Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1887, Page 4

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August 20 Sunday, August 2 Mondav. August 2 Tuesdav. August Wednesday, Augu Thursaay, Augus| Friday, August 26 Averaze, 20, OK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 27th day of August, A, D. 1887, N. P. FrIL, [SEA L. . Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, | Douglas County. | ¢ Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily eirenlation of the Daily Bee for themonth of August, 15, 12,464 copies: for September, 18, 13,030 copies; for October, 1880, 12,040 copies; for November, 188, 13,343 copies; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for .l-mmr)» 1857, 16,200 coples: for February, 1857, 14,195 coples: for March. 1857, 14,400 for April, 1887, 14,316 copies: for May, 27 “copies: for June 1887, 14,147 uly, 1557, 14,003 copies. Gro. B. TzscHUCK, Bubscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day ot Au; A. D., 1857, [SEALL| P. Frii. Notary Public. —_— Tuk killers of Craig Toiliver in Ken- tucky, were acquitted by the Rowan court., Thisis practical as well as poetic justice. —_— INDIAN COMMISSIONER ATKINS i8 evi- dently bound to give the Utes a chance to be peaceable. He has ordered lndian Agent Stollsteimer to remove all agitat- ors from the agency. With Colorow and his band back on thé reservation, this order will probably terminate the Lndian “war."” Tur Irish will not down. Tory proc- lamations continue to be issued against vopular gatherings, but the meetings are held with their usual regularity. Salis- bury will find that measures cannot be enforced which popular sentiment holds to be outrageous and subversive of per- sonal liberty. Tie Chicago Daily News is winning golden opinions through 1ts clever Euro- pean scout, Mr. Ed. K. Cowen, who has outridden the envy of rivals and success- fully kent pace with Mr. Blaine on a most crratic and delusive itinerary. * Mr. Cowen also contributes on occasion, some gems to the literary columns of the News, ON the issue of the right of the police comission to appoint and control the volice, there can be no compromise or concession. Seavey'is in fact and in law chief of police, and no matter by whom he is liked or disliked as an individual, he will continue to exercise his authority until the commission sees fit to make a change, or he chooses to resign. 1r the dispatches from Washington are to believed the Chinese have at last real- ized the worth of American institutions and are about to begin reforms in the methods of conducting business in the Flowery Kingdom. In this the celes- tials are many years behind their astute neighbors, the Japanese, whose rapid civilization under Americanization has been one of the wonders of the century. If China learus its lesson as rapidly as Japan has profited by instruction an ad- vance will be recorded 1n the march of civilization such as the world has never known since the beginning. ——— Tue Cauadian Pacific railroad is not alone in its antagonism to the construc- tion of the Red river railway from Mani- toba to the American boundary. The merchants and manufacturers of the eastern Canadian provinces are also showing themselves active in opposing the proposed undertaking. They have beeu growing fat upon the trade of the Canadian northwest, where the people have no facilitics to trade inthe western American markets, and should the new road be opened they are almost certain to lose this source of revenue. Tue transfer of the Baltimore & Ohio express company to a rival line has re- vived the rumors concerning coming changes of the railroad and telegraph line belonging to the same corporation. The newspapers will again be flooded with the same old stories of what Garrett is going to do and the gigantic financial deals that will result. One feature of the old tale will be omitted, however. Poor young Mr. Ives will remain 1n the background and watch some miore suc- cessful thief capture the prize for which he labored so hard but with such fruit- less results. Perhaps he will witness all this from behind prison bars, if justice g£ots 1 its work quick enough, — ONE of the most heartless and exacting monopolies in the country is the Castle Garden ralroad pool, which has been feeding fat on the poor immigrants, It is estimated that the pool will receive this year from passenger fares $2,600,000 and $80,000 for extra baggage. Mak- ing the most liberal allowance for the expenses of the pool in the garden, $50,000, and the net receipts of the year will rench $2,630,000. This combination of raliroads, mmntained under the specious plea of protecting the immi- grants, has really robbed them merci- lessly, and it is doubtful if they would be any worse ofl' if left to shift for them- sclves on arrival. But protection can be provided in another way that would be quite as eflective and far less costly to the immigrants, and the investigation will have accomplished much if it shall result in breaking up this pool of cormorants. The Pennsylvania Demoorata. Rather more than usual interest has been felt regarding the attitude to be taken by the democracy of Pennsylvania this year on the question of revenue ro- duction. It was foreshadowed some timo before the meeting of the state conven- tion, held at Allentown on Wednesday, that the vital matter to be determined was whether the party was still dom- inated by Mr. Randall or was prepared to throw off his control and take a posi tion in sympathy with the views enter- tained by & majority of the party in the country. The element opposed to Ran- dall worked for weeks past with great as- siduity in urging the importance and ne- cessity of the party making a stand that would be a practical repudiation of Randall, Every argument that could be brought to bear to show that this pol- icy would be in the interest of the demoo- racy of Pennsylvania and at large was vigorously pressed. Delegates were urged by circular to earnestly consider the expediency and duty of putting the party upon a different course than it had been pursuing, and at least one platform was framed and publicly commended as representing the views of the ‘revenue reformers in the party. There has never been witnessed a more earnest and per- sistent effort to induce a political organ- ization to change front on a vital gues- tion to the whole party than was made in Pennsylvania by the democrats who sought the repudiation of Randall and his policy. The result is not one upon which they can congratulate themselves, On the contrary the evidence is that Mr. Randall played his part with his usual skill, and may fairly point to the revenue declara- tions of the convention as an endorse- ment of his position. He was conspie- uously present, was a member of the committee on resolutions, and his handi- work in the preparation of the only really important plank of the platform is obvious, Having declared a renew al of allegiance to the national platform of 1884, and reaflfirmed the state platform of 1836—notoriously the work of Randall— the Allentown convention demanded that the surplus in the treasury shall be used to pay the public debt and that the ‘‘current and unnecessary increase going on be- yond the needs of the government shall be immediately prevented by a wise and prudent reduction of internal taxa- tion and of the duties on imports 1n ac- cordance with the foregoing declara- tions." In order to properly estimate the value of this delcaration it 1 necessary to have in mind the view of Mr. Randall regard- ing the “foregoing declaration.” He has always maintained that the national plat- form of 1884 did not commit the demo- cratic party to a policy of tariff revision such as Carlisle, Morrison and their fol- lowers demand, and has insisted that the construction given that platform by the tarift reformers was a prevention of its true meaning with regard to the state platform of last year, the work of Mr. Ran- dall, the country has seen that it was no restraint upon him 1n the last con- gress, where he maintained dsstubbornly as over before his opposition to all efforts for tariff reform. He will enter the next congress quite as free to pursue this course as he wasin the last, and it is not to be doubted that such is the course he will pursue. He will stickle for “‘a wise and prudent reduction of internal taxa- tion,” by which is meant an abandon- ment of so much of the excise revenue as will render any extensive reduction of tariff duries unsafe, and failing in this he will undoubtedly again block the wheels of revenue legislation to the full ex- tent of his ability. And there is noth- ing in the declaration of the Allen- town convention to deter him from this course, The platform heartily endorses the president, but beyond the revenue plank possesses no general interest. —— The Time at Hand. The time has come for our reputable ens, and especially the leading busi- ness men and taxpayers of Omaha, to give public expression to their sentiments, upon the assumption of the city council to control the police force. For four months the council has pur- sued a policy of obstruction and interfer- ence with the police commission in the legitimate performance of its duties. This has been tolerated in the hope that the combination among councilmen would fall to pieces of its own weight when some of the dupes who have been playing the cats-paw for Hascall, Bechel and Ford were given time enough to learn what their constituents thought of their conduct, But pride, bull headedness and fear of Hascall have kept these dummies 1n line with the conspirators who inaugurated this ruinous policy. That there is a deep-seated and pent-up resentment against this policy among all classes of our citizens goes without say- ing. The hot weather has been respon- sible for the delay in giying public ex- pression to this feeling. The lawless action of the council in terfering with the regunlar police upon the eve of the Grand Army of the Repab- lic reunion and Omaha fair, forces the issue upon us. Action must be taken promptly. Omaha tax-payers and busi- ness men must voice their sentiments and wishes with no uncertain sound. The Bek suggests a meeting of the board of trade to which several hundred of our leading tax-payers and business men, regardless of membership or party, should be specially invited, The mayor and council should be invited, not as par- ties to the discussion, but to hear und learn what the most substantial citizens of Omaha think and desire. If after a fair and full expression councilmen see fit to defy public sentiment and continue a course so damaging to the reputation of this city, other ways and means will have to be devised to bring about good government, e———— 4 The Food Supply. There does not appear to be any fur- ther reason to doubt that this country will have an abundant food supply from the harvests of this year, and that except as affected by speculation there will be good cause for the prices of food pro- ducts ranging materially higher than at present. In the south the corn crop is unprecedentedly large, exceeding the yield of last year by over fifty million bushels, so that it is thought the south will this year be nearly self-cupporting as to carn. This will largely make u so far as the aggregate supply is con- cerned, for the deficiency of the crop in THE OMAHA DAILY BE the west, and the financial advantage lost by the farmers of the latter scotion Il be gained by those of the ormer, a balancing which will leave the country no worse off. The corn crop of the west, however, will not be so short as was feared, while wheat is a full crop inthe norihwest generally, and probably more thau a full crop in Oregon and Washington terri- tory. The most careful estimates of the yield of corn and wheat assume a defi- ciency of from two to four hundred nil- lion bushels of the former and one hun- dred million bushels of the latter. The crop situation in Europe has been reported favorable in most countries. The yield of cereals in England promises to be better than for several seasons, and the outlook 1n the continent is said to be satisfactory, though this may not be en- tirely reassuring, in view of the fact that for several years the European crops have been very unsatisfactory, there being a big deficiency last year. It 1s sufficient, however, to assure a lessened demand upon the reduced supply of this country, which will prevent our running short and per- haps also prevent any great advance in the prico of these products. At all cvents, the solicitude that was felt a month ago regarding the food supply has no excuse for present existence. There will be enough to feed the country without the practice of unusual economy for another year, and if it should happen that before the next harvest the products of the soil command a little better price than now the benetit which the eight million farmers of the country derive will not be any disadvantage to the country, Whom do They Represent? Eleven members of the council have deliberately placed themselves on record in favor of anarchy and public disturb- ance. Under the leadership of lsaac S. Hascall, who has on former oceasions in- cited lawlessness and abetted infamous conspiracies against the taxpayers and citizens of Omaha, they have adopted the following resolution: ‘That the city clerk be instructed to notity the pretended appointees upon the police force to desist from performing any service under the pretended appointment of the bourd ot fire and police commissioners, as no funds will be provided to pay for any ser- vices rendered by virtue of such pretended appointments, such notice to be given to the pretended chief of police, the pretended cap- tains and serzeants of police, as well as the pretended policemen. What is the object of this resolution, and what will be tne natural consequence of its adoption? The chief and members of the police force are notified officially by order of the council that they have no authority to exercise police tunctions, and that every arrest made by them will be un- warranted and criminal, If the present police force has no authority to quell disturbances and ar- rest law-breakers in the city, Omaha is vractically remanded to the mercy of highwaymen, crooks, pick-pockets and drunken rioters. ‘The council has made no provisions for a police force to take their places, and even Hascall, the crafty chief conspirator against the public peace does not pretend that they have such authority. What right have these eleven councilmen, whom the char- ter does not clothe with any authority to appoint policemen or manage the po- lice force, to serve notices on the police to desist from performing their duties. Whom did these eleven councilmen represent when they voted to precipi- tate anarchy and public disturbances in Omaha? Did they or any one of them represent the taxpayers and eiti- zens that elected them? Is there a single ward in this ciry that has ever given‘pop- ular countenance or support to the star- vation and anarchy policy? Whom do the eleven councilmen represent, except- ing the thugs, thieves, crooks, footpads, professional gamblers, keepers of low dens and habitual law-breakers? Will They Uphold Bechel? e Pacific Express company is a pub- lic caarier, and as such, the conduct of its officers is a matter of public concern. As long as its auditor, Mr, Bechel, be- haved decently and did not trench upon the rights of taxpayers by open collusion " with conspirators against the public peace, nobody found fault with his ac- tivity in local politice and public affairs. Respectable citizens of Omaha have felt keenly the disgrace which attaches to this city by the notorious recent de- baucheries of Mr. Bechel which dragged him down ‘o the level of the bar-room loafer who has to be conveyed in the police patrol wagon. The constituents of Mr. Bechel of the Fourth ward, com- prising for the most part our heaviest tax- payers and most prominent business men have patiently forborne the outrageous misrepresentation of their wishes and interests. But evory citizen who is not in sympathy with lawlessness resents the attempt of Mr. Bechel to precipitate an- archy and riot in this city by wanton in- terference with the police force, ata time when thousands of visitors are ex- peeted in our midst. If this course on the part of Auditor Bechel, of the Pacitic Express company, meets with the approval of its managers, the citizens of Omaha want to know that fact. That company enjoys and expects protection from onr police at the expense of the taxpayer and if 1t encourages conspirators against the public peace and holds in high places men who consort with roughs, rowdies, and habitual law-breakers,and upholds a policy that invites public disturbance, the business men of Omaha will know how to treat such a corporation., There is no use of mincing matters. The gen- eral officers of the Pacific Express com. pany must show their hand now. ——————— WHAT does John A. McShane think of the contemptible trickery by which his paper, in collusion with Cadet Taylor, has dipped into the city treasury for a paltry few hundred dollars’ worth of city advertising? When that $864 proclama- tion job was engineered through the council by the Republican gang, and the swag was divided between them and the Herald, we did not suppose that Mr, Mo- Shane had given countenance to the job. But he certainly caunot be in the dark about the little plot that caused Chang Morrissey to deliver a vote of thanks to the council the day before the job was voted. The fact that Mr., Mec- Shane’s paper did not bid against the Republican in the first place, and made no comment upon the bare-faced fraudu- leut contract, which the courts enjoined, looks suspicious enough, but when the Republican gang, after being enjoined, turns in and works for Mr. McShane's paper it looks as {f there was to be an- other divide between the old combine. TiE statement from mugwump sourees that Governor Hill has changed his tone regarding the presidential nomination, and that he has lost following in New York, must be taken with some allow- ance, at least so far as it aflirms that he is now adevoted Cleveland man. It would be giving the governor no credit for ordinary political sagacity to suppose he does not see the utter impossibility of his securing the nomination, but he is going to use whatever influence he pos- sesses 80 that the successful candidato and the party shall not fail to "under- stand that he is a power not to be ig- nored. Governor Hill will have a part to play in the New York convention that seclects delegates to the next national democratic convention, and he will vlay 1t so that his handiwork shall be recog- nized by Mr. Cleveland and the democ- racy of the whole country. —— Tue outlook for the republicans of Maryland is regarded as by no means unfayorable. and if the administration should withdraw its support from the Gorman machine, which the president 18 urged to do by a class of advisers he is wont to listen to, there is not a question that the republicans would carry the state. I the last presidential election the democratic plurality in Maryland was only 11,118 The prohibition vote was 3,000, most of which will go to the republicans this year. The estimate of the vote of the reform démocrats, if borne out by the result, would give the republican ticket a majority of 12,000 in Baltimore alone. The leaders of the re- form movement are among the most responsible men in the state. 1t looks now as if the Gorman machine can suc- ceed only vy a free practice of the frauds with which it is entirely familiar. Tue council bosses have carried out the spiteful little plot to punish the Bek for refusing to countenance rascality, jobbery and anarchy in oty affair They have voted to make the IHerald th ofticial paper for one week at the Buk's contract rate, although the Bee under its contract was required to do all the oflicial advertising for the city until a contract was legally let. The Herald is delivered in the city of Omaha by thir- teen carriers to less than 1,200 sub- scribers. The Bee delivers over 6,000 of its evening edition in Omaha by forty-five carriers. [Its advertising reaches fully five people where the Herald reaches oue. A PETITION for the pardon of the Chi- cago boodler, R. S. McClaughry, is being circulatea in Illinois. The cul- prit's war record 18 brought forward as an argument for mitigating his sentence. This 1s absurd and wholly outside the question. If McClaughry was guilty as the courts decided, he should undergo his punishment. If he was not guilty a great wrong has been done him, The boodler with a good war record should not be considered & martyr if juries and courts place him on a level with other boodlers. TuE cleven pretended represcntatives of the citizens of Omaha, who are dancing attendanceon bell-weather Has- call, have served notice upon the “‘pre- tended police and patrolmen’ appointed by the ‘‘pretended police commission’ that they will get no pay for their ser- vices. This certainly caps the climax of mnsolence. Do these councilmen ‘‘pre- tend” to represent the wishes or interests of their constituents? . —— ScrENTISTS will now turn their atten- tion to Washington Territory. A meteor has fallen at Spokane Falls, and striking against the electric light wires,burst into a thousand pieces. A thousand men will now be looking for fragments of the celestial visitor, and loeal collectors have a chance to reap a small fortune, HascaLL was veryd willing to trust City Attorney Webster with concocting a resolution to make McShane’s paver the official organ for an ideflinite period, but when it came to a resolution on the ques- tion of bugus police claims, he insisted that vhe city attorney was biased and un- reliable. Mavor Broarciand Chief Seavey will be sustained by the citizens of Omaha, irrespective of party, in ignoring the im- pudent and treasonable resolution of the council, and maintaining order in this city. ALL the sluggers and crooks will now bring suits against police officers who dare to interfere with their business. — PROMINENT PERSONS, Lady and Lord Lansdowne arrived at Quebec on Tuesday on their way to Ottawa, on a six weeks’ fishing trip in the maritine vrovinces. Mrs. Florence Rice Kunox, wife of Knox the New York hatter, has a superb contralto voice and is .a leader at Saratoga of all musical ventures. Archibald Forbes, the famous correspond- ent, now dying, is In his Liftieth year. fe was married to General Meigs' daughter in Washington last year. Baron Farrey held, at a recent meeting of the Paris Academy of Science, that Cleopa- tra did not die from_the bite of an asp, but from inhaling coal gas, Miss Elaine Goodale is delivering a num- ber of addresses in Connecticut on tha In- aian question, She has devoted many years to Indian missionary work and is beld in high regard by the Sioux. At her home at San Diego, Cal., Mrs. E. O, 0. Ord possesses the celebrated Lone Star corps flag, which floated over General But- ler’s headquarters at. New Urleans and other places during the greatstruggle. General M. G. Vallejo, the oldest Native Son of California, will be a conspicuous fig- ure in the annual celebration at Napaon September 9, He will ride {n the procession in @ charlot which he made in 1813, ‘The historical painter, Johann Grund, died recently at Baden-Baden in his eightleth year. He was an Austrian by birth, but re- slded for many years in Haden, where he acquired the rank of grand-ducal court painter, Mr. W.D, Howells, the novelist, has re- turned to Saratoga from his Lake George so- journ, and after spending a few days in Sar- atoga recuperating and pleking up points for the new work of fiction upon which he 13 sald to be engaged, he will go for & while to Bar Harbor. According to the St. Petersburg Novosti, the traveller Mikluho Maclay, the “King of the Papuas,” intends to publish an account of his travels, and will for this purposs te- maln a year in the Russian capital. 1le still adberes to his plan of founding a large Rus- sian colony fn the islands of the Pacific. A young Persian nobleman by the name of Hassan Dshenedel, arrived at Warsaw, after traveling the entire distance from Te- beran to Warsaw on foot, He had made a wager to walk from Teheran toaParls in eight menths and has 8o far consumed six and & half months on his trlp. From Mos- cow to \Warsaw he walked along the railroad track. He has no traveling companion; the guarantee of his faithful performance of his undertaking lies in a sacred oath taken by him before starting which binds him to use no conveyance of any kind. e, Know-Nothings Take Notice. Orteans Picayane, There is nothing worthy the name of American In any party organization that has tor its object the exclusion of worthy people who have left their old homes to better their condition, or for opinifon’s sake, and who are ready to cast in their portion with ours, and make the fortunes of this country in every sense their ow) e Manitoba’s w Wave. Chieago Herald, Manitoba, the native lair of the sometimes welcome cold wave, is now breeding breezes of quite another temperature. ——— Dark Horses. New FYork Post, The Toledo U, Commereial Republican says that “There are several republicans, well equipped in every way for president, who could carry New York against any candidate the democrats mav nominate,” but it does not tell who they are. More Earnestness Desirable. New Yorlk Worli, If the president would take the country into his confidence more rrankly and display openly a little earnestness in the prosecution of corruptionists and the breaking uo of rings he would have less occasion tocom- plain of being misrepresented. oeee Political Degradation, Senator Ingalls, Senator Ingalls, having been invited to @ pait in a reunion of the republicans of ssex county, Mass,, last Wednesday, sent, with the expression of his regrets, what the Boston Transeript Rep. ealls “this gratuitous insult to the entire State:” Betweensthe con- tagious virus of democracy fand the senile gangrene of civit-service reform, the political degradation of Massachusetts is nearly com- plete. ———— ‘What Mother Says. Lizbeth B. Comins in St. Nicholas. Now. here’s a hand-glass, let me try 1{ 1 can this time see Just one of all these tunny things My mother sees in me. She says my eves are violets,— And what sh s true,— i are just two eyes; Don’t they look so to you? She says my lins are cherries red, And makes b'lieve take a bite; They never look like that to me,— But mother’s always right. She says each check is like a rose; Aud this I surely know, L never would believe it,—but What mother says is so. She says my teeth are shining pearls; Now that's 8o very queer, If some folks said it, why, 1'd think,— But then, 't was mother dear. 1 only see a little girl, With hair that's rather wild, Who has two eyes. a nose, and mouth, Like any other child. o STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Fairmont glories in a new fire engine house. Plattsmouth is promised an electric light plant, The Crete, Milford & Western railroad is the latest. Candidates for county oflices are ripen- ing for the fall. Burglars made a haul of $60 worth of pocket cutlery in Indianola Tuesday night. In the opinion of the Lincoln Democrat the Omaha prize fighters are a *'pestifer- ous gang.” ‘The ministers of the German Lutheran church are discussing the plan of salva- tion in Columbus. Republican _City draws well in the storm line, Norival has yet appeared to share her laurels. Rumors of marriage and marriage of roomers are multiplying rapdly in Omaha. Both can be had for a tritle. Plattsmouth is a city of magnificent ad- ditions. T'wenty-seyven hundred lots have been added to her frame within the last few months. ‘The soldiers in Fillmore county will hoid a reunion at Geneva October 4, 5 and 6. Governor Thayer, Senator Min- rson and Congressmen Laird and Mc- Shane are expected. Dr. M r's motor gang introduced the Omaha plan in Plattsmouth, Tucsday night, by laying street railway road which the county commissioners were slow in donating. The coroner’s jury on the body of Al- bert Liddle, the lireman killed in the re- cent railrond wreck near Ainsworth, brought in a verdict censuring the section foreman for not displaying proper dan- ger signals. The Burlington road 18 gathering wis- dom from the disastrous experience of other companies. The wooden culverts and pile bridges on the main line are to be replaced by stone and iron ones, thus discounting the possibility of a Chats- worth, The industries of Nebraska City have opened up with an active fall trade. The distillery is crushing the fighting qualities out of 1,000 bushels of corn a day, and the .manufacturing company will start its machinery next week with a full force. Prophet Foster, of Towa, stakes a sec- tion of his fame on the prediction that the September storm }n-riml will begin on the 13th, reach its height on the 16th, and close on the 19th. He further de- clares that it will be a bad time for fairs and outdoor work, S. H. H. Clark, of the Missouri Pacific, has offered to give N ko City the joyful benefits of a bob-tailed street car, on condition that the citizens donate the necessary material to pave berween the rails of the track. The proposition is open for discussion, and the charitable people have the floor. W. H. Fitzgerald, the Little Rock printer who stumbled onto $50,000 bills through the death of an uncle, was at one time a modest country editor in Sterling, this state, and hurled types and round out local thunder on the Gazette. 3ut he reformed intime and putin prac- tice the injunction, ‘‘Remember thy uncle m the days of thy youth." The legacy 1s consoling vroof that he got there with body and both feet. The peacemakers of Fairmont are con- siderate creatures. A gorestained immi- grant from Missouri named Bob Franklin, with a voluminous record as horsethief and killer of men, was wanted at his old home, and a posse of armed citizens and detectives yud plans to capture lim st his cabin door, tle had taken a brief gpin out of town, and a dozen brave men awaited his return and the reward He came at midnight, transacted the ne- cumulated domestic business and ad- journed on the morning truin, while the minions of the law crawled out of their holes and disbanded, bloodless and blear eyed, and thankful that they es- caped without a scratch. The coal barons of the east and rail roads of the west are eftectively slaught- ering the goose that lays the golden eggs. The price of coal is already sufticient to send a cold ohill through'the tinancial columns of the people, and the prospects of relief aro decidedly slim. The Sep- tember price for hard coal in Omaha is §10, with an early rise threatened, but ne:fhlmrmg towns are in a worse n\lghl and on the brink of an unmerci- ful gouging. At Hartington, Wayne county, the price is up to $13.90, without any allowance forlocal handling. Other towns are already crying for relief trom the railway highwaymen, but they plead i vain and are mockingly referred to the distorted inter-state law. The rail- roads are applying the long haul with a vengeance. The present waning year has been to Omaha a succession of glorious day Eu:h prosperity and great gathorin ut the record will €ade and fizzle in t glaring light of one great event boo ked for the sweltering days of 1888, The Lincoln New Republic announces the coming deluge as follows: “The next rohipition nominating convention is to e h@a in Omaha some time next July or August. Let us open the throttle wide and go in under full head of steam, a hundred pounds to the inch. Tell tho saloonkeepers of that city to stand from under, not that we propose to paint the city red for we have lost enouzh of our red already. However, we shall en- deavor to paint Omaha in water colors from top to bottom or dip the Missouri dry."’ < lowa ltems. Clinton democrats have declared for a reduced tariff. The saw mills at Clinton have shut down for want of logs. The Carroll cracker factory has re- sumed operations under a new manage - ment. The annual reunion of the Thirty- third Towa infantry will be held at Oska- loosa September 14, 16 and 16, A gentleman living near Gray owns a three-legged calf three months old that 18 hearty and doing well. Miss Laura Minkler, a” blind” preacher of the gospel of temperance, has been speaking at Cedar Rapids. She 1s a rraduate of the college of tho blind at inton. ionto President Cleve- visit the city during the corn pal- ace jubilee in October. The invitation spreads the town over four states, and endeavors to convince his excelleney that it is liable to swell up and spill itself over the earth. It is denied that General Jones, of Du- buque, gave the name of lowa to the ter- ritory. “Iown,” says a standard histo- rical writer, ‘'in the symbolical and ex- pressive language of the aboriginal in- habitants, is said to signify ‘the beautiful land,’ and was applied to this magniti- cent and beautiful region by its ancient owners to express their appreciation of its su‘;erinrity of climate, soil and loca- tion.” But that doesn't disprove that general Jones might have given the legal name to the territory and state. Dakota. Frankfort is sinking an artesian well. A two foot vein of coal has been struck at Huron. The Miller fair association has pur- chased forty acres of land for a show ground. A large delegation of Yonkton Grand Army men will go to the St. Louis en- campment. ‘Ihe machinery plant necessary to de- velop the tn mines in the Hills, has been purchased and shippad from Chicago. he machinery weighs thirty- four tons. Mathies Dary, a(farmer aged sixty, living six miles east of DeSmet, went to Preston, bought a revolver, went into the cemetery and shot himself dead. The cause is unknown. The soldiers and sailors of the late inter-state gouging matoh now residing in the territory, are fighting their battles over again at Woonsocket, with beans and bloody tales for ammunition, Iroquois is excited over the report that the Chicago & Northwestern will build a cennecting link between Doland and Iro- quois for the sake of annoying the Mani- toba. which runssix and a half miles north of Iroquois. The Manitoba’s raders are already in Beadle county and their contract calls for the comnblgtion of the work by September 25, so that the ironers can begin. Thomas Ward, a convict in the Sioux Falls penitentiary, sent from Yankton county for grand [arceny, attempted sui- cide the other morning. Ward has but one hand, and his work is carrying tools to the workmen in the yard: He bor- rowed a knife in the blacksmith shop to cut off a chew of tobacco, and stepping out of the shop, plunged the blade into his neck. inflicting a gash five inches long, from which he nearly bled to death. He was from Marshalltown, fowa. o SLICK JOHN CONDRON. He Beats Four Aces and Captures Nine Thousand Dollars. John Faylor and John Condron, of Hail Idaho, have created something of a sensation in San Francisco, not over a mining venture, but the outcome of a poker game. A. E, Davis,the well known president of the South Pacific Coast rail- road, had been the victim of sharpers, end being drawn into the seductive game was flecced out of several thousand dol- lars, and Faylor, who is on pleasant terms with.the portly president, determ- ined to get him satisfaction., The Sun Francisco Chronicle thus tells how it was done: J Faylor brought down from the Wood river country a mining superintendent named Condron, wha is no child at eards and who ean, in a game of poker, pro- tect himself quite ably, Condron was taken to the Maison {{mh»- on Dupont street and wined. Then he was engaged in a game of poker. He soon succeeded in breaking the amateurs who started in with him. ~ Then word was sent to one Crawtord, better known as **Doc’ Craw- ford, who was to victimize him. Crawford is cter. He hails from New Yor| is a professional gambler, He in San krancisco eleven years ago, and then broke nearly every one who gambled in “‘a gentle- man’s game.” Then he disappeared, but returned about ten inonths ago, since which time h been a prominent fig- ure on Kearney street, He is Yru;mssosv ing in appearance, faultlessly attired, and suave to a degree, He has op- erated the prineipal hotels, and has as vietima all the *'lly"” young men about town '‘upon his lis He also has their nioney, or goodly sums of it, and “their distinguished consideration,” upon_ the great national game. He is a skilliul player and an expert manipulator. Hon- esty is at a discount with him, and his conscience, if he has any, is conducted upon the Goodyear plan. Crawford obeyed the summons with alacrity. He was troduced as ‘‘Mr. Jackson" and given a hand. The other players dropped out and Jackson-Craw- ford soon lost his cash, something like Then checks were put up, Craw- ford first grving one for $2,000. Condron not being acquninted w Jackson, " de- manded an indorser. He (Crawford) re- ferred to his friend George L. Carroll, of the firm of Carroll, Abrams & Carroll, who was present, and who promptly in- dotsed the check. He did a like service for “Jackson'' a second time, and again did the Idaho miner scoop in the coin Carroll had thus made himself respon siblo for $4,000. In the meantime some resent in a forgetful mood ad Jackson” as Mr. Crawford. not escape the quick- witted fdahoan. While he did not know Crawford personally, he did know him by reputation. He was now wore than i The la}\w did ovor on his guard, d game ensued, Five thousan fl i tho pot, including Crawford's check for $2,500, again endorsed by Car- roll. Some crooked work had been done by Crawford in the previous deal, a fact that did not escape Condron. He sad that men who p n{cd dishonestly de- served no merey. ‘Dishonesty,” he said, “forfeits the pot.” The San Francisco Yh vers agreed with the cthics of the ull 1n this pot,' he re- ho professor. 'hen 1 will p plied, and suiting the action to the word, proceeded to do so. 2 An uproar unusual to the Maison Riche ensued. “Gentlemen,” said the Idaho man, with an emphasis on the word, ‘‘be com- posed, 1 have played an honest game. am no sucker, however, Count the deck." 4 The count was made and the deck was found to be five short. “Stand up,” said Condron to Craw- very olevi d " doll ord. As he did so thoe five missing cards dropped from his lap, and the four aces which he had gathered throufih several deals, and with which he hoped to square the balance against him, went for naught. The game then broke up. Yesterday tho checks were presented for payment. ‘‘No funds to meet'them,'’ was the answer, and thay were promptly protested, 8o as to make the endorser re- sponsible. Carroll repudiates responsibility, al- leging that Condron took the checks by force. Suits will be brought agninst Car- roll to recover the face value of the checks, $6,500 the checks having been sold to a third party f’oslunl The two icidents have made consid- erable stir in sporting circles and intor- esting and spicy developments are ex- pected. In the mean time Davis was considerably molified over the fact that the men who had been fleecing him were beaten at their own game. The Ldaho men having sold their checks, on the strength of Carroll’s indorsement, are having a very comfortable time and think of returning to the romantic scen- ery of the Wood river to recuperate. tmrb-Bedag Are They triot Skulls? Boston Gilobe: For the past two days Boylston street, between Tremont and Carver streets, has presented scenes of a most unusual and remarkable character. All nlong the outer edge of the Boylston street mall of the common little heaps of human bones and grinning skulls have attracted the attention of passers-by, who iingered long and speculated and com- mented upon the unwonted exhibition. For several s past workmen em- ployed by the Edison company have been engaged in making an exhibition from Charles to Tremont strect, immodiately along side the curbing on_ Boylston street, for the puruoso of laying under- ground wires. When at a point about opposite Carver street they came uvon & brick wall about twelve inches in thiok- ness, through whioh, with the aid of pickaxe and crowbar, they penetrated, and discovered within human bones, proving the wall to be that of a tomb. Continuing on _they soon came to another, and, in fact, their progress as far as to a point opposite the esstern end of the burial ground was through a con- stant succession of these solidly-built tombs, the tovs of which are but a foot and a half below the surface. In many of them skeletons were found, as in the first, most of them 1n an excellent state of preservation. The bounes were shoveled ulu along with bricks, mortar and earth and thrown out upon the bank in indiscriminate confu- sion, no attempt being made to_keep the bones belonging to each skeleton to- z(lzllhcr, or, in fact, to preserve them at all. It is even said that in some eases skulls were stuck upon tne pickets of the iron fence above, where they gazed 1n seem- ing mockery at the busy ranspiring around them, or became the object of de- risive jests from the curwous crowd as- semblea in the locality. One of the workmen is said to have thrown one ot the best preserved skulls upon the front platform of a passing horse car, when it was picked up by the driver and triumphantly carried oft amid the loud guffaws of the idle throng and the workmen. A venerable old gentleman, who was an 1nterested spectator, last evening stated to the writer that s father, when a boy, from the summit of Copp's Hill witnessed the battle of Bunker Hill, and that after the battle a trench was du, along the south side of the common, an there many of the patriots who fell in that memorable battle were buried, hav- ing been brought thither from Charleston 1 wagons, e firmly believed that those were the skeletons of somo of the members of that immortal band of patriots. TOLLWEIGHT 1ts superior excellvuce proven 1n millions of Ronies for more than u quarter of o century, It is used by the United States G Endorsed by the heads o tics, a3 tho Strongest, ful.' Dr. Pr “niversi- Houlth king Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Limo, o Alum. only in cans. 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