Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1882, Page 4

§ f | THE OMAHA DATLY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1882 ———— The Omaha Bee.! Pablished every morning, except Sunday, Ehe only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAT e Dne Year..... £10.00 | Three Months,#8.00 Bizx Months. 0.00 | One . 1.00 THE WEEKLY BEE, publisked ev- ery Wednesday. TERMS POST PAID:— One Year......82.00 | ThreeMonthe.. 5 8ix Months.. . 1.00 | One .. AxEricas NEws Couraxy, Sole Agents for Newsdealers in the United States, CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Cemmuni eations relating to News and Editavial mat- ors should be addressed to the EpiTos oF Tur Bee. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Betters and Remittances shonld be ad- dreased to Tre OMAHA PuBLisHING Cou- PANY, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company, OMAHA PUBLISHING 0., Prop'rs. E1 ROSEWATER, Editor. Proolamation by the Governor Convenimg the Legislature. Witkneas, The constitution of the state -of Nebraska provides that the governor may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the legislature by proclamation; and ‘WigrrAs, Important public interest of an extraordinary character requires the exercise of this authority; Therefore, I, Alhinus Nance, governor of the state of Nebraska, do hereby con- weno the legislature of said state to meet in inl session at the capitol in Lincoln on Wednesday the 10th of May, 1882, at 12 o'clock m, of snid day for the purposes herein stated ae follows, to-wit: First. To apportion the state into three congressional _districts and to provide for the election of representatives therein, Second. To amend am act aj proved charge one man 7, dollar and another man ton conts for the same advertise- ment. — Tie poyple who own lota around Jefforaoa square are very anxious to hr.ve Mr, Webster Snyder's proposi- tion %or a market house and city hall on a fifty years' lease accepted by the city council instanter, Tn thls the property owners around Jefferson sguare are short-sighted and supreme- 1y selfish. We all want a market some- where in Omaha, and we are willing to see the market located in Jefferson square. But we want a market that will be as nearly free to all people that desire to make use of the stalls as we can reagonable afford to make them. Cheap stalls means active competition. and active compe- tition means cheap market house pro- visions and cheap living. Give us cheaper living and you can have cheaper labor, that will put Omaha in & position to erect solid business blocks snd compete with eastern cities in ther manufactures. A market house that will cost from £30,000 to £50,000 will serve all our wants for the next twenty years. It Mr. Webster Snyder and his aastern capitalists decline to put up & $30,000 market house on a fifteen or even a twelve year's lease, let the owners of property arcund Jefferson Squars show their enter- prise by subscribing aud planking the March 1st, 1881, entitled “An act toin- corporate cities of the first class and regu- 1ation of their duties, powers and govern- ment,” by conferring additional power upon cities of the first class for the pur- pose of paving or macadamiziug streets and ulleysand also providing for the crea- tion an -p{mlntmsnt of & board of public works therein, Third, To assign the county of Custer to some judisial district in the state. Fourth, To amend section 69, chapter 14, of the compiled statutes of Nebraska entitled **Cities of the second class and willages.” Fifth, To provide for the expenses ia- curred in nueipreuing the recent riots at Ownha and protecting citizens of the state from domestic violence. Sixth, To give the assent of state the to the provision of an act_of congress to extend the northern boundary of the state of Nebraska, Seventh, To provide for the pagment of the ordinary and contingent expenses of the legislature incurred during the special session hereby convened. In testimony whereof, T have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the state. Done at Lincoln, this 20th of April, A, D.,1882, the sixteenth year of the state and of the independence of the Unitel Btates, the one hundred and sixth, By the governor: ALBINUS NANOE. 8. J. ALEXANDER, So retary of Stae, NOTICE TO NEWSDEALERS, The publishers of T Ber have made arrangements with the Amecican News Company to supply News Depots in Tili- nois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah, All dealers who keep Tk DarLy Ber on sale should hereafter address their orders to the Manager American News Company, Omaha, Ne TaE problem of the hour among Omaha attorneys—Who is the coming man for city attorney? TrAT ingenious plot to blow up two millionaires has been exploded. Even Vanderbilt and Cyrus W. Field re- gard it as a hoax. THERE is a heavy demand for politi- money for a cheap and commodious market house. It will pay them handsomely to do it. If Mr. Snyder's proposition had not boen made, they would have been only too glad to build the market house at their own expense, on condi- tion that the city would locate and maintain the market on Jefferson square for a period of years. — THE commissioners of emigration have been playing a bold game of bluff in threatening to close up Castle Garden unless the New York logisla- ture would vote them $250,000 forthwith, to defray their expenses for the next fiscal year. The super- intendent of the labor bureau says: “It is only a blind, ora device to care the Albany folks into appro- priating the money. The expectation is that congress will pass the bill recently introduced into the house, authorizing a tax of fifty cents per capita on all immigrants landing, not only at Castle Garden but at all ports of the United States, and until* that expectation is disappointed no appropriation bill will go through the legislature. The commissioners, meanwhile, must go as well as they can. If they were to close the garden, the steamship com- panies would come together and make proper provision for the protection of the immigrants, If the commission- ers had not been foolish, they would have accepted the very liberal proposi- tion of the steamship companies to pay them 50 cents per capita. Sinco that time Judge Blatchford has decided that they need not pay anything; but even as it is they are willing to pay 25 cents per capita, and this, they cal lightning rods in Nobraska this spring. Nearly every member of the present legislature expects to be struck next fall with a state office or & seat in congress. Just as soon as the soldiers took up their march from Fort Washakio to- ward Arizona, a bloody Indian upris- ing was threatened by the post sutler and his wife, Fortunately for the country God reigns and the govern- aent at Washington still lives. Tue ex-Rev. Georgo Washington Frost who, according to his own veracious account before the Ameri can Board of Home Missions, has -served for sixteen long years as mis- sionary among the Indians, still holds fast to the Omaha mansion which was built for him by the Oredit Mobilier on certain nameloss conditions. De LAMAryR, the pious fraud, is up again as an anti-monopoly candi- date forcongress from the Indianapolis district. Let him come back to Nebraska once, where he played cap- per and tool for the monoplies, and was rewarded with a $600 set of silver for his services, on behalf of the rail- roads and banks, in helping to defeat the anti-monopoly constitution of 1871, and he will sing very low as an anti-monopoly champion, Tue people of St. Paul at their ity eloction last Tuesday voted $200,- 000 toward a second wagon bridge across the Mississippi. Omaha is still waiting for her first wagon bridge, and if she depends on the Union Pa- -cific to carry out the provisions of the bridge charter she will remain with- out a wagon bridge until doomsday. SEs—— Tue Republican asserts that Tue Bee bas taken advertising at rates that they would not accept. That may possibly be true where some party ordered an advertisement in both papers without inquiring about rates and when they came to settle with ‘Fue Bee were charged at our regular rates, while the Republican "/ / took advantage of them in the absence of & contract and charged them two prices. Wo don’t pretend to regulate our rates by the Republican. We have one rate for all patrons and they contend, is ample for the support of the garden, if the management is as economical and intelligent as it ought to be.” Meanwhile Castle Garden remains open and is just as lively as it ever has been since it was opened for Faropean immigrants. FACE THE MUSIC. The recognized position of Tur Bes as the most widely cireulated newspa- per in thss city and state has not been called in question for years. We have sought no controversy with losal con- temporaries concerning cireulations because they have long since ceased to be rivals in the newspaper busi- nese, They are simply large job printing concern with a small newspaper ap- pendage. But of late the claim of The Republican that it has caught np with Trg Ber in circulation has been taken up by papers unfriendly to Tue Ber and an attempt was made to create the impression that Tnr Bee 18 on the down grade. As a matter of business Tue Bre met' these statements with an exhibit of its circulation backed by affidavits by the lessee of its city circulation and its business manager. This exhibit was in every respect complete. It covered the city circulation for every month during a period of 18 months, and the general circulation of the Daily during the five months ending Apnl 15th, 1882, and the weekly circula- tion for three months ending Febru- ary 15th, 1882, Incidentally, Tie Bee also offered to pay one hundred dollars to the manager of The Omaha Republican for a sworn exhibit of the circulavion of that payer, let it be what it may, and an additional one hundred dollars to St. Joseph’s hospital, if the exhibit made under oath for The Omaha Re-. publican would show a general circu- l'p‘po!l. Trr Bee has soventeen car- riers in the city of Omaha alone, and eleven Lyrion in Council Blufis,while the Republican has only five carriers in Omaha and the Herald six carriers, and neither of them circulate by car- rier or otherwise in Council Bluffs, The newspaper presses of Tue Brr are capable of turning out as many papers! in one hour as the presses of The Republican will turn out in half a day, and the presses of Te Breare taxed to their utmost capacity night and day. The charge is also made that Tue WerkLy Bee must carry many thou- sand delinquents, because premium receipts were only issued to 14,- 000 subscribers who prepaid for the year 1882, Perhaps The Republican is not aware that thousands of our patrons only prepay for three to six months, One thing we assert, and that is, that we are not mailing a single paper now to subscribers that are not prepaid for some period. The Republican hints that our daily does not circulate as heavily to bona fide subscribers as we have represented; that thousands of sample copies have been mailed out for months and clogging up the different postoftices. As a matter of fact no sample copies of Te Dainy Ber have been sent out since last September, except a few, perhaps not more than a hundred each week, that are apleed for by adver tistng patrons and parties desiring to become subscribers. Our subscrip- tion books are open to any patron or lation equal to one-sixth of the general circulation of THe Bee. This was an offer The Republican could hardly aflord to ignore in view of their pretended catching up with Tuar Bes, They had our statement before them and they could certainly tell by their books. whether they could make a showing that would en- title them to the money. But instoad of facing the music, they met our exhibit with an evasion by claiming that they had too much other business to attend to at present, and their advertising patronage was the best proof of their superiority as a circulating medium. This has been followed up by a braggart editorial concerning the liberal patronage by Omaha merchants of The Republican’s advertiging columns, coupled with the claim that these merchants know what they are doing and prefer to pay larger sums to The Republican than they would pay to Tue Bre for the same space. It is true that The Republican makes a showing ot liberal patronage, but that is by no means a proof that the paper stands high as an advertistng medium, We have seen many hotel registers covered with acres of advertisements, but this fact affords no proof that they circulate to any alarming exter:t. It is a disagrace to Nebraska jour- nalism, but nevertheless a fact, that the business men in Omaha and for- eign advertisers have been systemati- cally imposed on by a set of unprincipled confidence men. Representatives of The Republican have exacted money from advertisers at home and abroad under false pre- tenses that would consign them to the penitentiary if they were engaged in any other business. It a man would sell a galvanized watch for solid gold, orsell ten ounces of sugar for a pound, or thirty inches of cloth Tue first move to dislodge the land grant robbers has begun in congress. The house judiciary committee has decided to report at once in favor of the forfeiture of land granted by the government to those railroads which have not as yet begun the conatruc- tion of their roads, and to ask the house for permission to make supple- mental reports on the land grants of the other uncompleted railroads, as they shall be prepared. The seven companies whose land grants the judi- ciary committe thinks should be for- feited to the government, inasmuch they have not attempted to comply with the conditions upon which the grants were made, are the Gulf and Ship Island railroad of Missis- sippi, which was «granted 652,800 acres in 18560 (grant expired in 1866), the Tuscaloosa and Mobile, of Mississippi, the Mobile and New Or- leans, of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana (both grants expired in 180606), the Coosa and Tennessee, in Alabama, granted 140,160 acres in 1859 (grant expired in 1866), the Ely. ton and Beard's Bluff' (grant expired in 1860), the Savannah and Albany, in Alabuma (grant expired 1 1867), and the Iron Mountain,; of Arkansas (graut expired in 1871,) Those are all small roads, with small grants, The action of the com- mittee, howcver, is taken as indicative of the intention of the committee to deal striotly with the roads whose land grants are unearned by construction. Mllions upon millious of acres grant- ed to the Pacitic roads have either been forfeited by failures to comply with charter provisions or have legally reverted to the people for homestead settlement by the lapse of time since the roads were completed, 1t is to be hoped that the action of the house commitiee is the entering wedge for reclaiming these forfeited lands and compelling the highwaymen i disgorge, for a yard, he would be considered a swindler, and no better than a com- mon thief. And yet these confidence operators have deliberately imposed upon merchants and other patrons by elling them they had thousands of circulation where they had hundreds, and by persistently telling them that their paper, as a medium, reached a large class of people thatcould not be reached by any other in Omaha, We havebeen very sorry for thedupes, who live abroad and have not been able to inform themselves correctly, but Omaha business men do not deserve much sympathy as long as they have the means at their command to verify the respective claims by insisting upon an honest exhibit. Another class of people have been gulled and swindled who ought to prosecute the scoundrels as they de- serve. We refer to benevolent so- cieties, churches and professional men who have been robbed by these con- fidence wen both in The Republican and Herald, under the most brazen misrepresentations, It happens very often that parties desire to advertise by dodgers that are folded into the newspapers for de- livery o city subscribers by carrier. When such parttes ask how many dcdgers 1t will take to supply the car- rier circulation of The Herald or Republican, they are told about two thousand, and they are made to pay for two thousand, when as a fact The Republican only delivers 450 and The Herald about (50, robbing their pat- rons in the first place of the excess paid for what they did not print for them and did not circulate, and in the next place robbing them by ex- acting pay for distribution which they did not make. This has been done in Omaha for years and years. When anybody comes to Tue Bee to eirculate dodgers through the paper wo tell them exactly what we circulate and they get only the dodgers they pay for and are delivered for them just as we agree, Talk about the circulation of these anybody that desires to verify our statements, How is it with the other Omaha dailies? Dare they face the music?| b, Dare they allow anybody to inspect their books or to stand at their presses when their papers are printed to verify the claims they make by actual count? Why is it that they have re- fused to make any statement swornor unsworn when proposals were invited for city advertising? How is it that they did not even dare to come forward and contest with The Brr when the Slocumb law went into effect and each -paper was requested to filo a sworn statement of circula- tion? If these imposters dare ta face the music they may have to refund a good deal of money that they have exacted from their patrons under false pretenses. THE N. A*IONAL i)EB‘.l'. The debt of the United States was reduced during the month of April by $14,415,823.74—in round num- bers, fourteen and a half millions of dollors. During the ten menths which have gone by since the opening of the fiscal the total reduction of the debt has been $128,748,214. If the average reduction for these ten months be kept up for the two remain- ing months of the year,the total reduc- tion will amount to about $155,000,000, and if the debt is reduced as much during the next two months as it was during the last two, the total reduc- tion will be ever §160,000,000. While many unthitking men may regard this rapid reduction of the national debt as a national blessing, those who will reflect upon all the bearings of this policy will regard it as a grave and dangerous blunder. The national debt isin the main represented by bonds that draw less than four per cent., and it is not likely that the rate of interest can be further reduced by a material reduc- tion of the debt. The people of the United States can afford to pay four per cent. a year on the national debt a good deal better than they can offord to be taxed to redeem tha debt. They can make much better use of that money than pay off a debt that only draws four per cent interest. It may have been wise to reduce the National debt to its present propor- tion for the sake of improving the national credit, and refunding the high interest bouds for low interest bonds but it must be remembered that this effort well nigh wrecked the country during the depressing period from 1873 to 1876, It is unjust and un- wise to compel the present generation to pay off the national war debt when it still groans under the opurden of state, county and municipal debts incurred during and since the war, These local{ debts bear & much higher intereat rate and should be wiped out first. Those who regard the cancella- tion of our national debt as a proof of prosperity, labor under a delusion, It simply affords proof that the country is still subjected to excessive and op- pressive taxation, That any people is rich which can be made to contribute for every hundred dollars required for the expe of its yovernment sixty dollars additional toward the payment of its bonded debt it not to be denied. That a people of whom this extraordinary contribution is ex- acted is governod intelligently, pru- dently, and in a way to develop its resources and increase its prosperity a8 much as possible is not only & pro- position to be denied, but is a propo- sition which eannot seriously be maintained, Last year three hundred and ninety millions were raised by uational taxation, What rense is there in continuing this heavy burden merely to satisfy the vanity of each administration in pointing with pride to the heavy reduction of the national debt, Such coetly pride will not gratify intelligent Americans, and es- pecially the producers of the country, by whon the burden of this debt is chiefly borne. Whaar to do with Douglas county, 18 the question that will bother the next legislature. Poor Douglas ! No- body wants her in their'n.—Platts- mouth Herald. Ten years hence poor Douglas wil have a congressman of her own. Meantime, is not as dangerous a8 the political Vennors seem to predicate. As long as she claims a United States senator she is not likely to be in the way of any man that {s afflicted with a congres- sional Bee in his bonnet. however, she SECRETARY CHANDLER reports to congress that thirty of our war ves. sels are unfit for use, and it will take four millions to put them in servicea- ble condition, The;best thing that can be done with these worn out hulls 18 to dispose of them to the junk shops. As to the new navy which Mr. John Roach is willing and anxious to build for Uncle Sam, the country will pre- fer to remain defenseless for a few years longer. STATE JOTTINGS, Ord has a population of 400, Sidney talks of a county fair, Greenwood wants & new hotel, Sells’ circus has the state down fine, York has a cigar factory in operation. Wymore is to have a new bank building. The saloon license in Fairmont is 8700, Marquette has a new grist mill run by wind, Edgar demands a dog tax or extermina- tion, \\l'(oeplng Water is determined to have a ank. Arborville, York county, has a cheese factory. A creamery is among the possibilities of Fairbury. The Minden paper has changed its namie to Gazette, The Falls City court house approaches completion, A bross band has been organized at Greenwood. A $20,000 brick business house is going up in Fairbury. Tn one Plattsmouth family there are five cases of small pox, Hebron and Belvidere talk of atelephone to connect the towns. A Sidney hotel gives its guests the free use of its billiard parlor. The state medical society meets at Hast- ings on the 9th and 10th. Unian Pacific surveyors are setting stakes in Custer county. Gran. Ensign will right away begin to erect a stable 48x134 in Lincoln, An effort is being made toform a post of the Grand army at Wood Liver. E. Sage has laid vut an sdditien of 72 lots tw the city of Plattsmouth. The Commercial hotel at Blue Springs way burned down on the 28th ult. Omaha parties are putting up an eleva- torat Weeping Water, Cuss county. Two Fairbury saloon keepers were given thirty days for selling without a license, Girls had a majority of 21 in ths matter of biiths in Hamilton county last year, The citizens of Fairmont are talking of laying out a boulevard around the town, ‘There is good fishing inthe Blue and the young and old boysin that region enjoy it. Rails up the North Loup towards Ord gre being laid at the rate of half a mile a ay. A number of Russians who settled in Tiichcock county, have departed for Ore- gon. Five flat cars were ditched lsst week on the M. P. at Vernon aud smashed ioto splinters, There is talk of a new opera house at Hastings to be put up by a joint stock company. A complete set of moulds for coin was found in a street of 5t, Edward oue day last week. B. & M. rails on the route to Denver are being spiked at the rate of two and a half miles o da) A young man named Hoyler had a hand crashed in the Plattsmouth machine shops the other day. The Hastinga council has passed an ordi- nance prohiviting boys from playing ball in the streets, The Southwestern Nebraska rpring round-up begins on the 10th, Geo. Renklo. maa . ir, captain. In a recent storm at Grafton, shingles from a house blown down were carried two miles by the wind. Forty-seven new residencs that the Recorder knows of will adorn Weeping ‘Water this season. Dayid Anderson, everybody knows him, nhirped seventeen carloads of sheep froni Bellwood last week, Judge Weaver cleaned up the Jefferson county docket and left for home a couple of days ahead of time, Lincoln has a Lrutal wife beater named Campbell whom the authorities took hold of last week and jailed, The machinery for the Bainbridge, Har- lan county, cheose factory has arrived and the concern will soon begin, Dorus Wells, on trial at Fairbury in the district court for shooting with intent to kill, was fined $100 and costs, Five tumors were ramovel from the head of Mrs, John Ward, of Ulysses, last week, One was a8 large as a hen’s eggs. During & small _cyclone in Johnson county last week, Wm. Hahn's barn, a little ways out of Tecumseh, was badly wrecked, The house of W, L. Good, of Herrick, Kunox county, was burned by a prairie fire » fow weeks ago, Mr. G, losing nearly all he had, Sowe of the finest elm trees on the state bouse grounds were stripped of their bark » few (:‘r- #go by boys, und the trees may Le ruiu Mr, and Mrs, Walton, of Lincoln, lost their sixth child from diphtheria on Sun- day last. All the deaths have occurred within two months, A 10-year-old son of Mr. Stinson, of Elmwood, tied the lariat to his wrist, The cow ran away sud dragged the boy several hundred yarde, fatally ivjuring him, D. Cole, Sr., of Plam Ureelg was thrown from a frightened horse about 8 o’clock in the ¢vening and lay on the ground sense- less till daylight next morning, ‘The house of James Craig, of Richland preciuct, Saunders county, took fire the other morning while the family was at breakfast and was cestroyed. Mr. Craig lost $60 in money also by the flames, At the Seward distrist court, Alex Pat. indicted for murder in the first de- ot a respite until November on aplea of abatement that the grand juty wasn'c drawn from the different precincts propor- tionately to population. Last week Henry Aldrich murdered a pelican which measured 8 feet and 4 inches from tip to tip, had a 15 inch bill, pouch like & guony-sack, and & swallow- ing capacity which could 'accommodate & saw-log. —~Fullerton Jouroal, Rainey Hare, a hard case, knocked down a wau with a pair of iron kouckles in Grand Island last week and robbed him of & watch and money. He was arrested the next dayjaad wilfgo to the peniten- tiary sure, At the recent special term of the district court at Hastings, wherein_a_number of decisions were rendered by Judge Gaslin, was one of importance generally, It was the appeal of Wm, Kerr from the act of the county commissioners wherein they raised his assessment about $3,000, The court held, in substance, that when a man makes a sworn statement to the assessor the commissioners have no right to raise the asse:sment, The high waters of the Big Sandy on Saturday last completely routed the snakes that bad taken winter quarters in the bot- toms of the stream. When the water commenced to rise they were drowned out and had to swim for dear life for higher grounds, A great mauy took refuge on the railroad, aud on Saturday the section men killed between two snd three hundred, mostly rattle snakes, We are also in- formed that E P. House and another gen- tleman killed upwards of seventy very large snakes while walking on the tra-k between his house and town, a distance of five miles, the same day.—Alex:ndrin News. California and the Atlantic States. San Francisco Chronicle, In national politica the republicans of this state, the people of this coast, have no common sympathy or interests identical with those of the majority of republicans in the senate. We are protectioniste for the benefit of Am. erican labor as well as American cap- ital. They are prohibitionists for the exclusive benefit of capital and mon- opoly. We have a profound interest in maintaining the double monetary standard of gold and silver. They, in league with banking capital, desire the demonetization of silver, which is one of our staple productions. Let us organize to antagonize them on these measures with all the energy that they have evinced against us in our demand for the exclusion of Chinese cheap labor. That is to say, let us nominate and elect to congress none but republicans pledged to our views and interests. At the meeting of the next congress the Pacific states, with Colorado, a state in sympathy with us, will count fif- teen votes in the house. As the pros- pect now looks, these fifteen votes may hold the balance of power in that body. A revision of the tariff and legislation relating to the currency and the banks will ke the chief busi- ness in that congress. The banks in this country constitute a monopoly al- most as dangerous to the people as the railway corporations, And with ref- erence to tariff revision, the New Englanders are as substantially pre- hibitionists as they have shown them- selves the friends of Chinese cheap labor and the enemies of the working- men of America. They tavor any tar- iff that takes money out of the pook- ets of the consumers to enrich the capitalists engaged in manufactures. In this they are identical with the Pennsylvanians and Ohioans, who have also antagonized us on the Chi- nese question. It will be in the power of the Pacific states in the next con- gress to draw a sharp sword on these grasping enemies of the common peo- ple, and we shall merit all the perse- cution they have shown an esgerness to give us if we fail to use our advan- tage. A close analysis of the proceedings of the senate on the two Chinese bills demonstrates that the opposition came from the railway corporations, the banking monopolists, the tariff pro- tectionists and the manufacturing in- torests of New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other states. All monopo- lies are the natural enemies of inde- pendence n the laboring class—the natural frionds of cheap and servile labor. Tt is good and wise policy for us of the Pacific States, who are de- manding the exclusion of the myriads of Chinese threatening us with ~inva-’ sion, to treat this eastern combination as enemies, and to strike back at them wherever it is possible to deliver a blow without injury to ourselves. The state can do some good by en- forcing its power of taxatiop to the full extent of the constitution against the railway corporations and by in- structing its senaters and requesting its representatives to urge an exten- sion of the Anderson-Plumb bill for the survey and segregation of all the land granted to the railways to this state, Van Wyck and 'Workingmer- Niobrara Pioneer, } Last Wednesday night the working- men of Omaha, under the leadership of President Walsh, serenaded Sena- tor Van Wyck, which he acknowledg- ed by a strong speech lifting up the laborers of our land as the great for- tress to our wealth and prosperity, and denouncing in bitter terms the action taken by that bloated aristo- crat, Doc. Miller, of The Herald. The Sioux City Journal eays, editor- ially, that altogether it seems to have been a speech not befitting the dig- nity attached to the high oftice Mr. Van Wyck holds. Yes, that is the opinion held, in effect, by such journals as The Omaha Republican and Lincoln Journal. They are an- tagonistic to the fighting senator of Nebraska. They always have been, because he has dared to fight regard- less of consequences. He gained his election to the United States senate by a fight and through the votes of those who saw t' e netd of just such a man to represent the peopie aud not concentrated capital. He has done more good for the people than Pad. dock did during his whole term, and he does not get down and cringe to any administration to, do it. He is Van Wyck's own man and th, servant in measures which a He was sent by the to do the people's work, He is fulfilling those promises he made by work, action and speech. “*Not befit- ting the dignity attached to the high office Mr. Van Wyck holds,” indeed! The Pioneer glories in this indepen- dence, so seldom found just on ac- count of that false dignity of which The Journal speaks. Had we more such men; had we more men who were not so terrified by the power of money, the people would not grum- ble. Senator Van Wyck can afford abuse when on the side of the weak. Glittering gold not honestly accumu- lated has no temptation to him, and the monopoly power will find that ar- gument againsi plain facts will not win, Hope On, Hope Ever, No matter what the allment way be, —as HOUSES LOTS! For Sale By BEMIS, FIFIERNTH AND DOUGLAS S18.,. No. 1°6, House, of sixrooms. well, cellar, etc i o acres of ground near head of 8t 0.0, arge brick houss with besutiful lot m near 16th st, $7600. No 108, House of 6 rooms, corner lot, near 1 th. and Pierce street, No 192, House near U. ¥, depot § ) No 100, One and one-half story house 10 rooms £0 feet on therman ave (10th et) near ton's 33500, 189, Two story house of 7 rooms, cellar, well and ¢ stern on Sherman ave (10, st) near Clark st §2800. No 188, Large honee of 10 rooms and lot 87x 284 feor on Farnam near 21st $3000, Noj187, [arge two story house of 10 rooms nd corner lot on Burt st near 22nd $3000, Make 500, rooms coraer lot on 5th an offer. No 185, Large brick house8 rooms and one halt 1ot ow 13th st near Dodge, 12,000, Touse of b rooms and fuil 1ot on Ham. ilton neat end of Red street car line $2000, No 183, New house of 4 rooms with haif lot on onta_a near Cuming st §1270, No. 182, Lar ‘o building 22x80 feet with re. frigerator. 22x30 feet, loe room nbove, heavily built, holdiug 125 to 150 tons of ice, fine stons cellar undcr whole building; alsotwo story house @ room, collar, well and cistern, lot = 66x13e feet, 87600. Near 16th and Webster. No 181, Two story biick house of 0 rooms, 7 closets, 10t 60x200 feet on 19th st near St. Mary's ave §7000, No 170, Laree house and full lot on Webster nesr 20uh st §11,000. 178, House 8 rooms, full flot on Pierce near 20th street, 81,650, 177, House room, tull lot on Douglas near 26th stroet, §7000. 176, Boautiful residence, full lot on Cass noar 10th street, $12,000. 176, House three rooms, two closete, etc., halt 1ot on 21st near Grace street, 8300, 172, One and one-half story brick house and: tw 1ots on Douglas near 25th strect, 1,700, 171, House two rooms, well, cistern, stable, etc full 10t near Picreo and 18th stroet, $1,600. 175}, One and one-half story house' six,rooms. I, haltlot on Convent strect near St. enue, 81,850, No, 160, House'and 83x120 feet lot on 1gth streo't near Webster stroet, §3,500. No. 164, House of 11 rooms, lot 33x120 feet on 19t near Burt street, 5,000, No. 167, Two story' house, 0 rooms 4 elosete, ‘rood celiar, on 1Sth street near Poppleton's 4,000, No. 164, One and one halt story house 8 rooms on 18th strect 1 ear Leavenworth, $3,600. No. 161,§0ne and one-halt story bouse of rooma near Hanscom Park, 81, No. 168 Two houses 6 rooms cach, closets, etc on Burt street near 2oth, 88,500, No. 166, House 4 larga rooms, 2 closets half acro on Burt street near Dutton, $1,200, No, 165, Two houses, one of 6 and oneof 4 rooms, on 17th street near Marcy, §3,200. No. 164, Three houses, one of 7and two of & roomn each, and corner 'lot, on Cass near 14th strect, $6,000. Ne. 158, Small house and full lot on Pacific near 12th street, 32,600, No. 11 One story house 6 rooms, on Leaven worth near 16th, 83,000, No, 160, House three rooms and lot 92x115 fect near $6than | Farnham, 82,600, No, 148, New house of eight rooms, on 18th strect near Loavenworth, §3,100. No, 147, House of 13 rooms on 18th street near Marcy, 85,000, No, 146, House of 10 rooms and 1}lots on 18th street near Marcy, 8,000, No. ouse two large rooms, lot 67x210 fee onSherwan svenue (10th street) near Nicholsa, 2,200, No. 142, House 6 rooms, kitchen, etc., on 16th strect near Nicholas, 81,575, No. 189, Housi 3 rooms, lot 60x1663 feet, on Douglas riear 27th streat, 31,500, No. 187, House 6 rooms and half lot on Capitel avenae near 28 scrcet, §256)., No. 129, Two hcases one of 6 snd one of 4 rooms, on'leased lot on Webster near 20th stret, $2,500.. No, 127, Two story house §. rooms, hult ot on Webster near 19th 3,500, No. 124, Large house and full block near Faruham and Conral street, 38,000 No. 123, House 6 rooms and large lot on Saun- ders street near Barracks, $2,100. No. 113, House 8 rooms on Douglas ncar 26th street, $750 No.'112, Brick houso 11 rooms and halt lot on near 14th street, $2,800. No. 111, House 12 rooms on Davenport neir 20th strect, 87,000, No. 110, Brick house anc lot 22x132 feet on w9 strect near 15th, $3,000. No, 107, House 5 rooms and half lot on Izard nea 117th street, 81,200, No. 105, Two story house § rooms with 1} on Seward near Saunders stroet, 82,800, No. 108, One and one half story house 10 rooms ‘Webster near 16tn street, $2,600, No. 102, Two houses 7 rooms cach and § lot on 14th near Chieago, #,000, No, 101, House § rooms, cellsr, etc., 14 lots on South avenue near Pacific streer, $1,850. half lot No. 100, House 4 room: cg:!lau, 0 No. 99, Very large house and full lot on Har rheumatisin, neuralgis, lameness, asthma, bronchitis—it other = treatments have failed—~hove on! go at once for THouas Ecueraic O1n, 1t will secure your jm- wediate relief, on lzard street near 18th, §2 noy near 14th street, §9 000, No. 97, Large house of 11 rooms on Sherman ayenuo near Clark street, make an offer. No. 06, One and one-half story house 7 rooms lot 240x401 feot, stable, etc,, on Sherman ave. nue near Grace, §7 000, No, 92, Large bllck.hnnu two lots on Daven ,000. port strect near 19th . No. 90, Large house sud fulllos on Dodgo 0 rooms half lot on 20th strect, 87, Largo ha near California street, 7,600 No, 8, Largo house 10'or 12 rooms, beautifa) corner 1utonCase near 20th, §7,000 . No. 87, Two story house 8 rooms b _acres o land on Ssunders street near Barracks, $2,000. No. 85 TWo_stores and a_rosiaence 0n leased half lot,near Mason and 10th street, 8800, No. 82, One and one half story t ouse, 8 rooms tull lot o Pierce near 20th streét, §1,800. No. 81, 1'wo 2 story houses, one of% andone o! 6 rooms, Chicago St., near 15th, 83,000, No. 77, Large house of 11 rooms, i . Inx, otc., With 1 lot on Parnhawm néar19th street, 000, No. 76, Oreand one-halt story house ot & roous, lot 66x8s feet on Cass near 14th street, §4,600. No. 76, House 4 rooms and basement, lot 16)x152 feet on Marcy near éth street, 8500, No.74 Large brick house and two full lots on Davenport near 16th street, §16,000. No. 78, One and one-half' story house and’lob 86x182 feet on Jackson near 12th street, $1,800, No. 72, Large brick house 11 rooms, tul’ lof on Davenport near 15th stroet, §6,000. No. 71, Large house 12 rooms, full lot on Call. fornia near 20th strect, §7,000, No, 65, Stable aud 8 full lots on Frankln streeh near Saunders, $2,000. No. 64, Two story trame building, stor below and roonis above, on leased lot on’ Doage near 15th stroet, Sog No. 63, House 4 rooms, basement, ete., lo 8x280 fect on 19th street ncar Nail Works, 1, 1700, No. 62, New house 4 rooms ono story, full lop Harney car 21st st eet, §2,500, No. 61, Large house 10 rooms, full ot on Burk nea N, 2int sireoty 85.000. ouso £ rooms, half 10t on Daven; d $1000. i our houses and half lot on C: 18th 8 2,500, i No 68, Houe of 7 rooms, full lot on Webster near 16 etvcct 82,600, o1 6 'rooms and full lot, Ha nerr 20Uh stroet, §2,000, iy No 6, House 7 roows, lot 60x83 feet on Cass. near 17th street, #,000. No 8, Large house 10 rpoms, well, cistern, ete, on Hurucy near th strect, &,000 Two story house § rooms, etc., tull log on Webster near 15th street §2,600 No 60, House of 10 rooms, full lot on Califor. nia near 21st street, 0. No 60, Houte 6 e street near Paul, §3,000. N0 40, Brick house 11 rooms, full lob on Fare naw near )7th strect, 8,000, No 48, House of 9'rooms, half lot on Pacific nzar Oth street, §3,’ No 87, House of 8 Nicholas stres 3,01 No 80, 2 wo tull lots on 19tk oms, 14 lots on 10th near 30, 21w story brick houses with lot 4dx 82 feet on Chicago near 15th street §6,500 each. No 46, Large house 7 roows, closets, ctc o 18th street uear ark, $3,000, BEMIS' ReaL EsTare Acexcy 16th and Douglas Street, DVLAELS, I E o ———— e . i