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4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : FRIDAY. MARCH 18. 1887. THE DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Tr.mts or striisemtrrtox : Dnllf ( Mornl.isr Edition ) Including Bandar Bur. Ono Your . $10 ( For Hlx Month * , . . . . . . . . . . . lie For Three Months . 2 ! ho Omnhn Humility HZK , rapllcd to nny , Ono Yoar. . . . . . . 8 < PMAHA orrins. No. on AXI > 91 * FAUVAM Kicw VOHK octree. llooii < j , Titniuvt : lltm.mvi VV.AHIIINUTO.V vrrict , No. 513 FOIWTEKKTU STUCK COnnMPONDESCK ! All oommunlc-Uioni ! relating to nowfl nnd pd torlul miittur should be luMrusaod to the ELI ton or TJI ic Vsr All bii'lncsi letters and remittances chould 1 Iildrowiud to TUB IE < 1'uin.isiiint ) Co MIAN OMAHA. Drnfta , chocks nnd poUofflco nrdoi tofcomtvJo payable to thoordtrof the oompau ; THE BEE PUBLISHIIlFcIPW , PROPRIETORS , . E. ROSEWATEH , EDITOR. THE DAILY DEH. 'Bworn Statement of Circulation. Blntcof Nebraska , I. 8. 8. County of Douglas. ) Gco. U. Tzschuck , secretary of The lie Publishing company , docs solemnly swei that the actual circulation of ttie Dally Hi lor the week ending Mar. llth 1897 , was i follows : Saturday. Mar. 5 14.4' Sunday. Mar. 0 IB.ft Monday , Mar. 7 14,7 ! Tuesday , Mar. b. . . . .14.41 "Wednesday. Mar. 0 14.3 Tlmrsdnv. Mar.10 14,4 : Friday , Mar. 11 14.3 Avcraeo 14.3 IIKO. U. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn tob fore tuo this 1'Jth day of March A. U. , ISi N. P. KKIU ISEALI liotarv Public. Gco. 1 ! . 'I'zschuck , bclne first duly swon deposes and says that he is secretory of TI Veo Publishing company , that the actual a erara dally circulation of the Dally Bee f < tliomonth of March , 1880.11,537 copies ; fi April , 1SSO , 18,11)1 ) copies : forfor May , 1886,1 ! 439 copies : for June , IBS * , 13,298 copies : fi July , 18SO , 12,314 conies ; for Aucust , IBS 12,404 copies ; for September. 1880 , 13,0 copies ; for October , 1880. 13,930 copies ; fi November , 1880 , 13,348 copies ; for Decombc 1880.13,237 copies.for ; January. 1887. 10,2i copies ; for February , 1887 , 14,103 copies. . QKO. B. TZSCHUCK. { subscribed and sworn to before mo this 01 dny of March , A. D. 1887. fHEA L. I N. P. FEIL. Notarv Public. "COLONEL" RUSSELL'S vindication wi not vindicate. WE have an intor-stato commerce la\ but wo have no commission to enforce i TIIK senseless attack upon Spcaki Harlan will do him no harm. Mr. lia lan'rf character is above reproach. TUB Lincoln Democrat rcgrots that M Kcckley did not stand on Colby's mat rial frame with both foot. The Dcmocr has a keen appreciation of the beautifu WITH Jay Gould saying that money n burdou , John L. Sullivan carrying h arm In a sling , ana "Colonel" Russell cor manding the G. A. E. of Nebraska , it certainly to bo hoped that death ends al UPON receiving a telegram announcin the election of llussoll as commander < this division of the G. A. 11. , the Mendel carpenter exclaimed : "Alas ! had I bi known the kind of material they wantc out there. " TIIEKE is to bo a lively city campaigi It is talked "on the corners" that sever gentlemen will bo candidates for mayo The candidate for this olllcc of trust an honor mast be clean nnd upright. IS others need apply. AN illustration of the law's delay furnished In the death of Mrs. Mary Pe ton , sister of the late Samuel J. Tildci This aged lady died a very short time ag without oyer having received one cent < her brother's bequest. THE bill appropriating | 5,000 to relic' Bob Furnas has been reported favorab by the senate. In n few days the great o hibitor who squandered $15,000 of the po pie's money two years ago , will doubtlo banquet the legislature. TOE Hartford , Vt. , railroad wrot again suggests the Idea that too mat bridges break down beneath trains i cars. The car stove , as has been prove by this last frightful disaster , is not t ways the cause of death in thcso ac < dents. The government must finally a point competent track and bridge i epeetors. , mmm m mmmm THE mouth piece of jobbers and corp rations at Lincoln attempts to intirna that the legislature is composed entire of honest and incorruptible men. TI Lincoln dreadful has been for years tl recognized apologist of the entire bat of unconvlcted criminals infesting 01 state , and engaged this winter in co rupting oar legislature. THE Journal Is not In the habit of blowli about IU business affairs , but when request ! to give a few facts It Is always ready. LI coin Journal. Well , talk to us Just a moment. Wl you please make affidavit to your circ Ution T Is it not true that you print lo than four thousand papers , and will yc make affidavit that your bona lido su Bcription is over twenty-eight hundred if it is , please inform us how muc greater but bo careful to swear to yoi statement. Wo are anxious , also , know if it is not true that the Dcmocr in your city circulates and receives p : for double tbo number of papora so * and given away in the entire city of Li coin by the Journal ? THE liver-padded barnacle and co sumptivo liar who writes hog wash f the Lincoln Journal , and who calls hii self Gore , i * out with a long harangue i what ho knows about investigating coi mltlces. Mr. Gore undertakes to t , . that a secret session was not ncccssai lie maintains that an "open" sessli would disclose all the facts and accoi plish the same results. Ho says that It impossible for witnesses to bo spirit away , tor ouo of a firm which in sov years has drawn over 1300,000 from t state treasury , Gere's candor is soggei ivo. Uut it will be remembered that hi not ono of the proprietors of the Joitrti company "spirited" himself away wh an investigation was ordered to inqul into the state printing steals , an op session or n secret session would pi haps have disclosed some valuable infe inatlon. When Gore's partner was 1 < in * himself in tbo mountains ot Colora to escape nn investigation , it was the perhaps , that the man who refers KoMwator's demand to rid the state bribe solicitors as "a farce , " learned he asy it was to make a farce out of crii iaal charge * . A Now Cointlnn't(6n. It is now given out , as coming almost llrcctly from the proprietors of the dif ferent Omaha nowsp apors , that a "com bino" lias been formed with no other in tent or purpose save to oppose nil meas tires advocated by the Br.E. In this un- lioly scheme a charming , if not sublinn spectacle Is presonteel In modern journal ism. No matter how worthy a cause fet which the DUE ; might labor , our nllcgcd "enterprising" contemporaries clvc i out stiff nnd cold that they propose b ; united and determined work , to defeat its efforts. Wliilo of course they havi withheld this announcement from the public , knowing such a course would be condemned by all honorable persons , they have thought It over , talked it over and have determined that such a plat will bo pursued. Should the HF.E , in maintaining the pol icy which has placed It so far in advanci of Its drowsy contemporaries that I would bo undignified to recognize then as rivals , favor any. publio enterprise the "combine" would vigorously opposi it. It would depreciate city property conspire to Interfere with business throw mud at a corpse or do any otlioi thine , simply to embrace an opportunity to differ with the Bic. If a notorious woman of the town was referred to as i person of questionable character , tin wrecking banditti , In n chorus , wouli loudly proclaim her Virtue and argui that she only needed wings to bo at angel. And all this time the "combine1 is to receive Its support from the citi/.cn of Omaha. It proposes to defeat al measures in which our people have di root interest , and at the same time asl them for their money so it can do it well It was only recently that the BKE , te protect its readers , exposed a shamelcssl ; rotten insurance company. The "com bino" immediately reached out its itch ing palm and the next day appeared : paid editorial endorsing the concern. Hundreds ot instances could bo cltei of where this "combine" has attomptei to thwart important measures. Uut th BEE the only paper In the state of No brnska voicing the sentiment of tin masses is not disturbed by the bush whacking methods adopted by its irrc dcomablo and rcadcrless contemporaries It only laughs at their folly. It is con scious of the fact that the people wil soon rcali/o that the course of such i "combine" will the injure growth o Omaha and result In loss of money am power to the duhy scalds , the editors o which have the impudence to call then "rival papers. " Go on with the music , gentlemen Keep your "combine" well oiled. Am after you have finished parading all th bilks nnd bummers of the state in you columns as respectable men , and opposoi all measures aiding Omaha's growth como down and look over our subscrip tion books. While our increase of sub scribers will amaze you , at the same tlm the exhibit may possiblj' serve to teacl you a needed lesson in journalism. The Chlcauo Coodlcrs. Through the patient investigations o several Chicago newspapers , diligent ! ' prosecuted for a number of months , am the commendable zeal of the pr.osocutin ( attorney of Cook county , development have been reached showing the rascalit ; of certain county officials which war ranted their arrest. On last Tucsda ; afternoon Indictments wcro returned b ; the grand jury against the warden of th' county hospital and insane osvlum , thi engineer of the hospital-and two othc parties , charging them with conspiracy to defraud the county , and before nigh all of thorn had boon taken into custody This is understood to bo but the begin ning , the facts in possession of the pros ccuting attorney implicated a number o others ; and before the work is tlnishe < probably not less than a dozen person who are believed to have in ono way am another robbed the county will have t respond to the call of justice. The pros coutlon is reported to bo entirely satisfle with the evidence submitted , and to hav no eloubt of its ability to secure the con viction of the implicated ofllcials. The publio developments in those case promise to be of an exceedingly intci eating , and perhaps instructive , charac tor.A great many facts will bo brough out in court that the newspaper invest ] gators have cot been able to got at , an the latter have already given to the put lie a largo amount of entertaining ir formation. The case of the warden c the insane asylum is likely to prey peculiarly interesting. The exposure c this individual is to bo credited chiefly t the detective work of the Tribune , whos columns have already contained AD e > tended story of the warden's gonerou friendship for a W abash avenue widow all at the ezponsa of the county. Ther will bo soraa salacious facts elicited i this connection , which will not lose thol relish from the circumstance that tb warden is a family man. The facts i general which have thus tar been put lishedahow that most of these official have been for years pursuing a syt tematlo course of stealing , from whio the taxpayers of Cook county have boei robbed to the amount of tons of thousand of dollars. It should not bo lost sight o that the discovery of the operations c thcso boodlors Is chiefly duo to the news papers. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ No Uauio For Alarm. On the authority of reports onmnatln from Washington , said to represent th views of treasury officials , certain now : papers have proclaimed a possible ) pan ! before the close of the year as the rcsul of. a withdrawal of largo amounts c money from the people into the treasnr in excess of the disbursements to b made by the government. The exac amount that the disbursements will reac cannot bo stated , nor can it bo accurate ! known what the receipts will be. Th most recent trustworthy statement of th treasury surplus placed It at | 20,030,00 ( which is many millions less than it wn lost August. Officials of the treasury ar quoted as believing that the excess of receipts coipts over disbursements will not be s great during the remainder of this yen as it was last year , and from the vam source the opinion is obtained that th payments duo on bond calls will reehic the surplus by July , the beginning of th .next fiscal year , to 110,000,000. Senate Allison , chairman of the senate committa on appropriations , states the possible rei enuo for Iho remaining time of the pro ; ent fiscal year at $130,000,000 andth probable expenditures at 9105,000,001 and concludes that if all the 3 per cor bonds are paid out of the current revenue nue of this year there would be loft Jul 1 only a surplus of 14,000,000 , accordin to the treasury method of statement t bo carried over to the next fiscal year Then will begin the payments under Ih now appropriation bills , some ot whicli particularly those for pensions , will b large. These bills call for n frnctloi over $217,000,000 , to which must boaddci Iho permanent appropriations , swelllni the total to 1301,000,000. It Is estimate that the receipts from July to Dccembo would have to reach $10,000,000 in execs of expenditures to bring the surplus ute to that of last August , which is not at a' likely to bo the caso. There Is evidently nothing in this state mcnt of the situation to excite alarm. 1 shows that from now until July the o.\ pendlttircs of the government will vcr , nearly equal the receipts , and that 1 the policy of paying off the maturlni bonds is maintained the treasury will be gin the next fiscal year with a very mod crate surplus , allowing that It will hav the largest amount estimated. Aftc that there will undoubtedly bo a stead ; accumulation , but tlicro is no goo reason to apprehend that this will bo s largo as to be very seriously felt in th money mar'-cts. ' The highest estimate of the excess of receipts over disburse ments range from $0,000,030 to $8,003,00' ' a month , and it is not probable that th average will bo above the lirst of thcs amounts. If , however , the accumulatloi should Interfere with the free operatioi of the money markets It Is In the powc of the secretary of the treasury to romod ; the difficulty by the purchase of tinmn tured bonds to such extent as the cxigon clcs of the situation might require , an ho would doubtless use this authority t Avert any tendency toward panic. Th probability , however , of such a contin coney is extremely remote. At prcsen the supply of money is not abundant bu the situation does not appear to bo grow ing worse , and prime mcrcantil paper Is negotiable In New Yoik at 5J t OJ per cent. , while bankers balances ar loaned at an average of four per cent , and even lower. These quotations d not Indicate any serious stricture. In word , there Is nothing in the situation n It is , or in unreasonable view of the oul look , that should give any trouble to tin legitimate business interests of the conn try. try.Uut Uut the argument of theisltuation point with increased force to the necessity fo legislation that will remove all possibil ity of danger by reducing the revenue of the treasury to the proper require ments of the government. Every inloi cst alike of the government and the poc pie , every consideration of financial sc curity and national prosperity , enforce the duty of providing this legislation. Lucky Deliver. If the si/.o of the appropriation measure the ability of the representative , Colorado' one congressman and two senators did great deal more for the Centennial stnto dm Ing the Forty-ninth congress than Va : Wyck's boasted Independence was able t accomplish for Nebraska , with whatever as sistanee the rest of the delegation cnve htm Denver secured , for Instance , no less thai 5575,000 for a public building and 5200,00 for a military post. What can the roptibllcai delegation of Nebraska In the forty-nlntl congress show to offset this exhibit ? Oimi/u / Herald. It was not in the province of Scnato Van Wycit to specially look after Omaha' interest while Omaha was supposed to b represented by Senator Manelorson.Vh ; did not , Mr. Manderson do his duty t Omaha ? Did ho not lot the matter go b ; default simply out of spite because hi pet scheme of moving Fort Omaha 11 the interest of a land syndicate was nc successful ? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE harmony which prevails amonj all the other Omaha papers in denounc ing the grand jury system of investiga tion by the committeeis very suggestive if not significant. Why do these paper all join in ono chorus to do the vcr , thing which every intelligent porso : must know will prevent the proving c the olFenso which has been charged Why do the very mon who arc most ans ious to suppress the inquiry work s hard to open the doors of the committee They know that the prosecuting wltnes would naturally bo asked to giv tbo names of the parties wh could substantiate the charge and that was the very thin wanted by them. Once in possession c the names of all the witnesses upon whic the prosecuting witness relied t make out his case , they would bo in cor ditlou to scatter some ot the wituesse from Iowa to Texas , and exercise a cor trol over others so that their answer would be no answers at all. On th other hand the conspirators of the jud clary committee who wore implicate would be enabled in the open session t sustain each other by corroborating cac other's atory. If , however , they'wor separately examined they could not po : sibly rnako up a story that would , ban , together. But of course the boodio gan , and the boodio press will clamor for th open session and against any method o inquiry that would expose tbo rascals an bring the guilty parties to justice. THE legislature will ro-convcno to-daj It is to be nincoroly hoped that the crow of drunken vagrants will be drive : away. The BHK has no personal intci cst in this matter. It is only for the pre tection and preservation of tbo state' ' reputation that it raises its voice and eU mands that the hirelings should bo bodily ily fired. THR prohibition party is raising groa disturbances in Des Moincs. We advis moderation in all thcso little difference of opinion , and would suggest that not parties stop up to the bar and take a drinl diluted with cold water. TitEiiK is blood on tbo moon at M < Cook. Our dispatches state that deme cratic committees nnd saloon keepers g hand in hand. When separated there 1 no other hope than for trouble in th camp. IT is now evident that Actlnc-Secrotar Falrchild has boon offered the position c chairman of the inter-state commerc commission. However , Mr. Fairchild d < clincs without thanks. WE observe that the Baltimore & Obi transfer is delayed only by minor detail : One of these details is the simple plan ! ing down of 110,000,000 in cash a met trifle , as it wore. Bernard Poraa. Bernard Doras , who was injured in th Oberf elder elevator , u in a critical cot dition The chances are that ho will m lire over to-day. PUOM1NUNT PBIISONS. Ilnnlictir hn-t just finished a great pic ( arc named "A Picnic Parly. " Cyrus Field and Mrs. Field have ) pnuo te Bermuda , where they will visit Win. It. Tra u'is , now sick at Hamilton. Anna Dickinson says she fins Imd Severn otters to go upon llio dramatic stage. She thinks she \\111 co ( o Europe. Kx-Qucen Isabella of Spain Is dcsctlbc-d n' a coarse , fat elderly Xvoinan , plainly elrcssoc nnd vulgar In every movement Lot Planner } ' ) the Wnsldngton sculptor , li completing n bust bf. XJenrrnl Logan , wind \vns modeled twentyxmo years ago. Captain J.ickousUa , of Iho German nrmy Is In Washington , lie was sent over to In- spcct our turtllleaUons , but ho hasn't fount any yet. lion. John \V. Bookualtor. of Sprlupficld O. , will send Ids crentcolh'Ctlon ot nrt works nnd curios to Cincinnati lor exhibition n the museum there. Henry Ward Hcccher had no Idea of the value of monoy. Ho would buy pictures am brlc-n-brnc without tlilnklui ; of the price , nm li\vo \ the articles away to the lirst person whc fancied them. a Delusion. It'cjjJiliiyfim Critic. A man usually hugs n delusion when he gets his arm niouud one of these faslilonnbU gltU The Triumph ofFnlth. .SUM Fnuictfco Alia. Just look nt the Undo dollar ! U hn1 limped around remarking "In ( led wo trust , ' nnd Its Initli is lewnrdcd by redemption. A Settlor. PlitttMjtlita licont. The decision ot tue United States supieme court In favor of the rluht of drummers t < drum up trade iu any pait of the union , state law to the contrary iiot\\llh9taiutlng. Is a set tier. Intel state commerce must be couductei on a free-tindo basis. Moments. Oh , there nro moments In man's mortal jear : When for nn Instant that which long km Iain Hoyond our reach , Is on n sudden found In tlilnus of smallest compass , nnd wo hold The unbounded shut In one .small minute' : space , And worlds within the hollow of olir hand ; A world of music In one word of love , A world of love In ouo ( tulck , wordless look , A world of thought In ono tianslucuu phrase. . A world ot memory In ono mournful chord A world ot sorrow in ono little song , Such moments are man's holiest ; the dl vine And first-sown seeds of love's eternity. BTATK ANil TKUUITOliy. Nebraska Jottings. Waunctta offers an excellent watci power to mill men. Higli and low license will bo the issue in Wahoo at the spring election. The proposed Fuhrman building ir Fremont , one of tttie finest , will cos $12,000. A. H. Shoemaker , wifa and children of Broken How , wenj down with a bridge over Clear creek and into deep water They wcro rescuetj from the bath thor ougnly chilled but uninjured. A Mlnden young' faely , desirous of Iry- ing tobogganing athomo , , procured hoi mother's ironing board and began sliding down stairs. Tno stfrcct door happened to bo open at the time , and the young lad ) did not stop until she made her debut In the street in a sadly mixed up condition The Scribner News has mapped out n new main line tor the Chicago & North- westcrn line in Is'bbriihka. The Blair bridge is to bo raaetc , a stub feeder for Omaha , while the main line will cross on a now bridge at Onawa , strike Scribuei on the bullseyo and leave Fremont on a side track. 1 ho managers will doubt' ' less reward the imaginative News with o tie pass after April 5. An amateur dramatic club in the northern orn part of Burt county tackled a war like play Saturday night and developed a , tragedy not down on the bills. The captain of the mimic braves grasped t musket in the hands of one of the soldien as a reprimand for carelessness. The gun was overloaded with a blank cart ridge and paper wads and was dls charged too close to John Montgomery , an old man , completely shattering lilt arm. He is not expected to live. The legal rates for hugging matches recently published did not include the wrath of the "old man" or the booted emphasis of the "big brother. " Recently contly in the center of the state a hug ging match raised the objection of the girFs old pa so bard that the huggoo and the huggist wore violently separated bj two fists Hying m different directions The hucgist got up suid dusted , but the huggoo she fainted and spit blood. The church has censured the old brute for his abruptness , leaving a small minority un < decided whether or not it would bo well to bring suit for damages for destroying a lucrative business. West Point gossipers and sowing so oietios are enjoying a good seized chunk of scandal. For some time a young man named Barney Lammers has paid nis at tentions to Sarah Reeson , a girl of sweet sixteen , against tbo wishes of her par outs , who live uoar town. Thursday Sarah wont to town and their suspicious movements caused her vigilant dad U keep close watch 011 thorn. They put tij : at a hbtel at night , using but ono room The old man was onto tfiolr racket and had the sheriff drop in before they dozed off to sleep and read them a warrant of arrest. They were invited to put on theli duds and Lnmmers was led oft to jail. Iowa Kerns. Forty-live Iowa towns are operating c system of waterworks. Emmet county's tax for this ycai amounts to f43n.83. Prophet Foster insists that a number ol severe storms are an the list. Ho is buili that way. The receipts of Dubuque last year wore $217,000 and disbursements f-J04,000 , The bonded debt is 1800,000. The Turner sociotjf Af Davenport lias raised $54,000 , and will erect a thcutor turner hall , bowllhfe alloy , assembly rooms and society ollicos this year. At a recent meeting of the DCS Moincs Jobbers' and Manufacturers' associatlor resolutions wore pasued and forwarded te President Cleveland urging the appoint inont of Hon. Fetor A. Doy to a positioi on the board of national railway comnus sioncrs. , The barn on the Flunncry farm , foui miles east of Gutlirle Center , was dis i coveroa on fire about L o'clock on Satur day afternoon last , and including r granary and largo sheds , was entirely de Ktroyed. The loss tates into account sb head ot valaublo horses , plows , planters binders , 300 bushel ? of'wheat , GOO of oats 300 of corn and several , tons of hay. Dakota. Yankton has organized a street cai company. The Jim river has overflowed and raucl damage has resulted in Uutohiuson ant Yankton counties. There is a total by actual count of 0& live range cattle on tbo liear liutto range and forty-five dead ones. An effort la now being made to secure the opening of a portion of tbo Sioux res ervatton under the severally bill. An eastern man traded Black Hilli mining stock , the face value of. whicl represented 9350,000 , for four Pierre lot. " and the lota were not on the corner or it the heart of the town , Rapid City is ablaze with excitement over the recent discovery of rich sllvei deposits near the citj. Every inch of the district has been staked and prospector arc llookinc to the reirion. TItnti null Iclnlio. KeU'lturn , Idaho , ts building a $12,00 < school. A syndicate ol Louisville capitalist * with millions in stock , will work some o the Wood river mines this season. The snow is so elcep ami hard at Heai L.tkc , Idaho , that people travel aroutu regardless of fences , wldch are buried fai out of sight. The contractors on the Union Pacific depot at Ogden have gone cast. Al work on the building has been oritcroi stopped by the company. lion Fred T. Dubols writes from Wash lugton that the president refused to sigi the segregation bill , and never will sigi onn , probably. Idaho , In cense eiuonco , will remain Idalu during hi ; term at least. It h said that Mi whisky flasks were found in the Idaho legislative hullaftei * adjournment. No claimants could be lotinrt to the cry tal receptacles , cxct'p ! in ono liihtane-o , the owner calling foi one because it was not quite empty. Last week's local mineral out ship ments from Salt Lake were thirteen can bullion , Kl ini pounds ; ono car common load , 27,831 pounds ; twenty-three can silver ore , 004,1)57 ) ; pounds ; live cars cop per ore , 115,100 ; total , forty-two cars 1,172,059 pountU. The shipments out from Salt Lake City for the weeik ending Saturday. . Marc'hfi , inclusive , were twelve ears bull ion , ! ! r > 7,5l7 pounds : throe cars iron slag 70yr > ( i pounds ; eighteen ears silver ore 528OoU pounds ; live oars copper ore 120.000 pounds ; total , thirty-eight cars I,0i)3llo3 ) pounds. It is reported that the Chicago it North western railway will begin work e > n the extension of it * hue west of Fe > rt Fetter man on April 1. One object is under stood to bo to build a road into Idaho , te connect with the Oregon Pacific. The line will cross the Snake River neai Eagle Reek , Idaho , anil run thence in ! nearly direct line to HoHe City. Montiinn. Ihe Abbott company scooped $9,000 h Unite. Silver bar shipments from IJullu las week amounted to $ 11)7,280. ) Meaghcr county Ins $10,000 of schoo funds--$10.8l to each child of schoo age. age.It It Is expected , according to the Ilclon : Herald , that 1.000 miles of railroad wil bo completed in Montana this year. The spring thaws are gathering al bridges over largo and small streams Iho Northern Pacific has lost several. The total enrollment for the pubi ! < schools of IJutte for February wac 1.00 ! pupils. The average daily attendanci was 1,123. Hundreds of elk have starved to doatl the past winter in the Henry's lake section tion , west of the National park , the snov being so deep they could got no food. Helena's building boom for 1887 prom ises to outrival that of 1880 , when up wards of $1OOO.OUO was expended it business houses and residence homes. The oil discovered last summer in the No Wood region has been used this winter tor by a largo majority of the settlers foi illuminating purposes instead of coal oil Proposals arc invited in Helena for the construction of a 0,000. foot tunnel on the IJutte branch of the Montana Central. I will bo almost double the length of the Mullan tunnel. One of the bassos of the Abbott com pany attempted to woo the tiger in IJutte and dropped his roll and all ho could borrow. He was detained in town twe days to cosh a poker chip. The Granite Mountain Mining com pany of Montana paid last week divietont No.37 , of twenty-five cents a share , 01 100,000 , making 1300,000 paid this year and f 1,000.000 paid to date. Lewis and Clark county has $48.700.6C in the treasury and its outstanding m dobtodness amounts to f245,028.0f. Tiii' makes the net indebtedness ? 197.147.0a1 of which amount 1150,000 is for the ncv\ court house at Helena. T. J. Bryan , president of the Stock growers' association , in a recent lottei written from Miles City , reviewing the stock outlook , says ; "From men now or the ranges , and from those who have been there all winter , I have estimates ol 25 per cent losses up to the time of gath ering in the spring. This , of course , maj bo changed cither way by the conditior of the weather. " inspector Barney's report port from Hillings : "There is a loss ir cattle among the older and weaker votinf she stock , but nothing like Hvhat the croakers claim. The heavy losses arc confined principally to localities where feed was very short when winter sot in. ' The Pacitio Coant , Surf bathing has commenced at Sant : Cruz. DMonsignor Capo ! Is traveling and ice luring in Southern California. A now directory of Portland , Ore. , gives the population of that city at 37,505 Thousands of hgad of cattle have died recently on tbo ranges of eastern Oregon There is talk of moving the capital ol Washington territory from Olympla tc some other point. More than 700,000 tons of nickln ore are said to bo visible in the nicklo minus in Churchill county , Nov. An Oregon firm has imported a quan tlty of wild rico from Minnesota. It will bo planted in unfrequented places for the purpose of attracting clucks. In boring n well near Pine Grove , Es moralda county , Nov. , steam of a hoi enough temperature to cook potatoc : was struck at a depth of sixty feet below the surface. Sr.u Diego en joys unlimited turtle SOUP , She Is supplied three times a week with fresh sea turtles from the lagoon neat Todos Santos , in Lower Californiawhere they congregate m millions. A Carson mint employe has discovered Hint drill points boatoel to a cherry rod and tempered through being driven into a bar of lead , will bore through the hardest stcol or plate glass without per ceptlbly bluntinsr. Petroleum oil developments in Ventura countv are destined to take on more and more "importance as the county is opened up by railroads. A pipe line is now bemc built from Tar creek , in thoSospo district , to the railroad , a distance of about ten miles. Two newspaper men of San Diego have purchased the town of LugoniaSnn Ber nardino county outright , paying thcrcfot $30,000. The site embraces seventy five acres of most valuable and desirable land , which is to bo laid out in a regular town sito. A prominent feature of thr enterprise is that the streets will all be named after the different newspapers in California. of Kxploratlon. Chicago News : If anyone thinks thai the tieleQ for exploration on this earth ol ours have been exhausted by the savants of the nineteenth century lot him look at China. The little island of Chusan , which Bismarck recently gobbled from the celestials , although only fifty-two miles in circumference , contains 200.000 inhabitants a miniature world in itself and a Chinese newspaper recently con tained an account of the recalling of a Chinese explorer who had begun to pen etrate ono ol the mnor lands of Thibet. The government recalled him because It did not wish to lose his services with Ida life , which would certainly be forfeit ii ho persisted in his researches. Ho had already discovered , however , n now land and a now people hitherto unknown. The Inhabitants spoke a ni w tonguu and practiced cannibalism. Truly , one-half the world does not know how the othci half lives. PntoUta nml Principles ; Umtan .4rtiyHhfr. The confusion arising from the popu lar notion that a principle cannot be patented has Riven rise tosinany hazardous - ous and Indefensible infringements of ov- Istlng patents. As a well known instance - stance , wo may recall the fact that com petitors havu joined Issue with tliu Bull Tclophono comp.uty over and over again , maintaining their independent rights. Vet the snpromu court in a dochlvo man ner , unanimously lovcrsltig a previous decision , lias held that u claim for ti principle or process is not limited by the special apparatus described or used. The ruling was made in the cast ) of lllghtuau vs. Proctor , the court holding thni'l'ilplimnii having discovered u sub stantial principle the decomposition of fat by hot water alone was entitled to protection against infringcrs availing themselves of this principle in any form of apparatus. Upon this decision' Judge ( tray of this city based his opinion sus taining the broad claim of Hell to the process of conduction used in the Dull telephone. The fudge has summed up the existing law on this subject so concisely nud clearly that his preface should bo pre served for reference ; " 'Few legal rules have been oftencr misunderstood and misapplied than the insulin that you cannot patent a princi ple. Kut the confusion on this subject has been so olfectually cleared up by the recent judgment of the supreme court , delivered by Mr. Justice Bradley in Tilgliman vs. 1'roetor (103 ( U. S. 707) ) , that it will be siilliclent for the purposes of this ease to state the conclusions there announced. There can bo no pat ent for u mere principle. The dis coverer of a natural force"or a scientific fact cannot have a patent for that. Hut if he invents for the lirst time a process by which a certain ell'ect of ono of the forces of nature is made useful to man kind , itnd fully discribes and claims that process , and also describes a mode or apparatus by which it may bo usefully applied , ho Is , within the meaning and the very words ot the patent law , ' 'a ' per son who has invented or discovered any new nnd useful art , " nnd he is entitled to a patent for the process of which ho is the first inventor , unit is not restricted to the particular form of mechanism or apparatus by which ho enn-ics out that process. Another per- so i , who afterwards invents unimproved form of apparatus , embodying the same process , may indeed obtain a patent for his improvement , but ho has ho right to use the process , in his own or any other form of nparatus , without the consent of the first inventor of the process. ' "Uudor the old decisions of the supreme premo court in Morse vs O'Roily and Mitchell vs Tilghm.an , it la very doubtful if the broad claim of Dell's patent would have boon sustained. "Tho disposition of the supreme court as now constituted scorns to bo to protect broadly and fully meritorious inventors who have made substantial improve ment in the arts , nud to construe stiiotly patents for inventions which have no other claim to validity than the applica tion of well known devices to some now and analogous USCF. " All Is Vanity and Vexation. Atlanta , Canntllultan. The vanity and vain glory that reside in riches wcro never bettor exemplified than in the case of A. T. Stewart , who was once the richest man in New York City. Being childless ho must have been a miserable man. Ho lived with his wife in a marble palace , the atmosphere of which must have boon cold and uncon genial. Ho indulged in some ostenta tious alleged charities that were as fat removed from genuine charity as the clouds are from the stars. Ho built a hotel for women , but few women over en joyed its veneered hospitality. It was n failure because there was not a drop of of the milk of human kindness in Stew art's breast. Ho was cold , selfish , nar row-minded and calculating. He raised such barriers around his hotel for women that no self-respecting woman could take advantage of the chilling beneficence. When the hotel experiment failed Mr. Stewart.turned his attention to building a city on Long Island. The scheme was a grand one , and it was carried out on a largo scale. Hut see the vanity of it all ! The store that was his pndo has changed its name. His costly residence is to bo turned into a club house. His picture gallery , which ho sought to make the wonder of Gotham , la to bo peddled off in an auctioneer's room. The old clothes that belonged to himself and his wife are to bo aired and Hold , His city in Long Island is to bo broken up into small lots and disposed of , and there will bo nothing loft but the costly cathedral that was built for the purpose of hiding his bones. His bones ! And yet no man can say that his bones repose there. When the poor man died , and was buried his bones were stolen , and , if all accounts are cor rect , there WAS much higgling between the thieves and the representatives of the Stewart estate. It was maintained on the part of Stewart's friends that his poor bones were not worth as much as the grave robbers supposed , and the prob ability is that the example of parsimony which Stewart set to his family pre vented the recovery of his remains , Somewhere ID all this there is A moral ; but the render will have to search it out for himself. The Standard OH Company's Grooil. Kew Yorll Times. The capacity of the Standard Oil com pany for absorbing established industries nnd founding monopolies over which it holds supreme control scorns to bo al most boundless. It apparently has more money than it knows what to do with , and is constantly reaching out to grasp n.cw moans of adding to its enormous wealth at the expense of its loss power ful neighbors. It has gathered in the petroleum business of the country , nnd the fuel-gas enterprise is completely within its control. Now it has a scheme for buying up the sulphuric acid manu factories and absolutely dictating the price of that commodity in the market. The plans for doing tins have been al ready formed , and the old system of ruin ing a property for the sake ot getting it cheaply have been worked to perfection. Hacked by its immense capital , nnd guided as it Is by unscrupulous motives , there is little doubt that the company will succeed in this last attempt to drive all competitors from its chosen field , as it has done in its past enterprises. The consoling reflection in all this is that every monopoly established in a new warning to the community of the danger which threatens it , nnd hastens the time when the people will grapple with this enemy and crush it. Salvation Oil should bo the companion of every traveling man. It oxlinguiHlios pain , whether resulting from n cut , a burn , n bruise , or a sprain. Chaucer says : "For gold in phixiko in a cordial. " For all that sutler from hoarseness , cold In the chest , lung trouble , or bronchitis , Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup is golden "phlsiko. " Pnco 25 conU. Five New Novels for 15 Out * 5WEWNOYELS.:5 : : : : : : 11 complete In the April Number of the FAMILY LUlllAJlY MONTHLY Only 15c. Of all nevrtdenlcrs or THE INTERNATIONAL Nuws Co. , N.Y. A CARD , TO THE PUBLIO " \Vith iho approach of spring and the increased interest man ifested in real estate inatlorn , I am inoro than ever consult ed by intending purchasers as to favorable opportunities for investment , and to all such would say : Whenjnitting any Propel ty on the market , and adver tising it as desirable , I have invariably confined myself tea a plain unvarnished statement of facts , never indulging ir vague promises for the future , and the result in every case has been that the expectations of purchasers were more than realized. I can refer with pleasure to Albright's Annex and Baker Place , as sample il lustrations. Lota in the "Annex" have quadrupled in value and are still advancing , while a street car line is already building past Baker Place , adding hun dreds of dollars to the value of every lot. Albright's Choice was se lected by me with the greatest care after a thorough study and with the full knowledge of its value , and I can consci entiously say to those seeking a safe and profitable invest ment that Albright's Choice offers chances not excelled in this market for a sure thing. Early investors have already reaped largo profits in CASH , and with the many important improvements contemplated , some of which are now under way , every lot in this splen did addition will prove a bo nanza to first buyers. Further information , plata and prices , will be cheerfully furnished. Buggies ready at aU times to show property. Respectfully , W , G. ALBRIGHT SOLE OWNER , 318 S. llith Street Branch oflice at South Onm- lia. N. B. Property for sale iriall parts of- the city