Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 9, 1888, Page 4

OMAHA DAILY BEE THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pafly Morning Edition) including Sunday Brr, One Year Prets #0 For 8ix Months ‘ot Throe Months 'he Omaha Sunday BEk, mailed to any ad- Aress, Ono Y ear 200 OMANA OFFICE, NOSSUAND 918 FARNAM STREET. EW YORK O¥FICE, ROOMS M4 AND 16 TRIBUNE ILDING, WABHINGTON OFFICR, No. 513 FOURTERNTH STREET, CORRBSPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR ¥ THE DEE. i DUSINESS LETTERS. Al business letters and remittances should bo nddressed to THE BEE PUBLISIING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to Ve made payable to the order of the company. Tie Beg Publising Company. Propitr E. ROSEWATER, THE DAILY B 1. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nl“')‘r,n!kl] }. . 0 L o oo, . Toschise fccretary of The fiee Puh: i i ny, does 0] nly swear il he :'::‘n:f:l?rl\‘: :(:z" of the Dally ilfifl for the week ending April 6, 1558, was as follow: Raturday, March 51 ¥ Bunday,” April 1 Monday, April 2 Tuesdny, April 3 Wedneaday, April 4 Thursday, AYHI b ¥riday, April 0. Average. . L. 19,641 GEO. B, TZRCHUCK. " E'fl(:m |g Dflfluunxltfll\)lhfin mmeifnnm this of April, A. D, 18 . P, L, R Notary Publié. Btate of Nebraska, Wi County of Douglnss, {5 Geo, B, uck, befng first duly sworn, de- and says that he is_secretary of The Bee Pobilshing company, that, the actusl ave daily circulation of the Daily Tee for the month 857, 14,400 coples; for April, coples; for ay, 887, for June, 1887, 14147 coples] 1,088 coples; for August, 1847, ‘for September, 1857, 14,349 coples: , 1867, 14,383;_for November, $58 T, for. 'December, 1887, 16,041 coples:" for Junuary, 1888, 15,206 'coples; for February, 1688, 15,92 coples. GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Eworn and subscribed to in’ my presence this 2d day of March, A, D, 1888, N, P, FEIL, Notary Public. for coples: WHATEVER additions are made to the High school building the symmetry and architectural beauty of the building should not be sacrificed. e s PHILADELPHIA is s0o happy in secur- ing Claus Spreckles and his sugar re- finery that in their bland and quiet Quaker ways they dub him the apostle of sweetness. THAT staunch old .democratic friend Fillibuster is back at his old tricks in congress, Heo has already wasted four valuable days, and there is no telling how much longer his tacties will deprive the country of much needed legislation. The southern colonels and mayors who flock under Fillibuster’s standard are digging the grave of the democratic party with extra large shovels. By hard work on the part of the re- publicans in the New York legislature, a high license bill was passed by the as- sembly. The bill is almost certain to pass the senate, but there are some doubts whether Governor Hill will add his approval to the measure. The dem- ocrals are bringing all the pressure they can on the governor to induce him to veto the bill. If he does, there is not the necessary two-thirds vote in the legislature to pass it over his veto. QUEEN VICTORIA may assume the title of “*Queen of Canada,” and the proposi- tion 1s favored by the Canadians. It would relieve the people of the domin- ion of the necessity of a governor gen- eral, as there would be a Canadian min- isterial representative at court whose business it would be to transmit to the queen the advice of her Canadian coun- cil. The Canucks have long wanted a direct government by their own mini try without the necessity of the British privy council as a go-between. T Builders and Traders’ exchange, just formed among the various contrac- tors and building supply dealers of Omaha, is a move in the right diree- tion. Every large city of the country has such an exchango, one of whose ob- jects is to protect both contractors and property owners from imposition and crooks. For the past two or three years since the active building operations be- gan, Omaha hasbeen overrun with a lot of crooked contractors who have beat worlingmen out of w: und entailed loss and damage to many a property owner and builder, The Builders and Traders’ exchange will, to a largo ex- tent, correct the evil, and therefore should be encouraged, GEN A, GILLMO! whose death occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Saturday last, was one of the most distinguishod mulitary enginenrs of the couutry. He was a graduate of ‘West Point, and during the ecivil war did most valuable service, attaining the rank of major general of volunscors After the close of the he mus- tered out of the volunteer service and held the rank of colonel in the United States corps of engineers, being at the time of his death enginecr in charge of the defenses of the Atluntic const. He wis the author of numerous works re- lating to enginecring and contributed sciontifio articles to the American and Universal cyclopedias. General Gill- more was born in 1825, and was there- fore sixty-three years old at the time of his death. E— WooDEN blocks make a very nice paveinent for carriage drives during the fivst two or three years after they are laid. At the end of that time the wear of the surface rounds off the blocks at the odges and the decay of the buse makes the blocks settle in spots so that the street becomes as uneven and rough ®s if it was paved with cobble-stone, At the end of six or seven years the wooden block pavement, cut up by deep ruts and gashes, becomes impassable and the strcet has to be repayed. This is the universal experience. The only difference between wooden blocks laid on sand and wooden blocks laid on concrete base is that the block laid on 8 concrete base offers a uniform resist- ance to pressure, and therafore romains even for a longer period, On the other hand, the concrete base retains all the moisture under the blocks and causes them to decay more rapidly than a sas base, which does not retain the moi ure, but allows it to be absorbed by the soil vaderueath, What Will They Offer? The question as to what the repub- licans in congress will offer, if they seriously intend to offer anything, as a substitute for the tariff bill framed by the majority of the ways and means committee, is one of great interest to the entire country and of profound con- cern to the republican party. It is un- questionablo thav the tarift bill which has boen reported to the house is not acceplablo to the majority of the people. For one reason and another the objec- tions to it are so serious that its passage through congress in its prosent form will be impossible. It is conspicuously a par- tisan and sectional measure. While fol- lowing tho suggestions of the president in certain respects, it widely departs from them in failing to show that ra- tional contemplation of the subject which he advised. Its requirements are not equitably and justly distributed. The Randall bill, assuming that that measure will be heard from again, is no less objectionable. It would be the bul- wark of the monopolistic trusts and com- binations. It would give no relief to the people from the burden of taxation, however effective it might be in reduc- ing the revenues of the government. It is not a reform measure. Since neither wing of the democratic representatives in congress has been able to prepare a wise, just and accep- table measure of tariff reform, the opportunity is given the re- publicans to do so. Will they improve it, or will they be content to simply oppose the bill of the democratic majority and rest their case Dbefore the country on a policy of obstruc- tion that can result only in defeating all reform at this session? The report of the republican minority of the ways and means committee does not indicate that the republicans are disposed to oc- cupy any other attitude than as oppo- nents of what the democrats propose. It holds out’ no promise that they will have anything to present to the coun- try which would attest their professed desiro for a fair revision of the tariff, or which would correct those inequalities which the party is pledged to remedy by its last national platform. Itavows only a determination to resist with all their power the measure of the demo- cratic majority. This is not the attitude in which the republicans in congress can safely place themselves at this time. Something more is expected of them. Granting the soundness of every argument they malke against the tariff bill of the demo- crats, they cannot afford to go before the country with the claim simply of having resisted that measure. The de- mand upon them is that they shall offer a better, wiser and fairer measure. The opportunity to do so is open. The way to do so ought to be reasonably clear, If the ropublicans in congress fuil to accept this opportunity nothing is more certain than that the country will regard such failure as an acknowl- edgment of either incompetency or of indifference to the interests and the de- mands of the people. It .will be to little purpose to attempt to ex- plain away a failure of this kind. The great number of people who are feeling more heavily from year to year the oppression of tariff taxation are not in a mood to listen patiently to excuses and apologetic explanations. They want relief and the party that shows the best intentions to give it, on ajustand equitable basis toall interests, is very likely to get theirsupport. The chance is now offered to the republicans in congress to bring forward a tariff bitl which would convince the country that the party really desires mot only 10 ¢ y out its pledges to correct exist- ing inequalities, but to give nece relief from taxation in the direction in which it is most oppressive. If they will bravely do this, the party can enter upon its national campaign with war- rantable confidence, given a candidate who would fully represent such a policy and could command the support of all elements in the par! But if they shall nothing more to offer than resistance and obstruction the party will be so handicapped that the na- tional contest will be an uphill struggle, whoever may be the standard bearer, with the result rendered doubly doubt- Hypocrisy. resident Cleveland to the civil commission, in which he urges the strietest construction of the rules in the matter of promotions, has naturally been commented upon in the light of the facts recently devel- oped regarding the il service in In- dinna. The letter of the president de- notes great anxiety on his p: that the purpose of the civil service law shall not be contravencd by incautions pro- motions in the classitied service, in s where non-competitive examina- tions are allowed. Such examinations, he remarks, are exceptions to the plan of the act, and the rules permitting the same should be strictly construed, This profession of solicitude for the integrity of the ecivil seryice law would sound well if it were not for the fact that in so many other respects of far graver concern as affecting the integ- rity of the law the president has per- mitted the act to be wholly disregarded ov openly violated, The country has grown so familiar with the elvil service reform hypocrisy nt administration that new of it probably receive little attention, It has cowe to fully under- stand that the reform has been made to adjust itsell acoording to the sentiment of localities, Thus it is that in Indiana, for example, where the great majority of demecratic gentiment is not favorable to it, great care has been taken not to offend that sentiment. The facts fur- nished the senate commiltee by the president of the Indiana eivil service veform associution are con- clusiva upon this point, and so far as we have observed no one has questioned their truthfulness. on 50 loyal & feiend of the president the New York Evening Post is com- pelled to confess that his mistakes in Indiana and Maryland have beeu very ting in amost shameful demeoralization of the public service in those states. ‘‘We believe,” says that paper, *‘that the loss of. Indiana to the democrats next full has been made very The lette MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1888 probable by the scandals and abuses in the government sarvice which the nd- ministration has permitted or connived at.” How great these have been it may not be here mnecessary to show by a statement of the details. This will be done in due time by the senate com- mittee appointed to investigate the civil service. It 18 important, however, that the peo- ple should be kept reminded at this juncture of tho general fact that the present administration has not been faithful to the pledges of civil service reform which it made to the country when it came into power, and that con- sequently no provisions or promises which it may now make with regard to this reform are entitled to the slightest confidence. On the contrary, the course pursued warrants the belief thatgif the democratic party is permitted to con- trol the civil service for another four years, the result will be that the ex- perience in Indiana will be repeated in every state in the union, thus prac- tically putting an end to the reform. Tne American minister to England, Mr. Phelps, will arrive in the United States during the present week on a leave of absence. There has been a good deal of conjecture as to why Mr. Phelps desired to come home at this time, and several reasons are given. One of them is that he is very much dis- pleased at Secrotary Bayard’s action in negotiating the fisheries treaty at ‘Washington, instead of leaving itin the hands of the American minister, who was given to understand when he went to Bngland that the settlement of this controversy would be one of his chief labors. The fact that he was ig- nored in the matter is said to have caused him great chagrin, and it is thought not unlikely that his return is due to a desire to personally communi- cate his displeasure to the president. Another surmise is that Mr. Phelps has a very good chance of being appointed chief justico of the supreme court, and that it is de- sirable he should be in the country if that honor is to be conferred upon him. While the American minister to England has received some very com- plimentary notices in connection with this surmise, his credit as a lawyer has been somewhat impaired by his effort in the Nineteenth Century wmagazine to in- struct Englishmen in the history and principles of our American system. Several grave errors of fact have been noted in these papers which are unpar- donable in the case of a lawyer of the pretensions of Mr. Phelps, particularly when writing for the instruction of another people who will accept his statements as accurate without any at- tempt to verify them. Furthermore these productions show their author possessed of views regarding the Ameri- can system which the great majority of his countrymen would repudiate. The president is understood to have a very high regard for Mr. Phelps, but if he is really anxious for the approval of the country on his appointment of a chief justice he will select some other man ONE of the crying evils that affects every city, especially the metropolitan centers of the country, is the tax dodg- ing of millionaires. In New York city the money kings are living without pay- ing anything like their just share of the public burden, owing to the inadequate laws and loose methods of assessment af- fecting the tax on personal property. This cvil is reflected in many other states, even in Nebraska, where theassessment of personal property has actually de- creased in the face of the vast increase of wealth. The result of this diserimi- nation is bad. It heaps upon real estate the taxes that ought to be paid by personal proper It increases rents and the cost of living to the poor. It affects the investment of money in real estate and in permanent improve- ments. The old ery that a levy on per- sonal property drives capital out of a state is disapproved by the healthful condition of Penusylvania, where the assessmentof personal property amounts to over 80 per cent of the a ment on real estate. In Connecticut sachu- setts and Illinois there is an ment on personal property of from 30 to 50 per cent of the valuation of real estate, and no one is foolhardy to say that capi- tal is driven out of these states in conse- quence. 850 T ouly industry which is having a spring boom in Germany is that of match- making in the royal family. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Fullerton is threatened with a demo- eratic paper. Sixty-e1ght women voted in one ward and Island. in There are a few spikes loose in the Burlington’s scab line. The 1Rock Island and the Burlington don’t speak as they pass by. The Weeping Water republican has passed 1ts seventh milestone. The Catholics of York have procured plans for a church to be built this se: son. Seward’s hac to swallow a fe gasping. Fairbury will distribute $1,500 worth of tracts among the hoarding heathens of the east. Fall City has secured a pointer that it is to he made a division station of the Burlington. Burglars blasted a safe in Weeping Water, after hours of hard labor, and realized only #4, The proposed “Young Men’s Demo- cratie Club” in Nebraska City will wear flowing whiskers. York has pnssed an ordinance regu- lating plumbers, but it has had no per- ceptible effeet on the size of their bills. D. Cash's grading gang is recuperat- ing at Beatrice, and preparing for the compaign on the Rock Island extension. The fair associations of Antelope, Nance, Platte and Boone counties have formed the Nebraska Central Fair cir- cuit. The Forfolk Fair ussociation has pur- chused a tract of sixty acres for & per- manent fair ground. The price paid was #4,500. A nameless contemporary suggests, as 8 presideatial ticket, Conkling and Lockwood, the Apollo and Belya dear of American politics. Thé universal liver pad party, a Me- Cook institution, has gone into involun- yardsave strong enough tilizing works~ without tary rotirement, accompanied by the hoots and boots of the populace. Mr. Rutherford, of Fullerton, pulled a gun, muzzle foramost, out of # wagon and lost the surplus flesh ot his hand and the thumb. He got off cheap. J. A. Kehoe, the noted democrat and stock shipper, wag found among the dead in_the municipal battlefield in Platte Center. He was singled out for slaughter. “Speaking of strikes," says a score of exchanges in"a mild' chorus, *‘it would strike us dumb with surprise and joy if our delinquent subscribers would strike our office and pay up.” Cortland, in Gage county, is so en- thusiastically in love with herself that she proposes to put on several costly frills this season, such as waterworks and a canning factory. After the term of office had expired it was discovered that one of the city dadsof Neligh was never elected, and the other fellow, though bald as a prize pumpkin, is now red-headed. Nebraska in that belief of Sol- omon’s, that it were better to have a solid growth than a boom, is now hug- ging the delusion of another bridgo across the Missouri river at that point. Anauctioneerin Louisville announces that “the Snyder stock of gods will be sold cheap to the highest bidder.” The times are surely out of joint when a stock of gods descend to the auction block. The I"all City Journal is delivering lectures to the youth of the town on the graveyard ovils of the tobacco habit, illustrated with the fumes of editorial tufers, and corncobs ebonized by long and faithful use. The state live stock commission would render the public invaluable service by slaughtering the glandered dark and white horses in the political pastures of the state. They are a menace to the living, and should be planted early The war has broken out in Perkins county again. Wholesalo arrests are being made in Grant and Madrid, and a majority of the residents of both, if the charges are true, are entitled to permanent quarters in the penitentiary. Hebron is figuring on sinking $5,000 in a hole 1,300 feet deep. The Lincoln Democrat suggests that 1,800 holes with a tree planted in each is a far more profitable investment. The suggestion will not wear well in a large bore com- munity. The Johnson County Journal will print a boom edition of 10,000 copies next week. Poor old Tecumseh has taken a new lease of life, is getting a new court house, canning factory, hotel and waterworks, while several brick: blocks are going up. Norfolk and Yankton are now ex- changing views on the railroad ques- tion. A delegation of Yanktonians will make a pilgrimage to Norfolk Wednes- day, where they expect to secure better results than in Omaha. Their count- less advances to the metropolis were rewarded with the cold shoulder. The supreme court has squelched the redundant honesty of the commission- ers of Otoe county. ' They proposed to day the refunding bonds, amounting to $150,000, issued in 1881, but the court stamped them as_illegal and worthless. Strange to say the wiping out of this debt roused no enthusiasm among the sturdy, gilt-edged people of the county. They are not repudiators and will de- vise other means to'cash up. Dakota. Sioux Falls has a vinegar factory on tap. Yankton’s new school building will cost 818,000 Chicken-pie suppers give to life arosy hue in Rapid City. The Fargo & Southwestern road is now open to La Mour. The hill cities complain of abominably inefiicient mail service. Considerable real estate has been set. afloat by the spring thaw. ioux Ialls’ real estate hoom hasa granite base and a silver lining. A commodious county hospital, sur- rounded by twenty acres of land, has been completed in Lawrence county. A man with his_boots on narrowly es- caped drowning in the main street of Deadwood last week. He was fished out with a grappling hook. Wyoming. The territorial capitol at Cheyenne has been insured for 364,000, Douglas has put ona spring boom, and the Budget howls for a needed reform and insists that the ‘‘city dads should oan the streets of sage brush.” Douglas proposes to hold the county seat of the newly crected county of Con- verse, and *‘any slouch who monlke with it will capture a hide full of leac The Chey de has 1ssued an illustrated “showing the advantages of the Magic City of the Plains,” giving illustrations of the prin- cipal blocks, st and citizens, and setting forth the advantages of Chey- enne as a manufacturing point. this review we find that the as valuation of property in Cheyenne for 1887 was 3,253,000, with a future as flattering as a whisky trust. Remembe Wall Street News When the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy inaugurated the enginee strike, we said the company would win a costly victory. It has not yet achieved that, but it has lost about two millions of money and dropped the price of its stock fully 10 per ecent. When the hold begin to realize how enormous the losses have been, when they find out what an enormous loating debt has been accumulated in i dividends without earnings, \re will be stock enough to supply all the bears and the stock will drop any- where from 1 to 5 percent ata clip, 1t sold yesterday ut the lowest price in three years, but youcan buy it below par béfore many moous. Remember t Omana, April 8.—To the Editor of the Ber: It was announced yesterday that Messrs. Raymond. Utt, Eagan and Aitken, stock holders in the Lincoln Néwspaper Union, had disposed of their interest in that concern to Mr. J. N. Garver, one of the original mem bers of the company who represented in the deal an eastern capitalist, whose name is not mentioned. The sale cgused not a little com- ment, and when it was reported that Mr. Hosterman, manager of the Lincoln house, had agreed to move to Omaha, to position with the Western Newspa arumor gained credance that the lc 4 cern had been swaliowed by the Western Newspaper Union, The Lincoln Newspaper Union, of which Mr. Garver is now general wishes to deny that statement, through your columns. All the stock of " the Lincoln Ne:wspaper Union is owned and cou- trolled by Mr. J. N, Garver, and his asso- ciates, and they will stay in Lincoln and con duct the business as first intended. In proof of this, they have reuted premises for a term of years, and propose to equip it with the best machinery possible. 1tis true that the Omaha house has cause to be alarmed at the growth of the Lincoln Union; it is also true that the Western Newspaper Union has, be fore and since the starting of the new house, made flattering offers to Mr. Hosterman, but we wish it distinctly understodd that. Mr Hosterman'’s withdrawal from this house will not in any way interfere with the business at this potnt. J.N* Ganves, Geueral Manager Lincoln Newspaper Union. RALLY ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS Rally Once Agaln, Shouting the Bat- . tle Cry 0" "ohnny. RECRUITS FOR THE CONVENTION The Slate of the Railrond Olan For the Next Republican Convention ~Disgusted Republicans Talk Freely. Can the Party Stand Tt? LINCOLN, Neb., April 7, 1888.—Some one has said that man is by naturea nomadic animal, and the most grievous burden imposed upon him by eivil tion is the nocessity of remaining in one place. This is exactly my fix. Hero Tamonce more at the state capital— that center of palitical intrigue and job- Dbery, to which I had turned my back months ago, determined to return no more. But wise men change their minds—fools never. Once more T am rambling about the old haunts which have witnossed so many exciting hand-to-nand political contests. Now that the Burlington strike is de- clared off by the railway managers, in- terest at political railrogue head quar- ters centers almost entirely on the na- tional convention. In former years the corporation poli- ticians were divided as between Blaine and anti-Blaine, with the Union Pa- cific magnates pronounced for Blaine, while the Burlington contingent was almost solid rainst the plumed knight and for the dark horse. This time the railroad forces will act in concer If asked whence he hai! His sole reply will be, He is one of the oil room boy And will vote for J. M. 1] This is bad rhyme, but it is so because it contains more truth than poetry. It is an open secret that the election of John M. Thurston, president of the state league of republican clubs,was tho well-matured outcome of the campaign plan, agreed on months ago by the innner-circle at these volitical head- quarters. The next thing on the programme is the ratification by the state and district conventions of the railroad slate of the delegation to Chicago. Four of these ten delegates are to be elected at large by the state convention on the 15th of May. That election is expected to be a mere formality, it the railroad convention packersare success- ful all along the line. I presume I vio- late no confidence in stating that the general attorney of the Union Pac ] to be one of the four, with Patrick Egan, president ot the Burlington railroad elevator trust, Captain H. E. Palmer, general railrond lobbyist and Boss Bost- wick, Jim Laird’s quartermaster, as companions in the qu It is expected, of rse, that the six district delegates will be vigorously contested by ambitious local politicians in the three congressional districts, but the allied corporation influence is ex- pected to capture most, if not all, of them. Charley Greene, the rip-roaring B. & M. statesman who prides himself on his auburn locks and brilliant achieve- ments in the legislative oil-rooms, is ex- pected to capture Douglas county with the railrond cohorts and Pink- erton police. Harry Phillips has high hopes that he will be able to handle the state of Beatrice and come in with Gage and Lancaster counti In the second district the redoubtable Captain Lee, of the horse marines, is pushing to the front from the Republican valley which he carries in his pocket. as it were, ever since he made himself 50 useful to the ' when he was in the legi: allant captain expeets to join forces with Jim Laird’s battalion and give 12d ( 18, the Sew- ard county chestnut, sufficient support to pull through. The Third district is to rally around the Hon. Mr. McCann, who trained with the boodle gang in the last legislature, and the Rev. Mr. Tate, who played Joshua for the railroad hosts and made the sun stand still while they were fight- ing with the Philistines. It 1s intimated that John M. Thurston may withdraw in favor of J. H. Millard, tho Union Pacific banker, who has been a standing candidate for the national convention for the lust twclve year I have my doubts about ° this, however, unless Millard is will- ing to give Thurston a helping hand in the senatorial contest. I have met a number of staunch ns who are mnot in the pleased with this factional One of these in no uncer Dbeen a life-long re- and I hoped that the r would furnish no oc- cord and seandal, Welost « congressman in this distriet two years ago by allowing the railroad faction to run the party and for an objectionable candidate upon w That lesson should have lasted more than two years, Are railroad law '8, railroad lobbyists and men who bélong soul and body to the corporations the only men fit to represent us in a na- tional convention ? Why can’t the party for once discard this class of profes- sional politicians and convention and send to Chicago repre- men in whom the rank and ile of the party have confidence? ST am thoroughly disgus said another republican, “I spring when d Roggen was a candidate for mayor, these stal- from, 8ir, terms. publican, their loyalty to the putsy 1 ticket and elected a democratic mayor, i use Roggen could not be used . & M. tool in the state house. v word, i they secure such a set tes to the national convention, ou will see the party disrupted and demoralized worse than it ever has been in the last fifleen 1 expression out- rilroad circle, FAIRBROTHER. as the gen side of the charmed A B. & M. Polit at MoCook. McCook, Neb., April 7.—[Correspondence to the Bee.|—Your special correspondent in his report of the recent clection held in this city conveys the idea that the issue was one between the “business men’ and the *strik ers.”’ The reverse of this is truc, The ticket that was defeated was the first one nominat ed in caucus duly called for that purpose and that ticket was composed of the most intelli gent business men of our city. The *'striker"” portion of that ticket (Mr. McSuroy, an es teemed fellow citizen,) was unanimously en dorsed by another and subsequent caucus and placed upon the successful ticket for the imvortant office of councilman With the siogle exception of Mr. Hunt who was @ nominec upon the first ticket for member of the school board and who had already served in that capacity with credit to himself and to the city, the two tickets stood upon an equal footing 0 far as the “'strike” is concerncd and all of the nominees upon the ticket first uominated, entertaned the bestof foeling I make no mistake in asserting that each toward the B. & M. roadjuntil the advent of the socond tickot. The methods employed for the sucodss ot the sncond ticket were such as would natur- aily alicniato the hitherto friendly relations between tho railroad and the more intelli- gent citizens of McCook. For days prior to the cloction certain railroad employes and officials,including Mr. Camobell, (division superintendent) paraded the ' public stroets of McCook proclaiming to its citizens that the future growth and prosperity of our ity depended upon the election of the “second ticket,” and that the election of tho * first ticket " 'would inevitably be followed by a marked depreciation in McoCook real es. tate. This argument proved effectual, for it is a fact that many of our business men wero literally frightoned into the support of a tickot which otherwise they would gladly havo seon defeated. The effect of all this is obvious. Many of our citizens honestly bo- Lieve that the president and board of dircc tors of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad propose to' actually control and ma- nipulate our city elections in the future. Vhile quiet submission to_such tyranical power may be deemed the better policy on the part of property owners, thore is, never- theless, a_half suppressed feeling of indig- nation and a hope oxpressed that McCook may, in the near future, welcome tho advent of 4 competing line of railway, whose oflicials shall manifest & broader and more liberal spirit. p——" Progress at Red Cloud Rep Croun, Neb., April 7.—[Correspond- ence of the Bex.]~Red Cloud is truly the gato city of the Republican valley and as such has roceived a great impetous to its pros- perity. A very exciting eclection was ro- cently held for bonds to aid in the construc- tion of tho Missouri Pacifie railrond to this place. A large vote was poled and the bonds unanimously carried. The mayor has ro- ceived reliable information that tho road will be completed and in operation by August 1. The city now has a population of 4,000 and is rapidly growing. Many new and large brick storchouses have boen erccted here within the past two years. Wo have an ex- cellent standpipe system of waterworks and a fully cquipped fire department. This is ono of the most important divisions of the B. & M. railroad which has established here a largo round house_and repair_ shops employing soveral hundred men and_their pay roll_overy four weeks amounts to $10,000. The Republican river, which is within two miles of the town, furnishes power to the two largest.flouring mills in tho valley, com- bined turning out 400 barrels a day. The city is lighted by a flue system of clectric light. Ties and rails for the street car line are now boing spread along tho streets only waiting for weather permitting to begin work. A largo threestory brick hotel is con- templated. Some capitalists of Cineinnati are the projectors of the enterprise. A company has been organized and will at once establish a canning factor; The Farmers and Merchants banking com- pany have already commenced on a three- story fire proof brick and stone bank build- ing.” This, when completed will bo the finest buildng of the kind between Lincoln and Denver. Tho real estate boom has _already bogun. Business places are in domand and scarce. Hay Springs and Sherman County. HaY Srrixes, Neb., April 6.—[Correspond- ence of the Bee.]—There is perhaps no part of northwestern Nebraska more generaliy known or extensively advertised at this time than the Hay Springs country. This section comprises a large area of country, all trib- utary to the town of Hay Springs, and in- cludes the largest tract of agricultural lands tributary to any town in this part of the state. The country is well watered by nu- merous streams, and good, pure, wholesome water is obtained at an easy depth. The soil is of excellent quality and very productive, as the fine crops raised here last year fully attest, This country possesses great natural ad- vantages in the wayof timber, building stone, limestone and brick clay. Anexcellent qual- ity of good, hard, dry pitch pine wood sells in Hay Springs at §2 per cord. It is obtained from the pime ridge which borders this coun- try on the north and northwest. A number of saw mills are located in this ridge, and great quantities of lumber are manufactured ata cost of from $10 to $13 per 1,000 feet, thus affording cheap building material. This, together with fuel obtained at a nominal ex- pense, has contributed largely to the devel- opment of the count The settlers are an enterprising and progressive class of people, who have readily adapted themselves Lo their conditions, and who have great faith in the future of this country. Churches have schools organized in_ever; territory which but thre s since was inhabited, 1s now dotted over with happy howes and a contented and prosperous peo- ple. New settlers are daily arriving and ap- propriating unoccupied lands. Although but little vacant government land remains, there are still fine claims in desirable localities to be had at reasonable figures, and some choice deeded lands which now be bought & one-half the price they will command in future. The i thy, free from fevers and ma The winters arc mild and ple: As amatter of fact there was not a single storm or blizzard here violence to orfere with travel, ¢ Springs is 1in the western part a population of about. established and pr this section of th Av large schoolhouse been completed, built almost entirc] terial manufactiired at home, A fifty-barrel flour mill is proje expected to be in running order by b time. A roller will is greatly needed here, and should the partics now figuring to build fail to prosceute the enterprise, there will be an excelient opening h owe one clse desiring a good location Boomlets. AskA Crty, D April 8.—[Corre ceof the Bre.]—The spring boom opens with great promise for Nebraska City and brings with it the long de: mation of a scheme for buildi wagon wcross the Missouri river at this point wngements have been perfected and the promise is made to ha ation by the fstof July. This brid be of more value and importance to Nebraska City than a new railroad, as it directly connects the city with a large portion of Jowa which has hitherto boen without a permanert m ket for stock and grain, such os Nebraska City can offer. The lown people, especially the farmers, appreciate this as is shown by sum by thelt flnancial = encouragement of the bridge schome. It is proposed to oharga toll just sufficiant to pay a reasonable por cont on the money invested Improvements in the city have commenodd in carnest. and hundreds of new business houses and residonces are being orected. Among the new enterprises during the past week is a blank book manufactory and bin- Pitz & Young, giving employment to of hands, Donaldson .L Bauer is a now firm that has engaged in ttling business and the manufacture of soda aud mineral waters on a large scale, Loidigh & Co. havo openod now lumber yards. Phillip Best has concluded to make Nobraska City a_genoral distributing point for tho state, and a number of minor enter- prises have come into existence, all helping W advance tho businoss prosperity of the city. Another stop towards metropolitanism 1s the scheme under consideration by the city council, which was recommended to them by tho board of trade, for astreot momenclature, a schemo copyrighted by Mr, Stowart, of Philadelphia, who allows the city its use freo, It ia a plan similar to the one now in use in Ph elphia, and does away with all street names, the streets being designated as ave nues and carsos instead. All houses are to be numbered. An ordinance nas been drawn up undor which Nebraska City will organi: A city of over 10,000 inhabitants, and a mail de livery will ve asked for. Tho city 18 making preparations for one of tho grandest celebrations on the Fourth of July over undertaken in the stato, 1t is pro- posed to make tho day a general jubilee af- fair, to rejoice over tho prosperity which has come to the city. It is expected that by that timo both bridges will be completed over the Missouri, tho streots will bo graded and paved, the streot cars in_operation, the insti- tute for the blind building comploted, the Yeitizens' council ' in good working order, and & hundred new businoss and_manufac: turing enterprises in operation. ¥ will bo run over every road and overy city the state will be invited to participate, Large subscriptions have already been made to- s tho colebration expenses and tho afe wa fair will bo bound to bo a success. Prosperous Superior. Surenior, April 7.—|Correspondence of the Brr.)—Superior is one of the protticst towns we havo secn in the state, a really superior town; far enough away from Omaha and Kansas City to not be affected by their en- croachments, and large enough not to fear her pretended rivals, Lincoln, Beatrice and Hastings, situated on a beautiful eminence overlooking one of tho finest valleys in the world, and from its heights you can see across int oKausas and witness the vegetation wrestle with the hot winds, while all is pleasant at home. She has already throe railroads and two more on the way, and others heading that way, which will give her railroad facilities not to be excelled by any town in southern Nebraska, and the public spirit which marks her progress is bound to carry her to the front in a short time. Many fine build- ings have already been erected, and there 18 capital ready to push forward more this year, and the corporation wears a smile all over its beautiful exterior since it has fallen into such fnml hands. There are the Bossermans and Hunters, and Adamses (descendants of Quincy), and others with plenty of means, who are going down into their pockets to build ber up, in fact, she already puts on metropolitan airs. Through the city flows the Republican river (checked long enough by a dam to use the water for milling purposes), and a vein of humor which 1o one can check by any kind of a dam, either sacred or profane, gnd every- body a smile, cut after the most ap- proved style, the samo as they do tholr clothes. The moral and intelleotdal welfare of the people are duly cared for, as we can testify, having become somewhat acqualnted with the dispensers of both theso commodi- ties, and the women are both healthy and beautiful, moving around with a grace and bustle that is very charming. The only unhappy man we saw was the de- feated candidate for mayor,who had a kind of “paradise lost” expression on his counte- nance, and this was rapidly disappearing when we saw him two days later. Doctors and undertakers are not very pros- perous, owing to the health of the town. However, the doctors haye the advantage, as the population is increasing, several having arrived during our stay who will not nees to take out naturalization papers, tipping the scales at eight and ten pounds. Truly there is a great future for Superior. Valparaiso Items. VALPARAIS0, Neb., April 8.—[Correspond- ence to the Bug.]—Everything in connection with our water works is in running order now. Several tests have been made proving them a success. A hoso company has been formed and is training daily to be in di- ness at the first call, Mr. R. K. Johnson is contemplating the erection of a brick block 73x80, two storic high and offering to the Masons the privi ege of building a third story room 25x80, to be used as a lodge room. The school census shows the number of children of school age to be 401. One year ago it was less than three hundred Farming has commenced in this vieinity. Lumber dealers report trade as being good, showing that improvements are going on in the country in the way of building us well as n town, to rent is very ings to unswer to all Messrs. Scaville & Crafts, proprietors of the Lindell hotel, have fitted up ten new bed- rooms nection with their house and full, and running over with custom, I'ra men need not be afraid to stop at V is0 AnY MOFe, 48 1t now has two firat class hotels Real estate men o many sales of f Hlinois and fowa » busy and report a good rms, mostly to mcen from 2001, wefl4o-do farmers who are glad to leave their old, worn out farms for this state’s rich soil. Booming Crawford, Crawronn, 3.~ [Correspon- dence of the B wford is going to have s boom this summer. The B, & M. in coming here will make it the first town in hwest Nebraska wh vo roads. ero will be Lot of Some of scttlers along the White river are get ting out 25,000 pine and cedar posts for the Iroad company and men in the cast say it it timber. There wont be much left if they are not stopped 5001 -~ of Rapid Ci calld Miss tend the woman’s council up her life to the fine arts, Mi Linde, to cure at is h Linde did not but has ¢ 3 SPRING OVERCOATS. GHRITING POSTED. L. O. JONES, American Most men would like a Spring Over coat, but imagine they cannot afford it. Jones will ‘this week offer 3 elegant styles of Spring Overcoats in fine Cassl- mere and Cheviot Fabric: at $9.75 each. One style is Satin lined through- out, and the others are Satin faced. The regular value of these Coats is $15.00, but Jones wants every man to at. Another bar- a Spring O have gainis a fine Brown Cussimere Overvout at $0.00; to 860 it. Clothier, 1309 Farnan Street,