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

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Geo, B, Tz0nck Bworn toand subscrived in_my presence this Bth day of November, A, D, 1% (SEAL.) Btate of Nebraska, | sunty of Douglas, . P. FEIL, Notary Public 8 of The actial aves Ree for the mor Seo or Junuary, 187, 1 IRT, T4, 198 €Opi for Jul. 161 cop Bworn to aud subserthed in m Oth iy of October, A. D. 1557, HaT.. FRED GRANT has the inside tr the vace for the state secretaryship -of New York, and he will most likely pass tho wire several lengths ahead of his competitors. Husenrey had sense enough to get out of the w Why dou't Estelle, Ballouand Hancock follow suit? Their candidacy has damnged the republican eounty tickets not only in this, but in other counties of the district. GEORGE FRANCIS T inCh again and once more the papers devote large space o inte ws with him. He thinks he treated well in Omaha and he is not backward in comparing the hospitality of the two citic .o THe scapegraces who sent the bottle of ink and gunpowder to Chief Justice Waite are not deserving of the least clemency. They should receive the full penalty of the law for the most serious charge that can be made against them. COLONEL NICHOLAS SMIT1I, who mar- ried 's daughter, was at one time nccounted the handsomest man in Amcrica, and he lived some years on his appearance. Now, however, there isa whole menagerie of wolves befc his door and his family are supported by charity. ACCORDING {o a law receutly en- acted in New York free libraries are entitled to an appropriation of 5,000 for the first 75,000 volumes circulated. This will no doubt create a boom among the librarvies of the Empire stute, but the policy of this sort of in- centive is questionable. It will not be a difficult matter for the librarians to load their shelves with cheap litevature and there is too much of that in circula- tion already Tie Consolidated Cattle Growers’ convention asked congress to compen- sate owners of cattle compelled to vacate government lands if **it should be found they were located on territory in good faith, and, as they supposed,under color of law.” That is, they want to be in- demnified because they supposed, they had a color of a right to be where they ave. If this is not *‘cheek” what is Leland Stanford could hardly surpass this. Tue letter of Mayor Hewitt of New York, denouncing newspaper secms to have commended itseif to the unqualified approval of President Cleve- land, who sent his congratulations to the author. Perhaps this simple eir- oumstonce will incline Mr, Hewitt to feel more kindly than he is understood to have done toward Mr. Cleveland. But the Woild keeps vfzht on hammer- Ing o ¢ with redoubled zeal for Nicoll, and if he should be clected that paper will have a great denl of fun with the president and the muyor. bosses, RE is no valid reason why the re- publicun county ticket should in any way suffer by Mayor Broatch's order closing the saloons on election day, be- tween the hours of Sa. m. and 6 p. m. ‘While this order is a new departure for Omuha it is anold custom in nearly all the lurge citics of the country. Tn New York city, where the democrats have the municipal government, the law closing saloons on election day has for years been rigidly enforced. Omaha is without a registration law, and there is linble to be much disorder during the election. The closing of the saloons is therefore in keeping with the prevail- ing sentiment in this commuaity in favor of a fair, sober, and unbought election, WASHINGTC v is beginning to discuss possible cbanges. and innovas tions during the coming winter. The socinl season proper does not begin, we believe, until after the holidays, but all preliminuries are mranged in ad- vance of the holidays, so far asitis practicable, Mrs. Cleveland is of course the arbiter, and although she has thus for ruled with little show of authority, allowing the social current to move along in the aceustomed channel, it is not unlikely she will introduce some re- forms the coming winter. One is al- ready assured in the abandonment of low-neck dresses. Mrs. Cleveland bas never approved this style, and it is un- derstood that they will no longer be in vogue. This will be a victory for mod- sty that can be heartily commended. socie THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1887 ~SIXTEEN PAGES. Whither are We Drifting? Cmeao, 111, Nov. 4.—Captain Black and 1. 8. Oliver. of the amnesty assogiation, to- day asked Mayor Roche for permission to wulate a petition at the street corners in- voking executive clen ¢ in behalf of the condemned anarchists. Mayor Roche said he had no dbjection to this, providing it should be done in a proper manner and with u proper spirit—Associated Press Dispateh., S0 it has come to pass in this great re- public, with its boasted freedom, that American citizens ave compelled to pro- cure a permit from one of their chosen public servants to petition for amnesty! In the year 188 A. D., with the right of petition guaranteed by national and state constitutions, American citizens must on bended knees beg the mayor of Chicago to graciously allow them to hand ina petition to an- other publie servant who happens to oe- cupy the exceutive chair of llinois. Could there be anything more humiliat- ing? When Horace Grecley signed the bail bond of Jeff Davis, who was held for high treason. did he have to ask the mayor of New York for permis- sion? Did the thousands and thousands of citizens who asked for amnesty for the rebel leaders have to get permission from their municigal or state officers? Would any Russian peasant have to ask permission from any public officer be- fore he could petition the czar for amnesty fora condemued nihilist? Are we not drifting rapidly toward imper ism under a republican form of gover ment? Oyerriding the Law. Councilman Counsman’s resolution authorizing the saloons to keep open on clection day is not only an idiotic piece of presumption, but is likely to cause a conflict between the police and the retail liquor dealers. The pretense that Mayor Broateh's order is void be- cause he did not issuc a regular proela- mation is silly. The mayor need not issue any proclamation that the law shall be enforced. It is his sworn duty to enforce the law as he finds it on the statute books. That his predecessors have not enforeed the law and violated their oaths of office is no creditto them, The councilmen have no more right to interfere with him in the discharge of his duty than t have with the run- ning of the courts. If they cari suspend a state’law by resolution they can wipe out the entire eity charter. The fling at the *“‘pretended” chief of police is beneath contempt. Chief Scavey did not make the law and did not instigate the order of the mayor to enforce the law. Under the charter he is responsible to the mayor and police commission only, and he is bound to obey their instructions. The attempt of the council to override the state law, instead of helping the liquor dealers, plays into the hands of prohibition agi- tators, and will help on the i on issue. Cheaf Seavey is in duty bound to obey the mayor’s orders to enforce the law, aud anybody who resists will find himself in the position of a law breaker in spite of the resolution of the counci No Occasion For Alarm, Months ago the country was warned of impending calamity certain to be- fall with a shock to all interests be- fore November if*the national treasury did uot at once open its vaults and feed the hungry = money market all it would take. These peo- ple beseiged aud besceched the secre- tary of the treasury to hasten to the rescue, and besought the public and the commercial organizations of the country to give their voice to the de- mand for relief. Their efforts were not without effect. The sceretary of “the treasury responded, to the extent of his authority, and with the result of show- ing that the wild ery of danger ahead had very little or nothing to justify it. The actual money wantof the country, as shown by the willingness of bond- holders to dispose of their bonds at a fair price and to aceept advance inter- est, was demonstrated to be less than thirty million dollars, or not more than cents per capita of the population. legitimate interests of the country were not suffering for money, and they have passed the point at which disaster was to be cucountered not only without experi- encing any trouble or disturbance, but in o most prosperous and healthy con- dition. Confidence hiad been somewhat shaken, largely by reason of the noise made by the alarmists, but the solid en- terprises and the unspeculative busines of the country was not in the slightest danger. Perhaps these people, the alarmists and pessimists, did a good se vice in giving the opportunity to firmly establish this fact. These people have latterly been de- voting their attention to western enter- prisc, and in their wonted way deplor- ing a condition of things for which the can see no outcome but loss and disas- ter. The wonderful developinent of this region in the last fow rs these dismal prophets rd as rgely waste, and much is heard in solemn dep- recation of railway extension and in vidicule of the price of real estate which at the most active and prosperous cen- ters contrasts somewhat widely with the value of reulty in the unprogressive or deteriorating towns of the east. Cities like Omaha, Minneapolis and St. Paul are referred to as examples of a deve opment largely speculative, and thero- fore doomed to a reaction that must prove more or less ruinous in its conse- quences, Correspondents of eastern newspapers are sent out to fortify th view by investigation and observation, and their testimony is supplemented by that of men who at sume time or other came west and lacking the ability and enterprise to **grow up with the country” made a failure and returned to the east to plod along through life in the easy way to which they had been necus- tomed. It is not apparent that in this matter the ery of the alurmists and pessimists is having much effect. There is no ev- idence that the tide of population west- ward is diminishing. Nebraska will add at least one hundred thousand to her-population this y and the steady growth of Omuha is apparent to every citizen. There has been a subsidence generally in the real estute movement of wostern cities, but there are ouly two or three of themin which the price of real estate is not as firm to-day as it was six months ago; and Omaha is not one of these. 8o far us this city is con- cerned, confidence in its future is stronger at this time than it has cver been before, and for the sufficient rea- son that all the conditions necessary to make Omaha a great commercial mge- tropolis are secn to be steadily enlarg- ing. With regard to all other western cities comparable with Omaha as nat- ural trade centers there is not the least probability that they will experience deterioration. Tbhe country tributary to them must continue to fill up with an industrious and thrifty people, and so long as this goes on the cities must con- tinue to grow in business and popula- tion. While the gates remain open to immigration and the west can offer in- ducements tothe industrious and thrifty possessed by no other section of the country, the foundations of enpire that have been firmly laid here will suffer no impairment, Knocked Out., Bombastes Furioso Humphre, entered the race for the district judge- ship twenty days ago in the First judie- ial district, bus been knocked out and “throws up the sponge” just as time was being called by the referee, After making a brilliant and very noisy eam- paign, the valiant captair finds himself winded, and withdraws from the ring. The bombardment of the BEE was a little too much for him even at Jong range. But in retiving from the arena the eaptain delivers n stibger under the right eye to his running mate “Judge” tull by declaring that he could not hold his nose any longer. Captain Humphrey boasts of a good constitution but being tied toa body festering fromn head to sole with political corruption, was too much even for a man who had been used to the stench of political graveyard: The political quacks down in Beatrice pronounce Humphrey out of his head, but there is after all a good deal of method in his .madness. Humphrey understood himself better than his own treainers, and he didn’t care about being punished and pounded topieceswith bal- lots. He who fights and runs away may live to fight another dag Humph- rey’s defeat was a foregone conclusion after the revolt raised in the distriet by The Wife of Gladsi While the world is pay honor to the greatest of contemporar, Englishstatesmen. 1t may properly be reminded that th tinguished man s in nosmall measure indebted to his wife for much that he has achieved. This has not been altogether by reason of her judicious counsel, though her mental endowments qualify herto be an adviser even to so great a man; nor it because of her ambition for station and power, though she is doubtless not averse fo these. But itis by reason of the constant solicitude and tender care with which she has always guarded the health of her husband and minis- tered to him in sickness that Mrs, Glad- stone has aided him to the accomplisly ment of those triumphs of states- manship which have placed him bigh on the role of the greatest statesmen the world has produced, Of late ladstone has been a good deal troubled with his throat, and unusual exertion or exposure produces acter. Refer- 1g to his recent attack, a London cor- respondent says “Mrs. Gladstone has watched over his throat and voice, and over his health generally, with lovin care that might shame the demonstra tive solicitude of a hen with one chicl ‘When parlinment is in session Mrs. Gladstone is always at the door of the house of commons at adjournment to take her great husband straight home with her. Her own convenience and comfort are never in the way of such continual manifestations of loyal duty and wifely affection. Why should it not be remembered that theve is a “grand old lady™ who is the domestic companionob the “grs old man,” and to whom he is so 1t 3 indebted? The great Disraeli did not hesitate to acknowledge his debt to his wife, and Le has left on record his sense of his great obligation in honorable to him as any act of his life. Who does not know the splendid testi- mony that John Stuart Mill bore to the help his wife gave him in his studies and labors. ~Among American states- men the elder Adams and Madison were conspicuous instairees of those whose wives had been both inspivers and aids to their great husbands in the work of their 1 he example of such wo- men is alw valuable, and it is per- haps more needed in this day of grow- ing social frivolity and fashion worship than ever befor No man is so strong in himself or so great that the affectionate care and thoughtful help of his wife will not be of value to him. The world m: be more largely indebted than it can ever know to the vigilance and solicitude of Mrs. Gladstone for the continuance of that great life in which is bound up the hopes of a people and perhups the welfare of an empire, Hints For Winter. The pleasantest season of the year in this latitude is Indian summer, During the past weck we have had as delightful weather as any day inJune. Butwearve on the threshold of winter and *‘the cold” will elaim our attention for the next three or four months, Theve is an aphorism which says that “heat is life and cold is death.” This is true only in a limited degree. The extreme of,one is just as deadly as the extrente of the other. In one sense the aphorism is untrue. It is an unques- tionable wt that moderate cold is conducive to health. The mor- tality in the heated senson, especially among children, is much greater than in winter. Cold has a stimulating effect upon the system which calls forth life and encrgy in the animal machine, while ex heat paralyzes them. We associnte cold weather with lung discases, affections of the throat, caturrh, ete., hence the prejudice against a low temperature, But the fault is not with the weather, it lies with our methods of living. We sive seal oursclves hevipaticeally in heated rooms, breathe vitiwtéd air, and when we step from these hot-houses into the open air we pass thrgugh a change of temperature rangibg through more than one hundred egfees, in a moment. Is it any wonde that the lungs be- come discased fu ftrying to ad- just’ themselves to such sudden and extreme changes? They would wreck a machine of iron, In the Arvctic repiods lung diseases are almost unknown.| Abundant cold air is one of the best specifics known. 1t kills many di ind cures ev sumption where thig Las not pa yond the stage of remedy. Theve are physicians who think the hospitals of the future will be ice-houses, This may be carrying the idea a little too far, but hospital improvements are setting in that direction, It is better to spend more money good, warm clothing and less in fuel. The temgerature of slecping rooms should Palway be moderately cool. Food for wintes should be substantial, with a good deal of carbon, for the animal body is a fur- nace that needs large quantities of fuel to keep the temperature at nearly 100 deégrees. The idea of hardening chil- dren by exposing them to inclement weather with seanty clothing and insuf- ficient food is simply murderous igno- rance. A 'good layer of fat will protect the system againg the cold better than artificial heat. In the coming winter evenings, when it will be pleasant to sit by the home hearth to engage in reading and re ation, don’t make your rooms stifling hot-beds for fatal d in ense Judge Appleget. The republican judicial committea of the First district are to be commended for their choice of a snbstitute on the judicial ticket for the retired Humph- v, who d out by the ap- proaching avalanche of revolting voters, Judge Appleget has made an excellent judge, and will poll more than his party strength in the coming contest next Tuesday. The district is now assured of two good judges. Stull is virtually now out of the race was knoc Mes. JAMES Brows Poi t, who made her debut before an American au- dience in New York last Monday even- ing, seems to have made more of an im- pression by her costly and tumes than by ber acting. seription of he ses and tu of her toilet iean readily be un- derstood that she must Jave commended herself most fully to the highly fashion- able audience, most of which, and the female portion especially, doubtless had v little concern about how she ac- quitted herself in the adting. As to this th wus some diversity among the critics, but on the wholé she was quite favorably spoken of, though we do not infer from the more trustworthy opin- ionsthat Mrs. Browa Potterislikely ever to greatly illumine phe stag In short, were she less bandsowme and less Ithy, and withodt, the society bac ing she enjoys, it ishlérather probable that this new acquisition to the stage would be thought quite commonplace. But the lady will have brilliant suc so far us nudiences go, while her pretty face and her gorgeous costumes continue to be attractive, and meanwhile, if she really is talented, she may develop into an actress capable of commending at- tention on her mer Tt was different with the g actresses of the past— Charlotte Cushman, Eliza Logau, Julia Dean, and others. They had to begin with me: legant cos- om a d other fer POLITIC N It is well to stick to the truth in as in busin Senator Allison is makin es in New York. campaign speech that he is morc in sted in yachts than in politics. Representative Townsend of Tllinois wants the government 1o tuke hold of the Hennepin canal scheme as a war measure, The Vilas vice presidenti®t boom secm: Dbe growing. A town with two dvug story and seven sayjoons has been named after him, The friends of Henry B. Lovering, demo- cratic candidate for governor in Massachu- setts, ave trying to elect him on®his war record. Minnesota is good for 40,000 republican ma- jority any day, and 60,000 major if Bl is nominated, in the opinion of ex-Congress- wan King, of that state, 1f the talk of promment republicans is any indication, Sheridan may mnot be ‘“twenty miles away” when the next national con- vention of the party meets, General Van Duzen of Californ st member of the Piftieth have a fight for hi L against him, bas fil to the old- congress, will neh, who ran d papers for a contest, Kerens, just home from Europe, as- vk Tribune reporter that Mr, Blaine is having a royal good time and talk- ing no politics except international politics, The prohibitionists in Tennessee ave soon to hold a convention in Nashville, to organ- heir party, with an effort to make it 4 manent factor in the state’s polities and get control of the legislature, The Randall oar secms to be working the democratic raft toward the protection shore just now. Inafew weeks, however, Car- lisle, as speaker of the house of representa- tives, willget in his free trade paddle and head the democratic floit tiward England. It may happen that in the next half year Mr. Cleveland shall make gross blunders, In that case the convention when it assem- bles can place another man at the head of the ticket—Governor Hill, Mr., Randall, Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Scott, M. Mbrrison, Governor Palmer, Thomas Nast, the cartoonis the New York Sun, has practi his relations with F whispered that he is likely to start a pictorial paper at the boginning of the next presiden- tial campaign and that he will uphold the publican nominee, whomsoover that may be, There is nothing of the mwugwump about” My Nas Senator Stanford recent fred Townsend that Se make a good candidate sits by me in the “and we often talk together. He has grown upon e, ed, how that Senator Stanford's fivst choige for presidend is Senator Stanford The La Crosse Chronicle, which 1s edited by the chairman of the Wisconsin demo- cratic state committec, condemns the circu- lar of the democratic chairman in Towa call- ing upon Federal oftice-holders to contribute tothe party cawpaign fund as “a wmistake, according to sev Id George Al- varts would president. “He said Standford for defensible upon 1o theory of good governe ment or sound politics,” The other day Roscos Conkling leaned back in his chair, stretched himself, and ex- claimed to a friend: “Politics! to me of polities, » I never knew what life was, Tnever knew what tho phrase ‘to live like gentloman’ meaut uutil I established myselfl in New York and bunished public affairs from my nnd. My life &s a public man was all care and worry and hard work, andat the end of it all I had not made as wneh money as 1 have made in the last two years. —— THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. Gasoline stoves are in great demand all over the west. A large company has just been orgunized in St Louis to wanufacture them, , Within a few days large purchases of Lum- ber for fall delivery by rail have been mude by lumber dealers in the uorthwest and south. ngineers will be pleased to know that a magnetic filter is now made for cleaning oil. 1t removes the iron particles frow it by mag- netism, A South Carolina textile mill has ordered machinery to be used in manufacturing a ¢ flue quality of dress ginghams out of rown yarn. here is an urgent demand for original de- signing talent among the textile manufactur- ers of the contry, and designers of reputation are very highly paid. Nickel is becomingso plenty that the owners of mines are endeavoring to have the French and Chinese adopt it asa coin in order to find a market for it. ‘The labor organizations generally are some- what undecided at present whether to en- courage strikes for cight hours next year or to let well enough alone. Throughout the potteries cast and west there s u deveTopments of talent and finer work is being produced, although as yet the market for it is very limited. A 3,000,000 Springfield, O., company has bought 63,000 acres of coal, ore and timber land in Kentucky, which it will develope, and then will build railroads over it. In New York the building oper: X00,000 for the same time last year, and 0,000 for the same time 188 p manufatturers in Cincinnati who run on the profit-sharing plan have just divided £08,000 among their workmen for the past six mouths. The highest share to a single wo man was $40. The manufacturers of all kinds of glass ex- pect a little sharp corpetition next year on account of a great increase of manufacturing capacity. They say, however, that prices gitimately decline, A pair of stecl slab shears that will shear slabs ten inches thick have just been com- pleted in England. They are the heaviest ones ever made. One steel mill has this year sent 20,000 basic steel slabs to the United ates, Au English mechanic has invented a weld- loss boiler ring plate for triple engine boilers, by which a far greater pressure tained that in welded boilers. English en- gineers ure greitly pleased at what these boilers can do. rmers. have 55,000,000 bushels which they would like to sell 1o The capita wheat consumption in at Britain is 5!/ bushels. The British obliged to buy 142,000,000 bushels to make e interchanging of machinery s, which is £o common in all American work shops, was suggested and introduced by a A Root, who worked in Colt's pis- and who was made superinten- to Europe. Chicago Herald. Jould haus taken six state rooms on the Umbria—one for himself and five for his pocketbook. A 1t Would Obliterate the Horizon. Detroit Free Press. Rhode Tsland complains of Why does not some one raise over the state? e And Do Make It So. Boston Post, A public office s a public trust, but a great many people would make it like the monop- oly sugar, oil and other trusts, ad weather, an uwbrella A Strained Position. Kentueky State Journal, look on the bright side of life.” 3 even though you may be on the dark side, poke your head around the end and look on the bright side. —— Pernicious Activity. Boston Transcript., The “mental healers™ are holding a con- vention in Boston. There is also consider able activity among the political heelers throughout the count Such is Modern Chicago News, the ew York of reducing a slice United States sub- has hitupon a very the surplus. has taken of it with him to Canada. - Aggravated Case of Grave Robbery. Chicago News, Two distressing cases of grave-robbing have been reported rocently. One occurred at St. Louis, and the other at Macon, Ga. The latter ,is peculiarly harrowing, as the body-s Jeft Davis—dug up the putrid corpse of the old confederacy and shamelessly set it to dancing before g crowds, e —— One on O Chicago Tribune, “My son,” inquired the attorney bla “are you sure you are old enough to testify in court? Do you know what would become of you if you should not tell the truth about this matter!” “Yes, sir,” replied the little Kansas City boy, with firmuess; “I should be sent to Omuha.” wear him, Mr. Clerk," eaid the court decidedly. * A Psalm of Work. Loufsville Courier-Journal. Life was not made for idle longings, For uscless tears and vain regrets— We are made for better things—to work, en- dure. A man is not a man who stands aside And lets another fill his place; Each has_a mission—each was born a place 1o fill - *h hand was made some work to do; Work is the sccret of all happiness, Tdiencss the pass-road 1o regret. Qur hearts are only peaceful When our hands are at r work. re we happy when we know At for the phantom rest, the fancied case, We slight a duty or neglect a plant Work and be happy-—idle and repine; “I'is the compensation of a gracious God That honest work should have a rich J e for his daily work k well done, the deed stands forth ¢ the doer SUNDAY GOSSIP, Durine his recent visit to Omaba George Francis Train bas very properly Sbeen given a great deal of credit for what he did years ugo towards promoting the building of the Union Pacific and advertising Omaha, The fulsome praise which has been bestowed upon him might lead some persons, who arc unacquainted with the early bi Dou't speak | the Union Pacifle, to believe that Mr. Train furnished the brains and the money to earry out this great enterprise, and that if it had not been for him the road would never have been built, Such, howi is mot the fact To the late Dr. Thomas (. Durant, mc than to any other man, belongs the credit of building the Union Pacific railroad. Dr. Durant, who had bee the extension of the Missouri & M now the Chicago & Rock Island, from Daven port to Griunell, was an indomitable, ener getic man, with a wonderful executive power. He was a man something after the style and build of General Sherman. He was thie first vice president mana ger of the Union Pacific company. He it was who organized tictor for the Union Pacific in its race to the one-hun dredth meridian, The chawer provided that the road which should first reach that point should have the right of way as the main line o a councction with the Central Pacific. The Iatter road was not chartered by congress but by the Califors legislature to the boun dary line of Nevada; but by its acceptance of the conditions fmposed by congress upon the Pacific roads, it became possessed of the rights and subsidies of those roads. Inci- dentally it may be stated that because the Central Pacific was originally chartered by the legislature of California, Stanford and Crocker are now oppesing any investigation on the part of the government into the af fairs of that corporation, on the ground that it has no right to investigate, Whken the race for the one-hundredth mer- idian was begun the Kausas Pacit under the management of Samuel Hallett g Oaks, got a big start. In the f had direct connection with eastern railgoads 80 that they could easily and quickly trans port their supplies, material and mack while the Union Patific was 150 miles any railroad connection, and h supplics from St. Joe by steamer,or by w: from Grinnell and Boone, lowa, the f distant 150 iles from Omaka, and the latter 150 1w connected with sissippi, and general 0 Durant organized an immense army of rail road contractors, and collected vast quantities of supplics and material aronnd Omalia, covering miles of ground. He open ed the campaign in accordance with the plans of a great general. At the start e had cv erything to contend with. The heaviest grades were those leading out of Oms this necessarily caused great delay start. By the time the Platto v reached, the Union Pacific was far behind the Kansas Pacific in the race, but when Durant struck the level country he caused his enterprise to shoot ahead very rapidly,and the result was that theUnion Pacitic reached the one hundredth meridian ahead of its com: petitor. This victory gave Darant the rightto construct the entire main 1 to a conne with the Central Pacific, which was being rapidly built eastward. While Stanford was aiminig to making the connection in the viciuity of Salt Lake, Durant reached that locality first, and pushed on beyond it andreachied Prom ontory, where he met the Central Pacific The result was that the Central Pacitic had 10 buy the Union Pacific road from- Promon- tory back to Ogden, and Durant. dictated his own terms, us he was absolute master of the situation, us well as of the Union Pacitic. w let us return to Train *for a moment. Durant, who knew Train’s ability-as a talker, sent him to Omaha to be present and make a specch atthe formal breaking of ground for the Uniom Pacific. Durant wanted a speech which he could send back cast and excito interest in the enterprise, and he kaow Train could male just such as he wanted, tion speech » The Credit Mobilier, which furuished the money for the construction of the Union Pa ific, had been organized under the laws of Pennsyl by a special charter. Duft Green had the charter. Train bought it of him for $500, and sold it for £100,000 to the Credit Mobilier company, which was organized subsequently by Du- rant, Bushnell The Credit Fon °d by Train, was a syndicate for the puvpose of buying acts of lund along the Union Pacific and developing the country. S¢ | large investmients were made, particularly iu Omaba and Columbus. The breaking of ground for the Union Pa- cific, December 2, 1363, was practically all that was done until the next year. The first forty miles were not completed until 1563, when General Samuel Curtis and General Simpson, of the United States engineer corps, came out to Omaha as the government com missioners 1o inspect and accept these forty miles. As usual Train was on hand and went out on the excursion with the inspec tors. o At the close bf the ¢ ville M. Dodge was made the chi of the Union Pacific, and became au import- ant factor in_eve ing concerning the cén- struction of the road, with General Casement and H. M. Hoxie as his co-wor TLeland Stanford came to Omalia yed here for a weck, making his adquarters at the Cozzens house, At that time he expressed the belief that the Union and Central Pacifie ought eventually be made a fourtrack line across the continent from ocean 1o ocean—twotracks for passen- ger trains and two tracks for freight traflic— 80 that no two trains should go in opposite directions, but one should follow the other. In this way there would be no_delays and no collisions, and freight cowid b apidly as passt Such a transcontin utal railway, said he, would solve the fast freight problem. 1T Stanford's four-track plan had been carried out the pioneer trans coutinental line would probably bLave Lad no competitor, moved us The Weeping Water Republican favors prohibition, but is opposed to third party movements as inspired by the‘devil and democracy.” The Norfolk News congratulates Attorney General Loese on having won a victory for the people in the mandamus proceedings against the railrouds, and classes him as one ful few. )didate Ballou dropped £50 checks where ¢ill dothe least good in Burt county,la The Burt County Herald says * open bribery has not been displayed in thes parts for most ten years.” There is an able bodied sigh of r: last issucs of the wecklics over the close of the The mud scows will now be dry do caulked for the national campaign “An Omaha sneak thief," says the Grand Island Iudependent, “who stole a pair of gloves, got twenty days in fail, first and last five on bread and water. Ifhe had stolen a few thousand he would Lave been given a better banquet The Hastings Gazette-Journal cries out in the wilderness: - “What did the civil wer settle, anyway! Ts this & nation with a big N{" The latest advices show that the warcon- tinues with unabated lung fury on both sides of the bloody ditch, and there is little pros- pect of death quieting the rattle of jawbones. The Beatrice Free Lance says: “Mz, John of in the ampuismn, and S Stull, republican candidate for distriot Judge, denies being a railroad attorney. Last Wednesday he rode on an - annual B, & M, employes pass from Wymore to Table Rock, and from Table Rock to Tecumseh. Th editor of the Free Lance saw it with his own eyes. ho gall of some fen | Froment Tribune ling. For s we find Representative Agee, of Hamilton county, con forward to claim the glories§ of locating the soldiers' home at Grand Island, when, #s a matter of fact record, he voted against the 1o e 1 the oyes of the instanc and overy The Liberty Journal has information of a scheme to trade Stull for votes for Hum. phrey. The situation for the raitroad candi dates in the fiest district is so desperate that something must be done to rescue one of them from the tmpending wreek. The Jour- nal demands fair play and insists that “every man run on his own merits, " The Journal of Liberty warmly endorsgs Hon. N. V. Harlan of York as the successor of Congressman Laird next y As the presiding oficer of the house, suys the Jour nal, “Mr. Harlan gave universal satisfaction. He has the ability and is made of metal that is vequired of a candidate for that position. 1f he is sent to congress, Nebraska will havo another good man at the front.” The Gothenberg Independent endorses tha efforts making in the judicial districts of the state to remove the beneh from the power of party bosses by non-partisan nominations. “Our courts should e removed, far as possible, from the realm of politics, Such u course will place the judiciary on a better basis, because it will put better meu in oftice.” The Plattsmouth Journal sces very little in the political methods of Senator Manderson to admire. His “support of an incompetent judiciary in the third district. because it las the party endorsement is on par with his effort to elect Church Howe to congress, It stamps him as a small and narvow politican who cares more for party success than o does for the public welfare, His cake is dough. bum judicial ing roception in 1 runnerof the blizard t livion next Tuesday. The Blair Pilot says “the grand campaign rally advertised Monduy nigit consisted of ten men (headed by Osborn) and fifteen boys and the Blair brass band. 1" . lgmoble, dead failure and fizzle. s, who worked Bullou for ‘swag’ to pull West through with, couldn’t be found, and it was afterwar certained that he was down home ‘o pickles.® stumpers met with a v last week, a fore- Will wrap them in Twenty neighbors of John date for judiee in the first distr we signed and published tho following: “We, the undorsigned, citizons and taxpayers of London precinet, Nemaha county, N 4, have known John ull many years, and we believe that he is o thouhly unreliable lawyer and totally unfit 10 fill the position of district judge. He was attorney for London precinet, in the Brown ville & Fort Kearney railroad bond case, and we are satisfied he has betrayed our interesta in that important case and was untrue to us, whereby we will suffer the loss of thousands of dollars." The Lincoln Democrat is not burdened with admiration for the political railroad attor ney and never thraws the opportunity over its shoulder to attest the fact. Here isa cent roast: “John M. Thurston, a hireling of the Union Pacific, gocs on tho stump to clect other hire of the road 1o the beneh and the people are asked to elusp their hunds and regard with reverence the spectacle of this great man unbending in his anxiety to secure a pure judiciary. The faud and hypocrisy of the republican machine, man- acled to the railro bout un punished, canses a widespread t that the providential stocle of flaming sulphur was exhausted n the application to Sodom and Gomorrah,” The Kearney Democrat vouches for the following pedigree of the democratic party “Qur opponents use this term (the une in speaking of the democratia party. Itisa fuct that poor men constituta the'bulk of the adherents of that party, and that silk hats, spike-tailed coats and gold headed canes are not conspicuous in its ranks. Asa general thing the criticism is correct; the party is the friend of the plain man and the man who depbnds upon @ life with which clezance of upparel and fine soft hands, do not comport; in short the purty is composed principally of men in the lower walks of life, und is in sympathy with this class, and this class find homes within its portals, and to it this class look for to benefit it. The democratic party was con- ceived inthe aspirations of men who had borna the ages of wrong begotten of conditions ine 10 the poor, and promptive of the une dne ascendency of men who were close to the throne and who formed the courts and shaped the luws of the old world.” SOUTH OMAHA NEW Stull, candi t, all but two 710 4 lack of accommodations in the building the vot ace in the ard hus been cha ) Kilkart's corner Second and Thirty-firsy ittlemen the Stoc! ang by H. Morg V. Connor, ay and M erwood, Cheyenne: €. Iishop, 1 as, Wyo., and Charles Phillips, Horsp L Wyo. John Fagan and Mike Burke. two labors ers who were engaged in paiuting the town, became involved in a dispute about 9 ¢ s 10 whose turn it w tot t. A fight cnsued, in which Fagan' came out sec- ond best, Hoth parties skipped beforg the arrival of the police The Armour packing house will open to- number of cmployes from cuow en route to the city., A n of them will be compelled to s every botel and bourding ha s filied. B an I The German fair was liberally patronized again last night and the attendance was tha largest of any evening yet. The musical features were about the same as the evening previous, The prize winners last evening were Mrs. Benson, Mrs. Tippe, Mr. W, H ler, Mrs. F. Metz, sr., Mr. It 1 Mr Bloedel, Mrs. Woodrich, Mrs. Jf icvout und Miss Annte Richards, The voting on the awarding of the gold headed cane continued with great interest. Metz had been in the load the two evepings before, but last night Krug jumped ahcad, and at’ 11 o'clock tha vote stood 406, Krug 511 Metz? fricnds, how allicd to his rescue, und when the balloting stopped the votes stood— Motz $16, Krug 616, The fair cods this evo- ning with a grand ball. The articles left un s01d will be rafiied off. About §700 have been made above expenses thus far, e — Omaha Will Sie Represonted., Wednesday next the Western Classificas tion association hold a meeting at St. Louls, and Omuha will be represented thereat by W. H. Grifiiths, of the Omalia freight bureau, anil Messrs. Houghton, Locheck und John Hrady. De! vill also be in 1dance from Kansas doc an other river town sterod at orgo jor port board in Omaha, house in South Om Must Take the Consequ Wasmixerox, Nov. bh—Secretary Lamae to-day recelved the following telegram froum India Inspector Armstrong : Crow Aaescr, Mont, Nov. 5—Ceneral Ruger and troops are here. Tndians are camped helow agency. Demand has been mado for surrender of Indians engagad in trouble of September B0, If resistance is made Indians must take consequences, Whos arrested they should be sent awuy,