Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1887, Page 5

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Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual eirculation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 3, 1857, was as follows: f May 2¢ Baturda Sunda; 1 Mond: y i Tuesday, Ma Wednesday, June 1 Tnursday, June 2 Friday,June 3.... Average......oiiiinis Gro. 8. T2 Ci Subscribed and sworn to before me 4th day of June, 1887, N. P. FrIr, [SEAL.) Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he s secretary of The Bee l’llb]lshmF company, that thie actual average daily circulation of the Daily Beo for the month™ of for June, 185, 12 copies; for July, 1886, 12,314 copie for August, 1856, 12,464 coples; for Septen 185, 15,00 coples; for October, 1886, 12,08 copies: for November, 1886, 13,348 coples; for December, 1886, 13,357 copies; for JM““I 1887, 16,206 coples; for February, 1857, 14,108 coples: for March. 1857, 14,400 °g§‘”‘ for April, 1887, 14,31 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples, 6 T E0, B. Tz8CHUCK, Subseribed and nvlv’;-‘gln to before mo this 4th day of June A, I 3 [SE. Ferr, Notary Public. Humreng the Pawnee basso pro- fundo, was snowed under in June with the thermometer varying among the eighties. Om, yes! Jack Galligan is safe as chief of the fire department, and so is Seavey as long as the police commission does not appomnt another man chief of police. ‘VASSAR COLLEGE will this year gradu- ate thirty five young ladies, presumabty as charming as they must be intelligent. Porhaps the very best that can be wished them is that they may all secure good husbands before the first anniversary of graduation day is reached. TaE business done at the South Omaha Union stock yurds is rapidly assuming mammoth proportions. On Tuesday 8,000 hogs were received, and on Monday there were 6,800. All were sold here. Besides the hogs, there are from 600 to 800 hoaud of cattle sold per day. The Union stock yards bank transuctions samounted to over $300,000 on Wednes- day. These figures are evidence of the growing importance of Omaha as a live stock market. Ir is believed in Washington that the Randall faction is opposed to an extra sossion of congress for the reason that they want the longest possible time to work on the new members, especially those from the south, in behalf of the re- peal or reduction of internal revenue taxes rather than customs duties. This is not at all incredible, and if well founded might appear to the mind of the presi- dent a very forcible argument in favor of calling an extra session, Anything that will thwart this obstinate and obstructive faction the country is likely to approve. ——— It cannot be a comforting circnmstance to the administration and its friends to be told by a Maryland democrat, who also happens to be a civil service re- former, that ‘‘offensive partisanship has ot been allowed by the present admin- istration to languish and die.” But who should know this better, or so well, than 8 Maryland democrat who has had the opportunity to see the way in which Sen- ator Gorman of that state worked the spouls system during the early months of tho administration, and until the president discovered how shamelessly he was being used and imposed upon by Gorman. It is some credit to the presi- dent that he oast this freebooter off when he learned his true character, but the @ivil service reform polioy of the admin- fstration suffered greatly before the dis- covery was made, and the spoilsmen re- main on hand to disoredit it. This it 13 that prompted and justified the setate- ment of the Marylaud democrat. S — AMONa the latest railroad intelligence 1s the statoment that the recent purchase of Rattlesnake 1sland, off Los Angeles, is for the Union Pacitic. The island, it is claimed, was purchased by this company for terminal purposes, and the inference is that the Union Paaific contemplates the constrnction of anindependent outlet to the Pacific coast in California. This circumstance suggests many other schemes in which the Union Pacitic may be engaged, having for their object the enlargement of its facilities and placing the company in a more independent atti- tude with respect to some other com- panies, but it is to be remarked that there does not appear to be any large amount of certainty as to any of these plans. Itisnot at all likely, however, that the reinforced management of the road will be satistied with a continuance of the old order of things. THE rubber being the newest development of its kind, any facts regard- ing its purpose und the industry it would seek to control are of interest. It ap- pears that there has been a steady snd large growth in the consumption of orude rubber during the past ten years, the production in 1876 being 10,000,006 pounds and in 189 reaching 98,0000,000. Duri sevoral years of that period, and un 1883 the rubber market was controlled by the Vianus syndicate, Subsequently two _ cowpanies—the Sears commercial and the New York commercial—were formed, and it is these two that are now engaged in & fight for the control of the crude rubber trade of this country. The fight ‘was begun against the Sears eompany, and if they are worsted the plan of their successful rivals is to organize a trust or * manufscturers’ combination that will “'play umbrellas and overshoes with the trade when the weathor is wot." Every Man His Own Employe. When the inter-state law went into effect April 4,the B. & M. railway company demanded from the parasites and barpa- cles, the shyster lawyers and oil room corruptionists, a speedy and uncondi- tional surrendor of pass books and passes, This was parily for the reason that the legislature had adjourned, which, coup led with the fact that a munificent pro- vision of the inter-state law prohibited the issuance of pas: without reference to previous condition, accordingly tte bilks and bummers couid no longer re- ceive free transportation, Employes, however, could ride free. Slowly but surely the pass fiends have made the last concession, acknowledged their desire to become the phant tools of a great corporation, ad- mitted their lack of manhood and bar- tered themselves for & mese of pottage consisting merely of an annual pass. As the year grows older, employes be- come more plentiful and the same old gang s cnlisted barring a few bottle- searred veterans. The railrogue recruit- ing oftices haye furnished their auota of strikers, provided them with passes, and the inter-state law so ingeniously inter- preted a fow months ago, succeeded only 1n retiring the dissolute and exhausted bummers who could no longer do ser- vice in the field, oil room or in the lobby. The active and willing oncs are awaiting orders for the next eampaig A New Move Foreshadowed. Those who have paid some attention to the movements of the railroads 1n con- nection with the inter-state commerce act, advance the theory that they are planning 1o test the constitutionality of the act, and are only waiting until the commission definitely announce what their policy is to be as to the fourth sec- tion. The theory is that the roads will endeavor to show not only that the law i in itself unconstitutional, but that it has been executed in un unconstitutional manner, because the conmissioners not having been confirmed by the senate their acts are void. The pomt is made that the law itself requires that the commis- sioners shall be contirmed before they can act, and that as the offices are new ones and not yacancies, they cannotin any case be filled except with the advice and consent of the senate, as provided 1n the constitation, This question was care- fully cousidered and widely discussed after the passage of the act creating the commission, the president being him- self in doubt. The postponement of the oppointments until after the adjourn- ment of gongress was done pursuant to an opinion of the attorney general that they could be constitutionally made after adjournment, Still there is a question involved, and it is not at all unlikely that if the rail- road corporations can turn it to any ad- vantage by way of embarrassing or ob- structing the operation of the law, they willdo so. It has never been doubted that they would improve the first oppor- tunity to test the constitutionality of the act itself, provided they failed in their combined effort to render the law so ob- noxious that its repeal or material modifi- cation would be demanded by the people. This they have evidently failed to do, and they may therefore be expected to have recourse to the other attempt to destroy this legislation. The hint of this design is not found wholly 1n the conduct of the railroad managers, but also in contributions that are finding their way into certain newspapers, the inspiration of which is obvious, deprecat- ing the policy of such legislation as un- constitutional and inimical to our gov- ernmental system. Looking to a confliet in the courts, to determine the comstitutionality of this legislation, as entirely vrobable, the question becomes a sorious one as to how far the people, in the hight of recont ex- perience, can repose faith in the supreme tribunal of the nation. It has declared that congress has the sole right to regu- late inter-state commerce, but this does not give complete assurance that the court would not find in the existing law some infringement by congress upon the rights of the corporations. It is quite as serious a matter to deny to a state the right to control the busi- ness of corporations within its jurisdic- tion without having its intentions or reasons therefor inquiced 1nto and im- peached, yet the subreme court has done this. Whatever romaining danger there 18 to the inter-state commerce law is in this last resort of the rallroad corpora- tions. But even should the people en- counter defeat there the victory of the corporations would be but temporary. There regulation under constitutional authority is a policy that will be firmly adhered to and accomplished. S ——— The question of a success Woods on the bench of the supreme court of the United States is very gener- ally regarded as of considerable import- ance, particularly with respect to sec- tional considerations. The dead justice was appomnted from the south, and it has been generally assumed that his succes- sor would be chosen from the circuit he represented. But there are a great many aspirants, not all of whom are within this circuit, and 1t has been urged thattheap- pointment of a justice from the circuit represented by Justice Woods is unim- portant. With this view Mr. George Ticknor Curtis, whose opinion the legal fraternity everywhere will respect, does not agree. Having known the court for more than forty years, ho states that all the judges of his acquaintance regarded it as of great consequence to have the court a represertative bedy, so far as it could be made one by selections from among the bar of the circuit to which each judge was as- signed. In the period to which he refers, the assignments, although perhaps made by statute, were regulated by the prac- tice of making the appointments from the circmit where s vacancy bhad oe- curred. The presidents did not regard any discrimination excepting such as resulted from their party relations. Each president being a democrat selected the best lawyer in his cirowit who was of bis own party. This system was broken in upon during and after the war, so that the court came to be composed of judges who were not only of the same political party, but were northarn and western mep, with the exception of Justice Field of California. There grew up, also, as a kind of necessity, the practice of assign- ing ju to cirouis remote from the region which shey were appointed, while they had nospecial tamiliarity with the local law that they were to s large exteut to administer, It is the opinion of Mr. Curtis that familiarity with the local law constitutes a very important reason for having the court a representative body, as tar as may be practicable, It is not the consti- tutional questions or those more or less of a political character which give this consideration importance, but reterence is had more particularly to questions of property, invoiving, as a very large large number of cases do, the local laws of the states wherein they originate. It has been the fixed habit of the supreme court to follow the decisions of the state courts in matters of purely local law; but there is in every state a vast body of customary law, local usage, and received interpretation of private rights that have not been embodied in any statute or covered by any judicial decision. This is the kind of knowledge which it is very desirable to have in at least one member of the court. There can be no question regarding the plausibility of this view, but it 1s hardly probable that such considerations as are presented will have much weight with the president, if they should occur or be presented to him. It 1s pretty safe to as- sume that political quite as much as vractical considerations will influence the selection, but in any event popular desire in the matter will be satisfied if the new justice shall be a man who is known to be one of the people and who can be depended upon to interpret the constitution with scme regard for their rights and interests, ‘[here is certainly a demand for such a man on the supreme bench. —————— Enforce the Contract, ‘The board of public works has very properly refused to sanction the proposed substitution of limestone for sandstone in the city hall building. The plans call for sandstone, and the contractor should be held strictly to his contract. The fact that the Union Pacific has raised its freight tolls on Colorado sandstone since the inter-state law went into eflect, should have no weight with the board of public works. 1ts manifest duty is to en- force contracts. It has no right to release contractors from their obligations. If the contractors for the city hall basement lose money they have only themselves to blame. They have shown no disposition to expedite the building, but on the contrary they have dilly-dallied for eight months and delayed the construction be- yond the time within which they are bound to carry out their contract. Had they bought their sandstone last winter as any prudent builder would have done, the city hall basement would be com- pleted to-day and the raising of freight tolls by the Union Pacific would have had no bearing uvon the contractor. The foundation walls of a fire-proof pub- lic building should be of the most dur- able material. The city cannot allow the contracter to deviate from the plans and specifications without incurring a great risk, and certainly not without the consent of the architect, where the pro- posed change would vitally affect founda- tion walls. A Stupid Blunder, Whosoever advised ex-Marshal Cum- mings to attempt the resumption of his former functions at the head of the poiice has made a stupid blunder. The oftice of city marshal was abolished on the 30th of March. From the day on which the char- ter went into eftect Thomas Cummings was reduced to the rank of policeman, temporarily in charge of the police force. By virtue of the authority vested in it by law the police commission has ap- pointed Captain Seavey chief of police. When Seavey assumea-his position Mr. Cummings ceased to have any connec- tion with the police force. Had he been a policeman he could not resume his place on the force except by authority of the police commission. If Seavoy 1s not the lawful chief of police, the officer next in rank to him is the legal chicf until Seavey or some person qualified to hold the position and appointed by the police commission assumes the place. Thos. Cummings has no better right to act as chief than any other private citizen who never served on the police force. We say this in no unkind spirit to Mr. Cummings, whom this paper supported, during two years of most bitter and relentless opposition by men who now are trying to make a cat's paw of him, Mr. Cummings can- not afford to play into the hands of his former enemies, even if he had reason- able assurance that he could sustain him- self in the effort to resume his plage for a single day. —— AN insane woman permitted to land at Boston from one of the steamers of the Cunard line has cost the company $1,000, that being the amount of the fine im- posed by the collector of the port, This 18 o good example of the summary and thorough way in which such violations of our laws by foreizn steamship com- panies should be treated, and a few such examples can hardly fail to prove an effectual deterrent of abuses recently shown to be on the increase. The laws are believed to be ample for keeping out the insane, the paupers, and the criminals of other lands, -but the trouble is with those charged with their execution. There has been a lack of vigilance and firmness, and perhaps even of honesty. Recent high-hapnded violations and attempts to violate the laws having directed public attention to the matter, it is likely that the statutes will be hereafter, for a time at least, rigidly enforced, with the result of end- ing the abuses while this is done. For- eign governments will find it more profit- able to keep their objectionable classesat home when there is a certainty of all such being sent back if shipped to this country, or other penalties oxacted as the circunistances shall justify, S ——— FOR virginal modesty commend us to the Douglas street claimant. Yesterday that influential concern claimed that the new management elected Broatch and the other successful candidates on the republican city tioket. To-day we are told that Burton was made chairman of the republican committee because his name was favorably mentioned to its select eircle of subseribers a few days ago. We venture a brass button against a bogus niekle that no member of the ‘mew management'’ has ever seen Bur- ton or ever heard of him exoept through Charloy Green or its Lincola correspond- ent. E— ‘THE nataral gas celebration held at Findlay, Obio, the past two days, was wholly unique in human 3 There was no previous record of any- thing likeit. It was furthermore in all respects 8 most hmmuu.nus. a8 was attested by the great concourse of peo- vle attracted to the fortunate town. The daily output of the gas wells of the re- gion is now stated to be ninety million cubie feet. ‘I'hie only difliculty in the way of Findlay becoming one of the great manufacturing centres is the doubt as to how long this great yield of cheap fuel KeNtUeky has developed a new idea, which however isquite inline with most other ideas for which that commonwealth is noted. By order of a courta young white woman has been sold as a yagrant to the highest biddaer for thirty days. The lights of modern civilization burn dimly insome quarters south of the Ohio river. ——e. PROMINENT PERSONS, Colonel W. F. Cody has become a con- tributor to the London magazines. Colonel Fred Grant is said to be as Inveter- ate a cigar smoker as his father was. Carl Schurz, who had bis hip broken by a fall on the ice last winter, Is just getting able to limp about on crutches. KElla Wheeler Wilcox 1s so far recovered from her severe iliness that she can receive anda answer her voluminous correspondence. The New York Tribune says that the length of Mr. Blaine’s stay abroad is still un- determined. It may be six months and it may be a year, Senator Kenna of West Virginia is an- other man who went into the confederate service and came out a private. He enlisted when a mere boy. The death of William A. Wheeler leaves Hannibal Hamlin the only living ex-vice- presidens of the United States. He will be 8 years old in August. Colonel Mosby’s daughter is writing up the “‘Adventures of a Boy Soldier,” the material ror which she procured froma member of her father's command who enlisted when only 13 years ot age. Donald G. Mitchell, pleasantly known to many thousand American readers as ‘‘lke Marvel,”” has wholly given overliterary work, and is spending his quiet evening of life on a farm near New Haven, Conn. He is sixty- five years old.” Minister Phelps hasJdssued a proclamacion to the effect that hereafter he will permit no American to be presented to the queen ex- cept those who represent ‘‘the est American families.” If there should be an interna- tional exhibition of snobs and cads, profes- sionals like Phelps will have to be barred out or the first prize will bo captured by the ex- hibit from Vermont. . e e He Gets as Little as He Wants, Life, Man wants but little here below, and he generally gets it. —— Probably. Providenee Journal. An English canon is accused of plagiariz- ing one of the Rev. Dr. Talmages’s sermons, ‘The defense will probably be insanity. —— Abusing Governor Thayer. Fairlny Gazette, Several Omaha papers are lately indulging in uncalled for and indecent attacks on Gov- ernor Thayer. When papers, as in this case, abuse a man because they cannot use him tor purposes of their own, they suffer more than their intendea vietim. e Nota Hippodrome, Kansas City Journal. The Hon, Buck Taylor, a rider in Mr. Cody’s Wild West show, suffered acom- pound fracture of the thich the other day by being thrown from & bucking broncho. This should convince doudting Englishmen that Buffalo Bill’s hippodrome 1s not a hippo- drome. — A Candid Humorist. Globe-Dem-crat. “Bill Arp,” the Georgia humorist, has found it necessary to explsin to his southern admirers that in saying some pleasant things recently in New York about the results of the war, he did not intend to renounce any of his confederate views and feelings. He still believes, he declares, that slavery was right and the rebellion justifiable, but that the south has reason at the same time to con- gratulate herself upou the fact that she now gets the labor of the negroes about as cheap as she did before the war, while their eman- cipation has given her Increased voice in congress and the elestoral college, Kor a professional humorist, Mr, “Arp” has a sin- gularly candid and concise way of stating serious facts with regard to the southern s't- uation. —_— The Upright Man, Campion. ‘The man of life upright, Whose guiltless heart is free From all dishonest deeds, Or thought of vanity; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, ‘Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent: That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence, Nor secret faults to fl From thunder’s violence; unaffrigh ‘The borrors olglm d:: 5 And terrors of the skies. ‘Thus seorning sl the cares That tate or fortune brings, He makes the heaven his book, His wisdom heavenly things; hlsl?nly friends, s W a well-spent The earth his sober h{: i ) And quiet pilgrimage. e i STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Fremont will invest $6,000 in a new school building. Real estate transactions in Lincoln during May amouunted to $1,119,000. Wahoo has made a contribution of two burglars to the population of Hyersville, Railrond mileage in the state reaches 8,080, with 1,000 miles to be added this year, The llnstinss Eyching Democrat pro- poses to abandon its Saturday afternoon edition and utter a swell front on Sunday morning. The German natipnal bank, capital ?w.ooo has been organized in Grand Is- and. ‘The bank wil] be ready for busi- ness on the 1st, ; | The unsolved question in Kearney is how to get the water into the canal and keep the sand out. ‘They will probably shute a section of the Platte. Traveling men_are booked for a picnic on the Blue at Beatrice next Saturday. A acustard pivand a poker pot are smong the pleasurable ingredicnts. Mutton, & loum-;x d Ne- Pru;. ity Was :olgl 'l‘lh l‘::hl_ n, a [ n wi rsgu from the field until mpmmui season Is over. Hoee prospects now are aha and Nebraska (Xl{ will nhl? over the Ml-lao:ri Puolfl: hl;y'he 1st of “]’;z The early dea erry would not pro- duce mu n‘cuudu ¥ Columbus wll vote to-morrow on the franchise to a of ot T and total of 8,091, .saowed s total of 888 , maki g 4,101, by which the county is given 180 less children now than one year ago. Norfolk will disouss in public meeting next Wednesday the subject of water. works. The town officials look favor- ably upon the proposition of the Strang company of Omaha to put in a plant for a twenty-five year franchige, the city to pay for at least fifty hydrants at §60 each per year, Prohibition receives a staggering blow in Beatrice by the announcement of the Free Lance that the Blue river possesses strong emetic qualities, such as the (ilth of outhouses, the life of dead beasts and the offal from cheese factories and slaughter houses. The beautiful Blue promises to inaugurate a lively rush for foaming beakers. The Lincoln Democrat lashes the brethren 1 Omaha in the following forcible and truthful style: “When the saloons of Omaha are in danger every cussed democrat in the ecity goes to the polis and works till the sweat rolls down off him in streams big enough to irrigate a crop. But when the control of the public schools 18 the stake a pitiful thousand of them creep haltingly to the ballot boxes. There are some things about democrats that make us tired, and this is one of them." lowa Items. A runaway team at Davenport dashed into a group of little girls severely in- ;nring two of them, and had it not been or the presence of mind of an officer scveral would have been killed. The cut-worm which is playing havoe with the corn crop in southeastern Iowa is not the old style worm. Itis a long, slim, web-spinning worm, a sort of a dude among 1ts kind, that is to blame for all the trouble. A Burlington young man, desirous of fame, cut his name on a bench in a pub- lic park. It resulted in having his name enrolled 1n good durable ink on the court docket, and just opposite was set down $06.55, which the young man paid. Four Dayenport young men svent a night at the Donahue house, said to be inhabited by spooks. The nearest ap- proach to a ghost that they were able to find was an able-bodied skunk with won- derful eloquence in every movement. ‘The Burlington prophet sends a chill through the spinal column of the coun- try by announcing: “*There is a bare pos- sibility of frosts about September 4, but not probable, snd destructive frosts are not expected before Uctober 2, even in northern localities, ‘This will give crops time to mature well and corn sown now broadcast for fodder will not only make a large erop, but have ample time to ma- ture. These are hints that farmers will do well to heed.” Dakota. The taxable valuation of Miller,county seat of Hand county, is $150,000. The editors of the territory propose to have an excursion this year in spite of the inter-state law. Brule county homesteaders have been proving up by scores this spring, a lurge number of the settlers having located 1n that county five years ago. A man named Adam Marshall, ht miles northeast of Mitchell, ran a knife into his thigh while at work the other day, and bled to death before aid could arrive. The Sioux Falls electric plant has been purchased by the Cascade Milling col puany, who will arrange to furnish e tricity by means of water power, it hav- ing been demonstrated thatthe are lights cannot be furmshed by steam power with any profit. Wyoming. The festive and frisky jack rabbit promises to become a serious pest to ag- riculturists on the Laramie plains. Charles Fisher, manager of the North Crow Land & Cattle Company, has been }ndz’ctad for illegally fencing government and. A pair of horse thieves with a large drove of stolen animals narrowly es- caped connection with a Cheyenne moh a few days ago. A shower of lead and an animated chase sent them into the country minus the herd, The last obstacle in the way of the Bur- lington reaching Cheyenne has been re- moved by the conrts. The Hereford as- sociation, through whose ranch the road will run, vigorously and vainly protested against it. The work of grading the first section out of the city can now be pro- ceeded with. ‘I'ne Rowdy West declares that Wyom- ing ‘‘oan beat the world on wild flowers- Larkspurs, sundials, enap dragons, Cali. fornia poppies, tlowering currants, roses, daisies, blusbc]ls and many other plants which are cultivated with care in eastern tlower gardens grow wild here in profu- sion, and down around Laramie Peak muny'!:inda of small fruit grow in abund- ance. —— LOAFERS ON THE SQUARE. What a Resident in the Neighborhood Has to Say. That Jefferson square in its present neglected conditlon is a curse to the neighborhood and a disgrace to the city, will be readily admitted by those living near it. The following note from a vic- tim explains the situation: “The residents in the vicinity of Jeffer- son Square have appealed time and again to the city authorities to take some steps to enforce decency and suppress nuis- ances in this plnr\lv spot, but we have ap- pealed in vain, ‘e .are the victims of the bums of the town. Men loaded with liquor come here to rest their burdens,and uestionable women prowl around under the troes after dark. The men la: around on_ the grass with their shoes ofl’ and their clothing hanging loosely about their bodies. The women I will not de- scribe. These scenes can be witnessed at almost any hour, day or night. The thugs, pickpockets and drunkards of the town resort here and are rarely disturbed by the olice. They divide the ground with ball players, and between both, respectable people are de- nied the benefits which this “breathing spot” was expected to lavish upon the copte. The lqinlmrc 18 now only a block rom the police headquarters. police- man should be stationed their regularly, or let it be condemned as a nuisance and diverted to some useful purpose.” —— Educatio Structures. A new wing is now being added to the boarding school of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, which will have the same height as the rest of the structure. The success of this instiwution 18 such that more accommodation has been required, hence the addition.* The same sisters who conduct this in- stitution have now in course of erection a brick school near the intersection of Twenty-sixth and lLeavenworth streets, which will be furnished in a couple of months., This will be used exclusively as a day school. A Ploneer. Arthur McCrury, an old resident of Nebraska, is visiting his friend, P. Des- mond. Mr. McCrury came to Omaha in 1865, living hereabouts until a couple of fiun 8go, when he removed to Kansas, @ was caught out in a storm some years g0 1 orth Platte and had "both limbs so badly frozen that amputation WAaS necossary. —— A Crushed 8| Yesterday morning a laborer named Chris Jensen, residing on Fifth and Paclfic streets, turned the hose on a fellow work- man nhmed Dick, The latter struck him with a brick behind the left ear injurin; him badly, . He has not ! Jensen is at the Child’s hospital. been arrested. ARMY MATTERS. The Rifie Range at Bellevue and Coming Competitions, Harrison, the mon who bought a lot so near the rifle range at Bellevue, ealled at the army headquarters yesterday morne ing again, and gave notification that he proposed to msist upon the shooting on the range being ecarried on so as not to in- torfere with his piece of property. He sta- ted that he had already sceured a lnwyer to look after his intel Later in- formation, however, reveals the fact that the matter is ina fair way of settlement without having recourse to the courts. The army unquestionably has lease to the grounds, and if the intent of the owner of the ground had not been unintention- ally destroyed, this interference would not have taken place. It is particularty annoying, now that the prospects of the year arg for one of the most brilliant series of sharpshooting ever held in the west. THE CONTESTS, The time has been designated, in or- ders received at the army headquarters yesterday, for the holding of the difterent rifle competitions. The first of these will be the department contest, in which marksmen from this department will take place, and which must be closed by August 25. This will be followed by the division competition, commencing on the 6th and ending on the 9th of Septem- ber. This will be followed by the com- petition among the distinguished marks- men of tho different posts, which will commence on the 19th of September. In this the department of the east will be represented by two men, Dakota by one man, Platte by three men, Texas two, Columbia two, and California and Ari- zona by one man eac! DUILDERS AND TRADERS, Permanent Organization Effected Yesterday Afternoon. At 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon a special meeting was held of the builders and traders of the city tor the purpose of perfecting a permanent organization. A meeting was first called for Saturday last, but adjournment was taken until to secure a larger attendance. About eighty ot the leading architects, build- ers and contractors met pursuant to ad- journment Wednesday in the rooms of the real estate exchange, corner of Tenth and Farnam streets. George L. Fisher was elected permanent president, Edward Brennan, vice president, and P, B. Woodlief, secretary. 'I'he election of a treasurer Qwas postponed until another meeting, to be held this evening. Already the main room ~ of the exchange has been divided off and spaces arranged for an exhibition of builders’ materials. There can be seen everything which goes into a structure, from cellar to gable, and a person can select from the exhibit just such material as may be desired. Such institutions in other cities have been found of ‘gre:n benefit and a great deal of interest is being manifested here in the enterprise. WOULDN'T BE DOCKED. The Paxton Bell Boys Object to Hay- ing Their Wages Withheld. Wednesday the management of the Pax- ton hotel had trouble with the bell boys. The boys’ account, as related by Johnny Cooper, a bright lad, whoso father is janitor of the exposition buiiding, 1s that a week or so ago a satchel was lost, Wednesday the proprietor of the hotel told the boys that as the responsibility rested with one of their number he would deduct $2 from their wages. Five of the boys objected and quit, being told that they could not get their money until the 25th and thal $2 would be held to cover the loss of the satchel. The managers of the hotel yesterday morning stated that only four of the bell boys demurred and that one of " the four still remained at work. It wasnot a strike, as when the boys ob- Jected to_being held responsible for the satchel they were told their services were no longer needed. The hotel people said that in five minutes the places of the dis- gruntled Jads were filled. The satchel was lost by some one of the number and it was only right, the hotel claimed, that the boys should be held responsible. The hotel was in no way inconvenienced by the boys’ action. ————— MORTUARY MATTERS., Some of Those Who Have Passed Out of Lite. Yesterday morning the funeral of Miss Florence Overall, took place from the residence of her parents, 2215 Chicago street. It was largely attended by friends of both the deceased and her parents. Her brother, Norman, from Kansas City, was here t‘hough her two sisters from the same place were unable to attend, one of them being quite sick. GOODWIN. The remains of Mr. Goodwin, the sui- cide, were taken to Canada last night. WM. PRESTON. Yesterday morning, this gentleman who formany ycars wasforeman of the Repub- lican bindery, died at the corner of Sev- enteenth and Clark. He was one of the best tradesmen in this part of the country qu I‘Il!s death will be mourned by many riends. The Judges and Clerks. Judges and clerks appointed June 7, 1887, to act at a special election to be held Monday, June 13, 1887, for the purpose of voting on the Motropolitan Cable Rail- way franchise: FIRST WARD. First Dln!riot—Jnd%‘L‘s, Charles Hanley, J. P. Birkett, M. Ford. Clerks, P. Devitte, A. Sholl. Second District—Judges, William Doll, E. C. Cooper, A. Viney. Clerks, L. H. Waebster, E. K, Tong. ‘Third_District- -Judges, Henry Ehren- {;(urt. . P. Goodman, W. A, Kelley. ’lerks, John Mathicson, Henry Van- dusen, SECOND WARD, First District—Judges, Thomas Duffy, John Boyd, Juls Rudowsky. Clerks, K. W, Bartos, Julius Nagl. Second District — Judges, Frank Ducley, Jumes Flenery, Fred Snell, Clerks, J. M. Arnurtt, Emil Augustadt, THIRD WARD. First District—Judges, Frank Solan, M. Haureghen, John Caultield.” Clorks, Hur- burt Koach, Thos. Hogan. Second District—Isaac Rueben, Christ Willie. FOURTH WARD. kirst District—Judges, Lewis Brash, Eugene Keyes. A, P. Nicholas, Clerks, George Lake, Whitehorn, Second District—Judgoes, . Kenniston, J. G, Carpenter, Frank E. Moores. Clerks, Chas, Dunham, E. L. Emery, 1PTH WARD. First Distnct--Judfus H. B. White- house, David _Scott, John Wallace, Clerks, George Staring, James Kinney. Second Distriot—Judges, Chas.” L. Wilkins, Ed. A. ‘Taylor, D. F. Brown. Clerks, B, F. Redman, John McDermott. _ BIXTIL WARD, ¥irst District—Judges, Louis Kam cren W. P. Morrow, John Page. Clerks O. C. Lualow, Jumes Smith, Second Distriot—Judges, Joo Rowels, John McArdle, Willlam Hann, SEVENTH WARD, First District—Judges, A Pratt, George . Dennis, Manning. ~ Clerks, B. ¥, Bur- ton, Jones. Second District—Judges, J. B, Hensel, Sh&fl D!MK” P J ucul?‘yA Clerks, efl’ Megeat .\~rxmk Crawford., EIGHTH WARD, First District-~Judges, Thomas F. McNamee, B, F.. Rodgers, Dennis Scrog- é THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. JUNF 10, 1887 fln‘s. Clerks, F. E, Parker, J.J. Me i Second Dietrict-~Judges, S. B, Lake, Otto Weisman, James h Davis, Clerks, T. D. Brown, J. J. Casey. NINTH WARD. st District—-Judges, C. J. Johnson, Martin, R. Stein,” Clerks, J. Me ne, Frank Babel md District—Judges, C. J. Ryan, ‘harles Hammond, C. L.’ Erickson: orks, Charles Unit, C. C, Field. Youths in Debate. Last night, a sprightly debate passed off pleasantly at Creighton college. To close the season, Messrs. H. Town and J O'Gorman, challenged any two others of their schoolmates to debate the question, “Should the government own and con- trol the railroads®” The challenge was accepted by J. B. Furay and P. Burke, and the debate took place in the rooms of the Daniel Webster socicty. Eugene Noon read an essay on “Socinlism.” The debate was won by the clear argumenta- tion of the negative, It is reported that a gold medal will be presented to the best debater of this society on the com- mencement day of the college. The St. Leo branch of C. K. of A. has offered the medal through Messrs. J. A, Linahan and Joseph E. Roach. ‘Where to Kind the Board. The oftice of the board of public works has been moved from its old place in Creighton block to room 21, the one 1m- mediately south. It will be open from 9 until 5 o'clock, and the chairman of the board will Le present from 11 to 12 and from 4 to 5 o'clock. During the other hours of the day Mr. U. B. Balcombe will act as clerk to the chair- man and be ready to impart any informa- tion which may be required of the busi- of the oflice. old office of the board 15 now oc- cupied by Mr. House who has retired to private life. The Eleventh Street Viaduct, It was thought that this structure would be ready for vehicles in the lattor part of February, butit is still closed to riding | and freighting community, The latest delay has been occasioned by the delay in the arrival of an iron rail to separate the driveway from the foot walk. This, however, has now arrived, and 18 being put into place as rapidly as possible. It s expected that the work will be finished by the end of the week, and the viaduct will probably be opened on Sunday. Police Court. Before the police judge yesterday there were four drunks, two paying #5 and costs and two being discharged. Two suspicious characters were discharged, as were also seven vagrants. The case aganst Constable Edgerton, accused of embezzling money from J. Murphy, was dismissed. The case of Charles Schorn- berg, charged with sodomy, was contin- ued until 5 o'clock this afternoon. S Notify the Sanitary Authorities. Persous in the vicinity of the corner of ‘Tenth and Har; make loud complaint against the condition of the site of the old Green Tree house. ‘The frame build- ings haye been removed, and four or five sink holes have been left exposed. — The odors therefrom are frightful and pre- ?mli:l:inl to the health of the neighbor- hood. Auchmoedy's Loans. Mr. Auchmoedy, of County Clerk Needham's oftice, is getting tired of trusting real estate dealers who do not have money with them to pay for record- ing their transfers. He has now no less than §600 owing him because of his ac- commodation, and for all of this he is personally responsible, e THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. Prof. Pickering, of Harvard, Throws Doubts on Its Reappearance. Boston Heraid: *“No, I hayen't seen the star of Bethlohem,' said Prof, Pick: ering, of the Harvard college observa- tory last evening to a reporter. ‘1 looked for it Wednesday evening when I heard thar some professor in Kentucky, unknown to me, had discovered its presence in the heavens, but I could not see it. I looked for it with the naked cye. Itisn't there, and tho chances of ifs appearance are very uncertain, in- dem}. Astronomers ure doubtful about it. Many of them do not believe it will come at 8ll. I have received no oflicial information from any quarter that the reappearance of the star had been noted by responsible astronomers. Should 1t make its reappearance, it would be an important astronomical phenomenon, and would be observed with great soientitic interest all over the world. Its value to astronomical study can hardly be determined except upon its _reappearance. Undoubtedly it would be of great value and scientists would probably be enabled to ascertain its cause. Should it appear it would be made ufici-l study at the Harvard uni- versity observatory. Astronomers have but little authentic information about the so-called star of Bethlehem. The only reliable data are those secured by Tycho Crahe, the celebrated Danish astronomer, in 15672, who discovered a very bright star in CulioK:ll which was so brilliant that it could een with the naked eye in the daytime. ~About 1260 there was & similar star, and there was probably one about 900, but there is no certainty that they were the same. From this arose the iden that there is a star of Bethlehem which appears every 315 years or so, As to the belief that great misfortunes will occur upon the earth as a result of the reappearance of the r, that is shoer nonsense. But just another word: There is mo historical ~evidence whatever that the star of Bethlechem is the star which is said to have av]pm\rud npon the birth of Christ. The bible speaks of it as the ‘star of the east.” This could not have been the star of Bethlehem, as that did noy appear in the east, but inthe north.” —~~——— The Champion Bottle-Carrier. St. Jame's Gazette: An extraordinary scene was witnessed last evening in the Kennington road. It urpcnrm that a man named George Hood, who was de- seribed as the champion go as-you: please bottle-carrier, had " undertuken for a wager to run and walk from the Spread Eagle, Epsom, to the Sir Sydney Smith, Chester street, Kennington road (a dis- tance of nearly sixtcen miles), with a two-gailon stone bottle on his head, neck downward, within two hours and three- quarters. Punctuallyat 4 o'clock Hood started on his journey, being followed by hundreds of persons and numerous vehi- cles. The performance had been well ad- vertised, and a long time before the arri- val of the pedestrian at the Sir Sydney Smith hundreds of persons began to as: semble in the Kennington road, and shortly before the appointed time the crowd had become so great that for ha'f a mile the pathways and road were crowded and it was with great dificuily that the tram-car and other traflic wus was curried on, About twenty minutcs to 7 o'clock a shout was raised, and Hood with his bottle was seen in the distance. Shortly afterward he arrived at the Sir Sydney Smith, four minutes under ti.o appointed tinie, amidst the greatest exe citement and shouting of the people. ———ee ¥ Durtng winter the blood gets thick snd sluggish, now is the time to purify it, tu hmftfup pour system and fit_yourself for hard work, by Ilnin‘f Dr. J, H. McLesn s Strengthening Cordia! and Blood . Puri: fier,