Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 2, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; THURSDAY, JUNE 2. 1887, ———————————————————————————————————————— e ———————— e ———————————————————————————————— “THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMR OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ Batly Moeniar Edition) including Bundag BER, ON6 YORT. .. .ovoniiiniiinnnes ‘or Bix Months Vortineaee or Throo Montha ... 0000000 he Omaha Swnday Bk, mulled 1o ress, One Year. ... .... ATIA OFPPICE, No. 914 AXD 910 FARNAM STREET. Ew YORK OFFicR. Roow 8, TRIN REILOING. ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. bl FOU CORRESPONDENCE ! All sommuniocations rolating to news and adi. torinl matter should bo addressed 1o the Epi- B0k OF THE B BUSINRSS LETTERS! All bueiness lotters and remittances should be dre 1o BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OmAHA. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders %0 be made payuble to the order of the company, THE BEE POBLISHING CONPANY, PROPBIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eprror. THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, County of Dong u Geo. B. 'I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circniation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 27, 1857, was a8 follows: Baturday, May 21. Bunday, May 22, Monday, May 4. . Tuegday, Mav 34 Wednesday, May 25 Thursday, May Xriday, May 27.. AvVerage.....oouent Gro. 8. K Subseribed and sworn to before me this @55t day of May, 1357, 5 P . P, FrIn, Notary Public. zschuck, belng 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,18%6, 86, 12.208 copies ; fo s for August, 15856, 12,404 m? ey ber, 185, 13,030 copies: for October, 12,9 copies: for November, 155, coyles; for December, 1856, 13,237 copies Januaty, 1857, 16,200 coplos: for February, 1857, 14,108 coples: for March, 1857, 14,400 copies; for April, 1587, 1 copies, ( B. Tzscuvek. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 7th dlénl May, A, D, 1 | EAhf N. P ¥rin, Notary Public. e — Buck ' jte 1856, TAYLOR was bucked out yoster- day at the Wild West show. OMAHA is not enly the great musical peuter, but the religious center as well. GoverNox HiLL's action on the license bill in New York dissolved his presiden- tial boom. “Me Too"” Platt, of New York, now earries the burdensome title of Boss. Peace hath its victorie Itis also to be regretted that in the YLoup City tragedy, where a poem caused the death of an editor, that the poetic muse escaped unscathed. A RussiaN minister of fiuance has put Into exccution a system, providing that every hen’s egg be taxed a third of a wpenny. If such a custom was in vogue in this country some public speakers ‘would not turn gray so quickly. TuHosk ancient landmarks, the brick pavements of Philadelphia, are being rapidly superseded by stone pavements of varioas kinds. Oh, that o few of the ancient landmarks—the wooden side- walks of Omaha would disappear. QuAack doctors are operating in Ne- braska. At Wahoo three of them were put in jail, and from other parts of the state come reports of the villains dup- Ing citizens. The law in our state is plain regarding quack doctors, and all Bod citizens should see thatit is en- roed. {T may be well to remark that up to this writing no oil inspector has been ap- pomted in Nebraska. The next thirty days, however, will end the heartache of the anxious and determined candidates. Af Brad Slaughter is appointed to inspect o1l, a man must be appointed to inspect Brad. —_— CoroNEL CoLBY has been out delivering & memorial address. The colonel has been a member of the state militia long enough to make him acquainted with mrauy life, and any one of his anecdotes would force a smile from the most im- passive Indian that ever adorned a to- bacco store. Taxk Oregon Transcontinental compa- y has commenced snit against the orthern Pacific railroad in the United Btates circuit court. It is a pleasing ppectacle to see raroads fight among themselves and yet the adage that when thieves fall out honest men get their dues, . has no significance in this particular ouse. Ar Fredonin, Kansas, the new Murray liquor law was tested im the district ocourt. It was proven that a boot-leg oon keeper had dispensed the seduc- 4 fluid contrary to law, and the judge pentenced him to forty daysin the county Jail and to pay a $100 fine. A camecl can no more thread the postern of a needle's eye, than a man can sling a gin-sling in bleeding Kansas. THE committee on arrangements of the Fourth of July celebration wants more money in order to carry out the pro- gramme asplanned. Julius Meyer, John Perkins and Richard O'Keefe comprise the finance committee, and money scnt to thom will be properly eredited. Let our citizens respond, and see to it that the celebration this year excels all former efforts in Umaha, GovErNor HiLL of New York is deter- mined to stand solid with the liquor in- torests. Hus veto of the license bill passed by the legislature just before adjourning, notwithstanding the fact that it avoided the constitntional objections to the Cros- L by bill, previoasly vetoed, amply demon- strates that the liquor interests have pothing to fear in the way of adverse leg- Islation while Hill is in the executive ohair. e————— A LiNcoLN paper furnishes the gratify- . Ing information that a scheme has been “ successfully worked, which retires both . Church Howe and Tom Majors from the political arena of Nemaha county. Just * what the happy creation is, that will re- ~ lieve the body politic of two such charac- | tors, the informant does not say. In the ~ thought that it is sure and certain the * peoplo will tind much happiness. How _ olther of these men ever gained promi- - mence in their own county, has often been ~ msked, but now that they are to be re- tirod, for the people’s good, it does not | gustter, May ihey rest in peacs. Senator SBherman at Springfield. In response to an invitation, Senator Sherman yesterday addressed the repub- liean members of the Illinois legislature at Springfield on the political issues of | the day. The invitation was a notable compliment to the distinguished states- man, and will be yery generally re- garded as perhaps the most substantial evidence that could have been given of the high esteem in which he is held by the republicans of Illinois. Such a cir- cumstance certainly possesses very grent significance in view of the prominence of Senator Sherman among possible presi- dential candidates, and his friends, as well as those who are not favorable to him, will not fail to note the important aspect of the event. Such consideration toa party leader is under the circum- stances extremely rare. ‘The speech of Senator Sherman was a comprehensive review of the contrasting policies of the republican and democratic varties, and a straightforward presenta- tion of the character and actvating prin- ciples of the two political organizations. The senator has a way of setting forth the truths of history that is admirably direct and perspicuous. He does not ander off into byways, and lose himself and his hearers in a labyrinth of tor- tuous wanderings, but keeps in the broad and free highway, where the man should walk who has full confidence in the re- ctitude and justice of his course, with nothing to conceal or evade, and nothing tofear. Whatever the partisan opoon- ents of Senator Sherman think of the wisdom or present oppositeness of his utterances, they eannot fairly allege agmnst them indirection or evasion, while to republicans they are a vigorous stimulant to party faith and loyalty. It nced hardly be said that Senator Sherman earnestly comYats the notion of ich political pessimists as George Wil- n Curtis that the republican party has no further mission to perform; that it is mainly the shadow of a great name and represents no definite and distinct policy upon any of the existing questions. He maintains, on the contrary, that the democratic party having shown itself conspicuously incapable of formulating and carrying out any policy, even those to which it was most unqualifiedly pledged, and by its nature, aims and tendencies disqualified from carrying out any of the measures necessary tothe wel- fare and progress of the country, which are embraced in the republican policy, unless all these are to finally and forever fail, the republican party still has a great and most important mission. The address of Senator] Sher- man at Springficld is certain to attract widespread attention and comment, as well because of the circumstunces under which it was made as for its strong and clear exposition of the character, poli- cies, nims and tendencies of the two great parties. It is valuable also as an announcement of the platform upon which Senator Sherman will stand if the republican party will make him its can- didate in 1838. Condemned By His Partisans. The vigor with which Mayor Hewitt has enforced the Sabbatarian laws 1n New York city has called down upon him the unqualified condemnation of one branch of the democracy, known as the Irving hall organization, and although the least in numerical strength of the several fac- tions it doubtless has the sympathy in this matter of a majority of all of them. The truth is the course of Hewitt has been a startling revelation to the dem- ocracy of New York, in that it has been so entirely the opposite of democratic methods and precedents. Here is a democratic mayor who is enforcing the laws as he finds them, and at least as to these particular laws this has never be- fore been done by a democratic mayor. Had 1t been suspected that Mr. Hewitt would thus run counter to all former practice there cannot be a doubt that he would have been overwhelm- ingly defeated. As it is the democrats of Irving hall voice the gen- eral sentiment of the party by denouncing the mayor as tyrannical, fanatical, puri- tanical and undemocratic. Meanwhile Mr. Hewitt keeps bravely at his work, and there is reason to believe that his en- torcement of the Sabbatarian regulations is not due simply to the fact that as the executive ofticer of the city it 18 his duty to do so, but for the reason also that he believes they are necessary and proper. Certainly, if that be his feeling, the charge that he is undemocratic is not gratuitous, though it may not be possible much longer to say this, since democrats 1 some localities, notably in Texas, are developing radical tendencies in a similar direetion, oven to the extent of favoring prohibition. Mayor Hewitt had to fight hard for success, but he won, and the legisiature having refused to afford any relief, and there being no probability that the mayor will recede from his position, it scems evident that the Sabbath will for some time continue to be observed m Now York as it has not been before within the memory of its oldest inhabitant. But if Mr. Hewitt has any dreams of a political future he may as well di smiss them as worthless. A Political Pedagogue. ‘The activity of Mr. Bruner in promot- ing the attempt to elect a partisan board of education is to the last degree un- seemly. That gentlemen is well under- stood to be a caundidato for the position of superintendent of the public schools, and in the hope of securing that piace he is willing to drag the schools into the mire of political contention, and to make limself the creatuie of the politicians, Even were Mr. Bruner in cvery wey competent to successfully perform the duties of the position, the course he is pursuing should be suflicient to disqualify him. The head of the public schools should be subservient to no class of poli- ticians; he should have no favors to expect from them, and none to grant them. His position must . be one of entire independence of all such in- fluence, dictation or control. Otherwise he will inevitably be subjected to har- rassments and and annoyances that will ronder impossible efliciency and thor- ougbness in his administration. The ed- ucator who dabbles in politics is very sure to make a failure of his professional vocation. It is probable that were the ambition of Mr. Bruner justified by a possession of the qualitications mocessary to suc- cessfully fiil the posiion of school super- intenaent, he would not be found in the unbecoming business of political wire- pulling in which he is engaged. Butit is & malter of comwmon kucwledgu that his ambition far overtops his merit. There are n dezen mien in Otiha better qualified than Mr. Bruner to be superintendent of schools, and we do not know but that is giving him a better standing than he deserves. Atall events, it would be a grave misfortune to place such a man at the head of our public schools, and it is the duty of all parents concerned for the welfare ot the schools to exert themselves for the defeut of the scheme upon the success of which the chance of Bruner depends. The way to mest surely accomplish thi to elect a non-partisan board of education. —_—_— Evangelical Lutherans. The thirty-third biennial convention of the Evangelical Lutheran church of the United States is in session at Omaha. ‘This gathering is no less important than the general assembly of the Presbyterian church which adjourned this week. The present convention of the Lutheran church consists of 192 delegates from all parts of the United States, together with the ofticers of the various church bourds and socicties. To the visiting strangers Omaha ex- tends the hand of welcome. The visiting Presbyterians from different parts of the country, especially the eastern states, were surprised and charmed with our busy, growing city. They were treated with that open handed hospitality for which the west, and especially Omaha, is noted. They went away feeling that their time had been too short, and ex- pressed a desire to return again, So it will be, we hope and beli: members of the present assembly. In this connection it might be well for our citizens to exert every cffort to the end of securing the location of the college which the Lutherans propose to build, and which will be determined by the general synod. Other citics are submitting propo- sitions, and OUmaha cannot well afford to lose the opportunity here presented of se- curing additional educational facilities. with Rally For a Non-Partisan Board. The Beg has stated with suflicient full- ness the reasons that justify the move- ment in opposition to & partisan board of education. They are such as must commend themselves to every intelligent citizen whose first and greatest interest i relation to this matter 1s in the con- tinued success and growing welfare of the public school system. They are not expected to find favor with the hide- bound partisans who put party success before every other consideration;they will have no weight with the narrow demagogues and the unscrupulous poli- ticians who have their seclfish ends to subserve, and to whom nothing is sacred. But we are confident that the majority of our people who are concerned for the prosperity, success and welfare of the public school system are not of these classes, and therefore can, if they will, overwhelm them and defeat their perni- cious scheme, 'The cause is of such grave importance, is in all its aspects of such vital consequence to the com- munity, that it will be almost criminal on the part of those who approve to neg- lect it. The meeting to be held on Thursday evening to voice the non-par- tisan sentiment should be attended by every citizen approving 1t who can pos- sibly get there. Itis necessary that the rally shall be so strong and earnest as to carry dismay into the camp of the enemy, and assure those who would make the schools of the people the foot- ball of politiciuns that they are engaged in a hopeless enterprise. The time to teach this lesson 18 now. If the political foray that is intended to be made upon the schools shall succeed, not only will great damage be done before the people will have another opportunity to repel the enemy, but the task of doing so will have become much more diflicult. The leeches having once got their hold, only the most heroic efforts will diglodge them. If the BEE has not made its 1notive in this matter perfectly plain, in the argu- ments it has presented, to every fair- minded citizen, it does not know what more it can say to do so. Its sole aim and purpose is to protect the schools against the assaults of the politiciaus, and to keep them wholly apart and free from the devicesand methods of politics. No one connected with our schools should be in the least degree subject to the influence or favor of any class of politicians, and no one who 18 active in politics can be safely entrusted with any position in connection with the schools. It is absolutely hostile to the broad and wise principle upon which the public school system is founded that its control and administration should have any par- tisan coloring, and whenever that princi- ‘ple shall be abandoned deterioration of the system must inevitably supervene. Again we appeal to those who.approve of a non-partisan school board to make that approval known by their presence and voice at the meeting Thursday even- mg. Let the mothers as well as the fathers bo seen and heard on this ocea- sion. It is a matter that touches one of your most vital interests and should com- mand your earnest attention and zeal. ‘The Chief of Police. Those interested in Seavey's defeat have managed to secure the introduction ot an ordinance which requires that a man must be a resident of Omaba two years before he can be chief of police. Inasmuch as the council has nothing to do with the appointment of Chief Seavey, the ordinance, should it pass, will be without effect. The police com- mission is the only aunthority respounsible for Seavey's appointment and until he shall prove ineapable and without ability to perform the duties of the office which he now holds under the law, there can be no removal. The council might as well pass an or- dinance limiting the term of office of the president of the United States to three years, and then eall upon Grover Cleve- land to resign. Mr. Seavey is at the present -writing chief of police, appointed under the charter. The charter to all intents and purposes is an organic law, and the at- tempt to remove Seavey antagonizes the supreme authority of the state. By vir- tue of that authority Governor Thayer appointed the commission, and in fur- ther pursusmce of that authority tHe commission appointed Chief Seavey. This fulfilts and completes the re- quirement's of the charter, so far as relates to the organization of the police depart- ment, and it is unassailable by any power save that which gave the authority., The obstruction which the council is attempt- ing to interpose may delay an cfficient organization of the police system, but tho ultimate defeat of the attempt is as certain as is the fact that the course so far pursued is condemed by every intelli- gent and unprejudiced citizen. _— Mr. BreSer Nag showed his hand | His interest in the board of education 18 strictly personal. e yearns to be super intendent of schools. —_— Tur Fourth of July celebration in Omabha, it all plans are carried out, will be the grandest damgnstration Nebraska has ever seen, —— To bore for natural gas costs but little money. Should it be found there is no estimate to be placed upon its value. — TuE pilgrimage of the railroad com- mission was a failure, About one more tour and it will become a chestnut. —e Tne State fair managers are deter- mined to make the largest exhibition this year ever held in Nebraska. —— TueRe are & thousand women more beautiful then Mrs. Langtry, yet her beauty is the drawing card. LET it be & non-partisan school board. Politics should never interfere 1 the school room. ATTEND the meeting to nominate u non- partisan school board, Thursday evening. Ir deserves to be again remarked that the Eighth street viaduct should be built. WuEN great men die it is the nuserable wood cuts that live after them. Tue sidewaiks of Omaha are in a badly dilapidated condition. > FIGURES. 1t is said that 500,000 copies of “She” have been sold in this country. Two hundred and sixty-two pairs of twins were born 1n Chicago during 1836, At the present rate of decrease the national debt will disappear in twelve years, Fires destroy annually in this country property of the value of about $150,000,000. In the last twelve years the United States has received 4,600,000 emigrants from the old world. The use of the telephone is becoming very common in Germany. Berlin alone has 5,507 stations. ‘The real estate sales of New York for the first four months of the year foot up in round numbers $50,000,000. 1t takes the tusks of 75,000 elephants a year to supply the world’s piano keys, billiard balls and knife handles, The United States revenue returns show 4,033 saloons in Towa, 1,852 in Kansas, 446 in Vermont and 1.262 in Maine—all states in which prohibition prohibits in theory. Statistics show thatmot over 20 per cent of the inmates of the Massachusetts state prison are returned to it for sifbsequent crimes. There are m‘cnrdlns ‘o some French sta- tistics 452,663 native Frénch in foreign coun- 2,501,000 Germans, 4,200,000 Itallans, 497,000 Belgians, dinavians, 837,000 Austro-Hun- 000 Spaniards and Portuguese, 7,000, Swiss and 145,900 Russians, 1n France there are, on the contrary, 1,001,000 foreigners, of whom 241,000 are Italians and §2,000 Germans. Gerinany has but 875,702 resident foreieners, ngland 283,000, and Italy only 60,000. ¢ ‘There are considerably over (0,000 persons contined at :the present time: in prisons in the United States. This is nearly ninetimes the number of prisoners in 1850, so that, even making allowance for increase in population, crime, or at any rate runlshlnqnt for crime, is much more general now than then. The west compares very favorably with the east in rogard to lie proportion of prisoncrs to }mpul_xmon, and Massachusetts seems the avorite home of the habitual eriminal. In one county of that state one inhabitant out of every 270 is In jail. —_—— June. Frank Dempster Sherman in St. Nicholas. 0 June! delicious month of June! When windsand birds all sing in tnne; When in the meadows swarm the bees And hum their drowsy melodies While pillaging the buttercup, ‘T'o store the golden honey up; O June! the month of bluest skies, Dear to the pllgrim butterflies, Who seem gay colored leaves astray, Blown down the tides of amber day; 0 June! the month of merry song, Of shadows brief, of sunshine long; All things on earth love you the The bird who carols near his nest; ‘The wind that wakes and, singing, blows ‘The spicy pertume ot the rose: And bee, who sounds his muflied horn To celebrate the dewy morn; And even all the st above At night are happier for love, As if the mellow notes of mirth Were wafted to them from the earth. O June! such music haunts your name: With you the summer’s chorus came! ————— STATE AND TI‘)I{IHTO’IY. Nebraska Jottings, A potato famine has tackled Sheridan county. Fromonters have organized a social club and hired a hall, The Ceresco Times, Knowles, is the latest. The Press claims that Nebraska Uity is assuming metropolitan airs. The resi- dents leave town to get them, Claud Smith, a Utica boy of thirteen, fim tangled up in a locomotive a few ays ago, and was instantly killed. The **Black Star” of Omaha is sputter- ing in the horizon of the manly art. The sudden retirement of the Boston bruiser is explained. The new railrouds are busy planting additions to towns in various parts of the state. Addition, extension and division 15 their motto. A talented young poet is laying a rocky foundation for a fortupe in Beatrice by claiming “‘Melody” tq {eeds, mortgages and corner lots, s 0. B. Hobbs hmldh-‘illm to his room- mate Ed Doss, in Hpstings, and em- braced him for $22 and.a_watch. Hobbs was rewarded with thirty days 1o jail and a separate cell. " To perfect the orthography of Quin Bohanan, Rpollin{_’ professor, it is hoped that Sheriff Pedler, pfiSherman county, will be summoned to (spring the choker at lus taking off next fall. The Lincoln clanvbake club have de- cided to do the annual stuffing act at Crete this year. The members have se- cured a fuil su[l)’ply of “elastic hat bands with the name burnt en.the cork. ki A truckless box car ifi the Plattsmouth shops shpped off the:jacks and pinned a man named Fisher tajthe floor. ~ He was ])mtty badly flattened, but the doctors hope to round him out with good care. A man in the western part of the state who has been bound up in wedlock only five months, has applied fos a divorce n the singular charge that his wife will not trim her toenalls, which he avers are of monstrous size. She claims w0 have been sufficiently paired when she took him in. The announcement of the building of the Omaha Southern railroud struck the telegraph editors of the Lincoln papers as amistake and the title was at once changed to the ‘‘Liucoln Southern.' Life 1s so irifling at the capital that the residents periodically grab at great things for a change. A fine deposit of out at Beaver Crossi It would not surprisc ans, 43 st,— by Freman icate has cropped ‘i' Seward county. the natives it cou! veins and oil welis soon appear on the surface. With iron mines in Nemaha, diamond tields in Dixon, coal -seams in Douglas, ailicate in Seward and lobby rentsin L:\n(‘nfll\-r, the state is hustling to the front rank as a mmeral producer, One hundred and fifty hungry commer- cial drummers were given a compliment- ary banquet by the proprictor of the Bostwick hotel” in Hastings, Tuesaay night. It was a gay and hilarious gath- ering of road sgents, but the effcet on the discipline of the corps de biscuit must have been demoralizing., Over a conspicuous door in the dining-room now hangs the sign: “For G sake keep out of the kitchen! Speaking of the Omaha Southern the Plattsmouth Journal s "To get out of the rut this community has been in for the past ten vears, entircly subject to the whim and cavrice of one Iroad, the veuple could well afford to give a hand- somie bonus to some independent road for coming through here. That, in our judgment, would ™ break the spell that inds us to one corporation, and be tte means of securing other roads for almost the asking." Hastings papers are vigorously spank- ing rival towns for claiming the rank of “Third City.”’ *‘Within the past two weeks,”! says the Gazette-Journal ¢Kearney, Beatrice, ‘re mont and Nebraska their local papers, asserted the their respective towns was the “‘third city’”’ of the state. Their claims are bssed upon nothing more substantial than wind.” lowa ltems. The June term of the supreme court of Towa will open at Des Moines on the Tth, The Grand lodge of Masons of the slmlc will meet in Davenport next Mon- day. The Dubuque board of trade now has 101 members, and the canvass of the eity is not over half completed. A young lady fourteen years old, six and one-half fect high and weighing 280 pounds, is a regular visitor to Mod: Burlington has a printer, E. May, sr,, who is eighty-four years of age, been sick und feels'as full of life as he did fifty years ago. Fifty-three years of his hife was spent in a printing oftice. C. L. Pritchard, a_Dubuque manufac- turer of buggy tops,has been offered $10,- 000%in cash and land valued at $10,000 if he will remove his works to North St. Paul, crect suitable buildings and guarautee to employ at least 100 men for the next three years. Peter Ryan, whose second trial for the murder of Claus Kleever was ended at Atlantic last Saturday, was sentenced to imprisonment for seventeen years. His original sentence was for twenty years, but as he had already served nearly three years of the sentence Judge Lootborow ‘made it even seventeen years. A correspondent of the Des Moines Leader, who has been watching the rise and fall of prohibition in Sioux City, de- clares that. while it has diminished the sale of intoxicants, 1t is a mooted ques- tion as to whether it has reduced drunk- enness. *‘The closing of saloons here has resulted in some ingenious and original devices to evade the law, and the modern “hole in the wall” is worthy of passin, notice. Going down FKourth street an lurninf south on Jones the eye at- tracted by the following sign, standing in front of an open door: ‘Try Era Beer, a Temperance and Great Health Drink.’ Seated in front of the entrance is a young man wearing a heavy blonde mous- tache and & slouch hat, be- neath the broad brim of which his keen eyes peep out to ‘‘size up'’ the pa { that approaches, and then again indifferently wander back to the paper in s lap. The stranger, if he fails to pass an acceptable scrutiny, on entering the room, will find it to all intents minus both “Era beer” and a proprietur. But the man whom the vigilant sentinel (for he is such) deems it safe to admit will be told without questioning, ‘““Turn to your right,” and on passing through a side door, one steps into_a hall-way where, down from a curtained window comes the gaze of two dark eyes. Advancin, along the hall another door is reached, but it is minus knob or latch, but just as the seeker after *‘Era beer” halts in un- certainty, the door mysteriously opens as he steps’into an unfurnished and unoccu- pied room. Passing across to a door standing partially ajar, he enters another room, just in time to see the white- aproned barkeeper remove his hand from a wire connected with a spring lock on the outer door—and this is the ‘‘modern hole in the wall,” and it gffectu- ally shuts out curious people and timid officers. Dakota. The Northern Pacific company has built extensive cattle yards at Leonard. Buffalo Gap mineral water is being shipped to eastern points for introduc- tion. The two banks in Sturgis have been consolidated into a national bank with a capital of $50,000, and the new bank ?,xy])cc‘ts to open its doors for business uly 1, The sea-serpent—the same gay and festive reptile with about twelve feet of his body out of water—has been seen by reputable parties at Lake Kampeska, The discoverers were some soher Baptist brethren who went fishing Saturday. Sioux Falls has decided to start a sys- tem of incandescent electric lights, and in addition to supplying lights the com- pany will su{lply ‘mwer to_dynamo for runniug light machinery. It is expected to have the system in operation by Sep- tember 1. Civilization is rapidly gaining a foot- hold among the cowboys and the wea- pons of early days are slowly vanishing. A Rapid City hotel clerk, who disputed with a stray calf from heiferdom, was promptly kicked in the eye. The high kicker escaped the indignation of the crowd. Reed, the defaulting city treasurer of Bismarck, has been heard from, and he says that every just claim which the city may present will be settled in full. His friends claim that bis shortage was the result of a generosity and kindness that surpassed his income. Dr. McGillicuddy is astonishing the es al Rapid by the architectural pe- arities of hisnew residence under way. Itis partly described by the Re- publican as follows: *The building is a mixture of the Gothie, Venetian, Queen Anne and Elizabethan styles, with a tinge of similarity to an Indian fort, in- asmuch as the second story will project over the tirst, thus allowing the doctor to drov stones on the heads of offensive vis- itors as they knock at the front door on the lower floor. The gate posts will be Corinthian columns ~with Deric sur- mountings.” e For Chautauquans. All members of the Omaha C. L. S.C. are¢ invited to attend the next and probably the iast meeting for this year, to be held in the board of education rooms on Fri- day evening at 8 o’clock. The programme will be as follows 1. The Lesson. Mr. H. F. Bundy 2. “Danfel‘De Foe, the Founder of the English Novel Miss Mary Fitch 8. Table Talk. “Fine Specimens of Al i Architec o Wak field.' «voenene. . Miss Emma Fitch 6. Roll Call. Quotations from Goldsmith, The summer assembly at Crete will be discussed. D, MORSMANCIZED—June 1, Mary M., daugh- ter of Mr, and Mrs. E. M. Morswanclzed, aged nine years and five months, Funeral ut’ residence of parents, corner of Twentv-first and Cass, on Kriday, June 3, stip. m. SOLOMON'S ~ NEW FRIEND. A (Oolorado Miner Oonfidenced Out of $500 On a “Bond.” ““WAIT HERE TILL | COME BACK." Strychnine Narrowly Misses in Ite Deadly Work--The Republican Caucuses--Ratlroad Rumbles and Personals. Not & Wise S8olomon, Solomon Blanks, a miner and drill operator of St. Elmo, Chaffee county, Colorado, arrived in Omaha on Tuesday evening over the B. & M. route from Denver. He was accompanied from Lin- coln by a verv pleasant gentleman of winning address who discovered, through hearing Blanks talk with the conductor, that the latter intended to vroceed from Omaha to St. Paul, Minnesota. He im- mediately sought an acquaintance with Blanks and informed him that he was a grocery merchant in St. Paul and had come to Omaha to purchase a quantity of goods from Paxton & G rher’s whole- sale house. When the unknown indi- vidual discovered that Blunks swallowed this improbable story he had no hesita- tion about proceeding with his bold game. As soon as they stepped from the depot here Blanks' new tequaintance bre- tended to be in great mental distress be cause the hour was and he couldn’t get into the bank, where ho had expected to be able to get $1,000 on & _government bond for that amount, He turned to Blanks with the inquiry: “Have you got any money you could loan me until morning® I will give you this_bond as security. only need $400 or £600 to pay down for my goods, and then I can remit the rest from St. Paul.” Blanks had $500 tucked away in a capa- cious pocketbook inside his' vest—$500 that it had taken him two years to save, and with which he expected to pay for some land near St. Paul. The new ac- quamtance appeared to him to be a nice man,and the $1,000 government bond looked pretty to his rather unschooled eye. He had walked with the man nearly to Paxton & Gallagher's store, and there the latter grew importunate. So he fished out the ‘wallet, counted out the $500, and took the alleged bond. ‘The new acquaintance, the instant he received the money, ran up the steps of the building, up a stairway, and disap- peared. He turned as he went out of sight and told Blanks to wait there until he returned. Blanks did wait three-quar- ters of an hour. Then he scanned the ““bond,” undertook to find where his friend had gone and sought a police- man, who happened to be Oflicer Bloom. They searched together for the man, but found no trace of him. He had evidently gone upstairs one way and gone down another. ‘The ‘bond” which Blanks received is an elaborately printed piece of.paper. It appears at first glance to be a counterfeit of a government bond; but scrutiny showed that underneath the “$1,000"" is_printed in fine type the words, “‘Silver Mining company of Den- ver City, Colorado,” causing the pa) to read: ““The United States Silver Min- ing company of Denver City, Colorado, promise to pay $1,000,” etc. Blanks has left his case in the hands of the police, and has returned to Colorado to go at work again. ANOTHER GAME ON THE SAME TRAIN. On the same train Blanks and his confidence man to Om was another raseal who succeeded in palming himself off on James Wilson, of Crete, Neb., as a Grand Army man, He wore the badge and talked war re- miniscences into Wilson’s ear until he had succeeded in talking $15 out of his pocket. In view of Blanks’ experience, however, Wilson 1s lucky. ALCOHOL AND STRYCHNINE. James Montgomery Almost Dies From Their Effect. Officer Casey last night at 9 o'clock found a man lying on the sidewalk at the corner of Eleventh and Howard streets. He was to all appearances in a drunken stupor, and was taken to cen- tral _station and slated as ‘‘dead drunk.” Shortly after being locked up the man was seized with convulsions and Drs. Crowel and Ralph were sum- moned. The paroxysms grew more violent and it took the united efforts of the physicians and two oflicers to hold the man. The physicians were of opinion that the man was suffering from strychnine and there was also evidence of the use of intoxicants. Antidotes were admlms- tered and after an_hour and a half of hard work the patient was pronounced out of danger. From paper found upon his person it was learned that the man’s name is James Montgomery; that he had worke Blizabethtown, N. J.,Des Moine nati, Ohto. election showed that the man had lived here long enough to vote, and that his residence was 2204 C\lmin%. and that he is thirty-nine years old. When the man recovered consciousness he refused to answer any questions. AMONG THE RAILROADS. A NEW RUN TO YANKTON, The Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul road has begun to feel that the agitation of the road between this city and” Yank- ton affords an excellent opportunity to make friends with both ends of the pro- posed road, and has decided to gzive ad- ditional accommodations tc its patrons by the opening of a uew line to Sioux City, Yankton and Dakota points. On the sixth of this month, Monday next, trains over this line will leave the cil Blufts transer at 1:35 p. m., reaching Sioux Cit 7:40 and Yankton at 10:05 p.m. I gers leaving this city should take the 1.15 p. m. dummy. 1E OMAHA ROAD, The Missouri _river at Sioux City is slowly rising. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapohs & Omaha is getting its landings for its transfer steamer at that point n'nd_)' for the Juae rise. Mr. E. W. Winter, general manager of the Chieago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, with his son and daughter, is now in Europe on a pleasure trip. 1. J. Smallwood, chief train dispatcher ebraska division of the Omaha , has been suddenly called to Worth- ington, Minn., by the "illness of his wite who is visiting there. THE NORTHWE N & ELKHORN. The 1,000 mile haoks go on sale to-day. ‘They are good 1n Nebraska and on the Chicago und Northwestern. A ticket iy being prepared which will cover the whole system of the Northwestern road incinding the Elkborn lines to the Wy oming boundary lin, THE UNIOM General Manager Potte! Saturduy, i General Superintendent Dickinson will return to-morrow. ‘Phe road is doing an increased lreis‘?l business from far western Nebraska towns, where two years ago only the festive jack rabbit and the stitf-liggod antelope registered as voters. expected on Cruelty to Animals, Ofticer Clark is attending to business in a lively manner although s ankle is sprained, Yesterday he was looking for med John Rush, a horsetrader , it is said, allowed a horse tostarve to b near the corner of Thirty-third and Leavenworth streets. My, 8. £, Morsc made a cowplaint that A man was using a ¢lud to compel teams $0 pull wheeled scrapers on Loavenworth stroet where grading 1s being done. - Offi- cor Clark immediately started for the ot- fonders, but they had disappeared before he got there. T Frank Thomas was admonished in very terse language about cruelty to a dog. Tt i v evident that the humane society mined to have its mission fuitilled. SCHOOL BOARD CAUCUSES, Meeting of Republicanain the Several Wards Last Evening. The republicans of several wards held meetings last evening, of which the fol) lowing proceedings were reported: First Ward. ‘The citizens of the First ward met 1n caucus at the Union Pacific hotel, on Tenth street. The following delegates v chosen: Charles M. Conuoyer, Patrick Desmond, Thom asey, Albert Schall, Charles Brandeis, William H. Spalding and Owen Siavin. Sesond Ward. The following delegates were chosen in the Second ward: Fred Boehm, Frank Dworach, Danicl O'Keefe, S. J. Hroders ick, Dan ‘Shelly and John Boyd. Seventh Ward. The Seventh ward republicans met lasy night at the Hanscom Park house and selceted Paul Vandervoort, J. T. Bell, Louis Petersen, John McDonald, J. M! Hensel, John C. Meyers and L. H. Brad- convention delegates to be voted for at Friday’s primaric The meoting also elected N. C. Bell ¢ . N.W. Nel- son judge, and C. L. Thomas inspector of the primary election Police Court lendar, Offenders against the peace and good conduct of the city Were given the fol- lowing sentences yesterday: U.S. Kane, disturbance, #7.50 fine; Dan Sweeney, beating his wife, £12.50; Jim Sullivan, $20 and costs; Jno. Burke, $20 and costs; Ed Sammon, twenty-tive days 1n jail for lmokl ‘pivknu(: George Jones and Harry tandall, fighting, %7.50 each. City Co . The ecity council held an adjourned meeting last evening. Numerous ordin- ances were introduced and seyeral passed. Among the latter was one call- mf; for a special election on June 13, when a proposition will be submitted to the electors of the city to grant the Met- nl)"ml"':m Cable Railway company a fran- chise. Personal Paragraphs. Dr. A, L. Root, of Weeping Water, was in the city yesterday. W. J. Carter, formerly in the Republi- can business department, has opened an office us an expert accountant in the chamber of commerce ofice. Robert D. Lomux, representing the well known John A, Lomax consolidated bottling company of Chicago, is in the city today. Mr. Lomax is a genial busi- ness man, and those who have met him here all agree that he is a good man in the midst of good men A White Woman Out of Place. Macon 'l'e]cgrnkh Out of 1,500 con- viets, white and bl in the Georgia penitentiary, there is only one white woman, Isabella Rooney, sent up for life from Clay county. Sheis a voung woman, about twenty-two years old, and is confined at the Chattahooche camps. ‘The crime for which this woman 18 serv- ing out sentence grew out of s difficulty between her r:unfiy and a neighbor's, in which the memters of each joined pro- miscuously. ‘The scrimmage resutted in the murder of one of their neighbors. ‘This woman's brother has since expiated the crime on the gallows, and her mother o gt ntn N R ER Lot s htRbyiniany that there has been sullicient punishment for the crime, and that the woman ought to be pardoned. A movement has been mnstituted to make a strong appeal to the governor for executive clemency. - The people in Bronson, Mich., draped the lamp posts in mourning the other night,and suspended paper lanterns from them, because the village authorities say they are too poor to furnish street lights. MOST PERFECT MADE Used by the United States Government, Endorsed hg“uli hoads of the Great Universitios and Publlc Fond Auaizeiase and wmost lealthful. Dr. Pri ‘only Baking wder that does not contalo Ammonia, Lime ot . Dr, Price's Extracts, Vln\ll? Lomon, ete. rdeliciously. PRICE BAKING BOWDERCO. THE PERFECT Sell Revolving Churn Dasher Quickest Sclling Article Ever Invonted PRICE OF DASHER, $1.25 Needsno talking. but really is the Prettiest Showing Article on the Market. Omaua, Neb., April 28, 1887.—This is to certify that we, the undersigned, | this day” witnessed a churning by ct” Self Revolving Churn Dashers, vhich resulted in producing 8% pounds of first class Lutter from one gallon of crean in jnst one minute and fifteen scconds, Daiey: 0. 4. Paul B, Tate, " Jo It JL or. State and County Kights for Sale, “Projits Will Surprise You, AGENTS WANTED. Call or write to us at once. Qu ck sales and lurge profit. Very truly, J. W. & A. Poriiam, Prop's. Hoom | Crouuse Bock. N.1Gth #h., Oiaabia, New