Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1888, Page 4

i THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ly (Morning Bdition) including Su e Year . .. . A OFFIoE, NOS S1AND 910 FARN. =l O ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE 1xGTON OFFICE, NO. b3 TRENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- forial matter should be addressed to the Eprron T™HE BER. - BUSINESS LETTERS. 11 business letters and remittances should be iressed to THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANT, ARA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to ‘made payable to the order of the company. The Be¢ Publishing Company. Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation, mfi{ Mhn‘c:,“'unnury of The Bes Pub- ing company, oes solemily swear that the m.rclm?‘;u jon of the Daily Bee for the week March ), 1688, was as follow 10,850 TZSCHUCK. i, " to and subscribed in my_presence this 4 Mo{umflz. A . TON: P FEI L, Notary Public. te of Nebraska, " inty of Dougluss, (%5 Geo, B. Teschuek, being Airst Auly sworn, de- ‘and sayn that he i8 secretary of The Bea blishing compnny, that the ntusl avernge Qaily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month arch, 187, 14400 copies; for Aprt 14318 cdples; I May, coples; for June, 187, 14,147 cople July, 8T, 106 coplest for Awsust, 3887, 14,151 coples; for September, 1867, 14,49 les: for October, 1887, 14,75: for November, 15,220 for. December, 1687, 15,041 'u:glu: ml;d)nfix‘%y. 1668, 16,208 coples: for ruary, 1868, coples. -4 l"l’ll!\'). B. TZSCHUCK. Eworn and subscribed to in m{ presence this 84 day of March, A, D. 18, N, P. FEIL, Notary Publie. coples; “WiLL Cley | duck swim ? HASCALITY has its representatives in the board of education as well as in the ‘council. THE nearer the time gets to Jake Sharp’s second trial, the sicker he is said to be. Queer, isn’t it? AN increase of over 3,000 school chil- dren in the last year is a reliable test of ©Omaha’s rapid and permanent growth. As a sensational letter writer, Jay ‘Gould is a howling success. Tho’ there is more howl than success in the screed mgainst Editor Bennett. SCIENTISTS claim that natural gas will extend itself in a few years all over the United States. That is, providing the democratic convention at St. Louis «does not use it all up in June. Ir takes sugar to catch flies. Balti- mmore Philadelphia and New York are ®bidding for Claus Spreckle’s sugar re- finery. Philadelphia is willing to put $7,000,000 into the poor mun’s hand @6 a bonus if he will locate the plant there. WesT VIRGINIA and other eastern states are obliged to advertise their re- sources and advantages through glow- ing special editions of the newspapers. “This is necessary in order to keep their people from emigrating in a body to the wide and prosperous west. KANsAs CI7Y is now in the throes of a city election in which the ‘“machine” and the people are pitted against each other. Kansas City appears to be as ~much of a ring-ridden city as many other western towns, and all on account of the indifference of the.respectable woter. EEpTe—— ACCIDENTS at the railroad crossings in this city are becoming altogother too frequent. The council should promptly ‘enact regulations that will compel rail- road companies to light every crossing and keep watchmen on duty night and day. TowA legislators passed a law taxing the Pullman cars in that state. But the ' Pullman company secured an injunc- tion from the United States court at St. Louis to prevent the exccutive council of Iowa from assessing its property. « Here is an opportunivy for the state legislature to protest agninst federal in- terference with state rights. And Iowa has faith that the rights of the state ean prevail in spite of the United States court. How much longer will Haseall's cats- paws in the school board keep up the farce of introducing resolutions to de- mand that the city shall pay back the money contributed by the board of edu- eation, through authority of the people, toward the construction of the city hall? Don’t they know enough to know that there is no money in the city treasury to pay them? Don’t they know that the _ money which they did pay was secured through a special school tax levy, and therefore was not taken out of any of fhe funds set apart for school purposes? ‘What object have they in pla i ean to the council bell-wether be to get the board of education into legal complications. Mz. ANDREW CARNEGIE is going to try *‘profit sharing” in the regulation of wages of the steel workers at Brad- dock, Pa. The plan is based on a sliding scale, My, Carnegic suggests that the workmen and firm cach select #a accountant to examine the sales and gee what the selling price of the firm has been for the past month, If it is found that the price hus increased, wages are to be advanced corvespondingly each mouth and vice versa. The peale is tostand for one year. The ad- wantoge of this method for regu- Qating the wages of fictory and mill ‘hands will be fully demonstrated in Mr. Carnegie’s steel mill. 1f the plan Brings about & cordial relation between employer and employe and an equits Ple division between profit and wages, " 8 will go far in solving the wages ques- tlon. A sliding scale 15 not the uni- " yersal remody for the oquitable distri: L tion of wages, but it may be success- in fixing the rate of wages for fac- ~ dory sud mill bands. - The Minority Report. The report of the republican minority of the ways and means committee is n much more elaborate discussion of the irifl than the report of the majority. Tt shows at least that shere is a great deal that can be said on both sides of the question. These reports, however, really only foreshadow what is to come when the subject is formally before the house and all of the three hundred and twenty-five members have the privilege of talking upon it. Nearly half this number have already signified their in- tention to speak on the tariff. Allowing three prepared speeches a day, which with the casual remarks on the sub- joct would probably be all the house could stand, and provision is already made for fully forty days of tariff oratory. It seems inevitable that the talk must go on until the first of June, with every likelihood of being continued beyond that date. At all events the country is assured of being deluged with such a flood of wisdom and eloguence on this question as it has never known before. The minority report pursues the line of discussion that was anticipated. Tts strongest poiut against the Mills bill is thesectional discrimination of that meas- ure, which was fully pointed out when the bill was first made public. It isa very material and serious objection, bearing conclusive evidence of the par- tisan considerations which influenced the democrats of the ways and means committee. The report vigorously combats the proposal to place wool on the free list, and insists that such a policy would be destructive of the wool industry of this country. The views of the minority on this feat- ure of the Mills bill will receive more favorable consideration than their argu- ment against a reduction of the steel rail duty. The steel rail syndicate is now protected by a duty of seventeen dollars, which the tariff bill proposes to reduce to eleven dollars. Profitable competition by English manufacturers cannot be carried on until the price of rails in the American market reaches forty dollars a ton. This shows that the cost of foreign steel rails delivered at New York is about twenty-three dollars aton. Allowing the costof producing a ton of steel rails in this country to be from three to five dollars more than this, which is doubtless a very generous allowance, and a duty of cleven dollars would - afford a protection of from five to eight dollars. This ought to be ample to enable the steel industry not only tosurvive jbut to prosper. It would diminish the vast in- come of the syndicate, which could not push the price of rails above thirty-four dollars without drawing active compe- tition, but the contracts made this year show that the steel rail manufacturers can afford to sell for between two and three dollarsless than the maximum price they would be held to under the duty proposed in the new tariff bill. There can be no question that when steel rails sold in the American market last year for forty dollars the syndicate received not less than ten dollars a ton in excess of a fair and even liberal profit. This was nothing less than a direct tribute to the monopoly, every dollar of which must ultimately come out of the pockets of the people, and largely out of those of the farmers of the y. The proposed reduction of duty would cut down the tribute here- after to not less than four dollars, and this is quite enough to demand of the people of the country iu behalf of the opulent steel rail syndicate. The report expresses the unanimous opinion of the republican members of the ways and means committee, and un- doubtedly has the approval of the large majority of the republicans of the house. It does not hold out the promise that they will present to the country a plan of tariff revision that will meet the pre- vailing conditions or respond to the ex- pectations of a very large proportion of the people. It is not reassuring of the adoption of any satisfactory policy of revenue reform by the present con- av It does not encourage the hope of relief from the burdens of taxation, or of adequate provision against the dangers of an accumulating surplus. 1t very greatly darkens the prospect of legislation for improving the fiseal sys- tem of the government and relieving the financial situation of the country from a strain which it is reasonably feared cannot be much longer continued without very serious consequences. The Two Dromios. The board of education has its own Hascall in the person of Dr aville, Like the council bell-wether who has played jayhawker in Kansas and ¢ jumper in Wyoming, this medicine- man has also a career and a record, 's ugo he was in Sioux City pr ip & church, from which he is said to have backslidden into another. Having performed the feat of a religi- ous acrobat the new convert was made the agent at the Red Cloud Indian reser- vation on the recommendation of his bishop. There he soon became a man of national repute, by reason of the charges which placed on him the sponsibility for the starvatvion of his wards through rascally flour and begf contractors, The BEE gave publicity to these charges of fraud and maltreat- ment, and the good medicine mixer was made to vacate the reservation for the benefit of the red man. Then he hied himsell to Kearney, where he dabbled in politics and medicine, But the wickea do not always prosper. Failing to build up a luerative busi- ness at Kearney, the doctor came to Omaha. Here he took a new departure that promised to make him a power in politics, The horny-handed medicine- man joined the Knights of Labor,and commenced to work with his jaw. By the influence of the toiling masses and couvention packers, he had himself nominated for the school board last June aud was duly elected. In spite of his K. of L. afliation, the BEE refused to endorse him, bocause it knew him to be a fraud from away back. His performunce ou city hall resolu- tions explains itself. The great and good ddbtor gave us his reasous forof- fering the resalution demanding the money from the council, the prétense that the injunction . of the courts re- quires a vote of the pegple before auys rd- thing more can be done on the city hall building. In this. the doctar simply ochoed Hascall. Fverybody con- versant with the injunction order knows better, Then the doctor declared that he utterly disapproves the Mycrs' plans. We venture to assert that the doctor has never plans, and has never called at the board of public works to examine them. But suppose he had seen them, what is his opinion worth s against that of compe- tent builders, engineers and architects who hs examined these plans and pronounce them first-class in every way. ' Filling the Assessors' Blanks. The most difficult problem of taxation is the assessment of property. While the state laws require all property to be assessed at its actual cash value, a very wide difference of opinion prevails as to what the cash value of any prop- erty subject to taxation actually is. In appraising real estate the assessors usually place valuation at from one- fourth to one-fifth of its market value, or rather the price at which it would sell ordinarily. There are, however, many instances where assessors rate real estate at from one-tenth to one- twentieth of its market value. This, of course, works injustice to taxpayers whose property is assessed at the usual rate, Personal property values are fixed by the owner on the assessors’ blank. Tt is presumed that parties would make their return of personal property on the basis of one-fourth to one-fifth of its market value. But the divergence is even much greater on personal prop- erty returns than on realty. Some peo- ple who are cunscientious, and feel that they should certify to the exact truth, fill out the blank with an estimate of the actual value of their furniture, mer- chandise, carriages, horses and mort- gages. Others compress their con- sciences into a very small compass and manage to evade their just share of taxes by forgetfulness of what their bank account, mortgage-loans and pos- sessions in movable property would bring even at_sheriff’s sale. In other P : words, the honest and conscientious cit- izen volunteers to bear the heaviest part of the burden. This classis made up largely of the wage worker and pro- fessional man. The money-lender, speculator, and man of large means is an expert in filling cut the assessors’ blank so as to make his personal prop- erty appear insignificant. It is understood to be the desire and intention of the democratic majority in the house of representatives to devote as much time as possible during the next two weeks to appropriation bills, so that when the tariff bill comes in for discus- sion it can have as nearly as may be a clear course. But in this matter the majority proposes and Mr. Randall dis- poses. The chairman of the appropria- tions committee has not thus far exhib- ited any solicitude about pushing the business of which he has charge, and there is no reason to suppose that he will do so now in order to gratify the element which autagonizes him and of which he has nothing to expect. He will certainly do nothing to fo ward the chances of the Mills tariff bill, and he has it in his power to again employ his well known obstructive tactics. It is more than likely that he will have a lot of appro- priation bills ready, and will urge them for consideration, just about the time that the house is prepared to go on with the tariff debate, and in one way and another will manage to keep these bills in position for the purpose of obstruc: tion whenever he shall deem it ex- pedient to pursue that policy. This he has done before aud it is apprehended will do again. And unfortunately the house is helpless, since appropriation bills have precedence and their control is entirely in the hands of the chair- man of the appropriations committee. THE sugar trust been in existence five months, and last week declared a dividend of two and one-hall per cent for that period. This dividend was on a certificate capital of forty-five mill- ion dollars, which is three times the amount of the actual investment, so that at this rate the trust is realizing eigh- teen per cont aunually on its capital. A most profitable business, certainly, and capable of being made more so if the sugar schedule of the Mills turiff bill should prevail. This proposes a material reduction on the low grades from which the trust refines, and a slight reduction in the higher grades that would go into consumption in com- petition with the product of the trust. It is estimated that since the trust was formed the advance on refined sugars has given it a profit of a million and aquarter dollars, and this advance was without e o since the price of its raw material has declined. It was purely the reise of a right of monopoly to plunder the peo- ple. The trust will doubtless be con- tent to allow the price of sugar to re- main where it is for the present. It is doing fairly well in carning eighteen per cent on its investment. But if nothing is done by congress to put a restraint upon it, an advance of the price of sugar will speedily follow ad- journment,and it will need the addition of but one cent a pound to the product of the trust to yield it a profit that will more than double the dividend for the past five months. 2 is a geod deal of necdless offi- ciousness in regard to enforcing the ordinanc sgulating the erection of sigus and sign posts, and the obstruc- tion of sidewalks. In the first place, the business streets of Omaha are wider than those of a large majority of Amer- ican cities. If & sign happens to pre twelve or eighteen inches beyond the exact line fixed by ordinance, nobody is very inconvenienced. Most of sidewalks are from sixteen to twenty feet wide, while at Kunsas City, St. Louis, Philadelphia and even New York four and six foot sidewulks are considered ample for thoroughfares that do as much traffic in lay as any businass street in Omaha does in a week. This display of mer- chandise on sidewalkssixteen to twenty feet. wide . .ueed not ' necessar- ily be . treated - as au obstruc- THET tion. Neluu_r docs the ' loading seen those and unloading of merchandise require interference by the police. On Water street in Chicago, barrels, boxes and crates are piled upon the sidewalks ten feet high and people have to thread their way with the greatest of cate, but the pol do not interfere. - The peo- vle of Chicago very cheerfully submit to the inconveniences of a booming traffic. So they do in other eities. Instead of meddling with signs and boxes of merchandise, the police can make itself more useful by looking after the alleys and having them cleaned of rubbish and decayed vegetables THE battle for high licen, in New York, which has been waged with great vigor, gives promise of being successful. A bill has passed the lower branch of the legislature and is now in the senate, where the chief danger that confronts itisthe desire of certain republican members to make the beer license very low. The bill discriminates in favor of beer, but the particular friends of that beverage think the discrimination ought to be still wide: It will be speedily discovered, if the bill becomes a law. that its fauit is in making any discrimination. A license law must be uniform to be safe, just and efficient. This is the lesson of experience and common sense, and it will ultimately have to he accepted in New York as elsewhere, if that state adopts the high license principle COUNCILMAN LOWRY wants the city hall on the corner of Tenth and Mason streets. From the number of sites which enterprising councilmen have already picked out on which to locate the city hall building, it would seem that they want to evect a building on wheels and keep it moving every six months. Chief Arthur is universally referred to by the engineers as the *‘old man.” Timothy Healy, the dashing M. P., was an obscure clerk about a dozen years ago. General Manager Stone, of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road, is about thirty- seven years old. Senator Hoar has reccived tho degree of LL. D. from Har Yale, Williams, Am- herst and William and Marg’s. Senator Vest, of Missouri, Sawyer, of Wis- consin, and Jones, of Nevada, are con- sidered the best story-tellers of the senate. Thomas Nast has a libel suit on hand in San Franciseo, not for caricaturing any- body, but for drawwig a contract to lecture. Louis Kossuth is still living at Turm_with his sister, in good health and busy with his autobiography. He is eighty-six years of age. <3 The remarkable gatement is maae that Justice Gray has drawn 1,000 French novels from the congressional library since his ac- cess to the supreme eourt. Colonel Fred N. Dow refused to vote for his father, Neal Dow, when he ran for mayor of Portland, Me., last week, but sup- ported the rupuhlu-anjcq_n?idnw. There are but four | med - now living who have by name received the thanks of co gress by joint. resolution. They are Sheri- dan, Terry, Howard ahd Sherman. At cighty years ol Hon. Hugh McCulloch retains his brown hair and whiskers, only slightly touched with gray, and does not use eye-glasses more than half the time. Ex-Governor Alger,of Michigan, owns a vast tract of timber land near Alpena. It contams over one hundred square miles and bears 500,000,000 feet of white and yellow pine. The London Tid-Bits publishes a number of autographs of “‘distinguished men of the world.” The name of Buffalo Bill is found dircetly opposite the signature of the prince of Wales. Charles H. Litchman would be taken any- where for a prosperous merchant rather than a prominent figurc in the Knights of Labor organization. He hasan intellectual 1 pair of dark eyes and wears an exqui fitting suit of clothes, Ho is rather a re- ticent man, a quality that is desirable in his position as general secretary of the great order. Major General Terry, commanding the military division of the Missouri, will soon retire. He has purchased a beautiful house Haven for his future home, and will u that city. He is one of the wealthi- est men in the army, and his retired pay will be about $5,000. He has been a usefal and popular ofticer, and was a good example of the gentleman. There lives in Reed City, Mich., in the person of Mr. Yates, one of the “immortal 000, who by missunderstanding an order given them by their commander, made the “SCharge of the Light Brigade” against such fearful odds—The charge rendered famous by Tennyson. Mr. Yates feels very proud of the se rendered his country at that time. John A. Togan, son of the late Gencral Jolm A. Logun, owns four thoroughbred race horses, now stationed at the Lexington, Ky., track. This is Mr. Logan's first ven- ture as & sporting man, and he has the good will, it is said, of all the trainers at Lexington. Men who admired his father, however, would rather see young Logan at- tending to the of the nation than 10 those of the | Can't Com Judge. It seems odd, but when a man million or 80 his crimes outlaw in mouths, is worth a about six ———— Not a Boswell, Life Badeau attempting to play Bacon to Grant's Shakespeare and activg ashis own Donnelly, is not s startling success. 1 B No Flies on Smyth, St. Payl Glake. Since he has made th:'(:qt public that an attempt was made to bribe him by an effer of $250,000, Recorder Smyth may expect to see the New York politicians flock after bis place like flics around’ a molasses barrel in summer, i B e No Chestaut Tree. Chicago Herald, The Dlinois oficials have decided to cele- brate Arbor day by each planting a tree in the state house yard. Governor Oglesby will plant an elm, Secretary Dement an oak, Auditor Swigert a larch, Treasurer Tanner a sycamore and 50 on to the last, but curi- ously enough not one of these old political standbys will plant a chestnut t - New Haven Register. The efforts of the democratic protection- ists to frighten the congressional supporters of the Mills' tariff bill on the ground that Connecticut is solid against the measure are amusing. Conwecticut is no longer for pro- tection, - That unique panacea for all our ‘Dusiness ills has already driven someé of our largest ‘manufacturing . concerns from. the state and depress those thatremain.. The manufacturers of the state, especially those located in the interior, regard the repoal the tarift taxes on raw materials as noces- sary to their existence. They aro not Alarmed at all at the prospoct of life under a lower tariff. On the contrary, the only féar they havi that the present bill will fall be- twaen the inefficiently disciplined democratic house and the republican senate, posisetlriienit They Have 1tching Palms, New York World, No wonder the customs officials are unable to keep out the Chinose who arrive in San Francisco when custom inspectors oconspire to get them in. The confession of an in- dicted inspector yesterday in San Francisco shows how easy it 18 to got around the law and bring in thousands of Mongolians, pro- vided the men who are sworn to serve Uncle Sam honestly have an itching palm. —-— The Song of the Voter. Springfield Republican. 1 ‘When railroad lines the highways meet, Just separate the grades ! High arches do not mar the street Like broken necks and mangled feet Of both the humble and elite, Just separate the grades! 1, When rum is froo and water, 0o, Just separate the os ! Rank, lawless license will not do, Nor crnhlhlllnn‘n constant stew, 1sut keep a middle course in view, And separate the grades! 1 ‘When party tickets fail to pleases, Just separate the grades ! Men should not drop upon their knces And drink one party to the lees In small munigipalities, But scparate the grades! . priditatits ety STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jotungs. Beatrice has contracted for $20,000 worth of sewers. The Episcopalians of Lincoln propose to invest #40,000 in a brown stone chureh. The state insane asylum at Norfolk is already crowded and the base ball sen- son is not yet fairly open, Ex-Treasurer O’Brien, of a school district in Gage county, is under bonds for trial for failing to account for $119. The board of trade of Broken Bow propose to invest in printers’ ink and illuminate the advantages of the town and county. > The Burlington slapped a mortgage on file in Gage county last week to se- cure a loan of $1,500,000. The strike has produced a painful emptiness in the treasury. The school census of Beatrice shows a total of 1,903 children of school age, against 1,704 one yearago. The thrifty charmer of the Blue gives substantial evigence of her enterprise Queen Chuagum is operating on the credulous at $1 a head in Lincoln. She fills a long felt want by showing the capital city maidens how to gracefully work their gobs over a full grown wad. A Norfolk man who had struggled bravely against the barbarous relic of forgotien eivilization that compels hus- bands to build the morning fire, broke his pledge last Wednesday. He went back to bed and died of a broken heart. The Nebraska Elevator and Grain company has become an corporated The c()m{mn y is virtually a “trust” of nearly all elevators in the South Platte country, and the clutches of the legalized pool will soon be felt. Towa Items. Burlington boasts of a red headed negro. A cable street railway threatens the slumbers of Sioux City. Burlington will have a new Methodist church, to cost about 338,000, The Central Christian church of Des Moines has purchased a lot and will erect a new house. An Atlantic paper says that no indus- try is coming to the front fastor in that section than the breeding of fast horses. The Des Moines Y. M. C. A. will erect a building of its own costing, with the lot, $75,000. Several thousand dol- lors has already been pledged. The miners of Des Moines have re- turned to work, a compromise of 12} cents being agreed on by all instead of the 15 centu reduction asked by the operators. Dakota. A stone planing-mill will be built in Sioux Falls this spring. At Fargo a mammoth mo been mounted on Broadway. He is said to have the broadest antlers on record. Coal discover are being made in various parts of Dakota. What is more necessary is that some of them be devel- oped. By the estimates of the governors of the respective tervitories, Dakota has 173,331 more population than Washing- ton, Montana and New Mexico bined. A large force office of the City. The so_hag just com- s still at work in the gister of deeds at IRapid number of documents of- ord this year is far ahead of any time before noted. The property of the Yankton Pork and Beef Packing company has been sold to United States Marshal D. W. Maratta, S. B, Coulson and Pennsylva- nia capitalists for $30,000. Improve- ments to cost $10,000 will be made on the buildings this summer and the c: pacity of the pork packing house in- creased to 2,500 hogs per day. B Magone's Custom House Machine. New .York, April 8.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.]—Collector Magone's return from Washington yesterday revived excitement and apprehension at the custom house, One of the first documents to reach his eye was the resignation of J. A, Stanwood, chief of the refunding division, He has held the position for twelve years. Mr. Stanwood is a nephew of James 3G, Blaine. Thomas S. Kelly, watchman at the public storcs, got his walking papers. He is arepublican. Some im- portaut removals are threatened to take place soon. Among those whose names were used i this connection were Joseph Trelor, thirty years in the custom house,and now chief of thie correspondence bureat, and Frederick A. Wight, deputy collector of the third divi- sion, — Henry Bergh's Will. New Youk, April 3.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.] —Henry Bergh left by will a valua- ble piece of property on Warren street, this city, to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It is now claimed that the belonged to his wife, who be- slative, Mrs. George A, De 'rel to be heldiu trust for the latter's daughter. A contest for possession of the property will be made. - The Big Thump New Youg, April 8.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Dominick McCaffrey, whowar- rived from Englaud Sunday, gives an inter- esting description of the Sullivan-Mitchell fight, and says he is now ready to fight John L. to a finish, and thinks he can whip him, too. Mitchell is coming over and will” prob- ably make a mateh with Dempsey. - Sullivan, it is understood, will be' home this or next week. SR £ The Fire Record. Hariworn, Conn., April 8.—Last night a fire at Rockville destroyed the Second Cou- gregutional charch and Fischer bloek, which 15 & business and dwelling block, causing & 1085 0f $100,000, with insurence of §5,000 PICEON HOLED CADET'S KICK, Taylors Howl Gives Hascall a COhanoe to Say Olty Hall FORD AFTER THE PINKERTONS. He Questions Their Authority—The Police Authorities Called Upon to Explain—A Sign Ordinance Passed at Last. Doings In Council. ‘The only chance given Hascall at the coun- cil meoting last pight to say city hall was when a communication was read from Cadet Taylor, of the Republican, setting up a kick against the communication of Mayor Broatch, roceived some woeks ago, that the city adver- tise for bids for printing the revised city ordinances, Cadet claiming that he was en. titled to the work on the slender plea vhat his company had gone to some expense in pro- paring for the work which they expected to undertake last fall. Cadet followed up this howl by disclosing a musty smelling com- munication from Mr. W. J. Connell, in which the latter gentleman suggested that a litho- graph of the city hall would make an ap- propriate and pretty frontpioce. This bit of intelligence roiled Hascall, who got up and moved that he be appointed a committee of one todraw & charcoal picture of the city hall. His joke fell flat, and he felt flatter when Councilman Alexander suggestod that Has- call draw the one hehas been trying to build on Jefferson square. Order being restored, Cadet's kick was pigeon-holed and the cn{ clerk was directed to go ahead and advertise for bids for printing the ordinances, The next tilt came up over the ldflminf of the report of the committee, who have had the ordinance regulating signs and advertis- g devices under consideration, and after some discussion the report was adopted and the ordinance again resumed its slumbors until the council got around to give it life and force by a third reading. When the committee on paving, curbing and julwring reported in favor of allowing ames Stephenson four feet of the sidewalk at the corner of Tenth and Harney street to insure him room to get his horses and buggies in and out of his barn, Councilman Ford, who had just come in from South Omaha, raised a terrible hub-bub, After considerable talk the recommendation of the committee was voted down. The following sensation was, when Council- man Ford arose and asked permission to - troduce the appended resolution : Resolved, That tha chief of police investi- gate by at authority the so-called Pinker- ton detective force is abusing and arresting old time citizens of our eity. Mr. Ford followed up hs resolution by saying that the Pinkertons were insulting b; word and injuring with clubs old time citi- zens, and he thought it was time they were sat down upon. The other councilmen followed in the same strain, Councilman Hascall saying that he had it from good authority that the board of fire and poiice commissioners in executive session had authorized the police judge to swear in the Pinkertons, Ford's resolution finally passed with an amendment by Councilman Lowry “that the chief and police and fire commissioners re- port at the next meeting of the council.” The following communications were read: From the mayor: Notifymg the council that there are deeds amounting to the sum of $49,000 that remain unpaid, and recommend- ing that they be sold. ~Referred to the city attorney and city engineer, From the comptroller: Stating that the Union Pacific railroad are willing to pay $436.40 and $1,350 as their proportion due for the cost of the Eleventh and Sixteenth strects viaducts. Turned over to the ci From the city engineer: ing that the amount of money assessed inst the. property on Twelfth street for grading from Pacific to Villiam streets was $3,192.60. ~ Referred to First ward delegation; advising that tho street commissioner be instructed to pu proper culvert across Center street; report- ing that it would cost §10,000 to grade Thirty- third street from Cuming to Lake: recom- mending that the sewer in the alley between Harney and Howard streets be relaid with a twelve-inch pipe. Board of Public Works: Recommending the payment to J. E. Riley & Co. $19.61, being the 5 per cent reserve held on sewer district No. 45; approving bond in the sum of £20,000 of the Nebraska and Colorado stone company; giving notice that the clean- ing of paved streets the coming season will involve an expenditure of money nearly double that of last season. Judge Berka reported having had 960 cases before him in March and the collecting of £1,341.50 in fines and $851.25 in costs. Chief of Police Seavey's communication asking for the framing of an ordinance estab- lishing a dog pound was referred to commit- tee on police. The meat inspector said he condemned 5,200 pounds of meat during March, and the superintendent of buildings reported having collected $204 from buildiug permits during the same month, From the city attorney: Bill for office rent and furniture, $390. Referred to finance committee; n)oommslnlin& that $175 be paid Jacob Frank for damage done to his property; reporting that Sarah O. Patrick has no lawful claim on $4.65 paid by her for taxes. From the city treasurer: Giving notice of people having paid taxes under protest. The boiler imspector reported having col- lected $355 during the mouths of January, February and March. Communication from John Terak and others, asking for the reopening of an alley in Kountze's third addition, was referred to the committee on streets and alleys; that of owners on Cass street, between Thirticth and Thirty-third, asking for a grade, was re- ferred to the committee on grading; also thatof . W. Yates to have grade cstab- lished on Webster street. The street commissioner was directed to dump a few loads of cinders into the ditch on the east side of Twenty-fifth street, between Davenport and Chicago. C. P, Wilson was allowed $150 for the loss of a house by falling into the sewer on tho corner of Twenty-eighth and Farnam streets. Goorge Gardner's potition, asking for dam- ages done his property in the sum of $1,000 by the grading of Leavenworth street, was referred to the committes on grades and grading; also that of property holders, ask ing for the establishment of a grade on Hurt stroet from Thirticth to Thirty-third; also that of property holders, protesting against the grading of Twentieth street, between Dorcas and the south city limits, Petitions of taxy in paving district No. 70, that the strect’ be paved with cedar blocks on concrete base, those of district 135 for Sioux Kalls granite, and those of Cuming GRAND OPENI PLE With opening buds and warmer d 80 L. O. Jones, with his opening g For humun beings must b Ave offered suits and overcoats, 1 The stock is choice, and very large At Jones American Clothing House In the spring th And the old man with the children to the che ke their wee ones into Jones' low pri And the ladies ta Stroot ba paved from Thirtysixth at: Lowe avenue wore referred to commit! puvin‘, curbing ahd guttoring, L. A. Goldsmith gave formal notice of have ing accepted the position of garbage. i spector, and J, O, Wiemer was given pe mission to use a part of Chicago street tem porarily with a frame structure whilp hz puts up a three-story brick, Proposition of Anhouser-Tnsch brawin| company offering their sos o Nint and Capitol avenue for jail purposes, was roe ferred to special committee on jails. Hugh M lxhy'u bond in the of $35,000 Wwas approved, Commi uioations of L. Tavl, asking for grade; k. S. Dundy, jr., and others, tha they be civen leave to ocoupy six feet ads oining their lots fronting and abutting Thirty-sccond stroct botween Pacific strect and Woolworth avenue for park purposes; Joseph Pritchard and others calling atten* tion to the bad condition of the alley on the south sido of Leavenworth street, between Twenty-first and _Twenty-socond streets, were ref ived to the committee on strects and alleys J. P, ifth's claim, $20.40, for bhridging sunken sc./or at the intersection on Twenty- eighth and Farnam strects, was allowed. | >etition of property holders that Capitol avenue fr:n Kighteenth to Twentioth stroet be paved forty feet wide with cedar blocks was referrcd to the commijtee on paving, curl)m% 1 Tfl.wrinm The following resolutions wore adopted ¢ Instructing street commissioner to do necess sary grading on Spring and Thirteenth stroets for sdewalks; instruoting same pfi- cial to eonstruct mnecessary sidewalks . on South Fourtoenth stroot; roconsidering réso lution that the street commissioner do work: under dfrection of the mayor; instructing street comm ssioner to lay s crosswalk on t side of Twenty-fourth stroet at Leavon. ting board of public works, to repair sewer and paving on Twenty-fourth street; directing street commissioner to res ir or otherwise protect the washout on South Seventeenth street at Union Pacifio railway m-osxlns., and to fill in the alley in block 2, E. N. Smith's additlon; allowing C. F. Williams to curb Nineteenth streot in front of lots 1 and 2, block 6, Horbach’'s second addition authorizing the employment of four men in Hanscom park; permitting sidewalk to be Taid on Poppleton a from Thirty-third to Thi; thorizing the ordinance No. 1650, The appended resolutions were reforred s That the couneil reconsider the assessment on the property holders of Twenty-socond street, between Grant and the north line of Denises addition—city attorney; that tha street commission bo instructed to grade the alley in block 2, Millard place—committee on strects and alleys; that the city attorney and city engineer prepare an ordinance for the construction of a viaduct on South Twenty-fourth street—committee on via- ducts and bridgs; that the board of publio worlks have chi. ze of all revairs on paved r 10 special eommittes com- prising Councilmon ~ Lowry, Lilchien and ascall. Dr. J. B. Ralph’s bill for £25, for medical services for January and February was ro- ferred to the committee on police, and tha clamm of P. Fox & Co., claiming 0.16 in« terest on estimates for building the southy branch of north Omaha was not allowed. ‘The committee on police reported that the charges made against Garbage Inspector Goldsmith by garbage collectors were not worthy of notice, John J, McDonald was awarded the oons tract for repuiring sewers for the ensuing year, contrary to the recommendation of the committee on sewerage that the board of public works readvertise for bids, and B. A, Wallace was allowed $2.95 for repairing sewers, The !ollnwimi‘ resolution by Councilman Lee met with a hearty reception, and was amended to read ‘‘all other contractors." Resolved, That the board of public works be directed to notify Reagan Bros. & Co. to [;rux‘uml with the paving contracts now held y them. _The appropriation ordinance to pay the liabilities of the city for the month of Marchf was read three times by title and passed, Its total is $20.557.33, The following ordinances were passed: Creating an alley in paving district No. 403 creating paving districts Nos. 167, 163, 169, 170, 90 and 70; recomstructing sewer i district No. 3} creating sewer districts Nos. 66 and 0S; opening an_alley in block 12, Hauscom place; constructing a sewer i sewer district No. 67; regulating the erection and placing of signs: opening a street through lots 34 and 44 in Hartmun's addition; grading Douglas street from Twenty-sixth avenue ta the west line of Boggs & Hill's second addi- tion; establishing grade of alley betweon (& and Twenty-fifth street and Twenty- sixth stroet. At 11:30 the council adjourned until next Thursday night. w on ua aus printing of 10,000 copies of 1650, - The Canadian Pacific. OTTAWA, April 3.—The terms of settlement between the Dominion government and tha Canadian Pacific rallway to enable the con- struction of railronds in the northwest con- necting with the United States roads is un- derstood to be as follows: The C anadian Pacific is to surrender absolutely its monon¢ oly in the northwest on recoiving 15,000 ,000 for 10,000,000 acres of land. The conditions are that the lands are to be open for sottlers and that $15,000,000 is to.be expended in im- proving the railway and adding to its rolling stock and branches. — Jake Sharp’s Physicul Condition. NEw York, April 3.—When the case of Jacob Sharp came up to-day in the supreme court the judge handed the district attorne; reports of the physicians on Sharp's condis tion. They certified that Sharp was confined to his bed with acute capillary bronchitis complicated with a chronio diseaso of hid heart and kidneys. Itwould be at least foud cks before hic could come to court with Judge Patterson appointed April 1 ring of the motion for a change o! WiLkessArke, Pa., April 8.—Adam Moh kovitch, who cruelly murdered Stanislaus Bioski, near this city, August last, was exos cutea in the jail at 11 :30 this morning, Long before that time large crowds of people gaths ered around the prison and surmounted the adjacent eminence to witness the hanging, Spreckles Philadelphia, PuiLanerreuis, April 3,1t is stated by ree liable authority that Claus Spr les has dew cide to build a sugar refinery here and that tne purchase of u site will be consummated to-day. The cost of the plant has been stated as §5,000,000, and the annual output ag 35,000,000, —— A Charter Repealed. Bavrivone, April 3, —Last night the Mary- land legislature repealed the charter of tha Baltimore & Ohwo railroad employes relief 10 tuke effe April 1, 1859, This approval of the new offices mpany. S COMy of the railrond ¢ WE OME s unother springtime comes, and, brings gladn clothed, and at this onesy sold so cheap rar 1309 Farnam street, soung man’s fancy rightly turns to thoughts of clethes, 5% 10 our Loles, 0o slore before, burgains you will meet, clothier goe For this house is selling clothing cheaper now than e'er On its many crowd d countors, goods well made and stylish too, Patterns can be found 50 stylish, oh, 8o nobby, nice and new And the overcoats aud suits, are pric The buttons sewed on L. O. Joues is the propr Hu shows a stock of clothiu d much lower than btly, each seam made not to & or and from th for which just fume is earned; ast returned, And he who buys saves many dimes, for all the suits you see, Are bought for cash at lowest price of the great castern factories, Elegant 1d Barrett 1o all whe ring your friend L. 0. JONES, American Clothier 1309 FARNAM STREET. :