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THE WEEKLY 11E11ALD: PLATTSMOV 111. NEBRASKA, ANU L 6, 1893.
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THE HERALD.
fl'HUSHED KVEtfY THl'KSDAY.
T. A. BLANCHARD. Editor.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
One Yfsr-in advance,
If not paid In advance,
Six month.
Three month,
Telephone .umter 3.
tl 50
$2 Ml
75
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SrKlNK in sill Jut glory is with
tin; ice cream fti it unci easier hats
are prevelant. the blue bird and
robins letter on the twigs Jand the
broom and rake whi-ks merrily
around tin.
TllE IlEk'ALfi would like to have a
correspondent in every locality in
Cass county. We want those that
will write the new in a spicy, enter
taining, readable manner. Write to
us and we make you a proposi
tion. The election content in many of
the towns and cities of Nebraska
last Tuesday resulted in favor of
high licence. The liquor question
was made an issue in nearly every
town in the state except Platts
mouth.
Citizens of Lincoln have become
so leary of thieve and statesmen
that they are now afraid that even
the streets will be stolen. "Its as
easy for an honest man to live in
Lincoln as for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle."
The county commissioners held
a meeting and desided to make a
tour of the south eastern por
tion of the county for the pnpoeof
inspecting old bridges and deside
on building new ones. We would
suggest that they be T.'ry caret u and
go well prepared for snakes, found
in old bridge buttments are con
sidered us very dangerous.
Ik THE McKinley duty on tin
plates is thrown overboard, away
goes the foundation and maintain
ing power of their tin-plate works.
London Iron and Steel Trades Jour
nal. Asa matter ot course it is our
tin-plate works that are referred to.
If the maintaining power of our
tin-plate works is destroying the
one sourse of competition to the
small syndicate of Welsh producers
is eliminated and between twenty
and thirty million dollars a year
will be sent out of this country to
pay for tin-plates made at very low
wages, and hence cheaper than they
can be made here, unless wereducp
wages to the free-trade standard.
Cholera has made its appearance
again in St. I'etersburg and it is
known that fatal cases are of daily
occurrence, although the authori
ties have not resumed their policy
of last year of making a regular
daily announcement of the new
cases and deaths. At present the
authorities are pursuing a policy of
oppression and withhold from the
public all information as to the
spread of the disease. Very dis.
quieting rumors have been re
ceived from the interior Russia
and the ministry of the interior is
taking action which indicates that
the government must possess
special information of the gravest
character. The government is also
causing to be formed sanitary com
missions which will look after
the health of the people at the
points to be reached through the
railway system of Russia.
The error of trusts, is not the ex
tent of their concentration tt f capi
tal or their industrial supremacy;
it is their failure to recognize the
economic law of their existence
namely, that an increase concer
tratiou of capital and commerce
power in fewer hands is justifiable
only on the condition of improved
service to the community, either in
better quality or lower price of
what is furnished, Profits are the
legitimate reward of capitalistic
enterprise; but they must be ob
tained by explioting nature through
unproved methods, not by explot-
iug the community through higher
prices. If capitalists imagine that
any amount of accumulated wealth
can enable them to defy this assen
tial condition, they are woefully
mistaken, and sooner or later they
will have to pay the penalty, either
by arrest of their progress or by en
tire dispossession of their present
industrial opportunities.
In 1HSS Great Britain made 7,H!Ki,.
Ml tons of pig iron, and the average
price of warrents for G. M. H. Scotch
iron, according to the Iron Trade
Circular, Hriniinghani, for that
year was IV.t shillings and 11
pence. It is estimated by the Glas
gow Herald that the total make for
this year will be (!,HX,iK) ), and the
Iron Trade Circular says tnat the
average price for the same warrents
was 41 shillings mid 10 pence a
rise in price of 1 shilling u pence.
That is, the production has fallen
4if almost 20 per cent, and the price
has increased nearly 5 per cent. In
this country, on the contrary, our
make of pig iron in 1S8 was 6,M,
7;tt tons, and for INtt it was fl,I57,M
and the average price for No. 1 an
thracite in lhh8 was, according to
iMr. Swank, $4.87, and for IMC, by
the same authority, it was $15.73. So
that, opposed o the Knglish re
cord, we show an increase in pro
duction of full 41 per cent, accom
panied by a de:re.i-e in price ot 1,
12, or HI per cent. Age of Steel, St.
Louis. Mo.
It is too bad for us poor people
to be robbed in this style too bad
indeed. More iron made, prices
lower, wages higher, more home
markets for home products of farm
and factory, Yes its very bad we
hope the demo's can improve it.
The Wool and Cotton Reporter
says: A New York paper is riming
a series of letters on tariff matters
writttn by Mr. Thomas G. Shear
man, the Brooklyn lawyer and
addressed to Mr. Cleveland. Mr.
Shearman, whose philanthropy
ami charity are coequal to his
ability as a lawyer, and we had
almost added to his crankiness as
a tariff reformer, is a puzzle to his
neighbors, who find it difficult to
reconcile the gross inconsistencies
of his theories and practices; a
thoroughly good man, but far
astray on economic questions. lie
is further spoken of us one of the
"ultra wing the Hourbonites" of
tariff reform. Hut the reporter
thinks such reform is sure to come,
more or less of it, and says: The
duty of the hour for the manufact
urer is to prepare for it, and to
gradually adjust his affairs to meet
the impending change. No action
should be taken that bears at all
upon the future that leaves out
of consideration the probable
conditions that may exist under a
reduction in duties. While it is safe
to assume that the radical reformers
will not prevail, no one can fore
shadow just what measure of
protection will be given; it is
enough for the manufacturer to
realize to-day that a modification
or reduction in tariff is to occur in
a comparatively short space of
time. As to Shearman, he is a
mixture of free trade and Single
tax; and such assertions of his as
that we lately quoted from his J
speech in detroit in 1882, that "no
good woolens were made in this
country," when $K)0,000 worth of
Globe mill woolens, pronounced
by a French government expert as
comparing well with the goods of
their best mills, were selling yearly
in this city, puzzle people beyond
his neighborhood. They question
whether he be most knave or
ignoramus; but charitably con
elude not to call names, but to
decide tint his statements can have
no real weight. To be "sa'e to
assume that the radical reformers
will not prevail" is to suppose the
great democratic party a party of
false pretenses. Such assumption
need not be wondered at while
this journal finds ground for it in
tae platitudes of President
Cleveland's inaugural; but its
warning to manufacturers to take
no serious action which leaves out
the coining of reduction in ditties
ie timely. Win re are we to be at'r
We move on fairly yet, under a
good protective tariff but an uncer
tain future looms up, indistinct as
a fog at sea, so we can spread no
sail in safety, but steer on, ready
to shorten sail and cast anchor at
any moment.
AMERICAN TOOLS
Commenting on the progress
made in the manufacture af tools in
this country, an Knglish gentleman
who arrived in New York late in
February, said to be the president
of a large railroad syndicate and
the possessor of a comfortable
fortune, said the other day: "I am
aula.ed beyond measure by what
I have learned of your people
through the implements they use
in the arts and manufactures. In
Cirpenters' and machinists' tools
especially, I have come across
many things that are scarcely
known in Kngland. Your tools are
much superior to anything we
have on the other side, and con
sequently your artisans do better
work and more of it in a given time
fian ours. Many of ours tools are
old fashioned and of the same pat
tern used a score of years ago,
whereas, I learn that you are con
tiiiually improving yours, both in
shape and quality, I could not
belive it until I came here and saw
with my own eyes, for you know
what insular prejudices we have;
but I will say frimkly that we could
learn a great deal from the Ameri
cans. You are far ahead of us in
many things 1 am delighted as well
as amazed at the vast progress seen
here. I like your i ldustries. I have
bough over t'JiKI worth of tools in
New York and shall ship tiiem to
my place. When my friudssee them
they will be as much surpriced as
I have been. "Since his boyhood he
has been deeyly interested in
mechanics. Iron Age.
KEEP TH 2 BALL ROLLINC.
The impeaenment proceeding are
now bound to go through.
It has gone too far to be
retraced a9 is seen from the
following report of committee's
and council. There is no doubt but
there has been some crooked work
going on during the building of
the cell house, and other contracts
let to imprincipal men.
The report of the committee was
as follows:
To THE HOXOHAHLE REPRESENTA
TIVES of the State of Nehkaska:
We, your committee, appointed by
your honorable body to employ
counsel and take such steps as
seemed proper for the purpose of
instituting proceedings of impeach
ment against state and ex-state offi
cials shown to be guilty of malfeas
ance or negligence sufficient to
warrent impeachment proceedings,
beg leave to report:
That we have submitted to your
committee as legal advisers, to wit,
George v , Doane, S. H. Pound and
W. L. Green, all evidence bearing
upon the matter above named, and
herewith present their findings and
report, as a part of this report.
We also reco.uiiiend the passage
of house roll 'Ml, appropriated
money to be placed in the hands of
the governor of this stale to receive
state's moneys wrongfully obtain
ed and to prosecute all persons
guilty of misappropriating of the
state funds.
We further recommend the
adoption of the following accom
panying resolutions.
P. H Hanky,
J. I). VAN HoLSEN,
A. LOCKNEK.
The report of Judge Doane and
W. L. Green was as follows:
To the Honokahle Hoise of
Representatives: We, the under
signed, appointed by your honor
able body to examine the testimony
taken by the several committees
appointed to examine into the acts,
expenditures and other features of
the state institutions and to report
whether or not such testimony
shows that of the state officials or
ex-state officials to beguilty of mal
feasance or neglect sufficient to
warrent impeachment proceedings
against them or any of them, beg
leave to report:
That we have read all the testi
mony taken by said committees
which have been submitted to us,
and have carefully considered the
same, and that in our opinion there
is sufficient testimony taken and
reported by said committees to
warrent the institution of impeach
ment proceedings against the fol
lowing persons, to wit:
J. C. ALLEN, secretary of state.
A. R. Humphrey, commissioner
of public lauds and buildings.
G. II. Hastings, attorney general.
J. K. Hall, ex-treasuler of state.
We do not understand that it was
within the purview of the resolu
tion under which we were appoint
ed that we should report any spec
ial findings of fact upon which our
conclusion is based, and we have
therefore not done so. Hut as a mat
ter of law, we have no doubt that
the facts, as testified to before the
several committees of investigation
appointed by your honorable body,
are sufficient to warrent articles of
of impeach nent against the per
sons above named.
The testimony shows a systema
tic and continuous plundering of
the state by some of the contrac
tors for furnishing supplies to the
hospital for the insane and in the
accounts rendered by the board of
public lauds and buildings for ma
terial furnished and labor applied
in the construction of theof the ad
dition to the penitentiary, known as
the "new cell house,'' and we rec
ommetid that suit be instituted at
once against such of the fraudulent
contractors as are financially in.
terested and recover back tin
amounts which they have so frau
dulently obtained from the state.
Also that suits be commenced
against such of the parties as the
testimony shows were implicated
in the funds, as aiders and abet
tors thereof, while in the service of
the state, and the securities upon
their bonds, in cases where bonds
were given.
All of which is respectfully sub
mitted.
George v. Doank,
Willian L. Grkenk
The report of Judge Pound was
as folllows:
To THE HoNOKAIILE IIoi'SE oi
Representatives:
As one of the three counsel ap
pointed by a resolution by your
honorable body to examine the re
ports of the several committees of
the house and the testimony ac-
icompanyiug the same in respect
; to alleged misconduct and milfeas
I auce in omce oi state and ex-state
.officials, and to give a legal opinion
! whether such testimony is suffici
ent to warrent impeachment pro
ceedings against said officers or
any of them, I have the honor to re
port as follows:
This said testimony, if accepted
as accurate and true, the same not
having been subjected to the ttst
of cross-examination in the obsence
of a full hearing on their part, ex
plaining their motives and their
circumstadces under which they
acted, seems to justify, in my opin
ion, impeachment proceedings
against the members of the board
of public lands and buildings
for employing one Willian H. Dor
gen, in the spring of 111, and re
taining him to act as the agent of
a cerain cell house at the state peni
tentiary, knowing that said Dorgan
was at the same time the agent of
C. W. Mosher, the contractor of the
state penitentiary, whose interests
were adverse to those of the state,
thereby enabling said Dorgan and
Mosher successfully to defraud the
state out of many thourand dollars;
nad for an apparently inexcusable
and reprehensible carelessness and
indifference, in the examination
and approval of vouchers, accounts
and reports of Dorgon, and of his
disposition of the public moneys
placed in his hands for disburse
ment, knowing the temptation and
and opportunity afforded him to
defraud by reason of his dual rela
tion to the board and to the contrac
tors; and also against certain mem
bers of said board, mentioned in
said testimony and in the reports of
said committee, for using and ex
pending' without authority of law.
public moneys in traveling to ex
amine prisons in other states in the
fill of 1MH.
I further report that, in my opin
ion, said testimony tails to show
that the members of said board, or
any of them were actuated by cor
rupt motives, or that they or any ot
them were guilty of any wilful
breacn of official duty. All of which
is respectfully submitted.
Stephen B. Poind.
EXTERMINATION OF BUFFALOS.
Up to about 1S()9 the Indians
annually killed the buffalo by
thousands. During many genera
tions they slaughtered them only
for the meat and skins which they
themselves could use. Then there
came a time when there was a
market for the hides and tongues,
and countless other thousands were
slaughtered for this purpose. As
late as 1874 one could buy a beauti
ful fur-robe overcoat, well, made
and lined with flannel, at the retail
clothing stores in St. Paul, Miu-
nisota, for ten dollars. There was a
market, too, for the choicer portions
of the flesh, but this only cut a
small figure in the dreadful to
tal, so that finally the trade in robes
constituted the only incentive for
slaughter. The I'nion Pacific Rail
road was completed in 1800, other
railroads began to reach out
their iron arms across the Kansas
and Nebraska plains, and from that
hour the fate of the buffalo was
staled. For several years to come
he could be hunted, shot from
horseback, driven into enclosures
and slaughtered, or perhaps forced
over precipices after the manner
described in old geographies and
school-books, The animals seem
to have divided into two great
heards toward the close of their
career, for we hear of "the ureal
Southern herd." The Southern herd
was the first that was to go. Buf
falo Hill and his kind, with rvnglish
"sportmen" and American army
officers, vied with each other in the
wanton slaughter. During three
short years 1S72 3 4 the number so
killed has been estimated in mil
ions. It matters not how accurate
this estimate is, or whether the
number so slaiu was one million or
ten million, the fact remains that at
the close of 1872 the great Southern
herd was extinct.
In the North the conditions were
more favorable, but the relentless
hunter was hot upon the trail of
the diminshing herds. In 1870 Fort
Benton alone sent eighty thousand
hides to market. In 18H.1 two car
loads of hides were shipped from
Dickinson, North Dakota. In ls4
Fort Benton sent none at all. In
1870 a little band of animals were
known to be gazing near Fort Tot
ten, on Devil Lake, North Dakota,
and it is believed that these ani
mals furnished the two car-loads of
robes which came eastward to St.
Paul from Dickinson in 188:1. This
was the last year of the buffalo
1883. A herd, numbering perhaps
eight thousand, crossed the Yellow
stone River in that year, and went
north toward the British line. "Thev
never came back," is the pitiful re
frain which one hears from the In
dians along the border from Vin
ni peg in Monitolia to St. Mary's
Lakes in Alberta. No, they never
came back, and last summer and
fall, while riding with the oflicers
of the Canadian inouted police
through Alberta, they told me the
story of this last year of the buffalo
but it was never told twice alike by
any two men, fora strange mystery
seems to hang over the closing
scene of the great crime which an
uiliated the mighty herds. From
"The Story ot the Buffalo, by Ham
lin Russell, in Harper's M.igazine
for April.
THE OUTCAST.
Strange dreams of what I used to te
And w hat I dreamed I would le. sniru
Before my vision, faint and dim
As misty distances we see
In pictured scenes of fairy-lands;
And ever cm. with empty hands;
And eves that ever lie to me,
And smiles that no one understands,
I urope udown my distiny.
Some say I waver when I wulk
Alonn the crowded thoroughfares,
And some leer in my eyes, and talk
Of dullness, when I see in their
Like rishes' eves, alive or dead
Hut surfaces of vacancy
Blank disks that never seem to ee,
Hut if lint and grow and jflare instead.
The ragged shawl I wear is wet
With driving, driping rains. and yet
It seems a royal raiment, w here.
Through twisted torrents of my hair.
I see rare gems that gleam and shine
Like jewels in a stream of wine:
The gaping shoes that clothe my feet
And golden sandals, and the shrine
here courtiers grovel and repeat
ain prayers, and w here in ioy theret
l fair prince doffs his olumed hut
And kneels, and names all things meet,
metimes the sun shines, and the loll
Of winter noon is like a tune
The stars might twinkle to the moon
If night were w hite and heautiful-
or when the claniror of the town
Ami strife of traftlc softens down
The wakeful hunger that I nurse,
In
listniug, forgets to curse,
ntil-ah. joy! with drooping head
drowse, and deam that I am W-n,l
And turned safe devond their eve
Whoeither pity or despise.
-James Whitecomh Riley.
ANOTHER SOUL MADE HAPPY.
WELL Marier, I reckon you don't
know nuthin' much about smialler
and wretchedness, do y'u. I did'nt
till now. While I was waitin'
for th' cars today up in th' citv I
just thought I'd walk down among
th pore 'n' needy, 'n' see fer myself
what I'd been readin' about; Mart
its jus tumble. They live downjou
the river bottoms, right along th'
very brink, where an extra swash of
water is liable to tip 'em right in, in
little board shanties, 'bout as big
as hen coops 'n' covered with black
paper. Nothin' but mud 'n' dirt 'n'
rail roads ferther dear little young-
uns to play with. Its lots worst
n I sposed it was, lots worse. lust
think of a pore family crowded into
one of them little shacks, 'n' praps
sleepin' on straw 'n' eatin' nothin'
but what little stuff they beg, while
wejroll in th' lap of luxury, 'n' have
taters'n white grav three times a
day; its tumble Mari. its tumble.
"Pore things "Silas," why didn't
y'u give some of em' suthin'."
'I did; I walked round anion? ,eni
'n' purty soon I seed what peered t'
me t be about th' pore'st hut
there, so I just thought I'd
try a little experiment 'n' see what
they'd do with money if they had it.
so I walked along by n' dropei a
quarter in front of th' door wher it
was mashed down flat 'n' smooth
with ther' pore bare feet 'n' then I sot
down on a log a little peace off 'n'
watched. Purty soon a pore feller
with nuthin but rags on, 'n' his
eyes was red 'n' swelled like, like
he d been sitting up nights, come t'
th, door 'n' stretched; 'n' while he
had his arms over his head he
seed th' quarter, 'n' Mari, he was
just paralized. His eyeB bulged
right out 'n he could'nt hardly
seem t' git his arms down again. I
don't reckon he had seen that much
afore fer months. After a bit he
picked it up 'n' turned it over, 'n'
looked at it, 'n' bit it, ez though he
couldn't hardly believe his own
eyes; then his face brightened up a
little "n" he hollered to a nore little
ragged spindle shanked girl, that f
was plaiyn' on a freight car t come
quick. She run into th' shanty 'u'
about a minute after come out
with a little tin bucket with a lid
on, 'n' started off. The man come t
th'door 'n' says, now hurry , 'Jed''
fast ez y n kin. I spose he was send
in' after a little milk er suthin'
fer his pore sick wife; leastwise he
looked kind 'o happy like fer a
minute, then he went back in th'
house. Purty soon he come out
again kind'o oneasy like, 'n' looked
fer th' little girl; pore feller he
looked tumble worked up, 'n' just
then th' little girl coine'n' he run to
meet her 'n' took th' bucket 'n' run
forth' shanty tellin' her th' same
time go off an' play. He looked
mighty pleased 'n' I went away
feelin' glad that I had made one
pore soul happy. Sakes alive Mari,
its nineo'clock, hand me th' tista
ment" BiLL (Jl'oi.N.
No-Water, leader of the refrectory
Sioux at Pine Nidge, and Hollow
Wood, one of his chiefs,' were taen
to Rapid City, S. D. from the agency
No-Water was found at Chief
Sw rd's camp and was arrested on
a charge of conspiracy growing out
of his sheltering Two Sticks' men
and refused to deliver them to the
authorities. Hollow wood the young
buck who fired on the policeman
from No-Water's camp. .s the
latter is the head and front of the
disorderly Indians, his arrest is
important. Strong efforts will be
made to hold him on the charge
preferred. Two Sticks and White
Face Horse, whon No Water would
not surrender, are still in a very
critical condition from their
wounds. They cannot be moved in
their present condition.
If Yoar Cistern '"
Is Out of Order ,
or Soft Water is scarce,
don't worry yourself for a moment
go right ahead and use hard water with
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