Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1885, Page 4

HOME TALENT. yoars, The cornice work was done Inland ory rateed under false pretenses to This paper has always advoosted and | Omaha, Ita cost was 815,000, of which | delay the erection of the city hall our encouraged home Industry. All things | 810,000 was pald for Omaha labor. Other | soancilmon will discover what (he work- belng eqaal we are now, as much as ever, | Omaha mectanlos and laborers were em- | (ngmen, the buslness men, and the prop- in favor of giving home talent the pre-|ployed for wmonths, and It I Y | erty-owners of Omaha want, Publshed every morning, except Sundsy. The |ference in any enterprise. We do, |tho wages pild to Omaha laborers in the ‘only Monday morning daily published in the state. TPRNA BT WAL $10.00 | Three Months 5.00 | One Month Omana Orrice No. 014 AND 916 FAnwam Nrw Yor Orricr, Roos 65 Trinone Butto- axe, Ruope IstaND s the only all | 75,000, The only men Imported by |an overwhelming majority of all the be allowed to compste for plana for the | Mr. Coots were a fow spoolalia's In their | 5aople live in a slngle olty. The popula- proposed city hall bailding. The con-|llne, like stone-oarvers, dranghtsmen, |tion of Rhode Island Is 304,410, and the 200 | strnoton of publle bulldings lsa speo. Jete. No s nsible mechanio will objeot olty of Providence contalns considerably 12 | ialty, In which only & fow arshitects In |to the emplogment of sach skilled labor. i 10| this country are export. There Is not an | Before Oniahia bsoomes a clty of 150,000 | yoary has bewn 25,880, a gain of over aine All Commumcn:;on:::::l‘l::‘:: Newsand Editortat | 8tchitect in Omahs, so far as we know, | or 200,000 we shall have tolmport a great | por oant. Almost half of the Increa fatters should bo addressed to the Ebiron or 711k | who has ever planned and ereoted a fire- | many more. been In Providence, and the greater part yy BUsINRSS LATTERS. proof bullding of any kind. Out home —— of the remainder In Newport and Paw- All Basiness Tettors and Remittances shonld be | talent has designed mome elegant resl- AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY. tucket, while a number of the smaller ‘:‘:m-gmam:w': Deeere b Db Tade ‘bay- | donces and store bulldings, but there s| There has just been started at Gilmore, | ¢owna have fallen off in population. The not a bullding In Omaha to-day, except | & fow miles from thia olty, a cattle eedIng | number of inbabitants to the equare mile One Yoar RMS, POSTPAID. One Year, with premiu Athout One Month, on tri able to the order of the company. THE BEB PUBLISH]NG 00., Ph’:[l!. the postoffice and cour house,that will not | establishmsnt which Ia destlned to work | 14 280, which Ia a denser population than E. ROSEWATER, Eprror burn down withln thirty mloutes, Even |a rovolutisn in the bustness of fattening [1q any other state, Mastachusetts coming A. H. Yitch, Manager Daily Circulation, | ¢he Omaha Natlonal and Nebeasks Na [oattle for market. This establishment, | nxt with 240 to the aquare mile, P T I tlonal banks, which present vory sub- [whioh opsns with a capsolty of 8,760 stantial appearance, are not In avy way stalls, anu soon to be Inoreased to 5,260, | Tar only Interesting feature of the ol e o Ll fire-proof, and the Paxton buildings on|ls arranged on the prinolples of sclence | tamo set-to batween Sullivan and McOaf- v EVCEIB/ LS Fifteenth street, with all thelr costly |and economy, as will b teen by reading | frey s that 1t demonstrated that MoOaf- LA e plate glass and stone trimmings are mere | the detcription of It in one Teeal solumne. | ¢roy ja about as scientific a man with his s g fire-traps. The plans and methods will be adopted | hands as the Boaton slugger, The next Now that the commissionors of Doug-| = 5 rohitects have planned bulléings in[in the near fature by numerons other |thing to ba declded s the power of en- Ias connty have planted themselves ol p . that had to be taken down in|oattle companies who will looate thelr | durance, which will probably be settled 1dly on the olvil servico platform, the |11\ " 03 thore In hardly a brick bullding |stables In Nebrasks, and 1f possible |in g priss fight with bare knuokles, for oountry, the county, and the suporintend- |, 1y, clty that Is not cracked. In view | within a short distance of Omahs. Such|g2 500 and the championship of the ont of the poor farm are safe. of these facts, even if public buildings | feeding stables are fast becoming a necet- | world, This mill, it is intimated, will take T T TR A were mnot a speclalty, the city councl [sity, as tho cattle of the p'alns for placa in Wyomlng, or some other place InareaD of wasting thelr ammunition would not be justified In taking the risk | various reatont—the severity of the win- | whare 1t will not be interfered with, It in pulverizing the ram power through 8| ;¢ \rooting o $200,000 bullding on the |ters, the growing scarolty of grass, | will of course be s great event in pugills- bootless political campalgn, the Nebrasks plans of any man who has never designed [aad other ocautes—find it difficalt i ciroles, and creats & now boom in the prohibltionlats botter devo'e thelr time |y g roof structure, If home talont|to fatten themsclves for market. The | figtio art, and energy to the proper enforcoment of has no experts In public bullding it would | fattening s ason for plains caltle is during the present law. be a waste of time and money to sk | the rummer, and consequently they can Omka architects to prepare plans which, | fatten but once a year, and cven then they plon S, Chate will bo heard throughout at the very outzet, we know would be|do notalwaysgot Intofirat-olaza condltion, the length and breadth of the Iand. He ritky to adopt. When Omaha wanted [ Another drawback is that they sll fatten | bas lantel in St. Paul brim fall of facts plans for a general eystem of geades 1t |at tho sawe time, and conscquently all fand figares to demonairato the necereity did nct Invite home talent among|shlpplng cattlo are sent to market during [of improving the waterways of the the epglocers, but sent for an|the fall season. The marketls thus fre- |Borthwest. There Is no danger, however, expert, Mr. Phillips, of Olnclnnatl |quently overstocked, and the resultis a |that the cclonel will exhaust the supply When the olty desired to ascertaln whet [ broak In prioes, cawing littlo or no profit (of Misslssippi wator at the Minnesota ayatem of waterworks would ba adapted [ to the ehippers. Under tho feeding sys- [capital. At thin time of the yoara man to the location of Omsha, it sent for a | tem, such as has been Inaugurated at Gil- [in qvol‘ Minnesota will feel like putting a elgn thores to Richmond, where he will waterworks expart!; Mri, Whitmen, lt‘)f m(:;e, cattle on;“l;e fattened at any lim:, “‘atick” In his drinke, St. Leuals, and when the waterworks |an three 'srent seta cin 1) ——— ':‘:“:1‘;: ;l:‘:;::t;:;:;e;.‘::gn Hh:m::;:: company wanted plans for the systom, it [fed during a year. Thus the Gil-| CoMMISSIONER Touve knows a thing o [imported a epocialst, Mr. Cook, of To|more establishment, with its present|or twu‘(n politics, Hls effort to remove lodo. Our eanitary sewerage sysiem was [ oapaclty of 3,750 staile, can fatten threo [ Mr. Pierco from the positlon of superln- introduced by Mr. Warlng, an Imported | times that namber of cattle, 11,250 head, | tendent of the poor was a skilifal pisco 1¥ Governor Dawes is out of {he state |englnecr. Boyd's opera houzo was de-|daring a yesr. Under this system cattlo | of jugglery. It will satlefy the workers there fs one man who never lcses sight of |signed by Mr. MoElfatrick, of Louls-[can be held for any length of time In | Who helped Mr. Timme because they tho Intercsts of Nebraska. His name is | ville, & speclallst in theatrical architeci- | order to take advantage of the market. wanted to cust Mr. Pierce, and 1t does Pa‘. O, Hawes, Ho can dlscover a olalm | ure. They csn bo put Into much better mark- |not offend Mr. Pierce in the least. He agatnst Uuclo Sam in behslf of tha state Wby did not home talent inslat that|etable condition than plains cattle, and wasn't even !“'Pl‘lfid. nor was Mr. where any other man oould not dissover |the plans for all these Improvements | the shrinkage csused by long shipments | Timme very much disappolnted in the it with a 400-korac-power telescope. should have boen open to competition?|will be much lezs owing to the close l.'afnnl of the other two commissioners to e Suppose that the city should declde to | proximlty to the markets of Omaha and joln him. Way can's the Republican get a law |erect a suspenslon brldge across the Mis- | Chicago. While thess cattle-foeding | iy oastern butchers arestill objecting pasted prohibiting the city from making |sourl would the council invite plans|concorns will prove advantageous end|, ‘oo aieoq beef, bat they wil all any Improvement on any street upon | from home talent. There are doubtless | profitable to the owners, they will e, o0 "o 0y They made a fight which Rosewater has property? 1If that |englneers in Omaha as competent to plan | equally so to the farmers of Nebras! sgainst 1t In Now York and were beaten. can't bo done, then a'law ought to be [ suspension bridge as our architects are | The Gilmore esteblishment will consume | g o B ovion butchors followed ault, and passed compelllng Rosewater to eell all |todesiga fire-proof public bulldings, but {7,000 tons cf hay and aboat 500,000 . "1 qofeatsd, Now the Philadel- his roal estate in this olty and prohibit- | we doubt if there s an engineer who hss ] bushels of graln durlng the fiast year. phia batchers are making a fight, and are g him from ownlng any In the future, [the cheek to inslst that he should | The prediction is made by an experlenced pursulng the sama old tactics of slander— —— bs invited to present plans for u.mem‘n that nearly all the cattle of the fog the'quality of the bee that Is pre- Tre Indian agentat Crow Croek has |® suspension bridge because he lives in | plains will ke fed in this manner st dif- pated ip?wf'p'tem ‘Gikiss' and’ seat to the Omsha and Is » tax-pager. There aveferent polnts in Nebraska within the| . b oel” partles in Omaha, however, who say it | next three or four years, 8o 1t will bs i8] expired & menth ago. He | Would only be fair to allow home talont | scen that the cattle-feedlng business ia| . e le e Dt ir sy laeuo ot lihs ::H::I;L:li;:;nz oafl upen the c:n:mmd- to present plans, and psy $1,000 or $1,200 | brund to prove a great benefit to this Oahe Herahs'gwu 3 "ary creditable 1og officer at the nearest military fort for for them, oven If we know that they will | state. - sheet. Complete In all that is essentfal a foros sufficlent to effect thole removal, | b® rejected. This Is a very remarkable A ORUSHED MINISTER. in the make.up of a metropolitan dally, As there lsno disoretlon loft to the agent, | Proposition. If we ate bound to employ The postoffice address of Minister |1t gave evidence of hard work and care- 1t in very likely that the squatters will l:c;:l’::: g:l‘:tfil:::lrn‘(’)ilfl:g:h;::ou?; Keiley has been changed from Vienns, |fal editing. The Bxx i pleased to note have to go. the 1:0“ il Erquandee " thousand Austrla, to Richmond, Virginfa. Mr. the marked improvement that Is being . Kelloy hss returned to his Richmond | made In Omaha journallsm. The cltiz:ns dvice of the g:ltl:]"ou:fhn:::'m:;:'ll:::::"mfl:‘::ezz homs{o rocuperate from the effects of | of Omaha ought to appreclate the enter- pmpe’“’ and the olty 1s not an alms- beiog kicked from plllar to post. He has | prise and excellence of thelr newspapers. house. When the councll at the outset|Fee'gned bis Austrian miss'on, owlng to RERTRES procesds from a buslness standpoint to the faot, as was learned upon examining| TaE members of the Vermont leglsla- socure plansfrom a reputable architect the law, that he could not draw a dollar | ture wlll. held & reunfon next month at who has made public buildlogs a speclalty of ralary after the day the Austrian gov- Hontpelller. It is estlmated that this re- 1t does niot reflect dlsoredls upon Omaha | rimsnt refased to recelve him, This dic- unlon will b attended by fully 3,000 ex- architects any more than the Union Pa- covery, cf courte, completely upset Sacre- | legislatorr. The consus of Vermont cifio did upon 1ts own enginsers when it tary Bayard’sprogrammeof continuloghim | shows that the state has 95,621 msles imported a specialist to build its brldge, | o the position in order to make a fight | who aro upward gtitwenty-onu yearsiof Why did not hom» talent raiss a howl | PR Austrla in the hopes of age. This givos au averagge of an ex- when the elevator company employed an | forolng thet country to finally leglelator to every thirty-two voters. expert to plan lts olsvator, or|8°cePt !\lm. It is poritively etated e S en the Omoka stookyards | (0 late dispatches from Wathington that AccorpING to the dec'slon of Judge ngmen to joln them In the orusade. The company had tho plans for its packlng the Austrian government gave no reason | Westbrook, of Now York, a jeweler, te: workingmon of Omaha are under no ob- () oty by spaolalist? Thereds no whatever for (ts 1efuesl to reccive Mr, |ting up for hiteolf, had no right to pat ligations to ‘‘homs talent” architeots. YT ORI O R Kelley. This etstement, it {s esserted, |onhls cird ‘“late with James P. Van What do *‘home talent” arohiteots caro | . . v 'oro 00 oonceited a3 to balieye |18 Mmtde upon the suthority of a high Wyck,” For ?ha sam> reason Church for Omaha workingmen when they make that they oan dosign anythlog on earth, officlal of the state department, prokably Howe bas no 1ight t> eet up for himself plany requlving contractors to import| o Brooklyn brldge to the national Mr. Bsyard himeelf. This fact puts at|in the coming campalgn and put on his neatly all thelr Iron and stone-work, oapltol. Such moan are found in other rest the rumors ihat Austria's refussl |card ‘“iate with Genoral Van Wyck.” even whon they know that the cut-stone professlons. There are hundreds of | ¥28 made upon the grounds that Keiley's 2 from abroad s done by conviol labox? | olty who are confidont that | Wife 18 a Jewess. Tnasmuch as diplo- E— they could run a hotel batter than the matlo etiquette forbids that this conntry How much do the Omaha worklogmen | gy v on, o0 Shears, Markel & S robe, | #hould demand & reason, the matter is profit by tho “*dlvvies” botween **home | - udlu‘plpar Bakisz. $hanany pros + | forever seitled so far as Mz, Kelley is talent” and contrectore? Why should the editor in Omsha, Our contemporar ooncerned. Austria did not want him, workingmen tesr thelr ehirts over the fact who favor home talent, oaght to be oo and that is all there is toit. The fact that the plans for the clty hall are to be slstent, Tostead of golng to Oblosgo that he had been rejected by Italy no made by an architect who does mob live | U s o1y o edltorial tlmbor they |doubt was taken nto conslderation by in Omahs? What the workingmen want ought togive homs talant a show, Austris In declding not to recelve him, 1s employment, and they can’t got it too She probably thought it was hardly soop, nor have too much of it. ‘‘Home EREE. the proper thing to shift sec talent” srchitects can do no more than CONTEMPTIBLE, ond-hand ministerlal tlmber upon — make the plans, whether they sro good| The baok-fir: by certaln architeots |a firat-olass power, silll thore are thoso| GROVER CLEVELAND ls making some or bal, The employment of laborers|to provent the adoptiom of the Myers|who believe that Auatrlan prejudices | blunders, itis true, but they are exous and mechanios rests with the contractor, | plans for the city ha'l is simply contemp- | sgeinst the Jews had as much to do with | ble: He has not yet had time to get and the mayor and council alono will de- [ tible. Emissarles and contractors were | the rejection of Kelley, whose wife is a|quainted with the democratic parly at termine who shall have the contract. sent out to spread all sorts of absurd | Jewess, as any other oause. The Itallan | large. A p— rumors, and Ed, Walsh and other aglta- | minister at Vienca no doubt put in & pro. Tuz Rip Van Winkles and emall bogs | tors were fired up to protest with coun- | test a; who contribute to the editorlal columns | cilmen against any action on the pretenss | the United States minisier, and owing to of oar fossillzed contemporary, hava ven- | tkat if Mr, Myers was to be the architect | the friendly relations exlsting between tured to advise the board of education to | of the court house all the labor would be | Austria and Italy his protest would have go slow beforeit votes to expend §25,000, | imported, Not content with this ridicu- | conslderable welght, At the o copjanction with the olty councll, for [ Jous falsehood ecme of the strikers for | the Austrlan government was well the new olly hall, This advloe comes s | bome talent publicly declared that | that Kelley was not much of a m Httle too late to be useful. The bosrd of | Myers had ciued Contrac- | hls owa sountry, and that considerabla of o educstion made an luformal agreementto| tor Coots to import all the|s howl had been ralsed by the press An Afiernoon Row, that effcot thrae months sgo and placed |lsbor on the mnew court house snd [sgsinst hls appointment to ary forelgn arow late Saturdsy afternoon 6,000 at the dlsposs] of the counc'l for | that less than 5,000 was pald out to|mlsslon, This home protest would ratur-|fn the Eagle house on Fourteenth street, beginalog the work, The board made a|Omshs worklogmen in that buildiog. |ally prejudice mny foreign government|Ofiser Mostyn arreatea Charles Fleck, formal contract with the clty to expend | What ave the facis? The excavation was [agalost Mr. Kelley. It 18 | the proprietor, se the prinolp: H $25,000 on the olty hall, nestly three |done entirely by Omaha lsbor. The[not the Intention of Secretary ;-'0':‘-.'6- Poter Goos farnlshing s bon weeks sgo. The coniraci was signed by [stone, whioch had to be imported, was Bayard to leave the Uuited Bliates unrep- 02 2.8 APPEATAR0S, Moyor Boyd for the clly and President [dreassed by Omaha stome-cutters, and resented in Austrls, and he will In due junotion cate to prevent Polnts and Secretary Counoyer for ihe [from twenty to thirty of thom had steady | time sppoint & new minister. It s to be |the paviog of Thirteenth street cams up in * board of educatior. The contract was|employment for more than two yesrs, |hopsd that he will be more fortuaate in | the district court Saturday moraing aud has spproved by the counell srd is now a|Omsha stone-cati re now employed |his next seleciion and that the new s beta .mn“m“d uatil this moralog. matter of record, When tne snails of [on the grand stalrway and retaiolog wall. [ polotee will be & men worthy of the Pr;:h':"':‘n“":;‘lm’;“‘l'n N::v.h ‘;; :i::::: the Hepublican catch up with the procse- 1 All the bricks were made and burned | place. .u“cybmu-n Califorois and Webnlu‘: Mou- slon they will probably make the disjon the spot by Omaha labor. Soores of ———— day eveaing will ba conducted by Prof. Buf- covery that their advios is mob very | Owaba carpentars were employed on the | Brronk we got through with the dis- | fery of New York, The musical conventlon wely, wocdwork, wiater and sammer, for two | cussion over ‘‘home taleni” aud the hue | will be orgauizsd, — Ox Thursdaynextthevolce of Col. Oham- Ir a proposition to put a union depos at the foot of lower Farnam streot were to b made, tho Republican would raise an owfal howl booause Rosewater property intereals on the lower end as well as on the upper portlon of Farnam stroot. “Turre's no place like hone,” sald Mr. Keiley, who has rolurned from for- about the paternal ancestors of forelg: potentates. been intructed to remove the squatters from the reservatlon, the time for thelr 1Ir the city acts upon the Republican in regard to the cliy hall it will erect a iumble-down tinder-box upon the plan of ths Republican bullding, which is held together by iron braces and wooden props. With that kind of & ballding the clty ocunoll will have to fol- low the example of the Republican composltors and adjourn to the street every time there a heavy wind storm, Tae oontractors who are playlng ost's— paw for “home talent” are barking op the wrong tree when they appeal to work- Mz, CLEVELAND became president cn the 4th of Marsh, Nearly s'x months have gone by and the Nebraska demo- orats have bardly had a emoll of the fl pote. This Is a vfully tantaliz'ng. m———— Tax cholera has made ppearance In Japan, It may after all reach Amerios from the Paclfic instead of the Atlantic. try next yoar is now made much stronger. e———— AccorpING to advices from the state house, *‘the man on horseback” fs gov- erning Nebraska duting the absence of ——— As amotor for an Omaha newspaper & AB 10 |4hg wind.will, The certalnty of its comizg to this conn- | BWATe | gy engine will be an improvement upon |al HASTINGS AND GRAND ISLAND. Two Prsperons Towns With Aband- ance of Grit ad Rich Territory, The COensus Rivalry and the Charges of Tufiation—The school Census Oompared—Politioal and Other Matters, Written for the Bew, Now that Prof. Lane, supsrintendent of theatate consus, has ocat down the population of Hastlog by the number of 400, the question has been meked, *‘will that satlafy Grand Islana?” That ques tlon Is not atjall pertinent. It s not whether Grand Island ia satisfisd or not, bat the question is was jthere an honest oount In Hastings? Grand Island has no moreinterest In the matter than any other portlon of the staie. There /s no jealousy here of Hastings. The prosper- ity of the latter does not In the slightest degree intorfere with the prosperity of this city. There s no disposition here to retard its progress, or throw obstacles in Its way. Grand Island has acquired too strong & Jpositlon, restson too firm a basis of prospatity to ba inflasnced by any jealowwy of, or unfriendly rivalry with Hastings. Her people are fully satiafied with what has been sccomplished and with what is belog accomplished, and wlth the prospects for the fature. More than that; the present prosperous coadl: tion of Grand Island greatly esurpasses the most confident hopea of those who have stood by it from its Infancy, and 118 FUIURE PROSPERITY i3 well astured, if that of any town In the otate Is well assured, Ita progress has been of a steady growth, not restiog upon fictitious or_traneient causes, buy upon sylid foundatio: Its merchants, as a claes, are unsurpassed, In any com- munity, for energy, rellability and enter- prise. It hes most excellant achools, and of a high character, with two large brick buildings, one north and one south of the track, Its three banks sro among tho most substantlal and reliablo finencial in- etliutlons in the west. All of them are managed by able, experienced and thor- ough financlers, They are the Cltizans’' National bank, with Hon, H, W, Koenig, formerly etate treasurer, snd who was a lieutenant In the First Nebraska In the Iate war, as president, and D. H. Viethy, E.q, cashler; the Firat Natlonal bank, with Hen 8. A, Wolbeck, president, and C.F. Bontly q., cashier, and the Grand Island Banking campany, undar the mansgement of J. P. Kernohan, Esq. The stauding of these banks will compare favcrably with any ia the country. Belog a rallroad centre, this city has the advantsge of raiiroad commuaication in every direction, * The large number of substantial improvemente, most of thom brick butldings, and handsome blocks, which have been erected during the last two years, and this presant season, fu:- nish the best ovidence of ita growth. A brick structure s now golog op, in which will be opened a wholesale grocery house a8 noon as completed. The newepspers here ara flourlshing. Fred Hedde, etq., has made a saccess 1n the newspaper line, us well as in other linee @ took hold of the Independent a couple of years ago, and heand 8. L Mobley, e:q., have bulit It up into a fira oles) daily, ably conducted, snd 1s, I by leve, the largest daily in the state out- slde of Omaha and Lincoln. THE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS of the town have been greatly improved both in capaclty and quality, The 1ailr¢ad house, now the Paoltic Hotel company’s house, mansged by O. D. Goodrich, exq., han been doubled 1n slze, and newly fur- nlthed throughout, and is admirably kept by A. W. Baker, esq, formerly of Omsha. Both are first-class houses. The Jordan, and Estes, are also excellent hotels. One fact s observable here; there is very littlo ltigation. Hon. A, J. Poppleton sald to me not long ago, that experience had convinced ment, tho people of Grand Island have no cciesin tu view with jealouey the advancement cf any other towa, buy rather to rejolce at it, If Hastings has 8,470 peopls by an honest couat, 1 for one, shozld be glad thatwho has thus in- cressed her population, Thoy sare an enferprisicg pesople, and during last season and tho present have erected a large numbor of bulldings, which ere a credlt and ornaments to theclty., They deserve succees, and I wish them pros. perity. ) Grand Ieland has no desire to obisin it for population which ehoe does not’ po We e wo long denounced dishonest couats in the scuth to favor a dishorest count hare, A majrlty made up by fictltious - votes, & number swelled by spurlous pamos, will always reaot upon the parties who are the bene- ficlarles of such wrongs, and upon those who are ikelr abettor The reduction by Prof, Lans of 490 from the number of people of Hastings,as returncd by the enumerstort 8,470), meots with noi protest from thes that city—not s word ot complaint. They, therefora, frankly admlt that the oensus was greatly 1o error, for if they belleved it to be correct, they cut to de- nounce such sn arbiirary and upjust wiplog out of their population by the state superlntendent of the cepsus. There were just ss good reasons for etrikiog out 2,800 as there were for strik: frg cut 400, ane vislted Hastln and Frand trest by streef, a) 0 of relisble parties here that he tisfied HASTINGS WAS OVERTAKEN and Grand Ieland was underiaken, and that the population of the two ctties Is out equal Therels one pretty rellable tess as to population, though, of course, 1t Is not exackh, The csusus of the school chil- dren of a town or cliy is a8, 80 cording to that, the levy is made and the awount allowed for school purposes. Hastings, accordlng to the reduced re- tvrns, Las & population of 7,080, sud her numbar of sshool children in the present year is 1,170. Grand Island hes & pop- ulatlon of 5,040, aud her number of #3hool children thls year s 1,615, show- 1og that with 3,000 less pop: oa 1t has 836 more sohocl childeen sthan Haatiags! The census gives Kearney 4,000, or about that number of people, and yet the rchool census thows Kearney to 1280 school chiidren, With 4,000 less populstion than Hastiogs, 1t has 101 more school childeen! The ssme extra ordlasry dlepsrlly has been shown by o mpar'son, With every city and town lu the sfate, an far as made. O:e may, with re,won, ask, why is this thusly? The pe.oplo cf Hastings must confess to one or two oonclusfon'; elther the centus of that olty was entlrely erronsouns, or her people are ssdly defiolent In thelr ospacitien for re-pro.tuction, are away be hiad all the people of the whole etate In that respect. 1t s left to them to eay which conclurion they prefer to adopt, The writer hears from farmers, and from {ravellers in all direotions in the Platte and Loup valleys. “‘it is the big glst oorn orop I have ever scen in Nebrasks.” POLITIOAL PEACE AND QUIET reign In this burg, but over yonder In our nelghboring city of Kearney, the fever of the postoffice war rages; the question ls, to bs cr not to by, ostmaster. The heat of the conflict is Incandescent, and yot the president still llogers In the Adirondack woods; Sammy J.Tllden re- fased to recelve a call from him, ro it {s | m reported, and the mugwumps are not happy. Dr. Bear and Martin Euclid are atill awalt!ng r.cognition, Sam, Herman stlll broods over the ingratiiude of a dsmocratlo president, ana Bob Koettle atlll lingera by the gate of the promised land thst will not open. A democratlo newspaper In Nebraska Iately published the following: *‘How Is ny way for a platform, ono that de- mands the protection of the equal rights of all classes, pronounces in favor of no dlecrimination on account of race, color, or pravious condition of servitude or blrthplace, which was sdopt cant convention of democra slppl.” The writer answers the fcregoing by quoling the following from a Miesla- slppi demcoratio paper touching the ssme declaration In the platform adopted by thoresame Misslesippl demccrats: ‘‘There must be no more ballot box stuffing ez cept in cases of absolule necessily " The italicy are mino, That ls the Missis eippl construciion of that purtion of the platform, Joux M, THAYER, GRAND TSCAND, Aug. 20. THE NEW OITY HALL. Something About the Contemplated Strucinre—An Expression From Councllman Goodsich, The plave of Architect Myers for the new olty hall bullding were submitted Felday evening to the board of educaticn for thelr approval, A numbear of changes have been made in tho internal arrange- ments, and &8 the plans now s'and the quarters for thy board are on tho third floor, together with the olty library. Mr, Myers presented the plans in person, and after inspecting them the board sgreed to the proposed chapges and sppolnted a committee to inform the clty councll of the actlon taken. A epeclal meeting of the councll had been called for 8 o'clock to conalder the plans, but as Mr. Myers was detalned until 8:30 by the board of education the councilinen became Impa. tlent and adjourned before he arrived. The building is to be four atorles in helght, with a high basement, and rur- mounted by a tower which will have an elevation of 192 feet. It will contaln sll the modern {mprovements—elevator, vaults for the books and documents of all the principal city officers, electrio lights, water, etc. In tho bzsement wiil be the quarters fcr the the police department, includiog statlon house facilitles with cells fcr prisoners, The first - and eecond floor: will be devoted to offices for the various city officlals. The second story will a'so con- tain an-elegant and commodious counoll chsmber, with committee and cloak rooms adjoinlng, The third flyor is deslgned for the uss of the board of education, with the exception of one room, which will contain the clty library. The four:h floor Is als> arravged for cffices of city officials, stcch as city phbysician, clty en- glnecr and eurveyore. The entlre or- rangement is conyenlent, and there seems to be no objection whatever to the lans as now lald. If they are accepted y the clty, the bullding will be one of which Omaha may well bs proud. A reporter of the BEE interviewed Mr. Charles Goodrich, chairman ¢f the com- mittee of public property and improve- mente, Saturdsy, with regard to the com- plaint’ in some quarters that the proposi- tion to accept the Myers plans for the new olty hall was a srap judgment of somw sort. “Thera Is no snap game In this mat- ter,” safd Mr, Goodrich, “The council more than two months ago passed an ordinance which made it ths duty of the committee on public properiy snd im- provements, In coujanction with the clty engineer and the commlttes of the board of educatlon, to procure plavs for the clty hall. When the new court houte was finished there was a ualvereal expresilon that 1 was one of tho best and chesprat public batldinga In the country. Mr., My- ers, who weas hero &t ihe tlme, expressed » willingness to prepare p ans for the new oity ha!l, which would accommodate tho bosrd of education end the public litrary, and which was to be firo proof. Mr, Myers has buoilt more public boildings than any other architestin this ccuntry. He @ high reputation, and wa have in the new conrs house the bist proof of his ability, When the councf had di rected the committee to prepare the p! I talked the matter over with some mem. bers of the echool board, and wrote to Myers to prepare plans at his own risk, as he had proposed, Thereis no skull- duggery about thls, We don’t want any Jim-crow architecture in our puble bulldings, &nd we know that My ers will up & balldiog that will s credit to the cl'y and state. If hls plans are ad- opted we can Iay tho foundatlon for the new olty ball this year, but if we are to open up bids for competition it will delay “ | us until next ¢pring, without any chanca B8 for getting better plans than he can make, His terms are very ressonable. He asks only 24 per c:nt, and will accept $5,000 as the highest amount for pre- pariog the plans, and supervising all the work, Hels williog and «ble to give bonds to stand the ot of any damage that msy ocsur by reason of poor con- struction or accldents from inferlor sup- In my opinion it will hy clty a great deal of money and m of eecurlog for us a magoificent buildin; ' at lesst plan be matched by soybedy in this clty, snd I believe when the other archltecis con. slder the matter they will have to admit that they are not compatent to compeie with a epecisllst like Myers. In tha matter I am only soilng on husiness priociples, We are doing no gradine thls year, and I waut to have the foundation “f the city hell lald this year If possible, Thet will glve the workingmen a chance ch tect fora 85,000 house on Patterson and Dickson place. STATE JOTTINGS, York is agltating a canning factory, The factions of on are now wrangling over tue looation of a school, One hundred carpentors are rushing vy buildiogs in Ru-hvfllr i Steve Darion, & peddler orazcd with drink, has been sent to the insane asylum from Otos county, Beck, the Chadron confidence operator, es- ped from jail thers, although handeuffed and gunarded, Fremont votes jo-morrow on the water- works bond pro, on, There scems to Lo o opposition toit, North Bend complains of the freight rates charged by the Union Pacific and an appeal for a redustion has been sent to beadquarters, Fourteen persons have publicly announced themselves as candidates for office in Phelps county and ten in York county. The local oampalgn is on, The Republican valley editors will sl!- palms and exchange chestnuts at Oxford to- Tow, Any member approaching the town with a swallow-tail coat will be immediately lynchi The great West Point rcad cave, that has probably caused more bad blood then any other casein Dodge county courts, has finally been decided by the distiict court In favor of the road. The hunters of Butry ocounty turned ont the other day to exterminate a mountain lion which was said to be prowling in the Platte bottoms, When the beast was run down it proved to be a Newfoundland pup, Within a ra of two and a balf miles of O'Fallen, including the town,theie are twenty two families with a total membership ot niuety -three porsons. This is another evi- dence of the produstive oapacity of the country, In the gsme of baseball playad at Alne worth on the 213t between the Ainsworth and Long Pine clubs, Ainsworth beat by & score of 36 to 2, The democratic editor of the Loog Pine Journal was knocked out in the firat inning by beiog struck on the side of the head with the ball, ‘Willie, the little son of J, C. Thomss, of Saward, met with & sad accident last week, ‘While taking tho family cow to pastura the animal suddenly turned 1o euch a macner that the horn tore out ono of the boy's eyes, Willie 18 a bright boy of fourteen, and stands his misfortune bravely, The *‘Central City iconomical Club” is no mora. Itdied o violent death while bucking the Slocum law, It was a bibulous outfit with unlimited stock, each ehare representing cne beer, The cemand for shares was guaged by the thirst of ths members, Tho ‘‘agent” of the club was b und over to the next torm of the district court. 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