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    THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : MONDAY MARCH 7 , 1887.
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OUT of all the strife , it really looks ns
though Omaha might gut at least one
cable railway.
THE "legislative train" between Omaha
nnd Lincoln has been discontinued. Can
it bo possible thnt the lobby lias been
called in ?
THE liouso adjourned Saturday noon.
It convenes Tuesday ut 10 o'clock. Un
less there is more speed at Lincoln that
railroad lobby will drink itself 'to death.
THAT man Wiggins , who once laid
claim to being a prophet , cautions people
to look out for a storm the last of this
month. Mr. Wiggins is n bore and his
predictions are chestnuts.
A DKIEK in the Chicago anarchist case
lills over 500 pages. It is thought that
rather than bo tortured with such a
lengthy document the judge will act as
Spies' prosy and be hanged.
AN oflbrt is being made to change the
name of the Wabash road. As Mr.
Shakespeare would have said , that which
wo call a railroad , by any other name
would exact the same ruinous tolls.
Mn. I. DONNILLY : may finally bo able
to establish his claim that Bacon wrote
Mr. Shakespeare's plays , but wo have
grave doubts about him proving that Col.
Colby wrote the speeches for Mr. Cicero.
A GRIM rumor has gained crcdenco to
the effect that Sister Rosa will bo married
Boon. That poetry she has been writing
of late is now accounted for. The poetio
tuuso and Cupid are on the best of terms.
COL. JAMES expresses it as his desire
tiiat the capital of Missouri should not bo
removed from Jefferson City. In respect
to this wish of the titled statesman , the
legislature will continue to meet at the
old stand.
KINO IIuMitKKT can continue to knight
Americans. But he should be careful
nbout bestowing his rare titles upon Mis-
eourians. In this land of boodle alder
men and pious politicians to bo a colonel
is greater than to bo a king.
IT is predicted by knowing ones , that
western Nebraska will this year receive
n larger immigration than any ono year
has ever before witnessed. Already the
land agents are busy , and. the spring
rush , it Is prcdictod , will be really won
derful. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
THR live commissioners required under
the inter-state commerce law will bo ap
pointed within the next ten days. The
only selection made so far is ex-Congress
man Morrison. There is considerable
speculation as to the remaining four
names.
IN TIIK Fiftieth congress the senate will
stand 30 to 37 in favor of the republi
cans. However , this places the power in
the sometimes doubtful and most always
eccentric Mr. Kiddloborgcr , of Virginia.
to make a tie any time ho should feel BO
inclined.
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THE legislature should recognize the
importance of a law which will rid the
state of bogus insurance companies and
iilso prohibit wild-cat coucei ns of other
Plates from operating in Nebraska. A
bill to accomplish this has boon intro
duced. Will it bo passed ?
ONK of the disadvantages of Iowa's pro
hibition was portrayed in our dispatches
yesterday. In taking n drink of water a
lady swallowed n lizzard. Copper-dis
tilled snakes are some times found in
whsky ! , but amphibious reptiles , such as
the ludy swallowed , take to water alone.
TO-MOHHOW , James Hussoll Lowell bo-
fins in the Lowell Institute course at Bos
ton , a series of six lectures on the old
English dramatists. A half-dozen peti
tions have cone un from St. Louis , im
ploring Mr. Lowell to devote ono even
ing to the Chicago river and the beauti
ful lu pork.
IECAtaK ) ; of ono week of beautiful
weather all the long-haired wuather
cranks are predicting storms of unusual
violence. The sublimely Impudent , pre
varicating prognosticRtor , Mr. Foster , ol
Iowa , has actually frightened himself by
reading his own prophecies. It would be
with uncertain accuracy that Mr. Foster
would predict the date that the moon will
fill. All tiio difference between Kli Perkins -
. kins and a weather prophet U that Eli
admits that ha is a liar ,
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The Side-Tracked. Ohnrtor.
When the Omaha charter was side
tracked by John M , Thurston and Char
ley Green Into the judiciary committee ,
the managers of the Union Pacific and
U. & M. roads at Omaha disclaimed any
Intention to tamper with the charter be
yond amending the railroad taxation
clause. They assured our business men
"upon honor" tnat the charter would be
reported back promptly almost as it
canio from the Omaha charter commit
tee , llnvo the railway managers
made good their promise ? Have
they kept faith with the com
mittee of lending citizens who went
down to Lincoln in their interest to har
monise matters by compromise ? Have
they kept faith with the delegation which
iniido concessions to them upon pledges
by Judge Sayago and Mr. Henry Yates
that the piratical warfare waged by the
ailrond lobby should cease ? Under
vhnt pretext can the shameless course
iiirsued by the infamous lobby that opcr-
tea upon the legislature , under the per-
onul direction of Thurston and Green ,
10 justilied' Mr. Cnllnway and Mr.
loldrcgo may disclaim any personal
c.sponsibility for the outrageous conduct
f their understrappers and employes at
jincoln , but the citizens of Omaha will
lot exonerate them. They cannot plead
gnorance as an excuse , because the law-
ess operations of their subordinates have
jecn matters of discreditable notoriety ,
t is an established fact that men under
heir control are exerting a corrupting
ind demoralizing iUluence upon the leg-
slaturo. The mercenary nnd lawless
iiordo draws its sustenance from the rail
road treasury. These miscreant hire-
ings are allowed to levy blackmail upend
d gather booty from parties interested
n promoting or defeating legislation.
This shameless pillngc and jobbery as an
ncidental source of profit to the railroad
obby is tolerated and winked at by the
managers. It is almost an open secret
hat the mutilation of the Omaha charter
: ias been corruptly contracted by parties
ntorustcd. We have every reason to bo
iovo that the Omaha attorneys of the two
trunk lines are working under such a
ontract just ns they operated on the last
legislature under a corrupt bargain with
sportingmcn to defeat the anti-gambling
bill. This is a disgraceful state of facts
which effects all classes of citizens re
gardless of political creed.
In any other community such lawless
corporate interference with material in
terests would bo resented. How much
longer will Omaha submit ? How much
longer will business men and property
owners look on tamely without asserting
their manhood through a protest which
the railway magnates will respect and
heed ? How mucli longer will the honest
and decent men in the legislature who
aru in the majority allow the wreckers of
men and despoilers of the people to tam
per with law-making ?
Governor Tlinycr's Assnllmits.
The assaults made on Governor Thayer
because ho has seen fit to approve the
bill extending the lease of the peniten
tiary contractor are uncalled for and
malicious. They are inspired by no hon
orable motive in the interest of the pub
lic. On the contrary , their sole aim is a
cheap bid for sympathy from the workingmen -
ingmon who are opposed to convict
labor. The course of the papers that
now profess to bo so indignant about the
governor's action is , if anything , more
hypocritical than their pretended love
for the laboring man.
Wo never have approved , and do not
now endorse , the bill extending the
Moshor lease. It is in many respects ob
jectionable , from the standpoint taken by
the BKE for many jears. But Governo
Thayer could hardly bo oxnucted
to veto a bill which passed
both houses of the legislature
by more than u two-thirds vote. The
only complaint which Omaha workingmen -
men have laid at his door is for the al
leged undue haste in appending his sig
nature to the bill. On this point wo have
no moans of reaching a correct verdict ,
because only one version has been pre
sented.
Ono thing is solf-ovidont. The papers
which are BO loud and bitter about Gov
ernor Thayer , after he had made the bill
a law , were not very loud in opposition
while the bill was pending before the leg
islature.
A HeriotXs Itlundcr.
The failure of congress to pass the for
tification bill is a deplorable blunder.
Not only does it cut off all provision for
new or improved works , but also the
moans for keeping in proper repair exist
ing fortifications.
The serious fact that our unprotected
sea and lake coasts must remain in their
present defenseless -condition for two
years longer is not all ; the few and inad
equate defensive works existing must
lose materially in cflcctiveness for the
reason that there is no appropriation for
maintaining them at even the present
poor standard. We have simply in this
matter gone from bad to worac , with the
certainty that in restoring what will be
lost before congress can make the neces
sary appropriation , the cost to the people
will bo considerably greater than would
have been the case had the last congress
made the usual allowance for o.oast de
fenses.
In presenting the reports of the
conference disagreement in the two
branches of congress , the con-
fcroos of each endeavored to lay
the responsibility of failure upon the
other. The chief cause of disagreement
was stated to have been on the question
of steel or cast-iron guns , the senate con-
femes insisting upon the former and
those of the liouso upon the lattor. By
order of both bouses the reports will bo
printed so that the country may be en
abled to judge where the responsibility
for failure docs rest. There is reason to
believe , however , that the difference of
opinion regarding the material to boused
in guns was not the solo cause of disa
greement. When this matter was first
brought forward in the house Mr. Ran
dall expressed strong opposition to com-
mitjtingj ho business of constructing the
now fortifications provided for in the bill
to a board wholly constituted of army
and navy ollicurs , and in this as in most
other matters coming largely under his
direction , ho seems to have carried a
great deal of democratic sentiment in
the house with him. At all events there
is very good authority for the statement
that the democratic members of the con
ference committee insisted that the pro
posed iortiticatlons should bo erected
under the supervision of a board ,
a portion of whom should bo
civilians appointed , by congress.
It is now remembered that Mr.
Randall was very explicit in stating his
want of confidence in the integrity of
military and naval boards , and tins feel
ing was not removed by the fact that in
carrying out the then proposed measure
the board would be appointed by , nnd its
decisions nnd conduct be subject to the
direction of , a democratic administration ,
It seems evident that the vlmvs of Mr.
Randall prevailed with the democratic
members of the conference committee ,
wlillo the republican conferees were en
tirely willing to follow the line of prece
dent nnd leave the matter in the hands of
the administration. The difference re
garding guns was therefore , perhaps ,
little more than a pretext on the part of
the democratic members of the confer
ence committee , who thereby escaped an
explicit declaration of want of confidence
in the administration.
If such wore the fact , the country will
have no difficulty In locating the respon
sibility for the failure of the fortification
bill , nnd ngaln Mr. Randall appears in
the foreground ns the arch-obstructionist.
Hut there is really very little satisfaction
in tin's , although it seemed to bo re
garded with great anxiety by both
parties in congress , when ono reflects
ipon the vast interests that are left prac-
ically unguarded , if not indeed im
perilled , for another two years. Protoc-
ion for exposed property valued at more
ban a thousand million dollars is what
ho country asked and expected , anil
whether the responsibility for failure be
ivith the republicans or democrats , the
nsccurity and the danger remain the
same. The unfortunate fact is that the
country is left in a helpless condition , so
'nr ' as its sea and lake coasts are con
cerned , and it is a fact which every citi-
' .on who comprehends the situation must
regret. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
needier Stricken Down.
The announcement of the sudden and
fatal illness of Henry \ ard Beccher was
; i sad surprise to the hosts of admirers of
this truly great man. And it was indeed
a cruel blow to his relatives and most in
timate friends. Mr. Bocchcr stood fore
most among the preachers of the Chris
tian religion in this country. lie was
unquestionably without a peer. As an
author nnd editor he has occupied a
prominent place in the history
of American literature. Given
credit for almost transcendent ability ,
marvellous nnd scholarly learning , he
was a profound thinker and a teacher
with a wonderful following. While sin
cere in his convictions , ho boldly pro
claimed his thoughts knowing that the
greater portion of the civilized world
was his audience. From the pulpit of
Plymouth church his wonderful eloquence
and original interpretation of the scrip
tures has charmed nnd attracted larger
congregations than had ever assembled in
the United States. Fearlessly and elo
quently for forty years this man has ox-
pot'ndcd the gospel. And during
nil that time Plymouth church
has been the temple where ho has wor
shiped. In 1847 , when ho became pastor
of that church , ho was young just in the
strength and prime and vigor of his man
hood. When Ftricken ho was a gray-
haired man , the burden of seventy-five
winters resting upon his brow.
A man of noble and generous impulses ,
he assisted the poor and needy and la
bored to show erring ones a better way.
During the dark days of the rebellion
Mr. Bccchcr's voice was raised for the
restoration of the union. Ho has been
an active worker in the cause of
temperance , and has always taken a
prominent part in questions of national
importance.
During his recent visit abroad a hearty
welcome was given Mr. Bcechor and ho
was received by the most distinguished
divined and citizens of Europe.
In his long and useful career , in all his
acts as a citizen and preacher , Mr ,
Beccher has , with one exception , ex
hibited the highest virtues which a man
can possess. Of that one sad error if
such it was nothing need now bo said.
A generous world can well afford to for
give ana lorgot , remembering that the
accused now hovers near the portals of
that gate , beyond which , as he has
preached it , there is eternal life.
Presidential Vetoes.
Ninety-eight years of congressional
life under the constitution of the United
States have expired. Forty-nine con
gresses completed the period. If
Cleveland lives two years longer ho
will complete .s president the cen
tury that wil ! have elapsed since the
first president was inaugurated. Nothing
so completely marks the cbango of
theory respecting the power of the presi
dent as a co-ordinate factor in legislation
ns the nbuso of the veto prerogative since
Jackson's time. Washington in eight
years used his veto but twice. John
Adams in four and Jefferson in eight
years not once. Madison in eight years
sent in three vetoes , Monroe in his two
terms sent m only ono and J. Q. Adams
in four years not ono. Thus under the
first six presidents , complctinc forty
years of our constitutional life and ending
with the younger Adams , the presidential
veto power was exercised but six times ,
if wo except some private bills not in
volving any party dispute or disagree
ment , which were sent back for necessary
correction.
With Jackson , the canonized saint of
the democratic party , began the abuse of
the veto power. Ho it was who first
asserted the right to dictate to congress
by his veto what its legislation should not
be , and this not in matters involv
ing great constitutional questions
but merely party differences. Ho
opposed congress in eight years with
eleven vetoes , seven of them being of the
kind first used by him and then first desig
nated ns ' 'pocket vetoes , " Webster said
In regard to these that "there was not n
single instance , prior to Jackson , in
which a president omitted to sign a bill
and yet did not return it to congress with
his objections. " There had boon in
stances in which a president , unwilling
to approve and yet not prepared to veto
.a measure , suffered it to become a law by
lapse of the ten days , during tbo session
of congress , but Jackson was the first
president .who commonly resorted to the
veto as an assertion that the executive
discretion was paramount to congres
sional discretion.
Tim custom rapidly grew with the
democrats , so that in the forty years ,
beginning with Jackson and ending with
Johnson , there were over fifty vetoes.
Tyler had nine , Polk three , Taylor and
Fillmore none , Pierce ten , Buchanan
four , Lincoln one direct and ono inadver
tantly by expiration of congress. Johu |
son had twonty-onn direct nnd two
pocket vetoes , At the end of the first
session of the.Fortyninth congress
Cleveland had far surpassed Johnson in
thu number of his vetoes , pocket and di
rect , nnd at the close of thnt congress his
record foots up lti. ! vetoes. Tims lu two
years fie has directly and indirectly set
up his personal discretion and judgment
against the action of the people's repre
sentatives , thcroby-defoatins their will ,
in twenty-one more instances than all ills
predecessors combined did during ninety-
six years. / ' *
In all Cleveland's vetoes there has
scarcely been tliqsc'niblanco of a consti
tutional question Involved. They have
been purely and solely assumptions of a
judgment and discretion superior to that
of a congress sent directly from the people
nnd the status to enact laws for thu pub
lic welfare. Whether it were the erec
tion of a public building for the use of
the government and the convenience of
the people who support the government ;
increasing the facilities of interior cities
for direct importation ; the relief of sel
lers on the public lands from the con
sequences of the government's own nets
or errors ; the issue of a few thousand
lollars worth of seed to a stricken com
munity in Texas , or pensions to descrv-
ng soldiers , their widows , orphans or
dependent parents , it was all the same ,
lie claimed to know better what was the
right and duty of the government than
GO out of 7(5 ( senators nnd 310 out of 325
representatives , since it would take ono
more than each of those numbers to
override his veto.
The democratic party lias always de
clared its opposition to the encroach
ments of executive power. It had its
origin in hostility to the overshadowing
iulluunco of the presidential office , do-
aring that it was "apiny royalty in its
manners and copying monarchy In
its prerogatives , " yet the democratic
presidents from Jackson down have been
notorious for their arbitrary usu of thu
veto , or "one-man power , " and Cleve
land , the latest , surpasses all the rest.
There is another noted example of demo
cratic prcsidenlial assumption of auto
cratic power. The constitution says that
congress shall have the power to declare
war , yet James 1C. Polk alone actually
began war with Mexico. He ordered
our troops into territory claimed and
occupied by Mexico , and when they were
attacked , as ho expected them to be , ho
forthwith declared by proclamation that
"war existed by act of Mexico. " That
is the kind of parly , those arc the kind of
presidents who prale so loudly and incessantly -
cessantly about submission to the pee
ple's will I '
M . CADKT TAY'LOU'S mission to Lin
coln last week was purely of a business
character. In laboring so earnestly with
members to retain ( the old board ot pub
lic works , with Hts ! well-known loose
methods , ho was merely supplementing
the efforts of Hugh Murphy and the con
tractors' ring. Mr iTaylor himself would
scarcely exhibit such activity about that
provision of the charter had not some
body made it an dbject. As far as we
can learn , Mr. Taylor has no conception
of the wants of Oinuha in the matter of
charter reform , and he lias no practical
knowledge of the Supervision of public
works and public improvements in any
city of 100,000 popujla'tion. His interfer
ence with the work of'the Omaha charter
committee , and his efforts to have the
Douglas delegation overruled , can only
boconstrued _ m the ono way. There is
evidently a darkey in that woodpile.
AN elevated railroad in Omaha is the
latest proposed enterprise. It can bo
built for ? 05,000 a milo. It is quite prob
able that the scheme will take a definite
stiapo in a few weeks , and in that event
the city council will bo asked to grant
the right of way on certain streets upon
condition that at least two miles bo built
within n certain time. It is quick transit
that busy people want in this busy age ,
and the elevated railway is the coming
method of passenger transportation in
all progressive cities. Besides elevated
railways tend to centralize business , and
that is what makes a busy city.
IF the oil inspection bill which passed
the lower house of the legislature last
week is defective in any essential partic
ular it should by all means bo amended.
Petroleum inspection has however become -
come a necessity. The expense which in
spection would entail on consumers is too
trifling to bo taken into consideration.
Now that the legislature has relieved
Nebraska's perpetual claim agent , Pat.O.
Ilawos , wo hope Governor Thayer will
relieve all future legislatures by cancell
ing the Hawes agency. With three mem
bers of congress and two senators to rep
resent her interests at the national capi
tal Nebraska can dispense with the ser
vices of claim brokers.
THE most impressive wooden Indian
over gracing the front of a cigar store ,
would have been moved to tears at the
eloquence of the forty members who
wrung their .hands and made piteous ap
peals for the re-appointment of a page in
the lower house. Such devotion to the
youth of America is well worthy of emu
lation. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
IN denying a pardojH asked for a forger
m the Western ponitdntiary of Pennsyl
vania , President Cleveland said the crime
of forgery was so hateful nnd so danger
ous he could not bring his mind to grant
ing a pardon in such a case. There is a
little logic occasionjilly in the utterances
of our president. * '
STATI3 AND TKHUIXOUY.
Nebraska Jtottlnes.
The Ewing Item hits been sold to A.
N. Bohn. n
The Baplisls have organized a church
al Chndron. 'M
The Bloomington Justice has been sold
to J.S. Goodwin.no
Weeping Water has caught on to the
rise in real estate. < G
Fairmont has voted aid to the Kansas
City & Omaha road.
Falls City is reaching out for water
works and a grist mill.
Falls City has declared for suburban
train service to Omaha.
Logan memorial services will be hold
in Fremont this evening.
O'Neill has contracted for an artesian
well "no How. no pay. "
Nine horses and a stable were crema
ted in Hastings last week.
The belligerent O'Neill editors are now
slinging ink at forty paces.
The Union Pacific has promised Beatrice -
rice a round house and depot.
Holdrcdgo is banking on a population
of 10,000 by the spring of JB93.
. The Uailv Union , published by J. C
liurch , ut Wymore and Blue Springs , i
out , and gives promise ot being a happy
one.
Twonlv-nino marriage licences were Is
sued in Wither during February.
Thu state iiisnnn asylum is full nnd
> atictits must seek other quarters.
Thu llartlngton brass baud has caught
ts second wind and is again in full blast.
Three thousand dollars hnvo been sub
scribed for ti canning factory at Hebron.
The Western Wave has changed hands.
\ 11 , Porter is now tumbling in the
surf.
surf.Kvory
Kvory town in the state is "putting the
louse in order" to welcome the spring
joom.
W. O. Cuddy , of Doniphan , will do the
icavy handwriting on thu Grand Island
Herald.
The North Nebraska traveling men's
association is fitting up a club room in
Norfolk.
The country democratic papers unani
mously cry , "Let 'er roll , Johnny ; the
black list is dead. "
Kxoter has voted aid to the extension of
: hc Elkhorn Valley road. Thu town is
happy in consequence.
The conundrum , "Is Auburn Dead ? "
propounded by the Nenmha Granger , is
referred to Browuvlllu for information ,
Hardy has received assurances that the
Rock Island extension will cross the B. &
M. at thai point and make it a great junc
tion city.
Dr. Stone , of Wahoo , has been appoin-
: cd by the governor a member of the
lioard of medical examiners of the Stale
university.
The authorities of Nebraska City are
endeavoring to induce the Burlington
management to add a wagon way to thu
railroad bridge.
The York Democrat promises a spring
boom edition , on the IHst insl. il will bo
a sixteen page picluro ot the sons of York
and their progress.
The first March breeze from the up
lands caught farmers sowing wheat in
Maple Valley , Dodge county. The ker
nels were wrapped in furs.
Stockvillu has tightened its grip on the
county ; seat of Irontior county. The
commissioners have declared that a ma
jority of the people favor the town.
Grand Island is preparing a coat , of tar
with trimmings for a beastly vagabond
who has boon exhibiting his shape to
women on one of the side streets.
The trial of Spencer G. Bryant for
dousing T. 13. Colby , of Wymore , with
vitriol closed in Beatrice Saturday , re
sulting in the acquittal of Bryant.
Superintendent O'Brien , of the state
fish hatchery , bas gone north with 25,000 ,
young trout to bo planted in the Stuart ,
Bordeaux , Chadron and Verdigris
streams.
The town of Creighlon is in n bad way.
Cesspools of corruption reek the air , and
unless the hog-pens are fumigated or
fired out of town an epidemic of disease
is certain ,
The Chadron waterworks wolf is down
1.000 and the money lias been raised to
sink it another thousand feet. The enter
prising borers did not feel content to stop
short at a live-foot vein of coal.
The thirtieth wedding anniversary of
Rev. George Scott and wifo.of Stitlon , was
celebraleu Friday evening. Aniong the
gifts from friends were a purse of $200
and an elegant easy chair.
The citizens of Wayne , in mass meet
ing ngsem bled , declared that the Union
Pacific could build through the town on
its way from Norfolk to Sioux City This
generous declaration will relieve the
anxiety felt at headquarters.
A collision inthoyardsof thoB. &M. in
Plattsmoutli , Saturday morning , resulted
in the death of Engineer Diek Ledford.
Ho jumped from the engine when ho saw
that a collision was inevitable , but was
caught by a falling car and crushed to
death.
Tccumseh ! s recovering from a sensa
tion. A fast young man with a wife and
child to support utlercd forged noles to
the amount of $1,000 nnd skipped the
country. His father-in-law took up the
notes and is ready to welcome the prod
igal.The
The Sutton board of trade hns called
the attention of the legislature to the im
portance of developing Ihc coal inlcrests
in thu state. It is a waste of breath.
There is no lobby to back thu interests of
the many against the assurance of the
pampered few.
Editor Hyatt , of the North Bend Flail ,
wns treated to a stunning surprise on the
forty-eighth anniversary of his entree
into the world , last Tuesday evening.
Ono hundred or more friends and neigh
bors caught hjm "at homo" nnd pre
sented him with a massive pen and
minilc sword , typical of the profession.
A year ago Sheriff Perm , of Custer
county , took to the stale asylum a luna
tic named Curtis Bradshaw. On the way
to Lincoln Bradshaw swore ho would take
the sheriff's life at the first opportunity.
Last month he escaped from the asylum ,
but being peaceable was permitted to re
turn to his family. Meeting the sheriff in
town last week ho extended a friendly
hand , while the other clutched a revolver
in his pocket. Tli3 ominous click of the
gun saved the officer. Ho grabbed Brad
shaw by the throat , disarmed him and
took him to jail.
Dakota.
The poor of Lake county cost $2,501) in
the last twelve months.
Cattle are suffering from snow and
cold weather in Dicky county.
The freezing of the town pump In
Pierre has doubled the price of beer.
Sioux Falls has laid in a stock of dyna
mite to demolish ice gorges during the
spring flood.
Rapid City people now oat Nebraska
flour , feed Nebraska hav and grain , and
use Nebraska butter , eggs ami fowl.
Contracts for the right of way for the
Minneapolis & Pacific railway between
Fargo and Grand Forks are about com
pleted.
The Marshall county sufferers are still
destitute , subsisting on rabbits nnd pota
toes alone. They have appealed to the
legislature for aid. There are 205 fami
lies about 4,700 souls. They lost all by
the hall.
The Rapid City Electric Light com
pany at a recent meeting decided to reduce
duce the price of light and will hereafter
ohargo only $10 instead of $15 a month
for each light of 1,200 candle power. The
lights burn nil night.
Out of a herd of 175 cattle which Mr.
Lonohan , of Mandau , proposed to winter ,
all but fifteen have been found dead ,
caused by a lack of food and water. Ho
put up about one hundred tons of hay ,
and when that was exhausted ho left the
stock without food or shelter to got along
as best they could.
The mayor of Dcadwood has notified
parents to keep the boys at home at
night or to make themselves responsible
for their appearance at homo not later
lliau 9 o'clock In the evening. After that
hour the police will see that the roaming
sections of disconnected families aru
cured for at public expense.
Ait Embezzler Captured.
Detective Valentino , of the Union Pa
cific , returned Saturday from the Mexi
can border , where ho succeeded in cap
turing a defaultinc : agent of the Union
Pacific. The agent was J. Conn , who
skipped out from London Junction ,
Colo. , in December , taking about $500 of
the company's money. Mr. Valentino
was put on the case February 1 , and
traced his mnn to El Pnso , Tex. , where he
arrested him on February 12 , just as ho
was starting to cross the Mexican border ,
He was taken to London Junction , wliero
ho waived examination and was boun d
over to the district court on the charge of
cmbezzlomcut.
A CHAIN OF HILL CITIES ,
The Black Hilla Encircled By Young and
Thriving Communities ,
THEIR POSITION AND PROSPECTS
Sonic Noted Characters New ami Oltl
The Conlltiit ol' Tenderfoot
and MoHHhnolcM Hoy-
cottfl nnd
HAPUI Cm * , Dak. , March 3. [ Corre
spondence of the Br.t : . ] Recent growth
of settlements in the Hlnct ; Hills is much
more in the agricultural than in the min
ing towns a fact th.it npetiks for the
varied resources of the country ; agricul
tural , stock , lumber nnd building ma
terial are destined to rival her precious
minerals as sources of wealth. Tints ,
while Dcndwood and the populous milling -
ing camps around it remain the mining
town of the Hills , the trend of settlement
is along the foothills. A cordon of new
towns lias within a few years almost en
circled the Black Hills. Hot Springs , on
the extreme south , then Buffalo Gap ,
llermosa , Rapid City , Sturgis , Minncsnln
( on the cxtrcino north ) and Sundance ,
Wyo. , make the circuit. A town to bo
built some where near Jenny's Stockade ,
Wyo. , or at the Salt springs on the south
western margin will complete the corral
of the Hills. Of the towns named all but
three arc county scats , and of those three ,
Sturgis is reaching out for the honor by
the division of Lawrence co unty ( a bill
for which is now pending between the
governor nnd legisl ntureof the territory ) ,
while Buffalo Gap or llermosa , as capi
tal of Custor county , would be , like "Bar
kis , " willin' .
Hot Springs has its peculiar prospects
in its thermal springs and romantic re
sorts. Buffalo Gap is the railroad station
for the Southern Hills and has prospects
in HH stone nnd building materials.
which are at once nearest to market ami
best of any in the hills , especially its
variegated marbles. The town is only
over u year old , has no debt , has never
levied u tax and its license roll nearlv
meets all expenses ; so that its credit
ought to bo A No. 1. But it ian't because
of a blundoriiiGr financial policy , which
allows town script to be redeemed re
gardless of date of issue or order of rocis-
trator. The surplus warrants not needed
by the liquor sellers have no market
value , no one buys at any price ; hence
the town is in default and thu liquor men
control its entire finances. They are the
only taxpayers and the only buyers of
script.
Herraosa nnd Rapid City build much
on the growth of agricultural interests.
The latter has the advantage of ample
water power and will add manufactures
if she can manage to suppress a few of
her factional "leaders , " who are inclined
to the caninointlicfeedbox policy. Her
stronc position as the entrepot of the
central nnd northern hills seerns nbout to
bo enhanced by fresh movements for the
development of her nearer mines , which
have boon overshadowed by the rapid
development of the upper hills. A special
letter needs to bo reserved for these
movements.
Minncsala , the capital of the norther-
most hills .county of Buttc , has lately
been taken in hand by the Minncsala
Townsite and Improvement company ,
organized by Hon. John II. King , of
Rapid City , who has purchased new
lands and water power and secured the
removal of the town thither. Ono of the
advantages of the new removal is that
it lies in the track to the Hay Creek.
( Wyo. ) coalfields. There is already a road
organized and surveyed from Dead wood
thither via Minncsala ; and the same fuel
district is the objective point of all roads
reaching toward the lulls. I have seen
correspondence ) with the head of the
Northern Pacific , which foreshadows the
company's intention to strike for this sec
tion from Mandau. They lately sent an
expert to examine the Hay Creek coal ,
and the tests are said to have been satis
factory , as this correspondence followed.
The Northern Pacific has long had a
"weather-oyo" turned this way , not only
for the coal , timber and ore exports , butte
to protect its large cattle shipments from
Dakota nnd Wyoming , which are al-
rcady invaded by the Northwestern ind
prospectively threatened by the B. & M ,
Union Pacific , and other trunks. The
distance across to the hills from the
Northern Pacific is only 210 miles and the
route lies through the rich valleys of the
Little Missouri and Belle Fourch.
Sundance , Wyo , , is the capital of
Crook county , a good range , mineral ,
petroleum and agricultural urea of 10,000
squaio miles larger than Massachusetts ,
New Jersey or Maryland ; it would mnko
five Delawares. There is already emi
gration from this section to Sundance ,
and much building ! a in progress or pro
posed.
These foot-hill towns , except Rapid
City , are all small yet ; there are no
"booms" on ; but wo have learned in the
west to "despise not the qay of small
things , " and to dread the hind end of a
boom and a mule that has been prodded
too much.
A ULACK-I1IU.3 CHAIUCTKR.
The sudden death of ex-Probate Judge
Benedict , of Ponnington county , removes
a picturesque character and n disturbing
clement in republican politics. His ad
ministration of Rapid City school funds
in his hands was ono of the chief causes
of the defeat of almost the entire ticket
last fall which he had been rcnommntcd
to head. I fear that the rclniko went far
to break the old man's heart. He was a
very largo , unkempt person with a
thin , strident voice , an earnest manner
nnd a grotesque speech , that combined to
make him a character on the stump or in
court for ho graduated from the bar
placer to the bar legal. HL heart was as
largo as his frame , and his oratory as ex
pansive and untrammelled ns these grand
Hills albeit , unconventional and defiant
of potty grammatical limitations. His
metaphors invariably reached thu anti
climax nnd generally brought the ro-
ductio ad abiurdum and the house down
a result not less ludicrous because evi
dently unexpected to the earnest speaker.
His extravagant kindness and extrava
gant sayings will bo alike long remem
bered in thi > camps. Referring to the ed
itor of the Republican , with whom ho
once had a controversy , ho said : "He
thinks he's done a big thing , and he's
gone out there onto the street with his
countenance .shining like n new tin milk
pan in the mid-day sun. looking ns wise
nnd pensive ns a settin' lion. 1 might as
well try to convince a Miinll boy that his
corn-stalk fiddle was not sweeter music
than his mother's piuno as to convince that
man that ho is not thn greatest journalist
m the country. " Ho was foiid of com
paring the cause of Ins client or party to
Harney Peak and thu other bide to the
point of n cambric needle , or various
other oTCcedingly diminutive objects.
The general verdict Is , "Wo could better
have spared a belter man. " With him
passes ! > way ono of the landmarks ot the
old regime in politics , law and society.
"Tho old order clmngetli. "
The newly elected district attorney of
Custer county takes n novel method to
recoup for loss of salary , the county com
missioners having reduced the same. He
proposes to adjust his fcrvices to the re
duced pay , and the other day in a pre
liminary hearing in n criminal case ho
appeared and i > ut the defendant through
up to the point whore a motion to com
mit would have boon lu order , when thu
district attorney suddenly changed front ,
and announcing that ho had followed ilm
< yue as far us his reduced pay went , or
dered the discharge of the prisoner. This
makes the punishment tit the crime.
roirrv MOD v.s LUUITNINU.
The liquor seller * ' bovcott of the Rapid
City Hleotrlo Light company has col
lapsed , and many of the doused dims
niain ; shine. The liquor men shrank
from the eonIlict they had invited , Ono
of the expatriated Sioux City saloon men
who had just opened a place at Rnpld
City , took the electric light in thu face of
tliu boycott. When remonsttntcd with
by his spirituous compatriots ho is re
ported assaying : "ForGod's sake , don't
say anything nboul lighting the prohibi
tionists ! I'll take thu electric light and
anything else for ponce. I've had
enough lighting prohibitionists "
OI.l ) TIMIIliS VS .Ni\Vt'OMEHS. :
'I ho smelter project at Rapid City is lu
a state of syncope between the contend
ing factions of "Old-Timers" and "New-
Comers. " This Ls not the only enter
prise that is thus "sat on. " The country
could well e\porl a choice lot of piggish
old-tuners and too-fresh now-coniors.
While thu smelter sleeps one or two
train-loads a day of ore for reduction arc
passing through Rapid City to Omaha ,
and other millions of tons of low-grade
ore that will not bear transportation
charges aru lying on the dumps or un
covered in the mines the measure of
men's ' capacity to be blinded to tliuirown
interests by rrowncss and passion.
MRS. GREEN'S MILLIONS.
Slio linn Added to Them In Chicago
ns Well ns In New York.
Chicago Herald : Hetty Green , the
richest woman in America , comes to Chicago
cage once. In a while to attend to her
enormous real estate 'interests here.
When in town she usually stops at the
Southern hotel , a humble but re.spuntalilu
hostelry , wliuru she takes a room without
fire , nnd for it , with board , pays $1.35 a
aay. The last time Mrs. Green was hero
the weather chanced to bo wintry , but
she went around town wearing an old
black straw hat , n bliiek veil and an old
shawl. Sometimes she stops with a sister-
in-law on the West Side , a poor woman
who has a pretty hard struggle to get
along. Stopping thuro in even cheaper
for Hetty than at the Southern hotel.
When at her sister's she does her own
washing to save laundry bills.
Just after the ntuat fire of iSu Mrs.
Green loaned about $ r > 00,000 on Chicago
real estate , gilt edged and at a still' rate
of interest , On a portion of these loans
she finally foreclosed , and gradually pur
chased other property , until her total in
vestment hero reached something like
$ IH,0X ) ( ) : This property is now worth
nearly a million. Much of it is down
town business property , earning a hand
some revenue , it is to look after
this property that Mrs. Green oo
casionally visits Chicago. Hur agcn-
never knows when she is comir.g , ns slit
has a habit of dropping in on him una
wares. She is a very keen old woman.
She goes nbout to building after building ,
inspecting walls and floors , looking after
the work of the janitors , etc. Her last
visit to Chicago is greatly regretted by n
colored janitor employed in one of her
buildings. He saw n cranky-looking old
woman prowling about the premises ono
day , and , not getting satisfactory replies
to his interrogatories , lie threw her into
the street. The janitor was not discharged
ho was a faithful man but ho had ma
wages cut down .f 1 a week , and they
have been cut ever since.
Mrs. Green is an inveterate speculator.
When the notivlly in \ \ all street bcicun
last fall she left her New Hampshire farm
nnd went to New York in order to bo
near the speculative heart. To nyoid ho
tel bills in the city she went to live in n
cheap boarding house nl Far Roekawny.
Mrs. Green never willfully wasted a dollar
lar since she came into the possession of
the fortune of her father , who slow
whales for a living. Whaling was n
big business in the days when Airs.
Green's gruff parent sent his craft out
from New Bedford and miffed his clay
pipe until they came back with cargoes
of oil to add to his big pile. When ho
went hence lie left $0,000,000 to
his daughter Hetty , nnd an aunt of the
latter subsequently added $0,000,000
more when she bade adieu to worldly
cares. Miss Hetty , for she was a spinster
'
ster then , did not' let her heap of gold.
mildew. She kept it in such constant use
that the milling was worn oil' the edges ,
nnd when she wedded she could have
signed her name for a check for $20,000-
000 , If it had pleased her to do so. Just
as soon as the nuptial event was over she
resumed her money-making ways , and
succeed in adding $10,000,000 more to
her tortuno. She prodoscs to continue
her monay-getting occupation so long as
she is spared to do it.
Shu was formerly the great power in
the slock of the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad , which is now prominent in
stock speculative operations. She cor
nered with great regularity about three
times a year , and made speculators who
were short of it pay for being on thu
wrong side. Kveryono of her stock
squeezers brought vast profits to her ,
nnd she natui ally caused a repetition of
of them ns often as practicable. When
she had extracted nil she could from
Reading ns her slock she transferred her
operations to the slock of the Louis
ville & Nashville railroad. Shu is now
the practical owner of the property and
also of the Georgia Central. Her opera
tions in Louisville , to use the brokers'
abbreviation , have made her famous.
Kho has run the price up and down , nnd
made hundreds upon hundreds of dollars
by the process. There has been n big ,
long bull movement in Louisville during
the past few months. It has been said
nil along that the steady rise in the stock
was due to buying for London account.
There i.s now , however , little- doubt that
Mrs. Green hns been the power at work
in the stock.
She is estimated to have made at lenst
$1,000.000 in her big deal. The stock was
moved up in the face of adverse con
ditions , for the showing of the road has
not been good. The only thing that she
had favor in was ttie general market , but
that would not have carried the
stock up. The operation was
a plain ono , but it required
great boldness and llio URC of vast Hums
of money. The street at large had no
confidence in Louisville and was disposed
to bear it. The higher it went thu
greater the droo would bo , spoon lators
thought , and they kept increasing the
short interest.
Mrs. Green bought thn stock that the
bears went shorl of. The bears had to
borrow to make their deliveries to Mrs.
Green. They relied on u smash in the
price to buy thu stock to return that
which they lind borrowed , and they also
hoped to buy it at a loss price than thuy
sold. In the latter case the diflurenco be
tween the Belling price nndthe buying
price would have prevented the profit
of thu bears. The smash , however , never
came. Mrs Green had u grip on thu stock
like iron. She kept walking the price
up until ehe had got the bears all seared.
They saw their losses getting bigger , mid
finally began to try to return their bor
rowing before their position became even
worse than it was. Mrs. Green Kimplicd
the fitock that was required , and thu dif
ference between the price at which iihe
bought and the price at which .sliu sold
represented her profit , and the loss of the
bears.
Mrs. Green dresses ns comfortably ns
an industrious washerwoman , t > ut ' ' "
more fashionably. She wears her clotJius
until they are worn out , ami by that t | '
they nro ready for the paper mill ' °
rides down town in a horse eir : , tim ' " ' l
have will ! her f l.OOO.CO'J ' in ° " ! d
ni
in a piece of newspaper. JXollo < l.COJ.OU . ? )
supect her of boln worm
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