissed Ne- ¥ mivz. Mr. Claparedo decided that the mat- ter could be better investigated by himself | in person, and he therefore decided 10 go at; once to Chicago. Now,this little broncho would have bolted,but they fixed him very soon— He was bridled up by telograph and snddled by allc Then tl shockod him with a batt'ry, and le, as result, he rideron him with a Kind of Sing hey, this little broncho owned by Jones. Like a horse of stone he stood there, to the wonder of the crowd, ver moved a muscle and the people Zht him cowed; \suddenness he startod and so quickly moved the p . Horse and rider—t shadow 1n the air, Sing hey, " thislitlo broncho owned by oncs, t they scemed a whirling Freo Gold In the Treasury, 1 WasHiNatoN, D, C,, May 22.—Tho free, | goldin the treasury, according to the treas ! | urer's book, is $2,420,000. This does not take. into consideration the gold shipped frony" New York last Saturday. When this is sub’ tracted, the gold resorve of §100,000,000 wild still remain intact, but the margin will b thin, The week opened today with larg, receipts, and it is probable that the deh statement on Junoe 1 will make a better e. hibit than the May statement, 7 Largest Manufacturors anl Rovullazs of Clothlng fa thy Woel L Ina trice the bronco vanished—none knows nto this day; thered up his rider on a hill, ten Yo keg of giant powder with a box of matches stored," They turned this legend over and they wrote upon the board: “This s s r<;t: to the mem'ry of a man who ride; od off w box of matches,—kindly see the other sido, Sing hey, this littletbroncho owned by Jones, Invited Out. Don’t send regrets. If you do you'll regret the " Our hand- some new store is J complete, and we /| will celebrate the event Wednesday night by a public re- ception. Ladies are specially invited. Handsome illustrated f — | World’s fair portfolia given to every visitor. Meanwhile we are doing business in the handsomest and most convenient store in the west. Special attention is asked to our splendid furnishing stock. Summer underwear we have in great abundance at prices from 500 a garment up. Watch for our great suit sale which begins Thursday morning. BROWNING, KING & CO., { 8 W. Cor. 16th and Douglas §ts. regrets. 6tore open evory eventaztil 6.1k alurday Wil W