Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1887, Page 4

e A L e — T R A o e e THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMA OF SUDSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Edition) Including Sunday Brp, One Year. .. . 81000 b (1 200 018 FARNAM STREFT ASHINGTON OFFI OUNTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE! All communiontions relating to nows and edi- torinl matter should be addressed to the Kbl TOR OF THE Brp. BUSINESS LETTERS ! All bueiness lottors and remittances should ba #ddressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OmAnA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders %0 be made payable to the order of the sompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circnlation. Btate of Nebraska, } .8 l,‘ullntf of Douzlas. st Geo. B, Izschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company’ does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 3, 1557, was as ows: - Saturday, May 25. Sunday, May 2. Monday, May ! Tuesday, May 51, Wednesday, June Thursday,” June 2. Friday,June 3., Average.....o..ie ... 14.040 . GEO. B. Tzscuvok. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of June, 1887, N, . FrIr, [SEAL.] Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, 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 for June, 1886, 12.208 copies; for July, 1886, 12,314 copies; for August, 15, 12,484 coples: for Septe ber, 18%, 13,050 coples; for October, 18, 12,08 copies: for November, 1586, ' 13,34 coples; for December, 1856, 13,237 copies; for Januaty, 1857, 10,200 coples? for February, 3857, 14,195 copies; for March. 1857, 14,400 copies: for April, 1887, 14,510 capies; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples. Gro. B. TzZscHuck, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 4th lay of Juue A, ., 1887, ISEAL.| N. P, Frir, Notary Publie. Pusricrry is the most effective protec- tion against jobbery and fraud. Our board of public works and board of county commissioners should not only keep a record of all their proceedings, but their sessions should be held on fixed days at known hours and with open doors, Hucu Mukrny and his paving contract partners have a very peculiar habit of rushing bills through the board of public works an hour or two before council meetings, and then having them ap- proved under whip and spur without giving time for investigation. Murphy’s claims may be legitimate, but the method pursued in getting them through is very suspicious. ——— AFTER the very thorough washing the eity received Tuesday night, the authori- ties 1n charge of the streets ought to have little trouble in keeping them clean hereafter, with the help of future similar visitations. There is really no good rea- son why Omaha should be unclean at any time, and there are very urgent rea- son why it should not be allowed to be 80 during the next three or four months. — New life has been infused into the Davenport Demacrat by 1ts union with the Gazelte. The consolidated paper is called the Democrat-Gazette. It is owned by a stock company with ample eapital, and every effort will be put forth to make it a first-class paper. The editor is Mr. D. N. Richardson. Two editions, morn. ing and evening, are published. The people of Davenport are to be congeatu- lated upon the new departure. E— A MAJORITY of the city council have de- clared by thelr votes that the police and fire commissioners can make no appoint. ments in the police force until after tho council has granted them authority by an ordinance which defines the powers and duties of the commission and estab- lishes rules and regulations for the gov- ernment of the police force. If this view of the law is correct, the appointment of Galligan as chief of the fire department is glso void. 8AN FrRANCISCO vices say that the fight for the China tea trade promises to be lively, but Amerioan steamship and railroad lines will not suffor unless the Canadian Pacific secures swifter vessels than jt now has chartered. The time from Shanghal to Now York is twenty- eight days, and allowing eight days for crossing thq Atlantic this gives thirty-six days botween Shanghai and Liverpool. ‘This beats the quickest time on the Suez route by eight days, The present time on American lines will be improved, as the Ocoidental and Oriental steamship cdompany hasordered the voyage between Yokohama and San Francisco shortened by two day: IT1sto be hoped the generous rainfall of Tuesday night in this section ex- tended to all portions of the state where raln was needed. Dispatches from two or three points report that they were vis- ited, with excellent effect upon the grow- Ing crops. The weekly signal service weport of the rainfall in Nebraska last week stated that it had been deficient, and although no serious ill effects were noted, in some localities the want of rain was beginning to be felt in the evidences of impending damage. The agricul- tural sections will need frequent and liberal showers for u time yet, and if these are had there is excellent promise that Nebraska's harvest will be a most generous one. Tre New York World has been en- gaged in the laudable work of ascertain- ing to what extent food adulterations are carried in that oity, and it has made some interesting disclosures, showing that pretty much everything the people consume 1s more or less adulterated, if it will admitof it. On the whole, how- ever, the results are not so bad as might have been expeoted. The latest examina- tions mado were of tea, coftee and sugar sold in rotail gioceries, conducted, of course, by oxperts. Out of 100 samples of tea 83 were not adulterated and 13 were found to be adulterated mostly with “lie" tea and foreign leaves; of 100 sam- of ground 73 were pure and were mixed with ehiccory and peas, and of 100 samipies of sugar, 98 were pure and 2 adulteratea with starch-glu- ©ose. these commoditios average throughout the country as well as this in frecdom from adulteration there is no very serious cause of complaint. The Two Bridges. The Couneil Bluffs papers which for years have kept that city surrounded with a Chinese wall by fostering local prejudices and fomenting bitterness and hatred against everything and everybody that nailed from Owmaha, are howling like a pack of coyotes over the remarks made by the editor of the Bre at the Omaha board of trade meeting, on the bridge question. We take it that the people of Council Bluffs are too inteiligent to be 1mposed upon by narrow-gauged and selfish ap- peals, which bear on their face a ma- licious purpose to disparage the Bee. It is a matter of history that the BEE has for years labored day in and day out against the Union Pacific bridge mo- nopoly, and was largely instrumental in forcing the reduction of bridge tolls from fifty to twenty-five cents. Every project looking towards better and cheaper facili- ties for commercial intercourse between Council Bluffs and Omaha has received its cordial and vigorous support. When competition with the bridge monopoly was carried on by ferryboats the BEk backed the enterprise withall the influ- ence at its command. Every project to build independent or rival bridges has met with warm encouragement. How was 1t with the Council Bluffs papers during all those years? Has not their conversion been brought about by the BEE'S persistent efforts and the growing conviction among enterprising and intel- ligent citizens of Council Blufis that they could not build their own town up by vain and desperate exertions to clog the growth of Omaha. The controversy over the rival bridges does notin any way changa the situation. ‘The boom which Council Bluffs enjoys was stimulated and sustained by the growth of Omaha, Give Omaha 200,000 people, and property across the river will doubleand quadruple in value. Check the growth of Omaha and the Council Bluffs boom must collapse nevit- ably. It stands to reason and common sense that the BEE, with its present and future dependent upor. the continued prosperity of Omaha, will naturally sup- port every project that tends to build up and solidify this city. It believes now,as it has for yoars, that a wagon bridge across the Missouri, independent of any railroad, would be a great benelit both to Omaha and Council Bluffs. On this sub- ject the views of the editor of the Brr have undergone 0o change. When called upon at the board of trade meeting to express his opinion as to the relative advantages to Omaha of a railroad and wagon bridge that would bring about the extension of the Milwaukee system of railway through Nebraska and a radical change i the method of transfer as aganst a simple wagon bridge, without any other advantages than improved facilities for local tranmsit, he did not hesitate to say as between the two he would consider the railroad and wagon bridge combined of more vital import- ance to Omaha, which in the end means also of greater advantage to Council Blufis, This 1s not all that prompted his ex- pressions. It wascharged by responsible parties at that meeting that the partieson this side of the river who are at present antagonizing the railroad bridge with the wagon bridge, were actively in con- cert with Union Pacific officials with the sole aim and object to defeat both bridge projects. The overtures of the Union Pacific to the Milwaukee road to use the Union Pacilic bridge jointly were pronounced by par- ties well informed as a counter-move which would block the building of the competing railroad bridge and would be followed up by a combination to prevent .the building of a wagon bridge. If there are any enemies of the Council Bluffs and Omaba bridge project they will be found in the Union Pacific headquarters and not in the BEE office. In view of the fact that the Milwaukee & St. Paul directory had already decided to build at least 150 miles of extension in Nebraska this year, the question had to be squarely met whether a crossing at Omaha could be made which would enable the road to reach grounds se- lected for terminal facilities or whether by blocking its way the proposed Nebraska extension was to be made from some point nearer Yankton. The question naturally presents itself: Why does the Milwaukee road insist upon crossing the river at Dodge street? Sim- ply because the bridge charter requires acombination wagon and railroad bridge, snd such a bridge built north of the Union Pacifie shops is impraclicable. There would, however, be no serious ob- stacle to the proposed wagon bridge crossing at the foot of Farnam street. ‘The offensive reference to Dillonville, which the Council Bluffs papers harp on as an jnsult to the people of that city, was emiently prover and to the point. By “Dillonville’’ we designate and dis- tinguish the Union Pacific transfer grounds, Council Bluffs has reaped no material advantage from her so-called union depot. It is true that Omaha has been crippled and her people have been subjected to great annoyance and inconvenience by the Union Pacidc transfer depot. But what has Council Bluffs gained by it? Omaha might to-day have had a larger population than Kansas City had she been given proper eastern railway connec- tions, and Council Blutfs would have reaped the benefit of that growth in due proportion. On the other hand, thons- ands of people, including men of means, who have traveled across the continent, have determined never agan to. submit to the ordeal of a Dillonville transfer. ‘This is plain talk, and sensible people Council Bluffs will concede that nothing is to be gained by perpetuating the Union Pacific bridge monopoly and the aggra- vating discomfort to which travelers go- ing east or coming west by way of Coun- cil Bluffs are obhiged to suffer. For our we hope that both the railroad bridge and the wagon bridge will be built as speedily as possible. Unless the people ot Council Bluffs are bereft of all reason they will realize that the howul“fi:' tlml:| papers is instigated by pure an senseless jealousy. ‘gh intimation that the Bex has sold out on the bridge ques- tion is as silly and as baseless as the as- sertion made by one of the Council Bluffs wpen that Rosewater sold out Van 'yok in the sematorial o and traded off the tax-payers of Omaha tothe railroads in the oharter fight. e MICHAEL DAVITT suggests a popular movement in this country to protest against the immigration of pauper labor e s e et AN T N THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1887. being promoted by the English govern- ment. It is not as yet necessary. M ex- isting laws are rigidly enforcod this class of immigrants can be excluded, and after a few cases of such exclusion the Eng- lish government would probably stop the unprofitable business. If, however, it should persist in such a policy a popu- lar protest will not be wanting, and it will be one that England will not fail to hear. Judicial Ald to Centralization of Power. The supreme courtof the United States has been subjected to a great deal of ad- verse criticisin in the last quarter of a century, There have been periods when the tribunal seemed to depart so far from that high and severe judieial impartiality which the people always expeet of 1t, and to be dominated by influences wholly foreign to its character and of which it should at all times be independent, that it was almost abandoned by popular con- fidence. Large numbers of mtelligent men feared that the last stronghold in the citidel of free government was being undermined by the unserupulous and cor- rupting agencies that were ever at work to lessen the ppwer and rights of the peo- ple and strengthen those of the classes— to weaken or destroy what belonged to the parts of the governmental structvre in order that the central power might be augmented and made stronger. Infallibility is not to be reasonably expected even of so august a body as the federalsupreme court, but there is sound reason for expecting a degree of con- sistency, and also that its interpretation of the constitution shall have in view the rights of the people as before all other rights. Otherwise the constitution must cease to be regarded as the certain shicld of the people’s rights, which it was un- doubtedly intended to be by the great men who framed it. Similar tribunals in other nations are created to guard the interests of the governmentsof which they are the creatures; the supreme court of the United States was established to conserve the interests of the people under the constitution of their ereation. It was the invariable recognition and appli- cation of this principle, which for nearly three-quarters of a century, with per- haps a single exception, kept the su- preme court of the nation free from all reproach. Among the important decisions handed down at the last session of the court was one affecting the rights of a state respect- g foreign corporations. The state of Wisconsin passed a law requiring for- eign corporations, as a condition of do- ing business in the state, to agree to waive their right of removing cases from the state to federal courts. This the su- preme court held to be unconstitutional, wherevpon the state passed a law requir- ing the foreign corporations to take out licenses, withont which they were barred from doing business, and directed the state oflicers to take the licenses away if the corporations removed any litigation against them from the state to the federal courts. This law the supreme court upheld, on the ground that the state had the absolute right to low or forbid any foreign corporations to do business in the state, and having that power it was not competent for the su- preme court to go into the question of the motive which actuated the state in exercising iy, or the end * that the state mimed at. This decision, read by Justice Hunt, now dead, dis- tinctly declared the proposition that ‘‘full power and control over its territory, its citizens and its business belong to the state,” and that in the exercise of this power the intention or the reason by which the state is influenced cannot be inquired into. The decision rendered in April reverses this position, in aflirming that it is the business of the court to find out the rea- son that moved a state to deny any par- ticular corporation a right to do business in the state, and that if that reason were to prevent the removal of trials from state to federal courts, then it was the business of the court to declare the action of the state unconstitutional. The case in which this decision was rendered was that of Barron against Burnside, and in- volved the Iowa law requiring foreign corporations to take out licenses, and providing for their revocation in the event of the corporations removing suits against them to the federal courts — a statute precisely simi- Iar to that of Wisconsin upheld by the previous decision of the supreme court. Certain Illinois railroads did not take out licenses, and Barron, an en- gmeer on the Northwestern road, was arrested for violating the state law. The case reached the supreme court, and the decision was that the law is unconstitu- tional. Under this decision the law of ‘Wisconsin of course goes down, as does a similar statute in Illinois. It will ot course be beartily approved by the cor- porations of all classes, since 1t puts a check to the exercise of state control over them that will be greatly to their material advantage. But what are the people to think of a decree which denies them the righv to exercise their sovereign vower in regulating the business of their states without having their intentions and reasons for doing so inquired into and impeached? A B uspicious Bill of Extras. A bill for $2,445.92 due to the Murphy- Creighton paving company for repairing pavements, resetting curbs, ‘‘and so forth,’ was presented to the council last night through the chairman of the board of public works, The claim 13 madc up of the following items: For repairing pavemeni West Far- nam street. For repairing pavemen! BUBeL....iiiiiirinnines For repairing pavement ‘Twentieth street..... For repairing pavement Sherman avenue... ‘South On the verbal statement of its lat chairman, Mr. House, that he had or- dered Murphy & Co: to do this work, and the mere certificate of the paving In- spector that the work had been properly executed, the board of public works has Twmmuu correct to the coun- ¢ Without ealling in question the cor- reotness of the measurement for whiok the board bas only the figures farnished by the contractors, we deem 1t our duty to protest againat this loose way of doing business. No bill for paving, curbing, grading or sewer construction should ever be approved by the board of public’ works without the certificate of the city engineer that he has inspected and measured the work and verified the cor rectness of the quantity of work done. But even if the city engineer had meas- ured this work this is an extraordinary claim which the board should not ap- prove without thorough investigation as to its validity. This is a claim for repav- ing streets which swere paved during the past cighteen months by these contrac- tors. Why should the city be taxed a second time for repaving them at this early day? If the pavement on these streets had been ruined by a cyclone or waterspout the repaving wonld properly be charge- able to the city. But in this instance the repaving was cither done in streets where the contractors had failed to Iny their pavement properly, or where the streets have been torn up by the street railroad, gas and water companies. Now, why should the property owners of the whole city be taxed for replacing vavements torn up by the strect railroad companies, eable roads, or water and gas companies? Why should not the bill of the Murphy-Creighton Co. for extras, be presented to these various corporations? Wo notice the charge for the repaving is the same as for new wooden block pavement, $1.80 per yard. Why should the contractor make no deduction for old material used in repairs? The reset- ting of curbs and relaying of stone gut- ters requires no new material, and with only a year's wear the cedar blocks couid be relaid, while the broken rock in the old concrete is just as good as uny other broken stone. The city council has very properly referred this extraordinary bill to a committees There are obvious reasons why the city should not pay the whole of it, and we doubt very much whether any part of 1t is legally charge- able against the cit, Tue new law of Illinois abolishing the Lucket-shops is as commendable a piece of legislation as was enacted by the last assembly of that state. There is abso- lutely nothing to be said in defense of these institutions, no matter where they exist. They are bad in every way. Asa system, says the Cnicago Herald, *‘these bucket-shops have become so powerful that they have often raided the wheat pit and heared the market point after point, until their sheets were cleaned, and every cent of money deposited to their credit by customers swept away as legitimate winnings. In other words, the keepor of the bucket-shop, acting as trustee and impartial spectator of the warket, has turned that market agsinst his own ous- tomers, they not dreaming that he could iufluence the quotations any more than he could stop the rising of the moon. Everybody who patron- izes a bucket shop must lose. A law to stop such methods of money-making by sharpers must therefore be a public good. As a practical matter, however, Illinois refuses to profit by the folly of Wiscon- sin, Iowa, Michjgan and Indiana. Mil- lions of bucket 3Fop money come into Chicago each year from those states. wiseacres who Igsh year after year, and say very little abdht it.” The effect of the law will notbe confined to 1liinois. It will kill off a great many bucket shops elsewhere to the existence of which the Chicago gambling dens were essential, Almost every tns;ih:\e a little clique of THE better eleménts of Chicago's peo- ple are enjoying a sense of relief and justitiable gratification over the success of the eitizens' judicial ticket. It was certainly under the circumstances a signal victory, and if it shall result, as there can be no doubt 1t will, in & purer administration of judicial aftuirsin that city and county, the value of the victory cannot be overestimated. It has another importance as a lesson to partisans that they cannot be sure of always command- ing the suvport of the people regardless of the character of candidates chosen or the motives and aims that suggest the choice. It happens perhaps too infre- quently that the people become aroused to revolt against partisan dictation which demands their support of corrupt men and unholy schemes, but affairs some- times get so bad, as they are very sure to do sooner or later under the control and manipulation of the professional poh- ticians, that the people are forced to sec the necessity of rising in their own defense, and when such oc- casions come, party claims have very little consideration. Chicago has just passed through an experience of this kind, and while the result will undoubt- edly have an excellent effect there, it should be taken into account elsewhore as an example of what the people can do for themselves when the politicians force a conflict. — Last week the city of New York sold a couple of street railway franchises for the sum of 84 and 40 per oent. of their gross receipts respectively. A New York contemporary remarks that this tact discloses in a startling manner the value of the gifts made by the community in times past to the various corporations occupying the public streets, and throws a stream of light also upon the trading value of the franchises. If they were worth what was paid for them to the city treasury, they were worth as much to anybody having the power to grant, them. These facts and reflections hdye a suggestion for every community where street railway franchises are being eagerly sought. The method of disposing ‘of them that pre- vails in New York'fhay not be applicabie to a young city, where such public ac- commodation must' take the chances of the community 's)growth, but when the veriod of risk is passed and certain profit for such enterpriscd is assured, the grant. ing of these fmni 8 may properly be made a source of Fgvenue to the public treasury. Omabp (is approaching that position, if it basnet already reached it. ——— Great progress noted in the far northwest, wheral[ is likely the future will develop somié remarkable booms. It 18 reported that no less than $30,000,000 has this spring been drawn out of eastern hands to be invested in the country about Puget sound. Tacoms and Soattle are rapidly growing towns. From the latter railway building 18 making rapid pro- gress in two directions. Northward, a line is being oconstructed to connect Seattle with Vancouver, and this will be pushed to completion 1 possible during the t year. Eastward the Seattle, L&f Ehm & Eastern railway has been surveyed around the north of Lakes Union and Washington, and the survey is being pushed towssd the Snoqualmic Pass, to which point the road will be built this year. Thence it will be rapidly ex- tended to the booming city of Spokane Falls on the Northern Pacific railway, & city haying more water-power than Min- neapolis. The new road will there be met by & new conncction to he built from the éast, as well as by the present Northern Pacific line. Tnr president's brief vacation will come to an end on to-day. [Friday morning he will breaktast with Governor Hill and receive the hospitalities of his only acknowledged political rival for the period of three hours, returning to Washington on Friday evening. Then will begin a fresh chapter of conjectures as to how he will dispose of himself during the remaining summer period. It seems to be very certain that he has vledged himself to go nowhere, and so far as the talked-of St. Louis visit is concerned he will doubtless see the wisdom of keeping clear of that city. He would find thero nothing to edify him when the Grand Army 1snot in session, and he might tind much to displease him when itis. It 13 said that wherever he may decide to go one of the conaitions of the visit will be that there shall be no political demonstrations. He will abso- lutelo decline to talk, even briefly. Of course the hospitality extended by Gov- ernor Hill will be construed to have a volitical significance, thongh in fact it will be purely an aftair of courtesy. Tne fight Hugh Murphy and the paving gang made upon the charter last winter wus chiefly dirceted against the section that placed the eity engineer upon the board of public works. By the help of the legislative boodlers the contracters’ gang succeeded in defeat- ing thiy important safe-guard ugainst jobbery. Murphy's effort to slip that $2,445 claim for paving repairs through without the abproval of the city engineer shows what object he had in view last winter, —_— At Henderson, Kentucky, Professor Posey, principal of the high school, shot and killed Professor Clark, superinten- dent of schools. The shooting was done 1n the presence of the pupils, and wasa practical lesson in teaching the young Kentucky idea how to shoot. MicHAiL DAviTr appeals for Ameri- can aid to the Irish cause. His appeal will not be in vain, England’s tvranny towards Ireland is daily growing more severe, and is arousing the greatest sym- pathy in the United States for the op- pressed people of the Emerald Isle. KINGS AND QUEENS, Queen Christina of Spain has gone to spend some weeks at Aranjuez, on the Tagus, with the baby king. ‘The doctors of old Kaiser Wilhelm with difficulty keep him from dancing at every ball he attends. The queen of Belgium stood godmother to a young negro from the Congo who was christened on Thursday in Brussels. He was named Honri Leopold. The king of Wurtemburg has returned to Stutgart from his sojourn at Nice. Helis mneh improved in health, but the doctors continue to insist upon his absolute repose. The czar of Russia i3 an adept on the French horn and often beguiles the solitude of ils imprisonment by airs upon that in- strument. Cheintense animosity of the ni- hilists is explained and to some extent ex- cused. The crown prince of Germany always car- ries the jewels of the orders of the zarter, the fleece, and the black eagle of Prussia in one ofhis breast pockets, except when he is dis- playing the decorations on the front of bhis tunie. At the recent state ball in London the princess of Wales wore a dress of gray satin and silver brocade, veiled in crepe and looped with marabou feathers, corsage to correspond; headdress, a tlara of diamonds; ornaments, pearls and diamonds and her usual orders. g The queen of Denmark is visiting her daughnter, the duchess of Cumberland, at the asylum at Bodling. The queen traveled under the strictest incognitio, refusing to allow the oflicials to receive her at Dresden, ‘Vierna and other stations on the journey. The condition of pregnancy of the duchess deiays her restoration to sanity, . Hallucination. Wayne Gazette, The trouble with the Omaha Republican seems to be that its editor is laboring under the hallucination that he is the republican party of Febrask. ety But One Result. Wayne Gazelte, The fight which Rothacker is making against Governor Thayer can lead to butone result, the discomtiture of the Republican. The governor is too well and favorably known in Nebraska, and has served its peo- ple too well to be Injured by the malicious attack sof a comparative stranger, whose venom is born of disappointed ambition. e ‘The Milk in the Cocanut. McCook Demoorat, ‘The papers in the state that have been pur- sulng Governor Thayer in an effort to belit- tle hischaracter and lower him in gthe esti- mation ot the people will have mnothing for their trouble, Themain reason for all this abuse seems to have grown out of the refusal of the governor to appoint a couple ot Omaha editors as police commissioners of that city. R Unwarranted Attack. uttonRegiater. ‘The Omaha Republican’s attack on Gov- ernor Thayer is unwarranted and uncalled for. Because the governor disappolnted the Republican in the appointements madeafor police commissioners for the city of Omaha, is not a sufficient reason for the Republican to climb onto the old man’s frame and stand on his neck. The Republican may as well take its disappointment as lightly and pnil- osophically. as possible. The republican party in Nebraska will sece that the old man is taken care of. — Two Lives. Merchant Traveler, He plucked a halt-blown rose, and as He pls it in her bair, “Wear this,” he sald. *Twill blush to see How much thou art more fair.” She wore the rosa until its bloom fade awa: AD 3 ‘Then east it by, nor an ht agaln Of where it withered l-‘y. M He loved, and told his love in words His hing was WEit and stood alone anie was writ a Unnon:' hor heart’s pure scroll. nd yet when unrelenting time ‘lur beauty did depose, . e left ber, of her fate, iscarded like the rose. ot An Absurd Claim. West Point Republiean, The Nebraska rallway commission has faken & very peculiar stand. 1t claims that the rallroads which run from Chicago vis Omaha to Lineoln should haul goods from the tirst named city to Lincoln just as cheap as they do to Omaha, or as they putlit, to Missourl river points. We do not profess to understand rallroad business, but just from a common sense view of the subject, this ap- pears tobe a very absurd claim. If Lincoln is entitled to “receive the samo rates ns Omaha, then the distance the company hauls ®0ods has nothing to do with the charge. I this is the case then Hastings is also entitled to receive the same rates as Lincoln, The absurdity of this claim s selt evident. If the number of wiles hauled does not regulate the rate, what in the worl, es? - A Day of Thanksgiving. North Bend Flail, A day of thanksgiving should be appointed atonce, God in his infinite mercy has given us a governor that the common Omaha Phil- listine cannot control, Let therebe an fm- mediate proclamation and an enforced ob- servance, if necessary by sword, shot, shell and dynamite booms. Glory to God in the highest! When little Freddy Nye and Obe- diah Hzekish Rothacker attempt to kick over the state government because they can- not wear the cock hat and leather breeches of the Omaha policeman, it Is high time for the daisies to bloom on the banks of the Styx. PN —— BTATE AND TERRITORYX. Nebraska Jottings. The Omaha council declines to Seavey. The German language has been ntro- duced in the public schools at Grand Island, Greeley county boomers have capt ured a flowing oil well to lubricate their schomes. It is boldly asserted at headquarters that the Omaha club will not let go their foot hold in the league race. Mother carth in this vicinity donned her brightest robes of emerald Wednesday morning, in response to the blessings showered upon her. Hon, J. Sterling Morton is building an extensivo fish pond at Arbor Lodge. It will be equipped with overy facility to encourage piscatorial thritt and industry. Builders and_speculators are active on the Nebraska side sf the river, opposite Sioux City, and the Iowa metropolis fears ixcumpumor will rise up near by to smite her. The Missouri Pacific proposes to live up to the letter of the inter-state law. Superintendent Clarke stated in Nebraska City that the Denver branch ‘‘won’t pass them by.” The printers and bakers of Beatrice tackled base ball a few days ago, and mowed the field by a score of 27 to 2—al- most as good as the Omaha-St. Joe game. The typos slugged the dough men knead- lessly. “Two exceedingly loud-mouthed and vulgar women from the west,” according to the News, have succeeded in attracting attention in Nebraska City. Unfortu- nately the town is without a Mother Hub- bard marshal, A gang of burglars raided the Cottage house in” Grand™ Island Monday night, cleaning up 8 number of watches an $20 cash. Shortly after, while diyiding the boodle, the police made a dive for them and captured one, Omaha is bound to have coal at all hazards. One of the many bores organ- ized here has struck a vein'in Wyoming, having located 640 acres of coal land near Glen Rock in the vicinity of Douglas. *“The Omaha Coal Mining Company” has posted notices on the claim. The corporation of Valley will turn lovse the giorious bird on the Kourth, and has aiready made large requisitions on the dome painting eloquence runnin, loose in Omaha. 'T'he noted cottonwoos of the Wabash corner, Col. Frank Moores, has been secured at great expense and anxiety to fire jumbo crackers of en- thusiasio on the occasion. Considerable pressure is being brought to bear to in- duce him to repeat the speech delivered on the corner the morning folluwing election. The mellow beams of sunshine that careened over the Iowa blufls at that early hour wilted the moment they struck Frank’s fistic peroration hurled at the routed hosts of Hancock. A repetition would in itself be worth the price of ad- 1mission. The Fremont Tribune gleefully notes the election of H. T. Clarke as a member of the school board -of Omaha, and re- calls an incident of & former campaign as follows: “He is the same Mr. Clarke who was a candidate for governor of Nebraska last fall. After the first roll call which nominated General Thayer, Mr. Clarke was led to the front of the platform by Chairman Weaver when ne said substantially this: ‘Ladies and gen- tlemen: I could not rejoice more this evenin’ over the nomination of anybody else than Mr. Thayer, unless it had been myself. He's one of the ‘fovvers’ of the republican party and [ propose for to take off my coat and help elect him.’ They didn't conceive the idea of makin, Mr.” Clarke & member of the school board soon enough. As a murderer of the English language the youth of Omaha will be furnished a frigthful ex- ample. It ought to spur them to re- newed energy.”’ Towa Items, The Northwestern road has captured z}l‘tnu bridge franchise granted Sioux ity. Western Iowa crops are much more promising than those in the central and eastern portions of the state. The free delivery system has been or- dered for Waterloo, Marshall, Clinton and Muscatine, to go into force July 1. Prophet Foster predicts heavy storms from the 13th to the 18th, and red hot weather tho last ten days of the month. A robin has built a nest in the mouth of one of the Parrot guus that ornament the burial plat of the Maquoketa G. A. . post—a picture of peace which it would be difficult to improve upon. The mayor of Des Moines has been fined seven different times for violations of ordinunces he worked hard to bave rused. and now threatens to resign un- less the police Jet up on their tomfoolery. Ever since the Des Moines club barked its shins on Oshkosh, the natives have been crying for blood., Nothing less than decapitation of the manager will repair the losses they have sustained. The Wolverines raiso their own willows, A Cedar Rapids woman arranged a marriage between her thirteen-year-old daughter and a man old cnough to be the girl’s grandfatber, on condition that the man would support the family. The bridegroom kept his promise for a week, and then left for parts unknown. The attendance at the state university the past year has been 571 students, against 502 the year before. The gradu- ating glass consists of thirteen females and thirty males; sixteen have taken the scientific’ course, six classical, sixteen philosophical, and five enginecring. An Osceola county farmer named Wil- son set fire to a pile of rubbish and ma- nure not more than twenty-five or thirty feet from his bern, and allowed it to burn and smoulder for several days in spite of warnings by his neighbors.” In time the wind cfnuzcd and Wilson lost his barn, two horses, & now ocovered carringe and two sets of hurness. No insurance. Dakota. The Manitoba road is virtually com- [le(ed across the wholo of Northern Da- kota. Deadwood offers the Fremont, Eikhorn & Missouri Valley $50,000 to build to that town this season. George Stevens, a miner at the Galena mine, near Deadwood, wps accidentally killed on Saturday. Ie leaves a fawily in Kansas, Cut-worms are making sad havoc with the young corn in Miner county, and many farms are harrowing in flax upoun the ruined corn fields. At Grafton the vote to hond the cit for the mght of way for the Duluth e e N Manitoba was practically unanimous, there being only two negatives, Pierre is about to secure a grove neat s a park, It isa tract of about fifty acres, mostly covered with beautiful wrees, and can readily be converted into one of the finest parks in the west. Montana. Bullion shipments from week amounted to §208,738, Two young men of Biilings expect to start from that place to New Orleans in a few days. They will go in a sixteen- foot skitl, ‘I'he Mullan tunnel cave in has seriously blocked the business of the Northern Pacitie. It will require wecks of work to make a clearing. Meantime the com- pany will reconstruct what is known as the “high line,”" over which the famous Villard excursion passed on its way to tho coast. The high line will be com- pleted this week, and traflic resumed. Montana territory was (wenly-threo years of agoe on the 28th ult. Coming into existence amid tho clash of arms, the population was limited to a few thousand hardy and venturesome pros- ctors who faced privations and Indians n search of fortuno. The census of 1870 gave a population of 20,000, now the number will reach 150,000. In 1864 Mon- tana was considered asof little account except for her placer mines. When these were worked out it was expected that the country would be generally abandoned to savages and wild beasts. How all ths has been changed within a score of years, “Wearestill a territory,” says the Helena Herald, *‘but we have ~a permanent pop- ulation sutlicient to enttle us to be a state, We have thousands of acres of cultivated farms, hundreds of thousands of head of valuable stock. We have scores of quartz mines rated in the millions and home- {xrown millionaires by the dozen., We have hundreds of flourishing schools and school houses and churches that would be a credit to some of the original thir- teen states, We have hundreds of miles of railroad, which will be increased into the thousands before the season is over. We have regular courts to do the work of vigilance committees and court hous that would put to shame the majority in the older states, Our peovle are pros- perous, contented, hopeful and progress- ve. i L A o MR. NELIGH'S STATEMENT. Butto last He Relates His Side of the Story of the Trouble With T. J. Beard. In regard to the trouble between T. J. Beard & Co. and J. J. Neligh, published Tuesday, Mr. Neligh say: he check which [ gave was at Beard's own re- quest. There were no funds in the bank and had not been and this was under- stood. Beard said that the check would help him out and when due he would not present it, but would hold it until I paid the bill. I told Beard when the debt was incurred that he would have to wait until I got pay from Dixon county for work done there. Ihave not as yet settled with Dixon county. I was passing by the store when Beard called my attention to the check in the window. [ said it was a dirty trick and would hurt him as much as it would me. It is false that I made boasts or threats, but at 8 o’clock of the same evening (Monday, I think), I had been informed that the Beards were calling attention to the check, and were doing other ungentlemanly acts. ‘Tom Foley called my attention to it. I went intc the store with the determination to take down the check., 1 took it down and threw it on the floor, One of the Beards and one of the cmployes rushed on me and I pulled a gun and told them to stand k. They said T had no right to take We had a long conversation lasting about ten minutes, 1 want to state that Beard made no threat to strike me and did not take my gun away. If the parties who are talking bluff, want it, they can have an oppor- tunity to take my gun away. I hav enot been arrested and do not fear it. The Beard Bros. and the listener combined can have all the .opportunity they want to take mfi gun away and spank me. never pull a gun without using dis- cretion.” Borrowing From Peter to Pay Paul. Yesterday morning Charles Conoyer, secretary of the board of education, bor- rowed from City 1'reasurer Rush $10,000, on hisown responsibility, or at least thatof his bond smen, for the purpose of paying the salaries of the toachers of the public schools, for the month of May. There fs now but $2,000 credited to the board of education, all the rest having been expended. This money will not be available for return until the saloons pay their qunrterly license installment in July- To pay the teachers for July Mr. Conoyer will be obliged to give his per- sonal check again at the end of the month for $12,000. Itis in this mannor that the salaries of the teachers for some time have been promptly paid. AA il Homeward Bound, At the union depot yesterday morning there were about 100 mutes who were waiting outgoing trains. They were in charge of Superintendant Gillespie, of the deaf and dumb institute, and were on their way home to lpeni the summer vacation. The institute will reopen in Seplember. Twenty Thousand Dollars. The biggest transfer in County Clerk Needham's officeyesterday was from Eliza C. Brown to Senator Manderson, of lot 5, block 74, on the northeast corner of Cap- ital avenue and Fourteenth streot for ,000. ‘“The Happy TTmugths the beat hard coal range in the world.” For sale by C. ¥, Gardner, 719 North 16th St. e ——em—— Heavy Westward Traffic, The passenger traflic of the Union Pa- cific has greatly increased in the last few weeks, Yesterduy morning the overland train for the west was run out of Omaha ig two sections. = Gatarrh to Consumption. Catarrh in its destructive force stands next to and undoubtedly leads on to consumption. 1t is thorefore singular that those athictod with this fearful discase should not muke it the objoct of their lives to rid themselvos of 1t Decoptive remodies concocted by fgnorant pro- tenders to medical knowledge have weakened the confidence of tho great majority of suffor- ers In all advertised romedios. They become resigned 10 o lifo of misory rather than torture themselves with doubtful palliatl st this will nover do. 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