Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1893, Page 4

Teagmehea g v 5y OMAHA DAILY THE DAILY BEE o rUBl .lsl!lflj ,F,\bhlf\',"!i‘!( WATER, Bditor. RO® TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTTON. Year § 800 10 00 ally oo (without Sunday) O ally and Sunday, One year... ix s b o0 hree Mon e 2 80 unday Ree, Onn Year., 200 turdny Beo, One Yeur . 160 eekly Bec, One Yoar Wisisovin DOU OFFIUES, Omali, The Bes Bullding. South Omnla, corner N nnd 26th Streots. Counell Blufs, 12 Pearl Strec Chicugo Ofice, 317 Chamber of Commeree, New York, R fivll(llnlp Washington, 513 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. All communieations relnting filitorial matter should be addrossed: tor. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business fetters and remittances shoald be nddressed to The Bee Pablishing Company, Omuha. Drafts, chocks and postofice s o hé made payablo to the order of the com- pany. Partles leaving the city for the summer ean bave the Hee sent their address by leaving an order at this office, PUBLISHIN! 18, 14 and 15, Tribune 0 news and 1: To the COMPANY. ATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. 3 [ " grounty of Dotiins George B, Terehu Nshing company, do motunl elreulation of iJ , ending May 2, 1504, was as follow unday, May | o of THRE BEE pub- vy awear that the for the week Bworn to before mo and subscribed in my pre ®nco this 20th day of My, 189, N. ¥ELL, Notary Publio { R —= - e Avernge Circulation for April, 1893, 24,281 -_————— “Tur Towa State Bankers' association 15 in session at Council Bluffs. It might be a good idea to invite them across the river for a few hours and show them a progressive western metropolis. EASTERN railway systems, notably the Pennsylvanma and Lake Shore lines, will send every one of their employes for a two week’s vacation at the World's fair. The example might be followed with profit by western lines TVERY proicinent citizew of Omaha should protest against the proposed ehange in the specifications for the new postoffice building. The substitution of sandstone for granite would cheapen the building in cost and appearance and should not be permitted. IT WILL be a great day for Omaha and South Omaha when the Rock Island com- pletes the connection of its Nebraska lines with the lines which already tap the great cattle regions in Texas. There is a gratifying prospect that this work will be commenced early this summer and pushed rapidly to completion. THE Interior department at Washing- ton has finnlry consented to allow the Burlington system to cross the Crow Indian reservation. This will enable the company to build to a junction with the _Northern Pacific at Billings, Mont., and thus bring one of the greatest live stock regions in the west within shipping reach of the Omaha markets. > . A8 INDICATING the disastrous #esultd that invariably ensue from untertainty as to the economic policy of the .govern- ment, the capitalists who were contem- plating the establishment of an extensive sugar plant in central Wyoming have decided not to make an investment until it is known what action will be taken by the new congress in regard to the bounty act. DOUGLAS county is one of the few counties in the United States which has appropriated a large sum of money for the permanent improvement of country roads, and her efforts in this direction will be watched with interest by people all over the country. Consequently, the men in charge of the work should make no mistake by countenancing the use of poor material. THE people of the Black Hills coun- try are congratulating themselves on the bright outlook in that section. The mining resources show increased and more substantial development than ever before, and in all the leading towns of the Hills notable buildings and valuable improvements are in progress. Immi- gration is flooding the country and capi- tal is also coming in. Surely the pros- pect is an encouraging one for this en- terprising and intelligent section of the west. CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. HAMNER of the Twentieth United States infantry, who has been made major and paymaster in the army, was a sergeant of artillery with General Robert Ancerson at Fort ‘Bumpter when the first gun of the rebel- lon was firad. At theclose of the war he was anpointed to a lieutenancy in the army and his recent promotion it is said has been made strictly en his merits, Ho is now stationed at Fort Assiniboine. A vrivate soldier in the regular army in 1850 and thirty-seven years thereafter amajor in the much coveted position of paymaster shows that though promotion in the military may be slow there is re- ward for faithful and meritorious ser- vices. THE stockmen in Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas had no sooner discovered, and congratulated them- selves thereon, that the cattle on the ranges were in better condition and the losses less heavy than they had been led to suppose, than the railroads stepped in and nipped their expectations of . profituble returns from their unexpected good fortune. The lines in the Western Freight association and those entering these range cattle districts have ad- vanced rates on live stock from $2 to $10 per car. Accordingly the rates from Bheridan, Wyo., on the B. & M. rail- road; Miles City and Forsyth on the _« Northern Pacifie; Wolf Point, Mont., on the Great Northern; Whitewood, N. D., on the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri "+ Valley, and Douglas, Wyo., on the same road are all adjusted on the same basis, 8105 to Chicago for thirty-foot cars, The rates on other cars from the same point ave fixed on deferentials. Thus it turns that whatever industry may for the time become prosperous its re- munerative gain must pay tribute to THE CROP CONDITIONS, The government report of the erop conditions for May indicates that the yield of wheat will be less than the av- erage for the years of 1880 and 1800, There seems to be no reasons to doubt that, however favorable the conditions may be hereafter, during the season there will be a reduced yield. Winter wheat has been irreparably injired, and although the crop of spring wheat should be up to the average it will not make up for thisloss. At the same time the foreign reports vegarding wheat ave | very unfavorable. Much of the wheat of | AJgeria and other parts of North Africa have been destroyed by drouth and the | reports are unfavorable from wide Bu- ropean areas, All this points to a more than ordinarily large demand upon the United States for wheat, and it is an in- toresting question whether we will be in position to meet it. According to a comprehensive study of the situation made by the New York Sun, with full average crops at home the importing countries this year will need to supplement their domestic sup- plies by the importation of some 368,000,000 bushels, “and hereafter such importations, when home crops are not above the average., must be augmented by the en- tire requirements of such additions as may be made to the populations of the importing nations.” Wheat production is decreasing in such countries, asa whole, says the Sun, and whatever the additions to the annnal requirements may be, they must be met by increased imports. An increase of 10,000,000 to 11,000,000 bushels year by year is the estimate for the increasing population, and the question is, Whence can be drawn the supplies to meet the demand? The present aggregate requirements of Burope exceed 1,460,000,000 bushels. This is 230,000,000 less than is required for European consump- tion. The annual increase to the European demand is 14,000,000 bushels. The resources of European coun- tries for agricultural production are practically exhausted, so that those countries must continue to depend upon the supplies of other con- tinents. The probability is that there will bo less for the year 1893 than the avorage, not only for the reason that the crops are likely to be below theavera, but also because domestic requirements | are growing in even greater ratio than arc those of Buvope. It is an interest- ing fact that the only wheat areas which have increased during re- cent years are in the Balkan states and Argontina, and this has not been more than suflicient tooffset the re- duction in area in westorn Europe. Tak- ing the world asa whole there appears to have been during the last five years no gain in wheat production, and so far as the United States is concerned it appears that the area under wheat is less than ten years ago, while domestic requirements are increasing annually by the measure of the needs of the 1,500,000 new people yearly added, “and our power to export breadstuffs is vanish- ing quite as rapidly as the popu- lation augments, and perhaps a little movo rapidly, for the per capita rate of consumption advances as does the ratio of whites to the corn-eating black population of the southern plantations.” With an average yield per acre, says the New York Sun, and the avea devotod to wheat growing rewaining undimin- ished, we can produce about 455,000,000 bushels. “Of this we require about 378, 500,000 bushels for use as bread, seed, and in the arts; at a rate of consumption no greater than obtained during the period 1880-1890; so that the exports of the season, in the event of an average crop, would be about 76,500,000 bushels, plus such reserve stocks; above the average reserves of recent years, as may exist.” Accopting these calculations as sound, they suggest that Amoarican wheat growers may reasonably look for better prices for their grain WHAT IRRIGATION HAS DONE. According to the last census report about 4,000,000 acres of land had been reclaimed by irrigation, and doubtless this statement was too small. A writer in one of the leading magazines who has evidently given a great deal of attention to this subject estimates that the irri- gated areas under ditch in the arid regions is in round numbers over 17,- 000,000 acres, or 26,840 square miles, of which about 2,000,000 acres are cultivated by irrigators. There is a considerable disparity in these figures, but there is reason to believe that the census sta- tistics are wrong, as everybody at all fa- miliar with the progress of irrigation will be disposed to readily believe. In fact, it is probable that the magazine writer has not included in his statement all the lands that are now subjected to irrigation. But making the largest allowance for the arid area alveady reclaimod it con- stitutes but a very insignificant part of the vast regions that must ultimately be brought under irrigation in order to make it productive. If the census fig- ures be accepted, less than one-half of 1 per cent of the entire arid area has been retained. If the other state- ment be more nearly ¢ ot, the per- centage is still less than 1 per cent. Taking out much of the arid region that is mountainous or otherwise unfitted for agricultural purposes even with irriga- tion and there still remains a vast region which if ever brought under cultivation and made to serve the pur- poses of mankind, will be capable of sub- sisting a population larger than that of the country at present. It is beyond question, if the best scientific opin- ion be accepted, that two-thirds of the arid region can be re- claimed, and it is a well established fact that irrigated lands ave the most valuable. According to the census re- port the value which irrigation gives to land is over $80 an acre. In California the average is estimated at $150, and in some sections even higher. The 'value of the irrigation systems already estab- lished and in successful operation is stupendous. Inall, it is stated, about #30,000,000 has been spent in reclaiming land that was almost worthless before, and is now valued at 250,000,000, or more than eight times the cost of the investwment in irrigation. We receutly noted & most impor tant P | alone now enterprise in this direction under- taken in southern California by a syndi- oato composed principally of eastern capitalists and which involves the reclamation of between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 acres of land, with the proba- bility that the scheme will be extended to ambrace arid lands in northern Mexico and in Colorado. Investmont in irriga- tion has proved profitable in the pastand there is no reason why it shall not con- tinue to do so. The reclamation of the arid region must be the work of private enterprise. That seems beyond question. This will require. a much longer time for its consummation, per- haps, than if it were undertaken by the general government, but of its ultimate aceomplishment there can be no doubt. There is reason to belicve that in the not far future this will prove to be one of the most attractive of enterprises for the investment of private capital AN UNJUST DISCRIMINATION. The jobbers of Omaha have for years complained of the diserimination which taxes them 5 cents per hundred pounds on shipments across the Council Bluffs bridge to points in Iowa, but their com- plaints have always fallen upon heedless ears. The Commercial club has decided to take up this grievance and endeavor to have the evil corrected. The new organization could not have selected a better starting point, and if its efforts are successful the club will have justified the good judgment of its founders. Under the present unjust arrange- ment, the Omaba jobber who fills an order to be shipped to an Towa point is compelled to pay atoll of 5 cents per hundred to get his goods over the river. On the other hand, the Council Bluffs jobber may ship his goods across the river into Nebraska points without being required to pay this toll. The un- justness of the arrangement is ap- parent. The Council Bluffs jobber is permitted to do business in Nebraska at the Omaha rate, while the Omaha job- Ler must pay a tribute of 5 cents per hundred in order to do business in Towa. The importance of the matter will hardly be realized by those who have not kept themselves fully posted as to the magnitude of the shipments from Omaha to western Towa points. At the meeting of the executive committee of the Commercial club yester- day it was stated that the agui- cultural implement houses of Omaha did $12,000,000 worth of businesslast year, but that if the pres- ent discrimination is continued the busi- ness would have to be moved to the other side of the river. Again, new whole- sale houses wishing to enter the Ne- braska and Iowa field will be quick to see that they can conduct their business from the Iowa side of the river to a much greater advantage and the con- tinuation of the present rule is likely to prove detrimental to the future growth of the jobbing interests of Omaha. Every influence which has a tendency to retard the commercial growth- of Omaha must be discovered and removed. Healthy commeorcial activity is impos- sible when surrounded by unreasonable restrictions. The Commercial club is on the right track and now that it has taken hold of the work in earnest it should not cease its efforts until every trade restriction is removed from the path of Omaha’s advancement. A SIGNIF. PROTEST. The unfortunate agitation of the Sun- day closing question at the World’s fair is likely to assume a serious aspect. The workingmen of Chicago who a:e denied admittance to the fair on tre only day they are permitted to rest frcm the monotony of daily toil, propose to hold a monster demonstration next Sun- day to protest against the closing of the gates. They will then march to Jack- son park 75,000 strong and demand ad- mittance in the name of labor. Such an assemblage would in all probability sweop aside the flimsy barriers and spread out over the precincts of the ‘White city like an angry, irresistible flood. After all, it is the workingmen who have made the great fair what it is, From the day that the first spadeful of earth was turned in Jackson park until the moment that President Cleveland called the completed exposition into life, the hand of labor moved unceasingly to accomplish the wonder at which the whole world today stands in admiration and amazement, Day and night for more than three years the skill of the craftsman has been exercised, his in- genuity taxed and his endurance stretched to the uttermost to accomplish what in any other nation on the earth would be deemed the impossible. The mind which conceived the glories of the fair would have been powerless without the hand to execute. The great exposition stands today as the gift of labor 1o civilization, And now that the triumph of labor stands complete, the men who wrought this wonder of the closing century are debarved from the enjoyment of its beauty and the benefit of its instruction by & mistaken edict inspired by an al- most inconceivable spirit of bigotry, It isnot atall strange that the working- men of Chicago should raise their voices in earnest and indignant protest, THE adoption of a resolution by the general synod of the Retormed Presby- terian church making it incumbent on all its members to withhold their pat- ronage from the World's faic if opened on Sundays, is an application of the boy- cott in a quarter least to have been expected. It will be likely to have about as much effect on the progress of the great exposition, however, as will another resolution, adopted by the same body, determining that no church funds be heresfter in- vested in stocks which cause unneces- sary work on Sunday, *‘such as railroad securities,” have on the railroads. THE Interior department has decided on September 15 as the date for opening the Cherokee strip, but this may be changed by circumstances not now foreseen. A mnumber of knotty problems is still confronting the depart- ment, chief among which is some of the provisions of the act of the present ¢on- gress relating to this territory. It is stated that after much deliberation the officials of the deps¥ftent have satisfled themselves that there is nothing in the act which renderk’thb homestead laws inoperative and _that consequently these laws will, oapply in full force in the matter *of the occu- pying of the new lands. Another thing said to hav& been determined is thatthere is practfeally no way of pre- venting a rush. ‘Afthough the secre- tary of the interior some time ago de- clared that tho taoctits which marked the occupation of the Oklahoma lands would not be allowid when the Cherokee strip was opened, 4t Mow appears that the officials of thé Yepartment have abandoned this ides and that in all probability the peopls who want lands in the strip will have to race for them as in times past. In that event a very active and lively scram- ble may be expected. It is the intention of the dopartment, howevess to throw strong safeguards around setiiers who actually design to build homes for themselves, and to pro- tect such persons from others who go in for the mere purpose of speculation. Further than this the department is not disposed to hold itself responsible. A RECENT census bulletin respecting the results of irrigation in the west af- fords some interesting facts as to the practicability, progress and utility of bringing the sterilo soil of this country into profitable agricultural use through the moans of artificial moisture. Of the estimated 542,000,000 acres reclaimable arid lands, only 3,631,381 had been re- deemed from bacrenness when the cen- sus was taken. Over one-half of this was in the states of California and Colo- rado, the great bulk of the remainder was in the Rocky mountain states and only 66,965 acres in the Dakotas, Ne- braska, Kunsas and Texas. The value of the land thus reclaimed, estimating that in the latter named states at $31.40 per acre and that in California at 3150 per acre, or an average for the whole area of $83.28 per acre, is about $94,611,- 000. The total cost of bringing the desert thus under cultivation was $20,- 611,000. The average first cost of bring- ing water to the arid land was $8.15 per acre, and the annual cost in maintaining the irrigating channels $1.07 per acre. When it is remembered thav before being irrigated that portion of arid territory now rich with fertile fields was utterly worthless, it is readily seen how profitable becomes irrigation enterprise. The figures show also that but a modicum of such lands capable of redemption have thus far been brought under water, so thit irrigation in this country isstill in its/incipience. However, with the completion of the extensivo ir- rigation systems in Cplorado, Arizona and Washiogton already described in THE BEE the total of rec¢laimed land will double the present figuses. These enter- prises will be matérially advanced and a portion of them dvmpleted during the present season. It would not prove dif- ficult to find many sections in Nebraska and adjoining state§ whbre opportunity affords for similar profitable investment. THE NICARAG! evolution, though not large, is formidable and persistent enough. The: decisive” battls so long pending scems to'‘Have been at last fought, and if the accounts received are correct, the government has suffered the disastrous rout predicted. The presi- dent of the republic is on the western coast prepared for flight, and the gov- ernment is demoralized. The troopsen- gaged in the battle near Masaya did not number over 2,5 In fact, the number of revolutionists en- gaged is given at 1,500, but the govern- ment troops suffered largely, while the revolutionists escaped almost without injury, being protected by entrench- ments. A dispatch sent on the eve of the battle, by one of the revolutionary leaders to Wash?ngton, gave assurance that the American public need have no fears about American interest; that the revolutionists would protect every right. It may now be expected that Bonilla, the head of the revolutionary party, will succeed Sosoca as president of the re- public. SEVERAL years ago the great cattle kings of Nebraska and Kansas broke up their big cattle herdsand sought more un- broken ranges, where they would not be disturbed by the great flow of immigra- tion. And now, in turn, these vast herdsare again disappearing., In South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming the in- flux of settlers is becoming so great and the desirable ranch locations all over the ranges are being so rapidly taken up that the big cattle outfits are being fast disposed of, and soon the small cattle- men and farmers will have complete possession of the ranges even now re- maining. Montana has hitherto been a paradise for these cattlenren, but the rapid increase of population has en- croached upon the cow counties, and they, too, are being cleared for the ranchers, It will be only a short time when the famous, immense western herds will be a thing of the past, al- though the aggregate of cattle raised will doubtless be as large and of a far superior quality. - John Sherman is notoue of the advisers of the present aaministration, but it is earry- ing out his well known-views in o way that entitles him to considerable crediv, e — This Has a Local Application, Orchard Farmer and Laborer, ‘The man who imyfingd that his success depends upon pulling Somd one else down makes a mistake that nearly always results fatally to himself. He will win by the exhi- bition of his own merits, not by forever poiating out the defects of others, Democratic Cross kurposes. Loutsville Courier-Journal, Among the democratic senators and repre- entatives, scattered botween Dan and eershieba, he who travels a mile an houris apt to find the way barred of evarything ex- tept cross-purposes and shailow nothings, varied here and there by the coward's plea that we must be exceeding careful lest we tread on somebody's toes. e S o N A Pat Up & Nebrasks Gity News, The Lincoln paprs with their character- istic adherence to republican oficials are having o great deal to say about the testi- mony of the expert architocts in their esti- mates of the cost of building the cell house at the penitentiary. A-wor.h-n? 1o the pa- pers the architects who tesiitied for the state knew nothing whatever of what me{ were talking about, bui the two who esti- mated withio §71 of each other were pro- fessionals In their business. Tho testimony (;flf the defense smacks too much of & &n ‘:-.p ake- In the language of Celonel re, ‘My Lord, movhinks thou @ost pro- 8 tost too loudly." ——en Renching for Extortionors. Chieago Inter Ocean, Under the new state.law of New York a man who takes part in a combine or trust is liable to a fiue of 0,000 or imprisonment for one year, or both. People will eventually roach, allsuch extortions, Thay are ua. American and must go. Live and lat live is the American maxi e The Income Tax . Phitadelphta Press, An income tax will be denied and dis- claimed & good many times to come: but it the democrats réduce the tariff there is no other course open but to tax incomes or tax sugar. As congressmen got $5,000 a vear, it will probably strike most of them that this is just apgut where the lme ought to be drawn. —_—— Lines of Great Reform. Mimneapolis Tribune, ‘We have it upon such excellent democratic authority as the Philadelpbia Record that the ‘‘restoration of the duties on sugar and coffee belongs as essentially to the program of tariff reform as the removal of these duties belongs to protection.” A great truth succinetly ox| ed, but somehow it has not obtained wide currency in the democratic press of the west. —_—— Undefiled Jeffersonian Simplicity, New York Tribune, The most frugal and matter-of-fact eovern- ment of Europe is probably thzt of Bulgaria, which, when the national legislature does not happen to be in session, is in the habit of hiring out the parliamentary chamber for theatrical entertainments. © national representatives are mostly farmers m a small way, and they are very regular in their attendance, since if they are not on hand to answer the roll call, they forfeit their daily stipend of $3. Nebraska Must Kucoarage Her Own. Nebraska City Press, The manufacturers and consumers expo- sition at Omaha is something that deserves encouragement of every Nebraskan. It be- longs %o the state alone, and is for tho state and its material welfare. That is why it is 80 important. It represents the pioneer manufacturing enterprises of a young state aud is an energetic effort to show to the world the high position Nebraska will ere long obtain, Freo Labor the Most Productive, =New Orteans Times. The truth is that cheap, servile, ignorant labor is never the best. 1v may build ulv an i acy and create a race of rich land as it did in Jamaica and the south in ante bellum days, but it does not the country; and ignorant labor is the best or the most productive. We ising more cotton today than we ever could in the days of slavery, and we are ob- taining better results por acre in both cane and cotton. —_— Corn Bread Abroad. Philadelphia Inquirer, There is more encouragement 1 the ad- ditional facts reported by Colonel Murphy. It appears thav the Royal Board of Health of Germany, after a chemical examination, reported that American corn was the cereal needed to cheapen the army food supply, and American millrights report that they huve sent into many European countries the proper machinery for reducing the grain of the maize to meal. The rye crop of Ger- many will be short this year and it is ex- pected that people who have looked on the maize meal with hostility will be tempted to try it and thus become familiar with its merits. There is some ground for encouragement for the American farmer in all this. If Europeans can be brought to appreciate the value of maize as a human food product our exports will come nearer to paying for our imports. War and the World's Falr. Harper's Wckly. As the first great World's fair held in London in 1851 was shortly afterwards fol- lowed by the Crimean war, sosome of its successors have had more or less groat wars closely on their heels. If the World’s fairs did not bring on those wars thoy certainly did not prevent them. ut our Columbian celebration prosented one spectacle which is probably without precedent, und should be of good augury. Many of those who iwit- nessed the great v de of sailors and marines on the streets of New York on April 27 may not have voen mindful of the fact that thoy saw something that perhaps had never happened within the memory of the present generation, and would not be possible anywhere else in the world; sailors and soldiers of ten different nations, with arms 1 their hands, united in one festive array—Englishmen, Russians, Germans and IFrenchmen belonging to the armed forces of rival powers that may, as is thought, at any moment come to blows among themselves— peaceably marching with muskets on their shoulders and swords at their sides behind one another in one column. It was a spectacle emblematic of the posiion of this great American republicamong the nations of the earth—the great peace power of the world embracing “in its hospitality the great war wers of the world for a celebration of uman progress and mutual good-will, —— BITS OF BRIGHTNESS, Boston Courler: A conundrum may be called mucilaginous when it's u sticker. New Orleans Pleayune ing for the poor glrl w! sallor hats are in fashlon, It Is all plain sail- en the jaunty little New York Times: When a young lady gets .an iden into her head that she Is as handsome s picture, Isn't It about time she was taken own? Philadelphia Record: The diamond cutter's trade affords proof that It takes hard work to achieve brilllant results Somerville Journ made a mistake in h when he begins telll he man who never lite breaks his record any one ubout it. Detrolt Freo Press: Miss Penstock—I am ii3g 0vor to Parls this yenr to see If I caniot somothing decent 1o woar. Mlss Pinkor) ou have never been thero before, have you Oleveland Platn Donler; “I shall stats the whole case in i sentonce,” s the judge sald when he arraigned the prisoner. Philadolphia Times: Whatever it may prove ultimately, up to dute the Geary law husn't proved much of a Chinese laundry check. he—Isn't your father a very digni- Very. He- him for a hundred dollars. Why, he wouldn't let me touch Now York Sun: “Plain drunk?” qu magistrate. “No, your honor,"" ro had brought in the e delirium trimmin's, your Lowell Courler: The Chinose problom wor- rios Prosident Cloveland. Why doesn't he talk with the Chinamen about it? - Any oue of thom could give bim & queue. DOMESTIC JARS. isas City Journal. ‘tls vory sad o wly wed Mixed up In family Jars before The honeymoon Lius fled. 1 knew o puir whoso lives were wrecked This way beyond & doubt; Thoy marriad up i a bajloon And hiad a falllng ou ot RICEs DELICIOUS Flavoring Extracts Of perfect purity— Of great strength— Economy in their use Flavor as delicately and deilciously as the fresh fruit. K4 AND NERRASKANS. York people are petitioning for an uptown tolegraph office. A number of York people have chartered A sleoping car and will start for the World's fair June 5. Blacklog hias carried off a number of steers belonging to Enos Adamson, near Bayard, Cheyenne county. Mrs. Caroline Smith of Hubbell, aged 70 years, died as the result of liver trouble Wwith which she had been afflicted for five voars. Mrs. Eliza Hare, an aged Pawnee City lady, fell down a cellar way and struck on her head, recoiving injuries which may prove fatal, Mrs. Poter Marsh, one of the pioncers of Wahoo, was found dead in bed. Sne had been stricken with paralysis during the night and had peacefully passed away in her sleep. Charles Wilbur, alias Charles Hughes, who escaped from _jail at Madison but was recaptured, has offered to plead guilty to forgery if the officials will only send him to the pen and thus save him the horror of a ::llmmcr‘l stay in the Madison county bas- o. ‘The 4-yoar-old son of William Deihl of Superior, while looking for his plaything under tho cook stove, chanced to kneck down a leg, and the stove tilted to one side, emptying a kettle of hot water on the little fellow. His death resulted in a few hours, The state association of German Congre- tional churches is in session at Crete. me of the prominent men from abroad at- tending the convontion are: Superintendent M. E. Eversz, D.D., of Chicago, Superin- tendent J. . Stowart, Pastor . Buchert of Omaha, Pastor William Suess of Herndon, Kan,, and others, People who cannot go to the World's fair or who want to post up on it bofore going, will be given onc of the best opportunities to see and hear all about_the big show at the Creto Chautauqua. Lorado Taft, sculp- tor for the Horticultural building of the fair, has been engaged to deliver two illustrated locturos on the exposition. s views are wonderful, and his intorpretations delight- ful. For those who cannot attend the expo- sition they are invaluable, while for those who can attend, they are the best possible reparation for gowng and review on return- ng. —_—— NEWS FOR THE ARMY, List of Changes In the Kegular Service ns Aurounced Yesterd WasniNGroN, D. C., May 24.—[Special Tol- egram to I'ie Ber. he following army orders were issued today: Leave of absence for fifteen days, to tage effect upon the closing of the recruiting ren- dezvous at Wheeling, W. Va.. is granted Captain Christian C. Hewitt, Nincteenth in- fantry, recruiting officer, So much of special orders as directs First Lieutenant Reuben B. Turner, Sixth in- fantry, upon the completion of his duties at Fort Barrancas, Fla., to roturn to Newport, Ky., and resume his'duties as constructing quartermaster at Fort Thomas is revoked, and he will proceed instead to Mount Vernon Barracks, Ala., and under the di- rection of the quartermaster general will take charge of the construction of a sewer and water supply system and house drain- age at the post, ‘taking station at Mount Vernon. Upon the completion of this duty Lieutenant Turner will return to Newport and resume his duties as construction quartermaster at Fort Thomas. Assignments to duty of officers of the medical department recently appointed are ordered as follows: First Lioutenant Alex- ander N. Stark, assistant_surgeon, will pro- ceed from Norfolk, Va., and report to the commanding ofticer at Fort Monroe, Va.; First Lieutenant John S. Kulp, assistant surgeon, will proceed from Wilkesbarre. Pa.. and report to the commanding officer Colum- bus Barracks, O.; First Lieutenant Edward L. Munson, assistant surgeon, will pro- ceed from New Haven, Conn., and report to the commanding oficer at Jefferson Borrocks, Mo., First Lieutenant Charles E. B. Flage, assistant surgeon, will proceed from Indianapolis, Ind., and report in person to the commanding ofticer at the presidio of San Francisco, Cal., First Lieutenant Charles Lynch, assistant surgeon wil' pro- cecd from Syracuse, N. Y., and report in person to the commanding officer at Fort Omaha, Neb. . sy direction of the secrotary of war, Cap- tain Samuel M. Swigert, Second c: Iry, is detailed as a membor of the examining board conveined a Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Mareh 10, vico Lieutenant Colonel Sumuel B, M. Yo Fourth ¢ iry, hereby relieved. Lieutenant Colonel Young will return to his proper stailon. ———— WOMENS'S PLESS CONGRESS. Interesting Papers Read by Notable Nows- Paper Workers., Ccaao, TIL., May 24.—One of the most interesting of the series of the Women's Press congresses, owing to the fact that it brought together a number of women doing lines of journalistic work usually dono by men, bagan at 10 o'clock this morning, The presiding officer is Martha Howe Davidson of Chicago, 8 thoroughly posted writer on architecture. Mrs. Ida Tims Klocker of In- dependence, In., who is an authority on trotters, who has reported every raco on the famous kite-shaped track at Independence, read a paper on “Women as Race Itoport: ers.” Miss Cornelia T. Crosby of Maine, botter kmown to lovers of angling under her press name, “Fly Rod.” and one of the most expert anglers in country, read a piper on **Woman as an Au- thority on Trouting.” Other papers read showing woman in unusual lines of work for her wore as follows: “Womon as Bustue: Managors of o Newspaper," by Barbara Galpin of Massachusetts; “Woman a Washington Correspondent,” by Mrs, ¥ ol Kimball Gardiner, the first woman admitt. to the pross gallery of the house of repry sentatives, and Mrs, Emily- L. Shorwog also read a paper on _“Women as Congrey, stonal Reporters.” Papers also were re by the veteran “Jenay dune" on *‘Fditorig and Department Work," and others, WANT 4 SHOW, X They Endorse Ruchanan of Town for Al slstant Secretary of Agrioulture. Wasmisarox Bukgav or Tur Bes, ) © 513 FOURTEE ST STIRET, } | D.C, May 94, ) g Several candidates for the assistant se: rotaryship of agriculture have appearys] upon the scene within the past fow days, W 1. Buchanan of fowa 1s an_applicant and hisy tho endorsement of the farmers adl, farmers' organizations of tho west, an® Rreat pressure is being exerted in his behal Buchanan is a warm personal friond of Gots nd is warmly endorsed not on! y the governor, but others prominent Towa's newly found democracy. Maryland putting forth a candidate for the position the person of Owen Norris. Mr, Norris tire Maryland delegation. Weatern Penslons. 'I"he-l following pensions granted are rgd e port Original—John M. Smit jamin F. - Showalter. R drew M. Smith. Original Wido ' ~Jane Smith. Towa: Original—Benjin} min L Jones, Eli Frazier, Herman Bousqu Charles 8. Minn, Incroase — Steph g Robeson, Henry Kamborling, William ¢ Reed. Reissuo—Ezra Cronkloton, Prosy Marson. ~Reissue and_Increase—A. Hade: James W. Jarboo. Original Widows, ote.q Adallino Hall, Mary Park, minors of Jam M. Bock. I Tersonnl Mention. J. F. Pral was today appointed postmadéC, ter at Morse Bluff, Saunders cuonty, Nar. braska, ) Secretary Morton today appointed W. £ Hill of Nebraska to be an assistant inspectds in the burcau of animal industry a por annum, al Miss Anna Guerke has been appointed a assistant microscopist at South Umaha, t7, tuke effect June 1. PoS H)* 1 WHISKY TRUST T They Lead to an lnvastigation of Iiinnk Attorney Y SeRINGRIELD, TIL, May 24.—The attorn general was called upon this morning to esf plain to a legisiative investizating commit! why he began suit against the Whisky tr ata time when such action would have bearish offect on the stock market, and upe’ what information or authority he began suct suit. The committee also asked the attorne, general for information as to why' furnished the money to enable him to emplo' such eminent legal assistanco as Judgk Moran and Mr. Mayer of Chicago to waga | war on the trust. But Maloney soughy rofuge behind his official position” and de, clined to answer the inquiries of the com! mittee, despite broad insinuations frel quently made that his suit against the trusy was a part of a stock jobbing scheme to beny efit certain speculators. ¢ Talklng Over the Nituation. 1 Proria, 11, May 24.—The Whisky trus,. directors are in secrot session. President Greenhut was seen shortly after the session opened, but could give no idea of what action would likely be taken. The whole) matter of the recent developments wmb«\ gone over, and preparations made to fight the withdrawals. Advanced un the Stock Exchange. i New Yonk, May 24.—There were good | supporting orders in Whisky trust stock at the opening of the Stock exchange this morning, and after declining® 3 to 155 it * rallied to 1 in spite of the withdrawal ot tho Monarch distillery. Later there was an_L advance to 17, —— Disastrous cersey Forost Fires. Moust Howwy, N. 1., May 24.—Forest fires $ are raging in the vici ity of Mayford. Greal . cranberry and cedar swamps and thousandg of acres of timber h burned. The innalX & 1tants of the pineries aro floeing for safety, 9 The loss so far is $200,000, i ShortBreath. | Chest Pains’ Palpitation, weak and sore § lungs, pleurisy, coughsy & colds, asthma and brons . chitis relicved in ONE MIKUTE by the CUTICURA ANTI-PAIN PLASTER, the first and only instantancous pain-killing, strengthening plaster, For weak, painful kids, For neys, back ache, uterine pains and weaknese it is simply wonderful. It vi/alizes the nervou: forces, and hence is unrivalled for nervous, ains, weakness, numbness, and paralysis’ eyond question the surest, safest, sweetest and best plaster in the world, ¢ P ci five, $1.00. Atalldruggistsor by mall| e e I f BROWNING KNG “argest Manufacturers and Retallors of Clothlog In the West, “0, what a night Everybody was there and not one of them, we '" % are sure, went home in such a condition as here depicted. The picture has nothing to do with the reception—it is only used because we had no other except a picture of Co- lumbus, and that would- n't do, you know. It was a great night, though, and everybody enjoyed themselves and admired those $10 suits that go on sale today. These suits were made especially for our opening week, and you may rely on them be- ing a little extra. The following was handed in during the reception by one of the guests: ¢ Dear Browning & King, It How pitieat we've walted With your nolse and your Whors wo toro all our dro ou'd glve us such bargal Woro thou ht of, In any Jou oniy just know, oF you 'to get through; ks L Groat, wo knuw, his boon the expense and d eley, But 1t wiil rep: youln many s way, For (nall of our viemory, we cunnot reoall Buch s beautiful change from a hole In the wall, BROWNING, KING & CO., - Blore open every eveningtill &1k :.um-y'un w | 8. W. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts,