Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 1, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRVA OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Daily Morniag Edition) including Bunday Beg, One Year or 8ix Months ‘or Throa Montha .. . The Omaha Swnday Bx, mailed to any address, One Year. ... ....... R ATA OPPICE, NO. 014 AND 910 FARNAM STRERY. W VORI OFFICE. ROOM 65, TRIAUNE BETLDING, ASHINGTON OFFICK, NO. 513 FOURTRENTH STREET. CORMESPONDENCE! All communioations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Eoi- TOR OF THE BER TUSINESE LETTRRS: All bueiness lotters and remittances ghould be By PUBLISHING COMPANY, . Drafts, checks and postoffice orders $0 be made payabie t0 the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAYY, PROPRIETORS, ROSEWATER, EpITor. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation, [Btate of Nebraska, } a8 CmIMY of Douvlas. e Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Dally Bee for the week ending May 27, 1557, was as follows: Saturday, unday, May 22, onday, May 23. . luesdny, May 24. ‘ednesday, May 25 ‘hursday, * May 20, riday, May 27.. Average.....o.iuis GEO. . TZ8CHUCK. Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 285t day of May, 1857, NP, ¥ N. P. Ferr, [SEAL.) Notary Public. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of May, 1%, 12,439 copies; for June, 856, 12,208 copies : for July, 1595, 12,514 copi for August, copies: for Septen r, 185, 13, bies: for October, 1556, 12,08 copiest for November, 1485, ' 1348 coples; for December, 1856, J-nu-v 1887, 16,264 coples: fa 1887, 14,108 coples: for Alarch, 1557, 14,400 coples; for April, 1857, 14,316 copies, Gro. B, Tz8enuck, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of May, A, )., 1887, | l‘h\ln{ N. P. Frin, Notary Public. ELAND will celebrate ersary to-morrow. PrESIDENT CLE his wedding ann Trk shooting of young Willard has caused a thousand morals to be written. E———— Tir month of May was the dryest known in the experience of the signal service. It is gratifying to know that Mr. William Kissane once more becomes prominent. — A KANsAs City paper says it places no confidence in the rumor that Colonel Bi!l Cody is to marry the queen assoon as the Jubilee is over. Un~LESs General Greely can furnish bet- ter weather than he has been giving us the last fow days, ne might as well quit trying to turnish weather. LET it be & non-partisan school board. Read the names of the citizens calling for the non-partisan convention. They are among the best in Omaha. Tur Lincoln Democrat has recently found sixteen men in Nebraska who have survived the operation of scalping. Whenever Mr. Calhoun sces a bald headed man he imagines he has been scalped. GOVERNOR AMES, in his testimony yes- terday before the Union Pacific investi- gating committee, said that Jay Gould seemed very much delighted when he ac- quired control of the road, and that the directors were the most.gloomy set of men he had ever seen. F It begins to look as if General Benja- min F. Butler was preparing to take a hand 1n the interesting political exercises that will come oft next year. He is said to contemplate running for governor of Massachusetts next fall as an imtiatory step. S————— TaE slung-shot artist writes a seathing article, and concludes it by telling the truth 1n the following reckless fashion: *““There is a great deal of meanness in it, and it comes from the meanest dead-beat who ever struck Nobraska.” Mr. Roth- acker's charming candor is to be ad- mired. EE——— DOTHE largest single money vault in the world 18 now being constructed at the treasury department in Washington, When full it will hold 100,000,000 silver dollars. The cost of thisimmense recopt- acle, which of course will be fire and burglar proof, will exceed $30,000. It will be ready for use by the middle of September. ‘Mg Herald has much to say regarding gss. The BeE said and again says that certain men who were eager for the new ocompany were lo recelve several shares of stock without paying for them. Will the Herald call upon the councilto mves- tigate the matter? The Bek believes an investigation should be made, p——e ‘Tue members of the city couneil should be very cautious in its action onthe chief of police. Mr. Seavey is the chief, and the council has no authority to molest him. 1tis not within its power to re- tain him or reject him. The police com- mission has appointed Mr. Seavey chief. If he is to be removed, the police com- mission must do it. And then only as the law preseribe: Tre slung shot editor since his release by Judge Stenberg, has again grown wvicious and impudent, During the time that he was under bonds to keep the peace, the cowardice of the fellow caused him to close his mouth, Butsince Judge Sten- berg has decided that a murderous as- sault is not actionable unless a man or two is killed, there is a recklessness in Rothacker's manner indicating that he has been presented with another billy. —_— Ture Mexican government has mani- fested a proper spirit in according to the appeal of this government in behalf of the officors sentenced to death for par ticipation in the Nogales affair. The sec- retary of state asked that the lives of these men be spared, and accordingly their sentence will be commuted, proba- bly to a long term of imprisoument. ‘I'nis will answer fully the endsof justice, and relieve the government of Mexico of what would have been an outrage to hu- manity had the sentence of doath been carried into effect. ssnarvrR, A Bit of History. Some of the journalistic guerrillas are attempting to paint a chain of mountg. ont of the alleged fact that the B sup- ported John A. McShane for congress Iast fall. The Bek is delighted to be in a position to remark that it did not sup- port Church Howe. That is as far as its support went for McShane, and that is all there is of it. Long before the Beatrice convention— months before Howe was nominated— the BEk announced its intention of op- posing Howe, because of his infamous record as a political mountebank and corruptionist. To that end it sent its correspondents out, who wrote letter after letter showing Howe as he was and us he had been during his residence of fifteen years in Nebraska, All men had ample opvortunity to know of Howe's corruption; they knew he would be an unsafe man to clect, had that been possible, as they also knew that to nominate him would bring defeat upon the party. He was nominated in face of the BEe's warning that it would oppose him. A few weeks later he was burried under 13,000 republican votes. McShane, ac- cordingly, was elected by 7,000 majority. This is history. The Bee rejoiced with all honorable veople at Howe's downfall, and re- gretted that republicans had made the suicidal mistake of nominating him. The fact that the Bex opposed Howe as a candidate before the people, with the same fearlessness and vigor as it dis- played when he was a candidate before the convention, was no reason thatit was supporting McShane. The time the Ber urged the strongest opposition against Howe was long be- fore McShane startled the state by the announcement that he wanted to go to congress. It1s true that McShane bought and paid for extra copies of the BEE, and contributed money for legitimate cam- paign expenses. The Bee was fighting Howe and 1t saw to 1t that he was well snowed under. But now comes the Boodler's Own of Lincoln, propelled by a bounced railrond commissioner and says that McShane’'s money ‘‘ploughed Howe under.” It isindeed a sad commentary on the honesty of the 13,000 republicans in the First district who voted for McShane to know that they all sold their votes. Yet that great and good soul who bolted Roggen, a republican nominee, on a very recent occasion, assures us that every man who voted against Howe sold himself. He also says, in that same confidential mood which has so endeared him to disciples of Ananias, that Rosewater was “‘ploughed under in Douglas county.’ Herein the gentleman maintaing<his reputation as an unequaled perverter of truth, as Mr. Rosewater carried Douglas county by a handsome majority. Chicago and Omaha. Were we disposed to violate the rule of courtesy which requires that age shall be respected, and give precedence to vitality, energy, ambition and progress, we should reverse the arrangement of the above caption. We choose, how- ever, to defer to the honored custom, even in face of the disclosure which we find in the columns of our esteemed con- temporary, the Chicago Herald, that not only is the rapid march of this young metropolis regarded with envy in the overestimated eity on Lake Michigan, but that the uncharitable spirit of de- traction is developing there. QOur contemporary remarks that a Chicagoan “reads of the enormous in- crease of rcal estate values in the cities of the west” with some disquie- tude, and it warns buyers that they are foolish to pay the prices that busi- ness real estate is selling for in Omaha, when they can buy at a considerably less figure in Chicago. It tells inyestors that there is nothing to be found out west, that they will not find in greater pro- fusion in the lake city, and 1t concludes the appeal in this somewhat lugubrious vein: Why should not outside investors take a look at the real estate of Chicago? Pause for a moment to cast np the money already spent on our parks anddriveways. Look at our water engines as they grunt and thunder, some of them three miles Inland. Consider the lake at our side, and the plain behind us, where traction gives its least resistance to progress, and where the artisan may have home that would do for a Missouri riv.r nabob. Are these things to be forever over- looked, while train loads of eager purchasers go five hundred miles farther to fare five hundred times worse? Come and see us. It so happened that in the same column with this earnest invitation to “‘come and sece us'’ was another article in which the Herald presented it3s view of ‘‘the logic of empty houses' and stated that “'since May there has been an uanusual display of ‘for rent’ placards along streets wherein such announcements were Iast season unknown.” Now it would seem that this fact offers a pretty clear explanation why the parks, drive-ways, water-engies and other attractions of Chicago are overlooked by investors and trainloads of them come farther west to place their capital. People secking safe and profitable investments who are con- fronted on every hand in the overgrown city by empty stores and residences are not likely to be allured into burying their money there, if they have level heads, by fine parks and elegant boulevards. These are excellent for enjoyment, but they do not pay dividends, and these are what your shrewd investor i8 seeking. All such therefore, however much they may admire Chicago’s attractions, pass it by and following the course of empire come farther west to get their share of the legitimate boom that is vet in :ts infancy. Chieago is a great city and always will be, but it hes outside of the boom arca of the - present or immediate feature. It will undoubtedly econtinue to realize a moderate growth, but its day of the phe- nomenal progress in population and prosperity have gone by, and its remark- able experiences of the pust will not be repeated. Young giants have grown up to contest with it for the possession of a territory in which a little time ago it was the undisputed sovereign, and they are doing so successfully. The domain of Chicago's supremacy has been ma- terially curtailed in the last half a dozen years, aud she will need to cexert all her energies to retain what she still has, Among the young giants that have compelled a division of Chicago's trade empire, Omaha occupies a conspicuous and growing place. Nor can she be ob- structed in her inevitable progress by s A Rl SR 105 YR TSN U 13 SN LIRS v e s DG ST et s T S —— e et oo THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JUNKE 1. 1887, misrepresenting her legitimate and gen- uine advance as the work of speculators. The shrewd and sagacious capitalists who are looking for, profitable investments have no difliculty in convincing them- selves after a very brief study of the situ- ation, of the splendid opportunities and possibilities that are before Omaha, They come here to find no business houses un- occupied,but a demand for more, no resi- dences untenanted, but the supply insufli- cient, and on every hand the evidences of industry, prosperity and progress. To the man of dollars seeking dividends all this has a charm before which the mere attractions of parks and driveways, however costly and fine, *“‘pale their in- effectual fires.”” Omaha does not need to invite investors to ‘‘come and see us.” They come without it, and having come they stay. A Non-Partisan Board. The movement for a non-partisan board of education is prompted and jus- tified by every consideration affecting the interests and weltare of the public school system. It must be evident on the shightest reflection to every fair- minded man, that if the schools of the neople are made at every recurring elec- tion a bone of contention between the political parties, and thereby wmecessarily become for atime in a sense the property of one or the other of the political organ- izations, to be disposed of in rewarding favorites who are politicians, demoraliza tion and deterioration must ensue. If our common schools are to be made a foot- ball of the politicians, to be kicked about from one party to the other every few years, the main- tenance of their efliciency and morale will be simply impossible. This is a proposition so self-cvident that only the narrowest and blindest prejudice can fail to see it Itis the opinion of every true friend of the public schools, of every man who can re- gard the question with freedom from all influences likely to prejudice b ment, that these schools should be lutely apart and free from all partisan action or political ¢ontrol. They should be kent sacredly exempt from the o) tion and influence of all those devic and methods that belong to politics. and which would of necessity contaminate them as they do everything they touch. We shall of course elect to the board of education men who are republicans or democrats, but we should not do 80 because they are one or the other, but solely with reference to their character as citizens who are qualified by intelligence and interest in the success of the public school system to understand what its needs are and supply them wholly regardless of any political con- siderations. The principle to be dis- tinctly marked out and maintained is that under no circumstances shall politics have the least consideration in the ad- ministration of the affairs of the public schools. Itisin pursuance of this proper and ary principle that the movement to re a non-partisan board of education has been started, and we do not believe any parent, not an extreme partisan or having a pergpnal object to sub- serve, can fail to give his support to this movement. It should have the ear- nest encouragement of all such, to the end that the scheme to place the public schools in the control of one or the other of the political parties shall be over- whelmingly defeated, and the politicians who would drag the schools into the mire of political contention taught a lesson they will not soon forget. Now 1s the time to accomphsh this, for if it be not done now it will be much more diflicult of accomplishment hereafter, when the political leeches shall have fastened themselves upon the schools. The meet- ing in behalf of & non-partisan board of education to be held next Thursday even- ing ought to be attended by every parent favorable to this proper principle who can get there, and the mothers as well as the fathers should give their active sup- port to this movement. Itis a cuuse in which the mothers may most properly enlist, and they have now the right to be heard and to act. Regarding the Bridge. Regarding the bridge contest it is claimed by those opporing it that'* the first come should be the first served.” In accordance with this principle the wagon and street car bridge is certainly entitled to priority, having its plans and location approved by the secretary of war. The company filed 1ts plans in Washington and laid claim to the loca- tion months before the railroad bridge was ever hinted at. The first intimation was a letter from the recent president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul ask- ing the secretary of war to delay the ap- proval of the plans and location already on file in the department. No reasons were given, no claim made, but simply » request. ‘The charter under which the railroad bridgo is to be built atlows a selection of any unoccupied location anywhere along the river front oetween the north and south lines of Pottowattamie and Doug- las count| There is a wide range from which to select o site for the railroad bridge. 4 On the other hand the wagon and street car bridge must be located on the site sclected in order to comply with its charter, and to meet the demand for such communication between the two cities. While priority of claim—first come, first served—gives the wagon bridge just claim to the only site practicable for that enterprise, the selection of a location fur- ther north does not in any way detract from the probable successof the railrgad bridge enterpr There is something beneath the suriace when an attem pt is made to cripple a worthy enterprise, umder the pretense of helping another which needs no such help. There cun be no honest, open conflict between the two bridge enterprises. A combination bridge is not desirable. The Union Pacific is now completing one and it is conceded that it is impracticable, save for street car or like service. Few horses can with safety be driven across. The Missouri river is an expensive stream to bridge, and in a combination the wagon way must be on the same plane as the railway tracks. The great variations between low and high water necessitates high bridges and these variations make it undesirable to have a wagon way and railway, one below the other. Y'he great gales which sweep dowa the valley make it difficult to enclose a bridge without danger from that source. Open work being necessary, the same difficulties arise in a combination bridge as are a ready apparent the Unlon Pacific bridge as it nears gpmpletion. Personal Abusejof Rival Kditors. An Omaha newppaper which is not colebrated for its inconsistency for the simple reason that it is notcelebrated for anything. annonnces that “the day will come when the t\uhfiin will utterly refuse to support or patronize a journal whose editorial columns ate filled with personal abuse of rival editors.”” And yet the same paper has since its inception lampooned and villified the editor of the Ber, with energy born only of despair. When the day comes, of which the Omaha paper so happily speaks, it will be sunrise in that land where newspapers are unknown. Au editor, often in self-defense, is obliged to tear the mask from the fraud and the jobber and the hypocrite, and a personal castigation is necessary. When men and the measures they advocate need ventilating, the BEr has found that versonal journalism, with plain traths and boneless facts for argument, is the only way to check public plunderers and disreputable characters. There isa wide difference between slander and abuse. It is a newspaper's privilege and duty to at all times tell the truth. 1t has no busi- ness to wilfully slander men, and the law reads plainly on that voint. Neither hasit any business to go out of the way to rake up seandals of immoral practices, when a man's character becomes involved, unless the parties to such moral laxities have the impudence to ask favors at the hands of the public and 1nsist that they occupy positions of trust and honor. When they ask such favors it is right and just that a newspaper should expose them in their rottenness, and hold them up before the public as men whom all reputable and decent people should avoid. So when upstarts, prostituted to venalitv Zrow most pretentious in their assumption of the functions of self constituted moral censors, overstep the bounds of decency, ‘“personal abuse of rival editors” 1s as much demanded under the latter as under the former condition. This same Omaha paper thinksit fitting and proper to abuse men not “rival ed- itors.” The arrogance and hypoc {) the betrayal of personal animosities and grudges in the intemperate defamation of worthy and prominent citizens; the narrowness and the spleen depicted in the wholesale abuse of Governor Thayer by the unknown Omaha self-constituted critic, at once becomes ridiculous. It would abuse and vilify a defenseless citi- zen—yet deprecate,¢'personal abuse of rival editors.” Y¢§ gods! And consis- tency, it hath been said, is a jewel! THE council hasmo authority to inter- fere with Sea: He is chief of police. . KINGS AND QUEENS, w5 ‘The queen of Belgium 1sa devoted musi- cian, Kinz Oscar of Sw@dén has a magnificent basso volee and sings4ike an artist. The emperor of “Alistrin spends over a million of francs a yeay on the Vienna opera house. 3 ‘I'hie Prince of Wales: is a good musician, and the Princess of les 18 one of lalle's best pupils. Queen Victoria has in Windsor Castle three vases valued at $100,000 and a Sevres dinner service worth $250,000. The emperor of Brazil maintains an Ital- fan opera out of his own purse, and he has one of the most complete operatic companies in the world. King Kalakaua, of the Hawaiian kingdom, i8 reported to be returning to the old pagan Kanaka ways. e has licensed several hun- dred exoreists, who utter pagan ineantations. The emperor of Germany adores music and never misses an opportunity to hear Patti or any other celebrity, He always oes behind the scenesafter tie performance to thank the artiste. The emperor of Russia is a firat class cornet player. He once accompanied Nilsson in one of her songs, and not long ago when singing before him, she sang the same air, much to the gratification of the emperor, Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is now staying at Paris, where she will reside for a month, previous to her departure for a Spanish or a German watering-place. It is said that she is spending money at the rate of about $000,000 per annum. Quecn Christina of Spain, with the little kinz.gher two daughters and the Infanta Isa- bella,has taken up her residence for six weeks at Aranjuez, on the banks of the Tagus. It1s twenty-two years since royalty honored the little town by residing tbere. Queen Kapiolani has had her photograph taken,but her native modesty would not ver- mit her to adopt the decollete fashion so pop- ular in the effete east. She wore her royal robe, with a brond sash crossed over the shoulder—a combination of gold and pink impossible to deseribe. ‘Tho queen of Roumania fell into a throne by falling down stal Whien there was no kingcdom of Roumania in existence she had ngly said: *“Idonot want to marry s 1 can be queen of Roumania.” Run- ning down the palace stairs one day at Ber- 1in her foot slipped, and she would bave probably been killed but for Prince Charles of Hohenzollern, who saw ler danger and caught her in his outstretched arms, When Roumania chose him asa ruler he elaimed the privcess as his bride. e Will Not be Injared, Norfolk Gazette, Governor ‘Thayer’s ¢haracter will not be Injured by the attacksmhade upon himby a part of the Omaha press; especially when it becomes known that the' assaults were in- spired by personal spite of disappointed edi- tors, who were seeking favors at his hands which he would not grant, e VTS Gov, Tnayer and Omaha, Hastings Gazelle-Journal. The manner in whie the Omaha news- papersare Jumping on td Governor Thayer credits neither their judgment nor geod sense. Goyernor Thayer is honestly endeavoring to give the city of Omaha an eflicient policesys- tem. 1n placing stumbling blocks in his path the Omaha penfil)e fnjure nobody but themselves. As to the vernor, the people of the state will take care of his interests. ———r— Another Black Eye, Wood River Gazette, The Republican received anotherblack eye in the appointment of Captain Seaveyas chief of police of the city of Omaha, The Republican’s pet, Captaln Moynihan, had no show whatever. Rothacker, Gurley, Moyai- han. All dead of the 8ame disease, and all burled n the same political tomb. Who says that the BEr does not get there as often as the most of them? ———— Rather Hypocritical Linecoln Democrat, A day or two ago the Democrat ventured to ropeat a remark madeby Governor Thayer in a private conversation, to the effect that ne did not kaow Captain Seavey, who has been appointed chief of police of Omaha, and had never heard of bim. Now comes the es- teemed but somewhat hyvocritical Herald and calls the governor a liar because he had once commissioned Seavey a notary publie. It is difficult to conceive the intimacy that must exist between the executive and all his appointees as notary. Does the Herald im- azine that applicants for the place hang about the capitol and bore the governor to death, or send him daily telegrams, or have their reiatives by marriage use their fnfluence to secure the coveted place? Notatall. The governor sees that the applications are regu- Iar and orders the commissions made out. He has about as much personal acqualntance with them as the editor of a great dally paper has with the subscription list. We trust our esteemed but hasty contem- vorary will eease trying to rivet boller iron with shoe pegs, ——— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebrasks Jottings. A board of trade has boen organized in Ogallala, May has gone to the majority with a rheumatic twinge. The state Sunday-school conventlon opens in Grand lsland next Monday. The editor of the Ogallala Reflector has added a windmill to his staff, and breezy paragraphs are a consequence. he sale of school lands in Domes coun- ty last week was very successful prices, ranging from #7 to £30.25 per acre. John Gage, a Rushyille farmer, is lmd up with a_broken face, the result of a coilision witih a work ox. The animal made a side lunge at a bunch of flies, and caught Mr. Gage on a horn, Stock in the Northwestern Christian embly at Long Pine has been sub- scribed to the extent of #7,200. Forty acres of land along Pine creek has been purchased for the grounds. QThe only druggist in St. Edwards, who keeps potent pain Killer constantly on| tap, publicly announces that he will pros- ecute any person making false statements to seeure intoxicants. As a consequence the epidemic of measles and whooping cough among adults has subsided. The Scotia Herald, relating an adven- ture in that town, says “four maidens gave a shriek, cight white arms went up into the air, and a heltel ter retreat of forty feet was mad. Four girls, cight arms and forty feet! What a haul on inagination, or 8 muddy street cross- ing. A Merrick county farmer dropped the following memorandum in a &'ullertun store recent aroseane, wales, hear- ping, Sally ratus and shugar, muzlin and hog 'meusin, razins and a bottle of jew Nipper cord The second and 1:;5! articles on the list had been compoundea by the town druggist, and the Merrick man evidently went home loaded and hilarious. A masculine reporter with a nose for details has discovered that the young lady Killed by lightning at Blue Springs recently, was sitting in a_spring lounge with her lover. The m, r. further declares that the loyer escaped uninjured. It is painful to note that this veracious dis- ciple of Eli lounges a cemetery of pewter plates. The jottinger twenders him an introduction to truth without further ceremony. A contribution of $25 by Congressman MeShane toward paying the debt of the Methodist church at Genoa is taken by the Leader as a text for a vigor- ous sermon preached to the penurious residents of the town. ‘Che Leader points approvingly to the generosity of Mr. Mc- Shane and says: “It stands in grand contrast to a few dwarf-souled individu- als who, from their many thousands, have refused the least assistance to a glorious cau Of ail the beasts on earth God hates a narrow, abbreviated human— hog, whose attenuated sou! could turn a somerset on the withered point of noth- ing."” The Des Moines Leader of Monday says: “Tom Millett, for many yeurs re- cog 1 a8 one of the most relinble, com- vetent and successful contractors of Des Moines, has closed up his business and will leave to-day for Omaha, where he has been awarded several large and re- munerative contracts for stone work. Mr. Millett’s departure cannot do other than cause regret on the part of all who know him in particular and the citizens i general. Ho leaves ind him as lus!iniz monuments of his residence in Des Moines, numerous well performed contracts of stone work, paving and sewering that will remain a century after Tom sumed angelic form and be- come an expert musician on a golden harp or a big tin horn.” lowa Items. ines still has hopes of securing hine shops of the Diagonal. Cedar Falls has organized a company with ¥100,000 capital to bore for gas. The Polk county grand jury hus in- dicted Police Judge L. J. Labour, of Des Moines, for embezzlement. The government Indian school building near Mt, Hornell, Lee county,was burned down on Friday. Loss, about $12,000; no insurance. Near Harlan are several holes in the ground from which sulphur fumes are constantly arising, and many think hades is located not more than halfa mile from that vicinity. A Sheldon boy of un inquisitive turn of mind, found a railroad torpedo and pro- ceeded to investigate the true inwardness of the thing. Heis still alive, but his hands are not as symmetrical as they onece were. W. D. Andrews and brother, of New York, who own and control a majority of the territory of the United States under the ren drive well patents, ex- reets to collect at least $1,000,000 from owa owners of drive wells, Sceretary Kennedy, of the state board of health, i3 gathering statistics from the counties of lowa relative to the number of illegitimate births, He thinks the state will show the smallest percentage of children born of wedlock of any state in the union. A demented individual named David S. Hites has been arrested at Oshaloosa on suspicion of being the murderer of Jobn Fall and wife. Blood was found on his clotiing and other circumstances point to him as the guilty man. He has bereto- fore been in the insane asylum. Wyoming. The contract for grading the first miles of the Cheyenne exten- Jurlington has been let and work commenced, The Burlington road has invoked the power of the courts on the Cheyenne ex- tension, owing to the exhorbitant prices demanded by land owners for right of way. *‘Although this 18 not regarded as a sheep growing country,”’ says the Chey- enne Sun, “‘the Warren Live Stock com- pany has shipped to Chicago the past year mutton to the value of $70,000, and in wool $12,000. This season the wool at present prices will amount to $30,000." Douglas |mpcr|i warn all persons in- tending to buy o1l claims to examine the title before purchasing, and see that the claims are recorded with the county recorder. None others are valid. This is rendered absolutely necessary by the swinaling actions of "the claim jumpers and bogus oil land claimants. See that your claim is properly recorded. el I Powell's Case. The case of Powell, charged with swindling, having secured the endorae- ment of Dr. Dinsmoor to the extent of $1,500, was called in the police court yes- terday afternoon. Powell did not appear, His attorneys secured a gentinuance till Friday. Its thought continuances will be taken until the case is settled. REFUND OR NOT REFUND, What the County Should Do With Some of Its Bonds. A Beg reporter met ex-County Com- missioner Corliss yesterday morning, and in the conversation which ensued, the lat- ter gave expression to some concerning the future financial policy of the county board. 1o confined himself in the main toa con sideration of the advisability of refund- ing a part of the present bonded indebt- edness of the county. “This indebtedness,” he eaid, “is, T think, about $208,000. It has been stand- ing for nearly twenty years,the bond shav- ing been issued to railroads, 150,000 going to the Southwestern which is now a part of the B. & M., $200,000 to the North- western, and $250,000 to the Union Pacific for its bridge. These amounted to $600,- Of course a good deal of these have been paid, but there still remains a total indebtedness of about $458,000. With respect to the $208,000, they have been on interest at 8 per cent. The ques- tion now is, shall they be refunded or shall they be paid now? I am not in favor of mfumlin‘% I rather feel that they ought to be paid now. That can be done easily. The commis- sioners have just sold fifty acres of the poor farm and received £360,000 for them, one-third of which wasin cash. That one-third will, of course, be re- quired with which to commence the hos- pital. But 110 acres of the poor farm ro- main. There isno reason why this land should not bring nearly as much as the other did per acre. If this should be the case, the remaining acres would sell for $770,000, enough almost to pay twice the present county debt. Now why should not this land be sold and the county debt swept out of existence? Some say it is because if that debt were liquidated, another one would be contracted. ‘That is on the prlm-irlc that I must not pay a note because I'll make another some other time. If these bonds are refunded, my money and that of every taxpayer will be compelled to lie 1n the treasury twenty years to pay them. I prefer installment bonds, to be paid at intervals of five, ten and fifteen years.” WATER IN'PR()SI ECT HILL. The Flowers will Languish no More in That Holy Place. There is much satisfaction experienced by many of our citizens who have dear ones laid away to rest in Prospect Hill cemetery, over the introduction of water from the waterworks into that dehight- ful sleeping place of the dead. The water was introduced only on last Saturday. The pipe had been extended near the fence by the city, and a number of lot owners in the cemetery, under the leadership of Judge Baldwin, took up a ption, and by this meuns 1t 18 ex- they will be able to defray the ex- e of the same, which will be about The water is brought through feet of two - inch pipe. and supplies eight hydrants. It does away with further use of "the two almost dry wells on the grounds, to say nothing of the unwholesomeness of the water to Ix\J:moumd in them. Yesterday during the decoration exercises the hy- drants were greatly appreciated. It has been wondered at that the cemetery folks have not themselves supplied _this want. The water is supplied free by Mr. Wyley, of the water works company. A GRACEFUL LIAR. John Burke's Subterfuge to Escape Being Locked up. “My name is Johu Berka, I am a rela- tive of Judge Berka's, I can get an order for my release instantly and I shall pro- test to the chief for the gross injustice of my arrest. I just got into the city at 5 o’clock this morning and have been searching for my relative the judge.” So said a seedy looking individual to the jailor yesterday as he was being searched at central station. He had been arrested by Ofticers Robinson and Haze from a tough joint on South Tenth street. When arrested *‘Berka’ and the other man, named Sullivan and a typical tough, re- sisted and made a fight. “I admre a cheerful and graceful liar,” softly com- mented Jailor Ormsby, “*but you'll have to etep bemind here until your relative the judge shall have occasion to receive you. It won't work. We happen to know you.” John ‘‘Berka’ is an old offender and his name is Burke. CONOYER'S ACCOUNTS. I'he Progress Made in Their Exam- ination By the Committee. The committee of experts to examine the accounts of Secretary Conoyer, of the board of education, consisting of Messrs, Sudburough, McKinzie and Gelatte, are holdiug nightly sessions of avout two hours and a half duration. They are working with a great deal of interest and at last accounts had reached the books for 1885, when Auditor Long commenced the work of checking, as required by law. One of the exam- iners said last night that every account of Mr, Conoyer was in first-class condi- tion, and every sum paid out was found backed by bills and receipts. Dined by His Friends. The civil engineers of Omaha gave a complimentary banquet Monday night to Mr. George Lederle, on the occasion of his departure for Oregon, where he goes to build a bridge for the Union Pacific road across the Willlamette river. James W. Way acted as toast master, and with ap- propriate remarks introduced those who were to respond. “Our Guest” was responded to by G. B, Christi Lieutenant Kennon spoke of the “‘Engi- neors of tho Aty Dr. Smith galluntly paid his_compliments to the ‘‘Ladies;” unkle spoke of “Absent Fricnds;” bell's subjeet was *“I'he Worl sion and_Their Resultsy” ( lson spoke on “Internal Improve- und Willinm Cleburne dwelt on v virtues of “Our O1d Chiefs.” Asked a Jury Trial. Scott Evans, who was slugged in a tight Monday night with a saloon man named J. Kilkenuy, corner of Farnam and Four- teenth stri , asked a jury triul when the case was called in police court yesterday Evans referred to all the prominent mill- tary oflicers about army headquarters, said he was an old government employe, and hadn't come to Omaha to be slugged. His roquest was granted, and he was re: leased on his own recognizance. Broken Sidewalks. Speaking of broken sidewalks and leg- breaking traps, South Sixteenth street possesses the best and su specimen in town. 1t is located on the east side, between Jackson and Leavenworth, and 15 a monument to the enterprise an energy of the Edwards estate. "I'he side- walk inspector will prevent a damage suit by calling early. —— Opening the Board of Trade. The directors of the board of trade met Monday night and appointed a committee consisting of Max Meyer, P. E. Iler and John Evans to decide as to the best man- ner to ha adopted to open the new board building. This structure is now rapidly receiving the finishing toucl the in- terior, especially the chamber in which the board will hold its sessions. Inter- jorly the structure is one of the bust adapted for oflice purposes iu this city. views | The committee will meat ina few dayi and report a plan which will be iu keep: ing with the importance of - the occasion AMONG THE RAILROADS, Omiaha & Southern and Omaha, South: westorn & Kansas Consolidate. There was a full representation of the directors of the Omaha & Southern and Omaha, Southwestern & Kansas rail- roads at the oflice of Bartlett & Cornish yesterday nfternoon. The object of the meeting was tho consolidation of theso roads, and it was accomplished by the accoptance by the Omaba road of the papers for consolidation submitted by the Kansas stockhotders. Under the artleles of consolidation the road will be known a8 the Chicago, Omaha & Southwestern ay. No other business of public in- terest was transacted at yesterday 's meet- ing and adjournment was taken subject to call by tho board of directors. A large force of civil en«lnvcrn, under the direction of James W. Way, chief en- gineer of the Nebraska Central road, left town last night to work on the extension of that line westward. REPUBUICAN CALL. The Second Ward. The Second Ward Republican club calls upon all republican voters of the ward to attend the caucus on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. It will be held at the northeast corner of Sixteenth and Willlams streets, The business of the meeting i8 to suggest delegates to be voted for at the primaries in tno Second ward when republican candidates will be nominated from the S econd ward for members of the board of education. V. L. VAND ORAN, President. STEPHEN J. BrobeR ICK, Secretary. t ward republicans will meet this evening at 7:30 at National hall, Thirteenth and Williams streets, for the purpose of considering nominations for the school board. There will be a meeting of the Seventh ward republican club at the park house in Hanscom’s park this evening at 7.30: to prepare a hist of delegntes for the pri- maries to be held on Friday, to sclect candidates for the school board. A full attendance is desired. J. W. ELLER, President, — An Utterly Incompetent Editor. Liberty (Neb.) Journal. No man has ever had charge of a lead ing party paper in Nebraska who has proved himself so utterly incompetent for the position as Mr. O. H. Rothacker, now editor-in-chief of the Omaha Repub- lican. He has without just cuuse mahe- iously attacked severalof the leading republicans of the state, and is doing more to create discord in the party ranks than all other influences combined. Mr, Rothacker is a man of recognized ability, an editorial writer who has but few equals in the west, therefore his course is to be regretted. He was in a position to be of great usefulness to the party, and the party would, in due time, haye recog- nized his services and ability, had he been more considerate of the party’s welfare and loss selfish in furthering little scho mes to satisfy his personal prejudices. He has made numerous attacks upon the acts and character of Governor Thayer of late and all without any just cause. The secret of Mr. Rothacker's bitternese towards Governor Thayer is that he (Rothacker) was a candidate for the ap- pointment as a member of the Omaha police commission. At that time Roth- acker had hardly gained a residence in the state, but had already become deeply entangled in factional quarrels. The governor, hke the prudent, far see- g man that he is, whils having no ill will whatever towards Mr. Rothacker, could readily see what a bad stroke of volicy it would be to make such an ap- pointment, and all unbiased minds can- not but commend his stand on the mat- ter. There is no complaint that the com- mission is not composed of good men; in fact it is generally admitted that they are men of the highest moral and busi- ness standing, men who desire to have the laws against crime ana vice strictly enforced, and who it is be- lieved” will provide the GV with the best of police protection. onday's Republican contained an editorial that the friends of Governor Thayer will be slow to look over. ‘I'he governor was treated as a low grade politician and epi- thets the most vile were used in referring to him, and the only excuse the Republi- can had to offer for the harsh language was that tho commission had appointed # man as chief of polico who was frlend of the governor’'s, but a man against whom nothing detrimental could be said. We opine that the editor of the Repub- lican will find before another eighteen months rolls around that he has bitten off more than he can chew. Thereis no man in the state better known than Gen- eral Thayer, and wherever he is known the unbiased minds of all pohtical parties hold him in the highest csteem, and the Republican’s charge that he has violated confidence will not be believed. —-— Electric Lustre Starch is conceded the best in the world. THE PERFECT Self Revolving Churn Dasher Quickest Selling Article Ever Inventeds PRICE OF DASHER, $1.25 Needsuo talking, but reull{ 14 the Prottiost Showing ‘Kittola on the Murket Osaiia, Neb., April 23, 1857, i to_ certify that we, the undersigned. have this day witnessed a churning by “The Perfect” Self Revolving Churn Dashers,” which resulted in producing first class butter from one gallon of eream in jnst one minute and fifteen seconds. “Pithian Will J. Dobbs, R, R. Ast Frank . Groan, " ileral1® P, 3 Tonh Hudd, Jowatar. n State and County Rights for Sule, Profits Will Surprise You, AGENTS WANTED. Call or write 10 us at once, Qu ¢k sales and large profi Very truly, J. W. & A. 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