Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 19, 1888, Page 5

THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE; THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1883 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORTPTION. Pally Morning Edition) including Sunday BEr, One Y ear vesis e venn 810 00 x Months § v 50 %ranw- Montha. ... 25 e Omaha Sundsy TEF, maifed to any ad- Qress, One Year 3 200 OMANA OFFIOR, NOSOUAND 010 FARNAM STREET. Nrw YOk OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUN N OFFICE, NO. 013 CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to v..ws and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THE DEE. BUSINESS LETTERS. ATl husiness letters and remittances should be addressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to Do made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company. Proprictors 3. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. tate of Nebraska, ity oFDowgisn, |8 Geo. B, Tzschuick, secretary of The Bee Pub- Hehing company, dbes solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Tiee for the week ending Apri) 13, 1865, was as follow Baturday, ADF] Toooooiiieiiienins Aprll 8 Monday, April 0. Taesdny, April 10 Weanesday, April 11 Thursday, April 12. ¥riday, April 13 Average g 0, 13, T78¢ Eworn to and subscribed in my_pres 1Uth' day of April, A. D,, 1888, N Etate of Nebraska, ¥, County of Dengihss, | 1 %% Geo. 1, Tzachuck, being first duly sworn, de- Jones and says that hes secretary of The Heo blishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of April, 1687, 14,318 copies: for May, 185, 1207 coples:’ for June, 187, 14147 coples! for July, 1867, 14,088 coples 1 Aug 187, " 14,161 coples; for September, 187, 1 coples: for October, 187, 14,533 for November, 3667, 16,220 coples; ' for December, 1857, 16,041 coples: ' for January, 188K, 15,206 coples; for l‘armmry‘ 1888, 15,002 coples: for March, 1888, 10,68 coptes, GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Eworn to hefore me and subscribed In my presence this 16th y of April, A. D. 1888, P. FEIL, Notary Public. nce this FEIL, Wy can’t Dan Lamont play Bi marck’s role and put his foot down on the coming marriage betwe tary Bayard and Mus. Folsom? THE Louisiana election returns are " coming in, but the counting is progr ing slowly. It issaid that tissue bal- lots stick closer together this year than ever before. Tie great Keely motor has again been dragged into the Philadelphia courts. The judge wants to know what makes the wheels go round. From the array of legal talent for Inventor Keely it looks as if the lawyers’ tongues sup- plied the motive power, Tie trousers, which Balfour took from Editor O’Brien last fall when he was confined at Tullamore jail, are worn out. This explains the reason of Mr. O'Brien’s recent arrest. The queen’s secretary for Ireland is in want of another pair of pantaloons of Mr. O'Brien’s particular fancy NO BETTER way to beautify Omaha and to increase the value of property at a small expenditure can be found than by planting trees along the curb. Many property owners are already doing their duty in this matter. As Arbor day falls on the 23d, the holiday could not be cel- ebrated in a more fitting manner than by a general observance of tree plant- ing throughout the city. T course of political events in Ohio, while generally favorable to Mr. Shor- man, is such as to suggest an undercur- vent that the friends of the senator have reason to fear. A great deal will undoubtedly depend at Chicago upon the fidelity of Governor Foraker, and there is a possibility of this failing. There is great danger that the ex- perience of Senator Sherman with Ohio politicians may be repeated. ALTHouGH the American hog is ta- booed in the Syrian markets, American petroleum will again supply the oil for every lamp from Dan to Becrsheba. For two years the Russian merchants imitated our cans and lahels so closely thut the dark-eyed Syrian was deceived into buying the inferior erude naptha of Russia for the pure oil of our Penn- sylvania wells. But they found out their mistake, and the order comes from Beirut for thirty thousand cases of prime American petroleum. i medical profes uffered a loss in‘the death of Dr. Agnew, of New York, who held a prominent place as o specialist, being widely known to the profession not only of this country but of Europe. He was among the first phys lled to attend Mr, Conk- ling when his illness became serious, but was compelled by his own illness to leave the case to other huuds. Dr. Agnew made a record of great useful- ness to the cause of medicine. ns ol THR ilor; upon a time r “We, the people, demund, A dozen hood- Jums and bums bired by political and personal enemics of the editor of the Beg, resolved that “We, the central labor unfon, condemn and denounce a certain journalist.” These cowardly backbiters, who hadn’t manhood enou to name anybody or paper in their gr resolutions, furnish a great deal of am- munition to the monopoly hacks and readerless sheets who subsist on subsi- dies from the Burlington railroad and crumbs thrown by jobbers smd rings —_— Tae deal between the fillibusters and anti-Allibusters in the democratic party over the direct-taxbill by which ti dead-lock was 0 readily broken is now explained. The fillibusters have agreed to permit a vote to be taken upon the direct-tax bill in Decewber on condi- tion that they can tack an amendment to the bill to remove the existing limi- tasions upon the payment of further cla under the captured abandoned property act. The amount of claims under this act, which are now barred, aggregate about 15,000,000, So that if the direct=tax bill as amended be passed in Deceinber, the north would get about $17,000,000 and the south #15,000,000. The brigadiers would be pleased wit this “even trade” although the no would get & million or two more out of the bargain, street once The Opening of the Debate. The country will not derive any great encouragement from what was said in the houso of representatives Tuesday for and against tariff reduction by the champions of the opposing forces put forward to open the debato on this sub- jeet. So far as the spirit of the speeches of Mr. Mills and Mr. Kelly is concerned, it is simply in accord with the political afMliations of those gentlemen, and to this extent may perhaps be accepted as foreshadowing the character of the de- bate throughout. It cannot be regarded as a wise or fortunate fact for the demc- cratic leaddr to have occupied so much of his speech in the effort to depreci- ate what had been done by the repub- licans in reducing taxation. There was in this portion of what he said too much of that sort of political diatribe which, while admissible on the gtump, is not well suited to the hall of the house of representatives in inaug rating the discussion on a measure of great practical and national impor ance. If it be unwise to debate this issue on pu political or party grounds, it is still more unwise to make it in any degree a subject for antagoniz- ing classes. Judicious men will not think well of an argument in support of tariff reform that might have this effect. I another respect Mr. Mills appears to have gone too far for the good of his cause, and that was in mak- ing too appavent the free trade senti- ments which he is known to cherish. It was an imprudent statement, to say the least, that “‘not more than ten per cent of the goods consumed in the United States would be imported if all the custom houses were torn down and the government supported by direct taxes.” It was an assumption which the necessities of the open- ing debate did not warrant, and which ve no strength to his argument. Tt simply showed that the force of Mr. Mills’ real sentiments regarding the tariff was too strong to be kept entirely in abeyance. The speech of Mr. Kelly followed the lines which he has made familiar for twenty-five years, If somewhat less political and partisan than that of the democratic leader of the house, it was characterized by a much closer adher- ence to the old ruts of avgument. Per- haps nothing different was to be ex- pected of Mr. Kelly, whose life work has been the advocacy of high-tarift protection, and who has grown too old in this service to be influenced by the changed conditions. On this ground his selection to open the debate against tariff revision and reduction was per- haps not a mistake, but in so far as ho may be regarded as representing the general attitude of republicans the selection was unfortunate. It very i would have made little differ- however, if any other of the re- publican members of the ways and means committee had been put forward to open the debate, since their report shows them to be in full accord. The course of the debate will un- doubtedly develop an abler and more judicious treatment of the tariff ques: tion, from hoth points of view, than is shown in the speeches of Mr. Mills and Mr. Kelly, but th may be regarded as foreshadowing the line of argument that will be presented for and against tariff revision and veduction. There is nothing in this promiso that is reassur- ing. It will simply be fighting over the old battle, with every probability of a Jike termination as in the past. The National Banking System. After the questions of ation and revenue, just now the most pressing, shall have been disposed of, assuming that they at some time will be, the next most urgent matter to command public attention and call for legislation will relate to the money of the country, with particular reference to the national bank currency. This subject has made its appearance in a casual way at every ion of congress, and at the present ion with rather more prominence than for several y In dis- cussion in which the currency figured the future of the national bank note has veceived consideration. A few da when the bond purchase bill was befor the senate Mr. Sherman found opportun- ity to say a good deal in defeuse of the national banking system, which he be- lieves it to be the purpose of the demn- ocracy to overthrow., On that oceasion the Ohio senator said: *“But the na- tional banking system has proved to be the best that ever was adopted in the history of mankind. It is copied by other nations, and the principles upon which it was founded, though it was es- tablished in the midstof civil war, have grown stronger and stronger, and its whole life has been a vast benefit to the people of this country. It has furnished a local civeulation in almost every town in the United States, and this circula- tion has fed the fountains of business Tt is the menns by which been made active, by crops have been moved, by which trade and industries have been carried on, Tts benefits have been un- told to the people of the United States.” The charge that the system has cost and is costing anything to the people of the country the senator denied, The character and relations of the banks, aud the duty of the government with regard to them, were n dise cussed in the senate on Monday. Send tor Farwell, of Illinois, spoke on his bill providing for the investment of cer- tain funds in the treasury, and gave notice of amendments intended to secure the continuance of the national banking system. One of these directs the sezretary of the treasury to issue and sell to ional bunks, at par, for United ites notes, bonds of the United States, bearing interest at two and ‘one-half per cent., re- deemable after fifty years, such bonds to he used as security for the circula- tion of national banks; the other amendment provides that the secre! of the tre , in order to en the banks to maintain and increanse civeulation, and to prevent their de- struction by the purchase or payment of ational debt, reccive as circulation state, county or muni- cipal bonds bearing not less than four eve at home. monoy which security per cent interest, having market value equal or greater than face value, wisd upon which been promptly paid.. Senmator Farwell adyocated the refunding of the national debt at two and one-half per cent, al- lowing national banks circulation on such reduced bonds at par. Op- position to any legislation for com- tinuing the national banks was voiced by Senator Reagan, of Texas, who declared that the banks had been “guided by a policy pe- culiarly their own and at war with the best interests of the country,” and by Senator Stewart, of Nevada, who char- acterized the bank note currency as “mushroom stuff” which had already brought distress upon the country. Under present conditions the banks cannot outlive the natio: debt. Un- less legislation is provided for their continuance the limitof theirexistence, as banks of issue, will be 1907, the brief period of nineteen years, But many of them will not wait to reach the period of natural death. Undoubtedly more or less of them will from year to year surrender their privilege of currency, so that it may be expected nearly all of them will cease to have circulation several years hefore they will be forced, under isting condi- tions, to abandon it. Tt is claimed there is at present no profit to the banks in this circulation. 1f that be so there is no reason to suppose there will be profit hereafter. The advancing value of the bonds necessary to secure circulation is a fact against the organization of new banks. 1n short, all the circumstances of the situatfon forbid the idea that the national banking system will bo en- larged, but on the contrary assure its gradual decline. The question of universal interest to the people is, therefore, shall provision be made for continuing the national banking system, or shall it be allowed to expire and the circulation thus lost to the country be replaced by other forms of currency, as gold and sil- ver certificates, comn or greenbacks? This question is surrounded with diffi- culties which it will be the duty of con- gress to wisely and thoroughly consider when other matters of greater urgency are out of the way, issuing Tur death of Roscoe Conkling will doubtless rencw discussion as to several mutters concerning which there has heen controversy. One of these relates to hi regarding the presidential election of 1876, and the method adopted to determine the result. It was freely claimed at the time by the democrats that Mr. Conkling believed Mr. Tilden to have been elected, and this claim seemed to gain strength from the that Conkling manifested no symps with the planof an electoral conmis- sion, preserving throughout a studied silence with regard to the election and to that project for determining the result. The rvepublicans were more solicitous regarding his opinion than that of any other man in congress, and it is well remembered that great pres- sure was brought to bear to induce him to make some expression on the matter, When the electoral commission plan was being formulated, and tho greatest anxiety prevailed throughout the coun- try, it wi reported from day to day that Roscoe Conkling was prepaving a great speech on the subject, and never was promised utterance awaited with greater solicitude by men of all parties. The speech was v v delivered, and very likely none was prepared, though it is probable Conkling did at one time seriously intend to speak on the matter. Had he done so, there is very little rea- son to doubt that it would have been in opposition to the electoral commission, on the ground of its unconstitutionality. Is it not morc than likely that the counsel of General Grant dissuaded him from doing this? he other matter of controversy relates to whether there was an understanding between Garfield and Conkling in 1880 by which in consideration of the latter engaging actively in the campaign he was to be allowed to control all appointments under the administration, in the event of Garfield’s election, in New York. The friends and adherents of Conkling have always insisted that there was such an agreement, and charged Garfield with betrayal of a solemn compact in appoint- ing Judge Robertson—an ardent sup- porter of Mr. Blaine, who refused to be bound by the unit rule in the tion of 1880—collector of customs ¢ York. A great deal has been on both sides of the controversy, but so far as we know Mr, Conkling nevc any intimation that there had been such agreement, The inference, however, was supported by strong circumstances, and there are doubtless vel few who do mot believe that the p of Conkling’s support of Garfield was his control of the New York appointments. With regard to both these matters history can make no aythoritative statement, since the only man who could have remedied all doubt was silent respect- ing them to the end. Perhaps it is well for his own fame, and for the fame of others, that he was silent, conven- gave an ce Tig collapse of the American change in London and the disclosure incident thereto, will not improve the foreign estimate of * American charactc for honesty. The object of the institu- tion was good, and had it been honestl managed it would of great service 10 Americ d and profit- able to those in charge of it, but it is shown to have been conducted solely with reference to plundering its confid- ing victims, some of whom are b s by its collapse, The concern given a reputation by the connection with it of several reputable men, among them Senator Hawley, who' was the president, but these men appear to have really known very little about its ope tions. - There is perhaps some excu: for thewr not being better in- formed regarding it, but they will nevertheless have a share of the blame for the collapse, Alrveady the matter is being referred to as likely to beadis- advantage to the presidential chances of Senator Hawley, foresh adowing that in the event of his being nominated for cither place on the national republican ticket his connection with the exchange would be him, Yet no fair maw will doubt that General Haw- ley was. eutircly innocent of auy sus- losi used against picion that the concern was being man- aged in the unscrupulous way which the disclosures show. It will probably be some years before another attempt is made to found #n American exchange in London, for which there 18 perhaps no urgent need, but the most serious feature of the matter {5 the added stigma which the collapse fixes on the Ameriean character for fair dealing. — There are some very trenchant writers con- nected with the central labor union. They know how to use the English language 8o as to leave no doubt as to their meaning.—Re- publican. Those trenchant writers dotheir work principally with the venomous pen. They are men who labor off and on in the manufacture of screeds and slanders against the editor of the BEE, and have their headquarters and hindquarters in the office of the great dilapidated on lower Douglas. The applicants’ pigeon- holes in the BEE office are choked with appeals for employment from these dis- gruntled writers of trenchant English, who delight in playing the bushwacker from behind the screens of the so-called central labor union. THE stronger the prohibition laws are made in Towa, the weaker her officials become. Some time ago a quantity of liquor was seized in a whole- sale house at Des Moines, But the con- stables who took it manifested a dispo tion to be bought off. The liquor™ dealers acted on the hint and then turned around and had the men in- dicted for receiving bribes. It will now be in order for Towa to call o spec- ial session of the legislature to pass laws dealing with officiul crookedness. POLITICAL PO1L The Mississippl republicans held their state convention. The sentiment was said to be in favor of Sherman’s nomination at Chicago. The Tribune 18 workingZso sincerely for the nomination of Depew for president that we are in daily expectation of sceing it pre- sent a sketch of his career as a census taker, Mayor Hewitt went into a Park row rest- aurant the other day and ordered an Trish stew. “One anti-Hewitt," screamed the waiter, wio failed to recognize his customer. 1t is o remarkable fact that a free trade club of 250 workingmen was formed at Brac- dock, Pa., Wednesday night. This is the heart of the iron region and hot-bed of pro- tectionism, . The Cincinnati Enquirer is one of the democratic newspapers that appears to pre- for Gresham to any other possible nominee of the republicans. It may be remarked that the Enquirer has never approved Cleve- land's polic; Dialect stories about the presidential aspir- ants are now in order, and a neighbor of Judge Gresham is the first to be Leard from. “Quick and strong as lightnin’ and straight and squar’ as a window pain,” is his charac- terization of the judge. William H. Barnum is said to have become thoroughly dissatisfied with Cleveland,and it is believed he will eideavor to sccure a del- cgation from Connecticut to the natioual con- vention which will support the ridiculous pretensions of David B. Hill. The Cameron club of Philadelphia adopted a resolution endorsing Don Cameron for the presidency. A promment member said that during a recent trip passing through eleven southern states, he found Senator Cameron the favorite among republicans for the prest dency. Congressional Delegate Voorhiees of Wash- ton territory has declined to represent that promising bit of country for another term. Papa Dan should look after that young man. A Voorhees who declines an office has some- thing wrong with him. The Cleveland Leader declares, at the close of a political review, that “Ohio is for Sherman: every republican paper in the state, with possibly two exceptions, is sup- porting his candidacy, and the Ohio repub- lican dclegation will vote for him solidly at the Chicago convention.” Senator Hale, of Maine, is now accused of presidential aspirations, and the Washington Star thinks ‘Lo is laying plans to capture the Blaine following in the cast, and that his resolution to investigate alleged disregard of the civil service law by the present istration is a_carcfully prayed trump c s presidential game.” Cleveland’s majority over v was just 4,412 The n of democratic safety in t still narrower by th ranks of thousands Blane in rrow ma state is made turn o the republican of temperance republi- cans who have been acting temporarily with the prohibitionist organization; and that man is a fool Who can not fos the inevita ble result of any attempt to force upon the democrats of this great manufacturing and protectionist state a free trade platform and a free trade candidate. fon Ad. w York Star, Judge Shields of Omaha, has decided that whien an attorney doesn't charge more for Lis services than his client has the fee is not unreasonabic. An immediate emigration of lawyers to Omaha may be expected. s k of the South. Unhia Press. Colonel Shakspere is running for mayor of New Orleans, but even if he were elected Tz natius Donnelly would probably claim to show by @ cipher in the tally sheets thut the votes were wmeant for some other man — Nitional Horse Chiicago News. For several days the Washington corres pondents have beewoenfining their dispateh mainly to descriptions of tho horses of mem bers of congress. M, the statesmen do not begin to bestir thomgolves soon they will be completely oversnadgwed by their own live stock. i An 01 T) Philade The Market, A Gentleman and a Soldier. Atlanta, Constitution, General Alfred Terry may be the re publican candidate fgF governor in Conneti cut. The general was stationed sin Atlanta during reconstruction times, and he is re- membered here as f Rentleman s well as a soldiel 4 AR ¢ A Trust is Bag For Farmers, St. Louis Republican. Mr. Walter N. Allen, president of the rmers' Trust” in Kansas, undertakes to demonstrate that competition is a disease and monopoly controls the only natural and healthy way of doing business. Mr. Allen's proposition is that it is not only possible but Iaudable for the farmers to eorner the grain and produce markets. We do net belicve that it would be laudable. Wo are sure it is impossible. It is tolerably certain, however, that if *‘a nationa ners' trust” existed the president and board of directors would be in luxuriant clover. - The Real Facts in the Case, Buston Advertiser. The revelations made concerning the affronts offered our citizens in Morocco show clearly that the affronts were int Such outrages are #ot Put upon o oigners by the Moors, becauss they know that the result would be a paval force in the harbor of Tangier. Our demonstration has beon the appearance of the wrotched littls apology for a war vessel, the “‘Entcrprise.” It provokes nothing but derision. Our gov- ernment plainly ought either to withdraw from all rolations with Morocco, or else com- pelby force some attention to our treaty rights, ———— An Eastérn View of It. Springfleld Republican. The Towa legislature, which adjourned, had an exciting session, but did not accom- plish much of permanent value, Prohibition- ists are grumbling because more radical tem- perance measures woro not passed, and on the other hand there is complaint that the new pharmacy law puts a stigma on drug- gists, and makes it almost impossible to got liquor and spirits for even necessary pur- poses. A Wil to regulate railroad fares failed and the only thing that was done in the way of railroad legislation was to apply the prin ciple of the nterstato commerce law within the limits of the state, and to make the rail- road commission elective, . - Volunteers Wanted. Philadelphia Record, The Tariff Reform club, of New York, has issued a circular which contains the follow- ing points for the consideration of the people of the United States 1. That the prices of all the necessaries of life which are affected by tanft laws are higher than they would be under a properly revised tariff. 2. That the existing tariff enables combina- tions of men. *“Trusts” and monopolies to a continuous toll upon a vast number of articles consumed by the masses, thus bene- fiting a small minority at the expense of the whole people. 3, That the amount of these exactions—be. ing the difference between tthe prices paid by consumers and prices which would be paid undor a proper revision of the taviff—exceeds £500,000,000 & yoa 4. That the wage “protected industr of those engaged in the " 80 called, are in no manner increased by the tariff, and that the artificial stimulation of prices through “Trusts,” combinations and monopolics pro- ducos o benefit ot advantage whatever to the w ngman. The club promises to lay the evidence of these facts before the voters of the country and it calls for volunteors to assist in carry- ington victorious conclusion an issue in which the welfore of the whole people is in- volved. ¥ STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Plattsmouth’s pontoon bridge isunder way. The Aurora, Broken Bow is trying to sccuve the Northwestern road. The Greely News and Independent has been consolidated. A Beatrice fireman lost a hand in oil- ing the engine at the waterworks: IBight thousand three hundred acres of land in Cheyenne county sold in one day. Mvr. Hildet: lity, we understand, has purchased the St. Paul Free Pre Plattsmouth h: bridge company w and 50,000 capital, Prosser is the name of the new town on the Missouri Pacific road on the west side of Adams county. Mrs xon is delivering lectures in favor of down-trodden woman, and de- mands that they be given their rights. Fremont offers an interest in the got- den streets of the hereafter for a few slices of ordinary pavement for present uses. Charley Green, the Burlington white horse blonde, is trying to scare the strikers of Plattsmouth with threats of of arrest for conspiracy. The press of the state is, filled with cards of thanks from the B. & M. to those who exerted themselves ‘‘so zeal- ously” for the company’s good during the strike. Mrs. Briney, of Alexandria, Thayer county, who whs supposed to have been bitten by a mad-dog, after going tosev- cral places and trying the virtues of a mad-stone discoved that the dog had only seratehed hev face instead of biting her. dog poisoner is at large in organized a pontoon th eighteen sections Towa. Dubuque has adivectory population of 000, There are six licensed de gus butter in the state. Mitehell county rolled out pounds of butter, worth $587, year, The Catholics of Barnum, Webster county, have contracted for a church building, to cost 3,000, The liquor business in Clinton is now confined to the bootleg and back yard. The private jug is also flourishing. Contractor: holding off from large jobs in Dubuque hecause the mechanics are asking more wages than the build- ers fecl able to pay. The plans for the improved Julien house are now ready, and it was expected work would - be be- gun right after the 2d of May, the date of the demoeratie state convention, hut this difliculty between the bossesand the men inte lers in bo- 018,06 Dakota. County warrants par in Deadwood. Huron owes $70,000 in standing warrants. A number of Indian being constructed on the Fort Bennett. Sioux Falls is short on houses and long on tenants. Ients ave higher than the price of salvation. MecPherson county cattle have passed through the winter in good shape. Very few losses are reported. The republican territorial convention to eleet delegates to the national con- vention will be held at Jamestown May 16. More final proofs have been made at the Yankton land office during April than for the same time during two years past. . The Black Hills papers say that with the pleasure of nearer railroad com- munication is mixed the pain of book agents, The young son of William Summers, of Rapid City, grabbed a bottle of ben- zine and took along pull. Death fol- lowed in an hour, Less wheat than usual will be sown in Sully county this spring, as the farmer: are turning their attention to cattle, hogs and the coarser grains. Some farmers who left Mandan for Washington territory a few weeks ago coming back as rapidly as they can. They say that things are overdone on and ‘near the coast, and the happy me dium is, in their opinion, somewhe on the Missouri slop: are 14 cents helow bonds and out- churches are reservation at A Jealous Thrust. WASHINGTON, April 18.—[Special Telogram to the Bee.|-Edwin Wattersou, son of Henry Watterson, proprietor of the Courier Journal, was arrested last evening, charged with assault with intent to kill Mrs. Unk a widow, who boarded at his boarding ho: Watterson asked Mrs. Unker to bre engagement she made, and when She re fused b Y > ‘wnd cut her in th wrist. J There will probably be no pr \ls an dre QUARRIES OF COLORADO, The Immense Geanito and Sandstone Output. The rapidly increasing ‘consumption of Colorado stone for building paving and curbing purposes, combined. it the demand for this stone coming from Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, in- duced the Denver News to interview Mr. James O'Reilly, assistant supoerin- tendont of the Unfon Pacifie stono de- partment, for the purpose of ascertaine ing the magnitude of shipmenis ic® the ar past and to secure an estimato of shipments for tho year to come. Mr, O'Reilly was found at his desk at the Union depot, bus ronding a telegram from Lincoln, Neb., making inquiries with reference to dimensions and prices of 90,000 feet of paving and curbing stone, upon which the author of the telegram, an extensive contractor, de- sired estimates and prices, “I have been in the business ever since I was sixtoen yoars old, and I am now sixty-six yearsof age,” said Mr. . “However, my experience with Colorado quarries is confined to a very limited period, having come to Denver to assume the duties of assist- ant, under Superintendent A, C. Beck- with, early in March last. Therefore, I am not in a position to give the News a great deal of specific information in the absence of Superintendent Becks with, who is now in Wyoming. My ex- ence of fifty years in this branch of noss inducés the statement, how- over, that the shipment of stone from the Colorado quarries is as yet in its early infancy. In ten years from the present it will have redched a magni- tude far beyond the expectations of any one not thoroughly acquainted with the rare good and onduring qualities of Colorado sandstone and granite. YET TO BE DISCOVERED. “When I say the business is yet in its infancy 1 mean to be understood as affirming that there is an empire of wealth of o still better quality of stone yet concealed in the rock-ribbed moun- tains, There is stone therve that will withstand the mutations of any climate and endure through ages. When it is discovered and adequate facilities given for its shipment, I believe it is within casy range of the possible for Colorado to supply St. Louis and even Chicago with the best grade of huilding stone at rates that will displace the native stone of Missouri and Illinois from extensive use. The building stone of these states gradua yields to climatic influences, and it is especially susceptible to the s of frost and intense cold. Colo- rado stone isof a composition that defies the corroding influences of time and climate, and_there is practically an un- limited field for its use for building material, paving and_curbing, in the states of Kansas and Nebraska, neither of which states possess any adequate stone supply for the purposos indicated. TIHE QUARRIES, *“The Union Pacific quarries are loca- ted at Buckhorn and Stout, in Laramie county. The company is at present giv- ing employment to 300 men, but this force w soon be increased to 500 or 600, since wo are in receipt of extensive or- ders every day from Omaha, Kansas City and Topeka. You see the Colo- rado quarries enjoy some advantages over those of Illinois, Iowa and Indiana. In the latter states work can be prose- cuted only five or six months in the year. When cold weather approaches the quarries have to be flooded in order o protect the exposed strata from frost. This involves a large sxtra cost, which is seriously augmented by the expense of pumping this water out in the spring. In the Colorado quarries work can pro- gress all winter without cessation, ow- ing to the mild climate. Notwithstand- ing these great advantages we are far behind_in filling our orders for last year. Why, the demand from Omaha was of such magnitude that we are 26,- 000 cubic yards behind in our orders from that point on the demand for last season, and here is a telegram from the same parties calling for an additional supply of 40,000 cubic feet. The great Ballilotirour present shipments are to nsas in_general and Topeka in par- ula The demand from this source so urgentand extensive that we find ssible to fill Kansas City orders. D, “While the stripping at our quarries is comparatively 1ight, averaging about three J.m of dirt, violent uphe: nature and probable volcanic act forced the strata of the mountains out of horizontal position and left the lay- ers resting on an inclino that makes quarrying quite difficult, The stone taken out at Buckhorn and Stovt varies from four to thirty inches in thickness, We avoid blasting as much as possible, preferring to use the drill and wedge, By the latter method a great deal of waste is avoided and in, it assur getting the stone out in better condi- tion. It comes out solid and square, 1n- 5L of shattered and cracked, would naturally ensue from blasting, Asa general rule the ledges run into stratas, but oc- find places where, in nges , volean action has ; 'd and broken the ledge. until the n seriously impaired This is the exception and not the rule. SHIPPING FACILITIE “We enjoy the bestof fa getting this stone to market. runs directly to the seventy miles distant., Two trains are kept constantly in this service, and as de: an ordinary engine casily haul fif- ded flat cars to aggregate value of our shipments last year? Let me look at the books.” After a pause: *Well, we keep the record by months, and I have not the time to ma ination, but taking seve and making mate, I will plac shipments last The supply ) is enough building and _ payir stone in Colorado to supply the world for centu ries yet to come. ~ The wealth of her stoné product is equal to that of her gold and silver mix Vast quantities of this stone are used in the construction of our state capitol building and Denver school houses. The demand this sum- mer will be greater than or - befor and when the quarries are fully deve oped and good shipping facilitics rovided the annual product ten yeurs wence will run into the millions of dollars in value. I could give the News agreat deal of interesting and val- uable information, were it not that Superintendent Beckwith has with him some of the more important statistical records of the Stout and Buckhorn S0 soon as he returns, I will pleased to furnish material for an claborate statement of Colorado’s stone husiness, sears ities for The rond quarries, about Denver. Th monthl gregats rough A Wet Pastor. While two Chicago policemen were out with a 800-foot chain marking the saloons that we in the prohibited distance of churches and schools the other day, they went into Fred Youn- ger's saloon, corner of Garficld and Lincoln avenues, “*You will have to quit business here; that’s orders,” said Policeman Bartlett, **Why's canse the Jirvst Lutheran Plattdeutsche church is upstairs, and after this you can't keep o saloon ‘within 200 feet of any church, much less run a saloon in the same building.” “But, mein Gott, 1am the pastor of the church,” aus: worad the astonished saloon-keeper. The officers retired to prosent this new phase of the case to Capt. Shaack, —— Infamous Resolutions, The prominence given by the local pross to the so-called resolutions pur- porting to have been adopted by tho Omaha Contral Labor Union impels me to make n statement over my own name with regard to the construction of the BEE building. Before doing so I brand tioss resolutions ns a tissuo of malicious falsehoods unworthy of any honorablo or decent member of the building craft, Whoever the Central Labor Union may be, the parties who have given publi- oity to these slanders ara not reputable mechanics, but hirelings or designing political and personal enemies. 1 need only cite four of the ecight sections of these infamous rvesolutions to convict the authors thereof as unmitigated liars and scoundrels: Whereas, The Central Labor Union, com- prising the foderated trades of Omaha, view with shame and humiiation tho actions of a man, who professes outwardly and through the medium of a great journal his friendship for workingmen, and, Through the medium of his jours presumed to teach us that organ- 1 labor should be encouraged and fos- tered, and, Whereas, The only job now being erected in Omaha where carpenters are compelled to work more hours per day than other contractors demand, being the one which the aforesaid journalist is himself erccting, and, Whereas, Ho has and still refuses to accopt union labor on the brick work of said build- 10g, and by 8o doing allows it to be crected by Mseab labor. This is a dead give-away on its face. The Bee building is to be a strictly fire-proof struciure. Up to this day not a foot of lumber has been used, and yot asingle carpenter is at work on tho building, nor has there ever been a car- penter on the building, and no contract has yet been made for the earpenter work, which will be necessary in finigh- ing. This ought to dispose, offectively, of the malicious charge that the car- penters employed on the BE® building are compelled to work longer hours for less pay than any others. It is a downright falschood that I have refused, or “‘still refuse to accept union labor on the brick-work of said building.” T have nover employed o single machanic, bricklayer, stone- cutter, iron-molder or hod-carrier at work on the building, for the very best of reasons, namely, that the granite work is being dono under contract with Jackman & Sher- man of Chicago, who are to furnish the granite and place it in the walls for a fixed sum of money under a contract made last September; that the brick- work in said building is being done under contracts made in September and December, 1887, with John F. Coots, and the iron work is being done by Paxton & Vierling, under a contract made last October. I have no control whatover over mon employed by these contractors, nor can I interfere with thom without laying the BEE Publish- ing Company ligble to damage suits for breach of contract. While I should pre- fer to see union men employed by Mr. Coots, and have repeatedly told him so, and urged arbitpation with ths union bricklayers, I can.only hold him re- sponsible as contractor for the work ho does. T certainly derive no benefit from inferior work, if any such is done. ‘When Mr. Coots commenced to erect the walls with non-union bricklayers, acommittee of the bricklayers’ union called on me and warned me against in- fervior work. Itold them I was not a competent judge of brickwork, but would at once send for Mr. Beman, the architect. I telegraphed Beman tho same day. He w ick at the time, but reached Omaha within four days thero- after. The committee of bricklaye asked that I should employ a superin- tendent, but expressed preference for a non-resident who would show no partial- ity to the contractor. On my request M Beman engaged as superintendent Mr. Baker, of Milwaukoe, who had been the supermtendent of the North- western Mutual Life insurance com- any’s building in that city, planned by Mr, Mvr. Baker has been horo since last week Friday and receives $200 per month for the Does this show treachery and want of faith on my part - reasonable and fairminded workingmen ask any more? A few days after the bricklayers’ com- mittee had called T was invited to go be- fore the executive committee of tho Knights of Labor to explain the situu- tion. 1did so0, to their apparent faction, by not only answering all their inquiries, but also by placing in their hands the with Mr. Coots to show that I was powerless to interfere with the employment of non-union men on the Bk building, In view of these facts [ submit to an unprejudiced public whether the is [ round whatever for the *“roasting” homy Omaha would-be vivals have taken delight in administering to me over the shoulders of organized 1f there ever nything more con temptible and villainous, both on the purt of the self-constituted mouthpicec: of organized labor and rival editovs and do not remembe eman. supervising orl. sutis- contracts publishers, I to have n it. K ———————————— Gonstitutional Catarrh. 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