Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 7, 1887, Page 4

THE, DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF CRIPTION ¢ {ly (Moeniag Edition) (ncluding Sunday »‘ 7, Ono YOAT. ... ‘ $10 00 M 0] 2w ay Bk, matled to any address, Une Year.... cerresseiiees ATIA OPPICE, N EW YORK OFFIC VASHINGION OFFi 200 014 AND 018 FARNAM STREET. RooM 6, TRISUNE BUILDING NO. 515 FOURTEENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE! Al communioations relating to news and ed|- torial matter should be addressed to the EDi- TOR OF THE DBER BUSINESS LETTERS: All buciness letters and remittances should be addressed to Tre Bex Pu NG_COMPANY, OManA. Drafts, checks n tofMca orders %0 be imade payuble to the order of the compauny, THE BEE PUBLISHIVG CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statement of Oirculation. tate of Nebrask: BruumY S Douclas, |58 Geo. B, ‘Tzschuck, secretnr" of The Bee Publishing eompany, does solemnly that the actual circulation of the Dail for the week ending June 5, 1357, was as follows May 23, ) Baturd; Sunday, May 2 Monday, May i “Tuesday, May Wednesday, Jun Thursday, June 2 Friday,June 8...... . AVErage...ooeiiiiiiiiin ¢ GEO. B, HUC Subscribed and sworn to before me 4th day of June, 1857, N, . FEIt, 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 for June, 18, 12.% copies; for July, 186, 12,314 ~copies; for August, 184, 12,464 copies: for Septem- ber, 18%, 13,080 coples; for October, 1456 12,04 copies; for November, 1888, 13,348 coples; for December, 1886, 13,237 coples; for January, 1887, 16,266 copies; for February, 857, 14,195 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 '{.’&“‘ ; for April, 1887, 14,316 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 copies, Gro, B, Tz8ciuck, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of June A, D,, 1887, ISEAL.| N. P. Frir, Notary Public. K. this Tue schoolmarms got there with both fect. | THE schoolteachers are in favor of a partisan school board. As bulldozers the schoolmarms are equal to some of the oldtime ward politi- cians, Tue stories told of how Indian trader- ships are run under the reform adminis- tration are bad enough to cause poor Lo to take to the war path again. A GREAT many roforms are needed in our public school wmanagement, which the new board will be expected to in- augurate, THE board of public works must look into the street sweeping contract. Seven- teen hundred dollars was allowed for last month's street sweeping. That isa rather expensive luxury. —_—— OMAHA still remains behind other ‘western cities 1n one respect. She has no market house. Why can’t some action be taken to erect one or more market houses, now that the city has full author- ity to condemn property and issue bonds for market squares and market houses? Ee———— THE Seavey scandal story is now being thoroughly investigated by the police commiasion, the only official body under the charter vested with authority to ap- point or remove members of the police force. Until that investigation has been concluded it is unreasonable and im- proper for any man or paper to demand BSeavey's dismissal. —— JupGe KELLEY, who has represented the fourth district of Pennsylvania in congress almost since 1t was created, is to be admired for his candor. The veteran says that nothing short of paralysis or lu- nacy will prevent his always being a candidate for congress in his district, and as it isanirreclaimable protection region, the leading champion of the pig iron interest can probably count safely upon representing it as long as he shall desire. Tue democrats of New York aro re- ported to be uneasy at the prospect for the clection next fall. The source of this is the determination of the united labor party to run a state ticket. The leaders are said to be scheming to defeat the design of the labor party by introduc- ing into 1ts ranks active democratic poli- ticians of the lower grade. But what 1f these should be converted? The Geerge- MoGlynn movement is apparently making steady progress, and chiefly at the ex- pense of the democras e THE demoeracy of Ohio are in a quan- dary over the question of a gubernatorial candidate. The McLean influence in the party is supportinZ a man named Powell, * who is a good deal of a demagogue, but was a devoted friend of the senatorial as- pirations of McLean. He is distasteful, howeyer, to a much larger eclement, which is anxiously looking about for some one else. Koran, who represents the Cleveland district in congress, and is identified also with the labor interests, could probabty have the nomination, but he doesn't see the way clear to an elec- tion, and besides he is averse to giving up much 1 a financial way for eampaign purposes. The nomination may, how- ever, be forced upon him, in which case he will probably accept if relieved of campaign expenses. It will be an ex- ceedingly uphill fight in Ohio this year for any democrat. . ——— REMARKING unpon the growth of “trusts,” the New York World observes that it requires but their universal exten- sion to abolish competition altogether as bt an element of the economy of trade. That exactly explains the purpose of thesé organizations. They are all based o3 on the principle which is at the founda- A tion of the Standard oil trust—that of shutting out all competition. The ten- ~ ® denoy to these combinations in all de- partments of industry is getting to be a serious matter. There may come a time ‘when some sort of resistance will have to be made to this force of wonopoly, and 3 n view ot this possibility it will be well ¥ to consider whether there is not some k) ‘way in which it ean be dealt with and its o designs frustrated beforo it attains to s such proportions as to defy treatment. 2 Tho people ought to possess the power 3 1o protect themselves against this grow- ‘ng danger to their interests. but just why Mr. Caldwell should terest himself—ospecially against a rail- road company for whom he worked all winter—is hard to imagine. ening. victory for a party out discipline and harmony, that by reason recriminations is divided against itself. A Reconstructed RBoodler. J. L. Caldwell, who was a member of the judiciary committee during the last session of the lost legisluture, has, it ap- pears, experienced a general reformation and is now howling for “‘poor settlevs™ and they a ting the ‘‘haraships’ to which ubjected. an this, the spirited and physi- More cal transformation of the man who fot long ago attempted to levy blackmail from the Omaha gamblers, bas caused the regencrated and open his mouth against the B. & M. rail- road—whose treature he was—and say that that corporation had dofie wrong. guileless one to Youthful Jeems has discovered that the county commissioners have assessed and sold to the railroad company certain lots belonging to the state. at a low price--less than they were worth fifteen years ago—and in his indigna- tion the attempted boodler of a few months ago says sensibly: They sold them The county commissioners have avpraised the lands when taken years ago at their then value, which I insist is wrong. further, these lots are not state lots in the general signification of the term, state lots in Lincoln, and section 7, chapter But, These are 2, ¢f the general statutes provides for the proceeds realized from their sale going to a capitol building fund, and the original act of the organization of Lincoln and the estab- lishment of n state capitol thereat, accepted these lots to be held in trust by the city when sold. And this last legislature passed an act providing for the sale of these lots and anpropriated tho capitol building. take these lots under “the right of way law” is a flimsy pretext and my best judgment is the state officers are derelict in duty in si- lently permitting the unlawful taking of these lots. buildings should proceed under the law to sell thom, and let the railroad company buy them as the poor man who built his humble home on them did. wot them. from any purchaser and get title; they are already in possession. to condemn them years ago. settler, but always has been refused title, and hardships are equal. ney-general or some state officer give the the proceeds to complete The attempt to The board of public lands and He must bid for them to The railroad can condemn them They said they tried So has the poor I desive that the attor- public some reason for this, what appears to me their illegal and unwarranted action. There is some good sense in the above, 1f the young man intends to reform. if he has seen the folly of his way, and now proposes to become a useful citizen, there are golden opportunities before him, and no one will throw a straw in his path- way. An Unfortunate Issue. 1t is doubtless true that the cause of Ire- land has suffered quite as much from the indiscretions of its friends as from the as- suults of its enemies. 1t has been the re- veateq misfortune of men equally con- cerned for the political fate of Ireland, and equally honest and patriotic in their devotion to the one purpose of freeing the Irish people from the heavy oppres- sion that rests on them, to permit differ- ences wholly extraneous matters, to develop into a more or less bitter hostility, whicn, regarding minor, or perhaps being proclaimed to the world, has dis- couraged the efforts of those battling in the common cause, while giving aid and comfort to the ememy. Such occur- rences have their inevitable sequel in breaches and factions that must of necessity be demoralizing and weak- There can be no hope of that is with- of factional disputes and A party so conditioned will furnish tp the opposition the very sid it most requires and which it can turn to the best advan- tage. It exposes its own points of vul- nerability and gives the enemy confi- dence. Of all existing parties, the lrish party can least afford to put itself in this atti- tude. Henoce every judicious friena of the cause for which that party is strug- gling must deeply regret the issue that was made in New York between Willham O'Brien and prominent supporters of the Irish cause there, including Dr. Me- Glynn. On whichever side the merits of the controversy belong, and as to this there will be a wide difference of opinion among Irishmen generally, there does not secem to have been sufficient justitica- tion for the outspoken and rather bitter denunciation of which both parties to the controversy were guilty. The implication of O'Brien, that the men who did not approve of his course in refusing to be identitied with the parade on Saturday night were to bo classed as “malignant enemies,"” was, to say the least, not pru- dent. On the other hand, the language of Dr. McGlynn, that “O'Hricn is a land- lord at heart himself,” and that ‘it is only a question of a small percentage between O'Brien and Lansdowne,' was far more intemperate, and will therefore be far more serviceable to the enemy both are fighting. The issue is an unfortunate one, in whatever way iv is regarded, and it can hardly fail to be harmful to the Irish cause. It turnad two trusted and intelli- gent supporters of that cause into mutual detractors, and thereby greatly lessened the influence of both. It has created strong factional differences that will not be readily settled. It has given the enemy an argument which he will not fail to use for all it is worth. e A New Assailant of the Saloon. The ramifications of Masonry are universal. Whatever touches the inter- ests or welfare of one part of this great organization is of concern to all the parts. There has developed in Missouri 9 matter which it is to be presumed will attract the scrious attention of the Masonic fraternity througnout the coun - try, and perhaps even of other countries. This is nothing less than the issuance of an ediot by the grand master of that state calling upon all Masonic lodges to en- force the law of the grand lodge which de- olares saloon-keeping to be un-Masonic and requires those who are engaged in the business and are Masons to abandon thelr voeation or quit the order. The issue 18 not entirely new. It ap- pears that in 1883 the grand lodge edopted a resolution declaring the busi- ness of saloon-keeping to be a Masonic offense, and those en- gaged in the business liable to be dealt with for un-Masonic con- duct. Subsequently a saloonkeeper was suspended by one of the lodges, and the case was appealed to the grand lodge. ‘The grounds of the appeal were that the varty suspended wasa saloonkeeper prior to and st the time of the enactment of _through the grain sections the weather of iy . THR OMAHA DAILY DEE: TUESDAY. JUNE. 7. 1887. : the law, and that it was not the province of Masonry to interfere with his business as 2 licenseéd saloonkeeper under the laws of Missouri. The action of the subordi- nate lodge was, however, sustained, and the grounds of appeal were disposed of by the decision that it was within the provinee of the grand lodge at any and all times to determine what was or was not a Masonic offense. It was also de- clared that the adoption of the resolution was only a specific declaration of what had always been recognized us Masonic law, and saloonkeepers must exercise the option of quitting the business or quitting Masonry. Two lodges that elected saloonkeepers ofticers were for- bidden by the grand master to install them, The order of the grand master to sub- ordinate lodges is clear and explici It insists that the law of the grand lodge in reference to un-Masonie conduct,in which saloonkeeping is included, must be en- forced, and if the inferior bodies fail to act the grand lodge will procced against the offensive members of such bodies. The grand lodge has waited long and patiently for the violators of the law to change their business, and it does not propose to extend its toleration any far- ther. The saloonkeepers in the order must renounce their trade or abandon Masonry, It can easily be understood that this edict has created the greatest consternation, not alone among those upon wlom it tixes the charge of un- Masonic conduct, but among all mem- bers who understand what must be the consequences to the order at large of the enforcement of this law. Such fear that the eflect of intruding into the organiza- tion under the principle involved will jar the Masonic structure to its very foundations. The order inculeates tem- perance in all thangs. Habitual drunken- ness is an offense againstits laws. But it has never, until the action taken by the grand lodge of Missouri, refused ad- mission to the saloonkeeper, who has been allowed to enter on an equality with men in any other line of business. The princinle expounded by the grand master of Missouri is that it is not just to punish those guilty of habitual drunk- enness while sparing the saloonkceping Mason, whose business it is to make drunkards. The thousands of salvon- keepers who are Masons will not read this imputation with complacency. ‘I'here is evidently in this matter the possibilities of a very serious disturb- ance in the ranks of Masonry. But that great order has survived many, diflicul- ties, and it will doubtless find a way to avert any great harm to its welfare from present threatening innovation. diverting of the vast amount of freight from all western territory covered by ihe Gould system will necessarily have a marked etfect on the business of the roads running east via St. Lounis and Chicago, and will fall most heavily upon the trunk lines, it is claimed that Mr, Gould's uction is ulso largely due to the invasion of his territory by the Santa Fe, Rock Island, snd Union 1% ¢ roads Otherwise he might have hesitated in di- verting such a heavy trade from St Louis, where his interests are so large, but, with the necessity of meeting those competitors, he laid out the scheme out- Iimed above, and he is now arranging to complete the work and put the new sys- tem in operation at as early a day as pos- sible. — UNDER the new charter power is given the mayor and council to require the waterworks and gas companies to make conncctions from their street mains to the curb hines, and also to require sewer connections to be made in the same way. When this is done there will be no ne- ceessity for the breaking up of the pave- ments as heretofore. The action of the property owners of Leavenworth street in this conncction is timely and com- mendable. It should be followed where- ever it ia proposed to pave. It will be economy in the end—a great saving to the water and gas companies and prop- erty owners. — Tue BEE does not propose to waste time or space in debating the assumption that the police commission has no author- ity to fill positions on the police torce, from chief down, until after the council has adopted and enacted into an ordi- nance the rules and regulations govern- ing the conduct of policemen. It is too absurd to be entertained. 81, PAuL is laying out a boulevard 200 feet wide and ten miles long, in connee- tion with an extensive chain of public parks. What has become of the Omaha bouleyard project? Why can't this city ake the prelimnary steps for opening botilevards and acquiring land for addi- tional parks during the present season? TuE Chicago boodlers are occupying entirely too much space and attracting too much attention, Common thieves should be speedily sentenced. As long as the rowdy editors keep up their warfare upon Chief of Police Seavey decent and law-abiding ocitizens will sympathize with him JAY Gourp has gone yachting. He has probably gone on the water to laugh at the lies he told the Pacific investiga- ting commitiee. The Crops and Business. The latest advices regarding the condi- tion of the growing crops are on the CEEEE——— THE ki f Sweden is said to possess whole satsfactory. Quite generally s s s b a fine bass voice ahd sings artistically. It is hoped that he will not plan a farewell last week was favorable. There wasa | 4o, generous rainfall in the states east of the Mississippi, and aithough less in other localities than during the previous week, the deficiency was not such as to have any serious effects. In southern winter wheat sections the harvest is in progress, and this crov is practically beyond dan- ger. Generally the percentage of yield is good. The condition of spring wheat is reported to be very satisfactory. In Minnesota and Dakota the promise ises- pecially favorable as compared with a week or two ago. In several localities a good deal of damage has been done by ingects, Kansas having thus far suffered the most from this cause and the drouth. The present situation, however, taking the agricultural region as a whole, is reassuring, and if the conditions of the next two or three weeks continue' favor- able there need be little concern re- garding a gencrous harvest. ‘There is excellent promise that to this result Ne- braska will contribute 1ts share. With respect to the general business of the country, the aggregate bank clear- ances of last week show that 1t was some- what less active than during the pre- ceding week., The difference of about $21,000,000 does not indicate a very marked falling off, and even with this the showing is slightly better thaw for the corresponding week of lastyear. The general movement of trade appears fo be healthy. With the exception of the wheat and coffee specalations all depart- men‘s of business seem tobe running 1n a legitimate course, with a suflicient demand in most of them te. keep the machinery in steady operation. The wool interest gained somewhat in confi- dence from the transactions of last week, and the result of the colonial sales in London to-day is awajted with a great deal of interest, since they will go far to determine whéther the con- fidence of American wool-growers can be maintained. The iron market is notact- ive, but the feeling is firm throughout. Altogether the business of the' country must be regarded asin a very satisfactory shape, and with the promise of good crops the outlook is as favorabla as could be desired. ye Sm——— THERE is a general rush of tourists from Florida. "Fhe aligator has com- menced to get in his work. Tneshort haul, extortion in Iowa is making a long haul on the patience of the people. wa S——— THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. The people of Buffalo expect soon to have a supply of gar for domestic purposes. Tool works and foundries and machine shops are springing up radidly in the south, and northern skilled labor is in demand. A wire rope has just been made at New- castle, Eng,,half a mile long and six and one- half inches in circumference. The breaking strain is 175 tons. ‘There is not an agricultural implement in the Transvaal region, Africa, but that isof American make. In one locality 30,000 American plows are used. ‘The western miners expect to re-establish satisfactory rates of wages, although the temporary dullness in the markets makes employes willinz and anxious. ‘The New England house builders are mak- ing no effort to advance ‘wages. Employes are putting up a great many small houses, whieh they will sell on easy terms. A party of Enzlish capitalist have made extensive mineral investments near Cumber- lond Gap, Ky., with a view to coal develop- ment and the building of iron works. Great interest is shown by the wage-work- ers of Indiana in the united labor party. Eighty counties in Ohio have been organized and General Weaver is making a tour of the state. ‘The success of the Western Building and Loan association has led to much more buildiag of small bouses than would have been possible without that system of mutual banking. A building and loan association was estab- lished last week in Milwaukee, with a capital of $5,000,000, to bulld power for mechanics and laborers, Capital is being attracted in that direction. Three Ontario weavers have invented a process for weaving cloths of mixed mater- ials so that they shall be inseparably woven, showlng one surface of hemp or jute, and the other of cotton or wool. Steelmakers are busy in foreign countries and ironmakers are finding less and less to do. The discharged workingmen are seek- ing for work, and see no remedy but in other azd unfamiliar employment. At a meeting of the united labor party of Denver a resolution was pased to buy tents and camp out altogether on account of the 20 per cent advanee in rents without a cor- responding advance in wages, Silver and gold mining is attracting more capital. Thesilver production has increased in the ratio of 839 in. 1880 to $51 in 189, Silver productionihas increased throughout the world from $62,000,000 in 1822 to $124,000,000, ' ‘The two great covper-producing companies in the northwest are greatly increasing their capacity. The capital of the Anaconda has been increased to §20,000,000, and the Calu- met and Hecia has ibcreased its output ca- pacity 50 per cen| Every large e—— JAx GouLp is credited with another important railroad scheme. According to the Chicago T'ribunc this contemplates relieving St. Louis and. Chicago of the necessity of distributing grain and pro- visions, and even live stock, to the east and European markets, and draining the grain-producing sections of the west and southwest into the Mississippi river be- low the ice point, ‘and thence by barge lines to New Orleans, and by steamers to foreign ports, or by the same means of transportation or rail to castern do- mestic points of consumption. - The sug- gestion of the scheme is found n the pur- chase of the Little Rock, Mississippi & Texas and the Little Rock & Fort Smith railroads, which it is understood Gould intends to use as a link for a new outlet for his Missouri Pacificsystem to the east ufacturing center in and Europe. The 1linking will be | Francehas a tedhnical educational estab- effected at Fort Gibson on the | lishment. Five scholarships have Missouri, Kansas & Texas, and the | been established ‘flhllll government Tribune says contracts have just | expesnse of §180, Germany is far shead of France in the matter of technical educa- tion. ‘The Chinese government has ordered from a Birmingham (Eng.) firm, ninety nolseless automatic presses, which haye a capacity of coining 2,700,000 pieces per day of ten hours. They are to be ready in ome year. The Royal mint of London has sixteen of the same kind. been let for the construction of aline from Van Buren, on the Little Rock & Fort Smith, to Fort Gibson. This will give Gould a direct line to Arkansas City, on the Mississippl river, through a territory in which no other railroads bhave a foothold or can gain one soon to ham- per him. The Fort Gibson connection will enable him to drain southwestern Mis- ———— souri, Kansas and Nebraska, as well as » Not Apparent. Texas and the Indian Territory, while Herald. Schuyler e The editor of the Omaha Republican is abusing Governor Thayer because that ofh- clal did not appoint the said editor as one of the police co:gmissioners of Omaha. What the Republican editor ever did to entitie him with his Colorado line he can drain that country also through Arkansas City to the Atlantic ocean, runming his boats as well as his railroads twelve months in the year, withont any trouble on | tothe office soughtis notapparent. He has account of low water in the | been a citizen of the state bardly long summer or ice in the winter. Wihule the | enough to become acclimated. If the gov- ernor had appointed him 1t would have had o have been on his past record, which 1s, to say the least, none too brilliast. A poliee ofticer indeed, with a state reputation as & slugger. Far better to appoint a policemah to look after the gentleman. o Mokl You Can't Always Tell Detrott Free I’ The prinee of Wales t quite a shine to Buffalo Bill. At home Mr. Cod'y assocln- tions have generally been good, but vou can’t always tell what a man will be when hie goes to Europe. ——— Abusing Governor Thayer, Ulysses Dispateh. The Omaha Republican and IHerald are heaping column after c¢blumn of abuse upon the head of Governor Thayer, and all because the governor chose to appoint a police com- mission of his own selection, as provided by the new charter, rather than to follow the dictation of the two editors of the above named papers. Governor Thayer is a grand, 0od old man, who served his country faith- tully and well, amidst shot and shell, and is as much above the twin editorial blackguards of Omaha asan elephant is above a gnat. General John M. Thayer is wovernor, single and alone. Long life to the grand old man. A Mystery. Grace Denio Litchfield, Life held in her hand a measure, And swung it lichtly and low ; And she said, "I will see if my pleasure Donot outweigh my woe.” And she gathered all stingless laughter, AllTove that were lasting and sure, All {'nys that left memories after, All weaith that was wingless and pure; She gathered all sunlight and starlight, All thornless and fadeless tlowers ¢ She gathered the faint light and fair light Of pangless and perfect hours; She gathered all glimpses elysian ‘That never had blasted the soul, All hopes that had held to fruition, All talents that won to the goul, All wisdom that never had saddened, All truths that never had lied, Allambition that never had maddened. All beauty that satistied. And she flung them all, all in_her mensure, But they nothing outbalanced the painj And she “I must add yet a treasure, The kin and best in my train.” And she reached out and took Death, laid it, All restful and calm, on the scales Yet pain, as before, still outweighed it; And she sighed as she said could this fail? Then, she reached up to merciful heaven Took down and flung over earth’s stri A little pale hope, all nnproven— ‘The hope of a measureless life; Flung it down with a doubting and wonder, With question and touch of disdain} When lo! swift the light scale went under; Lite’s load was outweighed by lite’s gain, and Oh, strange! Oh, most strange! If the meas- ure Of all mortal days be but woa, Compared with their acme of pleasure (Life mused as she hung tne scale low) Why, then, should it lengthen earth’s sor- ow? Why magnify Death’s consequence To believa in a timeless to-morrow? And Life held tl cale in suspense. e STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, The Beatrice high school has out a class of thirteen graduates. Plattsmouth to Holdrege, greeting: You bank on shopworn chestiuts, Rushyille is ready to put up a bonus if he B. & M. strikes town on the way to the hills. t Mrs ard announces her intention of continuing the publication of the Sherman County Times. Black Hills papers insist on building an extension of the B. & M. to that sec- tion without consulting the company. The trial of the sergeant who accom- panied Major Bash at the time of the robbery 18 in progress at Fort Robinson. The Norfolk News and Fremont Trib- une are onjoymE a_slugging match at longbernn 0. The Madison “metrovolis deliberately invites a boycott. Nebraska City has added a board of public works to her burdens. The ques- tion of paving will be submitted to the voters at a special election on July 11. The Crawford Crescent announces that under the new rules at Fort Robinson the birth of spring chickens must be ac- companied by a certificate. This pre- vents hash mongers ringing in toughs without pedigrees. Dakota, The May clear up ot the Homestake and Caledonia mines netted $110,000. The actual cash dividends paid by the Homestake mine of the Black Hills now aggregate the enormous sum of $3,823,- 750, or $44,80 per share. Rapid City's metropolitan airs were rudely shocked by the appearancc of the bobtailed street car, and an accommo- dating incendiary burned it down, The farmers' shipping association of Arlington have received their charter and will soon open their books for stock subscriptions, They will be ready to buy grain as soon as the crop begins to move. A few weeks ago Aberdeen voted $15,000 bonds to be used to purchase citfl bnfldings. and a site for the sume, witl the intention that if the county seat was located there on July 13 to use the build- ings as a court house. The council last week located the site on the north side of the city. Mayor Mills vetoed this, as the north side only pays one-tenth of the taxes. The council passed it oyer the mayor’s head, and the south side citizens have now served an injunction onissuing the city bonds. During the month of May there were at the Yankton land oifice nine pre-emp- tion entries, representing 1,322.70 acres; nineteen homestead entries, representing 2,609.85 acres; twenty-five timber culture entries, representing 8,636,683 acres, There were final proofs as follows: Fifteen pre-emptions, representing 1,739.40 acres; three commuted home- steads, representing 335.93 acres; fifty homesteads, representing 7,929.24 acres; twun!g timber culture, representing 8,026 93 acres. turned e Use of Money at Elections. Laouisville Courfer-Journai, In at least one election for governor of Kentucky since the war the successful candidate spent money lavishly, and is generally credited with having bought his nomination. He dumped $10,000 into Louisville at one whirl, and certain delegations from this city who were named in his interest had to be bought ain in convention. In the convention which nominated a governor in 1883 money was so plentiful that many dele- gutes found 1t impossible to say which candidate they preferred. They gener- ally managed, however, to fall’ on the side which had the bi';gest vile. Money was openly and notorlously used in the election in this city last August by every candidate who had an 10 use. inney isa big factor, and is rapidly coming to be, if it is not already, the controlling |§:nl in our politics. There ought to & strong, vigorous movement to put down this evil, this shame to American manhood. i Arrival of Remains of O. F. Davis. The remains of O. F.Davis arrived here yesterday morning from Wuukesha, accompanied by his brother, Major Davis of Wahoo, and wife. They were in- closed in a very beautiful, cloth-draped casket. 'l‘ns‘ were met at the Bluffs by Dr. Miller, P. L. Perine and several others and escorted to his late residence, 1812 Douglas street. The funeral wkll take place to-day at 4 o'clock from the Secona Presbyterian church. Mrs. C. W. McVicar has gone to Wyowing, Ill., for & three waakfi visit. A CHAPTER ON RALLROADS. A Life of Motion—Men Who Spend Their Days on the Rail, TRYING A Conductor Who Oalled His Man: ager an O1d Fool—Running Down Cattle — Undoerpaid Employes —Life on the Rail. SOME POSITIONS. San Francisco Chronicle: From the conductor down to the peanut boy there is neted a mnew deal in train hands. Such men as are now employed did not runon tramns twenty years ago. Nor did they drive stage coaches or shoot Indians. There was a happy-go-lucky streak in the character of the old-time railroader. One finds It only now and then in the ticket-puncher or baggage- handler of to-day. There wasa sort of sulor-like romance about the lives of people who *‘ran on the line” then, that one will almost s in vain for now. Your old-time railroader was an impor- tant individual, made so by the fact that there were few railronds in existence when he stepped upon the stage, or rather upon the car. So much depended upon individual action and responsibility then. Yet in spite of all his cares the train hand was jolly. He had his half- hours of joy at the long stops at way- stations, thrting with pretty country lassies or quafling ginger ale or some- thing stronger ap the refreshment coun- ter. The runs were short, the time was slow and the stops were long. The only excitement was in running down cattle that happened to pon the track. But the automatic brake, the pgtent coupler, and the double tr have wrought a great change. The railroader of theday is more of & machine, mor ®a part of the train itself than anythingelse. Insteal of short runs and long stops, there are long runs and short stops. The speed has almost doubled, and clock- work precision in manipulating the thou- sands of trains on the network of tracks has become a necessity. A COMMON INDIVIDUAL. It is this mampulatidn of railroads and trains that has dragged the train hand down from his pmnacle of dignified i olation, He has become a very eommon unit, not to say a vulgar fraction, Asa matter of fact he is just as important, es- pecially in his own estimation, as he was twenty years ago; but with the loss of the happy-go-lucky air and his relegation to machine duty, the romance of his po- sition sinks outof sigiat. Still, he is not altogether a hopeless case, and he 18 likely to be lifted from the hum-drum of train life into the hum-drum of life na general railway office; perhaps as six- teenth assistant [zvnernl freight agent, or perhaps—who knows?—as general man- r or preside And then the oppor- tunity for “knocking down’ or ‘‘divvy- ing” with some one who **knocks down” is as good as ever. A railroad conductor said the other ‘Some railroaders call theirs a dog's life, others say it is worse, but 1 notice that they nearly all stick to it until they get too old for ‘anything else, even for keeping bar. Ithink that spenks.vol- umes ?or this business. If it was no good they would not hang on to it the way they do,unless it is that this tenacity is given them to make the punishwent fit the crime.”’ The life is evidently not a sweet dream- land faney or anything of the sort, but there are plenty of people who are living it and growing gray-headed in it, and man nF them are better off than they would be if they were to cease their every-day whirl and rush and settle down to quieter things. AT THE THROTTLE. Take the engineer, for instance. He is not the nerve-shattered, brain-wronght and fear-excited man whom fancy paints as standing at the throttle with straining eye and careworn face, one hand clutch- ing the cold steel, while in the other he carries hundreds of innocent lives. Truth to say, he may be nervous, and few there are in his position whose nerves are not affected, but he is not always standing with his heart in his mouth while his engine flies along the track. He easily learns to accept thesituation as one of great responsibility, but if there is any ease or enjoyment 10 be extracted from it he knows that no one, from the president down to the state auditor, is going to blame him for taking it. He soon works his way into a channel where an easy-going, but at the same time duti- ful perfermance of his routine labor can be enjoyed. He takes delightin asmooth, well-timed run from station to station, and learns to glean comfort from the per- fectly satisfactory working of the great machine entrusted to his care. It is when there is something, be it ever so trifling, “out of kilter,” that he is most visibly op- pressed. Man and machine get into yery close sympathy. so to speak. He can toll by the very *‘feel” of the locomotive if all is as it should be in that complex mechanism. He comes to regard it, in course of time, as a living creature,asfull of impulse as of power. On the freight locomotive there is more time for independent action and thought than there is on the vassenger engine. In crossing the sagebrush wilds, where the track extends in a bec line for miles ahead, and 18 all free from obstruction the freight engincer can “slow down' and amuse himself by throwing coal at the jackrabbits alongthe line. “A rail. road man said the other day that tons of good fuel were thus thrown away every year, and the amunition used for the sport was exther very ineffective or the engineers were very poor marksmen, for he had never known a single jackrabbit to bite the dust as a result of all the throwing. RUNNING DOWN CATTLE. Some engineers on roads in this state amusec themselves by adding to the list of their bovine victims. 'Running into cattle,” said one rail- roader recently, “gets to be a sort of passion with engineers. They like the excitement of the chase. It is vastly better u}mrt than the English fox hunting, which they are importing to thi.flcuuntrr. You may laugh at the idea, but really after an engine driver has run down cat- tle on half a dozen occasions, he begins to lose sight of the cruelty of the thing. 1f this were not so, why does he clap on steam and rush into a drove of cattle, instead of slowing down and giving them a chance for their lives* To a certain extent the fault is not his that the stock is slanghtered on the track, but no one belicyes that there arenot many cases in which such accidents could be avoided.” Firemen as well as engineers enter more keenly into the excitement of rail- roading than do the train hands outsile of tho cab. In many cases where it is the duty of the fireman to watch the track and give the whistle and bell sig- nals, his position is second only in re- sponsibility to that of the driver. ‘The occupants of the cab, by the nature of their position, are most wrought upon by the harrowing dangers of "the rail, often having their nerves strung to thair fullest tension by incidents which never come to the knowledge of the conductor or brakeman who m Y be chatting jovially or nodding slee in the rear. THE MODERN CONDUCTOR. Besido the duties of the conductor of the present day those of the condue- for of twenty yearsago could not be considered arduous. Iravel has in- creased to such u wonderful extent since then, new stations have sprung up so quickly alongthe roads, and from a plain and simple business of ticketing vassen gers from this point to that, with a stop over here and a connection line there, has become 8o complex as to require con- siderable schooling for its ]Irr}l‘t‘l ) formance, as well as no small comn of ever knowledge and a capacity for reading character, ability to rise to any s lon that may present itself and the exercise of good judgment. illustration of the latter quality, u story is told of a western freight conduetor, three cars of whose train were derailed one day near Council Blufls, The con- ductor took the red signal and went back to flag an express which he knew was following. He sent the engineer and firaman ahead to flag all trains coming from that direction and to get assistance, harriedly ealling out to a stupid brake- manas he ran back: *‘Pull the train abead about o hundied yards.” The rear car had commenced to burn from the broken stove in the caboose and the conductor wanted to save the valua- ble freight in the other: The brakeman got on the engine, but too stupid to open the throtle, and so the whole tram was burned, causing a loss of about $75,000. When the conductor returned to the scene with some of the passengers from the express, which he had stopped a half mile away, he looked at the burn- ing cars, and stopping up to the brake- man_floored him with one blow. A quiet looking passenger walked up to the con- ductor and said: “W hy did you desert your train? You could have sent that man back with the flag and saved the cars yourself. It seems to me that you don’t "know your busine: “Why, you old fool," replied the con- ductor, glaring at his_audacious critie, “do you suppose that I wasgoing to trust that man? knew he wasa fool, like you, and that is the reason 1 let him monkey with the ears, while I went back to look after humun lives,” “Do you know who 1 am, conductor?’ “No, and I don't care 8 —-." “Iam the general manager of this “Well, I don't care if you are. If you value freight more than” human lives, 1 don’t, and I will burn a dozen trains be- fore I will let one of your Cheap John brakemen kill a hundred peop! Everyone sul)poswl that the frei ductor would be discharged, but the fol- lowing week Le was made a passenger conductor, and in course of time he be- came master of transportation of the en- tire road. TRAMPS AND BUMMERS. Nothing worries a conductor more than to be behind time, but next to this cause of misery comes the tramp. Following this is the category of con- ductors’ trials 18 the scalped ticket, else- where illustrated. The bummer who sticks lus head out of the car-window with his hat so nicely ad- justed that it will fall off when the con- ductor slaps him on the shoulder,and who then complains of the loss of his ticket, which he claims to have carried in his hat, is still met with occasionally, but he deceives not the man with the punch, who is us likely to put him off then and there as he is to earry him to the next station. Air-brakes have tended to retard the progress of the modern brakeman,but he s still a useful institution. No one would know when the train had arrived at Port Costa if he did not emit the hifihiy intel- ligible cry of ‘‘Porsta!” or at Benicia if he did not enlighten the passengers by exclaiming, *‘B'nish!"’ Porters on Pullman cars rarely become railroad presidents, but that is_ not the fault of the company employing them, for its reward to the faithful employe is better than money, consisting largely in the ‘‘tone’ given toa man who spends all his time in & palace coach. At tho end of each month the porter does not,as a usual thing, owe the Pullman company more for board and clothing thun he can borrow of his rich relations, but cases where the contrary was the rule have been reported. A nice system of fines, dockings and returns for ‘“‘favors ex- tended,” often relieves the porter of the trouble of drawing any salary, but he cnjoys good soclety and gets plenty of air and exercise, being compelled, under a recent rule of the company, to stand on the platform whenever a stop 1s made either night or day. On a forty-eight hour run this sort of exercise gets rather monotonous, to be sure, but the reward comes in the full enjoyment of the con- sciousness by the porter that he may say ;nh the Pinkerton men: “We never eep. LUCRATIVE POSITIONS. Of the baggage-smasher, shot-gun mes- sengers, muiflfcrk and peanut butchers, who enjoy the pleasant life of motion on the rail, little need be said. They fill their places so quietly as to attract little attention from the public, and it would hardly be fair to make known the ease and luxury of their positions atthe very time when they are representing them to be full of hum-drum cares in the hope of dissuading outsiders from apvlying for their situations and securing their sumptuous salaries, pocket-filling r«r- quisites, and ready cash rewards. It is enough to sn{ that these fat-pursed em- ployes are all hving in the hope that they may not die, as their demise would re- sult in the disclosure through their wills of the real value of their vast estates. W hy none of them eyer retire from train life until they are thrown through a oar roof or scattered along the track in small bits by an explosion will, therefore, con- tinue to remain a mystery. ——— Buffalo No Longer the Frontier. Chicago Herald. The president will travel, and he will not, Ho likes the newspapers no better than did Grant. He wishes, good man, that they would attend to their own affairs. But gossip or no gossip, he can- not avoid a swing around the circle. The mark is on him. Time will work the cer- tain result. The president is an appren- tice; he must become a journeyman or there will be no second term. He stuck close to his desk until he became the ruler of the people. There is no use in staying there any longer. The president ifl go through Ohio, Indiana, Iilinois, uri, Nebraska, and onward to the c slope It will astonish Mr. Cleve- land that there is so much country west of Buffalo. All Ohio is there, where once were concentered the political possibili- ties of the unmon. Yonder came the sun, rejoicing at Mingo Junction aund setting at Union City, until, alas! a steambont exploded and a maniac fired a gun. Next comes the forest of tall sycamores and dead presidential timber. ~Then Rosalie, the prairie flower, will welcome hm to Illinois—Illinois, first in hay, first in corn, and first in the hearts of Chicago- ans. From the Mississippi to the Mis- souri, and along the Platte. will carry him to the Rockies, and by and by, we suppose, the big trecs, the dashing Ore- gon, and the geysers will number him among their sold-agains. Mr. Cleveland will start the 1st of August, and be gone from Washington sixty Jnys, He has chosen the hottest time of the year. He will roast at St. Lows, and, as the Grand Army is showing its teeth, and threaten- ing to drum him out ot camp for vetoing the pauper pension bill, he might veer nun’l‘:wnrd and change cars at Chicago. Chicago would be glad to welcome a rosident of the United States, anyway. But it would be especially Kroud to do honor to one who is paying his own fare, and does not come to its gates in any corporation's private car. Mr. Clevelund hit this nation very favorably when he put a stop to that sort of thing. - Police Court. About thirty penitent looking prisoners filed into police court yesterday morning to be disposed of by Judge Berka. There was the full quota of drunks and peace disturbers. A goodly number were dis- charged, some fined, and others sent te the county jail, ~