Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 23, 1885, Page 4

ey THE DAILY BEE. Owmana Orricr No, 014 axn 916 Farvau St New York Orrice, Roox 65 Trinose Brivo: NG, daily publish: 1 WAL Three Montt $ 20 bished cver sy mornit One Year $10.00 Six Mont 00 | One Month e 100 The Weekly 1 hed every Wednesday POSTRA One Year, with preminn $000 One Year, withont previim v 12 Bix Months, withont prem. 7 One Month, or trial,..... e 10 COLRRSIONDESCE Newaand Editorial EDITOR OF THR All Communioations relat 3 Iatters should be addressed to A Brx AUSINRSS LETTRRS, All Brsiness Lotters and Remittan wddress: 1 to Tire Bee | « Drafts,Checks and Post office o whle o the order of th THE BEE PUBLISHING 00, Prns A. H. Fitch, Manag Otnaha, Nebraska, s thould be Daily Circulation, Tue city councll must revise the as- seesment roll and bring tax-shirkers to time. Now TiAT Mayor Boyd has approved the pound ordlnancy it 1s koped that Omaka wlll ceass to ba a cow pasture. Tre president has not yet gone on that vacation, but he continues to give vaca- tlons to quite a numoer of office-holdera, Poriricar plums are not belng plcked very fast in Nebraska this season. The fruit crop In this state ls evidently a fallure. Tue president has supplled Alaska with a new set of officlals—governor judge, attorney, and marshal. It is a cold day when Alaska geta left, AnoNG the appolntments made by the president on Tuesday Nebraska falled to draw a blogls prize. It is pretty evident that there are very few *‘rascals” In this atato, Parries who have laid out farms mto city lots and expact the clty to supply water, gas, fire and polics protectlon,and achool facilities for thelr additlons,should be compelled to pay their proportion of oity taxes. AccorpinG to the Herald De, Miller's three-colamns of hog-wash and soft soap on the Union Paclfiz and its relations to Omaha and the west has recelved the at- tention which way due it from the peo- ple of this clty, Yes, Indeed! Every- body in thls clty, not excepting the Ualon Paclfic ofticlals and employes, re- gard It as a disgusting exhibltion of de- based jouanallsm. D, MiuLer has the efirontery to tell us that Mr. Charles Francls Adams in his futore desigas for bullding up Omaha hae always had In vlew the extension and use of the belt railroad as a means for solving the transfer problem. Will Dr. Miller please explaln why, accordlng to what we conslder reliable Information, Mr. Adams has sought to compel S, H. H. Clark to refund the money expended by the Unlon Paclfic In the construction of the belt llne and take the road off the company's hands? Tur reports from Mount McGregor show that General Grant is sluking rap- idly, and that the hour of his death ls near at hand. The old commander has proved Eimself as much a hero through- out his long and palnfal illness as he ever did amlid tho shot and shell on a hundred battle-fields, #verything that was possl- ble in medical sklll and attention has been done for him, and his life has no doubt been prolongad several months by the faithful care that he has received from h’s phyeiclans and famlly. Tur clty counctl has at last taken actlon toward securlng a uniform system of sidewall ‘s {n the buslness center—between Tenth ai1d Fifteonth, and batween Far- nam snd Douglas. The territory, how- ever, shoi1ld have Included Harney and Dodge sir sets The resolutlon adopted by the cou uocil requires the city engineer to detatl a man to report all lots In the proscribed ( erritory where no walks are noeded, W hen this roport Is presented and adopted, the council will then order such walks {0 be laid by the city con- tractor, under the diraction of the board of public worl t, if the property.ownera do not have th » work dono within a cer- taln time, N'o more wooden walks should be lald o 2 Fernam or Douglas, or on the croms-stre 3ts between those two thoroughfaree, fr ym Tentk to Fifteenth, Nothing but dura! \le materlal—stone, phalt or artificlal st one—should bs per- mitted to be use 3, and every walk, whether new or olc!, should be brought to the full width and' proper grade. wes to blossom with eich succeding rea- son. He lsnow a candldate for the dem- ooratic nominatien for governor of New York, and as he ic, according to the Sun, *‘a reformor of the olviljservics after the school of Jofferson, .Jackson and Tilden, and not after the huirbug school of Dor- man B, Eatan & Co.,” we should not be surprizod If ho should ccme a little nearer success this thne than he did when he was plastering the countey” with plctures of himself in hopes that kis decoration of dead-walls, hotel oftices ar'd the bar- roows would secure for him 4h e presiden- tlal nomination, It s troe that the democrats in genoral and those of New York in partlcular are not ovormuch plessed with clvll service reform of any kind, and it is with geest ditappoint- ment that they have viewed even the falot efforts of Grover Oleviand to pose as 8 civil eervice reformer. They be- lleve 'n the Jackeonian doctrine eure enou. 1, and hence Mr. Flower wlll re- ceive than if he were Cleveland's olley, wore encogragement on endorser of Mr. e i . v begins Sep S L AOUKJEE, Dir, Fra e b b, ton .| enjoln, 1 84y BUSTON, M FRAUDULENT ASSESSMENTS. The citizens of Omaha will now real- 1ze what we have been predloting for years, that the eystematlc tax-shirking of heavy property-owners and capitallsts, the wholessle exemptions of rallroad property which Is no part of their right of way, and the reckless dlsregard of thelr sworn duty to assessors, ls liable to serlonely affect this city in the prosecu- tlon of its public Improvements. Our last annual review contained a detailed ex- hibit of the improvements far the year 1884 which aggregated 85,639,440.3L Of this amount the pablic Improvements carrled on by the clty proper aggregated £052,049 31,and the sum of about $600,- 000 was expended by the clty waterworks, the gas companies, the belt railroad, the strect railway and other public concerns, Ouar store bulldings, warehouses, factor- 1es, and dwellings darlng the year 1884 were valued at a fractlon of over £4,000,000. Now It {ssafe to eatlmate the Improvements in Doug'as county, out- vide of the city, darlnz the year, ata half a million mora, 8o that the sum of over £6,000,000 has been added to the valuatlon of property In thls county daring 1884, Thls Includes no estimate of the increase In the value of all real estate in the city and county by reason of these improvements and by the Incroase of population. A very low estimate of thls ncrease would at least b ten per cent., which on the nsseased valuatlon of $12,000,000, would have been equal to £1,200,000. But when the arsessor’s ro- turns are footed up we find that the total Increase for the whole year Is only about $700,000, and the greater portlon of that ls outside of the clty. What an outrageous fraud this {s! In 1871, with a population of less than 18,000, and no waterworks, sewerage, pavemcnts, or public improvements worthy of mention, the assessment of Omaha property was £11,000,000. To-day with a population of over 60,000, our clty limits extended miles beyond the lmitsof 1871, and pub- llc improvements that could not be du plicated for less than four or five milllons, our valuation is over one mil- lion lees than It was fourtcen years ago. No wonder thit we mnow find ourselves with only $6,000 in the general fand for grading. The only excuse for this villalnous and fraudulent system of assessment ls that they al! do it. Our heavy tax-payers point to Lincoln and other cltles and towns in the state where tax shirking and sham assessments are also prevalent, They insist that Omaha cannot afford to have falr assessments as longas other sections of the state continue systematic undervaluatlons. While it 1s doubtless trae that there is wholesale perjary com- mitted in other cltles by property-owners and assessors, we do not balleve there is anytning gained by Omaha In allowing one-third of the property to go untaxed, assessing valuable clty lots at acre valuatlon, and deliberately Ignorlng any Increase in prop- erty values by reason of improvements. It Is not true, as Is repeatedly urged, that our state taxes would be out of all proportion with other parts of the state {€ property were assessed uniformly at one-third or one—fourth of Its actual value. The state board of equallzation 1s In duty bound to recognizs the differ- ence and make allowances for it in the ratio of assessment, after due comparison. That board is now In sesslon and several countles, notably York county, will be represented before it with a viow of getting thelr state tax adjasted pro rata wlth the average assessment of other countles, Bat even If we had no remedy It wounld be profitable for Omaha to have impar- tlal and honest assemsmonts. The state tax on every mllllon dollars amounts to $7,600, and if our assessments had been ralsed only two milllons thls year oar state tax would have been only $15,000. Would it not be of greater advantage to Omaha In the long run to pay $15,000 addltional state tax rather than have a stoppage of all graiing for a yoar! The tax on any property owner would be only 7.00 on every one thousand dollars of property aesessed, But under an impar- tlal and uniform assessment the small property-owner would not ba afiected, because the increased valuation would be on the property of the wealthy corpora- tlons and caplitallsts who have immense tracts of real estate, Thls class can afford to pay taxes on a fair valuation, AN Injunction sult does not always This was the case with an Illinols farmer whose wife had applied for a divorce and had obtalned an in- junction restralning him from disposing of his property. The farmer set fire to hils house and barns, into which he had driven several horses, a dozen cows and steers, twenty hoj nd a large number of chickens, tarkeys and geese. All this property was destroyed, amounting In value to £10,000. 1t was & costly revenge. r— WiireLaw Remo hay evidently made s favorable impression on the Pacific ocast, where he was visiting. The Haw- thorne, (Cul.) Bullctisn concludes a com- pliurentary notice of him as follows: *‘If he hud a larger field and a paper of his own Mr, Reid would make bls mark in journallsm, He has ability, s a hard worker, i\ed if connected with the Neva- da prass would soon be admitted to the Press Assootatlon.” Avrnove ex-Delegate Maginnis, of Montans, {s & mach dleappointed man, owing to his fallme to eecure the gov- ernorship of that territory, he is by no The republicans and democrats endeav. THE DAILY BEE-~TRURSDAY, JULY 23 1885 majesty and rebelling agalnst the conat!- ored to pool their Issues by having a bill | tatlon of the realm,” which is about the introduced by Sanders In the last legle- |same thing as tresson, only expressed In lature providing, when Montana shall be | different language, the punishment haiog admltted, that there shall be elected one | the same democratlc senator and one republican senator, but the scheme falled to material. ize owing to a lack of votes, We take it that the polltical machines will continue to be worked In Montana as they are elsewhere, The political party having the biggest ‘‘bar'l” and the most votes will get away with the porslmmons. MR, ROACH AS A MARTR. " It is difficult to understand why repub- liean papers should wundertake to make the fatlure of John Roach a political {ssue, and hold him up to public vlew as o persecuted man who has been rulned simply because he was a republican, Had Mr. Roach not made himself promlnent In politise and confined himself to leglti- mate methods of conducting his buslness of ship-bullding, g0 (ar as It was con nected with the government, Instead of contlnually lobbylng for subsidies, he woald not probably have been forced to make anasrignment, He has obtalned millions of dollars from the goverment In the way of contracts, and also In subei- dles for his steamship lines. He has been & barnacle upon the republican party for yearr, and he used his political influence for mercenary purposes. Whenever he desired to secure votes for any of his jobs ho arranged a congressional excurslon to his shipyards, where the incor- ruptible legislators wero treated to a royal teast, which was washed down wlth eparkling champagne, Senators and congressmen who were In doubt as to how they should treat Mr. Roach in the matter of subaidies returned to the halls of legialation from Roach’s shipyards and forthwith voted In accordance with his known deslres. Now that subsidles are not #o easlly obtainable, and the govern- ment has dectded not to accept work that I8 not up to the required standard, Mr. Roach stralghtway goes Into bankruptey and poses as a republican martyr. Sap- pose that the government should in time discover that Mr. Stephen B. Elkins had acquired a groat deal of land In New Mexico In & manuer which would not en- title him to hold it, and that the gevern- ment should recover possession of it, thus forclng him to bankruptey, Would he not be entltled to as much sympathy as Mr, THE INDIAN QUESTION. Gen, Mliles may be & good Indian fighter, but In his advooacy of the trans. fer of the uncivillzed tribes to the care of the war department he will not find very general endorsement. The regular army Is not Intended as a guardlan of the Indlan, While the Indlans might draw thelr rations with the samo regularity as the soldlers, we question {f thelr contact, with tho regular army would tend to ad- vance them In the ways of civilizatlon and make them self-supporting. They certalnly would not acquire any habits of Industry from any example on the part of the army, the soldlers being as a rule as lazy as the Indians. So far as mcrallty is concerned the Indlans would, In al probability, be corrupted much more than they are under the reservation system, while thelr educat'onal facilities would not llkely be any better than they now are, and perhaps notso good. If the Indlans are properly cared for by the Interlor department, as they can be, if proper agents are appointed and bad white men are kept away from thelr res- ervations, the present system would In all likelthood prove more satisfactory than putting them under charge of the military. Bat the svggestion of Con- gressman Holman—who, with his com- mittee, 18 now making an Investigation of Indian sffalrs— that all the unsettled bands of the Sloux and Crows and other tribes be removed to the Indlan territory seems at this time to be the most practl- cal solutton of the Indlan problem yet offered. The Indlans that have up to|Roqchls receiving from certain republican thle time been removed to the|papors, which balisve In upholding and Indlan territory have as a rule|gefending a ropublican atany and all become settled, are well satlsfied, | times, whother right or wrong’ They and seem to be making more rapid pro- gress towards clvilization and self-support than any other bands. The concen- tration of the reeervation Indlans in the territory will enable the government to handle them much more conveniently and at much less expense. In time the Indian terrltory, when lts Inhabitants shall have made sufficlent advance, conld be made an Indlan state. There Is plenty of room In the territory for all the In- dians in this country, and in a few years they could all become Independent of government aid. The progress made by the Indians already there would stimulste the others to follow their example, and thus the question of elvillzation would be made a very easy mat- ter. It would require a comparalively short time, under such clrcumstances, to elevate all the Indlans In the Unlted States Into a condlilon that would en- title them to full cltizenship. Faurther- more, under the scattered reservation system they are occupylng altogether too much valuable land for which, In thelr present condltion, they have no use whatever, Their lands are now being demanded by the homesteaders who are pressing on to the west from every dl- rectlon In search of new homes, Mr. Holman propotes to recommend the purchase of the Sloux reservation, and the removal of the Sloux to the In- dian terrltory, as the initlal step n his scheme of concentrating all the Indians In that locality, His proposition will cer- talnly meet with the Indorsement of the people of Dakota and thousards of home- steaders who have been walting for rome time to have a portlon of the Sloux res- ervation thrown cpen for settlement. This land could be purchased from the Sioux for a very moderate sum, but which would be plenty large enough to give them a eplendld start In a new locatlon, This reservation contalus 7,000 equare miles, and it should no longer be allowed to remaln unused. The same ls true of other reservatlons that are desirable for agricultaral purposee. While we do not belleve In taking any lands from the Indlane without fair compensation, we do believe that no Indian should be permitted to hold any more land than a white man under the homestead and pre- emption laws. The purchare of the res- ervations and the removal of the Indlans to the Indian terrltory will, so far as we can see, solve the whole problem, seem to labor under the Impression that a rapublican can commit no wrong and make no mistakes, Itls sush personsas Mr. Roach, who, under the cover of re- publicanism, have done more to Injure and pall down the republlican party than any other class of men. They have sim- ply used the party as a means to further thelr own jobs. So long a3 the republl- can party continues to maintain jobbers and lobbylsts, it will never return to power. 1t must shake off all barnacles and In no way countenance the would-be leaders and wlra-pullers wh)y 8o largely contributed to Its defeat In the last campalgn. So far as the fallure of Mr. Roach Is concarned the probability is that he is not qulte so badly crippled as his friends would have the publle to be- lieve. It nowbegins to lock as if his as- signment {s only a sharp trick to galn sympathy and to induce the government to recede from Its position with regard to the Dolphin and the other vessals under contract. It s certalnly surprlsing that #0 many republican papers should have rushed to his defense, and charged his fail- are to democratic spltework, We do not belleve that politlcs had anything to do wlth the matter. B Tris 1s the kind of weather that makes a summer resort a very profitable place. Senator Manderson and New Mexico, Denver Tribune Republican, Unlted States Senator Mandereon, of Nebraeka, a member of the Senate Com- mittee on territories, has recently re- turned home from a vislt of Inspection to New Mexlco, He ls strongly oppoeed to admltting New Mexlco Into the Unlon as a State, and among the objestlons to its admlrslon which appear to have great welght with him s the prevalling lack cf education, In this he {s un- doubtedly correct, for no one pead ro- slde very long In New Mexico without eeeing that the poor people are densely fgnorant, There fs no efficlent system of public tchools In tho Terrltory, and there probably will not be until Con. gress takes Lold of the eubject and pro- vides a kystom of public education, At tendance upon ecme kind of echools would have to be compulsory. The Indlan population of New Mexico Is to be considered in connection with this subject of the admlsslon of the terrltory e8 »state. Under different declsions of the United States those Indians are glven the status of citizens of the Unlted States, and they are therefore entitled to all the privileges of citizenship. They are, however, uiterly unfit to exerclse the rights of citlzens, It is true they sre now under ;the care of an agent, but that ls merely one of the Incongruities which are seen in the management of Indlan affairs, e ——— The Three B's. Ulysses Despatch. Both Jim Dawes, our dude governor, and Jim Lalrd, our do-nothing congress- man, expect to step into Senator Van Wyck's brogans at the next senatorlal election, This seems to be a combination of bluster, belly and beauty sgainst braine. Peruars the Western Unlon does not care to waste any money In painting its unslghtly poles in Omahs, as it must ia the near future bury its wires in all the large citles. The telegraph companles are now compelled by law to put thelr wires underground In New York, and the work 18 steadily advanclng. The New York Commercial Advertiser says: While only a small proportion of the whole is done there are mavy parts of the town where the improved condition of the space above the streets in agreeably observable, New York wiil be a pleasanter city to live in, and a safer one also, when all the wires shall have disappeared and the unsightly poles shall have been removed, o — ‘Where Mr, Hendricks is Wanted, San Francisco Alta. Vice President Hendricks, who Is com- ing to Califorcia, may depend upon re- ceivlog a royal welcome, We don't very often catch either preeident or a vice presldent on this side of the continent, but when we do we Inslat that he shall have a good time as Oalifornians under- stand that term, A democratic vice pres- {dent, however, has never yet crossea the Rocky Mountaine, and that fs another reason why the uproar over Mr, Hen- dricks will be made Immense, Hendricks showa his good senge In abandoning his firet Intentlon to go to Earove, where he might catch the cholera, and in coming to Ix the trial of Louls Riel, now in pre gress at Reglna, In the Northwest terri fory, the fact that he is an Awericsn citlzen bas had an Important bearing upon the cate. That the isan American citizen by naturalization there is no doubt, as it has lzen positively as- certalned that he took out his tecond means a crushed politician, He is al- ready settlng his plos for the United States senato wien Montana becomes a state, The other senatorlal candidate wll by Col, W. F, Sanders, s repubilcan, I¥hen would be sn » Callfornfs, where thersare so many who wish to eee him. papers st Helens, Montana, ia August, 1582, As an alien cvanot commlt trea son, the Indictment sualnst Riel bas, as we underctand it, been changed to the charge of “‘making wpr sgainst Ler Ooe theusand Crow Indians congregated on tho Big Horn recently to moura the de o of I-on Bull, their war chief, They made Rome bow! for three deye. icions thme to KUM@ avkie . gl RUMBLINGS BY RAIL. An Attempt to Wreck a Passenger Train on he C. §t. P, M. & 0. Road, Great Activity in and About the U, P, Shops— A Big Forco of Men at Work—Personal Notee, Etc. A report came flashing In over the traln dispatcher's wlte, of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolls & Omaha road, night before last, stating briefly that ont-laws had placed a tea rall across the track two miles north of Herman, evidently for the fiendish purpote of wrecking the Oakland passenger train, which loaves hera at 5:40 o'elock every evening. The matter was kept very quict, but it reached a Bee re porter’s ears yesterday, who proceeded at once to learn the partlen. lars, and succeeded In yattlng to- gether facts enoumgh to make up the following story: Beyond Herman, whien is a station thirty mlles north of Omaha, the Chleago, St. Paul, Minne- apolls & Omaha track Is belng re.lald with new rails, and the old ones have been strung along either side where many of them stlll rematn, Some miser- able miscreants bent upon the destruction of life and property concetved the devilish Idea of constructing an obstruction on the track and thon walt to seo It wreck a passenger train that would be due golng north about 8 o’clock. They bad placed one of the loose ralls across the track in such shaps that the end reached ahout half way between the two rails, pointing in the dlrection from which the traln would come, while the other end was fixed 8o thatit would ran into the ground. Fortunately a speclal stock traln of twenty-four car-loads came along from the other directlon and when the pilot of the engina struck the rall, it shoved 1t off of the track wlthout doing any damage A vlsit to the Union Paclfic shops yes- terday by one of the Bk reporters, far- nilshed matter enough for columns, If written in detail, but for the present suoflice to say that great activity makes the scenes In each department snd full forces of men are employed. Tho super- iIntendent said that there had been times In the history of the road when they had a few more workmen In the shops than are there now, and also times when there were not more than half as many. The work of attachlng air brakes to frelght cars glves employment to a goodly number, and it was noticad that a great many passenger coaches, Pullman sleepers, baggage and mall cars are undergolng vapatrs, C. S Stebblns, general passenger agent of ths Unlon Pacitic, and family, left yes- terday for Westchester, Pa., where they wiil visit several weeks with his parents. Michael Moran, with « largs force of men and teams aro already at work on the Loup Qity extenslon of the Unlon Pacific, a strip of thirty-nine miles. The postal service on the B, & M. i decorated with a professlonal masher who ecatters love letters and heartaches along the line, At Oxford the other day he was waving a tearful farawell to some of the vlllage beauties when the callous hearted conducter stopped the train, got down and walked to the side of the car where the girls could hear what he eald and yelled to the postal clerk with his head out of the window, ‘‘Well, — — you, are you through yet? I was afrald you wouldn't get through s> I stopped the traln, If your through, by G—d, I'll go on.” He don’t flirt any more when that conductor tsaboard. The Utah & Wyoming Central railroad echemo is again belng revived. with some prospect of it belng ballt. The route which was surveyed years ago, ruas from Ham’s Fork, Wyoming, to Corinne, Utah, a distance of 130 miles, Ten miles of the ling has been graded. The por- poses of the broad-guage Utsh & Wyo- ming Central are to reach many rich coal mines, a wealthy farming and stock rals- {ng country, and posslbly some rumored ofl wells along the line. Oa leaving Ham's Fork the prospective road passes Sillear, where the company's ex- teneive coke works are sltusted, and then acrosy Bear river by Liketown into Blacksmith's Fork, lesding Into Cache Valley. Lo- gan, Providence and many enterprising tewns wlll bo reached. Oa leaving Providenca the survey patses over Hamp- ton divide to Honeyville, and terminates at or near Corinne.” The company has alroady met with considerablo oppesition from other salfish Utah lines, but the rich coal fiefds, fine farming lands and the esgerness of all communitios along the line guarantee the projectors in com- pletiog the plans begun. It s estimated that the road will cost §4,000,000 when comuleted, “Iam ready, apxlous, In fact aching all over,” scronmad a local ngont yester- day, ‘'t bet §100 that the Northwestern road s and five-tenths mlles shorter, belween Omaba eand Chicago, than any other route.” Ths foundatlon for such stormy outbreaks as this was latd not long since by a wheezy soclety shect not far from here, uttering a husky squeak, thatthe Milwaukeo ronte was two miles shorter than sny other. Ever slnce then the aforosaid local agent has boen delvlng in figures, and he makes up a compariscn, showing the exact length of esch line between the two points pamed, Afthough this comparison has not yet been glven to the ‘‘talk hammer” men, or been flung to the breezs on flam- Ing three sheet posters, 1t looms up prom- inently, nevertheless, in certaln railroad clrcles, and will undoubtedly be brought before the next posl meeting of passen- ger agents, Here are the figures: Northwestern, to Chicago. ... 485 5-10 miles Milwaukee route......,...... 459 5-10 miles Any tlme that anybody wants to gam- b'e $100 on thls proposition they can be sccommodated without golog very far to find a taker. ward on the northern Kansas and Ne- braska trail, This move farnishes cer- tain proof that the Cheyennes have so far abandoned thelr hostile Intentions as to conclude to remaln where they are, and General Howard, In conversation with a reporter about the matter said that he belleved that ‘‘all dlnunr:\f the approhended Indian war was over. A FITTING TRIBUTE. Spoaking of the matter of promoting Gen, Terry to the vacant major general ship, over Gen, Howard, a contributor to the Army and Navy Journal says: T promote the second brigadier over the firat in rank wonld bo contrary to the prece- dents establiched in the promotion of briga diers for & period of fourteen y nd, too, at the expense of an officer distinguished in a8 many battles during the war as any officer in the service —three times wounded, bearing an empty sleave as o _memento of Fair Oaks, when his distinguished bravery saved the army of the Potomac from threatened serious disaster. Since the close ¢f the war, in cam paigns ngaivet the Indians, his rapid and constant pureuit of Chief "Joseph stands alone—has no parallel. Withont meaning to detract an atom from the hero of Fort Fisher, it is contended that his frienda cannot afford to pross him for promotion manifestly ut fair, In the spirit of all fairness, as well as in the line of wise discretion, his friends should unite with the friends of Gen, Howard and insist upon the right of seniority for promo- tion, else, in the contention which will neces earily follow, a brigadier general to both be Jablochkoff's Liateast, London Times, June 30, M. Jabloohkoff, who wasthe first t troduce electrle light Into our midst on & practical soale, has for some time pae directed his attentlon to the produc.! of oleotricity by means of a primary bat tery, He at first produced a sodlu battery, which developed a very higt olostro-motive force, It had, howeve:, one radlical defect which marred fts e cees, snd that was the rapld cxldatlor the sodlam In contact with the sir, M Jablochkoff, however, bas succeeded | developing from his origlnal idea s ba tory wh'ch is at once novel and uni Having recontly been preeent a private domonstratlon by M Jablochkoff of the battery, w are onablod to glve roms partlculars o .his latest as well as most Interestin outcome of electrical science. The autc accumulator, as it Ia termed, 1s composed of & ecrles of cells, each of which has threo electrodes, and the battery i: dic tinguishod by its lightness, its small cos its power relative to alz>, its freedon from smell, and the absence of liquids otherwlse than in an absorbed condition. The battory is composed of & number of colls or shallow trays four luches equare and half an inch deep, of Impermeable catbon, tn each of which ls placed a small quantily of lron tarnings or vinc clip- p'nge. Over these Is placed a covering selacted, and thus by grasping at the prize of 1886, loso aleo that of 1888." GEN, JOUN GIBBON, The Helens (Mont.) Herald says jovernor Hauser is In recelpt of alotter from John Gibbon, U. 8. A , recently advanced to brigadler general, warmly congratulating him upon his appointment. The general, who ls ordered to the com mand of the department of the Colambie, will shortly be en route to his post, and 1s expected to make a break in his journey of a day or two at this polnt and accept the hospltallty of Helena. Botween thls officer and the people ot Montana are ties which they cannot sever. Gibbon's wound at Blg Hole, while bravely leading the gallant 7th Infantry agalnst Chlef Joseph was the last to leave its mark In his battls scarred body. The Caplital City will hardly permit his uninterrupted trip through Montana. Should he con- sent to tarry here a day or so, everybody will turn out to welcome him.” MISCELLANEOUS, Under General Orders No. 13, current sorles, from the headquarters, Firat Lieu - tenant John ¥, Guilfoyle,adjutant Ninth cavalry, Is detailed for duty on general recruiting service for the department of the Platte, in the field, and at Fort Mc- Kinney, Wyo, upon his arrival thereat. Firet’ Licutenant Joseph A. Sladen, Fourteenth infantry, aid-de-camp, has been ordered to Ogalalla, Neb., and Cheyenne, Wyo , on pablie buslnese. Generai O. O, Howard has fesued an order at headquartera to the effact that cflicers may wear cltizen’s dress when at headquarters. Those who prefer wear- ing the uniform wlill not be prevented from so dolng. The matter is left op- tional with the ofiicers, A report was recelved here yesterday that one of General Hatch's colored sol- dlers was run over by a frelght traln near Ogalalla, night befdre last, and killed. Farther pariculara regarding the matter could not be ascertained. General Howard lssued an order to General Hatch yesterday, detsiling one compsny of his regiment, the Ninth cav- alry, 10 go to Wahsatch, temporarlly. UALL FOR A MEETING. The Republican State Central Com mittee, The members of the Republican State Central committee are hereby called to meet av the Millard hotel, at Omaha, on Tuesday, August 4, 1885, at 8 p, m,, for the purpose of calling a state convention and the transactloa of any other businees proper to come bofore sald committee. C. E. Yosr, CHAIRMAN, D. H. Mercex, Secretary. —— Majolica and I’hallas. New York Special, The rivalry between Mr. Nathan Strauss’ bay gelding Majollca and Mr. J. 1. Case’s bay stalllon Phallas is of long standing, and thelr trotting-match at Fleetwood park next Friday for $2,500 a side promises to be an interesting event. Phallas wlll arrive to-morrow at Fleet- wodd, and wlill be stabled upon the hill where 1t 1s cool. He bralsed his quarter in his recent race with Maxey Cobb, but is otherwise reported to be in good con- ditlon, and fit to trot at any time when called on, Majollea was brought out on the track to-day, and Murphy gave him an casy mile with a hood on In 2:34, then a brush of one mi'e with the brown pacer Honesty, driven by D, B. Herrlng. ton. The horees traveled well together, Marphy holding the bay hack. Majolica reachod the half-mils pole fn 1:15{, and finlshing half a lenzth bohiad Honesty, with his mouth pulled wide opan, In 2:204. Majollca repented in 2:25, mok- ing tho half mile In"1:10}, and baating Honesty on a jog. Phallas and Majolica have the same blood lines, Majolica is fifceen hands high, and was foaled in 1876, and bred by Mr. Robert Bonner, He was sired by Startle, he by Hambletonlan, dam J essle Kirk by Clark Chlef, ho by Mambrino Chief. Thallss fs sixteen hands high, and was foaled {n 1877, sired by Dictator, be by Hambletonlan, dam Botsy Trot- wood by Clark Chlef. ‘I NEVER TIMED MAJOLICA when be was going kis best,” Mr., Straues saye, ‘‘and, In fact, I don't think ne was ever extended, Murphy says there is no telllog how fast Majolica can go, for he has never yet put him to top speed, hav- ing had no occaslon to do so, I feel so confident to the powers of my horse that when Mr. Case kindly offered to let me pay forfelt, I offered to bet him $2,600 more on the result, which somewhat non- ptussed him.” The Phallas party has since telegraphed to the Majollca party to know whether they should bring Phallas on or whether Mr. Straus would pay forfeit. ARMY MATIERS, The Ninth Cavalry Ordered to Leave Ogalalla—An Interesting Collec- tion of Military News, A telegram was recelved at army head- quariers yesterday from ieneral Schofield of the divislon command, ordering that the Ninth cavalry which has been sta- tloned at Ogalalls for some time past be removed from that plece and resume its march to the posts of Forts McKinney, Washakle, and Robinson, As already stated in these columns, the Ninth cav- alry had been ordered to assume station at Ogalalla in order to head off the southera Cheyennes in casa they became ros!les) and commenced to move north him on; Majollca is ready to trot,” the reply. Mr, Case says that ha would not have his horse beaten for ten times the amount of the stake, and that If peo- ple thiok this match is not *‘for blood” they will alter their oplnlon on Friday. o — A Retor Texas Siftings, A ellm man with a cunnlng face had been found guilty in a New York court of picking pockets. The judge sald: “This is your second offans, glve you three years In the panitentiary.” r, of thick, conrso canvas, saturated with & solutlon of chlorlde of calcium. upon which is 1ald a row cf very porous carbon tubes about three Inches long and three-clghths of an Inch In dlameter cutslde, wh'ca sre s'milarly st urated. In this way a cell ls formed with three electrodes, one of which oxid- 1zes, & second b2comes polarlzad, and the third forms a positive pole with the sec ond, the first two forming a elrcle witha constantly closed clrcuit. For service a number of these cells—nine or ten—are placed within a metallic framing, after the fashion of a voltaic pile, the bottom cell resting on & metal plate forming cne of the poles. The top cell Is covered with: aplate of carbon to which a terminal |« fixed, and this forms the other pole. The auto-accumalator produces alternatety a primary and a sccondary current, the lat- ter only being employed in the outer cir- cult, while the former serves to produce the hydrogen necessary to polarize the electrodes. The action atops as soon as polarization s complete, and is reeumed when depolarizatlon takes place, so that short and frequent iatervals of rest aro nccorssry for the battery to reform fteelf for the production of the useful curreat. In practlce, when this current 18 employed for continuons work tho batterles are coupled in groups w commutatora, so that no Interruption i the current takes place. At the recent demonstratlons, at which several prom! nent electrlclans were present, M. Jab- lochkoft explalned the princlples of the inventlon, and demonstrated satlsfactorily its power by drlving in turn some Swan glow lamps and an electric motor, thus filustrating its practical application. We understand that a company Is worklng M. Jablochkoff's 1invention in Paris whera the batterles are belng manufac tured and are coming largely Into use. It would eppesr to meet the objectione presant In most primary batterles without having any of lts own, 80 far ss present experlence has shown, Something About Bunstroxe, New York Health Board’s Circular. Prevention—Don’t lore your slgep slecp ia a cool place; don't worry; don't get exclted; don’t drink too much alco- hol; avoid working in the sun if you can if in-doors, work In a well-ventileted room; wear thin clothes; wear a llght hat, not black; put a large green leaf or wet cloth in it; drink water freely and sweat freely; It fatigued or dizzy, knock off work, lte down in & cool place, and apply cold water and cold cloths to your head ard neck. Cure—Put the patlent {n the shade loosen his clothes about the neck; send for the nearest doctor; glve the patient cool drinks of water orblack tea or tlack coffee. If he can swallow. If his skin {e hot and dry prop him up, sitting against a tree or wall; pour cold water over the body and llmbs and pat on his hesd pounded fca wrapped in a cloth or towel If you can't get ice, use a wet clotb, and keep fresheniug 1t. Bat If the patlent Is pale and falnt and his pulse is feoble, lay him on his back, make him smell bartshorn for a_few seconds, or give him & teaepoonful of aromatic spirits of sm- monla or tncture of ginger in two table spoonsfals of water. 1In this case nse nc cold water, but rub the hands and feet and warm them by hot applicitione untt! the circulation fs restore A Boy with a Bulge. Datroit Free Press, “No, my son,” he replled, as he put on his hat, *‘you can’t go to the clrcus,’ “But why, father?” “Well, In the first place, away money on such things, Yos, but I have caough of my own.’ “And in the next place It fs & rough crowd, the sentlment s unhealthy, and no reepectable person csn counfenance such things.” “‘But, fath— " “‘That’s enough, sir! You can’t go! I want you to enjoy yourself, but you must seok sormo moro reapectablo smusemer I can't foc! An hour later a carlous thing happened in the clrcus tent. A boy cllmbad to the top flight of seats and sat down beside & man who had jast fielshed a glass of lemonade and was lightlng a clgar. He had his plag hat on the back of hls heaa, and reomed to bo enjoylng himsolf huge ly. 1t was father and eon. The father had gone stralght to the grounds from dinner, and the boy had ran away. They looked at each other for a minute. and then. the boy got in the first blow by whispering: *'Say, dad, 1f you won't lick me I won't toll ma you was here!” The father nodded hls head to the agreement, and the great spectacular parade in the ring besan, How the Cowboy Cooks His Meals Brooklyn Eagle, *‘You say there Is no timber on the cattle ranges?” arked the professer. “‘Not a bush,” replied the cowboy, *not a twig.”" “No ¢ no drlftwood In the streams; no fuel of any kind{” “‘Not a chip,” was the reply. “Then how do you cook your moalsi *‘On the range,” calmly replied the good cowboy, And the professor was just going to ask what range, when he suddenly remem- bered that it was time to wind hls watch, e — The secret Order Fiend, L will [5¢, 1.ouis Whip, The secret order fiend is one who be ““I'desorve It, judgo; I want to have a [loogs to everything golng. When he has chance to reform,” “You will get it.” spent bis time and money he becomes & fraternal vamplre, He must live some ““I will come ou’ of the panitentlary a | how on the criers he has fastened him better man than when I wen In, have to go there at oncel” “Cartalnly,” **That's bad, Dy 1 1 hata to bo shut up jast at th blast. If I Lad a fair chance you bat I'd vork the crowd for all it was worth, eelf to. He manages to hold forever w few cilic's thore are that pay salartes, ;unllur how tired the tubozdinates may Y ! have becomo of meolug Lis name year tima this Bartholdi clecus ia fn'fall | after year. h 10 1 tonal secret order A profe ofties holder 18 a tereiole thing and fe 1w be av:-ided, "