Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 9, 1886, Page 2

L ethat it must hay, % - =stench from its te - forac 3 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1886 EVERAL ~ TIMELY TOPICS. Oontributions to the 'Bee's" Mail Bag— Mr. Bemis Writes About Pavements, OMAHA NOT OUT OF THE WOODS. Valuable Suggestions by Mr. Upton —Keith County School Lands The Future Great City of the West — Other Matters of Intercst. The Paving Question Discussed Mr. Bemis. BostoN, Mass,, March 4.—[To the Edi- tor.]—1 have watched the Omaha chess: board moves closely during my absence throngh its four daily papers, weeklies and Jetters from my oftice and others daily. The paving question seems to be the all-absorbing topic in Omaha, at present, and feeling that everyonoe atall inter- ested in Omaha's welfare should add their mite in endeavoring to solve the wvery important problem, I ventured to interview to-day Boston’s City Engincer Jackson, Assistant Cheney and Street Su- perintendent Morton, all very nice gen- tlemen and thoroughly posted after their fifteen to twenty years experience. Boston has a population of about half a million, and has about one hundred and twenty-five miles of paving, about two- . thirds of which is granite blocks and one- third cobble stones The cobble stone era ended scores of years ago, all new paving for years being granite blocks from Quiney and Rockford. The blocks measure four by eight and four by twelve finches and eight inches in thickne: So you see Boston stands by and ors granite. The average price laid in six inches of sand is $2.50 to $3.00 per square yard, All are prejudiced (like myselt and all gensible men not interested in the con- tracts for laying them) against wood pavements, excepting where wealthy city corporations, say like London, are will ing and can renew them every three or four years. Columbus avenue in this uil[y was paved about twelve years ago with soveral diftorent kinds of wooden pave- ments—different kind in each block—to give a thorough test. All of them de- cayed and were removed inside of from two to four years, and all were well laid. The kinds "of wood used were spruce, “pine and chestnut—the last name the most durable. The chestnut was laid in round blocks and that even was use- less after one year's wear, the upper ends wearing conical, points upwards, of course, and no one could or would drive over it. All wcrc,l atented and pre \ ared in every conceivable way of wood pre- serving processes, but as the expericnce of these gentlemen go to prove, “the i5 10 way of successfully prescrving or laying wooden pavements.” In Devonshire street, two vears ago, some 800 fect of spruce block were laid— our inc! sht inches long and eight inches —on the concrete foundation of si nches, (prepared for compressed l\s}vlmll block which were found useless ofter one years’ trial). The spruce blocks have lusted but two years and must now be removed, having worn down from eight inches 1 thickness to from one and & half to three inche: hey were prepared by a zine process and joints were filled with pebbles and pitch, and the luying was a thoroughly gool b in every respect, and as Mr. Morton #ays: “Talk about the lasting qualities ot wood, it is' all gammon.” He says no wood is as durable as chestnut—they used 150 it is plentiful reason. mostly, sume as ce -blocks are in the we! Their ences go to prove it very obje on sanitary grounds, being such an ab- nt of liquids and always filthy and 1thy. Boston has five or six milés of Barbour asphalt pavement, Columbus avenue, when the wooden p: were taken was relaid w by the , which was not a sucee And after two years the Barbour company relaid it azain (five years ago) upon the concrete foundation, put down by the G. & T. Co., which was 100 level—not pitch enough to 1t to al- Jow the water and moisture to run of and on that account, is i coudition to-day. . Morton says that i d asphalt is an excellent » s and wear depends en g and perfe nd ng the r by In Court Squs ) Barbour company phalt pavement where it has a y heavy and constant wear by travel and th t y te \is pavement necdssarily wheels of one side of their nite blocks next in passing ovo, runs with th WAZOn over a row of g to the curb-stones, and the wheels on the other side of the wagons run over the asphalt pavement and after five years constant use the asphalt shows ,upy\-ui le w while the ks haye worn of al inc swyes Boston . 3 Mr. Morton is that it is slippery horses cannot foot-hold; also says grade enough to pr ‘yent moisture standing upon it or it will soon decay Cheney, ass 3 that in riding over some of Louis- .) wood pavements, after two years' use, came near having all of his weth shaken out of his head. " 1, too, had the same oxperience in Elj and in Chicago and yiding or walking by -fl“ aments in hot weathe; ly been obliged to hold m engineer, In iny nose, the ble offens! wnd un- o completoly poison- ad the pleasure of mceting ‘‘Joo” Millavd, Guy C. Barton and N. W, Wells, of Schuyler, at the Adims house here celk o two nwo. Huve also met Judge avage, Paul Vandervoort, and oth Wiile dining at_the Parker houso y¢ torday, Boston's Postmaster Toboy eime and addres as follows: " “How are you, (ic Banks?” My hair is hite and so is Banks’, (beth blondes). SSManks is seventy (¥) and I um forly- gven. How's that for honorable notice healthy exhalation: ing the air, If you I ve any questions in that are not ving nswered | rein, shoot themn £ atwe and { will post myself up and send Yours truly, Geo. P Omaha Not Out of the Woods, To the Editor: While it is rig 1 consistent for the lecal and state papers to sound the p o8 of the young it, and her vigorous o and while everything points to a bright future for this rapidly-growing youngster % —yot, for all that, Omaha is “‘not out of _ the woods —i. e., it will be necessary for 4 thp same enterprise and business liberal- _ Aty 1o be exercised in the future as there L has has been in the past few years, i ~ order to keep the city going % upward.” K wns and cities never get too la: 3 got too fnpartant, never get oo 3 xun but it is po for them g etrogrado, if losal entel E nant. @ bagemes Lo say nothiug about railroad discrim- ions, thare 15 only one ¢ at present that throg You another line. fonward ild,Omaha, | | tier of townshiy i spring into existence, as if hy th the growth of Omaha, and that is the danger of increasing our consuming ele- ment out of proportion to the producing element. In other words, Omaha must depend on manufacturing industries for her future greatness. Public works are conducive to much public good and have been an important factor, and will con- tinue to be such in the building up ot onr city. But they are not what might be termed, in a broad sense, a continuous, permanent institution. ‘The only real solid foundation for a city is its manufac- These should be encouraged in every possible way, and small concerns, with a possibility to development, should not be sneered at, for who can tell to ‘hat magnitude a rightly-managed man- aring business muy attain? largest works in" the country bo- gan in a sn The law of nd will _alway the facil supply. he great danger attending a city that grown out of its village clothes in a fow s and become a point of com- mereial and financial importance is the tendencey to become puffed up in its own greatness to such s degree that the idea is carried that the place is made and th nothing can ever unmak This mis- take has been fatal to more than one large town. It was this vaunted idea that caused Leavenworth, Kan,, to have ten thousand less inhabitants now than at the close of the war. At that time she was_the largest city west of Ch 1 St. Louis, doing an immense jobbing trade, supplying the territory west of her to the mountains and into Utah and Mon- tana. In fact she was dead sure that no power on earth could make her have a hack-set. So sure was she in this with her 85,000 people, with her wholesale houses, some of them carrying stocks double of that of like houses in this city to-day, that when the question of bridg- in, l}m Missouri came up and she was asked to lend a helping hand, she swelled up like a big snake at a fish mongc funeral and said that they were a city, they were, and that they had made them- selves the metropolitan place they were by their own exertion, and that now they had got to that point, that if anyonc wanted to come to them by bridge or otherwise, there was no string to them; they could come; if they preferred a Ige they could build it; that they (the t city of L mworth) was loes and was there stay, ete. Eve knows the 3 I cite this —which is only one of many in the h ry of our cause I have heard the sam used in this city regarding enterprises of different ¢! cters coming here, and during a re: of thirtcen years in our sister city, “over the river,” 1 heard the same talk until I was completely and effectually “fatigued § This is not_written as_an alarmist r garding the future of Omaha. We ai apidly growing in population, but most of this increase are consumers, and a rge population of consumers is not a thy growth unless a suflicient amount of prodlucers are furnished to create an equilibrium. We cannot depend altogether on our wholesale trade for the future upbuilding of the city. Already there are wholes: points of no small magnitude getting in back of and to the right and left of us, to which points, through unjust diserimin: tion, goods are laid down at Omaha here is a little city up the river—Siou —that is liable to become no sm rival of us. A bridge at that poin she would do_the business of northern Nebraska. Neb: a City is packing as many or more hogs than Omaha. A gro- cery house at Fremont does as large a business as any—excepting perhaps one— house in Omaha. The country is developing fast. Oma- ha is in the van, and by *‘keeping her eye on the gun” she will stay there, but she should "have more manufactories, she needs a direct road to the north and northwest, and she needs it_badly—one that would he an Omaha interest. It seems to me that these should be the key- note of the energy of the board of tr and our citizens. M. A. UJrTON, Keith County School Lands. 0OGALLALA, Neb., March 5.—[To the Editor.]—The leasing of the Keith county school lands which has been going on here for seve y completed, the results being ve sati factory to the commis: and to those who have heretofore invested in Keith connty soil The highest p per s the being 9. A good portion of the land was not sold, but leased at 6 per cent on the ap- praised value, which varied from $1 50 per acre. In many cases abonu paid for the privilege of leasing, s bonus running all the way from $100 to section. results as outlined above prove conelusively that the former 1 of these lands at 6 per cent on an apvraisement of from 40 to 75 cents w to say the least, a phenomenally poor stroke of business on the 't of the old board. It is a pity that these gentlemen, who ave a great deal of shrewd busi- \'rnlm'inm-in their own private af rs, would not have brought some of it into play when conducting the business of the state, The fact that under the first lease the school fund would have lost ht or nine thou anuum, h would have gone mto the pockets of certain favored speculators, will ena- ble many persons to reach conclision which the presentation of silver pitel the honor nbers of the hos 1 not altogether dissipate. The price for which the school land was sold proves that farming in Keith county is not an empty dream. Duving my stay in the county I'saw no oue who was not en- thusiastic in praise of the climate and soil Since the fivst of Febr been going on, the soil b froe of frost and in splend dition. In view of these th ern counties of the state tempted to join the inereasin igration west, The government land is all taken in Keith county, but settlers ave still pour- ing in, going through the conuty to Chy where some vacunt claims may st ound e realized was $12.50 average on all land sold 1 tillable o we of the east feel strongly ide of llala, the county se Jonsly during the ing trade 05 she does ty miles in every di to take he ace in iving young along grown draw- twenty to on, she canuot the chain of the Line of of merelis ) ants’ effeets were unl t this station, and those ina position to judge say ( Marelhi the wumbe 1 reach 300, During the coming scason Keith_coun- ty will be enviehed By two new railroads “tho B. & M. ranning along the southern nd the “Uniou Pacitie shing up the North Plat hese Ivantages added to the ter ones of soil and climate will soon e Keith county farms as valu any in the state, S.D. 1 ¥ The Wonder City of the West. To the Editor: Wyo., “when the roses come agam,” will wand of the magician, the wonder city of the west. It will be a railrosd centre; its roads per and into Wyom- | | days of terrible | 8th, McCook’s corps, numb At Fort Vetterman, | other minerals from the adjacent mines to its mills and its mint; the products of the field and the forest will be added to its store, and ‘‘the cattle on a thousand hills” will pass through its gates; the oil basins and the coal fields will give profit- able employment to its people, and make millionaires of its fortunate sons. Tts pa hotels and grand opera houses will be models of beauty; the pride of its people will be the palati residences of its favorites of fortun cattle kings, bonanza mines, oil princes, railrond magnates and intellectual at letes will mingle upon its streets like schoolboys upon the play-ground. It will be the capital of a great state. and the centre of wealth, civilization and maguificence. It will have the Holly system of works; it will be lighted by elect it will ha able roads upon its b and marble-paved streets; the city w be heated by steam from a central s tion, and no smoke will be permitted to \liu-; its parks, the finest in Ameriea, will be stocked with deer, elk and other beautiful and rare anim its museum will contain curiosities collected and culled from every quarter of the globe; churches will abound, and their gold- tipped spires will pierce the clonds; col- loges and universities equalling Yalo and H td will be there. its banks and business will be as solid and permanent as the everlasting hills of its own Wy- oming; the forest-fringed avenues, the nspll:filunbr:\\'ml boulevards and ' the architectual elegance of its publ i ices will cause the tourist stranger to involuntarily is the wonder city of the we LLECOMTRICS. The Talmage Postoflice. TALMA Neb.,, March 5.—[To the Editor.]—Under the heading, * offices,” an article appeared in the of the 4th inst., which is in part inco rect. But the most important part is falsy irst—That there has been hard feeling between the old postmaster and the new one, is incorrect as far as it applies to the old post: Bord persisted in refusing to e the postoflice fixtures, thereby departing from a custom as old as the government itself. I well knew that this was duc to the promptings of certain political fanatics, who have had the old man in training for a long time, and who wish to injure me financially beeause of my opposition to the saloons of our town. Second—That the old postmaster had persistently fought to retain the oflice is also incorrect. Butif he had said that Steele’s friends nad tought to retain him, and that said friends were democrats of the best moral ding in the community, and they had le their demands uvonone J. Sterling Morton, and _ that Sterling Mor- ton had “made indirect promises to said friends, suflicient to induce the old postmaster to make the purchase of new oflice furniture which was greatly needed, then he would have approached to something near the truth. Third—That Bord thrust his papers in my face and demanded ' false, as 1 have never y pape but upon my demanding his papers he refused, saying he did not have to. My reply was that I thought he did, and for that reason I held the fort. Fourth—As for my being frightencd and turning deathly pale, I have not a word to leaving it to others who have met Mr. Spangler to Y and explain the strange phenomena. can only that upon his parting former company, and coming into my presence, his vision may have been somewhat blurred from the fact that he had ~||ll¢h-n)¥'- peared before sman who could lay claim to being at least half white and free born. In conclusion I would say in_justice to Mr. Spangler that he treated ‘me very respectfully, and it is my belief that he s wrongly informed. Respectfull OLD POSTMASTER. The Standing of Van Wyck in Cass County. PrarrsyoutH, March 6.—[To the Edi- tor.]—I see the papers Nowell, ex-county tr county, was in Omah ago, and represented that there was no Van Wyck clubs in Cass county and none wanted, and that Cass did not go much on Van Wyck Mr. Newell is very much misf his ealenlation that none is w Wyek has hosts of friends in Cass cour and you will find that no man will 1t to the islature from Cass this fall who will not pledge himself to support Van Wyek, first, last and all the time, Mr. Newell is one of the old-time ma- nipulators of the *‘ring” in Cass county, and manipulated m such a way as to get himself elected for two terms as county treasurer (and he made a very good one), and he is now engaged in buying and shipping grain here. He is supposed to be the recipient of many favors from the ilroads and of course he has no sympa- Wyck, as_his masters, the the railroads (whose collar around his neck,) both de- k, and when they s at Van Wyek," New must bar He would not be true to his friends if he did not. Newell is not the man to go hack on his frier But Mv. Newell and the * railvoads will find that the many intelligent voters in € Hunty, who don’t wear brass collars and who know enough to protect their own inter- csts by their votes. This elass of men in Cass county has watched Van Wyck's conrse and have seen that it has hoen bold and fearless and right, and mn har- mony with the best interests of the wholo country and the whole people, They v see that he is not retired and a ring monopolist put in his plac on not given to barking, but the thinkers, and when the time comes they will depe th thoughts in the ballot box. 'They will be in the shapa of votes for Van Wyek, and all the barking of ringste Iroad cappers will not el o them. The farmers of Cass county are intelligent and understand and “know their friends left to a vote of the farmers of 5 county to-day Van Wyck would get three to one of all the republican votes of Cass county and u large majority of the demoerats, A VOTER OF CAss. ken in nted. Van ing'' and the ) sreat ryville, Ky. [Tothe Editor.] Buell at Per ¥, L., March 5., rticle in the Bk of March 8, he Jucl at Shiloh,” brings most vivic nother of that g Ca --An ed ¢ to memon) ral's famous biunder October 1st, 156 Don Carlos left Louisville, Ky., with about 105,600 well-equipped and abie bodied men, in pursuit of the rebel gene- rals Bragg and Kirby Smith, After seven ard marching, on the ing about 15,000 men, came in contaot with th whole rebe! forges, about 40,000 strong, “Thon the fun, i you pl commenced. As the day adva Cook's men were very hard pressed, be- ing outnumbered thrée to one. MeCook .\.~t~-:l Buel for help, but no, there was no help for him: - He (MoCooR) had no busi- ness to get in the light, and nasmuch as be had done so he could fight bis way out the best way he could. Af the same time the whole conntiy for miles around was i covered with men'#ith glistening bayo- nets beaging to be allowed to go in and Tielp their suffering; comrades. But, no; thelr officers had To orders to adyance; they were tied up with #ed tape, and there wn-‘n)‘ in full view of gne of the hardest foughit Imttles of thh war, while that glo- rious old Third Olio and Fifteenth Ken- tucky fought hand to land with clubbed muskets and bayonets for over one hour, and 72 men of that bryve old Third went down to dust with thé words on their lips, “Why, in the name of God, do those troops around us not gdvance. General Buell received mord Nl“ui in that hour than any other maw onoe i ever did. Tt was an Insult to evéry ¥rue patriot, an in- sult to the flag of our countr nd an outrage to the people, when a man of that stamp publishes such insults and tirades of abuse upon such grand old_echieftains as Grant, Sherman and “Pap” Thomas, It makes the blood beil - the veins of any true soldier and patriot; and let me to all old soldiers and comrades, as long as onr memory shall last us let us, in the name of our fallen comrades, re- member Perryville. OLD SOLDIER. A Bad Man at Deflance. Drerr Ia., March 6.—[To the i- tor.]—The man, R. S, Cotton, mentioned in your paper of late last week as the author of o much infamy, is now staying in Defiance, what time he is not dancing attendance upon one of the young ladies of this place, is gencrally put in roping insome of the unweary at poker, or holding aown chair, Whether the young Tady above mentioned knows of R. 8. Cotton’s denouement as a villain through your ]l:IYM‘ we do not know, but she should be'told, for a man with a wife can mean her'no good. Surely the retribution for a crime 1 his should be prompt and speedy. Arapahoe Affairs. ArArAnog, Neb,, March 6.—[To the Editor.]—Real estate is going up and are coming in, and the real estate 1s well as the farmers look forward In the last two weeks over three hun- dred head of hogs have been bought by Denver parties, besides a goodly number by our own consumers, The most important business change that has occured for a long time took place last week. The hier of the First wtional bank, D. M. Tomblin, sold out interest in that institution and as- charge of the Republican Valley t Cambridgo. 1 vict court sits on the 16th of this mionth, and there are some eighty cases, cr minal and civil, for Judge Gaslin to wrestle with. A good many of our young men and one of our young ladiés have gone to Akron, Colorado, to t up pre-emp- tions, and report thesplace as booming. e HALI" A HUNDRED. The Amount It (Cosk to Insult an Omaha Girl. “That man has been following me for six or seven monthfl; and I ean’t begin to tell you all the things hp has done.” With these remarks Miss Rosy Schull, a bright, pretty 15-gear-old girl, addres: mg Judge Stenberg: yesterday, a prosceuting witnedyag#inst a youhg Ger- man named L. W, Williams. This man was arrested yesterday by a policeman, at the request of ° Miss Schull, who that for g long time he been following-: her and mak- indecent exposurcs of his per- son. Many times he follows her in the 1orning from her hgifie on Leavenworth to the Western Ut %n ‘oftice where she and her sister are employed under the book-keeper, Very frequently he will hang about the oflice at night ting for her to come out, so that Te may follow. Many times she has been compelled to sk Teionds to escort her home, knowing that this man lur! bout, possibly to do her s she says, he follow- er from her home, and 1 ally chased them through the streets, The two carrying a_basket of washing at the time, and in making their escape from the persecutor they lost a portion of it. Miss Schull told her story in a quiet, lady-like w: which showed that she knéw exactly what she was falking about. The judee “thought 0, evidently, for when Williams attempted no defense, he poremptotily fined him €30 and_costs ns is a quiet, well dre and does not look at all like s He is employed as a litho Omaha Lithographing ¢ low, masher. by the THE COLD WAVE. A Fall of Fifteen to Twenty Degrees aty-four Hours. which had been in iy o et storm received asudden cheek yesterday afternoon by the coming of a cold breeze from the north. Insecordance with the following instructions from the chief of the signal serviee at Mashington the hlac hoisted on the foderal build local observer Observer, Omaha: wave signal, Teiny teen to twenty iwenty-four hour The weather w cole advanc nd there was every indication that the prediction would prove true be- fore another day had pa - Recovering, Myrtle Grant, the white woman who bbed by the negro Tsaac Glover, o fow duys ngo, is and her phy sician says that she will undoubte well, Glover isin the county jai al. Both he and the womar al story that the stabbing was A6 ). m. hols we will fall fr degrees during t s the night vering, If you suffer from 100sencss of the bowels Angostura Bitters will surely cure you Beware of counterfeitd ikl ask “your groce or druggist for the geyuing article prepared by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons. —_—t There are probifblyl more theatre: puinted white in Philadélphia than in an other city in the world; the idea W started by Haverlyf sho thought that white was a lucky color. It is also said that actors prefer’, to, play in a theatr painted white, If tbings go on in this way Philadelphia Wit soon be known as the w oity. B The Great Invention, For EASY WASHING, IN HARD OR SOFY, HOT OR €OLD WATER Without Harm to FABEIC or HANDS, and particularly adapted L Warm Climates No tautly, rick or poor, should be Without it 80l by all Grocers, but deware of vile Lk tations. PEARLINE 15 manufactured ouly by JAMES PYLE. NEW YORK: | restrs THE BUTCHERS' DEMAND, Geo. H. Hammond & Oo,'s Butchers Standing Up For Thelr Rights, For some time a feeling of dissatisfac- tion has prevailed among the beef butch- ers employed at Geo. H. Hammond & Co.'s packing house, at South Omaha, which has eulminated in a strike. The men gave it out several days ago that they would not go to work Monday un- less their demands were granted. 1. H. Meday, superintendent of the packing- house, was not inclined to grant their de- mands and accordingly the foreman of the beef packing department was sent to Kansas City to engage snother gang of men, Yesterday the men arrived, but af- er learning the situation“they also re- sed to go to wor A representative of B learning of the trouble and expressing a desire to meet the men was led to B Strath- mann’s saloon where they were all as: sembled, both the South Omaha and the Kansas ‘City men. The source of the trouble as given by the striking butchors was as follows: *‘In the ficst place,’ said one, and his statements were corrobo- rated by the others, “when we came here we were led to believe that we would be aid Chicago prices, which is $4 per day or the kind of work we are doing. More- over, we were to have steady work at our trade, In all of this we were disap- pointed. We were only paid $18 a w art on; some time ago two men wore 1 to $20, and last week another man was raised to $20. he remainder of the ang were refused $20 and kept down to 18, Again we were disappointed in not receiving steady work at our trade. On days when there was no butchering to be done we were required to shake hides and do the work of common laborers, a thing that is never required in other ng houses.'’ You can see for yourself,’”’ continued the speaker, “that a butcher whose hands are frequently covered with cuts is not in a fit condition to handle salt and hides. Besides, even if it made no other diflerence, we were not hired to do that kind of work. In Chicago a beef butcher is notrequired to even report at the house when there are no cattle to kill, and his pay goes on the same at $1 per day. you care to make comparisons you will find that we ha been compelled to slaughter and dress more cattle per day in proportion to our number than is usual in packing houses. G. H. Ham- mond has sent out this man Meday to superintend the business, who h: knowledge of the dressed beef business and who never saw a bullock dressed until he came here trying to play smash now and gain favor with his em- ployer by keeping down expenses, though Tob! 1 we have struck for resumed the s “is for 4y, the same as other packing houses are paying. We only want what we are entitled to and nothing more."’ The men who came up from Kansas City were interviewed and the rea ned for their refusal to go to wor 1s promised,” said Dick Edwards, ler of the Kansas City gang, “$3 per day to come here and was assured positively that there was no strike he but that'they had discharged a lot of drunkards.”’ When Mr. Edwards arriyed here and learned of tl ate of aflairs he refused to go to work and the otl men agreed with him. Dispatches have been sent to the Knights of hor in Chicago and Kan- sas City which will prevent othe from commg here. The strikers are very quiet bu determined to ve their rights recognized and they will be upheld” by the public in general. If the Knights of Labor take the matter in hand they will be able to bring the packing house to terms by refusing to haul their s of dressed beef. The company were load- ing ont the dressed beef on” hand yest day afternoon as rapidly as possible, te such a move. no “soft snap,” and the men ought to be paid for their work. POLICE COURT NOTES. Notes of the Morning Business Trans- acted by Judge Stenberg. The municipal court room was thronged yesterday, as is usual on Monday, with a large number of offenders. The lobby was also filled with an interested throng of observers. A 15-year-old colored boy, who gave his name Ross Misor, stood up before Judge Stenberg to plead to a charge of lin, from alady in Falcon- s sto vy. He tried to con- vinee the that he was not guilty, but the evidence was conclusive, and he was held. , Jimmy Moore, a young mulatto *‘coon,” when arraigned raised a laugh in the court room by announcing that he h been arrested for *‘existir n oflicer.” “What's that “Existing vehement), of de boys were throwing snowballs around de BEE of Oflicer W told 'em to clean ofl some w dat was thrown on_de Strang 1 told him dat I hadn’t thrown Is and 1 wouldn't clean de Den he arrested me.” quoth t 1ze softly to sting an oficer.” Well, I'll 0 this ti but don't repeat the ste purse ed J building do snow! SHoW 0 a suspicious character, nee of twenty-five days A. Walbaum, another vagrant and | ex jail bird, was ordered ont of the city. John Bunt, disturbing the peace, wis discharged. John No he incorrigible Bohemian tramp, tattered and redolent with noxious perfumes, was remanded to jail He is fast lapsing into a state of lunacy, and Judge Stenberg will endeavor to have him sent to Lincoln Mrs. John Sperry appeared {o plead for her liege lord who was arrested Sun- iting her eruolly Hor i 'S I 1, and John was turned oose with a warning. A lurge number of case disorderlies, of no spacinl disposed of. of drunk and interest, were An Insane Man's Antics. morning about nine o'clock rs Matza and Dempsey were oalled to St. Joseph's hospital hy a telephone message that an insane man named Pieree August 1 had eseaped from ints and wa caring up the furni ture in his room and raising bedlam gen- crally. The lunatic was captured aftor a hard struggle by the two oflicers and lodged in jail. He is quito an intelligent fellow, speaking fluently both French and English, though at time he betrays unmistakable signs of lunac; He says that he is a sailor, but has retived from active serviee, and is trying to make his living as u “land iubber.”” “I am a | Frenchman,” he declured vehemently to | a reporter yesterday, id don’'t you forgetit. I n a man and asaman born to misery. I wish I could end my existence by killing myself. Idon’t care what they do-—th an kil e if like—I should welcome death He con- tinued in this tragie vein for a few mo- ments longer and then, bursting into vio- lent sobbing, threw bimsclf upon the ceil bench. Yes Ofic now > Nebi made for. \ Loun and pplyin g ut the secretary’s ofll 13 Bouth 15t street, | There were but few i with Jeff W. Bedford CABLES STRENGTHEN PRICES. Foreign'Advices Send Wheat Quotations Up Early at a Lively Rate. THE GAIN LOST AT THE CLOSE, Corn and Oats Tame and Lifeless— Business in Provisions Drops Off— Oattle Lower and Hogs Higher—General. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. I 8.—(Special Telegram, | — WieAr—There was an improvement in the tone of public cables this morning, spot wheat showing an upward tendeney, while at Mark Lane an advance of 6d per quarter was quoted. California wheat on passage, just shipped and nearly due, was marked up 6d, and cargoes of the same off coast were called a little higher, In response to this the market opened active and firm at &8¢ for May, or a shade over )8 closing figures, There was some good buying, Lester & Orr and Crittenden & Comes being among the principal purchasers, While re- ports of damage to the growing crop caused increased buying for outside account, the shorts took in considerable wheat, carrying prices to 86}c for May, when the feel- ing became somewhat easier. Milmine, Bodman & Co. were among the heaviest sell- ers, and stuft was also let goby Fleming & Boyden, Counselman & Schwartz, Dupee & Co., with the scalpers trading freely both ways, Private cables received later in the day were stronger than public advices, indi- cating an improvement in the demand, with undiminished offerings by English farmers and arrivals off coastsmall, but the market was not bolstered up notably after the high water mark of the carlier part of the sessoni had been touched. The labor troubles in the southwest were used by the bears to depress prices, and New York disposed of consider- able stuff, quite an amount of wheat in the nageregate being taken eare of, under which the market was fairly well sustained up to 12 o’clock, after which prices declined to S5'¢e for May, an even cent under the top price of the morning, where it rested at 1o'clock, ConN—A small group of traders gathered around the reporter’s gbservatory constituted the corn crowd, and a quiet set of men it was. Prices the greater part of the session oseil- lated gently between 40%e and 40%e for the May option, Toward 1 o'clock the tone grew es gently acelined to 405@ 40%c as the closing figure, OATs—Oats were very tame all with searcely any trading, property for May de- livery being about the only future mentioned and that held about steady at 82 closing at 32!¢e. Provision s—Provisions were dullall day. They opened firm in sympathy with grain, lielped by light receipts of hogs and the poor quality, coupled with an advance of 5c per 100 Ibs. in live weight, but weakened later with grain and closed casy at nearly Saturday figures. There was very little shipping de mand, and after the first hour v little spec- ulative inquiry. AFTERNOON BoAnrp—This afternoon mar- kets were generally easier, wheat selling down to S13{@s43c for May, where it closed, being the lowest figure of the day. a trifle easier, while oats were steady s0ld lower than the 1 0’clock clo: firmed up a little and elosed about steady, with lard a fraction lower 2:45 p. m.—Puts on M: ealls, S51@S33e. ey v wheat, Chandler, Brown-Co's Report. The fotlowing report of Chicago’s specula- tive markets is furnished the Bee by W. P. Peck, Omaha representative of Chandler- Brown Co., of Chicago and Milwauke Cables reported English markets firmer this morning, and wleat opened firm with an improved tendency. New York reported strong markets with Nightingale and Pow- ersbuying May delivery. Total exports last week 512,000 bushels; elearances to-day, 000 bushels wheat. No fresh lots taken for export to-day. Receipts at primary markets, 01,000 bush; shipments, 51,000 bush. The visible supply will show about 500,000 bush decrease in wheat. May opened at 853e, sold at 8ige early, gradually declining to 85, t1p. m, rn opened at 403e for and closed at 405 at 1 p. m. Oats was featureless at Saturday’s prices. Provisions were weak ; May pork opened at £10,52, s01d t0 $10,35 at 1 p, m At2:30 p.om. w at was weak, closing at 843¢c bid for 1 and provisions a shade lowi May, sold off § OPTIONS, TWiiE April My Jui ConN— March April Mty June DATE— Ma Ape My CHICAGO LIVE STOUK, CmeAGo, March 8.—(Special Tele —Carrre—There was a big ran for Monday, fully 2,000 ore than last Monday, and at the opening the general impression seemed to bo that prices would rule a shade lower, espo- cinlly on medium and low grade steers, sof big cattle on the ul such sold about the same as on and Friday, Prime No. 1 steers, of 1,500 Ibs, and upward, wmay be quoted at $5.40@H60; none of that elass were on sale today; the highest d during the noon was 8 ek is in good nd and ful high as last week, Bulls, oxen and c stock are making equally as high pr any time, 1) rand feeder trade was quict; there were only a few loads among the fresh arrivals, and but few left on & lence only a small number w prices were steady, Ship f 1500 1bs., $5.0005.705 1200 to 1330 1bs,, 5,103 930 to 1200 It Hoos—Trade was active shade higher all around. Shipp were the principal buy $4.10@1.15 for the ordinary r ¢ ordinary run of packin ), and the best | ng aud market, Saturday and paid 0 to 209 ingemg pig atd mixed sold at $4.40@ 30 Lo 4 lbs, Sorts i pping FINANCIAL, New Yor y=On ca'l, easy at 12 . Piiatk MERCANTILK 1@ STERLING FXCITa) Dull and Dull but firm, ks weie duil exoept the were 100,800 shares, closing adter fluctuations of 13% per.cent at the s figuress Satirday. remainder of ke ¢ opened iy but was NTS Srocks—The Reading, of which | from Liverpool indicates a strong c | firm during the forenoon, resulting in slight gains, yielded slowly after mid-day, some what ‘more decidedly in the last hout, and closed firm on a small reaction, generally ig@3 per cent better than the lowest figures, STOCKS ON WALL STREET. 00", L 1004 preferred. s X Oy Pacific 6 won Tran, Central Pacific C&A. 4 Rock Isla St 1. &S, F.... preferred. .. % C., AL & St. P... preforrod proforred. . }l”]lmlfl(“\n'ull My St . &0, . L, B, & W, g preferrea... Kansas & Texa 985 Texas Pacifie. .. ! \"qu ¥ T {;ninn acific., . & . Vo St Mich. Contra 315 o Mo. Pacitie 109 Western Northern Pac... 20 preferred.... 545 PRODUCE. Ohicago, March Flour--Ste unchanged; winter ‘wheat flour, 4.85; southern, $4.00@4.65; Wisconsi 4.70; Michigan soft spring wheat, §: nesota P 04,5 bakers', $4.05@b 00; low grades, $2.00(@3,05, Wheat—Fairly £45000 F00@4.00; patents, active but somewhat unset- tled: opened strong, advanced i@ie above Saturday's close, declined 8¢ and: finally closed e under Saturday; 809 cash; S0%.¢ for March; 85ie for May; 86 for Jus Corn—=Quiet with good demand, t; the close became weaker and i and Lie under Saturd s li@sT%c for March May and June, Oats—Quiet but firm and about unchanged ; 203gc for eashi 20 for March and April} $215e for May, Tye—Quiet at 500, Barlev=Dull at 60c. Whisky—81.16. (I’l'mwllu ~Firm and 1c¢ higher; prime, ) 401 @i0’ge for Flaxseed—Firm and 2 higher for cash; No, 1, cash, SL10}g. Pork—Ste arly ad ack 15@iiige, and closed stead for cash; 510.20 for Mareh: 5?04 for May: $10.40@10.421¢ for Jun Lard teady and moderately active with no material cl 3 $6.0715@0. June, Bulk Meat clear, 85 y 5,874 (@5, 4 Butter—Firm deman ney ereamery, 20@sle; choice to fine se- ions, 15 cese—Steady ¢ flats need @ty full eream cheddars, 9L 10}5@I11; Young Americas, 1 m at 119/@12e, reen. e ficavy groen salte ight, Sigeq bull hids 12%4e; dry tling, Loy No. 1 country, 4i{c ke, 4%5c. Heceints, 000 . fully Gey dry calt skins, No. 2 Shipments, 10,000 coun- Flour, bbls. .. Wheat, bu, Corn, bu, Oats. bu. Rye, bi Barley, bu St. Louis, ) lower; No. 2 red, Slige; Cor m and ligle May, 86’ No. # mixed, cash, 50} Tigher at 1c. S1.10, ly at $10.05, o 281 pril, e bid, Blie —Cash, nominal; no quotations. 8. —Wheat—Receint ot Tower and dull; ong but closed heavy; No, 2 red, 9¢ in elovator:” April L0003 exports, B options opened s 3 red, 91c: No. closing at 15 Corn—We. sceipts, 206,005 exports, 70, i No. ) ganie in April elosing at Oats—Receipts, mixed western, (@413 000; exports, white western, 40 girs—Lower Dackages: weste irm Ope steam, 30, lieavy; receipts, @ 14¢ 7,000 spot, Choese—Steady Milwaulkee, M . @01 t —\Weak; June, S5l5¢, siize. Provision < miess pork, cash and Mareli, $10.¢ 10,45 Minneapons. Marchs No. 1 hard, 8¢ for cushs 01i7e for M 132 for June eash, &317e: May, S61¢; Jun Tull; pateiits for” April; northern, Blge No, 1 Sidie 00 bakers, 0 bu, Shipments— 000 Dus flour, 15,000 Lbls, In Store—Wheat, 5,053,5 076,000, Cine wand; N Corn Oats- Ry Birley 8 spring, 5 Vork—Qui Lard—Iuiot; Whisky—Qiiet a Liverpool, March S—Wheat—Falr de- mand ¢'No, 2 winter, firm at 75 1}§d; spring. fivm af 75 1d, Flour—Loor demand ; steady at 8s 2d, Corn rdemand: spot lirm_ at 45 h, 2bgd; April and Muy, steady at 45 2, Toled cash, 2@ Corn Oats—11 New Orleans, and un Corn- Oats t--Closed weal; Mirch 8.—Markets quiet ul lower at 454 {Ge, Quict and wealk, 20} x-lf‘.’{‘x‘ n“fi;..‘\'] "Hhh gad LIVE STOCK. sago, March 8,—The Drovers’ Journal ; long clear et a shade ;8o 3800004, 5 bulls and 1.00; bulk, 20, 15,0005 market stre Touih and mix shipping, $ O0@3.75, market 5, 8250004, l's special cable tlo 1 ket, best grades showing de advane Tast week, selling at 14 per b, dressed. advance in_priccs is due to light supplies, Receipts of American cattle are repoited Jixht, and supplios from othor points have Intely been moderate, Mareh 8.—Cattle 003 stron; [ ynmon to ehoiee shippin teliers' steers, £8.00@4,50; cows 3 stuckers and leeders, ~Receipts, Nipping s ng, but nd steadys natiy Lhe Re V} 10 1 heifors, “Hogs--Hecoipts, 2500: shipments, non satd best heavy, 1.20; light, veh §--Cattle pts, shipping and butencrs' tecders, 8 eady; non 10 2001, $4.00@ il fosders, $3.90@1.20; cows, Ints, nor g and e highe NINON L0 e . 52,0005.6 2.000: shipments, o to OMAHA LIVE STO0K. 0 and. heif 03 bull ! marh { was b strouger, and & b §