Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 1, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMB OF BUBECRIPTION. Dafly Morning Edition) including Sunday B , One Yno‘lr 2 or. ifir‘l‘hm Mont e Omaha 8unda dress, One Year. irs OMAHA OFFICE, NO. 914 AND 010 FARNAM STREET, NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, TRIBUNE BUILD- I%0, WASHINGTON OFriCE, No. bl3 Foun TEENTH STRERT. 0 00 50 W o0 malled to any ad- CORRESPONDENCE. All_communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed to the EpiTon o¥ THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS: A1l business letters and remittances should be addressed to TiE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictrs E. ROSEWATER, Enrron. THE DAILY BE Bworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, s County of Douglas, %% Geo, 15, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- 1shing compuny, does solemnly swear that the actual eireulation of the Daily Bee for the week , was us follows. Monday, Oc Tuesday, Oc Wednesdny, € Thursday Friday, ¢ Average.. ¢ Gro. B, Fzscnues. Sworn to and_subscribed in’ my presence this 15t day of October, A, D, 18 (SE Btate of N Connty of Douglas, Geo, B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- cses and says that he is secretary of The Beo Publishing corapany, that the actual w duily circulation of { r 1886, coples TUAry, i & coplés: Ma; 187, 1 fo cople 1867, 1 and gubscribed in my prese D187, N.F HoNEST GEORGE TiMME has proved himself a great friend of the working- man., FARMERS of Minnesotaare organizing a warehouse association. A step in the right direction which might be profit- ably followed by Iowa and Nebraska farmers. BosTON celebrated the unveiling of the statue of Leif Erickson, who dis- covered America in 1001, last Saturday. Christopher Columbus will have his innings in 1892, Boru President Cleveland and Col- onel Lamont have made ‘‘voluntary contributions™ to the campaign fund in New York. They didit without any ef- fort at concealment. Democratic of- ficials generally should note the exam- plo and govern themselves accordingly. THe second annual convention of the American federation of labor meets in Baltimore in December. This organi- pati s composed mainly of skilled la- and is growing rapid 1t has s0 far shown commendable common sense in its methods and promises to become a beneficial and influential asso- ciation. E1aur dollars in clothing store orders and common farm-house grub is what Honest George Timme considers as suf- ficient pay for six months’ labor on his farm, averaging twelve hours a day. ime promised the man $15 a month and board, but promises don’t count with honest George, especially when he has his relativesready to swear that the laborer was “no good.” — THE hardest thing yet said against Mahone is the charge of ex-Congress- man Brady that he Jas appropriated to his own use thousands of dollars received for campaign purposessince 1880, Brady estimates the amount entrusted to Ma- hone at fully #100,000, of which he be- lioves the greater part remained in his keeping. The charge has madealively sensation in Virginia politics. Tne latest disaster on Lake Michgan, in which all on board the propeller Vernon are reported lost, is the most terrible of the scason. More people have found watery graves in our inland lakes this fall from shipwrecks, than have perished in a similar manner on the Atlantic. Itis high time that pas- senger boats on the great lakes were constructed on more seaworthy plans than they are. A CAREFUL cstimate of the wheat crop for the present year in Minnesota and Dakota has been made by the St. Paul Pioncer Press. It states the total product for the two at 83,000,000 bushels, more than half of which will be shipped and the balance turned into flour at Min- nesota mills, The grade in Dboth the state and territory is higher than usual. There is an increased acreage devoted to wheat in Dakota, but in Minnesota the wheat acrenge is slowly but steadily decreasing, THE projected Red River road to the Manitoba boundary has fallen through. The citizens of Winnipeg, who were askedyo contribute $300,000, were sus- picious that the local government was not acting in good faith about the con- struction of the roud, but in collusion with the Canadian Pacific, and refused to contribute the money. Such an out- let would be a great benefit to the Canadians of the west and also to the Americans in the northwest, and a formidable competitor to the Northern Pacific —— A PHILADELPHIA paper says the peo- ple of that city “have in nothing shown their independence and common sense s0 much as in their complete emancipa- tion of the election of their judges from the control of party.” With regard to all other officials Philadelphia has for years had as much experience with rings as any other city in the count but for a long time the machine has Leen unable to dictate tothe people who should fill the judicial positions. The result bus been that the men chosen 1o these positions have been dist:m- guished for their learning and their in- 1s There Discrimination? A Lincoln paper, which blo and cold at ‘the BEE by turns and de- votes most of its sime to abusing and misrepresenting Omaha, pitches,into the BEE ferociously because it has seen fit to favor concerted and united action by the commercial bodies at Kansas City, St. Joseph, Omaha and other Missouri river citics to bring about a national reduction of railroad tolls and a stop- page of unjust discrimination in favor of Chicago. We are challenged to produce any facts that would justify the proposed appeal before the inter-state commission. We could and figures cite columns of facts to justify our sup- port of the movementby Mis- souri ‘river cities, but we need only cite one single example of the out- rageous discriminative exaotions be- ?von’('hivngo and the Missouri river. ako the rate on iron building beams and iron castings, for instance. From Chicago to Minneapolis, a distance of 488 miies, the tariff on that (fourth)class of freight is 123 cents per 100 pounds, while from Chicago toOmaha,adistance of 500 miles, the rate is 30 cents per 100. This is a diflerence of $3.50 per ton against Omaha and all Missouri river cities, when the distances are practic- ally the eume, and tho trefiic betweenChicagoand Omaha and Chicago and Kansas City is greater than between Chicago and St. Paul or Min- neapolis. This is a drawba not only to the growth and prosperity of the citics af- fected but to the entire region west of the Missouri, including Lincoln. But anything that tends to cripple Omaha never enlists the sympathy of the bat- blind editors of the Lincoln papers. With them it is ‘‘anything to down Omaha,” An Unfair Comparison. There has recently been a great deal of misinformation and misrepresenta- tion contributed to the eastern press ro- garding alleged real estate speculation in the west. Beginning with the “booms” in California, the correspond- ents have given their attention to ev- locality in which there has been & y marked activity and progress dur- ing the past two years. The general cter of their statements shows ttention to have been purely per- They evidently had a specific duty to perform, which was to assure the people of the east, and more partic- ularly the capitalists, in as plausible and convineing a manner as possible, that the rapid growth of western cities was built upon insecuré founda- tion, that speculation rather than legitimate conditions has been at the bottom of it, and that there is not far off a general collapse with all that such an event may imply. Intelligent peoplo in the west, knowing the general ab- surdity of these statoments so far as they apply to citics like Omaha, St. Paul and Minneapolis, for example, i miss them with indifference, but they undoubtedly make an impression on the east and therefore should not be ignored by those whom they affect. For this reason we commend the notice taken of these misrepresenta- tions by our valued contemporary, the St. Paul Pioncer Press, which defends its city by facts and arguments with patriotic earnestness. We have to re- gret, however, that it fell into the mis- e of making comparisons which reflect cither upon: its knowledge or its sense of fairness. Itsays: “Omaha isa city of about half the size of St. Paul, with not a tithe of its commercial im- portance: Yet the same classes of prop- erty which are held here at from 81,000 to 81,200 per frout foot, are held in Omaha at from $2,500 to $3,500.” The Pioneer Press can have no excuse for its statement regarding the population of Omaha, which it ought to know is fully 100,000, and therefore at least two- thivds the size of St. Paul according to its claim, which it is entirely saf® to as- sume is not understated. As to prices of real estate in Omaha it may plead ignorance, but it can hardly justify it- self on that score forso gross a mis- statement us is made in the above quo- tation, when the truth could sily have been learned. It is not improbable that there are owners of veal estate in the central busi- ness portion of Omaha who hold it as high us $2,000 per front foot, and, doubt- less, in time it will be worth that, but the very choicest property sold here up to this time has not brought that amount. A large proportion of the business property in Omaba that is pur- chasable can be bought to-day for the figures which the Pioneer Press says are asked for the best business corners in St. ul. We believe the average price of veal estate in the two cities will be found to differ very little, and there is a reason why property in Omaha should be a little higher in the fact that St. Paul has a vival which is quite as enter- prising and far more attractive. Equally unjust is the remark of our contemporary regarding the relative commercial importance of the two cities, The aggregate value of the business of Omaha is unquestionably less than that of St. Paul, but it is growing as rapidly or more so, and having quite as largean area of country as St. Paul in which to extend its trade Omaha has the advant- age of being the undisputed metropolis of the terrvitory tributary to it. Not to consider this in making a comparison of the commercial importance of the two cities would be to omit a most essential part of the question. The prosperity of St. Paul is undoubtedly legitimate, sub- stantial and permanent. That of Omaha is equally so, and neither city will be benefitted by misrepresenting or seek- ing to detract from the other. —_— Impartial Juries. The federa! coustitution guarauvtees to pereons in all criminal prosecutions trial by an impartial jury v the constitutien of every state does the same. There ought to be no difficulty in determining what coustitutes an im- partial jury. Clearly it must be com- posed of men who are wholly free from any bias or prejudice for or against the acéused, Fhe old practice of exeluding from & jury & person who has knowledge tegrity, while the administration of jus- tice hus been clean and above reproach, The exnanple of Philadelphia should be everywhere emulated. e of . the .case to be tried, obtained from newspaper accounts or current-report, bus been wbandoped in many of the | states, aud doubtless in time will, be in all of them. Intelligence and inform tion are not so uniyersally a bar to jury sorvice @s they were not many years ago. In~ some of the states the fact of a man having ex- pressed an opinion does not disqualify him as a juror if he can give satisfactory assurance that such opinion will not interfere with his reaching a judgment according to the evidence. Nobody will seriously question the wisdom of the reform that has taken place in the jury system. The old idea that complete ignorance was necessary to impartiality made trial by jury ridic- ulous. Even if this were not so the idea could not be adhered to in communities where nearly everybody is a reader of the newspapers. Under the old rule it would inevitably happen in many com- munities that a jury could not be obtained. The latitude in this matter, however, has its lim- itations, and it is the claim of the attorneys for the anarchists that these were overstepped in tho case of at least one of: the mem- bers of the trial jury. This man, it is alleged, had not only ex- pressed pronounced opinions regarding the case, but was known to have a very strong prejudice against socialists and anarchists, and the chargeisnotdenied. Though the supreme court may not re- gard this fact as sufficient show that the jury was not impartial Mt is very certain that it is so regarded and will continue to be by a great many people who have not the least sympathy with the doctrines and practices of the con- victed men, Asindicating the probable action of the court in the case of the anarchists, sofar as the only admitted federal question, that of the constitution of the jury, is involved, reference has been made to the murder case of Hayes vs. Missouri, in which the ground of application to the supreme court was the discrimina- tion made by the state law respecti challenges in citics and rural dist In the decision of the court, to which Justice Harlan alone dissented, it was pretty broadly declared that the whole matter of the constitution of juries is one of legislative diseretion, but the necessity of securing impartiality was insisted upon as among the highest duties of the legislature. “It is to be remembered,” said the decision, *‘that such impartiality requires not only free- dom from any bias against the accused, but also from any prejudice against his prosccution. Between him and the state the scales are to be evenly held. The claim of the anarch ! at- torn is that they were not so held, inasmuch as at least one of the jury had o pronounced prejudice against the ac- cused, and there are a great many in- telligent and law-respecting people who agree in that view. Pertinent and Impertinent. At the risk of being pronounced very impertinent, the BEE proposes to put a few pertinent questions to Commissioner George Timme, to-wit: 1. What became of the buck-board buggy bought of Lininger, Met- calf & Co. on Juue 13, 1887, and why was the bottom of their bill torn off when it was attached to the county voucher? Will Mr. Timme enlighten us about this investment in buggies and explain whether or not it was county or personal property? ‘Why was the bill of J. B. Southard for 8300, dated December 81, 1884, al- lowed during Mr. Timme’s term, when he must have known that the commis- sioners in office at that time rejected the bill? 3. Why did Mr. Timme vote away $11,000 more for the retaining wall of the court house on Voss’ plan than the contract called for? 4. Who is Ch. Nagel, where did he do county work amounting to $45.65, and why did Commissioner Timme sign the voucher when it was already endorsed over to him? 5. When Ch., Nagel sold forty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents’ worth of potatoes to the county why did Honest George receive the money? 6. And last but not least, why does Ch. Nagel's name appear on the vouchers in different handwriting? How about those potatoes anyway? The Bee is very inquisifive, and when Mr. Timme has answered the above questions, we have a few more to propound. SoME of the indemnity lands recently withdrawn from the Northern Pacific have now been definitely opened to set- tlers, Applications will be received on and after November 7, at the United tates land office in St. Cloud, Minne- sota. These settlements will be subject to claims by the railroad company and if such claims are presented within thirty duys a hearing and decision will be given by the register and the re- coiver. It is not probable, however, that the railroad people will go to the trouble and expense of disputing the claims of settlers after the secrvetary of the interior has decided that they ha no right to the lands upon which the new seitlements may be located. THE report comes from Washington that an effort will be made in congress to abolish the service. This doubtless refers to the army simply, in which signal instruction has been for several years regarded by most army officers as of very little value and an ex- pense that might be properly lopped off. There is not the slightest probability that the weather bureau will be discon- tinued, but it is far]more likely to be enlarged and rendered more thorough and efficient. Unquestionably there is room for this, but admitting the exist- ing defects in the system there would be a general popular opposition to its discontinuance. oS SyT——— WE had almost overlooked the great event that took place the other day in high social circles, when the paving and sweeping contractors and Mr. Bechel vied with each other % exhibit their appreciation of one of our most dis- tinguished councilmen, Mike Lee. At this unique social gathering of kindred spivits, Nr. Bechel was the most genial participant. - When' Mike Lee diseov- ered Omaha at Limerick sixteen years ago on the cartoon exhibited by George Frapcis Train, did Mike dare even in seat of the presiddn council, whenegeF that dignitary s in contemporary quotes with great gusto from a Pawnee county paper which points with pride to the fact that a majority of the eleven re- publican candidates for district judges are veterans of, the union army. So far, g0 good. But why did Cadet Taylor and his gang of roustabouts substitute that valliant © Btay-at-home veteran Ballou and young Hancock for an old soldier like Judge Groff? This is stalwartism with a vengeance! — LOCOMOTIVE sparks were responsi- ble for the destructive fire at the fair grounds, and locomotive sparks are be- lieved to be the cause of the disastrous fire at Dietz’s lumber yard. The ques- tion naturally presents itself whether there is no remedy to prevent a recur- rence. JonrN M. THURSTON'S I-want-to-be- elected-senator speech in the Eighth ward Saturday night was appreciated by those who knew the object of John's frantic appeal for straight goods. THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. Ono thousand coke ovens are being built in Birmingham, Alabama. Findley, Ohio, the great natural gas place, is to have another railroad. Philadelphia brick-machinery makers are sending machinery all over the south. Ten acros have been bought in Baltimore on which to erect large electric motor works. The New England electric light companies are crowded with orders for factory light- ning. Ship building on the Paific coast is very active on account of the growth of coastwise trafiic, A Belgian manufacturer has just receiv®a t for 12,000 tons of steel rails for an an railroad. South America is exhibiting a marked pref- erence for machinery and equipments from the United States. A steamship line owned and operated by Americans is now running between New York and Rio Janeiro. A steel rail will break with one-fourth the force when the temperature is at zero that it will at 70 degrees above. A Lowell machine shop has large orders for mining machinery to be shipped to Mex- ico, Virginia and Georgia. A Philadelphia firm is shipping road scrap- ers, excavators and barrows all over Europe and to certain parts of Asia. The latest addition to Birmingham (Ala.) industries is a pin and tack factory. An im- mense iron foundry is projected. All of the locomotive supply companies are extremely busy, and have an immense amount of work under contract. In Canada manufacturing enterprise is rap- idly developing and machine shops are being filled with the very best machinery. Good authority says that the boat-building capacity of the yards along the lakes will be doubled within twelve or eighteen months. The Sprague clectrical system for moving street cars has been sufficiently tested in Boston. A company will be formed to intro- duce it. . A company has bought 250,000 acres of land in several counties of West Virginia and 100,000 acres in Tennessee. The iron ore is very rich. A New Bedford (Mass.) company has just shipped a two-inch rope 2,800 feet long, weighing 2,250 pounds, to Tllinois for oil-bor- ing purposes. ‘Western machine shops were never so full of orders as at this time. Everything inthe way of building material has been ordered away ahead. The manufacturers of looms, boilers, en- gines and all tools, large and small, have a larger amount of business on hand now than they Lave had since January 1, The manufacturers of corn-shellers and harvesting machinery are meeting with what some of them term startlingly rapid increase in the demand for their machines, A new cartridge tool has just been invented to enable the shooter to make his own am- munition as he desires, for long or short range, with much or little powder, A cotton oil mill at Little Rock, which cos £200,000, is crushing 200 tons of seed daily A $1,000,000 cotton mill is go ing up at Galves- ton and a §00,000 cotton mill at Dallas. English engincers have been directed to survey a line of railroad to connect Constan tinople with Bagdad, 1,339 miles. An Ameri can company has endeavored to secure the {ranchise. ——— A Mission Several Sizes too Large, Peoria Transeript. Sam small says that his mission is to ‘‘knock hell out of congress.” Sam has undertaken abig job. There will probably always be a fow democrats in the housd of representa- tives. Lincoln's Pantaloons. New York World. Abraham Lincoln, no doubt, died in the happy unconsciousness of the fact that his trousers would be a detriment to his personal appearance in the eyes of posterity, Yet we notice that his statue just unveiled in Chicago presents the same unspeakable trousers to the public graze as those which afilict the eye on Union Square in this city, where his efligy is placed “‘with malice toward none.” Notwithstanding that trousers do not make the man, it is a sorrowful fact that no man has a sulliciently sublime character to look digni- bly with historical truth, the artists seem to have conspired to put on the statues of Lin- colu, The Chan M. . Butts, I sce a glowing torch of Autumn’s lightning; Its bright spire flashes 'mong the sombre trees, The Summer's farewell word in flery writing, Sct to the deep bass of the Autumn breeze. Low stary clusters clad in colors sober, Make plumes and wigaths along the meadow ways, And clover blooming late tells to October How happy were the fields in Summer days. So lovely is the flowery interblending Of death and life along the changing year! The gorgeous mouths the Summer's loss amending, And dropping leaves to let their fruits ap- pear, - STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The division of Keith county is the t question of the campaign’in that Candidates make no class distinction in distributing their cards of invitation to next week's party. 3 The envious Lincoln Democrat says: “When your Omaha man wants to gam- ble, he ‘profers bucking the tiger or a game of poker to options in grain,” Mrs. J.. M. Bruso; ‘of Plattsmouth, attempted suicide last Friday night. She dosed herself with sulphate of atropia and for six hours lingered un- NOVEMBER 1, 1867, the two planets. The ceeded in pulling her back to her family. v The Indians at Pine 'Ridge recontly received 26,000 pounds of soap at Chadron. There is no other evidence than that poor ‘lo butters his buck- wheat cakes with it. The supervisors of Fremont aroe dis- cussing plans and specifications for damming a spur of the Platto river. They hope by New Years to have it in condition to swear by. The appearance of George F. Train in Omaha,” says the Hastings Democrat, ‘‘was the signal for the reporters to take a bath. Mr. Train has certainly been of some benefit to that city.” William Waugh, a railrond man in Chadron, put an end to the ills and ap- brain. petites of the flesh by sending & bullet through his head last Thursday. He was forty years of age, a member of the Grand Army and Odd Fellows order and formerly resided in Blair. A new feature has been added to the campaign this year. Out in Sheridan county a candidate offered a woman $10 for an affidavit charging his opponent with burglary, while in the more civil- izod Cass 8100 is the highest price yet offered for newspaper silence. The amount of lying going on would dam the Missouri. Says the Cheyenne Leader: ‘‘George Francis Train hopped off the cars %n Omaha with two requests on the end of his tongue: ‘‘S’death, show me to a Turkish bath and send me all the ro- porters in the town.” He was shown to a Turkish bath establishment, and in a moment had a flock of nowspaper men his heels. They all went through the bath together, and finally the eccentric Train, wrapped in a sheet like a Roman in his toga, gave the boys a talk in his nal epigrammatic and spasmodically 1liant style. Citizen Train, with afl his mental eccentricities, did much for Omabha in the early days, and there were many people there ready to wel- come him. Train registered as coming from **Cock Rocheville,” a way he has of dubbing Chicagp since he was gently, but firmly sat upon by Mayor Roche, of the Lakesido city.” Wyoming. The commercial condition of Chey- enne has been forced to rock bottom by recent failures The increase of passenger trains on the Union Pacific is_hailed as a long delayed blessing in Wyoming. ‘W. A. Carpenter, a creamery man . from Sutton, Neb., is in Cheyenne in scarch of a bonus to start a plant there, The Burlington tracklayersare within il v miles of Cheyenne, and pushing the work at the rate of one and a third miles a day. . McCoy, the escaped murderer, is still among the missing. The officers are {rying to avenge their carclessness by prosecuting a woman named Emma Riggs, who is accused of aiding the prisoner to escape. The Leader thinks there is no city of its size in the United States which can boast of such eccelesiastical honors as Cheyenne. It may now claim to be the home of two bishops, Bishop Talbot, of the Episcopal diocese of Wyoming and Idaho, and Bishop Burke, bishop of Wyoming. Two hundred citizens of Buffalo have ]umitium-d the president to set aside a rge portion of the old Fort McKinney rescrvation for public purposes. They ask 520 acres for a site for a territorial agricultural college, forty acres for a city park, forty acres for a city cemetery and 160 acres for a town site purpose. Dresser, of the Rock Springs Inde- Fcuden! charged Barrow, of the Doug- s Budget, with being a litorary thiel. Barrow vigorously denied the allega- ti-n and invited the allegator to meet him on neutral ground in Cheyenne next January, promising to decorate his person artistically, Dresser has ac- cepted and the details of the meet are now being arranged. The only ques- tion to be settled is whether gooseberry rules will be enforced or whether knives and shotguns will be used to arbitrate and vindicate their honor. Montana. A farmer in Gallatin valley this year sed 5,200 bushels of o: off of sixty es of land. This is nearly 100 bushels to the acre. The Aqudemcumry tax list for Lowis and Clark county is now in, and it in- creases the assessment of the county to about $11,500,000. Deputy United States marshals have heen sent out from Miles City to compel the removal of fences from public lands which have been unlawfully enclosed by certain stock men within service dis- tance from that city. The owners of the Curlew mine in the Bitter Root valley have most favorable reports from it. A body of very rich ore has been struck at the 100-foot level; one report gives its value at $6,000 per ton. On the north slope of Cinnabar Moun- tain, on the upper Yellowstone, there is an immense deposit of cedar agate of beautiful hues and patterns. It can be taken out in large pieces, from which the most elegant dinner sets can be turned. The report comes from Red Lodge, sixvy miles south of Billings, that thero have been placer mines discovered there, yielding besides large nuggets, ten cents t6 the pan. Considerable ex- citement has been caused by this, and there are indications of a stampede from Billings. The Indian gardens at the Crow agenoy have yiolded very large crops this scasor The Indians have more Jotatoes than they can use and are sell- ing them at low figures. General Wil- liamson, the agent, hus in his own garden over 100,000 pounds of potatoes and 82,000 pounds of oats bisisiechs sl A Fatality From Sunday's Fire. Coulter was accid against a box car i jured. He was on time and walked 1110 North Seventeen afternoon ho complained of a violent head- uche, and a few hours later it was discovered that he was out of his senses. Three phy- sicians were summoned and after a careful examination of his condition they reported his case a hopeless one, as he had suffered a rupture of ome of the blood vessels in the About 7 o'clock last evening he died. is morning an inquest will be held Coulter was an_Englishman of about fort, five, and had a wife and family across tho water. Hehasno known friends or relatives in this country. Broke His Arm. W. N. Cullison, an old man, was engaged in loading hay on & wagon on the B. & M. railroad tracks last evening. Losing b balance he fell to the street, breaking his right arm in two places. The injured man was removed to Bell’s drug store and was attended by Dr. Dawson. The fractured rin was encased in & paris plaster cast, after h Cullison was removed to b corner of Fourth and Williams street: e ‘Water For South Omaha, The extension of the water mains to South Omaha will be completed this week. sixtéen inch main will .run through that to the southern end, and there will be a four- teen inch main on N street and a twelve inck tothe stock yards. This, for the present at least, will furnish more than anample supply of water, - L . Production of Boyd's Last Nignt. The play which intreduced Mr. Grismer and Miss Davies at Boyd's last night, it nced scarcely bo remarked, fs a dramatization of Conway's novel, “Called Back,"” which has been pretty extensively read by people in this country. The story has not been a diffi- cult one to adapt to the stage. It is & con- nected one. The incidents follow in consecu- tive order and at all times the hero, or at lcast his spirit, is manifest upon the scede. In the dramatization an_attempt to preserve this unity has been satisfactoril, 80, indeed, red, of its kind, one of the most successful stago ‘adaptations that has been for many years. In some respects Mr. Grismer's company is not 8o talented as it was when the play was last produced here. In others it far excels its predecessor. As & whole, the combination is & strong one and some of its members exhibit exceeding individual ability. Of Mr. Grismer's Gilbert a great deal may be said in commendation. It is & furnished portraiture, It is strongly imbued with a tender, yet warmly love, for the heroina, and this tenderness and manliness Mr. Grismer admirably portrays, albeit, at times, his impetuosity and even loud-toned soliloquy raise the question as to whether Mr. Vaugn, as drawn by Conway, was such a man, This impetuosity in the performance of the mar- riage, and the hustling treatment he accords his' ‘friend, the doctor, arc pleasantly entertaining but somewhat inconsistent with the method and manner of Conway's hero, whose haste doubtless was dis- tinguished by an utter absenco of ludicrous features. There is little rant in the more ex- citing scenes, though Mr. Grismer’s soliloquy when he first gives expression to the dis- covery that there is somcthing painful in Pauline’s treatment of him, is more robust than is called for, either by the situation or the discovery. It may be an improssion, but Miss Davies seems to be more at home in Pauline than she was when she last appeared here. Sho scarcely realizes in person the young woman drawn by Conway with dark brown hair, darker eyes and rotund features. Never- theless, ier assumption of the character is intelligent, painstaking and consistent. In the last scene, when she has recovered from her “illnes she throws a wonderful wealth of tenderness and love into the gratitude she expresses for Gilbert, which serves to re- lieve the oppressiveness which unfortunately pervades many of the earlier scenes. The eceting between the young wife and Gil- bert's nurse, Priscilla, though short, was well enacted, and M ephens, who played the latter character, exhibited a great deal of tenderness, the effect of which, however, was destroyed by some rowdies in the gallery, who, unfortunatcly, were beyond the’re of Martin Kelly's baton. The picce was ad- m ly bresented as a whole, and the audi- ence, a8 large above s it was below, which is a compliment, was liberal in its applause. One-half of the first act was lost by two- thirds of the auditors who were in their scat when the curtain rose. The loss was occa sloned by late-comers, not servant girls who were compelled to wash the dishes before starting to the theater, but a class of people who go to the theater in a mechanical way and who feel that others have no interest in the play which may not ruthlessly be de- stroyed. Mr. Boyd has a rod in pickle for these and will draw it out soon. ey RT NG OMAHA. The Initial Steps Taken at a Mceting Yesterda, There was a fair attendance at the meeting of the b erday afternoon to devise means for advertising Omaha, M. Shelton explained the objects of the meeting, and on motion Governor Saunders was invited ide. The latter gentleman urged in the way of advertising and said that Omaha's resources for pork and beet packing and manufactories should be made lknown to the outside world. Mr. Shelton said that Omaha had been misrepresented by newspapers outside the city. He denied assertions made in tho Chicago Tribune that prices on Omaha real estate were inflated and E. F. Test spoke briefly and to the point. Major Clarkson remarked that_there no spot dearer to his heart than Omaha, Ho had lived in the state of Nebraska over twenty years, and thought it one of the best agricultural ' producing states in the union. Omaha has the resources, and Mr. ~ Clarkson predicted that ho would live to see the day it would boast of 250,000 population. He de- plored the conduct of bankers, who he said, stood in the light of Omaha's prosperity, and cited one_instance of a certain banker discouraging a man from Boston to pay §25,- 000 for & piece of land, saying that ina year’s time it_could be bought for half the, moncy. The Boston man pocketed his $25,- 000, went bacl home, and since that timo th same piece of property was sold for $50,000. Mr. Gibson was_in favor of getting up o sions_from the east. Mr. J. L. Rice said railroads would not give Omaha excursion rate: Mr. Upton was satisfied that the railroads were discriminating against Omaha and strongly urged that something be done to route the nigger from under the wood pile. Motions for the appointment of committees being in order, the chirmun named the fol- owing mmittee to prepare articles and ascer- s for having them printed in . Test, chairman, jor Clarkson to raise necessary funds— Hill, Chase, I Committee to consult with railroads on ex- on rates—Messrs. Benson, McCage and frith, There will be another meeting at tho same place next Saturday afternoon at 8 o'clock. cks, Shelton, The Small Boy Was Loose. Last night was hallowe'en and the small 7, with his tin horn and head full of mis chief, kept the police oua lively move. Chief Seavy, with adetail of oficers, invaded Eighteenth, Nineteenth. Twentieth and other strects, and bundled the mischievous urchins into tho patrol wagon and saw them safely ensconced in their little bedsiaftera thorough introduction to the famly slipper. With the Jury. The jury empanneled in the action brought in the district court by Lorenzo BB, Wilson to recover damages from Messrs. Dewey & Stone for personal injuries, retired for de- liberation lust night, and had not decided on a verdict when court adjourned. Given a Warm Berth, John O'Neill, who was arrested Saturday for stealing a pair of gloves from the store of J. P. Mailender & Co., corner of Thirteenth and Leavenworth, was tried yeste s found guilty and given fifteen days in the 9 i > first and last five on bread s rs Acquiesced. the cornice g ppily end Mg 1o the request of t adoption of the nine hour he pay i8 to remain the s On Saturdays cight bours will constitute a day's work. e Will Support the Child. The case of Eliza Svenson against Ferdi- nand Hansen, the father of her child, was amicably settled in Judge Anderson’s court yesterday by Hansen giving bonds to grive §10 @ month for the support of the child until she is fiftecn years old. e THE WORKING CLASSES. The Value of Candor With the Work- ing Men, General Frances A. Walker, in an ar- ticle entitled, *“What Shall We Tell the Working Classes?)’ published in Scrib- uer's Magazine for November says 1 confess 1 have little respect for the objection which is often interposed to the use of the term “working clas: Every now and then some lawyer or professor or editor informs the public that he works twelve or fifteen hours a day himself; that he is just as much & workingman as any carpenter or cotton- spinner; that we.are nll workingmen together; und that the use of this term, in application 10 a section of the com- munity, is’ both etymologically. wrong o and economically misleading. Indeed, 1 know one highly intelligent gentle- man who sincerely, believes that the correction of our popular speech in this regard will nearly, if not quite, remove all our labor troubles and restore indus- trinl poace. Now, I cannot take this viow of tho expression in question, * * * There are few familisr phirases whose purport is not larger, or smaller, or in some way different from the' logical sig- nificance of the words composing them, if brought together for the first time. The term working-classes 1s sufficiently descriptive for the use to which {tis put in discussions regarding the organ- ization of industry and distribution of wealth, Thers are large and important bodies of producers who are clearly enough pointed out thereby, and who well enough understand themselves to be meant. It is not an offensive appella- tion, for it is self imposed. It is not an inexact expression, for no one not in- tended by it would deem himself, or be deemed by others, to be included. As to the notion that the use of this term deceives anybody, or creates the impression that professional men and employers of labor, shopkeepers and clerks, artists and teachers, do not, in their own way, work, and generally work long and hard—if socms to me too trifling to deservo attention. 1f the labor problem is to be solved by calling the working classes by another name, it must bo a very simple problem, and the working classes must bo vory simplo, too. CANDOR WITH WORKINGMEN, Whatever we may have to say to the working classes, the spirit is likely to be as important as the matter. 1t thing of course that politiciang, having respeet to the recompense of reward, will flatter and fawn upon those who hold so large a mass of political power; but more sense and more solf-respect might fairly have been expected of many of the persons, themselves altogetiier disinterosted and gincere, who have of late contributed to the literature of the labor question. Some of these writers cannot ref the general issuo botween employers, or even 1o a spe for higher wages or fower hours, with- out gushing over tho virtues of tho working classes; without talking as if there were something poeuliarly noble and self-sacrificing in occupying that position; without assuming, in advance g of investigation, that any body of labor ersmust be right in any claim the may choose to make, and casting r proachful glances at every employer who entertains notions of his own re- garding his interests or rights, as if he were a persccutor of the saints. Some of these social philosophers alw: speak of the position of a day labe or a factory operative in n tone which intin regret that the de- ficiencic of their own 1y education prevent their sharing in the moral and spiritual advant&ges of such a lot. Others write as though they felt it a duty to make up to the laboring class in taffy all that, owing to the hardness of the employers’ hearts, they may not be able to sccure in bread and meat. ° Now, this sort of thing is foolish, and, 80 far as it has any effect at all, is mi; chievous. If the working classes are not spoiled by the uncensing adulation of which they are the subjects, it is be- cause they hive too much rugged sense of their own and too much ive in- sight into charactor. But there is lit- tle reason to doubt that this kind of talk has its effect in a degreo—that many a laborer has been made restive by it, and that it has prepared the way for the so- duction of the demagogue. A Voice From Wall Street, Rufus Hatch in New York Star: ‘When the Standard Oil company pays 8425 for o box at Mrs. James Brown Pot- ter’s opening performance it shows bo- yond a donbt that the ‘‘bull” market has started. When Hon. Chauncey Depew says that he did not say that everything was_going to the “everlast- ing ~bow-wow,” but ‘‘quite the r verse;” it is another evidence of a bull market. And when DBrother Depew tells the inquiring reportor that, al- though Western Union Telegraph com- pany has bought the only formidable rival it had, and 1s virtually in control of the field of telegraphy, yét it will not raise the rates, butdo just what the public asks in furnishing the maximum of accommodation atthe minimum of cost, we are forced to acknowledge that not only is there the strongest reason for o bull market, but that the millennium is near at hand. We expect to sco Jay Gould and ay, Benuett & Co., lying down to- and a little child leading them. gothe which the As to which is the lion and lamb, we decline to 5 es, it i bull market and the bears had better cover at once. No one can read the future correctly, without being a bull, Henry George is going to be elected secrefary of state, then governor, then president. There will be one powerful puarty—the labor party, and thus all the disquieting influences resulting from city, state and govern- ments elec Il disappear. Con- gress will legislate to wipe out all rail- way, telegraph and other monopolies and assume control of all guch corpora- tions, all of which will have a quicting effect and lead to restore confidence. New railways, and those that have built extensions and branches, will ro- organize, scale their securitics and take a fresh start. The stock market for the past week has shown a great deal of see- suwing—mostly buzy saw. ——— DIED. STANDHOEN—Thom at his son’s residence years, Funeral notico her at 8:30 October 81, 131l Cass. 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