Sioux City Journal from Sioux City, Iowa • 4

THE SIOUX CITY JOURNAL: THURSDAY MOENING, JULY 16, 1891. than compensate for any possible decrease of average yield per acre. owe annua were strack between the living and the dead among the men comprising the national legislature during the reconstruction era the vacant chairs of that body would undoubtedly be auncbto largely outnumber the other ones. Of course, the scale of longevity is as hierh among states MORTGAGES III KANSAS Sometimes' Ttey Represent Mighty Resourceful Financiering. SOME VERY SHREWD GAMES' at 6, 7 or 8 per to depositing it in the savings bank at home, at only 3 or 4 per cent.

In many cases the western farmer is far wealthier than the eastern lender who has a mortgage on the farm. And it will be found, furthermore, that now the profits of the loan companies upon the average are not so exorbitant as many people fancy. There was. a 4ime when large profits were really' or apparently made in the business, but it did not last very long. Competition is very 6harp, and has narrowed the margin of profit.

Many companies have gone out of the business because of small or no profits. Some of the more shrewdly and conservatively managed companies are still making, handsome earnings, but more of the companies are Bluff Tuesday. He proved to be Joseph Dodge, a resident of the neighborhood. Eugenius Wilhelm, a pioneer of Otoe county, died at his home near Nebraska City, aged 74 Mr. Wilhelm had resided in Otoe county since 1855 and had been successfully identified with the county's business history.

A horse belonging to W. A. Wagner, of Beatrice, overturned a stand of bees in his owner's back yard. The infuriated insects alighted on the animal and stung him fearfully before they could be hived. Three veterinaries were called and they succeeded in saving the life of the horse.

A heavy hail and rainstorm visited Spring Ranch and vicinity Tuesday morning and ruined the oats and spring wheat crop, Fall wheat and rye was mostly in the shock. Corn was greatly damaged and many head of live stock were injured by running Into wire fences. The storm extended over a section from four to five miles wide. Joe Baltzor, J. B.

McWeitbey, Thomas Comstock and George Royce, four Kearney men, have been tried and found" guilty of perjury in swearing that the cashier of the Kearney National bank met on the day an election was needed to vote bonds in the aid of the Kearney and Black Hills railroad and gave each of them $2 to vote for the bonds. The only trace that has come to light in regard to the man found dead in the power waitmg ior the opening the of the railroad lands in that county; A Coon Rapids boy tacked a diphtheria sign on his father's bouse, and his mother was at a loss for several days to understand why she had no callers. Daniel Carter and Mrs. Eva Cuppy were married recently at Missouri Valley. The bride is 48 and the groom 73 years old, it being the fifth wife for the groom and the third husband for the bride.

James Gribble, an aeronant, who traveled through the state with a female base ball club, recently married Miss BeU B. Castell, of Boone She is also an aeronant and they will travel together. A son of James A. Duffield, living near Muscatine, was seriously injured. With some other boys he was shooting at a target with a rifle.

One rebounded and, striking him on the shoulder, made an ugly wound. All the stock of the Lyons Waterworks fiTnpnHn fan ha. been sold t0 tQe Guarantee Waterworks company, of Jrittsburg, Pa. The Same company owns the Clinton waterworks plant and the two systems will be combined. A dead man was found on the river bank six miles south of Red Oak Sunday morning.

He is a stranger, about 65 years of age. Ho had been seen in the neighborhood for some days and appeared to be insane. The indications are that he died from exposure and starvation. A small-sized tornado struck in the vicinity of wingle, Dubuque county, Monday, alternoon, demolishing numerous barns and other outhouses. Several people are reported slightly injured, but the greatest damage done was to grain, which was badly: lodged and is in a condition that it cannot ripen.

'The Dubuque saloonkeepers have scored another victory. At a. recent term of court Judge Ney ordered immediate executions served against ai large number of saloons and their attorneys have taken an appeal to the supreme court by filing supersedeas bonds. Meantime the saloons will keep open. 'Edward McBride, ex-editor of tbeEverly-News, received a telegram in Washington, stating that his child was not expected to live.

He made the trip from Port Angeles to Everly to find his child well, and learned that the telegram was sent to him by mistake and should have reached some other McBride. The error cost him about $300. An engine strugk a dog on the track near Carlisle and the engineer supposed he had been hurled into eternity but the fireman said the dog had hit a boy. The engine was stopped as soon as possible and backed up, to find a very much dazed 13-year-old boy wondering what hit him, while the dog was quietly looking on as if there was 'much ado about nothing." Editor of the Coon Rapids was assaulted Saturday night by E. whom i Henry had convicted and sent to jail last, fall illegal liquor selling, but whom Gov.

Boies pardoned out a few weeks later. The assault occurred in a barber shop and the- editor was taken unawares, but was prevented from being seriously hurt by the interference of friends. i a truck farmer living near Burlington, had a narrow escape from being burhed to death Monday and his wife was probably fatally burned. He arose early in the morning and touched a match to the gasoline stove, a valve of which had been left open, the fluid scattering all over the floor; An explosion followed and he was enveloped in His wife hearing his cries appeared' on 1 the scene with a featherbed and attempted to squelch the blaze when her clothing caught fire and she was frightfully burned. tier recovery is doubtiui.

-1 South Dakota. Beresford is sinking an artesian well There are 65S dogs in Codington county. There Is $17,000 in? the Yankton county Rust is reported in wheat in some parts of tho state. Bon Homme' county already boasts of corn 6even feet high. A boom is predicted for Black Hills mining interests within the next ninety days.

The Fort Pierre has de veloped into the Sioux Live Stock Journal. John Hippie, editor of the Parkston Advance, has been appointed justice of the Hail hurt the crops considerably around Cottonwood in EpinK ana liana -7' A colony of Yankton citizens- will prob ably camp on the ames river during the heated term. Nearly every county in the state 13 represented at the Y. P. 8.

C. E. convention in Minneapolis. Fourteen varieties of lettuce have been tested in the garden of the experiment station uf the state agricultural college this season. W.

V. Duffcran, of- one of the pioneers of Ipswich, has been appointed superintendent of Indian schools at ureen Bay, Wis. Notwithstanding one lady was quite badly injured while diving in the plunge bath at Hot Springs, the bath is still pop ular with the ladies. Sheriff Sully county, is success ful in at least one kind of He was married recently to one of the most es timable ladies in the county, Mrs. Ida Erwin.

C. II Downey, secretary of the state fair, to be held in Sioux Falls September 21 to 25. thinks 100,000 people will visit the fair this season. The fair certainly has a bright outlook, Applications from students, to attend the state university are numerous, and pros pects for a laree school were never more promisinjr. Old; students generally, have engaged rooms.

The Hutchinson Herald, -published at Hutchinson county, has information that there were Ai" per cent, more mortgages discharged in that county during the montn oi June tuan tnere were new ones put on record. North Dakota. Devils Lake sold her school bonds at a premium. North Dakota will have over 100 repre sentatives at the national teachers' conven tion at Toronto. The state superintendent has announced that "no language but the English shall be taught in the public schools." Nebraska.

D. C. Myers, an old settler of Red Cloud, is dead. Mrs. Minerva Ryan, of Grand Island, is dead at the age of 74.

Nebraska City's exposition managers have received a devil fish from California which is twelve feet in length, Nelson of Elk City, was driving a wild broncho to a buggy when it run away, throwing him out. He sustained fracture of the right clavicle. The men employed in "the beet fields at Minden have struck for an increase in wages from $1.50 to 2. The company has refused to grant the demand and will try to secure new bands. Rev.

Mr. Dose, the Diller minister, who had his leg broken in two places some six weeks ago, has brought suit against Tbeo Unruh, of Steele City, the saloonkeeper who sold him liquor, for $3,000. Fire at Aurora Tuesday destroyed five frame buildings. Only one was occupied and that was a saloon. The fire is thought to have been of incendiary origin, as it started in one of the vacant buildings.

The man who robbed the Union Pacific depot and Operator Clarks at North Bend, Sunday morning, was captured at Morse The following advertisement appeared in the Chicago Times of recent date under the head of "Business' Personals PERSONAL Lawyer A. J. Hirsch, who recently braved the prohibition storni in a convention at Cedar Itapids, has moved to this city, and is now in partnership with the law firm of Byam Weinschenk. The Muscatine News-Tribune has just discovered that the liquor plank in the democratic platform has been fixed. It says 'The people of Iowa realize that the fight Is between local and prohibition." Gladstone is not as ill as he has been rep resented.

He savs that he Trill not abandon xneieaaerbwpuii.ueiiueiptj.aBiui 1, 9 1 I 1 has had it, but that on the contrary he will take an active part In parliament. The grand old man is still on deck. The Ohio democrats got together. Railroad earnings keep above last year's figures and June's are somewhat more avorablo than thoso for the average month of the year. Fort Worth.

Texas, is another "Doom" town that is seeing hard times. The town was over-boomed. Improvement and investment companies employed the patent medicine advertising scheme and "worked" New England and the East and even Europefor suckers. They caught a good many suckers. But pay day is coming around.

The Baring Brothers collapse started the "ball rolling. Interest has been defaulted on a great many Fort Worth se curities. A boom always makes hard times. 'Speculation always "paves the way for nard times, whether in the Argentine republic, Kansas City or Fort Worth. If ex-Gov, Kirkwood is really writing a book "of his personal recollections, the old war governor will turn out a story that everybody in Iowa will want to read.

The new "The Soudan," ought to be reproduced in Sioux City but, of course, only in the opera-house. The Ohio democrats yesterday put in most of the time denouncing the republican party. This is an old habit of the Ohio democrats. They contracted the habit during tho war, when under the lead of Val-; landigham they villifled and calumniated Lincoln, and later Grant. The Ohio democrats made a most radical declaration for free and unlimited silver coinage, but the plank was carried by a not large majority.

Now we shall see what Maj. McKinley can do before the people of Ohio. Sioux City is a winner on land and water. It's a great town on water. Mr.

Daniels, the member of the demo cratic platform committee, says: This copy was hastily made by myself by making necessary changes in original reso lutions when possible; the one on the liquor question which I used did not originally contain the option" clause, but this was the prefix adopted and the change of the word "demand" to "favor" was pen ciled In by me, or if ommitted was an error of my own. The Ottumwa Courier remarks: Mr. Daniels will have to shoulder the resDonsibilit then, for the local option clause was not in the copy furnished Jhe Courier, and we will renew our offer to give 1,000 to. a charitable Institution, if Mr. Daniels or any other responsible demo crat after examining the copy, say that it was.

The original copy has been sent to Mr. Daniels, who will be asked to make a statement over his own signature as to the facts in the case. It is established beyond any reasonable doubt that it was the intention of both the committee and the convention to approve of local option, and that it is the purpose of the democratic party, in the event of its success, to enact a local option law. But to the end that all may be authoritatively assured of this, the Telegraph renews Its suggestion that in his letter of acceptance Gov. Boies make an explicit declaration that if re-elected he will veto any proposed substitute for the present prohibitory law that does not provide for local option.

Dubuque Telegraph, dem. I Tub Journal concedes that the evidence beyond reasonable doubt, 'that was the intention of the committee" to "it re- port to the convention last year's liquor plank. At the same time the evidence proves that this was not done, and that the convention did actually approve a plank with the so-called local option clause omitted. The Journal has no doubt that the Telegraph agrees to this view. The convention beyond doubt would have voted the plank as readily in one as in the other shape.

The Journal has no objection whatever to accept the plank as the committee intended, but does find fault with the democratic managers for trying to suppress the facts. PERSONAL -AND GENERAL Iowa. The Odd Fellows' hall at Delhi burned. Houses to rent are scarce in Muscatine. The molders Union is a new labor organ ization in Des Moines.

A LeMars woman had sweet corn devol- or table use July 10. A reunion of the Eighth Iowa infantry occurs at Wapello August 19 and 20. D. F. Kendall, a farmer residins near Osceola, suicided by jumping into a welL It is rumored that Dr.

Llewellen. super intendent' of the Clarinda insane asylum, will John Parkinson, of Lake View, while' dig ging a cellar unearthed a number of Indian bones and relics. Ed Lavin, the Council Bluffs small-pox patient, has been pronounced cured and has been discharged. An 8-year-old son of Judge Brannan, of Muscatine, swallowed two silver quarters without serious results. An Early constable named Waddle made some liquor seizures and was attacked by two men and brutally pounded.

Clyde Kirchner, a small boy, attempted to burglarize the postoffice at Peterson, but was discovered before he had secured A furious rain storm prevailed at Bur lington Monday evening and a number of picnickers on the river in boats had narrow On every railroad section about Ochev- edan may be seen shanties of squatters SIOUX CITY, IOWA. Terms of Subscription. Daily and Sunday By mail, one year, tlO; eix months, ff: three months. J2.50. Daily (without Sunday) By mail, one year, six months, 84.00; three months, 13.

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Daily and Sunday By the week, 17V4 cents. Daily (witoout Sunday) By the week, 15 cents Address PERKINS Sioux City, Io. TELKPHONE CONNECTIONS. Business office. No.

88; editorial rooms, No. TOO SMALL. The Sioux Falls Press is simply showing itself too small for people of ordinary breadth of mind to quarrel or dispute with, -w hen it sees in the proposition of Sioux City people to run a special train to- the state fair at Sioux Falls an offensive patronage. Sioux City people have run special and excursion trains to the Corn Palace every year and they are planning to run them from other cities to Sioux City this year. The Press is simply making itself peevishly ridiculous.

Sioux City must refuse most positively to believe that Sioux Falls people feel as the Press does. There is plenty of room for both towns. They have both grown magnificently during the last ten years, and they will continue to grow. South Dakota needs them both. South Dakota needs Sioux City, not because they love our beatiful eyes, but because is is to their advantage in trade.

The trade that Sioux Falls has secured and it is a good trade and will grow better is because of its advantages. People in this western country do not give their trade by favor, but by desire of profit. That is the basis which Sioux City and Sioux Falls must both stand on. Both are bustling for trade in South Dakota. The business men of one are just as unselfish in this hustle as are those of the other town.

That is to say, neither Sioux City nor Sioux Falls are on earth for their health. So far as Sioux City is concerned it will trust its case with the people of South Dakota. It has been safe with them heretofore. That Sioux City has done much for South Dakota, every patriotic and intelligent South Dakotan knows; but that such helpfulness has grown out of anything but mutual interest and the relations that spring therefrom, no one need A rstrong and abiding friendship has grown up. Sioux City has confidence in this friendship and in the associations which lie behind it.

It is beyond the power of local jealousy or newspaper smallness to destroy it. Sioux I of course, is doing the best that it can for itself. That's the way in which "it has grown from 7,000 to 40,000 population within tea years. The people of. South Dakota like this very energy which Sioux City shows in the interest of itself and its friends.

They admire pluck. They admire ficrveV They respect success. State lines don't count. Sioux City is not going to hurt any other town competing for South Dakota trade, if that competitor has a good basis to stand on. Why, look at Omaha, which is a much larger town than Sioux City, and only 100 miles due south.

Has Omaha hurt Sioux City? Not a "bit of it. Sioux City has rushing forward just the same. The Journal repeats that Sioux Falls is a good town. The, Journal repeats that the state fair is a splendid enterprise for South Dakota. Its people ought to make it a grand success.

It will be a good advertisement. The more people who can be attracted to the fair the better, from whatsoever quarter or motive they attend. And Tns Joursal wants to 6ay one thing more: It doc3 not believe that the people and business men of Sioux Falls 'are losing sleep to hate Sioux City. They are trying energetically to build up their own town, and that is right to attract new industries, to bring in new people and all that sort of thing. If they outwit Sioux City in competition for any new industries, why, that is not because they hate us, but because of their good luck and superior management.

Nor will we be mad about it, but. pick our flint and see that it doesn't occur again. What's: the use in being so cursed small, anyhow? There's room enough" for all lots of room to grow out west here. The Press ought to. be ashamed of itself.

BENEFICIAL INVESTIGATION. If the Farmers' alliance will carry out in a proper manner the project which it is eaid has been formed the result will be valuable. The proposition is to make a careful investigation of. the methods whereby eastern money is loaned to western borrowers, particularly western farmers, and to. devise, if possible, cheaper methods than are afforded by the loan companies.

It the investigation is thorough it will have a powerful educational effect. It will correct a great many misconceptions that are widely entertained. There are few subjects about which there is so little popular information as this very one which it is proposed in Kan-sas to investigate. In the first place it will la found that the loan company has op-" erated, upon the whole, "to the great benefit of the western farmer, securing for is use capital which he needs and which he could not otherwise get. A mechanic, a clerk, a tradesman or other person in Vermont or New York, who has saved up $500 or cannot spend 5100 or more to come west and personally look up a borrower, to ia vestigate the value of his land, its title, etc.

The loan company is the agency which does r.ll this and provides mean3 for securing ceaHdence that the business has been properly looked after. It thus makes available to western farmers unnumbered millions of dollars which they could not have had otherwise. The- borrowable fund in the est would have been vastly less, or in ether words the western interest rates would have been much higher. It is a fact that the effect of the loan companies has been to reduce greatly the interest rate. Another thing that will appear is that a great part i i tha money which western farmers get tho use of ia not loaned by rich people, but by people who are comparatively poor.

It resents the small savings of eastern peo-i la who would much prefer, if sure of getting it back, to loan it to western farmers men as in any other class or profession. The average age of public men in the States on beginning their career is somewhat greater than is found in other conspicuous avenues of intellectual endeavor, and this accounts for the comparative brevity, on the whole, of their lives alter retirement or after they have acquired their fame: Hamlhv however, had passed far beyond the Psalmist's aee limit before death came to him. Still Has Faith, Dubuque Telegraph The Telegraph has indicated what in its judgment Gov. Boies should do simply because it has a high respect for him and is earnestly desirous of his re-election. Were it indifferent to his, success it would make little difference to it what attitude he should assume toward the silver or any other question.

It he shall declare his symp'athy with the demand of the ninth plank of the platform, the declaration will be unhesitatingly accepted as a proof that his sympathy is sincere. He a man of high character, and this and his record enforce the conviction that he is superior to professing approval of what he really rejects. His strength as a public man and a candidate lies in the fact that he is popularly regarded as superior to political trickery-and trimming. is for this that the Telegraph admires him, and it is anxious that he shall give it reason to continue to admire him. we have not the least doubt that if In his letter of acceptance he shall positively commit himself to free coinage and to local option, he will be rechosenin November by a ma- ority instead or a plurality, and by a large majority at that.

If it shall be as good as the Ottumwa platform his letter cannot fail to excite enthusiasm. The Family Recorder. Chicago Tribune: "That," 6aid the quiet little woman, as she was showing her guest over the house, is my hall phonograph and family record taker. My husband and my sons all talk into it when they come home at night, and each has to give the hour at which he comes in." "But mightn't they give the wrong hour?" asked the visitor. 'O yes'; but I don't care 'about that par ticularly," said the little woman carelessly.

"It shows me their condition, and that's what I want, you know. Now -you stick those little things in your ears and I'll turn the switch and we'll see what the report is this morning." Ihe visitor followed instructions, and then the little woman asked her ii she saw the value of it. She said most emphatically that she did. Then the little woman took the report herself and she grew red' in "the lace as the machine began 'It's 2 g. 'n I'm glad ot itl Whopee- e-e Fuller'n a goat and had more fun than box of monkeys 1 Whoop-la, Maria, wow-w! I'll bust Then she shut tha machine off and said faintly: "George must be playing a joke on me." There was more sarcasm than sincerity in the tone of the visitor as she- replied coldly "I presume so.

Then she added "But I wouldn't put the family recorder on exhibition." 'it' Mr. Lincoln's Sagacity Louisville Mr. Lincoln wassingularly happy in his choice of -men. He knew whom to trust. There is at this moment extant a curious example of his This Is the draft of a paper prepared by Mr.

Seward and bearing Mr. Lincoln's alterations the whole in the hand writing of the two which, had it gone as Mr. Seward wrote it, would have precipitated war between the United States and England and changed the whole course of history. A man like this plowed deep in the furrows of human motive and action, for Mr. Lincoln and Mr, Seward had at the time been working but a few months together, the one an experienced and accomplished statesman, the other till lately a citizen, with no public experience, and only such knowledge in statecraft as he had taught himself or received from That's the Break, break, break, On your cold, gray crags, sea, For I went broke on you last year.

And that's what's the matter with me. 0 well for the Summer Girl, Who shouts with her 'brother' at play 1 was her "brother" a year ago, In her sunshine I made hay. Let the stately ships ro on. To their haven under the hill, While I perspire at ten a week, Paying my last year's bill. New York Herald.

A Question of Jlealth. St Louis Globe-Democrat: Mr. Blaine may be very sick, but he is not half as sick as the democratic party will be if he gets welL ONE THING AND ANOTHER. A Kansas man thinks it was worth $10,000 to a woman who slapped him and has sued her for that amount. The young couple who were married on an Ohio tennis court are said to have "resumed their rackets' after the ceremony.

A divorced man and a 12-year-old girl. accompanied by her mother, asked a Han nibal, justice to loin them in wedlock. The justice refused, 6aying that 1,000 would be no inducement to him to bind 13-year-old girl to any A man who died in Pennsylvania from sunstroke was insured In an accident insur ance company. The company refused to pay the loss and the widow sued the com pany, but the court decided that to be killed by sunstroke was not an accident but exposure. A girl under arrest at Newburg, ror norse stealing nas a checkered career.

Within three months she is said to have married an old farmer, burned down his house, mill and barn, roasted his weak minded son to death in the fire and wound up by running off with a livery team and surrey and trading them for other horses and a wagon. At a wedding before a justice of the peace in Macomb, the other day, both the contracting parties having passed the half- century line, the lady was very careful to get her marriage certificate, saying this was the third time that she had been married, and that her husbands had all been soldiers that she had failed to get certiH-cates with the other two and it had cost great inconvenience in the granting of pen sions. An Indiana judge has granted a new tria on a very close point. In charging the jury at Terre Haute in the case of Trogdon, the murderer, tne judge said: "You should consider also the statements," etc. The defense raised the point that the supreme court has decided that a judge, in charging a jury as above, must say "may" and not.

"should." The point was held to be well taken and a new trial was granted on that ground. A justice named Ryan, in New York city has covered himself with glory. He ordered an Italian husband of an American woman to contribute $5 a week to support her in stead of $5, coupled his decision with the re mark that if Italians can get along on $3 a week, that is their own business, but that an American woman is entitled to a decent living, and if an Italian marries an Amer ican wife he must support her decently ac cording to American notions. Cases Where the Poor Debtor Has a Long Way the Best of It The Honest Indebt- edness "Was Incurred for the Development of the Community. Topeka, special: Southwestern Kansas boasta.

the shrewdest financiers ia the world. How the people live and what they can hope for in the future has puzzled the brains of the eastern part of the state for many years. The attention which the recent killing of Col. Sam Wood has turned towards the district bordering on No Man's Land has resulted in bringing facts before the public which otherwise would have passed unnoticed for years, and when the story of the attempted development of southwestern Kansas i3 fully comprehended the skillful manner in which, the east has been robbed by the unsophisticated pioneers must commend even the admiration of their victims. The Thirty-second judicial district is composed of- six counties, Seward, Stevens and Morton on the southerly line between Kansas and No Man's Land, and Grant, Haskell and Stanton joining them on the north.

Each of these counties is twenty-seven miles square. A few years ago every acre of their area belonged to the government. Since then they have been taken up by alleged farmers who, as soon as they could secure title from the land office, mortgaged them to loan companies for all the agents would advance and abandoned them. Now the loan companies are in undisputed possession of 90 per cent, of the claims and about the only remaining evidences that the country was ever populated are the ruins of sod houses and dug-outs that dot the broad plain at regular intervals. Occasionally a windmill is seen, which is a certain indication that the little hut near by is occupied and that water is being pumped for the family's use from a depth ranging from 100 to ISO feet.

To'wns which were formerly the abiding places of from 500 to S.G J0 people are now either entirely deserted or nearly so. County seats which certain fully a hundred business-houses sel ioin have to exceed three in use, and there is a sufficient number of buildings to urnish two for each man, woman and child resident. City lots which were once in demand at $1,500 each, and many of thera Lave brought 12,000, now have no value, end their owners do not pretend to pay taxes upon them. These counties were organized in prosperous times, when eastern loan companies through their agents were dealing out money by thousands cf dollars to bogus settlers. The population was then large enough to entitle them to county organization under the stato law, vrhile now there is not one that has half the requisite number.

Attempts at farming have almost invariably proved completed ailures and the only crop that has been raised has been one of bonds and mortgages. In Seward county, which is traversed by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, a county debt has been contracted for nearly 150. CoQ, and there' is hot a single public improvement to show for it. Bonds were issued tor foo.OvX) to purchase rights of way- for roads. The legislature in I8ss9 declared every section line in the state a puDiic nignway, ana rew ard county issued bonds to pay settlers fciO per acre for a strip of land thirty feet wide on either side the section Hues.

Non resident property owners did not share in this distribution of public money and the loan companies are now paying the interest on the bonds. county, mumcai township and school district organization is voted all the bonds that th3 market would stand, and in many r.oses more than it would stand. Masrniiieent school-houses which cost from to.OuO to $10,000 stand out prominently in the midst cf vacant houses in every settlement, and in some places they loom upon the prairies miles away from every other building, a teacher or pupil never entering their doors. Sugar bonds have been one of the favonta commodities in which thee financial Napo leons have trafficked, lour tae-lookmg mills have been erected cn the branch of the Rock Island road which penetrates this re gion, each at a cost of 75,000, and two or them have never turned a wheel and the remaining two were only operated for about a week, or long enough to ret possession ot the bonds. One of these mills, located at Minneola, could not make sugar even when supplied with sorghum, and its manager hauled a quantity there barrels Irora Dodge City, ran it through the kettles.

and, showing the product, claimed ana received the bonds. The township of oor- hees, in Stevens county, last year voted sugar bonds to the amount of $15,000 to subscribe to the stock of the Voorhees Syrup and Sugar company, the vote standing 11 for to 5 against. The bonds were issued and turned over to a director of the company, but Voorhees township bonds were not in demand and he could not dispose of them. Finally he closed a contract with an Indiana windmill company to exchange them for enough windmills to supply the directors of the sugar company, but beiore the trade was made he was enioined by the courts from disposing of the bonds for that purpose, township in the same county con tains live families in which there are eleven voters. They voted S15.000 worth of sugar bonds, but, being unable to sell them, voted $10,000 for a township poor-house, which would have been more ten times over, than all of their private houses were worth.

Mortgages in ICansas. Kansas City Star: Every new state begins business by running in debt. It is a necessity of the situation. The pioneer, as a rule, is not a man of means. -His capital consists largely of a brave heart and a strong arm and a wiiingness to endure the hardships which must be encountered in making a home on virgin soil.

"But it requires money as -well as pluck to develop a new country, and settlers who have no capital of their own must borrow it from others. They are compelled to discount the future and to assume obligations in tha hope and belief that they will be able to discharge them with the fruits of their industry and the products of their toil. The early history of every state is distinctively a debt-making period. The habit not infrequently exceeds the limits of prudence and good business sense, but borrowing and lending are processes which are inseparably associated with tho establishment of all new commonwealths. Ibus it is that debt, in a state which is passing through the formative stage, is not an indication of adversity and depression, bat rather of activity and future prosperity.

It is, in short, a pledge of the confidence hion the borrower feels in the resources of the soil which he offers as security for the payment of his obligation. Tho mortgage indebtedness in Kansas, ot which so much has been said and written, is the result of conditions which are common in every state iu the new-west. The money which these securities represent was borrowed 'to obtain implements to breai cp the soil, to build habitations, to purchase live stock and to carry on the various operations which attach to success: al not so fortunate. But it will be well to have the details of the business investigated by the farmers, the more thoroughly the better. It is a legitimate business, and the western farmer has been, with the eastern lender, the main beneficiary.

By it the former has got a lower rate of interest and the latter a higher rate than before the loan agency furnished the means for bring ing them together. In a great many; cases when the farmer has discovered the eastern creditor who owns the mortgage on his farm, he will not find a bloated bondholder or flinty-faced capitalist, but a man or woman of toil, who has worked long and hard for the dollars that the farmer is using. And if there is great'1 profit in the business of the loan companies there is nothing to prevent the Farmers' alliances in Kansas, if they have the business capaci ty and the means of securing confidence in the east, from going into it on their own hook. A SILLY SUGGESTION. The Davenrxrt Catholic Messenger has a silly article regarding one plank of this year's republican platform, the one relating to taxation, which was put in the platform just as it originated among the Farmers' alliances.

Under the head, "What Does It Meant" the Messenger says The republican convention at Cedar Rapids on the 1st inst. received a telegram, ac cording to printed reports, from the associ ation for the protection of American insti tutions, presided over by that rank fanatic and bigot, Jay, asking the convention to further their aims and adopt resolutions forbidding the appropriation of public funds tor sectarian purposes, etc. as the taxa tion of all church and school property is one of the objects of the society, we have been asked by. several if the convention adopted the eighth plank of their platform to cater to the Dreiuaices or "that Know- nothing organization. This plank is as fol lows: 8.

we favor such leerlsiation as win impose upon all classes of property, corporate and in dividual, equally the burdens of taxation. As nothing is said about present exemp-. tions, as the similar plank in the democratic platform, this would include church property. We would like to hear from the republican platform' makers on this ques tion, and they may rest assured that the people of lowa will demand positive assurance on this subject before November. The Farmers' alliances that have indorsed this formula embrace in their membership democrats and' republicans, Catholics, Protestants, and men of no church, and they have never dreamed of raising a ques tion as to to church taxation here, in Iowa.

1, The democratic Dubuque Telegraph very properly answers the Messenger's foolish suggestion as follows No assurance is needed-7 There 'has been much complaint that relatively railroad has been assessed for less than farm property, and the obvious purpose of the quoted plank was and is to place the republican party on record as favoring the equal taxa tion of both. It is a purely gratuitous as sumption that the plank conceals a purpose to tax church property. Those who framed and adopted it unquestionably had no such intention, for the question is not an issue, and it is a matter of record that when the party was much stronger than it is now the -bouse of the Iowa legislature, largely republican at it was, indefinitely postponed, and thus killed a bill providing, for the taxation of church property. Republicans no more than democrats are favoring the repeal of the exemption of this class of property, and nothing is to be trained by, asserting the contrary. There is no solid political, capital to be made try accusing the re publican organization of a designwbich it obviouslv does not harbor.

That is the truth." The Telegraph could have stated the case even stronger. tThere. will be, of acrid democratic organs that will try to make a handle of the Farm ers' alliance plank "that incorporated into the republican platform, but the attempted criticism is so absurd that it will produce no political capital. "They are wel come to all they can make. The truth is that the platforms of all the political parties in Iowa, republican, democratic, greenback, and other, during the last thirty years could more than once have had the same silly construction put upon them as the Messenger hints at now, rather than But the idea of tax ing church property has been so utterly foreign to the people of Iowa, as it is to- day, that political parties have not thought7 it worth while to waste words about it i and it is not worth while.

The republican platform this year refers to the record" of the party in Iowa, expressing pride in the record and reaffirm-: ing the principles and policies hus shown, with regard to which it says "To the ir support, in the future as in the past, pledge our most intelligent judgment and most sincere endeavor." For more tjian thirty years the republican party has controlled the legislature, most of the time by overwhelming majorities, and no policy of the party has been more notable in this reaffirmed record than the policy of exempt ing church property from taxation. Why, the laws by which church property is today exempt are republican laws, thus reaffirmed by the language of the republi can platform this year. They are republican laws, however, only in the sense that the republicans for thirty years have controlled the legislature in this state. Democratic majorities therein would have in no wise changed this legislation. The Messenger ought to apologize to the Farmers' alliance.

Ed H. Hunter is still a trusted lieutenant of the democratic party in Iowa, in spite of the fact that he made himself obnoxious at the recent democratic county convention at Guthrie Center. Interest now centers in the corn- crop. Tho government reports indicate that the crop wiu equal that of 1S79, reaching or 2,200,000,000 bushels. The in creased acreage will probably far more room or the elevator at Chapman on last riday is the flndine of the owner of the two pistols which he had with him.

They nave been identified by Dan I ye, who lives four miles South of Marquette, in Hamilton county, one 22 and one 82-calibre revolver having been stolen from his (Mr. Tye's) place July 8, also the two coats and vests which the dead man had with bun, All further trace of his identity remains a se The body was interred in the potter's field. John S. Roberts, the engineer who was killed in the fatal railroad wreck at Sutton on March 25; proves to have been a much- married man. At the time of his death he was engaged to be married to Miss Sadie D- Taylor, of Albia, and had made his, will bequeathing about $10,000 worth of prop erty to her.

At the same time he was "living in Plattsmouth with Christina Roberts, from whom he had obtained a divorce, but who was still recognized as his wife. The will has just been probated and the court has just decided that the estate shall be equally divided between the two women. Sioux City Mentions. McCormick passed through enroute from Plankinton to Sioux City, where he will en gage in the real estate business. Yankton Journal, 14: The Huronite ob jects to a South Dakota display at the Corn Palace.

There has not only been positive smallness in the policy of the-Huronite, but want of good, sound common sense. LeMars Globe, 14 It is estimated that the rain last Friday morninsr did over 000 damages to Sioux City. Just why peo ple wiu pue up sand and clay on which to make a home when there is so much good land in this country is past finding out. For the. Calamity Croakers to Consider Chicago Tribune, 14: The statistics re ported yesterday from Nebraska present a phase of the pecuniary situation that may be commended to the consideration of those who are shouting with Peffer for cheaper money and plenty of it The deposits of the state and national banks aggregate $50,500,000, or $47 per capita of the popula tion of the state.

The total is nearly enough to liquidate all the farm mortgages in Nebraska! Meanwhile, the 6tate'is growing rapidly, having doubled its production ire the last few years, and this mostly by vir tue of borrowing money from capitalists in other states, the profit on the employment of which was far greater than the interest. paid for its use. Now suppose the demands of the silver maniacs should be conceded, and the finances of the country go down to a basis of 75 cents on the dollar, as would be the inevitable consequence. The money borrowed on farm mortgages would be paid off in three-quarter dollars and the debtors gain 25 per cent, by the change. But th depositors in the state and national banks of Nebraska would lose just about as much as the farmers gained by the depreciation of 25 per.

cent, in the purchasing power of the dollar. Some people in the eastern states would be losers by the change, but practically the situation would balance itself so far as Nebraska was concerned, one class of its citizens losing what was gained by another. As a I whole the citi zens of that state would be no- better off than before. Supposing that no general loss was entailed by the resulting commercial panic there would be no benefit to anybody in the state that was not counterbalanced by an equal loss to somebody else. By voting lor free silver coinage the people would simply take money out of the pockets of one set of its citizens in the hope of enriching another set, who are no more entitled to favor by the law or protection from the consequences of going into debt.

Yet the cry of the alliance people is that they want no class legislation, and oppose all efforts to legislate in favor of one class as against any other. It the, malcontents- in Nebraska should vote for that still greater monstrosity, the subtreasury feature of the Ocala platform, and the vote should prevail, they would administer, to themselves a still worse blow. There would be no more good money to lend for farm imnrovements or anv other purpose, and the 13,000,000 acres of yet unoccupied land in Nebraska might go begging In the absence of any but fiat money to pay for its cultivation and buy the after it had been raised. The people of that and other states would pass through few months' season of financial fever, the hectic flush of which might be mistaken by some for the glow of health, and then would come the collapse. Mortality Among Statesmen.

St. Lkjuis Uiobe-JJemocTat: J. he average reader would scarcely be aware of the fact if he were not told of it that there is not an ex-vice-president of the United States now living. Hannibal Hamlin was the last sur vivor of the men' who held the second official position under the government previous to the present term. Johnson, Colfax, Wilson, Wheeler, Arthur and Hendricks have, in succession, filled the vice-presidency since the close of the war, but all of them were dead years before Hamlin, who preceded them in office.

too, are all of the defeated candidates of the two great parties for this post, except n.ngiish and xhurman. Blair, Brown, Hendricks who was unsuccessful in 1S76) and Logan, nominees for this office, beginning in laoa, are gone, ur the ex- presidents only two Hayes and Clevelan are left us. Only one man Blaine if we except Cleveland, who was beaten for re-election, of the vanquished candidates for the presidency or either of the two prominent parties is still among the living. Seymour, Greeley, Tilden and Hancock have departed, and all except Greeley went within the past-six years. A glance over the list of men who formed the cabinets of the presidents tells the same story of the high rate ot mortality among prominent public men.

McCulloch, we be lieve, is the only survivor of the Lincoln cabinet. Of the men who figured in the ministerial councils of preceding presidents not more than one or two survive. Death has struck all the later cabinets, including the present one and that of Mr. Cleveland. About half the members of some of the post-war time cabinets are dead.

Hardly a corporal's guard remain among the living of the men who composed the con gresses of the war period. It a balance.