Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 13, 1888, Page 4

23 PR < THE OMAHA DAILY BER: TUESDAY.BMARCH THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —— TERMS OF RUBSCRIPTION, Dafly (Morning Edition) including Sunda; ¥R, One Y oar ¥ Six Montin ‘or Three Month: o . » Omaha Sunday Bk, maiiod to any ad- dress, One Year.. “ie OMATA OFFIOR, NOSSUAND 016 FARNAM 8T W YORK OFFIOR, ROOMS 14 AND 15 THIB UTLDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. FourTeeNTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR ™e BEE. b BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be nddressed to THEe Brr PUBLISHING COMPANY, OxAnA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payabie to the order of the company. The Be Publishing Compazy. Proprictors B. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebrasks, [P County of uglass, ) Geo, W, Trschuck, secrotary of The Bee Pub- Muliing company, does solemaly swear that the actunl eirculation of the Daily Bee for the week ending March 6, 1888, was as follow: , March 8 March 4. ay, March b enday, March 6. ednesday, March 7. B4 GEO. B, £worn to and subsoribed in my. 20tk day of March, A. D, 18, 01 Etate of Nebraska, }._' County of Douglass, ’ Geo. 11, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- oses and says that he is secretary of The Beo Publishing mmpnn{. that the actual -vem daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the monf of March, . 187, 14400 topies for April 1867, 14316 coples: M 81 14,287 coples; for June, al . 100 co o i o, B i Tt oples; for T, , 14,833; for November, Sieh, 16,22 coples: ' for December, 1887, 15,041 goples: for Jumukey, 1884 "1200"copies; for e “TGE0. B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn and subscribed to in’ my _prosence this 84 duy of February, A. D, 188, N.P. FEL Notary Pubilc. OMAHA'S spring boom comes in with abustle. The rest of her clothes are still on the line. THE proposed re-location of the county jail to the corner of Eleventh and Dodge will meet with popular ap- proval, IF Prince Bismarck finds himself out of a job, he should be invited over here atonce to take charge of the presi- dential boom of the dark horse. IT may be a lttle immodest on our part, but we cannot help remarking that the circulation of the BEE has a steady upward tendency, and averaged nearly 19,000 daily for the last week. IF every engineer on the Union Pacific on whom Judge Dundy’s injunction papers have been served had left his run nnd presented himself at court the in- junction would have been n boomerang. VANDERBILT'S $10,000 French cook can’t bake a mince pie Send him one of the professors of the Omaha cooking school with Rev. Mr. Copeland’s en- dorsement. See———— JAY GOULD has again set foot on Americansoil and is expected to resume business at the old stand within ten days. What a buzz thero will be in Wall street when the monarch of the stock exchange again gets his fingers on the annunciator. E————— Tne Dueber watch-case company re- fuses to join a *‘combine” to put up the price of watches. The Ducber doesn’t object to the high price, but it can’t af- ford to join a watch trust which is obliged to hold off until the Waterbury winds up its works. TnEe sugar trust has had no trouble in knocking out the New York investi- gation in one round, and is now in the ring “polishing off the congressional committee in less than four rounds. But when it comes to scaring off Claus Spreckles from setting up his eastern refinery it looks as if the sugar trust were arranging a sparring match with Mitchell. e TaE biennial report of the bureau of labor statistics of the state of Missouri, which covers the yearending November last, among other interesting facts fur- nishes figureés of the annual wages of railroad engineers and firemen on the several roads in thatstate. From these at appears that of the six roads named in the report the Burlington engineers veceive less than those of any other road except the Hannibal & St. Joseph, while the firemen of the Burlington are better paid than those of any other road except the Chicago & Alton. This official and authentie statement, un- doubtedly derived from an entirely trustworthy source, clearly convicts the Burlington management of being less liberal to their engineers, so far as the Missouri portion is concerned, than are the other railroads to this class of em- Eloycfi. And what is teue of & part is ndoubtedly true of the whole system. WHEN Mr, Candler, of Georgla, was gmda chairman of the house committee n education, the general understanding was that the appointment would be fatal to the Blair eflucational bill, He ad strongly opposod the measure in he last congress, and there was no rea- n to suppose that his views, which had i‘;.,.. very vigorously expressed, had undergone any change, It is now an- nounced that Mr. Candler will submit a pubstitute for the Blair bill, intended %o do away with the constitutional ob- !eutionm This substitute will propose a oan to the states of sixty million dol- lars, to run twenty-five years or longer, e interest on which shall be applied t)‘educnwunl purposes in the states in proportion to the illiteracy, as rqposed in the Blair bill, It is not rmpro\mhlu that” Mr. Candler has phrewdly devised this substitute asa most convenient way of sidetracking Mr. Blau's scheme. The new plas would be the less objectionable, but it is pot likely its author has any expectation pf its success, for even should it get through the house, it would certainly fail in the senate, In any event the ef- fect of its introduction will be to divert #ttention from the Blair bill and extend the scopy of discussion, the more of which there is and the longer it is con- tinued the smaller will grow the chunces of that objectionable measure. Randall's Revenue Bill. The il of Mr. Randall to reduce the revenue of the government is in its gen- eral character what might have been expected from him. Tt proposes to re- duce the income of the government from taxation to the amount of ninety- five million dollars, of which seventy million would be lost by the abandon- ment of internal revenue taxes. The tobaceo tax is entirely swept away, thus wiping out about thirty millions of revenue. The tax on spirits distilled from fruits shares a similar fave, alcohol used in the arts is made free, the whisky tax 1s reduced from ninety to fifty cents, and numerous spe- cial taxes are to cemse with the close of the current fiscal year. To this extent the measure 15 1n accord with the well-understood position of Mr. Randall, and is in the mainwhat he has proposed before. The portion of the bill providing for changes in the tariff duties, by which a reduction of revenue from customs to the amount of twenty-five million dol- lars is to be effected, contains a few surprises. A general reduction on the manufactures of iron and steel, al- though slight, is more of a concession than Mr. Randall was expected to make, and this is also true with regard to the reductions in earthen and glassware, The ovroposed reduction of two cents per hundred pounds in the salt duty is also some thing of a surprise, particularly, in view of the fact that the sugar schedule is left untouched. As both the sugar and salt industries are controlled by trusts it was to have been expected that of all men Mr. Randall would treat them with absolute impartiality. Certain grades of cotton goods are slightly reduced, but woolen goods are to continue tobear the present duties, The wool duties are unchanged, except the duty on car- pet wool, which is lowered. A statement by Mr. Randall, accom- panying the abstract of the bill given the press, conveys an idea of the prin- ciple on which he has framed the tariff portion of his measure. That this has a degree of plausibility must be confessed, but it would not be difficult to demoustrate that the au- thor of thisbill has not inall cases faith- fully adhered to his principle,orelse has proceeded on incorrect data. The pop- ular estimate of the measure will not, however, be influenced by obstruse economic theories. The question which the average citizen will ask is, does this revenue bill propose such change as will give that relief from taxation to the masses of the people which they require and in justice should receive? = That it would accomplish the one purpose of reducing the revenues of the govern- ment may be conceded, but this is not all that is desired or expected from rev- enue reform. The people want the burden of taxation imposed by excessive tariff duties lightened to as nearly as possible the full exterit of the reduction on revenucs. Everybody knows there will be no relief to consumers from the repeal of the tobacco tax, and probably very little if any from the abandonment of the other internal taxes as proposed by Mr. Randall. But if it be necessary to repeal a part of these taxes in order to secure the desired reduction of tarift duties on the necessities of life the peo- ple are prepared to accept the com- promise on a fair and just basis. Such a basis, however, is not presented in the Randall bill. Seventy millions dropped from internal revenue against twenty-five millions from customs duties is not fair to the people, however it might operate with respect to the man- ufacturers and dealers. No measure of tariff revision which continues the present unneccessary tax on the clothing of the people, on almost, every article of domestic use, on the implements of the farmer, and, in a word, on any of the articles which are necessities, will command the approval of the country. The bill of Mr, Randall in large part does this, and such re- ductions of duties as it proposes would give 8o little relief, if they afforded any, as to bo of 1o benefit to anybody. Such being the case, the principle by which he professes to have been guided will not serve to save his measure from the general disapproval of all who desire a fair and just ion of the tariff, Shirking Its Bridge Tax. During the memorable agitation over local railroad taxation Mr. A. J. Pop- pleton, in behalf of the Union Pacific, pointed to the fact that his company had for years paid city and county taxes on its Missouri river bridge on an assessment of $250,000. This was liter- ally true. Mvr. Poppleton did not, how- ever, call attention to the fact that Douglas county had donated $250,000 to the Union Pacific toward building that bridge, and our taxpayors have paid $25,000 a year in interest on these bonds, which added to the prinei- pal, will at the end of twenty years amount to 8750,000. Mr. Poppleton did not recall the fact that the city of Oma- ba had donated 200,000 in bonds to the Union Pacific for the purchase of depc grounds, which at the end of twenty years will aggregate more than halfl a million, In other words, the tax-payers of this city and county have burdened themselves with a million and a quarter of taxes to subsidize the Union Pacific road, not counting private donations in lands worth more than a million dollars, In view of the notorious failure of the Union Pacific to carry out the coutract obligations which it had assumed in consideration of these enormous subsi- dies, the bridge tax exacted was a mere bagatelle, DBut even this trivial con- tribution toward meeting the interest on our Union Pacific railroad debt has been cut down within the last year, That accommodating assessor, William Doll, reduced the assessment last year, before he went to Celifor- nia for his health, from $250,000 to 8135,000, and the commissioners have acquiesced 1in the imposition. Now why should the new Union Pacifio bridge be assessed at $115,000 less than the old one? Do the commissioners pretend that they have not the power 1o raise the mssessment? Why should not the Union Pacific pay as much tax on its bridge this year as it has paid from 1872 to 18867 e— SPECULATIVE real estate booms ars not healthy stimulavts for the growth of any eity. The prosperity of Omaha should have a brond and solid basis. Swapping suburban town lots sometimes means a rapia exchange of money, but it does not necessarily mean municipal growth. Real estate is only valuable on nmccount of its income producing power, either present or prospective. It is because business lots. in the hea of Omaha pay handsome annual returns on their valuation of from 8500 to 81,500 a front foot that they remain worth that price while property in the suburbs lags at 6 per cent of their' value. The only sure and certain way to maintain real estate booms is to make property so valuable as to assure to owners a fair market price based on the general prosperity. For many years the BEE has pointed out to its readers the means to be adopted by which to secure this end in Omaha. Briefly statod, they are: Improved railroad facilities and depot accommodations, municipal improvements, the building up of home industries, and last, but not least, impartial nssessments. Behind all these as o stimulant is the great development of our state, There is no reason why the realty values of the past year on property within the city limits should not be more than maintained if our people do their part toward hasten- ing the growth of Omaha. They are dealing with a young giant among western cities with every element for phenomenal progress present and wait- ing only for the united action of her citizenship to place her ahead of all rivals, Toe proposal that the government shall issue fractional currency,in the form of silver certificates of the denomi- nations of 10, 15, 25 and 50 cents, hav- ing been approved by all but one mem- ber of the house committee on banking and currency, is expected to pass the house without serious opposition. Whether it will fare so well in the sen- ate is a question. The expediency of the measure is vertainly debatable. Very likely there isaconsiderable num- ber of people who remit small sums of money through the mails to whom this currency would be a convenience. The postal note, intended to. accommodate this class, has always encountered more or less objection, chiefly on account of the trouble and cost 1involved, especially to people remote from postoffices who desire to remit for fractions of a dollar. But those who remember when fractional currency, popularly styled “shin- plasters,” was in vogue will doubt the wisdom of restoring this sort of money. It was a necessity of the war period and was tolerated for some time after, but it grew to be a good deal of a nuisance and its final disappearance was not regretted. Moreover it was a source of very consid- erablo loss to the people, since a greut deal of it became worn out or was othe wise destroyed. For the ordinary uses of change in business it is certainly less desirable than silver to handle and is at least equally liable to be successfully counterfeited. It may be doubted whether the convenience which such a currency would afford to a portion of the peoplé would outweigh the objec- tions to it. THE coroner’s jury investigating the cause of the collapse of the new Midland hotel in Kansas City has placed the sole responsibility of the disaster upon the architects. The jury brought in the verdict. that the architects were criminally negligent, in that they failed to properly superintend the work. This is a serious charge when it is known that the architects for the Midland have long enjoyed the reputation of being one of the best firms in the country. The trouble with some of our eminent architects is that they never let a job go. They are always willing to under- take three times as much as they are capable of doing. As a natural conse- quence they make imperfect plans for grand structures, and often cause the enterprising builder of a house great waste of means expended for show rather than substance. YATOR COCKRELL is out with a bill to simplify the circumlocution offices of the government. The senator’s eme is very simple and can be easily de- seribed as wheels within wheels, with a big wheel around i THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. A Pawtucket (R. 1) factory makes 1,000,000 horsetails 1nto haircloth yearly, Scranton, Pa., has an electric street rail- way, the cars of which cost but $1 a day to run, A gas well was struck at Zenia, Ind,, the other day which hasa flow of 14,000,000 cubic feet. The flame is seventy-five feet high. Edison, the inventor, has sixty men at work in his laboratory, They are all preparing something that has flrst existed in his brain, The pin consumption of the United States is one pin w0 each inhabitant a day. This ne- cessitates the daily manufacture of 60,000,000 pius, The Lockwood dredge usea in the construc- tion of the Cape Cod canal, which sank Feb- ruary 12, has been raised und,work will bo resumed. In Augusta, G, o tree felled in early morning was before nightfall of thesame day converted into paper and sent out bearing the current news, An immense locomotive has just been con- structed at a Paris foundry, Its builder pre- dicts - that it will realize an approximate speed of uinety-three miles an hour. A syndicate of Boston capitalists are talk- ing of a new railroad through the Adiron- duck region to the iron region of Dannemora, a settlement betwoen Plattsburg and Chaxy Lake. Statistics of the peanut trade show that those who are fond of humble goobers paid $1,000,000 last year to gratify their foodness. Altogether about 8,100,000 bags of the nuts were produced, of which the greater portion came from Tenuessee. ‘The Iren Age prints & list of 44 barb wire mauufacturers having together 2191 ma- chings. On the basis of special reports tneir productive capacity for 200 working days, running stugle turn, is estimated at 200,000 tous of barb wire, while the consumption of late years bas fuctuated belween 150,000 and 150,080 tous. Philadelphis clalms to make and eat more oandy fu proportion to population than any other gity in the country. There are eighty seven fadtories and wholesalers and 1,200 re- tailers and they use wore than §1,000,000 of oapital and consuwe 100,000 tons of sugar every year. Caramels are s great specislly of the trade in that olt{. For other places much chocolate aud waluut candy and cmany gumdrops wade. Bixlons of gumdrops wore nhtrud trom Philadelphia to Pittaburg the week before Chiistmas. Brooklyn makes the most chewing gum, it is said, and Boston eats the most of it. An idon of Lewiston's textile industry is given in the annual ‘feport of the board of trade for the Spindie City s follows: Nitio- teon manufacturing ‘torporations, thirteen cotton mills, three wéelon mills, one bleach- ery, £7,500,000 capital invested in manufactur: ing, 250,334 epindles in operation December 81, 1887, 20 sets woolon machinery, 40 water wfil‘t‘)al‘ 16,673 tons 6f coal amnually con- sumed by manufactories, 27,000,000 pounds or about 58,000 bales of cotton consumed, 6,102 horse power used for cotton mills, 500 horse power for other purpuses, 513 horse power unused, 8,000 females and 8,500 males om- ployed in cotton amd’ woolen mills, annual disbursements in the ity by Lewiston manu- facturers, 2,700,000, 49,870,358 bales of cotton and woolen fabrics pros d in 1887, plbiill o saletveii Lots of Them Now. Pittstrg Post. They have found the body of Alexander the Great. He was the original smart Alex. Pl i Grab it Quick. Washington_Critie, Wo would advise those contemplating picking up a presidential bee to cateh it.woll up towards the cars with a firm and fearless grasp. Tho boe is a great respector of courage, and he seldom stings a master hand. e No Cause for Alarm, Chicago Tribune, A yachting Yankee millionaire cast anchor at Algiers, He had no need for nursing, nor for anybody's tears; for he'd read the littlo message which had somehow found its way, .‘ih“ the jury held him innocent as any other ay. — Fire Proof Buildings. New York World. The man who erects a strictly fire proof Dbuilding in a oity is a public benefactor. The insurance companics and the owners of houses in the vicinity of his structure should pay him a_tribute in dollars and cents. Ho has been put to additional expense in conse quence of his non-fire proof surroundings, His property, though non-combustible, can be defaced by fire outside of it. He gives to others, but does not receive. —————— Got 'Em Again. New York Journal, The white house queen has nine pets now— Two dogs, a fawn, a cat, Two alligators and & cow, A mocking bird and rat, If all these pets should congregato Before the white house when yresident comes home quite 1ate yell, “I've got 'em again!" —_——— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The club mauia has taken root among republicans of Fullerton. Prohibition and the third |mr:fv are lashing the capital with jawful gads, Rushville is '}mtfing the finishing touches on a 85,000 brick school building. The Harlan County Standard is out with an elaborate spring write-up of Orleans and vicinity, garnished with il- lustrations of the principal buildings. A government agent has closed up the sawmills in Cheyenhe county. The en- terprising wood butchers had been slaughtering timber on government land. An emigrant who left an Towa town near Creston on Wédnesday Lo locate in Nebraska arrived in Plattsmouth Sat- urday. He had been three days getting: as far as Plattsmouth and had been obliged to unload his stock three times. The officials insist, however, that trains are running beautifully. In the scramble to display their abil- ity and prove that two trains, running in opposite directions, can pass on o single track, two'of the Burlington's imported scabs had a head-ender at Broken Bow last week. The remains of the machines werc carted to the shops for repairs, One of the engin- eers had five years’ experience as a sewing machine agent; the other had recently graduated from a gravel, pit. Both are booked for promotion, Wyoming. Eighty-four new laws comprises the record ot the legislature. The opera houses of the territories are now exempt from taxation. The legislature has adjourned and Cheyenne is enjoying & = voluminous calm. Converse is the name of the new county carved outof Albany. Douglas is the county seat, A rich discoyery of gold is reported to have been recently made at Buftalo, the ore assaying from 81,000 to £3,000 per ton. The alleged ledge will not be worked until the snow goes off. Mean- time the place will enjoy a big boom. Montana, Flectric lights and water works are in operation in Benton, The value of bullion s} Butte last week was The Montana Central:has purchased ten acres of ground for a depot and yard in Butte, A pocket of silver has been struck in the Granite mountain mine that assys $18,000 to the ton. ve now in operation in Mon- y thirty-five mills contain- 5 stamps, and cleven smelters hay- ing o capacity of 4,500 tons. The mills crush about 2,000 tons of ore daily, Work was formally begun last week on the reduction works which the Mon- tann Smelting company are about to build near the Great Spring, midway between the Black Eagle and Rainbow falls, north of Helena, The main build- ing will ‘be 200 feet long and 650 feet wide. pments froni R Bounty for the+'0ld Kegulars." A Dbill has been introduced by Senator Muuderson to grant a bounty to the soidier of the regular army who scrved m tho w of the rebellion. This proves thut there shall be pmd_to each man who enlistea on or before the 12th of April, 1861, who faith- fully served in the regular army and who was honorably discharged, & bounty for cach month of all the tine fhat Le actually served_between April 12, 1861 and May 9, 1565, In case of the death befere or after the passage of the act of such enlisted man, the payment shall be made to his widow if she has not re-married; and if there be no widow, or if she has re-married, then to the minor child or children, of the deceased sol- dier. It prohibits any soldier transferring, assigning or disposing of his discharge, de- soriptive roll,or other paper. Application must be umde within five years from the passage of the act.—Wushington Nutioual ribune, March 1. The originator of the bill referred to above, and who bas for a long period been busily engaged In procuring data to present to Benator Mandersan, is Mr. E. J. Davis, chief clerk of the department of the Platte, a resident of this city. Those who will be benefitted by the passage of this bill never received any recognition from the government for the great services rendered by them ot -the commencement of the late war, and who remained loyal to the flag. Every congress siuce the close of the war bas overlooked this class of deserving veterans, simply for the roason thatthey were in the army when the war commenced, but who by the war lost -censid- regard 10 the amount of the advance in gold and it their pay during the timo they served during the war did not ay- erage $7 por month, and the passage of the homestead bill did away with the opportun- ity of receiving the usual land warraut given for services in other wars. There are to-day only about 5,000 living of those who were in the army when it commenced, but their wid- ows aud orphans would be entitled to their beuelts if Lhls bill should becowe & law, 13, 1888 THE COMMISBIONERS WILLING, They Will Likely Join With the City In Buying Land. Councilmen Hascall, Ford, Counsman and Snyder, a specinl committee from the doun- ©il to anlect a site for a new Jail, conferred with the connty commissioners yestorday in referenco to the same. The public school building and land at the corner of Eleventh and Dodge strect seems to bo the chosen spot, and there is unanimity among the com- missioners of joining with the city in buying the same with a view of detaining and try- ing criminals by building additions and re- modeling the school. The commissioners in defense of this action say that it will cost at Jenst $35,000 to put_the present bastile in proper shape, and besides they cannot sco themselves cloar as to where the ground is coming from on which to build additions, ete., without encroaching on space that in all robability wiil be needed before long to en- arge the court house, Councilman Hascall opened the conference by saying that the school board would sell the Tot and building for $10,000, and do- scribed the premises as being well fitted for {ail purposes, Besides, it would be a good finan deal, and as the city and school board are practically one there will be no |ruul|»lo in getting the property for $30,000, if not less, Councilman Counsman said that he exam- ined the ground and building upon it and could not add anything to what Mr. Hascall had already stated, Chairman O'Keeffe asked Mr. Counseman if the committee had made any estimate of what the cost would be of remodeling the building for jail purposes. Tnho councilman replied that they hiad not, as the school was in session when they vis- ived it Commissioner Mount suggested that the councilmen and commissioners visit the place, and this suggestion meeting with the ap- proval of all, it was resolved to go there dur- ing the afternoon. In reply to a question from Mr, O'Keefte as to the terms on which the school board would sell the property, Mr. Hascall said that the board was not in need of money right away, and that the county and city could male satisfactory arrangoments with them. Then followed a long discussion as to the market value of the property in the neighbor- hood, and what the possible cost would be of remodeling the building into a jail. Chairman O'Keeffe said that he was ono of the commissioners who was willing to pay 2),000 county money into the property. Com- missioner . Anderson with Mr. O'Keeffe. S Commissioner Mount said that they could ot put up a new Jail without the vote of the people. Mr. Hascall replied that that could be done at next fall's election. At 3 o'clock the meeting closed and the del- egation adjourned to the premises. -The com- missioners will make a formal report to-day. BENCH AND BAR. District Court. VERGHOFE'S VALUABLES, Judge Walkeley handed down a decision in the attachment suit of various creditors against Lows Berghoff, the man convicted Iast Thursday of obtaining ‘goods underfalse pretenses, The court decided in favor of the defendant and dissolved the attachment. BEFORE JUDGE GROFF. The case of James Christensen against the Nebraska and Jowa insurance company was put on trial yesterday The plaintift al- leges that his property was insured in tho company for $500, and was destroyed by fire on the 20th dauy of November, 1885, six months after the payment of the premium. The defendant Las refused rcpeanly to pay the loss, hence the suit. AFTER A POLICEMAX, Fred W, Bullard is the plaintiff in a snit now on trial before Judge Hopewell against Danicl McBride, a policeman, and his bond: men, James Stevenson and Charles Hanle, The petition of plaintiff sets forth that Mc- Bride, on July 9, 1836, beat the plaintiff with his club, and otherwise unlawfully mal- treated him. Plaintiff asks damages in the sum of §2,000. TIRED OF THE SILKEN BONDS, Laura D. Wright, according to her petition filed yesterday has found married life o burden too heavy to bear any longer, and she prays that the court may sever the chains of wedlock, welded by a Peoria, Iil., minister on May 6, 1385, According to her allegations, Joseph, her husband, abandoned fher about eight months after the wedding day. ~She states that he has formed the habit of living alone, and is of 8 morose and quarrelsome disposition. LUTZ'S TRIAL TO COMMENCE TO-MORROW The trial of the man Lutz, who killed a man by the name of Lynch several months ago, on Thirteenth street, for cohabiting with his wife, will commence in the district court to-morrow. Lutz, who has been In jail since the fatal day, hopes for an acquittal, agree County Court, PROBATE BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Letters of administration in the will of Clementine Weiss were yestorday granted to Augustus Weiss. The will of Jacob Madsen was probated, with Johanne Madsen, his wife, as executrix. The will and petition for probate of Michael Carmody was filed. A GARNISHEE CASE, In the garnishee caso of Bowser vs Wright the garnisher was ordered to pay $175 into the court. LETTERS OF GUARDIANSHIP, Letters of guardianship of his two children were granted O. H. Rothaker by Judge Shields yesterday affernoon. Mr. Rothakor appeared in court in person, Police Court, Drunk and rderly—George Hoppe Mike Kinney, § and costs;Edward Spellman, §3and costs; William Keith, $3and costs; 13d Cleveland, Mike Illynn, Mike Hom, John Keene, John Burch, C. L. Gateh, discharged. Vagravts—Billy Anderson, fifteen days; Con McShane, one day; Andy O'Hare, one ¢ om_Carroll, three days; William Flynn, thirty days; John Laccy, Dennis Mc- . McGovern, Jim McCarthy, R. Law- nod—‘Kansas City Elizabeth,” Nellie Eunice, May Brown, # each; May Williams, discharged, Thomas Murphy, a tough representative of thet‘ould sod,” wis arraigned for raising an rumpus &t the boarding house, 315 North Sixtecath straot, was sent up for six days, @ Billy Hendorson, an old harness thief, anc @ man who spends ' nine-tenths of his ‘time behind the bars, was given fifteon days, PLEASED WITH THEIR STAY. Junketing County Commissioners Write a Card of Thanks, The board of county cowmissioners of Arapahoe county, Colorado, who are visiting various cities in the country investigating jails and county buildings, were in the city yesterday, and were courteously treatéd and shown around by Jailer Joe Miller and County Commissioners Mount and Anderson, The visitors were 80 well pleased with - vheir treatment that they drafted the following: The undersigned, members of the board of county commissioners of Arapahoe county, Colorado, appointed by the said board to t and examine the county jails in eastern cities, hereby desire to publicly express our thanks to the county commissioners, the sheriff and the people of Douglas county, Nebraska, for the many courtesics we have received at their bands, and for the facilities afforded us by them fu accomplishing the results of our mis- sion, J. M. Browx, G. LiLLEy, EuiLe RIETTMAN, WiLLiam ROBERTSON. e Consuming High School Smoke. Sometime since in the city council the com- Plaints of people in the vicinity of the high schioal in regard to the. great volumes of smoke that came from the furnaces of that building, were considered. Arrangements wore made 10 abate that npuisance and at present W. 8. Hutchinson, of Chicago, is ut work on the furnaces putting in a smoke con- sumer, which he not only guarantees will silencé the cowplaints of jeople in that neighborhood but will cause a saving of coal and give a greater J atage in heat. ————r An Infant Soiled Dove, Gussie Nightingale, a diminutive girl, who fs.said to be only thirteen, was arraigned yesterday before Judge l3erka on the charge of being in- a house of prostitution. She shed copious tears and begged the judge not 0 lot ber mother know of her wrrest. How- — ever, she was remanded back into mswd{ 1ntil her mother, who lives in the vicinity o the shot tower, could be notified of her detention. The girl claims to bo soventeen, but as she tells two or three differont stories bout herself the oMcers do not believe her. The judge will probably have her bound over to_the distriet court as a candidate for the reform school. The Brick Question, Owarra, Neb, March 19, 1888, To the Bd- itorof the Ber: In Saturday's issue you publish the seemingly sentiments of the bricklayers of this city towards the brick- makers' profits. Tn behalf of the bricklayers and citizons of this city, T will make known through your valuable columns, That I have been a brickmaker for the last (25) twen! five years, and consider myself thoroughly in my line. Yot it is true that brick are sell- ing at present in this city from $0.50 per 1,000 and as high as §11. Yet that does not signi- fy that we can make them as choap hore as inmany other cities. In Denver brick can bo made for from 40 to 50 per cent less than here, First—They can burn brick suitable for any purposc in from forty-oight to sixty hours. Second—They get their coke free of charge from the gas works, for the price of cartingit. Third—The price of coal is less than one-third of what we have to pay here, Fourth—The clay is of such nature thore that they can let the green brick get as dry as o bone before setting, and the dryer thoy set their brick the better they are when burnt, Such is very near the same in St. Louis and Kansas City, with the exceptions that in the 1ast two named places they burn from throp to four and half da; Even across the river the nature of the clay is such that it takes from seven to nine days to burn successfully. Now the clay in this city and surround- ings is of a far different nature. First— ‘We have here which every one knows a very sandy, loamy soil and clay, such as it is, wit any amount of alkalye mixed in, of which that is a great detriment. Second—We have to pay for our coke £.50 perton, and 50 cents to 75 cents to drayage. Our coal costs 1l through the secasons from 19 cents to 22 cents por bushel, or from $3.50 to $4.15 por ton, delivered. Third—If we set our green brick dry as bone, as can be done in almost any other part of the country, and burn them, makes no difference how hard we burn them, we will have a mess of pieces and rub- bish, besides a total failure of which Messrs. Youngerman Bros. can_tell by last scason’s experiment. Fourth—We must by all haz- ards set this clay as _green as it is possible to stand the weight, often so groen that with ease you can with your fingers leave the print of one-half inch depth in almost any, besides ofton there is a great many brick sot a little too dry in almost every kiln in this city, which cannot be helped, and after the dry brick are burned there are no less than three pieces, the consequence is that it takes us from eleven to thirteen days to burn suc- cessfully, and when we do burn in ten days wo think that we are in groat luck, AN OLD EXPERIENCED BRICKMAKRR. P. S.—The price of brick at present in Denver is $7.00, in St. Lowms $3.00, in Kansas City from $10.00 to $11.00, and in summer when we sell at $8.00 with a_slow season, we wish we were never in the business. ————— The Union Pacific and the Strike. To the Editor of the BEE: Some of us, who are more or less familiar with the history of railroad practices during the last few years, feel like shedding bar- rels of crocodile tears over the letters of President Adams and Vice President Kimball of the Union Pacific railway. With what humility and grace they ap- peal to and obey the law? With what virtuous indignation they resent any possible infraction of the letter or spirit of the law of the land? With what fetisch aweand Juggenantic trepidation they bow to congress? With what fear of pecuniary loss, forfeiture of charter and erimininal prosecution these gilded lawbreakers face these complications? are just heartbreaking? ‘While President Adams appeals to the law and insists on what ‘‘is nomin- ated in the bond,” it is now a good time for the people to resurrcct some of the past, chuck that hideous skeloton square in President Adams’ face and then let the poor, dear virtuous people, in their worth and {ndignation, pro- nounce the sentence that is just, well and fitting for these government pets and chronic law violaters. Scarcely had the charters of the Pa- cific railways been granted when .scan- dul commenced, and from that day to this it has been growing worse and worse, as the officers of these composi- tions have become more brazen 1n their disregard of law, more open in their disregard of law,more open in their out- ‘avages on the public,and more insatible in their demands and more infamous in their practices. In 1871-2 the famousand more than in- famous Credit Mobilier caught on Paci- fic railway officials like the yellow fever frequently did on the ci ns of New Orleans before the purifying visit of General Butler. Tt is believed, but not positively known, that a few of the othi- cials of these railroad companies were not implicated. However, nearly all of them were caught and exposod. In this stealing and law-breaking schome, car- ried on by as brazen-faced gangs asever coerced government, defied the -laws of a country and ran rough-shod over the people who created them, the spirit and letter, of every law that had ever been pussed affecting them from their cl ter. Acts, to that time, were broken. Then by some mysterious influence, that insidious and all potent influence that vile men,backed up by large money interests, have, over legislators, a pur- chased and traitorous congress, more traitorous than ever convened in Rich- mond, releasedjithe first mortgnge lien of the government for the $64,000.-) 000 guaranteed, - Of course this was all done by putriotic men with solf-sacri- ficing motives, and only for the good of our government#e But how singular it was that thereafter nearly every senator and member of the house of rej tives was the owner of C or Pacitic railway stocks. The exposure of these outrages through the public press and the public howl of indignation brought on u con- ressional _investigation. The facts brought to light by this investigation, although a whitewashing committee, lo duty was to evade facts and ress information, ought to have »d congress to stop long enough to forfeit thewr charters and pass resolu- tions directing the attorney general to institute civil and criminal proceedings, This would have been done had these railway barons not had a mortgage pn the officers of our government and cach congressman branded fore and aft as “My Pacific railway fence ngents,” Then the incorruptible Senator Thur- man, seeing the ‘‘receiving-stolen- goods” policy of the Pacific companies, preparcd and had passed his bill known as the Thurman Pacific Railways bill, to compel tho companies to_repay the government what was owed. The sa- cred erocodile of the Nile was able to see and o charm the ministerial officers of the government that the law has been practicully a lotter and the rail- aoad officials without. fear of punish- ment, without regard to right, without care of results, have been running on 1n their blind-eyed course like @ stamped- ing herd of Texus steers. Jespite the Thurman Act, these ra wa, ll(t'])l on their ways of paying divi- deids, by a devious course, and reward- mg stockholders by agueous stock till the debts huve od the enormous sum of more than §120,000,000. All this in violation of statute law and laws of morality. Under this unbroken Lighway robbery policy things kept going on from bad to worse till another congressional investi- gution bad to interview the sacred ox of Egypt. It was in the Pacitic year of disgrace 1887, Although Senator lfo- Pherson, of New Jersoy, said that the examinatfon was het skin doop &nd would not take off the first rise of cream, yet enough was elicited to warrant give every cuss a suit of striped clothea and free rations and steady work for years, and a forfeiture of charterr. In the former investigation it was proved that it cost $300 to ship a car of freight west to Elko, Nov., and only $500 to ship the same car of freight 500 miles farther on to San Franeisco from the sameship= rimz point, This was in violation of aw and yet the same thing was done at almost every point on the line from the time the first trains ran, Rebates were given, special privileges were allowed and almost every violation (of law was anthorized that would return a dollar short of murder and child stealing. They were linble then, Now President Adams, when it comes to n question of this side issue of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad in the contest with the brotherhood of locomotive engineers, appeals, with a whine that sounds from a diseased noz- 2le, to the law, and points ou't the dan- ger of forfeiture of charter, liability of criminal prosecutions, if the company or its agent refuse or neglect to take freight from the “Q¥ road. When before, I ask, was the Pacifio railway officials ever afraid of congross? Why there has not been a congress for twenty years that did not bear tho_pri- wate brand of the Pacific roads. When did he ever before fear a quo whrranto to forfeit tho charter? Every law hag been broken, every duty evaded and overy obligation ignored, and yet noth- ing has ever been done. And they know too well that nothing will be done. When before weve the Pacific barons ever afraid of prosecution? They have gone scot free, till the hardened sinners and chronic law-breakers have no more feur nor are they in more dangerof pros- ecution than the ocar of juggernaut. And they know it. This 1s the old cry of Shylock, ap- I)m\lin to the law when it serves him but unblushingly tacking on usury and then in holy indignation calling for the fulfillment of the law for “it is so nominated in the bond,” although it violates the highest law of God and the most sacred law of man, takes life eru- cifies the living and robs the unfortu- nate, Let congress stop its monkeying to cause a dust to deceive our people, for- feit the Pacific railway chertors, ap- point receivers and direct criwinal prosecutions and eivil suits against overy law-breaker from the presidents down to the humblest engineers and then the fair-minded American people, that Mr. Adamsso hypocritically ap: eals to will be satisfied; then too per- aps the government may be protected, our laws vindicated and justice be done. Till this be done never think of prose- cuting a member of the brotherhood nor appeal to the sense of Americans. JUSTICE. South Omaha, March 9, 1888, RATS ATE UP HER FORTUNE. How Mr. Bodine Explains the Loss of His Sister's Treasury Notes. New York World: Rats, a brother-in- law, a pn‘}-ing teller who suddenly skipped to England, and a devoted wife wore the parties in strang suit which was tried before Judge O'Brien, of the supreme court, yesterday. It was,more- over, a suit of pister against brother,and recalled a bit of past financial history in the shape of a defaleation of $200. by Charles) Winsor. at one time_teller of the Mercantile bank of this city. The plaintiff is Mrs. Catherine Winsor and the defendant her brother, Joseph H. Bodine. In 1864 Charlos Wingor, the husband of the plaintiff, fled to England when a shortage of 200,000 was discov- cred in his accounts. Bodine, his broth- er-in.law, was one of his sureties, but has never been called upon by the bank to Pnyn.dolhr of the missing money, When Mrs. Winsor found that her husband had departedd for England, she, as a devoted wife, determined to follow him and sharc his fortunes, She had a small fortune of her own, some 810,000. This ghe drew out of the bank and placed in her brother’s hand at his house in clean, crisp treasury notes. She wanted him to save them for her and her children for a rainy day. Bodine at first refused, but finally con- sonted to nccept the trust. He was afraid to place the amount in a bank, so he put it in what he thought was aplace of safety. It was a cupboard in his house. to which he alone had the key. In a dark corner of the novel bank he laid the treasury notos. Now and then, during the long years that followed, ho would enter the cupboard and place his hand upon them to assure himself that they were still ther Meantime the Mercantile bank had ursued its ill-fated teller to London. A ong legal process followed and Winsor as cast into n debtors’ prison, accom: panied I is faithful wifoand children, In 1868 his friends effected a settlement with the bank, which abandoned the charge against him, The Winsors re- to New York. In 1885 Mrs, Win- lled on her brother, Joscph Bodine, and asked him for her 10,000, “T have used,” said he, ‘35,000 of thut amount in effecting a settlement with the Mercantile bank. For the rest—" Here he paused. My house is infested with rats, Ientered ‘my cupboard one day and found $4,600 gone and the rest of the bills badly mutilated.” Mr. Bodine further stated that he had sot traps for the rats, but had never Dbeen able to catch the' capitalist rodent among them, Rigid investigation,high and fow, had failed to find the slightest trace of the missing notes. As the United States treasury wou'd not accept rats and redeem them with bills, Mr. Bodine placed his misfortune under head of an “'act of God,” a thing for which he was wholly irresponsible, Mrs. Winsor brought suit, however, for the whole amount, The jury yoster duy puzzled their heads an hour over this remarkable case and finally ag: 1o disagree. The matter will be brought up iu court again soon, e interested in their own affairs, and if this meets the eye of any one who is suffering from the effects of a torpid liver, we will admit that he is interested in geWing well, Get a bottle of Prickly Ash Bitters, use it as directed, and you will always be glad you read this item. - There is a warrant out for the arrest of Jimmy Lindsay, the pugilist, churgs ing him with assault and battery. el nglish Comments. “Colgate & Co. are the oldest soap makers in America, and have evidently profited by their long exporience.” Lvery person is B Officer Cullen has recovered suffi- ciently from a severe attuck of pueurionia - as to be upon the stree again L i e gt Children Cry for Pitcher's Cmotln.f e s e When Bahy was sick, we gave her Castoria. ‘When sho was & Child, she eried for Castoris, When sbe became Miss, she clung to Castoria, Wheu sho Lad Childres, she gave dem Csatoris,