Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 23, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAlLy BEw B. ROSEWATER, Baitor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI _— - - TERMS Of RIPTION Dally Dee (Without Sunday), One Year.. Daily Bes and Sunday, Year &1x Monthe Three M Sundny 1 atarday 1 Weekly 1 N and 2ith Sts. ik Pribune BIAg. Washington, 147 I CORTE cation; " Stroet, N SPOND relating to news and_edi- addressed: To the Editor, Al commu: torial m: A 14 be to iz pany, Drafts, checks a o payable 1o the orde IEE PUDL * CTRCULATION. ® . Tzachuck, secretary of The I iny, being duly sworn, says Pub- that coples y Morning, Evenin ¥ ing the month of N an follow ¥ 18, 1 18 1 Loss dedi coples . Total Daily avera bed In my pros- 1594 , Notary Public. n to before me and th's 30 day of T “The new president of France I8 just beglnning to cxperience his troubles, Debs 18 admitted to bail Just in time to repair to Brooklyn and take charge of another strik Lave declaved pvar The cigarette will is to have a real Omaha women upon the cigaret now know w fight on its hand it n, Mr, democrat; Mr. Bryan On the authority of M Cleveland is no longer ¢ neither is Mr. Gorman. must be getting lonely. Some of the Brooklyn trolley lines equipped with clectrie pos it about time to call the federal troops out to enforce the law prohibiting the obstruction of the mails? It may be pertinent to inquire what call there is for a legislative expression of opinion on the Barrett Scott tragedy y more than there is on every other flagrant infraction of the law? It sometimes makes a considerable difference in opinions of the press whether a strike is near at home or far awa Compare utterances of eastern newspapers on the Chicago strike and on the Brooklyn strike. Wyoming's legislature is cutting down the salaries of county officers to a hard times Dbasls. Nebraska's legislature is considering bills to increase the sala- ries of county officers. We think the taxpayers of Nebraska will prefer the ‘Wyoming plan. The postmaster at Chicago came in for a mild roast on the floor of congress on Monday for his presence there lob- bying for a building appropriation when he ought to be in his office at- tending to business. No Chieago man, however, would mind a little thing like that. The Chinese and Japanese ministers are carrying the war between their re- spective countries into Washington so- clety, where each is trying to outdo the other by the brilliancy of his receptions. The American public is acting neutral and partaking of the hospitality of both without discrimination. —_— The appropriation for a postoffice bullding at South Omaha has finally been passed by the house. We should like very much to see it go through the senate and run the gauntlet of presidential approval. The chances for its success are considerably improved by this ste The Board of Fire and Police Com- missioners is wise in deferring its de- clsion a8 to the employment of addi- tional firemen and the purchase of new apparatus until after the appropriation for the next year shall have been made by the council. It will show more wisdom still if it then keeps its ex- penditures strictly within the limits of its resources, During the past six months Douglas county has dispensed 1,430 tons of coal to needy people in this community, This indicates that for the entire season no less than 3,000 tons will be necessary to meet the demand. This coal will cost the county at least $6,000 and the amount may reach §10,000. It is plain that there is a wide field for economy in the purchase of @unty coal, Several state legislatures may indulge in the luxury of deadlocks over sena- torial elections, but they will all be careful to arrvive at a cholce before they adjourn. The lesson taught Montana and Wyoming, by the senate refusing admission 1o the governors' appointees 1o vacancies created by failure of the legislatures to elect, was not in vain. A similar situation will be serupulonsly avoided by overy state this year. There Is no necessity whatever for extending the supreme court commis- slon another three years. One year's extension is an smple sufficiency. We must have a constitutional supreme court adequate in the number of judges to the business that it has to transact. Bxtending the commission will tend to create a power antagonistic to the adoption of the necessary amendment to the comstitution. It will defer the nccession of the new judges longer than I8 necessary. The term of the supreme court commission should not extend be- yond the time when additional Judges of the supreme court way legally as sumie (helr offices. NEW STATE OFFICES GALORE. If all the bills introduced into the pres- ent session of the legislature for the creation of new state offices shonld be- come law Nebraska will soon be trans. formed into an office holders' paradise. Running over the bills only that have been presented in the house, and then, too, those only of the first ten days of the session, we get a glimpse of the wful possibility that may be In store for us. First, there s the second bill in the Jist, intended to shift the appoint- ing power of the state ol inspector: which at the same time changes the law €0 a8 to provide for four deputy ofl in- spectors with salaries of $1,500 and ex- penses each. The present deputies only get §1,200, and that is not striking oil quite rich enough for them. Close on (he heels of ‘this bill is house roll . 3, which ereates the offices of state boiler inspector and deputy boiler inspectors not to exceed six in number. By some kind of an oversight the aries they are to draw are not preseribed in the original draft, but they are to be covered by the fees charged for inspection, at the ite of 85 for each boiler, and $3 for additional boiler where two or more are inspected. This little omission can, of cour: be remedied in commit- tee, and If reported we may be sure that the compensation will be commen- surate with the arduous duties of the inspectors. House roll No. 10 would, if enacted, do equally as well in the matter of con- structing berths for people anxious to serve the publie. Tt requires state in- spection of live stock, and for this pur- pose provides for an indefinite number of live stock inspectors, authorized to demand 10 cents for every car that comes within their jurisdiction. Something more out of the usual run and likewise less expensive is the bill denominated house roll No. 21. Under its provisions a free public employment bureau is to be established by the dep- uty labor commissioner In every eity of the metropolitan class, to preside over which he is to appoint a superin- tendent. The superintendent is to have the mod, ry of $600 per apnum. The next bill in sequence, No. 3 Jumps back to the old level. It creates a Board of Examining Engineers, whose members are to examine and license engineers plying their vocation in Ne- braska. The board is to comprise a commissioner of steam engineering and two assistant commissioners, the former to be paid $2,500 a year and the latter 2,000 a year each. It is presumed that no insurmountable difficulties will be met in getting competent engineers to accept places on the commission. The enactment of house roll No. 30 would result in a revision of our erim- inal code, and the work would cost the taxpayers $4,000—$1,000 apiece for the three commissioners and clerk. House roll No. 73 makes way for a State Board of Charities and Correc- tions. ~ Just to set a good example to the charitably inclined, the board is given a secretary at $1,500 a year, while the four commissioners are allowed to draw $3 a day and expenses while de- voting themselves to the perplexing duties of their offices. Another! bill, No. 76, contemplates a Penitentiary Medical board, to consist of the peni- tentlary physiclan and two associate physicians, the latter at $10 a day, to examine convicts supposed to be in- sane. And still another, No. 111, pro- vides for a State Board of Embalming of three members, who get nothing but their expenses, and those are paid out of license fees exacted from devotees of the embalming business. This bill is backed by the state organization of em- balmers and legislators are assured that no self-respecting embalmer would de- cline an invitation to prefix an official title to his name, A fish and game warden has long been an absolute necessity to every state of Nebraska's pretensions, and this defi- ciency is to be supplied by house roll No. 120. To enable the warden to suc- cessfully cope with malefactors under the fish and game laws he is to be guananteed a catch of $1,500 a year, not to mention traveling expenses up to $1,000 a year and a clerk on an $800 salary. The supreme court needs three bailiffs to attend to the business coming under its original jurisdiction, if we are to believe house roll No. 121. The clerk of the court will be expected to see to it that the bailiffs secure the proper orders on the treasury for their compensation. Then, again, the State Board of Health has at present a very incomplete or- ganization. It requires some one to look after the veterinary practice of the state, and so house roll No. 138 pro- vides for four secretaries learned in veterinary science, whose sacrifices in serving are to be rewarded by $5 for every certificate granted, as well as by other fees. We cannot persuade ourselves to be- lieve that the fertile brains at Lincoln have been exhausted by the work al- ready accomplished. They will succeed In devising still other means by which the state's activity and salary list may be further extended. This, however, Is a very good beginning for a drouth year and cannot but infuse our legislators with renewed vigor for thelr efforts along this line, The session Is not more than a fourth over. With courage and berseverance an office may be created for every man, woman and child in the state, — TAKING 4 NEW TACK, The Board of Education will this year ask the city to provide a revenue of $400,000 for the maintenance of the public schools and leave it entirely to the city council to determine from what sources that money shall be raised. Heretofore the board has always made its own estimate of probable income and expenditures and has sought to have the excess over its regular revenues made up by an addition of so many mills to the general tax levy. A year ago the city counell cut down the pro- posed levy, with the result of an action at law, finally dismissed by the supreme court on the ground that the couneil had | xclusive jurisdietion over the size of the city tax levy. The court Intimated that a mandamus might possibly lie if the board asked simply for a lump sum. Tt is In accordance with this intimation that the board is taking a new tack. There ave, of course, two sides to this THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: controversy. The Board of Education is required to conduct the business of the schools, and its members insist that they are the omes to determine how much money is needed for that purpose, They have no control over the regular resources of the board—the police court fines, the license money, the state ap- portionment. They therefore think they ought to determine the tax levy, which is the only elastic source. On the other hand, the city council, while not responsible for the expenditures for school purposes, are yet responsible for the whole tax levy. If a larger part of the levy goes to the school board a smaller part must be avallable for other branches of the municipal government. On the contention of the school board the schools could be administered upon an extravagant basis and the city coun- cil would be powerless to refuse calls for more money. We do not believe the city council will do anything to eripple the public schools or to invite litigation with the school board. Bven with the co-operation of all the public authorities the task of the latter is quite large enough, The deficit now staring it in the face can not be overcome without the most rigid retrenchment and scrupulous econom; The Board of Education can improve its position before the council by adopt- ing immediate measures for further cur- tailing expen: IMPEACHING JUDGE RICKS. Impeachment proceedings against a United States judge have been of rare occurrence, There were but two in- stances prior to the rebellion. A con- temporary notes that Judge Pickering of New Hampshire was impeached and convicted in 1803 for drunkenness and other unbecoming conduct, and the antl- federalist majority in the house the next year managed to impeach Judge Chase of Maryland for saying sharp things about Jefferson’s party in his Judicial utterances, but the senate failed to convict. The proposed impeachment proceedings against Judge Ricks of the United States district court for the northern district of Ohio are therefore likely, if instituted, to be regarded with a great deal of interest, at least by the federal judici Judge Ricks was formerly clerk of the court the bench of which he now oceu- pies, and he is charged with having since he became a judge retained fees which accrued during his clerkship, and, it is claimed, ought to have been turned over to the government. A majority of the house judiciary com- mittee found that the charge was sus: tained by the evidence, the division being on partisan lines, and made a re- port to that effect. Upon the suggestion of the committee Judge Ricks went to Washington to present his statement of the matter. He claims that there is ab- solutely no truth in the charge and that the facts entitle him to complete exon- eration. Judge Ricks owes this trouble to having incurred the displeasure of the labor leaders in northern Ohio in consequence of his course at the time of the Ann Arbor railroad strike. He was summoned to Toledo by the railway offi- cials, being hurried there on a special train, and issued an injunction restrain- ing the members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers from carrying out the boycott which had been ordered against the cars of the railroad having trouble with its employes. It will be remembered that this action, which was unprecedented in a case of this kind, was regarded with great interest throughout the country, and particularly among the organizations of railway em- ployes. More than a year after this oc- currence the Central Labor union of Cleveland preferred the charge against Judge Ricks of having unlawfully re- tained fees belonging to the govern- ment, and the matter was referred for investigation to the house judiciary com- mittee, with the result noted. Judge Ricks has made a good record on the bench, which will weigh in his favor, while the fact that the report favoring impeachment was distinctly partisan renders unlikely the institution of impeachment proceedings, CONCESSIONS TO SILVER MEN. It appears that the chief thing now sought by those in congress who are en- deavoring to frame a currency bill is to satisfy the silver men. The fact is recognized that the chances are very much against passing any bill in the senate that is not acceptable to the free silver advocates, Dbecause they could consume the entire time until the ex- piration of the life of the present con- gress In dilatory proceedings. Indeed, there Is reason to believe that the sena- tors who demand that something shall be done for silver constitute a majority, 80 that even without dilatory proceedings they could probably defeat any meas- ure that did not give satisfactor pe- ognition to silyer. The bill introduced by Senator Vest, which commanded hardly passing attention, wa - tinlly a free silver bill, while that framed by Senator Jones of Arkansas and which has received some considera- tion from the finance committee, is not very much better. It is now reported that Mr. Springer, chairman of the house committee on banking and cur- rency, is again trying his hand at pro- ducing a currency bill with the inten- slon of presenting in it a sop to the silver men which be hopes will be satis- factory to them. No concessions can be made to the free silver advocates that will be ac- ceptable to them which do not antago- nize the predominant sentiment of the country, The Stewarts and Blands in congress will not be satisfied with coining the so-called seignlorage or even the product of American mines under the condition proposed in the Jones bill, that the seigniorage shall be the differ- ence between the coinage value and the bullion value in London on the day when the silver is deposited at the goy- ernment mint and shall be covered into the treasury. This arrangement wonld deprive the mme owners of what they bave been persistently seek- to obtain, the privilege of baving less than 100 cents worth of - silver bullion coined into a dollar worth 100 cents so long as it can be kept at a parity with gold, and would be of no more advantage to them than selling the bullion in the market. No such proposition will be acceptable WEDNESDAY, to the silver men, who demand that congress shall go to the full length and restore the coinage of silyer as it ex- Isted before 1873, and they have mani- fested no disposition to compromise. Thelr insistence s upon the free and unlimited coinage of the white metal at the ratio of 16 to 1, and they will agree to nothing less. They do not propose to surrender any part of their position or to weaken it by any sort of compro- mise, It Is manifestly, therefore, perfectly idle to undgrtake to conciliate the silver rnpo:nmll,\'l: ared demands. Al such efforts are rdoomed to failure. More- over their effect is bad, operating as it does to perpetuate distrust. This in- fluence may not be very marked at home, because it is well understood here that there s really no danger of silvy legislation, but it exerts itself abroad, where confidence in the stability of our financial system is not very strong. So long as there s talk of making concessions to the silver men in order to secure currency legislation and measures are introduced in con- ETes8 proposing concessions, the foreign distrust, which is in large measure re- sponsible for the withdrawal of capital from this country and the return of our securit will continue and the pro- cess of liquidation which has made such a heavy drain upon our resources during the t three or four years will 2o on. The obviously wise thing to do is to ely drop the silver question out of consideration, but as it seems impossible ‘nt congress to do this, it would be well to drop the whole cur- rency auestion. Nobody believes that anything will be done at this s ion, and keeping up the agitation is hurtful. A bill is now before the legislature the object of which is to make a note given by a farmer to cover the cost of scod grain a first lien on the crop harvested. In view of the widespread demand for seed grain among drouth stricken farm- ers it is reasonable to anticipate that money lenders will seek to dvan- tage of farmers the comin son. The bill in question should be subjected to most careful scrutiny and if passed at all it should embody every possible safe- guard which will protect the farmes against the rapacity of money sharks, who are ever ready to traflic upon the misfortunes of their fellow men. Such notes should not draw more than ¢ per cent interest and no contract between the money lender and the farmer, whereby the former is to furnish seed grain to the note giver, should call for more than 10 per cent of the crop har- vested. Ofz course the money lender must have protéction and existing stat- utes amply provide it. On its face the proposed bill sbems to be a measure calculated to legalize the wholesale flece- ing of farmers who, in straitened clr- cumstances;“nay be forced to borrow money with. which to purchase sced grain. Some of the recommendations made by Chief Seavey in his annual report will ‘meet wery: widespread approval, particularly ‘those relating to better discipline, ,more stringent rules to eliminate religious and political bicker- ings and a nearer approach to a civil service classification. We hardly think the burdens now borne by the tax- payers are such as to encourage any proposition looking toward the increase of the salaries now paid in the police department. There is no dearth of ap- plicants for positions at existing sal- aries, nor would there be any if new appointees were required to serve a prescribed period for less than they now get. There are many ways in which the efliciency of the force can be improved without any additional ex- penditure of money. —_— Up In South Dakota the prohibition agitators are trying to buy the populist vote in the state legislature with prom- ises that their followers will in return join the populist party. These are the usual prohibition tactics. They worked upon the republican party in Iowa, Kansas and South Dakota once, but they are played out now. The prohibitionists have but a small vote to turn and can not turn it if they will. The prohibi- tion incubus has harmed the repub- lican party wherever it has been taken up a great deal more than it has helped. The populists are welcome to all they can get out of a prohibition alliance, but with the experience of the repub- licans before them they will do well to 80 slow before becoming entangled in it. — Should Treat All Alike. Nebraska City News. The fast mail train from the east seems to be run entirely for the benefit of the Chicago newspapers and at the expense of the western publishers, The government should treat all alike, ——— There should be a United States man-of- war stationed at Honolulu until there is a United States territorial government estab- lished there. The policy of winking at efforts to re-estublish & monarchy s a policy of infamy, 'Tis Real Nice of John, Buftalo Express, John Burns says he is coming back to America next autumn, “for nowhere in the world is there more n of the English- man's helping h Is_real nice of 50, when we had him “to do it. Not has an Englishman so recognized 1t Looks Bad Anyway, 1Andoln News, On the face of it there are grounds for belleving that there was & Combination amongg the printers who' bid"on the print: ing of legislative bills. The ‘entire ranse of bids was but cents, and such close bidding never happened before uplees (hore was & combination. Ona 0f {he bidiers was imbued with: such dellightful s that to be sure,not to duplicate the bid of any of the others he ‘tacked on 15 cong Two years agh Db bills were prinfod for 81 cents. This!year (he' same. houge 1 printing them €0r $107. 1t muy be thet the commitice will' e ubable {6 Secupe Ah testimony showing that there was & con. bination, but "It will Tequire sbme “strong estimony 0 remove the opind - tained by the public, Wian sale rcesstons short of their | JANUARY 23, 1895. THR HAWAILAN EMEUTR. Chicago Post: The government of Hawall gave new evidenco of ability to take care of itselt by promptly supproesing the revolt of the “royalists.” The few white followers of Queen Lilluokalani and their native sup- POFters who attempted a “revolution” were | quickly and smartly whipped, and wnost ot them are now behind the bars, unless, in- deed, they have made the acquaintance of the | hangman or a line of rifiomen before this. New York Advertiser: Had the Hawallan revolutionists succeeded there would have been nothing in the way of Lilluokalani car- | rying out her long cherished wish, as com- | municated to Minister Willis, to cut oft the | heads of President Dole and' his supporters. There is every reason to belleve that this good lady and friend and admirer of Mr. Cleveland would have wielded the ax in per- | son and made signal and sanguinary success | of the proceeding. Chicago Herald: The Hawallan egg s hatching. Its brood is golng to bo baleful. It we could not tolerate annexation while the usurping government was in firm possession, according to its own accounts, we certainly [ shall not annex a revolution. We can get revolutions on our continent If we want an- | nexes of that nature. We need not go 2,000 miles out into the Pacific for such an annex. | Prestdent Cleveland's patriotism will be un- derstood more clearly today than it was a year ago. Chicago Tribune: Our relations with | Hawall are too close, our interests too im- portant, and the danger of forelgn plotting to gain’ a foothold too imminent to admit of any neglect in maintaining our influence in the islands. But there should be no further | tall_of maintaining influence or defending | interests. The solution of the problem lies in_annexation. When Hawali comes under the flag which Paramount Blount ordered pulled down there will be no further danger from royalists, from foreign powers, or from Kanaka sympathizers in the administra- City Star: Tt is really dificult to say which will create the more profound feeling of popular sympathy, the outbreak in Hawail or the outbreak of Messrs. Frye and Boutelle in the United States congress. It is too bad that a republic which has disfran- chised only about 85 per cent of its popula- tion should have an insurrection on its hands, and it is certainly to be deplored that so calm and dispassionate a man as Senator Frye, the senatorial agent of the missiona- rles' sons, should be wrought up to such a piteh of indignation that he was ‘“‘almost glad” he had no opportunity to speak on the subject. It is hard to imagine Mr. Frye or Mr. Boutelle, the self-constituted committee on Hawall real estate for missionaries’ sons reveling in silence under any conditions. (RN I SPEAKING OF THE STATE FAIR. Howells Journal: The state fair will be located at Omaha for the next five years. There is no other city in the state that can accommodate the crowds who attend except Lincoln, and we are glad Omaha got the plum. S Kearney Hub: Suppose now that the Lincoln-Omaha state fair feud be called off and that peace reign once more. The people of the state are not interested in a fight be- tween their two big tow They simply desire a successful state fair and no person need borrow trouble on that score because it goes to Omaha. Nebraska City Press: Lincoln news- papers are busily engaged in telling the public why Lincoln did not get the state fair. Never mind, Lincoln, you still have your salt wells, your Mayor Weir and Billy Bryan. And speaking of Billy—now per- haps you didn't get the fair for the same reason that he wasn't elected to the United States senate. Millard Courier: ~Omaha secured the lo- cation of the Nebraska state fair for the next five years. We consider Omaha and Douglas county fortunate in securing the location for the display of Nebraska's re- sources, but In justice to the agricultural class, who are in reality the people who make the fair, the assoclation should have secured a more central location. —_—————— PEOPLE AND THINGS. Bob Ingersoll's new lecture is entitled, “Which Way?" Box office, please. Mr. John P. Sutton, formerly of Omaha and Lincoln, s editing the Irish Republic in New York. S e The report going the rounds to the effec that the grave of Vice Prosident Colfax is unmarked is contradicted by members of the Colfax family. The man who sat down on a banana peel is hardly in a mood to appreciate the motto, “Exercising a Strong Will Insures Tran- quility of Mind.” One out of every four inhabitants of Squib- knocket, on the Massachusetts coast, is cither deaf or dumb. There s something in a name, after all. Major General Ruger has been instructed to inquire into the condition of Geronlmo and the other Apache prisoners at Fort Sill, with a view to determining the expediency of their release. The report of the Lexow investigating com- mittee, favoring the present partisan board of police commissioners for New York, is roundly condemned by reformers and ap- plauded by spoilsmen. Wade Hampton carries the mail over the star route from Madison to Mallory, Ga. Bob Toombs does odd jobs around the town for a living. Daniel Webster and Stonewall Jackson till the soll on Morgan county farms, James Paxton Voorhees, son of Senator Voorhees of Indiana, has just completed a bust of Richard Malcomb Johnson of Ken- tucky, once a vice president of the United States, which will be placed in a niche in the senate chamber. Despito the objection of the passing Hol- mans of congress the lower house responds to the demand for economy by re-enacting the franking privilege. This will save the members quite a penny, If the senato agrees, and compensate them for the annoyances of public life. In a two-column twist of the British lion's tail, a correspondent of the Chicago Herald eloquently remarks, “Msnifis Kosee frtol- deoohdfsr, The reason for this is not far to seek nor difficult to find.” Surely not. Take @ club and raid the proofreaders room. As a result of the examination of 4,000 eyes, Dr. Miles of Bridgeport, Conn., found that 65 per cent required 'glasses. The women and girls far exceed the men and boys. The period during which the people have the most trouble with their eyes is between 20 and 30, Congressman Paul Sorg, one of the two democratic lonelies in the Ohio congressional delegation elected in November, who has been regarded as the most available candi- date for governor for the democracy—for has he not a bar'l?—has declined to run under any circumstances, The horny fisted sons of Rhode Island know a snap when they see it. The standard bushel of onions in Massachusetts must weigh 57 pounds; {n Rhode Island 52 pounds is the legal weight. Now the onions are rolling out of the Bay state into the land of steady habits. A rake-off of five pounds is Rhody's strong point in the deal. Mr. Lafcadlo Hearn asked in different classes of hils Japanese school for written answers to the question, “What s your dearest wish?' Twenty per cent wished to gain glory by dying for the emperor. Others stated a similar wish in less definite language. Patriotism is, in Japan, devotion to the ruler personally, rather than to the country. Surface transit corporations in New York City have been given a taste of the reform kept on tap in that section. They are obliged to sweep and cart away the snow from their tracks, and for a distance of three feet on cach side of the tracks. Heretofore they piled thelr sweepings on the roadway and sidewalks, regardless of the comfort of others, This suggestive style of reform is not patented. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE HOLT COUNTY Nebraska City News: The cruel murder- ers should be brought to justice. Grand Island Independent: It Is to be ascertained yet whether the old enemies of | Scott were the perpetrators, ot the old friends Who wero turned into enemies by the fear | of exposure, or both together, Lincoln News: The lynching and murder of Scott form a terrible tragedy, but some- how or another the News cannot work itselt | up into a frenzy over it as soms of its es- | teemed Nebraska contemporaries are doing. It s an act of lawlessness that must be | frowned down and the perpetrators severely punished, not because it was a public thicf who had been murdered, but because of the example such acts of lawlessness, unles: summarily reproved, have upon the munity, It is true that the fact that had been convicted and was in a fair way to be punished for his crime deprives the lynch ers of a reasonable excuse for their unlawful | act, but it is nevertheless a fact that the | act of the supreme court in reducing his bail from the sum originally demanded to $40,000 was looked upon by a number of these frontiersmen who do not understand the equities of the case as part of what they conceived to be a scheme to turn Scott loose again, TRAGEDY, ——— Slzing Up the Alaska Bargain. Philadeiphia_ Times, When iIn the year 1867 the United States id Russia the sum of $1.: the pu . and th the count which Unele oft In summn The territory forgotten until the disputes with Gres Britain = over the taking of seals, and with “this _came an arbitration which_de. cided the United States to be wrong comes the annual report of o Sheakley to the secretary of the Interior Which renews the interest fn this faraway nd and tells a wonderful story wt ails are very attractive, The 59,107 ¢ miles of Alaska represent a land twice as large as York, Pennsyly Ohio, Tllinois, Indiana, Kentucky and nessée, with only 20,614 population, but 4,208 are whites, vernor i declares that the fisheries have been s ul, the mines have yielded profits returns, the population has been larg augmented by {mmigration and the p ple have enjoyed a seagon of unusual prog ress and prosperity. — The salmon canning industry alone, which began in 1883 with a pack of 36,000 cases, has fncreased to 800,000 cases, and salmon 'In the rivers “occur’ in numbers so great as to exceed all belief.” It sounds like the advertising schemes so cely set to bulld up the stecrage lists at European ports for the benefit of America, —— LINES T0 A SMILE. the day block of New York Recorder: A photographer whose photographs are perfect likenesses will get on in the world about as fast as a newspaper without a waste basket. Washington Star: marked Uncle Eben, “could keep 'is er bad = citizen ez Industrious ez er bad citizen kin keep 'is eye on a p'liceman dah wouldn't be nigh so much going's on.” Buffalo Courler: Kawler—Tt those articles of ‘vours are so ( will hardly be abie to diges Scribbles—Oh, that's all to go into patent insides, f a p'liceman,” trikes me ep people them. ght. They are Philadelphia_ Inquirs It seems a pro- voking paradox that a light bill can be made such a heavy bill When it's a gas bill, Boston Ccprier: “Quite a leg show here” sald the customer to the proprietor of the mutton department, “Yes,” said the other, “‘we always run a good variety here.” Of course there is such a thing as a strictly honest lawyer, Are we not told by the proverb makers that there is an exception (o every rule Truth: Mr. Awthaw Anglo—You Ameri- cans have no patriotic airs such as we have. Mr. Amer B. Kan—Hayen't, eh? What Is the matter with Uncle Sam as a national him? Somerville Journ. Indianapolis Journal: “What is that you are reading?" asked the fond father. “The People of the Mist,” answered the dutiful daughter. “It is a novel.”” “A novel, eh? ' T allowed from the name of it that it was a list of the last demo- cratic congress. New York Press: The Wife—Do they call a drink a_smile, John? The Husband—Yes, dear. Why do you as| The Wife—I was thinking that if they did it was rather strange that your takin; two or three extra smiles at night should cause you to wear two or three extra frowns in the mornin MUCH IN A NAME. Boston Courler, “What's in a name?” he idly sald— Tor surely 'tis no sin If one little Shakespeare knows, To sometimes work it in. And shg with that sweet malden smile, That 8o a man allures, Looked shyly down and softly sald, *“There’s ‘everything in yours.” el s THE POET’S PROPOSAL, Brooklyn Life, Phillis, if I could I'a paint you As 1 see you sitting there, You distracting little saint, you, With your aureole of hair. If I only were an artist And such glances could be caught, You should have the very smartest Picture frame that can be bought! Phyllls, since.I can't depict your Charms, or give you aught but fame, will You be yourselt the picture? Will you let me be the frame? Whose ‘protecting clasp may bind you Always— “Nay,” crled Phyllls, “hold, Or you'll force 'me 'to remind you Plctures must be framed with gold!” HOW THE ARMS WERE SENT. Story of Shipment of Munitions of War trom Victorin to Hawail, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 gentleman, whose business has brought him into contact With the customs officials, has just returned from Victoria, and he tells a rather startling | story regarding the shipment of forty oases of arms on the notorious smuggling schooner South Bend to the Hawaiian fslands. He says. “During my residencs in Victoria and the surrounding towns last October I saw a great deal of the band of smugglers Who have their headquarters along the sound, It was there I met Billy Stewart, who I8 known in Honolulu as “Oplum Brown,” and Jack Forest, alias Jack Regan. These men are well known oplum and Chinese smug- L “About the 220 of October I was walking under the Esquimault briige, near tho termis nus of the Esquimault and Nanaimo railroad. In the recesses of an arch I noticed a_ pile covered with canvas, Bach o was about four feet in length and a foot ro and, I have since learned, contained s and carbines. 1 made the find about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. At that time the South Bend was at anchor in a small inlet Just outside the main harbor. Late In the afternoon aboud 100 pounds of oplum, packed In clothes baskets, was transterred from tho store of Fook On Song & Co., the most prom- inent dealers in opium In Ne northwest, “The baskets were all placed under the bridge near the arms and that night the drugand s of rifles wero transferred to the South Bend in a small row boat. She left the inlet about midnight and for the first time in its histos 'y the owners, Stowart & Forbes, went aboard the schooner and took charge of the trip all the way to the islands, where they landed oft the west coast of the island of Lani. The goods were taken ashore and stored on a Chinese planta- tion directly opposite where the schconer anchored. Stewart and Forbes are still in Honolulu, “Both men are notorious smugglers and swindlers and are wanted by tho authorities of Seattle and other northwestern towns. For a number of years they have been openly engaged in oplum and Chinese smuggling and have succeeded in accumulating consids erable mone e i NEBRASK. D NEBRASKAN The Madison county fair will be held September 17 to 20. J. L. Greenlee has sold the Blalr Courler to Hoye & Mooney, formerly of Omaha. Nearly every store in the village of Ong was burglarized the other night and $800 worth of goods were secured. Tramp burglars entered the house of Bdgar Wood, a Pawnee county farmer, and secured $75 worth of jewelry. The family was at church. While under the influence of liquor, Poter Koberg fell from a fast train near Warners- ville. ~ The trainmen went back and picked up, as they supposed, the corpse, but just as they were about to notify the coroner the “dead” man got up and walked off. Koberg also fell down a long flight of stepd, but was not injured. Fred S. Hassler tells in the Pawnee Press how he once ‘“carried a telegram from Abraham Lincoln, at that time president of the United States, to the late Hon. John Covode, then a member of congress from Pennsylvania. The distance was forty miles or more, and was made on horseback, start- ing In the afternoon at 3 o’clock and arriving at Mr. Covode's home about 2 o'clock next morning. The message was delivered and a reply returned, which was telegraphed to President Lincoln from Greensburg, Pa., by D. W. Shryock, then editor of the Greens- burg (Pa.) Herald, for whom we were sery- ing an apprenticeship. ~ We retain a justi- flable memory of this circumstance, which occurred In 1862, when clrcumstances of the nation wero in a critical condition. Mr, Covode started next day for Washington, and whatever may have been tho conference between himself and President Lincoln, the boy of 18 years at that time feels today a justifiable pride of his agency.” Sweet, clean and fresh. The Pure Article. Always the same. It's for you. | Sold only In 2 Ib. Packages. & RELIABLE CLOTHIERS© Your Money’s Worth or Your Money Back, Clearing Clothing— We do all we promise and sometimes more— The Limit. ‘We must positively refuse to sell more than two suits, or two oyer- coats, or two ulsters to any one customer—as we hLave no desire to supply any more dealers. This sale is for you—to make you a continuous customer. Dealers will have to Luy elsewhere, e — been put in lots rangeing in There are a few $8.60 sults, at. There aro a fow $12.50 suits at. Some $15.00, $16.50, $18.00 suits, overcoat: $15.00, $16.50, $18.00, $20.00 suits, overcoat: There are a few $20.00 suits, overcoats and ulsters at Some $18.00, $20.00, §22.50 suits, overcoats and ulsters at ,,, Also some Also some $25.00, $28.00 suits, overcoats and ulsters a There are a few $35.00 suits, overcoats and ulsters 26,00, $20.00 suits, overcoats and ulsters at you, who know us, know we make no promiscuous promises, but always pro- duce the proof. Here it i An accumulation of suits —and overcoats—and ul- sters—parts of our most popular tailoring — the best sellers we had—hava price something likethis: -$ 5.00 7.50 10.00 12.50 13.50 15.00 18.00 20.00 25.00 teaem s and ulsters al s and ulsters at ,,,q LLEPPPPIPN Quite a large assortment of men’s trousers of the $6 and $7 value—black clay worsteds among them, at the unifor 3.75 BROWNING, KING & CO., othiers, 8. W Cor, 15th and Douglas, m price ot , . ,