Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1886, Page 4

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Der. sonday, De B reday, Dec, ednesday, Dee, *Thursday, Dec, 16 Friday, Dee, 1 lation, 11 Average., GEo. 1, Subseribed and sworn to befor day of December, A, D., 18%, N. P, Frir, ISEAT Notary Public Geo. B Taschuek, being first duly sw deposes and says that he i3 secretary of th Jice Publishing company, that the actual av eraze daily cireulation of the Dally Bee for the month of January, 185, was 10,57 coples, for Fubruary, 188, 10,505 copies; for March, 1850, 11,557 coples: ‘for April, 188, 1 s ¢ for May. 1880, 12,459 copies: for Jine, 1856, 12,208 copies: for Juily, 1886, 12,514 copie for August, 156, 12,461 co Sentember, 1856, 13,050 copies; for Octoher, 153, 12,050 T, 1886, 13,348 copic: Gro. B, Tzsenver. Sworn to and subseribed betore me this 6th day of Noyember, A. D, 155 [SEAT N. P, Frar, Notary Public. ANp now the city contractors insist that they shall be “‘let alone” or olse hey pronose to make it warm for Vin Wyck, Here's a state of things. A St. Louis grand jur seveaty-two indictments fc the election laws. St. Lou eratie stronghold It will be a ¢ has returned violation of is a demo- ngerous experiment for the city ter into any contracts whose validity may afterwards be d puted by the taxpayers who are most di- rectly inte ested, —— SeNaTtor Jiv Wirsow, of suddenly blossomed out into anti-monopolist. The warm of an approaching senatorial clection started the bud and opened the flower, —— Eviry railrond crossing within the city limits ought to be guarded by a Mlagma With the inereasc in the number of t and i switching many of the most dan £OTous crossings are entirely witl teetion has rampant (tniosphere us ut pro- Tue coal question has not been per manently shelved by any means. There need be no fear of that. The fullest ex- plerations will he made of the vem be fore final judgment will be pronounced s toits ya ¥ the can committee cide upon a few unimportant p difference, i the Indian severalty bill, the untutored savage will koon own his own home. ‘Thie next problem of inter will be how to make him stay on it can of ints AMONG all the he bickerings of the rival candidates for senate the fact looms up mto prominence that Senator Van Wyck is the only com petitor for whose choice 40,000 popu! votes were cast at the late election —— Miz. RANDALL carried twenty-five dem ocrats with him over to the republican minority in his defeat of the reform con sideration. Mr. Randall's democratie following in congress scems to be just large enough to serve the purpose of the eastern manufacturing monopolists, ———— Tue first officinl pronunciamento of the new Freneh eabinet is for peaco. The critics who | oted the downfall of the latest ministr, iin o week of its or- gaumzation e proved false prophets. It promises to last over the holidays, at least, which is by no means a short ten- ure of oftice, as Fronch ministrics go. — art burnings and 1s8'1 it about time that the treasury de- partment should cease coming to the res- cuc of the stock gamblers who tie up money in serene confidence that the woy- ernment will reliovo the stringency by anticipating intercst ments? The United States treasury should be some- thing more than an annex of the New York stock exchange. We would like Mr. Con Gallugher or Mr. Jim Creighton to explain what they moan by charging through the Herald that the Ber is trying to dragoon them into the support of Van Wyck, They have always professed great anxiety for Lis re-election, but we didt not know that their friendship for Van Wyck was to de pend entirely npon the letting of paving and curbing esntracts in the city of Omaha, —— It 11As been a disputed question for a long time whether employes have any right to inventions which they may make Various decisions huve been given on the subject by patent lawyers. Some authol ties have held that unless a man con tracted away his inventions as well as his time, his proverty interest in any inyen tion he might perfoct was vahd, It nas often been held, howover, that the work must have been done out of the time paid for by the employer. A recent decision of the United States supreme court cloars up the whole matter, and gives the em ploye every adyantage in such a case, Says the court An employe of a corporation making an in- vention in the direct line of its business while inits pay, rand using waterial and labor wholly paid for by it, but under no special contract to invent for it, aud their belng no cirenmstances from which it might faurly be inferred that be was required or expected to invent for it, does not thereby give such cor poration a right to an assignmeut of the patent granted for such lnvention, This certanly seems to be a reasonable conclusion. The property lies in the ides, and that would be the work of the em- ploye,in such a case. B PRSP | Semator Van | everywi | for thos THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, onest Democrats It is interesting to note the difference between the way in which honest demo- crats view the approaching senatorinl contest and the manner in which it is considered by men of the party who look upon the democratic minority as a club to defeat rather than as a means to further the demand of the people for Wyck's re-clection. The New York 1World of recent date has the following editorial n - the situatio “It Is not easy to see what the demoerats of Nebraska expect to gain by eontributing to the defeat of Senator Van Wyck, in view of the large republican majority in the legisla ture. Senator Van Wyck Isan honest and courageous public seryant, and ono of the most vronounced opponents of monopolies and corrupt corporations to be found in the west. The bitter opposition of the railroad 1ings s a strong testimonial to his character, It {he senator from Nebraska is to be a re- vublican, the democrats could not do a better service to their country or thelr party than to lielp return Mr. Van Wyck. The World is probubly the most inf comment ) en tial democratic paper in the country. It is removed above the petty jealousics and rivalries of our local politics, It upon Nebraska democerats only of the great national political o tion and not as & small minority in a republican state to be led by the nose by the tools of the whose only t to compuss looks corporations nt fight i the defeat of an able and hones tative of the people. Honest d ¢ will applaud the po: the 1t ecnusa it \ ohject in the pre reprosen mocrats on of protense Wayck democratic in sterling rey e iended to what small nolitical minovity can give him be cause “he is an honest and conrageous public servant” and beeause “itis not casy to see what the democrats of Nebrask: expect to gain by contributing to his de foat.” On the other hand Mayor Boyd has had himself interviewed in' local paper on the senatorial situation and the posi tion which the democratic members elect may be expected to take in the coming contest. Mr. Boyd until recently was o of the political firm which claimed a monopoly inthe distribution of federal patronage in this state. The clection of John A, MeShane caused dissolution of the partnership but the ex patronage peddier still hankers after the handling of the flesh pots. The wayor believes that there will be no dewoers who will for Senator Van Wycek from the He urges strongly a party that all democeratic hould be east for Judge Broady. Mr. Boyd is fully that e 1sn’t the ghost of a chance for the ly or other , and every democratic cast for candidate is simply thrown away so far as the democragy is coneerned. But the overshadowing fear of Mr. Boyd and his following is not f. the inte is to support hie is luckir is com member vote tart canens and Of e th an, that vot ts of the democratic party but of General Van Wyek's oppo nents, They propose to mask themselyes behind the party ery to draw any strength which Van Wyek might secure from democratic representatives of re publican constituencies pledged to vote i accordance with the instructions of the men who eleeted them. Their aim and object is to defeat the will of honest democrats who, knowing the imposst bility of clecting a member of their own party, are anxious to contribute to the success of “‘an honest and coun public servant,” Thercin lies the d ence between the honest and dishonest werats — Senatorial Obstruction. When the inter-state commerce bill agreed upon by the conference com- mittee was submitted in the scnate on Wednesday of lnst weck, it was at once made apparent that no cffort would be spared by the opponents of the measure, and of any regulation of the railronds by congress, to obstruet its consideration and delay action upon it. Mr. Platt, member of the conference committe. cast the first stone at the biil by refusing to sign it, his ground of objection bemg the 1se prohibiting pooling e indications since the submission of the bill bave shown more decisively the purpose of its opponents. The railrond lobbyists have been pushing their work with great zeal and undoubtedly with effect. The railroads have very carnost and trustwortiy friends in the senate, whom they can depend upon in any emergency, These may be counted on to give them eflicient aid in the present juncture. Senator Cullom has given no- tice that he will again call up the confer- ence report when the senate resames its session after the lolidays and insist upon 1ts consideration from day to day until it is disposed of. There is no restriction to e in the senate, so that the subject miay be kept before thatbodyas long as there is any senator who desives to talk onat. 1t is believed that iteannot be dis- posed of before the end of January, and if the obstructionists are able to carry it wlong until that time, with only a month of the present congress remaining, the chanees of passing the bill at the present sion will be no better than those of tare. ‘Ihis is what the opponents of the measure, who are represented in both parties, are aiming to accomplish, with onsiderable likelihood of success. [t they are performing solcly in the interests of the corporations and with- out rogard to those of the poople. It is not because the bill is defective and un- satisfactory, though this will be the ex- cuse, that they will obstruct and delay action upon it, but for the reason that the railroads they serve us uttorneys or are otherwise interested in do not want any such legislation, or seeing 1t to be inevita- able desire to be relieved of its cflects as long as possible. The probable course of the senate in this matter promises to be another impressive example of corporate vower in influencing legislation where its interests, in opposition to those of the people, are involyed. Organizing Negro Labor in the South, he eftorts of the Knights of Labor to bring the pegro laborers of the south into thut organization creating a pro- found sensation in portions of that sec- tion, with South Caroling quite naturally foromost in opposing the mnovation, Dispatches from that state for several days past have noted the greatest excite- ment smong the planters and other em- ployers of labor, which has been im- parted in s greater. or less degree to other clusses of the whitg population, unutil the whole commounwealth gppeurs | Val Verde, i onera 1a're 1 be in a fever of disqnietude and appre. hension. A bill has passed one branch of the legislature and is pending in the other making it a conspiracy to organize assemblies of colored laborers. ‘The press quite generally 1s arrayed against the movement of the Knights, and is of course the wmost influential agency in disseminating Imaginary dangers and stimulating the fears of the people. Itis not reported to what extent actual organ- ization of negro laborers has progressed, but it is evident that the mission of the Knights has produced a widespread in- terest among them favorable to organi- zation, and that the influence of the preachers of that race is being thrown in that direction. Meanwhile the representatives of the Knights are braving threats ainst their lives in pursuing.theiv missionary work of bringing the negro laborer under the guidance and protection of their organi zation T'he policy of the Knighits in this mat teris shrewd, wise, and 1 the interest of Iabor generally. Its motive unguestiona- bly is not magnanimity or a special con cern for the welfare of the negro labot- ers in the south, but solely of cxpediency in the interest of labor everywhere, 1t the movement suceessful the negro will profit by it. It will secure him a better return for Ins Jabor. 1t will give him o higher and juster estimate of the value of his work, It will increase hi self-respect and stimulate him to better endeavor, It will awaken in him a sense of personal worth and also of poer- All these de sirable conditions, necessary to that i provement and advancement of the negroes of the south which overy fair- minded man hoves for, But the poliey of the Knights is more comprehensive than this in having as its chief object the removal of the negro workers of the south from the position they are vapidly taking as dangerons competitors of white labor, and placing them on an equal footing with the latter. With the rapid progress of every form of indns- trial enterprise in the south the de- mand for negro lahor grows, and worke of this race are crowding themselyes into nearly all mechanical de- partments. In most of these they show remarkable quickness and aptitude, and itis only a question of time when skilled negro mechunics will be very numer- ous in the south. At present their labor is subject entirely to the vaiuation placed on it by the employer, and this is likeiy to continue so leng as they ave left to struggle for the means of sul without any sensc of mutual ob! and with no power of mutual prot It is to remedy this condition, which 1f continued must prove us damaging to the interests of white laborasto the ma il welfare of the negro, that the Knights have started the movement in the south for organizing the negro lab ors It is evident that the poliey will most aggressively opposed wherever it is sought to be carried out, and its general suceess may be regarded as somewhat problematical. It encounters not only a trong and deep-seated prejudice, but the h fears of the peopl But even if not entirely suceessfulit cannot fail to do #ood m avousing public sentiment to.the necessity of giving the negro labory tairer freatment than he now receive What Do They Mean? Lverything that may be said now hy this.paper about any question o f polic whether it be charter amendnients, grad ing, paving or street sweeping, is dumped into the political hopper of the Miller Boyd organ and ground ont as grist sainst Van Wycek, The latest and most idiotic concoction is the hue and ery raised by the Herald concerning our ad vice to the council to Leep within the legal bounds in letting puving contraets. This is denounced as a bullde scheme on the part of Vau Wyck to bring the Creighton-Murphy Company to his support. - Was there ever anything more bsurd? Has 1t come to this that the city questions cannot diseussed without tangling up Van Wye in the controversy? Arc wo to remain silent about jobbery or schemes to foree contracts through the conneil in violation of law just because Van Wyck 15 a can- didate for reclectiony The Bre has some mterests to guard and policies of public benefit to advocate besides the reelection of Van Wyek, It has always fearlessly discussed matters that concern tax payers, and it has can- vassed them without regard to politician: contractors, ward bummers or senator candidates. It will continue to pursu, this course without regard to friend or foe. If the Creighton-Murphy paving com- pany have inspired the blaster and bravado of the Omaha Herald because this paper has scen fit to advise the coun- cil to go slow about letting paving con- tracts, for which there is no money avail- able, they will presently discover that ate barking up the wrong tree, AT L sonal responsibility be be Omaha & Texas Railroad, Few Nebraskans have any conception of therich trade of the southwest and espec- wly of the great cotwon interests of Toxas, To give our readers an idea of the traflic in which Omaha would largely share by the building of the southwest raitrond to he Panhandle, of Texas, as a northern outlet for the San Antonio & Aransas Pass railroad, we copy the following from the San Antonio Express of the 18th instant Last season, through partial drouth and the great storm, the cotton erop in most of the territory indicated was eonsiderable of a failure, and it should also be remeibered that in many of these counties agriculture is only comparatively iu its infaney, but prom- ising rapid cevelopment with each suceeed- ing year. Yet Mr Runge estimates the cot- ton yield in these counties for the year 1556.7 as follows: Llano, 2,000; Mason, 4,000 cosa, 1,000: Bandera, Lastrop, : Bexar, 1,700; Blanco, 2.500; Caldwell, 10,000: Comal, 6,000: Dewitt, 5,500 Frio, 500; Gilles: pie, & Gonzales, 8,500; Guadalupe, 5,000; Hays, 5,000; Karnes, £000; Kendall, 1,500; Kerr, 1,000 Lavaca, 14,000; Meding, 60; Uvalde, 150; Wilson, 2,500; Bee, 200; Goliad, 1800; Live Ouk, 130; making a total of 100,85, Or ray in round numbers one hundred thou- sand bales of cotton alone, with & poor erop raised in San Antonio territory this year— aud with the Aransas Pass road runniug to the gulf, to Cuero and Hallettsville, and to the northwest, it would be reasonable to move the lines further east and north of where the Express las located tuem. The wbove list, it should be remexwbered, does no embrace near all the counties naturally trib- utary to this eity. There should be added at least the counties of Kiwble, Conclio, Tom Green, Pecos, Presidio, Crockett, Menard, Edwards, Kinuey, Maverick, 830 d atbe best Survapariilain by warses Dimmit, Webb, Fn, alle, Zapata, Zavalla, Duval, Nueces, Refagio, San Patrlclo and Start, which, with those first nasmed, embrace an ares of 05,550 square miles, a territory greater in extent than that of any one of the United States, exconting Texas, of course, and California, and to this immense trading tield must also be added a portion of Mexico ncatly as large as all N England Alarge percentage of all this trade could be secured for Omaha by building the often suggested railroad to the Pan- handle of Texas-£Rss than four hundred miles in an air lidd In addition to this Texas trade we wolild scoure a large per- centage of trade from Central Kansas and Southern Nebraska now tributary to Kansas City, The prospects opencd of the development of a vast trade terri- tory are in themsclves sufficient reasons for urging the building of such « road AL the railronds entering Omaha pushed to accommodate the traflic which is accorded their rails, The year is clos- ing with an cnormus business. And next year will far surpass the record. CURRENT TOPICS, Monsicur Rajou, a French artist, is to paint a portrait of Mrs, Cleveland in Washington, Out of £17.000,000 worth of raw silk sent from Japan annually this country takes one-half. Heavy earthquake shocks have ocenrred in Chili, and an old voleano on the shore of Lake Managua, Panama, is in eruption, The ukase has been issued, and hence forth no fashionable woman witl wear a high hat or bonnet to any place of amus ent, Congress is to be asked to appropriate 200,000 to oven the James river, Virginia from Richinond to the sea, so that Richmond may be made a port of entry, The will of the Iate Richard Porkins, of Boston, provided bequests to educational e institutions of $237,000, “I'he Massachusetts Institute of Technology gets £100,000, Mr. Edward Booruan, of Findley's ke, N. Y. hasa picture of his mother, himself, his daughter, her daughter, and her baby. ‘T'e picture represents five generations, all in zood health, A kinderzarten and free dispensary have been dedieated in Ciiigago. The late Joseph Armour left §100,000 for the establishment of the institution, and his brotber, Phil. D, Avmour, the pork-packer, added $150,000, Jay Gould was offered the entire right of way and franchise of the elevated railway system in New York before it was con- stracted for $250,000, but he didn't take it, ‘The system now earns 10 per cent on It $26,000,000 capital, — Improved Red Men. Chicago Rambler, uper ha: n article on “lmproved Lied Men It Indians are meant, it must refer to dead ones, R Plenty to Spare. New Yorle Woyl M. Stanley, the explorer, has been ix rupted in a course of lectures and summoned peremptorily to Europe by the King of Bel- gium. Can’t the Belgian monarch be in duced toallow Mr. Stanley to remain ana twenty or thirty other lecturers at ran- We have plenty to spare. or- Conyi plomats, New Yorl: Mercurys The civil service system or something else docs not appear to work altogether correctly in the case of our diplomats. Sad stories have been made public concerning the con- vivialities of our minister to Mexico, and of an envoy extraordinary who preceded him and now comes tidings that our minister at Corea has departed from that conntry for the reason that his exeessive enthusiasm (to put it mildly) does not suit the chimate, There seems to be something the matter with the president’s poliey of appointments as ap- plied to foreizn courts. Perhaps it is mug- wumpery. A genuine demoerat is thoroughly seasoned against foreizn wiles and wines. A Remedy Fails, Boston Lircord, Dan’l, why does my rheumatisim hold on “Itisa son's time. “But, Daw’l, one so-called proved worthless up to date.” “To what do you refe “Hot water. I've been in it ever since [re3 instated Benton, " vay it had, sire, longz before Joffer- remedy has O. Bouscaren, When the iridescont scales of youth 1 from the soul’s vet sightless view Remember well the pregnant truth; Love humankind—self-love eschew. Sensual delights ani love of zain. “I'he phantom fame, the sway of power, All thly jovs combined are vain, ‘They vanish in the fervid hour Which gave them incflectual birth. No pleasure, bought or won, is worth One hour's infantile, guileless mirth, Enjoyment born of griefs rel Of comforts given, { nangh Alone will fill the yearning heart When once trom youth it must depart, “Ihe richest, rarest gift on carth we find 1s good, unibought, bestowed on hutian- kind, 45 STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jotting: Corn isselling at 5 cents in Niobrara, Wahoo claims to be getting there in a business way. James, of nd Tsland, slipped off a box car varalyzed his right-hip, Mr. John McCreary, of Omaha, is build- ingavilla on his stock ranch on the Little Laramie river, Wyoming, The Fremont waterworks have shown pressure enough for all practical uses, and have been accepted by the city. Nebraska's Jumbo colt, weighing 810 poundds. is overmatched by o Templeton, e peith ighing 860, owned by E. E. Ldwards, 1 A full-fledged nni’:ux joint 15 running wenk mortals to thie ' grave in Norfoll Sam Tie, n meck-@ed wongol, is boss pipe hitter and gravil digger. Plattsmouth papers need lose no sleep over the guestion of a union depot for Omauha. The tottering tinder box at the foot of Man street in fhat town is a sufli- clent monument to eorporate promises and good intentions Willinm L. Tucker, of Plattsmouth, has been notified of a pension allowance of #14 u month, and # back pension of L5800, - Mr, Tucker Wiis a member of the Second Nebraska cavglry., The limited t-\pn-:’ bu the Broken Bow branch of the B. & M. runs from Broken Bow to Anselmo, a distance of twenty miles, in three how$. Track walkers follow the train to brevent vear end colisions with ox-teams. The Fremont Tribune perpotrates a stunning “bull.”” Referring to the state printing contract it says: ~ “Next year the Tribune will come in for a sharé of the steal or else there will be some com- petition in the bids.' The Plattsmouth Jouraal has opened a little iron bank for penny contributions to @ tund to test the interior decorations of the earth in that vicimty, They have a hungry hankerng for a ¢oal mine down there, but there is little danger of the moneyed men heing atiacked with un en- lurgement of the heart. Mr. John Moore and wife, while return- ing from a shoppiag tour in Lirand Island, were thrown into Wood river, near Schoupsville, by their team rupning wway.’ One of the horses was wstautly | ViR, A e 2 DECEMBER killed, the buggy demolished, and Mes Moore severely, but not fataily injured. Mr. Moore escaped bodily injiry. They had a hot and breezy time out in Aurora recontly over tho <“That it is better to marry before reach- ing the age ot twenty-five than after," The judges wisely decided in favor of the proposition. Noman endowed with a mellow weakuess for the fair sex and ambitions to contract a family ean afford to trot tamden for a quarter of a centur without a taste of the joys and bills ¢ “love in a cottage.” 1t is safe to say that marrlageable “women _mnever reach the age of twenty-five. Years follo: years, yot they count not, and the mar- ige license frequently fibs for b iny's sake. For men timé has no echarity, A cycle of seasons cuts a swath in his brow and enlarges his corns. Tho companions of a few years ago soon scatter, husines cares Send his chest to commune with his shoulders, or, mayhap, he throws on a £1,000 worth of style to hold a $300 job I'hen too, the coal box gets empty when the north wind blows and 1ast year's bills are yeton the list. Such things make mati yoarn for a change of scencry and a chance to teach a wife how she should go about kindling the morning fire. No man should reach the age of twenty-five without experiencing the joy of pushing his own baby carringe, “or dancing mild fandango with n colicky “sug plum’ at mdnight. By all m n =one at a time, Towa Items The new Odd Fellows hy cost §6,200, The new court | soon be ready for ocen A in the county burned a big hol was extinguished I'he beer keg is ot Des Moines. Baskets f have been substituted, Old Mr. Colveg, of Jefferson, ir to an interest in an estatc in France h amounts to §1,000,000, New York parties have bought worth ot Des Moines eity bonds, con- ditioned on being fornd satisfactory’ after tull investigation he oleomargarine cases in Towa have boen dismissed by the revenue coliector The apparatus furnished by the goyern. ent for testing butter was™ found unre- liable, and the suits could not be muin- tained. The lumber manufacturers of Lyons report a business for the past year s fol- lows: Lumber cut, 64,21 0 fect; num ber of shingles, 18, i50; lath, 14 000; number of men_ cmployed, amount paid in wages, §221,000 ney juil iS58 Dakot There are sixty-four members Rapid City board of trade. Eastern parties will build a tow mill at Wkite Lake if the citizens will raise them A small bonus., Yankton bus receiving sfantial boom from Nebraska since the freezing of the river ‘IThree weddings in the Russian ment in Hanson county the other were followed by festivities lasting fc cight hours—a Russian custom, Faulk county will indicate the appre ciation of the building of two great' ruil- roads into its boundaries byan immense nquet, the date of which will be ar ranged hereafter, JUROR SLUGGED. Harris, of Madison, Victim of Misfortun H of Madison, Neb., who here United States juror, has gotten himself into uncnviable notor tety by being arrested upon n char which was more or less untrue, and ear- ried to the jail. He has Dbrought smt for damages against the weople who caused his rest, and since that, has been indulg- ing ‘more or lessin ardent spirits, On Monday night, he went out on the streets, and when next scen by his friends had his eves blackencd and Ius face peunded and ‘bruized m a terrible manner, He docs not know who slugged him, or whern it was done. He has been excriscd from the jury and gone home. GOING HEAV in the a s farme settlc iy A W, H, Again a W arri NwWaRD, Another Story to be Added to the Pax ton Hotel. Yesterday morning Mr. J, B oneof the proprictors of the Paxton house, response to sume nquiries, told a Bee reporter that early m the spring they proposed to add a new story tothe hous thus making it six stories high, and giv- ing them forty more rooms. The cost of this addition, as estimated by contractor, would be $20,000. The addition will in- crease the number of the rooms m the house to 200. The managers will still r tain their control of the annex, in which they have some of the prettiest rooms in the house. The work will be finished carly in the summer, Kitchen, Benefits and Damages. The council have finally decided upon anew plan with respect to the manner of paying dumages sustained by the opening of strects. Heretofore , the method has been to have the city pay for the property injured in extending streets, but that plan has been abandoned and bereafter, the cost of the improve- ment, that s, the dumnges sustained by those whose property is util- ized in the extension will be assessed against that of those who are benefited by the improvement. This is to b done in accordance with the law, which has here- tofore operated in the matter of grading our streets. This assessment will_ be de- termined upon by the council uw' g ud 8 board of equalization. A Missing Sponse. Every day witnesses the arvival in Omaha of some anxious wife to hunt for a lost husband, or vice versa, The latest arrival is Mrs. Seroy, who hails from Sedal's Mo, and came here Tucsday night, Seroy came to Omala some ago to look tor work. The last Mrs, S heard of him was on the 17th, when she got a letter from him stating that he had broken his leg and usking her to send him his trunk. Mrs. Seroy forwarded runk as requested, and it is now in Arge of the city marshal. Luter on,she followed it to Omaba and commenced looking for her missing spouse. 8o far she has failed to discover the slightest trace of him, Ofticers of Veterans. At the annual election of Omaha Post, No. 110 G. A. R. last Monday night, the following oflicers wure clected for the ensuing year Post Commander, Chas. E. Burmester. Senior Vice Commander, A. M. Clar! Junior Vice Commander, . A. Parmeloe; Quartermaster, Simon (ioetz; burgeon, Chas. ¥, Goodman; Chaplain, Samuel B, Jones; Oflicer of the Day, Simon Bloom; Officer of the Guard, (;i.'N, Fitehett; Dele: ate to department encampment, Thos Sudborough; Alternate, W. 8. Shoe- maker, = Mrs. Gerber's Forty Dollars. Mrs. Gerber, the kzeper of a boarding house, was confidenced out of §40 late | yesterday afternoon by a follow named Fred. Miller. He bourded ut her house, said he was worth $9.000 in mines in Colorado, and promised to marry her when sho should get divorced. e got her money and skipped, and the police want biw. | connundrum, | HE HEROES, The G. A. R. Committees Antloipating The State Encampment, The annual encampment of the depart- ment of Nel AR will be held In this city ia the month of February. The local posts haye appointed com mittees to make the necessary arrange- menis, Last eyening a joint meeting of these committees from both Omaha and Custer posts was held. Comrade €, I Burmester was elected chairman, Com rade A. M. Cuseaden seeretary and Com rade A- M. Clark treasurer of said com mittoe The following sub-committees worc appointed: Hails ote., Comrades A, M Clark and E. (. Floyd; subseri tion, Comrades C, E. Burmester, B, I"in\'xl and A. M. Clark; socnring reduced raies from hotels and raiiroads, Comrade John L. Wood. he meeting adjourned « call of the chairman, T'his is the first time of late years t the Nebraska encampment has been held n this city, and a feeling is entertained that it ought to be made the oc n of a warm and public reception to the mem bers composing the same, and the friends whom it will bring to the eity. In every other town in the State, in which the on campment has thus far been held, the cit- izens have in some manner testitied to the pleasure it afforded them to weet the representative state body of the Grand Army of the Republic, This gathering always takes place with advantagoe to the town in which 1t is held, heeanse fow of the soldiers leave the vl of meeting without spending from $20 upwards, At this encampment, delogates and othor wise, it is expeeted that not than 1,500 veterans will be present. The com mittees above appointed will endeavor to work the merchants up to a prope preciatior i raska on of the oceasion, PHY MUDDLE, Much Mived tory. Jerry Murphy, the block watchman, who is acensed by the Frenchiman Jules Bronsou of arvesting him for drunken- ness and then roloasing him upon pay ment of §5, makes an altogether different statement of the affair, In substance it is this: Ie says that he did not arrest Bronson at all, and that that man was not in the slightest degree intoxicated. He says that he accompanicd Bronson to aliouse where some of his goods were being wrongly detained, and him to get “them. In doing this, he (Murphy) was assistod by young man named John Mostyn, who lives with him. ~ After leaving the house the three walked up town, aud just he- fore the Frenchman left them he gave ®1 to Mostyn, as Murphy cluims, suying that it was fo treat the boys with, Mu phy elaims that this is the whole truth « the transaction and says he can produce witnesses to prove his'statements, il Frenchman, on_ the other hand still per in his original statement He told a police oflicer that Murphy had heen to see him about the matter and had shown him five $20 gold picces, with th remark, “I'm going” to use this to prose cute you if you don’t shut up about this thing.” Bronzon says that Murphy tried to induee him to go and tell the murshal that his previous story was false. This, Bronson «ays, he declined empliatically THE Both § MU des of Up assisted e OMAHA'S NINE. Two Strong Players Eng. Club, ball in Omaha will sted in knowing that Manager Ban- le bas just signed for the league team Joe Walsh who played short stop for the old Union Pacific nine in 1883 and 1884, and achie such a good record. Walsh is a bright, actie litte player, and A No. Lshort stop, a splendid batter and a good base runner. Altogether his accession fo the team will greatly strengthen it. Harier, who caught for ihe Macon, Ga mine last year and also for the Rochest crs, has been signed as change eatehor, His abiltics are swoken of in high terms. “I shall start out about fiftcen men at first,” Manugc Bandle y “The poor ones will be dropped at i start, as soon us we discover just who yare. Twelve men will be all that need, I believe, when the nine is once permanently - orginized [ don't :»nu\v yet just wh list will o, zed For the sovers of hasc be GOVERNOR be Dis Itis a well known fact that Governor wunders now holds quite an amount of property in the city as trustee for Omaha He has held it for many years back snd recently the city instructed Mr. Connell, ity attorney, 10 take steps to secure its recover; The governor expressed a willingness to re-convey the land in question, and was about to sign the deed when a conference with the ‘attorney of the Union Pacific induced him to stay his hand. The muttor was broughit up in the district court yeste v when Mr. Pop. pleton snowed that half a dozen people at least should made co-defendants with Governor lers, among them being the Union cilic and B, & M, rouds. Mr. Connell appeared for the city, and the case will come up perhaps on the first day of the next term of court Hawes' Grit, Judge Hawes told « Ber reporter yes erday morning that he intended to write sovernor Dawes and give all the p ticulars concerning the cheek for $1,081 24 which he holds from the Umited States in favor of this state. Ho says, furthermore, that he will not hand the same over until he is puid his comwmission, which is 25 percent of the sum named. He says that since 1871 ae bns collected about #10,000 of state claims, and for which he 1as always been paid,’ and if Governor Dawes will look in hig safe, Pat cluims bs will fina his reeeipts for the swme, given to Governor James, No Truth s McCormicl pugilist, is not de n It the heavy weight « nor was he wounded in a saloon 1 Monday. To a re porter who found him in a stock yards' saloon he replied when asked about the story I'sad—nlie.”” How or where the canard originated is a mystery. There certainly must have | foundation for the story, Lut j that foundation is no one seems (5 kn Certamn it is that the redoubtab smasher is in as good condition as b Wi, Nino Hundred Feet of Sidewalk in a Day. Jim Allen, Mike Moeaney's says that sidowalks being considerable rapidity throughout the parts of the city neoding tiew. Con tractor Knowles has fifteen men working for him in the bustness each one of whon luys on an average of nbout sixty feot of six feet sidewnlk in a duy. Cable Cars, The photograph of the new Paxton building on Farunm and Sixteenth stroct, taken frow the engincor's drawings repro scnts & pair of ars_rounding the coraer of Fifte and Farnam street, foreman, Are laid with LOOK FOR 'COTNER & ARCHER'S ' Addition to South Omaha All of you who have not visital this busy place at some time, and those who have, take note of the wanderful changes that have taken place there in the past twelve months. From a dozen little shanties then,you can now seo she smoke carling heavenward from huudreds of cottages, Brick blocks can o secn on almost any corner. From two stores then the nnmber has swelled to twenty more now, with others opening out every day. They now have bauxks, a damly newspaper,'and a dozen other m nor’ enterprises. But theso nre mor nothing compared with the groat pack g industries, whieh are in_operation there, with their nds of employes and sueh men at their head as Hammond, Lipton, Fowler and Morris, the problent is solved. South Omaha will be the fu. ture packing town of the world, — There hus been more money made in real o tate in South Omaha; for the amount in- viksted, than any other part of town. Lots that one year sold for &275 are now worth from £2,000 to £3,000 and cheap at that, and there'are just as good chances now as then, and be! for the reason that we now know South Omaha will haye & nopulation of 10,000 in less than five y Now is the time to buy. Wa have a large list of property here, and would be pleased to show it "to one and all, Call and examine our list_and tako aride out and sec the town. We have a list of bargains in all parts of town; come and see same. f-room house, Idiowild, 85,600 if taken this week, B0x132, on Harney st. with 4 story bricle Rents for §3000 per year, §80,000, §16,- 000 eash, 3 lot in bloek 254, $1,%00, ance 1, 2 and 3 years. EXAMINE THIS LIST And sce if you do not find something you want 3 w, % cash bals bargain, 3 A gr e frontage. each, on 234 st house, in E. V. Smith's add, cable lino built within 2 bl I'his will make four lots of ddx1d0cach, §6,800. Only $2,000 Must be taken at once, This will $10,000in the spring win, House 7 rooms, 1ot 1005120, uha View. Price $3,500, $1,000 cash, lance to suit A bargain. 160x160, on Shermin iy, in Kirkwood. 4,600, Corner lot, 60x19 £2,000, $650 cash. A bargain. 50x140, on 20t] st., Smith’s ndd, £2,700, §1,800 cash 2 50, near William st, on S 1 building, 2. stories, rents for 62.30 per month. $4,500, terms easy. This b gain, will net you 17 per cent per year on investment 253150, adjoining the story frame store building, rents for §o0 per month. $1,000, terms casy, This 18 o great bargain, Call at on this is on the market but a short timg One whole lot in South Omaha in busi- ness part, §1,200. A bargain, Two houses, one of 12rooms and one of B rooms, rents for $30 a month, in Hors Dbacn's add. $4,000, $1,000 cash, o bargain. A ain. House of 10 rooms, rents for per month, in Horbach’s add. 00, $1,000 cash. Light-room house and barn, Hor add, rents for $30 per month, $1.000 cash, 66 foot , with small ks, , i Puirmount Place, in E jove, with two ch's 35,000, . on Dodge st, $1,500. Beaatiful lot m block 6,1fanscom Place $2,500, $800 Cor'lot in 3,100, §1,000 cash, B0x120, in Jacob's add, with store and 4 rooms above, r t §40 per month I'his on the Park ave, carline and a bar- gain, $1,600, 1,500 ¢ balance 1, 2, 4 We have farms in Towa and Nebraska to_exchange for Omaha city property We have purehasers for first mortgages on improved property Also have “money to loan at very low rates on amproved city and furm property. K 18, Credit Foncier n, 8 lols, Irackage Ks of con’ addis side, mine. , Idlewild, §5,100, ¢, Improvement As sociation, 1ot 99X 134, enst front 3,500, prroom hBowse, Georgin avenue, heated by steam, water and gus, full lot, barn, ete., near Leavenworth, $7,700, .8 s, 2 Iots, Windsor nce, peks ' Park, 4200, se and lot , $1,%00, W house 2 in Lowe's addis tio) Fine nseom some | st owhat | like & pair of blind mice, moving around | with but littde knowledge of whore they | are going or by what meaus they arc.im pelied, 10 'y hest Bargain, Catherine rooms, heated by built in the city, $#5.700, B-roq cotinge, new, 191h and Ohio streets, addition, $2,800; §100 balance 525 per month, Fine lot in Washington $2,300, Beautiful lot in $1,300, $100 cash er Luake's cash, Squiare Denise’s add I'his a bargain, lot Place s, in Mayne We have to Walnut Hiil o Wo have property for sale of town. Call and sce us 0. R, Archer, C. H. Sobolker, 1509 FARNAM STREET Room 9, Redick’s Block 2nd Floor,