Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1888, Page 4

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B, TZRBCHUCA. Fworn to and subscribed in ny !Pmflm this 24 day of June, A.D., 1868, . P. FEL Notary Publ 8 Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, B, Trschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Ree lishing company, that the actual average the 1 Faily oiresiation oF the Dally Bgo tor month | of s 14147 coplos or - July, copies; for August, 1887, X for Beptember, 1887, 14,810 coples; for October, 157, 14,83 coples; for November, 1 220 copies; for December, 1887, 16,041 copiés; for Jauuary, 1888, 16,206 cop* fes:' for February, 1888, 16,92 copies: ‘for March, g“‘i{“"&gfl%g‘p:rl:&lltor ?prll, 1888, 18,744 coples, or May, JIE1 coples, & G0, B, TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me_and subscribed in my Dresence this 2 day of Junie, A, D, 1883, P. FEIL, Notary Public. 85T was coples; 1887, 14,00 14,151 coplos: ] AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATTON 18,152 Total for the Week - - - 127,067 During the democratic and republican conventions THE BEE will print more complete telegraphic reports from both St. Louis and Chicago than any paper in the west. Reports will be sent by able and ex- perienced corrvespondents, covering the field wn every detail and particular. The fucili- ties of 1HE BEE for gathering news are wnexcelled. If yow want the latest and most veliable information from the conven- tions ask your newsdealer for THE BEE. e ] THE faith cure is getting in its deadly work this year earlier than the green apple and watermellon. — ALL eyes are turned toward St. Louis. But the only things visible at present are inverted glasses and full bourbons. IN the great boiling cauldron of Towa politics, it is gratifying to sce that Hep- burn’s name is not used by the political cooks. MRr. STEVE ELKINS and Mr. Steve Dorsey of Star Route fame have some- how stepped to the rear since the cam- paign of 1884, THE 417 Nebraska excursionists have returned from Kansas City. The Hastings visitors builded better than they knew. In consequence of their visit to the town lot emporium, the clearance record will increase 60 per cent. DESPITE the effort to prove that he is in excellent health, it appears that Jay Gould is really a sick man. He is probably getting in position to ‘‘freeze out” some one. The wizard’s im- promptu sick spells are getting to be chestnuts. The pity is that he is not sick all the time. Mg. BrRooks, who killed Preller, will hang July 18. Thecourtdid not mor- alize upon the folly of packing trunks with friends, but charitably allowed the murderer time to hear from the democratic convention, after which he will probably want to die. “Ir the people believe me to be an honest man,” says Judge Thurman, “thoy will let me alone.” From this expression it is to be inferred that the old Roman’s opinion of democratic can- didates is not favorable. And the judge has been on the ground floor of many democratic pow wows. ON the first day of the tariff debate under the five minute rule, the house continued in session for twelve consecu- tive hours and got as far as the first five lines of the bill. At this rate it will take ninety-nine and three quarter years for the Fiftieth congress to finish the reading of the measure. Tue twenty-fifth national saengerfest of the North American saengerbund, will meet in St, Louis the 13th. Not- withstanding the fact that many oral traditions of its vocal powers are re- membered, when compared with the convention now assembled in that city, the saengerfest will not be a howling Buccess, Emm——— Mz, DEPEW figures it out that he can carry New York. But Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska and perhaps 1lhi- Bois are states that he fears, As pr Cleveland's Convention. The convention that assembles at St. Louis to-day to carry out the behests of Grover Cleveland is regarded with less general interest than any democratic convention in the last twenty years, This is due, of course, to the fact that its work is known to be purely perfunctory—the formal ratification of the programme ar- ranged at Washington by the party master. Everybody understands that Mr. Cleveland will be renominated, very likely by acclamation, and that a platform will be adopted unqualifiedly endorsing the administration. It has been intimated that so far as the tariff question is concerned the convention would probably simply reiterate the last national platform, but it is hardly to he supposed this would be satisfactory to the president. He undoubtedly at- taches a great deal of importance to the fact of his having proclaimed a policy for his party on this question,and not to have that fully recognized and approved by the national convention would de- prive his renomination of a prestigoe which he must regard asof the very highest value. If, as is generally under- stood, the platform is already prepared and in the safe keeping of Congressman Scott, it undoubtedly contains an une- quivocal endorsement of the president's position on the tariff, and the covention will unquestionably adopt it. The only real matter of interest relates to the selection of & candidate for vice president, There is a possibility that there may be a little squabble over this, but the indi- cations are that Thurman, who is un- doubtedly desired by Mr. Cleveland, will receive the nomination. In aword, whatever is found to be the wish of the president will be finally acquiesced in, though there may be a little kicking developed. The convention will probably do noth- ing to-day beyond effecting a permanent organization, and it is expected to com- plete is work by Wednesday night. There is no good reason why two days should be spent in carrying out a pre- arranged programme, except that to rush it through might detract some- what from the weight of the results, which should be given the appearance at least of deliberation and dignity. Meanwhile Tue BEg, having exper- ienced representatives on the ground, will keep its readers fully informed of the progress of events at St. Louis, and of all facts and incidents of general interest, which will be chronicled with entire fairness and candor. Pregnant With Danger. It is lamentable that within two weeks of the meoting of the national republican convention there are repub- licans who seriously express a prefer- ence for Chauncey M. Depew as the candidate of the party for president. What was said months ago in behalf of the president of the New York Central as a possible candidate was readily ac- counted for as an expression of the ad- miration and confidence of personal friends, beyond whose ranks the boom of the railroad magnate was not ex- pected to spread. Nobody supposed that in any contingency a considerable body of republicans in New York and other eastern states would come to seri- ously regard Mr. Depew as a proper and available man to head the national re- publican ticket this year. The mention of his name in this relation was regarded as simply the compliment of zealous friendship. Yet the fact is now appareut that the seed then sown took deep root, that it has been care- fully nurtured, and that as a result the republican party, almost on the eve of the national convention, is confronted by the danger of having the faithful scrvant of the Vanderbilts urged by a formidable backing to be its standard bearer in the national campaign. There is no fact in the political situation so pregnant as this with danger to the re- publican party. The drift of sentiment favorable to Depew in the east is due toa blind disregard of the welfare of the party everywhere except in New York, or to ignorance of the popular feeling in the great republican west. In the faith that he, more surely than any other republican, could carry New York, the Depew foliowing cannot or will not permit themselves to see the probably disastrous consequences of his candidacy in at least halfof the western states. One of the most intelligent journals in the east says: “While it is by no means conceded that the republi- cans cannot succeed without New York, the chief battle ground of the n campaign will be in that state. If they can carry it they are almost certain to carry the country. On the other hand, if they lose that state they will have to win almost every other inch of debatable ground in the whole union. Mr. Depew, therefore, will be strong because he will have the votes of those delegates who rep- resent the most commanding pootion of the national field,and who > presumed to have a move intimate acquaintance with the local conditions and requirements of success than the delegates fronfother parts of the coun- try.” Herein is indicated an unque tioning confidence that under any cir- dentof the New York Contral railwaypg| Cumstances western republicans can bo on a salary of $40,000 a year, Mr. Depew must content himself. The producers of the west have much reverence for party, yet at the same time their liberty is of some importance. SINCE General Colby,of Gage county, has purchased the beautiful white horse once owned by General Grant, he ex- pects to ride the animal into the state senate, The general isat case when riding on hobbys and on free passes, but as either a white or black horse candidate he will never again prove a success, unless his record in the last legislature is expunged. — Ir is indeed a gompliment to the state that Nebraska’s distinguished citizen, Colonel William F. Codyjwas vociferously cheered as he rode in the great pavade memorial day in New York city. All the youngsters knew Buffalo Bill the moment they caught sight of him, and if they had the muak- ing of the president of theUnited States, he would be their unanimous choice on the first ballot, depended upon to accept what is offered them, if they be only assured that New York will be safe. Complimentary as this may be to the party loyalty of the republicans of the west, we venture to say that there are some things that would make a demand upon their fealty to party which thousands of them would refuse to honor, and among these would be the nomination of a man who for a quarter of a century was the at- torney of the greatest rail- road kings in the country—men who had no interests or sympathies in common with the people—and who is to-day the representative of the de- scendants of these magnates in the management of the most important part of their vast railroad system. The man who has spent the best years of his life in the service of the Vanderbilts, as- sisting them to the full extent of his un- questioned ability in their schemes of self-aggrandizement, regardless of the public interests and welfare, could not get the votes of teus of thousands of western republicans even though it were certuin that he could carry New I'HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1888 York and the other doubtful states of the east. These republicans éarnestly desire the success of the party, but not av the price of placing a railroad attor- ney and president, with all his interests and sympathies identi- fled with the corporations, in the executive chair at Washing- ton. The nomination of Depew would make debatable territory of several states besides Now York. ‘We do not seriously apprehend that the convention will commit so grave a blunder. We recognize the danger, but we have confidence that the repre- sentative republicans who will meet in convention at Chicago will not put the party so wholly and hopelessly on the defensive as it would be with Chauncey M. Depew as its candidate. His ability is freely acknowledged; his popularity in New York and other portions of the east is not doubted. But his past career and his present connection would de- prive him of any earnest and en- thusinstic support in the west, and we confidently believe that his candidacy would be disastrous to the party in at least half a dozen western states. The republicans of the east will do wisely, in the interest of the party, to direct their vision away from New York fora time and study the availability of candidates with reference to other sections of the country. A little serious and intelligent observation ought to fully satisfly them that there could be no more fatal blunder for the republican party than to make Chauncey M. Depew its presidential candidate. e THE late Thomas J. Potter was a self- made man. He had no greater advan- tages in youth than the majority of boys to whom the public schools of the nation are open, and he began the prac- tical duties of life in an humble capac- ity. He had a genius for railroad busi- ness and he developod rapidly, attaining in comparatively few years national reputation asa railroad manager, and doing a great service for the lines with which he was connected. The secret of his success was indefatigable industry and the application of all his energy and ability to the task in hand. In this respect his life ‘was an example. It teaches the lesson of what may be ac- complished hy steady devotion to an object and untiring labor in its pursuit. It is proposed to com- memorate the services of Mr. Potter by a statue to be erected in the city of his home, Burlington, Ia., and for this pur- pose subscriptions are being solicited from railroad men. The movement ought to succeed, and undoubtedly will do so. It would be creditable to those engaged in the railroad service to thus honor a man who represented character, integ- rity and commanding ability in railroad management. There ought to be little difficulty 1n securing a sufficient sum to erect to the memory of Mr. Potter a statue that will worthily perpetuate his achievements and his personal claims to be thus remembered. AN interesting comparison of the average number of hogs packed in the three leading pork packing centers of America is shown by the following rec- ord from March 1 to June 1. For the three months ending May 80, 1888, Chi- cago averaged in the number of hogs packed per month 240,000; Kansas City averaged for the corresponding period, 123,000, and Omaha, 83,000. For the same time.last year Chicago packed on an average 237,000; Kansas City, 160,000; and Omaha, 68,000, These figures are significant. They show that for 1888, as comvpared with the pork packing season of 1887, Chicago has just about held its own. Kansas City however shews a marked decrease. For the three months of the summer pork packing season, the ‘city, which holds second place, falls short in round numbers 40,000 of the number of hogs packed in 1887 to date. Omaha shows a clear gain of 15,000 over last year. These figures speak for themselves. They unmistakably indicate that both Chicago and Kansas City are losing their hold as pork packing centres and that the business is being transferred to Omaha and other Nebraska towns. TiE committee of the Masonic craft which has in charge the raising of funds for the erection of the proposed Masonic temple on the corner of Far- nam and Sixteenth is meeting with gratifying success. The plan by which the $300,000 is to be raised is so popular that it allows the humblest member of the order to become a sharehoider in the building. The time has come when the Masonic order of Nebraska must have a temple that will do it proud. It is safe to predict that within two years a magnificent structure will be erected by the Masons in Omaha which will equal any similar structure in the coun- try. GOVERNOR THAYER issued positive orders to Dr. Gerth, the state veterin- avian, to make a thorough examination of all the dairy herds about Omaha. This is as it should be. The health of the community is of too much import- ance to admit of trifling work in the movement for stamping out tubercul- 08 There is nodoubt but that Dr. Gerth will make a most rigid examina- tion. Backed by the hearty co-opera- tion of the governor and county off cials the state veterinarian, if opposed by unserupulous dairymen in his work, can enforce against them the severest penalties of the law. —— By the purchase of the St. ILouis Whites, Denver becomes a member of the Western base ball association. The change will undoubtedly result in the strengthening of the league. Denver is an enthusiastic base ball town and is one of our set. She has been anxious o join hevself in the world of sport as well as the world of business to her sis- ter cities. The opportunity has pre- sented itself, and Denver will do her level best to stand at the head of the association. — IN nominating Laird at such an early date, thus giving the intelligent voter an opportunity to think of the folly of returning such a third-rate railway lawyer Tto represent the people, the packed convention did a wise thing. Already the independent voters of the Second district are talking of runniug a representative man, rogardless of the cry of party. After all the early con- vention may not have caught the worm. ———— Tie New York legislature has taken steps requiring all cities of the state to designate police stations where women prisoners shall be detained under the care of police matrons. In Massachu- sette and other New England states the police matron is regularly appointed in the cities of the first olass. This is simply an act of decency and humanity, and it is to be hoped that similar laws will be rassed by all states of the union. THE labor organizations of the city are perfecting arrangements for a Fourth of July celebration. This means success. The business men should re- spond liberally and see that a sum suffi- cient to carry outthe programme is sub- scribed. The celebration of 87, in the hands of the labor organizations, could not have been better. i —_— THE spooks and spectres abounding so plentifully in St. Louis will doubtless maintain a rigid silence after seeing the local representatives of Jeffersonian idens who left Omaha to mingle with the mad mob whose duty it will be to declare Grover Cleveland a statesman. The spooks of St. Louis will not step in where angels fear to tread. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Nuckolls county is free from debt. There are 433 school-children in county. Fillmore county has bottor crop prospects than ever before. The Chautauqua assembly at Crete will be largely attended. Fremont claims that she will have the Northwestern shops at no distant day. North Loup claims the finest base ball grounds in the western part of the state. Since the Indian scare at Oelichs, every man and woman in those varts carries a gun. The editor of the Nelsonian, shot by a supposed tramp at his home, Nelson, is im- proving. The boom edition of the Nelson Gazette was a model of neatuess and a cyclopedia of information. The dedication of the new Fullam hall at Brokeu Bow was the event of last week in that booming city. The heaviest rainfall occurring in Sioux county was last week. Nine and one-half inches being the measurement. The fat man’s eating contest at Shoga Ts- land resulted in demonstrating that a man ‘would founder himself if it were not for the saving rules of etiquette. Sam Samision, of Norden, undertook to cross the raging Niobrara the other day, but made a bad scald it. His wagon upset and he lost a calf, &%) spade and got a good ducking, and just ped with his life. The Nelson postoftice business for the quar- ter ending March 31 makes the following good showing: Post receipts, $365,23; money rs sent, $1018, monoy orders paid, 528.01; number registered packages sent, 104, and number received 67. The Ord Democrat chants this refrain: “A group of ‘medieine men’ are in thg vicinity doing up tihe humble grangers. They guarantce a sure cure for all chronic diseases, and parties who sign the contracts they carry ultimately discover that they have given their promin;.n'y notes. Look out for them and keep the/shot gun loaded and the bull dog unchained.? Mr. Morton, of Valgntine, has met with an unfortunate accidents’ While taking his gun off “his shoulder he accidentally pulled the trigger and the entire load was discharged in his leg near the ankle. As the other leg was lost some time ago it is almost a miracle that he was able to drag himself along at all, Nevertheless he succeeded in getting to his pony, which was a Dttle less than a mile -away, and with the courage and strength born of dire necessity and unflinching grit, he managed to mount his pony and and rode amile or more where he came upon some men at work in the adjoining valley. The Callaway Headlight makes this sug- gestion: *It is the Headlight's opion, that the glanders question should be investigzated by some person or persons who do not get pay for destroying horses! It is well known that a man may contract glanders from a horse by inoculation; and the disease thus contracted is extremely dangerous, if not necessarily fatal. For this reason veterinary men often pronounce horses glandered with- out knowing whether they are or not, bo- cause they are backward about making a thorough examination for fear of catching the aisease; while others pronounce horses glandered becauso they don't know what glanders is. Many other diseases may be mistaken for glanders, and it becomes a question whether this wholesale slaughter of horses should be allowed on the judgment of one man, whose living depends upon the suppposition that glanders are prevalent.” Sioux "o Beyond the Range. The thermometer reached 82 at Tacoma, Wash., Tuesday. “The cost of a breakwater at Santa Monica is estimated at §,000,000. The Treadwell mill at be enlarged by 120 stamps. There are many Philadelphia and Boston excursionists at Santa Cruz, Portland, Oregon, is flooded with straw- berries. The crop has maturcd with a rush. An Indian was run over by a Southern Pa- cific train at Indio on Monday, One leg and both arms were crushed off. Sacramento county is just now supplying Chicago with toothsome new potatoes grown in the region down the river. John A. Daley shot and killed Thomas ‘Packett during a round-up on_Indian creck, Iduho, on the L7th iust. The killing was dond in self-defense. There have been very heavy rains through- out Humboldt county, with_the exception of @ strip_along the Humboldt river from Mill City to Iron point. Robert Geary and family of Reno returned Tuesday fiom @ trip to England. They were only fifteen duys in coming from Liverpool, neaziy eight thousand miles. Dick Willonghby, a Stockton prospector, found some fossil bones near Juncau. The skull weighs 800 pounds and measures eight and one-balf feet across the front. An Indian known Buckaroo Jim is suspected of murdcrmfi white man named Jumes Bricht in Hagney Valley, Oregon. Jim was at large at Jast sccounts, but the autorities were ende ring to effect his capture. Bright was shotwhile in the moun- tains. i William Bell was accldently shot and killed at Cortez, Bureka cqunty, N a man named Cutter, who svas explaining to el the sufety of a4 Smith & Wesson hamumerless pistol, and on drawing the weapon from his pocket it was dischargad into Bell's body, in- tlicting a fatal wound, from which the unfor- tunate man died the dag following. Owing to the increased numbx rupning on the Central Pacific railroad, says the Battle Mountain Central Nevadan, the water from the Hlossom springs has proved inadequate to meot the demand, and conse quently the railroad people have decided to bore an artesian well near the water tank in town and raise the water into the tank by steam, itka, Alaska, is to of trains Nevada City Herald says that those 18 the Pamblos are pr big soup,” to be held near the Oregon house, at the expiration of ten moons from the present date. This, it is said, will be a “big soup” of great magni- tude. The Diggers have been very success. ful lately in their hunts for jackass rabbits, and are now goiug on a grand round up, The appointment of J. M. Eddy us g al manager of tho International & Great North- ern has been confirmed. ¥ — Frauk B. Smith, with 8. A. Orchard, con templates & moutl’s visit to Codar Rapids, Ta., for @ private business venfu - - W. E. Cless, 8 Des Moines hatter, and one of the leading society youug wen of that city, ¢ Puxtou, _have a han THE SCHOOL ELECTION. —— A Close Vote— Three Non-Parti; and Five Republicans. The election held yesterday to chooso mem- bers of the board of education passed off quictly. A live interest was manifested, but there was no particular excitement. The race was close—so much 8o that the result could not be told until the returns wore all in. The result is mixed. The new board will have three members from the non-parti- san ticket and five from the straight republi- can, as follows: For the term of ono year—Wehrer &rnp.; and Parker (n-p.). For two years—Millard (n-p). For three years—Reese (n-p.), and Coborn, Keiley, McConnell and Rosicky rep.). Following is the aggregate vote on each of the sixteen candidates : Non-Partisan — Parker 1,400, Withnell 1,28, Millard 1,604, Bright 1,218, Goodman 1,380, Reese 1,404, Pratt 1,310, Rosicky 1,887, Republican ~Coburn 1,610, Kelley 1,477 Cone 1,192, McConnell 1,460, Broderick 1,327, ’{‘hg;npsun 1,211, Wehrer 1,453, Spaulding 404, —— BOARD OF EDUCATION, A $200 Oheck Forfeited—Electric Light Offer—~Claims and Reports. At the meeting of the board of education last night all members were present but Messrs. Kelley and Clark. The secretary manfully tackled twenty odd big pagos ef minutes, but tho board soon tired of the reading and suspended the operation. A motion was made to let the president road and approve the minutes, but that gentleman promptly sat down on the. brilliant time-sav- ing device. The first matter brought before the board provoked the ouly considerable discussion of the evening. It related to the plumbing of the Walnut Hill school builaing. When the board opencd the bids for the plumbing of three now buildings Denms Fitzpatrick was found to have given tho lowest figures in each case, He signed two contracts, but ro- pudiated that for the Walnut Hill building on the ground that he had overlooked certain water-closets in making his esti- mate, and would loso $00 to £300. He had sent a corti- fied check for §200 with his bid, and he wanted to know whether the board would re- turn it. Fitzpatrick's bid was /85 and tho next lowest bidder's £1,509. Some members thought it unneighborly to take advantage of what was clearly a mistake, but others wanted to know what a guaratee was for if 1ot to compel a man to carry out his agreo- ments. A motion to return the check was lost, and it was covered into the treasury. Latér in the evening the contract in question was awarded to Woods & Andreiws, the next lowest bidders. . Rocheford & Gould were allowed a pay- ment of $1,000 on - the final estimate on the Webstor building. Tho president and secretary wero author- ized to draw a warrant for the grading at the Mason building as soon s _the committee on buildings and property shall certify the work completed. The applications of William McGregor and L. Ziegler as janitors and Sadie Bunkor as teacher of the summer school were referred to comumittees. The Edison electric light company sub- mitted a proposition for liguting the high school grounds. The offer was: KFor six lamps, 100 candle power each, $650; twelve lamps, fifty candle power cach, $500% twelve lamps, 100 candle power, §1,00; twenty-four lamps, fifty candle power éach, §1,200. Tho estimates include dynamo and all electric ap- pliances complete, wirng and lamps to be hung from painted poles and_each lamp to dsome rélloctor. The proposition ‘was referred to a committee. The Knox Presbyterian _church offered a note for 500 signed by its trustecs. The secretary was directed to ask the trustees to sign the note in their individual capacity. The monthly report of the treasurer made the following showing: Receipts of general fund, $127,208.87; expenditures, $33,067.84. Recoipts of sinking fund, $37,150.15; expen- ditures, $5,030, and bonds on deposit, 06, Recelpts of school site und building fund, $73,0300 plus $101,500 from progeeds of $100,000 bonds; “explenditures, 454, Claims aggrogating $26,55) were returned approved by the committee and ordered paid. The_ following payments werc ordered: S. L. Maxdon, two per cent on §25,000 for the plans of the Walnut Hill building; Men- delssohn, Fisher & Lawric, two _per cent on 30,960 for the plans of the Mason strect building, and the same on §43,757 on_the Lake street building; Strang & Clark steam beating company, on account Webster street building, #9902 An examination of teachers was ordered for June 20 and 30, and July 2 and 3. A'payment of $2,550 to Rice & Bassett on account of the Omaha View school was ordered. The proposition of John A. Harbach for opening Twenty sccond strect was accepted. The proposition was for an exchange ef nar- row strips of adjoining ground to make tho opening of the strect possible. The presi- dent and sccretary were authorized to mako the necessary conveyaice, The committee on ventilation and heatin, o Park school an £ were directed to_exau report whether the furnaces should be sup- planted by steam heat. It was staied that the building was poorly heated last winter. RAILROADS. THE The annual meeting of the directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul was held at Milwaukeo on Saturday. The old oflicers were re-clected and the policy of reform mentioned in manager Miller's recent letter, refercnce to which was made in the Ben of some days ago, was endorsed. It was ex pected that a new general manager would be elected but Milller had too many votes at his commund for the opposition to fight against, THE C. B. & Q. STRIKE. Notwithstanding the fact that much has been said concerning the strike on the lines of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy there is a rtain amount of unwritten history which furnishes very readable matter which is as yet unpublished. When the strike was first talked of and when the brotherhoods submitted their scale of wages to the manager of the road, one Stone, that gentleman informed the dircetors of the matter and when asked if it could not be better to make some sort of sottlement replied that in the event of any trouble ho could retain 30 per centof the 2,200 engineers in the company’s employ. Acting on this information the directors placed the entire responsibility in his hands. In consequence Stone refused to sign the schedule, whereupon 2,197 men walked out while three held their places. Irom the day that the strike was declared the receipts of the road declined and the quarterly report submitted showed a net 10ss of 2,000,000, The second quarter of the ar and the second wonth of the strike began_ simultaneously. Since that time the road bus oporated “under prossure, and notwithstanding the oft repeatea assertion “everything is running smoothly,” the amount of business done sen far from sutisfactory. In order to on its busi- ness the road has drafted every idle man it could obtain mto its service. Farm hands and 1ale dairy muids have beem employed as switchme Firemen on threshing en- gincs have been given locomotives and ditch- diggers from Arkansas have been made stokers. Wrecks without number, the causes of which were the result of gross incom- have urred, the results ich have beew carcfully eon- cealed by the Burlington officials. Dam- broken i have filled the shops, disabled and maimed pussengers have crowded the hospitals and 1 the face of all this has come the oft repeated asser- ton, “everything is running smoothly.” Pinkerton men h been stationed along the line to provok: their actions in many in- agea engines and , if not by firemen have remained firm, The switch men, who likewise went out arc there to stay und have been nobly supported by their respective brotherhoods. Each wonth they irawn their pav and ha ofused to thus ight to ent on any other road be f fight was to the bitter end, as it will be For the formation of those following extracts from letters various points along the line are published O1TUMWa, 1a., May 20— We come 0 the front more determived thau ever W wid ‘The wreck on the '31 yostorday will cost the compiny $15,000. Prosident Perkins stated yesterday that he would not run &l longer wlthafl his old lgau." NVER, May 26.—“We will stay with you until the Iclfios hang from (hg roof . of hades,” Lixcory, Neb., May 28.—"We are still here (solid). Tocal trains on the B. & M. have from four to thirty passengers while others are full.”” Wywmone, Nob., Mog 22.—*Weo are with you to stay. The B. & M. offloials are afraid and will be as long as scabs pull the throttle." KEOKUK, Iowa, May 28.—“We bob up seronely and have endorsed the Galesburg resolution that more radical measures adopted and woekly circulars sent out for the purpose of kcopi% every one posted.” AURORA, 111, May 26.—We are as solid as ever and bouud to win.” Curcago, May 27, 'We will pull the Brotherhoods last string to win this battlo.” Prattssouti, May 28— “We are solid and firm to a man. Engines coming in daily broken up and burned.” HANNIBAL, Mo., May 25.—"This day opens up with a full house. With a long and strong pull we will [ there.” BEARDSTOWY, Ta., May 27.—"“We have en- dorsed the Galesburg resolutions. Let tho d work goon. We are waiting for the fir- niol the big gun.” 'he above are all extracts from the various divisions of the engincers’ brotherhood and are printed by special pormission. They tend to show the feeling in regard to the matter among the strikers, WILL NOT BUTLD. Bocause President, Stickney of the Chicago, St. Paul &;Kansas City allowed an option on a piece of dock property and adjacent ground at Superior to expire the Chicago Times as- serts that the road will not be built to the head of Lake Superior as anticipated. This will be bad news for St. Joseph, Mo., as the donizens of that borrough had intended to import their white fish direct. TIPS FROM THE TIRS, The Chicago & Northwestern was the first roud to introduce twenty-five ton coal and oil cars and now all the leading roods of the country which haul this class of freight are building them. Ithas been fonnd that these cars are handled more quickly and economi- cally than other cars. General Passenger Agent Tebbitt's has issued an order relative to the issuance of baggage transfer checks from the Union Pa- cific depot to the Missouri Pacific. It ap- pears that the conductors have been some- Wwhat careless in this respect and the order has been issued for the purpose of remind- ing them of their duty. ~? J. M. Bechtel, Union Pacific agent at Chi- £ago, is in the city, RID OF BAD RUBBISHL Reeves' ‘“Successors" Quictly and at Night. “Dr.” Powell Reeves is no more—at least in Omaha. Ho was driven out of here by Tue Beg some time ago, but a brace of ad- venturers undertook, under his name, to run the old fraud's old stand, on the corner of Thirteenth and Harney streets. They did it in the hope of living down the charges which had been made against the imposter by this paper, and eventually of reaping various sums from suffering but over credulous Paople who conld easily bo induced to pay al- most anything which might be demanded if only promised a cure. These adventurers knew how to make promises, how to bleed, financially, the people whom' their lying ad: vertisements I to patronize them, but they did not know how to effect a cure. Tue Brr got after them, showed up their record and thus plocked their game both at home and abroad. Besides they stood in danger of bodily attack from the people they had robbed and concluded to quietly vacate their old quarters, like thieves in the night, shut up shop and skip. Their departure was not known until last night, and where they have gone nobody knows. 1teeves is supposed to be stili inthe vicinity of Butte, Montana, but the papers there have read his record i Tur Beg, and the fraud’s next landing may be at the end of a rope or in the Pacificocean. e The Wood Buffalo. There still remain some of the wood buffalo, says the Montreal Gazette. This is an animal larger than the American bison of the plains. They are larger, coar: haired, and straighter horned. I mention this peculiarity of difference in the horns because it is believed that the shapgand the broken and crooked nature of the horns of the prairie buf- falo has been caued by his habit of dig- ging into the gravol, whereas in the more northern species they had to con- tend with other conditions, where straight horns would be of more use, as, for instance, they use them theré for clearing aside from their pathway the brush and luxuriant undergrowth. These animals would weigh at least 150 pounds more than the buffalo of the Saskatchewan plains. In the northern regions the vetches and grasses are so high. and the snowfall not being unduly heavy, they have mnot had to paw and break the crusted snow, as was the habit of the buffalo, and that may account for their superior size. In the country where these are found horses can be used in pursuit and they are stalked in the manner that the moogse and the other large animals are. It is difficult to form an accurate estimate of the number.of these animals that may yet be left, but perhaps investigation may show that 500 or 600 may yet remain in scattered bands, Owing 1o the fact that the horse cannot be used in pursuit, it is more difficult for the Indians to hunt them, and, indeed, to find them, than it was in the old d of hunting unon the plain So rank is the undergrowth of this rich country, and so difficult is it for the Indians to getat these animals, that perhaps {nat now any attempt on the part of the government to afford protection to them would be useless. 1f however, some regulation would pr vent white sportsmen from deliberately coming into the country to hunt these animals for mere pleasire it might re- sult to advantage, At present 1t would be vexatious to the Indians and of no great use, as the animal has become in its habits so much like the moose that he able ina great measure to pro- tect himself, “pp Skip - An O1d University, The University of Bologna, ftaly, will celebrate, on June 12, the eight hundredth anni sary of its existence, says the Boston Courier. Americans abrond and friends of learning will find it very interesting to witness such unique holidays. The whole civilized world will follow thi ‘bration with more than usual inter Bologna uni- versity is the oldest school of learning in the world, and has its origin in the law school of Emperor Theodosius 1., 125 A, D. It has given to Bologna a great renown ever sinee. ‘Thous sometimes 10,000 for > there every year Lo perfect in certain branches, and guests had their own de- rtments, which were called by their nationality: German,Spanish, French, ete. One of its strange points was the fo- male learned members of the university, who attained ve high standing among the s in tho commencement of the eighteenth cen- ver sands, tury, we find there the Dotteresse Bassi lecturing on mathematics and natural philosophy, and after he stilda Tan broui oc: eratur upying the chair of Greek lit- Bl1ogna set forth tho light of nlightenment in the darkest times of arbarism, and the most celebrated part i school, with ways the law nd Haly's g From Bologna counected, foundation of all past and pr systems, and its influence over social politic umstances was very deciding, and for Germay, for instance, very im por Some of Germany's great doctors of law had their Bologna, and law teachers of had served the German empero family of Hoh Bolcgna of the lors in sducation at | wany very important deeision Advertising Physicians ———— RECENT EXPOSURES BY THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS OF OMAHA, Ofthe Quacks wnd Humbngs that are at Present Infesting the Olty. Other Matters of Intorest. — “Tt would astonish you,” remarked a citizen & wook ago, “If you knew ' the number of quack doctors, Jugglors, montebanks, fortune tell Peamnpe and fcoundrels MASQUAEALInG A8 ARILL and schooled physicians in Omaha. Tho law pronibits them fromm even clalming (0 be doctars, ut by purchasing bogus certificates thoy are allowed to bunglingly administer their infernal drugs, and credulous and jgnorant peaple sufrer. 1 ffect & cure, nine times out of ten it 18 by mere chance. They wilbly talk of their wonder- £ul exporience and largely incroasing practice. They pretend to talk Latin when they have only a kmattaring of Engilati, lectare on anatom: when they conld not dissect a saw-horse,attem %0 cure & sick person when, Indeed, they conl not cure a ham. These fraidulout professional murderers seem to incrense rather than decronse, At the time the Dee routed and scouted that prince of humbugs, Dr. Fishblatt, there were many of the false alscipies of Ksciilapous who hiad preyed upon Omaha, quietly loft town, Hut they are coming again, some are already here, and while many roputable people shouid shuii them, even as they should shrink from a ravag- ing prestilence, (hay ve them with opan Arms into their families where, If opportunity is offered, they will corrupt, debanch and poison the mind and body, It seems to me that the RBeo cannot do a nobler Work than to again vontilate thess Tostrum nulsances, so disgnstingly plentl ful in Omaha.—haf, (n Bee of ay 27 While we belleve tiie above to be true in re- gard to somo of the: pretenders who are nOw 1- cated {n this city, it will_certainly not apply to all. A great maily people think that when a strange physician arrives {n city and opens up an office for general practice that he must either D be A humbug or & quack, such 18 always the case. 1t a doctor advertises in tho newspapers, there is sureto be a cer: tain number of persons who will hold off and say, “he is only & quack and will only stay hero long enough to swindle our people and then go to another town and play the same game there.” Almost a yearago Dr. J. Cresap McCoy eame o Omaha, and immediately commenced advertis- ing in the daily newspapers,but the testimonials that have appeared at different timos in his ad- vertisements and the faot that ho i still here, located pormagently tn the Ramge block, corne Fifteenth and Harney streets, is an oviderico that he is neither & humbug nor a quack. The fol- lowing exprossions from some of the citizens of Omali are taken from tho testimonials that are given the doctor. - Jumes Callahan, & blacksmith at the Union Pacitic shops and who resides at No. 79 North Fourteenth stroet, says: “Dr. McCoy cured my catarrh and made me feel botter in a few months than I had felt for years." Mrs. I, N; Douel, wife of a prominent contrac. tor and builder, résiding at No. 2025 Patrick ave- nue, after suffering for more than l(flll‘ RTOW- ing weaker and weaker until her family” and friends all thonght she had the consumption. 8he says: ““The doctor cured me and I cannot speak to highly of Lis skill and painstaking, not to mention the moderate fees ho charged mie." George F. Gellenbecl, the minstrel, and night watchman at the Daily Beo oflice, says: 1 am feeling better todav than I have for & number of yoars, and feel satisiod that I am entirely cured as 1 have none of the symptoms now." Fugene Mathers, engineer at the Hotel Es- monde, after suffering with a catarrh for seven or eight years was trcated by Dr. McCoy add he ays: “I began to improve at onco and confinue to {mprove untll today I feel as much like & new man as the differ- ence betwoen daylight and darkness, and [ can say there is no doubt in my mind but that Dr. McCoy’s treatment is both practical and scien- tific. and that overy promive he makes to his patients is fully and faithfuly carried out on hls ] art. Mr. Jacob Lininger, a prominent member of the K. of L. and ah employee of the Union Pacific Coal company, residing at the corner of Sixteenth and Frederick strects, says: “Dr. McCoy treated me for one month aud made a new man of me. 1 have none of the disgustin and distressing symptoms of chronic eatarri and have no hesitancy in recommending him to any and all persons siffering as [ did.” Mr. Lawrence B. Larson,a brick moulder, who resides atthie cortier of Ciming and Ellzabett streets, says: “My trouble began about six ears ago, and for that time I was in a bad way, ut to look at me now you would not think so, but the reason forthat is that I have beer relieved of all my sufferings. — Dr. McCoy cured me entirely of a very bad case of caturrh and has made an entirely new man of me," Oan Catarrh be Cured. The past age might be called a_superstitious one. The present can more Hmperly be called anage of surprises,for many hirgs once classed he impossibilities have now become possibilities. 1t would be supertlnous to enumerate them. Buthave we reached the utmost limit? Have we? Physicians who elaim to make certain ailments tlie human body is subject to & special study and clata to be ablo to nure sueh diseases, are pronounced by other self-satisfied practitioners as prosumptuous;but does their saying so make it 50? The man who comes the néarest to overcoming the sesmin lm{iumdbllflle! of others is now all the rage, ane well does he or they deserve the success they have labored 50 hard to obtain. Dr. J. Cresap McCoy or his associates do not make claims to anything marvelous, such as ralsing the dead and giving them new 1ife; neither do they claim 1o give sight to the blind; but by thair new and scientific method of treating catarrh they have cured and do cure catarrh, as well as bronchial and throat troubles. They muake catarrh a specialty because it 13 one of the most prevalont and troublesome diseases that the people of this climate are heir to. Bince Dr, MeCoy and his associates have located in this city thoy havo treated with success hundreds of persons whom other ph; ians have tola their disease was classed ainong the incurables. Do they not pub- lish from week to week in the dally papers tes- timonials from some of their many grateful patients, giving in each cage the full name and address of the person making the state- ment, that the doubting and skeptical may call and {hteryiew the said people Drior o visiting the doctor's otlices for cousultation. The people ertised ns cured are by no means obscure or own, but in the m vell known by th Jority of cases are citi- business people and at large, and it will more than repay suffering from catarrbal affections to visit those whose statements are published, or consult with the doctor or his ussoclates at s oflice, TWENTY-ONE QUESTIONS, A Few Symptoms of Disease That May Prove Serious to You. Do you have frequent fits of mental depres- slon?’ Do you experionce ringing or buzzing noises in your cars? Do you feel as though you must suflocate ing down? i troublod with u Lacking cough and obility? oyes generally weak and witery and requently intan Does your volce huve a husk, thick & nasal sort of twang? 15 your breath trequently offensive from somo unaccountable canse? Hivo you u dull, oppressive leadacke, gener- {ho sound und re you losin, 0 f taste | 5 your n ) 4 apped up, fore- s yon 10 breathe thrg ur mouth? ntly 7 when stooping 1o pick any thin Does every little draft of alr and every slight chunge of Lmperature giye you a cold? v you anuoyed by a constant desire to hawk and spit out an endless quantity of phlegm? DOCTOR J, CRESAP N'COY, Late of Belleva Hosnital New York, Has OMces No. 510 and 311 NG, OMAHA, NEB, s ure treatcd with suo o skillfully. Consumps Dyspepsia, itheumatisim, E . All diseases pe: culiar 1o the sexcs a specialty, CATAHRH CURED. CONSULTATION at office o by matl gL, Many dise are Lreat fully by Dr. through = the it s the four- ent at sible for those una btain s mes, Oflice hours 9 to 11 a.m.: Twlp m. BUNDAY HOURS FROM ¥ A.M.TO 1 1.3 pondence re s prompt attention, lotters answered unless sccomponled by 4 cents n stwinps, Address all mail to Dr. J. . McCoy, Roomy vd 911 Ramge bullding, Owmaba, Neb, 2 todp.m,