Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1888, Page 4

B e T —— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. MAY 20, 1888 THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORN —— TRRME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally (Morning Edition) including Sunday, ®, One Yeur coeen 810 or 8ix Months v R r Three Months 2 e Omaha Sinday dress, One Year.... § 2 oFruo"u'r.. NOSOUAND 118 FARNAM STAEET, } M8 14 AND 16 TRIBUNR ®w YORK OFFICE, ROO: RisoNa 0 o 0 00 BEn, mailed to any ad- UILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, FOURTEENTH STREET. CORREEPONDENCE. | communications relating to news and edi. ?0¢IIAI et l;::ufil be M\dru‘n‘led to the EpIToR U All business let afldmu-ed $ Tiw ‘uun gL . Drafts, checl In'!‘n':as payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company. Proprictors E: ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. I8G COMPANY, Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate 0: Nfifirkl,lnlnl, Jount ns, i ny, does Role e o Tatiaf of the Daily Heo for the week ending May 25, 185, was as follows Saturday, May ' Sunday, May 20, Monday, My 2 ..*Fy 2 a8 mecretary Average...... R T Fworn to and subscrived in my presence this 2000 Gay oF My, Av Dy TR B FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, ba.s. County of Douglas, bl Geotge 1. Tzschuck, being first duly swern, deposes and says that lie s secretary of The Hes Publishing company, that the actusl dail ation of the Daily I h of May, 1887, 227 copless for June, 147, 14,147 coples: for July, 187, 14,093 coples; for ATm.nfln 4,151 coples; fc \ 1887, 14,M9 coptes! for October, 1887, 14,138 copless for November, 1887, 16,220 copies; for December, I8T, 15,041 copiés: for January, 18, 18.206 cop- ead'far February, 188, 16,00 copiear for March, 1888, 19,080 coples; for April, 1858, 18,744 coples, . BR0! Dy TARCHUCK Sworn to hefore me and’ subscribed in my prosence thia 2d duy of My, A, D I, P. FRIL, Notary Public. AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION 18,128 GENERAL BLACK'S vice-presidential boom is received vary cordially by the Illinois democrats. It is, as it were, almost black in the face. QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered that no married American woman- shall be pre- sented at court without her husband. And angry American husbands are in- quiring what they have done to deserve this humiliation. SPORTING men are complaining that a presidential year interferes with the pool room and the horse races, and that the outlook for the business this year is bad. It’s an ill wind that does not bring hard luck to somebody. DEs MOINES has a street car company which, if report be true, defies the law, the courts and the city council. For downright cussedness, the average street car company, if disposed, can equal any monoepoly in the land. WIsCONSIN democrats have nomi- nated the author of *‘Peck’s Bad Boy” for governor. It is eyident that the ‘Wisconsin democrats are going into the canvass for fun, and the joke will be called when the funny man gets left. Ir will be gratifying to many old soldiers to learn that the monument commemorating the spot where General Hancock fell in Pickett’s charge has just been completed on the field of Gettysburg. General Reynolds is the only other corps commander honored in a similar manner. No doubt within a few years General Meade’s part in the battle will be suitably remembered by a lasting memorial. —— The bank clearings of Omaha for the week ending May 26, were the grentest in the history of our city, being 3,002,085, If the clearings of the pri- wvate banks of the city and totals of South Omaha were included, the clearing fig- ures would show an even $4,000,000. It isa fact that the eclearing house of Omaha is much more conservative in making its-record than any city in the country. {4 HiLw's friends do not wunt him to be a candidate for renomi- nation, but urge him to settle down in New York and practice law. They as- sure him an income of at least thirty- five thousand dollars. But as Mr. Hill gets ten thousand dollars a year and a house to live in as governor of the state, the probabilities are that he will cast his net 1n the muddy waters of politics rather than fish for suckers with prom- ises as bait. GOVERNOR Tug Knights of Labor of Colorado are about to start an experiment in co- operation at Glenwood Springs, which, if successful, is destined to have a great influence on the order. Several hun- dred acres have been secured on Grand river which are to be turned into farm- fng land. Canning works and kindred establishments are to be erected which will introduce a new industry into Colo- tado. The colonists who have under- taken the work are euthusinstic and bespeak for the enterprise the support of not alone the knights but the people of the state. Co-operation in the United States has not been a success, It is to be hoped, however, that the Knights of Labor have evolved a plan which will prove eminently beneficial. Ir is gratifying to observe a growing opposition to the system of maintaining private armed mercenaries, The Chi- cago Herald says: *‘Of all the heinous departures from freedom, the business of private military, private officering of the people, private butchery of the in- habitants for the hire of quarreling em- ployers—this business has been the widest deflection from liberty.” It is only necessary for intelligent men to consider the true nature of this “deflec- tion from liberty? in order to discern the danger it invoives to the rights of the people and to the principles on which American institutions are founded. Itisin every possible aspect hostile to our system of governwent and a menace tothose constitutional guaran- tees upon which rests our security as a free people. It is a dungerous snd iu- tolorable evil that has been stealthily growing upon us until it has reached alarming proportions, sud ‘it wmust be firmly met @nd put down, Pacific Railrond Legislation. There appears to be very little proba- bility that any legislation relating to the Pacific railroads will be enacted at the present session of congress. The house committee having charge of pro- posed legislation has recently been giv- ing attention chiefly to the question of the funding of the Central Pacific debt, which has been under consideration from time to time for two months or longer. It seems to be a source of great perplexity to the committee, aud not a step has been taken towards form- ulating a bill to solve the prob- lem. The explanation of this is said to bo that the committee fears to jeopardize the chances of the Outhwaite bill in the house by the in- troduction of a Central Pacific measure, as the Huntington lobby was never stronger at Washington than it is to-day. Should the committeée report a bill to refund the Gentral Pacific debt, the terms of which would be in any way advantageous to the government, it is fearved the lobby would make a descent upon both measures and prevent the passage of either. Such is the extraordinary admission which is reported to be freely made in the confidence of the committee room, while valuable time is wasted in dis- cusging the draft of a bill submitted by C. P. Huntington, shortly after his me- morable appearance some time ago be- fore the committee, when he tearfully recounted the hardships that he and his co-laborers had suffered in constructing the Central Pacific. This measure modestly proposes to extend the limit for the payment of the debt one hun- drad ¥ y-five vears, It is notat all likely that the committee will re- port the bill, but it is a reproach on the committee and on congress that so as- tounding a proposition from the Cen- tral Pacific robbers was given a mo- meut’s consideration. Meantime the bill of Mr. Andersort, which provides for a forfeiture of charter and the insti- tution of suits against the men who have impoverished the roads and brought them to their pres- ent insolvent condition, has re- ceived little or no consideration and is probably permanently pigeon-holed. Sueh is the situation and the outlook after all the time consumed and money expended in investigating the Pacific roads with a view to arriving at a fair and equitable basis on which to readjust their relations as debtors to the govern- ment. There are no facts wanting for the information ot congress. The knowledge of these roads is full and complete. The rights of the govern- ment and of the people in the matter have been clearly set forth and ought to be well understood. Yet the people see their representatives perplexed, awed and helpless before a Cen- tral Pacific lobby, with the chances of any legislation in the public interest growing every day smaller, It is an instructive exhibition of congres- sional incompetency, imbecility and cowardice. The Oreston Disaster. The report of the Iowa railroad com- missioners on the disaster at Creston, which occurred on the 18th of last April, was submitted to the governor a fow days agoand will be found in full elsewhere, The commissioners lay the primary responsibility for the accident on the conductor and engineer of the freight train, who neglected to observe the rules and regulations. But these men had been on duty respectively thirty-six and thirty hours, and were unfitted to give proper attention to their duties. They had been over- worked and were physically worn out. This was the fault of the company, which, regardless of the pub- lic safety, compelled these men to per- form a continuous service that was he- yond their powers of endurance. In the case of the conductor, tired nature be- ing no longer able to stand the strain, he fell asleep at a critical time, and while the engineer remained awake he appears w have been incapable of exer- cising the care and vigilance which the circumstances required. *‘The manage- ment that directed these men,” say the commissioners, **to be kept in continu- ous service without rest for thirty and thirty-six hours, respectively, until the men were unable to keep awake, and were physically unfitted for places where every faculty is neceded to be active and awake to avoid accidents, is certainly censurable.” This is a very mild sort of reproof, at which the guilty managers of the Bur- lington will doubtless smile. Fortun- ately there were no passengers injured ) the aceident, but the fireman of the freight train lost his life, a brakeman was o badly injured that it became neo- essary to amputate his leg, and other employes were injured. Do such conse- quences of mismanagement call for nothing more than a wild expression of censure? Can any language be too strong in which to condemn men who in their determination to erush labor, com- pel the employes of their corpo- ration to work beyond endur- ance, thereby endangering life and property? In strictjustice, does not the primary responsibility for this accident vest upon the managers of the Burling- ton road, rather than upon the worn- out conductorand engineer? The man- agement of the Burlington system has been guilty, a great deel of this sort of wrong to its employes and to the public durving the past three months, and the wonder is that there have not been more accidents due to the same causes which brought about that at Creston. There will have to be some very stringent state and general legislation wwding the too common practice of vailroads requiring excessive continuous sorvice of employes whose ewmployment has direct velation to the pub- lic safety. The Iowa commissioners say that “‘they regard the working of men without rest or sleep for long periods of time as bazardous in the ex- treme, and vot justifiable even if the men do not object to the extra hours,” BBut the corporations will pay no atten- tion to suggestions of this kind when circumstances or their interests are not favorable. So long asthey are amenable onlytothe censure af public epinion they will not reform in this particular.. 'The matter is unquestionably of public’ cou- cern, and ought to be made a subject of statutory regulation. Our Police Force Sufficient. Chief Seavey has been asking for ad- ditions to his force. There is no neces- sity at present for more policemen in Omaha. While fifty more officers could be used, we have no money 1n the treas- ury for the employment of these men, and we cannot afford the expense. The city has very nearly reached the stand- ard in the ratio of pavrolmen to popula- tion. The fact that some over-zealous friends of Omaha have exaggerated the population to some extent need not he considered in this connection. It is true that alarge share of that class which gives the police trouble is located at South Omaha. But police surveillance in South Omaha has noth- ing to do with our metropolitan force. South Omaha is no part of Omaha at present, and if a disturbance of the peace occurs at South Omaha, the local authorities there must take charge of their law-breakers. If assistanoce is needed in that city to put down lawless- ness, the sheriff of the county is the proper person to appeal to, and not our chief of police. That Mr. Seavey wants as many men as possible under his command is a natural cQesire. Every colonel in the army, doubtless, would like to be division commander, and every division commander longs for the day when he may be made corps com- mander. At this time, however, Omaha can- not gratify Chief Seavey's ambition by an increase of the police force. The city is loaded down with taxes. Until the army of tax-eaters is shut out, the police force must necessarily be confined to its pres- ent limits, Some of our people go to extremes., For along time Omaha was allowed to suffer by inadequate police protection. Now that we have good police protection, some of our states- men want to over-do the business by going to the other extreme. IT is not surprising that Germany is threatened by a socialistic upheaval, the mutterings of which are plainly heard. The opportunity of shaking off the strong imperial hold, which Bis- marck created, could not have been chosen at a more propitious time. With Emperor William dead, Frederick, Bis- marck and Von Moltke nearing their graves, the revolutionists count upon the death of these three men to over- throw the imperial creation of a united Goermany. The socialists are working upon the feelings of the various south- ern German states. Their propaganda is spread through the agricultural dis- tricts. They plausibly point out that the unity of the empire wasaccom- plished by force, and that the different states submitted themselves to the domination of Prussia in the hope that the wunion promised peace and prosperity to all. These not-unionists demand that the states shall move and obtain the auton- omy from Prussia which, they claim, has been the sole beneficiary of the amal- gamation. That Prince William, when he ascends the throne will listen to any such measures, is out of the question. If the revolutionists are anxious to regain the autonomy of the various states they must fight for it. But the struggle will be a despefate one. Prince Willinm has all the mettle and temper of the Hohenzollerns to hold a firm grasp on imperial Germany. If he comes out victorious and the German empire re- mains intact, the voice of disunion will be silenced forever, and the young prince will most worthily wear the em- peror’s crown left to him by his illustri- ous grandfather. Toe Republican wants the city coun- cil to take immediate steps to provide #200,000 for parks and boulevards for Omaha. The Republican has been a long time coming around, and has changed its front since the memorable fight over the charter. Before the Republican champions the park ques- tion, it had better explain where Cadet Taylor stood during the fight on the Omaha charter when the clause re- lating to parks was under discussion. In collusion with boodle contractors and interested real estate men, he did everything in his power to pre- vent any provision for parks in the city of Omaha. The clause in the charter giving the city authority to buy land and lay out a system of parks was struck out by the help of Cadet Taylor and his satellites. It is, to say the least, in bad taste now to try and foist a job on the city to accommo- date certdin schemers. Omaha is too heavily in debt at present to bond her- self for the extension of her park sys- tem. The land that could have been secured at o nominal price under the park-clause of the charter, will now cost Omaha hundreds of thousands of We cannot run recklessly into debt, and for that reason TiE s directly opposed to the scheme, ) geven thousand people. A great deal of complaint has been heard against the national committee for not providing a meeting place where at least twice that number of people could be accommodated, But the special committee having the matter in charge was expressly instructed to engage no building that would hold more than seven thousand people, The action of the ional committee was commenda- ble. A national conveantion is some- thing more than a great mob mass mect- ing where the galleries have more to suy than the elected delegutes. The nominating of a president should be a deliberate, cool, and business-like pro- cedure, But when a howling, irre- sponsible body pack the hall and out- number the delegates fifteen to one, the couvention is practically handed over to these outsiders, who can make 4 farce of the deliberations by electing a curb-stone ¢ For the two weeks ending May 23, the number of hogs slaughtered in Omaha was 21,000 in excess of the. number slaughtered the previous fortnight. At this rate Omaha is likely .to surpass Kinsas City as a pork -packing center within the next six moaths. I LABOK NOTES. A 500 ton smolter has just boen ordored by aButte (Mont ) firm The capucity of the Laramic (Wy. T.) glass works will be doubled. A St. Louis company has made 200,000 pairs of shoes sings January 1. The Detroit unions are pushing an investi- gation of child labor in that town. A St. Lows firm has turned over 6,505 oar- riages and buggies since last May, Bricklayers' laborers got $2.75 & day in Brooklyn, and $2.50.in New York city. About 2,600 Scandinavian families have sottled in Canada dyring tho last two years. The boss bakors of Toronto, Can., have signod last year's scale of wagos and regula- tions. A Contocook (Me.) man has invented a machine that makes twenty paper boxes minute. New Haven, Conn., stonooutters struck to have an obnoxious man discharged, and they succeeded. ‘The car-wheel plant at Birmingham, near Kansas City (Mo.), has a capacity of 125 car wheels a day, The yarn exportation from Bombay, India, to China and Japan amounts to 90,000,000 pounds per yoar, Coal dealors are being driven out of busi- ness already by the introduction of natural gas in Indianapolis, The Mechanical Engineers, who met at Nashville some duys ago, will meet at Scran- ton, Pa., in October. There are 130 miles of electric railroads in operation in the United States, and 150 more have been contracted for, The greatest area of miles is in Pennsylvania, Fifteen members of the St. Paul Self-Pro- tecting Tailors’ association have struck against a reduction of 20 per cent. “The firm is sending its work over to Minneapolis. San Antonio (Tex.) is claimed to be the largest wool market in the southwest, the greatest horse market in the country, and the grdatost pecan market in the world, Our consul at Malaga, Spain, ordered a stove from America, which at first was not looked on with favor by the natives, but now they like it, and there is a great cry for stoves. A 500-l0om cotton-mill for the manufacture of the finer qualities of ginghams, seersuck- ers, ete., will be established at Columbus, Ga. This will be the first mill of the kind in the south. Indiana is one of the largest flour produc- ing states. It has about one thousand mills, which employ 4,000 men, the wages of whom the Indianapolis Journal has estimated at about §1,500,000 a year. One of the Baku (Russia) oil wells re- cently produced about 55,000,000 gatlons in 115 days. The greater portion was lost, be- cause there was no apparatus to control the output, which flowed away into the river. A Gatling gun company has been formed at London with a capital of $4,000,000. The company has an agreement with the Ameri- can people which gives it exclusive control of all markets outside of the western hem- isphere, The capacities of the Bishopton knitting mill at Waterford, N. Y.; Fries’ woolen fac- tory, at Salem, N, C.; the Fonda (N4Y.) woolen mill; the Columbus (Ga.) knitting mill, and the Roxbury carpet mills, at Saxon- ville, Mass., have been increased. The free miners in the Pratt mines, near Birmingham, Ala., have struck for 55 cents aton. The last scale paid was 50 cents a ton in winter and 45 cents in summer. The com- pany employs about 1500 persons, About 800 conviets are at work around the mines. Notwithstanding the severe laws against strikes in Germany there are a number in progress. The silk weavers of Bockult have struck work, and in consequence of the movement the Bochult mills have been closed. A general strike has been declared foran increase in wages among the decor- ators and upholsters of Hamburg and Al- tona. At Dortmund the bricklayers have agreed to demand a minimum wage of 40 pfennings per hour (10c), and as the employ- ersare unwilling to grant this a general strfko is imminent. ——————— STATE AND TERITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Benkleman will secure a large grist mill. The Missouri Pacific will build to Kear- ney. Beatrice will enjoy an anti-saloon conven- tion June 9. Nebraska City is reaching out fora Y. M. C. A. building. General Van Vyck will speak at Fremont on Memorial day. It is reported that the Rock Island is sur- veyving up the Platte. The Beatrice Paper Manufacturing com- pany is materalizing. Falls City will celebrate the completion of her water works July 4. South Sioux City has issued $2,000 bonds for new a school house. The Sun is the latest venture in the news- paper field at Huntley, Neb. Falls City has organized a gun club com- posed of shootists from away back. The sanitarium, just completed at Milford, will soon be opened to weak, suffering human’ ity at so much per week. The Nebraska Industrial home at Milford 10 be built by the state and w cost $15,000° is under way. 1t will be of brick four stories high. The six-year old son of Joseph Hammang, of Arlington, who was accidentally shot by s brother while playing with a revolver, is recovering, Beaver Crossing, Seward county, comes to the front with 218 populatien. It claims that an adult boom is about o leap forth in a blazo of glory. The Broken Bow Republican prints an ele- gant boom edition, setting forth the advan- tages of the town in readable style, Broken Bow is booming. Two horses belonging to Dison of Big S| s, were killed by a stroke of hightuing. Hail broke a great muny window lights in the vicinity of Big Springs. The B. & M. railroad will build 100 miles of road west of Alliance on the main line and twelye miles of the Black Hills route to Hemingford. The sur are on the ground and work will commence by the 1stof June. The following sporting item from the Scotia Republican on the habit of the rare rd known as the pelican is of intere: 'Mr. James Patton killed a pelican on th river the other day which measured seven feet and four inches from tip to tip of wings. It is said that the mouth will open wide enough to contain a gallon jug. We think this one would have ily contained a half gallon jug. Most people would be satisfied if they could haye,a jug to hold to their mouth® even if theif mouth was ordinary Anderson, This item from the Blue Springs Motor ives an idea of what can be accomplishod in Rebraska: “Within the past thirty days there has been shipped over the Union Pa cific road alone seventy-nine carloads of cat- tle and cighteen of hogs. Nearly all of these were raised and fed by farmers of southern Gage. We are glad t0 see our farmers thus feed their corn aud get good prices for it. We never saw o class of farmers so well-t do and thrifty as there are around here, Mo of them feed from one to six carloads of stock. Jowa It Corning will Lave water gine house and a city hall, T m county jail is eutirely destitute of occupants at the present time, There issome prospect that a flax mill will be built at Rock Rapids in the near future. A petition 10 the mayor and council of Kock Rapids i§ being circulated asking them to estublish a free library, The prospects £or’ the musical normal, 10 bo held at Jefforson, commencing July 10, are ‘growing brighter as the time draws near, Lew Krout, of Cedar Rapids, was fined $100 for whipping his wife, and the fine was suspended, at the request of his wife, during good bohavior, The oficiala of the Northwestern have notified the grain buyers of Odebolt that unless local capital would ercct an olevator with a capacity of 85,000 bushels they would bring in a company that would put up such a building. They gave as an exouse that there was too great a demand for cars in the busy scason, and that a place should be provided for storage waul it suited the company’s con- venience to haul the grain to market. Dakota. The Brule Tndex is seven yoars old. The first boat of the season, the Batchelor, loft Bismarck last Saturday night for Fort Benton, loaded with passengers and treight. The May term of the supreme court of Da- kota closed Saturday aftor a long and labori- ous session at Yankton. The term has dis- posed of much accumulated business, The m?flrl that the Catholic American— organ of Bishop Marty's diocese—is to be moved to Yankton is erroncous. No change in its location or editorship is contemplated. The corn region of Dakota has boen sub- jected to almost constant rains during the month of May and prospocts are hooomlua somewhat gloomy. The promise of improye weather which camo this week has boen dis- sipated by copious rain fall during the past twenty-four hours and flelds are again a vast seaof mud. With drying weather from this time on the danger of a short crop c 0 averted, but another week of moisture will soriously impair the crop. Colorado. Leadville enjoyed a snow storm Sunday. ‘Work on the rolling mill at Trinidad has been commenced, Colorado City is the proud owner of an- other paper. The Eagle wlll flop its wings and crow for all future time. Thompson, the man accused of stealing several dozen horses in Huerfano county, and said to have killed men in Kansas and Texas, was to-day bound over in §400 before :_]u!t e of the peace at Pucblo. Poetic jus- ice. The stockholders of the Denver & Rio Grande voted at a late meeting to expend ,000,000 in improvements and extensions. The carnings of the rond above mterest ac- count were §4,000,000 after paying every- thing. The road, like the government, is troubled with o surplus, Never, perhaps, has the agricultural out- look in Colorado worn a brighter appearance, and as a result the farmers, as well as all other classes, are correspondingly cheerful. Money which has been laid up to use in case of a season of drouth and a failure of crops has been put into circulation and business in the various branches of trade is decidedly active. ““It is the unanimous sentiment of the peo- ple of Colorado,” says the Republican, *‘that the rates on west-bound freight from the sea- board, as established by the Panhandle and accepted by the roads from the east, should not be advanced, either now or at any future time. Colorado has paid tribute to rapacity long enough, and it is time now for justice to have an inning in the matter of transpor- tation rates.” A L Equal to the Ocoasion. Norwich Bulletin, President Cleveland has written a letter to a ten-months-old baby. It was a very nice letter, considering the writer's limited ex pericnce with babie: el S “Honest Dick" Tate. Louisville Courter-Journal, The Tate report covers 150 pages of fools- cap. As we have let an “honest official get away with $247,000 of our money. foolscap scarcely expresses the situation. et ey They are Rattlers. Kansas City Times. Judge Wakeley has decided that the Omaha bascball club can play ball on Sunday.”| From 1ts performances here the Kansas City club is of the opinion that Omaha can play ball every day in the week. —— Mr. Martin of Texas. St. Louts Globe-Demncrat, Itisa singular and significant fact that the most entertaining speech upon the tariff so far during the present debate in the house is to be credited to a statesman who blew out the gas the first night after his arrival in Washington. ————— For Coast Defences. Times. A valuable collection of armor preserved from the middle ages is soon to be placed in the Smithsonian institute. In the absence of coast defences this collection may come handy should Washington over be at- tacked by a sca serpent or any other marine monster, AR e Trade Schools. Philadelphia News. Trade schools for young men beyond the period of ordinary school training, and to which which they may become identured as apprentices are then to be welcomed with in- telligent zeal, welcomed no less for their direct aims than for the public proof they give of the educational fallacy of the *‘indus- trial education” of the mere child, — T Avast, Shi ates. Chicago Trilune. By order of the Mexican government the old Mexican war-ship, “Democrata,” is to be taken to the harbor of San Francisco in orderto be careened and have her hull ex- amined and scraped. An old barnacle covered hull with a name strikingly sunilar will be turned keelupward in a few months and left in that position by order of the American people. e The Red and the White, Chicago Times, Our servant is with us no more; She dwells on that beautiful shore Where fovered souls lave Tu the cool. shining wave Till timeless cternity is o'er. It was all on account of the fire That she booked with the heavenly choir. The kindling was ereen, So she used kerosene Its spirit the more to inspire, She'd often before made it win, And suceessful e'en now might have been, But she happened to scrateh A red-headed matc So the pale horse of deuth galloped in. o DORSEY AND THE U, P. DEBT. Was theBoard of Trade * Worked' avor the Extension? Some days ago the board of trade issued a circular to the business and professional men throughout the state suggesting that they use their influence with their congressmen to induce them to favor the bill providing for the extension of the time of payment of the Union Pacific indebtedness. One of these circulars was sent to Congressman Dorsey in Washington, yesterday an answer from that gentleman was received by Secre tary Nattinger bearing upon the matter. In it the congressman sa) “I am in favor of the Outwaite bill for the extension of the indebteduess of the Union PPacific road, vrovided the b amendment offered by we trol of the Union Pacifi the state of Nebraska. The ninitt nas accepted and will r the amendment. We hope to pass th before the adjournment of the present ses sion." Mr. Dorsey does wot clearly set forth the nature of his amendment in the reference to it _made above. It in;generul terms, was called out by Judge Dundy’s decision that the Union Pacitic was beyond the control of the state and was intended to make all roads receiving governmental aid subject to the control of the states through wiich they run, and not Nebraska alone, as appears in oo letter. This same circular has a little history which will bear publication. 1t was adoped at @ ing of the board of trade when th were but thirteen membors present:and th the adoption was not by any unani wons. The clreular, . lis goue abroad . with the spproval to is conceded t ot the board. One of the mem- bers of the latter objected to the sendin, of such an important subject abroad and committing to it the name of the board with- out an attempt being made to have a full at tondance of the members. He wens even farther and stated that le be- lieved the rosolutions had been tr pared in the headquarters of the Tnion Pacific railroad, because when pre. sented to the mecting thoy were type-written s il they had been prepared with excceding care. 8o much for the board's endorsement of the Outhwaite bill. — —— THE RAILROAD PROJECT, A Committee Appointed to Formulate a Speoific Plan. The meeting of the Union club last evening was called to order by Mr. Frank Colpetzer, who stated its object to be to take the initial stops to sacure for Omaha a northwest rail- way, a union depot and a bridge open to the uso of all railroads. He said it was con- templated to ask Douglas county to vote a bonus of $1,000,000, to be placed in the control of wise, trusty men, to be paid to the railroad corporation oomplying with the conditions imposed. Mr. Colpetzer had talked with many citizens and had heard no objections. There wero logal difficulties in the way, but he believed they could all be met. He invited the gentlemen present to give their opinions informally. A running discussion followed, chieflly en- gaged in by Messrs, Colpetzer, Joseph Barker, Q. M. Hiteheock, George sarker, I, W. Gray, Thomas Kilpatrick and A. P. Hopkins. Tn answer to a query Mr. Colpetzer said no plan of action had been drafted. Mr. Hitchcock raised the point that the subsidy must be voted to some corporation in existence at the time. He believed the plat of a road had to be filed before an oloction took place that the people might know exactly what they were voting upon. He knew this difficuity had been 2 stumbling block in the way of many entor- prises. Mr. Colpetzor believed that, with an honest intent, the legal obstacles could be surmounted. The only question with him was: Will Douglas county vote the bonust The gentlemen present had no doubt it would, providing a plan could be presentod that would command the confidence of the people as effective and not liable to abuse. Mr. Colpetzer thought Mr. Hitcheock’s ob- joction could be met by voting the bonus to a cal corporation—the Nebraska Central, for instance—with an understanding that i should give up the subsidy to another com: pany, if unable to mect the conditions itself, Mr. Hitcheock, earrying the idea further, suggested that the Nebraska Central might transfer to the county’s nine trustees a ma- Jority of its stock jn trust, to insure the per- formance of its covenants. He thought Omaha must look to a trunk line for reliof, gutdit might use a local company as a figure: ead. Mr. Hopkins suggested that the club make an explicit statement of the needs of Omaha, and then take an unofticial poll of the county to see if the bonus could be carried. He thought the sentiment of the voters could be obtained in_ten days by a vigorous canvass. He believed it would be so overwhelmingly favorable to the proposition as to eive ample assurance to the railroaas that an election on the bonus would carry. Mr. Hopkins said Le had been wld by one of the county commis- sioners that they would not submit a proposi- tion to vote bonds to be put in the hands of trustees. The reason given was that some way would be found to get them out of the control of the trustees without complying with all the conditions, if at all onerous. Mr. Joseph Barker said that there need be no hope of carrying the proposition to bond, unless it were distinctly understood that any and all railroads should have the right to use the proposed bridge, the depot and the track through Omaha at fixed and fair charges. The Union Pacific has promised this many but unfortunately hus been unable to The city must do what it has been aiting ten years for others to do. He had heard men worth from $500,000 to millions suy they would back the enterprise if they can be convinced of its honesty and effect- iveness. Douglas county will not tolerate any doubtful scheme. Omaha must have a freée bridge, a free depot and_a free right of way in and out of the city. It needs a rail- way to the northwest and another to the west. The roads using these terminal es will pay a reasonable interest on the fixed charges, The size of Omaha pre vents railroads coming into it. Property i too valuable. An official of the Milwaukee had told him that the cost of a bridge was not so much a difficulty as the gang of speculators who would buy up land and demand 100 per cent profit. He asserted it would eost his comn- pany $2,000,000 to get into Omaha, Mr. Barlker said managers of other roads had told him that if Omaha would form a com- pany and provide terminal facilities they would be glad to come in and pay a hand- some dividend on the investment. Mr. Gray moved that a committee of seven be appointed to formulate a plan of action, prepare a form of propositions to be sub- mitted to the voters and report at an ad journed meeting. The motion carried withouv dissent, and Mr. Colpetzer, who had acted as chairman by tacit consent, designated as the committee Dr. George L. J. C. Cowi Joseph Barlker, M. Hitcheock, F. W. Gray, Her- man Kountz and A, P. Hopkins. The meeting then adjourned to reassemble next Monday evening. POLITIOS AND MERCY. What was Done at a Protracted Meet- ing of Colored Voters. President I, J. Wilhams, of the Omaha Douglas County Colored Republican league, rapped to order about one hundred members of the organization atthe council chamber at 9:30 last night, and Price Sanders toolk notes on what was transacted. It was a monthly meeting of the organization, and after the transaction of routine business t executive bourd, to whom had been referred the matter of secur- ing a new trial for, or executive clemency, in the case of the unfortunate young man William Ferguson, who was sentenced to o life imprisonment for the killing of Ole Ol wede, 10 a saloon, reported that the; t agree on a course of action. 'I'h report causcd considerable discussion, which was brought to an end by the introduct and passage of the following resolution by 1B, Smith: Be 1t, Resolved . J. Williams, C. A. Willis and M. F, by this leaguo that charman,” “T wish to be heard,” ‘“The X tleman is ount of order,” oto., the Scropging resolution was condemnedi to the waste - ket. After several other stormy soenos sho gontlemen retired to their abodes the clock in the steeplo struck twelve. THE DEAD HEROES, Completion of the Detalls For Ob« servance of Memorial Day. The final details relative to a propor and fitting observance of Memoriol day wero completea a4t a meeting of the executive committee held at the Miiiafd net night. A roport submitted by the finance committes WES 10 the effect that suficient sums had been subseribed, and the committee on graves reported that flags had boen placed on the graves of dead heroes iu tho various come- terics, It was roquestod that the decorating committee report at Exposition hall promptly at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning; flowors to be delivercd Tuosday evening; that all societies taking part in the procession ap- proach their positions by way of Capitol avenue or Davenport street, in order to avoid confusion, and that the aldes meet at the office of tho marshal, on South Fourteenth street, at 10 &. m., Wodnesday. Tho following programme was adopted as the axcrcisesat jthe high school grounds Music <o o Second Infantry band Musi onsolation.... « ... iiiee. ... Dow By a double quartette, under diroction of Prof. Francis 8. Smith. Prayor by Chaplain Comrade W. 1. Copeland, Music—*"RRest, Soldiers, Itost’ Record Double quartotte, Introductory by the president of the day, Comrade Champion 8. Chase. Oration—Comrade W.P. Hrrburn, of Towa. . Musioal Union orchestra 'll:l"‘lm y, Comrade John M. By the Concordia Singing society. Ritual service of the G. A. R. During this service there will be music i by the double quartette. Singing—“TheVacant Chair’ and“‘America." Benediction. . ..Chaplain OMAHA GU@RDS, They Make an Excellent Showing ! Before Invited Guests, The exhibition drill of the Omaha miven at the armory last night, was tation affair and was attended by soveral hundred of the clite of Omaha society. Among the guests were Governor Thayer, General Brooke, General Wheaton, Colonel Fleteher, Major Butler, Major Hughes, Cap- tain Ray and Licutenants Kinze, Mallory, Terner and Wright. The programme included sompany forma- tion, dress parade and inspection by Gov- ernor Thayer and Chaplain Gardner, The governor addrossed the assemblage in a pleasant informal manner, commending the efticiency in arill and the fine appearance of the company and recommending it as an or- granization in which Omaha might and should take especinl pride. After a short iutermission the drill corps, composed of thirty members solected from the company, gav > an exhibition in marchings, faciugs, evadings, firings and the manual. The mancuvers were made under the direc- tion of Captain A. H. Scharfl, commanding, The music was furnished by the guards’ band, recently organized with tiventy pieces. Tt was led by Horr Schunke and gave excol- leut music. Herr S. is a veteran of the Prussian army, and has been clected sargeant and band m: of the company. One fea- ture of the dress parade was the drun corps. The_ Iatter part of the evening was given up to dancing, and the participants appearcd in full eveniniz dress. Here again the music was furnished by the guard band, which gives promise of groat artistic achicyements. guards, an invi- Singleton are appointed & special committee with full authority to act in the promises and to use the name of the league in obtaining the sum of §100 for the purpose of havin case of the stute of Nebraska against William Jerguson resumed in the supreme court of the state, and that saia committee are empowered and authorized to receive money and reccipt for the same, and pay the same over to the proper attorneys in the ea Mr, H. Scroggius introduced a resolution that the constitution be changed 8o as to sat isfy the ideas and views of mewmbers of the league, and those who were auxious to join W.H. phenson discovered in the reso yeolored geutleman and that it had been inc) by The speaker main tained that the league was composed of out and out and dyed in the wool republicans, who voted and hurrabod for the straight ticket, and he was in favor of kicking out mugwumps and so-called independents if they were not satistied with the consti tution. He _scored Judge Singleton and intimated that he had diclated the resolution. The judge denied the alloge. tion, and Mr. Stephonson retaliated by say ing, “‘the judge is very cunning.” ldge Singolton insisted that Mr. Stephen 801 Was out of orde call him: down. lution *an ¢ wood pile, mugwump tend in the this the chuir and conseqently could not comply with he ' judge's demands. Mr. Stephe wound_up begging his hewrers Lo vote down the resolution. LW, B r looked upon the resolution as a bait to catch the candidate that had the purse, & sort of bid for the boodle r. Scrogging defended the hurled ot him. He was au inde publican, wnd votsd just it Seroggins elosed by assurin was not an ofiice 4 aspery ndent re Mr rs that pr ropublican party dyed in his heart, anc he'd vote for priuciple overy time, but not for men whow be didu’t deem in the inuermost socretions of his. heart fit for the positions aspired 0. Awid touch coafusion -and ‘crics of, “Mr. Refreshments made an agreeable intor- ruption, The armory was handsomely doco- rated with the national colors, draped and festooned in much taste] Trying to Pawn Valuable Jewelry. A German, giving his name as Nick Miller, was observed by Officers Ormsby, Dempsey and Havey, to visit three different pawn shops on Tenth street yctersday. On in§ quiry it was learned that he was offering to sell a 50 gold watch for 7. Miller was run in on gencral principles, and the search ro- vealed the following articles: A gold brace- let, set with cameos, and valued at 850 to $60; two gold rings, one of them set with a dinmond, and $34.05 in cash. Miller is a rough looking customer, and_gave no satis- factory account of himself. He is held on suspicion to await aevelopments, S0UTH -Ol-H A la NEWS, The School Board Muddle. There scems to be an unwarranted delay in settling up the affairs of the old school board, ‘When they retired from oflice they handed in a statement of the receipts aud disburse- ments, but their successors asked for the vouchers that should accompany it. They were refused on the ground that, aithough public documents, they were the private property of the retiring members, who wished to hold them for their own protection. Such papers as they did hand over were then submitted to Mr. Gibbons, of the South Omaha Savings bank, to examine as an ex- pert, but so far he has not received a sufti- nt nuinber to enable him to begin work. uperintendent Bruoner has visited tho scene and ordered an immediate surrender of all documents, and at the same time or- dered the members to refund the 100 salary that they each Lad drawn, The = salary is said to have been paid under peculiar circumstances. At ono of the last meetings of the old board a num- ber of citize (estimated at from half a dozen to twenty by the friends and enemies of the board) represented themselves as the district, on motion of the then City Attorney cc, moved that the bo: paid for their servi This was carried, and the board paid themselves, , @8 ubo stated, Superintendent Bruner bas notified them that it is illegal and that th fund, the secretary alone being compensation By the way, the new board does not scem inclined to let the poople know anything what 18 going on, und religiously refuse to notify the reporters us to when and where their moeetings are W be held, There will be one this week. An O1d Seitler Gon “yps, he's lived here over thirty years, and there never yet was a mau that could speak an i1l word of him or anything he ever did,” 80 8poke one of the mourners that re turned from the funcral of Philip Cassidy esterday end his rsed by all those that he funeral was the largest e South Omaha, und the cortege wis upw of a mile in length. Leaving the late nce of th easod it wended its wa, crossing to St. Bridget's church 1'sery vere read by tho thence it pro- t 0 St v, and’ as the hewrse passed Sthe rear end of the pro- jug the railway tracks a vi Phil bad made friends among the dumb animals as well as among his fellow-men, and 4 gout he had often fed the mourners. 1t followed tho Jains to the eturch, and after vainly at apting 1o entor the edifice long with the coftin, 1t lay down quictly bencath the hearse. When the procession started for the cemetory it kent close to the coftin, and after ssing the Lst rites it had to be driven from the grounds and at once made its way back to the old howestead, The Police Court, “}0' God, jedge, I nebber knew dat eatin' pop corn was breakin’ ob de peace,” said Daniel Tuck red man who was yanked up s Judge Reuther yesterday. Ho lives in Omaha and came down 1o pass & guiet Sunday in South Omauba, but having unfortunately invested a nickle in pop corn instoad of beer, he sat down ou the curbstone w eat it. He was aded in extenua- now don’t ting Dan went befo at once run in, when he p! tion, “Dey find de popeorn, wme.” The judge relented, aund fre H all went to the county costs, and i clean out th A enough in him to pay 81 darunk, snd Fravk Gar ¥ utes to leave for his native : and Char Nulter k, and were told not W do discharged Drink Malto, Johnson, P. Auderson and H. Hansen a fine of #4 and Jned bebind to sand had sand d costs for being L twently min- fowa. not ver, gain, Bui ta ——