Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 16, 1887, Page 4

' _THE DAILY BEE. i 1 PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSORIPTION ¢ fly ml#‘ Rdition) {ncluding Bunday , One . $10 00 or Bix Months . b0 or Three Months 20 he Omaha Sunda 4 add; One Yoar. “ .20 ATA OPFICE, NO. 914 AND 918 FARNAM BTREET. FW YORK OPFICE, ROON %, TRIRUNE BUILDING. ASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 515 FOURTRENTH STREST. CONRESPONDRNCE? All cemmunioations relating to news and edl- ftorial maiter should bo addressed o the Kok TOR OF THE PUBLISHING COMPAXY, checks and postoffice orders le 11 the Order of the eompuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRITORS, E. ROSEWATER, EpiToR. THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statemeat of Olrculation, of Nebraski 8.8 nt‘iot Douglas. ‘Tzachuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing com| n{. oes solemnly swear that the actual eircuiation of the Daily Bee O{l the week ending August1?, 1857, wasas lows: atorday, August 6.... unday, August 7 londay, August 8 &uudlv August9... . ednesd August 1 Tnursaay, August 11..... riday, August 12.... Average. Bworn to and subscribed in mny presence this 15th day of August, A, D, 1857, [SEALL Noiary Febfl TA L. otary Publie, Btato of Nebraska, } 4 Douelas County. {5 Geo. B. Tzschuek, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 1s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily eirculation of the Dally Bee for the month of August, 1856, 12,464 copies: for ISI'IIM;IIDPI‘, 1886, 13,080_copies; for October, L 887, z,w(?pm; for November, 188, 13,348 coples; for December, 1386, 13,287 copies; for Junuary 1 16,260 copies; for February, , 14,198 co for March. 1887, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,816 copies; for May, 1887, 14,227 copies for June 1887, 14,147 coples; for July, 1887, 14,093 copies, GEo. B, TzscHUCK. Pl Subsoribed and sworn to before me this 41th day ot A““}‘i’“. A, D, 1857, [SEAL.| . P. FriL, Notary Publie. Tne Texas fever has broken out in New York. The proper spirit of recip- rocity would be for the New York fever 10 break out in Texas. THE indications are that it will be mecessary for General Crook with hs army to march at an early date upon Colerow and his lawless band. PERHAPS SBecretary Bayard would like the privilege of appointing Sedgwick special envoy to settle the fisheries dis- pute the same as he did in the embroglio ‘with Mexico about this time last year. —————— SENATOR STANFORD will s00n be in po- Bition to realize that it is not safe to mon- key with a buzz saw. The railroad inves- tigating committee propose to make him show cause why he does not answer questions, — DAN LAMONT as usual denies that he is attempting to get possession of the news- puper property of ex-Secretary Manning. Aamont is 8o given to denyingeverything that is true that his denial in this case will not be believed — TuE news of the assassination of Mr. . B. Sclden, ot this city, at Manville, vo., on Sunday, will be received with purprise and deep regret. So far there Beems to be no well established theory dor the cause of the deed, other than to Buppose it was for the purpose of robbery. —— AND now the question1s whether ILves, Roo, will not have to join the “innumera- lo caravan’' in striped suits, The way bt the heaven-born financier is mot so ‘ensy now as when Gould begun his parcer, If he had been called to account For his performances in bringing about the celebrated “Black Friday” crash the pountry might have escaped the perni- plous results of his financial activities. Eeii——11 SEALED proposals are invited by the Douglas county democracy for plans and Bpecifications that will insure harmony between slaughter house and packing house democrats for the period begin- ning with the fall campaign 1n 1837 and nding with the presidential election in lovember, 1888, The right to rejecy all bids and plans ' is reserved. All pro- posals to be addressed to John A. Mo- _Bhane, with the word ‘“harmony” marked in plain script on the envelope. —————— Tne sidewalk 1nspector draws $100 per gnonth. What does he do to earn his Balary? What does he inspect and where fs there any evidence of his usefulness? The sidewalks are just as wretched as they oan be, There has been no effort made to improve them, except where new walks are laid under ordinances in tho suburbs. Those conld be inspectod by the board of public works or strect commissioner. The sidewalk inspector- ship should be abolished and the salary of $1,200 & year expended upon cross- ‘walks, EE———— The new clection law for cities of the metropolitan cluss has many new and Smportant features, and as the next elee- tion is near at hand it 1s time to study the law and make arrangements to carry out its provisions, One peculiarity of the law is that it places all elections, whether city, county, congressional or presidential, under the supervision of the ity authorities, The next election will e tor county and state officers. It will ‘be held on November 8, and the city au- thorities will have supervision of the election within the city limits. —— ‘'nE Canadian authorities are discuss- fing the question as to whether they ought to send McGarigle, the Chicago boodler, back to the. United States or not. The Chicago authorities will demand that the fugitive be given up on the ground that he was helped to escape by a British subjoct, but the crime for which he was ~ eonvioted does not come within the pro- wisions of the extradition treaty, and Canada has always been strict in demand- © {ng that criminals aelivered up should be . tried only for offeuses which como within treaty. There is no provision for de- very because a British subject may have ~ helped an American citizen under con- * wviction for a erime to cross the line, and . B0 MoGarigle is no doubt safe. The Dominion government is szid to be willing to give MoGarigle up if they can ~ do so legully, and if they should, an im- | ‘portant precedent will be cstablished that (L may lead to a change in the extradition . jreaty between the two countries. An Example Needed. It will not be a matter of regret if it shall be found that there is something in the transactions of Henry 8. Ives upon which an indictment can bo based with o good chance of bringing him to punish- ment. His whole recent career appears to have been one of systomatic appropri- ation of other peoples money to his own use, which from a moral point of view condemns him as a robber quite as much as would the deliberate theft of the amounts have done, but so far as investi- gation has proceeded he seems to have carried on his schemes with such shrewdness, under the advice of an unusual array of legal®ad- visers, as to have successfully guaraed himself against responsibility at law, That he felt bis security was clearly shown in the unconcern he manifested when the committee to iavestigate his books called upon him, and 1n the nssur- ance with which he met the demand for his resignation. Surrounded by his law- yers, Ives merrily informed the men he had robbed, that the information they sought they could not have, and as to surendering the official position he held it was a question he would deter- mine in his own good time. e finally acceded to the domand, but not until he had made terms and conditions satisfac- tory to himself. There is, perhaps, no other country in which a similar pro- ceeding could take place. It 18 rarely, however, that the most sagacious rogue fails to overreach, and it may happen that Ives is not an exception, 1t is reported that his transactions in the Vandalin road were of a nature that may subject him to prosecution. His thefts in that connection are said to have been less guarded while equalfy thorough. He left nothing within reach that could be made available. The disposition to bring him to account is not lacking, and there is still a possibility that this last addition to the list of phenomenal financiers may be made an example of. It will be weil if this shall be done, for such examples are neceded. How much effect they might have in deterring other smart and daring rascals from pursuing a like course cannot be told, but there is satisfaction in the nassurance that the sort of villainy of which Ives is guilty can be and will be punished. Everywhere there is & dispo- sition to make the way of the boodler hard, and it is high time that the ex- ploiters of railroads were given to un- derstand that justice is not blind to their crimes against the public welfare. State Rights and National Rights. No judicial opinion rendered in a long time commanded greater interest or ex- cited more comment than has been ac- corded the decision given by Justice Bradley, of the United States supreme court, in the case of the proposed bridg- ing of the Arthur Kill, a plece of water separating New Jersey from New York. An act of congress authorized the Balti- more & Ohio railroad to build a bridge across this water in order to obtain ter- minal facilities on Staten island, N. Y. The New Jersey legislature re- fused its consent, and the courts of that state enjoined the railroad company from beginning the work. The case went to the United States court, re- sulting i the decision adverse to the state of Now Jersey. The particular point or proposition in the decision of Justice Bradley that has attracted comment is the averment that “In matters of foreign and inter-state commerce there are no states.” While this is admittedly in harmony with re- cent decisions of the supreme court, as for example in the matter of a state tax- ing commercial salesmen from other states, and very little doubt is expressed that it will be sustained by a ma- jJority of the supreme bench, it is by far the broadest and most explicit declaration of the supreme national au- thority in all matters relating to inter- state commerce that has been made. As if to fortify it, Justice Bradley said fur- ther: *‘The country is one, and when- ever the work to be undertaken is na- tional in its nature state interests, state jealousies and state prejudices do not need to be consulted.” It this view is sustained there ought to be no difficulty hereatter on the part of any state in de- termining how far its privileges and au- thority extend with respect to any matter which may effect, however incidentally or remotely, commerce between the states. It says plainly that the power to regulate com- merce with foreign nations and among the several states has been devolved by the constitution solely upon the congress, and to that power no state shall inter- pose any obstacle or interference, State rights and authority cease when the ob- ject or instrument of commerce to be affected by their exercise has relation to the intercsts of other states. They are operative only with respect to thoso agencies of commerce which have their beginning and ending within the limits of the state. While this doctrine is not essentially new, it is certainly an advance, and un- doubtedly would not have been re- ceived thirty years ago with the general acquiescence that it is to-day. But the wisdom of the framers of the constitu- tion in placingin the hands of congress the sole power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the states is most amply vindicated by the present conditions which render the cen- tralization of this power absolutely nec- essary. Nothing could be more obvious than that if it were otherwise, and each state possessed the power to legislate at will respecting commerco among the states, the result would be continual conflictand general demoralization, Warring nter- osts and widely distributed powers would keep contention active and greatly in- crease the opvortunities for corruption. Nothing less powerful than the strong arm of the government can be trusted to regulate and keep in control the vast and increasing instrumentalities of do- mestic commerce, and however much of a departure the doctrine promulgated by Justice Braaley may be, it is unques- tionably the only safe principle for pres- ent and future guidance. EE——— The Tenemenr Problem. The problem of cheup tenement houses is gradually being solved. The New York Co-operative Building Plan asso- ciation are about to crect & number of dwelling houses for men of moderate means, which are to be constructed with a view to comfort on the most economic plan. A new process of frawing will be used, and there will be great econoray in finishing the walls inside by using a THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: I'UESDAY, paper called “piastor-board” In place of plaster. The idea will be to do away with expensive labor, such as mason work and plastering. A house built al- most entirely by the earpenter, who 18 comparatively & cheap mechanic, will reduce the cost of tenements very materially and enable landlords to lower their rents. This is as desirable in Omaha as in New York. Omaha, more than any other city, needs convenient, well-ventilated tenement houses for wage-workers, Flats are all well enough for parties who must reside within twenty minutes’ walk of the court house, but the great mass of wage-workers want the comforts of a separate tenement house at a rental that will come within their means. S— Forced Contributions. OMAIA, August 15.—Editor Bee: A short time since I ealled your attention to the shady way the'Unlon Pacific company have of as- sessing the employes monthly for the sunport of an alleged medical bureau for the alleged benefit of their employes, The writer has been an employe of sald company for two years past, and has contributed the usual as- sessment. 1 believe these forced contribu- tions have been taken from the pay of every man whose name appears on the pay roll for the past five years. Even the laborer who is discharged after one day’s work has been done has the twenty-five cents taken from his hard earned compensation, 1 believe it is estimated that the company has on its pay roll about 16,000 names. This nets them about $50,000 a year. So far as the writer knows no statement has ever been made, public or private, showing how the money taken from the laborer without his consent has been expended. I would suggest that the editor in the in- terest of the employes insist that Mr. Potter answer the following interrogatories: 1. What amount of property has been pur- chased by the Union Pacific company with this fund taken from the employes without their consent and now owned in fee simple by sald company? 2 1s not this money, so taken forcibly from the laborers, used more to benefit the company than the contributors in cases where the negligence of the company to em- ploy suflicient force to operate the road re- sults in serious accidents for which the com- pany try to compromise by using this fuud to care for those injured in thelr hospitals? 8. Wiil Mr. Potter have the required state- ment made and published showing the ex- penditure of the several hundred thousand dollars taken from the hard-earned coin of the Union Pacific employes? 8.A. M. This is exactly what the BEE predicted six years ago when this head tax was first sought to be levied upon Union Pacific employes. In spite of the general rovolt which manifested itself at head- quarters, in the shops and along the lino against this forced contribution the ben- evolent and paternal managers of the road have foisted the head-tax on the employes. It is wrong in principle be- cause it subjects men and women to involuntary servitude and robs them [ot earnings to which they are entitled under pretense that these earnings are expended for the mutual benefit of all the con- tributors. Now, ifthis were a mutual benevolent tax, the parties taxed would have a voice in the choice of their medi- cal attendants and a pro rata share in the property bought with the money from the head tax. Mr. Potter, personally, 13 not respon- sible for this systematic petty larceny,but he is now in position to rectify a great wrong. It remains to be seen whether his broom is cut to reach this abuse. Sp—— THE hostile attitude recently shown by the Canadian fishery authorities toward American fishermen gives pertinence to the question whether this government is keeping its eye on events in that quarter. There has been very little from Washing- ton of late to indicate that Mr. Bayard is fully awake to the circumstances, and there is beginning to be some inquiry as to whether the retaliation act has been lost, or the administration has deter- mined to hold it back for cam- pvaign purposes. We haven't kept track of the number of Amer- ican vessels that have been chased away and seized during the past months, but there have been several offenses of this kind which we suppose it is the duty of the state department to investigate. It may be that it is now busy at this very work, but if 8o it is pursuing it very quietly, and itis not the habit of the state department to hude its light under a bushel. The latest advices announce that another British man-of-war has arrived 1n the fishing waters with hostile intent, and there is an unconfirmed re- port of the sinking of an American schooner by a Canadian cruiser. These circumstances are pretty sure to renew public interest in the fishery controversy, and Mr. Bayard is likely to hear the buzzing of the popular clamor unless he promptly makes known that he he is not neglecting American fishing in- terests where they are being assailed. AMONG a number of sapient sugges- tions drawn out by the late terrible rail- road calamity is that of the Chicago T'ri- bune, which advises that railroad com- panies be compelled to construct culverts of iron. Wooden oulverts, it observes, are liable to get dry and take fire, while those of iron are always stable and se- cure. Why not stone for culverts? Isn't that infinitely more stable and secure than iron, which contracts and expands with the extremes of temperature, and is liable to be injured and weakened by conditions that do not affect stone? As to the relative cost of these several mate- rials that should never be a question That material which assures the maxi- mum of immunity from danger is the one to be selected, without reference to what it may cost as compared with some other material not so safe. An iron cul- vert, so far as we are informed, would be an innovation, and not a desirable one. Wooden culverts ought to be prohibited. A stone culvert, properly constructed, is safe, durable, and in the long run at least the most economical, Last fall the repnblican county com- mittee had to pay $4.8) a thousand for election tickets printed by the govern- ment four-dollar-a-pound-mk firm,while election tickets were procured in quanti- ties by other partics at an Omaha job office for sixty cents per thousand. In other words, the republican county com- mittee were charged eight times as much for their tickets as they could have been procured for from other printers. With the conmvance of council jobbers and boodlers the city has been gouged by the same cormorants. Six hundred and fifty-pwo dollars bave been voted to them and taken out of the treasury for illegal advertising. Four hundred ana thirty-two dollars of this amount for publishing election prociamations which were also publfshed in the Bek under its contract as the official paper, and which under the charter covered the require- ments ot publicity fully. Two hundred and twenty dollars for registrar’s notices for the motor line election, when the law no longer requires such advertising, and when under the pleading of the city at- torney the Republican bad no contract with the city. —— Tuk superintendent of the state census can easily verify Omaha's clnim of a population of 75,000 and more, at the re- quest of the postofiice authoritics. When this is done a strenuous effort should be made for better facilities in our post- office. An increase of the working force under civil service rules won't be suf- ficient. There are not one-half enough lock-boxes to meet the demand for them., There should bo at least two clerks in the gentlemen's general delivery depart- ment, and the windows should be placed where the continuous string of men would not blockade the corridor through- out the day. There are other important improvements which will readily suggest themselves whenever authority is given to proceed by the Washington oflicials, A GLANCE at our session laws raises a doubt as to whether the board of educa- tion can legally expend above $25,000 for school sites and buildings without re- submission of the proposition to create such a debt to a popular vote. The authority to purchase school sites and erect buildings was given by the voters of this district under the law regulating schools in cities of the first class. There is no provision in the new law that con- fers the powers granted to the old Omaha school district upon the officers ot the new district, This is a very important matter, and 1t behooves the board of ed- ucation to take steps to have the law in- terpreted by some authority competent to pass upon the points involved. WaExN Buffalo Bill adds an American bar to his show, it will be one of the fea- tures to become the most popular. Col- onel Cody has studied the tastes of the foreigners, and found the thing most needed was a typical American bar. The gallant colonel is nothing if not striving to please. The Omaha bar-keeper will be the dazzling appendix to the outfit. THE division of Douglas county into five commissioner districts which is now being considered by the commissioners will have a very important bearing on county affairs. Any division that de- vrives a majority of the taxpayers of a fair representation in the board will not be satisfactory. 1r it costs the city of Omaha $632 in six weeks for tho:'support which the council bosses get from Taylor and Rounds, how much will it cost the city if this barefaced robbery of taxpayers is allowed to continue for a year or two? KINGS AND QUEENS, Prince William of Prussia is handsome, and his wite is tall, falr, and pleasant-look- ing. King Milan of Serviacannot induce Queen Natalie to speak to him or even to open the letters he writes to her. If any miserable king thinks he has power to boss a woman, he makes a mistake, Princess Elizabeth of Russia has a haughty carriage, which contrasts agreeably with her smiling face. Her jewels were magnificent, and like Mrs. Merdle, she has a figure calcu- lated to display them to the best advantage. Princess Frederica is very tall and fair,and looks sweet-natured and dignified at thesame time. She seews to be in fragile health. The two daughters of the grand duke of Hesse are nice-looking girls,especially one of them, ‘who has a charming face. « The marvellous vein of luck of the Saxe- Coburg family does not yet seem exhausted. Prince Ferdinand of that ilk has been unan- imously elected by the Sobranie to succeed Prince Alexander Battenberg as sovereign of Bulgaria, Prince Ferdinand is a grandson of Louis Phillippe, his mother being the Princess Clementine of Orleans. His father was the Augustua spoken of in Theodore Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort as the cousin who built a Catholic cathedral at Saxe-Coburg. Prince Ferdinand used to be called as an infant in his family, *the flower of old age.” e Contempt of Court, New York World. When the forms of law are used to shield convicted criminals from their just punish- ment the law falls under contempt. If this is in contempt of any court, make the most of it. ——te Piling Up the Surplus. Philadelphia Record, The government at Washington and the summer resort landlords have now almost a monopoly of the pleasing occupation known as plling up the surplus. The government gets its surplus by excessive taxation, and the landlord gets his by other things that are likewise excessive. —~~ Farmers Should Have More Influence New York Tribune. The citizens who ouzht to have the largest influence in the republic are the farmers, ‘Lhey, and those immediately dependent upon them, are a majority of all the people, but that is notall. The farmer is nccessarily a producer; in getting his livelihood he neces- sarily adds to the wealth of the country and supplies the wants of others. Yet the influ- ence of the farmers has always been rela- tively small in the general government. They have always been scattered and com- paratively isolated. Combination among them for any public purpose is more difficult than in other occupations. Though the build- ing of railroads and other means of transpor- tation has lowered tnat Barrier, it has not been wholly removed. Qrganization among farmers has always been especially difficult. 1t is supposed that there are 6,000 agricutural socleties, grances and other farmers’ organ- izations in the United States, but though the increase in their membership of late years has been considerable, they certalnly em- brace but a minority og the ferming voters, —_— Littte Things, From Treaswre-Trove, Wa call him strong who stands unmoved— Calm a8 some temptest-beaten rock, When some great trouble hurls its shock; ‘We say of him, his strength is qrovsd: But when the spent storm folds its wings, How bears he then life’s little things? About his brow we twine our wreath Who seeks the battie’s thickest smoke, Braves flashing gun and sabre stroke, And scoffs utdanger, Iaughs at death ; Wae praise him till the whole land rings; But'is he bravein little things, We cail him great who does some deed ‘That echo bears from ahore tof shore— .Does that, and then does nothing more, sYet would his work earn richer meed When broucht befcre the King of Kings, Were he but great in little things, s STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Work has commenced on the Red Cloud waterworks. Sheridan county will send bunch of products to the Umaha fair. Arlington's boom is gathering force LY lnrun_ AUGUST 16, 1887, - with th to Omal The Democrat suggests that the proper caper for Adams county is to expend ru,ooo to $100,000 in a court house in Tastings, Sidney sandstone has been tested by H. B, Dodge, acting engineer of tests of the Union Pacific and pronounced “build- ing stone of good average quality.” Brown county will show the stuff of which she is made at the annual fair to be held at Ainsworth September 14-17. A {lbel‘ll list of premiums will be distribu- od. The Norfolk club has issued a bold defi to ‘‘the self styled champions of the Elk- horn valley, at Flainview," to meet them in deadly combat for $100 inside at Nor- folk on the 28d. The daughter of George Cain, of Har- vard, a fourteen-year-old, spoiled her throat with a i( cknife during a violent pout, last week. The gash was not deep enough to sever the vocal chords and she was stitched up. The Rock Ballast lodge of locomotive firemen of Plattsmouth will picnic at Milford, on the Blue, next Saturday, and ‘‘scoop” in the balmy breezes and re- freshing baths of that refreshing resort, ‘The boys of Omaha and Lincoln will join in and swell the Plattsmouth con- tingent to a small army. Ed Cuthbert, of Fremont, and Ed Boyle, of Saunders coumf fought eleven rounds by lamp light Thursday night. Cuthbert "is a hard nut to crack, but Boyle succeeded 1n raising huge humps on his ugly mug and draping his peep- ers, The battle took place in Saunders and gives the officers another chance to repeat the Jack Hanley performance. R. P. Concannon, depot operator at Emerson, is a young man with a history. Born in Ireland in 1858, he joined the British army at the age of nineteen and in less than six years has seen enough of life in the Dark Continent to last for the remainder of his days, His first bout with the savage bucks of Basuto land lasted four months, and was supple- mented with a wild war with the Zulus. He took a hand in the bloody scrap in which the prince imperial of France was killed, and on the 4th of July, 1879, helped to still the hearts of 10,000 sav- ages. The following year, while inject- ing British civilization into the Boers, he was taken prisoner, but was released in time to participate in the reduction of Alexandria and the annihilation of the germs of liverty in Egypt. He_ followed the fortunes of war south of Cairo and was wounded in the famous battle of Tel-el-Kebir. For distinguished bravery 1 this battle, and saving the life of & commanding ofticer, he_was decorated with a medal by Queen Viotoria, one of four he now wears. His Inst taste of civiling warfare was in the fruitless hunt of Lord Woolsely after the False Prophet and General Gordon, in which thousands of his com- rades were slaughtered by the furnace blasts of the Soudan desert. After the battles of El Teb and Tamai, Concannon purchased his release and shipped asa telegraph operator for the Indian ocean. After doing the Orient and South Pacitic isles he sailed for home and then for America, landing in this country in 1885. The peaceful pastoral life of a country depot is a radical contrast to his mission- ary life in the Africas, but it pays as well and guarantees old age and natural baldness. progress of the Elkhorn cut off LN lowa ftems, Raymond Myers, a farmer near Des Moines, was gored to death Friday by an infuriated bull., The little child of Arthur Ellis at Ber- wick tumbled into a tub of hot water and was scalded to death. An incendiary fire burned the barn, ranary, fifteen tons of hay and eight orses of Michael at Creston, The wife of Prof. Philbrick, long pro- fessor 1n the state university, is suing for divorce on the grounds of cruelty. Jesse Spry, eight years, was popped by a companion with an unloaded gun at Cedar Rapids. The bullet penetrated his lung. The parties who contracted to strike coal, gasoran artesian well at Bayard have quit after gomng 275 feet. They came in contact with hurd rock. Strong indications of n gas well have been found six miles north of Burlington. The water gas dished up in the city is strong enough to reach that point with- out straining its energy. Another Des Momes constable named Potts pulled his gun on John Hardy and let her go. Hardy and a spectator was wounded. Potts 18 a prohibition per- suader, and is now resting in jail, The LeMars Globe says: “‘When the town was laid out six young ladies went up on a special car with the officials of the ro: Their given names were, re- spectively, Laura, Emma, Mary, Annie Rose and Stsan. By taking the first letter of each of their names we get LeMars, Dakota, The Duluth, Watertown & Pacific has 100 teams and 300 men in Watertown for grading the line to the southwest. Harvest is in progress generally throughout Benson county. About one- third of the crop has been cut and the yield of wheat, oats and barley will be the heaviest sinco the first settlement of the county four years ago. The Aberdeen, Bismarck & North- western ask for depot grounds at Water- town and right-of-way through the county. If this 18 built” two new lines will huve been completed at Watertown this season. News was received Friday at Rapid City from ludiamfimlis anpouncing the death of Joseph M. Waullace, for some time clerk of court in Pennington county. He was appointed to the position by Judge Moody in 1882, and held the ofhce until the fall of 1885. The most astonishing product of the territory was recently discovered in the Missouri bottoms. It is known as the pump snake, and grows numerously and to a length of sixteen feet, A farmer on Cat Tail creek has a flock of twenty pump-snakes tramned to a remarkable de- gree of proliciency. At the blast of a whistle the snakes assemble on the banks of the creek. 'The leader dashes into the water of the creek, leaving only the ex- tremity of its tail on the bank., Another snake immediately grasps the end of the leader's tail in his jaws, a third snake takes hold of the second snake's tail in a similar manner, and so on until there is a continuous line of the snakes joined end-on, extending to the water troughs mn the cattle yards, 300 feet away. The leading snake commences to swallow or pump the waters of the creek, which passes through the whole line of snakes as it would through a hose. and falls in a heavy stream into the trough. On one occasion this farmer's grainary caught fire, and for a time threatened to destroy his home and stock. The pump snakes realized that the time had come for one of their best efforts, The leader hurled himself into the creek, the rest instantly adjusting themselves, heads and tails, from the creek to the burning building. The last snake, standing on its head, waved its long and flexible body, from the tail end of which issued a stream of water that was thrown with terrific force on the burning building. Back and forth dashed the tail end of that life hose, squirting the water where it would do the most good, while the loud pumping of the lender could be heard above the roar of the conflagration. Within fifteen minutes the last spark was out. e i William lleaford, general inspector of boilers for the Hartford insurance com= anv, is in the -city for the purpose of inspecting the bailers at the stockyards, wuterworks, gns works, white lead works and Fairbanks, NEW ELECTION LAW, The Metropolitan Aot Governing Elections in Omaha ELECTION DAYS. Sectlon 1. Chapter 80, of the general laws of Nebraskn, passed In 1887, provides that the day upon which the general or local elec- tion shall be held in cities of the metrovoli- tan and first-class shall, for all purposes whatever, as regard the presenting for pay=- ment or acceptance, and of the giving notico and protesting of tho dishonor of bills of ex- change, bank checks aud promissory notes, be treated and consldered as is the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday. This virtually makes every election day a lexal holiday. THE BALLOT BOXES shall be marked and numbered successively as follows: Number one, “‘president;” num- ber two, ‘“state,”’ number tiree, “congres number four, ‘leglslature and count number tive, “eity:” number six, ‘local number eight, “judiclary,” and number nine, “educational.” “Only sich numbers of boxes marked as aforesald shall be furnished, as may be required by law, to receive the bailots to be used at such election. At any election at which any officers are to be voted for upon ballots not otherwise provided for, there shall be provided as many additional boxes as there are additional ballots required, HOW BALLOTS ARE DEPOSITED, The ballots for electors of president and vice president shall be the same _as now pre- scribed by law, and when folded shall be en- dorsed to show on the outside the words, “president, number one,” and be deposited in box number one. The names of all persons voted for by lnP! elector at any election, in whose election all the voters of the state have the right alike to participate, exeept electors of president and vice president and judges of the supreme court and_ dtstrict court judges, county Judges, and _justices of the~ peace. shall be upon one ballot, which upon the faca thercof shall contaln the designation of the offices and the name or names of the person or per- sons to be voted for, “or such of them as any voter may desire to vote for, which ballot shall be endorsed “state” aurd be deposited in number two. The name of the person designated for rep- resentative in congress shall be on a separate ballot, which, upon the face thereof, shall contain n deslgnation of the oftice and the distriet for wh'icll the officer 15 1o be elected ; and which when tolded shall be endorsed, or show on the outside thereof the words, *‘con- gress, number three,” and be deposited in box number three. ‘The names of the persons designated for senators and represeatatives and cuunt{ ofti- cers not otherwise provided for shall be founda on a separate ballot, which, on the face thereof, shall contain a designation of the oftice, of the district or county for which the officers are to be elected, and which when folded shall be endorsed, or show on the out- side thereof, the words, “Legislature and County, number four,” and be deposited in number four, The names of persons designated for coun- climen of wards, or at large, shall be on a separate ballot, which upon the face thereof shall contain a designation of the office and the district for which the ofticers are to be elected, and which when folded shall be en- dorsed, or show on the outside thereof, the words, *“Counclimen, number five,” and be deposited in box number five. 'fi’xa names of the persons designated as any constable, assessor, or other precinct ofl- cer not herein otherwise provided for, shall be upon one ballot, which ballot upon the face thereof shall contain a designation of the office and precinct for which the officers are to be elected, and the name or names ot the person or persons to be voted for, or such of them as any voter may desire to vote for, and which when folded shall be endorsed, or show upon the outside thereof, the words: “Number 6,” and be deposited in box num- ber six. The names of all persons voted for by an elector atany election, justices of the supreme court, and all other judges of district court, county court, as are elected in and for a dis- trict, except gullco or lulmiclrul Judges, shall be upon one ballot, which ballot shall be en- dorsed “Judiciary number 8” and be de- posited In box number eight. The names of the persons voted for as members of the board of education shall be on a separate ballot, which shall be endorsed “‘Kducational” and be deposited in box num- ber nine. "The names of persons to be voted for by the electors of any election for all city and county oflicers WKD!B election all of the voters of said city and county have the right alike tn'}mrurlunta, except judges or just aforesaid not otherwise provided for, sl be upon one ballot, which ballot shall be en- dorsed “Clty” and bo deposited in hox number nine, OPENING AND CLOSE OF, POLLS. “The poils shall open at $ o'clock in the morning and close at6 o’clock in tho evening. REGISTERS'. The mayor and council shall ptepare regis- tration books in which shall be entered each street in each election district, the number of each house, and the names of voters. Fach registration book must have room for not less than 700 names. 'I'he books shall be furnished by the city clerk. THK JUDGES AND CLERKS of election and poll clerks shall be selected by the city council. ‘This is to be in Septem- ber of each year. For each election district to select to serve as judges of election, four persons (two of whom on state issue, shall l)e of political faith and opinion different from their assoclates and those appointed to represant the political party in minority on state issues, to be named), ~ They must be of good character, and able o rend, write and speak the English language understandingly, and not candidates for any office; but no person shall be required to bea resident or voter in the clection district for which he shall be appointed as inspector, The persons 80 selected shall be examined by the mayor as to their qualifications, and it approved, shall each take and subscribe before the city clerk thereof, within ten days from the date of notice of fl’)l’)fillllm?l h of ollice. Ench iudge of electior bound to serve at all elections within the year unless excusad. The judges shall have control of registration and polling places. TIME OF REGISTRATION, There shall be a gencral rezistration on Tuesday four weeks, the Wednesday of the third week and Friday and Saturday of the second week preceding the day of the No- vember election in each year, Kor each and every election held 1n the cities of the first- class and metropolitan cities, other than such as above designated, there shall be a revision of the general registration on the Friday and Saturday of the second week preceding the day of each and every such election. The manner in which the duties are performed are given with great detail, and if faithfully carried out will cause con- siderable labor, but at the same time prevent fraud. Reeisters must not sit in &aloons, and elections are not permitted to be held in such places. The wmajority of judges shall rule, THE CANVASS OF VOTES. As soon as the polls shall haye been finally closed, the judges shall immediately, and at the place of the poll, proceed to canvass the votes. Suchcanvass shall be public and shall not be adjourned or postponed until it shall Lave been fully completed and the several statements required to be made by the judges shall have been made out and signed by them. No vote shall be r any ballot be counted or cany nor shall any statement of votes, announcement, or prociamation, by faw required, be made at any time when the main entrance to the room in ‘'which the election is helld shall be closed in such a manper as to p:event Ingress and egress, but the said judges may station one or more officers at such _entrance to exclude disorderly persons; nor shall any such duties be performed unless at least aix persons, if so many claim that privilege, are allowed to be present and 8o near that they can see whether the duties of the sald judges are faithfully performed. Each candidate for any office to be filled at the election may, by a certiticate in writing siyned by nim, desig- nate one person for each election district in which he is a candidate to be present at the canvass of the ballots containing the names of the persons designated for that office. The judges of election and the police or other officers l“fllldlnr at such election district specified in sald cortiticate, shall make a passage for such person fto the said judges, and the said judges shall permit him 1o be ent at the canvass of all the ballots in the Em( contaning the ballots for the office specified in the sald certificate, and so near 1o them that he can see that such eanvas and the statement required of the votes foun in each box, are correctly made. And no udges of election, or board of judges or po- ice or other ofticer, shall allow Suech person to be molested or removed during the canvass of such ballots, or until such statement has been made, comrlswd and signed, unless he shall be personally guilty of fraudulent or disorderly conduct. The canvass shall commenco by a compari- son of the poll lists, from the comience- ment, and a corréction of any mistakes that may be found therein, and such eomparison shall be continued until the poll lists acree a8 to the number-of ballots deposited in each box ; when they have been wade to agree, o of the judges shall publicly announce, in a loud voice, the number of ballots deposited in each box as shown by the poll lists. The boxes shall then bo opened and the ballots canvassed in the lu?l’ow!n_. order| President, state; congress, legisiature, eity( Judielary, loeal. 3allots must be counted un opened. ‘T'wo or more ballots folded togethot must be destroyed If the whole number of ballots exceud ihe whole nuwmber of votes a shown by the poll lists, No properly endorsed ballot if found In the wrong box shall be rejected, If It does not produce an_excess of votes, If a greater number of ballots shall be found in & box than 1s required by the corresponding poll list, all the ballots shall be revlaced in the box, and one of the judges, with his back to the box, shall draw out and destroy as_many ballots unopened as shall be equal to the ex- cess. co NG THE BALLOTS, The judges shall then open the ballots, and lace those which contain the same names anl'thrr 80 that the several Kinds shall be in separate l)llea. Oue of thefuduen shall then take the kind of ballots which appears to be the greatest in number and COUNT THEM BY TENS, carefully examning each name on each said ballots,” Such judges shall then pass the ten ballots to the inspector sitting next to him, who sball count them in the same manner, and he shall pass them to the third judge, ‘who shall also count thein in the same man- ner. The third judge shall then call the names of the persons named in the ballots, and the oftices for which they are designated, and the poll clerk shall tally the votes for each of such persons, ‘The fourth judge shall watch the proceedings ot the other judges and the poll clerks, and at_his option may perform the same duties in respect to the eanvass a8 are proscribed for the third judge, or, in cage of the absence of the poll “clerk, may perform his duties. Whon the countin, of each kind of ballots shall be completed, the poll clerks shall compare their tallies to. ether and ascertain the total number of bal- ots of that kind so canvassed, and when they agree upon the number, one of them snall announce it, in a loud voice to the Judges, 'The kind of ballots which appear to noxt greatost in number, and afterwards each of the other kinus of ballots in succ sion shall then be canvassed in the same manner. ‘The ballots containing names partly for one kind of ballots and partly for another, being those usually called ‘split tickets, and those from which the name of a erson proper be voted for on such ballots Km\ been omitted or eraced, usually called seratched tickets,shall then be canvassed sep- arately by one of the judges sitting between two of the other judges, which judge shall call each name to ‘the poll clerks, and the oftice for which it1s uaesignated, the other judges looking atthe smine time, and -the poli clerks making note of the same. When all the ballots found in the box have been canvast in this manner, the poll clerk shall compare their tallies together and ascer- tain the total number of votes received by each candidate, and when they agree upon the nuinbers, one of them shall annonnce, In a loud voice, to the judges the number of votes received by each candidate, on each of the kinds of ballots containing his name, the number received by him on the split ana scratched tickets, and the total number of votes received by him. If, after the ballots in any box have been opened or canvassed, the whole number of them shall ba found to [ whole number of votes required by the correspond- ing columns of the 1l-lists, the said inspector shall retura all the ballots into the box, and shall thoroughly mingle the same, and one of the judges, to be designated b the board shall, without seeing the same an. with his back to the box, publlcly draw out of such box so many of such ballots as shall be equal to the excess, which shall be forth- with destroyed ; but if the ballots have been canvassed, the votes for tl;:dpnrwuu named therein shall first be deducted from the votes entered for such person on the tallles. The canvass of the baliots found in any box shall be completed by ascertaining Low many bailots of the same kind corréspond- ing in respect to the names of the rsons thereon and the offices for which they are designated, have boen received; and the re- sult being found, the said judge shall secure- Iy paste or atiach to ench statement of such canvass thereinafter directed to be made one ballot of each kind found to have been given for the officers to be chosen at said elections, and they shall state in words at full length immediately opposite such ballots, and writ- ten partly on such ballot and pgrtly on the paper to which it shall be pasted or attached, the whole number of all the ballots that were received which correspond with the one 80 pasted or attached, so that one of each kind of the ballots received at such election for the ofticers then to be chosen shall be pasted or attached to such statement of such canvass. 1f only one ballot to any Kkind shall be found in the box, it shall be pasted or attached to the statement to be dellvered to the clerk of the clta' council, apd if only two ballots of any kind are found in the box, one shall be pasted or attached to the state- ment to be delivered to the clerk of the city council and the other to the statement to be delivered to the county clerk by the clerk of the city council. They shall also aste or attach all the ballots rejected by hem as being defective in whole ur in part, to the statement to be dellvered to the clerk of the city council. When the canvass of the ballots found in nty box shall have been completed, and the 1 clerks shall have announ to the r:d es the total number of votes received by each candidate, the cha of the board of Jjudges of election or, in his absence, the in- spector acting as unch. shall proclaim in loud voice the total number of votes recmvea by each of the persons voted for upon the bailots found in that box, and the office for which they are designea, and such procla- mation shall be prima tacie evideuce of the result of the canvass of such ballots, ‘The judges shall 1mmediately after such proclaimation deliver to a patrolman on duty at the polling places a statement subseribed with their names, which shall be forthwith conveyed by said patrolman to the police headquarters, where the polling place is lo- cated: and the mllbtlhl or sergeant or other oflicer in charge shall immediately transmit, by telegraph or otherwise, the result ot such statement to the clerk of the aity council. Such statement shall contain the total num- ber of votes in such ballot box, and the num- ber of votes found therein for each and every candidate. The captain or sergeant in com- wand shall immediately dellver said state- ment to the clerk of the city council, whose duty it sball be to file and preserve the same, Within twenty-four hours after the several statements shall have been subscribed, one of gald judges shall deliver to the clerk of the board of councilmen the statement directed 1o him; another judgo shall deliver to the county clerk the statement directed to him; and a third judge shall deliver to the mayor the statemncnt directed to him. One of the poll clerks shall deliver to the mayor the tal- lies directed to him, and the other poll clerk shall deliver to the city clerk the tallies di- rected to him, and to the county clerk. ‘The poll list kept at such election shall be certified in writing by both poll eclerks to bo & uue and correct list of the vote » cast at the said election 1n thelr respective - elaction districts, and within twenty-four hours of the close of the canvass shall'be filed by such poll-clerks, the one in the office of the county clerk.the other in the office of the chief of “the bureau of elections, and shall be there preserved. ‘I'he remaining ballots not so pasted or at- tached to sald statements, as hereinbefore provided, shall be destroyed, ‘I'he envelope delivered to the clerk of thae city couneil shall ba kept sealed, and shall not be opened until the same are prodaced before the board of county canvassers. “The envelopes delivered to the county clerk shall be kept sealed and unopened until the said judges shall make tripileato state- ments of the result of the canvass and esii- mate the votes. Each of the statements shall be enclosed in an envelope, which shall then be securely sealed with wax, and each of the judees and each of the poll elerks shall write his name across every fold at which the en- velope, if unfastened, could be opened, ana across the seals thoreon. One of the enval- opes shall be directed on the outside to the clerk of the eity couneil,another to the county clerk, and the third to the mayor. ch 86t of tallies shall also be inclosed, urely sealed, and signed In like manner, and one of the envelopes shall be directed on the out- eide to the clerk of the eity council and tie other to the mayor. On the outside of every envelopo shall be endorsed whether it con- talns the statement or tne tallies, and for what election, and of what precinct or ward, NO LIQUOR ALLOWED, Whoever, during the sitting of any board of judges of election in anv election distriet, whether held for the purposes of registra- tion, revision of registration, reception o) canvass of votes, of making return thereof, shall bring, take, or send into, or shall cause to be taken, bronght, ordered, or sent into, or shall attempt to briug, wke, or send into any place of rexistration, or revision of registration, or of election, any distilled or spirituous tlauors whatever, or shall atany such time and place drink or partake of any such liquor, shall be deemed and beld to be guilty of a misdemeanor. L. E. Hunt, of the gentlemanly clérks of the Southern hotel, St. Louis, s in town and willspend about three weeks in visite ‘linng‘dnlbmnl parts of Nebraska and Dar