Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 14, 1884, Page 4

THE OMAHA BEE. Omaha Office, No. 916 Farnam 8t. Oouncil Bluffs Office, No. 7 Pearl Street, Near Broadway. New York Ofice, Room 65 Tribune Building. Pablished every worning, excopt Sunday The only Monday morning daily o BT WAL 10,00 | Three Months 5,00 | One Month., Woek, 25 Cents. WKLY BRN, PURLISHND NVARY WDNRADAY, TRRMS POSTPAID. 42.00 | Three Monthy al‘w One Month . . 0 Amerioan News Company, Sole Agente Newsdeal- wra In the United Btates. CORRRSFONDRNOS. e foations relating to News an athbonn should o addressed Vo the EDITOR o TN Ban BUSINRSS LNTTRRS. Bust: trers and Remittances should be .d%e—d :n_'l'n':Bnl" PURLIANING COMPAXY, QNAMA- Dratts, Cheoks and Postoffice orders to be made pay able to the order of the company. PHE BEE PUBLISHING C0,, PROPS B. ROSEWATER, Editor. A. H. Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation, P, . Box 488 Omaha, Neb. e Par, O. Hawes has exposed his hand. It was a bob-tail flush. Easter eggs have been turning stale since Thurston & Sahler have gone into political partnership. 1t is safe to sayno spring chickens will be hatched from their eastor eggs. — A~y man who would allow himself to be elected to the national convention by the South Carolina method of ballot-box frauds, as practiced by John Sahler, de- serves to be rotten-egged all the way from Omaha to Chicago. Par. 0. Hawes will probably fold his tent to-night and quietly steal away to the folding room at Washington. He might as well stay there forever, as this county will never send for him again, John Sahler ought togo with him. CoxNaressMAN REAGAN, of Texas, is to speak at the Iroquois banquet on ‘‘The People, not the Monopolies, Must Rule.” If Mr. Reagan will simply divulge the true inwardness of the election of Stan- dard oil Payne, other remarks on his subject will be unnecessary. Dr. NorviN GREEN sees the handwrit- ing on the wall. He sees a strong prob- ability of the government establishing a postal telograph, and he now says that if the goverment is determined to enter into the business it ought to buy out the ex- isting lines and manage the work exclu- sively in its own way. ——— Hox J. B. Tuomas, of Plattsburg, Mo.,who hasjust been elected adelegate to the republican coavention at Chicago, is one of the leading candidates for the sur- veyor-general’s office of Wyoming. His election as a delegate may be the means of his securing the much desired office, if his presidential preference is all right, and it is fair to presume that it is. Mz. Broatch has a perfect right to be a candidate for the national convention. But if Mr. Broatch proposes to secure g0 | c0upling or uncoupling the same, where PROTECTION OF RAILROAD EMPLOYES Senator Bowen, of Colorado, has intro- ducoed a bill providing that railroad com- panies shall on and after the Ist of Sep- tember, 1884, be required to have all new freight cars equipped with automatic car couplers, and old cars, when repaired, must be equipped in a similar way, The bill also provides that when any employe of a railway company sustains personal and disabling injury by reason of going between freight cars for the purpose of both or either one of said cars are in use, the company using such cars shall forfeit to the employe or his heirs, if he should die, 8500 as a penalty, this penalty to be no bar to the recovery of any sum in damages of such injury, which a compe- tent court may award, It provides fur- ther, that any contract entered into hy the injured employe prior to the incurr- ing of the injury by which he may agree to waive his right to recover damages for such injury, shall be null and void. This bill is an eminently proper one, and in all probability will be passed. There is no roason why freight cars should not be provided with automatic couplers, there being now several differ- ont kinds which have been practically demonstrated to be a success. The rea- son that they have not come into general use is that the railroad companies wish to avoid the expense of equipping their cars with improved devices, although’the cost, por car is comparatively a vory small ftem. Several railroad companies have already adopted and put into use auto- matic freight car couplers, and they found the device to work very satisfac- torily in the handling of trains, in the saving of time and labor, and what is most important the sav- ing of limb and life. Although the passage of the bill will make a boom for the automatic freight car coupler, its advantrges are so apparent that it ought to be carried unanimously. Another most excellent feature of the bill is the provision declaringnull and void any contract between the employe and the railroad company, waiving the employe's right to recover damages for injury. It has become a common prac- tice with railroad companies to require the signing of such a contract before em- ploying a person. This contract, how- ever, really does not amount to anything and will hold in a court of law. Several suits on this point have been car, working under the direction of a against the one beneath which he was at work. The accident was the result of the negligence of his boss. The railroad ble for injuries sustained by one employe The supreme court of Kansas, however, decided that the company was liable, and the plaintiff was awarded damages. SAHLER'S LATEST INFAMY. Outrageous frauds at primary elections his election by such high-handed and infamous frauds as was attempted by John Sahler, his ambition has overleaped itself. No man who is not devoid of all sense of honor or common decency, would countenance such outrageous frauds, much less attempt to reap an advantage by them, Havixg now put the destructive liquor Thabit out of the way by legislation, some of the Towa papers are addressing them- selves to the next burning question of reform. In their opinion that is the “filthy tobacco habit.” Perhaps in a few years that will also be neatly destroy- od by law, and the citizens of Iows will be reduced to licorice and arrow-root for and not the exception, but by all odds the most high-handed and villainous at- tempt to pack a convention with men who were overwhelmingly defeated, was made in the Third ward by John Sahler on Saturday at the republican primary election. Although a candidate himself on one of the delegate tickets, John Sahler took charge of the ballot box as judge, and when the polls were closed and the ballots spread upon the table showed three to one against John Sahler's ticket, that notorious political trickster, deliberately upset the table, scattered the ballots without even at- tempting to count them, and certified the purposes of mastication, or as they would express it, for ¢ chawin’.” —————— Tae American national game of poker, which Minister Schenck so sucoessfully introduced in England, has now invaded the Dominion of Canada. Several mem- bers of the Canadian parliament, who have evidently mastered all the intricacies ot the game, sre, as we are informed by the telegraph, ‘‘supplementing their ses- sional indemnity to a very large extent by roping their uninitiated colleagues and outside victims into a game of poker, in which they always win.” One of their victims has ‘“‘made a kick,” to use an . Americanism, and now the gamo is to be ~ investigated by parliament to find out whether it was on the square. | — - Tz Indians of the Lac Court O'Reille . reservation, in the northern pine lands ~ of Wisconsin, furaish pretty good evi- o that the red man is capable of civilization if he is only afforded the opp rtunities as the white man, the past winter these Indians cut ‘and disposed of logs to the value of 180,000, and each one engaged in the us realized botween $2,000 and $3,000. Notwithstanding their flush 6o they received the other day, - of tem pounds of flowr . three pounds of pork each. tural aud mechanical implements, is hardly o tribe of Indians in as these Wisconsin #ame oppor- usual, their government allow- n addition to the flour and pork, there {ago when the work of the farmer was a distributed among them & Lot of | slow and laborious task. His wheat was trimmings. They all occupy |threshed with the flail. frame houses, and live like white [work is done by machinery. The small They spent some of their win- | graia is cut and bound by a reaper, and eamnings in good clothes and | threshed by horse or steam power. And sud we should not be surprised | now comes unother improvement in the ar of soma of them spending the [art at the fashicnsble summer re- | Numerous attempts have been made to f Wis:onsin, 1t is safe to say|construct a satisfuctory steam plow, but himself and associates as elected. That this audacious trick was a part of a concerted plan be- tween Sahler, Pat O, Hawes, and that fragrant lawyer, Bennett, there is not a shadow of a doubt. They knew alaost from the start that their only chance would be in stuffing the ballot box or counting out their opponents by fraud, and when they found themselves balked by the vigilance of one of the judges of election, they carried out their preconcerted scheme of rascality by scat- tering and destroying the evidences of their defeat. That Sahlor and his de- feated ‘‘pals” would dare to present their claims for seate in the convention tiis afternoon seems almost as incredible as it does to think that a respectable man like Mr, Broatch would countenance such villainy for the paltry honor of a delegateship to Chicago. The whole conduct of Sahler in this business is infamous, and would put the worst San Francisco hoodlum to the blush. But political shysters like Sahler and Hawes will stop at mothing, They are capable of any thing to gain their ends, 1t remains to be seen, however, whether the respectable republicans, who com- prise a large body of the convention, will allow such outrages to go unrebuked. If they do they will give the party in this conntry the worst blow it has ever had, THE STEAM PLOW, It ¥ comparatively only a few years eut, with the sythe, bound by hand and To-day all this of agriculture—the steam plow. prised at these revelations. the light of the experience of other great cities, prising There is scarcely a city in the country in which a condition of affairs, more or less similar, does not exist. city government of Boston came into power, a short time ago, investigation showed an amount of rottenness among the police force almost as bad as anything found in New York. the same things have long been known to exist. decided adversely to the railroad com- |ings of the police with the criminals is panies, one of the most recent ones being | notorious. By the connivance of the po- in Kansas. An employe, while under a lice, these outlaws manage to defy jus- tice. boss, was injured by another car running | 8ive thlem every advantage when brought to trial, “stand in” with the police, they are safe. 1t is s0 in Omaha, There is notoriously company maintained that it was not lia- collusion between a class of habitual la; breakers and the police. owing to the carelessness of another, |quiry wouldbring out some startling facts. draw to. the political poker deck. Tts trial took place the other day at Em- porin, Knnsas, in the presence of large number of witneases fromdifferent states The trial was eminently satisfactory. The machine was operated by two men and did its work admirably, Itscapacity is 25 acres aday. The total expense of running it is $10 per day, and its cost is about 2,000, This plow is destined to come into universal use in the prairie states of the wesi, and the day is near at hand when the steam plow will go from farm to farm and do the plowing by con- tract, just as the thresher now does. POLICE ABUSES, The committee of the New York legis- Tature which is investigating the condition of the New York city government, has come upon some very fragrant disclos- ures. The developments in the police department alone have been of & nature to make the citizen of New York open his eyes. The city has always been sup- posed to possess ““the finest police force in the world.” Instead of that familiar boast being true, however, the Investi; tion has revealed av. astonishing amount of rottenness from one end to the other of the police. It appears that the gamb- ling places, policy shops, lottery swindles and such forbidden places have systemat- ically purchased protection for several years, The sums paid have ranged from $5 to $60 a week, and the special bribes have often amounted to several hundred dollars, These places, with others of a atill worse character, have been main- tained in the metropolis without molesta- tion. They have been as free to ply the most infamous forms of vico as though there were not a law on the statute books, Almost all classes of officials connected with the department have shared in the plunder. Sham raids have sometimes been made for the purpose of extorting blackmail. New York is a great deal sur- Viewed in there about is nothing these very sur- disclosures, ‘When the new In Philadelphia, In Chicago, the corrupt deal- Defective laws and ignorant juries In other words, as long as they A searching in- Ir Broatch and Thurston can get an honest election from honestly elected delegates, we are content, but if they attempt to force their election by such roguery and fraud, as exemplified in the in Douglas county have beon tho rule, :‘hird ward by kicking over the ballot- ox counting in deiegates who were over- whelmingly defeated, they will not only disrupt the party but forever damn themselves. soattering the batlots, and Hawgs and Sahler are a poor pair to They are the lowest cardsin CITY WALKS AND TALKS. —~—"'Hello, Coupon John!” exclaimed a well- known railroader, as he shook hands with a red-faced man beneath the electric light on the Wabash corner the other evening, “Where did you drop in from?” *‘Denver.” “What have you been doing out there?” “‘Running a scalping shop. Same old business you know.” “What are you doing here?” “Looking around.” ““Where are you golng?” “Iam going to take a drink, Come along.” Thereupon the two men adjourned to the other end of the block to take a smile, “Who's Coupon John?” asked a bystander, who had been listening to the brief conversa- tion. “Coupon John is a well-known char- acter,” replied another railroader, ‘‘His righs name is John Parker. Soon after the com- pleticn of the Union and Central Pacific rail- roads, Coupon John went to work in Omaha for the Union Pacific for thirty dollars o month, He was given the privilexe of roping up trunks for che passengers. W henever ho found a broken trunk he would tie it up with rope, and charge tho owner fron. 25 to 75 J It was oftener 75 cents ‘ay he used to mako four or five dollars n day, Thoy used to ssy that Coupon stood in pretty solid with the baggag smashers, and that heusad to give the.n a pe centage on all the trunks they smashed suffi- ciently to render their being roped together a necessity, 1t was no uncommon thing for a taggageman to refuse to ship a smashed trunk any further, and this of course com- Y;llud the owner to patronize Coupon John, esides this scheme, he went on the overland trains every day and carried on the business of a broker, He had the runof the traius as he used to carry the baggage checks for the checkmen, T0 the west-bound ‘nwnnxum he #old gold at a preminm of about 10 cents ou the dollar, At tkat time paper money was at a discount in California, whore coin was the ciroulati; odiug After working the west- bound train, he would jumrwun the east-bound train and by gold from the passengeis who had come from California, He mado nearly 10 per cent ou his money each way, thus whip sawing the day’s traine,” He also used to spec- ulate in tickets. Whenever he found & person holding u ticket over the Chicago & North- western, and who wanted to go by some other road, the Burlington for iustance, ho would hunt up a m-un.f-r tioketed by the Burling. ton, but who wanted to travel over the Northwestern, um{ then he would make the exchango f r them, charging each 85 or 510, thus making $10 or $20, as the case might be, by the transaction. It was on account of his sealping coupon tickets that he got the naue of Coupon Jobn, It was & poor day when Ceupon John didn’c make more than or $75. Ho was the best scalper I ever saw, and ho had the best field in the woeld for his busi. ness, His money came almost as easily w if he had found it, and it went about as easily as he got iv, Hud he taken care of it, he would havo beon a rich man now. He was & thor- oughbred sport in those davs and would bet on anything—(aro priucivally, then camo poker, or any other game of chance, and on & horse race he would put up his last dollar. Hejwent over to a Council Bluffs race meeting until quite recently the efforts in this | bim, hat would not beoome as eiviliz- { direction huve been ouly partially suc. cessful, 1t is now claimed, howe foot stesm plow has been inunud‘i ! resumed working the trais d in five days 1h had over 8500, ~ Wihshovar he got hwoke be | Eaha s boeram. Rl d that . im out, without security, in order to + that a por- 3 (SRS ko purchased from the east | other evening at the opers house,” remarked one day wnd ‘blew in’ $2,800, It broks but borrowlag $20 next day he borrow money. The banks often gold which und passengers, Coupen John carried on his trunk-roping and brok business for soveral yoars, but it kept ‘m.g‘ poorer each yoar after the first rush of through travel was over, and finally he gave it up and went to work for Markel & Swobe. John's best friend now is his dog, & won of old Dan. Yon_re. member Dan, which Billy Shull owned. Dan was the smartest dog ever in Omaha. One evening, three or four years ago, before going to Denver, John was walking down Tenth streot and overtaking a young girl who was carrying one of old Dan's pups, he offered her 850 Tor ft, " The girl took the money, and John took the dog. /That was the same dog that fol- lowed bim_up the; street just now. He fol- lows him all over the cmmtr{, and it would take a big sam of money to induce John to part with him, Coupon John has been run. ning a ticket scalping office in Denver, but the koalping business there is about played ont owing to the $1,000 license required by the city. He was one of the principal scalpers, and fought the licenss, He has won one_suit against the city and has another pending. But the trouble is that under the license law the scalpers can’t do business with a'ticket hay- ing on it a man's name without forfeiting their license, and the Union Pacific and other wWestern roads now require everybody to sign tickets, whether limited or straight first-class, This has about wound ug_the scalpers in Den- vor, and John is looking for a new location. }ln‘ln known from the Atlantic to the Pacific.” Talking about scalping reminds mo that,thero aro now five or six rogularly estab- lished scalping offices or ticket brokers® offices in Omaha, and it was only three or four years ago that there was but ons,” remarked another railroad man, “and they all seem to be doing a land-office bus'ness, There used to be plenty of ticketscalping done it Omaha during the years from 1869 to 1875, but the scalpers did not have offices nor_any system about their business, such as tho scalpors now have. The old-time scalpers used_ to hang around the railroad ticket offices and the depots, and 1t was not an unusual thing for them to ‘stand in’ with some of the ticket agents anc dopotemployes, A traveler didn't havo to look around very long to_find a purchaser for the unused portion of his ticket .ining erther east or west, and if he wanted to buy a sec- ond-hand_ ticket at a slight reduction all he had to do was to make his wishes known around the depot and he would be accommo- dated in o very short time, Tho biggest money was made on through tickets from New York to San Francisco, Upon arriving here the traveler would seil the balance of his ticket s as to reduce his fare to Omaha five or ten dollars, “he scalper would turn uround and sell the Dalance of the ticket to San Francisco and make ten or fiftoen dollars on it, and at the samo time sell it lower than a through ticket would cost from Omaha to San Francisco, The same plan was pursued with east bound tickets, but not o much profit was made on them, The ‘Bonevolent Corner,’ located where Strang’s building now stands, was principal headquar- teraifor some of the ahrewdest scalpers of those days. The ‘Bonevolent Corner, 8o onlled be- cause of the liberal donation made by the boys to the Chicago sufferers, was the ticket office for several years of the Kansas City, St. Joe & C. B. rallroad ns woll as being a general eastorn ticket office. The scalpers of to-day aro regularly organized body, having offices in il the principal citics Their orders on each other for rebates, tickets, and money, are as good as gold, and the business is carrie on very systematically. Some of these scalp- ers carry an immense stock of tickets, and they are often called on by railroads to help them out in their fights by disposing of a large number of tickets at cut rates. I re- member that tho Wabash sold several hundred thousand ~ dollars worth of tickets, when it opened its road to Chicago, by a roundabout route, and scalpors purchased a large portion of these tickets. I don't believe they have all been worked off yet. It is surprising to seo what amount, of business some of thso follows do. They make it an object for the traveler to patronize them When a traveler sees a sign staring him in the faco telling him that he can buy a ticket from Omaha to Chicago for seven, nine or eleven dollarg, as the case may be, when the regular price is §15,00, it is an inducement to him to nvesticate the matter. If he saves two or three dollars, it is safe to aay that the. scalper makes that much_on the ticket which he sells him. Some travelers always strike for a scalp- er's offico the first thing,either to buy or sell o tiokot, aud it only as b st rosort that thoy visit the regular ticket office, I have known men to fool around half a day in order tomake a dollar on aticket to Chicago. Why, I have known fellows to go to a scalper's office to sell an unused bridge ticket, or an omnibus ticket, Sometimes the purchase of a_ticket from a scalper places a person in an embarrassing po- sition. I remomber not long ago a fellow bought a ticket to St. Louis from a scalper, and then went to the reeular ticket agent's office to buy o Pullman ticket. The agent learning upon fuquiry whero he had got his ratlroad ticket, told him to go back to the scalper's office and get his sleeping-car ticket there. The scalper, of course, did not have Pullman's for sale, and the fellow had to ac- commodate himself in the day coach, as he found tho sleepor all sold whon ho got on the rain. ——*Do you see that very nervous man across the street!” said a gentleman to Tug Brr's Man About Towa, the other day. *He is J. Murray Fairchild, a Connecticut Yankee full of invention, snd one who has persistent- ly fought his way along amid difficulties that havo turned others to despair. The unique dovice on the fire alarm boxes here in Omaha, and in fact in every city in this country, for holding the key after the box has been opened and an alarm turned in, till the ‘master key’ of the engineer releasos it, is his invention, Ho s0ld it to & New York concorn, which has roaped a harvest from it. He is an expert telegrapher, and for many years was manager of the Westorn Union officoin New Haven; also of tho Telophene Exchange, superinten: dent of the Fire Alarm Telegraph, the Burglar Bank Alarm, and_the Electrio’ Light, and from the latter position resigned to become the expert of the United Statos Electric Light company, When he came to Omaha a fow mouths ago the electric light service was very poor, but is now the equal of any city in the union, Tt was buta short time 8go, compar. atively, that electric light could bo furnished more than 500 feet from tho station, but here in Omahu to-day it is furaished 2,000 feet from the station, and is o steady, brilliant light, 1 have nown Fairchild lor soveral yoars, and never saw him idle, 1 am glad to 500 him hero in Omaha, for ho i sure to be valuablo and esteomed citizen, You will hear from him in tho line of electric invention of vreat importance before long,” *I was agreaably ‘surprised upon visit- ing Creighten collogo,” sald Mr, Nathan Rose- water, principal chemist of Strong, Cobb & Co., manufacturing chemists, Cloveland, “‘to find in that institution & chemical laboratory which is unequalled in any of the eastern states. 'Thoy haveat Creighton college a very complete vutflt for the practical study of pho- tography in all its details; one of the finest tel- escopes in tho country, with all the latest im- provements; a very complete outfit of engi- neering instruments; large stereopticon, with polariscope and ‘microscope attachments, adapted for throwing crystalline bodies and bodies in solution upon a screen for illustra- tion Professor Lambert, who has charge of the lahoratory, came here & fow months ago from Chicago. Heis & wun_ of more than ordinaey abllity. Ho thoroughly understands chemisiry, mathemati birang iances in any eastorn institut hat is goivg on at Creighton something that will b wks, chemists, aud Lege is of interest to u all who wish to ace practical scientific knowledge, 1t is the embryo of something that Omaha will be proud and when moro widely known those ad- o8 ought to attract students from ull the country, Father Lambert is a man whom the cultered w;rlu of Omahs ought to become scquainted with, and I am sure he al- roceives uud entertainy v rs not only pleasantly but in an instructive manner which will bo appreciated. I understand that he is preparing a serles of illustrated scientific lec- tures to bo delivared in Omaha, and I want to auy in advance that your peopls may expect Fore treat,” ~*I thought that was a pretty good hit on tho lawyers that the minstrels got off the # gentlemun who never misses a minstrel show . N _'::vz;'-.‘%, - when he can gt hold of & complimentary tick- ot “What was it?” asked a young lawyer, It was during the first past of the pro- amme, The ‘coons’ made up & pool of ten dollar each to be presented to the man who could tell the biggest lie. Gne told about be- ing attacked by n bear, and when the animal opened his mouth he ran his arm down his throat, caught hold of his tail and tnrned him inside out, whereupon the bear, having turned tail, ran off. This was considered the boss Tio, 'and they were all about to hand over the money to the liar, when Schooleraft b d them to hold on and give him a chance, as his money was up. Thay consented to this, no ono ex) ecting that he could knock the bear story silly, ‘I knew a lawyer once,’ said Schooleraft, ‘and ' ‘What!' all exclatmed, intorrupting him. ‘-and he was an honest man,” _ concluded Schoolcraft. once hand- Kvery man in the pool at od him over the money, . That was_ consid- ered the champion lie, The story illustrates the opinion that people generally have of Iawyers,” ‘I oo that Arthur Mapleson, son of Col. Mapleson has been arrested in Chicago for breaking np another man's family,” said a gentleman, while discussing the recent Italian opera in Omaha, “I wonder how many sons old Mapleson has lying around loose in this country,” he continued. “When Her Maj- esty’s Opera Company was playing at Boyd's opera house, T went ont between acts and took a smile at a neighboring bar; and while T waa there I ran across a_young fellow who reprosented himself as Col. Mapleson's son, He was woll-dressed, was drinking rather freely, and wes exhibiting a picture of Maple- son, T became interested in the follow, whom Ifhad soen in different places for a year of twoin Omaha, and upon inquiring of & man who claimed to know him, I was told that he was a printer, that ho was a careless, happy-go- lucky character, and that he had been ¢ herited by the colonel, Certain it is that p vious to the arrival of Col, Mapleson he was dressed shabbily, and had no money. It soon after Mapleson got here the yoing mun appeared in a new suit of clothes, with plenty of money in his pockets, with which he liber ally treated his friends, and ever now and then he would exhibit the old man’s picture,” ——No wonder spring poetry is bad this year, Springis an awfully hard subject to get any poetry outof. But we suppose some- thingis expected, and hence the following is offered: Hail horrid Sprivg! Hail, Rain and Snow! ‘T'hen let thy blustering blizzards blindly blow! Let chilling clouds shut out the cheerful sun, And stop small boys from having any fun, The rubber dealers smile in merry mood, Krom seeming evil still educing good. For morn, wet-eyed, appears, mother of dews, And bids us not forget our rubber shoes. it inslirty THE BURLINGTON ROAD. Reports that it will Link Itself with the D. & R. G. W. and Build Various New Branches, Special Dispatch to TiEe BEE. DENVER, April 13.—The foregone con- clusion is reached by railroad men here that the Burlington road will join issues with Colonel D. C. Dodge in the latter’s fight against President Lovejoy and the Denver & Rio Grande. General Manager Potter, of the Burlington, and Colonel Dodge had a lengthy conference in this city. What the object was cannot be learned, but it is said that the Burlington and Denver & Rio Grande Western have hopes of running a line from Denver to Satt Lake. The Burlington will increase its capital stock to $7,000,000, the money to bo used for construction. Your corre- spondent is informed by an official of the Burlington thismorning that it will be ex- pended in constructing branches west of the Missouri river. KFour branches are under way at present in Nebraska. The rest of the brauches will be in Colorado. Very certain the Burlington will not re- main standing still. The general mana- ger himself says he will run mountain branches if found they will pay, and if the company can discover any grades. It is not impossible that the Burlington STEELE, JOHNSON & CO,, Wholesale Grocers ! H. B. LOCKWOOD (formerly of Lockwood & Draper) Chicago, Man« ager of the Tea, Cigar and Tobacco Departments. "A full line of all grades of above; also pipes and smokers’ articles carried in stock. Prices and mlmpres furnished on application. Open orders intrusted to us shall receive our careful attention Satisfaction Guaranteed. 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WAKEFIELD, - WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Lamder, L, Shingles, P SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, LIME, CEMEAT, PLASTER, &C- STATE AGENT FOR MILWAUKEE CEMENT OOMPANY, Union Pacific Depot, - HENRY LEHMANN JOBBER OF Wall Paper and Window Shades EASTERN PRICES DUPLICATED, 11 FARNAM STREE . 5 OMAHA NEB and the Denver & Rio Grande Western will come to an understanding by which either the Burlington & Missouri will have a narrow gauge feeder from Salt Lake to Denver, or a standard gauge track be laid betweea these points, fad — TOILERS AND THE TARIFF. A Tempest in a Teapot Over a Tariff- Reduction Circular, Prrrsunc, Pa., April 13.—A petition prepared for circulation among working- men advocating twenty per cent reduc- tion of the tariff is not regarded favor- ably by prominent labor leaders, Secretary Martin, of the Amalgamated association, disclaims all knowledge of the circulsr, and says that such a reduc- tion would cause a shut-down among the mills. There is no trouble or dissatis- faction among the men, and he did_not think the men to be so foolish as to throw themselves out of employment simply to be revenged on manufacturers with whom they now have no quarrel. The petition, he thought, had been issued by outside parties for political effect, or to create trouble among the workmen and the manufacturers, e ——— LARRY'S LAURELS, Diplomatic Barrett Scores a Wirst Night's Success Where Booth and McCullough Falled. Loxnox, April 12 —Lawreuce Barrett, as Yorick, in “Yorick's Love,” scored a decided success this evening. There was present a large and critical audience from the highest rank of the theatre going public.” At first the actor was quietly re- e ived, but as the play progressed the house warmed into sympathy with him and at the end of the first act he was greeted with a round of applause. The enthusiasm increased during the per- formance, and when the curtain fell at the last act Barrett was recalled several times. On the recall Barrett said that during the evening a telegram had been handed him from Teving, in New York, assuring him that he would have a hearty reception from the Lyceum audience. e — The Castaways on Pitcairn Island, Bostox, April 13.—The ship Mercury, from Port Townsend, reports that she "|passed Piteairn island January 11th The inhabitants came aboard and report- ed 105 persons on the island, 52 males and 53 females, and took their mail, some twenty five letters, for difforent parts of the world, , Ga., writes, 8, 18 am - getting on finely, the ulcer is gradually healing, 1 fuel that Swift's Specific will cure the horrible cancer which hus been feeding on me for over 20 years.” Mr. 0. G, Barrou, of dated March 3, The soreness has all gone out of the' Cancer, and wmy health has 1 eatly improved. I have taken six bottles of E\irr's Bupoivio, for u Skin Caucer, which 1 have had for years [ uning, Ga., writes, ree. Tag Swirr Seecivic Co., Drawer 8, At. lanta, G. 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