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Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
CboIera's Ravaees in Mcsopo,amis.

BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 22.-Secretary Car
ter Of the health board has received a sani-
tary report from Asiatic Turkey showing
the extent of the epidemic of cholera in
Mesopotamia, that part of the country lying
between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
The total number of deaths from cholera
from July ~ to September 49, was q, l73.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
VIII FIJI Toraker,s Eneagements.

CHICAGO, Oct. 20 Especial Telegram TO
THE Bee. This evening Congressman
William f. Mason started for ohio to I'LL the
personal speaking engagements of Governor
Foraker, who is too seriously i'll TO attend
any meetings. Congressman Mason will
make hls first speech at Toledo on Wednes-
day night.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
A New Hotel For Chambcrlnin.

CHAMBERLAIN, S. d., Oct % Special
Telegram to TIE BEE IA syndicate OF cap
itaists from Plankinton and Indiana tomor-
row will begin work on $4,000 hotel here
The foundation will be completed before win
ter sets in.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
The halfway Pn.taI CLERKS.

New ORLEANS, Oct 22.-The annual con-
vention Of the mutual Benevolent associa-
tion of the United States railway postal
clerks convened in this city this morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
DASHED TO PIECES.
A Freight Train Rusbes Down an In
clined Plane.

WiLKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct, 2?.-While train
of coal cars and truck was being hoisted up
the Ashly plane this morning the wire cable
broke and the train descended the plane at
frightful speed and was dashed TO pieces at
the bottom. Three men on the truck were
buried ia the wreck. Two of them will die
the third may recover.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
aradIauph Very Sick.

LONDON, Oct. 22. Charles Bradaugh, tho
well -known political and social reformer and
member Of the commons, Is very Ill and 1t IL
feared he rs dying.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
The Unitar,aus,

CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-The first general con-
vention of the Unitarian church began in this
city to-day. The opening session was de-
voted to routine work.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
DENIAL OF The APPLICATION
Walkers Decision on Northwestern
Goal Rates.
A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION.
The st. Paul Road Prohibited From
Meeting Competition TO Dakota
ana Minnesota Points-B. N
q. Declares War.
Rafuseti the Rcauest.

CHICAGO, Oct. 2s.-TSpecial Telegram
to THE BEE. E.l-Chairman Walker, of the
Interstate Commerce Railway association,
to-day rendered a decision practically deny
ing the application of the ST. Paul road to
meet the coal rates to Dakota and Minne-
sofa points from Milwaukee made by the
lines from Duluth. The matter is one of
great inheritance to the northwestern roads,
the chairman himself asking the ST. Paul TO
strive to clay foundation for the perma-
nent establishment of a proper basis in view
of contingencies that are soon likely to
arise"
The contingencies mentioned relate exclu
sively to the competition from tho Canadian
Pacific and its feeders, AS already shown
In these dispatches, the chances for an agree
ment and an advance in rates are good, but
until the agreement is reached the north
western lines are on tenter hooks.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
Tho wyoming Report.

WASHINGTON, Oct. "a +Francis #. War
rem, the governor Of Wyoming Territory, has
filed with the secretary Of the interior his
report for the year ended9une 80. 1889. The
population Of the territory is estimated at
frem $1,000 to 1O5 0OO. as against o. lls in 1870.
The total assessed valuation OF all property
in 1888 vas s3l. 43l. 600 Is against 81. .S57 900
in 1880 and 81. 924 900 in 1870. These state
ments, the governor SAYS do not represent
more than one-third and probably not more
than one-fourth of the actual valuation. The
financial standing Of Wyoming, the report
states, is high. The governor urges upon
congress the adoption OF pplore liberal policy
in the surveying of public lands. He states
that the people of Wyoming want statehood.
There are. the governor says, immense oil
fields and coal beds and vast forests of valu
able timber yet unsuryeyed. In tn sir present
unknown condition IL Is impossible TO protect
the foI esus against the depredatlons of un-
scrupulous men. Upon the subject of stock
raising the governor says: Good profits
can be made In the cattle business to-day If
properly conducted, and an encouraging fea-
ture of the business is that stockmen are
adoptlng beIter methods of management. A
reasonable increase In the price OF the cattle
product which is sure to come soon will make
cattle raising in Wyoming one OF the most
lucrative industries known anywhere under
the head Of legitimate pursuits"
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
Governor Foraker Improving

CoLuMBUs, o., oct. 2.. Governor Foralkey
S much improved tonight and his physIciaa
says he wlll be out in few days.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
JEFFERSON BARRACKS.
Result Of the Inquiry Regarding the
Treatment OF Recruits.


Treatment OF Recruits.
WASHINGTON, Oct 22.-The report of the
court of inquiry which investigated the
charges regarding the treatment of recruits
at jefferson barracks, Missouri, has been
laid before the secretary of war. The testi-
mony showed that the charges made were
exaggerated, but there was some foundation
for part of them. Rations were ample and
the supply of vegetables abundant
The charges that non-cOmmi5sioned OH
GERS were running games Of chance and get
ting part of the monthly wages of the men
were sustained.
Only one case of what might be termed
harsh treatment by non-commissioned OH
GERS was discovered, and this branch Of the
allegations practically fell through.
The statements of the reporter who en-
listed and wrote up the matter were found
reliable so far as they concerned matters
within his knowledge, but the stories told
him by other enlisted men could not be sub
stantiated. Many of these stories were ira
ditions which had been handed down for
years from one recruit to another.
The desertIons from the Jefferson barracks
exceed those from any other point, but the
report says TINS is traceable to the post being
of cavalry recruits. Many men enlist in the
east for no other purpose than to get west,
while many others enter the army from
restlessness or because OF fam
lily troubles. IheSe men Decome
weary of discipline and desert
and the number increases with the prox-
unity of the post TO large city where they
can hide. The desertion is also due largely
to the fact that many recruits are repeat
ers," or chronic deserters, who, having be-
fore served in the artillery or infantry, enlist
in the cavalry, knowing the probabilities are
strongly against their meeting at Jefferson
barracks the officers under whom they had
previously served.
Captain Ebsten says the result of the in
vestigaton will be decidedly beneficial, and
will result in rightng many greviences
which have gradually crept into the service.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23

States, and IL anyone had perpetrated q
fraud they would have 70 suffer. General
Raum renamed Mt the Office until after 8
o'clock.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13
MEN OF LETTERS.

Don Josef Gorilla, the recently crowned
poet laureate of Spain, is Y years old.
Edward Everett Hale advises those
about to begin reading Tolstoi to read
"My Confession" first.
Julian Hawthorne, who accompanied
the Scripps League excursion of Amer
lean. workingmen to the Paris exposi-
ton as historian, says that second and
more careful study of London leads him
to the conclusion that there is more vice
to the square mile in that city than any
where else in the world.
Mr.. Hugh Farrar McDermott has con-
tributed poem, entitled Life Divine"
to The Westbrook (Me. Chronicle, which
has so excited the admiration of the edi-
tor of that periodical that he predicts it
will shine beside the works of Milton and
Dante, mot with light reflected, but
with golden sunshine of its own internal
luster."
William Black is 40 years old, with
slight, graceful figure, which is well set
off by his elegant dress. His eyes are
dark and have q very earnest expression.
He talks well, but says very little about
his own works. His home is at Brighton,
but he spends much time in London,
where he keeps sumptuous suite of
apartments.
Henry Labouchere, editor of London
Truth and NJ. P. for Southampton, was
for years a,rover in the wilds of the far
west. Finally he settled down and
through family interest managed to Sc
cure an attacheship in the British lega-
ton at Washington, but at the end of
two years he was dismissed for enlisting
American citizens for the Crimean war
at the same time with Champion, the
British minister.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13
PROTECTION STATISTICS.

Those who are so much given to draw
ing the line at competition with foreign
labor, do not always comprehend their sub
iect or else talk for talks sake. Leaving
aside all consideration of nations like
France and Germany, where high tariff
system prevails, they are still off the track,
as can readily be shown. A well known
writer on economic questions has compiled
the following facts, which are very inter
esting reading:
Under protection Great Brita'n's wealth per
capita decreased from S25 in 1850 TO $3.50 in 1870
Under British free trade" England's wealth
per capita increased from 1855 in 1860 to 81 5 in
1882
Under American free trade the last Demo
cratic low tariff, the wealth Of the United States
per capita increased from $3.50 in 1850 to SGl5 in
1850.
Under protection the wealth Of the United
States only increased from 1905 per capita in 1870
to S94O in 1880.
Under British free trade" the average wealth
of every individual in England is increasing at
the rate of Sl3lS yearly.
Under American free trade the average
wealth Of every citizen the United States in
creased at the rate Of S23 50 yearly.
Under protection for forty years the individual
EngliShman lost 81 average yearly of his wealth.
Under protection the American citizen has
begun by reducing his increase in wealth to
s. 50 yearly, and will very soon lose the ST..
England prefers British free trade" to pro
lection because every individual of her subjects
makes Sl3.1S by it, instead of losing 81 yearly.
The United States prefers protection to Brit
iSh or any other free trade, because each citi-
zen loses SO yearly by protection increasing in
wealth by only 80 instead OF 1850 as he did
under low tariff.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13
THE PACIFIC ROADS, DEBT.

The members of the Senate special COM
mittee on Pacific railways at present in
this city, seem to understand the situation
in the matter of the debts OF the subsidized
roads. The Senators appear to be fully
aware of fact which has been know out
this way for good many years-that the
Pacific companies cannot pay their debts
to the government when they shall fall
due, no matter what pressure may be
brought upon the corporations, nor
what action Congress may take in
the premises. Having been convinced
of the roads, inability to pay, what
is of equal Importance, the Sena-
tors seem disposeduto give common sense a
chance, and accept settlement on reason
able terms. If some Congressman had their
way government would soon be the owner
and operator of transcontinental railway,
running in direct competition with other
lines, and taxing the people Of the nation
to pay the expenses, as in the hands Of the
federal government the Pacific road would
be the least profitable rail line across the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13

evidences extant, at least none that are
visible, of how or why the Liberal party
could improve upon it; on the con-
trary the last-named organization
is subject to arraignment for its
plentiful and painful lack of the very quail
tiles which cause people to cling to partisan
politics as a means of accomplishing ends,
and foremost among these is that it is So
cially conglomerate and not based upon an
underlying principle-all that holds it to-
gether is merely opposition to religion
and therefore it is not party at all as we
understand that term, but simply COM
bination of people having in view the gath
ering in and distribution of the offices. In
this view, how appropriate is the campaign
badge which the managers of it have
adopted-a carpet-bagl
We do not think the plan adopted will
win, and it is not because of col
onists or colonizers that we think
So So far as that is concerned, it Is
scarcely worth mentioning. On several
occasions suspects" have been pointed
out and located, and in no instance has
sufficient evidence been forthcoming to
show that those suspected were what they
were taken for. In at least one instance, a
man who changed his residence from a.
country town to Salt Lake city and who
was marked and pointed out as an imported
voter, was an open and avowed Liberal,
only the touters and spoilers for that party
did not take the pains to find out what or
who he was before making their announce
ments. And they may in like manner have
gone astray on several other occasions.
Because strangers from different parts of
Utah sometimes come 20 town, they have
grown into the habit of considering them
colonists, and in their denunciation have
exhibited what would be merit but for
the fact that it is the result of fanaticism
and ignerance-they are indiscriminate.
Hence they occasionally alight upon the
wrong man.
There is not much more to be said upon
this subject at least not in this vein. The
welfare of the whole people, the forward
ing of the interests of our metropolis,
should be considerations above and beyond
any mere thought of partisan advantage.
OF course, mankind in this artificial age
cannot so far diyest himself of selfishness
and partlSaushlp as TO be altogether
and truly man of the people,
nor does THE HERALD look for or expect
any such. We only ask that reason and
judgment be given full sway; that the best
men on either side be put forward; that
the intellectual faculties of the people be
appealed to; that all men entitled to natur-
alization or registration be given full and
fol oh OF ta,,J tbo,- int
to vote the Peoples or the Liberal ticket;
and when all these objects are held in
view, this paper will not complain either
of the result or the noise and buster pre-
ceding and incidental to it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13
LET ALL BE HONEST.

We don't believe there is a man in the
Peoples party who would, if it were in his
power, carry the coming municipal election
by fraud. If there is such man he has
made a mistake in his political affiliations.
His place is with the opposition. The Peo-
pie want to win next February. They
want to win because they know it will be
for the best interest of the city, and for the
best good of the community, for them to
continue in control Of the municipal gov
eminent. They know that their ad-
ministration will be honest and capa-
BILE, that it will be conservative
and economical, and that it will
be as progressive as wisdom and
Just regard for the rights and the
abilities and the wishes of the people will
warrant They know that their control of
the municipality will furnish protection to
the masses against the rapacity of the few.
Yet, fully realizing how wise and proper
it will be for the voters to elect Peoples
government, the members of that party
would rather lose the election, and turn
the city over to the enemy, than retain
power by dishonesty, fraud, corrup-
llOn anu CEOOhcUucSS. All may
be assured that no attempt at irregularity
will be made by the People. They will
neither offer to register nor vote unless
they are entitled to, and valuable as ballots
will be, none will be purchased by the Peo-
pie. The party may be thorough in its or
ganizatiOn and energetic in its efforts, but
it will not be crooked, however much it
may lose, and however severe the loss may
be.
Being honest itself and practicing up
rightness, the party has the right to demand
that the opposition will be and do the same
The People will not "colonize" vot-
ers, and they demand that the Liber-
ais will bring in none who. are
not entitled under the law to cast ballots
at the February election. The people will
ask only those of their party to register
who can do so without violating the statute;
and the People are warranted in request
ing that the lists be kept free from the
names of unlawfully registered Liberals
1t is an honest registration and an honest
election which the People want and will
have so far as their own doings are con-
cerned; and they ask only that the oppo-
sition will be equally honest and fair
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13

for it, and exemplifies it under all circum-
stances. His career from the bench of
school teacher to the chair of President of
the United States, exhibits a series of
lucky incidents as fortunate and complete
as possible-all the more complete because
the tickle dame did not in any instance be-
stow benson upon the man which he had
not richly merited and which he was not
capable of bearing off with becoming dig
nifty.
1t is not only in the matter of official sue
cess and rare domestic felicity that the ex-
and coming president is conspicuous; good
luck seems to follow him in all his business
and social pursuits. He and his wife re-
Gently took trip to the Adirondack noun
tains, and a correspondent thus relates an
incident of the outing:
Whether others would have as good luck here
as the CLEVELAND party did of course cannot
predict Cleveland luck' is as well understood
up here as it ever was anywhere. 1t had cur
ious veritication this year. Before the CLEvE
LAND party arrived about the middle Of August
the weather had been almost continuously wet
AS soon as they came the skies cleared, and
they had three weeks OF as bright weather as
Sportsmen need look for. If l add to that the
factor it is positive fact-that Mr.. and Mrs
CLEVELAND each shot deer, it will readily be
understood why faith in their luck is undimin-
ished .
Mr.. CLEVELAND was victim TO stock
ranch votes in his late campaign, but even
that is proving an element of strength to
him; certainly he is the foremost American
citizen to-day, the executive not excepted :;
and if things go on as at present he will be
elected by such majority in 1892 as will
shame all opposition into silence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13

country. Besides having this elephant on
its hands the government would be out the
millions which it has loaned to the Union
and Central Pacific companies
The Senatorial committee, it is said,
favors the acceptance of the terms pro-
posed by the Union Pacific. These are
comprised in a long time low interest bond,
guaranteed by mortgage on the main and
branch lines. The Central Pacific makes a
similar offer, and it is probable that the
acceptance of that will also be recon-
mended, as its rejection might result in
the loss of everything, as there is reason
to believe that the Central Pacific would
be only too glad to surrender
the road and thus obtain relief from the
obligation due to the government.
1t is to be hoped that the good sense Of the
Senatorial committee on this occasion will
prevail in Congress. and that an end will
come to the vicious and ridiculous war
which has so long been waged on the sub
sidized roads. 1t matters little to this gen
Grafton whether or not there was corrup-
ton in the construction of the roads 1t is
too late to talk about recklessness, ex-
NOV o5oiASO, uilDClSs anu
other things in connection with
the building and early history of the first
overland road. All that has been charged
may be true, and it does not alter the facts
as they exist to-day, these facts being that
the roads are well operated, that their
finances are honestly managed and that the
disposition exists to deal fairly and squarely
with the government. The past has gone,
and with it its evils and misdeeds; we have
now to deal with the present, and there is
nothing in the present which should urge
the government TO harsh and unreasonable
measures.
THE HERALD has always maintained that
if the government were never to receive a
dollar of the money it loaned to the Paci-
fic railroads, it would be the gamer from
the investment, no money belonging to the
nation ever having been more iudiciously
expended than that which built a railway
across the continent. But that view of the
case is neither here nor there at this time
The companies propose to pay the debt in
full if permitted to do so, and it is wisdom
and craftsmanship to accept their offer and
put an end to this thing of bounding the
life out of the corporations, and making
it impossible for them to earn the money
with which to cancel their Indebtedness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13

The SHAH of Persia, after his return to
his capital, made up collection Of hand
some and costly presents for the distin-
guished persons he met in England. Dia-
mond rings, bracelets and stars, ieweled
decorations, and portraits set in costly
stones, were in the lot, and the Prince of
Wales and other members of the royal
family were among the recipients. But
Queen VICTORIA received nothing, though
the entertainment Of the Shah cost her
much money. The next time he visits Eng
land he will sleep in dry goods box and
eat from cheap lunch counters, so far as
her majesty is concerned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13
A LUCKY NAN.

''Born to good luck is the title of many
a newspaper article, of occasional lectures,
and may be sermons, and at least one or
two plays; and it is good subject to dis
cuss, too. Those who think there is
nothing in luck are mistaken. The late
President GARFIELD once wrote that IAN
ounce of pluck is worth..a ton of luck" and
those who supported him in his last cam
paign printed it along with other state
ments of like character from the same
source and used them for campaign litera-
ture. 1t is true enough in its way, un-
doubtedly, but unfortunately its way is not
that OF absolute correctness when subjected
to a critical analysis. Pluck is
more common than luck, and yet the
former cannot at any time or on any terms
be exchanged for the latter.
One of the lucky men of this disposition
is GROVER CLEVELAND. What makes his
luck all the more fortuitous is the fact that
it is deserved, that he lives for it, works