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Sworn to and -m!merlb«-d in my pre this 23d day of July, A. D, 1857. AL N. P. Frrr, ISE. Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, E Douglas County. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The B«v Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the ‘month of July, 1880, 12,814 copies; for Alg'!:!I 1846, 64 coples: for Septem- 1886, 15,000 capies: for October, 155, WMD coples; for ovember, 1880, 13,343 coples; for Docember, 1680, 18,337 copies: for Jan 1857, 16,200 coxtm for February. Il!fl 108 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 or April, 187, 14,316 copies: for May, 27 copies; for June 1887, 14,147 Gro. B. Tzscnuck, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 1st day nr.July A, D., 1857, [SEAL.| . P, Frir,, Notary Publie. SENATOR SHERMAN seoms to havo things his own way in Ohio. WiEN President Cleveland comes to Omaha he will no doubt wish this city was the seat of government. WHEN the thoughts of the boodlers turn heavily to silk underwear, look out for an increase in the population of Canada. WiuiLe Colonel Henry Watterson is in the east he should take a turn at work- ing the star-eyed goddess of reform on Samuel J. Randall. —_— GoverNor HrLL of New York will devote some weeks to visiting the various county fairs in his State. There may be a little presidential boomlet in the vicinity of every fair, HAD the senate at its last session done its duty it would have ratified the pro- posed treat, which would have ceased to continue, Canada as a paradise for American *‘boodlers.” THE harmony among the democrats in Ohio is 80 intense that the organs of the party in that state can't begin to find words to describe it. The situation is a symposium, a poem, an epic of harmony to put the case mildly. Par Forp—I make & motion to the eflect that the resolution (for a commit- fee of conference with the police com- ion) be laid on the table. Councilman Lowrey—I second the mo- tion. Uv coorse, Ir it be true that one of the members of the St. Louis committee who waited uvon the president on Monday was an ex-pemtentiary conviet, it must show to what straits the Mound Uity was forced for proper material with which to make up a committee on invitation. Tre Kansas City Jowrnal has a full page picture of that city's invitation to President Cleveland. If the original re- sembles the counterfoit presentment, the chief magistrate and his wife must be #rightened nearly to death when it bursts wupon their sight, JupGe DEADY, of Oregon, who has ac- quired a national reputation by his deci- Bions on portions of the inter-state com- merce law, has recently decided that railroads cannot legally issue passes to members of the family of an employe. Ho held that the prohibition of free car- Fiage excepts only ofticers and employes. Moxe than 3,500,000 persons are car- tletl annually on street cars moved by eloctric motors, says the Electrical Re- fu'w ‘The cost is stated to be about one* half that of horse power. The electric motor is used in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Yort Huron, Detroit, Scranton, Apple- Yon, Wis., and Denver. Electric railways are in course of construction or under contract in twelve other cities, and thirty-seven companies have been formed for building such roads. 'wunmu it h.lupulu that the total abstinence organs and people are a little remature, Ex-CongressmanJ. Randolph Tucker recently delivered & commence- ment address before the students of the South olina college, and to smooth the way for his utterance, a pitcher of fced tea was placed before him, from which he occasionally refreshed himself. The Southern Chistian Advocate took him to account for drinking champagne, but Mr. Tucker's frienas explained what the beverage was and the ddvocate had to Bake it all back. —— ‘THERE is a question as to the legality of Mrs. Langtry's recent declaration of jntention to become A citizen of the United States, and it was raised by no fess a persen than Justice Field of the supreme court. The ground is the fact that the clerk of the court took his books to the residence of the Jersey Lily and sdministered the outh there, a most ex- geptional proceeding. The doubt of Judge Field seems, however, to be sig- nificantly answered by the statement that the naturalization law does not re- AQuire that the declaration of an appli- cant for citizenship shall be made a particular place, ©Oonvict Labor Statistios] That portion of the second annual re- portof the commissioner of the national labor bureau which relates to convict labor is printed. It is replote with in- teresting and instructive facts, which will have their value in supplying texts and arguments on the very important subject of convict labor. It appears that of the little more than 64,000 persons in the institutions, comprehended in the re- port, about 45,000 are engaged in produc- tive labor of some kind, About a third of the number work under the public ac- count system, another third under the contract systein, and the remaining third partly under the piece price and partly under the lease system. The value of the goods produced by this labor in the year covered by the revort was nearly $29,000,- 000, and it is estimated that the same work that was done by these 45,000 convicts could have been accomplished by 25,000 free laborers, so that one convict is equal to only .78 of a free laborer. While in the free industries the ratio of wages to product was §1 to $5.66, the contractors and lessees for the labor of convicts paid $11n wages to $3.19 of product, a show- ing which appears to place the employer of free labor at a considerable disadvan- tage, all other things being equal. The industry most largely aflected by convict competition is that of boots and shoes, the aanual prison product of which is shightly in excoss of $10,000,000. The next 18 clothing, and the third place is occupied by riages and wagons. total income of the different institutions last year shows them to haye been more than self-sustaining. In discussing the several systems of employing convicts, the commissioner does not find any of them froe from seri- ous faults, the chief one being that by cither of them convict labor is brought into direct competition with free labor. He thinks the public account system the best, because 1t carries on the industries of a prison for the benefit of the state, but with this system he would use only tools and hand machinery, the goods to be made to consist of such articles as boots and shoes, the coarse woolen and cotton cloths needed for the institution or for sale to other institutions, har- nesses and saddlery, and many other goods made by machinery or not made now at all in prisons. Under such an arrangement he thinks there would be no further cause of comvlaint as to the effect of convict labor upon the rates of wages or upon the sale of goods, either in price or quantity. This subject will undoubtedly receive renewed discussion at the forthcoming gession in this city of the convention of charities and corree- tion, of the deliberations of which 1t may properly constitute a part, and the facts and views of the labor commissioner's report are therefore timely. The Chances of Compromise. It being granted, as the consensus of opinion seems to do, that in order to attain the desired and necessary reduc- tion of revenue there must be concession and compromise, it becomes pertinent to inquire what the chances are of effecting such an arrangement. We belicve we have given attention to every expression from sources entitled to consideration bearing upon thissurpassingly important subject, and winle nearly all agree as to the necessity of compromise, there are very few who did not suggest or imply some obstacle that might prevent such a consummation. Even Mr. Carlisle, both over his signature and in his latest pub- lished interview, clearly indicated a doubt in his mined as to whether the policy proposed could be carried into effect, and some others have never plainly shown that while them- selves disposed to favor a fair plan of mutual concession they were not at all hopeful of any such plan sacceeding. It might have been expected that the late Ohio democratic convention would have given the help of its support to a policy of this kind, but it carcfully omitted to doso. Wedo not see any reason why Mr. Randall should not derive just as much encouragement from its platform as the tarifl reform element in the party, and doubtless it was shrewdly framed to bear a double construction. There is no probability that anything better will come from the democratic conven- tions to be held. There 18 still evident the same lack of courage and earnestness in the party relative to this matter that has characterized it in the past, and which has enabled one man to render the party practically powerless. Ivis tolerably plain that the last deliv- erance of Mr. Randall on this question has very rearly dissipated all hope of a compromise that would effect any real reformm of the tariff, unless, as we have heretofore suggested, a sufficient number of republicans should be found favorable to a policy of mutual concession to offset the Randall faction. We believe there will be an opportumty for republicans who do not represent irreclaima- ble protection districts to make themselves stronger with their own people and with credit before the country by committing themselves un- qualitiedly to an equitable plan of com- promise, but we do not fail to sec that the pressure of party considerations will be strong upon all republicans in the next congress. It will not be safe, there- fore, to look for republican support of any democratic measure of revenne re- duction, involving the tariff, beyond perhaps the dozen who are now classed as tariff reformers, [t is thus pretty cer- tain, as the indications now point, that Mr. Randall will continue to be master of the situation if he can hold his forces together, and we have seen no intimation that he might be unable to do this. 1n this case there will certainly be no such compromise as the country would be satisfied with, or as would meet the real require.nents of the situation. There would be very little accomplished in the direction of tanfl reform, or which would give the people tke relief they ought to have. Adding to the free list materials of manutacture not made in this country, and articles on which the taxes now amount to very little, is not the sort of reform the peoble are hoping for, but it is probably all that Mr. Ran- dall and those whom he serves would be willing to concede. An arrangement that would surrender for such conces- sions a large part of the excise taxes, and possibly the taritf on sugar and molasses, could not fairly be ecalled a com- premise and would be very likely not to receive the support of the tariff reform democrats. Its effects wonld inevitably be to indetinitely post- pone a reform of the tariff, by making a further reduction of revenue unnecessary THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. or impracticable, a situation which it is the obvious desire and aim of Mr., Ran- dall and those with him to bring about. On the whole the chances of & compro- mise for revenue reduction do unot look encouraging. Fully Understood. Councilman Bedford made a commend- able effort to put an end to the contro- versy between the council and the police commission, by a mutual conference. Mr. Bedford 18, however, very much mis- taken when he asserts that ‘‘on account of misrepresentation the position of the council as to police matters is not fully understood by the public. There has been no misrepresentation. The citizens of Omaha fully understand the mernts of the conflict between the cauncil and commission. It was clearly defined by the bell-wether of the major- ity. Councilman Haseall planted him- self and his followers on the following platform: *“The police commission is responsible to this council and the council to the people of Omaha for the wuy in which this particular branch of the city government (meaning the police department) is condneted. This i3 the issue 1n a nut-shell. The people of Omaha have, through the leg- islature, secured authority to divorce the management of the police from the po- litical branch of city government. To thisend a co-ridinate body, known as the police and flire commission, was cre- ated. It holds its appointment, not from the council, but from the chief magistrate of the state. It is responsible to the state and to the ecitizens of Omaha for the proper organization and management of the police force. ‘The commission is not responsible to the council any more than is the board of education, and the coun- cil is not expected to meddle with it, or interfere with its legal right to supervise the police force. This is the view held by Judge Lake and the ablest lawyers of this city, and doubt- less will be aftirmed by the supreme court whenever a test case is made. The assertion that a majority of the council have pursued a course thut isin accord with its prerogative is notoriously untrue, and the people of Omaha fully understand the reasons why. The three council bosses have resisted from the outset any effort to give the commission fair play, and half a dozen members have played puppet for them. The com- mission submitted rules and regulations, governing the police, to the council as provided by the charter. They were side- tracked into the pigzeon-hole of the judici- ary committee, of which Hascall 18 chair- man. Then a set of rules and regulations, drafted by Hascallinto an ordinance, were passed by the council when the charter expressly requires that the commission shall originate these rules and regula- tions. The ordinance was prononnced illegal and in violation of the charter by the city attorney, and thereupon vetoed by the mayor. The council has never attempted to passthis ordinance over the veto, nor have they asked the commis- sion to abopt these reguiations, It is pal- pably untrue, therefore, that the com- mission has insulted the council by re- jecting its regulations. They have neyer had any chance to reject them. The council passed an ordinance requiring the commission to give bonds. These bonds, signed by the wealthiest men the city, were again side-tracked into Hascall's pocket, and have rcmained there for two months. On these points the people of Omaha are fully enlightened. They are just as well informed as they were when Hascall, Barney Shannon & Co., in defiance of public opinion, sought to impose the Holly swindle on our tax payers. There s no misunderstanding, but there is a deep-seated resentment over the persistent effort of the council to arrogate to itself powers which are not vested in it, whereby the city is left with- out efficient police protection. Tue Herald asks why are such efforts made to scandalize the legislative branch of city authority. The “legislative branch of eity authority”—meaning the city council—cannot be scandalized by anybody except by the conduct of its own members. When members of the legis- lative branch of city government lose their self-respect and become indiflferent to the reputation of the body of which they are members, by carousing in Douglas street resorts and going to their homes at 4 o'clock in the morning in the police patrol wagon they scandalize the legislative branch, ete. When respectable members of the council join hands and make common cause with the disreputable members in defiance of public opinion they scand ize the council and must not whimper their shamefnl conduct is denounced. When men like Bailey and Counsman, who have always enjoyed the popular respect and confidence, take as their bell-wether an old reprobate who was the head and front of the Holly gang of boodlers and Barney Shannon rousta- bouts in a former council, they scandal- ize the legislative branch of city govern- ment, The Scotch yacht Thistle, which has made a sensation in English wate the seas headed for American where her owners hope to vanquish all opponents and recover the American cup, for which all her predecessors sailed in vain. Built with this special object in view, the Thistle will be regarded by American yachtsmen with greater inter- est than was accorded to any of the boats that have preceded her, and will be more feared. There is no question as to her superiority to either the Genesta or the Galatea. Meanwhile American skill has not been idle, and Burgess, the Boston builder, has turned out a new yacht, the Volunteer, of which great things are ex- pected, The contest for the trophy this year promises to be attended with even greater interest and enthusiasm than martled those of the last two years. *CouNcILMAN HascALL discharged both barrels at the police commission,” so says the Herald. Hascall is a double- barrelled person, we all kuow, and has always been partial to barrels, whether their contents were fluid or metalic. EEpTSE————— IN the rivalry ex:sting among the large cities of the land as to which can harbor the most extensive and most varied assort- ment of corrupt officials, Chicago is just now easily first. The revelations of muni- cipal corruption in that city would be ap- palling were we not so well accustomed to disclosures of & similar nature. The ** county boodlers,"” as they are called, are fairly entitled to the champion belt for official robbery, They could give points to the ** Canada Colony ' in bare- faced, systematized stealing. Is it not about time for the cespectable element in our cities and towns to take a hand in municipal gove rnment? ———— Tue time is not far distant when the man who is not a candidate for the presi- dency will be a eplendid subject for a ten- cent museum. THE FILLD OF INDUSTRY. English trades-union co-operative effort is declining, Co-operators in England antici- pate but little progress in productive co-oper- ation disconnected with stores. Five thousand spindles will be putin a new silk mill at Weatherly, Pa., twelve miles from Mauch Chunck, to be ready on Janu- uary 1. 1t will be 250 by 45 feet. Returns from sixty textile manufacturing corporations in New England show an im- provement over last years, which brings the dividends up to about where they were in 18832, Schemes to erect houses for mechanics are multiplying. This promises to be a promi- nent field for investment for the next year or two in cities or towns in wmanufacturing lo- calities. A 810,000,000 consolidation of mining in- terest has just been consummated in the Lake Superior region, in which capitalists in this country, London and Hamburg, are in- reresteds The European immigration agencies are translating brilliant descrintions of the con- dition of American mechanics, laborers and farmers for the benetit of those they want to bring to this side. T'wo steel ferry boats to cost $450,000 are being built at Baltimore. They are to run nineteen miles an hour, and make the dis- tance between Staten island and the battery in fitteen minutes, A §1,000,000 company will pipe artificial gas from the coal ftields of Illinois to St. Louis, a distance of eleven miles. About three-fourths of the cost of coal is freight. A ton of coal will produce 15,000 teet of gas. The Labor holiday inaugurated by the Knights will be much more generally ob- served this year than it was last, and espoc- fally in the western states, where there ap- pears to be a more progressive spirit. Builders of late years have been giving up lath and plastered ceilings in large buildings, as well as lignt floor timbers, for heavy tim- bers and thick, closely laid three inch tloors. ‘The decreased imsurance makes it pay. The Cornwall iron property is worth §40,000,000, or at least ylelds 5 per cent on that ca pitalizatlon. The fence to inclose It ‘would have to be fifty-tour miles long. The cost of investment 1s $3,000,000 to $4,000,000. ‘There are 10,000 men employed at the Wool- wich arsenal, England, which covers 330 acres, exclusive of the dock-yards. There are seven miles of rallway. Thereare eighty chimney-stacks, one of which Is 220 feet high. A Pennsylyania nailmaker, who turns out 1,000 kezs a week, expacts to remove to Toledo, where he can save $1.50 per ton on ore, make a saving on fuel by using natural gas, and save nine cents per keg freight to his market. During the past six months 361 saw and planing mills haye been started in the south. which will work up 500,000,000 feet of lumber. The increase is going on. Lumbermen think too rapid progress is being made. Lumber is a trifle higher a1l around the west. Sixteen ¢lass factories, newly constructed, will start up in September, having 206 pots, of which 100 are for window glass, 20 for flint, 80 for table ware and 6 for green glass. Itis likely that several of the window glass fac- tories in New Jersey will remain idle next year. o Mysterious Sammy. Indianapolis News, Ourlate Uncle Samuel Tilden was a sly one. It seems that. in addition to his many millions of accumulations here he had laid by in English investments from $609,00) to $500,000, ———— Should be Pensioned. Philadelphia Record. Men who fall fighting a big fire are as brave as men who fall fighting in a big battle. The gallant fellows who went down in death in New York yesterday were heroes, and their wives and little ones should be pensioned by the city they served, h General Managor Pottor, of tho Unlon Pacifie, is said to have already saved his princely salary to the company by lopping off clerks in the oflices and_mechanies in the shops. We havenot yet seen any notice of bis saving the $10,000 salary of John M. Thurston. It is the poor devils who are producers who have to s 3 o Fire the Other ¥ mont Tribune Since there is now no farther hopes of fir- ing Seavey from the police department of Omaha, how would it do to fire the fellows who are keeping up the racket? matter is fast converting our into local wrangles of the most obnoxious odor. Something should be fired, - Ruournaiintio Skunk. Fremont Tritune, The editor of the Omaha World has sued the editor of the Omaha Republican for libel. ‘This is the result of a war of epithets be- tween the two, 1t is bad, but it is better than billies or pistols. 1f there ever was a skunk in Nebraska journalism it is the present edi- torof the Kepublican. Decency holds its nose in his presenc Beatrice Republican. After the merciless tirade of John M. Thurston against the press of the state, it 18 consoling to recall the fact that the lowly Nazarene while upon earth had nota word to say azalnst editors, while he denounced lawyers in the following scathing terms: “Woe unto ye lawyers, for ye lade wmen with grievious burdens to be borne, but ye will not toush them with one of your fingers.” —-— Jay Gould's Sorrow Cleveland Leader, Pity the sorrows of a Yoor hunared mil- lionaire! Jay Gould says that the wicked. Iying Wall street speculators lead Lim such a life with their false reports of his death financial demoralization, ete., that he would be a lunatic in a year if the ordeal continued, He asserts that he needs rest and cannot take itin peace, that his movements are dogged by men eager to start lying reports as 800D as he is out of reach of the telegraph, and that he has no respite from annoying rumors. This is the cruel fate to which a man must submit after thirty years of active business life as pure und innocent as Gould’s. Retrenchment, Omaha Railway News, Retrenchment is a good word and sounds well. It leaves the tongue with a tarill and is pleasing to the ear—as 8 word. Railroad employes have, however, come to regard it with suspicion. experience has taught them that this word, though not particularly bulky, conceals many things, They have seen their salaries dwindle like a snow ball on a cook stove with a particularly self assert- ing tire in it under its direful influence. Many have carried heavy burdens ror its sake without a murmur, But when the word is synonymovs with low pay in the yards or on the road, while salaries of officials when JULY 28, 1887, written resemble an army of ciphers follow- ing the leadership of a couple of rigures and a dollar sign, it puts a different phase on things, Retrenchment should have the same meaning in the gencral ofice as on the section. The Nel —_—— ska City Lynohing. Denver Repulican, A mob at Nebraska City has Iynched Shel- lenberger, who was convicted of murdering his own ohild. Although mob Iaw Is always wrong, there are times when it assumes such phases as to make it almost excusable. Such a case was that of Shellenberger, if he was indeed guilty of the crime of which he was convicted in view of the fact that there was danger of his escape. The man who will murder his own child has no right to live a single moment after the commission of the offense. In this case Shellenberger, just be- fore he was strung up, accused his wife of being guilty of the murder, protesting at the snme time his own innocence. ——————— ‘When Sorrow is in Vain, Boston Transeript. Ah, friend, why should we sorrow When sorrow is in vain, When in the near to-morrow We shall forget the pain? C nmn(’oln in my refrain And smile away the shadow, For, friend, why should we sorrow When sorrow’is in vain? It is not well to borrow Unnecessary vain, New hope comes with to-morrow, Now px. asures and new gain § So, friend, why should VH' SOrrow When sorrow is in vain? STATE AN D Nebraska Jottings. Picree county declined to blow in £25,000 on a new court house. The Norfolk reunion has been christ- ened in honor of Greneral Logan, Madison has just voted £7,000 in bonds to build a court house for the county. Hastings proposes to 1nvest $8,000 in sewers and §7,000 in fire apparratus and buildings. The Chadron Episcopal church has placed a Chestnut in the pulpit. He bails from Kentucky. In the opinion of the Norfolk New “Otoe rased the (mwzt crop of lynchers 1 the state tkis year.” Dodge county’ sasseumm\t roll shows a total ,206, a decrease from last year of $382, The Schuyler Sun roturns a ‘profusion of thanks” for a peck of apples. ‘“For further particulars see our inside.” Auburn js informed that if she wants a creamery bad enough to put up $1,600 as a bonus, she can have one on short no- tice. Mrs. Deikman and her paramour, Mentze, ought to be transported to Ne braska (,n.y 1t would save Harvard the costs of a trial. Miss Margret !Eberline, a West Point damsel, appointed herself a lynchin committee of one, and strangled hersel with binder twine. Juacob Schwender, a workman in the Plattsmouth shops, had his right leg crushed and innr(ullf mangled by a dn',o wheel falling upon hi Carry the news to Hastings. «“The people of Norfolk will be to blame,” says the News, “if this city does not rank third in the state in ten years from now.” Minneapolis partics, in consideration of the usual healthy bonus, agree to put up a 42-horse steam grist mill at Newman Grove in connection with the water mill now there. The Buddenseicks of Beatriee are fairly entitled to a term in the penitentiary. The investigation into the cause of the fall of the new buildings, and the man gling of several workmen, shows that soft brick were used 1n the walls, the joinings were faulty and no anchors were used. Editor Hedde, of the Grand Island In- auited by a dependent, was violently tongue thrasher named Abbott tly. The ex-candidate for senator sworn 'a sulphurous streak against the reckless Iiberties of the press and ruthlessly pol- luted the air with his tainted lungs. The Independent office been disinfected and there is no danger that the contagion will spread. fowa Items. Six persons have been drowned in the river at Clinton this season. Perpetual injunctions against saloons are spreading the drought in Muscatine county. The drought has emptied the wells in the neighborhood of Burlington and water is searce. Scott comes to the stalks me: and challenges the world to tip her tassle. Michael Shanahan wus drowned in the at Burlington w swimming. It cupposed he was suddenly scized with 1 ps. Six passenger conductors of the Chi- ro, Milwaukee & St. Paul, from Chi- eago to Council Bluff3, have been dis- chargzed for inaceuraces in their accounts, Governor Larrabee has appointed Dr, Donald Mac vice president of the State Medical society, a { delegate to the fourteenth natioual conference of chari- ties, which meets in Omaha on August ) front with corn Burlington cries out for relief from an “unmitigated nuisance” comprising a band of Kickapoo Indians encamped in the suburbs, who devour the confents of garbage barrels and fake the moveables in the neighborhood. The Creston Agri fers §20 for the best rai iltural society of- fifty _ears of corn ed ll'l the counties of Union, Adams Ringgold, Madison, Thaylor or alsy ?n the prettiest baby under two years shown in ealico dress, silver cup, knife, fork and spoon, worth §10. Dakota. Sioux Falls claims a population of 9, The farm lands alone of Cass county are assessed at $6,140,892, The terntorial fair wul Mitehell, September 20 to 30, Three hundred land patents have just been received at the Huron oflice, The church property of Sionx Falls 1s valued at #06.100; its school property, which includes two denominational col- leges and deaf mute 0ol, at $207,500, The semi-annual clean-up of the va ous quartz mills in the Black Hills was made fast week and the bullion sent east The elean-up was a trifle above the usual average, being a htile in excess of $100,000. The petition of the W, C, T. U. to the commissioners of Yankton county, ask- ing for the submission of local option to a vote of the people contained names, but it was pigeon-holed, lacked fifty-one names of the m.-um! numbe 0l be held at Com- missioner Sanborn, of Grafton, became the heroine of a daring adventure last we While waiting on Hill avenue, directly in front of the postoflice, a team of horses attached to a bugey came driv- ing down the street at a terrific pace. Without a moment's hesitation the young lady dashed out 1 the middle of the street, and planting herselt squarely in frout of the madeued t i them by the bits. The team thréw Miss San- born high in the air, but the young lady held on and brought the teani to & halt Business men, as a token of their admira- tion to Miss Sunborn, raised a puise, with which they purchased some costly gifts, which were presented to the fair heroine Sanborn, daughter (‘uunl'l' Colorado, A new hotel to cost ¥100,000 is to be built in Leadville. The corn erop of Larimer county is better this year than it has been for years. Fort Morgan furmers report three tons and over of alfalfa to the acre at one cut- ting. A new artesian well will bo put down n Pueblo to tap the mineral water which exists underneath that city, Plans and specifications are out for a 1 buildin, to be used as an invalids' homo, and to bo in charge of the sisters of St. Frances, at Colorado Springs. The Colorado & Nebraska Cattle com- pany shipped 300 head of steers from Al ford last week. They go to Gage county, Nebraska, where they will bo fattened for the market. A Denver society belle, some and rich, wis rwk(-nl up by 1 police oflicer r---ml) helplessly drunk. She was carted homo to sober up, and her name suppressed. The oil interest at Canon City 1s grow- ing in importance. The last well struck m the Florence district, owned by Mr, Caldwell, proves on pumping to be de- cidedly the largest producer yet struck. Proprietors of saw mills 1n Southern Colorado have been notified by the gov- ernment timber inspector that they must not cut any more timber on government land. Consequently lumber is scarce and hard to get. B — SALESMEN ON THE ROAD. A Large Number of “Drummers” Out of Employment. Philadelphia Record: There isan ap- parent surplus of traveling salesmon _just at present, far greater than has been known for y and applicants for posi- tions are almost without number, A rchant of tiis city says: “I have 1 looking for a man to add to our traveling force. I want a heavy man, and the best that ean be had, to bhandle our goods. 1 have been searching for such amanin a number of the large t week 1 spent two davs in mining applicants who an- rtisement in the papers. of unemployed salesn there and have scen her clsewhere is simply apalling. Six months ago traveling men were hard to get, but since then there has been a complete change in the state of things. There is only one ground upon which 1 ean account for it. It must be due to the fact that constantly dimin- ishing profits and increasing expenses on the road are rendering traveling sales- men expensive luxuries in most lines of busin, It takes pretty smart man_to sell enough gnms upon the small margins of today to pay his salary and expenses ~and then leave a profit for his employer beside. 1f aman gets a big s; as many do, it takes a lot of business to keep him going, especiaily if he shall do nothing two or three months of the dull season, and when a house ha dozen or two such men there is not much chance for protit in dull time: The busiest men during the last four or five weeks have been the sample men in the wholes ablishments. They have been hard at work getting out fall' sam- arting the men outon the road. 1S just begun to set in and ndication pomts to a busy season. Clothing manufacturers are .Alvrmdy in receipt of some solid orders from’ the st and south, with promise of more and r sood to follow. s rumored that all the railroad lines that discontinued the sale of mileage tickets soon after the passage of the inter- state commerce act are soon to | them on sale agnin, Although no d has been fixed it is understood that such a step has been defimtely decided upon. Traveling men have loudly clamored for the return of the long-enjoyed priv |l|wm, und such an act will be welcomed nu.]u who spend most of their time on the rail, young, hand- swered an adve The number that 1 met and el HUNTING BEAR. Surprising and Startling Adventures of Two * Dude ” Hunters, The Shasta Courier refers to two Sacra- mento *‘dude hunters” who went up to that country armed with Winchesters and supplied with a tent _and bunting ontfit. They employed a guide and directed him to take them to good fishing, and espe- cially where the *bear anc "California lions were thick,” as they proposed to exterminate a lot of these pests. The guide and_on the after noon of the y oag from Shasta made a** pern amp, and the | hunters plunged boldly into the s forest, telling the guide to stay and ¥ camp, and to come with the pack horse after bear meator venison when he heard arifle crack In about two hours he heard halloing and yells of “Help! help!" Starting in the direction of the cries, he soon met one of the bold hunters coming at full sveed, hatless, gunless, and with eyes bulged out as though he had been struck in the back with asandb: When he got wind enough he explained that i assing through a thicket they eame upon a large bear anda cub. The cub took to a small pine and the old bear made & move for the hunters, grow i nd snapping her teeth. This tervified the hunters that one dropped his gun one they both took to tii E in their flight brush, he chap who lirst expressed the ettt i been overtaken by f.mn» dealt with. made camp his companion the bruin and The guide left the ex mp this time, and set ofl'to find the missing partner or his remains. After mile s “halloo” w: 1 found his man about fifteen lwx upa Dig- ger pine, and s gun and hat were found about fifteen yards away. The young man said he had not seen the bear afier he turned to run, but thought it ¢! sd him, The other gun was soon found, and on gaining camp he found the cami-keeper perehed on the forks of a live ouk. having almost come on, they gave guide £3 it he would agree to collect logs, Timbs and stumps and buld up a fire that would lmrn all night and frights mints.” Next day the bear kil procured shotguns :nted themselves with dove shooting— and they were not very good at that, either. Paupers in kn 1 and Wales London Times he number of pan pers in England ana \ y clined during the five April from 742,957 to 129,008, Indeed since the tourth w i anuary, when the number was 7 I continuous decline uninterrupted save in llu- xh)n when there h n the preceding 005 represents |rxu|ru|lmn of 26.2in 1,000 in a total esti- mated population of 27,570,586, This fig ure is cqual to that of LR me period in 1554, and slightly larger than that for 1885 (25.0), but is smaller than any year since 1537, In London, with an esti mated population of 4,119,534, the num berat the end of April was 95,651, the five weeks in April showing a e res T'his shows a proportion in 1,000, which is a trifle higher than that of any of the previous three years—for instance, 1555, tt st known, show s a proportion of and neither 1831 nor 188G Teached 23 in 1,000, OF the total number of paupers 18 re_indoor and 545,552 outdoor: w London the number was 56,03 9,621 indoor and outdoor respectiv Mr. C. L. Hall, issued a p; City, has tural - of Central industries and materi rick county. The ellent immi, y distributed will prove taf libor and Sum Chiergo, Gus Audreen, uel Berustrom' has gone to where they will spend abou wecks in business and pleasure, the safe man, couple of 1 seintillation and without odor, ar Apportioning S8ohool Funds, County - Superintendent Bruner hag made his semi-annual apportionment of school funds. Tha report shows tho fole lowing receipt State nssessment Special taxes Liquor lteense Fines Of this sum O h:\ receives §0,970.74; the number of children of school age ul um city 18 16,405, being an increase o 1,608 by reason of the suburban add moun under the new charter. Not a Suicide, Yesterday morning Coroner Drexel was called to Cut-off lake to hold an inquest upon the remains of & woman who, it was alleged, had committed suicide. The rumor was incorrect. The woman died last night of puerperal fever. Yesterday morning the husband came to town to buy a coffin, and during his absence the dead woman was discovered by her neighbors who were in ignorance of the ;:mlx:lm of her death, No inquest was held, Grand Army of the Republic Forage. Edwin Davis, chairman of supplies for the Grand Army of the Republio re- union, reports that the following parties were awarded contracts for supplies for the Grand Army of the Republie, to be held in this city: Modjeska, Madame Modjeska and the Count Boz- entaarrived yesterday morning from Cali forma, and are sojourning at the ros- deuce of their son Ralph. Both of these distinguishod people will remain ors for a couple of weeks. The madame is re- ported to have recovered from tho rheu- matie attack, under which she labored some time ago. ‘West Point Butter and Choese. Stenographer Potter has just com- pleted 3,000 folios of type-written copies of evidence in this case to be submitted to the special master, A.S. Churchill. There will be over 9,000 folios of evidence i all, and Mr. Churchill is expected to give his decision 1n this important case in three woeks. Mr. E. Rowwnh-r editor of the BEE, left last night for Chica —— TOOTHPICKS BY THE TON. How Billlons of th e Splinters are Turned Out Every Year, “Where do all the toothpicks como from?' mquired a New York Mail and Express revorter of a dealer in those ar- ticles the other morning. “From Maine, chiefly. Billions are turned out in the little town of Franklin alone every yaar.” Yankee invention, isn't 12" “Not exactly, but it owes ite growth to Yankee shrowdness. Charles Forster, of Franklin, is the leading toothpick manu- eturer in the world. Before the war ho was in South America, whkere he saw a native whittling out a few toothpicks with his knife. He bought a few of these and sent them to his wife as a our- i0s] By some mean Paran Stevens, of the Fifth Avenue hotel, got hold of some of them and sent to Mr. Forster for a box. They were forwarded to him. In less than & month ne had ordered a gross, and soon many of the leading hotels in the country were using South American whittled toothpicks. Before this there was hardly any demand in the country for toothpicks, It wasn’t many monthe before the South Amcrican toothpick began to to get a national reputation. Mr. Forster emigrated to this country and estabiished a toothpick agency here. The South Americans began to raise on the price of their whittlings, and the pieks grew worse and worse. In the first years of the business some of them got rich whitthng toothpicks.” 'Why didn't Mr. Forster make them in this country, instead of sending so far away 'urvhvm‘ T just what he did about twenty- He made his first tooth- 000 picks in a ar's business amounted table in- ) the bus- a fellow to turn a Ilu- fellow used to grind out toothvicks one at a time. Finally he bought an engine of one-horse ¢ and substituted 1t for Young At his factory in Dixficld a ago he workcéd an engine of horse power. Mr. Forster’s machin- ery is all patented by himself. He proba- bly has spent £50,000 on his patents inhti- gations since he started toothpick mak- ing,” iness . S Utica Herald: One of those old stories of lost treasure has again come up at delphia, and 1t 1s said that several sapitalists of that city have furmshed the noney to fit out a vessel to go in search of the treasure. 1t seems that in 1759 an Enghsh privateer, having on board about 900,000 Spanish dubloons, foundered somewhere off the Deleware capes, and nothing was ever done toward recover- ing the goid. It the amount is cor- rectly stated, the coin must be worth betwoen 1 nmlmmuml §14,000,000. An Linglish attorn has been employed to look up all the records in London rela- tive to the disaster, and it is believed that the locality where it occurred can bo nearly discove First class divers and all the ne ary apparatus will be taken with the expedition vl a steam tug will accompany the vessel and re main by her for such services as may be requircd. 1f suceess should attend this attempt there would probably be a re- vival of search for treasure all along our coast, Stories concerning its existence have been current for 150 years at least, some of it being at sea and some upon the land. Canine Su ty. Cinemnati Enquirer: There is o dog in a suburb of Boston that proves a great o widow to whom he does’ not Dogs are usnally given to con the benelits of their eare to their but this one, recognizing the unprotected state of the widow, who lives alon 18 willing to 1\nm| his watchful serviees to her house, 58 littie afraid of the tramps w]m] her house on the way to Fo The farmer who owns the dog, . when he s 0 up road, says to his dog to Mrs, 1S and sit on her piazzatill the by.' 4 immediately gous and stays or s past - hes 0! the Fatare, Rochester Herald Our mateh manufacture; I8 sny that th provements to be looked for in matches will concern quality rather than cheap A match that will resist water 15 miuch to be degired; also sufety, non poisopous mateh that can be hghted without the box; a mateh that will give out a pleasant perfume 1s ired, and, Jaustly, 0 mateh of some matter than wood, but which must be as cheap. Some curiosities in the way of matches have been made of sandal and ceder wood, and perfumed with camphor; they were very expenszive. Some of the Jupancse paper matches burn with a aelicate but they fining own household, ‘e also_expensive.