fcitHE FRONTIER. yk+iitMi ■- . ...... jj-X, fOSLItlllD KTIHT TmmMT » ^ p S Til Fitoxros J’hiutiko Co. ■ ONBILL. NEBRASKA. S OYER THE STATE. |.v';: _._ , / Wymork now has the incandescent f • light. Thk drug firm of Baker &■ Seora, , failed lost week. ll-' Tiik.uk are four boarders in the Way no county jail. Two RKVrvAl.s of religion are in progress at Fairbury, “ Tiik three days poultry show held in Auburn was a great success. Tiik new Presbyterian church at " Lyons was recently dedicated. Mr. Hkrzoo has received his commis ' alon as postmaster of Harvard. Merchants of Norfolk experienced a ' very satisfactory Christmas trade. Diphtheria is still proving fatal in the | ’/ Russian settlement near ltradshaw. >* Wm. Wji.son, one of the oldest resl ?£ dents of Burt county, died last week, i. Or account of sickness the schools of Verdon were closed for two weeks. ' Thk Buffalo County Horticultural society will moet at (libbon, January 4. VV. K. Ai.i.en of Salem accidentally amputated one of his toes with a sharp ax. i Postmaster Rice and wife of Beat* . Vico gave an entertainment Christmas evening. A iioRSK fell on the 13-year-old son - of Mrs. Waddles of Fair field and broke the lad's arm. (iKRKR.u. and Mrs. Van Wyck raude a liberal distribution of food and oloth ' ing to the poor of Nebraska City. ’Thomas Coxway of Adams county, died recently In California. Ills body was brought home last week for burial. Thk treasurer of Nance county hns been ordered tocollect all personal tax #es at the pblnt of a distress warrant IIkv. PuWKt.T. of the Congregational church, Hastings, delivered his fare well sermon last Sunday, lie will spend a year in Indiana recuperating bis health. the act of loading a revolver, acciden tally shot himself, lie ia alive ut this writing1, but the wound is supposed to be fatal. The real-estate men of Randolph have organised for mutual protection under the name of the Randolph immi gration bureau. The membership is fourteen. Whii.k Charles Wortman. a farmer sear Milford, was loading hogs for : market his horses ran away and the wagon wheel passed over his leg, break ing the bone. Richardson county takes its name from lion. William A. Richardson of : Illinois, the third territorial governor' of Nebraska. The county was organ ised way back in 1834. . Hamby Him,, convicted of the mur der of Farmer Akeson, in Cass coun ty, has been sentenced to hang April 13. His partner in the crime goes to the penitentiary for life. The Tecuinseh Chieftain says that sorghum seed was ground into flour as long ago as thirteen years. Johnson county people discovered its value as a substitute for buckwheat. Bemwkix, on trial at Plattsmouth for 'the murder of farmer Akeson, was saved from the gallows but goes to the penitentiary for life. He is now in the state institution at Lincoln. Souk of the citizens of Lincoln are suing the Nebraska Telephone com pany for overcharges. It seems that the company has been charging some of the patrons ipore than others. There are a good many Invitations foing and coming in York these days, says the Times, but the invitation to take a drink Is never heard here. If it ia given, it is always in a whisper. ' It is claimed that no liquor has been aold la York for a number of years, i except in one instance, and that fellow had to ahswcr before the federal court . at Omaha, where he was fined #10. Thebe ate loud complaints at At kinson because a number of dead car casses of animals have been piled up on the river bank near the town, and left without any attempt at burial. More real-estate transfers have been made in the section about North Bend this fall, than in any time within the pastfive years Last week one firm aid a real-estate business amounting to ' Over $20,000. ' A baby belonging to J. J. Case of l Racine, Wis. . burned at Beatrice. It ' was valued at about $1,000, being in sured for 9500. Tbe barn was occupied by John Dickinson, who lost about $500 in grain and bay, Is a quarrel in a bawdy house at ,■ Omaha, Gene Anderson, a colored man, had his head crushed in, from the ef fects of which he will die. The trouble commenced over the affections of one of the inmates of the house. 1 The stables adjoining the Edwards A Bradlgpd Launber company and just In the rear of tbe new Oxnard hotel at Korfalk caught fire last week. The prompt response of the fire department soon cneeKea ue nsmes wan little damage. The poor of Nebraska City will be 'well cared for this winter. Supplies of ^ all kinds are coming in daily and the ' . proceeds of the chairity ball, anaount : »ng to 9174, will be turned over to the Helping Hand society for distribution among the poor. At Burwell Mr. James Alderman, - while adjusting the machinery at hia elevator, caught his hand in the belt ing. The jerking oil of his gloee saved him from serious injury. As it was, his wrist was dislocated and his %, hand badly bruised. Cuabi.ks Coi.k of Chadroo is under ar rest for beating his wife. Meeting her afta her three children they quarreled and then he choked her. She brake i away, but he caught her and choked her again, and stuck her with his fist i;‘ on the side of the head. % At Columbus the other day when Jailor Tom Gentleman unbolted the cage doors to remove the breakfast dishes he was immediately attacked by the thief prisoner who looted Hum phrey's jewelry store, and a prisoner irons Nance county, with a heavy iron bar. Andrew Dabney, the wife mur derer, rushed to Gentleman's assistance with nn iron looker, knocking both prisoner* Senseless. Dabney thus frus trated s jail delivery. ‘ 1*. . . i v ■ ‘ ‘ c ' CiEOROK Wilkinson, a farmerliving northeast of Beatrice, lost a valuable horse by Its bfing cut in a barb-wire fence. (•bain li.yers at Salem have found it impossible to get ears fast enough to take care of all the grain coming into that market. Tin: past year has been a prosperous one for Norfolk. The News makes a showing of *300,211.) spent for public improvements in the eity. Wim.iam Dkahdohkk, a prominent farmer, living cast of lieatriee, was ac cidentally shot in the knee last tveek, rendering amputation of thclimb nec essary. At Lyons recently Lucius Drennen. a shoemaker, was badly pounded by par ties breaking into his shop where he rooms. They kicked down the door and pitched him out of a window, breaking his collar bone and bruising his face in a horrible manner. Tiik hardware store of Kibben A Kempton at Curtis was burglarized last week. The thieves smashed the glass in the rear of the store and gained an entrance. A lot of revolvers and fine cutlery was taken. No clew as yet hus been found to implicate any oue. _ Whims skating on the river near Fullerton, .Iqhn Morrison slipped, and when he struck the ice, a revolver in his hip-pockct was discharged. The bullet penetrated the bovine of his leg and came out near the foot, making a puinful, but not dangerous wound. At a country school in lluffulo loun ty, two large boys became obstreper ous, and • thn lady teacher invited them to go home. They refused to do so and she locked them out. They pro cured a 2-by-2 scantling, broke down thp door ana whipped their teacher. J. 11. Lynn of ISiielby, la., came to Bluir lust week to visit County Treas urer Joseph Cook, and met two mess mates in the army. They were' hold ing prayer meeting according to cus tom in war times and he fell over dead while praying. Ueurt failure was the can.-a, A ciiir.D by the name of Andrew Leis?mneyer was run over in Beatrice by a wagon loaded with corn and both of his legs mangled. The little fellow was aged about T years, and was hang ing onto an express wagon and fell ott The wagot^ of eorn was immediately behind and before the wagon eould be , stopped tho child was under the wheels. The closing of Walker £ Sons’ mam moth dry goods store in Kearney was a surprise to every one. The store was the largest in the city, and apparently was doing a good business The firm had branch stores at Cheyenne. Goth enburg and tlrand Island, which will be closed on ac.ount of the failure lit that plitec. Thu liabilities of the firm, including those of t lie branch stores, is estimated nt $1)5,000. The surviving members of company 0, Ninety-seventh Ohio regiment, met in Nebraska City at the Grand Pacific hotel, guests of C'uptain W. 0. Kidd. An elegant dinner was served and toasts were responded to by lion. \^_. •L. llayward, l aptain Logan Enyart, Captain A. J. Klepser, C. \V. Hogo and Captain \V. D. Thompson. The seven old comrades in arms Who gathered | around the festive board fougiit their battles over again. 'The Christian ladies of Tobias had been laying plans for some time to give all the children iu town a Christinas supper at the Methodist Episcopal church Christmas night. Long tables hail been arranged in the church, which would accommodate about 100, and they were burdened with the spiead of dainties, to which the children did ample justice. Each child was also liberally supplied with candy, nuts and oranges that they might take home. Christmas exercises at Milford were held in the Methodist Episcopal chnrch, the Congregational church and Evan gelical church,all with crowded houses. At the close of the program the presi dent of the Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor, Miss Eastman, stepped forward ^nd presented the Methodist church with a 000-pound bell, which was rungas she spoke, it having been purchased and placed in position in the church belfry without the knowledge of the church members outside of that society. Nine of the prisoners confined in the county jail at Lincoln celebrated Christmas festivities by breaking out of their cells. They were all confined in one of the large rooms in the sec ond story. The jail is a flimsy struct-, ure. The rain had soaked the material in the ceiling in the northeast corner so badly, that the prisoners had no diffi culty in tearing off the iron sheeting and kicking a hole through the roof, from whence they lowered themselves to the ground. The most of them were eoufined for vagrancy. As a party of boys were skating on the Nemehu river on the outskirts of TecumBeb, Raymond, the seventeen year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Prank Bradley, broke through the ice and was drowned. When the accident happened young Hradley was around the bend in the1 river about a quarter of a mil ; from the rest of the party. ,His cries for help were heard by his playmates and they hastened to his res.-un hm. mm too late, as be had become chilled and exhausted and sank under the ice. Members of the beet sugar factory ooramittee met Count Lubienski in Omaha and agreed on terms for. a beet sugar factory and refinery in the neigh borhood of Omaha, with a capacity of 500 tons of beets per day and bona fide capital of $UOO,OUO paid in, including $100,000 to be subscribed by the citizens of Omaha. The machinery is all to be new and of the latest pattern, and. aa far as possible of American manufac ture. The citizens of Omaha are to secure contracts of the farmers of Douglas, Sarpy and Washington coun ties tor the cultivation of 4,000 acres of beets per annum for flee years. The company agrees to pay $5 per ton for the beets delivered at the factory. A very sad accident oecurred at the Methodist church at Dnlfin. Harry Newell, acting the part of Santa Claus, earne in dressed in the usual attire, his epat and hat composed principally of cotton. While be was delivering pres ents a lighted eandle tell from the Christmas tree, setting fire to the cot ton. and, in an instant, he was in a sheet of flame. As soon as he dis covered that his clothing wason fire he rushed madly through the cron d. The frightened people made a rush for the doors, and quite a number of women and children were trampled under foot, and more or less injured, but none se riously. Mr. Newell was severely burned about the hands, neck and face, but doctors say w t fatally. .V< ...ia/vfifc*. mt.i. V OUT MANY MILLIONS. A HUGE SCANDAL IN RAILROAD ft CIRCLES. Northern Pacific Deals Held (Jp to Public Gam—Henry Vlllard, Vice President Oakes, Chairman of the Finance Com mittee, and Others, Accused of Gigantic Double Dealing by Which the Company was Out Many Millions. A Sensational Petition Filed. Mii.waukkk, Wis., Dec. '.’9. —The Northern Pacific Railroad company, by Silas VV. Pettit of Philadelphia, its general counsel, filed to-day in the circuit court of the United States, be fore Judge James G. Jenkins, a sensa tional petition for the removal of Thomas F. Oakes, Henry C. Payne and Henry C. Rouse, the receivers, and the appointment of other receivers ia their place. . The petition sets out that Mr. Oakes, as president of the company, ap pointed R. O. Rolston, the president of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust com pany, of New York, which is trusteee of most of the main and branch line mortgages of the Northern Pacific Railroad company, chairman of the finance committee of the Northern Pacific directory. The petition declares that the Oakes-R.olston board started off with a paying .property, a large sum of cash on hand and with the consol idated mortgage bonds to draw upon, with which 10 meet ull expenses which should be properly chargeable to capital aecount and of which the stockholders subscribed for and took 913,000,0 ,0 and so that the said board "said and in fact did have ample cap ital with which to conduct and pro periy develop tne business of the com pany. The Oakea-Bolston combine managed to increase the interest charges of the company for branch lines from. $36,000,000 to upwards of 988.000. 000, all In one year, and for the acquisition of property no one of which (except a small line costing less than 91,000,000) ever paid the cost of operation and fixed charges and many of which do pot even pay the coot of operation.” The petition farther charges that in several instances—and those the most disastrous to the company—the officers and board of directors were themselves interested in selling the properties to the Northern Pacific at an exorbitant profit to themselves. The story of the collapse of the Northern Pacific is then set out in great detail, naming particularly each of the railroads which were acquired, by the Northern Pacific company and which the bill declares completed its ruin within one year after the Oakes Rolston board got into power. The petition avers that in the con struction of the united railroads of Washington, the members of the board derived a profit of 9134,000,000 dollars, while the operation of that railroad cost the Northern Pacific in the year ending June 30, 1803, 8155,000. The petition avers that the Rooky Fork and Cook City railroad was owned by a syndicate of which Vll lard was president, and in which many of the members of the board of directors of the Northern Pacific rail road company were participants, who divided among themselves 84,000,000 worth of trust certificates, 93,000,000 of which represented the Rock Fork coal company which owned certain coal lands which had cost about 8300, 000, and the other 82,000,000 repre sented the ownership of the Rocky Fork and Cook City railway, which cost not over 9800,000; that the directors of the Northern Pacific rail road caused the Northern Pacific to' buy from themselves, as owners of the Rocky Fork and Cook City, for 91,400,000 in consolidated bonds and then made a contract between themselves, as representing the North ern Pacific railroad, and themselves, as representing the coal company, whereby the railroad company agreed to buy 50(< tons of coal ner day at the price of 83..'<0 per ton delivered at the mines: and that to better disguise the transaction an agreement also pro vided that the profits made on the coal should be divided one-half to the coal company, one sixth to the Northern Pacific company and the remaining two-sixths to the Northern Pacific company, to be applied to the pur chase of trust certificates at par, so that in addition to the profit made on the sale <>f the railroad, which never paid the expenses of its operation,and in addition to qpe-half of the profits arising out of the coal contract, this syndicate will eventually get 83,000, 000 from the Northern Pacific com pany for the purchase of their trust certificates representing the coal mine and which cost them not to exceed 8300.000. The Northern Pacific and Manitoba rauruau, uiq [icuiiuu avers, nus or* gsnized by a syndicate composed of members of the board of directors of the Northern Pacific company, which purchased at a cost of not exceeding >13.000 a mile, and that this road they then, aa directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad company, caused that company to buy for bonds at the rate of >30,000 a mile and in addition, the Northern Pacific Railroad company assumed the interest on >?$o,00o of terminal ■ bonds secured upon the terminal property of the com pany at Washington and which was at least twenty-fire per cent in exceae of the cost or ralue of that property. The petition shows that this property has never paid the ssata cost of op eration and that the interest charges which the Northern Pacific had to pay, amounting to more than >300, 000 a year, arising out of this trans action, hare been a dead loss to it The petitioners charge the whole deftenqp of acquiring^this line was ‘'without a hwiiness ^pdfitsity or rea son, excepo duly that thereby suen members of the board of directors of the Northern Pacifle railroad com pany as were interested therein could, as they in fact did. realize an enor mous profit therefrom.” In' addition to the above mentioned branches which were acquired by the issue of the consolidated mortgage bonds, and which together about ex hausted all of those bonds which eould be issued under the mortgage for such purposes, the Oakes Roiston board of directors of the Northern Pacific guaranteed the interest by in dorsement of the bonds, or by lease. of Romo 838,000.030 of additional bonds of railroads as branches of its system, in no single instance of which hare been or are the earnings of the property nearly equivalent to the in terest guaranteed." In respect to the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern company, the petition declares the only part of it which had any prospective value could have been readily duplicated for a little over 83,(>00,000 and that the rest of its lines—which are dis jointed and widely separated—were of no value whatever and do not now, and never did, pay the mere cost of operation, yet the petition avers that for these lines the Northern Pacific guaranteed the interest on 85,075,000 of bonds, and at the some time pur chased 35,000 shares out of a total of 45.000 shares of its capital stock, for which they paid 81.733,000 in consoli dated mortgage bonds. It is claimed the Northern Pacific lost 83,000,000 in this deal. In respect to the Chicago and North ern Pacific railroad company the pe tition sets out at length and in detail the complicated method by which this was acquired by the Northern Pacific. It is claimed that for the property of this line the Northern Pacific paid at least 810,000,000 in ex cess of the cost or value of the proper ty and that the profit was received and divided among many of the direc tors of the Northern Pacific The peti tion then avers that the Chicago prop erties could not be made to earn in terest on the bonds issued and that in the endeavor to improve them the Northern Pacific company, which con trolled the Chicago and North western PAcifle company, caused it to issue more than 87,000,000 more of bonds and also purchased the line of the Calumet Terminal Railroad company for 80,000,000 of bonds, all of whieh are guaranteed by the Northern Pa cific railroad comnany and are now outstanding as collateral security for its debts. The bill closes by declaring that the road cannot be reorganized unless its control is put in the hands of compe tent people and the parties now in, control, it declares, are not of that kind. Mr». Lnw Let Oat 11 office. Washington, Dec. SC.—The sub committee oi the senate committee on foreign relations, which was charged with inquiry into the events leading up to the revolution in Hawaii, the in stallation of the provisional govern ment and the conduct of the executive branch of this government in the mat ter, met at 10 o’clock yesterday morn ing at the capitol. > One member was absent. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, who is spending the holidays in his native state. The members present were Senator Morgan, chairman, and Senators Gray, Frye and Sherman. The committee adjourned at 11:15 until next Tuesday morning, the ser geant-at-arms having been notified to subpoena a number of witnesses, who will be in attendance on that day, among them Professor Alexander, the surveyor general of the islands, who is anxious to get back to Hawaii in order to escape the winter weather, and ex-Minister Stevens, who will reach Washington before Tuesday morning. It will be recalled that when the president sent his message on the Hawaiian matter to the senate in re sponse to resolutions, there were two letters withheld, Mr. Cleveland stating in his message it would be in compatible with the public welfare to transmit them. One of these letters was from Minister Willis, sent to the state department shortly after his ar rival on the islands, and presumably the one which caused the change in the policy of the administration. The other was from Minister stevens, when he was still in charge of the affairs of this country in Hawaii. Both of these letters will be called for by the committee, and it is thought the president will not refuse to sub mit them. Another letter, about which, up to this time very little has been said, is one written by Minister Thurston to Mr. Gresham just before his departure for Hawaii. It is said to be a very remarkable document, bearing upon the subject of international relations and presenting sonle views which will be of interest to the committee. Mr. | Gresham may be called upon to deliver this letter to the senate com mittee. At all events, it is known that ap effort will be made to get it. A number of witnesses will be sum moned and are expected to be here for the next hearing of the committee. There is an evident disposition on the part of the committee to discuss the Hawaiian question from the stand point of the value of the islands to the United States as a strategic position. Before the committee met there was sent to its rooms from the hydro graphic office a new Mercator chart, which Shows the usual ship courses of every une mat travels ttie Pacific. Upon this chart are arranged all the data necessary to show the posses sions of the English and Germans in | that ocean and the advantage of the | Hawaiian islands to the naval forces of the United Statea Special impor tance is attached to the coaling sta ! tions and the facilities Great Britain ! and Germany and other foreign pow ! era have in this respect are prom' , nently set forth not only in the Par | cittc, but in every body of water on | the globe. Data accompany the map, i giving the quantity of coal consumed j by the vessels of the United States at the various coaling stations, the amount paid for it and the facilities for handling it. The Oiliest freemason Head. Sam Diego, Cal, Dec. 20.—Samuel McCoon, father of Hoamer McCoon, president of the San Diego chamber of commerce, died at Fanita ranch, his son's residence, this morning at [ the age of 9L Deceased, was at ona time in politics in New York and . Judge of thq surrogate court. He was a Freemason in 182a and is supposed to have been the oldest Mason in ths i United States. l ._ Treasury Balance Still Helloing. Washington, Dec. 29.—The treas ury net balance yesterday declined to ] the low figure of 988,914,090. of which 982,024, 798 is in gold and 96,889,300 is [ in currency. This is the lowest point j ever reached by ths treasury, but 1 each successive dat only makes it lower. rJ.U- .** ;’. el: ■''1 - I* STUDYING UP HAWAII SENATORS RANSACKING LI BRARIES FOR BOOKS. • .V:i; ; GETTING POSTED ON THE ISLAND. Questions of Considerable Interest Will Soon Come Before Congress —Steveui and Bloant Will Be Sharply Questioned — Minister Thura- H ton at Work On the Re public of Hawaii. AVashingto;?, Dec. 30.—Notwith standing the senate committee on for eign relations has suspended for the holiday week its public investigation into the diplomatic relations of this country with Hawaii, the members of the committee are pursuing their in quiries in their individual capacity and have been ransacking the public libraries for books. It is now regarde as certain that Mr. Biount and Mr. Stevens will both be before the committee and while they may tell nothing more than they have individually related, the fact that they will be both confronted by shrewd men on the opposite side of the question, empowered to ask questions and to pin them down, will render their testimony of considerable value to the unprejudiced in formihg an opinion upon the merits of the controversy. It is quite evident that the committee will be in no haste to complete its investigation or make its report. If Mr. Thurston succeeds in organ izing a republic on the islands, or if the form of government is changed in any way.sorae recognition of it by the United States will become necessary, as it would if the queen should rc-as cend the throne. Thus it will be seen that whatever the ultimate termina tion of the question may be it behooves the members of the foreign relations committee to be prepared at any time to deal with it on almost any phase on the floor of the senate or in commit tee. They realize this and are acting accordingly. Split on the bank tax. Two Report! On Repeal Submitted bf the Banking Sub-Committee. Washington, Dec. 3ft—The sub committee of the committee on bank ing and currency of the house to which was submitted the question of repeal ing the state bank tax, divided on the matter, Mr. Cox of Tennessee sub mitting a report embodying uncon ditional repeal and Mr. Warner of New York and Mr. Hall of Minnesota reporting in favor of conditional re peal. The bill drafted by Messrs. Hall and Warner repeals the ten per cent tax, but provides that the issue of state bank notes shall be confined to the state in which the banks are incor porated, and if the notes are used on the outside of the state they are to be subjected to a tax of ten per cent of their face value. Public Building Construction Pacts. Washington, Dec 30.—The annual report of Jeremiah O’Rourke, super vising architect of the treasury, for the year ended September 30, shows that during the year, the expendi tures for the erection of new federal buildings including sites and for the repair and preservation of finished and occupied federal buildings, amounted to $4,126,159. The contract obligations at the end of the year amounted to $3,340,768. The balance of appropriations available amounted to $9,232,989, of which $8,899,167 was for sites for and construction of build inga __ Congress and Receiverships. Washington, Dec 30.—Several bills in relation to railroad receiverships are now in the hands of the house judiciary committee. One limits the time during which a road shall be in the hands of a receiver to three years, at which time if there is no settlement, it must be sold. This is not liable to secure a favorable report, because it is feared that great injustice might be done, as a corporation having ready money would be thus able to buy roads at much less than their cost. Tbn President’s Trip Ended. Washington, Dec. 3a—It was ex actly 1:20 o’clock this afternoon when the lighthouse tender Violet, with President Cleveland and party on board, steamed up to her wharf at the foot of Seventh street The presi dent entered his carriage and was driven immediately to the White house He looked well. The party enjoyed themselves on their trio. -—_ TO FIGHT BY DAYLIGHT. Corbett anil Mitchell Will Meet at Jacksonville In the Nonlsf. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 30.— At a meeting of the Duval Athletic club this afternoon, it was decided to have the Corbett-Mitchell fight take place at 11 o'clock in the morning of Janu ary 25, 1894. The decision of the club was, that iu the event of a favorable report from the criminal court on Monday next, the fight would take place at all hazards. Mo Recognition for Mabels. Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 30.—Admiral da Gama, the commander of the in surgent fleet in the absence of de Mello, made a formal demand to-.day upon the representatives of tl^. for eign powers at the capital', asking that the representatives of the powers should recognize the insurgents as belligerents. The diplomatic corps having previously come to an under standing on this subject refused to ac cede to the request of the insurgent admiral A Newspaper Chaages|Hane who had been invited to addrew ?h’ meeting, said he chiefly welcomed X! opportunity because, sitting iM; side with those active workers More him, were some of the most di«.» table peoDle in Chicago. ls|,epu Nothing was more obnoxious one who paid any aCtion ° att teaching of the Gospel than the that the conventional *act about the reputable and disJepftahl* ideal.qUlt* forelKU *° the Who were the most disreputable rren“inv.Ch,C^°? Tbey weretW who had been dowered bv society a„*f provinced with all the gifts and aiWh opportunities and who lived cnt rel' self-indulgent. These women, ™h had great opportunities only to Jv lect them, were more disreputable i the eyes of God and man than th lnost abajidoned woman of the street. Mr. Stead s language was somethin stronger than that quoted above After Mr. Stead's speech he retire from the meeting, and the worn went into executive session in a di. cussion of his remarks, excluding t'i press representatives. Many of t'n ladies present were exceedinrl wrathful Over,the editor’s remark, and the meeting after Mr. Stead with drew was very stormy. Nothing wa done, however, and no resolution con cerning Mr. Stead’s remarks wa adopted. After the meeting many n the women declared that under n circumstances would ■ they again a; tend a meeting at which the English, man was rvesent, - ° Tlie Hawaiian Inquiry. Topeka, Kan., Dec. i;*j.—Governor Lewelling at half past 2 o’clock this afternoon removed Mrs. Lease from the state board of charities. This was diAe after a long conference with his associate state officers ami leaders of the People’s party and was no doubt in anticipation of war which Mrs. Lease was preparing to declare against the state administration. To a reporter, Governor Lewelling said: “I don’t want to say much about it, and I want you to be careful to quote me correctly. I have re moved Mrs. Lease in ‘the interest of harmony and good govern ment. There 6eems to be some lack of harmony in the charitable institutions of the state and consider able trouble in the board, and 1 con cluded that Mrs. Lease's removal was the remedy and accordingly removed her. That’s all 1 have to say about it this afternoon. ’’ “Don't you think you have stirred up a row?” “Maybe I have, hut I guess there will be no great trouble grow out of it.” Mrs. Lease takes her removal like a trained politician. She said: "Yes, L have just been officially informed of my * decapitation. I had hau a hint that it was coming. But Governor ' Lewelling ought to have told you the real reason. It was because I went to him yester day afternoon and made a demand upon him, not a request, mind you-a demand that at the expiration of the term of Mr. Yoe, a Republican member, next April, J. R. Ken nedy, a Populist editor of Wil son county, be appointed. I knew that with Mr. Kennedy on the board we could run the institutions in a. business like way and get rid of th.c political schemes to which the board now resorts. But the governor seems to like that way of administering our state charities. It was not a month ago that he came to us with a demand that we remove Carter from the superintendence of the deaf and dqmb asylum. I said to him that he had no right to make such a demand; that we, the board, were responsible for our appoint ments, and the party could not afford to have such an in stitution as the deaf and dumb asylum mixed np in smau politics. But the majority of Hit board did the governor’s bidding ant. now they are all trying to find a',a.v to reinstate Carter. Bat it is a" right If Governor Lewelling can stand it I can. I will ‘saw wool ant wait, as the "opticians sav. The Chinese 6>ix Comp, nies advise their-countrymen to comply with tin* amended exclusion law and register. LIVE STOCK ANO PHODUCE MARKET* Quotations from Mow York, Cblcsgo. Louis, Omaha and Elsewhere. OMAHA. Batter—Creamery print. Butter—Fair to good country. Eggs—Fresh . Honey—I er h. Chickens—Sgrlng, per B.. Geese—Per 1 13 @ t 16 2> St IS ® *“ 5 ® " j ® * © 1" Turkeys—Per E... » 2 Ducks—Per . 1 ® Oysters.".".I'.I'.r.Il. Jg Apples—Per bbl...,,....•••• 3 50 %, 5 no Oranires—Florida. 1. d J f J Oranges—Florida. Potatoes.. , IS a l w Cranberries—Cape Cold,per bbl tf 6 <» . Hay-Per ton.... „.■ ■, * i,® yi Sweet Potatoes—Jer.-eyperbbl 3-> ® 0 Onions—Perbu... ....T.3-..^ @ in '« Vs m 11’ Hogs—Mixed packing. Hogs—Heavy weights. Beeves—Feeders. , Beeves—8tockers. r Jr. 4 .si 4 - \ 4 II1 s i» ®:! ,1 at ® •>; Steers—Fair to good. 4 Steers—Westerns. S iX Sheep—I-ambs. 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