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THAT Fovon-fool vein of cjal adds fuel
lo the flaming boom of Omaha.
Tin : discovery of that seven-foot vein
of coal was a thanksgiving ten-striko for
Omaha.
"fr is not for treason to party princi
ples that I am arraigned in fact , but for
treason against the rule of monopoly and
corporation power. " [ .Charles 11. Van
Wyclc.
THK commillcc lo draft a charter ought
to be completed at once and begin its
work. Five members from the council
and an equal number selected by the
board of tradu are lo appoint live addi
tional citizens. The selectious should be
promptly made and work begun.
ni ! all the cry that Secretary Whit
ney had destroyed American shipbuild
ing by his rigorous treatment of "John
Koach , and thatuo bids would bo forth
coming for the noxv cruisers , it must be
mortifying for Roach's defenders to dis
cover that from three to four competitors
have handed in estimates for the con
struction of Ihij new navy and that every
bid but ono falls within the amount ap
propriated. Mr. Roach's martyrdom
failed of its intended cll'cet. Where Iho
veteran lobbyist and subsidy seeker dared
not tread , other firms equally responsible
nre not afraid to compote.
Tim portion of the poor farm which is
to bo sold should be platted so as to bring
I iu the largest amount of money , both at
1 i present and in the future , when the re
mainder of the farm is thrown on the
market. Lois of the size of three to the
acre will be moro desirable than those
p'atted ' five lo the aero. Large and hand
some residence lots sold on terms of one-
third cash and the balance in two years'
time xvould go ofl'at high prices to par
ties who would buy them to improve at
onco. It would be well for Hie commis
sioners to consider the matter from every
standpoint before staking out the prop
erty ; There is no hurry about the sale.
Nothing can be done towards construct
ing the now hospital before spring. The
plans arc not even yet decided upon. It
will be months before any pay
ments on the contracts , yet to be
let , need bo made. If the
property is nold in the spring , it will bo
time enough. Better prices can bo ob
tained then lhan can bo possibly secured
in midwinter. The county cannot make
leu or fifteen per cent easier than by
postponing the appraisement and sale oi
lots for a few months.
TIIKHE are two faults xvith our police
Bystom as at present administered. First ,
we have too fexv men on the force , and
secondly the men which wo have are not
of the ; proper kind. Wo cannot materi
ally increase the number of olliconi be
cause wo are restricted in the amount ol
our levy for police purposes. The force
itself is inelUciont because it is appointed
on partisan grounds , quite independent
of the marshal ami It fuels its indcpaiv
deneo. There is naturally no discipline
and the whole community suffers.
The remedy and the only remedy is Hit
creation of Ja mm partisan police com
mission , who shall have charge of all ap
polntuionU to the force , including .1
superintendent of police of cxporicnct
and ability. Such u commission wil
adopt rules for the admission of appli
cants to the police force. They will have
the requirements usual in other largi
cities , Kvery applicant for tv place 01
the force will bo examined physically
Old men and striplings xvill bo alike re
jcctcd am ) there will bo standard of si/.i
ixs well as of ordinary capacity and morsi
character. Men will receive places ot
the force because they nro capable o
filling them and they will hold ( hum oi
an ascending scale of pay because the'
: ; ro competent and lit for the work.
So far as the chief of police is concerned
corned , the board xvould doubtless no
just as the school board docs in selecting
its superintendent of instruction. I
would find a competent man xvhorovcr i
could uud pay him iv good salary for tin
performance of bib duties. With a rn
organized force , conducted on a uon
partisan basis , under rigid civil-servici
rules , such a chief of police xvould b <
intinitely more clliciont than any otu
could bo under our present lack of sys
tern. Of course , with an amended charter
tor , duo provision can be made for ai
increased levy tor pojfco protection i
necessary , JJut that and several othe ;
knotty problems of revenue ought to nd
just themselves under improywl method
ot assessment : iud tax equalization.
Conkllncnmt Arthur.
A statement is published , said to bo on
the authority of a member of the family
of the lalo ox-President Arthur , that
within a few weeks before the death
Mr. Conk-
of Iho ox-president ,
ling manifested a disposition to rclont in
the personal hostility ho had maintained
towards General Arthur for many years.
The story Is that about the first of the
present month Mr. Conkling Ixicamo so
solicitous rcprcting the condition of his
former personal ami political friend as
to ask to bo confidentially informed in
the fullest manner recanting it , and
when the reply was returned that the
sick man was failing every day , Mr.
Conkling xvas so Impressed xvith the s.id
intelligence that he called upon a nephoxv
of the ex-president and through him ho
milt n confidential message to the sick
shambor. It xvas received by the dying
nan xvith great gratification , of winch
Mr. Conkling xvas duly apprised. After
ho death of Arthur the ox-senator did
lot call ut the house , nor did ho xvrito
any words of condolence to the family ,
but again by proxy sent n message of
sympathy and regret. It is recorded 113
he opinion of the friends of both that
uul the ox-president lived a short time
linger ho and Conkling would have been
reconciled.
Assuming these statements to bo an-
hentic , what must be the feeling
tf Mr. Conkllng at his failure
.o make complete n reconciliation
which It was lus duty to have sought and
onsuinnialcd , and thus Imvo made tardy
reparation for a long maintained xvroug
mid injustice ? It cannot be that this man
of relentless passions and imperious na
ture is incapable of a .sense of regret or a
feeling of self-roproach , and if there xvas
ever a circumstance to axx'akon these con-
litions of mind ills found in the course
: > f Conkling toward Arthur. The ex-
president bore uncomplainingly many
evidences of ingratitude , but none af
fected him so deeply and keenly as that
of Koscoe Conkling. . To him and lo his
political fortunes Arthur had been for
nearly a score of yours : i mo t loyal and
infalling friend. lie had acknowledged
: inqucstioningly his leadership iu Hie pol-
lies of Noxv York , suit had faithfully fol
lowed his direction. Kveu when vice
president ho did not hesitate , so strong
and earnest xvas the loyalty of his friend
ship , lo challenge the unfavorable criti
cism of the country and the hostility of
the administration by going to Albany
and exerting his inlluencc for the ro-ulec-
lion of Coukling to tlio senate , and no
one knows better than the ex-senator
how great xvas the sacrifice Arthur then
made. It cost him the loss of the respect
and conliclence of four-liflhsof llio repub
licans of the counlry , for Sir. Conkling
hail very fexv triends in the fight lie made
against. the administration. It
xvas the chief , if not the sole ,
cause of the distrust and apprehension
that were felt by republicans everyxvhero
xvhon Arthur becaiuu president , making
tiie task before him one of the most try
ing and difficult encountered by any pres
ident except Lincoln. The party saxv in
the apparently irreclaimable bondage of
lha nexv president to the political element
of xvhicli Mr. Conkling xvas the leader a
powerful menace to its perpetuity , and
there xvero fexv republicans ut that limo
who did uot regard the political future as
hopeless.
It is ( o the everlasting honor of Arthur
that he disappointed the undoubted ex
pectation of this element that it could
continue to control him , ami speedily
hhoxved his party and the counlry that h-i
had tiie xvisdom to discern lite true line
of conduct and the courage to pursue it.
It was this exhibition of high manliness
and patriotism that made Mr. Colliding
his enemy , supplanting the friendship
and approval of many years with bitter
resentment and unwarranted detraction.
And through all Arthur did no wrong or
injusticelo Mr. Conkliug or those ho
represented. There was noplace In his
broad and generous policy for retaliation.
The victory was xvith Arthur. It could
not be otherwise. The American people
may bo sloxv to discover in their public
men those strong and high qualities xvtiich
distinguished the character of ex-Presi
dent Arthur , but the recognition made
they are quick to honoc them. Mr. Conk-
linn bus been long conscious of Arthur's
triumph , and xvero ho possessed of a
small part of that true manliness so con
spicuous in the character of the latter he
xvould long ago have acknowledged it.
By so doing ho would have re
moved the charge of ingratitude that
now hangs over him , and ho might Imvo
found opportunity ( or a just reputation.
It would have been honorable to him to
have done so. All men xvould have ap
proved it. But unconquerable pride and
imperious vanity hold sway oven to the
last , yielding only a little before the end
came to the pathetic appeal that daily
reached the car of the relentless man ,
"An old and true friend Is moving rap
idly and surely toward eternity ; bo ut
peace xvith him. " In the testimony that
has been given of the respect and liomu
in xvhich the nation held ox-P.-esident
Arthur , Mr. Conkling must read the
condemnation of his ungrateful course
toward him.
Tlio National Hunk Question.
Washington advices Indicate great in
terest throughout llnancial and business
circles relative to the national bank quc.s <
lion , xvhicli is felt to bo one of the most im
portant and urgent that congress xvil ! be
called upon to consider. The comp
troller of the currency is receiving
letlcrs from all quarters of Ihc
country making suggestions regarding
u more permanent busts for national
banks. These do not come solely from
these engaged in banking under Hit
national system , but from other banker ;
and from manufacturers and merchants ,
xvho thus shoxv Iheir dc-siro lo see llti
national banking system maintained and
placed upon a stable basis. This demon
strates tlio correctness of the vioxv ex
pressed In these columns some days ago
in referring to the expedients thai IKK
been suggested In connection xvith this
question , that the substantial interests o
the counlry will be found : v unit in op
position to any plan the tendency of xvhlcl
xvould bo to diminish tlio usefulness o :
menace the permanence of the natiana
banking system , and especially xvouli
they bo found in hostility to u proposl
tion , which might have the support of i
certain class of politicians , to open 'tin
way to the restoration of the generally
irresponsible and dishonest state bnukinj
systems which txvonty-fivo years ug <
xvero a source of inestimable loss and annoyance
noyanco to the people.
Kvijry citi7.ua who has nn intelligen :
luulei-staiidiiig ol this question scei
that financial stability , which Is.
the foundation of. national pros
perity , depends upon thcro being no
step backxvard with respect to the admir
able banking system xvhose excellence
and merit an experience of more than
txvonty years has amply attested. The
demand is not for the extension of any
additional favors or privileges to the
banks. These institutions have not
asked , so far as xvo have observed , and
doubtless will not ask , any enlargement
of their franchises or any reduction of
their obligations. The requirement
simply is that some fair and just provision
be made by congress lh.it xvlll enable
them to maintain their circulation upon
adequate security without haying to make
an unnecessary and unjust sacrillco , and
it tlio same time have the condition of
) crmnncnco. This Is certainly quite us
nucli ! n the interest of the people as of
.he banks. Thcro could bo no adx'antago
.othe public in compelling the banks
that might elect to retain their circula
tion to secure it by replacing Iho Ihrco
per cent , bonds xvith other existing bonds
ivhlcli are selling at a high premium , but
there might bo great Injustice done the
banks by such compulsion if Its effect , as
almost certainly xvould be the case , xvas
to still further appreciates Iho prlco of
these securities. If all the banks
were to purchase other bonds as security
for their notes the effect upon
the general circulation xvould not be so
; real as lo htivu any material inlluenoe ,
chiclly for the reason that the money
> vould go largely into the hands of cor
porations to be reinvested in other forms
of security or hoarded. Mo great part of
it xvould get into tlio channels of trade.
To the banks , hoxvover , it xvould bo a
quite serious all'air in the inroad it xvould
make upon their surplus , and to the ex
tent thai this xvas Incicased by forced
conditio'ns they would suffer injustice.
We confess that the problem is not
easy of solution. There are .strong pre
judices xvhich are a bar to any proposi
tion that can bo construed in the least
degree as favorable to the bank ? . There
uro several objections lo Iho creation of a
noxv form of bond for the special use of
the banks. It is inevitable that if these
Institutions are compelled to accept the
alternative of surrendering their circula
tion or securing it by higher-priced bonds
many of them xvill xvithdraxv their notes ,
the effect of xvhich could not fall to bo
moro or less damaging to business. The
question is of immediate urgency , and
congress xvill have none other presented
to its attention of greater concern to the
country.
Van U'j-ck'1 * Interview.
Senator Van Wyek upon his arrival In
Washington xvas promptly interviewed
upon the senntorial situation ir. this state
and the result has been placed before our
readers in our noxvs columns. There is a
world of common sense in the plain and
matter of fact sentences in xvhich the
senator discusses existing political con
ditions in this state , and his own position
as tlio undoubted popular choice of
Nebraska republicans for the senatorial
succession. General Van Wyck indig
nantly declines to submit lus republican-
isui to the tests of eastern monopolists
and stock jobbers xvhoso only use for the
party name is as a cloak for the advance
ment of their oxvn prix-ato interests.
Ho refuses to be classed as a democrat
bcctiuso ho hae opposed republican mo-
nopoli&ts in the senate ami declined to
advocate the maintenance of Iho tariff on
lumber to bo used by the producers of a
state dox'oid of forests. lie assorts man
fully his independence of influences which
for years have controlled the national
senate and sought to commit the mass of
the party to nefarious schemes to plunder
the people. "I am a good enough repub
lican for the mass of the republican
party,11 exclaims the senator , "but as I
incur tlio opposition of the monopolies
and moniod interests , it is easy enough to
question my political integrity xvhon they
wisli to pull mo doxvn. " "It is not
for treason to party principles that I am
arraigned in fact , but for treason against
the rule of monopoly and corporation
power. "
Senator Van Wyck has sealed his re
publicanism by nearly twenty-live years
service in the ranks of the party , on the
field of battle and in the councils of tlio
nation. His voice and his votu have
ulxvays been at the disposal of honest re
publicanism. Almost solitary and alone ,
for six years ho has voiced the sentiment
of western republicans on vital issues in
the national senate , lie has boldly chal
lenged jobbers and sxvindlers , of what
ever party , and hold aloft the banner ot
genuine western republican sentiment in
debate with the ablest party opponents
from the cast. There is no
position xvhich he has assumed and main
tained which has not to-day the unquali
fied endorsement ot his constituents.
Nebraska republicans do not propose to
permit Blair , of Nexv Hampshire , or In-
galls , of Kansas , to sot the key-note of them
republicanism for them. They know the
paramount influences xvhich control such
parly leaders. They are qmto satisfied
with the work of a man xvho can boldly
assert that he has "no apolo < rlcs to make ,
no reforms to promise , no excuses U.
plead , " but xvho manfully stands by his
record of honest endeavor and conscien
tious labor for the constituency xvhich
has honored him.
Omnlin'H Opportunity.
Omaha is already ono of the great rail
road centers of the country. The sys
tems of railways xvhicli converge nt this
point from the east and south are already
nmplo for the business xvants of a com
mercial metropolis of txvo or three hun
dred thousand population and olhoi
lines noxv projected xvill improve the fa
cilities and establish till the competition
that may bo desirable under prevailing
methods of railroad operation , lint the
peculiar combination of the trunk lines
xvcst of tt-o Missouri requires very decisive
ivo action at thn hands of Omaha at an
early day , \ \ ith the Burlington system
draxving the tratlle of the soutl
and southxvest to Chicago for the
sake of the long haul am
the Northwestern system draining the
Elkhorn valley , xvhich is naturally tribu
tary to Omaha , through its channel by
xvay and Blair to the lakes'for the prolils
of the long haul , Omaha is crippled in
her jobbing trade nud her cattle and
grain markets. Whether the Union Pa-
cilio builds iu urojectcd branch linns or
pot , Omaha cannot atfordat this juncture
to remain an idle looker-on at the com
binations noxv being formed all nrouiui
her xvith a vioxv ot tapping every hamlei
and village In the interest of rival rail
road centers and cities. Cpnce.de tluV
Onmlfa is to bo the greatest cuttle ami
hog market west of Chicrtgo and wp
still are. confronted xvith the serious
nenaco to'our commercial inter
ests by the xvant of direct
connections to , tradu centers and
> rolillc valleys In the interior of Iho
filato xvhich xvant to trade here , but can
not do so to ndviintugo as long as they
remain cut till1aiul linked to Kansas City ,
St. Joe , Sioux City and Chicago.
It is self evident that xvhatover is to bo
done to retain prestige for Omaha and to
maintain forever tlio position to xvhich
she aspires as the metropolis of the Mis
souri valley , must DO done promptly. H
must bo done on the broad-gauge
principle , and not by piece-meal and
picayune methods. If Omaha capitalists
cannot bo rouieil into action , and xvill
not como forxvnrd with their oxvn
money to buiid txvo or tnrco
Independent lines into northern , northwestern -
western and soutlixveslern Nebraska ,
Omaha must take Iho proper Mops lo
induce existing roads lo build , spurs ,
branches and extensions reaching out
into sections xvhich wo must annex , as a
matter of sulf-preservation. It does not
matter whether this is done by tlio North-
xvcstcrn road , Vuiulorbill , Gould , or any
other road or men. What xvo xvunl is
Omaha as the hub xvith railroad spokes
radiating in every d rccllon which is
Irade Icrntory. Our prcfeienec has been
and is still that Omaha capital should
undertake this task , but xvo xvould not
play dog in the manger at the risk of lin
ing forever the opportunity that xvill pre
sent itself during the next nix months.
Omaha and Douglas county can well uf-
/ord to bond themselves for half a million
dollars.if by so doing they forever insure
her commercial supremacy and have next
to absolulo certainty of doubling the value
of all property xvithin txvo miles of the
court house and doubling the population
before tiie next census is taken.
A YEAR ago , the first announcement
xvas made of a union passenger
depot but the promise is .still us
much of a promise xvitli as little
of performance aceompaning it as it xvas
it year asio. Perhaps the completion of
the new bridge in the spring xvill hasten
matters. Wo hope so. The bad impres
sion which our "coxv shed" depot makes
upon visitors has damaged this city to
llio cNte.nl of hundreds of thousands of
dollars. The inlroduction which
.strangers receix'c to Omaha is a most un
favorable one. First impressions count
for much xvith regard to cities as xvell as
xvith respect to persons. A nexv and
handsome union depot xvould urge on the
boom xvhicli in the spring promises to
break upon us xvith more force lhan ever
before. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
O.MAII v must have more railroads And
Omaha and Douglas county xvill take
steps to secure them.
Til 13 KlHLiU OK INDUSTRY.
The Steollon ( Pa. ) works have H.Mi names
on thuir pay-roll.
The strike of the uiolders In the locoiuo-
tlx-o and machine shops of Nexv Jersey has
been settleil.
It is expected that the Nexv Yoik Tritmno
olllee xvill be b.icl ; in the union hclore the
end of December ,
One St. Louis firm has jubt taken an order
for nuts and bolts for 2t0 ! miles of road. Last
year one order xvas for 480 miles.
( iconic \VnstlHKhoiisc , the inventor , xvill
put 51:00,000 : in an eight sliiiyofllce buihlimr
for his various companies in IMttsburg.
The St. Louis Wire company contemplates
the removal ot Its entire works to Plttsbtirir ,
and xvlll erect a 150-toiis-per-day blast fur
nace.
Unletates representing i5,000 ! xvorkmen met
recently in Newcastle , England , to form a
federation to promote the eight-hour move
ment.
The trade unionists propose to onranizo
upon a footing that xvill give them more con
trol within themselves and moro inllumico
without.
Thn managers of the elevated railroads of
Nexv York give It out that a syst-ni of power
Dy electricity Is to bo perfected and will soon
be put In operation.
ElKhty-eUht llrms or mills are onirat'cd in
the hosiery lockout In New York , xrhero be-
txx-cen 8,000 and0,000 wage xvorkcrs are usu
ally employed. Less of waives so iar ,
simoou.
An effort is to bo made In New York to
alllx a union label to union made shirts In
order to drive out so many of the goods made
at Sing Sing and elsewhere.
Thoworkliiginon of Nexv York oxpectto
gain Important concessions from the new
mayor on account of the big labor vote they
polled. They xvlll ask a rigid enforcement of
feevoral laws now a dead letter.
A marked revival has set in In the Iron ,
cteel , xvoolen and coal Industries In ( treat
Britain. Ono ( inn refused an order of 15,000
tons of plates mid angles for stilp-buildlnir ,
and another house xvas offered enough work
for n year , but both were declined because
foreign manufacturers believe there Is an up
ward tendency in prices at work. Idle iron
and steel xvorks will shortly bo put iu opera
tion.
Colonel A. K. Oxven's co-operath'o colony
tr > hu established In Sinalon , Mexico , Is at
tracting a great deal of attention among re
formers of all hues throughout the country.
It is backed by such IIILMI ns ex-Scoretary
\Vlmlom , xvho has been inRtniinoiital In su-
curing the promise ot'J.OOO Mead * of families
to remove there. Manufacturing concerns
are to tie established , Money enough
has been raised to build factories , houses and
mills and start a town at once' The matter
has been brexvlmr Jor tlueo or four years.
The Only Strikes Tlial l ny.
ChtMtin Times.
> fr. Sullivan madu 88,100 out of his recent
bet-to xvitli Mr. Hyan. The only strikes that
pay are troiu the shoulder.
Will
1'iiivltUMcJtiuriml.
Speculation us tb'xrlml ' congress will do
during tint coming short session may as well
bo abandoned. It xvlll do nothing ,
Prohibition iu Kansas.
f.llflTiiloil JVCK'H.
Prohibition in Kansas has simply tunica
Iho drug stores Into liquor btores. Kvery
person has u right to t-'et liquor as medicine
tor his oxvn comjfalnts ) , xvhich may bo
" \veakncss" or "Iiiulgeitlon , " or anything
else. The list of causes or reasons entered
for gutting liquor Isiblightly humorous read-
lug. *
Can Only lie Successful In Chicago ,
Clilrngii Tiinei.
The Greek play has been a fullma In Ncxv
York , a city to xvhich It xvas all Greek. The
Greek drama can hardly bo a tuicrc.i ? outside
of Chicago , where classical learning Is gen
craland thorough.
Ups anil Downs.
The ups and downs of America xverc
vividly exemplified In the case ol
the late President Arthur. Itemoyud by
President Hayes from an important otlice ,
he xvas , lo all outside nppoarmice3. branded
1or lite so far as political aspirations go. In
lubs than a year he. wan tilling thu highest
oUlce xvlthiu tue .gift of the people. Jn
? lx months of rule ho had won the friendship
nml admiration of his bitterest opponents
nnd tint respect of his enemies ,
The I'ath to the Village.
Vp the path xvitli daisies frtnzed ,
Cheeks xvith primrose glances tinned ,
Kyca nf Muo and step so llitht ,
( 'nine * th milkmaid dressed In xvhlto ;
Pair the -unlit vllhu'o ulcnms.
Knlr her form as morning beams ,
"Love and xxc.tlthlio In thu toxvn , "
Sings the maid In milking goxvn.
Doxvn the hill xvith shadows crossed ,
Knoxv-wliltehnlrhy liirht xviiul tossed ,
Staff In hand , xvith plL-rlm park ,
( ' imcs tlio tmveler wandering nack ;
Village lights shine through the gloom ,
Smiles of joy his tears Illume ,
"Hume and mends arc In the toxvn , "
Smpcih he In dusty goxvu.
Up the pnlh nnd down the hill ,
All the win Id goes traveling still.
Milkmaid , priest and xvai nor buhl ,
Hcugar , uiieen nnd ulkrlm old ;
Love and wealth and Irlends and hytue
Hid tlio feet no longer roam ,
At the stile leave tear and frown ,
Pel feet rest lies In the toxvn.
WKSTKUN .lOTTIXOS.
Colorado.
The Denver exposition netted ? 20j.
The number < f visitors was IVi.UoO.
The Denver street rallxvay company
xvill invest * ; tK)0 ) ( ) in an ollieo'buildinc.
Thn Catholic societies of Denver have
formed an ii ocmtlim lo build a union
hall.
Theory of "The monopolies must go"
is heard throughout thu state. Sounds
familiar.
Work has ceased on the Denver post-
ollico pending n raid on congress for an
additional approprialion of ! ? J7ri,000. ,
The entire municipal expenses of Den
ver , amounting to $ lioM ( > 0 , has been ap
propriated in a lump sum and divided
amoii ! ; the various funds.
A vein of coal nine feet thick has been
discovered seven miles cast of Fort ( -ol-
lins by parties borim- for water. It is
said to be of line ( puility and is 150 feet
beloxv thu surface.
Thomas Hayes , a .juryman In Iho
United States court in Denver , xvas ar
rested last Tuesday for xvilltul obstruc
tion of the business and criminal con
tempt of tlio court.
"The present rail xvay liixx * , " says the
Denver Noxvs , "providing for the ap
pointment of a commissioner clothed
xvitli poxver to advise the railxvay corpor
ations and to report to the governor of
the state , is a sham and n fraud which
must be repealed by the incoming legisla
ture. It has been in operation noxv for
about twenty months at a cost to the
public of $100 ( ) per month , and no good
lias been accomplished under it. The
commissioner issued a report covering
the lirst three months of his term of
ollico and the state xvill be taxed if. ,000
for the publication of that report. "
Utah anil Idnho.
E nlly ? 7i"i,000 more are needed for tlio
buihlini ; of u decent penitentiary in this
territory.
The banks of Salt Lake Citv report the
receipt for the xvcek ending November
IT , inclusive , at ! * - ! , ? : ! . ; ! in bullion nnd
! ? 891M.-M ! in ore ; a total of ? 1K.UM.5. ( ) (
Lust week's mineral shipments from
Salt Lake City were 18 cars bullion ,
I(1.I5 ( , ! ) Ibs ; 11 cars ore , ! iW ; , : 0 ; 57 cars
copper ore , ' , ' 10,510 , ; total , 80 cars ,
lt , ijj,8ori Ibs.
Hemme iway , the editor of the Ogden
paper , .sentenced to the "pen" for ono
year for publishing an outrageous libel
on Judge Xane , lias been pardoned
Judge Zane magnanimously recom
mended his release.
The old camp at Cariboo , Ilinghnm
county. Idaho , is picking up rapidly
There are twenty or thirty gold quart/
veins on Cariboo Mountain that shoxv
good ere veins from four to liftv feet
wide , with from 1,0(10 ( to 1,500 tons of reckon
on tlio dumps , yielding from $8 lo § 25 a
ton : it the mill , and assaying from ? 10 to
$1.800.
Jackrabbit hunting is a fax'orite pas
time in Idaho , liy a territorial laxv the
county treasurer of each county pays a
bounty of live cents for the ours of each
rabbit. The cost of killing : v rabbit is
about H cents , leaving a clear profit of
3J cents. In some parts of the territory
there are people engaiied in the exclusive
occupation of killing the pests.
Several Salt Lake people , xvidely vary
ing in social standing , hax'o been allcctcd
by Iho strike in the Comslock lode. A
hotel cook is able to retire noxv on40 , -
000 ; n man xvho has xvalked the streets
xvith well-ventilated clothing , can noxv
call $20,000 his oxvn. On the other hand ,
a xvidoxv xvno had got rid of her slock
just before the boom , has noxv lost an op
portunity to make $15,000 to $20,000 , and
there nro many others of xvhich these are
examples.
Montana.
There are 181 prisoners in the Nevada
stale prison.
A sxveot potato raised at San Dicguito ,
without irrigation , weighs twenty-two
pounds.
Only thirty-two miles of road remain to
bo completed on the Cascade division of
the Northern Pacilic railroad.
All the Chinese cooks employed iu the
eating houses on the Southern Paeilie
railroad hayo been discharged.
The assessment roll of Door bodge
county this year foots up 14,485,00 ,
against fa.SlW.S'Jl . for the year 185.
The Sacramento markets are at pros.
out supplied xvitli eastern apples which
have co mo through iu very line shape.
Montana catllo men are noxv shipping
tho. caltlo to Chicago as fast as a car load
is ready instead of waiting until u Irain
load is ready.
It xvas some time ago discovered that
there xvas a laxv in this statute-book xvhicli
provides for an allowance of $100 from
the state funds for every indigent over
Hixty yo'irs of ago in any ot the counties
of California.
Sacramento markets are noxv being
supplied xvitli salmon from the upper
Sacramento , where they are reported to
bo quite plentiful , There are very fcxv in
the lower waters , Sacramento fisher
men have done very poorly iu salmon
catching this year.
The ( jranito Mountain Mining com
pany reports shipments of silver bullion
from January 1 to October ill amount
ing to ! gl.llK,80 ) ( > . and besides the above ,
ore shipments from July 1 to October
31 amounting to $78,1100 , making a total
of il-ii,700 ( ! , to xvhieli may bo added
$51,500 , shipped since October 81.
A terrible fight took place in li ? ' Hole
Itasin recently betxvcen } V. C. Story ,
alms Curly Hill , a late resident of Den
ver , and three horse thieves. Story xvas
trying to re-cover BOIIIO stolen horses
when" the light took place. Shots xvero
exchanged , Story killing one and wounding -
ing thu other txvo of the thieves , but ho
died three hours later from live wounds
received uiiout the arms and body.
It is believed that by the 1st of Decem
ber the California & Oregon railroad will
bu completed to Shasta Valley , lilteen
miles above McCloud , the present ter
minus of railroad travel , and txvolvo
above Sissons. Through Shasta Valley
there js a long stretch of level country ,
xvhich xvill enable the railroad unildurs
to move along more rapidly lhan they
nro noxv doing among thu nills.
The poor ftirm leper colony near Port
land is groxving rapidly. There are noxv
fourteen unfortunate creatures an the
farm , all Chinamen , ranjring in age from
sixteen to thirty-eight yuirs. The prob
lem of riddipgthe county of thesu fclloxvw
has been considered bevcrai times by the
authorities. Those xvho investigated the
mailer found that tlio captains of China-
bound ships wo.uld ot tsurry them , us no
other passengers , white or Chinese ,
would travel on the same vessel , anil the
expense of chartering a ship solely for
that , purpose'would no too greal. So
nothing remains for iho county authori
ties to do but to keep the colony together
where they aro.
Tlio PnoTllo Const.
Dayton , Nov. , it is said , has more se
cret societies and larger membership in
the same than any other toxvn of its sine
on Iho coast.
The nickel mines n ) ; Coltonwnod , Ne
vada , xvero shut doxvn because the
Knglish company that bonded them did
not make the last payment iu the time
spec ! lied.
Hcno Is the only toxvn In Nevada that
is steadily groxving. Many of the rich
cattlemen of the state are tii locate thcro
on account of the school facilities for
Ihcir children.
The product of candy in California in
188C. is valued at $ S.V > .0 : 7,0M ; ; considerably
over $25 for every man , woman and child
In the state , and probably txvice the
amount spent on cigars.
Largo shipments of live stock from
Arizona paps through daily at the Los
Angeles depot for points in the San Jon-
tuin | valley , xvhero they are fattened pre
vious to being placed on Iho San Fran
cisco market.
The .statistics of the overland freight
trallic for October furnish a mess of in
teresting Hgures. Out of .11,01)0,000 )
pounds shipped through , San Francisco's
portion xvas a7,8J2UOO , or about txvo-
thirds , nearly the same porportlon ou
tlining m the shipments for the ten
months ending October HI. The ship
ments of fruit were : Kipo , ! ,1151,1100
pounds ; dried , 1.5M.-IOO ; canned goods ,
llor.-100 , . ruisons , D,4il,000. :
In the United States district court in
San Francisco a Chinaman proved that
he hud spent some time in the United
States by giving the folloxving descrip
tion of the Fourth of July : "What do
you know about July ? " asked the court.
"Mo snbe July belly well , " xvas the
reply. "Mo sabe Fourth July. " "Well ,
xvhatdo you knoxv about Fourth of JtilyV"
asked the judge : "xvlmt Mclican man do
then ? " ' 'Melican man lie heap hoist
Hag , heap lire biggansand heap drink
liquor heap whisky. "
Corporations and Communism ,
M. Jxnifo ttejniliHcan ,
It xvill apnoar strange to say that the
tendency toxvard Oeorgeism and other
phases of socialism in this country is
most accelerated by Iho very persons and
personal agencies that have mo t rea
son to dread it , and that would bo the
chief stiilercrs by It very rich men and
corporate monopolies but it is a fact.
These persons and personal agencies are ,
without Knowing it , and certainly with
out intending it , doing moro to inaugu
rate communism in one year than ull the
partisans of Henry George , the labor or
ganizations , the avoxved socialists and
anarchists do in ten. When wo look over
the country xvo see the xvonderful specta
cle of the swarming millions called the
labor class drifting reluctantly and help
lessly for it is not their of fi eo xvill and
choice into a vast movement , tlio goal
of xvhich is a Hat despotic
communism , in xvhich the liberty
of the individual lias irrevocably
disappeared ; but if xvo look closely xx'e
see a moro xvondorful spectacle syndi
cates , combinulioiirt and corporate mon
opolies at the head of the column , lead
ing it on its course. These are instruc
tors as xvell as leaders. They arc actually
teaching the masses Iho lessons in com
bination which lead inexorably and at
least to one huge and overshadowing
combination that shuts out all others a
commune govern men t. What is this de
mand for a government appronriallon
and management of all telegraph hues ,
repeated moro loudly every day by
Farmers' alliances , Patrons of Hus
bandry , labor organizations and other
special bodies , but an amplification of a
telegraph monopoly already existing ?
And xvhat is the similar demand , groxv
ing stronger every year , for a gox'ern-
ment appropriation of the railroads , but
a pushing of the lesson ot the
railroad pool to its logical and exhaustive
conclusion ? When organized capitalists
secure from congress land arauls of
txventy , thirty , forty and lifty millions of
acres and dole them out at a high price
to actual sctllers , or xvhon sucli organi
zations purchase vast tracts of timber
lands iu tlio northwest , or grazing lands
in tlio west , and establish thereon indus
trial colonies which are communes in nil
respects but ono , viz. , Hint the oxvners
are the rulers and bcneliciaries , what
wonder is it that Henry George takes the
hint and deduces from it his proposition
of a government purchase , or confisca
tion of ull lands and distribution of them
in allotments to actual cultivators':1
The mas ( ; s reason rapidly and linrccly
in these feverish days. It monopolies
are of such great benefit to those xvho
have the good fortune to belonir to them ,
at a severe cost to those xvho do not , why
not , they ask , elaborate the government
into ono vast exclusive monopoly having
control of all good things * ' If a control
over transportation yields fortunes of
txvonty , thirty , lifty , and even a hundred
millions to a fexv men , why not give the
whole business of transporting to one
supreme and despotic monopoly , called
the commune , or the government ?
The people of Calfornia are preparing
to take Henry George's theory and apply
it. not to land , but lo water , by anpropri-
aling all lakes and streams in the state ,
because the greedy xvater monopolists
have lirst taught them the udx'autago of
it and then forced them , iu self defense , to
do it.
The people of the United Slates revolt
nt the idea of communism. ' 1 hey are so
adverse to the surrender of individual
liberties , xvhich an exaggeration of the
central national authority involves , that ,
a generation ago , the mere suggestion of
u government appropriation and man-
anument of railroads and the
telegraph would have been received
xvitli savage impalicncu. It is not com
munists , nor socialists , nor Knights of
Labor , nor any special body of theorists
and families , b.ut another class nf persons
xvho are the last to lie suspected ot'sneli a
purpose organised monopolists thai
have educated the country up to the
point of not only patiently listening lo ,
tint favorably entertaining , these puce
unpopular and repulsive propositions :
and if the time shall come when the
government , at the demand of the poo-
plu , shall bi'i'M those great instrumentali
ties , It xvill lit ) because tl.e colossal
corporations xvould have it so. Kvery
new combination for limiting the supply
and increasing the price of coal , iron ,
wmdoxvglass and other necessaries of
life ; every uexv scheme of organised cam.
tal limiting the supply and increasing tlio
value of money , or pooling trniiKporla-
lion , or monopolizing timber , land or
water , is u Crush hint in the direction of
that xvhich all classes of the puoplo con
template with abhorniuce a despotic
social republic ; and when il comes , if it
ever shall come , xvo xvill have thu corpo
rations to thank for it.
A young Connecticut couple who had
just embarked upon the sea of matrimony
decided to take a trip to Muxv York , and
look passage on a Hartford h.mt. The
husband secured n stateroom , mid then
desiring to execute some bu-siiiess , locked
his xvifu in the room and went ashore ,
While he xvas gone the boat started. The
young xvife , thoroughly beared , Kcnmrucd
until the captain came iind unlocked ( he
door , and then nursed her wrath until
her cureless hu-sbaud joined her.down
the river , having overtaken the boat' by
means of a train ,
Toucan hu.v inrnuure cnoapor ot A.
L. Fitch A Co. , J' ilh St. . btt Farnam and
Douglas , : .lun an v ot u r ; plucd in lUo cl ty.
THE SENATORIAL STRUGGLE
Plots and Plans of the Monopoly Crowd to
Defeat Vnn Wyok ,
POLITICAL BORES AND GIMLETS ,
Pmlilot'k , Coltijr , AHCO mill Otlicru
TinIt. . Vr .M. Method of" Working"
LcKtalritors Crauklnctlin Dem
ocratic Canons UMoMnut.
LINCOLN , Nob. , Nov. S3. [ Correspon
dence of the HnK.--Tho latest sensation iu
political circles ia the candidacy of Agee ,
of HumboliU county , for spoakor. Ageo
is a hoosier product , and is laughingly
rotorred to by old neighbor * as "Peter"
Agco , troin a rather reckless anatomical
display made to some children whom hemet
mot in the woods the evening previous to
his sudden departure toward the setting
sun. IVter is nothing if not cheeky.
Having been rejected by the republicans
after ono term as presiding olllccr of the
senate , ho comes boldly to the fro at as
a candidate for presiding ollicer of the
house. ( Jo to , Polo I
is among the more recent arrivals at the.
capital , and Is looking over his .specs at
the liatlle ground to-day. He has taken
rooms at the Capital hotel , and xvill meet
us all at Phlllipi so ho says. The sen
ator , xvho is really moro of an Omaha
man than ho is a South Platter , is to bo
congratulated if ho does not have trouble
xvitli his Uago county delegation this
winter.
roi.osni , COLIIT ,
like the historic Captaiu Jenks , is Home-
thing of a high-roller , and Is no mans
mail except Colby's , and whilst Air.
Paddock nut up some of his good money
to oteet the colonel , he xvill iiax-o trouble
lo control him. Like the txvo
Arkansas colonels , xvho , when
assigned to important duty , 0110
xvho was commanding the advance de
serted to the enemy xvhilsl the other ,
commanding the rear guard , left the-
army and xx-ent homo. Colby will not do
as H lieutenant anyhow.
UAITOUD
is an out-and-out Van Wyck man and
plainly tells Mr. Paddock so. Captain
Phillip.- ) says Uallbrd is surgeon of our
road and 1 can control him ; " but he
can't just the samo. By the way , t-he
xvholo list , of legislators-elect is being
e.irof tilly gone over by
TUB KA1I.KOAD GANG ,
xvith the purpose of exposing their vulnerable
norable points ; and opposite llio name of
each is his vulnerable point and then
comes the name of the railrogue who is
to "xvork him. " Like this , for example :
"Aiken , toxvn lot agent B. & M Phil
lips. "
"Linn , elevator , Humboldt II old-
rcgo. "
11 Boutly , lumber , Wahoo Holdregc. "
And so on all through the list ,
Tiie Journal is greatly disturbed over
Van Wyok's visit to Washington , lesl he
should get a foxv soft places for hi.- *
friends. General Van Wyck is extremely
liable to do such things xvith republican
administrations , but probably lacks in-
llucncc xvith the Cleveland gang.
Tllli SCHEJIU
to house the dcmocralis members of the
Icirislatnre and concentrate them on
Norton is noxv an open secret and i. = not
quite so popular as before the scheme
xvas known. No Mihher cares to go into
action firing blaiiK cat ridges xvhen
there is game in sight and the
efforts of these self-appointed cor
porals to take command of them
probably" xvill not bo regarded as a x'cry
binding order.
ctn.'Ki'ir imxvi : ,
xvho is the little Air. Burgs in Kd Hoxve's
"Story of a Country Toxvn , " has gone
south xvith the xvild geese to study up a
source of revenue from xvhioli to retrieve
his late political and financial disaster.
Having no vote to dispose ol there must
be a grand raid made upon the stnto
treasury in some manner or all is lost. It
is feared that Majors and Howe arc not
going to xvork together as brethren in
the coming session , and bills lo flcucc
gamblers and confiscate the properly of
liquor dealers xvill not bu introduced by
anj- one from Neinaha , nor will they bo
"sat upon" to please him.
The Journal takes great pleasure in
reproducing ovnry little squib from the
disgruntled country papers , reflecting
upon Weaver's loyalty to IIowo. Thu
Journal should take a turn unions its
stockholders and select ono or txvo of
the most prominenl and dish up a rebuke
to them for not supporting the great sat-
upon.
DAWKS & co.
die very hard in Saline county. Backed
by the B. & M. and the State Journal
company they made H hard li ht to de
feat the regular ticket , and failing in
that they commence a contest against ;
every republican elected !
Thu organi/aliot. ot the senate is still
the bone sought after by the B. < fc M. "If
xx'o can control Kobbins and Fuller , " said
n prominent B. & M. striker , "we can
doxvn the Van Wyck croxvd,1' and the
small army of paid strikers , alias "at
torneys. " are noxv on tlmir sox'orul rounds
to "gel" Kobbins and Fuller.
OUSKIIVKII.
Tlio Nexv ltniiilHitioii ut llnivnrd.
Profcssor.I. P. Cooke , in Popular Sci
ence Monthly tor December : At the
close of llio last academical year llio
faculty of Harvard coljego published n
now bclnuno of requisition tor admission ,
xvhich will bo followed at the admission
examination of 1 87 , and thereafter.
This scheme has been slowly matured.
It xvas originally prepared by a largo
commitleu of the college faculty , ami
was discussed in all its delails for more
than three years , llrril by the faculty ,
afterward by the corporation and the
board of oviu'M'er. " , and finally
xvas adopted by all the the govern
ing boards ot the college ) . The
scheme is complex , and any OIK- desiring
to iindcr.-.tiinil . all it. ) possibilities mil t
study the details in the pamphlet in
xvhich it has been announced. It is sufli-
cleiil for the luvKonl purpose to say th.it ,
xvhile it permits and even OIK ; Mirages ilu >
old line of liuguJAtic studies on xvlm-h
students have hitherto been prepared fur
all the Nnxv Knglimd colleges nominally
with nearly the same requisition * , tin-
new plan opens other UIVIIUIIH ot admis
hion ; and , among tim.se , one to which xvo
duairo especially to call attention , a * it
demands and invites a thuioii" ! ) prepara
tion in inuthumatic.i and physical wicnri' ,
will ) oulx lhat minimum of linguistic
training xvhioh m universally ni'-nnleil .is
an e Miitial pivivjui.-ito of liunil cul
ture ,
Ssln the niixv .scheme students xvill do ad
mitted u > Harvard eollego as candiil-iifs
tor the B A. dugrcii % t'lm can xyrilo cor
rect ly a li rt Knglixh compo.-itiuu , and
thus uhoxv that they are acquainted with
a few pri'scribiul classical HugHxvirk : ! ) > ,
who can read at sight Minpln Latin , ( j r
man , , and I'Yonch pros.t ; xvho ha > 'e u ,
gennral knowledge of I'm ' history < > i iho . * *
United States and of Kiiglund ; who have
mastered the elementnry mathunuilics ,
including aiiulylie j/coiuelry and tln >
rudiments of niecliaiiicMi and , lastly , who
have had a certain amount of laboratory
practice ii ) phyhicul M-IHIICC , incluiUug
both physic.s and -nii.stry. .
PHYSICIANS PKKSCIU1IK Dr. ,1. H. ( '
McLcUiiVTnr VVinu Lung Balm , in It
liey | lind mi trace of .opium or m < u'pi in
xvlulc Us i tlicuo.v iuciirinj'ull thrtmi or
ir < l t\und ( < rfili.
bet tle.