Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1888, Page 4

E in Pittshury sule % Thigher 1 JTHE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUISCRIPTION. Daily Morning Edition) inctuding Sunday. BI’I.UI.IQ Year spvireniveeane $10 0 8ix Months, “yvioas 50 Three Months 20 0 Omaha Sundny Bk, madled 1o any ad- dress, One Year 200 OMAHA OFFICE, NOSO AND 016 FARS AM STIEET, New Yok Ovrice, Roos 6, TRinvsk Brino- ING. WASHINGTON OFFICK, NO. 513 FoUi TEENTH STRERT. CORRESP( AL communications, rolating itorial matter should b DITOR OF THE Ik BUSINESS LETTERS, 11 business letters and remittances should b dressed to Tie BER PUBLISHIN MAHA. Drafts, o and postofl made payable to rof the The Beg Publishing Company, SWATE T NDENCE. to news and Iressed to the Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, Tais. County of Datglass, %% 1. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bes Pub- company, does solemnly swent that the ulation of the Daily Bew for the week was us follow Thursday. Friday, Dec. % Average, GRO. worn to and subscribed n my prose 24 day of January, A. D, 188, N. b. FEI Notary Pul Btate of Nebraska, ) County of Donglass, {8 Geo. I8, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, Jorien and says that hio fs secretary of, Tiie ublishing compuny, that the actual average daily circulation of the Datly Bee for the month of January, 1387, 16,269 coples r February, 178 Coples? for March, 1557, 14,400 , 188 opie or Jue, 1847, 7 for 3 coples: for August, 1857, H.151 copi - IST, M9 coples: for Octobe ; for' November, 187, 15,2 December, 187, 16,041 coples. 6 EO. B. TZ8CHUC Sworn and subscribed to in’ my 2d day of January, A. D, 188, N. P, F Notary Public. Now let us take up the v hotel pro- ject. Omaha is ripe for the enter- prise. THE council can’t begin to lop off needless expenses too soon. The tax- eaters should be given a vacation until spring at least. COAL is twenty-five dolla some parts of California. The average Californian is content to keep warm with the *‘glorious climate.” per ton in ) Poor St. Joe claims to be ahead of Omaha in the matter of commerce, but her bank deposits only aggregate five millions as against Omaha’s twelve mil- lions. Ir the Dgaves bill in relation to the Sioux reservation becomes law about twenty-one million acres will be opened to settlement. This would expedite the ™ bleaching process and mako the new generation of half-breeds sell-sustain- ing. BALTIMORE is suffering from an epi- demic’ of diphtheria brought into the city by a ship-load of Italians. The vessel landed in New York about two weeks ago. The quarantine depart- ment of that city is certainly in need of overhauling. —— CALIFORNIANS are talking about making a national park of the upper Sacramento region. It will be time enough to talk about another national park when the one we havein Wyoming and Montana has been improved as it ought to be. ‘WHEN one reflects that there have been filed in the office of the inter-state commerce commission one hundred and ten thousand books, papers and docu- ments showing rates, charges and other matters, there can be no surprise that the commission occasionally found its task a little difficult and somewhat con- fusing. KANSAS CI1TY expended $900,000 on Public improvements in 1887. Omaha expended over $1,300,000, exclusive of waterworks, gas extensions, ecte. Kansas City built 1,366 dwellings and residences during the last year. Omaha built 2,179. Kansas City lumber dealers bandled 125,000,000 feot of lumber in 1857, while Omaha dealers handled over 825,000,000 feet. Tue Chatsworth disaster cost ‘Toledo, Peoria & Western hundred thousand dollars. When it is: remembered that eighty persons perished in the disaster and and a inrge @mount of personal property was de- stroyed, the company can congratulate itself on escaping so cheaply. The average value of a human hfe in this instance is about three thousand dol- the road three IF the council desires to be of service to workingmen let them oxpedite the construction of the city hall instead of obstructing 1t under all sorts of pre- texts. Let them cither invite new pro- posals for the superstructure, so tha the contractor can get materials ready for heginning early in the spring, or let them advortise for tho building mate- rials necessary in the construction, an employ skilled mechanies on the build- ing under a competent superintendent by the day — BUILDING inspection in Omaha will @ontinue a farce and imposition so long @8 the present extortionate fee system prevails. The offico of building in- spector was not created as a source of revenue, nor was it designed merely as , & means for raising woney to give three or four officials a soft job. One compe- tont woll-paid inspector on duty all the year round and two assistants employed during the building season are ample *for all the building inspection whieh this city may requive for the next five years. THE oil market ¢ lative boom yestevday, the price in N York advanecing over three cents, while wore made at a stiil The Standurd oil m having had anything to - pany disc do with promoting the ndvance, aserib- | ing it to tho shutting down policy of tl producers’ association and the henvy monthly reduction in thoe stoek. It would be absurd tosuppose the Standurd people are not actively in the specula- sion, but in any event the advance moans a grest many millions in the ~ pocket of the great monopoly. need a specu- | Undertaking Too Much. Attorney Genernl Teese deserves o great deal of credit for his unswerving fidelity to the interests of the people in the discharge of his official duties con- nected with the railway teaffic and bor #d of transportation. His vefusal to ratify the compromise by which the test case involving the powers of the commission was to be withdrawn from the supreme court, and his vigorous prosccution of that test cnse, has placed the honrd of transportas tion in a position to be of great service to the pateons of the railvonds, and es- pecially to the producers. But the at- torney general may, in his ze: shoot the mark, The resolutions in duced by him at the last meeting of the state board of transportation arce in some respects move radical than the present condition of railw traflic would wiu- rant. His resolution to prohibit the issue of railroad pas: to all persons except railros employes has our unqualified approval. The railroad pass has for years been a source ruption and favoritism in this It has been the entering wedge stematic bribery of county officials, islatures, and delegates to conven- tions. Thousands of these cheap bribes have been scattered bro st and dis- tributed by the political emissaries of the railronds where they thought they would do the most good. This vicious system has been mate ly cur- tailed by the inter-state comme! law, but the state must take action in con- junction with congress in order to thor- oughly uproot it. The attorney general’s resolution ordering the railroads to reduce their senger rate to two cents a mile all over the state is, in oar opinion, some- mature. We should like to sce a two-cent pussenger rate established in Nebraska, and the time may not he dis- tant when we shall urge a two-cent pas- senger law by our legislature. We very much doubt, how whether o sudden reduction of 33 per cent in the passenger rate would be reasonable, in w of the fact that New York is up to this time the only state in the union where a two-cent passenger rate pro- vails, A reduction at this time to two and one-half cents a mile would be very satisfactory. So far as the farmers are concerncd the benefits of a two-cent mjleage rate would be compavatively insignificant. The BEE has always occupied advanced ground on the question of railrond reg- ulation, but we have no disposition to advocate legislation or regulation that would make railroading unprotitable or discourage railway extension in Ne- braska. Right here let us add a word of caution tothe state hoard of transporta- tion. The suprem: court has interpreted the law as empowering the board to fix transportation rates wherever they may deem existing tolls unreasonable. We doubt, however, whether the court seriously contemplated the vevision by the board of railway freight schedules and the fixing of an arbi- trary system of freight rates on all the lines of railrond subject to their jurisdiction. The ex- ercise of such a power involves respon- sibilities that no legislature ever dreampt of conferring on a board of com- missioners. All that could be expected at their hands 1s to enforce the fair treatment of railroad patrons and localities. In the discharge of this duty it devolves on the board to stop flagrant abuses and discriminations, by declaring what is or is not a reasonable o. They may with propriety request a railroad company to reduce freight rates all along its line, where, in the opinion of the board, such rates asa whole are extortionate. But we do not believe it to be the province of the board to exercise the schedule-making power, and thus practically assume the active management of the railroads. No anti-monopolist has ever sought to con- fer such powers upon a commission, whether appointed by a governor or elected by the people. Return of Congress. Congress will reassemble to-day, and may be expeeted to vigorously push the business of legislation without further interruption until the close of the ses- sion some time in midsuinmer. Whether a good start shall be wade this week will, howev depend somewhat upon the condition in which Speaker Carlisle has the committees of the housc e should he prepared to announce them, and doubtless is 50 as to most of them, but he is understood to have been troubled a good deal about the make up of several of the committees, and there need be no sur- prise if s0me further delay to business should oceur by reason of the speaker’s dilatory method in committeo making. Tt is said of Carlislo that hoe is about the first speaker who has not known his own mind well ¢ point the committees befor veeess, butwhile theve isunquestios ) precedent for delaying the announcment of committees until after the vocess, it is undoubtedly the fact that none of M, Carlisle’s predecessors o the por- formance of this duty guite such a la- bovious and di It work as he has done. How much of this is due to his alleged desire to be fair and impartial, and how much to his anxicty to pro- mote partisan ends, it is not pos- sible to determine, but after all the e and labor he devotes to this work he does not satisfy everybody or avoid criticism, ‘The loss of two weeks in a portant session has renewed attention very earnestly to the question of chung- ing the dete of the mecting of o It is unde that Representative Cr of Te odueed th jeet in the | L will at opportunity offcr most im- gre sub- namend t to the constin tixing Decomber il next succecding lection of the house of represents tives as the date for the commencement of the term of ¢ Wednes ngross, and the second ey following as the MuL meeti con- & the second Wodues- for the flest Monday in for tha aunual There is a diffe as to whother un Wient o the constitition is n 0 eileet the preposed clhauge, many holdiuy that the OMAHA DAILY BEd&: WEDNESDAY. passage of o law would be sufficient, but an amendment would certainly be en- tirely sufe, and is therefore doubtless the wiser method. There is very little reason to doubt the popular sentiment would so generally approve the change that no difficulty would be found in curing the ratification of the wmend- ment by the required three-fourths of the legislature No Halt in Land Reform. Tt is entirely gratifying to learn that the vigorous policy of land reform in- augurated by General Sparks, and steadily maintained by him so far as he was able to do #o against unfriendly op- position and inzidious obstruction in the depnrtment, is to be continued. There has certainly been some doubt as to whether this would be the case, and the assurance that it is to be may not be re- ceived universally withont some mis- giving. One thing may be de- pended upon, and that is that the people will not be satisfied with promises. They have been pretty thoroughly educated as to what is necessary to be done, and they have been given an example of aggressive action and what it is capable of accom- plishing. They cannot easily be misled and they will not tamely tolerate any trifling with this important matter. They demand that what little there is remaining of the public domain shall be kept out of the clutches of the cor- povations, and that all of it held with- out rightful claim shall be restored to the peopie. It is very likely that the administration fully appreciatesall this, and does not fail to estimate what it rht cost in the loss of popular confi- dence to make any depart- ure from, or to seriously re- linguish the active prosecution of, the policy of land reform to which it is committed. There is some assurance of safety for the reform in this, but what- ever the motive for its continuance the people will be satisfied so long as it shall not be permited to halt. Workingmen and Contractors, Three days ago a call was issued for a meeting of trades union mechanics at the city council chamber. The stated object of this meeting was to enter pro- test against the employment of con labor in the construction of the city hall. A committee called upon the editor of the BEE with & request that he attend the meeting and give expression to his views. This he cheerfully consented to do. At the appointed hour he went to the city hall and found a brass band playing national airs in front of the council chamber. This brass band made an im- pression on his mind that the meeting was called in the interest of contractors who wanted to make a cat's-paw of the workingmen. Who else could afford to hire and pay for a brass band? This impression was further strengthened by the activity exhibited by certain par- ties connected with the city hall base- ment contract, Having no desire to be a party to any scheme concocted by con- tractors, the editor of the BEE decided to keep out of the meeting. The outcome has fully justified that course. Instead of confining them- selves to the question of convict labor the meeting was converted into a raid on the board of public works in general, and its chairman in particular, Coun- cilman Hascall, who modestly pre- sented himself as the champion of the laboring classes and the chief guardian of the taxpayer, gave the keynote to the meeting by urging that the workingmen make ademand on Mayor Broatch for the head of Chairman Balcombe of the board of public works. This was done with a rush and & hurrah. The prime object of the meeting having been car- ried out, the question of conviect laborcame in only as an incidental text for buncombe speeches. The BEE has no axe to grind with workingmen or councilmen and no in- terest in Major Balcombe, beyond the desire to see the city government hon- estly administered. With the pretended purpose of the meet- ing we are in full accord and symyathy. We are most emphat- ically opposed to the employment of conviet labor on public works, and any contract that would permit the use of building ‘materials quarried, dressed or manufactured by conviet labor. But when contractors who have violated faith with the city and tried to palm oft infervior materials and wretched work on the city, attempt to array working- men against the board of public works because it has stood in their way in order to protect the ei are not disposed to make common with them. Major Balcombe was notthe man the BEE would have chosen for the chawmanship of the board of public works, He lacked the essential ex- perience and technical knowledge which the position demands. But he has discharged his duty to the best of his ability, and has firmly sought to en- force the rights of the eity with the contractors. It was perfectly natural, therefore, that such a course would be offensive to parties who want to take ad- vantage of the city., The demand for his removal at this time is contrary to public policy and not in the intevest of good government. The D 18 contract, which is being made use of by the parties who want Balcombe out of their way, is practicall dead. Tt was rejected by the counei and cannot be resurrccted except by ~thirds of that body. With ~Mayor wteh publicly pledged to upprove no contract for the city hall superstructure which does not expressly hibit convict labor and the matering prepared by conviets, Omsha workingmen can rest assured their interests will not be jeop- dized. Itis to be hoped that they Kave common sense enough not to allow their labor organizations to be used as cat’s-paws to pull chestnuts out of the fire for any contractors or political hacks. When the labor intorests are menaced by real dunger there will be need of hiving bunds and en grators to call working men . to- pro- no rted effort glund to arouse the ire of the Hon. Johu L. Sullivan, and there wre indica tions that it has been measurably, sue- cessful, Somebody may have to pay a severe penalty if the patience of the Boston boy gives entirely out, but there really appears to be two orthree parti seriously willing to take their chane It remaing to be seen how much risk they are running. KINGS AND QUEENS, King John, of Abyssinia, doesn’t like the smell of tobacco and forbids pipes to his sub- jee The emperor of Brazil is indisposed in Paris, and has detained his departure for Egypt. The prince of Naples, who has just come of age, is pronounced to be the most ac- complished crown prince in Europe. Prince Oscar, the second son of the king of Sweden, 18 studying painting at the Paris Academie under the name of Oscarson. Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, is lying awake nights wondering what the czar of Russia said to the prime minister of Ger- many. Queen Emma of Holland continually winks while speaking. For this reason she obliged to have her prescriptions put up by the telephone. M. Labouchere calls the king of the Bel- gians one of the most abandoned profligates who ever sat on a throne. Fancy a man say- ing a thing like that about Louis XI. The queen of Spain is taking singing les- sons from M. Napoleon Verger, probably the baritone who formed such & delightful mem- ber of one of Nilison's former concert troupes. Prince Alfred, of Edinburg, has been study- ing at Coburg. He had a professor for every study and envied the common little boys who sat upon trees and grinned at him. The German empress is reported to be in very failing health. The dark shadow has surely falten upon the imperial house of Ger- many. People are wondering in high places which of the royalties will go first. The crown prince of Germany is a great admirer of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas, and he often used to occupy the royal box when “The Mikado" was sung. This oper- etta has been revived four times in Berlin, and 120 performances of it have been given there. Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, owes the czar such a grudze for his continued antag- onism that he is stated to have cleared out of the palace at Sofla every single portrait of Alexander I'and II, which had been placed there in the days of Russo-Bulgarian friend- ship. “There has been a complete reconciliation between the Empress Eugenie and Prince Victor Bonaparte,'says London Truth. *The empress visited Brussels the other day, and her young relative met her at the station, dined and breakfasted with her at the Hotel Bellevue and escorted her to the new picture galleries. Prince Victor is to visit the em press at Amsterdam, and he will come to England to be present at the reinterment of the coftins of the late Emperor Napoleon and his son at Farnborough.” et} T, Journalism in Mexico. Merican Financier, Our contemporuries of the daily press are very enterprising, some of them issuing the paper of to-morrow the previous afternoon, but, somehow, the newspapers of New York and London published the details of the new government loan forty-cight hours in ad- vance of any paper® issued here. In fow countries would the dailypress omit to men- tion for two days a financial project of the magnitude of this debt refunding measure, No more important news has come from con- gress for a year than this which was so un- accountably neglected. —_—— Things Never Done. Greater decds than have ever been seen, Brighter songs than the poet has sung, Are the things that ave dreamed and tried, ween, But which have never been done. The fairest picture the artist paints I8 hung on the wallof his brain; On his canvass rosts but the shadow faint Of what he wished to attain. Above success hovers over the thought, Marring sadly its bliss; Better than this was the thing T sought— Better, far better, than this. For, strive as we may, we cannot grasp The visions that lure us on— They are ever held in our mental clasp, And our best is never done. But this fancy does_oft my scnses woo; That pernaps in the world to come We shall find the things we have tried to do, But which have never been done. bt Mhalionn: STATE JOTTINGS. Corn has touched 40 cents in Beatrice. Arlington expects a wave of prosper- ity with the spring thaw. Neligh expects to add_a found to her institutions at an early day. The Genon Leader utters a painful wail for a *"load of cordwood on subscrip- tion.” The Fitzgerald claim against the city of Platgsmouth has been settied for $3,000. Norfolk's new year resolution com- prises two more railroads and the big- gest boom in the state. Rapellee’s “Jakinello has been turned loose again in Hartington and is now *run for fun and devilment.” The Silver Creek Times, by Charles H. Urwin, came out in a pink holiday suit. The youngster is two weeks old. Grafton cheerfully boasts t! the new vear finds the town without a dollar of bonded debt, with llent graded schools and three churches to guide her footsteps to eternity’s shore. Fremont rejoices that the court house rookery went up in the flames, vidding the town of a delapidated wart and cre mating its regular ocenpants. The town has long prayed for deliverance. Grand Islanders propose to take a new grip on the wheel of progress and by the close of the year settle all con- troversy by making it the chief city of central Nebraska and the thivd ity of the state. A ent paragraph in the jottings regarding the theft of «Surch funds in West Point, and peforring to Rev H. Henry, of Omaha, as an endorser the colicetor, was unfounded in names and places, although published in West Point papers as a local event. The Lincoln Demgerat thinks that teaching the art of cooking in the schools of Omaha is the yankest fustian, and intimates that *The common run of ‘advanced educators’ in this country are cranks who spend one-third of their time in praising themselves, another thied in devising ways and means o serpetuate and increase the demand or their undesirable tribe, and 1he other and worst third in trying to make all the, youth of the country just such cantankerous nuisances us themsclves, The oldest inhabi were out last night. posite sections of an windows rattled significantly w hen they opened up on the weather. They g that this would he an open winter. v we have no such winters now as in the good old dnys. Remembor 37?7 That wis 4 mode Talk about your twenty below! Why the whole country wus buried under twenty feet of snow and there was nothing in thesettlement to record the cold. “Along.in Jagnuavy the air 'was so thick with frost that [ often had to cut a hole . through it to let the wit, n pair of em, They oveupied op- ventie car, and the . JANUARY 4, 189, smoke out of my doby.” The bell ran at this moment and. the twins were left |vmllowhm in an atmosphere of stale hay. bl BOARD OF DUOATION. T. W. Blackburn Resigns—One Year For U. 8. History. The board of education held an adjourned meeting last evening. All the members were prosent except Messre. Clark and Clarke. Tn the absence of the president, Mr. Grady filled the chair. The monthly report of City Treusurer Rush showed a balance of #1,319.15 in favor of the board of education. The te ers' examining committee reported certifi- cates granted to the following persons: Mary E. Ager, Lottie Burch, Clara B. Duval, Mavgaret B. Hogan, Mrs. J. S. Horn, Kate M. Lone, Helen M. Nave, Emma R. Rugh, Jenuie B. Rugh, Evangeline Sibley, Virgivia Victor, Ella M. B. White, Priscilla Ward, Fannie Blanchard and Lida Hanna. The aunnual report of Superintendent James, being # voluminous document, was referred to the committee on rules, forms and printing, without reading. The commit- tee on claims reported favorably on bills xmumlnfi to £14,908.73. Permission was granted the Chautauqua Literary and Scien- tific circle to use the board of education rooms another year. A petition from Hamil- ton Martin asking for higher wages for the Davenport school was referred. The teach- er's pay roll, amounting to $15,240.99, wus approved, Cassell's encyclopedia fonary, fourteen ‘volumes costing $43, was ordered for the hifh school library. The following were elected as teachers in the city to be assigned to duty as_their ser- vices shall be required: Clara B. Duval, Emma R, Bugh, Jennie B, Rugh, Evangeline Sibley, Priscilla Ward, Fannie Blanchard, élda ‘Hanna, Lottie Burch and Margaret I, 08s. Thomas J. Connor was awarded the con- tract for covermg the steam pipes in the basement of the high school, A resolution from Mr. Blackburn, was Eyun'd fixing the course of study so that mited States history shall be taught at least one year in the high school. The plans of Fowler & Beindorf for the new building to be erected on the high schooi grounds, were accepted und bids for its con- struction ordered advertised. The committee on_supplies recommended a compromise with Jones Bros., who had fur- nished the schools with 2,200 slates of inferior quality, Jones Bros. had offered to make a reduction of two cents on every slate not yet used. The board did not acquiesce and the matter was referred back again to the com- mittee. Mr. Blackburn, who is about to move from the city, tendered his resignation as a mem- ber of the board. This was accepted and the following resolution presented by Mr. O'Con- nell was unanimously passed : Resolved. That this board accepts with re- gret the resignation of Mr. T. W. Blackburn, und takes this means as a body of testifying to Mr. Blackburn's faithful, efficient and honorable work as a member of this school board, and that this resolution be spread upon the records. 1t was decided to wait until the next meet- ing before appointing o successor to Mr. Blackburn, The superintendent of school buildings asked to be instructed as to what wages were to be paid to workmen and the number of hours to constitute a day's work. He was instructed that the prevailing scale of prices and hours were to be followed. ‘The bill of . M. Ellis for 8300 for drawing plans for Omaha View school was allowed. Jeweler Sams Arrested. Walter Sams, the jeweler in the Boyd opera house block, wus arrested yesterday on the charge of obtaining goods under false pre- tonses from a wholesale store in Chicago. The complainant, David Gunberger, charges that when Sams failed he pocketed the whole invoice and proceeds, The accused man was arraigned before Judge Berka, but was given a continuance until the 7th at 3 p. m. Hegave £5,000 bonds for his appearauce at that time. S Military Convicts Ordered Transferred The military convicts now confined at Fort Omaha have been ordered sent under guard to the Fort Leavenworth military prison. Their names are John C. Campbell, John Clark, John Clay, John H. Small, John M, Videto, Ebenezer Dorsey, Edward Grifiths, James Bemis, Peter A.' Vandervelde and Augustus Montgomery. e Tha Missouri Valley. St. Joe (Mo.) Gazette. The development of the resources of the Missouri valley forms the most in- teresting and remarkable chapters of modern history. Other sections of the western hemisphere depended upon the antediluvian methods of the develop- ment. The pioneer of Ohio went there with an axe and gun upon his shoulder. The settlers of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Bakota, Idaho, Montana and New Mexico are going there in com- fortable cars, and take with them steam power, planing mills, and all sort of labor-saving machinery. Thus a man may go to California for instance, and take his bouse with him, and piano and sewing machine, and be living under a comfortable roof quicker than he could have marched accross the plains before the days of railroads in the west. To- day the miner rides to the month of his prospeet hole in a Pullman palace car if he likes, and the farmer ships his im- plements, and his household goods and ods to the very land which the govern- ment gives him for the notary’s In this portion of the g ssouri valley—enterpri s taken a strong, fresh, new hold, and the **New South” and the “New West” are boom- ng together. Our vast resources are bringing hither every branch of manu- facture, and the time is not far distant when along the banks of the Big Muddy (it manufacturing center of the world will exist, Only a little while ago this region im- ported its canned vegotables from the lantic coast and its canned fruit from To-day, be that on one ac more of such ve ise of the fact > of Missouri bottom land tables can be raised than on twenty acres of New Jersey sand hills, and bocause our orchards can be made as prolific as those of C: fornin, the trade of both the Orient and Oceident in the elass of goods suggested apidly fallen off and the Missouri had hecome self-supporting in rticular. Moreov a su_much better plentiful, and very much cheaper, and in a little while the Missouri vall already an exporter, will be furnish the world with canned fruit and veg tables. In thousands of other directions, among the comforts, necessar luxuries of life. the Missouri Valle gion will become the supply depo ticlds of grain, floc and herds of sheop, eattle and swine, mines of iron, quarries of stone, beds of sand and hun- dreds of inexbausti S already brought™ hither planing and fouring mills, furniture factorie factories, breweries and di meat y i wing establis foundries, and many other like enter- i and they will be doubled and r 'd, m ind many times. ided hundreds ¢ d manufacture gatherin s of art ¢ i their product” on the for enst should and will that there »OIL countless thousands penings for in- y and enterprise i keys to for- ing learn of this, and and employment f in all this vast y vestment wher will prove the tane. To this fairand fertile section our hos- pitable people inviw industries from vorywhere, On all the banners of the New West, whigh acefully fold :and drape in our salubrious - hreczes couie the World” is emblazoned. ener taliswa “Wel- | LONG WINDED COUNCILMEN. Thelr Firet Session in the Now Year Proves Lengthy. LOTS OF WORK ACCOMPLISHED. The Bids For Lowering the City Hall Wall Referred—The Printing Bids—Details of the Session, The City Council. The city council held its regular meeting last night, President Bechel in the chair All the councilmen excepting Messrs. Bed- ford and Van Camp were present and all brought their talking apparatus along. Every motion that was offered was discussed at length, breadth, heighth and depth. In this talking race Mr. Ford got the pole and | finished first. Mr. Hascall came in a close second. The fleld got away well together and not until the third quarter was reached did Mr. Lee forge ahead. From this until the finish his gait was a spanking one and he came in a good third. Below will be found the business transacted : The mayor sent in the following communi- cations: A circular from the board of civil service examiners regarding promotions; ap- proving special appropriation ordinance; ap- pointing E. L. Stemberg, W. A. L. Gibbon and W. J. Kennedy appraisers for extending Thirtieth strect; appointing George S. Smith assistant city attorney i place of H. J. Davis, resigned. Police Judge Berka reported 1,081 cascs before him during the month of December, and the collection of fines amounting to #2,780.50, less & refunded by the mayor. The report of the boiler inspector placed on file, as was thatof gas mspecter and inspector of is. X rks: Final Swmith, $1,850.26; Wha- 2,744.00, paving dis- trict 1243 O. Corby, #324.50, for sewer repairs; J. D. Greene, curb inspector, thirty-one days’ se dered paid; claim of Stuht & Hamel, for grading: grading estimate of Fitch & Co., $1,108.97; second monthly estimate for grad- ing Dodge street, fre Twenty-sixth to Thirty-sixth street, #1,369.35; third monthly estimate for grading Fifteenth street, from B. & M. railroad to William street, $747; final estimate for grading Grace street, from Six- street to the Belt Line railroad, ; final ostimate for paving Fifteenth street, #88: sidewalks, #146.50; paving E structing district No. 98, Jackson street, 8210.0¢ jevine motor railway tracks on Cass rom Sixteenth and Seventeenth o s and California_intersection, 654.26; sidewalk estimates, J. C. ith; J. K. Knowles, to build crosswalks; Murphy & Co., £1,004.90. All theabove wer approved or allowed. The bids for lowering the cast wall of the v hall building were referred to the committee on public property and buildings, A petition of John L. McCague and others in reference to a hearin, to the levy on their property to cover the cost of extending Park avenue to Farnam street was referred to the city attorney, as was that of Emily R. ‘Whitloc complaining of the manner in which her property for the extension of Twenty-ninth avenue was assessed; also the protest of the Missouri Pacific railwa; pany agninst building a bridge over the Omaha Belt railway on Park street; also progest of Matt W. Clair in relation to paving tax against tax lots 25, 22 and 15. A communication from H. Kountze askin, for grades in Kountze's addition. Referred. The American water works asked permis- sion to remove trees now in the middle of Lowe avenue. Grauted. TThe city engineer recommended that the petition of T. Foley and others for a change of grade on Williams strect not be granted until a majority of the property owners affected cone Adopted. Dorr D. Hoxsie's claim of £150 for injury to his_horse on South Tenth street at the Union Pacific tracks was referred. C. W. Hamilton, president of the United States National bank, stated that they held several warrants issued to Thompson, Delaney & Co. for work done upon the North branch sewer, but that the city clerk refuses to pay the same owing to a previous resolution passed by the city council that Thompson, Delaney & Co. mu first scttle other claims. Referred to city attorney. “The Omaha Coal, Coke & Lime company notified that they should hold the city respon- sible for $30.08 for materials furnished to Thompson, Delany & Co. Referred to city attorney. The request of the North American Bag company to connect their building with the Eleventh street viaduct by a foot bridge was referred to the city engincer, i in behalf of the citizens in of *Omaha View,” states that there is no engine house or alarm box in thut neighborhood and that if the city would furnish hose und a cart they wouid organize a volunteer company. Referred to fire and waterworks committee. Attorney W. J. Connell notified the council that the Policemen’s Relief Fund association had begun suit against the cit, and asked that the ment to be entered. on police. John Hanuon, a judge of election, asked that he be paid for services at the election on school houds, which pay has been ed by the school board. Referred to city uttor- y allow ) ) judg- iReferred to committce Hawover offered thirteen and one-third 15, r. 13 east one-third alance w cash and any time giv h «d to committee interest at 8 per ccnt. on public property. S. Hawover also offered lot 8, sce. 6, tp. 15, r. 15 east for 84,000 per ucre. ' Referred to same, Bids on printing city advertisements were received and were ns follows: Ber—100 words oneinsertion, 25 cents : two insertions, 50 cents; three insertions, 67 cents; foul insertions, S0 cents; five inser- tions, 90 cents; each subsequent inscrtion, 10 cents. Local notices 10 cents per line; for one insertion in evening Ber, 1¢ cent per word; for one insertion in both morning and evening Bi, % cent per word; for one inse tion in evening Bei: and two in morning By 4 cent per word; for onte insertion in ev ing and three inscrtions in the morning B 1y cents per word. For local notices one sertion in evening and morning cents, per line. Al notices inscrted in both morn- ing and ¢ more than five times, cent per word for cach time_in_cvening 1ii and & cent in the morning 1 World—is cents per s 0, 38 conts per square sond insertion square for third insertion, and are for subsequent insertions. ten in- st insertion ; ins f Republican—ige per w Or: 40 cents per square, cents fo nd; 10 cents for subsequ sertions. Or: 50 per inch, first insertion conts for second insertion; and 10 cents fo subscquent insertions. A slution offered by Mr. Ford, that the boginstructed to tike le smove three houses standing thir- on Capitol avenue at Eleventh strcet, was adopted, Lee's resolution to divect the gas and i light Were not in . & Co., of for shart thno pay finance committee ropor on Huch Murphy's re X n bouds at par, in lien of money recommended that a dog pound be tot the tax recommended oo o license or st > and ort. of the rning L ‘South Nineteenth stecots recommondod ha it be done.. Mr. Lowry offered a minority re® port objecting to it. Then followed s long debate in which much of little importan was said. Referred to the ity engineer JI city attorney. The special committea report concarnin the opening of Pacific street through lot was favorable and was adopted. The appropriation ordinance for the ment of labilities incurred during Decombor 1887, and prior thereto, was taken up and sed on its third reading, The total ) amount was $13,045,55, The ordinance to set apart a portion of Jofferson square for the erection of a publia libravy building passed its second reading, Adjourned at 11:30, —_— MARSHAL RICE SUSFENDED. South Omaha's Council Has a Red Hot Meeting. Trouble commenced i the South Omaha city council last night as soon as the roll was called, and Mayor ¢ a‘age, Comncilmen Smith, Glasgow, Rafferty, Loescher and Burke reported present, and Geary was men- tioned as an absentee through serious illness, At first it was in a mild, subdued form, tha councilmen smoking more or less expensive cigars, and_watching each other, while tho spectators chewed plug and fine cut and spat on the floor. The eloquence of the meoting centered in Mayor Savage and Councilmen « Loescher and Burke. The former, in his suave but positive manner, defined his posic tion and declined to be dictated to, while Councilman Burke rose repeatedly to points of order and calls for justice to his constit uents, and coungilman Loescher moved an unlimited number of times that *‘Our mare shal, Paddy Rice, be dismissed—at once." Routime business ran along with compare ative smoothness until a call was made for the report of the ordinance committee on city ordinunces 83, 34, 85 and 36. The city clerk said they hadn't reported. Chair- man Smith said they had, and a search proved he was right. At the mayor's suggestion, the clerk was sent to look up the missing docunients, and the council took a recess, while the crowd ad- Journed to their favorite saloons. The ordi- nances were finally produced, read for a sec- ond and third time and carried, with the ex- coption of one granting a franchise to the Nebraska Telephione company, which was referred back, The reports of the special committeos recommending that the report of Judgo Reuther for the months of October, Novem- ber and December be accepted were read and received, and declared carried, Co man Burke alone dissenting. The city shal's reports for October and Nover ber were similarly dealt with, but whe his report for Decémber was read the me ing become hot. Ittallied with the report of Judge Reuther for the same month, but Councilman I her said there was some dirty work going on, and he demanded an in- vestigation and the di e of the marshal at the same time. He produced afildavits from the wife and daughter of James Kearns, stating they had paid the marshal $16 in liquidation of a flue of 10 and costs imposed upon Kearns by Judge Reuther and which only amounted to $14.50, although tho judges books showed that only #,50 had been paid in. The inference was that Marshal Rico had retained the difference for his own but whel he presented counter vits, Councilman Loescher would not allow them to be received, and mo that Rice be dismissed “‘at once.” Councilman Glasgow in asking that the matter bo left over until the spe committee would re- port, inadvertently referred to the Third ward as the “bloody third" and brought both Loescher and Burke to their feet. Loescher refused to uccept an apology or be pacified and claimed that ‘“‘as white men are in the Third as in the First ward.” No one denied the statement, and he once more moved that the marshal be dismissed, but as there was no second it went by default, A motion of Councilman Burke's asking that the report of Marshal Rice be not received, was put and 10 one voted off it at all. Mayor Savage lost his temper and sald it had reached the lim hat he would never put it again, and that is the same foolish and factious conduct was repeated they could fight it out without him, as he would® resign. This for a time calmed matters down, and Councilmon Glasgow moved that the marshal be su nded until the charges agamst him be investigated on Thursday night by the council as a committee of the whole. This was carried, and A. C. McCracken was ap- pointed to act as city marshal pro tem, Coun- cilman Burke dissenting. Once more things ran until the mayor announced that by virtue of his authority and with the consent of the council he would appoint Thomas W hittlesey asone of the councilmen for the Fourth ward. This was allowed to pass in quictness, but when he announced his second choice to be Henry Bogert; both Loescher and Burke objected. Each had a candidate, and Coun- cilman Burke's remarks becoming somewhat personal towards the mayor, that gentleman announced plainly that he would only ap- point some one that would represent tho nion Stock Yards company, The com- pany was no friend of his, but it paid more taxes than all the rest of South Omaha combined. It had made South Omaha what it was, had never interfered with local politics, and had a right to be represented. Councilman Burke took opposite view, and the war of words was long and loud, but it resulted in the council adjourning until Mon- day night without having chosen a second representative for the new ward. e AMUSEMENTS. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. The second performance of “Only a Farmer’s Daughter" was given last night at the Grand opera house before a highly pleased audience. The piece moved very smoothly and the performers entered into the spirit of their characters with an energy which was most commendable. The heavier scencs dragged less and the lighter ones passed off with case and vivacity. Miss Ab- bott scored a greater success than even that of the preceding night, and at tho close of the e in the fourth act was en- ally called before the curtain, The shared by Mr. Houston, who de- «d considerable strength in the samo along smoothly, ame ca and was sympathetici most every lady present. Miss Howard's Mother Stark was forcibly ren- dered, and Mr. Forhaw's Jack Hartly was charuterized by extreme neatness and ap- preciation of the finer details of the chare acter., e Nebraska Humane Society. At the meeting of the board of managers of tho Nebraska IHumane society, held at the residence of the president,Colonel €.8.Chase, the most important business transacted after a full discussion of the fiuancial prospocts of the society was the passage of aresolution au- thorizing the president and executive commit- tee to appoint two committees to solict lifo memberships, oue committee of two gentle- men and one lady to wait upon gentlemen and the other committce of two ladies and one gentleman to wait upon ladies for that Lifc memberships for gentleman 25, and for ludics £10. Aunual contribu- tions are also to be solicited, those #o con- ributing t lled contributing members. orted as very successful Dyspepsia for Sixteen Years, . P. Holland, postmaster, Rockaway *h, Long Island, N. Y., was entirely »d of dyspepsin and rheumatism of 3 standing by taking two Brandrcth’s Pills every night for a month, During the month he took them Le gained cight pounds in weight. - Four Days Vor Stealing. Lou Austin aud her landlady in a Tenth street bagnio had some trquble over clothes belonging to the latter female which in some wanner had gotten into Lou's trunk charged the o putting th there, After a quarrel Lou had her trunk secretly removed taking with it the clothes and wus arrested for larceny. After .a hearing before Judge Berka sho was given four days in the county jail. How Women Wanld Vote.o woinen allowed ‘to votd, every: one in the land who has vsed Dr.Plerce’s “Favorite Peseription” wonld vote it to. he an unfailing remedy for the dis- cascs peculiae o heov sex, By druggivieg