Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1882, Page 6

pRE— | | I | # O ST S e o —— THELOMAHARDAI LY BEE SATURD A Y_, FEBEUA:{Y_AR 183 P.T. MAYNE, Manager Council Bluffs Circulation, COUNCIL BLUKFS, IOWA COUNCIL BLUFFS, = | Office: Room Five, Everett's Block, | Broadway. H. W. TILTON, City Editor, MINOR MENTIONS. —Towa Wyoming coal handled only by | W. Rodefer, No, 26 Pear] St. 1t —The outgoing train eastward to.day is over the Chicago & Northwestern road. —The Bluff City masquerade on Mon- day evening is amongthe coming events not to be forgotten. ~The Chicago & Northweste: n company has paid into Treasurer Bennett's office 26,500 of taxes, . —The question of a wagon bridge across the river is to be talked oyer this after- noon at the board of trade rooms, —A Sioux City saloonist, for relling liquor to Indians, was placed in jail here Thursday night to wait for trial, —The wonderful clock at Turner hall is to be raffled off this evening and Mayor Vaughan will address the crowd. —A pleasant party was given Thursday evening by Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Jef- fen's, in honor of the daughter from Den- ver. —The democratic primaries are called for this evening, and the convention et for next Tucsday afternoon at the court house. VAUGHAN'S VAGARIES. Some of the “Bug-Dust” Thrown by Him in the Eyes of the Workingmen. A Cheeky Way of Securing a) Nomination For Mayor. The Mayor Makes Some Good Points With Much Taffy and Many | being taxed, and claimed that some of | the richest men in the city were being ! taxed much loss in proportion than the workingmen, Tn this connection he alluded frequently to one working- man, who had paid 8400 for a home, | and it was assessed at £375, and cited | him time and again as an example of the men who really pay the taxes, while the rich men were kicking. There is no doubt about there being some truth in what the speaker said upon the under-taxation of the rich and tha over-taxation of the poor, but his example was an_unfortunate one for him to select. The man whom he thus held up as an example has Misstatoments, already begun kicking against his as- i sessment, and with much apparent justice. Mayor Vaughan himself The call for a meeting at the court house, to be addressed by Mayor Vaughan, drew together a large cro wd Thursday night, some going because they were pets and admirers of “little Vaughny,” as he delights to be termed, [ Mr, M. G. Griffin was chosen as chairman, and accepted in a neat little specch. There was more difficulty in securing a secretary. Phil Armor was named but declined, as did also O. P. Wick- ham, At last Luke James was chosen and accepted. The call of the meet- ing wae read, it purporting to be from the workingmen, who desired Mayor Vaughan to explain to them why the eloction came in March instead of in April, and what officers were to be and many going from curiosity. —Mr. Ribble, the father of Mrs, A, T. Rice, died Thursday evening, and his re- mains were taken to Wisconsin yesterday for interment. —The Land League ball given Thurs. day evening was largely attended, and seemed to be enjoyed heartily by those who participated, —The sidewalks aud streets were covered with slect yesterday, making travel by foot or team alipperyfand uncer- tain, There were many tumbles, and folks would laugh at the unfortunates very heartily, —Those who were mixed up in the row at Anderson's saloon appeared before Re- corder Burke yesterday and gave bonds for their appearance on Monday next, when an attempt will be made to unravel the mysteries of the fray, ~—The grand encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic is to be held in Des Moines on the 23d inst. E, J, Abbott and J. J. Bolin are the duly elected dele- gates from this city and expect to attend, One or two others expect to accompany them, D —In the circuit court yesterday the éase of Kurtz vs, the Kansas City & Council Bluffs railway was still on trial. In the second case of Kaiser against the same road the jury brought in a verdict in favor of the defendant, the other suit being in favor of the plaintiff. This makes honors easy between, ~—The chronic thief, Crowell, was pic- tured out in & new role at Vaughan's meetiog Thursday evening, The mayor pathetically pictured a man running down Broadway with a sack of flour inhis arms, as an instance of what poor men would do when not given work and hun- gering for food. The man was Crowell, theconfirmed sneak thief. It was too ri- diculous to have him pictured as a starv- ing workingman, otherwise it might be considered an insult to class him withhon- est people who earn their living. —dJustice Abbott yesterday issued war- rants for the arrest of Charles Graves, George Gerspacher, J, Walton, Ed. Bates and Ed. Phillips, charging them with ns- sault with intent to kill, they being the same parties engaged in the rumpus at Anderson's saloon, in which a Swede was shot in the leg and others injured. The accused were brought in and gave bail in the sum of $200 each toappear on the 25th inst, Charges of disorderly conduct are lodged against them also, and these cases ome up before Recorder Smith on Mon. day. —The case against A. C, Dowdy for selling liquor without a license has been continued until Monday mnext before Recorder Burke. Dowdy applied for a license, and the council ordered the re- corder to give him one, but before Dowdy could get around to hand in the necessary monev and take the license, some of the neighbors who did not want a saloon there, got an injunction restraining the recorder from giving him the document, He has kept on selling, and the question is ralsed whether the oouncil has nat really given permit to do so, thus bariing the city from prosecuting him for selling. —Vaughan and his henchmen have cun. ningly sought to make the political issue “improvement or noimprovement.” Those who are not for him are against improve. ment. This attempt to make the people believe that he is the anly one in favor of improvements is » strained one, The great majority of the people here are in favor of improvement, judiclally made and energetically pushed, and among this great majority, it is barely possible that some other man can be found who will serve as mayor, The attempt to thus ralse # false issue, and ride into power on the top wave of the popular desire for im- provements, is altogether t0o plain a ruse, and thoughtful voters will not be caught by such chaff, ~—The committee appointed Q‘humhy night at the Vaughan meeting, to make up a city ticket after the meeting ana nominating Vaughan, adjourned until yesterday morning to complete the nomi. nations, They concluded not to doit, and took another adjournment until Mon- day morning, This way of making nomi- nations will not meet with favor among ‘many, The committee virtually ap- pointed themselver, and they propose to bhold a convention all to themselyes, The charge that workingmen do not read the papers is about on a par with the insinua- ation that they are not intelligent enough to hold primaries or conventions and nomi- ate therr own candidates, Thoughtfu) workingmen will hardly rel'sh this kind wof treatment, elected, etc., etc. The mayor was called for and appeared laden with documents and books. He opened by an onslaught on those who thought this meeting was one of “Vaughny’s schemes.” He proposed to give them facts which the working- men were entitled to know about, and which the newspapers did not give, and in fact many of those criticising the meeting were ignorant about. He denied that there was any political clap-trap about the meeting, and was not going to force himself on the city a8 its mayor. He did not seek the honors, nor did he shirk them, but he was not going to turn his back upon the city now that it was on the boom, He had gathered up facts from other cities, showing that this city was being run very economically in comparison, Hoe cited Atchison, Kan- 8as, a8 a city of seven or eight thous- and people, whose bonded indebted- ness was $2,000,000, its officers’ sal- aries nearly $5,000, and its expendi- tures $48,702, a very little less than this city expended. He spoke of Mar- shalltown as a small place, the police costing $3,000 annually and the streets $26,002. From Sioux City he quoted the item of $718 paid for relief in suffering caused by floods, nearly as much as Council Bluffs, He termed the city as one of 4,000 or 5,000 in- hsbitants, and the expenditures on streets had been over $24,000. Dav- enport was also cited as a little town, in which the assessed valuation was $5,984,000. Omaha waa stated as as- sessed $5,800,000, and having twelve policemen, Bt. Joseph's total expen- ditures were stated at $87,400. Kan- mflia’; bonded dept was reported as §1,343,000. Burlington’s popula- tion was cited at from 20,000 to 22,- 000 people and its liabilities 521,000 In comparison with these was placed this city, its salaries amounting 082,627, andits total expense of $55,- 000, or a little more than Sioux City and Marshalltown, This showing might have been of some value if the facts had only been given as they really exist, but the speaker who had so much to say against the newspapers for not statin; the facts as they exist clearly mialefi his_hearers. In the first place he understated tho amount of expendi- tures in this city as is known by all. He placed them at about $55,000. The record shows that therehave beex §67,000 worth of bills allowed up to February 1st—ten monthe’ bills, and not for a full year, as in the cases of the cities cited. In professing to give information to the workingmen he should have stated the facts, In regard to Marshalltown he stated that the police cost there $3,000 and that $25,002 was expended on the streets, The reports show that for about ten montlu}ltha police cost only $1,7562,and that the streets and slloys cost only $11,263. Such is a fair sample of the way “‘information” is given the workingmen by the mayor 1n response to the request. The statements regarding Sioux City were about as far out of the way. The speaker, who so kindly complied with the workin%lman'- request for in- formation, told them that it was a city of from 4,000 to 5,000 people, and that it expended on its streets over $24,000. He made these state- ments as being the substance of facts iven him by the mayor of that city, ih or Smith, of that city, has sent 'HE BEE a copy of the statement made by him to Mayer Vaughan, in which he says that ‘“‘the sum total of all our expenses from the 1st of April to the 1st of February is, $15,186,” and that the population of that city is between 10,000 and 11,000, In this same statement of which the mayor pretended to base his statements in talking to the workingman, it appears that this $15.180 includes expendi- tures for an artesian well and for re- lieving flood suffercrs, so that ‘‘the actual amount expended for current expenses and improvements for the ten months was $13,068.” Place be- side this the speaker's statement that over $24,000 was expended on streets alone, and it bacomes evident how ac- curate was the ‘“‘information’”’ which he pretended to give, and which he claimed the papers could not or would not give, The :]w-ker threw into his remarks some valuable information concerning the election, as to what officers were to be elected, the time of opening and closing the polls, and the matter con- tained in the official proclamation, al- ready published. He urged that the improvements of the cit{ should be kept up, and that an enthusiastic, liberal policy should be followed, by which the city would be kept on the boom. He gave some hard thumps to those who objected to spoke in a recent council meeting, urging some action to lessen that man’s taxes, and calling attention to to the man’s cause of complaint. In addressing the workingmen, however, and giving the “‘information desired,” he cited this man as in strange con- trast with the tax-payers who kick, The mayor threw into his talk much ot what he termed “bug dust,” and which he said the press would pay more attention to than the real facts which oe gave. He announced, him- self a candidate for mayor, said he had £25,000 worth of property, showed his tax receipts, footing up 8450, told about putting in his own time and that of a horse in the city's service, and that hs bought his own hard coal, ete. He had been told to stop and think before going ahead with improvements. ~He did not want to stop and_think. He said iife was too short. He had done a great deal to advertise the city, had got the excursion party of atailway men to pass resolutions advertising the city as a big railway center, had pmpured a big puff of the city for the United States census, had caused a denial of the small pox scare to be published in 35,000 papers of the country, etc., ete. Such items were thrown in paren- thetically in connection with the graver and more important subjects. His earnest words about pushing for- ward improvements and making the city one in fact as well as in name, when sifted out from the small feed with which they were mixed, would receive endorsement from wide-awake, enterprising citizens, who want to see the city grow, but the impression was evidently sought to be made that Vaughan as mayor was the only means of getting such growth and improve- ments, At the close of the speech a com- mittee, consisting of David Jerman, H. G. Orall, C. Rape, Charles Sears and F. Dalton, was appoinied to make up a ticket for the city election. They met after the adjournment of the meeting and nominated Vaughan for mayor, Goll ey A FARCE. That is What the Investigations Against the Police Amounts to. The special committes appointed by the council consisting of Alder- men Spetman, Keller and Raine, to investigate the charges made against Fields, concluded by their labora yes- terday. The day previous the chief and n appe: efore them, and told the same as they have already told concerning the arrest and release young Stockdale, who was found con- cealed in Mahn's bedroom, intent on robbery. They have both denied time and again the charge that Stock- dale’s father paid a money considera- tion more than sufficient to cover Mahn's previous losses by robbery, and this was the reason why no in- formation was filed. The witnesses wore in fact both for the defense, and no witnesses appeared for the prose- cucfon to lll[l{)ol‘l the charges. Col. Keatley, who had publicly made and reiterated the charges, and coupled other grave charges against the police was with them notifiedto ap- pear, but failed to do so. Yesterday a subpena was issued by the commit- tee and served upon him. He en- dorsed upon the back of the same a reply in substance that as soon as the committee was empowered to sub- pa:na witnessex and compel their at- tendance, he would comply and not before. A subpmna was also issued for Mr. Gellner, who has been named asa witnens who knew about the Stockdale matter. He failed to ap- pear, and the committee could do nothing but close their proceedings, and exonerate the chief from the charges, OCity Attorney Holmes be- ing empowered to draw up the report to the council, The investigation 18 a decidedly un- satisfactory one, as it Aas not brought accuser and accused face to face. The committee could do nq more than re- quest those who made the charges to back them up and as they stood upon a quibble and refused to appear there remained only to hear the voluntary denial of the accused, and read the only verdict possible—one of exonera- tion, As far a8 the public is concerned the matter rests just where it did be- fore the investigation, except that the force of the charges has been broken by the fact those who pretend to know damaging facts decline to appear and face the committee, In this respect the chief has guined a point, but the work of the committee has thrown no new light upon the matter and shown up no new facts, - e FISH CULTURE, Progrees of This Great Undertaking in Iowa, Des Moines Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, State Fish Commissioner Shaw has been in the city for several days look- ing after the interests of the fish hatching house of the state and to as. certain the temper of legislators to- ward the system, He is adecided enthusiast on fish culture, and a most prodigious worker. Very few men wuul«fhuvo accomplished so much as he has with the limited means at his command, When the subject of fish culture was first brought before the legislature it was received with de- vision, and Dixon, of Wapello, who introduced the measure in the house, was derisively charged with concoct- ing a scheme to supply Ottumwa with kers at the expense of the state. s facts and his inexorable logic ame the carpings of the ignorant, and the system was in. augurated with a mere pittance granted to get it started, under the supposition that it would die out as a nine days' wonder, or a mere chimera of no practical utility. Mr. Shaw, under most adverse circum- stances, went on and started a hatch- ing house at Anamosa on a small stream supplied from springs of pure water. His success has been remark- able, and in_the meantine the people have learned much of the importance of the work, Ponds and streams bar- |ren of fish have been abundantly stocked with fish, Lakes have been supplied with valuable kinds not be- fore known. Each fall since 1876 he has gathered from the sloughs along the Mississippi, which were drying up, immense quantities of black and striped bass, wall-oyed pike, crappies, sunfish, catfish, eel, and other kinds, and transported them to interior waters of the state. Over 5,000,000 fish have been thus distributed, and if one in ten of them should reach the weight of 2} pounds each it would give a weight of 625 tons. Fish from this planting are now being caught in abundance where none were known before, which proves they have become established. To this has also been added the brecaing of fish at the hatching-house, where Califor- nia salmon, brook trout, shad, white fish, lake trout, and eel have been propagated and distributed over the state by the million. In Northern Towa were found several streams most admirably adapted to brook trout. They were stocked, and last yeartrout were caught from them weighing two and three pounds each. No trout was ever seen in these streams before those planted by the state. In 1876- 77 a large number of silver bass were put in Spirit Lake Last fall they were? caught in larze numbers by fishermen with hook and line, show- ing that this valuable game fish has done well, The last legislature made provision for an additional hatching house at Spirit Lake, where those kinds of fish adapted to large lakes could be propa- gated, thus avoiding the danger and risk of transportion. January 15, 1881, there was received at this house 500,000 whitefish eggs, which were hatched with a total loss of less than 3,000. The same winter was hatched there 200,000 Lake Superior trout eggs. These were all put into Spirit Lake and Okiboji Lake, two large lakes in Dickinson county, conneeted by a narrow isthmus. During the last year the commis- sioner has given much attention to the German carp. He considers it the coming food fish in Iowa, which will supplant all others, and that in the not far distant future more attention will be given to its cultivation than is now given to the domestic fowl; for, said he, it bears the same relation to other fish that the domestic fowl does to other birds. There ure three kinds of carp—the leather ur scaleless, the minor, and the scale. The first is deemed the best, and it is this variety which has been selected for lowa. They are voracious eaters, hardy and prolific, while they are considered equal to any fish for food known ex- cept trout. ' They feed on cooked po- tatoes, cabbage, lettuce, parsley, weeds, waste meat, garbage from the kitchen, malt, and nearly all kinds of cooked grain. Theyare in season for eating from October to April. The; will endure the heat in water whi most other fish could not, while in ex- treme cold weather in winterthey go to deep water and burrow into the mud, head down, until only their tails can be seen, packing themselves close to- gether in groups of a dozen. A carp pond should have muddy bottom,well supplied with plants, eight feet deep in the deepest portion, and shallow at the shore. If for breeding purposes, it should be 8o arranged 8o it can be drained. No other fish should be per- mitted therein, as the carp is exceed- ingly timid, and a very small fish— even a minnow two inches long would worry a five-pound carp to death. The presence of aquatic plants in a carp nd is necessary, as the fish feed mgely on the parasites which attach to the plants, and also attach their eggs to these plants, Being vegeta- risns and teeding on food not sought by carniverous fish, they will grow and thrive in ponds and streams where other fish abound, while their prolific breeding habits will furnish immense additional food for bass and other car- niverous fish, HAWKEYE, COUNGIL BLUFFS SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE.—Special advertisoments, such & Lost, Found, To Loan, For Sale, To Rent, Wante, Boarding, etc., will bo inserted in this column at the low rateof TEN CENTS PER LINE for the first insertion and FIVE CENTS PER LINE for each subscquent insertion, Leave adv ertisements at our office, Room 6, Everetts Block, Broadway, IOR RENT-Three or four rooms for light housekeeping, within two bloeks of postoftice nquire of Dr, HManchett at 14 Pear! St. 16 2t W ANTED-To b4 ten room house in some good neighborhood or two smaller houses nide by side, Addross P, O. Box 797 Council Blufls, or applp at Bxx office, Council Blufls, 641 ANTED—Everybody in Counell Bluffs 1o %o take Tin Be, 50 cents per week, do livered by carriers. Office, Room b, Everett's Block, Broadway. VWANIED-To | buy 1% tons broom com. For particulars’ address Council Bluff Broom Factory, Council Blufts, lowa. 058-208! ' COUNCIL BLUFFS AND IOWA NEWS. 'FACTS WORTH KNOWINC. “Good morning, Mr, Jones. You seem in good humor this morning.” ‘‘Yes, | have been to the BOSTON TEA STORE, and find anything and every- thing I want, OF FIRST QUALITY AND AT VERY LOW PRICES. I tell you,I can Save Money now out of my salary, and Live First-Class, too. It pays togo tHere.” “Where did you say 1t was?”’ BOSTON TEA COMPY FINE GROCERS. 16 Main 8t, and 15 Pearl St COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA, (Gasoline Stove.) H. R. JON =, * DEALER IN STOVES, TIN WARE, SHEET IRON WARE, 831 Broadway, - Council Bluffs, Ia, DON'T FA'L TO SEE THE STCCK OF W. W. BUCHANAN DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, CLOCKS. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. 203 Broadway, COUNCIL BLUFFS. H. H. JUDSON, DRY GOODS 405 BROADWAY, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. COUNCIL BLUFFS IRON WORKS, MANUFACTURERS OF ENGINES, BOILERS, MINING AND GENERAL MACHINERY Office and Works, Main Street, OOUNOIL BLUFFS, IOWA, We give special attention to Stamp Mills, Smelting Furnaces, HOISTERS AND GENERAL MILL MACHINERY, HOUSE FRONTS. GENERAL REPAIR WORK will receive prompt attention. sortment of A general as- Brass Goods, Belting, Piving, AND SUPPLIES FOR Fonndry, Pig' Iron, Coks, Coal CHAS, HENDRIE, President, MAURER & ORAIG, ARTISTIC POTTERY, Rich Cut Glass, Fine French China, Silver Ware &c., 840 BRoADWAY, - COUNCIL BLUFFS, I0WA. Fon SALE—Old pape The Bee office, Cou MO BRICK-MAKER F ng the brick-y more of land adjo' t anner & Halnes' on Upper Broadway. For particulary apply to David Huines of to Hanner's otfico at the Board of Trade rorms, Council Bluffs. 5-de22 8m ANTEDBoy, with pouy, o carty papers 5. Inquire at Bxw oflice, "Council Bl oct18-tf ~ Notice, Owing to the immense success of the new Gelatine Bromide Instantaneous Process at the Excelsior Gallery, Fifth street, Coun- cll Bluffs, the proprictor desiros those wishing Children’ res to call between the hours of 10 and 12 ¢ o m., a8 owing to the Press of Business such arrangement |8 necessary to avold delay. 201w J. BARKE, Proprieto Drs. Woodbury & Son, DEBENTISTS, Cor. Pearl & 1st Ave. COUNCIL BLUFFS. W. 8. AMENT. JACOB SIMS. AMENT & SIMS, Attorneys & Counsellors-at-Law, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, KELLEY & M'CRACKEN, Marble and Granite, North Fifth 8t., Council Bluffr | By Carrfer, - - 20 Cents per Week By Mall, $10.00 per Year W. W. SHERMAN, — MANUFACTURER OF— ROAD, TRACK, COACH & LIVERY HARNESS Fine Work a Specialty. E. H. SHERMAN, Business Manager, WM. CHRISTOPHER, Mechanical Manager. 124 South Main Street, - COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. My Harness are Manufactured trom A No. | Oak Tanned Leather. | Sell My Goods at Bed Rock Prices, Or- ders from abroad receive prompt attention. Jnickering, Weber. Lindeman, J. Mueller and other Pianos, $200 and upward. Burcett, Western Cottage,. Tabor and Paloubet Organs, $60 andupward. Musi- cal Merchandise of every discription. Itahan Strings a specialty; imported direct. Music Books, Sheet-Music, L'oys, Games, Fancy Goods, Wholesale and Re-| tail, Pianos and Organs sold for Cash| and on Time. Stock is large, full and com-| plete. Musical Journal tree on applica-| tion. Correspondence Solicited. Address: M dk J. MUELLER, 103 South 5th Street. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, . EX A X. X. g O e B ) - BOWMAN, ROHRER & (O, Storage and Commission PURCHASING AGENTS And Dealers in all kinds of Produce, Prompt attention given to all consignments. NOS. 22, 24 AND 26 PEARL STREET, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. QH® A I A C ji=H Merchants, ———WILL SUPPLY ON SHORT NOTICE—— Cut Flowers, Greenhouse and Vegetable Plants Orders promptly filled and delivered to Express office free of charge. Catalogue, COUNCOCIL BLUFFES, In their season. Send for BOOKS - STATINERY, PAPER, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA® J. ¥. FULLER, OOI.J'NOIL BLUF‘FS,. IOWA, ik Buyer and Shipper of Grain and Provisions Orders solicited in Iowa and Nebraska. REFERENCES.—First National Bank, Stewart Bros., Ceuncil Bluffs; William P. Harvey & Co., Culver & Co., Chicago; E. A. Kent & Co., St. Louis. METCALF BROS, ~——WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— Straw Goods, and Buck Gloves. Hats, CHICAGO PRICES DUPLICATED. COUNOIL BLUFEFES, - EF. COOX, REAL ESTATE AGENT, Has For Sale, Town Lots, Improved and Unimproved, also, Railroad Lands, and a number ot Well Improved Farms, both in Iowa and Nebraska, Office with W. 8. MAYNE , over Savings Bank, - COUNOIL BLUFF BIXBY & WOOD, PLUMBERS, STEAM AND CAS FITTERS Gas Fixtures, Bath Tubs, Marble 8labs, Brass Goods, Iron and Lead Pipe, Fittings and Pumps, Kept in Stock. No. 7 Fourth St.,, COUNCIL BLUFFS. TLARGH! WE CARRY THE LARGEST STOCK OF FINE BOOTS ZSHOES, Slippers, Etc., 3 Caps, TOW A. Within One Hundred and Fifty Miles of Council Bluffs, All Mail Orders Promptly Attended To and Hiphly Appreciated. OUR PRICES ARE VERY LOW. Call and See Our NEW SPRING STOCK, which has Begun to Arrive, Z. 'T. LINDSEY & C ., 413 BROADWAY, COUNCIL BLUFFS, 10W4, And WEST SIDE SQUARE, CLARINDA I0WA, i