Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1895, Page 4

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CORRESPONDENCE, j ANl communieations relating to news and edl- torlul maiter thonld be addressed: To the Editor, BUSINESS LETTERS. teiness leitors and remittances should be to The Heo Publishing company, Drafts, checks and_postoflice ord prvable 1o the order of the com, THIS BEE ¥ HING COM All aidress Omaha. bo mad BL STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Seorge B, Tuschick, secreary of The Bee Pub. lshing company. being duly sworn. says that the actual number of full and com te copies of the Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Dee printed during the month of February, 1895, was as follows L 10 19,600 2,195 20436 50 W 1963 L 204 L1060 L19en 119518 19,692 EEEE S e aeamadion onania S R A v Less deductions for il vy Net salos, Dalley avirig *Sunday 1 and returned ORGE T me_and subseribed fn m ence this March. 1805 (Seal) P. FEIL, N — e Bwarn 1 1 Ex-Spenker painful declined. have once Cr t now visions of a scuatorship The fon eaused by that great democratic free silver manifesto Is still conspicuous by its absence. sen Steange how mu getting into excitement he ¢ ‘h noise & man makes and how little ates getting out of it! congres; Time we and yet the r sibility of bondsmen of certain quent ex-county offic fixed and determined. Now that the oleo bill is law will the price of Jersey milch cows advance $5 a head in consequence? We will wager a case of rancid butter that it will not. on- delin- s has not been The ued policy law is still in danger. Any member who dare vote for its repeal shall deserve the fate of the Lilliputians when Gulliver overtook them. Should the charter amendment re ing to a single tax assessor become law there will be no difficulty in finding man for the place. Henry Ihrenpfort is still with us. It is to be hoped the courteous treat- ment of Speaker Crisp by the republi- can minority in the house will prove a lesson in politeness to #11 future demo- eratic minorities. Made over, back number creamery butter, strong enough to walk, will soon have a clear track in this state and need no longer fear competition at the hands of oleo maker: The anti-nepotism resolution got lost in the senatorial shuflle. Tt will in all probability fail to again come to the top until another adjournment is close enough to crowd it out. Every patron of the telephone com- pany has a vital interest in the decision of tlfe federal supreme court defining the life of letters patent. It is the be- ginning of the end of high telephone rentals. In some miraculous manner just those citizens who said the le when the charter was before the local charter re vision committee do the most talking when they get before the legislative committee at Lincoln, No wonder President Cleveland sent his congratulations to congress on the fact that there was nothing more for it to do but adjourn. Those congratula tions, however, would have been wmuch more hearty and sincere had the oces sion for them come two or three months earlier. The honorable gentleman from Sarpy showed great disrespect for the chair when be made use of a swear word in referring to the gentleman who rules the house. The Sarpy statesman should be required to make a public apology and then go and square himself with the chaplair Annual reports of building assoecia- tlons in this city show a continual growth of confidence in these savings institutions. It is also made evident that people of moderate means have learned lessons In thrift aud arve putting away their surplus carnings against the proverbial rainy day. We wonder whether the public will ever be given an account showing the exact total of congressional salaries re tained In the public treasury pursuant 1o the docking law and the names of the representatives whose consciences pr wyented them from drawing pay for sery- fces not performed? One lone Nebraska democrat who had his hopes raised by a presidential nom- fnation to a postmastership was left ot in the cold by the failure of the senate to act on the nomination. It lies open to the president to give him the ad in terim appointment. That is the only thing that can make him happy once more. One of our “oldest settlers” went down to the state house to tell the people that Omaha is on the decline and that Coun cll Blulls is wa active commerelal rival of this city. The only way such twad dle can be accounted for is that the old settler may have some town property across the way which he wishes to 20 [ fines what it chooses to term “imitation o | THE OMAHIA DAILY B WEDNESDAY, OLEOMARGARINE BILL A LAW, With the signature of the governor the Sloan bill, to prohibit the manu- facture and sale of oleomargarine in the state of Nebraska, becomes a law, to go into force in August next. The bill is the one that was fathered by the State Dairymen’s association and is most drastic in its provisions. It de butt and prohibits under the most severe penalties of fine and In- prisonment the coloring or compound- ing of any such article o as to make it resemble butter, the product of the dairy. Nor doos It stop with making the manufacture and sale of oleomar- garine misdemeanors, but also prohibits its transportation to or from points within the state. It furth provides that all imitation butter made or sold within the te be distinetly labeled as such, and that every hoarding louse, restaurant, dining car, hotel or place of public entertainment where such substance is used as a substitute for butter display placard bearing in . black letters the inseription, “Im- itation Butter Used He The object and intended result of the law to completely destroy the oleomargarine business in bras 1 to compel constumers of oleomargarine henceforth to use dairy butter. The oleomargarine law clearly a piece of flagrant class legislation from which the dairymen hope to gain at the expense of the oleomargarine manu- facturers gnd their employ The only olace where the business is carried on in this state it at South Omaha, in con- nection with the packing houses there, and the great bulk of the product is shipped for consumption outside of the state. If this industry is abandoned on account of the new law the whole state will be the safferer. The Bee has expr is sod its disapproval of the Sloan bill and eaunot but deplore the governor'’s failure to veto it. So strong were the objections urged against the measure that Governor Hol- comb accompanied his signature of the DI with o special m to the sen- ate recommending certain amendments to permit the manufacture of oleomar- garine for forcign consumption and au- thorizing the introduction of a bill for that purpose. He gives as his re for approving the law the fact that the representatives of the people in both louses of the legislature were al- most unanimous in its vor aud that in his judgment the provisions are in the main for the best intevests of the people. Yet he admits that an unneces- sary hardship is worked on the maun- facturers of oleomargarine, a defect in the law of such importance as to war- rant o special wessage to initiate amendatory. legislation. Assuming for the moment that the position of Gov- ernor Holcomb is correct with reference to the desirability of a rational law on the subject of oleomargarine, his course in approving the law and trusting to the legislature to incorporate his amend- ment into it is open to serious question. Had he vetoed it and sent in a new bill framed to meet his own sugges- tions there would be no doubt about its accentance and re-enactment by the legislature, But on mere moral grounds, if oleomargarine good enough for manufacture for sale in other states is it not also good enough for home consumption? WEAKNESS OF THE TRUSTS. Some of the trusts have within a short time shown signs of weakness, which warrant the hope that under the opera- tion of the natural laws of trade these combinations may in time dissolve and permit a return to that free competition which prevailed before ' they cane into existence, The Whisky frust is in the hands of a receiver, and it is said there are evidences of disunion in the Tobacco trust. Of the Cordage trust, which has passed through a ve- ceivership and been reorganized, it is stated that the process of reorganization has bred enough dissatisraction to brin into the field of competition a company well equipped for effective riv ferring to these instances the New Yorl Commercial Bulletin observes that they by 1o means exhaust the past and pres- ent difficulties of the trusts, but the serve to illustrate the inherent wenk- ness of most of these organizations. few of them, that journal remar! » started fair in the matter of capi- zation. That is to say, the plant and buildings of & number of manufacturing firms about to form a trust have been appraised at sums preposterously in ex- cess of their real value, Another souree of weakness is In the fact that the members of a trust do not always deal fairly with each other. This is shown in the case of the president of the Whisky trust, whose operations on the stock market ave typfal of others which have not proved quite so cost (o the interests which were the subject of speculation. When it is considered that the trust is neither n normal nor necessary type of commercial development, says the Comnmercinl Bulletin, that it is at best a partial and temporary remedy for the eXCosS competition which it is de- signed to prevent, it will be found to be impossible to predict a long life for nine-tenths of these combinations. “Phelr 1 is becoming legion, but their portion is decay, The natural laws of trade are likely to prove more potent to dissolve the trusts tto their con- stituent elements than all the statut of ail the legislatures. But between asons is me them the process of dissolution ought to | be sufficiently inevits tain that the gen ble to make it cer- tion which has seen the trusts grow up like mushrooms should also them like mushrooms decny.” Welcome, however, as are evl- dences of the weakness and the ten- deney to disintegration of the combina tions, they should not deter legislation for their repression, and for the prote tion of the people against the exactions of the trusts, and such legislation, to be certainly effective, must come from the states. The supreme court of the United Ntates has pointed out the ditliculties in the way of congress dealing with trusts, The authority of the national legisla ture in this divection, as defined by the court, is very liited, while in the ex- ercise of their police power the states see -phone The de- court in have almost unlimited seope. cision of the supreme the case against the Sugar trost is very strong and clear on this point. It was declared that the re- lief of the citizens of each state from the burden of monopoly and the evils resulting from the restraint of trade among such citizens was left with the states to deal with, and that the su preme court has recognized their pos session of that power even to the ex tent of holding that an employment or business od on by private indi- viduals, when it becomes a matter of such public fnterest and importance as to create a common charge or burden upon the citizen, in other words, when it becomes a practical monopoly, to which the citizen is compelled to sort, and by means of which a tribute can be exacted from the community, is subject to regulation by state legislative power, Having thus, upon the authority of the highest judicial tribunal, almost un- limited power to deal with trusts and combinations, the duty of the states is plain, and it the people continue to sub- t to the dictation of wonopolistic or- ganizations in trade they will do with their eyes open. The remedy is be found in a general system of strong state anti-trust laws rigidly enforc 80 AR, The decision of the supreme court of the United States in the refriger- ator case, regarded by the court as of so great importance that it was aned for hearing three years in ad vance of the regular order, pe very great interest for a large propot tion of the people of this country. It is the first decision of the court of last resort upon a vital question involved in our patent laws, namely, whether the lite of an American patent expires with the expiration of a foreign patent on the same invention, the latter having been first obtained, and the court unan- fmously interpreted the statutes as pro- viding “that an invention covered by a forcign patent, which the inventor ob- tained or caused to be obtained before receiving an American patent, should be free to the American public as soon as it beeame free by reason of the ex- piration of the foreign patent to the people of other countries.” The court furthel id that “if this principle op- erates havshly upon inventors in cor- tain cas it is for congress, whose d tion is not subject to judicial control, to make provision for those cases if it is possible to do so without such injury to the people of our country as ought not to be inflicted upon them.” In this last observation the court obviously had in mind the efforts of the telephone mo- nopoly to seeure legislation by congre: which would extend their control of certain patents the terms of which have expired in foreign countries, thus pro- longing the monopoly, and there is an implied suggestion that to do this would n injury to the people of the coun- SOSSOS The decision is distinctly in the public interest. As noted in the telegraphic report, it affects numerous patents held Ly different interests, but that portion of the public which will probably be most benefited by it are the users of the telephone, All the Edison pat- ents owned by the American Bell Tele- company, upon which foreign patents were issued years ago, and which are free in foreign countries, un- der this decision now become free in this country. The telephone monopoly, ev- idently apprehending the possibility of an adverse decision by the supreme court, sought to have these patents ex- tended by congress, and a bill for that purpose was introduced in the house, but this powerful corporation, which has been so successful in controllin; courts and legislatures, failed to se- cure the consideration of its measure for perpetuating its power to exact an un- Just tribute from the publie, a fact to be remembered to the credit of congress. Now that the highest judicial tribunal has said that these patents are free in this country, as they ave in Burope, it is to be presumed that the telephone company will not continue the effort to have them extended. Certainly it would be useless to do so, for the monopoly can hope to accomplish nothing with the next congr The decision of the upreme court opens the field to com- petition, and while the American Bell Pelephone company is so strongly in- trenched that it will not be an easy matter to break the monopoly there is every reason to expect that it will soon be compelled to consider the very gen- eral demand of the publie for reason- able concessions. There are some other divections in which this highly impor- tant decision will benefit the public, and altogether there have been few more notable and far-reaching deliverances by our highest judicial tribunal, PROPOSED POLICE INVES T1GATION, The Board of Pire and Police Com- missioners has practically declded to in- stitute an investigation into the con- duet of the entire police departinent from top to bottom, with view to veri- tying or disproving the intimations of the existence of coriuj t practices thrown out In the recent report of the grand Jury. The people will be inclined to ask incredulously, What good can come out of the proposed investigation? Can any inquiry by the police commissioners eliclt more evidence than they already have within reach? If the commission- ers are disposed to give this community the thorough reorganization of the po- lice force that is demanded they have ample information at their command upon which to base action. 1t dld not need the report of the grand Jury to convinee the people of Omaha that for some time the police had ceased to exereise any terror upon certain law- less classes. The Bee has repeatedly called attention to the decoy detectives who encourage rather than . repress crime, The official veports of the chief and bis immediate subordinates are sub- stantial admissions of general demoral- ization. Almost every investigation of charges against police officers made by the board has substantiated the pre- alling Impression. A few of the ac cused officers have been dismissed, but for some reason or other some of the worst offenders remain on the force. The significant fact Is that all of uw.«,,; charges hayp Leen made, not by the | chief, but by private citizens, Either the chief s ‘known of these corrupt practices, of {liis connivance with crime, on the part af snembers of the police de- partment, of Hit'onght to have known of them. Asking for an investigation can- not take hinoff the defensive, Whethier the vesult of the proposed po- lice investigition is whitewash or black- wash, the Aty will stiil devolve upon police commiksioners to reorganize the department, to summarily dismiss every police officer. who is efther incompetent or corrupt and to infuse new life and new discipline into the foree. The decision of Judge Caldwell that the employer's lability law of Kausas applies to railroads in the hands of re- ceivers ns well as to selvent roads is encouraging to the contention that a receivership dees not suspend all state 1aws with reforence to the company and its employes. There are, of course, s Tnws that not apply to roads, sucl, for example, as nishment law, as has been held by Judge Caldwell himself, but the line can and should be drawn in favor of the validity of every ate enactment unless there ave special and extraor dinary reasons why a receivership should nullify it. There is no good rea- son why receivers should enjoy advan- tages in the way of exemption from o law that are not equally aceorded the managers of solvent concerns, me bankrupt the gar do Mass meetings are being held in Chi- to denounce the cfty council for voting away priceless franchises in de- nee of the public interest. It is the me old story. Corporations want these franchises and are willing to huy votes to obtain them, but they seem (o be un- willing to pay the people at large a price for such franchises. Chicago is an up-to-date city. In almost every o tial regavd it all-powerful. Wh, not her people decree th no public franchise shall be granted except to the highest bidder, the proposition to be put to a vote of the people for their rati fication, the expense of such special election to be borne by corporations seeking concessions? cngo The explanation by Senator Wright for voting in the first instance agaivst the confirmation of one of the governor's appointees is novel, to the les The senator said that, know- ing nothing personally of the man nom- inated, he would require some of I fellow-senators' to vouch for his qualifi- sations before e would vote to confirm him. The iden conveyed is that every man nominated by the governor is pre- sumed to be unqualified for the place to which he aspires until he has a sena- torial certificate of character. Perhaps the governor ouZht to transmit such a certificate along with each of his nom- inntions that need the confirmation of the senate. st Complaint is made high-salavied professors and instructors in the State wntyersity published in The 3e¢ Is a partial salary 1list of a year o, and that some of the persons men- tioned are no longer connected with the university. It Is true that there have Dbeen some changes in the personnel of the university roster, but where onc nome has been removed another has been substituted for it, while still others have been in the past year promoted to higher and more luerative positions. The salary list of the university a year ago errs from that of today by making the total appear smaller lher than larger than it really is. that the list of The Board of Education is to be com- mended for promptly passing the resolu- tion introduced by Mr. Tukey forbidding entertainments in the public schools to which an admission fee is charged. The Bee claims the credit for exposing these abuses which were promoting the prac tice of begging among the school chil- dren of the city, These numerons money making entertainments arve de- moralizing upon the discipline both of tenchers and pupils. #here never was any excuse for them. Their discontinu- ance will be appreciated by the parents whose children have been made the agents of these begging expeditions. The discharge of the late grand jury was strangely lacking in those peculiar spectacular features that so often a company the discharge of the feder grand jury. There was no mutual ad- miration society, including all the court officers, with the incidental congratuls tory resolutions and speeches, There was no exchange of souvenir gifts, no bejeweled searfpins, no gold-headed canes. The discharge was ordered with a heavy, dull thud. Alas! What a dif- ference between grand juries! Duluth is somewhat excited over the discovery of a $300,000 steal incident to the award of a contract for putting in L competing segter works plant. Trade is dull in the Zgdith City and it is ap- pavently necesfiby to increase the vol- ume of circulFtigg medium, Mr. Bissell & eéntitled to credit as the only ‘member of Ji¢ cabinet who has mani- fested a decen pect for the wishes cf the people as eXphéised in the last election, ——r— A Ktzhteous Decixion. FhHaselphia Pross, The decision sofuthe Utah supreme court that certificates of selection must be lzsued to those deleg: A the constitutional con. | vention shown A clected on the face of the reurns is @usive blow (o the hope the democrats Bad o€ controlling that body The final ¢ uot Wikgnow the el ction of ALy~ nine republica’ delog to forty-elght democratic del republican ma- Jority of elevs nable the re- bublicans to coittol the acliberations of the convention and give the state a goud con- stitution and & (4 apportionment’ 1f ihey do this there 5 Rardly a doubt that they can carry it at (he firat state election and send two republicn senators to Washing- ton, | agree to to encourage aerial navi | courts to 1895. TERNATIONAL CONFERENCR, MARCH 6, THE 1) Indianapolls Journsl: 1t Is a_great gain for bimetallism for the Housa of Commons to even discuss a proposition for an interna tional monetary conference and fto express willingness to participate in ft Globe-Democrat: Austria, clared her wilingness to be the projected monetary conference too, has dc proseated in That | gathering is bound to be a more interesting | aMfalr than the Brussels assemblage was. United States Investor: The movement for bimetallism seems to have gained a_little momentum from votes in the German Reich- stag and Dritish Parllament, and our gov ernment has followed sult by a favorable vote on the resolution to appoint delegates to an international conference, if one is ealled by any of the leading Kuropean powers. There may be no harm in another conference, if its efforts are limited to what is practicable, in- stead of reaching out for the unattainable Philadelphia Record: without value until the delegates attending them shall be empowered to do something, and to bind the governments they Jrepresen up to the lmit of their instructions. Unle England and Germany shall first definitely abandon the single gold standard and re-enter upon the two-yard-stick ex- periment further international discussion will tend to prolong rather than to compose financial difficulties and misunderstandings. Denver News: The attitude of the Colo- rado senators and thelr republican conferees seems to bear only one construction, and it is a construction which the News regrets to have to place upon it. They appear de termined fo try to get silver removed from the fleld as the pressing issue; determined to co-operate with the enemies of silver in reaching some kind of an international agree- ment in order that they may go before the people and claim that silver is no longer a living issue; determined to sacrifice all to which they should be consecrated rather than that their party should be endangered. THE SILVER HORN BAND. Sioux City Journal: Mr. Bryan of Ne- braska fis determined that the democrats shall be led in the next campaign by a sil- ver cornet band, and he wouldn't object to wielding the baton himself. Courler Journal: The promulgators of tie free-silver add to democra Just issued by a few members of congres arefully avoided signing thelr names. That ‘xas a much more sensible thing than thay have been in the habit of doing. Their names, in- stead of strengthening, would weaken any cause, Chicago were not Journal already a hopeless split in its ranks would doom it to retire- ment. As it is, it makes but little differ- ence whether it demands dollars made of 50 cents worth of silver or of 10 cents worth of copper or of 1 cent's worth of leather with Mr., Bryan's face stamped on it. The party of henor, thank heaven, will be in the ascand- ency after next Monday. Chicago Inter Ocean: A few days ago it was announced from Washington with a loud blare of trumpets that the silver men were to organize a new political party, but in- stead comes a_manifesto from the champions of free silver in the democratic party, which means, when boiled down to the last deg stay in the old party. Mr. Bryan of Ne- braska seems to have been the prime mover in this business. He probably drew up the document himself. St. Paul Pioncer Press: The democratic coterie. of free silverites in congress have thrown down the gauntlet in the issuance of a manifesto which so far has been signed by fiftcen democrats of both houses. Bryan of Nebraska is the leader in this movement for Mexicanizing the democratic party. He has apparcntly abandoned his first plan of organizing a_free silver party, all by its little self. His present proposition is that the tail shall wag the dog, and that the free silver faction shall run the democratic party. Cleveland Plain Dealer: We go further than the language of the address. We believe that the feeling in favor of thorough bimetallism is not confined to a majority of democrats, but extends to the masses of the other par- ties. We venture the prediction that no one of the national parties will dare make an appeal to the people of the United States upon the platform of the single gold standard, and that it will only be a diffcrence between outspoken and vague bimetallist declara- tions in_the platforms of the contending par- ties in 1896, minority this R e PEOPLE AND THINGS. The trouble in Cuba ie not as rash as that which bothers the queen regent of Spain. It is the measles, The best people of Chicago are out for re- form in city government, but the primaries will be conducted as heretofore. A prolonged search failed to reveal that barrel of whisky in the basement of the In- diana state heuse. It was spirited away in the usual manner. Thomas Jefferson Lummis, who died at Lynn a few days ago, witnessed from a rock at Nabant the sea fight between the Chesa- peake and the Shannon in the war of 1812, The Colorado stateswomen are not opposed to the bill prohibiting certain feminine head- gear in theaters, but insist on restricting the consumption of cloves between the acts, Fair exchange is that, It stands to the credit of the last congress that it sat upon an appropriation of $100,000 fon. A majority of the members have troubies of their own navi- gating Salt Creek. Skidmore Alston, who died recently Rolesville, N. C., aged 85, was the father of twenty-four children. His grandehildren were 20 numerous that he did not know their num- ber nor was he able to recognize them all. Mrs. Lucy Healy, one of Rhode Island's colonial dames, passed away a few days ago. She was born ninety-nine years ago, lived at Quonochontaug, as never ol de the boundary of the state, did not see Washington and never hit the pipe. If the friends of Messrs, Warren and Clark, Wyoming's new senators, would preserve un- defiled the manly beauty of these senatorial Apollos, they rhould unlimber their per- cuaders and hold a brief enthustastic con- ference with wood-cut artists, Wiiliam Morton Morrison of Baltimore, who has just celebrated his ninety-fourth birthday, has ‘always been a democrat, and voted for “Old Hickory,” but he now says he is dis- gusted with his party. It takes a democrat a long time to see the error of his ways, but it he lives long enough he sometimes does s0. The upper crust of New York is not a unit on the question of taking the public into its confidence in matters domestic. While the papers are filled with accounts of the bril- liancy of the Gould nuptials, a branch of the Vanderbilt family seeks the power of the insure secrecy in proceeding for ony of prudes in a Michigan town un- wittingly assisted a troupe of barn stormers to a soug surplus at the right time. They protested against naughty show bills, and the manager cheerfully agreed to cover them up. The pictorial high kickers were trans- formel into sedate Puritans, and the at- tractive ballet donned cold weather raiment The transformation was effected by means of paper do!l patterns, ¢r istically arring:d, The town stopped business to see the bills and then pald their bills to ses the ehow. It was a distinet hit. Arrangements have been completed for th consolidaticn of the Astor and Lennox libra- rles with the Tiiden library fund of §2,000,000. It is proposed to make the consolidated library @ free public institution and erect a mwmodious bullding for it down town. Th library will start with 450,000 bound vol an {mmense collection of valuable pamy manuscripts and paintings, and endowments amounting to over $8,000,000. Control will be veated in twenty-one trusiees, and the institu- tion will be known as “the public library of the City of New York—Astor, Lennox and Tilden foundations." Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE Conferences will be | It the democratic party | OFPOSES TH FEDERATION, Chieago's Mayor Appeoves the New Franchiss ne Opposed to Manopoly. CHICAGO, Mareh 5, —Mayor Hopkins last night announced his unconditional official ap- i proval of the C en gas ordinance, which has aroused warm opposition from the Civie | Federation and in other influential quarters | on the ground that it Is a “‘boodle” measure. ‘ The cosmopolitan eciectrie ordinance, which | has been similarly classed by the opponents | of the Ogden ordinance, was also approved | by the mayor. In a message to tho ety | councll accompanying his approval, Mayor | Hopkins says: ‘““There is hardly a state in the union in which laws prohibiting the formation of | trusts and kindred comblinations have not | been passed, and the courts everywhero seom to be more or less engaged with judicial in- quiries into the manifold abuses incident to the establishment and continuance of theso unlawful and oppressive organizations. So far, however, the people have only been partially suc sful in the great struggle and so crafty and law-defying have been the villains fn broadeloth and kid gloves manipu: lating these enorm properties that they have managed by various subtorfuges, as artful and cunning as can possibly be con- trived by the shrewdest and most unscrupu- lous of corporation lawy to cscape the consequences of final Judgments and decrees | of the courts of last resort. "It is the direct consequence of the organ izatlon and continuance of trusts like the | great Chicago Gas trust, now sald to form but a branch of a still greater and therefore still_more dangerous trust of not only na tional but international dominagee, that, not- withstanding the increased consumption and the continuous new inventions and fmproved contrivances materially cheapen- ing the cost of productio the people of our city have to pay a much higher price for illuminating gas than the people of other less populous American communities. Why should our people bo compelled to pay more for gas than the people of Detroit, Clove- land and Wheeling? If the capitalization of the trust represented nothing but the capital actually invested in the plant the dividends derived from $1 gas stock would be so large that the, stock could not be had for anything less than an amount equal to many times its par value." g CIVIL CEREMONY FOLLOWED, Gan [ | | The Goulds at tho Last Moment a Second Marrlage. NEW YORK, March 5.—No armngenents scem to have been made for the civil weddin previous to yesterday. In fact it had been de- cided not to have a civil ceremony until nearly two hours after the religious services had been concluded by Archbishop Corrigan. At 2 p. m. George Gould telephoned to his attorney, Julien T. Davies, saying in cfect “We have decided to have a civil marriage. Go_Immediately to tho court house and ask a judge to come up prepared to perform a mar- | Tiage ceremony age caused great excitement in the . Tt was decided to Judge Miles Beach of the court of common pleag, but Judge Beach was holding court and said it was out of the question for him to leave. Justice Andrews finally con- sented, and leaving the bench was driven rap- idly to the Gould home. When he arrived it was about 3:30 o'clock, and the wedding party was in a state of excitement for fear the plan to have a civil marriage might fall through. Many of the guests had gone. At Justice Andrews’ suggestion those remaining went upstairs to the sitting room on the sccond floor, and there, in the center of the room, tho simple ceremony which declared the two man and wife a second time was performed. George and Helen, Attorney Garner and about halt a dozen of the' guests were witnesses. The bridesmalds and ushers were not present. The bride and bridegroom signed the certifi- cate hurriedly and departed. IRVINGTON, N. Y., March 5.—The count and countess de Castellane arrived at Lynd- hurst, the Gould residence at this place, on the 4:35 train from New York. Their coming was apparently unexpected and the villagers did not greet them. IRVINGTON, N. Y., March 5.—Count de Castellane and his bride, the countess, who arrived from New York last evening, are spending a_quiet day at Lynhurst, Helen Gould's mansion. A number of newspaper men this morning went to Lynhurst. but they were not allowed to go any further than the gate, and were refused all jnfor- mation as to the movements of the bridal couple. Two men who look like detectives closely scrutinize all who ask for admi sion to the grounds surrounding Lynhurs It is reported that the count and countes: will depart on the 8:10 train for Buffalo and will stop at Niagara Falls, en route to Canada. Decide on VA DIVORCE FOR MRS. VANDERBILT Willlam K.'s Wife W s on All Points at Tssun In the. Case, NEW YORK, March 5.—A decree of abso- lute divorce was filed in the office of the county clerk today in the sult of Alva F Vanderbilt against Willlam K. Vanderbilt. All the papers in the case were called up and nothing specific as to the nature of the case could be ascertained. The decree by Justice Barrett a custody of the children of the marriage to Mrs. Venderbilt, it being provided that they shall be educated in the United Statos The action was begun on January & Iy and the defenc Ut in an answer den ing the charg Zdmund Kelly was o referee to hear and- determine the e, and filed_his report on January Febr 'y d 25 hearings wi at _special s of the supreme court befort Justi Barrett on motions to confirm the report and on the question of | alimony., Mr, Vanderbilt on the latte lay tendered the plaintiff a deed whereby he conveyed property in satisfaction for claims for alimony. ards the | may seem e/ NERRASKA AND NERRASKANS, There aro thirteen Sheridan counly hoys in the reform school at Kearuey. Fairfield can secure a creamery if her citls zens will put up the necessary bonus. Threo business hulldings at Alvo were des stroyed by fire, causing a loss ot $4,000, Twenty-five or thirty Custer county oitl zens are now In the east soliciting grain, 1. D. Newell, formerly superintendent of Clay county, died recently at Manhattan, Kas, Overwork and worry over sick children has caused Mrs. Augusta Lade of Sherman county to loso her mind, and she has been sent to an asylum. Two young men near Creighton wore caught _stealing hay and the court fined them $5 aplece and made them pay double what the hay was worth Mrs. W. Barber of Luella, Shoridan county, was so badly injured In o runaway that she remained unconscious for four day and her injurios ma L prove fatal. A Tecumseh wife-beater started in be- laboring his wife with his fists, when the woman's sister arrived on the scene and bit the brute over the head with a stick of cord wood, laying him ont. A mad dog bit a horse and hog belonging to Farmer Downer of Clay counly and the animals died of hydrophobia. A number of other animals were bitten, but they have not as yet manifested any signs of the dig= ease, After going to church at Leigh, George Davis made an assault on Bert Holden and was locked up to awalit the action of the district court. During the night some one unlocked the jail and gave Davis his liberty. He has not been seon since The agent for the Dookwalter lands In Valley county the other day received a lot- ter authorizing the purchase of wheat to the amount of $100 on the account of the owner of the lands and distribute it among their needy tenants, pro rata to the amount of ground broken out and to take notes for the same, payable October 1 without in- terest. 'The company also proposes to make some arrangements with regard to seed corn before the time for planting. e THE JOLLY CREV. Philadelphia Record: Parad fcal as the miner to be su cessful must dig in vein, Boston Conrfer fer a livin' now F. B.—~What? S. B Detroit Free Press: “Why don't you ever write any poetry, Seribe?™ “I did” write a poem once—an ‘Ode to Oblivion.' " “Indeed! “What became of 1t?* It reached its des- tination.” t heat—Wot yer doln® Second _beat—Workin. ame ol' racket, Chicago Inter Ocean: “How to dispose of the rival bes story Myrtle—Kill one of how?" Ayrtle—I'll make the and ‘only have a lovely new one, you golng. in “your them. “But time spring, bonnet for Atlanta Constitution: “Love s tapping at ¢ “door,” wrote the poet, well content. aid the' wife: “You're wrong once more; that's the landlord for the rent.'” Philadelphia Inquirer: Meekly—T think we will have some rain, my dear. Mrs. Meekly (very strong-minded) “You presume beyond our province. When did I authorize you {o use the plural. T am going to have some rain, Somer believe t truth? sond Lawyer (hesitatingly there’s no doubt he should, whene make anything by it ille Journal: First Lawyer—Do you @ man should always tell the —Well, ¢ér he can Truth: Miss M plain how it s 100 men ab- scond not more than one woman can be ind who {s in the least dishonest? liss Fremont—Certainly. The women have no extravagant wive Chicago Tribune: The Hon. Mrs Strong. mind (rising in heér place and speaking in u_ deep, resonant contraito volce)—I wish now, Madame Speaker, to move that we proceed to the consideration of the bill “To Prohibit Men from Going Out Between Acts at Theaters.' SWIPED. Harper's Dazar, “Take off that heavy overcoat,' ‘The landlord said, “with cheery “Or yvou'll nott feel the good of it When after eating you go out.” I took that gentleman's advice, But, after all, I cannot say, 1 felt' my coat when I went out I haven't felt it since that day ey A SMALL BOY'S PLAINT. New York Herald, When the blizzard is blowing outside in the street, T have to stay here in the house, I have to sit quict the whole of the time, a8 still ag a little brown mouse. They won't let me tease my smal brother at all, or play with my small sister’s things, And mamma’s not pleased if I snoop in her. room and set up a store with her rings. And daddy gets mad as a_crazy March hare when I cut pictures out of his books. 1 cannot go down in the Kitchen to stay be- cause we've the crossest of cooks, The waitress don't like it if by some mis- chance 1 upset the cranberry ple. On blizzardy days there isn’t a’ boy 80 un- happy and tired as I. The dog he snaps if T pull his tall, and pussy she scratches my hand If T put her aboard the piano and play she's the head of a musical band. The baby he cries if 1 poke at his eyes, and his nurse drives me out of the pface, And_tells me that all through the rest of the day she don’t want a sight of my face, for L want to go out; I vish it was clear, T and sl cannot stay quiet S6'Tull of moyiness all of the time that sitting down makes me feel il anot do anything—no not a thing—T y in when can’t gay T will or T won'ty there's nothing to do but to don't. 'm I cannot stay out and I cannot st Will it be Warmer? light got so hat—w $4. 50 this year—the “Stetson King Special” for ¢3.50. T are in the new spring styles the way of ties and shirts ev few “‘Star” shirt waists, of tl 7sc. Better buy one for the hard wood stilts free, BROWNING, Reliable Clothi coat--shed it—shed it for a guarantee it; give you another il it's not perfect, a purchas= in our children’s department, s, S, W.Cor.15th and Dou SRewaniz comniers Your Money's TVurth or Your Mon:y Ba g over- new We've me pretty hot styles—We spring overcoat, are always the first to show the proper styles anyway—A spring vant to pay ¢5 for a hat— then don't for you can get it for Special,” or the “Browning- hat's a good hat too; we These . Men's furnishing goods for early spring are in—some of the nobbiest things in er shown, We also have a he ¢1.co quality, to go at boy. Every boy making its a pair of KING & CO, glas Sts. - o 48 A I A A EAPPES N W 10