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

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Sworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, *‘ s ity of Dougl ¥ Goo, I, Tschuick, ecrotary of The Hes Pub- ‘' Nshing company, does mlemn\{‘nwenr that the actual circulation of the D ee for the week ending Ml;‘rh 23, 1588, was as follows: Tucsday, March ) Wednesday, March 31 Thoradag, March 2 Friday, March 23° -20.541 A B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my_presence this 24th day of March, A, D., 1888, N N. P. FRIL, Btate of Nebraska, 8. County of Douglass, o 10 Geo. I3, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- s and says that he 1s secretary of The Bee nblishing oomplll{, that the actual n‘enfi daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the mont 1887, 14,400 coples; for Ar“" ;- for hn{ 57, , 14,141 copi e 3 ‘coples: _for Augus coples; for s«rt-mim. 1887, 14,4 tober, 1887, 1 for Noyember, Tk, 1h226 coples; ' for Del r, 1887, i RN P ‘ebruary, 1888, 15,992 copies. GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn and subseribed to in m‘,prelenca this 24 day of March, A. D, 1888, N.P. FEIL, Notary Public. ,206 ‘coples; for TEXAS is invading Denver *‘ten thou- sand strong” to take part in the Denver and Fort Worth celebration. The round- up will last three days. JAY GouLD blames a woman for all his troubles in court with the Denver Pacific. HasJay Gould met his match at last? — THe Paris court of appeal has re- versed the decision of the lower court whieh sentenced Son-in-Law Wilson to two years’ imprisonment. M. Wilson should now come to America and lect- ure, Tue Knights of Labor have drawn the line of membership at the saloon- keepers. The beer-brewers of the TUnited States have agreed to employ no Knights of Labor. Will the knights boycott beer and take to cold water for their beyerage? Now that the paving contracts for this season are let, property owners will be besieged by contractors and their agents for signatures to petitions desig- nating paving materials. Before sign. ing these petitions property owners should carefully study the relative cost for paving materials, and select what is most advantageous. The cheapest is not always the hest. JonN T. HOFFMAN was governor of New York a few years ago 1n the palmy days of the Tweed ring. At that time he was one of the most prominent and active politicians of the state. Next to Tweed, he occupied a larger share of public attention than any man in the country. His death has justbeen cabled from abroad, and the newspapers have summed up his obituary in three lines. It is said that if it becomes necessary to avoid sectional bickering over the chief justiceship, President Cleveland will compromise by appointing Minister Phelps, our representative at London, to the seat made vacant by the death of Judge Waite. Minister Phelps, how- ever, is better fitted to make after din- ner speeches to the English than to as- sume the robes of the chief justice. FINANCIERS will open their eyes in wonder at the success of M. DeLosseps in obtaining a new loan of fifty million francs from the agricultural people of France to carry on the work of the Pan- ama canal. So much cold water has been thrown on the project by capital- ists and by the French government that everybody predicted that the bubble was about to burst. If DeLesseps con- tinues to drain the pocketsof the middle classes the French government will be obliged to classthe plucky canal-builder with American hogs, and keep him out. RerorTs of secret meetings and con- sultations of prominent democrats, al- leged to be hostile to the renomination of Mr. Cleveland, continue to find circu- lation, but the nearer we get to the date of the democratic national convention the more certain become the outward andications that the persons unfriendly to the president will have no show. It is not questionable that Senator Gor- man, of Maryland, Senator Brown, of Georgia, Senator Hearst, of California, and a fow others would be very glad to have Mr, Cleveland out of the way, but fhe misfortune of all these gentlemen is that they cannot make it appear to dem- ocrats of the rank and file that they are actuated by a desire single to the wel- fare of the party, Everybody knows that considerations more or less per- sonal or selfish control all of them in their displeasure with Cleveland, while no one of them has such a’ claim upon the party as to justify any sacrifice in his behalf, Why should any demo- crat outside of Maryland, for example, trouble himself about the grievances of Senator Gorman, and what claim has * Mr, Hearst upon the party that should induce it to give any very serious atten- tion to his desire? But the supreme fact is, thatthe great majority of the party feel that its cause would be en- tively hopeless without Cleveland, and did they respect him much less than they do his renomination would still be assured because believed tobe absolutely necessary, if the party would not sur- render nearly every chance of success, As the situation now appears there is but one man who can prevent the re- nomination of the president, and that is Mr. Cleveland himself. And he can be safoly dopended upon not to doit, A Lawless Combinati Within the past ten days over one hundred of the grain dealers owning grain elevators on the various lines of the Burlington system in Nebraska, have organized themselves into a trust with an aunthorized capital of five mil- lions. This “‘clevator trust” has been formed in palpable violation of the act passed by the last logislature prohibit- ing pooling and other combinations by grain and cattle dealers. The act re- ferred to makes it unlawful “for any grain dealer or grain dealers, partner- ship, company, corporation or associa- tion of grain dealers, or any other per- son or persons, partnership, company, corporation or ussocintion, to enter into any agreement, contract, or combina- tion with any other grain dealer or grain dealers, partnership, com- pany, corporation or association of grain dealers or any other person or persons, partnership, com- pany, corporation or association, for the pooling of prices of different and com- peting dealers and buyers, or to divide between them the aggregate or net pro- ceeds of the earnings of such dealers and buyers, or any portion thereof, or for fixing the price which any grain dealer or grain dealers, partnership, company, corporation or association of grain dealers, or any other person or persons, partnership, company, corpora- tion or association, shall pay for grain, hogs, cattle or stock of any kind or na- ture whatever,and in case of any agree- ment, contruct or combination for such pooling of prices of different and com- peting dealers and buyers, or to divide between them the aggregate or net proceeds of the earnings of such dealers and buyers or any portion thereof, or for fixing the price which any grain dealer or grain dealers, partner- ship, company, corporation or associa- tion of grain dealers or any other per- son or persons, partnership, company, corporation or association shall pay for grain, hogs, cattle, or stock of any kind or nature whatever.” The second and third sections of this act further define the various methods of combining for the purpose of fixing prices and pooling earnings, and de- clare such acts to be misdemeanors punishable by fine or imprisonment, as the court in such cases may de- cide. Parties entering such combina- tions are also made liable for damages caused to any party that may sustain loss through the operations of such un- lawful pools. The five million dollar elevator trust has evidently been formed with the view to evading the penalties imposed by the act of 1887. The pretense under which the partners in this unlawful combination will seek to circumvent the law is that they have formed no pool and entored into no combination with any company, association or dealer for a division of profits or for the con- trol and regulation of grain rates. The “trust,” they will assert, is a corpora- tion doing business at every point where its grain elevators are situated. These elevators no longer being the property of various persons or firms, there is no combination or pool between these various dealers in grain, who now have become stockholders in one corpo- ration, managed by one set of officers under uniform by-laws, This is whipping the devil around the stump. The ‘‘trust” is nothing more nor les» than a gigantic combination of dealers in which profits are divided ac- cording to the value of the property turned in by each, while there is no pooling between the elevator *“trust”and other corporations or firms, the profits of the elevator trust depend largely upon its power to destroy competition. ‘With all the elevators on the Burling- ton lines south of the Platte, inside of the grain trust, the price which grain will command in that sec- tion of the country will be absolutely fixed by the new combination. If the elevator trust is not an unlawful combi- nation to prevent competition in grain traffic and control the price of Nebraska products, we are ata loss to comprehend the intent of the law makers and the plain language of the law, — Stanford’s Audaeity. Senator Stanford was on last Monday again before the senate special com- mittee having in charge the reports of the Pacific railway commission. We have referred to the audacity with which on previous occasions this master spirit in the Central Pacific scheme of plunder had defended himself and his associates, on the plea that what they had done was a great patriotic achieve- ment which saved California to the union, and that this alone would be sufficient to warrant the government in releasing the corporation they control from all obligations, or legislating re- garding those obligations, so that the patriotic boodlers and their heirs for several generations would not be called upon to meet them. The later utterances of Stanford are in a different vein, but no less brazen and audacious, He told the committee that in not a single instance had the Central Pacific railroad company been derelict regarding the obligations to the govern- ment aud people imposed upon it by the acts of congress creating it. Of what stuff must a man be made who will utter a statement of this kind in face of the fact that the corporation he represents has not only never made any adeguate provision for the payment of its indebt- edness to the government, but whose officers will not say what they propose to do toward paying the government the money that will be due within the next ten years. The government loaned the Central Pacificcompany over twenty-seven mil- lion dollars in bonds and has paid inter- est on these for over twenly years, so that over sixty million dollars have been advanced to date, The agreement of the company, when it received the mu- nificent aid extended by the United States, was to repay the loan and so much of the interest as had not been repaid by transportation or percentages of net earnings at the expiration of thirty yearvs, But, says the report of the railway commission, *“‘the course pursuad by Stanford, Huntington, Hop- kins and Crocker was necessarily abso- lutely destructive of any possible secur- ity.” Further, to show why the road could not fulfil its sinking fund ana interest obligations, the report says: ““The financial inability of the company to meet these requirements is the result of the profligate and wanton dis- persion of the asséts. of the com- pany in dividends, the aggregate amount of which exceeded — 834,- 000,000, and the extravagant contracts.” The profits of the contracts were shared by the firm of Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins & Crocker. “In general,” says the report of the railway commission, ‘it may be said to be estab- lished by the evidence that the con- struction contracts and all, the import- ant contracts for materials and suppli were made between the Central Pacific railrond company and companies con- trolled by Stanford, Huutington, Hop- kins & Crocker. These four persons de- termined the terms of all these con- tracts, and the result has been that through the payments made by the Central Pacific railroad company they have received, as profits, a vast amount of stocks and bonds. Those resulting from the construction contracts above stated represent over one hun- dred mitlion dollars in stocks and over five millions in honds,” Is there not in this a suficient explanation and justification of the general opinion, de- precated by Senator Stanford, that the huilders of the Central Pacific had made vast sums of money at the expense of the government and the people? But perhaps the crowning audacity of this master spirit of the Central Pacific conspiracy is his [talk about the inviolability, on the part of the govern- ment, of the contract with that com- pany. With equal propriety might the robber who had been run down and cor- nered ask his victim to respect himself as a gentleman and allow the culprit to go his way. The Central Pacific managers having failed to keep their side of the contract, and having declined to say what they will do to meet their obligations, -have no further claims upon the consid- eration of the government. Its obvious duty is to protect itself against further loss at the hands of this unscrupulous combine and to get back what it may of the moneys which the millionaire man- agers of the Central Pacific have mis- applied or appropriated.}It is a waste of time to discuss terms with such men as Stanford and his associates, who have nothing fair to propose and who have said that they will not be able to pay the debt that in a few years will be due the government. ——— Defying the Courts. Resolved, That I. S. Hascall, Michael Lee and J. M. Counsman be and they are hereby appointed 8 committee to arrange for and procure and they are hereby instructed to arrange for and procure, by competition or otherwise, suitable and sufficient plans, sketches and drawings for a city hall build- ing adapted to the ground and property com- monly known and designated as Jefforson square, s & site and_location for the same, and said committee shall from time to time, and at as early a date as practicable, report back to the council for concurrence and ap- proval, such sketches, drafts and plans as may from time to timé be planned and pre- pared; and, in the direction of, and arrange- ment for, such plans, drawings and Skokches they shall be limited to the sum of $300,000 as the cost in full, and in all its details, of said city hall building. This resolution is a flagrant violation of both the letter and spirit of the in- junction issued by Judge Doane and concurred in by Judge Wakeley. Every councilman who voted for it has laid himself liable to the penalties imposed by courts for contempt. Judge Doane’s injunction order is very explicit and cannot possibly be misunderstood by anybody conversant with the English language. Ivreads as follows: An order will be made temporarily enjoin- ing the defendants (or such of them as the injunction should apply to) from annulling or setting aside the plans and specifications of E.'E. Myers, architect for the erection of the city hall building, as referred to in ordi nance No. 950, adopted and ratified by a vote of the majority of the legal voters of said city, or from proceeding under any other plans or specifications or any substantial change of the Myers' plans until an ordi- nance specifying such plans, or substantial changes in the Myers plans shall have first Dbeen submitted to and ratified by a majority of the legal voters of the city voting thercon, Also from removing or destroying the base- ment or sub-basement already erected upon lots 5 and 6 in block 116 in the city of Omaha. Also from erecting or contracting to erect a city hall building upon any other ground than upon said lots above described, until an ordinance providing therefor shall have been first submitted to and ratified by amajority of the legal voters of the eity voting thereon, or from using any portion of the bonds voted for the purpose of paying for the construction of a city hall for the use of the city of Omaha called ‘city hall bonds,” or the proceeds thereof for the erec- tion of acity hall on any other site than upon said lots above described, until an ordi- nance providing for such use shall have been first submitted to and ratified by & majority of the legal voters of the city of Omaha voting thereon. . This order will not interfere with the changing of the site for a city hall building nor with the adoption of different plans and specifications upon which to erect it, pro- vided the question of such site and plans shall be first submitted to and ratified by a majority of the legal voters of the city voting thereon. In the face of this injunctfon nine councilmen have recorded their votes for a proposition to locate the eity hall on Jefferson squarve, while the ordi- nance locating the building on Eigh- teenth and Farnam, ratified by the people, still remains in force. They have voted to incur a liability of sev- eral hundred and possibly thousands of dollars for architectural plans for a building to cost $300,000, when the court expressly enjoins them from any such scheme until the existing ordinance, by which the Myers' plans were ratified, shall have been repealed by the council, and that repeal has been ratified by a majority of the people. Nobody knows the scope of Judge Doane’s injunction better than Haseall, who acted in the double capacity of as. sistant city attorney and defendant in the case. Nobody knows better than Hascall that the resolution for which he and eight other councilmen voted was a defence of the order of the court, Had the resolution passed we have no doubt that Judge Doane would have taught Hascall and his followers to respect his orders, — THERE could be no better evidence of the inefficiency of Mr. Vilas as post- master general than is presented in thé fact. that his successor is finding it nec- essary to iustitule investigations into the management of several of the larger postoffices of the country. Complaints have been prevalent for a long time at Chicago, Philadélphia, Boston, and somo other citiesregarding the way in which the service as being performed, but during the incumbency of Mr. Vilas very little attention was given to these complaints, One important reason for the defective service was undoubtedly the fact that these bffices had not a suffi- cient number of ¢lerks and carriers to do the work efficiently. That has been the trouble in Owmaha. The policy of economy, for which Mr. Vilas expected to obtain great credit with the coun- try, was responsible for thi He is not a practical man,and hence did not understand that of all the depart- ments of the government the last in which aniggard policy can be employed is the postoffice department. The peo- ple do not want economy in the postal service at the expense of efficiency. But there were also unfortunate ap- pointments that have worked to the detriment of the service. One of the worst was that of Postmaster Judd, of Chicago, and that office is now under- going a thorough investigation. Others are promised elsewhere. Jf Postmaster General Dickinson is really determined, as he seems 10 be, to place the postal service of the country on an efficient basis, he will find little time to devote to politics. But if successful he will win far more credit from the country than any political victory to which he might contribute would give him. THE extension of the time for the payment of the Union Pacific debt to the United States, as recommended by the majority of the Pacific railroad commission, was based solely upon their faith in the integrity of Mr. Adams. The house committee on Pacific railroads likewise pinned its faith upon the honesty of the pres- ent Union Pacific management. Now, however, a rumor is afloat that since the death of Vice President Potter, a movement is on foot to remove Mr. Adams as president of that road. If congress grants the extension asked for by the Union Pacific on the strength of Mr. Adams’ honesty, and he steps down, what guarantee will the government have that the wreckers who exploited and plundered the Union Pacific will not again have full control. MR. BURNHAM'S resolution to let Hascall and Counsman procure city hall plans by competitjon “‘or otherwise” is, to say the least, a surprising move from an unexpected quarter. Why were Counsman and Hascall selected? Is it because they enjoy " popular confidence? — VOICE OF THE'STATE PRESS. The Hebron Journal belicves that “‘the time is near at hand, when corporations of oapital and combinations of labor will be and must be sternly prevented from making the business, property, and rights of the people at large a footbull upon which to vent their sploen. Conspiracies not only against the state and nation,’but against the people as well, must cease.” The Platte Center 'News very pointedly remarks: “The only way to settle forever the question of strikes on the railroads is for the government to take the roads under its control, either by purchase ora lease. The government pays good salaries, and you hear of no strikes among its employes and very seldom of a resignation. The public could be benefitted by reducing the abnor- mal freight rates. It would be a blessing to the country.” The Wayne Gazette makes the following observation: ‘Nebraska is pre-eminently a farming state; and her people will not be apt to be very greatly enthused over the election of the leading railroad attorney and the great mogul of the oil room, to the presi- dency of the republican league of the state. It is & most egregious blunder, and the con- vention followed it up by electing the noto- rious by-bidder, Brad Slaughter, to the scc- retaryship. With such leaders, were Ne- braska less firmly rooted and grounded in the principles of republicanism, the party would meet with inevitable defeat. The Hastings Independent has gone into a spasm because the Bee has taken exception to making the state league of republican clubs a railroad politicians’ machine. In the same breath that sheet exclaims: “Men may strike and men may combine, but the farmer ‘‘pays for all.” The rail- roads make a living off their carnings and the railroad employes are paid outof these carnings, The farmer and nature are the people’s great benefactors. His is the ceaseless round of labor, whose crowning glory is in that he feeds the world and with- out him things would soon go the bad.” Yet to oppose the monopoly politi deadly sin. The Fremont Tribune, in wondering how Bierbower can hang on so long and so suc- cessfully, remarks: ‘“The democratic news- pubers are again making a prolonged howl over the fact that Ellis Bierbower continues to hold the position of United States marshal for Nebraska. There is room for some ad- mirvation for the tenacity with which Bier- bower holds onto that fat office in spite of the vain endeavors of the very hungry and very thirsty crowd to oust him from it. It is the nerve of a man defying a whole pack of hungry and savage wolves. After all, being a man of pride, it is difficult to under- stand how his conscience will permit him to occupy such a position under this democratic administration.” After carefully figuring uvon general re- sults, the editor of the Logun County Herald says: “It is time the' farmers orgunize for their protection. They have been led long enough by men whose interests were not with the tillers of the soil. To get the far- mer's vole these men always make fair promises, but invarably, wholly disregard them. The farmer is fully a ‘e of this fact. In every furming community there are men who are competent to represent the peo- ple, and they are the ones the people should votefor. The people can see the effects of being led by oily-tongued tricksters who - fest every village and hamlet in our land. They are human leeches who prey upon the people, and Just as oftén as the farmer gives them a chauce they will betray him. Every farming community should organize and take the lead. They have been lead long enough, and that to their sorrow. The Right Rev. Burchard Tate, who prom- inently displayed Limself in the late re- publican league meeting in Omaha, is haviog his howme paper boom him in the following style: “Amuu the gentlemen whose names are mentioned in connection with the state rep- rescutation in the national republican con- vention, that of Rev. J. G. Tate, of Shelton, holds a prominent place. It 15 well known that Mr. Tate enjoys a state reputation as a public speaker, is well versed in public af- fairs and has taken an active part in state as well as local campaigns.” {u another place in his home organ we find the following announcement concerting the loyal Nebraskau : “Rev, J. G.Tate, father and sister-in-law left for Colorado the fore part of the week s is a to take up land and arrange for building homes thereon.” And are we to lose Thurston’s right hand man and brother after the national conven- tion? Surely, it cannot be! sttt PROMINENT PERSO! B F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, is in stature a giant, being ovor six feet in height. The Copnt DeLesseps has ten children, all born after the count had reached the age of sixty-seyen. Governor Oglesby, of Tlinois. says that he is going to “farm it” when his term shall have expired. Guzman Blanco, president of Veneruela, is o fighter from the headwaters of Bitter Crock, Ho is said to havo killed twenty men in duels, General Sheridan is still avle to speak in the Indian tongue that he learned as a lieu- tenant among the Umphills of Oregon thirty years ago. George R. Sims, the author of *‘'Ostlor Joe' and “Harbor Lights,” is just fifty-one years of age. Mo makes upiard of $20,000 @ year by his pen, and was unheard of ten years ago. James Redpath, who was stricken twith paralysis of the throat January 28, is slowly but steadily recovering, and his physician believes that he will eventually be entirely restored to health, Ex-Senator Tabor of Colorado has an in- come from his Vulture mine near Tucson, Ari, of $1,000 a day, and is beginning to think that he can afford to wear better night shirts than thoso §250 ones he has been using. James Russell Lowell has returned to his beloved England, and was present at an opera performance in Liverpool the other night when Mme. Roze was given a tiara of diamonds by citizens of that city as a birth- day gift. Dennis Ryan, the St. Paul millionaire, began his career on a western railroad with a pick and shovel. One investment of §5,000 ina Colorado mine which he made a few yoors ago 18 said to have netted him $2,000,000. Fall River, Mass,, points proudly to the fact that tho late Perry Davis, ‘‘the pain killer,” was a carpenter in that city forty years ugo or more, When he found his pan- acea for all ills he left his bench and took to peddling medicine in a basket. His neigh- bors told him he was foolish to desert his trade in such a manner, but Davis never doubted his ability to make a fortune with his “pain killer.” He went to Providence, R.L,and became proprietor of what was afterward the largest patent medicine estab- lishment in the world. He died some years ago, leaving a large estate to his heivs. M STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. TUlysses has voted to build a school. With the opening of spring Stockholm is preparing for a boom. Double-barrelled shotguns well loaded, is the current remedy for the dog sur- plus in Grand Island. The board of trade of Indianola is ne- gotiating for a number of industries. ‘Water works and electric light are among the early certainties. Tecumseh will tackle the water-works 3ucsfiuu with a special election on the th of April. It is proposed to issue 821,000 in bonds to purchase a plant. M. C. . Spear has hung out the Sig- nal in the journalistic pasture at St. Edwavrd. The Signal is there to stay, we are cheerfully informed, “vrovidod there is bread and butter in it.’ . A syndicate of Grand Island, Anselmo and Broken Bow capitalists have pooled and purchased a mineral spring in Cus- ter county. These waters are said to ossess rare mineral qualities and a ragrant and far-reaching smell. Knox county expects great benefit from the railroad excursions planned by the Elkhorn Valley road. There will be seven of them, and hundreds of east- erners will be brought out to view and locate on the fertile uplands of north Nebraska. Miss Mary D. Leggett, of Beatrice, was ordained a minister of the Uni- tarian denomination ir Kansas City a few days ago. She will have charge of a church in her own city and was given asnug sum to aid in the erection of a building. George H. Powers, of the Beatrice Free Lance, is again abroad, after a bout of twenty-one weeks with an over- production of rheumatism. The attach- ment was so warm and vigorous that the Free Lance wasalso temporarily knocked out. Both man and weapon are now in shape to do some political skinning in the spring campaign “Representative McShane is t says the Knox county News, “to pus bill through congress, providing for another bridge across the Missou i at Omaha, and the Union Pa whom the present bridge belongs—and they have coined money out of the bridge ever since it was built—are en- denvoring to defeat the bill through their attorneys, who are in Washington lobbying against i Suys the Hustings Democrat: Omaha press is a unit in the b “The pronouncing ess men of Hastings the most enterprising in the west. The same press has said many kind words for {astings generally, for which we feel duly grateful. Omaha and Hastings have more interests in common than the casual observer imagines and this season will develop some of them,” r, William Patterson, of Central City, writes that the report that Helen Anderson, a domestic in that city, had gone crazy on the subject of veligion, is untrue.” The ecause of her misfortune was toc much lowa scoundrel confidence in an who promised to make h his wife. The report which stirred Mr. Patterson to unne- cessary indignation and ungentlemanly assertions, was published in the tele- graph columns of several papers and in the local columns of the Grand Island Independent, The latter paper also gave the name of a Mrs. Dowd who had been driven insane by Rev. Brown's sulphurous religion. The McCook Democrat pays a well deserved compliment to the striking engine “The struggle,” says the Democrat, ‘‘between the Brotherhood of Engineers and Firemen and the ‘Q’ system has continued four weeks, and still the former have not made a stam- pede for their old ‘:uuil.ions, 4s many ex- pected. To-day they present as solid and unbroken a front as on the first day, and whether you are friendly to them or not, you cannot help but admire the pluck ‘and determination displayed in their struggle for what they consider their rights. They conduct tiwmwlvus in & quiet and gentlemanly manner, aud by 80 doing are continually winning ad- miration from the people.” Towa 1te Society in Newton clings ‘to roller skating. The Central Iowa base ball league is the lates The Salem postmaster assaulted a patron and pounded him & la Sullivan, because they differed politically and in regard to the conduct of the office. The ‘democratic girls of Towa Falls have been gathered into the Frances Folsom Cleveland club, ' 1f they had the right to vote Frances’ re-election would be scoure. A large mogul engine, run by one of the exgerieneod engineers now em- ployed by the C., B. & Q., jumped the the track at Red Oak, and after knook- ing out the side of the superintendent’s office, ran into the turn table and is said to be a total wreck. ‘At the depth of nearly six hundrod feet down into the bowels of the earth,” says the Centerville Citizen, “the work- men at the artesian well Thursday tapped a nest of bats and drew about twenty-five of them to the surface alive and Kicking.” A young Keokuk blood has been as- tonishing the inhabitants of Centarville d![l'lngt e past week., He used nice, crisp $10 bills to_light his cigars, and bought a new silk hat every morning which he converted into a football in the afternoon. He gave it out that he expected to buy the town and made such isplay of himself that the people sup- posed he was a real, genuine million- aire. He was admired by many of Cen- terville’s fastest and best, still he was unhappy and turned away from all this flattery to drown his sorrow in the bowl. Utah and Montana. Steam motors are used on the street railways of Butte. The glass factory at Salt Lake City has started up with a force of fifty-six wen, Vast quantities of Utah potatoes are being shipped east. They bring $1.10 per 100 pounds on the cars Salt Lake real estate is flying high in miv\n with an increasing demand. The ormon footstool is appreciating. The building outlook for 1888 in Helena is decidedly promising, Build- ings already planned will require an ex- ponditure of over $300,000, About seven hundred men are em- ployed in the construction of the Ana- conda new smelter. It will contain thirty-two furnaces and will increase the capacity 3,000 tons a day. A handsome society lady has jumped into fame in Helena. While walking along Fifth avenue recently, a running team suddenly turned into the street. Realizing her danger instantly, sb placed one gloved hand (the other hold- ing a parasol) on a four-hoard fence and cleared it at one bound, h dress scarcely touching it. The performance was s0 neatly and quickly done that it drew from the spectators enthusiastic leap year applause. In response to the encore, the lady said: “I realiy don't know how I did it; I never attempted anything of the kind before.” The Pacific Coast. The electric light wires in San Jose are to be put under ground. The people of Frensno have sub- scribed $100,000 toward building a new railroad to San Francisco. Thomas D. Tongue is the name of a prominent politician of Oregon. He will be heard from this summer. The output of precious metals in Idaho will most likely amount to $10,- 000,000 for 1888, against 37,500 in 1887. The actal yield of the Delhi mine, near North San Juan, Cal,, for 1887 was 3131,3;:1.21. The expenses were $39,409,- Shasta county is said to contain one of the best chrome mines in the world. It is located on Shotgun creek, on the railroad, not far from Sims station. The new liquor license law passed by the last Idaho legislature gives every incorporated town 90 per cent of the li- cense money and the remaining 10 per cent goes to the terrvitory. - A hunter near Canyon City, Or., a short time since shot a cougar and cap- tured her young ones, small kittens, He had a litter of young hounds athome and he placed the young cougars among them, and they are thriving well. They lie around in front of the fire and play with each other just like two ordinary kittens. — A Railroad Trust. San Francisco Chrondcle. A movement has been made to con- solidate in one trust all the railroads between Chicago and the Rocky moun- tains and between the British boundary and Indian territory. The outline of the plan is to elect a chairman for the trust and a board of control, consisting of one representative from each of the members of the trust, this board of con- trol to have entire supervision of the in- terests of the various roads. The rate- making power is to be lodged with this board of control, and all changes in rates and all questions pertaining to competition business are to be adjudi- cated by this committee, The capitali- zation of the trust, if it is ca will mount up to the total of fully 000,000, A contemporary doubts if so heavy an aggregation of capital and corporate interests could hold together, and thinks that in the event of its holding together it would have to settle with the law and the inter-state commission. It is to be feared that they would be found but a broken reed for the support of populat rights against such an enor- mous power as these aggregated rail- roads could wield. In the first place, there is no law at present in existence which would be di- rectly violated by such a combination, or to which an appeal could be had, In many of the states there are express provisions permitting the consotidation of railroad corporations, and to prevent the formation of such a trust these laws would have to be repealed and prohibi- tory legislation adopted, which would be ‘o matter of difficulty to say the least. As to the conflict with the interstate commission, 4 state of affairs can be eas- ily imagined in which such conflict would not be probable, and perhaps not even possible, Up to the present time & majority of the cases which have come before that commission have been based on the proposition that injustice was being done by & certain railroad corpo- ration, but this was predicated on the allegation that the corporation complained of was doing something different from some other corporation. For instance,if the A & B railroad established certain rates,and the C & D railroad, under similar cir- cumstances and conditions, charged more for a like service, a cause of aetion arose against the C & D. But suppose that a trust controlled both the zk & B and Nor would such a trust conflict, in terms, with section 5 of the inter-state commission act, That section makes iv unlawful for any common carrvier to enter intoany contract, agreement or combination with any other common carvier for the pooling of freights of different and competing railroads, or to divide between them the aggregate or net ceeds of the earnings of such i but it does not provide against the absorption of auy number of com- peting railroads by a trust, nor does the act anywhere limit the schedule of fares and {reights, except to say that they shall be just and reasouable. The whole act is framed upon the theory of regulation by competition, and of help- ing the people to make a stingy, close- fisted railroad do as well for them as a \ generous, liberal onme; but if all the Northwestern railroads are welded into one, whers is the competition, or by what comparative scale can changes ba adjusted? Let us make no mistake as to the pos- sibility of the creation of such a trust. It is wholly feasible and by no means improbable; and wo must face the con« tingency squarely and fairly. The Pacific coast is especially interested in it, and 1t will stand like a foreign coun- try between us and the east, drawing tribute from ornia and exactin, toll on our east-bound shipments of every kind. Let us consider the matter and seo whether any remedy short of government control is adequate to deal with the threatened danger. i CHOICE OF THE EDITORS. Presidential Preferonoes of Western Newspaper Men, Reports have boen collected from the editors of about 400 newspapers in Towa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missour: and Colorado, which give the preferences of each editor for president, both on the ropublican and democratio tickets. Replies from democratio editors in all the states mentioned show that Mr, Cleveland is their only first choice, with the possible exception of one editor, who an- nounces himself unqualifiedly in favor of Frances Folsom Cleveland for the executive chair, The republican editors, since Blaino has declared himself out of the race, have usually announced their individual preferenca and added *‘as a second choice, the nominco of the convention, regardless of whom he may be.” The following reports will show the favorites in cachof the states mentioned : .64 3 \\'m\\ or (gbk) . Powdorly (iab Lincoln . Hawle; Harrison Van W C. B. Fisk (pro) . Grover Cleveland. KANSAS, Beear®s RLLRBLLES Grover Cleveland. MISSOURL. Gresham , Swinton (lab) . Fisk (pro). Mrs, Clevelan Grover Cleveland. COLORADO. vroase Sansn Em e Cleveland., Allison.... Blaine. Lincoln . Sherman Gresham Dopew. Cleveland...... Mrs. Cleveland. Fisk (pro)... Weaver (gbk). Streeter... Powderly (1 Swinton (lab). AN OPEN BOARD. Possibilities That Trading Will Begin at the Chamber of Commerce. President Tler presided over a slimly at- tended meeting of tho board of trade last evening to resume consiceration of the ro- vised by-laws, which were read section by soction, amended, revised and discussed with considerable vigor. They were finally adopted, together with the appended section, which the members think will have & tend- ency to inspire an open hoard: Ly the afirmative vote of six members of board of directors, any person of good ‘haracter and credit, and of logal age, may be granted for one year the privilege of trans- ucting business' in the exchange rooms, tha same as members, upon presenting an appli- cation in writing, stating name, residence and business or vocation, and the payment of $25 and signing an agreement to be governed by the rules and regulations by which members of the ussociation are governed: Provided, That the privilege granted by this section shall not extend beyond any one year, ex- cept in the manner as_requirad upon orlginal application; Provided, further, That noth- ing contained m this section shall bo con- strued as conyeying any vested or rovision- ary right or interest in any property, nor any other rights or privileges than are named in this section. A Tribute to Mr. Sorenson. On the first of next month, after twelve years of almost continuous service on tho Bee, Mr. Alfred Sorenson, late managing oditor of this paper, assumes a like position on the Herald of this city. The severance of his connection with the Bee was improved by the editorial and reportorial forces who have worked under Mr. Sorenson, to convey to him the feeling of approciation which they have entertained of his ability and his treat- ment of them, The moans selected of bring- ing the matter, in a formal manner, to Mr, Sorenson's attention, was a dinner tenderod to the gentleman by the members of tho staff, which was given at the Millard, last ovening, The writers present were E. C. Hardy, Al Fajrbrother, mor A. O'Brien, Silas W G. V. wold, W. A. Runkles, James B. Haynes, Frank Atkinson, W, J. Byrnes, G. H. Leader, Richard Metoalfe, 8. E. Pet- tigrow, Charles Elgutter ' and C. W, Jackson. An excellent spread, comprising hine courses with appropriate’ wines, was served by Manager McDonald, and’ after justice had been doue the viands, @ number of specches were made by the' gentlemen, among which were those of Messrs. Hardy, Fitzmorris, Fairorother, O'Brien, Elgutter, Jackson, Metcalfe, Haynes and tho guest limself. Two hours were pleasantly spent and the gathering adjourned with the kind- liest wishes for the success of Mr. Sorenson in his new position. e A Paralyzed Pinkerton, A member of the Pinkerton army, who is at present engaged in “‘guard. ing"’ the property of the B.& M. railroad, tired of the monotony of the pro last night, and after filling his interior with the carmine colored liquid which retails at 15 cents per finger, proceeded to paint the town. One of his comrades caught him in the act and rescued him from arrest, Here- fused the reporter his name when asked, and the remainder of the crowd also dectined to reveal his identity, pa Will Not Work For It. The union bricklayers met at their hall on the corner of Douglas and Fourteenth strects yesterday afternooa, and again in the evens ing. Ivwas the popular verdict of the men that they would not accept the final offer of the contractors to work for 50 cents an hour, Nothing short of $4.50 for elght hours will satisfy them,