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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 ,
