Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 10, 1895, Page 4

et proee B ey S g s s p——— i o . AUSTRALIAN CATTLE COMPETITION. | THE _OMAHA DAILY ' BEE. [ == S e = ROSEWATER, Editor, TORMS OF BUTSCRIPTION, Dally Bes (Witiout Bundap, Ons Ye Lany lie and @unday, O%o Year, e Monihs Three Months Eundoy 1ee fay_1eo, One Year. Weekly fice, One Ter oF Omaha, The Bes Duiing. + Corner N and 21th Sts, 32 Pearl Brcot 317 Chamber of Commerce. nd 13, Tiibune Bullding. ‘ Al communications relating to news and edi- Rorial matter should be addressed: To the Editor. s, ances should be The Ree Publishing Company, s, checks and pustofiice orders 10 i 10 the order of the company. 1ING COMPANY. Taschuck, secred mpany, being dul er of full n ing, Even he month of 2 ry ot Ti b Yaworn, says that ples_of L 18,125 19,147 oL 19,085 < 20080 20,18 © 10,053 19068 Total Sssie Less doductions for ‘coples W Net sates Dally average Sworn 1o befare m ) presence this 2nd day of September, 1895 (Seal) N. P. FEIL, Nofary Public. Postal cle; all subscribe to the de mand for a short presidential campaign. They prefer to have the deluge of political mail matter to arrive all at once and stop early. The Chicago Tribune has rejected cigarette and adopted the spelling clgaret. Now if it will onl cigaret altogether it will have reached the logical conclusion. The Indi of Ros gency have also realized the fact that the only way 1o get redress at the hands of the Great Father is to make warlike demonstr tlons and threaten to kill a few pale fac, And to think of it! he great Ameriea’s cup, for which all these rac are being run, is not a cup at a‘matter of fact, from the pictu printed it looks more like a pitcher than a cup. The success of the persistent search for Dr. I'raker gives grounds hope that the search for some one willing to take the democratic nomination for the presidency in 1896 may also prove suc- cessful in the end. The vigilance of the police in running in fresh arrivals of erooks who expect to prey upon state fair visitors is to be commended. The good name of Omaha must be protected. Professional thieyery cannot thrive her Secretary Carlisle would have sent a Jetter to the couvention of Nebraska administration democrats were it not that he did not have time to do so. Mr. Carlisle’s invitation was sent to him about two months ago. ‘With the approach of the end of the base ball season interest in the game Is perceptibly reviving. There is no reason why the same interest in base ball is not nifested at all time: It would be with honest base ball. The second contest in the series of races for the America’s cup comes off today, weather and other circumstances permitting. The hopes of Americans interested in the trial are naturally with the Awmerican vessel. A victory today would mean almost as much as a final victory in the series. . Douglas county republicans have bunched their conventions and huddled them all into one day. By this means the traders can deliver the goods to much better advan have caucuses and primaries? The die will be cast in star-chamber session and too many ratifications will become irksome. ‘When the supreme court meets again it will find its docket cleared of all the original suits in cases of state bank re- ceiverships. This is the result of the new state banking law. It remains, however, to be seen whether the new law will give the needed relief to th erowded condition of the supreme court docket. — The flouring mills of Nebraska will convert thousands of bushels of Dakota wheat into flour this year as well as the Nebraska product. Nebraska-made flour is selling right along with the best brands of the northern mills, If the citizens of every town in the state would resolve to buy only home-made flour hundreds of thousands of dollars could thus be kept in circulation within the state, greatly to our commercial ad tage. During the legislative session Warden Beemer was sure that the penitentiary could be made self-supporting if only the convict labor contract system were abolished. He was sure that if he had charge of the institution he could and would effect this much desired ob- Ject. But when it came to the critical moment, Mr. Beemer preferred to have the contract system continued so long as the rakeoff is transferred from -Dorgan to him. Prison Contractor Beemer's opinions are of a very plastic mold. The grain elevators of Omaha and Council Bluffs are again open for busi- mess, Large consignments are being handled daily. The quality of wheat and oats is uniformly good, and while the movement of grain has been some- what delayed by recent rains, the eleva- tor men anticipate a very busy season, This means that money is already com- ing Into the state in payment for this year's crop and it will be but a short glme until all lines of business will feel ghe new impulse and profit lwwmeasur- wbly by reason of it The eattle ralsers of this conntry will be Interested in some facts presented by the Natlonal Provisioner relating to the eattle production of the Austr colonies and thelr future possibls petition with the United States in sup- | plying the Kuropean markets. This country has now to contend with the digeriminative policy of geveral European governments against its cat- tle, and If in addition thereto It t hereafter encounter a formidable n- otition from Australin the question of maintaining our eattle-raising interest, to sny nothing of increasing it, may be. come a fous one. According to information from a gentleman identified with the Australinn eattle interest the United States is in no danger of competition from that direction with its hog prod- ucts, The raising of hogs in Aus- tralia is no more than sufficient for the home demand and until more corn is grown there at a much lower rate than now hog raising will continue on a relatively small scale and with refe ence only to home consumption. But the raising of cattle and sheep is a steadily expanding interest and is as- suming proportions which promise to enable that region to supply BEurope with a considerable part of its beef and mutton. There is no finer cattle coun try in the world than Queensland, the Iargest of the Australinn colonies, while New South Wales is a gr sheep-r ng region. While there is at present an enormous difference in the extent of cattle sing here and in Australia and it must be yes the latter shall reach our cattle pr duction, if it ever do: still the e portable quantity from Australin may in a few years become so large as to be a very serious competition. It is stated that at present the meat prod- nets of Australin available for export . as to the home consumption, some- where about two to one, whereas in America the total export of beef catile does not represent more than one-twelfth of the annual surplus. The United States exports some 280,000 tons of Dbeef ive and dead annually. Queensland can inerease her boef ex- ports by 80,000 tons y and New South s can inerease her mutton x 000 tons. Of course this country h: 1 advan in the matter of transportation, but this may be overcome by the lower cost of raisit cattle and sheep in Australia. The gentleman quoted by the TPro- visioner said: “Once we succeed in putting our meat on the English mar ket, alive and refrigerated, it is abso Iutely impossible for the tes to com pete with Australia.” It is not alone from this source that American cattle growers have to look for competition. Argentina is pushing forward in this direction, as in the production of wheat and corn, and eattle from that country is finding its way to the Buropean mar- kets, not on an extensive scale as yet, but enough to indicate what the future may bring about. With our great home market alone absorbing eleven-twelfths now of the cattle produced, this interest will continue to be large and important, but the indications apy it will not be greatly ia the engagement of expor Indeed it seems probable that we shall do well if we maintain the present yolume of ex- ports of cattle and beef. obtained s before A SOUTHERN CANDIDATE. The splendid fight that Colonel Brad- y republican candidate for governor of Kentucky, is making has attracted attention to him as an able, aggressive and fearless leader. His republicanism is thorough and his advocecy of the principles of the party is strong and uncompromising. If he should be elected, as now seems not improbable, it would certainly give him a con- spicuous place among national r publican leaders, but hardly the fore- most place, as suggested by the Phila- delphia Times. That paper recently said that in the event of Colonel Brad- ley's election he would be the most formidable candidate for the presidency of all the men named. With Colonel Bradley elected governor of Kentucky and the next to certainty of his carrying Kentucky and Tennessee in the national contest of 1896 if nominated for presi- dent,” declared the Times, “he would be made the candidate of the republican party by the inexorable logic of events. He would be the cleanest and in all respects the best candidate and none could excel him in any of the impor- tant attributes of a chief magistrate for the greatest government of the earth.” Doubtless this estimate of the Kentucky republican leader is merited and coming from Co'onel McClure, the able editor of the Times, it certainly has high authority. It is entively safe to say, however, that under no cireumstunces will the republican party take its presidential candidate next year from the south, ‘What it may do in selecting a man for the second place on the national ticket is another dquestion. It has been sug- gested that it might be a wise thing for .the republican convention of next year to nominate a southern man for vice president and H. Clay ans of Tennessee, who was elected governor of that state and defrauded out of it by the democrats, Judge Goff of West Virginia, and one or two others, have been spoken of in that connection. It is not unliks that if Colonel Bradley is victorious in Kentucky he wonld be regarded as a most available man for second place on the national ticket next year, but certainly not for first place, for conceding to him all the ad- mirable qualities expressed and implied in Colouel MeClure's encomium he could not command the coufidence of the masses of the republican party in the north as would any of the distinguished leaders who are most thought of as possible candidates. And undoubtedly Colonel Bradley would be perfectly satistied with the honor of being chosen for the second place on the republican national ticket, while his selection would probably be as effective upon the vote of Kentucky and Tennessee as if he were at the head of the ticket, The re- publican party is rich in strong men for the presidency. It will select from among them the man who appears to be strougest with the people. It is mot THE OMAHA DATLY apparent that it conld gain anything by taking its candidate from the south. PROTEST OF THE WOOL GROWERS There will be an earnest, though of course futile, effort made In the next congress to restore wool to the dutiable list. This is Indicated by the recent action of the Ohlo Wool Growers' as- sociation and by the assurances of west- ern members of congre ‘he protest against free wool issued by the Olio association declares that the democratic policy has In one year reduced the value of sheep and wool $15,000,000, and this is probably a very conserva- tive statement. Free wool has cost the sheep raisers of Califor Oregon, Montana, Utah and other western siates and territories many millions of dollars and inflicted a most damaging blow to this ve fmportant industry Consé quently there is not a republican se tor or representative from these states who will not put forth his strongest effort to have wool restored to the du- tiable list, both to prevent the decadence of the wool industry and because the revenue is needed. There will be no difficulty in passing a bill for this pur- pose through the house and it is pos sibla that one might get through the senate, but it solutely certain that it would be killed by the executive veto. In the view of Mr. Cleveland free wool is the cardinal feature of the tariff reform scheme and it is about the only thing in the present law which he approves. It will therefore remuin during the present adwministration, re rdless of any facts which may be presented to show its damaging effects upon one of the most important tional industries, for which there no compensating benefits, The wool growers are fully justified in issuing their protest and it will have a good effect upon the public mind, but they need not hope for any practical resu! until the republican party control of the government. again in PEDITE THE CRIMINAL TRIALS. Without desiring to meddle with the administration of justice The Bee deems it proper to urge the morve expeditions trial of criminals who are now contined in our jail on charges of felonies and misdemeanors ranging from larceny to murder. With only one judge to hear and preside over all the eviminal ¢ on the overburdened docket it will ks and months fo dispose of the pending wurder and the whole term will expire before the ma jority of the brought into court. Under the constitution of Nebraska every person chavged with erime is en titled to a fair and speedy trial. To keep men unnceessarily confined in jails for months and sometimes ye awaiting action of the courts becaus they happen to be charged with offen that are not bailable or because they are unable to procure the requisite bail bonds is a species of barbarism that should not be tolerated in ¢l zed com munities. The detention of persons ced with erime longer than is 'y imposes upon the t payer > burden of p: re and maintenance. When the is overcrowded inoffensive men women, accused of triviai offense herded together with the most hardened class of eriminals. This congested con- dition of the jail also becomes a menace to the health of inmates, as well as of their custodians, It would seem to us, therefore, that the assigniment of a second judge to expedite the clearing of the criminal docket is demanded in the interest both of economy and of humane treatment. Quit apart from all these considerations it is a serious question whether im- partial justice can be obtained so long as the irascible and distempered Cun- ningham R. Scott holds the lives and liberties of prisoners in his control. Trials in the criminal division of our district court under this judge have been travesties on justice and in many instances high-handed usurpations of power on one hand and premiums on crime on the other. The other six judges on the district bench owe it to themselves as well as to the taxpayers and to the persons held in custody awaiting trial to give that measure of relief from needless expense and judicial tyranny and favor- itism that lies within their power. lesser offenders can be Nebraska railroads have practically ceased efforts to induce or promote im- migration. Fifteen years ago when the railronds had hundreds of thousands of acres to sell they flooded the eastern and Buropean states with descriptive matter of Nebraska's fertile fields and manifold advantages. Their lands are not all disposed of. Furopean immig tion is largely on the increase. The southern states are making extraordi- nary efforts to attract it, while the great trunk lines of the north are issu- ing descriptive matter in large quanti- ties for distribution throughout the east. As against all this the report has gone out that Nebraska lies in a region of drouth w inviting field for settle crops amply dis prove this re the facts to be advertised? Certainly something ought to be done to steer immigrants to Ne braska. A mathematically inclined Chicago man has been tiguring that Chicago in 1920 will have passed New York in population and have come to the front 07,600 inhabitants residing within the city limits. He very kindly permits London to retain its place at the head of the list of great cities of the world, with a population of 8,314, 000. As a promising computer this Chicago man Is unexcelled and has few if any equals. Secretary Car- lisle ought to secure his services at once and set him to work figuring out the income of the federal government for a period of years to come. Susan B, Anthony's retirement from the field of active propaganda of woman's rights will probably be fol- lowed by the retivement of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and several other original workers in the field of woman suffrage. It means that there is a new generation of suffrage agitators pushing to the fore and that the suffrage cawmpaigns of the future will be directed by a new | facturers T - r " * set of women lenders. Tt I8 possible the new leaders may be more success- ful than their prédecessors, but If so it will not be beeause of more ability, but | because of the work that has been done before them, The country, juerchants of aska owe a debt of gratitude to the manu and jobbers of this state, During the reverses of last year the eastern and faraway houses withdrew credit from Nebr dealers and left them to shift for themselve Now as times are becoming more prosperous the eastern jobbers are willing to do busi ne in Nebraska again, A friend in need is a friend indeed. Remember him. If yachts were so cheap that e man could own one, at least of indiffer- ent quality, the tests of different de- signs nd different constructions evineed by the great international yacht race would furnish useful as well as ornamental information to nearly ‘all the people of the count What's in a Namn Cleveland Plain Dy Judg cott of Oklahoma see to suppr contempt of court, to have a larger jall, - lipse of telnr. Democrat There was a t'me when Emilio Castelar would have spurned ths suggestion that he might live to write a complimentary letter to a Inan e ged in the work of trying to thr liberty in Cuba;*but he Is not now the Cast won fame by his brillian gpeeches <h tyranny. determined even If he bas The A Pern Loutsy urnal, We ara told that the quarrel beiween the Sam Yups and Se» Yups at San Francisco threatens to become an international affair, Where's Bryan? Where's Stewart? Where's Waite? Where's Panno t we de- cided by 16 to 1 that we won't even recognize the existencs of furr nation: We can sottle our own Y s squabbles cur.elves, thank you Newport fairly descent splendor, a radian lorions th all the flaunting holiday show from Bar Har- bor to Tinicum island fooms in comparison s a tallow dip vieing with the uncloud.d Augu What have they i gorgeous that heredita German state ght of th lions, four-in-hands s that might awe a Louis the Magn diamonds and -pearls, brocades an apestries t Sardanapalus woul given his life to possess vs brill lavender silk and ma nners fit for Lucullyy is aglow in a sheen of abashed at ¢ Carriers. The der 25 shall p red in the on_half latter carric ovide pensions for rvice and shall also retire ca after twenty years of the fund to provide the pay. shall be raised by de n (he salaries of active t from the pay of r is, e proposal that all e allowed to pension them- provositicn places the govern- the attitude of the benevolent renchman who_allowed his cat to eat all the mice she could cateh. In many countries civil servica pensiol are paid by the govern- that the man who serves ate faithfully in a civil capacity de- recognition for the same reason that the faithfuiness of the ate's oldier or sailor is recognized. It would seem from the action of the letter carriers that they do not believe that the people of this country are willing that the disabled and old from the letter car- riers’ ranks shall be pensioned directly from the government’s treasury, and So propose to provide a “sinking fund” of their own. They may be correct as to the present attitude of the peopl> in regard to a civil service pension and retired list, but if ever the people do con- clude that any class of civil public servants shall be put on such a list the letter carriers will be first remembered 8 that con- riers in NEBR A RAIGHTS.” Washington ¥ (ind.): Nebraska has two species of democrats—the Bryan demo- crats and the old-fashioned sort. Indianapolis News (ind): Tue division of Nebraska democrats on the money question removes their last hope of carrying the state Kansas Cily Star (ind.): Enough demo- crats in Nebraska succeeded in getting away from William Jeunings Bryan to form a cot vention for the purpose of endorsing the crime of '73. Globe-Democrat (rep): The fact that the democratic party of Nebraska is divided into two pracically equal quantities may be said to furnish a good reason for the bouncing of Secretary Morton from the cabinet. New York Post (Mug): The democr more than ode state will probably have to g0 through the clarifying process which the party is undergoing in Nebraska. Where the remedy is needed it is a most excellent one to apply. Detroit Free Press (dem.): Now that the democra's of Nebraska have declared for sound money the ropublican leaders will prob- ably devote their energies to elosing up ga in thelr own ranks instead of looking for them in the ranks of the opposition. Louisville Courler-Journal (dem.): The democrats of Nebraska are not so numerous they ought be, but they have sound yiews and the courage to express them, They have also the capacity to put their convic- tions into words, the meaning of which is unmistakable. Des Moines Capital (ve This Nebraska utterance, being that of a minority faction of the party which is Known as democratic in that state, will get its only significance from its being supposed to voice the views of the administration, t year the faction polled about one-third as many votes as the regulars did. Atlanta Constitution: The farce in Ne- bLraska makes itself painfully apparent when it is remembered that the democratic party of that state he'd a large and enthusiastic convention, in which democratic principl were clearly set forth. The goldbugs were beaten at every turn. There were only about thirty-elght of these gentry in the con- vention composed of 550 delegates, and after they had participa in everything that was done, t retired and formed a so-called lemocratic party of their own. SR s I0WA PRESS COMMENT, Dubuque Telegraph: Are we chumps? Davenport Demécrat: Raising the stars and strips by statute over everything from a log house to the state university, accord- ing fo the Tlinofs blen, will not make the people patriotic any Anore than prohibition by law will maké thiem temperate. ceola Sentinel: lowa wants an insur- s law modeled after the Missourl law. A buliding and loan association law that will protect investors. The law of consent raised from 13 years to ‘1% years. Better taxation apportionment and’' & new mercantile bank- rupt law. Des Moines Leader! A number of lowa newspapers in their editorial columns are de- claring that the liquor question is not en issue in Towa tuis year, while in the ad- vertising columns is notice to the effect that before the next legislature will come a con- stitutional amendment looking to the prohibi- tion of the liquor traffic in the state. Dubuque Telegraph: There is a growing popular demand for the enactment by the next legislaiure of & law restricting the powers of county supervisors and requiring persons elected to that office to give bonds. At present the supervisors pass upon and allow their cwn bills for committee service, and in many places they pay more to favorite contractors for doing public work than ought to be pald. The Des Moines Reglster, the Boone News and other journals are volcing th netal protest against the abuses— abuses which in gome counties have de- veloped into flagrant corruption—asd the probable result will be a statute putting supervisors under supervision, e it | Poard of Library Directors last | evening a | that in case the board should dec BEE: 'TURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1805, LOCAL CAMPATGN CHATTER, Judge O. Ranter Soott apparently doosn't know Just where he stands now. Afrald that his A. P. A, friends will come to the conclusion that he is a bigger load than they can possibly bear, he Is beginning already to hedge and to attempt to curry favor with the hateful Romans. At the meeting of the Saturday presented asking de to elect librarlan, Miss Margaret O'Drien, assistant librarian, should be pro- petition was a woman present | moted to that position and that at all events Miss place. O'Brien be continued in her present Miss O'Brien, in whose interest this petition was presented, is a Roman Catholic and neither denies nor conceals her faith. This petition bears the signature of C. R. Scott. It is In the ranting judge's own handwriting. The paper is a public docu- ment and may be n at any time on in- quiring at the public library building. All of Scott's A. P. A. friends are cordially in- vited to step up and look at it. It is a curiosity that is “pretty enough to frame In any parlor.” There is one man who is not insulted at being called a leg-puiler. He is Claus Hub- bard. Claus feels proud of the position he occupies and he says there is honor among thieves, If any candidate doesn’t get what he has bargained for, his money will be re- turnad to him without defalcation, “adet Taylor told the Sixth ward repub- licans the other night that the present city council is the most business-like and honest that the city has ever had. He sald the figures would prove it and he would produce the figures some time. Major Wheeler is going to prove the same thing when he gets his figures, Hascall will swear to the figures that Taylor and Wheeler produce. John West- herg has a few notes in his pocket that wiil sustain Taylor and Fred Sackett will present an equally flattering showing for the county. Then John Butler has some figures and will ent them later on. And all this time fers are telling in flairs of the city are in a of expert accountants are drawing $20 a day from the treasury and working hard ortain the true condition of the city's ances, Anton Tnda told the Polish Republican club, in Polish, the other night that there would be 10 change in the method of having the streets cleaned by day labor. He then told Hascall what ‘e said to his fellow Poles. It was a little rough on the inveterate snorter. H had a speech all ready, denouncing the day labor system according to lines laid down b Wheeler and Winspear. But Hascall changed his political coat too often to be stumped very long. He sal ed in and whooped it up for the day labor system and claime All of the credit for the plan himself. He said he had simply coaxed the council into ordering the work done by day labor and that all of the credit belonged to him and his friends in the council. He hurried away from the meeting to explain to his friend Wheeler how he had been compelled to change front on the question, but promised to make it all rigat later on, A curbstone politician declared the colored peoplo of the Third ward to be weary of re- ceiving only promises from candidates. Does this mean that they want reward in the shape of office or do they pine for the usual ante-election encouragement? The subject is referred to Council 1 Charley Unitt claims that he voted for G. W. Lininger for maycr and says that no one can question his republicanism. But that Broatch claims that he not for Lininger, but coerced his voting the same way. Unitt show what he did with his before he can trot in the Broatch ¢ Meantime everybody remem- bers that Unitt supported Dick Cushing just the same as did all the other Twenty- Eighters, isn’t enough. only voted coachman i will have to coachman’s Vol John Butler is telling his dervish friends at the political meetings that he is not a candidate for office, but that he was chief of the fire department once and that he run the machine for $50,000 a year and that the ex- pense is now three times that amount. He is going to present figures to prove his asser- tion sometime. John could prove a lot of things if old Bill Jones was alive, Washington Saunders and Ananias G. Ed- wards have taken to wheeling and hope to catch the cyclers' vote. They are both handicapped, however, by low-geared wheels and punctured records. The change in the weat¥er Is not alone re- sponsible for the chills that are chasing up and down Colonel Mel Redfield’s spinal col- umn. The colonel has thought all along tLat he had a lead pipe cinch on the repub- lican nomination for county clerk.. It now develops that the country precincts have united on Ed Stout of Waterloo for that position and will come in as a unit for him and demand that he get the nomination or they will take a hand at slate breaking all along the line. The country precincts will have sixty-five votes in the convention, and if South Omaha joins them, as is probable, they will show up with seventy-six delegates against eighty-one from the city of Omaha. Colonel Redfield, of course, appreciates the gravity of the situation. He shows no signs of weakening and will probably call out his Home Guards if their services are needed to secure him a nomination. Tom Sudborough is not a member of the county central committee this year. He resigned last fall on the theory that he would have nothing to work for on his own ac- count this year. He changed his mind the other day, however, and tried to pull his string on the resignation, but it did not work. His place was filled by the selection of J. W. Battin. Ernest Stubt strongly opposed Sud- borough’s return to the committee, Stubt was afraid that T. K. might make another demand for the balancing of the books of the Qefunct committee of iwhich Stuht was sec- retary. Ex-Confed Covell talked to the Poles the other night. He had Sam Macleod along with him as interpreter. The county central committee requested all candidates to resign from the committee in order to give them all a fair show. Charley Unitt was the only fellow who failed to comply with the request. Charley doesn't take a hunch very easily anyway. - Taxing Vacant Lots. w York World, The proposition to assess at their true value for taxation the vacant lots in the city Is a good one, and If the tax commissioners advance that proposition Into a policy and act upon it with proper energy and discretion they will merit the publie applause. One of the permanent obstacles to the growth and improvement of cities is the man who buys land and holds it for a rise. He expects to stand still and be enriched through the activity that is going on all around him. Every house that (s built in the neighbor- hood or in the street adds value to his property, but he holde on year after year for a higher price, maintaining a pulsance—for nearly all vacant lots are nuisances—and whining always to have his tax kept down because his property produces no revenue, Paralysing & Theory, Indianapolis News. The corn crop is enormous, and the free sllver theory will not hold shucks, TO TRY SOME CELENRATED CASES, Coming Court Seanton at Waxhington 1o Tle an Interesting One. WASHINGTON, Sept, 9.—Much Interest at- taches to a number of cases which whil be considored during tho fall term of tho dis- trict courts and the grand jury which as- sembled today after the summer recess. Tho noted cates of the recalcitrant witnesses be- fore the senate sugar trust Investigation com- mittee, which have been before tho courts in varlous forms for more than a year, aro among these, The defendants are President Henry O. Havemeyer and John E. Searles of the American Sugar Refining company, E. R. Chapman of New York City and E. J Edwards of New York and J. 8. Shriver of Washington, newspaper correspondents. Chap- man’s case was made a test one and his first trial set for last June was deferred until this autumn, The trial of Miss Elizabeth Flagler, the young woman whose fatal shooting of a col- ored boy, while despoiling her fruit trees, created a sonsation some wecks ago, will be considered by the grand jury. Miss Flagler is now out on $10,000 bail The cases of Benjamin H. Milliken, indicted for housebreaking and attempting assault; Captain Henry W. Howgate, ex-disbursing officer of the signal service, whose sentence of eight years for forgery and embezzlement will be appealed; Caesar Celso Moreno, in- dicted for libeling Baron Fava, the Itallan ambassador; a number of alleged Chinese highbinders,” charged with conspiracy against other Chinamen, and a test case over the legality of the Edmunds anti-polygamy and adultery act, as applicable to the District of Columbia will also be heard ROADS, LOOKING AFTER COUNTRY General Miles Sends amine Routes Between Clties. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—General Miles, cormanding the Department of the East, is taking active steps to &e for the use of the army accurate information as to the condition of all roads between large centers of population or places of strategic im- portance in his department which might be required for the movement of troops in an emergency involving the incapacity of the railroads.” Since the expansion of the rail- road service these natural arteries of com- munication generally have been suffered to fall into bad condition and it is the purpose of General Miles to do everything possible to better this state of affairs Admitting that the old road charts are now of little service the information desired is being collected by officers detailed for the purpose and the bicycle will be the means of transportation used. On Wednesday First Lieutenant W. Stevens, First artillery, left New York on a wheel for Washington. He found the road as far as Philadelphia in good condition and made the run to that city from New York in seven hours and twenty-two minutes, After spending a day and a half in Philadelphia looking over the maps he started south. The road from = elphia to Baltimore was found to be very bad and owing to the heavy rains good time could not be made. Between Baltimore and Washington again the road was good. Lieutenant Stevens arrived in Washington riday last. He is now about to start on an investigation of the roads in Virginia, nearby Washington, Jxpert to Bx- C ND PARDONS CONVICTS. Denies n Petition to a Man Who Haa Violated t WASHINGTON, Sept. . has granted a respite until October 18 in the case of Thomas Westmoreland, who was to be hanged in Texas on the 13th for murder. Pardons have been granted in the following cases: Jacob McAllister, now In an ad- vanced stage of consumption, sentenced in Texas to one vear imprisonment and fine for smuggling liquor into Indlan Territory; Clark Colling of Arkansas, same offense, sentenced to {wo years and 8ix months; Gor- don Wells, sentenced in Kentucky to sixty diys' imprisonment and fine for selling li- quor without a license; Charles A, Chamber- lain, sentenced in Missouri for two years and fine for perjury, and Samuel Still of Arkan- sas, sentenced to eighteen months and costs for assault with intent to kill. Pardons have been denied in the cases of C. N. Boyer, sentenced in Mississippl to fif- ten months and a fine for violation of the pension laws; George Rast, sentenced in Texas for horse theft, and Daniel De Gracla, sentenced in New Mexico to six months for adultery. In the Boyer case the president endorses the application as follows: “Denied. I shall refuse all applications for pardons in cases involving violations of the pension laws ex- cept when very strong and unusual reasons are presented SUGAR BOUNTY CAS DELAYED, Will Not Be Taken Up Until General Manderson is Ready. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—It is possible that the Oxnard Sugar bounty case will not reach the court of claims for some time. Mr. Hall, who was associated as counsel with Mr. Man- derson, has requested Secretary Carlisle not to send the case to the court until the sena- tor has had time to read Comptroller Bowl- er's decision and take whatever action he saw fit. The request was granted and the papers will remain in the secretary’s pos- session until Senator Manderson is heard Treasur: WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Today’s s'atement treasury shows: Available cash bal- 6,690; gold reserve, $98,910,77. TRITE AND TIOKLISIT Life: Rage—Jones is in an awful fix for nervous man, Jags—How #o? Tags—Th only way to keep his baby quiet is to ring the dining room bell and the house dog howls whenever he hears it, e mannest man T know v, "l in politics, He wor 19" What did he do usked the listener, He bought votes on credit, und after the du!‘ll\'ur‘v of the goods repudlated tho oblis gation,™ Harper's Bazart Maud=—be mine 1 cannot marr; blond hat will enable me to have o often told you, I wil sake."” “I love you passionately, T always sald T wonld are a pronounced prove what 1 dye for your a br New; York Recorder: Ho was rescuing her from the waves, but it looked as though they would nover Boston again, ‘“Hold on ‘tight, Penelope, | ‘hold on tight.” “Don’t say “hold on tight ' gurgled the girl with her mouth full of Atlantie ¥ ‘hold on tightly Chicago Tribun: 11 rights reserved," chuckied the one-legged burglar in the shoe store as he selectod a few lefts and moved softly toward the open window in the rear. 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