Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1885, Page 4

g [ B THE DAILY BEE. Owmana Orricr No, 914 axp 916 Farvau ST, New Yourk Orrice, Roou 65 Trisone Buinp: NG, except Snnday. The published in the state, only Monaay morning da One Year $10.00 | Three Months The Weekly Bee, Published every Wednesday TRAID, 8250 1.00 TeRNS, One Year, with premium One Yenr, without premium Bix Months, without premitm Ono Month, on tri 'Y 10 Editorial All Communications relating to Newsan oF TiIk matters should be addressed to the Eoirc Bun, BUSINESS LETTRRS All Business Letters and Remittances ehould be addressed to Triw Brm PURLISITING COMPAXY, OMAIIA Drafts,Checks and Post office orders to be made pay- able to the ordc of the company THE BEE PUBLISHING, 00., Preps, (r:i.‘fll:'-l 2 m'n".'t;n‘:ki[ anager ',',m'y L::;'c"h““"' Tre best thing a person can do durlng this hot weather is to keep cool. Axotuer co'd waveiwoonld be a wel- como viaitor just abont this time, 80 FaR a8 heard from there have been very fow offensive partisans discovered in Neobraska. B It was only sixty-five in theshade yes- torday in Manitoba. We would like a wave or two from Manitoba, Frapay !s an unlucky day. The Mor- mons may find it out to thelr eorrow, If thoy attempt to kick up any fass on the 24th, Tur clty councll has passed a pound ordinance. Now lot Mayor Boyd sp- prove 1t, and let it no longer be ssid that cows and hogs roam at will through the atreots of a cily of over 60,000 people. AccorpinG to the New York advlces of tho Chicago Tribune Mr. J. N. H, Pat- rlck, ‘‘the Nebraska member of the democratic natlonal conventlon,” ls in New York. Has Mr. Boyd resigned in favor of Patrick? No s00xER have the southern Chey- onnes been ret down upon than the northern Cheyennes give indlcations of uneasiness and threaten to break out. Sheridan will have to be eent to the front in Dakota to supprees them. Brcavse Postmaster V ilas dceen’t pro poso to hand over that $400,000 at once to the Paclfic Mail Steamship company, that company bas made a bluff to the effact that it wlll stop carrylng the Aus- trallan mails. Mr, Vilas takes the ground that he was not directed, but was simply authorlzed by the ast of congress to distrlbate $400,000, not as a subsidy, bat as additional ocean mall pay, and rather than glve mest of it to the Paclfic Mall he prefors to walt for instructions. The Pacific Mail company {s mad bacause other Amerloan steamship companles, carrying forelgn malls,have very properly put in claims for a share of this money. The conduct of the Pacific Mail is ver, much liko that of the boy who, being fldupnnment was subservlent to ;AP SIPAEEN- -t 43 SR B T g HE COLLAPSE OF JOHN ROACH. |a half for these public Improvements, but The failure of John Roach, the leading | the bulk of the money has been pald cut ship-bufider in America, natarally gives |for labor, our population has neatly rise to & good deal of epeculation. discusslon of the causss that brought about this disaster Is llkely to evolve a great deal of partlsan buncombe, There are those who will eay that Mr. Roach Is a persecuted man, driven Into bankrapt- oy by political enemles who desire to build up the democratic party byhis ruln. Oa the other hand there are thote who will declare that ‘‘It served him right,” because he was a rampant repaublisan and one of the main plilars of the protec. tlon phalanx. For our pari, however, we do not propoee to Indulge in any par- tlsan gabble In dlacassing the failare of Mr. Roach., We look at the matter from a purely business standpolnt. Me. Roach was sappored t> be engaged in a legltimate buslness—that of ship- bullding. He had certain contracts witl the government, upon which money ha been advanced, and when the work was completed 1t was, upon carsful Inspection and trlal, declared to bs deficlent and not up to the standard rcqatred by the terms of the contract. The non-acoeptance of the Dolphin s asslgned as the direct causo of Mr. Roach’s fallare. In the first place the advance of any monoy durlng the progress of the work was not In acsord with atrict business princlples Suppose Krupp, the great connon manu- facturer, had a contrast with the United States, requlring the inveatment of milllons beforo he could re- allze, would our governmant advancahlm money beforo hls work was completed, tested and accepted! We think not, The trouble {s that Mr. Roach has been on altogether too intimate terms with tho navy department In the past. Mr, Chand- ler was very partlal to him, and still en- deavors to uphold hlm. Now, with a change of adminisiration, comes a change {n the buslness methods of the navy de- partment, An effort is being made to conduct the business of the department upon strlctly business princlples. The result s that Me. Roach stralghtway col- Iapses. His asigoment mey have been to gain eympsthy, or it may have been unavcidable, If the former, then in all probabllity he has asslgned to influaential democratle friends whose efforts will be exerted in his behalf; but if the latter, then Mr. Roach has only been put upon the same level with all ship-bullders and contrac- tors and manafacturers In genoral. There is no good reason why, with iron and labor as cheap aa they now are and with the Iron industry so marvellously developed as 1t is In thls country, that iron ship-bullding could not be as success- fally carrled on at Chester as It has been on the Clyde. As a mattor of fact ship- bullding on the Clyde bas been dlsistrous to some of the builders who have over- reached themselves or who have failed to construct shlps up to the re- quired etrength of speed, strength and armament, Mr. Roach has re- lied altogether too much upon In- flated bladders and life preservers to keep himself afloat. So long as the navy his schemes he was a graat smccess. It s rofused an extra lump of sugar, decliued 0 eat hls supper. Tue season has advanced so far that it is of the utmost importance that the councll should take energetic actlon with rogard to grading, paving and other pub- llc improvements which are Intended to be carrled out this year. It will take at least thirty days to go through tho rou- tine and red-taps of passing ordinances, advertising for proposals, awarding bids and approving contracts and bonds, That will leave only sixty days of falr weather in which the year's work must be doue. There are hundreds of men walting to be employed, and it 1s a very short-elghted policy to keep laborlng people 1dle durlng the busy meason of the year. If one thousand men could be employed from now until snow fliss ot oven $1.25 per day, we would have $1,250 a day put into clrculation among the trades-people. That would give life and trade to the re- tail trade, basides affording vistble proof of the energy, entorprisa and growth of Omehs, Gex, Howarp entertalns some fears that the Fourth of July incident at Salt Lake is the spark that may kindle Into flame the wrath of the Mormons, He looks for a serious collislon betwesn the Mormons and the gentiles on the 24'h of this month, which s the anniversary of the sottlement of Utah., On that day thousands of the Mormons flock into Salt Lake from all parts of the territory to unite In the celebration. We would not be surprlsed therefors if they should be- come sufficlently ‘emboldened by thelr suporlority of numbers, and be easlly fnduced by designlog leaders, to prec'pl- tate a rlot upon the slightest pretext. Such a rlot might resuli in bloodshed and loss of life both among the Mormons and the fentlles, The latter, however, in such a fray would bos at a temporary dlsadvantage owlog to the fact that they would beoverwhelmed by thousands upon thousands of Mormons, who would out. nomber them three to one. However, with the ald of the 500 regular army sold/ers at Fort Douglas the gentlles might be able to hold thelr own, and make it a day of mouralng for the Mormon peop'e. It Is difficult t> believe, however, that the Mormons are so foollsh as to Invite any such conflict at theprezent time, It would, indesd, be sulcidal for them to a‘tempt anythlog of the kind, In would rasult in nothing bat disaster and death for them, as the troops at Fort Douglas woul! be qulckly relnforced from every post in the department of the Platte, It is quite likely that some disturbances way vocur o Salt Lake next Felday, bat wo do not look for any organized inzur- rco'lon, | hardly probable that the eecretary of the navy department out of pure malica or political spite has exerted himself to have the Dolphin rejected wlthout good grounds, ner is It any more likely that the attor ney-general has prostituted the functtons of his offise to decclare Mr. Roach’s contract invalld, merely to cre- ate politioal capital. The failara of Mr, Roach may eventu- ally result in a new departure. It may enable other ship bullders, who have the capital, but who lacked the influence to compete with Roach, t> engaze In fron ship.bullding on a strlct business basls, or 1t may ¢ompel the government to en- largo it navy yard facllitles and to con stract Its own vewsels, 1t would be more desirable that our Iron-clads shoald be bullt by contract and under proper government inspection, because prlvate enterprise would thereby bo stimulated and ship-bullders would agsin be- come one of our greatest Industrles. If our future government vessels are to bo constructed In the vavy yards, the government will be baset by a politl- cal pressure which it would be diflicult to resist, While better work might be ob- talned in the navy yards, yet the political effect of the navy yard employment of thousands of mechanics and laborera could not be otherwiss than demoraliz- ing. It 1s safe to say that ehip-bullding by the government would cost from fifty to one hundred per cent more than if it were done by private enterprlse, because labor in the government service Is alwoys the most expensive. PUSH RIGAT CAD, There are croskors and mozs-backs In every communlty, and Omahs, with all her proverblal push and enterprise, is no exception to the general rule, This class of pecple are very much afrald that Omaha is golng ahead too fast., They want the breaks put on, and the alarm sounded sgainst the reckless plunglng into debt, If thess over-cautious and conservatlve people would reflect for a moment thoy would realize that an hon- est and judlclous expenditure of money for public Improvements 1s the proper polloy to be pursued in order to insplre confidence In Omaha's fature, Not only that, but it Is absolutely neces- saary for us to keep on with publlc works if we ever expect to overtake Kansas City, Minneapolls and St Panl. To be sure this will Inerease taxation and may force the large property owners to eell some Of their real estate to enterprizing men of means who will Improve it. But what wounld Omsha have bsen to-day had 1t not Leen for for the oxtenslve grading, paving and eeweragoconstructiondaring thelast three years’ Wehave expended a million snd The |doubled and property values bave risen from fifty to two hundred per cent. By purening jast such a recklees polley for thrce years more Omaha will have a population of & huan- dred thousand, and for every dollar of taxatlon we shall have ten dollars in the Increase in property. The time for slacking down In the matter of publle improvements Is when we have made Omaha a large clty, and our factorios and atores can glve steady employment to ten thousand more worklngmen, So far &8 we have gone, Omaha s an excepilon to all other cltles in the comparative smalloess of jobbery in connection with public works, It ls safe to assert that there has not been $10,000 mis-appropri- ated or corruptly used In the expenditare of the whole milllon and a half for gead- Ing, paving and sewerage, In other citles the steslage amounts to about ten por cent, or $10,000 for every 100,000 expended, This wonld make the steal. age on a million and a half in Omaha 8150,000. Now we don't admit that even §10,000 has been atolen or misap- priated. There may havo been here and there some petty pilferlng, but {t was a mere bagatelle. With proper vigilance there noed be no more stealagoein the fatare than there has been in the past. Tko piylng policy for Omaha ls to push right ahead, work out her own destiny, and when she has the wealth and population she can command proper rallrond accommodations and facllities, instead of belng in the position of sn humble dependent. So far as our clty debt is concerned, Omaha has a emailer Indebtedness than any other city in America of equal populatlon, and more to ehow for what sho does owe than ony city with twice her populatlon, WHERE THE BLAME RESTS. How far is & newspaper bound to tho work of helping those who will not help themselves? Wo propound this uestion in respone to many communications and appealsreepecting freight discrimination agaiost St, Louis, There is not a point in the controversy which has not been covered time and again by the (lole- Dgmocrat, Yet those who are the losers by the discrimination and the extortion are con- tent to suck their thumbs and do nothing, A determined and concerted effort on the part of the St. Louis merchants would soon remedy the eval. Dut there has not yet been any- thing of the kind—only an occasional growl, followed by submission to the worst abuses. ‘The blame does not properly rest upon the railroads and bridges and ferries which prac- tice the extortion, but upon the merchants who submit to tha extortion,— St. Louis (lobe- Democrat, The above applies with as much force to Omaha as it does to St. Louls. There are In Omaha *a largs number of mer- chants and shippers who constantly com- plainin private about the extortlons and discrfminaticns of the railroads, but when they are cilled upon to make a case sgalnst the railroads by allowing the use of their mames to glve credibllity and welght to published statoments, they peremptorily refuse to do anything of the kind. They are always willing, however, to give quiet polnters to tho BEkE, but only upon the most solemn assurances that thelr names will not be revealed. They clalm that they dare not let them- selyes be known for fear the rallroad com- panies will work some revenge npon them to the great detriment of thetr business, which Is already suffering from extortions and discrimlnations. They are willing enough to let the BeE fight thelr battles while they remain In the background. We know that every business man of any {mportance In Omaha heartily endorsed the stand taken by Mayor Boyd in hls recent letter to Charles Francis Adams. It was our Intentlon to Inter- view the leading buslness men and publish thelr oplnions on that letter, together with thelr names, but, judging from past experlence in such matters, we concluded It would simply be a waste of time. While wo could have secured pleuty of oplnions, we question whather we gould have obtained the'permission of mora than two or three buslness men to publish their names in connectlon with their opinions. They are altogether .00 tim!d to ever accom- plish any(hing In a fight with the rall- roads, They would rather continue to be systamatically imposed upon than take a bold stand for thelr rights. They are really more to blame for the present con- dition of affalrs than are the railroads which praclice the abuses so often complalned of. 8o long as they submit to lmoositlons, eo long will the railroads continue them, THERE is llable to be trouble between the Rosebud and Tongue river Indlans, Let 'em fight it out. Our suggestion In favor of some actlon looklng toward calling a republican state convention this fall does not meet the approval of the court journal at the cap- ftal. No other suggestlon made by the Bee has ever been sec: nded In that quar- ter, but we still survive, Tie Omaha Bk claima that in the last five years Omaha has cutstripped Denver In the movement of its population, and that it now proposes to overtake Kansas City, Not until Krnsas City requires more room to grow in, and extends her limits to take in Omaha,— p So far as Omaha and Kansas City are concerned, there ls plenty of room for them to become large cities withowt en- croaching upon each other's terrltory. Each Las commaud of a rich agricultural and live steck reglon, which is better Romance From Deadwood, Deadwcod letter to New York Sun, One day last winter a yonng man from Boston, named Henry T. Byron, was severely frozen while riding on horse- back from Lead city to this plsce, and on taking to his bed, grew worse so ¢ 1dly that It was seen that he could not live. He had nelther friends nor money, but he was such a bright and gentlemanly young fellow that the few men who heard of his illness dld what they could for him cheerfally,. He seemed to have recov- ered entlrely from hls frost-bite. but he was 80 weak and emsncipated that he yielded rapldly to a low fever, and, grow- ing falnter day by day, the doctor finally told the few rough watchers that he could not live more than forty-elght hours, vrobably not twenty-four, Tho next night Tom Folton, an old- time frontlersman, who was sitting up with the slck man, momentarlly expect- Ing his death, began to wonderif the boy had any frlends anywhere, and when the sufferer finally began to matter some half audible sentences hls companion bent over him and questloned him repesdedly &8 to his home and frlends. At firsi ho recelved no reply, but presently the de- lirlons youth seemed to gather some idea of what.he wanted, and In broken tones managed to commun'cate a namo and ad- dress In Boaton, which Felton at once put down on a clean page of his well- worn memorsndum book. Further efforts to converse with the dylng man were fatlle, and at about midnight Felton, evldently sopporing bim dead, or feeling cortaln that he would die before morn- inz—just which will never be known— left hls bedside, proceedod to the tele- graph oftice, and wrote the following me:sige: DeaDWOOR, January 11, 1885, —Your son, Henry T, Byron, died hera, to-nigflt, of pneu: monia. Will bury him here and await your order, Toy FELTON, Thls dispatch was transmlitted by tho oporator, Fe'ton standiog by and watch- ing every motlon until the young man closed his key aud placed the papoer on a eplke at hls lefs hand. Then the old miner buttoned his cca’ about him and steppod ot Into tho stroet sgain, The night was bitterly cold, and es the op- erator followed the man to the door and looking out for a moment he notlced that he started away inthe direction of the little saloon and hotel where Byron had been stopping. TOM FELTON MURDERED, Tho next morning Tom Felton’s dead body was found not more than 300 feet from the telegraph cflice, his long halr and baard matted with saow and lce, and his limba frczon stiff. At first it wasy thought that he might have succumbed to the cold, but onexamination it was found that thers wers two bullet holes in his back, Who killed Tom ¥elton, or what was it done for, has never been known, and probably never will ba. He bad had a varled experlence on the border, had been In nearly overy mining camp from the Black Hills to the coatt, and was what was considered a hard man; yet he had many good qualitles, and hls friends made load threats of ven- geance agalnst his murderer, wkich would have been carrled oat, no doubt, if the gullty man could ever have been located. The next day a farlous bllzzard swept over all this section, carrying down the telegraph wires, suspending sll kinds of business and even cutting off the stage comumunication with the railroads ncrth and southof here. When the doctor called at the saloon In the courss ¢f the forenoon and wentup staira to the litile room where Byron lay he was surprised to noticea decided improvement in the conditiop of hls patient., He made a new prescrlption and gave some directions as to treatment, and, golng down stalrs to inquired what had become of Felton who had egreed to otay with the slck man untll he came 2gain, heard for the first time of the murder that had been com- mitted. Oue of the other hangers-on aboat the place was pressed into servica, and under hls and the doctor’s care Byron soon showed sach cheerful signs of mending that all began tohope that he would recover. This he did, in less than two weeks. Felton In the meantime, havicg been burled and all but forgotten by his rough sssoclates of former daya. Byron was able to get about a little, and in a month more he was lu better health than he was before he was taken sick. A MESSAGE FROM LOSTON. The wires were down during the great torm for several days. Two or three omes they were repalred, but breaks ccurred at other places, and 1t was not untll the blizzard had entirely subslded that things were got Into working order again, Then among the delayed mes- s2gesthat camo one day was thia: BostoN, January 11,—Tom Felton, Daad wood: Will gee that all bills are pald, Mark the grave. Will be there some time in spring. H, OSBOBNE, As Tom Felton was dead, the operator, whose frequent servles In communicating news of deaths and burials of eastern gold-hunters bad made him hardened, and who had forgotten about the mes- sago which ho had sent to some one In Boston named Byron, made up hils mind that there was no use In trying to delives this message, and he promptly enclosed it to the sender by mail, explalning that the person to whom it was addressed was dead and burled. Letters coming to Felton soon after were forwarded to the dead letter oftice without any partlcular notice being taken of them, and In the courze of time even tke telegraph and postal autharlties had no ocoaslon to re- member the dead miner and adventurer. Young Byron got work as soon as he was strong enough, and of late he has been making a desperate effort to pay off the hoge doctor’s bill which ren up during his 1llness. On Tuesday of thls week, when the stage came In from Sidney, among the paesengers alighting were a benevolent looking old gentleman and a slender young lady of sach grace and beauty that the big crowd which usnally gathers when the stage comes In followed her with thelr eyes until she and her escort dlsap- peared within the hotel. Even then tom» of the msn made excuses to get into the houss, The gentleman reglstered as H, Ocsborne and duughter, Boston, Mass., snd after makiog some {nquiries he and hls fair companion were shown to adjolning rooms. The next day Mr. Os- borne and hls daughter et out on thelr errand, Inqulriog first as to the person- ality and fate of Lom Felton, they scon learned all the particulars of his unhappy death that were knowo, aud then they gently broached the subjecs that was evi- dently nearest thelr hoarte, The hotel- keeper could glve them no iuformation about Heory X, Byron, He had never heard of him, Sucha man might have then all the gold and eilver mines be- tween the Mlssour! river and the Paclfic coast., When the rallrcads glve Omaha as fair a show as they have given Kausas City, then Omaha will bave no dlfficulty in catchiog up with our enterpris'ng sis- ter down the river, been In the cawp and might have disd there, but he had not heard of It. Di- recting the strsnger to the city mershal, the hotel-keeper turned to the other peo- ple aemanding his attentlon, and Mr. Qzborne and daughter sallied forth in goarch of the marsnal, When they found LR S 1000 o S————————— == been put t5 him, he hitched up his (*ous- ers and teplled : DXPLANATION AND REUNION. “Yes, 1 know all about that young man. He waa rfck down here for four or five weeks, and everybody thought he was a goner, but he pulled throogh, and he aln't any deader'n I am.” ““Oh, but the one we're searching for is dead ' mald the glrl, with an appealing look. *“We recelved a telegram an- nouncing his death, and it must be.” “*Well, that's all rlght, mam,” contin-~ ued the marshal, eyelng her heavy mournivg costume curiously, and jast beginning to wonder If he was not on the pofnt of dlscovering something rather more Interesting than usually fell to his lot; “‘that's all right, bat the mau I'm talking about didn’t dle at all, and I'il take you to him If you say the word. He's up here at on of the stamp mllle, and I'll introduce you,” The three got Into the marshal’s wagon 2ud drove rapidly to the spot Indlcated, the old gentleman locking pale and ex- cited, and the girl flushed and anxlous, Gettlng out of the vehlcle, Mr. Osborne saw the man for whom he was looking, and In helping his daughter out he par- posely kept hls head averted. Then, holdlng her close to him, he warned her that she must be prepared for a shock; that Harry was slready coming toward hem, and that there had been some great mistake. The girl, with her eyos etreaming with tears, tore herself away from her father, and running towaras young Byron, who was approaching In the company of the marabal, she threw heraelf in his arme. Byron was almost spoechless, and turned sll colors. The old gentleman got red in the face blow Ing bis nose, and the oliy marshal and others who had been attracted to the spot by the unusual scene, trled to talk about quartz, fissuzes, veins and amal- gam, but with poor sucoess. All hands returned to Deadwood as soon as posl- ble, and there Mr. Osborne, after a call at the telegeaph cflica and an extended convereation with varlous frlends of Tom Felton, learned as much of the trath as has here been glven, which ls all that anybody kuows, After supper tha old man said: A dlepatch, signed Tom Felton, came to Mz, Bryon in Boston, last January, an- nouncing kis son’s desth hero. The boy aad been a wild lad, and after numerous acrapes had ran away. About six months before he disappenred he married my danghter, and we both boliaved that 1f his father had given him a boost then he could have been saved. We knew noth- ing of his circums ances until {t was too late, and we found {t impossiblo to trace him, My daughter was broken-hearted; but we cherished the hope that he would saon retarn, perhaps a better man. When his father,who I8 a stern, unbending man, got the telegram from Felton, he refused to do anything, and turned it over to me as a matter of news. My daughter and 1 resolved to bring his remaina back, and that is what brought us here. 1f 1t had not been for Felton’s dispatch we should that digoltary and tho uzual uestion had not have known whera the young man was, a8 he says he had determined not to return until he had mada a new begin- ning. We will all go back together.” o —a—— Benator Edmunds, hiladelphia American, There Is some oppotition in Vermont to the re-election of Mr. Edmunds to the United States senate, based chiefly on his lukewarmness in the last campalgo. 1t is quite true that Mr., Edmunds was not very zealous for the election of Mr, Blaine, but it is also true tha! at a time when his namoe would have been wel- comed by the bolters as a tower of strength, he abstained from everything that might embarrass his own party. That Mr, Edmuads is not and never was zeslous simply ‘‘for what the party chooses” is certainly true, Ths repab- lican party however cannot afford to oatracise him on that account. Least of all can it afford to do eoin the present conjuncture of affairs, when wisdom euggests the concillation of those who went much farther than Mr. Edmunds did. And in fact, Mr. Edmunds has becn a benefit to the party, jusi because of his readiness to refuse to obey orders from conventions aud leaders. When the country has seen hlm heartlly support any portion of the republicf policy,— and his assents have been far more nu- merous than his dlssents,—it has the as- surance that that po'icy has commended itzelf to him on atrong grounds. With- out euch men—and Mr, Edmunds Is by no means the solltary speclmen in s ranks—the party would not have the moral weight 1t has had with the Ameri. can people. To refuse him re-election would be to justlfy both the bolt and lts continuance, That Mr, Edmunds was nob well- sifscted to the last nomlinations of the party s undenable. Bat he had the right to diseont, and to limit his actlvity In the electlon accordingly, £o long as he made no scandsl and no breach in the ranks, He did not impair his standing as a member of the party by so doing. He has far better claims to its respect than had some, who gave not the thous- andth part of their energy to the pres- fdential canvass, but kept it pearly all to eecurs leglslatures in thelr own inter- est, and who have been rewarded by re-clection, ———— A Welcome Retorm, New York Times, Heretofore the administration of aflalrs In the general land office has been mark- ed by great liberality toward land grant railroad corporations, In addition to the broad belts of land set aside for their use under the granting ects additlonal belts on each slde have been withdrawn from settlemeflt because the corporatlons would in conrse of tme select from them sectlons to replace other sectlons within the limits of the grant which they could not have because eettlers had taken legal possesslon of them, Thess outside belts were known as lands within indemnity llmits, Inasmuch as the cor- porations could ultimately clalm but a saall part of theeo outside belts, It was obviously unjust to the settler to abso- lately withdraw them from settlement and c:mpel him to stand sside and awalt the convenlence of the subsldized cor- poration, But commlssloners were ready and willing to accommodate the com- panes, Into whoee servicssomoof them weont at the end of thelr terms. The new commissioner, who has already boen dec- orated with the enmity of the Spanish grant epeculators, now decides that a withdrawal of lands within Indemnlty Hmits Is effective only as Information in defining the llmits within which selec- tlons may be made at & proper time, and does not prevent the settler from taking a homestead accordlog to law before the corporation has madelts lawfal selections. If Secretary Lsmar snstalos the commis sioner, millions of acres from which set tlers have for years been excluded will be opened to them, e Copenhag If anyone expects to find the capital of Denmark a bright, gay clty, with white warble palaces, magnificent residences, dezz Ing shops, lvely atreete, grand troes, Imposing publle bulldlogs, stately charches, wide boulevards, spatkling with wealth and beauty, he Is doomed to die appolotment. lnstead, he finds a com- m mplace ci'y, with an’ excallent, though not viotaresque harbor, a pleasant artl- fiolal 'ake In the contre of the town, and a park /n the outakirts. Architectarally, Copenhsgon 18 unlmposing, dreary snd dilapidated. The public buaild- fags, wit the excep'lon of Christlanborg palace (recently destroyed by fwe) #re unattractive There is an unfinished chnrch, standing {n the center of the city, with an impos- ing dome, but it has stood uafinlshed so long thst a stranger i In doubt whethor it Is a raln or a building in progreas of erectlon. The Thorvaldeen’s musenm, romarkable In ita collection of the works of this great ssulptor, has the appearance of an old theatra turned inside out. The four wretched old palaces which now con- taln the representative of & monarchy thst has celebrated the thousandth anni- versary of {ta foundation, 150k with a mus- ty, ancient, vacant stare into the most des- olate cobbleatone equate that It 1s possible to ploture. Tho yellowish gray walls of the old bulldlngs are peeling away; not a green leaf or blade of grass has the conr- ago to grow withln rauge of tho front of these so-called palaces; nothing but cram- bled stone, dirty white shuttors, cobble- tonos, and a bronzo status of Frederlck the Something greet the king's cye should he gaze from any of the tront windows of his apartments upon the streots balow, In the meantimo thoe *‘good and faithful parliament” calmly refuses to appropriate the money necessary {o rebuild the Chrle- tianborg palace. The city exchangs of Co- penhagen 18 of red brick and sprawls over constderable ground, having the appear- ance of a block of Gothle cottages. The hotels and rostaurants are unifermly bad. The Hotel d'Anglatorre s considered the best. It ls badly kept. The plaster In the bedrooma s cracked and is falling off, the wall paper milldewed with dampness and black and greasy with age and use. Tho sanitary srcangeients aro_ slmply abom/nable and enoagh to brood infec- tlows disease, It s difficalt if not im- possiblo to obtatn & good dinner In the clty. The faro at the be:t restaurant s poor. Copenhagen fs bad'y dralned, or rather not dralned at all.—PAiladciphia Press b —— Tho Electric Motor on Strect ways, Cincinnati Commercial-Gazatto. It I3 n-t genorally known, bat Is never- theless a fact, that the Baltimore Union Pacsenger Rallway company, operating five lines of straet railway in Ballimore, Md., is exclustvely owned by Cincinuat- {ans, and that this {3 tho company which 15 abouat to iutroduce claciriclty as & prac tical motor for the first time in the United States. Awmong the owners are E. M. Johnson, who Is president; A. D. Builook, J. D Keck, M. 8. For- bug, A. G. Clark, Lewis Seesongood, the Ryan brothers, the Morrlson brothers, the Perln estate, Governor Headly, J. N. Kinney, Brlggs Swift, and Abe Furat A ‘meeting was held yesterday at the of- fico of the prestdent, Mr. E. M. John- son, and M. S. Forbas, and A. G. Clark were appointed a commiltee of the stock- holders 1o be preeent at tho spproaching actual opering for businees cf the two miles of the road which have been fitted for the use of the clectriz motor. Rail. 1t can b eafely stated that the firat bona fide business traneactlon in this country where an electrle motor for a stroet rallwsy was ordered, manufectured and delivered, wes completed within the lsst fow months, In the early patt of last spring the Baltimore Unfon Passonger railway com- pany, hearing of the rapld progress of the Daft eleetric light company with their system of clectrle railway lightning, and wishing to incresss their capacity, investigated the matter. Satlsfied with the completeness of the systom, an order was at once given to conatruct two motors and cquip the Hampden branch of thelr lines. 1t was some tlme, however, before definlto plans were tettled upon, But about the middle of last April work was commenced both at Baltimore and at the Daft works, OnJune 10th the first motor was shipped, after having under- gone a week’s severe testlog. The Bal- timore Unlon Passenger railway com- pany, Edgar M. Johnson, president; T. C. Robbins, general manager; 1s one of the largest in the clty. 1t operatestwen- ty-five miles of roads, and has within lts stables nearly 400 horses. The Hamp- den branch s just two_miles long, runs through the villages of Hampden, Mt, Ver- non and Woodbury, agaregating some 15,000 Inhabltants, and is one of the largest bits of land the company operates. Starting from the main terminus on Huntingdon avenue, thero {s scarcely 300 feet of level road the entire length. The viliage of Woodbury, though mnot two miles dlstant, is fifteen feet hicher than Baltimore. Grades and carves constltute the main featurer. Ths heaviest grade on a tangent ls 319 feet, and on a curve 302 feet per mile. The sharpest curve has & radius of but fifty feet, the largest elghty-nine fest. To cquip this roud the joints of the outer rafls were perforated and o third rall, an ordinary twenty-five pound T rail, similary to the outer rails, lald, with the Daft patent lusulator, mldway between the outer rail, Ths iosulator cons'sts of an ircn shoe of dlamond shape, six inches long, three and one-half inches wide and one-half inch thick, with two converging ways upon one of its surfaces, Wedged between these ways Is a round block of wood of truncated cone shape, with heigkt 2} inches, Upon this block is ecrewed a round iron eap. This ls 4} inches in diameter and 2 Inches deep. Com’ng within three-fourths of an inch of the fron shoe, it thoroughly protects the wood block, The rall placed on the capis held in posltion by two bolts screwed into the cap. The difficultles of constructing such a work, 1t all belng entirely new, have been many, but have been met and successfully overcome. The center rail forms the outgoing lead, the two cuter rails with the ground be- iog the return, The reslstonce of euch a line will be lezs than .3 of an ohm, with perfect joints, At the maln ter- mious a new bulldiog, forming one room 20x10 feet has been bullt for the engine and dynamo, The engloe is a 16x34 inch Atlss engine, built at Indlan- apolls, The boiler and all it ungs ere from the eame firm. The dynamc 18 one of the Daft com- pany's largest. Its total welght ls 4,200 pounds, and {ts maximum capacity is 300 amperes, at 1205 volts electromotive force, A 0 Inch double belt connects direct from the 10-foot fly-wheel on the engine to a 16-inch pulley on the dynamo. Switches, regulators, automatle cut-outs, and all other devices necessary for a complete syttem will be put in as precaotionary measures agalnst every poerible form of A SHORT SESSION. Procecdings of the Board of Edncation Meeting Last Night, Sweltering Weather and Little Busic ness -Bide For Heating Appar atus Received and Opened. On sccount of the oppremive heat that invaded the rooms of the eehool board last ovening, a very ehort session was held. The board met at § o'clock with Prea- ident Points In the chalr. Long, Lovsey, Copeland and Connoyer answered to roll call. Mr. Hall reported later. A potltion from tho executive boazd of the Bohemlan echool association asking for the uso of & room In the Hartrsan school bullding during vacatlon, and to bo ocenpled als> on Saturdays and Sane day mornings for the purpose of estab lishing a echool to teach the Bohemlan lapguage,” was granted. Boggs & Hill called attention to the willingnets of the city councll to grado Thirtleth stroet, In thelr additlon, if the property ownors will walvo damages. Secretary Connoyer was authorized on bohalf of the board to sfgn the petition, walvlng damages and asking for the grado. R, L. Miller petitioned the board to appolnt him janitor in any one of the school building:. The matter was re- forred. A. J. Grover certified to the board that ho has cot stakes for the grading of the achool lots on the northweet corner of COasteller and Eighteenth strects. R. 8. Willlaws, of Council Bluffs, sent In a proposition to the effect that he wiil furnish a solid slats blackboard, on the wall roady for uss, at 374 cents per rquare foot, or deliver at tho depot In this city for 33 centn per tqusra foot. Blds for grading lot 31, in block 10, wore received from K, J. Coder, Stutt & Hamel, Charles E. Fannlng and James G. Cralg. Mr. er, makes hla bid at 9 cents per cable yard; Statt & Hamel st 13} cents, or §1,000 for the job and they take the dirt; Charles E. Fanning at 14 cents and Mr. Cra'g at 14 conts. The bid of Mr Coder, waa accepted. Blds wero received, a3 follows, for placing heatlog apparatus n the Farnam and Castellar street school bulldings: Milton Rogera & Son........ 115 00 Sallivan Brothers. . 1,200.00 E, J. Condit & Co. . 112200 Thete amounts, it Is understood, are for only one bu!lding, therefore will be the same for both. Condit & Co. also agree to put In four Instead of two furnaces, making tho prlce then $1,4G. They further propose to furnish the new Far- nam street school with two furnaces at $890. Sulllvan Broe. epeclfied in thelr bid that they will put in soft coal fur- naces, the Western Champion, at $1,075. These bids were referred to a epeclal com- mlttec, conelsting of Coburn, Livaey and Olark, with Instructiona to r2port at the next regular meeting. On motion of Mr Copoaland, Miss Kate Paul was granted the uge of a room in tho Long achool bullding to hold a eam- mer schocl. Mr. Copeland secared a suspension of the rules and introduced the fullowing resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That section 89 of tho rules and regulaticns of the board, bs amend- ed by inserting after the words, *‘astist- ants of thoe 3:d class,” ‘‘special teachers,” and at the end cof the sentence the words, ‘‘candidates forspectal teachers certificates shall be examined oaly in the branches which they are requested to teach,” and eectlon 90, by adding the words, *‘providing that this section shall not apply to speclal teachera.” There belng no further business before the board, an adjournment was taken. NO SIGNS OF TROUBLE. Something About the Mormon Affair —Military Matters in General. “No,” sald Gen., Howard, Injanswer to the query of a reporter for the BEEr yee- terday*‘there 1s nothing new about affairs {n Utah. The fact of the matter is thers has not been a slngle soldler moved In antlelpation ¢f any trouble with the Mormons, Sensatlonal reports have been spread by the local press about this mat- ter, and I have been made to say things tkat I neverdld say and dldn't think of. All there s to the affalr was expressed in Wednesdsy's Ber In the statement that there was consideratle bad feeling be- tween the Mormors and the loyal citd- zens of Utah, and that Gov. Murray could eaeily handle eny uprising with the wilitary at hls command.” THE SOUTHERN CHEVENNE TROUBLES, Goneral Crook has just recolved a letter from Cul. Morrow, In command of the department troops at Crlesfield, in which he eays that all slgns of trouble in the Indian territory and in eouthern Kaneas have dissppeared. The Omaha troops will soon be moving northward, THE COMING CONTEST. Captain Milcs, Twenty-first Infantry, Licutenants Cochran and Morton, Seventh infantry and Fifth Infantry, have arrived and reported to Colonel Heury for duty at the rifls compoti- tiln, ~ Captain Miles is a veteran of the war, having served through tho rebelllon and slocs In Indian engagements, Lieats. Cochran and Morton are recent gracuates of the military academy. The first llst of those In charge of the competition are: Col, Henry In charge. Col, Miles, executive oflizer and in command of rifle camp. Lieat. Oochran, statlstical cflicer, Lieut, Morrlan quartermastor and ord- nance officer. Lisuts, True and Morton,range cflicera. The officers and enlisted wmen to fire will arrive at the end of the month when the camp wlll be in readiness, The citi- zeong' prizes will make the competition one of great rivalry and Interest, Au army cfficer tells & good joke on North Piatte, After the Niuth cavalry were pald off tho sporting boys at North Platte thought they would like some of the several thousanda left by the pay- master, The color llue was ignored, snd the bogs in blue asked down to s little gamo, Tho colored boya broke two “‘banks.” faking from one $500, and sn other §200,aud left Norta Platto » sadder if not & wiser town, danger or trcublo. 19,— Smallpo epreading nepidowic forn awong th e1ans at Scotland, Twenty-five ceses g ted to-day, Ssveral deaths iring the week, Welegrapn Notes. The Domlcion parliament was prosogued yosterday. The Columbuy, Toledo & 1rching Valloy ilrcad company hus declared % dividend of r cent, payablo tu stock