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Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
ReYond the Rockies.

TheO regon legislature is republican by
tWenty-one majority.
The cash receipts on incoming freight at
Haley, Idaho, last month exceeded $1,000.
A new national bank with capital of $780,
900 will shortly be started at Livingston,
Mont.
Hay is @ow selling in Sun River, Mont, at
from $23 to S35 per ton and is hard to procure
even at those prices.
Salt Lake real estate boomers seem to be
highly pleased over the failure of q. E.
Mayne's great stock yards scheme.
Footpads in Sacramento Cal, think moth
. ng of knocking down men and rObbing them
within a few feet of the police station.
The boys of Virginia City, New, amuse
themselves with sling shots and are in a fair
way of killing somebody before many days
Okanogan county, Washington, is the
largest county 5000 square milcsl and Island
is the smallest Q15 square milcs) in the state.
Carrie West, who lives near Chico, Cal,
shot two lynXcs the other day and soon after
captured their kittens, which she is now
tanning.
George Peterson, Big Timber, Mont. car
penter. suicidcd with corrosive sublimate at
that place last week because his girl went
back on him.
George Ash of Billings, Mont, bought 900
head of mutton sheep fW. Is. Howell, Wy
oming sheep grower, paying $3.50 per head
without the wool
u. 4, MCCOlnD, VINO was general CUSTODIAN
of the Seattle fire relief funds and whose
stealings amounted to several thousand dol
lars, has been convicted of forgery.
Albert Eugene SaAton was the success
full applicant for the Nevada West Point
cadetship at the examination held in Carson.
He leaves for the national military academy
June 10, where he will bo subject to final
test.
Alderman Bennett Of Missoula, Mont,
who was recently caught in hagrahte delictu
with young lady, has added to the scandal
by assaulting newspaper reporter and at
tempting TO kill an editor who published his
bad deeds.
An ex- Oakland ''doom-sealer' by the name
of Williams preached about tho coming an-
inhalation Of the world at Bundle Bee, Arll.,
during two days of last week, but on the
third day the sheriff snatched him up and had
him sent 10 Prescott as a lunatlc.
A rather interesting suit Is being waged In
the superior court at Tacoma, Wash, be-
tween Attorney Albert Joab and Banker n.
g. Scarritt president Of the Washington Ma
tional bank JOab claims that when Scarritt
came 20 Tacoma he entered into an agreement
with him 10 Introduce him 10 society and bus
mess men OF the city for a consideration Of
500. Scarritt denies the allegations and
claims that Joab introduced him 10 people he
did not know or have influence with, hence
the suit, A jury will determine the merits Of
Joab'S claims or Scarriits allegation"
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THE BEE has no disposition to ques-
tion the veracity of Mr. Birllhauser or
his son-in-law. Their point-blank denial
may be II good offset for the charge made
by Mr. Kopald. But there is something
very singular about the circumstance
that Kopald told his attorney the facts
covered by his affidavit more than three
months ago-long before Birkhauser was
thought of for chairman of the board of
public works, and long before the war
upon the combine was begun. If Kopald
invented the whole story, and then con-
suited his attorneys rs to the course to
be pursued, he must be lunatic, rather
than a knave.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

A DISPATCH regarding the Methodist
conference sent out from this city de-
clares that the Boston, Chicago and
New York delegates imposed conditions
that it will be impossible to fulfill" The
purpose of this glaring falsehood is ap-
parent. 1t is malicious libel on the
city, without shadow of justification.
1t is a link of the scandalous efforts of
an alleged Omaha newspaper to belittle
the city and defeat the movement to Sc
cure the Methodist conference in 1892.
The conditions imposed on the city are
more reasonable than expected and there
is not the slightest ground for doubling
the readiness of our people to ofulfill all
requirements.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

peaches, abffebts and nectarines within
the next thirty, days. The Grocer and
Country Merchant of San Francisco, says:
Quotations for spot stock are in most
instances necessarily largely II not
wholly nominal. Apricots of last crop
are no longer quotable, as there are none
now on market. Peaches, bleached and
unpeeled, are 1S(615c where there is any
stock to be found, aud S(Gllc for common.
Peeled are not worthy quotations; there
are some small lots Offering at fully as
low figures as unpeeled. Prunes make
q poor showing, with jobbing
transactions mainly within range
of S(dl0c for small to medium sizes. Some
contracting in 1890 prunes is reported at
6G7ic for principal sizes. Pitted plums
range from 5(66c for common, and 7(dSc
for select stock, with supplies not large,
but more than ample for the existing
demand at prevailing rates. Apples are
scarce and against buyers at 1ld(Gl2tc
for evaporated in boxes, 6l(d7ic for COM
mon sliced, and 6iG7c for quartered.
Dried grapes 34033c, with slow move
ment and slim supplies.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
RECKLESS ASSERTION.

The trouble with most of the advo-
Gates of unlimited silver coinage is that
they make the most reckless assertions
in the face of indisputable facts, One of
these, which was made by Senator Tel
Ter in the senate on Tuesday, is that the
increase of circulation has not kept pace
with the increase of population. Ho
said that it would require an annual
increase of forty-four million dollars
of currency to meet the annual
increase in the population. BY this he
meant, it is presumed, that such an eX-
pansion is necessary in order TO maintain
the present ratio of currency to popula-
tion, which is about twenty-five dollars
per capita AS n matter of fact the aver
age annual increase of circulation for
twelve years, or since 1878, has been
greater than this.
In his speech on the fifth instant Sena-
tor Sherman presented tabulated
statement, from official sources,
OF the amount and kinds Of
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

LET no citizen escape the census enum-
orator. 1t is estimated by most com
petent judges that from two to three
Thousand citizens of Omaha are absent,
some on business and others bent on
pleasure seeking. These people must
be counted, and the industrious enumer
ators will include them in the official
lists if remaining members of families or
friends will interest themselves to see
that such names reach the enum-
orators promptly. Many of these
absentees are freeholders and are
prominently known to have long
resided in Omaha, so that there will be
little trouble in satisfying the enumer-
ators that no imposition is intended. 1t
may be necessary for the newspapers
to take this matter up and aid the cen
sus people by inviting absentees or their
relatives to send in their names and
street numbers, or in any way apprise the
enumerators of the citizens claim to be
counted. The board of trade has appre-
ciated the Importance of this point and
will lend the weight of its influence to
the end that every nose be counted.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THE returns of the county assessors, if
permitted to stand, will work a serious
injury to the city and county. 1t is an
outrage on the community that millions
of improvements should be permitted to
escape taxation. Every property owner
realizes that-yaluations have been ri
diculously low for years. 1t has scarcely
been one-tenth of what the property
would bring in open market. There
was no uniformity in the meth
ods of fixing valuations and fragrant
determinations were perpetrated, by
which the poor and middle classes were
compelled to pay far greater per cent
of taxation than the rich. Although
the law practically ties the hands of the
board of equalization from making de-
tailed investigation OF the assessors re-
turns the board has power to increase
the aggregate and that power should be
exercised in every district where re-
duction was made.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
MISUNDERSTANDING OF GERMANY
How the Iron Chancellor Set About tdE
to Accomplish IL.

now tnc IRON CnOnCcIIOF Sct ADOut W
to Accomplish IL.
The world has been accustomed to re-
gard the German people as slow and
heavy race. There was n certain amount
of truth in ascribing to them these char
acteristics as long as the Bund, with tho
predominant influence Of Austria and tho
minor states, represented the majority of
the nation. But to the Prussians these
epithets could never have been applied
justly. They are an energetic, active
and plucky race, says Harper's
Magazine for June Bismarck
understood from the beginning of
his career these their excellent
qualities by which they surpassed their
German brothers, and when he had Sc
cured for his country the hegemony Of
Germany, he devised the means of inn
pressing these characteristics upon tho
people Of other states. The general in
PRODUCTION of the Prussian military sys-
tem,a measure which he established aa.
one of the fundamental principles of thS
constitution, protfered the best opportu-'
nifty for influencing non-Prussians. How
ever opposed we may be to militarism,
soldier life in Prussia and in the pres
ent Germany has its wide sides 1t is not
not given to idleness and indulgence, dis
sipation and vice, but rather to practices
which engender habits of activity, en-
durance, energy and moral courage
The soldiers are not simply drilled in
the art of handling guns and swords,
and of marching in rank and file, but
they receive a general education In all
those spheres in which every man ought
to acquire certain grade of intel
ligence. Civil life in Germany
does not proffer the Same instruC-
tive influences which it Yields in
other countries, and especially in
republic. The army, in which the ma
jority of the people meet on common
ground and in which the uneducatcd
come in close contact with the educated,
has been means of raising the intel
lectual standard of the masses. Tho
German soldier, as a rule, is turned out
at the end of his service more valuable
citizen than he would be without mill
tary discipline. He becomes more in
telligent and consequently a more cffi-
cient member of the community;
and, above all, he gains in the
army the feeling that he does not
belong simply to a particular small
state, but to a greater fatherland, com
mon to all. Thus the expenses incurred
for maintaining this large body of men
offer another compensation besides Sc
curing the safety of nation ever threatA
ened by its neighbOrs. What centuries
had not been able to create, namely,
wider and higher enthusiasm and patri-
otism for the whole German land, Bis
marcks policy created within eight
years; for all confederate states rose like
one man in the Franco-Prussian war of
1901, and the south followed their eX-
ample.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

PROCEEDINGS have been commenced
in Kansas to dissolve the American
sugar company, which operated extern
sively in the southwestern portion of the
state last year. The operations of this
concern have been fruitful source of
public scandal. Under the inducements
offered for the cultivation of sorghum
cane the company started a central fac
tory and succeeded in convincing the
public that the business was q great sue
cess, due to the patent roasting" pro-
cess, which the company claimed to con-
troll. A wild scramble for factories
started in counties and towns. The COM
pany generously offered to plant
branch in any precinct for
bonus ranging from fifty
to one hundred thousand dollars,
the amount being determined by the
anxiety of the residents to secure the
prize. After the company had roasted
the taxpayers for something like half a
million dollars an inspection of
their operations revealed the
act that the sugar, extracted
by the roasting process" was
mostly shipped into the state in barrels,
turned into syrup, recrystalized and
palmed off on the natives as genuine
sorghum sugar The discovery destroyed
the profits of the company and stopped
the mania for branch factories. The
company, however, has extracted suffi-
cient sugar" from the gullible resi-
dents to retire from business in atfluent
circumstances.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THE men who maintained the demo
cratic organization in this section
when it was discouraging and almost
hopeless work, are entitled to considera-
tion at the hands of Mayor Cushing.
They did not labor Cor reward, but rather
for principle. Having no paper to speak
for them THE BEE volunteers the sug-
gestion that II a change is to be made in
The craftsmanship of the board Of public
Torks,a competent, responsible democrat
be selected, one whose standing as citi-
rem will be guaranty that the inter
ests of property owners will be protected
against greedy contractors, and one who
s. not the tool of existing combines
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THERE appears to be no limit to the
expcdients employed to delay the sub
stitution of electricity for the gallows
in New York. Notwithstanding the
fact that state and federal courts have
affirmed the constitutionality of the
law, another attack has been made in n
new quarter, The provision requiring
solitary confinement for ten days pre-
ceding execution is assailcd as uncon-
stitutional The question is being argued
in the courts in case similar to
Kemmler's The outlook is decidedly
favorable for both CONDEMNED men dying
OF old age.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THE action of IA foreign steamship COM
pany in dumping contract laborers in
this country and arrogantly refusing to
return them, calls for decisive action at
the hands of congress. 1t is certainly
within the province of congress to COM
pei foreign companies to comply with
the law, and when they openly violate
it, the remedy should be vigorously ap-
piled. They can be brought to terms
effectively by withholding clearance
papers and If necessary denying them
admission to American ports.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THERE was no call for affidavits from
Messrs. Creigh and Clarkson. Their
conduct in the appraisement of the
Tenth street viaduct has not been called
in question. The only inference that
could be drawn from Kopald's affidavit
was that Birkhauser's influence would
have been excrted to raise the appraise-
ment for damages to Kopald in case the
trade of his claim for the Spetman claim
had been accepted by him.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
Iowa Items,

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conntr t,easniv
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l"eu u, a' o!ieii l'och'
Ihere Is not vacant mousse IN NeWeu ana
new ones are needed.
The Independence creamery is making
1000 pounds of butter day.
John Honeyman tried to secure $4,000
from some of his neighbors for libel. but the
Jury only awarded him 81
s,nonhilI co+ish ,,a;obi,o, ,aorI,, +,yo
,,ndepJ ro,,r so,.sd -, 'ithi ia1,o
n"ac ittie Siorv The ofhcr Jav ~ ''''>'
iiT%, ,n, l4i.Iio ''to'.El Un1 "I1 80. ~, 10y
Inc Ihree-year-olu chilu Oh Jonn FERRIS,
Whlie Playing arounu sn0uluerlhg SIraW
SIaCf lle-r ililsca, was laVaiiy purhcu ny lIS
cioCning catchihs nre'
While little girl named Smith was pump
ing water from a well at Shcllsburg the other
day the platform gave away and she fell TO
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THE blatant Blair seems to have gar
nercd few kernels of sanity from his
educational campaign. Seeing the wide
spread desire to foster rich and tagging
industries he wants government bounty
of two cents on maple sugar This would
materially swell the profits of western
vendors of alleged maple sugar and pos
sibly improve the decorations on the cans
OF Vermont maple syrup"
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THERE was pretty active money
market to date this week, rates ruling
firm at eight per cent. Jobbers are
busy and express themselves we'll satis-
fed with the results obtained in the first
six months Of the year now nearing n
close. Trade has been better than was
looked for and sales will, on an average,
foot about fifteen per cent greater
than during the same period in 1889
The sugar market continues brisk and
excited and it is believed that prices
will be further advanced and kept at
profitable figures, to the trust, till after
the coming season is over. Advices
from California indicate that the
canned fruit product of that state
for 1890 will be sold ut considera-
bly, higher figures than last year.
The salmon canning season has closed
ON the Sacramento and Columbia rivers
with about half the average pack made.
The fish are reported plentiful, but prices
have been so low that many canneries
did not operate and the fishermen were
on strike in. March and
April. Dried fruits are firmly held
and packers on tho Pacific coast
are in receipt of many inquiries from the
east concerning alf kinds of California
dried fruit for future delivery: dryers
expect TO be running at full blast on
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
Idiotic Navigation Laws.

Philadelphia Record
A New York firm desirous of engaging in
the West Indian fruit trade has chartered
Norwegian steamers to do the carrying.
What an idiotic system of maritime law it is
that compcls our merchants to do the carry
ing business under foreign flag, and to pay
out Sl5O,0O0,0OO yearly to the people of other
countries for service that might give honor
able and profitable employment to our own
peOplel
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THE growth of the manly art among
the Chinese of this country is proof of
the wonderful versatility of our civiliza-
tion. We shall soon hear sportive
poems sung to the giant of Foo Chow or
the cyclone Of Yangstikiang
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
1t Don't Suit the Democrats.

The democratic press in Nebraska Is quite
generally disposed 10 condemn Governor
Thayer for recalling his proclamation for an
extra session OF the legislature. The changed
condition of affairs m Nebraska politics is not
received with delight by the democratic press
OF that state The best evidence Of the mis-
take Of the extra session cSll and Of the wis
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

- TIE robbery of the Northern Pacific
train in North Dakota is the first sue
cessful instance of the kind in the north
west since the famous Big Springs rob-
berry 1t is hardly possible for the rob-
bers to escape with their booty.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THE Denver Ne,cs comes out flatfooted
against Cleveland or Hill as democratic
candidates in 1892, and demands a west
ern man. The cold wave which ragged
between Colorado and the national capi-
tai four years ago has not apparently
been mellowed by successive seasons.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

ASSURANCES have been received from
leading senators that the bills to admit
Wyoming and Idaho to statehood will be
passed before adjournment, but the resi-
dents must not relax their efforts to ex-
pedite the measnres.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
The Colonel wouIdn,t Relieve It.
"a. Lonis Glnht. Dcmocrnt.

81. Louis GtJbc-D Democrat.
A recent philosopher declares that none
the things worth having in life cost money!
Itwould be difficult to convince Colonel Brice
that such a rule applies to the boon of
United States senatorship.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

The decision of Judge Sherwin Of
Iowa practically nullifies the last rem
nant of the prohibition law. 1t is the
severest blow the law received since the
people repudiated it at the polls last
November Prohibition in Iowa is a
reminiscence-an ungrateful memory.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION
Average. ......,..... ............... SO,OO'
GEORGE II. TZSCHUCK.


county Of DOugIns, I 7''
George B Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says that he Is secretary OF The
Bee Publishing Company. that the actual
average daily circulation OF The DAILY BEE for
the month of June. lssa was 1858 copies for
July, 1850, 1s.72S copies; for August, 1850 1861
October, 1850. 1887 copies; for November. 1889,
1880 copies; for December, 1880, 20.04S copies;
for January, 1900, 10,555 copies; for February,
1870. 1p76l copies for March, 1890, 20s15 copies;
for April, 1850, 2OJ64 copies; for May $780, 20,1sO
copies.
Sworn TO before me and subscribed in my
presence this 3lst day OF May. A. d., 1900.
lScaL1 N. y. FELL, Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

TIE whirligig of politics in Pennsyl-
vania indicates that opposition to Boss
Quay has suffered a fatal relapse. At
least one rebellious individual has been
laid to rest in the national boneyard.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THE hospital records of the county
board must befinl deplorable state of
confusion when the figures can be made
to show radically different conclusions.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

IT cost a Boston business firm an even
four hundred dollars to secure proof that
faith healing was simply a means of
''heeling' professional crook.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

THE combine should Immediately open
school of instruction in the grips and
signals of the gang for the benefit of Mr..
Blumer,
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

1t is recommended that no proxies be ad-
mitted to the convention, and that the dele
gates present be authorized to cast the full
vote OF the delegation.
l.. ID. RICHARDS, Chairman
WAIT NJ SEELEY, SeorCtArY.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

dom of correcting that error and OF calling an
carly republican state convention is observ-
able in the confusion and grimaces of the
Nebraska democratic press.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.


The village of Snyder has been incorporated
and set of officers elected.
The Harlan county officials now occupy the
new court house and are happy.
The assessed valuation of Nebraska City Is
81, 10i09S-real estate $1l6,1l4, personal
Ss}S1,3S4
The body of woman elegantly attired was
found floating in the river at Brownville
Monday.
1t is understood that Allen Elliott will
again be candidate for the legislature from
Harlan county.
George Metz has been acquitted of the
charge of burglary at Geneva. The jury
was only out ten minutes.
Three crcuses and one dramatic perform
ance have furnished plenty of amusement at
Alma in the past ten days.
The Stanton county commissioners have
refunded the railroad bonds at ) per cent,
affecting saving of 81, POO annually.
The inmates of the Norfolk insane asylum
are enjoying carriage rides these days under
the protection of the asylum authorities
Tom Connolly, who recently shot man at
Crawford, was heard from at Valentine last
week, where he chewed off Charles Strick-
lands chin in a rough and tumble fight.
Two men representing themselves as insur-
ance agents stole team of ponies from the
Star livery barn at Stockham and disap-
peared. reward has been offered for the
arrest of the thieves.
A case of kidnapping occurred at Wilson
vile the other day While Mrs. Walter
Cross was in a store with her siX-months
old babe her husband approached and asked
to see the child, Mrs. Cross handed the
baby to him, whereupon he rushed from the
store with the child, jumped into buggy
which he had in waiting and drove rapidly
out of town. His whereabouts are still un-
known.
At st. Helena an Englishman named
Cowlshaw was bound over to the district
court for the felonious stabbng of Charles
Bererick. He protested his innocence and
hurled chair at the head of the complaining
witness. A pitched battle ensued, the court
room being cleared in less than "a minute,
and it required the combined strenth of six
powerful men to capture and bind the hyster-
ical prisoner
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
INC Times Is ono OF Joint.

tHicd0O TTTDule.
The London Times doesn't like Secretary
Blaine, but the London Times is not what it
used to be, Nothing it can say will occupy
Mr.. Blaines attention longer than about two
minutes
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

A THOROUGH Investigation of the new
Jail job will giYe the public glimpse of
the Senegambl4u therein.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12

PHIL ARMOUR is after salt mine. He
needs it in his business.