Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —— - TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. (] g 1 g 8 wd- ily (Morning Bdition) including 8 R he Omnha :T.'y ik, mailed to any Aress, 016 YOAT,........co.....oo.ooni. 200 OMANA Orrion, NOS.ITAARD 010 PARNAM STREET New Yonk ov;un. ROOMS 14 AND 16 TRIBUN TLDING. AsrINGTON OFFIcR, NO. B) URTEENTH BTRERT. CORRESPONDENCE. 4¢0k 1t communications relating to news and ed m‘ ll msi:':r“lhould be Mmrfi‘lefl to the EptToR e BER. il B?B]N“ LRTTRRS. ness letters and remittances should be to QW Bre PUBLISHING COMPANY, " X i 1 AVIA. tofios orders t6 Dra checks an R SCTbNe G L6 DO Tof Toh The Boo Publishing Company. Proprictors . ROSEWATER, Editor. _——— THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Olrculation, State of Nebrask it ko, 8.0 U M ey e B e the Dally Biee for the- week March . Tese, was as follow: company. Average. .. “GRO. Bworn to and subsgeribed in my_ 10th day of March, A. D;, 1888, b ite of Nebraska, ufiuu( of Dougihss, 88 1 'l'filtbl‘"flz:.li being first dfllyomt '?:.' ) says that he é , that the ave: -G SCpepy, i, P Lo of, Mateh, Ui 14U copien, for AF_}. ! e T y 14 . 2 coplesy for ‘Suhe, ‘i, 140 coples; v July, 187, 14008 coples: for Augus - 1887, 14,161 copes; ' for @mber, 1887, 14,3 v October, 1861, 14,8; for November, 22 coples; for Decembor, 1887, 16,041 coples;” -for January, 1888, 16,208 'copies; :for e Fobruary, 1868, 16,609 coples, . B, 'I'BCHU(,‘W. % Bvorn and .umnmflu my noe this « ° - Bd day of February, A. D1k, r{‘ P. FEIL, N Notary Pubile, ... THE best way to.advertise Omuha is to . . ' rid the city of tax-eaters, reduce taxes, . andfoster enterprises. that ‘will give workingmen steady emplogment. s o ———— ON. good - authority ef the seconds, ghe hair' pulling match betwésn the ; two feimale clerks in the interior de- ° partment at Washington has been de~ © elareda “draw.” - o i +JUDGE DUNDY is a very handy man . for'the railroads. If the raitcoad man- . agers should gsk . him to enjoin & dog 4 . fromDbirking st g passing locomotive he . would grant a restraining-order: & . Tae western roads are going back. to . - the old schedule rates within bwb weeks. * _Perhaps that telegram. to the inter- « _state commigsion asking it to- postponie ' e indefinitely its visit to- Omaha ought to . ‘WiTH Moroceo maktréating Awerican | . ‘citizens, England gobbling up. Ven: .+ . ewuels, Canadw.dissatisfied with the .+ fisherjos treaty and.John L. Sulfivan | arrested in Fraiico, the -nayy . depart~ | ént ought -to be polishing up its big ‘guus for action. * QL i ; Sty ] « -+«IN" view of the Kilrain-Smith fiasco #nd vhe recent Sullivan-Mitelisll hippo+ ** drome, oomngress and partiament should * ; ‘immediately appoint auv international . -prize-ring commission to put slugging . ' msisslugging on its féot again. Let the war cry be, “I'wo draws: i succes- " sion is too much.” 3 N Sttty | SENATOR SHERVIN .objects ‘to hold- ing the democratic . state convention'in Omaha on account of : the quality of its water. In behalf of our -democratic ** Yriends we assure Mr. Shervin. that no . ' water will bé drunk by any good démo- erat when the convention takes place. | CE———— . "THERE are any number of assoclations .. I Omaha formed for the ostensible pur- 3 peso of adverttsing the city. But upte i3 ' the present time the only way new mer- eantile and manufacturiig instttutions .. have been invited to the city has been B 2 assessing members for initiation 7 0s. . E—— < © " A LARGE quantity of rotten brick, it 48 claimed, has heen used in' construct- i ing the lower end of the Jones street " . sewer. If a thorough inspection of other # public works through the city were ¢ . made,noend of.rotten work would be . " found for which thie taxpayers paid the full value of good work. Jupae DUNDY’s bull against the comet has had some effect at last. A " - car load of whisky that had been stand- ing in the Union Pacifie yards at Lin- coln for several days has been switched by the rebellious engine. men and for- - ' . warded to points where the armed mer- cenaries recently imported into Ne- B, braska by the Burlington meed brac- ing up. —— k. GOVERNOR LARRABEE of Iowa exhib- ited a commendable solicitude for the interests of the people of thatstate, which have suffered serious injury in consequence of the Burlington strike, in presenting the situation to the atten- tion of the president of ‘the' Burlington road and appealing to him to make every possible effort to fome to an un- derstanding with the strikers. This appeal of the governor, and his sugges- tion that recourse be had to arbitration unless a settlement is soon reached in b some other way, oaght to have some in- 8 ‘fluence upon thie Burlington officials, but it cannot be regarded as certain ke that-it will have, The spirit- that has thus far obviously dominated the course . -of these officials has plainly shown' that he “hey have no thought of thé publicig- terests and no care for the obligations' of the corporation as a common earrier, It is havdly to be expected, therefore, that the representations and the appoal of the governor will have any effect to change or modify this spirit, and that in order to carry out the evident desigu of crushing the brotherhood these offi- eials are prepared to continue iudefi- ~ ™nitely the injury their policy is inflict- ing upon the people of the states through which the Burlington system passes. It is singular that these mana- & gers do not see that their course is strengthening - the popular conviction ‘that the railroads must be subjected to i Targer control and regulation than is provided by existing laws, and that they are furnishing the needed arguments basten this consummation. “national prosperity. .| the governthen 1 .toward subjecting these ‘public earrie A Public Necessity. ngton steike lsdigacting pub- more earnestly than ever to the nocessity of some general mathpd or regulation that shall protect the public from the injury of railroad strikes, and partienlarly from the dan- ger of a widespread conflict that would paralyze the commerce of the whole country. The SRR hasalreadyexpressed the opinion that legislation to accom- plish this, operating as a restraint upon both the corporations and their em- ployes, must be had sooner or later,and we find this view to be widely enter- tained. The Chicago ZTribun¢ rofers to the matter as follows: Something must be done to protect the publio from the injury - inflicted by railroad strikes and blockades. A method to compel the arbitration and peaceful settlement of dificulties between the railroads and their employes has become o public necessity. The subject iseurrounded with great difficulty, since it is altogether out of the question to cequire men to contintie at work against. their will or to prevent them from leaving their employment. in a body if they sec fit, al- though a blockade of comimerce would inevit- ably follow. Perhaps the best suggestion yet made is that the government should license railroad employes and retain power to revoke licenses whenever an attempt is made to blockade a public railroad highway as A means to enforce compliance with ~ personal demands.© Under - such a systom the government could provide the means to settle all grievances by arbitration, and if employes refused to abide by such do- terminations thev could only be regarded ns resigning their situations with a view to seok some employment not affected with a publio interest and not sabjoct to the re- quirements of a governmeut license. Al governments have such rules . and -‘regula- tions regarding persons employed. in naviga: tion, and there is mo reagon why cnual con- trol should not be exercised over transporta- tion by rail, Unflt persons shonld be ex: cJuded from the service, prompt redress pro- vided for grievances, and the licensed em- ployes held to the exercise of the fidelity the public welfare demands. - What better plan 1 ' can be suggested? A There_can - be no' question that cons @resy has ample power to enact laws de- fining ' the “duties-of public iers to their pstrons and dstablishing . condi: tlons for the governmant of &l persons indispengible to the:-efficient perform- ance of the functigns of public carriers, The power and duty of congvess to con- | trol the'aperation of pubhic . carriers iy emhodicd in the provisign. of” the con- stitution Wwhigh vests it ‘with suthor ity to regulite.comnterce botwern the A8, s woll a5 thevlause whith males ‘it the duty of’ congress “ta. ‘provide for the general welfare. " But before. the . national ‘legislature attompts“to deal _with this prodlemn, ‘it must define the re Jations between ' thd chartered public highways known' s railroads and thé public in whoso service thay: are opé- rated: ‘It must cleéar away ‘wije rubbish which hgs been heaped up by railway’ attorneys ‘againgt ‘governmerrt. control” .of railigads, and treat these railroads .as.channels of commerce‘whose ipinter< rupted and. efficient operation is vital to Us to this tiae the ratiroad magrstes have resisted an@ Gbstrueted every step thas taken iointerfore to its contiol, in the inferest of the peo- ple; . But thé couuntry can Ro longer af- | ford:" to - dllow. ' its ~ welfure to= be jeopardized by -wars. between wail- voad . owners - and employs.’ The issuo ‘must'sooner or later. be met, and it may as well bé' met now.- Engineers, train dispatchers, tolegraph operators, and ofher- skilled employes necessary for the efficient operation of railroads must be placed on & footing that will protect thie public against periodic traf- fic blockades &nd insure the safety . and ocomfort of passengers. This can be done only by . placing ‘the’ railroads undet strict regulation’ with regard to . thé’ solaction’ of these skilled clasdes, whose rotention should. be assured during good behavier. On the ethér hand strict régulations should be enacted re- garding the conduct of this class of employes, wid individual responsibility established . for wilful obstructions of traffic. In other words, railrona engin- e¢rs, train dispatehers, and railway telégraph men should be placed on a ciyil service footiig, under governmen- tal supervision with regard to compet- ency and general fitness for their work. All aifferences arising between the railroad companies and their employes should be adjusted by arbitration, in which both parties should -have equal voice, and from whose decision there should be rio appeal. ————— Democratic Revenue Reduction, The bugbear of ‘the surplus. will' be very rapidly disposed of 1f the projects of the democratic committée on ways and means in the hause are carried out by congress. With $27,000,000 lost through additions to the free list and a scaling dowu of the duties on sugar and molnsses, and $25,000,000 move through a reduction of internal fevenue taxes, a large slice will be taken out of the tréasury surplus. The people of tho west generally and a reduction in tadiff duties, They will -view with no alarm the proposition to deduct from the enormous duties placed on iron and steel in order to reduce the surplus of the Bessemer steel ring and the open hearth combine. In the main the additions made to the free list will meet with their @pproval, with the sole exception of the removal of all elasses of wool from the protected schedules. They will concern them- selves less'with manufaotured materials, other than those which enter into their daily consumption, their prime concern being that. the pegessaries of life shall. be chegpened. To the people. of the ‘west the fact that there is & sur- plus in the national treasury is nota cause of so much alarm as the fact that theve {s & vacuum in theirown"pockets. The interngl revenue taw cut will not appeal to them half as strongly us the cut in the duties on sugar, on salt and on lumber, Scaling down the internal revenue taxes meaus litile or no relief to the people at large. It1ssimply s slice taken out of the revenuwe which does not velieve to any appreviable ex- tent the consuming public. ‘When the special taxes and license fees are abol- ished, us-proposed by the bill, the manu- facturers aud dealers’ will chiefly reap the benefit. Tobaccowill probably cost as much to the small consumer as it did be- fore the taxes were taken oft. This ‘essary commodities, the acquisition - destruction of ‘competitive properties,. | | truat. was the onse in 1883, when the tax on manufactured tobacco and cigars was reduced one-half. The only effect was an inoveasod profit to the manufacturer and jobber. So far as can be ascer- tained neither the tobacco raisers mot the purchasers at retail reaped any cor- responding benefit. The new internal revenue bill which is now pending in the house seems to have been drafted largely in the interests of southern moonshiners, What the people of the country de- mand is that reduction of the surplus shall go hand in hand with reduetion in the cost of living. The tariff taxes af- fect directly and indirectly every con- sumer of the 63,000,000 which populate the country, To materially reduce the tax on whisky and to leave untouched those which make food and clothing and living more expensive will not meet the requirements of the people. As long a¢ the annual national cost grow- ing out of ‘the war of the rebellion amounts to nearly $125,000,000 the com- modities upon which the internal reve- nue tax is placod ‘may as well béar a large provortion of the taxation neces- sary fo meet it. = The argument that in- ternal . revenue taxes are war taxes is fully met by the reply that the exvenses connected with the war are still ac- oruing. An extension of the frea list is the true remedy for the dangers of a treas- ury surplus, L ____] The Trust Investigation. The committee of the New York sen- ate which has been investigating ““trusts” has reported, The committee seems to huye made fow new discoveries, but it formulates very tersely what the public has already. known—that trusts are simply combinations inimical ta the public welfare, as leading to- the anni- hilation of competition- and ‘to the.ar- ‘bitrary fixing of pricds, ‘ Howsverdiffer- ent thre.influences wirich give zise. to these.oombinations may be,” says the’ report, ‘the.main purpose and manages: ment and effect of all ipon the publig is the same, to-wit, - the. gggregation of ‘capital, the power .of controllitig the ‘manutacture and output 6f various nec- 2 all leading fo the final and conclusive purposes’ of annihilating “competition 1 and ‘dnabling the ‘cambinations to1ix the DHBEiRles "w'n'x(‘.‘h they welald sell. . .the ' manufactured - product. t0-.. the . censumer. In .any. event the.public at-ench end of the industry-—: the producer and consumer—is, ‘and is intended to be, in a certain: setise; at the’ morcy of the syndicate, sombja ation ox, While doubting the poy rof the New York legislatuve - to interfere with the largest and most dangerous of these combiuations. of cppitad, the committee holdsthat several of those. which it hae heen -investigating - are “clearly- within the jurisdictron of ‘the state.” It accord- ingly recommends. that . suib.- shail ‘be Anstituted@ by the attorney ' geneial [ against such of the ‘trusts as are amen- _able to the state law.. What the remedy- is after’ suit hasbeen instituted tho eom- -mittee fails clearly fo state. Forfeituro of charter is suggosted, but shere is no. agsurance that 'the satme -intereats, undér - pther namé: against the public inferests. ' The cry- ing neeéd tn the interestsof the public is alaw making ‘such combinations oon- spiracies against the people and punish- able by fine and imprisonment. If the combination of . ‘a few hundred working= men to raise thé price of Jabor is illegal and dangerous and - subjectto tho gen- eral ‘law: of conspiracy, certaialy the combination of millionaires to incrense the priée of the necessaries of life should be equally punishable hy statute. There s one good -effect which the thoreugh discission ‘given by the press to these unlawful -corhbinations- has se- cured and that is an. awakening of pub- lic sentiment to the mecessity of indi- vidual action by the statesin répressing such unlawful = combinations ~without awaiting ~ the - dilatory ‘action of cangress. in enacting’ .a. general law which will cover.all such cases. Now * York bas takén the inittative, 8§ wad proper in a state which is either the headquarters or the campaign field for the large majority of these octopl of capital. Other states should not -be backward in following her example. There can be no question as to the right of the states to' regulate such aggrega- tions of individuals acting within the state lines, whether incorperated under state law or not, but there will certainly be & question raised in congress as to the constitutional right of the national government to regulate private corpo- rations within the states. Welldevised and carefully considered laws defining commercial conspivacy and providing heavy punishments for the conspirators of trade, should be passed in every state in the union: Such a combined assault, upon this ngw and most dangerous form which. corporate fonopoly has assumed would goon scoteh. the monste — Simpler Methods Requived, The report of Senator Cockrell, chairs man of the special committee of the senate which, since the last session, has been investigating the methods ‘of do- ing business in the .executive depart- ments of the government, will disclose to the American people' what the great majority of them have not been aware of, that the businéss methods of their government are more complicated, and involve more of what is technically known as*‘red tape,” than those of any other government in the world ‘except, perhaps, that of Great .Brifain, It was suppesed when the commit- tee was appointed that its work dould be . easily ‘completed in two or thiree mpnths, but instead of Jhis nearly o year was required to prose- cute a thorough investigation and a voluue of almost three hundred printed pages was necessary-to tell the result, Among the many interesting facts de- veloped it was. found that there is.no counection of burcau with bureau, divi sion with division, in respect to any single item of business. In tracing a fow items, selected as specimens, from initiation to completion, the $ourse pur~ sued was found so complex as to be almost bewildering. Other cases showed, in the language of the report, *farcial routine examinations, certifica- cannot - combine tion ,&utrles,mfl”nnmn. tape ad nauseam,” ., A striking ox- ample was dimlofidfi the fact that in the second auditow’s office the clerks, instead of rehrrtfl{ ‘zur desired infor- mation to the records of the office, write thousands of letters to.obtain such infor- mation to the quartermaster general's office. The chaotlt eondition of busi- ness in the gefural land office is charged to the ld¢k of plain, dorrect business methods, , {n, consequence of which information that should be read- ily accessible is to be obtained only with great cost of time andl labor. Numer- ous faults wero fond to exist in the practicos of this office which have neither warrant of law nor ¢an be justi- fled as sound business prineiples. The methods in ‘the patent office’ are also capable of improvement, and, in short, this is the case with every department and bureau. At the suggestion of the committee the secretary of the treasury and the woretary of war, in whose departments the business methods most require re- iorming, will appoint commissions to ascertain wherein reforms are practi~ cable and how needless routine can be avoided. Very likely the heads of other departments will also make an effort to find out how the methods of business under their control can be sim- plified and improved. A certain amount of “red tape” may be mecessary, in order that required checks and safe- guards may be maintained; but it is evident that there is now a gréat excess ‘of this, and the effect is not ‘only to . delay and compli- cate the transaction of public business, but to.require & great many more people for ita discharge than wauld otherwise be necessary. It is not questienable that the vast civil' list of the govern- ment could be very materially redueed, saving. a [arge annusl expenditure, if -plain, terrect, and. still entirely safe and effficlent methods of transaeting the ‘busiriess of the.government were to dis- place.the complex systém. now in - gen- eral pr would also. bavery much to the publi¢ advantage in expediting busingss. The neqessity of impirovément having been clearly pointed oit, theekpoctation that it will be degomplished ought: not-to be in‘vain, . v a0, e Y : e - CoNTRACLORS. for city _work - think: that they aré very much abused When the boatd of, public’ works.calls.them'to “tastcfor neglecting, to . finish in March what they contracted 'to' complete the middle of Ostober., i3 not to be wondered at. . ‘A varg time, whenevér the .Board ‘of .public ‘works' complainy of' bad faith'on the: park of contractors. S¢; thit when the ehairman of the board tlivéatens’ to annil tho contract and “finish fhe work at the cqntmctpugfluxponse-, ‘they look upon the- board’s "wétion : as mere blow ference. > .. R .BoME of the ‘councilmon. are talking about inviting new plans for a city hally and - let¥ing -tha work out. by the day. What do they “want’ with new plans? Are not tho plans already adopted good enough, and will not the-structure .‘be commodious eriough for all thelr wants? Whay senise is-there in spending thous- ands of dollars: for plans; delaying the work for months, and then tearing up the basement for which the city has puid out and is to pay oat.vver $30,0007 v ee—————— BTATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Schuyler. is the hay market of the state. ¥ aid blugter, and’ Teel hurt.at the inter- Waterworks wili.be among the spring . | improvements in Broken Bow. The . Methodiats of Dayid® City are planning to build-a 87,000 church. The measure of Broken Bow has been taken for a city of ‘the second class. Twenty eriminals ave buoked for trial at the presént term of court at Broken Bow, The new Clarendon hotel at Fairmont will ‘be dedicated with abanquet ‘and ball next weel:. The. total membership of the Ne- braska G. A, R. is 3,422, an’ increase of 1,475 laat yoar; Theé Hastings branch of the Tlkhorn Valley road is to be extendeéd to Superior, Nuckolls county. i To - anxious -democrats: - Marshal Bierbower’s official demrse is booked for May next. - Go it, Ireland; go it, Bear. Visions of a stone depot flourish and grow in Sidney with. the: progress in ;:’on;;rusu of the Union Pacific funding ill. The North Bend Flail is shouting lusily . for . H. Van Wyck for presi- dent and, Susan B. Anthony for vice- president.” The town of Whitney is anxious to sopure i cresmery to handle the pro- duct of 500, A liberal bonus awaits the right man. Brownville advertises for a physician a dentist, a drug store and a grain and hog buyer. Such.a combination would make cemeterios yawn. The divectors of the Fremont foundry and maoching shops declared a ' dividend cent and decided to increase 1 stock to-#80,000. David City proposes to build a §10,000 school this season, This,with two ward schools, will accommodate the rising generation for a yearor two. The people of Holdkege, like those of Nelson, repudiate thig iresolutions of sympathy with the Burlington sent-out by the rdilroad agents at that point. “The festive burgladig getting ‘in his work at' Nebraska City. = A -house was entered Wednesday and” a gold watch valued at $130 and all the silver plate taken, . Wymore 18 alrendyh‘ paring to cele- hrate her seventh bir y anniversary on May 21. Oratiou®) ‘parades, shamn battles und camp fires are among the features of the picnie. W. G. Albright, the Omaha real - es- tate rustler, has flooded the state with maps, deseriptions and statistics of the marvelous growth of the metropolis and has harvested *a large cropof compli- mentary notices from the country press. “Fhe stereotyped lie,” says the Nuck- olls County Journal, *'that’ is ‘daily re- peated hundreds of times over some telegraph lines that the B. & M. pas- senger and freight trains are running regularly as of .0ld, is too absurd and _barefaced for any one .to belieye ' that knows anything at all about the irregu- larity of the mails alonie, much less the appoarabce-of a freight train since the strike be gan.” Louis . Spear, an experienced’ torch bearer of democracy, in Fremont has disappeared in asputtering halo. There acticd with the departmpnts, and. .there cin be.np :doubt that the reform raccommodating - city eouncil stands by dontractors every: are strong indications of irregularities in his mnfimentui the office of dis- triot court clerk which position he h::fl up te the first of the year, and it is fea: that the commotion eaused by his de- rture will waft him over the lakes. rocessions will be few and feeble in Fremont the coming fall, There isa young couple In Spring- fleld who have been martied about four and one-half years and have three children. The husband has left his family three times, and each time the wife has sold their goods and returned to her varents, taking back her spouse every time he has returned, and help- ing refurnishing. Furthermore, she has left him twice, when he in turn sold their common possessions. They are now living together again as if nothing had occurred out of the usual way. - Towa 1tems. Keokuk’s packing houses have ceased operations. There are only thirteen women in the Anamosa penitentiary. There arve only fifteen marriageable men in both houses of the Towa legisla~ ture. A gpecial agent of the treasury de- rtment seized eleven head of fine looded horses at DeWitt; Thursday. They had been imported from Canada and paid no duty. ‘Work on Marshalltown's Fu well has | commenced again and will be prose- cuted day and night until gas, petro- leum or at least pure drinking water has been struck. Sioux City has gone ome higher and taken terith place among pork packing cities for the winter season with a rec- ord of 190,000 against 87,720 last year. There is a reduction of 615,000 hogs from the entire nomber packed in 1887, The new patent anti-bogus self-stuff- ing ballot boxes were uséd.at the elec- tion in Burlington last- Monday and worked - very. nicely. . Being mmde. of lass, edch voter is enabled to see his 1lot o down into the box, and at the same time the number of ballots depos- ited is registered. The device.1s very neat, but hardly attractive enough to coax.$100-out of the:city for seven baltot boxes. » 3 v § o Dakgta. S s Sioux Falls is tohave a plow factory: The Norwegian college is'an agsured .thing for Sioux. Fatls. Two Chinamen fought- to a finish. at Deadwood Saturday night. Ouve lsed an sx and’ thé other his teeth, The ax mén won the fightand paid costs. A’man. has been found at Cavour who- istoo lazy to pick up a.$18 gold plece from the sidewall. foi' fear he will have Yo oxert:himsalt sn et 4t chanpsd, - Six men ivers arrested in Custer coun- ty Wednegday for stealing -cattle. The belonging to séveral “cattlé’ companips and disposing of. the meat. J : A father .and’ son named Olsen werb ‘devoured, by wolves near New Rockford Wednesday, The twb unfortunate aten started to a haystack some ten rods from ‘the_house. to shovel path ‘ around . the stack, when ‘they were surrounded b, ‘wolves and literally eaten alive. - b ———— The Mirvels of Teloegraphy. The San Franciscp Call says: One of tho.marvals of telegraphy was fully dee monstrated last Sunday moraing, when operatdrs in the Western Union office in thiscity ' carried on an interesting -conversation over. hill and dale;. siountaius capped with snow, vallgys of perennial ‘greem, under. the ‘Atlanti¢ ocenn with 1ts unéxplored: se- vrets, over-the, vine-clad regions of Ku- rope .and under . the Meditérrancan: The time was threeo'clock in the morn- ing, just after o heavy- night's work, | “good night' having been -veceived on the last press ‘dispateh:’ The: dramatis personm were three pperators, and the way the affair came about was as fol- wss “Chief-<All cléar... Have you a tigar, Bob? Bob-You bet; but T'll keep it. Chief—Yon will? - Who are you work- ing with, Tom? Tom—Chicago.,- I've old ‘Rox hero. He’s going to turn on - fhe cable office, and by the mortal Frost-I'll speak with Valentia or bust,. .“Co, Co, Co,Cn,” rattled off the sounds;and *‘L, I, I, Co,” came in tesponso. 0 “There is the cable office,” suid 'the Chicago opérator, ‘“‘go for him, old fel- low.” Ta Valentia—Let us now, plense—Tor Bay. Valentia to London — Hore is San Francisco,. Cal,, .who wante to #peak with you, Tor Bay '{s dping the cable translations, 3 London to. San Franéisco—Delighted to meet you ' by the wire. It is. just striking noon by St. Paul’s. clovk, and very foggy, as usual. How is. the weather there? 2 “Thisis wonderful,” responded’ San Francisco. ‘It is 4:30 o'clock standard time here, and not yet daylight. We receive many cables from Londun, but never had the pleasore of meeting you before. Any Americans there? It is raining slightly. There are plenty of nrushrooms on the hills; and the bulls will be selling violets on the ptrect corners to-tay.” have. London Were Explained. San Francisco Chroniclo: at the breakfast table. daughter had not- made ance., “Where's Hattio?” asked the father. ‘“Hattie’s not very well this morning, She has a ‘headache.” “Yes, pa, Hattie’s awful sick.” So spoke up the little brother. **What's the matter with her?” “T'don’t know. I don’t think she’s very ill,” said the mother. “Yes, she is—awful sick,” sald the boy, ‘'and I know what's the matter with her,” **What is it?” “List night she and George. Smith had an awful row and & fight.’ “What!© A fight., What do you menn?"’ 1 was asleep an’ I woke up, and’ they wad in the parlor down stairs, and he was awful mad. He was shoutin’.and sereamin’ and’ stampin’ and sho was cryin’ t6 him “to stop. An’ I creeped down stairs and peeped. through the keyhole, an’ lié was just givin’itto her, They were The eldest her appear- Then they quioted down an’ L'see htm | Jigv) kiss her. “This is terrible.” Has Hattie' said anything to you?” said father to mother. **Not a word.” Just thien Hattie made herappearance, languid and tived looking, **What’s this tronble between you and George?” Has he been ‘insulting ? Why didn’t you tell'me about it?"said the father. **About what?? Then they told ‘her thesmall boy’s story, She took the small boy by the ear, *You')ittle imp! -Why; pa, George is going to play “*Othello” at -th¢ amateur theatricals, and we wepe rehearsing thé jealousy.scene.” “Play soting jealousy already!” said the old ma “Why don’t yow wait till you're married, and you'll Fev the real hing more than you want?’ The small boy has come to the con- clusion that things. are pot what they. seem, and he'll find out before he :donkn wext time, He's very sorry about o intothe fire.” ‘aeysed. have boen killing beok cattio |\ One of th ‘over, :h rough'| SOME HATR:BREADTH ESCAPES Thrilling Adventures in the Gold and Silver Mines of the West. AN EXCITING ADVENTURE. A Miner Narrowly FEsoapes Being Buried Alive in a Caving Drift— An Experience ina Critmbes ling Siiver Mine. A correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, writing from Virginia City, Nev., says: Danger attends every kind of mining. Even in the early days, in the com- paratively shallow diggings of the Cali- fornia placer mines, there was mueh loss of life and limb in various ways. Men were caught under caving banks and flattened odt as a gopher under a dead fall; were mangled and killed by the premature explosion of blasts, crushed beneath rolling bowlder, were swept away through flusvies over rocky falls, and dumped dead and mangled into some roaring river, or were “nipped” by the legs in some deep ground sluice by a sudden fall or treacherous, soapy, slate rock from one-| of the side walls, and there held down #1l drowned. In the deep mines of the Comstock silver lode, and of similar great mineral veins in other places on. the Paoitic coast, the mote than. Egyptian dark- ness adds terror to the mnns dangers that must be encountered iu drifts and chambers that are from 1,000 to 3,000 feot below the surface of the -earth. Caves, explosesions and dead gases ex- tinguish all candles, aud must be braved in darkness. On ‘the surfove, under.the broad light of day, one may gea the dangers that threaten, and - im- agination does not add terror to the sit- uation, as it. i§ the case when one is hclglussl‘ groping.in the dark. I have {md a few experiences myself; .both in the gold minesof California and the silver mines of Nevada, that haunt me’ even to the. present time. They often rise fromthe pastat the moment when my eyes are just ¢losing in uch coveted sleep, and are ghosts that' will not down at-my bidding. ‘At times, too, thest ghosts uf dangers passed come'tq me in more vivid shape in my sleeping than in ‘my waking moments. I ipay; then, well gxclatn with Hamlet—T0 sleep: namlianga; toq ) 853, diierd's the rub.” LT COUT OFIHE FRYING PAN Ome of . the ghosts of experiences in the past that sometimes teme to me in dreams, and causés me to rend the mid-: night air with . howls, was a narrow es- .cape I onee had in “the. mines of €ali- fornia, nedr Placerville, © With half a | dozem partners I was engagedin nrining a'placer claim sitiated in. an -altitude 50 grent that water could nothe biouglt upon'the ground to & height that would filve sufficient " pressure for’ washing lown' the auriferous gravel by, hydraulio procese. We wors, therefore, obliged .to underming vhe high bank by digging under it at a level with ‘the bed-rocks with picks) u dangerous kind of work. In this particular claim fo.thus break down the gravel was more than -ordin-. arily .dangeérous.. -About three.feat -ahove the hed-roek there was a stratum of hard-pan .or eceménted gravel that was about; a8 hard ag iron. Thiscemoént | stratum was about two feet thicl, and did not readily give way;even when flie Joose %m’o‘l beneath it ‘had boen dug out. hen it did go,-it “was liable to break short off, when dewn would ¢ome @ great cave, reaching across the whole fucé-of the bank, and toits full height, about thirty feet. ¥ in order to get down lairge caves of earth we were in the habit of ‘cutting a shallow trench on’ the surface of the ground six oreight feet back of the face of the bank, making holes four-or. five deep in the trench, with ‘a drill, and then turning in water. 'This'generally ‘brought down the: bank .in a few min- utes, but sometimes. it failed.. “When the bank refused to cave some.one was oblifidd t0 return’ to dlggint; benetth the hard<pan. ‘Fhis was perilous busi- | ness. . A trustworthy man was sent above to keep' &' sharp lookout for the crwklng of ‘the‘ground:at the top of the bank, and to give the alarm fs soon as the smallest opening became visible. Ope day the bank stubbornly refused to cave.. Becoming impatient I sent oue of our best men above to watch,and then began digging under the towering, per- finndluulnr bluff. The loose gravel had een dug out so far buck that in order to get more of it out I ‘was obliged to lie flat on my breast and reach in with my piok until my head and ghoulders wore under the hard pan. While I was in this position there guddenly came from the mau above a terrific yell of: - *‘Look out! Look out!” The gry was u tered in such a fright- oned, unearthly tone that I kuew I had not a moment to lase. - Ileft my pick under the hard-pan and- was out and upon my feet in a flash. [.did not take time to run; I moved by jumps, spring- ing from both feet at once; I mado bound after bound. - Tho men “all de- clared afterward in. talking over the affair, that at-one time the top of the falling bank projected at least eight beyond my head. The next bound, however, carried. me from beneath it, At the same moment the bank fell be- hind me with a noise like a clap of thunder. The wind of the coneussion sent my cap flying fifty feet. . SWEPT ALONG WITH THE AVALANCIE, When the stratum of hard-pan gave way the whole face of the bank—a solid wall of earth and roeks thirty feetin height and nearly sixty feet in longth— foll forward in an unbroken mass, in a huge slab, hen this great. wall of earth, thou- sands of tons in weight, struck the firm ‘me ypon sy escape. D rand plaisir!” orfed he; ‘‘je. vous . ° Boms ke tavrts e e like an avalanche, This rush of loose em&\h caught me, took m: olfll my feet, and swopt me nlong & shallow ground sluico to » bedsrock shaft. This shaft was fifty feet in depth and connect ed with a nr*a tunnel below in which were our sluice boxes. There being a small river of water flowing down the ground slufce, the loose red earth was instantly dissolved, and reached the top of the shaft floating in a mighty rushing stream of this thin mud. Luckily my head had not gone under the mud, and, kaving the use of my eyes, I saw lying across the shaft a long iron bar used in handling large bouiders, Just as I, was descending to my death at the bottom of the shaft 1 threw forward bot® arms and caughi the bar under my armpite. This way n fortunate dash, but I was by no mean: saved, The rush of mud, water and rocks from behind _ pitched against my back and * logs, and o swung and swayed me that my hold on the bar was in'danger of be- ing torn loose. Reaching downward | caught with both hands and firmly grasped a strong leathern belt that was buckled about my waist, Naot satisflod with_ this I tried to get hold of the bi iron bar with my teeth, for in a flash saw all that was below me. I knew that if 1 were not killed by @ vertical dro) of fifty feet to the solid rook below, would be almost instantly pounded to death by the mud and rooks of that were tumbling down the shaft, some of the falling bowlders weighing 200 or 800 L):nmdl_. hen my 1limp and boneless ody would go out, Lhruwfih thosluices of the tunnel, and being dumped into a rocky ravine, would rol] and tumble over half a dozen perpendicular falls to be finally landed in @ roaring and foam~ creek below, All'this time there was a great com- motion -among my partners, and it is wot- & little curious that great as was my peril I'took note of every word that wad spoken. -One cried: “A vopel a rope! get a rope!” Another fmn&:flly yelled:. *“A pote! bring a poley” A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE, To these propositions I mentally. took exdeptions. either “vope nor pole Would do me. Ono of the men-was a French Cana~ undian and T heard him erying: *‘Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!. Cela .est bion mall Cela est terrible! Cela fait dresser les choveux sur la tete!” (It makes one’s ir stand on ends:) I' could -im how the little fellow.was dancing about while ‘thus wildly screaming, and was faintly anjused—that is would have been amuspd. had 1 not had more serious mat- fevs on ‘my mind at the moment. * Prog: a1 = heard by me: . Tt gaid: ‘‘Here, two o you, take hold of this plank’ and put it aeross the shuft;.then one of you—you, Bill Perkins--come.out upon it with mo * S Y"!.Iwulmuldon‘s and | . and ‘we’ll take him by hoist him out.aof that Jim Odell was - talking, That p!;m oy would do. -Lat onoe felt that I was safe “—almost telt as though already -landed oo the solid bedrock.’ . ! o After thé broad and strong’ plank was. laid across the.shaft it was the.work of :but'a'moment ¢o lift e from iny peril- .0us position. ¢ : Sias iRV “Whon T was -safély landed the Wittlo . .- Frenchmun was the first t6 congratulate i ‘‘Cela me' fait le lus elicitol—~jo vous felipite .de ‘toat mon coeur” oy with “‘all bis heart.” Littla did Piegre donard Theophile - Sylvestre they. think how soon it would be rhy ‘turn to wish him joy ‘‘de tout: man codbur.” x iy . The lookout man, too,had a narrow es-' cape up of'.the bank. wucvhiu{: for ‘a cfack to appear in the trench, the-earth oponed bo&\ a ppint whore ‘there was’ a clay seam— probably an old eatthquake erick—and the first he kiaw of it was when ho felt tho ground moving forward with him. He had uttered his umearthly warning ory to me whils onthe wing -for terra . firina—while leaping a cliasm nearly a yard in width. A day or two later T helped the littlo TFronchman out of a éavé of dug earth. Hoe was eaught- in a *‘rush’ of a cave that reached about one-third of tha way ugl',ho fuce of the back. Jim Odel and 1 had got his heud out of the dirt. when theie was- a cry. of *‘look. out!” and as we fell. back again another cave came. down. ‘Again Pierre was out of sight., We uncovered his head and whoulders, and thensectng another cave coming and one that would fall from the, topof the bank,- tried to haul him out by-the arms; but he screamed and de- clared that we were Killing him, Again came from the meh on watch the warn- ing cry of *‘look ouit!" and. for the third timd the Frenclimen was buried out of sight.- Soon, however, wo had his head clear. We were obliged.to dig down to the tops of his.boots before we could pull him out so firmly wis the carth packed about his feet. 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