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Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings,

The county seat election in Banner county
| resulted in the choice of Harrisburg.
Gering has been chosen county seat OF the
new county of SCOTS Bluffs by 50 majority
over Mitchell.
The Chase County Champion announces
that q number of the farmers are busily en-
ployed sowing wheat.
The Indians of the Santee reservation are
out on their annual hunting and trapping eX.
petition, and tho houses are deserted.
A boom is expected at Candy with the ad-
vent OF the Sioux City ~ Denver and
Union Pacific railroads., and business pros
poets are very fiattering.
The Arlington Democrat publishes an "im-
portant notice. to the effect that ali persons
talking to employees of that Office will be
charged 30 cents per hour unless the CONVEX
sation pertains to business.
Mr.. Hollcnbeck of Orleans has become in.
sane. He was Il passenger on Il tram from
which a man jumped and killed himself, and
the occurrence so prcyed on his mind that
his brain became affected.
Mr.. and Mrs. MCGOWAN, a young couple en-
route from Chicago to Salt Lake City, did
Landlord pattie the honor to stop over for
the express purpose of having their first
pledge a little daughter, born under his roof,
says the Sidney Telegraph. the affair was
somewhat impromptu, but the mother is
doing well, and the father is slowly recover
ing from his condition of profound astonish-
meut. The ladies of the hotel have christ
ened the little stranger Sidney Pacific.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20
THE POSTOFFTCE LOCATION.

Ever since the publication of the
notice from the supervising architect
about the proposed location of the new
postof1ice under peculiar conditions as
to the extent of the lots required, there
has been an impression that only the
blocks IN streets that have no alleys
could compete. The description of the
ground was as follows: "a corner lot
is preferred, and the dimensions should
not be less than 200 feet by go feet; if
not a corner lot the dimensions should
be not less than 200 by 290, the latter to
be street frontage"
With the exception OF lots between
Dodge and Davenport streets no grounds
large enough for the site could be
offered without being divided by IN
alley. While the government no doubt
has the right to take the alleys by con-
demnation process, it was a great ques-
ton whether it would exercise its
right.
In order to give our citizens q proper
understanding as to the disposition of
the department on this point a message
was addressed to our Washington
bureau to ascertain whether Or not
grounds that are divided by an alley
could compete for the %postoffice site.
The following reply has been received:
W~AsHINGToN, d. c., Feb. l9.-Editor of
THE BEE: Yes; the department will not OBJ
iect to lot having alley if city will vacate
alley or the lot is larger than specifications
call for, but the ground must be as large as
specified. PERRY S. HEATH.
Now, in order to make sure that com=
petition shall not be restricted to two
or three blocks, the council should ut
once pass IN ordinance vacating any
alley in any square or block that may
be acquired by the United States for u
public building. Such an ordinance.
with the act now in the Legislature
ceding jurisdiction, will place the de-
partment in position to locate the site
where it is deemed most desirable in
the public interest.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

THE controversy over the Maxwell
land grant, which has been dragged in
the territorial and United States courts
for a number of years, will never be
amicably settled until the company
makes friends with the settlers on the
lands. The people of Colorado and
New Mexico have all along sympathized
with the settlers in their struggles
against the Maxwell syndicate. 1t is
suggested hat the corporation come to
some amicable understanding with the
people located on its territory. And
it is pointed out that it would be
cheaper and more satisfactory for the
Maxwell syndicate to buy up every
squatter's claim than to pay the cost of
ejectment suits and invite a reign of
terror on its territory.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

NEBRASKA'S corn seeking an outlet
through Duluth for the European mar
kets marks an epoch in the grain carry
ing trade. Heretofore the bulk of our
crops has moved by way of Chicago to
the seaboard. Chicago has had until
recently a monopoly of the grain bust
ness, due largely to her superior facili-
ties as a distributing center. This mo-
nopoly has enabled Chicago to fix the
price of corn in the interest of her ele-
vator syndicates and to the detrlment of
the corn producer. But a change has
evidently come. The Nebraska pro-
Queer is soon to havesa choice Of mar
kets and he will ship'to that one which
offers the highest price for his corn.
With Duluth, Chicago and st. Louis
bidding against each other, lively COM
petition may be expected which cannot
but result to the benefit of the producers
of this state.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

natives who have OF late murdered a number
of Europeans. At Apia il was ascertained
that a French half-caste and a Swede having
been cast ashore, with two other men, wero
killed aud then mutilated. At Port Sand
wich it was learned that some natives had
made a murderous attack on the boats crew
Of a Queensland vessel, a MIR. Cecil
being badly wounded. Other attacks
on Europeans have been heard OF
here. The Opal then left in search OF infor-
nation of Mr.. Vernon Lee Walker and his
boats crew at Pentecost island. A friendly,
chief gave the Information that the murders
were unprovokcd, and the chief of the
offending tribe was summoned TO come on
board the Opal and pay the penalty or else
war would be made on him the following
morning. The chief declined to visit the
ship, but offered a man and two boys in
reparatiou for the admitted murders. He
aftcrward offered to deliver up the actual
murderers, but this was not acceded TO, as it
was felt to be a blind. The next morning
the Opal bombarded the village, but tho
natives had previously fled.
At Port Sandwich the French cruiser
Fabert was found at anchor, and the two
commanders decided TO make examples Of
the natives of Lii and the island of Paama
for the murders of Europeans committed by
them Mt Ii. Sixty men from each vessel
were landed, and proceeded toward the viii
lage, the natives flying before them into the
bush. The village was burned to the ground.
The two vessels parted with congratulatory
signals, the Opal making for Parma, arriv-
ing at which the village was shelled.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20
PROMINENT business man of

A PROMINENT business man of the
city has offered some valuable sugges-
tions in n recent interview published
in our columns. He points out the cry
ing necessity of making Omaha a great
corn market. He calls attention to the
fact that with adequate elevator facili-
ties and with the railroads of the state
to the northwest and to the southwest,
induced to work together with Omaha,
our city would become the gran
airy not only for the greater
part of the crops of Nebraska
but for southern Dakota and q part Of
Kansas. On these broad lines, the en-
ergies of our city should be directed.
Omaha has become a pork and cattle
center, and it remains for her to de-
velop into a grain market of equal
proportions. This accomplished, rail-
roads, of their own accord, would focus
upon our city, and q thousand and one
enterprises would spring up in our
midst, as Omaha would hold the two
great staples meat and bread in her
hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20
BY ALL MEANS, INVESTIGATE

- III IN L'I S'
Mr.. Fred Nye follows in the footsteps
of Informer Morrissey and tries to
create the impression that he has struck
a mine in connection with the alleged
attempt to improperly influence the
legislature on the submission bill. A
pretended interview with Mr.. p. f..
Her is given great prominence in the
Republican with the heading that four
thousand dollars was paid to THE BEE
for It's recent exposure OF the workings
of prohibition. The most e~Xtravagant
construction of the interview, as it APP
| pears in that sheet, bears out no such
charge. While it would have been per-
fectly Legitimate for THE BEE to take
pay for the use of its columns, the fact
is that not one dollar has been paid TIE
BEE for anything it has published con-
corning prohibition.
Mr.. Nye calls upon the legislature to
investigate its charge. The legislature
has no right to investigate the business
affairs of a newspaper or any individual
unless members of the Legislature are in
| some way involved in the transaction.
But The BEE has nothing to conceal
from the legislature or the public, and
its editor will volunteer to tell the in
vestigating committee, in which Norris
sey has been playing informer and
| prosecutor, all hat has transpired be-
| tween Mr.. Her. and himself, and he
stands ready to produce the books and
records of THE BEE if they are desired.
BY all means let the Legislature in
vestigate this matter fully and freely.
And while they are about this business
let them send for one Cadet Taylor, and
ascertain whether or not he has ever
asked p. e. Her to subscribe for five
thousand dollars of Republican stock,
and whether or not he has solicited the
said Her since the present legislature
has been in session, to pay. five hundred
dollars for a certain editorial or write
up against submission that was to APP
pear in the Republican.
Perhaps Mr.. Nye did not know
about this brazen attempt to
bleed Mr.. Ier, and perhaps he
did. In the light Of the ferocious wal
fare which Nye and his associates have
been waging upon Mr.. Her within the
past ten days, it would strike even the
dullest mind that Mr.. Nye has been
sorely disappointed at Hers refusal to
"shell out" just as Informer Morrissey
has been enraged because Her and the
liquor dealers have refused to make up
a pot to buy him off and give him a
chance to leave Nebraska.
That newspapers and so-called jour-
nalists in Omaha have degraded them
selves and the profession to such low
depths, is a sad commentary.
But We do not propose to let THE BEE
rest under the imputation that its
course with regard to prohibition has
been mercenary, or that It's editorial
columns car be bought at any price to
advocate what it does not sincerely be-
lieve to be in the public interest.
THE BEE always has been and is now
ready to submit to a searching investi-
cation into its business affairs, and its
editor holds himself ready to respond
to any question that the legislative in
vestigating committee may see fit to put
concerning his individual conduct.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20
TOURING BASE BALIISTS.
The Weather Prevents Them Playing
in Vienna and Berlin.

lCopWight 1889 by James Gordon Bcnnett.1
NAPLES, Feb. 1a.-[New York Herald
| Cable-Special to TIE BEE. The members
| of the American base ball teams have beon
doing Naples ever since their arrival here on
J Friday night. Pfeiffcr and Manning climbed
| to the top of Vesuvius on Saturday and to-
day nearly all the party visited the ruins Of
Pompeii. Leigh and Lynch left yesterday
for Rome, and after arranging for the par
TVS arrival there will go on to Paris, stop
ping at Florence, Nice and Milan with O view
to arranging games there If possible. Prosi-
dent Spalding has received kilograms from
Agent Parry at Vienna which indicate
that the people there are anxious to sec
the American national game. Cold weather
and snow has prevailed, but the reception
committee organized and secured a spacious
public building in which they hoped the
game might be played. AS any one familiar
with base ball can understand, however, it
would be impractiCable to play a game salts
factorily under such circumstances Parry
has been wired to meet Lynch IN Paris,
while President Spalding has telegraphed
his regrets to the organized reception COM
mittee ut Vienna that unfavorable weather
alone prevents visiting both Vienna and Ber-
lin. The teams will play their first game on
European soil in Naples to-day at the Cam
pc di Marie cricket grounds, Baldwin and
DAILY and Healy and Earle being the batter
les. Tomorrow evening the party will visit
the San Carlos theater and leave for Rome
in the morning at 8 o'clock.
Captain Ward says, concerning the re-
ported negotiations for his release to the
Washington club, that he can say nothing, as
he knows nothing whatever concerning
them. He has not received a line from either
Hewitt or Day as to playing f0 Washington.
Ward says he would have mu6A to consider
before determining. He says quite unre-
servedly, however, that if the Boston club
purchases his release he will gladly 80 there
and contentedly play short stop under the
captaincy of Kelly or any one else.
From American advices it is inferred here
that Pittsburg has secured Hanlon. He says
that if there is no hitch on the salary Ques-
ton he would just as leave play there as any
where
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

THREE million dollars in building
improvements according to estimates
furnished by architects are already pro-
missed for Omaha. The erection of
these buildings will encourage other
property owners to invest large
amounts in building operations. The
prospects for great activity are most
promising. What is now most needed
to insure a prosperous building season
is a compact for the season between
builders and contractors, and the
w%orkingmen employed in the building
trades. Such an understana ding should
be arrived at without further delay.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 19.-lSpecial Tele-
gram to The BEE. AT last the report Of tho
committee of experts on the construction of
the capitol ceiling has been produced, and it
shows that at least S113. 600 has been stolen
from the state. The work is rotten from
top to bottom, and where 1t was possible to
steal a dollar it was stolen. There was
never a genuine estimate made, never q gen.
uine bid put in. The whole contract was a
fraud in its inception-the state Was delIber-
ately robbed. Mr.. Andrews certified to bids
of which he had not the slightest knowledge.
The reading of the report was listenad to
with breathless attention in the assembly
last night, and when the vast fraud was laid
bare men looked at each other and shook
their heads. A resolution will be handed in
tomorrow for the immediate removal OF Su-
perintendent Andrews.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

THE action of the Iowa railroads in
reducing their passenger service in that
state in order TO r~etaliate upon the rate
schedules fixed by the railroad commits
sioners is not likely to affect public SEN
timent in Iowa On the railroad question.
The railroads win be obliged to give the
cities and towns OF the state proper
transportation facilities. That is one of
the obligations which the railroad COM
mission can enforce. Paying train SER
vice will not be discontinued, and the
withdrawal of a few unremunerative To-
cal trains is evidence that the people
would not be seriously Inconvenience.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20
Holden Explains an Injunction.

VI ~ "a III u
KEARNEY, Neb., Feb. 15.-To the Editor of
THE BEE: In the issue of THE BEE of Feb
ruary IA appeared a special telegram which
stated that the Hearney Courier, a newspa-
per published in Kearney, Neb,, had been
enioined from forther publication, and that
sometime last year the citizens of Kearney
had raised a purse and paid q, 900 to w. G.
Holden on the express condition that he re-
frain from writing or publishing in Buffalo
county for the space of ten years. Now both
of the foregoing are absolutely
false. 1t is true that a temporary injunction
was granted to restrain w. e. Holden from
writing for or publishing q newspaper in
Buffalo county, but G. S. Holden was not en-
Joined from publishing the Courier, which is
her property, and the paper appeared as
usual yesterday.
The citizens of Kearney had nothing to do
with buying out the Press last year. j. II.
Johnson bought it, ana was aided by a few
shyster lawyers and sWindlers who were
preylng OFF the public. these men contrib
uted TO aid in silenCing the only newspaper
in the county which had the courage to eX-
pose their fraudulent transactions. Go 10
the Western Newspaper Union, of Omaha,
and ask the manager how j. L. Johnson en-
deayored TO trade them worthless paper en-
dorsed by scoundrels, for printing material.
Ask their travelling salesman, Mr.. Rolln,
what the cashier of the Kearney National
bank told him of these men and their paper.
Your telegram injured the Courier and its
credit by widely circulating the report that
1t had been legally suppressed.
The agreement procured from w. c. Hol-
den was secured by falsehood, j. r., johnson
failed utterly to carry out his part OF the con
tract, and in consequence, the sheriff took
possession of the Press office and closed 1t up,
and he never fulfilled his Obligations until
forced TO do So.
The undersigned, however, is not the edi-
tor and proprietor Of the Courier, He has
written some for il, but has had nothing TO
do with its management, and the publication
of that paper has not been enjoined. The
following is the order issued by Judge Gil
lcspie:
'Nothing herein shall be construed as re-
strainlng the said Cora s. Holden from PRINT
ing, publishing and circulating any news
paper if the same be not under the control or
BY the aid, directly or indirectly, of the said
w. &. Holden. Signed,
j. Il. GILLESPIE, County Judge.
Dated, Feb. IL, 1883.
j. II. Johnson, in his petition, AYERS that
he brings the suit in his own behalf, and IN
behalf of the Hub Printing company. X. IL,
Eaton, president Of the Hun Printing COM
pany, and NJ. A. Brown, general manager,
both say they have nothing to do with II, and
that the Huh Printing company Is not a
party TO the action; that they nave sustained
no damage or injury by reason OF the publ
cation OF the Courier on the writings OIL W.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

THE newer workers in politics will
stand the best chances of recognition
from the next administration. There
is u large army of old Office holders who
were sent adrift by the present admin
istration who will urge their claim to
consideration on the ground that they
have made u sacrifice in the interest OF
the party, and many such are even now
in Washington making their daily APP
peals to congressman. But they are
not receiving much consideration. The
prevalent idea is to infuse new blood
into the public service, and it is SAID
that several Of the state delegations
have an understanding not to
urge the appointment of any man
who held a position four years
ago,a and particularly such men as had
the special privilege of drawing salar-
les from the government for a number
of years. This rule would certainly be
endorsed by the workers who have la
bored to bring success to the party, and
it seems entirely just that they should
be preferred. Former ~officehOlders pos
sessing special fitness should of course
be considered on their merits, but the
mere fact that q man has been an office
holder ought not to weigh the least hit
in his favor. The men who have lone
the work OF the party, and who have
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20
SHE WANTS
The Woman of wondrous Tale Thinks
Herself Injured.


a few weeks ago a young woman, by the
name of Mrs. Anna Josephine Steinreide,
came TO Omaha in adverse circumstances
She affirmed that she had left a wealthy hus.
band, who leads a life of debauchery, in Des
Moines, on account of his brutal and inhu-
man treatment. Being respondent, finan
cially depressed, without friends, and with q
child on her hands TO care for, which was
afterwards abducted by the husband and OF
which Tue BEE have published full details,
the woman was compelled TO seek domestic
work. She was employed by James II.
Wheeler. In the household, u few weeks
thereafter, a pair of diamond earrings were
found to be stolen. Suspicion rested upon
the woman. She was arrested upon com
plant of Wheeler, and was held in prison two
or three days. Afterwards the jeyclry was
found concealed in a dwclling house occupied
by Henry Kober, at Florence. The com
plainant then thought he had made n mis-.
take by throwing Mrs. Steinrcide INTO Jail
and ordered her release. Now the woman
claims IT was righteousness on the part Of
Wheeler i'll depriving her of her liberty, in
bringing shame and disgrace upon her, by
prcfCrring such n charge and getting her in
the police court. For her impaired character
aud the unjust wrong alleged she commenced
suit against Wheeler yesterday in the district
court for $4,000 damages.
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for removing indigestion. Ask your
druggist for the genuine, prepared by
DR.. j. G.. B. Siegert Is Sons.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20
Itching Skin Diseases

Every night I scratched until the
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am going to tell you of the Extraordinary
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panied with itching. | would scratch every
night until | was raw. then The next night the
scales, being formed meanwhile, where
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After giving up all hopes of recovery, I hap
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Il COrEY
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Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

THE state OF Missouri proposes to
abolish it's justice courts for cities of
over one hundred thousand inhabitants.
Their place is to be taken by district
courts whose judges are to be appointed
by the judges of the courts Of record.
The ordinary justice of the peace seems
to be in bad odor in every large city of
the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20
The Musical Critic.

ttNclnndU enquirer
Willie Winter once wrote, and published
in the New York Tribune, a beautiful critl-
cism Of a concert which, by reason OF an
accident, failed 20 be given. A London
paper has just been sued for libel because of
a like performance. No one should get
angry at a little matter of that kind. Ordl-
narily the musical critics write much better
when they do not see the performance.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

THE Legislature of Kansas has been
investigating the alleged Kansas City
beef and pork combination, which was
claimed to work to the detriment of the
state. The packers submitted facts and
figures, and the investigation has re-
suited in finding no evidence OF the ex-
istence of n packing house trust. This
is likely to throw a damper on the inter-
state convention called TO meet at st.
Louis,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

COLORADO complains that it's leglsla-
ture has been in session nearly half of
the time allowed by law and has passed
not a single measure for the benefit of
the state. 1t may well be asked what
stuff are Legislators made of anyway
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

If there are any rotten buildings in
Omaha or any other Nebraska city the
present would be an excellent time in
which to pull them down. Judging
from recent events it Is a poor practice
to wait for them to tumble.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-20

THE sheet of one idea, and that bear
ing a Chicago brand, is trying vainly to
excuse the idiocy of its Lincoln cores
pondent. The task is too great. A sore
head with nothing in it is apt tolead to