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Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03
THE ROOT or THE EVIL,

II requires a good deal of ingenuity to
figure out any connection between the
Cincinnati riots and the silver dollar,
but the talented Mr.. Bedford, Of Col
orado, seems to have accomplished the
feat. He tells the house of representa-
tives that the people were beginning to
realize and feel that no man by legiti' neto
industry could accumulate 800, 0J0, 600
in one year. MI. Bedford THINKS that
the condition of the currency enables
men TO heap up enormeu fortunes, and
declares that unless the currency is kept
in ratio with the population, which is con-
stantzy increasing, the people will rise in
riot in every great city in the country.
Bedford argues in favor of the full coin
ago of silver as a safeguard against a
diminishing currency, and in turn a pro-
lection against popular riota. OF course
1t is easy enough to prick this bubble,
because tho riots in Cincinnati were not
directed in any way against the men who
have heaped ps2O, DOC, 600 year, nor did
they have the slightest connection, near or
remote, with the condition of the currency.
Everybody knows they were simply the
protest of a portion of the people against
the outrages upon justice which the
courts commit in Justices own name.
There is, however, the germ of an idea
in Mr.. Belford's curious remarks that
deserves further attention. 1t is the fall
lacy that the men who are growing rich
so rapidly are enabled to do 80 by the
condition of the currency. This is dis
tracing the peoples attention from the
true course, and putting further away
than ever the remedy. 1t is perfectly
obvious, as Mr.. Bedford says, that men
cannot heap up 800, 600, 900 a year by
legitimate industry, but they can and
they do by stock. watering manipulations,
which the people have to pay for. Gould
and Vanderbilt would have made their
fortunes with almost any kind of a cur
rency, provided they were permitted to
issue stock represented only by paper,
on which the public must pay
dividends. The fact that there is scarcely
a railroad in the country whose nominal
capital is not enormously in excess of its
real value explains the great fortunes of
the magnates of Wall Street a great deal
better than Mr.. Belford's nonsense about
the condition of the currency. When a
railroad or a telegraph company doubles
the ostensible size of its capital by issu-
ing paper certificates of stock, and CON-
tinues to pay the same per cent of divi.
dends as before, it is easy enough to see
where the high tolls come from. 1t is
also easy enough to see that the people
have to furnish the money to pay those
dividends and consequently to pile up
those immense fortunes. There may
some day come some kind of a reaction
against the growing wealth on one side
and the growing poverty on the other,
which are the marked features of the age,
When it does, no one will be deceived
into thinking that the currency has any
thing to do with the matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

THE Republican says that ''the cleo
ton, in the in which it was in
some places carried out. is a disgrace to
the honesty and intelligence of the
American citizen" If this refers to the
voting of the Italians, not citizens of the
United States, we agree with the Re
publican. If the remark refers to the
overwhelming majority received by the
old board of education, it will be taken
for what it is worth, and will simply
cause a smile at the chagrin of the Re-
publican over it's own defeat.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

RIGHT on the heels of the report that
Bismarck is about to resign the premier
ship of Germany come the details of ar
extensive plan he has formed for a more
perfect consolidation of the German
states. This plan is soon to be submit
ted to the reichstag and embodies extern.
sive changes in the German constitution.
1t certainly looks as though Bismarck
would scarcely resign ON the eve of such
an important innovation which he him.
self planned.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

Roscoe CoNKLING has taken occasion
to brand as q falsehood the statement
made by Mr.. Dick Crowley before the
Springer committee that Mr.. Conkling
had received money as counsel for the
government while he was United States
senator. About everyone who has been
mentioned in the course of Springer's in
vestigation has Immediately arisen to call
somebody a liar, and the only tangible
result of the committees labors thus far
is q choice assortment of what Mr.. Dor
uey calls picturesque f~alsehoods." But
there has been a great show of investi-
eating something, and of being very zeal
GUS in the country's service, and the
democrats are just as well satisfied as
though they had really unearthed some
thing.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03


The d~isgruntled Republican In :
sneaking way insinuates that there /,
something crooked in the transactions o
the board of education. So far as TIL
BEE il concerned, we demand that 4
most searching investigation be made Of
this matter. We want the board to pub
lish a full statement of its financial trans
actions, and if any outsider or any on.
else knows Of anything crooked we hope
he will expose ii. The columns of Tn
BEE are open to any one for that pur
pose. We believe, however, that Omahs
never had q better board of education
than the present one. and we never havs
heard any in~sinuations against it exospI
that which now APPEARS in the Repn5
IioasL
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

THE Omaha Herald says that ''no
murderer has ever desisted from
killing for fear Of the hang
mans rope" The fact is, that owing
to tho clemency shown to murderers, and
the case with which they escape Just pun
ishknent, are Inducements to the commits
sion of murderous crimes. There were
1900 murders committed in this country
last year, and there were only ninety
three legal executions. This gives the
murderer about thirteen chances out of
fourteen of escaping the full penalty of
the law, and hence he cannot ne said to
have any great fear of wantonly killing a
fellow human being. If a man is CON
victed of q deliberate murder, the Her.
aid believes that he should be let off with
life imprisonment, with the hope which
never deserts the human breast while life
r~emains-of eventual escape or pardon.
Such tenderness for the c~old-blooded
murderer is responsible to a great extent
for the numerous l~ynchings, as people
are beginning to despair of justice being
done in any other way. Had Berner
been convicted of murder in the first de.
gree, as the evidence warranted, and SEN
fenced to death, there would have been
no riot in Cincinnati.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

The honorable mayor of the city OF
Fremont is lying low for the man who
wrote what he calls a blank campaign lie,
which appeared in this paper. He in
sists upon knowing who this villain is,
but we prefer to let him wait until his
wrath cools down. We don't want the
mayor of Fremont TO run against our
double-fsted John l.. Sullivan. He
might get hurt.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

MAJOR NICKERsoN's path, since he left
Omaha, has not been strewn with roses.
His crooked matrimonial relations drove
him into disgrace, and now he is under
indictment by a Chicago grand jury,
charging him with perjury in connection
with the divorce which he surreptitiously
obtained from his first wife.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

Mr.. Dorsey is said to be getting ready
write another letter ON the total de,
of the republicans just before
the national convention. He labors un-
der the delusion that he is going to hurt
the republicans in that way. Mr. Dor,
sey should be introduced to the people
Of the United States some way.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

MINERS are pouring into the Ceur
d'Alene gold regions at the rate of one
hundred day and it is predicted that
there will be a magic city of from so, 900
to 1OO,0 600 people there by June. The
excitement recalls the good old days of
"Pike's Peak, or bust!' and most ef the
adventures are sur to come back next
fall busted.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

Mr. Lowry w. GoopE, for some
time editor of the Des Moines Leader.
has resigned his position. The Register
says he is a true journalist and a gentle
man. Council Bluffs Nonparea.
Had Mr.. Goode remained with the
Leader he would probably have been
called a blatherskite and a william.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

WHILE sage philosophers are devoting
solid columns of pure wisdom to the moral
Of the riots, it seems strange that Thomas
j. Brady and Stephen Dorsey are silent.
They might say something on courts that
fail to punish criminals that would be
quite interesting.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03
TIE DAILY B~EE~OMAHA, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1884.

son formerly ably filed the post of min
lister to Austria. and having determined
to abandon his congressional career, is
likely TO be willing to accept the position
should il be offered TO him.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

WICKED Joe Pulitzer, of the New York
World, wants to know whether G General
Howard will be able to find a negro in
the land of Egypt who was not a depos-
itor in the Freedman's bank2
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

The cyclone has again begun its IN
nual pilgrimage. 1t will have tough
work to struggle against a presidential
campaign in full blast.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

that thu great majority of our people are
oppos ed to dragging che schools
into politics They believe that the
SCHOOLS and che Judiciary ought not to be
contaminated by political influences and
4 intripfes.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

If there were pine democratic members
of the city council, no republicans would
be foolhardy enough to become oandi-
dates for Office, especially in a presiden-
tial year.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

TP K Fourth ward is now represented
by t VIC members who were unanimously
cleo ted. 1t is the most unanimous ward
in the city.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03
The Missouri Split"

Globe DEMOCRAT.
We beg the newspapers outside of this
state not to be led into the nonsense of
talking about "the split in the republican
party in Missouri" The ''split" amounts
to just this: $50, 900 republican voters on
one side andffteen hoodlum office hunters
on the other.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03
What Porter Has Had TO ov.rco,

What Porte Has Had to Overcome.
Cincinnati News Journal.
But Ignorance, foolishness, demagogy
and honest but ignorant loyalty, deceived
oy blatant ignorance, are the elements
that nave sustained this terrible injustice
ON a distinguished officer, and have
resisted this inadequate measure of jus.
tice.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

WITH nine republican members, the
city cor neil ought to have no trouble in
electin & competent and reputable repub-
lican { Ulcers.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

THE de mocratic horizon in national
politics b sgins to be darkened with the
shadow of Standard Oil Payne.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

CONGRESSMAN JOHN A. KAssoN. of the
Seventh Iowa district, Is mentioned as a
possible minister to Russia. Mi. Kas-
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

myriads of glittering, CLASSY drops-a
cataract of snow with an avalanche of
Jewels, hooking and belittling all human
splendor. Nature is here in her lace
and pearls, her robe Of diamonds ana
tara of rainbow. The world-how far
away it seemed, and God, how nearl'
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

How WOULD ] ahn Sahler like to be
city clerkl
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

VoLUNTEE & 'enlistments in the Ohio
militia will rot be so numerous hereafter.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

tara of rainbow. The world-how far
away it seemed, and God, how neari"
Some idea Of the extent to which the
business of fencing public lands has been
carried may be cleaned from the follow.
ing figures taken from the report of the
public lands commissioner to congress:
The Brighton Ranch, Nebraska, has en-
closed 1885, 200 acres; Coe & Carter, Ne
braska, have fifty miles of fence; j. w.
Wilson, Nebraska, forty miles; j. w.
Bosler, twenty miles; William Humphrey,
Nevada, thirty miles; Nelson & Son,
Nevada, twenty-five miles; Kennebeck
Ranch, Nebraska, 10000 to $4,000 acres.
In Colorado, the Arkansas Valley compa-
ny's enclosures embrace upwards of L.
900, 0t0 acres; the Prairie Cattle com.
pany, (Scotch), upwards of 1000, 900; H.
III. Metcalf, River Bend, 300, 900 acres;
John w. Prowers, 200, 600 acres; McDan-
iel & Davis, $4,000 acres; Routchard &
Lamb, 40, 900 acres; j. w. Frank, 40, 900
acres; Garnett & Langford, 10000 acres;
E. @. Fame, $4,000 acres; Lewsey Bros,
loo, 600 acres; Trooman & McFife, 80, 0OO
acres; Beatty Bros, 40, GOO acres; Chick,
Brown & Co., 30, 900; Reynolds Cattle
company, 1000 acres. Other cases in
Colorado embrace from 10, 00G to 80, 900
acres. In Kansas entire counties are re-
ported as fenced. In Wyoming 125 large
cattle companies have fenced the public
lands.
The Union Pacific has for some time
been ~endeavoring to induce the interior
department to cede to it 900 acres of the
Fort Kearney reservation. The interior
department has asked the COM
pany to advance some legal rea-
son why these valuable lands
should be given to the company.
1t has already secured all the land to
which it is entitled for stations ON the
line of the road. Judge Usher, solicitor
of the road, some time since requested
that the department should permit the
road to furnish moral and not legal rea-
sons. The moral reasons which are as
signed are that the land is liable to be
filled up with q bad class of population,
drinking saloons, etc., and that as the
railroad company has a great many
skilled and efficient workmen, it does not
wish them them corruptep by snch sur
%roundings. This is the first time hat a
railroad company having no legal or other
rights to land has asked the government
to give lands to them for strictly mission
ary purposes. Senator Van Wyck, who
has had his attention called to
the matter, said that the road might as
well ask a grant of the entire state of
Kansas.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

WE wonder if it was Barney Shannon
who serenaded Councilman Ford2
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03

The Omaha capitalists who have pur-
chased the Shoshone Falls in Idaho, are
preparing to bring out the attraction the
coming season. About $4,000 have
already been expended in making roads
to and from the falls and improving the
surroundings. Accommodations for
tourists of a temporary character will be
built for the present, to be supplanted at
a future day by a more elaborate hotel.
The debut of the falls will be made
through tourist excursion tickets, which
will include the National park, Shoshone
falls and other points of interest in the
mountains. ''This waterfall" wrote the
famous Albert d. Richardson in 1865.
ARE unequalled in the world save by
Niagara, Of which it wildly reminds us.
It is not all height, like Yosemite, nor
all breadth and power like the Great
Falls of the Missouri, nor all strength
and volume like the Niagara, but com
bines the three elements. Like most
cataracts. it has the horse shoe form and
the undying rainbow. The torrent is
less than Niagara and its crescent sum
init appears less than a thousand feet
wide. But the descent, two hundred
feet, is one-third greater, while above the
brink solemn portals of lava rising for
hundreds of feet on each bank supply an
element of grandeur which the monarch
OF cataracts altogether lacks. The fall
Is OF the purest white, interspersed with
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-10-29
Louis Rlel Reported Killed.

TORONTO, October 18.-The Nails
Winnipeg special says: A telegram
from Calgary states that it is reported
there that Louis Riel was shot in Prince
Albert during a riot there, and that the
government wires have been cut. Wild
rumors are also current that Major
Crozier and his command at Battleford
have been massacred. The latter is APP
parently improbable, but the riot and
Riel's death is looked upon as not un-
likely by Prince Albert people now in
Calgary.
Another dispatch says the rumors that
Riel has been shot in Prince Albert dur
ing a riot there, and that the government
wires have been cut, have been in cir
culation some days. Information came
here from a Roman Catholic mission
airy, but nothing confirmatory has been
received. Various wild rumors of the
wholesale massacre of Major Crozier and
his command, at Battleford, came by
way of Fort Macleod, but no foundation
for these rumors can be learned here.
The shooting of Riel islooked upon by
Old timers and Prince Albert people as
not an unlikely event. Nothing fur
ther has been received from Calgary to-
day.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-10-29
Blaine In Indiana.

WoRTHINGToN, October pan
hour before the time when Mr.. Blaine
was to leave Indianapolis this morning,
there were perhaps 2. 1000 people gathered
around the rear of his train in the depot,
who kept calling for him to come out.
When Mr.. Blaine appeared there was a
great prolonged outburst Of cheering,
during which time Mr.. Blaine stood
bowling to them. He held out his hand
to command silence, and said: Il am
very glad to have the opportunity to
express to so many of the people of In
dianapolis the great obligation | feel,
and great t~hankfulness / offer for he
magnificent reception given me here
yesterday. [Cheers.l It is esteemed
one of the events of my life, and will be
cherished in my remembrance as long
gas life lasts" [Great cheering
There were crowds at every little sta
ton, but the first large meeting was at
Martinsville, twenty miles from Indi-
annapolis, where there were elaborate
preparations to receive Mr.. Blaine. He
was conducted through an avenue guard
ed on either side, with streWed flowers
in his path, He spoke briefly on the
tariff, and was followed by Mckinley.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-10-29
Oil Excitement.

PITTsBURG, October 2O.-A more
surprising turn of affairs than in the oil
market to-day has not been seen for
months. The trade looked for a5further
decline III prices, and fully expected the
opening to be below 60. Instead of
breaking, however, prices advanced lie
amid the most intense excitement, The
sudden advance caught the shorts badly,
and two failures occurred on the Petro-
leum Exchange~The most important
was M I'M for whose account
tu1 sand barrels were.
bn01E&t tx rule. d. Is. Foster
Market opefled dt V04c, and on heavy
buying caused by the report that the
Standard Oil company had called in al!
the oil which they had been buying for
two weeks, and it went Immediately to
65i from this there was a decline of 1c,
but prices rallied again under a bull
raid, and iumped to I'll. The scene fol-
lowing has seldom been witnessed at the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-10-29
Blame in Elkhart.

ELKHART, Ind, October 20.-Blaine
left South Bend this morning at 10
o'clock on a special train. John G. New
and a number Of Indiana speakers were
on the train. The plan to-day was to
drop a speaker at each place where the
train stopped, SO as to have an orator to
address the crowd after Blaine had gone.
At Elkhart, the first stop, there was a
crowd of 5000 people. Blaine left the
train and assembled the stand there. He
addressed his remarks entirely to the
tariff issue. He said that the democrat
ic party had surrendered its authority
when Indiana was very unimportant in
the list of states, but last year its indus
trial products had reached the enormous
sum of $3.50, 900, 900. He wanted to ask
any fair or candid man-be he democrat
or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that great pros
perity could have been reached without
a protective tariff? The two parties di-
vided upon this issue, BE careful in
your Judgment as free men upon the 4th
of next November, said Mr.. Blaine, as
he bid Elkhart goodbye.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-10-29
GOLD I'm POTATOES.
"t'ind'' that May Soon Cause a Placer
Excitement.

On the classic banks Of Wood river
nothing but peace and happiness to the
soul of manhaS-eyer been known. None
nf<fhe Fhosts and ghouls, or vicious spir-
ifa' Nj generations bong since departed 70
the world W. know not Of. have ever
anrea red To Intinlidate thesturdy miner,
orfnrnt7e even tenor OF his way. No
ruins of Pompeii or fossilized remains Of
the mammoths of ages gone, have ever
been unearthed, or pillars found like
INTO the monumen left by those OF
Sodom and GOmorrah. But last week a
discovery was mad. in HALEY that may
be Of more vital interest to the Wood
river valley generally during the present
generation, thar the lore in past events
from the d~igging-up OF a pile Of ruins.
A few days Mrs. Chase purchased
some potatoes from an up town produce
dealer, and while preparing them for
dinner discovered small, bright parti-
cles sparkling in the water. The fact
was made known to her husband, who
instituted an examination Ofthe contents
of the pan, and several large flakes of
gold were found. Mr.. Chase then
CLEANED upn the washings from the
potatoes and took the result to an assay
office, where it was found to be very
pure gold, and worth fifty cents. The
question that now agitates the minds OF
many is, where were those potatoes
raised? The present supply is mostly
drawn from the ranches down the val
ley.-Wood River Times.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-10-29
The Result IN Ohio.


COLUMBUS, October 1S.--The official
vote of Ohio was counted 10y the county
clerks to-day. Returns from 80 counties
and semi-otfi returns from the other
% counties give the following results:
Robinson (rep.), for secretary of state,
IL 1921.
Flickinger (rep.), for board Of public
works, 17,476.
The semi official returns do not report
on the other republican candidates, but
with the 50 counties heard from, the
plurality Of Johnson, for supreme court
judge, is estimated at from $4,000 to
10000.
The actual vote or majorities by con
gressional districts cannot be given, but
the vote by counties on congressman
shows SIS, 544 republican majorities, and
40, 1926 democratic. The net republican
majority on the congressional vote is
18,418.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-10-29

Donald Grant, of ST. Paul, who re-
Gently received a contract to build lot
miles of railway, from Medicine Hat to
the Gait coal mine, on the Belly river,
has formed a partnership with [. M.
Ross, of Winnipeg. Mr.. Grant is now
finishing a large contract on the North
Shore section Of the Northern Pacific.
When that is completed his whole force
will be transferred to the'new road. In
the meantime a force Of 200 men and
rs teams will be put to work at Medicine
Hat, MI. Grant, as a member of the
firm of Langdon, Sheppard & Co., built
the Canadian Pacific from Portage la
Prairie clear through to the Rocky
mountains. The company for whom
the new road is to be built is the North
west Coal and Navigation company
Pioneer Press.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-10-29
Cleveland Assaulted.

ALBANY, October 20.-As Governor
Cleveland was going from the executive
mansion to the capital, about 8 o'clock
this morning, he was assaulted in front
of the medical college by Samuel Boone,
of Elmira, who struck at the governor
with his right hand. The blow was
warded off and the man repeated the
blow several times without hitting the
governors face. He then darted toward
a pile of cobble stones but was intercept
ed by DR.. Houghton before he obtained
a missile. Boone returned his attack On
the governor when Houghton seized
and held him and the governor deliber
ately resumed his walk.