Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1886, Page 4

s L3 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRAME OF SUBSCRIPTION : iy Morniag Edition) fncluding Sundny One Year....... or 8/x Months or Three Montha’ The Omaha Swnday ks, matied to any #ddress, One Year. MAma OFFICE. No. MK OFFICE, s INaTON OFFiCE, Al comimunioations reluting to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed 10 the Evl- TOR OF THE BER. 1000 500 250 200 TREEY §AND, 08 PARAN < and remittances should be nddressed 10 THE BES PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice 10 be made payable 10 the order of the companys THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPARY, PROPRIETORS, ROSEWATER, Enito THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraskn, 1, ¢ County of Douglas. | & & Geo, B. Tzschuck, secrotary of The Bee ympany, does solemnly o fon of the Daily Bee that t rd, 1580, was as for the week ending Dec. follows: Saturday, Nov, 97.. . Sunday, Nov. 25,7100 Monday, Nov. . "No , Dee, 1 lay, De ¥riday, Dec. Average 3 "Fzsciek, ne this 4th (K0, B. day of Deceniber, A D, ISEALI I'zschuck, being first duly sworn, - drpmuuml says that he is secretary of th Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- ly circulation” of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 18, was 10578 copies, for Fubruary. 185, 10,505 copies; for March, 1886, 11,537 coples: ‘for April, 18, copies: for May. 1886, 12,49 copies; for June, 1856, 19,208 copies for July, 1850, for August, 15, 12,464 coples: f for Oeto Sworn to and subseribed before me this Gth day of Noyember, A D. 155, SEAL.J N. I’ Fiair, Notary Public .ommissioncrs arc off on another junket. They come high for the county, but the commissioners must have them. Tae new institution for the fecblo- minded is approaching completion at Beatrice. Governor Dawes should be its first inmate. Mg. CALLAWAY promises a un n the near future. It is sati: learn that the scheme has not lowed to dio. o depot clory to been al- HERE is the street-cleaning brigade? Our paved streets are a sea of flowing mud. They look badly and they feel worse. An application of hydrant water would help matters wonderfully on sev- eral of our leading thoroughfares. Tag agonized howls for the removal of Marshal Cummings still shrilly echo along Douglas street. But why should Cummings be removed? That is the question which remains un- answered. Who will be the gainer, and how? HERE ought to be no shurking of issues by the charter committee through fear of future controversy. The most import- ant charter veforms nceded by Omaha are the very ones which are certain to attract opposition from mterested partics, The charter is for taxpayers. It should not be dictated by taxshir BEATRICE has a new briek city hall which is aot built after the model of Omaha’s present rookery. Our Nebraska ies are all putting on metropolitan airs as they increase in wealth and popu- lation,and none of them is exhibiting more push and enterprise than the county seat of the prosperous county of Gage. essments are what Omaha needs, not an increased tax levy. Qur levy is too high already. It is so high that it forms a standing argument for improved methods of property valuation. A decreased tax levy and an increased assessmeut would fill the bill posed charter amendment reyenuc reform We referred a few day dences of a rapid industrial the southern states, giving some f: showing the large number of new enter- prises that had been started in that section during the past thrce months, Further testimony of this is just now supplicd by Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who within a few days returncd from a tnp @uth, where itis understood he made ex- @ensive observations. A Washington dispatch reports the judge as speaking in gloguent terms of what he saw there. The colored people are very generally grosperous, prudent and thrifty, and the people of all classes are having quite as much prosperity as those of the north, Judge Kelley found all the conditious in tho localities he visited favorable to ma- gerinl progress, and he anticipates time, probably not yery remot the manufacturers of the north, particu- darly of ivon, will find active and formid- . able competitors in the south. The ono amfortunate result of this expericnce apon the judge was in intensifying his dnuuun toa high taritf as the cardinal Roecessity to & continuance und expansion of tho south’s prosperity, as he blindly | * believes it to be to the prosperity of the | wholo country. looking to to the evi- » when T was pot to be expected that the refer- ~ pooce of the president in his message to | . | entir the fishery controyer: ing to the Cunud mot have been made so, ' gime do justice to the subj warsanted course of those officials fied tho sharpest coademnation _ could properly bo conyeyed in o paper, and the president was really erate in his treatwent of the matter. - fhero were not ouly outrages committed | egainst American fishermen, but acts of h-mn, which a less lenient and patient government thau this might have found Cwvarrant in for the most aggrossive mea- .ua A dispateh from the Domimon seapital says the desire of the ministers is 80 sec a just and acceptable conclusion but that Canada will mantain position she held since the abro- on of the fishery clauses, pending a ment. It is also said that if an ar- ment is not effocted before spring | - the Canadian patrol service will be ex- by the addition of six new rruxx “ors, including steawers. 1o that case become necessary for this i 2 the protection of its citizens and thewr _property than it has yot dove. orders | swear | 12,101 | in the pro- | progress in | o8 | the | THE OMAHA DAILY BEL: ‘ Connty and Municipal Taxation, | The chief editorial mouthpiece of the Burlington road has spoken on the ques- tion of the evasion of municipal taxation by corporate monopolies in this state. Treating with poorly concealed contempt the plea of the taxpayers against the t shirkers, it tries to befog the issne by pre tending that it is the state revenue law that ssailed, and that under it the rai roads already bear a large share of the | burden of municipal taxes, *“This is the { way,” says the Lincoln Journal, *‘rail- ds are taxed under ourlaws: The en tire road bed, rolling stock, depot buld | ings, sidetracks, switches and everything \tial to the practical runming of the onsidered whole and is as s a whole. Then the entire value unt of the assessment is di | track shown mile by the surveys, and every f the road is accounted worth that ient in dollars and eents, and as- od nccoedingly. 1f a rond has a mile of its main track inside the boundaries of a municipality 1t is assessed for munici- pal purposes, not on the estimated value | of its depots, side-tracks and grounds in the city or town, but on that one mile of | main track. If the company has ofiices | or headquarters not connceted with the depot or on its right of way or depot grounds, as in Omaha. that particular | property isnotineluded, but is assessc | for city and county purposes by itsclf That 1 the way in which railro taxcd for county purposc Jaws. But e municips ation ent mile of m track o track, on all depot grounds and buildings on right of way and structures thereon, on nine-tenths, in short, of all their property subject to taxation and they do it under the cover of the law which apportions their local | improvements ns taxable property throughout all the counties of the state. There lics the point which the br: ol- .ared o vt of the Jowrnal with char- ic dishonesty attempts to con- justice of the revenue law as applied to counties contain- ing railrond terminals is not now under discussion. It is outrageous and ir. But the application of its pro- visions to exclude entirely from city taxes millions of dollars worth of proper which the city is obliged to protect and defend is quite a different question. No county in the state has any intercst in assisting to further such a scheme. There is the pot involved which the BER raises for the consideration of Nebr payers, The revenue law takes railro tion out of the hands of county as TS, The cities ussess property for municipal taxation according to the books of the as sessors hired by the countie: 1 the property as ed by llm for the counties goes scot free. It never appears upon the municipal tax lists. [t pays state and county taxes but no city taxes, Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, Hast- ings, Fremont and Beatrice have voted lundreds of thousands of dollars of bonds to ramlroads. They have scen block after block of taxpaying property condemned as right of way and covered with depots, clevators, main and side tracks. All this property under the operations of the rev- enue law is exempted from municipal | tax ion as right of way. There can be | no defense offered of such a condition of a s. It is unprecedented, without ant in equity and must be remedied. ceal. Gresham'’s Wabash Decision. The decision rendered on last Tuesd by Judge Gresham, of the United State cireuit court icago, in the W h receivership case, was regarded with ex- traordinary interest in Wall street. It ved very generally with wnest approval. People who have con- cern in such matters, as investors in the urities of railway corporations de- dent for fair. returns upon the in- tegrity and fidelity to their trusts of the | officers of such corporations, must regard | it as gratifying evidence that the courts | of the country ave not wholly abandoned to the influence and use of and the money power behind them. There would undoubtedly be much les | attention attracted to this decision if it were not for the fact that itis anunusual, | and perhaps an unexpected, deelaration of judiciul independence. I clean, straightforward and unsparmg arrs | ment of the rapacious clique, who: lowful methods for enriching themselves ! by robbing the bondholders were clea shown by the evidence, is so uncommon that it could not fuil to make a striking impression. Its incisive thrusts seem to have penetrated even the tough cuticle of Juy Gould, wringing from that sordid and soulless conspirator against the pub- lic interests and welfare a contemptibl inuendo against Judge Gresham charae teristic of the boldest and most unscrupu- lous wrecker and plunderer this country, or any other for that matter, has ever known. ‘I'ne whole history of Wabash manage- ment since Jay Gounld and his satellites obtamed the control of that corporation bas been thav of deli ¢ and most successful plunder. ie methods have | been Gould's, and the men who ¢ od them into e s The security hylders have been persistently robbed, and all their rights, which they | bud reason to suppose were amply se- | eured by the action and direction of the court in St. Lows, have been uniformly “ignored. So far as that court is con cernca it would seem not to h been ¢ free from the influence of the combination of which Gould is the chio otherwise it would hardly have appointed | Solon Humphreys, known to be u most | pliant tool of the combination, as ono of tho receivers of the corporation, Tutt, the other rec r, claims that he does not own a dollar's interest in the com- pany, but it is understood that he has had to do with other of the enterprises ! and schemes of (iould and enjoys his full | confidence. There is not a shadow of | doubt that both of these men were the unquestioning creatures of the master | trickster, though the task of earrying out | his methods was deyolved chietly vpon | Humphrey ! The leading facts in the case, upon which Judge Gresnam based his decision that the mortgages—thirteen in numbe —should be foreclosed aund the receivers removed, have already been given with these oflicials | of thedecision. Every candid mun must t | regard them us in the fullest degree justi- fying the conclusions and action of the court It was made perfectly plain by ! the evidence that there was no hope for | the interests of the boundholders if the suflicient fuliness in the telegraph report | management of the company was ver- witted to continue as it had been, and that it was only a question of time when | they would be muleted of a large part of their just claims. the web set by the combination, and agreed not to make any effort courts to secure their rights. With re gard to Humphreys, if the fact of the erooked coal operations in which he was the chief fignre stood alone as evidence of nis dishonesty and unfitness, it would be quite enough to justify from the receivership Ws eminently just as it wa fearless, and the insinuation Gould that it was prompted by any other motive than the wish to conserve just and defeat a continnance of his scheme of plunder, will be regarded by all fair- minded men as simply the desperate recourse ot a reckless man who at last has been checked in his career of corrup. tion and dishonesty. It Does Not Explai Mr. Murphy, of the gas company, mukes official explanation of the com plaints against his corporation. Me ns- serts that the right of the company to make service conneetion from the lot lines to the gas meters to the exclusion of any other mechani than its own is granted by ordinance which regulates the price of such work. He insists that such a monopoly is to the mterest of the con- sumer as well as of the company, secur- ing better work and throwing the respon- sibility for leakage upon the gas works Mr. Murphy's statement is given in full m another column, 1t is probably the best which the company ean present, 1t 1s plausible, but it does not meet the ob- jections. Let us examine it. In the f place; the company's plea of self-protection would not hold for an justant if the same regulations which ap- ply to water connections were applied to the gas mains. An ordinance requiring a permit before the mains were tapped and that the service pipes should be laid by licensed and competent workmen, would remove all danger of robbery of the gas company by the cousumer. In the second place 1t would allow citizens the work done at lowest market tes. The price of pipe and the cost of labor rises and falls. Itis manifestly im- proper that an arbitrary price should be ot tomarket changes. More important than all, the monopoly right claimed by the gas company enablos it to refuse to make gas conncctions during the winter scason, because the ense of trenching is greater than at other times of the year. Citizens with newly completed houses are helpless. The gas company refuses to tap its mains, and will not permit othier work- men to do what it declines to do on the ground of increased cost to the company. The right to do exclusive work is made the basis of a claim of right to refuse to do any work. he gas com- pany saves money but the public suffers. Such power is manifestly improper. It is improper because it ereates a monopoly which forbids competition in an ordinary trade. It is improper beeause 1t assails the right of the citizen to purchase ma- terials and labor of every day use in the open market, However benevolent may be the intentions of the gas comvany, it rolds a club which it can wield to the public inconyenience and expense. It should be disarmed. "The contract of the gas company should losely examined to see 1 what spe- terms, if any, such a right is couched. If it is only inferred it should be promptly disavowed. Any ordinance which bol- sters up such aright ought to be wiped off the records. Other Lanas Than Ours. The French ministerial crisis has been ended by the acceptance of the oflice by M. Goblet, who as M. De Freycinet’s suc- cessor will form a cabinet which he hopes will be able to withstand the attacks of Clemenceau and his radicals of the ¢ treme left. M. Clemencenu is the legiti- mate successor of nbetta and his policy of revenge, The leader of the radical wing of the republicans has been a bitter and uncompromising opponent opportunism of Ferry and De iet. He has chafed to sce devoting herself to the peaceful acquisition of colooial de- pendencies while neglecting means by which in the future she might wipe out the disgrace of 1871 M. Goblet is under the influence of the progressists. tis cabinet will doubtless voice to a greater extent their ideas than did that of its predecessor. In all of which there room for disquict among lovers of conti- nental peace and food for sober reflection across the Rhine, admirably of Jay * " When De Freycinet took office the number of radicals in his cabinet caused some uneasiness; but it seems the cham- ber is already calling for more. This L not mean & new wave of mild socialism, but rather foreign aggressions, and more domestic logislation. Possibly the chureh will ufter, and there will be some entrici- t ia internal affairs; but the general drift will be for the better. There are nominally 880 republicans in a_ house of 5%0, but the radical faction led by Clem- enceau are fully 150 strong, and can die- tate the terms of many measures, or send the cabinet to the president with their resignations. Thus 1t is that the French chamber is divided into three par substantially as is the case in the English parliament, and thus the position of pre- wior is by no means cuviable. The radi- cal clements 1 both bodies are the grow- ing and determining ones, and so far as appears these radicals are framing their domands along lines that are perfectly understood in & republic like ours. e Thal Germany was quick to understand in advance the possible menace of a change of munstry is seen in the prompt measures taken upon the opening of the Reichstag for an increase of the army estimates and a future mobilization of the effectives. The wordsof Von Moltke have produced u decided impression and the oppesition to the government's do- mund seems to have melted away under the necessity which the iron prince pro- nounced as so pressing. Germany must be prepared to tight for the Rhineland provinces at & moment's notice. This was the meaning of the declaration of the commander of the army and of the minister of war, and it was not misunder- stood l" Azan Prinoe Alexander com es prowmi- nently to tho front, and in a way not at WLl surprisi Those who thouglt that Some of them had by | warnings and threats been drawn into | in the | his removal | e decision was | SATURI JAY, DECEMBER 11: 1886 the late coup d'etat dispe factor and in European politics, tirely mistaken. To the Bulgarians’ abid ander, or to consid: sev od of him as a s exertingf pbtent influence Apolar to be en abte the fact of pve for Alex it a hing to be ob 1 by a turbulent condition of politi affairs, is likely to lead to a fa view of the situation. A movement is now on foot to have him re-clected to the throne from which lie was basely driven. A'deputation of Bulgarian nota bles, instructed by the government visit porsonally the different powers solicit their influence if favor Waldemar, to consént to Prince Al- exander’s return, has started on its tour. The use of Waldemar's name ovidently a blind to partly ob scure their zeal for the restora tion of Alexan They are tolerably safe in domg it, since the king mark has refused to consent “‘under any consideration” to his son's occupying such a position in relation to the Euro- pean nations, and especially since the prince refused to uccept unless his father was willing, T this, the czar is well understood to opposed to the election of Walder In view of these circumstances it can hardly be thought that the use of the name of the D prince is intended to sceure s election, Alexander is us popular to-day as when he left the throne yueant, and any other prince would be reccived coldly, and would have an execedingly difficult sk in governing that wprovince. Prince Alexander may never be re-elected, but the Bulgarian people evidently have not yet given up hope that he will e During the wco-German war the French had but one explanation for every reverse with which their gener: and armics met —treason, Their military leaders were at that time, during the h of arms and the brunt of battle, all , from Canrobert, Leboeuf and ne down to Bourbaki, Chanzy and en Faidherbe. During the frenzied time of the is siege every unsuecess- ful sortie was popularly supposed to have been due to the treason of some general or generals. Now it is the cry of spies that is rased in France. Everybody is a spy—a “Prussian spy.” There is some little reason for this fecling, for what s styled the ‘“reptile fund by Bismarck’s enemies—i. e., that portion of the Guelph treasures turned over to the chancellor to do with as he likes, is used, among other things, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of a seeret surveillance of France's mi y and political acts. The sums thus an- nually paid bave been very large, but there are undoubtedly spies in France paid with German mone, here are also spies in Germany,paid with French money. It is said that cverythingis fair in war. Stillit is to be regretted that two of the most civilized 'natjons on earth have to resort to such,, reprehensible means during veace in order to get amil- advantage of each other, €0 and des be Ay *"g The Spanish goyernment, which al- ready has a fair navy, and suffers from chronic financial embarrassment, has just appropriated $45,000,000 to be e pended in additions to the n. The United St government, which has no navy at all, and more money than it knows what to do with, exhausted its patriotism in a begzarly appropriation of about £6,000,000 for the culargement of the American navy. * There is every indication that the Brit- ish government will continue its pro- gramme of coercion. Indeed there is no other safe course to be pursued now that llm glove has been thrown down. After {y binet meeting 1n London Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chief secretary for nd, prepared for an immediate ra- turn to Dublin, with instructions to con- tinue the fight, and it is understood that Lord Hartington favors the proclaiming of nationalist meetings, and the goyern- ment programme of repression in gen- eral. “HIEF objection to the proposed ex- on treaty with eat Britain r lated to the clause providing that ‘“‘a fugitive eriminal surrendered to either of the high contracting parties shall not, until he has had an opportunity of re- turning to the state by which he has b surrendered, be detained or tried for crime committed prior to his sur other than the extradition erime proved by the facts on which his surrender w granted.”’ This was in accordance with the principle msisted upon by Great Britain, but which has always been de- nied by the government of the United States. The concession on the part of the American minister met with con- siderable adverse criticism, although Mr. Phelps said that it wovld be impos- sible to establish any extradition arrange- ments with Great Britain without ac- knowledging this principle. The ob- jectors have now been confounded by a decision of the supreme court of the United States, in the case of Ker, extra- dited from Pern, in which the princivle is fully aflirmed. Itis the first time the court has passed upon the question, and the decision 15 timely since it will do away with one source of oppc to the proposed treaty which might hay proved a serious obstaele to the con- summation of any arrangement, 1T may make a newspaper article more dable in the eye of the reporter to fill it with a broud brogue and ribald profan- ity which the subject nttacked does not possess or use, but wd doiibt whether it helps the cause of the paper which per- sists in pursuing such a policy. Ma mmings 1s not an Irishman in the ce, and if he were' thé langus cribed to him by the reporters of papers whose business it is to attack him would not be used. The Irish are not such blackguards and ignoramusésasthe young men who baye been trying to caricature the marsbal under the presumption that he is an Irishman, would have their readers believe. Their lampoons are being resented in quarters where such resentment might be expecte der THE county commissioners have packed their gripsacks, boarded the train and are off once more on a trip of “ingpee: tion,"" which will cover all the prin cities of the union and several thousand miles of travel, This time, hospitals are the objects of their quest and architects to whow the hospital plans way be sub- mitted. Incidentally some sight-secing may be thrown in, and the impaired heudth of the members of the board will be given a chance to improve ander sea air and & chevge of diet. Tbe pale | roses, | a change of water se | to of Princo | | meaty” cheeks of Commissioner O'Keefe will doubtl once more rogain their nd the Waterloo malaria from which Commissioner Corlis has been suf- fering for so long will probably yield to and hotel fare. Jons Cuvrenine's bad blood runs in the veins of his descendants. The Duke [ of Marlborough, who is now figring in | | the Ca is the most of a viciou d npbell divorce suit, disteputable example depraved aristocracy which even Eng- land can produce. He s worthy great grandson of & venal and debauched an cestor, the Missouri between Council Blufis and Omaha has been introdvced in congress, We h had a naif dozen bridge bills but only one bridge as yet spans the river, Fewer bills and more building would mect a long felt want, Axortuen bill to bridge SOME OLD PEOPLE, of New Hampshire, one, makes powerful po- ¥x-Governor Berry, at the age of nine litical speeches. Manuel Barrinet and his wife Maria celebrated the of marriage at M band 15 102 and the wife %, Mis. Sarahi T. Bingham, who recently died at Brady's Bend, Pa., at the age of seventy- nine, was one of the young girls who strewed flowers in the pathof Lafayette at his recep tion in Pittsburg in 1824, Emperor William has requested the artists of Berlin to modify their brogramme for the proposed fetes on the nineticth anniversary of lus birth, There will be no public demon- stration, as it is understood that the emperor is desirous that the day be passed quietly. Mis, Langer, ninety-three years of ge, epresenting one of the ollest ereole fami- ties, died in New Orleans a few days ago. At her recent birthday celebration there were present descendants to the iifth gener- ation, several of them coming trom France. William Shoemaker, a veteran of the war of 1512, and perhaps the oldest citizen of the county, died at his residence near Chestnut Mound, Tenn., Nov. 24, 1lis exact age was not positively known, but from reliable data in possession of the family he was believed 10 be about 102 years old. “The oldest voter at the election in Connec- ticut was Levi Johnson, of Torrington. e 47 years of age, was born a slave in 'Con- necticut, was nvoter in 1865 Ilis father was a slive in Southington, Conn,. and his wother a runaway slave from New York. He is one of only two or three colored peo- ple in the nutmex state who were once Con- necticut slave Mirs. Harriet Beeche have tieth anniversary of their moras, Mexico, The hus- Stowe s 7 years old, depresse characteris s with frequent huwmor, Thoush since her husband she expresses herself as consideranly more interested on the other side of Jordan than upon this earth she enjoys a hale old age and maintains her cheerfulnes: Chief-Justice Waite of the United suprente court has reached his 70th biv and Is now eligible for retren n a pension of 510,000 a vear. He is still rous, b < with no apparent inten- tion of S to bis tora may have g hX t. Justice Ficld, Mille are aiso eligible for retirement on full pay, but none has ex- pressed a desive to leave the bench. = Guod to be Bad. New Yor Itis not such a bad thing at this time of atly with her and_clear jude touches of he Sent to Florida and boarded at the expense of the government. e The Public y's Bulwarks. Ol City Blizzard. The public schools ofa city are its bul- warks, and any pruning in tbat quarter is the falsest_economy. Even public impro ments and charities should be a secondary consideration to its schools —— No Gettysburg In It, New York Herald, Announcement is made that a periedical known as the Congressional Ttecord will sume at once. It appeals to public recos nition as the only magazine in the country which does not print articles on the battle of The £rime Donna’s Indorsement, Phitadelphia Press., What purports to be an_indorsement of a certain style of pianos by Patti has been in- dignantly repuaiated by that lady. In the absence of specific denial we are obliged to assume that her recommendation of a certain brand of soap is genuine, el A Napolcon in’ Pet Boston Herald. The pluckiest woman in America to-day is AMrs. F. 11. Thurbe But that is not is the most executive, and an out-an-out Na- voleon in petticoats. The only objection to this comparison s, the emperor didn’t care a fig for music, while Mrs. Thurber is the em- bodiment of the art and loves it with her head as well as her heart. Ah Ha! Teras Siftinge, harp quick blows—bing! bing! that Sullivan knocked Ryanout! Bingin’ on the Ryan, as you might say. o How Prohibition 18 Prohibiting in Kansas, It is a very poorly informed man who does not know thata respectably appearing man can get all the liquor he wauts in Topeka by signing the desired application, We don't know that this statement was ever denied, Certainly, anybody who took the trouble to solve tho problem would not deny it, —— Sands of Death, London Academy Death, men say, is like a sea Th rulfs mortality, Lrea s, dreadful, blindingly Full of storm and terror, Death is like the deep, wnar Pleasant when we eome to Covering up with tender hand he wave's drifted en onts. Life's a tortured, booming guiee Winds of passlon strike and urg And transmute to broken surge Foaw-erests of ambiiion. Deatt’s couch of golden grounad, Warm, soft, perieable mound, Where troi even memory’s sound We shall have remission, - Rtailroad Rebates and Discrimination Poor Max's RaNcHE, Counry, Neb, Dec. 5, 1836.—To Editor: A story is told of an Indian who was looking for a short old man with a long gun and a bushy tailed dog asked what he wanted with the men he said he had stolen his meat. “*Did you see him?” *No.” “Then how do you know that a short old gunand a bushy tailed dog stole your “I know he was a short mun because T saw where hie had piled up the wood to reach the meat; 1 know he was av, old man from his foot prints; [ know le had u long gun for I saw where be aned it against a tree; I know he hada hy-tmled dog for where he had shaken it.” story is very good cirenwmstantial evi: dence. Aud there is plenty of such evi dence in regard to other Tuke, for exawple, the lur steais l\n:l l\mu;.h at times | When | man with a long I saw in the snow | The Indian’s | our country, the Standard Oil company, which monopoly would have been impos sible without help from the railronds Go to the railroads and them the rate from the e to Omaha on o1l in barrels w the road freighting them own the cars Then ask the rate fr in tank cars, the shipper furnishing own car and tank, and they say you must pay fifteen dollars more than the barrol rate. You then ask can I get any re The: sno. Anything for my vicet d'hey say no. Do all pay this price? Yes. Then w Standard Oil Company and their branches owning thousands of tank cars must pre fer to put miliions of dollars in tank cars, and loose fifteen dollars a trip nd mil Tions of dollars in outfit to accommo the public. We h no means of secing their books, but we know from the cir cumstantial evidenee how to measure this gun. Then there are forty or fifty more lines, White lin on that are run on the could be the object earnings so the public may not know what is being done. As the railroads have been before the courts more often in regard to_ their connection with the § 101l Company than with any other, more is known of these than any others. Hudson's Railways and the Repub- lie devotes a whole chapter to thissubject we make some extracts, He “For seven since siishment of its absolute empire, ard Oil company as a_journal 18t puts it, has ballied the trade of the country, wholesale and retail alike, With its power to control the retail trade, at one time checking shipments and glut ting the market with crude oil, at an other taking exactly the opposite course, accompanicd by its” almost unlimited re- sources for manipulating the specuiat exchanges, and by the constant _rebates which at one time amounted to §10,000,- 000 in sixteen months-—-the accumulation of wealth by the Stundard has been un checked. Tis resources, which in 1873 v £1,000,000, and in 1878 had grow ),000,01 e now rated at the enor mous sum of §100,000,600. It has been claimed that (his vast agge tion of wes Allll has been ereated by superior bus- One writer ‘says: *In one sense the Standard is entitled ull it h Its energy, foreshight, sharpness and caleulating precision” of probabili- ties have brought it with exceptional luck its vast accumulation of wealth Wd power and prop This ig an erronous view. Itis true that the Standard has been managed with ability. I'he greatest foresight and audacity were required to conceive the monopoly and to obtain from the railways the fave which established 1t. If a highway rob- hould gain vast plunder by bribing ailways and the courts to et himjrob trains with impunity, his remarkable boldness of conception ‘and soundness of judgment in_ selecting his tools, would be neknowledged. But he would own his wealth not to his ability, but to nefa- rious corruption and violation of duty on part of those whose business it is to teet the public. In like manner the abil- ity and energy of the managers of the ndard Oil company would never have given them more than local imports had not been favored by the s'with rebates and privilages that bled them to crush competition. Nor could that monopoly have been main- tained without the corruption of legisla- me plan. What to The railroad diser ions were pluinly shown in the suit of Scofield, Shurmer i : Lake Shore re which was tried in Cleveland. The pr ident and genc ger testifiod th his road, ever since his connection with ity hud given better rutes 1o e Stundard to other relineries. The agent’s testimon 0 cter of that diserimination in the Lul\ll t the Standard at one time en- ate to Chicago of 85 cents per in tank cs v tho tafil rate was 80 cents i Upon tis avernge shipments, therefore, the Standard bad a mar win of profit of enabling it on t s to defy competi- at wrong for the peo- ut what of the stock- e been wronged out of $1,000,000¢ If aroad is operated under a charter, it must do bu s within the meaning of that el r. Why can- not any stockholder maintain a Suit at Jaw und regain all rebate moncy paid by the road? Simply because aman is an oflicer of aroud doee not mean he can pocket what ear, lln\[.,w he pleases. “Think on these lhmg DaN PoorMAN. -— THE LAST OF THE BUFFALOES. What Scene is Presented at Some Far-Western Railroad Siations. A correspondent of the Anmerican-Field writes ganphically as follows: Those of your readers who have never erossed the Mississippi river in quest of lurge game would do well to hasten if they expect to find anything left for them to shoot. Fif yeurs agzo [ made my first far-woest p. Then the buftaloes and ante lopes were in such numbers that the pas- sengers on the railroad to Denver shaugh- tercd them from the car windows. ‘The train was not infrequently delayed while the bovines were crossing the tracks, and the plainsmen thought antelope too eusy u prey, by reason of their tamenc. s, to bother with. To- day there is probably not one wild buftalo remaining. Think of it! Of the countless thousands that a few years roamed onr prairies there is to- duy not one in existence. Ihe hunter wlio gets seventy-five cents for a dollar This vle to endure. holders who I and the bloodthirsty native e done their work—nothing "but piles of bones remain, “Your readers can form some concep- tion of how villainous the eruel hter has been when they learn, as 1 lately did, thaut from one_station alone (Minnewau- kon, on the Northern Pacific railroad) the shipment of buffalo bones gath, 1 from the praines and sold for fertilizers averaged for more than n year seventy- five car londs daily. This re rmous, alost ineredible 5,000,004 of the: one locality, bratal greed “1sand yon a photograph of a not un- common sight at any ot t{he st newly opened rouds. The pile it a fortnight ago, was about high and 300 Iung There lesson in it to my mind, though it too late “The L in July the bailings of the r I'here is somethi number » noble animals, crificed to man’s terrible comes killed one of Irond at Jamestown hetic to me in that t head and its place of deposit. ltis hk the tophy winch the wiarrior hangs to b tent pole, o \p on the Indian's girdle.” - One of the heavies' cat Wyoming is Colonel &. T | is a1 the head of one of the Ia compunics in the territory, Iu con attle business he told the ) is repeated by sll t wers who coume to New Yor | In the matter of raising cattle they wondertully prosperous, the herds beivg the ter of selling beef 13 g and the low prices com 2 not at all satisfactory ~ ner in Fayette , wits recently tik of gypsies that passed ghborliood. One of them told him if wuld place 23 in an old stump and ve it ovor night it would be doubled m the morning, ch he tricd, an thit The gypsy thei | to put $700 in the same place, but. on | going to the scump the uext morning | fotinaney” aud gypsy were, of vourse, ruisers Babbitt of who At Wes! bad county, nin by 0 the 1 gon bim st monopoly 18 | goue. m the east to Omaha his are to understand that the , Blue line and o to absorb the sk and a half skin; the coroncted forcigner | ! Kirkwood. OMAHA'S (0AL il undoubtedly attracta large nwinber of people, establishing many manufactories, and the city will no doubt be increased to « population of 200.060 within 2 years. thus incaeasing the value of all real estate in the city. ANl suburban property now will be inside property then. Everybody that has bought reul estate here has wmade from 100 to 1,000 per cent on the cash, they harve in- vested, and the same thing is bound to con- tinwe. We have a large list of hargains of both inside and suburban property. Hereis a partial list: Block 18, Credit Foncier a ton, S lots, trackage each sid within two blocks of coal Bar f-room 9.room $6,000. G-room house, In sociation, POXES A, east 110! #3,500. pom hon G heated by stea gas, fu s barn, ete., Leavenworth, $7,700. House, 8 rooms, 2 lots, Windsor Place, 2 blocks west Park, $5,200. House and lot i e, Idlewild, 85,100, 1dlowild, mew, o zin near Lowce's addi- new house in Hanscom Place, Catherine street, 10 rooms, hicated by furnace, best the city. Bargain. s, addition, £2,%00; £100 balance 825 Fine lot in Washington $2,300. BAKER PLACE, er which more than any other within 5 " Wal the Be I Line, 1 Square lots Tor » $500, o #10 per ese lots willdoubie in value within a year, naking a profit of 1,000 p the ash paid, Come in at once and get what you want for they will S00N Zo. We also make a specialty of sale, r property with us. We 11 for you. We have aere property north, i and west. We nise have property Kinds for sal bargza: all lots, 66 foot fi ast, 2 s, with small house, m E. V. Smith’s add, cable line built within 2 blocks. This will muke four lots of 40ix120each. $6,500. Only §2,000 cash, Must be taken at once. This will sell for $10,000 in the spring A bargain. House 7rooms, 1ot 1005120, in Omaha View. Price $3,%0, §1,000 cash, balance to snit A bargain, 160x166, on $1,600, §1 Coruner lot, 60x120, 1 2,000, $750 cash. A bargain. 50x140, on 2011 Smith's add, §2,700, §1,800 cash 25x150, near Wiltiam st, on 5 13th,store building, 2 stories, rents for 6250 por month. §4,500, terms eusy is a bur gain, will net you 17 per cent per your on rge herman ave,, in ) cash wirmount Pince, ,in 15,V | nvestment., 20x150, adjoining the above, with two story frame store huilding, rents for §50 or month. $1,000, torms casy. This 15 a all at once us this is on ! ket but a short tine One whole lot in South Omuha in busi- ness part, &1,200, A burgain T'wo houses, ono of 12rodms and one of 3 rooms, rents for §0 a month, in Hor- bach's add. 84,000, $1,000 cush, 8 bargain, . House of 10 rooms, rents for 0 per month, in h's add, 3,000, $1,000 cush Eight-room hon add, rents for §:40 $1,000 e and barn, {1 per mouth hach's 10, R Archer, CH.So olker 11609 FARNAM STREET ' Room 2, Redick’'s Block 2ud Floor.