Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1887, Page 4

THE OMA THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMA OF SURSCRIPTION ¢ ) including Bunday 810 0 b e T For Three Months ... . . 2N The Omaha Sunday Bee, mailed to any address, One Y e . e 200 0. 014 918 FARMAM STREF. RooM 65, TRIBUNR BUILDING, 5 FOURTRENTH STREET, OMATIA OFFICE, KEW YORK € ASHINGION OFFICE, CORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to news and edi- torinl matter shouid be addressed 1o tho Evi- TOR OF THE BRR. PUSINESS LETTERS! All business letters and remittancos ahould bo addressed to Tk Rew PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, chocks and postoffice ordors t0 be made payable to tho order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, ROSEWAT! Eprron. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas. %" L Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Mar. 1Sth 1857, was as follows: Baturday, Mar,12 Sunday, Mar. 13 Tuesaday, Mar, ‘Wednesday, Mar, 1 Thursday, Mar, 17 Friaay, Mar, 18,... AVETARE. ..oovvriinenien Gro. B, Z8CIUCK, Subscribed and sworn to be fore me this 21st day of March A. D., 1887, N. P. FRIL, [SEAL| Notarv Publie. Geo. B, 'l'zschuck, belm‘ first duly sworn, deposes and says that he s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, IBM' 11,537 coples; for April, 1886, 12,101 copres: forfor May, 1888, 12, - copies; for June, 1886, 12,208 coples; for .lm“y’_‘ 1886, 18,314 coples; for August, 185, 18, copies; for September, 1888, 18,030 coptes; for October, 1886, 12,980 coples; for November, 1886, 13,348 covies; for December, 1886, 13,287 copies; for January, 1887, 16,200 coples; for February, 1887, 14,108 copies. 5 EO. B, TZ8CHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 9th dn(.nf March, A. D), 1887, SEAL.( N. P.Feir, Notary Publie. 0E great pork center will again be obliged to swallow Carter Harrison for mayor. Boston o:piml is being invested in Omaha. Itis being put where 1t will do the most good. Tae Omaha charter 18 yet before the senate. The Omaha charter has grown to be a chestnut. THE postponement of the spring elect- ion will give the candidates plenty of time to get in their fine work. OMAnA has wide sidewalks, but they are not any too wide to accommodate the busy crowds upon the principal thoroughfares. Iris stated upon good autority that Carter Harrison has made a mullion of dollats out of the office of mayor of Chi- cago. Mr. Harrison seems still willing to make mor TrE British parliament has passed a ciyil service bill. 1f it is anything like the United States civil service act itis simply a daisy—a good thing in theory, but poor in practice. E—— WHILE we are enjoying the balmest of spring weather, the downeasters are snowed under, and the mails are all be- hind. Let the effete east say no more about the western blizzard. S—— OMAHA real estate continues active. Hardly a day passes without some new enterprise springing into existence to help along Omaha’s boom and increase the demand for real estate. E——— ‘THE Crosby hign license bill has passed the New York assembly by a vote of 76 to 52. Now it Gov. Hill will forget his boom long enough to sign it, New York's lowest groggeries will be no more. T—————— Now that the editor of the BEE has re- turned, the corporate press will be com- pelled to croate some other lie to be coupled with the disgraceful proceedings of the house in attempting to defend alleged bribe solicitors. TERROR agan fills the souls of the boodlers and conspirators who are mem- bers of the judiciary committee. Al- though *‘ Rosewater skipped,’ as lying newspapers sald of it, he has returned and demands an investigation. e —— A NEw YORK paper conveys the cheer- ful intelligence that Sara Bernhardt has goined sixteen pounds since she last vis- itedus, The next thing we hoar of Sara she will be repeating, *‘Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt—and resolye me back to the beanpole form.” —— ‘W. S, DUNN writes to the editor of the New York Sun and asks, ‘‘fs man an amimal?” [nabsence of the Sun's an- swer, we will take the responsibily of in- forming Mr. Dunn that if he could only hear Mr. Agee bray on the legislative floor, he would wonder why he ever asked such a question THE new German explosive invented by Dr. Root is called ‘‘roburite.” The effects of this new compound are more murvellous than any other explosive yet invented. While one discharge of it will rémove mountains, ‘‘roburite" would be nothing compared to the effect the charges of brivery had upon the judiciary committee, — Two of the democratic organs of New York are authority for the statement that the president is zealously engaged in “postmastering’ that state. The fact that democrats are rapidly replacing re- publicans in the fourth-class postoffices would not in itself be especially signifi- cant, but when it is said that many of these appointments suggest the ‘‘fine Roman hand of Dan Lamont” the in- formation assumes a broader and deeper intorest. We get at the idea at once that Mr. Cleveland 1s not losing his solicitude regarding the ‘‘pivotal” state, nor ne- glecting any opportunity, however ap- parently slight, to make it secure. From this point the inference is easy and ob- wious respecting the future purposes of Grover, and disabuses the mund to all doubt as to where he intends to be found next year. Sofar as known, there has been no one appointed in New York within the past six months who did not wear sho Cleveland collar, and 1t 18 not lk:lly there will be during the mext welve. No Backdown. My absence for a few days on the most urgent private business has been ma- liciously interpreted by personal and political ‘enemies as a cowardly back? down from the charges brought by m against members of the judiciary com- mittee of the house, in connection with the anti-gambling bill. I have been de- nounced on the one hand as a fabricator of libels and slanders against reputable and honest men, and on the other hand my departure for the east has been tulked of as the flight of a poltroon who feared bodily injury at the hands of the parties implicated in the conspiracy. I donot deem it necessary to explain the nature of the business that compelled my temporary absence. Suflice it to say that my intention to take this trip was known weeks ago to scores of people. It had been postponed from weeck to week antil further delay would have re- sulted in damaging disarrangement to important business interests of the Ber. I made my charges in good faith with full knowledge of the grave responsi- bility. Had the committee ap- pointed by tho speaker been allowed to conduct the investigation as it 1t was first ordered, ample proof would have been placed before them, within forty-cight hours after they mot, to sus- tain every allegation. When the house, under the whip and spur of the conspira- tors and their pals on the floor, reorgan- ized the committee and ordered that no testimony be taken exceptin the presence of the members and parties implicated, I became convinced, as were Speaker Harlan' and Mr. Dempster, chairman of the committee, that the whole thing was to be turned into a costly farce and would end in an impudent white- wash. My letter to the committee was a frank and manly statement of the probable outcome, but I very em- phatically assured the committee that if it was thought best to proceed with the investigation in spite of the peculiar con- ditions, that £ held myself ready to make good my charges. The best proof that I am in dead earnest and do not propose to back down may be found in the following dispatch forwarded to the speaker promptly on my return: Omaha, March 23. Hon. N. V. Harlan, Soeaker House of Rep- resentatives, Lincoln, Neb. : Please inform the house of representatives that I have just returned and am now ready to proceed with investigation. Am in pos- session of sufficient proof to make good my charge, provided the committee will examine important witnesses separately, excluding parties implicated during preliminary hear- ing. E. ROSEWATER. The Commission Selected. The perplexing task of selecting the five commissioners under the interstate commerce law, which apparently has been by far the most difficult duty the president has had devolved upon him, was concluded on Tuesday, and the coun- try has been made acquainted with the result. As to two of the persons named, the president has added another to the numerous surprises he has given the country in the matter of appointments. ‘There appears to be some question as to whether these gentlemen will accept, but it 18 hardly probable that the presi- dent would have named them at this late day without having full assurance that they would serve. The republican mem- bers of the commission are Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan, who is appointed for the full term of six years, and A. k. Walker, of Vermont, apvointed for three years; the democratic members are ex-Congressman Morrison, of Illinois, appointed for five years, Augustus Schoe- maker, of New York, rappointed for four years, and Walter L. Bragg, of Alabama, appointed for two years. We have no doubt that the commission will have the counfidence of the country, though there is mnot unlikely to be some unfavorable geographical distribution of its mem- in the firm and just execution of the new law is not represented in the commis- sion. But it will not be well to indulge in any captious fault-finding on this or any other score of fancied grie: nce. It confidence in the commission until some a different sentiment. for thisin the character ot the commus- sloners whose records are familiar to the vublic. Judge Cooley is one of the he is also a man of impeachable integ- rity and great decision of character, Mr. has all been favorable to him. made no mistake in their selection. It is not apparent that railroad influences had pointments. tude. the commission can organize and settle perform. 1t will doubtless find business ness to do business. managers and their attorneys have been actively at work for weeks studying methods and arrauging plans and poli- obnoxious to the publie. will not be in the interest of the public. In othor matters ments have criticisms of the bers. A very large territory west of 11li- nois, whose people are greatly concerted is better to accept the result as the best the president could reach, and repose good reason shall apply for eatertaining There is warrant ablest jurisis in the country, and has large knowledge of railroad affairs, while Morrison can be depended upon not to sacrifice any interest of the public, and to firmly insist upon a strict enforcement of the requirements of the law. Such in- formation as the public has received re- garding Mr. Bragg since his name was mentioned as a probable commissioner It is fair to assume with respect to the others members that the president has anything to do with any one of the ap- The completion of the commission will relieve the public mind of some solici- The mnew law goes into effect April 1, and the time is short in which down to the important work it has to to do very promptly afterit is in readi- ‘The corporation cies which, while not openly in disregard of the new law, they hope will render it There is still some conflict between the eastern and the western roads regarding the division of rates, but it may be taken for granted that whatever the base of settlement it agree- boen effected for which the law gives no warrant or excuse, and the evident purpose of which is to bring it into discredit by rendering it needlessly and unjustifiably oppressive. The public is not blind to the obvious aim of the cor- porations, and there will be a prompt de- mand upon the commission to determine HA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1887, whether the new policy of the rairoads has the authority of the law and is in all respects a compliance with the require- ment that “all charges made for any ser- vice rendered or to be remdered in transportaticn of passengers or property # # = ghall be reasonable and just.” The law was enacted for the protection of the people against the extortion and oppression of the eorporations, and the commission will be expected to o to the full extent of its powers for the conserva- tion of this objec —_—— Our Laboring Men. The opening of spring gives to every laboring man in Omaha reasonable as- surance that he will have no cause to complain of scarcity of work during the spring and summer. The large number of buildings to be erected, the miles of paving and grading contemplated, and the thousands of other improvements already under way will guarantee steady employment for all who care to work. Omaha is not only a growing city, but it is indeed a great city. Where a very few years ago the announcement that one large building would he constructed was ample cause for street talk and newspa- per comment, to-day dozens of buildings are bemng started, and two-thirds of our citizens know nothing about them. So numerous are the enterprises daily start- ing in the city that newspaper reporters do not undertake to record them all. Such progress assures steady employ- ment to the laborer. Another important whole happy fenture of this ate of affuira is that the Omaha laborers know what to do with their savings. They are building homes of their own, and thus aiding in the won- derful growth of this western metropolis. Probably no other city of its size in the United States can boast of so many frugal and orderly workingmen as Omaha., No strikes of serious nature are cver re- ported from this city, and a gencral feel- ing of content and harmony prevails be- tween the employer and the employed. Carter Harrison Nominated. The dernocrats of Chicago have agnin placed 1 nomination Carter Harrison to till the oflice he has dishonered in years past. All respectable Chicago newspa- pers, regardless of politics have devoted their energies and spuce, the last month, in attempting tc show why Mr. Harrison should not again be nominated for mayor. It seems, however, that thisis an off year for decency, in Chicago as well as elsewhere. Only the other day Mr. Harrison wrote along letter in which he stated that under no consideration would he accept the nomination, and if nominated would necessarily be obliged to decline. From the fact that the boodlers and bummers of the corrupt pork center rallied to his support in the convention and his nom- ination was unanimous, the fine political work of the immaculate Carter is read between the lines. There remains no longer a doubt about his accepting the ‘‘*honor' and his election is an assured fact. When the wishes of the respectable element of a great city are ignored, and the ward strikers and heelers control and dictate its politics, the situation really looks serious and honest men have just cause to express alarm. Thenewspapers of Chicago can sometimes convict corrupt officials after they are elected, but it would appear as if their influence amounted to little when Carter Harrison is in the field. C——— Ar the last meeting of the city council Mr. Lowry introduced a resolution, which was adopted, providing that the general superintendents of all railroads 1n Omaha must within the next ninety days put cross-arms or gates on all im- portant railroad crossings. The city at- torney has been instfucted to prepare an ordinance to govern the same. The street traflic has grown to such an extent 1 Omaha that this matter cannot re- ceive attention any too soon. Metrovol- itan cities must have metropolitan im- provements and safeguards. THE Atlanta Constitution says: *'If you watch you will see that the express offico receives sixty jugs a day during the week and over one hundred on Satur- day.” That may be a wonderful business for the new south, but the oil rooms at Lincoln import from other places double that number of jugs between midnight and early morning, each day. — THE New York Sun complains because Mr. Cleveland wears black pantaloons. Mr. Dana, in a flight of eloguence, gravely and reproachtully says on the subject: “In honor of gentle spring, the benign mother of catarrhs, he might well drape his manly legs in trousers of a lighter hue.” e—— - A DELEGATE who nominated his favor- ite in the Chicago democratic convention for treasurer had both of his eyes promptly blacked by an indignant poli- tician, The man who nominated Carter Harrison for mayor ought to have been served the same way. AccorpING to our Lincoln advices John Sahler is a candidate for oil - spector, provided the inspection bill be- comes a law, Mr. Sahler's experience in the Lincoln oil rooms ought to fit him for the place. What he doesn't know about *‘0il"" isn’t worth mentioning. Tre bill providing against the pooling of grain dealers passed the hopse, and will become a law. The farmer can now with safety figure on receiving a better price for his grain. And it may,possibly, take elevator men out of politics. SEEp———— Miss KaTe FIELD, charming and intel- ligent, is visiting Omaha a few days. She is going to California to remain a year. It is very fortunate for this gifted lady that the overland railroad passes north of Salt Lake City, the home of the ‘‘horrid Mormon monsters." e—— WirnouT assuming authority to dictate, the Bex wounld kindly suggest that the streets and alleys of this city are very filthy, and the ordinance relating to the matter should at onve be enforced. Warm weather is upon us, JAcksoN MAaRION, the Gage county murderer, according to Governor Thay- er's decision, must hang. Mr. Marion yet believes that he will be allowed to live. To-morrow, however, he will step into eternity. ArTER all the foolishness of fifty days, it really seems that the legislature is getting down to business. It is hoped something will be accomplished. the | _ Mr. Kcekley's Grain Ball, The' governor has yet to sign the bill of Mt, Keckloy, prolibiting the pooling of grain dealers in Nebraska, and then it becomes a law. This iz one of the most valuable laws passed by the present logis- lature. T} bill does not under: take to pronibit any company from controlling or owning a large number of elevators, yot it prevents opposition deal- ers from entering into ‘“‘combines’'—the present bane of all men's existence. Under the new law it is fair to presume that farmers will receive a higher price for their products, and at the same time makes competition possible. While the passage of the bill is a surprise to all, the fact that it is so nearly a law is a matter of general congratulation. —_— In dodging the vote on the bill prohib- iting the pooling of grain dealers, the Right Honorable Patrick Garvey, of Douglas, only confirmed the belief that he is not representing the people. IN naming the inter-state commerco commission President Cleveland has dis- apnointed at ieast three hundred men, Over-production of imagined statesmen breeds discontent. A rorvLAk lager beer saloon in Omaha came very near being destroyed by fire yesterday, To lose such an institution during the muddy condition of Missouri river water would indeed be a calamity. A warrer fell dead at the Windsor notel in Lincoln yesterday. ¢le was par- alized while waiting for a *‘tip” from a lobbyist who had failed to secure an ap- propriation from the leg! PROMINENT PERSONS, Alfred Sully used to clerk in his uncle’s store at Sheboyizan Falls, Wis. Secretary Endicott has returned trom Mas- sachusetts and resumed bis duties. Oliver Wendell Holwes is to give readings from his unpublished writings, in Boston, 5001, Justin McCarthy says the best lunch he ate in this country was prepared for him in Boston, Mrs. Mark Hopkins. the twentyv-million- aire, took a trip through the Kentucky Mam- mouth cave last week. Dr. Edmund J. Janes, vrofessor of finance in the university of Pennsylvania, has de- clined the presidency of the Iowa State uni- versity, with double his present salary. Phillippoteaux. the celebrated French painter, whose *‘Siege of Paris” has been greatiy admired in this country. is now painting a cyclorama of Niagara Falls, -—— The Remnant. Brooklyn Union. *“Since the death of Henry Ward Beecher,"” said Representative Mahony to-night, *‘Brooklyn has nobody left but meself and Bliss and Talmage and the Bridge.” e 1t Stands for Boodle. Philadelphia Press. s Senator Henry B. Payne, of Ohio, doesn’t know what the letter B. in his name stands for, We can tell that in Ohio there is a gen- eral impression that it stauds for boodle, and plenty of it. Many Benefits of High License. New York Sun. ‘We had a system of high license here some twenty years ago, when Thomas C. Acton was president of the police board. 1t was.sim- ple and most cffective, and the pomt which should not be forgotten about it is that, if it had been continuved, the whole debt of the city could in a comparatively short period have been wiped out with the revenue pro- vided. e International Kemarks. New York World. L—CANADIAN FISHERMAN, Since the Yankees confess ‘Through their coast defense press ‘That their country is helpless and hopelessly weak, ‘Why should we not wear A belligerent air And use a more bellicose tone when we speak? So, when backed on the sea By the Britisl navee, We will fish in a lordly, imperial manner; And whenever we choose, In the course of a cruise, We can wipo up the ground with the Star- Spangled Banner. IL—UNCLE S8AM (FROM BEHIND A TREE). Oh! heed not the pranks . Of the coast defense cranks And think of the projects that wretchedly ail: Remember the boy In his wish to annoy Who rflmaun to jerk the wrong coon by the e STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Sutton will illuminate with electricity. Shelton has a bonus in soak for a creamery. The Long Pine Journal is five years old and flourishing. Incendiaries have made two unsuccess- ful attempts to cremate Aurora. Barefoot boys, straw hats and ice cream signs are running loose in Ord. A big prairie fire destroved a Catholic church in Erina, Garfield county, re- cently. The gamblers of Hay Springs have taken to the woods. The sherxfl’i.nvi‘.ed them to jail, but they skipped. Ponca's three ounce sparkler turned out to be the frozen glance of a hungry tramp, hurled at a station-house pie. The *‘spring boom" has struck Creigh- ton. An Indiana advocate of Adams’ eye opener is pulverizing the rum power in the town, There is a vacancy in the Niobrara land oftice, and scores of faithful torch- bearers are willing to be smitten with a commission bearing Grover's signature, The Nebraska City News gives it out cold that the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe is buildinw a line to Omaha and will tapltlm former ity on the way. Let her roll, Real estate if so lively in Nebraska City that the nitives are clhewing dust and drinking Missouri mud, Almost any enterprising ci!zen can spit a corner lot in ten hours. . The B. & M, company has applied to the court in ifigrmdm City for the ap- pointment of appraisers to appraise and condemn properky on the right of way to the bridge now, under construction, Exeter is slowly recovering from the effocts of the annonncement thata branch of the Elkhorn g alley road will strike the town this sumtger. ‘Bells tolled the glad tidings, whistlesshrieked with enthusiasm and luminous bonfires helped the general hurrah, The Ladora Independent, by Ellis & Burton the latest. Ladora is the count; t of Blaine county and was born {n a whirlwind of speculation, and a consuming desire to rob Brewster, the ioneer town, of the county seat honors. 'he town is growing rapidly. The largest mortgage ever recorded in Phelps county was filed in the clerk's office last Friday. It is a mortgage of the Kansas City & Omaha Railroaa company to the Central Trust company of New York, and is tor the sum of 0'15.000 per mile of the road of said company. Towa Items. The Cass county jail is tenantless. Mahaska county has fiftv-eight phys- cians, as_ehown by the register in the clerk’s office. Red Oak expeets a sixty-stall round house and railroad machine shops. Mrs. Foley, aged 102 vears, and the mother of tén children, died a fow days since in Benton county. * The Marengo artesian well borers struck oil at a depth of 400 feet, The quantity and quality of the flmd is a secret, Wells Wood., of Independence, ¢ 1 off the onors in the Third congressional distriet last week, in the examination of applicants for appointment to West Point. If there is a survivor of battery L, First Ohio light artillery, living in Towa, he will confer a favor by sending hisaddress to Joseph Slavens, Seymour, Way county, lowa. The Sioux City Journal is troubled about the quality of Omaha gas. Our e. We are drilling for a ! will probably tap Sioux City before midsummer. George Beach, a )'()Illlfi car repairer, was Killed by the cars at Pacifie Junction Sunday night. He fell from the top of a moving train and was frightfully man- gled. He was nineteen years of age. Bishop Cosgrove, of Davenport, de- livered a notable sermon In that city last Sunday on the immoral tendencies of the times through the breaking down of snfe- guards, which once protected girls and young women. As a model for the risin, enerution the bishop pictured the *‘old fashioned girl” of thirty years ago, 1n the following words: “She was a littlo wirl until sho was fiftoen and she helped her mother in her household duties. She had her hours of play and enjoyed herself to the fullest extent. She never said to her mother, ‘I cant—I don't want to,’ for obedie was to her a cherished virtue. She arose in the morning, when called, and we do not suppose she had her hair done up in vpapers and ecrimping pins, or banged over her forchead. She did not grow into a young lady and talk about her beau before she was in her teens and she did not read dime novels, nor was she fancying a hero in every plough-bov she met.” The old fashioned girl modest in her demeanor, and she never talked slang nor used by- words. $he did not laugh at_old people nor make fun of cripples. She had re- spect for cripples. She had respect for her elders and was not above listening to words of counsel from those older than herself. She did not know as much as her mother, nor did she think that her judgment was as good as that of her rrandmother. She did not go to parties y the time that she was ten years old, and stay till after mid-might, dancing with any chance young man who hap- pened to be present. She went to bed in season, and doubtless said her prayers, and slept the sleep of innocence, rose up in the morning happy and capable of giv- ing hn]{niuus.«. Aund now, if there be an old-fashioned fxirl in the world to-day, may heaven bless and keep her and raise up others like her. Da X)Fndwood will enjoy a charter election on 5 Bufialo Gap's champion base ball club is called the **Wind Cutters.”” Stock, both cattle and horses, along the eastern side of the Hills, seem to have stood the winter in good shape. By the bursting of a 16-inch emery wheel in the steam machine shop at Sioux Falls Friday, Arthur L. Hinton was in- stantly killed. A plan is on foot at Yankton to change the course of Rhine ecreek, which flows through the city. The object is to re- deem about $50,000 worth of taxable property. . Gardening has been such a prohtable experiment in former years at Deadwood that this year, according to the Pioneer, almost every person in the valley who has a piece of land to cultivate is prepar- ing to plant it to vegetables, Montana. The farnous Drum Lummon mine pro- duced $178,700 during February. The Montana club, of Helena, has de- cided to invest $60,000 in u club house. The Montana Union and Northern Pa- cific railroads have been seriously dam- aged by washouts. The Granite Mountain Mining com- any is averaging along steadily about 7,000 product every week. Three and a half millions a year from one mine. Galletin county’s bonded indebtedness is $105,000, of which amount Park connty, newly created, is to pay $35,000, as the new county contains one-third of the tax- able wealth of the old county before di- vision, There are three tunnels on the Helena, Boulder Valley & Butte railroad, the Northern Pacific’s branch line to Butte. One at Beavertown 360 feet long, one at the summit of the mountain between Jef- ferson and Boulder 200 feet long and a little one of 60 feet between the two. The one nl Beavertown 1s through, that on the summit nearly so, and the other one rapidly approaching completion, — THE COUNTY 8QUABBLE. y 3. What the Commissioners Say About Miss Trueland’s Case. ‘With reference tothe article in Tuesday night's BEE, the county commissioners de- clared emfilmtlonlly yesterday that Clerk Needham had no right to raise or lower the salaries of the employes in his office. 'l;‘hey say that power belongs solely to them. Referring to the case of Miss Trueland, one of the commissioners said: ‘‘The plain fact of the matter 18 that the young Iady, who was one of the best clerks in the office, was discharged by Needham because she asked for and insisted upon an increase of $15 in her salary. Her work was numerical indexing, which involves more labor than the general indexing. And yet the latter work was performed b&’lwo clerks with a combined salary of $120, and the former by Miss Trueland at a salaryof $75. All the former county clerks who have been asked about this agree that Miss, True- Iand’s work involved more labor than that of the other two clerks who assisted in indexing. You can see for yourself that there is something wrong here.” ED BURN'S FUNERAL. It Occurred Yesterday Afternoon— The Verdict, ‘This afternoon the funeral of Ed Burns, the switchman who was killed in the lower Union Pacific yards yesterday morning, occurred from St. Philomena cathedral. It was largely attended by the friends of the deceased and the broth- hood of switchmen. The remains were interred in the Holy Sepulchre cemetery. 'he coroner’s jury returned last night a verdict on the death of Young Burns. This concludes with the following: “‘We further believe that the said death was the result of the improper loading of the car.” Itis probable thata damage suit against the Union Pacific will be the re- sult of the death of young Burns. He Bobs Up Agaln, Mr. William Spotts, commonly known as “Billy,” was mentioned 1n the BEE 8 few days ago as the youth who had the sublime assurance to write to Patti when she was here for a couple of compliment- ariesto the concert. Mr. Spotts has been out of town for the past few weeks, but has returned, Yesterday he turne up in the reporter’s room with a smile as bland as that on the face of a Chinaman with a sleeve full of aces. ~He left the following important bit of news, which will I!mfi the heart of every Omahan: L Mr, Will Spotts and his friend a Gentle- man from Eu’rogve .ronl ‘Lheir Evening Last night at the Peoples Theater- ‘These two Gentlemen say it was The Best show com- pany that ever Come to Omaba, MR. ILER'S SYNDICATE, 1t Cannct Mine on the County Poor Farm, Yestorday afternoon County Attorney Simeral filed with the c ty cominisse joners an opinion on the subject of the county’s leasing toJ. W. Her certamn land for the purpose of mining for eoal and other nunerals. Mr. Simeral in this, s: “*First. Section 22 of ¢l piled statutes of braska detines the power of acounty as foilows: 1st. To purchase and hold real and personal es- tate necessary for the use of the county. Second. To sell or convey or lease any personal or real estate owned by the county. Scction 23 provides that the county board may sell the real ate of the county attorney and purchuse other groundsin lieu thercof, Section 24 prohibits the sale of public grounds without having first submitted the question to a vote of the people. The first question which presents itself under the statutes and the contemplated lease, is one of great importance both to the county and Mr. Ller. To the county, n the first place, because the Iaw limits the amount of real estate that the county isallowed to hold to that which is neces- sary for the u f the county. To Mr. ller, in the second place, be- he would be liable at any timo to junction on the partof any tax- er prohibiting him from operating under his lease, from the fact that the re- moval or f minerals (contemplated by the lease) is to that extent a sale of an nterest 1n the land itself, minerals being a part of the fec. Again, if this lease should be given it would be 1n the way of any future sale of the land so leased, and might greatly pter 18 of com- A CARD. TO THE PUBLIC With the approach of spring and theincreased interest mans ifested in real estate matters, I am more than ever consults ed by intending purchaser; 3 to favorable opportunities fop investment, and to all such would say: When putting any Propes ty on the market, and adver- tising it as desirable, I have nvariably confined myself to damage the county 1t it wAs required to filhur litigate the matter or buy out the essee, But the principal question is one of law, and in my opinion is decisive of this mat- ¢ ter. The land is owned by the county from the heavens above to the lowest depths th, thus including any and all min- oral which may be under the surface. The granting to Mr. ller the right to mine and take as his own any coual, ete., which he may discover, upon payment of a certain sum or vortion of the coal so mined, isa sale to him of the coal, ete., which he mines and takes away, the coal being a part of the land. The statutes prohibit the sale of county lands excep by a vote of the people. “A lease the right to mine for coal on the land of the lessces is a grant of an interestin land and nota mere license'to take the coal.” Harlan et al, vs. Lehigh Coal and Nayi- ation Co., 85 Pennsylvania st., page 203, It must necessarily follow that the county board has no right to grant the lease in question. I have left out all questions of the crea- tion by the county of a great monopoly in Mr. Iler by the granting of the lease, and merely suggest the inconvenience which might arise to _the county as well as to Mr. ller in the future, if after large expenditures of money in the possibility that coal should be found and extensive mining operations were being carried on under the lease, the county shoutd think best to sell the land. Respectfully yours, . SIMERAL, ‘ounty attorney. OxAHA, March 23, 1887, WHAT MR. ILER SAYS. Mr. Iler said yesterday afternoon: *Well, Isuppose that settles it. We can get plenty of other lands to mine. If we had struck coal on the poor farm, have mined it on a percentage with the county.” A DISTINGUISHED LADY. er: Miss Kate Field Now a Guest in Omaha. Miss Kate Fiela, of New York, is now a plain unvarnished statement of facts, never indulging in vague promises for the future, and the result in every case hag been that the nxpurtatiomv of purchasers were more than realized. I can refer with pleasure to Albright’s Annex and Baker Place, as sample il lustrations. Lots in the “Annex” have quadrupled in value and are still advancing, while a street car line is already building past Baker Place, adding hun- we_would | dreds of dollars to the valueof every lot. Albright's Choice was se- intho city, » guest of Mrs. General | lected by me with the greatest Crook, at Seventeenth and Chicago streets, The lady has won distinction as a woman of rare ability, partly from | care after a thorough study her lectures on Mormonism and partly through her bright letters which have brought her prominently before the periodical reading public. She 18 prob- ably the ablest and undoubtedly the most forcible female lecturer on the plat- form to-day. As she appeared to areporter, Miss Field is a person whose face gives indis- and with the full knowledge of its value, and I can consci- entiously say to those seeking putable evidence of a strong individu- [ 3 safe and profitable invest- ality. 1t is one which shone force,energy, and will power extraordinary. Her eyes are blue-gray, bright and expressive. There is anindefinable grace and courtesy about the lady which serve to put onc at erfect ease as soon as her acquaintance s made. She is a woman ot rather slight physique, and dresses in a modest costume of a subdued shade. Miss Field stated that she had simply come to Omaha for a few days’ rest and - visit, before leaving for San Francisco, and thence to Aluska. Her lecturing tour had closed in Atchison, Kan, While in that state she had been attracted by the question ot prohibition, which she proposed to inves- tigate fully. Dnring her stay here she also proposed to examine the workings of the high license system. Upon the subject of woman's right she occupied the same broad ground ason other subjects and did not believe in going to extremes. The ultra cos- tumes which some reformers advocate she considered impracticable, for women could never be brought to use them. She heartily disbelieved, however, in tight lacingor any other such iniquitios of ress. Miss Field could probabl r be induced to remain in Omaha and lecture if the proper pressures were brought to bear upon her. She does not solicit en{;ngv- ments but only speaks where she 18 in- vited. There are many people in Omaha who would like to listen to one of her lectures. TRE PAXTON BARBER BHOP. It is Opened Under a New Manage- ment. William E. Magner, the well known and popular barber of this city, has pur- chased the Paxton hotel barber shop and has re-opened it in firat-class shape, He proposes to fit it up, together with a sys- tem of baths, 8o that it shall be sccond to no establishment of ~ the kind in the city. Mr. Magner is a first-class man at his andevery man in his establishment has been selected with a view to turnixg out thoroughly artistic work. Those’ who want a clean, smooth, quick shave or the latest and best style of hair cut would do well to remember *‘Billy.” He invites all his friends as well as the public gen- erally to call on him. A Suspected Opium Den, Parties residing in the neighborhoed of Meinig's dining hall on South Thirteenth street, between Harney and Howard, complained yesterday to the police that the laundry of Quong Lung, under the restaurant 18 extensively patronized by the lower classes as an opium den. It is alleged that ‘‘bop-fiends come and go at all hours of the day and night. The place is under watch now by the police. Coal for the Poor, At the end ot this month County Poor Superintendent Mahoney will prepare a statement showing the amount of coal, rovisions distributed among the poor. glr. Mahoney says that about 100 more families were cared for this year thau last. The amount of coal given out wi reach in cost about $3,600. ment that Albright's Choice offers chances not excelled in this market for a sure thing. Early investorshave already reaped large profits in CASH, and with the many important improvements contemplated, some of which are now under way, every lot in this splen: did addition will prove a bo nanza to first buyers. Fuarther information, plats and prices, will be cheerfully furnished. Buggies ready at all busines | times to show property. Respectfully, W. (. ALBRIGHT SOLE OWNER, 218 8. 15th Street. Branch office at Soutk Oma- ha. N. B. Property for sale inall parts of the city