Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1894, Page 6

[ DECIDED IN SUPREME COURT Lake Front Oase Hettled in Favor of the | Illinois Central Railroad, CASE OF STEAMER HAYTIEN REPUBLIC | Pacitie Kailrond Loses Its Case to Title to Many Tho of Mineral Northern and Claim 5 of L Acres 1% in Mo . The supreme for this term its declsions ng for the sum- WASHINGTON court finished its yesterday and announced many cases before adjon mer vacatfon, One of the attorneys within the bar was Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, who w walting the decision upon her applica- tion for a writ to compel the court of peals of Virginia to admit her to practice before it @ Mrs. Lockwood wag disappointed in her at- tempt to obtain leave to file a petition for a writ to compel the court of appeals of Vir- | ginia to admit her to at its bar. Chief Justice Fuller said ft was within th right of the Virginia court to decide whether the word “‘person’ In its rules referred to a woman, and conclnded with “‘application denfed.” May on practice ILLINOIS CENTRAL WINS. The case of the United States, appellant, against the Illinols Central rallroad, is one of the so-called Lake front cases in Chicago. The one decided today involved a plece of Jand which the United States had ceded to the state of Iilinols, und which Illinois had ceded to the Illinols Central. The state’ right to do this was Involved in the case, decision being delivered by Justice Field. The decision {s against the United St the judgment of the lower court being afirmed. Justices Brewer and Brown dis- gented, The chief justice having been of counsel In the court below took no part in the case in this court. The public ground of the plat of the Fort Dearborn addition to Chicago, on which the Nlinois Central station 18 located, 18 the property involved. — The government's contention was that it had been the owner of the land in question and had dedicated it to a public purpose, and that it could not be diverted from this stipu- Jated purpose. The land In 1804 was a mili- tary post. The point involved was that it was reserved from sale for military pur- poses and was used for military purposes until 1837. It was then laid off into an ad- dition under direction of the secretary of war, The plat contained the words: Public ground forever to remain vacant of buildings.” But soon after 1845 all lots were old by the United States, “by and according to sald plat.”. The court hoids that the in- terest of the United States in the strects, alleys, ways and commons and land intended for other public uses in this plat may have continued so long as it held title to adjoin- ing lots, but not afterwards without dis- regard of the statutory regulations of the state under which the government had sold the adjoining property. The decision reads: “The interest in and the control of the United States over the streets, alleys and commons ceased with the record of the plat and that of the adjoining lots. Their inter- est pasted, and the lots sold to the respec- tive vendees, subject to the jurisdiction of the local government, and the control of the streets, alleys and grounds passed by express designation of the state law to the corporate authorities of the city.” NORTHERN PACIFIC CASES, One decision of much importance was that of Richard V. Barden and others against the Northern Pacific Rallway company. As a test case it involves the title to many thousands of acres of mineral lands along the Northern Pacific railroad, principally in the state of Montana and included within the land grants to the road from the govern- ment under the act of July 2, 1864. Under the terms of this act mineral lands were excluded from the terms of the grant. Mineral finds of gold ‘and silver were dis- covered on some of the lands after the rail road had taken possession and suits over the title ensued. The question at issue was whether the language of the act meant that lands known to be mineral when the grant was made were subject to Its actions, or whether subsequent discoveries that the Jands were mineral in character would de- prive the company of any title to such lands. The land grants included alternate odd num- bered scctions for a width of forty miles along the road line, embracing in all 80,000 square miles. In the Barden case the cir- cuit court of the district of Montana de- cided In favor of the railroad, the lower court favoring the claimant and the circult court overruling it. Justice Ficld delivered the opinion of the court today, asserting a want of knowledge at the time of the grant of the land reserved would mot give title to such lands, and that it would not be claimed the government had not the right to pre- serve parts of public lands in making grants thereof. The original exception of mineral Jands was without qualification, and it seemed plain as words could make it that mineral iands known and unknown were specifically reserved to the United States. It was difficult to see on what principle the word “known” could be inserted into the act of congress. The territory was known 10 embrace great quantities of minerals, in- cluding gold and silver, and in all grants of lands to railways, mineral lands, except coal and Iron, were excepted and such grants were never known to pass title to minerals. It was impossible at the time of the grant for congress to know what lands contained minerals particularly, considering the condi- tion of the territory. The United States could not have meant in such an hour of distress to its finances to give away the title to such imperial wealth, but left discovery of minerals to future explorations. It was a certain rule of grants that nothing was conveyed by implication except what was absolutely essential to the enjoyment of the grants. *“There is, in our opinion, no force in the claims advanced by the plaintifi’’ (the raillway company), said the justice, and he added that the fact that the lands had been listed at the land office in 1868 had no bind- ing force. The purposes of a government would be frustrated if by implication it could be deprived of essential powers by privileged corporations, The powers of the land office in deciding questions of title were discussed and several authorities from the supreme court and the Interior department clted, among them an assertion by Secretary Lamar when at the head of the department, that patents had always been refused rail- ways to land upon which mineral had been discovered prior to the applic for a patent. In conclusion the justice anuvtnced that the decision of the ecircuit court was reversed and the cause remanded, With directions to grant the defendants (Barden and others) demurrers. Justices Brewer, Gray and Shiras dissented from the opinfon. In the case of Primrose against the West- ern Unfon Telegraph company Justice Gray reofirmed the principle that a telegraph ecmpany was not subject to damages for a mistake in a cipher dispatch transmitted on a blank containing provisions absolving the company frcm damages. Justice Harlan announced the decision of the court afirming the decision of the Call- fornla courts in the conviction of Thomas £t, Clair of murdering the mate of the ship Hesper while on the high seas. STEAMSHIP HAYTIEN REPUBLIC, The case of the United States against the stcamship Haytien Republic, which was libeled first in the district of Washington and later in the district of Oregon, for smuggling oplum, was decided in favor of the government. It was contended by the steamship owners that since the vessel had been libeled in Washington and was re- leased under bond for its value it could not b3 again libeled while the first case was pending. They also claimed that second tharges involying the same nature of of- fense as the first were practically the same offenses in the matter of libeling the vessel, Justice White gave the opinion. SECRETARY GRESHAM REVERSED, Probably the most interesting decision was one involving the standing of (he Interstate * Qommerce commission, In which the court overruled a decizion by the present secre- tary of state, Justices Fullel Brewer and Juckson dissenting. The appeal brought up for review a judgment rendered December 7, 1892, by the United States circuit court for the northern district of Illinols in the case of the commission against Willlam Brinson, J. §. Keefe and W. Sterling, de- claring section 12 of the interstate com- tion merce act to be unconatitut'onal. The par ties named, officers of u railroad company appeared as witness bufore the commlission were ordered to produce their book:, fused to do so_under advic th rigsion appealed to the ecourt to compel *hem. Judge Gresham decided that “so much of wection 12 as authorizes or re- quirea the courts to use their process in aid of Inquiries before the Interstate Commerce commislon I8 unconstitutional and vold.” Justice Havlan discussed at length the scope and purpose the act, The judicial power of the United States, he said, extends to all cases arising under the constitutic or laws of the United States, and the eireuit courts of the United States are capable of exer. cl:ing the power In cagex of that character under restrictions prescribed by congress. The fundamental question he held to b whether the proceeding was a “‘ease’” within the meaning of the constitution. The cir- cuit court had adjudged it to be not such a “cage.’ The ocourt below had held that it the act prescribed a penalty for refusal to testify, such proceediug would consti- tute a case, while a civil proceeding author- jzed by congress to compel a witness to teatity would not be a case of which cog nizance would be taken by any court “This Interpretation of the constitution would restrict employment of means to carry into effect powers granted to congr within much narrower limits than in our judgment is warranted by the instrument,” sald Jus- tice Harlan. “The test of the power of congress the judgment of courts that partienlar means were not the best that could have been employed, but whether the means are unconstitutional. There s no doubt of the power of congress to authorize the commission to summon persons and papers regarding any matter which might be legally committed to that body for in- vestigation. The appellees denied the right of the government to make them testify, and power to decide the dispute must rest somewhere. [t could not be that the government was helpless in such an emer- genc JGAR TRUST INVESTIGATION, ckran Denles that He thing of the Subject. May ~The senate Sugar trust Investigation committee was in yesterday with the intention of de- voiing its time exclusively, as long as should be necessary, to the question which has sised by the refusal of the newspaper correspondents, Edwards, Schriever and Walker, to answer questions as to who gave tlhem certain information printed in their dispatehe Bourke Cockran appeared before the com- mittee and denled that he nad ever said or known anything of the subject which the con mittee was investigating or that he had ever given any person the impression that ha was possessed of such Information. After hearing Mr. Cockran the committee ad- Jjourned until Monday without reaching a decision on the course to be pursued toward the recalcitrant witnesses. Bourke € iver Sald session been WEST Veterans of the Late War Rem the General Governme: WASHINGTON, May 27.—(Special to The Bee.)-Pensions granted, issue of May 12, wer Towa: Original-George Grothe, Avoca, Pottawattamie. Reissue—John D, Morris, decease: Magnolia, Harrison, Original Widows, Ite.—~Hannah E. Morris, Magnolia, Harrison. Mexican War Survivor ~Increase, James Mayne, Clinton, Clinton; John R. Justus, McGregor, Clayton, Colorado: Reissue—William (. Hawley, Fort - Collins, Larimer. Reissue and In- crease—Charies W. Crane, Lamar, Bent. Mexican War Survivor—Increase—Isliathah 8. Gale, Pueblo, Pueblo. North' Dakota: Original-Harvey Stowel, Fullerton, Dicke Issue of May i4 William H. Lindsay, son W. Cooper Widows. Itc. ham, Gage. Iowa: Restoration and Reis: W. Miller, Vandalia, Jasper. Increase Allen, Ottumwa, Wapello; Thomas E. Miner, Nashua, Chickasaw; Willlam C. Starford, Avoca, Pottawattamie, Reissue—Willlam A Lyon,” Chester, Howard; Alvin H. Chase, Redfield, Dallas. Orfelnal Widows, ete Hannah' Straub, Dubuque, Dubuque. South Dakota: Increaze—James I3. Beck, Miller, Hand, Colorado: Renewal- Nebraska: Flba, Howa David City, Butler. Original umes Jerroms (father), 1 Increase - Henry 1. Allen, Den- ver, Arapahoe. Inorease—Robert L. Rohm, Cripple Creek, Bl Paso. Original Widows Ite.—Relssue-—Mary J." Blackstone, Colo* rado Springs, 121 Paso. Issue of May 15: Nebraska: James Coulter Hudson, Camp Clark enne. Original Widows, Bte.—Margaret A. Lunbeck, Rushville, Sllrrhllm. South Dakota: Original: William_ Wall, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, Increase—Robert . Warner, Watertown, Codington. Reissue —Charles . McNeal, Madison, Lake. Towa: Original—Michael Ryan, Sumner, Bremer. Additional--James Anderson, Shel dahl, Polk. Orlginal Widows, ISte.—Minors of Samuel Cavender, Des Moines, T'olk. Colorado: — Original—Stanton Hook, Den Arapahoe. Additional—Phineas B. Rey- nolds, Holyoke, Phillips. Reissue and In- crease—Ralph L. Walton, Monarch, Chaffee. Original Widows, Ete—Laura D. Wells, Denver, Arapahoe. LUCAS AND THE NAVAL CADETSHIPS, South Dakota Congressman Explains How His Appointments Went Astray. WASHINGTON, May 27.—(Special to The Bee)—"1 am surprised,” says Congressman Lucas of South Dakota,” that the Sioux Falls democratic paper should continually misrepresent me concerning that cadetship to the Annapolis naval academy. I recom- mended the appointment of Edward Clough of Deadwood, with Willle Brennan of Her- mosa as alternate. Willle Brennan failed to appear for examination, because he was ad- vised by his friends that he could not puss the examination for scholarly efliciency, Young Mr. Clough went to Annapolis and passed the mental examination all right, but failed to pass the physical examination. When notified of the result I went to An- napolis and used every effort to induce the examiners to puss Mr. Clough and accept him, but they would not do so. The time had’ expired, ‘within two or three days, for the appointment of a cadet, and the secre- tary of the navy notified me that unless 1 recomemnded some one at once he would make the appointment without my recom- mendation. 1t was impossible to prevent immediate’ action in the case, and it was ible for anybody from Dakota to get the place, 1 did not want to lose my entire privilege in the matter of this_appointment, so 1 recommended the appointment of a'son of Commander Hous- ton of the navy. I did my whole duty in recommending two Dakota boys, and it was not my fault that neither of ‘them could pass the examination. The Sloux Falls editor knows these facts, and, in all fair- ness and common courtesy, he ought to publish only the facts und not represent me as giving away positions which belong to Dakota boys to outsiders.” NEWS FOR THE ARMY. nlistod Men Discharged by Order of the Secrolary of War. WASHINGTON, May 27.—(Special Tele- gram to The Bee)—Hy direction of the assistant secretary of war, Sergeant John J. Boniface, jr, and Private Michael De- laney, troop K, Sixth cavalry, Fort Nio- brara, and Private Brnest L. Rogers, com- pany H, Seventeenth Infantry, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., will be discharged from the service of the United States on receipt of this order by the commanding officer of thelr respective stations. Private Charles Parker, hospital corps, now at Fort Bayard, N, M., is transferred to Fort Robinson, Neb., Sergeant Blbert Williams, band, Ninth cavalry, now at t Robinson, 'Neb., s transferred as a private to the band, Twenty-fifth infantry, and ‘will be sent fo the station of that band at Fort Missoula, Mont. 8o much of paragraph 6, special orders No. 117, May 18, 189, from thix office as re- lates to Private John B. Reld, company 1, Second infantry, I8 revoked, By direction” of the assistant of war, Private George W pany A, Second infantry having enlisted under false be discharged without honor from the service of the United States upon receipt of this order by the commanding officer of his station. Tariff BUL WIL Pass in Threo Weoks. WASHINGTON, May 27.—H. H. Evans, tho treasury statisticlan, who has performed all the statistical work for the finance com- mittee of the senate and of the ways and means committee of the house for the past twenty years, and who has kept close track of tariff legislation, expresses the opinion that the panding tarlft bill will pass the sen- ate about the 15th of June. el B ST We could not improve the quality It we pald double the price. DeWiit's Witch Hazel Salve Is the best salve that experience can produce, or that money can buy. secretary Goodwin, com- Fort Omaha, pretenses, will of counsel, and | THE OMA “ A - WHEN THE NEW TARIFF COMES is Whelly Removed, GORMAN AND HILL HELP OUT SOME Declarat oni and Test Vots in the Senate Serve to Relieve the Uncertainty and Give tie De f e ntry Sometiing to Go On, ers NEW YORK, May 27.—Henry Clews, head of the banking house of Henry Clews & Co., writes of the situation in Wall street: “Affairs in Wall street have shown little change during the past week. There have been no new happenings to vary the course of events, and transactions have been con- fined principally to the ‘industrials’ in- fluenced by the chances and rumors of tarift legislation, with small skirmishing opera- tions by the bear room traders. So far as respects the general situation there has been distinet change. Prices have shown some recovery from the slight declines of the previons week, and, taken as a whole, the market indipates no departure from the settled disposition of the larger holders to cling to thelr stocks until final action on the tariff relicves the general stagnancy of business “Fortunately, there is at last some definite reason to hope for a comparatively early end to the partisan dickering which has so long Kkept tariff legislation in suspense. The declarations of Mr. Gorman in the senate on Wednesday and the result of the test vote on Mr. Teller's motion to table the bill show that the democratic senators have at last reached an agreement which will enable them to pass the measure by a fair majority. If the representations published are correct as to the extent of the changes made in the bill from its house form, there would seem to be little or no well grounded reason for doubt about an agreement being reached in joint conference between the two hous The agreement, too, will probably be found to contain some welcome concessions to im- portant industries, and to that extent the new tariff will be less threatening to manu- facturers than has been feared. “Thus, one of the great uncertainties of the sftuation may be considered as having been settled. It is now as sure as anything in the future can be that we are to have no a new tariff. That clears the way to some further immediate resumption of business, for, in respect to a wide range of articles, it is already approximately known what the changes in duties will be; and manufac- turers and importers can incur little risk from uncertainties in such cases, but may proceed forthwith to such operations as the state of the markets may seem to justify, in_anticipation of the final enactment of the bill. This means quite an important extent of rellef from the prevailing suspense; those interests, however, upon which rates of duty must remain undetermined until the two houses have reached =i agreement seem doomed to the tortures of another month on the factional gridiron. ‘At present, tlen, it seems safe to assume that by the 1st of July the country will know exactly the condition upon which its manufacturing and importing operations will have to be conducted. The now reduced interval of suspense can be endured, but after that will come a process of readjust- ment under those conditions. The extent of pressure to be endured under that phase will depend principally upon the spirit shown by labor toward employers. If work- men assume that they can exact the old rates of wages and at the same time benefit by the lower prices necessitated by dimin- ished dutles, they will simply necessitate a struggle by which the industries will be crippled and trade subjected to continued depression, while the men themselves will have to suffer from idleness until they con- cede to the necessitles growing out of the new situation. Unfortunately, the trades unfons are showing too much disposition to pursue this selfish and impossible polley. But, on the other hand, they are fortunately taking this attitude when their labor can be most easily dispensed with, and it is, there- fore, likely that, by the time when manu- facturing will have begun to recover, they will better recognize the sacrifices that fairly and inevitably fall upon them in com- mon with employers. The probabilities, therefore, seem to admit of a reasonable hope that the resistance to a revival of business arising from the wage earning in- terest will riot prove seriously embarrassing to the coming industrial revival. “The one great check to the recovery In mercantile circles is the uncertainty as to the future course of prices. The effect of that doubt is to cause traders to buy in the smallest possible quantities and to keep the smallest possible stocks. And this process broduces disappointment at the apparent smallness of transactions—a feeling, how- ever, which is not fully warranted if com- parisons are made on month's totals in- Stead of individual parcels. When this dis- trust of values ceases—as it must when the new duties come into operation—one very important cause of the prevailing depres- ston will disappear.” COTTON SEED OIL. Great Strides Made by a Comparatively New Industry. A history of the cotton seed oil industry of the south is one of the principal features of the Maufacturers Record of Baltimore this week, from which the following Is an extract: “In 1880 there were forty cotton seed mills, with an aggregate capital of $3,600,- 000. There are now 300 mills, having a com- bined capital of about $30,000,000. At pres- ent about 1,500,000 tons of seed are annually used by the mills, ylelding to the farmers about $18,000,000 a year for a product which, until recently, was regarded as waste ma- terial. The total output is about 1,500,000 barrels, or 60,000,000 gallons of oil, 500,000 tons of cotton seed meal, 750,000 tons of hulls and 30,000,000 pounds of linters, the aggregate value of which will average about $30,000,000. The demand for oil is steadily oxpanding, and as only about one-third of the total cotton seed crop I8 now consumed by the mills, there I3 practically un limited room for the growth of this busi- ness. Ten years ago the hulls were burned by the mills as a fuel, as no other use could be found for them. Investigation proved that they made excellent fodder, and last year about 400,000 head of cattle’ were fat- tened for the market on cotton seed hulls, while 100,000 milch cows were fed on the same material Much of the cotton oil is consumed In the shape of salad oil, the article making an ex- cellent substitute’ for olive ofl. Purchasing the salad oil that bears foreign labels will not always insure the consumer against being decelved, as large quantities of the cotton oil are annually exported to Italy and France, there to be mixed with olive ofl and labeied as the pure product. The low prices ruling in Europe for re- fined sugar have prompted discussion of the matter by trade journals of repute. These journals, according to the report of the New York Bulletin, are outspoken in the statement that supplies of raw material are extremely heayy. They also advise that distribuiers purchase carefully, since past experience and present prospects in- Qicate that they have more to gain than to lose by going slow. Significance is at- tacked to the fact that the supply in sight at t(he beginning of the month of May was no less than 1,757,000 tons, despite the low prices that have ruled and the consequent incentive to heavier consumption. A year previous the visible supply was reckoned at 1,425,000 tons. On the face of the returns an increase of 332,000 tons would appear to have taken place in & twelvemonth, and the total is shown to have been above the aver- age for the corresponding period of the pre- ceding four years by about 279,000 tons. Beaides thiy, some emphasis Is laid upon the fact that values have ruled lower and the trade is advised not to buy except as Im- perative wants dictate. One writer serts, after due allowance for low pric ete., that it is only on rare occasions that buying largely for forward delivery turns out satisfactorily to the parties who have finally to receive the sugar'' ~The same writer also remarks that “if the proceed Business Will Be Bettar After the Pressure | DAILY BEE: MONI JAY, irgs of dsalers In and the Importers of for- elgn refined sugar, which have been going on within the )gst six or elght months, were fully knowdl it would be convineingly preved that the severe and almost alarming monetary los. hidd Leen sustained by those speculative Indisgms who have been so misled a8 to go x irchasing sugar in an- ticipation of requiféhlents. which have never come to relevethem of the burdensome and unsold sugers gthey have on hand That some of tAdiKurdesome sugars have been diverted from Buropean to American markets §s a siiiple matter of record, and that some of théigeods have been sold at ry low figures f& also an established fact It would not reqilire very great investiga- tion to produce facts going to show that American distributers have had quite as unpleasant experfence as those of Europe fa ultimate returns from stock purchased ahead. In view.of that fact the advice to foreign trade, as given in the extract qioted, would sedtn to be deserving of some attention by Ameriean jobbers, OMAHA LIVE STOCK MARKETS, Recelpts for the Week Considerably Ahead f Laxt Week and Last Year, SATURDAY, May 26. Receipts of all kinds of stock show a sub- stantial increase over last week and the cor- responding week one and two years ago. The figures are as follows Cattle, ¥ Dts this weel.... 16,614 49 Dts last week.... 4,945 41 4,501 Same week last year.. 14,700 2415 Bame week 1892...,.,., 13,482 2,507 There have been no very violent fluctua- tons in the cattle market the past week During the first three days prices dropped gradually under the influence of unusually heavy receipts, Wednesday's market was 15¢ to 20c lower than the close of last week. Since then, however, prices have firmed up on account of reduced supplies and the de- cline of the early part of the week was en- tirely regained. On the whole, however, prices have ruled lower than for the previous week and general conditions are about as unfavorable as they have been at any time. The market ucross the water is in bad shape, and strikes, lockouts and numberless in- dustrial troubles have demoralized business at home, seriously reducing the consumption of meat. The dressed meat men have their coolers full and find it dificult to sccure a market for thefr product, while shiopers and exporters are naturally doing very ittle. The market today was very nearly steady. Receipts were fair and the quality was abont up to the average. Drossed beef men were wanting some cattle, but outside buyers were indifferent and in many cases bearfsh. The handy fat grades of steers moved readily at about Friday's figures, while the usual diss crimination on the part of buyers against heavy cattle made it difficult to work off anything weighing over 1,200 1bs., unless it was good, at rather shaded pric There was nothing in the situation to induce sell-rs to hold on and a very fair clearance was eftected before noon. The cow market has been monotonously steady all week. Offer- ings have been comparatively limited and good fat stock has commanded strong prices, while the common and canning grades have ruled slow and weak. Today's supply was rather larger proportionately than usual and the spread in values was widened, the best grades selling stronger up to $3.85 and com- moner and canning grades weaker down to $1.25. Veal calves sold at steady to stronger prices and heavy calves and yearlings ruled slow and easier. Bulls, oxen and stags were in very falr demand at just about steady prices. Dry weather trade, Increasing time reducing th ogs, Sheep s alemoralized the feeder é gupply and at the same déiand. Supplies have been accumulatifig ‘fff the yards In specu- lators' hands and|plices have suffered a decline of anywhere. from 30c to 60c. In fact it is hard to find,a buyer at any price. This decline has Yackd feeders more in line with the way fat cattle are selling, but this fact affords little {gducement to feeders whose pastures are dried up or drying up fast. A good rain would help this branch of the business amazingly. Good to choice feeders are quoted dt $3.00@3.30, fair to good at $2.75@3.00, and the commoner grades at from $2.75 down, The_ arrivals of, hogs for the past week have been on anffusually liberal scale, ex- hibiting a8 marked jngrease over this time last year of nearly 100 per cent. The quality has been generally good, with the average welght somewhat lighter than recently. The week's supply runs pretty close to 50,000 head, the heaviest week's run in over a year. Naturally, with such excessive re- ceipts, prices bave ruled lower, although there has been a good general demand right along. The consumptive demand, however, owing to dull times and the hot weather, has not improved any, and so it has been a comparatively easy matter for packers to force lower prices.” All classes of buyers are still_exhibiting a preference for butcher welght and heavy grades, but not enough to cause much of a range of values, the spread scarcely ever exceeding 5c or 10c. During the first half of the week prices went off 10c to 16c, but later part of this was regained on more favorable news from Chicago, and today's decline puts prices back bc to 10c under last Saturday’s quotations, a compar- atively insignificant decline in view of the excessive supply. Recelpts today were the heaviest since April 12, when, by a coincidence, exactly the same number were received as were here today. A bearish feeling prevailed, and sell- ers were all prepared for lower prices There was not a very vigorous shipping and speculative demand, but local packers were ready to buy freely at a 10c decline. Fair to good hogs, regardless of welght, sold largely at $4.60, with some of the better butcher weight and heavy loads at $4.65 and a $4.70 top, and poor, light, mixed stuff at $4.50 and $4.55. The close was weak, but the pens were cleared in pretty good season. On Friday most of the hogs brought $4.70, and on last Saturday the bulk of the trading was at $4.65 and $4.70. There was not by any means a heavy run of sheep today, but there were apparently more than the trade wanted. Supplies have been liberal all week both here and else- where, and prices have gradually declined, the drop for the week amounting to 15@=2ac. The demand today was of the most indiffer- ent character, and the trade quotably dull at the above decline. Fair to good natives are quotable at $3.50@4.40; fair to good west- . $3.20@4.30; common and stock sheep, $2.60@3.26; good to choice 40 to 100-1b. lambs at $3.50@4.66 Receipts und Dispasition of Stock. Ofeial receipts and disposition of Atock assnowa by the books of the Union Stook Yards company hours enalng at § o'clock p. m, RECEINTS. 008, C CATTL (HONNES & MLS Cars. | Hoad | Cara. | Head. Cars. |Head ¢ DINIOS THOGS. | [ s Omaha Packing Co The G. H. Hammond 0. Swift and company The Oudahy Packing 0o, John P. Sauire & Co.... Cudahy Bros. A. Huus J.'Lobman.. Barr & B L. Becker.. Shippers und fe Leftove § 2,040 Totals.... 10,612 Stogk in Sight. Record of receiptd of live stock at the four prineipal yurds for Sptarday, May 20, 1504 Cattle. 2,040 300 1,600 16,000 5000 400 8,200 4040 34,002 Australia’y Hpok Failures. Australia is & lng distance away, and it \s not customary for the newspapers to print extensive reports from there, says the Railway Times. Such reports as they have printed within the last elghteen mouths have been reports of business failures and finan- clal stress. In ordinary times these reports Would have attracted ‘world-wide attention from the very magnitude of the amounts involved, but they came at a period when Dboth this country and Europe were suffer- ing from financial ills of various kinds, and people read of Australia’s troubles with com- parative indifterence and inattention. They had enough to occupy thelr minds without golng to the antipodes, When one finds time, however, to look into the matter a little 'he is astounded by the magnitude of the losses, and wonders that the whole continent was not caught 100 2,459 MAY 23 1891, In the vertex and bankruptod. Just a few samples are enough for (llustration. In the veorganization of the binks which suspended the stockholders haye been called on to make good Impairment of capital to the extent of $30,670,674 This i& on eleven banks only. The largest loser, the Commercial of Aus- tralia, suffered an impairment of capita amounting to $8,150,700, and the smallest, the Royal Bank of Queensland, $912,060. CHICAGO GRAIN M Features of the Teading an on Saturdny. CHICAGO, May 26.—Wheat was weak to- day, closing 1c lower than yesterday. Free selling, fine weather, weak cables and lack of outside demand were responsible for the decline. Corn closed e lower and pro- visions slightly lower all around. Opening trades In wheat showed from e to Se decline, and, after selling up e reacted e, advanced from %e to %c, sold off about e, became steady and closed easy. The gencral tone was weak, notwith- standing bad crop ne There swas stoady liquidation by “longs” on stop loss orders and free selling by prominent local “bears.” St. Louls, which was credited with covering quite freely a few days since, was supposed to be putting out fresh lines today. Corn was easy within a e range. The fine weather and the action of wheat were factors in causing more liberal offering. Oats were weaker, but price changes for July were within ¢ limits. The weaknoss in wheat and corn, the weather and liberal receipts were the bear influences, Provisions were dull within a 5e range. Lower prices for live hogs and the break in wheat caused easiness, but the close showed but a slight decline. Compared with last night July pork is 2%c, July lard 2%e and July ribs Ge lower, Vessel rates firmer at 134c for corn and from 1%c to 1%c for oats to Buffalo and 2%e for corn to Kingston. The leading futures ranged as follow “Articles. | Open. | High, | Low. RKETS, Closing Prices 2 | -| oeM@ral no‘ | 07| | 874 74| ELL U 3 305 SapaEns bl Pork per bbi May.. . Lard. 100 Tvs| 70 675 610 6 10 6 10, Cash quotations were as follows: FLOUR—Winter strafghts, $2.40§2.0 patents, $2.80G3,00; by straights, ring patents, $3.1083. WHEA' spring, nominal CORN: OATS-No white, 33%@i6) RYE--No. BARI 4, 410! FLA TIMOTHY PROVISIO! 117214, L per ribs - sides (loose), shoulders (boxed), § (boxed), $6.021@6. §715. WHISKY—Distille 8115, The following were the receipts and snipmonts for toduy - wintor 02,60 nominal; No. 1, $1.33, Prime, pork, 3, 62@ i per bl 3685665715, Sh 5.15G6.1715; dry salted B@6.0; short clear sides $11.708 finished goods, per gal., |Receipts. Shipmicnts. 10.000 0.00 28,000 221.000 .00 Corn, Bu... . 85000 Onts.! bu.. 198,000 Rye.'bu 5.000 Barley, b 3 0 On the Produce exchange tods ket was steady and unchinred; 16¢c; dairy, 10@l4lge. Egg: changed; strictly fresh, 10@10/y the butter mar - ereamery, 14 steady wid un- California Frait Crop. According to the California Fruit Grower “the fruit crop of the state promises well, with the exception of prunes, which have been dropping badly. The apri- cot crop will prove the largest in years. The damage by frost in some districts will not be noticed In the general output. Peaches promise well. There is some talk about a short crop of raisins in the Selma, Fowler and Oleander districts, owing to cut’ worms eating the leaves from the vines. \Reliable estimates place the coming crop of 'prunes at five-elghths of last year's. The shortage will be the greatest in the Santa Clara valley, where the bulk of the prunes are produced at present.”” This is not a very alarming condition of affairs, but some of the coast journals, it is noticed, summarize the situation In a rather different manner, and from some of these outlines it might be presumed that the crop generally will be short. A an illustration in this connection, the following from an editorial article in the Herald of Trade is interesting: ‘“So far this season the weather has been warm to hot and sultry, with an almost total absence of molsture in the air. The result of the unfavorable conditions this year has been to make peaches, apricots and prunes drop heayily in the dry sections where irri- gation was not available. Aside from the lack of moisture there were heavy frosts in some sections, which did great damage in the more advanced orchards of apricots, Cherries have not suffered with the other fruits, but the crop of berries in many localities will be short. There can be no question but that the average yield to the tree of apricots, peaches, prunes and pears will be considerably below that of 1893, but an increase this year in the number of prune trees that will bear will probably more than oftset any falling off of the average yield Troduce Pointers. Good tomatoes have been far from plenty Quring the past week. Some arrive too green and others are too ripe. The Arkansas berry crop was ruined by too much rain and now Missourl is getting it just at the time when her berry crop Is ripening. The strawberry crop has been very unfortunate this season. “Wire me the tomato market daily so I can keep posted and let my paper have it to print, as they are anxious for good mar- ket reports,” writes a Mississippi tomato shipper to a local commission house. While potatoes in this market are so plenty as to keep prices down, New York is complaining of a scarcity. The old po- tato crop appears to have been exhausted and European potatoes are being brought In to make up the deficiency. The produce commission men of Omaha have decided to make one more attempt to close up thelr places of business on Satur- day afternoons. All but three houses have signed an agreement to do o, but it re- mains to be seen how long the agreement will hold good. The Detroit Board of Health is worried over the quantity of decayed fruit that Is being shipped to that market. The secre- tary has written Omaha commission houses to state if it is a fact that Detroft Is get- ting more spoiled fruit than other markets, As none of the Omaha commizsion men have been in Detroit lately it is not likely that they will be able to answer the question. A good deal has been sald about com- mission firms sending out quotations higher than the market. A letter has just came to hand which was sent out to a country shipper by @ local commission house. In this letter eggs were quoted at 10c per dozen, ulthough the market at that time was only Sc. Was the commission man ignorant of the market or did he intend to deceive the shipper? Milwankee Grain varket. MILWAUKER, May 2.~ FLOUR--Weak WHIEAT - Weuk and Tow spring No. 1 north Wi CORN-Quiet and lowe: OATS--Lower; No. 4 white 30 GTc HARL RYE we Flour, 2,600 b HHIPMENTS-Flour bu. 7488 bbls.; barle TON Markets. 26, Natlonal Transit cer shipments, Transit highest 1 Pa., M certificates opened at 86X 875 lowest, $6% Sugar NEW YORK, May eanyi fulr 2 13-160; SUGAR - Raw, dull and lic; centrifugal, 9 test fined, quiet and stend No. 6 1'v-1663%0; No 3 11l 3 0'16c; No. 1, 3 010G8% No. 1, '8 $-16G30¢, No. 1 81Q8 G-l No. 13, It Leads thé ‘World i Pearline. The first washing compound evet made, and the best, Proved to be absolutely harmless to anything that is washed-~hoth by the women who have used it for ycars, and by scientific tests, But the enormous demand for Pearline— for something that will save work and yet be safe to use, has started a host of wash- ing-powders, all imitations of Pearline. They ought to make women think. If you can get risky help from a pn:r imitation why not get safe help from the original and the best? If ym; used the cheapest washing powder for a year, instead of Pearline, you couldn’t save enough to pay your loss in one ruined garment, JAMES FYLE, New York, SUMMER SENSATION GONSIGNMENT SALE. Did you see our whole page announcement in Sun- day’s papers of the greatest sale ever held in Omaha. $100,000.00 worth of Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, &c. sent to us on consignment, by hard up manu'acturers, to be sold for less than actual cost, below a few prices are repeated from Sunday’s advertisement, A of Stoves, each one guar- anteed worth $6.00; con- gnment price, $2.78 All Copper W ers, No. 8 size, best cold rolled copper, consign ment price, $1.56 118 Tce Boxes, lined with best quality zne, patent locks, hinges, best make, worth $7.50; consignment price, $3.78 lot Gasol'ne 217 Refrigeratore, all modern improvements, {well made, well worth |cycle wheels, good value 12.50; consignment|ay $10; consignmoent price, price, $6.34 | $4.87 A big lot of 4-hole 5 Dinner Sets, best cast Ranges from a Inglish goods, vich roy- | foundry that only makes al blue color, 102 pieces: good goods. worth $12; feasily worth $20; con- consignment price, signment pri $4.90 Nico, stylish Baby Carriagos, full sizo, b . Potts’ Sad Trons, finish, threo one handle and 64c M nickel irvons, stand, enille Portieros dinged top wnd _botton foed |nn$3 45 and bottom & pairs of nille Por- to sell to theres, worth $10 finest trade, $4 "90 consignment price, Window (204 rolls Ingrain, slato feet long, 865 pairs Nottingham|1,400 dozen Curtains, full length| Shades, 7 and idth, latest| best rollers, best style, made to retail | ecloths, actual value for #2.50, consigned to| Tbe, consigned to sell sell for for styles, full yard wide regular value Toc aned to soll at his lot contains 160 A great range O Chamber Suits, consist- cheap, medium and fin® | Parlor Furniture. We quote only one suite, for an illustration: 5 pieces Mohair Crush Plush, con: 336 rolls Brussels Car- pots, value 8100 por | ing of Bed, Dresser and tail value $17.50—the | Ouk, worth $50, but the 1 H20 9.10 22.50 . ) . yard, consignment|Commode, finished An- consignor allows us 1 | consignor says sell them Formerly People’s Mammoth Installment House. s tique, well worth in re- sell them for for CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS. . Send 10c for postage on big '94 catalogus. Thig great Vegetable v ! W Vitalizur,theprocrip: tlon of a famous French p cure you of all n vous or disvases of the g 8, siich us Lost Manhe Jnsomiika, Uainis I the Buck, Seinir isslons, Nervous Debility; Plmples, Unfitness to Marry, Exliwusting Dralns, Varicooct and Gonatipacion. N CUPIDENE clean:en tho liver, the kidneyn and the urinary BEFORE awo AFTER orgausof all impuritics. PIDENE strengthens and restores gmall weak organs, son sufferers are not cured by Doctors {8 bacause ninety par cent are troubled with Prostatitis, CUPIDENE s the only known remedy to eyre without an operation, 5,000 tes. timonials, A written guaran| on and money returned (1 61X boXes docs not effect o pers manent cure, $1.00 a box. six for 85,60, by mail, end for rrcular testimounlnls, Address DAVOL MEDICINE 0. . 0. Box 2076 Sun Frandisco, Cal. For sale by Goodmav Drug Co., 1110 Farnam 8t., Omaha; Camy Bros., S Blufrs. Jow MANHOOD RESTOREDR! ! anteed t Curo il Nervous diseases. such ns Wenk § er. Headache, Wakeuln ) %, nil draln&nd 10%3 0f po X coused ¥ ovr exartion, vauthfulereors oxconsive use of thbicco, oplui or atlm: ulants, which lend to lntirmity, Consumption or Iusanity. Can be carried In Vert pocker. B1 per box, @ (0r 85, by mail propald. Wit o 83 order we o'a Written guarantee (o cure or refun Hold by it Ask Tor It tako K froe Modit K sent realvd in piain wrapper. Adiress NERVESEE Maso e, ClICAGR ¥or sale in Omaha. Neb., by Sherman & McConnell and by Kuhn & Co., Drugglsts. _— “DON’'T BORROW TROUBLE.” BUY SAPOLIO 'TIS CHEAPER IN THE END. | WITHOUT PAIN. WITHOUT GAS. Expert in Painless Extraction. ha where you can get wonderful local anaess ut extra charge, E wondorful remedy opiory, Loss of liraln 2 13-160; off A 3@ standard, 87 ut 11-16 PRI o Tel6e; gra 616 confe e, Muted monld A, 44404 5160 foners, 376 13-16e] it 111 At) 316 aull only place In O teeth extracted by this thetle, without pain—=with DR. BAILEY Paxton Block, 3rd Floor. 16th and Farnam Sts. this out, YORK Options . Th Ay at 10416 p ruled wealk U ropeun sellin At 1015 pAnts net decline. Sales. Muy, $1 June, $1L§ 14,20, Neptember, $1380. miber 8 10, auiet NEW opened ste und generaliy closed steady 000 gk, el ing X SHhi6: August October, $1150: Dec aullwndnominal v Seady: Cordova, 100060 wirahon liveries ¥ 14y, 5,080 bags; New Loy, 1775 bigs; United Stites s i Dags: ol for (e United Kiites, (otul visible supply for United States, (st A0 =, Ma 200 g May bIE Dentist, Telephone 1060, cut WM, LOUDON, Commission Merchant GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. HAMIDUIG bukn: May, 1 1o pri. lowor HAVRE, May prices, ls@1f lowe RIO JANBIRO, May $16.30; exchange, 9 5-10 cleared, 3,000 bags; stock 14,000 0 nanged Irregular; lower; others Irregular; wales, 2,000 bugs wires to Chicago and New York. orders placed on Chicago HBoard 11,000 26.-Quiet yecelpty, 185,000 b, Private businesy de. Jrrespondence solicited. Office, room 4, New York Life Dullling Telephone 1308, 4 1 Marsets WIHTEAT F moderat Yed western Liverpa LIVERPOOL, My mand poor; hoiders fornta, s Tld@ds Sd; T4y Bad. CORN spot, 3u 1 Quiet; de No. 1 Call winter, 4 4d Sealed Bids will be rec 1894, for the construction water works at Kingsley an be e Yy, muyor, councll reserves the ri or all bids, A sposals. ved until noon June of & system o Ia. Plans an at the office of <ingsley, Ia. The ht to reject any A. INGALLS, Recorder. dmlos e, " long N& western, 3 o Wheat Murket. ‘0, May % WIHEAT new wellers, 925, HAN FRANCI December, §. Qulet e om0 13 e et