Nebraska Newspapers

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PHIL AKMOim la after utmlt niino. IIo
needs it in his business.
UNIIASV lies the head that boars the
honors of u Union Paoifio position.
Tun combine should immediately open
a Hi'hool of iiiHlruotion in the grips and
Blfriials of the yung for the bonolit of Mr.
Blunicr.
IT cost a Boston husinoBs llrm an oven
four hundred dollars lohccuro i > roof that
faith hcnling wns simply a means of
"heeling" u professional croolc.
Tin : whirligig of politics in Pennsyl
vania indicates that opposition to Bosd
Quay has stifTored a fatal rolapso. At
louht one rebellious individual bus boon
laid to rout in the national bonoyurd.
AssiniANCKShavo been received from
loading senators that the bills to admit
Wyoming and Idaho to statehood will bo
passed before adjournment , but the resi
dents must not relax their efforts to ex
pedite the measures.
Tin ? growth of the manly : irt among
the Chinese of this country is proof of
the wonderful versatility of our civiliza
tion. Wo shall soon hear sportive
poems sung to the giant of Fee Chow or
Iho cyclone of Yangstikiang.
- Tun robbery of the Northern Pacific
train in North Dakota is the first suc
cessful instance of the kind in the north
west binco the famous Big Springs rob
bery. It is hardly possible for the rob
bers to cseapo with their booty.
THK Denver News comes out flatfooted
against Cleveland or Hill as democratic
candidates in 189:2 : , and demands a west
ern num. The cold wave which raged
bolwcon Colorado and the national capi
tal four years ago has not apparently
been mellowed by succcbsivo faeasons.
THK decision of Judge Sherwin of
Iowa practically nullifies the last rem
nant of the prohibition law. It is the
severest blow the law received binco the
people repudiated it at the polls last
November. Prohibition In Iowa is a
reminiscence an ungrateful memory.
Tin ? blatant Blair beems to have gar
nered a few kernels of sanity from his
educational campaign. Seeing Iho wide
spread desire to foster rich and lagging
industries ho wants a government bounty
of two cents on maple sugar. Tins would
materially swell the profits of western
vendors of alleged maple sugar and pos
sibly improve the decorations on the cans
of "Vermont maple syrup , "
Tin : action of a foreign steamship company -
-pany in dumping contract laborers in
this country and arrogantly refusing to
return them , calls for decisive action at
the hands of congress. It is certainly
within the province of congrobs to com
pel foreign companies to comply with
the law , and when they openly violate
it , the remedy should bo vigorously ap
plied. They can bo brought to to'rms
olVeotively by withholding clearance
papers and if necessary denying them
admission to American ports.
Tur.Un appears to bo no limit to the
expedients employed to delay the sub
stitution of electricity for the gallows
in New York. Notwithstanding the
fact that state and federal courts have
aOlrmod the constitutionality of the
law , another attack has boon made In a
new quarter. The provlblon requiring
solitary confinement for ten days preceding -
ceding execution is assailed as uncon
stitutional. Tito question la being argued
in the courts In a oaao blmllar to
Kommler's. The outlook la decidedly
favorable for both condomod men dying
of old age.
Tnu men who maintained the demo
cratic organization in thin section
when It was n discouraging and almost
hopeless work , are entitled to considera
tion at the hands of Mayor Gushing.
They did not labor Jor roward.but rather
for principle , Having no paper to speak
for them Tin ; Bin : volunteers the sug
gestion that If a change is to bo made In
ihe chairmanship of the board of public
works , ! * competent , responsible democrat
1 > e selected , ono whoso standing as a cltl-
ren will bo a guaranty thut the Inter
ests of properly owners will bo protected
ligalnst greedy contractors , and ono who
IB not thu tool of existing combines.
j I'ACKAOKB" JA Tltti 110VSK ,
From what has Iwon learned of the
fooling In the judiciary committee of the
hou o regarding the original package
bill which passed the donate , the chances
are not at all favorable to that measure
In Ihe lower branch of congress , which ,
it Is to bo presumed , will approve what
ever conclusion the committee shall
reach. It In staled that the committee
regards the supreme courf decision as iv
mistake , but It docs not consider the
Wilson bill the proper medium , for the
reason that It makes a conces
sion to the police powers of the state of
an authority exclusively In congress and
which congress cannot part with or dele
gate. It Is not probable that the com
mittee as a whole regards the Judicial
decision as a mistake , but that Its mem
bers generally should take the other
view of the matter I quite conceivable.
The demand for similar legislation to
that proposed by the Wilson bill against
other articles than liquor , as that
made by the dairymen of Now York
for the exclusion of oleomargarine
from that state , the manufacture and
wile of which is prohibited by a law of
the slate , suggests to what extent such
lcgialatlon might bo carried and the
grave difficulties that' would inevitably
result from it. As wo have till along In
sisted , the matter is ono which congress
would bettor have nothing to do with ,
leaving the questions of rights involved
to bo settled wholly by the courts. Wo
do not believe that thereby the
states will suitor the least im
pairment of their power to properly reg
ulate the sale of liquor either by license
or tax. There is obvious danger in the
proposed concession or surrender by con
gress of a power given to it exclusively
by the constitution. Nor should It In
any way oxorclso this power to discrim
inate at the demand of ono or more
states against the products of other
states that are common articles of com
merce.
TllK IMMIGRATION QUESTION.
The flub-ceminittee of the house of rep
resentatives which has been canvassing
public sentiment regarding immigration
did not obtain much encouragement in
St. Louis for the view that the govern
ment ought to erect additional barriers
against immigration. Very generally
the question whether it is desirable that
Immigration should bo restricted at
all , in the sense of being les
soned and not merely being biftod ,
was answered in the negative , and those
who hold this view were not all of for
eign birth , as journals opposed to the
time-honored policy regarding immigra
tion have assorted * Some of them wore
native Americans , but of that class who
take a broad and patriotic and practical'
view of this question. A majority of the
witnesses who appeared before the com
mittee wore of the opinion that there is
no danger to American institutions , or
to the political , social or industrial injj
tercsls of the country , from admitting
foreigners who arc not embraced in the
classes now excluded by law , but on the
contrary it is desirable to permit , and
oven encourage , the coming hero of in
dustrious and thrifty people from the
old world who can bo depended upon to
make homes hero and become good
citizens.
An eastern journal , discussing this sub
ject and referring to what the house sub
committee elicited at St. Louis , remarks
that "tho general belief "Is that the time
has como when wo should begin to put
up the bars. " This sort of assertion is
easily made , but it is a misrepresenta
tion. There is undoubtedly a widespread
sentiment in the east favorable to put
ting up the bars , but it is by no means
general elsewhere. The testimony taken
by the houbo sub-commltteo in the
west bhows this , and the com
mittee has been by no moan's
partial In becking those who were rea
sonably supposed to favor the policy that
has boon maintained since the founda
tion of the government. The great ma
jority of the people of the west , who It
may bo observed arc not loss solicitous
than those of the cast for the conserva
tion of every political , social and mate
rial Interest that may bo assumed to bo
affected by immigration , arc not at all
apprehensive of any peril to result from
the annual Infusion of four or five hun
dred thousand foreigners who are able
to take care of themselves by honest
labor. The general sentiment of the
west , and wo believe of all the rest of
the outside of Iho
country overpopulated -
lated jor lions of the east , Is that there
can be no dillluulty in assimilating the
annual accretion of foreigners to the
number of one-half of ono per cent of
our population , and that instead of this
moderate annual intlux being a dis
advantage to Iho country , it
must result in benefit. The
[ > ooplo of the w Jst are not able to sym
pathize with the narrow and selfish
view of this question which prevails so
generally in the east , and which at-
lompts to find defense in an assumption
of patriotic concern for Iho general wel
fare. They believe that if the existing
law excluding objectionable classes Is
enforced , so that all poi-bons will be ox-
eluded who are not In a condition to take
care of thembolvos by honest toil , there
will bo no reasonable ground of opposi-
Jon to immigration , which is more
iljoly to decline than to increase in vol-
nno hereafter without additional re-
itrietions.
ASSKltTIOX.
The trouble with most of the advo-
uatos of unlimited silver coinage is that
.hey make the most reckless assertions
n the face of Indisputable facts. Ono of
heso , which was made by Senator Tel
ler In the senate on Tuesday , is that the
increase of circulation has not kept pace
with the IncroaMj of population. lie
ad ! that It would require an aunu.il
Increase of forty-four million dollars
Df currency to moot the annual
increase In the population. By this ho
meant , it is presumed , that such an ex
pansion Is necessary In order to maintain
the prcbont ratio of currency to popula
tion , which Is about twenty-two dollars
per capita. A s a matter of fact the aver-
igo annual increase of circulation for
. \\elvo years , or since 1878 , has boon
jroator than this.
In his speech on the fifth Instant Sena-
or Sherman presented a tabulated
itatement , from official sources ,
> f thu amount and kinds of
money in actual circulation on certain
dales from 1878 lo 1880. This shows that
on March 1 of the former year , before re
sumption nnd at the date of Iho passage
of Iho silver acl , the aggregate curroncj
in circulation was in round numbers
eight hundred and five million dollars
being sixteen dollars and fifty cents per
capita. On October 1 , 1889 , the lota
circulation was ono billion four humlrct
and five million dollars , an increase
of six hundred million dollars in the
cloven years , an average annual In
crease of over fifty-four iijlllioii a year.
In some of those years the increase vns
considerably loss than this amount , ant
in ono year , 1880 , the circulation do-
cllncd , but with this single exception
every year shows an increase ranging
from ono hundred and sixty million
dollars between October , 1879
nnd October , 1880 , .down to twenty
ono million between the satno
months of 1888 and ; i889. Thus , while
our population has increased In twelve
years thirty-six per cent , the circulation
has Increased eighty per cent. It is
doubtless true that at this time the average -
ago increase for the period noted is no1
being maintained , but It Is Imposlble to
rcfuto the fact that since resumption
there has boon a steady increase of the
circulation , which has considerably moro
than kept pace with the growth of pop
ulation.
Assertions such as that of Sonaloi
Teller do great harm to the cause o
which ho is a conspicuous advocate.
There are sound and substantial argu
ments In favor of a larger employment
of silver in the currency , but they will
not be strengthened by a denial or per
version of ollicial facts accessible to
every man. Neither Is thpro anything
to bo gained by clrirging dishonesty or
ignorance upon thojo who do not believe
it "to bo n wise and safe policy
to open the mlntj of the country to the
silver of the world. The utilization of
the silver product of this country as a
Imis of currency will provide the in
crease of circulation necessary to keep
pace with the growth of population and
the expansion of business , aud every
consideration of financial bocurity re
quires that wo shall not go beyond this ,
at any rate for the present.
OFVWIAI * OVTLAWliY.
The halt called by Comptroller Good
rich has apparently tin-own the council
combine into gi cat disorder. Without
patronage the combine cannot oxibthnd
every cllort is now being made by its
loaders to concoct schemes by which
the } ' may overcome the obstruction
wnicn Mr. uoouricu in incline01 oniciai
duty has made apparent.
The bold dasli made in the council
mooting by Davis , ClialTcc , Wheeler and
Blumer shows the desperation which
now possesses thorn. A heavy sewer con
tract was awarded in defiance of the
mayor's veto and his protest that there
wore no funds in the treasury to pay for
the contract work. The contract was
awarded at the instance of Davis and the
combine each of whom know that the
mayor had refused to approve it
because the comptroller could not certify
that there are funds available for the
purpose. The contract was illegally
awarded in defiance of the charter pro
vision that no contract or vote incurring
an indebtedness for moneys payable out
of any fund shall bo made by the mayor
or council , and no final action shall betaken
taken upon such proposed contract or
indebtedness without the certificate of
the comptroller that there is money to
pay for such contract work.
It Is manifestly the policy of the combine
bino to ride rough shod overevery legal
safeguard and plant themselves within
the treasury vaults. If no effort is made
to restrain them in one iiibtanco they
will naturally absuino that they are
liceiibod to trample upon charter pro
visions in order that their personal and
political plans may bo pushed to success.
If the taxpayers of Omaha have any idea
of self-protection , the council plunderers
will speedily bo brought to their bonbos
by a decree of the court.
LET no citizen escape tlio census enum
erator. It is estimated by most com
petent judges that from two to three
thousand citizens of Omaha are absent ,
Homo on business and others bent on
pleasure seeking. ThobO people must
bo counted , and the industrious enumer
ators will include them in the ollicial
libtsif remaining members of families or
friends will interest themselves to boo
that such names reach the enum
erators promptly. Many of those
absentees are freeholders and are
prominently known to have long
resided in Omaha , so that there will bo
llttlo trouble in batisfying the enumer
ators that no imposition is intended. It
may bo necessary for the newspapers
to lake this matter up and aid the cen
sus people by inviting absentees or their
relatives to send in their names and
btreot numbers , or in any way apprifao the
enumerators of the citi/ons' claim to bo
counted. The board of trade has appro-
elated the importance of this point and
will lend the weight of its influence to
the end that every nebo bo counted.
THKUI ? was a pretty active money
market to date this week , rates ruling
linn at eight per cent. Jobbers are
busy and express themselves well satis
fied with the roiiilts obtained In the first
six months of the year now Hearing a
clone. Trade has boon bettor than was
looked for and sales will , on an average ,
foot about fifteen per cent greater
than during the same period in 18S9.
The sugar market continues brisk and
oxcltod and It Is believed that prices
will bo further advanced and -kept at
profitable figures , to the trust , till after
the coming season Is over. Advices
from California indicate that the
canned fruit product of that state
for 1890 will bo bold at considera
bly higher figures than last year.
The salmon canning season'has closed
on the Sacramento and Columbia rivers
with about half the average pack made.
The fish are reported plentiful , but prices
have been so low that many canneries
did not operate and the fishermen were
on a strike inMarch and
April. Dried fruits are firmly held
nnd packers on the PaclHo coast
are In receipt of many Inquiries from the
east concerning air kinds of California
dried fruit for future delivery : dryers
expect to be running at full blast on
poaches , apr'MjU and nectarines within
the next tlifrli ; , days. The Grocer nnd
Country Mqrplwnt of San Francisco , says
"Quotatlons/ifor spot stock are in most
Instances necessarily largely if not
wholly nominal. Apricots of last crop
are no longot'quotable , as there are none
now on markdt. Peaches , bleached and
unpcolcd , nrtj'ij@l(3c ! ( where there is anj
stock lo ho fo idand | 6@llc for common
Tcolcd are not ; worthy quolatlons ; there
are some small lots offering- fully a
low figures as'unpcolcd. Prunes make
a poor showing , with jobbing
transactions ihatnly within a range
of 8@10c for small lo medium sizes. Some
contracting in 1800 prunes Is reported at
G@7jo for principal sizes. Pilled plums
range from GffOe for common , and 7jfSo (
for select stock' , with supplies not large
bnt moro than ample for the oxlstitif
demand nl prevailing rales. Apples are
scarce and against buyers at lH121c }
for evaporated In boxes , GJ@ 4c for com
mon sliced , and 07c } for quartered
Dried grapes 3J@32c , with slow move
inent and slim supplies.
PHOCKIDINGS : have been comtnoncci
in Kansas to dissolve the American
sugar company , which operated ox ten
slvcly in the bouthwcslorn portion of Iho
state last year. The operations of this
concern have boon a fruitful source o
public scandal. Under the Inducements
offered for the cultivation of sorghum
cane the company starled a central fuc
lory and succeeded In convincing Iho
public that the business was a great sue
cess , duo to the patent "roasting" pro
cess , which the company claimed to con
trol. A wild scramble for factories
started in counties and towns. The com
pany generously offered to plan
a branch in any precinct for
a bonus ranging from fifty
to ono hundred thousand dollars
the amount being determined by the
anxiety of the residents to secure the
prize. After the company had roaslet
the taxpayers for something like half a
million dollars an Inspection o
their operations revealed the
act that the sugar , extracted
by the "roasting pioucss , " was
mostly shipped into the state in barrels ,
turned into syrup , rccrystalized anil
palmed oil oi the natives as genuine
sorghum sugar. The discovery destroyed
the profits of the company and stopped
the mania for branch factories. The
company , however , has extracted sulll-
oiont "sugar" from the gullible resi
dents to retire from business in allluent
circumstances' . ,
Tin : returns of the county assessors , If
permitted to btand , will work a serious
injury to the city and county. It is an
outrage on the ( Community that millions
of improvements should bo permitted to
escape taxation ! Every property owner
realizes thai-valuations have boon ri-
diculoubly low1 for years. It has scarcely
boon one-tenth' of what the property
would bring in open market. There
was no unifqrmity in the meth
ods of fixing valuations and flagrant
discriminations wore perpetrated , by
which the poor and middle classes were
compelled lp pay a far greater per cent
of taxation than the rich. Although
the law practically ties the hands of the
board of equalisation from making a detailed -
tailed investigation of the assessors' re
turns the boarcThaB power to increase
the aggregate and that power should bo
exorcised in every district where u , re
duction was made.
Tin : Bii : : has no disposition to ques
tion the voracity of Mr. Birkhauser or
his bon-in-law. Their point-blank denial
may bo a good offset for the charge made
by Mr. Kopald. But there is something
very singular about the circumstance
that Kopald told his attorney the facts
covered by his affidavit moro than throe
months ago long before Birkhauser was
thought of for chairman of the board of
public works , and long before the war
upon the combine was begun. If Kopald
invented the whole story , and then con
sulted his attorneys as to the course to
bo pursued , ho must bo a lunatic , rather
than a knave.
A DISPATCH regarding the Methodist
conference sent out from this city de
clares that the "Boston , Chicago and
Now York delegates imposed conditions
that it will bo impossible to fulfill. " The
purpose of this glaring falsehood is ap
parent. It is a malicious libel on the
city , without n shadow of justification.
It is a link of the scandalous olTorts of
an alleged Omaha newspaper to belittle
the city and defeat the movement to secure -
cure Iho Molhodibl conference in 1892.
The conditions imposed on the city arc
moro reasonable than expected and there
is not the slightest ground for doubting
the readiness of our people to .fulfill all
requirement.
Tniui ? was no call "for affidavits from
Messrs. Croigh und Clarkson. Their
conduct in the appraieomont of the
Tenth street vimluet has not boon called
in question. The only Inference that
could bo drawnfrptu Kopald's affidavit
was that Blrj hatiser's influence would
have boon exerted to raise Iho appraise
ment for damages to Kopald in case the
Lrado of his claim * for the Spotnmn claim
had been accepted by him.
Tin : hosplltTlC-fecordH of the county
> ounl must ho ini a deplorable slalo of
confusion whoij Jio figures can bo made
to show radicfUly different conclusions.
A THOiiouoif 'investigation of the now
ail job will glypktho public a glimpse of
.he . Senogambvj.n therein.
TO Tin : Same jl braves , half a loafIs
jotter than none at all.
The Times U Out of Joint.
Chttaoo Tribune.
The London Times doesn't llko Secretary
DUUiio , but the London Thnos Is not what It
iscd to bo. Nothing it can say will jjpcupy '
Mr Blnlnu's attention longer than ubout two
tilnutcs.
It Don't Suit the DomocrntH.
SluiuCtttf Journal.
The democratic prcws In Nebraska Is quite
ronorally disposed to condemn Governor
I'buyor for recalling his procluumtlou for na
extra pension of UmletrUluturo. Tliochanged
oudltlou of affairs in Ttobr.utUa nolltloa is not
ci'OlveU with iloliyht by the domocrutlo prens
of thut hUtc , The best evidence of thu mis-
ako of the extra session fill uuU of thu wb-
jiloinnt correcting that error and of calling nn
cnrly republican state convention Is observ
able in the confusion nnd grimaces of the
Nebraska democratic press.
The Colonel "Wouldn't llellcvc It.
Sf. liouti GMie-lmierat ,
A recent philosopher declares Hint ' -nonoo {
the things worth having In life cost monoy.'i
It would bo difficult lo convince Colonel Brlco
that nuch a rule applies to the boon of u
United States seuatorahlp.
Idiotic Navigation haws.
IVitfibbljiriM Ilteonl.
A Now York firm desirous of engaging In
the West Indian fruit trade has chartered
Norwegian stonmcM to do the carrying.
Whnt nn idiotic system of mnrltlmo law It Is
thnt compels our merchants to do the carry
ing business under a foreign flag , nnd to p.iy
out $150,000,000 yearly to the people of other
countries for service that might give honor
able and profitable employment to our own
p eopl o 1 _
HTJ.T1 ! AXB V
Xrlu-nslcix .
The vlllngoof SnyJcrlms been incorporated
nnd irsotof ofllecr.s elected.
The llnrlan county oflldnl.s now occupy the
now court house and are happy.
The assessed valuation of Nebraska City Is
$1,101,003 real estate $710,711 , , personal
slsrWJ. !
. The body of a woman elegantly nttlrcd was
found flouting in the river at lirowiivlllo
Monday.
It is understood thnt Allen Elliott will
iiRiihi bo a candidate for the legislature from
Hut fun county.
George Mutz hns boon acquitted of the
charge of burglary at Geneva. The Jury
was only out ton minutes.
Three circuses and ono dramatic perform
ance have furnished plenty of amusement ut
Alma In the p.ist ton days.
The Stantou county commissioners hove
refunded the railroad bonds at 5 per cunt. ,
uiTcuting u saving of 31'JOO annually.
The Inmates of the Norfolk Insane asylum
are enjoying carriage rides these days under
the protection of the asylum authorities.
Tom Connelly , who recently shot a man at
Crawford , was heard from at Valentino last
week , where ho chewed oft Charles Strick
land's chin In a rough und tumble fight.
Two men representing themselves as insur
ance agents stole a team of ponies from the
St.ir livery barn at Stouklmtn nurl disnp-
pcarcd. A reward has been offered for the
arrest of tlio thieves.
A case of kidnapping occurred at Wilson-
villo the other day. While Mrs. Walter
Cross was In a store with her six-months
old babe her husband approached and asked
to see the child. Mrs. Cross handed tlio
b.iby to him , whereupon ho rushed from the
store with the child , jumped into u buggy
which ho had in waiting and drove rapidly
out of town. His whereabouts are still un
known.
At St. Helena an Englishman named
Cowlishaw was bound over to the dhtrict
court for the felonious .stabbing of Charles
Bcrerick. IIo protested his innocence and
hurled u chair at the he.ul of the complaining
witness. A pitched battle ensued , the court
room being cleared lu loss than a minute ,
and it requiri'd the combined strenth of oix
powerful men to capture and bind the hyster
ical prisoner.
Iowa Items.
Thcro Is § 10,030 in cash hi the Webster
county treasury.
A driving park association has been organ
ized at Shell Itock.
There is not a vacant house in Newell and
new ones uro needed.
The Independence creamery Is making
1,000 pounds o butter a day.
John Iloneyman tried to secure § 10,000
from homo of his neighbors for libel , but the
jury only awarded him ? 1.
A spoonbill catfish weighing nearly two
hundred pounds was hpc.ired in Smith's luke
near Little Sioux the other day.
The three-year-old child Of John Ferris ,
while playing around a smouldering straw
stack near Vllllsca , was fatally burned by Its
clothing catching lire.
While a little girl named Smith was pump
ing water from a well at Shcllsburg the other
day the platform gave away and she fell to
the bottom , a distance of twenty feet. Kev.
Mr. Melshon witnessed the accident and de
scended into the well and succeeded in res
cuing the child. Beyond a few slight bruises
she escaped Injury.
One day last week the llttlo son of Ed
Foroy of Lake township , while playing in the
yard , was bitten by n rabid dog , and shortly
afterward displayed strong symptoms of by
drophobia. Bjforo the character of the dis
ease. was discovered ho had bitten two other
children , who also display strong symptoms
of the dread uialady. Tlicro Is small hope of
the children recovering.
There's "a heap of ti'oublo" In the African
Methodist Episcopal church at Dubuque. At
the quarterly conference meeting Sunday
afternoon the presiding elder asked those
who could not forgive their enemies to ab
stain from communion. When ho reached
Mrs. Leo slio refused Hand pointed to Brother
Norrls. The latter then said ho would shako
hands with Sister Leo and they would journey
to hades together. After service Brother
Norris undertook to apologize to Sister Lee ,
who merely replied : "You kicked your wife
out of doors und I gave her a home , and that's
all I have against you. " Then Mrs. Norrls
struck her husband in the face with a stone ,
while Mrs. Leo punched film in the ribs with
lior umbrella. IIo struck both women and
was arrested for assault and battery. After
the law guts through with him the church
will take him In hand , nnd altogether there
seems to bo an exceedingly warm spell ahead
for Brother Norris.
Itoyoml tlio llocklcs.
TheO regon legislature is republican by
AVOnty-ono majority.
The cash receipts on Incoming freight at
Hnlloy , Idaho , last month exceeded $3,000.
A now national bank with n capital of 8150-
000 will shortly bo started at Livingston ,
Mont.
Hay Is ow soiling In Sim River , Mont. , at
from § 2.5 to } ii per ton and Is hard to piocuro
oven at those prices.
Salt Lake real estate boomers seem to bo
ilglily pleased over the failure of C. E.
Vluyuo's great stock yards scheme.
Footpads In Sacramento , Gal. , think noth-
ng of knocking down men nnd robbing them
withiu a few feet of the police station ,
Mho boys of Virginia City , Nov. , nmuso
themselves with sling shots nnd are In u fall-
way of killing somebody before many days.
Okanogan county , Washington , Is the
argest county (8,0uo ( square miles ) nnd Island
s the smallest (17 ( , > .square miles ) in the stato.
Carrie West , who lives near Clilco , CM. ,
shot two lynxes the other day nnd soon after
captured their kittens , which she Is now
taming.
tJcorgo Peterson , n Big Timber , Mont. , car-
> entor. suicided with corrojlvo subllmato at
hat place hist week because his girl went
jack on him.
( Jeorgo Ash of Billings , Mont . bought 1,000
lead of mutton shmp of W. B. IIowoll , a Wy-
lining sheep grower , paying JJ.50 per head
vlthout the wool.
.1. P. McComb , who was general custodian
af the Seattle fire relief lunds and whoso
stealings amounted to several thousand dol-
ur.s. has boon convicted of forgery.
Albert Eugene S ixton was the success-
ul applicant for the Nevada West Point
cudoUhlp at the examination hold in Curaon.
I o leaves for thu national military academy
luno 11' , where ho wilt bo subject to u llual
Cbt.
Alderman Bennett of Mlssouln , Mont. ,
vim was recently caught In tlagranto dcllctu
vlth n young lady , has added to the Bcundal
ly assaulting n newspaper ropoitcr nnd at-
umptlng to kill an editor who published his
Mil deeds.
An ex-Oakland "doom-sealer" by the name
jf Williams preached about the coming on-
ilhllatlon of the woild at Bumble Bee , Arl/ . ,
luring two days of last wc-ek , but on Iho
bird ( lay the sheriff snatrhiMl him up and had
ilm sent to Pro < scott as a lunatUt.
A rather intonating suit Is being waged In
ho superior court at Tacoma , Wash. , bo-
ween Attornov Albert Joab and Banker ] j.
3. Searrltt , president of the Washington Na-
lonal bank. Joab daltna that when Kearrltt
amo to Tacoina hu uuUrod Into an aii'i oinmit
vlth him to Introduce him to society and bus-
tittja men of the city for a consideration of
100. Searrltt dunlua the nltugntlous and
lulir-Ji that Joab Introduced him lo peoplu ho
Id not know or have Influence with , bunco
ho suit , A jury \ \ 111 determine thu murlu of
claims or Scarr Jit's allegation-
CLOSE OF COMMENCEMENT ,
Thirty University Studcnla Presented With
Diploma.1 ! .
POST GRADUATES TAKE DEGREES ,
A Iilncolii Mnti Hots nil n Confidence
Mnti'ft Gniuo AVIth the Usual
.KcsulUi The Capital
City In Urlef.
Li.vcor.x , Nob. , Juno II. [ Special to Tnn
Bin.J : The graduating exercises of the
state university took plnco at the Funko
opera house this morning. The march of the
senior clnss , other students , professors ,
regents and state and county officers from
the university to the opera Uouso took place
at 0:30. :
An Immense audience gathered In the opera
house to 'Isten ' to the exorcises. On the stage
sat the regents , the clergy and a largo num
ber of distinguished state officials. None of
the graduates took part in the exercises.
After the opening overture and Invocation
Miss Bertha Bnyllss of Omaha rendered a
vocal solo , the selection being from "Tho
Child of the Heglment. " This was followed
by tlio leading feature of the occasion , an
oration by Dr. P. S. Hlnson of Chicago. Ills
theme had not been previously announced.
"I will speak upon the subject of 'Guti- '
ncry , ' " said the distinguished divine , "as
suggested la the old saying ubout teaching
the young idea how to shoot. What I say
will bo under three heads , 'Gun Metal , ' 'Am
munition' and 'Aim.1 I take for granted thnt
every man is a gun or the son of a gun. Thcro
is such a thing as a natural genius ; there Is
such u thing as a natural fool. "
The speaker then developed the analogy
between the different heads of his subject
and the different phases of llfo and character.
IIo Impressed upon the students the need of
powder , or In other words , personal push.
Ho told his hearers thnt every class room Is a
furnace , every professor a trip hammer nnd
every examination a drawing out which
would In tlmo reduce the crude ere to the
polished metal. Ho advised undergraduates
to take plenty of tlmo for their
education. The address flpnrklcd with
scintillations of wit , which kept the
audience In good humor. The tenor of the ad
dress Is summed up In the following extract :
"Gather your thoughts from the whole uni
verse. Put them In the crucible of your own
personality. Melt them with the Ihu of your
own feeling , and stamp them with the im-
piess of your own originality. Then hurl
them forthwith nil the force that you are
capable of. "
After a vocal duet by Miss Canflcld nnd
Dr. Eddy , the graduates filed out on the
stage to receive their graduating diplomas.
These were formally presented by Acting
Chancellor Bcssoy. Tlio list of graduates
was published in lull In this morning's BKI : .
The post graduates who have been pursuing
u .special course for the degree of master of
arts wcro then given their diplomas. These
wcro as follows :
George Washington Botsford , B. A. , 1SSI ;
Koscoo Pound , B. A. , 1SSS ; Jay Amos Bar
rett , B. A. , IbSS : Vernon Judson Emery , B.
A. , University of Ohio , 1887 ; Laurence Foss-
ler , B. Sc. , 1831 ; George William Gerwig , B.
A. , Ib80 ; Charles Berry Newcomer , B , A. ,
IS1 ! ! ) ; Martin Ostorholm , B. A. , Augustnna
college , Ibb5 ; Mary Adell Treeman , B. Sc. ,
1831 ; Herbert John Webber , B. Sc. , 18S9.
The ofllccrs of tho'university batallion
wcro then presented with their commissions
us regular officers hi tlio state militia by
Governor Thayer , who made u brief speech to
the young boldlers.
Another solo by Miss Bertha Bayliss and
the benediction closed the exercises.
AN' OLD COS' OAMK IIKVAMI'HD.
An Ingenious reconstruction of the freight
racket confidence game was played upon
Clarence Wardwell , proprietor of nn Eleventh
street saloon yesterday. A man dressed as a
granger entered that establishment saying
that ho had loaned a stianger fcrlO to pay
freight on some stock at the depot nnd that
the lellow had given him n check for a largo
amount as security , promising to
meet him at Waidwell's saloon at
5 o'clock and pay the amount.
Mr. Wardwell laughed at the country fellow
and told him that ho would neither sco the
stranger nor his $40 again. The granger
would not bcliovo that anybody could bo so
dishonest , wlicicupon Wardwell offered to
bet him § 5 that the stranger would not show
up at 5 o'clock. The countrylled fellow ac
cepted the bet and the money was put up.
Wbilo Wardwcll was smiling to himself at
how easily ho would add W to the day's
profits , another man came rushing in with a
roll of bills and exclaimed :
"Hello , old fellow , hero's your flO that you
loaned mo. "
"I knew you would show up , " said the
granger.
Warrtwell looked stunned and not till after
the stakes wcro tinned over to the granger
and the two went out laughing together did
ho realbo that ho had been victimized , nnd
that the alleged sti anger was nothing moro
than a confcdereto to the fellow passing as a
greeti granger.
granger.AT
AT I.OGOKIIUnU > 3.
It Is said that the senior class and the
musical department of the state university
arc at loggerheads for some reason or other.
and the graduates most flatly opposed the
proposition to have the musical department
lurnKh the music. Consequently the melody
for the occasion was rendered by Miss Bertha
Bayliss ot Omahn , Miss Canfleld fiud Dr.
Eddy of Lincoln and the cadet band.
Axormni w.ioiiTiiD vouxa i.irn.
It Is reported at police headquarters that
nn itinerant young gang of abandoned men
and women who have been Infesting the city
of late have Induced Jennie- Adams , the pretty
daughter of Mr. Adams at O and Third
streets to Join them. Last night the disrepu
table gang passed the night at Ninth and
Park avenue and this morning loft for un
known parts with their young recruit. Mr.
Adams Is almost craved with grief over the
wayward course of his daughter.
A.VOTlinil SUCKIIII.
An old farmer was seen hovering about the
baggage room of the B. it M. this morning ,
nnd in reply to the baggageman's question
us to what ho wanted , replied that lie was
waiting for u tttrangor to whom ho had loaned
Siyo to pay a freight bill. The farmer dc-
sciibed the stranger us a "danmtlon clover
follow , " anu told how contemptibly a
freight ngont had treated him. Of course
the stranger got the sucker's money , promis
ing to moot him and pay him at the baggage
room. When the farmer finally saw how ho
had been worked he refused to give his name ,
but said that ho was on his way from Illinois
to Columbus.
ins rr.K.
A peculiar case was filed In the supreme
coust this morning In which a lawyer sues a
man for attorney's fees incurred by his wlfo
in a salt for a divorce. All the parties con
cerned llvo In Omaha. Tlio attorney is JNH
than J. Burnlmm nnd the defendant HU'h ;
mil Ti/ard. Tlnco voar.s ago Tl/anl nuod fern
n divorce from his wife. ICnto
TIzard , on the grounds of infidelity
to her mirrlago vows , of drunken
ness and of oytiomo cruelty to her husband.
Mrs. Ti/ard was opposed to tlio separation
mid employed Buriibam as her attorney. Ho
succeeded in having tlio prayer for n dlvorco
denied. Mrs. Tl/nrd bad only $100 awarded
ns allmonv for attorney's fees while the suit
was ponding. Kho paid this to Burnlmm ,
but the attorney dmn.mdod $1,000 for his
work mid as Mrs. TIzard Is unable to pay It
Biirnham sues her husband for the balance
remaining unpaid. In the lower court the
attorney lost tlio case.
CITV NOTES.
The annual picnic of the old settlers of Lan
caster county la set for next Wednesday ut
Uushmau park.
Commissioner John Jenkins of the bureau of
Industrial statistics Is compiling moitgago
statistics for the consideration of the next
legislature. Among other features will bo
inswers to the question why mortgages uro
The now curbing nut In on the west and
north Hldo of the capital grounds how thnt n
Ut of about three fuot is to bo nuido In grad
ing nt the Intersection of Fourteenth nnd 1C
itieota. This will glvo the atato houno amore
moro elevated position and add greatly to Its
imnoMlug appearance.
Clglii C. HarrMiorn hns been granted a
llvorco from his wlfo , Ada Ilartuliorn.
John A. Ohl finds that ho can no longer bo
liappy with his wife , Ellzuboth Ohl , and a-sks
thu court Chat ho Ixi freud from thu lion that
bind him to her. The two have been mimled
[ or twwuty-Uvo years.
C. S. Lutilnyler , bailiff of the supreme
court , has returned from a trip to Alabama.
Uleanrd Hlbbnrd , who filed a petition for a
mechnnlo'a lien for fi'ol ngalint F. W.
Tnlmngo nnd Samauthn ICi-ck of Kearney for
the construction of n brick house hns up-
ponied his cnso to the supreme court , havliur
test It In the lower court.
As Mrs. 1C. C. Kedlleld was on her way
homo Inst night she had the misfortune to
lose her gold watch and chain.
Complaint has been tiled at the polloo
court that W. W. Holmes Is filling the
channel of Antclopo creek below Vine street
with manure , causing the water to Hood/
buck and make a pond iu the residence poi-
tton Immediately to the north. City Attorney
Holmes has written him a formal notice thnt
this Is against the ordinance of the city nnd
notifies him that ho can save himself from ar
rest by removing the obstruction. The po-
llco complain that they are constantly having
trouble with Holmes over Just such viola
tions of the city ordinances and they are adverse -
verso to arresting him as ho Is n man of con
siderable wealth.
Burglars attempted to break Into Clmtlc *
Damrow's ' tailor shop about I o'clock hist
night , but were caught in the act. The
thieves wcro licet of foot mid managed to gut
away. This is the second attempt made
within four days to burglarize thU place.
r OEIOIANV
How the Iron Chancellor Set About tt/T
to AoooinpllHh it.
The world has been accustomed to regard -
gard the Gorman people as a slow nnd
heavy race. Tlicro was a certain amount
of truth in ascribing to them Ihcso char-
actorlatics as long iw the liund , with Iho
predominant influence of Austria and the
minor stales , roprcsonlcd Iho majority of
the nation. But to Iho Prussians those
opllliots could never have been applied
jiibtlv. They are an energetic , active
and plucky race , says Harper's
Magazine for Juno. Bismarck
understood from tlio beginning of
his career llicso their excellent
qualities by which they surpassed Ihoir
Gorman brothers , nnd when ho had secured -
cured for his country the hegemony of
Germany , ho devised the means of im
pressing these characteristics upon the
people of other states. ' The general in- .
trouuctioit of Iho Prussian military sya-
toma measure which ho established ivj.
ono of the fundamental principles of th $
constitution , proffered the best opportu- '
nily for influencing non-Prub.sians. However -
over opposed wo may bo to militarism ,
soldier life in Pnmsia and in Iho pres
ent Germany has its wide sides. It is not
merely camp life , and in , on the whole ,
not given to idleness and indulgence , dis
sipation and vice , but rather to practices
which engender habits of aetiity , en
durance , energy and moral coinage.
The soldiers are not simply drilled in
the art of handling guns and swords ,
and of inarching in runic and lilo , but
they ivcoivo a general education in all
those spheres in which ovcry man ought
to acquire a. certain grade of intel
ligence. Civil life in Germany
does not proffer the sumo instruc
tive influences which it wields in
other countries , and especially In a
republic. The army , in which the majority - '
jority of the people meet on common j
ground and in which the uneducated
como in close contact with the c-dueuted ,
has been a means of raising the intt-1-
loclual slandurd of Iho musses. The
Gorman soldier , as a rule , is lurncd out
at the end of his borvico a moro valuable-
citizen than ho would bo without mili
tary discipline. IIo becomes a moro in
telligent and consequently a moro c'lll-
uiunu Jiiumuur ui uiu
and , nhovo all , ho gains in Ulo
army the feeling that ho does not
belong' simply to a particular sum 11
state , but to a greater fatherland , com
mon to all. Thus the expenses incurrml
for maintaining this largo body of nii-n
olTor another compensation besides He-
curing the safety of a nation over threatened
oned by its neighbors. What eenturios
hart not boon able to create , namely , a
wider and higher onthuaiaam and. patri
otism for the whole GormaSi land , Bis
marck's policy created within eight
years ; for all confederate states rose like
ono man in the Franco-Prussian war of
1870-1 , and the south followed Ihoir ex
ample.
llciilluau ] ! State Con volition.
Tlio republican electors ot tlio state of Nebraska -
braska aio ieque ; > ted to send delegates fioni
tbolrsoveial counties to mcut lu convention hi
the city of Lincoln , Wednesday. July ! KI. at 8
o'clock p. in. , for the puiposo of placing lu
nomination candidates for the following statj
offices :
Governor.
Lieutenant Govnrnor.
Secretary of State ,
Auditor of 1'ubllc Accounts ,
State Treasurer.
Attoinoy Gcnuial.
W
Coiiiml.sslonorof Public Lands and llulld- M '
Ings. jS *
Superintendent of 1'nldlo Instruction.
And tlio transaction of suoh other business
as may como befoie the convention.
llli : AI'l'OHTIONMK.VT.
The sovoi.il counties are entitled to repre
sentation as follows , being bused upon the
vote caht for Hon. Oeorgo II. Hustings , proil-
dentlal clcutor In 18S3 , giving ouo dolegati'-.il-
luigo to each county , and one for each l.Vt
votes and the major fraction thereof :
COUNTILS. IIUI. . COUMIl.S. lift ,
It Is recommended that no pioxlen ho ad
mitted to the convention , und that flindulu-
gutus putsoiit boaiitboiUud to cast thu full
vote of the delegation. r
li. D. ItinuiiliH , Chalinmn.
WAI.T M. SuEr.KV , Bcorctary.
OMAHA
LOAN AND TRUST
COMPANY.
Hiilmorlbud anil Ouuruntccd Capital fVW.M )
I'alillii O. iltal ) . . , . 1W'IW '
llnytuiml EullSHtooka und hotiilx ; nctiillaU"t
coiiiinuiolal p.-ipoi ! receives and I'ti'mii-s
tnihtsi aclmiH trunsfuruKuiit unit tru-tH'o nl
corporations , taUe.s elmrgo of iiropuity , < - " ' -
lects taxes , _
OmahaLoan & TrustCo
SAVINGS BANK.
SE. Corner 10th nnd Douglnn Sta
I'nlil InCapllut . . . . . . .SM.uoo X
hiib-.ni lljwl and Uiiurniitt'ud Capital . . 100,1X0
inability of btooldiohlom . VtW.iXU
& 1'er Cunt Interest 1'iild on DppotfltH.
I'ltANICJ. hANOK. Onslilor
Oflli'018'A. U. Wyiiiiin , iiruHldont , .I..I. Drown ,
> k'o-ir | Bldont , W. \Yinan , treasurer
Ilrfi-torn A. I' . Wiinan J. II. Mlllurd , J J
Drown , Uuy O. llurlon i : W. Nash , Thoiuai
J. Ucoi o li , Uku.