Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dally (Moeniag Edition) fncluding Bunday The Omaha Sun: address, One N 011 FARNAM STRER 5, TRINUNE BULLDING, 17 FOURTRENTI STRERT, NATEA Ovprcr, No, 01 EW YORK OFFICE. K ASUINGTON OFFIC) CORRESPONDENCE! All communioations relating to nows and e toriul matter should be addressed to the Er TOH OF TUE BEE BUSINESS LETTZRS: All business lotters and remittances should ba addressed to THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffico orders 0 be made payable 1o the order of the compuny, THE BEE PUSLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIEIORS, THE DA ;Y BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, ] ('nlllll{ of Douelas. Geo. B. Tzschuck, secl Publishing company, doe that the actual circulation of | for the week ending May 15, follows: Saturday. tary of The Beo solemnly swear of the Daily Bea 1857, was as Tuesday, Wednesday, M Thursday, May 1 Friday, May 13..... Average....couu.t 7S ciivok. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of May, 1857, N. P. Frir, [SEAL.) Notary Pubiic. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily eirculation of the Daily Bee for the month of May, 1556, 12,49 copies; for June, 1836, 12.208 copies: for July, 1856, 12,314 copies 186,'12,404 cdplest for Septem- copies: for October, 1850, X for November, 1880, ' 13,343 coples; for Dacember, 1555, 13,337 copies: 'for January, 1857, 16,206 coples; for February, 1837, 14,198 coples: for Mnrch, 1857, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,316 1 Northern Nebraska is safe. Tre appointments by Mayor Broatch will receive the endorsement of our citi- zens. CANDIDATES for chief of police are still in suspense. A dark horse is liable to get there. | MissouRr, bocause the legisiature re- fused to appropriate funds, 18 without a state malitia. ‘Wira Parnell and Gladstone in Amer- 1ca, the Irish cause would receive scores of new sympathizers. CALIFORNIA grapes were damaged by late frosts. However California wine will be just as plentiful. THE judge for the Fir;t—«lintrm has not been appointed, and it is said that there 18 much anxiety in that particular section. | It is announced that the inter-state commission will hereafter do yery little, if any, traveling. Editors and politicans introduced this custom early in April. Dr, TALMAGE has discovered a large number of men in New York who ‘‘are tov mean for perdition.”” Theyshould at once organize a colony and settlein Kan- 8as City, or they will find themselves without a place of habitation. JAKE SHARP and Jay Gould have both been on the witiiess stand in New York this week. Mr.Sharp has been telling how much boodle he has disbursed, while Mr. Gould has been evading questions rogarding the amount of money his rail- road has stolen. Mz. BLAINE denies that he will sail for Europe the fourth of June. However ha will eail early next month, the date not having been determined. Tho political gossips are attempting to tigure just what significance this trip bears to Blaine's candidacy in '88. + EE—m————— It is understood that Governor Thayer has ended the heart-aches of the many full-fledged candidates who have been flopping their wings and lustily crowing for the appointment of oil inspector for Nebraska. We learn that the man who 18 to receive the commission must be a “‘dark horse”—one who has never men- tioned the subject to the governor. — ‘THE anthracite coal companies of Penn- sylvania will suspend mining for one week. The seven-days' suspension, the coal barons claim, 1s necessary for the maintonance of prices. The Philadel- phia Record says of the announcement: There is refreshing candor about this aa- mission. The coal companies havo re- stricted the supply and have kept up the prices of fuel in an effort to force con- sumers to buy, while consumers of large quantities of coal have refrained from buying because they regarded prices as outrageously high. To change this con- dition of affairs and to sustain a number of bankrupt corporations the coal com- Bination has dotermined upon extreme measures, and has decided to starve the market for the purpose of bring- ing the consumers to its terms, It will array the might of a vast aggrogation of corporate capital against individual interests. THe inaugural address of Mayor Broatch is judicious and practical. It shows that Omaha's new mayor fully apprehends the nature and extent of his clearly defined duties, and it carries tho assurance that they will be faithtully discharged. Wo have entire confidence that if the executive is properly aided and sustained by the cobordinate branches of the city government this as- surance will be kept, and that the muni- cipal administration of the next two years will be creditable to the officials and of great benefit to the city. We be- lieve Mayor Broatch to be possessed of those qualities which are essential to an executive office, and the public may ex- pect tosee a firm and straightforward enforcement of the municipal laws and rogulations, without fear or favor. That 18 the policy that is demanded, and every ‘wise consideration urges the new mayor “to adopt and adhere to it. He has called to his counsel and assistance officials 1n whom he has confidence, and 1 whom the public has confidence. Tne result ought to be a clean, efficient and ofeditable administration, i 8 AR S0P 0 S 0 N TS WYV AT A Railroad Scheme. Tue Bek receives information to the eftect that Judge O. P. Mason, as a mem- ber of the Nebraska railway commission, is not giving the railroads satisfaction. While Mr. Mason is hopelessly in the minority, and can accomplish but little | good in correcting abuses, he yet has a happy way of keeping alookout for the people’s interests, and consequently the corporate powers do not consider that he is the proper man to fill the position which he so creditably occupies. The plan, as the railcogue bosses have it arranged, is to relieve Mr. Mason and appoint as his successor one of the most notorions railroad tools in the state. The secretary of state will be called upon in a few days to re- move Mr. Mason, and unless the pro- gramme fails, Major Pierce will be ap- pointed. Mr. Laws should be slow to act in this matter. Major Pierce is and always has been in full sympathy with the Burling- ton road. If such a thing 18 possible, he will prove a worse stick and a more pliact tool than Gere, whom Roggen was forced to remove. While the BEE belicves the law creat- ing the commission 1s a fraud, foisted upon the people by the railroads, it yet believes if the board was composed of honest, competent, and fearless men they at least would not become subservi- cnt to the dictates of the corporations. If Mr. Laws apponts Major Pierce, he cannot hope for an endorsement from the people, The Same the Country Over. The New York Star bas discovered that 1f it was to estimate the work of the New York legislature of 1887 by its un- dertakings, rather than by its perform- ances, it would be thought a very indus- trious body. 1t has found that out of several hun- dred bills introduced, many of them, in- cluding some of the most pretentious, were simply put on the way of vretended passage at public expense to oblize some fanatic or gain cheap notoriety for the im- mortal statesman introducing them. Their career was meant to end with their in- troduction, reporting and filing as printed bills, so that they could be sent to con- stnents whom legislators desired to culti- vate. This intention having been carried out, their history ended. 1t is the same the country over. The ambitious member introduces countless bills, all for self-interest. The state fur- nishes him postage to send copies of them to admiring constituents; the local paper prates of the achievements of the “Hon. John Jones, and assures all con- cerned that “Mr. Jones is keeping a watchtul eye on his constituents,” when in truth, Mr. Jones has no more interest m the bills than he has in his con- stituents. During the late ses- sion! of the Twentieth Freud, it remained for Colonel Colby, the railroad’s lobbyist from Gage county, to introduce something like a hundred bills. 1t is needless to add that he was careful to see that few of them were passed. He wasthere alone, it seemed, for buncombe and boodle, and he no doubt succeeded in getting what he wanted. The Star wants a remedy for such ex- pensive work. The only remedy is to elect men who have some interest in their state, and who are not overshadowed with their own imiportance. Men who would see the folly of the multiplication of identical ideas, and who would recog- nize the importance of needed legisia- tion. Reag! Qonstruction. In his letter to Mr. Morrison, of the inter-state commerce commission, Sena- tor Reagan does not leave any doubt as to ‘his views regarding the meaning of the law or of the course pursued by the commission. Ho begins his communica- tion by saying that there are no circum- stances or cases which will justify the commission in suspending Section 4 on the representations of the railroad com- panies, and states that 1t was never sug- gested or intended that the rule should be suspended except in special cases, after investigation by the commission. If this view be the proper one, and it is explicitly stated to be that of the mem- Ybers of the conference committees of the two houses, then the course pursued by the commission thus far with respect to the fourth section has been 1n violation of the intent of the framors of the law, and so Mr, Reagan implies, outside of its authority. It has made a rule of what according to Mr. Reagan's construction was intended to be an exception, and its action has been taken not after investi- Rgation, but without any invostigation and solely upon the representations of the railroad companies. The opinion of Senator Reagan placed the commission in an unfavorable attitude before the country which it may feel called upon to explain, ‘The enforcement of the fourth section Mr. Reagan probably regarded as tho most essential thing to be done. Without that the protection of the people against wrong and oppression cannot be made complete. “If the commission shall re- fuse to enforce the fourth section of the law,’’ says Mr. Reagan, “it will leave to the railroads all their powe of terror- izing and intimidating the people of the various localities through which their several roads pass, and thus enable them to prevent damage suits or criminal prosecutions under other pro- visions of the law; and it will enable their officers to continue to be manufac- turers, producers, and merchants, as now, and to carry on discriminations in favor of the places where thoy do such business, even if the commission shall faithfully enforce all the other provisions of the law.” This 18 unquestionably in accord with intelligent public opinion, which has regarded with a good deal of disappointment the apparently subservi- ent course of the commussion to the rail- road companies. The action already taken cannot be revoked, but it is prob- able the commission will mot proceed further 1n the line it has pursued, and it certainly cannot do so without encoun- tering a very strong popular condemna- tion that will make itself felt in the next oongress. The Growing Surplus. Ifthe Amorican people were not the most amiable and patient in the world they would not go on from year to year allowing their representatives to keep loaded upon them a burden of taxation which serves no defensible purpose, but does a positive injury in maintaining a vast and accumulating surplusin the na- tional treasury. The revenue of the gov- ernment for the curreut fiscal year, of THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. MAY 19, 1 which less than two months remain, will be about $370,000,000. This great sum will pay all the expenses of “the govern- ment, all the interest due on the national debt, and all that can be legally required in liquidation of the debt, and leave a surplus of nearly $100,000,000. This sum representing nearly two per cent taken from every man, woman and child in the country, is drawn out of the resources of the peoplo and backed up in the vaults of the treasury—an idle and unproductive horde, not necessary to the government, but really & danger and & menace. Such a situation finds no parallel in any other nation. The British government never allows $5,000,000 of ncedless tax- ation to chafe the people of that wealthy empire, and the budget of the chancellor of the exchequer recently submitted for next year is based on a margin of not more than $1,500,000. In the other great nations the problem with which the gov- ernments have to deal is how to avoid or how to meet a deficit. Only the United -States among the nations of the earth is troubled with the question of how to vrevent a vast hording of unnceded money 1n the national treasury. While such a condition gratifyingly il- lustrates the resources and prosperity of the nation, it is none the less mischievous, since every dollar obtamned by the goy- ernment in excess of its necessities is wrung from the people by a false policy and involves & airect loss to the com- munity. What to do in this matter now urgently confronts the country. The surplus is steadilv growing, and with its growth the supply of money 1n the hands of the people becomes less, Thore 15 a demand for an extra session of congress to deal with this pressing question, but in view of past experience there is not much ground of hope from this expedient. If the new congress shall have no better conception of what isrequired than did the last, perhaps the best that can be expected of 1t is to provide for dsposing of the surplus by enlarged expenditures. This would not, however, remove the evil. That can only be done by reducing taxa- tion, and in no other way can the final and rational solution of this vexatious question be reached. All other measures must be of only temporary advantage, prolonging a false policy the conse- quences of which will return again and again to plague us. THE American Cattle Trust, to which wo referred a few days ago, is evidently not regarded as & combination deserving encouragement. The New York Times says the illigitimate purpose of such an organization is to secure a monopoly. That journal finds that the plan of this trust is not a novel one, which means gimply that it has started up on very much the same principle as that upon which other “trusts,”” whose monopolis- tic tendencies have been strongly mani- fested, were organmized. So long, in the view of the Times, as there shall be act- ive competition between this trust and the Chicago ring, the consumer ot beef will gain something by the trust's opera- tions. If that competition should cease, owing to an amalgamation of conflicting interests in the business of slaughtering and shipping, and if the trust should succeed in creating a monop- oly in the business’ ot raising cat- tle on the plains and selling them, the consumer would suffer even more than he does now, although the ranchman would be better off. The con- sumers, unfortunately, are unable to create & trust for their own pro- tection. Itis likely that for a time there will bo a sharp fight between the trust and the power it is organized to combat, and this may result, while it lasts, to the benefit of the conswmers. But it is equally probable that sooner or later peace will be declared and a combination made that will get back from the people all and more than the benefits they may derive from the contention. ————— Ir is announced that the new bank of which ex-Secretary Manning is president will undertake the somewhat ambitious scheme of making New York the silver market of the world instead of London. All that seems to be needed, according to the dispatch, to accomplish the transfer, is the co-operation of the New York stock exchange, after which the price of silver in London will depend entirely on the New York quotations, The genius of Mr. Manning as a financier, coupled with that of Mr. Jordan, may be able to ac- complish some marvelous results in the fiscal affairs of New York and even be- yond that metropolis, but there is room for serious doubt as to whether it will 1m- mediately compass the downfall of Lon- don as the world's money market, and especially as the arbiter of the price of silver, and give that position to New York. There will be a time, undoubtedly, when the metropolis of the western world will acquire that dis- tinction, but it 1s not at hand. As yet there are several obvious difficuities in the way which it may very confidently be believed the united efforts of Man- ning, Jordan and the New York stock exchange cannot overcome. THE regulations adopted by the police commission relative to the appointment of men on the metropolitan force to be orgaaized appear to be sufficient, though doubtless experience will show the neces- sity of some additious to them. ‘The synopsis submitted to the council does not include the requirement of an ex- amination to ascertain the physical con- dition of candidates, but we assume that this very necessary provision has not been omitted. Physical soundness is quite as essential to a policeman as to a soldier. The commission cannot exercise too great care in the organization of the new force, and it evidently intends to start right, Eme———— JonN FiTzGERALD, the president of the Irish National Land League, has notified Mr. Gladstono that he will be welcomed to America. —— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebr: Jottings. Beatrice is negotiating for a tannery. The wealth of Otoe county in round numbers 1s $25,000,000, The Omaha syndicate cheerily sings i Plattsmouth, "&um to your mlc':'lor?f' », Lou’ Pine's militia sighs for bloody *‘wah” or an Indian scare, to measure their sand at long range. Arbor day has been the means of plant- ing over 8,000,000 trees in Otoe county— ll od'oflhy monument to the Sage of r ge. Chas. Presho, an - escaped lunatic from Lincoln, was captured by a locomotive at Beatrice, and his earthly troubles ended. The Beatrice Mutual Benefit associa- tion announces a number of reforms, in- cluding a change of name uud place of business, Otoe ounty had $222,034 s last g bead of cattle, 1 30,641 in hogs, nd asses, weep. which is to mect the railroad builders in Omaha next Monday will leave here Wednesday or Thursday and will go overland to West Point, Neb., and there take the cars for Omaha. On the route they will be joined by representatives of Aten, St. ll(\{n-nn. Hartington, Coleridge, Wayio and West Point, and by the time they reach the Nebraska metropolis they will be in considerable force. Commo- dore Coulson, Major Hanson and Colonel Powers will represent Yankton in the meeting."” Towa Items. i Mason City will tight up with elee- rici Clinton will blow in £5,000 in a Fourth of July hurrah. Wolves are howling for grub i the suburbs of Avoca, Fort Dodge revelled 1n the glare of the fle:;u'm light for the first time Suturday ast. The thirty-fifth annual session of the State Medical society is in progress in Sioux City. Reports received at Cedar Rapids from 100 lowa towns indicate that crops are in a flourishing condition. The Dubuque fair grounds were sold to Hou. J. J. Linchan on Monday for $13,- looot The tract is fifty-twe acres in ex- ent. An old gentleman named Howell, & prominent and wealthy citizen of Deco- rah, died Saturday. He leaves $100,000 and no relatives to flght for it. W. H. Silberhom and E. F. House, of Chicago, are building o huge packery in Sioux City. The plant will have a ca- ‘;’mmly of 1,000 beeves and 2,500 hogs per 8y, Burlington has sentout a skirmishing committee to induce the Santa Ke people to build to that town on the way to Chi- cago. The line us at present located is eighteen miles south, The Marshalitown police have been making matters warm for the toughs of that town. Sunday night thirteen gam- blers got into a row and were arrested, nndunoxl day each paid a fine of $10 and costs. T state bureau of labor has sent out blanks to the different county auditors, treasurers and chairmen of the board of supervisors, asking for detailed informa- tion rogarding assessments, particularly in cities and towns. A man fell from the third story of the Bennet house, Dubuque, Saturday even- ing, but, strange to say, broke no bones. The ground upon which he alighted was hard but covered with a hittle water and mud. It is not khown whether the acei- dent was the result of somnambulism or Dubuque inspiration, Dakota. High license 'won the election in Bridgewater by one majority. The territorial rajlroad commissioners have established headquarters at Fargo. The prediction is made that Dakota's wheat crop this year will smash the record. Burton, Hanson county, Hillsview, Mec- Pherson county, and Homer, Edmunds county, are new Milwaukee railroad towns. L The artesian well at Columbia which has been useless, for the past year, has resumed operations until it now furnishes the city with a plentifut supply of water. ‘The territorial superintendent of public mstruction is having 12,000 copies of the new school laws printed in pamphlet form for distribution. ‘I'hey will be ready about the 1st of next month. The crop prospect in Hand county is the best for years. The ground is in finer condition, small grain of all kinds is growing rapidly and the grass is all that could be desired st this season of the year. —_— The Telephone Monopoly. Chicago Tribune. There is no good reason why the bill pending 1n the general assembly to fix telephone rates at $36 a year should not be passed without any unnecessary de- lay. There is not a patent monopoly n the country so outrageounsin its exactions as the telephone, nor one which under its franchise is allowed to interfere with the privileges of the public to such an unlimited extent. The Bell Telephone company on the one hand is devouring receipts, and on the other demanding dividends on the stock which it squeezes out of the local companies for the privilege of doing bus- iness, and the ultimate squeeze is made upon the subscribers. Its method isto demand from one-third to one-half of the stock of a company for the privilege of paying $15 a year tor the use of instru- ments that originally cost a little over $3. The New York Times prints some figures which tells the story of extortion very clearly. The Bell company ex- acted 8744 shares of stock from the East Tennessee Telephone company, with the understanding that the latter should have dividends after June 1, 1885, To pay these dividends the rates had to be increased and the stock had to be watered. The Bell company has recently demanded 85 per cent of the Northern New York company’s stock, although it pays an annual rent of more than 400 per cent on the cost of in- struments. To pay dividends to the Boston company it must water its stock and increase its rates to any figure the latter may dictate, as that 1s part of the contract between them. The Providence company has watered its stock from $250,000" to $384,000 in order to meet the Bell company’s demand of $134,000 of the stock. 'The capital of the United company of Kansas, before it was bought out by the Missouri & Kansas company, was $600,000, and of this the Bell com- Knny had a clear majority, while of the Missouri & Kansas stock it had gobbled up more than a majority. The Central New York Telephone’ company has had to surrender 1,750 shares of its stock to tt}e octopus, and the Buffalo & | Rochester com- pany 2,100 shares. ‘Of the $10,000,000 watered stock of the €entral Union com- any of Indiana the Bell company owns ;3,‘!1",000. The oparations of the Prov- idence company mednwhile show how business can be done’legitimately. Be- fore it had surrendered to the octopus 2,007 subscribers were served, ona capi- tal of $250,000, at the rate of $30 » year, the earnings p-{mg & steaay dividend of 20 per cent on the investment. Never was there- such a greedy, grasp- ing monopoly as this. It is time that the legislature of [llinois should come to the relief of the people. Its members should bear in mind that their constituents are personally interested. This monopoly extends all over the state and it has a long time to run yet. The legisiature has ‘au absolute right to fix a reasonable telephone rate, and if 1t is too low the Bell people can go into courtgand show it. Bell is already amillionaire. He has accumulated an immense fortune out of an invention his right to which 1s by no means indubitabl It is timo that he of which cioked off nd the ring in Boston be is the center should be SEARCHING FOR A SISTER. An Eleven Year Ola 1 Rlopes With a Man of fwentystwo, A young man 1wan named Lamb was in the city yesterday in search of his run- away sister and a young man named S, whom she eloped, The girl's cllie Lamb and the couple ran a from Strang, Filimore county, Neb, on Friday last. Kelsoy was owner of a store at Strang and boarded with the Lamb family, The girl amb stated to the police, is only clev ars of age, and wore away fiom home ashort red dress, i printer by trade, is twenty-two years of age, and inveigled the little girl from home. He announced an intention of coming to Omaha. The police are scarch- ing for the man, while the brother took tne dummy train for Council Blufls to sce if any trace of the pair could be found in that vicinity. ‘The facts in detail, as obtained from Charles Lamb, the brother of the young girl, are: Frank Kelso, about twenty-two years of age, came to Strang, Filmore county, a vear ago and opened a grocery store,” He boarded at the house of James Lamb, father of the missing girl, and in a very short time mude a great pet of little Nellie. He made her m:xnyY 3. ents, but as she was so _young nothing improper was thought of his_attentions. On Monday, the 9th inst., Kelso, who was formerly a printer in Omaha, Lin- coln, Sioux 'City and other points, sold his store, obtaining about #1,220. On the Thursday following Mrs, Lamb sent her little daughter Nellie to Hastings, where ner father is cmployed &t his trade, that of a stone mason. She ' entrusted the girl to tho care of Kelso, who was to buy her ticket and see her safely on board the train, ‘The girl had some money, and Kelso gave her more at the depot. Heo also gave her instructions to go as far as De- witt and there change cars for Umaha. That mght he drove across the country to Hastings, and on FKriday came to Omaha also. When lhe little girl arrived here she went to the St. James hotel and i’wfl her name to the clerk as Murtle dams, Dweitt. She remained at the hotel until Friday, when Kelso arrived. Then they went away together. On Friday evening they asked for room and board at the Omaha house. The propri- etor was suspicious on account of the childishnesss of the girl, and refused them accommodations. ~ That is the last track of the fugitive girl up to the pres- ent. She has blue eyes, black hair,is not *et twelve years old, but precocious. clso is smooth shaven, short and thick sot, and has black eyes. The case is re- markable, owing to the complicity and cl;yn_ning of so young a girl insuchan affair, A BRACE OF RUNAWAYS, A Physician Hurt, two Scared and a Horse Killed, Dr. Harrigan was given a forcible 1l- lustration yesterday afternoon of the adage that misfortunes never come singly. Early in the afternoon Dr. Keogh, who was driving Dr. Harrigan's horse, had a runaway accident on St. Mary’s avenue and suffered a dislocation of his arm. The horse ran away demol- ishing the buggy and harness and was not found until a late hour last night. Dr. Keogh was removed to his home. Dr. Harrigan, when he heard of the acci- dent, secured one of McShane’s rigs and accompanied by Dr. Brown drove out to attend the injured physician, As they were driving down Sixteenth street on their way home they met with another accident which came nearly resulting very disastrously to both of them. They were just crossing Davenport strect when another runaway, this time a team at- tached to a load of Jumber dashed into them. The pole of the wugon struck the horse which_Dr. Harrigan was driying, enetrating its body and killing it almost immediately, The bumiv was overturned and it occupants mingled promiscuously with the runaway team and the load of lumber. Fortunately both of the physi- cians escaped uninjured. The runaway team belonged to Swan Weiburn, a team- ster who resides at 2417 Cass street. The accident was a disastrous one for Mr. Weiburn, who will be held responsible for the damage done. The wonder is that the damage was not greater, PROSPECTIVE REMOVAL. City Officers to be Transferred to the Exposition Building. It is probable that the offices of eity comptroller, city clerk, city engineer and city treasurer will be removed from the county court house into the east end of the main exposition building. This would place the officers mentioned in juxtaposition to the other city officers in the annex building. There s a scnrclx( of room in _the county build- ing and it is understood a bonus will be offered the city to remove the municipal of- fices now situated in the structure. It is un- derstood the exposition managers are will- ing to lease sufticient room in the east end ot the main hall to accommodate the treasurer, engineer, clerk and comptroller. The sub- ject is under advisement with the prospects of the matter belng cousumated. Progress Assembly May Party. ‘The second annual May party of the ladies of Progress Assembly No. 3607, Knights of Labor, was given at Contral hall last even- ing. Irving’s orchestra furnished music for about fifty couples, who gaily tripped the hours away until nearly morning. The af- falr was a very pleasant one. The followIng ladies on committees contributed to the pleasure of the occasion by their watchtul- nu?l of the comfort of those who were pres- nt: ent: Mistress of ceremonies: Miss Emma Von Tgott; Floor managors: Mus. Anna Black, Mra. M. J. Klliott, Mrs. Bertha Von_‘Trott, Miss Emma Burmester, Mrs. J. M. Kenney, Miss IdaEngstrom: Heception committee: Mrs. Julia Aspinwall, Miss Maggie Carroll, Miss Lillie Franklin, ~Miss Anna Barry: Door commttee: Miss Anna McGuiro, Mrs. Mary Simpson, Miss Alice Henney, Miss Mary Thompson. —— A 8ad COase. Ontheincoming Chicago train on the Burlington yestorday morning. there was an English family of twelve persons who propose making Omaha their fature residence. The youngest child, six months old, was taken with whooping cough at the time of departure from Eng- land and during the voyage grew rapidly worse. On arrival here yesterday the little sufferer was found to be dying. physician was summoned, but the infant expired before the mother could reach her destination on West Nicholas street., Everything possible was done by kind- hearted passengers at the Burlington station and the case excited a great deal of sympathy. —_— DIED, BOLAND—In this city, May 18, at 8:30p. m., Matthew Boland, aged 20 yoars. Funeral will take place under the ausplces of the Stone Cutters union on Friday, May 20, at 9 a. m., from his late residence, corner of Fifth and Division streets to St. Philo- mena's cathedral. Bricklayers and Plaster- ers unions invited to attend. Denver, Col., and Dubuque 8 7d Independence, Ia., papers please copy. LRSS ¥ Depot For Bouth Omaha. At last, after the patience of the South Omaha people is about exhausted, the Union Pacitic management has decided to build a depot at that place. The new structure will be a very neat and com- modious building and fully adequate to the present needs of the city. 1t will be located near the present depot and will occupy a good part of the old county Kelso is a | L A o S A % - - . . - - " oy road. r atime the Union Pacifle was embarrassed by a lack of ground, but since the county commissioners decided to abandon theold road for the use of the railroad, there has been no excuso for there not being a new 1|n;lm!. f. Potter, S. R. Callaway and Ed Dickerson, were at South Omaha yesterday looking over | the grounds. ——— Building Permits, Superintendent Whitlock issued build- ing permits yesterday as follows: Samuel Reichenberg, two-story bricl tenement bloe hteenth and Cal ffornia 20, M. Farrell, t Lake near Twentioth, i . L. Boyce, one-story frame cottage, Twentieth and OBi0. . .uoveeriersnee 500 John Betts, one-story frame addition to dwellihg, Fourtventh near Will- fams 800 C. Fy Lundiue 500 Licensed to Wed. Judge McCulloch issued marriage li- censes vesterday to the following par- ties: Name, * Oliver Weakle: M Residence, +.Omaha Omaha maha Age. . M. McGhee R. A, Shay Saily Johnson. { Allen i1, Phillips. May Roghn... Frank P. Drew. Lulu B, Corbet { Russell Smith. 1 Victoria Allen An Expansive Oave. In the case of William Ravenscroft vs James Stephenson in the district court yesterday afternoon the jury returned a verdict awarding the plaintiff $900. Ra- venseroft sued for $5,000 damages for personal injuries received by the eaving of a bank under which he was working 1 Stephenson’s employ in 1882, A Reorganized Mirm. Hereafter the well-known commission firm of W. E. Riddell will be known as Riddell & Riddell. A. C. Riddell, for- merly in the fum-rnl produce business at Manchester, Ia., has joined forces with his brother, W. E. Riddell, and together they will make one of the strongest com- mussion firms in this city. Omaha Omaha His Pocket Picked. B. Dort, a machinist employed in the Union Pacific shops, com“lninmfl at the Kplicu station last night that he had had is pockets picked of a gold watch while coming up Tenth street on a street car. He could give no clue to the identity of the “‘gopher.” e Two Candidates. All the nominees last night sent to the councll by Mayor Broatch for city positions are pretty generally known throughout the city, with the exception of William Farr, who s sald te be a butcher. Dr. Ralph, the nominee for city attorney, is about tnirty- five years of age and has resided in Omaha about four years. A Change in Name. The Omaha clinical society filed an amendment to its articles of incorpora- tion yesterday, changing the name to the Omaha Homeopathic Medical society. Certain other minor changes are also made in the by-laws of the society. Card of Thanks. Mrs. Schmidt desires to publicly ex- vress her heartfelt thanks to the friends and to the various societies that aided her in her recent aflliction, 1n the death and funeral of her husband, Mr. Fred Schmidt. oo L Brevities Judge Hopewell was engaged yesterday in hearing the case of James Stephenson vs. Charles Rerine. In the county court, H. VieBiest began an action 1n replevin to secure possession of a team of horses held, as he alleges, unlawfully, by Cornelius Vei Biest. Hon. T. J. Louis, formerly editor of the Braddock (Pa.) Sun, is in the city visiting his relatives. Louis is & practical coal mun and will spend some time inyesti- gating the coal prospects of this section. Personal Paragraphs. A. H, Phillips, of Neleigh, Neb., is in the city. Mrs. J. H. Yutzv, of Sioux City, is in the city. Major Davis, of Wahoo, was in the city yesterday, Mrs. Exra Millard and children have gone cast. H.T. Storrs of Creston, 1s looking around Omaha. J. E. Spoutz and M. D. Welch of Lin- coln, are in the city. E, Rosewater has returned from a ten day's visit to the east, Hoyt Sherman, the tourist’s guide jour- nalist, is at the Millard. C. O, Waters, of the Chicago Inter Ocean is at the Millard, John Quinn, of Wood River, is in the city with stock from his cattle ranch. Mrs. A. W. Saxe and daughter have gone to Marshall, Mich,, on a visit of sev- eral months’ duration. D. J. Jamieson returned Jesumlny morning from Wichita, Kas. He speaks in glowng terms of its boom. W. H. Jackson, of the Union Pacific, who has been laid up for several weeks with rheumatism, is on the streets again. James M. Ham, formerly auditor of the Union Pacitic railroad, arrived in the city yesterday morning from New York. Hon. M. P. Gannon, a weil-known Irish orator of Davenport, Ia., was in city yesterday on his way home from the west. William Rood, of Binghamton, N. Y., one of the large cigar manufacturi firm of Kent & Co., is in the city. Dr. W. C. Spalding last night left for Chicago, where he will remain two months, studying with the eminent sur- geon, Dr. Kenger. Mrs. C. W, Eoff, a Kansas City vocalist, arrived in the city last night and is stop- ping with her mother, Mrs. John Roemer, at No. 708 South Eighteenth streot. Wm. H. Brunner, wife and child, con- nected with Wilson Boiler Works, leave Thursday for Switzerlaud for a six months’ visit to relatives and friends. Our Forestry Interests, New York Commercial Advertiser. The department of agriculture ha sued a general circular, calling for par- ticulars as to the manuer in which Arbor day was observed 1n the different parts of the country this year, with a view to forming an official estimute of the effect which this institution bids fair to have upon the forestry problem. The depart- ment asks for information from each town in the state as to the number and kiuds of trees planted on Arbor day, and as to any other facts bearing on the mat- ter. 'The information should be sent to the *‘Forestry Division, Department of Agriculture,” Washington, D, C.;" and we urge n general compliance with the request of the department on the part of the towna. ‘The question of the conservation of our forests is one of great practical im- portance. The prevalent idea that it is mainly a sentimental question is erro- neous. The larger part of this country was originally “covered with forests. ‘These forests contained in themselues sources of vast wealth from lumber pro- duction, and were also of incstimable value 1n regulating the supply of ove great water courses and fn rendering the | climate equable and constant, The for: est area, in the course of time, has been greatly diminished, and i some sections of the country slmost obliterated. In the southern states and in some of the north. wostorn states the aera of timber is still xtensive, ‘Those who have read the “New South'' series of articles in the Commereinl Advertiser must have beon struck by the statistics therein con- tained in_regard to the enormous forests still standing in some of the southern states. But these are des- tined to share the fate of the northern | and eastern forests ntan early day. Tho demand for lumber for building pur- poses, for railway ties, for furniture, ete., is incessant and tremendous. It must bo supplied, of course. The world cannot do without wood; and unless measures are taken to r«-lmir the losses, our native supply of wood will be exhausted before many years, our country will be as bare as a8 & praiio, our rivers will dry up, and our climate will be greatly and per- manently changed for the worse, The thing to do is not to stop cutting down the old trees, but to plant new trees—to grow new forests i place of the old ones. Thus we can have a con- stant supply to meet the constant de- mand, can make inroads in our timber acres without fear of unfortunate results, and can assure to ourselves and our pos- terity the continuance of an abundant and regular water supply and an avoid- ance of violent climatic” changes. ‘The systematic nlnuliufi of trees should be considered a duty by all citizens who re: side where the planting and growth of trees is a possibili Defenders of Monopoly. Phitadelphia Record. The New York Tribune seems to have undertaken the task of proving to its readers that the Standard Oil company is a benevolent and beneflcent corporation, suffering in the public estimation through vulgar and ignorant prejudice. The Tribune says that the millions ac- cumulated by the Standard shareholdors only represent several times as many millions thrust into the pockets of the general public which would not other- wise have been there. [t alleges that the great monopoly “has so improved the processes of refining that the price of refined o1l has been reduced from 70 to less than 7 ceats per gallpn. Had the people of this country been able to ob- tain at any price as abundant, comforta- ble and convenient light as they now enjoy it would have cost them $4 per capita in 1860, whereas it now costs them less than 40 cents per capita. That means an actual benefit conferred worth $216,000,000 yearly to a gruunt popula- tion of 60,000,000, and 1f the company which made tho investments and took the risks that secured this result obtains & Iarge return for it, who will say it didn’t deserve to?! Now, the fact is that the decrease in tho rico of refined oil, attributed to the tandard monopoly, has been solely caused by the excessive production of crude petroleum. The effort of the Standard Oil company has constantl been to increase the price of refined oil, except when it has sought to break down competitors by temporary reductions. 1t has conspired with the railroad com- Kauiua to monopolize the business of re- ining, and has nearly succeeded in do- ing it. Its millions are altogether the proceeds of robbery. It has tried to cur- tail and cripple the bounty of nature. The Tribune turns up the whites of its protective eyes and asks the people to thank the Standard company for cheap oil, a8 the Press, another organ of monop- oly, ascribes the wonderful industrial development in the south, not to the cheap coal, iron, limestone and ores found near togetner in the southern hills, but to the protectiue policy, which limits the developments of the southern iron in- dustries by limiting the sale of the iron product of the south within narrow ter- nitorial boundaries. ‘The wonderful material resources of the United States are a natural acquire- ment and possession for which the peo- ple are indebted to invention. That these resources be allowed to fall into the hands of great monopolies argues strongl{ against the capacity of our government, ‘Chat such monopolies find defenders in the public press bodes no good to the welfare of the nation. 8O Ammn ot lum wfit’m‘l THE PERFECT Sell Revolving Churn Dasher Quickest Selling Article Ever Invented, PRICE OF DASHER, $1.25 Needsno talking, but really is the Prottisit Showiig Article on the Market. OmAauA, Neb.,, April 23, 1887.—This is to certify that we, the undersigned, have this day witnessed a churning by “The Perfect” Self Revolving Churn Dashers,” which resulted in producing 33¢ pounds of first class butter from one gallon of cream in jnst one minute and fifteen second W. 1. Wright, propriotor “Omnha Dairy; Whslor, mshiser Comha Djey i aul B nia'N " Thinaalin, Nebra: ik Teathipurn, propriotor Prof. 1o d. Biabo. toxoh: and; Harey Mirriam, eaitor - Piihisa Shiie. un, “Boe Will . Dobbs, ¥ World,” Frank K. Gre oarch, DEL . Dy M. U, Biart. Dr. Hamilton B. Hall,real estute, JW. John Hudd, jeweler. Chris Orfl, furnitura. State and County Rights for Sale, Profits Will Surprése You, AGENTS WANTED. Call or write to us at once, Qu ck sales and large profits, Very truly, J. W. & A. Poriam, Prop's. Hoom L Crouuse Block. N.16th st., Omaha, Now e i