iZOL. 8 NO. I
LINCOLN, NEBRRSKR, SHTURDRY, MRRCH 11 IS93.
PRICE PIUB CGNTS
1 OF 1 11
That J. Sterling Morton, tho now
Bocrotury of ugrlculturo, Is n pioneer
litis boon stated so often In tho public
print Unit few realize how much of n
pioneer ho really Is. Ho has lived In
Nebraska now almost forty years. In
18o4 Nebraska City consisted of ono or
two erudo houses and an old block
house used for dofonso against Indiana.
Mr. Morton was ono of tho II rat sett
lors, and his newspaper, tho Nebraska
City News, which Is still a factor In tho
upbuilding of that city, was tho first
papor Issued In Nebraska. It was is
sued from that blockhouse. To uso
Mr. Morton's own words: "A few cases
of typo, a few quires of paper, a small
quanlty of Ink and a Washington hand
press constituted tho entire concern.
As tho flrsc cry of a now-born infant is
to tho voice of a full-grown man, as tho
acorn Is to tho oak, so was this print
ing olllco to tho civilization, tho popula
tion, tho agricultural and commorciul
prosperity which it heralded and In
augurated.' That Mr. Morton was instinctively a
homo-builder has been attested not
only by his long residence in Nebraska,
but by tho handsome homo ho has
evolved from tho wilderness, now
known as Arbor Lodgo. IIo built bis
first houso in 18T4. It was a vory
crudo alTuir, constructed of logs, and a
majority of his noighbors at that timo
were Indians. Years later ho replaced
tho old log structure with a more mod
ern houso on tho same site. This in
turn gave way to a still prattler ono,
and llnally tho fourth houso was de
signed and built under tho direction of
Mrs. Morton, whodlod Juno 20, 1881. It
Is suid that sho originated tho Idou of
Arbor day, but gavo tho credit to her
husband. It occurs on his birthday
anniversary. Sho Is remembered by
hundreds of old Nebraskans as a most
lovablo woman, and hor loss was a se
vere blow to hor husband and hor
children.
As tho founder of a family Mr. Mor
ton, with tho priceless aid of his wlfo,
was as signally successful as in roaring
a homo. Ho has four exceptionally
bright and successful sons Paul, Joy,
Mark and Carl. Paul began lifo as u
clerk In tho B. & M. offices at Platts-
mouth and romalnod In tho railroad
scrvlco until ho becamo, first, gonorul
passenger agent and thon gonorul
freight agont of tho groat Burlington
system. Ho Is now first vice-president
of tho Whltobroast coal compuny, en
joys a salary of $12,000 a year, Is mar
ried and lives In Chicago. Joy Morton
is the head of tho grout salt firm of
Joy Morton !s Co. in Chicago, and has
largo interests in tho cereal mills and
starch works at Nebraska City. Ho Is
married and makes his home in Chi
cago. Mark Morton, who is also mar
ried, also lives in Chicago and is a
member of tho firm of Joy Morton &
Co. Carl, tho youngest son, lives at
Nebraska City, whore ho Is munngor
of tho starch works. IIo is also mar
ried and has promise of a bright future
boforo him. They nro all most ex
emplary young men and nro vory much
devoted to their father and tho mom
ory of tholr sainted mother.
Tho sonsntio.i of tho week in legisla
tive circles was tho report llled on
Wednesday by tho joint committee ap
pointed to investigate tho character of
punishment iutllcted upon convicts in
tho state penitentiary, an Investiga
tion inspired by tho suicide of Convict
Powoll while undergoing dibclplino
during tho early days of tho present
session. Tho report of tho committee
administers u bluek eye to prison
nuthorlties for yours pust. It finds
that tho punishment in vogue for
years has booi inhuman, barbarous
and cruel In many cases, and II r ids
especially that tho system of punish
ing convicts by handculllng tholr
hands behind thorn, passing a rape
around iho neck, which rope is con
nected with tho handcuffs and drawn
tight In order to lift and support tholr
bunds, Is ono thut should not bo tolera
ted in this enlightened age or in a
civilized community, and that such
punishment Is ono which is likely at
any timo to bo tho indirect, if not tho
direct causo of tho death of u convict
undergoing It. Tho commltteo ex
pressed its conviction that tho death of
Convict Powell was a direct result of
the cruel and Inhuman punishment in
tlieted upon him.
Ono peculiar finding of tho commit
too is that, under the contract labor
system now in voguo at tho ponltcn
tiary, tho convicts urd not allowed suf
ficient time in which to bathe and thut
they aro not pormlttod and required to
batho as often as they should be. Tho
committee recommends that officiuls
bo directed to provide more frequent
baths and that longer timo bo glvon
thom therefor. It also recommends
better puy for guards thut a hotter
class of mon may bo secured, having
found It u dlsgraco that mon of llttlo
bettor moral naturo than tho convicts
themsolves uro employed to watch over
unu tuKo cnargo of prisoners. Tho
committeo furthor finds that Instances
of Inoxcusablo burbarlty on tho part of
guards, coll houso keepers and other
employes havo been far too frequont,
und recommends thut brutullty on tho
part of an attendant bo causo for In
stunt dismissal of tho attondont. Tho
committee linds tho contract labor sys
tem demoralizing to discipline and be
lieves it should be dono away with.
Tho commltteo recommends tho adop
tion of tho parolo system, tho separa
tion of now convicts and hardened
riminals, with a view of roformlng
tho nowor ones and tho establishment
of a night school In tho penitentiary.
Altogether tho commltteo bus made
some humane suggestions, and a trial
of thom need not Injure tho peniten
tiary If, Indeed, It does not effect ma
terial good.
Tho efforts of creditors to got any
thing in the shape of evidence us to
tho condition of C. W. Moshor's
llnunces, by an Inquisition In Judge
Tlbbetts' court during tho punt week,
have Inspired a good many people with
unquulilled contempt of court. Among
tho witnesses wanted wore C. W.
Moshor, D. E. Thompson und W. II
Dorgau. Mosher declined to appear,
und as he is now under legal duress of
tho federal court bo was not brought
In on a capias. Thompson ap
peared, but could throw vory llttlo
light tiiMJii Mr. Moshor's possessions. W.
II. Dorgau hud forgottonovorythlngho
ovor knew. IIo didn't remember how
much he paid Mosher for tho prison
labor contract not oven whether It
were near $10,000 or $100,000. Thoy
all played horse with th J court.
Whut Is a water commissioner?
What aro tho duties of such uu ollloiul
In Lincoln? Why Is It necessary for
tho water comm'sslor.e to como before
tho council and recommend thut a de
fective connection between two water
mains bo remedied? Why Is it not tho
duty of tho commissioner to remedy
tho dofect und suvo tho wind he ex-
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AND HIS ADVISERS.
ponds In recommendations? Somo
blundering official in the pust bus hud
u four-inch connection put in at Ninth
and L streets, through which a six
Inch main running west on L strcot Is
fed from a twelve-inch main running
north on Ninth street. Tho Ineffic
iency of tho water sorvlco at tho Buck
stuff flro wus duo to that four-Inch con
nection, und now, instead of abating
tho blunder without delay, tho wator
commissioner must, It appears, peti
tion tho city council for permission to
do It. If ho wore to go to work und do
it, ho would bo acting more llko a pub
lic olllclul with some ideu of his ofllclul
responsibility.
Mayor Weir bus snruncr a llttln hup.
prlso on several cky officials by an
nouncing uiut no wm include in his
proclamation of tho coming city elec
tion a full und comtrintn lUt ,r )
elective city officers. Ho contends
mui mo iuw contompiutes that thoy
shall nil bo elected nt tho samo timo,
and sorvo two years eujli. Ho con
tends that tho present city nttornoy,
city engineer, and wator commissioner
wore elected a year ago to fill vacan
cies, nnu not. ns genorully supposed,
for tho full term of two years. Ho
also thinks that tho nnii !,,
should, under tho charter, bo elected
ax. mo sumo iimo as tho mayor and tho
others, Tho niavor has nnnmmnn.i i.iu
Intentions In tho mutter thus early so
Hint mose inierosieu maj projmro to
take such stops as thoy may deem
advisable in tho courts. Meantime if
tho mayor has tho correct view of tho
legal situation, It will add to tho Inter
est In the coming election.
'Tho water commissioner has sounded
an alarm that Is not entirely now. Ho
says thut as the demands made upon
thu South street water plant Increase
the suction Is likely to overwork tho
sujiply, mi thut nlxiut the time tho city
gets so that It will need every gallon
of ,wntor It can draw from Its well, that
well Is likely to absorb suit wntur from
the creek bottom and Inaugurate
another reign of terror by sending suit
water through tho city mains. This
Is but tho ropltltlonofu four repeatedly
expressed when tho elty went to tho
iMittoms for its water supply, and It Is
to bj hoped thut it is not well grounded,
but it might bo tho pai t of wisdom to
guard against such a contingency as
tho Howling of our water system with
salt water. There uro hundreds of
people In Lincoln who bollovo that tho
crook bottom Is unsafe and unreliable
ami unhealthful as a water supply, and
this agitation is destined to be fre
quently and earnestly revived until tho
city has other considerable sources
uvuilablo.
Another crank has come to the front.
This time it is a young man who pro
poses to rldo around tho world on
horseback. Of coursu it cannot 1k
done, but that fact doesn't need to In
terfere with tho designs of the crunk,
who sooks to make a museo freak out
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of himself. Ho fondly imagines that
whon'ho has spout two years in con
ducting a falso protonso this crazy
world, will go wild to see him. But It
won't. Now If ho wero to rldo a cow
around tho world, or a rhinoceros, or a
qulasUcutes, or aiithlng but a horse, ho
might deserve somo attention, but
anyone can rldo a hnrso.
It -does not always pa n younp,
woman to bo too loquacious in expres
sion contempt forgentlemon friends.
Ono young lady In this city haf. just
extracted honiolf from u most ombnr
aslngi dilemma Into which ho loquno
Ity hat precipitated her. It win Alico
Blooty w young and romurkubly prottj
Ru3st girl who has been 7tnj as a
domestic-. A year or morn ipi' idio de
sired to wod u young favorite, but mot
with an effective paternal nay, because
ho djdjiot want hor to marry an Amer
ican. As sho was too young to wed
without her father's consent, she hud
to give It up. When John Hinglo, a
young and comely and Industrious
countryman, came wooing her some
throe or four months since ho mot
with parental favor, but Alice, who
worked up town, spoko contemptiiuosly
of hlm'aiul vowed often thut she wus
being forced by her parents to marry
him. Sho begged hor acquaintances
up town to provont her puronts from
forcing her to become Mrs. Hinglo und
o co failed to appear at tho time set
for hokwoddlng, when tho guests wore
all asijepblcd. At last, out of compas
sion for hor, stops wero taken to dts-
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oourago tho match. Meantime, liow
over, tho parents regained po&cssldn
of Alice, and kopt hor strictly within
tholr euro, and when an officer called
at hor homo to prevent hor being sold,
as she hud claimed, into slavery for
$100. Alice llutly denied tho ontlro
story of her woo und declured that she
wus marrying John willingly, At noon
on Wednesday lust they wore married
lu tho Lutheran church on West J
street, with pomp and parade, and
wedding fineries and festivities such as
havo never boforo ugltuted tho elite
of Lincoln's Russlun settlement. But
the endeavors of Alico to muko it up
pour that sho was not anxious to marry
cuino vory near Interrupting tho pro
ceedings at u critical moment.
It is to 1m) regrotted that Buckstuff
Bros, havo found It necessury to pluco
their Insurance claims in the hands of
an uttornoy for collection. Tho in
surance companies havo declined to
settle ujKm any busls satisfactory to
Buckstaff Bros., and u law suit will
probably follow. This is to bo re
gretted eh lolly boouuso It will doluy
tho promised rebuilding of tho works.
Mountimo some twenty-five business
mon have threatened to cancel tholr
policies In tho companies which havo
declined to settle.
Tho ambitious man who is now
capering joyously around "in tho hands
of his friends" will soon bo writhing in
chagrin and pain lieneuMi tho foot of
his enemies. This "bunds of his
friends" business is a chestnut thut
even u conscientious politician and
cundidute for olllco is ushumed to use
at this lute duy. It is a relic of tho
day when tho olllco sought tho man.
That day is past. No man bus seen an
office for ten years pust thut has had
time to go hunting, becaiibo there aro
ulwuys too many callers. If an office
wore seen out hunting u man nowuduys
It would bo arrested for trosjmsslng
upon tho rights of designing mnmmus
and old maids.
Ono cannot help but wonder how
long Tom Cooke would bo sick to havo
tho effects manifested in tho condition
und degree of his rotundity. Ho bus
iwon under tho weather for months,
but his sturdlnoss of frame Is as In
vulnerable as tho rock. Tho curvature
of Tom Cooko's vest und the sublimity
of Walt Seeloy's cheek aro two of tho
things that ago cannot wither, custom
stale, or tho uphcavnls of politics sup
press. Two arrests havo boon reinirted
within a week pust where the parties
arrested could hao sottlod for u money
consideration and been released. In
both cases tho parties wero licensed of
obtaining money by fraud or false
pretenses, und In both instancos tho
solo aim of tho prosecution upieared
to bo to compel them to pay back tholr
alleged gains thereby. No ono ap
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peared to havo any thought for th
outraged law, and nil thut was do-'
mundod was that tho accused pay hack
tho money and compensate tho dotco
tlve for spotting them. Blackmailing
did not go out of fashion when Charley
Crow died. In fact it lius grown moro
popular, us it now has a semblance of
official dignity behind It. If the man
arrested Is willing to bo mulcted and
yields up his monoy, tho county at
torney can dismiss the caso against
him. If ho doesn't yield, tho county
attorney car. go abend with the pros
ecution. Hon. W. J. Bryan will leave Wash
ington today to return to Nebraska,
and ho is expected to reach Lincoln
ubout tho Ifith. Tho elevator In
the Burr block will doubtless soon bo
getting a vigorous hump upon itself in
currying to und from Mr. Bryan's floor
un endless army of placo hunters.
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Threo conventions promise to mako
tho coming week decidedly Interesting
in a political way, and boforo tho next
Issue of tho COUKIKK roaches Its read
ers tho next mavor of Lincoln will huvo
been numed. The republican conven
tion is Iwokcd to occur on tho 14th, tho
independent on tho lfith and tho demo
cratic on tho Kith. Tho latter, how
ever, may bo changed to tho 14th.
There will probably bo u citizens
ticket opiosed to tho republican ticket,
and a mighty warm rnco may bo un
ticlpnted. In Mt'rry Old SpriiiKtlinr.
These uro tho tlmos when the heart
turns to gladness, when the robbin
returns und tho flowers that bloom in
tho spring, all go to muko mankind
happy, healthy und prosperous after
a long and drotiry winter's existence.
Coming down O strcot yesterday Col.
Kuley overydody knows Kuloy, tho
Homo nuggy man was standing In tho
doorway of his west store, happy us a
clam at high water tido. "Well, what's
up, o d man," queried tho scribe. "Oh,
nothing much," wus tho retort, "but
this weuther is great stuff und it's
milking business open up in creat
shupo. Huvo you seen my stock lutely,
you old duffer," continued tho popular
dealer. "Well, como in and look
through und thon say a word about It
In your measly sheet." Will, wo wont
in, buggy man und scribler, arm in
arm, and truly tho nrruy of vehicles
presents uu assortment that is larger
and moro varied tliun uny lino that tho
writer Jius ovor seen west of Chlcauo.
Twolnrgo store rooms "ohuok full" uud
each rig In ius pretty und trim condi
tion as if thoy hud lwon Hnlshod today.
Thoro nro all kinds of vehicles in every
Htylo and description, and If there's
anything you want in tho carrlugo
lino and you cannot find It ut tho
Homo Buggy C'o.'s omiiorlum, thon It's
not to bo had anywhere. Why not
take u stroll through that resort,
lf24 to 1528 O street?
