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VOL. 8, NO. JO.
10
When Fred Nye mill Frank Johnson
purchased tu Om.ih.l llfinililir.ui throe
.veil is ago that jiiiiriial Immediately lie
came the must enterprising newspaper
in Nebraska, and it remained so until
Fred and Frank, who dually pit fright
ened at the expense account, sold out
to Major .). C. Wilcox, one ot the most
picturesque llgutos.whn over attached
himself to Neliraska newspaper. The
enterprise of the proprietors muni
tested itself ininiiu.v wn,s.oneof which
was the establishment ol a Lincoln
Imiean by means of which the ' nth
licmi sought to liecome a competitor of
till' ioiinml, .i irx and Cull in Hie In
oiil Held. Several columns of Lincoln
news worogien ouch da., and it wasn't
loiiK helorethe h't inihlicin had a cir
culation of aliout !HX) in this city.
When Wilcox obtained control he very
soon spoiled all this, as he did every
think' else of aluc connected with the
paper.
(!. .M. Hitchcock, the proprietor of
the Omaha Worlit-Urrulil, lias for a
loii time had his eyes upon Lincoln,
and he has lliially decided to follow
the e.Mimple set by the L'iiiihttrtn and
makehispapera real compel itorof Liu
colli dailies in their own Held. A hand
some olllce has been secured at Kiev
cut h and C) streets, mid the Lincoln
business has been placed in the hands
ot a set of youiiK men who can make a
success of the venture if success is at
taiimble. Will .M. .Maupin, an exceed
iiinly active man, who is one of the star
members of the W'urhl-IUvuhl stall,
has been Installed as chief correspond
cut. Mr. Muupiu has the knack of
turnliiK out the kind of "stull" that
newspaper readers like, and ho is a
very hard worker. Jin will be assisted
by Ii. .). Driiuimoud, who will also act
as telegraph operator there is a spe
cial wire running into the olllce. lid.
Harmon will have charj;o of the busi
ness alfairs of the Lincoln branch.
From three to four columns have been
set apart for Lincoln news. The out
come of the Wiirltl-Uvralrf'H latest
stroke of enterprise will be watched
with interest. '1'herc is apparently no
piod reason why it should not be suc
cessful. Mrs. A. Weber, who will be remeiii
beied in Lincoln as a most charming
singer, was married .May 1) to II. .1.
(.'usjjruvi', formerly ot tnis city. She
bus been cliKaed to s'iiik' in a number
ot concerts to lie k'iveii in music hall
on the world,s lair grounds, and some
time during the latter part of the
mouth she will sinu at ('ushiuau Park,
this city. Mr. and Mrs. I'o-roxe will
make their home in Oak Park.
The cauipaitni which one of the daily
papers iswanin against thevile places
in "the bottoms,' raises a question
that has agitated cities lor mans years.
There is no ollicial attempt made to
throttle the social evil, it having hnu
since been demonstrated by a very pe
culiar kiudol lo,'lcthat it is not "piac
ticable" to break Up tlie-e eil icsoits.
The only question is how to regulate
the evil. In these days tin authorities
meat intliiitely nioio pains to license
and "regulate'' crime and icu than
they aie to suppress it. The proposi
tion is as follows; ( iiw a certain num
ber ol these icious places under the
triendly protection of the law shall
they bo gathered together in one sec
tiouof the city and constitute a dell
nito burnt district, or hell's half acre,
or shall they be allowed to spring up
and llourish wheresover they will, en
croaching upon business houses and
icputahlo homes? From the stand
point ol molality neither horn ol the
dilemma should bo accepted, but then
the alfairs of municipal government
are seldom conducted on a basis ol
morality. If Lincoln must have thee
places, ami nearly everybody seems to
think that she must, it is uuipiestiou
ably preferable to heap the dirt to
Kt'tHer in one pile lather than scatter
it broadcast ovei the city, and il their
is anyone place better adapted torn
dumping ground of immorality than
the bottoms Tin; ('oruir.u hasn't heard
of it. Ol course it is wry hard on the
hundreds of icspectable people who
are lorced by poverty to make their
residence in this part ol the city; but
the public is told that the vice can
not bo exterminated, ami they are only
sullorintf what others would sutler il
the resorts were moved elsewhere. It
is almost the universal practice in the
larue cities to slice oil a tfood sized
chunk ol the town and dedicate it to
licensed imiiioiality.
The clothes a man wears uudoiibt
edly haea yreat deal to do ill Kivinj.'
hln'i a place in society, and it is some
times said that the best seats in the
house of Ooil are reserved lor those
win) aie attired in the liuest raiment.
Some of those people who delight ill
criticising the chinches usseit that
that they the churches, jjive a warm
reception to the genteel lialld, while
tile door Is often closed in the lace o
tlie miserable sinner. In short it is
said that the churches draw the line at
poverty and welcome onl the well to
do. And nothing delights these carp
iii critics so much as an incident that
apparently pioves their assoitions.
So when it is known that the
chinches of Lincoln will be held up to
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public view, and in a few instances in
what mi'lit be regarded as a more or
less untasorable liKht, in Sunday's
II oilil tlrmlil, a nood many people in
this city will look lorward to the ex
pose with pleasurable anticipation.
i
Last Sunday seven reixirlers of the
II mill lit nilil, in the Kiiiso of tramps
sought admission to the churches of
thlscity. Twenty two churches weie
isited in all. The experiences of the
lepoiters will be related ill detail in
tomorrow's issue ot Mr. Hitchcock's
interesting paper.
As mitfht have been expected the
treatment accoidcd these counterfeit
tramps was not the same at all ol the
churches. In one instance the dis
pulsed reporter was actually refused
admission. Then in some of the
churches the louli looking visitors
were coldly receiNed and shown to
seats in obscure corners. In other
houses of worship the leporters were
treated in precisely the same manner
as the "patent leather and diamond"
contingent, as one of the newspaper
men expressed it. ()i the whole, how
eer, the boys consider that they were
burly well treated, and it is uot'proba
tile tliat this sensational feature ot the
loithconilliK issiieof the Wurltl Ihniltl
will contain much that can be con
strued as an unlavorable relied ion on
the churches.
In the case of the one man who was
retused admission it is haidly lair to
blame the church lor the toolish mis
take ot the usher, and it should be
borne in mind that what the dilloront,
erring ushers did or did not do can
hardly bo held to represent the spirit
ol the people who make up thecouri1
(ations. in iiiaiiy cases tney are quite
yoiuiK men, inexperienced ami more or
less thoughtless, and the extreme
rarity of such visitors as the II oihl
7 ((( explorers is, init.sell,a partial
excuse for the nom-rally courteous
attendants; and riKlit hero is another
point that should be taken into con
sideration; there is a vast dilferonce
between a poor man in tattered gar
ments, and iv disreputable thug who
presents a half tipsy appearance and
looks as though he had just stumbled
across the threshold of the chinch at
the end of a wild debauch. The M'aiitl
Jlriultt reporters, witli several days'
giovvth ot beard, unkempt hair, the
most disreputable clothes, blackened
eyes, and court plaster blotches on
tlieir luces, presented such a lorhiddiug
appearance that they narrowly escaped
tlie clutches of the police 'I here was
not a semblance ot Humility or pi'iu
teuceaboiit them. They merely looked
like the toughest kind of criminals out
on a lark, and it cannot be denied that
under the circumstances they had the
chinches at a decided disadvantage
It is an open question whether there
was any Christian or other obligation
on the part of the ushers to welcome
with open arms these seeming villains
out on a sprc oaud place t hem alongside
of sell respecting people. In these
days no church reiuses a welcome to
the poorest mortal the most aband
oned wietch, it he but manifests t he
slightest degieo of interest indeed
the churches in e constantly leaching
out ami seeking to gather these people
in. Hut when a blear-eyed trump
loices his way into the presence of rev
erent and respectable people with an
o ident intention of mocking and Cro
at iugn disturbance that is another
matter entirely.
a.
The idea is a clever one from the
newspaper standpoint. It was tried in
Omaha a year or .so ago and occasioned
miichcoiiimeut. In this city t lie scheme
was directed by Metcalte, who has done
so much to liven up the H'urlil Ucniltl.
The reporters who played the pint of
toughs were: Will M. Maupin, K. ( .
Hemming, lCd Harmon, II. .1. brum
nioiid, K. M. Jlradloy, K. O. Maylleld,
and John Tieruey,
What has been called the "North
south railroad convention" will be held
in this city. June Us. Delegates have
already heeii appointed ui a number ot
states, and North and South Dakota,
Minnesota, Iowa. Kansas, Nebraska.
Oklahoma, Missouri, Indian Territory,
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41 i I I r.in Mill in- iri,rmi-u. I in
scheme which this convention is to
piomote is very largely a populist plan
intended to demonstrate that govern
inent ownership is the practical solu
tiou ot the railroad question. It is
said that the proposed new line is to
give the lariiieis an opportunity to get
their grain and products to foreign
markets at less cost than at present,
establishing, at the same time, reci
piocity between this country and
South America. Meetings have been
held ill central and western Kansas
lavoriug the enterprise, The money
lor the new road Is to lie furnished by
the several states through which it is
to run, and when built and equipped
for business the road will be the joint
piopertyof the states so contributing
Its maintenance and muiiagcincut will
be their joint obligation. Kates are to
be low, no dividends are to be paid,
and the prollts which might otherwise
goto the capitalists will be turned
into the pockets of the farmers.
"It may not have occurred to the
minds of the populist theorists," sa.vs
tint Now York Sun, in discussing the
project, "but if theieworo any proba
bio piollt In building and operating
LINCOLN, NKHK.ASKA,
such a Hue as the political economists
nropose, private individuals would
have taken hold of the matter, or
would do so now. The truth Is that
thcic is no profit in sight. Air line
railioads, built in disregard to topo
graphical conditions, seldom pay.
Theie is much unproductive laud in
Western Nebraska and western Kimsiiu
through which this road would run.
There are many eiigiiieeiiug dilllcul
ties. The present population Is scanty,
and the local tralllc would, therefore,
amount to little Few railroads are
supported by through Ii eights; few,
even in the most fertile ami favored
sections, can be thus smiportcd. Send
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"h ,..,. Ml in illllir-lli tl1'-.l,'l(-
tiouof gaining South American pro
ducts, also agricultural, for return
trains to carry over a long stretch of
unproductive country, may commend
itselt lo the populist fancy, but it does
not promise to the states participating
a let urn of the cash invested"
It might be interesting to know how
much the gamblers of this city con
tribute to what is known as the press
fund.
V
.1. F llallinger, of Lincoln, follow
ing in the footsteps of . (i. Ingersoll,
has written a bunk entitled "Nudis Ver
bis or llible and Keal Truths." It is an
agnostic's criticism of tlie scripture.
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Alter many contradict ions It is dually
announced wit Ii a degree of positive
uess that Mgr. Satolli is coming to
Lii In. The dill'eiences in the Catho
lic church here will soon boa matter of
national concern. Fvery movement of
Satolli is chisel v followed by the public.
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Mr.W. K. HnrdyassiiresTiirC'oi nine
that the music this year at the (Veto
Chatituiiquaasscmhly will in some ways
be in advance of that of previous years.
The two assembl', classes will meet
daily for eight days and take up the
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-Mini,, ill IMIIMM III lllllll-l llli- inn I null
of Mrs. P. V. M. Hnyinoml of this city.
'in : i ...in i r
i in1 iio-isrs i-iiiu-t'i i, won u ciiim us oi
two hundred voices will bo given Sat
urday, July 8. Later the Lincoln Ora
torio society, assisted by the assembly
chorus, will give an evening of grand
oratorio. I lot It concertH will be un-ter
the direction of Mrs. Raymond. The
soloist engaged by the assembly is .Miss
llorteuso Paulsen, who has a high ren
utatlon as a contralto singer both in
concert and in church vorl in Chicago I
and Huston. Miss Paulsen was a pupil
for live years ol Warren Davenport In
Huston. Her work in conceit and ora
torio is well known throughout New
Khglaud. She has lllled two of the
liuest church positions in Huston, in
Dr. Meredith's church and the Dudley
street Haptist church in Huston High
lauds. A year ago she was induced to
cmiiii i 1 1 ( 'Idi'iii'ii tu iiccmit n I'liiiiiimir
ative position as contralto in one ol
the largest churclies in that city. .Miss
I 'il 1 1 lt-lttt Kill h.illlf llflilll J I f 1 III ljiIiil.
mini ii iiti nin i in ii 1'tf nvinn
only, during her stay at Ciete, and will
give one evening concert. .Mining the
selections already announced are "The
Pilgrim," by Adams; "Answer," by
Uobyn; "Polly Willis." by Arne; "Lul
laby. by Dennee; "Fur All Ktornity,
by Maschcroui.
The second "mat inee" of the iiewlj '
formed roadster club was held Tiles
day at the state lair grounds and the
interest nianilested on this occasion
evidenced the popularity of flic sport
which the club will provide from time
to time during the summer. There
will be a third racing meeting next
Friday.
f' W li iwliiw i oiil nn OiiiWifi tiff rii.
porter the other day that lie will plead '
guilty to the charge of cmbexlemeut '
and falsifying bank records at least
that is what the reporter says. Mr.
Mosher's father in law, Henry Mans
Held, died at his home in Peoria, Moll
day. Mr. and Mrs. Moshor both at '
tended the tiiueral. I
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i
Theie seems to be a prospect that
the O street viaduct may be erected on
P street. The advocates of the latter
stieet make many claims, some of
which aie well founded. i
The edort to pay oil' the debt of the
Y. M. C. A. building is not meeting
with the encouragement it merits. No
institution in the city is of more gen
end bellelit, and It ought not to be dlt
liciilt to raise a sulllcieiit amount ot
money to clear it from debt.
Ill I'll )1 c. 11. ctvitke. I
Chailes II. Clarke .lied Thursday af
teruoou iii liis apartments in the Hotel
Ideal, altera brief attack of pneumonia
brought on by a cold contracted at
Cushmau Paik last Saurda.. The
deceased was twenty-two years of age
He was a member of the last legisla
t lire ami lor some yours past was ac
lively indentilled with his father's
business interests in Omaha and Liu
coin In this city he was espcciall.v
well known and his death is mounted
by many sincere friends. The remains
were taken to Omaha yestenlay. The
interment will take place at Finest
Lawn Sunday. Funeral services will
be held at 'J o'clock Sundav. at the ies
deuce of 1J. T. Clarke, Tw.nt.v tilth
ami Cass ht roots.
If the hair Is falling out and tin mug
gray, the glands of tliu skin need stun
lilating and color-food, and the best
lomedyaiid stimulant is Hall's Hun
Honower.
SATfRDA V, JINK ,,, iSn?.
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The daily papers united in saying
that the bamiuot given by the Wiling
Men's I'opuluicati club was a success,
iinl as they are all agreed on this
tvilnt, It must be so isn't thooasiesl
thing in the world to make people pav
and turn out to hear political speeches
nl a time when there is absolutely no
political excitement, and the alt'eud
unco anil enthusiasm the banquet
Monday night were paiticularly grati
fying lothe mombois of the club.
noteworthy lent tire of the gathering
Mas that while the large dining hall ol i
(lie Windsor was almost completely!
filled those present with very few ox' I
("options wore young nieii' Judge i
Chapman and ex Judge lioese were the I
only gray hoadsthore but they stayed
just as long and had just as much iuu I
as any of the bovs. I
When Tin: Cui nil ii piomised a rare
treat in Mr. Kstnhronk's address on
"Parties" It knew Hint the rulllllment
would llll up ami overflow the promise
and It did must oll'ectually. Mr. P,s
tabrook's speech was delivered lo the
young men surrounded by the four wul Is
ol'thoWiiiilsorilining hull, but in reality
ho spoke to the entire city of Lincoln.
The paiiors, nntably the Sttttr .Imirmil,
gave admirable reports of his address,
but the electric cll'cct of his peroral iuu
was communicated by the ImnqueteiH
to those on the outside, and that's the
way lloiiry Fstnhrook's magiiillceut
olfort has become the talk of the town.
A reporter with the celerity of chain
llglitning.tho euro of an obi maid, ami
the amiability of an an angel couldn't
reduce one of Kslnhrook's speeches to
paper and half do him justice. His
sunlloly of oxproHsinn, grace of man
nor, splendid delivery, a voice that
rises and falls in musical cadoiico in
correspondence with the rhythm of his
words, all these are lost in the
printed report. Cold type congeals
thu tiro oT passionate eloquence, and
deadens the liner qualities of speech,
I .villi; but a bare outline of a form
lull of beauty a colorless photograph
of a brilliant bouquet.
Kstahrook is a scholarly man and
his mind is not muddy. Ilohasa keen
wit and is a master hand at sarcasm.
His address on "Parties" was an ideal
banquet talk, a speech with real
thought in it, polished oil' with a deli
ci icy and wit Hint made it sparkle wllh
billiancy. The other speakers lie
quitted themselves most creditably.
Mr. ndrevvs, who is not yet well known
in this city, was at a disadvantage in
coming at the end of the program, but
his twenty minute talk on young men
was interesting ami forcible and made
a very pleasant impression. Ike Lau
sing and Thurston have been heard
many times in Lincoln and both are
favorites Their subjects were well
handled, as usual, and Mr. Kelley, I he
president of the club, made an excel
lout toastmastor.
The death of Col. K. D. Webster, of
SI rat ton, which occuned a lew mouths
ago, calls to mind the fact that not
long prior to his death the colonel
caiuo near taking a step that would
have mado him a very important factor
in tlie republican party in Nebraska
have restored him to the position ho
once hold. It is true that Col. Web
stor came very near stepping in be
twoen the OiiiiiIki li'i'iiiihliciiii and
death just before .1. C. Wilcox term
inated his exciting career as a news
paper proprietor by sending into ever
lasting obllv ion that remarkable news
paper, the newspaper that beginning
as a weekly with I'i. D. Webster as edi
tor years ago when Nebraska had just
donned her swaddling clothes, and
when the condition ol the g. o. p. made
the establishment of the Hi inthlirnii
llll a long felt want, was alterwards
the varying joy and sorrow of a long
line of editors and proprietors, among
whom may be mentioned St. A. D. Hal
combe, Public Printer Hounds, Cadet
Taylor, O. II. Hot hacker and Fred Nye.
o
Col. Webster had long since ceased
to take an active interest in politics or
the newspaper business; but deep
down in his heart he cherished an at
lection for the Hi imhliriiii which had
been the menus ot some of Ills earlier
triumphs, and when, before Major Wil
cox had succeeded in doing that which
so many able men betoie him had not
been able to do killing "the leading
republican paper ot the west," the tor
llble plight ot the wobbly old sheet
was represented to him, he very
promptly determined to lend a helping
liiitiil. Webster made an oiler ol cilo,
1 1 x ), through the thou managing editor,
lor the plant, and he expected that
Wilcox would jump at the bait. Hut
the colonel did not know the major
Although Wilcox paid only ?:t-"i,mi tor
the Hiiiiihltniii when ho purchased It
Iroiu .eund Johnson, ot which onl.v
about ir !.",( km was cash, and uotwith
standing the tact that he had, with in
credible celerity, transformed what
was in many respects the best news
paper in Omaha into a journalistic
monstrosity, lie fondly imagined that
the llt'imbl'ii-nii was worth ."it),iM, and
when Webster's oiler was laid befoie
him hcdicw himself up with all the
ellroiitcry of a Cul Mulberry Sellers
Hi:;
and said he would lake '.iii.iKm or nli
illg. It is, perhaps, uillleci ssiuv to add
I that he took iiolhliig. t this
Ilmiiiiijiiniiiil the ,'i .k.i, ,( and all
the omplniccs and some o the ciedil
ors weie bankrupt Salaiies had ie
iiiuiuod unpaid lor a couple ol weeks
ami Hie wolves had allead.v entered
the door. Hut Hie major Insisted on
lecoivlng Kiii.imu lor a planl Hint was
worth about .'i,mi
o
III a lew weeks, just a leu ilajs be
foie publication was suspended, Wil
cox condescended lo Inloini his man
agillgodllor thai hcbelleved he would
sell lo Webster lor tXITi.Um." tut I he
latter had by this time loll Ihecitv and
gune east and could not ho touched In
time lo slave oil the disaster thai
quickly followed.
It is possible that had it not been
lor WIIcox'm obstinacy icpuhlictiu poli
tics in Nebraska in I he last I wo or
Ihiee years might have iiiulei gone u
radical change. Iletween Webster and
I he editor of the llu , known otherwise
as "the pilot," theie was lit lie personal
friendship and in polll ics they dlllereil
radically. The Itiiiuhlinni, under
Webster, would have lieen a "sllaight"
lepublicaii newspaper with the most
aggressive leadoiicles, and II would
have been stiougly null Kosewater.
Few men are bettor lllled to conduct a
great piuly newspaper than was ('ol
Webster, lie was W. II. Seward's pi i
vate secretary during His war and I'm
many years was prominent in public
life as a republican. Al one time la
wns an editorial w rltcr nil one o the
leading New , ork dailies, and in No
braska he was for a long time act im-I.v
Ident i lied with the g. o. p. However, on
account of his ago, he would not have
taken the personal management of
the paper himself. Hut he would have
employed thobest Intent and was ready
to spend money freely In building up
the unfortunate newspaper,
o
There is some talk to the ollect that
C. W. (irilllth may pull out of the race
for the republican nuiiiiuatiuii for leg
isler of deeds and become a candidate
for county treasurer,
o
Many newspapers are demanding
the removal ol Joseph (larneau, jr.,
world's lair commissioner, and it is
baiely possible that Hie governor may
yet see the error ol his ways and in
iluec I lie crueller man to quit. The
commissioner has recently been urged
to set apart e."ui lor a sj iul educa
tioual exhibit which would show some
ol t he advantages ol the state univer
slty, but ol collise he declined I he i e
quest. Meanwhile the tllllds are being
lapidly consumed in traveling and
other "expenses."
o
C. II. Van W.vek didn't die, bill he
came very near it, near enough to be
extensivelv eulogized by uow'spapois
that have aliused luin lor .veins.
Van Wyck uiuloubtedl.v has many ad
uiirable pi'isonal limts; but politically
he is the biggest lialld who has ever
aldicted Nebiaska. The wold dema
gogue Ills Van Wyck just as though it
had been made lor him.
Theie is quite a sentiment in I ii or
of an early lepublicaii county couven
tion. It is piohahlo that il will be
called lo i the latter purl ol next
month.
o -Sam
10. Low wishes it to bo under
stood that he is not a candidate (in
justice ot the peace,
o
Olio of the llrst speeches made by ( i.
M. Laiubeitsoii ina political couveu
lloll was a filing) of Lorelto Crolllise
incident the placing ot his name belore
the ci ill v ii t lull as a candidate lor con
gross, awa.V back 111 the seventies
It was a ery high down
speech ill which the eagle soared so
high that Its screams pierced the blue
canopy of hoa eu. It was one ol those
"a man who" sj dies, m which the
speaker without giving the name
ol his hero, proceeds to round
out swelling periods of praise, now in
thunder tones of eloquence, now in
subdued strains, like the I ar awa.V
whistling ol the wind through t h.
pines. "I desiie to place in lioiuina
Hon" said Mr. Lamboilsou, "a man
who " and then he upot ln'osird
his man; "a man who," continued the
speaker, and then more apotheosiing
A couple o gentlemen were sitting in a
private box in the hall in which the
convention was held one ot tlnui, a
stranger in the state, and alter this
sort ol thing had berii going mi lor
solue tlllie, until the tension was at tk
illg cv ci , hoi, liel'Volls, thi' l.ittil
turned to Ins companion and asKed,
"In hea vi n's name who is Mr. LuiiiIm rt
sou placing in nominal ion, w ho is this
man he is talking about ." The npU
came in a wliispi r "I don't know, but I
think it must In' , testis Chi ist." Whit
these gilitlcllieli t bought W lieu at t he
end ot the speech came the words "!,
I oll.o Crolllise" Is hcvolld coll ect lire
Comparisons, somebody once iciii.u kel
are odiousaud Tin. Coi im a has n.. de
sire to cast odium on uuvhody.
o
.la) Hurrows hasn't seen a n.d live
vision lor nearly two weeks lter
discovering the gi eat republican con
spiracy to make Crouuse senator. Van
W.U'k governor .llld IJoscW.ltel genelul
THICK 1'IVK CICNTS.
high cockalorum ho hasn't seen any
I hlng but plain, urdluary spool res,
"Not lung ago there was u vigorous
controversy In Omaha as to whether
Mien (I Tliiirmun Is dead or alive,"
lemiuked John M. ThuiHton to it
Cm mi ii lepiesetilatlvo the other day.
"Somebody stalled the query mill
slrangoly enough nearly evoryundy to
whom the question was put answered
uiihoNllatiugly that Hie '11111)10 old
Human' was dead In many Instances
I he approximate date of Ids death mid
more or less minute details of the fu
neral were given I believe Dr. (joorge
L Miller was about the llrst man to
In ing Thurinan to life Considerable
money changed hands when It wiih
Mindly decided Hint the aged doinocrat
Is ically alive." Mr. 1 Illusion wiih
asked II it was positively uncurl allied
that Thuriiiau Is si III on ton of the
eailh, as a similar query lias been
heaid in this city. "Well," ho replied,
"he says so himself, and I believe Unit,
is as lar as the Invest igatniH wont."
Charles II. Clarke, of Oinahii, whnso
death occuned in this city Thursday
alleruooii, was, for his yours a remark
ably keen business man, and In politics
ho achieved greater success than many
older men wlio have dovolod their whole
lives lo the lasdnatliig bill uiiHiitlsfue
lor.v puisiiit. He Is believed lo be tlie
.vmiugesl man over elected tu the
legislatuie, and prior lo his elevation
to the senate he had obtained a con
siderable degieo ol proinliieiico in
politics in Lincoln .mil Omaha, oung
Clin ke was one ol the llrst to mention
Loreuo Crouuse lor governor, ami he
worked hard to bring about his uoiiii
nation, in which endeavor the Clarke
lamily, singularly enough, found them
selves pulling wllh Mr. Kosowutor, for
Hie llrst time in a number of years
o
Church Howe and Congressman
Meiklejohn and Dave Mercer wore in
I he city this week. The former Iiiih
nearly recovered from Ills severe attack
of rheumatism.
o
A temporary organization of the bi
metallic league was alfcctcd at the
Lilidcll hotel Wednesday evening. F.
F. Ilrowu was elected chairman, Jay
Hurrows, secretary, and C. C. Hurr,
tieasiiier. The next mooting will bo
hold Tuesday evening at the olllce of
the Allititiri l.iinln:
o
Mrs Helen M. (iougar, who will bo
ri'liiembeied ill this state as one of the
piincipal pcrliirmers In the prohlbi
Hon ciicus three years ago. and who
has a habit ol saying sharp tilings, has
lallen under the displeasure of the or
gan ol her party, the Now York I'oiVi'.
I hal paper says. "There has boon on
her paitol late a recklessness in us
snult upon other prohibitionists, men
and women loo, whoso sincerity has
been tested by lar longer service than
her own, that has tried the tolerance of
mine ot her friends probably than she
Is aware of."
o
The supreme emu I decided to wait u
week or so belme giving out ii decision
in the impeachment case. The result
is pietty sure to be uiinouui'cil is a few
days, however. It is signillcant that
the populist and democratic news pa
pers aie just now administering talfy
to Judge .Maxwell in large and enthii
siastic doses, and it is somehow dilll
cult to believe that the venerable,
though still ambitious judge, will bo
able to entiiely separate political con
siderations 1 1 urn his action in the
case. An opinion against the state
olllcei's will not unlikely result in his
lecelviiik' the independent nomination
lor another term on the supremo
bench, and a great many democrats
would gladly vote for him.
Judge Chapiiiau was in town this
week. He bus thus far given no iuti
luatiou as to his prospective candidacy
lor Judge .Maxwell's place; but most
people think he will be in the race.
Constipation, and all troubles with
the digestive organs and the liver, are
cured by Hood's Pills. Unequalled us
a dinner pill.
mi can buy glove littiug shoos at
one third less than usual prices at
llerpolsheimer A Co.
Something good "White Loaf Flour
?1 in per sack. Miller .V tiidord.
New Imported Swiss cheoso. Miller
a I'lill'oid. giocei's, opp. Hurr lllk.
Lirgest underwear ami hosiery de
pailiiieitt prices the lowost lit Hor
polshelllier .V. Co.
The liuest grocery stoic in the city.
Mill, r a t.dlord.
Millinery ilcpurluicut of llerpol
sheiiin r A Co odor Leghorn A Milan
luaid.it I'leeiits worth oO cents.
Mountain Hose Pino Apple is bettor
and ehoupi r than any other ill the
lliulkel. .Miller A lillford.
Visit tho Now Students' gullory uml
bo convinced that tho work Is llrst
class -1031 O atroot.
