Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1882, Page 4

4 I'HE OMAHA DALLY 'BEE: ITHUESDAY APRIL 27 1082 . FINK’'S FIGURES. half the stock 1s pure water, injected The o maha Bee Mr. Albert Fink is the commis-( by resolutions of the directorsand the Pflhlhhudwur_y- ‘morning, exeept Sunday, | sioner of the eastern trunk lines, the | declaring of stock di‘vldondl to cover ®he oniy Monday morning daily. head of their literary bureau, and |up the enormous earnings of the com- draws a handsome salary for his ser-panies, A few years ago the Rook ’):.‘!‘:""nmm;hm Months, 88,00 | vices in preventing eompetition be- | Tsland road declared a stock dividend @ix Months, 500{One .. 1.00|yween the companies by which he 1s|of 100 per cent. In other words they employed and in maintaining rates [ watered iheir stock by this amount ery Wednesday. between Chicago and the Atlantic|rather thar declare a 100 per ner!¢ TERMS POST PAID:— seaboard. He has lately been before | dividend out of their earnings. This 42,00 | ThroeMontha.. £0 | the committee on commerce of the|Mr. Fink would class as legitimate st il house of representatives, and was|capitalization and going to make up CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. | heard in & lengthy argument, in |his average of 850,000, the amount at fi:fl,xfi‘flsflm‘ffi"finfiflfi whioh he endeavored to prove that|which he places the cost of construc- Trr Brn, the American railroad system was the | tion for railroads in this country. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business d of an Bettors and Remittances should bs sd- cheapest and best conducted of any dreased to THR OMAHA PupLisnive Cow. | on the face of the globe. PANY, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post-| Mg, Fink informs the committee o T e iy 6 paTAblo o the () ¢ the peopls have geverally the s s o T e . ele ix. (revenue and finance), makes it most extravagant ideas about railroad . ol (OMAHA PUBLISHING 00, Prop'es. | profits. Ho claims that those cor- "}; d“"h of -:':u::l:::“:. ":w‘di;:; Ei ROSEWATER, Editor. porations which have more than legal [ Y147 #1¢h oV y y = — intorest upon the capital invested, by levying a tax by Vlllllhfll?, 80 that Proolamation by the Governor |like tho New York Central, are made|°®"®" tw‘-o" and fcm:,m::" -l;nu Convening the Legislature objects of attack, while ronds like the | P47 & tAx In proportion e value Witraeas, The constitution of the stete | Keio, which is bankrupt, are never|of his, herot its property and fran- of Nebraska pn;fldn nn:.'thaumern mentioned. Mr. Fink's comparison chises, the value to be ascertained in y traord| , convene g ) : z i Ay, OB O O s is vory unfortunate. Until the Erie such manner as the legislature may di the legislatire by proclamation; and A f a Wi TImportant public interest of [ . i rect. In conpliance with this, provis- lfi'l"':::mfl"l character requires the | Failroad “;)t mwt::: h.‘;,d;""l 3“:‘ ion of the constitution the legislature exercise of this authority; it ek o l. fai J . 7 | has enacted a general revenue law Nebrasks, do hereby con- L U R e P/ with explicit directions as to the man- N B At handsome profits on its ligitimate Therefore, I, Albinus Nanoe, veno the legialature of said state to meet al segsion at the capitol in Lincoln [ eaptal investment. The injection of [ in which assesrments shall be FHE WEEKLY BER, published ev- VALUATION | ANDE ASSESS- MENT. The constitution of .Nebmk-, arti- (e ; v t of 1879 which gov- a8V ednonday the [08 of M7, insees | noarly 820,000,000 of water into ita| mde: The sct of 1670 which gor Beron tated e fillown towit:' """ tock and & downright steal SFDS our prosent system o on i, o e Tt e ie Tor | Of $8,000,000 from its stook- | Provides: To onal districts and mmlv‘ldc for the election of representatives in, Second. To amend an act arproved March 1st, 1881, entitled “An act to in- Szorion 5. Real property shall be holders by Jay Gould alone| 1 o4 ay follows: pFlnt, ’mh tract made the road bankrupt, and, not-|or lot of real property shall be valued i’i’{f’""?‘sfi'fi'fl: o'l":.h‘o first ob:ln f“‘:fl ::tr: withstanding this fact, the people |at its fair value, estimated at the price of uties, powers - h e, by onferring widitoual power | have boon paying enormous sums n | it FOClBEOE U, B, TOLAIe 800 S ';m- T th: flm:l—.d.mh‘lw ‘hmm high passenger and freight rates ever given ‘and a g-yment of one-third m‘.‘fi. Ladd 1114 providing !o:‘thc crea- | #ince to pay interest on this so-called | cash and the balance secured by a tion an ll'rfllflmen' of board of publie | capital and stock indebtedness which | mortgage upon the property. o the county of Custer | Tepresents the plunderings of the| These plain provisions of the law works therein, Third, T i N to_some )ugld.:\' listrict in the state. greatest magnate of our present fault- | remain a dead letter on our statute L e e ot e losa railrond system. Tho samo cause | books, Thore is not a couaty, city, entitled 'Cities of the second olass and | readily accounts for the bankruptoy | town or precinct in the state where L of other railroads. Tt is not all sur- |the taxablo property has ever been on.” Fifth, To prevido for the expenses fa- T g curred in -urg::nlna the recent riots at | prising that Mr. Fink ‘‘has never |assessed at ita fair value ostimated at what it would bring at a voluntary ?h",:h,;,,:"‘;,.l"zfifi, .n‘:,’:_l“"' BELER heard ot a single instance where the i tos)‘:“h' ’ll".;oflvol the “‘:“{M state “‘t:) people have ' offered assistance $o|sale. Custom, which often becomesa i vision of an act_of congress 3 ¢ extend'the northern boundary of the state | bankrupt railroads, nor even ex. |highor law than the laws enacted by ofst:ahr::l.‘h,T ey i pressed sympathy for them.” They legislatures, has established the basis o th:.:rdlnlryo VATt :’:I’,:';“" have been too familiar with tho meth- of valuation for every species of prop of m; leg‘hh;ureblnuutn °d.durlng the | ods'of railroad construction and man- | erty at about fi"y per dent of its mar- "”1‘::‘“'{,‘;‘,’,:, Yot T It hereunto | ipulation in this country to waste|ket value. This is what assessors set my hand and caused to be affixed the | their sympathy on the highwaymen | everywhero in Nobraska claim to be ng""::".“";‘.‘::o'l‘:':fih 20th of April, A. who are picking their pockets in or. | fair valuation for listing property. In D.,1882, the sixteenth year of the state, |der to pay interest on their own |some localities they only rate property and of tho indpendenco of the United | p1undorings. at ono-third of its market value. FAST MAILS FOR THE WEST, The business interests of the west demands the placing of fast trains on the trunk lines between the Missouri river and the great lakes. There is no reason why Omaha, 8t. Paul and Kansas Oity shculd be debarred priv- 1leges equal to those accorded Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. The vast comn.ercial interosts of Chicago are greatly hampered by the length of time which it requires for communi- cation between merchants in that city and buyers in the states adjoining. While New York and Philadelphia are ovided by the government with pid | transit for their incomin_ and outgoing mails, the far went, which furnishes a large_propor- vion of the self-supporting post offices, is compelled to satisfy itself with such mail accommodations as are turnished by local trains running at an average rate of from twenty to twenty-five miles an hour, The distance between Chicago and Omaha is 490 miles, and is traversed by the mail trains in twenty-two hours, an average of mnot quite twenty-three miles an hour. Mails between Chicago and New York are carried through in twenty- three hours, at a speed of over thirty- six miles an hour, the distance being nearly double that between Chicago and Omaha, This is a marked discrimination against the Missouri river towns. It is all the leas excusablo because the mails for the Pacific coast and the through Australian mails are also carried over the lines west from Chicago. For the first time congress has ap- peared to recognize the necessity of taking some action looking towards faster mail accommodations for the west, but the two houses are now at loggerheads over the sizs of the ap- propriation necessary to carry out'the end jn view. The house of represen- tatives in the post office appropriation bill inserted an item of $500,000 for ‘'necessary and special mail facilities on the trunk lines.” This item the senate increased to $650,000 with the added proviso that sum should be ratably distributed through- out the country, The house refusing to concur in this amendment, a conference committee was appoint- ed, which has failed to come to an S‘fi;‘:‘hs!l;n(;:an:::;‘:‘dnd‘s.x::r:l‘;:ufi,\nnz. Mr. Fink insists that the capitaliza-| Now, if all the taxable property in __8.J. AuexaNpkr, Se-rctary of State. | tion of railroads in this country does | this state was uniformly returned at BLAINE has given the British lion's | 1ot exceed 858,000 per milo, and says | ono-half or even one-third of its mar- tail another twiktiD that thisis less than the property could | ket value, nobody would be wronged A A be reproduced for at this time, He |because whatever general or local tax given the following as the cost per mile | was imposed would be levied equally of the roads in other countries: wupon all classes of property. AxT1-MONOPOLY and anti-Omaha are one and the same thing in the eyes of 3 the brass bandelt'edléors of the railrond gnn Britain. 900,000 But whexf the property of one man ok, 135,000 | OF corporation is returned at one-half ' 109,000 | its market value and the property of }.&51:000“3 another party is returned at one-sixth, Tar Mason fund now amounts to IG:fln;m 1 f $10,000. Betty can buy an immense | United /000 | one-eighth or one-tenth of its market The speaker, of course, neglected to | value, & great wrong is committed, .'T&“::; m:?&guz;u thibaby explain that railroad construction in | which in plain English may be called — ; Europe and America are as different |legalized robbery. This system of Tue new secretary of the nuy‘lin as a sod house is from a brick man- [undervaluation and discrimination in said to be overhauling the machinery sion, Magnificent visducts, long tun- | assessments has become a crying evil of the navy, including the political nels, solid stone bridges, miles of cost- [ all over the state that must be ar- machinery, Just now he'is a ship ly embankments and superb terminal | rested. Chandler. and way stations, together with every | Nowhere is a radical reform in the 4 appliance for solidity and safety, make | assessment of property needed more Tuere are symptoms of general | European railroxds necessarilyas much | than right here in Omaha. Our as- trouble among the Arizona Indians|more costly. as they are more substan- | sessors have followed the method pur- and loud calls are coming from the |tial, than those of this country. To |sued by our registrars,who carry dead er:itorial papers for the strengthen- | this must bo added the great cost in-|men and men who have years ago ing of the army at the seat of war, |curred for right-of-way through [moved from the city on their roll of populous cities and a thickly settled | voters from one year to another. eountry items which more than quad- | They copy the assessment roll of the but thé railroad attornoys who imag- ruple the legitimate capitalization of | preceding year asa matter of conveni- ine that they are too busy to think a |the roads. When Mr. Fink places |ence, no matter how much the prop- little on politics and to watch the [the actual cost of construction of |erty may have risen in value by reason course of political events in the state| American railroads at $58,000 per|of buildings erected thereon or are likely to find themselyes mistaken, | mile ho states an absurdity. In tho |general improvements made in the —— western statos the average cqst of con. | locality. Or course a territorial government |8truction of the railroads has not ex-| The facts and figures we have pub is needed for Alaska. The populatiom |c0eded 815,000 Even this sum |lished during tho past few days show of that country, which is ninety-nine represents in many instances from ten | the necessity of a thorough revision of per cent. Esquimaux, who live on|to twenty per cent more than the ac- [our city assessmets. The exhibit we blubber and seal, are dying for a con. | tual cost, which amount has been [ have made is not mery guess work, but stitutional government. A governor, | Pooketed by construction ripgs formed has been carefully sompiled from the secrotary of state and a full quota of |f the railroad officials . thomselves, | official records by & competent man, courts ought” immediately to bo se-| Manager Touzalin before the state | who has been employed by T Bew cured, This would help ont im- board of equalization placed |for this work. He was instructed to mensely thounld:ol a few hungry ::B Roon of construction of :"mi::,h:‘g::':nglrdlmntowhom office seekers in ‘Washin, who|the Republican valley road at o 4 % wOuld g to the North Pl sasuped | 19,000 per mile, Thin o fir aver: | 1 18 toutial abovo all things that g . 4 taxes should be imposed equally upon of a fat salary and a return ticket, age for moat of the railroads in the y prarie states, In the east where there all prorerty wnars; std s ow orly S——— Ovex a million of dollars’ worth of | are bridges and tunnels to be built be do“.e by yliopastial SMEMACE steel rails were laid on the Union|the cost is of course increased. But t!xut ¥ill foggrding i) ‘f‘k o Ation, Pacific during the past year and Bid- | even adding the equipment,which Mr, There saust be no distintion between ney Dillon congratulates the stock- | Fink places at §6,000 per mile, and tha owner of tho shanty and the own- holders that no injeotion of watersome fancy items for discount on ma- | °F OF the most costly maasion, into the stock of the road was neces- | tured bonds, duty on rails, etc., an|. .Thuw who foar that Tie Bes will sary to meot the expenses inourred in | avorage of $35,000 per mile Jogitimate | 129F® Omaha by exposing these the work. When comfortable div-|capatilization would amply cover all glaring wrongs are needlessly alarm- idends amounting to 20 per cent on|contingencies, and very nearly repro- ed. No honest tax payer who is will the actual cost of the road and equip- | sent tho cost of construction of D ing to bear his share of the burden of ment are paid with prompt regularity | can railroads. Nor' ‘must it government can justly object to our it is diffioult to seo what reason there |bo overlooked that the money demand for a thorough revision of would be for any further increase of | necessary to bring o road bed and |°0° ssessment rolls, the bonded indebtedness. equipment to the condition of our| 1f Oabs assessments when proper- @ Farmers are very busy just ncw, —_— b : . ly equalized are higher than those of Tug Omaha p&u\ aro fawning and “":‘_'::::&d;m":‘ lines is seoured | jihox sections of nfe state, our county eringing to Jay Gould like yellow dogs uction from the earnings [ commissioners can equalize them by & before their master. . This, however, | °f the road, It is highly probable |general and umform reduction. But litic. Omaha needs a new plank | that the Pennsylvania road cvuld not | ¥e insist upon impartial and equita- ble assessments that will place taxa- walk, new hose cart and & new | be built and equipped as it stands to- tion equally upon all ol S day for 35,000 a mile, but its present ilroad peoted d all olasses of 3 munpoh.(:n.]xum..!: magnificent condition has been secured by émm’ i from the taxes which it has im; d Tux Evening Post thinks that our The Omaha papers which fawn to|on the people, and is not represented, | *™™¥ has many virtues but that strict Jay Gould are either owned or cou- | By aby means, by the original capitali- | *°°ROMY is not cne of them. It has trolled by that eminent stock jobber, | #Ation upon which it earned its firat | 0t the quartermaster and commis- and neither represent the sentiment |dividends, sary departments over three and a of Omaha nor are they supported by its | An English railway jou _|half millions so far to adjudicate people. The only metropolitan luxury |cently stated as a {.utj :hn:: ::o olatms growing out of the late war and which Gould and his Union Pacific[country on the globe exoopking almost one-half of the 53,649 claims railroad have furnished to this city is | the United States permits such bare. | *T® % Yet unseitled. Red tapism is & rural cow-shed of & depot and sev- | faced swindling of stockholders and alwsys expensive, eral hundred thousand dollars in|the public by stock watering as does . our own. t is bonded indebteduess voted tosscures| 018 W it 1o siiated that fally ) for the board of publio works aro tak- _in ) America is water. O, ing an active intereat in s uarTi number of the trunk lhumnu:: and sewer supplies. P Dy, Mlu:n'n preferred candidates agreement. It appears from statements of Messrs. Oaswell and Cannon, of the house committee, that the senate amendment would compel the post- master general to distribute the ap- propriation throughout the state, and this division of the fund would scatter it so as to make it of little valne to any section, Postmaster General Howe states that, nnder the original bill as reported from the house, he would haye been able to have ex- tended the fast mail west to Omaha, St. Paul and Kao- sas City, and probably to the Pacific coast with an additional fast line to New Orleans for the south. With this light thrown on the sub- ject, the senate committee ought to find it easy to recede from their amendment. Fast mail trains are needed most of all by the great com- mercial centers which act as distribut- ing points to the country adjacent. These ought first to be supplied. If any of the appropriation remains un- expended after securing this end it can be applied to bringing the smaller towns into closes mail connections with the larger cities. But any di- version of the appropriation which would fail to secure fast mails for such cities as Chicago, Omaha, St Paul, Kansas City, and the Pacific coast for the purpose of quickening the time on stub lines of railrond would be the sheerest folly, and defeat the main object of the petitions which have finally induced congress to take some action upon the subject of fast mails, epe————— TRAT was a rather smart bit of stratogy in the Jofferson square pool to take the msrket. proposals out of the hands of the committee on public property and improvements, to which it properly belongs, and place it in the hands of a select committee that is made up favorably to their projectf The committee will doubtiess report yery promptly but the council had better go slow before they enter into that fifty year contract. TuEe proceedings of the trades as- sembly look very much like a report of an adjeurned meeting of Hascall's ratifioation jamboree at the Academy of Music. The same old crowd of performers appear in the front seats on the platform. Nebraska BditoriallExcursion. ilog (Mowt.) Journal. " sfl:{a‘[ th)c month of July the brethren of the quill and scissors in Nebraska hie themselves to Salt Lake and the National park, for a regular jamboree. They have “fixund up the cost and it is expec that their assets will average $50 each. What a bloated set of bondholders they are to be sure. The ' editor ad in- terim of The Journal remembers the time when the president of the association, was glad enough, as a member of the Nebraska legislature too, to wrestle with the woman's suf- ferage committee at $3 a d-&u:d mileage, and that little cuss ** is,” who wields the secretary’s pen, was glad enough if he could stick a g- er for a pair of boots. Little , 88 clerk of the house, sold his stentorian voice in reading bills restraining cows, (we think it was cows,) from running for a'per diem and an oc- at mwnll'”.. swig at the ‘‘prospector’s”|tox bottle, that comfortably reposed in the document room. at: other lit- tle Maock---may his shadow never grow less--.used to follow the plow and chew the quid of aweet content as he heaped high the ye'low corn. Now he is editor and proprietor of The Plattsmouth Henl({ and makesa lively fight on the ungodly about elec- tion times. And that long legged Tom Conkling used to think he wnas *‘pumpkins’’ when he got himself up in a full dreas of a paper collar and blue overalls and went out to make a “‘mash.” And Nat Smails, of the Fremont Herald, used to enjoy his elegant leisure in throw- ing jets of tobacco juice into the eyes of the innocent canines, that took surreptitious naps on the sunuy side of Quick's sample room at Lin: coln, and now they go off on fifty dol- lar excursions, If it wa'n't for this libel suit we'd— oh, what's the use, we never had fiffy dollars, Salt Lake, eh? By the way, e Salt Lakeans, you better put oth feet int» one stocking when that excursion train comes around the bend. mprov Mr. Nonh Bates, Elmira, N, Y., writes: pots are under {nstructions to no ome to the cars who is under the influence of liqnor. _Suits fot damages for loss of life and limb are thus averted in many cases. The Chicago and Northwestern has com- menced the work of broadening its narrow gauge line north of Ames, Tows, surposed to mean the ending of the n row gauge and the extension of it from Collduan to a connection with the Toledo branch, and thence on that line to its con- nection with the Northwestern Tracey line to St, Paul. he headquarters of the newly pro- j!:fml Wisconsin, Tows and Nebrasks railrond have bee: estahlished at Mar. shalltown, Iowa, Deputations from vari. ous sections interested as to the location of the route, are throning in upon the man- 15 of the project. The company are :f:';.dy begging for aid in the shape of one per cent tax from all precincts. There is much opposition to the tax, and the com- pany wifi find 1t uphill work to mortgage e country. Wi the matter of the appeal of the Ore- and Wyomiog railrosd company to fie secretary of the interior to prevent the confirmation of the survey of the Oregon Short Line railroad, based flmn the claim that the location overlaps and usurps part of the former company’s grant, the secre- tary has denied the application, and con- firmed the location of the Oregon Short Line company’s grant subject to rights of the Union Pacific and Oregon and Wy- oming railroad companie “‘About four yesrs ago I had au attack of bilious fever.” and never fully recovered My digestive organs were weakened, und I would be completely prostrated for davs. After using two bottles of your Burdock Blood Bitters the imprevenient was so vis- ible tht I was astonished. I can now, though 61 years of age, do a fair and rea- sonable day's work.” Price $.)) STATH JOTTINGS. The Herdics are out again in Lincoln, Plattsmouh is agitating a street railway., York -ur orts one dozen lawyers and eight physi i:?nu. The busy burglar is working Grand Island. The bleycle mania 18 ahout to break looge in Lincoln, Boss Stout received four boarders from Otoe county, recently. An old man was robbed of $140 in the shaduw of the university at Lincoln, The new brick yard at North Platte will commence burning next month, D. D. Grow, of Sherman county, has been arrested for emb: zzling county fuods, A $20,000 flour mill is the latest addi- tion t) the industries of Graud Island, The editor of the Valparaiso Avalanche has taken to the lecture field as a champion of the do wn-trodden sex. Henry Tedrahm, Howard county’s boy murderer, has been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment at hard labor, Goy. R. W. Furnas has gone to Denver to take charge of the mining exposition, the buildings for which ure now being con- structed. Pat-y Bolivar,a conspicuous citizen of Lincoln, and a frequent visitor of the cooler, is out in time for the extra session. ‘Twelve hundred dollars have been raised to assst in_enforcing the prohibition lélcl“ll‘kd of the new town board at David by, Fillmore county is enjoying the biggest boom in its history, The crop acreage in many seckions will be increased fully thirty per cent. this year. The Plattemouth Journal had a severe attuck of delerium tremens a few day+ ago, superinduced by the belief that Omaha was jealous of ‘the growth of the seven-hill city, The uflicl-{» of Lincoln county have been notified by the United States marshal to show cause why a judgment should not issue against the county in an amount be- tween seven and eight hnndred dollars, A creamery on an extentive scale is beiug establis ed at Gibbon, Buffalo coun- ty. It is controlled by a joint stock com- pany and they are now putting in the necessary machinery, The measles is raging in Dawson county and oo the South Loup, in Custer county. Several little ones have died in that sec- tion lately from the contagio ', which ap- pears to be in a very virulent form, Charles Shields, deputy clerk of Sher- man county, is wanted in that region to explain his peculiar system of single and double entry book keepingz, by which Shermau has been swindled out f some money. Destructive prairie fires raged near Nelih last week, and there is talk of lynch ng the pers ns who started them. Several valuable groves were runed. and wuch hay and farm machinery burned. RAILROAD NOTES, State Items The Miss uri Pacific railroad will have seveuteer depots in Nebraska, out of which only three will equal in size the one at Weeping Water. The Missonri Pacific surveyors ran a line through North Beud, last week, The co wpany e idently intends to push into Northern Ne:raska at an early day, and sevoral routes are being examined. They have also surveyed a line to Fremont and to Schuyler, and it is presumed they will report a8 to which is the most pxncdyoable. The Norfolk branch f the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha line was opened for bus- iness on the 24th, The train will leave Covington at 1:15 p, m. for Norfolk and arrive at Covington at 12:15. The train runs through withcut change, and is iude- endent of all other trains on the road. t connects at Emerson Junction with the Omaha traing, and at Norfolk a good con- nection is made with trains on the branch of the Union Pacitic for Columbus, The Blue Springs appear to have un. limited faith in the prouises of the Union Pacific, The Motor says *‘the breach be- «ween Boatrice and Lincoln will bs closed, and furthe', that the line will ve extende south from' Maryavilie, Kan., to Kansas City, Mo, The U P, folks may be slow toact, but we have faith that they will do all they have promised, and it is a rettled fact that Blue Springs isun ler their espec- ial guardianship and they will never for- 5 ke their trus; as long a8 Blue Springs stunds bol dly to the fr n',” General Items The Bur'ington and Colorado railro:d e e mnleted in thirty days, Tho Ut extension of the Rio Grande will be exteuded to Salt Lake City by October next, The Atlantic and Pacific railroad fis in full operation to Winslow, Arizona, 285 miles west of Albuguerque, N, M, The Atchison, Topeka and Sauta Fe railway company are putting in iron bridges along the line of theirroad in Kan. sas. The road is heing ballasted along the entire route with blue limestone. The 8t, Louis and San Francisco are pushing forward the Atlantic and Pacltic exi on of their line westward from Vinita at the rate of a mile per day. They have now reached lgulnt on the Arkansas river in the Creek Nation 65 miles from Vinita, RThe Chicago, Burlingtonlfand Quinc; reilroad mmpmg“hu m :!.Tm of con’: struction at its shops in Aurora four Hor. ton chair-~cars, which it is estimated will be more elegant aud convenient than any cars of this kind ever constructed hereto. fore. Theyfwill cost about 85,000 each. The adoption of the Westinghouse air brake in lgm?n is becomiag general, A company for its mannfacture, and its in- troduction has hul, been organized among the directors of which are several gentlemen bearing titles. The grand total of these brakes now in use in the world is on engines 6,599, on cars 29,562, The Pennsylvania Railroad company have taken & most judicious step in issuing an order to agents to sell no to iue icated persons, and gatemen at the de- HIS GRATITUDE. 11th and Poplar streets, &, Lovts, Mo., March 17, 1881, Q. H. Warxer & Co.: Sira—For twelve years 1 suffered from kidney troubles until your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure wrought a wonderful re- storation of health. aprl7dlw Joux M. Warp, PROPERTY OWNERS' PLUMS. Remarkable Valuation of Suburban Property the Worst Yet We find upon examination that property in the additions north and northwest of the city is assessed equally as low as:that south and southwest and we will cite a few samples, In Horbach's second addi- tion lot 2 block 3 sold October, 1881, for $476 and is assessed at $165. Lot 9 block 2 sold October, 1881, for $250, is assessed at §75, and lot 10 block 1 sold December, 1881, for $1,347, is assessed at §250. In Horbach’s first addition we do not find the assessment as low in porportion to the market value as that described above. The assessment is very low, however, as the lots ull front on Sixtecnth street and are nearly all double the size of an ordinary city lot. The following property in Shinn’s addition is within one block of Saunder’s street and the horse railway: Lots b, 6 and 7, block 4, s0ld April, 1880, for $1,200, as- sessed at $300; lot 4, block 2, sold May, 1881, for $425, assessed at $100; lot 5, block 6, sold October, 1881, for $475, assessed at $110; lot 9, block 11, sold May, 1881, for 8600, assessed at $140; Lot 12, block 10, sold September, 1881, tor $440, assessed at $125; and lot 3, block 12, sold February, 1882, [ 5. for $1,000, assessed at $300. This is a fair sample of all property in this ?nu of the city, but we will give a ew more comparisons. Lots 3 and 4, block 2, Armsirong’s addition, sold November, 1881, for $5,000, jassessed at $1,200; and in the same addition is lot 10, block 1, sold July, 1881, for $2,000, assessed at $760. Lot 14, block 1, sold February, 1882, for $836, assessed $175; and lot 15, block 1, sold October, 1881, for $1,600, assessed $250. In, Nel- son’s addition, lots 56 and 65, sold May, 1881, for, 81,000 and as- sessed at $1756. Lot 79 sold March, 1882, for $400; assessedat $60. North half of lot 119 z0ld May, 1881, for $350; assessed at $100 and the east 99 feet of lot 115 sold March, 1882, for $1,200; assessed at $180. We find that the land adjoining the above property that has not been platted as an addition, assessed still lower in proportion, as one acre on the east side of Sixteenth, which sold March, 1882, for §1,200; assessed at $150. Thirty-four one-hundredths of an acre on the west side of Six- teenth street sold January, 1882, for $1,050, assessed at $226, and 36 acres west of Eightoenth street assessed at $5610. In Elizabeth Place addition all unimproved lots are assessed at $85, and the same have been selling for the past two years for from 8350 to $600, and could not be purchased to-day at those prices. Poppleton’s 4 37-100 acres, with residence on the opposite side of the street at $5,000, f:.hke'l and Millard’s snd Cald- well's additions the assessments are about the same as above, and the Oliver-Kountze tract north of same, $15,000, which is very low. In Hartman’s addition, south of the city, aud about the same distance from business, unimproved lots are assessed at 850 and $150, and improved lots at from $200 to $500. The worst assessment that we have found yet is in Hanscom’s Place addition, and we.are unable to comprehend how the board of commis- sioners could overlook such work and not take the proper steps to correct it. The entire addition is ussessed at 15 or $20 a lot, and nearly the entire property has been sold during the past two years at from $200 to $600 a lot. Bartlett's addition, Terrace a dition and John I Redick’s addition are assessed very low, but not as low in proportion as the last above, Army of the Tennessee Reunion. S, Louis, April 26, ~ John A, Ma) ton, manager of DeBar’s opera house, writes to the committee of arrange- ments for the Army of the Tennessee reunion, accepting the invitation to deliver a recitation in response to the toast, ‘“The President of the United States,” at the banquet. In response to invitations to attend the reunion the most recent letters which have been received are from General Craft J. Wright, of Chicago; General W, H. N. Terrell, of Indianapolis; General Madison Miller, of Randolph county, Lllinois; Major W. B, Collins und Ma- jor James Sullivan, of Keokuk, Captain W. A Whitehead, of New Orleans, and Colonel DnviJ More, of Canton, Missouri. S—— Railroad Collision, Natlon® Associated Freve. CiNciNNary, April 26,—By a col- R T o n, Ky., this morai Engineer Driscoll was killed udul'afn engine badly smashed up. LOTS! For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTRENTH AND DOUGLAS 8T8, No. 106, Hause, of six rroms, well, ceflar, etc., Jith $hrce acres of ground near ead of Bt A , $30 0, Targe brick houss with beautiful lot on Farnam near 16th st, 87600, No 198, House of § rooms, cornerlot, near 1 th and Plercs street, §8500, No 192, House .t 6 rooms coraer lot on 5ta near U, ¥. depot §260). No 100, One ana one-half story house 10 rooms lot 864x1€0 foet on Bherman ave (16th at) near Yoppleton's $3500. No 189, Two story ‘house of 7 rooms, cellar, well and ¢ stern on Shorman ave (10.h st) near Clark sh §2300. ; o 183, Large house of 10 rooms and lot 87x 284 foe" on Farnam nesr 21st 83000, Noj187, | arge two story house of 10 rooms 1 cornef loton Burk # nesr 32nd $6000. Make an cffer. No 185, Large brick housed rooms and one halt Tot o 18th st near Dodge, §12,000. 0 184, House of 6 rooms and full 1ot on Ham. ilton near end of Red street car line $2000, No 183, New house of & rooms with haut iot on onta a'nesr Cuming u §12°0, No. 182, Larce bullding 23x80 feet with re. frigerator 22x80 fees, ice room above, heavily bullt, holdi g 125 to 150 tons of ice, fine stong cellar undcr whole bullding; alsotwo story house @ rooms. cellar, woll and’ ciatern, lot *66x13e foot, §7600. Near 16th and Webster. Noal, Twostary bilck hou's of 9 rooms. 7 slosate, ok 30200 foek on 1086 st near S8 Mary's ave #7000, No 179, Larce house and full lot on Webster nesr 20th st §11,L00, 178, House 8 roomas, full flob on Plerce necr 20th street, §1,650. 177, House % rooms, full 1ot on Douglas nesr 20th street, §7000, 176, Beattiful residence, full lot on Cass near 10th street, §12,000. 176, House three rooms, two closots, etc., balt Lok on 21t near Grace street, $800. brick houso atd stroot, $1 172, One and one-half stor twn Iots on Douglas near 28 171, House two rooms, well,cistern, sta! full 10t near Pierco and 13h #trest, §1,60. 178}, One and one-half story house' six;rooms and well, hall lot on Convent street noar St. Mary's avenue, 81,860, No. 160, House and 83x120 feet lot on lgth street near Wobste r streot, §8,600. No. 168, House of 11 rooms, lot 88x120 fect on 10th near Burt stroet, 85,000, No. 167, Two story house, § rooms 4 closets, zood cellar, on 1sth streed mear Poppleton's 4,000, No. 164, One and one half story house 8 rooms on 18th strect | ear Leavenworth, $3,600. No_ 161,§0ne and one-haif story house of & rooms near Hanscom Park, 81, No. 168 Two houses 6 rooms each, closets, et on Burt street near 25th, $3,600, No. 156, House 4 large rooms, 2 closets balf acro on Bust street near Dutton, §1,200, No. 165, Two houses, one of b and oue of & rooms, on'17th street near Marcy. §3,200, No. 164, Three houses, one of 7and two of § roows each, and corner 'lot, on Cass near 1éth street, 85,000, Ne. 153, Small house and full lot on Pacific near,1:th etreet, $2,500, No. 1£1 One tory house 6 rooms, on Lesven worth near 16th, $8,000. No. 160, Howso three rooms aud lot 92x116 fee’, uear $6th and Faroham, No, 148, New house of eight rooms, on 18th strect near Leavenworth, §3,100, No. 147, House of 18 roomson 18th stroet near Marcy, $6,000. No. 146, Hotse of 10 rooms and 13lots on 18th street near Marcy, $6,606. No. 145, House two large rooms, lot 67x210 fect gnStisrmén aveaus (10th strest) near Nicholss, No, 142, House 6 rooms, kitchen, etc., on 16th street near Nicholas, $1,875, No. 189, House 8 Fooms, lot 60x166} feet, on Douglas near 27th street, 81,600, No, 187, House 5 rooms and half lot on Oapitol avenus near 23d screet, $266. No, 129, Two hr.ases, one of 6 and one of & rooms, on leased lot on Webster near 20th stroet, ,600. 0. 127, Two story house 8 roonus, half lot on Webster near 10th §3,500, No. 124, Large house and full block near , Large Farnham and Central street, $5,000 No. 123, House 6 rooms and large 10t on Saun- dors & reet near Barracks, $2 100. No. 114, Houso 3 rooms on Douglss near 26th treot, $760. No. 112, Brick house 11 rooms and half ot on Cies near 14th street, §2,500. No. 111, House 12 roois on Davenport near 20th strect, §7,0.0, No. 110, Brick house anc lot 22x132 feet on Cass stroot near 16th, 83,000, 'No. 107, House § rooms and half 1ot on Izagd near17th strect, 91,200, No. 105, Two story house 8 rooms with 1} on Seward near Saunders street, $2,800. No. 103, Ono and one haf story house10 rooms Webster near 16th strect, 82,600. No. 102, Two house 7 rooma cach and § lot on 14th near Chicago, $4,0 0, No, 101, Houso § rooms, cellur, etc., 1} loteon hat lot South avenuo near Pacific streot, § No, 100, House 4 rooms, cellar, €., on Izard street near 161h, 2,000, No. 99, Very large house and full lot on Har ney near 14th sbecot, §9 000, No, 97, Large house of 11 rooms on Sherman ayenue near Clark street, mako an offor, containing 160 acres, is assessed at|gs No. 08, One and one half story house 7 roome ble, etz, on Sherman ave- o nuo near Grace, §7 No, 92, Large brick house two lots on Daven port street near 19th $18,000. No, 90, Large honse and tulllot on Dodge near 17th i t, §7,000. No. 89, Large hause 10 rooms half lot on 20th near California street, $7,600 No, 88, Large house 10 or 12 rooms, beautiful corner luton Cass nesr 20th, $7,000. No. 87, Two story house 8 rooms 6 scres o Iand on Ssunders street near Barracks, §3,000. No. 85 Two_stores and a reslacnce ov leased half lot,near Mason and 10h stroet, §800. No. 82, One and one half story house, 6 rooms full lot ols Piorce near 20th stroet, $1,800. No. 81, Two 2 story housos, one ot andone of 6 rooms, Chicago 84, noar 15th, §3,000, No. 86 House 4 rooms, clo; 0. 77, Large house of 11 rooms, 3 1ar, ob2. with 1} lot n Farnhiam néar19th sfreet, No. 76, Oreand one-hall story house of 8 rooms, 1ot 86x81 foet on Cass near 14th street, $4,600. No. 75, Houso 4 rooms and basel [ 16}x182 feet on Marcy near Sth street. §:00. 0. 74, Large brick house and two full lots on Davenport near 16th stroct, $16,000. No. (8 One and one-haf story house and lod 36x152 feet on Jaci#on near 12th strect, §1,800. No. 72, Large brick house A1 _rooms, ful’ 108 on Davenport near 16th street, No. 71, Large house 12 roo; forn'a ndar 20t street, §7,0 66, Stable and 8 full lots op Frank lin streot -ar Eaunders, $2,000. No. 64, Two'story frame building, store below and roonis above, on leased ot on Douge near 16th street, 'No. 68, House 4 rooms, basewent, st lo ui‘g feot on 10th street mear Nail Works, 1,700, 5,000 , tull Tot on Call: b Harnoy esr 21st st eot, 82,600, No 61, La ge n::_n- 10 rooms, full 154 on Bart near 2 st st 5,000, rooms, half 1ot on Davenport No 64 Hol near #20d . 0 69, Four houses and half lgb on Oass uear 18th street . u:,"‘fl use of 7 rooms, full lob on Webster near 2186 sprect $2,600, No 12, Hou ¢ H“.wlonl and full lob, Hamney ar 26'h str et . n‘l‘;::’l!nu:e.'l e lot 66383 feet on Cass 17th street, 84, ")‘IL 8, l;rx- ‘house 10 rooms, well, cistern, ote. on Harney noar 9th street, #4,000. L A R W 16th street 82, “Nu'u, House of 10 rooms, full lot on Califor. nis near 2Lst stroot, 46,600 l.l),Hnme-lwm. two full los on 19th 431 rooms, full lok on Fas. Mo 86, ¥ swo story brick houses with lob déx 82 foct 0b Chicago hear 15th streot §5,600 each No 45, Large 7 roowns, closets, elc on’ 18th street near Clark, $3,000. No. ¢4 Large houss with full block near anok ower, §4, No,'80, One aud one-half story brick house, 4 roous aud kitchen, lot 60x360 feet on Bhorwman “BEMIS ReAL ESTATE Acency 16th and Douglas Strees, ORMANA - ~ WE 3, \ Y\lv ° ! 5 { 0. 63, New house 4 rooms ono story, full lod ¥ “