Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 19, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE.| ,, ™e®areme Judgestin. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION fly Marmcx :nlon) including Sunday ks, One . $10 00 8ix Months. . 600 ‘Three Mont! 20 o Omaha Sw address, One Year.... . 200 FAIA OPricR, No. 914 AND 918 FARNAN STRARET. w YORK OPFICE, ROOM 65, TRIAU) 11,DING. ASNINGTON OFFiCR, NO. 513 FOURTRENT X1, CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and ed}- torial matter should be addressed to the Epi- TOK OF THE BER DUSINESS LETTRRSS All bueinoss lotters and remittances should be sddressed to THE BEe PUBLISRING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and Moe orders %0 be made psyable 1o the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS, Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. Btate of Nebrask s County of Douzlas. Geo. B. ‘Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Sept. 9, 1857, was as follows: Saturday, Se) Sunday, Sep! Mondav. ‘Tuesd Thursaay, Sept. Friday, Sept. 9. Gro, 15, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in ""38-7‘“"“ this 10th day of §gptember, A, D. 1887, . P, FEII Notary Publie. [SEAL. Btate of Nebraska, ‘u Douclas County. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that ho is secretary of ‘The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of the Dally Bee for themonth of September, 1846, 13,080 coples; for October, 186, 12,989 copies; for Novem- ber, 1586, 13,343 coples; for December, 1886, 18,287 coples: for ® Janu: 1887, 16,266 coples; for February, 1887, 14,198 coples; for March. 1887, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, u.maoe&m; for May, 1547, 14,227 coples; for June 1887, 14,147 copies; for July, 1887, 14,- 003 copies; for August, 1887, 14,151 coples. Geo, B Tzscruck. Sworn_and aubseribed in my presence this 5th day ot Sept. A, D., 1897, ISEAL.| N.P. Frm.. Notary Public. THE sinecures and needless deputies must go. The taxpayers of Omaha can- not afford the luxury. —— Tne old folio fraud had better haul in his horns, There is liable to be a shower when he least expects it. It becomes more and more evident, in view of the attitude of democracy upon the tariff question, thut the party is sadly in need of improved fog-signals. Tue Milk Shippers’ Union of the northwest is the latest trust. Now soma one should create a corner mn chalk and water, and frustrate the designs of the new monopoly. —_— WE still would like to know what Pres- ident Morsman of the Pacific Express thinks of the conduct of Auditor Bechel in mciting anarchy in Omaha by deliber~ ate starvation of the police. Nor content with inciting anarchy in the city to gratify their ambition for rule or ruin, the council bosses are now trying to dismember the republican party in this county by their revelutionary plots and high-handed ANOTHER Gould has entered the finan- cial world, Edwin, one of the royal monopolist's younger sons, was last weck elected a director in the Western Union company. When the family get all they want there wont bo much Jeft of the earth for the rest of us PRrESIDENT MORSEMAN, of the Pacific express, who is a staunch democrat, will doubtless heartily approve the attempt of Anarchist Bechel to break up the republican party in this county by his high-handed assumptions as chairman of the county committee. EEE— A BerLIN dispatch to a New York paper gives whatis meant to be a remark- able picce of news. It states that Kaiser William died three years ago, and has since been personated by adummy, a trick by Mr. Bismarck. The Berlin cor- respondent had better come home and rest his brain after this effort. Jony SAHLER, Julius Cooley and O. H. Rothacker responded to roll-call at the meeoting of the republican county com- mittee as representatives of the Third ward. Neither of them is a member of the committee, but it must be conceded that the Third ward, and especially “Hell's Half Acre,” was not misrepre- sented, Tuis country has been invaded by for- eign soldiers. There is no occasion for callingont the troops, however. It is only a battalion of Swedish and Nor- wegian soldiers, to the number of about four hundred, who have come over to take part in the military encampment at Chicago. Itis a good sign of the times that soldiers are used more for show than for war in these days. THAT the attacks by the press on the milkmen of the country is not without justification has been demonstrated again and again. The latest story of adulter- ated milk comes from New York., Dr, Cyrus Edson recently confiscated a quan- tity of milk in which were found three live frogs. The Omaha milkmen may not scoop in frogs with the water, but many of them will bear looking after pretty closely. EE—— CrrizeN TRAIN has broken his ten years' silence to pitch into the “Pinker- ton assassins’ if they commit “‘judicial murder”’ on the sociahists in Chicago. He threatens, if they do so, to raise sheol on billion frauds on public treasury. Psychos hold fort. Will bombard Chi- cago every night till execution, showing up $50,000,000 over-issue Chicago ity bonds.” Our distinguished ex-citizon has evidently beon indulging in soft shell veanuts lately. —_—— ANOTHER man has come to the rescue of Shakespeare. Lawrence Barrett, the tragedian, puts himself on record in op- position to Ignatius Donnelly’s Baconian theory and argues in favor of the bard of Avon. Shakespeare will hold the bourds with the Booth-Barrett combina- tion at least this year, and the play- going public will flock to see the distin. guished actors without being at all de- pressed by the ‘thought that perhaps Bacon was robbed of the glory of the authorship of the plays by a dissclute " sud ignorant dramatist. 7 ropublican state convention which is to nominate a candidate for justice of the supreme court will convene at Lin- coln on the third day of October. It 18 an open secret that a still hunt has been in progress tor some months which has for its object the elevation of one of two district judges to the seat on the supreme bench now occupied by Judze Maxwell. This move has, however, met with very little encouragement so far. Judge Maxwell, it 1s true, has grown gray and old on the supreme court bench, but he is much better qualified for his work to-day by reason of his long service than he was twelve years ago. He has beon an upright, fearless and faithful judge. He has never catered to corporate power by straiming the law in behalf of monopoly, nor courted popu- larity by opinions or decisions inspired by vopular clamor. ‘While restrained by his position from all active partisan strife, he has been all his life an unflinching re- publican, The bench and bar of Nebraska may boast more brilliant legal minds, but none surpass Samuel Maxwell in level- headed common sense, and that rare quality which inspires popular confidence, when men feel, believe and know that come what may, their supreme judicial tribunal is occupied by a safe judge. However much the republicans of Ne- braska may desire to promote other men, they cannot, in our opinion, afford to retiro Judge Maxwell at this juncture. Who Who? Who is to receive Prosident Cleveland when he arrivesat Omaha? That is just now one of the most momentous ques- tions that agitates honorables and promi- nents, But Omaha isnot the only place torn up over the presidential roception. At Indianapolis the coming of Cleveland has aroused a controversy as to who shall receive him. - He is to be there up- on the invitation of the board of trade, but the Hendricks club, & political or- ganization, has stepped in and assumed to be master of ceremonies. It has sent out invitations and appointed the orator for the occasion. The committee of the board of trade has come to the front and informed the club that it must take a back seat, that the mayor and governor would be the only speakers to welcome the president. The Hendricks club 1s given to understand that it can walk in the procession if 1t chooses and that will be about the only function expected of it. The board of trade committee is right. When the president of the United States comeson a visit to see the people politi- cal organizations have no right to trv to kidnap him and turn the occasion into a political affai ‘TH1S country has been importing sugar up to date to the amount of about $30,- 000,000 annually. But the time seems now at hand when we will manunfacture enough sugar to supply howme consump- tion. The last reports from the diffusion works at Fort Scott, Kan., are encour- aging. A recent dispatch says: “The re- sults so tar have been wonderful, and it has been demonstrated that sugar can be made very profitably from sorghum cane. From 104 to 110 pounds of first sugar, twenty pounds of seconds, and ten gal- lons of syrup is the average product from a single ton of cane. This average is kept up right along, and owners and people here are greatly rejoiced. More sugar and syrup has been made in one week than was made out of the whole of last year’s crop.” Mr. Spreckles, the San Francisco “'sugar king,” has been in Europe studying the methods there em- ployed to extract sugar from beets, and he says he intends to erect on the Pacitic coast the greatest beet sugar manufac- tory in the world, There is no reason this country should not be self-support- ing as to sugar. The outlook is now fa- vorabie for such a consummation. SoME people never will learn anything. QOnly ten days ago Governor Thayer nailed down a wholo keg of cast-iron lies forged in John MecShano's slander mill, the Herald. He refuted each and all of the charges concocted against him by that reckless concern and made every reputable editor in the state blush for his profession. But Mr. McShaue's slander factory still keeps up its malicious flings and baseless inuendoes. The latest is the charge that the governor had signed the convict labor contract bill for a money consideration. Governor Thayer is out of the state. When he returns from Phila- delphin we have no doubt he will spike that impudent lie just as cffectually as he did the charge that he had come to Omaha expressly three weeks ago to give directions to the police commiission as to their courso toward the city council. Tae first del res of the Had- dock murder trials at Sioux City was reached yesterday afternoon when the jury brought 1n a verdict of manslaugh- ter agamst Fred Munchrath. Munchrath was not charged with firing the shot which ended the life of Rev. George C. Had- dock, butonly with being a conspirator to cause his death. The conviction of the principal and the other co-conspirators for this brutal murder promises to keep the criminal court of Woodbury county in business for a long time to come, and it tho guilty parties are brought to justice finally it will be a gratifying surprise to lovers of law and ordel Oxana and Councii 8luffs contempor- aries are just now boasting about the marvelous increase within a few months of that unknown quantity which they call their circulation, This is very amus- ing. Bless your soul, brethren, it will take twenty-five years of such wonderful growth before any of you could eatch up with the BEE'S present aund well-estab- lished circulation! Bythe way, we al- ways hear about the new subscribers, but never & whisper about those that have dropped oft. Throwing around daily papers makes a tine showing, but it is very deceptive until the free ditribution stops, ANy republican candidate in Douglas county who wants to be elected in No- vember should at once tender a bonus to the readerless organ ot the insolent boodlers who arrogate to themselves the sole right to interpret republicanism for Omaha and Nebraska. Unless this gang of cormorants is silenced and kept within decent bounds the republican ticket will seea Waterloo on the 8th of November, A word to the wise is suflicient. empm———pe——— ‘THE ropublicans of the First distriot would do well to reflect seriously before they commit the party to the support of the Honorable Colouel Colby for district judge. 1t is hardly necessary for the BEE to remark that Colby was repudiated by the republicans of that district four years ago. He was buried 1n his own county by over one thousand majority when any reputable republican would have carried it by fifteen hundred. Can the leopard change his spots? Is the Colby of 1837 less of a rogue than was the Colby of 1883 Can republicans af- ford to foist a notorions jobber on the bench? GovERNOR HiLL's ambition has at last been officially announced to his fellow democrats at his home in New York. At the Chemung county democratic conven- tion Friday, one of the governor's confi- dential friends, in an address to the dele- gates, said: “Governor Hill is at the head of the democratic party in this state. and I trust and believe that he will soon be at the head of the party in the na- tion.” If this means that David's friends propose to push him to the front in 1888, Mr. Cleveland may find that he will have an insurmountable Hillto climb before he reaches the goa! of a renomination. I7 rained six days in the month of Au- gust, but the street commissioner has re- turned vouchers for twenty-seven days duaring the month of August for each of his sub-bosses. The laborers who worked under them only received pay for the days on which they were actively at work, The question is, why should the city pay for time which was not actually putin? What s the use of paying wages by the day to the foremenm and then crediting him for a full month, when he only worked three weeks? Tur idea of ntaking & southern man a candidate for second place upon the next democratic presidential ticket is being agitated among the democratic politi- cians. The sentiment in the south does not favor this expedient, however. They are probably right. A southern man on the presidential ticket would lose democ- racy more votes in the north than it would gain in the south. As long as Cleveland is willing to make up half of his cabinet from the late confederacy the south will remain content. BUENOS AYRES i8 to have a parhament- ary building, which will cost £8,000,000. Invitations will be issued to architects of all countries to submit plans for the new structure. The two best designs will be awarded prizes of $40,000 and $10,000 respectively. ‘The plans can be sent to the Argentine embassadors of each coun- try and mustbe in their hands by the first of April next. Here is an opportanity for enterprising American architects to win fame and money. OMAUA has nearly 100,000 inhabitants; immense business blocks are going up; activity and progress are everywhere ; improvements m all directions ng place and the prosperity of our city is a wonder of the times, but there is one blot upon her fair name—the coun- cil chamber. ‘THE county commissioners still persist in ignoriag the law with regard to the publication of their proceedings. Even ifthe law did not require this publication the taxpayers are entitled to know what the commissioners are doing and how they are expending the public funds. AccorpING to Rev. Mr. Savidge, some of the reporters on the Omaha dailies sometimes swear. Perhaps this may be true, but we can assure the reverend gentleman that as a rule they are more sinned against than sinning—at least as regards this damning evil, P NTS. If anybody thinks that because this is an off year in politics there will be dull times this fall, he errs, It is coing to be lively, ex- citing, interesting and red-hotin all its as pects. Massachusetts replaced threo high-tariff congressmen with three of the ovposite creed in last year's election, and it is possi- ble that the change will go further a year hence. “Man was made to mourn” will be a com- forting brick for Ben Butler to put to his feet when he gets through settling with the auctioneer for his latest bid for the pgesi- dency. A law was passed by the last Ohlo legisla- tare making ita misdemeanor for any man electod as a delegate to to a political con- vention to give a proxy or permitanother person, not so elected, to represent him. “The meanness and malignancy of the prohibitionists have never been more clearly manifested than in their recent New York state convention,” is the opinion of the Chi- cago Tribune. Congressman Randall is reported as say ing: “They must have help in organizing the house, and [ will trust them to take any step they see fit towards formulating a plan for taritf reductiou without consulting me.” The practice of setting free lunches at the polls to influence votes was invented by the W. C. T. U. of Kansas. It has extended to Missourl, and in the local option election both the prohibitionists and the saloon- keepers are guilty of it. 1tis bribery. It should be prosecuted. e —— Superfluous Literary Labor. New Orleans Picayune, W. Clark Russell, the writer of sea stories, 15 about to publish a new volume called “A Bouk for the Hammock.” If itisto prop up the lounger's head, a good-sized census re- port will do as well@s ano book. It is not necessary to write ;sorlzlnnl tale for such a purpose. e An Excellent Suggestion, American Register. Domestie service, having been practically abandoned as a means of livelihood by the young women of the working class, it has been suzgested by a lady, who writes an able article on thesubject in a magazine, that the work should be made a profession, and that properiy organized should be opened for instruction in the branches of household work, e A Dramatic Situation. Kansas City Journal, A situation worthy a Gilbert and Sullivan opera exists in Smith county, Kan. The probate judge of thatcounty is insane. He should be removed, but the governor finds himself in a dilemma. He eannot appointa probate judge until a vacaney oecurs, and no vacancy can be declared in this instance un- til the incumvent is adjudged insane. ln order to affect this the lunatic was be tried by a jury and declared insane by the probate Judge. No other person in the county has this power, —_— Fifteen Famous American Inventions Dayton Democrat, The fifteen great American inventions of world-wide adoption are: (1) The cotton- Rin, (2) the planing-machine, (3) the grass- mower and reaper, (3) the rotary printing press, (5) nayigation by steam; (6) the hot air engine, (7) the sewing machine, (3) the tndis rubber Industry, (9) the machine manufact- vre of horse shops, (10) the sand blast for carving, (11) gauge lane, (13) the grain elevator, (13) artificial ice making on a Iarge scale, (14) the glectric magnet and its prac- tical application, (15) the telephone. —— 8alt and faealiation at Botte. HlnnTpalll Tribune, 1n the case of salt shipments to Butte City, Mont., the Union Pacific rallroad has appar- ently been overestimating “what the trafic will bear.” Enorwnous quantities of salt are consumed in the reduction of silver ores. ‘The salt goes ffom Utan, and the Union Pa- clfic has enjoyed a monovoly of the business. Our speclal dispatches from Butte yestorday moming explained the situation. The charge on salt for a haul of 400 miles has been 812 a ton, or 840 a car. The same road hauls coal to Butte over the same line from a point 200 miles further away for $100 a car, which is at the rate ot $5 per ton. The coal charges, of course, are affected by com- vetition from the other direction. ‘The Northern Pacific is In position to supply Butte with fuel. But salt is not a commod- ity that 18 supplied profusely along the route of the Northern Pacific, and it soems neces- sary that Montana smelting mills should get their chloride of sodiumn from the region of the Gireat Salt Lake. The Alice mining com- pany. using about a car load of salt a day, has issued orders toclose down their mines and mills October 1, on account of the ex- orbitance of the Union Pacifie. All interests in Butte are dependent upon the prosperity of the mines and smelting works, and will make common cause aganst the Union Pacific. It now costs more to get a car of salt hauled from Utah than a car of morchandise from Omaha. It is proposed to divert all the trade of Butte from the Union Pacific tothe North- ern Pacific unless the former shall make a fair rate on salt. This threat will probably bring the road to terms; for it has a very large ana lucrative general business in Butta which it will not choose to sacrifice, The matter is one which, If not otherwise satis- factorily adjusted, should be brought to the notice of the Inter-state commerce commis- slon. If the outcome of the affair should be an -increased intimacy betweeu Butte City and the commercial centers at this end of the Northern Pacific system, we should of course be duly gratitied. ——— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The Schuyler Herald declares that the Omaha fair was a success in every sense of the word. . The Vidette reports that the old sold- iers of Crete had a splendid time at the Omaha reunion. The Burlington bridge over the Mis- souri river at Rulo, will be completed early next month. .The republican convention of the Eighth judicial district is called to meet at Hastings, October 4. The Hall county fair opens in Grand Island to-morrow.” The premium county vlvlll make an elaborate display of pro- due _The gas meter will commence opera- tions on the accumulated wealth of Grand Island this week. The plant cost $05,000 and will start up to-day. The union labor party convened re- cently at Ord. It was a harmonious gnthering of three persons, and the oflices were suflicient to go around. . Harry Brown, wearied of confinement in the Aurora jail and after a month's meditation, disappeared from the crib. The ofticials wonder that he tarried with them so Jong. The corner-stono of the soldiers’ home at Grand Island will be laid October 5. T occasion will be a notable one and will be witnessed by hundreds of veterans from all parts of the state. Three prisoners sawed their way to freedom from the Beatrice jail Saturday might, and were well on to the Kupsas line when their departure rattled the slumbers of the vigilant turnkey. Hastings is in the center of a matri- monial boom. All good citizens who have been there should gave a unani- mous boost to the marriageable, and thus mitigate the fluency of cold weather and coal bills, The labor union party in convention forgot the bounce and sufferings of McGlynn when they endorsed Henry George. The pulpitless preacher pierced the papal dome in a vain pull for pres- tige and popularity. The crooked footprints of the Beatrice Mutual insurance company, in the shape of iron clad notes, but a shade removed from forgeries, turn up every week to smite the honest, innocent Sabin, An- other interview is in order. ‘The North Nebraska Eagle says: “‘Fair week was a %Mfl week for Omaha—in fact a general holhiday. The people of the state turned out en musse to visit the greal metropolis. It is estimated that there were 50,000 strangers in the city.” “Fina weather last week,” says the Plainview G e, “made the G. "A. R. reunion and Fair at Omaha a roaring success, ‘Tens of thousands visited the metrovolis of the Missour: valley, and Omaha 15 to be congratulated on her suc- cess.” Omaha capitalists are invading Wash- ington county. Messrs. Henry Bolln, George Barker and F. B. Johnson have purchased the Turner tarm of 985 acres near Blair for $14,000. Blair papers re- vort that 1t is the intention of the pur- chasers to start a large stock ranche. ‘The Missouri Pacific is already at work flourishing shovels on the proposed line to Hastings, but the builders are moving cautiously pending a dacision on the additional bonds of $20,000 which the road expects to s«e‘ueoze\ out of the city. The election will take place October 12, The Ponca coal find clings to life with a tenacity that promises good results. Local papers claim that specimens of the coal have been tested in Omana and gave satisfaction. Messrs. Newman & Preuitt, the owners, will sink a shaft toa depth of 110 f and the product placed ip the market at $1 a ton. Lincoln county votors buried out of sight the proposition to bond themselves to build a new bridge over the Pilatte, The town of North Blatte was nearly solid for the bridge, and the pangs of defeat are mellowed by the tact that the town captures the wherewith for a jail out of the general wreck. The Hastings [ndependent echoes the envicus wail of Lmeoln vpapers against the proposed Seldiers’ monument in Omaha. The faoct that Omaha men have already offered: iberul sums to start the scheme on asolid foundation ought to be sufficient assurance to the kickers that they will not bé‘asked to contribute. The Eikhorn Vallay News says: *‘The best way to start the monument project would be for the Umaha people to rustle around and see if they couldn't raise a little cash among thémselves. Then, if they haven't enough, outside towns would doubtless help them ont.” That is the pian precisely, and two prominent eiti- zens have already guaranteed $4,000. T. Dudley: Gifford, a light-weight tough and general sneak, increased his stock of crime in Hastings by taking to himself two wives. All his l{niannz op- erations and contempt of jails withered before the fury of maddened wives, il- luminéd by the frenzied anxiety of rown children to get a lnck of his hair. 'he kind hearted officials sent him to tha Buffalo county jail 1o escape the storm. Speaking of Omaha fall festival the Nebraska City T'imes sa; “The total receipts of the Omaha fair association were $47,203. For a oty fair that is an excellent showing and “eannot be sur- passed by any city. The citizens showed enterprise, nerve and grit and . have. been smulv rewarded. Such exhibitions will do more to make Omaha the metropoNs of the western country than a dozen state fairs.” A rural democrat, who has waited in vain for a taste of the spoils, nominates United States Marshal Bierbower for chairman of the commiitee to recetve President Cleveland in OUmaha. ‘Lhe motion is timely and appropriate, and with the addition to the committee of Messrs. Martin, Galbraith, Ireland, Bear and Sherwin, would be vastly improved and unanimously adopted. 1s the amend- ment seconded? The latest returns from the battle field at Ord gives a blackeye to the report in these jottinge that Editor Haskell brushed his sanctum with the frame of Dave McCord, Dave did the mopping _act. The wierd romuntic depths of Webster would be searched in vain for words sufliciently lummous to picture the oxpression of Haskell as he shot frgm McCord’s dukes through a convenlent window. His wounds are healing and his pen 1s hushed by painful memories. Willtam Denakas, living near Milford, died of blood poison last week aged twenty-six. About three weeks ago he was wounded in the forearm while threshing. Treatment was at once ap- lied but blood poisoning had seeded tself in the youug man and he grew worse so rapidly that the only hope that was loft—a faint one at best—was to am- putate the arm at the shouider. The op- eration was performed last Tuesday noon, but the patient was too far gone to have 1t prove beneficial, and he died 8ix hours afterward. lowa Items, The taxable value of property in Buena Vista county is $3,471,914. The union labor party in Dubuque re- fused to fuse with the democrats. The Methodists of Vinton have let the contract for a church to cost $20,000, The mayor of Dubuque threatens to sample prohibition by closing the saloons on Sunday. The total expenses of the two brigade encampments recently held 1n the state amounted to $25,112.67. A conference of Methodist ministers and laymen, numbering several hundred, will be held at Clinton October 5. Forty tons of hay, a barn and a house were destroyed by fire in Rockingham township, Scott county, last week. According to the state audito:’s report the total number of youths in the stato is 638,156, for whom on the 20 per cent basis the amount of apportionment is $127,681.20. Subscriptions to the $50,000 required to secure the Tibbles sewing machine fac- tory in Des Moines amounted to $41,000 on Saturday. 'I'ne remainder of tho bonus is as good as secured. While difigimz otatoes at Rock Falls Mr. Van Ness discoverad a mammoth mushroom which llp?ell the beam at just sixteen pounds. It measured fifty- seven inches in circumference. Itis the l:lugnst specimen of the kind ever seen there. Dakota. The Black Hills fair opens in Dead: wood to-day. Work has commenced on the new court house at Aberdeen. Yankton has grown weary of the strug- gle to secure railroad connection with Omaha, and is now investigating and discussing other routes. About thirty bucks of the Yankton Sioux tribe of Indians upon the Yankton reservation threaten violence to the sur- veyors and to the Indians who are re- ceiving allotments of land under the sev- eralty law. ‘Lhe allotment of 1and doesn’t suit them. A correspondent interviowad Van Tas- sel, of the insane asylum board, who in- timated that if he would let 4 new man be appointed m his place Governor Church would aporove the plans and let the asylum extension go on. He added that he would see the governor in the in- fernal regions before he would resign with the charges of corruntion hanging over him. A novel triul occurred at Fort Bennett above Pierre last week. An Indian was arrested for polygamy and tried by a jury of his own race. Evidence wasin- troduced on both sides and it was clearly shown *hat the Iudian had two wives. The iiry. which consisted of only three mnlers, was out only a few minutes and returncd a verdict of guilty and sentenced the culprit to imprisonment for seven days. This light sentence may be accounted for by the fact thatthe foreman of the jury himself had three wives and evidently appreciated the force of the old story that ‘‘now is the time for us fellows to stand together."" Wyoming. The towns of Lauder and Buffalo are anxiously looking for railroad connec- tion. The new Union Pacitic depot in Chey- enno is neating complotion. A portion of the building is already occupied. Mrs. Hattie Clifford, an elderly widow living in Cheyenne, has fallen heir to a snug purse of $7,000 by the death of a relative in England. The Laramie, North Park & Pacific branch of the Union Pacific, running from Laramie city to Soda Lakes, 18 doing a profitable business this fall, The first attempt at a fair in northern Wyoming promises to be a gratifyin, success. The show will be held at Buf- talo the last four days of the month. Ckeyenne rejoices with the daily ad- vance of the Burlington to that city, as it is expected to result not only in import- ant commercial advantages, butin the location there of extensive shops. ‘The Larame soda works are now turn- ing out a product of 32,000 pounds daily, as follows: I'our thousand eight hundred pounds of concentrated lye, 8,000 pounds of caustic soda, 16,000 pounds of sodu ash and 4,000 pounds of salt cake. Laramie boasts that men of wealth are adding to the bounteous gifts nature lavished on the city. The latest is a canal forty mles long which will re- claim and irrigate the choicest section of the territory and pour the golden pro- duects into the capacious lap of Laramie. e The American Party's Platform, PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17.—The platform of the American party adopted this afternoon declares that the present system of immigra- tion and naturalization of forelzvers Is detri- mental to the welfare of the United States and demands the establishment of a depart- ment of immigration, the head of wiich shall be a member of the cabinet; demands the ro- vision of the naturalization laws, making a continued residence of fourteen years an in- dispensable requisite for citizenship and ex- cluding all commonists, socialists, ni- hillsts, anarchists, paupers and eriminals but no interference with the vested rights of foreigners; demands protection for the free common school system and recommends compulsory education in all states and terri- tories; American lands should be reserved for American citizans, non-resident allens being debarred from the ownership of real estatd and resident aliens, holdings limited in area and value. The platform condemns the donation of lands to private corporations. The surplus in the treasury should be leased to the people. A judicious system of internal Improvements and construction of fortifications and ships is demanded. The ;fll"‘)nn reasserts the American principle of reedom of religious worship and belief, rec ognizing the right of labor to organize fa protection and secure by lawiul and peace- ble means the greatest reward, deminds a tirm and consistent foreign policy and a vig- orous assertion of our national dignitv and liflll!. especially in the north Atlantic fish- eries. Pozzom 8 o Powdar pro duces & soft and beautiful skin. It.com « bines every element of beautv sod purity, Sold by drugists. st 7 NOTABLE FIREMEN'S DUELS An 01d New Yorkar Gives Some Interesting Reminisoenoes. THE FAMOUS HUDSON ENGINE. Street Battles in the Interest of Peace and Order—The Sugar House Fire ~=Exciting Scenos of the Days of Volunteer Firemen. New York Sunday Mercury: As Istood watching the fire Inddies, last Monday, leaving the town with a hurrah on their California picnic I couldn't help thinking of the timos “long, long ago” when many of the new staid and sober and well-to-do members of the excursion were warm- hearted, hot-headed youngsters, always ready to fight for the interests of their respective engine or hose companies, always ready to ‘‘hit from the shoulder" in behalf of their departmeont organiza- tions. Irocognized in the ranksof tho vet- eran volunteers several men who thirty- five or forty years ago were prominent 1n the “row-de-dows™ which used to be then so numerous, though now forgotten, Fires and fights were common occur- rances under the old regime. Generally the fight didn’t interfere with the fire. Sometimesit did. Cases have been known in which an engime and hose company have started for a fire but never got to it, having got into & fight with some rival fire company it met on the way instead. And instances were not uncommon in which right at a fire the firemen fought each other instead of the fire. But in almost every instance these ‘‘unpleasant- nesses” originatea with what was called the ‘‘runners’ rather than the members of the fire companies. One of the most destructive conflagra- tions that visited New York wasrendered doubly memorable by the fighting that took place among the firemen. I ullude 1o the famous sugar house fire in Duana street, a conflagration still well remem- bered after the lapse of nearly half a century. ‘The “old sugar house in Duane street was an old-time land mark, and when the news spread around that it was burned, people rushed frowm all parts of the city to witness the scene. All the best and all the worst of the Volunteer Fire department were strikingly shown on this occasion. There were 300 fira laddies who were heroes on and around Duane stroet then, and three of them un- fortunately met a hero's death. George Kerr was assistant engincer of the de- artment, andone of the bravest of the rave. He had an old fashioned idea that more was expected of an official than of a mere private individual—that a position had its duties—and accordingly he made it a point at a fire to do more ac- tive service than if he had not been hold- mfi(lm post of an assistant engineer. enry Fargis was a great friend of his and was a kind of a pupil in fire depart- ments, Fargis was been made an as- sistant foreman of No. 38 engine, and he, like his friend Kerr, thought that an of- ficial position had its peculiar duties, and tried always to set an example of pluck and work to the boys of No. 88. Well, as soon asthe fire began!Kerr and Fargis were on the spot and did all they could to help save the sugar house. John Decker met 'em right under the walls of the burning building. Decker was holding old 14's pipe and directing steady stream on the walls. Kerr and Fargis were just moving on to give their services elsewhere, where there was need of 'em, when with a tremendous crash the outer wall of the sugar house fell in and down. The building had a big arch- way in front, very massive and strong, and two of the " fire laddies, Kerr and Fargis, rushed to _get the protection of this archway. John Decker coolly re- mained where he was and held 14's pipe. It was about the wisest as well as the bravest thing he could have done, for the two men who songht shelter were kllled outright, Fargis by a hifi piece of the cornice fall- ing on his head, and Kerr by being buried in the ruins of the walls, while Decker stood still uninjured. Near Decker stood Charles Durant, of No. 85 Hose, who was holding its pipe in precisely Decker’s fix. But he didn't have Decker's luck, but was so badly jured that he died next day. This was Decker's eighth escape. He had thirteen escapes iu all, and is justly rezarded as having had a charmed life in fire, as Grant had in bat- tle. ‘The three firomen died at their posts, while in the discharge of their duties, like heroes as they were, and. there were lots or such men in the old fire depart- wment. But while they were battling with the elements at the price of their lives, righi round them some hangers-on of the fire apparatus got to raising a row, and five compadies, engine and hose, got drawa into the fight right at the fire, and pummeled each” other alongside the flames. Old Hudson Engine used to be one ot the most noted of the old-time fighting companies. Bob Quackenbush, the city hall detective, us to belong to this company, Itlay around where the Erie building now stands in Duane street, and was the terror of the neighborhood, all along to St. John’s park. But, after all, Old Hudson deserves to be kindly remembered for having been the first to inaugurate a system of fire- men's duels, which did a good deal to soften the asperities, or at least to lessen the nnmber of active participants in these firomen's fights. In those days the Elysian Ficlds, near Hoboken, were a_popular place of re- sort, and not far from them, at Weehaw- ken, was a locality which had become famous as a dueling ground, in which soldiers, statesmen, editors, politicians and swells_settled their differences by “‘the code' and the pistol. Some of the boys of Old Hudson con- coived the iden of using the Elysian Fields for the same purpose as theswells, ete., used the dueling ground at Wee- kawken, only employing their fists in- stead of vi!ll)li, and acung as representa- tives of their respective companies, not as private individuals redressiag private in- sults. According to this idea of Old Hudson’s it was proposed that if any engine con- panies or hose companies had anv grudges against each other, instead of doing as had been done hitherto, instead of the inembers of the antagonistic com- panies fighting with each other wherever and whenever they happened to meot (as at the Duane strest sugar house fire) each company should apuoint its representa- e, who should fight his company's 8¢ out at the Elysian fields with the chosen repress AtV f the other com- pany—a fair fist or rongh-and-tumble fight, and no favor, to decide which company was to have the best of it, the decision then arrived at to be accepted by each company as final and no further bad blood or animosity to be manifested, the whole quarrei with the compan ending with the duel atthe Elysian Fields. ‘The boys belorging to Old Hudson fell in love with this in ious idea of theirs, whother ase it would afford a con- of exciting fights right along lysian Fields or b use it would vromate in the main the inte of peace. I won't undertake to determine, and they wrnt round awong ‘the other tiremen doing their hest to get all the rest of the boys to adopt their iden, There was re ally something - in it and it met with fayor. |If there must be ‘a tight it was surely.better to havae it hetwsen two uen n*’or than two companies. So the boy agleed to give it teial. The first “firomen’s duocl" of this kind took place between a member of Old Hudson and a rival company one hot afternoon in May, and resulted in a de- cided viotory for Old Hudson. That sot- tled it, and from that time on for years tho members of Old Hudson were the warmest advocates of ‘‘firemen's duels.' Altogether some forty or 8o of these “‘fire- men’s duels” took place in about eI‘zht years, and really might be regarded as fights in the interest of peace and quiet. ness, And there is no telling how “lon, they might havo beon kept a-going ha not, one fine day, a member of Old Hud- son engine most unexpectedly got licked, This sltered the matter, and from that time on Old Hudson began to lose its enthusiasm in its own original suggese tion, and the “‘firemen’s duel’’ followed the example of the other sort of dueling and crased to oxist. (i Boiler Inspection on Explosions. American Machinest: During the past fiftoen years there have been numerous theories advanced to account for boiler explosions upon other than plain natural laws. Every one ot these thcories have worked harm to the extent that it has found believers, because it has called at- tention away from the real cause, and in some degree has been accepted as a de« fense of incompetency and dangeroud practice. When a boiler explodes there 18 always one of two rensons for it; the material or workmnnnhi“, ecither or both, were bad, or it has beea ignorantly used. This has come to be accepted by nearly every one of intelligence who has given the matter attention. Absolute failure to uring about explosions, or conditions that would account for explosions, 1n ac- cordance with any of these semi-super- natural theories . has led to their abandonment by sensible people, But there is an alarming frequency of boiler explosions, and the yearly st of killed and wounded from this causo is a large one, There arg many who believe that the remedy for this is in state inspection laws. 'There is little room to doubt that proper spection laws competently ad- ministered would do a good deal in the way of reducing the number of boilers explosions, but such laws, to be of much service, should be more comprehensive than any we have yot hearda spoken of, and nspection should not be of the usual political quality. Inspection should cover material and wprkmanship to a greater extent than hasbeen contemplated. Regarding the material, too moch de« pendence is placed upon the stamp on the plates. This is parucularly true in rela- tion to stationary boilers. "It is very sel- dom that anything is known by the builder by actual test, of the quality of the material he uses. This knowledge 18 concluded by the legend of the stamp, and indications in working. We. do not say this is true in all cases; there aro builders who insist upon knowing some- thing more than this of the quality of the material they use, but it is true in a ma- Lorlty of cases. Many manufacturers of oiler plate are entirely honest, beyond doubt, but it would be too much to be- lieve that there is no dishonesty practiced in muking and stam )imf boiler plates. And the honest are liable to mistake For these reasons there should be rigid inspection of material before it goes into the boiler. Honest plate makers would favor this because it would free them from the competition of the dishorest, if there are such. Good boilers are not made of stamps, and there is little rea- son to doubt that the story told by the stamp 19 sometimes deceptive, aceident- ally and intentionally. It is not early enough to begin inspection after the boiler is built, But the best of material will not in- sure a safe boiler unless it is properly worked and unless the general construc- tion is goed. And with a boiler maker, as mith a plate maker, there may be hon- est& and dishonesty, Unfortunately, wo know there is sometimes ignorance. The state cannot say that one boiler maker is honest and another dishonest; that one is competent and another incompetent: it can say that inspection shall begin in the boiler shop, and that boilers shall not be used if made of poor material, or if methods of construction generally recog- nized as unsafe and destructive are em- ployed. Ignorance in one way or another is un- doubtedly the prime cause of a majority of all boiler explosions. There are but few purchasers that do notconsider them- selves as compotent to judge of the qual- ity of a boiler as they do of n thing they know something “about; experience proves that the majority of them con- clude their judgment by the price asked. When a boiler ex- plodes the boiler maker is lik the one blame Good jodg ofen place quite as much of the biame on the purchaser. Not that he knows much about the matter, but that he ought to have known or have paid for the s of some one who did’ know, to him. It is wue there is no e: boiler muker who will | poor boiler, but there i cuse for the man who es him to do it. Ignorance in the matter ought not to be azcepted as un oexcuse, Under the pres- ent plan of buving and using boilers—the lowest bidder getting the that have been subjected to no inspection whatever, either of material or workmanship, there is strong temptation for the boiler maker to use poor material and do cheap work in self-aefence. as it were. It is one of the rules of trade that a man can buy al- most anything as poor in quality as he likes, and nothing but inspection all the wiy from the iron or steel to the finished boiler will prevent boilers poor in qual- ity of stock and workmanship from going into use. The last and crowning place where ignoran gets n its perfeet work in boiler destruction i in their management. It caunot bo anything but ignorance that induces an owner to put an incompetent man in charge of boilers beoause he will work cheap,for it has been demonstrated time and again that there is nothing cheap about the matter but the wages paid. The fact thata man will take a job as an engineer for a little less than ordinary laborer's wages is fairly good evidence that he not only knows nothing about caring for a boiler, but that he is mot competent to do, or learn to do, anything well No one thing—except universal hon esty, which 15 not imminent—is likely to put & stop to boiler explosions, Comipe- tent inspection that ns with the material and workmanship will nelp in the work. A willingness on the part of purchasers to pay fair prices for good work will have excellent eflect. With these, and none but competent men in charge of boiters, explosions would be rare for the e hired to builda just as little ex- Traveling Men Banqueted. Dion Geraldine, representing the Deer- ing Harvester company, gave a banquet to the company’s traveling men at the board of trade building last evening. 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