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I THE OMAHA DAILY B&E : F1UJDAY , TANUAKY 1(3 ( , i ui. THE DAILY BEE. K. HOSEWATKH Kmion. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TEIIM8 OF HUHSCUIl'TION. Dally nnil t-undny , One Ycnr. , , . . . .til 00 Flxiiiontlii. . 600 Thtvo inoiilliR. . . 2M fitiiulny Ittn.Ono Vrnr. > 200 \Vcokly Itee , Ono Year. ICO OI'TIOESl Omnlin , Tim Tire llulldlnu. Hmilli Omnlm. Corner N ntifl 20th EtrccU Council ItliKTs. 121'ofirl Ktrcct , Chlcneo Ofllec , Iirciinmtiorof Commerce. Now Vork.lloomi 13,14 ami ft Tribune llulluinz NYushliiutoii , Oiarourtceiitlifctrcct. COliUESI'ONDKSOE All rormmmlcatloni rolutltiit 1o now * nrnl rdltorliil inntlcr rlioiild bu addressed to the Editorial Doimrtmont. IIL'StNKSS . , . , All biislricis Iftlors nnil rcmlttunco.1 should t c ntldri .sod to Tlio llco PuhllihlnK Company , Omnlin. llrnftt , clircki mid noitnuMco orders to bo timdo puynblo to the older of the oou pany. Ilic Dec Publishing Company , Proprietors , Tlie llco H'ld'R , I urnnm nnd Seventeenth Sts IWOKN STATEMENT OB1 C1UOUNATION ftfttrnf Ntibm kk. I County uf Ddumni I Ocrrcr il. T7schnck. eccrctnry of The wt rublNilng coiiiDimv. aoci solemnly nwrat tbal the nctunl clrnulntion of Tin : DAILY Urn for \\ccrfendlui ; Jaiiiniiy 10,1WJ1 , was as follows : Punrtnv. .Tan. t 28.7M Jtomlnv.Jnn. 5 < U > Ttte 'njr. ' Jan ti 27.r- \\rclnrcilny. \ .Tun. 7 > } Tliiirsilny. Jan. 8 .II..IW Vrldnv. Jin. : 0 a .ftl. Baturd-iy. Jim. 10 . . . . .31.3)8 ) Average 20 , 0 CEOItflK II. T7.8CIICCK. fworn 1o Icforo mo nnd Mitif-cnbocl In tny ttrocnro ttus lOtli dnv of January. A. I ) . . 1801 IfiiAUl N. 1' . l < 'Eiu J < otary t'ubllo. Etutrof NVt r.-iikn , I County of DmiRlni. I Ororpn M , Tzidiuclc , I rlns ( lnljrnwom , rte- nnd sjiyn Hint ho Is occrotiiry of The Hro 'ubllsliinp ' t'nmpanv. that the actual tivcrneo clnlly circulation of TUB I U.Y HFE for Uio niontli of Jnnnnry. 1HK ) , 1M5 ! ' copies ; for Kcbriinry , ItlO , 19,161 conlrs ! for Slnrcli. IfDO , I0.81S copies ; for April. 3fDO , BUM roulc * : for Mny , IBtO , 20.1SO rnjilrs ! for.Tiiiip , JW , W.POl cop'c * : for July , JHO. SO/K ! copies ; for Aiirmt , IIDT.SO.TI.Ocopies ; for frrtitrtnlrr. WO. 21.S70 copies ; for October. WO , mTKI < oplcn ; for November , 1HK > , i2,130 copies ; for December. IfPO. JIUTI conies. OKlIifli : II. T78OIIUCK. Fworn to 1 e'ore inc. nnd mibFcrlbcd In my presence , tlusUlstauy of December. A.I ) . , lew N r. I'EIT. Notnry Public. Mu. Dr.Mi'SKY will vucitto the middleweight - weight champion chair without waiting Tor the decision of the supreme court. GKNIRAITHAYKU : may console him- ficlf with the thought that ho is the moat distinguished privates cltizon of Nebraska. Foil seine unknown reason the price of silver bullion failed to respond to the senatorial boost. Are the speculators afraid of Tom Rood's gavel ? COLOIIADO has killed two mon at the opening of its legislative session.Vhou will Colorado got -civilized nnd learn to conduct itself in a deliberate and parlia mentary manner ? IIO"W many moro votes are wo to have on free colnngo before the silver pool is investigated ? The effect is apparent , but the country would lilto to see the cause u , litllo plainer. JOHN C. WATSON is the only republi can who gets a chairmanship in the house , llo hoada the committee on fish and gamo. Evidently the independents take the Otoo statesman for n , sucker. EVERY dny wasted by the legislature in the "consideration of the record" costs the people of Nebraska at least $2,000. Meanwhile the settlers on the frontier are suffering for food and fuel. CAT.IFOHNIA. proposes to expend $1,000,000 in making a showing at the world's fair. Iowa calculates on 3150,000 , and Wyoming has appropriated $30,000. "What Nebraska will do remains to bo soon. THE hopes of a general calm in public affaire , following the close of the Sioux war and the oiling1 of legislative wheels , are again shattered. The National league and the American association are at it once moro , conspiring for base ends. k'AQE docs not wither nor custom _ 8tale" publio interest in the manly art. jTho lasf hattlo pf Now Orleans oxcitcd " "its much interest as when two nations practically suspended business pending the settlement of the international dis pute between Hconan and Sayora , thirty years ago. As SOON" as Judge Doano's decision re lieving the Union Pacific of the larger shnro of $37,000 , roaches " 30 Wall street , Now York , "tho country may confidently ' expect another letter from Government Director Plummor. The government's proportion of the company's earnings is imporillcd. Iris reported from Washington that Leland Stanford really haa an Alliance following for president on account of his mortgngo loan bill. Why not inako the ticket Stanford and Gould ? This would make it balance , and the mil roads could then unite their strength with the farmers and make it a sure thing. A. J. STRRISTKK , union labor candi date for the presidency in 1SSS , will bo supported for senator by the three inde pendents who hold the balance of power In the Illinois legislature. There is therefore a possibility that ho may yet got something substantial out of the barren honor that came to him three years ago. Ho is a farmer and a con- elstent advocate of radical reform labor measures. TllK .Missouri legislature haa taken hold of the railroad corporations with out gloves. The estimated valuation of railroad property In the state is 8J50,000,000 , yet for tax purposes it is put down at $110,000,000. Their annual oarnlngs aggregate $31,000,000 , or moro ban 50 per cent of the assessed valua tion. The legislature proposes to make the corporations pay tholr proportion of the public taxes. IP POWBKS has any title to the gov ernorship it cannot bo affected by any intercourse the legislature may bo obliged to have with Boyd as governor In transacting- business of the state. But if Powers has any humane fooling ho nhouJJ exert his inllunnco with his followers ju the legislature nnd prevail upon them to lose no further time in coming to the rollof of the destitute Bottlers tlers of hlo own county. DISGRACE TltC STATE. For tnnny months the destitute sot- ttcra of oar droutli-strfcKon counties have boon waiting patiently for the assembling of the legislature. The aid which hna boon doled out to them through voluntary contributions has been a inero makeshift that has scarcely sufficed to keep soul and body together. Moro than two thousand families hnvo only been kept from freezing to death by a providentially mild winter. Thou sands of women and children are today subsisting upon Andorsonvillo faro , ex pecting hourly relief at the hands of the farmer legislature. * But after nearly two weeks' session all that has boon done , for thorn is the pas sage of resolutions and n , request signed by members of the legislature that the state rollof cotnmlttco should procure credit from the bankers and merchants to advance the money and furnish pro visions and fuel until the controlling majority abandons its policy of non-ln- tcrcourso with the governor. Could anything bo moro heartless and cruel ? Hero is n legislature composed al most wholly of farmers. The controll ing majority wore elected by the Farm ers' Alliance from the central and western portion of the state. The destitute * people who appeal for relief are all farmers , and they very naturally expected and had a right to expect that their breth ren in the legislature would not waste an hour in placing at tholr disposal whatever funds the state could spare. And what do wo sco ? After ten days spent chiefly in contention over spoils and in the lritorcst of olllco-scckors , the only help offered is the absurd demand that the relief committee shall raise the necessary funds. Now , Moses got water for the thirsty Israelites in the wilder ness by smiting the rock , but no sane man expects the relief committee can procure SoO.OOO or $100,000 by striking the Hint-hearted bankers for a loan on the paper pledge of a legislature. And why should the state pay interest to money lenders for an advance to the relief committco when the money is lying In the state treasury ? How can any nllianco farmer face his suiToring neighbors on the frontier and plead any excuse for failing to rush the relief bill through as fast as the constitution will 'permit ? How will the farmers of the present legislature ) over expiate the state crime should a blizzard swoop the prairies of western Nebraska and leave behind it a trail of death and scores of maimed men , women and children ? It will take at least three to four weeks before the Powors-Boyd contest can bo concluded. Are the destitute people ple of the frontier to remain without relief liof until then ? Who could defend any such wicked ness ? It scorns to us the time has como for the people from every section of the 'state to remonstrate with tholr repre sentatives nnd toll them in plain and emphatic language that they must not disgrace Nebraska in the eyes of the whole country. AN OltOAXlSSKD NATIONAL OU.ittD. The constitution of the United States gives congress the power "to provide for organizing , arming , and disciplining the militia , and for governing such part of them as may bo o mployod in the service of the United States , reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of train ing the militia according to the discipline - pline proscribed by congress. " A bill is In congress which the author , Repre sentative Henderson of Iowa , hopes to secure the passage of at the pres ent session , 6intended to promote the olllcioncy of the militia , and which provides for an organized national guard to consist of every able-bodied male citizen who is moro than eighteen and loss than forty-five years of ago. This force shall bo com posed of such regularly enlisted tioopa as are or may bo organized in the sev eral states nnd territories in pursuance of their respective laws , but an original enlistment shall bo lor not loss than three years and a ro-onlistmont for not Joss than one year. The national guard shall bo trained in accordance with the same system of drill and tactics that may from time to time bo proscribed for the army , and when called into the ser vice of the United States any olllcor or enlisted man refusing to obey shall bo subject to trial by cour.t-martlal. One million dollars annually is to bo appro priated for issuing to the states and ter ritories military stores and supplies fpr the use of the militia , and a bureau es tablished in the war department which shall have charge of nil matters concern ing this force. In a report on the bill it Is urged that every nation maintains some form of militia as a reserve to Its standing army , and the smaller the standing army the greater the necessity that the militia bo thoroughly organized and oulciontly trained. It is argued , also , that while there is no apparent dan/jor / threatening us the small body of regular troops wo could summon to our defense would bo wholly inadequate , and the mass of patriotic citizens that might volunteer would simply become victims of ignorant zeal nnd their lives and treasure bo wasted. The present niilitia law la nearly a century old , and necessarily most of Its provisions have become ob solete and impracticable , so that If it bo granted that any such law is necessary now legislation is certainly required. Tno wisdom of ttio founders of the gov ernment in giving congress the power to provide for organizing the mllltla will not bo questioned. The conditions at the time the constitution was framed forcibly suggested and Imperatively demanded such provision. But it Is a question whether the maintenance of a militia force may not now safely bo left to the several states , with no moro trouble or oxponeo to the general f < ovarnmont than would bo itivol vcd in detailing of the army to Instruct this citizen sol diery. There are valid objections to the government departing from the con servative policy In this matter that has boon obcorvod from the beginning , and there is not likely to occur In the future an exigency demanding a great and capable military /orco moro urgent or of lireator magnitude than those which iiavo been successfully mot la the past PKOllIiEMS FOtt OUIll.A\r \ MAKEtlS. The legislature will have to pull the cotton out of its oars and listen to the voice of these who desire to promote the jest interests of the state regardless of partisan advantage. There is now a deficiency of ever two hundred thousand dollars In the various state institutions. Some cstimatoaplaco it as high as $250,000. In ether words , Lho state institutions have incurred lia bilities amounting to nearly a quarter of a million dollars over and above the amount appropriated by the lastlogls- laturo. Nearly every state office , from the auditor down to the superintendent of public schools , has exhausted the funds placed at its command. The auditor has not postage stamps enough loft now to carry on his regular correspondence , inrt ho has no right to borrow or pur chase supplies until the legislature has placed the money at hla disposal by an ipproprlation. It wua oxpootod that every state institution and state olllcor would have ample moans to pvy all sal aries and moot all dominds up to the end of the first quarter of the * present year. The problem that confronts the legis lature is how to moot the doficicnces and how to keep the machinery of gov ernment in motion. On Wednesday , January 14 , the cash on hand in the general fund of the state treasurer amounted to 8353,201.01 , and the various county treasurers are ex pected to pay ever about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars more within the next thirty days. Out of this fund , amounting in round numbers to 0700,000 , the legislature will have to appropriate ever ono hundred thousand dollars for legislative expenses , not less than ono hundred thousand dollars for rollof of destitute settlers and fully half a million for current expanses of the executive and judiciary departments and state in stitutions during the present year. That would leave no money whatever for covering the $2oO,000 of deficiencies already incurred This is only a charcoal sketch of the situation , but it should at once awaken the independent steer ing committee of the legislature to a realization of the necessity of getting detailed information which waste to have been obtained through the out going governor's message and which can only bo procured by making requisitions on each state olllcor for separate reports. OMAHA AND THE ttMO.V PACIFIC. There is no disposition on the part of any of our eitizons.includinjr Ernest Stuht and John D. Howoto , repudiate any obli gation which the city has assumed"either toward the Union Pacific or the Union depot company. When our citizens , by an overwhelming majority voted the depot bonds , they did so with the clear understanding that all the Iowa roads had contracted with the Union Pacific to cross its bridge and jointly use the depot on reasonable terms. The Tenth street viaduct was regarded as an approach to the union depot. There would not have boon a dollar in bonds voted had not the bond proposition in cluded specific provisions regarding the joint use of the depot and approaches from the Iowa side by all roads desiring it. Nobody wants to reopen old sores and fight ever the transfer and depot ground battles. There is no disposi tion cither to withhold from the Union depot company the quit claim deeds to the grounds or the bonds which wore voted as a bonus , but there must bo a mutual compliance of obligations. If the Union Pacific company persists in maintaining the bridge embargo , there can bo no union depot in the sense con templated in the bond proposition. The cost of the union depot is of small consequence quence to our citizens compared with the advantages to bo derived from the aboli tion of the transfer nuisance. Just as soon as our citizens are given convincing proof that the promises made before the bonds were voted willbomado good , Omaha will cheerfully surrender the bonds and hand ever the title deeds to the depot grounds. UNITKD ACTION Utf TllXT-nOOKS. Thoraaro nt least three states in which text-book reform and war on the book trust is a live issue. These are Nebraska , Kansas and Illinois. As these three commonwealths are all striving for the same results , some plan ought to bo adopted by which they could use similar methods. A bill introduced into the Illinois'leg islature provides for the appointment of the superintendent of public instruction , the regents of the state university , the presidents of the two normal universities and the adjuster of the LuSullo Institute of Chicago , ns a state text-book board. It provides that they shall bo vested with power to arrange a uniform system of text-books for the common schools , which shall bo furnished parents at the minimum rate ana not changed oftener than once in ton years. .It ap propriates 3200,000 to carry the law Into oiled. The exactions of the book trust have boon carried to a point whoroitbocomos profitable for the people to rebel. This is seen as plainly In ono state as in another. A reform is coming , and it is desirable that it should como in a man ner to secure pcrmnnonco as well as economy. Illinois , Kansas and Nebraska will , of course , use similar books in tholr common schools. Why can they not got together for the purpose of arrang ing and adopting a uniform system ? The books could then bo prepared by the same authors nnd printed from the same plates , nnd the expenses appor tioned among the three states according to tholr school population. This would bo a great saving of expense , Other states are likely to follow suit , and this will still further reduce the coat of the books. Such co-operation would also operate to secure a higher standard of quality In ! } & publications , as the re sult of the nail d intelligence of several states. Jii i ; The agents of the book trust , and oven omo of the leathers who nro helping tliotn prejudice , public opinion against the reform , nesliro us that Nebraska and ether slates have , not the talent required for the production of a proper line of school books. This , however , Is an opinion which will not bo generally endorsed. Ou people at least have back bone enough to rebel against a combina tion of publishers who possess the power to absolutely control the prleo of the books from which tholr children learn the common branches of education. And It is entirely probable that they are able to produce such books without the ex pensive assistance of the trust and its friends. If the legislature should Invite a con ference of Illinois , Kansas and Nebraska comuilttoes favorable to the reform it would doubtless bo productive of good. 'uir VOK/V SK There is probably more general inter est in the choice of Air. Evarts' successor ser by the Now York legislature than in any ether pending senatorial contest. The latest suggestion is that the vari ous factional contentions and personal ambitions in the democratic camp will bo settled by the cholco of a man not hitherto mentioned , who would bo equally acceptable to all. His name Is said to be Perry Belmont This choieo would surprise the politicians and the public generally , and would omphasi/.o the prevailing and growing conviction that the souato is rapidly becoming an American house of lords and a rich men's club. Perry Belmont Is the son of the late August Belmont , nnd consequently a millionaire by inheritance. Though ho has served creditably in congress and for a few weeks as minister to Spain , ho owes his chance for the soimtorship wholly to the fact that ho is the son of a man who made a fortune as a banket- ana left it all to his family. It is possi ble , of course , that young Belmont would have been a distinguished statesman if his father had not been worth millions , but it is equally certain that ho does not now ewe his prominence to great ability , as ho never has displayed any. Could the democratic legislature of Now York possibly select a man for senator who would more seriously affront the sentiment of the times than this scion of Now York moneyed aristocracy ? Probably not , unless it chose a Vandor- bllt or a Gould. Could it select a man wboso predominance of money over brains would stand out in greater con trast to Sowaril and Conkling and Evarts , who were rich only in intellect nnd character ? The choice of Perry Belmont as United States senator from New York would add emphasis to the clamor against the power of money in politics. It would also shatter the pretensions of the dem ocracy as the people's party. There is another peculiar thing about the Now York situation. Hill is said to decline the sena - torship because lie > does not want to bo' "shelved upon it. " What ether Ameri can public man ever thought himself too big for a sonatorship ? Not Daniel Web ster , Henry Clay , William H. Sownrd , Allen G. Thurmnn or James G. Blalno. Why , then , Hill , the peanut politician of Elmira ? The country will await the choieo of the New York legislature with Interest , but present indications do not fore shadow the advent of any great states man as the successor of Evarts. ffEIiKASft.A'S HLEOTO11AL VOTE. Senator Switzlor's electoral bill is a bold democratic bchomo for boating Ne braska republicans out of part of their electoral vote. The bill provides that the presidential electors to bo chosen in Nebraska in 1892 and every four years thereafter shall bo elected ono from each congressional district into which the state may bo divided and two from the state at large. The constitution of the United States , article II , section 2 , says : "Each state shall appoint , in such man ner as the legislature thereof may di rect , a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators and repre sentatives to which the state maybe bo entiled in the congress. " Under this authority electors have boon chosen by the legislatures of several of the states. In 182-1 the electors of Delaware , Georgia , Louisiana , Now York , Ver mont and South Carolina wore chosen by the state legislatures. Before the next presidential election all these states had provided for the choice of electors by the popular vote except South Carolina , which continued to elect them by the legislature down to thotunoof her secession. The electors of Florida were chosen by the legis lature in 1868 , and these of Colorado in 1870. The constitutional provision above quoted would perhaps warrant the choice of electors in the way pro posed in the bill of Senator Switzlor , but If such a plan has ever before been suggested no state has adopted it. It is possiblo'that ' If the choice of pres idential olectoyg by congressional dis tricts , oxcopttho two in each state rop- robentlng the 'fconators , were made general - oral throughout , the country the result would bo tv fairer expression of the pop ular choice forf ju-cstdont and vice presi dent. But tljojuplan cannot bo rnndo general. Thoisouthorn state * would not adopt it , becnuso to do so would bo to insure a numbdf of republican electors from that soctjlqn. Is there any valid reason why Nebraska should adopt a plan for the choice of electors different from that of ov'ery ether state of the union ? Wo can conceive of none. It is easy to understand why a democrat should desire such a departure. A ma jority of the voters of this slate can safely bo depended upon to support the republican pur y in a national campaign , nnd nothing In the future of politics can bo predicted with greater certainty than that the olcctoral vote of Nebraska will bo given to the republican national ticket In 1892 if the plan of choosing electors is not changed , Under that proposed by Senator Switzlor , how ever , it would bo possible to divide the electoral vote of the state nnd thus in a measure defeat the will of a majority of the pooplo. It is not an honest proposi tion , intended to institute a justcr sys tem of giving expression lo the popular will in the choice of doctors , but ono prompted entirely by the hope that it might result in a r.nmll partisan gain , It is not defensible on any ground of lacosslty or expediency. i simplyivdomoeratlcschonio which would possibly enable that parly to capture nn olcctoral vote , and which would uovor have been thought of If that party was in the majority In the state. Wo do not apprehend that there Is any danger of Its bolng adopted. The honest and fair- mttulud mon in the legislature who will understand Its motive are numerous enough to defeat such nn attempt by the minority party in the state to Introduce a principle which no state lias over adopted and which Involves the danger of a partial defeat of the will and prefer ences of a majority of the people in na tional elections. IT is charitable to suppose that young Mr. Counsimui did not know the clan was loaded. TllK reduction of the county road fund to $75,000 indicates that all main streets In suburban additions have been opened and graded. M K. COUNSJIAN was by far the most competent man In the city clerk's office. Yet ho was dismissed by the council and the incompetents rotalnod. STATISTICS of the meat packing In dustry to date indicate that Omaha is not only keeping up the tremendous pace of last year but actually breaking the record. TUB cstimato of county expenses for the current year is $102,000 , a reduction of $10,000 compared with last year. This is a specimen of economy specially com mendable , considering the source. But the question is why should the county expenses run up to100,000 a year ? JUIKIR DOANH'S decision in the via duct damngo case is based on the ground that the city cannot tax property fora public improvement which it had no authority to make. If the decision is confirmed in the higher courts the question arises , can the city levy a tax to meet the interest and principal of the bonds voted to the Union depot com pany ? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Tun county commissioners set apart $ 1,000 for what they are pleased to call "agricultural society subscription. " While the law authorizes such appro priation , the money is practically thrown away in Doughis county. So far as anybody knows , it has merely given a few pretentious "farmers" in town an excuse for maintaining an organization , and bringing discredit on the county by an alleged exhibit. A repetition of last fall's farcical show should bo pro hibited by repealing the law. Dead lasting. Kbibrara Ptnnccr. The Pioneer bos considerable confidence In the general good scnso of the people. b\r. Richards' ' books ot free transportation to del egates trains for hi ? friends were not cal culated to malto him very solid with people agitated as they wcro. As to his connection with Mr. Ilosowator , which has doubtless all along bcon strained , Mr. lUenards' letter to that gentleman will not harm him , and a sen sible silence on dead issues will doubtless prevail This wns a bad year outside of Kosowator ud Omaha. Xlio Pact ol' the Matter.1 Superior Times. It Is decidedly refreshing to ECO the coun try papers that had little or nothing to say in. the recent campaign now pile on to Kosc- water nnd Tin : OMAHA Dun auu attempt to annihilate him and his paper by sheer force or numbers because the republican ticket failed to win. They call him the Judas [ scariot of Nebraska politics and other net names and insist that ho has wrecked the party in the state. The fuct of the matter is that Hoscwatcr is not acc'Ountable for the avulaucuo that overtook republicanism in Ne braska. Ho could noithcp. have averted the disaster uor hastened it. Two Shies to tlio Question. YmK Times An attempt is likely to bo made to pass a stay law for three years ou farm mortgages. Any sensible man can cosily sec that this would bo disastrous to thousands of our farm ers , who have given mortgages. It is easy now to renew the loan , and often a tn reduced rate of interest : under such a law it would bo Impossible to do so. To ho sure the debtor can take advantage of the stay , but ho will have to pay costs of suit , nnd all the time the debt will bo drawing the rate of interest specified in the original papers. Then if ho cannot meet the debt , interest , and costs at Uio expiration of the stay ho is sum to losa his farm , as the three years' stay law i\ ill practically put nn end to farm loans in the state. There are these who claim to believe that it would bo better for the farmers if they could not borrow any money nt all , These are among the loaders of the independent movement , and their theory is a most glaring fallacy. Our farmers , many of them , had'very little capital to start with , and have done business from the start on tjorrowod money. Of course they have not gained as rauldly as they would have done had they been possessed of plenty of money of their own , but they have gene ahead mid made something. Most of thum have accumulated property enough to pay their Indebtedness and leave them n handsomebalance. . But if they were compelled to settle up nt once their property would bo saorlllod nnd their accumulations would molt away. It Is abso lutely necessary that they have means of protecting their interests , and the oaly way for them to do so is to continue to borrow money until tboy have maJo enough to pay off what they ewe , or can sell their farms tea a good advantage. Hundreds of farmers in * York county , who are comparatively well oft would bo rulnea if they could not borrow money. UiG Jl'.StS , Pucic : The oftlco doesn't seek the man any more ; its time [ 5 nil taken up dodging him. Norristown Herald : Two of tlio hardest thitiRs to Iteop in this life uro a now diary aud a suarp lead pencil. Boston Transcript : The Chinese do not permit women to bo photographed. Wonder how they maiiiujo to sell cigarettes. Pittsburg Chronicle : Sitting Bull coula hardly hava loft moro widows if ho bad boon a wealthy bachelor who died intestate. Rochester Post : Adam and Eve ima the earth at ono timo. Their experience hould bu a warning to those people who want it today. _ _ _ _ _ yonkers Statesman : The young man who loves tlio Tury ground a girl treads on , and Is rojecto'l by that girl , Is the ono who U losing ground. _ _ _ _ _ BuHalo Express : A contemporary "starts the query , "Why do shooj squeak I" for the tame reason that opera slugen do because of the music in tholr FROM THE STATE CAPITAL , A Revengeful "Witness Trios to Bond an In nocent Person to Jail , SENSATIONAL RUMOR IN THE SHEEDY CASE An Old Lincoln Iiindmrvrlc AVIpod Out by Firo-Stnnton County llonds Sent tnPrison for \Vrlt- InK n Vile Ltxcot.v , Neb. , Jan. 15. [ Special Telegram to Tim Unn.J CJamos McQuirohad his trial before Jtideo Houston tail morning on the charge of abstracting $10 from the proceeds of n check II , Culvert had cashed nt the ilepot saloon. McQuirc was tbcro at the time , but denied the theft. The only positive testimony against him wns that of n young fellow who said ho was a farmer , but didn't ' look it. Ho swore that ho had seen Mcflulro tnko.thocosh , but as \vitnosjfor the defense cnld ho hail overheard the "farmer" any that ho had gotten even with that "sucker,11 his testimony wns not regarded very heavily , aud McOulro was discharged. A SKX-miONMi HHI'OHT. The coroner's Jury continued Its Investiga tion of the Shrcdy murder at t o'clock yes terday nnd concluded this morning , but tlio proceedings are not known , though a rumor is afloat that a clue implicating somuwoll known citizens was extracted In the course of the examination nnd that an urrcst will follow , when it is expected that secrets tlint hnvo been supposedly well guarded will bu divulged , Whether or not there nro any foundations for this report is a question , hut If the report ho true nn nrast umy bo oxpcctod within a few days , 601,1) MOItTOAnHI ) IMIOPEIlTr. W. C. Davis , a young switchman nged twenty-seven , was arrested hy Olllccr Hob Mnlono this morning on Uio charge of selling mortgaged property. James Kuox is the complainant. The atorv told by Knox Is that some time last spring IJiivIs , who was about to leave the city , sold him a lot of household poods , but after ho had gene n man named Kloclcs , n South Tenth street second-hand dealer , turned up with a mortgage thereon forl , which Knox was compelled to pay or ' surrender tlio goods. SInce then ho lins b'cen on the lookout for Davis , but the latter did not return to the city until a few days since. This morning Ifnox caught sight of bis man in the Ivy Leaf saloon and sent a unn to po lice station \vhllo ho tackloil his man. Davis loft the saloon Oeforo the oniccr arrived , but was overhauled at Tenth aud O streets. The accused has very HIUo to say and takes his nrredt very cooly. A MOUSING nr.Azn. Shortlynftor 10 o'clock this morning flimes were discovered Issuing from the frame store bullainc at 1237 0 street , owned by "Governor" I ) . Li. Paine. The fire boys were promptly on hand , but the high wind hindered the speedy extinction of the firo. The structure was n two-story affair , one of the old landmarks of the city , having ueen erected some twenty years IIRO , and was worth probably ? SOO. The Hro caught from a defective flue. In the second story , and the building was damaged so greatly that It will have to bo pulled down. The second floor was occupied hy lodgers , while tlio first floor Contained a second hand store , pawti shop and Uhiueso laundry. nmoiiiOAi. SOCIETT. The annual meeting of the Nebraska Stnto Historical society closed last night , after devoting - voting two evenings to the consideration of matters pertaining to the society aud its work. At its first mooting reports of officers were received , that of Secretary George K. How ard , showing that the library contains -1,000 volumes , 1,1)00 ) of which hnvo been added during the last two years. Ills report also showed the sociotyto bo lu u prosperous con dition. At lost evening's session steps were token toward scouring everything possible in i ela tion to the arclucology nnd ethnology of the state , nnd a committee composed ofV. . f. Kellcy of the State Journal , Carl Smith nnd "Bright Eyes" of -World-Herald , and C. II. Crossy of Tim BER to collect data of the present Indiaji troubles , causes and incidents , nnd furnish the same to the society , to obtain for its museum as many specimens of dress , etc. , as possible. The report of their voric will bo Incorporated in the ollicial aunnls of the state. The election of ofllcers nlso took place last evening and the following wcro chosen : President , Hon. J. Sterling Morton , Ne braska City ; first vlco president , lion , Lor enzo Crpunso , Omaha : treasurar , Hon. C. II. Gore , tincolii : secretary and librarian , Prof. E. Howard , Lincoln. M01ITUAKV ItrCOUD. Health Onicer Bartrain has made his re port of deaths la December , together with their causes , as follows : Numberof deaths , 4L ; males , 20 ; females , 21 ; white , 40 ; blaclt , 1. Diphtheria caused the death of 13 ; marasums. 1 ; heart discaso , 2 ; softening of tlio brain'j ; catarrh of the stomach , 1 ; typhoid fever , a ; cancer of the stomach , 1 ; inflammation of the bowels , 1 ; convulsions , 1 ; hereditary lysis , 1 ; railway accident , ! ; pneumouia , 4 ; Bright's dis ease , 1 ; uterine hommorhugo , 1 ; corcorat congestion , 1 ; cutro colitis , 1 : g.istro outeri- tis , 1 ; tubcrcolosis , J ; vnlverlar disease , 1 ; congestion ot the lungs , 2 ; gastric fovcr , ! ; menscls , 2 ; jaumlrio , 1 ; drowned , 1 ; consump tion , I : old age. I ; meningitis , 1 ; scarlotlmi , 2 ; child hirth , 1. 13icht of those dying were under ono year of ago ; nine were between ono and live years ; llvo wcro between fifteen and twenty : four were between twenty and thirty : four between fifty and sixty and ono ootweon eighty and ninety years. run STAXTOX cou.vrr noxns. At the meeting of the board of educational lands and funds the following wuro present : ( jovcmor IJoyd , Attorney ( lUiicral Hastings , Secretary of State Alleu , Treasurer Hill and Land Commissioner Humphrey. The following resolution was ai1 opted : Wlicroas , It lias como to the knowledge of this board tliul a dill'erunco lias cuinu up ru- Kurdlni ; $1000 wnrtli of Htaiiton county bonds , bearing date of January 1 , 1VJ1 , and ordered . _ by the board of oducntlontxl latid and funds on November It. IfcWi nnd Whereat , ttald bonds not liuvliiji yet boon timdo , now , therefore , lion. J , K. Hill , Irons , utoor of tlio itiito of Nohrankn , I * hereby nt do roil onil itlroctod to withhold paymnnt for tiny and all of mild bonds until thu further ordorof tills bout il. This resolution wns offered by Hastings niul was unanimously car.-loJ. WILL UO TO I'HISOX. Winston Taylor , the young Timn living at Atlanta , who wrote n , very smutty letter to a young lady hero , wns tried before Judge llutuly this morning , fouiul guilty of sondlnri obsccno tnnttcr through the malls and was scutonced to six inonthi lit prison. WANT TUB Tit UN * TO STOP. A petition signed by fifty persons living nt Armour , I'mvnoo county , hnsbooniircscntoil to tlio legislature , asking tlint the 13. ft M. railway company bo compelled to stop lit twins at the point of Intersection of that mail with the KIUISIM City , Wynmlotto ft Is'orthuostern railroad. The matter wai ro- ferrcd by Heproscntatlvo Ohappcllof Paw nee county to the state board of transporta tion. TUB 110V9 AllE COUlXn IIOMIt. Adjutant Uoncr.il Vifqtinln received the following telivram today fromBrls'rtttlerCJon- oral Colby of the stnto militia : Kusimu.K , Neli , Jan. 15. Oonernl Victor Vlfiiunln : The Indiana nro absolutely under control and tlio llvos ami property of No- broskasnfo from depredations. Co'iilhlcnco Is restored. All tlio companlM of the mllltlu have been started to their homos. The Held nnd stnff ofllccivi will remain ono day longer to caru for the state proportv and inulH ae- counts , I , . W. Coi.tn , U. G. STATRllOUSKNOrr.S. Adjutant ( icnor.il Yifmmln Is surprised to find into wh.it prominence ho has beou brought by hiiroccntnjinomtinent. Hoh re ceiving niiinoious congratulatory letters from nil over the union written by comrades who fouirht by hU sldo In thu crcat robullton. The Trenton Fimnors' Irrigating asiOfrsv tlon of 1'runton UIM filed article * ol Int'orpora- tlon with thosecretnrv of stnto. Thu caiiit.il stock Is $10,000. Kohcrt Hush nnd ninrteon others nro nt the he.ul of the enterprise. Tlio object of the corporation Is to construct , iml maintain a canal in Hltchcoclt county on the south sldo of the Republican river. Tlio Loan nnd Guiirnuteo company of Con necticut has lllod articles of Incorporation. 0111)3 ANII EN-US. This nfternoon In the United States court Judge Dniiily is hcnring the case In which Margaret .1. Powers demands 310,200 dam- ncos Iroin the city of Lincoln for'injuries ro- celvcd by falling through a scuttle holo. Hobcrt Fletcher , Chris Madison nnd n com- pnnlnn vent down to the Kden Musuolast ovcnlng. They had boon drinking some , nnd whllo inside bccamo thirsty nnd cnmo out for more ruin. When they returned Madison was very irroggy , and the doorkeeper , Fietl Krouso , refused to allow him to enter A row ensued , in which Fletcher nnd Madison attempted to do up the doorkeeper , but landed in the pollco station Instead. The prosecution was withdrawn this inoining and defendants discharged. 1 The procory.storoof . .T. H. McShnno & Soil p " atfiU North Fourteenth street wai entered ' by burglars last night nnd the money drmiur broken open. The fellows eccuiou $ o in monoj' , two lioxos of cigars , some candy aud other articles. ISntranco was had by tearing oft tlto screen from a roar window which was easily raised. It Is evidently tbo worn of nniatour burglars. John Uruintnur brought suit In county court today against John Hodden for Sl.oob damages. Drummer says tlint oa November ! 35 last Hodden assaulted him nnd beat him , kicked him on the head nnd bruised hire nnd lamed him so badly tliat ho nils become af fected with paralysis , nnd his health has bcon pcrinnnunily injured. Tibbetts , Moray & Ferris ash judgment in county court neninst J. J. Iinholt fpr $ 'J15 , which they claim is duo them for legal ser vices in collecting $0.000 from George " Johnson or AOams coumy for defendant. NrbrnsUn , Iowa nnil Dnlcoia PonnlongS WASIIINQTOH , Jan. 15. [ Special Telegram to Tin : DEE. ] Pensions were grnutml ta- day to tbo following Nohraskans : Orlginnl- JonathauS. Athorton , Salem ; Cleveland J. Tuttle , Paddock ; Alfred Higolow , Norrolk ; Thomas Scott , Seward ; William Anthony , Kearney ; Henry J. Potter , Lincoln ; William White , Omaha ; JamesBabcooJf , Urokcn Bow ; Joseph Mnssoys , Nebraska Oity ; AVIUIam II. Morgan , Ansloy ; John L. Cox , Ollvo. Increase - crease Thomas P. Chenowoth , Woodlawn ; Charles W. Wooloy , IIo3kins ; Frank M. Shobar. Frcoport ; John Landy , South Onn- ha ; Garrctt V. 1) . Ilagamnn , Mllford ; .lesso Clark , Stratton ; lioileriek Carrier. Covvles , William J. Sisson , Hotitrlcu ; Andrew Gibbons bens , Campbell ; Samuel Wet , Hod Cloud , Plntt Hoylos. Lincoln : 1'oter Holt , DoWitt ; John Goodwin , Lincoln ; James Hanks , Sur prise. Original widows Emma W. , widoiv of James L. Barton , Talmngo. Iowa : Original-Orlando M. Ellsworth , Elder ; George D. Kummory , Frultlandi ; James M. Cornwoll , liuthvon : Ernest Drao- gor , Scnrsboro ; AlnertE. Uoduc , Sioux City , Howard H. Allen. Irwiu ; Alex Boyd , Little Port : Frederick Kussell , Mnlvera ; John (3. Mormon , Albla. Additional John T. ir Thatcher , Lucky Valley. Incronao Am * broso Harvey , Urockton ; Thomas Rl. Fee./ Contorvillo ; John Owens , Lyons ; Loxlngto'i Foster , Caledonia ; Jacob J. Juntos , Hradlcy- ville ; William God , Dallns ; Benjamin 11. Gri.11 th , Montczuinn ; Arthur II. Humli- ton , Mount Ayr ; John M. Johnsoth-v Mulvern ; Henry D. Williams , WaterX lee ; Jesse Wroton , Indopcpdencu ; John Ilarklns. Winchester ; Robert J. McQullldn , Lnporto City : nnnlel 1) ) , Koarn1 * , Fairbanks ; Truman Churchill , Sao City ; Charles Phllllpps , Grand Hiver : Au gust W , Shroder. Woltont Adam Lout ? , Uunlap ; William T. SwearinRton. Condor- villo ; Abraham Condert , Mnrshalltowii ; James Penulngton , Amity ; John Lclggott , Mount Sterling ; James M axU'd , Anderson , John D. Lankton , Sidney , Kclssuo Aliens- tus S. MoNuilI , Iloono ; Jefferson lieiitloy , Mnquokotii ; James Ilowlctt. Brayton. South Dakota : Origimd-JoiTy C. JJliss _ Willow Lake ; Monroe M. liryant , Whlto Luke. Jncreaso James Kdd.v , Toinploton ; Charles Cook , Caatlowood ; Tlieodoro Kirkland - land , Sioux Falls. Heissuo Peter J. John son , Waterloo. A party of Ojnatm gentlemen left yester day lor Lincoln to attend the minimi baimuit nf the Loyal Legion. Colonel Mlko Sheridan , General Dennis , ex-Sheriff Coburn , ex-Mayor lirotitch , U. V , i'atrick and several otheii wcro in tbo party. Highest of all in Leavening Power. U. S. Gov't Report , Aug. 17 , 1889. NEBRASKA National Bank U. S. DEPOSITORY , OMAHA , NEB. Capital , - - - - $4OOOOO Surplus Jan. 1st , 189O , - B7.BOO Otllcors nnd I > lrtUor4--lIonrr . Y Un , I'roililent ; J.mrl.i | il. Uoeil , Vlco-l'r3JlJuutl Jitina * W. HIUMIM , W V..Mono , .lutm H Ccilllin. It. U. Ciuhtn ; , J. N , II I'utrlck. VV. II. . Hughe i , casblor. THE IK.ON BANK , Corner 12th aud Fnrnnni gti. A General Hanking Jluslnos-i Transacted , [ For LOSTcrFAILIHO KAHIIOODi Qcneral and HE11VOVS DEBUm iWnknmof Body ndJi nd , EfficU 11 , n i i M . Jot KrrOMC.rCn ( t3ln01dcr Younr. .nu.l , Dub ittt.1IIOOUrulljhr.Urxl. 111. l.rr. ! .ij iiMMi'ithT u.f.in'.a HOIK | TRUTXMT-EH CII i > d > r Hkn tfitllj fro UttUt ftii4lrlBCa > t/lM. tfrlu Ibcu. D * Tlptl * fitok , rsBUikllta tntf vrvofi Dtl > d ( t ti d ) fr k Mtfu * enm MEDICAL co. , BUFFALO , u. YC OMA.HA , LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. fliibxjrlbedaiid Guarantied Cubital. . . .S.VW.OCO 1'ald In Capital . ya.m Iluyi and noils atockn aud bonds ) nek'otlutcJ commercial paper , rocL'lvcu und eioeutoi IrusU ; aotias tranwfcr usunt and trustouuf corporations , tnlos cliargo uf property , ool- loots tuxei. _ Omaha Loan&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK. S. E. Cor. 10th and Douglas Sts. I'ulil In Onpltal Subscribed and auarantoodOapltul. . . . 100,00) Mobility of Stockholders . iUU.OQA 51'erCcnt Inlore t I'alilon Deposit * . \ I KAhK J. IANQB , Uuinlor. ORIcera : A , U. Wytnuu , pruildunt. J , J , llrovrn , vico-prvildunt , W. T , Wyman , troasurur. i llrcctora-A. ) : U , Wyman. J , U. Mlllard. J. J. Ilrjwn. Ouy 0. Ilarton.Ji W. Nub , Ihutiiu L > . KliuBkll. Cuor u 11.