Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1887, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED E\Efw MORNING. TERMA OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly (Morniag Baition) ineluding Ber, One Yoar...... For 8ix Months For Throe Mon(ha The Omaha Swnday 1 address, One Y edr. .. W YORK OFFICR. E-uu Qrrick, No.ol4 Avn 916 FARYAN STREPY ¥ TN R ABHINGTON UFFIO All communieations relating to news and o torial matter should bo addressed w the Eur- TOR OF THE BER BUSTNEAS LETTERS: Al businoss lotters and remittances should be Addressed to THE BES PUBLISHING COMPANY OMAHA, Drafts, chocks and postoffice orders t0 be made paysble Lo the order of the 00w pany, THE BEE PUELISHING COMPARY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eniton THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, }‘ > County of Donglas, | ™ Geo, B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the netual cirenlation of the Daily F for the week ending Feb, 4th, 1557, wus as follows: Tuesday, Feb, Wednesday, Feb. 2 Thursday, Fe Friday, Feb. { Average Subseribed and sworn to_in thisdth day of February A, ., 1557, N. P. Frir, ISEALI Notary Publie. Geo. B, Tzschuck, lwlnsi first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 1s sceretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- crage daily circulation” of the Daily Bee for the month of Fubruary, 1886, was 10,595 copies; for March, 1886, 37 copi for April, 1 12,191 copies: A 1880, 12,450 copies; for June, 1856, 12,208 e 1856, 12,814 copies; for August, 1856, 12,4 copics;for September, 1886, 13, 3 for October, 188, 12,080 copies; for November, 1886, 13,348 coni for December, 1550, 7 copies for January, 1587, 16,206 copies, 310, B, 'T7scnuek. n to before me this Sth 1857, .. Notary Publie. Subseribed and swor day of February A. D, SEAL.I N, Mgr. Corny earned his fee 1n opposing the Omaha charter in the senate, but common sense and common deceney iled in spite of the Beatrice bam- | = ] T BEE has never permitted its adver- tising columns to dictate its policy. The business men who express surprise that this paper should dare to offend any of its customers by speaking the truth can assure themselves of this fact, Ax assured and solid growth of this city, in population, in commercial impor- tanco and in municipal improvements must furnish the only certain basis for advancing values. A boom founded on anything else is based on the sand, IN the Frank Walters, Hugh Murphys, Con Gallaghers and railroad lobby |1 are to pass upon all legislation for Omaha before it can be passed upon by the legis- i lature, the people of this city are anxious i to know the fact as soon as possible. After that they will apply the remedy. Ox1a11a’s boom began with the incep- tion of general public improvements. It has advanced steadily as work has been muintained and the city made accessible and attractive. We cannot atford to give it a black eye now by stopping short. The pussago of the new charter with its provisions for extending the advantages of municipal life to a large section now in the country will inaugurate the heav- fest real estate boom which Owmaha has ever seén, LIBUTENANT-GOVERNOR New York, not only “pays the freight,” but he has posted in his Binghamton scale works a notice that if the year is prosperous one, he shall share profits with his employes, but if there are losses, he will not ask them to bear apart. And not only all who stay through the y but *‘all, who through ill-health or lac work are laid off, will share in propor- tion to the wages earned.” Itis safe to say that there will be no strikes in Jones of Binghamton's scale works during the coming year. Joxres, of PARNELL'S amendment to the queen’s address, as expected, was defeated by a heavy majority. Mr. Gladstone was absent. Parvell himself wasunable to champion s motion, The liberal forces fisorganized and lacking in leadership, were foreod to face an opposition largely I the majority and able to command svery coalition vote to save the ministry trom defeat. The debate was not lacking In results, It drew out the tory hatred to [reland and the Irish in full force, 1t com- pelled the ministry to show its hand on the great question of the hour, and lo commit themselves to a repressive policy which needs only to be put in force to make friends by the wholesale for home rule among English constituen- cies now misrepresented \n the house of commons. It1s by continuous agitation that a political issue gains strength, The tory Irish haters have blindly chosen the very means which is certain in the end to result in their party downfall, Tug charges of “assaults” upon Omaha comes with poor grace from men who for weeks have been banded together to defeat a plan of municipal government endorsed by its citizens and vouched for by the leading man in this community. The present unboly warfare upon the charter is the most disreputable and ma- licious ever waged upon this community, We have had charter fights before but they were conducted with the semblance of decency. In the struggle now in pro- gress & gang of roustabouts and dead beats representing no property inter sts and speaking only for themselyes are boldly attempting to override both Omaha and her representatives in the legislature to advance the personal schemes of a fow sealawags and a ring of contractors whe dread the safeguards which will be thrown around taxpayers by the charter. The real assaults on Omaha are found in the malicious slan- ders which & press drawing its support from outside this community has spread broadeast to defeat the taxpayers' char- ter. They are found mn the reckless at- tempts to poison legislative sentiment ~ and to assail the honor of men sworn to represent honest constituencies, They show themseives in the brazen scheme ~ lo obstfuct the will of the people @ order to further the inter- wts of contractors, candidates for aublic office and readerless organs of orporate mouopoly, Passed the Senate, Thepasiaga of ths Omiha chart er by the senate is a matter of general congrat- ulation. The vote by which the joint work of the taxpayers’ committee and the Douglas connty delegation was endorsed by the upper house of the legislature every reasonable assurance of its enactment as a law. The people ha are to be congratulated that their wishes are to be respected, and that a plan of municipal government adapted to the needs of a great and growing city and endorsed by our taxpayers will soon go 1nto eff The Douglas county delogation, which has manfully stuck by its colors aganst foul assault and rancorous abuse, is equally to be congratulated over the endorsement given by the senate to their honest work on behalf ot their constituents. Finally the scnate itself is deserving of con- gratulations for refusing to bo blinded by the dust raised by the encmies of the bill in order to obscure thcwishes of this people, ana for wisely throwing the ro- sponsibility for the passage of the meas- ure upon the shoulders of the men elected by the citizens of Douglas county to bear it. Tho charter now goes to the house for consideration and discussion. That body has had the benefit of three weeks’ bitter debate through the pressand in the sen- ate. There are not likely to be any well grounded reasons for delay in urging the measuro to a prompt voto and passage, with such amendments as the Donglas delegation may decide upon as nec \f Don't Slop Over. Our timely and candid caution against reckless real estate speculation has, we are told by the Herald, aroused intense indignation in this community. A num- ber of real estate dealers are quoted as erting that the boom will continue on outside and inside real estate, charter or no charter, and our advice to *‘go slow"’ on oufside real estate until after the charter is passed or defeated is pro- nounced a foul assault on Omaha and ated outrage. Coupled with this comes the reminder that the Bre has shown base ingratitude to its patrons in the real estate business in refusing to keep silent about the impending depression. in the real estate market. Now we say in all kindness to the real estate dealers, don't slop over in your un- generous and ill considered comment. Don’t allow your anxiety for commissions and heavy sales to overlap common sense or common decency. We certainly cannot be charged with selfish and mer- cenary motives in this matter. We knew that our advertising patronage would be aflected by our words of caution agai over-speenlation. We would r: forego the profitable real estate adver- vising rush than be guilty of contributing by a purchased silence to ruinous conse- quences, which might overtake hundr ofindustrions people, who are mortgaging their carnings on the prospeetive inerease of property values outside of the present limits, Let us furthermore impry the real estate advertisers that they are not g us money as a matter of charity or benevolence. For every dollar they have paid the BEE they have received profitable returns. In fact thisis the only daily paper in Omaha that keeps good faith with its patrons and does not impose on them by fraudulent claims of circulation. Let them also bear in mind that our in- terest in the future growth of Omaha is ereater than that of any real estate deater, and we can assert withont fear of contradiction that the Brg bas done more to build up Omaha at bhome and abroad than all the real estate dealers together, Omaha has al interests which are already sufler- ing by over-speculation in real estate, and it is our manifest duty, independent of our own pocket, to caution people against excess which is hable to cause a disastrous reaction in our prosperity. With all due respect for the judgment of our prominent real estate dealers, we maintain that the defeat of the new charter will depress out- side property 4 muke y unsalable for a ¥ Iti time 1 City, Minneapolis or St. £aul, The fact no use to cite Kansas that stares us all in the face is that Om outside property values can be main- tained only by assured public 1mprov ments, Take away the prospeets of e tablished grades, gas and water supply, sewerage, police protection and all that pertains to city life and commerce, and your property from four to six miles from the court house remains unprofita- ble. Cable roads may open one or two thoroughfares, but they cannot supply other wants than transportation to those who live along their lines. This is not anattemptto bulldoze real estate agents into supporting the charter, but 1tis the sober truth told to people who are entitled at our hands to reliable ad- vice and information as to the bearings ich legislation may have upon their 1 wolfare. ) Tax fteduction Postponed. Barely more than two weeks ain before congress will adjourn. The ses- sion ends by Limitation on tho 4th of March. With four-fifths of the appro- priation bills still unacted on, there is small ground for the belief that any other measures of general importanee can se- cure consideration, The session has been wasted in fruitless quarrels between the leaders of the rival democratic fac- tions and in profitless debates on matters of slight national import, The gravest subject of universal concern, the reduc- tion of taxation, to which both political parties stand pledged before the country, has failed of a hear- ing and been slaughtered by Randall in the house of its professed friends. The demand for tariff reform has been mot with specious objections of parlinmentary precedence, obstructed by lugislation cunniogly thrown 1n its path to prevent consideration, while the ene- mies of the public interest have drowned the eries of the opposition with loud pro- fessions of their burning anxiety to deal practically with a troublesome question. What are the facts? The treas i overflowing with a surplus of millions, every dollar of which represents needless taxation. Manufactures are languishiy because of heavy imposts on raw mate- rials which connot be profitably produced at home. With wages in numerous protected industries at barely more than living rates, strikes und look- outs by the wholesale occurring through- out the country, and the purchasing power of the dollar deereased by the en- hanced prices caused by the tariff on the necessarios of life, Congress resolutely sets its face against granting a hearing to the advocates of tax reduction, and hur- ries on in its work of dissipating the sur- plus 8o that no reduction may be possi- ble when an indignant people force the topic into national debate. Government statistios prove that less than seven per cent of our population are bene- fitted directly or indirectly by the exorbitant tariff taxes which are levied on the nation. Yet combined capi- tal, aided by smooth-tongued lobbyists disguised as statesmen, succeeds in ward- ing off a reduction in national taxes which would replace more than §50,000,- 000 in the pockets of the people without damage to industry or injury to labor. Booming Senator Sherman., From various quarters reports have come recently that the friends of Senator Sherman are diligently at work in his behalf for the next presidential race. The statement was somoe days ago made by the Washington correspondent of a lead- ing New York paper, on the authorit some one said to bo familiar with politi- cal affuirs in Ohio. More recently the editor of the Chicago Journal, writing from the national capital, announced his conviction that Sherman is the most available man for the republicans to nominate. He woula be more likely to carry New York than any other man not a favorite son of that stato, and the Milier-Hiscock division has improved his chance there. Pennsylvania would support him, “and the west could be or ought to be <afely counted for him.” In the opinion of the gentleman quoted by the correspondent, however, Mr. Sher- man is likely to encounter next year the same obstacle to a nomination that has hitherto confronted him-—the insincerity of professed friends in his own state. Foster is likely to be remforced by Foraker, the latter of whom is be lieved to nurse an ambltion for the second place on the ticket, and i3 there- fore suspected of having his first and chief interest in Mr. Biaine. This is not improbable. Yetit may be possible, for Mr. Sherman {o avoid this obstacle. The willingness of Mr. Sherman to be the candidate of his party is well under- stood. This should be to his advantage. Itis an assurance that 1f nominated he would infuse mto the campaign all the zeal and energy of which he is possessed. There will be a demand for the utmost exereise of these qualitics, Nobody ques- tions his claims or his cminent qualifica~ tions. The important matter of availa- bility is the only one to be determined, and it seems evident that the drift of re- publican feeling is solving that favorably to Sherman, He 1s the least likely of any possible candidate to lose ground, but on the contrary the most likely among them to advance. His position on all public questions is clearly defined. and fully understood. He has the con- fidence of capital and the respect of labor. Heas the equal of any other man in his party in public experience and the ability which makes genuine statesman- ship. Certainly with all these qualifica- tions to the eredit of Senator Sherman s friends ean haye no reason to regard the outlook for him otherswise than as hope ful, while they have in them the amplest warrant tor pressing his name upon the attention of the party. The Practical Side of Strikes, The late great strikes in New York and New Jersey, w have resulted i the defea- of the strikers, naturally di- rected attention to the cost of these dis- turbances in the loss of earnings to the persons involved and the losses incurred by the business interests affected. It may not be possible to arrive at abso- lutely accurate figures, though this can be very nearly done as to the lossin wages, while the approximation to other losses ean be made :utly close for all practical purposes, the tendency being to rather under than over estimate, Of course there are minor losses, suflered by indivduals ndirectly affected, which are never considered beeause it is impossible to estimate them, but which represent in the aggregate a very considerable sum. At the height of the strike of the long- shoremen and freight handlers there were 8,714 men idle. The average earn- ings of these men was $2.03 a day—the former making $1.56 and - the latter —so that their aggregate daily loss in wages was $17,680. A large part of these men are still unemployed, and may con- tinue so for somo time, their places baving been filled by new men who are reported to be doing satisfactory work., But up to the time that the strike was virtually ended these men had lost the earnings of fourteon days, amounting to the large total of $247,646. These figures, however, aro undoubtedly inside the actual loss sustained by these two classes of strikers, and they would be very largely increased by adding the losses of other classes who were required to leave their employment. Perhaps $400,000 would not more than coyer the loss in wages of the strikers employed in connection with the ship- ping and freight interests at New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City. Estimates made by Bradstreet's of the losses of wages by strikes from January 1 to February 10, make the grand total ot $3,000,000, an average of over $88,000 for working day of this period. One- tenth of this has been lost by industrial employes, stated to number 88,000, who were not directly involved in strikes, but were thrown out of work in consequence of them, But this is not all nor the most serious effect of the strikes, The losses to busincss have been nearly ten-fold greater. 1t is estimdted that the two wecks' trouble in New York cost the export trade of that port between three and four million dol- lars, while the bank clearances indi- cated a decrease in the value of the do- mestic trade, believed to be due to this 000,000, These figures are certainly worthy of the serious attention of all classes, and especially that of in- telligent workingmen, upon whom the sucritices incident to labor conflicts fall with the greatest severity, It can at least do no one barm to study the practi- cal side of this very important matter, Tue question of heating and lighting railroad cars is receiving very earnest attention in the east, as it should do everywhere, The legislatures of New York and Conunecticut have taken action on the subject, looking to an investiga- tion of plans, and on last Thursday the railroad commissioners of Massachusetts heard scientific opinion regarding methods of heating and lighting. A so- lution of the question as the result of these efforts cannot be doubted, and it ought to be speedily reached. The Massachusetts commissioners endorse the mothod of heating by steam from the ocomotive as “‘feasible, safo, and unat- tended by any serious dificulty, go far as important throngh trains are concerned, and also in regard to cars which are con- ntly performing short service and trains run continuonsly on a belt line.” ‘This method has boen in operation for some time on the Boston and Albany road, and is smd to have worked thus far with entire satisfaction. This road has also been experimenting for several weceks with an electrio system of light- ing, and this too is gaid to be entirely successful. As to the former the train on which the method is unsed is the most agrooably heated in the state, and has also the purest air and the best ventilation. Regarding the latter, as far as the light itself goes 1t is n complete success, The whole inte- rior of the car is filled with a flood of light as bright as noon, which is perfectly stendy and in all respects as successful asin a building. The car is detached, electrically, from everything else. Should the cireuit be broken, the lights would at once go out, and there can be no possible danger of fire from the lights if the car should be wrecked. The practicability of these methods soems to have been pretty thoroughly demonstrated, and they are unguestionably yery much safer than the coal stove and the kerosene lamp. Unless some better methods can be found, the adoption of these on rail- roads should be enforced by legislation- —_—— Turre was much sober common sense isal of a criminal, arraigned yeste! at the bar of the district court, to have counsel assigned him and which was coupled with tho remark that from his knowledgoe of the courts he would prefer to have no counsel at all rather than the breed of lawyers who ng around the bench waiting to be assigned for the defense of prisoners. It was a severe slap in the face of the average small bore shyster A viir for the inspection and con- demnation of oil is now beforo the legis- luture. A bill for the inspection and con- demmnation of legislative “oil rooms” would fill a long felt want. THE scer y of the Beatrice Western Mutual Benevolent association is O. C. Sabin and not A, C. Sabin as the types made it appear in our last issue, Tue state senato wisely concluded to let Omaha make its own charter. The house will probably not be backward in endorsing home rule. PROMINENT PERSONS, Congressman Cox is much improved in health, Thomas Edison has recoyered sutiiciently to go to his home in Fort Myers, Fla. Gunmaker Krupp's son Frederick is trying to get eleeted to the German reichstag. Richard Malcolm Johnstone, the writer of southern dialect stories, is sixty years old. George W. Cable abandoned mercantile pursuits for a purely literary life only six years ago. Sarah Bernhardt believes that touching the shoulder of a humpbacked person brings good luck. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, will be sev- enty-seven in April. He is the oldest United States senator. Dr. John II Douglass, General Grant's physician, Is preparing a complete history of the general’s case. Major Gordon, who has more relics of the ster massacre than anybody else, sold his xas ranch the other day for §500,000. John A. Logan, jr., has sold his interests in the real estate firm in Washington, and will go ingo business at Youngstown, O. Congressman Aikin, of South Carolina, is not expected to live. His illness is caused by a wound in the lungs received in the bat- tle of Gettysburg. Baron de Jaest, of Paris, noted during his life for his cruelty to animals, has left $100,000 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Chang Jen Hoon, the Chinese minister at Washington, wears blue silic over a petticoat of white brocade and sports a big diamond in a button on his black cap. Miss May Moll, of Creston, 1a., won the prize offered by the Gazette to the first lady who would take off her hat at the opera house and keep ivoff, May Moll’s tribe inei Elwyn Barron, an actor and_writer of much ability, turned up in New York last week penniless, and was arrosted as a vag- rant. He wants to go to his sister in South Carolina, Henry Clay Dean is dead and rapidly re- solving into his native dust; 1t is tneretore hardly the clean thing for the Peoria Trans- cript to speak of him as “an old landmark passed away.” Dr. Thomas A, Emmet, of New York, who owns one of the finest collectlons of Wash- ington’s letters and manuscripts in the country, is a grand-nephew of Emmet, the famous Irish patriot. General Fremont has a pleturesque pen. In his “Memoirs,” just out, he says of an In- dian encountered during his second explora- tlon: “He was a good-looking young man and as naked as a worm.” Mme. Modjeska says she will not retarn to Poland to live because she can do nothing there, Russian tyranny i3 so great, She wants to live where sho can take an active interest in whatever is going on about her, e —— Britain, Beware! Chicago Tribune, Great Britain, Great Britain! beware of the day When the Yankees shall meet thee in battle array; Fullllmlu’;: led by Ingalls flares red on my sight And Quebec's ehoicest lezions skedaddle in ght. They wmay bluster and boast of thy might and renown, - And yet Vest and his colonels will trample thee down. Bring over thy ironclads, Britain ana fain Wilt thou hustle their battered hulks home- ward afinln. ¥or hark! through the echoing elangor of war What voice peals stentorian, frantic, and ar 'Tis thine, O, great Lawler. The nation shall wait ‘Till thou comest to save the distressed Ship of State, = Weep, Albion,weep, for thy fisheries dead; Let thy te: bathe the bapless Canuck’s broken head ! From the Pole to the Isthmus our baunner shall wave; Riddleberger hath said it—Riddleberger the brave! g STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jotrings. Cedar Rapids is promised a creamery, “Fremont 15 on the ragged edge of a real estate boom, The Fremont creamery put up 20,366 pounds of butter last month, The Swedish Lutherans of Wahoo pro- Pose to erect a $5,000 church, ‘The officials of Broken Bow are trying to suppress the sale of liguor, Two keep- ers of billiard halls have been arrested for dispensing varnish on the quiet, The two days’sale of imported Perche- ] ron: horses at M. M. Cond's stables in Dodga county, netted $21,650. Twenty animals were sold at an average of $1,080. Joseph Conrath, a seventeen-year-old resident of Hat Creek, pulled a gun mnz- zle foremost out of a wagon, with the usual result. The wound was not fatal, but the local doctor had a large job pick- ing the shot out of the breast. Mild-eyed justico in Aurora is in a quandary eral fine points« in pugil- istic law have been raised by two citizens who failed to settle their dis- putes in a fisticufl; and appealed to the courts. Charles Miles, whose fighting weight is 200 pounds, is the complainant, Heo charges that John Scanlon, a deaf mute, weight 100, age sixty-two, with having knocked him out in one round, Seanlon claims the charge is a physical impossibility, and has appealed to the judge, himseif a feathor weight, todem- onstrate its absurdity in a practical way. His honor has reserved decision, and it is alleged he is lllullmg in his spare time on sand bags and an efigy of Miles. Towa Items, . The swine plague which has been rnr- ing in northeastern lowa is gradually lessening. The town of Ackley boasts of forty-five young ladies f'u-x( past twenty who are ready and willing. A Hardin county tobacco grower has taken out a manufacturer's licenso and will work up his tobacco into home made vigars, By the tiberality of a gentleman whose name 18 not made publie, lowa college, nnell, 1s to hayve one of the best telescopes in the west, M;-mh-nhu]l, who killed Hines in a row at Panama in December, 1885, con- victed of manslaughter and given six years in the penitentiary. Another vein of coal, fonr feet five inches thick, has been struck in the bor- ing on the Alderman farm, just west of Nevada, at the depth of 215 feet. One of the owners of the Buchanan County Journal has a silver-tailed hor: ey cow, two chester white pigs, ks and a lot in the ceme- . is the tombstone, During the year ending February 28, 1887, 50,000 persons regists three principal hotels iu Davenport. 1In the same time 1,214 dwellings were built and twenty-one business blocks, costing £511,000, Dukota. A Grand Forks lawyer hasinvented a typewriter, y is dissatisfied with her >rly~lmnml beaver was pped near Si Falls last week. The Odd Fellows of Rapid City have decided to invest $20,000 in a building for lodge purpo: The resources of the national banks of the Black Hills amount to 1,480,951 Of this sum $900,000 is subject to ind vidual check, Colorado, Denver society ladies have banished the tall hat. Denver is recovering from the diss tion of a pooale dog and poultry show. Indications point to & gene: of business and building ope Denver this ye The story of a political revolution and shotgun eampaign in Archuleta county, has proyed to be pure fiction. A Denver boy found the dead body of an unknown man, about twenty-five years of age, on the prairie near Denver I , with a bullet hole in his fore head. The man 13 thought to have been murdered. The Union Pacific has completed ar- rangement for the immediate consohda- tion of the Fort Worth & Denver City and the Denver, Texas & Gulf railways, and a syndicate’is to be formed to build the gap which will connect the two roads, making & continuous through line from ¥ort Worth to Denver. The money for this purpose is to be raised at once, and General G. M. Dodge will be in ¢ the construction, The original d the Fort Worth & Denver City rwiway, which was to form a trunk ‘line from Lort Worth to Denver, 800 miles long, by the most feasible route, will thus be suc- cessfully carried into execution, Con- tracts are let and the means have been provided to extend the road during the present year more than half way to Des ay ver, to the Texas state line, some thirt miles north of the crossing of the Cana- dian river, in the Panhandle of Texa — Alliance in Towa, Des Moines, Feb, 13,—To the Editor of the Beg: The Farmers’ Alliance is having analmost phenomenal growth in this state. Local alhances are springing up everywhere and nearly all of the leading farmers in the state are enrolling under its banners. The following article from the lowa Journal of Commerce, will give your readers a good idea of the work betore us in th THE FARME This organization foothold in the west. especially in Towa, and seems destined to wield a powerful mflucuce in the future in favor of the farmers’ interest. [t was the alliance that first made the fight against bogus butter and alliance money that paid for the scientific analysis that proved beyond doubt the villminous character of the compound. It is thealliance that created the sentiment 1n favor of the national regulation of railroads which has become so powerful that congress dare not disre- ard it, Every farmerin the land should belong to this organization, —Below we give lfio objects ot the orgaffization in a concise form, The objects of the state alliance are and shall be: 1. 'I'o unite the farmers of the state in a bond of union for the protection and promotion of their own interests, both so- cially and in a financial sense. 2. To secure the enactment of laws to regulate and control the railroads of the state, to the end that extortion, unjust diserimination and favoritism in matters of transportation may be prohibited, 8. To secure the enactmentof laws pro- hibiting the issuing of free passes to pub- lic officials and others. 4. To secure the assessment of all kinds of taxable property, corporate and ndi- vidual, on an equul basis, and the_reduc- tion of taxation to the lowest hmit con- sistent with a proper administration of public affairs. : . 5. To secure the highest possible prices for the produce of the fury 6. To protect the dairy industry from the competition of oleomargarine and other spurious compounds by securing the enactment of stringent laws for regu- lating or probibiting the sale of the same. 7. To aid and assist in such munner as the alliance may determine the Farmers' Protective association in the barbed wire conte 5 T The Farmer: TANCE, ¥ ning a rapid k cure a better representation of the agricultural interests in the national congress and the state legislature. 9. To secure stringent laws for the punishment of frauds and swindlers of all kinds, and especially of those who prey upon the producer, 10. To aid and assist the members of the alliance in all contests with the rail- roads, insurance companies and oth corporations, and in suils for the infringe- ment of patents or claims for royalty on patented articles. % 5 11. To aid and assist the National alli ance in pushing forward the special work of that organization. SRR The alliance is non-partisian in its methods and secks to work upon publie sentiment through the regular party channels, Any seven practical and oper- ativo farmers who endorse the above principles can secure & charter by call- ing a ng, electing temporary officers, ting a name and sending feoof t y-five eents for each member to August Post, Monlton, Towa, who is sceretary of the State alliance. The other officers aro, president, IHon, Jesso Kenng ove; vice-president, W, N. Oaks, Indianola; either of whom will answer any questions in regard to the organization. SOM - PrAacrTs About the Western Mutual Benevos lent Association's Mortgages., Bratrick, Neb., Feb, 13.—[Correspond- ence of the Brr]—As wo stated in a former article, lots in the city of Beatrico and some lands in Gago, Jefferson and Thayer counties, valued for the purpose at $200,000, are mortgaged by their sup posed owners to tho Western Mutual in the sum of $100,000. The property lying in Jefferson and Thayor is valued at £060,000. The balance, lued at §140,000, is allin the city of Beatrice or its adai- tions, except some small tracts of land in Gage county. I have caused an exami- nation of the title of this Beatrice prop- erty to be made, and find the following state of facts: Of one batch of lots, valued at $50,000, and mortgaged by William Lamb for §25,000, one valuable lot on Court street was in litigation at the time tho mort- gage was accepted by the auditor, and has since been declared by the supreme court_to belong to Angust Stettnisch. Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, block 6, Lamb's addition, which are also in the mortgage, wero sold by William Lamb to Ma Stambav before he made the mortgage to the Western Mutual, Mottgage No. 4, by L. W. Colby. Lots 8 and 4,block 7,Beatrice, 1 a mortgage of 500 due February 11, 1883, which my attorney informs mo is unpaid. Lots 8, 9,10, 11 and 12, of Cropsey’s addition, in samo mortgage, are owneil by Clara’ B, Colby, This property being owned by Mrs. Colby, and the mortgage not being for her separate account and business, 15 invalid under a late deeision of our supreme court (see Gillespie vs. Smith, Northwestern Reporter, vol. 30, page Mortgage No, 8, on lot 12, block 58, in Beatrice. This lot was mor 2. M. Brown to Western Mutual,. 5, 1855, On November 5, 1855, ago was released by the Mutnal through its Yrvx‘ilh‘nl,\\'n and the property sold on same ds Ile for § ) . This mort- 2,in Weston's M, Brown to Patrick L Mortgage No. 9, for gawo is on'lots 7and 8,hloc addition. These two lots are owned by C. A. Bates, and lot_9, same block, is owned by his wife, Kate Bates. There i a mortgage of §1,200 on the three lots 7,8 and 9, made to E.H. Gibbs by C.A, Bates and wife, dated June 5, 1555, aue June 5, 1890, ‘The mortgage to Western Mutual is on lots 7 and 8, dated July 5, 18 d is a secoud mortgage. Mortgage No. 7 on lots 13a . block 6, Beatrice, owned by Mary C. Sabin— two mortgages to Westeen Mutual, one for £2,300” and one for §600. Same brin- Ny»lllc of law applies to these as to Colby’ ¢ it is generally understood that for an insurance guarantee ome manner mn the custody of or u he supervision of the sta auditor. This is not the ease with these Western Matnal mortgages, They are at this moment in the custody of the urer of the Western Mutual and stored in Smith Bros. safe 1n The auditor has in his hands simply a fund are list of those mortgagc 1 know of noth- ing whatever to prevent the benevolent gentlemen who compose the We Mutual from reicasing them at any time they please. Another interesting faet connceted with this concern is that the first policy 1w issued was numbered 1,000, So every subsequent report of assets based on number of policies is a fraud. Burrows, — Irish National League of Laxcory, Neb., Feb. 5, 1887.— Irishmen of Nebrask present important erisi Ireland, it is inecnmbent upon all of our race to rally promptly and vigorously to the aid of our brothers in the old land in ther splendid fight for life and liberty. A state convention of the membe: the National of gue in Nebraska will be held in Funke's opera house, Lin- com, Neb, on Thursday, the 8d of March, and all branches and all associa- of Irishmen thre liated with the Irish 1 be entitled to repres branches of ten members and upy formed and reported fo me up tor yvention can send delegates, tion to be on the busis of one te for ench ten members, branches of the league at present not nearly so nnmerous should be, in proportion to the in ut the s creasing numer of Irishmen throughout the state, but in no other part of America are there any warmer hea or any truer friends of the cause, and I feel confident that it only needs such a_reunion as this convention will be to make N the banner state in the Irish National league of America. A state convention will do great good, not alone in creating an organized body within the state o aid and encourage our motherland, but in encouraging a stronger bond of unity and friendship amongst those of Irish blood who have settied here, many of whom are amongst our most enterprising and distinguislicd citizens, r L appeal then to every Irishman by birth or descent throughout our state to put his shoulder to the wheel, and aid in making this first convention of the Irish National league in Nebraska worthy of the sacred cause in which we are en- gaged, Very faithful yours, Parpick EGan, State delegs rue for Nebraska, Among those whom we expect to have present at our convention are Rev, Geo, W. Peppe church, Ohio, and Hon. John I, Finerty, Chic S - Omaha's Mardi G On Tuesday evening, th inst., ono of the grandest entertainments which has ever been given in the ¢ sposition building will take place under the pices of the Omaha Turn Verein the attractions will be tableaux, an excellent seession con taining representatives of all the nations of the earth. concluding with a grand ball. It wul really be a magniiicent mardi gras, Tickets scll for one dollur ission to the gallery 1s but sever nts. Tickets may be procurec Heimrod's, 18th and Jackson; J I, Fruehoff, 15th between Howard and Har- ney streets; Geo. Parisein, 10th betwee Farnam and Harney: Herman Beselin, 16th street, and Wi, Btoecker, St. Mary's avenue. A fres and easy expectoration is pro duced by a fewdoses of Dr. J. H. Me Lean’s Tar Wine Lung Balm, in all cascs of hoarseness, sore tkbroat or ditficulty of breathing. LR Eleventh Streot Viaduet, The Eleventh strect visduct is now fin ished as to the iwron work. The supports, which bave been uuder 240-foot span over- the railroad, been removed, and ail that now r to open the Toadway isto the oor-across the span, w. doue 1 about & week. wood the have A New Commisston Firm, Freeman & Co,, is the style of a new yos 3 South Eleventh street. D. n, the head of the firm is a well known ecitizen of Omaha, having re- a namber of years, 1is part. d has been for the past well-known whole- sale fruit and produce houfe of Branch & Co. The new tirm will conduct a gen- « commission busimess and will handlo all kinds of fruits and country producc, As both members of the firm are well known and have established the reput tion of being thoroughly reliable and capablo business men, they will undoubt cdly receive their share of the patronage, firm which opened up for business terday at - Bicycle Notes, Tho 100 milo race betwoeen Bullock and Eck will come off next Satarday night in the exposition building. Great interest is taken in the event anda large crowd is assured. A vicyele race for barbers, with three entries, and one for colored men with three entries likewise, are ovents of the near future. Bullock, in traming the other day, made a mile_in two minutes and tifty one soconds. Ile succeeded in making half in 1:20, littaner has recerved his medal emblematic of the amateur champions ship of Omaha. It is a beauty. Saratoga Notes, On last Saturd ening the Saratoga Literary and Debating society had ane other of its regular mectings, An exe lent programme was pr d for t oceasion, consisting of recitations, in- strumental music and singing. “The in- strumental music was good. A piang solo by Miss Hoxhold and a violin solo with piano accompaniment by Mrs, Luka tly enjoyed. The **Nobls was then finely rendered by al members of the society. 1t isa by Victor Hugo, and requires ex- theatrieal talent to produce it Messra. Dave Christio and . Craig ns Ruy Blas and Pon 1- cellent with snecess, e luste, took the I'ho sword duel was atly o reality. The costumes were fin Miss Anna aig in pink satin, crown, ete, ook the part of the quee ho' society meets again next Saturday. The Band of Hope had a s Friday evening. Candy and v, were the ordor, Louis Littleficld will return from the cast this evening. 1 last lentines Suffeage in Washingeon Territory. . G. Ames, of Seattle, passed through this city v and reported that the recent decision of the supreme court of Washington territory that woman suf- frage, which has obtained there for about four years, was unconstitutional, was working disastrously. Convicts sen- tenced upon verdiets of guilt found by mixed juries, ho says, are being d charged, and civil matters, which hav re again bo- ion and the tioned. Every- ed and there is ahead until the st depended upon like juries ing brought into conside legality of the finding qu body is more or less exc a p peetof trouble an be settled A HAP.D’L’ADD R TO CLIMB. roubles of Mall Service The Record: \ 18 meeting with considerabla in finding new appomtec to cope with the work. seck appointment under the im) at the position of railway postal ¢ ilway B difliculty or willin: soft snap.” but on’ having their eyes opened to the really arduous dutic wait them and the meagre sa ched they resign in disgust to easier and wore fruitful ocenpations, The position, if the applicant fullills the nt of the service, becomes y ter rd study and “applieation. anything but a sinccure. To reach the top of the ludder the uspirant must make up his mind to vigorous application, and must be p sed of a reasonably good the star D ‘cives appointment to the division in which he is located o influence of politieal or other The division superintendent Simns him toa certain route. The examiner is notified and the appointee i sent out on his first trip at once. He makes an arrangement with an instroe- tor, generally the one whose position he is to take Nified,and pays the in- structor the salury attached. ~Atthe end of fifteen days he is supposed to know the “local scheme” and the contents of a book ..{mqm.lmms ento him at the 11, mly 1 is first handed 100 en- cted to a pomt on his g in tl reqnired o the nume and full addr must not two crrors wishes to pass, Uhe facility with which he reads, lis promunciation, whether he wears ' glasses—everything i quictly noted by the examimer. He is of instroc- ctly to 90 por These are two-thirds of ST Hea Inrge ease, arrangod then questioned on the matte tions, and must reply co; cent of the questions not very diflicult, n the questions sug; is then before with pigeon-holes, these rep: the se ions on his route, ll:lnn‘(‘l} a package of eards addressed the towns comprised in his run, | separation represents a number of towns, and the eandi must know just what towns are comprised in - each particn it separation. ‘This can only bo accom- lmqml by accurately memorizing the ist. 1f he be able to rench 90 per cont or over he may then dismiss his instructor ount, It and procecd on his own ho cannot he must continue und until he masters the route. he draws a salaryas probationer of $300 2ds to study up the Maryla ppointee is supposed to be rendy for a sccond exumination at the end of thirty days after pussing the fimt, 1f capable and he becom pli division superintendent, and the young man is on the roud to promotion. He isadvanced, dingly, us positions become v are five clusses of salaries 0; second, third, §1,000; fourth,’ #1,150; fifth’ Uiie highest salary in locul routes is $1,000, the fourth and fifth extending into the trunk-line seryice wMany elorks nover apply themselves further than to be able to ¢ ticular routes, These are politicians desirous ot 1 friends, are looking for, fc made no record they linble to be ealled upon to step out at any time. It will readily be secn that the work is of a character to discourage those looking for easy jobs with big salar A large per- centage of appointees become tired after the first tip and resign, so that the old hana is somctimes kept at work for months before a capable and willing ap plicant comes along. With a change. of administration appointments numer ous, and a great deal of friction is ¢ perieneed through the misapprehension of applicants us to the cha work. Sometimes @ dozen succession on oni route betore th x is found, and the, man who 1 3 their par: clerks that ding their if they have position all thatis requ him caros tl Ul amount of h Political intlu o will not remoy lack of, pr