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VI } OMAHA DAILY BEE : WEDNESDAY , DECEMBER 28 , | 88T. ' " JTHE IPAILY BEE. KVKItY MOUSING. TKHMS OK fitllr ( Morning Kdltton ) Including timidity llr.r.On * Year . , . $10 00 For Htx Month * . r , 00 ForTIirte Months . . . . 3 CO Hi * Omnhn Sunday lute , in a I foil to nny nd- dre < m , One Yr r , . . , . ! 00 DHAKA Orricr , No. 914 ANnQieKAitNAMtfnirr.T. NKW Yon * Oincit , ItooMSi , TiumiNr. ISUILI * t n. WAHMINOTOK UrriCK , No. 013 I'ofn itwtn Srnr.rr. _ CORKKSPONDKSCK. All eominiinlratlonii relntltiK nfwji nd tdltorial matter nhotild be addressed to the EllITOIIOr TIIK IlKK. BU8INKRS M-rrTKllS ! All btmlncji * letter * nnd rrmtttuncru xhonlil 1-c rtdrrimed to THE Itr.r. I'tnit.innivn COMTANV. OMAHA. Ifrnftx , chwka nd poAtofflce order ! ! to be m de payable to tha order of the company. Hie Bee Pnlilishinfi Company , Proprietors , E. KOSEWATEK , EDITOII. THK KAIIiY 1IKK. Hwoni Htatcmcut of Circulation. Btnteof Nebraska , I. . County of Douglas. ( tndimr Doc. 2) . imr. WM u follows. Saturday Dec. IT . iS. . Hnuilay , PM.1B . . " . 15.000 Monday. Dcc.ll ) . 1V.I75 Tnrxdky. Dec. 3) . 14KS ! WrdneuUy , Dec.31 . . . 1I.MS ThtirKday. Uec.2 ! . H.KB Friday , fiec. 21 . .H.KHQ ir .04l ( iCO , 13. TXHUIIUlit. Sworn tn and subscribed In my .presence this Mlh day of December , A. D. MW. MW.N. N. P. FKIL. ( KK\t\ Notory Public BUte of Nebranka , . _ County of DouRlas. f GM > . il.Tzwhurk. beinp first duly sworn , de- pown and imjn that he fa secretary of Tlie He Pllbllihlnir company. that the arttial average daily circulation of the Daily Dee for the month of December , IfHl , 13,2(7 ( coplvn ; for January , HW7 , Ifl ftJ roples ; for Feb- ni ry. lre7. 14.1B8 copies ; for March. 1W)7. ) 14,401 } coplen : for April , lf7 , H,31fl copies ; for May , Jtr7. KJES7 cqptmi ; for June. liK7. ( 14,147 copies ; for July , 1887 , J4.0B1 copies ; for Aujriuit. iNiTi 14. . lei copied : for September , 1W7 , 14.349 copies : for October , 1887 , 14,3S ) | for November. 1887 , 15.KM copies. OKO. n.TZ8CHIICK. Bworn to ind subscribed in my presence this 3d day of December , A. D. IKfJ.N.r.FEH N.r.FEH , , ( SEAL. ) Notary Public. ST. PAUL only claim * a population of 208,000. There is nothing small about St. Paul. November one hundred and twenty-five railroad accidents wore recorded In the United StntCH. Most ot them could have been avoided by proper care. Tills vacant Mexican miBsion is still unfilled. The president is probably trying1 to find some one among the many applicants with moral Htatninti enough to withstand the strain on character which this minion entails. TIIORK democratic contemporarica who lay the flattering unction to their wnils that John Sherman's presidential boom has boon called In deceive thcin- | " " " "wives wofully. They will find it very 7 much in the field when the boom season re proper opens up. JACOB SiLUU' is himself again in his country homo. The open air and u good pull at the milk bottle have hrnccd him up BO that ho , Is occupied with his busi ness matters ojruiu. Ho has no doubt a long and active career of bribery yet before him. ni Ixtlio way of in tor-change of boodlors bolwecn this country and Canada the balance of trade IB largely in fuvor of that country. It is estimated that about three million dollars stolen from Canada is In circulation in the United States while the latter has added more than aix times as much to the wealth of the dominion during the past two years. No wonder the British authorities are so reluctant to enact more comprohon- . elvo extradition laws. IT Is now estimated that the total 1m- * jnlgration of this year will not bo so large na was predictedhutt summer. It wis then thought { hat the figures would certainly go to 800,000 , and might reach a million. It is now seen , however , that thny will fall under 600,000. This ought to IMS very gratifying intelligence to the nntl-immigrationists who have endeav ored to work up iv popular alarm on this subject , even though it does materially reduce the already light weight of their argument. Wo look for a season of rest in the anti-immigration discus sion. . ( ) N"tho roasaomb'ing ' of congress , Rep resentative Mason of Illinois will'pro - , Bout resolutions instructing the judici- ury committee of tho" houbo to investi gate "trusts" and recommend btops , 11 Buy are necessary , for relief from this form of capitalistic combination. Mr. Mason has a proper thing in view and it Is to be hoped ho will have no dim oulty in obtaining the support ot the house. And if ho shall do this ho will be wise to keep his eye on the couv initteo the "trusts" bo , as may depended upon to start a counter Investigation it order to ascertain what "stops , " ant how many of them , will bo necessary tc head oil any imprudent prying iiitc their ntTairs. THK recent suffering and loss of llf ( Ijj in Kansas , and to a less extent in No \ raska , from the sudden cold weather lias naturally turned attention ti the responsibility for thoao civ lumitics that rests upon the coal mo fcopollsts. The Springfield , Mass. Jitynblfcan says that while the situntioi has been bad enough the spirit back o it all is woi-ho , "It is the same , " say that paper , "that has been and is engaged gaged in starving the Lohigh Vnllo , miners , and which would import Bel gltuis to take their places , rather than having advanced the price ot their coti 1,60 a ton , pay their men 31 cents n to .more for the mining of it. It is th same spirit that would extend th monopoly of fuel by maintaining th U duty of 75 cents n ton on hituminou coal , that Now England manufaeturei and pcoplo * may bo cut oil fromth abundant supplies of Nova Scotia an placed more completely at the mercy t the barons. " It is tv very sad and At ' , i fc plornblo indictment that the sutrerin I' v1' in these western states has alread drawn ngalnst the coal monopolists , bu there is great reason to fear that won- remains behind. The importati question is will congress hoed it ? Un fortunately there is not very favorubl promise that it will , or at least thn those who do hood will ho uumorou Hough to defeat the creatures of th Wealthy nnd woll-ontronohod despoilei | f the people. $ ' % . ' The Flood of Bill * . Although only one branch of congress actually begun the transaction of busi ness before adjournment for the holiday recess , thg flood gates of proposed legis lation have already been opened wldo enough to swamp the treasury if a tithe of the measures suggested should over become laws. Several thousand hills have already been introduced and the agony hns bonrcoly begun. All arc more or le. Intimately connected with n de mand for more funds. Two or three combined would make such n hole In the treasury surplus , If passed , that no moro messages such as Mr. Cleveland's latest would bo likely to emanate from the .white house for years to rome. Pensions by the wholesale which place patriotism in the rtutmbles at so much a clay , pensions singly and individually which would override nil decisions of the pension office and all the rules of evidence in the proof of claims , private measures for the relief of claim sharks who are pushing them along on contingent fees , hills to Itr.provo prospective improvements and to subsidize plans and schemes bolstered up by irresponsible adventurers , eacli. and all find their place in the long roll of measures which have gone to the government printing ofllco to bo put in cold type for the benefit of a tax-ridden country. It is an enormous waste of paper and an equal waste of representative en ergy. Each or both of these could bo overlooked if the waste of time in volved in even temporary considera tion by congress of this avalanche of papers for impracticable legislation did not operate to the serious disadvantage of the country. Every session sees measures of paramount importance swamped in the flood of worthless bills which sweeps down upon the committee rooms or engulfs congress In the clos ing days. The cry of the country for reduced taxation is drowned by the calls of members for consideration of measures which may affect voters in their districts. The appeal of unpro tected labor for relief against pro tected capital cttnnot be- heard against the htorm of cries for recognition from senators and congressmen clamoring for a vote on private claims , private pen sions , private subsidies and measures which will raise or lower the price of stocks in which they or their friends have a private interest. Congress is annually turned into a vast factory , into whoso voracious hoppers are poured thousands of bills introduced for bun combe , which cannot bo passed and % were never intended to be parsed. And when a long-suffering public complains of the neglect of its important interests by its well-paid servants , it is pointed to the overloaded calendars , the stuffed committee pigeon holes and the tons of spoiled white paper which have acted ns an efficient barrier to the passage of needed legislation. The remedy lies in the hands of con gress. It is a simple and an easy one. A tribunal like the court of claims could readily be created to pass upon nil pri vate bills and relieve the calendars from their presence. Congress could then appropriate upon the recommenda tion of such a court. But where then would bo the rural representative whoso high boast is that ho has introduced moro bills for his constituents than any other member ? Cleveland' ) * Ingratitude. The statement regarding the fooling entertained by the late Daniel Manning toward Mr. Cleveland is by no means incredible. It is said that ho frequently referred to the president as ' 'that in- gruto , " and that on "OHO occasion ho spoke of him as "a man who never had a grain of gratitude in his soul. " It will of course bo said that the presi dent did all that was in his power , so far as Manning was. personally concern ed , to attest his appreciation of the de votion and .services of the political leader. Ho gave him the place of second end rank in Ills cnblndt , ho is under stood to have largely depended on him as a political counselor , ho declined to accept his resignation when ilrstolTorcd and allowed Manning a long vacation , and ho professed great regret when at last his retirement from the treasury department became Imperative. All this certainly does not seem compatible with the charge of ingratitude. And yet Mr. Cleveland may have been guilty of conduct toward Manning that warranted the latter in regarding the president ntftin ingratc. Mr. Cleveland's obligations to Manning wore not neces sarily canceled by his nppointinunt as secretary of the treasury In the hot battle ho had fought with untiring en ergy for Cleveland , and which , it is now generally conceded , would have boon loat but for the skill and zeal of Manning's mtuingnmunt , ho had en tered into obligations contingent upon succcbs which it was necessary to his own political welfare and to the har mony of the parly ho should make good , Ills character as an honorable politician and his authority as a loader were at stake. The mon vho had stood by him , under conditions of mutual confidence : in the light , looked to him for the recog nition whichhnd boon promised them , If ho failed them , ho raubt do so at the sacrifice ot their respect and of his leadership. There can bo very little doubt that Mr. Cleveland denied Mniv ning the privilege of making good manj of his political obligations. No one can doubt that the appointments mndo In New York during the first year of the administration were not generally o ! men whom Manning de.iirod or recom mended. Pearson , Ileddoii and t-onu others were not the men whom the leader of , the Now York democracy would have elevated to the most impor tant olliccs. As a thorough going dem ocrat ho would not only have selected men in full sympathy with the party , but who had done r < urvlco in its cause Ho hud no sympathy with the mug wump element which the adminlbtra tion at the outlet was"so anxious tc serve , and did servo until the wide spread voice of dcmociatic displeasure aroused Mr. Cleveland to a sense of tlu oxKdioncy | ) of giving fcomu considers tion to the claims of the momborb o his own party. But there is no evidence that Mr Manning's frlouds ever received favor able attention' , or that the president ever felt any solicitude respecting the political obligations resting upon the man to whom more than nny other ho owed his nomination and election. Hav ing rewarded the services of Manning , Mr. Cleveland concluded that all claims upon him from that source were sat isfied , and thereafter the political leader found himself a bankrupt in the power to reward those who had been faithful to him. It may never ho known with what urgency Manning pressed and in sisted U | > on the privilege of fulfilling eomo of his political obligations , but could it bo there would very likely bo seen ample justification of the opinion ho is said to have hold of the president. But If there bo nothing in this state ment regarding Manning there is other evidence that amply" proves Mr. Cleveland - land to bo little under the influence ot the sentiment of gratitude. With very few exceptions the men who mndo him politically ho has been most careful to banish from his friendship and favor. Undervaluations. In his annual report the secretary of the treasury again pointed out the ne cessity of legislation to free the admin istration of the customs service from the numerous defects which have caused no end of difficulty , great injustice to honest importers , immense loss to the government , and u mass of litigation that cannot bo disposed of in this gen eration. The subject is as old as the customs service , but congress has been exceedingly derelict regarding it , al though Us attention has been repeatedly called to the matter and measures have been introduced providing remedies. In the last congress Mr. Hewitt introduced a comprehensive bill relating to cus toms administration and worked very hard to got it through , but was unsuc cessful , as had been the efforts of others before him. The senate created a special committee on undervaluations which it is understood has made a very thorough investigation of the subject of evasions of duties. Its report may bo expected to give congress valuable in formation. Meanwhile favorable comment is made on the bill reported by Senator Allison , from the committee on finance , to regulate the importation of foreign merchandise and secure uniform classi fication and valuation. This measure has evidently been drawn with great care , and appears to provide thorough safeguards against the difficulties and abuses that seem inseparable from the present system. It provides amongst other things for nine general apprais ers to bo appointed by the president , not mure than five of whom shall bo of the same iwlitical party. Three of these shall sit constantly in Now York 'as a board , and shall hoar and'pass Up6n appeals from the decisions of the other inspectors. Very thorough regulations regarding invoices , statements , declar ations , and other mutters of detail , are provided , and the penalties prescribed for violations of the net seem sufficient to deter efforts nt fraud. There does not appear to be any reason why this bill cannot bo heartily supported by all men in congress , irrespective of party , who desire that the customs service shall he administered so ns to avoid im positions and fraud that arc at once n loss * to the government and a great wrong to honest importers. Without regard to opinions respecting the tarlll system , it should manifestly bo the de sire of every one to have the law impar tially enforced and ab&urc equity to all. The bill of Senator Allison has this pur pose , and it appears to contain all the necessary provisions to accomplish it. TUB committee appointed by the board of trade to induce manufacturers to come to Omaha can undoubtedly be trusted to promptly formulate a plan o ! procedure , so that the best possible use shall bo mndo of the time between now and spring for making Omaha's claim ! moro widely known. Within a few days the committee will bo placed in posses sion of the fullest and most trustworthy information concerning the business o Omaha for the present year , with com' parativo statistics for preceding years from which all the facts it will need tc make use of can bo compiled with lltth difficulty. Wo should like to imprcsi on the commit too the importance of im proving most fully the winter month : for disseminating information relating to Omaha as a manufacturing and commercial morcial center. We feel very confiden that if the right effort is made during the next three months most gratifyinf results will follow in the spring. IT is only from people who have neve given any intelligent study to the con ditions which underlie the progressani prosperity of Omaha that doubts an heard regarding the future of this city. Those who have witnessed the city" growth and understand the reason therefor arc never troubled by a que& tion ns to Omaha's destiny. Its es tablibhcd place among the metro politan cities of the west will ho main taincd and advanced. The rapidity o > its progress will of course depend upoi the energy and enterprise of its busi ness men , but in any event a stead ; and substantial advance is assured. Th present year has witnessed a remarko able progress , and the Indications an most favorable that It will bo oxceedci next year. THE next general assembly of low will have an undertaker among Its mem hers. Ho will , of course' , look after th bills which are killed. DlTLUTH , with a population of 32,00 ( has a seven story $400,000 , hotel undo way which will bo opened next fall This is suggcbtlve. The Lobbyist. 'flit Kpocli. The average proife&slonul lobbyist are not concerned with the big steals Such steals are comparatively few i number , and it would not pay the lol byists to wait for them. Instead c that the average professional lobby in feeds on small bits of legislation , and i makes no difference to him who the the object which the hill seeks to ac iomplish is good or bad. .Let us eeo th way in which ho goes to work. < When a bill suitable for his purpose is introduced , he waits for it to bu r < ferrcd to n committee , nnd then writes to the people interested in its pnsaago , Informing them that he has an intimate acquaintance with the clmlrmrn or some member of the committee having it in charge , and that for such and such a sum ho will guarantee the bill's pas- wige. At the same time ho writes a similar letter to some opponent of the measure , offering for tin equal amount to secure its rejection. One side or the other is pretty sure to take him nt his own valuation , nnd often ho pockets the money or both , nnd they cannot object without convicting them selves of bribery. Under ordinary circumstances , he can inform himself at the start whether a hill will go through or not , and then ho writes only to the Hide which is going to win. They prom ise him the sum asked for if the bill is dlsposecof in the manner they wish , and all ho has to do IH to allow things to take their natural course and claim the money when the result which ho has foacscon is obtained. Now whore is the peculiar iniquity of this. Kot In the swindling of people who are willing to compass their ends by means of bribery , so much as in the suspicion put upon the honest legislator who is a member of the committee. No matter how upright nnd incorruptible his course may have been , ho is allowed by the lobbyist to rest under the suspi cion of having accepted n bribo. He cannot reply to any charge , because there is none. He knows nothing of the imputation put upon him , and has no opportunity to defend himself. If by chance ho has a slight acquaintance with the lobbyist in question , his case is all the worse , for ho will bo picked out to be victimized in future cases , un til his reputation for honesty is thrown . away behind his back. It is difficult to conceive of a speciea of mankind moaner than this last typo of lobbyist. Ho is a robber , black mailer and swindler all rolled Into ono. So long ns ho is permitted to ply his trade undisturbed , the really honest members of a legislature of whom there are perhaps more than is supposed by the sceptical public will have only themselves to thank for the general dis belief in their probity. Any legislative body with nny regard for the preserva tion of its own reputation should make it its first duty to drive oil this swurm of professional vermin. STATE AXU TKItltlTOnV. Nebraska Jotting * ) . Sewnrd county presented a nc'w poor house to the indigent of that section last week. The Fremont board of trade has closed a bargain for the establishment of a Canning factory. North Bend enjoyed a healthy holi day boom. Five now babies arrived in advance of Santa Glaus. A cracker factory with u capacity of thirty-live barrels of flour a day , has been started in Central City. The democrats of Kearney are danc ing a lively hornpipe over the official -brognns of the late Postmaster Wat son. son.Tho Kearney mills remembered the poor substantially on Christmas. Fifty socks of flour were distributed among- them. Prof. Loach , of Howard county , who attempted to toachthei young idea how to shoot the ballotT was bounced as an offensive partisan. ' * ' Hastings boasts oT iibr readiness to boost , with from $1,006 to $50,000 cold cash , every institution starting in the city that will give employment to work- , ingmen. , , Nebraska , CityV82,000,000 stockyards has dwindled down to a $200,000 water ing station. In announcing the change the Times cheerfully declares that the city will not outrival Chicago for a few days yet. Grand Island whisks past Hastings with 200 more school children and 800 moro names in the directory. The queen city has not called the roll since the Missouri Pacific cleaned out the town treasury. Mr. W. C. Dibble has dropped out of the management of the Dakota City Argus. The change will enable Father Martin to spread his literary mush over every column , and feed it with a shovel to the griping intellectual bowels there abouts. The Nebraska City papers are , meta phorically speaking , dancing on the collar of Senator Mandorson because ho omitted the city in'his bill dividing the state into United States judicial dis tricts and naming the towns in which court shall bo held. Ono of the belles of Nebraska City has her understandings enveloped in "huge moccasins of lluxsood , hoping to draw them back to their natural size. She wont to a ball in shoes three sizes too small nnd contracted the swellings. She is considerably puffed , up over the affair. O'Neill registers a solid kick against the present train facilities between the city and Omaha , and particularly against mail management. Omaha papers reach there the day after pub lication , and the residents rebel against the delay in securing their chief intel lectual ftfast. Dakota county furnished St. Paul her Christinas beef. Two carloads of chief feeders , averaging 1,000 pounds each , were sent and served to the hungry sin- sors of the town. The juicy libers so enthused the residents that they imme diately proclaimed a population of 208- , 000. St. Paul beefs loud. 1 The Norfolk News is convinced that if Mr. Blaine had adopted as his watch word , "Protect American industries , and protect all our people from the rapacity and greed of corporate monopoly ely in all its forms nnd disguises , " ho would have found a responsive chord in , the heart of every true American citi zen , "Perhaps the most phenomenal part f of Nebraska's progress can bo found in the history of South Sioux City ac cording to the holiday Sun , founded in March of this year ; already possessing 500 population , with the proswet | of 1,500 in the spring nnd5,000 by the close of 1888. " The-building record for the year foots up $72,000. The Beatrice Dombe.rn't declares that Mr. Potter , the prospiit manager of the Union Pacific , is trying to see how few trains ho can run , how little accommo dation he canglvo the traveling public , and how much money he can earn for the stockholders. Thbro4s such a thing ns saving nt the spiggot and wasting at the bung. ; " The York Times issued an illustrated holiday number , ghowlhg the principal business , religious i and educational buildings in the city. Although a dis astrous lire chastened Its progress dur ing the year , the record ot the town shows a total of $110,000 expended in improvement. All the modern incon veniences and comforts tire represented in the town waterworks , electric lights , telephones nnd gas. A wooly individual from the sheer Holds of tinge county has purnly/ad the if Beatrice Democrat with a peremptory order to "stop my paper" because it ap it proved the tariff utterance of President Cleveland. The Democrat recovered In time to shear Its ox-patron and market the clip. Mr. Marvin has dispensed with editorial luxuries , and by adding a. few necessaries to the free list , prom ises to weather the gala IB a linen dus ter. Iowa Itctni. Dos Molncs is negotiating for a cottpn factory. Oskaloosa boasts of nine flourishing literary societies. The high price and scarcity of hogs 1mvn closed the paekorles at Davenport. Davenport hns organized a new Busi ness Men's association , with an Initiation fee of $25. The bank capital of Iowa amounts to $ . ! .000.000. nnd the capital Invested in stock is $ .525,450,791. , Prophet Foster advises ice harvesters to gather the crop before the 1st of January , ns ho will turn loose a warm wave tno first week In the month. Davenport is going to have ample railroad facilities. The Chicago , Bur lington < te Quincy has opened up a freight house there , and the Northwest ern is making an effort to buy the new Davenport & Duhuquo , ten miles of which is completed west from the city. Wyoming. Cheyenne will turn loose in honor of the Burlington road next Tuesday. The Wyoming Hereford association has passed into the hands of a receiver. The railroad eating house at Chey enne has been closed by the Pacific Hotel company. The prison board of Ohio has refused to approve the contract to board and en tertain Wyoming criminals and the ter ritory will now bo compelled to keep them at home. A Chicagopyndlcato , with a capital of $ 5,000,000 , has been incorporated to work oil and mineral claims in the ter ritory. The organization already holds title to more than 6,000 acres of coal and oil land in Carbon county. Frank Georgea railroad employewas killed by the cars at Lur'amio last Thursday. The unfortunate young man wasomployed in the car repairing depart ment nnd was at work upon a box car that had boon jacked up nnd was to bo loaded onto a flat and sent to Omaha. Frank was working nt ono end of the car and between the rails of the track above which it was resting on blocks , when a switch engine backed up against it at the other end and knocked the car oil the block , tipping it over on him and crushing and mangling him in the most awful manner. The crown of the coupler struck him on the head about the base of the brain and severed the entire upper part of the skull as cleanly as if it had been done with an ax. Montana. Bullion shipments from Butte last week amounted to $103,360. It is expected that there will bo a big rush of Immigrants to the fertile Flathead - head valley next spring. The schools in Lewis and Clarke county were kept in running order during December-with $58,000. , Ten mining companies of Montana paid dividends during the first eleven months of 1887 , aggregating a total of * 2,830 , 78. Tho4total receipts at the government assay office in Helena during the year amounted to $1,354,667. The mineral output of the territory for the year will approach $30,000,000. " Gallatln county has thirty-five school districts nnd 1,905 children of school age. The school fund amounts to $13,440.55 , or an average of $0.80 per capita. A DAGGER AT HIS THROAT. The Revenge of a Mexican Girl "Whose IJOVCT Was.Sluiu in a Duel. Sau Francisco'Examiner:1 : In the fall of 1839 a party of Mexicans were travel ing through what is now Butte county , their destination being the valley where the town of Chico now stands. The train of horses nnd wagons with which the men and women were journeying in the slow style of that day belonged to a Spaniard named Lapcznda. Ho and his family constituted the principal portion of the party. He had many an acre in Alttv , Cal. , and on his lands grazed innumerable horses and cattle , but his most prized possession was a daughter , who was then , nt sixteen years of age , the very embodiment of all that soft beauty and sensuous grace peculiar to the women of Castilian de scent. It was natural for men to fall in love with her. Like all girls with the warm , passionate blood of Mexico coursing in her veins , her bodily development had boon rapid , her affections had ripened early , and at sixteen years of ago she was already a woman. Among those who were her worship ers were an American named Thomas Lansing , who had been born in Ver mont , and a Scotchman named Harvey McGruitran. They were constantly near her , and the influence of her pres ence never allowed their love to cool. MeGruignn had moro opportunities than Lunsing to bo in her society and advance his suit , since ho was secretary to Don Lupezadtv and took his meals at the table with the family. Lansing was the wagon boss and had general charge of the caravan while on the road. Both hud lived in Mexico and among the Mexicans for a long time and wore ns familiar with the language as tv native. McGruigan was a pleasant wooer , be sides being much handsomer than Lan sing , and soon the hitter saw that his rival was smiled upon , while ho himself had none of the girl's regard. Naturally fiery tempered. Lansing conceived n violent hatred for the Scotchman and never missed a chance to seek a row with McGruigan. Throughout the journey ho had repeatedly endeavored to involve McGruigan in trouble. It was thus matters stood when the valley in which Gridloy is _ situated was reached. There Lansing insulted MeGruignn in such a manner that the latter yielded to hjs angry feelings and challenged the other to n duel. This was just what Lunsing desired. Ho had boon waiting for the moment when ho might kill his successful rival over since the lovely sonorittv had let the Scotchman know that her heart was all his o\yn. None of the usual formalities of the codo'was. needed for such an encounter as the men proposed. They repaired tea a grove of a timber then occupying the site of what is at present the town of Gridloy , and there , after a short space had been measured oft , began shooting at each other with their pistols. Three shots were fired by each man. The third bullet from Lansing's pistol was effec tive. The ambition of his hatred had been satisfied , us the ! leaden pellet en tered McGruigan's brain and ho fell down dead. Lansing himself had ro- colvod u bullet in his loft arm , nnd ono shot from McGruigan's weapon had car ried away the lobe of his right oar. Having satisfied himself that Mc- Gruigun was dead and would trouble him no longer , Lansing turned to leave the spot. Ho had replaced his pistol in his belt and given a fast hasty glance at the face of the dead man , when from behind - hind the trees ippenrod the girl herself. She crept up behind Lansing and stubbed him in the neck with a stiletto , Hovuring the jugular vein. Ho sunk on the gram , and died. The girl hud noticed the two men leaving camp , had been attracted to the scene of the duel by the sound of the firing , and hud ar rived there in time to ace the man she loved fall lifeless to the ground. The fate of the girl herself soeina td have boon forgotten. . ' ' , DANOEKOUS CRANKS. Note * lYom the Kipcrlence of White Hondo Detective. Correspondence of the Globe-Demo crat : Detective Henry Kolb , who has constant supervision of the white house' at Washington , is ono of the best ixvdod men on cranks and their pecu liarities in this country. Ho can loll a great many now and interesting stories of his experience at Washington , but , as he Is a quiet , modest man , it Is rarely that ho can ho induced to talk on the subject. It was Kolb who first pointed out Guitcnu to Secretary of SUite Blaine and warned him that the future ni , ns- sln of President Garfield was a danger ous crank. The dotcutlve allowed him self to bo interviewed by a Jert-ey friend the other day , however , mid what ho said is worth making public. Keforrlng to the subject of cranks , ho said most people suppose they are shab bily dressed creatures , with long , unkempt - kempt hnlr and bristling beard. This belief ho characterized as being far from the truth. Ono class of cranks is of the above description , but there are nu merous classes. Tito poorly dressed , un kempt cranks are usually from country places. They are poor * and come to Washington to collect amounts of money they imagine the government owes them. As a rule this class is w * * very dungorous. "The fellows most to bo feared are the well-dressed , oily-tongucd , who draw enough income from somewhere to sup port themselves , and who imagine that they own the earth and have a first mortgage on the sun , moon nnd stars. Gttlteau belonged to this latter class. He wanted tv high position under the state department , and used good and parently sensible language to con- ice Mr. Blaine that he was entitled to the place. Failing in this , God or dered him. so ho said , to remove Prcs- 'dent Garfleld , which ho did. " CltANKS AT THE AVH1TE HOUSK. While at the white house Detective Kolb was compelled to use great vigi lance to keep the well-dressed smooth- talking cranks from entering. Their stories were plausible and their appear ance respectable. The fellows with'tv week's growth of nappy hair and heard , and wearing clothing faded by the storms of many seasons , could be driven away like an old woman "shooing" chickens in many instances' The for mer. however , stood on their dignity , nnd it was frequently necessary to' use force to got them off the exectuivo premises. "Ono afternoon , during General Grant's first term , " said Mr. Kolb , "a tall , stylishly-dressed man , about forty- five years of age , came to the main door and in a very dignified manner de manded to see tlio president. Wo in formed him that the president was not that . 'Ah ' he receiving day. , rejoined with the utmost sang froid , 'General Grant is always at homo to republican members of congress. ' It was during the session of congress , and believing that the caller was what ho represented himself to be , I pointed out the way to the reception-room up-stairs. Ho quickly disappeared up the velvety stairway , and wo resumed our conversa tion. Pretty soon there was a commo tion at the head of the stops , nnd the usher up there sang out : 'Come up herOj Kolb , quickl' I bounded up-stnirs nnd into General Grant's ofilco , and hcro was the congressman gesticulat ing wildly , talking loudly , anp follow- ! idg the president about the apartment in u very excited manner. WHAT TIIK CUANK WANTED. "The president was as cool as . a norther , but there was an angry gleam out of his.oyes. 'PutthU follow out ! ' ho commanded , imperitivoly , and , as I seized Mr. Congressman , ho quietly re sumed his scat and continued nt his work us though nothing had happened. After a brief struggle I got the fellow to the head of the stairs and I told him I would throw him down if ho did not go peacefully. Ho went. It was several days before I learned the true cause of the disturbances. In the meantime the president rebuked mo for not being moro careful who I ad mitted into the building. 'I am not afraid of such fellows , ' ho said , 'but they annoy mo andoccupy valuable tuneall of which you could avoid by not admitting them. ' Had I known at the time what the fellow did I would have handed him over to the polico. I learned the par ticulars from one of the children. Ho came in and claimed that ho had been elected to congress from the Baltimore. district by 1,000,000 republican majority and notwithstanding tliat fact his seat in the house was still occupied by a democrat. Ho wanted the president to go to the capitol with him at once and de mand that the democrat ho ousted forth with. The general not only refused to do this , but ho touched the button and summoned the doorkeeper. In the meantime , bcforo my arrival on the scone , the crank followed the president about , threatening the most dire ven geance unless ho wont to the capital with him at onco. 1 have always be lieved that General Grant narrowly missed being assaulted or perhaps as sassination on that day as the crank was in a white heat rage when I fired him out of the white house. " AVOUKVIXU THK SKCIIin'Ar.IKS. The detective also described how the late Secretary of State Frolinghuyson was grappled'by a cranky German , who wanted to bo made n special envoy to England and Canada , for the purpose of working a secret scheme to overthrow the English government , raise the stars and stripes over St. James' castle , nnd declare England , Ireland. Scotland , Canada and the other provinces to bo additions to the republic of the United States. When Mr. Frolinghuyson or dered this fiery and extremely cranky diplomulo from his office the latter seized him by the hippol of the coat , and would have assaulted him but for the presence of a doorkeeper and mes senger , who hustled the fellow out. Kolb said a crank called on Secretary Lamar hist week and wanted 1,000,000 acres of land in the west to establish anew now "Land of Canaan , " whore the fol lowers of the "unborn lamb" could wor ship in pence , away from the vices of civlli/ation. Ho termed himself the high priest of the now order. Secre tary Lamar jokingly informed him that the festive red man was ( .till a predom inating feature in the wild west , and that the followers of the unborn lamb ' slightly moro find the scnlping-knifo unpleasant than the vicosof civill/.alion. . AteOUT WYOMING. A Trip With Governor Moonlight In u Correspondence of the Boston Adver tiser : The first thing that struck the governor in his travels was the way in which land-gobbling had boon carried on in the territory. "I was amazed , " said ho , "to find cattle and homo ranches claiming thousands of acres of land un der and by virtue of the various classes of entries permitted and granted by the United States laws , and much of It by virtue of discovery only. In con versation with the United States land officers at Cheyenne I havn learned that many of these entries have been made by men and women , citizens of the territory , and by men nnd women who have never set foot in Wyoming , and never had any knowledge of the lands , its locality or its surface appearance. . . . The home-HUe principle of land for the landless has degenerated into the monopoly practice of mpro laud for the land-owners. There iOfitas ( d have been nil epidemic rnglng In Vfy * oming to secure this supposed to bo worthless land , and then there scorns to have been another epidemic to got rid of It , not by returning it to the .govern ment like so much conscience money , but by disposing of whatsoever rights they supposed they had obtained to it , to individuals , companies and corpora * lions who were willing to assume all risks for the sake of gutting immediate- possession of the lands. " Governor Moonlight , the further ho traveled , grow more familiar with this. Hy the time he had finished his trip ho was thoroughly disgusted. "There seems to htivo been , " says ho , "ft senti ment that all you can got out of the gov ernment you have a rightto gotand not IK ; over iKtrticular about it. There seems to bu also another Hontlmont , that , as much of the land is of little value , the government ought to ho glad to get the money for it , nnd not bo too particular and exacting alxutt residence , cultiva tion , reclamation and timber culture. " But things are changing now. It is a ease of reaction , owing to the Abuses. There is to-day a healthy sentiment for tv frank and fearless enforcement of the - land laws looking to actual settlement , nnd , strange as it may appear , many of those who are in possession of large bodies of land are desirous of selling1 , but men will not buy unless the tltlo from the government is ) > crfect. One thing which would help im mensely to settle this would bo immi gration. This is what all the people are looking forward to. The government complains that , while the western states and territories are industriously and persistently advertised , Wyoming is not. To the ono colonization society at work there he gives the benefit ot the wide circulation of his report us an ad vertisement , gratis. And what are the Inducements Wy oming and Moonlight hold out ? First , an agricultural boom , the buggy rldo showed In some of the ranches , "a strong tendency to gardening" and some of the finest vegetable gardens to be found in the country. There has been two big cattle shows this year , and in each ot them was found the trotting track so familiar to frequenters of the Massa chusetts festivals. The Wyoming horse , the governor says , is a peculiarly hardy creature. "I have never , " ho adds , "seen a Wyoming-bred horse with poor feet. " There is a good deal doing In tho. way of soda , and something in glass malving. Window gloss is the sort turned out , and the ono factory in the Territory is the only ono west of 1 Joule Island. Illinois. The bed of sand which supplies the factory is perfectly while and apparently inexhaustible. There is n little coal mining in Crook county , but the oil field is perhaps the richest in the territory. There are wells in the Shoshotio basin , in the Jlat- tlesnuke basin and near Powder river. A syndicate has been organized in Chicago cage and Milwaukee to work the field. The value of the deposits in this region may readily bo calculated when it is observed that the Standard Oil company at once sprung to grasp all their chances. The metal chiefly found in the Wy oming mines Is copper. Only ono mine had been worked at all extensively at the time the governor took his buggy ride. "Tho ono great trouble in the mining developments of Wyoming. " ho explains , "is the cost of living. The moment the agriculture productions are such ns to sustain the people engaged in afl kinds of business men will feel able to turn their attention to prospecting , but the cost of living is so high nt present that bare prospecting will not pay them. That the precious metals abound in Wyoming none will deny , but ; until some rich paying district is struck the mining interests will drag along , awaiting the favorable turn of cheap food and cheap transportation. A big find cares nothing for cheap living , for all is u boom and all is on the high pressure - sure order. " Ono of the thriving and most promis ing agricultural enterprises of fertile Wyoming is the construction of the Mammoth canal. This canal is to bo constructed at once , and will give irri gation to 270,000 acres of rich soil of the Green river basin. The canal is to bo located on the drainage of the Green river in Frcemout and Sweotwater counties on the western slope of the "ontinont , thirty miles west of and directly facing South Pass. The lands under the canals for nearly fifty miles tire crossed by the old 1fSouth Pass trail , " famous in the days of Oregon and California travel , and it is a significant commentary , indeed , on modern progress and civi/.ation that the old "South Pass trail , " famous heretofore only for its record of toiling , travel nnd desert privation , is soon to be the center of a region which will blossom as the roso. Wyoming has a state educational in stitution. It is a university , of course , although it consists of ono building. It was opened September 1,1887 , and Gov ernor Moonlight contents himself with reproducing its prospectus circular. In fact reproduces everything nice about the territory which he can discover , evidently being determined that if colonizing companies will not advertise his dominion ho will not let it go longer unknown. < BABY'S ' SKIN AND SCALP Cleansed , I'lirlllort and nnniitlflcd by Cutiuurii Krtncdics. Last November my llttlo boy , nxcA throq . . fell tiKiiliiftt tlioutove wlillo ho wiw run. youih. ulliK , aiui ml lil lit-ail , nnd right utter that , 1m liroko out all over hib liund , luco ixml letttmr. 1 hud K Kood doctor. Dr. - , to uncivil him , liilt UuKut worM ) , nnil the doctor could not turn hint. IINwholo In-art , fuco mid left enr weni In u fem fill htiite , nii < l ho sulleicd tun llly. I caught thw iliM-uso from him. and It npro.id all over my . fucH nnil neck and ovtui Kft Into my eyes. No. body thought wo would over get lettor. I felt sure d weia illsilKitrfil for lit" . 1 hoard of the Ciiiicunv JII.MBIIIPH , nnd procured a IjottlooC CtiriCUHA ItKHOI.VK.NT , ft box Of ClJTICUIIA , Blll ( nriikn of C'liTicriu ho AT , and tifacd thorn con stantly day and iiluht. After tisliiK twoliuttlew of ItKMU.VKvr , four lx > xos of CUTIUQIIA , and four cakort of SOAIwo are pcifocllr cured with out a HC ar. Jly boy' * hklu Is now like tln. . KITING. : i7Kilandhtreit. L1LL.1K Swointo , bi/foio'me , 'this S7th day of March , ISM. Uir.llEUT 1' . JtOUIMiON , J. 1 * . THKVOKHT 8OKK IIKAII. Have been In tun drug nnd modlclnobuslneM for twenty-live years. Have be-on ftelllug your CUTICIWA UKMEIIU-H Hlijta they came vest. They lend all other * I" their line. W could not wjite norroiild you print nil we have heard mild In favor nfthot'uiMJUiu ItKMKlilKH. One year PRO tlioC'UTiCi'HA nnd Ko Ar cured n little Klrl In rnir house of the w oret Mora head wo over tin w , and the Itr.HOt.vrAT and CDTICUHA are now cur- Inu H young Kentlcimm of u tout le . while thn plnnlcluns are trytiiK tohavu It amputated. Jt will Have hit ICK and perhnim lili life. Too mucli cannot b- < said In favor of CUTICUKA HKMKIIIKS. b. It. BM1TI1 & , IlltO. CoviNQTOS , KV. CUTICUHA , the Krent nkln ( ure.J.md CUTICURA. So IP , mi cxiiUlte akin benutllkr , external ly.und C'tiTJCintV ItKsni.vr.NT , tliu new blood purlllt-r. 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