Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 27, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY - BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Edition) including Sunday Brr, Ono ¥ear, For 8ix Months For Throo Montha. . The Omaha Swnday address, Une Year. gmu OPpICR, NO. 914 AND 718 FARNAM ETRETT. EW YORK OFFIC IR, TRIUNE BUILDING, ASHINGTON O 0. 514 FOURTBENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE:! All communioations relating to news andedk torial maitor should be addressed to the Evr- TOR OF THE BER BUSINTAS LETTERS! All bueiness lotters and remittancas should be addrossed 10 THE BuM PUBLISHING COMPANT, OMAMA, Drafts, cheoks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the eompuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EntroR. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Olrculation. Btate of Nebrask ; a8 County of Douglas. 2 Geo. B. 'Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing mm'mny. does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 24, 1857, was as follows: Saturday.June 18 Sunday, June 10 Monday, June 20 Wednesday, June ‘Thursday, June 23 Friday,June 24.. Average......... Gro. 8. TzscHUCK. BSubscribed and _sworn to before me this 25th day of June, 1587, N. P. 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 dally circulation of the Dally Bee for the month™ of for June, 1886, 12.208 coples; for July, ), 12,314 copies; for A\mxt 1858, 12,464 copies: for Septem- ber, 185, 13,030 coples; for October, 1838, 12,0 coples; for November, 1886, ' 13,348 coples; for December, 1! 13,237 c:ir es; for January 1857, 16,200 coples; for February, 1887, 14,198 coples: for March. 1887, 14,400 coples; for April, 1857, 14,316 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples. Gro. B. TZ8CHUCK. Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 4th dlgol June A. D)., 1857, ISEAL.| 1L, Notary Public. Tue killing of Craig Tolliver, the no- torious outlaw, calls forth as much com- ment as the queen’s jubilee. ‘Wit its six columns of cablegrams from all important news centers of the old world, the Sunday BEE was a model cosmopolitan newspaper. ACCORDING to crop reports which reach us from every section it would take more than the death of one Wall street gambler to cause a panic in this country. JonN M. THURSTON wires to the Pacific railrond commission that fishing was never so good up in Minnesota as it is ;Ince he skipped out of Omaha the other ny. QuiN BOHANAN, since his escape, has written no letters on “after Life.” Even 1 his freedom, Mr. Q. Bohanan seems to h:l“ a keen appreciation of the unknow- able. Cuurcn HowEk has already commenced laying pipe to go to the next state senate. The trouble with the Nemahu mounte- bank is that the nomination does not as- sure an election, THE traducers of Governor Thayer ocontinue in their indecent cause, and Governor Thayer continues to possess the respect and confidence of the reputable people of Nebraska. SHARP'S trial progresses slowly. Al- ready he has cost the state of New York $35,000. Had he been an ordinary thief $100 would have sentenced him to twenty years. Yet Sharp will probably be con- victed. E— THE paper of which George William Curtis is editor is ‘‘disgusted” with the speeches of John Sherman. The same paper was ‘‘disgusted” with Abraham Lincoln, to the disgust of all patriotic Americans of all parti AND now the council has discoverad that the fund available for grading, this year, has been almost entirely consumed by the grading contracts which have al- ready been let last winter and this spring. The outlook for extensive grad- ing projects is therefore very slim for this season, — FRANK WALTERS has gone to cool oft 1 Denmark and John M. Thurston is in cool Minnesota while George Crawford has suddenly discovered he is badly wanted over in lowa. Can't Charley Green come forward and tell the com: mission about the expenses of the legis- tive oil rooms. ACCORDING to the Republican ‘‘there isn't a city anywhere that has more need for parks than Omaha.” Who is res- ponsible for this lamentable state of facts? Who induced the boodlers of the house tommittee on judiciary to strike out the provision for parks in the new charter? Isnot the man at the helm of the Republican the prime mover of the plot to deprive Omaha of an opportunity toestablish a system of parks? IDid not the business manager of thatsheet go to Lincoln expressly to encourage and urgoe in the willamous crusade against the parks? GENERAL VAN WyCK's lotter to Secre- tary Lamar, which appeared among our Washington dispatches Saturday, was in- correctly reported in many important particulars. General Van Wyck makes the charge that the Denver & St. Joseph railroad asked and received 13,000 acres on the pretense that thoy would build be- tween Hastings and Kearney in this state, instead of 12,000,000 acres, as it appeared. The latter part of his letter should have read as follows: 1n this connection, and bearlng on this polnt, and as pplement to the leiter I ad- dressed you a few days ago asking that you compel the B. & M. railroad in Nebraska to disgorge about 200,000 acres it has taken in defiance of the supreme court, I desire to add that he sald B. & M. have actually re- celved patents for nearly 40,000 acres in ex- cess of this illegal taking on the north side of their track and in excess of avery acre giving them the full complement they claim, and this fact also appears in the records of your ©office, 50 that to-day, on the showing in the Iand departient, this company has patents for about 200,000 acres which they should be compelled to restore to the government. ‘With the hope that you will be able to re- clalm from the 8t. Joseph & Denver, now known as the St, Joseph & Western, lands for which patents were never issued without Dy pretense of right. : 1 Declining Booms, There are recent indications that the booms in certarn localities where for a year or motre past they have been ab- normally developed, are experiencing a decline, and it is beginning to be appre- hendea that a reaction may supervene that will be very hurtful, if not disastrous, Certain towns which it might be in- vidious to name, where town lots have quadrupled or more in value within a year, almost wholly by the force of spee- ulation, are beginning to be neglocted even by the speculators, simply for the reason that the limited conditions which furnished them the resources of their trade are no longer available. It doesn’t take a great while for capital seeking legitimate investment in real estate to discover the real extent of those condi- tions which are esseutial to permanence and assured progrgss, and for a number of the hoomed towns the discov- ery appears to have been made to their disadvantage, Wherever in such cases the business of sustaining the booms is remitted to the speculators, it can only be a question of a brief time when they will cense to exist. The eflect of this situation is of course felt generally, even 1n those localities where, properly speaking, there has been no boom, but simply a legitimate real estate activity and advance of values due to a natural and permanent growth. It is 1mpossible to confine the influence of these reactions to the places of their origm, The knowledge of their occur- rence inevitably affucts confidence un- favorably clsewhere, even though there should be no other cause for a loss of faith. The extreme sensitiveness of cap - ital to appprent danger causes it to bolt at the first alarm or intimation of threat- ened disturbance, and to hold off until allindications of possible trouble have passed. This appears to be the tendency of capital now with respect to certain excessively boomed localitics, and if the threatencd course 18 taken it cannot be a great while before those places will ex- perience a drop proportioned to the rap- idity of their rise. Then other localities, however favorable the conditions justify- ing faith in their future, would naturally for a time feel the cffects of unsettled confidence. But these reactions can work no last- ing disadvantages to communities whose foundations are firmly built, and whose future is assured by position and advan- tages that make them superior to all the chances of temporary disturbance and the passing clouds of financial distrust. A city which by reason of its sit- uation is the mecessary metropo- lis of =& large and steadily growing territory cannot be prevented from attaining that position, though its progress may be at times retarded by such circumstances as we have indicated. This view is especially applicable to Omaha. The declining boom elsewhere, with the loss of confidence in real estate investments that may ensue, will perhaps not be without some effect here. There may come & more or less prolonged period of comparative quiet, until ecapital recovers confidence and can feel re- assured, but the elements of certain pros- perity and progress are too many and too well grounded here to be very long or very seriously interrupted in their natural course. The conditions to a legitimate growth which are at the foundation of this city's present position and prosper- ity, and which are muluplying and en- larging every year, are permanent, and will have the same influence and produce the same results, only on a steadily in- creasing scale, in the tuture that they have already done. Therefore, we can regard the expiring booms elsewhere without apprehension, confident in the complete security of our position, and the abundant adequacy of our advanta- ges. The Postal Treaty With Mexico. On the firgt of July the new postal con- vention between the United States and Mexico will go into effect. It has been remarked of this treaty that it illustrates in a striking manner two things. One of them is the great power which congress conferred upon the executive branch of the government when the postmaster general, with the approval of the presi- dent, was given the authority to nego- tiate postal coaventions without sub- wmitting them to the senate, and the other isthe remarkable progress which the Republic of Mexico has made in its rela- tions with other powers. It 1s guestiona- ble whether many of the congressmen who voted to give the postmaster general the power by means of which this treaty has been negotiated sup- posed that it wonld be possi- ble in the form of a postal treaty to so nearly negotiate a commer- cial treaty. And it is quite certain that if it had been supposed that the postof- fice department was to be given such power, and was to be so successful in the exercise of it, there would have been much more opposition to the enactment of the law.. It passed, however, without much debate, and under it th2 adminis- tration has succeeded n securing some at least of the advantages that were ex- pected from the proposed reciprocity treaty. This postal arrangement will se- cure a prelty general reciprocity be- tween the two countries within the limits at least of packages which weigh four pounds sixounces. Similarconven- tions have been proposed by the postof- fice department to fifteen other govern- ments of the American continent, two of which, Jamaica and Costa Rico, have @iven the department notice of accept- ance. One of the chief features of these treaties is the exchange of merchandise packages within the weight of four pounds six ounces, the limit established by our postoflice department. Regarding the effects of this convention, the Mexi- can minister at Washington expresses the opinion that it will create quite a large retail trade between the two coun- tries, to the profit of both. Under the existing conditions there are many for- malities and expenses incident to the im- portation into Mexico of any article of merchandise, most or all of which will be done away with when this con- vention goes into effect. It will abolish the annoyance of consular certificates and the excessive consular fees, all creating a cost often greater than the first price of the article im- ported. It is easy to see that the system in vogue has prevented a great deal of trade with this country in a small way, which in a short time can be secured under the postal treaty. Hundreds of articles coming within the prescribed weight, and which can be purchased more chesply in this country, would be THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. JUNE 27. 1887. in demand from Meéxico, and there is every reason to expeot that the results of this treaty will be of very material ad- vantage to American merchants and manufacturers, as well as a source of considerable postal reventie. As another link connecting the two countries in closer business relations and giving as- surance of further progress in this dirce- tion, it is al=:o importan! Tur peovle of Nebraska will not fail to appreciate the watchful concern that ex-Senator Van Wyck maintains respect- ing their interests, in common with those of the people of the entire country, in connection with the illegally obtained lands of the land-grant railroads. The fuct that General Van Wyck is no longer a servant of the people does not lessen his zeal in their behalf, and it is but justice to him to say that he is really showing more regard for their interests than any one of those who are their chosen representatives. Heis still, as he always has boen, the vigilant guardian of the people’s welfare. His late pointed Jetters to the secretary of the interior, showing the barefaced disregard of its agreement by the Denver & St. Joseph road upon which it obtained millions of acres from the government, and the illegal absorption of a largoe area by the B. & M, ought to result in bringing both these corporations to terms. General Van Wyck 18 clearly of the opinion that the government has a remedy against the former of these corporations, and we do not think there can be a reasonable ques- tion that his position is tenable, while equally thero is not a doubt that the B. & M. should be compelled to restore the lands it has taken not only without right, but in defiance of the supreme court. —_— It having been reported that the Do- minion authorities had issued an order prohibiting the employment at Windsor, Canada, of American workmen residing in Detroit, a retaliatory move was at once made by the collector of customs at Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge in ordering American employers not to em- ploy Canadian laborers. The result was that last Friday morning some two hun- dred ot these laborers were halted at the frontier, and after next Thursday they will not be allowed to work on the Amer- ican side if they continue to reside in Canada. Meanwhile the Canadian min- ister of customs says that no order relat- g to American laborers has been is- sued, while the Canadian press are call- ing for a policy of retahation. The action ot the American customs officer has the authority of an official ruling in the law which has never been questioned and is undoubtedly correct, The intent of the law is to exclude all imported labor, and there is no rea- son why, as the statute reads, an excep- tion should be made of residents of Canada. Butitis very likely that the construction and enforcement of the law With respect to citizens of the Dominion will lead to an effort for its amendment, 80 as to relieve them of its operation. In the present matter the action of the American authorities is regarded as ex- tremely unfriendly and is sharply eriti- cised. A LINCOLN paper takes the BEE to task for keeping silent about alleged disorim- inations by the Union Pacitic in “charg- ing for sugars and other commodities hauled from San Francisco to Fremont and Lincoln the same amount that 1s charged through these towns to Omaha and return.’’ The BEE has never upheld the Union Pacific or any other railroad in unjust discrimination. Under the inter state commerce act the Union Pacific hasa right to charge as much from San Francisco to Fremont as it does to Omaha. But it cannot legally charge a higher rate for the shorter dis- tance. The rate from San Francisco to Lincoln can be higher than to Fremont or Omaha, because Lincoln is not on the same road and the distance 1s greater from Valley Station to Lincoln than it is to Omaha. The Union Pacific freight trains never pass through Lincoln on their way to Omaha, hence the statement that sugar delivered at Lincoln is charged for passing through that city and back from Omaha is manifestly untrue. The BEE has always opposed unjust discrimina- tions against one town and in favor of another, and it will not abandon its posi- tion even when the discrimination is 1 favor of Omaha, A NUMBER of the teachers in the public schools centemplate passing the greater part of their vacation at some of the points of interest that attract people having leisure at this season of the year. All who are enabled to do this are to be congratulated, and the BEx wishes them the fullest measure of enjoyment and benefit. They have earned the right to a season of recreation by faithful and well-performed service, and they will doubtless find mental and piysical improvement 1 visiting new scenes and coming in contact with new acquaint- ances. Of one thing all may feel assured, that wherever the teachers of Omaha may go they will not appear to disadvantage in any respect in comparison with those of any other city in the country. TrE Pacific Railroad commission are just uow engaged in the study of ancient history as Mr. Charles Francis Adams is pleased to call it, but ancient history al- ways has been very interesting even when it has become a little moutdy. For the sake of all concerned we hope the painters’ strike will be amicably ad- justed between employers and their workmen, Just at thistime eyery skilled mechanic ought to be at work, ‘THE only way to enforce discipline on the police force is to dismiss every man who does not obey orders or who is back- capping the chief or any other oflicer, — JonN M. THURSTON is badly wanted in Omaha but he could not give up his sum- mer vacation you know, SE—— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Holdrege is reaching out for the Santa Fe roa The electric light wires and poles are going up 1 Crete. Tho sale of college lots in York last week netted §18,000. A Tumr section of land near Beatrice sold for $36,000 last week. The Bloomington land office takes in an average of §6,500 a month, Hon. C. H. Van Wyck will dress the -eagle at Wakefield on the Fourth. Fremont is bumping berself to keep up with Plattsmouth and Nebraska City on the paving question. A portion of Columbus’ bridge over the Platte has eloped with the June rise. David City expects to keep the munis cipality greased for a year on §1,600. A full-fledged board of trade has spread ite protecting wings over Broken Bow. Hon. A. S. Churchil of Omaha fis booked to orate at Seward on the Fourth. Kearney will have electrio lights blaz- ing in time for the firemen’s tournament, Three thousand dollars will keep Dundy county in smooth water during the next year. A tabernacle meeting is to be held at David City July 7 to 14, The Rev. I Reid will commund the hosts. Chadron jubilated last Wednesday over the saccess of the clection to 1ssue bonds for the erection of a court house in town. An electric storm one night last woek made the residents of Wakefield hunt their caves, Lhey were more scared than hurt. Bohanan's pensive smile and pious pleadings have left the Otoe erib in a fog of gloom. “‘And the nights are dark and dreary.” “The great Rock Island road" willgive Nebraska teachers hulf rates to the na- tional institute in Chicago, good from July 6 to September 8, Mateja Tomasek cooled his feverish brow by imuuingiutu the Platte at North Bend, He leaves a large family with a fair share of the world’s profits. Nebraska City's regret over the in- formal farewell of Bohanan is tempered by the fact that he left no poetry behind. But the natives can muse on the dummy. The Hawke estate in Otoe county is valued at $200,000. When the get through with the contest, it is predict that the ciphers will be damaged. The Cretans are indulging in their annual wash, having erected bath houses on the Blue for that purpose. This ex- plains the murky and odorous condition of the stream at Beatrice. The latest evidence of metropolitan life Hastings illumined the darkness Thursday night. A mob of strect railway builders tore up the tracks of a rival line and heid the tie line until daylhight. Helen C. Phelps has purchased a half interest in the Schuyler Herald from her brother Harry, The paper will continue as heretofore Al in all departments un- less Helen raises old Harry and takes in another partner. The plans for the editors’ sanctum the Crete assembly hung on the hook ufy(lm builders. The interior will be artistically doped with strings of delinquent subscriptions, with nickel plate trimmings. The West Point Republican comments, with dashing emphasis, on the oppositi of the Union Pa to the Milwau bridge, and quotes approving_the words of the slightly lamented Vanderbilt, ““The people be d-—d."” Nebraska City eouncilmen are in the midst of n squabble over a cepetery fund. An investigation, a libel suit and charges of fraud are tossed about with a recklessness that'promises to develop a chronic case ot municipal dyspepsia. August Freihcit, a Rhinelander em- ployed by John \Wisner, ne burg, attempted to carve his employer with a large knife, but was knocked out: witha club. Freiheit is insune and the authorities have taken him in charge. Hastings turned 'out with mouth agave last Thursday to §ee the first street car ever run in the town, in motion. They crowded into the car like sardines to en- joy the novelty, and above the cheers and shouts of joy rose the cry, “Room for one more! The Fall City Journal is souzing the natives in canal logic. For the triflin, sum of $12,000 a water power with a Iafi of thirty teet can be secured, and facto- ries will crowd upou the banks and the hum of industry and smiling prosperity follow in the wake of the expenditure. Four female bruisers in Hastings vawed the air and clawed each other to determine who was queen of the local arena. The battle of the bangs and bus- tle came to an inglorious close by the appearance of a peacemaker, Their hus. bands paid $7.30 each to defray lawful damages. Mrs. Woolsey, a Juniata woman who has been an invalid for so long a time that her mind became unbalanced, {;lmpml into a cistern with her 3-year-old oy. The child was drowned but the mother was fished out alive. She is the mother of eight children. and her unfort unate condition 18 extremely sad. Champion 8. Chase, of Omaha, will spit on his l;:um and paste the American euagle with burning periods of puritanic lore at Champioa, Chase county, on the Fourth. The Dundy county Democrat introdnces him to the people’as an illus- us Eli Perkins and *‘a very cheerful ¢ to badiy in grounds have been A married couple in Adains objected to the style and fit of a coal of tar and feathers tendered by admiring neighbors, brought the donors into court and secured damages in the sum of 1,400, The in- gratitude displayed by the feathered couple has chilled the marrow of gener- osity in Adams, Al Harling and Charles Nichols, Al- bion braisers, settled a neighborhood quarrel by a fair fight to a finish on the outskirts of town. Nineteen rounds were fought for satisfaction and $100 a side. After banging cach other till their heads resembled” fly blown beef, the fight was declared a draw, sandwiched with vows of eternal friendship, A drove of misfortunes have fallen on a farmer named Heartwell, living near Juniata. The loss of an only child some time ago 5o preyed upon the mind of his wife that she became insane and sul- cided last week. ‘The family purse was empty and Heartwell tried to sell some of his stock to pay burial expenses. A sharper took him in and beat him out of a mule with a bogus check. The animal was sold in & neighboring town, but the ascally swindler was caught and jailed, The cartwheol dollar the baby and dog a [ Mr. C. E. Dayton of Fremont plac enty of them in his pants pocket und his pillow and a poverty-stricken burglar make a raid on them. “He gently extri- cated the pile from ander the pillow, but the weighted end fell to the ground with a crash that woke up the household. The thief made off with the pants and unload- ed them on the run, ¢ Several shots from Dayton’s revolver did not impede his speed. lowa Items, The smeltery committee at Deadwood have raised $27,000, and report 5,000 more in sight if num\'enl. A convention of Ioa bankers has been called to meet at, Des Moines to-day. The call is signed by about thirty bankers at Des Moines and other places. The Omaha trike.of Red men have started a permanentpamp in Des Moines, The scalps of prohibition constables will 8000 be dangling n the wigwam, Des Moines is about to be afilicted with ' go-as-you-please walking ippodrome. e same combination that victimized Omaha will hold forth. The contract has been let and ground broken for the metallurgical labratory of the school of mines in Rapid City last week. The building will cost $10,000, ‘Che Harlan jail contains ten prisoners found guilty” of ullln* ntoxicating liquors contrary to law, They preferred boarding out their fines to parting with their cash. Ottumwa is raising a fund of $10,000 to bore for natural gas, and has great hopes of helping her boom along by striking a supply that will furnish fuel for her man- ufactories. . -An Emm ettsburg boy, eleven years of age, was playing with a neighbor’s baby, one of the playthings being a. revolver. The weapon was discharged, 8hooting the baby in the mouth and causing almost instant death, The contract for erecting the monu- ment to Father Brazil was let a few days ago to Charles 0. Donnell, of Des Moines, the contraet pri being $1,187. The monument will be six feet square at the base and twenty-five feet high, the ma- terial to be the best quality of Barra gramto, Sioux Falls ministers have caught on to the boom. The Dakota Bell reports one of them,as having offered the follow- ing prayer on a recent Sabbath: “Oh Lord, we desire to return more than the usual amount of thanks this evening for the blessings of the week just closed, Es- pecially would we thank Thee for the successful organization of a board of trade and for the gratifying outcome of that little south side deal in which Thy servant was interested. But above all, we desire to return our thanks for the completion of the new race track, which, as Thou probably knowest, is the finest half-mile “track ‘west of the Missourl river.” Dakota. Black Hills people are shipping oats from the eastern corner of the territory, the Nebraska supply having been exhausted. The Harney Peak Tin company has pure| a number of tin claims " from Joseph McClure and Thomas Kittrell for $5,000. Dean Carpenter, of the Rapid City school ot mines, has made an examina- tion of the Bear gulch and Nigger Hill tin districts, and speaks of them in very high terms. He believes that part of the Hills to be extremely rich in tin, and says that stream tin is wonderfully abundant. For some time the flow of the city arte- sian well at Yankton has not becn as strong as usual, and in explanation the theory was advanced that the pipe was cloglgod with a stone. On Thursday a drill was sent down the vipe and at a depth of 570 feet found the obstruction, which was loosened by a few blows, and ater resumed. The Black Hills Pioneer says the news from the cattle ranges is anything but encouraging, The losses during the past winter were much heavier than at first stipposed, and are becoming more appar- ent s the round-up progresses. dJust what the per cent will be is not yet de- termined, but a rnujont,r of cattlemen placlo it very high and feel badly discour- aged. CaAREDE DECIDEDLY SALTY. Lignt Wanted Concerning the Man- agement of the Union Pacific Salt Deals. Norti PLATTE, Neb,, June 24.—To the Editor of the BEg: In your issue of the 21st inst, we are informed that Mr. T. L. Kimball and A. J. Pop- pleton were again before the Pacific commission. For years the people have been uneasy, discontented, “‘grumbling,” demanding light as to the conduct of railroads in Nebraska. Why even Mr. A. J. Poppleton on one or more oceastons in public addresses, eloquently vortrayed the wrongs of the people, and the dangers threatening the state and nation by corporations. Indeed if Ire- collect aright he named rail- roads on at least one occasion. Representatives intrusted with the wishes of constituents, stimulated by 1n- structions and pledged 1n conventions, on tha stump, at the hustings, every- where, to do what they could to relieve them, took action by appointing com- mittees to look the matter up, to learn if there was any cause for all this “‘kicking'’ by the people. Before such cummiv.tcesdprominuntmilrond managers were invited to appear and give informa- tion, and the same result was obtained nearly every time, The suasive ambas- sadors assured the ardent committees that the management was in the interests ot the settlers, and to protect the ignor- ant, groveling, ~poor subjects of their ~ sympathetic solicitude, the destructive knowledge they desired they must not divulge. They were look- ing after the poor settlers welfare by a secret management that if made known to us would eoca{;‘ej, become known by our crafty neighbors elsewhere atd thus defeat their Kindly protection. The astute committees were convinced—in nearly every instance—and conveyed to their respective bodies a soothing report, handed in by an assistant railroad attor- ney, ever near, ‘‘able,” wi , anxious to relieve, explain, assist the ignorant people. But Mr. Poppleton yolunteered—in my judgment impudently, if correctly re- ported—to relieve a c cat, truthful witness, and declared ou open the doors, and our business is outraged.” He is mnot now pleading for the settlers. No, no; they would not call on him to represent them. The settler who paid $99.96 freight on a threshin machine transported from Council Bluffs to North Platte, less that three hundred miles distant, and on which he had to pay only $66' for freight transportation from Canton, O., to Council Bluffs, more than a thousand miles distant, does not solicit his prayer; nor does he and his neighbors, who must pay to the Union Pacific railroad company one dollar a ton more for Wyoming coal than the people of Omaha, three hundred miles more distant from the mine, are charged; nor the merchant or merchants here, who pay more for salt purchased in the wholesale markets, where mer- chants, ignorant of the peculiar mysteries of the management of the Union Pacific railroad company, purchase, than . his townsman merchant more shrewd, who hies to the depot and buys from tbeir salesman agent. None of these usk for Mr. Poppleton’s interference in their be- half; not one in a thousand are in sym- pathy with him in his plea for closed doors. They have long prayed that the doors be opened and the secret manage- ment of the managers be exposed to ex- amination by the publie, settlers, bond- holders and bondsmen. ' Mr. Poppleton appears as attorney for the company's management, and from his salaried standpoint, doubtless, felt *‘to open” to the eager gaze of the ignorant, plundered, duped people the manner in which 1t was done and for years secreted, would be an interference with and outrage on their business. I'is but a few years siuce the right to inquire by any authority was denied, seems to be conceded now. In that alarming pro- test--"*you open the doors and our busi- ness is ou d,” you intended to tell the truth, That is right. Stick to 1t; fol- low it up with truth after truth, Euough has slipped out of the burdened recesses to justify a charge that the worst has not been told. Tell all you know about the concaled, and let the truthful witnesses corroborate truths or give the lie to false- hooas without assistance or Erompting. You, having made a clean breast of it, Do give the other witnesses & chance. Some of them ma; feel a little un- easy under your watchful gaze. Do not fear that un&wnll give false testi- mony that would damaging to the secret management of the Union Pacific railroad. That can’t be done by false- hood. I beseech vou in m-hnfi of a salted community to uu¥zen to the com- mission the propriety of interjecting into the list of questions propounded to Mr. T. L. Kimball the additioual question of *Salt" selling salt at North Platte. ‘That this salt pill may not be so nauseating as to make too vigorous a demand on the toe-nails of ~ the wholesale mer- chants of Omaha and other cities, Union Pacific railroad managers can BUZAT-COAL by secretly informing them that can afford to rest. enterprise was not advertised, and therefore some of the merchants knew not of the cheaper mar- kot at their door, . T. J. Foley, Chatles McDonald, €. F. Ormsby, and William Grady, merchants of North Ptatte, can throw hight on the salt enterprise, and I Foley might also tell an interesting story about a car load of sugar in transi- tion from Californ to Omaha, Do not forget the trifling advance of $1 on and the considerate precaution the man agement takes to protect their agent by rofusing to sell to any other person either vy the ton or ear load. In justice to the management I will say that to the bestof my recollection I know of no other commercinl onterprise the cautious, self-sacrificing management engagedin. I feel quite confident they did not engage in the tobacco or cigar trade; that would have necessitated ps ing out money and posting up a govern- ment license. Too much advertising, entirely too much for the good of the enterprise. Without the tattling license it might be a violation of law. Leastwise some judges have so held. The consti- tutionality of that law has never been tested, There was not enough in the business to justify us in submitting a case made up among themselves. We like to test our rights in our courts by submitting our own cases, appearing as plantifts ‘and defendants. Thus pre- senting both sides of the case wholly without prejudice, no ill feeling is aroused and then the decision is so much more satisfactory. The management has never violated law. That is, constitutional law. 1 have heard they encroaclied on a violation of law once, a law to protect national cur- rency. They issued bills, raid debts for labor with it, made it, it was good, passed as currency along your line in the west, 1t was convenient money. After a few years of mature reflection all that could he found in circulation was called in thus a violation of law_was averted. It caught it would have heen a violation, not caught it was only a thoughtless encroachment on a violation. That'sall. SETTLER, oS THE GLORIOUS FOURTH, A List of Speakers Who Will Cause Men to Shed Tears on the Nation's Birthday. HumsoLpr, Neb., June 25, 1885, —[Cor- respondence of the Bek.]—The last legis- Iature made Nemaha and Johnson coun- ties a new senatorial district. Johnson was formerly coupled with Pawnece, where David Butler and Humphroy, the blatherskite, contended for political dis- tinction, Nemaha was alone in her glory —with the ‘‘Howe and Majors” factions the only disturbing element. But with Johnson and Nemaha joined to- gether the two Nemaha glad- iators now find an enlarged arena in which to combat and test their ])uliticnl skill. The burying of the hatchet ast full between Howe and Mujors, re- sulting in Majors being sent to the legis- lature and McShane to congress, has only made Howe green with envy,—and the fight 1s still on. Howe declares his intention to go to the senate the next session, and to that end the announcement is made that he has out-gencraled Majors and will make the eagle scroam at Tecumseh the fourth of July. When the unscruplous political mountebank of Nemaha appears before his audience, it the audience cannot get away, there will be much grim humor in his statement to his “friends” to the effect that he *is glad to meet them on this occasion,” 1t will be remembered that the last timo his “friends’ had occa- sion to meet him, they saw to it that he only carried one or two precincts in the entire county. Yet the eagle will scream, and the Eledge»brenkur guilty of so many base etrayals will circulate nmonf; the multi- tude with a reassuring smile for every “heeler” to whom he gave so lavishly of his bondle last fall, and receive a promise of their renewed friendship and a sacred avowal that their *‘flooence" is his in the next campaign, All this time Colonel Majors will be up in the pleasant and cooling retreats of Peru's bluffs fighting misquitos ana despising Howe tor the enemies he has made. Dave Butler will deliver his pyrotech- nical display of wind and wisdom up the A. & N. road, while Judge Davidson will look after his fences around the judicial pasture of Table Rock, and tell the little boys with firecrackers and the old men who drink the lemonade, of the battles he saw “fit"’ at Treuton, Valley Forge and Bunker Hill, Captain Humphrey will try to get an audience somewhere on the glorious day, and unless the committee of arrange- ments search him for concealed original poetry, he will attempt to read a few verses to the indignant crowd. poem, entitled “How I Was Made Cl man of the State Central Committee,” 18 bnin&r revised by Judge J. L. Edwards and Judge llxwm’ who are attempling to make *“*Humfry"” rhymo with “‘George Washington Burton.® Judge Appleget has reached the ze- nith of his glory, and will not undertake to either sin?' a national anthem or pluck the pinions from the proud bird of free- dom Charley Holmes will close his bank on this great day and write a message of condolence to his colleague, Majors, and if the Tecumseh crowd is small, I under- stand a cipher dispatch will apprise the colonel of the exact number in attend- ance. Colonel Colby, who is_setting his sails for congress, is expected to paw the air with reckless and wanton eloquence while the great American eagle takes to the woods. The colonel will tell how the rip-cord of his judicial baloon let him fall four years ago, but he will reassure his hearers that his love for country and self is yet strong and the fires of patriot- ism kindled when be first joined the state militia are yet undimmed. A —— JUNE BRIDES IN BLOOM, With The Very Devil to Deal Be- cause They Want Everything so Superfinely Simple. New York Letter in Hartford Courant: A florist reciting his trials said to me the other day: *“These June brides, mum, have been the very devil to deal with, mum! They ha ad a regular corner in sentiment. ‘They'll not have a rose touch ‘em, nor a tuberose, nor a violet, nation, and until this week, re's no buying them for love or money, an orange blossom. It was all hiaes, while lilacs, when the season was over and no way to putting th back, and then lilies * of the valle they had all stopped bloomi that Newport florist's who fortune preserving them. dog-wood, and the swe peas, which ain't a bad idea, and now it is apple blos- soms—apple blossoms in June, when the apples are fit for eating. ‘But my lady,’ says 1, ‘there are no apple blossoms— they're gone,’ and she looked up as fierce as a little cock sparrow, and she says: ‘L won't have roses, Brown. nor orange blossoms; there's no sentiment in these expeusive things—as f money was every- thing. I want something ™ sweet and irlish and simple. I adore simplicity. flell you what to do, Brown; you just force me some apple blossoms: hel,y force apples, why not apple blossoms?' A good suggestion, by the way, came from this humorous horticulturist. In- stead of decorating the rooms of a home wedding in conventional white, he used all pink roses. The canopy, & Chinese Yugunln. with portieres of Smilax, was ormed of La France roses, with s mirror for a background, trimmed with pink noisettes. ‘Fhe wedding bell was of shaded pink from “the bride,” through “Catherine Mermets,”’ to a deep - blush The bride walked through . a forest of lvnlmu and rmk azaleas, and wore ireast knot of pink buds, As she was g tall, pale girl, the glow gave. her the on essential of “beauty her whitenoss “ha lacked, PNGAGED COUPLES ARDENT, “What is the conduct toward each other rf engaged couples?” asked one of the party. ~“In honest, scrious _entanglo: ments?'’ queried a lady, “Yes." “‘Whnen A woman is truly and honestly in love with a man she is veay enrviul’, indeed, more so than she ordinarily is in her conduct toward him. She is afraid of doing something that will injure her in his estimation. Ehe more ardently she loves him the more reserved frequently is she with her caresses and endeorments, I speak of the engaged period, of course; after marriage it is different, He pers haps kisses her a few times be- fore they are married. am told up morth. and even in parts of the south, it 1s different. An engagement becomes a public affair, is announoced, and their behavior s expectod to bo that of an engaged couple, 5 ere with. us it has not yet reached this point. It will some day I am confident, and 1 do not know that it is not the best plan by far, 1t is certainly far more attractive to the narties themselves, and it is & serious drawback to flirting and coquetry, too often characterizes young gi us o girl likes to be with her fiance, but the moment the public becomes aware of the fact that he is her intended husband she rather avoids public appearance in his company. Just why itis 1 do not know, but it is frequently the case. I knew a Iady, now a staid” matron, who was engaged a year before her marriage, who requestod ler fiance, six months ge- fore the time, to refrain from visiting her, And for six months previous to the wedding she did not see him, though thex lived within twelve miles of each other, “Engaged couples in Atlanta,” re- marked avother, “'do not have the time people generally ascribe to them, People are never more circumsvect in_their be- havior toward each other than during the period of eugagement. A woman does not care how often a man gives her evi- dences and_assurances of his love and aflection. This is a thing expected dur- g the period of an engagement, but there are so many ways in which this can be done without going through the rather stagey methods of embraces and kissing that this part of the programme is not often indutged in.”” *“There isno harm in rn engaged couple occasionally kiss- ing, isthere?'’ innocently inquired a dark- eyed damsel. *‘None; but it is best nof to indulg it too often. The nectar of the gods a very sweet matter; why? because it was a rare substance, and to mortals was the embodiment of every- thing that was desirable, because it was utterly impossible to be obtained." A REPORTER WHO KISSED, Oil City Blizzard: Among other inter- esting scenes at the dopot yesterda; morning was a newly married couple who belonged in Taylorstown. They had been to Mayville, where they were mar- ried by Rev. Mr. Kernick, and were re- turning to their home in the new oil field. Sho was tweuty-nine, and he was twenty- three. Colonel Worden, whose august eye discovers everything now within an acre of the depot, said he never saw such a happy couple n all his born days. The bride employed a darky bootbfack to shine her shoes while she was waiting in the depot. The above account fis incomplete. Through the kindness of Colonel Worden the Blizzard is enabled to sup‘:ly an 1m- portant omission. The Derrick reporter casually sugzested to the groom that it was customary for membors of the press to salute the bride, and was cumlderlh‘l’y taken aback when the groom spluttered: ‘‘Gol darn it, I don't care if you kiss her. wadein.’, For the first time in fifteen years the portly Derrick reporter blushed; then, bis native hardihood asserting it- self, he stepped forward, secured a firm collar-and-elbow hold on the willing bride and planted an osculation right smack on her ruby lips. An expression sur- }nlso and pleasure wreathed his ®hubby ace, and it seemed to vevive long lost memories of the happy times before he ever saw a newspaper office. Then he deliberately bent his head aguin, the bride looked trustfully up into his truth- ful eyes, and another chaste salute was exchqn;ied. The second attempt was an artistic Emma Abbott trinmph, and the rotund reporter stepped back with the air of a man who had done his duty. But he failed in his duty in neglecting to re- vort this most graceful point in the nar- rative of tho newly wed. THE JUNE BRIDE WORTH LOOKING AT. New York letter in Hartford Courant: Twelve noon by the clock, and a dim church, decked like a conservatory, and we waiting with a quick throb of our hearts, for the crash of chords and the flower 6:\(05 to open and the bride to pass. What a splendid spectacle she is in all her brave apparel, and glitter of jewels! And the cloud of tuile and lace just shadowing the look we all know as the “‘brides’ look" of mingled happiness and shame and pride! Sometimes, in- deed, she is a plain little thing with a hitch in her train, but never mind my dear about the train, Better luck next time. 1f the young fellow whois waiting for you at the altar be what you like, and you are what swits him, here's & smile to you and a henlth! BRIDES AS THICK A8 BLOSSOMS. New York letter in New Orleans Times-Democrat: This June is s month of brides in ‘‘our best society.” It has from year to year become more and more on annual custom to marry in the first month of summer. 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