Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 6, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. Osana Orricr No, 914 Axp 916 Fanvau New York Orrice, Roos 65 Trisons BuiLy BY MATL $10.00 | Three Months Six Months 5.00 | One Month 1 The Weekly Bec, Published every Wednesd ar, with premium..... ne Year, without premium Bix Months, without premium Une Month, on trial...... All Communications relating to News and Editorial Mattors should be addressed to the EoiToR or Tius Brs. BUSINESS LETTRRS, All Business Letters s Remittances should be addrossed to Tire Bre I'c 11150 COMPANY, OMATIA, Drafts,Checks and Post office orders to be made pay able to the order of the company THE BEE POUBLISHING CO0., Props. B, ROSEWATER, Eniror, ol T Fieh, Manager Daily. Circalation, Hore deferred maketh sick the heart of the Nebraska office-secker. Time s money, The cattlemen of the Indlan territory want more tlme, but they can't get 1t Ti ity coancll has at last decided to purchase a pollce patrol wagon, It wiil fill & long-felt want. LiNcoLy gets the republican state con- vention, We congratulate the oapltal clty and its hotel-keepers, AMONG the representatives at the meet- ing of the ropublican state central com- mittee it did not require a teiescope to dlacover the usual parc atage of barna- clos and old political hacks. They were vlalbls to the naked eye. By the way, what has becoms of ll thoss Nebraska office-seekers whese names wera published last epriug in the St. Louls lobe- Democrat? Have they fallon by the wayalde, weary with wait- ing! 1t s now in ordor for the Omaha Herald to revige the list for the (/l00a- Democral, Our luomber deslers are having thelr hends foll nowadays in supplylng a thoueand new homes for residents of this cily, The beet evidente of Omaha's re- markublo growth can bo galned by a ride around the border of tho clty's limite, Never in her history has Omaha acon a lareer number of osttages and moro pro- tentlous resldonces In courso of construc- tlon, Tue city council has declded what sidewalks must ba constructed, and it Is to be hoped that the board of public works will proceed at once wlth the works. Tho territory that ls to be improved with sidewalks is the buslness center, NI R ————— e = BOULEVARDS AND PARKS. 1t 1s conceded by tourists and visltors from all sectlons of the country that Omaha is & beautifal cily, and Is without questlon the gem of the Missourl valley Her commanding potitlon—with her business center on a high plateau, and the residence portion largely upon the hills to the west and south—at once makes a favorable Impresslon upon the travoler as he approaches the clty from any direction. Her broad streets and avenues, with their substantial pave- ments and cleanly appearance, add to the attractiveness of the city. Omahs, how- over, has only begun to develop, and 1f her natural advantages of hill and dale are utllized she can be made one of the most beautifal and pleturesqae oltles in America, if not In the world. Such a desirable result can be accomplished by a united effort on the part of the public- spirited oltizens wlith the clly aathor Itten. The pla of making a chaln of parks and boulevards from Cut-off lake on the north, to South Omaha, forming a seml- clecle of the clty, has this object In view and will do more towarda its accomplish- ment than any other scheme that can be devised. Beginning at the lake, the boulevard will take in Salphur Springs, with the stately oaks and elms and ro- mantic sconery In the immedlate vicinlty. Thence the course will be west- ward to Fort Omahs, and west of the Sacred Heart Convent, passlng near College place and Mercer park to the county farm, along the line of Thirty-sixth strcet, theuca to Hanecom park, and then orca more on the lins of Thirty-sixth strect to the Scuth Omaha park, near the Unlen Stock yards, It e the intontlon to improve Cut-off lake by dredging, which will deepca it and make It one of the clearest bodies of water in the weat, Roadways will be constructed along the banks, and a row of trees will bo planted on each side of the drives and lake. Sulphur Springs will in dus thns not only bo mada to supply a healthy beverage but bathing waters of Incaleu lable value. There are many celebrated resorta that have no better mlneral water than Is found In these epringa. The proposed boulevard, which is to be from 150 to 200 feet wide, and from six to elght miles in length, will, with its Intervening parks, give to Omsha a reputation abroad such s is enjoyed by Cloveland, Detrolt, Buffalo, Rochester and other beautiful clties of the east. It should not be the desire of our cltizens to simply make Omaha a great commercial center, or a cattle market, or a jobbing and manufactaring clty, but they should also endeavor to make it an attractive residence place, and even a summer re- sort, The lecatlon, midway between the two oceans, Is one thousand feet above between Farnam and Douglas and the cross-streots botween thosetwo thurough- fares, from Tenth to Fifteenth street. These walks are to b laid to the proper grede and w!dth, and sre to be of a dora- ble material. Tue Bek calls the attentlon of Omaha aud Nobraska contractora to the call for blde on the new buildings to be con- structed at Fort Niobrara, in Cherry county, In this state. Full detalls of the proposed enlargements will be found in another column, The amount of money to be expended, $30,000, should not be permitied to go outside of the state. Omaha contractors are now hard pushed to meet the calls made upon them in their own city, but there ls no reason why they should not be able to succeesfully com- pete for this additional work. ONE of the steamship subsidy hunters 1s likely to find itself blocked in its efforts to paralyzs foreign mall communication bocauee the postmaster general has re— fused to pay four prlces for ocean trans- portation, The Paclfic Mall stesmship, which refussd to carry the last Austra- lian mail from San Francisco, bore as a pesenger an agent of the Ozeanic stcam- ship company, who wlll make arrange- ments in New Zealand for the contiau- ance of mall eervice between Australla and this country at the rates refused by the Pacific Mail and on a shorter eched- ule of time. Tur Grant memorlal services which were held on Tuesdsy In Westminister Abbey, were remarkable for the large at- tendancs of distinguished Englishmen and the eloquent dlscourse of Canon Far- rar, The royal famlly was represented in the congregation, as were the late and present minlsters. Oae of Gen. Grant's greatest conquests was his vlctory over raco and natlonal prejudices in his remarkable tour around the globe, and In none of the countries vislied did he do more towards cementing International tles than in the land where his death was commemorated In the noblest pantheon of fame and genlus which the world con- talns, Mu. Parree bas notified the clty council that the city jall in his old rook- ery s an annoyance to the nelghborhood, and that it must be removed or the rent will be raised to $100 a month, As Mr, Pattee has for years derlved his maln rental of that bullding from the city, it is decldedly cheeky, to say the least, for him at this late day to demaund an in. creased rent for for a rcom because 1t heppens to be used as a station house. It would seem, however, that his eolicl- tude for the comfort of the nelghborhood 1s not 80 earnest as his deslre to catch bold of a few extradollirs, In consld- eratlon of additional rent he is willlng to permit the jall to remaln where it is and let the neighborhood howl, The proper thing for the city counell to do, under the clrcumstauces, is ‘o entirely wvaoate the bullding, go far as tho clty s concorned, and then declare the cld fire- trap a dengerous nuisance, which must be abated at once. the soa level, and its climate is salabrlous and lnvigorating. With &ll her advantages Omsaha can easily be made, not only great centor of population, but & city where rich men will be willing to spend thelr money and days of lelaore. The success of the proposed boulevard and park scheme must depend upon the property owners along the line. It will be eeen at a glance that the property in the viclnity of the boulevard will be greatly enhanced in value, as 1t will im- mediately become moet destrable for resl- dence purposes. Now Is the time to begln the enterpries, and we hope to see it pushed through to a succestful terml- nation, AN INDUSTRIAL CHANGE, The progress in steel manafacture ls sald to b eerlously threatening the iron business of the country. There are now twenty-one completed steel works in Amerlea, and arrangemcnts have been perfected for the construction of eleven new plants. Four yesrs ago thers were but five, all controlled by the Bossemer monopoly, and one, the Valean works, of St. Louis, inoperative under an annual bonus of $500,000 pald them by the other four for closing thelr doora In order %o malntsio the price of stesl rails through- out the country, The breaklng down of this most gigantic of industrlal monopo- lies has resaited in such a cheaponing of Bossomer steel that It can now be ased for practically all purposes for which iron has been em- ployed at a much less cost, and sieel ralls which a year agzo commanded nearly, if not quite, $100 per ton are supplied to- day at $25. The United States now stands second in the llst of steel-making conntrles, ‘and 1s crowding Great Britaln for first place, Improved retorts, craclbles and ma. chinery have changed oven the cheap Britlsh process, while a far less honorable method of adalterationand amalgamation, accordlng to President O, P. Huntlngdon, of the Central Pacific, has, In some in- stances, still farther lowered the cost of placlng the manufactured product on the market. The greatiron-producingdlistricts are now me' on thelr owa grounds by the Bessemer retorts, and the ekllled pud. dlers are being crowded aslde by pon- derous machines which turn out steel mors cheaply than the raw material out of which steal was formerly made, In the manufactura of ralls stesl comes most directly Into compatition with fron, but other branches of the lron trads are belng gradually affected, oud 1t seems only a questlon of tims when {ron will be almost entirely supersaded by steel. Last year the Bessemor steal works produced in forms other than rails 318,603 tons, which was nearly doubla the outpat of the previous yesr, Referring to the substitatlon of stecl for iron Bradstrect’'s saya: Less thau twelve years ago all of our iails R ce—— were made of iron; to-day practically all our ralls are made of steel, Liess than three years ago the steel nail was unknowo as & merchant: able produst; today many of our leading nail factories produce nothing but etsel nails, while many other mills, which now make iron e IR nails, are preparing to make the steel product. In wany other manufactured articles steel has proclaimed its superiority over the iron-made article, It 1s cortainly only a question of time before that relic of ancient processes, the puddler, will find his occupation restricted to » few articles that must of necessity be made of iron, Presioext CLEVELAND has declined to change his order requlring the ranchmen to remove their herds from Indian terri- tory within forty days, but the govern- ment will probably act lenlently in en- forelng the lotter of the order If the ceattle owners only show a preper dlsposi- tion to comply with Ita spirlt. As a matter of fact, a literal compliance with the order I8 Impossible, as every ranch- man knows, To gather 15,000 head of of cattle within the forty days limlt would be a difficult task when the vast extent of range over which they roam is taken Into conslderation. To collect 250,000 head, with every resource of men, horses, and wagons oalled into requlsition, wlll be the work of months, For thia rea- son and the added one that at present the quaranfine regulations of Kan:as and Colorado will forbld the driving of the herds north and west and leave only northern Texas, already heavily over- stocked, to recelve this vast army of cat- tle, we Incline to the hallef that the gov- ernment will make every allowance In enforcing the order of the removal if the ronchmen show evidence of a deslre to remove as quickly as possible and enter upon the work of gathering thelr stock. While the occupation of the Indian lands was unauthoriz:d by law, it must not be forgotten that It rcceived at least tacit offisial sanction from the interior depart- medts, Under the circumstances the government can woll afford to exerclse a wise lenlency which will not defsat the Intentlon of the order and the ultimate clearlug out of tha torritory. Avrucven the mercary ranged among the ninetles in Dos Moines, on last Sat. urday, it was nevertheless chilly for Boss Clarkson, The result of the republican primaries on that day shows that he was loft out in the cold. If he participates in the coming state convention it will be by mesns of a proxy, which certainly will not be coneidered a very dignified way for the Iowa member of the natlonal ccmmittee to get into that body. It s noted as a somewhat remarkable fact that this is the first time in ten years that Clarkson has been shut out of the state conventlon. The fact that he has thus been set down upon at last may be taken a3 pretty conclusive evidence that tho re- publican party is beginning to tire of hls leadership, It ls certainly high time for the republicans of the great state of Iowa to select some new and able leader. Tue wheat crop of Texas promizes to be the largest and best ever raised in the state, and the corn crop goes far shead of anything In the past. It it is esti. mated that the cotton crop will reach two milllon of bales, equal to 1,000,000,000 pounds. The value at nine cents per pound will amount to ninety millions of dollars, The ballef prevails that the cat- tle sales of the prescnt calendar year will aggregate ten millions of dollars. To the foregoing sums must be added many mil- llons more accralng from the sale of the wool cllp. horsee, mules, and varlous agri- cultural products, The people of Texas are greatly elated over their prospective presperlty. Tue Sharon.Hlll divorce trial drags its slow length along, but the monotony of the proceedings continues to be fre. quently broken by the most hostlle and murderous demonstrations In the court room Only tho other day the two op- poalng lawyers got Into & fight and drew revolvers, and on Monday Miss Hill whipped out a seven-shooter from her satchel and attemptod to shoot ex-Senator Stowart, attornoy for Sharon, She threatens to kill Stewart before the trial is over, It is about time that somebody was laid out in that case. Tk effzct of hard times and unem- ployed labor Is showlng ltself fn the tide of immlgration which has bsen steadily ebbing slnce 1882, In that year it reached high water mark, with no leis than 788,002 arrlvals at ounr principal ports, In 1883, 603,322 wera recorded, which were 185,000 less than in the pre- ceding year, while ln 1884 nearly 55,000 less, or 018,602 were reglstered. For the last fiseal year, up to June 20th, only 87,821 reached our shore Tie Mormons have sent out a denial that they intended to kick up a dlsturb- ce on the 24th of July, and that there was no occaslon for Governor Murray to take any precautlonary moasures, This denfal was not unexpected. Inasmuch a8 the trouble was not precipltated we are still inclined to think that its post- ponement was after all due to the steps taken by Governor Murray end General Howard, Tae Mackay-Bennott Cable company has won a viotory fa the purchase of the Bankera’ and Merchants' Telograph line by Edward 8, Stokes. Mr. Stokes was glven his socond start in lifo by Mackay, and there Is but little doubt that he furnished the money with which to make this purchase, which indlcales that the company will continuein the field ae s compstitor of the Western Unlon, T plokpockets are prapsring to prey upon the pockets of the mourners whils praying at the Girant fomeral In New York, and the burglars and eneak-thioves hope to resp a rich harvest by raiding the houses of persons in altendance at the obrequies. So say the New York police, who are makiag o round-up of all known crooks and euspects. GEORGIA’S greatest prodnet 1s wonders, The magnetic girl, the biggest wator- melon, the toaghest enake story, the enly Rev. Sam Jones, not to mentlon hundreds of other sensations, have all come from Georgisandnow aman 118years old—+$he oldest In the country of conrse— has been discovered in that great wonder- producing state. C sl L I t [ fi generally more healthful, THE DAILY BEE-THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 1865 A great many jermans have been educated In English hops, Some sre now In Amerlcan shops tudylog our advantages, with a view of adopting them in their natlve country. Besides this, they are giving more atten ion to technleal schools, Paper-makors are adding to thelr ma- hinery at & time when many are calling ot a restriction of output. A good deal of manufacturing enter- prise 1s displaged In Illinols, Missonrl Presinent CLRVELAND adminfstered & sharp rebuke to the cattle kings of the Indian terrltory. He virtually told them that they had wasted twelve out of thelr forty days to get an extension of time, and that If they had employed thla time In an cndeavor to get thelr cattla off the forbldden land it would have been more profitable for them. Curcaco people boa reason of its enterprise and generosity. | Here Is Now York stlll agitating a na- tional monument to Grant, while the great city on the lakes has already ralsed §40,000 and Is prapared to double the sum In case it Is decided to expend that amount, — A 1Ack of enterprlse on the part of her peopls Is not Omaha's greatest bar to ad- vancement. A lack of funds caused by the evaslon of taxes through dlshonest assessments is tho trouble which will never be remadied untll there is a raileal reform in our mothcds of property valuation. Accorning to “Gath” the sam of $12,000 has been raiced to pay Grant's doctor bill, Stsnford, Huntington and Crosker each gave $2,000, while Bonanza Mackay contributed the halance* Thia is very creditable to the California millionalre quartette. WueN the Omaha Republican geis through with its libel suit against Jamea Creighton it will probably remcmber the old Wiscontin maxim, posted up in the sawmill region, “Do not monkey with the buzz saw when in motion.” realizatlon ot the valuo of a frachise to the use of its public strests and alleys be city will derlve a handsome annual income from the various corporations which it is now supporting free of cost, Harp timea in the east affect Nobraska more or less, but with a crop which promises to excal anything in her history our farmers ars not worrying themselves over the coming winter. MerroroLiraN sidewalks cf solid stone or concrete and flagged crosywalks are two of the greatest needs of Omaha to-day. They are demanded by our,people and cannot be long delayed. LABOR AND LABORERS, Matters of Interest to Kmployers and Employed. Philadelphia Record, Posstbly 10 par cant of the labor army is idle throughout the United States. Employed labor is for the mcst part patd the same wages as last year. Piices of almost all commcdittes and material are lower than last year. Why, then, should there be g0 much complaint of dullness? The truth is, complaints come from the well-to-do people—the so-called mlddle classes—beciuse margins of profit are narrower and failures are in progress at the rate of about 10,000 a year. The bone atd sinow of the country, at loast the employed portion, are doing well, acd would be prosperous if employment wera constant. The ha'f rich are the people that are suffering, Renewed complaints are made In for- elgn manufacturing communities of dull- ness, because productlon s not curtafled, while competition is on the increate and consumption on the decrease. Kxperi- enco is demonstrating that cc-operativo enterprises abread may snd do flousish durlng prosporous and boomlng times. but give out during bad tlmee for such rezsons as theze. When tlmes become dopreesod workers oat upall their carn- ings, and as there 18 no sufliclent surplus the concerns must borrow, Besides, the co-operative concerns must run, because the neccasitles of the workers demaund employment; hence thero Isa tendency to overproductlon and a desline in pricos There is constantly moro or less dis- content among trades-unionists of all classes because of the apparant decline in force. The membership is steadily grow- Ing. Men rush in with hopes, fow of which are ever realized, The condltions against them are too powerfal to be over- come. Yet we are prograssing elowly toward a soclal condivon where equity will be done because 1t will be to the in- terest of all to do it and see 1t done, A trades assembly will be organized at Plttsbarg on Avguit 15 to accomplish by plitical action what has been denled Iabor. There seems te be no end to the num- ber of improvements in shoe;making ma- chinery. Tho latest avplicant for dis- tinction Is a Vinoland man, who has i vented a machine by which one man can do what heretofora has been done by one man and a boy. Auother shoe man bas patented a heel made of one solld pleco sole leather, A seven-story ehoe factory, 80x04 feet in slzs has just been cowpletod in New York, Eight thousand pairs of shoes will be turned out weekly. The fmports of rubber show a gradual in- creaso of from 18,000,000 to 24,000,000 pounds slnco 1881. A lecomotiva builder who has just been among the managera of some of the lead- Ing railway lines, says there are ns pros- pects for ‘a materlal Improvement la lo- comotive bullding before next winter. Greater effort 13 belng made to devisa new machinery and applianc:s in all branches of Industry than ever beforo. Compet/tion has doue Its worst, and now inventions and deeigning are resorted to to find some cheaper Wway to accompllsh- ing greater results. This spirlt of inven- tlon 1s eesking advantages in every diree- tion, Advances of wages have been made in quite a nomber of trades durlng the past two weeks The Englizh fron makers are sufforing as severely as American makers. British exports have fallen off daring the first slv months of the past three yesrs in the| ratio of 10, 17, 15 Imports bave fallen | off heavily, Mill labor has been reduced elightly, German manufacturing industrles are I‘“ P j N tl t! t [ i 1 [ a o n ¥ P 10 53 to alight one, is being groomed for the Ho runs too much to legs, and Towa, and & goodly number of littls ndustrles are aprlnging up in those states, The bridge-makers and bullders are busler at this time than they have been for months, for railroade, The bridges are generally Amerloan hardware manufactarers say they find It difficnlt to put thelr superlor hardware in forelgn markets, because the morant peassntry prefer a clumsy artl- In soveral English trades great desti- tution prevalle, and a royal commission may take the subject in hand. Forelgn manutac'urers in several chan- nels of Indastry have combined to keep up prices, are restricting 1,000 boxes per day. The The Welsh tin-plate makors derman rolled-iron makers are combin- ing ‘The Illinols and Towa coal-mine own- ers aro hopeful that the schems to keep & high stage of water in the Miseissippl by dsmming up water In a fow lakes for use In the dry season will work. One lake of ninety equare miles has been raised twelva fect, and another of two hundred equare miles has been ralsed twelve feet. The total supply, It is esthmated, by judlclous use cin lucrease the depth of water In the Misslaslppl in dry scasons from three to five feet. If this engin- eering feat can be acccmplished it would have a marked eflact on industrial Intor- ests In the great northwest. The Amalgamated assoclation of iron and ntesl workers met at Wheeling on Tuerday. No serfous questlops sra coming up. Itschief caro ls to preserve what has been accomplished. Out of 1225 Ohlo workmen asked to send bureau, only 6551 reaponded. Tho elghth annual report fs out, and contains a vast amount of useful information. Oldham, Kog., olx miles from Man- cheater, has grown tinco 1879 In ils epin- dle power from 7,600,000 to 11,000,000. It ls & yam centor. mills is mafnly held by small {1, There are 10,520 coke ovens in th Connellaville region of which 3,671 are idle; the others are running fovr days per week. New buildings for manufacturing pur- poses continue to epring up, The Mar- vin safe compiny Is building a $75,000 factory. A needle factory fs going up at Toledo with $100,000 ecapltal. A good many ¢ mpanos are boing organizzd with abundance of capital. After much trouble tho Albany and Rersselear iron and steel works have boen reorganized, wi 500,000 capital. Three blast furnaces will be erected. The capacity s, In rails, 135,000 tons; Resse- mer plant, 180,000 tons blooms. More glass factories ars golng up—one al Swedesboro, another at Bradford, two tn Ohio ard two in New York. Twenty thousand persons find employ- ment in the rubber industry, and $30,- 000,000 worth of goods are made an- nually, Now echemes for steol-making are eprioging up. A small one-ton converter is being trled at Birdsboro, Pa. —— POLITIOAL. Gen, Franz Sigel, with whom the boys were going to fight some twenty years ago, has just been appointed to a =3 510 position in tho the New York county clerk’s office. After all, it appears that the rumor of dis- who are continuing the appointments was correct, Mr. Vilos stating that nothing more in this line would be done till September—that 1s, untii after the return of the president. New York has the president, two members of the cabinct, threo assistant sccretariee, threo chief clerks, seven heads of burcaus and aby number of deputy commissioners and chief clerks of bureaus and divieions, The new assistant postmaster general, 80 it ia said, hoa discovered that there ara not enough fourth-class postoffices to satisfy the fourth class men demanding them as first clasn” demoorats.—[Kansas City (Mo.) Jour- nal. “I have been here twenty-three years, and the charge of offensive partisanship has never been brought against mo before,” said an as- tonished clork 1n one of the departments at Washington the other day, just before the official ax foll. It is charged with positiveness that a mi- nority ot the democrats of the Florida Consti- tutional convention Lave Yentered into an agreement with the republicana to securo tha afoption of certain articles repugnant to a majority of the democrats, 1t is hinted that the venorabla Durbin Ward ark horse in the democratic qubornatorial raca in Ohio. Our impresston is that this autiquated equine has dono so much milk-routo service that 1t would bo imuoztible to get him by the grand stand without xioging a bell and rattling a milkc poil. Of course, this is not the kind of a dark horse you wonld expect to win among thor oughbreds, - | Chicugo Nows. Tao New York ¥ reeman (negro organ) says: ‘We shall watch with no little interest the course the Ohio people pursus toward Judgo Foraker, their manhood and muke th them is tostand up for their rights and vo r them t show purty res Tuo only way sgainst men known to have opposed the ust rights, When men are placed in nomin ation who have stabbed us in a vital spot, isit manly to support such? Let the race answer ho question,” e — A Texas Oentipede, Correspondence Philadelphia Tfmes, The cenupede is not a pretty Insect, Once I hought them of no use, bus after seeing & lov of little Chiracahua Indian papooses pulliog centipedes from their holes and greedily devouring them, legs, polson, and all, I no longer doubted the wisdom and beneficence of thelr creatlon, In he course of my checkered career I have had several adventures with centipedes and always camo out sccond best. A entipode can raiso a blister on & man's body qulcker than a red-hot fron, and if you don't immedlately apply a reme- dial pear and dose yourself Inwardly with p st whis kill anything but an army mule—tha re- poultice of pounded prickly y—which latter is warranted to ultant effoct may be serlous. Centl- pedes usually attack thelr vicim at night, when he {s asleep and can'c defend hi imueif. They are armed with about 200 ittle lances convenlently lashed to the 06 of oach fool—of which they have ovoral—and at the baso of each lance is tiny sack of venom, If a centlpede rawls across your body—whioh he'll most likely do if you lle down anywhere within a half mlle of n you'll remembe man ever dled from the bite of a centl- (8 P him—you'll have following his trail and difficulty i3 visit for weeks, No 0 but I have known oue to meke a nan wieh he wes dead —ec— A Frisoncr Sentenced, CHicaGo, August Mary Klemar, the oucg woman found gullty of oison the family of ber elst n attempt to ot Rosehill, where she has bsen ma'iog her home, was sent 0 the penitcutiary today o serve out he: svu ence of one year, informstion to the laber | The stock in the |4 COUNTY SCHOOLS. some Interesting Items Culled From the Annual Report of Super- intendent Bruner. County Suparintendent Braner com- ploted and matled to Lincoln yesterday his roport for the twelve months ending the second Monday In July. This report embodies many pointa of Interest relative to the schools of Douglas county, and the principal {tems therefrom are called and printed In compact form for the readers of the Bek: Number of districts............ Number of school houses. . No. of children of school age—males.. . 7, No. of children of school age —females. 7, Total..... Number of teachers—mal Number of teachors—female. . ... Number of days taught by teachers males. ... cesane Nuamber of days taught by teac females Numoer of districts having six months #0h00] OF MOFO. .. vvvvevvvavavevurrns Average number of schools in all dis- New RHOWARRVY: viakiey aiidnavs Total value of school houses Total value of achool sites Total valua of school apparatus Total valuo of all schoul property Amouats paid and duo sa teachiors’ wage Amoun school houses built within s t ing teachers’ wazes and_expendi- turca of all kinda duriog year, and whether paid or not. . 2041112 Amouat of 1ondod indebtads 161,48 Amonnt of floating indebtedness, . 8,132 05 STATEMENT OF GRADED SCHOOLS, No. Enroll- chers, ment, ) 3 Principal. H, M. James, W. Hill, t Omaha, . rloo. Miliard.. .. Saratog Dist.Na A, R, Davis District No. 1, O naha, has on hand, in ad dition to the $20,4 ) balanceon hand, $81,- 931,76 in the sinking fund, to be applied to symont of outstanding bonds, The amonnt of money in the hauds of the county treasurer for use of county schools, July 13th, i Besides this, there is in hands of the school district’s treasurers, the sum of $35,088,78, In the Omaha district, the number of echool children envwerated was 11 202 of which 5,360 are msles and 5,833 fomsles, Tho average sitendence dur- ing the yesr has been 4,15 Ip Waterloo district, No. 14, the num- ber of shildren of school age enumerated was b and the average atterdance during the year was 4. Theso &ro tho smallest figures presented by any orgamized die- trict in this county, and it Is belleved, In the state. THE LEGAL LOG. Three Suits Begun on Behalf ot the City—Divorce Business and Other Matters, Clty Attorney Connell commenced sult yeaterday in tho dlstrictcours entitled ““Clty of Omaha versus Peter Sorensen.” The object of the eult is to obtaln ponscs- sion of lot 2 In block (37, which, it 1s al- leged, is unlawfully occugizd by the de- fendants, Mr. Connell also bagan three eults In the county court to obtain posses- slon, on behalf of the vcity, of a lot on the corner of the ally on Ninth botween Howard and Harnoy, east slde, technically de- ecribed as the ncrch one-third of lot five block H., which, it is alleged, Is wrong- fully tenanted by Lanra Boyd and Libbie and Whitesides, On May 3d a resoiution was passed by the council or- dering that this lot be vecated, and on May 20th notics was glven by the mayor to that effect. This notice has not heen heeded by the three women who are mada defeadants In these sults, John Wendt commenced sult yesterday to obtain a divorce from his wife, Bertha Weudt, on the ground of desertion, Augustus L, Chase petitons for dl- vorce from Emma E. Chate on the gsonnd that sho has a husband by a pre- vious merriage living P, H. Green has begun action In re- plevin to obtaln possession of the furni- ture and fixtures of the Oriterion bar and billiard room, valued at $3,000. The defendants are Goo. Wilsy, Chss, B Parls and J. H, Steven: Judge Nevllle granted Maggio Ballen- ger a dlvorce yesterday from W, T. Bal- linger, on the groands cf fallure to sup- port. Mary B. Cook sucs the clty of Omaba {0 recover $4,250 damages by grading 18:h and Leavenworth streets. In the suit of Diena Goddard agaluost Fdwin Culver, in which the plaintiff served a writ of mandamus to compel Judge McOulloch, of the county court, to lssue an executlon against Culver, Judge Neville yesterday granted an order for & poromptory mandamus to'thateflsct; Calver excepted, and was glven twenty days in which to prepare a bill of excep- tlone. The case is one of forcible eniry and detainer, LAWING FOR LUCRE. Sait for an Injunction in Which the Stake 1s Placed at $10,000, An Injunct’on sult entltled Emma J. Reid, plaintiff, ve, Samuel J, Shoup and Joseph J. Baughman, defendants, has bsen commenced in the Unlted States disurlet court for the state of Nebrasks, It appesrs that abcut five yeara ago Mrs. teld, a wealthy widow lady, svld fo Messrs Shoup and Baughman a herd of cattle which sho had on her Ash Croek ranche in northwestern Nebraska, the purchase price being §70,000. They pald her $30,000 down, and gave their notes for the balance, she taking s mortgage on the catilo as her security, The first note came due in three yoars, and until that event rolled around matters moved along emoothely enongh, Then trouble commenced, Shoup and Bough- man failed to meet their firet payment, Instexd of coming to the front with thelr dust, Mre, Reld says, they undertook by yme logal process to upset the ssls and e it diclared not exacily equare, s )1.tlo break, bowever, was cowpro- mizad by the making of a ne v contract in which appesred u stipulstion fo rthe cilect that defendants, the first year after taat, which was last year, should seil only 500 head of cattle, and esch euc ceed ¥ *r mnot m're than 500 head, thui leaving a suffisient numb:r on h:nd all the time 10 secure Mre, Reld for hav b THE BEST THING UUT FOR Washing & Bleaching In Hard or Soft, Hot or Cold Water, 8AYS Lanor, Tinw and SoAr AMAziNony, and glves aniversalsatistaction, No tamily rich or poor should be without it Sold by all grocers, Brwan of imitations well de~ slgnod to mislead. PRARLINK 18 the ONLY SAYR labe saving compound and always bears the above sym« bel and pame of JAMES PYLE NEW YORK, —_— the amount still due her. Recently she discovered, 8o her petition to the court alleges, that Shoup and Branghman wera making arrangements to run thelr cattle over into Wyoming and when once there place them in the hands of other partles, cheme, sho thinks, to defraud her en- 3 | trely out of the £40,000 remaining un- pald, Tonip that project In the bud, sho prays the court to grant her an order enjolalng them from making any sush a move. CLEVE R RLY CAUGHT. How an Umaha Deteciive Managod to Sceure the Arrest of Threo Desperate Toughs. Dotective Emery, of this clty, has been dolng aome very clover work over st Shenandoah, [owa, within the past two or thros days. Soveral weoks ago the hoase of & Mr. Harllob, at that place, was entered one night by hurglars, who, tosuccossfully carriy out thestjintentions, firat chloroformed the entlre family, then socared what valusbles they could and escaped. A dispatch from Shenandoah sagn: “‘Susplelon pointed to threo stran- gers. Shortly aft rd It was discov- ered that systematic attempts were being made to blackmail maloonkeep- ors by threatening to divulze thelr secrets and bring them iato trouble unless largo fums of hueh money were immedlately paid. Detective Emery, of Omaha, came hero and 1in tho role of a tough, becatae Intimately acquainted:with the trio, Melching, Comstock and Row- dys, who were suspected of the chloro- form trick. He discovered that they were also impllcated in the blackmailing scheme. Hesacaneded in seourlng thelr confidence and ga'ning positive evidence of thelr gullt snd had them arrested. Upon promiso of release one of the three made & clean breast, and gave away all the detalls of the chloroform robbery. Two who arc to be tried for the crlme have had a prellminary hearing, and have been bound over to the dlstrict court. These crooks have operated protty ex- teneively in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, e —— Weak Backs, Old chair backs are now rejavenated with pretty bits of fancy colored satin and silk in curfous shapes. Folks who have weak backs and are otherwise de- bilitated, find strength and comfort in Brown’s Iron Bitters, which makes them good a8 new. This famous iron medlcine has worked wonders for the weak and weary, Mrs. E. R, Smith, Whitehall, Mich., ssys *‘I used it with great benefit for stomach and liver complaint and gen- eral weakness.” lelsc s, g Exvont @t R.R GROTTE GeneraWestem Agent 719 Bouth 6th St., Omaha, Telephono 602, Correspondence solicited POOLPRIVILEG'S, POOL BIRTH AND OTHER PRIVI LEGES FOR SALE ON THE GROUNDS OF THE OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FAIR. 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