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

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Tur DALY and SUxpAY Bem Is on sale in mi.lvu.. at the following places: almoer . reat Northern hotel 0 |{uhflv " Loland hote Wells B, &izer, 180 State streot. z Files of Trr BEr can bo seen at the Ne- Braska bullding and the Administration builld- ing, Exposition ¢ronnds. SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stato of Nebraskca, | L County of Doviglas. Geo. B. retary of TiE DER publish, ng_company does solemuly swear that the actual efreulation of THE DAILY BER for the week ending June 17,1803, was as follows nday. June 11 onday, Ju . dun rl ine 16, turday, June 17 ~— | SWORN to before m {8man F iy prosenc Y. urada) day. THAT padlock still cumbers the door of Jim Noi th's ante-room. THE council and Board of Public ‘Works have got the viaducts on wheels, but what will the railroads do? THE flag is again flying over the Sand- wich islands; but this time it is very properly the flag of the Hawaiian repub- lic. THE introduction of Tammany meth- ods in Omaha's city government will not be tolerated much longer. Intorested parties should make a note of this fact THE Whisky trust is still playing in hard luck. The seceding members of the trust have made common cause with the attornoy general of Illinois in the effort to break the big combination. THE marked increase in the receipts of hogs at the South Omaha stock yards promises to very materially reduce the wvisible supply and at the same time they speak well for the growth of the local market. Ta® Omaha railroads are putting on a good many new frills in the way of local passenger associations, ete., but _the outrageously excessive rates on oil shipments from Wyoming to the Mis- souri river ave still in vogue. A COMMON oftice clerk will not make a good secretary for the Commorcial club, which is in need of an all-round hustler of good general ability. Such a man will demand a fair salary, of course. The club is in need of a first-class man. THE New York editors who have not yet forgiven Chicago for making a suc- cess of the World’s fair are now print- ing columns every day to prove that Awerica was really discovered by Lief Ericson and that Columbus was an im- postor. AMERICAN gold is coming back from Europe and the first installmeunt is already on the way. In the meantime American wheat is going to Europe. These two facts have much to do with the feeling of confidence that is already noticeable in all parts of the country. THE Vikings seem to be of anunlucky race. Nearly 1,000 years ago they dis- covered America and the newspapers have robbed them of the creditof the exploit. Last week they landed on Long Island and a few hours later they were Incarcerated in a Brooklyn cell house as disorderly characters, THE Douglas street bridge, which was constructed at a cost of over $400,000 and paying interest and dividends on over $1,000,000, is assessed for taxation at Council Bluffs, 860,000; at Omaha, 820,- 000. Can any county commissioner or eity councilman explain to the tax- payers this rank favoritism to a fran- ohise corporation which has a steady in- come from the people? THE suspension of Sloan, Johunson & Co. has been a painful surprise to the business men of Omaha. The members of this firm have enjoyed the esteem and confidenco of buyers and dealers in an eminent degree. It goes without say- ing that tho community deeply sympa- thizes with them and we only express the universal hope that they may soon be able to resume business. THE report of the labor commissioner of Towa contains much that is interest- ing; but the western public will hardly fail tobe surprised atthe official an- nouncement that in the decade between 1880 and 1890 fifty-eight counties show a decrease in rural population aggregut- ing 901,142, The figures prove con- clusively that the cities of Iowa have grown at the expense of the country, GENERAL COLBY has got off his Ara- bian steed and once more becomes a high private in the rear ranks. The gap created by his sudden withdrawal from the uncivil service has been promptly filled by a raw-boned Missis- sippian. Mr. Shoemaker of Nebraska, who prides himself upon being a union veteran and a sgpuare-toed democerat, has been pigeon-holed with Mr. Gannon, Nat Brown and other wheel-horses. Verily the plums hang exceedingly high lor the average Nebraska democrat, UNION PACIFIC BRIDGE ASSESSMENT. The total cost of the Donglas street wagon bridge and approaches was #4401, 000. On this property tho assessors of Pottawattamie and Douglas counties have returned a valuation of $80,000— about one-fifth of the actual value. The estimated cost of the Union Pacific rail- road bridge is over a million and a half. The west half of this bridge is assessed for 1803 at $105,000, or $105,000 less than it was assessed before it was rebuilt. ymmissioner of that road, ho ever, has filed a protest against what | he terms an excessive valuation, and | states that he roturncd the west hait of the bridge at a valuation of $80,000. He alloges that the assessor raised the valuo to $105,000 “‘without the knowledge or consent of any agent or represcntative of the company.” The county commissioners will hear testimony today on the application for a reduction of the valuation placed upon the Union Pacific bridge. Witnesses have been summoned to give thei» opin- fons as to the value of the property and the justness of the assossment. Now, the vaiue of all railroad property may readily be ascertained Dby its earning capacity, No surer means is at the command of the county commissioners for learning the actual value- of the bridge than to subpeena the chief en- gineer of the Union Pacific road, who can give a fair estimate of the cost of the bridge; the general freight agent, who can give the actual earnings from freight hauled over the bridge, and the general passengor agent, who knows the net earnings from bridge passenger traflic. With these facts before the boaed it will be easy to determine whether or not the assessment made is cxcessive. The strong presump- tion is that if such testimony can bo pro- cured the county commissioners will find abundant ground for raising the as- sessment, rather than lowering it. ARMY OPFICERS AS INDIAN AG ; An act of the last congress requires the president to detail officers of the army to act as Indinh agents at all agencies where vacancies from any cause tor oceur, who, while acting conts, shall beunder the orders tion of the scerctary of the in- v, except at agencies where, in the opinion of the wvresident, the public serviee would be better promoted by the appointment of a civilian. It is thus left discretionary with the president to retain civilians in the service and it is probable he will do so in special cases. Pursuant to the authority given him by this law the president has appointed twenty oflicers of the army to act as Indian agents and will doubtless increaso the as vacancies oceur or he may find oceasion to make changes. All those just dosignated are taken from the cavalry and infantry, the two branches of the military service that have always had close ¢ontact wick the Indians, eighteen of those dotailed being nsand two muajoss. They are all men of large experionce with Indians and several of thom have exhibited special ability in the past in deali with them. There are in all fifty- seven agencies and doubtless most of . the will ultimately be filled by appointments from the avmy, it being ‘evident that Mr. Cleveland is favor The new experiment will be watched with great interest, and particularly by those who believe military supevvision is not good for tho Indians. Therve is a good deal to be said on both sides of the question. The establishment of Indian agents was made by congress nearly a century ago and during all that period civilians have for the most part occupied these posi- tions. It is true there has always boo more or less complaint regarding their administration of affairs and doubtless many of them have been justly charge- able with grave dereliction of duty and sorious wrongs, both to the gov- ernment. and to the Indians, but when all the circumstances and conditions ure considered the record of the Indian service under civilian management is highly meritorious and honorable. It is claimed in behalf of military agents that they will deal more honestly with the Indians, that they will be firmer in the enforcement ot regulations, and that as representatives of the military arm of the government they will exert a wholesome restraining influence. Pos- sibly this view is correct. The change does not remove the Indian service from the civilian control. It is still under the jurisdiction of the secretary of the interior. ABUSE OF CORPORATE PRIVILEGES. There is nothing in the history of the development of municipal government in the United States more striking than the liberality of the people in donating valuable franchises to private corpora- tions. Nor has there beon anything more disgraceful than the almost uni- versal abuse of this municipal liberality by the corporations themselves. In every city of any prominence the free use of public streots has unhesitatingly been given to strect railway, clec- tric light, telephone, gas and water companies, The people, as a rule, have asked but little in return for these concessions, simply con- tenting themselves with a few vague and doubtful stipulations to the effect that the charges to the public shall not bho unreasonable. This liberality has been more noticeable in western cities where municipal growth has been rapid and where, in many instances, private cor- porations have been induced to establish themselves in advance of logitimate demands for the service they are expected to render. As a re- sult of & policy which is almost national in extent private corpora- tions in all the large and pros- verous cities of the country are drawing immense revenues from the pockets of the people. Stockholders in gas, electric light, street railway, telephone and water companies have ac- cumulated fortunes, and the value of their original investments has been doubled and in many cases gquadrupled. Under such circumstances, the people who have been 80 lavish in the distribu- tion of franchises are honestly entitled to some consideration. But, if they have expected fair treatment, they have al- most universally been deceived. The private corporations not only refuse to | self-governing poople. THE OMAHA DAILY BBB: FRIDAY, JUNE 23 1803, make roductions in extortionate charges, but they persistently ignore the rogula- tions imposed upon them from time to time by municipsl enactment. Going oven further, they scok to control, and, in only too many cities, they do control the various branches of the municipal government. The interfor- ence of corporate interests in municipal politics is rapidly becoming one of the most serious dangers which confront a There seems to be no limit to the audacity of the men at the head of the great corporate bodies of the country in their defiance of law and public sentiment. The people of Omalia have found to their cost that their city is no ex- ception to the general rule. Tho private corporations hero enjoy ® monopoly in their several systems. Not contont with this advantage they shirk the payment of taxes, prevent the proper assessment of property, defraud the city in the matter of public service, manipulate the' city elections in their own interests, interfore with public im- provements and trample upon private rights with impunity. No city in the west has more to contend with in the matter of pernicious interference in mu- nicipal affairs than Omaha. Not only is healthy and natural development im- peded, but the city is deprived of legiti- mate competition and the people are compelled to submit to any charges or inconvenience that may be imposed, realizing that they have no adequate remedy in law or ordinance. Sad ex- perience has also taught them that they cannot even rely upon the integrity of the men placed in the legislative branch of the municipal government. Under present conditions they see no prospect or hope of relief, and the conviction is gradually, but none the less surely, dawning upon them that nothing but a radical revolution in municipal politics will effect a cure of the evils with which they havo to contend. They are already saying to themselves that if the needed reform cannot come within party lines they will have to come from without them, and the party leaders who affect to control the lines of policy in munici- pal campaigns must either prepare for a vevulsion of public sentiment that will sweep them out of existence or take immediate steps to yield to a demand that will be as imperative as it will be resistles: INCREASING EXPORTS. A very encouraging feature in the commereial situation is the increase in the amount of exports. It is noted that the foreign shipments of merchandiso during May were the largest of any month this year and except for the samo month last y were the largest in May for over six years. The value of the breadstuffs exported last month was a little over 69,000,000, which considering the reduced prices was a large move- ment. For the same time there was a de- crease of imports. There is reason to xpectthat the veturns for June will show an equally favorablo con- dition of affairs as to the foreign trade. This is reassuring with respect to the financial situation, for as everybody knows the steady outflow of gold has been largely due to the fact that the balanee of trade has for a year past been against the United States. As we have heretofore shown from authentic statis tics, the oxcess of imports over ex: ports during the first five months of the current year 296,000,000, This fact supplivs a roady and clear explanation of the drain of gold to Europe. How it has happened that the imports have run so far ahead of the ex- ports admits of several explana- tions. It has been suggested that merchandise imports have been vascly stimulated in the last year by the fear of the effects of the silver purchase law, us well as by the desire of importers to forestall the vigorous quarantine re- strictions against cholera that wero ex- pected to bo enforced this summer. Very likely both of these influences have operated suggested, and if so it isasound conclusion that the indications that the silver purchase law -will be re- peuled have had the effect to reduce the volume of imvorts, 1t is also sug- gestod that another factor against the continuance of large imports has been brought into prominence by the announcement that congress will be called together in September. It is argued that importers will naturally be disposed to lessen their risks on the eve of taviff logislation, and that in order to secure the advantago of revised duties they may reasonably be expectad to limit their entries at Amer- fcan custom houses until $he exact char- acter and extent of the changes in con- templation shall have become known. The force of this view, however, will appear less strong when it is considered that there is not much probability of congress being able to make a general revision of the tariff that will go into effect sooner than porhaps a year and a half, if even then. It may be regarded as practically assured that no new taviff bill can be passed in time to become effective by July 1, 1864, though some changes designed to inereaso the revenues of the government may be accomphished before that time. It is noteworthy that the increase in exports has begun earlier than usual, which is to be rogarded as a good sign. As to the possibilities of their further expansion, it is said that all the wheat that can be spared is alveady practically assured ofa foreign market. *Thecorn crop,” says the Philadelphia Record, “which last year was 500,000,000 bushels less than the previous seuson, gives promise, from the enlargement of acreage and favorable start of the plant, of reaching maximum propor- tions. The fodder crops of Europe are a partial failure, and this fact, together with the increasing use of corn as an article of human food, points to unex- ampled exports of this cercal during the coming year.” All things considered the foreign trade conditions are begin- ning to look much more encouraging than they have done for a year or more past. THE through rate on a carload (24,000 pounds) of fruit from Sacramento to New York on fast time schedule in re- frigerator cars is $350. The through rate ona carload of lubricating oil from Casper, Wyo., to Chicago, isfixed by the Elkhorn railway tarift sheot at $258, From Casper to (hago the distance is about one-third wfhat of the run from Sacrametito | to New York. The meanest cars can be used in tran: porting ofl, while#tit is perishable and must be® carried” bn refrigerator cars, The rate on a carload of oil from Casper to Chicago should# got be over one-third the fruit carloadetdanseontinental rate, which would berabout $116, or a rate #11 higher than ithe carload rate on cattle from Caspotr to Chicago. The railroad managers scannot justify the prohibitive oil rages points. ) WAGES. The government has issued and will soon distribute a comprehensive work showing the course of prices and wages for half a century. It is a report of the special committeo of the senate commit- tee on finance, the facts having been supplied largely by the government commissioner of labor, whose authority is regarded with favor by men of all parties. Kor the purposes of this report the agents of the Bureau of Labor in every part of the country collected the prices of 223 © distinct articles for 1801 and carried their com- parisons back as furas possible toward 1840. The lists cover a great variety of manufactured articles as well as agri- cultural products and raw materials, and enable one to trace a distinet differ- ence in the range of prices of articles constantly cheapened by improved ma- chinery and thoss which are growing dearer by the high rental of land. Ac- cording to a Washington dispatch half the problems of economic science will be illuminated by the ‘masses of figures vresented. ‘““Whether gold has really appreciated in value, whether silver has remained a truer standard of prices, whether a depreciatéd currency en- hances prices beyond the premium on gold, whother wagos keep pace with prices during periods of papor in- flation, whether improved machinery has reduced tho cost of living and given the laborer more comforts and higher wages.” Taking the year 1860 as the base line, for the reason that it was a year of nor- mal conditions, preceded by the de- pression of the panic of 1857, and fol- lowed by the disturbing influences of the war and paper inflation, it is shown that prices were lower in 1891 than in 1860, taking the whole range of merchandise. Some things were higher at the later period, particularig the products of agri- culture, but nadely all manufac- tured products had declined. The average prices for 186064 were 108.1, and they wepe- higher during the ensuing ton years,~but in 1890-'91 they were 92,3, It is shown that during the period of paper inflation the rise in prices was considerably above the premium on gold.! With regard to wages the statistics demonstrate that they have been steadily rising since 1840, but the rise of wages in paper money was not so rapid as the rise of the premium on gold, nor so rapid as the rise of prices, 'a statemont which ought to be carefilly considered by the wage carners of the country, many of whom lend themselves too rapidly to the support of proposals for currency intlation. It is- a very old principle, which these statistics strongly sustain, that labor is the very last thing to advance under currency infla- tion, and it very rarely keeps pace with the appreciation of other things. The ovidence supplied by these statistics is that wages, measured in gold, have continued to rise steadily since the re- sumption of specie payments, and that this, in conneciion with the reduced cost of living, has contributed to a steady improvement in the condition of labor. In producing these results the currency, rather than the tariff, plays the most important part. PRICES A LINCOLN hack driver has been sentenced to the penitentiarg for seven years for assisting another man to rob a drunken passenger of a $5 bill. Sup- pose this kind of justice was admins- tered to a bank president who has em- bezzeled and stolen $300,000. Let us If a man stealing $5 gets years in the penitentiary, a man stealing $100 would have to serve twenty times soven years. If he stole $2,000 he would serve four hundred time: n years. If he stole $20,000 he would serve four thousand times seven yonrs. If he stole 100,000 he would serve twenty thousand times seven years, so the bank president who stole $300,000 would, if he had the samo justice as was meted out to the Lincoln hack driver, have to serve sixty thousund times seven years, which is equal to 420,000 years. If he became a good stone cutter or barrel builder he might by good behavior be able to knock off 20,000 years of invol- untary servitude. But bank presidents do not get down to the low level of a common hack driver, THE distillers at Omaha and Ne- braska City, the starch works at Beat- co, the paper mil}s #t Lincoln and the twino factory at Fremont are moroe or less affected by the trusts. All of them are not controlled by ?lu trusts, but all would do a better busihess if the trusts were crushed out of existence. ap 1 Philadelphia mquirer, With the mercury agaiu_chasing the nine- ties, there would “sesm to be o genuine oc- casion for the president to issue another keep cool letter. The republicans o tho use of paLronag fluencing legislation, But they will indorse such_action on the 8™ of Cleveland if he cau thus cause a democratic congress to vote for honest money. pposed as a rule to ' the purpose of in- R Nothing Will Exease It. Detroit Tidhune Not even the exigencies of the financial situation will excuse the adm from taking immediate steps to the several gover which are said to be prevented from falling principally by the hordes of democratic waiters who are léaning agoinst thom until such time us they are given places luside. uitloant Lucident, Kansas City Times, America will get & square deal at the hands of the Bering Ses Board of Arbitra. tion if the proceedings gestarday way be taken as an indication. The attempt of Eng- land’s counsel to get the matter into such & shape that England could refuse to abide by the award of the arblirators was most from Wyoming i thoroughly s1ualchul. for which we owe the French president of the board thanks England has long haa the namo of losing every question submitted to arbitration, and this time its policy may ve to bully its way through. But it won't work. - A Kingdom for w Candldate, Chicago ter Ocean. Ex-Governor Campbell has again thrown the Ohio democrats 1nto the slongh ofidespair by refusing to run against Governor McKin- 1 The_ex-governor enjoys a joke, and suggests Congressman Outhwaite as o good man to run. Outhwaite has money, but refused to spend it to help elect Campbell two years ago and Campbell is willing to see the Columbus congressman speud his money this year for the empty honor of a nomination. AL Sy The Lesson of Kxperience. New Yors Herald, Yes, it has been a hard and bittor lesson, and one which the country might well have been spared. That it has been learned is ovident in the new and sounder opinions that are expressed in sections of the country that have heretoforo been the strongholds of the silver heresy and in the avowed conve sion of men who represent them in Washing- ton and who are prepured, when congross meets, to echo our demand: Repeal the Sherman law—Stop buying silver, et Demands an lmmediate Session. St Paul Pioneer Press. Public opinion, the country over, should concentrate itself in one unanitmous, irrosist- demand upon the president to oall con- gress together immediately for the purpose of securing tho repeal of the Sherman silver act. It is worse than idle folly to delay. The country 18 now convinced of the causo of its misfortunes. Ina year when it would have scemod that all the forces of Prov- idence had conspired to favor it, when in- dustry was flourishing and well remunerated, when the carth yiclded her fruits bounto- ously and the needs of others coincided with our plenty we have been struggling with a financial depression that can be traced to but one cause. With a volume of currency larger thun ever beforo, with more money per capita t ever before, and with the amount increasing largely oach month, every interest has been prossed for no sary capital, ana banking institutions have not dared to extend their credits. All this is in consequence of our evil currency sys- tem. Among those who have studied the situation carefully and who have the right to express an intelligent opinion unbiased by sell-interest there is not a dissenting voico. The Sherman law must be repealed before tho industries of the country will rev! manently and confidence take the pl aistrust. SEDTE IRV AUDITOR MOOL ARP STICK, Lincoln New all means let Mr, Gar- neau give an immeaiate account of his stew- ardship. If he has been unfaithful to the trust reposed in him Governor Crounse can- not do otherwise than instantly remove him. The mere hat if he had the best in- terests of th © at heart he would have done 80 long ago, should not cause him to hesitato in this event; neither should the fact that it might be injudicious to remove him at thi; ure, while the fair is in pro figure with the executive in doing his duty. Platsmouth News: State Auditor Moore, who has shown from the first day of his incumbency the desire to have state business managed the same as he would manage his own private affairs, is now after Commissioner Garneau with a sharp stick. He refuses to audit several of Garneau's expenditures on the ground that thoy are ex gant and are not justified by the appropriation. We believe that the state auditor will be upheld in his theory of the caso by nearly every taxpayer in Nebraska. The idea of having fifty employes on the pay roll at Chicago and charging up for some of them $6 per day for Lotel expenses is a littie too rich for the average Nebraska. Auditor Moore is certainly showing that the republi- cad party wade no mistake when they elected him to the responsible oftice last year, which he so0 ab] e PEOPLE AND THINGS, Tdwin Booth’s estate is valued at $800,000, Five million bushels is the size of the pea- nut crop this year. Congressman Bland inquires in metallic tones, *“Where is tho democracy at?” Is Bland another victim of the silver jag? Base ball maintains much of its old-time vigor in some sections oS the country, An umpire was mobbed at Akron, O., the other day. Chicago papers insist that the “dives must go.” (The adv: is needless. The going for the verdants cver) twenty-four. Kock and Dunch are rival candidates for mayor of Milwaukee. As the former 1s u publican it is sonably certain he will crow victoriously on the democratic Dunck- hill Missouri cyclones are extremeoly useful to natives inheriting the tired feeling. A late twirler uprooted trees in Washington county and in the holes were found rich deposits of lead ore. Humboldt and Cuyvier estimated the num- ber of specics of mammalia, or creatures which suckle their young, to be but little short of 600; of birds, 4,000; insccts, 44,000; reptiles, 700; in all, 50,000 species, Tom Johnson of Ohio is not averse to re- ceiving the democra nomination for gov. ernor, provided it comes with “sufticient ung ' AsTom commands a moderate bar'l, unanimity may be secured if the dis- burscments are properly mad. Two Frenchmen have actuaily make targets of themsel ional duelist. Of course they did not fear sult of un exchange of shots. It was injury to innocents lurking in the vicinity that caused them to pause. The measurement of the fy Diamet. the poles, meter, 7,911; diameterat the cquator, ircimforence around the poles, 24,815; mean 24,853, and circumference around the equato; The Record of Philadelphia bewails vanton waste of Pullian in cutting off the s. The Record is mistaken. lost, but on the contrary ser the useful purpose of a “handout” to the industrious taxgatherers, Smarting under repeated assaults on his ability, o Kansas rainmuker proposes going to Chicago and showering the fair. He should be jugged on arrival. Chicago at- mosphere is too tender to be tritled with, Very little provocation is ordinarily needed to transform the town into a slough, Brooklyn's program for the eaterta‘nment of the créw of the Viking ship was not fol- lowed to the letter. After having a mght of itat a club they were assaulted on the street and promptly clapped in juil, Four hours in the bastile prepared them for the reception tendered by the mayorand city ofiicials. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, whois rapidly ving his eightieth birviday. is said to be as full of enthusiasm and vitality now as he was fifty years ago, He is an enthusiast on Irish literary topics, and is arranging for a series of Irish books to be publisned by a London firm in theautumn, and recently de- tivered a lecture in London on the prospects of Irish literature, Mrs. Laura M. Johns, the woman suffrage lender, is gotting ready’ to whoop things up in Kansas this fall. The campaign will begin in Septemb and the women will make the suntlow stato the battleficld, Mrs. Jones says that defeat in Kansas will sot back the cause in cvery other state, while success will stimulate the movement from ocean to ocean. Therefore overy e crgy will ba bent toward carrying the day in Jerry Simpson's bailiwick Cows and other ruminating animals have several stomachs, Iuto the first of them the food passes as iL is eaten. When the animal has finished its scarch for food it forces a part of the food from the first stomuch back into the mouth and chews it leisurely sncond time. This portion of the food is the animal's cud. Almost always the cud is vegetablo matter, though whena cow has ~lost her cud” the artiticial cud provided by the owner contains some animal matter, as a rule. John Quincy Adams Ward, the sculptor, has almost completed his statue of Roscoe Conkling, und says he has never before been $0 cothusiastic over any of his work. His information for tho statue, ho says, was gained while Conkling wus speaking during the Garfield-Hancock ecampoaign. In the middle of a sentence, while he was speaking most eloquontly, Conkling stopped. took a step toward the audience and, rws haod, sai | in a low vol “The die is Gartleld 1will be eclected Mr. Adawms says he looke( like an inspired prophet. hour in the refused to s for u profes- NERRASKA AND NERRASKANS, Hubbell is having s mad dog scare and many canines are biting the dust, Contracts have been let for the building of 8 systom of waterworks at Alliance. The new Baptist ohurch at Holbrook, Pur- nas county, will be dedicated June 27, The independont convontion of Saline county has been callad for Septomber 25, Tim Thomas, A Nobraska City barber, has been appointed to & position in Washington, Steve Kennody of Nebraska City has se- cured vhe contract for putting in a system of water works at Gordon, “E"_ml l%; 0. ;‘nrrcl:q now a teacher at Des Moines, has beon electod principal of t! Broken Bow public schools, il John Hall has begun a five yoars rosidence at the pen to {uy for_highway robbery. He was sentonced from Beatrice, A oaving sand bank crushod little Jimmy Henderson to death while he was watching | @ hord of cattle in Sheridan county. Osceola Methodists have decided to build a now church, and the ladies have agread to furnish 500 of tho necessary amount of monoy. Matt A. Daucherty of Ogalalla, who essaved to connect with the ofies of atate oil inspector, but missed his coupling by about half a turn, 1s in the city. Among the chain gang at Kearney is Rob- ert Crosby, a pickpocket, who was caught after having boen used for a target by Pony Powers, whom ho had attemptea to rov, John McGinnis of Blue Springs awoke the other night and discovered a thief about to make away with ono of his horses. Ho socured a shotgun and fired at the robber but failed to bring him down. Gates college at Neligh has closod one of the most successful years in its history. There wero nino graduates from the con. servatory of music, three from the normal department and one from the commercial school. A woman named Borda_wuas sont to jail at Fromont with a baby, and the next morning it was discovered "that tho little one had scarlot fover. ‘Tho authorities quickly re- leased tho mother and sent her homo to care for the child, Somo time ago Albert Ross, accused of in- cendiarism for burning a store at Decatur, was released from Jail on bail and skipped. Nothing was heard from him until a week or 80 ago, when a letter was received by his daughter at Tekamah, which informed her that her father was dead. While a piece of plate glass 10x12 feet was being unloaded from a dray at Seribner it fell over, striking Albert Wagne Horton, carrying them down with it. Wag- ner had his spine broken and is perh: fatally injured, while Horton e three” broken ribs and some bru glass was shattered. The labor of thinming on cvery fleld of beets for the Novfolk factory will be finished this weele, which is a month earlier than tho work was completed last year, says the N folk News. This has been brought about throuzh a better knowledgo of the busines: farmers having learned from experionce just when to go into their fields to clear them with the least work and to the best advan- tage. arl Lord, aged The aged about 7, Harry Roper, v Roper, aged 5, of Bartley playing m the rear of a drug store tho other day and found sphorus in sticks liko candy. 1 put somo of it in his pocket. T heat of their bodies it took firo and each of them was terribly burned. Harry and Ray Roper died the next morning, and Carl Lord was still suffering with little hope of his re- covery at last accounts, While Frank Knotts, a brother of A. B. Knotts of Plattsmouth, was working in a Mexican mine and was on his way to the surface, a boy fell from the top and knocked him off, both falling to the level below. Knotts was but slightly injured, but the Mexican 0 had fallen nearly 200 feet was killea outright. The father and brother of thy boy at once made up their minds to avenge the death of their relative by tuking the lifo of Knotts without any ceremony. Thoy jumped onto him with the feroc of enraged tigers, but the miners inte ed and saved his life, though his assailants swore they would kill him at the first oppor- tunity. Knotts was then arrested for kill- ing the boy, thrown in jail and afrerward tried and found not guilty. He is compelled to go armed and keep a good lookout all the time for treachery. e STANFORD'S MILLIO) Estimato of tho Wealth Which the Dead ator Left Behind. SAN Fraxoisco, Cal., June 22.—A careful estimate of Stanford’s wealth puts it at &34, 000,000, as follows: 324,000,000 South- ern Pacific securities; 100,000 acres of land worth £5,000,000; San Francisco Cable Rail- road stock, §3,000,000; personal property, $1,000,000; estimated income annually, £3,000,000. I The death of Stanford will not affect of the Southern Pacific road, as enno active part in the manage- ment for some years, It is not known what disposition he made of his holdings. — Fort Dearborn Statue Unvelled. CuicaGo, June 22.—The splendid bronze group, commemorative of the Fort Doarborn massacre of 1812, on the site of this city, the gift of George M. Pullman, was unveiled this afternoon at vhe Lake Shore and th- teenth streot. tox-President Harrison de- livered the oration. S —— e ____ ] TNE BORDEN EDITORIAL JURY, Chicago Post: Acquitted but ruined. No healing of time an stanch the wounas which malignity and misguided zoal have inflicted on Lizzle Borden. has re- m!nod her liberty, but sho is marked feor . St. Paul Pioneor Pre: 1t is really, aftor All, less the inevitabl of the verdiey thatgstriices one than it is tho faot that a porsdn can be brought to trial for an infa- mous and capital crime on no other evidence than this, Indianapolis Journal: The verdict of ao- quittal in the Lizzie Borlen casedwill not sur- priso any person who has followed the course of the trial at all closely. Tt has boen ovi- dent for some time that the prosecution had failed to make a case, Chicago Kecord: It is deplorable that the officers of the law failod so completol; solve the mystery of this monstrous crime. The jury, as conscientious mon, could not possibly have found the prisoner guilty on the testimony presented in court. Kansas City Star: The jiry whioch ac- quitted Lizzic torden also arraigned the state of Massachusetts for withholding the right of trial from a woman who was kept in confinement for nearly a yoar upon what the courts have found to baa groundless sus- picion. Dotroit Froe Press: The acquittal of Liz- zie Borden was practically a forogone con- clusion. While there was certainly enough in the caso and its surroundings to create a very strong impression of her guilt no in. telligent jury coutd vossibly conviet her en the testimony produced in court. TRIVIAL TALK. Buffalo Courler: A saw gonorally moans business when its te th are set. Ruymond’s ly: Boozer drin “ sense; a fish flusk o Its u oss Monthly: I 11k fish, Somorville Jonrnal s your wifo a good munager?” usked one married man of another. 1 guess sho 18, was the reply, “She knows how to mnage me, atall events.” Indianapolis Journal: Wauts—What right has Tlggsby to Bo upplying for o pensiont Potts—Ho claims hie lost his volce in the Sal- vation army. Harpor's Bazar base ball n do y in tho green apple se trouble.” at 4o you do with this You' don't play ball, it on my boy Johnny son. 1t saves lots ot no man who respects the memory of his parentsshould over roveal his middle name, always rovealod thy inciplent ins sanity of thoso Lestowed the namo upon thelrfunocent offspring. “From astralght asls an_ esteomed why should thers bo i sugnr whon onts a gal- ance 1n somoe What has ucky whisky “from & point of view?" i1l CourtorJ atie CONLEMpOTALY, i 1 sanctums ar to do with K Alght' democrat EQUIVOCAL. Boston Courder Her woul Agbssing teans gave e phasis To thought the moment brod. ys pa. 110's quite » whip, thoy say,” ho answered him; “no doubt, . 1f you should come around some day o'l gladly drivo you out." e THE CHRONIC KICKER. Cincinnati Times-Star, nope and whine, and say And then when winter comes along, They snarl and snap and scold, And won't go out—but sit ubout—because ivey Blamed Raw \ugh's eircus comes along Jound to £o. r, they grunt and jeer, bos Slow!" And when they die old § With all the gall he's “Walk fn, old man!" winks, “It's Too Blamed Hot! an says, Jon't think I can,” he §t. Petor meets him at the gates And asks him if ho would i “Just settle down and wear a crown.’ But 1f you moet hin on the strect There's one thing 1've admire When asked to drink, ho'll nover shrink, and Blamed Tired!" BROWNING, KING Largoest Manufaoturors and Retallors ol Olothing In the World. In the Same Boat. Ail the goods we have in stock are in the same fiboat-—it's a mighty nice boat, though. We bought e~ |what the price, the fab- . ries, workmanship and style are absolutely correot. We are making such decided bargain prices just now that it is a com- paratively easy matter to convince a man that it pays to buy the best. — —— W Il BROWNING, Blore open avery evenin Buturduy uill 1 11 6.90. I S_ KING & CO., W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts.