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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1887)
THE OltfAHA DAILY BEE : MONDAY * JANUARY 10 , 1887 , THE DAILY BEE , PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Oflflv Cfornl.iir Edition ) Including Sunday BEE , Ono Vcar4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10 03 Tor Six Months . . . . r , (0 ( For Thrco Month * . 260 Tlio Omnba Smidity HKK , mailed to liny address , Ono Venn. . . . . . . . , . COO omrt ! . ro. 914 Jixn M < I FAnxjut STHERV. Nr.w Vonic Orlci : . UDOM r.s , Tiuiii'ss lluil.tti.Nn , WA8UINUTO.V OI'HCiNO. . .13Kut'lIEESTIlHrHZET. connr.spoNDr.scK ! All communications relating to news nml edi torial matter should bo fuMrussoJ to the Km * ion or TUT. UKE. IICSISEBS i.tnnnfl : All Ini'lnoss letters nndromlttanccsghoiild bo Rddro od to TUB HUB I'um.isiiiNO COMI-ANV , OMAHA. DrnftK , oliocks nnil postofflco orders to bo rumlo payable to tlio enl ref tlio conipiuiy , THE BEE POBLISHlSlSm PROPRIETORS. . E. UOSEWATEll. Kniron. TUB JAII < Y BEE. Rworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska , I _ _ County of DoitRlai.s ) < 8t ' Gco , H. T/schuck , secretary of The UPO Publishing company , docs solemnly swear thai the actual circulation of tlio Dally Bee lor tlio wcclc ending Doc. "Isl , 1880 , wus ns follows : Saturday. Doc. 2. . 13,375 Similar. Doc. 'M H.0r. jNloinlav , Dee. 27 l.'M 5 Tuesday. Dec. as W,100 Wtdnesday , Dec. 21" " . liW ! < > rimredny , Dec. IX 13,175 frlday , Dec. at. . . 13,125 Averaec 13.2S8 GEO. 11. TZBOllUCK. Subscribed nnd sworn tn before 1110 this 1st liny ol January A. D. , 1397. N. 1' . Kr.ir , . ISKAM Notary Public , ( jco. B , Tzschtiek , bclnc first duly sworn , deposes nnd says that liu is secretary of the Ueol'iiblliflilnc company , that the actual av- rraco dally circulation of the DailvKeefor the moiltlrot January , 18SC , was 10.378 copies , for February , Ibui , 10,695 copies ! for March , l&tfi , 11.W7 copies ; lor April , ISSfl , 12,101 ropios : lor May. 1&M3 , 12,4.7J ronlps ; for Juno , 1BN5,12,2 3 copies ; for July , ItteO , 12,314 copies ; for Aticust , IbbO , 12-l < Vlcople.vforSontoinber. 16SO , 13.030 copies ; for October , 18ST > , 12U3'J ' copies ; for November , IbSO , 13.S1S copies : for Deccmbor , IbSO , 13,237 conies. QKO. B. Tzsciturit. Sworn to and sulwrlbcd before mo this 1st day of January A. D. 1837. [ SKAUJ N. 1' . Pr.u Notary I'ubllc , THE senatorial election will probably bo short , sharp anil decisivo. Inisn leaders : ire watching the politlc.il current of events in Englandvcrycloscly. When parliament opens next mouth the nationalists promise themselves stirring times at Lord Salisbury's expense. Evnnv county In the stale containing nioro than fifty thousand people ought to have a county auditor and a larger board of commissioners. Hero is an opportu nity for the committee on counties to dis tinguish themselves by securing a much needed reform. OMAHA , will have little inducement to assist railroads in purchasing rights of way if all the property in this way trans ferred to the railroads is to bo exempted from city taxation. More than live millions of real estate in this city is already tax frno. THE laat week of the senatorial can vass opens with tbo opponents of General Van Wyck thoroughly demoralized. Each following is reproaching the other with lack of isoal against the common euemy. Tlio friends of Senator Van Wyck need ( rouble themselves very little about the result. AN intercollegiate prohibition con vention has been called by some of the eastern colleges. Yale , liar < rartl and Princeton send no dele gates. The young men of these an oiont and nourishing institutions ovi tlontly consider the proposed meeting as 'mother left-handed blow at a liberal education. IT was very pathetic to notice the dis gust which settled over the faces of the Boyd-Millor emissaries at Lincoln after they had circulated a little among the democratic members and advanced their views upon the vote-in-the-air pol icy. The theory was not received with the favor expected. TUB yanking and pulling of tlio vari ous senatorial candidates to capture the Van AVyck following "when they have got through with the old man'1 is very entertaining. When General Van Wyck's following have finished with the sena tor's interests they will bo of no possible use to any otiier aspirant for the sena torial brogaiis. Too careful consideration cannot bo given by tlio Douglas delegation to the subject of charter umondonr. Tlio work of drafting tlio Omaha charter should bo begun at onco'and the bill introduced as soon as practicable. Municipal reform will occupy the attention of the legisla ture to a greater extent than usual dur ing the present session and will excite an interest corresponding to tlio growtli of the municipalities represented in both houses , Nebraska is becoming a state of prosperous and growing cities nnd it is highly important that all legislation on subjects affecting municipalities should bo carefully drafted and thoroughly dis missed with a view to future as well as to present requirements. TUG fact that the Hon. S. S. Cox will succeed Mr. Hewitt as a member of the ways and means committee of the house , r cnip.ying second place on the commit- 'fo , which will give him precedence for die chairmanship when the committee la reorganized in the next house , will bo gratifying to the Iricmls of tariff reform. It is of course hardly to bo oxpcctod that Mr. Cox will bo enabled to accomplish nnytulug at the present session. Ho lias well dollncd views of what should be done , but. the duties that will devolve upon him us a member of the ways and means committee are now to him , and Mr. Cox has been long enough in con gress to understand that it is not wlso oven for an old member to assume too niuuli in a direction in which ho has not had practical experience and trial. Besides - sides , while not an abnormally modest man , ho will naturally feel indisuoscd to do anything which might seem like a usurpation of the prerogative of the chairman of the committee. In the period before the meeting of the next congress , however , Mr. Cox will have ample time in which to prepare himself nnd to formulate a policy thnt may com mand the support of Ins party. It looks ns if tlio genial congressman had reached the golden opportunity of his political career , and there is no disposition to doubt his ability to make the most ofit. But ho will not escape the jealous vigil- nnco of Mr. Randall , Tlio Senate Committees. As might naturally have been expected from the peculiar combination that or ganized the senate , the makc-np of its committees lias a decided railroad com plexion , Mr. Colby , who dictated their composition , has had himself appointed to two chairmanships. Ho is chairman of the committees on judiciary nnd labor. Every member of the first committee Toted with the historic eighteen. The chairman of the railroad committee , Mr. Brown , of Clay , professes to favor rail way regulation and restriction , but it re mains to be seen whether that means a continuance of the bogus commission nnd existing methods or something that will meet the demands of the public at least ha'f way. The majority of tiio railroad committee , like Air. Brown , are classed as friendly to the railroad interests. The committee on linnncc , ways and means , which controls appropriations , is fairly made up with Mr. Majors as chairman. In view of the 'act that the committee will bo relieved of revenue work by the new committee on revenue its work ought to bo inoro borough and expeditious than has been ho case in previous legislatures. The committee on municipal affairs , of which Mr. Liningcr is chairman , is conceded to bo very efllcieiit. Its membership ropre- onts the principal cities ol Omaha , jlncoin , Hastings , Grand Island and Nebraska City. The do- ibcrato perversity in the make- uu of many of the committees is as plain as tlio nose on a man's face. For instance , Senator Casper , who is the only printer and publisher in the senate , s made chairman of the committee on libraries , while Mr. Kent , who probably locsn't ' Know a hand press from a hand saw , is made chairman of the committee on printing. Colby as chairman of the committee on labor is almost an insult to lie whole labor interests. Colby would ; iave boon a good head for the militia lommittco , but how he can como in as a champion of labor is problematic. The liglily important committee on mine" and minerals Is generously given to Mr. Iliggins , of Cass , whllo Mr. Sprick , a plain and honest farmer from Washing ton county , is made chairman of the com mittee on manufactures and commerce. The two democrats who made up the majority for the sclfiStyled stalwarts , wore generously taken earn of. Mr. Campbell becomes chairman of counties and county boundaries and Vandcmark is assigned to that on slate's prison. Falsifying Sentiment. Boards of trade and freight bureaus all over the country are being used as tools of the railroads to pass resolutions against the intcr-stato commerce bill. In nine cases out of ten a few members , who have never read the law and know nothing of its probable workings , meet , resolve and adjourn after committing an entire business community in opposition to the measure. Wo had a taste of this in Omaha a few days ago when a freight commissioner arrogated to himself the right to telegraph to Nebraska's delega tion a bold-faced falsehood , declaring that a hundred members in meeting assembled protested against the long haul and pooling provisions of the bill. This method of working up bogus pub lic sentiment in favor of the railroads is being varied in the case of the stock job bcrs who are bears on the market. These harpies are now attempting to depress Union Pacific stock by telegraphing throughout the country the wildest kind of stories regarding wholesale bribery and corruption at Washington in favor of the funding bill. There scorns to bo a concerted attempt led by Wall street sharks to break down the credit of the company and to injure its financial standing. While this paper is not in favor of the fund' iug bill , it is equally opposed to having its telegraph columns used a the medium for raising false prejudices against the company and branding its of ficials as second editions of Oakcs Ames and Jay Gould. The brood of irrespon sible correspondents at Washington who are willing tools for the Wall street gang can do irreparable injury to men and or. ganizations if given the latitude they strive to secure in the public press. Each of these methods deserve censure. The men who falsify public sentiment in favor of the railroads are perhaps no worse than those who spread broadcast their attacks upon railroad manage ments to break down their credit anil prejudice the public to their disadrant- ago. How Conl Consumers Are Taxed. The equity suit of the slate of Pcnnsyl vania against the coal combination am trunk line pool , now being heard in Phil adclphia , is developing some interesting facts which are of general public interest On Saturday the statistician of tlio com bination was examined relative to the production nnd transportation of coal lie gave it as his opinion that the max ! mum yearly capacity of the entire an thracite region , if all the mine openings wore worked , is about 45,000,000 , tons The output agreed upon by the combina tion for last year was less than 31,000OOC tons , which is somewhat under the esti mated requirements of the trade. It wil bn seen , therefore , that tlioro is a surplus capacity of at least 13,000,000 tons , and to sustain the producers of this surplus ago the anthracite coal combination was formed , each of the well-equipped ship pers restricting his output to an average of less than four-fifths of his capacity in order that the weaker members might bo carried along. The consumers bear the penalty for this combination and restrio tion by paying an increased price for coal. They pay for the monopoly of coa lands , on which the royalties have been raised by the six carrying companies to excessive figures , the royalty on anthracite cite- coal being nearly four times as groa as on bituminous coal , Tlioy pay also for the speculative holdings of the coa companies. Tor instance , it is statei that the Heading railroad company hold coal lands with a capacity for producing 00,000,000 tons of coal annually , while its apportionment for last year was but ono fifth of this amount. The policy pursuci is to burden the consumer not only wit ) the cost of each ton that is marketed , bu with the interest that must bo paid to retain tain a hold on the four-fifths that are no mined or marketed. One of the coa companies , it lias been shown , paid two million dollars for coal lands that wcro not worth one-tenth of that sum , and the coal consumer la called on by the com bination to bear that load , as well as the burdens of all the fictitious valuations that wcro placed upon the coal lauds luring the wild scramble of competing oads for tonnage. The methods of this greedy and tin- scrupulous combination take every form hat the ingenuity of avarice can suggest. 1'ho coal carriers hold land to keep It out of the reach of ether carriers. Unable to lovclopo it themselves they nro deter- nined that so rival rend shall obtain con- rol of that source of tonnage , and for his dog-in-the-manger sort of this ftpecit- alien Hie consumer must pay. It is au thoritatively stated that the Heading com- lany lost fourteen million dollars In four rears while organizing its coal and Iron uljunct , and those losses wcro capital- zed as part of the cost of the land , Tlio coal consumer of course bears the burden of this and of similar watering of sccuri- tics.ns well as the burden of nil the bad in vestments of the carriers. It is esti mated that the total tax imposed upon coal consumers to sustain the coal combinations amounts to more than twenty million dollars a year , yet as a. Philadelphia contemporary observes , "Hallroad presidents and railroad attor neys have the ell'rontcry publicly to justify this imposition and to ask the coal con sumer to pay the losses that should bu jorne by the holders of the securities of llio coal companies " This policy of plunder , which robs not alone tlio consumers of coal , but the minors nnd all the labor of the country dependent upon manufacturing indus tries in which the price of coal is an im portant factor , must como to an end. It is a grave wrong that has become intolerable erable and must not bo pcrtnittod to con tinue. Not only is it necessary that the existing monopoly bo broken up , but the way to similar combinations in the f uluro must bo oneolually blocked. If the state of Pennsylvania cannot accomplish this a power strong and honest enough to dose so must bo found elsewhere. The people can and will protect themselves against the unjust exactions of this form of mo uopoly. Two railroad accidents last week call renewed attention to the danger of heat ing coaches with stoycs. Fire is now the great peril ot railroad travel and it is a peril which no degree of luxury in the finish and appointment of cars mitigates in the slightest degree. Enclosing the stoves in grated closets docs not rcmovo the danger. If the car is wrecked , the fire is very certain to bo communicated to the rums. This peril has been illus trated so frequently that ono would sup pose that the companies would adopt other methods of heating , in their own interests. As they do not take these measures for the safety of their passen gers of their own accord , the law should compel them to do so. There can hardly bo an excuse for a railroad disaster , now that men know all about , the manage ment of steam , and have been taught by expcncnco what dangers to guard against in the mechanical operation of the roads. A railroad in Connecticut has been heating its cars for four years by steam from the cngino at low pressure. This is found to be not "only feasible and agreeable as a mode of heating , but also entirely safe. A rupture of the pipes would expose no ono to scalding or any dnngur , but would simply fill the car with a washing-day vapor. Any acci dent which breaks the connection with the engine of necessity cuts off the How of steam. The system has reached a de gree of perfection which would justify the traveling public in appealing to the legislature to require the introduction upon all passenger cars of some method ot heating not exposing the occupants to constant danger of broiling and roasting alive. To-day , witli the general prevail ing modes of heating cars , no passeugei is safe from this dreadful fate. WIIETHEU or not the fact that Amcri can securities have again become tht staple speculation on tlio London stock exchange is to bo regarded with favor b the legitimate investors in such securities is a question. The first and natural su < r gcstion of the statement , as made in our London cablegram of yesterday , thatsucl is tlio case , will be that the circumstance can have very little concern to any bu the English speculators , who take the risks and must pay the penalties. Uu the experience of tlio past has boon tha while the English speculators were some times made to suffer severely for their dabbling in American securities , being generally outwitted by the shrewder am perhaps less scrupulous Yankee specu lators , the legitimate investors in these securities at homo did not always escape damage from the plots and counterplots of the stock gamblers in Now York am London. The disastrous consequences o this speculation some years ago , whci American securities wore staple on the London stock exchange , are remombcrei by a great many people who wcro the sufferers. Granting tlmt all speculation pure and simple , is demoralizing in its Inllunuco and damaging to legitimate in tcrcsts , it follows that tlio moro extendm it is the greater will bo the dcmoraliza tion and the damage. The improved po sltion ot American securities in London may foreshadow another era of wild am reckless stock gambling such as tha which came after the war. History repeats peats itself , and the English speculator , of to-da3f may require a taste of tlio ex p enenco of their predecessors. ONE of thi ) most striking parts of tiio eloquent address ot Mr. Grady , editor o tlio Atlanta Constitution , at the fore fathers' banquet in Now York , was his statumcnt in effect that the south hai learned to regard the abolition of blaverj us a boon and blessing. That it was BO from the material point of view the facts which show the progress of Industria development in the south abundantlj prove. The Charleston News anil Courier bears testimony to thu improved comli tion of South Carolina since the days o slavery , by a comparison of its comlkiot in the year before the war with thorecon for 1SSO. Last year the total value ot tin farm products was iJ4J,10ti,501 , which despite tlio decline in values of late , is very nearly as much as tlio value in 1600 while the number of manufacturing es tablishmcnts has advanced during this period from 1,230 to 8,243 , tlio capital in vested has more than trebled , the num her of hands employed lias incrcasci more than five-fold , and tlio value of the products now readies very close to thirty million dollars. Adding to agrl cultural products the products of the different branches of manufacturing am the outputs of the mines and quarries , i is estimated that the total income of the state is now fully 50 per cent larger than inthe most prosperous era of slavery. \llowmgforlholncreaso in population , ho average income of each person is already about as largo as before the war , nnd is growing larger every year. STATU AXI ) T15UU1TOUY. Nebraska. Jottings. The Bclvidero Reform club has dglity nnmbers. Governor Dawes' "manllo of oblivion" s not a mislit. A brick hotel building , to cost $10,090 , s going up at Randolph. The poles have "been sot for a telephone Jno from Omaha to Ashlnnd. Three burr mills and ono patent roller nill are in constant operation at Long Pino. The Papilllon Times has been sold by ingnoy and Hawaru to A. U. Hancock & brother. The city counnil ot Hastings is groping throuch the dark passage ol a street rail- ivny charter. Tlio Masonic frsternity of Fremont has nvcstcd in land on which to build a com modious lodge. Crete is harvesting vast quantities of ce from tlio Bine river aud shipping it to surrounding towns. Prongcr & Clarey's ' store in Crete was raided by burglnra , Thursday night , and S00 worth of goods taken , The receipts of merchandise at the I'lallsmouth depot in 18HO amounted to JO ? cars , and shipments } ,008 cars. .lames Nelson , of Batsora , Ord county , was thrown from his horse on the lonely prairie last WCOK and frozen to death. Will Taylor , a proscription cerk | in Liberty , snot a hole through his head while shifting his gun to Ills hip pocket. A Central City paper modestly con fesses that Omaha's improvements for 1S80 "slightly gets away with Central City. City.A A proposition has been" submitted to the people of Exeter to vole $20,000 in bonds in aid of the Union Pacific exten sion. sion.A A burglar was caught in tlio act of loading himself with "wrcpins" in a gun store , in Wahoo , and tendered the free dom of the jail. The board of trade of Long Pine will issue a "boom pamphlet" showing how the town holds n Iront pew as a pro gressive community. Weeping Wator'3 business record for tlio past year shows the shipment of 1,318 ears of stock , grain , produce ami mer chandise. Tlio receipts were -100 car loads. St. John , the npostlo of prohibition as practiced in Kansas , is circulating among Ins followers in this state , telling Ilium how to throttle the "demon" at ? oO a throttle. Several townships in Nuckolls county will decide next Friday , the question of granting aid for an extension of the Kan sas Midland road , a branch of the Santa Fo system. The Liberty Gazette has bcnn sold by Stephetibon tS ; Bloom to G.S. Coulter. The latter makes his bow as gracofujly as a poultice of rheumatism , the heritage of the great , will permit. Fire tackled the railroad water tank in Crete last week , burned the plug in the bottom , and while the water was running out , crept around to the sides and con sumed the entire structure. The public land office at North Platte received in cash ! ? ! )8,203.-12 ) during the lust quarter of the year. A little over 21,000 acres of land wcro disposed of , mostly in Custcr and Cheyenne counties. The mandate has eono forth , accord ing to the Viclelte , that peace shall hover over the bloody lield of journalism in Crete for all coming time , but , like the blessing of the beggar who reached in " vain for a penny , "it will never descend. One hundred now-funglcd boxes are to bq put in the Hastings postofticc. They will have two knobs with a combination like a safe. Moro than ono hundred would be nut in only it is feared that not more than that number can keep straight long enough to remember tlio combina' tion. tion.Tho The Papillion Times says : "A party of surveyors are at work setting another line of stakes through Sarpy county. The route is from South Omaha to Gilmore - more , and thence in a southwesterly di rection to Cedar Creek , in Cass county. A railroad on this line is almost certain to be built next season. " The admirers of Buffalo Bill in North Plalte and vicinity are negotiating for a special car to take a party of forty to .New York to witness the Wild Wesl show in Madison Garden. The o question to settle is whether the part. } shall bo composed of twenty men , their wives and moderate hilarity , or forty men and lots of fun. A prize dog fight in Paoillion was con fessedly a tame affair until the owners ol the canines began to chaw each other. Several moiithfulls of ear , nose and torn hair strewed the ring. The dugs crieti out in envy at the ferocity of the human curs , and the town custodian of peace asscsed damages at $3 per battered head. A contractor on the grade of the B. & M. south of Schuylcr , stuffed the dump with hay , straw , cornstocks and weeds , nnd was tapping the pile with a sprink ling of earth when an officer of the roail pounced on him with both feet. The stuf fing was knocked out of that grade at once , the contract cancelled aud the con tractor bounced. The town council of Tccumsch has closed up three saloons , causing a loss to the treasury of $2,100 a year. To equalize this great reform the salaries ol school teachers have been reduced $5 a month. During the reign of the saloon : ono marshal and one policeman prcsorvei the peace and dignity of the town , bill under the dispensation of boot leg light ning a double force is required to pro1 servo tlio law. This is a specimen ol hindsight that tax payers are pondering over. The famous Duke Simpson , ex-trcas urer of Otoo , now rusticating in tin penitentiary , closed his dukes on more ol the public funds in Ills care than his san guine friends ever dreamed of. The ex pert's examination of the books KIO\\ ! that his stealings apiounted to S7i/i27,83. ( / Duke was determined to pile up riches at any cost. The result is ho finds hiniflcll in states prison , his wife with bowuc head and blighted h'fo , struggling under a crushing weight of tihaino and sorrow , and the friends wljo backed him with .their name and means compelled to pay , from the fruit of tjioir own toil , for his rascality. Wliat prolitoth a man if ho gains a largo slice of the world by rob bing his friends and lands in the peni tentiary ? _ , Iowa Items. The Dexter Normal school lias 125 students. , ' The new Baptist i church at Burlington cost $31,871. The assessed valuation of Polk countj The police of Ottuniwa run in 131 per sons during December. The support of the poor cost Dos Moincs county ? 10,114.'J7 last year. There are 400,000 children in the state outside of the Sunday schools , A largo and elegant Baptist church has been completed in Burlington. Keokuk had eighteen weddings anil eighteen funerals during December. The new Presbyterian church at Dcd- hain which cost ? 3,000 , has been dcdi catcd. The semi-annual t-tnlomont shows there are if58,878.DO in cash and $200,075 in bonds in the state treasury. Candidates are multiplying for the va cant position of lieutenant ciilonulof thu Third regiment of state militia. Amateur warriors arc drilling for the race. Leo Sehoonhorn , proprietor of the Atlantic rendering works , fell into a slush tub of boiling water on the fith lust , and received injuries from which ho soon died. The town council of Crcslon have pro vided two pens for stray cows. This is a step in the write direction and may lead to the establishment of a bureau of "animal literature. " The ravages of the hog disease have been very fatal in the vicinity of Arcdadia. Earnest Drahcini and II , Ehlers have each lost ituout 100 head , while other far mers in the vicinity are heavy losers. A pan of Hour dashed on burning oil from an overturned lamp saved the resi dence of of .lames McColie in Shenan- itoah from destruction. Horn is a road to a nourishing business in connection with expedited llrcs. Tlio Wapslo Farmers' club which holds its meeting in and around West Liberty , is one of the established institutions. Ono feature that bus a tendency to iimko it more permanent nnd interesting is the fact that ladies freely attend nnd take active part In the discussions. lcv. ? Fred Harris , an Atlantic printer and a preacher , has begun the publication of a monthly paper called the Atlantic Methodist. Mr. Harris docs his own me chanical work nnd can make an impres sion with arollor ns neatly ns the averasro sinner in a print shop. Ho sticks to his texts when the "devil" is around and hammers a galley as eloquently as ho does the pulpit. Mr. C. L. Becker , of Keokuk , has peti tioned the city council to reimburse him for the loss of his house bv firo. The amount claimed is $302.60. His petition recites negligence and inismanagiuent on the part of the city fire deparment , The night of the lire the cily water works mains were shut oil' for repairs. The fire cisterns wcro full but the only machine that answered thu lire alarm was a hose reel. 1'ttlly an hour later a steamer made its appearance , when tiie house was consumed. Ho claims ( he fire de partment was properly notified of tlio condition of the water mains. A lawsuit will probably be instituted , and the result of ihe issue will be a matter of great in terest. . _ JnUotn. Pinafore lias struck Lead City. Tlio Sioux- Falls postollice took in ? 9)2.-18 ( ) ( ) in 1830. The Iron Hill mine is now turning out $1,000 a day. The Masons of Rapid City have de cided to build a hall. An Episcopal church to cost $3,000 is to bo built at Pombin. Lawrence county warrants are worth eighty cents on the dollar. Coal from the mines in McLnon county is selling at $1 a ton delivered. Liquor licenses in Yankton county have been raised trom J2.0 to fcWO a year. Eight thousand railroad tics , out on public lands , have been seized by the government , inspector in Custer county. It is figured out that the wheat growers of North Dakota , in spite of the high rates of transportation , have an advan tage of 7 cents a bushel over the farmers of Iowa , 14 cents over Nebraska and 16 cents over Kansas , on account of the dif ference in the price of land. Four horse thieves , viz : Jack Wol- bank , James Piorson , O. < car Bangs anil John Marston , were captured in tins Tur tle mountains last week and it is reported two were lynched. Tlio others made their escape during the night. These men have boon stealing horses in the Missouri valley for n number of years. It is learned that before WolbiMik and Piorson wore lynched they confessed to having stolen ever 100 hoi'scs and killing a farmer named Oleson , who Jived on the west bank of the Missouri river five years ago. Twain's Ijost Tdcn. Pittsburg Dispatch : Mark Twain says that the funniest thing ho ever wrotu came to an untimely end and was lost to the world. It was in the early western days , when hc _ was a reporter on the Chronicle of Virginia City , Nevada. In those days , when the saloon was the so cial centre of town , and the opening of each new one a matter of general inter est , it was the custom for the proprietor of a new venture in liquid refreshments to send a basket of his choicest wares to the newspaper ofiicc , and for the editor to return the compliment by giving a glowing account of the opening. Ono day a basket of unusually choice wines from a saloon that was to be of an un usually aristocratic order inspired Mark with a brilliant idea. Ho wrote a few lines in straight good English , but the next began to bo pretty badly mixed , and as ho represented one bottle after another as haying been sampled , approved and emptied , ho drifted on into worse and worse confusion , until he finally brought up in an inextricable- tangle of incoheroney , such as might bo supposed to possess the brain of a man who had drank a basket of mixed wine. But when the piper came out ho searched it over and over in vain for Ins cherished article It was not there. But he did find a brief paragraph , setting forth in the most commonplace , conventional way imaginable the faot that a basket of wines had been received from Mr. - , that they were very line , and that "we bespeak for him the liberal patronage ho deserves , " With lire in his eye ami pro fanity on his lips , Mark started on an in vestigation , and' soon Bottled the blame upon the head of ono of the printers. "Why , " said the fellow. " ! couldn't make head nor tail out of the cop3" , sml 1 concluucd Mr. Clemens must have boon pretty full when ho wrote it , 1 heard the editor say last week that if he got full again he'd discharge ) him , and I thought , if that stuff got into the paper he'd have to go sure. So I toro it tiji and wrote this mysulf. Just thought 1'u save his place for him if 1 could. " Before this honest friend , whose x.oal for his welfare hud not left a j > iico ! of his PIT/.O article as big as a nickel , Mark could say no more. But ho could not reproduce it. It had boon the swift and brilliant inspiration of the moment , and was completely gonn. But ho mourned long over thu fate of what ho always be- lleyed to bo his most brilliant production. The South American journals say his Majesty Dom Pedro was recently 'much amused , on landing at San Paulo , by being received by an Italian gentleman with u hand-onran , who played llio national air. The emperor listened with gravity to the musician , and then asked him in French to play " [ /Air pour rilalie. " Tlio musician did not know it , but proposed to play the Brazilian air over again. And the nmporor listened to the repetition with apparent delight. The riiine.so public school in San Fran cisco has now thirty-night pupils , al though it started a year and n hall ngo with only siv. It is under the charge of Mlfrs Tliaycr , who finds the young coles- lial very bright in learning English and the common branches. Her hardest tusk is lo enforce silnncn ; the little follows like lo chatter in Chinese about their les sons. Throe of the pupils arc girls. All wear the Chinese co.-itume , and all take a two weeks' holiday at the Chinese New Tear. The coast of Norway is sinking grail. ually , while that of "Sweden is emurging more and more and the Baltic sea is bo. coming shallower. Land murks made on the Swedish coast by tha celebrated nat uralist Linnams , at the beginning of the eighteenth century , show that this up heaval raises that coast about four feet in the course of a century. Merchants. Hotel , Omaha , Nat Brown Prop. 2 pi-rday. Cor. iflth and 1'urmuu All fatrcot ears Jrqin depot pass SERF-SKETCHES OF SIBERIA , How the Political Prisoners tmil Criminals of Russia nro Punished. RICH INVOLUNTARY EMIGRANTS , Tlic Vast Army of Kxllcs Weary March or1,000 Allies Details of the Journey ( Jooil Utinrila nnd Uail , For nearly two centuries Siberia has been famous , or Infamous writes Thomas W. Knox in the Cleveland Leader as a place of banishment for those who oflcml against the social or political laws of Russia. Pelor llio Great began the trans portation of criminals to Siberia in 1 10 ; previous to that dale the country had been used as a land of banishment for olUelals whom the government wished to gel otil of llio way without putting them to death , but the number of thesn depor ted individuals was notlargo. Ever since 1'oter's day the work of exiling criminals to Siberia has been kept up ; the ordinary travel of this sort Is about 10,000 , annu ally , nnd sometimes it reaches as high r.s 12,00 ! ) or 1,000. ! ! Outside of this deporta tion is that of revolutionists , nihilists and others who olleiid politically rather than criminally , though any opposition to the autocratic power of the czar is likely lo bo regarded as criminal in the eyes of the Russian government. After every revo lution in Poland the number of exiles is rauidly augmented ; in the year following the revolt of 1803 , ! .M,000 Poles wore sent to Siberia , and for two or tlireo ycar.s afterwards .there were from 10,000 to 120,000 , unhappy lovers of independence Who traveled tlio same route. Sometimes the political prisoners are mingled with the criminals , but ordinar ily they are kept apart , In former times the prisoners Avc.ro compelled lo walk to their destinations , and the jour ney fuoin St. Petersburg to the regions beyond Lake Baikal , n distance of nearly 1,000 miles , occupied two years anil sometimes more , and many of the exiles died on the road from fatigue and priva tions. ' It was found more economical to transport the offenders in wagons or sleigh ? , or by rail nnd steamboat when possible , than to rcquiro them to walk , and for the last twenty years or more live-sixths of the exiles have been carried in tliis way. At points varying from ton to twenty miles apart along the great road through Siberia there are houses for the lodgment of prisoners at night ; they afford : i shelter from tlio weather but very litllo else , as they are always badly ventilated and very dirty , and occupants sleep on the bare lloor or benches , with out any other covering than the clothes they wear. Sometimes in summer the officer in charge of a convoy of prisoners will permit them to sloop out of doors at night instead of entering the filthy sta tions , but in such a case lie requires the personal promise of every exile in the convoy that ho will make no ntte.mpt to escape , and he further makes the whole party responsible for individual con duct. Under such circumstances if one of the prisoners should violate his patrol and run away , no further favors would be shown to the rest , and they would bo put on low rations of food and otherwise punished. It is needless to say they take good care that tlio promise is kept , This privilege is accorded only "to the convoys of polilical offenders ; llio criminal classes are not considered worthy of such confi dence in their honor. Prison life in Siberia is of many va rieties , according to the oflcnios of dif ferent individuals and the sentences which have been decreed in their cases. The lowest sentence is to simple banish ment for three years , and the highest to hard labor for lifo. The simnlo exile without imprisonment is appointed lo live in a certain town , district or prov ince , and must report to the police at stated intervals. Ho may engage in cer tain specified occupations , or rather in any occupation which is not on the pro hibited list ; for example , he may teach music or painting , but may not teach languages , as they afford the opportu nity1 for propagating revolutionary ideas. He may become merchant , farmer , me chanic , contractor , or anything else of that sort , and it not Infrequently happens that exiles enjoy a degree of prosperity in their now lioiuos that they did uo't have in European P.ussia , Exiles and their sons have become millionaires in Sibcna-j a former Vunderbilt , of Irkoutsk , the capital of Eastern Siberia , was the son of an exile serf ; his enormous fortune having been gained in the overland tea trade. Many exiles become so attached to Siberia that they remain there after their term of banishment is ended , but it should bo understood that their cases are the exceptions rather than the rule. The wife aul immature children of an exile may follow or accompany him at the. ex pense of the government , but cannot re turn to Europe until his term of service has expired. The object of exile is to furnish a population to this sparsely in habited region , and it goes without say ing that a family man is much more likely to be a good cili/.cn when his wife nnd children are with him than when they are thousands of miles away. The name of "prisonei" or "exile" is never applied to the banished individuals. In the language of the people they -are called "unfortunates" and in official doc uments they are termed ' 'involuntary emigrants.1' Ol those sentenced to forced labor some are ordered to become colonists : they are furnished with the tools and materials for building a house on a plot of ground allotted to them , ami for three years can rccuivc rations from the near est government station , but when tlio three years have expired they are ex pected to support themselves , If they wcro sent to the aoulhcrn mid therefore fertile purls of Siberia , their lot would not bo n Revere one , but ihe most of these colonists are assigned lo tins northern regions , where the sup port of life from tilling the soil or from hunting and fishing is a matter of grout dilliculty. Those who are kept in prison and sentenced to hard labor are em ployed in minus , mills , foundries , or on the public roads ; ninny of them wear chains which oxtmul from : i girdle around the wai.it to each ankle , and of- tectually prucludu the possibility of run ning away. Their lifo is a hard ono. as their fee < l IK coarse and oflon limited in quantity ; it is bad enough under Kindhearted - hearted ovi-rseiirx and stiporinlendyntK , arid luiTihlu when | ho mastord are cruel , which happens iiltogolhor kin often. In thu time of iho lirst Alexander and the Ivinporor Nicholas , the treatment of tliu prisoners in Siberia was more severe than at present , but oven to-day thuro is great opportunity for amelioration , Tlio Coyote and ll\n \ llniitits. From the "Hound of thu Plains , " by Eatm-.st Ingeraoll , in Popular Slonco Monthly for January : A picture of the groal p'JaiiM la not eomj > leto without a coyotu or two , hurryinglurtivoly through thu distance. The coyote is a wolf a wolf jiboul two-thirds thu M/.O of that one which haunts forasts and Ihe pagus of story books. Ho has a long , loan body ; legs u triflu short , but sinuuwy and active ; a head moro foxy than wollish , for thu nose islongaiid pointed ; thu yellow eyes are sot in spectaolu-framca of black eyelids , and thu hanging , tan-trimmed ears , may bo creetcil , giving a well-murilod air of elurtiH'is to their wuarcr ; a tail straight as pointer's also foliku. . for U is bitchy beyond tin ) ordinary lupinu tvpe , and a shaggy , laryamaned , wind-ruifud , dut-cutherlng coat of iling.T White 6ttf fiisotrwlth tawny brown , or often do- cldcdly brindled , "A shade in the stubble , a ghost by the Now lennUig , now limping , now risking a Top-wired and larpe-Jolntoil , but over alway A thoroughly vagabond outcast In Bray. " Such is the coyote genus loci of the plains ; an Ishmaclito of the desert ; n con sort of ratllesiiako nnd vuiluro ; the tyrant of his inforlorst jackal to the puma ; n bushwhacker upon the Hanks of the buffalo armies ; the parinh of his own race , nnd despised by mankind. Wllhal , ho maintains himself and his tribe In creases ; ho outstrips nnimais Hector than himself ; ho foils these of far grcalor strength ; ho excels all his rivals in cun ning and intelligence ; ho furnishes to the Indian not only a breed of domestic dogs , but in mtiuy canine races ranks as earli est progenitor ; ho becomes the center of myths , nnd finally is apotheosized. Our coyote is a true westerner , ami typifies llio independence , the unre strained gayety and brisk /.oal which ou ters into the heart of him who sights the rocky mountains. He is little known at present eastward of real bunch-crass plains. In early ilujs , however , ho wrs common enough in iho open country of Arkansas , Missouri , Illinois , nnd north , ward , bunco ho received the tinmu "prairie-wolf. ' * Threading the pa su.t ho wtimlottj among the foot-hills of all the complicated mountain system that forms the "crest of the continent , " nhil dwells plentifully in California valloys. 1'rotilo.m or Municipal Government. I'rom "Mispoverument of CSreat Cities , " by Frank P. Craudou , in Popular Science MonthlyforJanuary : Notwith standing their important relation to all that is significant or inllumiiial in na tional lite and history , it is nevertheless true that there has never bemi developed anything , which even by courtesy , could bo called a science of municipal govern ment. Indeed , it is only within thcso latest years that the fact that there could bo a sclonco has ever been suggested. But the pressure has boon constaiilly growing more and moro imperious. Monstrosities which are the legit imate fruit of the hap-lm1/- ard system , or rather lack of system , which charactori/.cs the government of many cities , evils of administration and bunions of taxation that had become al most unendurable ; the astounding frauds which have been brought lo light within the last few years in Now York and Phil adelphia , and the usurpation of power by demagogues through the aid of llio most degraded elements of society , have at last forced an inquiry as to what form of municipal government will mosl efficiently correct present abuses and reduce - duce to the minimum the opportunities for harm to tiio body politic. Men begin to ask whether the municipal authority may not bo so organized and administered that it shall promote and pro- lect the interests of both the corporation and the individual ; whether the evils to which 1 have alluded , and others equally apparent nnd subversive of the ends of good government , arc inherent in our municipal nyslom or only incident there to. And some e.flbrt has been made to 'ascertain the. principals which underlie a lugitimato municipal aulhority and tlio most ctliciont means of making the ap plication of thcso principles practical. Not a very g ruat deal has boon accom plished by this study. The problem is complicated and uiaii5r Hided. Its solu tion depends on careltil and extended observation , and on the concurrent action of wise , patient , self sacrificing , and public spirited citizens. In this study the conclusions of purely theoretical political economists , and of these men whose thought and experience have been limited to special aspects of the. subject , are nliko unsafe and misleading ; the first , because political communities never ulford the proper conditions for the ap plication ot abstract principles , and tha second , bccausu the entire machinery of government is so interdependent and complicated that successful modifica tions of any special department imply eoiTcsuonding changes in all the asso ciated agencies. But whatever difficul ties may. embarrass the subjec , wo have good cause for congratulation in the fact that the problem is being studied , and not altogether studied in vain. A Rarcnln. 132x132 feet S. E. cor. Douglas and 8th sis. , ? 17S20. , C. E. MAYKI : , N. W. Cor. Ifilh and llariiey. ICsintc Tr.i its fora Filed January 7 , 1837 , reported for the BKII. Wm. 15. Ilawloy otnl to .1 S Woodlmrn et al. lot 0 , blk 1 , Kxchanuo place , w d 5700. Marcniet Lnngo toCarnIlno ; Lanie , lot ! ! , blk I'JO , Omaha , w d 510,000. Adolph Urown and wlfo to John Killon , lot 10 , blk "D , " Lowes 1st add , w d SfiOO. John Tldcinan fo.lolmVucrth , n 22 ft of lots 1 and 'J , bile 2 , Campbell's mid , exccnl , 10 it off of w end , w d SI050 nnd dedication. West Karnam street asso ( biilldlne ) , to Hdwaid Kalri'ldld , lot 30 , blk 0 , w d 87.W. \Vost Faunani St Builillm ; asso to Nels II. XulKon , lot 3S , blk 0 , Juromo i'ark , w d S'iiO. S'iiO.WmJ Wauonor et al.to T W Blackburn , lot C , bll ; 15 Fowler place , w d-5200. Jlush McCaffrey nnd wife to T W Blackburn - burn , n 48 ft of 250 ft , lot S , blk 8 , J I Jlcdlclts Bill ) , W d-5i750. ! Norman A ICuhn to Goo 11 Chrlstlo , lots 10 and 11 In sub of blk "A" reservoir add , w d-SUXW. Byron Heed , et al to John Tidcmann , lot 5 , s w 'xfhlk B Campbells add , w d 81,400. John Tidenmin to .Morrl.t Morrison * GO fl of lot 1-2 blk SCninpbofl'H add , w d-S'.Y.i.'KJ. K OUallou und wile to C 11 Paul , lot 13 , blk 4 , Ambler placB , w d S'100. \V K Ilnwley.et al to ( iurhard S Renown , lot 4 , blk : ) KxchaiiL'fl place , w d 3 < oo. \V K Drury. t nf to S T Bcnowa , lot 0 , blk 7 PJnlnviow add , w d 57f < 0 , J D Undue tonnes A Ilawloy , lot W ) , blk JlnnHcom iibctvTi c SI. Hilllki ) ( Mrs \ ) to tlio public pint ot lllliko , buiiiK8.ai a'.wsinir > -il ! dedication. Bvron Hoy/I , et al , to Joseph Kottel , lol-l , blk 11 , OainplM'H'Hadd ' , w d $450 , A 11 Briirpii ' ' al , to Henry Koisor , lots 11- W blk "K" Hammers and Illinbaugh's ndd , w d S-Oso. \ Vt \ BelUy , et al , to II W Sj.aiihllnp . , et al , lot 10 , blk 4 , Hush and Suilo't ) ndd to Omalw-w d-li- . Clins O Jtousel and wll'u to Joseph Nevlll , n nitof sfJUltol'JolK , tillc sw. Omaha , wd JjO-M. rim.s A Shnw ii nd wlfo to 11 li Batklcv , lot 5 , blk ! i , IMildwl- place , w d-,000. ; ! Oninha Kt'al KstatOit Trust Co to Kihvnrd K. Wolfuit ot a ! , lot 17Va. . < iliuiitoii ; square1 , w d-81m 1'aul Nelson et nl to II K Miller o 22 ft lot , and o ! ttol s lt. lot 7 , Ml ; ii , bub of J. ) Hi-dicks nd. w d SU.OOO. Nnistt II Nelson to Kieazrr Wnkulsy , lot 33 , blk C , Ji-roiiKi mult , w d il.HW. K Al KulrlioM lo Klc.i7.cr U'nkoloy , lot S'.i , blk 0 , .loiomo paik , w d-SJ.wm. Adolph Klini' ' and wife to Isaac Ulllnslty , lots iDumllT , blk 2 , Jtush < fc Hulby's add , > T d 37--r > . J 11 ( Jiio to Win A Gardiner et nl , lot 0 , blk II. Mojcr , Klttlmrds i'i Tilden's add. w d --S150. Alpha 0. Pearson to Kdwln Oasuy , parts of sections \ , IS and 1:1. : w i | Sll,100. Henry A Kosu-r istal to MiiL'Klo Carroll , lot B , blk 2 , Kostor's ml , w d SIK : ! > . Joseph JinilciT and wife to 0 K A Haeellns lot 0GlMi'K udd , wd $ > 7fiO. Juliu II lliiii'iitntnisteittu\Vin ( II Bnldwln , Jr , lot 10. blk li. lifilfoul place , w d-g..OO. \V \ A L ( Jlubon and wjlo to J i , Wlllilo , loti 29 and : ; o , llaik-m hano. w d 5'ivj. ' W A li Gibbon and wile lo H A 1C Janes , lots -J'i and 43 lir.rlum Lane , w d Sl.TO. Attention. Special meeting of the Voting MCII'H Sodality of I'hiloinenas calhuiinil thin ( Monday ) uvoninir , January 10th. at70 : sharp in the hall , 'Jlh and Howard sts , Iluy it Tow Oflhoso elegant lots In ALBUKIHT'S CHOICE and double your monny before spring. Albright IH making lots of money for lots of people who ptirchaKu from him. Only a Jiltie suonoy remilrcil to buy a lot