Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1887, Page 4

R - > o~ — N —— T 3 A . OO R O e 0 s P 0 o 43 1 8 e e o - 5 A TS S 0 i o B e o e AR i { * THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 24, 1887. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED E_T_:Tw MORNING. TRRMS OF SURSORIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Edition) including Sunday Brr, Ono Vear.. .. iooes 8 For 8ix Months. .. .. . For Threa Months .. The Omahn Swnday Bik, maiiod to any address, One Year. ...... v ARA OPPICE, NO, 014 A EW YORK OFFICE. ABHINGTON OFFIC 0 b 2 0 00 w 00 18 FARNAM OORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter slould be addressed Lo the Epl TOR OF THE Brr. BUSTNESS LETTERS! Pu hecks and_postofi ors le 1o the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ulirculation. Btate of Nebraska, *' ™ County of Douzlas. o . B. ‘I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending August 10, 1857, wasas follows Saturday. August 13 Sunday, August 14. Mondav. August 1 Tuesdav, August 16. Wednesday, ~ August Thursaay, August 1%, ¥riday, August10..... 17.. " Gro, 1s. Sworn to and subscribed in this 22d day of August, A, D. 18 ny presence L, P, FEIL, Notary Publie. [SEA L Btate of Nebraska, |, Douglas County. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says thiat he Is secretary of The Iiee Publishing company, that the actual average daily cifeulation of tho Dally lice for themonth of August, 1586, 12,464 copies;: for Septem ber, 18%, 13,020_coples; for October, 1856, 12,90 coples; for November, 155, 1S corfes; 'for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for Januaty 17, 10,20 coples: for February, K87, 14,105 poples: for March, 187, copies: ‘for April, 1867, 14,31 copies: f. A copies: June copie: or July, 1887, 14,003 copies, Gro, B. Tzsomuck. Subscribed and sworn to before me tliis 1th day ot Augist, A D, 1867 ISEAL.] ~ N. P, Frit, Notary Public. P e i o e I't remains to be seen what the counc will do about the special police for fair and re-union week. — PriNcE FERDINAND begins to think he is & sure-enough king now. It is reported that a Russian secret society in Bulgaria has formea a plot to assassinate him. THE batch of vouchers which have been passed by the county commissioners since the 1st of July, as reviewed in this iasue, will be found interesting reading. —_— Tue “White-Caps,” an association of a species of “regulators” in certain counties of Indiana, are said to have be- come such a terror that the governor has been urged to send out the militia against them. With twenty or thirty possibly hostile Utes in the west, and a band or two of outlaws in the east this countr; in a precarious condition. We must our army increased. THERE can be no fault found with the board of education for making provisions for increased school facilities by pur- chasing grounds for new school buildings. The board shonld, however, exercise great care and reasonable economy in the selection and purchase of school sites. There is no necessity for the purchase of corner lots on leading thoroughfares. All that is required are grounds accessi- ble to street rallways and central for the district which is to be accommodated. — Wk do not profess to have artistic taste and mechanical skill, but we yery much prefer the architecture of the Leaven- worth and Farnaw street school build- ings to that of the new mansard-roof school-houses now being erected near Park avenue. Mansard roofs on school buildings are out of place, even if they were not already out of date for other buildings. They are more ornamental than useful. They are dangerous fire traps, and besides more expensive than roofs of other patterns. Our dispute with Canada in relation to the fisheries question is entailing wide. spread disaster. Two woeks ago Secre- tary Whitney was compelled to adminis- ter a public rebuke to Admiral Luce for the manner in which he attempted to in- struct American tishermen along the Ca- nadian const. Now it is stated that the admiral has had his revengo by receiving the secretary, who visited him the other day at Bar Harbor, in citizen's clothes. This is terrible. The regulations of the navy are emphatic in the provision that naval officers shall receive official digni- taries in uniform. The quarrel seems to be growing out of all proportion to the sizo of our navy. Tue labor vote in Cincinnati last spring was a surprise to the old parties. and it doubtless was also to the labor party. It had the effect to stimulate the labor movement, and there is now a good or- ganization which 1s likelw to make itself more strongly felt in the coming cam- vaign and election, It has taken a step forward in demanding recognition from the board of clections when making ap- pointments of registrars, judges and clerks of election, and a common pleas judge has granted a mandamus requiring the board to accord such recognition, Thus labor will have its representatives on hand to seo that there is a free ballot and a fair count, and it is entirely proper that it should do so, particularly in Cin- cinnati, —_— CiviL SErVICE COMMISSIONER EDGER- TON has published his portion of the re- port on the Chicago custom house and postoflice investigation. He says, in re- lation to removals, that if the right of dismissal from the service 1S taken away from the appointing officer the subordi- nate becomes greater than his superior, He thinks also that the appointing power should havye the right to discharge an in- eflicient employe without giving reasons for so doing. Of course he should have the right to remove a subordinate who 1s ineflicient, but it 1s questionable whether the recommendation to allow him to dis- wiss any one from the service without giving reasons therefor is judicious. That reasons for such action should be required has been considered one of the safeguards of the service, and in the di- rection of civil service reform. Other- wise the appointing oflicial may become liable to misuse his power by removing subordinates on personal or political grounds as well as for inefliciency, Threatened Rebellion in Manitoba The railroad conflict in Manitoba, which for gome time past has been a source of disturvance, has now assumed a very serious aspect. 1t is a war of the people of the province against the Cana- n Pacific monopoly, . backed by the Dominion government, and both parties show a most determined purpose not to recede from their positions. The latest dispatches report Sir Jonn Macdonald as having declared that he would defeat the Mum&h:\ scheme of constructing a com- peting road to the Canadian Pacific if it became necessary to use British regulars to do so, while the premior is quoted as saying that any such proceeding would result in rebellion. He declared that Manitoba was determmed to have an inddpendent line of railrond to the United States boundary, and that the Dominion author- ities cannot stop it. The people of the province seem (o be unanimous 1n sup- port of this view, and from present indi- cations there is every reason to expect a speedy development of most interesting events in Manitoba. The grinding monopoly of the Cana- dian Pacific is responsible for this state of affmrs, When the exactions of this corporation grew to be unbehrable, the capitalists and business men of Winni- peg started the project of building the Red River Valley line from Winnipeg to the southern boundary of Manitoba, in which they were aided by Minnesota capital. This line would give them ac- cess to an American market for their grain, which they could reach much more rapidly and at a good deal less cost then by the Canadian Pacific, an enter- prise with which the people of Manitoba have never had any very hearty sympa- thy. It would render them entirely in- dependent of this moropoly, for they could do all their business of both selling and buying in the nearest United States markets, to their very material advant- age as compured WAth what they have had to reccive and pay under the exac- tions of the Canadian Pacific. As soon as the new enterprise was started the monopoly began a fight againstit. All the power and infinence of the corporation and of the Dominion government were arrayed against it, but the managers of the new road, after failing to dispose of their bonds 1n London, found purchasers in Chicago, St. Paul and elsewhere, s0 that money enough was raised to go on with the work. It was oxpected that the boundary would be reached by the 1st of next November, but last week the work was obstructed by the Canadian Pacific building a spur across the route of the new road. This action, believed to have been taken with the full cognizance and approval of the Dominion government has greatly ex- asperated the people of Manitoba, and advices from there say there is scarcely a loval man in the province. The people are ripe for rebellion and would just as soon fight as not. The course of the cen- tral government in this matter has alien- ated every friend it had in the province, and at present not a soul would obey any mandate from Ottawa. Nouttention has been paid to an injunction against further work on the new road, and the provincial government is in open defi- ance of the federal authority. Unless Sir John Macdonald moves more rapidly than is his wont in cmergencies, the promise is that the Manitobans will Ty the road to completion without the interference of British regulars and be- fore the time they had set for its comple- tion. They merit the heartiest encour- agement for their enterprise, independ- cnce and courage. The attempt to fix upon them the Canadian Pacitic monop- oly and compel them to submit to its out- rageous exactions was a gross injustice which it 18 their duty to resist, and their commendable eifort to free themselves from this control deserves the success which 1t seems pretty sure to achieve. Meanwhiie Sir John Macdonald will do wisely not to be too hasty in putting into effect measures that would force the people of Manitoba into rebollion. There are obvious possi- bilities in such an occurrence that might result disastrously to the Dominion. The Growth of Trusts, Two more great monopolies, under the specious title of ‘“trusts have been created. The most considerable of these, the whisky trust, has fully completed its organization and entered upon ity mo- nopolist:c career. Like the models upon which it is formed, it has its corps of ofticers, its rigid regulations, and a po- litical headquarters at the center of the whisky production in this country, Peoria, Illinoi The principle to be pursued is similar to that of the Standard oil trust, a knowledge of which should be sufficient to bring universal condemna- tion upon the new monopoly. With a capital of forty million dollars the com- bination proposes to control the whisky trade of the country, regulating both the production and the price. Its purpose, of course, 15 to kil off all competition. “Those who refuse to ac- cede to its demands it will use all the power it possesses to crush., The plan is not particularly complex. A dgistiller is called upon to put a valuation on his establishment, and having done so a comunittee is appointed to make an ex- amination. After a distillery has been appraised and the terms settled between the owner and the trust, the former turns over his property to trustees of the monopoly for their use and behoof for twenty-five years, recciving in lieu thercof trust certificates. In some cases $21n certiticates will be given for §1 of valuation, in others dollar for dollar. ‘The trust having obtained control of a distiliery continues it in operation or closes it, at its discretion. The expecta- tion is that by keeping down production and maintaining, or perhaps advancing, the price, the trust certificates can be mada to pay an anuual divi- dend of from six to ten per cent, The gross earnings for the first year under the monopoly arrangement aréd figured at ten mullion dollars. Last year the industry represented by this trust paid revenue to the government to the amount of about $70,000,000. It is suggested that the concentration of the manufacturers will be a good thing for the government 1o enabling it to collect this revenue with fewer oficials, The other combination, formed but not yet fully organized, is the strawboard trust. Tho excuse for this alsois that ac- tive competition has resulted in a produc- tion considerably in excess of the de- mand, A pool that has existed for some time was unable to regulate the manu- facture so as to prevent the market be- eoming overstocked, and, there- fore, recourse I8 had to the policy of buying out those . in ‘the busi- ness who will gell to the combination and crushing out such as will not. Eight establishments have been designated to be shut down indefinitely, in consequence of which quite two thousand people will be thrown out of employment. ‘There 18 nothing in the character or aims of these combinations to relieve them ot the same general condemnation that has been pronounced upon the coal and oil monovolies which preceded them, and upon which they are modeled. *The principle that is the corner-stone of. one is the corner-stone of all, and is essen- tially inimical to the public welfare. It is simply a concentration of capital to break down competition in order to place a limit on the production of an industry ahd regulate the price of its product, so that such capital may be enabled not , only to assure itself a profit, but very nearly determine the amount of 1t. It imposes a restriction upon the free operation of industry and trade that must of necessity check enter- prise, injure labor, and become in time an exaction upon the consumer. The growth of these monopolistic combina- tions is a menace 10 the welfare of the country which the people ought to begin to regard with serious apprehension and which should receive the attention of re- pressive legisiation before they become 8o generul and firmly reoted that it will be very diflicult to overthrow them. The examples furnished show what may be expected if the creation of these monop- olies is allowed to go on unchallenged. Bureaus and Branches. Some people can do marvels in a very shorttime. Two weeks ago the Republi- can, following in the footsteps of other Omaba papers, started a branch oflice over the river. The man in charge scat- tered four or five hundred papers in the buck or front vards of Council Bluffsand published a list of about one hundred and fifty persons who had consented to have the papers delivered for one week. This fact was heralded with a grand flourish of trumpets, It was followed within ten days by the pompous announcement that the Republican was firmly established at Council Bluffs, with a larger cir- culation than any other daily. This is superiatively Amusing. When the Bek established its branch oftice at Council Bluffs nearly five years ago, it scattered thousands of papers be- fore it could get a foot-hold, and during the first two years it sunk over $3,000 in the enterprise. Its first manager, C. E. Mayue, was a rustler, but with all his energy, did not make it win, It was only after more than two years' struggle that the BEe finally got on a solid, pay- ing footing across the river, where 1t now ranks all the other papers in point of circulation and influence chiefly by reason of the immense outlay for tele- graphic and general news by its pub- hishers, and its superiority as a news- paper in every respect. Other Omala papers have tried hard, several times, to secure a circnlation at Council Bluffs, but their efforts were spasmodic and abortive. Our bombastic contemporary is not likely to fare better, It isa little premature in taking success for granted. Most anybody 1s willing to spend twenty cents for one week's subscription, but with newspapers, as in all other busi- ness, people discriminate in their se- lections. Few people take more than one daily, and nobody can ever supplant their choice with an inferior commodity. This is whv all attempts to follow or supplant the BEE have vroved failures. At the state capital, where the BEE has established a tirm foot-hod after sinking more than $2,000, the same results bave followed. Other Omaha dailies have opened bureaus, scattered papers, and made a splurge for a few weeks, but they lacked the nerve to sink $1,200 a year and take their chances of success, and the result is that with the exception of the Beg, no Omaha daily has more than a dozen regular subscribers at Lincoln. This is the true inwardness of the branch offices and bureaus which we hear of every little while. We might whisper it gently that it takes enormous expen tures of money, risky ventures, fore- sight, and some ability to plant u great metropelitan daily on a tirm footing. Gallagher's Kick, Postmaster Gallagher has ventured to express his contempt for mugwumps and cwil service reform through Congress- man McShane's paper. It appears the New York Z'imes is collecting f. cerning the changes in postoflice era- ployes which have been made in the leading citics of the country under the democratic administration. This was obviously with a view to finding out how civil servico reform works when put in practice by demoeratic postmasters, Mr. Gallagher was naturally very indignant at this unexpected intrusion. While un- der certamn circumstances, which are well-known among the Mulvaney ban- quetters, he is hable to vote 1or Blaine in 1888, ke is quoted as saying: ‘“The mug- wump is harmless. They are like old Colorow’s band of Utes. There is a heap of noise about them, but we hear of very few dead. Curtis and old George Jones don’t amount to very much at home, and in my opinion they count for much less out here." We know that republicans are pro- verbially ungrateful, but democrats are much more so. Postmaster Gallagher kicking the mug- wumps is a striking illustration of that fact. If 1t had not been for the mug- wamps Blaine would bo president to-day, and Con Gallagher would not be carry- ing sacks of Uncle Sam's coin under his arm to the national bank every dayin the week. But Con has such a habit of kicking the ladder by which he ascends that he caunot help it. Itis second na- ture with him. Let her go Gallagher! From the successful experimeuts which have been made from time to time with crude patroleum as a fuel, it is quite safe to predict that this product will take the place of coal 1n the near futuro. Steam- erson the Caspian sea, locomotives on the continent and various manufacturing industries in this country have made sat. isfactory use of petroleum instead of coal in generating heat. W hat obstacles remain in the way of a more general substitution of oil for coal, are chiefly in matters of detail, of inadequate appar- atus. That the principle of heating by means of petroleum is correct seems to be well established. A great saving to consumers ' must result from such a change. The first cost and the cost of transportation will be much less than those of coal. If the oil fields of Wyom- ing should prove productive we may yet be able to obtain a cheap fuel in this state. The next thing would be keep it out of the hands of monopolists. Tne owners of phosphate mines in South Carolina are now trying to make a corner in that art.cle, The unusual ir- ruption of this particular kind of fraud seems to have one good result, insuring itsown failure. Corners have become unpopular, as the western bonanza kings, Rosenfeld and others, can attest. —— THE FIELD oF DUSTRY, A good deal of new machinery is going into New England mills, Several barbed-wire works In the west have increased their capacity. The spring and axle manufacturers have formed a national association. ‘The city of Detroit has awarded a contract for an iron bride, to cost $280,000, Workinemen aro traveling less from place to placoe this year than ever before. There is & great scarcity of cars for coke, Ilumber and coal throughout the west. There is a heavy demand for all kinds of railway locomotive and car appliances, So great is the demand for pipe in the far west that a factory Is to be built at Pueblo. The Lowell machine shop has now 200 more men employed than it had a year ago. A large number of Shertield silversmiths are about to depart for employment in New York bity. There is an enormous increase in ship- ments of Spanish ore to Great Britain, Itis worth about $2.75 per ton 1n Wales. ‘The Jessups have made an enormous steel casting, 27 feet lon:, 17 feet across, and weighing 12 tons, which isto beused asa stern post. An English inventor has devised a new system of generating steam, which furnishes steam, it is sald, quicker and better than the present processes. Several new and heavy steel plants are to be put down in Great Britain, and the Cam- mell works are to be increased from u capac- ity of 8,000 tons per week to 6,000 tons, New mills are projected in Maine. Thers is nodifliculty in obtaining capital for new textile enterprises in that state, and there is less labor trouble there than elsewhore, New York capitalists, with some Canadian investors, are afier 15,000 square miles of timbered and iron ore property in Canada. Itis said that it containga large amount of coal. A large amount of [llinols harvesting ma- chinery is now on its way to South America and Australia. The Illinois traveling agents are paying particular attention to these far- off markets. Very few strikes are projected during the fall. ‘T'he workingmen, as a rule, are con- tented, and will work steadily in order to be prepared for any hard times that may come during next winter. ganieg Sheridan's Boom. Chicago Herald. General Sheridan was questioned by a re- porter about his presidential boom and said: +1 must reply to you as I did to a reporter out west. Itold him Kelly would be around soon. ‘Who is Kelly he asked. ‘Why, he's a fool-killer.” satd 1. *You catch on, do you? Well, good-by,” " -— Idaho Without Law, Chicagn Herald., Last winter the logislature of Idaho Terri- tory adopted a new code of laws and repealed the old statutes. The authorities advertised for bids for printing the new laws, and an Omaha firm was awarded the contract. It ap- pears that no time was set for the completion of the contract, and the territory is now vir- tually without laws, as the new statutes have not yet been printed. e T How Money Talks. Pittshurg Chroniele. An Illustration of the way “‘money talks" is found in Mr. C. P, Huntington’s state- ment, that the Central Pacific railroad com- pany expended large sums “in explaining things to congressmen.”” = Which is Certainly True, San Francisco Post, ‘The average hoodlum is a pitiful case. He was born tough, and does not seem to be any- thing else; but that is no reason why he should be placed on city pay-rolls and taken care of by politicans, while good men are wanting work. Warning Against “Previousness.’ Philad:tphia Ledger, A world of interfering events may happen in American politics between the summer of 1557 and the summer of 1888, when the presi- dential nominating conventions are to be held. This of itself shouid warn the politi- cians not to be *too previous, = No Lack as to Quantity. Missourd Republicon. Ben Butler has not yet joined the Anti- Poverty society, This is liable to mean that there will be five presidential candidates In the field next year. With a democrat, repub- lican, anti-povertyite, Butler, and prohibi- tionistin the field, the most fastidious voter Wwill have achanceto tind some oue appreach- ing his ideal, v — Stop, Young Fellow! Missouri. Republican, Halt! young fellow, just a moment, ‘There is something I would tell; Do not get yourself inflated— Do not play the vapid swell; Study well & clean politeness-- Don't express things rough or crude; Weigh your words before you drop thev, Don’t placard yourselt a dude, Better far to have no money "Than to have an empty mind; Empty heads and empty pockets In the race are left behind; Never amble like a monkey— Say to silly fashion, no, Quit that pulling for a mustache, Glve the feeble fuzz a show, Do remember as vou travel On in lite's uneven way, That your knowledge 1S the value And the measure of your pay. Never wear loud styles of clothing, Have the very best youcan Butremember that eood harness Is not all that makes the man. e STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A being made to organize an Episcopal church at Broken Bow, A Grand Island saloon keeper has heen fined $100 and costs for selling liquor on Sunday. The coming term of the district court at Plattsmouth will have over thirty criminals to dispose of. “Uncle Billy” Payne, a_pioneer of the state, died at Kearney Monday after a short 1llness, aged seventy-two years, Butler county people are making up a purse for the widow ot Mr. Dykstra, who was killed in the David City tornado. George K. Evans is confined in jail at Republican City, charged with having two wives. His case will come up for trial in the distriet court. A district camp meeting conducted by An effor Rev. J. W. Stewart, assisted by the twenty preachers of his district, will be held at Auburn, commencing to-day. Two young men living near Platts- mouth, while hunting the other day, came across a hollow log filled with snakes and slaughtered twenty-five of the reptiles, all of them rattlers. A. U. Wyman walked into the office of the Republicun at Valentine while the editor was out, and as a card set up a few lines of type announcing his presence, that he was late troasurer of the United States and also a practical printer. An eastern firm sent a bill toa Nebraska City lawyer a few days ago. The lawyer replied that the fellow was a dead beat and he could not collect the bill, but could have the delinquent hung without ceremony. Sheriff McCullum, of Otoe county, has shipped the throttle valve which passed through the body of Engineer James D witt in the Missouri Pacific wreck at Dun- bar, und which was used as evidence against David Hoffman at his trial, to Kansas City, and it will be ornamented and placed on the grave of the brave en- gineer. w ‘The republican state convention me ets in Des Moines to-day, Dubuque complains of terribly dirty alleys and and a general need of “sewer: age. The management of the Towa soldiers’ home announce that the home will be completed in about sixty days. At Mt, Pleasant Charles Wood was ac- cidentally shot through the lung by his little brother while out hunting. Albia has a nine with a Methodist preacher for pitcher. It is a splendid team and the parson throws some very curly balls, There are 331 inmates of the fecble minded asylum at_Glenwood; 206 males and 125 females. The per capita cost for maintenance is $175.79. Sioux City is to have a corn {ubiluo the first of October and will build a corn palace. Extensive arrangements being made for the event. The question as to the right of an anti- prohibitionist to get water at the town pump at Spirit Lal was one of the cases Friday in the justice court of that place. Sunday last witnessed the birth of the Davenport Morning ‘I'ribune, fathered by Edwin G, Erwin. ho initial number i d supports the prin- party, oux City young man suddenly be- nsane and rushed outon the stree in very scanty clothing. After beseiging a number of houses with stones he was captured by friends and taken home. Suturday night at New Hampton an unknown man entered tho ticket oflice of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and pointing a revolver at the agent ordered him to hold up his hands. The request was so peremptory that the agent complied and the robber went through the drawer, taking what little money there was, Colona, Henry county, is g wrought up over the question, un 8 corpse perspire.’” At a funeral the other day it was noticed that the face of the dead was covered with perspiration, and although wiped away by the undertaker, largo drops of moisture soon gathered again. The body was buried, however, and now many of the residents of the town assert the belief that the supposed dead man was burieda alive. are tly Dakota. The foundation of the new $49,000 hotel at Watertown is completed. The territorial board of equali has lev Ing yea Deadwood vigorously opposes the cre- ation of the new county of Mead with Sturgis as the county seat. The Methodist conterence 1s endeavor- ing to secure grounds at Hot Springs for a Black Hills Chautauqua assembly. Two convicte who were at work on the capitol at Bismarck escaped the guards and were out of sight before they were missed. A story comes from Norfolk, Sully county, that the administration was so anxious to have a democrat appointed postmaster that one was appointed who could neither read nor write. The gov- ernment sees the necessity of having those in oflicial positions who are in har- mony with the administration. An article from Fargo appeared in the Chicago Tribune, urging that lice in the line of prohibition, if hign, the nature of a fine condemnatory rather than justifying the traflic. At a union meeting 1n. Fargo on Sunday night the Congregational minister, who is a radi- cal prohibitionist, took occusion to ridi- cule this view, while speaking in the Prosbyterian pulpit. After he hud cop- cluded the Presbyterian minister arose at his side and claimed the authorship of the article thus denounced. 10n atax of 2.9 mills for the ensu- Golorado and Montana, A union depot costing $150,000 is to bo built at Pueblo. Boulder is to have sampling works that will cost £50,0.0. Contractor Richardson has men at the capitol grounds, A new postoflice in Arapahoe county has been named Alva in honor of Gover- nor Adams. The drive of 250,000 ties down the Mis- souri forty miles, for the Montana Cen- tral, is a succes The glassworks of Golden have been prosperous beyond the most s: i hopes of the proprietors, A strike of rich ore, avera ounces of in ti now 120 ging 3,660 Iver to the ton, has been made ze mine near Ouray. b King, manager of the Western Union at Quiney, I1L, died of consump- tion on the D. & R, G. Salt Lake train rear Salida. The San Luis Valiey Graphic says that McCormick, the great reaper man, has donated the 7,500 nec 'y to clear the Del Norte collége debt, coupled with con- ditions which, it understands, are com- plied with. The money 1s expected soon. ne checks to the value of 5,000 have stolen from the Burlington at Hol- yoke station on the new branch from Sterling to Cheyenne, the tirst known of it being that they were being cashed in Denver. Detectives are looking the mat- ter up. The Pacific Coast. The culture of the olive is attracting a great deal of attention. The largest smelting works in the United States are to be buiit at Tacoma stated that a Japan farming col- ony will be establisied near Valley Springs, Cal The famous Perkins-Baldwin breach- of-promise suit is again up in the Los Angeles courts, Fred Behringer is on trial at Napa for the murder of Elijah Williams in a prize fight last spring. Railroad ties near Reno nineteen years old have just been taken up perfectly preserved. An analysis will determine the cause of their pre General M. G. Vollejo, the oldest na- tive son of Cahfornia, w.ll ride in the procession at Napa on Admission Day in a chariot which he made in 1813, Lugene Daval and J. R. Gronsda who have been in jail at Chehalis, W for six months for the murder of August Pickler, were discharged from custody. John Payne and Hamp Bleoino were killed and Thomas Tucker, F. M. Gilles- pie and Thomas Carrington wounded in & cowbuy raid at Newton’s rauch, Pleas- ant Valley, A, T, Piute society 1 Reno is convulsed, Johnson Sides, an interpreter and br: has eloped with a plump young squaw, leaving behind a sick wife and four hun gry little pappooses. Senator Stanford and E. S. Holden head the committee which is trying to raise $50,000 for & monument to re King, the famous Unitarian preacher, in Golden Gate park, San Franecisco, A charivari party at Virginia City stopped at a brewery that was closed for tho night, and_thundered at the door for ‘admission. This aroused the anger of the rroprmlm, and he seized a pickax, sniled into the crowd and laid about himn right and left. One man, Thomas Kel- ley, had his skull fractured. ——— The Public Library, Ninety thousand, three hundred and forty-one volumes were issued last year from the Omaha public library. The librarian states that 40 per cent of these books passed into the hands of children, Do the people of Omaha know that the library ranks with the public schools 1ts relation to the boys and girls of this city? Visitors there find children in the reading foom, children in the reference department, children at the catalogue desk, children waiting for books. 1f the day chances to be Saturday there will be a long line of children at the hbrarian's window, each with card in hand. Forty per cent of the yearly outgo of books are read by children—a starthng fact which gives rise at once to a serious question, What are these boys and girls reading? Who provides suitable books for them, who helps them to choose? The reading of & bov from ten to fifteen affects his whole life, Who sees that these boys like better books this year than thoey daid last? Is their reading educating them, aro they looking and growing toward the best? It is the purpose of this article to BT these questions and to ask some othef The department of juvenile literature is one to \\'llfi‘]l the book committee brings the closest serutiny. The collee- tion is founded on catalogues prepared by librarians who haye given study to this subject. It now contain with' the exception of perhaps half dozen volumes, the complete list made C. M. Hewins, librarian at Hartford, Co necticut. It covers travel and adventure, ies of various countries, legends and les. Ristory, historical biography s, children’s books 1 different departments of science, including astron- omy, chemistry and physies. ‘The earth, natural history, the microscope, garden- ing and plants, health and strength, out door sports, household arts and amus ments, awing and painting, music, reference books and bound sets of the best periodicals, such as St. Nicholas, Harpers' Young People, and last but far from least, comes juvenile fiction. In this class the boys read 'l'ruwbrid%u, Kel- lngf. Mayne Reid, Aldrich, Noah Brooks, E.E. Hale, H. E. Scudder, F.R. Stock- ton and others, The girls Miss Alcott, Mrs. Whitney, H. H., Mrs. Stowe, Miss Young and others. Just now there is an unusual call by the children for the tales of Harriett Martineau and Mary Howitt,and vival of interest in the Rollo books has sitated the purchase of a new set. Ivanhoo, Rob Roy, Oliver Twist and Cur- 108ity Shop are always in demand. His- torical stories are popular , and six_sets of C. C. Coffin's Story of Liberty, Boys of "76, Boys of '61, efc., are in constant use. The histories of Higginson and Lossing are often out, also the Boy's Percy and Froissart and especially Pyle's Robin Hood Ballads. Not much poetry is asked for unless it can show a catching title like Ballad of Battle and Bravery. Prof. Raymond’'s Shakspeare for the Young Folks 1s often taken. The rule in the selection and the giving out is to provide for children something that they are growing up to, not awa, from, and it1s the purpose of the book committee to k ry full of the best that is written for boys and girls in all departments, After the work of the committee comes that of the librarian. She deals mainly with two classes, the street boys and the children of the publie schools.” The first she educates, the second she guides and advi The street arab makes his ap- Ru nee after his own fashion. Old Sleuth’s are to be had for a few cents, and hundreds of bovs buy them. This boy thus discovered, is told that when he finisnes his books, the library will, on certain conditions, give him another. He is a reader and jumps at the chance of geting books for nothing. The taste which has been formed on *'0ld Sleuths™ has to be skillfully and tenderly dealt with. Miss Allen gives him an Oliver Optic, a few of which are kept for boys, to begin upon. For a while he lives on Oliver Optic. Some day the Optics are all out; he takes a Trowbridge instead, or & Kellogg. After awhile, witl o little help he discovers Mayne Reid, he gets interested in_learn- ing about other countries, hefinds he likes books of travel and adventure in strange lands, he helps wear out another set of Jules Verne, gets a_little glinipse mto natural history, lives in anew world. One day this summer Miss Allen in sport lored such a boy an Oliver Optic an old friend ot the library laughed and said e guessed he'd “got neyond that now.” ‘The pro takes time and it takes devotion and i oun the librarian’s vart, A great many boys have been through it in the Omaha public library, and more are going through it now. They tind out in this way that they have tastes and aptitades. four or tive are now reading together ad vanced books n natural history; the als of taxidermy are always out. ¢ question of reading with Buch boys Juestion of chatzctor and life. Tho ry works for them every day, Is their d and advisor, their teacher and their colleg * A Case of Accounting. A rather important equity case for a general accounting has been commenced by E. T. Teflt, Wilham E. Tefft, Frank Tefit, Joseph H. Weller, George Clark and G. N. Beach, partners doing business as Tefit, Weller & Co. against Edward Larkin and the Bank of Com- merco. ‘This grows out of the tailure of Melnnas & Bussey, formerly dry goods denlers on the southeast corner of Six- teenth and Webster strects on the Sth of February 1847, It is claimed that the latter amed firm prior and on the date named owed to the 213.9 for whici Ly chatte plaintills 1ts represented (0 the plaintifls that ws for the best interests of all the creditors of Melnnis & Bussey t the ater should be sold, and that Larkin & Co. would be the proper persons to conduct said sale. 1t is also alleged that the value of the stock then on hand wis repre- sented at $6,000, which plaintifls sy would be amply sufficicnt to pay oft all the creditors. - Furthermore, it is al leged that the sale proceeded but no ae counting was made to plaintifls, and that the nce of the geods unsold w turned over to the Bank of Cg merce by Larkin & Co., and moreov the plaintiffs say they have reason to believe that the last named firm s com ono for murder in the = seccond degree, one for gambling and one for obtaining money under false pretence, Parker Taken Back. Deputy United States Marshal Allon loft last night for Cheyenune with Parkor, the man who robbed Paymaster Bash, Parker was in irons and closely guarded by a soldier, but his presence in tho Ogdon sleeper created considerablo con- sternation among the ladies aboard, rarker, however, scemed to enjoy the situation, and to ‘all the questions plied to him answered with a laconie “yes,” or “'n0," accompanied with a grin, He goes to Cheyenne to await his trial be- fore the United States court, Elks Incorporated. The Elks of this city have filod articles of incorporation as a social club, with all the provisions pertaining to such or- qgunmlmnm ‘The capital stock is $7,500, divided into 800 shares of $25 each. The beginning of the corporation is August 17, 1877, and its termination will bo Do- cember 81, 1906. ‘The incorporators are Frank Colpetzer, K. Dickinson, 8. 8. Cur- tis, R, C, McClure, Sidney Smith and T, M. Orr, e Pinafore Kor the Soldiers. “Pinafore” on a real boat hias been de- termined upon as one of the night fen- tures of the coming reunion. An lowa company has been engaged and Cut-oft lake is the spot selected for the perfor- mance. An amphiteater is to be erected on the shore and by the aid of powerful locomotive headlights the opera will bo seen by the spectators. ‘lghe night of the performance has not yet becn deter- mined upou, — e Wiikn the face 1s haggard, the cheek hollow and the form lank and debilitated the party coneludes he is the victin of a wasting and mysteriousdisease; when the simple truth s, his digestive organs are in bad order, if he would use Dr, J. H McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Puriner, he would "look as waell, and fecl as hearty as the healthiest of us, he needs bracing up,vitalizing, that is all. - Funeral Notice. The funeral of the late George Parks will take place from his former resi- dence at 614 North teenth street, this ufternoon at 3 o'clock under the auspices ot the Bricklayers, Masons and Plaster- ers' Tenders' union. Members of tho union will meet at 2 o'clock at their hall, Services at the house. T, Powell; who was mixed up in the Dinsmoor endorsement case which 18 liable to bring matters of requisition be- tween this state and Minnesota to a focal * point, is very sick in the county juil. Ho is suffering from cpileptic £:8 and they are growing very serious. slis death at any time would not be surprising. BABY'S SCALP Milk Crust, Dandi [d and ¢ T ASTNOVEMBER my littlo boy, aod threo dyeurs, foll aguinst th running, and cut his hend, and, right after that he broks out il over his head,'nod loft ear, | hnd agood doctor, Dr. ROt se, und the doctor co e head, 1ace, and left enr urful state, and he suttered 0 disease from him, and neck and even go ught we would 8uro we wore distigurod for life. 1 heard of t CuTicvRA REMEDTES, and procured n bottle of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, 0 box of ( CURA, and neakeof Curicrra 8oar, and used them con stantly d night. after using two hottles of Ri 1 boxes of Cur four caw > nro porfectly ¢ out u sear I8 now | i LILLIE 1 caught spread nil over my into my eyes. N better. 1 e this 27th day of March, kT P ROBINS N, P WORST SORE HEAD. drug and modicine businoss twenty-five yours. Have been selling yos CUIICURA REMEDIES since they camo West. Thoy lead uil othersin their tine,~ We could not W of & gore leg, whilo 3 0 have and’ perhups his lifo. cannot bo suidin favor of the A S.B. SMITH & BRO. curing a young g the physicinns 1t wi e tr REME i CovInuTON, Ky, CUTICURA REMEDTES are a nositive Skin and Blood Disonsc Sold everywhere. CuTic fle.; 8 Prepared by tie POTTE Co., ijoston, Muss Send for Iow to Cure Skin Diseases. Ache! Ache!! Ache!!l d Paing relicved in cct_ antidoto ta tdruggists, Drug und Sharp Achos o » minute by t @ ! five for §i HEALTH. WEALTH. DR. OTTERBOURG, Cor. 18th and Dodge Sts, Omaha, Neb, A Regular Graduate in Medicine and Spe- cial Practitioner Authorizod to treat all Chronic, 8! inl Disonses. 4 by Tmpradence, Excess or Contagion) Se il Weakness, (night losses) Sexual Debility, (loss of sexunl powor), Nerve ous Debility, Blood Disorders, ete. wuar antoed or monvy rofund Chnrgos low Theusands of eases cured. Age and exporicnco are dmportant, - All medicincs especiuly pared for esch individunl caso, No Injurious or Poisonous Used. No time lost from business. Patients at u distunce treated by lettor and express. Medic Tree from knze or brckkugo. Iling Orders, Norvous an (Whother cay Compounds OFFICE HOURS m, 210 6 and 7 to &p. m, whly Bue. MO INTOSH, w¥. BODW . & MCINTOS Real Estate Dealers 140 South Spi et LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Donlers in city and country property of ail criptions. Goneral information {0 news symers freely given. posed of E Larkin and Frank BE. John- son cashier of the Bank of Cowmmerce. Hence the prayer for a gencral sceount ing of sales, expenses, ete Felons in Jail, Among the eighty-four prisoners in the county iail there are twenty-four criminals awaiting the session of the district court commencing on the nine- teenth of next month. This 1s the largest number that ha been con at one time during the past ten ye Of these three arc in for burg two for at tempt to commit rap e for assault with intent to kill, tive for robbery, one for horse stealing, one for house breuking, four ' for grand lareeny, one for' forgery, one tor bastardy, THE CAPITOL HOTRL, Lincoln, Neb. The hest know Tar the siate. Locat cluss. Headquar all political wnd tol in iy Dr. 8 ‘s method. No o pain: no ¢ on from business O 18 Well 58 rown § graph tostimonials on il Consultation tre Room 6, 1614 Douglas St., Omalia, Neb,