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

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Morniag Rdition) fncluding Bunday r_( :7 Ono Year . 810 00 ‘ ‘or Bix Months... R 10} G or Throe Montha_. 20 3 he Omaha Kunda; address, One Year..... 200 W YORK OPPICE, ROOM 5, TRIBUNE BCiLDING. ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTERNTH BTREST. v amn Orwew, N, 914 AxD 718 FARNAM STREFY 3 CORRESPONDENCR! All communiontions relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be mddressed 1o the Ebi- TON OF THE BEk BUSINESS LETTERS! All business lotters and romittances should be ®Adressed 10 THE BEg PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders ‘made payable to the order of the eompuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Bate of Nevraskey 1y County of Douglas. 2 Geo. B. 'Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee ublishing company, does solemnly swear hat the actual circnlation of the Daily Bee or the week ending May 20, 1557, was as y Friday, May 20...... AVerage...ooviiiiiiiinn GEO. I8 H U . . Bubscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, 1557, N. P. Frir, SEAL.] Notary Public. eo. 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 Daily Bee for the month of May, 1586, 12,439 copfes; for June, 1886, 12.208 copies : for July, 1586, 13,914 coples; for AI&IIIC1 596, 12,464 coples; for Septem- ber, 18%, 13,00 capies: for October, 155 33,99 copies: for November, 1886, ' 13 eoples; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for 1857, 16,200 coples; for February, coples; for March, 1837, 14,400 coples; for April, 1857, 14,316 copies, Gro. B. TZ23CHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of May, A. D., 1887, ISEAL. N. P. Fer, Notary Publie. TurouanouT Nebraska active vrepara- tions are in progress for the observance of Decoration day. AESE————— Tie St. Paul Globe favors the return of the whipping post. It probably has its eyes on some man who called to whip the editor. e MINNEAPOLIS policemen are engaged in closing the gambling houses. The Fourth of July will give Omaha police- men an equal chance, WreN Bob Lincoin sees his name men- tioned in connection with the presidency he grows angry and throwsthe paper down. And when other people see it they do the same thing, EEEESS——— PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, wife, mother in-law and Colonel Lamont, Thursday will Jeave Washington for Saranac lake, New Work, where they will fish for a week or ten days. Mr. Clevoland will want to fish for suckers in '88. — A WRITER in the Popular Science MMonthly olaims that nature, and not the railroads diseriminates against inland towns. In the creation of the contribu- for to that journal, nature was not lav- fsh, and certainly gave him a short haul of brains, ——— MoRE than half of the iron and steel produced in the United States since 1865 fins been used 1in the construction and oquipment of railroads. And more than : ono half of the stealing that has been I8 fone since that timo has occurred among Sho railroads. ] Ir has been discovered that Indian traders in the Indian territory have for- gotten that injunction written of old, $‘Thou shalt not steal,” and accordingly have robbed the government and caused mwany a good Indian to go on half ra- tions. Investigators sometimes investi- gate. EEE——— Tae Presbyterians will remain in Omahaa week yot. Every day each wisitor becomes more impressed with Omaha and while combining business with pleasure we wish to remark that this assembly will be worth considerable to ourcity. The praisesfrom these many strangers upon their return to the east, ‘will be unsolicited, and " all they say of Omaba will be true. S— ‘TreSan Franosco Call, in a column of pretty sentences, seconds the New York Sun's nomination of William Tell Cole- man, of San Francisco, for president. It plotures William Tell a greater and Elldll‘mlll than the freedom shrieker of witzerland, and amoung his accomplish- mments shows him to be just the man for the position. The Call insists that it must tako more than moonlhight romance to lift Amcrioans into prominence. Sepemeseses—— IN the latest news from Washington on the aubject of patural gas, we read: “In goueral, it may be said that natural gas s found in varying quaatities all through the territory from the Hudson river, on the east, to Californla, on the west. In k New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, " Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessce, Alabama, a, lndiana, Illinows, Missouri Jowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Colorado, Da- kota, Utah, Wyoming and California its existence is roported.” It would cer- fainly be in order for some booming Nobraska town to subscribe two or three thousand dollars and prospeet for the waluable product. Other states have sought and found. Why not Nebraskat 1Ir the farmers who have pald $7 and $8 per ton for an inferior quality of ocoal ot Long Pine, Neligh, O'Nell and other points along the Elkhorn road, and been andiscriminately robbed on all other freights, will writo out their just com- g‘s.hm and moet the railropd commission woek, it is possible that it will be for- _@ver determined to the eulire satislao- ~ of all that the commlasion isa frand, _Wwithout power or right to eurcect any of ~ tho thousand existing wrougs practised by rulilways m Nebraska. The - The Fikhorn road isno _worse than the other systoms in Ne- [braska, but as the commission has chosen Ahat partioular line, its members ean cer- fainly be 1nstiuoted, if those most inter- ested will toll what they know. Coming to Time. Almost every day furnishes some evi- dence that the combination entered mto by the railroads of the country to render the inter-state commorce law obnoxious, by a systematic policy of embarrassing business and harrassing the publie, is rapidly and surely breaking up. It was 1mpossible that such a scheme could be carried on a great while with any de- gree of success unless assisted by the oflicials whose duty it is under the law to see that the people are pro- tected from abuses by the corpora- tions, but its abandonment was begun sooner than was perhaps to have Leen expected, and 1t is clearly only a question of a little time when it will be complete and a system of proper business competition will generally prevail. In a number of instances freight rates have been reduced to about the old fig- ures, notably in thd case of wheat and flour between Minneapolis and St. Paul and Chicago. When the new law went into effect the rate per hundred pounds in these commodities was made eighteen cents, more than double the former rate. One road, the Burlington & Northern, refused to be a varty to this mani- festly unreasonable charge, and now the other roads have come to time and the uniform rate is 74 cents for flour and 10 cents on wheat. It is not at all ques- tionable that there is a prolit in these rates, and thercfore that the higher charge was unreasonable and unjust, but it was made to create a public sentiment against the law. Elsewhere freight charges have been reduced, while special rates are given to large partics of trav- elers, mileage books are sold, excursion tickets are issued, and otherwise the nar- row and senseless policy that went into effect with the law is being set aside. The shrewder men among those who control the railroads are learning none too soon that the con- test which they invited was certain to be a losing one for themselves. The imme- diate consequences to the traflic of their corporations have apparently not been hurtful. The comparative earnings of the roads are favorablo. But the penalty they were inviting from a continuance in their unwarrantable course was a more stringent enactment when the people should again have their opportunity to assert their constitutional authority to regulate the common carriers of the country in the interest of the public. That such would be the result of an ad- herence by the railroads to the policy they inaugurated under the law there cannot be the least doubt. The change of attitude by the commis- sion regarding the fourth scction has already had a wholesome influence, and the good effects will still be more appar- ent hereafter. The railroad companies having been given to understand that there is to be no more dally- ing with the Jaw, but that its oasily wunderstood requirements will be enforced as the only way in which it can receive a fair trial, they will be found gradually adjusting themselves to the situation, as at once the wisest and most profitable policy. The more promptly they reach this position the sooner will they regain the public confi- dence which their course has lost them. ——— The Final Bond Call. The secretary of the treasury has issued a call for the redemption of the remaining 8 per cent. bonds outstand- ing amounting to $19,417,500. Interest on these bonds will cease on the first day of July, at which time their payment will begin, No other bonds of the gov- ernment become due until 1891, so that the present call is the last that the treasury will make tor four years. Itis within the disoretion of the secre- tary, however, to purchase unma tured bonds, either for the sink- ing fund or as & measure of financial relief to the country, if an exigency should arise such as in his judg- ment to warrant his doing so. ‘I'he re- quirement of the sinking fund for the next fiscal year will be 847,000,000, and it has been expected that the treasury would buy bonds at least to this amount. It appears, nowever, to be the intention of Secretary Fairchild to apply the three per cents to be redeemed in July to the sinking fund, which will reduce the amount of bonds necessary to be pur- chased for this object to about $28,000,000. But it is not assured that the secretary will purchase any bonds, and there is every reason to expect that he will avoid doing so it possible. The supposition that the treasury would be foroed to enter the market as o buyer ot bonds has al- ready had the effoct of strengthening the price of those first maturing, and the cer- tainty of the goyvernment becoming s purchaser, even to the moderate extent necessary to the sinking fund, would of course further appreciate the market value of these bonds. Secretary Fairchiild may be expected, there- fore, to avoid this resort just as long =as he can do so, and altogether if that be poasible. There ean be no doubt that in relation to this matter the president and secretary are in complete acoorrd. ‘What the poliey of the treasury will bo during the first six months of the next fiscal year 18 a question of supreme in- interest to the country. The payment of the remaining three per cent bonds and the disbursements from appropriations after tho first ot July will not prevent an accumulation of the surplus, which the lowest ecstimate does not place below $60,000,000 by the time the regular session of begins in Decewber. Can the business at any other period of the year. not uncomfortable, does not furnish a safe basis from which to Judge of the re- movement of exceptional activity, demnnding an increased supply of mney, the limits of which eannot now beset. Ivis very probable that the nec- essary supply casmot be bad unless the treasury shall adopt a poliey that will re- lense » considerable part of the surplus, or otherwise make It availablo tothe peo- vle. w8 security for such . deposita. for their election, no political issue in the management of congress of the country stand this drain without impairment? It will come at a time when there 15 an extraordinary demand for mouey for moving the crops, and will consequently be wore severely felt than The monetary situation at present, which is quirements four months hence. The in- dicasions point to a general trade Besides the purchase of bonds, two other methods bave been suggosted. One is to deposit the surpius with the banks, but a serious objection to this is that the ba will not purchase bonds at the present bigh rate of premium hhuuld t THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1887, is. mnot easy :to figure out a profit in. buying bonds at 120 which the government will reccive as security for the deposits at only 90, and such a transaction becomes less at- tractive when the possibility of a decline in the premium is considered. other obvious objections to such an ar- rangement which would doubtless cause the banks to hesitate about entering into it. The other method is for the govern- ment to anticipate the interest om the public debt, amounting to about $45,000,- 0%. The success of this would depend upon the disposition of the holders of the debt, and it isnot certain that they would belargely favorable tot. it would be a tedious and toilsome way of meeting an exigency that could hardly be of much advantage. most direct and practicable way, though the most expensive, would be the purchase of boads. ate cause for anxiety on the part of tho business of the country, and there 13 rea- son for confidence that when the circum- stances demand it the treasury will have a policy that will meet the necessities of the situation. There are In any event Certainly the al- There is no immedi- No Partisan School Board. The chairman of the republican city central committee has issued a call for ward caucuses to sclect candidates for the board of education, whose nomina- tions are to be ratified by the republican central committee as the regular repub- lican school board ticket. Now we hope that this call will be revoked. Our board of education should be strictly non-partisan. Tts members should be entirely free from all political obligations We can conceive of our public schonls, and do not propose to countenance any move that will draw the party lines in the election of the school board. It would be a palpable violation ot the spirit if not the letter of the law. The main object of holding elections for members of the board of education separate from any city, county or general election, isto divorce the school board from politics. ‘The election is to be held in our school houses in order to be a3 far as is possible removed from the political atmosphere that surrounds our polling places at or- dinary elections. ‘What is the object of republican nom- inating caucuses? Is it nof to obligate successful candidates]to distribute school board patronage among members of theirown party and to the exclusion of applicants of any other political creed? Is it not with a view to forcing republi- can newspapers to support the republi- can nominces as againstall others, even 1f they are more worthy and better quali- fied for the discharge of the duties in- cumbent upon the board of education? If the republican party machine nomi- nates a ticket the democratic party ma- chine will naturally follow suit and thus seek to compel voters to divide on polit- ical lines. Isthis in the interest of our public schools? We most emphatically say no, and proposo to ignore any nomi- nation made by political clubs and party caucusses. The only issue on which the contest for school board member- ship showd be fought out is that of individual fitness of each candidate and his intentions with regard to the manage- ment and supervision of our schools. There is a clique now organized in Omaha to depose our efticient school superintendent, Mr. James, and if we are correctly informed it expects to achieve this end by juggling the party caucuses. We do not believe the patrons and friends of our public schools can be duped into giving countenance or sup- vort to any such movement. e — The New Gas Company. A material reductfon in the price of gasis always welcomed by any com- munity, That Omaha wants cheaper gas goes without saying. The reduction of fifty cents per thousand feet in the price of her gas supply which 18 prom- ised by the new gas company is a power- ful incentive for granting a franchise. We would, however, venture some sug- gestions to the council which should be embodied in the gas ordinance: 1, The franchise should be limited to twenty-five or thirty years, and subject to repeal 1n case of violations of contract by the gas company. The ordinance, as introduced, is practically perpetual, 2. No right of way should be granted through any paved thorough- fare except at alley crossings. All gas mains should be laid in the alleys and all connections with buildings should be made from the mawns laid in the alleys. Omaha has expended several million dollars for pavipg and we ocould better afford to submit to high priced gas than allow our paved streets to be torn up and ruined by gas trenches, To dig ditches on Farnam, Douglas or Harney streets every twenty-two or thirty-three feet would simply ruin the whole pave- ment. The new gas company should be required to lay its mains in the alleys, and the old company should hereafter be restricted to the alleys where new mains are to be laid, Provision should also be made to reqiure gas companies to pay the cost of repairing pavements in streets and alleys damaged by diggiog trenches for their maiuns and laterals, HAvING been foiled in thelr effort to get themselves appointed on the police commission and failed to oontrol the choice of chief of police the “disgruntled editors” now propose to harrass the police commussion by inducing the coun- cil to reject the rules governing the po- lice force which the commission bas adopted and submitted to that body for approval, Such small business is be- neath contempt® The rules may need amending In some trivial particulars but in the main they commend themselves as essentinl to proper organization and dis- cipliue, In fact these obnoxious rules did vot onigiuate with the Omaha police commission. Thoy are modelled after the police regulations that have for years been in force in cities where the metro- politan volice system pre E———— 8. ‘Tre schewme to override the police com- mission in its choice of chief of polioe by getting the council to pass an ordinance that will roquire at loast two year's resi- dence in Omaha as a qualification for the vosition, is too slliy for anything. It is 10 conflict with the eharter which aliows all apvoiative oftices to be filled regard- lues of length of residence or citizenship. The mayor and cvuncil may sppoint the city engineer, strect commissioner, or even chairman of the board of publio works from abroad if, in their judgement, the interests of the oity aro subserved by among the important trade centres. Chicago. pared to the raid on the married women of the Windy City. When a husband goes down town at an unseemly hour to porter. 1t itial to the public safety. A ¥EW days ago the B fimrgwl Pat- rick Ford with having himself put on the pay roll of the Union Pacific immediately after his first electjon to the council. appears that this 18 incorrect. assured by Councilman Ford that he was on the pay roll of the company several months before the clection as watchman of the Belt ine—and therefore was not employed because of his position in the council. rection, as we have no disposition to mis- represent him or any other ofticial. It We are We cheerfnlly make this cor- public EE—————— STILL at the front and advancing is the position of Omaha among the financial centres of tho country. leads all others n the increase of bank clearances, and in the last week took one step forward, advancing to the seventeenth place and leaving behind Again this city its Cleveland, Indianapolis and Denver It is a steady march forward that Omaha is making and every advance will be per- manently maintained. THE wives paint a pretty picture in The strike is nothing com- bail his wife out of jail, there seems to be some truth in the statement that as a literary centre Chicago ranks low. ——— THE council cannot afford to obstruct the volice commission 1n its efforts to re- organize the polico force and make it efficient. | Up to this hour we have hoard of no woman candidate for the board of educa- tion. T PERSONS, Colonel R. G. Ingersoll’s eldest daughter is A very beautiful young woman, 1s said to have the purest and best soprano voice In New York. Mr. John Tyler, son of President Tyler, has for the ninth time been elected grand worthy patriarch of the sons of temperance of the state of Virginia. Senator Stanford owns the largest vine- yard in the world. It 1s in Tebama county, and contains 3,500 acres in bearing vines. ‘The entire ranch comprises 30,000 acres. ‘The end of & busy and successful season finds Mrs. Langtry looking pale and tired. She has her hair cut like & boy’s, and the style is not becoming, say her admirers, J. Armory Knox-ef-I'exvs Siftings, is the suceessor of John ‘L. \Raymond in the coin- matshing business. = He has a lucky quarter with which he has won over $500 this month. Nate Saulsbury, who is Buffalo Bill's part- ner, proposes to introduce pop-corn in Lon- don this summer. Hé has ordered 100 bush- els of the unpopped vegetable from a New York dealer. Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has salled for Brazil under the name of Dr. Coma. Should he attempt any unseemly pranks in Dom Pedro’s dominion Dr.Coma’s career will likely come to a full stop. Senator John Sherman was commissioned # colonel by Governor Dennison during the war, and two regiments were for some time known as Sherman’s brigade, though he never took the fleld, resigning his command to take his seatin the senate. Biz Ben Le Fevre, the Ohio ex-congress- man, has struck a better thing than a seat in congress, or the Paris consulship. for which he was an applicant. He has been made @eneral manager of the Brice & Thomas railroad syndicate at a salary of $20,000a year. Mrs. Hettie Greeu, the Wall street woman of many millions, is very particular in se- lectink the modest room ehe occuples in a boarding house. Her first question to the landlady Is: ‘‘Are thereany reporters in the house?”’ 1f not, she Inquires: “Have any re- porters ever lived in the house?’ If such a disaster has occurred to the landlady, Mrs. Green cares not to hear when it happened;: the mere fact that reporters have had & habi- tation in the house 18 emough. She says *“Good-day,” and s gone. nC B ROD An Able Criticism. Kansas City Journal. ‘Wehave received the first copy of Truth, a weekly magazine of literature and reality, published st Leavenworth, As for literary exeellence, it possesses none. As for reality, it13 crowded full of real estate advertise- ments. As for the name it has assumed, that is an exhibition of monumental chegk, which persuades us that the magazine will 8 PROMI ———— The Jackleg Lawyer. Lincoln Democrat, Every jackleg lawyer in Nebrasks who wants It gets a railroad pass, on the ground that he is an employe of the roads. Every politiclan whom the roads want to use at conventions and other useful places has bis little “‘employe” annual. Not a soli- tary abuse has been corrected by the al- leged abolition of passes. The same sub- ornation of lawyers and politicians goes on, except more guardedly than before. 'The maln herd of common editors are not alowed to have passes, so that their moans will de- ceive the public and make It imagine that the passes have been abolished. Avy man of political influence, who 1s unscrupulous enough to ask for it and use it, can get a pass just as he used to. He mustonly bea littie more explicit than formerly in his pledge to stand by the company. T Righ Love Has No Place On Earth. Ella Whasler Wilcox. ‘The world has outlived sl its passion ; Its men are inane and blase, Its women are mere piuppets of fashion; Life now Is a comedy play. Our Abelard sighs for & sgason, Then yields with decorum to fate; Our Heloise listens to redson, And seeks a new mates By the ladylike minds of‘our mothers We are taught that to féel is bad torm Our effeminate fathersand brothers Keep carefully out of life's storm. Our worshippers now, and our lovers Are calmly devout—with their brains; And we laugh at the man who discovers ‘Warm blood in his vgins. But you, O twin soulss| on mated, ‘Who love as the gods loved of old, ‘What blundering uqu,hud Y b cast 1ives to ‘this ? our Hvs “luuld Like a lurid voleanic ures jac And gray ‘You seem, with your fervors primeval, Among us A Y W from some E‘IM of splendor, R e e Fiy back to its 1 warn you, p LhaEh e . you can love! The Umaha Republican wade a bitter at- tack on Governor Thayer on account of his appointments to the Omaba police commis- sion. The Re) 's logle was 80 wuch st fault that most people are at & loss to know the real reason of his attack. The whole se- cret was exposed by the governor himself a fow days ago, in an Interview with a Bk ro- transpires that Rothacker,the edi- tor of the Republican, was a persistent apvli- cant for a place on the commission, and be- cause the governor chose to reject the appli= cation for the very best of reasons, Mr. Rothacker's bile was stirred up to the extont ot slooping over through the columns of the Republican, Governor Thayer has suffered no harm from the attack, while Rothacker and his paper have gained nothing by it b udaiom. Thelr Greeting! St Louis Globe-Democral, ‘The Northern Presbytorians, In session at Omaha, have sent greetings to the South- ern Presbyterians, In session at St Louis, The message says ee psalm 132, verse 7, and John 17, verse 21" Republicans are familiar with the Scriptures, and know very well what is contained in each of these wverses, but for the benetit of our Democratic readers we will say that the first verse reaas: “pence be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces,” The second verse is as follows: ““T'hat they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and 1 in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” et — STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The Chadron artesian bore swallowed The Norfolk News cries aloud for a town park. More trees were planted in Fullerton ' this season than ever before. Crawford claims to be a lively, healthy, smiling kid of a burg with ten new houses going up. Congressman McShane has contributed $100 toward the press building to be erected on the assembly grounds at Crete. The first baby born in South Sioux City was given a screnade by the band and presented with a corner lot in that promising town. “Interesting inside developments" are promised in the next issue of several country papers. *A choice collection of pewter pens, probably. Mrs. F. A. Wittie, of Hay Springs,took an overdose of aconite to quiet her nerves. {t was quite successful. She leaves a sorrowing husband and a three- year-old son. The Nebraska City News taps a timely vein, by urging the formation;of a com- pany to bore for natural gas, The News 1s contident that the “fuel of the future’ exists 1n that vicinity. The Genoa Dramatic club is energetic- ally rvehearsing “The Haunted Hen house, or Six Buckets of Blood,” At the last performance the heavy villian had a section of his ear shot away while plucking the stuffed pullets in the coop. ‘The local critic fails to mention whether suflicient gore was sccured to verify tho text. The drama will probably be put on the boards with a brush. The Norfolk News punotures Omaha merchants in the following friendly item: *‘The only trouble with Omaha is that that town imagines that the entire state of Nebraska must pay tribute to her mer- chants. This is a big mistake. The trade of any section belongs to the merchant who can place his wares in the hands of the purchaser at the least cost. Omaha merchants can not, or do not, do this, Our experience has uni(m'mi{ en that we could buy goods in our line cheaper in Lincoin than in Omaha.” lowa Items, Thirteen counties in the state report tho banishment ot saloons. A lnrfi gob of gloom has settled down on Des Moines with the closing of the dis- tillery. ‘I'he buildings of the Murray iron works at Burhington, recently burned down, will be rebuilt. Sioux city presents the strange specta- cle of Germany supporting Frantz in the fignt for liberty and beer. Prof. Foster, of Burlington predicts & double disturbance early in June. A de- layed assignment of bock beer isexpected about that time. Dakota. Rapid City papers are endanvorlgg to gi:do ife and activity to the hoard of trade. Lead City is realizing on a real estate boom, the lirst Joyful evidence of pros- perity experienced in years. Alarge force of graders have been transferred from Nebraska to Rapid City to begin work on the Elkhorn Valley ex- tension to Deadwood. This unexpected move is due to the activity.of the Buri- ington people on the border. A company has been formed in Rapid Cit{ to develop the gypsum beds in that vicinity. The company has secured some forty acres or more of the gypsum beds and will operate on an extensive scale when they commence. The product will be disposed of in oastern markets. Among the gentlemen interested are John R. Brennan, A. J. Simmons, R. C. Lake, Thomas S8weeney and K. C. More- house, The weekly crop reports to the North- ern Pacific “Elevator company show a general need of ruin. Some sections are n good shape while others are snifering badly. Keelley, Verona and Dawson re- rt good rains and splendid crop condi- mu. Arthur, Milnors, Blanchard, Ed- munds, Hatton and New Rockford report serious lack of rain and high winds, with a consequent damage to the crops. Wyoming. A Congregational church to cost $2,000 is being built at Lusk. The territory is overrun with railroad surveyors and mining prospectors. Benjamin F. Carter, the murderer of James Jeffrey at Sand Creck, bas been convicted and sentenced to death. Cheyenne was thrown into a prayerfal pose by piercing thunder peals Friday evening, No harm was done above or below. Large additions are being made to the Laramie chemical works. These im- provements will treble ghe capacity of the plant. The Cheyenne Sun reports that from an investigation of the business affairs of Swan Bros. it is evident that the firm will come out of the wreck with reputation untarnished. ‘It is stated on authority that those interested firmly believe that the assets will be found to exoeed the lia- bilities by from $400,000 to $500,000. Everybody concerned has grown more hopeful and all express the belief that by careful business management the posses- sions of the firm will realize at least double the amount of the liabilities. esem— AMUSE TS. Another Visit to Boyd's krom the Devil's Auction. The inter-state commerce law has had no effect upon the Devil's Auction, ba- cause lust night, it appeared again st the Boyd in all its well known features. The house was as large as any that has at- tended any of these performances, which means that nenr’I{ evcr{unt in the house was occupied. There have been intro- duced a number of new acts for oncs that no on%r commanded the respect due to he om‘ le old age. The mlll:ry. dane- ac and the audience retired in humor fufii: ciently easy to be to attend another pc‘;lhormuu. It will be repeated to- aight. ——— Personal Paragraphs. 8. 8. Pelker has retdr: Hon. J. D. Meiklefohn, of Fullcrton, is in the city and will remain here untl Wednesday. Sheriff MoDonald and Mr. Luce, of | Sioux City, were in the city for a day or 80 visiting C. W', Edgerton. l CON NOYER'S ACCOUNTS. They Will Be Oonsidered By a Com- mittee of the Connefl, The called mecting of the board of ed- ueation met yesterday afternoon at 5:15 with just a quorum presemt. ‘The sscre- tary announced the object of the meet- ing—to examine into the condition of the secrotary's accounts, The secrotary left his desk and took the tloor, denying that he had declared he did not want his ac- counts investigated and said further that when Mr. Blackburn had made such a statoment he had uttered what was not true. Mr. Connoyer made a lengthy statement,and read the sections of the law pertaining to the ment of claims, He said that the committee on claims in- stead of meeting in season to examino the bills of expen: had of late years met fifteen or twenty minutes before a board meeting, hastily looked over the claime, and asked if he was to be held responsible for the neglect of duty shown by the commuttee on claims. Mr. Blackburn, of the commit- toe on claims, arose in response to Mr. Connoyer, and said that the spirit of his resolution introduced at the lust meeting was not to cast an imputation upon the secretary. All that he desired was that the oflicers of the board should be ex- amined, as he considered the methods somewhat slip-shod. So far as he knew, the accounts of Mr. Connoyer were as fair as any man’s could be. As Mr. Con- noyer had been secretary of the board for eight or ten years, and the term was about at an end, he thought it but proper that the affairs of the body should be goune over. No honest man should object to such an investigation. Mr. Connoyer accused Mr. Blackburn of making derog- atory remarks. Mr. Blackburn said that was not the point before the board, which was to consider the investiga- tion of the secretary's accounts. He moved that the discussion close. Mr. Coburn uvbjected fon the grounds that other members wanted to speak on the subjeet, and the motion was withdrawn. Mr. Livesey thought no one should object to an investigation. Mr. Clark, as chairman of the committee on claims, stuted the methods of the com- mittee in auditing claims, He smd in contract work the committee could only rely upon the statements of foremen, and he believed that the auditing was in the main fair. Mr. Coburn said that the board had been commented upon for its expenditures, §While opposed to Mr. Blackburn's resolution referring the ex- amination of the accounts to the finance committee, he was in favor of anexami- nation, but wanted it done by an expert and outsider of their own body. He re- forred to the section of the new law gov- erning examinations. Mr. Blackburn said the new law did not cover the period of years prior to its passage by the legis- Iature. Mr. Coburn thought the council had power to appointan examination committee, and moved as an amendment that the council be asked to ex- amine the records and accounts of tho board. Mr. Connoyer said he wanted a full and early investigation, as his affairs were in such a shape as to bear investi- tion. He feared the council would de- ay tho matter for a week or more, and he thought the board should appoint a committee to do the work at once. Mr. Blackburn thought as the secretary did, but Mr. Coburn insisted on his motion, He believed that the secretary occupied a diflferent position from any of the others. and as & member of the board he was as much entitled to an investigation as the secretary, as tho public had ro- flected_somewhat on the board. Presi- dent Points took the floor and said the law provided the instrumentality of in- vestigation. He said the matter had been sm‘umi on the eve of an election and had a political aspect. " He believed an investigation by a com- mittee of the board would be unneces- sary and unsatisfactory. It would amount to ‘a whitewash. Tt ‘might help some member to a re-election. But whut kind of a look would it have to the public. He was opposed, not to an investigation, bat to the mover of investigation. The time for investigation was when the sec- retary’s term had expired and before his bondsmen had been relieved. He wanted an investigation through the proper channels, and one which would place tho board in a proper light before the eciti- zens of the city. The vote was five to four in favor of the motion to refer to the city council for investigation. After brief discussion of a routine matter the board adjourned. e Republican City Committee. There will be a meeting of the repub- lican city central committee at the coun- cil chamber, exposition building, Thurs- day, May 26, at 4 o'clock p. m. Each member is requested to be there in person or by proxy. D. H. MERCER, Chairman. F. B. REDMAN, Secretary. 1t W n Acclident. The coroner wont to Millard yestorday to investigato the case of the young man reported drowned on Sunday night. The ruan's name was August ‘Thies, a farmer, and the verdict of the jury was that he rv:; accidentally drowned while 1n bath- ng. Southern Presbytorian Assembly. ST. Louis, May 23.—1n the Southern Pr byterian assembly this morning the commit- tee on organization presented three reports. The majority recommends the appointment of a committes to confor with the committee from the other assembly and report to the next general assembly. The committee is instructed to take and maintain the position that a mere eptance of the common standards of church confession of faith does not form s suflicient basis of union, *But the acceptance of that ullar Interpretation of our standards which aftirms and empha- sizes the purely scriptural nature of Christ's Kingdom, and fo her legislating on politicat or eivil matters, is the only true basis of union; and, further, we insist that our colored brethren be organized into se) ate congregations. presbyteries sud synods ‘The minority says the difieulties in the way of uniop ere s0 nwinerous and of so serious a nature that they cannot he removed. and asserts that a separate existence of the south- ern church is demanded because of the widely different interpretation of the lan- guaxe of confession of faith. ‘These cannot e reconciled, and a union would perpetuate strife and alienations. ‘The minimum mi- nority reportidiffurs from the winority only in the form of expression. The matter was laid over till to-morrow. B nig Rallroad Suit. MiLwAuee, May 23.—Papers have been flled in the United States circuit nourt in a sait brought by William H. Hollister against Johu A, Stewart d Edwin H. Abbott, trustees of the Wisconsin Central rallroad, and Henry ¥. Spencer, thelr registrar and a former stockholder of the road. The case fmw\ out of & reorganization scheme made by the <-mnpnn{nln 1870 for the purpose of sewtiing the atfairs of the old company, The complaint d¢ nds ]ndfimnt for the bonds T X gy ] case w ¥ X ora ‘onu;‘ul no.('u for the mul.»fl e D e — The tock Island Kobbers Sentenced, OuicAeo, May %i.—A speoclal to the Daly News from Morris, 1iL, vays Sehwartz and Watt, the Rock 1stand train robbers, o to-day sentenced to imprisonment for life. 1.0te was granted the prisoners to file a bill of exceptions by August ¥5, 1887, Indications. For NeLraska: Warmer, gonerally fair weathor, variable winds, becowiug sou therly For lowa: Warwer, falr weather, westerly winds, becom’ (vu o. For Dakota: Warwer, fair weather, vari- abie winds, gereially sovtherly. e e e e e e e o e e e e e e e e e e S S =Y it, and the police commission may send to Chicago, Neww York or Boston for a chief of police or a fire chief should tney decm it css In His Thoughts, . Chieago Heraid. Testitying before the Pacific railroad commission the other day the good Jay Gould said: “I thought of the interests of the government many times, but when the Thurman law was passed and sustained by the supreme courtI thought the government was trying to squeeze more out of the turnip than there was in ity and my plan then was to build a new road from Omaha to Ogden,” Considering all that happened this is a very frank admi n. The Thurman law was passed with the idea that it would compel the directors and man- agers of the subsidized roads to pay their mdebtedness to tho government, Gould looked upon the venture in the light of squeezing a turnip. yot he was engagod in that vory act himself, and had made several millions by the operation, By buying up the bonds of connccting and competing rouds at nominal figures and selling them to the Union Pacitic at var he was able to pocket the profits, which should have gone to the corporation for which he acted. The turnip was dry when it came to paying the debt whu‘i the road owed to the government, but it was juiey enough as long as Gould could be permitted to tap it in his own interest. The manner in which he proposed to get even with the government for insist- ing upon the payment of the money which it loaned shows how well he had observed the methods of C. P, Hunt- ington, He proposed to build 8 new road, ‘‘just outside the right of way," from Omanha to Ogden. What fo for the purpose of having a road of his own connecting with Huntington's Central Pacitic, and of turning back on the hands of tho people the Union Pacific, for which he would then have no use. He would have employed the resources of the Union Pacific to build his new road, exactly as Huntington employed the re- sources of the Central Pacific to build his Southern Paciiic, and then with a road on which the government had no claim he would have been 1n a position to let go of the subsidized road and let the government make the best of it. Gould has a sublime contempt for public opinion, and no wonder. —————— A New Secrotary Needed. The Christian Hour of this week will say editorially: The mission schools form one of the most potent agencies in the home tield. All through Utah, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, the Indian terri- tory, Alaska and in other portions of the field thoy are laying the basis of a sound cducation which should be carried to completion in the high echool, academy and college. At present there is no sys- tem in regard to the unification of these schools, s0 that this object may be at- tained. Each individual school stands alone in its isolated district, and when the schol- ars kave completed the necessarily limi- ted course of instruction, their education is tinished as far s it is possible for them to complete it. In Salt Lake we have a collegiate institute that is capable of tak- ing ils pupils as far as the sophomore class, ot of the schools scattered thronghout the territory, a very small per cent of the scholars go to the insti- tute. The school at Albuquerque or Tucson should be advanced to n high school for the twenty-eight schools throughout that region, as a foeder for Del Norte college. One of the objects that Dr, Hill had in view in his late visit to New York was to urge the board to appoint a man to take his place in the school work in the Indian Territory. S0 heavily was the burden of theimportance ofjthis work pressing upon his heart, that his ecloquent plendings ring in the ears of those who heard him as a voice from Heaven, And since God in his mysterious providence has called him home, the schools in that important part of the field are left without a leader. Another important fact demands at- tention. We arc accustomed to call our work among the colored people work among the freedwen. This is no longer the case. Our schools tor the colored peo- ola are not educating froedmen,but native Americans. The manner of dealing with the colored schools should be the same as the schools in New Mexico, Indian Terr:- tory and Utah, In order that this ma be accomplished the schools should be placed under the lug:rvmnn of one head. A man should appointed to take charge of this work; one who would onrefully study the needs of these various oples; unify the system of education y keeping the board fully informed of what he has observed upon the field and faithfully carry out the instructions of the board so a3 to make the school work more eflicient. We know of no man who is better qual- ified for this important position than Rev. T. C. Kirkwood, D.D., SBuperm- tendent of Missions for Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. In his large field he has charge of twenty-eight schools as a art of his work. The information urnished by him to the board con- cerning these schools has always been accurate, and his Judgment in regard to the needs of the schools has always been wise. Ho has the full con- fidence of the board, of the brethren of his Fresbytery and svnod, and of the church. 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