VOL.. 8. NO. 9. LINCOLN. NEBRRSKR, SKTURDKY, FEBRUHRY l 1S93. PRICE PISB CGNTS
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To ono who hangs aniuiiil tlio United
States court rooms during tho notions
of that tribunal it Is apparent that,
under tho present Hystoin of inunuge
incut, tho holding of tho sessions at
both Omaha and Lincoln inlllcts ma
terial hardships upon litigants in tho
way of Increased expenditures so that
tho real purpose, of permitting sessions
at both places is defeated. It seems
that matters might bo no arranged
that, during sessions in Omaha, tho
litigation of thoso people, who live
nearest Omaha could bo entertained
and vice versa when court is hold in
Lincoln. There Is no Immediate dan
ger, however, of such a system of con
venience and economy to litigant be
ing adopted very soon. And why?
"Why, .ludgo Dundy lives in Omaha.
Of course ho prefers to hold court at
homo, where ho can rest in tho bosom
of his family and save board. If tho
people who livo nearer to Lincoln than
thay do to Omaha wore permlted to at
tend to their court alTairs in Lincoln, by
far tho greater quantity of tho courts
business would bo done here, whereas,
at present, Lincoln sessions are always
extremely short and .Judge Dundy and
tho attaches of his court never attempt
to disguise their Impatience to get
back home. Tho matter of expense to
tho people does not seem to entor into
tho judicial reckoning. No such n con
sideration need bo expected to worry
a federal iudicial functionary. And
thus it is that Omaha people are com
pelled to coino to Lincoln to look after
their business in federal court and Lin
coln people are compelled to go to
Omaha and do likewise, and people
from all over tho state aro dragged to
tho point most distant from their homes
and mulcted for mileage in tho pay
ment of costs for tho service of pro
cesses and tho attendance of witnesses.
Tho federal court mill exacts appalling
taxes from its patrons at best, and It
doesn't seem necessary to go to so
much pains to Increase tho burden to
litigants.
For Instance a follow away out in a
far corner of tho state is charged with
some potty violation of a fedeial stat
ute. The district attorney summons
pretty nearly every ono procurable as
witnesses and tho marshals aro sent
Hying hither and thither to servo tho
processes. Ample fees and mileage
accounts pile up with every lino that
is written in tho case and every foot
that an otllcor or a witness travels. At
length tho man conies In and pleads
guilty, rendering tho witnesses un
necessary, though always on hand, and
tho court tines tho culprit a dollar and
costs. In a recent case, where the cul
ni'it lived rlL'ht hero in this city, tho
lino was ono dollar and tho costs about
two hundred dollars. Had tho culprit
lived out two hundred miles ono can
easily see how the costs would have
n.uuntod. Sometimes the man lined is
madd to pay and sometimes not, some
times Tn is Imprislonod a few days and
yunu-timtb not, but the magnificent cost
process g's on forever, and heio and
theio. in jMivhvps half of the cases, one
sees ipon tiio iccord a clincher read
ing. "DUii "let attorney allowed WO
oxtia." ' is perhaps well for the
federal jmJioial crow that poor people
who hiwo litigation poifding can be
diaggoduUo the relentless cost mill
eKo it is more than probable that thoy
wouM not bo there often, litigation
in any court of justice Is decidedly ex
pensive, but it Is to bo hoped that some
day some one will Inaugurate a leforin
whereby the same work that would
cost a litigant.") before a justice of the
pence will not cost him KiOO in a federal
court.
Col. Walter Mason, who recently re
moved to Washington, D. C, to accept
a situation on the editorial sialt of the
K ening News of that city, has many
friends In Nebraska and especially in
Lincoln, who will never neglect an
oppcitunity of devouring every para
graph possible that is marked by tho
pathos and poetry that llowed so natur
ally and lluently from his tireless pen.
Hero is ono, written in moinoriam on
tho death of .lames G. Hlalno, that
Walt's friends will readily ascribe to
him: "In the early w Inter of tho year
and the early winter of his life, a giant
In a century of giants has tin own aside
his falchion and gone to his rest. The
chi villi ouh champion of the lists has
fallen befoio the black rider, Death,
and his plumes are sables now and his
spirit walks the stars. A great man is
dead; gieat in Intellect, great of heart,
great In ambition, and great In achieve
ment; u mini whose name was lustrous
(.lining tho minion of the world's states
men; who was tho Idol of millions of
his countrymen; who arose,, as so many
Americans have arisen, from an hum-
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ODD FELLOWS' Nein TEMPLE IN CHICHCO
liiiiroiiuoiitri will shortly lie miido.
The piesent iiarters will ho onlargod
and remodeled sons to take In thontoro
adjoining on the west, which Is now
fll'IMIIllllll lit Hut fl.iiul I in. f ...
mid Don Camei oil's Cafe on Kloveuth
Htreet, forming and L shape, which
will give the llrm an excellent showing
on both O and Kleventh streets, IJn
coin's two most iromlnent retail thor
oiighfmes. Ily tho time tho altera
tions are completed tho linn will ho
ready to open a complete department
store on the order of several of Chica
go's prominent merchaulllo houses,
and then our eltlens will lie on hand
to admire another stroke of genuine
Lincoln enterprise. So It will be no
ticed that In this move the capital
city gains new and additional prestago
in commeielalclieles, at tho sauio tlmo
retaining one of her prominent young
business men whom it had about con
cluded would locate olsowhoro.
Friends of tho University and all
students lu art and drawing regret ex
ceedingly tho Intelligence recently an
nounced that Miss llarton, instructor
In clay modeling, di awing, and higher
art, has icceived and accepted an otter
from tho president of tho South Da-
Itota agricultural college of a moro
desirable posltltlon in that Institution.,
whereby she Is enabled, through tho
work of but eight months in tho your,
to realize a much better salary than
was paid her at the university. Sho
has been at the Unlvorsltj only a fow
mouths, but in that tlmo sho has awak
ened new Intel est In art studies and
great admliatlon fori the mastery of
lior favorite arts. Sho had further
more won a warm place In tho friend
ship of tho faculty and students, and
had begun a work that promised U do
much toward advertising Nobrasku'ri
resouices In a lino that none have yot
essayed. At tho invitation of tho com
mittee in charge of wowan's work at
tho world's fair to model a Ufo-sUo
statue of, clay for exhibition at tho
Columbian exposition, bIio was pro
paring a remarkably expressive statuo
of a foot-racer, which sho proposed to
label "Nebraska," Indicative of tho
energy and push of this young state.
It Is to Imj regretted that Nebraska's
educational Interests mo subject to
such encroachments by the younger
and cruder states surrounding us and it
is to be hoped that the day will coino
when the Nebraska State University
shall meet with such thorough ap
preciation from the legislatuie and tho
people that no sister state Jim coax
away Its instructors until it feels dis
posed to release them. No successor
for Miss llarton has yet been secured.
The recent sale of the Home Street
Itailway company has knocked tho
energy out of the movement to secure
a franchise for tho Metropolitan Klec
trie Light and Gas company, as tho
former owners of that railway lino
were tho men who proposed to put in
the gas mid electric light plant along
with a new power house they expected
to build next spring. Tin- street rail
way Improvement and extensions and
the new lighting plant contemplated
mi expeudituto of about illTid.lKK) this
ear but the sale knocks the entire
project in the bead. That ordinance
for a fianchi-e Is still before the coun
cil, but It will piobublj neei be
pushed. Meantime another company
known as the Lincoln Llcctric Light
company has applied for a franchise,
upon which application the council
appears to be disposed toslt down hard.
It is backed by a man named Mcl'iir
land from Omaha. Theieaie entliely
to mau of these" schemes being sprung
on the public nial its time that the
wele beingdipOM'n oTwIthout nTiung
upiiseless attention of tho council.
Tho do not seem to amount to iinj
thing when tlnally brought to light
and whv waste the time onthoiii.'
bio condltson to carve his name upo
the lock of enduring fame, where it
will remain when the waves of count
less years liavo rolled against and re
coded from it. In tho sere autumn of
his life his house was a house of tears.
"Unmerciful disaster followed fast and
followed faster;" death Invaded his
homo again and again, until the em
blem over his door was a broken heart.
Sorrows and disappointments threw
their grelous weight upon his whit
ened head, and his tears fell to the sob
bing of the dirge and the moaning of
the ritual. And now Death has taken
the mourner, and It Is for those to
weep who linger In the wintry world
and close with lev lug touch the sight
less eyes. III the palace of American
genius theie are mmiy knights and
nobles, but the prince of the purple
chamber lies dead."
It Is not vorj often that an attorney-at-law
is arraigned in court to answer
for the commission of a violation of
law, although there is a suspicion cur
rent now mid thou to the ellect that
some members of that profession do not
always get their deserts in that lino.
Last Monday afternoon Walter M.
Woodward of this city was forced by
stress of circumstances to plead guilty
to tho charge of having received and
secreted. or failed to return to Its owner.
a letter containing a live dollar note,
addressed to William II. Woodwind,
.county attorney. It was a decoy letter
sent out l the federal authorities to
catch him. L. C. liurr, who appeal oil
for the prisoner, called attention to the
fact that he was in stiaightened cli
eunistmices and Judge Dundy let him
dow ii mighty easy. The law prescribes
a penults of not more than "oi) Hue or
I not more than one year at hard labor.
.lodge Dundj gae him rltH) mid costs
mid he was permitted to go out with-
I out lslble icstialnt. The light sen
tence was undoubtedly due to the fact
.that Wxdwmd has a wl' and one
child dependent upon his exertions for
their support, which undoubtedly led
the district attorney to nolle the
charge of einbe.loinent. Woodward
admitted having received the the dol
lars but the story ho i elates of its sub
sequent career ought to be a llrst-cliis-.
temperance lecture to him and to all
others who dally with the bowl. He
says he started out immediately to
take the letter and money to W. II
Woodward but met a few friends who
engaged him in a game of high the
When he was through with the game
the tle dollars was through with hlin,
and when ho rccoeied he had for
gotten all alMiut It He never after
ward recalled the live dollar incident
until he was anested.
That Lincoln Is an attractive place
to Invest inonev was again recently
demolish. itcd. About a .voir ago Mi
Harry iviug disposed of his iuteiest ill
the li'rnof H. It. NissVv Co, mid
since then bus lieen abioad seeking
moie lucrative Holds for Investment.
Mr. Krug has visited most of the large
cities seeking a location to open a drv
good stole, hut like tho prodigal son
lie came to his old home and decided
tba' no place offers better inducements
than Nebraska's capital citv. It had
been riiiuoied that Mr. Krug would
soon opi n a dry goods stoic on O street
and then another rumor placed It on
Llcvcnth ntieet, but to the contimv of
Inith he decided to euibarU in an es
tablished business and link hands with
one of our Kst known and most popu
lar houses, that of .1 W. Winger t o.
Tills was accomplished alnnit two
weeks ago and now the announcenient
Is made that Mr. Krug will take active
maniigeincnt of the stoic, which cer
tmnlv speaks well for the abilitv and
integrity of the tlrms new pattner. I
With this change comes a c'lane.o f ,
tin linn's title which will h i eatl.-r be,
known as 11. it Krug t
With the in w tun of affa.rs tiuiny j
A batch of inteiesting papers has
been recently handed the writer from
historic ltonie. They are December
copies of the Koiuun Heiald, which is
printed in I'.ngllsh and devoted to tho
Kngllsh speaking tourists mid residents
in the eternal city. It also circulates
in italv, Helgium. lVance, Holland,
Switzerland, Cicruiany, Kngland and
the Unit d Mates. I'.ach Issue contains
a long list of v (siting tourists.and a very
huge piopoition of them me registered
from the United States. In fact, the
publisher seems to cater to the Amer
ican ati ouage bv far most falthfullv
Kveii ItMidverliseineiits, which are as
numerous and atti active as those of the
most enterprising Yankee publisher,
me of Interest to the cultured tiaveler
and the stav-at-hoiiio student of his
ton,. One adveitlser in particular
rivets attention to daily excursions to
and lectin es on the ruins of ancient
Koine On Monday mornings, for
instance he guides his patrons to the
Colosseum and Gulden House of
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