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Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
NEWS FOR THE IRMT.

Major Halford's First Assignment An
nounced-Other Changes In the Service.
WAsHGNGToN, ID. G., Feb Especial
Telegram to THE BEE. Army orders issued
today were:
Major Elijah w Haford, paymaster, is
detailed as disbursing officer on the part of
the United States to the fur seal arbitration
tribunal He will report for duty to Hon. j.
w. Foster, agent for the United States, and
will proceed to Paris, France, and such
other places as may be necessary for the
proper performance of his duties. Upon the
completion of this duty he will report in per-
son to the commanding general Department
of Dakota, for assignment to duty at st.
Paul
The leave granted Second Lieutenant Ed
mund M. Blake, Fifth artillery, January 81,
is extended two months.
Special orders February . which directs
the transfer of Second Lieutenant William
M. Wood, Twelfth infantry, from company
A to company of that regiment, and which
was suspended until further orders by
special order February rs, Is revoked.
The following named officers are detailed
for duty pertaining to the Worlds Columbian
exposition, and will report in person to the
commanding general, Department of the Mis-
souri,, for duty accordingly; Captain Charles
J. Crane, Twenty-fourth infantry; Captain
John Pitcher, First cavalry; First Lieuten-
mt Clcrmont Il. Best, jr., First artillery;
SeConu Lieutenant Golden Il. ii. RuggleS,
Third artillery.
Leave of absence for one month is granted
Captain Otto Helm, First cavalry.
The following transfers in the rwenty-firSt
infantry are made: Captain Ebenezer W.
Stone. from company X to company f; Cap
tain Willis Witch, from company + to com
pany *. On the expiration of his present
sick leave Captain Stone will join the COM
pany to which he is thus transferred under
the operation of so much of special order,
September 30, as directs him to join his regi-
ment
Special orders February 13, detailing First
Lieutenant j. EstCourt Sawyer, Fifth artil-
lery, for temporary duty as instructor of
National guard of the state of Washington
Is, at his own request revoked
Second Lieutenant Wilson Chase, Twen-
commanding officer of the United States in
fantry and cavalry school, Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, on March for preliminary in,
Structlon, preparatory to his detail as
student officer of the school.
First Lieutenant Edward H. Plummer,
Tenth infantry, is designated to perform and
execute the duties of Indian agent at the
Navajo agency, n. M. Lieutenant Plum
mer will be relieved from his present
duties, and will proceed to and take
charge of said agency, receipting to the per
son now in charge thercat for all public
property in his charge. Lieutenant Plummer
will perform these duties under the direc-
tion of the secretary of the interior, to whom
he will report by letter for Instructions
Leave of absence for one month"; to take
effect on or about February 26, is granted
First Lieutenant Frederick Won SChrader,
Twelfth infantry.
The extension of leave of absence granted
Captain Constant Williams, Seventh in
fantry, is further extended one month.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

are intimate with leading capitalists intcr,
estcd In the telephone company ana 90.
pecially with Mr.. Endicott, who was Presi.
dent Clevoland's secretary OF war aud who
Is the counsel for the telephone COMPANY
IL is not OF course iutimatcd or suggested
that MIR. Olncy himself has any connection
with the company, but certainly his friendly
relations with its officers and counsel are NOT
undesirable at a time when litigation de-
signed TO prevent the telephone company
from enjoying a monopoly of thirty one wears
or longer instead OF seventeen years, tho
iegal limit OF patient. is about TO be
urSought 10 an issue In the supreme court
where the government OF course will be re-
presented by the head of the Department OF
Justice. II Is understood in Washington that
eN-Secretary Endicott openly assumes the
TpSIsponslolllty Tor having suggested MIR
Olney's name &c Mr. Cleveland and for hay.
ing influenced the appointment.
Details of the Litigation,
The suit recently filed in the supreme
court against the Bell Telephone company Ia
entirely different from any of the others
which have been brought against that cor
poration. The other suits related to the
original nyention of the telephone
principles The suit now pending is to set
aside the patents issued to the Bell com
pany in November, 1891, and the grounds for
setting the patents aside are based upon
alleged unlawful and irregular practices in
the patent Office. Although the Bell COM
pany has enjoyed the protection of the gov
ernment in its monopoly since 1873 barring
out all competition, it did not take cut
patents upon the most important invention
IN the telephone-the transmitter--till No
vember 1891. 1t delayed the issuance OF
patents with view to prolongng the life of
the monopoly
When in 1878 the Bell company got control
of Berlinger's applications for patents it
began interfering suits with the dctermina-
tion of postponing final action. In 1880 the
company struck out everything but the title
and the names of witnesses in the applca-
tions. substituting new matter, and entered
new claims for invention. Then it struck out
the drawings and fled new ones Yet il did
not lose the governments protection. 1t
even failed to file properly executed affida-
Wits with its new application papers, as re-
quired by law, and yet the patent Office pro-
tected the company. There were many ir-
regularities and violations of law before tho
final patents were issued in November 1891,
and all these are pointed out so strongly in
Attorney General Miller's bill now before
the house as to make decision favorable to
the government almost certain if the case is
only pressed TO a decision.
Miscellaneous
Representatives. Mercer was among
President Harrison's callers today
MIR and Mrs. j. h. Jennings of Salt Lake
Cits are at Wizards.
Morris Taylor of Huron is at the St James
Hon Henry A. Coffee of Wyoming is Mt
the National F. S H.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
Cleveland, thsCabinet Maker.

John Russell Young in NeU York Herald.
Mr.. Cleveland removes the doubts expressed
by some democratic newspapers as to the
identity of Mr.. Hoke Smith by appointing
that gentleman to the cabinet. This also
answers the question of a leading western
journal as to whether Hoke Smith was nom
de plume like Mark Twain or Uncle Remus.
The nomination, therefore, is a valuable con-
tribution to our literary history.
This summoning of shapes out Of dark
ness this evolving of forms out of nothing
this hurting of names, which were sup
posed to be some forgotten fancy in Dick
ems novel, at an awestruck democracy as
real, tangible, salary drawing, self-evident
ministers of state, is an instructive phe-
nomenon. Republicans in their. attitude
of observation and speculation may
think So And especially when we scan the
horizon and see Isaac Pusey Gray, General
Daniel e. Sickles, various members of the
Adams family, ex-Minister Perry Belmont,
Leon Albeit, the forlorn lone Jerseyman
Colonel Mcclure of Philadelphia; Henry
Watterson of Kentucky; Henry George, the
Peter the Hermit of the canvass; that Iowa
governor with the curious name Of Boies not
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
Nebraska's Sterling j.


Hon, j. Sterling Morton of Nebraska has
never been lucky in getting office. This is
true of his various worthy but unrewarded
attempts to be elected governor of that
state, and is true now of his getting the job
to preside over that miscellaneous collection
of utilities known as the Department of
Agriculture. This appointment breaks it's
traditions, if an upstart can be said to have
traditions He has EARNED it" off and on
for generation, and knows a silo from
bag of shorts. He has been an intelligent
and persistent advocate of forest preserva-
tion, and tree planter and teacher to
others of the fine old art of tree planting.
He is the founder, we believe, of Arbor day,
and we should think ne would prefer to sit
under his own arbor and see his trees grow
TO being responsible for weather guesses
and counting pumpkin seeds.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
Why They Downed Mcleod.
IJitfsblIJ,O DignUfrb

1t is instructive as to the ethics Of Wall
street that McLeod's tall is not due to his
having formed combination which was
against public policy and inimical to the pub
lie welfare. So long as Mcleod confined
himself to squeezing the consumers of an
thracite coal he WAS the hero of the mouey
kings But, while he was willing to suppress
competition in theic0il business, he was am
bilious enough to enter into competition with
the trunk lines for New England business.
In doing so he trod upon the toes of the Van
derbilts as well as of the Pennsylvania rail
road interests Consequently the trunk line
magnates, headed blythe dictator Pierpont
Morgan, decreed that Mcleod must be
wiped out. He might make the poor people
who have to buy anthracite coal pay an extra
price and be the darling of the multl-million-
aires, but when he trenched upon trunk line
profits he became "a dangerous factor" and
must go. H5u
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

THE state now has railroad commits
sion, fish commission, Worlds fair
commission, and there are bills before the
legislature for a boiler commission and a
labor commission. But the latest freak is
''pure food commission" The next
thing we may expect is a pure water
commission or a pure beer commission.
There seems to be mania among leg
islators in this and other western states
to create commissions and enact laws to
regulate everything. 1t must puzzle the
rising generation to figure out how
people can live and breathe and their
country grow and prosper where there is
no legislature every two years to pass
laws for the creation of commissions
whose chief function is to draw salaries
and do nothing we'll.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

THE complaint is made in San Fran
cisco that organized charity has encour-
aged large and worthless class of idlers
and tramps to aock into the city, and
that there are more hungry people there
than there would be if less effort had
been made to provide for the hungry.
The work organized by the Associated
charities of Omaha, through which the
city has been divided into a large num-
Der of districts, each under superin-
tendent, who takes the utmost pains to
look into the merits of each case pre-
sented, is the only one by which the
schemes of the impostors can be de-
feated,
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

THE IN amer in which the manufac
turers OF Omaha and Lincoln are getting
together" upon footing of common inter-
est in the promotion of trade is one of the
favorable signs Of the time. What
ever GOODNESS may have existed between
them in the past, they now appear to be
thoroughly united in behalf of vigor-
GUS prosecution of the work to which the
Nebraska Manufacturers association is
devoted. The spirit that has prevailed
at the Lincoln exposition this week has
been just what it ought to have been,
and the renewal of Gcquaintances and
exchange OF views, for which it has af-
f)rded an opportunity, will be widely
beneficial among the business men of the
state. The annual exposition in this
city next June will be the more success
full on account OF the interest created in
it by the Lincoln meeting.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

THE farmers of the south seem lit le
disposed to accept the advice that has
been given them to diversity their crops
and plant less cotton. Last year they
put in the usual area of cotton, but gave
less care to its cultivation, and the con-
sequences were disastrous. The crop
was largely failure, and although the
price increased it brought them no more
money than the heavy crop of the previ-
Gus year, which had to be sold at the low
prices resulting from overproduction.
They are experiencing the inevita-
BILE effect of their mistaken pol
icy in general scarcity of
money. Still it is said that
cotton planting is about as extensive as
usual. In few localities the southern
farmers have followed the advice to
diversity the crops and found it profita-
BILE, but very generally they seem ire
vocably welded to the old course. The
idea that cotton is king" still prevails
with most of them. A strong influx of
agricultural immigrants is probably the
only thing that will bring about a
change.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

THERE are many unaccountable things
in this world and one of them is that
hundreds of clerks and mechanics
will go out into the suburbs of
Omaha for miles and buy homes,
pay high taxes and street car
fare, when within mile of the business
center there are hundreds of cheap lots
to be had across the river upon which
homes may be built accessible to the city
and where taxes do not amount to con-
fiscation. Possibly the 10-cent bridge
toll is responsible for the fact that so
few people in business in Omaha care to
live across the river. But it is only a
matter of time when the toll will be re-
duced to 5 cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

UNITED STATES SENATOR CHANDLER,
who seems to have despaired of getting
any immigration legislation through the
present congress, has proposed another
investigation of the whole subject of i'm
migration. What he now wants done,
as indicated in joint resolution intro
duced by him in the senate, is to have
five commissioners appointed who shall
visit various portions of the country and
learn the popular sentiment regarding
immigration, where it is wanted, and
other facts relating to the subject.
The industry and zeal of the New
Hampshire senator in this matter
are to be commended, but really it
would seem that quite enough has been
done during the past two or three years
in the way of investigation, and to
spend any more of the public money in
this direction, for the present at least
would be an inexcusable waste. The in
formation already available is ample for
the wise guidance of congressman if they
are disposed to be guided, and if they
are not, additional investigation would
not help the matter. The intelligent
and unprejudiced opinion of the country
is not favorable to any further legisla-
tion to restrict immigration, and Mr..
Chandler ought to understand this.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

WE HAVE waited patiently for four
days in expectation that Mr.. A. j. Gus
Tin would publicly instruct the Kansas
supreme court what to do in the legis-
lative case now pending. Mr.. Gustin
has also omitted to express his views
upon Hawaiian annexation and the pen
sioning of Queen Lii, nor has he
opened his mouth in condemnation or
approval of the bribery Investigation at
Lincoln and the appointment of Julius
Sterling Morton. We suggest that Mr..
Gustin come home at once and attend to
these matters. Nebraska in particular
cannot spare any of her statesmen at
this critical time.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

NEBRASKA cannot lay claim to being
manufacturing state, yet the extent
and growth of her manufactures has
been great the past few years. For the
past two years remarkable progress has
been made. The factories of the state
and particularly of Omaha have in
creased their output enormously
and if the home patronage senti-
ment continues to grow the factories
will flourish and multiply. The manu-
facturers themselves are we'll satisfied
with the work already accomplished.
They are deeply concerned, however, at
the threatening attitude of labor or
ganizations within the state whose
energies are just now being directed in
behalf of an eight-hour law. The man
ufacturers claim that should the supreme
court declare the statute constitutional
and the laboring men insist upon it's en-
forccment, which of course they would
do, the manufacturers could not meet
their demands and the competition of
eastern factories. 1t is asserted by some
of the leading manufacturers of Omaha
that an eight hour schedule would COM
pei them to close their doors.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
DELIBERATELY KILLED HIMSELF.
One of st. LOUIS Wealthy Citizens Grow
Weary of Living.

One of st. LOUIS Wealthy Citizens Grows
Weary of Living.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb 23.-A most deliber-
ate suicide was committed here this morn
ing by Jephth III. Simpson, a wealthy citizen.
The act was done with dull razor piled
along the throat with shocking delberation
and persistence. He prepared for death as
he would retire to sleep. He undressed and
donned his night robe. He put on his
night cap, then braced the blade of the
razor as rigid as n butcher knife. A
foot bath tub was drawn near to the bed and
Simpson then lay down on his right side.
From the position of the body when found
the suicide stretched his head out from the
bed in order to have his throat above the
tub. He used the razor with his left hand
and cut series OF gashes on the right side
of his throat. The jugular vein and the
arteries were severed and the old mans life
placed below for the purpose.
The dead man was Il well known inSur-
ance man and was worth S250,000 or more,
and had no known cause for the deed He
was 65 wears old.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

catch Of salmopI cod, herring. etc, foots
up S2,257, 1885. In addition TO the
salmon, which rs Fhe principal fish ac-
counted for in these figures, the halibut
resources Of the Alaskan coast are un-
limited and only sfequire development,
while the codfshi blanks are greater in
area than thoserof New Foundland, and
will produce an immense supply of fish
when the marketD demands them. The
United States government is now taking
effective meas,heg to protect the valua-
BILE fish supply in Alaskan waters, and it
will ultimately become one of the most
important resources of the northwest.
The wisdom of this precaution will be
abundantly vindicated fewyears hence.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

THE special United States agent for
the protection of the salmon fisheries of
Alaska makes some interesting and sug-
gestive statements as to the extent an d
value of the fishing industry of that
little known region. Figures collected
by this official show that the quantity of
salmon packed in the Alaska district
during the year recently ended amounted
to 457, 969 cases, Is, 252 barrels and ,245
half barrels. The value of the entire
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

THE Chicago Herald says that the bus
mess embarrassment of Governor Nc
Kinley may we'll shake the confidence
of men in the business sagacity and in
fallibility of protectionists." Such a
conclusion from the mere fact that con-
spicuous advocate of the protective policy
has failed in business cannot be taken
very seriously; but it is worth while to
observe that Mckinley has proven him
self a man of the strictest integrity in
a time of great trial, from which it may
be assumed that he has been entirely
honest in his advocacy of protection.
Can this be said of those leading demo-
cratic statesmen who boisterously advo-
Gated free trade during the recent cam
paign and acknowledged after the battle
was over that the cry was merely to
''get in on?" XIX
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
Where Prohibition Doesn't Prohibit.

The indictment of 300 liquor dealers down
in Bangor is another interesting commen-
tary on the efficacy of the Maine law. 'fs
there anybody from Bangor on this train2"
inquired a Kentucky gentleman who was
across the continent. 81 am from
that city, sir" was the response that came
from the other end of the car. "Ah, will
you kindly lend me your corkscrew?" asked
the gentleman from Kentucky. He was
ccommodated.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

CLEOPATRA: No, we are not at lib
erty to print what Lieutenant Governor
Majors said at the Morton reception.
But when we tell you that it shocked the
galvanized sensibilities of the old-school
democrats present you will conclude that
it must have been unspeakably bad.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

10 speak Of the scrried array OF time-honorcd
and battle-scarred heroes, all faithful, loyal,
oxpectaut, and yet not one of them ever
summoned 10 Lakewood to share the coun-
sells Of Mr.. Straus aud Mr. Willard in shap-
ing the ava,Dr of the new democracy. His
tory does not parallel the incideut-not at
least since Noah went into the ark and left
his contemporary statesmen 10 settle rising
problems in their own way
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
Does 1t Pay to BE Good?
Chicago Despatch

John C. Emo who skipped to Canada in
1885 with 81, 100000 belonging to New York
bank, came back under the jurisdiction of
the stars and stripes yesterday and was
arrested and released on $4,000 bail. Let's
see how accounts balance. Emo stole S4, ,000,-
900. If he forfeits his bail he will still be
81, $50, 900 ahead of the game, and this sum
divided by eight gives him an annual salary
equivalent to S491,50 Does it really pay to
be good after all2
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

THE railroad managers still insist
that the people do not want any freight
reduction. Who are those people-the
rebate men, the pass men, the railroad
lobby and the secretaries of the State
Board of Transportation.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
FOUR or A KIND.

Cincinnati Gazette.
He asked the policeman his No,
When he woke from a much needed Slo.,
But the copper got hot
And dubbed him IA lot.
Then hid on a big pile of Lo.
On pianos and organs she lbs,
Making strange and mysterious sbs.
And the watchman calls out
To see what she's about,
AS he goes on his cold nightly RIBS.
-.
Detroit Free Press.
There was young man In Monroe
Whose pace was quite rapid to go
Then he fled from the place.
AT a more rapid pace,
And all of the people yelled "Owel"
-.
Kansas City Journal.
There was Missouri bred Col.
Who swore that by the etol,
He would drink a canteen
Full of raweSt benZine,
And he's now in the region lnfol.
-.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
He read OF old Two Strikes, the Sioux,
And sighed for some brave deed to dieux,
But his mamma found out
What he was about,
And now he is feeling quite b lioux.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

THE republican party has pledged it
self to give the people of Nebraska re-
duced freight rates and the republican
party stands pledged to abolish the rail
road pass iniquity. Will the republican
members of the legislature redeem those
pledges If they do not the party may
as we'll disband in Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
Bit OFF More Than He Could Chew.

Mr. McLeods case is by no means new
nor phenomenal one He has followed the
example of enterprising gentlemen in all
civilized ages whose failure was caused by
possessing an ambition out of all proportion
greater than their ability and means for
gratifying it With his dental equipment
he excised from the impacted mass of the
nicotic vegetable a quantity too great for
his powers of mastication.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
YIN Go to Nnicago.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 23-An evening
paper says: E. f. Barnard, the noted
astronomer of Lick observatory, who dis
covered Jupiter's fifth satellite, will not re-
turn to California. Barnard is in the east,
having been granted six months leave of
absence, and the paper says he will probably
accept position with the Chicago univer-
sity, where he will have charge of the big
telescope to be placed there.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
Killed by n Premature Blast.

DENVER Colo, Feb. 23,-Two Italians were
killed and two slightly injured in the coal
mines at King, Colo, by premature blast
today. These are the same mines in which
twenty-three men We're killed about month
able at this writing.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
Got twav with seventy Thousand.

ATLANTA, Ca, Feb 23.-Bank Examiner
Williams is here and will assume charge of
the Gate City National bank The latest
developments put the defalcation of Cashier
Baldwin at 10000.
President Hall says the depositors will be
paid in full. The deposits amount to $500, 600
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24

MAJORS indecent language at the
Morton reception is only on par with
other bad breaks repeatedly charged
against him. He ought to be muzzled.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION
state OF Nebraska,
County Of Douglas.
Circulation for January, s4,.47

SPAIN need not worry about the plans
Of this country in regard to San Domingo.
The annexation craze is abating little
Omaha daily bee., 1893-02-24
,erless Collection of Unknown


If the measure of q mans fitness for the
cabinet offices is the extent to which he is
Mr.. Cleveland is going to have
peerless body of advisers.