Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1882, Page 4

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She succeeded in hiding her face from more than half the world who were especially anxious to see it. —_— Rvery railroad organ in the state 1s now a convert to the commissioner system. A commission is a good deal .easior to buy up than a majority of ‘the legislature. Tur proposition to give Omaha cheap gas was laid on the tablo at the ‘last mesting of the ocity ecouncil. Any oouncilman{who opposes cheap .gas will be Iaid under the table the very frat timo he runs for ro-election. ““Lir us talk about the’ weather,” was the rematk of the daughters of the major geveral in the ‘‘Pirates of Ponzance.” There was a good deal of talk about the weather yealerday among observers of tho travsit of Venus who had been praying fora olear day. TuMiGRATION continues to pour into the country in an unprecedented de gree. Daring the first eleven months of this year there arrived at Oustlo Gardon 435,638 immigrants, which was 18,784 more than for the corre- wpondidy " poriod last year. The greatest number in a month wis in May, 88,708 or en average of 2,803 per day. . GeNBRAL Looan ls all cooked and primed for another greatest offort of his life ogainst Fitz Jonn Porter, Logan was made a major general be- fore he enlisted as o private, and of .gourse his opinion on militazy matters is worth more than the cool and un- impassioned judgment of such a green- horn in the art of war as U, 8, Grant Tur board of education aro consid- ering the advisability of a new school building in the northwestern portion of the city. Some steps to relicve the overcrowding of the high sohool ought to bo taken a: once. Fall schools are complimentary to the school manage. ment, but overcrowded rooms are at oneo detrimental to the discipline of the echools and to the health of the scholars, It looks as if congress intends after all to settle down to business and to lot the late election take care of ftself, It was as much the record of the last scesion as any other cause which présipitatod the November storm, and if anything can drive away the clouds which have gathered around the republican party it will be The Omaha Bee. Tl Vo el T The first excursion train over the new sonchern transcontinental route loft on Tuesday for California by way of New Otleans, over the recently completed Southern & Texas Pacifio toute, The junction of these two lines of railway at El Paso gives a new outlet for the produce of the Pacifie const which secks an eastern market, and is of the highest importance in opening up a heretofore undeveloped country to the manufacturing aud trade ifitoresta of the Mississippi valloy. Shortly after the completion of the Union Pacific, May 10th, 1869, the Southern Pacifie company was con: solidated with several small roads in Oalifornia. By an act of congress in 1871 the company wes authorized to connect with the Texas & Pacific at Fort Yams, which conneotion was effscted in May, 1877, Sives then the work of construotion esstward has gone steadily on until now the road is considered completa; 1t haying outbiets and connestions with New Orleans, the prineipal cities of Texas, and with 8t Louis over the Atchison, Topaka & Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific The Southorn Pacific as now com pleted opens the s>uthern portion of Oalifornis, and the availablo parts of New Moxico and Arizona territorier both to the benefi's of eastern trade and to the immigration and capital of forelgners and natives of thls country, Heretofore the rich agrioultural and grazing lands of Southern Qalifornia, which embraces nearly one-third of the entiro area, and three-fourths of this 50,000 square miles suited to cul- tivation, have scarcely been used st all. The road passes through the famed wheat lands of tho Con- tra Costs, Ban Joaquin, Ta. ro, Kern river and other fer. tile valleys, probably the richest in the world. In the territories agri- culture is not so well adapted to the country through a lack of rainfall. In somo districts, however, irrigating methods ave being used with profit- ablo results. ax the soil is equally as rich as that of California, With the eet lamont of the country a great rain. fall will oocur each year and in conse- quoncy & better adaptability of the soil to pgriculture and grazing. As the Southern Pacifis is controlled aud operated by the Central Pucfic the formor gystem will now reccive somo of the benefits derived from its cors nection with the Union Pasific, which can legltimataly bo taken from the latter road. These edvan. tages oertaivly will be con- siderable, espectally the eastorn bound hasiasss now handled altogether by the Oantral to the Union Pacific company., Tho castern terminus of the road is at El Pazo Del Norte, to- wards whith point railroads are being constructed, while ¢onnectivns are already made to New Orleans and ' St. Louis, Tho latter place will derive considerablo banefit from tha opening of the road and its merchants have alreudy sent their envoys to graep the trade of the newly opemed country in advance of compotitors, Beeides its entering the field as & formidable cowmpetitor with the osean grain carry- ing vessels for through business, the advantoges to be derived from the new road may be thus summarized, It will be a material auzillary in taking tho Mexican trade from, and now controlled by Earo- poan cities, and giving it to the Amer- ioan cities, It will give the southern statos a routo to the Pacific const, and an interest in the commerce of Asia and Eorope. It will open up a nia- oral section of country heretofore un- developed owing to the want of proper machinery and eapital. It will bring into the market millions of acres of valuable lands hitherto unavailable for lack of propor transportation and markets, It will aid tho national gov- ernment in tho transportation of Iu- .» olean, yigorous and public spirited policy put into execution by the rep- resentatives of the people who will 'shape legislation during the next three ‘months st Washington, The first sub. | 178 ject which must be disposed of is the appropriation bills, One of these, the Andian bill, has a'ready been reported, The others avre in the hands of the committe of the ways and means, and will bo rushed into the house as a8t possible, There is no «doubt that the department estimates will be very materially cut down. In o exosed the approvria- 6 as thay were, for the cur- | ‘year, The sum total is ,000,000 than that voted for 188%,:and this does not include the river and harbor bill, or any estimate for the postal service as it Is expected that the government revenue from that source Will more than wmeet expenses. In the present temper of the people congreas will be worse than blind if it refuses to cut down both the ex. ponditures and the ineome of the government., The demand for a prompt reduction of taxation is loud and pressing. It will be suicide if the xepublican party, which is now held xeaponsible for the eonduct of the government, fails to meet it,. Weare paying off the public debt too fast. The people need the money, which' is draine from them to fill the treasiry to ovsrilawing, more than the govern- ment ¢o.s, The governmeat can borsow all the meney it needs st three cent., but it is worth more than dian and war department suppliss, and bo a factor in the solution of the In- dian question, Finally it will draw ether a vast amount of oapital Hoarded in tho east and tend to its exponditure on the new section of country o:m&d by the road, The Bxk takes the value of the rail- roads, adds the amount of their in- debtedness, and says that they ought to be assessed for the whole busineas, This Is the first time that the olaim has been made that & man who owesa debt ought to be subject to taxation on that debt. Rosewater knows that the railroads of Nebraska are valued as high as other pr.?ort{, and we know that the railrosds of Nebraska are rated comparatively about three times as high as the property known a8 the Omsaha Bxe Will the editor of that sheet deny it? This is not in defense of the railroads, but in the in- terest of truth,—Omaha Republican, The value of any specios of prop- erty is what it will bring in the market or at forced eale. If the property is mortgaged and will sell at a given sum with the mortgage un- oancelled, then the property is worth just what it will eell for with the mortgage added. To illustrate: Sup- pose that a farm is mortgaged for $5,000. Does not the assessor value it at what it would bring at a forced sale, under the mortgage! Buppose it could be sold for $5,000, what would its real value be! Would it not be worth $6,000 more than the mort- goge or in all $10,000, Now then supposs the sssessor made it his practice o assoms farm propexty st ope-third of its real THE DAILY BB: THURSDAY ° NEW TRANSOCONTINEWT-|worth for asessment $3,33333, | which is not more than 100,000 at AL ROUTE. whereas if he assessed it only st one- third of what it would sell for regard- loss of the mortgage the owner would only pay taxes on $1,666.66. On the same basis of a railroad that is mort- gaged for $45,000 per mile sells in the markot at $83.000 per mile, its resl wvalue is $128,000, If the rale of onethird s applied to railroad property as it is to other property, it wouid have to pay taxes on $42,666,66 per mile. This is ex- actly the condition of the Union Pa- oifio, which, instead of paying taxes on $42,666.66, has, for years only, paid taxes on $10,000, and is to-day taxed only on a fraction over $11,000 per mile. When we say the real value of the Union Pacific is $128,000 per mile, we mean that the aggregate value of all its property, and the income it enjoys from a monopoly of the traffie, which in the franchise is worth $128,000 per mile. It is not true that the property ot the Beg pays taxes on a basis, less than one-third of that on which the railroads are assessed. The machinery and personal property of the Ber paid taxes on over £8 000 last year and the real estate was taxed about one third of its market valus, whereas the Union Pacific railroad has been texad at less than one.tenth of its market value, What we insist upon is that all prop- erty, both that of corporations and of individuals, shall be taxed on the same basis, Wz aro as yot unablo to learn why the council laid on the table the ordi- nance proposing to give the right toa competing vus company to establish works in Oaha and to lay pipes in our streets. This council has given the right to an Electric Light Company to erect poles in our streets with a view of competing in illumination. Why should they refuse to give us competi- tionin gas. Eleotric lights can only be used by a limited number. of con« sumers, I:is more expensive than gas, hence it will not or cannot for many years become an active compe- tition. But when a responsible con- ocern guarantees to furnish gas at $1.80 per thousand cubic fect and of double the illuminating capacity of that for which Omaha is now paying $3 50 to 84 50, wo cannot comprehend how any man or sot of men dares to interpose objection. All the talk cf vested rights and exclusive privilege is bosh In tho firat pluos, the Omahs Gas company whatev of streots in any city can be granted by any legislative body. This has boen the decisien of a dozan state su- | preme, courts and the U, 8. suprome court has also ruled upon it. The present gas compeny enjoyed a vory lucrative monopoly for a long time, They have gotten a good price for very poor gas. They charge the cily, under ‘‘the moonlight scheduie,” $25 per year per lamp for what is sup- posed to be 2,300 hours. Asa mat- ter of fact, tha lamps don’t average best. Dakota has more, and Is more rapidly incressing at that. Bat for the bond difficalty of last winter, the enabling act would probably have been passed, and ocongress be now asked only to make good that act and let Dakota enter at once as a state. — Ix remarks about Thurlow Weed, Henry Ward Beecher said the other day: {t was very rare that life could not afford to spare anybody, He had never noticed thst any great element had suffered by the death of anybody. It was like dipping & bucket of water out of the East River, There was a splush, & gurglo, a momentary commo- tion of the waters, and the river flowed on unmindfal of its loss, So in life, A man dropped out, the rauks closed up, the march went on. The news- papers made the most of men’s deaths, and perhaps perpetuated the impres. sion that the places of great men oould not be supplied. Their maw must be filled with something, and so their oolumns ware filled up with daily re- ports of a man's condition, Then como reports about his faneral, then reminiscences, so that in these days it really required abont a month to fair ly get rid of a man. [Laughter.] The man who was apt to think that he was somebody, and that the Lord would find it difficult to lngply his place, ought to have no_such concern. The Lord would certainly attend to it, and two or three men would epring up who would do the man's work a great deal better even than he. All the great leaders of the church in this country had goue up, yot the moral power of the church in Amerioa was greater to- dsy than it was thirty-five yeara ago. Ambherst and Yalo and Princeton had besn emptied and yet hed filled up again, BALINE'S MAN FOR SENATOR. Correspondence of Tur K. Crere, Neb., December 6.—Busi- nees in onr little city is quite brisk; the merchants are having a good trade, the grain men are cribbing about 3,000 bushels of corn per day, and the carpenters are busily engaged this fair weather. Politically speaking everything is unusually qulet. You are not without knowing how the Saline county delegation and alliance stands on the eenatorial question. They are unanimously in favor of Gen, Victor Vifquain, And a resolution would have been passed last Monday, the 4th inst., st the regular meoting of the alliance by a unanimous vote, if the moat intimato friends of the general had desirad uch a resolution to he passo ny the general h not yet signified his intentions in the matter, aud inasmuch as Saline ia not alome in the choosing of a United Statos Eenaicr therofore it was deomed more. pru- dent by those who advocate his elec tion, to advise with other counties be- fore decisive steps be taken on the subject, The general told his friends wouii 1ot them know his de- cision by the holidays, If it ehoaid be the general’s good fortune to be selected to till the high position of United States senator, it wiil be the cause of the greatest jubilee that ever took plaes in this county. X. Y. Sttt . “Our Terriory.” New York Evening Pest. Tt appears that the nogotiations ba- tween the warring railroads of the northwest wera broken off becauss one of the parties (the St Paul & moro than threo hours per night or| Milwaukee company) had recently The com- lamps about 1,000 hours per year, Usited Gas Improvement pany will light the at $17.60 a year per lamp, by ‘‘moonlight echedule” strictly enforced, 2,300 houra, and from a half hour after sun down toa half hour be- foro sunrise, which is allnight, for the price now paid. Tais means a re- duction of over 40 per cent on preser prices for present servico with double the illuminating capacity, Everybody knowa that burglaries and othercrimes are committed pi ally aftor mid- night, and the l'ghts in Omaha are extiuguished at the very time when they ought to be brighlest, A large portion of our city is in utter dark- ness all the year around, and that portion of our city whish is lighted is 80 poorly lighted that burglars operate right under the lamps, The only use our lamps are after midoight, is to afford props to weak-kneed men who are on their way home from the ledge. 1t this gas question is to become an issue, it will be one of the liveliest issues that has ever struck Omaha, Spe——— BexaTor SauNDERS Wil to-day call up the bill for the admission of Da- kota as a state. The democratic min- ority are not likely to view with in- difference the prospect of two more republioan senators and three repub- lican electoral votes, and the prospects for the passage of a bill at the present session are not very bright, There are two billa pending, one in the house and one in the senate, but they are both to the same effect —diy- 1ding tho territory and authorizing the lower half to hold a convention and and frame & constitution, The latter must be submitted to congress to see that it provides for a republican form of government, and is otherwise un- objectionable, before the final act of sdmiesion Is passed, s0 we see vory little hope of Dakota being admitted under the ‘present congress in any case, The people of Washington are equally anxious for admission, but they have taken time by the forelook, held s convention and framed thelr constitution without the help of an enabling act, and are now knocking at the door of the unlon, prepared to enter forthwith, The mobmnhtldr is the of thelr ) bought o piece of road some fifteen niles in length, in or near ‘‘the terri- tory, gf another party (the Chicago, Micnespolis & Omaha company. The latter has taken the poriti throughout the controversy that t wss & war respecting ‘‘territory” rather th.n rates, and that nothing oould or should be done to eettle this disputo concerning rates until the sec tion of the country belonging to ‘‘us” should bo staked ouf, and effoctual guarantees provided against its inva- sion by auy evil disposod common oarrier. It will be a bad day fo railroads whon they avow that their policy to fence in particular d tricts of the country snd agree that nobody shall but!ld a road within a c:rtain number of miles of romebody | S eleo’s district, vattle on the Plains. ByL. W. Cu'ler. From 1866 until 1871 the winters wore mild and the cattle increzsed on tho hills until they numbered quite half a mitlion, Prior to 1871 there was scarcely any sale for beet iu the country. The railroads had not reached Oolorado, and 60 miles was too far to drive, when beef was worth but 2} conts in the market at Kansas Oity. In 1871 there came a change. The railroads came, and the price of beef went up in the east and in Eu- rope, In the west it went from two ceuts to three, then to fourand a half, and the end is not . From 1871 0 1880 the increase has been so rapid that the country then contalned 1,600,000 of meat cattle. Then came the third bad winter, the most dissstrous of them all; probably because there were more cattle to kill than there were 1n 1862. When the spring of 1881 came the 1,600,000 cattle that had entered the winter were reduced to less than 900,000, and our people becsme im- u')run inatead of exporters of beef, ith all these iosses, stock:growing in the past twenty-two years has been prosperous in the extreme The losses during that time did not exceed three per cent. per annum. The men who own the esttle of Cnlorado to-day— unless it ba the Puurie Cuttic vom- pany--wera poor men fifteen years ago, and yet they represent 1 ow $3b,- 000,000 of wealth in their own right, There aro at the %Iu-"- time in the state about 2,250,000 cattle; 1,000,000 of these are in the south, along the Arkausas and Pargatoire rivers. and the other 1,250,000 are north of the divide, and along the waters of the Republican, the Platte, and in the north, south and middle parts. DECEMBER 1 NOTRS FROM ASEHLAND. Corrsspondence of Omaha Bee. Asrraxo, Desember 5,—This staid old town has in no respect a penchant for matters of violence or exaggera. tion, and so moves quietly on in the even tenor of her way. What is done is therefore well done, and with refer- ence to practicality and perseverance. Since our last notes to Tue Brk, Simington's opera house has been completed and dedicated. It la a stately, subatantial brick strocture, 44 x100 feet, and two stories high, The lower rooma are occupied by Siming- ton Bros., dry goods dealers, and by Stratton & Chamberlain, dealers in olothing and gents’ farnishing goods. The opera hall above is a most at- tractive room, well lighted and ventilated, and will comfortably accommodate an audience of 700, exclusive of the atage, which is 16x42 feet. There is also commodious gallory and ample dress- ing rooms. Clark's Oomedy company, a Jocal mstitution of amateur theatri- cans, performed the dedicatory woik with ten nights of commendable play- ing before good audiences, The hall was next used for an avnual exposi- tion by our Ladies’ Deccrative Art so- ciety, under the mansgement of Mrs Deyo. The display was one of the best' of its kind we ever attended. The samples of needlo work, of the crochet hook and of the pencil and brush, would have dome eredit to more pretentious towns than ours, Mrs. A. B. Faller, Mra, J. H. Morris, Mrs, Paddock, Mre. A. H. Gould, Mra. J. A. Jury and other ladies are proving themaelves real artista, Mr. Travis has purchased the right ATFLA GOFFE(ED%ID SPIGE MILLS. Roasters and Grinders of Coffees and Spices. Manufacturers of IMPERIAL BAKING POWDER Clark's Double Extracts of BLUEING, INKS, ETC. . @, OLARK & 00., Proprictors H. G 408 Douglan Strect, Omaba, Neb _ LERD FRIED & CO. W BN L AT TR HARDWARE, 1108 and 1110 Harney * t., . OM:HA, IiEB. SPECIAL NOTICE TO” Growers of Live Stock and CUthers. WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO OUR for manafacturing a new and improved spring bed, for the counties of Saun- ders, Oaas and Sarpy, and expects to drive a land office busiuess, as he de- serves to do, There is some stir in regard to the incumbency of the postoffice here, but it is generally thought that Mr. Chamberlain, the present incumbent, will continue to “hold the fort.” Union Thankegiving services were held in the Congregational church, being well attended. Rey. H. A Guilfi preached the sermon, and was assisted in the exercises by Rev. Wm. Leavitt and Rev. C. Hackney. Efforts are being made for the re- organization of a Masonic lodge, old Nc. 18 having ceased to work som three years ago, Tho efforts will no doubt be successful, and we shall soon have a flourlshing lodge, for which thore is abundant and excellent ma- terial. Mr. A. H. Gould has retired from the farniture business, and will hers after devote himeelf to the hardware trade; while his lata partner, Mr. J. H. Morris, will alone carry oa hils large furniture establishment. The farmers are hauling in wonder- fully largo qoantities of corn, for which they find a lively marke?, at 33 aud 35 conts, The crop was heavy and well matured. The Baptiat church has one of thd colobrated Pittaburg lomps in usc 1t hss a repeater, 52 inches in dizme- ter, and sonds scfs, pleasant rays into every part of the church,. from four- teen burners. Several brick buziness houses ure on the tapis for the spring boom, and it is expected that a good!y number of fine residences will also baereoted. Prof. Coursor is about opening a music and musical instrument estab- lishment on Silver street. He is a fine musician, instractor of our cornet baed and master of several singing schools, Our cornet band boys will give an entertainment at the opera house next Friday evening, which is expected to be THE affsir of the kind for the ses- son. Hon. H. H. Shedd, late speaker, loat his little 33-year-old child yester- dey morning s died of membri oroup, and was buried this afternoon. It was a sweet, promising child, and the worthy parents have the hearty sginpathy of all D. Heap. A Wilkesbarre Union-Loader, A bachelor lawyer at the Luzsrne bar had a proty cousin, at each recur- rence cfjwhose birthday he is esteem- ed entitied to the cousinly privelege of a kiss, though he always has to fight for it. ely the birthday hay- ng gone by during & basiness trip on which Le was away, ho ssked if he might not have his kiss notwi‘hstand- i To this she strenously okj:cted id no bills, ehe said, when the allowed pay-day to pass with- out caliing on her. Ho proposed a game of euchre, on which ho would stake & pair of gloves againat his cous- inly privilege. She agreed snd she won, Then he staked a box of bon- bon, She assented and won again, Then handkerchiefe, stock- ings, and other articles of fominino apparel and adornment were put up, and the bachelor’s luck grew no bet- ter. They played eleven games, and she was victor of them all. Being in Philadelphia a few days later, the loser called at a leading dry goods house to make his purchases, It was not difficult to ask for the gloves and the handkerchlefs, but when itcame to the stockings he was non-plussed, Finally he left it to t"« .hop-girl, who sold him an even doz pairs, saying: “These long ones wil: ..u {f she wears suspenders; the othere are the oner she wants If she doct.': wear them.” As the iawyer oouldn’t say how this was, he took the whole lot. *.* “Kyil dispositions are early shown,” Evyil tendencies in our sys- tems aae to be watched and guarded againet. If you find yourself ?etting bilious, head hesvy, mouth foul, yellow, kidueys disordered, symptoms of piles tormenting you, take at once a fow doses of Kidney-Wort, It is nature's yrentest assistant, Uso it as an advanoce wuard - don’t wait fo get down 33 WAL TO00 N KOSV UL WITA 'sAS199034 44 @108 ‘ANa abri ‘a3dn0 ANL034u3d Jaouw Uy puV ‘peasiex ApAOD Ueq eavy| o 14599 $7T3 JO WL} A8I0M O JO) VO 40 80! LYOM-ATNAI o|204 North Sixteenth 8t., - - Ground Oil Cake. 1t is the best and cheapest food for stock of any kind, Ono pound is equal to three pounds of corn, iStock fed with Ground il Caka in the fall and win- ter, instead of running down, will increase in weigh and be in good market- nble condition in the spring. Dairymen as well as others who uce it can tea- tify to its merits. Try it and judge for yourselvea, Price $25.00 per ton; no charge for sacks, Address X o:-g:od-ma WOOODMAN LINSEED OIL CO., Omaha, Neb, L. C. HUNTINGTON & SON, DEALERS IN HIDES, FURS, WOOL. 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