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

THE OMAHA DAILY DBEE. [ ROSBEWATER, BDITOR. — - = PURLISHED EVERY MORNING, IS OF ut funday) UBECRIPTION, Daily Bee (1 Ono Ye Daily Ilee ar Bix Montl Three Mont Bunday | Baturdny Weekly 1 1 One Y Omahna, The Tee T g Bouth Omaha. #ing Council 1) 1 Chicago Of1 7 New York Room Washing 1407 T CoRnE Al ¢ nieat torial 1 h Blk., Corner N and 24th Sts, arl Street £ Comm 13, 14 and 15, Tribun Streot, N, W PONDENC relating to Arossed LETTERS 1 Bullding ws and edl. P the Bditor. Al 1 addre Omahan be madle i 1 PANY to th . PUBLISHING COM Hshing coniy actual pumber Daily, Mornin during the m Bl of May, 159 W 1 \ TZECHUCK A in my pr. The free silver debate business Iy played out. —_— h time for the State Relief to shut and go 1t hi omimission hoy is up shop —_— The Mediterranean gaining its ancient reputation for b a most treacherous piece of wate i If the ity comptroller's office can get along temporarily so nicely without the why not get along without seems to be comptroller. him altogether — e Another frightful shipwr this time in the loss of nearly 150 liv It looks as if marine disasters were to De the feature of the year 1805 We warn the Nebraska senators and representatives who go to Pender this week to clear of Mr. Deebles Winchester rifles. They might go off at the breech steer Towa democrats seem to be in no haste to put up their gubernatorial ean didate this ye The later the nomina- tion is made the sooner will the poor man's suspense be ended. 1f any one doubts that the farmer is the most potent factor in the commu uity let him observe the anxiety with which men in every occupation and in every walk of life scun the latest crop report. Two Alaska prospectors have been enten up by bears, so the story runs that is telegraphed all the way from Port Townsend. Moral—If you don't want to be caten up by bears keep away from Alaska. Concentrating the annual encamp- it of the state militia and two Grand t one place and at the to make the Has- {his year conspicu s of Nebraska. m Army reunions same time promises tings encampment ous in the military anns Ilastings is going to show w it can do in the way of entertaining the veterans who attend the Grand Army encampment this year, 1t is needless to say that the preparations already made indicate that Hastings intends to do its part very nearly to perfection. When the now vanquished Cornell crew departed fram New York on its way to England to participate in the great Henley regatta it w accompi nied to the pier by a mob of enthusiastic college camp followers, who made the seene at the vessel one of exuberant boisterousness. When the erew returns from its disappointing trip the enthusi astle mob will be conspicuous by its absence. Such is the effeet of failure upon ordinary human nature. 1S The London police dispateh is correct, to have caught in thelr drag net during a vecent raid sev. eral Ameriean notables, among them two or three members of the Awmerican congress. Not one of them, however, made any unusual objection, or even threatencd to have his taken up by the State department and pushed for an indemnity or an apology. It is this fact that throws a shadow of doubt over the reliability of the entire story. em, if the cable case Pot-rustling gruntled demoer down the streets charging appolntments of men for were made in the interest zens' reform movement, If why do they not set traps the tiew appointees and se Dbe induc to in The chief of police has specificaiiy fou bidden patrolmen from dabbling in poli ties. Violations of this rule can, ir found, be readily taken to the chief for a remedy. If Le fail to apply the proper remedy then and not til then will the nolsy pot rustlers have any ground to nd upon, republicans and dis ats are running up and that recent police duty of the citi that be true for some of if they engage loeal potities, Either the late sweeping con tractor or some one wha hopes to be street sweeplng contractor some day is commencing an open letter crusade against the new street cleaning regime. This unkuown “citizen” is that the streets of Omaha are much dirtier now than they were a month ago, The animus the complaint, however, found in the assertion that it is not pos sible to keep the streets clean excopt by the use of the great revolving cylinde sweeping machines. As the cleanest cities in both the United States and Burope have thelr streets swept by hand the disgruntled citizen should first busy Liwmscll in proving bis prewises. street S of in THE X BE] WESTERN PROSPERITY. At prosent the song of Iner | prosperity comes from the eastern tion of the comntry. Tt i In the great industrial centers that the fustrumental whieh make for material progress are now ¢ that new enterprises are arted, that labor is in demaud at improved wages, and that everybody realizin benefits of a business Lrevival. From these centers of produe. tion are Ided the gratifying reports of a returning prosperity. Tens of thousands of people who were earn nothing a or wore stting insuthicient for a decent subsist ence are now iz good remunera tion for their labor and are fully em | ployed. )t far from a million persons have found Ay employment the past months were previ ously idle or employed only a part of the time, and nearly wany have during that period had their compen sation increased. As stated in a recent article, the purchasing ability of work- the manufacturing industries of the country at this time by several weekly than it wis being felt i whe improvement Its and wholesome influence channel of trade, The wave of advancing prosperity 1 yet tonehed preciable extent, but the assurance th it will reach this section, bringing full { benefits to our people found in the growing crops that prom ise a splendid harvest, the eat agricultural country the outlook is We shall not have the gre yield of record, but the supply of that grain will be ample for our needs and to spare. Of corn the indieations that the erop will the It over grown, and if the estimates are realized it will Dbe worth to producers, even should the price decline to the avernge in recent years, $100, 000,000 more than the yield of last s son. The period of danger to this e is almost passed, and ther reason for apprehension v The harvesting of 2,000,000,000 of corn this y me more for prosperity and the upbuilding of the west than the production of the silver mines of the country the next ten ¥ if their fullest ca pacity, Tt represent hundreds ot millions of that will be dis among thousands of farmers ing soc ties tive being 8 is the her; most ) who st six who million w interests 18 this is the scction taking pl ¥ by 1 the iny is co. rating reaches to every 1ot the west to a very ap at a region of the inost test gost lowest a rding ft. bushels ns worked will money [ tributed and expended in ways promotive of the weneral welfare. verybody who vestigated the has intelligently in conditions in the west predicts an era of great prosperity for this section, and undoubtedly there are the most valid reasons for a feeling of confidence in the future. The next year ought to see and probably will sce a decided iner in wester invest- ments, It should also witness a large influx of population to those states where there are good inducements and opportunities, in Nebraska, for ex- ample. Let no one entertain pessimis- tie views regarvding the future of the west, There is no warrant for them. Prosperity will come to this section in due time, and unless all signs are mis. leading it will give the west an almost unprecedented progress. se as IF CRANE WERE MAY0) The man who plays king for a day on the stage usnally does those things that no real king would think of doing. He confers titles upon vagabonds, throws 3 1rs and exalts some smaker or chambermaid with the position of queen. Real kings do nothing of the sort, because they hope to reign lor 1 twenty-four hours Rev. Frank Crane has in his S very great reforms. were only mayor for a day he do some things which no real mayor would ever dare to attempt. If Mr Crane were mayor he would rigidly en- force every law on the statute books to the very letter, no matter how re pugnant or absurd such enforcement would be. First and foremost, he would enforce the Sunday laws that prohibit all men as well as women, excepting alone preachers, church choir singers and Salvation army musicians, from la boring on the legal Sabbath day. With Mr. Crane as our mayor the only people who could enjoy Sunday recreation would be the rich men who ride in chaises and drink their wine at home or at the club house. There no street cars in operation, and nobody would be allowed to drive a teawm for hire, The milkman and the iceman wounld be expected to make their de- liveries Saturday night and the fruit stalls and soda water fountains woula have to be boxed up. There would be no swearing over the telephone, because the exchange would be closed, and Mr. Crane's pulpit editorials could not ap pear in print on Monday morning, be- cause the typesetting machines and pre would be chained down over Sunday night. If Mr. Crane were mayor the no-treat law, which has been a dead letter since its,enactment, would be strictly enforeed and all the vacant buildings in Omaha would not hold the men who would be serving city jail sentence: If Mr. Crane ere mayor every man and woman who could not show visible means of support would be prosecuted as vagrants and sent to the county Jail. This wonid of course include great many professional men and genteel deadbeats who manage to eke out g living by sponging on relatives and mind's If he some W turn up. If Mr. Crane were mayor he would rigidly enf ¢ the statute against nd add to his army of Sab at lawbreakers, and deadbeats the whole brood of Womn who lack virtue, About that time Mayor Crane would be wrestling with seve serlous problems. He would be appalled at the general of the town and an rd at the size of the bills for feed ing and maintaining the inmaty city jail. He might also be perples with applieations from some of his most devoted friends and parishioners for re mission of fines and penalties. Like the | king for a day on the stage, poor Mr. | Crane would be glad to give up bis job social vice bath desecrators, anti-tr v 1 cussedness within | 1s | Byerywhere in | favorable, | wheat | | is now little the | would | would bhe i friends while waiting for something to | aftor being mayor for twenty-four hours, Ie would learn that his mayor. ship would resemble the stoning of the frogs—it would be fun for the boys, but death to the frogs, FRANCE IS OBDURATE. The attitude of the French govern ment in the case of ex-Consul Waller is not what onr government had a right | to expeet, in view of the very friendly that have subsisted between the two countries. Waller claims to be an American citizen and he formerly represented the United o8 in Madagasear, He is now impris oned at Marseilles, having been found uilty by a court martial of certain charges preforred Anst him by the wh authorities in Madagascar. Tt (id by his friends that the trial was not fairly condueted and our govern ment was appealed to to institute an in- vest tion, The American ambassador to France instructed to the Irench government for a record of the procecdings, in order that our govern ment m t be informed the ture of the charges and the characte of the trial. This request has not been | complied with and the French govern ment has even refused to allow Ambas Ilustis to sce Waller, which can not be rded otherwise than an indignity to this government. Altogether the of 17 is not in the interest of international am ity and will. It also, that ther is in ceedings against Waller which that government cannot rey without discredit to i 1t to be the intention of our government to pursue the matter, and it would seem to offer a good op: portunity for Seerctary Olney to show what mettle ther in him. But the indications arve that nothing ean be ac- complished and that the unfortunate Waller will have to serve out his long entence, if he lives to do fons as o con sul was ask as to sador I as course ance suggests the pro something foels it 1 self. seems is 0. WANT AMERIC appears that 1N OFFICERS. 1t liberal offers have {the United States army into the service of the Cuban insurgents. It ated that agents of the insurgents in Washington and New York have re ntly approached military oflicers and ex-officers with propositions to go to Cuba and take commands in the in surgent forces, the inducements offered heing large vies and prominent mil itary positions in the event the in surrection being successtul. Some ex officers who have been approached are said to have made arrangements to go to Cuba, and it not at all unlikely that such is the ease. It is an oppe tunity which men of a military and ad venturous spirit might be expected to take adyvantage of, particularly when guaranteed liberal pay for doing The insurgents will hardly be able, howe to induce officers who are in the service of the United States to re sign their positions in order to pt service in Cuba, though it is said one or two are contemplating doing so. Tt is also said that the insurgents have representat in Burope, who are king to ined officers and soldiers for in Cuba, and they ought to find woad. Undoubtedly the insurgents need, as muech as anything, trained soldiers to lead them. The Spanish forces are of- ficeredd by such, while the com- manding general, Campos—reported to be wounded and besieged regarded as the ablest soldier in rvice of Spain. Some of the insurgent leaders have had military instruetion and ex- perience, but none of them has shown very marked ability. The insurgents need a man of resources, who would inspire them with absolute contidence in his leadership, and it is just pos sible they may find such 4 man among the ex-officers of the United S army, though of course they are seek ing wen only for snbordinate positions. There appears to be no lack of courage and endurznce on the part of the in surgents, and what they require is to b better officered. As they seem to be bBundantly supplied with funds, they ought to be able to obtain all the wili tary talent they can make use of. s of ac s¢ the s ates he elvil service rules have been ¢ tended to the employes of the pension zoneies throughout the country. This means that these employes will be pro tected in their tenure of office against everything but death, resignation and misdemennor, or neglect of duty. The | civil service rules have mnot been ex- tended to the pensioners. They do not need them, because they are better pro- {tected than eivil serviee employes. Onee on the pension list always on the pen- sion list until death overtakes, and sometimes on the pension list by an aceredited representat even after death, There are some stipends better assured than the salaries of pension agency employ The free silver democrats are going to base the apportionment of delegate to their state convention upon the vote for their candidate for preference for United States senator, This is the fotal that probably includes the most of the democratic ve both wings of the party, but it by no means represents the strength of the free silver demo (s in Nebraska. But as an appor tionment upon this basis provides for a larger convention, no one in this vi- cinity has any ise to complain, os of | | 1 | We say it for the benefit of the treas ury oflicials at Washing and without fear of successful contradiction that at | no time in the future can a site for the | South Omaha postoffice building be pur- sed at a lower price than that pos. sible today. The Folly of Vuritaoisn Chicaga Tribune It is astounding that fanatics can carry their folly so far as to risk turning over not only the municipal, but the state and na- tional government into the bhands of who have hitherto displayed incapacity have been guilty of dishonesty and ministration of every kind and have be pudiated by the peopl Such a policy as Mayor Strong and Commissioner Roosevelt | are setking to carry out will not only defeat | itselt, but will end their political caree {and it may defeat the party they are sup- | posed (erroneously, as we believe) to repre- sent, and mal n OMAIIA DAIL been made to officers and ex-officers of | thase | DAY, ) JULY THE SONEREIGN EDICT. Chicago Chromiele: Regarding it as a case {ot ple individal folly it is to be re- | marked that Mt. Sovereign exposes a very considerable number of vacancles in his mental flats. Chicago Times:Hbrald: 1t 1s hoped the | differences between Mr. Sovereign and the | national bank note ¢an be amicably adjusted Mr. Sovereign rtiay not have noticed it, but a §5 bank note 18 worth 15 cents more than a soverelg : Kansas City Jourmal: Mr. S8overelgn's bo cott of bank nates Wil have the effect, If it has any effect at all, of reducing the amount of money circulating among working people. There has been no eomplaint from any quar- ter, we believe, of too much money in cir- culation. Globe-Democrat: Mr. Sovereign's tion to boycott the notes of the national banks is not likely to alarm those institu- | tions, as it s a matter of comparative in difference to them whether they issue notes or not, considering the value of the that must be deposited as securily Chicago Journal: Evidently it has never come to the attention of the vociferous Mr Sovereign that a boycott of their bank bills is just what the soulless national banks want. They keep the circulation of th bills down to the lowest legal limit with a persistcnce that ought to have dawned on a grand master's financial vision Kansas City Star: Lot us have a boycott against every kind of money except silver. That would furnish an opportunity to test the strength of the silver advocates, are in a majority they ought to be exhaust the supply of silver dollars United States treasury and force th of the country back into the treasury v | Then there would be a substantial basis demanding more silver money. Chicago Post Whatever may motives—and t would appear to be a presumptaious exhibition of himself—the fact remains that in listening to his yawp against the national banks the people, not the banks would be humiliated. It s further to b gretted that Mr. Sovereign cannot stand that his chief charm is absol lence. As the man sald of the peacock, is majestically beautiful in his plumag his strut, but when h gives himself away." Chic Tribune: The 1st of ember then. uniess banks make their peace in the meantime, the blood-curdling tragedy whick Sovereign has devised will begin. Then every employe will commence looking closely at the bills he receives and hurling back with scorn all which have the mark of the beast on them. This is a great scheme and the grand master workman is the only man capable of originating it. Were it not for him “and his brilliant ideas the laughter- loving American people would have rather a dull time of it. proposi- the able s\ in ults. for bé his he and opens his mouth he s 10WA PRESS COMMENT. A resolution question pass strict party of the legislature will_some one pl GQuestion may get Des Moines submit the pr ) last general assembly on It the ratification t bifore th in politics, how any to re the vote needs ) get not piain tics? Dav 1 it war | cashiers | is ase ex in poli ort Dem of default but it has proportion the way of late the country | Towa’s rec | that the ent | the more startlir | Cedar Rapids | rat: Towa has more than ing bank presidents and no more than fai things have been running over. The truth is that rd has been so exceptionally good T transgressions have been 3 wzette league on th hand hibtifonist opposed o themseives, take a the citizens of on and the ather hand, both bodies rule by’ anyone but little vacation and allow Towa to run the state for while. The result would be surprisingly pleasant. The Gazetts wants good govern ment and wants the best that can be had The efforts of all the people are necessary to produce that result, and the Liberal laague, supported by the iiquor business and’ the radical prohibition cause, subsisting largely on crocodile tears, are neither one the Gazette's ideal of a ruling force, Sicux City Journal: The prohibition ques- tion is not a staie issue. The republicans at Des Moires wacognized that fact, and, i the democrats farshalltown refuse to recognize it they witl find that nothing they resolve will ‘stir the public puise, and | when they thrust prohibition in’ pec | plo's faces they will ask to see what they in stock on the subject of silver. Per- one of these days the democrats of Towa will be able to restor> prohibition to life, and make some further use of it, but they cannot make any rviceabla use of it this year. The Marshalltown convention might as well get into the swim. It might as well go in head first e An Interes'ing Spretacle. Kansa Journal en Thomas Adlai Stevenson as to which head under water the longest interesting features cf this off y Demoeracy's Tr il pro pepular of City The contest betw B. Reed and can keep his is one of the ned Nurses. Lous R-public When Greenbacker A. J. Warner, 0il Joe Sibley and Republican-Populist Stew- are agree among themselves upon whether they own the democratic party, the dance can g on. - While they quarrel the old- fashioned democrat is likely to think that he still nas the privilege of living, . Altogether Too Slow, Pittshurg Time England is all right for Englishmen, but how would it suit Americans to allow elec tions to run on for days here and there until {the political rulns hal taken a fling at all the polls in the country. ever! Twen| four hours is all the time this swift country can give up to a small job like electing a government, and some men think that an unseemly time to keep the saloons closed. N s tandard Parsimonious ¢ orporations. « Demq An electrical paper sugge brakes are more necessary to than the fenders about which so much is being said. The inventors have devised power brakes by which the motorman, with a slight movement of the hand, can almost immediately stop cars at a high rate of speed, but the companies do not adopt them, it is said, because they are more expensive than the feeble and uncertain ones now in use. that good street cars - - A Crippled Gre iver, Probably, nville (8. ) Times. With yearning hearts we linger and” look across the gray, shadowed and desolate sea of life fcr our ships to come. We know that somewhere beyond the waves, curving sullenly into cold foam, falling with monot- onous anger upon the shore, somewhere on the further side, of jthe tossing waste and the dull gray skies and the lowering mist, there are sunshinb an1 beauty, clear skies re- flected in the blue of the laughing, rippling water over which our”ships are slowly driven by gentle, kindly winds, A New Way of Treating Jurors. cni “Bymes-Herald, Judge Caldwell of the United States cir- cuit court for the Eighth circult, who will be remembered for his attitude last year in respect to railroads [dnd their employes, has been making anotheér” very sensible deliver- ance In a case at Clibsune, when a bailiff was being sworn to take charge of the jury and to keep them togethér without meat or drink, water excepted, ufith they should agree upon |a verdict, the judge interposed and { to permit the cl§rf 140 administer the oath He sald that jurors‘performed quite as im portant functions as judges and should be treated with the same consideration; that in order to perform their duties intelligently they should be afforded every facility for de. lberation under conditions of mind and body that will evoke their best judgment; that starving, freezing, deprivation of sleep and denfal of all comforts Is not the best mode of doing this and th°t the old methods of treating jurors was c. 1, barbarous and in- human He then went on to say to the jury that they might retire to their room and if they could not agree bef supper they might adjourn and return to their deliberations | afer they had eaten and so continue to ad Journ for meals and sleep until they had agreed upon a verdict or were discharged by the court Tt has taken several centuries for judges to arrive at this conclusion, but now that it has been pointed out, other judges will perhaps follow the precedent At all events it will take jurors out of the category of criminals. bonds | It they | gold | It this question | Suppose the liberal | refused | SETTLERS MUST PAY OR G0 End of ths Negotiations for a Rebate on Otoe and Missouri Londs, SIDNEY AFTER A TRACT OF LAND Enterprising Citizens to Donate the Old th Ask the Government Military Reserv City for the Use tlon to of the Sehools, has 1 July rior WASHINGTON, tary of the in cision unfavorable al)—The (Sp secr dered a de- | to the purchasers of lands and Missouri Indians Kansas. The decision is written by the secretary of the geueral land office in reply to the latter's request for instruc tions relative to the defaulting purchasers rom an examination of the report of the mmission appointed to present to the Otoe and Missouri Indians the matter of the read- Justment of th of Ne- braska and Kansas the act of March 3, that the commission In courcil them, | and th from the Oto. braska and tained in a lette the commissioner in sale of their lands under in the provisions the ary finds having met the Indians ined th fully to solved “that ‘we, the Otoe Indians, fu under 1 of March, 1893, d by pt the propositic vided in om the orig This v his letter says, of th adult and ex matter it Mi; act of c absolu ncee ede to rebate as r any rebate whatever amount of sale of said tion, the secretary in sign:d by three-fourth bers of the tribe, and as the signatures were given of their own volition, without duress or promises of any kind whatever, it dent that the relief intended to be grante to the purchas f said lands by the ac of March, 1893, cannot be effected. This being the the secretary says that noth- m he department to do but rce the terms of said purchase, The land was sold under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1881, in May, Jun and December, 1883, and in’ expectation of unpsual competition for them they wer 1 at public auction to tha highest bidder, a In many cas were purchased at prices largely in excess of appraised value. Unde the terms of the act last mentioned such of the hasers who desired were permitt to pay one-fourth of the purchase mon cash at the time of the sale and the other three-quarters in one, two and three years espectively, with interest on the deferred yayments at the rate of 5 per cent per . The act of March 3, 18 provided for an extension of two y within which to make the deferred payments, and the act of August 2, 1886, provided fér a further of two years. The final payment last act mentjoned was due in May 1890, for the lands sold in May and and in December, 1890, for th December MONEY 1804, the url y sal nal solu was case, s for [t g 1 ent f in ars MUCH March lands upon h they were 1 mained due f. of the . p sold, $194,775.82 of the origi- | and interest for ten iyears, | ebruary 1, 1834, $100,432.91 1 of §295,208.75. The number of | which full payment had not béeh was 136, Since that date full pay- have been made in but two cases ani fur installments _paid in There remains du 22,06 principal and about $108,000 interest The sectetary rules that owing to the re- fusal of the Indians to consent to the relief inten be extended to purc s of the lands by the act of March 3, which refusal ‘makes the relief provisions of the act nugatory, it appears to be the duty of Interior department to carry out the former legislaticn relative to the lands, ac- iion under which has been suspendel owing to the pendency of the legislation and pro- coedings thereunder after the passage of the aw The secretary therefore missioner of the general land office to in- struct the local land officers to call upon the arties in default in payment of cither prin cipal or interest for the lands to pay the same within ninety days from receipt of no- tice ani to advise them that in the cvent of !lnnr[hlvlmc to do so their entries will b The act of March, 1893, provided in effect at if the Indians should give their consent the purchasers of the lands should be allowed a rebate on the prices paid for the land, th prices being unusually high. But the Indians refuser to agree to the proposition, and hence the secretary dectares the provisions of the act to be void. SIDNEY WANTS THE LAND. A number of the citizens of Sidney, Neb are anxious that the abandoned military reservation at Fort Sidney be turned over to the city, so that the land can be used fo school purposes. me action has already been taken in the direction of securing the reservation, and thus far the efforts of the citizens have been successful. This reserva tion having been abandoned, and being of no further use for military purposes, was trans- forred from the War dey to the D) partment of the Interior general or from the adjutant gene office, dated No. vember 20, 1894 The reservation contains 20 acres of land of wood and timber d by the post, twenty acres of the military reser- vation having been donated to the city of Stdney for cemetery purposes by the act of June 10, 1892, The commissioner of the gen eral land office has been proceeding for some | time past to dispose of the reservation, g provided by law. The act of July 5, 1884, en- titled “‘an’act to provide for the disposal of abandoned military reservations,” provided that as soon as the land had been surveyed and subdivided it should be appraised by a commission consisting of three disinterested persons, appoivted by the secretary of the interior, and that it &hould be sold at public sale, for cash, at not less than the appraised valus, nor less than $1.25 an acre. It was also provided by this act that any settler who had resided on the land prior to lts being taken as a military reservation should be entitled to enter the land so occupied, not to exceed 160 acres in a body The commissioner of the general land office was intending to dispose of the Fort Sidne reservation under the provisions of this ac when a communication was received by the secretary of the Interior from Joseph Ober- felder and a number of other residents of Sidney, who, desiring that the city should have the land, wrote to the secretary asking that”the disposal of the land be discontinued for the present. Secretary Smith has granted the request and has written to the commis- sioner _of the general land office, directing that official to suspend action. The secretary of the interior has notified the citizens of Sidney that he has taken the desired action, and transmits to them a copy of a communi- cation from the acting commissioner of the general office, stating that there is no urgent necessity for the immediate appraisal and sale of the post reservation. Mr, Oberfelder wrote to the sccretary in behalf of the Western Nebraska duca tional association, which started the move to secure the land for the city of Sidney. It is the intention of the members of this assoclation to petition congress at its next session to donate this land to the city for educational purposes. It is probable that the Nebraska congressional delegation ma secure the enactment of the necessary legls- lation during the first session of the Flifty fourth congress. Patents have been issued as follows braska—Daniel H. Muir, Lincoln, shoe toner; Merritt L. Rogers, Exeter, sulky ow; Albert C. Smith, assignor one |'r. Wilkinson, Blair, automatic vehicl h Dakota—James Dawson, Br prairie fire extinguisher. lowa—Nichols Barry, §r., Muscatine, plumber's strap; Wil ltam P. Hitehcock, Lake, fence post; Charles E. Kimball, Council Bluffs, elevating ma chine; Josiah R. M Marshalltown, fire alarm; John H. Mingus, Guthrie Center, stovepipe drum and furnace; George T. Ri byn, Keokuk, sprocket chain; John W. Stone Merrill, hopper and means for moving and elevating same HARMAN & or | basis o directs the com land, which was u: Ne but har It to brake. adland MAIER'S BID STANDS. Thus far the officials of the office of supervising architect of the treasury received no complaint or protest against awarding of the contract Harman Maier of Omaha for fireproofi arches of the Omaha public building been rumored that some of the d iaders were endeavoring to have eadvertised for, but no pap the issuance of another advert the Lave to th reque | who is | Jail at Marseiiles, | of of | | suffering mem- | a thorough | ert | Construction of the Great Battloships De- boen received at the Treasury The contract with Harmen & agreed to do the work in four Maler, who months for AND OTHERWISE, Prosident Faure 1s the first of tho Trench prosidents with sufficient command of Enge lish to speak it fluently Texas authorities may succeed In stopping the prize fight, but the mouths of the fighters ro cortain to go on for life Ex-Congresman W. Bourke Cockran 8 back from Europe, but no olive branches have yet been discovered in his luggas Having doublod the price sixty days, a declaration that 1t was organized for is In order, An investigation about in the vieinity that the new weathér el niclous activity Strang alderman who for some time displayed the fact became Known, The state of Illinols has taken p. the Lincoln mor Springfield andals which characterized its ma in the past have ¢ an end. Louls, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Toronto claim the honor of revealing the crimes of Holmes. As the reward is liberal, several other cities will be heard from prese ently John Dolman of Phila died, abandoned the stag years ago. His ca the fact he professions In his life of Henr George says that th Howell Jones and that gar in Wales Novemb was a bookbinder, to bear or The prediction made at ur r-Harvey debate has men | aty ric disturbanc and hot w orfolk $38,422.79, has been executed, and was signed PERSONAL on the 17tk fnst. and mailed on that date to the contractors for their signature. The following Is an abstra of the hils which were opened on Jun for doing this work Amount Omuha. $41,530.68 Lumbe William i J. Welshans, Terra Cotta company 1RO, Harman & Onaha Hamiltan | Omaha 1. M. Eggers, Omaha John'J." Hurrington 40,66 Maler 842 .92 130 da 180 w. da Washing fr nails h the publ within trust good ' & mo. Fire Roofing company njamin Hyde, Chi wny, Chicago ooting St L 120 w. da 4 mo. fon cam t K 0 160 da ruin: Now is guilty Yorkers and mpany 35,812.00 100 da MAY QUARKREL WITH FRANCE as It may app ave quietly ar, the Chicago been cutt much heat Government Refuses Minister Interview with Waller, WASHINGTON, July The 1 tlons with the French government respecting the of ex-United States Consul Waller now under confinement fn a K when sesslon of and the ement case ench me to are in a most unsat of the best efforts executed through fustice for nt that it it will be | D actory shape the Ambassador Wall anything id this, too, In spite State department Bustis to 1s becoming be accomplished by display of a miued than has yet our government secure It th stand evid to for law was Interes achieved distinet nly much & b been assumed by Letters re: prisoner show that he from akened and nt and the Great pr Justic have ived here from s still a sick man and much his confin ¥ M Mr. Thomas real name is was born at 1 1840, His father congestive debilitated ange in has b artme Waller, and many pr sted then in th from of w citizen, have 0 par wator Martin having call State departn to I 1t chills from u br 0 | W m the fo inte ninent s are Michiga ds who has jus ich icularly A in | g0, u t two 3 Wall 1 lergetic, S prompt ac Th, Mr Kansas state | with hig Bdward 1 it King inver peggin say thi Cand ally sta test accounts for the Commons ing qualities and mobs. While electrical are discussing the and claiming that the festive live their assertions. and one in Sedal wires lasi Saturday. Superinten favor t died s said to hav first practicabl s Iy n led itish Parliament usu- tion. In the present cons agree that several aspirants leveloped marvelous sprint- wed their heels to the it 0. It department some time ago instructed our ambassador at Paris, to make | nvestigation of Waller's case, to see him and procure a copy of the record of the court martial showing the evidence on which Waller suffered the imposing of the ex traordinary severe sentence of confinement for twenty years. The ambassador has not been very successful in executing his instructions, though it appears that he has done all in his power to carry them out. For one thing the French government has absol fused the ambassador the right to see Waller personally, a very extraordinary attitude to as sume ghts of an American citizen Then it has failed so far to ambassador with the desired copy martial record in order that our might satisfy itself of the suf- e evidence on which Waller his estate well-h lates for 1 for e well as medical sharps horrors of clectrocution high currents do not kill, wire is diligently refuting Two men in Philadelphla Mo., were killed by live Te Insuranc sas does not suranc standing, law. He swindlers state tent Anthony of Kan- erating benevolent that are of doubtful fnancial vhich fail to comply with t denounces them as dece preving upon the peopl r the cloak of benevolene v call a n style i glec lotter tim mor governm ficieney w or o s convicted, It is said by Waller's friends here that al other the proceedings were exceedingly singular and a travesty upon justice. The fact |, "t that Mr. Eustis as yet has been unable to |, prasont secure anything like a record appears to give | oy PR weight to these s : Bray. Waller's franes fell was deported from Madagascar and suffered [ Faiital 40 hardships without the vestige of a trial or | oved of hi any legal proceeding and as he is.an Ameri- | Acquaintance can citizen this must form the subject for a demand for red Altogether the case s one threatening to hold out many difficulties in the way of an amieable adjustment, but in view of the pressure which is being ex d on the State department it may bo as sumed that it will endeavor to do so before congress meets again d the subject is fur- ther complicated by instructions from the legislative branch similar to those which formed the basis of action in the Mora case, rahbary s press is an Am unco game The P because of credit for itly in the French industry and was re- by an obliging chanca had 1 ) a v *his ar that h his e Crops wnil o rosperity. Denver Republ report on the condition of the in Nebraska s very bright and same eondition seems to prevail over the greater part of Kansas. The crop is al- most safe and it promises in Nebraska to be one of the largest ever grown in that state. This Is excellent news and it would be mistake to suppose that it has no in- terest to Colorado. If there is a large crop in Nebraska and Kansas there will be a demand for cattle for feeding, and sinc» cattle already command a good price, tho outlook seems to be excellent for the cat- tle growers of this state and other parts of the far we Another consideration grows out of the coal trade. There is a demand in both Kansas and Nebraska for Colorado coal, but of course it is better when the peopls of those states are prosperous than at other times Ope of our growing Industries is the shipment ‘of coal to the eities and towns of the two neighboring states on the east and as the population and wealth of those com- munities Increase the demand for such fuel becomes greater, The erop corn the DEFECTIVE ARMUR PLATES REJECTED Iayed Thereby, WASHINGTON, July 22.—The Navy de- partment has been having bad luck lately in securing hieavy armor plate for the big battle- ships, and owing to the rejection of about a dozen great plates the completion of the armor plating of these ships may be delayed for some months. Most of the p intended for the battleships Massachusetts and Iowa. When y were submitted to the naval inspector his report to the de- partment showed that the plates were badly burned in places on the surface. In some cases there were depressions in the face of a fifteen-inch plate four feet long and two feet broad, where the face had been burnt out to the depth of seven-cighths of an inch. Not only was the plate weakened by the loss of metal at such points, but the metal below was decarbonized and reduced to the condi- tion of wrought iron, 5o it could not be hard- ened by the Harvey process. Just wh wsed these flaws is not known at the depart- ment, but it Is supposed they arose from some experimental treatment intended to cheapen the cost of produc- tion or else resulted from forcing the temperature too | while the plates were bein in the effort to exp dite the process. ates {n question hav been provisionally rejected, which means that part of them may still be used by cutting off the defective portions, if larger plates can be rolled to supply the gap thus left in the armor belts. es were 1 GAYET Well,” safd the camel in the circus parade, “there's some comf for me aftes all.” “What do you mean “My hump Is pretty bad, but it might be worse. 1 -don't ride a bicyele.” Philadelphia Record: Wig naug is a heartless fellow don’t say? Wigwag—Yes; N in his balloon last and ared the a wred ars were ground SUMME Washington Sta That Hobs rviss w W him 1 that Detroit hy: “Artemu he 17 that erie hing Tribunc crically, I o hetween us Alicia,” he said, “it's my 1U's forever getting down in my v tooth brush, t lining.” In the surf Miss Saline, hicago Recorc “Do_you Know, fond of diving “Indeed? 1U's too bad come up for air.” I'm awfully that you have to Tndianapolis Journal: Timmins—This tall about the typewriter being a drawback to genius 1s all rot. 1 do all of my poems with A typewriter, Simmons—You do? T had an idea that you made them With a 8-t of rubber stamps, Weather Bureau July Secretary Mor- ton has appointed Edward B. Garrett of Mis souri local forecast official in charge of the weather bureau in Chicago. He succeeds Wil- lis T. Moore, the new chief of the weather bureau. Mr. Garrett was born in Ohio forty- one years ago and entered the service at St. Louis in 1874, He has been observer at Port- land, Me,, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Rochester, Pittsburg and Louisville, Ky., and also had charge of the New York office. He was ap- pointed a forccaster last year. Alexander B. McAdie of New York, one of the corps of forecasters, has been detailed to the San Francisco forecast office to assist Forecast Official W. H. Hammon. Obser Dunn, in charge of the New York office, ha been advanced to the grade of forecast official at §2,000 per annum, A number of othe changes in the personnel of the weather bureau have been ordered. Upholds the Co WASHINGTON, Changes 1o th WASHINC Finkenbinder = this you Tribune , Georglanal Come minute or 11 have your within an inch of your lifc Mrs. Finkenbindér (to Mr 1 wish you wouldn't be £o cross to the chile dren, Lemuel. You are a perfect brute, No wonder they are all afraid of you, Life: Young Tutte that tomorrow eveni and having nerved my denty, while we were conversing, T should without a word throw my arms around your neck and deliberately Kiss you—what would you do? * Miss Pinkerly—Oh, Mr. me to look so far abead Mrs info the house father whip Chicago next day)— Miss Clara, suppcss 1 should chll again, self up to it, suds Tutter, don't ask pt: It was only agge that Mrs, Ma to her lord and master (alleged): “Now, you look here, IHenry Mann, if you expect me to Keep your sup- per walting night after night in this fashi You're very much mistaken. Hereaftor, 22—, At- orney Gene 5 e When you are not home by quarter past 6, torney General Dodge, Who represents the [ Wheh ¥ou ne hot Rowe, o goavithe government in all cases before the United | out, Do you understand.”” And poor Mann States court of claims, is taking some interest | couid only stammer oul, as sie”had done in the question raised by Comptroller Bowler | * Y¢ar 88 DIB 880, SuSEe as to the constitutlonality of the act making LOVES HIS STATION, an appropriation of $238,000 in liquidation of Washington ( tal claims for bounty on beet sugar manufac- He wears a tall and shiny hat, d during the season of 1893. Mr. Dodge A Smile disereet and biand, today declined to discuss the question of the A'ramrod in his vertebra constitutionality of the act, but he had A'manner mildly grand, doubt whatever that the comptroller ha on speaker's stand or parior floor right under the law to raise the i O e s and pass on it in accordance with his own Hs OBl functionary. interpretation of the pnstitution Mr. % - Bowler, he contended, was an executive of. y cer of the government, and as such was TOM REED ON WHEELS. charged, under the law, with the interpreta L0V S tion of the acts of congress, especlally when New York Sun. no construction had b placed upon them | Oh, who can tell what joy I fee by the courts. A-pushing of the whirling wheel; Oh, joy, Oh, joy, indeed Y tnrill and pulse from head to heel, has | The rond shoots by and the big trees ree A8 | LS T scud along on an even keel; First | 374 the people cry as I shoot comp- | “Pom Reed! Look out for w loston Transeri weeks after ma marked decisive ptrolier's Actlon, July 22.—Assitant no a question Now Nat onal b orized. WASHINGTON, July Authority been given for the organization of the Natlonal bank of Wagoner, I T. Tt troller of the currency has api ange of title of the Southern ational bank of Los Angeles, Cal chants National bank of Los Angeles. Aut om Reed I crunch the gravel, I burn the dust, | 1 blow along in a glorious kgust OF speed, of lightning speed; Rig teams lot me rattle by uncussed, On fhe darkist horses’ shoot krow rust, % 1 wWhiz along for the Goal or Bust, A8 i thisshed and mighty kneod ple shout, “He'll knock ‘e out, 1 Bew to Mer Dividends for Donve WASHINGTON, July 22.—The comptroller of the currency has declared the first dividend of 10 per cent in favor of the creditors of the German National bank of Denver, on claims amounting to $6 Creditors, of Tom Reed!” 1 spin, T loom ) p it Ll ) booms with my Outbooming all boom Winning In Harr MeKinley Smuyg Al Doom, | | As I sweep along | Tom Reed neat, fleet the lead 15 Kwa at_once rt looks T writhes Dro Gold Reserve >1\¢llll WASHINGTON, July Today's st ment of the condition of the treasury shows Available cash balances, $191,341,183; gol serves, $105,800, ést gloom, r the tomb, ath the Wheel of s nd sound the re gor Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U.S. Gov't Report Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE