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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1897)
fjZ COODTT JOURNAL- OtO. D. CANON, Editor. tUSaigO.V, - - XFBUASKA. HECRASKA STATE NEWS. .'A co-operative company has teen r ajanlred Ht jiurr to liuitil ami operate a reamery and chetse factory. Frank Carpenter of Sutherland la har vesting hi onion crop and estimates the .yield at iOO bushels. He has been of fered io cents per bushel for them in 'the track at Sutherland. The Gretna schools and all of the neighboring district schools are closed thin wetk on account of diphtheria. There have been two fatal at-s and there are two others which are consid ered dangerous. Walter Graham of Crofton was killed Tuesday by the falling of a timber upon tata abdomen, crushing it in a horrible manner. He lived for several hours and was in utmost agony. His wife has been '.bedridden for months. Tteglster Hinman of the United States land office at North Platte says that tnany more tilings on government land are being made this year than last. The ajood crops and prices of the last season are largely accountable for the increase In filings. The Blair creamery Is at last finished and early next week will be put to work aeparating milk. Its capacity is 15. Ow pounds daily and with proper manage ment will probably receive a good pat ronage. The contrac tors will commence the erection of a creamery at Arlington next week. The B. & M. has a force of men with mule teams and scrapers filling a tig embankment under its bridge across the Platte river south of Central City. The space to be filled in is some I.jOO feet .and from the present rate of pro gress it bids fair to be an all winter's Job. The wajjes of laborers at the stone juarries at Weeping Water have been raised from $1.50 to $1.75, and it is a hard matter for the company to find enough men to work at that price. This Is the best news about returning pros perity that we have had the privilege of chronicling yet. Last Friday morning about 10 o'clock Mrs. S. N. Dunning, living about three tniles east of Dunning, committed rsui ide by hanging herself. She has been in poor health for several years, and It tias been thought for some time that her mind was not right She leaves a husband and six children. One of the barges of the pontoon bridge at Decatur sank Saturday while -A small bunch of cattle was crossing. A number of the cattle slipped into the river and had to swim ashore. The water was shallow where the boat went down and it was raised to its place without great difficulty. Fire consumed the entire stock of merchandise of J. M. Wondera & Co. at "Weston last week. The fire department -made a heroic fight and kept the flames 'from spreading to Kaecick and Werta Bros.' store. John Walla, harness shop, nd J. L. Rooder, livery barn, lost about $4,000, with very little insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. Sam T. Willson of Royal Oak, Mich., left hia home November 1 last to come to Beemer and has not been seen since. His parents and friends supposed he was at Beemer until a few days ago, when his mother wrote there, request ing him to come home, as his father was dying. The missing man is about six feet hig;h and has deep blue eyes and auburn hair. He is about 30 years of age. He had several hundred dollars with him when he left his home a year axo. The deputy sheriff of Fillmore county went to Lincoln Saturday afternoon rind erved a warrant on Editor Austin of the Evening Call and avowed his inten sion of taking him to Geneva to an swer the charge of criminal libel pre ferred by Rev. Mr. Hines, the populist -candidate for superintendent of Fill more county. Friends of Austin got out a writ of habeas corpus and a copy was served on the deputy sheriff just hefore train time. The deputy put the paper in his pocket and took the train or home, leaving Austin free, with no body to take him into court, as com manded in the writ. Harry Hodgson, a single man, 26 -years old, who formerly lived in Omaha, is reported shot and killed by an un rated father In Dallas, Tex. The father, John Willi, a former policeman, went to the house where Hodgson was stay ing, taking with him a double-barreled hot gun. He saw Hodgson in front of the house and irnmeditely fired upon him. The entire charge took effect in the back of the neck and in the shoul ders of Hodgson, and he died in a short time. Willi gave himself up to the po lice. He said that Hodgson had taken his daughter to church last Sunday, and that she had confessed later that by fore and persuasion he had wronged Her. E. E, Rogers was Indiscreet on the train between Lincoln and Omaha Sat urday, and as a result must continue hia journey to Hanthorne, la., on foot. His error is an old one and lay in trust ing in the purity of a stranger's motives. The latter confided to Rogers that he waa on his way to administer his brother's estate in Omaha, from which he would be recompensed in a com fortable manner. In the meantime he felt a need for $14, and Rogers was so Impressed with the urgency of it that he entrusted the stranger with that turn, which, in fact, was Rogers' whole mean. He was assured of its return on the train's arrival In Omaha. But the stranger disappeared in the neigh borhood of the Magic City. --Mrr and Louisa Harrsch, who are attenci.; the High school at Crelghton, were fouild In their room In that city last Tneadaiy. very sick from the effects of poison. L&et Sunday one of them in formed Prof. Newport that her alster waa not feeling well and she might not ome herself the next day. Prof. New- Cort made Inquiries Monday afternoon, at getting no Information made a per sonal vlait to their room after school, where they had locked themselves. In. Both girls were lying helpless, one on the floor, and the other In bed. Medical aid waa aummoned and a courier sent .Out to their father's farm, about fifteen nlloa from there. He reached Crelghton Vadnoeday morning and found Louisa tfa a very critical condition. A nurse waa hired by Prof. Newport and all the atUatieo poaalble given the young girls, who are setting along wall. Though oor, the aaabitioa of the glrla to get r education Induced them to go to Lntfton to attend school. It la report- I titer had become quit weak from ' vaunt a Kflctont food, and being fMrtn to the people of Crelghton It tl fcawawat they became dlaheartened 4 r took etiyehnhae with the view of t their mlaerr. THE STATE LOSES ITS CASE BARTLEY BOND CASE DEALT A FOUL BLOW. A Mero Technicality, which li Un warranted by Law. Court Decis ions or Good Morals, Used Against the State. Omaha, Neb.. Oct. 23. The great trial of the state of Nebraska aga!nst the bondsmen of the defaulting ex-state treasurer, Bartley, to recover the stolen $5m.730.i6 was abruptly ended on Fri day afternoon. This sensational ending of one of the most important cases ever tried during the history of the state was bro't about on the merest, flimsical technicality. Judge Powell, before w hom the case v. as being tried, on Friday afternoon ruled: "in view of the decision in the Lansing case, and the very mandatory character of the language of the statute of this state, the failure to approve the bond on or before January 3. isy5, was a very material matter and by reason of that failure the office of state treasurer became vacant and remained vacant until the 7th day of January, 1S97." Karly in the beginning of the trial, some three weeks ago. Judge Powell held that the approval of the bond was not material, and a point which the de fense could not take advantaee of. Put now, after two days' argument. Judge Powell reverses himself and by so doin? made it necessary for Attorney General Stnythe to dismiss the casts and begin a new one. which he did Saturday. In discussing the moral phase of this judicial outrage. the World-Herald says: "Seldom has so remarkable a decision ever fallen from the lips of a Jud,?e. Just think of it. The office of treasurer for the two years ending January 7 was, according to Judire Powell, vacant, and yet there languishes in Douglas county's jail a man condemned to a sen tence of over twenty years in the state penitentiary because, as state treasurer, he embezzled the state's money dur ing a period when, according to Judge Powell's decision, the office was vacant. "Newspapers ought to be slow to crit icise the courts, but there are times when it becomes the imperative duty of a newspaper to announce its solemn protest against such rulings as resulted in the termination of the Hartley case. If cases are to be disposed of on tech nicalities It is hitrh time In Nebraska that some of these technicalities be on the side of the people, who have been plundered and robbed by republican c f- "The sams mti.m-r of ruling made by Judge Powell yesterday, would open the jail doors to every public plunderer against whom jail doors have closed, and would insure freedom from restrain to every other republican defaulter who has enough rash with which to em ploy shrewd attorneys. The same man ner of ruling made by Judge Powell yes terday would place the people of Ne braska at the mercy of every man who has plundered a Nebraska treasury-" The decision given by Judge Powell that the office of the state treasurer was vacant during all of Bartley's term raises a Question which was discussed at considerable length among the attor neys in the court room, as to whether or not Joseph S. Bartley will be com pelled to undergo his sentence of twenty years in the penitentiary for embezzle ment as state treasurer. The general trend of the comment was based on this question: "If Bartley was not state treasurer, can he be convicted of a shortage as state treasurer? He was convicted as state treasurer, ana if tne court holds he was not treasurer he has, in law. been wrongfully convicted." But aside from the moral involved the decision of Judge Powell is clearly Mm trary to law, and especially the laws of Nebraska .and the decisions of the su preme court of this state. Upon this proposition the World-Herald in a very clear and common-sense editorial on Monday morning said: "HE WHO RUNS MAT READ." , In rendering his decision whereby the Bartley case was brought to an abrupt termination, Judge Powell referred to a certain statute, concerning which he said: "This, It seems to me. Is so plain that he who runs may read, and that no per son who can read ought to misunder stand, especially when supplemented by the decision of our supreme court in the Lansing case." If this statute was "so plain that he who runs may read," why did not Jud.se Powell read that statute intelligently when he held in the early part of the trial that the question of the bond's ap proval was i.nmaterial? If "no person who can read ought to misunderstand this state, why did Jtid Powell misunderstand it when he ruled in the early part of the trial that the question of the bond's approval v.-as Immaterial? The World-Herald undertakes to ray that aside fnm the attorneys who de fended the Hartley bondsmen no law yer of standing will indorse Judge Pow ell's decision upon this point. In his opinion Judge Powell put much stress upon this provision of the statut": "The approval of each official bond shall be indorsed upon such bond by the of ficer approving the same, and no bond shall be filed and recorded until .'0 approved." He then said that because Mr. Bartley's bond was filed before It was approved, the filing thereof was without any force and effect because of the statute just (juoted. Is Judge Powell right? Let us see. The third section Just below the one quoted by Judge Powell provides as fol lows: "No state or county officer, cr their deputies, shall be taken as secur ity upon the bond of any administrator, executor or other officer from whom by law bond is or may be required, and no practicing attorney shall be taken as surety on any official bond, or bond in any legal proceedings In the district In which he may reside." The language of this last section with respect to taking attorneys upon official bonds, or bonds in any legal proceedings, is certainly rs mandatory as the language of the sec tion quoted by Judge Powell. If the filing of Mr. Bartley's bond be fore It was approved was rendered of no effect because the section quoted by Judge Powell said that no bond shall be filed until so approved, then the taking of an attorney as a surety on a bond In a legal proceeding would be equally unaffected under the provisions of the section last quoted, which provides that In such a proceeding an attorney shall not be taken as surety. Hut the su preme court of this state In the case of Luce against Foster, 42 Neb., page 18. said that under the Nebraska statute "an attorney at law should not become a surety upon a bond In a legal proceed ing In the district In which he lives, and if he algna such a bond the clerk should not approve It, HUT IF IT UK AP PROVED TH "5 SURETY 18 NEVER THELESS " JjND THEREBY," This language is so clear that "he who runs may read." The principle Is that the provision Just quoted are made for the benefit of the atate. and If the state see fit to waive them the bondsmen cannot com plain. They In no way then can Insist upon that as a reason why they ahould not be bound. Judge po1t quoted from t, ijiv ' In support of hi 1mk..h. quotation m fitt t. )i )l!i Blori id- nu.-tnti. n would seem ' !, him, but t i ie are other purl the sam ilecii.,n whhh dhow that 1 s not help him. in that ihm thi n'i brought an a tlon to determine th ; i t ity. flll- I t ling to law i hin vt Judge Ijirmiiig to hold the o county judge of Lancaster Before Judjie Landing could suco ly defend himself he was lump show that he had done ever) which the law required him to perfect his title to the office. TU required him to tile his bond v. a certain time: he did not do .i. ..nd hence, failed to show that he had i me one of the things essential to his ht to the office. There the state was in sisting upon a compliance with those provisions of the law made for it ben efit. In the Bartley case it w aived that compliance. On page of the t-th Neb., concerning the Lansing case, ti e supreme court said: "But ACTIONS UPON BONDS GIVN OUT OF TIME and direct proceedings to oust an sifl cer for failing to qualify according to law PRESENT VERY DIFFERENT QUESTIONS for consideration." Jud,;e Powell in his decision thought they pre sented the same question, but if he had read the Lansing case carefully he would have noticed that the supreme court decided that they pres-nt-'l "VERY DIFFERENT QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION." That tiie supreme court did not consider tre Lansing case an authority for such a decision as Judge Powell rendered is, from the lanSBage just quoted from that case, so plain that "he who runs may read." In the same case, on pages u20 and .".21, the supreme court said: "There is another class of cases which were suits on official bonds tendered and approe 1 after the statutory time. THE BEST fcjNUlLiCRKD OF THESE CASES HOLD THE BOND VALID, not because the statute fixing the time was directory merely, HUT BECAUSE THE OFFICER BECAME A DE FACTO OF FICER, or because THE OFFICER AND HIS SURETIES WERE ES TOPPED FROM ASSERTING THU VALIDITY OF THE BOND, thev hav ing TENDERED IT AND IT HAVING BEEN ACCEPTED AND THE OFFI CER HAVING ACTED UN D Tilt IT." Had Judge Powell the good fortune to have read that part of the Itnsing case he would have said In the Hartley case "that the officer (Bartley) and his su:-e-ties were estopped from asserting the validity of the bond. THEY HAVING TENDERED it and It having BEEN ACCEPTED and the officer (Bartley) HAVING ACTED UNDER IT." If Judge Powell will take the troub'e to read in full the reports here referred to, the World-Herald assures him that he will find in them such a plain and emphatic condemnation of his derision in the Bartley case that "he who runs may read." SOME MORE EXTRAVAGANCE. Printing: Bills a Creat Bonanza For Republican Administrations. Lincoln, Neb.. Oct. 16. The senate journal of the last session of the leg islature has been delivered to the sec retary of state by the contractor. The book comprises about 1,000 pages, or ex actly 962, and was printed and bound at a total cost for the 2,000 volumes of J3G2, or at the rate of Jl per page. The price paid per volume this year Is 48 cents. The comparison with pre vious bills paid by the state for the same work under the administration of republican officials shows that the re publican administration was a mignty fine thing for the contractors, even If it was costly to the taxpayers of the state Here are some figures on printing this same senate journal: In 1S95 the repub lican state printing board let the con tract for printing the senate journal and 2.000 copies were printed that year, as this. The republican senate officials In 1HMS padded the book and got 2,034 pages into it. The contract price that year was $2.35 per page, or $2.38 per volume, and the total cost to the state was $4,779.90, more than five times as much as this year. In 1SS9 the book as made up contained 1,598 pages and the cost per page that year was $3. The cost per volume in 18.' 9 was $2.40 and the total cost of the job was $4,794. The excess of the cost U. 1895 over that of 1897 was $3.817.0, or more than four times the total cost this year. The cost of printing the session laws shows as great a difference under the present administration as does the sen ate journal job. The state has printed after each session of the legislature the journals of the two houses, a compila tion of the school laws for the use of Ihe officials who need then in the counties and school districts. Some figures from the books in the secretary of state's of fice show what republican government cost the state in this small particular alone. All four of thee books cost In im, $18,510, and in 1X95 they cost $12,- 247.90. In 1897 they cost the state for the whole batch Just $3,55.01. The exc?xs of the cost for these printing contracts over the cost in 1897 was $14,644.99 In 1HS3 and the excess of cost in 1835 was $8.:;S2.9. In 1895 the republicans printed 1,000 house Journals at a cost of $3,910 and in 1897 the present administration had 2.000 printed for about one-fourth of that sum, or exactly $1.0oo. The printing of these four compilations cost the state In two years of republican ascendancy over $20,000 more than It should have cost for those two years, as shown by what the present administration gets It done for. FIGURES ON CENTRAL PLANT Plan to Light all State Building More Economically. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 2?. The draughts man In the office of the commissioner f public lands and buildings is making some calculations showing the distance between the five state Institutions and buildings at Lincoln, with a view of having some estimates made as to the practicability of Instituting a central power plant to furnish electricity tor lighting all of them. Those places to be reached are the state house, the penitentiary, the state university, the home for the friendless and the Nebraska hospital for the In sane. All of these, except th hospital for the insane, are now furnished light from the Lincoln Electric Light com pany or the city gas company. Th state university especially gets In addi tion ft large supply from the street rail way company for power purposes. Some figuring has hcn done by local electricians on the feasibility of the state furnishing all this and saving a larje amount In light bills. The exact amount of the cost to the state for light ing is not at hand, hut It Is known that it costs for the state house $45 per month, and It was $65 up to a f"w months ago; the penitentiary pays $'.00 per month, and the university must pay many times as much. The distances as shown by the draughtsman's plat are, counting from the state house, to the penitentiary two nd a quarter miles, to th sylum about the same, to the university about one mile. The home for the friendless I situated In the middle of the triangular plat, bounded by a line run from th state house to the penitentiary and to th asylum. FIREBUGS FINALLY FOUND, An Old-Time Scandal nrtCrlm Mlsd Up In tho Affair, Arlington, Neb , IN t. :5 -KherIT Mem ke arrested George Knights and Mrs C. E. Harbour yesterday evening a the Hll-ge. guilty parti's who etj-t-ed the recent disastrous tire in llili town. The prisoners were inmodialely taken to Blair. Blair, Neb, While the 111 fat of Ar lington as yet a nine days' wonder the perpetrators of the crime have be.-n overhauled and lodged in Jail at ihi place and w 111 soon have sentence pao" I upon them, as court is now in session here. The parties under arrest are George Knights and Mrs. C. E. Harbour. Mr. Knights conducted a grocery store on the first floor of the I nland hall, and in company with lrs. Barbour and her son, used two rooms of the store for living apartments. The son was in he western part of the state when the fire occurred so Is not implicated. Since the day of the fire Sheriff Menoke has had A. A. Keyser of the Mostyn detective agency, Omaha, et work on the case, and together have scooped in enough evidence, all circum stantial, of course, to Justify County Attorney O'Hanlon in filing a cnmpUint charging George Knights and Mrs. Bar bour with the crime of arson. Mr. Knights had his stock Insured for all It was worth, and as no one else carried insurance enough to warrant such a deed, suspicion rested in that direction from the first. Detective Key ser alletres that this Is not the first fire that Mr. Knights has gone through, seemingly for the sake of the Insurance, and also under suspicious circum stances. In ls94 he took charge of his son's store at McCool, York county, Neb., and in 1M5 was burned out. Soon after he opened a grocery store in Arlington, the fate of which Is already known. A rather Interesting story which bor ders on scandal is told of the prisoners, which Is rouh, but true, and vouched for by those who know. In 1S86 Mr. Knights, then a resident of Sac City. Ja., became infatuated with Mrs. Barbour, a Baptist minister's wife, and as a re sult his (Knights') wife procured a di vorce and alimony on the charge of abuse and adultery with Mrs. Harbour, w ho left her husband some time ago and has plnce been living with Mr. Knights. W. K. Harbour, a son, has been In the employ of Mr. Knights since he located in Arlington and has been used as a blind to divert suspicion, though they, the old folks, were never seen In society In Arlington, having been given a wide berth since their arrival. The son is a man of 26, Is of good moral character, but Is hardly accountable for Lis actions. September 21 the city of Arlington was ablaze In the heart of Its business por tion. Business blocks and residences were destroyed; a loss of about $18,000. That the fire was incendiary there could be no doubt.. POLICE COURT AUCTION. Unidentified Stolen Plunder Coes Under the Hammer. Omaha, 'eb.. Oct. 26. In the police court yesterday afternoon was held the first sale of un claimed effects that has occurred in two years. A neat sum, nearly $4(t0, was col lected In this way for the relief fund. As a rule, the honor of making the sales has devolved upon the chief of polic, but yesterday Joseph Sonnenberg, an expert at the business, acted as auc tioneer. Three tables were filled with mer chandise that made the numerous pawnbrokers who had come to bid turn green with envy. There were satchels, boxes and trunks that contained un known wealth, revolvers by the score, dirk knives, daggers, sets of harness, household utennila. old cloth"-", 'pipe, brass filings, and last, but not least, a numoer oi waicnes. vaiuauie and otherwise. The sale was unusually brisk. The auctioneer, quite regardless of the sacrilege, stood on the Judicial throne, and. holding In his hand a buf falo robe, said something like this: "Howmuchamloffered; brannewbuflo robe. stolen by a thief who didn't kn.iw its value, and tried to pawn It for the small sum of $10. Howmurhaniloffer 1? What? Twenty-five cents! Why, (his buffalo robe is fit for Buffalo Bill. It's branew, branew." The robe was finally disposed of for the small, the disgraceful sum of H to a man who raid that he knew all along that one end of it was motheaten. For nearly three hours the sale continued. As usual, there were some valuable articles. A $50 watch sold for $22. an5l a $75 watch for $21.50. Captain Haze was the only member of the police force w ho did any bidding. He secured a large wooden clock and some table '.Inen. At dusk the sal" was completed, and the relief fund had Increased by a splendid leap. IMMENSE FARM SHIPMENTS. Cattle and Craln Traffic Gives the Railroad a Big Boom. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 26 -The freight of fices of all Omaha roads are rushed to their utmost capacity to handle busi ness. It Is the general statement in all offices that never before In the history of western railroading has there been such a press of traffic. In many In stances It is Impossible to supply the demand for transportation. The freight rneo explain that this state of affairs Is largely to be credited to the high price of grain and Ihe stock, produced by the heavy foreign demand. Another thing Is that the country to the west has more live stock to ship than It had last year, as many of the ranchmen did not ship out as largely of cattle and sheep last year as they would have done had the mar ket been better. This caused a surplus this year, and now they all want to get to market at the same time. Mr. Phllllp.,1 of the Missouri Pacific has Just returned from a tour of In spe tlon ove. the Central Branch. He finds everything In good condition and business everywhere rushing, ffpeaklng of the crop outlook and the rain In Kan sas he says: "From Atchison to Lenora there has fal'en from four to six Inches of rain, which has put the ground In excellent condition. As a consequence, the winter wheat is In good shape, and there Is on an average of 30 per cent Increase In the acreage of w heat plant ed this fall over one year ago." Dr. Lea Is the Martyr, Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 2S. The secrptiry of state has received notice from Frank Heller that Dr. J. I. Leas of Chndron had been named for the plac on the goldbug democratic ticket made vacant by the resignation of Judge J. C. Craw ford. The secretary sent out to the county clerk notice of the new nomi nation. The registration this year In Lincoln Is very light. As compared with the vote cast last fall the registration during the first two days is about one-third. Windows for car can be easily opened by a new attachment consisting of a ;yllnder In the car below the window, with a rod running up to the under side of the window frsm. By opening a ralve In the supply pipe air I allowed to flow Into the cylinder to fore th rod up and push th window open. OMAHA BEE 03 POST RECORD PART JUDGE POST PLAYED IN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL. The Verdict was Hailed by "a Gang of Corruptlonlsts" The State House Plunderer Had "a Friend In Court." (Otnalis World Herald ) A 8TATEMKNT OF ALI.KiKI FACT. Albert M. Post, who for th" last six years has filled a position on the su preme bench of Nebraska. Is by right? entitled to re-election. Judge Post li admitted to be one of the ablest Jurists In the state and recognized as the strongest member of the court over which he presides as chief Justice. Omaha Bee, October, 1894. THE FACT ITSELF. Judges Post and Norval rend-red the verdict of acquittal in whk h the defend ants were reprimanded In the cases of the republican state officials against whom impeachment proceedings were brought. Judge Maxwell dissented from Post and Norval. In the B-e of May 29. 193, before that decision was rendered the editor of the Bee had in his paper a "signed editorial," from which the fol lowing Is taken: Right here let me also express the hope that the report now current that the court will reinstate the imeached officials with a reprimand is baseless. A REPRIMAND Wol'LD MAKE THE Kl'PREME COL'RT HOPELESSLY RIDICL'LOfS. A court of impeach ment is not convoked to reprimand offi cials rharg-d with misdemeanors. The officials were reprimanded when the Bcathlng report of the Investigating com mittee was adopted by the house. But ; the legislature, representing the people! In their sovereign capacity, decreed by' an almost unanimous vote th-it they be1 impeached and tried for misconduct.! Trie legislature by Its vote to impeach; virtually declared that In its Judgment j a reprimand would have no graver ef-j feet than pouring water on a duck'j back. I As to the charge that I am trenching upon my prerogative as an editor and attempting to dictate to the supreme! court, I simply scorn the Imputation. 1: claim the privilege as the editor of a po-! lltlcal paper to discuss a political trial that must be far reaching in its effects upon public morals and political desti nies. When Tweedism was rampant In New York the Times, which was then! a republican paper, Joined hands witbi democratic officials to break up the rob- bers' ring. The light begun with an In-1 vestlgatlon and was fought to a finish. I There was no let up when Tweed and; his pals were indicted. There was no' attempt to befog the people and talk ol ; malicious persecution when Tweed Co. i were on trial. There was no let up until Tweed had been put into a convict'! i garb and his ring had been all smashed Into fragments. Was any Chicago ed-: Itor arraigned for violating court eth-: li-s when the anarchists were on trial?! They did not cease hammering away at ; the jury and the court in behalf of good government until after the law had been J vindicated. These trials involved the' lives and Individual liberty of the ae-! cused. They were In no sense political. And yd the men who wielded their pens' for good government were not subjected to abuse and held up as dictators. ! Regarding Impeachment as the most effective weapon to stamp out boodler-; Ism I have supported the movement to depose the state officers whom I do not ' regard as worthy to remain custodians' of public property and public funds. 1, am deposing tlx"" iiManw s a citizen of Nebraska I desire to see the stale' wrenched from the grasp of reckless! and faithless public servants, and I am for deposing them because I desire to see THE PARTY REDEEMED THROl'iill A REPUBLICAN COURT . FROM THE STAIN AND REPROACH WHICH THESE OFFICIALS HAVE CAST UPON IT In my opinion A VEP- j DICT OF ACQUITTAL WOULD BE A : SERIOUS BIAV TO PUBLIC MOR-! ALS. It would be hailed as A PROCLA- MATION OF AMNESTY TO DISHON EST OFFICIALS. It would encourage Mosherism and Dorganlsrn in every court house, In every town council and In every school board. I E. ROREWATER. In the Bee of June 4, 1SS3, the follow-: Ing editorial opinion appeared; j The future of the republican party In Nebraska Is In the hands of the su preme court. The Impeached state offi- clals were elected as representative re publicans and IF THEIR CONDUCT IS CONDEMNED BY A REPUBLICAN . COURT THE PARTY WILL RKJHT-' FULLY BE CHARGEABLE with the responsibility for the acts of the trti-? peached AND THE VERDICT OF THE COURT. In the high court of public opinion, to which all public men and parties are accountable, THE SU PREME JUDGES WILL BE JUDGED BY THE STANDARD OF PUBLIC MORALS HICH THEY SHALL SET UP IN THIS CASE for the political agents of the state. There Is no law governing the degree of Impeachable of-! fenses. The Ideal of what constitutes1 an honest and faithful discharge of du-i tics is, in the minds of the members of the court, and they, for the time being, by their verdict, cover with a al of approval or disapproval the conduct of the officials whom the representatives of the people In the name of the people arraign' d for misdemeanors in office. There can be NO MIDDLE GROUND FOR THE COURT to stand upon.! There Is no place in their verdict for a reprimand or a whitewash. The court must either declare by its verdict that these officials are unfit to !e reinstated as custodians of public property and managers oi the affairs of state, or they I must decree that In their Judgment, In; the face of all the evidence of criminal, recklessness and Indefensible negligence j the affair of our state have been In trustworthy hands and the Impeached officials w ill, by their finding of not 1 guilty, be acquitted of all blame ardj resume their functions with THE HEAL OF APPROVAL FROM THE HIGH EST TRIBUNAL In the commonwealth. Such a verdict will be HAILED BY THE GANG OF CORRUPTIONI8TS that has loot"d the state treasury a A NEW DISPENSATION, but It will be the death kneil of the republican party In Nebraska, On June 5, 1SS3. Judges I'ost and Nor val acquitted the defendants with a reprlnmand and the Bee, In Its Issue of June 6, 8'j3, snid editorially: A ruling majority of the court of Im peachment has acquitted Messrs. Hast ings, Allen and Humphrey of the charges preferred against them by the legislature, a art forth In the articles of Impeachment and CONFIRMED BY THE TESTIMONY adduced In the trial. The verdict will not be a surprise to those who have watched the case closely, for It has been anticipated al most from the outset of the trial. The Be of June 7, 189J, editorially, commenting upon Judge Post' decision In the Impeachment cases, said: During the past two years thousands of dollar hive been stolen from the tat treasury by the Lincoln plunder er, la there no law, and la there no officer of th law by which th offand- ttm msr be riirilh'dT " ,h h, tier shut up l'"l' .. ... Judse Maswell rsndldsts fo r-non. notion th showed thsj he was to be punish-d for his dlnsetil t Judge Poet decisions In Its Issue ol October 13. 1K3. te Re Sttld ; It is a matter of notoriety nat a ma turity of the republican slate oriirnltte are corporation henchmen who hav prostituted the machinery of the Ir' at the behest of rail ay managers. wh' had entered Into a conspiracy IMPEACHED STATE OFFICIALS to depose Judge Maxwell. , , In its issue of Octob, r S, 1?3, the Bee made an appeal to the republican state convention not to turn down Maxwell because he had dissented with Post, and the Bee said: Shall the party strike down and retlr a Judge of the supreme court who nas become offensive to the late impeached state officials? .... "the bonviot the Phillstints who have debauched the republican party and prostituted It to their base ends shall succeed in dom -Dating lis councils and forcing upon it some man of their choice the party will have proclaimed its moral bankruptcy and its inability to give the people republican form of government. In its Issue of October 14. 1H&3, com menting upon Maxwell s defeat and the men w ho brought it about the Lee said that defeat was accomplished by th friends of the impeached state officers, who. smarting under the lash of public opinion, are making desperate fforts to recover a hold upon the party." In its Issue of October li, 1VA the Be said: , ,, What was the turning down of Max well but a PROCLAMATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SX I'ULMK COURT that if they dare Incur the displeasure of the railroad czar or any of his satellites their political doom i sealed forever? , . We tsddly a. sert that If William Lloyd Carrison or Wendell Phillips were to day living In Nebraska they would ap peal with greater fervor for an upris ing of every lover of freedom and every hater of human bondage against the corporate tyranny that rules this com monwealth than they did of yore aga nst the hydra-headed monster, African slav- erc'all this a free state after the DAS. TARDLY POLITICAL ASSASSINA TION OF A VENERABLE JUDGE who had Incurred the displeasure of railway managers AND STATE HOUSE PIA N DERF.RS WHOM TIIE LEGISLA TURE HAD IMPEACHED for mlsde mturiors In office? NO COLD NOW UNTIL SPRING. Yukon River Freezes Up Solid and Boats are Hauled Up. Seattle. Wash., Oct. 26. The steamer Humboldt arrived last night with five men from Dawson City, leaving there September 3, and three men from Minolc and other points on the Yukon. They say no gold will come out this fail, as this steamer has taken the last of those who have come down the Yukon. The river Is already frozen hard and boats are laid up for the winter. The Humboldt left St. Michaels Octo ber 3. The live men from Dawson are: John F. Miller and Frank Sims cf this city; C. A. Harrison of Atchison. Kas.; William Dubel, New Jersey, and William Braund of Black Diamond, Wash. They were passengers on the river steamer Margaret. When they found the mouth of the river Mocked with ice they resolved to come overland at all haz ards. For seven days they crept for ward through terrible wind and snow storms. Some of them fell In their tracks and had to be helped by their stronger companions. They crossed the river, covered w ith a thin Ice, .by lying dow n and pushing their puck before them, and at night they sought shelter from the Ktarm by tiu.i.iiior m an Eskimo tent or lying unprotected from the biting wind save by blankets. Of the 5,0i0 or 6,0h) people In Bswson and vicinity at least 1.000 will be obliged to flee from Impending starva tion. Up to September 3, w hen the Mil ler party left Dawson, new arrivals numbered from three to twenty people dally, and there Is no doubt that that ratio will be continued all winter. ONE WAY OF RELIEF. Three hundred men were working In the gulches, and in the hills were sev eral prospectors, all of whom knew nothing of the shortage, and were de pending on the company stores for pro visions. One way of relief Is open to the miners. Five hundred or 1,000 could winter at Circle City, l'sj miles below Dawson, and draw their supplies by dog train from Fort Yukon. Circle City has 00 houses, anil Is said to be the largest log cabin town In the world. John F. Miller says there will not necessarily be starvation, but certainly miners will sun'er extreme privation. Five hundred men Intended to cotne down the river, but that Is closed and they cannot get out. There is no dout t fin t the people tf Dawson have been alive to the situation for six weeks. "Our leaving." says Sims, "was the beginning of a stampede for grub. Transportation companies at St. Michaels and Fort Yukon claim the liquor traffic has no appreciable effect on the supply of provisions. Not more than thirty tons of liquor, they say, has gone Into the country." BLOCKADE OF GOLD. With the blockade of the Yukon every possibility vanishes of treasures by steamer Portland. No gold will come out this year. , There Is any amount of gold at Daw son. It is not unusual to see horses laden with Cust. But the mines are owned by men who know their value. "One sees It on every hand." the return ing miners say, "It seems plentiful, but you must remember It Is more plentiful In the United States treasury and Is Just as hard to get. people who flock to the mines expecting to pick up gold In the grass roots do not realize w hat they are up against." There is no doubt that a large amount of treasure will come from the Yukon Uastn next year, if the miners can get enough to eat to continue mining dur ing the winter. Gold sent out early this year will not be a circumstance to nt spring's oulpjt of the sluice boxes. Mr. Miller ssys nothing of consider able value has been found this summer. There Is not an Inch of ground unslakeJ on the Klondike. The following named creek hav teen located: Sulphur, Quartz and Moosehlde for Instance, for twelve miles above the mouth; Henderson, Dominion and Vic toria gulch. Henderson creek Is twelve miles above Stewart river and Victoria gulch la twelve mile below Stewart river. It has been found that X-ray ar very useful for photographing- flower and fruit buds. In an experiment made with a violet-colored hyacinth the sensltlxed plate, after development, showed that th contour of the petals, the velna and th Internal form of th ovary were well represented. The use of tubes that five very little light Is advised for such ra dlographs. The auriferous tissue are very transparent to th X-rays. Dry frulta and flower buda alv excellent re sults. The aeeds and different parU of th flower ar distinctly aeen. Two negroes, named Penn and Haxle ton, were lynched at Bomervllle, Oa They were accused of arson.