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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1887)
THE DAILT BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Onflr .Momi.if Edition ) Including Sunday Hrr. , Onn Voiir. . . . . $10 01 ForSIx Mont hi . f > 10 VorThrrn Month" ! . . . , . . . . . SM Tlio Omnhft Kmndny DEC , mvJIctl to nnjr i llrc ( s , Ono Vcnr. . . 803 OMAHA Orrirr , No. mi A.VII 911 FAHVJIM arnzrr. NKW VOUK orriir nniti r.i. Tnniii.vr lliMi.niNn , WASHING ro.v orric-c , .NO. 51,1 KUUKTII.NIU STHELT. All communlc-itmn relHtlni ? to now1 ? mvlHI- torlnl iiHilIurslioulJ bo ad'lro&scd to Ilia im- ; ton or tin : lli.i. All hn lnc ? IcttcM nnd rointttnncpi ohould lie mWro o'l to TUB lit : ' . Pum.isniNn COMI-ASY. OMMIV. limns , nliwks nnil po lolHco onlors to bo inado puyatilo to the onltr of the compitny. 1HE BEE PUBllSmnTcipm , PROPRIETORS , E. UOSEWATBIl , EntTott. TI1K DAlTjV nKK. Rvvni-n Htntcmcni of Clrcntntlon. Stnloof Nebraska , 1. . County of Douglas. | 8 < s > Oco. 11. Tzachuek , secretary of The lire Publlslilnc company , does ftnleinnlv swear thai the actual circulation of the Dally Ueo lor the wcelc ending Feb. 4th , lbS7 , was a * follows : Hatiirav , .tnn. HI. 14.2sO Sunday , .Jan. : : o lit.iV-O Monilav.Ian. . " 1 14,7 5 TnpMiay. Kli , I i : .H7 : > Wnlncsilny. Feb. B 11.1)10 ) Thursdav , Kcb. ! ! 11,075 Friday , 1'i-b. 11.075 Avnraco 14.0.19 liEO. II. 'JV.SC1IUCK. SubsetIbcil nnrt swnin to In my presence thlsfilh ilayof Februaiy A. DM lbt > 7. N 1' FF.II ISKALI Notary v'ubllc. tiro. H. Tzsclmck , liclnc 'Irst ' duly sworn depoM'S ami says that ho H Fecrctary of The Jlc ( ! I'lililisliineeoiiniany , that the actual nv- crate itinlv circulation of the Dullv lleo for the month of Kuliniarv.ltfiin.was lO.Sdj copies ; for March , 18N1 , llKi7 copies ; for Aptll , 18. . , IV.'I'Jl copies : lor for May , WSO. 12,4i'J : copies ; for Juno , IbtO. I'.KKJ copies ; for July , IbW ) , ! VJni4 copies ; for Anenst , 1880 , 12,4W copiosfor ; Sniitombcr. 1880 , IS.IKO copies ; for October , IS O , lli.lisy copies ; for November , IbNl , WH8 ! conies ; for lecembcr , 1880.13,237 copies for January , Ib87.10'JOO copies. , GKO. H. ' 17-Rrjnrcre. bui ) crlbeitntul sworn to before 1110 this 8th day of February A . D. 18S7. [ SEAL. I N. P. KKH. . Nolarv rubllc. Pitot'f.HTY values cannot bo afleclcd by plain and truthful discussion. Prices may bo hurt but values remain. Tun issue lo bo fought at llio spring campaign is whether the contractors' ring is going to have control of the city government. SAM HANMIALI , smiles pleasantly us ho notes the approach of the -Hli of March with no possible chance for tariff reduc tion in the present congress. COMPLAINT is made that the agricul tural department seeds wontsprout , The planting of two or Ihrco commissioners of agriculture might help things. Till ! battle before the Now York legis lature for high license presents the not unusual spectacle of the prohibitionists and saloon-keepers working together against the intelligent opponents of in temperance. Anr.u hearing llio arguments in the telephone case , the supreme court ad journed for a four weeks' vacation. If the veteran jurists return to a normal condition of mind in that time Ihoy will do well. It was the severest test of en durance most of them have over been subjected to. RUSSIA , Austria and Germany having placed embargoes upon the oxportalion of horses , it has been expected that Franco would adopt a similar policy. In tiow of this possibility , Colonel Thomp son , secretary of the American Porchoron Horse Drccders' association , was Bent as a special commissioner to the French government to secure exemption for horses imported to this country for breed ing purposes. A cable dispatch reports that in an interview with the French minister of agriculture. Colonel Thomp son was assured that the government has no intention at present of prohibiting the exportation of horses , and that in the event of an embargo Pcrchcron horses will bo exempted from it , the French government desiring not to do anything to interfere with this important industry in the United States. This will bo very gratifying intelligence to the largo inter ests concerned. SKCKKTAUY OK WAU KNDICOTT ap pears to bo a good deal of an old granny in a business way. lie has recently got a now frill , says a Washington corresnon- dent. Not satisfied with silling behind double-guarded doors at the war depart ment , and making all persons who called confess to his usher what , their business was before admitting thnm , ho now spends most of his time at his rcsidenco to avoid the crowd. His friends explain that ho in not accustomed to interruptions when at work , and it annoys him very much to have a congressman or a senator break in upon him with some mutter that is not the subject of his thoughts. Ho therefore attends to the arduous duties of the war ollico chiefly at his house , whither a largo bag of documents is taken in n government carriage. It was evidently unkind to the susceptible old gentleman to entice him away from the quiet and euso of his Massachusetts homo to be burdened and vexed with the per plexing duties of our military establish * mcnl. Tin : vioo-roynl scandal that comes from Kugland , in the announcement that the Princess Louise is socking u divorce from Lord Lorno , appears not to have caused any surprise at the Canadian capital , whore the coupln sojourned when Lorno was governor general of the Dominion Jt is said that ( luring the residence thuro of the princess nnd her plebinn consort the strained relations between them were apparent on all public occasions , neither appearing to take any interest in the oilier. Lorno was seldom scon in the company of llio princess , and when they were together ho was made conscious of his inferior social position. It was evi dently , however , not altogether the pride of royalty that led Louise to keep her consort at a distance , but a warrantable belief that he was not absolutely faithful o bis marital vows. There wore Juei- tdonts of his life in Canada which would inevitably compromise a husband in the eyes of n wife , and Lorno was far from discreet in the management of his flirta tions. The princess has always boon re garded as a most amiable woman , and should she press the suit for divorce it is to be fairly inferred thai she lias ample easous for doing .so- The NOTV Unllronil mil. After all the talk and agitation in taror of repealing the bogus railroad commis sion the legislature is about to foist upon the stile another railroad commission bill. The Italian Iinnd of the railroad at torneys was manifest in the method by which the new abortion was begotten. The two railroad committees wore in duced to appoint a sub joint committee , inado up of three members of the house and two senators. This was on its face a brazen violation of proper numerical proportion. The house is three times llio fci/.o of the senate , nnd Inure- fore there should have been six members of the house lo Iwo scnalors. In such a committee five votes would have been a majority , and in view of the fact that the house committee on railroads lias only five or six out of the fif teen members who are known to bo rail road men , the preponderance of llio sun- committee would have been opposed to any bill reviving the railroad commis sion. The sub joint committee held llirco or four sessions. The railroad attorneys wore politely asked lo define llicir views but the other si do had no hearing. As a result Ihc commillco presents lo llio legislature a crazy quilt made tip partly Irom llio Agco nnd partly from the Mciklejolm bills The leading fea ture in llio new measure is the restora tion of the railroad commission , con- sisling this time cf live'stale oflicers with power to aupolnt three clerks from the state at lurgo who are to perform the actual duties of compiling stalislics nnd making junketing trips. In order to con ceal as far as possible the taste of the dose the commission is to bo called a board of transportation. The duties and power of the board under the bill , so far as they arc legal and constitutional , dif fer litllo from those of the present board of railroad commissioners. They are to hear complaints , investigate griev ances and make reports. In ad dition the board is given authority to fix maximum freight rates under a clause making the rates of 1881 the basis. The grant of this power is clearly uncon stitutional. It cannot bo exercised if llio bill should go into effect and it would bo worthless if it could. The state officers composing the board arc executive olli- cers only. The power to fix rates is a legislative function devolving upon the legislature alone and cannot bo delegated lo anybody. Any changes in rates es tablished by law which the board may make will bo illegal and void and cannot stand the test of a suit. If any such at tempt should bo made and re sisted by llio roads the courts would doubtless sustain the railroads on the ground that the legislature alone has the power to exercise Ibis function grunted them by the constitution. Lot us examine the clause and sco what it amounts to , cvon if the authority which it confers could bo exorcised. Section 11 of the bill provides that llio board filial ! make for each railroad a schedule of reasonable maximum freight rates , which said rates shall not exceed the distance rate table of the IJurlington & Missouri River railroad for Juno ' 81 , "reduced by decreasing the rates for the various classes of freight therein con tained for h'vo miles , one-half of one per cent , and for each additional five miles an additional one-half of one per cent , until the distance of 200 miles is reached , and for each ten miles from said 200 miles an additional one-fourth of one per cent. " Under the authority sup posed to bo given the railroad rales of six years ago are lo be taken as a basis. Those rates are exorbitant oven when judged by the present prevailing high rates. The sliding scale of one per cent , for every ten miles applied to the sched ule of 1831 would give a reduction of two per cunt , on twenty miles distance , three per cent , on Ihirly miles , live per cent , on fifty miles , ten per cent , at points a hundred miles from the terminus and twenty per cent , reduction from the 1881 rate at stations 200 miles from the river. From 200 mile points the rates are to bu re duced J per cent only on every ton miles distance or | per cent on every live miles. In other words , the heaviest re ductions are to bo made on long hauls , while the burdensome local taring on short hauls are to bo decreased by i per cent and upwards. What relief , oven if the board could grant it under the law , would the people experience ? It is a question whether there would bo nny actual reduction from the freight rates now obtaining which , through compe tition , have been materially lowered from the outrageous figures of the 1881 "tariffs. Other features of the bill cull for little comment. The inter-stalo commerces bill long and short haul clause finds a pluco castrated of all power by the authority glvon to the board to sot aside its opera tion m special oases. Pooling and dis crimination are prohibited under the enormous penalty of ? 100 for each of fense , while the injured party is author ized to collect damages if lie can got them. The bill is a hotoh-potali of worthless provisions strung on a commission. Feat ures which have nny merit cannot bo en forced. Those without merit have already been rejected by Ihopeople of Nebraska. A "noiiovoleiit" From lime to time complaints have reached this paper of llio questionable methods of the Western Mutual Ik-novo- lent association , a Jifo insurance com pany located at lieutrico in lids stale. They have oomu from all parts of south' western Nebraska , varying from loud denunciations of the means used lo ao- cure business to bitter attacks on tliu operation of the organization , its luclc ot faith to policy holders nnd the insecure basis on which it is founded. The luu ; has withheld comment because it did not desire to injure any Nebraska institution without the most positive in- formallon that exposure was neces sary in the public interests. At the outset the company was vouched for to this paper by prominent citizens of the fetuto as sound , safe and reliable. Its ad vertisements spoke of reserve funds , largo asaols , interest-bearing securities and great benefits to policy holders. Its roster of officers bore the names of busi ness men presumably iioni'st and respon sible. Documents are now in our possession which convince us that the time for bilonco is past. Allidavits , tables and figures are at hand which leave no reason able doubt that the concern has boon engineered and managed from the start in the interest of a few moneyed men and sharks , while its patrons have been mercilessly fleeced nnd their widows and orphans left de pendent upon n rope of sand for their maintenance. In another column wo present to our readers a portion of the information scburcd. It shows that busi ness for thia "benevolent" concern has boon drummed up among the poor and ignorant under a reckless system of the most villainous and false pretenses of benefits which could not accrue , nnd loans which wcro never intended to bo made. It shows that hundreds of men have been induced to join a mythical "personal benefit fund" and to un willingly sign bonds to the association for ? OGO payable in case Ihcy declined lo continue paying in assessments to the concern. It proves how ingeniously lan guage can bo used to conceal thought in a policy which gives a dozen chances to llio company to evade payment of a just debt ami leaves scarcely a single hope for the hcira of the insured to recover the face of the policy. The facts printed evidence how figures can bo juggled lo give an appearance of security to second morlgages and notes covering property assessed at its full v.xluc. The money in this "benevolent" institution appears to como in briskly through the forfeiture clause which forfeits all moneys paid in where the policy lapses \ > y nonpayment ment of assessments. The Matislics pre sented under this head arc startling and suggestive. The IJr.E calls upon the legislature to take the mutter of u revision of our in surance laws promptly in hand. It points to the "Western Honovolont Association" of Beatrice as a fair sample of the total inadequacy of the present law to protect the confiding and credulous. What IVo Want. It has been charged by the railroad or gans that the editor of tins pupcr and anti-monopoly republicans generally want no railroad legislation this winter. They are accused of only making a noise , and it is said that they would bo out of ammunition if the legislature should really pass some railroad regulation laws. The cue to this false report was giTcn by SenatorMciklojohn , who cxpresce 1 his astonishment that the editor of the HKK should have declared that ho would be content this year with a railroad bill that would cover a single printed page. Air. Molklejohn evidently labors under the delusion that to give Iho people of Nebraska relief ho must cover ten or fifteen pages of type. In order that wo may lie clearly understood us to what wo would consider satisfactory for the pres ent wo will enumerate what in our opinion would servo the purpose : First. Abolish the railroad commission and do not impose upon the people any substitute under whatever name. No commission can exorcise executive or leg islative powers under our constitution. Its functions must bo clerical , and the auditor or secretary of state can compile all the railroad stalistics through their clerks. Second. Ordain publicity of rates and prohibit changes without duo and timely notice. Third. Prohibit rebates and pooling under any name or pretext. This will effectively destroy discrimination and favoritism , and give competition fair play. Fourth. Fix the maximum rate for pas sengers all over the state at three cents per mile , whether passengers purchase tickets or pay fare. Fifth. Fix a maximum tonnacrc or car- loud freight rain for the four staples lum ber , coal , grain and cattle. The tonnaco rate per mile is the true basis for freight charges and with a reasonable extra al lowance for short hauls and switching could bo made fair and just. Sixlh. Provide suitable penalties for violation of these provisions. Leave the courts open to every complainant and re quire state and conn ty attorneys to pros ecute offenders. Such a bill can probably bo put on one ptigo. It certainly would uot take more than two printed pages. It would bo simple and would afford , shippers and railroad patrons redress without the in- torvcntion of any commission. Tlio Holclic oT linpuilonco. The paving conlructors and llio bood- lers who make up the lobby against the Ouiuhu charter boastfully assert that they arc getting up a now charter for Omaha which they will try to force through the logisluturo over Iho heads of Iho Douglas delegation. For sublime impuj ! [ nco this certainly will cclipso anything over at tempted In this state. What interest have Hugh Murphy , Scavenger Fanning and their editorial catspaws In honest gov ernment ? Who are preparing this now charter ? Con Gallagher , Murphy and Colby I Why do the paving and street sweep ing contractors take such an interest in lids charter , any way ? Why did they join the railroad gang to control the citi zens1 meeting a week ago ? Isn't it plain Mid palpable that there is some break in the now charter that would prevent a contractors' raid on the taxpayers ? Hut oven if this attempt to dictalo a charter framed in their interest was not decidedly suspicious , it is the height of impudence for them or any other sot of men to try to ride rough shod over the delegation from this county. It is only in keeping , however , with the importance of the Ihreo editors who mudo themselves so conspicuous nt the tax-payers' meeting , when all of them together have not paid Ian dollars of luxes in Omalia or anywhere else for that mutter. And why should our delegation bo subjected lo such insolence ? Why should Omaha countenance any attempt to disgrace and humiliate them before their colleagues in the legislature and their own constituents ? Fou more than forty years the Con tru American republics of Nicaragua and Costa Klea have been in contention about their boundary lines. Several attempts have been made to got a settlement of tliu dispute , but no agreement could bo reached in determining the mode of sub mission until a proposition was recently inado to refer the dispute to President Cleveland. He lias indicated his willing ness to uccept the trust. A settlement is regarded us ot tome moment ut this juncture , while the Nicaragua canal pro ject is pending m the senate. THF.UK is a very strong disposition shown in Now York to improve the con dition of the canals of thai state , which for some years past lias been permitted to deteriorate. A very earnest move ment iu the mtoresl of these water ways wu : inaugurated two or three years u o. in which thor Into Horatio Seymour took an active part , and it seem ? to have Uikcti firm root. A bill is now before thn legislature , and will probably pass , ap preprinting $550,003 , for canal improve- luonts , IT is undcrslood that Speaker Carlisle will not continue Iho correspondence witli the Randall fnctlon , from which ho thinks there is nothing to be gained. lie says his object was to harmonize the di vergent clement , and ho is still tiisposet to do this , but ho docs not propose to take any further notice of t'.io mode o ; trcaling llio question adopted by Mr Handall. As Iho speaker has clearly llio bettor of llio situation us it stands ho c\n : Well afford to lot il rest where it is. M n. WATTKUSON'S paper is uuthorilv for the statement that ils cdilor's criti cisms of Iho administration have borne good fruit. They have not only set every body in Washington talking about the ad ministration , and pretty much all ono way , but they have made a profound impression upon the president and his olllclal household. Among the qualities which distinguish Iho Louisville odilor , broad and very hard cheek must hereafter - after not bo accounted the least. Ax American who recently visited Gen eral Van Moltke was a good deal sur prised that the great soldier monlioncii no names of American generals cxccpl those of Grant and Hancock. Of llio former ho said : "Ho was a great gen oral. Ho was one of the greatest that bus ever lived. " Of the latter ho re marked simply : "General Hancock was u bravo soldier. " Xorfnxo but reckless obstruction Iho city's needs can slop Iho on wan march of Omaha's prosperity. Is Iho legislaluro of Nebraska prepared lo shoulder Ihe responsibility for giving her metropolis a black cyo solely to gratify personal sptto ? Tin : more cable lines Iho bolter , ol course. When spring opens let us trust that the first one will be dug out of 'the snow lo bo followed by many successors AND TliUIUXOK V. Xohruska Jottings. A broom factory is to bo started at liloomington. Hustings declared in favor of the bob tailed street car. Clmdron is gazing anxiously down a prospect liolo for coal. Humors of new railroads "to bloom iu the spring" have revived business iu Oakland. "This part of Nebraska , " says the Way no Herald , "is anxious to begin burning Omaha coal. " Beatrice is promised a new paper. II Is a long fell want apparently , fringed with weeping willows that bloom in the fall. fall.Uobcrt Uobcrt Lucas has severed his connec tion with the Chadron Democrat , and will return to his homo in Iowa to prac tice law. An intelligent jury in Burnett has de clared that Ilenry Troutwine "died in a jit. " The dispatches had it that he died in the Davis house. A now bunk is to bo established in O'Xeill at an early day , for which Hon. John Fitzgerald , of Lincoln , will furnish most of the "rooks. " A telegraph operator named Kavan- atigh , employed in Ucd Cloud , has tum bled to a stake of $3,000 , with ? 23,000 in prospective , by the death of a relative. Tlio examination of the accounts of ex- Treasurer King of Anlelopo county , de veloped a shortage of $13,01)0. ) His bonds men arc good aim they have been invited to settle up. The I'lattsmouth Waterworks company is pushing the job in all kinds of weather , determined to linish the plant by the 1st of April , the limit of the extension granted by the court. Cluus Holtz , living eight miles from Grand Island , was killed by a runaway team last week. He was thrown from the wagon , breaking his skull , three ribs and a wrist. Black Hills ore shippers complain that the Omaha reduction works are unable to handle their consignments promptly , and no more shipments will be made till a partial clean-up is effected. Gebhardt Foss , of Cuming county , has joined the roll of victims of winter's still- ening blasts. Ho partook too frequently of the liquid hilarity of a wedding feast , laid down by the roadside and perished. A man named Hoffman \vas killed by the cars at Fullerton lust Wednesday. While switching cars at that point , Ins pants caught in a bolt m the rail , throw ing him to the ground , and the wheels caught him betore ho could recover. Kournoyites are unlaying stores of good deeds for the hcreatter , with a reck less disregard for the present. The weather out there has grown so warm since the beginning of llio Methodist re vival that 101) ) persons have repented and petitioned lor funs. Three or four rustic suckers at Kearney nibbled at the bait set for them by a glib longued swindler. They were hired to jo to Idaho to drive horses , and raised a purno of $15 and a shotgun to entertain their employer. He borrowed the cash and the gun and struck out for now fields. The meeting of the Uuptlst association in Grand Island last week to consider propositions for Iho location of the pro posed university , adjourned to meet in Lincoln May 7. Grand Island ollered a bonus valued at $103,000. Omaha fiiOfl.OOO and Nebraska City $40,000. A decision will bu made ut the ndjourncd meeting. Keith county's craving need iust now is girls woo-nblo girls. The valleys , canyons yens and hilltops echo the mournful cry of lonely homesteaders , nnd hundreds of outstretched arms und longing eyes mutely appeal to the east for succor. Good , strong , bangless girls are wanted and they can't como lee soon or lee frequently. It is related that a party of theatrical barnstormers recently stopped over night in the county recently. Three of the stars weroelegiblo and the country boys captured und married them , nnd broke up the troupe. The stomach pump must go. The weak and feeble mindedwearyof , Jifo'dciooked highway , are entitled tp the easiest and most expeditious route , to Iho hereafter , There is Bert Gibbs , of Nebraska City. Ho has made three lULSucccwsfnl attempts to join the caravan on ( ho shining'shoru. Ho dashed in front ot ; x locomotive only lo fall in the ditch uninjured , Then a rene and a rafter were tried , but a measly friend cut him down with the death rat tle in his throat. His only salvation was poison , and on Saturday night he took a dose , Tlio stomach pump rushed in , nabbed his soul by the beard , and stopped its upward flight. His interior is sadly disfigured , and ho longs for the open pruhio and a raw arctic wave. 10\VU IIOII1N. Clinton is struggling with 145 saloons. Thu school enrollment of Cedar Kapids for January was 2,015. Tnn fenther-weights of Burlington have organized a base bail club. The government reports credit to Iowa the loss , of 33K,4ai hogs by cholera last year. Some Tama county farmers are pushing - ing their calves to a finish at u year old. us * . , - _ ; r . They will weigh about 800 pounds and Bell Tor baby beef. It is an experiment that is thought will pay. The bco men of eastern Iowa and west ern Illinois met at Davenport on the 2&1 and 24th inst. A surveying corps of the Uurlington route are running a line from Sioux City to the Floyd river. The schools of Osccola county , sixty- three in number , used $20,717.tfO , for run ning expenses lust j'our. The ofllcluls of Sionx City are diluting Missouri river water with whisky and oilier invigorants. All captured liquor is confiscated and poured into the stream. Look out for a spring rise. Young Slovens , who attempted to mur der Carson in a freight car near Aspin- wall by beating him over the head with a coupling pin , plead guilty and was given ten years in the penitentiary. Crcston is determined to mount the waves of prosperity now surging west ward. A now railroad , sewerage , water works , a packing house nnd a canning factory are on the list for Iho present year. Dakota. Tim Yankton college has forty-ono boarders. The indebtedness of Lawrence county is $05 ! > , OUO. The artesian well at St , Lawrence has struck a flow. A $10,000 stock company has been or ganized nt Lisbon to run a creamery. The Seventh Day Adventists have twenty-two churches in the territory and a good-sized membership. The Sioux Falls cracker factory expects lo lurn out a carload of baked stuff every day as soon us it gets under way. Deadwood is reported to be experienc ing some trouble with Whitewood creek , the waters of which stream are encroach ing on such streets as Ihoy can rcr.ch. A Fargo man claims to have invented nn apparatus for boring that will revo lutionize the method of sinking wells. A preliminary trial was niudo lust week , and it bored through live foot of frozen crust and down about ICO leet iu four hours. Mr. Wolzmuth , of Lawrence county. , went into Spcarlish two or thrco years ago a poor man , having been overtaken by misfortunes. IIo purchased the only { louring mill there on credit , succeeded in obtaining a largo stock of wheat , com menced making flour and put ids prices up to some if 10 a barrel. lie succeeded and to-day has the reputation of being ono of the wealthiest men in the house , Inning , It is said , about $150,000 worth of property. The Almy wreck cost the Union Pa cific in round numbers $8,000. while thu Echo smash-up showed up with $2,000. Two loaded handcars collided on the Cheyenne & Northern , Friday , resulting in the death of Thomas McVcagh. Three others wcro seriously injured. The Chicago , Burlington & Quincy is no sooner said to bo plowing Cheyenne- ward , than the litllo giant Denver & llio Grande talks of coming also. A dangerous conflict has arisen in high society ; in Douglas , owing to Ihc scarcity of lauios. The proportion of men to women is three to one , and the rivalry among the cowboy aristocracy is some what strained and gory. The railroad officials arc unanimous in praise of the dust burning engines of which the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific now bus eight in opera tion. Owing to their well developed heating capacity , those engines will do more work , and do it easier with a ton of the veriest slack , than other engines will with a ton of the best coal which the Union Pacific mines supply. Lifo at Lx k is qtiilo lurid. A corre spondent thus pictures the prevailing style : "Lust night six passengers alighted from the eastern train. Kach carried a Winchester repealing rifle in his hands. They looked anxiously around , saw nothing suspicious , tuul started for the Iwtcl. Arriving there , all except one deposited their gnus with the clerk. The sixth man gave up his vulise but positively refused to part with his weapon of defense. After nursing the gun for several hours ho was finally in duced lo leave it with the clerk while ho took needed refreshments. Another in cident : Ono of our business men as signed to a Chicago firm and they do- Hired to send some ono hero to look after thejr interests. They called on ono of their booickeepcrs , but ho llatly refused lo come , saying lhatjio would resign his position before ho would risk his life iu such a place. " Hie U. P. Dump nt Waterloo. WATEULOO , Nob. , Feb. 12. [ Corre spondence of the Iiii : ; . ] A well attended meeting of thu sufferers from overflows caused by Iho Union. Pnciiic railroad dump near this place was hold hero Fri day evening. Several speeches were made but no definite plan of action was agreed upon. A resolution was offered to the effect that , "as all lawful means to have an opening made in the railroad dump had been tried without success , that other than lawful means bo em ployed. " This resolution though favored by many was laid on the table. A committee - mitteo was appointed lo investigate what action if an } ' the railroad company pro posed to take and report at another meeting to bo hold hereafter. Early in November last n hearing of the grievance complained of was hud by the state railway commissioners , nt which the railway was represented by their chief attorney , A. J. Poppleton , and Chief Engineer Ulinkonsdorfer and Ids assistants. The commissioners gave the matter a thorough investigation , roc- omracndingtho opening of the dump and their decision was nccoptcd by the railroad company. Mr. Popploton is re ported us saying "that thy company , Miieo accepting the decision , hud decided lo do nothing unless the commissioners would state how largo an opening should be mudo. This , in view of Ihe fact that the railway company have a largo corps of ongincor.i who should know how largo an opening is necessary looks strungo , although if the same chief engineer is in charge that filled in with solid imrth the 400 foot of tresllo through which the surplus water passed it would probably not bo out of place for the commissioners or t > emu com petent engineer to give him a little in struction. In less than sixty days Iho Elkhorn river will bo by ibis dump again lorced out of its brinks at this point , und great damage will result unless something is done to remedy the matter. A CITI/.KN. St. VIIIIH'H JJiinuo Cured. FAUMINGDALI : , L. I. , N. Y. , Sopt. 2 , 1835. 1 have been troubled for several years with an affection of the nerves which no doctor or medicine could euro until I .ned BIIANUHETII'S I'll.1.3. 1 would betaken taken with a violent pain in the middle of my spine and my arms and legs would twitch violently. It acted something like St.Vitus Danco.for 1 couldn't control my limbs. It would como and go once or twice a month , lasting two or three daya at a time , Finally , at thu beginning of one of my attacks I took live BIIAN- DUETH'S PJLI.S. As soon us they acted Troclv 1 found myself almost well. So I continued taking them for a month one ir two u night , it is now a year since 1 liave had an attack , and 1 attribute my cure to HitANPiiK'ni's Pii.i.s , FKANCES WOOD. Fresh eggs 17Je per doz. nt Win , Gen- tlcuiiiu'd. BENEVOLENf INSURANT , A Life Insurance Ooncern.Whiou Kesta on a Rotlon Foundation. FARMERS FOOLED AND FAKED. A. Demand KnI'roiyiit ( Artli.n on llio Pnrt of State Au- thorltlc" . Ur.ATiiici : , Nub. , Feb. 12. [ Correspond ence of the Bin/ : ! There is in lliu " .stato of Hoatrico , " located ncnr tliu pellucid waters of the bountiful Hlitn , nn instUu- lion known us tliu Western Mutual Ucnovolcnt association. Its general man ager is A. C. Sabin. This Western Mu tual llonorolcnt association exercises its charity in insuring lives. It lias a wide Held of industry , and as its benevolent methods arc sontewliat peculiar , 1 will dovolo a little space to the elucidation of them. Tills institution is sailing under the "mutual" llag. This feature consists in its insurces mutually and continuously pouring a stream of inonov into its cof. fcrs in Uuatrico. The "mutual" part consists in receiving tins money and Inking good euro to pay out as tittle as possible. To make it plain , the business is done by sharp soliciting agents , who go to the county seat or central business point of the district they intend to work , and ascertain all that lliuy wish to know of the circumstances , character , etc. , ot the men whom they hotm to rope in. If it is a German or Hohemiun settlement , they ootuin a German or Bohemian in terpreter who possesses the confidence of his countrymen , and by high nay lor a short time , bcenro his aid lo allure the unwary. Prepared beforehand , they drop in upon the innocent anil unsuspect ing f aimer. That he should bo in some what pinched circumstances , ns is often the case , is rather an advantage than otherwise to the solicitor. The agonl do- piots in glowing colors the advantages of a 0,000 insurance upon his tifo and that of his wife. AHl THINK OF ITl Twelve thousand dollars laid up for a rainy day all for a mere song. In case of the sudden death of cither , the survivor will receive within ninety days. $ lOiM ! ) . In case of the death of both , their children will be lilted out of penury and want , above euro and labor , exalted among the blessed of earth , through the bonovolonoo of Uen- erul Manager Sabin , whoso horn of plenty , fed oy a little rill , can continu ously pour out nu ocean. O. the niagie of transcendental liuance ! What has the simple farmer got to do to receive this future fools' paradise of dollars ? Why only to pay an admission fee of ! ? ; J5 for eacn ? 0OUU policy ( which the obliging agent will take in a bankable note for thirty , sixty or ninety days , or even six months or a year ) and pay the regular death rate assessments , which the agent assure ? him are so few and far between , like angels' visits , that they will not befell fell at all. There is also a semi-annual assessment of $7 , which agents hardly over mention , but which the insured learns about when ho receives a 1)01103- ) , and a possible reserve fund. Of course A. O. babin must have a reserve lund. lie may want to go lo Canada sometime. And the farmer bites. J'lio jaws of the. trap como together , mid he gives his note for $35 or $70 , which the agent pock ets as his part of the job , unit ho makes an application which is part of the con tract binding linn to the payment of dues and assessments , and consenting , should lie fail to pay promptly at any time , lethe the absolute forfeiture of nil tormer pay ments and the cancellation of the policy. IT fJATinns : THIM : IN. So alluring is this bait of tjui.OOO without labor a great deal of something , for nothing that in one little neighborhood in southeastern Pawnee county thirty or lorly German ami American farmers nabbed it , and paid their dues and oft- recurring assessments for awhile , until the real nature of the promise contained , in their policies dawned upon them , and most , if no all of them lot their policies lapse. Large numbers of these people took policms upon Ihoir own and their wives lives One old German saw such a bonanza ii the scheme that ho took four policies in his family $34,000. How those magic numbers , illuminating the smoky walls of his humble cabin , brightened the hours of his toil. But , alasl homo Smart-Aleck road his policy and the idea trickled ink his slow mind that as far as any actual liability of this benevolent association was concerned , it might just us well havi written $100,000 in cash of his policies as $0,000 , and ho ceased paying his semi annual duos and assessments. Ho slopped throwing good money after bad. and so did most of his neighbors , and ins illum inated walls assumed their old dull and smoky line , and the light of golden im agination wont out of his lite of daily toil. He will not talk with u "trungor about the Western Mutual Benevolent as- Kocialion now. Once assured , however thai the stranger is not a prying agent or attorney ot that odorous concern , holinds tongue to call it "von tain swindle , " and your corrosponoont acquiesces. The moderation of the "mutual" con cern is as astonishing as it is commenda ble. By the addition of a simple "ty" they could have made "six" sixty , and would not have cost them u cent more. The following extract from their policy shows exactly the extant of their liability to the assured , nothing essential boiiiL' omitted : IT.CtltlAK I'OT.ICV. Dcnth Benollt. Upon receipt nt the of- nco of the association . . ot satisfactory proof * of death . . the association will pay to blank. Ids executors , achnlnistiators or assigns . . . tliu net. jtroftnla ot one lull assessment lit schodiilo latu.supon all contributing incinlicrH nt < lntc tifxncli tlmUi. anil which IR received wlttilnforty-Jivc < tijin oflhctliitcoftlic nottccthnmf. to an amount not less than the actual amount said nmiuUer shall have paid Into the association , and ? i < if Ktrcallnu six thousand dollars , to ho paid within ninety days thereafter at the olllco of the association. . . That is nil there is to it. That is just as near us the benoliciary of this grand benevolence gets to .fO.COJ. Hut there IH another cog in this benevolent wheel of Manager Sabin's which is worth looking into. It is called the "Personal Kndow- mcnt Fund Curtitlouto. " A policy holder applying for the benefit of this fund may , alter having paid all duos and assess ments for n full coiihocutive term of lif- tccn years , receive & 1.UUO in cancellation of policy and all liability on the part of the association This application is made the pretext of Kccnring from oaoh applicant , unknown to liimself , u bond in llio sum oj' f"JJt , conditioned on the prompt and continued payment of dues and assessments. Jt is .safeto say that any person coining into botuhoaslcrn Pawnee county to enforce one of thtso bonds would bo promptly tarred and feathered. IHit do they not constitute a part of the assets of this mendacious concern And would they not bo good against t'.io maker's citato ? 'I huso ipiories are pu/.x.ting the brains of some of tin ) holder of lapsed policies. The "Endowment Fund Certificate" recites ; "Tim holder of tills cwtlliratu hats made fiillratloii | ' | for the personal endowment lieaulit , and Is Hit- legal holder nt cortllieato No. , In the W. M. II. Association , and In uddllioii thereto has executed and delivered lo said association the jirminal cn < l < > ntint : 'icncjit ' ami met In the * uii of two hundml ilollars , " ute. , etc. Ca AITIIIAVIT COItllOllOItATIVB. I nppend allidavits l > y Messrs. Charles Kink , William JIarrcnd.orf , LVoderick tVaturmnn and Mrs. Ksthcr 1'vln , of 1'u- DOIS , Keb. , Mvoru to before J. L * Loru \ I tt'.l.i ' J'l I ' ' ! " 'II . Sin. > . < . nut lit. Sin.wi I ' 1 10 ! I ) ' I'M ' ) V npjilii ; il nn , d" % > i no iti nfliit rt Jt M | A r . rwie itii. . < litriiiciMl ft ( him : i . ! i. who l > n n nil dr. il" " 1 VM ) ! ' r'u'iim lt n. i > rt fn . lo I K - if'.i'f'O pulkjj' . mul SOIIIr li'J ' I > 1 > < ' . | < IM , i-ncc lie WHM | i AII exam n.ii : ' i" . , < inn who ti. known Ins ronili'iii i , , jirt who jirn Inmon tap vt'iv I'.P on urh hi > in. ; iJcE.J . linin : , - unco with tin * law of thu stai . \ \ ! ports to IH' f I i',0) ' , ti -io | ittl ( ni , slalo auditor IISH cnai uili'i ) liin-l frn-rilli : il imincv conMoti of noil's nt xtneklinl li > ivcontcii by nuirtgajj' mi ' their real oMalc , lots and' lauds , i i .iv < belore mo a list ol tins mortgaged prop i-riy tal.cn from the books of the M-i > auditor , to ciher witii ii > valuation an I the ninoiinl for which it i-t nidrlgtiged For tinpurnoses of this aiciation ( it i valiu-d at , ' ( ion. ( inul IN murtgagcd for SIOU.UM. Ancvpeit re.il t.Mato dea in in Hoatriiv , wlin would nut b < < apt tonlui' lltoo low , pi iced the v.iiuo of all ili > property morigair-d at ? IJ.iSOt . Il < it either valuation is onUiuly immatcriiil lf what use N a guaiaiit ( > i > Innd when tliero is no.hing logu.ifanlceV It i.s dif heiilt to asc-crtiiin that tins leiu'\olent ! as soeiatioi' iiiMire.s anything. It promises to pay "tho not proceeds ot 0110 full as sessmetit upon all conti joining mcinbcn at date of Mii-h death " Now as fast and as souti as policy holders cease to bo oontubunng members the liability of the association HMI H. Here is a little sjtark of mutu.ilit > r-rtainly. if the company does not rocoivu the money it docs not have to pait out. If : my trillo impairs the confidence of its poliej' hohlers , and they ui-ii'-u paying , the ma chiiiery stqps. So us stockholders niav lend all the mortgages they please \\itii impunitv. Hut this tfluO.OOU worth ol niortgngo notes at doubtful valuations figures ni the report to the auditor a * "Amount of capital stoek paid up in cash , $100,01 0. " it also figures und.-t . the head of "Assets" thus : "Loans and bonds and mortgages ( first liens. ) on real estate , JltWOJJ. " ANo , under "Other Assets sots , " thus : "Interest duo and accrued on bonds and mortgages , $ lfi,8w.ts'J. , ; " i\ltlllITOF : Pdl.lOIKS. 15ut the most interesting item in the re port of this betievoliMico for the year ending December ; tl , ISSli , is found uiider the head of ' 'I'Xhiba of Policies , " which states the number of policies ceasing to bo in force by death as eighteen and their amount as 7i:00 | : , and the num ber ceased to bo in force by lapse us ! ) .r ll and their amount as . * Sr)8OOl ( ) ) . Viewed in connection with the iaot thai ( lie lapse of a policy works an absolute forfeiture of all moneys previously paid , the extent of the benevolence of this association may be anpreciatod. Taking § 25 as the average admission fen on each policy , and allowing one year's dues and $3 eacn for assessments , and wo have the sum of ifllU.MO forleited to the association in one year taken out of the pockctd of the deluded victims of tins charily , without any return whatever , past , present or lutiire. Is it not about time that the law should Met ) in and stop this wholesale Dwindling ? When a few sharp men can by depositing a low mort gages on their houses and lots organize : i cut-throat institution like this and turn loose tiion the farming and htljoiiii" communities of tins and other Htates u liorde of cheeky agents who stop at no deception to win their end , and who .jivo absolutely ny consideration for the money they receive , the public siioulu devise some measure of protection for their victims. Do the gentlemen whose property is mortgaged to further tins scheme want their names published to the world r j. HOST PERFECT MAD@ Prornrmlvrilh strict TPfird'o Purity , Stronsfli , nni Jli'aUMulwep. Jr.l'ri. o oBnk.nurowdfriw tnloo no AiniiiuQl , TJmoAluid or riiojphctt ! . Dr.l'rlio'ti s , Vanilla , i iac-'C , etc. , flavoiColicicuBly. X ? Aim Srfnu-n ' Tlio Ijcsfc Suits made lo order from $25 lo $ , ' 55 , at ELGUTTER'S MAMMOTH CLOTHING HOUSE 30OI Farmin st , , Cor. lOtli. , rent t'll n < l solil on en/ ! ; > < / ; ; ment t > , below factory JitHti'imicnli 8ll jhtii ( unr < l n' -REAT BARGAINS. iiax Meyer & Bro Omaha , Neb. RUPTURE CUBED. IljDr. Sncdlkor'i motliuJ. No operationHo I'aln , So Diilomlnu from butiuuM AiUutotl lo clitldruu .awvll &H grown pooj'lo HunUri'd * ot uut'i ripl Iu Ituno njul * t'li ' I Ic AI i I.IM . t- ) > n < C > bbl.l Vl'ION HIK. ( I OS V . COOK ,