Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1888, Page 4

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Btate o{ Nermnn k‘l’»“ }._ . f Do Goo 1l zschiick, Secrotary of The Bee Pub- Nahing company, doos solemnly swear that tho Hetual circtiation of the Daily fiee for the week ending April 13, 1558, was as follow: il 7 Average, 0. GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my_presence this 1th day of April, A. D, 188, _N. P.FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, . County of Douglass, e Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- sen and says that he {8 secretary of The Bee fiflvllahlng com)ml\{. that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of X K67, 14,316 coples; for May, 1887, 14,227 coples; for June, 1887, 14,147 coples; for July, 1887, 14008 coples} for August, 1887, ll,lhl coples; for Be ll'mb!r, 1887, 14,349 ‘coples: for October, 187, 14,333; for November, §8%%, 15,226 Coplen: ' for December, 187, 106041 m{;l;u for January, 1888, 15,208 copies; for February, 1888, 1592 coples: for March, 1588, 10,689 coples. GEO, B. TZSCHUCK. Eworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 16th d.l{ of April, A. D, 1888, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. IF Minister Phelps succeeds Chief Justice Waite, who is going to step into Mr. Phelps’ shoes at St. James? TiosE Central Labor Union resolu- tions have proved a boomerang for the federated bogus workingmen that con- cocted them. ‘WnAT has become of the extensive improvements that were to be made this spring in beautifying the syndicate park near South Twenty-fourth street? Tue chief clerk of the treasury de- partment at Athens has embezzled one million dollars of government funds. Stealing at this rate will not leave even a Greece spot in the exchequer. ACCORDING to the Washington corre- spondent of the St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat, Congressman McShane got a clean 8CoOp on our senators in the order to re- move the Niobrara land office to O'Neill. WHAT has the admission of Pakota got to do, anyway, with the returning board squabble of 1876? And yet demo- cratic senators want to make political capital out of it and make Dakota suffer for imaginary sins. THE entire democratic party of the state of Vermont is going te the St. Louis convention. «One small bed has been engaged at the leading hotel and that accommodation will be ample to receive the whole delegation. WORKINGMEN withhold their labor all peaceable means to enforce their demands upon employers. But the public sympathy is withdrawn from them whenever they attempt to carry their point by personal violence or de- struction of property. This should im- press itself upon every wage-worker under all conditions and circumstances. have a right to and use WiLL any of our local contemporaries that published those roasting resolu- tions of the Central Labor Union kindly inform us what this federation of trades is composed of, who its officers are, how many members were present last Mon- day, and who offered those resolutions ‘Will they have the decency and cour- tesy to contradict the bare-faced libels embodied in those resolutions? TuEe committee of arrangements for the Chicago convention hasannounced that no Chicago contributor who has subscribed less than $50 to the conven- tion fund would receive a ticket. “This puts the price of admission rather high. But the entertainment is to be first-class every particular. Gilmore's band will probably be there to sooth the savage breasts of contending politicians, MoORE brick buildings and fewer frames should be constructed hereaftc in Omaha, The chief obstacle hereto- fore has been the high prices and scar- city of brick. The time is at hand when brick will be abundant and much cheaper than ever. The cheapening of brick should be an incentive for build- ing not only brick stores and factories but brick residences. A frame house always has an unsubstantial appear- ance. —— IN comparison with the corresponding weel of last year, the bank cleavings all through the country, with but isolated exceptions, show @ decrease for the week ending April 14. New York leads off with a decrease of 21 per cent, where the absence of activity on the ex- changes was seriously felt on the aggr gate clearings. #As the general volume of business for the week indicated in the clearings was about the same as last year, it would seem that bank clearings " are not always an exact index of the state.of trade e THE new management of the Chicago T¥mes is making improvements in that journal which have already had telling effect on its prosperity., The latest change has given the paper a more sym- metrical form, and with its remodeled typography the Z¥mes is materially im- proved in appearance. The always ex- cellent news features of the paper are fully waintained, its editorial columns are characterized by a better spiritthan formerly, and on the whole the paper glves evidence of having fallen into most competent hands. It may be re- marked, also, that the Zimes continues & monument to the fame of W. F. Story, whose name is still wcarried conspicu- ously at the head of the editorial. page: Wasted Tabor. 1t is announced that the foreign rela- tions committee of the senate will re- port adversely to the fisheries treaty, and it is believed the refusal of the sen- ate to ratify the arrangement is as- sured. This will be a considerable dis- appointment to those who had hoped that the questions covered by the treaty would be remioved from controversy,and these constitute a large majority of the people of this country, and we believo of Canada also. So far 4s our own peo- ple are concerned, with the exception of those engaged in the flshing inter- ests and such as sympathised wish them, they had grown very tired of the fish= ery dispute. Admitting that there isa principleinvolyed of somo slight inter- national importance, and granting that Canada has not shown a proper regard for her treaty obligations, yet the great majority of our people have felt that the interests involved are not of such importance as to warrant the amount of controversy that has been expended over them, while they have also felt that if our rights were being disre- garded or denied by our neighbors the plain duty of the government was to use its power to enforce them, and not keep up an endless bickering with Canada. The method adopted by the administra- tion to bring the difficulty to a settle- ment was perhaps a little irregular, but the country, ogeall of it except a portion of New England, was willing to approve almost anything that would as- sure o fair and permanent settle- ment. The British government sent its representative in the person of Mr. Chamberlain, who approved himself entively acceptable, being in- clined to an arrangement which while fair to both countries would tend to in- crease friendly relations not only be- tween the United States and Canada, but as well between this country and England. A spirit of reasonable con- cession prevailed on both sides, and the treaty submitted is probably as fair and oquitable as it is possible to make it. There is no question that if ratified by the senate it would be approved by the British government. As there are objectors in Canada who regard the treaty as surrendering Can- adian rights, so in this country the op- position to it is on the alleged ground that it surrenders American rights. Perhaps no better argument could be presented than this fact in evidence of the general fairness of the treaty. The opposition on each side comes from those who would demand more than would be .just to the other side, or from such as want a plausible pretext to oppose the treaty because there may be political capital in doing so. This motive is operative in Canada as well as here, and it cannot fairly be questioned that if the treaty fails of ratification by the senate it will be largely due to this mo- tive. Failure will be unfortunate for the reason that in leaving this dispute unsettled the tendency will be to aggra- vate the hostile sentiment of both sides, and thus lead to action that may oventu- ally endanger the peace of the two countries. The Canadian government may of course be expected to renew its former policy, the exasperating ef- fect of which is well remem- bered, and this would undoubtedly be met by the retaliatory course which the president is empowered by act of congress to adopt. It is easy to see where such proceedings would be liable to lead. It issaid the democrats in the senate will make a vigorous effort in behalf of the treaty, though a few of them are counted against it, but if the matter is to be determined on party lines the failure of the treaty is certain. A New Phase of the Strike. The findings of the Iowa railroad commissioners in the Creston wreck in- igation are a commentary on the wretched management of the Burling- ton road on its Towa division. The con- current testimony shows that the e gineer and conductor of one of the freight trains that had collided with the fast mail train had been on duty for over fifty hours, and were com- y broken down for want of rest. y should not the managers of the vond be held vesponsible for con- tributary negligence, for jeopardizing the lives of employes and passengers, and the destruction by fire of the United States mails? What excuse can any y manager offer for forcing con- and engineers tQ remain on act- ive duty for more than forty-eight hours at a stretch? 1f the company 1s short of competent conductors and engineers why do they not lay their freight trains off rather than run them with men who fall asleep on their engines? This isa feature of the strike that appeals urgently for the mtervention of the Iowa railway commission as well as the post- office department. As AN example to our citizens'what other cities of the west are doing for the purpose of securing manufacturing enterprises, the great exertions made by St. Paul, Minn,, to induce the Inu- dianapolis car works to locate there may be mentioned. The capitalists of St. Paul offer as inducements to the Indian- apolis firm (1) $30,000 for the buildings in Indisnapolis, the company 1o keep the property and to dispose of it as it may see fit; (2) transportation of stock and muchinery to St. Pal to be paid; (8) price of fuel to be made equul to cost of natural gas at Indianapolis; (4) buildings equal to those oceupied in In- dianapolis to be erected on twenty acres of ground donated to the company; (5)a certain cash bonus for every employe who accompanies the works and locates at St. Paul; (6) no taxes for ten years. The works are said to employ over 500 men and are one of the leading indus- tries of Indianapolis, The bonus which St. Paul offers is enough to make Omaha open her eyes. By the way, what would we offer for the plant? — It is an outrage, in the opinion of Congressman Oates, of Alubama, to compel those who lost in the rebellion to pay the cost of their subjugation, This is not in accord with the view that has prevailed with maunkiud since so- ciety became organized into states and nations, All through history the losers in war have had to pay the cost of their subjugation, and the verdict of all Bations has approved the principle. As to the people of the - south, however, they have not paid and will not pay one- tenth the cost of keeping thatsection in the union. The cotton tax, which Mr. Oates demands shall be returned if the money collected under the direct tax shall be given back to the states that paid it, was a mere trifle in the cost of the rebellion, and everybody knows that the south has mnot contrib- uted one-tenth of what has been paid in liquidation of the public debt, It is perhaps entirely safe to say that the states which engaged in re- bellion do not all together contribute as much to the support of the govern- ment and for paying the cost of the war as does the state of New York. Such an observation as that of Mr. Oates is therefore obviously absurd, but when a representative gets the senatorialbee in his hat, as the Alabama gentleman is said to have, the buzzing is very likely to interfore with that calm and rational reflection 80 necessary to wise conclu- sions and discreet speech. TiE republicans of Ohio in their state convention have inserted in their platform a vesolution presenting the name of Senator Sherman as eminently qualified for the office of president and pledging. Ohio’s delegates to the na- tional convention to use all honorable means to socure his nomination. This action ought to go far in refutation of the reports industriously circulated that the Buckeye republicans are not harmonious in support of Mr. Sherman, yet such reports will undoubtedly con- tinue to be sent out. There 1s nothing more certain than that at the outset the Ohio delegation will be solid for Sher- man, but ¢ has been the case before, and the question is how long will it re- main solid. Itis this question which throws a shadow upon the chances of the Ohio senator and is being used to his disadvantage elsewhere. For some time ill-feeling has been brewing between France and Italy, es- pecially along the border counties, which has manjfested itself in prohibit- ing the importation of each ‘others goods. This tariff war works consider- able injury to those industries of each country which depend upon the trade of the other. But the contest ischeaper than going into a bloody war, and the satisfaction of injuring each others trade is looked upon as victories. The United States is interested in the mat- ter as it extends the sale of our meat products in France and American tex- tiles in Ttaly. And as the tariff war grows hotter, our exports are getting into markets where they had never be- fore gained a foothold. THE nomination of H. B. Lovering to succeed General N. P. Banks, as United States marshal for the Boston district, leaves the democratic party of Massa- chusetts without enough timber to build a candidate for governor. Con- gressman Leopold Morse, however, is ambitious to contest the seat. Ever since his first election to congress, ten years ago, he has been laying his plans to capture the nomination. If Governor Ames is renominated, Mr. Morse may give him ahard rub. Butthe republicans are quietly looking about for a governor of the old approved standard who will be able to carry every district outside of Boston and leave Mr. Morse far in the rear. VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, The Fremont Tribune figures out that “the net earnings of the Burlington road on its main line for the last year reported is shown to be §12,753 per mile. It is highly probable that the net carnings for the current year will not reach that sum. The scabs bhave used up too many engines.” The York Times, a paper of close and carc- ful observation, says: “Mr. Laira will not be renominated. His goose is. everlastingly cooked, and he will find it-out. The wisesc of his friends have scen tho handavriting, and havo taken in the situation. They will dvise him not to run. He mmy make the tempt but there is positively a very siim chance for him.” The Graud Island Times sa; cler *“who is now sailing o'er life’s solemn wain is surprised at the unanimity with which the people of the entire west. join in the work of cursing the mail service, Nearly every man has nlved himself into an in- dignation meeting, even democrats helping to swell the chorus.” that a trav- The Sherman County Times ernor Thayer recently enjoyed several days as the guest of Superintendent T, Mal- allieu, of the sta industrial school, at Kearney, and is ish m words of praise for the manner in which the great institution is managed, and with the wonderful ability of the superintendent to conduct it on the family plan. This is one institution presided over by the right persen.” The West Point Progress submits this statement and que A litigant who, dur- ing the progress of & trinl in a suit against a railroad company, treats one of the jurors, will upon motion of the company have his verdict set aside by a judge who rides over the company’s road on a free pass a whole year., Would a verdict in favor of a railroad company be set aside because the jurors who rendered it had free passes over the road?" The Hastings Democrat, after reading the election returns from Nebraska towns and hearing from Iowa and Kansas, inclines to the belief that “‘the submission of the prohi- bition question at this time in the face of the results of tne late election would demon- strate the fact that Nebraska is not willing to undergo the trials of lowa, Kansas and other prohibition sta The recent election has plainly demonstrated that high license is the best method of controlling the liquor trafic, The Gresham Review finds place for this idea concerning the Chicago conyention 0 far as can be judged by expressions of lead- ing republicans and of the republican press of the state, there is no desire anywhere to send an wstructed delegation from Nebraska to the Chicago convention. Neither is it the desire to send delegates so set in their indi- vidual prefercnces that they will not be in- fluenced by party considerations. The de- sire of the masses of republicaus is that men who have made a record as workers, and who place party avove cuodidates, and will work for the party instead of in the interests of aspirants for the nomination, shall be chosen.” —— POLITICAL POINTS, The New Haveu News thinks “it looks a Little more like Sherman as the days go by." Qat in Towa they call Senator Wil Allison the Gladstone of Awerica, aud the Chicago Times (ind.) regards the comparison s uot inappropriate. The Oil City Derrick--“organ of oil''— thinks Mr, Cleveland “is as’ easy a wan to FRIDAY APRIL 20, 1888 whip as any in the party, since he has given himseif up sg agmpletely to the Cob- denites." The firm hold wifidp tho repubjicar club has taken upon the masses of the party was shown by the ehthusiastic gathering in Springfleld, 1. Wifbois is not an excep- tional case, Tho work of organizing clubs and spreading republtcan ideas and doctrines is going on bravely in all quarters of the union, The Baltimore American (rep.) recalls the fact that when Mr\Lfocoln was first nomi- nated Simon Camgron was a presidential possibility, and addd: “Now Senator Cam- eron, tho son of Simon, is a favorite of Penn- sylvania and may figure in_convention as his father did before him." The Quiney (M1.) Herald (dem.) makes the nssertion that General John C. Black would poll more votes for the vieo presidency than an Indiana man. The Horald says that he is well known in Indiana, having beon with an Indiana regiment during the war and his residence being near the state line, Gresham'’s boom 1 expanding all along the line in the far morthwest. The opinion of many of the republican papers on the coast is voiced by the Portland Oregonian when it says: ‘'‘Gresham is rapidly growing in favor as a prosidential candidate. A common ex- pression is, ‘He would run like Garfleld. And 80 he would.” . The Philadelphia Press (Rep.) thaving ob- tained the responscs of the republican county committeos of Pennsylvania to the question a8 to their presidential choice now that Mr. Blaino isout of the field, sums up the resuit as follows: “There is no concentration of opinion whatever. The choice of the chair- men is divided between Senators Cameron, Sherman, Harrison, Allison and Quay, Mr. Depew, Judge Gresham aud others, Much interest is felt throughout the coun- try relative to the Rhode Island state elec- tion, which occurs on April 4 next, The fact that the democrats elected their governor last year by a plurality of nearly three thousana votes makes the democracy hopeful,although Blaine carried the stato by over six thou- sand plurality. Atall events, this, the first state election of the presidential year, will bé looked upon as a big “straw” by all the poiiticians.” The fight the republicans of Louisiana are malking for success in the state elections noxt month is held by the.Albany Journal to be of far greator interest as rogards the national election than the republican party realizes. The Journal suys: ‘Upon it may hinge the result of the presidential eloction. A good general prepares to take advantage of every favorable opportunity. The republican party neeas good generalship. It should begin to watch its chances now,and to take every one it can find.” General Harrison, of Indiana, got a column double-leaded boom for the presidency in the Indianapolis Journal. Here is the nub of the article: “We challengo comparison of this record for popularity., With an unblemished character, the vast majority of the republi- cans of Indiana saypl‘Nominate General Har rison for the presid@ncy and he will carry In- diana.’ e has beofl fried; his strength be- fore tho people has bgén tested, and the re- publicans of the statedwant him nominated.” Blaine out of the#igld as a candidate is not Blaine politically dend by any means accord- ing to the republican press. He is expected to fight in his shirt Elpeves as he used to do in Maine. Says theDgs Moines Register on this point: “Very ?{nch depends on Mr. Blaine whether we' shall have a republican clected this year. Aid every republican in the land, whetheg Blame or anti-Blaine, thrills with detight and is strong with confi- dence because he knows that party depend- ence on Blane is safe and sure.” Most republican and many independent journals consiaer the results of the recent town elections in Maine as the outcome of a hope and belicf that Blaine will again be in for the presidency: The Philadelphia Times voices this feeting as follows: “Whatever may ve Mr. Blaine's views on the’ subject, it is evident that his friends in his own state have not abandoned the hope of his renom- ination, and they have put his cause in the cal shape by booming Maine up to high-water mark, while the republicaas of the west are even uncertain as to their strong republican states.’” - April Weather, George B. Hynson. Our lifels like the April weather, When storm and sunshine come together, And one begins ere tothers ended; Thus cloud and sunshine strangely blended. Auon we hear tempest rending, ‘And sce the pall-like clouds descending, When through their rifts the sunlight stream- ing Is the “bow of promis itning, ak And peal on And snow and hail and wintry weath In grand confusion sweep together Oue moment tells of winter's freez sleaming, And then, T say, like April ive We laugh and ween, and both ¢ Discordant notes (and yet ag Make up our sum of earthly being, when this April now is sending Storm and sunshine, all contending, < at all, because at knowing s001 be blowing. Are but t That prophesy o Within the May of 1 Fremont's telephone service is being improved. Bloomington is to have a new paper— The Echo. The Union Pacific depot at Schuyler. An Otoe county man captured a mother wolf and her seven ten-day-old cubs. Th versi pany. Custer county i8" again in confusion over the question Of county seat re- moval. & Superintendent Horuberger, of Fre- mont, has sent 300 to Miss Royce, of Plainview, subscribed to the “Royce fund.” Company (!, secbad regiment of the Nebraska City N:L‘txlml guards, go into camp Saturday L ening, to remain twenty-four hours. Mrs. Lou Clark, whose husband was killed while a brakbman on the Bur- lington, at Falls City, has sued the com- pany for 85,000 damages. The York Times,fnds that the object of Eli Perkins’ visit to Nebraska at this time is to manufacture another ‘‘ma- jority” story for Jim/Laird. Norfolk claims to be doing more building and increasing more rapidly in population than any town in the state, with preferred chanc Mayor Ralfe. of braska City, has issued an order that hereafter all tramps found in that city shall be put to work cutting down the sidewalk grade, Platte county has instructed her dele- gates to the state convention 1o use all honorable efforts to secure the election of J. E. North as a delegate to St. Louis. It is reported to the Beatrice Demo- crat that Mr. Bierbower will send in his resignation as United States mar- shal fc braska this month in order to embark in other business. A complaint- comes from Beatrice claiming that the St. Joe jobbers refuse will build a fine young ladies of the state uni- y want to form a military coms tooash checks drawn upon Nebraska banks. The Expross says: ‘“This may bo regarded as the golden opportunity for the Omaha and Lincoln jobbers, to whom this trade rightfully helongs. The retailer will be slow in making pur- chases in o market where their checks are at a discount as lorg a8 other mar- kets are open to them on a fair basis.” lowa ltems. Dubuque thinks its boom is blasted. Davenport is to have an electric rail- way. Glenwood has discovered another field of coal. The_ Allison brigade will go to Chi- cago 400 strong. Two Muscatine barbers wero fined for shaving on Sunday. Prof. Foster, of Burlington, predicts a sovere storm on April 24 and 25. The next annual encampment of the G. A. R. will be held at Burlington. Papors throughout the state are pre- dicting *‘another very dry summer,' Miss Downy, the noted evangelist, is wrestling with the tempter at Sioux City. Sioux City's electric dynamo burned out and the town is in darkness for a fow days. Burlington is wreathed in smiles since the bill passed the senate giving her a federal building. Regent Burrell, of the Towa Univer- sity, has accepted an _invitation to de- liver the annual oration at the Univer- sity of Kansas on June 5, A state convention of republican clubs in Towa will be held at the opera house in Des Moines on Wednesday, May 2, at 11 o'clock a. m. A Burlington man, Prof. Forby, has invented a new system of short hand, which it is claimed can be learned in one-half the time required by the old way. Dakota. Spearfish is to hayve a new newspaper. Yankton will have a sewerage system. Five thousand miming claims are located within ten miles of Deadwood. A syndicate of Deadwood capitalists drew a prize in the Louisiana lottery the 10th. Last year ten and one-half million feet of lumber was manufactured in the Black Hills. The Yankton committee to procure right of way for the Manitoba road en- ters upon its work next week. ‘Work has been resumed on the gaswell at Aberdeen, and a pressure of thirty pounds to the square inch has been ob- tained. Paul E. Page made final homestead proof at Mitchell, the claim being two miles from that city, and his improve- ments footed up $12,300. The five-year-old daughter of J. W. Porter, of Warner, was burned to death while trying to run across a stubble field which had been set on fire. ety stiecs GAGE COUNTY ANTI-SALOONISTS, They Issue a Potition to the Republi- can Convention BLUE SrriNes, Neb., April 19.—[Special to the Bre.|—To-day there were sent out from here petitions to every precinct in Gage county, and an organized effort has com- menced and pursued to capture the Gage county republican convention for the temper- ance people. The object of the movement is fully explained in their petition, which is as follows: ‘0 the Delegates of the Gage Count (Neb.,) Republican Convention—Gentlemen We tho undersigned republican legal vote: of Gage county, Neb., would most respect- fully present to' your honorable body this our earnest petition: *“That you will nomi- nate, for senator and representatives to our legislature, only ~such men as are in _sympathy with temperance principles and_ opposed to the saloons; that the candidates for legislative honors’ to be nomi- nated by your honorable body, be required to announce boldly that they are in favor of and will work, if elected, to submit a_constitu- tional amendment prohibiting the manu- facture und sale of alcoholic or malt liquors within the state of Nebraska: and that the said candidates will also pledge themselves to work and vote for striugent temperance laws regulating the liquor traffic within our state. Gentlemen, to heed or reject this petition is now with you. We beseech you not to pass it idly by nor dispose of it as a_matter of policy.” The republican party was founded for grand and noble purposes. With one bold stroke it severed the chains that bound 000,000 slaves and made them freemen, as i designed they should be. It is now the uty of that sume party to liberate 60,000,000 of people fromaworse thralldom than human slavery. We look back with pride to the great achievements of our party. We all do know its heroie origin, for many of us have stood by its cradle and nurtured it to fight the battles for God, for b and our native land. Within three d we view our long continuous line of glorious achievs ments, We see the civil war triumphantly E is uprooted and destroy the union_is forever restored; the nation’s honor and credit is everywhere vindicated: our indus strongly fortified wise laws, and started in a course of un- ampled prosp nd now, while this has been brought abouf through the instrumen- tality of the republican party, and while we were dealing with other issues, a moral leper has ingraciated itself upon us S upon our opponents, the democratic party, and we see 60,000 precious souls launche o etern- oh year through its agency alone. ying times of our’ ascend- 1 power, embracing the time of anti- \gitation, the war period and recon- struction and other ational isBes th dreaded scourge, the liquor traffle, has con tinued to fasten its hold upon us and sap the life's blood of our nation. The managers of the rum power, like the slaveholders of old, seck to perpetuate that giant evil, intemper- cducing the least worthy of our ad- by the bait of power, and frightening with the whip of intimidation, Too long has this policy succeeded. Too long the 1 self-interests of false le voiceless and ineff arnest temperance sentimen! the republican masses. The saloon are now with the democratic party. o few leaders of that element main with us in order that they may utilize our voters to 'y out their nefarious ends, We hold: That the suloon is the enemy of society and ought to be suppressed ; that the people of each state and municipality ought to have the oppor- tunity, when desired, of deciding when and how this shall be done; that the saloon is the open and avowed enemy of the republican party, and, until destroyed, we should crip- ple by every restraint and disubility that sawe measure that deters our progress. The saloon vote has gone where it belongs und we should no longer panderto its liprous presence. The liquor power, state aud national, has, for good cause, declarcd war to the knif against the republican party. With courage principle, and honest endeavor we can now win o our cause, thrice over, the numericall loss of the saloon voters, from the best wmen of all parties. Now, gentlemen, we implore you o carefully consider the petition we present you and place the par county, squarely on record as & giant evil &nd for the interests of the homes of our land, Hoping y tions similar to the ‘above, we who pledge ourselves to do all in our power to destroy the rule of that demon, alcohol, will also pledge ourselyes to work for that grand party that dares say it is the friend of theoppressed and downtrodden. We most respectfully scribe ourselves the friends of God, of and native land, the champions of schools and the enemy of the saloons. Voted For Seventy Years. New Yonk, April 19.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.]—Thumas C. Hance, the oldest voter in this state, died at Mecedon this morning. He was born of Quaker parents in Maryland, September 23, 1751 At the last election ho voted the democratic ticket, this beiug bis seventy-eighth snnual appearance 2t Lhe polls. always ¢ ement Only ro- ou will adopt resolu-] TALKED TILL NEAR MIDNICHT. A Pro'racted Seasion of the Council . Last Night. LOTS OF WIND OVER NOTHING. Brennan & Co. Send In Another State- ment—Special Committoe's Work Ratified—Bondsman Onnuning- Wants to Bo Released. A 12 O'clook Session. The councilmen who put in appearance at the adjourned meeting of the city council last night were in a talkative mood, and were ready to talk the buttons off of Acting President Lowry’s coat under the simplest pretext. Debate was put under way when Chiarles Turner's communication requesting that the fruit peddlers be exterminated was read, Councilman Hascall wanted the pro- test sent to the Salvation army committee, and after the city's rulers had all the fun over it they desired it was placed on file. A protest aganst the paving of Twenty-second street also drew out & heated exchange of councilmanic opinions, and it was finally placed on file. When the clerk announced that he had received three bids for the print- ing of the revised ordinances, and that one of them, from the Republican, had been ordered withdrawn, the city attorney said he had not prepared an opinion as to the genuineness of the Republican’s claim of having the contract already, and ho was iven further time to look the matter up. >ending this the bids were entrusted to the tender care of the clerk. Some surprise was noticeable among the members when a communication s;mm Dennis Cunningham was read, withdrawing his name as sureity on the bond of Regan Bro.’s & Co. and Iox, Son & Co., paving contractors, and asking the council to take such action as is necessary to relieve him as bondsman. The communication was referred to the committee om paving, curbing and guttering. The spocial committee appointed to adjust the claim of Breunan & Co. for work done on the city hall reported in favor of allowing them £38,650.95, less £19,250.82 already paid, leaving a balance of #19,403.63 due them which the committee recommended paying. The three experts, Messrs. Tillson, Shane and Coots, were only willing' to allow the contractors &7,650.95 as some of the work and material was defective, but the council committee did not favor this. The report of the committee was adopted, and the balance due the Brennans was ordered paid. The protest of the latter refusing to abide by the committee’s report sent in last week was placed on file, The following eommunications were re- ceived and read: From the Mayor—Giving notice of having approved several ordinances, and the con- tracts and bonds of John F. Dailey and Re- gan Bros, & Co'; vetoing ordinance appro- priating private lands for the extension of orcas street and veto sustained, From the City Treasurer—Giving notice that T. C. Bruner had paid special tax under protest, and that John A. Horbach refuses to pay certain taxes; that Addie T. Conoverhad paid taxcs under protest. From the Board of Public Works—Com- plaining of high banks of earth on several streets which the city has temporarily graded, referred to committee on grades and grading. From the city attorney—Recommending that the sewer ordered in the alley between Howard and Harney streets be constructed of fifteen-inch pipe to the east line of Thir- teenth street and from thence west twelve inches. Also that the sewer be laid down Ninth street to the main sewer on Jones street, instead of north to the alley sewer, referred to the committee on sewers; giving notice of building a larger sewer in the alley between Farnam and Harney streets; staf- ing that George J. Hodder was wrongly assessed in the sum of $185.38 for grading Twenty-fourth street. From the city attorney—Deciding that the property occupied by the Damish Evangelical church is exempt from taxation; having caused deeds to be executed conveying - cer- tain property to Androw J. Harmon: that R, H. Lucas is entitled to return of money paid for excessive taxation. Permission was given the board of educa- tion to dump dirt excavated from Mason and Twentieth street onto Leavenworth street. T. F. Brennan & Co. submitted a tabu- lated statement signed by a_number of con- tractors showing that they had done £52,525.12 worth of work on the city hall, E. L. Stone, Charles Turner and J. L. Bier- bower were given permission to grade the alley between Farnam and Dodge streets be- tween Thirty-second avenue and Thirty-third streets at their own expense. Dr. S. D, Mercer's communication asking permission to occupy the Eleventh® street viaduct for the running of cars by eleetricity was referred to the committee on viaducts and railroads, and the reauest of Stephenson and Williams and others for the changing of the curb lines on Nineteenth strcet between Nicholas and Paul streets was sent to the engineer. “The committee on claims were directed to look into the claim of R. Robinson for dam- Americ at ks compan, they had located hydrants an street from Thirty-fourth to Thirty-fifth I'he request of Samuel N, Bell and for the locating of hydrants was red 10 the committee on fire and water- works, and Theodore Olsen’s request for a grading of Nicholas between Tywenty-ninth and Isaacs dition was granted. John H. n in relation plishing the curh of Eighteenth street, n Nicholas and Ohio st tering, as was that of sting that Twenty-fifth str with cedar blocks on a concry Byron Reed and others for fifth street between Dodge avenue with the same mute, L, The board of health was directed to ex- terminate a nuisance complained of by John Hockstrasser and others, and Bemis' notice of the dilapidate the cateh basin on Ham tersection _of Thir placed on file. H. permission to grade € Twenty-Afth and Twenty established grade, C. H. McKibben's protest against paying personal taxcs as he is a resident of Counci BlufTs to th finances, ; 10 nar ‘uss str Tywenty-seventh 1o sixty-six fi over to the committee on grade ing. Protest of property owners against the paving of Twenty-second street was placed on file, “The following resolutions were passed : In- structing the strect commissioners to take up the trees on the west side of Fifteenth bo. tween Chicago and Cass streets and planted on the cast side of Jefforson sq iare; direct- ing the city attornoy to take the necessary action to remove the squatters from Locust Twentieth and Twenty-fourth streots; ordering the street commissiouer to fill up the old creck bed on_Burt street, west of Twenty-fourth stract; directing the chair- man of the board of public works to order the construction of a catch basin at the intersection of Califoruia street and Twenty-seventh avenuc; that the street commissioner grade Twenty-second street from Pierce street to Twenty-fourth street, and repair Franklin stroet between Twenty-sixth and Thirtieth strects; that he remove the stumps from Ohio street near Twenty-first street; that he put Decatur stroet between Twenty- and_Thirtieth in good condition; that he brade the sidowalle on ‘the south side of Charles street between Twenty-sove ty-eight streets opposite Shi [ > off the banks at the ir and ~ Capitol ixth streets to the intersec Leavenworth street: that he widen seventh street from Ed. C North street: directing th wenty- venue to erk 10 ad: Twenty-uinth street here ordinance; ordering the cit stakes showing the col of the general sub-divisions of lots 7, 8, Yand 10 in Jol son’s addition ; ordering the street comumis- siouer o repair sidewalks across Thirteenth street on the North side of Cass; suthorizing the park keeper at Hanscom's park to em ploy two additional mep; that the street conunissioner be orderedto grade sidewalk engineer 0 8ot fn_front of lots 7 and 8, block 18, #o that sidewalks can be laid, Ordinances veferred: That that part of the city south 6f North street and west of Twenty-fourth strect be exempt from tho provisions of the pound ordinances; that the city treasurer be authorized to employ on additional clork in his offico at & salary o $60 a thonth. Pormission was granted the several labor organizations of the city to ocoup; the council chamber between the hours of 8 and 3 0'clock Sunday afternoon. A spocial appropriation ordinance for the payment of liabilitios incurred during tho month of March, and prior thereto was Permission was given Kilwit and Johnson to use the earth above grade in a portion of Blondo street west of Twenty-ninth street. ‘The council went into a committee of tha whole, with Councilman Lee in the chaim to consider the paving ordinance, full details of which have been printed in the Bem from time to time. The ordinance was read the first and socond time and put on its passage, The following ordmances were passed, after the rise of the committee of the whole: Creating paving ordinances Nos. 178, 179, 180, - 181, 153 and 183: ordering paving in districts 107, 126, 142, 132, 145, 150 and 150; ordering paving of Leavenworth streot in paving district 128 with cypress blocks. At ten minutes to 12 o'clock the couneil ad- journed, after it being said, as the prop. orty owners on Pacific street, between Tenth and Thirteenth, had not seleeted the kind of material for paving the street, the council would do so for them. AFFAIRS AT SCOTIA. District Court--Oration by Ex-Sena- tor Van Wyok—The Boom. Scoria, Neb., April 17.—[Correspondence of the Ber.]—This is a busy week in Sootia. District court convened on Monday av 10 o'clock with a larger docket than at any pro- vious term in the county, Judge Tiffany pre- siding. Ho is very rapid in the dispatch ot business and his method of disposing of tha cases is generally satisfactory with the bar of Greeloy county. Hon. C. H. Van Wyck addressed a large and appreciative audicnce in the court housa here last evening. He spoke nearly two hours and a half. After the usual compli- ments to the poople of Greeloy county he devoted his speech mostly to the questions of tariff and monopolies. That lumber and sugar should be relieved from tariff taxes; that there should be a reduction upon coarso fab; which labor must purchase; that the cheap blankets and woolen goods were taxed higher in proportion to value than silks, sat- ins and diamonds which the wealthy must purchase; that internal duties and tarifi taxes were unequally laid; that the millions paid on our national debt, the mil- ions paid for the support of our government, and the milljons now in the treasury came from the pockets of the laborers of the republic and were not levied on the basis of wealth. Money, in all ages has managed to escape its honest shara of the burden. He then dwelt upon the in- creasing power of corporations; that millions were gathered and sent east to pay interest on bonds and mortgages; that the mortgago account was growing larger, while the dol- lars and the power of the people were grow- ing less every year. He read oxtracts of the testimony of John M. Thurston, Craw ford, and others, before the national commis- sion who were investigating the Union Pa- cific railroad company's fnethod of doing business, showing that a large amount of money was expended by the company 10 con- trol legislation. He also spoke of the Judases who betrayed their constituents for moncy, the most infamous crime men can commit; that nothing on earth could induce men to be 50 infamous except money, The boom in Scotia is still on the increase, every residence in town being occupied by fawilies, and several new buildings in course of construction, among which is a large drug store to be occupied by N. L. Swortwood & Co. The cheese and butter factory will be completed and _in full operarion, under the management of Mr, F. M. Wilcox, an experi- enced cheese and butter maker of Ohio, by May 15, X, —— CAPITAL AND LABOR. The Burlington Strike To Be Thor- oughly Investigated. Catcaco, April 19.—Judge Thomas M. Cooley, chairman of the inter-state com- merce commission, was in_consultation this afternoon, before leaving for home, with Alexander Sullivan, counsel for the engineers and firemen. After the meeting Sullivan said there would be an investigation of tho causes and results of the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quiney strike; that 1t would'be hold [ Chicogd, boginning somo day after May 5, Sullivan said the men were very anxious for i gation, and that this time the in- vestigation would be not limited to one state, asit necessarily was before the Illinois board, and that it would begin at the beginning and end at the end. Nebraska National Bank. U. 8. DEPOSITORY, OMAHA, NEB, Paid Up Capital, - $280,000 Surplus, 50,000 esident. FED, Vice-Presid D d Vice-Prosident, 11Es, Cashier, ECTO! JONN 8. COLLING, LEw1s S, REED, DUZALIN, Banking Office— THE IRON BANK, Cor. 12th and Farnam 5ts, A General Bankiig Business Transacted. 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Cady and ™ 222 da f sult with luter ary, A atng Cosis, accord g 10 e 2 y tho Distiict Court for sald Donglas County at ite February t Al 1858, in & certain action then and there pending wherein the sald m“:‘l”\l‘i“”’é'“" ‘l DImpPAny 3 plaintill, and the 3, M, D olson, defend. ey WILLIAM COBULN, Sleriff of Douglas County, Nel O b., April“19t, 1858 thnk e ————— PEERLESS DYES &izifabish BULL 6X Dkvewats