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

o 4 THE DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6 Th_e Omaha Bee:' Published ever: ay. The enly morning, except Son. onday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL- ©One Year,...810 00 | Three Monthe. 83 00 Biz Montha.. 500 | One Month.... 1,00 "HE WEEKLY BE W5 ineeday. THRMS POST PAID -~ One Year.. 2.00 | Three Months. 50 8ix Months, ... 1.00 | One Month.... 20 AmekioaN News Company, Sole Agents for Newadealors in the United States. published every CORRESPONDEN —All Communi- atfons relating to News and Editorial matters shonld be addressed to the Eprror or Trr Bee. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines Letters and Remittances should be od dressed to THE B PUBLISRING COMPANY Omana. Drafts, Checks and Postoffico Orders to ba made payable to the order of the Company. The BEE PUBLISHING 0., Props. E. ROSEWATER Editor A areaT many Poles seem to be immigrating to Omaha—telegraph poles, It is a wise romark that the record of a party does not constitute ite fature, Nexr to cheap food, cheap fuel, cheap gas will be most aocepteblo to A LATE CONVERT. the Union Pacific, embracing several paid one dime of any kind of tax. ders of the corporations, 8o ents. This is, to eay the least, somo- what late In the eeason. As far back a8 1874 a convention before which Mr Valentine was a candidato for secreta- ry of state, embodied in its platform a resolution endorsing what was then known as Orounse's bill, to compel the land grant railroads to pay their taxes. That bill had passed the house but had been pigeon-holed in tho senate. But Mr. Valentine never heard of that measure, and ho who had been receiver of a land offiso was not aware that the railroads did not take out patenta for their lands until they dis- E. K. Valentine haa been in oon- | 0! gress threo years and nine months, |© is not thought to be danger: omewhat closer soruting of mer- oantils oredit, but none for refasing it Daring a1l this period he has never |y, traders whose oondition is mani- discovered that the vast land grant of | featly sound, million of acrenin Nobraska has never | THE OLAIM AGENTS BONANZA The 8an Francisco Chronicle ocalls The Soldiers’ and Sail- entitlad to its benofits, Persons who have notwserved in the army or navy aro required to take immediate pos- session of the land filed on for a homestead, after filing. The soldier need not enter on his homestead till six months after filing. Ninety days’ active service in the army or navy entitles him to a homestead, and he need not be a citizen, If he werved for three or tour years, or for any shorter time, so much time is dedact- ed from tho term of five years’ aclual residence and cultivation of the lend CHEAP GAS. ordinance was enacted by the oity council of Omaha granting authority under certain conditions to the Omaha Gas Manufacturing company to erect gas works and lay their mains through the public streets and alleys. By this The recent campaign, and especlally | attention to a scheme set on foot in|ordinance the company and its suc- his ambition to play anti-monopolist | Washington by claim agents to have during the coming sessfon of the leg: | the Soldlers’ and Sailors’ Homestead islature, has brought to his notice the | Iaw amended ostensibly in the inter- fact that the people of his state bear |est of the soldlers and sailors who o heavy burden of taxation which has | fought in the late civil war, but really been shifted on them from the shoul- | in the interest of the speculators in Mr. |land claims, Valentine has introducad a bill to|ors’ Homestead Act as it now stands compel the U, P. to take out its pat- | is all that could be wished by any one cessors were bound to supply the city with gas at a price not above $3 per thousand ocuble feet for street lamps. Bection 6th of the ordinance reqaired the gas company to ‘‘report to the city council stating the number of consumers in said city and antil it ahall appear that there are two hundred consumers, the said Omaha Gas Manufacturing Company may charge any sum not exceeding 83 73} per thousand cubio feet of gas, and aiter the number of consumers shall exceed two hundred and until there are over three hundred coneum ers, they may charge aay sum not ex- ceeding three hundred and seventy- two and a half hundredths dollars per t] donbic feet of gas,and whenever there are over three hundred consum- ers they may charge any sum not ex- ocoeding three and seventy-two and a half hundreths dollars per thousand cubic feet of gas.” This is verbatim tho language of the ordinance gompiled by John P, Bart- which is required of any other person pose of thom to settlera or speculators and that as long as no patent is issned the people of Omsha, 8usaN B Awrmony will pass the winter in Washington, Mre, Gougar the lands are not entered for taxation, More than twelve months ago Gen- eral Van Wyck introduced a bill which is now pending that will compel the taking a homestead. The reading of the section on this head is: The timo which the homestead set- tler had served in the army or marine corps shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect title; or if discharged on account of wounds will bo too busy with libel suits to|land grant roads to take out patents|received or disabilities incurred in apply for that seat In the senate. Tur report of the tariff commission on thoir aubsidy lands, Mr, Valen- the line of duty, then the terms of above, is that either the compiler was a knave and changed the language of the original ordinance, or else that the councll that granted this charter was a set of idiots, This charter was granted fiiteen years ago, years before Tie BEE came into exist- tine could and should have followed | enlistment shall b deducted from |€nce, but it's editor, who even at that that up in the house’ but he hadn’t heard of it, Congressman Anderson, the time heretofore required to per- fect title, without reference to the length of time he may have served; was presonted yosterday to congress. | Kansas, more than eighteen months | but no patent shall issue to any home. The items of that $6,000 Long Branch hotel bill were probably omitted, Forrrax comment on the president’s message is said to be unfavorable, ago introduced such a bill in the house and there was a good deal of a strug- gle over it. But the chalrman of the committee on agrioulture was as deaf as a post. He hadn’t one word to say stead settlor who has not resided upon, improved and cultivated his home- atead for a period of at least one year after he -fiu have commenced his improvementa, It he served four years he need ‘What toreign journalists do not know |in favor of the measure. During the | only reside on and cultivate the land about American politics would fill & | campaign when he denfed his collusion | one year till he is entitled to his pa- large encyolopedia, Tax prosident recommends a large incrense in the iron clad " fleet, / Mr. Robeson knew what he was about that their lands were untaxed, that |contracted in war he is entitled to a when he spent $70,000 to eecure a re- eleotion to congress, A mivister of the gospel common theit. Emmep— Tae railroads in Nebraske may be [never. Now converts are generally | vices during the war. with monopolies, he was asked why he had not taken some step to compel the railroads to pay and he very innocent- ly declared that he had never heard nobody had sent him a petition on that subject and that he was amazed to find that peoplo were so exclted cver the matter. He was probably just as Who | much amazed when the Elkhorn Val- | select his homestead by an agent, He champlons the star-route robberies loy railroad named its terminus near [may perfect his title in one year and from ths pulpit, in in & fair way of | Fort Niobrara, Valentiue. becoming an epologist for jobbory and | plimenta are always paid by railroads | must wait five years, The wife of a Such com- to champion anti-monopolists, Bat, perhaps, it is better lste than tent; if three years, only two years’ residence Is required, and if enlisted for four yeara-and was honorably dis- charged for wounds or other disability drawback of the full term of onlist- ment. His wife and orphan children are entitled to all his rights in case he dies before or after filing. He may then sell the land, while the citizen soldier or sailor is entitled to a credit for homestead for her husband’s ser- Proof of cul- ou of politics, ns their orgaus assert, | very zealous. Wo shall, however, in- | tivation, as prescribed in the above bat the practiosl attorneys of the rail- | sist that Valentine's probation be eX-|quoted section, is required in such ronda are skirmishiog around through. | tended bayond his presont term before | cases. The fees required of a soldier .out the state in a way which indicates [ we take much stock in him as an anti- [are the sime as those required that somebody is in politios deeper |monopolist. His bill, of courso, isa[of & citizen at the land office. than ever. S—— Me Poos who is paid by tho rall- Ry ¢ 45k precedence, and congress | ors who are disabled by wounds can- ‘rosds for publiching & mu.mul is OI.IE must adjourn on the 4th of Maroh. | not comply with the requirements of with alstter to the Evening Postin|1q i yulcen action at all on this subject | sctusl cultiyation sud accordingly ask which he states that the railrond “kings are governed by publie opinion. | ype yap Wyck or on the Anderson |cut such compliance with the law. ““The public be —," was Mr Ven. dabilt's emphatio vomark on the same objeot. WhiLk Attornay General Browster is wrestling over Dorsey's expedition of the muils in New Mexico many Omaha merchants are praying for somo azpedition of the mails in this ity which will onable them to secure thoir correspondence within three hours after the arrival of trains on the other side of the river, AHE TRANSIT OF VENUS The transit of venus over the face of the sun, which begins a thirty-five minutes pasi seven this morning, is the most interesting astronomical event of the century, It will be ob- served all over tho world by the most skilled“of scientists, furnished with the best sppliances which money cau Jprocure, In North and South America, in Africa and Aostralia eagor eyes will be scanning the sun to-day to catch the exact eecond of the planet's contact with its disc and to photo- graph ',m progress mcross the great lumioary, The importauce of obsorvationa of | more clearly into relief, the salient | to do justice toall cl the trensit of Venus arises from the fact that they give us the most certain wenns of determining the distances of the members of the solar system from the earth, As the position of Venus on the runat the swme moment appears tions of the earth, it becomes Pon: to determine how great & displseement of Venus ariees for so many miles of distance between the obaexvers on the earth, And this ls exaoily cquivalent to determning the distanoe of Venus from the earth, just a8 a surveyer can determwine distances by cbservations from a measured base line, When the distavcs of Venus is thus secertained it becomes an casy matter by using Kepler's Third Law, to determine the distance of the other plaunets, and in fact the scale of the entire solar system. This is the reason why such earnest hopes for clear weather have been ex pressed, Ancther December transic of Venus will not ocour for 243 years, snd it will be more than 130 years be- fore the phenomens will be again witnesscd. Our government has ap- . propristed $85,000 for purposes of ~ gbscrvativs and eight parties will as. slst Jin the work, cpmmon opors glass can cbserve the phenomena of the traneit. d mere sop. There are already more thav a thousand bills on the calendar duriog this session it will be either on bill, and no credit will be attached to Valontine for bringing up a subject that hay boen pending so long, and which has oven forced its way iuto the prosident’s message. — THE BUSINESS SITUATION. Colder weather has alroady had its effect in stimulating trade in a number of lines, Although the financial sit- uation is still.far from satisfactory, the market is much easier than it was s weok ago. The farmers ars atill holdiog back their grain for better pricos. This tends to render collec- tions slow, But as we have said be- fore, at the bottom, there is assurance in tho very fact that the fermers are able to hold their grain, Under such ciroumstances, those who are in debt to local. mer- chants will be likely to pay, and the The olaim agents are operating upon the assumption that soldiers and sall- that claims may be transferred with- The fact is that disabled soldiers acd sailors can do better.. They can use the money which they receive as pen- sions for their wounds in the employ- ment of some one to work for them, The law does not mean that the home- steader muet work himself, but that the lana must be cultivated so long to perfact title, It is & big job to enable land agents, pension agents and spee- ulators to get possetsion of tens of thousands of wsoldiers’ and sailors’ homesteads for a trifls, and hold them fora rise in land, which is every year becoming more and more valuable as the public domain drifts away into the hands of rallway corporations, Cuicaco and 8¢, Louis are now dis- oussing high license and point to the operation of the law in Noebraska as a time was intensely opposed to the creation of chartered monopolies, well remembers that he spent two days fighting the parsage of this ordinance, and John H, Kellom, who was one of the incorporators of the defunet gas company, recently remarked that this was the first time he discovered the fighting qualities of Rosewater. The editor also distinctly remembers that as origlnally drawn the ordinance fixed a rate at a fraction over $6 per thonsand for consumers until the quantity of gas consumed reached 100,000 cubic feet a day, when the price was to be reduced 50 cents per thousand for every additional fifty thousand feet consumed daily until the price touched €3 50! There was also a provision that the gas was to be of 16 candle power and manufactured from Pittaburg ooal. All these provisiona are not now to be found inthe revised ordinances. But that doesn’t matter, Section 13 pro- vides that tho company shall forfeit all rights and privileges granted if they sharge any higher rate than that fixed hy the oharter. Now the original company went out of exist- ence or transferred all its rights to the present Omaha Gaslight Company and they are subject to all Evergbody who has used gas during the past two years knows that that sliding soale of $3.72§ per thousand and a half up and down has not been adhered to. The people of Omaka have been made to pay all sorts of prices ranging from $5600 down teo $3 00 par thousand feet. The time has come for cheaper and better gas in Omaha, A responsible company asks the privilege of con- atructing works and laying down their mains under a guarantee that they will furnish gas of double the lighting quality at one-half the price we now pay. The public interest demands that such a right shall be given them. The enormous expenso for lighting our streets must be largely increased lett, city solicitor in 1872, The only |employ of inferonce that can bo drawn from the | of the U. P. nguinet that of the party and people? ained, There may be need | Onthe 22d of January, 1868, an|The U. P. road has not gone out of politios and will not until driven ont by an outraged people, was noeded and Brooks was sscrificed and Nye is happy. He can now ocon. to whip them into admiration of his hearts content. He can order the infinitesimal hangers on to the en. gine, to announce that the road has one out of polities and Nye has gone n, and will run a paper that is to be stalwart republican, in politics and in the Interest of the people, and the aforesaid infinitesimal creatures will at once obey, with alacrity. and shout ‘‘long live Frred the great Nye,” and Fred will clip their sayings and parade them before »n admiring and eager throng, However, this announcement which we give to our readers on the unquestioned authority of Mobley, brings up prominently one fict, viz: It was strenuously denied by the Re- publican staff that the U, P. road hdd any connection, financial or otherwise, with the Republican, and every county paper and anti monopolist who charged to the contrary were de- nounced as soreheade, rgoltimz liara, now, Bro. Mobley admits for Nye and Kimball that they had, but have gone out of the business. This being true, we suggest that Nyo is ouly “‘play- Iing 'poesum” and wishes a little cheap notoriety, and that he is yet in the and political agent f company, and ad- vise every anti-monopolist in Central Nebraska, who does net wish to con- tribute to the support of a'ailroad organ, to refuse to Jonger support in any way, the Omaha Republican. It in a raiiroad journsl, conducted in the interest of the U. P, road. Nyo has been and we believe is, & political agent of theirs. We are prepared to prove in court, that he has been and will do so if he has enough interest in the matter to come to Kearney on a pass and-attend the December term of our district court. We will put him on the stand as our witnees and prove it by himself, or force hima to commit the crime of per- jury. We are tired of seeing life long republicans abused and read out of the party by such up- starts and politiesl free booters as Fred Nye, who never had a conscien- ttous political opinion of his own in his brief esistence. He occuptes the same position to Thomas L. Kimball that the first terrier, with its hand- some bruss collar oceupies toward its master, and has always been ready to do his bidding, save and except the time when he wanted Rosewater to give him a position on THE Bee, and to keep him from barking Kimball put him on The Republican @Gen. Daniel Tyler, & Son-iz-Law of Gen, Israel Putnam. General Daniel Tyler, whose death in New York has been announced, was born in Brooklyn, Windom county, Oonnecticutt, in 1799 His father, ©aptain Daniel Tyler, a graduete in 1771 at Harvard college, married for his first wife the daughter of General A moape goat tlaue to abuse all good republioans who do not fear his liliputian efforts Thurston, Howe, Green and Gere, to Clark’'s Dou BLUEING, e ——Y OM.AFELA COFFEE AND SPIGE MILLS. Roasters and Grinders of Coffees and Spices, Manufacturers of IMPERIAL BAKING POWDERI ble Extracts of INKS, ETC. H. G. OLARK & CO0., Proprietors, 1403 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neh 1108 and 1110 Harney ¢ TLED FRIED & CO. AT ER O LT ET 0 3. T HARDWARE, t., - OMAHA, NEB. SPECI L Growers of Live NOTIEE TO Stock and Cthers. WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO OUR Ground Oil Cake. *- 1t is the beat and cheapest food for stosk of any kind. One pound is equal to three pounds of corn. 'Stock fed with Gzound Oil Cake in the fall and win- ter, inatead of running down, will increase in weight and be in good market- able condition in the spring. Dairymen as well as others who uve it can tes- tify to its merits. charge for sacks. o4-eod-mo Address Try it and judge for yourselves. Price §26.00 por ton; no WOOODMAN LINSEED OIL CO:, Omaha, Neb. L. C. HUNTINGTON & SON, DEALERS IN 204 Worth Sixteenth St., HIDES, FURS, WOOL. PELTS & TALLOW OMAHA, NEB. METGALF&BRO. " | Isracl Putnam, and served as his aid at the battle cf Bunker Hill, and for a considerable period during the revo- lutionary war. The secofd wifa of Oaptain Tyler, the mother of General iDaniel Tyler, was Sarah Plerpont the provisions of the original grant, | TEdwards, the eldest granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards, the theologian. General Tyler graduated at West | Point, in 3819, as the second lieuten- | ant of artillery. At the time of his decease he was believed to be the eld- est living graduate, and was president of the Alumni association at that in- stitution. After several years served in the artillery school of practice at Fortress, Monroe, and elsewhere, he was sent, in 1827, on professional duty to France, where through the friendship of General Lafayette, he entered the military school at Moetz, and afterwards at Strasbonrg. He translated from the French the ‘“Man- avres of Artillery,” which laid the foundation of the light artillery service in the American army. Re- signing from the army in 1834, he en- tered upon civil life in connection with iron making, railrozds and other internal improvements. Ho was prosi- dent successively of the Norwich and Worcester railroad company, the Morris canal and banking company, the Macon and Western railroad com- as the area of lighting is enlarged. We want lights not only for three hours a night, but for all night, and if wo can get it for less money than we are now paying, it behooves the mayor and council togive us the benefit of it. Out of Pollucs. situation whilo calling for the exeroise | 86rong argument in Its favor. The|yeuraey Press, of a conservative tomper is not such as to give ground for exciting alarm. A distinct halt has been called in railway construction, When the methods pursued by the leading rail- road promotezs shall have been brought foature will be tho extent to which corporate abuees have served to iuflate the stock and bond capital of American railroads, The vonstruction company way be an excellent device for enriching the powerful in depleting the profits of stockholders and in forcing the public 10 earn interest on fixed charges The wild speculation in shares which made the New York stock market the cat'spaw of the wmullionaire managers upon general trade and increased the financial stringency throughout the oountry The iron and steel industrles com+ plain of hard times, and several works have already shut down, The fact is that the steel rail makers of the conu- try are resting sccare on their accu- mulated prcfite and think that there is 0o time ko appropiiste as the pres: ent to lmpress congress with the faot hat any reduction in the tariff on steel means the destruoction of the fron iodustry, which has been paying in the past two years only a trifle of from 50 per cont to 80 per cent on the general opinion is that it has proved a better mode of checking the evils of intemperance than any prohibitory law which would fail in its enforce- ment., The only question is at what sum the license ought to be put, so as s of venders. Tax r for the Butlers. good y Besnjawin was triumphantiy elected governor of Massachusetts, Hamburg Massacre Butler has just been re- olected seuntor from South Carolingy " s . g and our own David is about toge. differént to observers at different por- | railway promoters, but it is equally | 00 publio life snd is sald to hays an oye on the senatorial shoes of ‘Alvin Saundera, ————e—— has| Tue Washiogton preacher who has | Omaha mounted his pulplt to revolutionize public sentiment about the star-route hus exercised & most depresting effoct{¥ivg has undertaken a mighty big|too job, Brady, Dorsey and tho rest of the ringsters may escapo tho peniten- tiary, but they will never be acquitted 8t the bar of public opivion, — 81 is announced that Senator Win. dom is well assured of his re-election to the United States senate, Mr, Windom is a public man of whom the weet has every reason to he proud, to abolish all internal duties on tobac- 00 and cigars, thioks smoking should be encouraged. Venus in the Dark. iuvestment, Taken as & whole, tradg | BPocial Pispateh to Tun Bax, Any one with a|is more cheerfal than it was a week I? rom the north and east indicate un- ago. Apart from the floating of ex-1 promising weather for satisfactory ob- coseive rallroad securitics the general | servations of the transit of Venus. Mr. Kelloy. evidently New York, Dacember 6 —Reports | Kimball, It is authoritatively announced that the U, P, road has gone out of politics and have sold their interest in The Omaha Republican to Meesrs, Yost and Nye. That this is true we think there cah be no question as it is pub- hehed as truth in the semiofticial organ of the road, known as The Grand Island Independent, edited by Mr, Soth P. Mohla{. We are greatly pleased at being sble to lay this im- portant_fact before the people, upon thorify soclose to“U. P, head- Quarters, as § Mobley, and hope the sonouncement will have a soothing effoct upon the Nebraska publio, Of couree, every one in Nebraska knows Fred Nye, the son of Theron aud the father of Boomerang BlL It is known that the U, P, road started Nye io the publishing business at in an enterprise known as The Omaha News, an evering paper, which was to swamp ThE BEg, but, which proved to be expensive an under- taking for the U, P. road ind was discontinued, Fred, after trying to get a position on TuE Beg, was placed on the pay roll of the U, P, road, as an assistant editor of the Omaha Republican, to keep his mouth shut in regard to certain political transactions of the road. Brooks, however, run the paper, as directed from headquarters, and succeeded in disrupting the republican party la the state and electing an opposition legis- lature, The compary seeing the re- — Mz, Pio Irox KeLLeY asks congress | sult, concluded to oust Brooks and in- stall Nye, and announced a change of programme, which they have done, and the world gets the significant in- telligence in the columns of Mobley's This was a8 it should have But who believes that Nye has severed his connection with road? w?:"ildm.. e{h‘(;l ::: mn BY DRUGQGISTS. Price 81, Republican will not be run in the interest of the U, P, road and pany, the Cumberland Valley railroad company and of the Mobile and Mont- gomery railroad compsny, besides having important connection with many other similar enterprises. At the breaking out of the war he tendered his services to the governor of Connecticut and was appointed colonel of the First Conneeticut Volunteers, and afterwards brigadier general of the state forces. In this czpacity he commanded a division in the Manassas campaign of 1861, and was present at Blackford’s Ford and the first battle of Bull Run, In 1862 he was appointed a brigadier geneial of volunteers in the United States service, and served in the Mississippi campaign of 1862, the seige of Cor inth, and was in command at Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights when the rebel army invaded Pounsylvania, He was a man of unuensl vigor of intellect and force of character. In his old age, up to within « faw months, he retained his facultier, both phylicli and mental, in themost «xtraordinary manuer, His relations to wmen and events throughout his long life, in which he was brought in contact, and knew intimately many of the leading wmen upon the stage, made him a very interesting personage. He was the last surviver of a numerous family, who were distirguished for their longovity, His wife, wh'm he sur- vived several years, was the sister of tho Right Rsv. 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