Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 6, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERWS OF SUBSORTPTION | For Threa Months . The Omaha Swnday wddress, Yenr. . h ATREET. ASHINGTON O¥FICE, NO. 513 FOURTEEN TH STRELT. CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to nows and edi- torial matter should be wddressed w0 tho Eps %OR OF THE BRR. BUSTNRSS LETTERS: All business letters and remittances should be Addressed to Tix Bes PUBLISRING COMPANY, OMAHA, Drafts, checks and postofiico orders %0 be wade payabie t2 the order of the compaay, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statement of Circulation. s. 8 . , secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Dailv Bee for the week ending Sept. 30, 1857, was as lows: ' Saturday. Sept. 24 Sunday. Sept 25 Mondav. Sept, 26. ‘Tuesdav. Sept. 27. ‘Wednesday, Sept. Thursaay. Sept. 29, #riday, Sept. 50, AVerage...oooiiueen 5 Sworn o and_subserioad 1 1y présenice and sul n m this 1st day of October, A, D. l!flAy N. P, FEIr, [SEA L. E. 1 Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, { Douglas County. %% . B. Tzachuek, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of The HBee Publishing eompany, that the actual average dsily circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of September, 184, 13,030 coples; for October, 183, 12,080 copies; for Novem- ber, 1886, 13,348 copies; for December, 1856, 15,237 coples: for Janu: 1887, 16,266 4,198 co i coples; for February, 1887, les: for March. 1857, 14,400 copies; for Apr! 887, N.fll(lm'm",n; for May, 1887, 14,297 coples: for June 1587, 14,147 eoples; for July, 1857, 14,- 083 copies; for August, 1887, 14,151 copies. Gro. B Tzsowuck. Bworn and subscribed in my presence this 5th day ot Sept. A, D., 1887, [SEAL.| N. P. FriL. Notary Public. e Crow Indians are now said to be on the war path. Those valinnt white men who tried to stir up a Ute war. have eyidently gone into Montuna to see what can be effected by monumental lying there. Tue Chicago elevators this year con- tain a total of about 8,600,000 bushels of grain as against 15,500,000 last scason. What is Chicago's loss is Omaha's gain. This city is destined to be the metropolis of the’country in time. MicnarL Davrrr made a flying visit to Chicago the other day. He had noth- ing to say about Irish afairs or politics. This is a rather urusual attitude for him, but like Mr. G. W. Curtis, he probably regards this a good time for thinking. EVERY republiean, and for that matter every good citizen who desires to exor- cise the right of suffrage at the coming election should see to it personally that his name is on the voters' register of the ward in which he resides. The registra- tion this fall is all new, and no names are carried over. THERE 18 one fighting editor less in the country. Mr, D. R. Anthony has sold his paper to a syndicate of Boston news- paper men. Mr. Anthony has been a conspicuous and successful figure in American journalism. He has had as many personal encounters as any living editor, and worked his way to success through many obstacles. AccorpING to Councilman Lowry it was a dastardly outrage for one of the democratic members of the volice com- mission to stand at the street corner in the neighborhood of the Fourth ward re- vublican primary, but it was all right for Paddy Ford to act as recruiting officer for a gang of Third ward thugs, who were trying to capture the Fourth ward primary with non-residents and re- Ppeaters. Tae report of harsh cruelties inflieted on settlers by a British syndicate owning land in Iowa will, if verified, do much to intensify public hostility to alien landlordism in this country. The facts as reported from Washington are not at all incredible, but it will be most sur- prising if the brutality is permitted to £o on unchecked, or some effort 18 not made to bring to merited punishment those who have outraged every consider- ation of humanity, to say nothing of jus- tice, in driving the unfortunate and help- less settlors from their possessions. It is to be hoped the account is greatly exag- gerated, but there is undoubtedly in the matter enough to warrant investigation. Eviction cruelties and outrages must not be tolerated in this land THE republican campaign in Towa has opened with great vigor and there is promise that it will not be allowed to flag. Senator Allison, Governor Larra- bee and other distinguishied leaders are in the field and the work they are to do has been fully mapped out. It will keep them well occupied until the day of election. No doubt 18 entertained re- garding the result on the state ticket, but the republicans have wisely deter- mined not to permit themselves to rest in contidence, and nearly a thousand meetings during the campaign have been arranged for. Like the republicans of other states those of Iowa understand the importance of a sweeping victory this yoar and they intend to win it. EE———— WE take pleasure in congratulating our esteemed contemporary, the Chicago Herald, upon the evidence of prosperity which is furnished in the fact that it has permanently enlarged from four to eight pages, making this 1unprovement with- out increasing the cost of the paper to its readers. The Herald well deserves its success and prosperity, which have been won by adhering consistently to the best conditions of modern journalism. Thorovgh and clean in presenting the news of the day, intelligent and candid in its expression and opinion, and seeking the welfare of the people without dema- &ogy or claptrap, it has grown steadily and strongly in favor of support until it has attained a cirealation second to that of no other mornming paper in Chicago, Typographically the Herald is one of the handsomest pavers in the country, and in all respects it can safely challenge comparison.with the best, The assur- ance of its pubhisher that the th posi- tion 1t has reached will be accepted with ¢ fullest confidence, The President’s Talka, We regret to observe a disposition to depreclate the intelligence of Mr. Clave- land regarding this great country, and to make it appear that the information he has been imparting to the few com- munities he has thus far henored with a more or less prolonged visit was freshly gleaned before his departure from the capital of the nation by an industriows resenrch of the cyclopedia. Mr. Dana, of the New York Sum, who, we believe, had something to do with building up that very waluable com- pendium of information, the Awerican Cyclopedia, was quite naturally the first to discover that there was a striking similarity in the president's facts re- garding Indianapolis and those con- tained in the work to which the distin- guished editor of the Sun contributed, and theugh noting a slightly different literary arrangement in the presenta- tion of the facts still concluded that they were derived from the aforesaid work. The obvious purpose of this allegation is to show both that Mr. Cleveland was targely [gnorant of the localities he was to visit and that in order that this nught not appear he resorted to a somewhat | moretricious means of gratifying public expectation by the display of a little superficial knowledge readily aequired from the books. Mr. Dana dues not like Mr. Cleveland. A fair view of the matter will not, we think, result to the disparagement of the president, [t is mot reasonable to sup- pose that he could have known much ubout Indianapolis, and there has never been uny special reason until this tour was projected why he should inform himself regarding that rather quiet and stupid city., There 18 very little in its history to invite the at- tention of the student from more profit- able investigation, to which there is no limit, and the rapid march of avents with Mr. Cleveland may well excuse him for not having formed an earlier acquaint- ance with so comparatively unimportant a place as Indianapolis. But every com- munity has s pride in itself that upon oc- casion it.is desirable to flatter, and it was a piece of shrewdness on the president’s part, perhaps suggested by the far-sceing Lament, to.convey to the Hoosier com- munity the impression that he was en- tirely familian witn its history, in fact had made it a favorite part of his researches. In the uncertainty regarding the fature volitical course of Indiuna such an impression would be likely to have more weight in Mr. Cleveland's interest than any other he could have made. The cyclopedia was prepared for just such exigencies, as every newspaper man knows, and all such should be the last to question the propriety or legitimacy of its use in this instance. Undoubtedly the president told the majority of those who heard him a great deal that was new to them. On the whole the president's talks thus far have been rather creditable to him, in so far as they have been free from any expressions that could be used to his dis- advantage. Granting thatgenerally they have been rather commonplace, they have still been safe and have given no of- fense in any quarter. He will be for- tunate if the good judgment he has thus far shown shall remain with him to the end of his journey. e— Pernicious Activity. Public attention is being widely di- rected to the letter written by the presi- dent about a year ago in which he de- fined the political rights of office holders, and prescribed the limtations within which they might properly be exercised. One of the clauses of the letter reads: “The influence of federal office holders should not be felt in the manipulation of political primary meetings and nominat- ing conventions.” It was understood when this edict was issued thatit was the intention of the president to insist upon a thorough obedience to its requirements, and that any one shown to have disre- garded 1t would be visited with summary dismissal from office. It encountered a gZood denl of hostile criticism from dem- ocrats, but the immediate effect was to somewhat check the political ac- tivity of those in oftice. For a time they were comparatively quiet and stood aloof. The effect was not lasting, however. The first conspicuous disegard of the or- der was by the men whom Senator Gor- man, of Maryland, had foisted upon the public sevice, although accusations of pernicious activity had been made against democratic federal oflicials in other localities. ‘The bold and defiant course of Higgins, Raisin and others of Baltimora was, however, the beginning of a repudiation of the president’s views of officeholders’ political rights, which has sinee been very widely practiced, and will doubtless be more so in the political con- tests which are to take place between now and the natioual battles of next year. The activity of democratic oftice- holders in Pennsylvunia at the last state convention i3 notorious, and while they were less conspicuous at the late New York convention it is well known that they were exceedingly active in manipu- lating the machinery by which the dele- gates were chosen. In Ohio they have been somawhnat less zealous, but evi- dences of their handiwork have not been wholly wanting. It is now reported that the federal oflicials in Louisiana are en- gaged inone of the most remarkable campaigns ever known in that state. A party including the mimster to Mexico, at home on leave of absence, a district attorney and the coiner of the miut, are 1 the name of the administration waging a bitter warfure on the regular democ- racy, carrying the campaign into every quarter of the state. The event is significant as an ceptionally bold violation of the pres- ident’s edict against pernicious activity. Presumably this Louisiana matter has not been brought to the attention of the president. But when it shall be there is no probability that he will take any action. He has done nothing to enforce respect for his order, although the evis dence of 1ts violation in several conspic- uous instances must have been clear to him, as it certainly was to everybody else, and he will be less likely to do any- thing hereafter. He may interpose for a truce in the Louisana conflict, because it would be to his advantage to do so, but there will be no ene punished, It may be expected that as the time of the na- tional battle draws nearer pernicious activity among democratic federal office- holders will become freer and more gen- eral, and Mr, Cleveland for obvious rea- sons will grow less disposed to iaterfere 1 w‘nh it. ls_xuu_l. o0 long as Flu Maryland | ex- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1867. crowd is permitted to remain ip office, the president 1s so " heavily handicapped that he cannot with any show of consist- ency punish other violators of his order, however bold and defiant their disregard of it may be. Thus “pernicious activity" has become a mers by-word, and the famous letter of Mr. Cleveland a thing of emptiness, signifying nothing. — The American Beef Pool. The pool formed by the oattle pro- ducers promises to become a stupendous affair, if carried out according to present intentions. Mr. Armour, to whom the association has promised all the cattle under their control, would seem to hoid the key to the greatest trust in the coun- try. In effect it will give him control of the entire dressed beef industry of the land and consolidate all markets into one. It is claimed, however, that the price of beef will not be raised to the consumer, ‘The cattle producors will have the benefit of the combination. They have always complained that the middlemen received too great profits. No matter how . cheap or how high beef on foot might be, the prico to consumers hus varied but little. Mr. Armour, it is said, will merely act as the agent of the associa- tion, receiving pay for services rendered, and assumiog norisks. Bat it will be in his power to drain the cattle ranges. Other beef packers can not enter the combination except with his consent. Repeesentatives of the pool say it will make no difference to them whether one man does the packing or a hundred, and they preferred co-operating rather than fighting with him, This plan seems to be the tinzl result of the many methods which the cuttlemen have been consider~ ing daring the summer, and is an at- tempt to revive the the stock raising in- dustry in the west, which has been in a decline for some time. It 1s thought that this mensure will have the effect they de- sire. It looks as though Mr. Armour has here the materinl for the biggest monopoly in the world. The Ostrich Policy. The council has tabled the appeal of the police commission for judicial arbi- tration without allowing 1t to be read. In view of the fact that this appeal had already been published the refusal to have it read 1n open session is, to cull it by a mild name, very childish. Councilmen who voted to table it are simply playing ostrich. They cannot pretend to be ignorant of the contents of the petition which they tabled, and they will justly be held responsible for obstructing good government. A man who owes a meat bill can't deny that the bill was presented by slamming his door in the face of the butcher. It would have been more manly to have read the appeal and referred it to some commit- teco—even if the intent was to pigeon hole it. But the serious side of this action is the fact that it affords proof that the ma- jority faction of the council persist in a revolutionary course which has already damaged the city’'s repatation abroad and incites turbulence and lawlessness at home. THE treaty excluding Chinese immi- gration provides that all the Chinese in the country at the time it was negotiated might come and go at will. 1t s this clause in the treaty which bhas served the federal courts as a pretense for ruling that Chinese who do not come provided with the certificate the restriction law requires may enter upon proof of pre- vious residence, When such are refused admission by port officials, habeas corpus proceedings are begun in the courts, and although the proof is often of the flimsiest character, the persons seeking an entrance rarvely fail to re- ceive1t, for the reason trkat there is money in the business which the court ofticials are not disposed to lose. There are very gencrous fees for the clerks and otvers, and it has been broadly ntimated by the collector at San Fran- cisco that the judges have not been averse to giving the court employes the largest opportunity to profit by this business. T'he result has been the practical nullifies tion of the law, but even worse thau thi is the discredit brought upon the federal judiciary. It is hardly possible after the exposures and allegations that have been made, from responsible sources, that the matter will be allowed to escape investi- gation. THE offer of the treasury to buy $14,000,- 000 of bonds astheir face value will expire two days hence, and it seems quite cer- tain that the amount will not be pre- sented for purchase. Thus far the ofter- ings have been about $10,000,000. 1t is quite probable that the treasury will ex- tend tho time, so that the contidence which its policy thus far has created may be maintained. But the significance of the small amount of bonds that has been offered under the treasury's two pro- posals, aggregating but little more than $21,000,000, should not be lost sight of. It shows that there was very little real foundation for the outery that has been made of a severe stringency of money threatening a financial ersis, and sug- gests very strongly that speculators were largely responsible for the alarm that was so industriously sounded. The truth appears to be that while there is not an abundance of money for bull speculation there is quite suflicient for all legitimate purpose nd it will doubtle: be just as well for the country if the situ tion in thisrespect is not changed. Atall events the secretary of the treasury will be wise in giving no heed to Wall street clamor and adhering to the course he has thus far pursued. THE latest and most awful charge laid at the door of “Rosewater” is tiat he has his eye on the United States senate. I looks very much as if Rothacker had resumed the editorial stool of the Re- publican, e — THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. There is an influence at work to reduee the dependence of manutacturers and jobbers on travellng agents. A halt dozen new brick-yards will be es- tablished in this city, and i all cities brick- making is increasing, With nailmaking capacity double the de- mand, 8 Kokomo men proposes to buid a mill to employ 400 men, ‘The manufacturers ot engines of all kinds are very much crowded, and numerous ex- tensions are being made. It has been fizured up thatover 1,200 men are annually killed while engaged in coup- ling cars, and 2,500 injured. . . For avery 252 bushels of wheat raised last year by the farmers of the world %3 bushels have been ralse@ this year. The price of carrying wheat from the west to Liverpool hag@igelined In fifteen years in the ratio of from §1 to T8 cents, The salt monopoly will be composed of sixty-three companies, of which tairty are in Michigan and thirteen in Ohio. ‘The Manufacturers’ elub, of Philadelphia, has & membership of over 500, and i3 the only one of 1te kind in the world. The miners in several western states are threatening to st because of the scarcity of coal and thd urgent demand for their labor, The Southern Pacifie rallroad bought 85,000 tons of forahzn steel rails by way of thanking our gdvernment for assistance rendered. ‘The employing printers of Chicago will meet this month to organize against the nine-hour rule that the printers propose to enforce, Notwithstanding the outflow of shoe man- ufacturers from New England ecities, the shoe making Industry is more prosperous thian ever. A new supply of natural gas has been found In western Pennsylvania 150 feet below the existing source of supply. The pressure is 600 pounds. Conl receipts on the Pacific coast from Australia bave fallen off, and manufactur- ers are paying $1.75 per ton more than was paid in midsummer. Five largo Cohoes hosiery mills booked orders enough last week to keep them running till next May. Some factories will run day and night throughout the winter. acdlisnsiseints Bismarck's Wetght in Politics. New York Commercial Advertiser. 1In the flesh Prince Bismarck tips the scale At 207 pounds, but in politics he weighs sev- eral tons, ——— The Money Market, Providence Journal. The number of bonds offered to the gov- ernment so far does not show a very frantic condition of the money market. When peo- ple haggle about half a cent premium they are not in the last stages of panic. e The Odds Are Too Great. Crookston (Minn.) Chronicle. Farmers have been trying to organize for years 8o as to better prolect themsélves against organization on the part of all other branches of industry, but thus far they seem to have made little or no progress. oo TR Hoth are Good Men. Bosten Transeript, The Burlington Hawkeye still inclines to the bellef that Mr. Allison will be the next republican presidential candidate. Iownisa 200d state, but can’t we compromise by put- ting up sob Lincoln, who Is, so to speak, a son-in-law of that state. e O A The Usual Story. From the Chteago Tribune, This Is the note that Jack made. ‘This is the money nearly due to meet the note that Jack made. This 1s the debtor frzil who knew that he should raise the money duo to meet the note that Jack made. This is the street that Jack traversed, whereon he fretted and fumed and cursed, in search of the debtor frail who knew that he should raise the money due to meet the note that Jack made. ‘This Is the assignee, alack! who runs the business owned by Jack before he had the streets traversed and vainly fretted and fumed and cursed in search of the debtor frail who knew that he should raise the money due to meet the note that Jack made. S STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Fremont sighs for a cann Beemer has a bank on the list. Kearney has commenced boring for natural gas. Plattsmouth and Beatrice will join Cheyenne in a free delivery circuit of jauls. Nebraska City can give them several points on the subject. George Wullingford, of Dodge county, is crowned by admirers as the greatest haymaker on earth. He has stacked up 6,000 tons for the Standard Cattle com- pany at Ames, and is ready to chew up a few more miles of meadow if the market holds out, The ungoaly have declared war upon a preacher in Keith county who refused to supply the commuuity with water from his own well, and insisted on charging for the pure article. His well is the deepest, cost money and toil, and con- tains barely l!nuu%h for home use. His refusal to divide the product of the hole has destroyed his usefulness ns a preacher and his salvation exhortations fall cold and lifeless on the prairie. A local pa suggests that there is a nut loose in malke-up. George Ashby is distribating his do- mestic brawis over a considerable section of this state and lowa. He is sid to be in love with his wife and caresses her when occasion demands with his fist and his foot. On the other hand Mrs. Ashby is not “'stuck’’ on George and has made several attempts to turn him loose and lonely on a cold world. Since cutting a wide swath n society in Broken Bow, they haye circulated apart in the vicinity of Plattsmouth and attracted police no- tice. Monday evening George found his wife and her sister returning from the theater with Charles Kdgerton and pulled his gun for blood. Charley rotested against an impromptu uneral, took George by the collar, rested him on the ffat of his stomach and danced a highland fling where his coat tails might have been. The concussion ex- ploded the revolver, but the bullet was lost in the wild tattoo. Ashby vanished in the darkness and Edgerton escorted the ladies home to the tune of ** i Gave Up the Guun.” lowa liems. The Des Moines base ball club has come home and elosed the season’s work. The reunion of the Second Iowa cave alry will be held at Muscatine October 12 and 13, The records of CUlinton show that dur- ing the year cnding October 1 there have been 727 births, 343 marringes and 488 permits to wed issued, One hundred and two residents have taken out their second papers at Daven: port during the present term of court— and there are 5)0 on the list who have first papers only. A prominent physician of Dubuque thinks the turned-down kerosene lainp is the prime and common cause of diph- theria. The custom of kecping lamps burning in children’s rooms should be discontinued. The emigration from Iown to Culis fornis, in progress during the last two months, has assumed colossal propor- tions. ‘People are loaving to such an ex- tent that the railroads look upon it as their most profitable pas: °r business an ¢ engaged in a fier struggle to secure the patronage of these people. The city coumeil of Dabugue has re- jected a” petition to have the saloons closed on Sunday, saying there was no ordinance against them being oy The prohibitory law, they said was a state enactment and the responsibility for its enforcement rested with the state not the council. The receive, Statos land ol day gave noti a Kurliun of the lands in Monona county, which have reverted to the government, registar of the United at Des Moines on Mon- that the oflicial plat for when they would receive applications for ontry of land, ___ Dakota, Landlord Hazeltime has broken ground for a $20,000 hotel nt Aberdoen. A new Methodist church was dedicas ted at Oxford Junction Sunday. SThree saloons have gone to the wall in Rapid City, killed by high license. The North Dakota elevator at Wheat- land, containing 45,000 bushels of grain, was burned last week. The Sioux Falls penitentiary is rngfldly filling up and before January 1, 1888, 100 prisonera will be likely to be pounding stone for the territory. The output of the Womestake for August was $71,364, against $74,163 for July. The clean-up for the first half of September was 2,003 ounces. The artesian well at Chancey reached a depth of 1,206 feet, when the drill struck whito granite which s extremely hard and stops work. The flow of water is suflicient for all purposes. Colorado. The Cheyenne extension of the Bur- lington road has reached a point thurty miles northwest of Sterling. A rich strike of chlorides has been mude in the Iron Hill mine at Leadville. The property is owned by a Detroit syn- dicate. George B Martin, tho murderer of W. Y. Grerstret, has been apvrehendea in lowa. The crime wus committed near Fort Collins Jast August. For the nine months ending Septem- ber 30 the real estate sales of Denver reached the magnificent sum of $23,- lllsla‘glfl.l(l. against $11,021,208.91 for all of Denver merchants haye sent on com- plaints to Washington against the Union Pacifie and the Central Pacific, charging the railroads with unjust discrimiunation, nn&l’l;mking that an investigation be 1nsti- tu . it Railroad Matters. Mr. Potter, since his return, has done a great deal of denying the theories and rumors which since his departure have been circulated about the Union Pacific. There is no immediate prospect of either a union depot, of uny of the Iowa roads crossing the bridge, or of the Union Pa- cific running trains over the Chicago, Miwaukee & St. Paul road to Chicago. The time for the real- 1zation of some of these vnfig\nea has not yet arrived while the foolishness of others of them puts them beyond the bound of realization forever. With respect to the charge of the claims department to the supervision of the general freight agent, Mr. Monroe said to-day it had not yet taken place, :{llv. was gradually working in that direc- ion. Court Carrier, for many years the woll known and popular ticket agent of the Chicagn, Milwaukee & St. Paul road at this place, has returned to his post of duty. He 13 not his former self, though for a man who has taken u,’nnm back- ward from the jaws of death, he presents a very favorable appearance. Saved By Three Feet. It is a well knowan fact that in all parts of the city where grading on streets has been done that walls of earth on each side of the thoroughfare raise to a height sometimes of twenty-live feet. One of these is on Leavenworth strect, between Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth, where the bank unprotected ri to the height mentioned. Yesterday morning, while Al Coggeshall and J. J. Johnson were passing by a couple of tons of earth dropped to the walk scarcely three feet in front of them, If they had been u moment later they would have been buried and undoubtedly crushed beneath the mass of earth. It has been sug- gested, in view of the number of these unprotected walls of earth and the dun- ger to be feared from them. that the board of public works shouid tnke some steps to guard against their doing injury by thus falling. The Cases of the Gamblors. The case of the gamblers captured over the Turf Exchange a few days ago had a hearing before Judge Berka last evening. All of the prisoners were dis- charged except “Bud” Copeland and Henry Hufl, who have a continuance until the 17th. The evidenco 1n the cuse seems to be wholly eircumstantial. The evidence agmnst Haft' that while he* w. not actually seen playing, he was observed sitting in the dealer’s chair with the cards and chips in front of him and nearly a hundred dollars was found m the drawer of the table, which he has since oftered to take and give a receipt for. The table was surrounded by per- sons apparently in the act of playing, and everything indicated that the time of the surprise a game wus actually in progress. Sentenced For Shop-Lifting. A woman named Nellie Jackson while in Falconer's dry goods store yesterday afternoon, was caught shop-lifting by one of the clerks. She was arrested and taken to the police station, and upon being searched a pair of silk curtains and some muslin and silk underwear were discovered secreted on her person. She was tried, found guilty and fined $40 and costs, in default of which she was sent to tho county Jail. He Borrowed Her Watoh, A would-be smooth trickster named Albert Ranchart was arrested yesterday on the charge of Iarceny as bailee, Pre- tending that be intended buying her watch, Myra Black was induced by him to let him take that valuable article until he could see how it kept time. Since then he has refused either to return the watch or offer’ any money for it. The case was a clear one against him, and Judge Berka fined him $40 and costs. A Call for Promptness. The city clerk is anxious to have the judges and clerks of election lately ap- pointed step up to the oflicinl rack and qnalify. Thirty have failed to come to time, and as their work is to commence next week promptness is the order of the hour. No election proclamation has yet been issued, and it is supposed Acting Mayor Bechol is awaiting the arrival of Mayor Broatch® to issue the necessary document. — - Dead in a Cesspool. At noon yesterdasy Edward Rucker, chief engineer of the Millard hotel,'noticed that there was stoppage in the sewer leading from the cesspool in the alley immediately back of the hotel. On lift- ing the grate he found the body of an in- fant tightly wedged in a place where the back water of the sewer came in. The body was taken to Drexel & Maul's, It was very much decomposed. County Court Cases, Sol Scligman filed an action against Thomas B. Hill yesterday for $235 due on a contract for the sule of horses. An attachment was issued in the case. In the cuse of Meyer Hellman against A. B. Swmowden for $6)0. imed to be due for rent, Judge MeCulloch rendered a verdicet of $3 or the plaintiff, Puliman Car Property. J. L. Webster, whom the Bek spoke of a few duys ago as having gone to St Louis to uphold the right of the city to «colect taxes upon $69,000 worth of Pull- man car company property in ths eity, would be pluced .on tile November 15 l has returncd. - Tho case. was expected to ba by ht up before Judge Brewer in the United States circuit court, but was continued to the November term of the court In this city. General Wobster says he has no doubt that he will be able to compel the cempany to pay taxes on thig ;;ronertv. because he is backed by even Judge Brewer's own opinion in a similar case in which the principle was advanced in tho early part of the yoear. Bl County Commissioners' Doings. The county commissioners held s meet- ing yesterday afternoon and approprias ted $300 out of the road fund for the grading of South Eighteenth street. A commuuication was read from the county clerk announcing that 163 of the 268 bonds called in had been cancelled and new ones 1ssued. —_— REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, Stephen K. Jackson and wife to Wil liam H, Nason, lot 11 in block 11 in Patrick’s second addition; w d Henrty Ambler et al to C. K. W son, lot 16 in block 20f Ambler place; Byrou Reed et al to John Neilson, the south one-half of lot 26 in Reed’s sec- ond additions wd........... e Padin, Ormdrit & Martin to Padin.e Ormarif & Martin Company, lotlin block 101 in the cidy of Omaha; wd. .. 61,000 Charles H. Folsom etal to Kllen Cody, the east twenty-tive feet of the west 100 feet of lot 8 in block 6 in First ad- dition to South Omaha; wd.... ' Mahoney to William J. Paul, lots 4,5, 1 and 13 of wife to Paul, lot 11 in block 2 in Alamo Playa addition; wd............ . William 8, Wise and wife etal to Wil- liam J. Paul, lot %3 in block 4, and lots 2 and 4 In block 5 of Wise & Parmalee’s addition: wd...... ....0 Edward Burke and wife to W. (. Al- bright, lot 9 in block 1 of Fowler Pince; wd.. . & Selden’s Peter J Timmons and wife to Henry Spigle, the w 25 ft, being half of lot 3 blk 8 of Foal's add to South Omaha, wd Martin Caho a 3 the e 41 ft of & 135 ft of lot3 in blk 23 in West Omata, wd.............. William B Cowles and wife to James P Day, lots 5862 and 63 in North Side add to Omaha, wd....... Jos Jonas R Harris and wife to Charl Johnson, lot $in blk 7 of Ha thorne add, w d Cary M Hunt and wi made, the w 25 ft of 50 ft of lot 7 blk 76 of the original plat of South Omaha, w d . George P Rile W A! Werth, lot 11 in blk 9 in Hanscom Place, w d. Joseph Barker and w Werth lots 89 and 10 in blk 481 In Grandview add. wd......... 1da Wilson to John M Heible, lot blk %0, Hanscom place, w F W A Worth to Frank E al, lots TS 9 and 10 bik 481, Grand view, wd Otto Lobeck Selby, lots 1 and 2 blk 1, Lincoln place, w d Joseph M Meteslf " W Lininger, the undivided !5 of the tollowing real estate: Commencing at ne cor of bik 260, eity of Omaha, thence s 152 feet, w 564 feet, n teet, @ 264 feet to place of beginning; also the undivided b4 of lots 5 6 7and 8 blk 260, city of Omaha, w d. Annie Rowley and husband to John Kilker, lot 1and the e 20 feet of lot 2 qlk 1, 2d add to South Omaha; also lots 12 and 13 in_Medav’s sub-div of Meday’s add to South Omaba, w d... James ‘L Black and wife to Mary H 23 in Black's sub div of Kensington,” w d Jonn ¥ Kichart and wife to Wayland 8 Arnold, lot 7 in blk 1, in Mahoney & Minahan’s Ist add to South Omaha, , to / M Kitchen, et al, blks 10, 11 and 12, in Bowling Green, Wds ..o M H Gaoble, trus, to Gate City Land Co, blks % 4, 6and 8, and Jots 1 to 12 and 15 to 22 in blk 21 lots 1 to 20 and Tot 22 in bik 1: blk 7. except. lot 22, and lots 13 and 14 blk 2, in Bowlng Green, wd..... L H Mitchell to Cornelins Cooper lot 15 blk 6, Omaha View, wd. .... Total....... BUILDING ‘The following building permits we yesterdav by Superintendent Whitlocl August Carstens, one story frame cot- tage, Leavenworth and Wood, 675 10,600 600 18,000 tield, one and one-half story frame barn, Twenty-second and Burdette, to cost... Jacob Usbanek, two one story frame cottages, Eighteenth, petwean Cen- ter ana Doreas, 10cost. ...o........ Sarah Brown, two story frame dwell- ing and barn, Sixteenth and Wirt, to Ta tion to dwelling, Walnut avenue, near Dale, to cost.... 500 Five permits aggregating phadnl 20 ni . FIELD—In this eity, October 4, C. F. Field, aged 03 years, MUIR—In this eity, October £, at 3:10 p. m., Maggie A, wife of Juwes Muir, aged 7 years, Funeral to-day at 2 v. . from her late residence, 1721 North Twentieth street to Prospect Hill cemetery. BOLLER—Ln this city, October 4, at 1919 Dodge street. Louwis™ M. Boller, aged 21 years, 1 month and 16 days Remains were taken to Lexington, LI, yes- terday morning. e Nevada Preparing to Boowm. Virginia City Enterprise: It may sound like a wild declaration, but Ne- vada is bound to be one of the wost pro- ductive states in the Union. It pescsses advantages in the composition of 1ts soil that are far superior to that of tho gr Mississippi valley; advantages that will always exist and-become more noticeable as time rolls by. It appears remarkuble to the newcomer that the appar desect waste will yie the quality quantity of vegetable products that are raised in this state. ere they look for the rich black loain common in the mid- dle st { the nbsence of this i ular soil S that our Nevada ation exclu- sively, but to the contr; produced by the decomposition of rock foamation, pregnant with mimeral and of that char- acter that g.i\v‘-s strength to the ol t is perpetunl. The otidation of i 18 continual, hence the soil is constantly receiving benefits through natural sources that invigorate it, Our native grasses are stronger and more nutritious than those of the middle and western states, and why? the latter are almost purely the tion of vegerable soil, while th in Nevada absorb from the soil eral properties that make them nutri- tious and strongz. Our cattle, even those that are fattened upon the range, make fatter and sweeter beef than those of the middle and western states simply beeause they obtain in the grasses minoral prop- erties that are health giving und fat pro- ducing. This is why Nevada beef 1s sought after, Our soil possesses all the medicinal qualities essential to the pro duction of grain grasses of every de- seription und also of health giving vego tables. The richness and purity of our cereals, beef and vegetables 1s the secrot of the general good bealtn of our ponu- lace, coupled — with an invigorating, glorious climate. That time is not fur distant when évery sage brush flatin this state that can be wate by natural or artificial means will be covered with waving grain. Nevadu is so agricul tural state, one that will plav her part, and nobly, tou, in the history of Amer iean agriculture. Bueaunse - The county clerk is bard at work on the county election proclawation, and it will probably be issued to-day. HOW A BROKER IS INITIATED. The Tryiug Ordeal tha Operators of Wall Street Havo to Pass. THE BARBARIC CEREMONIES, No Respecter of Porsons—Some Fam- ous Novitiates — The Rough Treatment Acccorded Eraest Dickman, New York Star: Every member of the stock exchange has not been on the floor and probubly will never go on, at least whob the board is in session. They have not the hardihood te go through the rites which are performed by the brokers on the first advent of personsin the big room where millions change hands daily. The broker's initiation is ten times worse than riding the goat in any secret society and fully as barbarie as the course through which the Sons of Malta used to put no- vitiates, Included in the owners of seats who have never ventured among the howling brokers are Philip D. Armour, Nathaniel S. Jones aud Norman B, Ream, the big Chieago speculators; Congressman Wils liam L. Scott, of Erie, T C. P. Hunt- ington, the railway king, and J. D, Rockefeller and William Rockefeller, the Standard oil potentates; the last three ot New York. erybody will under- stand why men will pay $20,000 or §30,000 for a seat and never go into the exchange. ‘The men named buy and sell large quan- tities of stock tn their financial operations and their memberships enable them to employ brokers at exactly half the com- mission which non-members are com- peiled to pay. Their investments in seats are therefore remuneratiye. The whole exchange turns upnn the new member the moment he gets wnside the door, and he feels as if he was goiug through a threshing machine for the next half hour. First his hat is smashed with such force as to ncnrlf slice his ears off and to produce a bewildering astronomi- cal display before: his eyes, Next he is jerked nfl'Zw feet and shot through the air, while hundreds of hands are clutch- ingat his coat and are trymg to rip it off his back. He is used like a foot ball, and when 1n about the prover shape for the ambulence, he 18 tossed limp and almost lifeless by n door, through which he crawls to safety. Jay Gould never joined *he stock ex- change, and thercfore nbrer had the privilege of going on the floor. Exactly why he did mot present his name for membership when he was a heavy opera- tor, in order to effect & saving in commis- sions, is not clear. Ho was connected with stock firms at different times, and derived the benefit of these connections in the ordersthat were executed for him, His eldest son George bought a seat soon after attaining his majority and straighte way faced the music on the floor. He is in the beautiful nomenclature of Boston, very “handy with his dukes,’’ buat ho kept them down and_allowed himself to be mauled and hauled until his assailants were tired. No new member was ever more good natured over his mitiation than young Gould. His hat was smashed and s clothes wera torn,but these things made no impression on s temper. Ha never goes to the board nowadays, but if he did he would be unmolested A Sage " is a He has not He Ex-Congressman Russelt memnber of the exchange. been within its vortals in years. would be apt to pive o rousing recep - tion if he appeared on the floor. 1t is doubtful if be will ever go nwong the brokers agnin. Cyrus W. Field never ac- quired a seat. His son, Cyrus W. Field, ir., is & member When Ernest Dickman jomed he marched into the room ull unconscious of the danger that lurked near. Every- body seemed glad to see him. The handshakes were 8o vigorous that they nearly pulled his arms out of the sock- ets. In a few mnutes he thought lte wus in the bear pit. He was yanked in first one direction and then the other. At lust he was tossed into the box under one of the old telegraph operators’ stand and the cover was shut down. He was kept there half the afternoon. When he was let out he looked as if e bad been spend- ation 1n & coal mine. e was a member of the exchange two yenrs ago who was & surpassingly fine Subject for initiation. He had_long flowing red side whiskera and did not look as if he knew any more than the law aliowed, although it turned out af- terward that he did. He was at once callod “*No.2 Red”, the standurd grade of wheat. His loxuriousside whiskers were pulled until briny tears run down his cheeks, and he was pounded on the back 50 hard that his lungs were threatened with coliapse. ‘The abuse heap him was unusually bountiful, but he was a speculative Moses in the way of meek- ame interested in & long distance lephone, and of= fered stock in the cumpuu{ for sale among the brokers. IHe bad a telephone in his office and let purchas- ers of stock test its merits by talking with Chicago. It afterward turned out, the brokers who bought the stock claim, that the man who was supposed to be in Chicago was simply down_in the cellar, When this fact was revealed the stock- holders understood better how 1t was that they could hear so plainly through the telephone. i 4 ‘The person who is the subject of the jokes and pranks will, if he knows when {x e is well off, try to have 1s good a time as anybody clse over wkhat is done. He wiil be Jroppml in future demonstene ti Fhe persons who show their dis- pleasure when they are marched around and made to do ridiculons things are the ones who n r have any peace f they made complaint they would be boycotted, and if they fought they would be sus- pended. They bave nothing to do but endure the agony. TUOLL WEIGHT PURE Lismporior excailonce proven In miilions 0~ homies (OF InGN: tann @ quarter of i coniurt Tis uscdby the Unitod Staves (overnmeny le honds Of the KIeal univars| ongest, Purest and Most Tloakh 8 the Only Hu Powdvr 1hag ptain Ammonie, Lime or Aluw. Soid " URICE BAKING POWDER CO., - New York Clulougo e Lou