Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 2, 1893, Page 4

1 —— THE DAILY BEE. | S E. ROSEWATER, Editor. S untinEn KVERY MORNING, — TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Dally Bew (without Sunday) Ono Yon DAIly and Sunday, Ono Your.......... Bix Months. by [ Saturday Be Woekly lice, 4800 10 00 5 00 2 50 200 150 100 reo Mont One Year OFFICES. The Bee Bullding - - and 20th Streets. , 12 Pearl Street. Office; 317 Chamber of Commerce. New York, Hooms 18, 14 and 15, Trib ngton, 513 Fourten CORRESPON 1Y All communications re editorial matter should b Editor. h Street. NCE. ing to news and Ircssea: To the BUSINESS LETTERS. s and_remittances should Twe Pabiishing Compan « and postoffice orde order of the com- bo addressed 10 Th Omnha. Dira 10 b made an PR tien loaving the clty for the summer can have The BER sent to thelr an order at this office. THE BEE PUBLISHING SWORN ST 8tate of Nobraska, ity of Do * Georeo B, Trscln COMPANY. v of Tm e Pub- ing company, d T lvaggear that the ot clrentati s of Tk DALY REETOF the woek ending July 29, 1503, with a8 follows Saturday, o) SWORN to bofore SEAL [ my presence thin JEran fmy W The 1seo I Chi Tar DAy and SUNDAY HER 14 on Chicago nt the following plaees Palmer house, Grand Pacitic hotel, Auditoriun hotel Great Northern hotel Gore hotel Teland hotvl Files of Tiy Tew can ln sesn at the Ne- braskn bl e and thi Adwinistration build- Ing, Expositlon grounds. salo in Averazo €1 ne, 1801 ToRE CASTOR is in Washid®on. perats may now exvect somethi arop. APPLICATIONS for positions at the disposal of the new honse of representa- tives must be in by the end of this week. THE people of Towa snecassfully fought the railvoad problem to a satisfactory finish and the people of Nebraska can do the same. TieTammany tiger is raising a heart- rending howl over the new federal ap- pointments in New Yorle City. Just wait until Nobraska is cared for and then listen to the roar. SILVER purchases for July fell short by 2,116,000 ounces of the authorized amount because of the selfish demands of the silver owners. Iree silver men will not fail to see in this another “crimo against silver.” CHICAGO announces that she has prac- tically declared her independence of Wall stroct and that she will hereafter socure her supplies of gold direct from Surope. Chicago's confidenco is all right 50 long as her collateral holds out. COMPTROLLER ECKELS ventures to predict that nine out of every ten failed national banks will open for business again. If the comptroller would venture to say when this will happen he would afford the people a much desired com- fort. THE north wall of the new cell house at the state penitentiary seoms to havo the “‘bulge” on the retained architects who recently visited Lincoln in order to express their admiration for the work- manlike manner in which it had been constructed THE frenzy of the two subsidized rail- road organs of Lincoln has shown somo little abatement since the railroad in- junction was granted by the federal court. They no longer regard the menacing attitude of the State Board of Transportation with fear and trembling. Tha statement of tho Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul railroad for the fiscal year entding Juno 30, 1893, shows the net carnings to be $11,486,046.98, as against $11,468,503.84 for the preceding year, a gain of $18,443.14. This is one of the roads®subject to the so-called ruinous Towa tari 2 RAILWAY officials assert utter aston- ishment on the interferenco of the stoc holders to prevent them from complying with the provisions of the maximum freight rato law. In this some of them may be sincore, but it is safe to say that the greator number have been in secret collusion and hearty sympathy with tho whole injunction scheme. THE comptroller of the currency sug- gests that the banks will remember in the future the panicky depositors who ars now distrusting them. It is usually 80 difficult for a baunker to remember sny one without repeated identification that the panicky depositor has a good chance of escaping in the universal for- getfulness of banking circies, A CERTAIN railway rofuses to trans- port the psuper miners of Colorado on the grounds that such action would be in direct violation of the United States emigrunt laws. The railways are nssiduovs in obeying the law when such obedionce serves tho interests of their revenue accounts. They are not always 50 submissive to the law. ‘WE were not surprised to learn of the resignation of one of the United States senators from Wyoming: there is really nothing attractive in such a position. But the announcement that a Douglas sounty justice of the peace has resigned Is & genuine surprise. Something un- usual must have happened to induce the justice to release his hold upon so lucra- tive a position. THE State Board of Public Lands and Buildings continues to hold the publie In supreme conterapt by transacting the people’s business behind closed doors. "These executive sessions are only held, 1t is noticad, when a contrget.is to be let to somo favored member of the ring or when some one of the numerous camp tollowers is to be employed as *‘superin- tendent” at the rate of 85 per day. ddress by lenving | 10WA'S RAILIWAY EXPERIENOR, There 18 an old adage to the effect that oxperience is the best schoolmaster, and most men have learned to their sorrow that its teuth fs not to be questioned Man may learn by experience, but, if we are to judge from the history of railway legislation, a railway corporation never learns anything. Defeated upon point after point, it comes forward again to fight over the same old ground, and seoms porfectly willing to throw upon it stockholders the costs of repeating the often tried and ful experi- ments. Everywhere in this country the railroads have from the first assumed a hostile attitude toward all legielation enacted with a view to regulating the conduct of their business, and every- where they have yielded only when driven from their positions by the ts. Tho course of railway logislation in almost any state in the union might be 1as evidence of the pigheadedness ailway officials, but no moro instrue- tive lesson could be read at this time than that furnished by the skotch of railway legislation in lowa jublished yesterday in the columns of this paper. The rvailroads operating in lowa con- tributed to the wave of anti-monopoly sentiment which carrvied through the granger laws of the oarly 70's. They wero bold in asserting their abso- lute freedom from publie control of whatever kind and insistod that they were private enterprises conducted for privato profit, with no duties to the people other than they chose to perform, Their rates were ad- justed to favor one and diserim- inate against another and when complaints were heard upon all sides they insolently said that their partiality affected none but themselves. Thoy fought every effort to subject” them to legislative control and when finally a maximum freight rate law was passed in 1874 they refused to pay any attention whatever 0 it and confidently carried their casos to the United States supreme court. Their confidence in this instance was short lived. They were rudely awakened from the dream into wlhich they had been lulled when they learned that that tribunal had sustained the constitution- ality of those measures. The right of the states to regulate railway ra was iistinetly and plainly afirmed. Beaten on this point, they vielded a sullen obe- dicnee to the law, construing it wherever possible to the injury of tho shippor. No effort was omitted to mako the law obnoxious to the people and at last these efforts proved successful in sceuring tho repeal of the statute. Three railway commissioners remained. but these wereso shorn of their powor that the railways regarded them as in- offensive and impotent. For the next fow years dabbling in politics” seemed to have supplanted tho transportation of passengers and freight as the purpose for which the companies were incorporated, and by the lavish distribution of railway favors they man- aged to stave off all further legislation. By 1888 the anti-monopoly forces found themselves once move in power, and despite the desperate resistanco of the corporation lobby they cnacted a string- ent law, placing in the hands of elective commissioners the power to establish reasonable maximum rates subject to appeal to the regularly established judi- ciary of the state. Again the railways showed their dis- position to vesist the law. Again they tried to make the enforcoment of its provisions as obnox ble to the people. Special tariffs and terminal rates were withdrawn and distanco d conforming to the letter of the law, but so excessive as to be extortionate. When the commission- ers employed their power to construct and promulgate a tariff of maximum rates, the railways displayed their pre- deliction for injunction proceodings by securing a temporary restraining order to provent the board from putting the new schedule into force. Here, too, they displayed a cunningness in waiting until only a few days beforo the new rates were to become effective before bringing in the petition, with tho ex- press design that the proceedings might necessarily delay their enforcemont. At length, cornered in their own game of litigation, with the temporary injunction withdrawn by the court, they recognized the futility of further opposition and submitted unconditionally to the man- dates of the law. For four years they have been operating under the reduced rates fixed by the Iowa commissioners and tho threatened bankruptey has not yetappeared. Not one employe has been discharged solely onaccountof the maxi- mum rates, nor have the stockholdel discovered that their private property has been confiscated. If the railways were inclined to listen to the dictates of reason, here is a les- son whose moral might well be taken to heart. But corporations do not learn by experience. The railways of No. braska, in part identical with those who went through the fire of Towa legisla- tion, prefer to pay the penalty for ewch new scquisition of knowledge. The same tactics will be pursued in Nebraska, with the same ultimate results, unsucee: COMMISSIONER GARNEAU has led somo of the newspaper peaple of Chicago to believe that the Nebraska building may have to be closed in consequenco of the action of Auditor Moore in demanding that receipted vouchers shall accompany the commissioner's drafts upon the World's fair appropriation, Auditor Moore is now checking up the commis- sioner’s July accounts, and if he abides by the recent decision of the supremo court he will draw warrantsonly for such sums us are covered by vouchers,—In short, the commissioner, under the rul- ing of the court, cannot draw money in advance covering the estimated oxpend- itures for a month or a quarte While this may handicap the commissioner in some respects, and revolutionize his mothods of doing business, it will not justify any usttempt to close the Ne- braska exhibit. Mr. Garneau certainly could not seriously entortain such an idea. The power which created the official position occupied by him also provided for the state exhibit at the World's fair. No authority less than that of the legislature is competent (o THE OMAIIA close the exhibit. So it will be seen that the commissionor is simply talking for effect. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND ON TOP, As the time for the meeting of con- gross draws noarer it becomes more ap- parent that the carmpaign which Mr. Cleveland has been prosecuting in his party for the repeal of the silver pur chase act has been far more succes<ful than was expected. The president seems to have shown oxceedingly good judg- ment in the conduct of the campaign, and it is by no means improbable that a good share of the credit for this is due to that exceedingly shrewd politician, Colonel Lamont, secretary of war, who is splendidly equinped for almost any task requiring political acumen. About the ficst move the prosi- dent made, after having induced Mr. Carlisle to abandon the free silver cause, was to make an adherent of Me. Crisp. The ex-speaker desired re-election, and it was not dificult to convince him that the easiest if not the only way to secure it was to be in harmony with the admin- istration. Crisp will again be speaker, and, if his recont utterances are sin- cere, the administration will have no more faithful friend and supporter in either branch of congress than he. Not only does he favor the repeal of the sil- ver purchase clause of the Sherman act, but in order to insure that vesult he is prepared to have the rulos of the house framed according to the precedent sot by the last republican congress. In both theso respects the Goorgia congrossman is thoroughly and completely a Cleveland man. Having made sure of Crisp the next most im- portant person to bo convorted was Sen- ator Voorhoes, who, as chairman of the senato committee on finance, could exert a decided influence. The Indiana sena- tor wasa most pronounced anduncom- promising free silver advocate and very generally regarded by the anti-free sil- ver men as a hopeless case. It cannot bo over three months, if so long, since ho declared that under no circumstances would ho support a measure for the unconditional vepeal of the Sherman law. But unless Mr. Voorhees has again changed his mind within the last fow days he is now an adherent of the ad- ministration and is willing that the pur- chase of silver by the government shall bo stopped unconditionally. There have been other conve: but it is sufficient to mention the prominent and important. Of course there are free silver democrats whom the president has not been able to con- vert to his views and will not be. But as the situation now appears he does not need them. If this shall prove to be so, and the most trustworthy opinion pro- dicts it, Mr. Cleveland may fairly claim to have achioved a signal victory, for the odds were very lavgely against him when he started in on the campaign. Being on top there is reason to believe that the president has made himself so secure in his position that he will have no difficulty in retaining it. Nobody now questions that the silver purchase clause of the Sherman act will be repealed in the house and it is vory generally con- ceded that a measuro tor this purposo can be passed in the sonate. ons, most THE LABGR MARKET. Not the least serious and deplorable feature of the existing distrust and de- pression is the eondition of the labor market. Within the last fow months tens of thousands of workers have been thrown out of employment and every day adds to the already vast army of idle labor. All over the country in- dustrial enterprise is being restricted. Mills and’ factories are suspending operations altogether or greatly cur- tailing production. Michinery which a year ago was working to its full capacity is now motionless or is boing worked but a part of the time. In scores of mills the hum of the spindle has ceased and in hundreds of factories and workshops where a few months ago the hum of busy industry was heard there is now silence. In industrial city of the country there ave hunareds of willing workers idle where a year ago there were almost none, and the indications are that this already large army of unemployed will continue to grow. This is a most unfortunate state of af- fairs and it is to be apprehended that it will become much worse before there is a change for the better. It promises to place hundreds of thousands of the wage earners of the country in a position to experienco much hardship and priva- tion during the coming winter, It threatens the creation of an oxtraordinary demand upon the vesources of charity. It has ulveady caused some hardship, but people can manage to get ulong at this season of the year on a comparatively small al- lowance. Just now it is simply a ma tter of enough to eat to sustain life and the plainer it is the bettor. A few months hence more food will be needed, warmer clothing and fuel, incroasing materially the expenses of every family. This is the season of preparation for the lurger demands of the future, but it will be lost to the tens of thousands of laboring peo- ple who ave thrown out of employment now and if they ave not able to procure work later on in the year theirs must bs a hard and bitter oxperience bafore the coming winter is passed. Perhaps it is not well to take a too possimistic view of the situation. It is possible that the depression which is proving so disastrous to labsr may not be prolonged beyond & month or two. There ure some whose judgment is wor- thy of respectful consideration who confi- dently predict that assoon as the currency question is properly settled there will be avestoration of confidence that will carry with it a revival of business. It is to be hoped that this will be the case, and it is also to be hoped that congress can be induced to shave this feeling, so that there shall be no unnecessary delay in reaching & proper settloment of the currency question. Un- doubtedly that would haye an oxcellent effget, but that it would re- move sl reason for distrust and all cause of depression is by no wmeans assured. Every intelligent student of existing conditions must know that the shutting down of mills and factories is not wholly due to the money stringency and the ever DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2. 1893. lack of businoss, (Hbwover large a part these may fairly beWssumed to play in producing the indgstrial depression, there is anothoer infience at work which will continue to gpgrate after the cur- rency quostion is disposod of, This is the uncertainty and; apprehension as to what the democratie eongross and execi- tive may do in regard to the economic policy of the 'country. The fear that the party in coptrol of the govern- | ment may carry tariff roform to an ex- | treme that will be soriously injurious if not destructive tomany of the industries | of the country may prove to be a ground- less fear. There is reason to beliove that Mr. Cleveland intends to restrain the radical element of his party and in- torpose u.ym- nt tariff legislation that might be damaging or destructive. But the fear oxists, and it has its influence in inducing manufacture to curtail operations. The president might dispel | it with a few lines in his messagoe to the oxtra sossion of congress, but it is under- stood that he proposes to confine that communication to the discussion of the silver question, perhaps bolioving that in the solution of that question will be found the remedy for all the financial and business ills that afilict the country. rs THE farmers 1n some of the New Eng- land states are unable to get sufficient help to harvest their crops, which are more than ordinarily bounteous, and this notwithstanding the fact that there is a great deal of unemployed labor in the cities and the farmors ave offering good wages. It is said that they are willing to pay as high as $25 a month with board and lodging. The eastern farmers had a similar experience last year, and thero was difficulty in the northwest also in, procuring sufticient labor during har vest time, although oxtraordinary in- ducements wero offored, but there was less unemployed labor last year than there is now. There are several ox- planations of the indisposition of city laborers to goto the farms. Work on the farm is hard, especially to those not familiar with it, and then farm life gots in a short time to be very monotonous. But an able-bodied man out of work and with no prospect in the city but that of idleness, would deserve no sympathy if he refused for these reasons a chance for farm work at faic wages and his sub- sistence. THERE is something attractive about the proposition of the Colorado people to issuo silver certificates upon bullion deposited in the vaults of the state, but it will hardly commend itself to the shrewd business judgment of the men of the west. If Colorado can issue a cur- rency based on deposits of butlion, Wyo- ming could as easily do tho same with coal as a basis of circulation, or Ne- braska with corn, or Dakota with wheat. The southern farmers could authorize banks of circuiation with cotton as the basis, and Virginia and Carolina people could do the same with tobacco and rice. The idea is a favorod one with the popu- lists, but it is one which will never be- come popular. BLoopy BRIDLE WATTE is now talking in Chicago. His latest utterance is: “The government that is responsible for such a condition of things as now exists in the United States, when there is no war or pestilence, should be wiped from the face of the earth, but it should be done constitutionally.” Under what clause of the federal constitution two- thirds of the people of this country can be wiped from the face of the earth the governor does not stop to explain. He will, of course, not admit that his ill- considered utterances have had much to do with the social and financial condi- tions in Colorado. He should demone his tongue, SAVINGS banks throughout the east are rapidly following the example set by the resolution of the New York and Brooklyn presidents to take advantage of the rule requiring notice for the with- drawal of deposits, Whatever the effect of this action may be upon the present condition of affuivs it certainly has great significance, in that it denotes a confi- dence on the part of these banks that at the expiration of the designated time confidence will have been restored so that their ources will remain unim- paived. SHORTENING the working time at the local factories and shops imposes a con- siderable hardship upon the laborers, but is more satisfactory than would be an entiro stoppage of work. The em- ployos cannot well refuso to share with their employers the losses of the present glut in the commereial markets, LET tho jobbers and merchants of this city muke a showing of the facts before the Wostern Freight association at Chicago on Angust8 and they may be cortain that the complete oqualization of the bridge tolls will follow. w You're Shouting. Indianapolis News, Nebraska, with a corn crop worth £50,000, 000, is right'up withghe procession, i Tribune, With Mr. Gladstope's devil's advocate, Mr. Chamberlain's introduction of Herod and the Irish membeey' ““Judas” choral, the dobate on the homo xalé bill closed in ' fine old ecclesiastical style)! e A Valuablotraight Tip. Fremont Tribune, ‘e Bre publishes‘tdtorviews with a num- ber of Omaha business=men whoso uniform testimony is that, despite the cry of hara times, their busiuess is larger than at this time a year ago. Sich cheerful testimony is valuable at this tim New Bofi Ropeal the purchabing called Sherman act. Authoiize tho issue by wational banks of circulation up to par of the United Stau bouds deposited with the treasury to secure the same. = Issue no United States notes of a less de- nomination than §. ty. lause of the so- avement, Globe-Deme erat. The gold movement is a feature of the financial situation which deserves some at- tention. Since January 1 the country has exported about 859,000,000 in gold and im- ported about $11,000,000. In our dealings with the outside world in the past seven months we have paid out about §5%,000,000 wore gold than we have taken in. Hut the tido has turned in our favor now. While the exportation of the motal has ceased its im- portation is setting ia. In the past two or three weecks it has been coming in at the rato of about $1,000,000 u week, and the | this am movement is increasing. Moi> than twice Int 18 on {ts way to the country at the prosent time. The probability 1s that by tho time congross gots fairly at work in the oxports of the motal will bo &,000,00 or ho extra sossion $1,000,000 & woek. This in crease is rondored tolorably certain by the prosent growth in merchandiso exports and the reduction of the balanco of trade against | us. on Brond Tires, and Lead-r, York legislature enacted peculiar and original tax law which prom 1ses to have a very important and far reach- ing effect upon the roads of thestate. 1t provides simply that overy person using a two-horse wagon or_one still’ larger on the public highway shall have one-half his rond tax rebated if the wheels of his vehicles have tires not less than three inches in width. This is putting & notable promium upon the use of broad tir and cannot fail to induce & large and steadily increasing number to adopt this bost protection of the highways. Already Empire state report a g sale of broad-tired wagons, and many farm- ers aro having wheols with broad tires on old wagons in place of the old narrow tires. The opinion is unanimous that tho law will certainly and speelily load to the general adoption of brond tir -ty Enslaving the Bincks Philadelphia Press, The school amendment to the constitution of Agabama, upon which the people of that state will vote, provides that tho taxes for school purposes lovied upon the whites and blacks shall bo kept soparate una that each race shall have the benofit of what it pays. The result, if the amendment is adopted, will bo that the school facilities of the negrors will bo very scant. In a technical sense they pay only a fraction of the tax for the suppoct of the schools, but any econo- mist knows that this is no fair critorion of tho part of the burden of taxation they bear. Alubama seoms dotermined, howover, to et up this discrimination. The whites in that stato, having robbed the black man of the batlot, propose now to keep him in ig- norance, i ely Caation. Washington Star, Tho extraordinary session of the Fifty third congress should profit by tho horrible examplo set by the House of Commons and whenevor there is danger of friction had better adfourn promptly rather than r the possibility of physical conflict, damage resultant from an English parli mentary free fight is limitea to bruise: there the rist is the only woapon, but a riot in the house of representatives would give experts on gunshot wounds and stabs numerous opportunities for extending the exporience. Therefore it behooves the com- ing congress to ain its surcasm and subdue the angry passions which are always on tap. g ee o The Era of Resumption, Chicago Inter Ocean. Many of tho suspended banks in the wost which have proved themsclves financis sound are arranging to resume business, and the people will not in the future be so el frightened into “runs.” Hundre thousands of men have lost their savings of the years past withdrawing their funds. stern savings depositors have acted with more discretion thau have their western brethren S e Links of the Swme Snu<nge, Kansas City Journal. Tho attornoy general of Colorado rules that it is within the power of the legislature w provido for a depository of silver bullion and the issuance of cortificates thereon, us- signable by delivery and receivable by the stato in payment of state taxes. ‘The stale ticket elected in_Colorado last fall appears to be pretty much alile, all the way down. Governor Waite is ouly an average sample. et e s Signs of Improvement. Globe-Demoerat, y mills have closed in different parts of thecountry in the past fow weeks on account of the financial disturbance, but some of them are opening again. Oue big factory m Connecticut and anotker in Ne York have just resumed work. Resump- tions will probably be numerous before the fall season fairly begins. JROUND ABOUT THE FPAIR. Brazil oxhibits more than 2,000 differont grades of coffec. There is mno denying the fact that the American girl is one of the lovelicst exhibits at tho World's fair. The band music in the galieries in the Manufactures building is having a good ef- fect in attracting visitors up the stairs. Spain's exhibit of silverware is insignifi- cant in oxtent, but tho Spanish silversmith's art is shown to bost advantage by two colos- sal iron vase: d and inlaid with gold < apies the place of honor in the United States exhibiv, as it has taken pos- session of that one of the four corners around the clock tower which has been given to our country, whilo Germuany, England and France hold tho others. Belgium has withdeawn her exhibits from examination by judges of awards. The Bel- gium Jjurors arrived in Chicago July 1, on tho promise of Mr. Thacher that Belgium's exhibits should all be judged before July 20, The jurors are oblized to return at onco to Igium, none of the displays having been nined, so that in justice to their ex- hibitors Helgium has withdrawn altogethe William Ryle of Patorson, N. J., is one of the largest silk manufacturers in the coun- try, His father add mother first began_ the making of silk with a hand loom as far back as the early '50's, and wove the American i which waved over the Crystal Pilaco in ap from that period to today. > 100 silk factori in that town engaged in throwing, dyeing and weaving silk, The fourth wife of the mahars urthala has teen interviewed and had hy picture taken in New York. T liko Amor- ica; your women are pret such lovely eyes.” said her 3 she smiled, showing her poarly “Their figures are good and they graceful. I'have heard of your great coun- try in my homo in India, but it is 80 much bigger than I ever even dreamed.” In the coming live stock exhibition at the World’s fair lowa growers should be well represented. That state has done the hand- some thing by the stock breeders and this industry should be shown Lo its best ud- antage. An appropristion of 10,000 was made, through which all the expenses of shipment, care and keep of all horses, cattlo, sheep, swine and poultry will be paid by the state, louving no expense upon the ex- hivitors. Ono of the very interesting places at the Columbiun exposition is the exhibitof the Bell Telephone company in the dectricity building, There arc shown the istruments of Prof. Bell, and all the various forms of telephones used and oxpori- mented with since the granting of the patents to him, There are also charts ana diagrams of large size, showing the progress of thoart and the incroased use year by year of the telephone. A jolly Trishman from southern Indiana has built himself a greenhouse just to show visitors how to ventilate such buildings. To demonstrate the possibility of produciug any temperature at any time of year by the proper means, ho has cumped {n his patent arrangement during the hottest of hot days past and discoursed ou the comfort of an atmosphere controlied by the Indiana plan, His enthusiasm dampened a little, he says, during the middle of one day, but with that coption bie has been ready o show that ico cream might almost be manufictured without ice in a house using his ventilator. Comanche, the only living thing that es- caped the massacre on the Little Big Horr when Custer and his command wero annihi iated by the Sioux, died a few years after tho battle, and was stuffed by order of the government. He is now to be seen at the Kansas state building at the World's fair, having been loaned to the state by the na- tional government. Comanche was the horse of gallant Captain Keogh, who was killed with his chief at the “last rally.” The Lorso was wounded in the battle, and his 1ifo was with dificulty preser Reno's men cared for him as though he had been huinan, and after bis recovery he was sent w Fort Lincoin, from which point he was sent to Fort Meade. Later he was traus. ferred 1o Fort Riley, Kan., where he passed Dis lattor days in peace, dying of old age when he had rounded out the ripe term of 8i years. Captain Keogh was the last man Who rode Comancne. ‘Vhe dignity of a gen- eral order was iuvoked to save the horse from the indiguity of serving in the rauks. PEOPLE AND THINGS, The Ohlo democratic convention moets next week, when proliminary arrangoments will be made for the fall fanéral Aftor a serios of riotous grabs the political financiers of San Franclsco are wrestling with a blooming deficit f £394,724. Newspapers aro tho mercury of local con- dittons, Contraction is v in Denver papers to tho extent of several columbs. 1t is a dreary day in Colorado that does not fabricate a curc-ail for the silver debil ity. The gold cure Is invariably excluded As the Chicago convention is an_enlarged repraduction of Donver's gory gathoring, it | 18 presumed the delegates are right in the swim. Gieorgia insists on a more genorous siic federal pio and_has forwarded a car ormelons to Washington to expodite the distribution For tho information of all concerned it should be stated that the Nebraskan who indulged m a threo wecks sloop contracted the tired feeling while reading small editorials in the Kansas Clty Time The agility acquired in answering tho calls for more copy and making the pay roll harmonize with the income of the St. Paul Globe, enables Ministor Baker to ocasily dodge the shots of successive revolutions in Nicaragua. Eunui has o place in his gym ¢ vocabulary. Mr. Crawford, tho Amorican consul at St Patorsburg, is proparing a work so massive that the imagination weakons before it. It is to bo issucd in five big volumes, the first of which is neavly ready. 1t is a translation of anoficial report on “The Industries of Russia.” Mr. Crawford is assistod by a large force of translators, Almery Hazelton made his appoarance at Westbrook, Me., the other day after an ab sence of forty-two yoars. He ram nway to sea whon a boy of 18, and was long since givenup for dead. As o sailor he visited evory quarter of tho wlobe and aftorward botook himself to mining. Ho was working in Utah when the impulse seized him to come home and sce the folks, or the few who were left of them. Somdetch Phra Paraminda Maha Chula- lonkorn Patindir Debia Maha Mongkut Purusiaratue Raja Ra Wongse \ Mabrongse Parabut Warakhattiara Raja Nikaro Tama Chaturanta Parama Ma Chak Rubar Tira Gasangkas Parumadharm Mikas Maha Rujad Hiraja Para Manarth Pabite Phra Chula Chomklau Chan Yu Hun is tho full name of tho king of Siam. 1f Franco has annexed a slico of it in connoc tion with the land grab, the world will ap plaud its heroic stand for civilization. Charley Colling dead! The announce- ment will be received with sincere regret by all the older newspaper men in ‘the Mis- souri valley, A more genorous soul wever winged its flight to its maker. A brighter, Dbrainicr or nore companionablo man could hardly be found in the rosterof westorn journalists. His make-up wasa bundle of electrie nerves with an are light on top. 1fe personified hustle, and was impatient of - lay in reachiog the goal he sought. Work ing as he did under high pressure, his safety- valve gave way frequontly. Forthis he was considered erratic. [t was rathor a yearn- ing fora broader sphero than was within his grasp. Whatever his faults, they were tritles compared with his boundless sympa- thies and " lavish gen npred by ¢ hoart as warmand un: throbbed in human frame. Peaco to his spirit! (LRI NEBEASKA AND NEBRASKANS. The division of Knox county 1s still being agit&ted. Mock, ecitor of the Alma Record, has left town and tio plant of his papor has been seizod. Aden, for cighteen er county, died Hebron of old age. The Holt County Soldiers and Sailors as- sociation will hold its annual reunion at Ewing August 22, 23, 24 and 25. Several lodges of the “Ancient Ovder of United Workmen in the Elichorn valley will hold a picnic at Ewing on August The Christian church at_Du Bois will bo formally dedicated next Sunday. Roev. H. C. Henry of Lincola will conduct the exer: ciscs. X Jay Smith is now tho editor and publisher of the McPherson County News, published at Tryon, and D. P. Wilcox, the founder of the paper, has gone to Lincoln. Peter Sharp is languishing in jail at Teka- mah for selling beer. without a liconso at Bancroft, Six kegs of beer fell into the sherifl’s hands at the' same time Sharp did. While little Helen Gould of York was playing with hendather on a bed sho fell theough screen and out of an open window to the ground, Lreaking one arm In two pla A young man named Barbor, a Burt eounty rmer, tried to carey a gun whilo riding on mower and mado”a failure of it. ‘The charge took effact in his side, producing a fatal wound. years a residont at her home in e Backhandod Work of the T Grand Island Independent. The Nebraska railroads acted as if they were ready to comply with the maximum rate law, preparing new tariffs, ote. But all this seems to have been only a’ feint. Tho oicers of tho roads and the complaining stockholders, of course, uct together with full understanding in order to protect the ofticers from the heavy fincs of the law, and in order to takethe decision away from the Nebraska courts and throw it into the federal courts. The question of the constitutionality of the law]will certamly bo taken up to tho United St > court, in this way delaying the carrying out of the law, nds, THE LOOTING OF STAM, Buffalo Express: Incidentally, the present French government has dona a great stroke of campnign business which will count in the August clections. Globe-Democrat: The glory that France has gained in the Siamese mattor is very much like that which a bully achieves by intimidating a cripple. Kansas City Journal: France is disap- pointed. Siam's unconditional yiolding to all hor hoggish demands has left no sem- blance of excuso for w Chicago Rocord: In the main the bold stroko of the French government has boen euccosstul, and a republic which is littled is- posed to colonizo foreign territory has ac quired new rights, How loug will it rest content with its new possessions? is Tribuno: For a small ropube. s doing quite well in the Iand- abbing business, and is apparently just wotting fairly undor way. Sho fs sald to be looking with covetous eyes upon Egypt and Morocco and is pushing forward steadily in tho Congo region and Dahome; New York Tribunc: Hencoforth the name of Siam will havoonly a historical signifi- canco. But it is ah unsurpassod bit of the irony of fato that tho wisest and bost of Asiatic rulers should find his own and his country’s destruction at the hands of that very civilizition which he has so assiduously cultivatod Cincinnatl Commorcial: o poor little Stam has had to back down and give in, and tho Erench Jingoists have won a bloodless which they can appeal to the ns of tho voters at the noxt general fon. The French flovement was dra tic enough. Siam could not resist tho ree prosented by Fr and--willy nilly, right or wrong—submitted to the demands of tho French jingoists. Chicago nes: Kngland is probably sorely disappointed that Siam gave in_to I'rance before she was roady to stiek her nose into the quarrel. The United States is tho roal suferer by the failuro of a war, though: for the United States would have been callod upon to fead all the combatants and the majority of the stay-at-homes as woll, Which she is propared to do at so much per head without limitation as to num- bers or prejudice as to principles. Boston Courler: During t son the housewite reaiizes of the occupation 15 W prese ton: Jolinnie Papa, pi—1 don't know, are despots hapoy? Ask the hived girl Puiladelphia Rocord . been up i the Allechenlos, and now she's oft for the Kuntorskills” observed Wiegs. *Ab, hin, sl Wagigs, “off for other climbs, eh?™ “Mias Blinkor has Tndannapolls Journal: “Aln't you workin' now, Jim “Naw. [ thankeda passonzor #ho handod me s faro the other day, and a blamed spot- tor on bonrd atlowed from that that T was tak- Ing tho fare fer my own use.” Goggins sent mo @ suake preserved nkloy containing a bottlo in Grimes—Think he meant to insult you? Tankley--1 don't know, but 1 cortainly do not appreeiate the g1EE o the spielt in which 1 was tendered Tritune: Fweddy—-Miss Walkah W sweeablo compliment st night. Cholly—What was it, deali hoy? Fweddy -1 ahsiod hee i she” would dawnes with me, and sho suld sho lked Ohleago patd m Dotroit Freo T ot O When are you gol pay this b i “])uyh:‘ur n-x-' What's the use? Aslongas you are coming aftor it why should 1be golug Puck: Clork—Now theso shoos havo mproved shos ed not to untiod Tair custon Kind in too tho some or (In haste) Ao ry thrifty American citi adbents on s buck. Oh, put the old Dallas Ne zon has Livo Trath: “Why do_ you news Inter O Jennio—Don't you on ¥ Sweetlook's pop eyes spoll her think beauty? Toui liss Noj It's her lee croam mouth docs it. D THORNS. Kansas ity Journal How pleasant, these warm sumuior days, To it boneith the shade Of spreading trees out in the park, With some sweot sumnmer mids To rest upon the cool, ereon grass And talk of love's delizhts, 1 le awake at night for hours And serareh the chigzor bites, THE FOOL KILLER'S APOLOGY. Washington Star, 'r by tho wave And watch the man who rocks the boat; ny ways I'm occupied “Asany out may surely note. I have to 11 my duty to observe T o b Mho thinies bt would bo fun o point it somo ill-fated frie That didn’t-know-"twas-loaded gun. oto the youth Who fs Wwitl do for him Except to seck the sho; 1 800 How far from safety ho can swin. Ttdsmy t The man who leaps from dizy helghts, A b whoso Joy his pon s wreckod, Are good okl custoners of mine Whioso dolngs I miy not ne; And this is why, ood peoplo all, T idle seem, whon such o flood Of words aro Toosed on anirchy And bridles thatare dipped in blood. BROWNING, KING Largest Manutacturars anl Rovallors ol Clothing ln tho World. It's Funny How people will rise up and slay the umpire, s A s ] andit is just as funny how people will wail till the last of July to buy asummer suit— May be they don’t—may be they buy a suit somewhere and it wears out before July. = They don't get it here. At finy rate we have had quite a run on our summer suits in the past, probably on account of the phe- nominally low prices. We never carry over any suits, even if we do sacrifice on them. We are also making some extracrdinary priceson straw hats to close out the few we have left. stiff hat for $1.50. BROWNING, Store open every evenlug till 6.3 Saturday vl 10. A $2.50 brown KING & €O, |8, W, Cor. 16t1 and Douglas Sts. G e Teer—