Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1887, Page 4

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Wednesday, June 22, Thursday, June 23 Friday,June 24.. Average.....oiiuiiines GEO. B, ¥ Subseribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of June, 1857, N, P, Frrr, [SEAL.] Notary Publie, Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he'is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that thie actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month™ of for June, 188, 12.208 h gomlpf; inrlfil{h‘&flw. |fl'3(“ gc"’if": for Augus 2, coples; for Septem- bor, SR 19,000 ecplos: Tor Octaber, 15w, 12,080 coples; for 5 goples; for Décember, 185, ovember, 188, 1 18,237 col,flaa: for January 1887, 16,260 co 1887, 14,198 coples es; for February, es; for April, fwgofiw'umh"m}' Ny, les; for April, 0 10 copies; for Ma; 1857, 14,277 eopies. i GEo. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of Juue A. D)., 1887, [SBEAL.] N.P.Frrw, Notary Public. On! we understand now. Thurston was engaged last winter in organizing an oil trust. ——— Tue Pacific railroad commission has missed a great treat, owing to the ab- sence of the oil room brigadier basso profundo Vanderbum. WaeN last heard from John Thurston was at Spirit Lake with his fishing tackle, He is waiting patiently for an expedition to discover the man who spirited himself Rway. (o Four hundred dollars, refreshments and lodging in the oil rooms was the pay of John M. Thurston’s Union Pacific henchmen in the legislative lobby. Who Bays corporations have no souls? — Ex-Mayor HARRISON, of Chicago, who is soon to go abroad, has dismissed the two libel suits which he recently brought Bgainst the Infer-Occan. Carter knows the dangers of a sea voyage and pro- Poses to be at peace with all the world. A PHILADELPHIA paper says: “When a *gusher’ is spoken of in Ohio they don't esn a man, but a gas well.” No, hrough respect to the gas wells, they oonvey the same idea in referring to a ‘mm of like propensities by mentioning he name of J. Warren Kiefer. Mavor Hewirr has issued a royal edict saying all the dogs in New York ust go. He further declares that dogs *licensed or unlicensed’ are a nuisance. ft is evident, from an unprejudiced stand- point, that Mayor Hewit has neither a pug dog nor a boom, IN the good old days, when Missouri &iver pilots, in order to make timv, cut across the country, the long and short haul was as much of & consideration as 4t 1s in the days when there is a commis- #ion to decide the differences between corporations and individuals, _ Dr. A, DeBausser, of Chicago, has is- sued a circular stating that on June 1, 1838, he proposes to start from that city on a voyage of discovery to the North Pole, in his new air ship. The doctor profited by a recent aerial fizzle, and will not undertake to start from St. Louis. JeFF Davis now denies that he ever wrote his letter condemning Cleveland’s order to return the flag. Jeff denied twelve years ago that he ever made a specch threatening to carry the torch and sword into northern cities, but he did make that speech at Stevenson, Ala- ‘bama, on his way to Montgomery and inally had to admit the fact. THE following message was found in Omaha yesterday: LAKE MINNETONKA, Minn,, June 27, '87.— With joy, yet surprise, I learn that you and M— and H— testitied you did not know what an oil room w Under slmilar circumstances you would probably have testitied that you did not know who id your whisky bill and lodging down to incoln, J=M—T—, Wy can't the oil room quartette be in- duced to entertain the Pucific railroad commission for an hour or two, as it did members of the legislature last winter? Frank Hanlon could tell our chalk club ptories, Manchester sing that soul-inspir- ang eamp fire song of ‘‘Beans, Beans, ~ Beans,” while Gurley could saw the air with his young blood oratory, and Craw- ford tell a story about early days with s fog horn accompaniment. —_— Tre clectric men are NOw pro- elainung that they will smash one mon- opoly, and that is the carbon company. The carbon companies have raised the rico of their goods, and the electric ht companies are obliged to fulfill # their contracts for lighting at a loss, de- elaring they will control the carbon themselves. Then 1t will only be a year « wll the monopoly is more exacting than lore. — It was once the boust of Harper, the _ president of the Fidelity bank, that he " ‘was at one time only a common sewing machine agent at Urbana, Ohio. And §t is likely that before he finally pottles with the two thousand de- tore from whom he stole 5, 000, and lost it all in Chicago, he - will wish that he had remained a com- mon sewing machine agent. It was - Bancho Pansa’s proud boast that he Id rather remain plan Sancho and 0 to heaven, than to be governor and go The Defense of the Rallroads. In May Iast the secretary of the interior made d rule requiring the land grant rail- roads t6 show cause, on or before June 2%, why the orders withdrawing lands from settlement within their indemnity limits'. should not be revoked and the lands restored to settlement, Replics have been received from all the roads, and the substance of those of two of them, the St. Paul & Sioux City and the Northern Pacific, were given in our Washington dispatch of yesterday morn- ing. The former of these roads takes the somewhat defiant view that the secretary of the interior is venturing beyond his Jurisdiction in assuming the right to re- voke orders withdrawing lands, on the ground that suoh withdrawals having been made by direction of congress can only pe revoked by that authority., The claim 18 set up that the proceeding was wholly legslative, the power of the secretary of the interior being exhorted when he 1ssued the order of withdrawal required by the law, and that it belongs to congress alone to set aside this action. The Northern Pacific simply pleads that it has gone as far as it can go in securing 1indemnity lands for the reason that the government has failed to survey the re- maining lands withdrawn for indemnity from which selection has not been made, and that neither party can determine under existing conditions to what extent the road s entitled to land within indem- nity limit, It was not understood when the secre- tary of the interior made the rule in this matter that he intended to at once revoke the order under which indemnity lands were withdrawn, even where it was clearly shown that they should be re- voked by reason of the indemnity rights of the railroads having been forfeited. The president in his letter to the secretary upon which the action of the laiter was taken intimated a doubt as to the extent of executive authority in the matter of restoring the withdrawn lands to settle- ment. All that was immediately arrived at was to ascertain from the corpora- tions what defense they had to offer for their continued neglect of the condi- tions upon which they received their grants, with the purpose undoubtedly of putting congress in possession of the views of both the railroads and the de- partmont on the subject. To say the least, therefore, of the attitude of the St. Paul & Sioux City corporation, it is a piece of uncalled for arrogance, which avoids the real matter. With respect to the Northern Pacific plea, 1t is not un- likely that it may have some foundation, of which the department itself ought to have accurate knowl- edge, There is reason to believe that some fault may be found to attach to the government in this matter, the re- sult of loose and careless administration of the land department in the past. The replies of the railroads will undoubtedly shed some new light on this subject, which the next congress will be urgently called upon to deal with and dispose of. The Annual Appeal For Subsidies. There will assemble at Chicago to-day a convention of delegates representing the Lake Shore and Mississipm Valley department of the American shipping and industrial league. The Pacific coast department of the league held its conven- tion last week, and adupted as a part of its platform the declaration that in order to restore the shipping interests of the country, the government should offer liberal encouragement in the form of subsidies. 1t1s to be expected that the convention at Chicago will echo this view, which scems to be about the only one that takes definite torm in the minds of those who are immediately concerned for the restoration of American shipping nterests, The problem of how this country shall most wisely go to work to recover its lost place in the carrying trade ot the world is hedged about by many diffi- culties. Every man who has given any attention to the subject under- stands that our present position is both to our disadvantage and our humiliation. A great and growing commercial nation ought not to be almost wholly at the merey of foreign ship owners. It cannot do so without suffering some damage to its trade interests, besides which there is a vast annual drain upon it nearly the whole of which goes into foreign pockets. ‘The merchants and people of the U nited States pay every year to foreign ship owners probably not less than $150,- 000,000. We are necessarily placed at a disadvantage with regard to trade in many directions for the reason that these foreign ship owners will always discrim- inate in favor of the merchants of their own countries. It 1s humiliating that so wealthy and enterprising a people should be thus dependent, and that in most of the harbors of the world the stars and stripes at the must head of a vessel is a rare sight. It is not questionabie that we might greatly extend our commerce if we had our own ships of modern speed and accommodations. There is the fur- ther consideration that a good merchant marine 18 desirable as the basis of a navy and is a traimng school for skilled sea- men who would be available at all times for national defens In short, the arguments in favor of re- storing the shipping interests of the coun- try are many and forcible, but how shall it be most wisely donet The subsidy vlan has been urged for years, but it never has received popular approval, and is less likely to do so now than in the past. The people have refused to see any force in the argument that because England, Germany and France grant large bounties to steamship lines this country must do 8o as the only way of building up & marine service here that can compete successfully with the serv- ices of those countries, and n view of the fact that the shipping in- terests of none of the foreign coun- tries are now profitable and that British ship owners are disposing of such property, the subsidy argument has less to commend it than ever beforc. ‘The fact seems to be that the bounty system 1n those countries has so stimulated the shipmng interests that the competition for business has made this class of en- terprise unvrofitable notwithstanding government aid. Such a state of affairs is very discouraging to the position of those who look only to a subsidy policy to build up American shipping. Furth- ermore the country is not mow in the mood to create or strengthen special in- terests by any new system of protection. ‘The tendency: of popular belief is that all has been done in this direction that should be done, and that further legisla- 'THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: W tion should take a different course, A policy of shipping subsidies being inau- gurated 1t js impossible to say where it would stop. Wealthy corpora- tions organized for this enter- prise would become 80 many new cormorants annually preying upon the public treasury, and increasing tieir demands from year to year. At all events, subsidies should be the very last resort, and there are yet others to be tried before the situation can be re- garded as hopeless without government bounties, It should be the business of the convention at Chieago to discover and suggest some of them, Oattle Barons and Cheap Beef. “Dorsey is profoundly convineced," says a New York letter, that the people and the government are all wrong in their notions about the cattle barons. He says the cattle ranges are useless for any other purpose, because their aridity makes them worthless for agriculture, and consequently it is absurd to talk about holding this land for homestead entry. “If the cattle business,” he added, “in that remote and arid region, worthless for any other purpose, was wiped out of existence, the poor and rich alike in the east would have to puy double what they do now for meat. More than $600,000,000 is invested in the plains catue business, and $150,000, 000 worth a year of matured beef cattle are disposed of and come out of that section of tho east to go to Europe. The average price to the ranchmen does not exceed 3} cents per pound, and last year it was less than that. Take this immense production out of the market, or make the production of these cattle in any way more expensive than at present, and the change in the price of beef would be felt in every ham- let in the land, But the policy of igno- rant and malicious upstarts in Washing- ton will haniper by eyery means in their power the development of the great in- dustry."" With his large cattle range in New Mexico, Mr. Dorsey has, possibly, taught himself to believe that all he says if true. Mr. Dorsey would also endorse railroads and other corporations in gob- bling up the entire public domain—and assist them, doubtless, if he would receive & certain share of the lands taken, The truth is, cattle ranges are being abandoned; the land once ‘“arid and worthless’ 18 being, in many territories, occupied by the pioneer sottler, who breaks the ground, plants trees, and sows and reaps. In Colorado it was only a few days ago a prominent paper announced that “cattle ranges were fast growing a thing of the past,” and farmers with less cattle of a better grade were taking the lands 80 long “‘considered worthless,” and the result was more and better cattle, to- gether with wheat and corn and other crops which bring large returns. It is only thirty years ago that Kansas, with only 30,000 population, was nothing but ‘‘grazing lands,” the ‘‘aridity mak- ing it worthless for agriculture,” while to-day she has one mullion six hundred thousand people. So with Nebraska— every quarter section in one-half the of the state is fenced, dotted with houses and barns and trees, and will this year add millions to the country’s products. With the _ $6000,000,000 invested in cattle—all organized under one gigantic trust, which has the power to sct the price on nine-tenths of the beef consumed in America, to say that it is worth 10 cents or 15 cents or 20 cents per pound, the logic of Mr. Dorsey that ‘‘meat is made cheaper,’’ is the veriest bosh. The time is fast coming when cattle bar- ons and land barons will make room for the honest settler, who will improve and beautify his home. The ‘“‘arid’’ lands of the great American geographer whose hobby was penciling deserts has long ago been vroven a myth—a fallacy worse than Star Route Dorsey’s above copied views. Let Them Arbitrate. ‘We have no disposition to meddle with the private business affairs of building contractors, master painters and their employes, but we merely express the pre- vailing sentiment in this community that labor troubles at this time cannot fail to inflict incalculable loss on the parties dircetly concerned, as well as on our whole city, The painters and carpenters cannot afford to lose the wages they ought to earn during the building season when the weather is so favorable for out- door work, and the master builders and painters can ill-afford to lose the oppor- tunity which the season affords for car- rying on their trade. We realize the difficulties that are in the way of an amicable adjustment, but we also believe that sooner or later both pariies will have to take steps for adjust- ing their differences. Why not make the effort now? 1n Chicago, where building operations have been almost sus- pended for three months, nego- tiations are in progress to put an end both to strikes and lockouts by ar- bitration, under conditions which both employers and workmen regard as a fair basis for settling their differences, The following letter, published in the Chieago dailies last Saturday, embodies the basi> on which the Chicago master builders are willing to arbitrate their dif- ferences with the bricklayers’ union: ‘To the Public: In order to permanently settle the differences existing between the employers and employes in the building trades, and to show the public that the Mas- ter Masons’ association is willing to go on record as ready to do what is just, fair and reasonable in the present difficulty, we, the executive committee of the Master Masons' association, hereby offer to submit the plat- form and code of principles adopted by our association—the Bricklayers’ union to sub- mit their constitution and by-laws—to four business men and a judge of the Ubited States court, sald judge to select the four business men, who shall have full power to act as a board of arbitration as between the Master Masons’ association and the Brick- layers’ and Stonemasons’' union, and we hereby agree to abide by the decision of the majority of the sald board of arbitration. Several of the master masons were op- posed to this, but they were a small mi- nority, The cooi-headed leadeis recog- nized the fact that it was policy to meet the strikers balf way. Whycan’t Omaha builders and contractors make similar overtures to their workmen?! Nothing can certainly be lost in an effort to peace- ably settle the prevailing differences. E— Tue New York Tribune estimates the present population of the United States at over 61,000,000. It assumes that the [ addition by immigration during the fiscal year ending to-morrow, will be half a million, which will bring the total in- ‘crense from this source for the past goven years up to 8,800,8 The esti- mated natural increase—that is, the ex- cess of births over deaths—on the basis of two per cent annually, is 8,148 for the past seven yedrs, Adding 70,000 as the number of people who have proba- bly come into the country from Canada and Mexico during these years, of whom government immiggation statistics make no account, and the, Zribunc figures the population of thé céduntry at ¢ 818, is computation, which scems to have the warraut of fact® and reasonable proba- bilitics, may profe useful to Fourth of July orators. Formore than four years the board of public works has kept its records and all the contracts, plans and svecifications for publie works in a wooden box located in a fire trap, Not only have these val- uable papers and documents been thus exposed to destructior by fire, but inter- ested parties could readily cause them to be mutilated or even have them stolen with very little risk or trouble. The neg- ligence of the old board in tailing to make provisions for the safe keeping of these documents, justly deserves severe censure. Last week the new board called the attention of the council to the reckless exposure of its books and papers, but no action has yet been taken. It is to be hoped that the council will promptly authorize the purchase of a commodious safe or the removal of the office of the board to a locality where a vault will be at 1its disposal. SEVERAL communications received by the BEE regarding the dog nuisance in- dicate that there is a good deal of public interest in the matter. One writer notes that Omaha is exceptional among cities in the extent to which its streets are infested with dogs, and in the gen- eral worthlessness of the brutes. The nuisance grows and the danger from it increases as the hot season advances. There can be no excuse for permitting it to continue, and there should be immediate action for its suppression. The slaughter, if need be, of every dog in the city allowed to run at large un- muzzled would not compensate for the loss of one human life from hydrophobia. The council can dispose of this matter in ten minutes, and it could hardly employ that brief timo to better purpose. Tue Kansas City Times predicts that the boom in that city will last “‘until the republican party elects another presi- dent.’’ People in that thriving town who have confidenc e in the judgment of the Times should not lose sight of the fact that the next pres:dential election will occur in Nove#hber, 1838, and should improve the mteri ‘n disposing of their possessions and removing to Omaha, whose future vrosperity is not subject to any contingency of less consequence than an earthquake that would swallow her up, together with the states and terri- torics of which she is the natural metropolis. . — THE aggregate debt of the city of Bos- ton as reported Jast; week by its cily auditor is $46,709,000, an increase of three millions over ast year. This in- cludes sinking fund and other assets es- timated at twenty millions, which leaves an actual debt of over sixteen millions. Boston 1s notably very conservative in municipal expenditures. A comparison with Boston may therefore reassure Omaha croakers that this city with a debt of about one million is by no means on the road to bankruptey. ACCORDING to the New York Com- mercial Advertiser ‘‘the large dealers and manufacturers of fire works say that their business this year isso much greater than ever before that no past year can well be compared to it.” This means that the small boy has joined the pro- cession and will assist in making the centennial birthday of the nation the grandest of them all. MoyNmiaN's key-hole editor has mado the discovery that Seavey is an expelled mason. This may be trie, butcan have no bearing on the legality of his appoint- ment as chief of police. The cause of ex- pulsion, if the story is true, may have been disreputable or immoral conduct, or merely failure to pay his dues. One thing is certamn, however. The Moyni- han gang is not the keeper of masonie conscience. WoNDER if the Honorable Mr, Gurley, who is billed to deliver agrand Fourth of July oration in a suburban town, is the Mr. Gurley who lodged nearly all winter in the railroad oil rooms, and acknowl- edged before the Pacific railroad com- missioners that he received 400 from John M. Thurston for entertaining mem- bers of the legisiature and watching railroad legisl MCSHANE'S made the dis- covery that the Pacitic railroad investiga- tion is being engineered in the interest of the BEe. This will be a piece of news to the commission. The next thing we expect to hear is that congress ordered the investigation at the instance of the BeEk and for its sole benefit. It may all be rot to refer to the hoodle gang which mutilated the charter but the people of Omaha will not soon forget the rogues. A Gentle Correspondence New York Post Omaha has the most rénson to be proud of its public buildings andl ef its hotels. I wish that honesty in these Jafter establishmen at least in one of thew, kept pace with their comfortable arrangements. The custom of computing time, whigh-struck me as pe- culiar, is not in accordange with the almanac. When the innocent eastérn traveller arrives at 9 o'clock in the evéRlpg and leavesats o'clock on the afternéoft of tne next day, after having been provided with three meals, and finds himself charg®d with a day and quarter of board, he is apt either to curse the landlord or to pray thatshe may become & better man, Nevertheless, we wera told that this is the universal custom in the we: where one is not a liberty to choose the time of his meals. This passing note is for the benefit of the unwary tourist, - An English Syndicate. A dispatch has been received from the City of Mexico to the cllectthatan English organ- ization called tbe Mexican Land and Im- provement company, “represented in the United States by John V. Farwell, of Chi- cago,” has purchased 600,000 acres of most desirable agricultural ana grazing land in the states of Chihuahua and Durango, Mex. ‘The property has good houses and eorrals, 40,000 sheep, 2,500 cattie and 4,400 horses. *Colonel C. Campbell, of Chicago,” adds the dispateh, “who examined the property, ren- dered a most favorable report, and telegrams from that city say the sale may be considered as consummated.” Mr., Farwell was shown this dispatch yes- terda; He sald he had no interest in the matter, except that he recommended Colo- nel Campbell as a proper person for the mis- sion, *“Then these reports of English buying immense tracts of land in ©os, I presume so, Land ean be had in Mexico as it used to be had in Texas—for 10 cents an acre or so. Itis magnificent land; none better. ‘The tract referred to is beauti- ful table land- 6,000 to 7,000 feet above the sea level, well watered and wooded, and ot the richest quality, the climate, too, is de- lightful—it is the Italy of America.” “Where is the purchase loeated?” ‘About thirty miles west of the Mexican Central railroad in the southeast part of the state of Durango. The nearest principal railroad station is Jimuleo.” Mr. Farwell said he had no financlal inter- est whatever in the epeculation, but that he might possibly take an interest when he went to London. He thought he would go to London thls summer, but was not quite sure. He was requested by solicitors in London, with whom he was acquainted, to select a re- sponsible man to go to Mexico and examine the land, but this was merely to confirm a previous report of a most favorable character, He had not heard from Colonel Campbell since he left, but expected him back within & week. Colonel Campbell s connected with thestockyards and owns a farm at Grant, Kankakee county, Ill. The tract purchased is about sixty miles ‘long by fiftéen miles wide. i The Court of Public Opinion, North American Review. It was before the high bar that the press determined to bring the wretched creatures who had betrayed New York and dragged her honor in thedirt. It re- quired a whole year to appeal before the attention of the court was riveted on the case. The court was fair and cautious. It asked what defence could say for itself. 1t demanded all the facts on either side. The newspapers responded fully and frankly to this just requirement. Their columns were freely opened to the ac- cused. Itisa most important fact, and one which of itself disposes of the charge of injustice on the part of the vress, that not a single fact urged in defence of the aldermen in the courts was omitted from the evidence laid by the newspapers be- fore the veople. In facts, hundreds of false claims that the accused dared not produce where their prejudices could be vunished were placed to the credit side of their account in the press. The news- papers tried their case for them with far more skill than it has ever been tried be- fore n sworn jury. The court of public opinion, once summoned, lenta most at- tentive ear. It heard all that could be snid on either side. And when the evi- dence was all in, when both sides had ex- hausted their testimony and _their pleas, the court pronounced its solemn and de- liberate judgment—guiity! It followed all the rules of evidence, which are nothing more nov less than codified com- mon sense. And when its infallible ver- dict was returned, it left the fallible ma- chinery of justice to register its decree, or fail in that duty. — Liberty for Traveling Russiaus. Pall Mall Gazette: It is notable how few Russians are to be found in the for- eign colony which every great European capital shelters. We meet plenty of them traveling,but these are often the wealthier classes, but we do not find a Russian uarter in London or Paris or Berlin. The cause dates back to the days of Peter the Great. So scanty was the population in that time that slation was pushed to its utmost severity to keep the Russ: on their own soil. 'To this day article of the penal code remains unrepealed. ‘The Russian who suffers himself to be- come the naturalized subject of another country ipso faclo breaks the laws of his own and loses all his rights, civil and po- litical. He comes under the sentence of perpetual exile, and is liable on his re- turn to his own land to deportation to Siberia, A bill has just been introduced to modify the Draconic_severity of this absurd and cruel law. The wanderer is allowed to return, and if he remains a year in Russia his original nutionnlit{ re- vives. The penulties, moreover, will all be swept away, except when the object of the expatriation has been to avoid con- seription. It will be interesting to note the gradual effect of the law on the fugi- tive population of other capitals. —————— The Congregational Union. The Omaha Congregational Union, in- corporated under the laws of Nebraska on June 25, held 1its first meeting in the Paxton hotel at 10:30 yesterday and per- fected orgamization as follow Incorporators and directors until the first annual meeting on September 15, 1857: Reyv, , Rev. Willard Scott, Rev. J. L. e,Rev. H. C. Crane, Rev. P. Thing, Messis, W. J. Con- mes Forsyth, Wilham Fleming, awton, A M. Kitchen, Dr. P. rIl'~ until September 15- President, Maile; viee president, Rev. A, ill; secretary, Mr. William Flem- Committee appointed to draw up by- aws and to report on July 11: Mr. W, J. Connell, Rev. J. L. Maile, Rev. Wil- lard Scott. —_— The Boss Stalk. Mr, H. L. Pickard, of near Sarpy Mills, brought into the BrE office yusterday morning the boss stalk of corn. 1t is 9 feet 8 inches in height, and in tassel, a most remarkable growth for this ecarly in the season. r. P, says he has nine acres just like itand takes a most justi- i i in its flourishing condition. 1t was pla v, and it is safe to ields of corn in Nebraska that can in any way be compared with it. A special communication of St. John's No. A. ¥, & A, M. will be held 30 p. m., Wednesday, June 29, for the purpose of attending tne funer: our late brother, Joseph M. Crawiord. Visiting brothers cordially invite veyances will be provided from the hall, E. BuckiNgnay, W, M, %, Mrs. Eliza vier, aged 76 year Funeral to-day at2 p. m. from her late resi- dence, 110 North Ninth street, to I’rospect Hill cemeter) CRAWFORD—June 25 at his late residence, 722 Plerce street, Joseph Crawford, aged 63 years. Funeral to-day at 2 o'clock under the aus- plees of St. Johns lodge of Masons. HARTMAN—June 2%, Heunry, son of Henry C, and Martha Hartman, aged 4 months, Funeral from family residence, 1331 North Twentieth street, Wednesday, June 29, at 1 p. m., to Forest Lawn cemeter; O'RIEL Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs, Dennis O'Riely, aged 1 year and 10 days, Funeral from family residence, near St. Mary’s cemetery, at 10 a. m. Wednesday morning. -] NDERS—June 25, Josevh, son of Mr. nders, aged 61wonths and 6 days. al from family residence, North street, at 2 p. m. JHENESIUS — Mary Alhencsius, morning at 2 o'cloek, azed 23 years, Funeral will take place to-morrow. from her late residence, 2711 Douglas street, at 2 o'clock. Bt Officer Waalen “arrested Kansas City Lz, a notorious character, this afternoon, on a charge of assault and hattery, this | EDNESDAY. JUNE 20, 1887, e————— e e e ——————— THLE COURTS, What Was Done Before the Judges To-day . Yesterday morning there was no in change the 2ases which were Monday on trial. Shortly before noon Judge Wakeley joined Judge Neville in hearing the case | relative to the sale of the Ish property in North Omaha, This was brought some time ago by Judge Dundy. E. M. Bart- lett was appointed guardian ad litem. B. E. B. Krnnn(l'y appeared for the ward, Judge Dundy for him- aelf and son. Mr, Bartlett showed an irregulanty in the sale. Judge Dundy wanted the cost of the three years lease on the land divided between both partie 1n the event of the sale for 30,000 being confirmed. ‘Lha judges took the matter under advisement, H. Benedict brings suit in the county court against William Nelson, asking #708.90 judgment on a bill of olothes sold to plaintift, UNITED STATES. The commission appointed by the United States court, and consisting of Lewis Clements, of California, Thomas Corrigan Kansas City, and Leavitt Burnham, Omaha, to enquire into and nssess damages, if any, by reason of the building the cable line on and across streets occupied by Horse Rail- way company, ure in session at the United States circuit judge's chamber, The commission organized by the selection of Mr. Clements, chairn and Mr, Burnham, sccretary. The after- noon has been pr thoroughly occu- pied in a critical examination of the horse car and cable lines so far as routes have been indicated. Both parties to the suit have been ordered to furnish maps with their respective lines plainly drawn thereupon, accompanied by a full text of their rights and privileges and franchise, and the work of examining witnesses will begin this evening. POLICE COURT. At an early hour yesterday morning Of- ficer O'Boyle detected John Schimimen, near the corner of Fifteenth street and Capitol avenue, endeavoring to work an toxicated man, and arrested him. Schimmen, however, wasn't taken only after he had knocked the oflicer down twice, and received in return a sound clubbing himself. He was as subdued and inoffensive as a lamb when he reached the station. ‘Thirty-four cases wero disposed of by Judge §Berka yesterday morning, and about the same number were docketed for appearance this morning. Noah Brown and Emma Jardin, dancers at the Pashion theater, were run in for late hours, but were dismissed with the admonition that a second offense would assure a trip over the hill. John Crawford and soven other vnlg- l":l‘lilfé were allotted various terms in the jail. Chas. Groves, the man who chewed off Larry Casey's ear, was bound over to the district court in the sum of $1,000, which up to 1 o'clock he had failed to furnish. Frank Carney, his aider and abettor, for assault, was continued under a bond of $100. Charles O'Brien, the youthful tough who plunged a dire knife “into Will CIiff- ton’s back last night, received sixty days with bread and water accompaniment, James Stewart, who purloined a lot of stove pipe, # medicine case and an as- sortment of articles, was sent up for twenty days on the minimum diet. A. Alexander, the man who found the pocket-hook out on Lakestreet yerterday evening, and refused to surrender it when applied to, went to jail to await the action of the district court for grand lar- ceny. The pocket-book contained §43 in cash and some valuable papers, Alexan- der destroying the latter. L1P1TON'S HOUSE. Negotiations For Its Purchase by Ar- mour & Co. It was rumored Monday at the stock yards in South Omaha that the packing house built last year forT. J. Lipton had been sold to Armour & Co. This rumor was based upon the fact that negotia- tions for the transfer were pending, and these negotiations were based upon the fact that for some time past it has been pretty generally understood that it was not an easy matter to make Lip- ton's house a success. Lipton is the largest retail dealer of provisions in the world and has over thirty mammoth re- tail establishments in England and Scot- land. To supply this trade he has located packing houses in America, The trade which Lipton supplies demands what are are known as lght hogs—that is, hogs weighing from 180 to 225 pounds. In some parts of tho country, where corn is not plenty, it is casy to obtain light hogs, but in Nebraska, where corn isin abun- danco and cheap, the farmers will not gell their hogs while they weigh only 200 pounds, when they can make them yeigh 800 pounds by keeping them a little longer, and thus realize more for them. For this reason the Lipton packing house at South Omaha has not been a suc ), as the kind of hogs necessary to supply ade coutd not be ha The house has been running in a small way ever since it was opened last fall, and; aside from the past few weeks, it has any help to the Omaha hog m iy of the hogs which the lle\' were forced to ship up from Kansas Jity. Yesterday morning a BEE reporter saw John A, McShane and asked it the rumor was correct. *It is not correct,” he said, “and for the best of reasons.” He then showed the reporter a telegram which he had just re from Armour in Chicago, and which read as follows: “We would be glad to purchase, but the plans as shown us would not permit of enlarge ment.” This telegram was in response to one suggesting a purchase of the Lipton house. Just what M Armour will yet do, build a house Limself or change his mind a5 to Lipton's, remains to be seen. Mr. Lipton, who has been in Chicago for seyeral days, is expected here in a short time. THE BOARD OF HEALTH, Some Facts Relatin, Stands, Dr. P. 8. Leisenring, acting s of the board of health, reports that out- side of diarrheeal complaints, the health of Omaha is remarkubly good for this of the year. He likewise com- that physicians and midwives are growing most culpably negligent in re- porting births, and thas if they are not more punctual hereafter an example will be made of some ot them By the way, does anybody know just exactly what our present board of health is, who composes nd - what s its modus ope di of official work. This component part of the ity government, it will be borne in mind, 15 now working under the new ordinance passed last spring, but as yet the clerk has not be- come cognizant of any reorganiza- tion, or familiar with any work that has been accomplished. For the past eight Joars br. Lelscnring bas about literally igured as the board of health himself, but is ready at any time to turn over his credentials to a successor whenever he may be appointed. Under the old regime the board con- sisted of the mayor, ecity marshal, and the president of the city council, but it was a rare thing for them to get to- gether in regular session. An ordinance i8 now in contemplation providing for the formation of a new board to be made up -of .the mayor and a physician from to It as It Now cretary cach ward in the city, members to nominated by the mayor and confirm by the city council, in"order that none bul compotent men will get in. the matter now stands the l'ilg is rrnotl- cally without a health board but there is no telling how soon one might be a very desirable and important adjunct. The cholera, an epidemic of small pox of pestilenico of any description would prove a potent influence in weakening this particular part of the city governs ment, NSES. The Mayor Says $1,000 Must Here: after Be Paid in Advance. The influx of strangers from Iowa and other places to this city who have started mto the saloon business, as also the care= lessness which has been often dis: ayed by saloon keevers in living up to the laws and the ordinances, have compelled Mayor Broatch to take s firm stand in the matter of issue ing saloon licenses in the future. He has come to the conclusion that, so far a3 he 1s concerned, he will hereafter in- sist upon snloonkcol)eru vaying 1,000 in advance for their license instead of in four installments as heretofore. There are three members upon the liconse board—the mayor, the chairman of the council and the city clerk, The last mentioned, Mr. Southard, LIQUOR LA made his appearance while the BEE re- porter was talking with the mayor, and having been told what the Iatter had said, remarked that his honor could not pre- vent the issuance of licenses, as mene tioned under the statutes. *‘Then I shall go to the courts,” smd the mayor, ‘‘and get them to restrain the license board. The ordinances are illega They are mnot in con- formity with the statute law. I was opposed to them when they were passed. The license board, may ‘or ma not, at its discretion, issue iicunses, ant if the majority of that board oppose me, I shall hayve the question settled in the courts. I am doing this not to drive out the liquor business or the reputable peo- ple, but to protect them, while at the same time caring for the interesis of the city by preventing from engaging in the traflic, irresponsible people from these and other parts. Some of these come here, secure a site, sot up their features and actually commenco to sell liquors be- fore they have secured a permit. I know that if this law is enforced it will reduce the money for school pur- poses. But then that’is no reason why we should consent to a wrong. Besides, the reduction will not be so great as you think. There are now 240 saloons in town, I think at least 200 of these will be able to pay for their licenses in advance. I have spoken to saloonkeepers’gnd I find that to be the case. We may lose a few thousand dollars, but what we would otherwise gain in our receipts we would lose from our general finance in provid- ing n police force now required by the oons,” Railroad News. A. L. Davis formerly joint telegraph nl-erator for the Chicago, St. zl:lnl, Minneapolis & Omaha xmfi the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley roads at Blair is to be made joint ticket agent for those roads at that place in connection with his duties ns operator. Mr. P, P. Shelby, assistant traffic man- ager of the Union Pacific, of Salt Lake, arrived this morning, and will appear before the commission this afternoon. The B. & M. railrond folks have made some new and neat improvements in and about their headquarters. W. B. Crosby, of the Stonington line, Boston, is at the Paxton. OMAHA AND YANKTON, Sceretary Nattinger hus received a let- ter from J. R. Hanson, of Yankton, stat- ing that he_has been positively assured that if Mr. Young and his backers do not build the Omaha and Yankton road that Ine will be constructed by the Omaba Southern company, though for the sake of not getting the people in the northern part of the state confused, he would prefer that the road should be cons structed by the original company. Mr. H. T. Clark says_that Mr. Young, who has been east and nogotiating for the road, though long overdue, will ar- rive here to-morrow. ————— The correct thing for collars and cuffs is Electric Lustre Starch, ———— * Would England Fight Us? From *‘Canada and the United States,” by Sir E. W. Watkin: Waiking with Mr. Seward in the streets of Albany, after the day’s shouts and ceremonies were over, Mr. Seward said to the Duke of Cambridge: *“We really do not want to £o0 to war with you: and we know you dare not go to war with us.” To which the duke replied: ‘Do not remain under such an error. There is no people under heaven from whom we should endure so much as from yours; to whom we should make such concessions, You may, while ‘we cannot, forget that we are largely of the same blood. But once touch us in our honor and you will very soon find the bricks of New York and Boston fall- ing about your heads.” In relating this to me the duke added: It startled Sews ard a good deal; but he put on a look of incredulity nevertheless. And I do not think they beli we should ever fight them; but we certainly should if the provacation were strong.”’ 1t will be remarked that this conversation between Seward and the duke was in 15860, SCALY, ITCHY SKIN And Al Ite g and Scaly Skin and Scalp Dlseases Cured by Cuticura. ISORIASIS, Kezem Jungworm, &D v Humor, ALY EKIN D. 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