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j TltK cxplriiifj council placed the cap
) J Btono on Us monument by voting forty
j thousand dollars to the ( fas company
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1 i I Tm : confession of judgment in the
H I tfas claim vcmoves ono long standing
| ' and prolific boodloclcmont from munici-
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B ' , j pal affairs
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H j f Tiir ceremony of iiuluutiiig Judge
K ; Brewer to a scat on the supreme bench
1 ' lacked the stimulating influence of
| Kansas mill : punch
H ; j PiiOMixnxT Montana democrats cou-
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r , | victory In other words , honesty
| , ) j triumphs ever fraud
H H Euqkni : Higgins predicts that the
B \j \ , next democratic candidate for the pros
1 jj * • idoncy will como from the west Mr
H t Jlitfgins is something of a prophet in
H | ; politidal matters
H r Ir John Jay Knox succeeds with his
H > bill to make silver the basis of national
P 1 circulation ho can draw on the mining
. | states of the west for an unlimited '
H ; , i ] amount of good will
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l j Tun valedictory of Broatoh is con
1 | sulcuous for two things its pretensions
H ! nud omissions It must have boon a
H I Biirprlso toihim that the planet did not
H J Bland still whou ho stopped down and
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H Tiik mayor of Chicago has issued an-
1 ether order that gambling must stop
H It will if the supply of victims runs out ,
H ' "ml this contingency is not likely to
Hj arise while tno present population pas
Ki I tures by the lake
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! * l-'UtST ASSIbTANT POSTMAbTKll GEK-
H ; | i r.it.vii Clauksok 1ms grown weary of
P H I slnughtoring domocratio postmasters
H' ' nud thrcatous to resign That ho re-
B gards his experience in ofTlco as in-
Bi \ Btructlvo is a significant confession
Hi Nui'iviTiibTANDiNO the efforts of the
ByW wonther bureau to pile up blizzards in
BVB this section , the climate switches thorn
H , to tUV north jxni south with delightful
Bj rogulnrity • In the mnttorof wcathor ,
H | > its in i ll things that contribute to human
H - lmpplncss , this Is the highly favored
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H , TitiiK ( aro-eightoon hundred mom
H * * bors lii .tlnj republican resubmlaslou
H | " club In Wichita , Kan These flguros
B iiro suggoativo , coupled with the ns-
_ _ * " ' i oi' .ttiu ) ot Congressman Fetors that
H ttiorqwas grave danger that Kansas ,
B with Us eighty-two thousand ropubll-
B I can majority , will become a democratic
B I state , _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
H ' Tiik superior court ot Sun Franclbco ,
H following the line of precedents in the
H oiisleni stales , annuls the franchUo of
Hj the American Sugar Hoflnlng company
H or joining the sugar trust With its
H . tontnclcs lopued off at the Atlantic and
H I the Pacific and the gulf , the sacaharino
H j octopus has no valid oxcusa for defer
H I ring its tunoral
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H CoNaitKSSJrAN Sl'itiNoiitt proposes to
H llaco „ a rider on the bill to admit
_ _ B Wyoming and'Idaho to statehood Ho
H insUU that Now Mexico and Arizona
H uhill bo udtnittod at the same time , but
H it is safe to predict that congress will
H iiot erect n state for the utnusoraont of
H the Mexican greasersuor inulcu Arizona
H an auncK for Mormondom
H , Fi'.u * men who have occupied the ar-
H duous ptMltloii of police jud o liavo
H perfovmed the duties of the otllco with
H grpatcr Mttlsfuctlou to the public than
H Juilgo Herkn Ilia record is iv crodita-
H lilo ono Impartial in the admluls-
H trntion of justice , generous to erring
B aud to chronic evil
_ _ < luiinanity , a terror -
H doors , Judge Horka takes with htm to
H \irivatg lifo the good will of the commu-
B nity and the satlsfaotion ot having
B fulthfully carried out the trust reposed
B in him by tlio jwoplo
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SILYPM AS A V6TS nASts
The quostlOn of providing ttn ndo *
qimto security for the national bank
notes lo rd ! > tnco the government bonds
now omptayed as such security , is n per
plexing ono The subject hns boon In
discussion Joe several yoara and rt great
vnrloly of plans and oxtMsdionts have
Iwon su gestod only to bo dismissed
after examination na Imprnctlcablo or
unsafe * The fact which confronts the
country Is the steadily diminish
ing circulation of the banks , which
must inevitably contlnuo untlor prevail
ing conditions The maximum circula
tion was reached at tlio end of 1873 , at
which time it stood , in round numbers ,
at thrco hundred and forty-ono million
dollars From that time onwtyd , not
withstanding the increasing require
ments of trade , It htw steadily lost
ground , until now the banks nro rc-
npouslblo for buta little more than ono
tlilrd of the amount of notes they had
out blxtccn yours ago This plainly
indicates the early extinction ( if
the bank circulation unless something
bo done by congress The secretary of
the treasury said In his annual report :
The banks nowdcrlvo no profit from
their circulation , and an actual loss Is
inflicted upon the smaller banks ,
anil udou those located In the
newer sections ot tha country ,
by reasoni ot bolnc obliged to
purchnso bonds at a high and
steadily advancing premium as a basis
for circulation A change In oxUting
laws Is necoss'try to pre vent serious con
traction of the currency by withdraw ills
from the system "
1 The comptroller of the currency dis
cussed this.subject at length In his an
nual report , suggesting ; i3 romodlos a
reduction in the minimum ot bonds de
posited to sccuro circulationan tncroaso
in the porconlago issued thereon in
circulating notes , nud a reduc
tion of tlio Hx now levied on
circulation , None ot those rocom-
mondntions wore new , and the fact that
they have rccolved so llttlo tavorablo
consideration heretofore does not
augur well for their acceptance by the
present congress They might accom
plish the purpose intended , but It is
questionable whether relieving the
banks.of tiny part of the tax on circu
lation , which is an essential part oT the
plan , would moot with general popular
approval
The lntcst contribution to the solution
of this question comes from Mr John Jay
Knox , formerly comptroller of the cur
rency , who proposes as part of the se
curity for bank circulation a deposit of
gold coin or bullion or silver bullion at
the current nmrkot price As rcportod ,
the plan of Mr Kno < c is to limit the cir
culation of banks to sovcnty-livo per
cent of their capital stock , and to re
quire that sovouty per cent of this cir
culation shall bo secured by
United States bonds , or half
this amount , at the op
tion of the banks , by a deposit in the
national treasury of gold coin or bul
lion The operation of this plan may
bo thus illustrated : A bank having n
capital stock of one hundred thousand
dollars would bo allowed a circulation of
scventy-fivo thousand dollars Seventy
per cent of this time .unt , or fifty-two
thousand live hundred dollars mubt be
secured by government bonds , though
if the bank preTors it may pro
vide 'is security for half this
amount a deposit of gold or sil
ver For thirty per cent of this circu
lation , or twenty-two thousand live hundred
drod dollars , there would bo no security
except in the form of a safety fund , "
which it is proposed to create by re
ducing the amount of United States
notes now outstanding and als > o the na
tional bank redemption fund , giving
together throe million dollars , and
adding thereto tha ouo per cout tax on
circulation In the opinion ot Mr
Knox this would make ample
provision _ foe the thirty per
cent ot circulation not otherwise
secured , the yearly average amount of
insolvent bank notes since the national
system was instituted bclnc only six
hundred thousand dollars It Iscsti- .
mated that in twenty years this safety
fund would amount to twenty-iivo mil
lion dollars
The prominence of Mr Knox as a
financier entitles his plan to serious
consideration The proposal to employ
silver bullion as a security for banlc cir
culation is very sure to bo widely dis
cussed , and it is not doubted that an
in telligent and unprejudiced examina
tion of this feature of the plan will ro-
suit in commending it to general favor
Wo think the plan would bo improved
by omitting gold In any form as a
security , but this-tnay not bo very im
portant for the reason that in the exercise -
orciso of tholr option the great major
ity of bankers would deposit sliver bul
lion The plan of Sir , Knox appears
entirely practicable and Eafo , and is
opeu to lower objections than auy of
the others that have been presented for
maintaining the national bank circula
tion _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
svaAit piiorEcnox
The ways and means cominlttoa hoard
on Munday two arguments in favor of
retaining the duty on sugar Ono was
by ox-Govornor Wnrmoutll of Louisi
ana , who assured the coramlttoo that if
the duty on sugar wore taken off or ro-
duccd the effect would be disastrous to
the sugnr-produolug interest of that
state A bounty would bo acceptable if
there could bo any guaranty that it
would bo continued , but as there could
not bo the only uafoty fortho sugar pro
ducers of Loulalaua Is In a duty
The other argument was by Mr
Oxnard , tbQ boot sugar refiner at Grand
Island , Nebraska , who presented at
length his ylews of the necessity of
continuing the present duty on sugar
for some years , in or lor to enahlo the
bcot sugar industry tq develop Mr
Oxnard has unquestioning faith in the
ultimata growth of this Indus
try to such proportions as will
fully supply the demand for
homo cbpsuraptlon and materially
reduce the price of this uoccssavy it it
shall continue * to bo protected by the
oxl6tlngduty for a few years Ho bo-
llovos that a change of policy at this
time regarding the sugar duty would
have trie effect of permanently destroy
ing nn industry which gives promise of
addlug g-Qutly to the wealth of the
country within Ihu ifo . xt ton years , and
that there would bo no compensating
benefit from such change of policy to
the consuraora of sugnr
This U intolllgcnt testimony
to which congress should
give duo consideration The duty on
sugar Is nlmost wholly for rovontio It
is easily and chenply collected , gives us
next to the largest slnglo Horn ot
rovontio , the Increased prlco from it Is
nn unconsidered trillo.nnd what is taken
from the taxpayers goes into the tax
payers1 treasury , not Into the pockets ot
a few Individuals The incidental pro
tection It gives to a now small interest
is not got by oxcludlng foreign sugnr ,
nor docs it imooso any hard
ship or cVaction upon tlio consumers
It is by no menns certain that the ro-
pcal or reduction of this tax would re
sult in nny public benefit , whllo the
government would lese n source of rev
cnuo to which there is not a sound ob
jection or n reasonable complaint It is
demonstrable that to lower or rcmovo
the dutv on raw sugars might ho of ad-
vnntngo to tlio combinations for
controlling the market , but it
cannot bo cortninly shown that
thcro would bo benefit in
any other direction Obviously the
sugar trust could desire nothing bet
ter than lcplslntion which might have
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the cITcct of destroying in its infancy
the bcot sugar industry of the country
Thcro are excellent ronsons why the
sugar duty should bo allowed to stand ,
and none equally good for interfering
with It Some rovlsion and modifica
tions of the schedules may bo dcslrablo ,
but to cutoff the moro than fifty mil
lions of rovontio annually derived from
sugar , or a considerable part of it ,
thereby preventing rollcf to the people
from thcrcductlon of ether taxes , does
not ( hid warrant in any demand of the
public interests or welfare
It IS A DM1XISTIIA TION
* The valedictory of Mayor Broatch is
characteristic of its author From first
to hist it is a stilted effort to magnify
his own services ns n reformer and im
press upon the taxpayers the idea that
the city was in u Uoplornblo condition
financially when ho entered the office ,
and through his remarkable financier
ing nnd persistent retrenchment is now
in possession of n largo surplus In its
treasury *
Wo concede that Mr Broatch has ef
fected soma reforms for which ho is en
titled to credit IIo has at various
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times exhibited commendable zeal In
opposing questionable schemes and
checked the rapauity of seine of the
frauchiscd corporations But his mes
sage is misleading The largo surplus
which ho exhibits is no proof or econ
omy or retrenchment It simply shows
what an enormous burden Omaha tax
payers are compelled to boar for main
taining the city government The
sixty-oight thousand dollar sur
plus in the city hall fund is
no cvidonce of economy , but
quite the rovcrsc Mayor Broatch for
gets to state that the city has issued
ono hundred aud twenty-live thousand
dollars ot city hall bonds , to create this
surplus , besides dumping In twenty
thousand dollars of school money lie
fails to observe that over eighty thou
sand dollars have been paid out of the
city hull fund and all we have to show
for it is an incomplete of plans and
about ten thousand dollars worth of
foundation walls
The seventy thousand dollar surplus
in the judgment fund only shows that
the tax levy has been increased in an
ticipation of claims trumped up against
the city
Mr Broatcn points with pride to the
fact that city bonds have boon sold at a
premium , but ho fails to call attention
to the moro important fact that the
city's bonded debt has increased over
half a million during his thirty months
of olilco A large part of the surplus in
the treasury represents unexpended
proceeds from the salcot these bonds
Nobody contends that the mayor has
incurred this increased bonded debt ,
but ho is largely rcspoasblo for the
enormous Increase in the running ex
penses of the city government , as shown
by the general fund expenditures before
and sirino ho came into olilco
During the year ending July 1,1SSCI ,
the general fund expenditures aggre
gated ono hundred aud fifty-six thou
sand seven hundred and twouty-llvo
dollars aud sixteen cents ; during the
six months from July I to December 31 ,
1SS7 , halt of tlio first llscnl year after
Broatch became mayor , the general fund
expenditures wore ono hundred and fifty
eight thousand nlno hundred and
sovonty-ilvo dollars and olghty-llvo
cents
In other words the running ox-
ponse3 of the first year of
Boyd's last administration wcro
about twenty-two hundred dollars less
than the first half year of Broatch's
term
The general fund expenses for the
year 1888 had rolled up to two hundred
and sixty thousand two hundred nnd
seventeen dollars aud thirly-threo
cents This was n very marked in
crease But for the year 188D the general -
oral fund expenses foot up three hun
dred and nineteen thousand four hun
dred nnd olghty-onc dollars and thlrty-
five cents moro than doubling the ex-
pon8os'of 188-3-0. This increase repre
sents simbly the ealurios and Incidental
expenses of city officials and the street
commissioners gang Itdpos tip % , rep
resent the police and flro departments ,
the flro hydrant rental , public library
expenses , parks , ote , for which special
taxes nro levied , and all of which have
moro than doubled in the aggregate
during Broatch's term
As to the incrcoso in the public im
provements during the last thirty
months the less said the bettor , . They
lack in quality what they wake up in
quantity The reduction in the cost of
paving material la scarcely duo to Mr
Broatch any moro than la the rodiictlou
in the price of brick * * '
The political reforms which Broqtcb
advocates are very much at vnrl-
auco with his own practices Ho
wants to put a stop to the bulldozing
methods of corporation * who vote their
men in squads of six , while ho ponson-
ullyboustodthathecoerccdhlscpachiuan
to yoto for Liuinger , and notoriously
sought to carry his own renomination
with corporation squads of twenties
nnd "tlilrtlos ' '
, supplemented by the
street commissioners gangs that wcro
mustered 'orllifj ' occnslon and disbanded
after the prjmijrles nt Jvcost to the city
of several thousand dollars
The most tftttUhig feature of the farewell -
well messagd U the martial and dicta
torial spirit , 1tiat | pcrmonlcs It Mr
Broatch wa . nls the mayor to bo mndo
an autocrat ? empowered to ap
point , omirfUy and discharge all
city ofllcprs nt his pleasure
Mr Brontcli ' w nts Ihoso subordinates
to bo subsorvjopt and dependent upon
the mayor solely for tholr existence
and aiHlonanco Ho wnnts thorn to
kcop constantly In wind that ho
is tholr benefactor nnd provides thorn
nnd tholr families with food nnd rai
ment at his own expense This is the
keynote to thu unpopularity of Mr
Broatch with a rory largo porcentngo
ot his own appointees IIo demanded of
them political allegiance and wanted
them to play tlio lackey and llunkoy to
his majesty , the mayor
It was always "my administration , "
"my Interests , " "my men , " "my prim
aries " and "my enemies " And every
body was nn cuoiny who did not fnll
into the Broatch procession
Tin : report of the government expert
sent out to Investigate the mnnufacturo
ot boot sugar In Kansas furnishes some
fuels of special interest to Nebraska
farmers and to the communities contem
plating embarking in the industry
Four nnd seventy hundredths ncrcs of
ground plnntod with seed brought from
( jormany produced sixty and a quarter
tons of cleaned boots , or about twelve
tons to the acre From this quan
tity ten thousand ono hundred
and fifty-eight pounds of Hugar
and thrco hundred and eighty
gallons ot molasses were obtained
Owing to the fact that the cultivation
of beets was entirely now to the work
men a largo per cent of the product
was wasted , but oven witli this
disadvantage , together witli thu
want of proper machinery , the
factory inou made a fuir p'-oflt.
The results , " says the olllclnl
demonstrate beyond any doubt that
with a sulllcicnt amount of capital , the
right location , the bust machinery and
good business muiiagcmont , sugar mak
ing in Kansas can be inado a financial
success "
Tin : frequency ot ft tight money mar
ket is explained by the fact that during
periodical squeezes New York bankers
uro nblo lo place loans at an interest
rate of forty per cent Whenever
Micro is u so trolly of spot cush reported
it is safe to conemde that the money
loaners on Wall street are holding up
their victims ,
Tm : row i' nho board of education
over incompetent touchers brings into
promir.oncc th'erdefects of the system of
examination invoguo Applicants for
teachers eortiheates are examinod.on
the whole range of qualifications except
cept the vitab'oue the ability to prop
erly manage Ifciass or a. school
Able to Correct Ifs Own llltimtcr- > .
5l ( Jfhltiftipnha Frlbunt.u n.
-Tno republican party ltnows'thut ' It must
be on its good behavior If It would succeed ,
for Its proportion of men-who think for them
selves is so high that tilt ' party dare not of
fend them by persistent misconduct It is
fur superior , therefore , in Its power of self
correction
Indorsement or Di'inoet-ats.
JVcio York Ho aid
What we want in this city is a double bade
action , patent revolving ( -uillotino on Union
square A basket full of beads now owned
by bummers and humbugs and political
swindlers would materially help us to solve
the problem of good government Wo are
cursed and harried and victimized by politi
cians , and Tammnay heads the gang
David Isn't HuiU Thar Way
Vhlladtlphia Iwjulrer
The into Grover Cleveland has written
another letter in favor ot ballot reform , but
without plvintr an idea about whut ho really
nienns Neither " no nor any ono else , however -
over , is 'to pet much ballot leforui In Now
York as lonj : as David IS Hilt U governor ot
that sttty
An Insurmountable Hill
SI Ij < mlH < 7lo 8.fiiJcnif. ( .
New York shuts itself out of nny chance
nf cotiing ballot reform or auy other sort of
reform for ttireoycaro to como when it re
elected Governor Hill in 18S8. If tlio empire
statu is earnestly and Intelligently desirous
of keeping up with the procession , it will
elect a republie.ui governor next jear
Tlio Titno-lionnro'l Slipper
Chicago Hemlit
Uoxing the oars as a means of punishing
children is a dangerous practice There are
many recorded cases in which the drum of
the car has been ruptured by this method of
punishment , and a short time ago a death
was caused by it in Kngland ; the car drum
was ruptured , oar disease sot in and ox *
tended to the brain , causing death After
all , thn slipper properly applied la the best
means of castration , and no oar disease can
result from its use
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Till : rttiK'a ANNUAIi
Kill ! ) Them Willi Desire
MlUhtlliS Di ) Ittj'itMfo-iii.
Among the atinnai reviews printed ns Now
Years editlons/by many of our exchanges
no ono is qulto tov attractive in its mcchan-
lealund urtistlciifeAture * as that issued by
Tub Osuiiv llEii .u/i'riio illustrated record of
line buildings eriieted in 183'J is really ro
markablo It ji ' pealis eloquently ot the en
terprise of Omilli so ole < iuoutly , indocd ,
that we arc altogether persuaded that Souta
Dakota should have direct connection , and
that at once , wlb { > } hs ( progressive commer
cial capital Nye.jbellove , too , that she will
have such Xba t ftinulia can present such a
record of stlrrlug progress as shown by Tuk
lir.K and yet fallow build a road into South
Dakota wcro a padiulox past our vomprohon
slon , Uut sucllia puradox does not , nor in
our judgment , Will hot oxlst
m-h
It Wi | HiiperK
CeiUir UqiiUUrt. ( / . ) UazttU
Tub Omaha Bee comes out on January 1
with a lithographed paper full of lllustru- .
tlons and a complete review of the city for
tbo past year It was ouo of the most superb
of all the holiday papers that has reached us
Cannot IIo Kxuellcit , >
Kc'muKa Plunccr
The New Years edition of Til * Osuiu
n r. contained an excclteat review of
Omaha for 1630 and four pages of litho
graphs representing the great building *
built there during the past year As a No *
braska und Omaha institution Tun Heb can >
not ba oxcollcd
Menu All the Other ) .
Afcnti idt-oaift.
TubOmuu Dee issued ono of the fluett
newspaper editions ever issued In tbo stats
on New Years day It contnlnod flno cuts of
all the prominent nnd best buildings In the
"
city , together wlllf a resutno of Omaha's
growth and prosperity , The Issue was not
only n crodlt toTiiK tnn ! W to the city ot
Omaha as rt whole Wo have always con
tended that there was moro enterprise and
snap about Tin Hee than all the other
dallies in tlio stnto put together , and wo still
continue to think so
An ICyo Opener %
UoUUtoe rrngrtM
The Now Years ' number of Tub Omaha
Hrr was n honey It can not fail to bo an
uyo opener to the down castor " It is
ahead of anything In that line ever Issued by
tlio metropolitan dallies of Now York , Phila
delphia or Hoston
Oinnlin Octtlni Thnre ' "
Voifc Ttmr .
U scorned as though the holiday number of
Tun Omaiiv Hr.ii of last year cjuU not be
Improved upon , but thh yoir It is even hot
ter than last The tmprovemout Is duo to
tlio magnificent Improvements made in the
city during the year The now Hee build
ing , the Now York hlfo Insurance building
and numerous ether clcguntand costly struc
tures , which nro handsomely Illustrated in
The Uir : , would bo a credit to rlny city on
the continent , This holiday papar is the
best nnd trilost ndvortisomont any cltv could
have road "
Anyonuwho oin pictures
can see at n glance that Omaha is getting
there 5
On thn Top Hound
. CnmpheU / ' .
The annual issued by The Omuu Ube is
n daisy It is on the top round of the art
luoscrvattvc , and shows Up the city of
Omaha and . her progress the past year to
perfection
A Work nf Art ,
Darcnv utla. ( . ) Dcmiicrat-Gittcllc.
TiieOuaua Hbk tukos a any for the line
nrt business Eight pages of heavy cream
tinted paper supply the background for
some of the finest engravings the eye has
soon Omaha's bank clearings for ISS9 foot
up $ - ' 0si' SluoO , an increase of 12j per cent
ever ISsS The wholosnlo trade Is represented -
sonted by Wt.ulo.UOO , nnd the pork nnd bcof
packing industry by $ ! 3f 00,000. It has boon
a grent year for Omnha nnd the busy Bur ,
which Is housed in its now magnificent build
ing costing half n million
Moot Complete
/rciimjr/i / / ? < ? pi < MI < - < m.
i'lio Omaui Bce prcHonts its pictorial an
nual , a superb number , comprising four
largo pages of Illustrations ot now buildings
In Omaha und four pages of facts nnd flg
uros showing Omaha's progress The ouo
thing lnrlciug in this edition is a diagram ot
the railroad from Omaha to Yankton
A KiinerD Number
l'miFihm ( S. D. ) I'rcfn and Dahutan
The Omaha Bhe's Illustrated annual was
the finest and most complete of any that
came to this oftlco
TUB niVIMS TATri
The Wild Enthusiasm Which Grcctcil
Her Last Apponrnnca In Olilencn
The Italian opera season at the Auditorium ,
in Chicago , was a most successful one , thn
receipts having amounted to $332,951. The
Chicago Trlbuno thus speaks ot Patti's last
appearance :
The maJauie was rarely pretty as Rosina ,
and she seemed to bo in the spirit of the audience -
dienco yostcrday moro than she had ever
been before She sang and nctod and was
comely , with all her best skill , and Ol
gracious idol I she condescended to answer
two encores The shrewdness that lias
saved bor voice for twenty-five years of
wear molted in tlio heat ot a tremendous
welcome , and the madame sang sovcrnl
thousand dollars'-worth of song for nothing •
It was in the singing lesson Bcono of The
Harbor that she came forward with tbo
music sheet in her hand und wai bled the
shadow song from Dinorah " Now was the
time for ftn encore A mightv Btorm of applause -
plauso swept down from tlio galleries and
crashed over the stage Figaro Marcscalchl
put his flngors in his oars In mock terror
For a moment Paul seemed to hesitate She
was coy oven in the face of such tumultuous
recall But at last she stepped forward with
her hand oa her heart and courtesied her
assent Tha npptausc censed for a moment
and then brolco forth aguin in another storm ,
when the bows began to creep across the
strings in the melody of Home , Sweet
Home " Tlio prelude ceased and
with it the applause Patti's first
nightingale notes rippled ever the foot
lights in an unbroken , breathless silence
Thu great bouso was hushed Not tbo
slightest rustic of a skirt broke the falrnoss
of the melody When the last cooing note
of the first , chorus hod molted there was a
wild roar from tlio pits and tbo- balconies
The madame sang the second verso as well
ns she bad sung the first , aud never when
her voice was youngest and frcsbost did sha
slug the first verso bettor Men and women
i-oho from their seats and cheered as she
draw back , bowing and smiling The bal
conies rained programmes and handkerchiefs -
chiefs on the pit Six thousand men and
women can make much noise , and these
0,000 were taxing their powers to the limits
Tbo madnmo trica a smile It failed to allay
the tumult She tried thrco or four bows
Thov only made the waves mount higher
Either l'ntti must sing or The Harbor of
Seville ' must suffer und dinner must wait
patti's sriive
So Patti sang She whispered to the con
ductor of the orchestra , and the band struck
up Ardltl's Kiss waltz , " "II bacio " The
audience rocogmred It and cheered
Patti sang it beautifully , but she won
more hearts by ono act than by all her
soprano trills , with all proper respect to the
trills , which were not slow While she was
warbling thu most delicate passage In tbo
song there was n crash ot glass audi a splin
tering of wood that sounded ominous It
was so Bbarp and sudden that It sent a tremor
through the house , aud the audience looked
apprehensive for a moment The
crash must have been distinct
to Patti , for it came from
behind the scene , where some workmen had
Bui ashed , a skylight , but she never turned or
moved a foot , Shn flushed a trllle , but her
notes did not waver She was tbo picture of
solf-composuro. f he only indlcatod that she
had hoard tlio noise by slightly waving her
band The infiuenco of her nerve reassured
these in the audience who may have felt a
littto panicky , there was a laugh and a burst
of hand chipping for tbo courageous singer ,
and the song wont rippling on lust the same
us though nothing had occurred
The auplauso was almost ns stormy after
the kiss sou ? us it hud been after Homo ,
Sweet Homo , " butMmo Patti had sung nil
she was going to , and she answered no moro
calls
•
Tim Iinst Wall or l tin Unit Spirit
To the Editor of Tun Due ; Mr Broatch's
figures regarding the treasurers office rro
fictitious and misleading The chairman of
tbo finance commlttoo , from whom ho gets
thorn , obtained Bib amounts from the comptrollers
troller's oftloo Mr Wheeler never consult
ed me , or sought information that would be
reliable The whulo thing was far effect
Every schoolboy Knows the proportloa that
exists when we compare the mean with the
two extremes , Inttaud of seeking an aver
age , Mr , Whcoier purposely picks out the
maximum in each Instance , which la a city
lllto Oinahu , whore frequently a half million
dollars are paid out in a month , Is a most
unreliable tlatum Take the balance
ruported.on the last day of June , I BSD , to bo
9W,0UX It is true that on that day this
amount appear ? . But as a matter of fact I
held , nspart of that amount , fully $200,000
of tax receipts which had been ordered and
not paid for I paid out between the 1st and
15th of July over fcWOOOO Therefore , In
order to obtain < a moan between the
uiouuuon ; hondJuue DO , and July 80,1 must
take into account tlio sums o ; band Juno 30 ,
and July 16. I am surprised Mr Broatoh
did not see this , before ho fired off hit part
ing shot In conclusion , let mo say that on
tbo first of every month the amount In
the treasurers hands Is large , bv the accu
mulation ot tuxes , eto On the 15th of the
month , the balance is comparatively small
us the appropriation ordinance is passed ut
the first uiootlngofjtbo council In each month ,
and the money paid out before the lOtn ,
Jous ltXiU ,
' -rj - . , sr-u- * --sr-r 't" . - - gt.'ivg"- ' - jz
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ,
Prof Howard Spoaka of lt3 Alma
nud Nooda
'
AN APPEAL FOR FINANCIAL AID
A ttcpnrt that Mnonln t'racmaRons
Are Impelling Iilquor Bleu State
IIouso Oosslp Tlio Ccnmis
City News Notes
LtxcoiAUmiieMior Tan Oxuit Hsr )
MBQ V Sthckt >
Ltscotv Neb , Jan , 7. 1
Prof George 13. Howard , ot the stnto
university , secretary of the State Historical
society , was seen by Tun Hr.c corrospoudont
this morning and interviewed rcgitrdiug the
work ot that organization , Irof Howard
said substantially ; "I agree with my cittic
in this mornings ' Her that Nebraska needd
a more thoroughly organized historical
society than wo have nt present , but tins wa
can novorhavo without turgor appropriations
What the llttlo band of us are doing at
present is primarily n labor of love ns the
appropriation for the pay of the soorotary ,
Slot ) a year , does not p ty for tno cataloguing
of the books nnd ptmphlcts rocolvod Our
critic speaks of ICnnsns In comparison That's
nil right , except that Kansas is provided by
lnw with large , handsome and roomy quarters
in the stnto oupliol building The soorotnry
is paid a decent salary nud ho bus from two
to four clerks constantly la his
employ Ho mukos a buslnoss of It
and the stale pays him nnd bis
help handsomely for their services Ho Is
doing n great worlc for Kansas , and this
work should bo done for Nebraska , but It
can never bo done until bettor quarters are
provided , some competent man secured as
secretary who can devote his wliolo time to
the work , nud then the state must pay htm
'
for his servlcos In sover.il of the eastern
states thcro are county societies , auxiliary to
the stutc society , und the state secretary at
tends these county meetings , gotsncqualnted
with the old settlers nnd thereby collects
much valuable historical data That cannot
bo done in tsobraska because there is no
money appropriated to pay thocxpouscs
The present state historical socloty was
organized on September 23 , 1S73 , at the Cnpl-
tftl hotel in this city , und thcro wcio present
Dr George L. Miller , Chris Hartmun nnd J.
T. Alton of Douglas county ; Governor Silas
Garberand H. S. Kuloy of Webster county ;
S. It Thompson , T. P. Konunrd , W , W.
Wilson nnd Samuel Au ghoy of Lancaster
county ; Uev J. M. Tuggurt and J. II Crox-
ton of Otoo county : C. H. Walker of Frank
lin county ; Hon Lorenzo Crounso and E.
N. Grcnuoll of Washington county ; Piof
C. D. Wilbur nfSalino county ; J. Q. Goss
or Sarpy county ; D. H. Wheeler and Will
iam Gllmore of Cnss county : O. T. B.
Williams of Sownrd county ; L. B. tflllold of
Buffalo county ; Itov B. W. Shryqck und E.
Shugartof Gagd county ; Willlum Adair ot
Dakota county ; Kobert W. Furnas of No-
maba county
* Since then annual meotlngs have been
held nnd the work of collecting historical
data has been prosecuted with nil the ability
nnd encrgj * which the members could spare
The historical library now contains in the
neighborhood of 3,000 volumes pertaining to
the history of this state and in fact to all
parts of the United States , and the bulk of
these collections have como from voluntary
contributions Ex-Governor Furnas ana
myself go every day through ns many ot the
pipers of this state as are at our command
and every item ota historical nature is cut
ana curofully preiervod for future rcfor-
enco Wo uro not doing whut Kansas is for
the reason above stated nud for tbo further
reason that Kansas appropriates from 83,000
to $5,000 ovbryvear for the support of her
society Wo have published two volumes of
Interesting historical matter and have two
moro ready to print At the last session of
the legislature 51,500 wss appropriated for
this printing , but thu enrolling clerk ( eft it
out ot tbo bill and of rourse wo lost that
amount There was nlso nppropriated $500
which is supposed to be our regular stipend ,
but the enrolling clerk , by no error , gave It
to the state horticultural society , and wc ara
left without anything except a small balance
from a previous appropriation Wo hope to
have better quarters In the near future ,
cither in the now university building or tn
the capitol building , and then we
will do more If wo only had
room to make a showing ot what
wo have done , it would count for something
nnd tbo people of tbo state could see and
appreciate tho'labors of the few who have
taken an interest in the work
"By the way , " the annual mooting will beheld
held in the university chapel on the even
ings of January It und ID
"I am glad to see Tub-Bib taking bold of
the work of Interesting the people in this
subject and l fcol sure that if that paper
advocutos a decent treatment of this socloty
that the people will respond heartily "
The Masons nnd the Uquor Dealers
It was reported Into last evening that the
Masonic lodges of this city have begun the
work of enforcing the rule said to have boon
adopted at a recent session of tbo grand
ledge which prohibits liquor dealers from
bocomtug or continuing to ba members ot the
order It is reported that some six wccics
ago a number of cbnrgos wcro preferred
ugalnst saloon itecpors in this city woo wcro
Masons and that at a recent nearly all night
session the trlul of ono of the accused took
place which resulted In his expulsion from
the order , A number of ether cases are rc
ported to bo pending , and it is said that the
ultra temperance clement are arranging to
enrry the war to every ledge in the stnto
wnoro saloonkeepers nro mumbers
Stnto IIouso Gossip
Every member of the Mexican excursion
party that went from the state bouso was
back in his place today and rocolvlng the
congratulations of his friends The prlvato
office of Auditor Bentoa was tbrongod all
day and huge clouds of smoke hovered over
his apartments as his a friends burned the
cigars ho brought homo from the land of tbo
Greaser
Harvey Colc.treasurerof Hamilton county ,
made settlement today with the auditor and
paid Into the state treasury the sum of
* 0.17i58.
The Gloiiovcr street railway company of
Hcatrlca filed articles of incorporation todnv
The capital stock Is S30.000. The Incorporators
raters uro Edward B. Shcrei- and Charles 0 ,
Bates
Representative hall is being handsomely
and tastefully decorated for tlioaniiual char
ity ball , which tukos place the oventng of
the Htli
J. A. Andrews , ono nf the sub contractors
under John Lunbam for tha work on tbo Im
provement of the capitol giounds was at the
state house today Kicking for his nay lie
cialais that Lauham has not paid him for
throu months Andrews says tliac ho did the
work uccording to instructions received from
Lanham , though ho knew that it was not
done according to the plans and specifica
tions _ _ _
Tim ( /cnsim.
A prominent politician of the First con
grosslonal district was in the city today and
ia conversation with Tue Heb correspondent
said : The work of talcing the census will
begin in earnest op Juno 1. 1 understand
that all the supervisors ot the censut have
orders to report the population of their re
spective districts to tbo head of the bureau
at Washington on'July l „ so that the total
population tbo United States may be
given to congress nt the earliest possible
moment Ooniaoss will thou make the ap
portionment by which wo Nubraskans hope
to get from three to foui1 additional mem
bers of congress This work will bo com
pleted , or it is hoped lo have It done by the
middle of August , when I huyo the best of
assurance for saying thut Governor Thayer
will call a special session of the legislature
of this state to re-dlstrlct the state Tbo
present intention is to have this work nil
done by the mlddlo of September or the 1st
of October , so that at the general election nf
lAVONobrasua people can vota for the now
iiiooilicrj ot congress und at the next session
the state will bo represented In congress in _ _ _ |
proportion to her present population " _ _ _ _ l
Governor Thayer said today that thorn _ H
would hnrdty ba nn extra session called for H
tbo purpose of ro-dlstrlcting the stut • is y M
the nddttionnl congressmen could onsil.s bj |
elected at large J H
To In vest lumo the Sliiirlrr _ |
W.IS , Dcmnroa of ltocx wns In the cltv toH _ |
day , bringing with him n potttion signed by /r _ l
n number of citlicns of Ihckmsn nnd ltoco , / ! H
nsxlng the county commissioners to inquire J _ H
into the rcconl of thoshorlff's ofllco for tV-o 1 H
past few years The petition was filed wtNj ) H
the county clerk late this afternoon I _ H
I ) . 13. Thompson Tnlks | H
Mr D. E. Thompson , superintendent of ( H
the northern division ot tha Burlington , was l'
_ _ _ _
seen today on his return irom the trip to | tj B
Mexico , In regard to n successor , ho said t ' H
that ho would not bo rcllovod tor Romotlmo j j H
yet The nntnosnr several gentlemen were • _ H
under consideration , but no ono had yet < H
been decided upon Ho said that ho Intended _ _ _
starting for Europe about February 1. Ills H
objective point would bo London ; from H
thence ho would go southward , bringing up v H
in Egypt l M
In tlio Supreme Court H
There nro two cases of cspsclal interest in ] |
the supreme court from Gage county Ono * H
is the State ox rel John B , Stewart v < i. H
George B. Emery , county clerk and thu ether y H
Is like unto It Under the now law of 1S3I { |
it was made the duty of the board of super M
visors , Immediately after the taking effect _ H
of the net , to divide the county into town H
ships similar to the congressional townships M
The supervisors in the even uumborcd town * |
ships should bo elected In tbo even nuntuorod H
years ; these in the odd numbered township * v |
in the odd numbered year * . In tio30 two j 1 |
even numbered townships ot Gage county a M
few of the voters cast their votes for candl- • M
dates for suporrlsors at the general election - JM | |
hi tSSO There were only n few votes cast HP _ |
for the ofllco not near a majority of the T _ H
voles cast on that day The parties rccolv- M
Ing these votes nppllod to the county clerk H
for n certificate of election ; this thn clerk H
rcfusod to glvo These oases are brought to . _ H
get a construction from the Bupromo court I H
on the question whether the supervisors in t ' H
the even numbered districts hold ever The I H
attorney gencrtd hns held that thuy do ' H
The following now cases wcro filed todnv : / _
D. E. Green & Co Vs Whltuold Sautord , , ' H
error from Seward county ; /.opnemlah I _ _ H
Swartz vs W. II MctJlcllnnd ot al , uppo.il | _ _ |
from Gage county ; Grand Island Banking 1 _ _ H
Company vs thu First National Bank , error } _ H
from Halt county | H
The followiug gcntleir.en wcro admitted to i _ _ H
practice : W. B. Compton of Johnson county , t _ H
J. II Easturdav of Johnson county _ H
In the casa of the Stnto ax rel TonuHon H
vs Coleman , Myron E. Wheeler was appointed - H
pointed lofcrea to tuko and report cvidoucc , _ _ H
Schuyler vs Hauna , submitted on motion to H
quash , uotlco of appeal ; Callnnd vs Nichols , H
submitted ; Luilngor vs Glenn , submitted , H
Mitchclsou vs Smith , submitted ; Bnrmby vs H
Plummcr , submitted ; 'lownsond Vs Case , _ |
submitted ; Greenwood vs Craig , dismissed ; _ _ H
South Branch Lumber Company vs Little _ H
John , continued ; Aultmnn , Miller & Co vs ( . _ _ _ !
Dennett , submitted on motion to dismiss j H
Jjydick vs Pnlmquist , continued ; Dovarmon H
vs State , dismissed ; Greenwood vs Cobuey , H
submitted on motion to dismiss ; Jones vs H
the State , submitted H
Court adjourned to Wednesday , January 1 H
8 , isoo , at 8:30 : a. m. I M
Franse vs Armbustor Error from Cumlug I H
county Affirmed Opinion by Maxwell , J. ( H
State ex rol Boochor vs Waitoly , Judge _ H
Mandamus Writ denied Opinion by > H
Itccso , Ch J. _ _ . H
Miller vs Camp Appeal from the district • H
court of Fillmore county Reversed and re- * J. _ H
raanded , Opinion bv Kecsc , Ch J. BP _ l
Foster vs Uovinuoy Error from the dls- _ _ M _ i
trlct court of Johnson county Reversed mid _ _ fH
remanded Opinion by Reese Ch J , - " " _ _ _
Comstock vs Cole , revived in name of B. I H
B. Boyd ex rel Error from the district I H
courtof Cedar county AQluned Opinion ] H
by Maxwell , J. I H
Hehner vs Commercial Bank , Error from I H
the district court ot Gage county Affirmed i M
Opinion by Maxwell , J. j. M
Cltj- News nml Notes I H
General Superintendent Cnlvart of the I _ _ |
Burlington is off on a trip to Newcastle \ H
Prof Caldwell of the state university has H
roturncd from Washington , where ho attended - M
tended the sixth anuunl mooting of the H
American historical association H
Lancaster lodge No 30. Independent H
Order of Oddfellows Installed the following M
officers last night ; N. G. , C. G. Barton ; V. _ |
G. , J. E. Consaul ; secretary , H. W. Randall ; H
permanent xocrotary , O. C. Boll ; trcasuror , M
C T. Boggs ; warden , J. B. Gesbery ; It , S. H
N. G. , J. S. Bradley ; L. S. N. G. , Frank
Ostraudcr ; conductor , Fred Cheney ; R. S. ) _ _
V. O , .1. J. Foster ; \m S. V. G „ A. S. Mas
tcrtnan ; 1. G. , A. Kutzonstaln ; O. G. , John | _ H
Hollman ; It S. J. . William Sehultz ; L. S. I
StJ B. Boggs jHhH
Fines in the police court for December B
amounted to $501.40 , the largest la the hisF''B _ ' '
torv of tbo city , r 1
There was no quorum at the city council I
meeting lust night I
i The barns of William DoHass and William |
-aham , in the vicinity of Twonty-thlrd |
and It streets , were burned about It o'clock
last night ; loss about 8200. The origin is
thought to have been incendiary
Mayor Graham has Buccumbod to tha La
Gnppo
Councilman McLaughlin loft last night
over the Missouri Paclflo for u trip through J
Toxus . ' \
Mrs A. M. Trimblo of Garfield precinct is r
enjoying a visit from her niece , Miss Funnio l
Trimble , or Ottawa III |
Councilman Dean has the La Grippe
The Woman's Aid socloty of the Holy Trin
ity church gave nn eutertainmcnt this even •
Ing at the rosldonco of Charles Hammond
Marshal Carder Is selling the plunder taken
from the prisonora during the last six
months The celebrated 170 yards of silk
which flgurod in the Ciiclc controversy Is a
part of thn stuff to be sold
George Tompkins , who claims to bo from
Denver , and who has been sick at the police _ _ _
station since Saturday , was taken today to • * * F "
tbo Sisters hospital *
Tlio udultory casa against William Dice
Was continued until Friday at 0 nm "T "
The casa against C. T. Boggs for koeptug * J
Galloway cattle IiiBido of the cfty limits was 1
continued until Tuesday , i
Mnyor Grahams llttlo daughter Is sen- '
ously til with the infiuenra
Mayor Graham wrote Congressman Cou
ncil today , sanding him a number of cuts of
prominent-buildings and n bira'soyo view of
the cltv , together with n photogrnptVof the
postortlcc building , to bo used in tuppOrt of
his bill for an appropriation for-an addition
to the building
" 'SnfSiS'X ' ' , Monday , Jan 6
TUB UNIVUttSAt I'AVOHITBS
JOSEPH PHOEBE J
GR1SMER DAVIES
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ANDTIIIHIt OWN COMIMHY ,
lu the l'ollowlng Uouertolre :
Monday Kicnlng , "Tlio TlsrW
I Tuesday Krciiliig 'llieWorltlAff/tliistllor /
Wednesday Evening , "I'orgii ah"
j&zx , Ian 9 , 10 fid i | .
SATUUDAY MATIKKK
Eugene Thomulclns' Boston 'fJiettUo ( Jo
In nn KiaboraU production of the
SRNSATIONAL 0i K8lT0 IWAHA
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$ * MANKIND + i
Ibe Ereil Sltaraikip , JbtHtib , He Rescue . Hfc
Tbc Craad Bants f-g , Strong CastFla | _ Sceoerj v ]
Prlces-iilc , We lie and llon tlatlnee Prices
50c and 75c. B aU go on sale Wedas dsy