Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1888, Page 4

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RO TZSOHUCR, Bworn to and subscribed in my procence this $th day of M ., 1888, N.P. FEIL, Notary Publie. Btate of Nebrask [ County of Dougias, 8, Geo! Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, .Tu-mnn says that e is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circolation of the Daily Bee for the month of May, 1587, was 14227 copies; for June, 187, 14,147 coples’ for July, 1857, 14,08 copies; fof Atigust, 187, 14,151 coples; _for September, 1857, 14, coples; for October, 1887, 14,533 cop! ovembor, 1887, 15,228 copies; for December, 7, 16041 coplés: for Jauuary, 1858, 15,200 cop: jes:' for February, 18, 15,2 coplest for March, 1886, 10,080 coples;’ for ApHL, T8, 18 '_Bworn {glhfirz{n m’oMnmlA g presoiico (his ¥a Aoy °b."FiL. Notary Publte, TiA copies. ZSCHUCK. scribed in my ———————————— T OMAHA’S clearance record looms to the fore in spite of the decrease in gross axehanges in the leading cities of the country, JuUsT a8 in material progress Omahais most feared by her rivals, so in base ball the cities composing the Western league stand in dread lest we fly the pennant at the end of the season. AN Towa man has discovered a pro- cess of making artificial milk out of eotton seed oil and other ingredients, and now the old chalk-and-water method will fall into innocuous desue- . m—— Tue information that Valentine was defeated in his own wurd at West Point a8 a delegate to the county convention shows conclusively that “Our Val” at least had two seasons—a forward spring and an early fall. THE great state of Virginia, once the mother of presidents, is out of luck, out of politics, and out of money. As the laws of the state forbid the treasurer or legislature from borrowing, bankruptcy and disgrace are threatening the state, ‘What the Old Dominion should do is to resolve herself intoa mother of financiers and then, perhaps, she may resume her former prominence. A NUMBER of valuable strikes in the mining districts of Montana have been reported during the past week, and ad- vices say that the mountains are alive with prospectors and miners, of whose success in making important discover- fes there are glowing reports. It is confidently predicted that the present peason will be the greatest in results in the mining history of Montana. em— IT looks as though the prohibition fences were all under water in Iowa and the planks were floating away. At the Btate convention at Des Moines twenty- pne delegates were in attendance and pnly nineteen out of ninety-nine coun- bies of the state were represented. Either the party is so confident of its strength and hold upon the people that it does not deem it necessary to call out its full quota of delegates, or else there ks a sudden disintegration in the ranks. Em— A CORRESPONDENT desires to know what kind of bills, if any, ean orviginate In the United States senate. Any bill that does not relate to revenue can have Its ovigin in the senate. Section 7 of wrticle 1 of the constitution says: ‘‘All bills for raising revenue shall originate In the house of representatives; but the penate may propose or concur with mmendments as on other bills.” Only In this one respect does the house en- . Joy a legislative privilege superior to the senate. — Tue United States by leasing the right to take seals in Alaska to a Cali- fornia syndicate has made a profit of 85,000,000, and covers the intereston the ecost of Alaska at 4 per cent per annum, "I'his statement on the face of it may wppear a profitable investment. But when the monopoly clears $20,000,000 pvery yoar and threatens the extinction of souls within a few years, the best of bhe bargain ovidently is not with the United States, Eep——— ON May 16 Texas will celebrate the dedication of its new eapitol building, the finest of its kind in the United Btates. Its estimated value s $7,000,000. It was paid for by agrant of three million acres of land lying in one body and surrounded by a 750 mile fence. A Chicago syndicate erected the build- Jug, which is an immense pileof granite four feet higher than the national papitol at Washington, After erecting e of the finest and largest eapitol uildings in the umion, and having a rplus of over $3,000,000 in its treasury, oxns oing pretty well, EmEpemeer— Tue Now York Swn thinks the demo- pratic party will be deing quite enough &)r Mr. Olaveland in renominating him, ithout giving him a platform. Of ree the eonvention will make a plat- m, and it will be constructed to fit candidate, but even if it should not this it is not olear what difference it Wwould make. The renomination of Dieveland will carry everything with it r~the virtual ondorsement of all his Views and polieies. The expressions of flemocratie platforms thus far show that party is fully prepared to thus tultify itself. It hasu™ any choive in be matter, aud Mr, Dana is wasting The Treasury and Bank of England. An important resolution was passed by the senate last week. It calls upon the secretary of the treasury for a state- ment of the amount of silver bullion offered to the government each month since the passage of the act of February, 1878, by whom, and at what prices; also the amount of silver bullion purchased each month during such period, from whom, and the prices paid therefor; and further directs the secretary of the treasury to inform the senate if the quotations of India council bills in Lon- don enter into the determination to any extent of what is the market price of silver bullion in the United States, This latter information will be espe- cially interesting. »The author of the resolution, Sena- tor Stewart, said in advocacy of it that it has been alleged that there is a combination between the troasury department and the Bank of Kngland which has existed since the passage of the Bland act, vhe object of which combination is to depress the price of silver, to bring that metal into disrepute, and to force this country to a single gold standard. The United States treasury and the Bank of England are the sole purchasers of silver, ex- cept what is used in the arts, and can put the price of silver where they please without regard to the laws of supply and demand, The method of the Bank of England in depressing or advancing the price of silver is purely arbitrary. The English government collects its taxes in India in silver coin- rupees. It draws what are called coun- cil bills against the India revenue and sells them in the market. It also buys what silver is used in India and issues council bills therefor. Tt also buys with these council bills pretty nearly all the silver that is shipped to China and Japan, and consequently the price of silver depends upon these coun- cil bills, Whenever the Bank of Eng- land wants to put down silver it lowers the price of bills. If anybody else at- tempts to ship silver to India the bank puts the eouncil bills up so that the sil- ver will be worth more in London than in India. "L he result is that the Bank of England has a complete monopoly in the purchase of silver for Asiatic con- sumption. Senator Stewart contended that the treasury department has at all times since the passage of the Bland aet contributed to the extent of its power to aid the Bank of 'England to depress the price of silver. It hasassumed that the arbitrary price fixed on council bills is the market value of silver, and pur- chased silver according to the quotation of council bilis in London. The secre- tary of the treasury, said Senator Stew- art, “never has in a single instance ex- ercised the discretion given to him by congress to purchase more than two millions a month, but has at all times purchased the least possible quantity, 80 as to leave as much silver as possible in the macket acd not interfere with the schemes of Great Britain to obtain cheap silver for the benefit of India.” This is a novel and remarkable state- ment which may well challenge at- tention, and which if well founded justifies the demand for the information that the resolution passed by the senate calls for. Senator Stewart strongly advocated doubling theamount of silver purchased monthly by the treasury—that is, four million dollars instead of two, urging that such action would benefit every in- dustry in the country, and be especially helpful to the agricultural class. An- other important consideration in favor of “thig proposition is the necessity of providing against a contraction of the currency resulting from the surrender of the national bank circulation. This provision would have been made by the Beck amendment to the bond purchase bill, but that has not been heard of since it went to the house, and now the secretary of the treasury is buying bonds held or con- trolled by the national banks, the conse- quence of which will be a contracted currency. The circulation per capita at present, estimating the population at sixty-two millions, is but $17.29, against $19.76 in 1879, and $46.87 in 1865, It would clearly not be in the interest of the industries of the country, of labor, and of the farm- ing class, with its vast mortgage indebt- edness of nearly four billion dollars, to allow mouey to become dearer by a fur- ther contraction of the circulation, Such a podlicy could only benefit the bondholders and the creditor class while impoverishing the great body of the people. No wiser or safer expedient for preventing this has been suggested than to increase the amount of silyer in the circulation, at least to the oxtent of the national bank notes retired, and this will undoubtedly be done by eongress, though very likely not at the present session. Sm— Western Railroad Progress. A dispatch from Tacoma, Washing- ton tervitory, announces that there is great rejoicing in that prosperous and promising city over the completion of the Northern Pacific through the Cas- cade range of mountains. This is but an incident among several more impor- tant faots regarding railroad vrogress in the west. The recent incorpovation of the Northern Pacific & Montana railroad, to construet the system of hranches al- roady projected and in part constructed by the Northern Pacifie, gives assur- ance that the work will be nrosecuted more vigorously than before, and that within @ "year Montana will have its mileage of railroads largely increased. The now company proposes to build eight or nine lines, traversing the richest and most promising portions of the territory. The advent of the railroad is reasonably expected to rapidly dovelop these locali- ties and bring into service as clements of prosperity valuable resources now un- available for want of adequate, rapid and oheap transportation. One of the proposed lines will tap the mammoth coal scam of the Bull mountains and enter the great beds of hematite iron a little further own. Other importaut mineral districts will he reached, while the added facilities for transportation afforded will be & greatstimulus wagri- cultyre und stoek-raislng. Boads iu giving the demooracy pdvice | The promised opening. of *the reservation has renewed at tention to contemplated railroad enterprises to which that closed region is now a barrier. It is believed that as soon a3 the reservation is opened at least four lines of railroad will be pushed forward to the Black Hills. The Milwaukee has for the past four or five years been waiting patiently at the Mis- souri river, but is now expected to begin grading at an early day. The Burling- ton, the Manitoba and the Northwestern are all said to have in contemplation the construction of lines to Rapid City, Dakota, and will doubtless do so as soon as they can be assured that the reserva- tion will be opencd. These promised ent 508, some of them certain to materialize during the vresent year, and all of them ata not very remote time, hold out a cheering prospect for the regionsin which they will be carried on, and they will be- come permanent aids to a development, progress and prosperity in which the whole country will share. E—— CHICAGO is vigorously denying the charges made by Senators Vest and Plumb in the senate that a big ‘“‘cattle combine,” whose object is to keep down the market price of live stock to the lowest notch, is on foot in that city. It is hardly necessary for the lake city to refute the testimony, for facts point strongly to such an understanding among her dressed beef packers. Itis notoriously true that the quotations for live stock in the Chicago market have been low, hardly paying enough to cover the margin for transportation from the western ranges. The uusettled condi- tion of the cattle industry and the high price of dressed beel are proofs that the rangers and breeders bear the burdens while the packers and shippers share the profits. With a market for live stock, divided among different centors, nearer the cattle ranges, it will be im- possible for a Chicago combine to keep the price of cattle continually in the dumps. EVERY true Nebraskan rejoices at the material brogress made by the pushing and enterprising cities of the state. From all sides gratifying reports of their commercial and industrial activity come pouring in. THE BEE has re- cently given an account of the public and private improvements inaugurated at Nebraska City, Hastings, Beatrice and other towns. The work going on with so much enthusiasm in these cities is duplicated in every town in the state. No better index of the prosperity of Nebraska can be found than in the activity and growth of her cities and towns. There is healthful rivalry among them to surpass each other. There is rivalry among the tier of cities in the northeastern part of the state to surpass those situated in the southeast- ern section, There is a quiet determi- nation of the cities along the Union Pa- cific not to be outdone in progress and energy. Nebraska may well feel proud of herself this spring., — Tug Philadelphia Zimes has made a canvass of the presidential preferences of the republicans of Michigan. It ap- pears from this that ex-Governor Alger has a very general support as first choice,but it is doubted whether the convention will instruct the delegation for him. After Alger, Robert Lincoln has the largest support, with Gresham very close to him, Blaine has some fol- lowing, but it is for the most part con- ditional, Allison and Sherman have a small support in the order named. The voice of Michigan in the national re- publican convention is expected to be clamorous for protection —— THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe is making strenuous efforts to absorb the St. Louis & San Franciso railroad. If the consolidation takes place, the rail- road octopus will control 8,000 miles of trade and hold 1n its tentacles the ter- ritory extending from Chicago and St. Louis to San Diego, Cal., and the coun- try as far south as the Gulf of Mexico. The system would become one of the most powerful in the country and se- riously affect the several trans-conti- nental lines. No BETTER evidence of the cordial- ity existing between Council Bluffs and Omahacould be evinced than by the enthusiasm shown by the leading citi- zens of each city in pushing forward the Chautauqua enterprise. This re- lation will be cemented the closer when the wagon bridge is completed and the facilities of communication perfected so as to practically make a twin city on both banks of the Missouri. THE beautiful structure known as St. John’s Coliegiate church which was dedicated Sunday,is an ornament to Omaha, of which the faculty of Creigh- ton college may well feel proud. There are certainly few colleges in the coun- try possessing a more imposing edifice, The rapid strides which Creighton col- lege is making in keeping abreast with its growing needs places that school as one of the leading educational institu- tions of the west. Feme—————— Miss BUSAN B, ANTHONY and Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stantoy call on all women to come outof the Methodist church whenever it refuses them a voice and a vote in its convention, On the whole, however, women will think twice before accepting this invitation to boycott that church, The apostles of fernanle suffrage are treading on danger- ous ground, and they are more than likely to lose the Little prestige they bave wom by mixing religion into politics. e——— JupGiNG from the Cincinnati Price Current, the turning point has come when Kansas City, must yield second place to Omaha as a pork-packing centar. For Mareh and April, 1888, Kansas City shows a decrease of 25,000 hogs packed as compared with the eor- responding period of last year, For the two months of the summer pork-pack- ing season Omaha shows an increase of 80,000 over the record for 1887, At this rate Kansas Qity will take a back seat when the season of 1880 sets in. S——— As between cedar block and vitrified briel pavement, the eity eouncil of Be- atrice hus expressed a preference for the former, -1t ‘has been demonstrated by costly exy ent in Omaha that cedar block phivdment is not durable, Rather than ‘undergo costly experi- ments, Beatrice.should satisfy herself that vitrified brick will be better. S p— How the Girls Riss, Washington Sun. The New York gir! bows her stately head, And she fixes har stylish lips In o firm, hard way, and lets them go 1n spasmodic Litt1d snips. The Boston girl removeth her specs, And freezoth her face with a smile; Thon she sticks out her lips like an open book, And cheweth a bean meanwhile, The St. Louis girl says never a word, And you'd think she was rather tame, With her practical views of the mattor in and, But she gets there just the samo. The Baltimore girl, the pride of the south, In her clinging and soulful way, Absorbs it all with a yearnful yearn As big as a baloof hay. The Chicago girl gets a grip on horself, As she carefully takes off her hat; Then she grabs up tho prize in a frenzied way, Like a terrier shuking a rat. Tho Washington girl, 8o gentle and sweet, Lets ber lips meet tho coming kiss With a r|?|)mmuu ‘warmth, and the youthful souls Float away on @ sea of bliss. The Omaha girl, with her graceful form, As she proudly stands erect, - Gives one sweet. rlmlcc at his damask cheek, And then—well! you know the rest. ————— PERSONALITIES, Robert ', Lincoln can play poker. Jay Gould's eyes are dark and piercing and never at rest. Lord Landolph Churchill plays a first-rate game of billiards. Carl Schurz is staying with Mr. Honry Villard in Berlin, Cyrus W. Field thinks that by hard work 2 man may accomplish anything. Rev. E. P. Roe and Mark Twain both make over $20,000 a year by their peus, Lord Leslie, a poverty stricken Irish poet, is traveling agent for a sewing machine company. Colonel Edward Sumner, of San Francisco, has been a Free Mason for seventy-onc years. He was born in 1766, There seems to be much reason for the be- lief that Ignatius Donnelley’s cryptogram is Pelphur in a sense which does not yet real- ize. The Chinese emperor is being initiatea into the mysteries of poker by three Chinese noblemen, who have studied cards in this country, It is now asserted that Miss Endicott is not engaged to Joseph Chambertain, but will marry Sigourney Butler, second comptrollor of the treasury. Cornelius Vanderbilt's income from his capital is said to be in the neighborhood of $1,000,000 a month, while that of William K. is not far behind it. Carter Harrison writes from India to say that the water in thut country is positively undrinkable. Aud ‘malicious editors who don’t know *“Onr Carter” are inquiring how he knows. 5 ‘The late Count Lorti, the great Italian diplomat, in bis 4vill declared on his honor that he had “‘served his country with fidel- ity and love, and with no regard for per- sonal interests.” General August Y, Kautz, the famous cav- alry leader of the has struck it rich in the northwest. In he bought lots in Tacoma for $25 each, for which he was re- cently offered, and réfused, $2,000 apiece. Governor Isaac P. Gray, of Indiana, is fifty-four years old. He is a man of fair ability. He weighs about 150 pounds, and stands five feet eight wches in his stockings. He is well built, broad-shouldered aud dig- nified. Harry A. Garfield, son of the late Presi- dent Garfield, is soon to be married to Miss Belle Mason. Miss Mason, accompanied by her mother and sister, returned from Europe last Friday ou the same steamer with Mr. Garfield. Congressman Hitt, of Ilinois, isone of the richest representatives at Washington. He is said to have spent §30,600 a year entertain- ing when he was secretary of the legislation at Paris. He is an expert stenographer, and was at one time a clork of oue of the senate committees. Chauncey L Filley, of St. Louis, is willing to wager a responsible amount that the re- publican presidential candidate will come from the west. Possibly Mr.Filley is having himself groomed for a dark horse in which case he should remember that m politics as in business “‘money makes the mare go.” Senator Spooner’s youngest son, Philip, has a great talent for music. Though he does not know oue note from another, he can carry the musicof an opera, after hearing the performance once, right along with bis mother's accompaniment on the piano. His voice is like a girl's, and sweot and clear as the notes of a bird. August Burkhardt, of St. Louis, has im- mortalized himself. He has been drawing a pension of $6 & month for several years, and the other day wrote to the pension agent re- questing that his name be stricken from the rolls, as he is now perfectly cured and no longer needs the assistauce of the govern- ment, Rev. Father L. L. Conrady, for fifteen years a priest among the Umatilla Indians, of Oregon, has left Vancouver to devote the remainder of his life as missionary on the Island of Molokai among the lepers of the Hawaiian islands. A number of volunteer sisters of charity from Syracuse, N. Y., will soon follow to take charge of the female lepors, King Thebaw’s revenue from the famous ruby mines of Burmab, it is said, did not average 150,000 rupees aunually. All pre. cautions which were practicable were taken to prevent smugglng, and stones of the value of 2,000 rupees were royal perquisites, but they were generally secreted or broken up by the findere. The English have dropped all work at the mines since they conquered Burmah. a Alexander Dumas’ daily life is a medel of regularity, He is out of bed by 6:30 in sum- mer and not later than 7 in winter. His first breakfast consists solely of a glass of milk, and the second, which oeccurs at noon, is a plain meal. He dines at 7 anud is usually n bed by 10. Every day he takes a walk of some length. All his work is done before 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Speaking of our minister to France, a cor- respondent in Paris says: “The gallantry of Mr. McLane to the fair sex is equal to that of his predecessor Mr. Morton, so that this quality seems in & fair way to become part of the traditions of the American legation in Paris. To go backward, there was also Mr. Washburne, who was well known in this way, also General Dix, who, however, was somewhat venerable for the role. It is said that Mr. Dayton, too, was of a gallant na- ture in his time, which was very long ago.” Carter H. Harrison, ex-mayor of Chicago, is still in India. At Trichinopoly he had great luck in the purchase of cigars. He says: “I bought from a8 manufacturere 500 well made weeds, of ‘Henry Clay’ size, for eight rupees, $2.50--a lttle over half-cent apiece at present rate of exchauge. They were of the first quality, sud are good, rather low favored cigars. { the ghost of a -wowan I have been | that neighborhood 888, moking ‘“Trichies” for the past two months and find them very satisfactory.” It would pay a good many smokers %o run over to In- dia when they lay in a supply of cigars, ool STATE AND TERITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Hastings gots a soige of Pinafore. Nebraska City will rename her streets, Among the attractions of Alliance isa mountain lion, Superior is offering proper inducements for a canning factory. Kenoes of the late democratic state con- vention are yet heard throughout the state. The Kearney County Democrat, published at Minden, issues a handsome boom edition. Burwell, in Garfield county, is dazzled by the maddening rush of a never ending boom. The Valentine base ball club will play an interesting match game on the 10th inst. with the Chadron club, The original corn palace city of two hemis- pheres, Sioux City, 1a., is already making contracts for corn ' with Dixon and Dakota counties, Nebraska. A Hay Springs saloonkeeper attempted to release a citizen from jail whom he had filled with tangle foot. It cost, the suloon man ono night in the jail and $13.60. The Nebraska City News learns that Hon, Tobias Castor has a bill before congress ask ing pay for a span of horses valued at $1,600 that were stolen by tho Indians. Although he withdraws from the race the friends of Hon. N. V. Harlan, in the Second congressional district insist that he must ! come- before the Hastings convention on the 0 A roport is current to the effect that the B. & M. will imumediately build a branch to Valentine from the division of the road in the Loup country, in order to be near the Sioux reservation, 8o that it may be first on the ground. The citizens and business men of Alliance are highly elated with the dispatch with which the department attended to _their pe- tition praying for a change in the mail route. The prowmise of a daily mail, May 10, is most encouraging. Cherry county claims to be the banner county for stock growing as the following will tostify: Two cows, otie belonging to A. D. Cole and the other to Mr. Tremmil, gave birth to twins, and W. H. Carter has one that gave birth to triplets the other day. All doing nicely. On November 90, 1879, John Tallon, other- wise known as Cheyenne Jack, died, leaving 3,700 10 cash, and some real Ostate in the city of Plattsmouth to his two sisters, Mary Ann and Catherine, and to his broth Michael, if they can be found. The relatives have been found and the estate satisfactorily divided. The suit for damages of Wherman vs the B. & M. railroad company was compromised at Superior by the company paying tho de- fendant $700, the latter paying tho costs. It will be remembered that this was a case in which James Wehrman's arm was broke on a train colliding witha car standing on a side track through the carelessness of some of the company's employes. The Niobrara people take the losing of their land office very much to heart. List w this choice morsel from the paper of that town: ‘‘Senator Bonesteel is ex) ected home this evening; he has done good and faithful work for Niobrara during his stay in Wash- ington, and will give our pcngle the propor names'of hypocritical, treacherous, Jesuit ical, political mountebanks swho lm&mscd ugon and decei* ed the president in the land office deal.” A colored man named Neal and a white man named Kitchen were runuers for two rival hotels at Julesburg. The colored man appeared to have been the more successful of the two and they had- several spats. It ter- minated in Kitchon drawing a gun and shoot- ing Neal, four or five shots being fired before the negro was hit. Kitchen did not try to escape and was arrested. The courts will settle the matter. The Plattsmouth Journal says reproach- fully; “One of the striking engineers hands us the following: How quickly some of the ‘competent’ scabs got promotion! The new passenger engine, No. is now manned by scab Green, who had the serious wreck near Bellevue, with engine 177, which was ruined, and another later at Oreapolis, and now he will be given a_chance to ruin an- other. ‘We have nothing but competent men in our employ.’ Towa. The republicans of Iowa have organized 137 clubs. The dreaded eye discase, pink-cye, 15 going its rounds in Kingsley. The artesian well at Tipton down and no water yet. ‘The Sioux City & Pacific railroad is having stecl rails placed on the Sloan section. There will be an effort made to organize an agricultural society in Cherokee county. Arrangements are being made for the es- tablishment of a government signal office at Holstein. Dennis Dugan, the injured fireman at Sioux City, is dead. The remains were sent to Wisner, Neb. A writer in a Muscatine paper predicts the seventeen year locusts will appear there the last of this month. The mayor of Estherville has been in structed by the council to contract for an ar- tesian well 600 feet deep in the court house yard. Mrs, B. Coniff has filed a suit against the city of Keokuk for $10,000 damages, claiming to have been injured for life by falling on a defective street crossing. All of the 6,000 notarial commissions now in forco in fowa expire July 1. applications for renewal have al reccived at the executive ofiice, The genera! association of Congregational ministers of Towa will bold its forty-ninth annual meeting at Grinnell from May 23 to 28, inclusive. A good attendance 18 looked Tor from all points of the state, The largest raft of logs that has been brought down the Mississippi from Beef Slough was brought down past Davenport by F. C. A, Denkmau. The raft was 620 feet long aud 235 feet wide; there were 1,200,000 foet of logs in it—h,000 logs—and it will make, when cut up, 1,250,000 fect of lumber, is 2,000 feet Dakota. Green peas and string beans are in Sioux Falls market, At the lower Brule agency rosides a squaw said to be about one hundred and twenty- seven years of age. More final proofs were made at the Yank- ton land oftice during Aprilthau for the same time during two years past. 'he Bowman hotel at Ashton enjoys the distinction of being the first building in the territory heated by natural gas. Dan Davidson, of Buffalo Gap, languishes in the Custer City Jail, charged with killing tandsbury Arthurat that place some months ago. Sioux Falls is the first Dakota city to be- gin paving. Phillips avenue for seven squares will be paved with solid jasper granite blocks. There are fifty-six cases upon the calendar for this term of the supreme court at Yank- ton, and this is only one of three terms pro- vided for during a year. The olect light has been mounted on the court house tower at Rapid City and it looms up bravely, and will be found a boon to east end residents on moonless nights, Farmers in Hamlin are planting sunflower seed this spriug as an experiment. The seeds are said to make excellent feed for fowls and the stalks good summer fuel. Plans are rapidly maturing and _shortly will be anvounced, for the most elaborate and in every way attractive Fourth of Jvly colebration known not only to Deadwood but to the entire Hills, Sioux Falls boasts of the youngest bauk resident probably the world—J. M. Hai- vy,g;., who has just been put at the head of the Minnehaha National bank at the age of twenty-three years. A Carrington farmer who left Dakota in seurch of flelds fuirer and pastures greener in California, writes back to the News HOffer @ premium at your next county fair for the biggest fool in the county, and 1 will try to be there in time to compete for it.” John Van M a_young Sioux Indian, has entered the law ofice of Dillon & Hol at Pierre, He was educated in Philade and was sent to London during the queer ubilee as _a representative of the educat Bious Indian, and came back fully dete mined to do as the whites. He is an excelle: English selolar, If one-half that the Deadwood str the 5 t0ld s trup, a house near bridge is haunted by Cuivamen:. living jn who kuow all about ipooks, say that in the form of a gooso she visits their house every might, waddics around them, quacking as sho goes. The Deadwood Ploneer thus complains: “Some time ago the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Vallay railroad company sent special artists and write-up men all along the lino for the purpose of getting up a great boom edition of 20,000 copies. Our citizens con- tributed liberally, thinking they would re- ceive the edition in time for the spring boom, but here it is the first of May and the boom season is past and yet no papers.” —— —— ALL RUNNING SMOOTRLY, A Few Extracts That Paul Morton May Use. Tur Ber has receivod a great many com- plaints growing out of the sad condition of” the B. & M. lines in Nebraska. Somo of the complains cannot be printed bocanse the authors sign fictitious names. Others aro rofused because of ovident malice on tho part of the writers toward the road. The Brm will print nothing but facts on this subject. | Below will be found a little food for reflec- tion: A SOAD'S it WORK. Arcimixsoy, Kas,, May 3.—To the Editor of Tuk Bee: As the Missouri Pacific passon- ger train No. 854 was pulling out, No. b en gino came out from Withrop on the Kansas City road and cut her in two just back of the water tank, The fino work of the Missouri Pacific engincer stopping his trai as he did, or the Kansas City evgine would have struck a coach full of passengers, The time of tho accident was 9:15 a. m. Sad MORGAN. THE ALMA WRECK, Surenion, Neb., May 8.—To tho Editor of Toe Bee: I have not boon able to lay my hands on a Bee since Friday. I saw an Omaha Herald of Saturday and read a notice of the B, & M. wreck near Orleans, Neb. I was a passenger on that train and got off at Orleans, which L am now very thankful that Tdid. The article in the Herald is very incorrect. In this it says that Mr. Campbell aud ofticials were on the spot giving personal attention to the wounded aud looking after the dead and had_ called a special car with doctors to care for the needy. 1 loft Alma at half past 8 0'clock Friday night, eight hours after the accident. No officiuls of the B. & M. had_put in an appearance about the wounded and dead at Alma up to that time. Their sole work was in _ looking after their own interests and _prop erty. Strangers had to _advance money to telegraph the children that their father and wothor was killed in a_wreck on the B, & M. Tt was the same with the trav- eling man, Evans. The B. & M. agent would not telegraph to his wire and fora doctor at Lincoln until they were paid for the same. Myself, with fiftéen or twenty other travel- ers, most of whom liad paid their farcs to dis- tant points, could not wet a word from any official of the road when we might even ex- poct to got a train and go on our w Four adics that were bound for points boyond McCook were kept in the dining coach and they dare not leave the conch even for their meals until night when the fires went out of the coach, and thoy were then drivon to the hotel three-quarters of a mile away. They became discouraged as they could gat no information as to when they would get a train to go on_their journey. So about noon of Saturday they hired a toam and started out in a cold rain and hail storm to drive the rest of the way. In less than an hour after they lofta train was sent west. The passon- jzers were treated the same at Oxford. Did the agent tell us that they would send a train euch way to Oxford and Red Cloud where we could connect,_or communicate with the outside world? No, sir, not a word. But an cngincer who had 'his’ running orders and took time to get his dinner, tools pity on us, as he knew we had been sitting up “all night in that car, so that we would not get left, gave us a pomter, that passenger coach No. @, would go _to Red Cloud as soon as he got hi$ dinner. You bet we wutched him and car No. 6. The pelting rain and hail did not keep us back from getting our grips and all aboard. But we bad to build our own fircs in the coach. The man who says the oftiials assistod in any way by word, decd or act to contribute in the least to make their passengers comfortable either in mind or bpdy, is a prevaricator. Such ac- tions on the part of the railroad officials are not worthy of the patronage of the people. But give the devil his just ducs. 1 was o passenger on the ill-fated train to Orleaus within three miles of where it was wrecked. From McCook up to my town everythin seemed to work well and smoothly. 1 hear oo men say in Ama that the scction boss of that section had reported the bridge unsafo. T heard a good citizen say that the conductor, Odell, who was bruised up considerable, told that hie, the conductor Odell, had said, and he, the citizen, had seen and read two dis- patches warning him, Odell, that there was & heavy storm enst of him, that he must be careful and examine the bridges, naming this bridge that_gave w oue. ' For the truth of the above I can vouch. But let it be as it may, I want to ask you this question Are any’ set of men—managers, superin- tendents or trainmen—competont and should they be allowed to have charge of run trains who do not possess the precaution on a night like that to stop the train and send fmen ahead to actually find out if _the bridge’ was really there! Where was the scction boss who is reported as saying that the bridge unsafo There was no one patroling the track that night. Had he been there lives would bave been saved and perhaps four, to nothing of the crippled and the loss of sroperty and tune. 1 will give you my opin Jonniwhy tho B, d& M. railroad 1a having 80 much trouble in the way of wr 8. It all grows out of the strike, In Sreality all the trainmen are deep * sympathy ith tho strikers. They dure not say so. They are simply dumb on the subject. Yos, the scabs, us they cull them, are in sympathy to the scub only, and came’ out here for & little swing on the brotherhood. 1 say they arcall in sympathy with the strikers, 8o much so that they are more like dead men thai what they should be in their positions. They seem to be in a comatose state from the section mau to the conductor, The result 15 inofliciency, u don't care about them that causes all or nine-tenths of the terrible, and but for the loss of money and time and posi- tion they would come out and gotoa man with the strikers. Iam an Omaba traveling man. A. V. JOUNSCN. A TRAVELER'S WAIL. Hastixas, Neb., May 5.—To the Editor of Allow me the use of your paper to call the attention of the railroad commission- ers to the fact that the B. & M. railroad company are now using a common box car, No. 1908, on their lme between Holdredgo and Kenesaw. In this car is a little wooden bench eight fect long, and 18 the only furni ture in the car for the use of passengers, un- less it is two or three old oil buckets filed with axel oil to purify the air in said car, This car is used for transporting passcugers on train No. 125 which is adve tised to / pusseng rode 1 this ca on or about February 25, also on May 4, 1558, from Holdredge to” Minden, paying thres ts per mile for the privilege of standing most of the way, as the scats were occu- rs, including ladies. 1am told a6 beon used for carryiug passen- gors {or more than &y Has tho traveling public no vights which a railroad company 18 bound to respect ! Surcly here is a case for the followers of John 13rge to look after. Let them prevent further torture of the human family as well s animals. D, X. JUNKIN, , AMUSEMENTS, Ragan's Sccond Nlustrated Lecture at Boyd's. Mr. H. H. Ragau gave his second illustrated lecture, “The Rhine and SBwitzerland,” at Boyd’s last night to a more than ordinarily sizod audience, The euntertainment was worthy of more than a passing notice, but limited space prohibits any extended acknowl- edgment here. Each sceno was @ vision of picturesque boauty,and the leclurer's descrip- Live talk both pleasing and {nstructive. S~ Filled Up and Done Up. Tim Williams, a section hund from Bey- mour, Ia., came to this eity Sunday in quest of work. He fell in with one of the disieput able rluns which 80 numerously hsunt South Penth street, and filled up with rotien whisky wnd was robbed. Willlams thinks theydrugged him, as the last drink throw bim into & stuper from which he was hours in recover g 'Tho thieves teok his watch, kuife and ’ oy THE SOUTH OMAHA BUDGET, The Business Done at the Poste office Last Month. FIRST BALL GAME THIS SEASON. Board of Trade Mecting Saturday Night—Sunday Notes About the Oity. A Month at the Postoffice. South Omaha has added $1,624.57 to the national treasury and Postmaster Cockeroll has forwarded that amount to Washington as the result of April’s postofiice business During that time ho has disposed of 86,561 envelopes and stamps amounting to $368.45 having now on hand 49,547 of the former and $090.70 worth of tho latter, First Blood for South Omaha, Sunday was not a good day for sports and the weather kept away many who would have liked to witness the first game of ball on the new grounds. Those who went, how- ever, were well satisfied and watched the home elub do up their visitors with a score of 4tol. The visitors were the Motz Bros." club and they reached the grounds on the arrival of the 2 0’clock dummy. The home club battery was Hughes and Faber, whila Hart and Gillen did duty for the strangers, and Lang officiated as umpire, For the Jot- tor & Young club Molnerny, Faber, Hughos and Clark each scored a run, and_Pitoher Hart did as much for Metz Bros, Hart was also credited with 10 strike out and Hughos of the home club, 17. Board of Trade Mecting. The hoard of trade directors met on Satur day night and transacted somo routine busi- ness. Secretary Erion read the minutes and they were adopted, but not before Judge Reuther called attention to the fact that al- though the board of trade was intended ta benefit the commercial enterprises of South Omaha, it had set a bad example by buying its statlo nery clsewhere. The calling of thy roll was dispensed with, as there was no roll book, and then the reports of the various committees were recoived. On bebalf of tha finance committee, Mr. John Doe said he had nothing to report on, but at the suggestion of the president, reported progress. Frod M. Smith reported on the grading of Twen. ty-fourth reet, and asked further time, J. W. Edgerton said that in the Inter- ests of the committee on assessments, he had held several conferences with the as: sessors, and had instructed them as to what was necessary. He reported progress. Mac- Millan asked that the viaduct committee ba given more time, and moved that a commit tee of three be appointed to wait on Messrs. Boyd and Meday, aud find out what they were $willing to ‘do. Edgerton, MacMillan and Doo were appointed. Erion reported that it was probable that sufficient advertise- monts would be found to pay for the print- ing of the constitution and by-laws, and John Doe moved that 1,000 instead of 500 copies be printed. A discussion on the advisability of distributing a pamphlet, setting forth tho advantages of South Omaha then followed, and Doe, Doud and Howland were appointed a committee on the subject. Books wero or- dered for the treasurer and the meeting ad- journed for two weeks. >/ I8 It S0? There was a legal point raised in the court of Judge Reuther yesterday that may cause the city considerable trouble, Attorney T. F. Elliott raised the question as to the legality of the city ordinances, and stated that an ordinance in which adecision rested, was not constitutional. He said that it con- tained no enacting clause, and that two or more laws were embodied under one head- ing. The case is still proceeding. Notes About the City. Lee Truift is back from a seven days' trip to Chicago. C. P.o Bentley is in from Rodgers, Nob., with a car of hogs. . George F. Dodge of Wood River, has three cars of cattle and one of hogs on the market. C. N. Saltzgiver of Curtis, came in with a car of hogs. S. W. Gonzales brought in three cars of cattle from Elmwood. L. N. Gallup brought in two cars of cattle from Stansbury, Mo. H. H. Van Brunt of Council Bluffs, mark- eted four loads of cattle. J. P. Dunn of Rapakoe, had two loads of hogs on the market. L. Penoyer and W. C. Shelton, are in from Central City with cattle. A. H. Emerine has some cattle on the market from Council Bluffs. None but the most devout attended church service Sunday, owing to the almost im- passable condition of the streets. Colonel E. P, Savage, Attorney J. R. Grize and Dr. Glasgow go from South Omaha to the state republican convention. Exchange hotel guests yesterday wero: C, C. Clifton, Wahoo; O. W. Perly, Ceresco:V. 8. Hop, Fremont: and J. Manion, of Wa- bash, Constable Finnerty did not make so bad an suctioneer after all, and sccured $30 from the sale of the tool chest in McCaffrey vs, Tracy. Now it is rumored that in case an injunc- tion is granted restraining the Omahe” ball club from playing on Sunday, a similar suit will be instituted here. Thomas Coppe, John TLee, Charles Kerns, John Jounes and J. J. Kelly were each fined & and costs for getting drunk on Sunday. Jones paid and the othefs are thinking it over, Continuous ramms have made bad work, Some of the newiy graded streets and dan- rerous looking crevices show themselves in BT Rant piaike. Tltiare Ix ane Al oA sixth street, opposite the depot, and another in frout of the Exchange building. Tug Ber has received a communication from u person in South Omaha signed “R. O, D.” made up soiely of personal remurks upon those who recently met to protest against certain action taken by the town council. The communication is rejected be. cause the author does not muke himself known to us, Some months ago one Bill Johnson was accused of stealing au overcoat from a fellow workimnan, but he got away. Sunday soma four or five friends of the owner of the over- coat came down to South Omaha to hava Bill arrested, but Le told them if they would K0 with him Le would prove they wore wrong. They went and be proved it, Thoy got as far as Harry Beal's place, on Twenty. fourth and K. streets, and at his invitation took u drink, While they were drinking ho skippod, uud thoy are still looking for Lim, Lailo s The High School Grounds Seleeted, 1'or nearly two hours last night the com- mitteos having in charge the arrangements fors proper observance of memorinl day wrestied with the problem as to where the exercises should be held. The representa tives from the Sous of Veterans champloned the cometery, while Comrade Clarkson and representatives from the v s A R posts fuvored the high school grounds, After & protracted debate a final vote ended jn the choice of the high school grounds by a nar- row margin. The commilteo will meet aguin at the same place noxt Monday night, when & programme will be made up, nd this after noon at 4 o'clock the finan pmmitteo will Ket togother at the ofce of Mujor Clarkson, —— Lost His Cuff Buttons. A traveling man went to the wash rocm of the Millard last night and laid his cuffs, con- taining @ costly pair of buttons, on the ror railing. Auother commercial travelec was near by and finished washing abesd of s comvanion, who, when he reached for his cuffs found that they were missing. The uspected travoler disappeared, and bis sond for his valise by & colored messe suspicion to rest on him as the pur- ner of the jewelry. ‘Thesmegro rclnsus w tell where the man was, and consequently the clerk declined to turn over the valise, in the meantime notifying the police, who arg ou the alert. Freight Car Burglary. A Union Pacific frelght car was brokea In at Papillion Bunday night, and robbed of sey: eral hundred dollars worth of cutl Th case was reported to the elief of police hei yesterday,