Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 29, 1888, Page 4

P~ " THE "DAILY BEE. **" PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. o . 500 ‘or Three Months AP | ‘e Omaha Sunday Bxe, maiied to ahy ad- dress, One Year........... P A OMARA OFFICE, NOSOUAND 916 FARNAM STREET. NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 A TRIBUNE BUILDING. WASHINGTON OrFice, No. 613 FOURTEENTH STREET, CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news n!’ul edl- torial matter should be addressed to the EpiToR ne Bee. OF THE BEE: 5N pse LETTRRS. All business letters and remittances shonld be addressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made puyable to the order of the company, The Bee Publishing Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, 5.8, County of Douglass, %5 00, 1§, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pu ‘company, does solemnly swear that the ulation of the Daily Bee for the week 24, 1888, was a8 follow, Feb. 18, ‘ob. 19. b, Baturday, Snnidly. AVErage.....ooooiiiiiins GRO. 1, T78C) s Eworn to and subscribed in my presence tlits 2th day of February, A, D, 1888 N. P, FEIL, Notary Public, Btate of Nebraska, s Cnunl.{ of Douglass, sho Geo. 1§, Tzschuck, being first duly aworn, de- oses and says that he 18 secretary of The Bee ublishing complu{. that the actual average daily circulation of tne Daily Bee for the month of February, 1887, 14,178 copies; for March, 1887, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,316 coples; for May, 186, 14227 coplesi for Jine, 187, 14,147 col for July, 1687, 14063 copfes; fnrAnfun“ta 187, 14,151 copfes; for eptember, IR, 14,3 coples; for October, 1887, 14,333; for November, 1867, 15,2;1 Snghm: r{.r D‘efi:ber.l 1887, 15,041 coples; for January, 1888, 15,208 coples: . ¥ ISG KO, B, TZSCHUCK, my presence this N, BIVRIL Notary Pubite. Sworn and subscribed to in’ 2d day of January, A. D, 1888, MR. MORRISON says he does not pro- pose to run for vice president. Hori- zontal Bill has u level head. TuE sugar trust and Claus Spreckles are about to engage in a sham battle. This is only a preliminary step to the inevitable consolidation. —— IN the interest of all concerned, it is to be hoped that the threatened brick- layers’ strike will -not materialize. A strike among the builders at the outset of the spring season would be very un- fortunate. —_—— JACOB SHARP much improved in health. So well is he that he has al- ready begun kicking against the bills of the lawyer who kept him out of Sing Sing. He is evidently an ingrate as well as a boodler. WHEN the city hall location was up for ratification only 230 votes were cast against it at a general election, at which over five thousand votes were polled 1n this city. Those 230 votes ropresented the full strength of the Jefferson square boomers. That was a fair test of public sentiment throo years ago. If an elec- tion was called to-morrow, the propor- tion of people who support the council Jobbers would be about the same. ® TiE moro the Now York state senato committee is hauling the trust men over the coals, the more scarce the num- ber of important witnesses becomes. Trust men are fleeing from the roasting. The sugar trust secretary since the in- vestigation began has left New York City. The milk trust secretary and treasurer has gone down south. The president of the Standard Oil company who was summoned by the committee, «became suddenly indisposed and was obliged to run down to Florida. Buta second and more urg®nt call brought Mr. Rockefeller back to New York where he is under cross-fire of the committee. o A CORRESPONDE “Has our asks United States postal service ever been self-sustaining?’ It has, in the years 1865, 1882 and 1883. The last annual report of the postmaster general says; *The fiscal year 1882 closed with a cash surplus of about $1,400,000, and the year 1883 increased the amount to nearly $2,000,000, With the single exception of the year 1865, there had been an an- nual deficiency in the revenues of the eoervice to meet its expenditures for thirty years, somotimes of large, mt others of small sums.” There has been an annual deficit since the present let- ter-rate of postage went into effect, in 1883, amounting for the last fiscal year to 4,000,000 GENERAL HARRISON of Indiana al- ready finds his presidential aspirations confronted by a vigorous opposition from the Pacific coast, on account of his position when in the senate on the Chi- nese question. Tho gencral is found to have been a consistent opponent of the Chinese restriction bill, and with this record it can be assumed with reasona- Dble certainty that ho will get no support from the Pacific coast delegates and may count upon their most earnest and active hostility. If this consideration, however, is to play any considerable part in determining the availability of candidates there are several hopeful gentlemen besides General Harrison who will have to encounter it. BUILDING INSPECTOR WIHITLOCK is s full of conceit as an egg is of meat. Because he has been building inspector 4n Omaha for eighteen months he sets himself up as an expert in building, and has the sublime gall to place his own ‘opinion as to the safoty of the city hall building against that of every experi- enced architect and builder that has ever taken the trouble to look at the Myers plans or examine the structure and the walls of the adjoining Brr building. Mr. Whitlock is a carpenter by trade. He has never constructed or supervised a fire-proof building and is no more competent to calculate the Wressure of a stone wall with iron gird- ers than he is to compute the distance from the earth to the sun. But for all that Whitlock stood up before a court to contradict the city engineer and all the experts. He had read some primer on architecture and . joined together a fow frame houses, thereford - he knows more than anybody else what would awd what would uot be safe in a public buildings L S p The Trust and the Seate. The examination into trusts which {s being conducted in New York by a leg- islative committee is bringing out somo interesting information. The issue has already been joined between the law- yers of the corporations and the repre- sentatives of the state. The conty point is whether the state has sufficient power to compel the production of the papers which would expose the methods of the modern capitalistic octopus. The entire country is concerned in the out- come. The trust is the latest and most dangerous device of capital to increase the price of commodities without in- creasing the wages of labor. Devised by that skillful and shrewd lawyer,Sam- uel J. Tilden, its development has gpread from one form of corporate in- vestment to another until it now threat- ens to involve every channel of pro- duction, The Standard oil com- pany first proved its value in destroying competition and in placing commerce at the mercy of the manufacturers. But the increased price of illuminating oil, through the operations of the Standard oil trust, affected but slightly the aggregate cost of the product to each individual. The sugar trust has alroady raised the price to consumers twenty-five per cent, and shut down a number of the largest refinevies. Tho Bessimer steel combination found it profitable for years under the same methods which have now developed into trust agreements, to pay half a million annually to the Vulean iron works of St. Louis, to shut down all production and to limit the output of rails and blooms. 1t is of vital importance to the entire country that the illegality of trusts be at once settled, either under existing legislation or through the passage of such measures as will make combinations of this character unlawful in the future. When labor, a few months ago, combined in New York against capital its leaders were arrested and convicted by twisting the law of conspiracy so that it would apply to their case. But when great capitalists representing millions of dollars combine to decrease the purchasing power of a dollar throughout the country the pub- lic is informed that no laws which can be applied to the problem of crushing out trusts can be found on the statute books. It there isone law for the rich and another for the poor in free America, the people are entitled to know it as soon as possible. When they are made sure of this there will be no delay in such an alteration of the law as will place conspirators, of whatever degree of wealth, in the same categagy. The quibbles of the law and the pleas of counsel that the books and papers of the trust are confidential communi- cations show to what means these agents of great corporations will resort in their endeavor to cover up the tracks of the wealthy criminals of commerce and trade. The opposition of the American peo- ple to corporate monopoly in whatever form has been steadily growing during the past fifteen years. The day is now gone when the advocates of fair play for the people as against corporations can be denounced as anarchists, com- munists and enemies to society. The BEE, which was the earliest paper in the west to raise tho standard of defi- ance against the aggressions of the cor- porations, has done much to educate the public in the principles of anti-mo- nopoly and the rights of the producing classes. It will not be found wanting in these latter days when all its predic- tions of impending danger to the rights of the people have been verified, and when the problem of railway restriction and the regulation of corporate monop- olies has been largely settled through its energy and labor. An Ni-Advisea Courke. The democratic members of the ways and means committee appear to have been conducting the preparation of a tariff bill in a way so injudicious as to invite trouble. They have freely gi out that they were engaged 1n this worlk, but, it seems they have prosccuted it thus far without any consultation with the republican members of the commit- tee, or without even officially informir them that a bill was being prepared. Such a proceeding is obviously a ver grave discourtesy to the minority, and it is snid to be also in disregard of prece- dent, which is very likely the fact. As a consequence the republicun members of the committee are reported to regard the course of the majority as so disrespectful and indecent that when the completed ~measure is submitted to them they will probably decline to give it any atten- tion, leaving it to be submitted to the housoe or otherwise disposed of as those who have framed it shall determine. It is understood that the republicans will bring forward a tariff bill, and that Mr. Randall will also have a measure, it supposed yery similar in character hLis bill in the last congress. It is not difficult to understand the motive of the democratic majority of the ways and means committee in ex- cluding the republicans from all knowl- edge of and participation in their work on a tariff bill, They desite to bring forward a distinctively democratic measure, and very likely reasoned that they could do so more promptly if the danger of republican obstruction in the committee were removed. It will hardly be admitted that the task would have progrossed more slowly than it has done had the republicans been present to discuss every step taken, and in any event the majority could have framed a measure to their own liking and demanded full gredit for it. As it is they have used up two mounths’ time without having completed their tasi, the result of their labors must go before the full committee and still undergo dis- cussion by the minority if they shall he disposed to give ituny consideration, and such offenso has been given the' re- publican members of the committee as will certainly securo them the sgmpathy of every republican in the house and thus more surely imperil the. majority’s work, which .cannot succeed without some republican support. The course pursued ‘has heén ill-ad- vised and impolitic, whether con- coived by ‘the .chairman .of . the to ways and means committee or in- spired by the administration. It is not consistent with the views of the president that the question of tarifft revision “should be approached in a spirit higher than partisanship and considered in the light of that regard for patriotic duty which should characterize the action of those intrusted with the weal of a confiding people.” The policy of the majority of the ways and means committee he been wholly partisan in character, in- volving a disregard of precedent which they will find it very difficult to justify and a discourtesy to the minority of the committee which the political col- leagues of that minority will not fail to rebuke at the very first opportunity. There is every reason to apprehend that the effect will be to complicate the difficulties in the way of a wise and just revision of the tariff and lessen the chances for the revenue legislation which the country requires und hopes for, —— Dissatisfaction With the Treaty. Of course New England is dissatisfied with the fisheries treaty. The Glou- cester fishermen deaounce it as an ig- noble surrender to Canadian claims. Statesmen from Maine and Massachu- setts are indignant over what they term the victory of the Canadian diplomats and the encmies of the administration generally along the northern Atlantic seaboard declare that the agreement as finally made is one which cannot be ac- cepted by the American people. The west at large who reaa the heated denunciations of the Canadian press at the manner in which the Yan- kees have tricked them out of their rights, and the vials of wrath which the New England press is pouring out upon the devoted head of the administration for a cowardly surrender to Canadian diplomacy, are likely to be somewhat puzzled over the situation. The truth of the matter is that the treaty isa compromise of the claims of both the American and Canadian fishermen, It concedes valuable privileges to our countrymen and settles in a reasonably fair and equitable way the disputes which have been going on for nearly a century, While it provides a delimita- tion of the three mile limit, about which there has always been a contro- versy, it takes off a large number of burdensome restrictions which the Canadian authorities had imposed upon American fishing smacks. It does not remove the duty on fish and permit free uade in the products of a free ocean, which it ought to have done, butin compensation it allows Canada to charge atonnage tax upon American fishing smacks plying their trade within its waters. The of the the questions the treaty of chief value is that it settles which ever since 1818 have been raised concerning its interpretation. It will remove the grounds for international bittérness in connection with the cod and mackerel fisheries, and will pave the way at some future day for a readjustment which will be more satisfactory to all con- cerned. treaty The Blair Bill in the House. The impression conveyed by Wash- ington dispatches is that there is no hope for the Blair educational bill in the house of representatives. Its author, who seems to rest all his hopes of im- mortality, historically at least, on the success of his pet scheme, is said to he making life almost unbearable for many members of the house in urging upon their attention the virtues of the meas- ure as he sees them, but so far as can he observed without making any headway in increasing the nmumber of its sup- porters. On the contrary, it is said that the bill has lost friends in the house within the last two or three weeks. The decreasd in the number of its [ supporters in the senate has naturally had an effect upon members of the house, besides which it is of common knowledge that some of those who voted for the bill in the senate did so to com- ply with instructions or to maintain a consistent record. The committee on education has not yet done anything to indicate what the vote on the bill would be in committee, but there is reason to believe it would not be favorable. The chairman, Mr. Chandler, of Georgin, was an advocate of the bill in the last congress, but he is reported to have changed his views and is now counted as an opponent of the measure, It is also claimed that eight members of the commit- tee are opposed to the scheme, and if this be so there is no danger of its being veported, either favorably or unfavora- bly, to the house. But should this not bo the case and the bill is roported from the committee favorably, there ap- pears to be no doubt that its opponents have the necessary strength to prevent any action. So there appears to be hurvdly a possibility of this objectiona- ble measure getting through the pres- ent congress, Still it will be wise not to abate the public opposition to the bill, but to maintain the fight against it with un- diminished vigor until the last hope is known to have vamshed, Its failure in she present congress will be its death blow. COMMISSIONER ANDERSON of the Pacific railroad investigating commit- tee is a blunt man. He told the house committee that he did not think con- gress could afford to go before the coun- tey with two bills, one saying to the Union Facific, “Your management of recent years has been everything to be desired, and we will make an extension on a 3 per cent basis,” and one saying to the Central Pacific, **You unmiti- gated set of scoundrels, you have robbed from . the first day to the last, and you have your hands to-day where they should not be; but we will settle with you on a 2 per cent basis.” The only trouble with Commissioner Anderson is thut he is more partial to the railroads than he is to their patrons and creditors. PuUTTING up presidential candidates resembles a game of nine-pins, No sooner is ‘the string. set up than some player 'steps up and knacks the pins. dbwn. The éditor of the Iowa State Rey- ister, who, by the way, is a member of the wepublican hational bowls John Sherman out, on the ground that he is too old, and is a survivalof o by-gone generation of politicians. The Pacific coast papers are all striking at General Harrison, “Indiana’s favorite son,” because of his anti-Chinese record in the senate. The Knoxville Journal, a prominent republisan paper in Ten- nessee, aims o shotat, General Hawley, of Connecticut, b"m‘\me his extreme state rights views will drive away repub- lican support. The Sah Francisco Chron- icle sets up William T. Coleman, but th® Chicago Tribune knocks that candidate out for the reason that nobody knows William T. Coleman. All the pins down in the republican alley, Billy Barnum, set up in the next. — MAYOR BROATCH stated on the wit- ness stand that he intends to veto any ordinance for the removal of the city hall from the corner of Eighteenth and Farnam. Then why did the mayor join with Hascall and his gang to undo what has been done at such great ex- pense up to this time? What object had he in relieving Brennan from his con- tract obligations? Will the city gain anything by this course? Can the city save money by abandoning $30,000 worth of work and beginning anew on plans of some cheap John architect who wants to establish a reputation at the city’s expense, or worse than that, who would be chosen by the council because he is pliant enough to favor certain con- tractors? STRIKES are very often contagious. Like malaria they are in the air, so to speak. D QUEENS, Browning is said to be the favorite English author of Germany's crown prince. Princess Louise, while on her Mediter- rancan trip, amuses herself with caressing a large white Maltese cat. Prince Louis,second son of the grand duke of Baden and a grandson of Emperor Wil- liam, is dead. He was twen! age. The British Medical Journal says it has the highest authority for stating that the Ger- man crown prince continues to progress sat- isfactorily. The portion of the duchess of Edinburgh amounted to nearly half a million dollars and Russia allows her £10,000 a year. Her husband has a free honse and a large for- tune. Yet this royal couple grudge every penny they spend on unnecessury luxuries. 1t is reported that the prince of Wales, on the occasion of his silver wedding banquet, will annouhce the betrothal of Prince Albert Victor to his cousin, Princess Alexandria of Greece, and the betrothal of Princess Vie- toria to the duke of Sparta, crown prince of Greece. Queen Marguerite, of Ttaly, is described as one of the best dressed of sovereigns, al- though her costumes are plain ulmost to the verge of scverity. And her daily life is as simple and unostentatious as her dress. She devotes much time to works of philanthropy, and is greatly beloved by the people, The Princess Dagmar of Sweden, who de- seated the court of Oscar A1 to become Mrs. Thomas, wife of an ambassador of the United States, is much pleased with Wash- ington. She is now able to converse readily in our language. She is a pretty woman and is making many friends at the capital. The regent of Bayariaappears to be scarco- Iy less cccontric than mad Iing Ludwig himself, as has just been ordered a chapel built on piles over the place in the lake where the insane and_spendthrift monarch ended his life, Ludwig was not a sovereign who showed any sympathy with his subjects or any desire to better their condition. Al his ruinous expenditures were for seliish ends, whether sensual or wsthetic. He was a dis- mal failure as monarch and as man, and the bost fate that can befall him is a complete oblivion. A Meeting of “Bully Boys." Pioneer Press, A convention of persons who wear glass eyes is to be called to meet in Milwaukee. Timely Advice. Philadelphia Press. To all candidates for prosident who insist upon retiring from the contest: Go early and avoid the rush. e o S Charity and Revenge at One Blow. Detroit Free Press. Photographs of the man who stole a 50- cent piece from the eyeof Watson Sherman’s corpsc at St. Ignace are being sold for the berefit of Sherman’s widow. e L No Cause for Uncasincss. San Franeiseo Eraminer, A government agent appears to be dis- turbed because in some parts of Alaska tho people still pray for the emperor of Russia. Why should we object! He nceds it. e Another Record Broken. New York Sun., The Meanest Man is heard from occasion- ally. On Saturday he stole an overcout from a man who had talken it off to jump into the East river and save a drowning person. This probably breaks the Meanest Man's meancst record. A Universal Complaint. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Boston business men are making a great row over the inadequate service between the Hub and New York, and Postmaster General Dickinson 1s being flooded with protests and petitions, The Boston wmen, without re- gard to party, have told Mr. Dickinson that the v the government's mail business is being transacted in that part of the country is an outrage, and they want him to do nething. —_———— The Hardest Lot. John White Chadwick. To look upon the face of a dead friend I8 hard, but 'tis not more than we can bear, 1f, haply, we can see piace written there— cace after pain, and welcome so the end ate'er the past, whatever death may send, ea, that face a gragious smile may wear, If love till death was perfect, sweet and fair; But there fend, P b To look upon our friegdship iy dq, cat is woe, from which may God de- svss lying dead, While we live on, an and drink, and slecp— ¥ Mere bodies, from \?lrfi all the soul has od— And that dead thing year after year to keep Locked in cold silence in its dreamless bed 9 There must be hell while there is such a deep. o Lead and Tron W s Harmonious. Last evening, agrecably to the notices pub- lished, there was 4 meeting of the conference committee of the master plumbers, steam and gas fitters' association, as also the journey- men of those trades. The masters were rep- resented by M. A, Fill, George Woods and Theodore Henck, who appeared for the house of John Ioe. The journeymen sent the following r Con- way, president of the journeymen'’s. union, W' Brown, William Thompson and Peter Heller, The question of the number of ap- prentices to be employed was discussed and the fecling secmed to be -unanimous in favor ‘of about one apprentice to four journeymen. On ' the ~question of wages for journeymen, the: figures sought were those -which have obtained—namely, #3.50 and # forplumbers and #3.50 for gas and steani fitters. This . question; however, was not determined upon and probably will not beuntil the'meeting®of the MasterPlumb- ers' ‘associstion next Wednesday afternoon. Hoth masters and journesmen seem to_be of ‘committee, | the sume mind on the rate o be fHE OMAHMA DAILY BEK: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1888, THE ROLL OF HONOR. —_— Those who Have Recognized Courage and Devotion. . LOTE ROYCR FUSD, Previously reported .. Corinne Poissant list......... Chatauqua Literary and Scientific circle, of Sidney and Fort Sidney. Harry Hudson, = Totaliieiuiiee voviiininnn LENA WOERBECKE Fi Previously reported. . . Pythagoras lodge 59, K. of P Pupils Cedar Rapids, Ia. Corinne Poissant's list Chatauqua Laterary circle, Harry ney, Falls City schoo! Ball at Central City Total.. MINNIE FREEMA Previously reported. ... Harry Hudson, U. S. A, Falls City schools. ... Total.. Total to date........ BTTA SHATTUCK FUND. Total to date.... The “Bee" Fund. The present condition of the funds opened by the BeE is as follows Loie Royce fund..... Lena Woebbecke fund Minnie Freeman fund Etta Shattuck fund Westphalen monume: Grandtotal.... . lastern Friends. Hon. James R. Kenney, mayor of the city of Reading, Pa., has sent _the Bee $115.86 for the benefit of Miss Loie” Royce. This is the contribution of the good people of Read- ing and was collected by Miss Ella Burk- hoider of that city. The kind_interest Miss Burkholder has manifested in this worthy causo will be thoroughly. appreciated by the people of Nebraska and by none more than the brave beneficiary. The generosity of the citizens of the prosperous Pennsylvania_city is deserving of special mention and to these and the energetic young lady the BEE ton- ders the thauks of cMiss Royce's Nebraska friends. for Aid. ~To the Editor of the ice Miss Etta Shattuck was first founa in her deplorable condition the hearts of a sympathetic people have gone out to the sufferers of that remarkable storm. Thous- ands of dollars were contributed to her re- lief. now an object of charity, would it not be wise to transfer some of the fund now being sent in, to some worthy person who was a sufferer of that same storm? We have in Wheeler county a family left fatherless by that blizard, They are in absolute destitu- tion. Edward Harkins, on the evening of the 12th of January, started from his house to his stable for the purpose of getting hay with which to make a fire (they burned hay for fuel). He was lost and drifted about three miles from his home, where his body was found two weeks after- ward. He was a soldier and drew a small pen- sion for disability incurred while in line of duty. This, a8 his widow has been in- formed by the department, wilk be stopped. She will bo entitled to nothing from the gov- ernment, As 1said before, the family are destitute, and are depending upon the charity of the neighbors for support. Iam proud to say that through my efforts about $i0 were raised for Miss Shattuck in O'Neull, and as one instrumental in raismg the Shattuck fund I would like to see a portion of the fund transferred to the Harkins fund. We invite the most rigid inspection in this matter, and believe that no more worthy ob- ject could be found in tie sta E.J. Lerie, New York Friends. Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 22.—To the Editor of the Bee: In common with thousands of others I have been interested in the accounts of the heroic actions of the Nebraska young women who suffered so much to save the children in their schools, when the terrible snow storm came on them from the frigid northwest. Glad you have started the ball to raise money for them. Enclosed find my mite for the cause. Lread the account in the BeE to a neigh- bor of minc, Miss M. L. Wagner, who for over fifty years has been a teacher of paint- ing, and who with her brother, Daniel Wag- ner, just deceased, at the age of eighty- in Albany, Washirgton and Boston painte the portraits of Webster, Van Buren, Fill- more_and scores of congressmen and public men in aciive life forty or fifty vears ago. Knowing she had little ‘money, but quite a house fuil of pictures, I asked’ her how she would like to send a picture to the Omaha Be, to be sold for the benefit of the teach- ers. Sheat once replied: ‘“Ishould be de- lighted to doso, and am very glad you spoke of it.” She then selected the one I'send you, a western scene, she sketched when out there. *“Head of Lake De Neview," near Fond Du Lac, Wis. Messrs, ‘Whitcomb and Dunham, kindly consented to frame it, George Aldrich to make the ship- ping box and the National express company to transport it tree to Omaba. Please take such mcasuresas you deem best 1o exhibit the same and sell for the most money possible, the proceeds o be div think best in view of the hers and the amounts ulr Such thoughtful provision for their pupils, such_self-denying love and heroic effort. to save their children, call forth our heartfelt thanks; and our commendations should be manifested by something more tangible than mere words. I rejoice that your call has been 5o liberally responded to. 1 shall ever feel an interest in anything relating to Nebraska, formerly for 0 many years my home. WiLLIAM L. PRABODY. e FIRE AND POLICE AFFAIRS, A Lot of iscellancous Business Transacted. The boatd of Fire and Police Commis- sioners met Monday evening. Officer Pat Hinchey was granted fifteen days leave of absence Kate Bell made a sworn statement against Officer Brady, charging him with frequent- ing the Bank’s block, and consorting with lewd women. She told some ugly stories about the gay capper. The resignation of Ed Galligan, the chem- ical engine pipeman, was accepted, The Salvation army petitioned for the ap- pointment of two special officers to maintain order at their meetings, I The vete n surgeon's report submit- ted. It showed that he received 8354.53 for services in 1558, The mayor made & recom- mendation that ho be employed at a fixed Referred. George Blake, fireman, idl e thirty-five days i while in the a half pay. cations for police appoint- 1d placed on fil Several appl ments received Chief of the Fire Department ommended that £2,000 insuran the fire alarm system. Referred committee on property. Chief of Police Seavey requested’ the ap- pointment of sixteen new wmen by April 1, and that five saddle horses for five men for mounted patrol service, Referred to finance committ Compla against Oficer Cusick, for drunkeuness, referred —— A Policeman’s Lot Not a Happy C . He must report atthe station precisely at 7 o'clock, then march to his beat and walk twelve hours with only a half hour for din- ner. - He must speak to no one unless to an- swer questions, - Is supposed to know every stranger who comes into town, male or fe- male, in fact is supposed to be & walking di- rectory. "He must be vorrect and polite to-all. 1f thirsty aud. wants a- drink of water, he must sneak around to some one’s back door ...84,80 88 of .8 a1 8 108 ...84764 05 But inasmuch as Miss Shattuck is not.| to get it: if ho is seon he is raported at head- quarters as drunk or off his beat. If fortun- ateenough to have his beat on tne street that he lives on he ean go home, swallow his din- ner like a hungry dog and hurry back. not e must go to a restaurant where his din- ner will cost him from 25 to 50 cents. He must have two suits of clotnes a year and three hats: he must keep them looking clean and tidy all the time. If there is a spot on them he is told that he is all beer dripping, even though he has not tasted beer in a year. His exnenses per month are as follows, on an average Uniforms. House rent, Dinners ut r rants Expenses of family at b his family need must got them tho best w 3 1f there is ood citizen who can tell how a policoman can live and support his funuly on that salary please report it through the Bk and oblige, A FRIEND OF THE POLICE. el THE COWBOY IN REALITY. One of the Number Gives His Esti- mate of the Cla: ECKLEY, Col., Feb. 24.—To the Editor of the Ber: I rotice in the BEE of February 22 an article entitled, “The Cowboy of Reality.” I have no doubt that the author of this very interesting sketch was sincere in all his assertions, yet it must be suid that his experience with the class of which he writes has certainly been limited. The statement of the cost of a cow- boy's outfit is erroncous. Instead of a saddle costing 8125, tho best can be pu chased for 845 or 850; a Navajo Indian blanket costs about $9; the best sixteen- ounce duck tarpaulin can be purchased for 81 per yard, long measure; a steel bit for $3.50. The writer states a ranch is made of hewn hogs. In all my expericnce I have never seen one mode of log. They are made of sod in all parts of this country and of ‘“‘dobys” i Texas and Mexico. ‘‘Dobys” are a kiud of brick not burned. The writer was correct in his estimate of the “‘dime museum cowboy.” Of course there are some who come from the east, who are of no value in effete society, and of con- siderable less worth on the plain, who come out here and after a short resi~ dence consider themselves ‘‘bad men,” shoot a hole in theair and hasten east to tell of it. In regard to shooting a steer for running at a horse, no man but a “‘tender foot” wilfdo it. A good foreman would discharge such a man at once. A man must be made of wood who is mounted on a good *‘cow horse,” with twogood spurs and one shot-londed squirt, who will let his horse stand while he pulls his six shooter and kills he steer. No! Thev ma **hit the road™ in a hurry if spurs and quirt can do it. The only time asixshoot- er is needed is when they want a beef to eat or sometimes if a man is thrown from the saddle and his foot catches in the stirrup, and his companions can not catch the ‘mrw. then the animal is shot in order to prevent the fallen rider from being dragged to death. In ‘regard to the revolver of course if there were hostile Indians in the country the cow- boy cleans up the six shooter he bought when he was a “tender foot™ and carries it for a little while. By the way there are more pistols under the coat tails of city men, if [ dare say ten to one than among cowboys, and as to a cowboy hav- ing astring of horses of from eight to fif- teen in this country and in Texas they have from five to eight (never over cight) and branding calves! Why they have no mercy on a calf!! T have known eight to be Kkilled in two hours. They run after the little ke that horse ellow at full speed throw a rope (gen- erally over his head) but draw it up on his heels and bring him to a dead ston, I's then drag him (accor to how mad the cowbay is) as to spe Let me as- sure you if a.cowboy is through his sum- mer work and doesn't need the horse any more, he will “grease” hisback with the end of the bridle and say: ‘‘See you again next spring,” “‘pound up a_little wood,” **go in ranch, cook his shins,” and watch those range cattle roum up and down the riyer hunting for a drink and not even cut a hole in the_ice for them nor skin the dead one for his hide except when he wants a little to make a rawhide rope or a quirt. I have scen nine head of cattle stick in mire, in sight of a ranch, where ten or twelve cowboys were toasting their shins and all of the number were blind to the animals’ sad plight. After summing up all his failings and giving him credit for all his virtues it remains as an established fact thaw'‘the cowboy in reality” has no love for work and will perform his allotted task and no more. I have been among them for the past five years and know whereof I speak. JAMES A, PORTIE. AP Lo Ly Grant in Peace. Thiswork takes up <General Grant's carcer at the point where it was left off in his own memoi well as in Gen- eral Badeau’s Military History—that is, > of the war, and the surren- General Badeau, well known as mili- tary secretary, aide-de-camp aund the close and confidential friend of the hero for twenty years, has all those qualifications that eminently fit him to write this book. He brings to the work literary cultivation of a high order; a style animated, picturesque and - quent; enthusiasm for his subject; and he enjoys facilities for its execution un- surpussed by any man in the country. 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