Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 6, 1882, Page 4

fhé 6r7n~aha Bee. : except Sunday, Pu'lishad avery morni The only Monday morning daily. J TERMS BY MATL:—~ One Year..... £10,00 | Three Months, §3.00 Six Months. 500 | One . 1.00 FHE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- TERMS POST PAID:— One Year.. 00 | Three Months. . 50 8ix Months, 00 | One o 9 CORRESPONDENCE—All Communie eations relating to News and Editorial mat- ters should be addressed to the EniToR o¥ Tas BE BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Detters and Remittances should be ad dressed to THE OMAHA PUBLISHING CoM. pANY, OMAHA. Drafts, Ohecks and Post. | office’ Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs ‘E.ROSEWATER, Editor. Exrorcemest of existing laws is the surest safeguard against the enact ment of unwise legislation. Trovsanps of people, now that four days have passed, are laughing at the venerable joke of swearing off on New Year's. Bavrimonre has a new duily paper, tho Times, which, as an independent paper, will endeavor to stir up the muddy waters of Maryland politics. Boston has passed a resolution enabling the telegraph companies to lay their wires underground. The days of the poles nuisance are numbered. TaLk continues of raising the com- missioner of agriculture to a cabinet position. in the cabinet without any further additions. There are enough old soeds Ex-PostMasrer GENERAL JAMES leaves to his successor the legacy of a postoftice department which he proph- osies will be self-sustaining before another year. Tre national debt was decreased nearly §13,000,000 in December. Such a romarkable record is only pos- nible pros- perity renders heavy taxation possiblo. in times when unusual Tex railroad corporations practic- ally control the commerco of the coun- try. Such a vast aggregation of irre- sponsible power is a standing menace this city, no one doubts that the offi- cers who were placed on the stand would have found their memories very We believe that the police force in Omaha intend to their duty, but they look to the mayor and marshal for the interpretation of that interested in quickly perform what duty is. They are having the dives closed, whore they risk their persons and lives in making arrests, and in 20 | endeavoring to quiet disturbances, Tf they once fally understand that the government of this city was deter- not only the letter but also the spirit of mined that the laws should be enforced, and that such enforcemont would meet with encouragement at headquarters, matters would be very It is be- cause they knew that such is not the case, and felt that crime was being winked at and apologized for by by the city authorities, that offi ignorance was so strongly manifested befors the licensing board. Officia investigations is too often the result of a species of official different to-day in Omaha, ignorance in intimidation which frowns upon too much knowledge of a kind which may throw discredit upon superiors. And this was largely the cause of the sudden loss of memory which a num- ber of witnesses cxperionced during the late license investigation, VALENTINE AND “DISTRICT REPRESENTATION.” Under the head of “District Rep- resentation,” Tur Bee of Tuesday evening has a long article opposing a congregational convention and ticket at large. We do not concern our selves with Tne Bee argument, nor witl its facts further than they are alleged to be contained in the follow- ing from its arti Under the pretext that an extra sess'on tate of the legilature to district and would involve extra exp nse, Vale introduced w Lill in_ eongress two ago to enble Nebraska to elect her thre congressmen from the state at large in. sead of «lecting them from three congres- wional districts, This bill ought no to pass for many reason® * * _ * ¢ 1f our w-nators desire to heed the wish of their constituents, they will ne coneur in V.lentine's bill. We know whereof we speak, when we assert that the great mass of our people are adve re to Valentines scheme an 1 m favor of district representa- tion. Perhaps the following, which we re- ceived from Mr. Valentine yesterday, will soothe the disturbed fancy of the gentleman of Tre Ber in this last out- burst of its Valphobia, Bram, Neb,, January 3, D. C. Brooks, Esq.— My Dear Stz T am enroute for Wash. ington, and the follywing from Tie Bee hasmet my attention: ‘Under the pre- text thatan extra session «f the lecisla- ture to district the st te wonld involve an to the interests of the producing classes of the nation. M=z Goprove Ortris kicking against Keifer and refuses to be comforted. Godlove is evidently not among those meek and lowly Christian statesmen that present the left cheek after thoy have been smitten on the right jaw. There is only one .such in Ingianny, and his name his Smiler Colfax. ——— It is not to be expected that our contemporaries will credit Tur Bre with any good intention in its efforts to rid the town of viledens. But the community at large cannot fail to un- derstand that the board of license was aided very materially in coming to an underatanding of their duty by Tue Ber and its editor. Action should at once be taken by the board of trade on the pavingques- tion in order that our delegation to the legislature may be prepared to act in case of a session of that body is con- vened by the governor, Ifit is de- cided to raise the funds for paving, by the issuing of bonds, the statement of this object must be incorporated in the governor's proclamation calling toget her the legislature. OFFICIAL IGNORANCE. One of the most singular facts brought out by the license investiga- tion was the sudden loss of memory which the witness stand produced in » number of public efficials. Ofticors of the law, whose business it is to know the moral condition of the city and ucquaint themselves with the manner in which the erdinances are obeyed in various portions of this city, suddenly lose all recollection of men, times and places, and were forcod to fall back upon tho plea of ignorance when questions were put them which referred to notorious law breaking and law breakers in Omaha. This is all the more remarkable from the fact that these very men had vivid recol- lections of occurrences and decided opinions upon the subject a fow hours beforc being called upon the stand. The same curious condition of things was remarked a few years ago when the smuggling frauds of the Omaha postoffice and criminal mismanage- ment of the railway postal service was under investigation, Postal clerks who had made ~ the most damaging disclosures to the editor of Tue Beg, regarding the con- duct of the postal officials, forgot the occurrence when placed on the stand in the presence of their superiors, and lost their memories complotely as soon as they understood that the de- partment was not anxious to push matters against the delinquents. The extra expense, Valentine introduced a bill in congre » two weeks ago to enablo Ne- braska to elect her firat three congressmen from the state at large, instead of electing three fiom districts, * T'his is & misstute- ment out of whole cloth, No bill on rhis subject has beonintroduced by me. I do not ke the reason for this misstatement uuless it be to create a sentime.t againet me iu the western portion of the state. I am, and have at n\\ times been, in Hvor of districting. I believe it the only right method. Very truly yours, E. K. VALENTINR, Mr. Valentine adds that he is un- able to porceive any just motive which Tae Ben could have had for making this statement. Tue Bre's motive is readily explainable in the light of a remark which Rosewater made, when a prominent republican who had read his lie supposing it to be the truth, said that Mr. Valentine should be informed concerniug pub- lic sentimont in the state on this questian and ipduced if possible to change his views. ‘‘O, no,"” responded Rosewater, ‘‘let him go on with it; it is just what ‘wo’ want—it will kill him deader than a door nail!” It is not surprising that Rosewater should have developed this last lie out of his interior consciousness, and followed it up with drawing on his imagination for the “‘facts.”—[Republican. This is not the first time Valentine has sought to retrieve a political blun- der by a brazen denial of notorious facts. Wo remember how Mr. Val- entine called at Tur Bre oftice three I''TE OMAHA DAILY BEE: Nance, who is known to be intimate withMr. Valentine's political schemes, had, up to recently, given out that no extra session of the legislature would he called. ieal co-parceners If Valentine and his polit- desired dissrict representation, the governor would hiave been absolutely coftain that an extra session would be called to dis- trict the state. The truth is Valentine has ered on his recent return from ington that his scheme to elect discov- Wash three congressmen at large had stirred uj a breese that was liable to become a cyclone, and he has promptly craw fished, The story about Rosewater's want. ing Valentine to carry out his scheme isall bosh, Theonly foundation for this is that State Senator Morse of Mer rick and Representative - Root of Cass called at the Bek office Tuesday morn- ing to ascertain the editor's views on congressional apportionment. The editor informed them that he had published an article in favor of dis- trict representation and against Val- tine's scheme, that morning. Mr. Morse was very emphatic olecting congressmen at large, and both he and Mr. Root stated that the sentiment among their constituents were decidedly in favor of district represontation. The editor incidentally, during the conversation, remarked that the ene- mies of Valentine could hardly wish for anything better than his success in pulling through his_scheme for rep- against resentation at large beeausc it would array all of tho people in central and western him. If Mr. Valentine and his organ take ex- ception to this conversation let them make the most of it, Nebraska against STAR ROUTE SUMMARY. The complaint made against the Department of Justice that it is has tening slowly in the prosecution of tho star route thievesis woll grounded, There has been no excuse for the de- lays which have marked the progress of the postal fraud cases and it is sin- cerely to be hoped that Mr. Brewster Howe will unite in pushing the trials on indict- and Postmaster General ment to a speedy conclusion, If they fail in doing so it w tainly not be for lask of evidence under wh'ch to conv For a large amount of that material the depart- ment is indebted to the researches of tne press, notably the New York Times, whose latest summary of the operations of the star route rings is worthy of close study. From this In- teresting contribution to the litera- ture of frauds the following facts have been condensed which have reference to only 416 out of a total of 6,000 1 cor- yoars ago, just proviously to his nom- ination to congress to express his grave fears to the editor that he would fail to soocure the nomination owing to the pronounced hostility to him of the Union Pacific, when as a mat- tor of fact Valontine's chiof support ers were the managers of that road. Valentine imagined that he was play- ing a very deep game by such decep- tion, but the editor of Tur Ber who was in possession of indisputable proof that Genoral Manager Clark of the "nion Pacific was arranging for Val entine’s nomination, was not takon in, It is just as notor us now that Valentine, up to within a few days, w favored tho scheme of olocting throo congressmen at largo, as it was three years ago, that he was the mero cat's paw of tho Union Pacitle, His deniald, vorbal or written, are mers subterfuge. Valentine declares with bravado that he has introduced no bill on the subject of Nebraska's con- gressional apportionment, The Con- grossional Record of December 17, 1881, page 20, containa the following entry: HApportionment of Representatives. ™ Mr. Valentine introduced s bill (H, R. 20, No. 992), .up}-lemuulul to an act entitled “‘An act for the apportion- ment of representatives to congross among the several states according to the ninth census,” which was read the first and second time. Referred to the committoe on judiciary and or. dered printed The nat uference to bo arawn from this entry in the Congressional Record is that Valentine s endeavor- same cause operated in the case of witnesses at the license investigation, Tf it had been understood for @« moment that the board of license was anxicus to rout out of existence the low dives and dens in iug to exempt Nebraska from the gen- eral provisions of the apportionment bill that requires each state to select its reprosentatives by congressional districts. We have a right to infer this from the fuct that u.,v..m.‘rl routes. The Dorsey ring controlled 134 routes, with an original length cf 9,687 miles, and at an original con- tract of $143,169.42 per annum. Mr. Brady reduced the number of miles to 8,860, and increased the pay to $022,808.21. The Price ring controlled thirty-six routes, with an original length of 2,248 miles, aud at a contract of $77,- 440 per annum. Mr. Brady reduced these routes to 1,941 miles, and in- creased the pay to $199,020.26. The Parker ring controlled fifty-four routes, with a mileage of 5,088, and annual pay amounting to $143,308, Brady reduced the mileage to 4,660, and increased the pay to 8377,1305.00, The Salisbury and Gilmer ring con- trolled eighty routes, containing 9,- 132 miles, and entitled to $495,001-69 vnder the original contract. Brady reduced the number of miles to 8,795, and increased the annual pay to 81,- 109,013.08. The ‘‘Barlow” ring, represented now by his son-in-law, had ten routes with 1,604 miles, Brady cut down the service to 1,689 miles, but in- creased the annual pay from $152,920 to $276,764.064. The Kerens ring had fifteen routes, for which 1t was to receive an aggre- gate annual compensation of 8138,- 896,10, but Brady increased the pay to 8462,395 22 per annum, Another group, embracing eighty- six routes and 4,901 miles, had con- tracted to dothe work for 01,380,309, but Brady cut down the service to 4,738 miles, and increased the pay to £309,467.61. These several rings obtained from the government, in all, the sum of 37,774.11 for a service embracing 7 miles, when they had con- tracted to carry the mails miles for 1,262,305, In addition to these regular routes, there was a ‘‘tempo- rary seryice, which was let by Brady without competition at ring rates, and at a total cost of $1,121,323.81, * In concluding the editoral on the snhject the Times says: ““No person with business capacity enough o run a retail grocery can fail to see the utter impossibility of any such set of transactions having been carried out in good faith or for any other than a swindling purpose.” This is the view that every honest citizen of the coun- try will take of the transactions, and Attorney General Brewster and Post- master General Howe canunot begin too soon or prosecute too warmly the trials of the postal conspirators Rosewater Bovi in the Curry case) hat may bo your opinion, *‘but there is no man in Omaha whose “opinion is worth less than yours.” FRIDAY, Tudging from former experience, Rose water's opinions must have fallen very considerably in res, to what they are “‘worth.” Their price has hither to ranged all the way from a thousand dollar check to a five dollar note, publican, This is good as coming from the pay roll editor of the Republican notorious fact which even that brass- collared cravk that turns the monop- oly organ will not deny that the opin- Ttisa ions of the Republican are bought monthly in advance for the small sum of eighty dollars checked on the pay roll of the Union company in Omaha, In other words the opinions of the editor of The Re- publican are wholesaled at the sar- prisingly small sum of two dollars and sixty conts a day invariably in ad As to the value of Rosewater's opinions, opinions vary. To the edi tor of The Republican they are worth very little except as affording him an opportunity to earn his Union Pacific salary by combatting them. If the editor of the Republican is very anxious to know whether they are on sale or not he can find out by inquiring at the Union Pacific head- quarters, whose inmates have tried to alternately to crush and buy Rose- water with about equal success. If money could have purchased T Bk or its editor it would not have been permitted for ten years to uphold the anti-monopoly cause in Omaha and throughout the and no one knows this than the editor of the Reopublican, whose smmunition must be very low when he is compelled to fall back on the stale slander of that $1,000 check, which he has repeated 8o often that he,no doubt, has come to be- lieved the lie. We can easily under- standhow independence and a fearless outspoken tone in journalism cannot be accounted for by the Republican from any other than its own venal standpoint. But the community in which Tug Ber has struggled and triumphed through long years of persecation, and in which it has never feared to raise its voice against every class of abuse and crime, kuow the rcason of its guccess and the motives which have inspired it in its fearless course vance, stale, botter For this reason they have given it a support which they refuse to the editorial mongers of Tue Ber local contemporaries, and that is where the shoe pinches The Republican and other paid monopoly advocates of the class to which it be- longs. Newspapers are not generally bought for speaking the truth about crying abuses, and the sole price of the opinions of the editor ot THe Bee has been found in the approbation which they have evoked from the law loving and law-abiding people of this city and state, TuE only reliable and official report of the testimony taken in the con- tested license cases has been given to the public by Tue Bre. This testi- mony was so conclusive that eyen a board with the most active sympathies in favor of unrestricted license could not closo its eyes to its force. We have devoted so much space to this testi- mony that we cannot afford to incum- ber this issue of the paper with an oxtended review of the points made and the facts brought out incidentally which throw a groat deal of light upon the methods pursued here in expounding and enforcing the the law. Of course it is gratifying that the board ugpder any circum- stances has been convinced that it was not expedient to grant licenses where the proof shows clear violations of law or where, as in the Curry case, the house of the applicant is shown to be a resort of gamblers, prostitutes and roughs, PERSONALITIES. Boutwell is a ¢ood listener. Don. Cameron Keiter is name invented by a sarcastic paper. Patti does not drink water. She ad. heres strictly to milk as steady quencher of thirst, Congressman Hiscock's dress suit was stolen from his ro n Washington hotel the other night, and he had to pay t out of u pawn-shop, General Tom Thumb left his measure at o clething store yesterday for twelve suits of wool underwoir, to be made by the Ameri can Hosiery con. v. He takes the saue size as o child six yowrs old. -[Hartford Courant. It must make Denis K arney gre with envy to read of the freedom with which Charles Julius Guiteau ‘“fires off his wouth’ make use of, but in an inferier style, [Boston Herald. Jim Keene's lead is an lopsided as (iuitean'’ He has a swelling over one ear and an indentation over the other just a8 though he had been struck with a club, Nobody, however, has pleaded thiv as & reason why he shouldn't know the right side of the market from the wrong. Mrs, Be'va Lockwood, of Washington, is trying o case ' efore the United States cirenit ¢ urt in Boston, It is to ha hoped that Me. Belva Luckwood will take good care of the house during the proprietor's absence, and have the children's winter frooks made by the cime his wife returns home, Roesi, the ltalian tragedian, on Christ. y, became filled with enthusi ta whisky, and gave a street performauce to o large aud appreciative audience of the southern you! Ana rrespondent puts “he pained the wp_ atmosphere with selections from sear and other playn” in choice ver- nacular, Senstor David Davis performed a pic. turesque littie deed of kindu w Christ. was e He sent to the tailor’s anal and rugged newsboy from whom he nsually buys his papers at the Capitol, and had the youth entively clothed from cap to boots, Then, after having his hair cut. Ahe awmiable we or took the boy to his room, gave him some fatherly advice and wont him homerejoicing inthe possession of & Pacific | ,)fl\l eye which Denis used to t | sHow CASE MANUFACT n'_sw JANUARY 6, 1882, Clhiristinas gift of & small coin, It is said of Senator Dvie that he ‘Yis constantly loing that sort of a thing.” OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS, CALIFORNIA A hot Blast from the Mojave desert is fact scorching up the feed in Ventura connty, snd sheep ure dying, The Fresno Expositor fsays that fruit trees and erape vives by the thousand are heing transported through town to the new orchardsand vineyards that a e being planted out in that section An artesinn well, 184 emitti g fron 150 water per day, has just b {se's Sunny ng the «ixte , near Los h flowing well 00 hogs are pustured near ean river, Tulare county, and num. Ders of California lions are ¢ ‘ming down from the mountains to pasture npon_ the hogs. Many of the latter will be killed unloss hunters avd trappers start in after the lions. In pursuance of their resolutions to dis- courage the use of glucose in making wines and trandies, the St. Helena Vini- culsural association advertises in the pa- D, rs the name of a grape-grower in that district who nsed eighty barrels of that material in the mannfacture of wine from the last vintae, The engineers enzaged in_ locating the line of the Oakland snd Utah railway, are now camping near San Joaquin City, They are enga ed in sel-oting a site for & bridge between that place and Grayson, The line has been located throngh «orral H llow Pass. A tunnel of 6,000 feetin lencth wil be required to encape very heavy grades, OREGON. There ‘s great excitement in real estats circles in Portland, owing to a recent sale of land amounting to &1 090,000, to the Oregon railway and navigation company. Up to the 20th of D.cember the heen shipped from Portland t. 104,900 tons, and to S.n Franc steamer 15,000 tons « f wheat, The of shipping in port and at Astoria is tons capacity. Purtland ssems to be saily affli ted with young hoodlums. Many of th se boys are B ti redeesably bad, but loafing ab the stieets at night, drinking and smoking cheap cigarettes, is u fine way to prepare them for the penitentiary. The Oregonian gives an Instance of a he of 11 years, the on of respectable parents, who reeled home drunk early in the after- noon, WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Small pox is ra camps in the te Pullun i tl town near Wa alla. Walla Walla 18 the pro of the new territory to he ng in several Indian tory. e of & new railroad ive capital arved out of nort).ern Idaho and western Montaua and portion of Washingt n. In the legislature just adjourned there 1 bills introduzed i the house of ii the council dur- i Just 50 bills wer approved during the extra session. MONTANA. The Baptista of Helena are going to build a church, Custer connty has a cash balance of £19,000 on hand. The fare from Ogden to Butte over the Utah & - orthern is 330. Tt is said tht 1,200 immizrants have wrriv.d at Glendine, within three x eeks, The Northern Paciflc has 1,236 miles of track i operation, 150 miles of which wre in Moutana. Small pox is saiq to be raging among the Indi in the belt of country exten ing from Montona t Idsho, The Chines» of Butte teem to have a private court of their own, at which . ffen- dersagainst Chinese customs are tined and otherwise punished, An east-rn firm intends to begin the manufacture of buttons from huffalo horns and has order+d several car loads of horns from Miles City. WYOMING. Cheyenne expended 36,000 in private residencen last year. The cost to Wyoming for _traraporting and keeping isane d:ring the past two < ears was 810,000, of which amount there remains unp-id $6, 00. Cattle on the Rattlesnake range in the | northern | art «f Carbon oounty, this terri. tory, look better now in mid-winter, than corn-fed beef in Iowa.—[Cheyenne Sun. James Daley, an employe of the Union Pacific 1ailroad company at Rawlins, was run over be the stat on engine switching igfi»dm-m the railroad shops and instantly illed. DAKOTA. Rapid City i+ agitating a 820,000 public school. Over 8700 hag been subscribed for a Catholic church buildi g at Rapid City. The conl beds on the line of the North- ern Pacific come near the surface about forty miles west of the Bismarck river, and” extend to ths Rocky Mountains. The veins are six to fourteon feet in thick- ness. COLORADO. Gilpin countv's production of precions metals during 1881 amounted to $2,158,930. The total transfer of real estate in Den- ver during the last vear were 3,706 piccos; con ider.tion, 85,712,000, A pions hypocrite was ridden out of Dudlev on a rail by the exasperated mi- ners, for beating his wife. The ore bins and premises of the Tead- ville smelters and mi Is show no less thin 50,000 ton: culation 81 Beautiful specimens of native leaf cop ser have been fourd in the planes of strat- ification of the clay shale th: the Time i discovery resting, wing a somewhat similar nature to the copper de- posits of Lake Superior. MISCELLANEOUS. United States Deputy Marsbal Earp was wound atally, by hushed ne last we on the 2d and a )i knock down’ prayer. A Chinese gardener was 1warried in regular *‘Melican" style, the other day, te an Apache Indian woman, near Tucso -, Arizona. Tn twenty 4 the yield of the < reat Comnt wk win Nevada has been 000,000 worth of bullion, The lengt! the shatts and gallerios is 250 miles. Three hundred and fifty willion tons of waste rock have been hoisted, and 1,750, 000,000 toos of water pumped to the sur- Jdv *tand up and “ucceeded the opening face, Joseph Durrinlury falo, was induced THoMAN ECLECTRIC ankle, and with half a dozen appl he was enabled to walk round a b DEWEY & STONE, FURNITURE! O it A I Lol 2 % INDOW SHADCS == ORGHARD & BEAN, | J.B. FRENCH & 00, CARPETSIGROCERS INVITATION WATCHES AND CLOCKS TO BE REPAIRED, ENGRAVING —TO BE DONE OR— JEWELRY . MANUFACTURED. While our Work is better, our Prices are Lower than all others. AT THR LAST STATEHE FAIR I received all of the SIX FIRST PREMIUMS offered for Competition in our line Over All Competitors. For the Best Watch Work, For the Best Jewelry, (own make.) For the Best Engraving, For the Best Diamonds (own importation) FOR THE BEST QUALITY:: GOODS DISPLAYED, ETC. Having lately enlarged my workshops and putting in new «.nd improve. ® chinery, I hope to still more improve the quality and finish of our ork and fill orders with more promptness than 1s usual. CAUTION I My Mctio bas always been and always will be: ‘““First to gain superior tiee and then advertise the fact—not before —no wild advertisements Scme unprincipled dealers being in the habit of copying my srnouncements, I would beg you, tho reader of this, to draw a line between such copiec advertisements and these of Yours very truly, A. B. HUBERMANN, The Reliable Jeweler, Omaha, Neb., Sign of the 8triking Towr Tlock Special Attention Is Once More Called to the Fact that M.EELLIVIA TN & CO. Rank foremost injthe West in Assortment and Prices of CLOTHING, FOR MEN’'S, BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S WEAR, ALSO A COMPLETE LINE OF Furnishing Goods Hats' and Caps We are’prepared to meat the demands of the trade m regard to Lateat Styles and Patierns, Fine Merchaut Tailoring in Connectivn o RESPEOTFULLY, M. 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