Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, October 11, 1888, Page 4, Image 4
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : TjnjKSDAY , OCTOBER 11 , 1883 , THE DAILY BEE. ) KVI2IIY MOUNING. TKttMS 01' SUIISCUIITION. Dally ( Morning Hdltlou ) including SUNDAY Ilr.K.Uno Year . 110 do J'orMic .Months . f. ( J'orThrce Months . aw U'HK OMAHA HUMIIAV HKK , mailed to nny address. One Ycnr . 2 ( < ) . . NKW YoiiKUmur. , HOOMS 14 AND l5Tniiu.vn HrlMUMl. WASHINGTON UmOK , NO. CM I BtllKKT. . .A 11 communications relating to now * nna lorlnl matter should bo addressed to the l . All business If tiers nntl remittances should bo addressed to Tun HKK I'UIIMKIIINO I'OVI-ANV. OMAHA , Drafts , checks and po-ttolllco orders to bo made jmyublo to tlio order of tliu company. Me Publishing Company , Proprietors , E. KOSEWATEU , Editor. Till ] UKK. Stvorn Klntciiicnt ( il Circulation. Btnti" of Nebraska , County of Douglas. 1 Bl " ( leorge 11. Tzschuck , secretary of the ilee 1'ub- IIMilnir company. iloes solemnly swear that the uctiwl circulation of Tin : U.ui.v UKK for Ilia vcek ending October 6 , liif. ) * was us follows : Hundiiy.Sept. : ) . 18.SH Monday , Oct. 1 . 1MIW Tuesilay. Oct. B . 1"OH Weilnesrluy. Oct. 'J . 1W5I7 Thursilnv , Oct. 4 . Wm Friday. Oct. D . 18,020 fcutlinlay , OU. 0 . 1S.11H 1B.CM ) OI'.OHOK II. T/.PCIUIOK. Sworn lo beforn tne nnd subscribed in my presence this Cth dny of October A. I ) . . IKS * . j cal. N. 1' . ruilj. Notary 1'ubllc. Btatoof Nebraska , I L-County of Douglas , | as' ( loot-go II. Tzscliuck , being duly sworn , do lmens und says that ho Is secretary of The Hue Viibll.shlng coiiiiuny | , that thu actual average ilally clrrulatlnn of Tin : DAILY UKK for thu inontn of October , ll-b" , H.IICI copies ; for No vember. Jc87 , IV 'f ' copies ; for December , 18s" , Ifi.Ull copies ; for.Immary , ISSH , ir.SlG copies ; for February , IKW , l.'j.WJ copies ; for March , IS8 , WMi copies ; for April. 1NW , 18,744 copies : for May. 1H& , JS.ISl coploi : for.luno , lb8S , 1U.B41 copies ; for July , JHhH , lHTi ( ! : copies : for August , lt8. IH.lsl copies ; for September , IMtH , was 18.1.11 copies. ( iioHU : ( ! II.TX.SOIUTCK. Sworn to before nml subscribed In my pres ence , this th day of October , A. IMH. I ) \ . N. P. KKIIj , Notary i'ubllc. Tim elioioo of Koswoll P. Flower us trcusurof of tlio national doinocratio clubs of Now York , la hailed with de light by the inntropolitsin boodle Ko.swcll 1ms it very big bnr'l. OMAHA cnn well luy cluim to being one of the healthiest eitios in the union. I lor death rate was but cighty-nino for the month of .September. No city with a population of ever ono hundred thotis- nnil can point tosuch a mortality record. Tun council is to bo commended for orderincr the building inspector to revoke - voke the permit given to the Now York life insurance company to excavate a boiler room under Seventeenth street. It would have established a dangerous precedent. IK THU Omaha board of trade would endeavor to correct the evils of the de murrage extortion , it would servo the business interests of the city much hot ter than trying to find a soft place for Mr. Grifliths in the state board of trans portation. MA.TOU IIuwAiin MILLS , of Washing ton , I ) . C. , proposes the formation of anew now society , "Tho Military Order of United Sons of America , " to bo formed for soldiers of both parties in the late unpleasantness. Without desiring to burl the feelings of Wiuhingtoninns it may bo hinted that they are apt to get things a little mixed there , and that the G. A. 11. of the north and particu larly of the great northwest are per fectly satisliod with their present or ganization. Tin : opening of the session of the United States supreme court after its long vacation brings to mind that thu highest tribunal in tlio country is now moro than three years behind iu its work. There is moreover little prospect that the court will bo able to catch uj > in its work. Unless the number of judges on the bench is increased or intermediate courts of appeal arc estab lished , it will bo a dillleult matter for an ordinary appellant to got a decision in less than flvo years. THK news comes from California that Chinese laborers are being landed right along in spite of the Scott exclusion law just passed. Several of these China men wore landed on the plea that they wore citizens of the United States. It appears tv very simple matter for a Chinese petitioner to add the names of nn alleged father and mother who will swear that they are his parents and that ho was born in this country. The "American citizen" loophole in the Scott billsoomsa very convenient dodge for the inllux of Coolies. WHAT a farce the national bureau of dillroiids is anyway. In his annual re port just handed in to the secretary of the interior , General Joseph 13. John ston , the commissioner of railroads , stated that ho has inspected the Union mid Central Pacific and all the roads in California and Oregon connected with the latter , and all the railroads in Washington Territory. "These roadn , " Bays Mr. Johnston , "aro all in very sat isfactory condition. Steel rails have been substituted for iron almost every where. " For this pleasing information the country pays handsome salaries and sends the commissioner on a junket tour in a special private car supplied with wines and all the luxuries of the season by the railroads. And this is called railroad supervision. Mit. JOHN B. FuuAV has been np. pointed and confirmed as member of the board of public works to fill the posl tion made vacant by the expiration ol the term of Louis llelmrod. Mr. Furay is well qualified for the position , and hi ? largo property Interests in Omaha will bo an incentive to his giving close at tention to public works. It Is to be hoped that Mr. Furuy will at once familiarize himself with the work now in hand by contractors and place hli veto upon every claim for work that i : not executed in accordance with con < tracts and spooilkations. There is : wide field of usefulness before Mr , Furay , nnd if ho can keep the contrao tors' ring that now dominates in Omuhc from robbing and cheating the taxpay ers by bad work and inflated claims hi will receive the thanks nud gratitude o the community. Not Doubtful. A roving correspondent of the Now York jfYinc * , anxious , doubtless , to glvo what encouragement ho may to demo- c'ratic hopes , writes to that paper that "it is not at all unreasonable to regard Iowa as a doubtful state. " Ho does not consider it quite safe for the democrats to rely upon the chance of carrying Iowa for Cleveland to give them a na tional victory In November , but ho re marks that "Iowa Is more doubtful than Illinois , " and cites in evidence some changes to the democracy of former re publicans , a few of whom enjoy a local prominence and a measure of inlluenco with their neighbors. Three months ngo an assertion that Iowa was doubtful might have received serious consideration , but nobody who Is accurately informed regarding that btato will give It any sucli attention now. Not only is Iowa as safely repub lican as Illinois , but she will in all probability do what Illinois very likely will not , that is , very considerably in crease the republican plurality of four years ago , when it was nearly twenty thousand. There is unquestionably a very strong sentiment in Iowa in favor of curtailing the revenues of the government by reducing taxes , but the intelligent voters of that state , the large majority of whom are farmers , do not see in the sectional Mills bill , which discriminates against tome of their most important products , the plan of reduction which they believe to bo wise and just. They think with their distinguished senator that there is noth ing fair or equitable in proposing to deprive the agricultural products of the northern states of the small protection that is now given them , while the sugar and rice growers are well taken care of. However willing they may bo to make some concession in order that national taxation shall bo reduced , they do not appreciate thodib- crimitiiition that demands of them to yield up everything and still extend an ample protection over a few sugar par ishes of Louisiana and over tlio rico plantations of the Carolinas. The farmers of Iowa know what is just to their interests , and they do not Hud that the Mills bill contains il. Many of them who have hitherto acted with the dem ocratic party will not do KO in Novem ber. There is another fact to bo con sidered , and that is that Iowa is one of the soldier states , and its thousands of veterans feel deeply thu policy and course of the present administration regarding their welfare. The sons of these old soldiers who will cast their first vote next No vember will not deliver their ballots against the party which has over de manded the generous treatment by the government of the men who preserved - served it. Obviously fowa offers no hope to the democracy this year , and it is as absurd to class her among doubtful states as it would be to put Ohio in that category. It is not to bo expected that lo.va will this year give the great republican plu rality she gave eight years ago , but all indications are that there will bo a largo increase over the republican vote of four years ago. Correcting ft Srcrloits DofVct. It was only recently discovered that there is a rather serious defect in the act passed in 1887 to regulate tlio count ing of the electoral votes for president and vice president , and on Tuesday the senate passed a bill to remedy this de fect. The act of 1S87 was designed to remedy some doubtful questions and ro- inovo certain occasions for dispute. It changes the date for the meeting of the electors in the several states from the first Wednesday in December to the second Monday in January , but it makes no provision for the transmis sion to the president of the senate and to the judges of the district courts of the certificates showing the vote of the electors for president and vice presi dent , leaving the law of 1792 in that respect - ' spect to stand unropealcd. That law , however , does not fit in with the changed date for the mooting of the electors. It provides for three certifi cates , ono to bo sent by messenger to the president of the senate and to bo delivered to him before the first Wednesday of the following January. This is prior to the time appointed in tlio act of 18S7 for the meeting of the electors. A duplicate certificate ) is to bo sent by mail , forthwith , to the president of the senate , and a triplicate is to bo delivered forthwith to the judge of the district. Obviously it would bo impossible for the electors mooting on the second Monday in January , as pro vided in the act of 1887 , to send ono of the certificates by messenger to the president of the senate to bo delivered before the first Wednesday in January , but could "forthwith" mail they a cer tificate and deliver another to the judge of the district court. The act of 1792 provides for the possi ble failure of the messenger to act by requiring that in such case the sco rotary of state shall send a special mes senger to the district judge , in whoso custody ono certificate has been placed , and the judge is required to thereupon transmit that certificate to the seat of government , the evident intention being that the certificate * filed with the judge shall take the place of that which should have been sent by messenger to the president of the bonato. Under the act of 1887 there would necessarily bo a failure , and while it would bo corrected in the manner provided for in the old law , It is manifestly de sirable that the 'lefoct in the law ol last year bo remedied , so that there shall bo no cause of dispute or trouble. This tlio bill passed by the senate on Tuesday provides for , by directing that the certificates and lists of votes for president tind vice president of the United SVates shall bo forwarded to the eonato forthwith after the second Mon day in January , on which the electors shall give their votes. The bill alec amends the revised statutes relating tc this matter , so as to provide thul whenever the certificate of votci from any state has not beoi received at the seat of govern' mont on the fourth Monday of January the secrotnry of state shall sand c special messenger to the district judgci in whose custody thu certificate of votoi from that' state has boon lodged , anc such judge shall forthwith transmit that list to the beat of government. It is somewhat singular thut the defect in the act of 1837 evaded the scrutiny both of congress and the president , for now that it has been iKintud ) out it appears usIllclcnUy glaring to have attracted at tention on the most curbory perusal of t' ' > u act. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ An Attractive I'Ynturo. Commencing with its Sunday ibs > uo of October 14 , TillUKE will begin the publication of a series of Interesting letters upon "tho out of way places of Asia , " from the pen of Mr. Frank O. Carpenter , who has made himself fa mous ever the well known signature of "Carp. " Under the agreement made with Tins BKK and sev eral of the great American dallies , Mr. Carpenter will traverse and write up sections of the Orient not usually visited by the average "globe trotter , " and the results are tlio exclu sive property of the journals inter ested. Mr. Carpenter's first letters will bo from Japan , thence ho will journey to China , drifting from the Flowery Kingdom through the islands of the western Pacific lo Siam , and thence by way of the Straights of Malacca and Ceylon to India. From India ho will go to Palestine and Turkey , and thence lo Egypt and the palace of the khedivo. Dispito the Russian rage against American newspaper cor respondents due to George Ken- nan's articles on Siberia , "Carp" proposes to traverse the Caucassus and southern Kussia visiting the domains of the czar and Greece. This is a nota ble programme and promises the collec tion of a fund of interesting information from oul-of-way places which will provo of great novelty and interest. That the lotlors will bo moro than readable goes without saying. No journalist of tlio day writes more piquant and charming gossip than "Carp. " lie has an cyo for novel situations , a nose for news and a pen which interprets as truly as a pho tographer's camera. The readers of THK UKK can bo assured that a genuine treat is in store for them during the coming year from Mr. Carpontor's ver- salilo pen , and they will no doubt await lis successive letters with all the impa- riliencc of a reader inlorested in a level which is "to bo continued in our next. " Stop Tliat Liuak. The cost of maintaining the poor farm tnd the county's poor for the year 1888 s put at thirty-thrco thousand dollars , in average expense to the county of vor ninety dollars every day of the i'oar. The maintenance of the poor 'arm proper costs about twelve thousand dollars a year. There is an average at- .endancc of seventy-six paupers who are supported at an expense of over forty cents a day for each person. The food for every individual costs wolvo cents , leaving a balance of twenty-eight cents supposed to bo ex pended daily for his benefit. It is im- ) ossiblo to estimate with exactness for ivhat purposes this money is spent , as the superintendent of tlio poor farm nakcs no report of receipts and expendi tures. It must , however , impress every taxpayer that the authorities of Douglas ounty are paying out too much for the support of paupers and the poor meas ured by the benefits which they get. A reform is demanded. The leak must be stopped. If ninety dollars a day are spent for the support of the county's wards , the taxpayer should know that the poor are getting full value for every dollar expended on them. A change is imperative ) in the loose system of accounts where the expenses for the poor farm and the money spent on the county's poor are hopelessly jumbled together in the county's general - oral expenses. The commissioners hould sco to it that every dollar of this fund is properly accounted for. Lot tlio leak bo localed and slopped im- medialoly. I'ntiiiocr "Wolmtor. Two weeks ago the council referred lo the city attorney thu petition of the Now York Life Insurance company for a permit to excavate and hold for its private use sixty-eight by twonty-lwo feet on Seventeenth street outside of the curb line. The object of referring this pelition to Mr. Webster was to get his views as to the legality of granting , for private * use , streols and thoroughfares beyond the sidewalk lino. Instead of confining himself to the legal points in volved , ho goes out of his way to discuss the probable safety of the street after it has been excavated , and gives his views on engineering and construc tion of an underground boiler house , winding up with the assur ance that the underground power house involves no danger to citizens and urges Iho council lo grant the por- mot. Now , wo should like to know what Mr. Webster does not know about engineering and architecture , and wo fool confident that such knowledge would fill several volumes. But why did the city attorney take so much pains to enlighten the council on engineering points when ho was simply expected to give legal advii-oV Is Mr. Webster paid by Ihe city to act as solicitor for the lifo insurance company ? Has ho a contract for engineering this power house scheme through the council ? A NKW issue is likely to bo raised with Canada , in the event of the senate passing the resolution of Mr. Blair call ing for information regarding the trial , conviction and execution of Roil for high treason. Mr. Blair stated in defense - fonso of his resolution that Roil was a naturalized American citizen , but wo are not furnished with any information as to what the crolchoty Now Hampshire senator proposes to do about the mutter in case the information ho desires shall bo obtained. Rio ! had resided for a number of yews in this country after his first obortivo effort at Insurrection in Canada , and before ho entered upon his last nnd fatal scheme of revolution , but it is somewhat uncer tain about his over having been natur alized. And oven if ho was ti citizen ol this country it Is not quite clear that the United Stales would have any just ground for making any sort of a demand upon the dominion. An American citizen who makes war on a neighboring state must take the cense quences If he fall into the hands of that state. Ills citizenship cannot shield him and should not. As to Roll , who was executed three years ago , ho was not a character thai nny country could bo proud of. Ho was simply a mis chievous adventurer , having neither wisdom nor courage. It Is probable that the senate will not gratify Mr. Blair by passing his resolution. Tni : Chicago police * bohavctt excel lently in the car-strikers' trouble yes terday , showing great promptitude and. vigor , and rigid impartiality. When a flying brick addressed to an obnoxious superintendent landed below his belt , curling him up temporarily , he became so enraged that ho drew a revolver nnd was going to shoot into Iho mob of strikers. The police disarmed him in a twinkling. Also when ho retired from Iho scene a minute afterwards in consequence of the brick , Iho police protected him at the hazard of their lives and arrested ono of his assailants who was furious with drink , fortunately the only one in that condition. Has not the mayor In- heronlly the power to settle Ihis qucs- lion ? If it is thought that ho has not then the sooner lhat an amendment is added lo Iho constitution of Illinois giv ing full discretionary power for the dis posal of all questions arising between companies holding cily franchises and their employes to mayors , the bolter it will bo for the public , which is always Ihe real sulTorer in Ihcso contests. No OXK must bo deceived by the pres ent slump in wheat , because the price of Hour has gone up materially in England , a country where the consumer invariably buys in largo quantities. The fluctuations of prices in a board of wheat speculators will always give a peed general idea of the true facts when they are observed in the mass , but if observed partially , details are apt to bo very misleading in such a case. It is at present the policy of the dealers lo make a big break in prices lo boarc Iho 'armors who have just awakened lo Iho necessity of holding back for higher > rices , thereby putting the millers in a tight place , as they arc not able to uieol the demand upon them I'ir flour because they cannot got wheat. Wheat ought to fetch $1.2-3 a bushel , and It is to beeped oped that the farmers will not allow themselves to bo fooled by Iho tricks and flimsy devices of the wheat brokers , but will hold on. For Dvo years they have received loss than the cost of pro- duclion , and now that the sun is begin ning to shine on their side of the hedge they ought lo profit largely. OMAHA must feend to the legislature men who will represent the interesls of this city and whotu known integrity and standing in tlio community alTord a guaranty that they will keep out of.tho meshes of the railroad spider and devote their energies to the enactment of laws that will compel equal taxalion of all classes of property and fair rates for all patrons of public , carriers. If the Iwo great parties do not nominate such men as their candidates THK BKK will favor an independent legislative ticket In the interest of the taxpayers of Omaha and Douglas county. IT is as clear as daylight that We , Us & Co. have not lost their grip upon the cltv of Omaha. Hon. II. II. Gliooly , Persian Minister. iniifi/t ; ! ! < m Critic. Hadji Htlsein Gliooly Klmn , Most puissant Persian inuii , Just arrived from Teheran : Good morning , Sir. How do you do ! And bow Is Mrs. Hadji Goo ? And how arc all the little Uoosi Come , tell us , Hadji , all the news. We're Rlml to see you , Minister. Oh , Zoroastrian worshipper , Take oft your things and sit riRht down ; You nro at homo in Washington. Society with ojxsn arms Awaits you with her varied charms , For you're a foreigner dear air , And such n foreign , foreigner ! You've never hud such social fun As you will have in Washington. And you hail better buy to-day A dog to kcop the girls away. Hadji Hussein Gliooly Khan , Most puissant Persian man , Watte In nnd paint the old town red , And blessings call upon your head. No ono will Interfere with you By Bonding word to Mrs. Goo. Oh , Oriental devotee , The Occident doth welcome thco. Land of the Sun ! Laud of the Frno I A man doth weld them , thou'rt the man , Hadji Hussein Gliooly Khan. - . The Din'crcnco IlnUvcHMi tlio Dills. l'hllMM ) > hta I'rca * . The Mills bill suits the sugar trust ; the senate bill suits the sugar consumer. Colorado. Denver Iltimlillcaii. It is quilt ) certain now that Harrison unt Morton will carry Colorado by at least 10,000 majority over Cleveland and Thurmnn , ant it is probable that the majority will rise to 15l00a Why Ho UocMii't Write. Chlcmjo Trtlninc. Why should I write a letter indorsing Gov crnorHilli Doesn't ho know that 1 am a rigid civil service reformer unit that nn ofllco holder has no business to muddle In politics It was a strain on my conscience to write a letter indorsing mybo\t. \ Clci'Clttnd. Wheat. ft'cw Yorli Sun. At the prevailing prices of the various de liveries of wheat in the markets of the United States yesterday , Kussia and India could sell at a profit in our market. The duty on wheat Is not heavy enough to keep the foreign wheat out. Canada this year has Httlo or no wheat , or at the present prices her fanners could afford to pay the duty and deliver their grain in Chicago or Now York. 'Iho high price of wheat has no terrors for us.Vc are the only country in the world that can regard it with unmixed satisfaction : and the rellectlon thut the farmers of our great western wheat fluids are getting w So tualcash dollar n bushel , and more , Jor their wheat is grntcful in the extreme. It means widespread and extraordinary proMpority and the American workman is able to Duy al the bread ho wants. AVlint To You Think of Tills ? The New York Heruld thinks that It would bo a wise thing to move tlio American cspi tal to Ottawa in case Ctumda is annexed to this country , und gives those reasons for its notion : The present capital has long been regarded as a mistake. It has never been much more than a second-class boarding house for con Ijre stnen and lobbyists and a lumbur-rcou or archives. It was u limit Job in Its incop- toni ntul ! iis : not outgrown the indignity of ta origin. It lies huddled up between a wntnp and n range of gravelly hills , is full of mttaria , ami 1.4 n continued and continuing ob , n pretext for money from the treasury , R innncial quagmire , ns It has been for n series of jobbing generations , It lies In nn exposed iillitary position , It has been taken nnd burned by a foreign foe , and wo paid n hun- Ired times Its value to snvo it from capture > y a domestic enemy. Hut Ottawa never could be taken. It is In n cold latitude , far away towards the north polo. Winter is Its Buro defense , and that lasts most of the ycur , nnil there i no power In the world that could ako It. Wo would bo better Americans In hat cold , congealing , stimulating climate , remembering , as Emerson tolls us , that it is where the snow falls that men-children are > oru , 1MIOM1NKNT PKUSO.VS. Iluthcrford U. Hayes , of Ohio , was born sixty-six years nro. Attorney General Garland has returned to Washington. His health is much Improved. Historian George Bancroft will celebrate lis eighty-eighth birthday on Wednesday nt us homo In Newport , K. 1 , Ho is in good health mid spirits. Miss Hose Elizabeth Cleveland's "Summer ijuiot anil Green Thoughts" will bo followed early in November by a "Full Ruction nnd Blue Thoughts" by her big brother. Mrs , Helen M. Gougar is a woman who las abundant eonlldenco jn herself. She iroposes to demolish both Anna Dickinson mil General George A. Sheridan In ono ad dress. Private Secretary Lament declares that Mrs. Cleveland never hns given and will not low give an interview to nny newspaper erIn In any manner do anything to encourage ncntion ot herself in the press. Wilkio Collins has a novel way of writing Us books. In his study ho has n long row of ligoon holes. In each of these pigeon holes 10 keeps a chapter of the story ho has in land. When ho is in ono mood ho takes down n sympathetic chanter nnd writes on It ; when in a different mood he takes down an other , and so on until each Is finished. General Salomon , the ex-president of the Elaytiun republic , who for some time has jeen lying seriously ill with calculus , ever since his arrival in Paris from Now York , underwent n few days RO the dangerous operation of lithotrlty. His own daughter , Mine. Magnus , who is a graduate of the Paris School of Medicine , was the principal oper ator , being assisted by Dr. Guyon und an other surgeon. Dr. Morcll Mackenzie will claim In his rthnuniiiL' book thut had he instead of the German physicians attended the latu 10m- [ > eror Frederick from the beginning of his sickness the emperor's lifo would have been prolonged twenty months. Dr. Mackenzie will also endeavor to show that the treat ment of Dr. Gerhnrdt produced cancer. Ho has chosen for his title page the pungent motto from Shakespeare : "What trick , what device , what starting-holu canst thou now lind to hide theelrom thy open and apparent shame ! " STATI3 ANI > TEUUITORY. Jottings- The Headlight is the name of u now dally paper just started nt Superior. The Nebraska City packing houses will begin killing hogs November 1. Ground has been broken nt Chadrou for a mammoth two-story brick block. The Hustings police are arresting nil busi ness men who leave lire in the alley. A petition for township organization in Duwos county has seventy-three signers. H. E. Goodwin , until recently landlord of the Commercial hotel at Broken Bow , died last week. The Butler county republicans have nomi nated J. W. McLund and J. S. Hill for rep resentatives. A camp of Modern Woodsmen has been instituted at Children witu twenty-one charter members. A can of powder and llchted pipe combina tion knociccil u laborer in Green's quarry , near Springfield , Into a cocked hat the other day. The farmers of Cedar Bluff neighborhood , Dodge county , have organized un elevator company and nro erecting the necessary buildings. C. F. Parmalee , cashier of the Citizens' National bank of Hastings , has resigned on account of ill health nnd has been succeeded by Mr. Furguson. "A woman in the case" has caused a prom inent physician of Tecumsch to leave for parts unknown and forced a young blood to tlec , perhaps , to Cunada. A small boy atCreightou , yelling "auction" and ringing u bell , frightened a horse so badly that the animal reared up and fell on a hitching post with such force as to drive it throuL'h his stomach. The horse hud to bo shot. shot.The The Grand Island Independent says : Eight thousand two humlrcd acres of land have al ready been secured for the beet sugar factory , and it is expjcted that the requisite 1SUO acres additional will bo secured this week , maicing 10,1)00 ) acres to ho devoted to the cul ture ot bouts. The anaUaib has shown that wo have a soil peculiarly adapted to the cul ture of sugar beets , and that the beets raised in our soil contain u greater percentage of sugar than those raised in Germany. The practicability of the but sugar industry hero is thus demonstrated beyond any question of doubt whatever. I own. Work has been commenced on the new sewerage system at Dubuque. The enrollment of the Davenport schools shows 1,810 boys and liH)7 ) girls. Rev. Dr. SafTord has resigned the pastorate of the Congregational church nt Grimiell. Peter Arp , jr. , for thirty years a resident of Iowa , died at Hickory Grove , nged ninety- six years. The Davenport high school is cursed with a cooking department and ICj young ladies are taking instructions. Boone lias reached the dignity of a daily paper. The News is its name and it will be printed in the morning. The republicans in county convention at Mason City passed u resolution that no pur- son be allowed to hold a county ofllco for moro than one term. Francis Snyder , the aged Boone citizen who recently married Mrs. Hull , has just died. Ho was seventy-nine years old und his bride was seventy-eight. An unknown night prowler is making a business of frightening unprotected females in Boonc , and the citizens nro preparing to fill his body full of cold lead if they can catch him. him.G. G. W. Bailey of Moumouth. known to fame ns Tank Ceo , the Chinese lecturer , together with hi * wife , is the central figure in n sen sational scandal that is giving nil the sewing circles all they want to talk about. A murrlniro license has been granted to Theodore W. Patterson and Mary B. Patter son , of Muscatino. This couple was married some sixteen years ngo and in later years wore divorced , but have now concluded to pasa the remainder of their days together. The Grout Northwest. The death rate in San Diego , Cul. , for Sep tember was one to every -,14.1 , inhabitants. The fanners union of Eagle Kock , Idaho , Is shipping largo quantities of wheat to Den ver. ver.Idaho has twenty-seven lodges of Odd Fellows , an increase of twenty-two in five years. Ono hundred and forty negro miners wore put to work ia tao Roslyn , W. T. , coal mines , Monday , Bryson , the Helena ( Mont. ) wife mur derer , is related to an aristocratic und wealthy Canadian family. Eleven car-loads of dried fruit and ten tons of shelled almonds wore shipped from Woodland to Chicago last week. Tnirty Chipsown girls from Dakota have Just been received at the house of the Good Shepherd nt Denver for education. Some rancher bus "Jumped" the Phillips- burg , Mont. , graveyard and the citizens held a muss meeting to protest against it. Professor Ferrows , of the agricultural de partment at Washington estimated thut there uro 10,030,000 acres of timber in Colorado. The dog poisoner has been doing wholesale work at Cheyenne , Wyo. , and the citizens have offered a reward for his detection und conviction. Tiipomtt , W , T. , is a poor place -for lechorou * tramps. The male population of tliu whole town turned out last week to hunt for one of tha ! > i > eclcs to lynch him. The waters of the I'lutto valley In Wyo ming are nllve with ducks. The mallard , the teal , the whistler and the gray duck nro all here , and the shotgun booms. Smeo the discontinuance of the govern- incut station on Pine's Peak the Dolly Vnr- dcn mine enjoys the distinction of being the highest station in the world for weather ob servations , The bullion product nt Leadvlllo this year is estimated nt fj.000,000 less than last year , the average low price of lead nud consequent lethargy In pushing produelon being respon sible for the falling off. Jnmos Hulcnbcck , n witness In n murder ens' * in Shasta county , California , which tlio grand Jury was about to investigate for the third time , was murdered by unknown parties near Pittvillo. Tlio Yuniii Indians have burled largo quan tities of watermelons in the sand , so as to have plontv of them during the winter. They nuy they keep melons sound in that way for over six months. The district court nt Ellensburg , W. T. , Judge Nash , has decided that Mrs. Samuel Thomas cannot practice law in the territory , the woman enfranchisement lu\vhaving been declared unconstitutional. Three prospectors of Los Angeles , Cnl. , re port the discovery of an apparently inexhaust ible body of graphite in San Francisco can yon , about one hundred nnd twenty-five miles north of there. They claim that it Is BO pure nnd free that It is worth S'JO per ton. It has been learned that recently some fiend placed u bottle containing strychnine in u spring of water near Phlluinath , Ore. , lo cated in it grove used for a camp meeting. J'ho outrage was discovered by citizens in time to prevent any ono from drinking the water. A reward of $100 is offered for the nppreheiiBlon of the perpetrator , William Root , who was tried at Trinidud , Col. , for murdering his brother-in-law , Will iam Cook , was acquitted. The Jury stood on the first ballot eleven for acquittal against ouo for conviction. After the first ballot they sat around reading and taking matters easy for an hour or so and then balloted again. This ballot was unanimous for ae- quittnl. John Neville , nn inmate of the Jefferson , Mont. , county jail , and Annie Bond , of St. Louie , Mont. , wore married recently , Judge Korley oniciaUng. The Judge Issued the necessary license on the written consent of the father of tlio girl und on the affidavit of the mother that the girl was born March 1 , 18 ? ' , uud was consequently over sixteen years old. After the inarrlugo ceremony was performed Neville gave bonds for his appearance at the next term of the district court und was released , Jiouglas , Wyo. , now claims to be the Cheyenne of IbTS-SO. The Republican says they have six monte games running , from which the town derives 100 revenue per month , and in addition several poker games. There is no town of the same size in the west , outside of one or two Colorado mining camps , where there is ns much gambling money in sight or moro money changes hands on the turn of u card than in Douglas. Where the money comes from is a mystery , but the Ko- in'blican says it is there , and it Is chanced nt every opportunity. There seems to be no strincs on it. The six inonto games have bank lolls in sight that aggregate $3,000. The New Persian Minister. Hadji Iloisein Gliooly Khan , the now Persian minister ; W. W. Torronco. his counsellor , and Mcdza Mahomed Khan and Abdul Humid Khan , his servants , says the Now York Commercial Adver tiser , are now with us. The minister will establish a Persian legation in the capital. Iladji Ilossein wore a gorgeous uni form , lie is by no means the athlete ho is described. He is a small man , with an iron-gray pointed beard. He wore an overcoat , and said it was "very cold , " or at least Ihe interpreter said that the Indian-liko gutterals of his chief meant that. W. W. Tprronco , who comes with the shah's minister , is nn American physi cian , who has practiced in Teheran. Ho numbers the shah and many other noble Persians among his patients. Ho comes to help Iho minister lo establish tbo bureau , after which ho will return lo Persia. II. 11. Pratt , a brother of the Amer ican consul general at Teheran , has been appoinled consul general of Persia , and ho was wilh Iho minister. Mr. Pralt's headquarters will bo in Now York. Mr. Terrence said : "Tho minister is not strong physically , but ho is a very able man mentally. For two and a half years lie has been consul general at Bombay , and it was regarded as a great honor for him to receive the appoint ment lo the United States. Ho is the iirst Persian minister ever sent lo this country. His father twenty-one years ago was prime minister of Persia , and Hossoin is a general of Iho firsl rank , besides holding dozens of olhcr titles. " The word "hadji" is a title signifying that ho who boars it has made a pil grimage to Mecca. "Kahn" is a title that the shah bestows upon any subject worthy of recognition. Tlio two ser vants of Ihe minister have Iho lillo of "kahn. " The minister was very anxious lo know what to do when presented to the president.Ho said that his only cro 'lontials were lottord from the shah to the president , and that as they were sealed it was as much as his life was worth to open them. If Iho president opened them ho couldn't read them , so llobscin was in a quandary. A Rhorl Hop Crop In New York. A Middlotown , N. Y. , report Bays that Iho hop season closes with a hliort crop gathered , and an extraordinary boom in prices. Tlio yield falls con siderably below the early estimates , nnd bnrolv equals half an average crop , or a tola ! production in the slnto of about 45,000 bales. The largest grower in the stale , in Otsego county , hint year harvested II'.O.OOO pounds from ninety- six acres , while this season , with IM acres planted , his crop is only 00,000 pounds. Some growers , however , have crops this season ol about two-thirds ol an average. When the picking began a month ago prices at the yards for choice grades wore eighteen to twenty cents a pound , about tlio KUIIO figures that ruled through the harvest bcason of 18H7. Hut IIH it became apparent that the crop would bo tinoxpeeledly short in quant ity and excellent in quality , prices be gan to move upward , and reports of abort crops in the northwestern hop dis tricts and in Europe aided the advance. Now , at t ho close of the harvest , the growers find ready sale for choice growtli at twonly-hovon to thirty cunts a pound. Many growers are holding their crops for still higher figures. The impression prevails among grow ers thai prices will go higher , nnd perhaps - haps touch thirty-live and forty cents. Tlio prices now ruling are higher than have prevailed at any time since 18Si : , when choice Now York btate hops sold al $1.0 ( > ( l.I5apouiul. > . George Heimrod , brother of Louis Holm- rod , of the hoard of public works , will place himself before the people of the Sist't ' Avar , ! for oldermanlc honors. ' Positively cnrcil by these Lltllo Pills. CARTER'S They also relieve Dis tress from Dyspepsia , In- ITTLE Ulgcitlon and Too lloart } Katlng. A rrt a rem- IVER rdy Jor Dizziness , Nausea , PILLS. DrOTTKlnowi , Bail Tahtc In the Mouth , Coated TonifUP , I'am In the Side , TOIIPID MYEK , They regulate the Bowels. Turcly Vegetable. SMALL PILL , SMALL DOSE SMALL PRICE , THE CITY'S ' FIRES , A Remarkable Decrease in the Amount of Fires. Tlio Kflloloncy of the Kirc Depart * incut The UlRTAtur Kirn nt Kt. Anthony's I'urlc Tha Union Klovntors. "Do you know th t our city Is very fortun.ita in HIP mutter of ilros" mild un old votornu vol unteer llrfmiui to inc. some tlinniiKo. "Wo Imvo not hud n uml Uro h ro lor u very lontf time , tthllooihrr cities of our size hnveiiwn iinvluc lurK nnil co tly tires frtqiiuntly , our city has OMMineil. 1 don't know touhattonllrlhnto this , lull I Kiii's.i u Is peed nick coupled with thrt cllirlcncy of our llru dppnrtmrnt , nml to thn Kiwd euro tiikon of our lnr o ImllilliiK * unil workshop * liy the wnti-hmcn. 1 remember 11 little more tlmn H yrnrnK' > of K Qretlmtocrunetl lit St. Anthony's l'nrk , between .Mlnncupoll * unil St. 1'mil , .Minn. , three lurk'ti elevators , \vltli their contents , thousands of liuahcN of whrat. were burned to the cnmiiil It win n mibllmn Bceno , plainly vlslblu In both cities , and uns witnessed by thousands of people We havii elevators hero nnd plenty of othrr bnlldlnus , but by ciirerulnos.s IIHVU noconlliiijriitlims. 1 was ilown to the t'nton elevators the. other day , " continued the old "vet , " "anil hint n look over the Htrnetutr , anil I Unit It IH nmmllml with Etumlplpcs anil IIOMI all over thu bulullni ; , nml It u lltii should start there It would hnvo very little rlmnre to Ret nny hciulwny , bccauno tliey could ile.lugt < thholo bulldluu in u very fcvr inomeuts. 1 mat Mil. I'CTEll 1IOI.T. the watchman nt the elevators , anil nikod hJui about the ctmncus for a tire breaking out " "No , " mild Mr , Holt , "tho chances fur n llru here are very Biniill , we. nre extremely uuruful und always nu the lookout , nnd there Is no chance scarcely at nil. At nU'htvhi > nlnmon duty I visit every nook Hint cninuv In tlio entlro bulmlni ; at least every hour , ami 1 mnkn u min ute luspo.'tion every time , anil should discover nny tire It would be a matter of a very few HOC- omls to RVO | un alunn also to have water on thn Humes , us yon hue no rtoubt buen that tnc.ru U wnler over the entire building. " "Vi'.s , 1 airee with you , our city Is very fortu nate In regard to tires , unil If wo do have a llru the lire laddies very soon hnro It under control. We can bo very proud of our department for It is one of the very best. " " 1 think from the sound of your volco that ym have the catarrh , my friend , " continued Mr. Holt , "nml I can toll you that you are very foolish to suitor with that w hen you can very easily have It cured. 1 myself have hud n tern- bio time with Unit dlseaso , but thanks to ono of our physicians I inn cured of It. "MimoHlxor seven years nco 1 contracted a Severn cold , nml not thinking It anything seri ous , 1 did not pay much intention to It. It con tinue ! ! to trowvorso until t.oon I hnil n bail cuso of catarrh. My head was stopped up unil continually aclilnu ; 1 would have the most Bovuru pallia over my eyes , nml my eyes would water nml become Inllnmeil ; my noio would stop up. first ono side then the other , nml some times both sides would be stopped up , com pelling mo to brentho through my moiiUi. 1 hail u continual dropping from my no o Into the b.ick purtof my tnruat , which cuu.iud mo to bo hawking ami bplttinc nil the tlir.o. Whlloon duty nt night It : would I bo 1 n continual flplit for me to keep awnke , my eyes were weak , nml there vrns nlwnys such n henvy fcnllng over them that 1 was always sleepy. My stomach WUH In u terrlblo condition , f could scarcely keep any fooil on It ; my nppctlto was verv poor nmlvhnt 1 did nmnnga lo eut 1 woulu often vomit. My sleep did mo no good : 1 would got ui > feeling ns tired ns I did on going to buil * 1 linil no ambition , no energy , In fact , 1 felt most of the tlinens though lifo \viis not worth living. 1 trleil to get cured of this troublo. and nttor trying any amount of patent inoillcines , I grew dlbgusleil with my futllo efforts nml tried Keveral physicians , but only with a Hlmllnr ru- .suit , . ome thrco or four months ago I win speaking ton friend about my trouble , nml ho ailvlseil me , just as 1 am nilvlslng you now , to call on Dr. Charles M. Jordan. In the Kaiiigo lllock , corner IMn anil 11nrncy streets. 1 con- slilereil the matter nml concluded that I wonlil take my friend's ailvlM1. ami I culled on the doc tor mid I nm thankful to Hint friend , for 1 am n new man. Why I don't foelublt llkomyolil helf : my henil uml 110-10 nro nlway.s clear , my eyes nro nil right nml mv .stomach In In gooil order , my appetite Is excellent nml I cnn eut in of voro , I get up now after n refreshing sleep , nml feel llko going nbotit my work , ami I Imvo no trouble to keep uwako when on duty. My frlemls are surprised at tlio change In mo , but none more so tliaii myself. My ailvlsu to any one xulferini ; with catarrh Is to give Dr. Jorilnn n trial nml lie can nml will euro It. " Air. Holt rosldes at No. 'MM Ca'.tcllar.strisiit , anil Is employed as night watchman at. tlio Union Klevutorx nml will corroborate the abort ) testimony to unyono doubting It. How Catarrh Is Produced , Although Inklnc ; colil Is one of the common est ami tuo.it familiar ot phenomena , yet tliu dnnger.sof Its neglect In treating unil its ulti mate result nro nol appreciated. Thorulu Is to let It wear Itself out or seemingly to. In u very largo majority of cases , catching cold develops In nn attacKof aculn liitlnmutlon of Home portion tion of the upper air pnssagtn , us being a point of least resistance , ami , further , us those attack * recur with Increased frequency ntul gravity , wo llml the morbid process localize * 1 Use IT flirt liur down ami nearer to the vital center * , as regurili the so-calleil liability to take colil , U should bo umlerstooil Hint this Is < lu to nn oxlHtlng chronic catnrrhnl inflammation nf pcrhupi BO mild a typo ns to give rlso to but very trivial Hyinuionm. or oven passed uuiiotlcod ; but utlll nn existing catarrh , the result probably nf a neglected col'l and the renewed attacks to whlcli the Imllvlilual becomes so liable , consists In tlm lighting up of the olil trouble. AH each fresh attack mibslden. the clironlo trouble makes Itself known by moro ileclileil symptoms , fre.sh colils occur with greater fro- qucii'1 ' } ' anil there M dually established muromo catarrh of th noio anil throat with Its many annoyances of mopped up noselump of miiciH In tlio throat , hawking nnil Bplttlng , pain over eyes nml bridge of HUSH , ringing or Imiy.lng in oars , hacking couijli , later on bail oiler M'alH , umisiml ilryne.sa of nose ami tliroat , uud lliuil.y graver trouble lower down In tlienir pasium'S. His very much to bo ilenrecateil that iisnrnlu un ordinary colil Is ullowml to take Its own course without treatment. Ir a part hun once bccomo tiilluini'il It iKli-ft In nweakiimid couill- tion which Invites renewed uttai ks from n very bllj-'ht cause. Tim country is Hooded with patent medicines for the cure or catarrh , which uro concocted nnilmade nttructlvn for tlm exproxg pitrporfoof making money. H U utteily Impossible 10 pro- paru a single remedy to meet the illlleient imascs of catarrh. A remeily for ono HUgo may lie Injurious to another. It in Just buch pruparu- rations , with their "gimrunteo cure" label on , that hnvo weakencil the conllileiico of the great majority of BUllfrrrn of this loathsome trouble , ' of having their disease ukllltully treated by ill physician who has mailo Ubtuily of the dlseaso in Its everv condition , has dovlanj remeilleH , I methods of applying them and with tlut largo j experience of having treated thuuxnmls of uisus j before vour case comus before him. Thoolrt lo- pnnd tliat 'TrocrastlnutlfHl Is tlm Thief ot ! Time" can bo tie better es sst > 11tled than In a case of neglected cut irSl. I'cinnnonlly Dr.J.Crosaj ) McCoy , late of Ilollnvuo Hospi tal , New York , micceoded by Dr. Charles M. Jonlan. late of thw Univer sity of Now York City , also of WnMilue. ton. I ) . C. , have locatcit p nmin ntly In tliu Kuiiigo Ulock , Omaha , Nub. , whern oil vurublo cases lire treated Hklllfully. Con-wmptloii , llrlght'fi Dlcea e. Dyspeiula , Ithfiiiimtlim , anil nil nervous disease * . All diseases peculiar to ocx u Hpeclultv. CATARRH CURED. Consultation nt office or by mail. ! ! . Offlc * tiourii Vtoll n. in.SlO' ( p. m. , 7 to Up. m. ( Sunday floury , from a. ni , to 1i. . in. Corespoudejica rcqolves promjt attention. No letters answered unf < ; ss acsouipanUdbTt C ata lu statuwu 1 1c 1f u E B 0 1 ! fO ff < i s < ii iia lifi fi fiL L A < or BO to CO of tt\ \