Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 7, 1893, Page 4

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TREASON in a public oflicial to the % terosts of the people must be mac odious in Nebrasks ACCORDING to accounts that come from the mining sections of the country everywhere there seems to be a general rvevival in this industry, especially noticeable in the gold-producing dis- tricts. *T FEAR that the result of this ma- jority opinion will be damaging in the extreme to the state and ddmoralizing to publie officials, for it seems to me to be establishing a very low standard of official condy udge Doane. ProrPLE generally are beginning to understand fromthe experien-c of return- ing politicians that planting corn on the boandless prairvies of the west is a far more certain and lucrative pursuit than that of sccking ofiice at Washington. f“ON DECORATION day the governor of Kansas dropped into poetry while de- livering a memorial addr: And forth- with the Kansas City Jowrnal has the unkindness to say that Governor Lew- elling is.a better poet than statesman. DURING the past two years thousands of dollars have been stolen from the state treasury by the Lincoln plunderers. TIs there no law, and is there no officer of the law by which the offenders may be punished? If not, the stato better shut up shop. DENVER'S energy in railroad enter- prise is such as not only to attract atten- tion but to excite admiration. The latest project is that put on foot by her Chamber of Commerce. It proposes the construction of aline to Middle Park, thence across northwestern Colorado to Salt Lake City and Ogden THE Tenncssen senate, sitting as an impeachment court for the trial of Judge DuBose of Memphis, has just convieted and removed him from office and forever disqualified him for holding any other public position of profit or trust. Ho had refused to recognize a writ of habeas corpus, and other misdemeanors in oflice. Moral obliquity is not condoned every- where in this country. REPRESENTATIVE SHERIDAN of Red ‘Willow was prominent among tho friends of the impeached state officials, waiting in the supreme court to hear the verdict, as he was on the memorable night of the final adjournment of the legislature. People are beginting to inquire why the mortuary remains of this defunct statesman have not yet been transforred to Toxas, I FEAR the result of the decision, if adhered to, will be to open a door to the grossest frauds in the public institutions of the state. A number of the witnesses for the state testified if under constraint and there seomed to be powerful influ- ence affecting some of them, aside from the immediate friends of the respondents at work in their favor, The respond- ents, of course, are not responsible for these influences, but it is my duty to mention them,—Chief Justice Maxwell, GorHAM BETTS has been found guilty of defrauding thestato and will probably serve a term in the penitentiary. Now the question arises, will he be made the scapegoat of all the membors of the boo'e gang at Lincoln or will the oth- ere oe conyicted? Of all the men in- dieted by the Lancaster grand jury Betts was the only man who lacked the political influence to secure bail, He was the only member of the gang not defended by the ring. Is he to be the vicarious sacrifice for the Dorgans? ‘WHEN a minister of the gospel so far forgots his sacred calling as toafford opportunity for charges of drunk- woghness and other conduct to be preferred against him he s pretty sure to lose the respectund confidence of respectable people. Should he bea chaplain in the army he 18 as certain to lose his commission. It Is for just such reprehensiblo laches that Secretary Lamcnt gave Chaplain William K. Tulley, staticned at Fort Leavenworth, the chance of resigning or stunding & court wartisl. He Las resigned. Tribune | CONGRESS TO MEET IN SEPTEMBER. President Cloveland has announced to the country that he intends to sail the Fifty-third congress together in Sep- tember. It has for some time been un- derstood that he purposed doing this, | but in}the absence . of an authoritative statement there was a feeling of un- certainty that had a more or less de- pressing effect. Now that the tountry knows the intention of the president it is quite probable that a better feeling will obtain 1n financial and business circles. At any rate it is to be hoped that such will be the case. GIn making this announcement Mr. Cleveland indicated that the object of calling the extra session would be to consider the financial condition, which he significantly remarked is the only menace to the country's welfare and prosperity. In what heis reported to have said to the representative of the Associated press, the president made no allusion to the tariff, and the inference is that it is not his design to have that subject considered at the exira session. It would seem obvious. granting that what Mr. Cleveland said is correctly re- ported, that he does not regard the tariff as being at this time a menace to the welfare and presperity of the coun- try, and that heis entirely wiliing to postpone the consideration of that sub- ject until something is done to avert the dangsr of the financial condition. There aro a great many members of the president’s party who will not agreo with him in this view, but there can be no doubt that it will be coneurred in by the financial and industrial inter- osts of the country. - Mr. Cleveland leaves no room for a doubt as to the attitude of the adminis- tration when he says that it will be well for the people to take up for themselves the subjoct of the financial condition and arrive at their own conclusions as to the merits of a policy “which obliges us to purchase idle silver bullion with gold tuken from our reserve.” He regards this as 2 dangerous operation, the con- » of which “‘will ultimately bring ing to the very humblest home in the land.” This enunciation foreshadows an earnestefforton the part of the admin- istration to secure the repeal of the sil- ver-purchase act and suggests that Mr. Cleveland will have no compromise to offer to the extreme advocates of silver. He evidently believes that the time has come for the government to have as lit- tle as possible to do with silver, nothing in what he is reported to have said indi- cating that he has any sympathy with the declaration of the democratic na- tional platform in favor of“the coinago of both gold and silver without diserim- inating against either metal or chargo for mintage.” Manifestly Mr. Cleveland is firmly and uncompromisingly opposed to the existing silver policy of the nation. The president offers somo wholesome counsel to the finan- cial and business interests of the country which ought to receive serious censideration. He is quite right in the view that our vast national resources and credit are abundantly suflicient to justify confidenco and that there ought to be coolness and calmness in financial tead of the feverish distrust » widely exist. There is no valid reason why sound and substantial enter- prises should be made to suffer because ain inflated and re con- ducted undertakings > been forced to the wall und prossure of liqui ion. The losses sustained by those who have culated in in- dustrial securities have not im- paired the substantial resources of the country and when a readjustment of financial conditions is fully reached it will doubtless be found that the injury done to legitimate inter- ests has been far less than apprehended. Confidence is expressed in somo quar- ters that the silver-purchase act will be unconditionally repealed by the next congress. On the other hand the sil- ver advocates insist that this cannot be done, and they will spare no effort to effect the strongest possible organiza- tion in and out of congress against un- conditional repeal. The probability is that the striggle will be a hard one, the outcome depending upon the course of the republicans in congre THE BELL TELEPHONE MONOPOLY. The popular movement that has been inaugurated at Chicago looking to the supprossion of monopoly should not lose sight of one of the most rapacious and extortionate of all the monopolies—the American Boll Telephone company. There should be raised from one end of the country to the other a united voice of protest against the perpetuation of this monopoly, sought to be fastenod upon the people for years to come by what an ex-attorney gencral of tho United States officially declared to be il- legal patents fraudulently obtained, a \arge which has been nized by the action of the ent secretary of the interior in citing the attorneys of tho Bell company and the ex-commissioner of patents to show cause why they should not bo dis- barred as patent attorneys. The cireumstances under which the Bell Telephone company seeks to retain its grip upon the public for another seventeen years have been made familiar to all interested by ropeated explana- tions. The Bell patent expired in Ieb- ruary last, but in anticipation of this the company had secured a patent on the so-called “Berliner improvement,” which is not an improvement at all. the company claims the to & telophone monopoly for another seventeen yoars. An investigation instituted by ox-Attorney General Miller led him to the conelusion that the whole scheme was fraudulent and he began preeeedings to declare the new patents illegal and void. It is understood that Attorney General Olney shares the view of his predecessor and that it is his intention to thoroughly prosecite the case against the company on the ground of the illegal and fraudu- lent charactor of the patents under which the company is now operating. Meamwhile the attorneys of the monop- oly and the ex-commissioner of patents will be given an opportunity to explain to the Department of the Interior what thoy know about the methods by which these patents were obtained. lessly recog- pr business, industrial and trade organiza- tions, have been sent to the president and attorney general asking that the government take the necessary action to invalidate the patents upon which the monopoly now rests, and petitions will be sent to congress urging that the people be protected against the extor- tion of the Bell company. These ought to carry with them such an array of names as will compel attention to them. The matter is one of general concern, but it particularly interests every busi- ness and professional man. As Attorney General Olney is reported to have said, there never existed on earth a more im- pudont system of extortion than that of tho Bell company, and when it is con- sidered that the power to practico this extortion is based on fraud, made possi- ble, it would seem, by the corruption of government officials, the duty and neces- sity of destroying this monopoly be- come most urgent and imperative. IMPORTED LABOR. The committee of the United States senate investigating violations of the alien contract labor law has discovered some interesting facts. One of these is that 350 contract laborers had been sent back to Burope in a single month, which shows that some of the large employers of labor still keep agents abroad and doubtless a considerable percentage of the labor they contract for finds its way into the country. Colonel Weber, for- merly commissioner of immigration, ex- pressed the opinion that the alien contract labor law cannot be en- forced by merely sending back the few immigrants who may be detected from time to time in at- tempting to evade the law. He thought it would be necessary to mako somo ome examples by bringing to pun- t the employers who send to Eu- ropoe for their supplies of cheap contract Jor whenever they find the rates of wages hero unfavorable. The wisdom of this suggestion will not be questioned, but the difficulty is to se- cure evidence of the violation of the la The agents who make the con- tracts with these European laborers are careful to thoroughly instruct them what to say and do when they arrive in this country, and it is only a very few oi the unwary immi- grants who can be caught. It is thought that for every contract laborer who is sent back 100 reach their destination, but this is doubtless too large an esti- mate. It is manifestly the fact, how- over, that the law is being constantly violated and that thousands of contract laborers are annually brought into the country to work for the great corpora- tions, chiefly those engaged in coal mining. Whether it is practicable to make a law of this kind that cannot be evaded may fairly be questioned. It would secm that so experienced and in- telligent a student in these matters as Colonel Weber believes that it cannot be done, but at any rato the experiment should be tried. Certainly the Ameri- can people will never consent to again allow the unrestricted importation of alien contract labor as it existed some years £go. THE shutting down of the extensive works of the Black Hills Mining and Smelting company is the chief topic of comment in the Hills. But the sus- pension is regarded as only temporary and is not construed as inany affect- ing the gencral prosperity. It was caused by an attachment levied on the plant to secure froight dues to the Elk- horn Railway company. The ore bins ave full and vepresent some $25,000 or #30,000, and it is thought it will start up under new management in a few days and demonstrate its claim as the largest mill ofits class in the world. THE BEE takes special interest in everything per- taining to the advance and prosperity of the Hills country, and it is gratified to read side by side with the announce- ment of this financial misfortune in the columns of the Rapid City Republican that the crop outlook in the southern Hills counties, both in extent and condi- tion. was never better. ‘“The banks of the east may fail, and the wildeat en- terprises explode, but western South Dakota, with plenty of bread and beef, and ample fuel to cook with, can hardly come to want.” It is similar confidenco, energy and independenco that insures the thrift and development of every com- munity. Ir THE claim of the striking Kansas coul miners, that the penitentiary offi- cials have neglected their duty in failing to provide safety catches for shafts in the state mine, as required by the min- ing law, should prove correct, the pub- lic will not chide them for resorting to legal authority to close the mine on that account, It will prove, too, one of the rare instances where the interests of the community are to some extent subserved by a labor strike. Nor can the public take exception to the moral support ex- tended the strikers by Governor Lew- elling and the state officials in this matt It appears that the state mine inspeetor had already notified the peni- tontiary officials to put in the catches, but his instructions were treated with defiant disregard. A MAJORITY of the supreme court has decided that there was a steal In con- nection with the construction of the ni cell house at the state penitentiary. And yet the Lancaster grand jury ad- journed without bringing in an indict- ment against W, H. Dorgan, the man who perpetrated the frauds., The county attorney of Lancaster county is not without recourse, however. He may still file an information against tho man already convicted by the highest tribunal in the state. Will he do it? Or will the fact that he owes his nomination and election in part to the men already convicted pre- vent him from doing his duty? WHILE the Now York is the fastest cruiser in the world the United States navy is likely to have also the most for- midable fighting ship when the Mon- tercy, now building at San Francisco, is completed. Notwithstanding the appre- hensions that had been raised by un- founded reports as to her probable effl- clency, the trial trip from which she has just returned demonstrates that she is A great wany petitions, representing lutlxuirubly adapted for the purposes for which she was intendsd, and amply justifies the plans of Hgr designers and work of her constructors: 1Although the now vessel is a harl defonse ship of war she has proved herséll also an ox- cellent sea boat. Hor twelye-inch breech- loading rifle armamentspraves well fitted for tho vessel and & perfect success. With the completion ‘of her armoring San Francisco will have 86 formidable a defender in her bay that We need never again apprehend a repatition of the alarmist newspaper stortes as to the helpleas condition of the Pacific motrop- olis should a hostile fidet' make its ap- pearance at the Golden Gate. AN OPINION just filed by the sccretary of the interior is of vast importance to thousands of settlers in these western states. It places on record tho decision of the dopartment that if a settler honestly tries to fill the requirements of the timber culture act the government will not hold him responsible if nature fails to permit trees to grow. The case eliciting the decision was one involving & valuable farm near Grand Forks, N. D. he entryman had for successive years planted seeds in compliance with the law, but had failed to obtain trees therefrom. Secretary Smith sustained the claim in spite of the fact that no trees had grown on the land. The decision was anticipated under the law passed by the last congress. The action of the secretary establishes a precedent. the Canadian Pacific completes its short line through Crow’s Nest pass to Vancouver it will shorten the trip from that terminal to St. Paul to some- thing less than three days. In view of the position it will then be in, with its fast steamship line to Japan, to make a bid for the oriental trade, the people of the Pacific coast ars congratulating each other on the probability of the other overland lines being forced to expedite their ice. “It is about time,” says the San Francisco Chronicle, “that the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacifi were forced into running trains on be ter time across the level parts of their routes. To fall below thirty miles an hour on the nearly dead level in Nevada, Utah and Nebraska is a mere caricature of railroading.” WHEN a corrupt ring is once thor- oughly entrenched in its iniquity it may withstand the siege of the law and pop- ular opinion for a long time. But in- stances are multiplied in history to en- courage the assurance that sooner or later it must incvitably succumb. Trea- son in a public official to the interests of the people is the blackest of erimes. The protest of public .sentiment thereto may not always be loud but it is terrible when aroused, and the time has passed, in this state at least, when truckling subserviency to the Dehest of corpora- tion wealth and influepce .can bolster up individual popularity —oradvance politi- cal aspiration: P, HERE is suggestive enterprise: In- dianapolis capitalists haye organized to that city with half a dozen smaller towns in Indiana. What surer method can be devised to contribute-to mutual prosperity than by a system of electric railway between neighboring cities and towns? Elecetric lines cost comparatively little to build and to operate. This isa subject worthy the attention of every city and town in Ne- Party Foos. emoerat. The great foes of the lowa republican party aro the prohibitionists and Clarkson., and the republicans have repudiated tho first and suppressed the second. Mortification Develops. Ransas City Jowrnal. It is said for the mortification of the pass- engers on the robbed Missouri Pacific train that the bandits’ pistols only cost 31.50 cach. Some passengers are peculiar enoush, how- “ever, to object as strongly to being killed with a $1.50 pistol as with a $16 pistol. Homestend's Costly Lesson. Denver News, Carncegie and I'rick lost more than $1,000,- 000 by imperfect work and ruined machinery through the employment of unskilled labor during and after the Homestoad strike. Now the imported colored labor is being discarded as & failure and white union men recalled to their old places. The strike has been a costly lesson for Carnegie, Ll An Honorable Example, Boston Globe. Ex-Secretary Foster's statement to his creditors was that he thought he could pay 50 per cent soon, and if God gave him health and let him live he would pay every cent, as he didn't want to die and have it said that a single picco of paper of his had been paid at 50 cents on the dollar. In these times of lax commercial “honor" nobody can fail to re- spect o man like that. The Projected Pup Road, Chicago Post. The scheme proposed for constructing the road is that each state build its own por- tion, usipg convict Iabor in its construction, the ‘plant and_ rolling stock to be furnished by appropriations. The governors of the states interested will jointly elect a presit dentand each state will provide the man- agement for its own secuion. ‘The road as proposed would be 1,500 miles long. The whole projoct is to be ‘discussed at a conyen- tion of governors to be held at Lincoln, Neo., June 25, Pervert Globe-Democrat. The dependent pension bill was designod to reach all soldiers who are permanently disabled, and to help them according to the degree of their inability & arn o {‘lvlnu by manual labor, That is W it says in plain words, and that is the only'lview that can logically be taken of it. Secretary Smith has a perfect right to promote the cause of economy in all authorized/ang suitable ways, but he bus not the right to spve money for the government by taking or withholding it from thoso to whont it lefzally belongs. Fodder for Europe's War Camp, Cincinnati Commercial. The 22,000,000 armed wen that the powers of Europe are supportiny is a burlesque upon civilization, but agood thing for these peace- ful, prosperous United States. The with- drawal of such & vast yuntber of producers from industrial and ageibulthral competition lessens the productive-caphcity of tho na- tions that support them, and broadens the markets of the United States. Kurope's crops this year will notbe better than during the past five years. The harvests in tho United States give promise of coming up to the munificeat standard of the past. he deficit abroad will e fllled from Uncle Sam's rich granaries. “It's an ill wind,” ete, Undenirable Immigrants, Philadciphia Press, The fact brouwrht out before the senate committee on immigration, now sitting in New York, thatabout $0,000,000 are annu- ally sent by (talian laborers in 'this country to their families in Italy, is an important item in the balance of trade, and 1 deter- wining the immigration question. Years ago the savings of the Irish servant girls, which founa their way to Ireland, attracted a good deal of attention aud were regarded as @& drain upon the couutry, aud later the money sent by the Chinese home had been one of tho causes of hostility to that race. But it 1s doubtful If both these drains to- gether equalled the drain of [tal; e Look Here, and on This, From Norval's andjProm Chief Justice Post's Opinion. 1 Marwell's Optnion. Upon the apnoint-| Proof was introduced ment of Dorgan he waslon behalf of the re- required to glye a hond spondents to show that in the sum of $10,000,| Dorga Knapp conditio had given be would faithfully dis-|to the stato. 1t {s ovi- charge his duty andldent that none of these account for all moneysibonds, will ¢ r the which might come intalactunf loss ta the state, s hands. 1t bond|and even if_enforc is admitted to be good would be an inade- and ample security for/quate remedy. any amount now due the state There is ong which cannot {mpress the mind from a fact] The protection nac- fall tojcorded = to n Jjudge judicialjagainst & private ac- m does not apply hen ho s on 1 at thejunder a speelf the trialjof impenchmont of impeachments be-ia judge of thi fore the supreme court|eonld not plead WS to Insure a strictly fon judicial invostigath nrge. 0 Judieis It “cannot eral b con- o successfully main-/ducting his business tained that this courtmay be inquired fnto, has su d to anyland 1t he is found of the politicial func-|gullty of misconduct, tions of the senate as alon any of the ¢ of Impeachmont/he may be d v tho first consti-|gullty. tution Teisinevidence that) fle (Mr. Aflen} also no itemized account/testifies that all the of thelr expenses wasmembers had passes, over filed with thelso their railroad fard hoard or submitted to/was nothing. So faras tho logislature, but/he stated, th its to h of the respoud-|the various stato In- nts and tho warden/stitutions by the board testify that the money|the expendituro was all expended for/should not have e traveling expenses and|coeded $100, and prob- other necessary costs/ably did not. of the trip, and ‘that in addition to the $500| used"for that pr expondec to 340 of his private funds. court pro- gen- (RS — RN ENTERPRISE IN EASTERN EYES. W Omamna, Neb,, June 5.—~To the Editor of Tur Bee: I have read your article of yester- aay taken from the New York Sun. I have no doubt many of the eastern papers have expressed themselves in a similar way—and perhaps quoted this statement of the Sun. Just at present it pleases all eastern finan- ciers to denominate all western cnterprises as “airy”—everything is airy that does not bring some grist to their mills. Of course, all the railroad enterprises running east and west arc opposed to any running uorth and south, especially any road running from the chest agricultural region of t to a seaport nearly 1,000 miies nearer than New York or Boston. There is nothing wild in the project of build- ing such & road on the cre or the bonds of the states namea. The states of Noruh and South Dakota, Kan. sas, Nebraska, Texas and Oklahoma are fully able to build such a road. Nor would they be likely “0 water the stock nece: v to do the work, as all the roads running t and west have done,. In printing the article from the New York Sun a mistake is made— quite an important one—of saying that tho gross sum invested in American raiiroads is $10,000,000. 1t should have been §10,000,000,- 000, or, as some other competent writers have said, $11,000,000.000. That the grc earnings are about 31,200,000,000 may be true; that the annual payments of interes! dividends has amounted annually to 000,000; that this is at the rateof 315 cent. I might criticise this statement. Limight say T have very good authority so doing, 5o that all this stock may be highly “inflated” or watered, that when the water is all squeezed it—the 10,000,000,000 u reduce 000,000,000, and that the actual money value of all the roads and their equipments hardly reaches this sum. If this be true then the bondholders are re- ceiving 6!, per cent on their investment in- stead of 357, But all this fizuring is only approximately true. One thing is certain, should the states named enter upon a project of building such a north and south line to the sea no eastern banker would handle the stocks or assist in building such a road. It would have to be built with local capital and in the most economical. Nor would the people of these states desire to pay interest on watered stock. the products for a profitable with the gulf ports therc is no qu Our eastern friends show zeal in trying to hold it as long as possible. This di ion of the old lines of commerce may not come today, but must come in the near future. Omaha especially will muke a great mistake in opposing such a schen She would be from 800 to 1,000 miles nearer a market than she now is. Of course the New York Sun is opposed to all such windy Dprojeots in the west. and even to the World's fair at Chicago. The competition of such an enterprise would be a good object lesson to our eastern brethren.” Siaya. R — NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Shelton Knights of Phythias will indulge in a ball and banquet on the night of June 10, Many prominent Nebraskans are already in Chicago to partidipate in the exercises attending Nebraska day at the fair. The Logan Valley Roller mills at Pender wero entirely destroyed by fire Monday night with A\l(thcir contents. The loss is estimated at §14,000 with £),000 insurance. A wild broncho tried to kill its rider, Frank Oelsligle of Tilden, by dashing against a tree, The broncho wasn't hurt but Frank had his jaw broken in two places and was knocked senseless besides. He will recover but he’ll not ride bronchos for some time to come, Jim Johnson, an Ashland liveryman, loanca_a team to a stranger the other day to peddle groceries, but when he found that the fellow was trying to sell the rig, ho made up his mind~ he wanted his property back. Then he discovered that man and team had disappcared from the state, but they were finally located at Pacitic Junction and the team recovered. Thoestranger is still a stranger to Nebraska justice, A potitition for the pardon of Jasper Clausen, a convict in tho penitentiar, veing cireulated in Cass county, sent up from that county in April, 150 period of three years, after having been found guilty of being implicated in robbing o grain bin near South Bend. The convis family are allowed §10 & month from the county, and as this is far too small they a now on the verge of starvation, The f: was developed at the time of the trial that Chausen was led into the robbery, and also his pal, Robert Mickenham, made away with all of the spoils. There are other extenu- ating circumstances and as Clausen has al- ready lived fourteen montns as a convict, it is thought that Governor Crounse will feel warranted in granting o pardon. ——— PEOPLE AND THINGS, Since January 1 807,607,120 in gold has been shipped abroad from this country. As royalty has given Spanish cigarottes a boost to popularity violent upheavals may be looked for when Chicago women take on the fad. xty thousand seats have boen placed on the World's fair grounds and may be us without extra charge. John Hanson Craig of Danyille, Tnd., weighs 007. He is only 32 and hopes to round a tou before th century waues. “The cruel insinuation is abroad that Sen- ator Poffer 1s cultivating his whiskors into the shape of a presidential lightning rod. Four Mornon elders have ppeared from St. Clair county, Georgi. al per- suasive shots accelerated their depar A Kansas rainmaker ¢ «day's downpour, which as. His nerve Is surpassed by the verdancy of the residents who believe him. Dick Croker asserts he has Lis hands full in managing the tiger and grooming & string of race horses without straining his gray matter with newspapers. Richard’s head is level Princess Eulalia loft 8200 with the man- ager of the Arlingion hotel, Washington, to be distributed among the scrvants who served her and her party whilo she was at that house. They regard her as a princess from her head 10 her finger tips. The keen Norwegian explorer, Dr. Nansen, who s s00n 10 start on another expodition to tho North pole, has been preparing himself for coming hardships by sleeping as ofien us possibie during the winter in # tent ou his place near Christiania. Several wembers of extended south | spreading it | his expadition have endeavored to harden thomselves by passing the nights in the open air with only welf skins as coverings. Dr. John Mackintosh, author of the “Ilis. tory of Civilization in Scotland,” to whom 50 has just been granted from the royal bounty, was orlginally a working shoemaker. He struck literature as a last resort and stuck to it Charles F. Wright of London, who is now the light of thoosophy in this country, declares that the elixir of hifo is no dream of tho alchemists, but may be reached through the “expansion of the individual consciousness,” whatever that means. Ernest Carnot, the cldest son of the prosi dent of the French republic, is a mining en gineer. He will leave France carly in July for South America on a tour of 1nspe for the Compagnie des Messageries Mari times, of which institution ho is chief in HeCtor. Sugenio, ex-empross of Fran e, is the god- mother of <4 French children who were born on Ma the day of the birth of herson, who was killed by the Zulus in South Africa. The ex-cmpress promised to stand sponsor for the children burn on the same day as the prince imperial el P. Chalk of Duluth, the most fam. ous diver along the lakes, has invented a submarine armor which ho belioves will withstand the pressure of the sea at a depth of 1,800 feet. He is going to show the faith within him by testing his apparatus in the deepest part of Lake Superior, somotimo this month John Varyanof Indiana is probably the oldest legislator in the world. He is in his Olst year but is in fuill possession of his bodily und mentsl health, He has voted for eightoen presidential candidates and had the honor of being the author of the first law enabling n ed women in Indiana to hold property and mako & will. Hannah Stoven: of Brookfeld, who celebrated her 100th birthday used tol ) since her 15th year, smoking it regularly and also using it in the form of snuff. Mrs. Stevenson is ono of the fow remaining pensioners of tho war of 1812, her husband having done duty in Boston as a minute man during that conflict. TREATY. Clauso Defining Nonpolitieal Crimes Which as Caused So Protosts. New Youk, June 6.—A Washington dis- pateh is published here purporting to give the toxt of the extradition treaty botween the United States and Russin, about which there has been so much talk lately. It makes the following crimes extradita- ble: Volunt murder and manslau rape, abortion, son, burglary, ) larceny of over §200, forgery, counterfeiting, embezzlement, mutiny, obstruction of railroads endangering life. Extradition for the punishment of political offenses is not permitted under the treaty, but the clause to which strenuous objection been made by Russian refugees in this country defining certain acts as nonpolitical, is as follows: “Attempt against the life of the heads of either government, or against that of any member of his family, when such at- tempt comprises an act cither of murder or assassination or poisoning, or accessoryship thereto, shail not be considered a political offense, or an act counceted with such an offense.” Neither country 1s required to give up its own citizens. 1f e person demanded is held for trial, the country on which the demand was made may either de- liver him or procecd with the trial. ‘Lhe delay is not, howevereto prevent final extra- dition, unless the trial is fol e ecrime for which extradition is asked. remainder of the treaty provides the form of proceed- ings for extradition. It compiles the render to the demanding government of articles connected with the commission me for use on the trial, to be returned at its conelusion and requires six months no- for the termination of the convention. BUDIES REC o, Hhbi SIXTE. VERED. Remnins of the Victims Mine Disaster F EroLe Pass, Tex., June 6.—Tho mine was finally extinguished yester nd the work of rescue was commenced at once. After a thorough search fourteen biackened and dis- torted bodios woere brought to the surface, making with the two before a total of six- teen who lost their lives in the mine. LR Glven a Life Sentence. Broosixarox, IlL., June 6.—The trial of Jacob Simon for poisoning his sweetheart, Susie Hoover, last October, closed last night with the address for the prosceution by ex- Governor Fifer. This morning the jury brought in a verdict fixing the penalty at imprisonment_for Life. A motion was made for a now trial. R Had to Shock Him Twice, DANNEMORA, N. Y., June 6.—Sapione Mar- tello, un Italian, was electroc here at noon for the murder of Giovanni Parello, another Italian, at Saratoga & year ago. Jealousy was tho cause of the deed. Last night he made an unsuccessful attempt to suicide. Death was declared after two con- tacts. of tho Fuentes und. —_——— Quietly Wedded at Chicago. Cuicaco, 11, June 6.—Mrs, Henry Fields, widow of the wealthy journalist of this city, was quietly married at noon to Thomas Nelson Page, the well known southern writer, at the residence of Hon. I. B. Bryan at Elmhurst. Their residence will be Washington. VIEWS AND INIRRVIEWS, ‘There was never a barder time to find idlo lnborers in Omaha than just now," said aconl merchant to a BEw man yesterday. “We know it from actual experience bocause we have had need of some extra help in the past fow days and haven't been able to get all wo want. The heavy rains of Saturday and Sunday washed the dirt down so that it buried about two hundred and fifty tons of coal for us, and wo are trying to got it un covered, Had no idea it was so hard to get men. They all scom to bo employed on the large number of public or private improve- ments that are being made al! over town this spring. i take it asa protty good sign of the active and healthy condition of busi ness in the city in general, when no laborers are idle, don't you?” “Tell you one thing I can't understand about this silver question,” said & business man from the east who is stopping at the Paxton. “Itis the statement we frequently hear that our silver is driving out gold, and the statement mado at the same timoe that the European governments are using our gold exports to Ty out thetr financial plans. Now, it seoms to me that that gold which thoso i ro gotting from us would have to leave us just the samo it there wasn't a dotlar of silver in tho couns try.” St puzzles us," repliod another, “to uu- derstand why, if the government decides to issuo bonds to get gold with, the New York 1ks should stand ready to part with their gold for the bonds, if thoy really feared that wo were drifting toward any financial crisis, or at the present rate of gold exports their stock of the metal would only last a fow weoks, until the tr ury reserve was back again as low as it is now, I am inclined to think that a of this outer against the so. ent - silver dollar (but which witl still buy as much as a wold dollar) is tho result of ignorance or self- interest, and it is in my judgment dping more to unsottle confidenco than the expor- tation of gold, several times over, and af it was not for the cool common sense of the people this kind of talk would have s rded us into a frightful panic two or three DISASTROUS PRUSSIAN FLOOD, A Town TInundated and FEleven Poople Killod by Falling Houses or Drownod. Viexsa, June 6. The excessive rains have swollen the of Bukow Wiznitz is Many houses have collapsed and eleven people have been killed by fall- ing structures or drownad. The wholo town is in danger of being laid waste, ——— To Reloase Panamn Swindlers. Pants, June 6,—The | ir says the court appeals will reloase Charles de Lesseps his court on the ground of error in the trial. - TICKLISH T1D of Mary. 1o expert Waomen do not have the chance to be- that mendo. They never go No, but peoplo frequently ask thom nly sounds like 4 marvelous talo A menster, doubtful myt & But none of 1 registored yot Mave given the n Smith. Western Miner rich in Kansas? there. : Kansan—You forget tho drug stores. How do you ¢ pect o get There are ne gold mines Merchant (to applicant)—Do you think you know enough to assist mo in the office? Boy—Know enough? Why. I loft my last slace because the boss sald’T knew mord than 10 did. Eimira Gazette: Wo don't envy the alligator although he ha Buffalo Courier: tions to a seat on the ho when Iis friends finally g position. The fawyer with aspl \ never feels hurt ¢ him Into u trying A man in Indiana has just died from ive tobaceo chewing, The musie at his funeral should not be a dirge but an overchewer. Rochester Demoerat: Papa-—So you let the \ all” the class ned of yo SweetGirl Graduate N , it 17 were us homely as she is, L should’ have gone in for that sort of thing myself. ‘Tndianapolis Journ: Maxberry much profit do a dollar by sharp- wower, and, indoi othes’ with axle gr ng his own 1 spoils o good sult of a0 Washington Star: “Are you afrald of bur- " sald the lady who was making o short “Not sinco our now girl came. The police- man spends most of his time at our house now." —_— A BLOW TO FRIENDSHIP. Indianapolis Journal. Perhaps you've met i fellow whom you thoughs of protty woll, When you had a brand new story that you fairly ached to tell; So you'd pin him in a corner or against an aron rall, And begin with joyous unction to reluto your little talo, hefrkened, all attention, with the buddings of a smilo Showing faintly on his interested countonance tho while And you try to bo dramatic, and to intorest 3 your riend, While he T most intently till you almost roached tho end; THL you'd nearly reached the climax, where tho lstener should roar; Thon ho'd sa t ends just this way—I've 3 heard that yarn bofore.” BROWNING, KiN Largest Manufucturers and Rotallors ol Clothing in tho World, Fasy Riding Now When a stranger steps into our palags these days he is first impressed with the magnitude of our stock. After going around through the building he finds not only a great assortment, but some of the finest tailor productions ever brought out. Every _ single garment from a boy’s %/ $2 suit or a man’s $10 suit to the most expensive in the house is carefully made of the best material money can buy. Being the largest manufacturers of clothing in the world, it is easier for us to put in good eloth than most peo- ple to buy shoddy. Shoddy we will not sell at any price, but we sell the very best at the lowest liv- ing prices. BROWNING, KING & CO., Elore open every evenlnztill 63k Baturday tilil 8. W. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts, 1ssociates, condemned by the lower £ 7 !