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

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Cithbec L TERMS OF SUHSCRIPTION. Paily Mnml‘:{ Fdition) including Sunday BER, Ono Year Wit . fif%l No‘l{nhl‘l r Three Montha S oo e Omaba Sunday e, mailed to any ad- dress, One Year.. R OMAIA OFFX New Yorx Buiuoinae, FOURTEERNTH CORRESPONDENCR. A 0db Al communications relating to news and e« torial matter should be addressed L 3 200 ORMIAAND 016 FARNAM STREET. e, ROOMS 14 AN 1 THINUNE WASHINGTON OFFiCE, No. 518 STRERT. to the EviTOR ¥ THE BEE, % INESS LRTTERS. All business letters and remittances Adressed to Tae Ber PUBLISAING MANA. Drafts, checks and postoMce orders to g? made payable to the order of the company, The Bec Publishing Company. Proprictors ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. uld be OMPANY, Sworn Statemens of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, fos. County of Douglas, - Goo. 1. Tzschuiek, secrotary of The Des Pub- N company, d0es solemily swear that the Thn clroulatigh of the Daily les for tho week ding May 11 1865 was us follows Baturday, May 1 nda Niry 15 i ay 10, a1t 18. [onda; 1esdny. eAnes Fworn to and subscribed in 10th day of May, A. D, 1888, Btate of Nebraska, b County of Douglns, g . George B, Tzschuck, heing first duly sworn, fi@gunl‘,fi and says that he is secretary of The Bee Tublishing company, that tho actual average circalation of {io Duily feo for the manth M. my presence tils P, FEI Notary Fubie. 7, 14,151 coples; for Septem! 4,49 copiest for October, 187, 14,538 copled; November, 1887, 15,2 copies; for December, 3887, 10041 copice; for Junuury, S, IRt cop- fos' for Februnry, 18w, Ine copteer for Marc 1888, 19,68 coples; for Apr \ 18744 cople L4 BEO. B TZSCHUC Sworn to before me and subscribed i my presence this 2d day of May, A, D, 188, N.P. &1Ly Notary Public. AVERAGE DAILY CERCULATION 18,230 i i S S Tur Mississippi river is booming at St. Louis. That is the only genuine boom of which St. Louis can boast. As between shade treesand telegraph wires along our streets, the average citizen will prefer the shade. THE city hall—*a melancholy monu- ament of the incapacity of our city gov- ernment.” Councilman Lee’s head is level. Tur amount of paving to be done this year in the resident portion of the city will exceed in extent the record of any previous year. THe weeding out of incompetent men who are trying to run Burlington & Quincy engines, and the numerous re- cent changes which affect that depart- ment of the railroad, are conclusive evi- dences that ‘“‘everything is not run- ning smoothly.” GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has become weary of the Canuks and is going back to Madison Square to play with the children and to feed the sparrows. His Psycho, however, is wound up to boom Omaha in New York City as it did in New Brunswick. MICHIGAN'S local option law is de- clared unconstitutional by the state supreme court on technical points. The decision is regarded as a great victory by the liquor men, but the prohibition- ists are not discouraged and are going to frame a bill which ghall not be open to technical objections. JAY GOULD is a martyr to neuralgia, rheumatism and sciatica, also to stock watering, railroad wrecking and politi- cal jobbing. He was unable to meet the dircctors of the Pacific Steamship Mail company the other day. Neither were his many victims of the Kansas & “Texas railroad able to meet their credit- ors. I8 it possible that in the field of poli- tics the name of Ben Butler has not yet made its appearance. A national cam- paign without Ben Butler on some ticket would be as uninteresting asa base ball game without its kickers. The only place reserved for Ben this year is on Belva’s ticket, The declination of Alfred Love to run gives Ben Butler the opporiunity to pose as a vice presi- dential candidate of the equal rights party. He has tried every other ticket, but the combination never took. — FirTEeN democrats are counted as eertain to vote against the Mills bill. If this shall prove to be correct, and thore are no defections from the repub- licans, the defeatof the Dill in the &ouse is inovitable, With a solid re- publican vote against, the measure the mssistance of eight democratic votes will be sutticient to defeat it. 1t is not safe, however, to place too great reliance upon reports regarding the intentions of democrats in the house who have not unmistakably proclaimed themselves. The party pressure is very great on them, Nevertheless the outlook for the Mills bill is not favorable, and the prob- ability is that it will fail, whether brought to a vote before or after the St. Aouis convention, E——— OMAHA i5 always ready to extend the feht hand of welcome to visitors, and it is safe to say that the distinguished southern gewtlemen of Augusta, Ga., now on a pleasure trip, will be royally entectained by representative business mon of Omaba, That these visitors wall be favorably impressed with theenergy and activity of our city and South Omaha goes without saying, They will carry back to their southern homes glowing stories of the west, They will find here that hospitality and good fel- lowship which is so characteristic of the south. Thoere is but pne thing to re- gret. Itis that we have so little direet commercial relations with the southern states. But that is a fault of geograph- ical location, not of the wishes of our people, Perhaps the delegation from Georgia can point out to our business men some channels of trade by which an exchange of products can be made mutually profitable. But aside from any commercial advantages which a visit of this nature may bring, such meetings of busiess men are to be encouraged. They foster a unity of interests und fement national friendship. A Timely and Jnst Rebuke. The action of the Wabnsh Farmers’ alliance of Cass county, in passing reso- lutions condemnatory of the selection of the creatures of the railroads to repre~ sent the republicans of Nebraska at Chi- eago, and rebuking the treatment ac- corded General Van Wyck by the state convention, was timely and just. The members of the alliance who thus put on record their unqualified disapproval of railroad domination in the politics of this state are republicans who are as devoted to the party and as solicitous for its welfare as any in Nebraska or elsewhere. 8o long as the party shall deserve their support 1t can count with certainty upon receiv- ing it. But they have had a hard and costly experionce as the consequence of the corrupt manipula- tion of politics by the railroads, and having seen the corporatidns again step brazenly to the frcnt and secure their emissaries to the national republican conyention, while every voice raised for the people was drowned in the con- temptuous sneers and sallies of the ocor- poration henshmen, duty to themselves demanded that thoy should utter in un- mistakable terms their indignant pro- test and rebuke. Unquestionably the sentiment of the farmers of Cass county is entertained by a large majority of the untram- meled republicans of Nebraska. It is impossible that any considerable num- ber of the men who are the pillars and supports of our prosperity as & commonwealth, and who bave borne the heavy burden of railroad op- pression, can fail to realize that the con- tinued assertion in political affairs of the pernicious influence of the corpora~ tions is a most serious menace to their future welfare. It cannot be believed that the intelligent farmers of Ne- braska, who have paid so dearly to learn what railroad domination in this state meaus, fail to appreciate the full sig- nificance of what has been shown dur- ing the past two weeks in evidence of the political power still exerted by the corporations. This tremendous and corrupting influence has manifested it- self with a vigor and audacity as great as it had ever before shown, and with a success also that may well alarm every friend of the people’s interests. ‘With a full knowledge of the situ- ation, is it not obviously the duty of the {ree republican farmers of Nebraska to follow the example of those of Cass county, profest against the railroad in- terference in polities, resent the insult of the people’s advocates in a republican convention, and organize to resist the further encronchments of the corpora- tions? It is certain that the railroads will mot be satisfied with what they have already accomplished, but will seek further victories in the state con- vention and in the choice of members of the legislature. Their creatures are in politics for all they can command or control. They will stop at nothing necessary to accomplish their purpose. They may be successful if the people are indifferent and apathetic, but their defeat is certain if the opposition to them is united, vigilant and firm. There is no time to lose in bringing this opposition into line. ——— Too Much Responsibility. Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild was banqueted recently and made a speech that in most respects was a very sensible one. It related largely to the duties and responsibilities of his office, and with respect to the latter Mr. Fair- child was very explicit in saying that they are much greater than should be devolved upon any officer of the gov- ernment. Referring especially to the power given the secretary by congress for purchasing bonds, Mr. Fairchild said: “It is unnecessary, it is wrong, that such resp onsibility should be im- posed or such power given to any officer of the government as: that which our laws impose upon and give to your secretary of the treas- ury.” There is a great and accumulating suplus, which can dealt with only by the purch bonds and the anticipation of interest not due. It is in the discretion of the seere whether there shall be coined monthly two or four million dollirs of silver. He can foree silver into circu- lation or withhold it. He can deposit currency with the banks or decline to doso. He has the authgrity and the means to exert a most important influ- ence on the affairs of the money mar- ket, ‘In a word, he is a financial monarch with almost unlimited power, Seceretary Fairchild 'is entively right in saying that po officer of the government, and least of all the officer charged with the admin- istration of the - treasur; should have this great responsibility and power. To a man who would not scruple to use them for his personal ad- vantage they would afford the oppor- tunity for enriching himself and othoers to an almost unlimited extent. The policy of the treasury in certain exigencies is practically omnipotent in determining the value of bonds, stocks and many commodities. It should not be left to any official to declave from time to time what that policy shall be, It is an authority too far-reaching in 1ts possible effects for any one man to be entrusted with, for however wise and careful and honest the man may be' he caunot always avoid mistakes that may have very serious results. No other fiduciary officer in the world pos- sesses such extensive authority asthe socretary of the treasury, Secretary Fairchild witl have done no betterservice to the country thanin calling attention to this matter, if his doing so shall have the effect of im- pressing congress with the necessity of veform, But perbaps the only effective way of reducing the power of the secre- tary, and restoring the national treas uvy to its legitimate function, thereby divorcing it from all extraordipavy re- lations fo the financial affairs of the country, will be o provide against the accumulation of a surplus. Then the treasury can have a settled policy, and there will be no reason or opportunity for the secretary to exercise any other powers than those of receiving and dis- bursing the révenues of the govern- ment ag provided by law. The surplus is respousible for wany’ evils which cannot be easily removed while it re- mains. The Sohools and l‘fi:lflol. The people of Omaha will this year again have the question presented to them whether the school board shall be a non-partisan body or shall be com- posed of politicians who will make use of their positions for personal and par- tisan advantage. The attitude of THE BEE on this question will be the same this year that it was last. We are un- changeably opposed to a partisan school board. We believe the practice of electing politicians to administer the affairs of our schools to be essentially pernicious and demoralizing, It is a policy that 1s universally condemned, and ite abandonment is sought wherever neitherof the political parties is s0 overwhelmingly in the majority as to have everything its own way. The ablest and most experienced friends of education reprebend it. Itssupporters are the self-seeking politicians only, whose business it is to turn everything to the aecount of politics. This class havealready signified their purpose to put in the field a partisan ticket for members of the school board. They propose to make the board, if pos- sible, a political body, so that its power and influence may be wielded in the in- terest of a party and for the benefit of such politicians as may be able to use it. They intend, if permitted, to make our public schools a part of the political machine by which they and their friends are to secure and retain public office. This means eveutually the de- terioration and degradation of our school system. Whenever the public schools become the instruments of the politi- cians, to do service in rewarding their followers and raising their friends to public places, the efficiency of the schools will necessarily become im- paired and their usefulness diminished. The infusion of politics info educational affairs will inevitably work detriment to the latter. Those who believe in a non-partisan scheol board should promptly organize to confront, and as we believe can be done, defeat the partisan programme already announced. ‘It is a matter of very grave importance to our city and to the future of our schools, and the people of Omaha who desire to keep public education free from all associa- tion with politics should give it imme- diate attention For the past few weeks an enormous adverse balance of foreign trade set in against us on merchandise account. The United States was importing more goods than it exported. In consequence, the brokers of Wall street predicted a great efflux of gold, and the clouds looked dark in moneyed circles. But the exporta- tion of specie to pay for the woolens and thousand and one other articles im- ported from England, France and Ger- many did notset in. The scare was more fanciful than real. Notwithstand- ing the balance of trade was in favor of England, the rate of exchange was kept down by tha liberal investing of foreign capital in miming and manufacturing enterprises in America as well as by our continued ex- portation of railroad bonds. It is strange that the balance of trade fluc- tuations are not better uunderstood. ‘Whenever America imports more than she exports the cry is annually raised that there is an unfavorable balance of trade, and that the gold will flow out of the country. Nothing is more falla- cious. In the nature of the immunse international trade with England, there is a period in the year when wo import more foreign goods than we export. This senson always comes in the spring when our shipments of grain and provisions to Europe are at the minimum, As soon as the harvests set in, America not only wipes out the balance but turns the scale and England owes us for the rest of the year, Added to our exports of food products, the bonds and securities which are the certificates of foreign money invested in American enter- practically no adverse balance of foreign trade against us. The scare of an efllux of gold is therefore silly and unfounded. Tue United States court in the dis- triet of New York has just handed down a decision in the now famous case con- nected with the importation of Rev. E. Walpole Warren, the pastor of Trinity church. The court sustains the decis- ion of the lower courts, that the act of congress against foreign contract labor upplies to ministers. This vuling will be a surprise not only to the vestrymen of Trinity church, who are liable to a fine of 1,000, but also to the ministers of the United States. It may be a de- batable que congr tended the act to apply to ministers, but looking at the matter in a common sense view, it seems right that the min- istry asa profession should come under the provisions of the contract labor act. Tue farmers of Nebraska and the northwest caunot find fault with the weather. For planting corn and cereals, everything is most propitious. The weather is cool and but little rain has fallen for the past week or ten days, giving the farmers ample opportunity to finish their work which was inter- fered with by the late rains, Wheat seeding is practically finished except in very few localities. In many counties farmers are busy putting in oats and barley and the acreage of these crops will undoubtedly be larger than last year., The acreage of corn is every- thing to bo desived, and the prospects for a full erop this fall start out very prowising. Em—— A Frank Confession, Chicago Times The Nebraska republicans merit whatever praise is due to men who frankly admit their own dewagog| In their platforw, after arraigning the democrats for secking to tear down “the great Americaf system of protec- tion,” they proceed to demounce the dewo- crats for making no effort “to put down cor- porate trusts.” Inasmuch as 1t is “‘the great American system of protection’” that makes most of these trusts possible, and inasmuch as nine out of every ten members of these trusts are influential republicans bent on continuing “the’ great American system of protestion,” the Nebraska platform is dlnost a8 wmeritorious as a frank ponfession. 1t ought to do the souls of the republichus out there o deal of good. VOIOE OF ?‘l‘l\} STATE PRESS. Soveral new gravel trains will now be fitted up at great expense, for political purposes. No “‘soab"’ engingers noed apply, as the lover will be pulled by a political official, remarks the Thayer County Herald. Tho Scribner News thus records the po- litical demise of “Our Val:” Valentine was 1 the Norfolk convention with a view to getting himself electod delegate to Chicago. Out of the fifty-séven inthe convention he got threo votes. Val. isn't the power he used to be. The Norfolk News wonderingly fnquires: ‘What right has a'tot of imported Pinkerton specials to be doifig police duty in Nebraskai By the time a fow more citizens aro killed off, perhaps public sentiment will be aroused sufficiently to demand that the Burlington road call of its dogs, Tho Wood River Gazette remarks: Hon. N. V. Harlan withdrew from the congres- sional race in the Second district. The con- spiracy to down anything and everything in opposition to Laird was too formidable, and Mr. H. wisely concluded not to allow bhim- solf to become its vietim. “Since Congressman McShane is not a condidate for reelection,'” says the Beatrice Democrat, “the republican aspirants for his position are bobbing up all over the district. There is plenty of timber in the republican camp, such as it is, and it is of that peculiar growth that pushes itself tothe front, un- cultivated and unbidden,” Thus merrily sings the Kearney County Democrat: Another month and wheat will be heading out. Another month later the sound of the reaper will be heard, Ninety days hence we will be eating bread made from new wheat, and the critical moment will have passed and gone. Soon the strects will pe crowded with farm wagons loaded with grain, and the farmer will be returning home with lumber, merchandise, etc., whis- tling merrily, and the merchants will be hast- ening to the bank to make their daily depos- its. Hangon! Hangon!! The Cedar county Nonpareil editor throws his soul away in this fashion: *“R. N. Smith, of Concord, has our thanks for $2.50 on sub- scription. It took us 8o by surprise that we nearly had a fit; it being the first money we had received on back subscription for nearly three weekas. however, if more of our subscribers will follow the example of Mr. Smith. We would have the heart to get up a better paper; as it is now one might as well not try to do any- thing if he has to depend on collections. As a matter of fact we don’t take in cash enough to pay current expenses, although we are doing a aattling good credit business, and we expect our dues sometime or the other, but we can’t persuade the paper dealers to do business this way. It is either cash up, or close up. Pay up, 80 we can cash up!"" The York Times thus reviews the action of the recent convention in this city: *“Though Hascall and others in the state convention jeered General Van Wyck's resolutions, it was a noticeable fact that the committee embodied his tariff views in the platform ‘which was ananimously adopted with a good deal of enthusissm, ‘The democratic por- tion’ of the Van Wyck resolutions seemed to fit the republican platform pretty well. They are precisely the same views that were expressed by Mr. Laird in his letter of ac- ceptance and represent the sentiments of vine-tenths of the republicans of Nebraska and nearly all of the:democrats. It was not the tariff portion of Mr. Van Wyck’s resolu- tions which were objected to as unrepubli- can, but that resolution whicn referred to the interference of the railroads in politics. The boys are very tender on that point, but .they may rest assurcd that the majority of the party in this state do not consider such sentiments unrepublican. ‘Lhere is no doubt that the interference of the railroad corpo- rations in state politics this year has lost the republican party thousands of votes, and General Van Wyck is not the ouly man who deprecates it.” ——— Changed His Sex. Philadelphia Record. The Father of Waters is just now the Mother of Mischief. i pled A The Brass Button. Pioneer Press. The Cleveland button has stamped upon it the inscription: “A public oftice is & public trust.” The button is made of brass, and the metal 18 appropriate o the inscrivtion. ————— Why Indignant? Chicago Herald. The doctors have kept the New York man who was bitten by a rattlesnake uproariously drunk ever since. There isa great deal of indignation in New York because he killed the suake. ool p ligny The Ball Ball Marker. Mail. “Sealed proposals will be reccived until 6 o'clock on October 8, 1888, for the purchase of one or more first-class ball players. Pro- posals must state player wanted and sum offered, Every man guaranteed to be worth his price—to the Chicago club. No bids of less than £10,000 entertained, Address Chi- cago ball club. N, B.—A fine assortment of promising colts now under training will be ready for the market in 1889, blican Always Lame. wsas City Journal, While acopy of the platform adopted by the Nebraska repablican convention was on its way to the oftice of the Omaha Republican some mischief maker pinned 1o it one or two scetions from the demoeratic platform, and the Republican charges collusion on the part of its democratic contemporary, the Herald. Whoever may have been guilty of collusion, it is certain that the Republican was guilty of gross carclessness and stupidity which passes understanding. Its explanation is very lame, The Rep K A The Growth of the Booms, Commercial Advertiser, It is a rather late spring for all kinds of crops, including boows. Novertheloss, just as seed time and harvest never fuil, however unfayorable the meteorological conditions may be, the political parvest is sure to ripen eyery fourth year in this country, even if it occasionally gets a littte behind time. A president must be elected every fourth November. Inordertobe elected he must have been nominated previously; and in order to be nominated it appears to.be *gen- «erally conceded” that he must have a boom, This is not strictly md invariably true. In fact there have beell 8 great many and nota- ble exceptions to the yule. Garfield had no boom, Hayes had no boom, Lincoln had no boom. But the aspiring politician usually thinks 1t better to be “forehanded,” and ac- cordingly devotes a Rretty large share of his active life to the incubation and nourishment of his boom. —— Look Out Sa Chicago Tribame, Sam Randall, Bam Randall, beware of the ay When the star-eyed shall meet thee in bat- tle array, For the boys in the trenches are heaving in sight, And the plume of the them in fight Is & tuft of blue grass trown ! Wo, wo to thee, Sam! down ! ftain who leads See his ominous He will trample thee - STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, The university cadets are now in camp at Wymorg. A young lady of Hastings iavested §00 1 We'll gladly risk having fits,* real lm‘ ear ago and to-day is worth over §2,000. 4 The Danabrog %.unuu the name of a new Paper from Howard county. Father Martin in becomes sole proprie- or of the Dakota my Argus. ‘‘Of course,” tsays Father Martin, “our story will be con- tinued." Bin? the death of Mason, who died from the effact of a mad dog’s bite, n genoral war- fare has been commenced upon all dogs, re- gardless of color, Arrangements are being made for a public fountain in the ri{;. Tt is expected to seo the feculent waters of the old Missourispout two thousand feet in the air. e foot race at South Sioux City on ay Maloney, tho Jackson racer, won the 100-yard dash over Gray, the South Sioux City runner, on a 151{-minute record. The oldest Indian village in Dakota county, Nebraska, of which there is any record, was located by the Omaha's near tho present site of Homer. They burned it in 1800 to got rid of the small pox. James Arthur, a farmer from Pleasant Valley township, Dodge county, was ar- raignod by Sherift Mallon yostorday beforo the commission of insanity and pronounced & lunatic. Thomas Hilton, who lives at Deadwood, Crawford county, is the father of a fourteen pound boy. It arrived last Monday, and as an evidence of the productiveness of Ne- braska’s soil it caps tho elimax. General L. W. Colby is in Washington. His business down that way 18 to go into Pennsylvania and got the Arabian stallion “Linden Tree,” which he recently purchased sf U. 8. Grant, jr. It is stated thatit will cost $200 to ship the horse to Lincoln, 1t is stated that James Burrows,of Pueblo, Colo., who was arraigned for the killing of I. P. Oli; several months ago, has been, by the jury, acquitted on the grounds of self-d fense, Ollive was well known in an early day in this state, as a stock man, and was foully butchered. y Says the Journal: ‘“The indebtedness of Hastings is less than 200,000 by considerable, and in this respect can stand, much to her credit and financial reputation, comparison with all the cities of the west. For the debt we do have wo havé much to show—four dis- tinet systems of giant railway corporations of the western country.” The Wayne, Neb., Driving Park associa- tion begins July 4, 1888, Lot 1, 2:35 clas £200; lot 2, pacing race for groen pacer #1503 lot 8, pony race, one-half mile and r peat, £25; lot 4, three'minute class, 15 5, 2:45 class, £200; lot 6, three-minute class for horses owned in Wayne and adjoining counties since May 1, &53 lot 7, one-half mile and repeat (running), $1003 1ot 8, class, £200--8100 to winning horseif he malk 2:30 or better. If the weather is favorable the races will be continued June 6, with added purses, That same old chestnut, the Nebraska clam bake association, will give one of its annual seasons of song at Shogo island, at Milford, Neb., June 1, 2 and 8, 1888 The membershtp fee is &, which entitles the member to bring one ghest with him pro- vided the guestpays in the same amount. Among the peculiarities of the organization are l'uTcu forbidding the_ use of cigars, plug hats and white shirts. Pipes will be fur- nished by the association and every species of salt water shell fish will be provided and cooked by sea-coast oxperts. Towa. Some grain dealers at Odebolt are ship- ping 80,000 bushels of oats this week. An old settlers’ festival is announced to take place at Macedonia on the 80th of this month. The Odd Fellows of Dubuque will decorate the graves of deceased members on memo- rial day, May 30. The Sioux City high school alumni has de- cided to hold the annual exercises on the evening of June 18, The gas well people at Marshalltown are haying considerable trouble on account of the blue clay erumbling in. Holstoin wants a canning factory, a starch factory, a butter and ezg packing house and a creamery. That is all this time. The Fort Dodge butter and tub_factory, owned by Butler Hros,, has been destroyéd by fire again for the third or fourth time, The Onawa Gazette was recently sold under a chattel mortgage and purchased by H. C. Lamb, father-in-law of Mr. Alnsworth, the proprietor of the puper. ‘The Northwest Soldiers’ and Sailors’ asso- ciation will meet at Sioux City in August, in- stead of corn palace time, as first suggested. The forty-ninth annual meeting of the gen- eral assoclation of the Congregational churches and ministers of Towa will be held at Grinnell, May 23 to 97. A crazy man was arrested in Sioux City by Deputy Ford. The fellow was on Prospect hill in'a heavy rain on his knees praymg. He gave his name as Doran, and again as Brady. The occupants of Bachelors’ hall at Hol- stein are talking seriously of organizing a bachelors' insurance company. The plan will be for each member to pay $10 to any members who shall get married. A band of Indians is giving nightly exhibi- tions in the court house at Creston, much to the dissatisfaction of some of the taxpayers and the disgust of phe officers. Some joker has posted a card in the court house yard saying ‘‘All business but Indian exhibitions is suspended,” Dakota. Several new houses are in course of con- struction in Centerville. The Rural Voice, of Olivet, will remove to Menno in about two weeks. The leading amusement among the sport- ing class of Redficld nowaa is foot ball. The Vermillion cornet band is practicing for a big concert to be given on the university field day. The consecration of Christ churchat Yank- ton, which was to have occurred May 30, hus been postpoued until some time in June, The county commissioners of Hutchinson county have let the contract. for the construc- tion of a fire-proof vauit at the courthouse, A large number of valuable and interesting natural history specimens were received at the Vermillion umversity last week from Rochester, N, Y. Alexandrin making arrangements to build a brick vencered four roowed school house to cost when completed 5,000, The old school building will be taken by the city and converted into a town hall. The sisters of St. Edward's academy at Deadwood have made a beautiful banner 10 be competed for by the various fire com- panies of the Black Hills at « fair to open at that place on the 6th of next month, The postmaster of Carbonate camp, in Black Hills mining distriet, has ¢ ed con- siderable of a sensation up there by going on an extended spree, Nothing s known of his accourts save that he has made no reports of money order business for three months, Fargo has one or two breweries in active operation, but cannot sell to residents, Citi- ns who want kegs delivered at their houses der by telephone from the sales d 088 the river, and beer wagons are dr frow the by v over one bridge and back over the other to deliver to residents, the = General Brooke's Serenade. In the balcony of the Paxton sat many army ofticers, their wives und friends last evening, and enjoyed the beautiful con given by the band on the floor of the cor. dor. About the halls strolled the guests of the house, and en the lower floor w wded the many outsiders who had been drawn thither by the swebt strains of music, The affair was the fivst scronade by the Second infantry band to Brigadier General Brooke, the successor of Geueral Crook, The serenadle commenced ut about 8 o'clock and continued until shortly after 10. The following programme was given: Selection—*'Kobert Le {Diable,”. .M Diploma Polka—Cornet Solo. . P, Tugehsuige Waltzes—*‘One Hundred Nights,” Reminiscences of Donizetia (arrang erbeor 110.CoX . Strauss d) Neiucke Waltzes—*Fleur D'Alsair”. . Striner Selection—*'Capricia,” (arr.) La Soninambala—*Thrair and V igath ‘ornet Solo) Prof Potpourri—*11l Polinto,”.... ——— Badly Bitten By a Dog. J. E. Copala, a Sixteceth street saloon- keoper, was attacked last evening by @ vicious bulldog owned by a butcher doing business on the same street. At the time of the affair Kopald ‘was standing in front of his saloon. - His clothes were badly tora by the animal and the flesh in his side and neck was terribly lacerated. Medical attendance was called at once and the -ugly cuts were eared for. - The owner of the dog. hus prow- ised to bave Jt kidled igupediately. Darwin PPN § 1 MORE HEADS WILL COME OFF Postal Clerks to be Dismissed for Political Purposes. PATENTS FOR THE POSTOFFICE. The Department Flooded With Labor- saving Devices—The Next Postage Reduction Will be Made on Forelgn Matter. Uneasy Mail Distributors Wasnixarox, May 22.—|Special Telogram to Tae Bee) ~The change in the head of the railway mail sorvico of the postoffice depart- ment is causing & great deal of uneasiness among the postal clerks of the country. Al- though the dismissal of a large number of competent clerks durlng the past three years has caused @ decided falling off in the efticioncy of the service, it Is the determina- tion of the powers that bo to carry on the process of weeding out the remaining repub- lican clerks until a man whose politics are not in accord with the administration will be as difficult to find in the railway mail service 88 a ripe strawberry in the northern fields in December, It is understood that preparations are being made for a wholesale change from this time on until election day, and railway mail clerks will be dismissed by wholesale, notwith- standing their records for eficiency and the faithful performance of their duties. The administration, or at least that branch of it controlled by Postmaster-General Dickinson, does not propose to allow the business inter- ests of the country to interfere with the moves on the political chess-board. A clean sweep is down, and evory place is to be made of some value to the democratic par In consequence the complaints of ineficiency which have been so thick of late will be re- dressed, and those who have cause to com- plain may keep on growling, at least until after the November elections, The supply division of the postoffice de- partment is again flooded with a number of patented devices. The pantentees think they have the very thing needed to lessen the labor of eancelling stamps and post-marking letters. Upto date, however, the depart- ment has not seen fit to adopt any of theso patents, because of the complicated nature of the machinery, or imperfection of or the cost of the machiue. Some years ago a machine was invented for cancelling stamps on postal cards which isa self-feeding apparatus, and which worked to perfection. This machine costs £300, and & number of them have been purchased by the department. But postal cards are going out of fashion, and the ne- cessity for the machinery is passing away, 80 that it is not likely that any more of them will be purchased. An inventorin New Eng- land has adevices for cancelling and post« marking stamps, which is used in the post- office at Boston. The government has not yet purchased any of thesecontrivances,although the postmaster-general has recommended their adoption for the larger ofices of the country. The reason he has not made the purchases s because the price fixed upon is altogether too high, as the patentee asks 8500 each forthem. If he can be induced to cut the price down somewhat they will probably be placed in all the first and second class of- fices; otherwise the government will wait until some simpler method is devised. One of the problems to be solved in the post of- fice department is that relating to ink. An indelible ink is needed, and up to date none has been offered which ills the requirements. Some powerful chemical inks which usually contain mtrate of silver, has been placed upon the market, bnt their use by the de- partment is prevented becauge they are too powerful, and destroy the contents of let- ters as well as the stamps It is probable that Postmaster General Diclkinson will appoint & commission during this summer to settle upon some compound which cau be used for destroying stamps 8o that they cannot be washed, and which will be at the same time free from danger. The next general reduction of letter post- age will ‘Brobnbly be proposed on foreign matter. etters to all parts of the world now pay five oents for each half ounce, whether mailed in the United States to other countries or in other coun- trics to the United States. This is an international arrangement and meots with general approval except with people in const citios who do_heavy transactions in merchandise with foreign dealers. These are demanding a reduction in the postage, o as to make 5 cents pay for an ounce instead of a half ounce. The matter is one which must be settled by international nogotiations, and will be very slow to act u The re- ductions on foreign postage have been re. markable during the last third of a century. Tn 1846 it cost 433 cents to send a half ounce of letter matter from Boston to Bremen, Germany, and a newspayer from or to the same points had to pay 61 cents, The reduc- tions were made by 50 per cent cuts, The strange and unexplicable turn taken by Second Assistant Postmaster General Knott recently in refusing to inform bidders star route contracts who were successful until weeks after the time the lettings were ade had elapsed has been paralleled by the ing architect of the treasury, It has stom of the superyising ‘architect from the creation of the office to make publie records of bids and contracts, which records were open to the public interested for at any time, Bids are opened at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and the names of bidders and the amounts proposed by them are instantly made public, The prese rvising avchitect, or the ofti- cers under him, have refused to furnish the presentatives of the pr call for the information, lis less the parties desiring the present at the op 0 probable that Secrota 1ild’s attention will be called to this y ceding and that the supervising architect will be asked to explain this remarkable action, —— ouT A FACTORY, ¥ of bidders, un- information are the bids. 1t is SHUTTING The Other Side of v Soap Hou Kountze-Page Question. Tuesday evening thequestion of preventing the opening of tho Page soap works in the old Boyd packing house came up in the council and was referred to the delegation from the First ward, As mentioned in Tue Bee of Monday the part of the house in question was sold to W, A. Page, of Creston, Ia., and the intention of the latter was to open his factory on the first of next month, The opposition led by Mr, Kountze will prob- ably interfere witth the project, because, as stated, it was backed with interests repre- souted as valued at £,000,000. This opposi- tion was groinded mainly on tho charge, that as a soap factory was necessarily a nuisance, It emitted un- pleasant odors, and it was impossible to kecp it in a clean and healthy condition. Some months ago, on the same ground,Mr, Kountze prevented the sale of the Boyd house to Un- derwood, the Chicago packer. It is stated that at the time an ordinance was pas which prevented slaughter housos and other malodorous mstitutions, among them soap works, from being erccted in the _eity, though the ordinance could not be found. If such should be the case, the opening of the Page factory, without repealing the ordi- nance, will be an impossibility. It is claimed, on the other hand, that such an ordinance does not exist, and that the only way i which the factory may be pre- vented from opening is under the section thirty of the council which provides that the “‘mayor and council shall have power 0 se- cure the neral bealth of the eity, to pro- vide for the prevention, abatement and r moval of nuisauces; to regulate or p vent the carrying on of any busicness wh may be dangerous or detrimental to public health.” This is the understanding of the case had by some members of the council, with two of whom @ HEE man spoke yester One, Mr. Mauville, sald he had boen approachec ome person whom he did not know, and d to prevent the opening of Page's fac- 1e, however, did not understand why actory could yol run here without beinginjurious to people and neighborhood Councilman Snyder said that he had not been approached by anybody regarding objections to . the sowp works. When cople wanted to wor smes of that kind ey Went W other mewmbers of the council, He was opposed on eral principles to shutting out i B iy -l'{'. 'xv was striving for thom, wanted them and ought to encourage them. A soap factory was not & nuisance, and he would give no vote to shut one out, because it meant, among other things, the employment of at least fifty men. Dr. Mercer was spoken to on the subject and said that so far from a soap-factory being a nuisance, there was nothing to de- stroy impurity in the umgiphnm 80 well as the acids and chemioals used in the manufac- ture of soap, and everybody knew tha! Mr. Page has written that ho wil arrive in Omaha to-day. It is stated by some Otn the transfer to Mr. Page of the property has not yet been made, but this au&mom s not credited by well-informed people who know that the doed was mado out long ago and forwarded to Chicago to Mrs, J, D. Tler for her signature. Thoy claim that the deed must have long sinco reached Mr, Page, Mr. Tier and his brother Peter are now in Chicago. They wore telographed yesterday by Colonel Akin of this city of an un- fayorable turn in the illness of their father in Tifin, O., and will probably return to that {mim, before coming home. Mr, Iler has not been informed of the opposition above re- ferrod to, and Mr. Page had not antio it, because he had already made the first paywment on the property purchased. iy ety THE BUREAU'S CHIEF, Mr. Grifiitts Addresses a Few Lines to the Board of Trade Freight Bareau. But a few days more remain of the official conngetion of W. 8. Grifitts with the troight bureau of the Omaha board of trade. He retires on the first of next month, and retiroment at that time is considerod par- ticularly unfortunate by many of tho mem- bers of the board, Some have felt that if a retirement must take place it would have been a dictate of policy ana courtesy to have placed the date subsequent to decision of the inter-state railway commission upon the question of d imination raised by the bureau, and especiaily by Commissioner Grifitts. Tho retiroment of the latter leayes the present freight committee without a head and has prompted Mr. Grifitts to pen them a few lines bearing upon the future of the board in the discussion of railroad ques- tions. Mr. Grifitts says 1. The decision in our case now pending be- fore the inter-state commerce commission, if favorable, your watchful attention will bo necessary in order to see its requiroments are promptly fulfilled by the railroads in in- terest, 1f unfavorable, your best efforts will be required towards reaching the ends in view, through other channels. 2. All decisions of the inter-state com- merce commission should be carefully seruti- nized by your committee, in the interests of our city. . 8. The course our state board of trans tation may pursue with reference to a Tedt tion of freight rates in Nebraska, should be closely watched. In this connection the claim of the Union Pacific for exemption from state interference, and its ultimate dis- position, are subjects for your earnest atten- tion and consideration, as affecting Omaha. »4. The effect of the distance tariff now adopted in Towa should be carefully investi- gated as to the influcnce it may exercise, for good orill, on our jobbing and manufactur- ing interests, 5. The Niagara ship canal project, toward which our board of trade stands fully com- mitted, should not be lost sight of. On the assembling of the legislature care should bo raken to secure the passage of strong resolu- tions endorsing the enterprise, and steps be taken for their proper presentation to the congress of the United States. 6. The efforts to destroy competition of Canadian roads, as voiced in resolutions al- ready presented to congress, should be stub- bornly resisted in the interests of our job- bers and manufacturers, This point may yet call for the exercise of the highest ability you can command in an appeal and argu- ment before the interstate commerce com- mission. I retire with the warmest thanks for the in- variable courtesy you have extended me throughout my entire official intercourse, and with my best wishes, not only for your indi- vidual futures, but the continued welfare of the Omaha board of trade. Railroad News. « A FAST STOCK TRAIX. b ¢ Nineteen cars of stock bound for Chicago left at 9:45 yesterday morning, and by special agreement on the part of the C., B. & Q. management are to arrive in Chicago inside of tifteen hours, This 1s the fastest stock train time ou record, THE DIRECTORS SUSTAINED, Copibs of the resolutions adopted b; stockholders of the Chicago, Burl n & Quincy at their annual meeting i Chicago May 16 were received at B. & ‘headquar- ters vesterday. Five bundred and twen- ty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty- five shares were represented, being moro than two-thirds the entire capital st and the following unanimously adopted : Resolvéd, That the stockholders of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad com- pany thoroughly sustain and approve the course pursued by the directors, president and managers of the company during the recent strike of the engineers, firomen and switchmen. In the face of the above statement where is the man who has temerity enough to deny the oft repeated statoment : “Eyerything is running smoothly.” NEW FREIGHT RATES, The Union tPacific yest issued their new freight tariff circular on shipments from Missouri river points in Kaunsas, Ne- braska and Montana which will take effect June 1. _Rates to Montana poiuts are as fol- lows: First class $2.05, second class #1,80, third class #1,55, fourth class 81,50, fifth class 1. .05, class “B" 02, class "72¢, class “E? 62c, Thesc rates apply to points on the Montaua Union and Utah & Northern. The rates on cattle to points on the former line are $145, to points on the latter from $135.25 to 8140, ac- cording to distance SPIKES. Acting ou information & M. headquarters, Tik sinco announced that th i to the Chicago conv 0, Burlin 2 howeve the received from B. Bre a few days cpublican delega- ntion would travel on & Quincy. It that the Milwau- d that the dele- gation will train, with dining cars und such things attached, As is usual the republican delegates to the Chicago convention will travel over the Union Pacific in_six special coaches. The traiu will leave San Francisco June 10 at s kee has Pel y passenger agent of the D wanna & Western, is in the city in the intercst of his popular route, Peteis a genial young man and a rustler, and if the Lackawanna does not profit by his visit out here it will.not be Lis Tault, The report that engincers and flremen for- merly in the employ of the Burlington are leaving Omaha to soarch work elsewhore is a fabrication emanating from a few half-sal- aried petty officials of the B. & M. The me are doing well enough here at present and i is but a matter of time when their old places on the *Q" will again be open. Superintendent Blickensderfer, Union Pacific, has gone west. General Passenger and Ticket Agent Teb- betts, of the Union Pacific, who has been in San I'rancisco for some time, returns to-day. Assistant General- Passenger and Ticket Agent Lomax, of the Unlon Pacifie, re- turned from Kansas City yesterday, General Passenger Agent Fustis, of the xll’. & M. will return from San Francisco Fri- ay. Assistant General Freight Agent Johnson, of the Union Pacific, returns from California on Sunday next. The Rock Island summer resort at Colfax Springs, lowa, will be opened June 2, The Union Pacific announces that the Gun- nison district has been reopened for business, MecGee's station, 126 miles west of Denver, on the Union Pacific, has been closed. Schwanders station, 132 miles west of Denver, has been made & reporting freight and passenger station, of the BERpEAE TR Shotland pony for sale by George A, cline, Council Blufls. e — King of Milun's Escape. Pesti, May 23.—The minister of communi- cation has learned of a plot to overturn the tr on which the king of Milan returned to Belgrade. The plot was thwarted by the prefect of Belgrade, who arrested & man nawed Vitalis, » son of a milkionaire railway contractor. pa el Drink Malte forthe nervese