Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 20, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED E'Ew MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Paily Morning Edition) ineluding Sunday ¥R, One Year «H0 gw Hix Months, [ o0 200 2 00 ‘or Three Month ie Omaha Sunday Tk, maiied fo'anly ad- dress, Ono Year. v OMAHA OFFICE, NO, NEW YORK OFFICE, I ING. WASHINGTON TEENTH STRERT, CORRESPONDENCE. ANl communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed 1o tho Eprron o¥ 1ir Bee, BUSINESS LETTERS: All business letters and remittances should b fddressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payablé to the order of the company, The Beo Publishing Company, Proprictors, LE. ROSEWATER, Epiton. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, ban County of Douglas, (% & Geo, I3, Tzschuck, fecretary of The Bee Pub- Hshing conpuny solerinly swear that the actal ciroulution of the Imll{ Tice for the week ending Oct, 14, 157, was as follows Suturday, Oct, 8. Eunday, Oct. § Monduxy, Oct Tuesduy, Oc ednesd Thurs( Friday Average. my presence this N. P FRIL, Notary Public Sworn to and_ subscribe 16th day of October, A. D, niglas, ek, heing first 7 thitt e 15 secret mpany, that the y circulation of the Daily Bee for t etober, 156, 12,080 copies Vi 87, 14,400 for May, 7 copies; 1857, 14, Sworn to and subseribed § 1l dny of October, A. D, 1857, (KK L) Notary Pubile. itk Third ward bars are nearly unan- fmous for Loo Bstelle. Tne democratic county ticket will not pass muster on the non-partisan platform. From Guy to Timme it is straight bourbon. How would Judge Wakely look com- ing up before O. H. Ballou sitting on the bench? O. H. BALLOU and P. O. Hawes have formed u co-partnership. Ballou puts in his money against Hawes’ experience. When the campaign is over Hawes will have the money, and Bullou will have the experience. A MAN who passes for a very great lawyer at Papillion might cut a very small swath on the district bench in Omaha. That great Papillion lawyer is not likely to sign his John Huancock as judge on’ the district docket. ACCORDING to the Republican the Ber supports only eleven out of sixteen straight republican candidates on the Judicial and county ticket. How about Judge Hopewell? Does he rank as a democrat hecause he is on both the re- publican and non-partisan judicial ticket? DEMOCRATIC contemporarics are be- ginning to mention the name of Secre- tary Whitney as a probable nominee fo= president. He is a New York aris- Socrat with a barrel but has a respect- able fund of common sense, much more tact than the present incumbent, so that democratic oliticians might go farther and fare worse. THE first suit growing out of the Kouts disaster has been instituted pgainst the Chicago & Atlantic rail- road company in Chicago. It is for $10,000 and was brought by a passenger who received bodily injuries and lost his baggage. This will do for a begin- ning and if suits for each death and in- jury will follow promptly, a wholesome reform in railway management may soon be inaugurated. E—— THE agents of the Lehigh, Pennsyl- vania, coal company, have announced that conl-mining will be stopped for ono year unless the strikers goto work by the 20th of October. It 1s not likely that operations will be resumed and the situation is a gloomy one, both for con- sumers and miners. Individual opera- tors also are at the mercy of the monop- olists and apprehensive that their busi- ness will be completely ruined, while the miners and their families are starv- ing. — LAsT week there arrived at San Fran- cisco the pioneer steamship of a fleet that is to ply regularly between that city and Panama, touching at all inter- mediate ports, and which will conse- quently run opposition to the Pacific Mail line. This addition to San Fran- cisco’s facilities of commercial inter- course is hailed as of the highest im- portance, and the most gratifying re- sults are predicted. Among other ben- efits looked for, it is thought that some day San Francisco may be as important as a coffee center as New York or Havre, while many other valuable ar- ticles of commerce produced in Central America and Mexico will go to that city for distribution. The enterprise owes its origin to the Marquisdel Campo, who is understood to have ample capital at command to maintain it. E—— THE problem how to utilize the enormous water power of Niagara falls has exercised inventive minds of late years to a considerable extent, and many schemes have been suggested and abandoned. The offer of $100,000 for the best contrivance to harness the tre- mendous power of the fall still further incited activity in this direction and a trial is now about to be made of one of the inventions that has been submitted. It is an endless chain with feathering buckets, If the test proves successful a stock company with a capital of $1,000,000 will be formed, it issaid. A 1,000-horse-power machine will cost about $10,000, All this may result in something practical, but it is rather doubtful. At least the absurd idea that the whole state of New York may be i ‘supplied with motive power, which was ‘- once eitertained, has been exploded, Disagreeing Statesmen. There may have been some exaggera- tion in the reports that have come from Washington within the last few days regarding a vital disagreement between the secretary of state and the attorney general; but it is by no means unlikely that Mr. Cleveland will find on his re- turn to Washington that the situation in his official household is not so peace- ful as when he left. That Mr. Bayard seriously contemplates making a de- mand upon the president to decide whether he or Mr. Garland shall be re- tained in the cabinet nobody will be- licve who has any knowledge of the socretary of state. The grievance that would impel him to any such extreme course as this would have to be very much more weighty than that which is reported to exist. Mr. Bayard is not only exceedingly fond of public office, but he has a con- viction that he is in the place of all others where he belongs. His numerous mistakes therein, and the opinion of the country frequently and forcibly ex- pressed that he is entirely out of place, have not in the least degree lessened Mr. Bayard’s faith in himself as a dip- lomatist, of which he fondly hopes to yet convince the world. He will do nothing, therefore, to imperil his hold upon his position, which might bo the case were he to insist upon the presi- dent choosing between himself and the attorney general, It is by no means sure that Mr. Cleveland does not prefer the latter. The cause of the alleged differenco between theso statesmen is said to be the position taken by the United States district attorney for Alaska in the cases against the British vesscls soized for capturing seal in Alaskan Brieily stated the district attorney asserts the jurisdietion of the United States over the whole of Beh- ring sea, agreeably to the position taken by the department of justice and the ury department that the limits of Alaskn, within which the taking of ¢ any one but the Alaska com- mercial company is prohibited, corre- spond to the limitations set down in the treaty of cession with Russia, rogardless of the general principles of jurisdiction in the seas. This is understood not to bein accord with the views of Mr. Bayard, which are supposed to be much less liberal to the United States and to be in line with the protest of this government many years ago against assumption of exclussive right to the navigation of Behring sea. The attorney general is held responsible for the position taken by the district attor- ney, and hence an issue which is said to have been marked by some uncompli- mentary reflections upon the legal wis- dom of the head of the department of justice. The Alaskan matter appears quite certain to be a source of more or less prolonged and perhaps aggravated dip- lomatic controversy, in view of which the country could be congratulated if any present disagreemonts between the secretary of state and the at- torney general should result in the retirement of both of them. The withdrawal - of the latter to private life would gratify a very general public desire entertained for more than a year past, while the country would safer with respect to the fair settle- ment of any controversy with a foreign power if almost any other man of recog- nized ability were in the place of Mr. Bayard. Doubtless, also, the president would feel relieved and the administra- tion would not be weakened if both these statesmen were out of official life. It is to be feared, however, that the Wash- \tehes have somewhat over- stated the nature of thealleged disagree- ment, and that the president will not have the opportunity on his return to to dispense with the services of one or both of these members of his cabinet Ballou's Monomanias. Mvr. Ballou has been a standing can- didate for oflice ever since he struck Omaha. In fact the man is actually do- mented on the subject of office. He would run for anything. About ten years ago he wanted to be probate judge, and was beaten by over 500 majority while other republican candidates on the same ticket carried the county by hand- some majorities. A few years later he blossomed out s n candidate for state superintendent of public instruction, and actually secured a majority of the delegates of the state convention by trading, but before the chair had an- nounced the vote his unfitness for the position dawned upon the convention, and the delegation changed over to Su- perintendent Thompson, and left poor Ballou high and dry. Then he began working for the United States marshal- ship, and came so near securing the po- sition that Pat Hawes gave him a serenade with a brass band, paid for with Ballou’s money. But that also was a delusion and snare. In the midst of the festivities there camea dispatch announcing that Bierbower had knocked down the persimmons. Then he tried to be postmaster but failed to connect, Last winter Mr. Ballou, nothing daunted, started upon another office-seeking tour, and besieged and besceched Governor Thayer to make him a district judge by appointment. The governor knew his man, and thought best to appoint Mr. S. Groff. Even this did not cure him of his mono- mania. He began laying pipes for the nomination early in the spring, and has been at work uight and day with the ward “bums” and political wirepull- ers to capture the judicial conven- tion, In this he succeeded. But it is another thing to run the gauntlet of the voters of the district. The money he bhas invested, Cadet Taylor, Pat Hawes and Vanderbum will bring very poor returns on election day. But that probably will not be a lasting cure. Ballou would justus leave run for city engineer, if there was a vacaucy, and he is just as competent to be a civil en- gineer as he is a district judge. He road. Over five thousand miles have been constructed, and most lines that are well advanced will probably be continued, but this will not be done in all cases, and it seems to be pretty well assured that the total railroad construe- tion of the year will fall considerably short of what was at the outset expected, probably not exceeding two-thirds of the extent projected. A Denver paper, speaking apparently on authority, says the Burlington will do nothing in Colo- rado for a year to come, the muanage- ment having concluded that it is wiser to build two hundred miles of fecders in Nebraska than to expend its money at pres- ont in the construction of its proposed California line west from Denver. The Santa Fe is expected to discontinue work on reaching Denver, the Midland will build to Aspen and Glenwood Springs and then stop, while the Rio Grande will finish the work it is en- gaged in and may extend its line some- what farther. The Denver, Texas & Gulf will be completed, and itis possible the Rock Island will not stop construc- tion until it reaches Denver. In other directions a disposition is being shown to curtail enterpriso in railroad con- struction where the necessity for con- tinuing it is not urgent. Undoubtedly if actual necessity had been made the measure in all cases of the extent of road to be built, it would be much less than it will be. Intelligent observers agree in the opinion that a good deal of voud already constructed this year must for some time continue to be unprofit- able. The monetary stringeney is of course the immediate cause of the policy of restricting construction. The expendi- ture for this purpose during the year will not be less than $200,000,000, which in connection with other exceptionally heavy demands has madea severe strain upon the financial resources of the country. But the development ofa feel- ing of distrust respecting this railroad expansion is in no small degree respon- sible for the change of policy. The idea having obtained that enterprise in this direction was being pushed beyond a safolimit, capital became timid and con- tinues so. At present a railroad loan is not the easiest thing tonegotiate, and hence it is absolutely necessary for some of the roads to cur- tail operations. Ttis not questionable that in time all the extensions in now unprofitable territory will pay, and some may hecomo very valuable. Mr. Poor says that never before in our his- tory has the construction of railroads been conducted so legitimately and with such care and economy as in the past two years. He bolieves that every mile built will benelit the country to an extent many times greater than its cost. But the general judgment is not in full accord with this view, and at all ovents does not see the wisdom of an- ticipating the possibilities of a remote future., The tendency of the financial world is to a circumspect conservatism, and perhaps it will'not be the least of its wholesome effects if it shall put acheck upon unnecessary railroad expansion, and leave to another year the carrying out of some of the projects intended to be put through this year. Meantime it may be noted that the aggregated earn- ings of the railroads of the country con- tinue liberal and show large gains over those of last year A Stem Winder. Cadet Taylor wants the republicans to take their coats off for the straight judicial ticket. How would the follow- ing straight ticket suit him? PAT O. HAWES, Jurius S. COOLEY, DAVID VAN ETTEN, FRANK WALTER. If you want straight goods here you have them. The republicans will take off their coats and work as enthusiasti- cally for the above ticket asthey will for Ballou, Estelle and Hancock. ‘WitH all the solicitude of the Amer- ican people in behalf of public educa- tion, there is not a city in the country that has not a greater or less number of children who are unable to get the ben- efit of the public schools by reason of inadequate accommodations. There may be an excuse for this in compara- tively young and rapidly growing com- munities, where it is not easy to esti- mate closely as to future requirements and the school system is not perfected, but it is not so with old communities where these difficulties are not in the way. For example there ought to be no trouble in making provision for every child of school age in Philadelphia, and yet the deplorable fact is authora- tively stated that thereare from twenty to twenty-five thousand children in that city who are not attending school be- cause there is no accommodation for them, and the majority of these are children who are most in need of pri- mary instruction. The birthplace of the constitution and the declaration of independence should set a better exam- ple in caring for the intellectual and moral welfare of its children. TuE purchase of a controlling inter- est in the New York Graphic by a num- ber of prominent republicans, who have ample capital to push the enterprise, and the character to give it prestige, will give the republican party another organ in New York which ought to be made of great service to it. The paper has in the past pursucd a somewhat er- ratic course politically, but has never been a very great influence. Hereafter it may be expected to grow into some- thing of a power, and it is understood that special effort will be made to give its weekly edition an extended circula- tion. With ample means behind it this ought to be practicable. This will give the republicans of New York three or- gans, the others being the Tribune and the Mail and Express. The purchase of the Graphic is an evidence of the earn- estness with which the republican lead- ers are preparing for next year's battle. sver will rest contented until he has an office. A Halt in Railway Construction At the heginning of the present year, according to Mr. Henry V. Poor, provi- sion- was made for. the con- struction - within the ' ycar of fully twelve thousand miles of rail- HONEST GEORGE TIMME'S organist denies point-blank that Timme voted himself pay for the Fourth of July, although he claims to have done somoe hard work for the county an the na- tional hotiday as a membér of the board of equalization, We cheerfully credit like to know how Timme could put in bills for 813 workipg days in the year when there are fiffy-two Sundays, and Christmas, New Years, Washington's birthday, Fourth of July, and Thanks- giving made legal holidays. What service did Timme perform for the county that took up every working day in the year, even when he was kept at home by storms, extreme cold weather, and sickness of himself or his family? And how does he explain away his ex- travagant mileage account? The only excuse which Timme makes through his German paper is that the other commis- sioners voted him the overcharges, but that is no justification for official larceny. IT is announced that Mrs, Fred Grant, who isalady of rare beauty, intelli- genco and energy, will accompany her husband on his campaign tour through New York. She was led to this de- cision by the enthusiasm with which she was received at a recent political meeting, an experience which may prove fortunate for Colonel Grant. The lady can refer to most respectable prec- edents for assisting her husband polit- ically. Among numerous examples that might be cited are those of Mrs. Fre- mont and Mrs. Logan, while in England Lady Churchill actively canvassed for Lord Randolph the last time he was a candidate for parlinment and was a great help to him. It Is easy to under- stand that a handsome and agreeable woman would not be without influence in a business of this sort, and the world no longer sces any impropriety in her engaging in it so long as the limits of ladylike discretion are not overstepped, which of course they will not be in this case. ‘WE would advise the council to go slow on submitting bond propositions. The bonded debt of the city is already over $1,000.000, with fully $200,000 more bonds authorized to be issued for public works now under way. The board of education has decided to ask for author- ity to issue $200,000 in bonds for the erection of new school buildings during the coming year. This will make a total of about $1,400,000. Add to this $100,000 for paving during the next year and we shall have a round million and a half of bonded debt exclusive of projected park and boulevard bonds. This will bring us to the limit for which the charter allows the city to be bonded. The council can hardly afford to block future necessary improvements, such as sewers, fire engine house, viaduct ap- proaches, and so on, by eucouraging any issue of bonds for projects that can be put off. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Thomas Hughes 1s writing a memoir of Dr. Livingstone. The scene of Mr. Haggard's next novel is to be Cyprus. Archdeacon Farrar is writing a book on church history. Ex-Governor St.John is talking prohibi- tion in California. Prince de Tallyrand of France, is doing the United States. Sir Robert Ball, the Irish astronomer is on a tour of America. Patti has a duplicate in paste of every pre- cious stone she possesses, James C. Flood, the California millionaire, has been ordered to Carlsbad by his physi- sicians, Mrs, Ole Bull denies that she is to be mar- ried during the coming season. She has taken a house in Boston. Mrs, T. R. R. Cobb, of Atlanta, Ga., has the original draft of the confederate consti- tution as it came from the committee which drafted it. The duke of Marlborough has a high opin- ion of American real cstate. He is said to have invested a number of ducal pounds ster- ling in the same, Francis James, ex-bandit, has determined to leave the grocery business and become a drummer for an Atlanta house. His train- ing has eminently fitted him to command orders when no other man could probably get them. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is an in- veterate pipe smoker. It is said that he has invented a new kind of pipe which will make a sensation in the world of puffers. There is no electricity about it but the inventor hopes it will come into current use. Roscoe Conkling has taken up his residence at the Hoffman house, und now divides tho attention of strangers with the “Nymphs and the Satyr” and Billy Edwards, ex-champion pugilist, and_bouncer of the palatial bar- room. Mr. Conkling no lonior appears in the faultless garb for which he has so lon, been famous. He now wearsa short ani heavy double-breasted pea-jacket of the kind affectod by sailing-masters, and a black slouch hat with & brim that a cowboy might envy. General Sheridan lives simply but com- fortably in the house on Rhode Island ave- nue, Washington, bought with the fund pre- sented to him by his admirvers after the war. Heis at his ofice early in the morning, usually walking down in fair weather, and returning about 5 o'clock. He is immensely fond of his children, who are handsome, healthy, little youngsters. Sheridan re- ceives as Lieutenant-general of the army a salary of $11,000 a year, with allowances which bring the amount up to $13,000. e The Size of Mitkiewicz's Want. Chicago Herald. Count Mitkiewicz might organize a libel trust and bring all hip actions against Ameri- can newspapeors together. He wants $64,000,- 000 in all from this sauree, That Rabbjt’s Hindfoot. Chicay bune. "Tis not a time foF idle scorning, Grover C., This gift convoys timely warning Meant for thee. Your mouth hath now and then exploded At half-cocky You did not know the thing was loaded— "Twas a shock. ‘This rabbit's hindfoot, I've a notion, May suggest That, to prevent.a premature explosion, "Tis not best - Your own unwieldly foot to interject Into your mouth; Just use this gift instead; and recollect You're in the south. —_— Aristocratic Diversions, Pittsturg Commeroial. At present aristocratic England is busy shooting partridges und pheasants. Between slaughtering birds and rackrenting tenants the average English lord manages to have a reul jolly time. —— Trembling in the Balance. Chicage Tribune, The fate of Secretary Vilas hangs tremb- ling in the bala Unless the Mississippi man who sent the president that left hind fuot of & graveyard rabbitt killed in the dark also, the star of the; eloquent secrotary will disappear behind the blackest cloud that ever frowned in the political sky. ——e How Watterson Refused Office. Atianta Constitution. Now that Brother Watterson has refused on compulsion to hold an office, let all editors follow his example. They can well afford to. ———— Their Name is Legion. Manchester Union. Tt would be interesting to know how many penniless criminals in New York have been detected, arrested, convicted and railroaded to Sing Sing since proceedings were first Dbegun against Jacob Sharp, T STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The Beatrice Democrat advises real estate men to replenish with sand and shout for the town. Plattsmouth is unable tonegotiate her 5 per cent paving and sewer bonds, and work will probably be delayed until spring. Nebraska City bonsts of a coal dealer who believes that 2,000 pounds makes a ton, but corroborative proof is required that his wagons do not leak between the coal yard and the consumer. The Plattsmouth Gun club has em- barked on the regular fall slaughter, accompanied by a car-load of ammuni- tion with the usual label. Previous to the departure the members wore cau- tioned to keep their feet dry at least. The Kearney County Democrat at Minden has been sold to C. W. Spence and H. H. Dunkles. The purchasers are posted on the boxes, and will have to rustle if they improve on the beauty and clean typography of the Democrat under the managemeént of Mr. Stein, The rejoicing in Hastings will be slightly mellowed when it learns, on A 1 authority that the $20,000 recently voted the Missouri Pacific will be used in building the foundation of the com- pany’s big depot in Omaha. Other thriving towns desirous of contributing to the good cause can doso without cere- mony. Helen Dauvray, the dashing actress who recently married a base ball cap- ain in New York, roused a flame of consuming admiration in the sluggish bosom of a Plattsmouth clothing clork a few years ago. His name is Joe Gold- ing. The Journal says he monkeyed “around under her window at her hand- some brown stone front until ho was ar- rested and enjoyed no end of gratify- ing nororiety and advertised her better than could any quantity of flaring pos- ter printing or_ordinary newspaper criticism. Poor Joe Golding, however, now sclls pants for a Chicago house. Joe knew a good thing when he saw it, but he allowed the flies to roost on him and a ball tosser will live in the luxur, and the brown stone front that Joe ha marked for his own.” JTowa 1tems. A three-legged duck constitutes a show at West Liberty. Traces of soft coal have been found a short distance from the surface, on the Maddox farm, six miles from Burling- ton. At the tecent Chicago encampment the Decorah drum corps was awarded the first prize. The ten drums awarded are of rosewood with silver mountings and are very beautiful. Their value is about $250. A broom factory, foundry and ma- chine shop, five new store buildings, large livery barn and severalnew dwell- ings, with a large new hotel being crocted are among the improvements b Herndon this season. The school reports from the south- eastern portion of the state show that while the school census is increasing in the cities, in the country it is decreas- ing. The small farms are being sold to those who have large farms, and with the large price received larger farms are being purchased where land is cheaper. The democratic state committee has invited federal officeholders to contrib- ute to the campaign fund. The invita- tion states that civil service reform is no bar to aiding a good cause, and says: *Presidential postmasters are generally contributing from $25 to 850; fourth class postmasters, from $2 to 825; railway postal clerks, $10 to $15, membors of pension examining boards, $10 to $15, and other federal officeholders in pro- portion to the amount of salary received as compared with the ofticials named above. We malkeno demands or assess- ments.” Dakota. Snow fell at Sturgis last Saturday. Governor Church figures that the in- crease in population the past twelve months was {0,000 The farmers near Columbia have a strong organization, and will hereafter ship their own grain. Coal from the Hay Creek mines is being wagoned to Deadwood, where it sells for 813 a ton, It takes three days to make the trip. The total bonded indebtedness of Da~ kota, according to Governor Church’s report is $1,098,800. This has been ex- pended in seventeen public buildings which the territory now owns. Handsome Elk, tried for the murder of another Inaian, at Chamberlain, has been acquitted. The killing was clearly proved, but the wife of the dead victim swore that it was done in self-defense. A unique sign on the streets of Mitchell Thursday was a processton of thirty wagons, containing every variety ef produce, from the farm ot D. G. West, north of town, to show what Dakota can do. Montana. Bozeman is building an opera house and a city hall. The new insane asylum at Warm Springs will be opened November 15, The grain crops of the Gallatin val- ley this season will approximate 1,600, 000 bushels. The total outputof the Drum Lum- mon mine for the month of September was $180,200, and the working expenses $57,000. A carefully compiled table of the div- idends paid’ by United States mining property to October 1, 1887, credits Mou- tana with $9,263,286. soula county’s assessment roll is 000, an increase of $300,000 over t year. Jefferson county has $2,700,- ) in taxable property. The territorial supreme court fell upon Jumes A. Murvay, of Butte, for attempt- ing to influence the court’ by a fraud- ulent dispateh, and fined him $500. Placer mines are reported to have been discove at Red Lodge, sixty miles south of Billings, which yield, be- sides large nuggets, 10 conts to the pan. An irvigation ditch, twenty-six miles in length, has just been finighed in the Big Horn' country. Itopens up a fine country—some 30,000 acres. The esti- mated cost is about $70,000, What an empire Montana is! In cattlo 1,400,000, in horses 190,000, in sheep 2,000,000 and in gold and silver $26,000,- 000 per year. A tremendous common- wealth is growing up th 3 the terri tory is now ready for statehood, ready in ‘property, ready in population and ready in the spirit of her people. him with ' this denial, but we should | af the moon gan, precure ond for Mr. anul * For the quarter ending September 30 RS AU s at the Helena land efice there were 10,078 acres of land sold under the pre- emption law, 95 acres of mineral lands, 637 acros of conl lands, 16,169 acres of desert 1and, 170 pre-emption declaratory statements filed, 53 mineral applications filed, 88 homestead entries filed for 18,091 acres, 64 timber culture entries for 8878 acres. The receipts of the office for the three months amounted to 838,378, - —— CITY AFFAIRS. The Council Orders the City Hall Foundation Lowered. An adjourned meeting of the city council wos held last evening. Presi- dent Bechel occupied the chair and Messrs. Alexander, Cheney, Counsman, Kierstead, Kitchen, Lee, Snyder and Van Camp were absent. The trustees of the Omaha Charitable association asked for permission to erect a frame building on the lot at the corner of Nineteenth and Harney streets, which has been leased to them by the city for a term of ten years. The request was granted. The following communication was re- ceived from the chairman of the board of public works and after a short discussion was placed on file. 1 most respectfully suggest that it is not necessary or advisable to disturb the founda- tion of the city hall building and the east supposed to be rendered insccure in conse- uence of the unusual depth excavated for the foundation of the Ber Publishing com- pany’s building. If this is done at this late period of this working season s liable to rosult in nearly a year's delay in the comple- tion of the city hall for use—it will furnish our procrastinating contractor with a protext for not completing the foundation wall of the basement this and an excuso for occupying their premises tho better part of another summer season and prevent the contractor for the construction of the superstructure, when ob- tained, from beginning his work until tho winter following. ‘We will be forced to let the present base- ment contractors put in the additional wall in their own time, and it will result in an ex- pense of several thousand dollars. Mr. E. E. Myers, the architect of the city hall, and the architect of the Bee Publishing company’s building after mutu: tion and consideration came to the couclusion that & retaining wall sixteen inches thick _built o the samo quality size and material used in the main wall of the Bee building a adjoining the founda- tion of the Ber basement wall would be ample protec 1 to the foundation of the new city hall building. Architect Meyers has left in this office his written recommendation and approval of this course. Therefore in view of the opinions of these two architects of considerable note, ‘With the expressions of opinions to the same effect, corroborated by information sotght {rom several experienced builders seems to me that the y authorities would be per- fectly justifiable in adopting their recom- mendation, and the expense would be several thousand dollars less than the cost of the ad- ditional foundation wall as proposed. Bids for construction of a retaining wall might be advertised for one week and the contract let 8o as to have this wall built this fall simultancous with the Bee wall. 1t might be well at the same time and in the same contract to provide for a granite pavement with the joints filled with coarse gravel and tar on a_concrete base, to cover the entire space between the city hall and the Bee building, 80 as to exclude all moisture from the earth between and under the foun- dations of both buildings. Hoping these suggestions will not be con- sidered obtrusive, I am most rospectfully yours, St. A. D. BALCOMBE, Chairman of Board of Public Works, Mr. Hascall ng[msod the recommenda- tions, and stated that the opinion of the architoct of the BEE Publishing com- any’s building could not weigh much, Plu stated that thero was no need of making any nfircemenls, as the city has its own ground and its own way. He believed that the council should pro- ed as the superintendent of buildings suggests. Mr. Bedford asked if it would not be well to concrete the whole space be- tween the walls as suggested by Chair- man Balcombe. Mr. Hascall stated that it would be cheaper and better to put the wall down where he claimed that it belonged, and he suggested that the board of public works be directed to have the work done immediately. He believed that itcould be completed before the winter weather set in. Mr., Lowry asked who would do the work. Mr. Hascall thought that it would be beneficial to have the present contract- ors do the work, and that the board of public works could make the necessary contract at reasonable rates. The regular ordinance for the pay- ment _of September . liabilities was passed. It included the bill of the lorse Bridge company, and that of the inspectors on the construction of the Eleventh street viaduct. The committee on paving, curbing and guttering made a report recom- men iu§ that the petition from the Missouri Pacific railway asking for a change of grade on Juckson street east of Ninth, be granted. The report was adopted. The following resolutions were intro- duced: By Kasper—That the sidewalk in- spector be and is hereby instructed to cause to be repaired the sidewalk on the north side of Leavenworth street be- tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, also on the north side of Wil- liams street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streots. Adogmd. By Burnham—That bids and propo- sitions heretofore made and submitted to the board of public works for paint- ing the Sixteenth street viaduct, and by said board reported to the city coun- cil and not as yet acted upon, be and the same are hereby referred to the committee on public property and build- ings for their report and récommend; tion at the next meeting of the council, Adopted. By Manville—That the street com- missioners be dirceted to put Twenty- seventh avenue, between Burdette and Grant streets, in passable condi- tion. Referred to the committee on streets and alleys, By Lowry—That the city council do- nate the wooden building on the north- east corner of Harney and Nineteenth streets to the trustees of the Omaha Charitable a intion. By Lowry—That the street commis- sioners be and are hereby instructed to put Arbor street, between Twelfth and reets, in a pussable condi- tion. d to the committee on streets By Hascall—That the board of public works cause the cast wall of the néw cit, hall to be lowered so as to correspond with the foundation walls of the Brr Publishing company’s building proposed 1o be erccted east of the same, and that they make the necessary contract for thut purpose. Adopted, By Lo —That the comptroller at- tend all regular meetings of the council the same as the city engineer, city at- v and others have to. riley—That the city engineer be instructed to set stakes for the proposed change of grade of Jackson street, and that the contrac proceed with the paying of said str Adopted. The following ordinances were pussed: Levying a special tax and assessm to cover the cost of curbing Twent, fifth avenue from Farnam to Dodge stree declaring the necessity of changing the grade of Webster street from Twenty-first to Twenty-third streets; declaring - the nacessity of changing the grade of Fiftoenth street from Pierce street to Pacific stroet; levying a special tax for covering cost of curbing California street from Sixe teenth to Seventeenth streets, The meeting then adjourned for ten minutes to await the arrival of Mayor Broatch, who was to he present for the purpose of naming appraiscrs, Shortly after 9 o'clock the mayor are rived and the call for a gpecial meoting was read, Ordinances wert then passed ag fols lows: Changing the grade of Jackson street and Jones street from Eighth to Ninth_stroet; declaring the nccessity of grading Fifteenth street from Pacifio to Willinms street; declaring the noee- essity of grading T'wentieth street from Davenport to Cass street; declaring the necessity of grading Dodge street from Twenty-second to Twenty-fourth street, - — FATALLY INJURED. Peculiar Accident to a Nine-Year-01d Boy. Little Frank Lobeck, a nine-year-old son of Mrs. Mary Lobeck, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon. He wns riding on the projecting timbers of a house that was being moved down Wil~ liams street between Twelfth and Thive teenth streets. On account of the steep incline in tho road the trucks became unmanageable and went rolling down the hill. A depression in the road caused the timber on which the boy was sitting to separate for & moment from the one above it. When the two came together again his leg was caught bo- tween them, and he thus hung suse panded, screaming with pain, while the Jolting of the trucks threw him violently against the sharp ends of the timbers, The weight of body finally caused him to drop, leaving o pieco of the fleshy portion of his leg between the timbers. The workmen, who by this time had rushed up atfracted by his screams, picked the little fellow up and carried him to his home near the souths east corner of Willinms and Thirteenth streets. Dr. Stout, who has an office just a block away, was summoned, but when he discovered that the injured Doy was a son of Mrs. Lobeck, ho is said to have refused to render any medical help because that lady still owes him a bill for waiting on her husband re- cently when he was fatally hurt by the cars. Dr. Ralph was summoned, who did all he could for the little sufferer. The boy has sustained internal injuries that are likely to prove fatal, MENTS. Nat Goodwin Appears at the Boyd In aNew Play. Mr. Goodwin’s “Turned Up” scems dostined to be a success. It is calcus lated to cause peoplo tolaugh, and it ate tains its end. The audience last night laughed alwost incessantly. Itlaughed when Mr. Goodwin was off as well as on the stage, though, of course, the thun- ders of applause greeted tho efforts of the star. Mr. Caraway Bones is a new character for Mr. Goodwin. Tt isin many respects a new one on the stage. Mr. Bon is an undertaker, though lugubriosity is not one of his character- istics. It isa creation of his own and in it he does some of the finest funny work he has ever done on the stage. The company afforded excellent support and the lady members of it are very pretty. The audience filled the house, er il Another Stairs Needed. There are a number of flights of steps leading from the viaduct and approaches on Eleventh strect to the ground on either side, but singularly, there are no steps where a flight is most needed, on the south of the railroad tracks to connect with the walk which leads to Eleventh street from Tenth. Hundreds of people pass there every day and others, who are now cl)m])l-lfcd to cross the tracks on Tenth because of lack of means to reach the viaduct when leave ing the depot, would be enabled to make use of the protection the bridge affords in coming to the heart of the city. Annual Clearing House Mecting. The annual meeting of the Omahs clearing house association was held af the Nebraska National bank at 7:30 p. m. All the banks were represented, The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, J. H, Millard, of the Omaha National bank; vice president, H. W. Yates, of the Ne« braska National bank; member of com: mittee of management, M. T. Barlow, of the United States National; manager of the clearing houses, W. H. S. Hughes, of the Nebraska National bank. Mr. Cumming Resigns. It is yeported thut Mr. George M. Cumming, assistant general manager of the Union Pacific, has tendered his resignation, and will step down and out Decembor 1. The probabilities are that he will be succeeded by Mr, Thomas I, Kimball, for so many years gencral traffic manager of the Union %’ncillc, and now occupying the position of as- sistant to the first vice president. Ll Church Incorporated. Articles of incorporation of the First Presbyterian church, of South Omaha, was filed at the office of the county clerk yesterday. It names James Clark and Iobert Hishop as ruling elders, R. T. Maxwell, Chester Case and A, W, Hibbard trus for one year, and Robert Bishoy Patient, County Agent Mahoney was compelled to receive the young man Swanson whom Lincoln sent to this to bo cared for, although suffering from typhoid fever. 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