Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. [t iy TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION. Dally %:.n’ng Raition) including Sunday. . "o [ 2 ok, N AM STREET. oD Gryich, ROOMS T4 AND 1 THIRUNE UILDING, WASHINGTON OF¥ICE, NO. 613 OURTEENTH STRERT. Al communications Tnting ta news and ol :r”:x‘n':"l’i‘:‘l" should be addressed to the EDITOR Al hnMnnnnlI,cfi‘(fn nnlll‘rwmlfi.n?nsf:rn should be IMAHA. e made payable o the order of the company, Tie Bes Publishing Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. "~ IHME DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Olrculation, Statoof Noveaska, |, o oy stBition bt or o nan P com, does solemily swear that the ll'::“ cirou .fizh of the Daily Bee for the week v April 20, 1888, was as follow: 7 AA»rIu undn pril 15, o ril 18 (18,363 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn to sul ibed in my_presence this Pl rded oty w i no’{.?r’}'gflfi‘& Btate of Nebraska, ‘l.l‘ untl{ of Douglas, 00. 13, Tzschuok, being first duly sworn, de- and says thaf he is secretary of The Beo ml.hhhl company, that the actual average eirculation of the Daily Bee for the month 3 ‘flyflkl 1897, wis 14;310 copies: for May, 1887, ;fi mlcn; for June, 1887, 14,147 coples; f A A 68: fOF Beptomber, 1887, 14,49 coples; ber, 187, 14,88 coples: for November, 5,220 coples; for December, 1887, 15,041 cople: for danuary, 158, 15,200 coples:'for Febriiary, 1888, 16,002 COples; for Mareh, 1385, 10,68 coples. GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and subscribed in my Ppresence this 16th day of April, A, D. 188, NP mh., Notary Public. L 14,00 coples; for ust, 1887, 14,151 —_— THE ministers of the city in attacking the wine-room bave struck at an evil in which they will have the hearty co-op- eration of all good citizens. S—— A BOSTON paper announces that there will be no session of the Concord school of philosophy this summer. In presi- dential years the philosopher’s stone is overgrown in a night by the politi- cal gourd. —— THE vinegar trust is the latest combi- nation formed to sour the consumers. Protected by a tariff of 72 cents per gal- lon, the vinegar manufacturers have the market all their own way and propose to profit by forming a pool and enhanc- ing the price of vinegar. NEW YORK, Boston and Philadelphia show a decrease in bank clearings for the week ending the 21st inst., but a reference to the clearance record shows that Omaha proudly holds her head erect with an 1increase @f 15 per cent over the corresponding week of last year. ETr— ThE annual meeting of the national | wivil service reform league is to be held in New York City, May 80. Mr. George ‘William Curtis, the leading ‘‘inde- pendent,” delivers the address of wel- come. It is to be noted that the league precedes the democratic convention. This is done in order towarn Mr. Cleve- dand that his civil service record is un- satisfactory, and that he stands in dan- ger of losing the mugwump support. Ser———_— 108 ANGELES, Cal., is going to pay its councilmen $250 per month and dur- ing their term of office they will not be allowed to engage in any other business. The cities of the United States will keep an eye on Los Angeles to see if a $250 a month councilman is more honest and cheaper in the long run than a 8600 a year councilman who is left to his own xresources to piece out a comfortable liv- ing at the eity’s expense. Er— THE St. Louis pupers are publishing glowing accounts of the preparations that are being made by local committees to entertain the democratic delegates and their friends at the convention in grand style. There will be illumina- tions, and parades, and fireworks in pro- fusion. But of the money to be spent we miss from the list an approvriation for Kentucky’s chief product. Can it be that Henry Watterson’s state will with bourbon generosity supply with a free hand the needful tonic? Em———— BoME time ago the Canadian Pacific railroad announced with a great Aour- $sh that 1t had put on a line of swift steamers between Hong Kong and Van- couver and by rapid franscontinental @ransportation was going to divert all the oriental carrying trade from the United States. At first there was con- siderable uneasiness among our rail- roads that the boast would be carricd into effect. But the Canadians were checkmated at theirown game. Closer communication was established by tne Pacific Steamship company between the Chinese ports and San Francisco, Ex- press tea trains were put on the Union and Central Pacific ronds. The uly has been that the Canadian Pacific could not compete with our lines in rapid transportation and “has been forced to make San Francisco the east- ern point of destination for its Hong Kong steamship line. E— AT Kansas City the county board of equalization has raised the assessment on all real estate platted into city lots. The aggregate increase of assessment within the limits of Kansas City is over 84,000,000, On the other hand the Mis- souri state board of equalization has lowered the assessment of Kansas City for state taxation purposes 50 per cent. 1f our county board could do for Omaha what has been done for Kansas City our eity assessments would not remain so ridiculously low and our tax rate so out- rageously high. This county paid over $140,000 of state taxes last year, which is an enornity and ous of all proportion with the tax levy upon the balance of the state. When the state board realizes this rank injustice, we have no doubs it will equalize thé assessment of Douglas county by a proper reduction of the aggregate assesswent, If they refuse 10 do so the remedy must be sought through the next lagislature—through a vadical revision of the revenue laws. As 8 watter of facy, our whole system of "‘ifllm-nt and taxation is a men- Y. Rights of Railroad Oommissions. The supreme court of Minnesota on last Friday rendered a decision which is of general interest and importance, relating as it does to the right of the railroad commission of that state to fix equal and reasonable rates, and declar- ing a principle which will perhaps fur- nish a precedent for other states having a railroad commission whose authority to establish rates may be called in question. The case in which the decision was rendered was brought last August, when the Milwaukee & Bt. Paul road refused to reduce rates on milk between Owatonna and St. Paul and Minneapolis. Compluint having been made to the railroad and ware- house commission, it ordered after in- vestigation that the rate be reduced. The railroad failed to comply with the order, and affer the reguired notice to the company the case was car- ried by the commission to the supreme court. The whole question of the right of the railroad commission to prescribe just and reasonable rates under the state law was involved in the case. The legislature of Minnesota, at the session of 1887, passed an act to regulate common carriers and creating o rail- road and warehouse commission. The provisions of the act are made applica- ble to all common carriers of persons and property by railropd and partly by water, when both are used under a com- mon control or management. Jt pro- vides that all charges by any common carrier for the transportation of pas- sengers and property shall be equal and reasonable, gnd in other respects follows pretty closely the re- quirements of the inter-state commerce law. Thecommission is authorized and directed, in case it at any time finds the rates, fares and charges of any railroad in the state to be unequal and unreason-~ able, to compel such road or common carrier to change the same and adopt such rate, fare, charge or classification as the commission shall declare to be reasonable and equal. On the neglect or refusal of any common carrier to com- ply with the order of the commission it is the duty of the commission toapply to any judge of the supreme court or any of the district courts of the state, as was done in this case, for a writ of man- damus to compel compliance with the requirements of the act and the recom- mendations of the commission. The most important feature of the decision velates to the ques- tion of the validity of the act, thatis, the authomty of the legislature to con- fer such powers upon the commission. The supreme court of the United States long ago- affirmed the right of a state legislature to prescribe the rates to be charged by a railroad chartered by the state, but the power of a legislature to delegate this right to a commission has been in dispute. The decision of the ‘supreme court of Minnesota recognizes in the most positive terms the power of tho legislature to confer such righton the body designated & railroad and warehouse commission, and interprets the law as giving such commission. un- questionable authority in determining what rates, fares, charges and classi- fications are equal and reasonable. In the view of the court it was the intention of the legis- lature that the rates recommended and published by the commission should be not simply advisory, not merely prima facie equul and reasonable, but final and conclusive as to what are lawful or equal and reasonable charges, and that i proceedings to compel compliance with the rates thus published the law neither contemplates nor allows any issue to be made or inquiry to be had as to their equality and reasonableness in fact. The only egual and reasonable, and thevefore lawful, rates are those published orallowed by the commission. The far-reaching importance of this decision, recognizing as it does the au- thority of the railroad commission to dictate freight and passenger schedules to all the railroads in Minnesota, will hardly be submitted to® without a further effort by the roads to maiutain their independence of this authority, and the case will doubtless be taken to the supreme court of the United. States. 1t is thus probable that within a year we shall have from the highest judicial tribunal a decision as to the right of a state legislature to delegate a power which that tribupal has already con- ceded to it. Who 1Is to Blame? The Bricklayers’ union, whose mem- bers have been idle for more than a month bécause they refuse to accept last year’s scale of wages, have passed reso- lutions censuring the editor of the BEE for allowing non-union bricklayers to be employed on the new BEE building. Thoey have asked other trades unions to help them in keeping non-union br layers out of Omaha. Now we do not propose to discuss the lack of fairness in denouncing the proprietors of the BEE building because they do not volunteer to lay themselves liable to heavy damages for interfering with their contractors. But we ask in all candor who is to blame for the influx of mechanics who have taken the places of the union bricklayers who refuse to work nine hours a day for $4.50? Surely not tho editor of the BEeE. Just twe months ago, on the 23d of Februarvy, the editor of the BEe made the following appeal toOmahe working- men who are employed in the building trades: ACT PRUDENTLY. ‘The mechanics employed inthe building trades will make a very serious blunder if they do not come to an amicable understand- ing with the builders and contractors before the buildmg season opens. It is the manifest intovest of workingmen to get the highest wages and most liberal hours of labor that can be secured from em- ployers. Labor unions and federations of trades arve the most effoctive agenoies for upholding wages and enforcing the demands of workingmen. There ave times and seasons when skilled labor can command its own price and dictate its own terms, and seasous when the mechanios engaged in building trades must take prudent counsels. Such @ season is mow before us. The past season bas witnessed an overgrowth of American cities. The building Yoom last year was not contined to the west and south. New York, Philadel- plia, Boston and Baltunore showed extruor- dinary buildieg activaty iu 1837, It is but natural thet & vescticn should follow the overproduction of bufldings. The present year, independent of the usual dullness of presidential election years, will witness a genaral slackness (n building overations, not only in the large cities, but also in ocities of the second and third class. It is a well es- tablished principal in commerce that you can- not raise prices on a declining market. The same natural law of demand and supply gov- erns industry. When there is an aotive demand for mo- chanics and laborers high wages can be maintained, and the demands of working- men for reduced hours and oxtras can read- ily be enforced. But in a secason of general dullness, when there s & surplus of unemployed mechanics and laborers, it is up-hill work to command orenforce the highest rate of wagoes and a reduction of the hours of labor. Last year nearly eight millions were spent in Omaha forbuilding improvements. The construc- tion of mammoth business blocks, banks and packing houses employed thousands of skilled mechanics. This year the outlook so far is not very promising. With the excep- tion of two large blocks already under con- struction, the business buildings so far pro- jected will not employ one-half of the build- ing force which was at work last scason. ‘The abandonment of workon the city hall, the failure of the new hotel project, and the break up of the Knights of Pythias building scheme have discouraged property owners who were disposed to invest in costly build- ing enterprises, This state of facts should not be lost sight of by workingmen. If they can come to an agreement with the bwilders on last year's scale of wages, they should becontent. There is strength in union, but unless there is prudence in the counsles of workingmen, they are iiable to make very serious and costly blunders. On the other hand, the comtractors and builders should exhibit fairness and liberal- ity in treating with the workingmen., They should endeavor, if possible, to come to terms mutually agreeable- They must rec- ognize the right of workingmen to act in concert even when they do not feel able to yield all of their demands. How does this caution appear in the light of recent experience? Why was not our advice heeded? Had the brick- layers’ union acted with prudence and convented itself with demanding last year’s scale, we doubt whether the con- tractors would have dared to refuse their redsonable request. Hut the union bricklayers overshot the mark. In the Tace of the decline in building operations and the great surplus of unemployed gkilled labor they rashly ventured to demaund shorter hours at the same pay which was really ademand for higher wages, If they have failed in enforcing their demand, who is to blame? If hundreds of other workingmen have been compelled to re- main idle, and their families suffer, who is so blame? If building projects have been abandoned on account of the fool- 1sh strike, which would have started this spring and would have given em- ployment to many workingmen, who is to blame? Surely, not the Omaha BEE. THE secretary of the treasury having | finally reached the conclusion that he has the authority to purchase bonds, and issued a circular inviting proposals, the outcome will be regarded in finan- cial circles with a great dealof interest. ‘When this method of relieving the money market and reducing the treas- ury surplus was tried some months ago it did not prove to be entirely satisfac- tory. At the outset there was no lack of sellers at prices fully up to or a little beyond the prevailing market rates, but when it was learned that the treasury did not intend to buy at such figures, the anxiety of holders to realize cooled, and several weeks were consumed in purchasing an amount of bonds that might have been bought in ;as many days the treasury had been willing to allow the bond- holders to bull the market. The result then showed that there was not such a pressure for money upon those having bonds as to lead them to favor the treas- ury, and it remains to be scen whether there is now. It is apparently true that money is not abundant, but it is equally the fact that theve is not a very brisk demand for money, and does not seem likely to be at Jeast until the sum- mer is past. Unless bondholders can see o profitable way to use money there will be no object in selling to the treas- ury o its own terms, and under exist- ing circumstances it is hardly probable that a great many will do so. If this view shall prove to be correct, bond purchasing will not for the present make an important reduc- tion of the surplus, and indeed may not amount to sufficient to balance the monthly increase now going on. It is of course better than no plan for dis- vosing of the surplus, but it is a make- shift that oughtnotto be allowed tostand in tho way of measures whose operation will certainly and permanently prevent the accumulation of revenue in the treasury beyond the requirementsof the government. it THE effort of the majority of the ways and means committee to induce the minority to limit the time of the debate on the tariff bill has not yet had any favorable result, botisto be further pursued, The chances are that it will not be successful, although, as we have alvendy suid, we are unable to see in what respect it can be of any advantage to the republicans to insist on prolong- ing the discussion to an unreasonable length. The more earnestly the demo- crats seek, however, to curtail debate, the more cortainly will the republicans fecl that it is their policy to taxe the opposite ground, aud thus the matter will be determined solely with refer- ence to possible partisan advantage. To continue the discussion . a month or more will not only keep the country in suspense regarding the out- come longer than there i8 any necessity for, but will retard other legislation of importance that ought to have careful consideration, and which will be en- acted, if at all, with a rush in the last days of the session. The work of the senate is now in advance of the house, and the upper body will be virtually idle during part of the $ime in which the tariff discussion is in progress. There are obvious and ample reasons why the debate should not be extended beyond a limit that will allow the rep- resentative men of both parties an op- portunity to be heard. ——— THE reasons why Roscoe Conkling refused to participate in notive polities for the lust seven years are now coming to light, It was enly reesntly that hesent courteous letter declining the honor of bearing the name of & young men’s republican clubh of Pittsburg, which strengthens the belief, current among his friends, that he never again in- tended to enter the political arena. Mr. Nathaniel Paige,'a bosom friend of the dead senator, is quoted as saying that Mr. Conkling remarked to him notlong ago: ‘We have two parties in this country, and what are they! They have been going down, down, until now they have almost reached the lowest depths. whnt & commentary upon the politics of a great republic! They repre- sent two colossal organic appetites thirsting for spoils. The two parties are like two beasts trying to devour each other. The American eitizens are intelligent and far above the average citizen of the old world. They are the prop and stay of the republic, and have the spirit of freedom in thom handed down from sire to son. They are honest, intelli- gent and energetic. The men that make laws for them on Capitol Hill do not represent them. They represent the saloon and the de- bauched elements of the country. If Mr. Paige reports the late ex-sen- ator correctly, Mr. Conkling must have undergone a very great change of heart since he had left the political arena. It makes a great deal of difference whether the man is the power behind the throne with patronage at his disposal for his friends, or whether he is out of power and views the political arena from the wsthetic standpoint. 1N Wisconsin the fammers have formed “institutes” where popular in- struction in agriculture is brought di- rectly to the homes of the people. In the current year there have been held eighty-two farmers’ institutes in forty- five counties. The list of practical top- ics discussed is 279 and embraces such questions as concern the well-being of the home, the profit of the farm, the moral welfare of the people. In this service there haye been engaged 107 teachers and instructors, thirty-one of whom are specialists from other states. For this purpose Wisconsin appro- priated 812,000, Here is an example of an ‘“agricultural college” which the farmers of Nebraska might follow with profit to themselves, — OMAHA stands third on the list of pork packing centers as reported by the Cincinnati Price Current, and is pushing Kansas City hard for second place. In 1887, from March 1 to April 18, Kausas City packea 172,000 hogs. For the cor- responding period this year, the same city packed 177,000, showing an increase of only 5,000. For the same periods Omaha packed 95,000 hogs in 1887, and 112,000 in 1888, a clear gain of 17.000. At this rate Omaba will soon pass Kan- sas City as a pork packing center and follow Chicago as a close second. —— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. (— The West Point Republican finds that “Omaha is not only holding her place as tie third pork-packing genter of the country, but is rapldly coming forward to the second place now occupied by Kansas City.” The Wymore Union thus comments upon Mr. Harlan’s candidac; “Mr. Harlan was speaker of the house at the last session of the legislature, and in that position won many political friends from all parts of the state. In some respects he is much more preferable than the present incumbent.' A West Point paper furnishes this sport- ingitem: ‘“Omaha is the greatest Sunday baseball city in the country. In the morning they have baseball in the pulpits and have it again in the afternoon on the diamond. In the evening it is ngain transforred to the pulpits. So it seems they just about live on the national game in that city on the Lord’s day.” “Mr Dorsey’s ‘flop’ upon the tariff ques- tion is a subject of considerable comment,” says one of the Beatrice papers. **Mr. Dor- sey represents a constituency that believes in the lowest possible tax that will maintain the government, honestly and economically administered. The fact thata democratic president has led off in this reform move- ment will not be sufficient excuse for Mr. Dorsey’s constituents for his grand counter- march, and taking an entirely different view from what he did a few months ago.” The McCook Tribune ‘‘notes with pleasure the success and approbation with which Judge Cochran has been meeting in his hold- ings of district court thronghout his jurisdic- tion. His honor has been painstaking, care- ful, patient, and ever mindful of the quality of equity and justice, in all issues tried be- fore him. The docket of the respective counties have been very large, many of the cases being old and knotty, but by persis- teat, laborious effort these have been in the main cleared, so that the business of the dif- ferent courts of the district were never in better condition than at present. Judge Cochran is making for himself an excellent record.” With a perfect knowledge of its subject, the Mead Aavocate says: “There is no lo- cality in the country better suted to the farmer of moderate means than eastern Nebraska. There are other localities just as good, but as a farming community, all things considered, none better, We have railroad facilitics that could not be im- proved upon; and with such a network, it is doubtful if one could find a quarter section, especially south of the Platte river, and one bundred miles cast of the Missouri, that is ten miles from an elevator, Men sell their farms in Nebraska, move to distant stafes, but seldom improve their circumstances.” “We are glad to note,” says the York Re- publican, “the earnestuess of the people of this congressional district in demanding that tHon. N. V. Harlan be the nominee of the convention. Mr. Harlan is a republican, More than that, he is & man, in the full meaning of the term. The fact that some of the mugwumps are supporting him is no reason why the party should doubt his loyalty to the republican party. If nomi- nated and elected, those fellows will be treated in the only way Harlan knows how 1o treat men, that is, decently, They will in no way have any influence to prevent him from acting at all times in full accord with the republican party,” Commenting upon the burning of two mail cars by the B, & M. at Creswn, and the cause loading to the disaster, the Sioux City Sun says: ‘“‘Whatever may be said of rail- way officials, their employes are nothing more than human; and it is now generally conceded that an occasional rest is essential to the existence of the average buman being, This belief does not obtain, however, among rail- way ofticials. To them an émploye is some- thing less than a machine, for machines cost money while new men can always be found to take the place of those killed while on duty. When a wman euters the employ of @ railway company be Is expected fo be ready and willing to devote his whole time to the service of the company if required to do so. It is no uncommon thing for tralusmen aud enginmen to be on duty for forty-eight hours or longer, without & moment’s rest or even 80 opportuity to secure eustomary meals. HE_OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. APRIL 24, 1888 Small wonder then that railrond men are so soon worn out and incapaciated for active service, and small der that an opoasiongl nocident occurs. The Wonder is {hat acel- dopgs are so few. The safety of the travel- ing public demands that & law should he framed making it a misdemeanor, punishable by o heavy fine, for a railway company to re quire its employes to remain on duty for a longer period than ten hours at a time." Even the Seward Reporter, which for years has been allied to the monopoly fac- tion, cannot stand the actions of the Repub- lican club league. It says: “We aro not of that class who think that because a man is in the employ of a railroad he loses all honor, and is not entitled to the respect of the pub- lie; but we do think that other men are just as capable to fill positions of honor, and that railroad attorneys should not monopolize everything of a public nature that is in sight. To the eleetion of Mr. Thurston as president of the state league of republican clubs we had no objection to make. We recog: nize in him @& man of ability and & staunch republican worker. But Mr. Thurston was chairman of the Nebraska delegation in the last national con- vention, and has been honored by his party in various ways, and it seoms as if it is time for some other man to be allowed some share of distinction, The election of a Union Pacific attorney as president of the league does not commit the party to rgilroad dom- ination, but if the same gentleman is sent to the national convention, accompanied by a B. & M. attorney in the persen of Mr. Green, it certainly will be a disadvantage to the party. The charge of being run by railroad influence has been frequently made against the republican party of Nebraska, and such astep as this would be putting a whip into the hands of its enemies with which to lash it. The Madison Reporter gives vent to the following burst of wdignation: ‘There is a trust now organized in Nebraska known as the monopoly trust, which sprung into exist- ence at Lincoln, and dates back to last win- ter. It has for its object, the =apturing of the republican party of Nevraska for cor- porate purposes, and against the whole peo- ple of this grand state. This same trust will rather than fail, carry into disrepute the party with which they now pretend to ally themselves, and will forever blast its pros- pects if allowed to carry out their purposes. It is headed by the slum, rag and bobtail of all the parties, the largest being lately those of republican convictions for revenue only. Unfortunately, this grand old party during its long reign of power, gathered a large con- course of these political evils who are always clamoring for office, and many of them who by promises of faithfulness to thewr constituents, were sent to the legisla ture, and last winter, at Lincoln, betrayed all the manhood they ever possessed, betrayed the people and formed the trust which they now seek to put into operation. further deceive the unsuspecting people, they are trying to sail under the name of ‘‘Straight Republican Clubs,” Young Men’s Republi- can Clubs,” ete. While they have deceived a few to some extent, there is no doubt that the wise will take warning, especially if they got a pass to Omaha and watch the proceed- ings of that boby of political sharks. That outburst of political economy under false colors was equal to the occasion when it came to the appointment of the officers—one presi- dent and also about twenty-five vice-presi- dents, or one for every county where they had representatives that were suitable for their work that was to be done, namely, de- ceive the people, of which Madison county was honored (1) with one. They must have been well acquainted with human nature, as their selection was a good one, and his suc- cess will depend upon how many lieutenants he will appoint, and how well they will per- form their part, which we will note as the work progresses.” — Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Minncapolis Tribune. Jay Gould says his prayers at 10 o’clock every evening, just before retiring. Every morning, jugt -after arising, he picks up the New York Herald and says something else. e At the Informal Ballot. Chicago News. The rumor that the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew is not g candidate for the nomination: will be confirmed, we fancy, when the secre- tary announces the result of the informal ballot. e i Not That Kind of a Ring. Tufalo Courder. Having mentioned himself for president, Senator Stanford is standing at the telephone waiting for popular enthusiasm to ring up. It does not appear to ring up to any sensa- tional degree. 2 e Stuff Ootton In Her Ears. Boston Advertiser, 1t Mr. Phelps, of Vermont, 1s raised to the supreme bench, justice should be provided with an extra thick blindfold that she may not see the very mediocre attainments of the gentleman and blush. e T Pennsylvania High License. Philadelphia Bulletin, The high license law in Pennsylvania will be maintained by a broad and unequivocal afirmation in the platform of the next repub- lican state convention, and no rcpublican candidate for the legislature will, 85 a good party man, have the right to go before the people unless he stands fairly ou that plank. —— Knifed at Home, San Francisco Chronicls. It would be impossible, if the repnblican party wished it never so much, to segregate Senator Stanford, the railroad president, from the corporations which he has managed s0 long, and it is hardly necessary to say that California would never bring hersell to accept the railroad president as her candi- date for the presidency of the United States, ey Monopoly Tack Ticks. New York Telegram, The big tack factory at Taunton, Mass, announces a wholesale reduction in the wages to be paid their men, The reason they give is that ‘‘western competition has demoralized the tack market. Tacks are protected by a duty of 40 per cent, and if manufacturers can't get rich and pay their men decent wages at that rate they had bet- ter shut up shop, “Western competition' means, no doubt, that some people in this country are willing to grab less for themselves than the tack barons of Taunton, We trust that the labor- ing man will observe how he is made the football of tariff monopolists, ——— A Tariff Poem. New York Journal Talk, talk, talk, Talk, talk, talk; TALK, TALK, TALK, TALK, TALK! TALK! TALK! B STATE AND TERITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Valentine will have waterworks. Fairbury claims a population of 4,848, Ponca’s artesian well is yev on paper. Norfolk’s Sunday News was an eight] page boom edition. C. H. VanWyck is booked for the Holt county fair, September 12. Tecumseh has let the contract for wa= terworks and her new court house. Dakota county comes in with the first ;.-y_clona of the season, It was & mild al- alr, Grand Island’s donation of 640 acres home has been of Hitcheock county, Willie “o:mnh J himself Saturday accidentally shob ovening. A Stratton prgacher who talked for tomperance and voted for whisky has been asked to resign. The B, & M. graders will be at work I? Crawford before the 1st of Junt. Mark the prediction. The Nebraska City Press printed an “‘Arbor Day edition” which reflected credit upon its publishers. Alliance has a new 'nqwspn&wr, the Argus, J, D. Calhoun, of the Lincoln Democrat, being one of the owners. Hastings wants a canal from the Platte river to the Blue through Has- tin gs, a distance of twenty-five miles. California. Oceanside now has a daily Journal. There is $1,040,010.41 in the state treasury. A Woodland orchardist has refused to contract for his apricot crop this sea- son at $41 a ton. A Tulare capitalist offers a reward of $50 to any one who will raise a 100- pound, watermelon in that county this year. California lions are killing many young horses in Trinity county. The \mnplc are anxious for u bounty law to be passed. A vigilance committeo of five has been appointed by the citizens of Selma to keep the town clear of vagrants and immoral characters. Delana, Tulare county, has come to be a great wool-growing center. Already this year ‘the shipments have reached nearfy 1,000,000 pounds. The last rabbit-drive at Fresno_was a failure, as only 800 were killed, “Ahile at Mercer the last drive resulted in the destruction of thousands of the animals. The other day at Fresno aewe gave birth to three Jlambs, two white ones and one black as the ace of spades. When the mother saw this . off-color offspring she stamped and butted the poor little thing until it was dead. The following account of the times at San Diego is taken from an exchange: “‘Bight restaurants closed in one day. Sixteen clerks discharged from one dry Foods house on the same day. Sixteen hundred empty rooms in the lodging houses, Rates at Coronado Beach hote! reduced to §2 per day, and scarce at that. Price oe shaving reduced from twenty-five cents to ten cents; coffee from ten cents to five cents. Real estate agents leaving by the score daily.” The Northwest Ooast. Five horses were frozen to death at | Grass Valley, Nev., last week, A large quarry of superior sandstone has been opened near Cervallis, Ore. A number of Salyation Army soldiers in full uniform have arrived in Tacoma. Camas Prairie in Northern Idaho can raise 8,000,000 bushels of wheat annu- he population of Alaska is estimated 800, of which number 27,800 are uncivilized natives. Some Tacoma fishermen took in 1,600 Kounds of smelt and rock cod at a single aul last Saturday. The whole country north of Snake river and tributary to the Spokane & Palouse railroad is booming. The War Eagle mine near Ruby City sold to Irish capitaltsts for 87,000 and was stocked to the amount of 8275,000. Rich silver discoveries have been made in Lake Monica district, thirty miles from Salmon City, and.astampede has begun to the new camp. The lumber business throughout the Pacific coast is veported livelier than | ever before. Happy is the saw mill man who has a big boom—of logs. A number of towns in Washington Territory have already taken advantage of the incorporation act passed by the last territorial legislature, and many more will follow. The Womans’ Christian Temperance union of eastern Washington will maeet in annual convention at Spokane Falls Thursday, April 26, (continuing three days, with mass meeting on Thursday. The Puget Sound loggers assbeiation has been organized for the mutual Pro- tection and general benefit of the log- gers of Puget Sound. A bureau of sta- tistical information will be established at Seattle. Three counties of Oregon have made no payments of state taxes for 1887, Multnomah county owes the state #8104, 000, and the sheril has collected nearly $300,000. 'Wallowa connty has some sort of an excuse, as its sheriff died n month or so0 since. Umatilla county has made no move, nor does any one know whatis the reason of the delay. Wyoming, Cheyenne’s creamery is in full blast, There was no loss of cattle in the Big Horn basin this last winter. The oil wells are being boomed with all the vigor possible to command. Plans and specifications for work to be performed on the interior of the pen- itentiary at Laramie have been received and accepted. Thomas Keefe, the Union Pacific switchman who was crushed between two cars last week at Laramie, is rap- idly recovering. The Laramie Boomerang says that the wonderful good which has been accom- plished by stocking Wyoming’s streams with fish of different varieties is fast becoming apparent, and not a day passes but shows some good elfects in this line. The Laramie Sentinel says the most popular law in that city passed hf the legislature is the Sunday law. It s universally obeyed and generally en- dorsed there by all classcs, and the Sen- tinel editor declares he has not heard a man, woman or child object to or find fault with it, Dakota. To-morrow is Arbor day. Armour is enjoying u bdom: Deadwood wants a street sprinkler or less dust. A couinty teacher’s institute is in ses- sion at Redfield., Temporary injunctionsare scoring the saloon keepers of I'argo. Governor Church is fixing his feuecs for the Watertown copvention, J. Hobingon, the bogus dralt man who fleeeed Yankton people, hasgone to find new pastures and suckers. His other name is J. G. Robinson. Rumor says that lack of funds will de- prive Dakota of the joys of its annual militia encampment, together with its sorrows and heedaches. The programme of the fourteenth an- nual meeting of the Dakota Sunday school association is nearly completed, The convention will be held at Mitchell July 10, 11 and 12, The Forest City & Sioux Falls railway company claim that they will have the road finished from Porest City to Gettys- burg within two months, The right-of- way parties are now in the field. A new corporation has been organized in Aberdeen for the purpose of con- ducting a general ipvestment business under the name of the Unipn banking company. Capital stock, 85,000,000, Bpink county Odd Fellowsare making extonsive Yroplmlon for their second avnual celebration, which rs af Redfield Afrll 26. A grand | and banquet will be given in the evening. Towa. Sioux City hasa ‘‘corn palace” base ball club. There is not a Monday morning paper in the state. Spencer has a building and loan asso- clation. The Sanborn band has purchase a li- brary for its hall. The soldiers’ monument on the capitol grounds will soon be commenced. The democrats of Burlington will start a new paper for the dissemination of campaign lore. The directors of the O'Brien county agricultural socioty are getting ready for a big fall fair. The state convention of republican clubs is to bo held at Des Moines on Wednesday, May 2, An eloping Sioux City wife, who left her home last fall, returned the other day and found shelter in the poor house. Keokuk has a monstrosity in the shape of a human having six claws for or fingers, while the lower part of the ody resembles a bear. The Fourteenth district republican judicial convention will be held at Spencer June 18, to nominate a candf{ dute for district judge to succeed Hon. Lot Thomas. v ———— AMUSEMENTS, “Zozo," the Magic Queen, at Boyd's Last Evening. The spectacular drama, ‘‘Zozo, the Magic Queen,” was presented to a fair audience at Boyd’s last night. Since its former rendition in this city the play has been revised and many chnrming features added whioh would, if put in the hands of competent artists, or even actors of ability, coupled witWthe grand scenic effects, make the play onoof the greatest attractions on the rond. George H. Adams as Washington Knowall can almost be credited with doing all the work, and as a comedian he is unapproachable. While Mr:& Montegriffo possesses a no small degreo of ability, there is a wonderful chance for im- Bl'uvemrnh Charles Renwick may certainly © & success as & sea captain in @ nautioal sense, but in this connection it will be well to state that he lacks force and, if one m: Judge from his actions on the stage, experl- ence. Cupid was a woeful, ru:f: failure, and had a tendency to make the li r weary, while Donovan Rossy was @ succeds ?(nll_v \‘\'hcn ho dwm Afi ll;a;on‘lno,l’ roy ngsley W, ) AN e s to continue in the fl\an&rirml business hehli ask to Dbe assigned another in the cast, the villian role being about a ‘Xnuufl too heavy., Toma Hanlon as Rhododendron and Tootsie made a hit, and n addition to her abilities @ counter- feit school girl and bearer of glc tulls maus, is a singer of no mean merit. While ber song—"Last Rose of Summer” did not equal _Abbott's, it was excellent, and the hearty encore she received was richly de- served. The rest of the gikls did well. The scenery was more than grand, and the transformation sg,;re in the last act is one of the most wonderful pleces of work ever at tempted on any stage, and is alone worth,the price of admission. The other oal effects were superb. eyond this, inc] (fl{ of course the good work of Adams d)i Hanlon, there is nothing to commend the play to the public n the hands of the préseht company. MI88 GOODRIGH AT THE GRAND. Last night at the Grand epera hoyge Eaunice Goodrich made her first o) in this city, the play being the familiar of ‘“The Pearl of Savoy t 18 ome whicl the {nnnmefinux of , has become as well khown iss ce 0 mainl; Mmgf’e Mluhc'fl | a8 that of the lady who brought it into s’mmlnanw. Miss Goodrich’s ““m:us led the large auditorium, and they retaine their places until after 11 o'clock, It wqs b teibute to the ability of the star and 8 gm- rlunentmthe oon_:panynupg:nin her. Her 3 endl:r support is James R. M%fluho has already been seen here wi d , and who is an actor of considerablo ability. The company is alsoa capable one. Lol St Criticising Courts Marshal. ‘WasmiNarox, April 23.—In disapproving the sentiments of dismissal in the oases qé Captain J. A. Olmstead, Ninth cavalry, an First Lieutenant Montgomery 1. Parker, Ninth cavalry, the presient said in his order that the examination of these cases tried by the same court martial has fully convinced him that conditions exist at Fort Du Ghesne that must, if allowed to fcontinye, result in Scandal nd. demoralivation. hila oonqhuon shoula and must bo promptly correctéd by amore effective plan_than the approval of court martial proceedings which rest upoj suspicions and weak ovidence, -and which, it may woll be feared, originated in questidn- able motives. Pendleton Improving. WASHINGTON, April 23.—The department of state to-day received a telegram stating that Minister Pendleton is improving rapidly. pcaiiik et WALk s AN Security Sewer gas, discase germs and conta- glon are I-f{u«'funuy COn; h""fld li hurning Hydronapthol Postilles ' ns and apurtments. They aré nt,and V‘Ylll'l'l“u tothe sick and scalp diseises 0x0 permas e nently cured hy the l’%fll'nM thol Suffering Xpanm pure ey seendbd medicin. ul ooy Tor olat, nuraery ed bath. Toothache, fuce nmm& d in- n' flamed or swollon gums igld ps nw,'. ISBASE 1y to Darby's Deital Pipstats, which tike the place of oplates, and dan- gerous toothache Arops, Corns sud Bunions cause no pain where Mead's Corn and HBuhion Plustors ave used. ‘l)l\f’ SHILHI) allay inflammation ang relieve pnin. Small pox ailll othér contagious Qusonsos fita provented By brajuy Senbury's Sulphur Cendlos In NAF lars, closets, sinks, ships’ holds, 25 c 1 bird cagos, chicken coops, ete. 8N1S SEABURY & JOHNSON, New York, SOME DOCTORS honestly admit that they can’t care Rheumatism and Neuralgia, Others say they can but—don’t, Athlo. ’)hu-ms says nothing but— cures, That's the secret of its success, Years of trial have proved it to be & quick, safe, sure cure, ol 5 , 167 T oy owh Fangl. ,\“n'n"a.m wa o an & it nomort, thio user havioy suffers from rhenmatism fOF yoars sl been treatod (neare b s wi jon my re ple have uses Tesulty int o o of pea: oy iy e s O LW N, Ao bl SR o all the good it has done me, Mrs. Lovtse Oxenny. A% Send 6 conts for the beautiful colored plee ture, * Moorish Maiden,"” THEATHLOPHOROS 0. 112 Wall 8t. M. Y. N T A RO ROPOSALS VOR ARM Y Supplios - Headquarters Dept. of the Platte, Oftico of Chigf Commisagry of Bubistence, Omalia, Neb., March L1 168 Sealedd proposils in trip] y guaragtec bonds, will be recel (ll“llul' humissary of subsistenc b, and the acting commnissary Omaha, Nob. untjl 1# o'clock M,, central staud- d tinie, and at the office of the'commissary of @ enne Dopot, Wyo. aud the offices of the actlug commissaries of pu :,‘ Forts Hll‘lnuy. h‘ ohmlil mrdi Jo) l',l;ulk ‘ab,, ‘orts Mol inney, Laramie, r D, A Rust It {nnfl# huho‘ and (i m&?& hl”m. yo, rts Douglas au eane, Utatl, undl 1 gelock a, i, wountaln standsrd tife, op Waodnesday, the #5th day of April, 1685, at whicl time and plkces they wil Lo opaned 18 the pres- ance of bitdery, for the furylaning and delivor of the fresh beef required at tho pos stations mentioned, respect uring cal year 1ummel‘r|nu uly 1 . The resdrved to reject any or all bids. For i tion s to the quantity of frosh Les! to ulilied at any post ar station, smeynt of guar autes boud. Plank propossls aud’ guaripte bonds, aud cireulars for lutormation of 618, apply by mail or i parsop te the oMicep by aignated to regive propoyals Ler LW, AKRIGER, Ma). and O. 8., U, 8. A, Chier 0. o) WEAK REN it 10 o MEN R 01 1na- - i e OF. F. C. FOWLI