Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 10, 1886, Page 4

2 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1886. 'I'HE DAILY BEE. IMATIA OFFICE,NO, 014 AND 1o F AR & Sxw York Orrice, RooM 65, TRINUNE [ L Nasmixaros Orrice, No. 613 FounteesTH ST Published every m ning, excopt Sunday. The y Monday mor nte. & paper published fo tho TERME Y MATL: £10.00 Three Months, 5.00 One Month e Year. ix Months. e WeekLy Dee, Published 1 TERNS, POSTPALD § 4 6 Year, with promium [: e Year, without prominm ix Months, without premium. .. e Month, on trial iyl y Wednusday. All communientfons reln ’nrm news and torinl matters should be addressed to the YOK OF “HE DER. BURTNPSS LETTERS! All businees Intters and remittances ghonld b adreseed 10 THE Bre PUBLISHING PANY, MAA. Drafts, chocks and postoff 10 be made payable to the order of the 2 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS E. ROSEWATER. Eprron. Tue st five. king epidemic is like It will have to run its cour WiEs the political game of 1886 is played in Nebraska, Van Wyck clubs b will be trumps. Gus WirLiams is rehearsing a new play _ entitled “Keppler's Success.” Weo sup- . pose its other name is Puck. Tre mayor of Cincinnati isa man of tesources, He has just assessed the police of that city ten dollars each for political purpo: BeN. BurLer declines to accept a re- tainer from Pan-Electric Rogers. haps in this instance Rogers fc accompany his “poetry” with a suflicient amount of cash. BAsEBALL will not be permitted on the Cincinnati ball grounds on Sundays this season. Sam Jones seems to have complished one reform at leastin that wicked city SAN JoNEs turned his guns on the Chicago mampulators of wheat corners. The numerous victims 8f the corner are o doubt in hearty sympathy with Sam- uel in this movement. penses of the Thurston hose team’s ex. cursion to New Orleans. Tae cold water moyement is making great headway in Nebraska. Nearly gvery town of any importance in the state either has waterworks or ismaking arrangements to get them. Ir any man has not yet read the history of the *‘late” war we advise him to tackle the Rebellion Record, now being pub- lished by the government. The fif teenth volume is now ready for the press, and the series is to consist of 125 volumes. For a place of only 6.88 population, Saco, Muine, is ab out the sickest town in the United States. There have been 16,000 prescriptions put up in that place {n 200 days. It is rather singular how seriously prohibition affects the general health of a community and makes & . bonanza out of a drug store. ————— TaE editor of the republican rsilroad job printing concern very blandly as- ~ sures us that he has notseen any railroad fight on Van Wyck. He insists that he is fighting Van Wyck on behalf of the re- publican party. As a singular coincid- ence, the editor of the democratic rail- road job printing concern tells on the same day that the issue next fall is not to be Van Wyck and anti-Van Wyck, but straight democracy against republican- Ism. Just so. The wailronds are not fighting Van Wyck. Their cappers are simply masquerading as champions of gtraight republicanism and dyed-in-the- wool democracy, while they are knifing bim every day from behind the partisan spmbush, New York papers assert that this is the real estate brokers' year. A visit to Omahu would confirm their editors in the belief. The activity in the real estate market' is unusually brisk. Sales are bheavy and numerous and steadily in- weasing. Paving, sewering and boule- yarding will stimulate them still further. ~ Lot it boom. Thereis a solid basis for heavy real cstato transactions in a grow- g city and a prosperous state, Our people want homes of their own, and will have them. Investors are anxious for fair returns on their money, and snow where to put it to the best sdvantage. Capitalists are losing faith n stocks and the general run of . sacuritics and see a plank for their I ‘ands where it will neither burn up nor ~ Mow aw Speculators toa find their ~ apvortunity in the steady rise of the . surket and the increasing demand for 1l elussos of property. It is to be o big wal estate year in this big town. — Pug workingmen of Massachusetts _wave recently won a substantial victory " Lwough the legislature, which has prac- _ eally passed a law compelling all cor- “worations in the state to pay their em- vloyes their wages weekly, Thisis an ~ vminently proper measure, and one ~ which every state onght to adopt. Cor- orations, especially railroad companies, altogether too much given to paying pmployes at long intervals, from one to ~ “wrgo or four months, compelling them ~ aeantime to depend upon credit for the * setuul necessaries of life, and in this way ~ ausing much annoyance, inconvenience, 4085, and in some instances actual suffering, ‘Commenting upon this subject the St. . Louis Globe-Democrat says: *“The rights of the wage-carners have been consist- antly ignored when the elaims of managers eapitalists have stood in their way. ifference to justice on the one hand s Jed to insubordination and rebellion ‘on the other. The old Bay State has b the pace for a change in respect, as it did in 1840, n the ten-hour movement first tained recognition there. Everymove- n the way of prompt payment for done is in the interest of public well- and sound business. It means cut- the ground away from the feet of ‘walil cat’ enterprise and conscienceless ators. Ifevery workman employed e¥ery corporation in the country could giet his pay every week, we should hear of labor discontent and have fewer » 8280 | v “ground as that taken to-d An Untenable Position. Senator Edmunds ealled up the resolu- tion of which he was the author, regard- ing the relations of the executive to the senate in the matter df appointments and removals, and defended the right of the senate to a full knowledge of the causes leading to changes in the civil ser- vice. His speech as reported adds noth- ing to a better understanding of the con- troversy. The sttitude of Mr. Edmunds was clearly set forth in the original reso- Iutions as at first reported from the judi- cial committee. The position of the president was as clearly stated his message of last week. There isa plain issue made as to the daty of the ex ecutive and the rights of the senate. Tho question is one which scems to have been raised butonce before, and that was under nces much similar to the pres- ent. When Andrew Jackson was en- forcing his doctrine that “to the victor belong the spoils” by wholesule displace- ments of his political enemies, Daniel Webster occupied virtually the by Mr munds, His argument in favor of the vight of national interference in the matter of rencwals was the familiar one of *‘a liberal construction of the language of the constitution.” Neither he nor any other whig ventured to assert that the power of the executive in removing from oflice was expressly limited by the con- firming power of the senate. The con- troversy over the interpretation of this portion of the president’s prerogative in which James Madison and other s men of the time had taken part was too fresh in the minds of public men to be ignored. Mr. Webster's argument was that the senate was given absolute power to advise and consent inthe matter of original appointments and that a fair construction of the intent of the constitutional provision would cx- tend the duty to removals upon which subsequent appointments were made, This argument did not carry the day. It will searcely do so now. The right of the president to appomt is absolute. The power of the senate to veto the presiden- ti ppointments is equally absolute, There is no limitation upon the exe: of the exccutive choice. The pre dent is responsible to the people for his action and the senate is equally responsible to theit constituents for the confirmation or rejection of the appointments as made. Mr. Edmunds position is an untenable one under a fair interpretation of the con- stitution and the precedents of the t. But the president 1s largely responsibie for the conflict which has arisen. His often repeated assertion that changes in the civil service should only be made for cause casts a reflection upon every oflice holder removed before the expiration of More than half of the s have already been Of the whole number 643 removals have been without reasons having been assigned for the change There is no legal obligation upon the president to assign reasons for such MO His promise to transact the business of his administration ‘‘behind glass doors'’ imposes a moral obligation of publicity in those cases. If Mr. Cleve- land had not been so over-anxious to range himself in line with bogus civil service reform his present position would have been unassailable. Asmatters stand, he lays himself open to severe criticism while availing himself of his rights under the constitution. filled. Lockouts and Strikes. Labor troubles in the shape of lockouts and strikes are just now the all-absorb- ing topic of the day. Capital centralized in giant corporations finds itself con- fronted by the power of organized labor. The confiscation of the public domain and the grant of valuable franchises has placed it within the power of a few men to wield a greater power over the in- dustrial classes than the government itself. With the telegraph, the telephone and the railroads practically under the control of half a dozen stock gamblers whose colossal incomes are derived from the producers, it was but natural that the toilers should emu- late their example by pooling their 1s- sues, The feeling that American labor is rapidly passing under the con- trol of grasping monopolists like Jay Gould, who, for his own gain reduces the wages of thousands of telegraph and railroad employes, has almost forced the workingmen into the ranks of protective unions, which have for their object the betterment of the condition of wage workers and resistance to oppres- sive exactions and overwork, Couple with this state of affairs the fact that modern machinery has displaced great bodies of mechanics and skilled work- men and we can readily account for the magnitude which labor troubles have recently assumed. In every encounter between organized labor and corporate capital, labor has been victorious wherever its demands were sustained by public approval. In the strikes of street car employes for a reduction of working hours and living wages the overwhelming public sentiment compelled the street car companies to yield. Peoplein the large citics who de- pend upon street railroads for conveyance were cheerfully willing to submit to in- convenience and delay, Sixteen hours a day, which was the average service of car drivers and conductors, was so pal- pably inhuman and cruel, that all classes ontside of the few street car monopolists, were in active sympathy with the strikers. In the strikes of the miners and coke burners for living wages and fair treat- ment, public sentiment assisted in bring- ing about a workingman’s victory. On the other hand, organized labor has in several instances failed because its de- mands were unreasonable, and popular atiment would not sustain its warfary Even boycotting, which is the last resort of labor in its efforts to coerce capital to its demands, fails invariably whenever the cause of 'the warfare is unjustifiable and the public sympathy is not aroused in its behalf, Lockouts are nothing more nor less than a boycott on the part of the employer against his workmen. The could be obviated readily by resort to a bitration, Much of the labor trouble due on the one hand to the greed of heavy capitalists who refuse to recognize the right of labor to a fair share in the products of labor, and on the oth hand to a class of turbulent agita- tors who vrefer fighting and speech making © to steady work. But it must not be forgotten that wa whether waged with the bayonet or the boyeott is an expensive business. Lock- outs and strikes are forms of social war- fara to be deprecated and if possible avoided. It must be conceded, however, that i this costly war, like that of the rebellion, the oligarchs are mainly re- sponsible. All the machinery of govern- ment for years has been operated in the interest of corporate monopoly and legal- ized robbery of the producer through corrupt methods which have made our law-makers mere tools of stock gamblers, land grabbers and public plunderers. Those who sow the wind reap the whirl- wind. The Gas Muddie, Among the subjeets to be disenssed at the next meeting of the board of trade is the proposed purchase of the gas works by the This scheme 1s utterly im- While the city doubtless has works at praised value under the first fr ted tothe Omaha not the means to consumn so. The gas works with their mains are worth at the lowest estimate £100,000. The owners would require eash down and the ci asno cash at its disposal. To the money by bonds s also impossible, even if it could be done without exceeding the 10 per cent limit upon our municipal debt. Paving bonds and sewer bonds will take up every dollar we can possibly vote on this year's assess- ment. But the charter does not author- the issue of bonds for the purchase of s, and henee such bonds cannot y issued. These facts are doubt- less just as well known to the gas com- pany as they arve to us, and it is not likely to be frightened into lower gas rates by the threat that the eity will buy its works. The power of the aity to regulate the price at which to be sold to con- sumers within the city limits is, however, beyond question. The council has passed an ordinance limiting the price of gas to FL.95 per thousand feet. That ordinanc is a law for the government of the company until the courts have set it aside. The only point at issue is whether the price as fised is a reasonable one. 1f the courts after a full investigation reach the conclusion that the price is below a profitable production of naptha gas they will so declare, otherwise the ordinance will ren of threats on eithe! pany will not leav very long, nor will the attempt to take possession of its works. If the com- pany feels aggrieved let it make a test case. If the city eannot enforce its ordinance as it is now, the ordinance should be amended so as to make it un- lawful and punishable by fine for any person to present a gas bill for collection in excess of $1.75 per thousand feet act- ually consumed, and also prohibit the collection of any meter rents, which, we are told, is to be introduced as a new method of equalizing the price of gas. The live cattle dealers, in their fight against dressed beef, propose to use “palace” cattle cars, which are provided with feed and drinking boxes, and room for stock to lie down. The American Live Stock Express company, of New York, incorporated in February, 1885, to build, own, let, sell and maintain cars and rolling stock, has filed a certificate at Albany increasing its capital from 000 to $2,500,000. The capital paid in is $190,000 and the debts do not exceed £500,000. The increased capital will allow this company to carry on the trans- portation of live stock between Chicago and other western points and New York in greater quantities than usual. Even if this movement has no effect upon the dressed-beet business, it will be a good thing for the live-stock trade. Itisa re- form that ought to have been introduced long ago. It never would have been in- augurated had it not been for the advance that the dressed-beef enterprise is making. WHiLE bogus lords from the continent are carrying off rich matrimonial prizes in this country, two American adven- turesses have feathered their nests nicely across the water. Vieky Woodhull and Tennie Claflin are now in clover in Eng- land. Vicky has married an extremely wealthy English banker, Mr. Martin, of Lombard street. But the dashing Tennie has gone her sister one better in captur- ing S neis Cook, who has lately been made a baronet by the queen for his bene- volence to lady art-students in Kensing- ton. Sir Francis was a widower when he fellunder Lennic’s eyes and he quickly succumbed to her charms of conversa- tion, The same fascination which drew the New York brokers to the tapes of the tickets in the Broad strect house of Woodhull & Chaflin attracted the two wealthy Englishmen to the London par- lors of the firm in Westminster, as Lady Cook, the scheming Tennie, now attends the queen’s drawing rooms and holds the rank over her untitled sister. It is a strange world, but cheek and persistenco in some cases are leading trumps in the game of life Daxora, like a circus, is billed for all it’s worth. There are now five bills be- fore the house committee for the admis sion of the territory, either for the whole of it or for a part. These are the Joseph bill, to divide the territory on the forty- sixth parallel and create the texritory of North Dakota; the krederick bill, to ad- mit the whole territory this year; the Springer bill, for division on the Missouri river and securing a popular vote by the plan of minority rep- resentation on the question of division and admission; Senator Butler's Dbill, which is simply an enabling act for the whole territory; and the Harrison bill passed by the senate and admitting South Dakota with state oflicials and senators and congressmen elected. The last men- tioned measure, however, has virtually been abandoned. Two more postinasters have been ap- pointed and straightway Dr. Miller's paper claims a yictory for Boyd and Mil- ler. These great dispensers of patronage have set their trap for bear and wolf at the same time and it doesn’t matter what they catch. The postofice pigeon-holes are full of letters in which they endorse three or four candidates for the same postofiice. If any of them get in, they claim him as their tirst and only choice. This “heads I win, tails you lose,” is a very old game. Ix the present strike on the Gould sys- tem, Dr. Miller represents Jay Gould and the railroad maguates, while his editorial deputy pretends ta represent the Knights of Labor. In this dead lock between the owuers of the railway organ and its hired man we call for arbifration. Mr. Powder- Iy should come to Omaha at once to adjust the differences between the capic talist and his help WoNDER if our entorptising contempo. rary, the Republican, hing any more ready- made hand-me-down correspondence on its shelf from Port Jaryis, or some other port, about Van Wyck's political trickery before the war and hisawful unpopuls in the old congressipnal distrier, whi sent him four times to the national legis- lature? PLATTSMOUTH ed the proposi- tion for water works and falls in line with Hastings, Grand Island and Beat- rice in sccuring this important ¢ public improvements, Nebraska is pre- 1to back her growing cities of the second and third class against any towns of their population in the wes! 18 ¢ POLITIOAL. Carl Schurz is said to enjoy Mr. Blaine's second volume far less than the first, Demoerats talk of running Carter 1T son for congress in the Third Hlinols distri Ex-Speaker Galusha A, Crow is a self-an- nounced candidate to succeed Senator Mitch- ell. Ex-Senator David Davis of Illinols is said to be awaiting a_favorable opportunity to re- enter politics, ome of the candidates for the nest New York senatorship are said to be willing to withdraw in favor of Conkling. Native-born citizens in Rhode Island can vote on payment of $1 registry tax. Others have to own property worth S134, Win. E. English has consented to accept a nomination to congress if the Indianapolis democrats conelude to offer it to him. New Hampshire demoerats say through the state committee that the labor agitation is going to upset party lines in that neighbor- hood enator Jos. E. MeDonald says of the Washington newsgatherers, that if_you drop a bit of political rossip to one of them they all find it out. Susan B. Anthony asserts that thirty sen- ators are pledged for woman suffrage, but it is thought Susan is a very poor judge of how aman is going to yote, . Blaine says in his second volume: Tilden unquestionably ranks among est masters of political management that our day has seen.” Col. A. K. MeClure having been suggested as a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, replies that the editor who has a newspaper worth editing will never be a candidate for governor or any other political oftice. A Times Have Changed. New York Tribune. The time was when the Irish leader con- idered himself fortunate to et a nearing from the Englis er. ' Now the premier regards the Irish leaders respite as a favor. o) Richer Than Vanderbilt. Chicago Herald, One thousand dollars’ worth of personal nd a small piece of real estate in was notall Gen. Hancock lett. He left also the very excellent. inheritance of an honored name and an hongst life. Vander- bilt was not so rich. —-— ‘With Their Boots On. Philc Telphta Regord. ‘Within a year the rlvhcsg. American mer- chant, M. B. Claflin;the richest American railroad man, W. H. Vanderbilt, and the richest American planter,"Edmond Richard- son, have died. It is notable thatnot one of the three died in his bed. — Sam Jones and Baseball. Chicago Times. Sam Jones, who now condemns baseball as the deadliest of sins, says that he used to play it himself when a boy. Itwill notbe easy for the lovers of baseball to understand Mr. Jones’ aversion for the game except on the theory that he always belonged to the losing side. e It Depends Upon Whose Ox is Gored. Chicago News. Sunset Cox, who, asa congressman, was a stickler tor economy in the foreign service, is now in the foreign service stickling for an increase of salary and money for clerks, steam yacht, and such luxuries. It makes all the difference In the world where you stand when you measure the height of a hill or the size of a salary. e Resolutions Settls the Question, Louisville Courier-Journal, The St. Paul prohibitionists have * re- solvea” “that license, high or low, L:as proven a tailure wherever tried, and that prohibition is the only rational, practical method of set- tling the question.,” As prohibition has proven a failure wherever tried, the only prac- ticalmethod of settling the question is doubt- less by passing “‘resolutions.” e The Importance of Judge Brewer's Decision. Cleveland Leader. Judge Brewer’s decision is of the utmost importance to the prohibition cause, for it brings it face to face with an economical dif- ficulty that outranks in consequence all sen- timental considerations, 1f this decision is afirmed by the United States supreme court prohibition will have received a blow from which it may not recover in generations, and public sentiment will more than ever turn to taxation and regulation as the only practica- ble relief from the evils of the traflic,. == AL Loy The Disappointed. Ella Wheeler Wileox in Good Cheer, “There are songs enough for th hero, ‘Who dwells on the heights of fame; 1 sing for the disppointed, For those who missed their aim, 1 sing with a tearful cadence For one who stands in the dark, And knows that his last, best arrow Has bounded back fygmn the mark, 1 sing for the breathless rufiner, The eager, anxious séul, ! Who falls with his strength exhausted Almost In sight of the goal; With a sorrow all unknay For those who need compahions, Yet walk their ways alone. For the hearts that bru}k in silence There are songs enough for the lovers Who share love’s tender pain 1 sing for the one whoge passion Is given and in yaiu,, For those whose spirit éomrades Have missed them on thé'way, Ising with a heart o'erlowiug ‘T'his minor strain to-day.’ And 1 know the solar sygtem Must somewhere keep in space A prize for that spent runner Vho barely lost the rac For the Plan would be imperfect Unless it held some sphere “That paid for the toil and talent And love that are wasted here, ————— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The Cass county fair is set for Septem- ber 1017, Grand Island claims to rank Alas a grain market. 2 The fireman’s fair in Fremont last woek netted $1,350. A company has been organized in Blue Springs to manufacture tyne writers, ‘The Beatrice Express urges the claims ofL‘-x.Suuhlot Teflt us an ““ancient chest- nut.’ It is said the B. & M. will lay out this season §100,000 in improvements at Wy more, Mrs. Palmer is talking up temperance m Plattsmouth, Very few tipplers go out between the acts, ' The new town of Foster, i Pierce county, petitioned for one postmaster and the department appointed two. The farmers of Adams county are boy- cotting a Hastings paper on account of its abuse of Senator Van Wye . An additional appropriation of £30,000 is noeded to complete the soldiers’ bar- racks begun at Fort Niobrara. An enthusiastic eensus rustler estimates that 1,700 settlers now cross the Missouri river into Nebraska every da, Thae Buy St ny recently bought of th J Railroad company 250,000 tween North Platte and Oga P. D. Thompson, oh, lost his right hand, sprained his anklé and had his body festooned with bruises while oil in;]: the machinery in Beckwith & Co.'s mill. Oakland will eclebrate its twentioth anniversary next July. The town was origing cated by John P. Anderson in the st of a colony of Scandi- navians, A Fremont sport proposes to put a small steam yacht on the Elkhorn river, with which to plow tho placid hosom of that erooked stream and sniff the fra. grant odors of lemon rinds, bolognas and old bottles, relics of former ex- cursions, r Brunick, employed in the Union Pacific yards at Grand Isls about like a foothall by day or two ago. He was locomotives and miraculous serious injury. The Burlington company is abont to put thew train employés throngh a ies of tests on the aceuracy of their ght, and itisalso given out that thoso” possessing weak optics will _be shed with itable glusses, The spectacle will not be a taking one. An imported troupe of barn stormers tackled O'Neill Sumi y night with “Ten Nights in a Barroom.”” The entire m agement was taken into court next day for violating the Sunday law, and got t days in jail. Sentence was suspendd and the entire troupe was escorted out of town by a committee of promment zen Ty just and timely rebuke to s of loeal mimi weaknesses, Towa Items, There are 700 Knights of Labor in Du- buque. The Catholics of CI. £5,000 church this year. A female physician at Dy to cure all the ills of flesh sin.” The Thempson-Houston Electric Light company will put in a plant at Des Moine: Sheep in Washington county are dying rapidly with catarrhal fever.” One man lost fifty from thatcause in a few da s of the hospital for the insane s endence have formed a dramat resented ‘‘Among the Break- y evening. has 1,200,000 cows, 50,000,000 of dai re will build a adverti ve ‘Quigi produces an- y products, and A 1y, so the State ation reports. J. W Gray. a prominent busin and former” postmaster at Fonda, will orobably lose eyesight. A’ Des Loir ys that the optic nerve is partially paralyzed, the result of exces- sive smoking. A citizen of Creston has in his - posses- sion some exceedingly valuable and in teresting papers. They are nothing I than originals of Jeflerson f) commissions as a member of congres: ppi, and as colonel in the s armiy during the war with co. Tacy are both in sheepskin, the former being signed by the secretary of state in Mississippi at the time, and by Jeffers Davis himself. These papers aptured by their present owner t epoch in the late od tempting offers man war, x;‘ml he has refi for them. Dakot Plug hats are ripening in Rapid City. In Penington county, at the election on . the proposition to issuc $15,000 for the purpose of building a 1, was defeated by a small ma- ter Crisf), a farmer living near Dell ds, will this year experiment in the raising of Havana tobacco. The result of his experiment will be watched witn interest. In some sections where fuel is expen- sivo farmers will this year grow an acre or two of flax for fuel, "It is claimed that a ton of flax straw is worth more for fuel than a ton of soft coal. Mus, Torge Hammer, a Scandinavian lady at Medford, Walsh county, guv birih to a pair of beautiful girl babieslast weck. Just sixteen months previous she produced a pair of equally handsome 0y'S. Some rare curiosities have been found in digging wells at Steel, down some seyenty to seventy-five feet, One was a crystal conch shell with a blue rock grown through the center of it; another was a piece of the blue rock with the print of an oyster shell upon it, and brown sandstone with a leat on it. John T. Burke and John W. Ash, of Bridgewater, were both married at that lace Tuesday, went to Mitchell with heir brides, on the same train but in dif- ferent coaches, stopped at the same hotel, but neither knew of the other’s wedding trip until they met at a picture gallery the next day, where they had gone to purchase photographs. A Clay county man, who was very anx- ious to secure a wife, selected a young miss at Vermillion whom he thought would please him, and wrote her a notein which the case was briefly stated as fol- lows: “Dear mi If you will be my dear wife I will be your dear husband. God bless you The response was far from satisfactory as the lume leg of the loving swain will attest, In connection with the convention of March 11, and the effort to have the Sisseton reservation opened to set it may be stated that the 1 {ricufily to the move. A census le their number 1,453, by white settlers and “d, having churches, schools and gonerally \'vli comfortable dwellings. 'hn:v have lands in severalty, with farms well stocked in good cul- tivation, and do not receive annuitios or rations from the government. ©olorado, The ranchmen around Montrose have begun plowing. The unusual large amount of snow in the vall outhwestern Colorado this winter will ult in an abundance of grass on the stock ranges next summer, The working w of Denver are en- deavoring to prevent the letting of the contract for building the state capitol to Mr. Richardson, the lowest bidder. They fear he will employ convict labor or stone dressed by conyicts. The Denver & Orleans railroad company will be sold next Saturday for bt amounting to 3 lprup- erty to be ad and Ggraph line of the Denver & Now Or Jeans railroad company, extending from Denver to Pueblo, the brangh from Mani- tou Junction to Colorado Springs, and also the branch from Franceville Junction ' ville, all being in the state Last Saturday evening Mr. Jobn Ark- ins, Mr. ice Arkins and Mr. James M. Burnell purchascd the three-fourths interést in the Roeky Mountain News Publishing company Leld for the past six long since are surrounded pretty well years by M W. A. H. Loveland, and thus have b come the absolute owners of the property, franchises and good will of this corporation. The sale was effected on a basis of $160,000 for the entire prop- e The Standard Oil company has de- clared war aganst the Arkansas Oil company, and are selling oil in Pueblo at 20 cents per gallon. As'it is pretty well known that the one item of freight will amount to about 20 cents per gallon from Cieveland to that point, itis plain the Standard _company intends to run out and kill off the 1o company or force it to sell to the Cleveland giant. The Colorado Coal and Iron company propose to build additional coke ovens at Crested Butte thissummer. The demand for Crested Butte coke has largely in creased within the past few months, but the present capacity of the ovens cannot keep up with the orders. This coke burning is one of the great industries of Gunnison county, and it is still in 1ts in- fancy. and settlers are arriving every day from all § Two hundred mo pected here from the east in the next two weeks. Many of them are now en route. They come by team and rail from Nebraska, Mississipp, K. ky and the Middle states. In the hundreds of government elaims have been taken by newcomers, many of whow building and preparing to put in this son., the countr The Western Idea of Western Man. ners, Indianapolis News, The question whether it is proper to say “Thanks or “I thank you” is at present troubling some of the great minds in western journalism. The great difli- culty has always buen to get the average western man to say either the one thing or the other.—[Philadelphin Record Isitso? And from what page of his- tory, pray, or contemporary manners did you get that fact? It is casy to make aphrase like the New York Herald's “The Rowdy West,” and it is e; make assertions in consonance with such, but upon what may they be based it is Dy no means easy to demonstrate, Had the Record said that the ¢ 2o western man was not so well dressed as to “‘points’ of his toilet as the eastern man, v, that would have been an v recog- nizable truth. He is Jikeher to wear his hat carelessly, his overcoat carelessly buttoned and be gloveless, and to be more hurried in his manner. It 11 the result of natural causes, so to speak. i anew and debtor country, that not only has imperative demands’ for develop- ment, but which owes money. As for actual intelligenee, it were ensy to show, s has been shown, that the general aver- ageis higher in the west than in an; other part of the country. But tc Y storn man is ungri- cious is There is no such general heartines: in human nature re erage western man. He may be, as we have said, careless or thoughtless as to the fancied perfections of etiquette, but that he never_fails to convey the thanks in whatever form for sc rendered cannot be suceesstully Weurge so able and usually e: paper as onr Philadelphia contemporary i fitional ideas, such all southern men drink acco; that all west- inside of un- for instance, thy whisky and ¢l ern men wear their tro blacked boots, car reyolvers, talk in stentorian tones, sw frequently and emulate the bear in manners. The nurs- ing of such ideas us these shows a ver) ow if not hopeless spirit of prov cinlism. o ——— Ben Wade and the Restaurant Man Ben: Perly Poore in Boston Budge Ben Wade, of Ohio, when he was elected president pro tempore of the senate, en- joyed the privilege of appointing the keeper of the senate restaurant. That establishment, elegantly fitted up in the basement story of the senate wing of the pitol. brilliantly lighted and suppl with coal and ice, was enjoyed rent fre by th on fortunate enough to ol customary, however, for him to send a good lunch e day to the vice president’'s room, without charge. At the commencement of the July sion of 1867, the restaurateur, hearing that he was to be superseded by a catel from Cincinnati, called on Mr. W and said, obsequiously: ‘T am tl of the senate restaurant, senaton yes,” replied Mr. Wade, *“‘you run the cookshop down-stairs, don’t you?” “Y gir,” was the reply, with a low bow. “Well,” said Mr. Wade, “what can I do for you; what do you want?" *I have called to express my wish, sir, that I can continue to keep the restaurant, and anything you want, sir, you have only to send a page down stairs and it will be sent to you quick as a flash, without costing you a cent, sir.”” Just then Mr. Wade appeared recollect something, and looking at the man_dircetly in the eyo, said: “On, I don’t want you to feed me; when I do’ T will pay for what I eat like other people. But listen, Complaint has been mado to me that you don't treat the little pages fairly or kindly. They complain that they can’t get anything (o eat excopt ex- pensive things, for which they have to pay a large price. Now, sir, justre- that these pages are our boys, and you had better over-charge senators, who™ are able to pay, than these little chaps who want to save their wages they for their mothers. You mast be "¢ and kind to these pages, sir, or LIl have you moved out of your cookshop and put in someone there who will treat thie boys well.” The " restaurateur promised that he would do 50 und bowed his way out. Wade made inguiry of the time to time and found that civily treated, and that lunches of reason- able cost were provided for them, B The Far Alllance, Fremont Tribune, The Tribune has bitherto failed to no- tice the meeting of the State Farmers’ Allinuce held last week at Hastings. It was attended by a large number of dele- gates and its deliberations were interest- ing and enthusiastic. The Aliiance u ted in condenmming the railway commis- sion as a valuciess and costly means of | doing nothing. It also resolved in favor of the return of Charles H. Van Wyck to the U. 8. senite wore completed for the organiz Wyek elubs throughout ti infended that this organi made th fi mg :Lr}mr- tunity aflorde mers of Ne braska to jom i joining it it will be their dity to vote and work for only such men for th sliture us o known to be fr 1 » Wycek. Farmers of Dodge county sh lose no time in perfecting un { ation of this kind. The republ chinery and corporation money will be_used to defeat him. - If the farwers of Nebraska are interested in keeping in the senate Lie only friend the er had there they should org Ll purpose. and for a Pair of Carp. llabower, the largest - we: 1 near Coluw- Indizua, ha n r of his largest carp, receiving therefor the sua of §300. Mr. Stilla boweyx has fiff thousand carp, r in age from one wonth to four ye: PHILADELPHIA MILLIONAIRES. Who Evaded Taxation, Philadelphia Pre: Mr. Lippincott was probably the richest of American publishers at the time of his death, | though few. would have thought him so. Most of the leading publishers of this city have kept a larger proportion of their | profits still in their businoss, and I doub | 1f any one of the Harpers is worth indis | vidually half as much. It would be | difficult to name more than a half a dozem | Philadeiphians who are worth mor than four millions well know member of the Pliladelphia Stock E change, whose father was himself worth niore than $1,000,000, doubted if a dozen could named who were worth more than 000,000, but he retracted when the party began to make up the list. The late William F. Weld, whom few thought the possessor of more than a million or two (and who did not know that he be- ne a Philadelphian. to 05 taxation?) was the richest that ever died in the city, estate summing up about §28,000, hich the shar \J his son William y possiby by this time amount to £7,000,000 £4,000,000, Thi: {. whably him next Ve 1, who is generally believed to d at the head uf the list, with about 000,000 to his naun: chemical manufs & works and real estate all over the city, Then comes Mr. Drexel, whose estate is probably smaller than that of his deceased brother, Mr. Williamson was variously estimated 00,000 to 8,000,000, nearly all of it ks and bonds. Then there comes a X, for triple millionaires are few. When this list was being compiled Cof- fin Colket was put down for £2,000,000— alittle less than $1,600,000; and es about $1,250,000. The late mith was put down for about the § homas Drake would come in the list near the head, as he has been a large investor in stocks and bonds conl and his in the National bank is worth to-day fully £300,000. Follow- ing these woilld come James P, Scott, George W, Childs, kdwin N. Benson, E L. Fitler, Edwin Swity, Charles Lenni John P. Jones, Hamilton Disston, A. d tt, A. J. Antelo, Fairman Rogoers host of others whose property must timated at fully up to the seven-fin- wd. As for the Trac! _peo- rs. Widener, man his invested in his and in intorest rich now, but 1ding to their accumulations stive in business. a little curions that all the rich widows owe _the wealth which they hold to the energies of their husbands, and not to inheritance, and that nine-tenths of it has boen mado in - enterprises that has brought honor to the city. Mrs. Baird hag probably more than $2,000,000, made by locomotive building and in* vested in good paying stocks, bonds and real estate. Mrs. Thomas Powers, whose husband Teft $10,000,000, stands’ at_the iead of the list, andnext comes Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, who has just emerged from her retirement after an ubsence of about two years in Europe. I hear of her giving arcception in London in honor of some American visitors. Mrs. Baird has been 1n Europe for more than two years and has not intimated imme- diate intention of returning. She took her whole household with her and enjoy a handsome villa in the south of Fran Then there is the famous Mrs. Bloomfiel Moore, whom the letter writers are tall ing of marrying again to the poet Brown- of the Iate Gen. Gl Per- s and Mrs. Darley, each in a house worth at n mod- te calculation a round million, might counted in the list, but they are not widows. Among the old maids are the Misses Phillips, who were left about a million and a half at the death of Honry Phillip: HEMORRHOIDS Blind, Bleeding and Itching, tively Cured by Cuticura. A [VAIRM buth with Cuticura Boap, au exquis- £3. ftoskin beautitior, and a singlo applioation o Posi- i ra, tho great skin cure, will in- stantly alluy the intense itohing of the most ug- | teated pa ascssing the oldest averaging twenty pounds in weight. gravated ciso of itching plies, This treatment, ombined with small doses of Cuticurn Resol: ont, the new blood p times por o regulate and he bowels, vorcomo constipn 01 and romove the caute, will cure blind, blecding and itehing piles whon all other remodies and cven physicians tail, PILES. 1 was taken for the first time in my life with 1 could hardly keop s remedies for throe so 1ok the form of teh- 1y advico of an 1 . One appli- nd I was soon cured. hat in casos of itching piles tho pr account. From un unsolicited quarter. Concord, N. H. 0. 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