Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 22, 1887, Page 4

'THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF sUBSCRIPTIN : ARA OPPICE, NO, 614 AND §18 FARYAM STRERY W YORK OFi ROOM 66, TRINUNE BOILDING. ABMINGTON OFFICE, NO. 015 FOURTEENTH STREST. CORRESPONDENCR! All communioations reiating to news audedi- torial matter should be addressed to the Eoi- TOR OF THE Brm BUSINESS LETTERS! All bueiness letters and remittances should ba addi to Tne BEs PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders ‘be made payable to the order of the eompany, “THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETOR, E. ROSEWATER, EpiToR. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Clrculation. Btate of Nebrask: Gounty of Donglas. |5 & P e e shing compan P! that the lc‘lnu [ n:ulyl'tlon of the Daily Bee the week ending July 15, 1837, was as Monda Jully 1 Tuesdav, July 12. Wednesday, Jul, ;aumn!. Jnly 14 day, July 15.. AVerage....ooouuuins GEO. 13, Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 16th day of July, A, D, 1887. N, P, FrIr, [SEAL. Notary Publie, Btate of Nebraska, ) Douglas County, | %% Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, gopolvs and says that he Is secretary of The Publlahln‘g company, that the actual average daily cire ’ho month _of .mw lor mw{nt. 189, 12, ber, 1 18,030 coples; 12,089 coples; for 1886, 12,314 coptes; r October, 1838, January 1857, 16,200 coples: for February, 1887, 14,198 coples; for Rinmh. 1887, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,316 copies; for May, , 14,227 coples; for' June 1887, 14,147 coples, Gro. B. Tz8cHUCK, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 1st day ot July A, D,, 1887, IBEAI..{ N. P. Fr1L, Notary Publie. Tik Ohio “idee” -r;n-y live until the second Tnesday in November. | It would appear that Boulanger has had his day. 1t was brief, brilliant and bullish. THE first two cases under the new crimmnal libel law are those of editors of the Herald and Republican, ToE persons who labored so indus- triously for the passage of the new libel law must now feel like a man who has been struck with a pile driver. | PERAAPS Mr. Rothaker did not know his new libel law went into effect on the first of July. An able law maker like Mr. Rothaker should keep his library well stocked with *‘statoots.” E—— Tue Ohio democrats have nominated a man named Harper for state treasurer. Hemay be a very honest man, butin view of their recent experience, it should not surprise him if the people of Ohio show some hesitation about intrusting their funds to men by the mame of Harper. S TuE only pont worth noticing in Rothacker’s two columns of gabble is that the Bek had filed two bids and with- drawn both. This is true. by the court. CONGRESSMAN SENEY of Ohio, who pre- sided over the democratic convention yesterday, was profuse in his praise of Grover Cleveland. No longer than last February this same congressman from Ohio was the loudest in his profanity against the president and damned him from one end of Pennsylvania to the other, Mr. Seney has evidently been “geen.” E— Tae democrate of Indianapolis are another strong element in the boodle Fourteen thousand dollars was paid out to fix & grand jury to protect a few ward bummers from the peniten- It will be remembered that these Hoosier state who corrupted the ballot box and mutilated tally sheets were the friends and political companions of Wilham H. English, ex-Senator Joseph £, McDonald craze. tiary. distinguished citizens ‘of the and Senator D. W. Voorhees, EEESe—— Our democratio contemporary pro- fesses to be very anxious to rid the city If that sheet is sincere why does it keep up its vicious attacks on the police commission and encourage the council in keeping the- police force down to a mere skeleton. If the commission had not been hampered In its effort to organize an eflicient met- ropolitan police by the encouragement which disappointed editors who were commission have given to their opponents, this city would have had ample police protection long of thugs, thieves and crooks. candidates for the ago. It is an open secret that the new crim- inal hibel law was gotten up expressly to terrorize, persecute und punish the editor When Governor Thayer made this bill a law, a shout of joy went up from the copper-distilled throats of the rowdy editors who were chiefly in- strumental in its passage. They hailed !II? statute which makes malicious libel Y elony as a ‘‘long felt want’’ which would paralyze defamers and place n'u;- t is in perfect accord with the eternal fit- ness of things that the men who have dug this pit should be the first to fall of the Bre. licious slanderers behind iron bars, into it. e———— THERE aro a few unhung fools yet liv- A recent discov- ery has been made that a paper pub- lished at Abbeville in that state the com- positors are exclusively colored, while The discovery has excited the alleged news- papers down there and the upheaving 1s more turbulent than the rccent earth- quakes, Threats are made that the young fug in South Carolina. the “‘able editor” 18 a white man. editor must leave the state or equip hi office with white compositors. wpected. Who is Dawson? anyhow, ulation of the Daily Bee for coples; for Septem- Tor "0 ovember, 1886, 13,348 coples; for December, 1886, 13,237 coples; for One of these bids was fomthe evening edition and the other for the morming edition. But the two extra bids of the Republican were manifestly fraudulent and so regarded The greatest outrage upon this Nation was tommitted when South Carolina was al- lowed to come back in the union. When its affairs are controlled by men of the Daptain Dawson stripe but little better is Rallroad Kxtortion in Nebraska. That the railroads in Nebraska bave pursued a policy of shameless extortion for the past ten years, is a fact which the Bek haw proclaimed and demonstrated hundreds of times. We have shown that there has been a studied and systematio discrimination against the merchants and farmers of this state, for which at no time has there been the slightest warrant or justification in the condition or cir- cumstances. We have insisted that the consequences of this unwarrantable ex- tortion have been to materially retard the growth of the state in population and prosperity. We have denounced the ex- orbitant tribute exacted from our people as a most oppressive outrage, little better in its character than deliberate robbery. We have made appeal on appeal to the legisiature to remedy this wrong by requiring the railroads to deal fairly and justly with the people of Ne- braska, which if the railroads had done from the first, would have resulted in much greater advantage to them than has the grasping, unjust and oppressive policy they have pursued. It is not therefore a new revelation which the state railrond commission makes in its communication to the man- agement of the B. & M. railroad. It is rather a corroboration, fortified and strengthened by an authentio statistical comparison which lays the matter before the public in plain figures that the rail- road corporation canuot dispute. For this work the commission merits unqual- ified commendation. It is thoroughly practical, it can be understood by every- body, and it exhibits the exact degree of the unjust extortion to which the people of Nebraska are still sub- jected. The severest consequences of this policy have fallen upon the farmers, but in a greater or less degree the whole people have suffered. It is not possible to compute the amount that has been ex- torted from the people of Nebraska by the B. & M. corporation in excess of the charges for a similar service demanded of the people of fowa and Minnesota, but when it is considered that the rates on fourth-class freight, comprising quite half of all shipments, have been on an average 80 per cent higher in Nebraska than in Jowa and Minnesota, while on all other classes the latter states have been favored, it can readily be seen that our people have been unjustly mulcted in the last ten years to the amount of millions of dollars. And when to this1s added the extortion of other cor- porations, some of which have been even less merciful to Nebraska than the B. & M., the penalty of being citizens of this state, so far as the rail- roads are concerned, has been enor- mously oppressive. The commission makes an appeal for a reduction of local rates which will be seconded by every citizen of Nebraska not interested in the continuance of the policy of extortion, and suggests a basis of adjustment conforming to the rates general in the western states, which is entirely fair to the railroads. The re- sponse ought to be favorable, but expe- rience does not justify an expectation that it will be. At all events there is reason to apprehend that obeying their grasping instincts, the managers of the corporations will make no concessions in time to benefit the vroducers of the state in marketing their present crops, although the necessity for re- lief was never more pressing than it will be this year, if the farmers of Nebraska are to realize a reasonable profit on their products 1n competition with those of other western states. But if the corpora- tions are not wise in time the opportu- nity will surely come to the people'to re- lieve themselves of injustice and oppres- sion, and when they apply the remedy it will be thorough and eflective. The Ohio Democrats. After the last positive refusal of Judge Thurman to become the standard bearer of the Ohio democracy, the nomination of Thomas E. Powell became a foregone conclusion, and that result was reached on the second ballot in the convention at Clevelanl yesterday. Congressman Campbell, who came into the field late, developed considerable strength, while Congressman Foran had a small follow= ing, a part of his vote having evidently been given merely by way of compli- ment, D. C. Coolman was the nominee for lieutenant-governor. The selection of these candidates possesses a general interest from the fact that they represent the corrupt and lawless element that has dominated democratic politics in Ohio for the last four or five years, and is evi- dently still on top. Powell is chietly distinguished for having been one of the most ‘active supporters in the legis- lature of the senatorial ambition of John R. McLean, and he was conspicuous in all the tortuous methods and unsavory scheming of which McLean was guilty in the desperate effort to buy himself into the United States senate. Coolman 1s not much known in politics, but he has held one or two state offices and is in fu)! sympathy with the gang. It is presumed that the other candidates are of the same stripe. The platform eondorses the na tional administration, and in nearly all other respeets is a repetition of previous declarations of the party, and therefore for the most part a string of platitudes. The republicans ought to have no diffi- culty in overwhelmingly defeating this ticket, and they will not have if nothing arises in thewr convention next week to create disaffection in their ranks. We do not believe that even Judge Thurman could nave been elected if the republicans re- mained harmonious, and Powell 15 cer- tainly a much weaker man. He will not command the support of the reputable element of the party, which, although very much in the minority, is still a con- siderable force, and he cannot get any of the independent vote which would have gone to Thurman. The Ohio democrats have invited defeat and they will get it. 1t Wil ‘We noted recently that great indigna. tion was caused in Savannah, Ga., by the declaration of a minister of the gospel Orop Out. that the union cause was right. Later advices say that harsh criticism of the offending preacher has not ceased, and that he is being subjected to a measure of social ostracism, It is sufliciently evi- dent that the sacred city of Georgia can- tains a very considerable population tii: still oherishes the memory of thi: . cause and believes it onght to have bLeen succossful. The sincerity of the profes- sions of such people that they are now loyal to the union and loye the old flag may fairly be doubted. Is Savannah singular in tbis respect? Undoubtedly mot. The. sympathisers there with the rebellion may be A little braver and more outspoken than those elsewhere, but they are not alone. A reputable gentleman who has been lurgely engaged in railroad building in Texas, says he heard enough talk in that state to convince him that the old spirit is as much alive to-day as it was when Sumpter was firod on, The men who en- tertain this spirit do not talk fight, but they hope to put themselves on top in another way and through political con- quest achieve much that they lost by the arbitrament of the sword. Colonel Cana- day, secretary of the United States sen ate, who was in the confederate service, is also authority for the statement that the ‘‘old spimt” {8 wvigorously alive throughout the S8outh, The predominant feeling there is wholly sectional, and de- mands of all to make common cause against the North, The antagonisims of the war are fostered among those who engaged in the war, and the lost cause 18 held by thousands in honored memory. Mr. Henry Watterson, the hotspur of democratic politics, who seems latterly, however, to have come under the influ- ence of some emollient, said in a recent interview that tho chief campaign topics next year would probably be the tariff and the South. He did not think, how- ever, there was another republican presi- dent enwrapped in the folds of the “bloody shirt.” Perhaps not, but this will depend a good deal upon whether a considerable portion of the southern peo- ple shall themselves continue to wave the ensanguined garment, as they now, according to the evidence cited, seem disposed to do. We do not believe there is any general desire in the to engage in a bloody shirt campaign next year, but if a challengo to do so shall come from the South it probably will not be declined, The lkey Brown Libel Suit, A few days ago the Herald published a highly colored and sensational article, in which it was alleged that a band of burglars, thieves and highway robbers had for months been operating in this city. This band was said to be composed chiefly of Frenchmen, who were for the most part criminals of the most danger- ous class. The Herald positively charged that Ikey Brown, a turniture dealer on Douglas street, was the head of this band, and represented him as an ex- French convict, who wag.acting as father of the robbers, chief instigator of their criminal plots, and concealer and pur- chaser of the stolen property. Incident- ally, Brown was also charged with sell- ing furniture to keepers of houses of ill fame, The latter charge is probably true. The charge that Brown 18 a bandit chief and an ex-French con- vict is absurdly false. Brown has never seen the shores of France, and knows no more French than the editor of tle Herald does of Chinese. Brown has lived in Omaha fully ten years, and is a heavy property owner. If he has ever harbored thicves and burglars it isa reve- lation. Under the advicagof hislawyers Brown has instituted civil and criminal proceed- ings for libel against the Herald. THE BEE has published that fact, but has refrained from any comment edi- torially. And now the Herald asserts that provincial jealousy actuates The BeE and other Omaha pupers in refusing to express sympathy for it and declining to join it in the moral crusade which it is now waging against crooks, burglars, foot-pads and Ikey Brown, Now, suppose the BEE had charged a certain capitalist, who leases houses to bad women of French. parentage, with being the head of a band of crooks and burglars and an ex-convict from New Caledonia. when 1n fact the man never had been near the Pacific ocean and had no known relations with burglars, Would the Herald join the BEE in de- fending its course? The crusade against Ikey Brown, asa dealer in furniture used for illegal pur- poses, would be commendable providing 1t was an honest effort to break up this nefarious system, Such a crusade must not, however, begin and end with Ikey Brown. There are two dozeu furniture and furnishing houses in Omaha engaged in the same bus- iness, There are scores of high-toned capitalists in Omaha who rent houses to bad women because it pays better than to rent them to decent people. Some of these capitalists claim to be highly moral and contribute liberally from the,: ill- gotten rents to religious and b-nevolent institutions, Will the Hevald publisithe names of these ‘Ikey Browns,” expuse them to popular reproach &nd have them prosecuted under the law? How about the millinesr, jewelers and mer- chants who sell goods at high pronts for cash andon time to bad women, gamb- lers and keepers of disorderly houses? The Herald’s appeal for sympathy and co-operation in its efforts to rid the town of bad and dangerous characters will meet with & generous response at our hands, but we detest hypocrisy and will not lend ourselves to spiteful persecution. The attempt ata scnsation which has caused the Ikey Brown libel suit does not in our opimon constitute an honest effort at moral reform, ‘Webster and Connell. The attempt to defend City Attorney Webster by attacking his predecessor, Mr. Connell, will hardly deceive any rational tax-payer. It is true that 158 cases out of more than & thousand that were brought against the city during Mr. Connell's term were pending when Mr, W ebster came in. That does not in any way reflect on Mr. Connell’s efliciency, The fact that Mr. Connell was always on hand to defend the interests of the city in the courts and was the most success- ful attorney the city has ever hud is un- disputed. But how does Mr. Webster excuse his failure to try the suits against the city when they were called? Even the dis- trict judges have commented on his neglect. Mr. Connell received a salary of $2,200, and had no assistant to relieve him of drudgery in the lower courts. Mr. Webster receives $3,000, and hasa $1,500 assistant. Mr. Connell was al- ways on hand to draw contracts and ordinances and ever ready to give legal advice to city officers, —ana that advice was nearly always sustained by the eourts, Mr. Webster has shirked his work, allowed contractors to draft their own papers, and has either avoided giy- ing advice or opinions te city officers, or else adavises them in an ambiguous way. He nas absolutely encouraged lawless- ness, or purposelysignored the law, as is notably the case with the new ‘election north ' ‘THE OMAHA DAILY DER: FRIDAY, JULY 22. 1887 Iaw. When ‘the city pays an attorney $3,000 a yoar he should devote his time and talents to its interests, But even if Connell had been as shiftless and meteu- rial us Mr. Webster, that fact would con- fense of Mr. Webster's of- ings, stitute no ficial short The ut of L The official (*) advertising which ap- pears in the Republican lets the cat out of the bag. It aflords conclusive proof of the conspiracy between the jobbers who control that paper and certain mem- bers of the council .and officers of the city, Tms conspitacy began months ago when Rothacker became the a boon companion of Bechel, Manville, Ford and other councilmen who hold daily and nightly conclaves in certain saloons. The methods which had been practised with the boodlers of the legislature in the Lincoln oil rooms, in tampering with the charter, were employed again at Omaha. The dissipated city fathers were pledged in their drunken sprees to assist Roth- acker in his schemes to pull through the printing job at all hazzards, The recklessness with which the con- spirators operated in the council made an appeal to the courts necessary. Their attempt to override the courts and de- liberately violate contracts made by the city is now laid bare, It is the duty of the city clerk to promptly publish all ordinances and of- ficial notices of the city. Usually theso vublications have been made within a fow days after their approval by the mayor. But Mr. Bechel, who is cheek- by-jowl with Rothaker night and day, took the clerk into the conspiracy and used him for paying obligations, The contiact for city advertising with the BEE did not expire until July 1, and not then until another contract shall be legally let. But the city clerk under advice of Bechel held back the advertis- ing for more than a month, and in fact long before a bid was ever invited. Most of the ordinances which the Repub- lican now prints were approved as far back ae the 16th of June. Councilman Manville's son, who is acting deputy for Clerk Southard, declares that he has held these ordinancesback on the advice of Bechel. What object did Bechel have in advising the clerk and his deputy to vio- late his plain duty and withhold the publication of ordinances and of- ficial notices approved and passed 1 the middle of June? Does it not show that Mr. Bechel conspired to give this printing to Rotbhacker in violation of the city’s contract with the BEE long be- fore the Republican had made a bid? Does it mot convinée members of the council that they have been duped by a gang of jobbers into a course which can- not be justified under any pretext. Mr. Bechel's conduct shows him to be capa- ble of the most despicuble trickery. It becomes more reprehensible in view of the fact that he has taken advantage of his position as president of the city council to improperly influence the city clerk and his employ THE term of the district court, just closed, has been more satisfactory to our people than any previous term in the his- tory of Douglas courity. As might have been expected upon the appointment of the two additional judges, Hopewell and Groff, more work was accomplished and less delay occasioned, than heretotore. An instance of this, is the speedy trial and conviction of Vollmer for the mur- der of Quinlan in May last, by which the county was saved the expense of keeping the prisoner for an indefinite time, as has been the rule here- tofore. ‘While litigants have enjoyed a speedier determination of their issues, there is still room for reform. Too many cases have been continued upon insuflicient cause, owing to neg- lect of attorneys chiefly, and to force of habit generally. The new judges, Groff and Hopewell, haye had a severe initiation since the be- ginning of the spiing term, they having been continuously upon the bench since the middle of April, and have done their full share of the task of reducing the Douglas county docket, which numbered over nine hundred cases. They have created a most fayorab! impression in this commumty smon» members of the bar and citizens ger sally by their ef- ficient labo % WHEN the cuttle fish is closely pursued he usually emits an immense quantity of dark fluid to conceal his course. The “aylor-Ro.nds-Rothaker jruiiures are pursuing the » tacties. The enormous amou v of which they are shedding 19 eove » their crooked course with the councit will deccive nobody. The plaia facts are theso. The law requires the council to let the officiul advertising by open competition among papers having at least 2,000 daily circula- tion. No such competition has yet been legally invited. By the connivance of a set of conspirators, of which W. F. Bechel is the chief, the Republican has secured an illegal ovder to publish the official notices until a contract is let, which of course means indefinitely. It was the duty of the council to re-adver- tise for bids, but the jobbers have versistently opposed this course, and pigeon-holed the resoiution in the committee of which Pat Ford and Man- ville are a majority. —— ‘WE are glad to learn that the Omaha postal service is to' ‘be materinlly im- proved by an increase of carriers and clerks. We now move that the post- master be allowed to employ a glazier to repair the broken windows and a scav- erger to clean off the fly-specks and mop the interior floors. A famous Wash- ington correspondent who was in the city last woek remarked that Omaha had the dirtiest postofiice of any city he had yet visited, e——————— THE city is now paying for over 500 gas lamps at $34 each ‘per year for all- night service. Why can't the council ar- range to have half of this service put on the moonlight schedule and reduce the expense $12 a year on each lamp. This would be a saving of $3,000 a year on 230 lamps. — WHEN City Clerk Southard returns from his junketing trip the Ber will ask him to explain why he withheld from publication all ordinances approved be- tween the 16th of June and the first of July until after July 20. CE—— Tue waterworks company has filed a $400,000 mortgage on its plant with which it proposes to expend $1,000,000 for improvements. This means $600,000 worth of claritied Missouri river in- Jected in its stock. PROMINENT PERSONS, Mr. Blame 1s greatly enjoylng his tally-ho drives in Scotland. Speaker Carlisle’s daughter {s said to be the prettiest girl at the Greenbriar Sulphur Sorings, Va. Ex-Senator Spencer, of Alabama, thinks that the southern boom business is being overdone, George W. Childs has secured the silk hat which General Grant wore during his tour around the world. Ex-Secretary Manulne s si sick man; bas lost much flesh and takes little Interest 1n passing events, Melssonler 18 sald to be almost friendless because of his quarrelsome disposition. His health also, isnow bad. Senator Yance has named hls new home “‘Gombroon,” after tho capital of De Quincey’s imaginary kingdom. . Mr. Gladstone is still of the opinion that with his arduous publig duties and the nec- essity of devoting his entire'strength to the cause of Ireland he could mnot at his age un- dertake the journey to America, Jacub Sharp has not yet gone to Sing Sing. He is keeping cool on iced milk in the “Boss Tweed parlor” in Ludlow street jail. Of one thing, however, he cannot lose consciousnees: He feels that the eye of a watcher is con- stantly upon him, Elam Brown, one of the early California ploneers, now ninety years old, owns the valuable Ascalenes ranch in California. At the celebration of his last birthday anniver- sary seventy-five ot his family and immedi- ate kin sat down to the table together. The Rev. William N. Cleveland, the brother with whom the president recently visited at Forestvort, is a Presbyterian preacher who preaches at three different churches, alternating between them and preaching three times every Sabbath., His charges are six miles apart. —— No Warning. Boston Traveller, The man who speculates in stocks should bear in mind that a bell is never rung to give notice when the drop is to be sprung. ptiuckd £-dhu ety A Directory Dodge. Minneapolis Tribune. They say St. Paul even put the names o dogs In their directory in the effort to beat Minneapolis. A Stick from Missouri. St. Louls Globe-Democrat, It is said of Queen Victoria that at a re- cent garden party she “looked quite feeble, and took a short promenade leaning on & stick.” Some democratic congressinan from Missourf must have happened along about that time and offered his arm to her majesty. Praniie Tal Ode to Poverty. R. 8. Fraser in Portiand Transcript. Haill mighty power, that oe’r my lot, Presidest uncontrolled and free; Sole ruler of the rural cot, I bid thee hall, dread Poverty. Thine aid I erave to guide my strain ; For shall 1 supplicate in vain. ‘When, on the world of woe and toil, A helpless siranger I was cast; Like mariner on desert isle, “The sport and victim of the blast, Thy russet robe was o’er me flung, And to thy eold lean hand I clung. In youth I felt thy fostering care, Euceh serving, self-denying rule, Awful for those of fortune soare, Ilearned and kranlicvu in thy school; And of my checkered life at large, Thou still'bast taken speclal charge. Oh, how unwise for they who scorn Thy russet robe--thy homely fare; ‘Who'tread the desert’s dreary bourne Ideal happiness to share; They tread the desert, plough the wave 1In quest of gold, but find & grave. There are who know thee but by name— Who spurn thy salutary laws; And count thy badge a mark of shame, And hold it'sin to hold thy cause. Fools that they are, they never knew, Thy guiltless pride—thy spirit true, Altho’ the fates of fortunes are Subservient to thy high command ; Though on pale brows the lines of care Thou tracest with a master hand, And purse-proud dignity with fear, Doth quail beneath thy frown severe. Yet thee I hall, for thy abode Hath been with mightiest of tha earth: And genius "neath thy chastening rod _'To loftiest thoughts have given birth, For thou didst never stoop to bind, To earth—what is pot earth’s—tne mind. el 2 STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. The eariy applecrop in Johnson county is a failure. Brewster is promised an early connec- tion with the B. & M., Work has commenced on the addition to the Notfolk asylum. Fremont was souzed with four inches of rain Tuesday night. . Beatrice voted 309 to 24 in favor of aid- ing the Kaw River road. Hastings continues growling at the snail pace of the waterworks contractors. ‘The native who took the stone contract is the sole cause of the delay. BIL_’ Mouth McCormick, s Plattsmouth workman, oxposed his obscene and vul- gar tungue in the presence of ladies, and was promptly arrested and fined $:5.50 W. D. Prindle, an old resident of Adans county, died suddenly of heart n:iseaagrnn his way to Hastings, Tues- da he body was found by the road- Buttermilk sickened the families of W. L. Dunlap and Otto Viele in Johnson county, last week. They were pumped out of danger, and will stick to barley- corn or hops hereafter. The Schuyler Herald drops a large gob of truth by saying that “Omaha is destined to become one of the greatest stock markets in the United States. Ne- braska should be proud of her queen city."” Harry Aldrich, a burly wife beater, has been given the freedom of the (inil mn Beatrice, pending trial in the district court, The drunken loafer's ambition has been to compel his wife to work, then rob her of her earnings and beat and choke her if she refused. ““The corn crop in the dastern part of the state ysthe Johnson County Jour- nal, the finest that has been seen at this season for several years and the small grain could not be better. A good rain now and another within three weeks will put the corn crop beyond the reach of harm from dry weather.” Lou Scarherry, a Scotia butcher, ac- companied by~ a peace-persuading bull dog, was invited, while meandering homeward Sunday night, to ‘‘throw up your hands.” Lou's dukes went up and the dog went out into the darkness. A mighty struggle ensued. Bones cracked and wild yells were heard, in the midst of which Lou seampered off, unharmed. The bulldog turned up a few hours after- ward, loaded with scraps of old clothes and masticated cuticle. lowa Items. Three more burglars have been cap- tured at Waterloo, Prophet Foster predicts another dis- turbance between the 24th and 27th, with & moon storm on the 22th. A beautiful monument to the pioneer volunteer in the Spirit Lake expedition of 1857 will be unveiled at Webster City on the 12th of August. Governor Larra- bee will preside. Since January Judges Kavanaugh and Conrad, of Des Moines, have heard the testimony in fitty divorce cases, in nearly all of which they have rendered decrees in favor of the plaintiff. Two daughters of W. F. Ballard, of Audubon, were sent to the insane asylum at Mount Pleasant. Thelr father is al- most broken hearted over the great ca- lamity to both daughters. The state librarian, Mrs. S. B. Max- well, has just finished her annual repert. The library 18 in an_1mproved condition, There have been 2,856 additions and 1,587 donations or exchanges during the past year, making a total now in the library of 81,016 volumes, Colorado. Tho real estate transactions in Denver last week amountd to $601,999. The Denver & Santa Fe track is laid to within three miles of Colorado Springs. Eloven thousand two hundred and forty-five acres of land are under irriga- tion in Chatfeo county. The B. & M. company have_ purchased the Rustic ranch near Fort Collins, and will proceed to lay out a town at once. There is less suow on Pike's Peak than usual at this season, and it is thought that .t will all have disappeared by the middle of August. ul attempt to make a photo- p) unrise from the summit of ike’s Peak has been made by C. F, Sny- der, a member of the signul corps. According to Hayden the area of coal lands in the vicinity of Trinidad em- braces 1,000 square miles, or 640,000 acres. According to his estimato each acre contains 12,606 tons of coal, making the enormous amount of 8,259,840,000 tons of coal. The Denver board of trade, being frightened by reports that the Burlington comlmn{ intended leaving the town on a sidetrack of its main line to the Pacific coast, wrote to Manager Perkins protest- ing against the scheme. The latter re- plied, denying the truth of the rumors, and suggesting a conference with the di- rectors of the company. Utah and Idaho. The wood trade of Caldwell, 1daho, al- ready represents $50,000 for the season. ‘The people ot Blackfoot are opposed to annexation with either Nevada or Wash- ington territory. Edward Zdile Majordomo Brain, the festive, well-fed flunky of the court of his race, Angus M., the archbishop of Salt ake, is under bonds to appear for trial on the cha rge of supporting too many wives. Last week’s mineral oxports from Salt Lake City were: Twenty-one cars bullion 456,879 pounds; 80 cars silver and lea ore. 930,050 pounds: 8 cars copper ore, 80,150 pounds; total 64 cars, 1,466,070 pounds. There was of late}a strike of very rich ore in the Last Chance mine, located near Era, Idaho. So great and so rich is this ore that the large mill at that place 18 kept running steadily upon it. reason of this strike the whole camp is awakened to new life and energy in de- velopment and labor. Montana, The mills around Butte operate 330 stamps. A special session of the legislature has been called to meet August 29. The hotel at Norris, in Yellowstone park, was destroyed by fire recently. The Manitoba road is being built into tiho territory at the rate of five miles a day. The Anaconda company has expended about $12,000,000 in Butte during the ast four years. Of this amount about gloowowus used to purchase the Ana- conda and St. Lawrence mines, and the remainder has been applied to the erec- tion of the biggest concentrating and smelting plant in the world and to the remuneration of labor, In yearl{ production of mineral Mon- tana now leads all the states and terri- tories, having only last_year outstripped Colorado in the race for surremucy in the amount of precious metals produced This year it is calculated that the min- eral output will approximate $30,000,000. The big mines of ‘the territory have paid in dividends since the first of the year $1,266,500, The Pacific Coast. California capitalists talk of erecting reduction works at some point in Mohave county. It 18 claimed that a greater area of the Arizona desert will be reclaimed this year than in any previous year. A well digger struc old-bearing quartz at a depth of twenty-tive feet 1in the town of Colton last Saturday. Wild rose bushes grow along the banks of the Humboldt river ten feet high for miles east and west of Palisade, and there are also wild flowers in abundance. So far this season the run of salmon in the Sacramento river has been a dismal failure, fishermen catching only one or two per day per boat, and in consequence the fish department of the Carquinez Can- been closed for some time. ‘I'he te of affairs exists on the Colum- bia river, The Tacoma Leader says: It is not zenerally understood that the Pn{ullup ndians were granted by an act of con- gress, at_its last session, the right of equal suflrage with the whites, Many of the Indiuns are expecting to vote at the coming election 1n November. It is tood that the most of them are rats. A Fortland burglar, while raiding a house on" Congress street, awakened a young woman in one of the rooms. The gallany Jimmy puf his hand over her moutn, kissed her affectionately and said, “Keep still, s1s; [ won't hurt you, All i want 1s these trinkets.”” She managed to arouse the house when, with a polite “Good night, sis,”’ he sprang from a window, having every vortable article of value in the room and a sum of money. He left lis hat behind and it was hung on the rack in the front hall to give the police a clue and the family then retired. {hcu the burglar returned and stole the hat, Omaha & nkton, Yesterday morning Messrs. J. E. Young andd . A. Yale, leading eapitalists and rail- way builders of Chicago, arrived at the Paxton. In an interview with a repre- sentative of the BEE, Mr. Young stated that his present visit was on railroad business; but at present he was not pre- pared to furmish anything for publica- tion. “Does your present visit mean practi- cal work in the construction of the Yank- ton road, Mr. Young?" Yes sir, it does,”” Mr. Young replied with emphasis,*‘and you ean so announce it to the publie.” “‘How long will you remain®" “We will remain until something de- finite is arrived at in this matter, Indue time the press will be informed of what has been done.’" No calls were mado by the Cnicago gentlemen on any Omahans to-day wha are supposed to be intercsted in the projected road. It is said one of the principal gentlemen they wish to see is Hon, T. Clarke, who is now at Lincoln. Mr, Young will be remembered as the gentleman whom the Dakota people depended upon to give them aid in the construction of the new road and whose absence from the field of action for sometime made them rather anxlous. Undoubtedly the present visit will bring matters to a focus in some vy — Refunding County Bonds. Of the $200,000 county bonds of 1877, 22,000 of which were paid, $268,000 were refunded, the change being from 8 per cent to 5 per cent interest. The originals were called in for July 1, but for some reason the return is very slow,but $16,000 having been received “so far, and the county commissioners aud treasurer do not like thus delay. CARPENTERS' TROUBLES, av— They Will All Go Out—The "“Bosses' Wil Stick: There is no change in the feeling be- tween the boss and journeymen ecarpen- ters, It is generally understood that the latter will all “‘go out" at 4 o'clock p. m., Saturday next. The bosses say they will not recognize the union in any way, and will receive no communications from them ofticiaily, They also state that 1f they had been notitied by the journeymen car- penters before the scason commenced that the scale ot wages would be like the bricklayers' all would be well. Taken at u disadvantage now during the busy sea. 8on after their contracts have been com- menced, they will make no more con. cessions. Several of the largest con. tractors intend to give up business on ac. count of the strikes, A CARD FROM MR, GLADDEN. OMAHA, Ju‘l{y 21.—To the Editor of the Bre.—In Wednesday's Bk [ noticed in he ‘manifasto,'" 1ssued by the carpenters union, several matters pertaining to my- selt. These gentlemen charge mo with writing certain resolutions with the auth- orship of which 1 had nothing to do, but they were written by one of the leading con tractors of the city. The intimation that I am not a carpenter is too small to notice more than to refer to the many who are acquainted with the productions of my shop. An extended experience in my trade would enable me to soon judge of the mechanical abilities of the gentle- man who penned the elaborate ‘“‘mani- fosto.” Ideemn it unnecessary to notice the slurs attempted to be cast upon me by the carpenter's union more than to say than an extended nc. quaintance throughout Omaha enables me to assert that the unfair assertiong will go for naught with its citizens, 1 need not add that the carpenters are taking a very foolish step in search of a remedy for what they term their wrongs. 1f they expect to gain anything with a fair public by singling out contractors to heap personal abuse upon, then they are certainly greatly mistaken or my ob. servation of human nature has been in vain, J. C. GLADDEN, WANTS A DIVOROE. A Fair Bohemian Desires a Sopara- tion, Francis and Cecelia Hromadaa have been residing for some time 1n arude little structure on the bottom lands just back of Metz's browery. The husband is a time-keeper on the B. & M. road, and his earnings are amply sufficient to support himself and wife in the most comfortable manner. Still it seoms that Francis was not contented, and, accord- ing to his wife's story, white he was ‘‘time-keeper’’ on the railroad he wanted to be a “fighter” a1 home. She alloges :Ihnt he has been in the habit of abusing er in the most shameful man- ner ever sinca they were married in Cedar Rapids, Ta., some two years ago. Only last night she states that her husband attacked her without cause, choked her and knocked her all around the house, the yard and an ad- juininf stable. In fact he made a com- plete football of her whom he had yowed to love, cherish and protect. The com- plainant is about twenty-two vears of age and exceedingly comely. They have no children, and life, she declares, has been a burden to her ever since she met Fran- cis. Yesterday she applicd to Attorney Max Kuhn, under whose directions pro- ceedings for divorce will be commenced to-day. In the meantime Mr, Kuhn will see that no further harm is done the plaintiff, ‘What's Up? Miss Mattie Stubbs, of 619 North Nine- teenth strect, was employed yesterday morning by a patriarchal looking man stoping at Barker's hotel, to make a copy for him of all the names of the city saloon keepers and the numbers of their places of business, and of the newspapers aad newspaper men in the city of Omaha. He made no explanation asto what use he intended to make of this list and the young Iady saya she 13 entirely ignorant of his intention, whether he means to suppress the papers and close the saloons, or is working in the interest of some temperance or salva« tion scheme or what, a higher power only knows; that he promised her hand- some compensation for the work, and this morning, sccompanied by Mrs. Sam- uel Durnall, she apvlied at the police station for the desired information and set to work cos)_\'ing a list of the saloonists, furnmished her by Chiet Seave, As to the newspapers, she was informed that it would be neces- sary to reset each oftice with a dozen Fabers and a good-sized roll of MS paper 48 justnow a procession of newspaper men was passing through the city and changes uponjthe editorial and reportorial stafl' were of almost hourly occurrence. —— A Grand Orchestra. Being impressed with the fact that Omabha is rapidly developing into a musi- cal center, Mr. Nahan Franko has in con. teruplation the organization of an orches tra of which Omaha may well be proud. His idea is to have the scheme perfected 80 a8 to be composed only of musicians of the first rank, by early fall, and this winter to give a se- ries of twelve arcneslrul concerts, with the nassistance of the™ most distin~ fiuished vocal and instrumental artists in the country, the concerts to take place at Boyd’s opera houmse. Mr. Franko is around with a paper to-day soliciling subscribers to a general fund that will be neccasurly to maintain a large orchestra of this description, Parties subscribing to this fund will be entitled to season tickets admitting themselves and fami- lies, and the amount subscribed is to be deposited in the Omaha National bank toMr. W. W Ogallala’s Boom, OGALLALA, Neb,, July 20.—[Corre- spondence of the BEE.]—Keith county has experienced the heaviest rains dur: ing the past four days than at any time during the year, the ground being fairly soaked, and an abundant corn crop as- sured, The wheat crop is bein, he yield is much better than wus ex- pected, Oats as a rule are light, owing to the dry westher in May, A building and real estate boom has just struck the town. A new bank, mak ing the third institution of the kind, hi just opened up for business. The Ogal- ola Lourn of trade is emninu tourth every eflort to induce the B. & M. rail- road to build to the town this tall, with oxcellent prospects of success. An elec- tion will be held in a few days to vote bonds for the construction of a fine brick school house. The question of water- works is being agitated, and strongly recommended by the principal business men of the town, From ull appearances Ogallala will experience such_growth in the pext few months s will surprise even her most sanguine inhabitants, harvested. e Crops In Northeaste orado, JuLessura, Col., July 19.—[Corre- spondence of the Bre.|--Heavy raius have fallen all over northeastern Colo- rado and western Nebraska. Corn on old ground will now be a good ecrop. Small grain will be a good half crop. Sod erops will be light on nccount of the two weeks’ dry, hot weather just past. Hay, though not 50 good as last season wxli be a fuir ‘:NK' There will be no,, suflering from drought in'this county, X