Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1887, Page 4

'THE DAILY BEE. For 8ix Months. .. For Threo Montha .. The Omah i . Bunday, August 7. A Policy Withont Law, ' The decision of the secrotary of the in- terior on the question of the withdrawal of indemnity lands furnishes a good deal of interesting information which will be new to the country. Some of this sheds an additional light upon the subject which brings out in plainer view the in- fluence that has been exerted by the rail- not satisfied with the protection ‘whickis putting this handsome profit in their pockets, and one of thom is reported to have coolly said that & higher tarift on iron and steel would be a good thing for | t the country, and that atleast the tariff | r ought to be placed beyond interference | s for not less than three years, instead of being subject to change at any time. It may be remarked incidentally that the establishment with which this gentleman | si is connected has been paying an annual dividend of 10 per cent and putting aside a surplus. The facts must convince all PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ! (Morniag Edition) {ncluding Sundey ke, One Year. ', NO. 914 AND §18 FARNAM STREFY RooM 8, TRIBUN®E BUILDING, SghmBune BoiLDING: juets, and the lax disregard of the public welfare that has permitted vractices wholly outside, if not in palpable viola tion, of the Iaw, While the withdrawal ANl oemmunications relating to news and edi- torial matter should bo addressed o the Kbt 708 OF THE Bre. of lands has been recognized as | people open to conviction that what the BUSINESS LETTRRS! within executive discretion, the secre- | country needs is a reduction, and not an | s nAdI! Mx-ln:wmm--Mumlmm“"’“‘“' tary points out that the exer- | adyance, of the tariff duties on iron and iressod to TAE BES PUBLISHING COMPANY, i dt ) OMARA. Drafts, oheoks and postofioo orders | cise of this discretion has no warrant in | steel, so that a part of the immense profits %0 be made payable to the orderof thecompany. | jayw. The theory upon which it has been divided among the manufacturers shall | si remain with the oconsumers. But the |1 promise of securing this is not so favor- able as could be desired. used was that it wns necessary in aid of the purpose of the grant, but it nowhere uavpears that congress directed or con- teuplated such dcpartmental action. The practice is apparently due largely THE DEE PUSLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Entror. THE DAILY BEE. - Sohools. of our public Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. to the ingenuity of t!.a corporation attor- Btate of "”fi * sa [ neys, who have been able toimpress upon | schools is considering the feasibility of g:“o?‘i“’l‘u:l:nfi of The Bee | those in duthority willing to be impressed | addiug shorthand to the studies of the the idea that the intentions of congress could only be carried out by the with- drawal of all lands within a stated distance along the projected routes of the subsidized railroads, and this 1dea, having once taken root, has held on firmly until this time. Although Mr. Teller, when secretary of the in- terior, admitted that there was no spe- cific direction of congress for withdraw- ing any of the lands, granted or indem- nity, yet he yielded to the theory that had fastened itself upon the department and allowed the withdrawal to continue in force. * Secretary Lamar has found an entirely clear and conclusive way of dis. posing of this theory, which amounts simply to confining executive action to carrying out the ynmistakable require- ments of congress. ‘‘So far as con- gress,”” he says, “has made any grant of lands, and not revoked the grant, it is required of the exccutive to administer properly the law making that grant, But beyond that duty the execu- tive is not required, and ought not, to go. When it goes beyond the strict line of its clear, legal and prescribed duty, even to exercise a recognized discretion, it is doing that 1n regard to which grave clr- cumspection is required.” 1t is very evi- dent that hitherto there has been no such circumspection, but that on the contrary the interests of the people have with reckless indifference been suborai- nated to the unwarrantable de- mands of the corporations. The supreme court has held that land grants shalt be construed strictly as against the grantee, and that nuthing passes by them exoept just what congress expressly or by necessary implication gives to the corporations, but the practice of the de- partment has reversed this rule in yield- ing everything to the grantee. The new volicy proposes to recognize the better principle, essentially just, that the rights of the grantor shall have at least an equal consideration with the recipients of the public bounty. Another point of interest in Secretary Lamar’s decision relates to the right of a railroad to select.indemnity lands any- where within the prescribed limits re- gardless of territorial lines. Thus it seems that the Northern Pacific, proceed- ing upon the assumption that all lands within the indemnity limits set apart for its benefit were subject to reprisal, with- out reference to where its losses were sustained, has been making 1¥s selections in the most desirable localities. It is smd to have taken five acres of land in Dakota for every acre lost in place, for the reason that Dakota land is the most valuable. It has also for the same reason shown special favor to Washington territory. The secretary very clearly points out that thisis not in accordance with the granting act, in which congress distinotly recognizes the political divisions—states and territories —through which the roadis to pa plainly showing that the company should be restricted in its selections of lieu lands to the state or territory within which the loss of granted lands was sus- tained. This will require the surrender, and justly so, of a large quantity of the most valuable land now in the control of the Northern Pacific. These facts show how loose, and even lawless, has been the policy pursued with reference to these corporations. Not- withstanding the very generous grants and franchises given them by the govern- ment, the rapacity of the corporations has led them to seek more, regardless of the means to the end. Perversions of law, corruption of officials, the trampling under foot of individual rights, and the daring seizure of whatever they deemed necessary to their interests, have charac- terized the course of these corporations. They will not now surrender without a struggle, and a sharp one, but there 1s “reason to believe that their day of su- preme domination is gone. They must hereafter be nontent to receive what justly and equitably belongs to them. class known as the Eighth grade, from which pupils pass to the high school proper. It has been suggested that pu- pils who desire to do so may take up the study and master the rudiments and theory of the art during the school year | t in which they are being fitted to advance into the high school grade, after which the instruction will be confined to the practice. The success of such a move is contingent upon at least two essentinl requirements: a thoroughly competent instructor of large experience in the profession—one who has been highly successful in the busi- ness world inthe practice of phono- graphy; and also a strong desire or fixed purpose in the mind of the pupil, to pur- sue the study thoroughly and long enough to acquire a knowledge of the art and a rate of speed that will put him in demand for the better class of posi- tions. You cannot teach photography in three months, or for that matter in twelve months, any more than you cun telegraphy. The country is full of three month stenographers and telegraph- ers, who are utterly helpless and worthless in their pretended calling. Most of these boys and girls will never become proficient becanse they lack the natural gifts of brain and talent for this class of work. Every body can no more become a first class stenographer than every body can become a great musicia There 18 no doubt t hat short-hand in the public schools would be of advantage to a certain proportion of pupils by giv- ing an elementary 1instruction. But you cannot rely on public school short- | P hand for earning a livelihood. There is no doubt that many so-called stenog- raphers would profit more from a gram- mar and high school course than will the high school and grammar pupils from a smattering of stenography. lish| cm:r-n(. does solemnly swear at the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending August 12, 1857, wasas follows: Baturday, August 6. Monday, August Tuesdav, August 9. Wednesday, Augus Thursaay. August 11 Friday, August 12. Averaee..... Gro, . TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 15th day of August, A, D. 1887, [SEA L. Btate of Nebraska, ) Douglas County. | % Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of August, 1588, 12,464 coples: for Septem ber, 1856, 18,030 copies; for October, 1846, 12,080 coples; for November, 1886, 13,348 coples; 'for December, 18%, 13,337 copiea: ‘for January 1857, 10,208 coples: for February. 1887, 14,108 coples; for March. 1857, , e:gu: for April, 1887, 14,316 copies: for May, 1887, 14,227 copies: for June 1887, 14,147 copies; for July, 1857, 14,098 copies, Geo. B. Tzsciruck. Bubscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day ot Allfil!. A. D., 1887, ISEAL.| P, FriL, Notary Public. P, FrIr, ry Public. t Al fi t THE interior department has not heard anything about the uprising of the In- dians in Colorado yet. 1f they had they would not be prepared to take any action in the matter, as the department has probably not yeu definitely decided what to do sbout the Custer massacre. —— Agalx Explorer Stanley is reported killed. These conflicting rumors give some ground for fearing that a disaster may have overtaken him, but until moro definite news reaches us, and taking into consideration his experience and abili- ties, we can hope for the best. — ANOTHER railroad disaster is chron- icled, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near Washington thistime. It would secem asthougheublic opinion mustsoon rise in its might and give railroad monopolists to understand that the safety of the truy- eling public must be ensured in a way that they eannot mistake or ignore. Have we not had sufticient blood shed to teach them this lesson? We need stringent log- islation in relation to the matter, and jus- tice should begin to make examples of criminally negligent and stingy railroad magnates. SENATOR STANFORD has made his reply 1o the petition of the investigating com- mission asking that he be compelied to answer the questions which it had pro- pounded to him. He claims that he de- clined to answer such questions only as referred to property with which the government has no connmection, and pleads also, that questions were asked manifestly prumpted by disaffected and hostile parties. The senator, it correctly reported, is not truthful as to the first claim, while the second is of no value as adefense. Granting that atl the questions were suggested by parties hostile to the Pacific Central ring, that fact would not warrant him in refusing to answer them if the commission had the authority to ask them. Whenthey were propounded by the commission they received its sanc- tion, and thut was sufficient, what- ever their origin. Senator Stanford knew this perfectly, but he was playing his part in the game of bluff that had been agreed upon. Having been ordered into court, a proceeding which he may have apprehended but hoped to avert, he now makes an explicit statement that he has never corrupted nor attempted to corrupt any member of the legislature, any member of congress, or any public official, nor authorized any one to do so, If he will state this on oath before the commission it may entitle him to be re- lieved of the suspicion of having person- ally done these things, if he has ever been so suspected, but it will still leave him open to the allegation of having knowingly permitted the use¢ of money to influence legislation. Senator Stan- ford’s answer does not greatly better his position, Mg. Georor TIMME wants it under- stood that the proceedings of the county commissions have been suppressed for the last cighteen months as a matter of economy, to save the county from need- less expense. This will do to tell the marmes. The county never paid a dol- lar for publishing proceedings in the Omaha dailies, and the fact that the BEe has been at large expense 1n order to be able to publish them now without charge, shows that Mr. Timme's excuse 1s very flippant. The reasons why there has been so much mystery about the com- wissioner’s affairs will appear when we make a summary of the records. INGRE JOHNSON, the Swedish immi- grant who, with her boy, was detained at Castle Garden in New York, has reached her people at Dassel, Minn. She came on in first-class cars and scemed well supplied with money, a contribution having been taken up for her in the e: 8he is the best advertised immigrant that has come west in a good many years, and it seems to have been her destiny to be the cause of an agitation against the board of immigrant commissioners that will no doubt end in the abolition of many abuses which have chrystalized about that body. The principal objector to the landing of immigrants is Commis- sioner Stephenson. He is a crauk on the subject, and will no doubt be re- moved, eE———— A nESOLUTION was introduced and promptly adopted by the council directing the city clerk to re-advertise for coal. Only a fow weeks ago the clerk advertised for coal, hay, oats, printingand ice. Why does the council order the clerk to re- advertise for coal and continue to pigeon- hole the resolution directing the clerk to invite new proposals for ofticial adver- tising? Is not this a dead giveaway on the jobbers and boodlemen? SE————— GronrGeE W. JULIAN, the surveyor-gen- eral of New Mexico, has made his report to the commissioner of the general land office. He says that nearly 4,000,000 acres have been stolen and kept trom sattle- ment through fraudulent surveys and in- valid claims during the past year. If this 18 true, and there is no reason to doubt the accuracy of his statement, 1t is time something were done to put a stop to such wholesale stealing of government land. The maladministration of grants confirmed by congress has become noto- rious. There has been too many sur- renders on the part of congress to rapa- cious monopolies to the distress of indi- vidual settlers. The Maxwell grantisa e Iron and Steel and the Tariff. We have already referred to the heawy importations of iron and steel during the past twelve months, the largest in amount during any year except 1880 since the tariff was established. The reason for this is partly in the fact that the home market was unable to supply the de- mand, but measurably also because the price of the domestic product was ad- vanced to figures which enabled consum- ANOTHER mathematical problem has just been propounded for the benefit of our school board. If a government offi- cer can ship postage stamps from Wash- ington to Chicago to be used in paying salaries of employes in his son’s roller composition fake, how long will it take *for him to accumulate a round fortune. The boy who solves this problem will re- ceive as a free gift the best lightning cal- notablo caso in point. The extent to | ©™3to buy abroad to advantago. With culator in the market. which fraudulent surveys have been car- s,w”l rails at $43 a ton the SoME months ago President-of-the ried on is enormous. A romedy for this :'i::i‘ll’h do":;‘“tw“;“e“x“?“ld Yol:ky Council Bechel publicly charged that 3 would be to resurvey all grants about which there is any doubt, and begin suits to seu aside patents obtained by fraud. John Butler was short over 600, which he collected as chief of the fire depart- ment and did not turn into the city treasury. If this money has not vet been paid in, and we never heard that it has been, why did not Mr. Bechel place the $70 which ‘he signed away to Butler in the last appropriation ordinance for services as sargeaut-at-arms to his credit in the fire-chief deficitt This conun- drum s propounded to us, and we give it pablicity in the interest of municipal economy. paying the duty of $17, at a profit, and did so to the value of more than fifty mil- lion dollars, Itis not very diflicult to figure what the profits of home manufac- turers have been. ‘We observe that the Chicago manufac- turers claim that the prices roceived in 1885, $28 and $30,-did not pay any profit, and that there is not a very great margin in the present price. Itis hardly possible that they can induce any intelligent per- son to believe this. Allowing for the diffor- ence 1n cost of labor and raw materials, there cannot be more than $2 a ton 1n favor of the English manufacturer. Yet he can sell his steel rails in New York, shipping them 8,000 miles, at $25 a ton, less the duty, and make a profit. How absurd it is, therefore, for the American manufacturer to claim that there is no profit for him at $28 and 830 a ton, and not a great profit at the present price. The fact is that at $42 the least favored manufacturers are gelting a profit of yery nearly or quite the full amount of the tariff duty, and many of them more. But the Chicago manufacturers, in com- mon doubtless with those elsewhere, are he coroner's jury investigating the Chatsworth disaster warrants an apprehension that no one will be held responsible for that most de- plorable calamity. The members com- posing the jury are all understood to be fully competent to carefully and judi- clously weigh the evidence presented, and if this be accepted the fact of their having failed to agree, assuming enure bouesty and freedom from outside influ- ence, indicates that the weight of evi. dence 18.not strong enough in any direc- tion to assure final conviction. One un- fortunate feature of the situation is the statement that the coroner has shown a disposition to shield the company, but it does not follow that he has exerted any influence upon the jury, It must be granted that the evidence was perplex- ing, but it 1s nearly Impossible to believe that no one was at fault, and 1t will cer- tainly be universally feit that justice has suffered & defeat if the respousibility 1 not fixed where it belongs. ———— CHIEF SEAVEY has made a mistake in the disbursement of the $50 reward which the sheriff of Laramie placed in his hauds for the capture of a Wyoming ecrimiaal. The chief of police i3 not expected to pay out rewards secured for the capture of criminals to hospitals or benevolent institutions. These rewards are a legiti- mate incentive to vigilance on the part of the police and rightfully belong to them. The money should have been paid over to the officer or officers who made the arrest. 1f these men desired to do- nate this money to- benevolent jnstitu- tions, they were at liverty to do so. OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. street paved between Farnam and Har- ney, and the curbs aro now being laid in that square thirty feet trom the line of roadway between the curb-stones will be only thirt curb north, between Farnam and Doug- 1as. That will leave fifty feet of roadway which is by no means The paving material in this square should be asphaltum and the county commis. durable, not so cleanly and noisier. prove the ordinance changing the name of Sixteenth street to Sherman avenue. The names of our numbered streets should never be changed. They should be consecutive from the river westward, as they were originally platted and mapped. If you omit Sixteenth street you have to jump from Fifteenth to Seventeenth, of Seventeenth to correspond. such a general change would not be satis- factory. There would still remain an odd- named street between Fifteenth and Ses- enteenth which would be most decidedly objectionable because 1t would confuse strangers and even residents who arenot familiar with the map. wants Sherman avenue perpetuated let Carlsbad & month taking the waters. a pastime which soothes his irritated nerves. He has become a passionate fisherman. of a falr American, and she took his picture before he could say Jack Robinson in Ger- man. who went down to Windsor to present her majesty with £80,000 were somewhat sur- prised at having to pay for their tea. great admirer of Wagner’s works, and has desired the director of the Madrid opera to sible, with *“The Nibelung’s King, to an allowance of $1,500,000 a year, was considered & lucky child until the sixteen- year-old emperor of China was heard from. The Celestial monarch is said to receive $50,000,000 a year, and Is about to spend $10,000,000 in getting married. dinary nerve and courage. & canoe through some of the roughest shal- drumbeat of her kingdom, can around the world, We suspect, however,that this last statement is exaggerated. Trr council has ordered Seventoenth he lots. Inasmuch as the court house etaining wall, which forms the west ide of this square is ten feet out, the feet wide. This s stupid work. curb lines ~ on both ides of this square should be set back on line with the too wide for a quare adjoining the court’ house. The noners should sce to it that it is properly aid. Wooden-block pavement is less — WE hope that the mayor will not ap- 1 or change Seven- eenth to Sixtepnth, and the streets west But even If anybody hem change the name of some street hat runs into Fort Omaha. Four-dollar k. Six hundred and ifty-two dollars out of the city treasury hrough the combine with rascals, KINGS AND QUEENS. ‘The emperor of Brazil 1s golng to stay at It is related that the czar has at last found Emperor Willia lately faced the camera The London World hears that the ladies ‘The Queen Rogent of Spain is sald to bea produce some of them, commencing, if pos- The infant king of Spain, who is entitled The prince of Wales, who keeps the wolf from the door by an income of about $1,000,000, has been well nigh bankrupted by the expenses of the jubilee and is a frequent borrower on the London *stroet.” From the Pacific ocean comes news of'a pending royal divorce between Pomare V., King of the Society Islands, ana his Queen Marau, the pretty brunet, who was for a time “alion”—or I should say “alloness”—in Parsian soclety when she was staying at the French capital in 1888, siders himself the aggrieved party. King Pomare con- ‘The princess Louise is a woman of no or- She hay steered ows of the' Restigouche and Cascapedia, climbed perilous peaks at dawn to make sketches at sunrise, groomed her own pony on returning from aride or drive. and has frequently Madrid papers relate that Queen Christine has won the hearts of her republican oppo- nents b, political who her graclousness in pardoning a criminal, an adherent of Zorilla, had been sentenced to death at Burgo de Osma. The people of thatcity took great interest in the condemned man and des- patched the republican deputy, Senor Pe- nalba, to the queen to procure a pardon. During the hot "weather, Queen Victoria eats her breakfast and transacts business under tents on the lawn at Windsor or Us- borne; and it is reported that when a great, nasty worm drops down her neck, or a cater- Flllnr crawls onto her shoulder and tickies X er face, the queen behaves very much like the meanest woman in her realm: that she jumps as though she had discovered a bor- net’s nest, and that her scream, like the be heard Queen Margaret, of italy, is very anxious not to apoear too youthful. At the inning of the summer she asked King Humbert whether she was not growing oo old to wear her favorite style of dress—white muslin, “That point needs consideration,” replied the king, Nothing more was said on the subject for several weeks, but one morning the king’s Chamberlain entered the queen’s apartments announcing that he brought the royal answer to Queen Margaret’s inquiry. ‘The answer consisted of a huge trunk con- taining six elaborate white muslin dresses from Paris. —— The Doctors Must Be Wrong. Boston Glabe, A man in AMobiia has -not laughed for twenty years, and will leave the room if any one attempts to make a joke. His physician says that heis not insane or unhealthy, and attributes his melancholy condition to a con- stant reading of alleged comic papers. e Patronage a Source of Weakness. Richmond State, ‘The Hon. Dan W. Voorhees having de- clared that he is a believer In the doctrine that “'to the victors belong the spoils,” and that Indiana democrats now rejoice in the possession of all the offices, the New York W orld reminds him that although Cleveland carried Indiana in 1834 by more than 6,000 majority, last year the state was lost to the democracy by a majority of more than 3,000, As the State has long held, the distribution of offices among the members of a party often produces as much if not more discon- tent than the retention of thelr opponents. When men who fight with a party only for the offices are disappointed, they are not likely to be more lenient to their party 1f they are disappointed by gne of their own number than if they are disappointed by another. When men fight for principles they do not forsake a party simply ' because they do not et oftices. THE OFFICKS OF LOVE. A{‘a rocks the cradle till the balm of sleep . fin the lily lids of childhood lies, Youth guides tha tottering step adown the L Of life and gently closes Age’s eyes. KISMET. : Some lives are like a day with rése-hued morn, Brlgllll(t noon, and eve of amber-tinted And some like toa day midst te: it born, And rloon ensbrouded i T oors i es. WOMAN, A woman’s heart with kindly pity glows, And quickly. shows the sympathy It feels, She drops the tear of grief for other's woes And with a smile her own heartache con- THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. He who would grind his fellows ‘neath his Would bully, tyrannize and Some ay will 'with a sronser tyrans mdet Wi L) o0l ‘And DS compalied his GALIIDE 3oL 10 ¥ yoke to wear. nated by signs. City will cost $5,000. September 6, 7 an will be completed this week. of Hebron amount to $72,455.95. Deshler will be dedicated next Sunday. have a school building, a two-stor; frame, 48x50. ol 4 AUGUST 18, 1887 " STATE A.np_fl_t_nmront. . Nebi a Jottings. Curtis has organized a G. A. R. post. Grand Island's streetsgare now desig ing fish in the Jim river with seines and who jumped their bail are back at their illegal work again. 'I'hey defy the au- thorities and threaten the neighvors with destruction if any complaints are made. A patition has been put 1n oironlation at Deadwood asking for a 50 per cent ro- duction in the tclephone rates now charged, and as far as circulated has boen ul;{:\od by nearly every subscriber, each subscriber agreeing to discontinue tho use of instruments entirely unless the re- duction be granted. Rates now in force are §5 a month for the city and $7.50 & month for the entire Black Hills circuit. The entire telephone service of the hills is now in the hands of one company, with headquarters at Deadwood. Wyoming. Forty-one Jrimm\rl are confined in the Cheyenne jail. Green River is (o have 8 bank with a capital of $50,000. Chenenne's meat men's pool s ‘“‘busted’’ and citizons can now eat steak at reasonable figures. Work on the B. & M. Cheyenne line is being pushed rapialy and trains will run into Sterling, Col., in a week. A thirteen-year-old son of Rev. Dr, Huntington, of Rawlins, opened an old satchel in the doctor’s study, when a snake about two and a half feot long crawled out and coiled up. in the corner of the study. Albert, three years old, saw it and was about to jump on it with his bare feet, when the older brother seized the little boy and threw him on a lounge, then grasping a piece of board nlesfintcnod his snakeship. It was a rattler. The Missouri Pacific depot at Nebraska The Thayer couaflg fairis to be held The Northwestorn depot at Surprise The deposits of the First National bank The new Gorman Lutheran church at The citizens of Curtis have resolved to Children and matches nearly caused the destruction of Samuel Ilershy's house at Beatrice. Nebraska City is fall of candidates for the tmastership made vacant by the death of Thomas Morton. A kick trom a horse broke the skull of Augustus Lucas, a farmer near Grand Island, butit is thought he will recover. A four-year-old son of Silas Paxtonl living near Chester, climbed a windmilt tower and fell to the ground, dashing ou, his brains, A sleek swindler with several good sized forged checks of the B, & M. in_his possession took 1n several Hastings firms the other day. A fine, blooded bull belonging to Will- 1am Stolley, of Grand Island, was sacri- ficed last week after n desperate attempt togore his owner and the hired man. Robert Wilson, a young man livin near Juniata, became too familiar with a threshing machine cylinder one day last week, and now mourns the loss of one hand. The Hall county Teachers’ Institute will convene in Grand Island Avgust 22 to September 2 inclusive. he in- structors enguged are Profs. Thras| Hubbell and State Superintendent George B. Lane. Two Rising City residents attended a country dance the other day, and after a warm time concluded to make them- selves scarce. In the race for freedom they paid no attention to barb wire fences, and as a consequence one of the participants counts up eleven scratches and ten bruises on different parts of his anatomy. Judge Post, attorney of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railway has informed the people of Hastings: ‘‘About October first your citizens can mount to their house tops and look out for trains approaching from the east.” Work all llong the line is progressing rapidly and satisfactorily. Itis learned from a United States secret service operative, that a note purporting {0 be a two-dollar silver certilicate, is out in the northwest, printed from a wood cut and bearing no resemnblance to any guvcrnmnnt issue of silver certificates. t has a spread eagle on right end face of note, and two Indians on left end, one standing, the other kneeling. It hasa square green back with the word silver, in white capitals in center of back. Its workmanship is so very crude no person should be deceived into accepting it as a thing of value. lowa Items. The artesian well at Newton is now 600 feet deep and being dug deeper. Monday evening John Arnitz was in- stantly killed at Carroll while trying to chimb on a moving train. ‘The Hawkeye says there are stron, dications that %:m has been discovere miles north of Burlington. ‘The fourth biennial reunion of Crock- er's Iowa brigade will be held at Daven- port, September 21 and 22. The democrats of Powesheik county, in their convention on_the 13th inst., in- structed for General Weaver for gover- nor. It is estimated that there have been over 000,000 tons of hay put up in the four northwestern counties of lowa this season. The miners at Swan are loading thirty- five cars per day of coal for the Union Pa- cific trade. 1t goes to Umaha and is there distributed. The republican county convention of Adamns county, last Saturday, adopted a resolution pronouncing for Senator Alli- son for president. ‘The fourth biennial reunion of the sur- vivors of the Third r#imenz lowa in- fantry, will be held at West Union, Fay- ette county, Wednesday and Thursday, August 31 and September 1. Should Bishop Perry accept the bishop- ric of Nova Scotia he will draw a salary of 6,000 a year, in addition to the old Knglish stereotyped handle to his name, “My Lord Bishop." Rev. Mr. Stetson, of Logansport, Indi- ana, has.accepted a call extended to him by the First Baptistchurch of Des Moines and will enter upon his work sometime m_Septemper. Mr. Stetson is an ex- cellent preacher. 5 Two hundred good looking young ladies catne down to Dubuque from Cass- ville on an excursion boat, and the city marshal detailed the handsomest ‘‘cop” on the force to show them the places of interest about the city. Farmers about LeClaire state that corn does not look as well as it did a month ago, and that the corn yield in that re- gion will not be any larget than last vear. Some fields are badly scorched—entirely burned up by the heat of the past three weeks. Lewis A. Lee was arrested at Webster City for bigamy. July 29 he married Miss Lillie M. Kirk, but forgot to men- tion to hor the fact that he had three other wives scattered promiscuously through Iowa and Nebraska. He is now spending the balance of his honeymoon in jail. A curious coincidence is noted in_con- nection with the death of James Whit- werth, the printer who fell out of the window of the KKeokuk Democrat. In his lust complete stickful of type that he set WaS 8 m\rngr;nph concerning the leap of Acronaut Buldwin from his baioon, and his narrow cscape from death because of the tailure of his parachute to work prop- erly. A few moments afterwards Whit- worth took his fatal plunge. An opinion has been filed by Judge Love, 1n the United States district court, at Keokuk, in the case of Lewis Suess, the Fairfield brewer, who applied for a writ of injunction to restrain state officers from 1nstituting criminal proceedings against him or his business, under the prohibitory law. Judge Love declines to interfere by injunction or otherwise, with the criminal laws of the state, and says that courts of equity, state or fed- eral, Lave no right to intertere in such cases. A lodge of the Ancient Order of For- esters has been established in Deer Lodge, Mont. The end. of the track on the Montana extension of the Manitoba is now within 800 m:iles of Helefa. The total amount thus far received for the relief of the sufferers of the Gould & Curry lire is $22,385.65. Owing to there bE‘"f no money in the Tucson (Ariz.) school fund, the public schools of that city will not open until November 1. Shasta Courier: A man who spells God with a “j,” and county and Cal. with *'k,” is not fit for postmnaster, but there is one such in this county. Los Anfielu is becoming ‘‘quite Eng- lish, you know.” On Saturday the Brit- ish flag was flying there in honor of the forty-third birthday of H. R. H. Alfred Ernest, Duke of Edinburgh. The discovery of oil rock 18 reported at Sargent’s ranch, near Gilroy. The rock is white, of chalky appearance, and when iguited gives a bright and continu- ous light. It burns finally to ash. It can be used for fuel or illumination, A mountain of this rock is in view. It is situated near beds of bitumen which cover a large acreage. SERTe e THE COUNOIL. The Work of a Busy Night by the Local Legislators. The regular weekly mceting of the weeks ago, has been prostrated some council was held Tuesday evening, the fol- lowing councilmen being present: Alexan der, Bailey, Bedford, Boyd, Burnham, Chaney, Counsman, Ford, Hascall, Kas- par, Kierstead, Kitchen, Lee, Lowry, Manville, Snyder and Mr. President. The reading of the record was dis- pensed with, All petitions, except those from the mayor, chairman of the board of public works and city engincer, were referred without reading. PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS. From the mayor—Approving certain paving and grading contracts. Same—Vetoing the ordinance for the grading of Douglas street, because there is un absence of money in the general fund to carry out the improvement. The veto wus sustained, the president and Mr. Alexander voting in the aflirma- tive. Same—Suj stroet near n- SIX sting the grading of Cass . Clark's property. Ap- proved. Snn\u—l{nnorunfi the amount of ex- venditures for public improvements this ear as follows: First ward, $30,403.98; S $1 .61; Third, nothing; fth, $304.88: Sixth, #10,913.55; Eighth, $12,908.95. Total, ,185.90; Seventh, Ninth, Finance., $80.35 The city engineer thought the total would be increased to $50,000, Slmn—Aupmnlinfi appraisers for the ic ( .21, damages from public 1mprovements of streets, as follows i from Thirty-first to Thirty- W. J. Kennedy, E. Zabriskie, and 5 L. Gibbon; Twenty-first, from Leaven- worth to Briggs’ estate, same except B. Whitehorn instead of Kennedy; opening Southwestern avenue, same exc¢ept John r, Bell for Whitehorn; grading Daven- vort from ‘Twenty-third to Twenty-fitth, same excopt Whitehorn for Bell; grading Jones from Fourteenth to Sixteenth,same appraisers; opening alley between Far- nam and Douglas and Twentieth and Twenty-fourth, saume appraisers; extend- ing Webster to Kennedy street, snme except Bell for Zabriskie; opening Twenty-second from Oak Chatham to Saratoga addition, same except Zabriskie instead of Bell. Chairman Board of Public Works— Grading estimates of Twenty-eighth street, Farnam to Leavenworth, $1,256.69. Apvproved. City Engineor—Showing the availabil- ity of $9,152.52 for ntersection paving. Paving, curbing and guttering. Chairman of Board of Public Works— Final estimate of Morso Bridge Com- pany for 36.27 for tleventh street viaduct. Approved. Same—Showing that the city owes Murphy Creighton & Co. $4,244.73. Ap proved. Same—Transmitting the bids for the city hall. Public property and build- ings. From Messrs Zabriski, W. J. Kennedy and Joseph Redman—That no damages resulted from the grading of Poppleton avenne, RESOLUTIONS. ‘ Mr. Kaspar—Ordering the grading of Twenty-fourth street at the intersection of Hickory; also the cast sides of Thir teenth street, in front of block 220, to the width of 20 feet; also the grading of Nineteenth street, south of Dorcas; also the lowering ot the sewer in Nineteenth street, north of Leavenworth, All these were adopted, Mr. Hascall—Instructing the street commissioner to remove the earth in the south end of the alley between St. Pat- rick's church and school and the site for the convent. Adopted. Mr. Ford—That the horse market be moved from Leavonworth between Thir- teenth and Fourteentb. Adopted. Mr. Alexander—That the mayor ap- point a competent person to compile and arrange the city ordinances, to be com pleted by January, 1888, and to cost not more than §1,500. Mr. Hascall said that, judging from the action of the mayor in making appoint- ments for city employes, that dignitary did not show the eapacity to warrant the council in placing other appointments within his gift. He opposed the ap- pointment of a comviler by the mayor because be did not feel like placing eyery power in his hands. Dakota. Bishop Hare is in the Black Hills. llrloquois is to have a steam flouring mill. Governor Church 15 now criticising the management of the directors of the pen- itentiary at Sioux Falls. The United States grand jury at Dead- wood expressed its preference for presi- dential candidates, the result being Blaine 16, Cleveland 4. Secretary Bushnell, of the Dakota ter- ritorial fair, is making an effort fo have John Sherman male an address at the fair at Mitchell. The wild hay crop around Arlington is very large this year, and great quantities are being put up. One tirm has contract- ed for 1,000 ton Frank Hensehka, who was injured by | “'Mr. © Ford ssid ~ that the a mowing machine near Yankton some | ordinances as they were now weeka ugo, has been prostrated with lock- | understood were not enforced, jaw, and the physiciuns have amputated | and in support of this assertion said that his foot 1n the hope of saving his life. in tho matter of trench filling, every The men who were arrested for catch- | plymber who dug one to wake conneo- tion with a main, was compelled to_fill the same, with floating river sand, But such was not required of tho big corpor- ations. By way of exemvlification. Mr. Ford referred to a break on Davenport street where the pavement had been undermined and the re‘pnir had to be done by men in the mud and with rub- ber boots, On Farnam street, over the water pipe trench, the pavement was being relaid without any rock béneath the granite, and with no river sand as re- quired by ' the ordinance. The fact of the matter was that there was a lack of eonergy among the departments. ery- thing was being neglected. The ordin- ances were not enforced, and until they were, he thought it would be safe to shut off other ordinunces of the kind men- tioned. ‘The matter was referred to the com- mittee on judiciary. Mr. Counsman— Requiring the rail- roads to plank their crossings, Adopted. Same—That the weighmaster repair his luéhu and measures, Adopted. ailey — Authorizing the street commissioner to remove as much timber from the North Eighteenth street bridge as can be spared. Adopted. Same—That a twenty-four-inch sewer ipe be Inid_on Thirticth from Cass to &mflng. Adr:rt d, one-half of the ex- pense to bp paid out of the sewer f and one-half by the property owners. Same—Asking for the appointment of fifty special policemen during the fair. Mr. Hascall said that this looked like a snap game on the part of the board of fire and police commissioners. They had fionn on and acted as they felt dis- posed without recogmzing the council and had already created an overlap, or would 1f they kept on as they were gomg, Why did the commission go to the council and ask for the men required ? ‘The latter could not afford to meddle in the business, nor esvecially to assume tho responsibility for the ~ illegal acts of the commission. The latter did not have brains enough to know what they were doing. But the council sho le them shoulder the responsibility. Mr. Lee said he was heartily in favor of appointing the police to protect the atrangers who would come to Omaha during the fair, but in view: of the fact that the whole matter of the police ap- pointment had been taken out of their hands he moved that \he communication be referred to the mayor. It was so re- ferred. Mr. Lee—ordering the advertising for one week for conl. Adopted. Mr. Sli‘yder— hat the Cable Tramway m"mr Tenth street before the Adopted. Mr. Loe.—That Macdonald, the keeper of Hanscom park, be paid $3 per day. Adopted. Same—Authorizing the hiring of a sprinkler for North Sherman avenue to the reunion grounds during the encawp- ment. Adopted. Same—Ordering a gaslamp on Leaven- worth and Georgia avenue. Hascall—Ordering Contractor Stuht to make an approach to Center street from Eleventh. ~ Adopted. Manville—That the intersection of ‘Twenty-second and Burt be filled. Adopted. Mr. Lowerv—Urdering a watch house on the Eleventh street viaduct. Board of public works and city engineer with vower to act. na REPORTS. Committee on Finance—In reply to Treasurer Rush’s communication of last week, that hereafter the city wiil have ready money to mect all demands. Adoptea. Grades and Grading—Recommending the passage of an ordinance for the grading of Chicago from Twentieth to Twenty-third. Recommitted. Gus and Electric Lights—The names and bonds of tifteen plumbers and gas- fitters asking for licenses, with favora- ble recommendation. Adopted. Claims—That an etfort be made to ar- bitrate the damages sustained by Mr. Dauble in falling over an embankmeut on Hamilton street. Adopted. Paving, Curbing and Guttering—Re- commending the passage of an ordinance for the paving of Seventeenth and Eigh- teenth from Harney to Farnam. Adopted. Mr. Counsman—That the northwest corner of Twenty-fourth and Harney be curbed. Adopted. Claims—That C. E. Fanning be allowed §79.05 for the sweeping of Douglas street. Adopted. Fire and Water—Locating a number of firc hydrants. Approved. Streets and alleys—That a certain piece of land on Twenty-third street be sold H. F. Clark. Adopted. Grades and grading—That an ordi- nance be passed for the trading of How- ard from Twenty second to Twenty- fourth and Twenty-first avenues in Pres- ton & Willlams addition. Adopted. Same—Recommending an ordinance for the opening of Blaine from Tenth to Thirteenth street. Adopted. Same—Recommending ordinances for the grading of Farnam from Thirty-sixth to city limits; Nineteenth from Daven- X ing Seward from grading alley cific and Tenth Twentieth to T between Mason and I and Eleventh. Adopt Sidewalks and Bridges—That the claim of Charles F. Driscoll for the double payment of a sidewalk tax be referred to the city attorney. Adopted. ORDINANCES, A number ot grading ordinances were read :first and second time and laid over, amogg them being that making an ap- propriation of $5,049.44 for liabilities in- curred in July. Referred to & special committee. Mr., Ford introduced an ordinanoe, granting to the Omaha and Council Bluffs railway company to build and maintain the west end of its proposed bridge ncross the Missouri eiver with a viaduct approach upon either Douglas or Dodge streets. This was read first and second time and laid over, Mr. Hascall introduced an ordinance providing for the issuing of $100,00) sew- er bonds. This was read a seccond time und laid over. The same disposition was made of a similar ordinance provid ing for $75,000 paving and intersection bonds. Alf Sorensen of the Ber was allowed $500 for damages sustained by stepping onanail in a broken sidewalk on the corner of Leavenworth and xteenth streets, in June last, which incapacitated him for business for a number of weeks. An ordinance granting the right of vay to the Union Pacific, and.to lay a {o track crossing Twentieth was re- rred to the committee on viaducts and railways, nee re Z of the name o Sherman avenue was rred to the committee on streets and alleys for two wecks, The following ordinances were passed: Curbing Leavenworth from Seventh to Eaghth, Beventcenth from Davenport to Cuming, Jackson from Seventh to Ninth, Harney from Sixteenth 1o Twenty-sixth, Jackson from ‘Thirteenth to St. Mary's avenue, Nicholas from Fourteenth to Fifteenth; paving Seventeenth and hteenth from Farnam to Harney: the alley in blocks 174,175,176, 7in alley puving districts 33, 84, 37 with Bolorsdo sandstons: 'opening Blaine street from Tenth to Thirteenth; extend ing Seward from Twenticth to Twenty- first street; Farnam from Thirty-sixth to city limits; Ninetconth from Davenport to Dodge, to Howard from Twenty-second enth and Twenty fiest ton and Williams' ndd woen Mason and Pacitic and Eleventh and teenth avenue between Jackeon Leavenworth. Adjourned. The new bell for the Episcopal church in Helena, donated by Miss Bernice Cau- non, hasarrived from the eastern foundry and will soon be put in place at the church, It weighs t 900 pounds, Twenty-s nue in P 1 5 =z and B