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- 2 4o Sl L R T el i a7 OwAna Orrice No, 914 AND 916 Fanwaw 81, New York Orrice, Roox 66 Trison BuiLo: ING Pubished every morning, excopt Sunday. The only Monaay morning daily published in the state. THRAS Y MATL One Year... $10.00 | Three Months. ....§ 2 50 Six Months ........ 5,00 [ One Month 1.00 The Weekly Bee, Published every Wednesday TRRMS, TOSTPAID Ono Year, with premium One_Tear, without premiv Bix Months, without premium ©One Month, on trial... . CORRESPONDENC Al Communications relating to News and Editorial Imattors should be addressed to the E0iToR oF Tiik Bax. BUSIYRSS LRTTRRA, ANl Business Letters and Remittances ehould be wddressed to Tim Brx 1811180 COMPANY, OMATIA Sratts,Chicks and Post office oriers to bo made pay- able 1o the ordcr of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING C0., Prips i ROSEWATER, Eprror, o B F toh, Managor Daily Circulation, Posn right along with public improve- ments to the fullest extent of the publlo purse. ‘W= hopo the council wlll second Mayor Boyd's urgent appeal In favor of grading Harney street this season. CE—— Axorner long-felt want will be sup- pled In a fow days at the stock yards In the shaps of a dally paper. Oxana must maks the rallroads under- stand that she has no patronaga for thoso who dizczlm!nate against her. By the way, who is governor of Ne- braska just now? Governor Dawes has boen oat of the state for more thana wask. Tue Indlans at the Davll’s Lake agency have harvested 60,000 bushels of wheat. They find rafsing wheat is more profitable than ralsing scalps. AvrAtrs ara generally; becoming serious batween Spaln and Germany., Thetowns of Aragon have declded to boycott Ger- man beer. This ought to bring Bismarck to torms, Tae Omsha exposltion is bound to be a sucosar, but wo would impress upon our marchant: and manufacturers the impera- tlve necasslly of each and every one mak- fog a cr:ditablo exhibit. Now that Senator Ssunders has de- clared very emphatleally to a St. Panl JPioneer Press roporter that he will not be & candidate to succeed Van Wyck the senatorial problem has been materlally almplified. Lerress from Dublin, Ireland, bearing date of August 16, reached Chicago on Monday at 9 a. m., taking onlyeight days. This is the quickest time on record of tke transmission of mall between the two countrles. THE manner in which the great rail- road companies are jumping onto the Omaha Belt railway infant with injunc- tlons leads us to belleve that the infant 18 really going to amount to something. It may be a giant yet. OmAHA I8 to have a sldewslk inspactor. The creatlon of this cffice will mako an additional expense, but the cflices of boller Inspeotor and bullding inspector would not cost the clty a cent, as the salaries of those officlals could be paid out of the feo PARNELL bas glven a fearfal twis to the British lion’s tall. Hjs Dablin speech in favor of the repeal of the union 1s characte: by the London Standard as o declaration of wer, and it calls on the statesmen of both parties to crush him, Havixa paved Famam atreet, between Ninth and Fifteenth, without any cross- walke, we are now doing half-way work on upper Farmam. If cross-wilks are deslrable—and in our *oplnion they are an absolute necesslty—they should rzach clear across the street. Under the dl- rection of the board of public works the cross-walks are belag lald on each side of the stroot rallway tracks, bu’ between tho tracks only common pavicg stones are belog put down, Why not lay the flat- stone cross-walks as well? * E——— Tue Oaroline “‘Incldant” promises to stle up a largosizad Europesn family row. The latest cable advices are {o the effcct that Blsmarck decllnes to propose or acospt arbitration of the differences between the German government and Spaln, Meantime the French newe- papers are patting Spaln on the back for the stand she has taken. They advise tho Spanish to malntaln thelr attitude. It would seem that there Is s strong ten- denoy to form a Franco-Spanish alllance, and this naturally excites the ire of Bis- marck, The French cannot forget the drubbing which they received at the hands of the Prusslans, Eogland, it s under- stood, sides with Germany in this contro- veray. So it will ba seen {hat some very {nteresilng complications may arise. Tur republicans of Iowa have held a very enthuslastic and harmonicus con- vention. There never was a time In the history of Jowa when the party was eo thoroughly united and determiued. Whatever factional differences there msy exlot have for the time belvg been for- gotten, and the party enters the cam- paigo with an uobroken front., The out- come can not be coubtful, Although pro- hibitlon has been a serlons drawback in many respects in the past two years, but 1t 1s safe to predict an old-tims msjorlty for the rcpublican et:te ticket. The fuslon bstween the democrats snd graen- backers fs not eatlafeciony to many mom- ber: of elih r f thess parties, and an at- tempt to carry the state with a faslon tickst I8 doomed to be a dlsmal failare. RANDALL'S ASPIRATIONS, It fs & lttle early yet to dlscass the speakership of the next house, but never- theless the Waehington correspondents, perhaps becaure of the dullness at pres- ont prevalling at the natlonal caplital, are hendling the eubject for want of better materlal, They assure us that Mr. Car- lisie intends to be a candidate, and that his old opponent, Randall, may also ap- pear In the field. This would renew the faotlonal fight In the democratle ranks with regard to the tariff question. Even if Randall does not finally conclude to make a contest for the speakarship, It la predicted, with a marked degroe of certalnty, that hia friends will put for- ward another man In the hopes of defeating Mr. Carllale, the free-traders’ champlon. Who this man wil be, In that event, the prophets have not yet told us, but we are assured that he will be from the south, and that his views with regard to free-trade will be much lees radical than those of Oarlisle. Far- thermore, that he will be a man who, if elected, will be more careful than Oar- lisle In the selection of members of the colnage committee. It would seem, then, that the frlends ¢ f Randall care not so much for thelr principles regarding the tariff, as they do to get revenge. Ths recent professions of friendship on on the part of the Randall men towards Carlisle is viewed with conslderable sus- plolon, The adherents of Uarllsle are sald to have no confidence in Randail's professlons in favor of a revision of the tariff, It {s even intimated by them that tho pretended rurrender of the Randall- ftes on the speakership queation Is simply a part of a plan to strengthen him as & presidentlal candldate tosuc- ceed Grover Oleveland., As confirmatory of this atatement, an interview with a western democratle congressman is pub lished in the New Yory Tribunc Ac- cording to this emlnent cemocrat, Cleve- Iand’s adminlstration fs golng to be a stormy one, with every prospect that it will end his political career. Ho tells us that although Ssm Tilden 1s keepiog protty qulet, ho fs still alive, and i dls- sppointea In Cleveland and his adminis- tratlon. Tilden does not think that a real democratic victory has yet been won, but he hopes to live to tee it achleved in 1888, and wlll spare no personal exertion to that end. This knowing democratic congreesman,whosenameis notgivensway, assures the country that Tilden’s hopes depend very largely upon the sucress of his efforts to promote the political for tunes of Mr. Randall, whom he regards as the one man under whose banner the democratic leglons can march to vlotory in the next prestdential campalgn; and had it not been for his advice Mr. Ran- dall would have accepted a seat In Clove- land’s cablnet. If Mr. Randallls not a oandidate for the speakership, then the public may take it for granted that he bas patched up a trace or compromise in regard to the tarlff question, and has gone into tralning under Tilden’s direction for the presidentlal nominatlon in 1888, even if it is a good ways off. THE NEW SOUTH. The prosperity of the southern states is a matter of congratulation for the whole country, as it tends to create con- tentment among the people of the south and occupy their minds with the buyy thoughta of to-day rather than to brood over the bitter memorles cf the war and the long perlod of depression that fol- lowed the great clvil strifa, The Intro- daetion of northern enterprlse and the Investment of northera capltsl o manu- faoturing enterprises, the construction of rallroads, the developement of mlnes, and the efforts of the scuthern people thomselves, together with abandant crops, have indeed brought about & won- derful change in the south., The acraage of the corn, cotton and tobacco crops is the largeat ever known, while the yield will be the most abundant ever produced, In South Carolina there will be 4,000,000 bushels more of corn and 300,000 mora bales of cotton than lsst year. In Georgla thers will be 40,000,~ 000 bushels of corn thls year, agaiost 81,000,000 in 1884 and 24,600,000 in 1888, and roports from other states show & proportionate increzss. 1t Is estimated that the south will produce 50,000,000 bushels more corn thls year than last and 1,600,000 more bales of coiton, The incrensed acresgs and the abundant yleld of the ctaple products are largely due {o the modern methods of sgrical- ture which wero unknown in the south doring the days of slavery. In its rallroad mileage the south is rapidly Increasig, According to Poor's Manual, the total number of miles of rallroad constracted in the United States last year amounted to 3,977, whizh was, a co able decllne from 1882 with its 11,602 mlles, and even from 1883 with its 6,800 mils To this total the south contributed 1,496 miles, or more than one-third, North Carollns, which in 1883 made onfy 36 miles of new rallroad, bullt 174 miles last year. But the graat- est relative progress has been made in the long-negleoted state of Florida, which last year constructed 182 miles of railroad and 700 miles in the last four year:. With the exception of Texas and Arkan- sar, all the sonthern states have mide noteworthy progress in rallroad constrac- tion, In Texas thers has been & mate- rlal reduction from the foverish activity of 1881 and 1882, when 2,765 miles of railrond wers constructed In its territory. Last year the number of mlles of new railroad constracted In Texas was only 113, In Arkansas the same reaction Is vlsible, though in less degree, the milesge of railroad in thst state declining from 245 in 1883, to 33 1n 1884, The south, slnce the abolition of slavery, has taken very klodly to ra'lroad enterprlses, but before the war much opposition was mauifested, especlally by the plan‘ers, who were the we:1hy and loflaentlal men of the sunny THE DAILY BEE~THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1365 nouth in ante-ballam deys. Thelr oppo- vition was based upon the bellef that rail- roads afforded to> many opportanlities for the esoape of slaves. All this is now changed, however, and the railroad is & welcome visltor. 1t has bsoome an Im- portant factor in the dovelopment of the new sonth, and has aesisted as much as any other agency in uniting the friend- ship botwoen the two great sestlons of the countr /. . ] BIRKHAUSER’S DISLOYALTY. The surveyor-generalship of Nebraska Isa big hone upon which there 1s now bat very little plcking, Inasmuch ay fat surveylng contracts are no longer at the dlsposal « f the surveyor-general. Forall that, tho office has become a big bone of contentlon In the demooratio camp, Ever sloce Dave Stephenson stepped down and out to make way for Mr. Gardner, whose appolntment was among the thlugs expected, there has been a terrible wrangle between Dz, Miller and the democratic backers of Mr. Gardner |G a8 to the political record of the new surviyor-general. The latest broadside fired by the Omahy ZZerald at the sarveyor-general’s cffice, charges that Surveyor-General Gardner Is not only not a demoorat, bat who does not know » democrat when he sees one. “It has been proven,” Baye the watchfal boss of the JIZerald, “by the sbhort record which Mr. Gardner now holds at Plattamouth when he installcd Birkhauser as his chief dep- uly over the heads of sound democrats. Blrkhauser must be a bold, bad man. His “‘charack-ter" Is glven by Dr. Miller in the following pen-and-ink sketch: Brigadier-Goneral Birkhauser is a “‘demc- crat” after the following manner: The gal- lant brigadier has been a hybrid sort of inde- pendent-anti-monopoly-republican political pi- rate who, for ten years, did the little ho could to defeat dimoc:atic men and democratic tickets, Ho was a member of the legiclature in 1877, when ho voted for Charles ¥'. Man- derson, the present republican senator, through thick and thin when such democrats a8 George I, Pritchett, who was a member of tho same body, voted *‘Arst, last and all the time" for James W, Savage, We are not in a position to take up the cudgel for Mr. Birkhauser. We have no part or parcel with the democratic spotle- men, nor do we caro a straw as to which democrat draws a salary as turveyor-gen- eral or chlef clerk. The allusions to the senatorial campaign'of 1877 sare, how- ever, very ill-timed for D:. Miller, whose roference to Birkhauser's votes in the leg'slature recalls some memorable Inc!- dents in Douglas county polltics. Blrk- hauser may have voted for Manderson in- stead of his partner, Judge Savage, a3 he had a right to, because nelther of them at that time stcod a ghost of a show of be- Ing elected. Mr. Pritchett, on the other hand, was bouzd oy a solemn pladge to vote only for & democrat, Ho voted for Sav- 8ge as & more , matter of form, with the rest of the delegation, who were each pledged in open couvantion to vole for a democrat for senator first, last and all the tlme, Bat Dr. Miller, who had bar- geloed to deliver the demooratis vote of Douglas county to a rapublican, Mr. Hitchoock, uader the pretense that Hitchcook would sustain the title of Sam Tilden to the prestdency, came very near getting Pritchett to bolt Jamoes W. Sav- 8ge, and vote with Blirkhauser for a re- publicrn, The only reason why Dr. Miller falled to deliver the goods, in an unbroken package, was that Charles H. Browa,James Crelghton and several other democratic members refused point blank to violate their pledges and the instruc- tlons of the nominating conventlon, Dr. Miller should ba consistent. If it was right and proper for the ten democratic representatives of Douglas county, fo cast their vote for a republican for United States senator In 1877, it certainly wes oot very criminal for Birkhauser to vote for Manderscn &t cke samo time, Birk- hauser had been elected 55 an Indepen-~ dent, and his actlons were in fu'l accord with his constituency. But the true in. werdnees of Dr. Miller's anxiety to have Mz, Hitchecock, the republican senator, re-clected was not 50 much to sesist Sam Tilden and his pariy as it was to please and aid Jsy Gould and Sidney Dlilon, — Ir seems to us that the time has come to compel the gas company to carry out its contract with the city, or at least the clty should notify the compary that the contract is aunalled, Tha reports of Ia- spector Gilbert show gross negligence on the part of the company and pro- nounca the quallly of ths gas Inferlor. Now the compavy cannot justify its fallura to glve us gas of the best qual- ity or its neglect to replace the wretched lamps which its managers have folsted upon the clty in place of the lamps re- quired by the contract. No othor busl- ness in Omaba Is as profitable as the manufacture of gis. The cost of water gas is eaid to ba about 57 cents per thou- eand ocublo feat, maklng a profit of about 400 per cent. for the gas company, With such euormous profits and a constant in- crease of consumption, the company cer- talnly ought to be in condition to comply with ite obligations and eupply gas of the best quallty. E—— “For “publlo convenience the county commissioners desired that flat-stone oross-walks be laid across the street from each wing of the grand stair-case of the court house, s0 az to enable partles to oross the stregt from the stair-way In- stead of walking to the street corners. So far, however, the board of public works hss glven no order to the con- tractor, 1t seems to us that such sn order should be made at once, as the pavement betwesn Seventeenth and Eighteenth etrests will be laid withla a week. —_—— OxE of tbe best evidences of edacar tlonsl progress in Japan Is shown by the sadden and wonderful development of journsliem In that conntry. Twenty-five years ago there was not & single journal In that country. To-day there are two thousand newspapers, a greater number by far than either I'aly, Austris, Spain, Roassis, or the whole continent of Asia oan boast. ————— WESsTERN NLMWS, MONTANA, In Benton on the 14th the mercury went up t0 105 in the shade. The office of the Butte Town Talk was burned by o firebug Inst woek Darlog the recent hot weather the mercury at Billings went up to 115 in the shade. The capacity of the great emelting plant of the Avaconda company, at Batte, is to be doubled. imated that 95,000 head of oattle pped east fromi the Montana ranges There were 760,000 pounds of wool shipped from tillings this season, up to the mldfi‘;a of this month, Seven thousand five hundred and forty head of cattle have been shipped east this month from Miles Oity, Fred Derwent bas returned from the Sweet s with forty-three ouncos of dust, sold in Helena for 8795, —An immense vein of fine marble has been found in Big Hole river, near Dewey's plat. The marole Is sa'd to be cqual to any quar- ried in Vermont, A number of the woolgrowers of Northern Montana, whose flocks are becoming too larga for their ranges, will ship from 2,000 to 4,L00 wethers to the Chicago market this fall, A firo at the depot, Helena, on the 18th, bu'ned Faust's bakery, Mra. Laurenns's store and the Denver houss, causing a loss of $12,~ 00) to 815,000. Lack of water crippled the fire department'’s efficiency. Fert Maginnis is at present commanded by Gon, Forayth, lieutenant-colonel First cay- alry, and garrisoned by three troops,C, A and I" of tha First cavalry, aud two companiee, D and G, of the Twentieth infantry, UTAH. Tho corner atone of the Catholio collego ax Salt Liake was laid on Suaday evening last, The Chinese are moving out of Ogden at a lively rate sinco the Knights of {Labor got after them, The wash water from the Chinese laundries in Salt Lake Oity is a nuisance of loud smell- ing proportione, A Salt Lake paper tolls of shearing sixty- seven pounds of wool fzom a sheep 1n & singlo fleecs of twenty-three months’ growth, The official canvas of the votes cast at the Iato election showed 21,610 for the Mormon candidates and 1,795 for the opposition, The banks of Salt Lake City report the re- ceipt for the weelk ending August 19th, ioc'u- 8ive, of $35.2)1.99 in ballion and $16,110.99 in ore; a total of $101,342 08, ‘‘The ptesent condition of the Salt Liake ore ‘market,” says the Tribune, ‘‘is most cncour- aging 10 mine owners and business men. It has not benn #o active for years as it is at the present time, and, what is batter, a good price ir paid for allthe ore that is broughtin,” CALIFORNIA, The assessment roll of Sacramento city and county showa a coin assessment of $209,530, “The pay rolls of the several Comstock min ing companies for the month of July aggre- Rato $115,000. A poker game which lasted for seventy-six hours without intermiseion is one of Sacra- mento’s Iatest sensations. Some hoodlums at Amador City soakod the tnt belonging to the Salvation army with coal oil, and then set fire to it. The scheme to buy the penineula near San Diego and convert it into a watering place h: fallen through owing to imperfection of title, A gendeman in San Beroardino county marketed 4.6.0 pounds of blackberries grown on o single patch. They brought $322, being at the 1aty of $1,000 an acre. San Franclsco’s death rate for the past year 19.68 per’ 1,000, is lower than that of thiricen foreign and eloven American cities and tho lowest of any city of its size in the world, The Los Angeles Herald says that a large bed of choice potter’s clay has been discovered in the Temescal mountains, about sixteen miles from the California Southern railroad. A duel was fought with French rapiers near the Oceau house, San Fraucisco, on the 15th. The varticipants were a Krenchman and o German, The former is named Gaccon, and 1t 13 said he owns a ranch of 2,000 acres in Marin county. The latter, whose name could not be learned iseaid to bea San Francisco lawyer. Both wers mounted, The fight was desperate and bloody, The German cama off vicsori us, Both were wounded, The French- man was badly cut up, The work on the Merzed irrigation ditch in the San Jonquin valley, California, was be- gua on March 13, 1833 ' Its entira length will ba thirty-five miles, of which sixteen milss is now completed, and for the first ten milesit is sixty feot wide at tha bottom and ten feet deep, while for the rest of its leogth the width at the bottom 18 fifty feet and the depth eight feet. The company have already expended 800,000 and it is estimated that tho entire cost of the uadertaking will donble that cum, ——— PERSONALITIES, —— Ex-Vice President Wheeler is troubled with rheumatism, Secretary Whitney will epend a month at Lenox, but will not go gunuing for dolphins, Senator Sharon recently put bis servauts at Menlo Park m knee breeckes and befrgged coats, Bob Toomb Jeff Davie an out the war alone. The venerable Simon OCameron, aged 87, made $300,000 by sharp financial transactions last year. He is worth $4,000,000, It is even said that Albert Edward hates Brother Battenberg so_much he won't let the upstart Dutchman use his tennis racket, T. B, Aldrich asseverates that no fortune of $76,000 has fallen into his bands, as currently stated. He withes the report were true. A gentleman familiarly koown as “Snatch- em” recently died at Rockaway, He was & policeman, and they say he actually did. Ope of Gen, Santa Aona's widows fs still living in Mexico, and is bright and teresting as ever, She was married at the age of thir- teen. Col, Gilder. the Arctic explorer, is at Long Branch, entbusiastically talking about the plol;, which he thinks can be reached by sleds, A ‘‘new book by Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, daughter of the preeident of the Uniied Stater,” is announced by the London Literary World, 3 Mrs, Bayard, wife of the secretary of state, hes recovered from her recent iliness ‘n\il!\l‘naw ot » seaside reeort near Glouces- tery An Omaha woman has thres husbands liv- ipg and was photographed with all of them the other day, Two of them were divorced, hut kindly courented to st for the group,— [Chicago Her W, D. Babecck, the inventor of the patent fire-extinguisher, is & pauper in the S8an Fran. cisco poorhouse, He has made several for- tunes speculating, and received an annuity of $5,000 for ten yours for his invention, but re- nentedly failed io bustness and finally took to drink, General Joseph E. Johnston, the oldest of the mourners who followed Girant to the grave, is 78 years of sgo. Sheridan is but 64, though he looks much older—being much the youug- est of the great r,nihtnfi generals on the unton wide, Sherman is 65 Buckoer 74, Sickles 03, Hanoock 01, Bchofield 54, and Wade Hawp- ton 67. Admiral Porter is 72, and Admiral Rowan 79. If General Lobert E. Lee were alive he would bs nearly 80, and *‘Stonewall” Jackson 61. Abrsham’ Lincola would be 76, and Jefferson Davis is 77, Tda Lewis, the Newport barbor heroine,has biad, for # dozen years, a faithful companion on her little rocky island, s big, black Now- foundland dog, which recently died, causicg her grent griet. *'I remember well, long ago, eays oue of her acquaintancer, ‘‘ber putting around the big sffectionate fellow and s3ying, ‘men have not been good to me snd I love dogs better.’” Her matrimonial adventure was most disastrour, and this dog was her only protector, appears to have dccided to let the " New York Tribune fight THE CORPORATION APPERS, ———— The Aoxiely f the Nebraska Raileoa Commissioners to Serve Their Masters, Freight Rates From Ohicago Omaha and to Papillion—An An- alysis of Both—The Commis- sion's Organand Ita De- lusive Gab, to To the Editor of The Brs, The rallroad commlssion, a% the sug- gestion of Magney and Howard, of Pa- plillon, had asked Thos. L. Kimball, manager of the Unlon Pacifio rallroad, why that road charges as mush for haul- Ing frolght from Omaha to Paplilion, a distance of 14 miles, ay from Chloags to Omahs, & distance of 500 miles. Mr. Kimball replles with an array of rates prepared by hlmeelf and sayas it don’t. The Lincoln Journal prints the corres- pondence, and with an edlitorial a colamn long, endeavora to prova that not only Is the rate to Paplllion from Omahs as low, but in fact, relatively, a lower rate than from Chleago to Omahs, The Journal {s enslly convinsed by Kimball's logic and has *‘other rallable Information” ready to make the case mora clear for the railroad company. List us look at the facts from a different standpolnt than that of a railroad cim- mistioner, for a moment, and analyzs thelr facts and logle in an impartial man- ner. The rate from Omaha to Paplllioa on carload lota la 7} cznts por 100 pounds, This 18 $1.60 per ton. The distancs is 14 miles, The average rate s nearly 11 cents per ton per milo, The Journal rs- contly pub ished a statement to the ¢ff ct that the average charge on the C. B, & Q ralircad, for the preceding year, as saown by Poor’s manual, was about ong cent per ton per mile. The rata from Omaha to Papillion {s over ten times the aversge rate charged by the C. B. & Q rallroad. If Magney & Howard wers not correct in thelr assertlon, they have doveloped ths fact that the rate from Omaha to Papilllon IS MORE THAN TEN TIMES the average rate charged by the C. B, & Q. rallroad. Mr. Kimball glves their rates on ulne classea of frelghy from Chi- o1go to Omaha, From theso figures the Journal concludes that the averaze rate isabout b4 cents, the lowess belng 23 and the highest 90 cents, This 1s not a fair way to conslder the question. Mr. Kim. ball does not state what the difierent classifications include, nor what propor- tlon of their freight s covered by each classlfications It msy be thata very fow articles are included within the cla:aea for which 50, 75 and 90 cants per 100 pounds are charged, and but a small amount of euch frolght s carried, It may be that nesrly all the fre'ght trans- ported from Chicago to -Omaha falls within the classes on which the rate s from 23 to 35 cents. If so, that fact should be known and a comparison of rates from Omaha to Papillion and Chi- cigo to Omaha should be made as to these lower prices. A very little infor- matlon seems to have raiistied the com- misston and they were not only ready but eager to rnsh before the paople of the state and endeavor to convince them, on adeluding and imperfect etatement made by the rallroad manager, tkat Papillon had not only a low but ia fact a cat rate. Mr. Gere rays that the average charge from Chicago to Omaha {s 543 per 100 pounds. This is $10 80 per ton, ora trifle over two cents per mile. The rate from Owmaha to Papillon is moroe than five tlmes as great. But 1s Mr. Gere correct in asserting that the average rate from Chicago to Oumaha is 64c per 100 pound:? This rate would make a carload of fifteen tons from Chloago to Omaha cosi $162. Wil Mr. Kimball or Mr. Gere tell the people upon what ar'icles the rate from Chicago to O naha is $160 par car and how much of such articies are transported? Bat it must ba recollected that this s the aver- age charge. Thero .musi be as mush charged at a higher rate as at a lower. What {s charzed higher and how much of {t 1s haulad? The haal from Ohicago to Omaha Is a long one, and must ex i length the aversge hsul by the r compavies hauling it. Therofore the charge for it should be at a lezs rate thao the average oharge of the company. But we have the Journal snd Poor's Manual as authority for the statement thatihe average charge of one of tho companles that csrrles freight from Chieago to Omsha, (and it Is well known that all the companies charge the same through rate) for the preccediog year, was bub one cent per ton per mile. Mr Gere han gathered from Mr. Kimball’s figures that the aversge charge from Caicign to Omaha was over two cents per ton per mile, Mr, Gere must be substantiully insorrect in his conclusions drawn from Mr. Klmball’s rater. Bat he eays the haul from Chicago to Omiha is o long one and from Omaha to Papillion 15 a short one, and that on ac- count of handling the freight at *‘termi- nal points” the rate from Omaha to Pa- piliton should ba higher than from Ohl- osgo to Omaha, His *‘Pamphlet Au- thority” written concernlng the Tehaun- tepeo thlp canal, ssys the hsndling cf freight at terminal polnts is equivalent in expense to & haul of 100 miles, There- fore the haul from Chicsge to Omaha is equivalent to a 600 mile haul snd the haul from Omaha tc Papillion to a 114 wilehaul. 1If the aversge charge f Ohicago to Omahs s $162, and 6C0 miles, on the above theory the cost of handling the cars at ‘“terminal polats” would be $27. There would be the same expante In handling the car from Omaha to Papilhop, and as the company cherge but $22 50 for this latter haul by Be, Gere's caleulstlon, the company are hsul- iog from Omahs to Papillion for $4 b less than cost of handling at terminal polnts alone, This s so groesly improb- able that we must ocouclude that MM Mr. Gere calls on apy one who kno to toll what the sost of haudling frelght at terminal polnta fe, if ftis not worth us much as haullog the freéight 100 milest That Is s difficult qaestion for one no engaged in the ra'lroad business to en- swer accurntely, and it is » questlon that we would not expect to be snswered truthfully and faldy by areilroas . sger. 1f the auswer was not f ific statemeats it would be cs and effect, by reason of its partial statements and truhs balf told, As wen of ordinary Intlligence we can form some idea of the cost of haudling frelght at terminal points In ar load lots, The rai'road company nelther load nor uslozd the care, It elmply switches the cxrs! | year of sge. e ——— —_———TT on to omle awi'oh to ko laded and swliches them back agsln ini> a train, When they have srrived at the other end of the terminal polot the same process [s re verned. How much does this ocost for cars? Certalnly not as much as ts hanl the same csr one hundred m les—a daya’ run with a freight traio. In faot the an- tire business, ordinarily, does not amonnt to more than haullng the oar one mils at each of the terminal polnts. At one cont por ton per mile it would coat (a car con- talnlng tifteen tone) fifteen conta at each termlnal polnt or say thirty conts at both, 1t Is true this short havl is attended with more expense than haaling the car the samo discance while the traln is in mo- tlon, by reason of the necosslty of em. ploying awitchmen, brakemen, flagmen, otc , about the terminsl pointa, Proba- bly ene oar s moved several times or several cars are moved to reach one osr. Bat it Is unreasonable to awsume that It requlres movement of cars equivalent to havllng one car 100 miles to switch a sin- glecac in and ous of a atation. If 1t was placed at twenty miles it would seem more nearly right. At the average rate glven by the Journal for transporting Irslght this would amount to $3.00 per oar. Now if the rate per ton per mile was the same from Omaha to Papiilion as the average charge over the 0. B, & Q , the charge per ton from Omaha to Papilllon would be fourteen cents, or on a oar contaialng fifteon tons $2.10 Adding $3 00 for terminal chargis, would make the charge of haullng a car load of freight from Omsha to Paplllion, $5.10, instead of $22 60, the amouat now charged. The rate from Omaha to Pap- {llion 1s not very oxceptlonal in this state The common local rate 1s from 5 to 10 cents @ ton per mile, all through the state. If the average charge /s 1 cent per ton per mile, the people of Nebras— ka are paying five to ten times as much for hauliog lceal frelght as the aversge chargs of the Chicago, Burlington & Qaiacy. In other words the railronds ace hauling at cheap rates for soms cthee people, and ara msking the poople of thls state pay for it But 1t Is 0sid while we pay high local rates that wo get chesp through rates, and much choesper through rates than pacties east of ns, The rate given by the Journsl on freight from Chicago to Omaha is twice the rate they ntate as the averaga charge of the Chicago, Bur- lingten & Qalucy ducing the past year. The rate on corn, s cheap end bulky preduct, snd on which the charga should bs below the aversge rate, from Lincoln to Caleago 1s 300 per 100 1bs, This {s 60 por ton. The dlatancs being 550 miles, it is moro than one cent a ton am'le, or more than the average charge of tho company for all classes of freight during the pas: year. Cortalnly ona haul of 550 m'lss, of #o cheap, easily handled, abundant and bulky an article ag corn, we ought to get a rate less than the average rate, but we donot. We pay five to ten times the average charge for our local bueiness, and more than the av- erage charge on our through business, ana the railroad commisslon see no cause for complaint, bat herald all criticlsm as “wild and groundless newspaper charges.” The fact Is that the people of the state of Nebraska are in the ircn grip of great railroad corporatlons, profit of their unremitting toil is tuken awasy from them in an unseen, insidious, but effoctaal way. The robbers who ctocd at the stra'ghts of Gibraltar, cn the heights of Tar!ffan, and levied toll on the passiog commerce were not eo thorough, 80 relentless, 85 exaciing Inthelrdemarnds a8 ara the ratlroad managors who levy toll on every indastry in tha state of Ne- braska. GRANGER. e — Nebraska Railroad Commission, Butler County Press, The mountaln labored and behnld amouse. The railroad commission bas rang up the curtain on the first act of the comic drama, furnished by i:s cvea- tor, the Nebraska leglslature, the Upera Comique company bas completed the circuiv of all the Burlington & Missourl lines. The actors have lesrned thelr patts well. Mr. Gore fs the star, snd Cowdry and Buschow eupporters. Mr. Holdrege, of the Burlington & Mizsourl, is prompter and sfage mansger, and travels with the troupa night and day and hauls themw around in his own epecial car, lest somo of them shou'd got away. Thais augnst body has made areport and the pecple are laughing all over the state. In fict, theroar of thelr haw!! hawa!!!! can be heard from Cheyenne county, on the weet, to the Missoari river, ou the east, and from the Niobrara, on the north, to tie Kansas line on the eouth, The commission don’t like to see tha peopls quiet_so gleeful, for fear they will tire of e sLOW t00 goon, Tho followlog is a fair ssmple of the recommendations of the ocommission, gravely notifyivg tho rallrosd compeny that the switch st Bellwood needs length- entog cut; that the hog yards at S.aple- burss are cramped tnd muddy, ete. Oh ——Sogar! e The Klection Contest Oase, Yestorday morning the Murphy-Boyd cleotion contcat case came up for hesring in the county court. Attorneys for both sldes and a number of in'erested parties were present. Mr. Joseph Southard, olty clerk, was first summened a8 & witnees, The effidavites, the velldity of eome of some of which sre disputed by the frlends of Mr, Murphy, were produced by him, and submitied to the court, Judge McCalloch decided to submit the eftidavits to s committee of two, one rep- resentative of esch side, In order that they might be “tabulated.” Thistabulation is to ahow the name of the voter swornin, the attestlng witness, the notary, the son why the persons name does not sppear upon the rcgular list, eto. 1In this way, it is thought, the affidavits will be reduced to such @ form that the question of their validity can be more eastly determined. Judge McCalloch has sppointed Capt. J 8, Wood ss representi g Mr., Murphy, a:d John F. McMasnus, represent- g Mr. Boyd. The cate wlil be taken up for argument as soon as the committee annonnces teelf prepared 0 | to make a report. ty Mortality, “How has the mortellty in the city been this summer in comparison with last?” was ssked of Clty Physician Lols- enring yecsterday. “Not greater than that of last year, when the lucraase in population iv taken lato conslderation. Oa the wholo the city 1s lo a pretty bealthy condition, The greatest mortality last month was to b» noticed amorg children under one I believe the number of desths of infants under one year, in July, wes thirty-olght. 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