Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 26, 1894, Page 4

P10l dacMhea i Alvoce . chd Gl lat ey Gt o THEOMAHA DAILY BEE, E. T ne mFI\\'ATliH.V PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. g TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION | Prty pee (without, Sundan), One Year....4800 | ufly T and Sunday, One ¥ 10l it Monthi 500 | hree Months D100 Bunday Tee, Ons Year 20 | Eaturdny Tice, One Yesr iy Woekly Tow, v 6 OFIMNCES, Omala, The Tes Mullding Bouth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth St Council Tufts, 12 Dol Chicagn Office, 317 Cham mmerce. New York, Tooms 17, 14 1 Tribune DIdg. Washington, I wtreot PONDI « relating to news and edi- ATl communic forial mattor o) wildressed: To the Editor, DUSINESS LETTERS, All business ltters and remittances should be addressed | to The Dee Publishing company, Omihin Drafts, ehecks and postoffice orders 0 be made pryable to 1 orof the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY ATEMENT OF CIRCULATIC George 1. Tzschuck, secretary of The Tiee Pub 1inaimg company, being duly sworn, Actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally Morning, Eyening and Sunday Hee printed during the month of May, 180, was as Lollown: BWoileeeiiniden ) 2 To Leas deductiong ‘cople Total sold t Dally average net eirculation *Sunday 1UCK 1 in my pres- GEORGE B. T and subser(} Eworn to before m tary Public, The committee on judiciary of the council has been overworked and should be given a respite. Another week of wrangling over the tarift will bring the issue to a head fn the senate. ‘What can’t be cured must be endured. The reorganization of the police is still in. complete. The will have to weed out a few more malcontents, schemers, crooks and can-can dancers. commission The Missouri river is now eating away at the banks at the foot of the business streets of St. Joseph, but that will not be half as bad as the bursting of a St. Joe bank at the upper end of the business street. All eyes on the political horizon are now turned toward Denver. It remains to be seen whether the rarefied atmosphere of the Rock- fes turns the republican heads and makes them subscribe to the free coinage lunacy. It is safe to say that only the serubs in the presidential race of 1896 will air them- selves at Denver. The bookmakers of the star course have blanketed their steeds and will keep them for a more favorable occa- slon. The Omaha contingent of deputy United States marshals is bravely holding the fort at Sidney, and they will hold it so long as Uncle Sam continues to supiply them with rations and $6 a day. Such soft berths are mot to be had every day in the year, you t! The United States circuit court has ap- pointed an additional receiver for the Union Pacific by cutting off the Oregon Short Line and placing it under separate management from the main line. Six receivers ought to be able to eat up what is left of the Union Paclfic wreck in a very few months. The council will show its hand again to- night on the mayor's appointment of a city electrician. Bellwether Hascall insists that the council shall continue the dog-in-the- manger policy until his acting lightning bug is appointed or until the mayor picks up a man that suits Wiley as well as he docs. l The Pullman strike is now on, and people who travel in vestibuled "cars will have to make up their own beds and black their own shoes. This will be quite a hardship on the average commercial tourist, but the thrifty business man will feel that a quar- ter saved is as good as a quarter earned. Judging from the views expressed by many of our old-time democratic leaders, the 16 to 1 free coinage conference was by no means an index of the sentiment on this question among the rank and file. It is not even cer. tain whether a majority of the coming demo- cratic convention will commit itself to the Bryan silver plank. The second excursion of *the Commercial olub has been scheduled. This time the olub goes to southeastern Nebraska, return- ing by way of Crete and Lincoln. The club I8 doing excollent work for the extension of our jobbing trade by bringing Omaha into eloser relations with the merchants in the towns and clties in the interior of Nebraska. We cheerfully surrender space in the col- umns of The Bee for a free and full discus- sion of the canal project, but parties who avail themselves of this privilege should de- sist from personalities. The citizens of Omaha want to be enlightened concerning the merits and demerits of the project, but a washing of dirty linen in public prints is unprofitable and undesirable. There is no more use for eight detectives on the Omaha police force than there would be for cight captains of the patrol force. St. Paul, with a population fully 20,000 greater than that of Omaha, has only two detectives and other cities of much larger population got along with two or three de. tectives. In fact tho police is presumed to do all the detecting that may be needed by simply detailing some of the shrewdest mem- bers for such work. Even in Chicago the bulk of detective work, running down of murderers, professional forgers, burglars and sandbaggers, is done by private dotectives who make a regular business of this class ot work and are trained for it. The Bee still retains its prestige as the only great newspaper west of Chicago this side of San Francisco. That fact was again mado patent to every newspaper reader in this section ir the exhaustive cable dis. patches published exclusively by this paper Monday morning concerning the assassi tion of President Carnot. While othe " papers at Omaha and Lincoln contained a bare announcément and a few lines of bio- graphical sketch of M. Carnot, The Bee pub. lished a graphic description of all the in dents that preceded and followed the das- tardly crime and gave all the partioulars known up to the hour about the assassin ¥Tho Monday morning Bee also covered fully the reception at the French capital of the NOws of the assassination and London press comment on the event. As a purveyor of Rows The Bee has no rival In these parts, FORUING A SETTLEMENT. The action of the federal courts in grant- Ing the application for a separate recelver- ship for the Oregon Rallway and Navigation company, which includes the Oregon Short Line, will tend to force a settlement of the Unfon Pacific rallroad troubles at an early day, By cutting oft its principal feeder, whicl extends a distance of over 2,000 miles, the courts have expedited the culmination of the crisis which Is bound to sooner or later paralyze the Union Pacific system and force Its creditors to take steps for its foreclosure. All of reorganization have at Dest makeshifts, calculated to hinder rather than to promote the restora- tion of the road to permanent prosperity. It has been manifest to all who are familiar with the condition of the Union Pacific that the funding of its colossal debt at the lowest rate of interest for the the scheme been mere longest period would still leave the road hampered | and handicapped in the race with competing lines. All the funding schemes so far de- vised contemplate the retention of the full amount of stock and the resumption of divi- dends on millions millions of water. In other words, it has been proposed to con- solidate the bonded debt and keep afloat all the fssued by the main line and branches. This might afford temporary re- lief to the managers and enable stock job- bers to unload their stock on a new set of ulators under pron ¢ that the octopus would declare periodic dividends, to be squeezed out of the the road. That would only make matters worse if any- than they are. Union Pacific would become the play ball of Wall and the managers would be driven to the fixed provide a upon stock patrons of thing now stoek stroet their wits' ends to meet charges the funded debt and over and above running expenses for distri- butlon among the stockholders. With five trunk lines paralleling the Union Pacific as each of which would be under lesser and with the Canadian Pacific cutting away its Asiatic traffic, the Union Pacific would have a sorry time earning div- idends The only road out of the dilemma is by the direct line to liquidation. Let the road be s0ld under the hammer and capitalized at actual cost by its purchasers and the prop- erty would become exceedingly profitable to its owners and a benefactor to the country at large. With the shackles knocked off its limbs the Union Pacific would not only dis- tance all competitors, but be in position to bulld feeders into territory naturally tribu- tary to the system. Under such conditions the road would prosper, its patrons would be contented and every town on its line, more especially Omaha, would share in Its prosperity. on surplus competitors, load, PARKS FOR THE PEOPLE. It is now beginning to dawn upon the com- munity that an irreparable blunder was made in the purchase of extensive farming properties miles away from the heart of the city for parks. This blunder is em- phasized by the recent financial exhibit ot the park commission, which shows that many thousands of dollars have been ex- pended in laying out. these suburban parks and for their embellishment. It is safe to assert that up to this time very few of our people, probably mot more than four or five hundred, have availed themselves of these out-of-the-way parks, and it is doubtful whether these parks will become available as breathing spots and resorts for recrea- tion to the masses of our people for many years to come. The policy of the park commission should have been to work from the center. They should have enlarged Hans- com park by annexing at least one hundred more acres of adjacent land, and they should have parked the unsightly hollow west of Twenty-elghth street, between Davenport and Harney, converted part of the hollow into an artificial lake and connected all the in- side parks by boulevards, so as to make Hanscom the central park of Omaha. Even now, with Miller park, Elmwood park and other distant tracts bought and paid for, it would be economy and good sense to dis- continue further expenditure for a few years on the outside and devote all the money and labor to the enlargement and improve- ment of parks near the center of popula- tion. Parks that are only within the reach of the wealthier class, who own or can afford to hire carriages, do mot fulfill the objects to which they were dedicated. LEGAL TENDER NOTE TAXATION. A bill has been introduced in the house of representatives which provides that no United States legal tender notes circulating as currency shall be exempt from taxation under the authority of any state or terri- tory, any such taxation to be exercised In the same mannmer and at the same rate that any state or territory shall tax other money within fts jurisdiction. The advo- cates of this legislation profess to believe that considerable abuses have grown up through the exemption of legal tender notes from taxation, and that more or less decep- tion is practiced by banks in transferring packages of legal tenders from one to an- other in order to have them counted as a part of thelr nontaxable property. It 15 possible that this has been done, but that It has been practiced to any consider- able extent, or is generally done, s not at all probable, A report by the minority of the banking committee takes the position that the legal tender notes of the United States are credits of the government, and when issued and put into circulation as money were expressly exempted by law from taxation by state and municipal authority. Even If it should be admitted that it was not a part of the contract when these notes were issued that* they should be exempt from taxation the minority of the committee are of the opinion that It would be unwise for the government” of the United States to permit any state or municipality to tax its credit, On the other hand, the of the proposi- tion take the ground that these notes differ cssentially frof the bonded obligations of the government. They are disposed to draw a distinction between notes which eir- supporters culate as currency, even' though they are paper promises to pay, and obligations which do not have the public negotiable character of money. One argument they present s that no hardship can result to the holders of these motes under the plea of breach of contract by congress, because they are redeemable in gold on demand, and no pretense is made that gold and silver money are not taxable under state and municipal law. The opponents of the pro- posed legislation will lay stress upon the argument that there Is no essential differ- ence between treasury notes and bonds, and that the withdrawal of one of the conditions attached to the forced loan of the legal ten- der issues is just as serious a breach of contract as would be the withdrawal of one of the conditions upon which the bonds were Issued The question whether the notes, w I8~ sued, constituted a contract by the United States with thelr holders that they should possible THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: bo oxempt trom taxation 1 the vital ques: | road looks very smoogatter the rottors have tion in the discussion of this proposition, and it certainly seems that from the legal point of view those who conterd that there a contract have & very strong position, The other point urged by the minority of the banking committee, that it would be unwise for the United States to permit any state or municlpality to tax its credit, also appears to be absolutely sound. But it is more than probable that this con- which does not show any respect for contracts entered into by the government with the people, will pass the measure, particularly if the majority should see in It a means of annoying the national banks and getting something more from those institutions In the way of taxation. AFTER CARNOT—WHAT? The murdered president of France repre- sented the truest and safest republicanism of his country. He was a careful, conserv- ative man, whose conduct was always under the control of strong common sense and a high order of patriotic devotion to the wel- fare of the republic. Calm in every exi- gency, never influenced by the political pas- sfons that surged about him, standing aloof from the warring factions, and keeping ever in touch with the best popular sentiment, he was remarkably successful in guiding public affairs safely through every stress, commanding at once the reepect of all fac- tions and the confidence of the people. His standard of public life was high, and his patriotism and Integrity of purpose were beyond doubt, as his private life was above ch. His election to the presidency over men who had attained great distinc- tion fn public life was a surprise, but the wisdom of his selection by results. No man did more than Carnot to strengthen republican institutions in France, and he set an example of elevated apprecia- tion of executive duty and responsibility which made him of the commanding racters of his The republic was safe under Carnot. How will it be now that his able and patriotic counsel can no more arbitrate between hos- tile factions and his high example rebuke and subdue the political passions that some- times have threatened the destruction of the republican system? Wil his suc- cessor, chosen amid the intense feeling which his assassination has created, be as faithful as he was to those principles which have saved France from external conflict and taught the people a profounder respect for republicanism? Will the clements of disorganization which his wisdom and tact held in check now assert themselves? Will the eneries of the republic find in this ter- rible calamity their opportunity? The world will not have long to wait for an answer to these questions. It will know in a few days the man who s to exercise executive power in France, and his - selection will foreshadow the possibilities of the near future. Meanwhile it is a safe prediction that the existence of the republic will not be seriously endangered. Its enemies are few and weak, Its friends many and powerful. The peasantry of France are republican, the business interests of the nation believe in the republic, the army is republican. There will continue to be conflicts of political fac- tions, but this will bo as to policies. The great majority, there is no doubt, will be found still constant in support of republi- can institutions. The republic will gain strength from the popular remembrance of the devotion and fidelity of its murdered president. was such gross, proposed roproa was vindicated one —_— SURVEY OF ARID LANDS. 1t is hardly probable that any action will be taken on the bill providing for a survey of the arid lands at the present session of congress, because many democrats are anx- fous to get away from Washington as soon as possible and an adjournment will probably be urged as soon as the tarift and the ap- propriation bills are disposed of. But a good start has been made in reporting the meas- ure agreed on by the western members and it can be placed in position to receive consideration early in the next session. The summary of the bill given in the press dis- patch is sufficient to show that it Is a very comprehensive measure, proposing, as it does, a general survey and the determina- tion of specific conditions upon which it is desirable to have more definite and accurate information than now exists. The report accompanying the bill, prepared by Representative Sweet of Idaho, who has shown an earnest zeal in this matter of pro- moting irrigation, is referred to as one of the most concise and interesting discussions of the subject, from a western standpoint, ever presented. It urges that the considera- tion of the subject has been too long de- layed, due to the indifference if not opposi- tion of the east and south, and the reasons that have actuated these sections are held to bo insufficient to justify putting a check to the development of the west. It is to be ap- prehended that the objection to a national system of irrigation, on the score of the enormous expenditure that would be involved, will not be easily overcome, though the op- position to this policy has thus far been able to suggest no other entirely practicable and unobjectionablo plan. The scheme of the Dbill agreed on by the western members of congress Is to prosecute the task of re- clalming the arid region gradually, the gov- ernment disposing of the lands as the work proceeded and applying this revenue to its continuance. In this way the purchasers of the lands would pay the whole cost of re- clalming them. As to the other objection, that the reclamation of the arid regions wonld result in increasing agricultural com- petition and still further reducing the prices of agricultural products, if it is worthy of any serlous consideration, it would be an almost perpetual bar to opening up these reglons to settlement and utilizing them for Increasing the wealth and power of the nation, for the time may never come, or at any rate not for generations, when the peo- plo of some section will not be. hostile to adding the vast arid area to the productive territory of the country. It Is essentially a Ifish objection and utterly antagonistic to that sentiment of patriotism which demands (he material development of the republic by every wise and practicable means. The first step toward the reclamation of the arid region must be & thorough survey of the lands and waters and manifestly this “should be done by the general government, For this purpose the bill provides an appro- priation of $325,000, but this is probably simply for a begiuning, as complete surveys will undoubtedly cost more than this amount, But this expenditure is comparatively unim- portant and there is no good reason why the work of surveying the arid lands should not be entered UPOD As 0OD A8 CONEress can pass the legislation authorizing it. Western sentiment is practically unanimous In favor of action by congress for the promotion of irrigation and it should recelve earnest con- sideration on the broad ground of national development from the people of other sec- tions of the country. The county commissioners are still wrest. ling With the paving problem. The macadam passed over it, but when it is plowed up by teams the furrows and ruts refuse to get to gether for some reason and the contractor has up to this date fyiled to find the missing link that would hl:cr the broken rock ana limostone dust Your Courtesy. Courler-Journal The Allen-Chandler jangle relates alto- gether to the sy due from senators to each other. pnator ever gets into a passion defending fhe courtesy due from senators to the coul In the Way K Sun, nator Allery made his urbane com- tor ‘Chandler to a baboon, s al flattering offers ¢ a serios of lec Since parison of has re managers to seliv on Ntary Politeness, Sar- casm and Wit.” There is a pecullar’ light- ness and delictacy of touch about Mr. 4. We should like to see @ game of base ball. it s A Brutal, Cownrdly Act. Chicago Tribune. The kidnaping of Adjutant General Tars- ney of Colorado by some masked deputies was an outrage and may yet lead to serious trouble in that state. According to the re- ports the adjutant general was seized at a hotel in Colorado Springs, placed in a car- riage and driven off to a sccluded spot, some miles from that city, where he was and feathered in a most brutal and shametul wanncr, th miser.ants meanwhi Allen’s playfulne: him umpire a ele making good tieir escape. This disgr ful affair grew out of the wretched mis- management of the Cripple Creek strike by the governor, who needlessly antagonized the militia and the sheriff's deputies fn that county in his efforts to take the part of the striking miners, with whose violent acts he sympathized. This does not excuse the outrage offered to General Tarsney. It was a brutal, cowardly act. If any tarring and feathering was to be done, however, Bloody dle Walte himself should have bLeen the tim, not his adjutant general, who wus only executing his ol Party of the Third Part. Rev. Sam Jones. The third party, or party of the third part, or whatever you may call it, may get 'to heaven but they'll ne get 10 Washington. It's not on the w Wash- ington 1s the wickedest place on earth. 1t is the home of the devil. The average democratic and republican” politiclans are little better than als, but the third party man is a fool. You can reform a rascal, but did you ever try to monkey with a fool? They want to borrow money from the government at 2 per cent when the gov- ernment {8 now’ borrowing at 5. We hear a great deal of fool talk about the rich getting_richer and the poor poorer under the present law. There never was a greater lie, and I'll prove it. There's nothing the matter with the law. It's the man that's at fault, There's a lawyer on that sid, ¢he house makes $20,00 a year, Here's little_pettifogger whose family is starving. The law is not to blame. Here's a physi- cian making $10,000 a_year. There's a little doctor over on the other corner that can’t make his salt. The law is not to blame. T preach mnearly every day to 8,000 people, and here's alittle preacher sitting behind me that can’t average 200. The trouble is not in the law, brother, it's in your nog- gin. The difference is organic. If all the States were divided wealth in the United out today each man would get about $1,160, and in less than six months some fellows would be riding in palace cars and others would be walking cross ties and howling tor another divy e ey THE MIRTH MAKERS. Washington Star: “Has that horse a pedigree?” asked tie tourlst. “Nope,” re- plied the honest fagmer, “nothing but the heaves." Indianapolis Journhl: “Did you hear any reagon assigned for :Kirkwalder's suicide?” “Yes. He left a letter saying that life was 0o short to be jvasted in mere living.” Galveston News:_ It is very generally agreed that o flourshing town is a town with a brass band. _, Harper's Bazar: T shall celebrate my twenty-second Dbirthflay next week,” said Miss Giddey to her dearest friend. “I sup- pose you forgot itvwhen it came around eh:rln or nine years ago,” was Miss Flypp's reply. i Puck: Mr. Dunn ¥grily)—This bill has been runnipg three NGArs. Hardy Upton (eal you expect of it? ou've been for two years and ‘eleven chasing it ‘months, Buffalo Courier: The idea seems to pre- vail in the minds of some architects that a higher education is only to be gained by running school buildings up five or six stories Utica Observer: A _ Boston clergyman sald in his sermon on Sunday last: “'Sum- mer flirtation is a viper.” “The discourse of the reverend doctor is sald to have been a rattler. New York Weekly: She—If every atom of the human body is renewed every seven years 1 cannot be the same woman that you married. He—I've been suspecting that for some time. Washington Star: Fame has its disad- vantages,” sald the philosopher. “T should say so,” replied the great man. +It never lets a man’s creditors get off his trail.” Chicago Tribun Father,” sald the sweet girl graduate, “do you think it is right to make fun of commencement es- says?"” “I 'do mot, my daughter,” replied the middle-aged 'parent, hastily’ shoving back into the private drawer of his writing desk a faded and time-stained manuscript tied with a blue ribbon. “The commencement essay, my child, 13 a thing to weep over and—and to swear at. IN THE NICK OF TIME, New York Press. She wore a pair of the daintiest shoes, But how to exhibit them puzzled' her hrain; The maid could not think of no harmless ruse, And for days there hadn't been any rain. But the sprinkling cart just then went by, And the driver, of course, let the water run - On the crossing, and she, with skirts heid high, Passed ‘over, and presto! the thing was done. —_—— MR. TOMPKINS' SUMMER BOARDERS. Harper's Bazar Come, Mandy, get the fly-screens out. I know they ain’t no good— A healthy fiy will sure get in if oncet he's said he would. But we can't take no chances; an’ the city boarder's queer; He allus wants his fly-screens up when he's a-stayin’ here. I think we'd also better get wheel or two, An’ set 'em in the drawin' room, because, ‘tween me an' you, We may get some one here who for an- tique things has a whim, An’ who will pay us twice its it home with him. a spinnin’ cost to take An', by the way, ye'd better buy say twenty dozen egs. . They does ‘em up ' lime these days, an’ sells 'em out in kegs, Then every mornin: strew ‘em round, The coops and hay 19fts, where they're sure by boarders to be found, For 1 have noticed that the folks who come up here to, stay Thinks eges is fresher’ laid if they have found ‘em—an’, 1 say, Pack up the table:ccloths, because town folks thinks that we Eat off a plain pine table without any cloth, Law me It makes me laugh to fhink of ‘em. They call us “new’ and “green," 1k go out an' sort of these But theye're the very verdantest that ever I have seen. ol An' every year when they come here—I know 1t 15 a sine But, Lord! how we' pogr country folks do fake those fellers, in mly)—What else could | OU R CALIFORNIA SAINT. Ry Yeonoclastes. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts and Senator Voorhees are two honorary members of what Is called the millionaires’ club, which is & kind of a wheel within a wheel In the sen- | ate. On the Sth of June, 1304, theso two dig- | nitarles performed a ceremony much like what the anclent heathens would have called | an apotheosis, and what the Roman Catho- | lies would call a beatification, of their late brother senator, Leland Stanford, whom they | would fain create a kind of saint. But in the Roman Catholia ceremonial there Is a personage called the devil's advo- cate, whose office It is to state the objections to the proposed promotion. Our senatoria beatifiers forgot this gentleman, whose in dispensable duty we must, in justice, perform | for their benefit, | Mr. Hoar's argument thus: Mr. Stanford—we Stanford—devoted his great estate to a noble benofaction (meaning the Stanford univer- sity); he had an abiding faith in the Chris- tian religion; he loved his country; he hoped that partly by means of the Stanford uni- versity every child who desired it should re- ceive a good education; if the claim of the ited States against his estate be good it would take twelve or fifteen years to estab- lish it; if this claim was for $15,000,000, that comes to only 20 cents apleee for the in- habitants of the United State h A claim might embarras the Widow Stanford and the Stanford university, and perhaps destroy the latter; for all of which reasons the sald clalm should at once be withdrawn and nullified by act of congress, Senator Voorhees added that Saint Stan- ford was possessed of simplicity and sub- limity of cha r, which qualitios were not touched or de ed by his wealth, and that his was just such a simple, Kindly, devoted nature as poor folks have. Now, this simple, kindly, devoted, sublime man, on the 18th of September, 1871, swore positively that there had been pald in as subscriptions to the stock of the Central was In substance beg pardon, Saint cific railroad the sum of § 190, Bat, as a matter of fact, the amount so paid was only 0,000. The amount thus untruth- tully sworn to was perhaps sublime; the con- fidence with which the statement was in- trusted to the public may have been simple and the motive for making it may have been kindly and devoted to his companlons, Crocker, Hopkins and Huntington; but the particular method which the proposed saint took to exhibit these virtues is more likely to land the saint in the penitentiary than in paradise. Again: This proposed saint and his brother salnts, Saint Crocker, Saint Hopkins and Saint Huntington, were the first to bestow upon the country the great blessing of Chi- nese labor. Up to date this saintly enter- prise has had the effect to deprive about 100,000 Americans every year of the means of living, and enormously to promote the holy order of mendicants called tramps. This missionary work gives the American an op- portunity to practice self-denial and to en- dure hurdships, and thus to greatly elevate his moral character. Ungratefully enough, the American workingman has permitted himself to become miserable and to get ex- cited over the resulting state of things; but that does not diminish the merits of Stan- ford as a saint—at least as a Joss. Again: This simple, kindly, devoted, sub- lime man, and his three .cqually s., k., d. and s. mates, performed the following operations: Being directors of the Central Pacific rail- road, they also called themselves the Contract and ‘Finance company. Then, as directors, they let to themselves, as contractors, the job” of bullding the road, agreeing to pay themselyes about three times as much as the road would cost; and then the four saints put the unexpended two-thirds of this pay— not into the treasury of the railroad, where it should have been deposited to pay the debts of the road—but into their own four saintly pockets. This transaction, followed by others equally saintly, has resulted in the hopeless bankruptcy of the road and in four immense fortunes to the four saints. By an interesting coincidence the sum of the four fortunes is just about what would set the road on its pins again. It is true that these transactions with the Contract and Finance company cannot be proved by the books of the company; because these four simple, kindly, devoted, sublime men made away with the said books. Some think they were burned; there is a vague re- “POFL thal they were built up alive, as it were, like Constance de Beverly or some other guilty nun, in the foundation walls of Saint Mark Hopkins' magnificent mansion on Nob Hill in San Francisco. When that mansion is pulled down perhaps thelr mould- ering bones will be discovered. Again: A long course of similar transac- tions afterwards took place between these four simple, kindly, devoted and sublime men, as directors, and themselves as another company, called the Pactfic Improvement company, which has been operated in the same way, viz: 1. To make contracts with themselves to do work at enormously extravagant rates. 2. To pay for this work out of the money of the Central Pacific railroad. 3. To put the profits Into their own saintly pockets. * The result, as stated before, has been the bankruptey of the railroad, and the enrich- ment of the saints. It was a simple proceeding—so is any em- bezzlement. It was kindly—to each other. It was devoted—to their own profit. It was sublime—in the impudence of its monstrous misappropriation. Again: Saint Stanford Joined with the three other saints by the methods above sketched, not only to get into their private possession the funds ana securities which ought to have been reserved to pay the debts of the Central Pacific railroad to the govern- ment and to the bondholders and stock- holders, but they imposed upon the pub the necessity of paying in fares and freights, not interest on the actual cost of the road, but interest on three times the actual cost of the road. In order to do this and maintain thelr power to do it, they organized and practiced a system of the meanest tyranny. They extorted nearly all the earnings of farmers and fruit raisers; they discriminated for and against Individuals, farms and towns and in many other ways oppressed and ter- rorized business men. Again: They practiced a systematic de- bauchery and corruption of ‘voters, office holders,” legislatures and all governmental organizations whatever. It is notorious In Callfornfa that Saint Stanford twice bought his election to the United States senate. It is currently believed in California, and with strong reason, that his first election cost him $70,000 and his second election not less than $500,000. And any well informed Californian will agree that these transactions of Saint Stanford did very much toward causing that over- whelming expression of opinion in favor of an election of United States senators by the people, which was uttered during the ‘cam- paign which resulted in the election of Sen- | ator White, But now observe the nature of Senator Hoar's reasonings: They are grounded on assumptions like these: If a man devotes part of his alleged property to benevolent purposes, no inquiry should be made whether the property. does not really belong to some- body else. It it would take a good while to decide whether property belongs to one person or another, It should be held to belong to the person who holds it. If a rightful claim by the United States does not amount to a large | sum per head of the population of the coun- try, it should not be collected. If the col- lection of a rightful claim of the United States would “embarrass’ anybody, or any institution, It ought not to be collected. An examination of Senator Hoar's remarks Will show that these are the principles to which he s logically reducible. Now: Is this the kind of timber that they make saints of in Massachusetts and Indiana? 1t so, we could man a new heaven for those states out of the state prison, Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Roal Bz Powder ABSOLUTELY DPURE CYCLONE BRIV Minneapolis Journal: Congressman Dryan says he's hungry for #llver.” No doubt Uncle Sam will pay Bryan his salary all in siver dollars it he wants it. There's plenty of silver If any man wants Yay in that metal, or wants to swap hix gold for it New York Sun: The Nebraska are much pleased over the fact, If fact it be, that In the cyclone In Sloux county a farmer and his horse were taken up Into the atr through the roof of a shed and deposited 200 feet away, sound and kind. This fs not much for Nebraska. Why, when Hon. Wil- llam Jennings Bryan, the boy orator of the Platte, was making a Fourth of July oration at Coon Prairfe fn 1891 the current of wind grew 8o strong at the perihelion of his per- oration that the building and the whole au dience, including the orator, were t n straight to a distance estimated at three miles and a half, and didn’t come down until the next morning. Indeed, Bryan has never come down. He tastes clouds yet, Louisville Courler-Journal Indeed, nveLe. newspapers Mr. Bryan shows himself indifferent to the ir terests of the party that has twice given him a seat in congress, In reply to the charge that he would shlit the party he ha nothing to y more than that there are always people who think more of harmony than of principle. Mr. Bryan must be far too intelligent not to perceive that his course 18 one admirably addpted to producing dis- sensions and divisions In the party at a time when there Is a strong demand for the utmost possible harmony. It is plain that the young orator of Nebraska is to be a_ disturbing element in the party in his own state and elsewhere if his influence counts for anything away from home. It is cqually clear that the populists or the republicans are to be beneficiaries of his exertions, for these have a tendency to bring defeat to the democrats, Mr. Bryan must, therefore, be ranked among the men who think themselves greater than their party His disregard of the welfare of the party that brought him fnto prominence, his efforts to disrupt it in the interests of the populists, are indications that his brilliant career is to be brief. His star is setting RS PEOPLE AND THING The canaler’s bawl can fardly be classed as a social event. The Colorado incident looks like tempt to feather the governor's nest. enator Hill's presidential boom has con- tracted the southern plantation blight. The enterprising rain maker should not overlook the canals of Mars in his business. Congressman Bland's free silver presiden- tial boom was conspicuous by its absence at the Omaha crush. The Allen-Chandler and Hill-Harris ex- change of compliments suggests a reconse- cration of senatorial courtesy. The bookmakers of Chicago, having pock- eted a snug sum, class the American Derby as the literary event of the year. Pennoyer will remain executive of Oregon until next January. Sympathy for the aficted should not be limited to victims of the late flood. Strange as it may aplpear, the output of raw materidl by the New York investigatore injuriously affects certain lines of “the fin- est” industry in the city. Owing to the continued application of a current of high potency certain aldermanic pipe lines show marked symptoms of smali- pox. Their condition is pitiful. Cheyenne bookmakers hesitate about plac- ing odds on the governor. Therc s a sus- picion abroad that the Arizona Kicker man has accepted the presidency of a cemetery trust in that vicinity, There's a candidate for sheriff in a Geor- an at- gla county whose enemies accused him of having kissed sixty-nine babies in one village. ~ The fellow is a base plagiarist of the smacks of David. Dispatches announce that the atmosphere in the senate on Saturday was unbearable, but left the reader to grope in the dark for a cause. A Washington paper mentioned the fact that Senator Call removed his shoes. The up-to-date residents of Chicago are seriously considering plans for monuments to themselves, to be unveiled after their death. The present difficully seems to be the carving of an allegorical figure typifying big windy. Ex-Senator Ingalls is in New York, not with a view of editing a magazine, it is now stated, but on the invitation of Thomas H. Hubbard, who is said to have offered Mr, Ingalls $25,000 a year to become editor of the Commercial Advertiser. Congressman Conn of Indiana, who was a poor jeweler and instrument maker until a happy invention a few years ago made him rich, has bought the paper that Washington printers started some months ago. This makes him an esteemed Conn-temporary. An Augusta (Me.) clergyman walked into the store of a merchant, wet to the skin by a thunder storm. The merchant had some exquisite old brandy, of which he was very proud. He offered the dominie some, as a joke, not dreaming that his guest would accept. Th& minister not only took a big drink, but put the bottle in his pocket. The merchant is negotiating for a revolving self- kicker. —_— - Looking Out for the Wherewlth. New York World. It is true beyond doubt that a number of United States senators habitually use their places to line their pockets. If they were more courageous they would accept direct bribes, but being cowards attempt to dodge their consciences and the law by an indi- rection which increases their guilt in pro- portion to the increased sufety it gives them in their venality. NEBRASKA AND NERRASKANS, A new elevator Is to be bullt at Randolph. Blomfield’s eleotric lighting system is # assured fact. Pender's premium of The Brokes Bow fain makers are now demanding their money, Cedar Dluffs has a new opera house and it will be dedicated July 4 with a grand dance: The Grand Army of the Republic will hold a rounion at Tecumseh August 13 to 17 ine ive. The now water works bonds sold at & flouring mill at Fairfiold commence tlons some time They are ady grinding feed. The citizens of Mason City are negotiating with rainmakers with the view of having them come to that place and operate, Some Coxey lightning struck a Burt county corn crib and consumed 125 bushels of corn, Including the erib. The corn was Insures Irrigation in the Republican valley s no longer a myth. Practical workings may be seen near MeCook, where 8,000 ncres are irrigated. Lyons is “having a lockup buflt,”” to cost not over $300. A loeal paper says it is not intended for their own citizens, but for vis= itors from neighboring towns. The York soap works are making five dif- forent brands of soap now, two laundry and three toflet. They are having a pretty good sale also, considering the times Fourteen head of horses were killed by a stroke of lightning in Cheyenne county last wilt this week. alr. week. The animals were standing close tos gether near a barb wire fence when the bolt cane, The National Humane society has offered a reward of $100 for the arr tion of the parties whose hoi in the 100-mile race at of June W. A. Denny, the veteran stockman, passed through Chadron the first of the week with 300 prime young Herefords that he had shipped fhm “the south for his ranch in the sand hills Water melons have st and convie- es were killed Chadron on the 6th made their appearance in the local market at Hastings and retall for 50 cents each. Mu:k melons have also come in and the price of them is propors tionately high The village boa of Beaver Crossing has passed an ordinance limiting the number of hogs which a person can own in that cor- poration to two head. They evidently don't want any hogs in that section. On the road between Papillion and Spring- field are many patches of oats which will yleld thirty-five bushels per acre. Before the rains camie these same fields were pro- nounced valueless by the croakers, Crop reports at Clay Center show thit the wheat crop will not be quite as short as it was feared. The late rains have given the at new life, and although the straw short, the heads are filled clear out. An S-year-old son of I. N. Ramer, living at Miller, was bitten on the arm by a rattle- snake last Thursday. For a time the follow= ing d © hoy's life was despaired of, but he finally rallied, and now is in a fair way to recover. The contract has been let to dig an frrl- gating ditch in Holt county twelve and one- half miles long. The diteh will tap the Elk- horn near Emmet and terminate about three miles south of O'Neill, which will irrigate about 10,000 acres. A Sarpy county family by the name of Snide about two years ago were presented th lovely twin daughters, and, in order that the girls might have proper protectors through life, Mrs. Snide last week presented lier husband a palr of bright, robust boys. The Missouri river {8 giving trouble to farmers south of Brownville. Whole fields of corn and potatoes are submerged and will be worthless. The river continues to rise and may overflow much valuable farming lnr,ul on both the Missouri and Nebraska sides. The franchise and entire plant, consisting of houses, reservoir and nine miles of mai of the Hastings Gas company were sold I week for $60,000. A new company will op- erate under ‘the original charter, but the new franchise will be altered so that the plant can be remodeled. Beet growers In Dawes county are com- plaining about the ravages of a long, dark, hungry bug that is stripping the leaves of the “sugar beets In that vicinity. Some fields have been badly damaged by them. Probably the best way to get rid of them is to give them a dose of paris green, if the beets are expected to amount to much. A York breeder reports a hen that hatched out sixteen chickens from cight eggs. The eggs were very large and each one had two yolks. They had noticed a number of the sort and kept enough for a setting, just to try an experiment. About a dozen were put under a hen, but only elght hatched out. Those eight, however, proved to be twins, 1. A. Fort, president of the State Irrigation association, ' addressed the people of Flm Creek a few days ago on the subject of irrl gation, after which a local irrigation associa: tion was formed, with a capital stock of $25,000. The people there are thoroughly aroused as well as converted to the valuo of irrigation, and great results are expected in that locality before the scason of 1895 closes. Something very unusual about the garden business round about Western this year is the fact that a large proportion of the seed planted several weeks ago is just coming through the ground since the late rains, The ground, when the seed was planted, did not contain moisture sufficient to either germ- inate the seed or cause It to rot, but was just right to keep it in a state of preservation until sufficient rain did fall. it X Going to the bottom R s A B AT A take inventory next week —your last chance to get suits for $7.50 and $8.50—worth lots more. Boys' suits $2.50—$3—worth 50 per cent more— stilts given away to boys in boys' department— See the $4.50 combination suit with another pair of pants and cap to match. Browning, King & Co., 8. W. Corner 15th and Douglas, Going to the BottonN) ————— in price now--going to