Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1887, Page 4

OMAHA THE DAILY BEE: FKIDAY, MAY o7, 1887, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF RUBSORIPTION: Pafly Morniaz Edition) including Sunday Bre, One Yoar $10 0 For 8ix Months LW For Throa Montha .. “ The Omaha Swiday Lk add; g ress, One Yenr. ATA OPPICE, NO, 014 AND 018 FARNAM STREFY. KW YORK OPFICK, KOOW #, TRINUNE BUILDING. ABHINGTON OFFICK, NO. 513 FOURTERNTH STRERT, mialied to’ an; s O CORRI All communioatiol torial matter should TOK OF THE B BUSINEAS LETTERS! All busineas letters and remittances ghould be to Tnk Bk PUBLISKING COMP. hecks and postofiice orde: ‘able to the order of the compuny, HNDENCE! elating to newsa and edl- addressed W the Et- THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Count; Geo. B. 'Izschuck, secretary of The Bee Pablishing mmlmnv. does solemnnly swear that the actual circulation ot the Daily Bee for the week ending May 20, 1857, was as follows: Saturday, oMay 14. Sunday, May 15. Monday, May 1. Tuesday, May 17. Wednesday, May 1 glmmlu v, May 19, riday, May 20. Average.. .14.203 Gro. 8. T28c1IUCK, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 215t day of May, 1887, N, P. Frr, [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 Daily Bee for the month of May, 1556, 39 copies; for June, 1896, 12,208 coples : for July, 1996, 12,814 coptes; for August, 18, 12,464 copies; for Septem: ber, 188, 13,030 copies; for Qctober, 1880, 12,08 coples: for November, 1866, ' 15,48 copies; for December, 1856, 13,337 copied; for Jnnunrf 1857, 16,264 coples: for Kebruary, 1857, 14,105 coples: for March, 1857, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,310 copies, . B. Tzscnuck, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 7th l-gn( May, A. D,, 1887, I EAI,.f N. P. Feir, Notary Public. une’s hero, Walter Ridgely, robbed the train in Texas the other day. —_— O’BRikN is to visit Niagara falls. He probably has no idea of shooting Niag- nra, but perhaps would like to shoot some of the natives near by. — THERE are being organized several base ball clubs composed entirely of women. We do not see but what the women can play ball as well as the men do this seasol No rerort has yet been received from the railway commission which at this time is supposed to be between Norfolk and Long Pine. The B. & M. should send out a relief expedition. 'THERE i8 one thing gratifying regard- Ing Queen Kapialoni's visit to this coun- try, and thatsshe leftno*'style” or “fash- 1on"” to be twigged by sentimental gushers or painted fashion plates. — MR. HALSTEAD wants to ‘“‘have a rest on Keifer,"”” and says he is “tired of see- ing his name in the papers.” Mr. Hal- stead understands that it is the duty of a great editor to voice the sentiments of the people. ¥ EE—— THoS. NAST says the mugwumps are more numerous than ever, and that they are all for Cleveland in 188S. Mr. Nast, even while on a pleasure tour, remembers the policy of the paper upon which he is employed. Sm———— Tre Chicago boodlers are now posing beforo the blinded goadess, awaiting the vengeance of the outraged law. The way Sharp is belng treated in New York the Cook county thieves believe there is a hopo for them. ——— BurrarLo BiLv's daughter will share her father's glory—and is to be received at court. Mr. Shakespere wrote it well when he said there is a tide in the affairs of man, in which 1t you catch on, leads to fortune. e GOVERNOR AMES, of Massachusetts, ro- cently deliverod a speech at Brooklyne in which he waved the bloody shirt until he shook it to shreds. The bloody shirt is getting to be a chestnut. There are argu- ments more modern and equally effec- tive. s — TaE Ninois legislature, since the dis- graceful fight between two of its mem- * bers has grown wonderfully and exceed- ingly virtuous. It is only grappling with great moral questions, and expects to " oontinue until June 15, What is so rare " a4 & legislature in June? SEeme————— Tk oxtra session of the Missouri leg- islature is busily engaged passing appro- * priation bills. One railroad bill has been introduced fixing inaximum rates, but permits railroad commissioners to adopt & lower schedule. Such a privelege to a railroad commission will never be util- ized. — With a monopoly on the fresh beef supply of the entire country; the ques- tion is mot ‘‘Shall we live again,” but how to live in the immediate now is a problem that will puzzle philosophers. All things are tending to ‘‘combina- tions,” Kven the truthful cfreus adver- tisements announce royal combinations. SRS ———— TuE attempt of the Celtic to telescope the Brittanic, 850 miles east of Sandy Hook, will cause ocean travelers much uneasiness while crossing the banks this season. The twenty-four hours in which a heavy fog always hangs over that por- tion of the route will be long and dreary-- miore todious tham beforo this last disas- tor, although a siniilar accident is not likely to occur again. er—— MR. WiLLiAM NYk is evidently a close observer of human nature. Duringa res- idence of only a few months in New York be paints the following picture of Jay Gould: “Jay Gould would attract very little attention here on the streots, but he ‘would certainly be looked upon with sus- plcion in Paradise, A man who would fail to remember that he had $7,000,000 that bolonged to the Erie road, but who does not forget to romember whenever he paid his own hotel bills at Washington, is she kind of man who would pull up and pawn the pavements of Paradise within | thirty days after he got there.” The Chicago Wheat Corner. Every day increases the interest in the great wheat deal in Chicago, which is at- tracting as much attention 1n commercial circles throughout the country as any one of the many similar speculations that have preceded it, It has been on now for three months, and as the time ap- proaches when it must culminate, in terest in it of course becomes more in- tense. One thing that has served to render this deal peculiarly interest- ing is the fact that mno one knows who are the principals in it. There is abundant evidence that the combination sustaining the market isa very strong one financially, but thus far all efforts to ascertain who are its mem- bers have failed. The one tact that seems to be certainly known is that Ar- mour 15 not in the deal. The clique is said to own ten million of the thirteen million bushels of cash wheat now in store. The culmination of the deal must be reached some time with- in the mnext thirty-four days. On the 16th of June there will be another de- livery day, which is awaited with a good deal of concern, since the course of the clique at that time will determine whether the corner is to he maintained and the shorts subjected to a further squeezing. Until then there will be the doubt whether the clique will not after all transfer its operations over into July. Tt is believed its holding for June, including the ecash wheat, aggregates 40,000,000 bushels. The stage has been reached in the corner when it is simply a question ,of money, and if the clique is finaneially strong enough to carry the deal on through June it 18 inevitable that the shorts must suffer heavily. This is the fmportant point that will bo de- termined when delivery day is reached on the first of that month. The manager of the deal is a Cincinnati man, Wilt- shire, who has figured in other large operations, He claims not to know who his principals are, but that Ins orders came by telephone from the Cincinnati Tidelity bank. One clique brokerage house is the richest in the trade and can command, it is said, Omaha's Markot, No commercial enterprisc is contrbuting 80 much to the welfare, prosperity and growth of this city as the live stock in- terests at South Omaha. Each day demon- strates more clearly that this 1s to become one of the great live stock markets of the west. The producers and shippers of this western country have now an advantage- ous market near home. By shipping to Omaha they make a great saving, as the shrinkage caused by the long haul to Chi- cago is avoided and the stock is promptly disposed of. This fact, coupled with the other equally important one that stock will bring more here 1n proportion than at points farther cast, is what is building up this market. To prove the assertion that the Omaha live stock market is making gigantic strides forward, it is only neces- sary to glance at a few figures. In 1885 the total receipts of hogs were only 107,374, and in 1836 they reached 407,994, At the present time they are being re- ceived at the rate of five to seven thou- sand per day, and this is by no means tho most busy season of the year. The most satisfactory feature of all this is the fact that every hog reccived is being slaughtored here and man- ufactured into the different pro- ducts. Agam, all the packing houses combined, last year, killed only 407,094 hogs or a daily average of about 1,350 hogs. Now one packing house alone is killing on an average 2,200 hogs per day, or more than all the others combined last year. There has not been as great an improvement in the cattle market for the reason that a general depression has aftected the cattle industry all over the country, The building of the Swift pack- ing house will give a great impetus to the cattlo market at this point, and it is only a question of a little time when it will be a rare thing to see live stock of any kind shipped beyond the Missouri A Self-Satisfled Lord, On last Tuesday the National club of Toronto entertained Lansdowne, who re- sponded to a toast complimentary to him- self. The telegraphic report shows the speech to have been in some respects a rather creditable production, and as the audienco was most thoroughly loyal it was of course received withmany demon- sirations of approval. A covsiderable share of it was devoted to the fisheries question, and it is to be noted that the governor general talked quite ra- tionally respecting the rolations that ought to submit between Canada and the United States. He was disposed to make a good deal of allowance for the irritation of the New England fishermen as being perfectly natural, but he coun- seled no moderation on both sides, and had no doubt tf the right spirit were per- mitted to control there need be no appre- hension of the result. The conspicuous feature of interest in the address, howover, was the reference of the marquis to the event which has brought him more prominently into pub- lic attention than any other in his not re- markably briliiant career. His allusion to this was a quite neat example of rhe- torical indirection. He remarked that a slight touch of electricity had been per- ceptible in the atmosphere, and that “‘certain stars have shot madly from their spheres into your quiet firmament,’’ experienoing the fate which usually over- takes sueh erratic constellations: but the disturbance had been brief and inconsiderable, and he trusted would leave no traces behind. As to himself; sustained by the kinduess of the class to whom he was talking, the affair did not for an instant interfere with his happi- ness or convenience. Ho went on to ex- press his entire satisfaction with the situ- ation so far as he is personally con- corned, and to indicate that e felt as se- cure 1n the loyal confidence of the Can- adian people as he had ever been, This professed complacency may be real and it may be affected, but in either case it doos not help the cause of the marquis of Lansdowne. The law was outraged, free spoech was assailed, and violence was committed in Toronto and other Canadian oities by his adherents, and having the knowledge that these things were threatened and the power to preveat their occurrence, he did not move a hand or uttor a word for their prevention. Aund while yet other outrages were being threatened and planned, the governor general, re- sponding to a toast of loyal friends in his honor, talks flippantly of all this serious matter as a ‘‘touch of eleotricity,” a dis- turbance eansed by stars that have shot madly from their spheres, which, how- ever, was inconsiderable, and he trusts will leave no traces behina. Not a word of regrot or reproof for the Iawlessness that has put an ineradicable blot on the record of the Dormnion. Per- haps nothing ln-llu¥ could be expected of a man who had not the honor to keep his contracts with his unfortunate tenantry, and who drove men, women and children from their homes with relentless cruelty. The Marquis of Lansdowne is mistaken, however, if he fancies that the disturb- ance has been inconsiderable, or that it will leave no traces. It has made plain to the world the charaeter of man he is, and the traca of that disclosure is so deeply maae that nothing he may say can efface it. 1t has put a stain upon him that will remain an indel- lible part of the record of his life. Ly! him find what satisfaction he may in the approval of the courtiers and the trucu- lent worshippers of royalty, however un- worthy it may be, that now surround him, The indictment that O'Brien has proclaimed and the great majority of English-speaking people believe to be true, will stand against him for all time— a trace of the ‘‘disturbance’’ which the marquis would undoubtedly be willing to make almost any sacrifice to wipe out, but which is beyond his power to remove or change, —_—— Is It Another “Irust?" A St. Lows paper is authority for the statement that a gigantic scheme is afoot to consolidate all the cattle intorests of the Northwest and form a company which shall control $15,000,000 worth of cattle and grazing lands. The cattle in- terests that are expected to unite in this project are those of Wyoming, Colorado, Eastern Utah, Western Nebraska, South- ern Montana and Southern Dakota, and it is said that the scheme was precipitated by the failure ot the Swan Brothers some days ago. The con- sequences of that failure forced the cattle men, according to the report, to take immediate ‘action, and they pro- ceeded at once with the business pre- liminary to organization. The capitalists said to be interested are located in Chey- enne, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and some of them in London, England, and Edinburgh, Scotland. We called attention a little while agoto the organization of the American Cattle Trust, the purpose of which was sup- posed to be the care and protection of the cattle interests of all sec- tions, primarily against the alleged abuses and injustice of the Chicago cattle ring. The proposed organization re- ported from St. Louis would seem to be something different, though in all proba- bility, if thero is anything in the report, the plan, if not the special object, 18 the same, [t is not unlikely that the cattle interests of the northwest would desm 1t wiser to have their own organization than to pool with the interests of another section, while orgamization elsewhere would doubtless compel them to take similar action. But whatever the circumstances or motives con- ducing to this movement, as- suming the report to be authentic, public interest in the matter will relate to the probable ultimate effect upon the market price of the commodity which these or- ganizations will control. It has heretofore been said with respect | to the cattle “trust’’ that so long as it had to fight the Chicago ring the consum- ers of beef would probably get the bene- fit. But experience shows that the ulti- mate purpose of such organizations is monopoly, and however fair the promise and the basis upon which they start out they rarely fail to grow into monopolies. It 13 this experience which causes all such movements to be regarded with suspicion and distrust. There are certainly excellent reasons for viewing with misgivings all schemes for the consolidation of special interests and the consequent destruction of that free and unrestricted competition which is in the interest of the public. The chairman of the repub lican city committee has called the committee to- gether on & twelve hours’ notice to con- fer, as we presume, about the proposed nomination of a board of education ticket. It now remains for the committee to decide whether partizanship shall be foisted upon the citizens of Omahain choosing their school board. Reing for the most part made up of ward workers ths committee is liable to give counten- ance to this scheme, For our part.we adhera to the views heretofore expressed by the Bee. It is improper if not “impo- litic to make party nominations fpr the board of education. It is contrary $o-the spirit of the law and has a powerful fen- dency to demoralize our school board management by making its members subservient to political ° Influences. It engrafts political spoils upon our edu- cational system. Friends of popular ed- ucation cannot afford to -give it counten- ance or support. From a party stand- point the move ia decidedly impolitic. The mass of republican voters cannot be held together to support a party ticket for bourd of education. No intelligent voter can be dragooned into voting a party ticket for school board, The result will be disastrous to party discipline. Instead of gaining strength for the next political contest, the party will find itself weakened by bitter personal contention begotten by the strife for nominations, and the usual crimination and re-crimi- nation that follow in the wake of every nominating convention. In forcing a political issue upon'the community where partisan rancor should be kept in the back-ground, the party managers are only inviting popu- lar revolt. The patrons of our schools want no party hacks in the school board, and will not countenance barter and trade in school board appointments. They desire to place the schools under control of competent, conscientious and reputable citizens, and they will, we con- fidently believe, ignore party conven- tions and reject partisan candidates, —— The New Mridge Project, There never has been an euterprise undertaken to advance the material wel- fare of Omaha which has not met resis- tance or opposition from some quarter. The proposed wagon bridge between Council Bluffs and Omaha is no excep- tion. Now that the company has made all the preliminary arrangements for bullding the bridge, and in fact has let the contract for its construction, obsta- cles are thrown in its way under pretense that the location of this bridge will pre- vent the building of a railroad bridge by the Milwaukee road. Now why can't the railroad bridge be built higher up the rivert The propgsition to consolidate the bridge projects and let the Milwaukee rond build a railroad and wagon bridge between the points fixed for the wagon bridge does not strike us favorably. A separate wagon bridge is preferable to a com- bined railroad and wagon bridge. The movement of railway trains and vehicles over a very long bridge is always a draw- back. This will presently be demon- strated by the Union Pacific bridge. Omaha wants botlt bridges and we sce no serious obstacle to their construction in the fact that the wagon bridge com- pany has made its location at the foot of Dodge street. — Tue rowdy editor whom Governor Thayer refused to appoint on the police commission denounces Chief of Police Seavey as a bogus chief,and declares that any arrest made by him or under his authority is illegal. This may be very encouraging to sluggers and crooks, but they had better not rely too much on their ability to recover damages from the city, should the new chief of police or any of his force rudely interfere with their professional practice. PRreSIDENT CLEVELAND has accepted the invitation signed by 20,000 citizens of St. Louis, and will visit that town in Sep- tember. From the length of the petition it appears that St. Louis is guilty of mak- ing a mad chase after party spoils. — It isestimated that between $500,000,000 and $600,000,000 will be expended in rail- road construction in the United States during the current year. By the time this is properly watered, it will represent about four times the above amount. THE St. Yaul Globe is already jealous of Omaha’s proposed Yankton line. 1t says the business of Yankton naturally belongs to St. Paul, and she is not likely to give up what is hers by right. — Eprror O'Briex looked in on an Amecrican legislature at Albany, and im- mediately left for Montreal. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. J. H. Johannes, a Platte county farmer, is laid up with a brojen arm, a memento of a runaway. Samuel Workman, of Beatrice, has in- vented improvements to the express car designed to render it burglar proof. Nebraska City wants a straw-paper mill, a mineral paint factory, oleomarga- rine works and a splint fruit-basket shop. The citizens of Rulo will make it inter- esting to any corhpany or individual that will locate a porK-packing house at that place. Fairmont voints to two school build- ings going up, a Masonic block, a water- works system and a new depot, as evi- dence of a prosperous building season. Schuyler gay men rejoice that the rate of $10 ‘18!‘ carto Umaha has been put into etfect by the Union Pacitic. The rate had been raised to $14 to placate the long haul, An outpost of the Salvation army was showered with decayed efgs in ‘Grand Island a few dayg vgo. The hoodlums who perpetrat the outrage earned a whole-soled whalidg. The Fremont t railway company has applied to t ty council for a fran- chise. The col y agrees to begin the work of consf n by July 10, and complete one and a half miles by the close of the year. The Fremont Tribune announces for the nine thousandth time that Omaha is not the state of Nebraska bv a large majority. This is an interesting and ven- erable cocoanut of the whiskered varioty. They grow luxuriantly in Fremont. Mr. and Mrs. W. Carsonj celebrated their golden wedding at Fairmont, last Tuesday. The venerable couple were surrounded by scores of relatives and friends and enjoyed the congratulations and mementos of the occasion showered upon them. Omaha is crowded with interior deco- rators this week. The Presbyterians, homgopaths and cracker makers are here devising new routes to grub, glory and salvation, As the center of piety and uugar—ooalud pellets Omaha scoops in the biscuit. The Hon. John Peters, member of the legislature from Boone, 18 convinced that his labors have not been in vain. A rail- road station has been named after him. In Lincoln they honor their representa- tives differently. Additions to the town are named in their honor because ‘they sell readily. Last week the lightning attacked the boudoir of a Tecumseh editor and de- | molished the pewter busts of a number of reat men reposing on the mantle pieces. generous contemporary came to the rescue with an iron-bound box of inspira- tion, thus averting the temporary sus- pension of the paper, The Lincoln Democrat expresses amaze- ment at the amount of cheek displayed by Traftic Manager Kimball in that city re- centty. It is reported that Calhoun will pay a good round price for a plaster cast ot1t. It would make a whole show in itself, and would be worth more to the capital than a bubbling salt well, Deputy Shenff Carter, of the Dismal Swamp region, armed h'lp and shoulder, strode out recently in search of the rob- ber of Paymaster Hash, who was hiding that section. The bold guardian of Gandy drove within_rifle range of Par- Kker's fortification and was saluted with a shower of lead. The deputy’s judgment overeame his notions of valor, and he re- treated in wild disorder, Parker pro- poses to die with his boodle, and no one slucms disposed - to argue the point with him. “The Yanktoniansand the Wayneites,"” says the Yankton Press, ‘‘are stirring up Omaha and enthusing its people by giv- ing them a glimpseé through the open gateway of the valley of the Jim, the arden of the Wesk and a better country n every way than is now tributary to Omaha. No city hayever had so good an opportunity as O 3 NOW possesses for taking unto 1tself the sinews of wealth. The Jim valley is ready made and Omaha needs only the connecting link over which to communicate with its people.” ‘When wicked woman stoops to devil- ment, mankind ndons the. field in- stanter. The wil an Arnold man conceived a dislile§ for her lord, and with the help of & ular mothe made the fireside yo wacgll for his shins. As soon he had left t ouse they packed all moveables ¥Wd star a grass widow ranch in a new section of town. Once safely housed in new quarters they procured a warrant and had the ‘ol man'’ arrested for robbing a lumber yard, producing o pile or twoas evi- dence of the theft. was jailed and the mother and daughter are now en- joying a season of undisturbed hilarity w{th riendly callers. lowa Items. A woman named Gooding was instantly kl‘llad by lightning at Dayton Saturday night. ‘The gas question at Dubuque is filling the council chamber with a great amount of natural gas of & poor quality. The giants of Oshkosh have walloped the conceit out of the Des Moines club. The papers, too, have fallen on their necks with words of acorn and the wrath of lost bets. Truly the life of the base Dallist 1s not a happy one. If he wins he 18 inflated with stale beer and if he loses, into the earth he is pounded by the whole community. The Dubuque prohibitionists are said to contemplate an active war against the suloons, the date of the opening of hostil- ities having been fixed for next week. Frank Pierce, a conceted, officious and cheeky Des Moines constable, after a long carcer of sneaking raids for liquor in private ond public houses, ran against the federal authorities last week and was promptly arrested and fined for obstruet- ing the mails, He raided the postoflice and refused to leave the building until & policeman coaxed him by the coliar. Mrs. Fehleiser, the young wife of alocal lumber dealer at Newton, has been quite sick for several da nd Sunday night, while the watchers were asleep, she got out of bed and left the house. When she was missed quick and anxious search was made for her, but it was not until several hours later that she was found two miles from home \vnmh-rin‘f around in aslough and nearly exhausted. The malady had effected her mind. Dakota. A gas bore is ripening in Jamestown. There are 350 Farmers' alliances in the territory. Extensive mica beds have been uncov- ered near Minot. Work has begun on Spink county’s court house at Redfield, Susie Wagner a laundry girl at Fargo, lost both arms in a mangler and died. It is a dark and drmrr day in Rapid City that a new railroad is not born to vanish 1n the fog of twilight. In the competitive examination of flour at Minneapolis, the Aberdeen roller mill flour took first place over all other entries, Seven thousand men and 3,000 teams are at work in northern Dakota, building the Manitoba railroad. The force 1s dis- tributed over a distance of 125 miles. The first settlement of Tower county was three years ago. The county now has $,000 popuiation and so far but two deaths have occurred in the county. Saturday’s rain has been heard from all over Dakota, and it was heaviest where it was most needed, in the Red river valley, and lightest where it was not particularly needed, in the extreme southern portion of Dakota. potted Bear, a full-blooded Sioux Indian, has been drawn as a juror for the next term of the Hughes county dis- trict court. It is said he cannot under- stand or speak the Knghsh language. The judge will probably excuse him. —— A Stubb Manager. Philadelphia Record. A maladroit witness turned up yester- day before the inter-state commerce commissioners, in the person of General Mauager Stubbs, of the Southern Pacitic railrond. This interesting person is evi- dently one of the graduates of that ad- vanced school of railway management which teaches that the mission of rail- roads is to foster industries at one point and depress them at another in the in- terest of favored individuals or corpora- tions. To Mr. Stubbs, therefore, it seemed entirely naturally thatan oppres- sive charge should have been made for trunsporting produce from San Francisco to points in Nevada, for that, in his view, was only a reasonable method of build- ing up agricultural interests in the latter state. Similarly ingentuous was his ex- planation of the reason for fixing the rate for raw sugar from San Francisco to the Missouri river. The producers couldn’t pay any more than fifty cents a hundred—that was ‘“what the traffic would bear.” So Mr. Stubbs' rail- road brought Claus Speckle’s sugars. enst at a loss, and taxed local traflic to make up the difference. Equally just seemed to the Stubbsian mind the charmingly simple'method of computing rates by which consignees at points east of San Francisco were compelled to pay for New York freight the through rate to San Francisco, added to the local rate from San Francisco to the point of con- signment. These disorderly notions of the transportation business—that a rail- road company may tear down or build up industries here and there by favorit- ism in rates, that freight may properly be carried at a loss if the loss be saddled upon some other shipper; and that dis- tance should not be the principal element in computing freight rates—seem tobe a part of the mental furnishing of traffic managers on all trunk lines of railway. When the Stubbses of railway manage- ment are introduced to reforms in their business methods that come in the guise of compulsory legislation they seem dazed and instead of meeting the “popular re- quirement half way, tean back in_their chairs, and expostulate with the inevit- able. In studying what the traffic will bear they neglect to consider what °the public sense of justice demands. — A Long-Haul Absurdity. . St. Louts Republican, The fourth scction ot the inter-state commerce law has revealed many ouri- osities of railroad management; but the greatest curiosity has only just beon pre- sented—and 1t is this: That the Canada Pacific road can take freight at San Francisco, have it carried 700 miles by ocoan steamer to British Columbhlia, re- ship it and load it on cars at Port Moody, and take it to New York cheaper than our uwn Pacific ronds can afford to carry it in & single shipment across the coun- try, althougn the latter route 18 about 1,000 the sdorter. And agafn: That the Canadian Pacific can take Claus Spreck- les’ sugar at San Francisco, carry it by sea to British Columbia, thence by rail to St, Paul, and trom there send ‘it to Omaha—38,300 miles—cheaper than our own roads can bring it from San Fran- cisco to Omaha, only 1915 miles. The amusement with which we read this extraordinary statementis explained when we read the fact that our Pacific roads, whose carrying capacity is thus depreciated by their own officinls, have not cost the companies owning them a dol- lar; they were built by money subsidies and land grants from the government; yet, notwithstanding this advantage, the{ cannot compete with a road built througl the wintery wilds of British America in carrying freights between points 1n the United States. No intelligent man can be mada to be- lieve such stuff as this. A line that hauis freight 2,000 miles between two points can do 1t cheaper than a line that has to naul it 3,300 miles to connect with the same po\nm All the advantage in com- petition are 1n favor of tho former—and no pleas about hauling empty cars can explain away those advintages. 'Bhoro is nothing in the new law that forbids our Pacitic roads to compete with the Canadian Pacific; that law merely re- quires that if they wish to haul freight between cnnrumlin*l points at low rates, they shall accord the same privilege of low rates to non-competing points also; if they wish to carry tea, sugar, silks and wool 3,500 miles at §500 per carload, they shall not charge more than $300 per oar- load for carrying the same commoditics 1,000 miles. e Asleep on the Track. Mike McCabe came near passing out of this world last night in a tragic manner. He was full of whisky, and insisted upon sleaping on the railroad track, near Boyd’s Kw“nl house. He was pulled out of the way of passing trains several times by parties living near by, who finally summonea the patrol wagon and had him removed to the police station. SHERIDAN'S RIDE, “Face the Other Way, Boys we are Golng Bacek.'" St. Nicholas: Sheridan left Washington on the morning of Oct. 18, 1864, by train, and passed the mght at Winchester, twenty miles north of the battletield. On the morning of the 19th he heard the fir- ing of canon, and sent out to mquire the cuuse, but was told that it came from a reconnoisance. At 9 o'clock he rode leisurely out of Winchester, not dream- ing that his army was in danger. After a little while he heard again the sound of heavy guns, and now he knew what it must mean, Not half a mile from Win- chester he came upon the appalling marks of defeat and rout. The runaways from the battle, still in flight, had got so far as this in their terror. The trains of wagons were rushing by, horses and drivers all in_confusion, for thereis no worse turmoil in this world than the flight of @ beaten army. Sheridan had x‘u-vor seen his men 1n this condition be- ore. He at once ordered the trains to be halted, and sent for a brigade of troops from Winchester, these he posted a the road to prevent further strag, Then he called for an escort of twenty men, and, directing his staff to stem the torrent as well as they could, he set off himself for the battletield. He rode straight into the throng of fugitives, 1n o splendid passion of wrath and determuna- on, spurring his horse and swinging his hat as he passed, and caliing to the men: “Face the other way, boys! FKace the other way!” Hundreds turned at the appeal,and fol- lowed him with cheers, for they all knew Sheridan. 1t was 10 o'clock before he reached the ficld. There he rode about hurriedly, glanced at the position, and at once de- termined upon his course. Ho re- arranged the line of those who were still unbeaten, and then went back to bring up the pame-stricken remainder. And now his presence and personal in- fluence told. He was in the full uniform of a major-general. mounted on a magni: nt black horse, man and beast covered with dust and flecked with foam; he rose again in his stirrups, he drew his sword, ho waved his hat, and shouted to his soldiers: *“‘If 1 had been here this never wonld have happened, Face the other way, boys! ¢ are going back!” The flying soldiers were struck with shame when they heard him shout and saw his face blazing with rage and cour- age and eagerness for them. They took up his cry themselves: “Face the other way!" It went on from one to another for miles—from ecrowd to crowd—and they obeyed the command. As the swell- ing shout went on, the surging crowd re- wrned. They faced the other way, and along the very road which a cowering mob had taken three hours before, the same men marched with the tread of sol- diers to meet the enemy. They knew now that they were led to victory. ALECK SWAN'S FAILURE. The Cause Found in the Failure of Bunch Grass and a Oattle Panic. Chicago Mail: Aleck Swan’s failure will be a great surprise to those people who know nothing of the cattle business and who have kept on calling him “the Wyoming cattle king.” The funda- mental trouble with Swan has been, as it has been with all the other great her- ders who got into the business early, that aftor his herds had doubled and re- doubled, the ‘‘bunch” grass suddenly ave out. Millionaire cattle owners ound it sure and easy money making to put a few cattle on the prairie near good water, to leave them there in charge of men, and to come back in a few seasons to find them multiplied, that the thing was overdone. Then, last summer, the cattle kings suddenly found that their steers had pulled up the bunch grass, roots and all. They went into last winter as well aware of the overwhelming disas- ter that was certain to meet them as they were of the seasons coming around. Then there wasa desperate attempt to unload on the English people the prop- erty which had paid so magnificently, but which, in those territories where the bunch grass was gone, was certain to ruin nvevhody. The Swans hurried George Wheaton, a clever Chicago club man, over to London to do their trading. Wheaton had pretty well extricated them from their dilemma. Hec had made one very favorable sale, and was on the point of getting off the great Consoli- dated Land and Cattle company for a sum sufficient to make aven the broker who effected the trade rich, when sud- denly, almost over night, a panic started in London over American_ranch prop- erty. The-trade was repudiated. From a furor to buy into these new American cattle companies there grew o vanic to sell. Americans who were over there at that moment, and some of whom had put out as much as $15,000 for advertising, found themselves compelled to surrender all they had spent and return home. sl iy Evils of Monopoly, San Francisco Chronicle. The tendency of the age is constantly toward great aggregations of capital. Not many years ago a business of any kind representing a capital of $100,000, was considered an cnormous aftair, out to-day scarcely any new enterprise is undertaken without being backed by millions of dollars in place of thousands. In one sense and from one standpoint this is good economy. The same super- intendence, the same number of clorks and about the same number of employes can manage the affairs of a concern with a capital of $5,000,000 just as efliciently as 1f the eapital were but $500,000, and in consequence tho returns upon the invest- . ment will be s0o much the greater, asa dollar saved earned. There are certain lines of business in which such combinations of capital are cntirely legitimate and work no hardship to the consumer. Wherever the prodnct is a luxury it really makes no difference whether its production is controlled by a monopoly or not, 1f a person does not choose to pay the price asked, he need not buy. For instance, if ail the artificial flowers in the United States were made by one firm or one corporation nobody would be materially aflected by t. But when it comes to the actual necessi- ties of lite, there is an argnnent against these monopolistic methods which iy irre- futable, and that is, that there is no moral right and should be no legal right to spec- nfim upon the needs of humamty. ‘The question of food supply should be left to regulate itself, and not” be made subject to the domination of a dozen or twenty men, whose combined capital can hold a nation at its control. These remarks are suggosted by a re- cent dispatch in reforonce to the forma-. tion of a gigantic corporation, with u capital of §25,000,000, to secure the ms tery of she great enttle interests of the United States. The nominal object of this combination i8 to incrense, develop and encourage the raising and handling of cattlo, the slaughtering of them by first hands, und the placing of their pro- ducts in _the different markets of the world. It is claimed that this will bo of reat idvantage to wll raisers of cattle: out this scheme leaves out of sight the most important matter of all—the effect upon the consumer. It is easy to see that such & plan might readily benelit the producer and the middleman, but how about the man who ultimately foots all the bills—the consumer? Here is just the vice of all these vast aggregations of capital, whether ¥lmy bo for purposes of transportation or for fur- nishing food or water or light or any unecessary of life, they have no rogard for the rights of the consumer;it is right in oxpense is ¢ dollar e T A VR g TR R WIS W >SN 5 o e S M AR WA — here that socialism, oven 1n 1ts’ worse sense, appeals to so many. When a poot man, working hard every day for a bare living, finds the price of meat and flour and sugar and other articles of food rising - higher and higher, although the supply isall the ti increasing, it is hard to make him contented with the maxims of political econom de him that all such matt ulated by supply and demand. He cannot see— and why should he hy the more wheat is produced 1nCalifornia the iigher should be the price of flour, or why, when the herds of ecattle in Colo- rado and Texas and Nevada are con- stantly growing larger, the price of his dinner should be more. There can be but one conclusion to all this modern style of combining capital, which is that in tune it will become so unendurable, that the people, who after all are in the m:\inri(y. will forbid by law the formation of such, or, possibly, any corporations, and compel the possessors of wealth to stand on the same footin, with the possessors ot intelligence an industry—that of individuahty. No ge: ine socialism seeks to deprive any indi* dual of his mwney any more than of his brains, but it is not impossible that the interest of socicty may make it neces- mr( to prohibit the pooling of money and to require each to stand or fall for himself. ~ Then the industrious and thrifty will not: be permitted to carry ulong the weak and shiftless, as they do now in many cases, and the survival ot the fittest will result in & strong, individ- ualized well-ordered people. —_———— A Remarkable Railway Accident. ““Talking about collisions and_railroad accidents,” amd & brakeman, after put- ting a window up for a young lady pas- senger, and failling to notice an old woman who wanted asimilar service per.: formed, “‘let me tell you of an in saw once down in Pennsylvraia. was & narrow gauge road down there, which used the track of the old Atlantic & Great W rn broad gauge for seven , of course ranning on 1ts own rail, Zht between the rails of the road. The old Atlantic & Great West k is now the Nypano, or Ne ylvania & Ohio, a part of the guuge was six fect wide, 1 to run on that road! Why, they were like barns Well, one night there was a collision by tween a narrow gauge train and a broad fuucu train. Sowe mistake about orders, guess it was. Anyhow, a narrow gaugoe passenger train dashed into the rear [ of a broad gauge passenger train, and with the curiousest result you ver heard of. That little narrow gauge engme just jumped right up into the blfi cars of the other train, and never stoppe ull it reached the tender of the broad auge locomotive. And what was the unniest thing about it, it drew the whole train after 1it, the Tittle cars run- ning right up the aisie of the big train and never hurting a passenger in_either train, 'cept one feller what had his head outen a window of the narrow gauge smoking car. He was pretty badly hurt, It was a mighty queer sight, let me tell you, oné train inside another, and the passengers of each talking to h other as comfortable 8s you please. [ was brakeman on the broad gauge train, and, 43 we were under runnin’ orders to make Salamanca by a certain min- ute, we went right along, without stopping, taking the other train with us, The best joke of it all was that my con- ductor went through the narrow gauge train and muade all the passengers whack up cash fares. —— A Strange L Madison, Ga., Madisonian: John W. Martin died at his residence in Morgan county, Ga., on the 27th day of Awril, 1887, being at the time of his death sev- enty-six years and twenty-four days old. He was born 1 Franklin county Ga., April 3, 1811, He was raised in north- east Georgin, and was a twin brotjer of W, T. Martin, better known as Major Bill, ot Banks county. He was also a brother of tho late Hon, Philip Martin, of Tugnie Valley. His father was _acoi- denuly killed, bofore John W. and W. T. Martin were born, the widow having five boys and one girl to raise and performed her duty as best she could. At about the age of scventeen, John W. was at Law- renceville cumplulinf his education. Ho was married in Hall county over fifty years ago to Miss Betsy Crew, who, to- gether with a large family of children and grandchildren survive to mourn his demise. Ho moved from northeast Geor- gia to Greene Co., in Decomber 1849, and thence to Morgan county in the following December, where he lived up o the time of his death. He raised five boys and girls, and it is a singular fact that they never were, all of them, under the par- ental roof at one time. His two eldest daughters wore married before the war. His eldest son was with Lee in Virginia, his youngest daughter was born soon after the Iate war, his fllllfillmr, Mrs. Ks- per, was living in Kentucky at Bowling Green, when the cholera was raging in that country—three of her childred (ying almost on the sawe day, she determined, with her two surviving children, to fleo to her father in this county, but she, too, was stricken down on her way home at Atlanta, where her father and mother went and lovingly ministered at her dying bodside. Her babe survived and was raised by her father. John W. Mar- tin was well knowa in Morgun county ns o good neighbor and a true friend, and will be mourned by all who knew him. His twin brother proceeded him to th® spirit land one yoar and fifteen days. T THE PERFECT Sell Revalving Churn Dasher Quickest Seling Article Ever luvented, 3 f PRICE OF DASHER, $1.25 Needsno talking, but really is the Prottiost Showing rticlo on the Market. OmaAnA, Neb., April 28, 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 3'¢ pounds of first class butter from one gallon of cream in jnst one minute and fifteen seconds. D ada Jewoter i O Furmiiure State_and County Hights for Sale, Profits Will Surprise You. AGENTS WANTED. Call or write to us at once. Qu ck sales and large profite. Very truly, J. W. & A. Poriam, Prop's. Room | Crounse Block. N.1ith st., Omaba, Neb. wEA ¢ PED PARTS EAK, UNDEVELOPER FARTS sond (sealed) fres. EXIK MEDIOA]