Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1887, Page 4

| | ‘, fraudulent acquisition of the public THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY; FEBRUARY 17, 187 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF &UBSORTPTION ¢ Daily Morniag Edition) including Sunday Bep, Ono Year For Bix Months For Throe Monihe The Omahn Swnday 1 address, Une Year. .. 8:"" OFPFICR, NO. 014 AN 018 FARNAM STREPT. ¥ g0 0 | 5 : 250 maiied to any | 20 W YORK OPFICE, ROOM 5, TRIBUNKE BUIL ABINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH 8T CORMESPONDENOR: All communieations relating to news and ed. torial matter shouid be addressed to the K TOR OF THE D! BUEINERS LETTERS: ATl Bueino Addressed to OMANA, Draf nd postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the compuny, THE BEE, PUSLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Enito! THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraskn, . County of Douglas, { ™7 Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb. 11th, 1857, was as follows: Saturday. Feb. Bundav, Feb. Monday., Feb, Tucsday Feb, . Wedmesday, Feb, 0, Thursday, Feb. 10. Friaay, Feb. 11.. Average. £o. B. 17 3 Subseribed In my presence and sworn to be- fore e this 1th day of February A, D.,1857, N. P. Frii, ISEALI Notary Publie. Geo. B, Trschuck, being first duly sworn deposes and says tiiat e 1s secretary of Tho Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily cireulation’ of the Dailv Bee for the month of February, 185, was 10,505 copiea; for March, 18%6, 11557 coples; for April 1886, 12,101 copies: for for May, 1586, 12,430 coples: for June, 186, 12,208 coples; for J iy, 188, 12,814 copies; for August, 185, 12,454 copiesifor Se; ber, 1886, 15,000 copies; for Octoher, 185, 12, copies; for November, 155, 13,348 conies; for December, 1856, 13,287 copies for January, 1587, 16,266 copie: @ro. B. T7SCITUCR. Subseribed and sworn to betore me this Sth day of February A. D, 1557 [SEAL. P. Frir. Notary Publie. " Presk warm and melting dnys’ should suggest to obs ng people that the spring cls setion 15 coming on. Poor Chureh Howe shed in the house of Lis own friends. Tell 1t not in Omaha or on the streets of Lincoln, How are the mighty fallen! ASHLAND has voted waterworks. Not- withstanding the opposition to prohibi tion in many localities there 18 consid able of a cold water boom noticeable throughout the state. s snake stories for next season. The ‘“‘snake feed" dished out by our esteemed con- temporaries is doubtless intended for these imaginary A MAN up in figures guesses that if all the New York boodlemen are conyi that the last one will go to Sing Sing in the spriog of thirty-three huudred when the birds begin to sing. Onr10’s governor has recently addressed an audience at Delmonico's, New York. Blaine's last supper at the same place proved nuythln;f but a mascotte. Gov- ernor Forak hould take warning. irreR in bed or in the senate, Colby introduces bills just the same. All of his bills suggest creative power. His con- ressional boom will burst, however, bes ore his legislative record is reached. —_— Tie two Sums, Jones and Small, are still endeavoring to show misguided boodlemen the straight and narrow path. Itisall to no ay: The Hub wants grammatical religion, other is wasted, All It is noticed that Prof. N. S. Thaler, of Harvard, has contributed an article on the,'“Stability of the Earth.” It should be remarked, however, that the obscryva- tions of another scientist, that our planct becomes a little wobbly along during the holiday seasons, ure not to ‘L slighted. Mg SNELL'S municipal woman suflrage bill was killed in the seua: 1t will doubtless be brought forward again. 1n theory the measure is right. It proposed to allow women who are proverty owners to vote on questions affecting their prop- erty interests, just as female stockholders of corporations have the unquestioned right to voice their views on matters re- lating to the affairs of corporations mn which they are interested. The distine- tion is properly drawn between the econ- omic and political its of women. Mr. Bnell’s measure deserved a better fate, ——— THE failure of the effort to repeal the pre-emption, timber culture and desert land acts by the present congress is now an adwitted fact. For the sccond time, 8 bill to secure these greatly needed re- forms for the protection of the public do- main has failed through the efforts of the corporation attorneys m the senate. The committee of conference, atter a number of sessions, have finally reported their inability to agree and the laws will stand with all their loopholes for fruud and robbery in the pretended settlement and cultivation of the public lands, The cause of disagreement was in a section of the bill authorizing the com- missioner of the land oflice to suspend the issue of a patent in any case of sus- pected fraud, and requiring him to send such a case to the department of justice for the institution of proceedings to re- voke the certificate, eptions were to be made in all cases in which lands may have been sold to a bona fide purchaser for value, This provision, which looks wery fair on the surface, would have de- prived the commissioner of the land oflice of all authority to investigate and finally determine cases of land robbery through wiolations of pre-emption and other laws. Where now the local land offices de- oude all questions of this kind, with an appeal to the general land oflice, the senate provision would burden the de- partment of justice with innumerable and protracted suits. Under the senate exeeption every acquisition of land, how- er fraudulent the process may have ‘been, would have been made legal and walid upon payment of anything agreed upon with, the pretended occupant and owner. Thus the means of the catile gcompanies and other corporations for - seizing the public domain would have ‘been rendered wore simple than ever. ~ The house committee of conference re- d its ussent to this device to facilitate ds, preferring to let the existing laws ~ B the subject remain us they are. Railrond Tolls in Nebraska. Attention is called to the instructive ex- hibit of railway rates, compiled ex- pressly for this paper by Mr. Fairbrother. The facts embodied in this report leave | no further room for the plea that Neb- raska has no rational grounds for com- plaint of unreasonable exaction on the part of public carriers, It is shown con- clusively that freight charges on leading staples are arbitrary and fixed regardless of comparative distance or service ren- dered. sis miost stricki demon- strated in the matter f coal supply. The great trunk lines have not only levied exorbitant tolls upon conl buyers by ignoring the dis- tance of the haul, but they have foreed the people to purchase coal from mines owned by the railroads at arbitrary prices. They are charging less for coal carried from the mines to their terminal points than they are asking for coal de- liyered at intermediate stations hundreds of miles nearer the mines. The glaring abuses of the freight schedules are ex- posed in the comparative tolls charged at different points, equally distant from the place of destination. Omaha jobbers will find in this exhibit material for sober ghought and study. They must realize that their exclusion from some of the wealthicst sections of the state1s due entirely to o diserininat- » remedy cannot entirely be had at the hands of our state legislature. Many of the existing abuses will be done away with by the inter-state commerce law and future national legislation. But the legislature has it within its po torelieve the people of a large share of the barefaced pillage to which they have for many years been subjected. Lot them able argument for dircet rail- way regulation. In this 1ssue Mr. brother covers the Burlington line. morrow we shall publish his report concerning the Union Pacific and other roads, No* Tie-Ups. The Ber has given at length times its views upon what it considers veral necessary and advisable in railway legi ion at the present session of the legis- lature. It declines to permit | cnemies of its editor and malic L to speak forit in this matter. For a num- ber of years it has shown itself antly able to voice its own views, abund- It the legislature adjourns without passing a law for the regulation of rail- road tavifls it will fail in its duty to the state. The inter-state commerce bill, which goes into eflect on March 81, renders local railway legislation all the more imperative. Nebraska has for years, through exorbitant local tariffs, nided in rolling up heavy dividends for the stockholders of through lin whoso rapacity in other states has been curbed by the combined action of regul tion and competition. The time has come when the nding difference in freight rates between our own state and those of Towa and Missouri should be materially cut down. There is no reason why the Missouri river should be the dead line across which to pass is financial death to railrond patrons. The slanderous reports of alleged *“‘compromises,” “‘tic ups™ and ‘“‘unho! deals” between this paper and the op- pouents of railway legislation shall not be permutted to go un- challenged. For long years the B has been the unflinching advocate of state and inter-state regulation of cor. porate monopolie It was an advoea of anti-monopoly legislation when such advoeacy was unpopular. It has con- tributed more than any other factor to cducating public sentiment on the sub- jectin this section of the west, It is not likely to desert its colors at the mo- ment when they have become the rally- ing standard for hundreds of thousands of citizens throughout the country., To any practical and feasible plan of railway regulation, by whomsoever fath- ered, in the vresent legislature, this paver will give a cordial supp Needed County Reforms. The urgent need of several reforms in the'government of counties of large pop- ulation should not be lost sight of by the legislature. On this account the bill in- creasing the number of commissioners in counties having over 60,000 inhabitants and giving them a fixed salary should re- ceive eareful and favorable consideration As matters now stand, two men form a majority of the county board in Douglas county, as in every other county, and by combination can completely control dis- bursements amounting to more than a arter - of a willion dollars an- ally. Protection to tax pay- ers demands a larger board. An- other important consideration in favor of increasing the size of the board 1s found in the more full representation to portions of the county outside of the vities which such enlargement would se- cure. In addition, the board, as at pres- ent consittuted, is too small to properly attend to its duties. ' The argument in favor of raising the compensation of county commissioners in counties of the size mentioned is basea on the better service which it would se- cure, the doing away of mileage and per diem allowances and the inducements which a larger salary would offer to the best class of citizens to compete for the oflice. Another reform needed in the large counti and greatly needed, is an auditor to check up and verify the re- cords of the various county oflicers. For several years past Douglas county has cmployed at its own expense an expert sccountant to do this work for the com- wissioners and the results proved fully the need of such an officer. The safety of the public funds demands that the super- vision of their disbursement shall be as rigid in large counties as in large cities “Lhe bill separating the duties of county clerk from that of recorder in counties of dense population, which has already passed one house, is another measure which should certainly become a law. As amended, making the oflice of re- corder of deeds a salaried one, there ean be no objection to its passage. The delays in the recording of instru- ments now due to the heavy burden of work placed on the shoulders of the county elerk would be obviated by the enactment of the law, while the public would receive the benefit. — Draw the Distinction, It mast be 8 number of years before farin lands six and seven miles from the business center of Omaha will becowme available for any but farm purposes. If Omaha had twice its present population, such property would be worth more for market gardening and cabbage raising than for any use connected with house building and actual residence. This Is Plain, common sense. Merely platting a farm into eity lots cannot raise its in tringic value. Municipal demands alone will do that. It must not be lost sight of that real estate 1s valuable just in pro- portion to its income producing power, Property which by judicious improvement will yield £1,000 rental a year is at prevailing rates worth £10,000. Lots which cannot be utilized for any purpose except that of farming are worth only the price of farm land. The hope of property within a reasonable distance of the eity limits must rest on the growth of Omaha and the steady and well- grounded advance of realty within the city limits. The overflow from Omaha will raise the value of property outside of Omalia by creating a demand for its use. ha property is a safe investment. The oty is steadily growing. The demands of an ncreasing popula- tion, of which a large vro- portion own their own homes or are making prenarations to do so, re- quires large additions to the corporate limits and furnishes good excuse for ud- vaneng values within a reasonable dis- tance from the heart of the metropolis. There is a distinction between inside property and outside property. There is another distinction between “outside’ property and farm lands which will be good for nothing but farming and pa turage for years to come. Investors who fail to recognize the distinetion are likely spite of the allurements of ate sharks and the rosy colored pictures which they nt of presentim- vossibilitis Manning's Resignation. The resignation of Seeretary Manning was sent to the president on the 14th and Mr. Cleveland replied on the follow day accepting it. The documents aie very cordial in th expressions of mutual respeet, showing that the rela- tions of the exeeutive and the seeretary have been of the most friendly character, though recent reports have 10 conyey the impression that such was not the fuct. The communication of Mr. Man- ning suggests a pessimistie view of the mmediate financial conditions which seems a little rem; ble coming from one who is about to assume the exceutive functions of one of the largest banking institutions in the countrv. In referring to the situation as most critieal, the re- tiring etary uses language whi cannot be reassuring to the capitalists who have invested their money ina new national bank, ant whom he is soon to But Mr. Manning has gotten into hit, not uncommon with men whose policies fail of ucceptanee, of fecling and talkingin this strain, and since his past forebodings have not been justified by cs- perience there is no reason why his pres- w of things should excite ap n. The letter of the pres- ries commendation to the y of panegy and doubtless se people whose good opinion is most red by Mr. Manning will agree with It is noteworthy that the letters are entircly free from the acrimonions eriti- cisms and incissive thrasts direeted against congress which marked the com- munications th sedbetween the presi- dent and seeretary last June, when the Iatter fi tendered his resignation. Mr. Manning will remain at the head of the treasury department until the first of April, but it is understood that his successor will be nominated before the ad- journment of congress. Washin opion regards Assistant Seere child vs the person most likely 1o su. Manning, but purcly political considera- tions may stand in s way. Anotber candidate who has developed within the 1ast few days is Smith M. Weed of New York, who is something of a power in politics. The chances of Congressman Scott ure thought to anished. He is opposed by an influential element in the treasur nd it is believed his eandidacy has at no time been approved by Mr. Manning, whose policy wonld probably not in all respects be followed by Scott. The president would undoubtedly best s fy the country by appointing Mr, Fairchild, while it would at the san time be in line with the poliey for which he professes so much coneern. A Significant Gathering, The banquet of the New York Repub lican club on last Saturday evening, the anniversary of the birthday of Ab m Lincoln, was not a meaningless aftair, The avowed object was to introduce the elub to publicnotice, and the anniversary of the birth of the “savior of hiscountry” wasan auspicious oceasion upon which to bring together leading republicans to do honor to that event. It was not de- signed that the nquet should have political significance, except as that there is a liv [ publicans of the Empire state who are enlisted for the next national contest and may be de- pended upon for v vice. It was intended to be nothing more serious than a political love feust, and so indeed 1t wus, The record and achievements of the republican party received ampie con- sidevation, and its necessity to the future welfare of the nation was not slighted, There was a great deal more said in glori- fication of the party than in honor of the n whose birthday was commem- orated, This may be measurably ex- plained by the fauure of Mr. Blaine to be present and respond to the sentiment to Lincoln, s duty devolved upon General Hawley on such brief no- tice that he had mnot the time for adequate prevaration. But it is wholly impossible 1o keep politics and the elaims of political leaders out of consideration on an oceasion of this kind, and this gathering had its interesting develon ments. Thoey have sinee been the sub ct of earnest talk among New York re- publicans, The gentleman who seems to have profited most largely by this event is Governor Foraker of Oho. It was an opportunity the value of whieh he ap- pears to have fully realized, with results that must have been entirely satisfactory to him. He responded to the toast, **Ihe Republican Party,” and made the most effcctive address of the evening. The cold types bear testimony to its merit as an exceptionally clever effort, and it is easy to understand that such an audience as 1t was addressd to should have re- ceived it 'with enthusiastic favor. In a smoment of unwonted exuberance the governor ot Illinois proclaimed *Foraker for 1838, #nd not ounly was it received with great approval, but it made an im- pression which remained the day after, when heads had dooled and enthusiasm abated, We learn from the New York newspapers that in republican circles there the name of Foraker now ranks high in the list of possible presidential candidates. The young and brainy ex- ecentive of Ohio nhas entered upon his boom. . We noted some days ago that Senator Sherman, as a candidato for the presi- dential nomination, might again be con- fronted by obstacles from his own state. This latest incident dobs not lessen that possibillity. It will strengthen the am- bition of Foraker to occupy a place on the next republican presidential ticket, and it is hardly creaivle that he would seriously attempt to gain the first place. He1s undoubtedly very popular in Ohio, but his ability to take the dclegation from Sherman is extremely doubtful. But he might easily render that support of little value, and it is not at ail improb- able that he would do so in the interest of a candidate who could assurce him the second place. In any event, the presence of Foraker throws a shadow over the chances of Sherman. On the other hand, assuming that Foraker wili aim no higher than the second place, it is obvious that his ifluence would be given to Blaine, toward whom he is believed to be now yery strongly inclined. The dinner of the New York republican ciub is thus seen nov to have been meaningless, though the signiticance it developed was in a wholly unexpee ¢ | direction, There ample time, however, for the budding Foraker boom to blossom, ripen and die. Cartaiy Greely has been nominated by the president as chief signal oflicer with the rauk of brigadier general. The senate should promptly coniirm the nom- ination. Captain G services as an Aretic explover will be tittingly recog- nized by his promotion to the head ot a branch of the service where he has done hevoie service for science and won 1 nown and honor for the flag which he planted at the farthest north, PROMINENT PERSONS, Miss Anna Dickinson is recovering her Lealth, “The prinee of Wagran is dend in Pari seventy-six. Senator and Mrs, Frye will sail for Europe on March 12, e due de N Paris for $650,000¢ Mackay bought her $170,00 sapphire a Russian prince who was pushed for ged jours hias sold Lis home in <htis now private see- vetary to.lier father, the goveinor of Wyom- ing territory Miss Itose Elizabeth Oleveland is hard at work upon a new novel, which she hopes to have re; for publieation in ti.e ecarly spring. ‘The seene of thy story is laid in and around Holland Patent. Campanini has adopted the profession of a newspiper correspondent, not being in de- mand as an opera sinze Sir Michael Morris is the first Roman Catholic nppointed w be ford chict justice of Ireland sinee the reformation. Governor P B. 5. Pinchback paid $10,000 the other duy for the race horsq Montana Regent, at Lexington, Lord Randolph Churchill's private seere- tary, Adolphus Moore, who died recently, wasa famous athlete aud pedestrian. Senator Harrison of Indiana delivered an address to the Young Men's Republican club in Providence, R, L, Thursday nizht, Colonel Ingersoll is in Washington look- ing for material for another anti-religions lecture, He has gone to the right field, Maud Howe, who married John Elliott, an English ar few days ago, will, with her husband, live at Boston with her mother, Mrs, Julia V' nse in Pennsylvania, Philadelphta Record. Let no drink pe cenuine unless the words ence and a Big Brain. St Louis Globe-Temocrat. Wanted, a senator without a presidential bee in Lis bonnet, to make himselt generally useful in Washin Out of Place, Chicago News, clphia_clothing dealer has pur- chased Munkaezy’s famous pi 2ol “Christ Betore Pilate,” and will hang it in his store, “The subjeet whieli the painting treats is so modern” that it will seem stranzely out of place amid tie colored plates of Philadelpbia tashions, A Philade Education Chicagy T Mark Tiwain says th Aty as publisher he lately received a manunseript from a teacher in Co cut which embod- ied a number of answers given by her pupils to questions propounded, among which was: “Republican—A sinner mentioned in the Bible,” This shows the eflect of mugwump ascendaney in Connecticnt, Thatstate would not seem to be in need of Senator Blair's ed- ucational bill, Striving. Cranch's *Ariel and Caliban," Istarted on alonely road; A few companions with me went J el behind, some forward sirode, ut all on one high purpose bont; To live for nature, finding trath In beauty and the shrines of art To consecrate our joyous youth "Po aims outside the comuion mart, I turned aside and lingered long “To pluck rose, to hear abird} To muse, while listening to the song Of brooks through leaty eovers heard; To live in thoushts that brought no fame Or guerdon from the thoughtiess erowd; T'o toil for ends that could not claim “The world’s applauses, coarse and loud. But still, though oft Ibind my sheat In tields my comrades have not known, Though art 1s long and life is brief, And youth has now forever flown, I would not lose the ranture sweet. Nor scorn the toil of carli Still would 1 elimb with eager feot, Though towering Leight on height appears. - saving Machi Globe-Demacrat: Mrs, T, J. , of Brunswick, Mo., owns what she is pleased to tepm very know- ing eat and the teline certainly exhibits very rarve intelligence. ftis a \d beautiful Maltese, less than a year old and has been taught to perform a number of tricks very unusual for a cat, one of which is to ring a chestnut bell, and it frequently turns the lnugh on Mrs. Ham- mond by makng the bell tinkle when she is recounting some freak of its intelli- gence, When the cat feels that a mouse ould be an addit toits bill of fare it ugs the trap to Mrs, Hammond to be years; br set and then goes frequently to see if th desired mouse has been eaught. When such is the case the trap is again taken ta some one by Puss,who will remove the mouse for it. "It makes no effort to eaten mice in the ordinary way, preferring the invention of man as an easier way to ob- tain & sweet morsel. Y il Lily Division No. 8, Knights of Pythis will give 'w party next Monday night at Central ball oo Fourtecnth street. ;- NEBRASKA RAILROAD RATES. Tacts and Figures Compiled From Actual Shipping Bills, DO THE PEOPLE NEED RELIEF? The Long and Short Haul Exhibited In Its True Light—The Shorter the Haul the Greater the Price of Coal WHY OMAHA CAN'T COMPETE. A Few Hard Nuts For the Omaha Freight Burean, and a Puzzler For Oppo- nents of Railway Regnlation, About two months ago I made the tour of the entire Nebraska railroad system, with a view of securing facts and figures regarding railroad rates. My travels consumed most of the month of Decem ber. When the legislature metin Jan- uary, the excitement over the senatorial contest crowded everything else in the background, Now 1 the legislature is wrestling with the railroad problem the information I have gathered cannot fail to be istructive and suggestive, I began my tour over the B, & M. sys- tem, and contined my inquiry over that road, s on all others, to the leading staples and comparative rates between points wvisited and Omaha, Li coln and Chicago. Incidentally I made mquiry concerning compe- tition in the conl and grain trafiie, and specific instances of extortion and discrimination. I found il mmpossi- ble to quote anything except first and fourth class rates, and even such as were quoted do not show rebates claimed by shippers to be allowed to favored patrons of the ronds. In reality, it is impossible to ascertain the variety of the numerons sifications, which appear to be pur- :ly gotten up to mystify. At Louisville, wh the B. & M. and Missourf Pacific cross, what might be supposed to be a competing point, 1 found the following tariffin force: Rate on corn to niiles, 8 cents 80 cents, On To Chic Soft coal was ha, only 20, 505 selling thirty miles, about vd _conl at th: Mr. Thad .50, dams showed reight bill on load of which De Kalb, 111, to from S Omaha .75, and from Omah the farmers wore very indignant, because a better rate was given Ayre by 1 cent, 2 cents befter at Biue Hiil and 3 cents better at Cowle—all further from Cnicago than Hastings. This was because of a “pool.”” H. Ix Edwards is agent for the Whitebreast Coal company, and all coal must be bought of him. “The Chicago, Burlmgton & (iuiu('y railrond | company owns largo shares i the Whitebreast mines, 4 The rate on corn from Hastings to Omaha was 18 cents. In the early fall the gran dealers Hastings were pay ing 23 cents for corn. The rate to Chi cago was 33 cents. When great quanti- tics of corn commenced to come in, when the farmer thonght he would geta little profit, the B. & M. *‘restored the tariff,” which was raising the rates cents per 100 pounds, and corn accordingly dropped in price to 16 cents per bushel, o ¥ ‘Tho rate from Omaha to Hastings is the snme 0s to Sutton, but it costs 1 cent more per hundred to ship to Chicago from Hastings, twenty-eight miles further I'he next town [ visited was Holdrege, 219 miles from Omaha and 152 miles from Lincs Out here, 219 miles nearer the Colorado mines than Omaha, Canon City coal sells at 87.50 per ton—just §1 more than in Omaha. The freight rate, first class, from Omaha, is 75 cents, fourth class 50 coents; from Lincoln about the same—fourth class being 45 cents. The price on corn to Chieago 18 the same as Hastings, 38 cents, and Holdrege is fifty-tive miles further west, Mr. fi J. Evans, groce! and dry goods dealer, said that he had been ‘trying to ascertain rates of freight and could get no satis- faction, e could figure on therr rates until his head ached, but bills would never come out right. He had had goods damaged, he said, but there was no use to complain. Goods gener ally eame marked “Owner's Ri hut he would pay 75 cents per hundrod, just the same. On Nov. Mr. E. received the following little bill of goods trom Omaha: One case honey in glass, two boxes lemons, two boxes oranges, one barrel grapes and one sack peanuts, These goos weighed about five hundred pounds, They cost less than $350. Were nd s shipped by freight, at owner's v cost #4 1o get thém to Holdrege, is only a mild sample. A hoe is the next miles from Omaha and town. Tt is 276 180 miles from Lincoln. The rateof freight from Omaha, tirst class, is 81 cents; fourth class, 60 cen Corn to Chi rents—i3 cents cheaper than from Hastings—four coun- ties nearer Chieago. In corn shipments this scemed » favored spot. In merchan- dise, however, the rate is ‘kent up. I'reight from Pacitic Junction was guoted to Loui ust thirty miles—s attsmouth, twenty-one mi from aba, conl was selhing at §5 and £6 Corn rate to Chicago 30 cents—to Omaha, trenty-one miles, 73 cents, Rate on groceries, cte,, trom Oma fle per ewt and on dry goods and_other things wri ten under the mystie classitication, 18 cents per ewt.—for the twenty-one miles. About a year ago at Plattsmouth the railroad — commission reduced Omana freight, fourth-class, from 12 cents to and at about the same time the Chi e was raised from 35 cents to cents, At Crete, elgnty seven miles from Omuha and twenty miles from Lincoln, conl sells at 37.50 per t This is on the B. & M. railroad. It costs 40 cents on first- class, and 81 cents on fourth-class to ship zoods from Omah: While from Lincoln less than distance from Omahz re 20 cents—1 cent pe fourth-class i 13 zht be mentioned here that come under the head of ourth-class,’” while tea, clothing, cte., s consid ‘fiest-class, The rate on corn to Chieago from Crete, 562 miles, is cents per ewt., while to Omabis hty-seven miles, the rate is 14 Mr. Pronger, to Crete, only twenty miles, one-fc first the class rates while Itm wt, told me that unless Om s had some absolute der, r undertook to scll ods at Crete, it costing 85 cents per . for instance, to ship sugar from me by the agent at 6 conts. J. B. Murray, hardware dealer, says in payir nails he always paid the B, & M for 106 pounds. oy weigh the kegs, Last yeard (1885) Mr Murray paid $5,046.81 freight. He says e has bills to show that on barb wire the freight 3¢ per cent. On stoves it is about 25 per cent—two-thirds of this being from' the river to Arapahoe. As s sumple, Mr, Murray has & bill dated Octover 2, showing that 3,800 pounds of stoves from Chicago to Arapahoe cost 05, he next town is Indianola. i from Omaha. The rate of No corn was shipped cast this coststoship hay to Benkleman, only sixty- three nnles, $2.50 per ton. Corn to Haigler, only cighty-four miles, it costs 121 Cents per ewt. Coal sclls at Incian- ol at £7.00. McCook is the next town—ten miles west of Indianola, Here coal sells at §7.00. Mr, S. Plunkett, a groceryman of McCook, he satisficd that the B, & M. dis ites as proof the fuct that he wanted to ship balea to Denver. The company gave hi their best rate 36 cents per ewt., a dis- tance ot mile He desired to ship thirty-five cars and by paying 80 cents per éwt. he could make just’30 cents per ton. They told bim they could do no " better. A Denver man came along the same day sion commi man—purchased all the hay he could find_for shipped itto Denver, and confidentially intormed Mr. Plunkett that he could Zood money on it. Culbertson next town and the last one going st. Here Canon City ¢ s at ¥7, 50 cents more per ton thin it was selling for in Omaha, and 307 miles closer to the munes. The 20 to Omaha and 34 eentsto ship it on to Crete—only eighty-seven miles. Mr. T, C Beard, the ‘present postm ter at Crete, tried to buy grain within last year, but us he had no elevator, told me that he did not stand a ghost of s and w iged to quit. The ¢ men. in bidding against’ him, would ways bid up to freight, and if he tried to meet them, they would bid 1 eent per bushel inside freicht. Mr. Beard said ne of course could not swear that they re- ceived rebates, but such a way of doing business made the question clear to his mind. Mr, B. also stated t unless a man could *‘stand in” with the railroad company, so fav as he knew, there was no use to attempt buying corn in this sty Fairmont, left alone to the merey of the 8. & M., is another place where the regu- lar and scienufic robbery goes on from day to day. This town is 130 miles from Omaha and 53 from Lincoln. Coul was selling at $7.25 and §7.50—1his being sott coal—Cunon City. Mr. 5. L. Martin, coal dealer, informed me thaut yery often during the Winter months Fuirmont peo- ple experienc coal famme, as the Colorado Coal company—for which the B. & M. railroad 1y was the only agentin Nobr s supplied com- peting points s(ting their own price the On first ¢ goods 1t nd 80 cents th cluss, 31 ts from Lan- costs 45 cents from Omah from Lincoln; and on for cents trom Omaha and 23 srs, Keith & Smiley showed me, as a curiosity, a freight bill on cighty bar- rels of salt'from Chicago to Fairmont, 595 miles, which wi more, they told me, than the salt cost. A barrel of cof- fee to this same tirm, from Milwaukee to Missourt river, the freight was 25 cents, and from river to Fairmont, less than 150 miles. the rate was 95 cents. Only fitteen miles further west 15 Sut ton, making 1t 145 miles from Omaha and 68 miles from Lincoln I call par- ticular attention to the difference in rates, The Omaha rate is 58 cents first class and 40 cents fourth, while the Lincoln rate is 40 and 31 cents. In the little distance of lifteen miles an increase of 13 cents per ewt. I could hardly see how this could be, but the agent of the company assured e there was no mistake. Another thing the farmer will notice more than I do perh and that is that the rate on corn to ( 20 wis 37 cents, 2 cents more per bushel than it was fif- teen miles cust of there. On the item of stoves, Mr. Carney, a hardware mer- this point,” informed me that he 50 cents per 100 pounds from 4, only 145 mil and - that from 120 1o Sutton he paid 90 cents p ewt. Mr. C. w of outrageous him to buy anyth Threc ning n D, the farmer was hauling his corn'to town ad selling it at 15 cents per bushel and paying $14 ver ton for hard coal Hastings was the next town I visited The B, & M. and the St. Joseph & Grand Island are partners in the bery nt on to say that beeause D it was uscless for in Owmah: he It is only 164 miles trom Omab: yet the freight rate is 62 cents on first class and 40 cents on fourth. From Lin- coln, only 97 miies, the rate is 58 s und 33 cents on fourth 1 was selling at $6 per 1 was selling at §11.50— L of « on first-c Whitebreast ¢ ton and hard ¢ some cheaper than at Sution, thero. 9 “The Chicago Tate on-corn is’ 83 cents per hundred. When [ visited Hustings reader should pause and ponder here, In returning over the B. & M. T stopped at Alma, 223 miles from On , the rate of freicht being: first class, 77 cents; fourth, 56 cents, 120 rate on corn 85 cent. Coal at 37, At Red cloud, 187 m; found that coal w: lling at 25 and £7.50; that the same rate of freight was given from Atchison, Kan., St. Joe and Rulo as from Omaha: that the Chicago rate on corn was only 34 cents, 4 cents lower than Hastings, and that the rate of freight on merchandise from Chicago was 10 cents At Superior coal was selling E fifty wmiles further east. Ireight r about the same, But th is no use to present more at one time than ean be digested, These s from Omaha, I 50 - ates fucts have been obtained from the rail road s agents and from men who have paid the bills, In a letter to- morcow I will give some figures from southeast Nebraska together with charges of the other roads operating in this state, Before closing, however, I wish to call attention to tes charged at Belleva just ten miles from Omaha., First-cla: ht from Omaha is 124 cents; fourt . Coal from Omaha costs for 1 per ton. Corn to Omah miles, 5 cents per hundre just te pounds, And it might be well to eall attention to the fact that the B. & M. railroad com- pany, according to the statement of coal deal ntjfor the Colorado Coul com It places the vrice on coal; nys wh Wl ro—and allow iy, 81 n the coal s the dealer $1 por ton for handling i " This dealer losing “shortage deed, @ pretty state of afairs, AL FAIRBROTHER, e o STATE AND TERRITORY, The B. & M. pay ear drops from $5,000 3,000 in Hastings every month, )ld water wave is holding a three session in Sutton. An carly thaw y be looked for. Long Pine has a Lime Kiln club whose philosoph s out at the ankles, The members cultivate the “*hoe down.” Ashland will t. at creek water on the direet pressu n. The town de- cided for waterworks almost unani- mousl, A If Grand Island can add the Baptist university to her list ot public prizes, she can extend greeting to Hustings and the incurable insane Tne Elkhorn Valley road will be an aetive competitor in the Wyoming coal business by next winter. Preparations r¢ being ‘made to work the coal ficlds around Douglas Nebraska City is promised a lodge of Elks, to be harnessed at an early day. The Omaha brethren will probably be called upon to gild the horns, and we can assure our down river neighbors that they ean do the job in regal style and sandwich the beast betw schooners. he assurances given by neral Mid- dleton to & resident of Cuming county that the Canadians will not invade the United States, will be sad news to the cowboy veterans on the border. It is proper to italicize the fact right here that the Canucks know when they are well off, The Cedar County Nonpareil wants Senator Van Wyck in the state scnate two years heneé, “and we will venture to suy that our state government will be a government of the peovle and by the people. Then let him go to cougréss in General Manderson's place, and the good work will go on."” Montana. =A series of mellow chinooks are want. | | on the ranges. Montana has an official who boacis the title of *“‘contractor of territorial iy sane.”’ James Luohy, a resident of Butte, | £1,100 while sampling liguid lighu there last week In Montana during the winter cowlngs make a living by killing mountain for which a bounty of The animals are ferocious and some very large. It would not be surprising, says t Butte Inter-Mountain, to learn that cold snap which is now prevailing w cost Montana $10,000,000 before it 18 o The cattle on the ranges are impov ished and starving in many localitios The little spot of d between the Rockies on the west, Miuncsota on the east, and north of the forty-seventh par allel has a greater range of temperaturey than any other portion of the known globe. Last summer the thermometor registered 123 and 124 degrees Fahren heit above zero in the sl and only three days ago the spirit registers showoed 00 degrees below zero. This ye the snowfall is unprecedented, In Emigrant guleh, a few miles west of Fort Keogh, the snowfall is beyond all conception. A series of avalanchies have been swoening down Emigrant peak, tearing cabins from therr foundations and burying them out of sight, although fortunatély no ono has been hurt. The Pacific Const. A theatre to cost $100,000 is to be in Los Angeles. There are at least 4,500 men at work in the mines in and around Butte City. Sonoma county pays out £410 a_month to take care of tramvs and feed them in idieness. A colony of Quakers will settle in Ne- 1 county in a few months, if situations can be obtained for them, The Los Angeles Cremation society is gotting ready for business. Two diflor ent cemetery companies are bidding for the erematory. After nightfall v grain fields in the 8 per head is pail ! built Id dueks infest icinity of Putah Cre Alameda county, in great numbers, The have nearly devastated 400 acres on tho Curry farm. the . ‘Che Growth of High License, Chicago Tribune, It is a remarkable feature of the grow- ing sentiment among the people of tho various states that the evils of intemper- ance must be restricted, that since the re of the Harper law by the lhnois sislature the principle of high license as steadily moved for d in the popular favor, and that, when it is fairly tested, as in 1linois and Missouri, 1ts re- sults are the same—namely; a reduetion of the number of saloons, usually those of the worst elass, and material increase of the revenue derived from license: There are now pending in several of the state legislatures high license bills, modeled more or less closely upon the Harper law, with favorable” cha of In New York $1.000 is fixed as the maxmum tax, with fi_{l ded licenso fees according to the population of cities. The board o commisstone: New York ¥ wlso taken a step in the dircetion of high license. Second-class hotels will now pz\?: $200, an merease of $100, and_saloon licenses exeise used to $200, an increase of #1254, and zing that the ot beer er alono Lor these drinks the | e has n reduced. A billis pending in the ssuchusetts legislature which provides t not more than one licenses shall be nted for ench 500 of popu ) t the mmimum fee for all licenses in cities of more than 100,000 people be 1,000 and in all other ¢ bitl also provides that no liguor sold Sunday or between 10 p. m. and 6 a. m. any day; that no minors shall be em- ployed where intoxicating liquor is sold; that the revenue from license shall 0 to the st or the enforcement of the law and the support of the pauper, re- formatory and corrcetional institutions, The bill” also includes the prmciple of local option. A petition asking the passage of a high-license bil for the Distriet of Columbia, signed by all the hotel keevers in Wash- ington has been presented to congress. Iin Connecticut public sentiment is run- ning so strongly in favor of high license that it is proposed to fix the minimum tail fee at 500 and the maximum at ,000 or $1,500. Anoiher bill has been introduced which prohivits the sale of liquor in saloons to be drank premises, but allows hof id res rants to furnish it to their patrons menls. There 18 a strong probability 0 that u high-license bill will puss tho Pennsylvania legisloture this wint ‘The lowest figures for the tax are $200, and range from this to ¥1,000, with the probubility that $500 will be fixed, A strong eflort 15 also being made to have the revenue go the. counties instead of the s now. In Indiana the pres- ent xes the county and state tax on saloons at $100, The Ackman biil, re- cently introduced, increases this tax to 300, once-half to go to the school fund and the remainder to the countics A further feature of 00 on for general purposes, of the bill is an additional each saloon, which must be paid before Tieense can be issued and which may be further mercased to the extent of $200 by the authorities, thus making a total X of $600 or 300, In addition to this the party applying for a license must first obtain the written consent of the major- ity of tie legal voters of the township, town or ward i which he resid and publicly advertise the place where he in- tends to sell, for which he must have the consent of the voters. The bill pending the Minnesota legislature fixes the license tax at a min- imum of §10,000 in cities of 10,000 and over, and at a minimum of $560 in towns of less than 10,000, Local option is also preserved, he tax may be increased to sany sum above these amounts, but not Less cun be chapged. Itis evident from the: high licen as scheme afl bition fails th ing the numl the revenue will heir duys of free whisky and #50 licenses have pussed, and the low and vile dens will ily be taxed out of existence, thus icing the cause of temperanet and relicving taxpayers from the heavy bur- dens heretofore entailed upon them by the saloons, The gh-license system will go farther than this by doing for the workingmen what they do not scem dis- posed to do for themsclye The redue- tion of the number of saloons and dog- geries will be a dircet benefit to the wage carners by removing that number of temntations out of their way. Of all mdications that s come to stay, and that scheme of political prob high-tax system of redu r of suloons and inc men they should be heartily in” favor of bigh license, - WATER WORKS IMPROVEMENTS, New Engines—A Total Daily Capacity of 16,000,000 ons. The Water Works o iy is adding toits plant three and oxpensive pumping engines, one at the Wal- nut hill rescryoir and one at the pumping house, on the river bank The two engines have a pumping capae- ity of about four million gallons each, and with those now in use will afford a total pumping capacity of about sixteen million. gallons "a day. The city will be so redistricted as to afford high'water pressure at those ‘minu whure low - press sure is now complained of,