The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894, April 06, 1893, Image 1
The Alliance-Independent The Alliance-lndepender.t Advocates:! It th best? V X J 1 Advertising medium In the west. It is especi ally valuable as a means of reaching 'he farmers. Its circulation is as laree in Nebraska as the cir culation of all the "farm jocrnals" combined. Give Thk Aijjance Indkpendekt a trial if you want good results. VOL. IV. CALL IT And You Won't Miss it Far- Outrages " and Compounded Villainies Perpetrated THE 00RP0EATI0H TOOLS ANARCHY I';- To Prevent the Past see of a Just and .Keasonauie measure, H. R. 33. The Legislature. Editorial. Do the people of the state realize the true nature of the drama, the clos ing act of which ia now on the stage at the state house of Nebraska? For twenty years the corporations and their hired tools have been playing the N part of heavy villain. f', In everv previous act success has crowned the effort' vf the villain. But you know in the last act of every well V regulated drama the right must prevail J)and the ' villian, shorn of power, yet w struir aline and defiant to the last, is dragged to justice. t - So will it be in this case, but not till i the corporations have exhausted every outrageous trick and dishf horable de vice known to them. For nearly two weeks after the victory of the railroad bill become certain, by dilatory tactics, by fillibustering and de lays, by outrageous rulings of the man who disgraces Nebraska in the position of Lieutenant Governor, the bill was finally reached in the regular order Monday afternoon. Then bagan the death struggle of corporation tyrranny in Nebraska. The first move of the railroad tools was a call of the house. Two republi can senators, Tefft and McDonald were absent. The dead lock began at about 5 o'clock Monday evening and was not permanently raised for twenty hours. The faithful eighteen camped in the state house rather than yield an inch to , .the conspirators. 7 About 1 o'clock on- Tuesday both Tefft and McDonald having been brought in, a short recess was taken. At three o'clock the struggle was re sumed. The reading of the great bill began. At short intervals the reading was interupted by motions to re-commit and long-winded .debates thereon. The chief actor9 in these dilatory proceed- ' ings were North and Mattes, democrats, and Moore and Pope republicans. Finally at ten o'clock Tuesday night the reading of the bill was was Hearly completed. Then North made another motion to recommit, se cured the floor, and boldly announced that he would talk till noon Wednes day, or till he was exhausted. Inas much as he was about two-thirds full of .whiskey, it only took two hours to ex- Jjiausthlm. Then it was found that ahn, a republican member, was ab sent. The conspirators demanded a call of the house, and the senate set tled down to make another night of it. Ilabn is said to have gone to Hastings. Wednesday morning found the dead lock still in full force. THE IMPEACHMENT. When the date for the joint conven tion to reassemble arrived Tuesday forenoon, the senate wan still in tlio dead loclt. Hut Sjxaker Gaflln took the full by the noma ana called the con- ventlou to order. Tho sc crvfary of the Senata. anil two yKnn'iim whn wiro nut on leave of absence, cmo in. Of courw me house alone constituted a majority of the convention and had power to act. The eommltto was read to report the articles of Impeachment, but it waa thought tet to ad journ over till Wednesday at 4 o'clock, and that was dune. v- AfTEK IIKNTOX, The houni Investigation commit tee, cotnpooed of ,' Harry, Lock, ner and Van Ikn-eii, have Ut-n taking testimony on which to lmaeh Turn Uenwm a'or.g with the rent. The r port ha Got vet been handed la, tut vnia very damaging testimony ha been secured, ItU the general Impression thai be M the blt'j('t hot tiler Ia the geog. Si 9 lime tor adjournment bm yet Ut n fixed. The red 1 not likely tu be feob4 before om time t vet V Wm.N you write to rn of our advr K tWre, httturato nw'.ioa Tmk AIM- ANCH iNMtl't.M'K.NT, RANK DECISIONS. A pair of outrageous decisions recent' ly made in United States courts in im portant labor cases was so ably written up by our friend Kelley of the Dodge County Leader last week that we repro duce the article entire: When will the crisis come? To what extremities will capital go? The reform element has been denounc ed for everything imaginable; but when the candid reader observes the auua clous steps taken by plutocrats to effect the overthrow of organized labor ho cannot but recognize therein the ele ments of primeval tyranny. Urgan'zod capital, convinced by experience that in organized labor it has found an ad versary worthy of its steel, now seeks to undermine and destroy organized labor by abrogating the co union law and substituting in its stead the far fetched opinions of corporate judicial. The engineers and firemen on the Toledo, Aon Arbor and Northern Michi gan railroad have been on a strike. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineerj endorsed the strike and ordereo their engineeis to refuse to handle Ann Arhor freight, lhe rod made applicttioa for an order from Judge Taft, of the United States circuit court, requiring ths Brotherhood to release- the engin eers from compliance with the brother hood rule. The order was granted by Judge Taft The road then ordered the engineers to take out Ann Arbor cars. The engineers resigned ttmr positions and upon hearing of this "at torney for the Lakeshore telegraphed forjudge Ricks, of tho United States district court to come t'J Toledo, and brought him there by special train." The judge on arriving at Toledo, im mediately bad the eight engineers and firemen, who had committed the crime of resignation arrested and brought be fore him. He then delivered an opin ion, which by common account of th press of the country 1b declared unpru cedented, to the effect that they mut show cause why they should not bo attached for coutempt of court in re signing their positions. lhe theory of the opinion Is that railroad employees are engaged in pub lic service and are unable legally to quit that service until the court deter mines when and whore thry shall sever their relations with the companies, This ruling is equivalent to saying that tne tmpioytes snail not hate the liberty to resign unm they see fit to do, but shall con tinue m the service, until it suits the con venience of the employer to discharge them. Furthermore this is a usurpation of individual liberty which capital has al ways heretofore conceded to the work ing man. ' Let him quit if he desires," has always been the cry for these many years. Now capital goes back on this, and endeavors to coerce the employee into its service and still retain the privilege of fixing tho terms of the employment. In other word, the rail roads, telephones, telegraphs and street railways are asking the protection of state and federal courts in enforcing private contracts under pretense that they are public carriers and servants, without acknowledging their responsi bility to the government. The rule t be good must work both ways. The opinion of the court is rank in the extreme and shows to what depths of degradation some courts of our country are being plunged by corporate greed. Only a love of country, such as i possessed by the working people, pre vents a crisis. NOBLE WORDS. Republicans and democrats are fond of pointing to the wise sayings of their great party leaders. Hut where can they find wiser or grander saying than these uttered by Governor Lowelling of Kansas, the first populist governor in the United States in his inaugural? "The state is greater than party, bu. the citizen is grca'er than the state if old men uo tho tho poorhouse and young men are sent to prison, something Is wrong with the economic syaumof the government The ";--vival of the fittest" is tbe government of brutes, and reptiles, and such philosophy must give place to a goveroment which recognizes human brotherhood. It U the province of government to protect the wtak, but the governments of today are resolved Into a struggle of miuoee with claf for supremacy and bread, until bulae, home, and perso nal Integrity are struggling lo the face of positive want In tho family, Feed a tiger regularly, and )ou Uiuu and make httu barmle: but hunger makea tigers of men. t have a dream of the future. I have an enduring faith, tho evolution of an Holding faith m human government. And In the beautiful vii4u of a com lf time I behold tfMUinfiKirtg We ar ji.ilittttceiptof an a.ttomttlo safely bit, with the com pi I menu of the manufn'turer, Dr. I. V, llrln, of 37 Colo-," 1'laoe, New York. It I bendy, and I k as If it could aetsvmp. lUh all Ihw 1 Vat-tor t'iim lor it Kor thbn0tof thowiof our friend who are lnterled In ttorwe, wa will kep lt bit m our ortle wberw w will be pleiwwd to show It at any Ittuv, LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, APMLC. m IT IS For Two More Years--Tho Prople' Choice Triumphantly Elected. . AND THE EXCISE BOARD TOO. Weir's Majority About 300 A People's Victory in Beatrice 1 Tuesday' lleaults. The election in LI q coin resulted in a a complete triumph for the people who favor law and order, and good city government. Mayor rt eir, the populist candidate for mat or has a majority of fron 200 to 00.' Drown, one popu list candidate for the excise board, is surely elected, and Hargreaves, the other candidate, seems to ba "in It.' Most of the other offices are conceded to the republicans. Weir' victory is complete. Ho car ried every ward in tie city but two, the First and Second. . BEATRICE. Schullz the citizen's candidate for mayor, was elected over Walker, tbe republ'can candidate, by ; 300 The re publicans only get two councilmen out of six. OVEH THE STATE. In moat Nebraska towns political lines were lost sight of, and the election t"jnpAojUoj(l',lJssues, in a inajori.fcf cases tbe license question being the issue. High license is generally a win ner. ENGINEERS AS PLAINTIFF The Federal Court Asked to Force a Receiver to Make Contracts. Macon, Go., April 5. The hearing of the petition of , the National Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, asking Judge Emory of the United States court to compel the re ceiver of the Central railway of Georgia to make contracts with its engineers, came up for hearing yesterday and E. W. Pat terson appeared for the engineers. As sistant Chief Youngson of Cleveland, of tho brotherhood, was in attend ance. The Central railway represen tatives were H. C. Cunningham of Savannah and Marion Ermin of Macon. Powderly on the Aim Arbor Decision. Scbanton, Pa., April 5. General Master Workman Powderly had not seen the decision in the case of Engin eer Lennon at Toledo until his atten tion was called to it by a reporter, when he said: "The decision shows, as I have said before, that the principle of government owner ship of railways is being recognized by the courts. While tho decision ia apparently against the men, it empha sizes our position that the government has the right to supervise the railroads. Now it is a poor rule that won't work both ways. The interstate commerce law was passed for the purpose of controlling the railroads but up to data no railroad has paid any atten tion to the law. An anarchy of the worst kind has prevailed. 15y that I mean a total disregard for the law, and that la what corporations charge against the anarchists," World's Valr Carpenter Not Out. Chicago, April 5. The strike of 1,000 carpenters scheduled to take place to-day at the world's fair grounds to enforce discrimination against non onion men, turned out a dismal failure, less thun a hundred quitting work. The leaders attribute the failure to be a misunderstanding, but the real reason seems to lo that the rank and file weakened at the firm front pre sented by the exioiition oQlcUls. Caution Advsitisers. One K. W. I'errl has deceived ad ver llsors by making fraudulent contract! on blanks taken by J. M. Thompson from the Alliance Publishing C ruiaey, and roprtfwuUng that he l employed as ad vertilut Ut ttor fur atd company and sicnlug advertising contracts a a'ent for eald company, and turning In th contract to the pubiUher of the "Farmer' Alliance Leader," the new paper trUl laet month by Harrow A ThoiniKMn, who aw 1I theiu and inter! the ftdvertlaeroenU according to the pao ordered therein. IVrria not now, nor da be ever been In the emt toy of tH All lam rublUhing Company, We therefore caution 4 adveriUer ! to tie on their guard ac.nl tdi tuatt Ferrl. and the ftuhiUhwr of tho Farm er' AHUoco l,' der, r ii h A. Mt ftKtv. Manager advertising ttei artment AUI uiH runUhlnOitii ti'y, puMUher of TIK Al.LUNt K IXOai rNDKhT but not the farmer' AUisnoe trader MAYOR m HALF A CROP IN ILLINOIS. A Lara Part of tha Wheat Area tVu Winter Killed. SrmsoriELD, I1L, April 5. The Illi nois slate board of agriculture's crop report for April aays: The wheat at seeding time resulted in decrease in the area of wheat seeded as compared with the crop harvested in 1893, of a little over 15 per cent, so that area which went into winter quarters was 1,508,280 acres. In the north ern division of the state 23 per cent of the area is reported winter killed, in the Central division 33 per cent and in the Southern 13 percent, or an average for the state of 23 per ent With one or two exceptions all the counties reporting uuusually large injury are in the Central section. The area now growing is 1,223,530 acres, or 00 per cent of last year'a acreage. The injury done was entirely by win ter ki'ling. Wheat-has scarcely commenced to grow in some localities, so it is difficult to form a correct estimate of its condi tion, but its present appearance indi cates about 73 per cent of an average crop at this season. The April 1 con dition in the Northern division is 77 per cent, in the Central 63 percent and in Southern Illinois 80 per cent Winter rye has not suffered so much from the severe weather of the last winter as wheat. Little over 11 per cent of the area seeded was winter killed, leaving 133,023 acres for har vest A Humane Contrivance. The attention of our readers is called to the advertisement which appears on another page of this issue, of Dr. L. P. Britt's automatic safety bit, a most hu mane dev'ce for subduing that most useful animal, the horse. By Its use the most viciously inclined horse may be brouKbtTuhder immediate'" control without the least danger of injuring him. or dancer to the driver. Its operation is automatic shutting off his wind. By its use, horses that are otherwise comparatively valueless be cause of vicious habits may be made to become verv valuable. It has the strongest endorsement of tbe society for the prevention of cruelty to anl mals, and of hundreds of the best horse' men throughout tho world. Its owner has medals from the American Instl tute 1889, and from the Paris exposi tion of the same date. Below is a copy of a letter received by him from Mrs. I). W. Frisby, of Beatrice, Neb. Beatrice. Neb., March 28, 1890. Dr. L. P. Brltt; Dear Sir: Indeed I must confess tbtt I have acted in a most unbusiness-like manner, and in order to partially exonerate myself, must ask your patience In reading quite a lengthy letter of excuses. The bits arrived; 1 pronounce tnem a gooa oit. I have recommended them to ail parties having hoi ses boarding iu the stable with us, but every one had a bit that they considered better, at a much cheaper cost the J. I. C. bit. They think different now, after what might have been the death of my iainer-in- law, (who is 73years), and myself. O ir horses are very high-spirited and li able to run away at any time 1 look mv father to drive with tnese nora s. We met on the road a steam wood -saving machine which they took fright at They seemed to leap through the a r. My father was driving, i saw mat, tm-v were getting tne nisi 01 mm, u 1 leaned ferward and took hold of the lines: but not until after the carriage had struck against a watering tank at the side of the road. I stopped them almost Immediately, They have mouths like steel and it takes two good, strona men to hold them with any other bits. Wo all consider a run away uith your bits impossible. My father was the happiest man you ever saw, and folt that the bits had saved his life, and said that your name should ho rebounded throughout the length and breadth of the land, as he was sat isfied that the bits were the only hu mane device by which the horo were checked, and as a token of twtocm and hleh rtxard for you and the good work you are doing, ho requested (before hi dea'h. which occurred on the 4,kl of this month, from heatt trouble) tuat I end you the band of 9 M rit iHtt"ig utm. Thi, I hope, wli in measure appeal to yo.ir pat'eoee with we for my eicu ami dslav I am, your very truly. Mla I. W. I'iuhhv. N. II. Tho tmnd of gold wa a ring containing Wn dHinoud nl aappuire. theorlglutt of which i on fllo t my 08I00. fan anyone doubt the val'to aod merit of the automatic tafety bit!1 I. r. Itimr, M. I). fUiae ( IWg. NfTAPA, Mi, April 5, A Mr Oik ' Moots Velio township. tUUeuun- tr, vta arretted charred with stealing lard and thlvkens from a neighbor. tier defen w that In rittie w a a nrnMijr, a ahe tuldget no work and had Ui steal, beg or starve, M would not Wff. Take tho AlXUNci: lNlM'i;ir.iT. DEATH ON THE RAIL. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT COME TOGETHER. FOUR KILLED AND MANY INJURED, Olen Vernon, mn Illinois Mining Village, the Hoeue of a Diiaitrou Wreck o the Jacksonville Southern Hall road Cetued by Negligence ot Trainmen A Dtaaitrou Eiploalon. Ed w A bds VH.LE, I1L, April .A ter rible railroad accident occurred at 4:15 o'clock last night on the Jackson ville Southern railroad about three miles south of Edwardsville, near Glen Vernon, a mining village. No. 0, a local freicht croinir south. nd No. 10, a passenger accomtnoda- muu kjiu uui iu, vumueu, vuuioieieij wrecking the freight train, both en gines and one passenger car. Four men were killed and a number of others seriously injured. A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. An Engine of the Choctaw Coal aad Railway Illows Up Killing Four Men. McAlesteii, Ind. Tcr., April 5. Choctaw Coal and Railway company engine No. 1 exploded yesterday after noon at Wilburton, Ind. Ter., instant ly killing Engineer L. P. Dwinell, Fireman Fred Fredericks, Conductor George W. Martin and Urakeman Henry Land is. The cause of the ex plosion ia unknown. Several cart were wrecked. IMPORTANT TO SETTLERS. The Fnpreme Court Uphold the Coart of Oklahoma In a Land Case. Washington, April 6.- The supreme court yesterday announced its con struction of the proclamation by the president and tne act of congress in 1889 opening to settlemcnt the Creek Indian reservation in Oklahoma. They contained nroviHinna that "unt nrrnrn contained provisions that "any person who may enter upon any part of said lands prior to the time that the same are opened to settlement shall not be permitted . to occupy or to make en try of such lands or lay claim thereto." Alexander F. Smith, a railroad em ploye living at Edmond station at the time the lands were opened, entered a quarter section; this right of entry was contested by Eddy B. Townsend and decided in his favor by the local land officer, but on appeal the commis sioner of the general land office, the secretary of the interior and the dis trict and the supreme court of Oklahoma successively affirmed Town Bend's entry and Smith appealed to the supreme court of the United States. Justice Drewer announced the decision of the court in an opinion reviewing the facts and ths law in the case, concluding with ths statement that "anyone who was within the territorial limits at ths hour of noon on April 22, was, within both the letter and spirit of the state. disqualified to take a homestead there in." Judgment of the Oklahoma supreme court affirmed. NO RACINO FOR CLAIMS, Secretary Cmlth bay the Openlug Will lie Couduoted On Another Flan. Wasiiixotox, April 5. "Yes, ws heard late Saturday," said Secretary Hoke Smith yesterday, "that the Cher okeea had aueepted the terms proposed for tho purchase of the Cherokee out let The Interior department is now bending every energy to the work of getting matters ready for the opening. Of course, I cannot suy even approxi mately Just when there will be the opening, but this point I decided on. There will be no race for the land this time. The cripple on foot w ill stand an equal show with the man on the Kentucky thorough broth Every man shall have an equal i bancs with others and be absolutely pre vented from getting anything better than an equal chance. Tut men who have breu spying about in ths strip, scouting out the moat eligible locations, will not profit by It nor stand any better ehancs thau thoe who never saw or set foot on the land stall. "No, I cannot tell what method will os adopted by the department In allow ing settler tu select their loeatious. We have not got It thought out yet Hut I am determined that it will not be tbe raee-horsa method." A Maud tUltUI 10 tar 4. 8r.Uvis,MtK, April 1 In ths circuit court her to-day a dtvorc was grant ed llabbi W, 1L NusnMen, ns of Us tot prominent of ha rare and ereed In thUeountry, from hit wife, Uoa eVnieec heln. also prominent In JwUh and literary virU , now living in I ItU ago Mr. Ktnneaeheia did not font! the deer, whteh we granted on the ground of abandonment. The government own erxhip of railroads and telegraphs. That freight rater a Nebraska be reduced ft a level with those la force In Iowa. The building by the national government of a great trunk line from North ' Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico. NO. 43 BURNED PAR FROM LAND A British Steal Ship Destroyed la tk faelfleSUteea Mob MUalag. Sam Francisco, April 5. The four masted steel ship King James, coal laden from Newcastle to San Francisco, has been burned at sea, 200 miles from San Francisco. Yesterday a boat containing sixteen men from the ship landed at the Con ception light house and are being cared for by the light keeper. Thej reported that March 19 a vapor was discovered arising from the hold of ths ship and tbe hold grew gradually hotter. Water was poured down ths hatchway, but without avaiL For eleven days tbe crew fought the firs, but last Thursday a terriiio explosion tore up the deck in all directions and flames shot high into the air. Tho crew were forced to take to the boats and remained near the ships un til Friday, when they started for Point Conception. The crew, thirty two in all, occupied two boats. Ths captain took' thirteen men, two ap. Srentices and his 16-year-old son. Ths rat mate, two apprentices and thirteen men filled the other boat Point Con ception was 250 miles away and ths boaU started for that point int Saturday a gale earns up and separated ths boats. The mate's boat arrived at Point Lonceptlon safely, but nothing been seen of the captain's boat MICHIOAN ELECTION. Republicans Elect Their State Ticket Gain in Oeniocratle Center. Detroit. Mich., April 6. Sufficient returns to base a reliable statement of yesterday's elections in ths stats have not been received, but there ia no doubt of the election of Hoover, Republican, to the supreme bench by a plurality of 10,000 or over, and the Republican. candidates for regents have won a still greater victory. In the old Deuiocratie stronghold, such as Wayne and Saginaw, the Re publicans have made great gains. They have captured Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Manistee, Lansing and other cities formerly Democratic. Ths Democrats elect mayors at Ypsilanti and Port Huron, overturning Repub lican majorities. All the proposed constitutional amendments have un- , -SSi b . . . . . . .7 """""" w ing inconsiderable. A litrht vote was polled throughout the state, due to general apathy and 1 1 ll Alt d 1 IT . I oaa weauier. xn mis vvaynej county I the Republicans have apparently cap- . turea. everyining in signt ALLEGHENY CITY ABLAZE. Building After Building Swept by Fire-. Factories and Dwellings Faring Alike Pittsburg, Pa., April 5. A big flr is raging on South Canal street, Alle gheny. It started In Godfrey & Clark's warehouse, a four-story building, shortly after 3 o'clock and spread rap idly to Eberhardt St Ober's malt house, elevator and warehouse adjoining. At 3:30 o'clock these buildings were entirely destroyed and the flames were still spreading, with a high wind blow ing. The entire department is at work and Pittsburg has been asked for help. The loss to Godfrey & Clark is $65,000 and Eberhardt & Ober $100,000. At 3:40 p. m. the firs had spread to twelve du ellings and all are burning. At 4:30 three other buildings were burning and the flames were spreading toward the river. A GREAT BANK COLLAPSES. The Commercial or Australia taspende llrancbe at Many Folate Affected. Melbourne, April 5. The Com mercial bank of Australia haautpendV ed payment nnd the shareholders have been summoned to consider personals for the reconstruction of the bank, The affairs of the concern have been in bad shape for some time and the collapse had been expected. The paid up capital of the bank was !,oOo,ooO, while ths subscribed capital was jl.VOOO.ooo and reserve fund i3,?5Q,0ou, The bank had branches in London, Edinburgh and Uiasirow and in alt the principal cities and towns In Australia. WORSHIPERS KILLED. rvlgatral Aecldeet la Haealaa) Caarefe at Oadrta Iiarlng m Stores. Vixxxa, April I.A dispatch from Sofia states that a Rusalan church at Oudrla, In ths Caueunu, collapsed dur ing a terrible storm and mors than 100 worshiper wars killed, kil fur Mrlret atlla, KiistsCttr, Ma, April A tele graui was received tody an maiming ths fact that (iovernor Mtte hti r ranted a reapila until Friday, May i, to Turn J iiith, the itegr who was to have been )tngd next Tuday for th murder ( Ueurga Cauterva, as lUier negro. New subscribers sis omio ia very rapidly rosalderiaf th lesson of ths