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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : THURSDAY. JUNE 16. . 1887. I i THE DAILY BEE , IjS PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. . or sunscnlrrios : P llr ( Mornlajr Edition ) Including Bunflar HER , Onn Year . (10 00 ForHlxMonths . 600 Tor Tlirco Months . ' . . SW Tlie Omaha Hindar B , mailed to nnr tldroM , One year. . . . 2 00 . . m a-rrwrr. OMAHA omen. No.fii AXII FAimy Nrw VOHK orricK. HOOM V > . TninuNK Iltrif.iiiNO. WA9HIMUTO.V OrriCC , NU.513FUUUTIKNTU8Tn > KT. All communication ! relating to news andeJI- toriul matter ulioulil bo adilruMod to the m- Ton or TUB BMC. All builnoM tetters and romlttanoei should tie Mdreuod to Tn Rut PUUMSIIINO COUI-AXT , OMAHA. Drafts , ohocka and postofflco order ) to be made payable to the oriltrof the company , THE BU POBllSillTBiiPlllll , PROPRIETORS , E. ItOSEWATKK. Enrron. THE DAILY BEU. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btato of Nebraska. I _ _ County of Douzlas. J s < " Ueo. B. TzschucK , secretary ot The Bee Publishing company , does solemnly sweat that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 10 , 1S37 , was as follows : Saturday , June 4 . 14,20 * Sunday , June 5 . 14.20C .Monday , Juno G . 14,02. Tuesday , Juno 7 . 13.0H.f Wednesday , Juno e. . 14,0 < X Thursday , June 0 . U,05C Friday , June 10 . 14.0GC Avcrace . 14.101 GEO. u. Tzscitucic. Subscribed and sworn to before mo this llth day of Juno , 1887. N. P. FKII , fSEAL.1 Notary Public. Oco. 13. Tzschuclt , bclnt ; first duly sworn , deposes nnd says that he Is secretary of The Ueo Publishing company , that the actual average dally circulation of the Dally lieo foi the month of tor June. 18SO , 12.20 ; copies ; for .luly , 1880 , 13,314 copies ; for August , l&Sfl , 12,404 copies ; for Septenv b r , IBbO , 13,030 copies ; for October , 1B8G , 12.0H9 eoples ; for November. 1S80 , VAW. copies ; for December. 18SO. 13,337 copies ; foi January , 1887. Ifl.CGfl .copies ; for Kubruarv , 1887 , H.10S copies ; for March. 1887 , 14.40C copies ; for April , 1837 , 14,310 copies ; for May , 1SS7 , 14,227 copies. . GKO. n. TZSCIIUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4ft * ayof June A. 1) . . 1887. [ SEAL. I N. P. yciL , Notary Public. THE Jlcrnldaoya Seavcy lias shown his hand. So ho has. He holds a hand thai will beat three knavca every time. AND now a bill has been presented tc the council for over $500 extra by the street sweeping contractor. Why can't these extra street cleaning jobs bo done by the street commissioner. If the formal opening of the board ol trade building is to bo postponed unti ! Grover Cleveland accepts or doclincs tlu invitation to be present , wn are afraid tht event will not take place until 1333. NKHBASKA does not get a very large share of the appropriation of congress gross for the militia of the states. Tlu distribution will bo made next month , and this state will receive $4,608. Then are eight states that get less than No braska. WHEN a big wheat "operator" geti "busted" by being on the wrong side o ! the market , his inability to pay his mar gins is. called a 'failure. " But when 5 country sucker sues one of these gam bling grain operators to recover th < money lie has lost , ho is denounced ir unmeasured terms. A "failure" to sot tie for mnrcms is respectable , but to sue for moncv lost through gambling grain deals Is disgraceful. THE present season at Long Brand promises to bo exceptionally gay anc brilliant. The usual habitues of this favorite vorito resort are nil booked to be there and the coining of some notable strangers gors is heralded , among them a Prussiai countess , who is also a beauty. A visi from President Cleveland to also hopec for. Long Branch holds its precedence as a popular summer resort against 1 competitors , and yet there are few place : Tvhcro one can be more uncomfortable. WE are informed that the bill of extras which was presented for payment to tin council by the paving contractors las week with the inspector's certificate at tached has been found slightly incorrect There was an overcharge for about 40 < yards of paving which will redaco thi claim by nearly $700. That only goes l < ebow that it is high tiuio the fast ant loose method of doing business whicl pruvailed under the old board of publli works should bo abandoned. CITY ATTORNEY WEBSTKH'S views on thi respective powers conferred by the charter tor upon the fire and police commissiot nnd the city council are clear , sound , anc fully sustained by the highest legal au ' thority. In the main they coincide will the view's heretofore expressed by the BEI on this subject. It is to bo hoped that thi controversy between the council and tin police commission , which has sprung uj from a misconception of the law , wil now bo dropped. Such conflicts botweei coordinate branches of the mnnicipa government only tend to demoralize tin police force and create needless stnfi where harmonious cooperation is cssen lial. Mn. McSn.VNK's editor has opened hi mouth once moro and put his foot in it In liis anxiety ( o down Mayor Broatch am depose Sohvuy from the police force hi lias jumped at the conclusion tha the ordinance regulating the po lice and prescribing the powers nni duties of the police commission which Mayor Broatoh has vetoed , wa passed over the mayor's head by th council , when , in fant , the council dii not ever attempt to pass it over the vote The lecture totho mayor as to his dutie In the premises which Mr. McShano' editor ventures to deliver is decided ! ; premature. THE BKE has taken no part in the pot eonal controversy between Messrs. Con oyor and Blackburn. The disclosure made by the investigation into Mr. Black burn's connection with the sale of cei tain lots to the board of education ar not very creditable to Mr. Blackburn an reflect seriously on the whole board The negative testimony of Mi Blackburn's partner leaves a natural inference ferenco that Mr. Blackburn had cither direct or indirect interest m the sale c school lots to the board. The fact tha Blackburn's partner in the real cstat business was the chief factor in the tran ter must have been known to the othe members of the board , nnd they ought t know enough to know that real cstat agents are not m thn habit of worliu , I for glory. Prohibition In Massachusetts. . The advocates of prohibition in Massa chusetts have been carrying on one of the most aggressive and earnest campaigns that has over signalized the efforts of tins clement in that or any other state , and they have just encountered defeat of the cardinal purpose of their struggle. Mar shaling all their forces and armed with ponderous petitions , they went to the legislature with a proposition submitting to the popular vote a prohibitory amend ment to the constitution. The discussion of this proposition has commanded a great deal of the attention of the legisla ture , and baa been conducted with great zeal and more or less marked ability. Its supporters pointed to the fact that the amendment was asked for by 0,090 women who had not laid asidu the duties of homo "for the idle infatuation of the plat * form , " by 40,000 voters representing the virtue , Intelligence , business and propcrtv of the commonwealth , by 220,000 attend ants of the Methodist Episcopal churchits 55,000 communicants and 210 clergymen , by leading Roman Catholic priests and temperance societies , and by rcprcsonta twos of other churches. The opponents of the proposed amendment held firmly to thu ground that experience had demon strated there and elsewhere that prohibi tion docs not prohibit , and that the wises ! and safest policy , alike for. the state and for the cause of temperance , is a well enforced license law. A vote was reached on Wednesday of last week , and the proposition failing to receive the required two-thirds was lost. A reconsideration was moved , however , for last Tuesday , which was taken with the same result. Among the most earnest opponents of the amendment was Rev. Mr. Smith , member from Audovcr , the only clergy man of the house. Ho had boon a state prohibitionist , ho said , and fought for it , but Massachusetts had a history on this matter , and men could not argue from Kansas to Massachusetts. Under the old prohibitory law there was it worse state of morals than ho ever know at any other time. Liquor was sold freely. He had investigated this matter in all its length and breadth , and ho declared that the increase of temperance sent ! ' mcnt in the state is owing to the existing license law. which allows each commu nity to determine for itself the question of issuing licenses. Ho believed that in temperance is not to bo beaten by such legislation as the prohibitionists proposed , Its effect on the contrary would bo to encourage - courage sccrut ram soiling , and thus nol only retard the cause of temperance , but increase the evils of the liquor traffic , The reverend gentleman might have found abundant examples with which tc justify his opinion , had ho cared to ge beyond his own experience of what a trial of prohibition in Massachusetts had developed , It is not to bo supposed that this defeat will greatly lesson the mis taken zeal of the prohibitionists of Mas sachusetts. Their cause is evidently hopeless so far as the present legislature is concerned , but they will doubtless , find in the largo vote they were able to com mand encouragement to continue the fight. It ought to be safe to predict , however , that the intelligent people of Massachusetts , taking counsel of the manifest failure.of prohibition to accom plish ita object elsewhere , will before an other legislature can bo called upon tc submit a prohibitory amendment have largely concluded that they could com mit 110 graver error than to insert in their organic law a principle certain to bo continually violated , and thus to subject the whole instrument tc popular disregard and reproach. It ia astonishing that with the knowledge now attainable regarding the failures of pro hibition there should bo so numerous a body of people in Massachusetts willing to engraft this principle upon the consti tution of the state and abandon a system which experience has amply justified , and which there as elsewhere has con tributed more to the growth of temper ance than ever prohibition has douo any where. Germivny's Sick Ktilors. The German people have present canst for very profound solicitude regarding thu physical condition of the men who rule the atltvirs of that empire. The great age of the emperor makes it inevitable that ho must soon surrender the sccptru of sovereignty , if not by death then from inability to longer carry thn burdens and cares of the throne , but this certainty could bo awaited without serious apprehension - hension while the crown prince was to b < his assured successor , lie could bo dc pendect upon to continue the pohcj which has marked the course of the na tion'under the reign of his father and tc follow the beaten path at least undci "substantially similar circumstances anc conditions , " Out the orown prince maj not survive the emperor. Despite th < encouraging view which his physician : pretend to take of his throat malady then is good reason to believe that I1 is n very serious difficulty , which is jus as likely to bo found unconquerable as i is to bo removed. The fact will bo ro rucmbcrod that when thu cancer whict killed General Grant first developed , th < interested medical opinion that sur rounded him professed to see nothing dangerous in the aflliotion , and this view was sought to bo maintained just as louj as there was the least possibility of tlu public being deceived by it. It is more than probable that the physicians in attendance tendanco upon the crown prince have their reasons-for taking a confident vie of the case before the public , whatovoi their private convictions may bo. Bui oven if the growth , whatever it may be , shall bo effectually destroyed , it i : thought the penalty of the operation ne cussarj to do that will bo a total loss o voice , and Germany would hardly welcome como a speechless emperor. Added tc these afllictious , Bismarck ia nov reported to bo ill , so ill , in fact , that the advice of his physicians to seek rest ani a change of climate cannot bo carrici out. out.A A very wide range for conjecture i opened when one comes to reflect upoi the possible consequences to Germany o the removal of those three from amonj present and prospective rulers of tin empire. Tbo death of the crown priuo would make his eon , Prince William , thi heir apparent , and our cabin dlspatche have described the sort of man ho is. J soldier with an ambition for glory , i seems certain that the pcaco of Europ would have no snch security with him 01 the throne , or near it , as it now has wit ] an old man in power who has outlive * ambition and desires nothing so mucl as to pa * * the remnant of his days li peace. The death of Bismarck woult bo the signal , also , for most radical changes. All that ho holds in his iron grasp would bo released , and the political and social forces now in re * straint , being ect free , might speedily change the relative position of parties and almost remodel society. There are infinite possibilities of change consequent upon the death of these rulers , not only most vital to the Gorman empire , but which might eventuate in materially al tering the map of Europe. There is ob vious reason why the Gorman people should feel gravely solicitous regarding the physical condition of their rulers. A Had rroccdont. Among the various items in the monthly appropriation ordinance which the coun cil passed last week was an allowance to Thomas Cummings for services as chief o police during the month of May , at the rate of $1,800 a year. Mayor Oroatch vetoed this item on the ground thatThos. Cummings was not chief of police , never having been appointed such by the board of police and iiro commissioners , but es pecially because ho only served on the .police force up to May 25th. The council passed the illegal item over the mayor's veto by a two-third voto. One of the Moynlhan combine editors interprets this action by the council as an official declaration that if there is any city marshal or chief of police for Omaha , Mr. Thomas Cummings is the man. The councllmcn who voted to override the veto had no such ideaThey knowas everybody else including Thomas Cum mings knows , that the office of marshal had becu abolished on the 3d of March , and Cummings ceased to bo marshal trom that day. They know also that Cummings had not been appointed chief of police by the commission , and there fore was simply acting chief until the commission had filled the place. To vote Cummings pay for the time he was in charco of the force after the office of marshal had been abolished could hardly be construed as a declaration that Cumminga has any right or title to an office which has been filled by the police commission by authority vested exclu sively in it by the charter. Notwithstanding the two-thirds vote of the council Thomas Cummings is not legally entitled to pay for the full month of May. His services on the police force ceased on May 25th. The council had no right to vote him pay for services not rendered , and the mayor has no right to sign a warrant to Cummings for a full month's pay. It would establish a dan gerous precedent , oven if it was lawful , to pay men salaries for service they have not rendered. Tbo Wheat Corner Collapse. The great Chicago wheat corner , which for several months has commanded the undivided attention of the grain interest of the country , was on Tuesday unex pectedly abandoned by the clique engaged - gaged in the deal , the result of course being a panic in the market that proved disastrous to a number of dealers. It was thought after the June delivery day had passed without the clique showing any signs of weakness that it would bo able to carry the corner on through this mouth and squeeze the bears without mercy , but thn outcome shows that the task was too large. On the first of the present month the clique was understood to have control of over 40,000,000 bushels of wheat , and its ramifications were said to extend to all leading markets of this country and even to Liverpool. It then appeared to have boundless resources. This appearance now seems to have been deceptive , but there are other circumstances that have contributed to the defeat of the deal. The clique was not simply confronted by the powerlul bear interest , but all the conditions were unfavorable to it , among the most potent being the generous re turns from the harvest thus far and the excellent outlook for the growing crop. Undoubtedly were the crop situation loss favorable the clique would have had no difficulty in obtaining all the money required for carrying on the deal. The general public feeling will bo one of gratification that the end has como in disaster to the promoters of the corner , but in a battle of this sort between gam blers , honest people can have no sym pathy or concern for cither party. The bulls who have lost are entitled to'no commiseration , and the boars who have won should receive no congratulation. The one class was operating to the dis advantage of the consumers , while the policy of the other class was hostile to the producers. The fact that fortunes have been transferred from the former to the latter hnlps no interest and accom plishes nothing for the general welfare. Meanwhile the immediate future of the market is entirely uncertain. THE present month will be memorable for the collapse of great corners. The events that will give it distinction are the breaking up of the coffee and wheat speculations , the former having had a duration of over a year and the latter of several months. Of the two the failure of the coffee deal was perhaps the more important. The tendency of the market for this commodity , how ever , appears to bo stronger , the fact being that Micro ia a reduced crop , and that notwithstanding the ad vance of 200 per cent within a year on the low grades consumption was not de creased. The coffee drinker , it is evi dent , must have his beverage with stated regularity and in unrestricted amount whether it costs fifteen or thirty cents a pound. Tnr. Burlington proposes to make the same Chicago rates to and from Lincoln as it does to and from Omaha. The Bur lington is a good friend of Omaha so long as it can throw its arms around her and pick her pockets. ACCORDING to the Herald. Seavoy is not chief of police. Why , then , does the Her- aid pay so much attention to hla orders 1 BITS OP INDUSTRY. The grain elevator capacity ot Chicago Is 23.850,000 bushels. Common labor is now better paid than II has been for years. A thousand clocks a day are said to be seat from Now England to Europe , Mexico , and South America. There are lot ) cotton mills in the sou tb , of which thirty-six are In Georgia , twenty-seven la Tennesspo and twenty In Alabama. Four railroads are now bains built In Georgia to centre at Atlauta. It will then be the greatest railroad centre In the south. Out of 1050 puddltnz furnaces Iq Plttsburg , seventy-five are idle , aud the muck bar pro duction Is estimated at at 3,400 tons per day. Flottrlntt and grist mills employ 33 per cent of all the water power used ; saw-mills 23 per cent jcottoiFtnllls 12 : paper-mills 7. and woolen-mills 4 The Pottsvlllo silk'mill will employ from COO to 1,000 hands , ana the building , which will bo 830 feet irt .length , will , Including machinery , cost 300,000. The northern Investors In southern plg- Iron plants are greatly encouraged by the active demand in western markets for the entire product of furnaces. This will load to further extensions of capacity. Coke Is scarce. Fort Worth , Tex. , Is to bt made a wool and sheep depot with Immense stock yards and scouring establishments. It now costs SM3 to pay the freight on 100 pounds ot grease and dirt , and this Is to bo saved by the scour ing establishments. A London paper says there Is not one corner of Europe where American small cost liardware Is not for sale. Krupp , of Germany ; Armstrong , of England , and llotchklss , ot Franco , with all their vast re sources are unable to produce a monkey or screw-bar wrench equal to the American wrenches. Now England textile manufacturers are generally Improving their capacity and put ting In better machinery to decrease cost. ANew Now Hampshire firm has ordered a cargo ot wool from San Francisco around Oapo liorn on account of high freights. The Pepperell mill , in Maine , has just divided a half mil lion dollars in dividends and has a million dollars loft. Flvo national labcr unions have boon hold ing sessions throughout the past week the printers at Buffalo , the shoemakers at Brockton , the Iron workers at IMttsburg , and the machinery workers and miners at Cin cinnati. There were 200,000 shoemakers said to bo represented through 150 delegates at Brockton. The iron workers had ISO dele gates. Kacing shells and other boats are now made of paper at Lanslngburgh , N. Y. One boat has been built as largo as 43 feet long by 4 leet 4 Inches beam , to hold forty-two per sona ; and a steam launch 10 foot longworked by a one-horse power oil engine , boat and engine together weighing but 430 * pounds , was last fall successfully run at a speed of about ten miles per hour oil the upper Hud son. The cost is something above that of wood. A Great Opening. Philadelvhta Xorth-Amerlcan , Father McGlynn's mouth has reopened for the summer season. Journalism in Texas. U'aco AilvnccAe , All subscribers , It is hoped , will pay promptly. If there ever was a concern that needed money , that concern Is the Dally Ad vocate. It started on nothing , and so far has been living on what It started on. A Blunt rjakota Man. Dakota Bell. A Blunt , Dak. , man pulled a tooth the other day by putting a string around it , tying the string to a nine in the floor and then raising himself tip by his boot-straps. This summer seems to be a good one for some of the worst lies that ever disgraced civiliza tion , | t _ _ New Styles in Scalp Lifting , Chicago ! Herald The Apaches now on the war-path In Arizona ought to show up a little bettor In a scientific point of view than their predeces sors. They are led by1 a young savage who was educated at government expense at the Hampton school. Of course he will cut off scalps in a thoroughly civilized fashion. , * A Vanished Boom. St. Lout * aidbe-Dtmocrat. Government island a tract of about lorty acres In the Missouri river , opposite Kansas City was entirely washed out of sight a few nights ago by a sudden rise of the tur bulent waters. It had , wo presume , been sold to a New York syndicate several days before for several millions. It lived through the real estate boom , but the river boom was too much for it. . Gnawing a File. litoomfiigton Guard. The Omaha Republican continues its un called for and contemptable attacks on Gov ernor Thayer. Editor Rotfiacker desired an appointment that Governor Thayer declln ed to give him , hence the whirlwind of ca lumny and detraction against the old hero , but his onsloughts on Governor Thayer re mind the people ot the viper gnawing at a flle * Mud Batteries Silenced. Valli Cl\i ( \ Journal. Governor Tliavor has effectually silenced the batteries of those Omaha newspapers that have been attacking him for his efforts In favor of good government In Omaha. Their slanders are manifestly absurd and their animus Is so apoarcnt that they have been treated with silent contempt by the whole state. The people heartily support the governor's position In this nutter because they are all Interested in an eniclont police force in Omaha. Wo all have to do business there and we want protection from the thugs and gamblers who have Infested Omaha so Ion * and who are still trying to bold their grip notwithstanding the now state laws and the determination of the governor that they must go , Governor Thayer will not be bullied or frightened by the Omaha outfit. Keep Out of the Past. Klla VThteltr Wltaxc , Keen out of the past , for lU highways Are damp with malarial gloom , Its gardens are seru and its forests are drear , And everywhere molders a tomb. Who seeks to regain its lost pleasures Finds only a rose turned to dust , And its storehouse of wonderful treasures Is covered and coated with rust Keep out of the pest , it Is haunted , 11 o who in its avenues gropes Shall tind there the ghost of a joy prlzrd the most , And a skeleton throne ; of dead hopes. In place of its beautiful rivers Lie pools tuat are stagnant with slime , And those graves gleaming bright on the phosphorous ligit | Cover dreams that werp slain in their prime. Keep out of the past I'll ' Is lonely And barren and bleak : to the view. Its fires have grown cold and its stories are old ' Turn , turn to the present , the new I To-day leads you up to > h "III tops That are kissed by the ra dlant sun. To-day shows no tomb all life's hopes In bloom _ _ And to-day holds ajifyze to bo won. STATE AND fenUITOUY. Nebraska' Huttings. Corn is stalking n'6'w. Henry Christian , agpd seventeen , was drowned in the twtvchorous Platte at Grand Island a few days ago. A Kansas City railroad company is skirmishing for bonds in Gage county. It promises ere on par with an empty purso. James C. Fificld , a Nebraska boy , graduated with high honors from the Johns tiopkius university in Baltimore , Tuesday. Bill Harrison , a white crook , and Harry Anderson , a colored jlmmio , who held up divers and sundry residents of Bonklemcn , were transported to the pen Tuesday , to serve a three year terra each. each.Mrs. Mrs. James Martin , a Grand Island lady , gazed admiringly at a loaded and brilliantly lighted window of a town dry goods store. Mistaking it for the door she stepped ia aud took * section of the class with her. Her pocket book Was in jured to the extent of | 75. A flash of lightning touched Captain James D. Head , at Glenvllle. Adams county , Monday , killing him instantly and burning the clothing on his body. Ho was forty-six years of ngo and highly esteemed in the neighborhood. Beatrice survived the first dose of Sun- Jay closing. The church boll and the nglo of the contribution box alone dis turbed the cemetery silence that pro- vailed. Not evclu n soda ft/ ? could bo had to irrigate the solemn occasion. Conductor Carter , of the 11. & M. , of ficiated as witness at the marriage of a middle-aged conplo on his train a few days ago. The groom's name was Mun- son , and the bride veiled her identity in a cloud of natural blushes. A car load of merry passengers formed a unique perspective for the picture , and their congratulations and well-wishes were unstinted. Engineer O'Connor ' tumbled onto the ceremony , and played a lusty wedding march on the whistle. The couple loft the train at Ashland. Iowa Items. Dttbuquo will have a fire alarm system Within thirty days. Quite a number of Atlantic people will join the communistic colony in Washing ton territory. Several Iowa distilleries are looking for now locations , mellowed with bo. mises and personal liberty. The strike of the DCS Moines oinar- makers came to an end Saturday , the men and employers meeting half way. Perry people are considering a propo sition to light the town with gas.and also are making efforts to have a canning fac tory established in the town. The proprietor of a Now Hampshire boot and shoofactory.cmploying 200 men , contemplates removal to Gowrio in order to got lower rents aud reduce the cost of living. Members of the "profesh" in Dos Moincs have oiganizcd a Press club. Like their Omaha brethren they have signed the constitution and deliberated on by-laws , but the test of strength- payment of the initiation fee is yet to como. The tax voted in aid of the Davenport , Iowa & Dakota railroad will revert to the people unless construction is commenced within a few months , and the business men of Davenport propose to subscribe sufficient stock to commence operations. The Irish saloonkeepers of Dubuque played a match game of base ball on t ri- day with the Dutch dolors of drinks. The game demonstrated that the Irishmen were as handy with the bat. and the emi grants from "dcr faderland" were downed. Dnfcotn. Dcadwood business men have been in vesting heavily in real estate in anticipa tion of a boom. Deadwood is moving energetically to secure the establishment of reduction works in that town. The gas well near Blunt is counted upon as sufficient to furnish that town with light and fuel for the future. Small chunks of coal have como to the surface of the artesian well at Yankton , and the mute appeal to dig deeper will bo heeded. The How of the new monster artesian well at Yankton seems to increase daily , and it is now claimed to be the largest of any well in the world 3,000 gallons per minute. A wonderful eave has boon discovered near Hakervillc , in the Black Hills. It is said to bo larger than the "Cave of the Winds , " and abounds in natural curiosi ties. ties.Railroad Railroad authorities have promised a Dcadwood delegation that within two weeks a surveying party will survey lines and routes from or near Sturgis to Deadwood - wood , after which the company would further consider matters. The rain of last week refreshed the soil of all of southeast Dakota and crops are responding with alacrity over that gricnltural domain. Thu snows in the mountains are molting , the Missouri is filling its banks , evaporation is in pro gress along the eastern slope of the range and is precipitating itself upon the plains in the form of rain. MORTUARY MATTKRa Something About Those of Omaha Who are Ijntcly Deceased. Dr. Douglas A. Joy , whoso serious ill ness from inflammation of the bowels was mentioned in Tuesday _ even ' BEE died yesterday"morn ing's , morn ing at 4:30 : o'clock , at the resi dence. No. 2323 St. Mary's avenue. Dr. Joy came to Omaha but a short time ago from Marshall , Mich. Ho was con sidered an excellent practitioner by the members of his profession. Ho was thirty-three years of ago and was taken ill last Friday night. The relatives of the deceased physician arrived this morning and the body wjll bo embalmed aud re turned to Marshall for interment. MARRIED. A Yonnj * Typo of Omaha Joined to a Burlington hady. Mr. Ed Wheelan , of this city , and Miss Ella McDonough , of Burlington , wore united in marriage at St. Philomona's cathedral yesterday morning during a nuptial mass by Father McCartliy. A num ber of friends of the bride and groom wit nessed the ceremony. Mr. Wheelan ia a compositor on the Evening BKK , andoccu- pics a high position in the estimation ot his associates. The well wishes of friends , both m the office and without , are extended for the future happiness and success of both himself and bride. An Iron God. Crete Vidctte : For the past fifteen years the political idolaters of Lincoln have fallen upon their knees and rever ently worshipped thnir iron god. They have beaten their breasts and sent up prayerful cadences through the smoke stack of this same god. Their caucuses , conventions and elections have been called together and run by this same god , whenever the voice string was pullea by Marquette. lloldrcdgo or Perkins aide do camps of thin iron god. Isoxv as the water in getting low in the fountainund thu grinding begins to grind the grinded , these idolaters are looking around for a now mecca and another god. Their mournings can bo heard above the storm , and the com plaints of the Democrat fairly toll the story of a people who have fuwninglj submitted to the dictates of an iron god .for ovur a decade. They call upon the managers ot this iron god with the voice of David , "Help , On , help , or wo are lost. " The oars of this god are deaf , his tongue is mute , and his heart Is geared with thick coatings of a saline substance. The day of salvation is past and the idolaters cannot look to this iron god as their modern panacea. If he hod the voice of an angel he might speak , or if ho had the power of an Anirelo ho might grab a scrub oak from out the banks of the Antelope and dipping it into the 3,000 foot bore , write upon the blue vault of heaven , in letterset ot sally fharpnoss , these words : "Oh , Lincoln , thou hast served uio well. But my promise must bo broken. I cannot give you the machine shops , but I will get a photograph of mv shops at Hoi- drcdgo and will hang thorn on the high est point of thn depot at Lincoln , that the idolaters may see what they would have received had I not been n decitfu ! . a ly ing aud a flattering god. " ESCAPED IN MALE ATTIRE. Fata of Young Girls Lured to Salt Lake from Abroad , Klnanor 1'aston's flitter Experience in the Mormon Capital Freed Uy a Kind Hearted Elder Mormonlsm. New York Morning Journal : A pretty , but rather forlornlookincr young woman of twenty was found wandering in a be wildered manner about the Pennsylvania depot In Jersey City yesterday afternoon by Officer Brcnnan. Ho inquired what her trouble was. She replied that she wanted to go to the ho'uso of Mrs. Griffin on South Eighth street , E. 1) . , and that aho did not know the way. The officer asked her where she came from and she replied : "From Salt Lake City. " "Alono ? " "No , sir ; not all of the way ; my com panion , a young lady , left mo at Omaha. " The officer became interested and after some questioning the young woman said that several months ago Elder Bascom and several other Mormons went to Eng land in search of converts. In a town near Cornwall the young woman liycd. Her name was Eleanor Paston. She and sixteen other young women became con verts and were brought to this country by the elders and taken to Salt Lake City. Eleanor and Amelia Clogg. another of the converts , were assigned to the homo of Elder Bascom. Ho had three wives living with himthe eldpst.llunnah.a gray-haired old woman. Hannah made it warm for the girls and warmer for her long while-whiskered , patmrchial husband. When ho announced to her that ho in tended to have the two girls sealed to him she became enraged and threatened them with violence. Amelia fainted away when told that she must marry the nncient suitor , and Klnanor declared that they had been deceived. The cirls slept together on the second floor. " During the night of the day they received the news of their coming fate they effected their escape from the house and fled through street after street until they weroinslffht of the tabernacle. It was daylight by this time and. fearing detection , they wont into an alley to secrete themselves. This alley led to the yard of Elder Junius F. Wells , nn aged man , who is high up in Mormomsm. Whilotho tired girls huddled them selves together to avoid observing eyes Elder Wells came from his yard through the alley. He saw the girls and asked them what they wore doing there. Both began to cry bitterly , and Eleulior told her story truthfully. The old patriarch felt pity for them. Ho said if they would not betray him he would save them. He took them to his barn , clothed them in the mala garments of farm hands and walked with them to thu depot. While standing on the plat form waiting for the arrival of the train Elder Bascom came there. Ho panted from the exertion of his rapid walk. Ho asked Elder Wells if ho had seen the two girls , and bcin" assured that he had not Bascom walked away , almost touching Eleanor as liu passed. A moment later the train arrived. The two pirls were handed tickets and placed on board. When far from the influence of Salt Lake City they made known their story to some ladies on thu cars who aided them to attire themselves properly. At Omaha Amelia was told by a lady whoso husband is proprietor of a hotel , that if she would like to work as a servant there she could. The friendless girl was glad of the op portunity and availed herself of it. Elo.inor decided to go in search of Mrs. Grillin , whom she had known in Eng land. She knew that she lived .some- whore on South Eighth street , Brooklyn , E. D. , but that was all. Officer Brennan placed her in the charge of a man going to Brooklyn , whom he knew , and who promised to sec that the girl found her friend. How Big Salaries Are Earned. Davenport Democrat : It ia said that Thomas J. Potter , vice-president and general manager of the ClnciipoHurling- ton tfeQuincy railroad , has boon receiv ing a salary of s85,000 a year. It is fur ther reported that as general manager of the Union Pacific railroad ho has signed a contract for five years at an annual compensation of $30,000 a year. These figures to some may appear to bo enor mously beyond the anility of any man to return an equivalent in time or work. To others the larger of these sums will seem small when tlio responsibility of the posi tion is fully considered. It is an afl'air of daily occurrence , so common that no at tention is paid to it. for an employe to receive a salary of $1,000 n year for biiperintending the management of a business whoso aggregate for a year may fall below $30.000. There are many men who receive ? a,000 a year for di recting a business whoso volume does not in the course of a year reach $ 10,000. Mr. Potter , as the executive head of the Union Pacifio railroad , will bo the direct representative of a corporation whose capital stock runs up into thn millions of dollars. An insignificant percent of this enormous aggregate pays his salary of § 50,000 a year. If he has the ability to handle millions of dollars in .inch a way that a satisfactory profit is returned to the stockholders , then his salary is small in comparison with that of another of ficer who in controlling thu tiamo busi ness fails to make thu receipts overbal ance the oximiiHoH. It is'from this stand point that the services'ol the great rail road manager must ba measured. There are , very few men cnpablo of grasping the details of a largo business , and they iiro therefore in a position to command largo compensations. At the same time the stockholders of the corporation are individually paying no morrt for the services of Mr. Potter than some vastly smaller business house or factory is pay ing its superintendent who receive. ! a sal ary of $2,000 u year. Thorn are those who contend that no man can otirn $50,000 a year by honest work. This would bu true if the work was confined to ( lurking ditches or to holding a plow. There are thousands who can do ordi nary kinds of worn and stand ready to do it for day laborers' wages. Tlmro are very fuw mun ondowc.d by unlitm with the gunms of directing thn nlfttirs of an immense concern successfully. Herein lies die diflercneo. Tim Itlvnry of Death. Mn. M. L. ll.iunc in Dttiolt Frca lrt * . Evil news rides post , wlillo end IIHWS baits. Sauison Anonl tes. Ten o'clonkl I wavch anxiously from my window , for this is thi ) hour when thu gray-coated messenger of the people makes his duily npncaranco. Ho comes , and with a pleased expec tancy I look for to-day's mail. The whitn-whigcd carriers of news flutter in his humls as he turns thorn ovnr. Ah I there i * one with a heavy hlunk bor- dur some onu will have mournful IICWH by to-ilvy's : mail ! For mo ? The dead ambassador of fate is laid in my hand. Anil I had sulliihly breathed an inward prayer of congratu lation that 'Twas at thy door , O friend , and not at mine , 'rhoanuel with the ainnrunthlno wreath , Panning , descendedanil with voice divine , \Vhiipcreil a word ttmt had aaouml of dnath. I hesitate to break the heavy black .seal. The .superscription is that of a strange hand. Alt ! what friend beloved has passed through that ever opening door , "whoso curtain uevur outward swings ; " \ \ ho&o clad oyns hnvn opened upon the green Holds and still waters , were none nro over weary or slckb Whoso earth-worn feet ] have climbed the shining heights and entered upon the journey of the now world ? This mourning messenger has a story to tul ! ; why should I so dread to hear it ? Slowlv 1 oucn the dark-bordered mia- sive and unfold the somber sheet within , Yes , it is a familiar name , albeit a. stran ger writes the news. It is the friend of my youth , the beloved one , who has first crossed the dark river , the companion of happy years that are past leaving mo a simple mussngu : "Meet mo in the morning. " Well , alter all , death is the only crown of life ! What Is excellent. As (5od lives Is pormanonant : Jlenrts are duit , heart's loves remain Heart's love will meet theo To-day's mall has been nn event of my life , and not In minu alone. This sad visngod letter has carried its burden of sorrow all along the line , ULc a message from the dead. It has aroused pntlfotlc memories in other hearts that have mourned. The sorting clerk bestows a thought of sympathy on the unknown who sorrows rows , mid liis voice has u more kindly ring. The cancelling clerk remembers the vacant chair at his own lirosido and won ders if somebody's darling had gone into the Forever. The carrier forbidden by his calling to wear the outward semblance of grief mourns for a sweet child-life that has just faded out in his home , and is less gruff nud moro patient for her sako. Even the little maid who brings it tome has a loss impetuous qualltr in her voice as she asks : "Ess it anybody you for very much --I care , mndama ? " . - So I como to think that fashion has not done a foolish thingin giving to the news of "Mine nin countres" the livery of death , since it prepares us for the great est ot all great surprises , and draws hearts together as it passes trom hand to hand , oven though it has been writ by the "expert finger of calamitie. " An Omnlia Bleeping Cnr Port or. Chicago Herald : "There is one sleep ing car porter in this country who'll not die poor , if thrift and smartness count for anything , " said a gentleman who has just returned from a trip to California. "Soon after we left Omaha the porter of our car bccnn to talk base ball and to let us all know that ho was a base ball crank. Ho grow rather familiar , too , considering hit ) station , but nobody ob jected , for it is always best on cross country trip to keep on the coed side of the porter. Among the passengers were several gentlemen who take n little inter est in base ball , and so , along in the afternoon , when the porter kml about the sport some passengers had had the the week bcf9ro , and suggested 'jus * to kill time' we imitnto their example , 'the common makin * up a base bull pool at | 5 a guess , do pomman guessin' the clostist to the waj' the fo' league games comes out to take do pot. ' there wore seven responses. After the money had been paid into the hands of one wh'o was selected to act as stakeholder , and the subscribers had written out their guesses and .signed their names to them , the porter humbly asked permission to come in. Though wo all thought the chap was dis playing considerable freshness so long as he had suggested the scheme , in which wo had begun to take n good deal of in terest , there was no one to object. So the porter put up his $5 and filed his guess with the stake-holder. The next day wo got a paper at Cheyenne , and you can imagine how surprised we were when wo discovered that only one man m the party had named tlic four winners , and that man the porter , The way the fellow grinned when ho put the 10'away in ins pocket made me feel suspicious , and so , later on , when Another pool of the sitnio kind was proposed I decided to stay out and keep an eye on the porter. About 8 o'clock the train stopped at a little station and 1 saw the porter mak ing a break for the telegraph office. When he came out ho had a message. which ho was reading eagerly. Ke sat down in tnc smoking car and seriblnd something on a piece of paper , carefully consulting his message as ho did so , and then walked oack to the sleeping-car , remarking that he'd 'give the gcramen a chance to git a p.a't of the stuff back , ' nnd deposited with the stakeholder a f 5 bill and the slip of pnpor I'd seen him writing on in the smoking-car. "Having found out what his game was [ took thn stakeholder to pno side and said to him : 'This darkey is bunkoing us. It is now after 3 o clock. In Now 1'ork and Boston it is after 5. Th names have been played. We haven' been thinking of that , but this darkey liia. : Ho has just received a message tolling him which clubs won , and has named tlioso chtbs here and expects to take our money , just as he did yester day. " "So the stakeholder and I took out all the guesses , ehanged them all to read the ? : inio clubs that the porter had named , iiid put them back. Then wo posted the sthor follows. Next day when the returns - turns wore opened and it was found that 3uoh guesser had named the four win ners , it was worth live times $5 apiece to is to see the expressions which chased . -ach other up and down that shrewd Jarkv's face. " A Uoornlet nt Chicago Mail : Somebody broke into Kaunas City about ten days since and jarried ofl'its boom. The same iniseronnt is now supposed to bo operating in the neighborhood of Omnlm. if you nee any- hinjr in the nature of n little boom hurry- ng around the street corners here , with ts elbow out and ita uppers on the irnuiul , please pick it up and forward it .0 tha Kansas City Times oilier ) . Mr. J. F. Bluet is about to move to Pom- > n\ , Cat , thirty-threo miles east of Los /Vnjrcles. / " Oh , HAGAN'S MAGNOLIA BALM li rxquliltclr lovely , " aM Ml l Browatohir t rlcnili , u l.e uutcrxj tint ilravt liirf room , of tor laUIng n Ivnr. knt , fnlluulii ? Orlto ever & tamly.duVy wail. "Itlaco 1'urr , L'lcnnly and JU'frtnlilna. I always liavu It wltUr.io , ami n 'tti 6 Harmlrn * Liquid , I can uio It In a moment nud ict ; fcuch Itutaut relief ficm tl.o JtcrtnrnH , KouubucMi , Snllomutn , Tnn , FrccUlm nnil Horrid Old Klilrt ItlemlBhci , ciiuwl \ < j n Hat Min aiul Dry. Hnmh WluiU. " Loillcn , MAGNOLIA BALM 1 * for I'nrr , Neck , Arm * a&d llaud * . H - VltYlT )
