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H l'MKdemocratio rump In Montana is
H j ! tlivldctk-iKiiinst itsoU
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H Uni.iss Chicago ho ttrs herself St
B Louis will capture tlio plutno us the
H booillo cuntcr of tlio wobt
m. - Tin : exodus of negroes from Georgia
K ! nn& South Carolina will have a tun-
| v tloncy to diminish the strain on tlio
H ) shotgun
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B | \ -TllK Dakota saloons tire enjoying a
1 11 bcason of nrofound repose nonding the
| | j , cnactincnt of laws to make frco whisky
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H | ] U Tin : opposition from his own party , to
H | | 8. S. Brfco of Ohio , tlio facnatorial ennai-
1 | J date , is becoming very pronounced , and
H I , | It is dpubjful , if his barrel will carry
M \ him through
H > A l'KW obstreperous salaonmcn ,
H | whoso applications for license were re-
BH jeeted , propose to keep opun in defiance
fl of law From frame to iron bars is hut
H a stop Shut up or go up
H Tub gniublors' combine claim that
H til by ' do not care u fig for what tlio
H ] > upoVd say about thorn and the exteti-
H nionof 4 < heir lawless business Trioy
H fool conlldent that they will not be
H molested
H Tuk report that o. rival telegraph
H cotripany is aoout to begin business in-
H | ( dicritosthut the Jay Gould , system is
B rlpo for another swallow , The Western
H i Union has not had a doBo of water for
H | two vcarsor moro
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1 I Unu.UiU' information from Wash
B mgton exonerates the president from
H K , ehoottnga black pig under the tmprcs-
H | moil that it was a coon The opposi-
H tion is.coiiscquontly disgruntled over
, the failure of their Iittost attack upon
H. the admitiiBtrutioii ,
1 Fiiioutknkd by the probability of
H the pabsago of the Mills bill , the jute
H mill owners formed a trust and squeezed
H two millions from their patrons Now
H that the danger ia past tlio trust shows
H no disposition to refund the money or
H roleuso tholr grip on the people
H It ih only by comparing realty values
H with these of inflated cities of lebs pop
H illation that Omaha's consorvawvo pro
H gross stands out in relief There ia a
H total ubsonco of foverlsh speculation ,
H and nearly all purchuaos mudo during
H the past your were for permanent In-
H vestment ana Imorovomont
iffH ' ' =
H Tmsiti : were elcvon thousand , so von
H ' hundred mid nlnoteon failures last year
H according to Brndstroets , with liabilities
H amounting to ono liuiulreu and forty
H million , throe hundred and llfty-nino
H thousand dollars , and assets to to verity
H million , llvo hundred and uinoty-tiine
H thousand By this showingitlsovidont
H i that Omaha is for abend of the general
H > prosperity of the country
H WuiiiK emperors nnd premiers tire
m sounding the pralsos ot peace and good
will , there is no relaxation of vigilunco
I on tlie rospootivo borders , nor any vlsl-
bio sign of a reduction ot the millions
j' ' ot armed men ready to slaughter each
Hj other Profound fear of thn results ,
Hj rather than a dcslro for ponce Is what
H restrains European monurohles from
H reconstructing the map ot the contl-
H Itv the hill to relraburso persons for
H Indian depredations bocomoa 'a law ,
H Nobrasltiiua will file some tail and won
H I tlorfully constructed claims Tlio home
H guards ot Omahu who were frightened
H J I into activity and stampeded to Council
B I | Bluffs ou divers oocasiona uro entitled
H . to compensation for scares endured as
H ' well as for the valiant efforts in hunting
H j the red varmints in suctions wbero the
H guards hud a reasonable cortaiuty of
V j not finding thorn
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LOOK 70 TUB WEST
A loading Now York dally has recently
cently spoken some words of patronizing
commendation tor the west It assures
its readers in Wall street Hint the great
west is improving rapidly , especially in
financial morality , nnd tolls them that
it npprchonds no danger to a stable
currency from Impending , legislation ,
which , it assumes , will bo lnrgoly
shaped by western influences
This is gracious , of course , nnd maybe
bo comforting to thoCassnndrnsof Wall
street But is It not a httlo ridiculous
in the light of history Who but west
ern men nnd western influences have
shaped and modeled all important finan
cial legislation for the past Iwcnty-iiino
yonrs ? The father ot our present paper
currency , the great war sccrotaryof the
treasury , Salmon P. Chase , found a
worthy successor in John Sherman , the
father of resumption Both were Ohio
men The author of rapid refunding ,
William Windomcaino from beyond the
great lakes and is again as n western
secretary of the treasury planning
measures for an expanding currency
based on the solid foundation ot a great
western product
Whatovcr has been original , progres
sive and approved by experience in
financial legislation since the admin
istration of Buchanan hns been to a very
great extent the product western
brains , western ideas and western
financial morality The record of the
past leaves no grounds for the necessity
for assurances in the present
It is interesting , however , td note that
the east , which is , after all , onlyafrlngo
on the garment of the west is begin
ning to appreciate that the terms western
orn nnd wildcat are no longer synony
mous and tire willing to admit that all
civilization or commercial integrity or
flnnnclal soundness does not center
around Now York liurbur and the At
lantic seaboard The trade , the manu
factures , the great Internal transporta
tion system , the vast interests which
ramify and intcrtwitio in a dozen
mighty western omplros have boon
built and developed and could only have
boon founded and extended on thosamo
lines of business morality and fjunnciul
faith along which the wealth of the cast
has accumulated It was not rnmark-
able that with eyes closed to the wonderworking
der-working energy nnd enterprise of
western men , pushing their ideas into
ti thousand channels of trade and in
dustry and adding daily millions
to the productive capacity of tlio
great territory which they dominated ,
cas'torn financiers should have found it
impossible to understand a sound
reason for the western demand for amore
moro expansive currency and a circu
lating medium adequate to meet the
needs ot such marvelous commercial
growth The much derided cry for
' cheap money " 'st'omed anarchistic to
men who were loaning their millions
on cnll at two per cent a year , but it
meant a great deal to honest men and
good oiti/.ens who were borrowing ou
the prairies at two per cent u month
There wus no lack of iutcgrltyor , as re
sults have shown , ot sound common
sense in this western idea , for tin in
crease in the circulating medium The
legal tenders , the national bank notes
and the silver certificates are today
as good money to receive in payment of
debts as they are to give in payment ot
obligations The coinage law which
Wall street donounccd .as commercial
dishonesty lias mot every objection ad
vanced agaittst its operations , The pre
dicted disasters to result from western
financiering have none of them mate
rialized Thcro is its little reason to believe -
liove that future legislation dictated by
western brains on western ideas of
financial honesty will bo tiny moro de
structive of public faith or of private en
gagements
CANADIAN COMPETITION
Senator Cullom , chairman of the
senate commlttoo which last summer
investigated the subject of Canadian
rnilioad competition with the railroads
ot the United States , has employed tlio
congressional recess in preparing a re
port which it is expected will be laid
before the sonnto at an early day In
the meautiino a part of the commlttoo
litis been prosecuting additional in
quiries , obtaining the vlows , among
others , ot Mr Erastus Wiman , the well
known and very zealous advocate of
commercial union between the United
States and Canada Mr Wiman rc-
gardod the Cunndiati system of railways
us essential to cheap transportation in
this country Other ropresonttitlvo
mon gave nearly similar vlows respect
ing the competition of Canadian rail
ways
There is said to bo an impression that
the commlttoo will report bomothing in
the way of-antl-Cnuadlaii legislation ,
probably recommending that the Do
minion roads bo required to comply with
the interstate commerce law the sumo
as the American roads As to the Ca
nadian roads which do business in this
country , like tlio Grand Trunk , it has
already boon docldod by the ruling of
the intorstuto commerce commission
that they must conform to the law us to
that business , and this has boon gener
ally accepted as a ? ust and propsr v >
quiroment But what it Is thought pos
sible the committee will rocommund is
legislation that will force the Ca
nadian roads either to com
ply with the provisions of the
interstate commerce luw us to the
sohedullng of rates , the long and short
haul , otc , or cease to do business in
this country It is not understood that
n majority of the uommlttoo is in favor
ot any radical legislation , but that the
view is pretty gcnpral that something
should be 119110 to afford n reason able
measure of protection to American
roads compelled to compute with tlio
alien corporations
Jn order to rccommoud loglslution de
signed to exclude the Canadian rail
roads from American business the sen
ate coiumlttQo will have to ipnoro
pretty much all the information and
opinions it obtained hi Now England
and the northwest There was great
unanimity among the roprosoutativo
men of various interests in these see
tlons , whoso views were prosciitcd to
the committee , iu favor of uoii-lnter-
forouco with the competition or the
Canadian railroads The proposal that
those roads should bo required to con
form to the Intcrstnto commerce law ns
to all bdslnoss done by thom within the
United States encountered httlo opposi
tion , but it was insisted by morchrtnts
nnd manufacturers ot both sections Hint
it would be n , serious damngo to their
interests and to the general welfare ot
Now England and the northwosttoshut
off Canadian competition Soma members -
bors of the son a to coramitteo nrc said to
toke tlio view that whllo these sections
may get some bcnolltfrotnthoCanadinn
lines it docs not compensnto for the
damage done to the rest of the country
This the committee maybe able to
show , though it will hardly bo able .to
do so from the testimony it has taken ,
The atlitudo of the senate commlttoo on
this very Important subject which will
very llkoly determine the legislation of
congress regarding it , 1b a matter of
the greatest interest Not only is it a
subject of profound cpneorn to millions
of our own pcoplo and to the corpora
tions whoso wcltaro is involved , but it
is quite possible thnt It may crcato an
International question of soma magni
tude and importance
run omo nuxAivnsuiP
The very general interest iu political
circles over the contest In Ohio for tlio
seat of Henry B. Piiyno in the United
States senate is not due to the fact that
the result will tnalco any chntigo
in the roltitlvo strength of parties in
the senate , for it will simply replace
ono democrat with another The in
terest grows out of the fact that it is
distinctly ti battle of boodle , " in which
the prominent contestants are two mil
lionaires who according to all accounts
liavo boon distributing their money
with a most lavish hand These gentlemen -
tlomon who doslro to vault into the son
ata ut any , price are Calvin S. Brice ,
who lives almost us much in Now York
as in Ohio , and who has made his
wealth , within a period of about fifteen
years , in railroad manipulations and
enterprises not nil of which would per
haps boar close examination , and John
H. Thomas , a manufacturer There
are other candidates to the number of
nearly a dozen , borne of thom unques
tionably superior in ability as well as
inexperience of public affairs to either
of the millionaire candidates , but thov
have never beou considered seriously in
the race They have not the financial
backing
The Ohio legislature will moot today ,
and as the situation appears at this
writing , Brice or Thomas wilt be
chosen to euccoed Payne , the chnncos
seeming to bo in favor of the former
But whichever of these candidates is
selected the democratic party of Ohio
will continue under the stigma that has
rested upon it for the past six yours of
being a party of boodle and corruption
Six years ago it won this title when its
representatives in the legislature were
bought like shucp by the millionaire
friends of Henry B. Payne , who spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure -
cure his election After it became
known that the prcsont legislature was
democratic the members were warned
by some of the party papers that it
would bo most damaging to the party to
send another millionaire to the senate
The result will show how far this warn
ing has boon heeded It Brice goes to
the senate , as now appears highly
probable , Mr Payne will be succeeded
by a man quite as friendly ns himself to
corporate power , and the strength of
the millionaire element In the United
States sennto will bo unimpaired
THE MONETAIIY SITUATION
Ordinarily nt this season the money
supply at the eastern con ters is super
abundant , however sevcro the previous
prcssuro may have been , hut the situa
tion this year is exceptional The
action of the secretary of the treasury
in anticipating the payment of the Jan
uary interest somowhaf oasocl tbo
money market for a low days and was
an opportune relief , but it was only
temporary in its olToct , because the
amount thus thrown into the market
was uot largo enough to bo ot very ex
tended and permanent benefit There
are several reasons for the prcsont exceptional -
coptional monetary situation in the
east , chief among which Is the business
expansion , particularly in the west nnd
south , Irom which the return of money
to the centers is slow In the south the
enlargement of trade has boon romurk-
ably great Moro than four million
bales of cotton , representing a value of
over two hundred million dollars ,
have loft the plantations in the
last four months , the excess ever
the movement last year for the same
ported being moro than twenty million
dollars iu value The movement of the
agricultural products of the west has
also been much larger than last year ,
and especially from regions whence
money returns slowly from circulation
The incrcuso in business activity and
population has unquestionably boon
larger than the iucroaso ot circulation
of all kinds outsldo the bunks und the
treasury , und if those conditions con
tinue a greater stringency in money is
to bo oxpoctcd There is every indica
tion that business activity will bo main
tained , though of course this wilUargoly
depend upon the supply of money , No
body will deslro that business should
docllno in order to make an easy money
market , und the obvious alternative
therotoro Is to increnso the volume of
currency , The secretary of the treasury
ury might rollovo the situation by
larger bond purchases , but thisdoponds
upon the willingness ot holders to soil
at the treasury price IIo could also
help mutters by doubling the monthly
coinage of silver pending the
consideration in congress of his bullion
certificate plan , but ho may not doom it
expedient to adopt this policy nt this
time without instructions from congress
The most direct way to the desired end
is for congress to promptly pass the bill
to be introduced providing for issuing
certificates uguinst deposits of silver
bullion
Mr Oxnnrd , the manager ot the beet
sugar roflnery going up at Grand
Island , is decidedly visionary Ho as
sorts that In loss than ten yours the beet
sugar industry , if the proteotlvo duty is
maintalnod , will equal that ot Franco
or Germany , and bo in apposition to suc
cessfully compete with the product of
the old world without assistance The
catio growers ot Louisiana advanced a
similar plea \wonty-flvo \ years ago , nnd
nlthough they tVoro afforded every fa
cility lo Hupptaitho market they have
not producodiohu-twoutloth of the quan
tity required ? "iOxnnrd is opposed to
bountlos , yet tfujro Is little doubt that
ho willglndly draw on the stnto treasury
for ono cent , on every pound of sugar
produced Tn Bin : is in favor ot giv
ing every possible nsslstnnca to such in
dustries ns - rill1 enhance the value of
the products ot ho soil , but It does not
bollovo in taxjng the whole country
while Nebraska or California or Louisi
ana arc experimenting with sugar boot
culture
tt in nn O'errlpo Ilmti
Mtmphts liimtfaer
It Is certain ttmt Cuba must , before lonp ,
fall to the United States like a rlpo plum to
the ground
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Whore Jnoicson Wbh Fortunate ,
Chlcaao Tribune
It is fortunate for Andrew Jacltson that
ho lived In an npo of the world when wealth
wa * not the principal qualification for demo
cratic greatness
Itondlc , Nutllralns
St iMitt I'ott-Dlspalch.
The contest over the Ohio sotiatorshlp
seems to bo narrowing down to Brice and
Thomas , that Is to say , it lies between two
long purses nnd the longest will win Its \
not a quostlon of brains , but of boodle
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Tlio Next Stmt
Itnldmore Uicrfoiti
Ohio , ns usual , stops brbtfX' to the front ,
iler latest products are babies'born with
tooth Before \oag wo shall probably hoar
of a few born with roclstratlon cortiilentos
nnd applications for oRlco , all roAily to ho
put 011 Jllo
WHIIns to Ho Smiithr
17lll < lMl ( > lltt P/YJM.
Donbtloss the office will seek the man in
1892. It is likely that only n desire to save
thoofUce the troubloof maklnpnny todlous
search Impels Mr Glovoland to mnko his
whereabouts so well known iu the mean
time
ills Nnmn in Allison
St.ioitto Glo'js-Osmnciat.
On joint ballot the Iowa locclslature has a
republican majority of six when all the mem
bers are in their places This is a small
margin , but it moans that a republican sen
ator is to bo elected at the coming session ,
and thatbis name is William U. Allison ,
Always a Winner
Jlcntrfce uemncrat
Tnn Bee ns usual , issued a llnoly Illus
trated paper on Not Years duy , ono sldo of
which was devoted to the buildings of
Omaha , both residence ana business , with a
critical view ot South Omaha nnd the stock
yards , and lumber and manufacturing indus
tries Tun Ueb is' always a winner
As Fmo ns Silk
Vienumt Tilbunc
Tun Omaha Hues annual is probably as
fine au edition aa'was ' issued by any paper in
the United States , t A largo number of line
ongravmps Bhow'up the bcstbiiildiuprs of the
city Tuo business statement show that $13-
000,000 were expended In improvements ; the
bank clearings were 8308,081,000 ; the whole
sale trade amounted to ? 4l , * . 10,0CM ) , and the
manufactured product is ? 33,500,000.
COUN'i'liV • BUKKZKS
u
Uodtrlnir the Issue
ffrfeml Teltgraph
II asofodita Wells of the Crete Videtto
hasont any better argument to offer to the
pcoplo of Saline county as to why Hastings
and Pope took J000 In notes from the Dadoes
and thotax-nayors are paving the cxponscs
of thosoSults than picking out typographical
errors In any newspaper then ho bad bettor
shut up shop When a man of Walls politi
cal or moral record begins to pick out tbo
mistakes in a newspaper article and hold
thein up for argument , it makes one feel like
there wus a skunk under the house
Now Is the Time to Subscribe
Fremont naif
If there is any poor sinner In the city that
is not a subscriber the only religious
paper in the city ho should at once got his
name on the list Thn Flail proposes during
the coming year to make the waste places of
the earth rejoice and cause the doscrts of
ignorance to blossom us the rose In doing
that the dry bones of sinners will bo made
to qudko and the devils fortresses will bo
stormed from land and sea The guns are
alrondy charged end their great gaping muz
zles are turned upon the too
°
Now dent run ! Como in and bo "vIrtuousl
Touched the Kditnrin ! Heart
Kilo * County Voinocrat
We desire to return thanks to ourcstcomed
friend , Isaac Davidson of Armstrong , for a
fat geese for our Christmas dinner And
last but not least comes our ox-Virginia
friend , A. Moran , on publication duy with u
magnificent turkey Guntlcmcn , wo appro
bond your contributions financially at tholr
market value ; but ever all the kladly spirit ,
the fellowship , thoi"Bon Ami " Isaac Da
vidson is tbo worthy supervisor and leading
farmer of Bohemia township ; agoodsquaro
typo of the Knglish farmer Americanized
Mr Moran , Canadian born , Virginian by ex
perience , a Nebraskan by choice , a pair of
gentlemen Our best citizens . 1
Journalism Under ftllliculiieu
Aliuworlli Home Hulc
Wo do uot ask to bo excused from duty
since it bos fallen to our lot to edit this
paper , but slnco 1 am by force of circum
stances compollcd to do it from my farm at
Mabelo , which is twelve and ono.tialt miles
from Alnsworth , with only ono mall a week ,
I hope my friends will all allow mo a reasonable
sonable excuse If tbo paper does not como
up to the standard which I naturally would
love to sco it
Wo DnA'tf Need Copy
Wt'i Unton QauUc
Wo have not bad any copy slnco we took
charge af the Gazette Wo sot everything
up from the case by liver that Is , wo make
it up as wo go along , " the same as the old
man got his drove of sheep Neither have
wo red any prdttf * Wo empy our matter
in tbe forms and let iior go Gallagher
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GltKlVT MEN
Mark Twain does not bcliovu in authors
readings < >
The czar of Russia has become an export
performer on tbo.v olln His troubles have
ovlaeutly made u\ui \ desperate
Senator Hoarstilius been despoiled by his
trusted valet to tlio tune of , $300 , Even a
United States senator is not a here to his
valet
Dr Hans Vlrcliow , son of the famous VIr-
chow , bos been made extraordinary pro
fessor ot anatomy at the University of Ber
lin
Tennyson's new book of poems will bo entitled -
titled "Demetcr , " and will contain about
twenty-eight poems , including ono on tbe
Jubilee
Kola reports that his attempt to reduce his
wolght , which was very great , by not drink
ing , resulted in a reduction ot ten pounds In
eight days At the end of tbreo months bo
bad lost forty-ilva pounds und was iu much
Improved health
Munemitau Mutsu , the Japanese minister
at Washington , who has been summoned
homo by his government , bus made a great
many friends at the capital Ho It a highly
uducateamun , fond of society , and bis re
call U regrettable , He does uot understood
his unexpected summous ,
A number of prominent English writer *
. * . . . .
are gathering literary materials In remote
localities Itldcr Haggard has gene to Asia
Minor , Robert Louis Storenson Is in the
South Seas and Sir Edwin Arnold is between
twoon bore and India
Dr Oltvor Wendell Holmes will not fol
low In the footsteps of Tennyson ana Brown
ing nnd publish a volume of pooins in his
old ago Ho has not giron up his literary
pursuits , but tt Is said that bo now destroys
whatever ho writes
John G. Whittier , the poet , has Just role
bnitorthlsolghty-thlrd birthday Mr Whit
tier said recently : "I hnvo never been
robust Prom both my paronis I Inherited a
sensitive , nervous tompcrament , and ono ot
myoarllost recollections Is of a pain in tha
head , from which I have suffered all roy
life Lately I hnvo uot been able to write
for moro than halt an hour at a tttuo often
not so long Hut iu many ways I fool that t
hnvo been blessed far beyond my dcsorvlng
I am grateful to the Dlvlno provldonco , and
trnuqullly await tbo close of a Wo which has
been lonoor and , on the whole , Impnlor than
Ihnd reason to expect "
STATI3 AND TEIUtlTOItY
Nebraska Jottlnijs
Aboard of trndo has been organized at
Stoning
The total of city improvements at Ncllgh
for 1889 was $10,000.
Geneva spent S13. > ,000 In improvements
during the past year
The Schuyler Herald celebrated Its
eleventh birthday last week
.Tudgo Russell of Cass county Issued 131
marriage licenses during 18S9.
With the now yenr the Neuinha County
Granger began Us seventeenth volume
Charles Wanzer has succeeded Shoriil-
elect Cranons chief of police of Hastings
The Cass comity prohibitionists will hold a
convention at Wcoping Water January 14.
Tlio Irving Item has been transferred to
O'Neill , the county scat , wlioro It will bo
published in the future
The annunl meeting of the stockholders of
tha Missouri Ulvor , North Platte & Denver
railroad company will bo held nt Albion
Wednesday Now directors will bo elected
The premium list for the seventh annual
oxhlbltion of the Nebraska state poultry and
pot stocit association lias boon issued The
oxhlbltion will bo hold at Lincoln ifobruary
Dto 8.
The dead man found on the track between
Hartlngton and Uolcrldgo has boon identi
fied as Prank Arons , Jr , son of a wealthy
farmer of Codnr county It is bollovod that
he was murdoroa
John McLaren of Sargont tested the actual
cost of producing corn this year After
hiring all the uocossary labor done ho esti
mates that his corn cost him 13 cents per
bushel , delivered In bis cribs
Engineer Stetson of the B. & M. passenger
trnto which collided with a St Joe & Grand
Island train at Hastings , has bean discharged
from custody Ho had been hcid on a charge
of manslaughter in causing the death of ms
lircmau
Whllo Dr Edgar of Edgar was attempting
to rotnovo a corn from a phial of elixir vitriol
the bottle burst and the liquid was thrown
into his face and eyes , burning him severely
Remedies were promptly applied , and no
very serious results will follow
A contract has been entered into fortho
survey ot a route for an irrigating ditch
which will virtually cover nit the land Bouth
of the North Platte river in Scotts llluft
county This is the greatest Irrigation en
terprise cvor attempted in Nebraska
Iowa Items
Pomoroy Methodists will ouild a churcb
Tbo Mnrshalliown soldiers ' homo needs a
hospital badly
Burlington spent $100,019 iu improvements
tbo past year
Work has commenced on the Port Dodge
creamery plant
Mason City can hnvo a knitting factory if
she will ralso $3,000. ,
There are forty-flvo veterans of the war lu
the state legislature •
The commisslonur of the poor at Cedar
Rapids paid out $2,950.85 last year , $50 moro
than was paid in 1883.
Coal miners will hold a coavcntion at Os-
kaloosa January 30 to prepare bills to bo pre
sented to the legislature
The number of patients in the insane hos
pitals of the state is as follows : Mu Pleas
ant , b07 ; Independence , 801 ; Ctnrinaa , 250.
Tbe llnost annual issued in the stiito by
any newspaper was that of the Cedar Rapid3
Garotte It excelled the attempts of most of
the metropolitan puDlicatioas
Gib Halley end Prank Bruty olgWashlng-
ton got into a fight the other day over
which was ontltlod to the largest share of
four kegs of beer that arrived In town that
day , and Gib tried to drive Frank into the
ground with a hummer , cutting fifteen
cashes through his scalp , while Frank re
taliated by trying to saw Gib's leg oft with a
big jack knife , making 8BVor.il bad wounds
They wore arrested and escaped with a line
of $35 and costs caob for disturbing tbo
peace
Au oconomlcal Dubuque county farmer
had some dealings whh n Dubuque attorney
a short time ago and in settling the bill over
paid the lawyer 1 cent The granger wrote
him a letter last week , telling him ho wanted
to straighten up his books the first of the
yenr und wanted a draft on Chicago tor the
cent The attorney boxed up the penny and
expressed it to the granger , with charges to
be collcctod
A rascal named Teeters , llvlngat Burling
ton , dosortcd his wife just as she was about
to become a mother , leaving her utterly des
titute Her baby was stillborn and tbo
poor woman , without friends or money , was
compollcd to die ; a grave in the yard of the
house where she lived and bury her infant ,
Tbo authorities discovered the fact and in
vestigated the cusc giving the child proper
burial nnd seeing that the motbor was well
oared for
A Dubuque minister has brought charges
against a prominent business man of that
city of criminal assault upon an olovou-yoar-
old girl , the daughter ot ono of the members
of his congregation The complaint says tbo
merchant took tbo child down in the collar
of his store and attempted to outrage her ,
but was provontcd by tbo entrance of cus
tomers Ho then offered to settle the affair
with the girls ' father , but was Indignantly
refused The matter will bo laid before the
grand Jury _ _ _
II10 Two Onkotns
Yankton is to have another national bank
An Aberdeen woman , Mrs U.S.Leonard ,
has fallen bolr to $10,000 ,
Over one hundred buildings have been
erected hi Pierre slnco October 1.
Wesslngton Springs Is to have a course of
lectures during Januury und February
A now grnm elevator with a capacity of
50,000 bushels is being oroctca at Rapid City ,
The North Dakuta Teachers association
will bold its next annual convoation at
Fargo
During the post year thcro wore 1,1123
transfers of real estulo and 1,701 mortgugos
placed on record at Fargo
Work on the Indian school at Rapid City
will bo commenced early In the spring und
the building Is expected to bo ready for occu
pancy by October next
During 1889 Sioux Falls expended t3,5O3,0l
in buildiuv Imurqvcments About four hundred
drod und fifty residences and business bloolts
were erected during the year
A Huron brewer proposes to turn bis brow ,
cry into a boot sugar fuctory Ho claims that
the industry will iucroaso the vnluo ot land
in that vicinity to $100 an aero
An eastern capitalist has been looking ever
the gyuipsuru beds la the vicinity of Rapid
City with a view to putting la a plant for the
manufacture ot plaster of parts and stucco
The oatly closing movement has struck
Aberdeen and forty-five merchants have do
cldod to shut up shop promptly at 7 o'clock
ia the ovcnlng , Saturday evening excepted
Largo numbers of Minnesota people are
sottllog in the Uboyonno river country , and
it la thought that at the close of next year
thcro will not bo on acre of vacant land ia
that section ot the country
A usury bill has been introduced la the
legislature of North Dakota which provides
that both interest and principal shall bo for
feited where n creator rate ot interest than
iu per cent is charged , no matter lu what
form the overcharge may bo
Mrs Cora Hello Cbaska , wife of Chief
Chaska aud heroine of tlio sonsatloaal elope
munt about two years ugo , played the role ot
BantuClaus at Chief Chargers camp , near
Forest Uity , Christmas , and made the heart
of each little papoose bupuy with a present
Cora Holla now has u Utile papooss of her
own
*
THE CAPITAL CITY GRIST
Annual Mooting or the Nobmnkrt
StGuogrnphors
REMARKS ON INCOMPETENTS
Tlio Supreme Court Docket Now
J'lrc Kicnps Order Kleotrlo
AlnrinsIlulUlliiK Permits
Llnuoln In Brief
Lincoln Btmruuor Tits 0 > tvnv IIbe , )
1039 P StlinET , )
Lincoln , Neb , Jan , n. |
Tlio Nebraska State Stenographers asso
ciation bold its regular annual meeting hero
Saturday , A , M. Hopkins In the chair A
great deal of Important business was dis
posed of , including the election ot oftlcora
for the ensuing year , which tcsultod as fol
lows ; PrtBldont , C. C. Valentino i vlco
president , E. R. Mockctt' secretary nnd
treasurer , J. W. Brotvstor ,
Exocutlvo Committee Waring , Beardslov ,
Potter , Wheeler , Poarsall
ExaminingCommittca ilopklus , Wheeler ,
Wilson , Trovltt , Megeath
These proscut wore ; A. M. Hopkins ,
Omahn ; J. W. Browstor , Hastings ; ( Jharles
Potter , Omaha ; Thomas P. Wilson , Omaha ;
C. W. Pcarsall , Columbus ; O. A. Mullen ,
Lincoln ; P. E. Bcardslcy , Lincoln ; E. It
Mockott , Fremont ; 11. M. Waring , Omaha ;
C. U. Valentino , Omaha ; W. R. Klrby , Lin
coln ; F. M. Hallowcll , ICoirnoy
Mr Hopkins road a paper on shorthand
reporting , which was highly appreciated
A member from On'ahu , ut the close ot the
meeting , said ;
This association was organbnd two years
ago with the understanding that It was to bo
u representative association of tlio competent
stenographers ot tbo state , and that lo bo u
member of It was nn equivalent to a certifi
cate of competency to do verbatim report
ing With this idea in view u constitution
nnd bylaws were framed providing that
each applicant for tnomborshlp should
undergo uu examination us to competency ,
unless his standing in the professiou wus
such that his competency was boyoud quos
tlon So far there has never been an ex
amination made ot n single applicant lor
membership , und the result Is that the as
sociation is made up of stenographers who
rank os good , bad nuu indllTurent , It does
not stop nt this , but stenographers ot well
known and recognized competency have
asked nud been refused admittnuooattho
time thnt others have been received whoso
incompetency was notorious Unless thuro
is a rigid and impartial enforcement ot the
constitution , the back of tha association is
bound to break of Its own weight "
Tlio Supreme Court Docket
Tlio January term of tbo supreme court
convenes Tuesday morning ut 8:30 : o'clock ,
with the Hon , Amasa Cobb , Lincoln , us chief
justice , and the Hon Samuel Maxwell , Fro
tnont , und the Hon T. L. Norvul , Seward ,
ns associate justices The following is the
docket for the First judicial district , which
will occupy the attention ot the court for the
first thrco weeks ;
From Gage County Ashby vsGreenslade ,
Greenwood vs Cobbey , Symns & Co vs
Noxon et ul , Jones ot at vs State , Cook vs
City of Beatrice , Barmoy vs Plummcr ,
Flllcy vs WalKcr et al Midland vs County
Board , Republican Valley Railroad Company
vS Prick Mordhorst vs Nebraska Tcluphono
Company Watson vs Roodo Hoatrico Sewer
Pipa Company vs Erwin , Davis vs Giddings ,
Myers vs Bealor , Liningor vs Glean , Mitchel-
son vsSmith Hill vs Hub , Halo vs Hess &
Co , Blakoloyvs Chicago Kansas & North
ern Railway Company , Weston vs Blown ,
Townsoud vs J. I. Case , Greenwood vs
Craig , Dorsoy vs McGco , Slater v Bcgole ,
Culver vs Omaha & Keuuulican Valley Hall
way Company , Bull vs Wugner , Holmur vs
Commercial Bank , Omaha & Republican
Valley Railway Compauy vs Hall , Nutionul
Lumber Company vs Wymoro , Chicago ,
Burlington & Quincy Railway Company
Bernard , Calland vs Nichols , Black vs
Wethernld , Carson , alias Miller vs State ,
Gulttard vs Robinson , South Brauch Lumber -
bor Company vs Littlojohn , Keller vs Amos ,
Dlckcrson vs MIchllng
From Johnson County Cheney vs Wag
ner , Ullby vs Townsend , Chunoy vs Campbell -
boll , Richardson vs Campbell , Foster vs
Davlnnoy , Woitz vs Wolfe , Russell vs Long
moor , Brown vs Work , Aultman , Miller &
Co vs Dennett , Rickorsev vs Waltemath pt
aLStato ox rol MoLane vs Compton
From Richardson County Candy vs
Early Richardson County vs Hull , Schuyler
vc Hanna , Wicks vs Nodrow , Keeling vs
Hoyt Valindighum vs Scott , Desorct Na
tional Banic vs Nucbolls , Davis vs State ,
Atchison & CHortbarn Railway Compauy vs
Foraey
From Pawaeo County Ford vs Steele ,
Candy vs State , Duscnuury vs Albright
They Must Adopt Flro Escapes
PIro Warden Newberry U getting ready
to servo notice on ull owners of buildings of
three stories high or more , used for tenements
(
ments or factories where ton or more hands
are omploycd , requiring thom to put up reg
ular platforms at each floor with outsldo
Iron stairways and ratlings so as to fucilitato
the escape of the occupants of the building
in case of a fire Mr Nuwberry says thut
the recent IIres have caused him to see that
such an order was an absolute necessity and
thut it will bo rigidly enforced
Glcotriu Flni Alarm * .
Efforts will be made in tbo nour future to
induce the council to adopt some method of
electric flro alarms The flro Saturday
morning has emphasized this need , Thcro
is no way of communicating with the depart
ment except by tolopuono , und a inossengcr
had to bo sent from the star bakery at Thir
teenth nud V to O street , seven blocks , over
a half mile , to reach a tolophoue
Bulltling Pormlts
In compiling the city ordinances by an
oversight the issuing of building permits
was taken from the chief of the Uro depart
ment and given to the city cleric His ofllco
was already overrun with work and the
consequence was that this work necessarily
wout by default From October St to
January 1 only thlrty-nlno permits were
issued By resolution ot the council at a
recent sosslon this work was changed back
to the chief of the flro department , who lias
discovered over two hundred partlos who
have erected buildings or made additions
since that date und have not complied with
thoordinanees They are being notified of
this neglect ou tholr part and will be made
to como to tluo ,
City News and Notes
Captain Ireland , who has been confined to
Ids bed for soma two weeks , Is somewhat
better , and will shortly bo able to resume his
duties on the police force
The Round Table club moot ! Monday
ovonlng ut tlio homo of 8. H. Iiurnhuui , 1030
D street The aubjoct of silver coinage will
bo under discussion ,
Another stuto fair mooting will bo hold in
the district court room Frldoy ovenlng
The Rev Dr , Curtis talked to the young
mon at the Young Men's Christian associa
tion rooms this afternoon
Two cases ot scarlet fever are reported iu
the city .
The Knights of Pythias lodges will lipid
a union meeting Wednesday night to con
elder tbo question of the erection of a build
ing
ing.The week of prayer , which begins today ,
will be quite geuorally observed ia this city
The First Univorxalist church will hold its
regular annual meeting at the church build
ing at rl o'clock Monday ovenlng
The Rev W. L. Terry of Grand Island has
reoclvod a call to the pastorate of East
Lincoln Buutitt churcb
A musicals will bo given Thursday ovoa-
log by the ladles ot tha Cnurch of the Holy
Trimly , under the dtroctlon.ot Mrs 0. A ,
Llppincott
The ordinance of baptism was aamlnis-
tcrud to a nutnbnr of converts from Emerald
at the First Baptist ohurcli this evening ,
The regular monthly incotlug of the City
Ministerial association will bo held ut the
First Congregational ohuch Monday mofn-
lug at 10 o'clock , A paper will be road by
the Rev Dr E. H. Curtis
The Rev Thomas B , Hughes of 1'awnoo
City , president ot tha Vouug Peoples con
vention of tha Baptist church ot the slate |
preached to the young people at the Pint H
Baptist church this evening , j H
tlcorgo E. Blgulow suggests that the cltr - - • |
could obtain qulto nn ndditlon to Its present ' H
water supply by utilizing the ovrrllnw from H
hi * lake four miles southwest of the city , |
Illslnkols formed by n dutn across tha L l
Haines branch nnd that stream Is fed by B M
fresh water springs It is said that the Inks J H
will bo vlsltod by n number of the council Jr H
mon Monday r H
Thn winter term of the public schools \ > § .M i H
gins Monday morning -m " H
Much enthusiasm prevailed nt the nicotine H
last night at Hoffman & Rlohtoi's In the * H
Interest of the llrst annunl charity ball , Tlio H
indications point to a very successful affair H
both socinlly and llnancmlly H
Something llko $3,000 hns boon secured by H
popular subscription to the now beat pack ' H
ing liouso for this city H
J , H. Strode hns liuoti appolntod nsslstnnt H
county attorney nt a salary of (50 a month H
Cupula aud Mrs Adam Bnx went betoro H
thn county court yesterday afternoon mm H
formally ndnntod Miss Mary Ellen Reding , H
their nicco , ngod sixteen yonrs She was H
given tbo name of Mary Ellen Hsx nnd is B
endorsed with the full right ot inheritance M
An East Lincoln gambling shop in the v H
chilly of Twonty-sovcuth and Vine has been r M
reported to the police " H
Low Kegnlcr , n well known nowspnpor H
man , formerly ot this city but Into of Kansas M
City , came up last night 011 a visit to old H
Dick Johnson ot the Paddock nt Beatrice , M
was in the city Inst night circulating among M
his old friends M
II Bennett , matiagor of the Cedar Rapids M
Compact , was in the city Inst night visiting M
with his frlond , Frank A. McBrldo H
J. L. Walden , who has been a cltlzon nt H
Lincoln some two months , has bean made B
happy by the arrival of his family from j HJ
Spencer , ' Ind Thov have gene to house
keeping on Twenty-fifth nndV. .
A ltlCH FIELD H
What Omnlin Will Gain By Itullitinc _ feflB
Into t-oulli Dakota ' " " B l
YvNtrros , S. D. , Jnn , 5. [ Special to Tun J
Bkr ] It is a matter of congratulation with H
the pcoplo of Vaukton and a large portion of 9Al
South Dakota to see what lively interest H
Omahn is taking In the Omnha & South H
Dakota railroad enterprise , and as there is 9H
a good prospect of closer commercial reinflfl
tlons In the near future , it hns occurred to H
ynur correspondent that the following stale / HH
ment nfouropurntlons in Vnnkton during the \
yenr just closed , may bo of Interest It wus HH
prepared by ono of tbo most responsible
Vnnkton contractors and may bo rollud on uv
correct : HJ
Residences $ 05,71m HJ
Business buildings 353,0) ) < i H
Public butldlngH lli' .i.so.i H
Miscellaneous improvements 131,751) ) H
Total S714.D5U | |
This would seem a good beginning , hut the H
operations of the present year will far exceed - - H
coed It H
Added to the above , the transactions iu H
real estate during ISS' .t in and around the H
city amount to nbout $1,000,000. Four huu- H
drcd acres have been platted und added dur H
Ing the year nnd 1890 will bo still larger H
Yankton's exports aud imports , by rail , H
have been for the year us follows : H
minoiiT SIUI'1'ED out ' 1
Car Loads H
Cereals ( nil kind ) HO I M
Lumber uj H
Cattle Oil ) M
Hogs 7C.0 M
Flour and feed 72L H
Brick 453 1
Flax and tow | 0a H
Beei ( Yunkton brewing ) Ola i H
Hides and tullow ( , - fey - H
Uutler and egirs , l'Jn fl H
General merchandise . . . . . IH t i _ |
Hay ! i.\u -i Uj H
FllEIUItT bltll'I'Et ) IN P H
Coal } ; H4 > " "t B
Flaxseed , l' .W H
Lumber li' , i- > H
Emigrant mov " W H
Merchandise . . 1M ) H
Lime 13 i H
Cement 101 H
Coal oil , 18U |
Beer 1W,0 + . |
Sioux Falls stone , 805 H
Agricultural Implements 03 B
Cereal and transit f > J HJ
The content works will bo in operation by 9J
July , and it Is expected the output will load M
ono train of cars a day the year round
We have n crowing and rapidly extending J9J
city , and the broad acres and fortllu fields BJ
boyoud us , between the Missouri and James BJ
rivers , are equal to any in the northwest iu flj
productiveness , and the aggregate crops are BJ
constantly Increasing Omaha will find this BJ
a most profltablo field in which to buy und BJ
sell , provided the proper means of com BJ
munication are established It may bo JB
stated with certainty that two-thirds ot the BJ
hogs packed at Sioux City the prcsont sea H
son went there from South Dakota , and at BJ
least ono-balf of them would go to Omaha it - . H
the Omaha & South Dakota road was 4BBJBB1
built und In oporatlon This vast trade will JBBJM
augment with each year , and wo offer # r
Omaha a largo share In It if her people will
como and taka it , WlU'thoy do it ! Three
hundred thousand dollars put lute the
Omaha nnd South Dakota road by Omaha
with what the people of this Btuto and all
along the line could and will do , will insure
the capital to bring it A road uo along the
south sldo of the Missouri may Uo all very
well and will como in time , but It will not
reach South Dakota orsecuro for Omaha the
South Dakota trade , Omaha must enter at
Yankton and build up between the Jnuios
river aud the Missouri river to share the
business that new goes to ether market * .
Now is the time , Delays are dangerous
Will Omaha act ?
Dlnklnc n Test '
Chhaoo Ttmta
Iowa is taking the back track on prohibi
tion The Dakotas baying adopted a prohi
bition law make practically no attempt at
its enforcement In Maine It was never
nnything but a farce In Kansas it is little
moro than a vexation The only state In the ± . •
the union where a zealous attempt is being . 4 -
lnado to give complete effect to the decree
that the liquor trniua shall bo abolished < a
New Hampshire New Hampshire Is u *
small state , both In territory and population
It is a state which only a year ago abolished
tbo clause in its constitution denying
tha right of a Cathollo to nold a
civil oflloo It Is a state in which ,
unlike Massachusetts and Connecti
cut , the New England element is still doml-
naot Hero , if anywhere , prohibition of the
liquor trnfllo may ha made a foot us well as u
law , But neither enactment uor Proclama
tion will of Itself accomplish thut result , Tha
governor seems to bo In downright earnest
Lot us note , say a year banco , the sum total
of his endeavor to give effect to a law which
is now wholly disregarded ,
AMIstikfit Sotieiu' .
Jhittim HcixiM
Of all methods of doallng with the negro
problem at the south that ot deporting the
colored man nway from that section is tlio
nioit preposterous Lot all the shipping that
is avallablo bo put to this work nlouo and it
could not carry the natural Incrcasoof tlu
negro out of the country This was demon
strated a half-conturj ago during tbo discus .
Bion of the colonization scheme If tbo uouro V
is to romaln In tha country there is 110 place \
so-well uduptod to his residence as where ho
now is
' *
A HniKlHoiuo Holiday Number
Of all the gorgeous holiday numbers Issued
by New York journals , Freund's American
Musician takes rank at the bead of the proces
sion A copy just received shows that the pub
lishers started out to accomplish something
very creditaulo in the line of modern enter
prise und succeeded most admirably It U
not only baudsomo iu Illustration aud print ,
but contains un Immense collection of absorb
ingly Interesting matter The front page
contains a highly colored plcturo ot Emma
Juoh as Marguerlto , with Faust making oue
of his polite bows to her , and old Moplilsto-
photos taking It all la from the background ,
It Is un elaborately artistic and extremely
showy frontispiece ,
Argentine lltiiulio | |
Omaha , Jan , 4 , To the Editor of Tps Bski
Who Is American minister to tbo Argentiuo S
RepuoUol Where and bow should bo bo ml- B
dressed by letter ! How long does it taka a Br' ,
loiter to go from Omaha to the place at '
which ho resides I Vimipant ,
1 , B , W. Hauna , minister resident and
consul general 3. Address ; Buenos Ayrcs
3. Ask steamship agencies