Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1887, Page 5

CALIFOR Lincoln Merchants Preparing a Test Cose Against the Union Pacific. YHE MISSOURI PACIFIC REPLIES. Strychnine in the Sugar Bowl Poi- #ons a Whole Colored Boarding House—School Exponses =—Capital News, frroM THE BEE'S LINCOLY BUREAU. The foundation is laid for a test casen the wuy of California rates that will drop upon the Union Pa in a few days for gettlement, The Lincoln freight bureaua, through Mr. Utt, its commissioner, evi- dently means business, and the plan of work on California rates 15 as follows: T'he present weck the wholesalers of this eity, or a part of them, will receive fif- teen car loads of sugar direct from the est that are now en route over the mion Pacific. When these car load lots reach Lincoln the consignee’s will tender the Union Pacific company the reg California-Omaha rate, which, at p ent, is 60 cents per 100. If this rate is re- fused by the company then the fifteen cars of sugar will be replevined and the ease brought directly to the courts for ad- Judication. The value of this shipment is estimated to be some $30,000, and it will be seen that it will financially be a case of no small magnitude as well as a test case. One reason why the Lincoln parties directly interested belicve they are right and will win is that while the Inter-state law is supposed to do away with pools, that since April & ghe B. & M. railroad has refused to ac- cept car load shipments from the coa: for points along their line, Lincoln in- luded, and this is believed to be a com- ination between the two roads to de- Btroy competition and deprive Lincoln of the benelit of a shorter haul than Omaha 'on coust shipments which it would have fn foudu shipped over the Burlington. t is also stated hF & member of the greight bureau here that the B, & M. is in combination on St. Lovis car load traf- ¢ Lo Lincoln and that the road since rfll‘ll 5 has refused to take car load lots or Lancoln shipments from that point. The stand taken in the matter of Califor- nia shipments will, as before stated, bring the matter to the courts direct and the case will be one of much interest to E“““ on both In this matter the ureau has consulted Juege Cooley, of the inter-state commission, and it is be- lieved on the outside that the action has not been taken without a favorable view of it being cxpressed by the judge and the commerce commission. THE MISSOURI PACIFIC REPLIES, In reply to the communication from the board to the Missouri Pacific rmlway regarding Lincoln rates the following has been received: 81, Louts, Mo, June 25—Messrs. G, L. Lewis and Willlam Leese, Railroana Com- missioners—Gentlemen: \We arein receipt of our favor of the 16th In relation to the dif- rentials existing as between Lincoln and mal d note your request that the rates from Louls and other points on this line be made alike to both places. The conclu- slons reached by your board were evidently based upon the “mileage between St. Louls and those points heing practically the same, and the Missouri Pacilic mileage to Omaha, 489 miles, being used instead of the distance by the short line (the Wabash road), 411 miles, 1f rates to the two cities from St. Louis were based wholly upon mileage, the differentials now in efféct would not be ma- 1A RAILROAD RATES | mlully changed. While the Omaha rate “:n“ Llouismls me\élabur:l the :flm line m via the abash road, can rc:()lly understand that the longer [ine (our road), has to carry at the same rates to secure any of that traflic. We understand that the principal complaint of the Lincoln merchants grows out of additionaf costs to them on business from the east into Lincoln, and distributed thence to the western points over similar traffic from the east into Omaha and thence to the same destination, and are vised that at least one of the roads reach- ing territory west of Lincoln and wesi of Omaha {s now preparing a tariff out of Lin- coln which will change the present situation and do away with many if notall of the differences now existing to tho territory reachad by that line. This action on the part of { it com:any may be followed by the other roads Ieading west from Lincoln. ~ We are now conferring with all the roads inter- ested In Lincoln traftic with a view of con- lummnunfi an arrangement which will be entirely satisfactory to the Lincoln ple. . Inasmuch as competetive rates are made b{ agreement, the necessity of ‘which is doubtless apparent to your boards, you will fully realize and appreciate the In- expudiency of our taking any action in this matter other than by agreement of the sev- eral roads interested in that traftic if an agreement can be reached. or at least until we have heard from the other lines what licy they will adopt. With assurane's at the subject shall be given prompt atten- tlon that there may be an early disposition you of i Very respectfully yours, » 3 8. H.’u. CLARK, Vice President, ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION of the Omaha Varnish company of Omaha, Neb., have been filed with the secretar, ate. The corporation com- menced business on the 18th of April, 1887, and is stipulated to continue for 100 ears. The capital stock of the company #25,000, with the right to increase the same to $50,000, shares $100 each, to be aid up as soon as $25,000 is subsoribed. he incorporators are J. H. Gipson, E. Aylesworth, Charles P. Benjamin, E. E. French, Alfred Millard, Fred Bace, -G. W. Bodine and J. B. Kellogg. The Lowe Terrace Building association of Omaha, has also filed articles of in- corporation with a capital stock of ,000, divided into thirty shares of ,800 each, to be paid in installments of per month. The indebtedness of this Incorporation shall not exceed two-thirds of its capital stock. The management 1s in the hands of a board of seven directors and the corporation is to commence busi- ness on the 13th day of May, 1887. The incorporators are J. W. Howell, F. J. Bengele, Frank Benham, H. J. Abra- hams and H. P. Camp. WHOLESALE POISONING, A Mrs, Johnson, residing on L and Beventh street with two sons ana a daughter, a young lady, keeps boarders. The family and the boarders are colored Eonlu and on Sunday they passed rough an experience that came very nearly costing the lives of all of them, especially of the girl, who was not out of danger until yesterday. The cause was ascertained to be that the whole family had been Youonoll by strychnine that had been placed in the family sugar bowl in liberal quantities. A free use of emetics helped the family out and a dis- carded lover of the girl is suspicioned as th:‘.nolwner. but no arrests have been made. SCHOOL EXPENSES, The city school board last evening pre- seated to the city couucil its annual esti- mate of expenses for the ensuing year. +Epitomized it was as follows: B%nmnc:( teachers and city superin- Cash on band'.....". R licenses, state ll\pofllolllllflnl.‘ l!&m ‘Faised by taxation. L 40000 ents, principals, teachers and janitors remains for the coming year practically unchanged, TOLICE COURT, Police court was just an average yes- terday, @ne drunk was iined and com- mitted. John Barrett, for assaulting a boy, was fined %5 and co. It was an- other case of a boy prov £ 4 man to anger. Four inmates of houses of pros- titution eaptured the night previous were fined §|n and costs nd aman found in one of the places was fincd $20 and costs, His fine was spread on thickly from tne fact that he made a vigorous liuhrlwuh the ofticers before he was cap- tured. ittt The Need For a Central Canal. Stuart F. Weld in Popular Science Monthly for July: Some may still ask, 18 a canal or a ship railway worth build- ing after all? 1 Admiral Ammen in- timated doubts as late as 1679, after the Paris congress, as to whether the time had come to cut the isthmus, It may not be hard to satisfy ourselves on this point. In a report submitted to the nayy department in 1366 by Admiral C. H. Davis, an estimate is given of the tonnage h would have used a canal had one 1n existence, as well as tde loss in- d upon commerce beeause of its ‘he former estimate i3 3,094,070 zrees pretty well wite the estimate of the Paris congress for the year 1879, if we assume the rate of annual increase from 1866 to 1870 which the congress adopted. Admiral 's estimate of the loss annually expe ricnced by commerce was $17,5! These estimates, made oyer twenty years a0, would be evidently too low for 1887, But even should we assume that i the course of tiie past twenty-five years no increase of traflic had occurred, a result sufliciently surprising would be arrived at. ‘The loss to commerce in four years would amount to 10,000, about the cost of the Panama_canal according to the estimate of the Paris congress. This simple calculation shows the imoortance of the work. Mr. Bigelow, in his report already quoted ys with reference to the Panama ct : “Were all nations to contribute towards its production in any cquitable proportion to the advant- ages they would derive from it, the stock would be as aiflicult to obtain as the golden apples of Atalanta.” — Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthenin, dial and Blood Purifier, by its vits properties, will brighten pale ch transform a pale, haggard, woman into one of sparkling health and beauty. American Cor- S REAL ESTATE. Transfers Filed June 25, 1887, Geo £ Barker ct al to Fred Ballard, lot 17 bik 2 Mayne's Place, wd.. 1, Ralph W Breckenridge to Ida M lot 15blk 14 Hanscom Place, 1 Jt;‘m \ W C Larsen, lot 24 Washington Square, Wdooo e vise seases . 2,700 Asa P French etal to Thos F_Mulli- m:r'n nigoflot4blk SEV Smith’s 1 Add, q€....0...is RN I . Flnmné’a M Harvey to Eunice McEn- dree, lot 14 blk 10 Omaha View add, d. 1,100 zel, lot 18 Burr Oak,wd....... . 1,800 Willis C Patrick to Grezory Hickey,lot 4 blk 2,also fractional lot 5 blk 2 Elk- L horn, wd... DR 1 Frantiska Kubovec and hus Joseph Kevan, lot 4 blk 63 South Omaha, wd 800 Dayid R Archer, trustee, to ‘Thos J Cooley, lots 15,22 blk 2, lot 5 blk 3, lot 16 glk 4 Cotner & Archer’s add to South Omaha, wd.. WL Sl*ll)*’ and wife to 165x172 {t beg 830 ft n and 40 of 8 e cor ot ne X sw X sec 10, 15, 18, LV Bertrand, lots 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, blk 12, M & Bruner’s add, wd.. . 900 Eaward Savage and wife to Mrs Mar- aret Ann Isham, lot 21, bik 6, Au- urn Hill, w d. 400 City of Omaha to Ella W Brown, 44 by 4.59 ft beg at n w cor of lot 9, blk 1013, also 4.80 ft by 44 ft bex atn w cor [ot 10, blk 191 Frank A Robbins to . Iuls5i blk 1, Denise’s add, w d...... 5000 David R Archer et al, trustees to Wm E Hawley, lots 22, bk 1,lots 19, 23, 1, blk 4, Cotner & Archer’'s add to South Omaha, Wd...o.ooiee vas cuie Douglas connty to James M Buchanan etal, lot 17, blk 4, Douglas ladd, w d ‘West Side Building association to T J Bo&lm). lot 19 blk 10, Hanscom Place W 1,600 1,100 2,000 1] 2,100 Jas M Sw G lot 1 blk 1, Hartford Place, w d... DouEIns county to Thos C Goss lot 4, blk 13, lot 20 blk 4, Douglas add, w d John L' McCague and wife to Elias Svenson, lot 18, blk 3, Creston add, o seasiens 1,500 Elwin L Park etal, lots 7 and 8, blk 7, Patrick’ 2d add, w d. Auzustus Kount: Wenceslaus church, 125x140 feet com 808 feet s of se cor of lot 1blks8, Kountze Sd add, wd......coovenieenns Wm M Nason and wife to Jas A Brown, 7x140 feet com_ 759 feet e of line bet secs 9, 10 and 573.6 feet n of llllg vet seées 10 and 15, all in 15-13, Eugone’ 8 ‘Aibriit a lot 12, blk 1, Orchard Hill, w d Julin E Vandercook and husba Herbert D Hicks, lot 6, blk 1, Van- dercouk lerrace, wd.... Alfred Forman and wife Squires, undiv int in lot 7, blk 8, Jerome park, wd........ seeeeestees . Wm Wehrer and wife to Hans Peter- sen, lots 6 and 7, Winther's sub-div of lot 60, 8 E Roger's Okhoma, wd John F Flack to tho public piat o Flack’s sub-div of lots 11, 12, 13 and 14, Catalpas 2d add, dedication, william J Paul to John F Flack, e 3¢ lot 15 blk 8 Bedford place, wd. . 1,100 George W Wilbur and wife to Alberf mith, lots 1, 2 and 3 blk 18 Flor- ence, qC....... John P Cluck and wife to Albert C Swmith, lots 1, 2and 3 blk 18 Flor- James J Hall and wife to John Flan! gan, lot 1 blk 4 Hartford place, wa Edith 1, Baldwin to Susan E Evelef et al, lot 18 Burr Oak add, wd. David M Ure et al to the publie, of Ure and Flack subdiv of lot 12, lllvlhu'tl and Caldwell’s add, dedica- tion ... sereses . Douglas county to H. Spigle and otners, lot 22, block 4, Douglas add, W.044ss0a8nstnrsnshfs o Douglas county to 1. Spigle and others, lot 10, block 6, Douglas add, tol and wife to St Douglas county pigle and others, lot 7, block 9, Douglas add, w d...... 925 Norman A Kuhn (trustee) to Wilsol 0, Bridges, lots 1 and 2, sub-division of block A, Reservoir add, w d...... 2,050 Lizzie M Eleock to John B Maxfield o and wife, lot 20, block 2, Denises’s add, w d sevese 2 George B Christle to tiustave en- en, 41x133 teet of sub lot 3 of lot 8, apitol add, w d. e B34 Charles D Woolw: TS 0 George B Christle, 8 132 feet of sub lot 2 of lot 8, Capitol add, w d. 10,734 Otto Lobeck and wife to Delia her, lot 8, block 6, Lincoln place, w sanc F ‘the to ublie, plat of Druid Hill add, being l{l selg of swig, sec 4, 15, 15-—dedica- on s o Douglas county to H. Spigle and sluen. lot 7, block 4, Douglas add, w Alfred Mayhow and wife o fienry A’ Eicke, 147.73 acres in sec, 25, 16, 10, 6,53 1,000 led, M. C. Martin, & well-known young merchant of Central Cit{. is in this city ho with his bride, He was married to this estimable young lad, a few days ago in Sigourney, Ia., an will remain "here a few days before re- turning to settle down to practical life, bl Belle of Bourbon Ten-Year-Old Whisky. Moellow as an Autumn day and . fragrant ‘a8 a rose. An Apoetizer such as Kings covet, Wh{ drink poor whisky and ruin your health? Ask for Belle of ~ Bourbon. vy . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. JUNE WIRE FENCE AND BLIZZARD. These Two Are Reported to be Causing s Revolution in the Business of Raising Oattle. The Hills Country of Uncommon Value for Grazing Because of the Nutritions: ness of the Grass. Some Miners Become Ranchers— Money in Systematic, Intelligent Prosecution of Breeding. Custer City (Dak) letter to St. Paul Globe: Reports from the June round-ups thus far generally confirm the early opin- ions of heavy losses, o far as concerns the northern ranges of Dakota, Wyoming and Montana, and for the Central and Southern hills the reports are favorable, The difference in results was anticipated by all who know the different conditions of the ranges. Southern ranges have not been so heavily stocked as in the north; the herds on the former are smaller and better cared for in winter; the country, as far south and east as the Cheyenne, benefits by being under the lec of the Black Hills. There is a dif- ference of fifteen degrees in the mean temperature of the Southern and North- ern hills, Cattle men have received scvere lessons on the tendency of busi- ness toward smaller bunches, closer herding and winter feeding. The wire fence and bl rd are revolutionizing the busines A FAVORED GRAZING COUNTRY, There 1s a favored grazing country in- side the hills which, if limited, has ad- vantage of permanency, safety and rich- ness; a favorable opening to men of small capital. The valleys and parks that make up over half of the Black Hills area are upon lands reserved by the government for mineral purposes, and hence notopen for pre-emption and enclosure. They are likely to remain open ranges for many years, if not for all time. ‘I'here is hardly a 160 acre stretch of it that does not include mineral land, and except one section in the southwestern corner of Custer county. it has not been surveyed. No man can get title to any of it except by taking up placer claims, doing $500 worth of work in mining them, and going to the expense of patenting and paying $2.50 per acre, all of which would bring the cost up to $7.50 an acre, a price that would buy improved ranches in the foot-hills. The small patches that are fenced in now are held only by squatters’ title, and these are occupied by small farmers and constitute but a small part of these mountain parks. The hills are of uncommon value for grazing, because of the extraordinary nutritiousness of the grass, green or self-cured, the abundance and purll{ of the water, shel- ter from winds and light snow and mild winters, Stock thrives and does not wander far. These are not the only ranges I have seen where it is no Dakota exaggeration to say that stock turns out inthe spring as well conditioned as in the fall it went in. Nor is the extent of the f measured by the open land, for the timbered parts are more or less GRASSED TO THE MOUNTAIN TOPS, The pine forests are quite open. One can drive a buck-board for miles through the woods where there is no trail; and this forest is much of it covered with grass to the roots of the trees. A not too distant view of these mountain slopes at this season present a beautiful varie- gation and contrast of black-green against a background of bright green grass showing through the trees. The parks themselves are as trecless as if some mighty police had m‘lfiuined the rock-loving pines to ‘‘keep oil the grass’’ —not the only respect in which these lovdly stretches suggest a city-kept park. They look more like the art of tlm land- scape gardner than the work of nature. MINERS TURN RANCHERS, It is the ambition of the Hills miner and prospector to owna horse ranch and sottle down as soon as he makes a stake. Several of the fortunate owners of tin properties that have been sold here within the past year have thus invested their gains, fencing in a little home plot and letting their stock range the free-to- all. You will hear encouraging reports of the geometrical increase of their herds around Custer. “There is the best mine I ever owned,” said an old miner, pointing to a band of horses hun- dreds of feet above us. But there are always men of this class who tire of so lazy and slow an occupation and pine for the excitement of gold hunting, and they will sell improvements, stock ind squat- ter’s vights cheap. One such sold his herd at $22.50 a heaa, calves thrown in, Horses pay a better margin, but do not give returns as soon as cattle, An ex- perienced horse rancher advises to buy & bunch of laige-boned, solid, stock mares—and breed with a small tast stal- lion—like Morgan or Hambletonian, and have AN EXPERIENCED HORSEMAN to break the colts to saddle and harness, paying paricular attention to training for a fast walking gate,so valuable for these hill roads. He said a man could make a good start in the business and meet ex- penses until returns began to come, with 10,000 capital, bat he must give his per- sonal attention to it at frequent intervals if he does not live on the ranch, 1 can- not imagine a pleasanter climate or more romantuic surroundings of life, if one can put up with isolation from saciety. Cer- tainly there is not a more lovely, enjoy- able spot vutside of Bouquette valley, in the Adironaacks than this. The charms of these valleys and advantages for graz- ing are little known, and but few are engaged in the business here, except people who came in after gold and went nto stock ‘‘on the side,' as they say. Out i foot-hills there area few in the horse ranches who make a business of 1t A company of titled Frenchmen are breeding Arab stock on the Fleur-de- Lys ranch, out on Lame Johnny Creek; there aresseveral considerable horse out. fits around Buffalo Gap and Rapid City; and most ranches dabble in horses as well as cattle. But the systematic, intel- ligent prosecution of breeding for market is & neglected business. FIRE TO THE FORE. ‘The interest in the tournament of the Black Hills firemen’s association, held at Lead City July 4- nary now. There aroten companies in the” association, and the liberal purse offered for the free-for-all hose race will attract outside companies. One of these, J. C. Cleland hose company, of Fremont, Neb., has a record for speed tnat is mak- ing the local footers feel a little shaky in anticipation, The people all through the hills are taking an interest in, and con- tributing money to, and betting on these races with as much earnestness as if all this training was for the extinguishment of eternal fires for the benegt of all of them. There will not be much holiday spirit in any of it forianybody,judging by the dead earnest feeling that everybody is working up in the matter. There came near being a bad break in the affair ia consequence of a plan to change the tournament from Lead City to Deadwood, but when it eame to a count of noses on the board of control of the association, Deadwood did not have votes enough. The affair was awarded to Lead City in a competitive bid afterample notice, and to have sneaked it away from Ler would have caused a *“wiot, & wumpus and a wow'' that would have given your corre- _lipondem. plenty of sensational material, "The l_ullng of rivalry between companies ard loenlities is intense enough now, and it will require chivalry and cool-headed- ness rry aflair through without readifR the riot act. INSANITY IN THE HILLS, The frequency of cases for the Yankton asylum hereaway is exciting comment, Dementia is quite prevalent all over Da- kota, and the Yankton institution is over- crowded, but there seems to be more tendency theteto in the hills in propor- tion to population. The isolation of ranching and prospecting, ‘‘baching,” exposure, meager dict, nervousness in- duced by high altitudes,ete., are adduced as contributing causes, There may be special causes in the hills in the tension of mining excitements and the reaction of disappointments as to results. I never saw an American community so intense, up-strung, and so little given to fun and recreation. The fierce contest of fire- men, above referred to, is the Black hill’s idea of relaxation. "But it is very much the idea of “sport that prevailed among our very forefathers, when a joust at which a score of knights were Kkilled and a hundred wounded was called “‘a gentle and joyous passage-at-arms,” ————— Dyspepsia Makes the lives of many people misera- ble, and often leads to scif-destruction. We know of no remedy for dyspepsia more successful than Hood's Sarsaparilla, It acts gently, yet surely and efliciently, tones the stomach and other organs, re- moves the faint feeling, creates a good appetite, cures headache and refreshes tho burdened mind, Give Hood's Sar- saparilla a fair trial. It will do you good., P IT WAS HIS WEDDING NIGHT, Amos F. Oarpenter is Compelled Through a Woman to Post- pone the Ceremony. Providence Special te the Boston Globe: Amos F. Carpenter, an employe of ari Carpenter & Son, of this city, is just at present in a state of mind hard to de- scribe, being in the anomalous situation of not knowing whether he is married or not, and, moreover, he will not be able to determine the question until the supreme court passes upon it. The situation is this: Five years ago, Mr, Carpenter _ being then ~ a widower,married a Miss Jennie Woodell of North'Foster, R. I, and it is intimated thathe did not enter into the contract of his own free will: but, however that may be, certain it is that he did not live with her long, or contribute to her support. With these two facts as a basis of com- plaint the supreme court some time since 1ssued a decree of divorce to the woman, A short time a*o Mr. Carpenter con- sidering himself frec from martial ties, began to pay court to another lady, by whom he was accepted, and the marri- age was to have taken pince last evening but the intervention of an injunction from the supreme court caused a post- ponement. % It scems that the prospective bride had an officious relative in the government service who was opposed to her marri- age with Carpenter, and he took steps to stop the ceremony. As a result of his efforts,as is supposed, the divorced Mrs. Carpenter vesterday appeared at the county ;court and asked for a writ to stop the marriage of her husband. She claimed that she did not sign the petition for the divorce, but when a comparison of her writing with the signature showed the chirography the same, she declared that she did not know what she was signing, and was very much astonished when she read the decree in the papers, as she did not want a divorce. ! On her petition, a writ was issued com- manding Mr, Carpenter to appear and show cause why the divorce should not be set aside. The paper was at once given to] a deputy sheriff, and then the only question was, Would the officer fil‘l\l his man before the ceremony came oft? Mr. Carpenter was away on_ an ice route, delivering the srigid comfort, lit- tle knowing of the cold chunk which was in store for himself, and it was not until he was returning to dress for the mar- riage that he came across the officer who was seeking him, Itis impossible to describe the emo- tions of the bridegroom to be, hut like a good citizen he respected the ‘mandate of the court and set out for the bride’s home to explain and ask for a postpone- ment. s Belle of Bourbon Ten-Year-Old Whisky. Highly indorsed by Medical Men for Ma- laria, Typhoid Fever, Dyspepsia, Com- sumption, Blood Poi sonm;i. Sleepless- ness. Contains no Fusel Oil. For Sale b{ Grocerymen, Wine Merchants, Drug- gists, everywh $1.25 Quart Bottle, Eine i gDl Some Methods o fe L panies, H. H. Gardener, in Popular Science Monthly for July: A man may now, if he is careful and wise i the choice of a company, insure his life,or, if insured.he mnfy have the temerity to die, without a fair-grounded expectation of leaving his fsmily a lawsuit for a legacy. He may also be reasonably sure that he is not placing his own reputation (after he 18 unable to defend it) at the mercy of a powerful corporation intent upon sava its funds from the inroads of a just debt. And I question if it1s too much to say that, given enough money, a strong mo- tive, and a powerful corporation on the one hand, and onlya ‘sorrowing fam- ily on the other, and noman ever lived or died whose reputation could not be black- ened beyond repair, after he was himself unable to explain or refute seeming irregularities of conduct or dishonesty of notive. No man’s character is invulner- able, and no man's reputation can afford the strain or test of such a contest. Mil- lions of dollars have been withheld from rightful heirs by threats of an exposure— the more vague the more frightful—of the unexpected crimes or misdeeds of the beloved dead, Thousands of cases never known to the gublic have been ‘‘compromised,” and hundreds of heart aches and unjust suspicions and fears about the dead, which can never be corrected, are aroused in sorrowing but loving breasts by this method of doing ‘‘business.” It'is, of course, of the utmost importance that every precaution be taken by life insur- ance companies to,protect the funds held by them, ia trust for others, against fraud and trickery.QButiofwith the agent, the examiving physician, the medieal directors, andrthe 1nspectors all employed by, ana answerable to the com- pany represented, one or all of these l;ahl ofticers must almost. of necessity, e party to that fraud; With all these safeguards 1a the hands of the company, if a man is accepted as;a ‘‘good risk,”” if he pays his premiums, surcly his family has the right to expect a legacy and not a lawsuit, nor a ‘*‘cqmpromse” which must cast reproach on the dead. rance Com- e R The Freight Commissioner. W. F. Griflits, commissioner of the freight bureau of the Omaha board of trade, has opened hig of i ss the hall from the and connected with the offices of the president and secretary of the board. He will be glad to meet there anybody hav- égx l‘:‘usmeu with his department of the ard. Mangled. Yesterday morning Addie Mauer, one of the employes in the Globe laundry on Twenty-sixth street aud St. Mary's ave- nue, had her right arm badly crushed ina mangle. She formerly resided av Six- teenth and Izard streets, but will remain at Brownell until she recovers from her injuries, City Treasurer Rush, yesterday morn- ng sent $30,000 to Kountze brothers a New York to pay for district curbing and I"vaving bonds. He.also advertised. for the sule of $129,: 000 worth of district paving bonds, AN OLD STORY. Father McDermott's Former Latest Attack On the A, O, A, In the telegraph columus of the Bek yesterday afternoon contained a dispateh wdelphia telling of the refusal ather McDermott, of St. Mary's Catholic church of that city, to at the funeral of a deceased p: named Twohig, while members of the A, 0. H. of which Twolig was one, were present This circumstance reealls an episode the career of the same reverend gentle- man, who six years ago was pastor of St. Philomena's cathedral in this city, He was a young man of exceeding piety and ability, and had just arrived from Pennsylvania, where, as the dispatch justly states, he had been prom- inently identitied in administering spirit- ual consolation on the scafiold to a num- ber of the Molly Maguires. He was an avowed and fearless ulnmncnl of secret societies, and especially so of the A. 0. H., which society he chargea in effect with being opposed to the teaching of the church, and, in fact, to have aided in the commission of the crimes which had previously disgraced the mining districts of Pennsylvania. His attack aroused the indignation of the members of the order in this city, some of whom are leading and most edifying members of the Catn- olic church. To them, the society was an Irish Catholic Benevolent association, every feature of which they warmly supported. As a consequence, they took pains to enlighten Father McDermott as to the objects of the order, going so far as to submnt to him a_copy of its ' consti- tution and by-laws, This, however, was without he desired effect. It only brought out a series of Sunday night lectutes - denunciation of the body, while not asserting that the members in i y i ved at the murders this city committs ania, he neverthe- the or- less said they were “members of ganization, the maclinery of which had d to accomplish and the secresy and been u of which to conceal the atrocities re- ferred to. One Sunday at 10:30 o’clock, in his sermon, he took occasion to reply to a parishioner who had sent him o marked paper sotting forth that Archbishop Pureell, of Cincinnati, had admitted the A. O. H. to his cathedral and delivered an address to them on the occasion of one of its anniversarics, In reply, Father McDermott bitterly at- tacked the aged prelate by a reference to the financial troubles into which he had previously fallen. Bishop O'Cotnor, who was present in the sanctuary at the time, rebuked the speaker and twice or- dered him to make no further allusion to the aged prelate. This led to an es- trangement between Fathor McDermott and the bishop, which shortly after re- sulted in the return of the former to Pennsylvania, The dispatch tells that he i still fight- ing the A. O. H. There is little doubt that members of the order were con- victed of some of the crimes committed in the mining regions, and every mem- ber of the order is willing to admit this fact. But they claim that to make the society responsible for deeds of outlawry committed by individuals, when the aim of the association is all that is laudable, was a mistake and an injustice ot the greatest kind. The Catholic synod of Nebraska, which as- sembled 1n the cathedral in this city, on the first of last March, the same place in which Father McDermott’s denunciation was_ made, unanimously endorsed the A, O. H. in this state. A comncidence of this event Is found in the fact that almost at the time Father McDermott was inveigh- ing against the order in Pennsylvania, 500 of its members 1n this city were tak- ing part by special request in a proces- sion on the occasion o} the laying of tie corner stone of St. John's Catholic chureh, in this city. » MINISTERIAL ACTI1ON. To be Taken to Secure a Quiet Obser- vance of the Sabbath. A meeting of the clerical Sunday ob- servance association, of which Bishop Worthington is president, A. F. Sher- rill vice president. and W. J. Harsha, secretary, was held at the Episcopal rooms, Paxton block yesterday morming 2t 10:30. Twelve mimsters were present. In the absence of the president and vice president. Mr. Harsha took the chair. After a discussion it was resolved to peti- tion the mayor and council of the city to enforce the state law against playing base ball and other games on Sunday. A further resolution was unanimously adonted that the association request the mayor to exercise his authority for the purpose of closing up dance houses, beer rdens, music halls and saloons on unday. Tt was also rosolved that tho association will do all in its power to secure from railway oflices, banks, whole- sale houses, and all other emp half holiday for their employes on r day, and, with the view to carrying this resolution into effect, committees will be appointed at the next general meeting to wait upon the employers of labor and urge upon them the necessity of closing their business houses on Saturday after- noon. The meeting then adjourned. THF. LAW, A reporter for the BEE yesterday morn- ing, interviewed a legal gentlemen as re- regards the law upon the subject of Sun- day base ball playing. The attorney gave his opinion as follows: “'1t has been the general Imprassion that an ordinance exists probibiting the playing of baseball on Sunday. Mr. Savidge in his sermon pretended to quote an ordinance to that effect. The impression is wrong. There 18 no such ordinance, The third paragraph of section 3 of the former city charter (imis- takenly quoted by the Rev. Savidge as an or- dinance) is not an ordinance but a state law, governing cities of the first class. Omaha is no longer a city of the first class but a met- ropolitan city’ and governed by the law passed by the last legisiature. But, even this paragraph quoted by Mr. Savidge, were it n force, required an ordinance to make it effective, “During the last four or five years several at- tempts have been made to pass an ordinance to carry the law into effect, but there being too much good sense in the couneil ciamber, the attempts were still-born, “'Section 21 of the act governing metropoii- tan cities provides: *The mayor and cos cil shall have power to provide for the punish- ment of * ball game players,” ‘‘Section 23 of the same article says: ‘The mavor and council shall have power to re- n, prohibit and suppress tippling shops, and desecrations u} the Sabbath.” “i1ow is the mayor and council to do do all this? 13 it their duty to go in a body to the ball grounas and stop the game? if they went there they would probably become so n- interested they would forget their business. No,” this Is not what the law contemplates, In order to carry this law into effect the council must meet in its chamber and introduce and p:.ss an ordinance for that purpose. Then the mayor must sign it or the council “pass it over his veto. *0Ot course there | tate law making it a misdemeanor to play at any athletic game on Sunday, There is°also a law prohibiting gambling, selling liquor, fast driving, prosti- tution and conducting a lottery (even in churehes). Would it not be well to suppress these higher offenses first. Then, after these are suppressed, if you desire, stop the inno- cent amusewment of playing base ball.” MAYOR BROATCH, ’ ‘‘How about the Sunday question, Mayor Broatcht" “Well, as yet, it is in statu quo.” “Can’t say just what will be done?" "Not now, anyway.”’ LET THE LETTERS WAIT. Another phase of the Sunday obsery- ance question is that referred toin the current number of the Christian Hour, the home organ of Presbyterians in this eity, nmlI expressed in the following raph: eel ashamed that. in Omaha the churches - dismiss their congiegations, only to have them troop ta the pestoflice ] to get the lotters that not only could but Business Lord's The mind needs a rest, and simply should ‘wait for - Monday. should have no thought on the day. from tho view point of wise life-habi Istters ought to be let alone until Mon day comes and the old routine of busine is begun," A DASTART DEED, Vandals Seck for Wealthin St. John's New Corner Stone, A dastardly piece of work was perpe- trated Sunday night by, vanaals and thieves in an attempt to carry ofl the treas- ury box deposited but yesterday beneath the corner stone of the new colleg church of St. John, which was laid with such un elaborate display of pomp and 5 ya d ko ploay ceremony. A !(('TY was rife that I u that m’ul of y\\lnlr ‘r;\lnnlm-‘ Nv'l'l: 4';!51!: the treasure hera deposited was | [iVoTocomimendsq your invention to At lenat foi equivalent to a small fortuue, and this, as a matter of course, enlistea the interests and attention of crooks and thieves gen- erally. With pinch bars the stone displaced, being subjected to much de- facement during the operation, and badly broken in one or two places, The miscreants, however, did not stop here in their mad seurch for booty, but tore down part of the beautiful pier, and had it not developed when i1t did that the; had haa all their work for nothing, these 1s no telling where their conseienceless demolition would have ended. Fortunately tnere had been no treasure left 1n the stone over night, the permanet seali having not yet taken place. Oflicer Turnbull was given the case, and after a sedulous search of the grounds, found a couple of drills and a been pinch-bar, which had evidently stolen from some convenient stor but no other clue to the this ugly piece of vandalism covered. The oflicers, however, are upon the alert and will use every effort to bring the criminals to justice. was dis n Wyck on Independence, The chairman of the exccutive com- mittee of the Knights of Labor has re- ceived, in reply to an invitation to Hon. Charles H. Van Wyek, the following let- ter: NenraskA City, Neb., June Meyer, esq., chairman_ e: mittece—My Dear Sir: you nvitation to be with them on the 4th day of July. I regret it is impossible to ac- cept, as previous to your letter I had promised to be at Wakeficld on that day. ‘Ihe 4th of July eannot much longer be celebrated as amere form or idle cero- mony only to return thanks and eulogies to our patriot forefathers, and boasting of their glories. It is fust becoming a reality with us as it was with them, Evory year individual independenco i becoming more and more lost and merged in the tendency to concentrate wealth and large business interests in corporations—in huge syndicates like Standard oil, coffee, cattle, lumber and other pretended *‘trusts.’’ And thus the few absorb the earnings and business of the many and thereby seek to control all other labor and interests—the day la- borer, the mechanie, the men in work- shops, stores and on the farms. We must begin to make personal ap- plication of the principles of the Declara- tion of Indcpendence 8o we may not pass under the yoke of a monied oligar- chy and political bigots and schemers. Yours, C. H. VAN Wyck, The County Commissioners. The comnussioners worked all day Sun- day, and yesterday morning, as a board of equalization. They went over n mass of assessments, and found, in some cases, that lots four miles from town are as- sessed much higher than others not half a mile from the heart of the city. They also discovered glaring mistakes. One of these 18 the failure to list a a whole block that of 1794, on the corner of Sixteenth and Nicholas streets, which 18 to-day very valuable. Another is a similar error by which 695 lots in Douglas precinct fail to appear. The mistakes are chargeable to the clerks who made the lists. A petition was in circulation yesterday in the court house addressed to the com- missioners, setting forth the fact that there is & great need of some more agreeable method of reaching the courts than by oclimbin, the eighty- nine steps, which now lead from the street to the highest floor, and suggesting a tunnel from the Farnam street walk and an elevator up the mid- dle of the building, There was no diffi- culty in securing signatures to the paper. The Sunday Gardens. All the beer gardens in the south end of the city, Paul Senf's, Spoerl’s and Mueller’'s, were running Sunday, as usual, in a very orderly manner. The chicf of police has detailed Officer Turn- bull to attend to these resorts, and he will hereafter visit them avery Sunday. As a consequence of this attention the number of parents who yesterday en- joyed the freshness of the air, the beauty and the refreshments of these gardens was most noticeable. A Lively Inspeotor. Inspector Jenkins is being kept on the hop these days and he is enthusiastic in his talk of Omaha's wonderful advance- ment and growth, | NATURAL FRUIT | FLavaRs MOST PERFECT MADE Used by the United Statos Governm Endorsed by the heads of the Great Un! &nd Public Food Analystsas The Strongest, Purcst, and most Healthful. Dr. Price’s the only Baking r tlist docs not contain Amuion um. D, Prico's Extracts, Vanills, 1 or deliciously. PRICE BAKING PO Boe that Yatlal stamp ls (u laside of Corvet. YIELDS 10 EVERY MOVEMENT OF THE WEARER, Owing to the BIAGONAL ELARTICITY of the cloth (which our N Tusively) will 6t perfectly st o breaking in. NOTEY ot found U LTHFU . Sold by. all CROTTY BROS., Chieage, Lk to RIECMATISMLAMEBACK And many other complaints cured by Y Tyoll ta my patients sufforing with ehronie disenses of 5, Vie: Palpitation ' of ¢ t Wratifying 1 e yonr Eledirlc eIty ay possossing Fatotnally vours, O MM T AL, M. D@ Ningaraat isician 8 u and rie B nestly give tho prefo i A Physic All of My Pati tisfled, kN EY A, NED Tnn 31, 1887 i roconimond Dr W. J. 1orne, Inventor - Dear St your Riectric Hoits to ull trouble, any chronic Ii my pationts that satistied. Fratornally, A Minister of the German Evangelica sChurch TN, o woods here. Wi & tow nahip/Plon i Graian ottty Re 18 B M Residence, Middloville, Barry county, Mioh: N ecuralgia of the Stomach Cured. T 1 N L Jan. 10,1887 me ap 1 would | you iet me ive your Evankelical Ch C Dr. Torno-Doar Sy £ the stonieh, o truly, Dr, W. J, HORNE, 191 Wabash-avenue Chicago. Aventor, Propriotor aud Manufaourer. I - BLACK WOLP! Or Black Leproay, s disease which In considered Ancurable, but it has yiclded to the curative proper- ties of Swirr's SvEciFio—now known all over the world as 8. 8. 8. Mrs. Dalley, of West Somerville, Mass., neat Boston, was attacked several yonrs ago with this hideous black eruption, and was m-md'fiy the best medical talent, who could ofly say that the disease was & specics of LEPROSY- d conscquently incurablo, ]t fs fmpossible to de. scribe her suflerlngs. o m the crown of her bead to the soles of her fest \was a mass of decay, masses of flesh rotting off and leaving great cavitics, Hor fingers festered and threo or four nails drop off at one time. Tler limba contracted by the fearfal ulceration, and for several years she dld not leave her bed. Ifer weight was reduced from 126 to 60 18, Perhaps some faint fdea of her condition can be leaned from the fact that threo pounds of Cosmo: e or olntment were uscd per week in dressing het sorcs, Fisually tho physlclans acknowicdged fhole Qefoat by this Black Wolf, and commended the suf. Serer to ber all-wiso Creator, Her husband hearing wonderful reports of the use of Kwirr's Brxcirio (8, 8. 8.), prevailed on her to try {t a8 & Inst resort. Khe began §ts use under pro- et but woon found that her aystom was being i Tieved of thie polson, as tho sores assumed & Lealthy color, as though the blood was becomis Mra. Butley continued the 8. 8, 8, ust February; every sore was healed; she dis: carded chalr and crutches, and o twelve yeurs & well woman, Hor husband, M. C. A. Bailey, 18 In basiness at 17 Bl Boston, and will take pleasure 1n giving tho detalls of this wouderful cure. Jor Treatise on ind Skin Discases, iled free. Swirr SpEcurio Co.. Drawer 3, Atlanta. 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