Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 20, 1887, Page 4

ost col The Tatést Monopoly. . The latest thing in the monopoly line is the combination of envelope manu- facturers, and most appropriately and suggestively it takes the title “Standard.” There is no longer any necessity for ex- Omaha that the supervision of our pub- lic schools. will remain in competent hands. Now that Mr, James has been re- elected for a term of three years he can THE DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dafly Mnmxcg Baition) including Sunday oar o Bir, Ono weees 810 00 with impunity assert himseif as 'or 8ix Months g"g plaining to the people of this country the | superintendent, and carry out without P Omahin y charaeter and purpose of n combination | fear or favor such reforms in the school address, Une Year. 200 | which takes this name, which in the | system as he believes to be necessary for popular mind has become the synonym for the most relentless and greedy type of monopoly. Nine-tenths of the en- velope production of the country is in the hands of less than a score of manu- facturers in New England and New the elevation of the educational stan- dard. Incompetent and lazy teachers should be weeded out, and their places filled by men and women of unques- tioned ability. Favoritism should have no place in the public schools; merit ARA OPPICR, NO. 014 AND 018 FARNAM ST/ W YORK OFFICE, ROOM @, TRIRUNE BOILI ABUINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 FOURTEENTH B! CORRESPONDENCE! Al communioations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to tho Epi O OF THE BeR. SUSINESS LETTRASY York, and nearly all of these are en- | and competency alone should be the il business lettars and romittancessbould® | rolled in the combination. Those who | test. While the Ber always has are not members of the new ‘‘Standard company” have made written agree- ments with it to be governed by its mills in regard to production and prices for a periou of five years, so that to all interests and purposes, so far a8 their relations to the business are concerned, they are mem- bers of the combination. They may avoid the responsibilities of membership, but they surrender all indepeudence of ac- tion. It is provided that any infringment of the established price lists will render the offending party liable to a suit for damages proportionad to the amount of OMARA. Drafts, checks and stoffice orders ol tinda pas tble o5 the OFJEEof the compaRys THE BEE PULISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. upheld Mr. James it cannot refrain from expressing the prevailing desire of the patrons of the schools that he should ex- bibit more backbone and independence in their supervision. By re-electing him for a term of three years and raising his salary to $8,600, the board of education has given expression to its confidence in Mr. James and an appreciation of his abilities. There is no doubt that the board will cheerfully clothe him with ample power for choosing the material with which to carry on the practical work of education, snd co-op- erate with him in making the publio THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. Bate of Nehmku' ‘ " cfas. |5 County of Dou mmur{ of The Bee does solemnly swear Ponbing ‘I'zschuck, ng_com) that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending July 15, 1557, was as follows: aturday.July 9. unday, July 10.. |‘|':'%:"..5L|‘llrlll2. the infrinement. It may be doubted, | gchools of Omaha the model for the adnesday, July 13 however, whethor such a suit would be | country. Hxau;u!‘.ll.lyu{ 4, profitable to the parties bringing it. ay, 5 The excuse for favoring this combina- tion, which one of the manufacturers embraoced in it is said to have admitted 18 A great monopoly, is that the manufao- ture of envelopes for the past two or three years has yielded very little profit. The cost of production, it is claimed, has increased, chiefly, it would appear, by reason of the advanced price of gum arabic, which 1s more than 100 per cent. higher now than it was three years ago. A monopoly that is builded upon so slight and slippery a foundation as this, and we find in the published extract from its circular no other reason given for 1ts existence, may stick, but it will hardly commend i{tself to public approval. Howover, the public scems to be well nigh powerless to pro- tect itself against these monopolistic combinations which are framed on the flimsiest of pretexts and always with the purpose of destroying competition and plundering the consumers. An imme- diate advance in the price of envelopes of from five to ten per cent is to be made, but after the monopoly shall have be- come a little more firmly rooted the price will be shoved still higher, and the pro- duction regulated so thatit will be pretty sure not to exceed the demand. Thisthe monopoly can readily do since it has complete control of all the improved machinery employed in the business, Ample provislons will of course be made to keep others from entering the field, either by buying off or freezing out any who may venture into it. What other industry will not enter the realm of monopoly cannat be foretold, but the few that still remain unfettered will doubtless in time be drawn in by the current which is just now drifting capi- tal into monopolistic combinations, and gradually but certainly destroying all competition and all freedom in trade. There is no fact of greater present im- portance to the American people than this tendency, which, if permitted to go on unchecked must eventually result in economic conditions disestrous to the welfaro of the country and destructive of the interests and an independence of all but the monopolists. It is a tendency that urgently appeals for correction to the representatives of the people in the legislatures and in congress. A Zealous Bubsidy Advocate. A Chautauqua gathering is a rather odd place to discuss the subject of ship subsidies, but the zealous advocates of that policy are not particular about time or place. They are evidently determined to push their hobby into the next con- gress with all the force they can summon, and hence they will not miss any oppor- tunity that offers in the meanwhile for pressing their views ubon public atten- tion, Ex-Governor Long, of Massachusetts, is in fayor of subsidies, and in addressing the Chautauquans of South Framingham a few days ago he made this his theme. Apart from the consideration of inappro- priateness, it is to be remarked that Governor Long contributed nothing especially new to the discussion. This objection does not reflect upon the ability of the governor, who is a very capable man, but simply demon- strates that the ground had been fully covered by others, and the best that can be done by the most gifted orator is to embellish the old facts and arguments. This Governor Long should have credit for having done, to some extent, but it 13 o8 question whether the sabject was thereby made more impressive. Every intelligent American understands that this country is at a considerable disad- vantage in not having its own shipping facilities. It is somewhat humiliating to know that our commerce i pretty much at the mercy of foreign ship owners, to whom our manufacturers and merchants annually pay something like two hun- dred millions of dollars in freight charges. It is yery probable thatif we had lines of rapid and well equipped steamers of our own we should in time be able to greatly enlarge our commerce with other lands. But when all this is confessed the ma- jority of the people refuse to believe that it is any part ot the business of the gov- ernment to build up the shipping interest of the country out of the public treasury, and to thereby create a special demand upon the bounty of the nation which would very likely increase from year to year and might be come endless. At all events such a policy should be the very last to be adopted, after all other ex- pedients have failed. Solong as the tariff imposes duties on the materials that enter into ship building, and the laws prevent American capital buying foreign built ships to sail under the American flag, there will be a strong and widespread opposition to ship subsidies. We want the commerce and we need the ships, but not at the cost of a subsidy policy until it has been demonstrated that no other policy will secur¢ them. Mean- while a suggestion on this subject comes from Mexico, which has adopted the ex- pedient of giving to shippers a rebate of two or three per cent on duties levied on goods imported in Mexican ships. Such a plan would certainly encourage the Average, 'HUOK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 16th day of July, A, D, 1857. [SEA L. Noiary Pab] A L ary Publie. Btate of Nebraska, | Douglas County. | Geo. B. Tzachuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he s secretary of The Bee Publlallln}t company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month™ of July, 1836, 12,314 copies; for August, 1888, 12,464 copies; for Septem- Lr, 1&. t\fl.(m coples; for October, nfih 12,89 copies; for November, 1880, 13, coples; for December, 1856, 13,237 copies; for January 1887, 16,268 coples: for February, March. 1857, 14,400 7, 14,310 copies ; for May, for June 1887, 14,147 1887, 14,108 ‘m ies; for April, 14,227 coples: 5 Gro. B, TZSCHUCK, Subscribed and sworn l:%e(ou |znn lnlsl 18t d? ot July A, D,, 1887, SEAL.| "' N.P. Fem. Notary Publie. ——————— Tue sixty million people of this broad and fertile country can breathe easier. Henry Watterson,the star eyed goddess of reform, hasinterviowed himselfand gives it as his opinion that both Cleveland and Blaine will be the presidential candidates in 1888, SE—— AND etill they come. Another leading Chicago packing firm — Underwood & Co.—has invested and located in Omaha. The prediction of Phil Armour that Chicago's packing business will be largely transferred to Omaha, is already being rapidly fulfilled —— FmeLty HARPER, the Nepolian of finnance has been granted too many priv- ileges In the Cincinnati jail, which has necessitated his being sent to the jail at Dayton. The privilege Harper would most enjoy would be the privilege of Retting to Canada., A GREAT row has been Kkicked up in the British house of commons because one member called another ‘‘a d—d #nob.” Whether 1t was the emphatic profanity or the odious term of *‘snob” that was offensive the dispatches do not state. However, the next time Dr. ‘Tanner gets angry he should refer to Mr. Long as “his nobs.” —_— Keer Jefferson Square for the people. 1t can be beautified by fountains, monu- ments, evergreens and rare shade trees. Any building in the square would mar fts beauty, and deprive us of the only little park we have 1n the center of the oity. Even New York has Union and Madison squares in the very heart of business as a place for vopular recrea- ¢ion. Worse Than Highway Robbery. To the Editor of the Ber: If the facts are fairly stated and kept constantly before the publie, the people may perhaps demand and the railroads for mere decency may some day grant us some redress in the matter of freights. I do not suppose that one in ten of our people fully understand the shameful difference there 18 in freights west of Chicago as compared with those east of Chieago. In & good lavel country, where rallroads can be easily built, and built cheaply, and where we have now a large Industrious population, why should there be any marked difference. I learn from a new classification circular, issued by an eastern trunk line, that all cot- THERE is a German adage, “If you go to bed with dogs you will get up with fleas.” This adage commends itself forci- bly to suck members of the city council a8 are training with rowdies and thugs who happen to be connected with certain Omaha newspapers, whose coarse, vul- o 004! such as calicos, cotton s & K &ar and vicious conduct has aroused gen- fl"’;‘:m;' P an o | use of American ships, and would in sev- eral resentment among respectable peo- | LA L FERGIER G IRt 0™ Ghieago | eral respects be an advantage, so far as Pple in the community. the interests of the people are concerned, over the subsidy policy. a distance of 1,000 miles for fifty cents per hundred. Now if 100 pounds can be brougnt from New York to Chicago, 1,000 miles, for fifty cents, how much should it cost to bring the same from New York to Omaha, a dis- tance of 1,500 miles? I wish all our boysat the public schools were made to practice on this useful question in the rule of three, at least one day iIn every week. There is no more usetul rule in mathematics and they would also be brought up to see the injustice which this generation suffers when I tell them that the railroad answer is §1.40, or 86 per cent more than it should be. On ordinary dry goods it is bad enouzh to pay ninety cents for 500 1iles, while east of Chicago they pay only seventy- five cents for 1,000 miles, but it Is more than we should bear patiently, when the classification is also against us on by far the larger part of our stock. Surely the railroads eannot continue this injustice, as we are no longer the great American desert, but well settled country. THOMAS KILPATRICK, We commend this complaint to the managers of the Western Trunk line asso- ciation, who are confederated to keep up the extortionate tolls to which the people west of the Mississippi have been com- pelled to submut for fifteen years. The complaint this time is not made by an- anti-monopoly demagogue or Henry George socialist, but by the head of the largest wholesale dry goods house in Omaha, the Kilpatrck-Koch dry goods company. The exaction of one dollar and forty cents per hundred for a distance of 1,500 miles, when the same class ot freight can be transported from New York to Chicago, two-thirds of the distance, sor fifty cents per hundred it 1s worse than highway robbery. A Goop deal ot unnecessary disturb- ance is being worked up over a little strip of ground known as ‘‘No Mans Land'’ south of Kansas adjoining the Iudian nation. The siate of Kansas asked congress at the last session to annex it to that state, but the president did not approve the measure. It would seem that the Kansas people will not be con- tent until they get the earth. They al- ready have John James Ingalls and is mot that enough? The Sun’s Work, The heat prevailing throughout the country during the past two weeks has been almost unprecedented, andin some instances has exceeded all previous rec- ords. At many points it has been con- tinuous since the beginning of the pres- ent month, unrelieved by any visitations of rain or cooling breezes suflicient to lower the superheated temperature. The results to exposed humamty have been calamitous. Up to yesterday the reported fatalities trom sunstroke aggregated 299, most of which had occured within a few days. The number of prostrations was at least five times greater. These reports come from only a few ecities, so that 1f the record of the sun’s work in this par- ticular could be had for the entire coun- try the exhibit would probably be start- ling. Inall the larger cities the great heat has swelled the mortality lists to unexamvled proportions, the havoe bemg chiefly in the ranks of children. The “slaughter of the innocents” in the crowded districts of New York and Philadelphia has been appalling, and it is doubtless true that generally the little ones have contributed more largely to the death rate this summer than for a number of past summers. Happily Omaha is one of the few localities that have been exempted from exceptionally sad experience asa consequence of so- vere heat. There have been some days here when the rays of the sun were al- most blistering, but on most of these cooling breezes prevailed, the tempera- It is rather amusing at this time to mote the frantic effort to create a park commission for Omaha by the very par- ties who were instrumental 1n having the park provisions of the charter stricken ont by the judiciary committee bood- lers last winter. The BEk never plays dog in the manger in matters of public concern, and hence it would cheerfully endorse the appointment of a park com- missioner and any effort by which Jef- ferson and Hunscom parks can be em- bellished and additional grounds for park and boulevard purposes may be acquired, DURING the trial of the boodle alder- men in New York Mr. Ira Shaffer wanted to shoot Mr. Pulitzer because of something the World said about him, Now Miss Keane, one ot the lawyers for the defense in the Chicago boodle case, threatens to mar the manly beauty of a T'ribune reporter if he says anything more about her in his paper. Criminal lawyers, while standing any amount of abuse from eachother, are particularly sensitive about newspaper criticism, No wonder granger stocks are a favor- | gure has invariably lowered ma- This seems strange. Perhaps John M. | ite in Wall street, as long as the granger | terfally after niditfall, and fre- Thurston can explaint. roads can go on levying enormous tolls | quent showers have had a most e ] TrE coroner's jury in the Havelock railroad accident should be given free transportation over the Burlington and Missour: River road during their natural Nives. A photograph of the six wise men will no doubt be placed on the desk of the president as a sample to be relied upon when the company’s interest is at stake, With the abundance of evidence corrobo- rated by each of the trainmen that the fault lay with the §35 a month telograph operator, and a verdict rendered resting the responsibility with the over-worked engincer, smacks strongly of favoritism at some point. It might be well to hold A inquest on the jury. on their patrons west of Chicago. Mr. Kilpatrick strikes the key-note of the great issue with which the country must grapple when he advises our boys to apply the rule of three to the railroad tariff between Chicago and the Missouri river. Itis a problem which the grow- ing generation must solve if the republic is to survive the domination of the raw- road cormorant, Supt. James and the Schools, The re-election of Henry M. James as superintendent of our public schools is not merely a merited compliment to an efficient and exemplary educator, fut’ & gratifylog assurauce to - jhe . citizens of beneficent influence. Thus far but one death from the direet effects of the heatis of local record, and it is not believed that the health of the community has seri- ously suffered from this cause. We have passed through less than half of the heated term, though 1t is quite probabte that there will not occur again this summer so prolonged a period of scvere heat as that from which we are now emerging. The admonition to *‘keep cool,” however, is still in order, and it should be given the largest possible appli- cation. People should keep cool physic- ally and mentally. Avoid excessive ex- ertion, do not worry, keep as much as possible in the saade, be prudent in eat- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1887 ing and drinking, be cleanly of person, and get all the fresh air that time and circumstances will per- mit, are simple and common sonse rules, which if carefully followed, will enable ordinarily healthy people to get through the hot geason without seri- ous discomfort and with a minimum of danger from thoe effects of hoat. If peo- ple would follow—as many from their circumstances cannot—the plain sugges- tions which nature makes at this season, the summer solstice would be much less dreaded than it is, andits offects would be much less serious; Hoffman's Fate. Governor Thayer written another of his characteristic letters to Sheriff McCallum of Otoe county declining to interfere in the case of David Hoffman, the train wrecker sentenced to be hanged at Nebraska City on Friday. The gov- ernor has no sympathy with train wreck- ers and bolieves that now is a good time 80 make an example of that class of vil- lains who toy so recklessly with human life. Hoffman upon receiving news of thé governor’s action belches forth what he is pleased to term ‘‘advico to young men to shun the flowing bowl.” There is a great harmony of thought and action among this class of scoun- drels, who as soon as they see the peni- tentiary staring them in the face or the hangman’s noose dangling over their heads begin rendering advice to growing generations. While the wisdom of the advice cannot be questioned, the law has dealt gently with Hoffman. He should be thankful that he was not dangled be- tween heaven and earth about the time the crime was committes Make No Mistake, The board of education” has decided to call a special electivn on August 2 with a view to securing the sanction of the voters of this city toa proposed 1ssuc of $150,000 in bonds, the proceeds of which are to be expended in the erection of school buildings. The board is a littie too hasty in call- ing this election. It should first inform itseif about the provisions of the new election law, which govern the conduct of special as well as general elections in metropolitan cities.@Unless the new law is complied with in every essential particular, the election would be void and the bonds would not be worth the paper on which they are printed. The new law requires a peculiar system of registration, and prescribes minutely the method of conducting the clection, the canvass of the ballots, ete. It would be a pre-requisite to the disposal of the bonds that the safeguards thrown around the election be strictly enforced. t wit, unwittingly nsas City. 1t says: “Omaha may notpacd as many hogs as Kansas City. There are notas many hogs in Omaha as there are in Kansas City.” An Inspection and comparison of the stock yards of the two places will show that the number of porkers here.exceeds by several thousand the number held for sale or slaughter in Omaha.—Kansas City. Star. Joking aside, the time is near at hand when Omaha will not only overtake Kansas City in the great hog race, but leave it behind. To-day Chicago stands first in the packing industry, Kansas City second, and Omaha third. Omaha has secured third place within two years, and within the next two years she will rank nextto Chicago. With such firms as the Hammond company, the Fowlers, the Armours, the Swifts, and Underwood & Co. located in Omaha, this city is bound to make wonderful strides in the pork packing indus THE proposition to locate a public li- brary building on Jefferson square does not strike us favorably. In the first place there is no necessity for voting bonds to erect such a building at this time be- cause the plans of the new city hall building set apart a whole story for the public library. Perhaps ten years hence, when the city needs that part of the building for offices a library building on a scale commensurate with our growth can be erected in some central location. For the present every dollarin bonds which we are allowed to vote should be reserved for paving, sewerage, public achool buildings, parks and boulevards. WHILE denouncing the chief of police as a fraud, the Republican keeps at the head of its local columns the fraudulent inscription, “‘official paper of the city." Its own attorney, John M. Thurston, and Jity Attorney Webster, both argued be- Judge Groft that there was no contract yet made by the city with the Republican for official advertising. What does City Attorney Webster have to say about that sort of fraud? —— DEAN GARDNER, of Trinity church, is reported to have said at the Sunday ob- servance meeting that he thought he could play base ball as well as the Omaha club. This 15 hard on the club, but we are proud of the Dean, — PROMINENT PERSONS, Mrs, Ole Bull is summering in New Hamp- shire. Oscar Wilde has become editor of the “Lady’s World,” at London. Stepniak, the celebrated nihilist author, will visit the United States in September. General Berdan, inventor of the Herdan rifle, is at work on a new desizn for torpe- Jdoes. Mrs. Bright Eyes Tibbals is arranging to deliver a series of lectures in London on the wrongs of the North American Indians. Catherine Van Buren Seaman, acousin of Martin Van Buren, and 108 years old, died last week in the Presbyterian home for aged women in New York. ‘When the president was at *‘The Weeds,” Miss Cleveland’s home, last week, he met his old sweetheart, Mary Burlinghame. the daughter of a cheesemaker. Frank Vincent, who \ime “The Land of the White Elephant,” h# just returned from a 55000 mile journey "in South America, where he had been in every capital and im- portant seaport and explored many leagues of unknown territory, Hels a qulet man, tall aud slim, with a dark brown mustache, and a well tanned face. Ve rid. The Conecord School of Philosophy ought to engage a reliable baseball umpire to settle disputed points. Thurston's Tirade. Hardy Herald. John M. Thurston took the pains at the Nebraska Chautauqua last week to repeat his Omaba tirade against the press, We could not apologize for the faults of the press, but those of the profession to which he belongs ‘would te a subject for columns, Perhaps when he gets through with the Pacific inves- tigation committee from which he hid like a rat, he won't feel 80 bitter. — Hot Weather 8quib. Chicago Témea, It President Cleveland wants a second term. he had better make a change in the management of th her bureau p. d. q. ———— Eats With His Knife. Chicdgo Herald, ‘The cheering information comes from FEurope that Buffalo Bill still eats with his knife, and that Red Shirt holds out as reso- lutely against galluses as ever. It was feared that flattery might turn the heads of these simple Americans, —_——— Pugilist as \Well as Actor. Chieago Times. Richard Mansfield, the actor, who a few days ago thrsahed a young ! New York swell, has just been sued for punching the head of his valet. Mr. Mansfield’s repeated successes at fisticuffs inevitably suggest that he star the country as a pugilist rather than as an actor, P — The Jubiles Bells. St. Paul Ploneor Press. Queen Victorla Is said to be quite dejected because she finds the bills for entertaining her royal zuests during the *jubilee amount to over $1,000,000, These bills belong to her to pay, as they are strictly private, but the venerable lady is going to try and have them pald out of the public treasury. It 1s very doubtful if Lord Salisbury will make such & proposition, for the house of commons is inclined to watch such things rather closely and jealously. The queen has an fncome of about $3,000,000, PP Rapid Advancement. Cheyenne Sun. ‘The confirmation of Edward Dickinson as general superintendent of the Union Pacific railroad system is precisely what was ex- pected. Nevertheless the rapid advancement he has made in the past twelve years from the position ot clerk of a division superin- tendent to the place he now occuples is as remarkable as itis deserved. He has rare qualifications for a position that requires energy, cool judgement and tact, and never fails to carry out what he undertakes to do. No better illustration of this could be asked for than his laying of rails last winter on the Cheyenne & Northern,during a protracted wind storm. N Sy STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. McCook is building a creamory. Omaha is the porkopolis of the prai- es, Fremont and Beatrice are moving for free mail delivery. Rod Cloud will soon illuminate with ten electric light towers. Webster county is putting the finishing polish on the bars of its new jail. The Roca grist mill, worth $10,000, was destroyed by fire a few days ago. The Cheyenne extension of the B. & M. has reached a point thirty-tive miles west of Grant. A Red Cloud firebug, in an unguarded moment, slipped from the embrace of the sheriff and disappeared. Sidney needs money, and is trying the occupation tax to raise the wind. Sue- cess is assured. The victims are howling against the imposition. Horse thieves picked up ateam and drove out of Grand Island Saturday night. A bonus of §235 will be given for the return of the animals and driver. Hastings 1s hurrying to the front asa summer resort. A swarm of chinch bugs are now doing the town. The natives find poor picking among their guests. Beatrice is moving to_grease the path- way of the Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern to that city, For a liberal bonus Major Drought agrees to take the town in out of the wet. A confcientious correspoudent de- clares that Coonrad, the victim of the Nelson mob, was ‘‘gently elevated and d tly buried.” ’fiun is the only con- solation left to a wife and three small children. Norman Rapalee has turned loose a wild and grizzly Jokinello ir. Hartington and the natives are stumped as to the age, sex, color or previous condition of the mammoth aggregation. Kxhibitions are given every Saturday at a cent apiece. Mrs. Ed Shannon, a runaway wife from Norfolk, was caught by her hus- band in a hotel in Sioux City Saturday. So was her paramour, Will Frank. The latter was caught by the collar, fannea with a stout shoe, and hurled head-fore- most down a pair of stairs. The woman fell on her knees and begged her hus. band’s forgiveness, but he spurned her, About o month ago a good looking young fellow giving his name as Will i"rnn came to Norfolk to work. He became acquainted wito Mrs. Shannon, and in a few weeks the pair disappeare: After the row in the hotel FrmlL had Shannon arrested for assault and battery and in turn Shannon had Frauk arrested for se- duction. Shannon paid his fine of #10 and costs, and Frank is under §200 bonds. lowa Items. l.lxlmlcpendv:uco boasts of corn ten feet high. A company has been formed at Wilton Junction to bore for gu A reunion of the First Iowa veterans will occur at Muscatine August 10, The institute of the feeble minded at Glenwood has 207 males and 125 females, An organization of democratic soidiers, mdependent of the G. A. R., was formey at Des Moines, Friday. State Mine Inspector Stone has been investigating the gas-well country in Guthric county, At Herndon he saw six natural gas s on what is Known as the Boote place. They are on an ay ze of 120 feet deep and all are capable of sending out as large and steady supply of natural gas ac was ever known to be found anywhere in the United tes. ‘The removal of the saloons in Sioux City, and the consequent "removal of the tomptation to drink,” has not had a wonderful eflect on the morals of the town. The Tribune shows by the records of the police court that 700 arrests for different offenses have beeu made since October 1, 1836, at which time the su- loons were closed. *‘Out of these 145 for disturbing the peace, 183 for intoxication, ation of the city ordinanc orstood for running a hole in A comparison with previous wall the months develops the fact that there has been no appreciabie diminution in the number of arrests, but that rather there \ias been an i se, if any. The ditter- ence either way is small, A good many find themselves unable to explain this fact. It shows, however, that in Sioux City prohibition does not prohibit, and that the presence of suloons is not the prime cause of drunkenness.” Dakota. county’s Mernerson assessment iy $560,000. The territory is now cnijo,ymg its regu- lar annual “‘consututional.’ Traveling men will form a stock com- pany and build a hotel at Aberdeen, ‘The location of a Congregational col- lege at Fargo is assured. A $10,000 build- ing will be erected. From statistics in the hands of the com- nussioner of 1mmigration, he reports the estimated population of Dakota, 600,000, not an exaggeration, The first repart of the terntorial treus- urer, now published as a curiosity, shows the total receipts to have been $176, a striking contrast with the last repors, in which the total receipts were shown to be ¥1,600,000, A Tho wiclders of the editorial faber in Dakota_are called to assemble st Big Stone Creek on the 27th of July, and to remaia there three days at least, l""‘“‘fii which time business will be transactod and pleasure partaken of. Dakota among the other states and ter- ritories stands sixth in the number of bushels of wheat produced. Only eleven states raise more oats, sixteen have more schools, fourteen more newspapers, and but twelve have more miles of railroad. According to the commissioaer of im. migration, ‘Mr, McClure, the amount of land in the several land districts now un- sold is as follows: Fargo district, 281,000 acres; Bismarck, 15,281,600; Aberdeen, 802,000; Yankton, 5,000; Devil's Lake, ,498,008: Grand Forks, 1,600,000; Dead- wood, 5,878,440; Mitchell, 9,600, Huron gasumnw‘l) 40,000; Watertown (estimated) 0,000. P — PUBLIO WORKS. What s Being Done by the Oity's Contractors. The question of putting strects ord- ered paved, in good condition before the paving of the samo,is attracting consider- ablo attention from those whose duty it is to work upon them. The intention of Mr. Balcombe, of the board of public works, to ask the city counci) to prohibit paving for one year after all sewor and other connections sre made has rather stimulated the interest of property hold- ers and contractors. Some are opposed to the prohibition, while many people favorit. Yesterday morning the subject was brought up by Sanitary Engineer Flynu, recently from Springfield, His opinion of Mr. Balcombe's claim that all sewer, water and gas trenches in the city had shrunken, was there was no n eod of such a state of affairs. Its evil would not be apparent for sometime, but as the pavements grew old the foundations would gradually weaken and fall into the trenches which had dropped beneath them. There was in his estim- ation no reason for this, because the trenches could be packed in & way which would make them as solid as the rest of the street. When filling, as is now the practice, only tamping is resorted to, and this, in his opinion, would never give the compact- ness required to obviate settling. In fill- ing there should be a constant spray kept upon the earth as it is thrown in the trench. This he called puddling. Where this is done, n little watching is required for a few days, but after ‘that time the earth sottles down as solid as that around it. He had noticed also that where water was used here in filling, it was thrown in large quantities when the trench was about half filled. That process was not as good as the other, which he would guarantee would put trenches in such a condition that they would never sink. Water in the filling of trenches is not re- quired by ordinance, though tamping with a thirty pound weight 18 required. Puddling would be more expensive, but 1t would be the best thing to be done, and was not sure that it ought to be required by the law. One of the clauses of the ordinance is that which requires that the filling of trenches in paved streets or alleys shall be done by floating river sand, except when otherwise directed by the chairman of the board of public works. Thus far, however, it has not been known that much river sand has ever entered into the filling of our trenches. BIDEWALK BIDS, The Beg sometime ago published the fact that there was a suspicious similarity in the bids of Knowles and Gardner for sidewalks in this city, offered a short time ago. The similarity was noticed b Louis Heimrod, a member of the boar who moved that the matter be referred to the council. The bids were not only alike, but they were pretty high, and this was another reason for the refer- ence. The council suspected an improve- ment might be made and ordered the voard to readvertise for bids, Yesterday morning the latter were opened, and a new bidder, J. P. Smith, with the older ones, Knowles and Gardner, wus found to have sent in his bid. This was suc- cessful, and was a decided reduction and saving to the city of a considerable amount of money. Labor per day was placed at $2.00, while in the !irst%aidi 1t was set at $2.00. There was also a re- duction of §1 ver thousand feet in the price of lumber together with other like savings. The bids upon which the con- tract was awarded to Smith is 28} cents for four foot walks per lineal foot; 844 for six 474 for eight; 65 for twelve; 92 for sixteen, and $1.10 for twenty feet; labor per day $2; nails 4 cents per pound, and Inmber $17 per thousand.; THE CABLE LINE. The cable line has three gangs of men at work at different ylnm’n along their line, the new one on Harney street near Eighteenth having abont ironed a block in a fow days. The aim of the company, as at present understood seems to be to compiete their line on Tenth, Dodge, i south on Twentieth to Harney this year and bhave it in run- ning order about the middle of October. The power house on the streets corner of Twentieth and Harne has been d d by labor troubles, but is now being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. Twenty grip cars and twenty conches have already been order- ed and will be here at the time indicated. An accident in one of the foundries in the east has delayed some of the mach- inery for the power, though the delay wiil'be made up for as well a8 possible, The construction of the line northward on I'wendieh from Dodge has been inter- fered with by the change 1n the grade of the former street at Davenport, as also further north, where there is no money to grade it. The grading in one part as a consequence has been done by the cable tramway company. It 15 not likely that this part of the track will be operated this y What street the road will go west on is likely to remummn a secret for many a day. COURT HOUSE WALK. Yesterday morning the contrac Brennan & Whalen commenced to ] new Herea sandstone w street front of the co Louse. Underwood's Packing House, Boyd’s packing house has changed hands, It was gold some time ago by its original proprietor, Jawmes E. Boyd, to Joscph 1. ler, who, with a com- pany, it was thought, Intended to turn it into a large brewery. But a more press ing clmm was made for it by Underwood & Co., well-known pac and to them it has been This firm s one of the largest pac! Chieago, ranking very high after Ar- mour, Fowler & Swift, who are now here. of the Boyd house will enal omme killing almost i v, and wh between now and the opening of the winter sea son th will ba al to make the im 1ents and eniargements required py the magnitude of the business which they expect to carry on. The intention of the firm 1s to kill about four thousand hogs per day in the cold season t 13 understood that Underwood & Co. have been guaranteed for two years, trec transportation to their house, all stock rov: they may desire after itz arrival in Omauha, “This will plgee them on an equal footing with all the other pac atthe Union stock yards, und enable them to cairy on the lurge business which it is their intention to butld up. This is a concession which wonld not be made to an institution which did not carry with it the promise of success which comes from the experience and the name which Un derwood & Co, have achieved in Chiengo This guarantee has been made ou good faith and.it is fult that it has ‘been - made because th isa fecling thet within two ears the fiem wiil bulld at thyisfoek Y yards. HIGH SCHOOL CANDIDATES. A uittle Information Necessary for an Intelligent Underatanding, There scems to be a very general de- sire on the part of those most deeply in- terested in our scholastic affairs to know the names of the fortunate pupils of the grammar schools who were promoted to the high school at the June examina- tions, These pupils are identified by numbers, each scholar being familiar with hisown but no ene's else, and in many instances tho scholars themsclves have fergotten their own numbers and are in a quandary to know whether they have drawn a prize or not. These nume bers have all beon published 1n the city papers, but so far as supplying any ine formation the publication was utterly supererogatory and senseless. These numbers furnish an excellent method, it the inclination should be to utilize it, of shoving favorites through on and under insufficient averages. Qualifications for promotion or admis- sion into the high school are that each pupil or applicant must pass a satisfac- tory examination in reading, spelling, penmanship, geography, grammar, arith- metic and United States history, In these examinatjons tha applicant shall be required to writo answers to questions proposed for the purpose, each appli- cant being possessed with a card con- taining & number by which alone he shall be known throughout the examina- tion. He must write upon a slip of paper this number, his whole name, his age and the name of the school from which he came. This paper 18 preserved for the purpose of identifying such scholar after the examination has been concluded and the successful candidate admitted to the high echool. Each individual signs his number, not his name, to his exercise and the examining committee then care- fully inspects his work in the answore and determine the per cont ot correctness 1n each study, compute the average of the several studies, and record the whole in tabular form. From this tabular statement the committee designate the members entitled 1o admission to the high school. Thus it will be seen that the syatem to say the least is & very re- condite and apstruse one, aflording the public not even a faint idea of each scholar’s proficieney in his studies. 1he average necessary for passage into the bigh school in none of the studies is less than 60, and the genoral average not under 75, yet a cursory glance at the of- ficial list of numbers shows that some ot the members went through on a much smaller average than that above indi- cated. For instance, several in arithme- tic have but a percentage of 87, others in geography but 40, and in gram- mar and the other branches from 45 to 060, This all permits of favoritism, but the Beg does not alleged thanthis pernicious and wrong- ful method has been indulged 1n by the examining board, yet it does allege that certain scholars are booked for the high school who are not entitled to tho ad- vanco by reason of their superior attain- ments a8 evidenced by tk..r averages, and that others got left whose showing is equally as good, and in some of the branches much better. A more satisfac- tory way, it strikes the ordinary citizen, would be a vublic declaration, through the city press, of each successful pupil’s name, accompanied by an accurate state- ment of his standing in all the branches ot study in the curriculum he is promoted from. This would dissipate all suspicion of undue influence, of favoritism, and all opportunity for partial manipulation. As the matter stands the only way of as- certaming the names of the pupils who have heen promoted is to take their num- ber, hire a detective, and hunt them up separately and individually. A Bavage Mother. Mrs. Mary Shelly, who was arrested last mgkt for mhumanly beating and whip- ping her little eight year old son, appeared before Judge Berka yesterday morn- ing and was sentenced to minety days over the hill. This well merited punish- ment, however, was suspended, owing to the fact that this cruel and barbarous par- ent has three other little children depend’ inglupon her forsupport. It secms,though, that they could have n cared for in some manner by the and this wo- man made to answer for her hellish deed. The little fellow who received this terrible castigation, when brought into the station, was a mass of cuts and welts and bruises, his little waist and un- der garments being saturated with blood, The officers kindly and gently washed the little sufferer, and sent him to his miserable home in carringe. ‘The woman said she punished him for steal- ing apples, acknowledging that in her passion she hud gone to far. The stru: ment of torture was a cowhide, The court admonished the woman that a rep- itition of the offense meant nothing less than the fullest extent of the law. “Boyd’s, Stage Carpenter Booth has a force of men engaged working on the stage of Boyd's opera house, which has been badly worn during the six years it has been occupled. Lew Graham, the cclebrated scenie artist will be here after the minstrels play their engagement next month and rejuvenate a great deal of the scenery. BABY'S SKIN. nfantil e and Birt Specedily Cured by TR cleausing tho sin aud scalp o F mors, for ullayiug itching, burnin 1 Humors ary. b hu- nd in- Iy umation, for curing the first symptoms of Eczema, Proringis, Milk Crust, Scuid er inherited Skin the great skin Houd, blood ternally, NENT, U blood piirifier, internally, are infallifle, lutely pure, ' % MY OLDEST CHILD. Now six yoars of when an in monthsold, wig attacked with a virulc timant skin disense, / tailing, we called our fumily ph temoted 1o enre ft, but it spr rodible rapidity, until th e ittle follow's person. ¢ Euck down 10 his ki 0 ful, blotehed und mulicious, ~ We hid Tho physi- o new Abso- nt six | SEat night. no pesc ot kilow the an. WAS SIMPLY MARVELOUS, Using the two togethor, st washing him thor- oughly with Cuticura’ Soap, then wnointing him with Cuticura i achange for the hett &aid wehnd no furth ed his visits. In th it lokving the little 1ol 1 horithy as though he ttacked. 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