Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 15, 1887, Page 4

—~HE DAILY BEE. -, PUBLISHED E__'v—s_fiv MORNING. TERVA OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Edition) including Bunday ll!". One Year . 1000 For Bix Months 500 m'[’;hrmth:ms‘ W e . 20 )maha Swnday Hie, mal 6" any address, One Year. ... o 200 ARA OFFICE, NO. 14 EW YORK OFPICE, RO ASHINGTON OFFICE, N0. 513 Fo! D 918 FARNAM STREFY. B AT BT BENTH STUEET. CORRESPONDENCE? All communioations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed Lo the Kol TOR OF THE Bik. BUSINESS LETTRRS? All business lettors and remittances ahould be addressod to THR Bre PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAnA. Drafts, ohecks and postofico orders %0 be made payable to the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eprtor. THE DAILY BEE. SBworn Statement of Circulation, Btato of Nebraska, * a8 (‘,mmt{ of Douglas. §% Geo. B. 'l'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing mmlmny. does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Dalily Bee for the week ending June 10, 1857, was as follows: aturday, June 4...... Sunday, June Monday, June Tuesday, June?. Wednesday, June &, Thursday, June 9. Friday,June 10....... Average.......... . 4 GEO. B. Tzscitve: Subseribed and sworn to before me 11th day of June, 1857 N, P. FEIL, Notary Pubile. chuck, being first duly sworn, ys that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of the Daily Bee for the month™ of for June, 188, 12.208 coples; for July, 1880, 12314 copi for August, 185, 12,464 coples: for Septe Del 1 copies; for October, 1856, for November, 1886, 13,343 coples; for December, 1850, 13,237 copies; for Ty gd85T, 10208 coples for Febriary, (108 coples; for March. 1587, 14,400 coples: for April, 1857, 14,316 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples. Gro, B. TZsCnucCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of June A, D)., 1857, [SEAL.| N. P. FriL, Notary Public. K. this deposes and UNDER the new dispensation Omaha will have a superabundance of justices of the peace. But what the people desire is more justice and less justices. SHAEFFIELD i3 the namo of the latest southern town to enter for a boom. It is in Alabama, and the promise is held out that 1t is speedily to develop a phenomi- nal progress. DoEs the city of Umaha owe Mike Meany a living? If so, we move that he be granted a pension for life. It would be more economical to pay Mike $1,200 a year for loafing than to let him supervise paving or sewer construction at any price or free of cost. SENTOR MANDERSON has appointed W. H. Michael to be clerk of the senate printing committee. A dispatch from ‘Washington says the senator speaks very highly of Michael. Senator Manderson evidently i3 not as well acquainted with Michael as some people of Nebraska are. S THE contractors have done the sensible thing in coming to a satisfactory agree- ment with the carpenters as to hours of work and pay. Omaha could 1il-afford during this busy building season to lose any time on account of differences be- tween contractors and their employes. THE total amount of subscriptions to the Logan fund, according to the official report of the treasurer, was $03,084.45, a considerably less amount than was ex- pected by the managers. This sum has been invested in United States bonds and turned over to the widow of the distin- guished soldier ana statesman. Only four Nebraskans contributed to tho fund, Meaars. John A. McShane, John Fitzger- ald, J. M. Thurston and A. 8. Paddock. el = CLEVELAND, Ohio, is making energetic efforts to increase its manufacturing in- dustries. It has s board of industry which recently issued an address inviting proposals from real estate owners who have sites thoy are willing to donate, and correspondence from outside manufac- turers who may be disposed to go to Cleveland if suflicient inducements are offered. The plan ought to give the city something of a boom, and will if the amany land-owners there are not blind to their own interests. Cleveland’s manu- facturing interests are how very large, ‘but there 15 room for more. — THE appointment of Colonel John G. Parke, of the engincer corps, to succeed General Merritt as superintendent of the West Point Military academy, is some- thing more than a recognition of his un- questionable titness. 1tis in pursuance of ;polioy of the war department. Colonel 'arke has been on duty in Washington continuously for over twenty years, and his transfer to Wost Point, it is said, was determined upon because the secretary of war is opposed to army oflicers re- maining 1n Washington more than four years. Being within four years of the time of his compulsory retirement, and in recognition of his eminent services as an enginecr oflicer, it was also thought ad- wvisable to set the precedent of having the highest branch of the service represented in the administration of affairs at West Point. Colonel Parke 1s now in Europe. He has been, presumably, advised some time ago that the transfor would be made in August, so he has made arrangements accordingly. NoBopy will be surprised to learn that the democrats, whether in the navy de- partment or elswhere, are a good deal troubled over the election of Will- jam E. Chaundler to the United States senater from New Hampshire. Perhaps the gentlemen who are now managing the naval affairs of the nation are war- ranted in feeling rather more uneasiness than other democrats, for the obvious reason that Mr. Chandler knows a great deal about those affairs and they may need to be looked into. 1tis indeed re- ported from Washington that there is a ‘bad tanglo in the Roche accounts which somebody will have to straighten out, and if this 18 so Mr. Chandler will be wery likely as a senator to have some- thing to say about it. But on general principles the democrats preferred that Mr. Chandler should remain in private life rather than to resume public lite from the vantage ground of the senate. Ho is pretty sure to prove an irritating thorn in the democratio flesh in more re- spects thaa one. Commiercial Relations With Mexico. The movement started hardly more than balf a dozen years ago, and for a time vigorously pushed, having for its object the cultivation of more extensive and closer commercial relations with Mexico, is shown by the facts at hand to have been productive of most gratifying results, It was the outgrowth of an awakening that came suddenly after a long period 1n which the country was singularly indifferent to the large and growing trade of Mexico. During that period, however, England, France, and to some extent Germany, were deriving large and increasing advantages from Mexicancommerce. The vessels of those countries swarmed in the harbors ot Mexico, taking in and out rich cargoes on which the merchants and manufac- turers of Europe made generous profits hoth ways, while it was an extremely rare sight to sce the American flag at the masthead of a vessel in any of those harbors, An American goingto or returning from Mexico at that time was carried in a vessel above which floated a foreign flag. The sister republics, although territorially in inti- mate contact, were commercially as completely isolated as it an ocean had separated them. So far as business was concerned they knew each other only as strangers who had never become con- scious of any mutual interests and com- mon welfare, such as should subsist be- tween contiguous peoples. A situation so anomalous could not last perpetually, and as soon as the spell of indifference was broken, for which this country was largely indebted to General Grant and Mexico to General the characteristic Amecrican en- ergy and enterprise were not long in making themselves felt. The results thus far were very fully set forth in the special New York correspondence of the Bk published on Tuesday. It 1sa most gratifying exhibit of what has been ac- complished in a few years, and con- veys & most oncouraging assurance of what may still be done. Ameri- can interests have acquired a strong foothold in Mexico from which they cannot be driven by foreign compe- tition, and which iv appears to be the de- sire, as it certainly is the interest, of Mexico to foster and protect. Three- fourths of the railroad system of M exico has been ecreated by American capital and enterprise, representing an expendi- ture of $120,000,000. 1n many other ways millions of dollars have been invested by our people in the neighbor republic, all going to the development of her re- sources and the augmentation of her wealth. Mexico has been reclaimed from her position of 1solation and put into intimate relations with the world. She has been made to feel the constant throbbings of the marvelous life of the age, and to realize and contribute to the swelling tide of progress. Her civiliza- tion has been improved, the material condition of her people has been bet- tered, her political system has been ren- dered less insecure, her commercial im- portance has been increased, and in every way she has found from this peaceful American invasion benetit and improvement, On the other hand this’American enter- prise has not been without generous re- ward to the manufacturing and commer- cial industries of this country. The re- sult is briefly told in the fact that within eight years the trade of the United States with Mexico nearly doubled, amounting last year to over $34,000,000. The growth is continuous and rapid, and as we gain the nations of Europe which a few years ago controlled this valuable trade lose proportionately, What now seems to be chiefly needed on our partis a more liberal national trade policy—one that will disregard speoial interests and over- ate for the general welfare. The new tariff law of Mexico which goes into effect on the first of the month is an eox- ample of liberality and progress in this direction which should have some effect with us. Mexico evidently desires to be commercially and politically on the most friendly terms with the great republic. 1t is our duty and our interest to recipro- cate this spirit and give it practical form in our relations with that country, Dismiss Him Promptly, A member of the police force is repre- sented by the Herald as indulging in the following remarks concerning the order issued by Chief of Police Seavey,directing the police force to compel all persons found on the strcets after midnight to give an account of themselves: The chiet will find that it won't ‘work, and it it is enforced he will soon have the whole town by the ears, That is & good ordinance for Papillion or Santa Sarbara, bus the chief ought to know he is not'marshal of s little Jim Crow place where everybody Is expected to be asleep at dusk. He got the idea that a man had no business out at night when he lived in Wisconsin. He run a little over- chute flour and grist mill there, and at6 o’clock at night he always turned the water off because the grinding of the wheels dis- turbed the rest of the inhabitants. [ guess the chief thinks he is still there, and that ho now has a chance to get eyen. 1 expect to enforce it on my beat, but if 1 get a smack in the jaw froin the first gentleman I tackle I won’t be surprised. The policeman who made these dispar- aging remarks about his chief should be promptly dismissed from the force. It is a breach of discipline bordering on in- subordination, A policeman has no right to use such discourteous language about his chief, especially when talking 10 a revorter. There 1s altogether too much back-cap- ping in our police force, and iv is high time to make an example Seavey Shows His Hand. Chief of Police Seavey has shown his hand. At least we are so informed by the Herald. Mr. Seavey has ordered the policemen to stop every person, male or female, who may be found on the streets of Omapa after midnight and inquire about their business. 'This order has aroused intense resentment from certain quarters. Our democratic contemporary denounces it as a Jim Crow 1dea from Santa Barbara, and calls upon the hun- dreds of morning mnewspaper men, telegraph operators, railroad men and numberiess others who are kept out by business or pleasure, to rise in their might and assert their inalienable rights. What right, exclaims this champion of liberty and clarion of freedom, has any policeman to stop any citizen who is go- ing veacefully about his business, at any hour of the day or night in Omaha? Please keep your shirt on and don't get excited. No well-behaved sober citi- zen, who is kept out on the strects after midnight by legitimate business, will run the risk of arrest by the police, and THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. JUNE 15, 1887; none of this class will feel insulted by belng required to give an account of themselves, if they are personally un- known to the police. Seavey has shown his hand, but if he does nothing worse than keeping vigil ant eye through the police on rowdies and midnight marauders, reputable peo- ple who are kept out after midnight by business cr pleasure will have no ground for just comple Look to the Inspectors. The board of public works cannot be too carcful and palnstaking in the selec- tion of inspectors. The inspectors of public works ought to be men whose hon- esty cannot be called into question. Crooked inspectors will play into the hands of dishonest contractors by wink- ing at the most glaring violations of con- tract obligations. Venal inspectors are notoriously responsible for nearly all the swindles perpetrated by public work contractors in this and every other city. Every inspector of public works ought to be an expert mechanic or workman, qualified by personal ex- perience to detect imperfect work- manship and inferior material. Everybody to his trade is an old but truthful maxim. A man mightbe a skill- ful machinist or painter but utterly in- competent as an inspector of sewers or viaduct masonry. A man may be a first- class plasterer but utterly unfit to inspect the laying of pavements, Above all things the inspectors of pub- lic works should be steady, sober, in- dustrious men. To appoint any man as inspector of public works who is too lazy or shiftless to earn an honest living at his trade would be utterly indefensible. To appoint street corner loafers and saloon bummers for such responsible positions would be an unmitigated outrage. As a matter of fact the chairman of the board of public works and the city en- gineer, who are charged with the super- vision of our public works, do not exer- cise as much supervision over them as the inspectors. When soft brick has been substituted for sewer brick, and Milwau- kee cement for Portland, in the con- struction of a sewer, under the nose of the inspector, neither the city engineer nor the chairman of the board of public works can remedy the defect. VETERANS of the Mexicar war or their survivors entitled to a pension under the bill passed by the last congress, will find a very clear and full explanation of the conditions prescribed by the law in the following, which we take from an eastern contemporary: ‘There are three groups of conditions. Each group contains the condition that the pen- sioner is sixty-two years of age, or that he is disabled, or is dependent. The other condi- tions in the several groups respectively are these: In the first, that the applicant served sixty days in the military or naval service of the United States, in MexIico or on the coast or frontier thereof, or enroute thereto in the ‘war with that nation; in the second, that the applicant was actually engaged in battle with the enemy in that war; and in the third, that the applicant was personally named in a re- solution by congress for some specific service in that war. In every case there must be proof of enlistment and honorable discharge. The length of service is notan essential element in the conditions, Blank declarations are provided by the de- partnent, and if the applicant is entitled to a pension upon more than one of the groups of conditions stated in the law, there is no objectlon to specifying all the reasons that may exist in his case; but such facts will not entitle him to more than the amount speci- fied in the law for a single condition. A widow of a soldler or sailor of the Mexican war Is also entitled to a pension upon proof of her widowhood and the further proof of the conditions above stated, together with the condition that she is dependent for support upon persons not legally bound to support her. The disabllity of the soldier must not have occurred while in any manner engaged in or aiding or abetting the rebellion azainst the authority of the Uuited States. In a clalm by a widow the declaration must be ac- companied by the affidavits of two witnesses to the materlal facts. THE oatmeal mill at Davenport, lowa, has recently been closed pursuant to the wish or direction of the syndicate which secks to control the production of this commodity. For permitting their ma- chinery to lie 1dle the owners of the mill receaive $6,000 a year, this amount prob- ably giving them a liberal interest on their investment. As has happened in other cases, they were doubtless induced to yield to the ring rather than engage in an unequal contest that might eventu- ate in their ruin, A number of employes were of course thrown out of work for whom no provision is made, while Dav- enport is deprived of an industry which contributed its share to the general pros- perity. This illustrates one of the meth- ods that combined capital adopts tn this day of “trusts’’ aud other monopolistic devices to break down competition, con- travene the natural laws of business, and mulct the consumers of tha country. Doubtless there are a number of cases similar to that at Davenport, but whethér only one or a score it is certain that every dollar paid by the ring to shut off competition is taken from the pockets of the consumers in the higher price they must pay for the com- modity. This may be only a small frac- tion of a cent, and it may not be regarded by individual consumers as material, but it is none the less a systematic form of robbery, amounting in the aggregate to a very large sum, and involving a princi- vle thatis essentially wrong and dan- gerous to the general welfare. Thnere must come a time when all such schemes will no longer be tolerated, or otherwise every great industry of the country will become a monopoly to plunder the peo- ple at will. WE venture to say that there is not a wall-regulated police system in any city of the country which has not as one of its requirements that the officers of the force shall exercise extraordinary vigil- ance with respect to the movements of people after midnight,scrutinizing clvsely such as are abroad after that hour and requiring such as they may have & doubt concerning to give an account of themselves. In all such regulations it is implied that the officer shall exercise a de- gree of diseretion, and it rarely happens that judicious policemen interrupt re- spectably appearing people who are plainly abroad on some proper mission. But in all large cities the night depreda- tors go forth sfter midnight to thejr work, which must be accomplished, at this season of the year at least, during the “third watch,” These are the people whom'the police are expected to call to account, and if one of them should by this means be captured, or the effeotof & ngid enforoement of the mnew; rule should be fo rid these crimin#s? and kecop them out, surcly®®no law-respecting citizen would lgil to the possible elight the ity of annoyance of aining whby he was out after midnight.” Moreover eucii citizens would feel much safer in being out, if necessity required 1t, were they assured that only peoplewith & proper mission which they were willing to explain were allowed to be on the strects at midmight. Tke policy is in eyery way one of protec- tion for the good imzcn against the evil- doer who op es under the cloak of night. Withou¥ % the burglar, the foot- pad, and the mMdievous bummer are on an equality with the most reputable citi- zens 8o far as the rights of our streets are concerned. THE fact that a freight car at Columbus has been robbed of fifteen dollars’ worth of goods causes the Republican to make the sensational charge that the employes of the Union Pacific between Omaha and Cheyenne are engaged in a conspiracy of wholseale plunder similar to the Pan- handle job for which hundreds of arrests were made. When the Union Pacific makes a wholesale arrest the Ber will believe that & wholesale conspiracy has existed, and not before. We do not be- lieve there is any more foundation to the Republican’s charge than there would be to the charge that such a consviracy ex- isted on the B. & M. two years ago,when some freight was stolen from a car in the Omaha yard, and for which crime one man has just been sentenced to the peni- tentiary, Tur Turners of Omaha are to be heart- ily congratulated upon the brilliant suc- cess of the classes representing them in the annual gymnastic and athletic tournament of the Missouri valley dis- trict at Topeka. The record made by the classes collectively and the individual members 18 one to be proud of, and we opine that when the winners return they will find that their excellent work is duly appreciated by their brethren here. Such successes are not only gratifying, but they have a great value in stimulating others to higher attainment, and doubt- less in the next national tournament Omaha will be represented by still stronger classes and individual athletes of greater proficiency. —— No good citizen who has legitimate business on the streets after midnight will hesitate to satisfy the mind of an of- ficer who in the discharge of his duty may deem it necessary to require an ex- planation. And no officer of ordinary intelligence will make his inquiries a source of annoyance by requiring unnec- egsary details. There is no terror in the new police order except for midnight bummers and prowlers bent on mischief. Ax Omaha polfigman 18 quoted as pre- dicting that the first gentleman he at- tempts to stop on the street after mid- night would smucyf him on the jaw. A gentleman wilt do* nothing of the sort, but a rowdy may dg it, and if he does he should be sent to the cooler for six months, g It is reported that three large lowa distilleries are to'bp removed to Omaha or St. Joe. The fabt that the expense of the removal is to bg borne by the Chicugo & Rock Istand railvoad company would indicate that these distilleries are going to St. Joe. PROMINENT PERSONS, ‘The king of the Tonga islands dresses in well made European clothes. Mme. Christine Nilsson-Miranda will re- turn to England shortly and sing at a state concert. (George Bancroft, the historian, never fails to pass an early hour of the warm weather among his rose bushes. Mme. Antoinette, the oratorio singer, is a descendent of Prebendary John Bradford, of 8t. Paul’s, London, whe was burned at the stake in 1555, Professor Palmer, of Harvard, finds that one-third of the students there spend under $700 a year, one-half under §1,00 and three- fourths under 81,200 Ex-Senator John J. Patterson, formerly of South Carolina, now of Miflintown, is said to have made a handsome fortune in a recent business transaction. 3 Michael Davit’s American bride has writ- ten a letter in which she intimates her inten- tion to make anti-eviction speeches herself if her husband Is arrested. A statue of Edward O’Brien of Thomaston, Me., the great builder of wooden ships, is to be set up in the Thomaston cemetery. The statue is the work of an ltalian sculptor, John Hoey, who was once followed by a mob for wearing a flannel suitand straw hat in Regent street, London, will find plenty of born Britishers in similar costumes this summer. President Cieveland ran away from Wash- ington to escape the oftice seekers, and now he has run away from the Adirondacks to escape the black flies. Between the buz- zards and the buzzers the president’s life must be an unhappy one. Ex-Senator Thurman was accompanied to Boston by Mrs. Thurman, who keeps the cu- rlous newspaper men at bay. Like the old Roman, she is friendly to the press represent- atives, but Mr. Thurman Is sick now and can’t be interviewed. Two young English Iadles living at Dres- den recently went to Berlin on a visit, and, wishing to make the most of their time,wrote to the chancellor, expressing their fervent wish to see him; whgteupon they received an Invitation to his p geu. where they were wost kindly recch'mg\ A servant took them through the palace, showed them every- thing of interest, with Which they were, of course, greatly delig! i. their joy culminat- ing when Prince Bisghdrck himself suddenly appeared and addresd#d them most kindly in fluent English, walkig with them for some time in the garden e bidding thewn fare- well, Journalisgl¢ F! Rapid CQ§Journal, Omaha journallsm es a boom edition for one day and blows about it for a month. mines, e Reasons For Sea¥ey's Removal. Grand Island Independent, ‘There are two reasons which the Omaha Republicau advanees 1of urging the removal of Chief of Police Seavey, One is that he has been in Omaha only four times as long as the editor of the Republican, who wanted to be police commissioner, and the other is that Seavey has red hair. Those reasons ought to be enough to be svfficient, and we cannot understand the delay, ————— The Way to Statehood. Philadelphia Reeord, ‘The people of South Dakota have concluded 1o establish an Advisory committee to delib- erate how that seetion may most quickly be- come a state of the Union. This is a depart- ure from the midsummer madness of last year, when this same people elected delegates to a convention which declared in set terms the statehood u! South Dakota, without wait- ing to see what the congress of the United Btates might o, Qongress didn’t do any- areef of 8 thing, and hence the Advisory committee. Dakota would be a great state—two of them ~={f it should “‘get there’’ under proper con- stitutional forms. But to pass a resolution like “‘Resolved, that we are a State,” won't bring the the federal offices and quicker. The way to statebood is through the front door of the national eapitol, not over the back fence of extraneous backswoods legis- lation. The Immaculate and Virtuous. North Bend Flail, The old stagers of Omaha who have run every campaign of lust and vice in Nebraska and Colorado for the past decade are raising a wild and wolfish howl over what they claim to be “‘wool in the teoth” of Captain Seavey, chief of police. Joined with them in their onslaught are the “Immaculate Hascal and the Virtuous Pat. Ford.” It is too thin, gen- tlemen! Had Seavey been guilty of what you allege he would have been one of your hall fellows, and had he added to that the “genlial quality” of the drunken bloat and “plug ugly,” he had long ere this been cap- tain of your band, Too thin! Dr. Holmes' Latest Poem, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes contributed the following poem, a hymn for the dedication ot the new hospital given his name, which \dvns formally opened at Hudson, Wis., Tues- ay: Not ours to ask in freezing tones His race, his calling, or his creed; Each heart the tie of kinship owns ‘When these are human veins that bleed. Here stand the champlons to defend From every wound that flesh can healy Here sclence, patience, skill shall blend To save, to calm, to help, to heal. Father of mercies! Weak and frail, ‘Thy gulding hand thy children ask; Let not the Great P’hysician fall To ald us in our holy task. Angel of love, for every grief Its soothing balm its mercy brings For every pang Its healing leaf, For homeless want thy outspread wings. Enough for thee the pleading eye, ‘The knitted brow of silent pain; Th{ rtals open to a sigh Wi t the clank of tull or chain, ‘Who is our brother? He that lies Left at the wayside, bruised and sore; His need our open hand su{mlms i3 welcome waits him at our door. Source of all truth and love and light That warm and cheer our earthly days; Be ours to serve Thy will aright; Be Thine the glory and the praise! gttt Aominilin) Growth of Trust Monopolies. Chicago Tribune. Hardly & week passes without the dis- covery that some great industry is being federated under the *“‘trust” system,which supplies all the advantages of corporate monopoly without any corporate or indi- vidual responsibilies. One of the latest organizations of the kind reported to limit production and corner prices is that of the jobber trade—an industry that effects every family in the land. A rub- ber trust’’ is being formed after the model of the Standard Oil system for the purpose of “‘controlling the manufacture of all rubber goods, the importation of crude rubber, the fixing of the market value of both crude and manufactured articles and, lastly, to deprive workmen engaged in the industry of the abulity to wage successful strikes.” It is thought that by means of such an organization expenses can be greatly reduced and consumers be required to pay a price and a half for a cheaper quality of goods, while all surplus can be sold abroad 30 or 40 per cent less than the artificially main- tained price in this country---a rate only a shade below that of imported foreign articles. There would seem to be no_prevention under the existing Iaws, and in the pres- cnt‘lmblm sentiment against the rubber producers carrying out their scheme, and by their success encouraging the sheet-iron and tin manufacturers who, in common with many others, have similar Droiect.s in view. The enormous gains of the Standard Oil and Cotton Seed Uil combinatious have caused a race for *‘trust” monopolies which can hardly be held surprising. The immediate effect of such consolidations in reducing expenses by eliminating useless wastes of manage- ment and stopping needless salaries is always grati fi'mg to the organizers of the trust and flatters the public with an illusive promise of cheaper goods. If there is any law to i»revent the orgamza- tion of those extra legal, acephalous cor- porations no one thinks of invoking its aid, The first effect of a general, consol- idated management of an industry be- ing to reduce the expenses of production, the public is naturally led to expect a cheapening of goods. But the same federation which reduces expenses destroys competition utterly and gives & mysterious, unseen, trustee-gov- erned combination power to corner the markat and fix and maintain unnatural prices—a temptation which has not been successfully resisted in any instance on record. The public gets none of the le- itimate benelits flowing from the consoli- ation, and all competition 18 abolished. Why, then, should not the rubber pro-: ducers be able to succeed in their unde taking and soon be able to extract from the American })eoplo abooty limited only by the cost of imported rubber goods with the high tanff added? Enormously protected on one side_ by the bounty sys- tem and on the other by an offensive and defensive alliance against the public,why should they not find millions annually in the new scheme?! Why not also the sheet-iron and tin manufacturers and other like intorests, including the great cattle ranches of the plains? Trust mo- nopolies have a more than corporate do- minion over the industries they effect— they provide the means to freeze out and starve out all competition, advance prices to the highest level of the tariff, and render cheapened processes and in- ventions practically valuecless to the public. Will it not soon become necessary for some one to write a new political econ- omy? The great economic writers from Adam Smith to Mill and Walker have all treated competition as the great primary, regulative law of the industrial world, but now that scheme s have been devel- oned to arrest the force of gravitation in manufacturing industries, what is to be- come of the doctrines taught by the fiach! If competition is to be destroyed what shall take its place? Farmers scem to be the only great element of the com munity that cannot organize ‘‘trusts.” Must it be inferred, then, that the food- producers are to continue subject to un- restrained competition while the manu- facturing interest is to be gradually withdrawn from such control and placed in tne hands of the great barons of the Htrust” monopolies? Where is the rage for “‘trusts” to stop. In fact, if the laws are left as they are now,1s there any halting place this side of commereial feudalism? Already there are hints of plans being formulated for one vast rail- way “‘trust,” to embrace all the roads in the United States, and perhaps all the ropellers, and sail vessels, and steam- fiolts of our lakes and rivers, with the object of avoiding all competition with each other and plundering the public to the utmost point of endurance. After that what? Revolution? SL S A Victim, Charles Woods is one of the yictims o foot pads, whose name has kept out of the papers. He was robbed of his watch as he was going througi the high school grounds, Somebody got tired of looking at the lying face of the clock in the lobby of lflc postoftice, and covered it with a piece of brown aper nugfisttvu of a moon in renpy clouds. 1CARIUBS' WINGED, The Waxed Oement Molten and an Elopement Flight Ended. Not far from the capital of Nebraska, though in an adjoining county there dwelt and, again this time dwells, a tino Tooking, supposedly sensible young lady with her father and mother. Whatever sense she was supplied with went the way usual with such commodity, when love is admitted and nourished in the heart of the sensible person and an abdieation of common sense follows. Her name is withheld through respect for herself and parents. Tho latter were opposed to the object that caused her to love it. Why, is not known, but as the parents are practical and hard headed, the father being engaged in stock raising and being wealthy, it is prosumed that some element of unthriftness or financial irresponsibility complicated matters. ‘The young lady, however, viewed things through her own discernment, and on last Friday night left the parental home and went wnere none, at the time gerer- ally known, knew. Her father the next morning, when she was missed, made an examination and discovered that $760 in money had accompanied her, also a watch and chain and a pair of diamond car-rings belonging to her motner, The jewelry was valuable, befitting the wealth and social position of the family, The family were puzzled as well as dis- tressed. The father went to Lincoln and inquired among all the friends he could think of in that c“f" and he has a large number. The girl is but eighteen years of age, intelligent and well matured. Her intelligence, coupled with that of her lover, who was 1a the movement un- doubtedly, led her to adopt everything that could be devised to baflle pursuit. At this juncture Charles Crow, of Lin- coln, was consulted. He came to Omaha on Monday and examined every hotel record in the city, but, as he sup- posed, in vain, londay cvening as o passed a Douglas street restanrant a. lady who answercd the description given him emerged with a package of ice cream. lg'utoctwe Crow followed her and she went into a disreputable house on Capital avenue. Her father, who was also in the city, was notitied, and the heads of the police department con- sulted. It was decided to wait until towards midnighit before doing anything. At 11:30 p. m. the detective, after alterin, lus disguise to prevent any possibility of recognition, entered and found the young girlin a room alone. He arrested her and talked to her kindly, She at length submitted to an examination, and in her breast, wrapped in a stocking, $757, the gold watch and chain and diamond ear rings were discovered. She was taken by her father and the detective to a re- spectable boarding house on Tenth strect, where she remained until yester- day morning, when she was taken home. She ecxpressed contrition and the result of the escapade, though to be regretted, may be ultimutol{ beneti- cial. Efforts arc being put_forth to cap- ture the author and accomplice of the runaway. The parents claim they will prosecute him thoroughly if arrested. THE VlCl‘(;ll()Us TURNERS. How They Were Rccolved Yesterday 2 On Their Return. The Omaha turners returned last night from the Topckn turnfost. They were welcomed with all the warmth which success is capable of arousing in sympa- thetic hearts and which appreciative na- tures like to see displayed in a demon- strative manner. Their arrival was aunticipated at the Missouri Paciiic depot by a host of their admirers, among whom were the indo- mitable Louis Heimrod, Julius Meyers, anumber_ of others, and tho band of the second infantry from Fort Omaha. The trai rolled into the depot promptly at 5:30 o'clock, Befora it had come to a stop the band commenced an air of welcome, which was played in an excellent manner. The next instant there was a shout at the end of the train, A straw hat decorated with emerald as- cended into the air. It was followed by other caputal cover- ings, and these were followed by a shout which showed that the turaers np&)rcciated the reception. Louis Heim- rod went toward the cheering victors. He ran right up to Philip Andres, the conseryator of the verein while it was away, fell upon his neck, and both of these ex-athletes embraced each other like a pair of long lost brothers. Mr. Heimrod was overtiowing with intensity of feeling and deligght over the success of *‘his boys,” and gave still further proof of it in his running among the turners und warmly embracing and shaking their hands in turn. The latter were then pre- sented each with a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers. The vereinthen formed in line, and with their beautiful flag and a streamer, the same with which they had decorated the outside of their car, let- tered ‘‘Omaha Turners” commenced their walk to town, following the band. Between the two words on the strenmer was the design of a crowing cock, the significance of which was apparent to all who understood the circumstances. A streamer of this kind was hung on either side of the special car placed at the dis- posal of the verein by Mr. Gregory, the ticket agent of the road, and was greatly appreciated, 2 ‘I'he procession marched to Sixtecnth street, some of the participants bearing brooms, signiticant of the excellentsweep they had made in their contest. At the first intersection a friend of the club with s arms filled with brooms, rushed into the ranks and msisted upon every turner taking a broom. The brooms were proudly shouldered and the march was continued to Dodge, Fiftcenth, Douglas, Tenth, Farnam, Eighteenth and Harney to the hall. There Louis Heinrod mounted the stand and said: ‘The joy which my heart has telt s great, greater than you can express. 1 must thank you. I will speak only a short time because ouall are dry* XYou have received greater \onors than_ever verein before recei Thanks are due to you and to Heary K merow, and the success you have had shows that he is one of the best, it not the best teachers in the west. The speech was greeted with enthu- siastic cheers, and many adwirers thronged around the vietors to bid then welcome. The class comprised members: Robert Rosenzv Jucob Authes, Caspur I Schuliz, J. M, Woodbu C. Rechishub, Gus Doyl , William N It Is Remarkably Romantic. The San Francisco Chronicle, of June 9, contains what it terms “‘a remarkable story,” from a correspondent a Los Angeles. As the matter concerns Chief of Police Scavey, and is a romantically written tale, it is given in full as fol- lows: ‘The story of W. Seayy, formerly city war- shal of Santa Barbara, whio left bis wite and eloped with Mrs. Charles Paddock, & bosom friend of his wife. Is well known. Se recently turned up as chief of Omaha. Seavy was very popular Barbara. ‘I'hie eloping couple went to Hono- Tulu and all trace of them was lost tiil Seavy’s election —in, Omaha nounced, ‘Tlhe t has litherto been uuknown. Your reporter found to-day the only person inthe United States besides Seavey who Kknows the sequel. ‘The question *1s Mrs. Paddock living at Omaha with Scavey?” has been asked by innumerable people familiar with the case. The followinig story is de- rived from a lady in this eity of the highest respectability and unquestioned veracity. She said: “Mr. and Mrs, Seavey, as I shall call them, soon tired of Honolula” and tovk a steamer story A —— for Australia. Arrlving at Auckland they concluded to make their future home there, and opened a toy shop and did a thriving business, They ere a most devoted couple. Shie was a falr, fragile woman and appeared very sad, Her health was delicato. They removed to Dunedin, where Seavey entered into vartnership with another man and took o contract away up in a spnrlal{ sottled part of the north of the Island, Their wives went with them, They built huts and lived like the Australian rnneen. Before long the country was visited by one of those long rains <0 frequent In that part of the world, and the rivers roserapldly, ‘The bridge near where the party lived was washed away. The tloods did great danmge and many lives and much stock were lost, 1n common with other settlers, the Seavey party built a raft and embarked, floating down the river, hoping to find refuge from the waters. They Inshed themselves fast. Night came on and their terrors increased. Onee Paddock was washed from Seavey's arms, hut he miraculously managed tocatch her. Agnin she was carried away, and despite all his efforts to save her she drowned. Oneof the survivors sald atter- ward that when Mrs. D'addock was borne away Seavey called: ‘For God's sake, Gracle, nu’{ you forgive me [hat Seavey returned to this country alone 13 attested by Mr. Lloyd, of Monrovi h states that Seavey cauie from New to Chieago via London on the same steamer as Mr. Lloyd. A reporter for the Bk yesterday after. noon handed Chief Seavey a copy of the Chronele in which the story appears. The chief leaned back in his chair and perused the article, A smile crossed his face as he finished and 1eturned the paper with the remark, ‘‘Romantic, ist it? Well, well,” continued the chief, reflectively, “wrml can't one see or hear about one’s ‘Chief, what have you to say about the story?" *Nothing whatever." “Is there anything in it?" ‘‘No, 1 know nothing about Mrs. Grace Paddock, but what 1 have heard from Califormans since the story was first printed. 1 never saw her after sho left San Francisco to visit her people, which was on the evening of my departure for South America. This story,” handing back the paper, ‘15 all rot. It's nothing but a sensational yarn, That is all there isto it. With which the chief returned to the consideration of the papers with which his desk was piled. —_— MADAME MANN'S MANSION, How It was Saved From Gotting Away on Rollers, Yesterday morning about 9:30 o'clock the sporting house of Bertie Mann, on Ninth street, a short distance north of Douglas, wassurrounded by a motley col- lection ofhouse movers with all the mater- inls necessary to perform their work., De- puty Sherifl’ Houck was in the lead backed by the writ of the court in savor of T. J. Beard, for the possession of the south 83 feet lot 4, block E, upon wnich the mad- ame’s house rests. The brick walls on the various sides of the building were bat- tered down, for the purpose of putting in place the necessary moving apparatus. ‘This work was attended with noise, The noise sroused the inmates and the madam, and likewisej disturbed a number of friends who mado sly and expeditious exit from the man- sion, When Madame Mann ascertained what was being done, she heaved oppro- brious compliments npon her assailants, and her female hicutenants aided in the undertaking. This_did not daunt the house-movers aor Mr. Houck, who re- tused to notice the favors of the inmates. By this time the scene was invaded by two hundred spectators, and i the midst of the excitement a carringe was driven to the spot. General Webster, city attor- ney, and Building I[nspector Whitlock alighted. They entered the madame's house. Ina short time |I|efi emerged. Whitlock sought the man who held the permit to move the building and de- manded it from him on the ground that it had been procured under false pre- tenses. The permit was surrendered and Mr.Houck and the movers having no fur- ther authority in the matter, retired from the scene. The facts of the case are that the house belongs to Madame Mann, but the ground belongs to a party from whom it was leased by M. W. Martin, then sub- let to Emma E. Kite, and then sub-let again to Madame Mann. Beard secured judgment against Emma Kite for $172.16, and sought to suflsf(y the order of the court l\:lfl)winx the sale of the leasehold interest in the name of this woman. Gen- eral Webster said that the permit to move the house had beon granted to Mar- tin on the representation that the latter owned the house and wanted to erect another in its stend. But it is claimed Martin does not own the building, and acted in concert with Beard to got the structure out of the wn|y4 The permit was accordingly revoked. Collided. Yesterday morning about 9 o’clock, on Tenth street, a lightning-rod wagon was coming down the grade from the B. & M. crossing, when a light, single-horse spring wagon, driven by a colored man name Archie Richmond, drove into it. In the smash up the sprinlz wagon got the worst of it, hardly anyhing except one wheel being without injury. A Rumor, A BEE reporter yesterday morning met S,Kirkpatrick United States revenue agent of this distriet, who resides in Ottumwa, A ned ftom him that there is no talk in Des Moimes or Davenvort as re- gards the removal of the large distilleries of Iowa to this city as reported in the dispatches yesterday morning. Ears and Scalp Covered with Eczematous Scabs Cured by Cut My littl 8on, aged eight years, ns boen afilict- ed Eezomwa of the scalp, and at times a groat portion of the body, ever §ince he was two years ol1, bt began fn iifs cnrs, und cxtended to his seaip, which becuns ® ss. Undernenth thete e Llike n piece of beofstoak Gradually the hair canie out &nd was destroyod, umil buta <mall patoh was left ut tho hack of e head, N lends in Penbody know bow i suffered. At night he would ateh ntil his pillow was covered h biod ed totie his hand behnd him and in muny ways tried to provent his soruteh fiues but it was 1o use, he would scrateh . I took Vi 1o the b the best phye in Peat . About this timo cured by the Cull- e (o try them 1 of Jinuary last. In seven monthe every particlo of the discase i removed. Nota <pot or scab remnivs on his head to tell the story of his sufferine. 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