Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 10, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY = BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF 8URSCRIPTION. Tafly (Morning Fdition including Sunday IR, One Year . #10 00 00 2w The Omaha Sunday e dress, One ¥ ear OMARA OFF1CE, NoOo New Youk NG, NTH STIERT, CORREEPONDENCE All_communicati-ns relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed to the ED1mon or 1nr Bre. BUSINE ITERS, All busness letter« amd remittances should be adaressed to Tiy Bir PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA, DFafts, checks and postofice orders to e made payable to the order of the company. The Beg Publiskng Company, Proprictrs, . ROSEWATER, mailed to uny ad- THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Ci Btate pf Nebraska, County of Douglass, of The Tee Pub- y swear that the or the week Wedneaduy, Thursdiy, D Friday, Dec. 30 Average.... Sworn to and subseribed m'mv r 2d day of January, A. 1), 15 [ Notary Bublte. ! B8 < first Anly &worn, de- crotary of The' Tee that the actual average e for the month ;_for Fubruary, R 100 copte for Nllu) 18, LT mmpum ly circulation of t of Junuary, 1., 1020 cop for \|ull h December, 1857, 15,1 coj fworn and subscribed 2d duy of Junuary, A. D, 1985, For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain' that heathen Chince, Cadet Taylor, is vory pecu! WAt does Jay Gould want in Bgypt? That country has been in a state of chronic bankruptey for years, and there is no active demand in Kgypt for a sphynx. Tue tenth session of the Wyoming legislature meets at Cheyenne to-day. Wo might make many yaluable sug- gestions to the honorablg body but will venture only one. Muke the session as short as possible and save the peopie’s mon THE Spanish government will appro- priate one hundred thousand dollars a year until 1892 with which to celebrate the discovery of America by Columbus. Nothing has been done toward memorating the event by this country, which is intevested in it rather more ‘than Spain. com- THE Cherokee women don't take “kindly to Senator Dawes’ bill imposing penaltics on them for marrying white men. An educated lady of that nation in a communication to a St. Louis paper puts in an effective protest and shows the senator that he is ignorant on the matter about which he proposes to legislate. HOW soon will the council reach a settlement with the gas company? Keeping open accounts and running recklessly into debt is not in the inter- est of economy. The pay-as-you-go policy should be strictly followed. The gns expense should be limited to our resources, and the bills paid (rom month to month. . —_— THE citizens of Rochester, N. Y., who went on a strike against the Bell tele- phone a little over a year ago and have been almost wholly without telephonc service since, have come out of the fray with victory perching on their banuer. The Bell telephone company is now anxious to compromise and mitted favorable terms. Asa pry this experionce is of consider portance. ; DunriNa the past year Ohio oil pro- ducers have made strong offorts to 1n- troduce their oil as a fuel into the manufacturing industries of the coun- try. They have been quite successful in this endeavor. Oil has now entered largely into the economics of the manu- facture of ivon, steel, glass, fire-brick, erockery, stoneware, tile, etc., in al- most every state in the union. This is the way to shear king coal of his power. TuE report of the Divorce Reform League which is to be published before long will be an interesting document. Among other sources of information nearly three thousand divorce courts have been called upon to furnish item- ized accounts of their doings for the past twenty years. It is to be hoped the report will have a salutary influence upon public sentiment 1n connection with the divoree question. —— LAST summer when every newspaper publisher was bidding for the city ad- vertising by the square the wily Cadet insisted on bidding by the folio, without specifying how many words his folio contained. Now when the bids are brought in by the 100 words, Cadet bids by the inch and square. It is easy enough to compute by the folio, but when e finds himself squarely betiten by a bid that cannot bé misconstrued, he swings his clubover the heads of councilmen and threatens to squeal on them unless they play cat's-paw for him. ——— SoME of the creditors of Hacper, the wrecker of the Fidelity bank of Cincin- nati, are said to he moving for his re- lease from prison and will petition the presidentto pardon him, Their motive is of course u wholly selfish ono. They he- lieve that if Harper wera free his sup ]maoa great business ability could be turned to theiradvantage, atleast to the extent of enabling them to recovor their losses. There is no greater knave in or out of the penitontiary than this man Harper, und the vietims of his raseality can depend upon it that they will never under any circumstances sce a dollar of what they have lost. He is where he belongs, and the president can be safely teusted to allow him to remain there, THE OMAHA DAILY BEd: TUESDAY, ‘JANUARY 10, 1888. Sccretary Lamar's Resignation. Mr. Lamar very. properly fendered his resignation as secretary of the in- tetior and the president did well in promptly accepting it. It appears from the correspondence that the secretary has remained in the position since he was invited to the vacant justiceship in the supreme court in deference to the desire of tho president, as well as to close up certain matters ho had inaug- urated. He decided, however, that it was not desirable to continue in the office in view of the fact that the de- cision of the senate on his apnointment to the supreme bench might be de- layed for some time, and mean- while the obstacle to action, which his remaining in office would present, on the appointment of his suc- sor and that of the new postmaster general might embarrass the public business. The decision is commendable, and now that Mr. Lamar is out of the way of the confirmation of Mr. Vilas as s tary of the interior, and Mr. Dan Dickinson as postmaster gencral, tho senate will very likely at once give its consent to these appointments. There has been some objection raised to Mr. ilas, on the ground of his connection with certain interests which as see tary of the interior he would be enabled to favor, but there does not appear to he anything in this of sufficient importance to receive any serious attention from the senate. Undoubtedly the coun will within a fow days have a new chief of the interior department and a new postmaster general. Mr. Lamar might win greater credit, as having a desire to relieve the ad- ministration of embarrassment and sub- serve the public interest, if he were to now request the president to withdraw his appointment as a justico of the supreme court. He acknowledges that action on his nomination is likely to be delayed some time, and whilethe filling of the vacaney to which ho has been ap- pointed may not be urgent thore are ob- vious reasons why Mr. Lamar, under the circumstances, should not allow himself to be the cause of any de Ho must certain fin \H) confirmed he would enter upon the duties of his judicial office without the confidence of a very large portion of the people, a situation which a high- minded man would not deliberately ac- cept. The fair conclusion from Mr. Tamar's apparently deliberate purpose to hold on to this ap- pointment must be that he is intensely anxious to wear the judicial robes of the highest tribunal, and this will but strengthen the impression that he has a purpose to serve not wholly personal, - Meantime it is mh-n-atmz to observe that the more carcfully tho case of Mr. Lamar is considercd tho more strongly appear the objections to him, and the more widely diffused the opin- ion becomes that his appointment was a mistake which the senate should not approve. Even the New York Times, which has vigorously befriended Mr. Lan gainst the charge of entertain- ing political views that unfit him for the highest judicial position, is able to see that there are other reasos why his confirmation is not to be desired. That paper says the nomination **is one that could be fairly criticized,” and frankly observes that “it it is oh\lous to those who consider Mr. Lamar’squalifications carefully, that whatever may;be his rel- ative merits, he is far from being an ideal judge.” It argues that his age is against him “when we consider that his duties would be almost en- tirely novel, and that the most supple mind does not master new and difficult tasks readily atsixty and pa It remarks that his habitof mind *‘lacks the penetration and the original force that are as valuable, and it may be said as essential, to the efficient judge as im- avtiality.” The 7@imes grants that he s not the reputation of being learned in the law “or even of possessing that command of its principles and its his- tory that makes a senator an authority on questions of the constitution.” And the Times admits that the school in which M Lamar was trained, ‘“‘the point of view to which he has heen ac- customed, the associations by which he has been surrounded, may without injustice and with entire respect to him be regarded asnot fitting him, if they do not distinctly unfit him, for the work of a supreme court justice at the present time and for the hall score years which he would have to serve.” The most irreconcilable opponent of Mr. Lamar’s confirmation could offer no more conclusive argument nst him. It embraces all that has been said by others in opposition té*him and much more. The assumption of the Times -that republican senators have given no consideration to what it cites as fair and reasonable objections to Mr. Lamar is of course wholly gratuitous. It is mnot probable that the men who have served with Mr. Lamar in the sen- ate have failed to observe the de- fects which the Zimes sets forth, nor is it probable these senators are blind to the value of the “‘reasonable grounds” of objection which these defeets present. Tu short, from whatever point of view regarded, the nomination of Mr. Lamar to the vacant justicoship was a blunder —due, manifestly, to the “positive af- fection” which Mr. Cleveland in a rather puerile way proclaims—and re- publican senators will do their duty in refusing to permit the blunder to suc- ceed. They Are Fr The mayor aud city coun ,xl of Lincoln ave no longer undor the constraint of federal judicial authority. The decis- ion of the supreme court of thg United States in the habeas corpus case, rend- ered yestorday, set them free. They are to ba congratulated upon the result, not merely because of the personal an- noyance and embarrassment they have been relieved of, but for the reason that their contest has settled an important question of general application This decision inakes a valuable addi- tion to those that had preceded it defin- ing the powersand jurisdiction of federal courts. 1t declared the whole proceed- ings before Judge Brewer with rogard to the Lincoln ofticials to have been illegal. The federal court was entirely without jurisdiction, and the action of the judge was a usurpation. The guestion settled by this decision is that federal courts, ¥itling as courts of equity, have no ju- risdiction whatever over driminal cases, or cases involving the appointment or romoval of state or municipal officers. It isa further step toward relieving mat- ters of purely state concern from the in- terposition and authority of the fedoral judiciary, and therefore possesses far nore than local intorest and significance. he decision will undoubtedly attract wide attention and be generally ap- proved. Civil Service Reform in Danger. Tn making up the house committecs Mr. Carlisle made sacrifices to prece- dent in several eases, but in none more conspicuously than in the construction of the commit- tee on reform in the civil service. The chairman of that committee, Mr. Clem- onts, of Georgia, was one of the ‘‘sec- ond place™ men in the last house, and the fact is recalled that he was the only member of the committee who favored a bill to repeal the civil service law. He submitted a minority report declar- ing his belief that the law is not valid. He characterized tho examinations as theoretical and hair-splitting tests, found fault with the method of hold- ing examinations, expressed his be- lief that all the employes of a govern- ment should be taken from the domi- nant party, and declared that he feared the law would set up a permanent office- holding community. There is no rea- son to suppose that Mr. Clements has changed his opinion, so that if another effort should be made, as one probably will be, to repeal the civil service law, it will be assured of friendly treatment in the committee on the reform of the eivil The second man on the committee, Stone of Missouri, is also unfriendly to the law and will act with the chairman. The other members of the committee, it is assumed, would oppose a repeal of the law, but it is eusy to sce that as the commit- teeisconstituted the advocates of widen- ing the scope of the law and making it strong will get no encouragement, It may be remarked in this connec- tion that criticism of the committees is gonerally far from flattering to Mr. Car- lisle, and this is true more largely of domocratic than republican papers. Some of the former have gone so far as to say that the worst enemy of the presi- dent, planning his best to emburrass the administration and defeatits policy, could not have more shrewdly arranged the important committees for this pur- pose than did Mr. Carlisle. Of course the speaker had no such object, and the result of his work in forming the com- mittees simply proves that it is a sort of duty for which he lacks both the cour- age and the Tne heartless policy of the coal pro- ducers of Pennsylvania is shown by some figures of the Philadelphia Record. That paper has done a great service to the people of Philadelphia by supplying them with coal at a little below the re- tail market price, a course it began in 1884, It reduced the price of coal from $6.50 in that year to $£.90 per ton in the beginning of 1887. Then came the com- bination between the railroads and the coal producers, under which the con- sumers of Philadelphia and the entire country have been put completely at the mercy of the pool. As the result coal now commands in Philadelphia $7 per ton, “‘and,” says the Record, “‘as coal can be mined, transported and profitably sold here at $3.25 per ton, it is evi- dent that the coal consumers of the city, who use 2,300,000 tons of anthra- cite every year, are compelled to pay more to the coal combinations in extor- tionate charges than theypay in taxes for the support of the city government.” Con- sumers of anthracite coal everywhere suffer an equal extortion with the peo- ple of Philadelphia, and in most locali- ties perhaps greater, so that these pro- tected plunderers are-getting tens of millions in tribute annually from the whole people. Now, in the very heart of winter, a formidable strike is permit- ted to occur which if prolonged will bring ona general coal famine before the present month is out, and meanwhile the combination will reap all the benefit it can by still further advancing the price of what coal it may be enabled to market. The Record asks how long will the peo- ple of Philadelphia submit to this pol- icy of combination and extortion, and the question may be enlarged to em- brace the whole country. Now that the counciland police com- mission are working in harmony, much can be done and shoyd be done to ren- derour police force more efficient. If any manon the present force has proved himself incompetent, or has not the physical ability to perform the active duties, he should be retired, The force should be recruited strictly on a non-partisan, non-sectarian, business bas! Politics, religion and personal favoritism should be entirely disve- garded in the selection of our pglice force. The pay of policemen L hatp graded, Men who enter the force should be’begun with about #50 per month for the first six months, $60 for the next six months, $70 for the sccond year, and $80 thereafter. No removals should be made except for cause, and strict discipline should be rigidly enforced, While the council is disposed to be very liberal in its levy, there is no excuse for exhausting the levy by increasing the force to its ut- most limit. Fifty policemen for the next six months ought to be suffigient, ana if at the end of that period more are needed they can easily be added, Protected Philadelphia Record. Labor is ‘“protected” in this great and grand country. But the unfortunate sewing- women in New York who get $1.50 a dozen for making trousers, 15 cents apiece for vests, and 12 cents a day for crochetting shawls, do not want to be *‘protected” any more just at present. Their hearts are full of thanksgiv- ing for the protection they enjoy, with hun- gor to nag them on and monopoly to grind them down. 5 e Loyal Sentiments. uyler Quill, Governor Thayer voiced the sentiment of all Nebraska republicans and loyal people when he wrote to Senators Manderson and Paddock recently urging them to vote against the coufirmation of L. Q. C. Lamar as u justice of the supreme court of the United States @o said: “As acitizen of the United States and a republican, I respect- fully and most earnestly protest against the confirmation of L. Q. C. Lamar as a justice of the supreme court of the United States. Heo was in hoart and principle just as much & traitor as Jeff Davis, He was a bold and de- fiant advocate of the dissolution of the union in 1860-61. He has never recalled his trea- sonable sentiments, A man with such a record should never be placed upon the bench of the supreme court of the United States by the votes of ropublican senators, as he is not a fit person to interpret the constitution of the United States." - .+ Couldn't Do Better. New York Tribune. As they are talking of starting a “wet" campaign in Atlanta; Ga., they couldn't do better than to secure the services of Colonel Rainwater of St. Louis, Major Drinkwater of Denver, General Rosewater of Omaha, and Captain Broadwater of Minnesota. pibnakais Nemmein THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. The demand for labor continues surpris- ingly large, The stovemakers would like to ‘wages 10 per cent, Potroleum has been struck seven miles from San Antonia, Tex. Three more gas wells are being bored in the Murraysville district. A party of northern men have just bought 3,000 acres at Chipley, Fla. A Richmond foundry turns out 100,000 pounds of castings per day. The fish-packing industry is becoming a very important one in Florida. Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle, is working the Pittsburg mills, A Shefield manufacturer is going to build tool works at Birmingham, Ala. The Western Pennsylvania stove foundries have shut down for three weeks. Six thousand furnace men have been locked out in West Cumberland, England. A saw mill at Starde, Fla., has orders for four months to run night and day. New York parties propose to start a large cotton compress at Greenville, S. C. Another cighty mile railroad has just been projected from Austin, Tex., northward. The Bricklayers and Masons’ International Union will meet in Boston in January. Cotton batting is to be made at Eurcka Springs, Ark., by a co-operative company. A Philadelphia company is buildinga 30x 800 foot cottonseed oil mill at Houston. A fence builder at Sanford, Fla.,is filling up his shop with wood-working machinery. Large sales of coal and timber lands are being made in the Kanawha valley, W. Va. Another cotton factory is to be built at Watkinsvillo, Ga., to be run by water power. The influx of northern people into Florida has stimulated all kinds of industries there, A great many new heating and puddling furnaces are being hdded in Pittsburg mills. A $150,000 blast fdrnace will be erected next year within four miles of Chattanooga. A brick concern has started at Decatur, Ala., that will make 2,000,000 bricks per month, « A great deal of .machinery is being pur- chased in the north: for southern machine shops. Andrew Cnrnuglo will put up £5,000 for the Edgar Thomson Employes' Protective asso- ciation, There is very litjle inactivity in the New England states, andeyerything looks well for the winter, It is expected thaba 10 per cent reduction will go into effect in the two steel rail mills at Scranton. Minneapolis, Minn., is buying 12,000 feet of thirty-six inch water-pipe from a Louisville pipe-maker. The smoke-stack of the Allentown thread mill will be 227 feet high, the tallest in the United States. So far this ycar 1,328 miles of railroad have been laid, in which Alabama takes the lead ‘with 437 miles. The Sprague people are crowded with or- ders, and have now eighty motors running in New York city alone. Tne outlook among the tool and implement works in the west is good. There are no strikes or agitations, Arkansas builders cannot wait on the sun to dry brick, but are buying machinery to be run by steam power. About 250 members of the British Tron and Steel institute will spend six wecks on a trip to America next fall. Canadian labor is still going and coming, and is a little easier to get along with than the foreign mill labor. A 2,000,000 iron and coal company just been organized at Timeville, Ky., the centre of arich mmeral district. One steel firm at Pittsburg proposes to put up two mills, one fourteen-inch and one twenty-eight-inch, for corrugating purposes. e The Baby and the Soldicrs. Chicago Ledger, Rough and ready the troopers ride, Great bearded men with swords by side; They have ridden long, they have ridden ha They are travel-stained and battle scarred; The hard ground shakes with their martial tramp, And coarse is the laugh of themen of the camp. They reach a spot wherea mother stands, With a baby clapping its little hands, Laughing aloud at the gallant sight Of the mounted soldiers fresh from the fight. The captain laughs out: “I'll give you this, A handful of gold, your baby to kiss.” Smiles the mother: “A kiss can’t But gladly he'll kiss a soldicr bold.” He lifts up the bave with a manly grace, Aud covers with kisses its smiling face, 1ts rosy cheeks, and its dimpled charms, And it crows with delight in the soldier's arms, reduce sold, “Not all for the captain,” the soldiers call; 'he baby, we know, has a kiss for all.” To the soldie By the strong, ressed; And louder it laughs, and the mother fair Suiles with mute Joy as the kisses they share. s breast the baby is pressed 'ough wen, and by turn ca- “Just such a kiss," eries one trooper grim, “When I left my boy I gave to him; And just such a kiss pn the partin as aslec rks of the soldicrs brave And their eyes were moist as the kiss they gave. day e STATE AND’ TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Blair is feeding a multitude of crow. The shipments of ¢corn from Oakland last month aggregated 80,000 bushels, A monster wild cat and a fifty-six pound beaver were bagged by Henvy West near Albion last wee L. C. Mick,a merchant at Salem, cooled a burning thirst for liquor with a revolver ntly. Death was painless. Two more of the l»\'nnll\' ]m'umuh\- £l ordeved by the B. & M.for the Chey: branch have arrived at the ~lm|h in Plattsmouth, Columbus is be ning to benefits of canneries und c and is moving to secure the ment of one or both. The coroner of Dodge county from activ (—] alize the ameries, establish- retired business last week, and gen- erously furnished himself as a subjec for his su¢ He took laudanum. The Uu:m-n;u Cuanning company has a eSS0, record of 2,000,000 cans of corn_and to- matoes since its inception. 1In 1887 over 600,000 cans of corn and tomatoes were packed fr 2500 loads of produce raised upon 750 acros of land by several hundred farmers within a radius of ten miles of Beatree, and it will require about 1,200 acres to su wply the factory this coming season. The company has w capital of 100,000 A reminiscence of the fenian days of ’66-8 was hrought to light in Plattsmouth last week by the removal to Lincoln of the boxes of muskets stored in the Fitz- gerald block for years, These muskets are the remnants of a Yot of 708 pur chased by Mr. Fitzgerald over twent years ago as argument fora party of ‘onians, who were prepared to parti pate in the proposed Fenian invasion of Canada in 186 Inroads have been made upon this well-equipped armory for various purposes, from time to time, the last oceasion being the equipment of a militia company at Omaha two or three since. The muskets remaining have never been unpacked. ‘Wyoming, . The glass works at Laramie begin blowing this month. The territorial fish hatchery has been replenished by a consignment of 126, 000 brook trout from Massachusetts. Specimens of official gall occasionally crop out on the frontier. Sheriff Sharp- less, of Cheyenne, has filed a claim for the reward of $500 offered by the county for the capture of Harry Patterson, murderer. The official is not satistied with salary, expenses and mileage. The Sun declares that the past year has been an exceedingly eventful one to Cheyenne, and® aside from the losses suffered by its citizens engnged in the cattle business which will be retrieved during 1888, or at the furthest in ‘89, there are many reasons for grntimdu‘ It has hecn o year of substantial im- provements; a year of important pro- jeets; a year of fortunate consumma- tions. The principal improvements were the extension of the Burlington road, completion of the Union Pacific depot and territorial capital, extension of the Cheyenne & Northern, erection of additional buildings at ort Russell, erection of a territori lum for the blind, deaf and dumb, inauguration of 1 delivery, electric fire alarm, street board of trade, territorial fair,and onstruction of scores of business blocks and residences. The Pacitic Coast, The assessed value of real e an Francisco is $191,608,444, The Indians of Fraser river country are being decimated by the ravages of measles, Frank Fuller, who killed Archbishop Seghers in Alaska last summer, has been convicted of m luu[;hl-'l' and sentenced to ten yoars’ imprisonment and to pay £1,000 fine. Bugeno Semple, in his annual report to the sccretary of the interior, esti- mates the population of Washington territory at 143,669, an increase of over 15,000 in the last two years. Black Bart, the famous highwayman, will be a free man on the 21st inst., and if he may be relied upon, he pmpm\w tolead an honest life. Certainly the express mma\xmy and the post office de- partment will join in the hope that he will not return o the exciting pastime of *“‘holding-up” stages. The total number of salesof San Fran- cisco city property last year amounted to nearly 5,000, and the amount of the whole was $20,680,746. The increase over 1886 was 66 per cent in the number of sales and 83 per cent in the amount of money which changed hands, show- ing tl the great bulk of the property sold were small lots or small houses. Six-sevenths of the properties sold was paid for in cash, for the reloases of mortgages amounted to 87,881,775, while the new mortgages recorded were $11,- 255,274; the new money borrowed being thus 3,374,000, something over one- seventh of the new money invested in city real estate. Sl e SOUTH OMAHA NEWS. J. W. Andrews, of Fremont, Neb., is at the Exchange. ‘W. H. Howe, of Cowles, Neb., registered at the exchange. T, Carrabull of Sioux City is stopping at the exchange. Clarence Brown, of Chicago, is stopping at at the Exchange. D. Guernsey, of Alma, has four cars of cattle on the market. George Meisner, of Shelton, is in with two loads of cattle and one of hogs. George Liniger, cashier of Mo Shelton, is looking around the J. W. Kelly, of Kelly & Englesprecht, is in with a load of hogs and sheep from Beaver C City officials can’t get their pay i until their present term of office ¢: says the statute, W. H. Randall and bus, are in the ma cattle. Another week has have been made. quiet time. It costs §10 to get o plumber's license in South Omaha, What fortuncs can be made on a $10 investment. ‘Warner A. Root, of the Hoof and Horn, re- turned last night from Beatrice, where he had been visiting friends. Some one touched the til] of the Little Gem restaurant Sunday night, during the momen- tary absence of the proprictor. A shoemaker named Lukes sued Barney Blume for £200 damages, for retaining his tools and some leather for a debt, and thus depriving him of a chance to make a | The case was called before Justice Lev, had been settled out of court. James Nelson sold out his blacksmith business to C. F. Smith, telling him it w free from all encumbrance. Smith found it and as Ncison would neither he mortgage nor refund the moncy he ved from h, the latter swore out a warrant for his arrest, Quite a number of 1 fricnds and and relatives just now. Sun- day Al Lempke was notificd by telegraph hat his father had _died in Baltimore, and Kirkpatrick and Flarry h received a sim- will e in ner's bank, creased pires. S0 um- ars of P, Becker, of C 't with four passed and no_arrests Judge Reuther is having a was mortgaged idents are losing Meyers had a narrow escape from yesterday, His team ran away and upset while crossing the railroad track, leav- ing him senscless in front of*an approaching engine. A lady, whose name could not be learned, dragged him off just in time to save his life, and he was taken to Melcher's drug store where Drs. Enser and Ernhout at- tended him. Beyond a badly bruised log and a few minor coutusions he is all right, MORTUARY. BARKIGER, Sugenie, the little daughter of Major Bar- , who resides at 513 north Twenty-second and aged 3¢ years, died yesterday after a painful attack of diphtheria. Three more of the major's children have been at- tacked with the same sickness and friends hope that their attack may not be attended witn an unfortunate sult. Buy Up the Stock retary W. S. Wiley, of the Water Works company. is in Boston. [t is reported that the object of his visit is to close up with s of water wi s stock, all of which is to be bought up by a syndicate of local capitulists. Tnformation for Her. The lady who cailed at the central station Saturday in search of a lost child, can hear something to her advantage by calljog again ubo the chicf of police, RAIDING THE COUNCIL AGAILY. The Same Old Gang of Schomers at Their Usual Game. JUGGLERY,JOBBERY AND BOODLE How Councilmen Can be Mesmerized and Bulldozed by Men Who Hold Clubs Over Their Heads. Three woeeks ago the eity council instructed the clerk to invite proposals for city print g, which really means official advertising for the year 1888, Mr, Southard thereupon published a notice inviting bids for city print- ing, to be left at hus oftice up to 4 o'clock p. m., Tuesda december 27, Bids were filed by all the daily papers, but the council held no meeting that night, nor did it open the Dids at the special beld ‘Thursday, Decembor 20. Last Tucsday the bids were finally openod and_ referred to the committee on printing. Lhey are reported by the present ofticial paper, the Republican, as follows: “The bid of the World was as follows: By the square, 10 lines, 45 cents for the first, 8% cents for the second, 28 cents for the third, and 21 cents for the fourth and each subse- quent inscrtion, or 40 conts per square cach insertion, or 37 'cents per folio. ““The Herald will do the work for 27 cents for the first, 23 cents for the sccond, and 17 ‘cents for each subsequent msertion per square of 10 lines nonpareil, “The Brr s 100 words 1 insertion, 2 cents; 2 insertions, 50 cents; 3 insertions, 60 cents; 4 insertions, 80 cents; b insertions, 90 tion, all in the morning Bee. For insertion in the evening 13EE, in_conjunction with the morning Brr, as follows: One insertion in the evening Beg, 14 cent per word; 1 in even- ing and 2 in morning, ¥ cent; 1 in evening and 2 in morning, i 1 in evening and 3 in morning, 1 cent; 1 in evening and 4 in morning, 15 cent. Local not 1in even- ing and | in morning, 25 cents per line. Al notices in comined “editions more than & times, 1 cent per word in evening and 1 cent per word in morning. “The Omaha Republican bid was as fol- low fty cents per inch for the first in- for the sccond, 10 for the third, 10 for the fourtn, 10 for the fifth, and 10 cents for each subsequent in n. Also 40 conts per square for the first, 15 conts for the sce- ond, 10 cents for the third, 10 conts for the fourth, 10 cents for the fifth and each subso- quent insertion. Advertisements to be in- serted at 1 cent per word for each insertion.”! It was manifest to everybody who heard these bids read that the Ber was by far the lowest bidd 's bid for 100 words was 37 cents. The Herald's bid was 27 cents for ten lines of nonpareil, equal to seventy words,, or about 381§ cents per 100 WOl The Republican’'s bid was 50 cents per inch, or eighty-four words of nonpareil, or a fraction over 60 cents for 100 words. The IRepublican’s bid by the square at 40 cents is equal to 59 cents for 100 words. The Ber's bid for the morning edition was 25 cents per 100 words, and for the evening edition 50 cents per 100 words. Its bid for the on was less than onc-half of t of the Republican, and for the cvening L it was 9 cents at. The council committee on printing consists of Counciimen Kitchen, Manville and Ford. Last Thursday Councilman Manville met Mr, Rosewater at the First National bank and r him aside, suid: “We are going to award the printing to the Bee this year. Kitchen insists on giving it to the Republi- can, even if it i3 tho highest bidder. You know Kitchen is a partner of Cadet Taylor's brother in the Gate City Land company, and he is bound to go against the Brk, But' my- self and Ford have agreed to award it to the 1 dverybody in the council, when the bids were read, said the BEr's bid_was the lowest. But we went further, and called on one of the clerks in the court house, who has been a printer, and ho figured it out for us plain enough that the Brk is way below everybody. “Well,” uuld Mr. Rosewater, “I have not approached any councilman on the subject. We are the lowest bidders, and of course under the law we are entitled to the contract. Our bid is lower than any that the city has had for twenty years.” ““Well," replied Mr. Manville, we are going to fight it out in spite of Kitchel “What can Kitchen do for the “fi‘]‘(lh“l'llll if itis not the lowest bidder?” asked Mr. “They can mudd p," replied Mr. Man- ville, **by re-advertising and draggiug the matter along. The Republican contract doesn’t expire until a new contract is made.” On Saturday morniug Manyille again met Mr. Rosewater and reassured him that there would be no monkey work this time, and that the council would do the square thine. Such assurances were also volunteered by Council- men Lowery and Lee and others. But on Saturday night when the councll committ met_for their regular weekly (‘nnfiruuu in_the council chamber, Cadct ). H. Rothacker and Smith, the new n of the Republican, took iord and nville in hand, and by bull-dozing and reats got them to sign the report, whicn had been prepared for cat’s paw Kitchen by the boodle gang, in which report they rec ommend th: and re-advertise, under the pret that the committce is wnable to tell wh is the lowest bidde This report will be presented to the council Tuesday night If it is adopted the delay will insure the printing for the Republican for anothe month, and possibly longer, as the same tac- tics can be continued indefinitely. It may not be out of place in this c tion to re the - jugglery and tr which wei orted to last summer Taylor and his copartners in r: jobbery. InJune the counci for the old fiscal years' printing when the law only allowed the contract to be let to January 1, 1888, The Republican filed three parate bids, and when all other bids were \drawn under & misapprehension, Cadet lor withdrew two of his bids and left the highest one which charged the city more than double the rate present contract. The coun snap judgment awarded the contri next morning, by the city atterney vance, the mayor's signature to th was obtained under false pretenscs. This picce of rascality was enjoined by Judge Groff, who for protecting the e sharks subsequently made a the Republican’s mud-batt nd beaten for publican nomination by these oner was Judge Groff’s in- ssucd than afesolution was adopted » council practically nullifying the in- 1, and the Republican. was given the printing temporarily at last year's contr of the IZee. This not only a defiance of the court but a downright swindle of the tax s, inasmuch as the Republican has on circulation in Omaha worth mentioning, and 1ts advertising s) 1 be bonght by any body at one-fourth of the BEE's rate. Judge W v ste in and granted an Junction ag e of scullduggery Then the council turned und and voted the ofticial printing to the Herald av the s rates, Finally, after wrangling and fussing t Taylor filed a new ybody nnec- b ) who has be ing into th 1ds of this corrupt the outsct--that the Republican contract should continue indefini until another coutract should be let. The game now is to prevent the letting of any coutract excopt, to the Republican here's liable to be somo Jiaslo n. this renewal of bod and bogus bids, ount at the save to the county so In an old cabinet that will s of dol Why it has lain there cius 10 know. ites to Chief of here attending th ander make inquiry whotl b mewbers found the document, the council shall_rejeet all bids | 1 CAR CLEANING. —— The Manner in Which the Celbrated Fullman (‘Il'l are Cleaned, A Large Force of Man Constantly Em ployed in the Yards Near the Transfer Who Make That Busi- - ersons who hiave enjoyed the luxury ot ona of the sumptuous cars of the lace Car company kuow the froublo ase the compiny wre at to Keep the aces ot whioels 11 order wnd ro. oF for this paper & it { Droms 1he lehted to Mr, During A the re- & liarrowing expert. ntly passed msaid, 1 livod in Bos. a8, ( then obtained a good situation at Provide K. L, whoere I worked for two years, when 1 1ands up my mind to make a cf the western then at i1 b 1 aud landed o Omat Tnoticed while i long trips. The reporter is Frank Dalilstrom for the infor sin the hoad. aud b and shonldors with a contin v nose was nearly all stopped up so ame aectistonied (o breathiig through Iy moudh altogether. When 1 luy i bed at nfght the mucons would gather in my thront and lodge there, and in the morning it would g4 me, and {t Wis of 1o unfrequent occurrence that 1 would h nit before 1 could rid T 1 to notico that my hearing was more or less affected and LUEGAN TO FEAR DEAFNESS as 1 had a constant ringing and buzzing noise in my head and ears. | thought that after 1 clianged my residence the climate would be beneficlal, but such was not the case, Instead of getting better I continued to grow worse, my AppeLite Was poor, 0specinlly was this the case in the morniig, af which time I could searcel eut my breakfast at all, and what littlo food i eat soemod Lo distress me very muc abelehing up of wind and would f more than an hour after not soam to digest ail the tine, und suffe Laitril 1o the st tion. Whenever 1w any(hing [ would beo 112 quently stagizer or would have to have ,u‘q.(. until the faint spells would pass awa irrituble and morose wnd wis very T continmiod 0 grow worse and worse and T constipited nen rom headachie wh el cans d by indds e todie. 1'worried and probably (hat helped nake me wo 1 always folt tired and with no ambition to do anything. 1 did psoundly at night, and what hittle sleop ax aitended by the most horribie reams imaginable, and wvowd I Tours fearing if 1 should go to sieep 1 would have a repetiion. My foetwore nearly always cold, my eyes were red and froquently swollen, i at fhmes my nese would disciinrge thie ula | 1t numunuh f consideral awuke for B Wiiort, 50 mtch 8o that 1 con short distance before I would have to stop and N rapidly worse, and was ahout to give up my situation here whien 1 noticed the su T tRoatment ‘of Dra. McCoy and Henry, ihd fAinally T was induced to visit their offic sultafion. Aftor & carcful examination 1 wis toid I was suffering front Catarrh of the noso, throat und stomacl, and that tnoy could help me, and in all probability cure me They would tot, however, promise me that the about the first of oflice at regular int: tons to the lett felt etter in m tainly owe my life to those g not have a single symptos uf my former trouble, and I cherfully recommend the treat- ment of those gentlomen to any one sufferiig from Catgrrh.” the subject of the above ske No. 511 William street, and ix employ Puilman Palace Car Company, and will verify this statement to any one who may call on hini, FETID NASAL CATARRH. Its Symptoms and What it Leads To —The Miserable Feeling, Ertc, rrh is essentailly a diseaso ity proper and does not exte the vault of the pharynx, For a while a dr. tarrh may, and v tly does, develop in that reigion as the tructural chunges within the tissues of the mucus membrane. The symptoms majnly consist in the accumulition in the nasal y of offensive masses and crusts together Witlh more or logs of u fhuid dis. sal cavity thus obstructed, o 1osy difficult, ed, it not entirely al liability to take colds on the ists. wud the suscept the intiuen aily built from b i1 18 narrow portions in si sufferer i< unable to dislod in position fo nsive in ng which ‘time wstantly golng !Illlt- und oftontimes t reated fully und Is quite amenable to entment 1f e strictions wd eyt i carried out fafthfully, and the ph oughly understands’his busines conceded that & tention te better q cuses, CATARRH CAN BE CURED, The Successful Methods as Used by Drs. McCoy & Henry. The treatment for catarrh, lung trouble, asthma, rheumatism and other chronic disenses cin only “fully by one who hus investiga f such disonse not thoro: acquuinted w ave Table 1o full, when Sk b has devoted years to that part y & Henry, wii Nothing but the very best tr i given to all patients, and it can b #nfely said that these pentlemen are masters ption und otlior thew it 15 1o g stud of medicine and_su added to the exhanst speciulties & reputation for s thelr consultation fee 18 Wt thelr office, or an opinion giver by mail, DOCTOR 1), CRESAP McCOY, Late of Bellevne Hospital, New York, AND Dr. Columbus Henry nnsylvania) 3 BUTLDIN ., On (Late of University of i HAVE 01K 0 31 IN KAM th aud Har Corner ¥ ! Medical di ton, Iiright's dis and wll NERVOUS D culiur to the soxes ted skiilfull, puta, Consump- umatin, \||4|1\‘ ases CATARRIL v mail, 1 i Tiosp i a speci answered unless accompanted by ‘Al lotters to Drs, McCoy and Henry, D and 411 Ramge building, Omaba