Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ———— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ixnnmhu Edition) Inl‘lndlmt Sanday BEE, 10 For Bix Months For Three Mont The Omaha mel dress, O OMANA I'lrrll l! NOSOUAND 016 FARNAM STREF NEW YORK OFPICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TH BriLpixa. Wasiixaros OFrice, No. 518 FOURTEENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE. Coth Ali communieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be .dllrehud o th 1TOR OF THE BER. RUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be addressed to Ti® BEE PUBLISHING COMPARY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor, " THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. l!(lle of Nebrwskn, Ly, “ounty of Do ""{ Fmehck, Secretary of The Bee Pub e my, does solemnly swear that the actual ciru Y.}um of the Daily Tee for the week Feb, 1 n?n. was s follows: Fienduy, Fov, - w.dnmhy Yeb, T -‘y! e Average.. PRI T .0 B, TZSCHUC! K B to and subscri in m rl-!an' s worn ¥ prosence th February, A. D., 1888, 16th day of February, A, By b FEIL Btate of Nebraskn, be. County of Douglass, Geo. B, Taschiick, being first duly sworn, do. pses and says that he §s secretary of The Bee F ; Ihat the actual average or the month h! or Marh, 17, {nr Am’ll 1887, 14,516 c coples; for June, 1 umll'k. for July, 1887, Il.(mumioll. for Aui'ux'. 183, l( lhl rup un, for Se) tn-mher, 1887, coples; for October, 1887, 1 for Nflvrfl\b&‘ SR, 16,226 coples; " for ummbar, 26, 16,041 coplea;” or Jauuary, It e coplchL, Bworn and subscribed to in l'x;{ grmwnca this 2d day of January, A. D. 1888, Pu‘b o THERE i8 vitalityin the Allison boom. It is growing rapidly and will soon ex- pand beyond the limits of its native state. - e ] THE presidential race course is full of would-be dark horses. This dark hue is not natural, however. It has been put on by artificial means, and the in- dividuals are easily recognized below the black paint. The real dark horse does not prance into the arena until the 1ast moment. THAT union depot chestnut comes to the front again smiling at the credulity of Omaha tax-payers who contributed $200,000 in city bonds for putting upthat magnificont cow-shed on Tenth:street, and $250,000 in county bonds with which Sidney Dillon built that depot on the banks of Spoon lake. ST. Louis for once has got away with Chicago. This is not so much on ac- count of St. Louis as a summer resort as on account of the salubrity of Missis- sippi never-filtered water. That fluid mixes better with the pure Bourbon juice than does the water drawn out of . the Lake Michigan tunnel. THE New York produce exchange has discovered through an investigating eommittee that western flour can be purchased more cheaply in Europe than on the Atlantic seaboard. Such dis- crimination against American mer- chants by the railroads isa nefarious plece of business. The interstate com- mission should take some decided ac- tion in this matter. It is not the grand jury alone that is getting impationt to welcome home Jay Gould. The professional Wall street speculators are counting the days on their fingers when he will again put foot on American soil. Since the 1st of January the lambs have fought shy of “‘corners,” and the result has been that the brokers are literally dead broke. If the wizard will only take a hand in the game and stir up the market the brokers wont care whether he is bull or Bear. Sem——— ‘WHILE the democratic national com- mittee held Washington, President Cleveland quietly slipped off to Florida without even asking the boys up to the white house to taste his Kentucky sour mash. This is such a departure from Jacksonian principles that defeat for renomination at the St. Louis conven- tion stares the president in the face. It ‘will not do for prospective candidates to allow such time-honored democratio customs to fall into ‘“‘innocuous des- uetude.” e—————— THE sugar trust was put upon the dis- secting table of the New York senate committee as tho first subject for inves- tigation. The first day’s procedure made the trust wriggle and squirm un- der the scorching scalpel of the com- mittee. But nothing else was accomp- lished. The factbecame very quickly evident that it will take considerable knifing before the true inwards of the trust are laid bare. But the probing will go on, and if the heart of the trust ean be got at the truth of the nefarious cm:xhinuhmn to rob the people will come out. Trnik Beatrice board of trade has voted one hundred dollars to the relief fund for the sufferers from the cyclone at Mt. ‘Vernon, Illinois, and notified Governor Oglesby that it is prepared to do move if necessary. This most commendable wctioa deserves more than passing atten- tion, to the end thatother boards of trade in Nebraska may be moved to em- ulate the example. The cause 15 a worthy one, and the action of the mer- chants of Beatrice, identified with the ‘board of trade, shows that they are men of the right spirit. THE cities of St. Paul and Minneapo- lis ha ve been agitating the question of uniting into one city for the purpese of getting out one grand edition of the consus and for other reasons. The latest scheme is suggested by Mr. J. W. McClurg, who proposes, as the first step in the matter, to form a new board of trade, consisting of twenty members from each city. The only obstacle in the way appears to ' be the choice of a president for the proposed board. Each ity is too jealous to concede the honor to the other, and the dilemma might force the board to call on their invet- erate eueny. Chicago, to send up a figure-h ud The Democratic National Convention. The national convention of the demo- cratic party will meet at St. Louis or the 5th of June. There was a vigorous struggle between the five cities that de« the ropresentatives of 8t. Louis should commend them to the heartiest regard of their constituents. The selection of that city rendered necessary a recon- sideration of the earlier action of the national committee designating July 3 as the date of holding the convention, and it will meet a month earlier and two weeks in advance of the republican na« tional convention. The result indicates that Mr. Cleveland had either expressed no wish as to when and where the con- vention should be held or that his desire was disregarded. 'The suppo- sition has been that he felt a good deal of concern about the matter, but it now seems probable that this was a mistake, and that the committee was enabled to act free from any administration in- Hlmmo. Except for the posslblc local influence to be exerted by the convention, the place of meeting is perhaps not a mat- ter of very great importance,and on this one ground the committee would doubtless have acted more wisely if it had chosen Chicago or San I'rancisco, and particularly the latter. It will meet in a democratic stronghold where | its presence will have no other effect than to intensify the ardor and en- thusinsm of democrats, who do not need any such stimulus, and where perhaps the greatest gratification of tha delegates will be in the knowledge that they are not, as the facetious Senator Vest exoressed it, “feeding a republican city on démo- cratic sponge cake.” So far as the chief work of the convention is concerned, it il undoubtedly be as well done in St. Louis as it could be done in any other Unless all signs fail the business of renominating Mr. Cleveland and un- reservedly endorsing his administra- tion will be performed with all the heartiness and enthusiasm which so per- functory a duty can inspire. There are intimations of an opposition to this pro- gramme which may prove more or less formidable, but it. is not ap- parent that they - have any substantial basis. Democrats can be found everywhere who are not in favor of Cleveland, and some of these will doubtless get into the convention. There is talk about the machinations of Gorman and Randall to defeat arenomi- nation of the president, and very likely these politicians, who have nothing to expect of ‘the administration, would be very glad to accomplish this. There is an element of the party in New York which would very much prefer Gov- ernor Hill as a candidate. But the great majority of the party feel that its cause would be utterly hopeless without Cloveland, and it is not to be doubted that the representatives of this ma- jority will be strong enough in the con- vention to carry everything as they wish, The fact that the convention will be held earlier than usual, and in advance of the republican convention, possesses no grent significance. It simply assures a long campaign, which, however satis- factory to the politicians, will not be welcome to the business of the country. The quadrennial political contest is always more or less disastrous to busi- ness, and of course the more prolonged it is the greater the damage. The next campaign promises to be one of the most active and heated that the country has known for many years, and it would doubtless have been better for the gen- eral welfare to have confined it to two months instead of extending it over nearly five, as will now have to be done. There will certainly be enough politics this year to satisfy the most inordinate appetite. —— Not Wholly Satisfactory. It may be regarded as quite certain that the reply of the sécretary of war to the house resolution asking information regarding the battle flags in the cus- tody of that department will not be uni- versally accepted as a satisfactory vin- dication of the course which it had been proposed to take respecting those tro- phies. The soldiers of the country, whose indignant protest against the pro- posal to return these flags caused the president to promptly revoke the au- thority he had given to do this, will not be convinced by the statement of the secretary of war that there were any sufficient precedents giving warrant for the proposal to surrenaer the flags, and & great many other people less deeply interested in the subject will be com- peiled in candor to reach the same con- clusion. It was not ingenuous on the part of the secretary of war to imply that his predecessors, and particularly Mr. Stanton, were responsible for instituting the policy of returning confederate flags, for the facts he was compelled to present are against any such implica- tion; besides which nobody will believe, 80 far at leaSt as Mr. Stanton is con- cerned, that he could have been induced under any circumstances to favor a gen- erfil return of these flags. But the sim- ple truth is that the confederate flags which were removed from the war de- partment during the incumbency of Mr. Stanton were merely loaned, exceptsuch as were sent to military organizations by which they had been eaptured. Whatever significance this matter may have in a political way has not been removed by the reply of the secretary of war to the house resolution. ([The fact remains that there was no precedent to justify the proposal to return the con- federate flags, a proceeding inanyevent for which the exccutive department had no authority, and that the president in approving' the proposal exhibited a spirit offensive to the loyal sentiment of the country. In revoking the order for the return of the flags he did not mani- fest the least consideration fov this of- fended sentiment, but rather allowed it to be inferred that had he possessed the authority the order would have been carried out. It was a mistake that will not be forgotten, E————ee—— Act Prudently. The mechanics employed in the build- ing trades will make a very serious blunder if they do not come toan amica- ble understanding with the builders ! "able. nd contractors lvau the building season opens. 1t is the manifest interest of working- men to get the highest wages and most liberal hours of labor that can be se- sired the convention, and the victory of | 3 o cured from employers. Labor unions and federations of trades are the most effective agencies for upholding wages and enforcing the demands of working- men. There are times and seasons when skilled labor can command its own price and dictate its own terms, and scasons when the mechanics en- gaged in building trades must take pru- dent counsels. Such a season is now be- fore us. The past scason has witnessed an overgrowth of American cities. The building boom last year was not con- fined to the west and south. New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Balti- more showed extraordinary building activity in 1887. It is but natural that a reaction should follow the overpro- duction of buildings. The presentyear, independent of the usual dullness of presidential election years, will witness a general slackness in building opera- tions, not only in the large cities, but also in citics of the second and third class. It isa well established principle in commerce that you can not raise prices on a declining market. Tho same natural law of demand and supply governs industry. When there is an active demand for mechanics and laborers high wages can be maintained, and the demands of workinginen for reduced hours and ex- tras can readily be enforced, But in a season of general dullness, when there isa surplus of unemployed mechanics and laborers, it is up hill work to com- mand or enforce the highest rate of wages and a reduction of the hours of labor. Last year nearly eight millions were spent in Omaha for building improvements. The con- struction of mammoth business blocks, banks and packing houses employed thousands of skilled mechanics. This year the outlook so far is not very prom- ising. With the exception of two large blocks already under construction, the business buildings so far projected will not employ one-half the building force which was at work last season. The abandonment of work on the city hall, the failure of the new hotel pro- ject, and the brealk up of the Knights of Pythias building scheme "havo discour- aged property owners who were dis- posed to invest in costly building enter- prises. This state of facts should not be lost sight of by workingmen. If they can come to an agreement with the builders on last year's scale' of wages they should be content. There is strength in union, but unless there is prudence in the counsels of working- men, they are linble to make very seri- ous and costly blunders. On the other hand the contractorsand builders should exhibit fairness and liberality in treating with the working- men. They should endeavor, if possi- ble, to come to terms mutually agree- They must recognize the right of workingmen to actin concert even when they donot feel able to yield to all of their demands. —— LAsT Saturday’smeeting of the county commissioners was attended chiefly by the paving, grading, sewer and sweep- ing contractors, who appeared tobe very anxious that the proposition for the Yankton road should be modified in some way. The true inwardness of that call on the commissioners was, however, a desire on the part of these contractors to have the special county election post- poned until after the city sewer bond election. If thisrailroad project cannot be carried out without combining with contractors and boodlers, it had better be abandoned altogether. It is high time that Gmaha should break up the corrupt contractors’ ring which manipulated the last legislature to the detriment of this city, has exerted such a baneful influ- ence upon the city council and is trying its level best to control the county board. At yesterday’s meeting of the commissioners the same gang was pres- ent and listened with satisfaction to the report against calling-the election. - THAT a corrupt combination exists between Omaha councilmen and con- tractors is an open secret. No conceal- ment of their intimate relations has been attempted. The enormous sums which certain of these contractors have drawn out of the city treasury are mat- ters of notoriety. The raids,which they are making successfully at every session by voting themselves extras through their dummies in thé council, who ‘are continually overriding the board of public works, afford sufficient cause for alarm. Tweedism has become rampant, and unless it receives effective check, we shall roll up a mountain of debt without having anything more to show for it than a few miles of rotten wooden pavement, tumble-down sewers, and deep gashes through the hillsides which have been graded to accommo- date contractors and land sharks. — Now that Omaha has been made a point of immediate transportation an opportunity is given for local capitalists to build a bonded warehouse. There will be ample employment for such a structure and its use will increase with the growth of the city. Under the new regime importers can have their goods sent in bond directly from the wharf to this city where the appraisement and collection of duties will bemade. Until stores are provided our merchants will be competled to take their goods imme- diately upon arrival whether it is con- venient or not. Often it pays business men to allow goods to remain in store and pay storage charges until such time as they are ready to place them on sale, when duties are paid and fhe goods re- moved. Who will build the first bonded storehouse for Omah: THE city of Omaha is a corporation whose property, estimated at its lowest yalue, exceeds one hundred millions of dollars, The mayor and council are the managers of this corporation with power to impose assessments in the shape of taxes amounting to fully one million a year on the property owners. ‘When this tremendous power is in such hands as Pat Ford, Tom Lowry, Man- ville, Van Camp, and others of that ilk, it becomes a matter of vital neoes- sity’ to the taxpayers and property owners to enforce the charter limita- tions against overlaps and lawless con- spiracies . with' cpntractors. 1Is there any corporation in Omaha that would allow such men to manage iw affairs, even if it only Amounted to an expendi- ture of $50,000 & year? emedons— AFTER expending over #50,000 for grading Eleventh'street to its full width, it is now proposed to narrow the street and to sell about one-third of the graded street. The contractor for thisgrading, Mr. Stuht, is said to be the prime mover for this proposed Iand grab. The ques- tion naturally arises, where will the tax- payers get back the money expended for grading that part of Eleventh street which is to be abandoned? Why was not the scheme to narrow the street carried out before any grading was done at the public expense, and let the purchasers of the abandoned strips pay for their own grading? Doesn’t this little scheme strikingly exhibit the peculiar enter- prise of the council bell-wether and his gang? — * MR, CoRrBIN has given the striking coal miners, whose demand for higher wages he has resisted, twenty thousand dollars to be distributed among the most needy of them. ‘This isa vicious gift. It is adding insult to injury. What the strikers asked for was living wages for their work. This was refused them and a money gift substituted. There could not be a more degrading course of action adopted by Mr. Corbin and his co-monopolists. It is a deliber- ate attempt to break down all independ- ence and manhood in their workmen and should be hissed down by public sentiment. e———— “AT the last meoting of the council, Hascall introduced an ordinance to re- peal the ordinance directing the treas- urer to sell 825,000 city hall bonds, the proceeds of which were to be used for paying the contractor’s claim for work done on the city hall basement. The object of this move is evidently to mis- lead the public and the courts as re- gards the collusion of the council job- bers with the contractors. It isalso in the nature of a threat that the council does not propose to spend another dollar on the city hall in its present location. MR. ANDREW CARNEGIE is both an intelligent and candid man. He has been one of the strongest friends of Mr. Blaine, but he now admitsthat the with- drawal of the Maine statesman has made the republican party much stronger,and he thinks it is the duty of the party to take Mr. Blaine #this word and to re- gard him as wholly out of the race. Mr. Carnegie expresses strong confidence in republican success under any one of the able leaders who fire now most promi- nently mentioned as possible candidates. — HASCALL has th_rbwn asop to the un- employed workingmen by proposing a scheme to build a city jail. Where he is to get the money for building this structure is not manifest unless he pro- poses to let the bufldors charge three prices,sucthe city. wpd take their chances of getting their pay out of the judgment fund, into which =all the questlonnblu claims are dumped. — THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. ‘The construction of railroads through the mining regions of the far west has led to the projection of quite a number of new mining companies. The original inventor of the two-wheeled grain drill, which has sucha wide acceptance throughout the west, died not long since in an almshouse. The cut and wire nail manufacturers throughout the west are making one more effort to divide the - trade among themselves upon a remunerative basis. The general prosperity of the cotton goods industry of New England is shown by the en- largement of various plants and the introduc- tion of improved machinery. The Italian government has ordered the construction of a dynamite gun in Philadol- phia that will send a projectile weighing 600 pounds a distance of four miles. An lLilinois manufacturer recently shipped nine carloads of corn-shellers to South America, and several to South Africa, New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands. A Callowhill street fir has just put in op- eration the largest riveting machine made in this country. It can rivet boiler shells made from plates up to ninety-six inches in width, Many country boot and shoe factories aro far behind on orders, and the tendency is to keep them busy and let the big town factor- ies, with their labor organizations, run slack. The people of Atlanta have secured an abundant supply of filtered water, over 4,000,000 gullons per day, by theuse of twelve fllters ten feet high and thirteen feet in di- ameter. A new building material called stone brick is made by the grinding together of lime and sand in a dry state. It is then heated by steam and transformed into burned hydraulic cement. A large stove manufacturer in Albany has secured the consent of his workmen to retain 10 per cent of their wages until the end of the year, to be forfeited to the firm in the event of a strike. The borers after oil in the Indian territory have been going through oil-bearing strata and are all standing around their wells on tiptoe, waiting for the year that is to make miilionaires out of them. The people of Clevelund, O., have decided to invest $300,000 in @‘tennel, to be built out into-the lake, one ard’'a half miles long, which will be seventy fdet below its surface and seven feet in diameter. . Tho dealers in plumbers' supplies have formed a combination by which they will ob- tain better discounts (from manufacturers, and have secured promises from the latter not to sell to their customers. A large lathe has just been turned out from the Pennsylvahia fonndry that will turn a piece sixteen fect long between the centers, Nevor beford ‘as as much heavy machinery made as at this time. One hundred thousand acres of valuable coal land in West Virginia have been pur- chased by Eastern capitalists for immodiate development, Hard timber, splint, cannel and bituminous coal are abundant, ————— A Great Oversight, Philadelphia Ledger. There is one unfortunate ommission from the Blair bill. Millions are offered for com- mon-sehool education, and not one cent for the education of Senator Blair himself, though his final speech, with its indefinite nonsense about Jesuits, shows that he needs a great deal. ——————— The Real Situation. St. Lowis Globe-Democral, A Philadelphia democratic paper sa: “Mr, Blaine's retirement produces a pe ceptible shakiness in. the ranks of the re- publlm party.” There s evidently a mis- take here. The republicans have not, g any other time since 1872, felt 8o confident of suc- cess as they this moment, A Valuable Suggestion. Chicago Times. Not only ought every congressman to have & clerk, but most of the congressmen ought to go home and let their clerks run the country. [ —— Fantastically Improbable. Lewsville Courier-Journal. If an ontire base ball club can abstain for @ whole season from intoxicating drinks,who can say that at some future day a logislature ora congress may not go through a session on ice-water? ——e Chance for a Worm-trust. Boston Globe. The new fisheries treaty, as far as it has ‘boen published, does not seem to give our fishermen the right to buy bait in Canada, and the American angler must still dig his worms in American soil, e Perhaps She Was There. Springfield Republican. The Sheridan family are divided on the question. Phil's mother says he was born at Somerset, O. And certain circumstances conriected with the occasion add a good deal of weight to her evidence. — Progress. Robert Browning. YTia4n the advance of individual minds That tho slow crowd should ground their ex- pectatio Eventually to follow—as the sca Waits ages in its bed, till some one wave But or the multitude aspires, extends Thel empire of the whole, some feet, por- haps, Over lh(' strip of sand which could confine Its fellows so long time ceforth the rest, Even to the meanest hurry in at once, And so much is glear gain. — STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. * Hebron is moving enthusiastically for electrie lights and water works. Plattsmouth wrenches the purses of drummers by slapping the occupation tax on them. Beatrice has discovered that the gas meter is the nearest approach to perpet- ual motion in the city. The second trial of Jeff Long for the murder of the Bascombe family will come off in the district court at North Platte, April 11. Nebraska City is rustling for $10,000 to educate . the mossbacks of the cast with luminous pictures of the city's growth and prospects. The Vidette is the name of a neatand discursive monthly magazine started by the students of Hastings college. It has a staff of nine editors and managers. A reward of 8100 is offered by the sheriff of Hall county for the arrest of Gustave Moeller, the supposed mur- deret of Valentine Gulcher. at Grand Island. The election in Nebraska City Tues- day proved that but five residénts prefer walking to riding street cars. The franchise for a street railway was granted by a voto of 466 to 5. * Richardson county will have another chance to put the legal screws to Dr. Gandy. The su{mxmo court has granted him a new trial The luxury comes high, but the people will have his room rather than his company. Hon. J. Sterling. Morton’s gift of a park to Nebraska City is a most valu- able one. The tract comprises twenty- three acres of undulating, broken land beautifully wooded, and with the e penditure. of a small sum of money can Le made in a few years a refreshing breathing place for the people. The North Platto authorities have discovered a storehouse loaded with stolen goods—cigars, dress goods, gro- ceries and canned goods—taken from the cars of the Union Pacific. Charles E. Brooks, a mail carrier between North Platte and Logan, and John THiford, jr., have been arrested, charged with lar- ceny, and John Til{urd sr., has been found guilty of reccivmg the goods. Last October Mr. B. F. Carson moved rom Emly City, Mich., to Dundy county and brought a' valuable Newfoundland do;{ with him. The dog disappeared in ew days. Three months later Mr. Carson received a letter from home stating that the dog had returned, but réduced in flesh to a mere skeleton. It took the dog just 100 days to make the rip of 2,000 miles. After remaining on the old farm three days and not_find- ing his master the dog again disap- peared and it is believed that he has started on his return trip. Mr. Carson offers a reward of $50 for the dog. His great intercst in the dog is owing to the fact that the animal had once saved the life of his wife, who had been at- tacked in an open field by a vicious horse. Towa Items. Farms in Scott county rent for 85 per acre. The Merchants Social and Protective union has been organized in Davenport. Coal thieves have been arrested at Giffurd. Among the number was the new railroad agent of that place. Marion has a broom brigade composed of ten young ladies of that city. During leap year they propose to sweep all the old bachelors off the face of the earth, The wife of. Jm‘:h Bavin, residing near Union, gave birth to t,ripleu Sun- day night, all boys, wei and one-half pounds each. are living. hing seven Two of them Dakota. The crematory established at Valley is nearly completed, and will bo ready for business in a fow days. The city council of Rapid City have ordered a special election March 15 for the purpose of reincorporation under the general law of the territory. The school of mines in Rapid City is a valuable adjunct to the mineval de- yelopment of the hills. All the differ- ent classes of ores are tested there and their value made known by competent professors, The supreme court of Dakota has handed down its decision in the local option cases before it, holding the law to be constitutional. All the judges concur except Judge Thomas, who dis- sents on the ground that the law is in conflict with the or, unh act of the ter- ritory, which forbids the legislature from passing any act impairing the rights of privaie property. Wyoming. Governor Moonlight is makin use of the veto, The Maverick bil snuifed out by a veto a few days ago. The nowspapers aro not enthusiastic in praise of the legislative assembly. Its existence is regarded asa public calamity. The losses to the government in the recent fire at Fort McKinney foot up as follows: Stores, $9,000; property, $1,500; building, $5,000; total, $15,500. The real estate business is picking up ata profitable rate in Laramie. The glass works, rolling mills and soda works are attracting large numbers of settlers. Here is luck by the bushel. Ed. Daniels, a cowboy working for the “C. Y.” outfit, is said to have inherited $61,000 by the death of an almost forgot- ten uncle in Indiana. free was. L3 The “Bee's” Baroln- Fund Reaches Over $10,800. AND THE &0OOD WORK GOES ON. The Roll of Honor Steadily Incroas- ing—The Latest Contributors to the Heroines From Various Parts of Nebraska, The Roll of Honor. LOIE ROYC Previously reported Citizens Brainard, Ncb T. M. Shallenberger, Bradshaw, N Collected by J. D. Ferguson, Jl., Aurora, 0. W. C £3,013 74 b 8b 100 53 25 10 80 25 25 10 00 20 oF L.84,085 50 81,211 81 , Tuttle house, Aumru Nub 9 50 Maxwell, Neb., list.. \ 15 40 Mabel Campbell . i 5 80 Bricklayers' union ball. 2 0F Total.... .. 81,200 18 $ 093 S1 3 45 , Aurora, Neb.... J.'B. Rogers' mc, Aurora, Neb. Trinity Episcopal church mlumu, Norfolk, Neb v Bricklayets' union bal MINNTH Previously reported. 0. W. Cass’ list...... Bricklayers' union ball Total . ETTA SHATTUCK FUND. Previously reported. Bricklayers' union ball Total.... 84,710 90 26 06 o 84,7 The “ Fand. The present condition of the funds opencd by the Bee is as follows: Loie Royce. 4,045 56 Lena Woebbecke fund 1.260 18 Minnie Freeman 708 2 ‘Westphalen monument fund 102 88 Etta Shattuck............ 4,742 65 Grandtotal Norfolk Libi l.umnmy. Nonrovk, Neb., Feb. 18.—To the Editor of tho Bre: Enclosed find draft for $184.63, which is a part of the amount contributed in Norfolk_ to the heroine fund. The whole amount is to go to Miss Royce, except &, & of which is to go the Etta Shattuck fund and $3 to Lena Woebbecke. The amount raised in Norfolk so far foots up as follows: Enclosed list...... Lol $184 62 Creighton Dl‘umulk, t,luh ‘entertain- ment. . “eeeee M. E. church’ coliectio i Congregational church collection. iscopal church collection. Searl's conductors’ list, Pacific hotel traveling men’s list. Potal.: oevsiosssviissossnacsies $418 78 M. B. Fosten. A LITTLE BOY. York, Neb., Feb. 21.—To the Editor of the Bee: Enclosed find draft for $4.50 which was raised by me for little Lena Woebbeoke. I am only eight years old. WALTER Wanb. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. E. Schwertfey 2d and 3 kradefi ol Grant school ST & I832338TES2=8 . G, Hellman, ton. verhioiser. ls Junflllnu Minnie Gregory. Belle Wayn 6th 'H!l{fi of Gl‘lhl 33 pes. 2nd and 34 grade I.Im‘nln school J Humphi nk 88833888 = W. Moldenhauer. .. Isaac Powers. TheoMorman, '-T 283z B e 1318 1 11510918191 SRS 3?82883&8853‘883 8888‘5 ETTTISI SSSSSS 8SII3S TTITTESZ 8s8s88 H. Rodqus Woessner. | 1. Gale.. Elvira burluiid: £3E. oseph Auscline: 0, Lydia Hartman, fi Jon Baker. W Whenion . Brummond. Anony) nwuu ). Hirsch...... tributions. T D. A.Wisher. .8 2 B0|Freeman Scott. * 1 oidtorts Leolnger, 2 llb}hnnk D. CIFIC HOTEL LIST. ] lfl%mnk Ekstrand.§ l (fi 1 00.G. M. Darrow, Total. A NEBRASKA CITY LIST, ‘The scholars of Zion school, district No. 37, of which A. B. Mutz is teacner, sends tho Nebraska City News $3.25 to be forwarded to Miss Royce, that being tho amount contri- buted by that school to aid that her Following are those who contri- 05/Annie B. Mason Anunle Wheli Tim Wheling John Murphy A Christ Oelya . 10 Hudolph Beccid.. Tim Qo 10|Willie Gelka. Geo, Oelka, 15 Lyman Reed. Willte \n‘mu 3 'u-l\m Alig. Tegtm Joseph Wailace: Emma Reed G5Harry Mitauer. A. r.Wright . iludson Mend. . loude Glov 2 1. H. Groshel M\Vhlle&. Stanton. (W, L. McPheely Wilson John Panl.. Lottie Wilson Suns sz ttinge: nu-lun H, M. Baxter WL, V, Bowman. . Miller. P Bradway. \x V. Hawl H J. L. Pa . B0A. L. Minnie Bu R. C. Barnard W. A Bmoot. R Bartiott Rithards; L. Barnett. Dawes Co. Journal W.A. Birdsail. George Birdsall Cash. rrl 1 m/Chadron Banking Aol o 1 00(L. A, "Birows 100 Fedmc Vi i TAMPTON, NEB. Joshua Cox. ... 81 00.] . R, Hickley. vu-n e . Holden. ConE Tane.. " Above was le first remittance. STRA » T . Hoslow /1. i, Crunsherg. ool b)) Totad Hm.mfl & Laxe. NEB., LIS Collected by Myrtle Lyon lDr cthe little sufferer, Lena Woebbecke.! Myrtlo Lyon... 25/A, Koehler Muggle Willianm Hr-muu( Vernstrum Whitman. ., r-n- shilling. . . Vanhorn. MANLEY, XEN, I.l:‘:.“ L] wo- 8 ko, B Biat Lanham © LERTRERRRRERES rs. M B On A aber B G, A, Brown w Miss O, Andrus ‘n;; Andrus dohn Mu\ krnl\uIl e S8 2 8. Bennett, DEAF AND DUMD INSTITUTE: Cyany, Fob, To the Editor of the Bae: Within plcum' find my check fos $11.30 for the heroine fund, half for Miss Royce and the buhllu‘d where you tlllllk it is nceded - A, Gruueseie, me John B, Stewart. . W. D. MeFarland. F. M. Henderson. Citiebe o STROVSIURG. Collected by L. H. Headstrom: Post & Headstrom, - ichas. Wicklund and clerks Flex SR [John Un l)llllel Uhl. E. E. 8tanton gigss 15 IRSTITZS romsburg ban R gon A o Carlsap I3ros. Bergman & Lun: Johu Coleman \John Holstedt. . 38233388 28?2 E BERRERREERREK 288 . RE e ——————— il W5 ?83 W, P Cutting. Tarissn Ounneil W. B. Shultz A. Nuguist . C. 8. Dudley. Anton Anderson Geo. Osvorn .. Headstrom&Joh 5 A. P. And B0/A. Bhoem F. 7. Fuller, Alfred Ande Jon\hmd 0 Gus i o s hery. 00 R, Nordn J. lam Carlson & L L Schultz E. Bowman. e TS Real Estate Transfors, .IM M Kmnvy and wife to Thomas A Cobry, lot 1 blk “B" Lowe's add, wd.. o« A S Pat A Patrick's add, wd. C J Balcom and wite lot 15, 16, 17, 18 North Side wd, (0 3,600 EJ H Wohlers to Henry Bolin, und. 3Lt and g lot 12 ulk 5 Boggs & Hill's, w. ... Henry Ambler ot a Knapp, Jot 0 and 10 blk 2 Ambier place, w wa: Fuller and wifc to Dore L Bloyer lot 11 blk 88 South Omaha, w d. Wm E Hawley and wife to O H_Gor- dun ot 8 to 15 inclusivo, and ot 24 0 30 inclusive, Bucke, oyo place, 4 d.. 01t Gorgan to W 1t wioy, lot 1 to 7and 16 to 28 inclusive, lfiuckoye 801, Chambers, lot 6 place, w d.. 3 Jno W Reece and B Brayn, 1 30 1t of a 00 ¢ of oS aad 9 blic2 A § Patrick's ad e, wd.. Norman H Bmwn to lel E Darlin ton, lots 1, Flack’s sub flf lots 11, 1 % 13 and 14, Cataly pa’s 2n L P Pruyn nndwl!omSo)h unmn, n 29 feet lot 04,{, Millard k Caldwell’s add, wd. . 3 . Nicholas M Crume and wi Cluck, undiv Ag of lot fl, blk s1. Florence, w coon Henry Spigle ar Wichter- *man, lot 15, blk 8, Albright's annex, w 2 Dolo‘ lot 28, b wold, lot ll( 12, Kullntw Ruth's add, wd........... & B Brown and husband to Samuel Jucobs, undiv 3¢ of lots 10, 15, 1u, 21, Uullmro qed.. Jacob A erhw Heury bdngle, Johu kponm 30, 31, North Sie, mhl wd, Wells, lot 42 blk 1, Hownfll slluuwd in sec 15-16-12, w d ‘Wm B. Cowles nnd wife ohn. h - llml’&, lots 30, 31, Nunh Side ndd Alic M Buncher, lot 25 blk ), Oown ot Howard, w o Safety Mo comp of to Henry M Price, o 02 n oln IM fl of lot 8, blk 5, Park Place add, wd.. Charles 1B Kountze and wife to T it Wnfll lot 6, blk 8 and w 14 lot 5, hlk 8, Kountze Place, w d. Palmer R Belden and wifo kin, lot 18, blk 1, Jerome Park, w d Exaver A Stone t0 samo, lot 14, "blk |. same, w d . Egbert' EF to Chris- topher C Lnr_v lots & und 6, blk 18, Central Park, wd l'wuL lot 14, blk (l Bodforfl l'llue, Hnrr} nm:‘s 15 and 14, blk l Tlp!,oll l’lnu‘ Georg osie Crouch, ot 10, ik 12, Orehiard T w . Clifton E Mayne and wife to M Mary Reiter, lov 9. blic %, Mayno's add, wd Balthas 0 Silus Jottors add, wd Ipotzer et al to L P Pruyn, 23%¢x105 ft in sw cor of lot 2414, Mil® Tard & Caldwell's add, w d Myer Hellman_and wife to dg Rothery, lots 23, 24 bik 2, Heliman's proposed add, wd... ~Total... Building “The following buflding permits wore issyed yesterday by the superintendent of buildings, and are the best showing made for over two months: Frod Herake, repairs to building, Dodge. 1, cal Twenty-second, Johu W. Porcival, ity-first Merrill, one lml {amilton near 'rwemv ninth near Walnut Charles Huxhold, addition to dweliin Miami near Thirty-sixth. .. rberg, addition to dwelling, Miami near Thirty-sixth. Nine permits aggregating. In the Hebrew Tongue, On March 11 the Chicago Oriental Opera company will prosent a comic operatta en- titled “The Honest Thief; or the Miser Uncle.” The play will ba presented in the Hebrew language. The company consists of thirty persons, the costumes arc new and elezant and all who -v.wml way expect & treate