Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1887, Page 12

e ikl THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF 8UBSCRIPTION Dafly Morniag Fdition) including Sunday Brr, One Year, Fny 8ix Monthe ‘or Threo The Omaha Swnday ik, muilod uddress, Oue Your. ... ... FARNAM STREFY. RN e BUILDING, FOURTRENTH STHEET. E‘ No, 014 AND, YW VoRK OPFICE. RO0M © ASHINGION OFFICE, NO. 5L OORRESPONDENCE: All communjcations relating to news and edi- torinl matter showld be adiressed 1o the Eot- THE BEF. PUSINERS LETTEARS! All business letters and remittances should ba addressod 10 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafte, checks and postoffice orders 0 be made payable to tho order of the compuny, THE BLE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eprron. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, "8 County of Douzlas. i " Geo. B. ‘I'zschuck, secretary of The Bea Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Beo the week ending May 0, 1557, was as Wi Baturday, April Sunday, May Monday, May 2. Tuesday, Mu;' Friday, May 6 Average........ iE0. 1. T7: Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of May, 1557, N. P. FEIr,, [SEAL.] Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of May, 1556, 12,439 copies for June, 1896, 12.208 copies | for July, 1985, 12,914 copies; for l\mumr.i 156, 12,464 copies; for Septem- ber, 1886, 13,030 copies; for October, 1886, 12,080 copies; for November, 1580, ' 13,348 coples; for December, 1856, 37 copies; for Jlnm\r‘v. 1857, 16,268 coples: for February, 1847, 14,195 coples; for March, 1857, 14,400 copies; for April, 1857, 14,316 copies, Gro. B. Tzscnuer. Subseribed and Mlmm to before me this th 857, day of May, A. I)., 1557, I8 EAL.? P. Frir, Notary Public. . P. QuIck, of Lincoln, 1s dead. He A8 prominent in many ways. THERE is a cry calling for the organi- zation of the fire and police commission. As the BEE has before insisted, $30 for each water hydrant is too large a sum. Tue eighth street viaduct must be built, It is needed, and has been prom- ised. GeNERAL KEtver snid he wonld make @ speech and he spoke. He escaped un- scathed. ExcourAGING reports of copious rains throughout the state reach us. This is gratifying. WuiLe Mayor fi;&gfi_ouc of the city, itis hoped there will be no more alleged interviews. Mg. CoNNELL'S annual report shows better than newspaper praise that he has proven a faithful official. — I is though unless the commission closes the Washington monument pretty soott, relic hunters will have it all carried away. RoBERT LINCOLN i3 enjoying a little presidential boom. Robert's father was a truly great man. Unfortunately Robert is not a chip off the old block. JAY Gourp 1s booked to appear before the Pacific Investigating commissioners Friday. Mr. Gould will interest his audience by relating what he does not know. It must be borne in mind that both Omaha and Lincoln have base ball clubs, ‘Whether they can play ball is left for & kind and discriminating public to deter- mine. HuaR Prince has brought suit against the city of Omaha for £5,000 damages. Ho claims that he was injured by falling on a defective sidewalk. Can it be that Mike Meany has failed to discover the “loose plank: e Tue twelve Irish constables who re- signed their oflice because they were 2ompelled to carry on evictions, and who arrived in New York last week, an. nounce their intention of becoming citi- zens of the United States. They will learn better than to resign an office if they are successful in being elected in America. — MADAME CHARLOTTE PONNER, the songstress, is suing the American Opera company 1n the superior court, New York, for $2,800 due her us salary, and in addition, for $5,000, as damage to her reputation. The American Opera com- pany certainly 1s having a hard struggle for existence. The country seems to have o music in its soul. Mg, B®THACKER assailed Governor Thayer because Mr. Rothacker was not appointed as a member of the police commission, At least the governor ex- plains it that way, and those who read the interview elsewhore, will naturally araw the same conclusion. The Greek adage referring to the milk in the cocoa- nutis beautifully appropriate here. “*'WiLL railroads be built if a cast-iron law says they shall only receive a com- pensation that, while it will make a large traftic road rich, will utterly rumn a woakor or low-trafficroad?”’ asks a news- paper which condemas the inter-state law. In the first place there are none other than ‘‘large traflic” roads in this part of the country, Two or three sys- tems west of the Mississippi river con- trol every mile of track. In the second place cast-iron laws against railways be- longed to the Iron age—certainly they are unknown in this nineteenth ceatury. SEmeee————— Tax San Francisco Journal of Com- merce has been examining the statistics s to the opium trade, and its arithmetic man has come to the conclusion that during the past seven years the govern- ment has been defrauded out of §23,315,- 670, through the wholessle smuggling of the drug. Taking the Chinesc popula- tion as 125,000, and assuming that 100,000 aro opium smokers, it would follow that oach Chinese spent yearly $38 on smug- gloa opium. It has been beforv re- marked that for *ways that are dark and tricks that ave vain, the heathen Chineo \s peouliar.” ; < T e ey Senntor Conger and His Watch, Senator Conger, member of the late legislature, is busy these days exhibiting a handsome gold watch presented him by “old soldiers,” as he claims, as a re- ward for his ‘‘unti ndefatigable” and promiscuous skirmishing in secur- ing the location of the soldiers’ home at Grand lsland, While it is true that Grand Island will secure a soldiers' home, the part that Sen- ator Conger played in passing the bill, or in any way aiding its passage, remains something of a mystery. In the first place, Conger was notorious as a rail road lobbyist, and what he cailed his “'in- fluence” was mnothing. But what is strange about the watch presentation is the tact that he should claim the G. A. R. made him the pres- ent, The Bee at the tune this ‘‘expression of appreciation,” occurred was furnished with a list of names of the magnanimous doners, and when it re- members Conger's record, it 1s forced to admit that the ‘‘old soldiers” who reck- lessly subscribed the ‘‘amounts set anpo- site their names,” did it only to reward an old comrade for work well done. The first soldier subscribing to the Conger watch fund, was the peerless battle-scared veteran Colonel John N Thurston. He could not restrain his emotion, as he recalled the bloody bat- tles—he had read about, and immedi- ately wrote his name for $25, While Mr. Thurston never had a chance to smell real powder, as the Union Pacific attor- ney he knew a good thing when he saw it, and Comrade Conger had his full sympathy. According to the list furnished us the next old soldier whose young heart filled with bitter recollections of blood stained battle fields, the picture of which he had often looked at when a boy some ten years ago, was (General C. W. Mosher. The general said in as much as Comrade Conger had been where the bullets were thickest in the long and hard-fought bat- tle to get the conyict labor contract through, he would cheerfully subscribe $25. Next on the list appears the name of Captain A, S. Paddock, who will soon write a series of war articles for the Cen- tury Magazine. While the captain was busy during the war, he yet felt like being one of the old soldiers who would help buy a watch for Conger because of his services in securing the soldier’'s home at Grand Island. Of course Comrade Conger voted for Pad- dock for senator—but then that was nothing. J. W.Deweese, who was a major—a drum major—perhaps, 1n a fit of reckless liberality wrote down $5.00. Considering the fact that he had given Comrade Con- ger several trip passes, his donation was considered suflicient. Private Church Howe, who was a soldier, subscribed $25, but Conger had a happy way of voting for the Missouri Pacitic right of way, which together with his services of securing the soldier's home at Grand Island, Church thought that there was nothing like rewarding the brave. The list furnished us also goes on to say that a subscription of *‘$100 from the cit- izens of Grand Island” was given the Con- ger watch fund, but the latest advices from that city say there was no such amount subscribed, and that the “soldiers” men- tioned above, with two additions, fur- nished the watch to Conger, telling him it cost $255, when in reality it cost $135. The best thing that Mr. Conger can do is to give the watch a rest. Itis well enough for him to indulge in the grim vleasantry of telling people that he is running for congress next year, but he has made the ‘‘old soldier” racket a chestnut. The Grand Army of Rascals mentioned above will hold a reunion at the next legislature. A Cattle “Trust.” The latest combination taking the title of a ‘‘trust'’ is composed of cattle men, who have recently organized the Amer- 1can Cattle Trust association, with a claimed capital of §25,000,000. A move- ment looking to this orgamzation was set on foot some time ago, the professed object being the protection of the cattle- men from the alleged exactions and un- just treatment they suffered at the hands of the syndicate of the Chicago and Kan- sas City packers. In an address to a convention of cattle men some months ago a gentleman largely interested in raising cattle declared that the syndicate, with the assistance of the railroads, had been for years outrageously plundering the cattle men, its members growing rich out ef the robberies thus persis- tently carried on. It need hardly be said that this person was able to present a very plaus- ivle showing, which very likely had a good deal of truth as a basis. The ne- cessity of organization wasurged in order to enablo the cattle men to combat the syndicate, if need be to the extent of es- tablishing competition in sluughtering and packing in the regioaof the ranches. ‘This was the disposition manifested be- fore the passage of the inter-state com- merce law. After that act was passed the projece was allowed to drop into obeyance, doubtless from a feeling that the new law would remedy in large part the wrongs of which the cattlemen com- plained. This expectation would seem not to have been realized, for the cattle trust has been organized, its object being “concert of action in producing, feeding and marketing cattle, including the manufacturing necessary to ren- der the product ready for sale in the markets of the world.” This appear to be an ecntirely legitimate par- pose, but the Chicago Zribune discovers in the movement ‘‘at once the most gi- gantic monopoly ever attempted and the most vital to the public interest.” That journal expresses the opinion that if the scheme is successful it will enhance the cost of every pound of American beef, and it believes that to be the real object of the movement, “If this extra barden upon consumption,’” says the ZI'ribune, were coupled with a general benefit to ths cattle raising interest it would not be quite so bad; but evidently the intention is to put the great bulk of that interest also at the mercy of a few monopolists, repeating, so far as possible, the old story of the big fish eating the little ones.'" Granting that the cattle raising inter- est may have substantisl grounds of com- plaint as the basis of its wovement, yet such eciticism of the project as that above quoted 1# inevitable in view of the gen- cral popular distrust of all such combi- nations. Experience has tanght the peo- ple w regard tacm, however fair THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1867, promise, as certainly tending to menop- oly, for which the term ‘“‘trust” is a mis- leading euphenism. The American Cat- tle Trust association may prove to be wholly innocent of any grasping and selfish designs, but until ic shall elearly show that it is so 1t will be suspected of the same intent that has characterized the conduct of other organizations which under the title of “‘trusts” developed the worst forms of monopoly. —_— Progress of Building, During the nine months ending with last March, 1,250 building permits were issued, representing an estimated cost of about $1,000,000. This gratifying show- ing will probably be equalled in the sue- ceeding nine months in the number of buildings authorized to be ercoted, if not inthe cost they shall represent. The present year will certainly by far exceed any previous year in the extent and cost of building in Omaha, and there is every reason to believe that the succeeding year will not fall behind it. There isstill a demand here for com- modious business blocks, and investment in such buildings, having the modern appliances and conveniences, is assured of liberal returns. The rapidly expanding trade of the city demands ampler facili- ties, which should, and doubtless will, attract a great deal of capital to build- ing during the next few years for busi- ness purposes. There is certain and permanent profit in such mvestment in Omaha, Meanwhile residence building 18 rapidly increasing in every quarter of the city, many of these additions to the city’s homes being of the most attractive kind architecturally and representing a generous expenditure. Solidity in the business quarter and beauty and ele- gance in the residence portions are the present tendency. A still urgent want is a larger number of houses for people who cannot build their homes, and which will rent at from $20 to $40 a month, — NEeArLY all the newspapers of the country have published the story how one Walter Ridgely, a traveling sales- man, resented an imposition sought to be practiced uvon him by two men who - ried him across the river near Tex- rkana, Ark., and that in a fight which ensued he killed both of them; how sub- sequently he was hunted down by the brothers of these men, three in number, and in a desperate night battle made them bite the dust, himsclf being se- verely wounded, and how 1n all this most tragic business he had exhibited unexampled courage and nerve. The story first appeared in a St. Louis paper asan ordinary dispatch, but was after- wards claborated and illustrated in the same journal, and from that widely re- produced. It received editorial atten- tion in quarters where material for such attention is not usually lacking. Several papers sent down special correspondents and in other ways sought to secure addi- tional detals. It was the foremost sensa- tion of the yoar. The drummers of the country were touched by the heroism of their comrade, and in Chicago and else- where started benefit subscription funds. Had there been a hero Ridgely would have been made a rich man. But happily or unhappily there was not, and atter an “‘unprecedented run,” in the language of the show bills, of more than two weeks, it is proved that the whole story was a hoax, the invention of the St. Louis vaper’s Texar- kana correspondent, one W. B. Werks. That he did his work well goes without saying, but it is questionable if the per- formance is one to be proud of. Evi- dently, however, there is valuable journ- alistic material in Werks it it can be given the right direction. But he can not hope for any favor from several man- aging editors who are kicking themselves for their casy gullibility and the gencr- ous outlay it has cost their papers. It may not be generally known that both the war and navy departments have bureaus of information whose business it is to obtain knowiedge of military prog- ress and preparation in this and foreign countries. It happened that during the time when the ftisheries dispute had as- sumed a somewhat threatening aspect these bureaus were uncommonly active in the search for information, addressing i cs to Governor Beaver, of Penn- a1, among others, as to how quickly the state militia could be concentrated at a stated point, equipped and ready for service. Areply that must have been entirely reassuring to the bureau officers was sent,{duly filed and pigeon-holed. ‘I'ne governor nursed this circumstance for weeks as profound state sccret, but feeling that all danger had passed he a fow days ago disclosed it as cvidence that the country was for a time on the very verge of hostilities with England. It was a natural inferrence, perhaps, for the governor to make under the then existing circumstances, as he doubtless knew nothing of the existing bureau, but he would have shown discretion in mak- ing inquiries that nught have preventea his being led into a confession of amus- ing simplicity. It is not probable that the wish of the commissioner of the land office to have the Maxwell land-grant case reargued to the supreme court will be complied with, It might be to very little purpose if it were. But there are some statements regarding the case in the communication submitted by the acting commissioner to the secretary of the interior which will very greatly strengthen a widespread publie belief that the grant as allowed 1s a stupendous robbery of the people. The supreme court is of course blameless in the matter, though it has not escaped criticism, the fault being in the inade- quacy of the government's evidence to prove fraud. It is now said that new and material evidence has been discovered, but it is to be feared it has been found too late to be useful cxcept as added proof to the people that they have been robbed. e——— WiTHIN the last two weeks our tele- graph columns have contained accounts of disastrous fires. Invariably is it the case that no *‘firc company” was in the place. In each of these towns scourged by the remorseless flames, a large num- ber of builaings have been desiroyed, entailing a loss representing a sum sufs ficient to provide an effective fire de- partment. Such a company couid, in all probability, save a very large proportion of tne property destroyed, if engines were at hand. The absence of all facil- ities for extinguishing fires in small towns and cities, is often responsible for great ioss. OUnc of the first duties of a municipality is tv.imkn a wise and proper precaution against the possiblility of fires and to afford facilitiesjfor subduing them. Tire people of Yankton, Dakota, are very enthusiastic over the proposed line of road to be built from Omaha to Yank- ton, through Washington, Dodge, Cum- ing, Wayne and Cedar counties, It ap- pears that those at the head of this enterprise mean business, and if proper encouragement is offered, the road will be built at once; $300,000 are wanted from Omaha and intermediate points. It is called tne Omaha, Wayne & Yank- ton railroad, and would give to Omaha o dircct line to the morth, something greatiy needed. The people of Yankton are enthusiastic on the subject, as are also citizens of towns along the proposed line. A meeting will be held in Omaha on May when committecs from each point will make their reports, as to amount of money that can be raised. Our citizens should give this matter their attention. OmAnA has nearly fifteen miles of paved streets and furtner paving is in progeess. This is a very ereditable show- ing as the work of five years, and it is to be said of a large part of this paving that 1t has been well done. The city must not halt in this particular, and it may be suggested that future paving will have to be done with even greater care than been excreised in the past. The increas- ing use of the thoroughfares from the growing traflic of the city explains why this is necessary. The very best material and the most thorough workmanship will be found true cconomy 1n all paving hereafter laid. — 11k orop reports from the northwest are in the highest degree encouraging, Seeding is completed, the date being earl- ier than usual, and all the conditions more favorable than for several years. The acreags in both Minnesota and Dakota is larger than last year, and 1f the season shall be propitious the crops of those states will be materially in- creased. The situation in lowa 1s re- ported exceptionally favorable. Alto- gether the present conditions are most satisfactory, and the promise snch as to reassure confidence in an enlarged pros- perity for the entire country. st of tory rage,” 1s the way the opposition party puts it when speaking of home rule debate in the house of commons 1 London. In Nebraska they say, *‘the gentleman from Nemaha made a commodious ass of him- self.”” AFTER passing the winter with the dis- solute lobby at Lin¢doln, how could Will Gurley prosccute roustabouts and bum- mers for debauchery and disturbance of the peace? Mr. Gurley need not expect to be appointed assistant city attorney. Ur to the hour of going to press Mr. Moynihan had not been appointed chief of police. This itens will be a matter of news until it grows to be a chestnut, and even then Mr. Moynihan will not haye been appointed chief of police. — It is hoped that the laboring men of Omaha will adjust their differences, if possible, at once. Tn the busy season 1t is to be regretted that a misunderstand- ing between employer and employee should stop the wheels of improvement. THE advantages of a collegiate educa- tion cannot too often be presented to the young men of our country. W. F. Hutchins, a graduate of Yale, has been tendered a position in the Chicago base ball club. — It seemsto be a time-honored political theory that no office is too small to be despised. From the scramble in Omaha just now, there can be no doubt of the truth of the proposition. BisMArck has had an editior sent to prison for one month for libeling the political character of the prince. A po- litical character does not amount to much in Berlin, STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. @Ord is offered a paper mill for a bonus. Wayne's creamery is ready for busi- Dixon county has 2,034 young ideas on the shoot. The Norfolk Odd Fellows have decided to build a hall. The Nebraska City News has been en- l:}\rgcd and now circulates largely on its shape, The Missouri Pacific extension is ex- pected in Ncbraska City in about four weeks. Real estate transactions in Fremont smcol __t;m tirst of the yeur aggregate ,179. Burglars are enjoying the boom in Fremont. ~ Transactions are numerous with small receipts. Minden’s new creamery will be ready for business in thirty da, The capital stock of $5,000 has been subscribed. The electric hght plant burned down in_Beatricc some months ago hus been rebuilt. The town brightened up in con- seauence. “* Richard Frewen will sue the Dakota Cattle company ut the next term of court in Dawes county, beginning May 80, for $25,000 damages fordieach of contract. The attorney general has decided that the herd law was not spspended in Sioux county and stock owners are therefore liable for all damage done by their cattle to farms. The Elkhorn Valley extension has reached Albion, Boond county, No regu- lar trains will be ruy until the track is laid through to Oakdale, which will take about thirty days. : The Fremont Tribuge declares there is not a grocery store in the town. This gives color to the rumor that Truth ap- plies for a divorce ‘ffom Hammond on the ground of willful msurliom A ghastly regadion of poles and cauv:fq and sp:fu‘nb‘qqruhaw has folded its tents and silently crawled into a financial wmeter{lu *‘Nebraska City. A lonely peanut husk and lemon peel marks 1ts grave, Palmyra has turned out another luna- tic. Frank E. Randall is reported men- tally decomposed. An overdose of love struck him 1n a tender spot. He is twen- ty-two years old and talks love to every woman he meets. He's got 1t bad. Conductor Elliott, of the Elkhorn Val- ley road, is to be presented with an em- blematic badge by admirers in Rapid City as a souvenir of running the first train into the Hills metropolis last year. The badge is built of Black Hills gold, with_moss agate sottings, and displays the Masonic and Knighis Templar em- blems, The Hungarian convict, Heraledsky, whose pardon 1s wu‘fi t by influential friends in the old world, is not entitled to sympathy or consideration unless he is roven insane. The crime for which he is serving a hifc sentence was the murder of his wife i Colfax county in 1881, The theory of lunacy was advanced atthe but it fajled to mitigate the bloody character of the deed. Major J. R. Hanson, representing the company which proposes to build the Omaha, Wayne & Yankton railroad, has notitied the committ of towns inter- ested t he will me them in Omaha on the 23d nst., to consider such propo- sitions as_may be offered. Delegations from Yankton, Hartington, Wayne and other towns on the proposed line are ex- pected to be present and submit offers of aid. The people north are enthy on the subject of a direct Jine to O and will give it a liberal financial boost. Black Hills papers have decided upon the route of the B. & M. into that coun- try. The road is an ‘‘air live," of course, but considerable brain power and ne tissue has been expended in surveying the route from editorial back windows. ‘T'he road as pictured will cross the Elk- horn at Rushyille, and then dodging the corner of the rc ation, skip along the eastern foothills in a line parallel to the Elkhorn, crossing the Cheyenne near the mouth of Lame Johnnie, then running a lLittlo east by north until the valley of Rapid creek is reached, cross the creck and come into the city on the north side. This will make Rushville an important junction point, also Rapid City, It is said the junction where the line for the west side of the Hills will start i3 to be located forty miles below Rushville, Towa Items. Worlk has been commenced on the new Savery hotel at Des Moines. Fruit-growers of Scott county report the outlook for this season most encour- aging. glim‘n t A. Hoyt extracted 3,000 trom the treasury of Des Moines by slippin up on a defective sidewatk. She wanted $10,000. Sioux City sighs for a bridge over the Missouri. fligh license and regulation prevails on the Covington side and droughts are unneard of. The **Vinton Oil and Gas company,” with a capital of $100.000, has been or- F:\u ed and the work of boring will hegin as soon as arrangements can be completed. A land slide occurred along the Chi- cago, Milwaukce & St. Paul rairoad about a mile south of Clayton on Monday afternoon, demolishing ‘several rods of track and delaving trains about nine hours. The heat of Monday caused the rails on the [llinois Central branch to expand, ditching a passenger train near Charles City, but injuring no one. Near Blairs- burg City the track was disturbed from the same cause, but it was discovered in time to prevent an accident. Some very fine and delicate points of prohibition law have been raised in Sioux City. The Franz Brewing company has sued for ?1,000 worth of kegs which were destroyed with the contents by the pro- hibitionists. The federal "authorities threaten to take the constables by the nape of the neck for spilling the beer out of the kegs without first “uneturmz the stamp. The right of the bung hole must Ye protected. Dakoi Incendiaries are at work in Pierre. Redticld offers $7,000 for a new court house, if the county will give $3,000, The territorial railway commission is going through the motion of regulation in Furgo. e, The Iatest evidence of civilized life in Deadwood is the opening of safes by burglars, The winds of Saturday and Sunday did considerable damage to crops in the vi- cinity of Aberdeen. The number of settlers driven from the Crow Creck reserve has been greatly overstated. They number 500. 1t is said that some Elkwood, Cavalier county, sharps got $60,000 life insurance recently on & man who had been dead twenty-one years. Jerauld county farmers complain that a small iisect, similar4o a potato bug, is destroying the cottonwood groves in that part of the territory. The handsomest thing about the min- ing business in Deadwood is the artistic typography of the stock certificate. 1t does not diminish assessments, however. Again comes the report that the peo- ple who have long resided at old Fort ierre will be combelled to move. Not because that portion of the reservation is of any use or benefit to the Indians, but because, presumably, the govern- ment has learned, after the whites have occupied the grounds for many years, that they never did have a right to settle there. A United States postoflice which existed there for years has been discon- tinued, which gives color to the report. e Women Clerks Disappearing From the Departments. Philadelphia Telegraph: It may not be many years before a woman will be "a ‘rare sight in a depart- ment. Slowly, but surely, they are being ot rid of under the civil service system. hey are not now seen walking armin arm through the treasury corridors or standing at tae windows at noon time wiih Lheir cups of tea. It is not that they u;-le closer to their desks. They are not there. Since Secretary Manning first took the treasury portfolio, and the new or- der of things was begun, ncarly twelve per cent of the women have gone, and none have come in their places. When a female clerk dies or gets married, re- signs, or is dismissed a requisition goes to the civil service commission for a man to fill the vacancy. I was asked why this was—if it was true that women did not make as good clerks as men, The reply was that some of thom made better clul‘is than did the men. The trouble did not lie in that. The fact is they are hard to deal with, Most of them depend upon the gallantry of the supe- rior ofticers, and are coustantly asking vors, many of them not hesitating or seeming to think it improper ta ask high officials—even as high as secretaries—to se statements or violate the law nterests,. The most trouble is when examining them for promotion. Some have not hesitated to ask for a list of the questions beforchand. So persis- tent are some that it reflects upon the whole class, and the departments have entered into a systematic effort to get rid of them. e Street Car Horses. Rochester Post-Express: ‘“Ihe horses of the street car company are pretty good animals'’ said a veteran driver last avening, “and thuly receive pretty good care. They don'tJook as well this spring as they usually do atthis timeof the year. Yon see, summer shoes were but on the horsec in March and the company ot caught. We had a lot of lllpgcr weather after that, and it pulled the fle: right otf the horses. The company is pretty lucky with its horses, and doesn’t have to kill more than two or three every vear. Ihave known years when not more than one horse was killed. The fact is, the health of the horse depends altogether on the kind of a driver it has. Itisn't true that pulling a car kill horse. Now, I have had horses that looked better after I had driven them five years than they ever did before. If & man makes them yank a car when it starts it takes the flesh off them i a burry. Now it doesn't make any differ- ence to me whether Iam on timeor three hours late, my horse gets his drink. find a horse will pull his car better if he isn't out of water. e Colgate's Toilet Soapa. Exquisitely perfumed, absolutely pure popular everywhere. Cashmere Boque unsurpassed. INTERVIEW WITH GOV.THAYER He Explains Why He Has Beon Assailed By Editor Rothacker, A DISAPPOINTED OFFICE SEEKER. Rothacker Wanted to Be Volice Com- missioner, But Did Not Get the Posi- tion, “Whal is the cause of the Republican’s savage assault upon you, governor, on account of your letter addressed to the police commissioners?'’ asked a represens tative of the Ber last evening of Goy- ornor Thayer, at the Miilard hotel, ‘‘L suppose,”” answered the governor, “‘that it is because I did not appoint Ed- itor Rothacker as one of those commis- sioners.” “Why, was he an applicant?"’ ‘‘Yes; and a very carnest and persist ent one,” replied the governor. *Did any one recommend him?"! “'No one except Mr. Cadet Taylor, That gentleman called on mo at Lincoln some weeks ago and requested me to ap- point Mr. Rothacker. [ discouraged it at that time. During my late visit here, when I spent some seyeral days in Omaha, considering the subject of the commission, Messrs. Taylor and Roth- acker called on me and the application wasrenewed. Igave them the reasons which had ™ led, me to that Mr. Rothacker’s ment would not be judicious. that he was the editor of a paper which was known as an organ of tho republi- can party, and asit is the intention of the law that the commussion shall be entirely non-partisan his selection would be in- consistent with that position. I said that his selection would be subject to criti- cism in that regard. I said to them that the democrats, to make the thing even, might ask me to appoint the editor of the Herald to the same position. The appointment of political editors, I said, was 1ncompatible _witn my duty in the matter, or words td"that effect.” “Well, did that end the matter?® “‘I supposed that was the end of it. I returned to Lincoln on the evening of the day of the city election here. Two days after that Ireceived a most pressing telogram again renewing the request for the appointment of Mr. Rothacker, but I found no reason for changing my deter- mination. I had said to each of the four entlemen subsequently selected before I eft here that 1should probably appoint %Inem_. which decision I carried into ef- act."’ conclude appoint- One was Jould you have supposed that yon would have been assailed for addressing that letter to the commissioners and hav- ing it publishea?” “Most assuredly not. Every word of 1t was in favor of good order, good gov- ernment, and protection for the people of the city. 1 designed the letter as a basis for the action of the commission, Sev- eral motives influenced me 1n preparing the letter. One was to strengthen the commission. Another was to let the peo- ple know that the movement, the estab- lishment of an eflicient police depart- ment in the city, was being inaugurated. Another was that it should be a warning to burglars and thieves and lawbreakers of every degree to seek another field of operation or go to the penitentiary.”” “Have you learned anythingof the public sentiment regarding this matter during your present visit here?" “I huve: and it has been a source of ver great satisfaction to me to tind my course in this matter so generally endorsed. Scores of the best citizens of the city have not only thanked me for the commission as sc- lected, but have thanked me most heartily for what they designated my most timely letter. Such men as Judge Lake, J. H. Millard, A. J. Hanscom, Drs. Somers and Morriam, C. H. Rustin, S. R. Johnson, J. E. Markel and W. A. Gwyer, have endorsed the letter fully and completely, I was obliged to disre- ard the request of many personal riends who asked me to nrpolm their favorite candidates, and as the selection of the members of the commission was & most delicate task, and one of vital 1m- vortance—for I would be held responsible if the right men were not selected—I de- termined that I must exercise my ,im(g- ment and appoint those men whom I be- lieved combined all the essential qualities which they should possess to hold those positions. I accordingly decided to se- lect those whom 1 had known for years. A prime object with me also was to bring together four men who would work to- gether in entire _harmony. 1 have full clunli«lcnuu that Thave succeeded in doing this,"’ “Have you any idea as to whom the mission will appoint as chief of po- “Not the slightest. 1 ‘have no doubt they will consider that matter with great caution, and select the one who in their judgment is best fitted for the position.’ “Do you know Mr. Moynihan, who is seeking the place?” “Inever saw him to my knowledge until last evening. I know nothing in regard to him. I nave no quarrel wath Mr. Rothacker. I have marked out “lrlay line of action and shall pursue it regard- less of any amount of detraction and abuse. —— The Gold-Snake Mines, Alfred Balch in Harper's Weekly, Tereno Munoz was about eighteen yeas old. Her father was a Mexican, and her mother a Commanche squaw. She had straight black hair, black cyes, agood figure, and a good deal of strength, She was as as full of superstition and belief in ghosts and spirits as an egg is full of meat. She was nice and lady-like and she had a curiously soft voice. When she was sixteen, Juaquin Costello fell in love with her. He played the guitar op- posite her window steadily for five weeks, he smoked cigarritos in front of the house while talking to her father, oid Pedro Munoz, and he was fully accepted as her prospective husband. Now the last person to expect that Terisita would ob- ject to anything her father had arranged for her was old Pedro If. then, he announced to h hat she was to look upon Juaquin Costello as her master for the future,she made a scene and there was what might pass for a row in that cabin. Of conrse old Pedro stormed, and of course her wother sat on the clay floor in what might be called silent misery, and finally Senorita Tereno won. She would not be” married fo Juaquin; and as she would not, she was not, Terono had, among her other queer beliefs,a full confidence in the gold-snake. This is the funniest superstition that yon can imagine. If you tind a species of snake something like a black-snake, but with yellow bars on the back, anywhere down on the Mexican border, and then ou find where that snake lives, you can find:ledgu of quartz containing free old. Tereno believed this, und she new where one of the gold-snakes lived, She kept the secret carefully-at least until Henry Brown arrived theére with his team of mules, freighting over the sonth- ern trail. “Red Head,” as. Mr. Brown was called, was a bronounced blonde. Ue met Tereno, and Tereno wmet him, and the two fell in iove with each other. In fact, they liked each other so much that Mr. Brown attempted to learn the uitar, though he had no. fingers ftit for fim work, ~and had “not the scintilla’ of in his | least music soul; and all persons, on thiy earth he selected Senor Juaquin Costelio as a teachor. Juaquin grinned and made cigarritos rapidly when he understood what Mr. Brown had come to him for, He agreed, however, at once (o give the lessons, and he suggosted they should take place at Senor Munoz's hotise, The gpectacle of Mr, Brown's work on the guitar under the instruction of Costello, with Tereno looking on, have moved a bronze statuctte to ‘he curious part of the thing was that no could play the guitar herself, and P it well. The number of times that girl tried to get Mr. Brown to practice the instrument when she could tell him when he wa \\‘runf could not be told, Unfortunately Mr. Brown, in a bull- headed Kind of way, had made up his mind that he could learn the thing by the aid of Senor Costello's instruction, and as it was impos: for Torcesita to tell him that Juagin had wanted her to marry him only two before, the lessons went on as per agreement, As might have been expected, Juaquin had mado up his mind that the mules which Henry Brown owned were worth having and he made a few cautious in- quiries. Finding that Mr. Brown did not understand monte, Senor Costelis in- vited him to vlay. For the first two weeks Mr. Brown won, and he told Teresita about his luck. As sho knew monte, aud also knew Juaquin, she urged upon Mr. Brown the wisdom of lotting the game alone. Helaughed at her, as he often did, and told her he could take care of himself, As this was told in his excessively curious Spanish, which no one but la senorita could understand, she sighed, and thought she had been wrong. Because it Secemed to her that he wasso strong and so brave it could not be true that, “el maldito, zat Jua- quin, can be more good. Carron! No. Senor.” And then Tereno went back in the yard to make a special candle on a string for the church next Sunday. Unfortunately, one evening, after, the lesson on the guitar, Juaquin_ and Harry left the Munoz cabin and walked down to the fonda. They sat down at moute, and had plenty of mescal brandy on the table. At first Harry won, but as the vent on the luck changed. Itis a at if a man will play monte and drink enough mescal at the same time he is apt to lose his head. Mr. Brown lost his first, then ali his mon: then his ‘watch, then his pocket knife, and then his mules. Then he did what he ought to have done before—he went to bed. The next morning, when Mr. Brown fiot up, he drained the water jugz and ressed. Going down stairs, he wan- dered into the court yard, and gazed with a lack-lustre eye and a sorrowful expression on those mules. Juaquin was harnessing them up at them up at the time, and Mr. Brown watched them driven out of the gate to the road. The reater part of the day he spent moon- ng around the hillside, and he refreshed himsolf at intervals |)rnclicill‘z on the guitar. The only visiblo result of this was great depression expressed in the face of the peon who acted for a small salary as hall boy. It was during that afternoon that Juaquin called upon old Pedro Munoz, and they had a short interview. When Mr. Brown went uround in the evening as usual, old Pedro asked him to discon- tinue his visits. When Mr. Brown asked, “Porque, senor?" he was briefly and em- phatically informed that any man who would put up a team of good mules in a Rame with Senor Costello was too big a fool to visit at the Munoz mansion. The result was that Mr. Brown retired to his room in the fonda, and delivered himself of the choicest collection of profane ex- lotites he knew. He then went to bed. 'here not being any mescal left, Mr. Brown woke up early,and after dressing wandered down the road to where Tere- sita lived. He sat down on a stone and looked at the house, feeling about as mis- erable as a man can, He realized that if he had only taken Tereno's advice he might have married her, and he realized that now he did not have five cents with which to support her. Having no ani- mals left, he did not even know how he was zuinfi to get out of the place unless he walked, and he recollected with pain the weary miles to be covered before he could get to Santa Cruz. Mr. Brown started when he felt a hand on his shoulder, and turning he saw, by the light of ‘the late moon, Tercno wrapped in her mantil Sne did not speak, but pulled Harry's shoulder until he got up. “With her finger on her lip she led the way through the chaperral until they were out of hearing from the horses, and then she flung herself sms- sionately into his arms, kissing him agan and again, Tereno led him d®wn the gulch to the hft, and walking care- fully around the big bowlder, she pointed to the gold-snake lying there i his coil, The marriage of Senorita ‘Tereno Munoz and Mr* Henry Brown took place within two weeks after the sale of the Gold-snake quartz mine. There were present the father and mother of the br! 1t has been said that Senor Jua- quin Costello got the most awful thrash- ing from Senor Pedro Munoz during the afternoon that had been known upon the frontier for many years. 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