Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 28, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Daily Morniag Edition) including Sunday Brg, One Year. For Bix Months . . ¥or Threa Montha The Omaba Swnday Hex, maiied to any address, One Year.. .. 20 08 FARNAM STREFT ROOM 5, TRINUNE BULLDING, NO. 513 FOURTRENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE: . All communieations relating to news and edi- forial maiter should be addrossed to the Eui- TOR OF THE BRE. BUSINESS LETTERSS All business letters and remittances should be Widressed to Tus Bee PUBLISHING COMPANY, OmAMA. Drafts, checks nnd postofico orders %0 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EDpITOR. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nevraska, 1y o (:0!!"‘{,0 Jouelas. o Geo. B. ‘Izschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending April 22, 1557, was as follows: Saturday, April 16 Sunday, Aoril 17. Monday, April18 . Tuesday, April 19 Wednesday, April Thursday, April 21 Friday, April 22 Average. .. . Z3CHUCK, ) B. 3 Subseribed and sworn to before me this #5th day of April, 1557, N. I, FEIL, [SEAL.] Notary Pubiic, Geo. B. Tzschnek, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing _company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of April, 18%, 12,191 coples; for May, 1886, 12,479 copies; for June, 1884, 12.208 coples; for Ju“l“y, 1848, 12,314 copies; for August, 1848, 12,464 copies; for Septem- ber, 189, 16,030 copies; for October, 1356, 12,99 copies; for November, 13,348 copies; for Décem January, 1887, 10y 1887, 14,105 coples copies, Gro. B. Tzscnuek., Suhseribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of Aprll, A, D, 1887, ISEAL.| '~ N.P. FEL, Notary Public. THE two Sams, Jones and Small, are slingizg slang in Minneapolis, ITALIAN custom duties have been 1n- creased. The torturous organ grinder continues on the free list. Our dispatches state that New York capitalists have sailed for China, where they will introduce the telephone. SrEAKER CARLISLE predicts an extra Bession of congress in October. The country eannot escape all afllictions. NATURAL gas has been found in New Jersey. There has been none found in Nebraska. No one seems to be looking for it. SECRETARY LAMAR'S speech on Cal- houn made fourteen columns of small type. It wasa masterly as well as a lengthy effort. TrE French and German war-cloud has dissappeared. The European war cor- respondept has made many ‘‘scoops’ during the last three years, ‘Trr 833d anniversary of Shakespeare’s birthday was celebrated in Philadelphia Sunday. Mr. Bacon missed it in not copyrighting his plays. ——— CHOLERA is raging Mexico. The Sal- vation Army is raging in the United States, The man who asked ‘Is Life ‘Worth Living?’ didn't know a good thing when he saw it. EE—— RoBERT PINKERTON, gencral superin- tendent of Pinkerton's detcctive agency, isout in a card in the New York Z¥mes denying the charge that any of their agents have attempted to secure fac- similes of Patrick Engan’s handwriting, Tk Pennsylvania road has boycotted thirty-two roads 1n the west—refusing to sell through tickets. Just what effect this will have remains to be seen later on. Itis thought, however, thata gen- eral cut in “‘excursion” tickets will fol- low. E———— Tk people of a few counties in Vir- Rinia are poverty stricken. They are ont of food, and have called for help from outside counties. The tobacco orop proveds a failure. The tobacco planters will attempt to raise corn this year. — CAPTAIN J. M. Luvy, of the postoffice department, Washington, has been fast- Ing for four weeks and expucts to make up forty days and forty nights of absti- pence from all food. The civil seryice reform is calling for great sacrifice on the part of publioc servants, SE—— DetECTIVE MOYNAHAN presented the chivalrous knight of the quill, whose father-in-law’s residence had been bur- Rlarized, a slungshot to ward off house- breakers. Dotective Moynahan is & very handy person to have about when aman makes & murderous assault with a crook's weapo Herr Krupp is now engaged in the manufacture of a gun 52} feet long to weigh 315,000 pounds, whose lightest pro- Jectile will weigh 1,632 pounds. ‘Ten hundred and seventy pounds of prismatic brown powder will be used to charge this gun once. This new creation will ba the regulation size as adopted by Nebraska cditors at the last meeting of the press association. Dowx at Leominster, Mass., two min- isters haveraised guite a disturbance in & somewhat novel way. At a conference held there last Sunday the two preachers sccepted the hospitality of a Mr. Curtis— whose wife is a devoted Christian. The story goes that after morning prayersthe clergyman asked Mr. Curtis to go to church and attend services, but he ex- cused himself by saying he had a previ- ous engagement with a man to go fish- ing. The bad practice of catching fish ‘was commented upon at the church, mak- ing Mrs. Curtis foel very bad about her husband. At the noon recess both cler- gymen returned to her house for dinner and ate heartily of trout captured mn an unholy way. The good wife insisted that eating fish caught on Sunday was as bad as catching them on that day, and went and quietly informed the parishoners of the two clergymen about the occurrence. The consequence is that complaints of anchristianlike conduct have becn pre- rred against the two minsters and an vestization will follow, Contempt of Court, According to one of our amiablo con- temporaries some lawyers have expressed the opinion that Police Judge Stenberg would be warranted in sending the editor of the B to jail for contempt of court This is decidedly cool. Contempt of court for what and for whom ? [s there any reputable man or woman in Omaha that dces not regard the decision in the Rothacker assault case a judicial out- rage? Talk about contempt of court! What clse than contempt can people have fora court which makes justice and law a mere mockery. Why did the judge ex- press the opinion two days beforo the trial that the complaint could not be sus- tained? What do the lawyers that talk about contempt of court think of a judge who decides cases before he has heard the evidence? What do they think of the conduct of court officers who play sleight of hand with subpenas for important witnesses? Would it be contempt of court to protest against such outrages? Raillroad Building In Nebraska. Whatever the effect of the inter-state commerce law may be upon railroad earnings, certain it is that it in no way interferes with their construction. It has been stated in Bradstreet’s that the summer and fall of 1887, would witness the building of more miles of rairoad in the United States than any other one year in the history of our country. Judg- ing from the way the season startsin Nebruska, this statement is true. The Chicago Times, speaking of the Burling- ton extensions, says that the company 18 already doing considerable work in new territory 1in Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado. From Broken Bow, near the Middle Loup river, this state, the B. & M. is to be built to Fort Laramie. Frcm Curtis, also, an extension 18 to be built to Cheyenne, crossing the Union Pucific at Sterling, Wyoming. The Z'imes says: “At a short distance from Sterling and north- west of Ilff an extension from McCook taps the Cheyenne ex- tension and then diverges and runs in a southwesterly direction, tapping the main stem ay Akron. From Orleans, in Nebraska, another extension 18 being built crossing into Kansas and touching at Wano, near the Colorado line; thence it runs direct to Pueblo, crossing the Kansas Pacific at River Bend. These lines are what is known as the extension of the Nebraska system.” The Chicago & Northwestern is also contemplating extensions and branches. The Rock Island which built from Atohi- son, Kan., last year through Pawnee and Gage counties, is pushing west by the way of Grand Island. The Union Pacific has several branches upon which work will be done this year. Their branch from the main line will be built north- west from Callaway. The B. & M. is also ribbing Colorado, Three projected lines of that system aro already being surveyed in this state. The Swelling Tide of Immigration. Last week there was recorded at New York the largest number of immigrants that have arrived there in any one weok of the present year. The aggregate of big and little, old and yonng, who had turned their faces upon the old world to find new homes here was 12,454, They represented many nationalities and the destination of most of them was the far west. They were generally a good class of emigrants, who may be expected to become usoful citizens. The authorities at Castle Garden express the opinion that this is but the beginning of a season of immigration never excelled and not even equalled before in years. The exciting conditions in Europe favor this view. Besides the incentive to emigration which the poiitical situation there gives, the industrial state of affairs is far from satisfactory. There is no- diffi- culty in finding reasons why Irish- men and Germans should leave thoir countries for the larger freedom and op- portunities of America. In some degree the influnces that induce emigration are the same with all—oppressive laws, bur- densome taxation, an ill-favored oxist- ence that holds up no promise of better things in the future. The years of great immigration have been those of a re- moved prosperity in this country, of which the people of Europe seem to learn with remarkable promptness. The aug- mented immigration of this year coinci- dent with our industrial prosperity proves the rule. ‘This inflow of population from the old world is not universally regarded with favor. A number of newspapers, voic- ing, itis supposed, the sen timent of a respectable and considerable element, havo effeccted to see in it a menace which the country ought to guard against. The idea of these writers is that we shall need all our avail- able reom for the future maintenance of the descendaats of tie sixty millions of people already inhabiting this country, and that the time is perhaps at hand when we should abandon the policy of inviting the oppressed of all the world to our shores. This idea is not new. It has been heard from time to time for a good many vears., Norisitany less narrow and illogical now than in the past. There are laws to keep out eriminals, paupers, the insane and contract laborers, and there can be no objection to the demand that these shall be vigorously enforced . But to ask that we shall go beyond these, and exclude reputable and worthy peo- ple who come here from other lands with the intention to make homes here, to comply with our laws, and to become useful citizens, is to demand not only that we shall renounce a cardinal policy of our politicil system, but take an atti- tude hostile tosound economic principles. It 1s quite unnecessary to remind intel- ligent people of what immigration has done for this country, and such people will not require a nice demonstration to convince them that there is ample room for it to do much more. The territory of the United States will sustaift a popula- tion of three or four hundred millions without being as much crowded as most of the countries of Europe. Is it rational to say that we should place ‘a Chinese wall between ourselves and all tho rest of mankind, and leave the attainment of this population to natural increase? If there was no emigration from this coun try in the meanwhile that result would be achieved in about & hundred years, but if our own people were permitted to 2o at will the time required for its ao- complishment would not be much less than a century and a half. Even with im- migration maintained at the highest point 1t has ever reached the eountry could not attain & population of two hundred mul- lions in less than fitty years. Thereis maunifestly no cause of trouble'or appre- THE hension in the fact that Europo is now adding to our population at the rate of half a million a year, so long as the pco- plo whocome are of the class of which good citizens are made. For protection against all others the present laws are ample if properly enforced. But as a matter of fact all people who bring here their labor and skill, albeit that is their only capital, with the pur- pose of industriously employing it, are &till needed. There is abundant room for them in the growing west and south, and if they distribute themselves with judgment they will not crowd or jostle anybody already here. We shall thus have more people to feed ot home and a steadily diminish- ing necessity for seeking o foreign market for our products. We shall see villages grow into towns, towns into cities, and cities expand to metropolitan proportions. Our farms will become more valuable, and all forms of property will improve. The general prosperity will be advanced and the aggregate wealth increased. In all material re spects, at least, immigration must con- tinue to be to our advantage for years to come. Meanwhile it may be pertinent to ask those who think otherwise to propose a plan for shutting out immigration, that is at once practical and in accord with our system of government, Street Railroad Franchises. The Omaha horse railway company asks for a franchise and right of way for a cable road through our principal streets. An ordinance granting this franchise has been passed by the council and placed before our citizens for ratiti- cation at next Tuesday’s election. When this ordinance was before the council an effort was made by some of its members to make this franchise con- ditional, 60 that our citizens would have reasonable assurance that the company would build at least two or three miles of cable railway within as many years. This was however voted down by the majority of the council and the proposi- tion submitted to popular approval is therefore without any guaranty, In other words the citizens of Omaha are asked to vote away a valuable franchise without any assurance that the Omaha Horse railway will build a iie of cable road in ten years, While we realize that Omaha wants all the cable lines, tramways and motor roads that capitalists are willing to build, we do not believe that an indiscriminate voting away of franchises is judicious, or in the public interest. Before another franchise for any strect railway is voted, the corporation that asks for the right of way should give a specitic guaranty of good fuith and assurance that it will build a given length of road within a reasonable time. THERE has been u very marked de- crease 1n east-bound shipments of dead freight from Chicago since the inter-state commerce law wentinto effect. Lust week the total shipments amounted to a frac- tion less than 30,000 tons, while in the week before the law went into effect they aggregated a fraction over 71,000 tons. The shipments of last week were below those of the corresponding week a year ago, when the stagnation of business was more pronounced than ever before, Doubtless a relative declino has taken place at all points shipping to the east. There is also a decrease in the shipmonts westward. This state of affairs is in part explained by the heavy movement of commodities immediately preceding the date when the law went into effect, and which for a time filled the channels of demand, but it is of-course duc most largely to the fact that buyers are operat- ing with great caution under the ad- vanced rates, and will continue for a time to do so. The readjustment is not yot perfected. and cannot be for some time. If the policy thus far pur- sued by the commission continues to be followed that time may be greatly and unnecessarily prolonged. Meanwhile the loss is falling on the railroads, whose ar- bitrary course could have no other effect than to block trade, and was undoubt- edly designed to have that eftect. Of course the roads expuct to make this all up, when the necessities of the country shall forco a more active movement of commodities, but it is just possibte that their calculations in this respect may be found at fault. Thus far the .arbitrary policy of the corporations appeara to op- erate in the direction the¥ desired, but it must not be assumed that they will be permitted to continue in their present course. The commission has declared that the language and the tenor of the law wholly fail to justify the railroad managers who ‘‘embarrass the custom- ary interchange of business and impose stagnation of trade,” and that also 1s the public opinion. The corporations may oarry their policy of unreasonable and unjust charges too far. E——— Tue New York Z¥mes calls attention to a marked change in the current of tho grain-carrying traflic which is of espocial interest to the grain growers of the west and northwest. It states that in March, 1886, there wera no exports of wheat by way of New Orleans, but last month a half million bushels were exported through that city. The comparison is more striking as the period is extended. In the first nine months of the fiscal year 1885-6, 5,600 bushels were exported by way of New Orleans, against 2,252,000 bushels for a like period during 1886-7. The disparity, remarks the Z¥mes, is too great to be explained in the theory that New Orleans merely shared in the gen- eral increase due to the larger exports of the current season. and on looking farther it appears that San Francisco 1s the only port showing smaller exports than last year, and that, too, by about the amount of the gain made by New Orleans. In March, 1886, 8,378,600 bushels of wheat were shipped from San Francisco, and last month only 1,241,078, That the change is compara- tively recent appears from the fact that for the nine months San Francisco shows an increase like all the other export cen- ters, although a disprovortionately small one. The exports of Indian corn show a decrease for each of the five large export centers except New Orleans. Its gain is less than half a million bushels, it is true, but considering the circumstances, it is more or less like water running up hill. The aggregate exports of wheat and corn also show marked changes in compari- son with last year. For March the ex- ports of wheat were 7,722,788 bushels, against 5,198,746 in 1886, and duriog the nine months ending with March the ine crease was from. 34,785,248 bushels to — 78,257,455. But maize shows a decteaso from 8,031,481 bushels for March, 1886, to b, 30 last_month, and for the ninc months from 41,597,871 to 89,535,919, Tite rocent fludtuations 1n the price of silver haye been due chiefly or wholly to speculation imLondon. The bullion bro- kers have been reaping profits on both sides of the market, whilo poor India, whose solo legal tender is silver, is grop- ing about in wtthr chaos. In that coun- try taxes and 8athries are paid on the old standard in sifyer rupees; and if the un- fortunate clerk ' or government oficer wishes to remit his surplus to his Lon- don home, he must sell nis rupees for gold sovereigns or Dbills on Lon- don at a price fluctuating widely from day to day and regulated by the spec- ulative whim of British brokers. Nor is the government any better off. The In- dian council at London, if it wishes to draw on Calcutta or Bombay for the tax remittances, must offer its draft in open market to the highest bidder, and 15 thus placed at the mercy of the silver spocula- tors. The last revort of the Indian gov- ernment showed the utter hopelessness of any cstimates of the income or deficit to be expected by Great Britain from the Indian treasury. England flrst caused the International derangement of the sil- ver ratio. Events have brought it about that she 1s the first and heavicst suflerer from its ef BURGLARS were responsible for the shooting of Mrs. John Luuer. Burglars troubled tho mind of the valiant and stalwart editor. This is why he carried the weapon of the footpad and slugger in his pocket night and day. It is the first instance on record where a gentle- man afraid of house-breakers has come on n witness stand to swear that he armed himself with a slung-shot to ward them off. Tue news comes from Cortland, this state, that gold has been discovered thero. The Ponca diamond field filled a long felt want, but this more recent discovery will satisfy everybody that our resources are inexhaustible. THE council has been planting $30 a year fire hydrants all over town instead of shade trees, April has been a sort of waterworks company arbor month, COUNCILMAN DAILY has been renom- inated by the democrats. Mr. Daily has been a very useful representative of his corporate employers. — TuE poor farm on wheels with a seren- ading brass band.is a novelty in Omaha. 1t beats *Excurgton Smith” all hollow. r— PERSONAL POINTS. J. B, Plumb, who has been appointed by Queen Victoria speaker of tho Canadian senate, was formerly a resident of Aibany, N. Y. 1t is reported that ex-Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago, will soon start for California with his family. He will visit Asla and nmkq_fl; journey around the world. 1% The Hon. Geofge Bancroft, eighty-seven yoars old and in vigorous health, says peo- ple areinjured a great deal more by eating too much than taking anextra glass of wine at dinner. ok Senator Hearst’s young son,who has taken editorial charge of the San Francisco Exam- Iner, has developed a zood deal of journalis- tic ability, and has shaken up the dry bones of newspaperdom in that vicinity to a won- derful extent. T1he duke of Sutherland has decided to set- tle In Florida, baving purchased a magnifi- cent river front and forty acres of land at Tarpon Springs, where he will build a cot- tage to cost about $15,000, In“which he will spend a couple of months évery winter. General Sherman kisses every girl who at- tends the Thursday afternoon receptions given by his wife in New York. Sinco the old warrior has succeeded in introducing his vivacious St.Louis custom he is rapidly be- coming reconciled to lifo in the effete east. Mrs. Zelda Seguin Wallace, who is said to be as much at home on the platform as on the operatic stage, is lecturing In Kentucky on woman’s rights. Mrs. Wallace is a Kentuck- ian by birth, being a danghter of Dr. Saunders, once a prominent puysician of the state. Goodall Bey, one of the few English offi- cers who escaped In the massacre of for- eigners at the time of the Egyptian rebel- lion, and for a considerable time private sec- retary to the khedive, I3 visiting the United States for the beuelit of his health, which suffered much in that service. — INTER-STATE COMMEROE ACT. New York Journal:: We have a sad pre- sentiment that the new inter-state commerce bill is going to increase the number of luna- tie asylums in this country, * Denver Republican: {ve suspect that some of the brilliant rail managers who are chuckling over their wit in making the inter- state law obnoxious by advancing the old rates on the long haul,” will have some difli- culty in satisfactorily explalning their action to the commission. . . Pittsburg Post: The'people are not con- vinced that the iaw Is unjust or fupracti- cable by the organized assaults on it. They Want to see it i actual and honest operation in all its parts, and not converted into an engine of oppression 10 make public senti- ment against it. - **x Boston Herald: It seems to us that the commissioners have presented this matter in @ temperate and cquitable manner, and that it rests with the railway companies to make those concessions in the fron rules they I lately prepared which will afford to the busi- ness community that measure of relief thoy Dow stand 50 muel ityneed of, » Missour} Republicah:*Wo are now on firm ground. ‘There is 3ife law--and it must be faithtully observedi'and if there has existed an understanding g@among certain roads to break it down by B harsh vunctiliousness where the law does not requiro it, and by making one section_qf one industry the vie- tim of “an unnecessary and unwarrantable soverity in the pranded observance of it, the scheme may u8:well be abandoned at once. 4 Gty Philadelphia Record: The railroads of Pennsylvania seem fo'have pitched upon the present time as a proper occasion for finding out exactly “what the fraflic will bear.” If it be cheaper to walk Lorses and cattle to mar- ket than to send them by rail, and if it costs less to transport chareoal by teams from the pountainsto the wills of the Lebanon val- oy than to send it over the iron tracks, it must be admitted that In these cases at least the last straw has been laid on. "y Indianapolis Journal: The average cou- gressman may not have a very scrupulous sense of propriety, but I8 rather surprising to learn that some who voted for the in= terstate law have appeared before the commis- sion as attorneys for large interests seeking to modify or overturn it. 1tis barely pos- sible that a man may honestly represent two conflicting interests, one as a representative in congress and the other as an attorney out of it, but the dual relation is rather confu- sing to the common wind. I Kansas City St L Is probable that the Interstate law will adapt itself to the situ; tion and become one of the permaneut insti- tutions of the land. Railroad companies may busy themselves in making the law u popular oy trying to make its defects gi OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, APRID 28, 1887, revalls that the law 1s A wholesome beginnine towards controlling and regulating powerful corporations, With this feeling the people are disposed to stand by it and kive it a fair chance to be useful to railroads and beneficial to all concerned, . ing, but the nmlan Hope. Macmillan's Magazine, In lonely vigil till the day be born, Whose “one star glimmers pale the clouds . among, She hears the volees of the human throng, he hopeless murmurs of a world outworn, ie tumult of immitigable scorn, he old ancestral ery of mortal wronge, Sound like the weary burden of a song, Love loveless left und faithless faith for- sWorn, hears unheeding. Her self-blinded eyves Keep still undimmed the glory of the view Which once was hers, when all the world WAS new ; 2 Her ears, that catch one strain which never ies. Hold firm, though chance and change of earth and skies, Her “'Ill'mb' unswerving faith in Good and rue. P — STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, The latest tile in Beatrice is burnt red. The Shamrock Pickings is the latest paper in Holt county. Under the heels of men truly great the orange peel equals the banana. Aloan and building association has been organized at North Platte with a capital of $400,000. Chief Engineer Barrin, souri Pacific, has arrived gang in He s, haying surveyed and staked the li rom Lincoln. The Beatrice Free Lance asserts that ex-Governor Dawes, while i office, never rode on a railroad pass. Very true. His wenkness was passenger coaches or Pullmans, Fremont consoles herself with the be- lief that she can keep the flic ' Omaha during the summer. If the *‘prettiest” succecds she will earn_the nal grati- tude of her big-hearted neighbor. John W. Culver, of Beatrice, has sued the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail- road company for $10,000. Damages are elmmmed for a rebate on corn shipped to Baltimore instead of Chicago, some time ago. Hiram Woodford and Joseph Likes have disappeared from their haunts in Lincoln, without leaving a note of afl tion, regret or remorse, It is believed they have joined the feeble minded ranks of the Salvation army. The Free Lance is the name of a paper just started in Beatrice in the interest of the working people and temperal It is a typographical daisy, chock fuil of news and timely comment. Messrs. George H. and Albert C. Powers are the publishers. The young idea is learning to shoot with revolvers. The thirteen-year-old daughter of C. M. Miller, B. & M. agent at David City, after being correctes y her father for some act of disobedience, 1ast Saturday, declared that she was too to Iive and shot herself with her r’s revolver. The bullet passed within an inch of her heart. The wound 188 x(‘v‘fl‘c ,und painful one but not neces- fatal. The managers of tho Beatrice Mutual Insurance company announce a com- plete change of policy. The old assas ment swindle will be dropped, and busi- ness confined to old line insurance, guar- anteeing to each member the full amount insured. The BEE'S exposure of the con- cern paralyzed its profitable eareer and forced it 10 choose between honesty and bankruptey. It will bear watching. The Wahoo Wasp and Representative Harrison, of Saunders county, are having a little war. Harrison says, m & com- munication to the Democrat, that Mac- Murphy was appointed aclerk in the last legislature because *‘he is cock-eyed and can see a ‘job’ intwo directions at once;” and Mac-Murphy avers that Harrison was generally regarded as the cheapest corruptionist in _the whole legislature. There the quarrel rests until their quills are repointed. The Union Pacific is surveying a line from Columbus to David City, and ex- pect to have cars running into the latter vlace as soon as the Northwestern, The Union Pacitic also proposes to straighten out its line between Valparaiso and Brainard, shortening it about two miles. By other short cuts on the line they ex- pect to lessen the distance about sixtcen miles between David City and Omaha, making the distance about seventy mules. From David City to Columbus the line will run about threc miles west of ‘the B. & M. road. on, of the Mis- with his chain Towa Items. One hundred additions have been added to Cedar Rapids, A street railway company has been or- gonized and incorporated in Ottumwa. The report comes from Emmetsburg that 100 head of stock were frozen to death during last week's blizzard. The work of changing the Osccola & Southern narrow guage to a stundard guage road will begin next week, The Sioux City prohibs are vigorously plugging the holes-in-the-wall, where villainous varnish was sold on the sly. T ton, Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids, is the recipicnt of a num- ber of Irish fish, the gift of Parnoll. A Klnf of toughs raided a grocery store in Des Moines Monday night. ‘Che burflars, loaded down with plunder, rushed into the wide arms of two police- men. It was a neat catch. The hog cholera has made its appe: ance in north Tama ngain this spring. ‘The disease caused the loss of $10, worth of atock last scason, and as it has commenced earlier than usual, the loss will probably be greater this year. A Inbor agency at Chicago is advertis- ing for help to send to Des Moines under the representation that thousands of la- borers arc wanted \for employment unon the railroads. According to the Leader there are plenty of laborers in Des Moines to supply all present or prospect- ive demands, Rebecea J. Farley, of Dubuque, notifies the public in a card through the local press, that she “has changed her mind.” Sho hired iawyers, complained to the neighbors, excited sympathetic witnesses to swear her William Henry was a brute and wild beast, recorded a complaint in the shape of divorce proceedings that she wouldn't be Mrs. Farloy--so she wonldn’t—any more, and then with the change of moon *changed her mind.” "I'was ever thus with the gentle He- beceas. Oolorado. al ostate sales last week ag- alists have pu round for u theater to cost $100,000 Jenver. Mrs. E, B. Coates, bound from San Francisco to Baltimore, jumped from a moving train near Pueblo Inst week. She was not seriously injured. ‘The eoxtension of the Denver & Rio Grande road is within four mlles of Dur- ango. The rond will be in operation to that thriving camp in a few months, The Missouri Pacific has submitted a proposition to the v of Pueblo to build to that point from Grecley county, Kan- sas, in consideration of the right of way through the city, and depol grounds. The provosition has been accepted. The Colorado Celt “defies contradic- tion when 1t asserts that some of Denver's weaithy merchants have and are lzivin‘i employment to a few young and hand some girls for base and nmoral purposes, is indeed a sad state of affairs, butitis neyertheless true.” Utah, Salt Lake City is said to be the only ed in r- ¢ place in the United States where the in- spection of doeds on record is refused to the public, The banks of Salt Lake City report the receipts for the week ending Aprii 20, in- clusive of $10,261.61 in ore and §46,381.40 in bullion, u total of $65.413.07. Mr. W. P. Noble, of Salt Lake City, has been awarded the contract to supply beef to the Shoshone and Arapahoce Indians. The amount required is 800,000 pounds at £3.70 per hundred. The Utah Wool Growers' association has a membership of 105 and is in a pros- perous condition. The members graze over 800,000 sheep and control the ship- ment of 1,500,000 pounds of wool. ast week's mineral shipments from Lake City wei 83 ears bullion, 30,210 1bs; 15 cars iron matte, 438,485 silver ore, 760,680 lbs; 17 cars lead ore, 522,600 1bs; 33 cars _eopper ore, 1,042,050 Ibs; total, 132 cars, 8,813,775 1bs. The Mormons are practicing every art to escape the workings of the latest edi- tion of United States laws, Husbands transfer their proverty to their wives and thus escape payment of costs. As to swearing, a prohibition trial in lowa looks sick in comparison. ‘They believe polygamy is a “divine institution’ and consequently a bogus oath before a law officer is triffing if 1t subserves the growth and elevation of Brighamism. Montana, The Granite Mountain mine divided $200,000 among stockholders this month. Helena capitalists propose to build a hugo smelter in that city, capable of profitably working $10 ore. Indians are stealing horses by the wholesale in the northern counties, and the settlers are arming to protect their property and to make it sultry for *‘Lo." Within the next sixty days the broad- ening of the Utah & Northern will be completed and unbroken standard gauge put in operation covering the en- tire line from Pocatello to all Montana points herctofore and now reached by the narrow gauge track. The Union Pa- cific company will endeavor to run trains over the Northern Pacific track to He- lena. Itis generally believed if this ar- rangement is not coneluded the company will build an independent line to the cap- ital eity. Governor Hauser tells the Helena Her- ald that two new railroud companies have been formed—one to build a branch from the Boulder valley road down the Boulder yalley to Jeflerson river, thence across to the ‘Madison, near Red Bluff, und thence on up the Madison and into the National Park; the other from the Northern at Gallatin Pacific to a junction with the National Park line near Red Blull. The first named road will be built to Red Blufl'this year and on into the National Park next year. A spur will probably be built from Red Bluft to Vir- ginia City. The Pacific Coast. Colfax, W. T., is to have a college, and the contract for erecting the same has been lot. A pelican measuring nine feet from tip to tip was killed at Bishop Creek, Inyo county, one day last week. T'he brewers in San Francisco have formed a ‘“combine” and raised the price of beer. The bottoms of beer mugs will ascend in consequence. An Oroville miser named Horatio Hamilton starved himself to death re- nied mmself proper food $3,000 cash and a quarter section of land to relatives in Ohio. Never before were the prospoects tor Iarge crops more flattering, and if every- thing progr favorably from now on -umf harvest Sacramento county will have a larger yicld than that of any pre- ceding scason. On the Californin & Oregon railroad, track &as been laid to the Klamath river, sixteen miles above Montague, and on the other side of the river the road is graded and ready for the raiis for a dis- tance of about ten miles. : The Portland flouring mills have an order for 150 tons of flour for Hong Kong, to be shirlmd by the way of San Fran- cisco. This is a new thing in flour move- ments and is probably a result of the corner in wheat in San Francisco. The coal shipments from Seattle dur- ing the month of March amounted to 22,218 tons; from Tacoma, 22,171 tons; trom Nanaimo, 18,595 tons, and from De- arture bay, 11,450 tons. The shipments rom Puget Sound thus exceed those from British Columbia nearly 15,000 tons. Trouble is brewing in the Union Iron works of San Francisco. This firm secured the contract for the construction of the United States oraiser Charleston, The contract provides that the vessel shall be completed within a specitied time, ‘‘except in case of eafl.htfi\;:\ ke, riots or strikes.” Superintendent Dickey, of the works, went to the Clyde two months ago in search of cheap labor, and as soon as the imported mechanics arrive and attempt to work for less than the regula- tion wages, there will be a walk out and a strike of considerable dimensions. All trades in the city are thoroughly orguni- zed and a unit agamnst imported cheap labor. SALE OF THE POOR-FARM, Lots Being Sold as Good Prices—A Great Demand. The auction sale of the county poor farm lots began yesterday at ten o’clock, and will be continued from day to day until all are sold. There was a good crowd present and bidding opened lively. Tom Riley, the auctioneer, knocked down the first corner lot at $2,650, and the next two inside lots at $1,825 each, to William Gyger, an employe of Dewey & Stone. The highest price paid for any lot was $2825 for lot 9, block 1, the purchaser being William 1. Kierstead, the next re- publican councilman trom the Ninth ward. Prices ranged from $025 up to the amount just named. The total amount realized §76,000, or $38,000 more than the appraisement. If allthe Jots weresold at as good prices as those sold yesterday, the county will ds of §400,000, and two- thirds of the furm will be left to be dis- posed of in the future. It required from ten to fifteen minutes to sell each lot. The sale will therefore lust several days. Tips from the Ties, EdwinBooth and his entire company feft Inst night at 1130 for Kansas City over the Burliugton. They went by a special train composed of Mr. Booth's private Wore *David Garriek Mr. Potter in Omaha. Thomas J. Potter, the newly appointet firstvice president of Union Pacific road arrived in the city yestorday, in hisspecial car from Kans: ty. e was accom panied by his private secretary. Mr Potter will remain here atlay or so. He came here on business connected with the B. & M. road, but took advantage of an _hour's leisure time to call at the Union Pacific headquarters and have an informal talk with the oflicials there. Mr. Potter was met in the Millard hotel by & reporter yesterday afternoon. e is a'man of about forty years, of coms manding presence, and with a clear gray eye which denotes its possessor to be a man of coolness and nerve, as well as judgment and foresight, He is & pleas. baggage car and conch fur nished by the Burlington for their exclu sive use. m Kansas City they go to Des Moines by the samo line, W. F. Herman, general agent for the Union Pacifie at Cleveland, O, is in the city. T'he officials of the Union Pac left Tuesday night in special car 05 for Chi- cago, where they will meet the representa- tives of the lowsi lines to aiscuss the matter of percentages for the operation of the Council Bluils transfer. 1 Jnion Pa- i have compars pst of operating the tr. their road took hold of it wh suid, will “knock out™ the lowa ro: just about one round. “Praveling Passenger Agent Green, the Union Pacitie, has returned from the. west and a speci Dist Conrt, Yesterday worning the examination of S. Kalishin aid of an execution agzainst him, amounting toabout §1 in favor of Milaud & Co., took place bufore Judge Nevalle. n personally, and submits to an W with the utmost grac “When do you exis to assume your new duties with the Union Pucific?” was asked of him, “‘Probably on the 16th of May,"” he re- plied. ‘1 shall resign with the Burling- ton on the 15th, and shall go to work for the Union Pacitic on the 16th.” “Your headquarters will be in Omaha?'? “‘Yes, though I don’t know that I shall remove my family here. home has long been in Burlington and it will prob- ably remain there.” Speaking of his new duties, Mr. Potter said: “My contract with the Union Pa- cific makes my position that of first vice president, and gives me control of the Union Pacific main line and the leased Oregon Railway and Navigation com- pany's hines. Yes, I presume my work might bo called that of a general man. ager. As for Mr. Cummings and Mr. Callaway, I can't say as to whether they will remain with the road or not. I presume so. 1 shall make ver; fow changes. ‘To tell you the truth, have not taken up the work yet and 1 cannot say now just what 1 shall do.’ “Will there be any special change in the policy of the management?™ ““That | can’t say at present.” Mr. Potter has been associated with the Burlington for twonty years. He has worked his way up to the gh position which he has ocenpied latterly, he{ force of his in- dustry, iuto;irily and ability, as a rail- 0 le started 1in ns a station agentat Albia, Ia., and has occupied various positions with the road since, both in the traflic and operating depart- ments. To use his own phrase he has been “a lhttle bit of everything.” In other words, s oxperience has boen that of a thorough, all-around railroad man. General Manager Clark, General Manager 8. H. H. Clark, of the Missouri Pacilic, is also in the eity. He came hero partly toeflect the removal of his family to St. Louis, and partly (and principally) on business conaeoted with the Missouri Pacitic’s Omaha inter- osts. t 3 Mr. Clark was yesterday approached by a reporter who secu! rom him some valuable information. That gentloman by the way, does not treat the interviewor with that pompous brusquerie which is affected by some railrond men. He Is willing to give information which it is volitic to disclose, at the same time that he is always careful not to say anything that ought not to be made public. In answer to questioning Mr. Clark smd: “Yes, I am here Fouin;:!thigfis inshapo tor the building which the Missouri Pa- cific will do here this season. The land on which we shall erect our shops and roundhouse is near Sulphur Springs, and is about sixteen acres in extent, This is being filled up, so as to make the tract perfectly level.” “‘How large will the shops be?" “That it 15 impossible to say at present. You can rest assured that they will be of ood size. 'They will doall the work for the Missour1 Pacific from Atchison, Kan- sas, north. Then we have other shops at Atchison, at St. Louis and at Sedalia, Missouri. The details of the Omaha shops Ucan give you later. Then we shall build a big round house at Sulphur Springs, even larger than the old one. It was a fortunate thing for Omaha that the 81d round house burned, as i1t inaugu- rated a -fstem of improvements here that will involve an outlay of thousands of dollars. The Missour: Pacific will also erect a dopot on its grounds (which have 1,500 feet frontage) at Sixteenth and Nicholas. The details of Nw depot have pot yet been arran- “‘Will the Missouri Pacific union depot scheme of the cifie?'* 4 “‘We have signified our willingness to do so, when the other roads are ready. 1t is cortainly not the fault of the Mis- souri Pacitic that the scheme is not being pushed.” 4 “‘When will the Belt Line trains com- mence ranning?" “We want to inaugurate the system this year—just as soon as the rush of work subsides. I can't fix any positive date however, 1t will not be long before these trains are in operation.” Mr. Clark declined to answer an uestion about the proposed branches ol thetMissouri Pacific from Omaha. Mr. Clark has sold his residence at Twentieth and Dodin. Ho still retains & five-acre tract nesr Hanscom Place, on which he expects to build. He will then make his permanent residence in Omaha. The O, R. & N. Linen, Now that the Union Pacific has defin- itely secured the lease of the Oregon Railway & Nnvnfinuon company, 8oe informtion on the subject of the lincs of that organization will be of timely in- terest. The line of the 0. R. & N. company commences at Huntington, Oregon, the western terminal of the Union Pacifie. It runs thence west to Umatilla where it connects with the branch running in a direction slightly northwest to Portland, Oregon. At Umatilla, other branches diverge to differcnt points in the north- east, covering quite extensively the rapidly developing country of Oregon and Washington territory. Altogether, the system comprises about 630 or 700 miles of railway. In addition tothis, the company operates a line of steamers on Puget Soung, to ttle, on the Snake river, the Columbia river und the Wil- fismetto river, b a_lme from Port- land to San Francisco. The coust line of imers make the trip from Portland to , one of 0660 miles ifty hours his gives the Union c 1ts own o the ¢ t, and great scenic route lifornia, with a rde of over 600 miles by water, thrown in. Of course the traflic arrangement with the Central Paci will 5till be maintained, so that passengers, so preferring, ean go west gitja into the nion Pa- ated, the Oregon Railway s 'will be in control of My. Poti Other arrangements tor its operation have not yet been made up i detail, ¥is Was Drunk, erday from Sherman Canfield, who is accompanying *Buffalo Bill"" on his European tour, The letter was written mid-ocean. The good ship “Nebra he says, has met with some rough weather but has so far withstood the gale bravely.” ‘Phe writer says that the Indinns, who had never experienced unything of the sort, were very much alirmed at the Yolling of the ship 1 the heavy seas. One brave solemnly r 1, “teepeo him heap dam drun the vessel was doing some b lurching, “Teepea” is tho Indian expression for tent und they apply it to the ship, as weli. el se the surcst remedy for catarrh-—Dr.