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

"OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY JUNE 21, 8% ~SIXTEEN PAGES. THE .DAILY BEE {ED BEVERY MORNING. TPIME OF SUPSCRIPTION. 1y (Morning Edition) including Sunday, r'l‘h , One Yenr £10 00 For 1% Months 5 00 orThree Months. w "he Omaha Sunday Bee, maiied to any ad- dress, One Year 2 € A0FFICE, NOSOAAND 016 FARNAM STREET, New YORK Or010%. ROOMS 13 AND 15 TRIBUNE BUiLoisc WASHING: Orrice, NO 613 FOURTEUNTH STREET. PONDENCE, CORR 3 clating to news and edi- Al communic torinl matter sh OF THE BER All bistness letters and rems nddressed to THE BEE PUBLL OMANA. Drafts, chiceks and postoflice of Ve ade payable to the order of the compan: Tho Beo Publisting Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE, Bworn State Ftote of Nebraska, ounty of Dot { ", Trschnic of The Res Pib- company, does solemuly swenr that the ) of the Datly Heo for the week 1888, was a8 follow K, | to.s 18,330 Wednesday, Jv Tursday, i Friday, Jine: Average. ore me and subscril i day of June, A N. P.¥EL Notary Public, Eworn to D presence thi George I, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, depos nd says that he {s gecretary of The lee Fublishing company, that the actual average daily eirculation of the Daily Iee for the onth of June, 187 was 14,147 coples; 1627, 14,008 copies: for August, oplesi for Reptember, 1857 1"4:‘ for October, 1887, 14,; ', 1887, 1 041 ' coples; 1 -w.-“i, for Februnry, 1858, 15,2 copies: for March, T, 10,080 copies; for April, 185, 18744 coples, Tor May, 1868, 18,181 coples. GEO, B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 16th day of June, A, 1, 1885, N. P. FEIL Notary Public. AVERAGE DATLY CIRCULATION 20,005 Total for the Week - - - 140,455 It is very ecvident that Mike De Young of the Californin delogation is overdoing the Chinese seare for a pur- pose. J Wit every turn of the ballot box at Chieago, the result of the voting is as wonderful and as bewildering as the colors of a kaleidoscop DELEGATES will be obliged to tele- graph to their respective homes for new lungs and throats if the convention keeps in session the greater part of this week. For the first time in many Massachusetts was hopelessly split wduring the first five ballots among nine of the twelve candidates. The spectacle is a unique one for the Old Bay state, which heretofore has been able to unite up on some favorite son. . Bon INGERSOLL once lectured on the “Mistakes of Moses.” He will have an opportunity of explaining the **Blun- ders of My Specch in @hicago.” For an astute politician of Ingersoll’s cali- bre it was, to say the least, ill-timed that he should introduce Gresham's name while addressing the convention Auring a lull in the balloting. M. Crauv M. Derew decided, after all, to. keep his seat s presidont of the New York Centr: nd act as trustee of twenty dther corporations, which net him an income of $50.000 annually. His withdrawal from the race at the end of the third ballot, Jhowever, will not detract from his reputation as an after-dinner speaker, Ir has come to a tug of war between Sherman, Allison and Gresham at one end of the rope, and Harrison, Alger and the ficld at the other end. Tf the Sherman-Gresham-Allison combination holds firm, there igno chance for the other team to gain aninch. Mean- while the tugging and straining is kept with the *‘ribbon in favor of the anger statesman,” IN the long list of distinguished sick this year, the name of Walt Whitman, the aged poet, who is hovering at death’s door, must not be passed over. Whether Walt Whitman may aspire to the honor of being “*America’s poet #s his enthuswastic admirvers have it, time alone can tell. He may be called “the American Browning” without do- ing injustice to Longfollow, Poe and «Bryant. Butasto the intrinsic merit of his poctry, that is a question which will bear scrutiny and analysis, THere is no reason why the high #cliool grounds during the summer can- 1ot be used as a park. Let the council, in conjunction with the board of educa-. tion, place a number of iron settc about the ground and the work is com- plete, There are thousands of our peo- ple who enjoy the high school grounds during the heated term, and now that the board is to illuminate the grounds with electrie light the council shouid provide suitableaccommodations, There are no move beautiful grounds in the city than those on Capitol hill, and our citizens ought to get the benefit of them, especially after the schools ave dismissed for the summe: T is gratitying to learn that aperma- nent art organization has been formed in Omaha. The wonder is that such a society was not established at an earhior day. The largo number of artists and art collectors in our midst have on several occasions testified the extent and prominence which art oceupies in our city. All that was needed for closer sympathy wes such an organization where an opportunity would be given for the display of the wovk and collec- tion of local talent. In other ways the benefits of such an institution are mani- fold. It signifies that we have a class of people who are enthusiastic as lovers of art. It encourages and educates the people to a taste for art. There is no doubt that the art association is the nueleus out of which a publicart gallery will one day grow, To a metropolitan city such a gallery is as mueh of a ne- cessity as a public library,and it will be the endeavor of the Rew organization to realize that hope. A Sunday Armistice, The 1abors of ‘the Chicago donvention yesterday were mnot. exhausting and not particularly exciting. There were two sessions consuming less than three hours, and with a large part of the day still left the con- vention adjourned until Monday ing. Tt inferred from the sudd ness of this action that pretty nbarly everybody in the convention had some plan that couid he put into effect only the outside, therefore when the motion came to adjourn it went through with a rush. The opportunity for a Sunday armistice, allowing an entire ¢ for the making of plans and com- was evidently welcomed generally by the dele- There will be more ieal work done in Chiecago day than has ever before been ne in that eity on any one day, and there will very likely result from it eome surprises for the country on Mon- y. At all events such will be the ox- peetation, The marked feature of yesterday’s de- velopments was the long stride that Harrison took toward the front. The tuation Priday night toreshadowed an improvement in the standing of the In- dinna candidate, but it was not gener- ally expected that he would forge ahead 80 close to the leader. But Sherman lost some groynd, and though the Ohio delogation is adhering to him with un- questionable fidelity, there is reason to believe that he has received his highest vote and may not bo able to repeat it. Asto the outcome,no prediction can have any value at this time. The uncertainty is not velieved by not- ing the changes that have taken place in the voting from ballot to ballot, and to seek a solution in the multitude of rumors and surmises sent out by the cor- respondents is but to fall into greater confusion and doubt. Tt is a little the most perplexing situation in which a vepublican convention has ever been in- volved, and in the multitude of plots and counterplots it will not be surpris ing if the greater part of another week is consumed in reaching the completion of the convention’s work., It is to be hoped the vesult will fully justify the hor in attnining it. The Commencement Season. Now is the season when the colleges and schools of this great and happy land send forth to the duties of practical life, filled with the lore of the ages, the young men and women upon whom shail devolve the obligations and responsi- bilities that make for the welfare of the vepubli Many thousands such will before the last of these June days have d favewell to the school room and the monotonovs round of daily study and discipline, and with the scholar’s pano- ply bave stepped into the arena of active life to do battle for the things of life. All of this army of new recruits to the forcesof fighting humanity will take with it to the field of action ambition, hope, aspiration, confidence. Ttwill be a host of optimists looking on the bright side of life. There will be no thought of pos- sible defeat, no apprehension of serious difficulty—else to what purpose has been the years of patient study, the urgent promptings of parents and teachers, the dictum of universal acceptance that “knowledge is power”™? Having all that the books can bestow, why should not these young peoplo look out upon the future with an unquestioning faith, and sight in the beyond only fame and for- tune? It could answer no good purpose to deprive them of this pleasing and in- spiring privilege, or to interpose single reflection, drawn from hard prac- tical experience, that might dissipato their cheerful dream. Suppose we do know some things which the, must yet learn. Tn a harde school and under a severer dis- cipline than they have justleft, why should we obtrude our disappeintmen and failures to cast a shadow upon their present happiness? Rather let heartily. w them success, leaving them to learn the lesson of the future in th own way. The distinct and conspicuous fentur of the commencement season is the opportunity it gives to the wisdom of youth. What a curious and intevesting collection that would be which should embrace all the essays.on moval, socinl, political, scientific and other subjects that are read by the self-assured young people during this commencement senson. There is not a question or problem that has perplexed the s0ges of the past and is taxing to the utmost the hest minds of . the present that the courageous and self-confident under- graduate will not fearlessly tackle. And move than this he will dispose of to his own complete satisfaction. Your college philosopher ov statesman is sub- limoly conscious of his intellectual pow- evs, and when he has rendered his opin- ion he moves away to the applause of admiring friends with the conviction that there is nothing more to be said on the subject. According to his tempera- ment he will feel commiseration or con- tempt for the narrowness and dullness of the men who do not seo and appre- hend as he does. It is a blissful state of solf-conscious superiority in which tho ingenuous undergraduate lives at this time. Pity it is that there must come a day of disillusion. But, if these efforts have no rveal value, there are fentures of the commencement sea- son which do have. There is a great deal of seed sown at this time, in the form of familiar truths and wholesomeo lessons of experience, whose influence will be for good, and to obtain which much that is frivolous, idle und useless can be tolerated. One interosting sug- gestion of the season is that the ve- sources of education in this country are steadily growing and that the standard is not declining. —— The Nicaragua Canal Project. About the sume time that the national ropublican convention-was declaving in favor of the Nicaragua canal projeet a meeting of the construttion company vas being held in Denver to cousider methods for pushing the project. The company, it appears, has determined to wait no longer for recognition from con- gress, but will incorporate under the laws of Colorado. The estimated cost of constructing the canal is ffty willion is n- on binations, pretty dollarg, but it is proposed to make the cupital of the company double this amount, s that every possible eoptin- may be amply provided for. on the cinal will bogin on the first of next .September, and it is ex- pected that the enterprise will be com- pleted and in operation in five years. There aew appears no further reason to doubt that this very important pro- jeet will be consummated within the time which the ablest engineers have fixed as required to complete it, estab- lishing one of the most important chan- nels of commeree on the hemisphero and adding a strong bond to perpetuate the union of interests and inc © the friendship that should subsist between the United States and the countries south of it. The country has been made familiar with the character of this en- terprise by the frequent discussion of 1t during the last ten or twelve years. Its fensibility has been most fully demon- trated by repeated and careful sut and as shown by the c mates the cost of construction will not be one-fourth the amount that has already been almost hopelessly buried in the great ditch across the isthmus of Panama. Chief Engineer Menocal, who went over the route of the pro- posed canal from Greytown on the Car- ibbean sea to Brito on the Pacific coast, so recently as last May, found in the results of the latest survey reasons for increased confidenco in the practica- bility of the project. The obstacles to be overcome are few and small com-’ pared with those that have been en- countered on the Panama route, and by reason of the greatly superior cli mate there will be no such fearful loss of life as there has been in the digging of the Do Tesseps ditch, The Panama canal has been one of the most tragic of undertakings. It has cost more human lives than will ever be tecorded. On the Nicaragua canal route men may work throughout the year without encountering the deadly climatic conditions that prevail on the Panama isthmus. The company organized to construct the Nicaragua canal does not ask any financial aid from the government. It mply sought such recognition as would insure it government protection. This undoubtedly it will in time obtain, though possibly not from the party now in power. But the canal will be built by private capital, and will be in all respects a private en- terprise. Probably — no other government on earth would withhold its moral support from such a project entirely in the hands of its own oitizens, The great commercial im- portance of the undertaking is not ques- tioned. . It would, as stated in the re- publican platform, materially aid in maintainin our national influence in Central and South America, while it would develop trade with our Pacific territory, with South America, and with the islands and farther consts of the Pa- cific ocean. 1t's a Wise Nose. Philadelphia Press. Nevertheless, we must admit that it is a wise party that nose its own banduna. veys, o The State He Hails From. Globe-Democrat, When asked what state he hails from, Our sole reply shall be: We don't care where he hails from, So he knocks out Grover C. -~ An Elegy. Chicago Times. Full many a ray of human hope serene These dark, unfathomed situations bear; Full'many a boom is born to pass unseen, For thut 'tis made of thin and empty air. Py S s Why Discouraged. Chicago Herald. The Chicago bartenders are completely discouraged. They had just got business pretty well in hand when a dozen train-loads of people came in from Kansas City. — The Water Care. New York World, “The Jay Gould medical college” is a new institution at Memphis, Tenn. It the college fopts the treatment that its namesake applics to stocks, it will devote itsclf wholly to teaching the water cur i - What Quenched Chiuncey. Neiw York World. The editor of Tz Omatia Bk, Rosewater by name, threatens to form an independent republican party if Mr. Depew is nominated for president. A good deal of cold water has been thrown over Mr. Depew's candi- , but perhaps it is Rosewater who will finally destroy “our Chiauncey’s” chances, Chiieago Trilune, % The true republican policy is to avoid all appearance of 8 * boodle” campaign, raise no more money than is actually necessary for legitimate expenses, and nominate a can- didate without a **barrel,” but whose char- acter will command the support of voters who will work harder for honest sentiment and principle than they ever would for pay, el g A Thimble-Rigger. Chicago News, We tnought that the Hon. Church Howe of Nebraska was out of politi 5 solf has been saying that he was. Yet here he is to-day at the head of the Nebraska delegation as chipper and as frisky as he was four years ago when he started south to curry the slave states for Blaine, We begin to suspect that Mr. Howe is a thimble-rig- ger, for now we sce him and aow we don't. —~—— No. 2, [TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN AT CMICAGO,] Washington Critie, “No second place for me,” he cried: “No second place for me; Tve gov to be the first man, or No' candidate I'll be, “I am o great man to be Put_in a second place, And if I run at all, my friends, T've got to head the race. “My records and my rights demaud That 1 be sparad disgrace, Which must attach, if 1 descend, S0 low us second place.” R Wt st Vo - S “What's that you say! The first is filledi Well, that's & different case! And if you will insist, dear friends, Tl take that second place.” - -~ Afraid to Go Home if Its Depew, Chicago Herald, 41 come from the granger soction of my state," said Colonol Hackney, of Kanss, yes- day, to a Now York delegate who was car- nestly laboring with him, “and if I should go home and tell wy people that Chauncey M, Depew had been nominated for the presi- dency a mass meeting would be called aud would be drummed out of town instanter. No, sir; no Depew in mine. The farmers don’t want him; the west don’t want him, sud while he may be & very nice man and all that, ho is not the kind of fiaan to nominate for president of the United States.” And New York misvionary quictly withdrew to seek some more Pliant material to make con- verts of. . e Sizing Up Charley Green, New York Times, While the responses were being prepared Chairman Thurston found means of interest- ing the convention* He told the vast audience that the first nominee of the of the repub- Jican party for president was on the platform and would be introduced. Delegate Charles Green, of Nobraska, was allowed to make the introduction. He was a doep-voiced man and not a bad speaker, but he did not “hit it oft ¥ very well at first. He was a sort of Couldock as Dunstan Kirke, and he began his reference to “forty years ago” in a tone that provoked many expressions of “A h!' from his irrevorent hearers, Presently, as e became pompously wordy and gave the impression that he was introducing Green and not another, there was a cry of *‘Time,"” and he introdnced General John C. Fremont. . Depew a Red Rag to Towans, Chicago Herald, ome political wag, without a love for the Now York candidate in his heart, tacked a portrait of Chauncey M. Depew on that gen- tleman’s chamber door yesterday afternoon, which attracted u good deal of attention and no Iittle comment. On the top of the picture in bold, black letters were the words: “The Grangers' Friend,” while beneath appeared in equally prominent characters: “The Wage- carncrs’ Choice.” Tt was at first regarded as an absurd joke, but it was soon discovered that hundreds of these placards had been printed and were actually being distributed by the friends of Mr. Depew. While the crowd around Mr. Depew's door, jealously guarded by o trimly-dressed valet, was the * greatest, au tall, lank lank and venerable-looking farmer, with tha tha | an Allison badge on his breast, cameaip. He looked at the picturc and then at the words printed upon it. The he snorted like a war horse scenting the battle, and presently he blurted out in & good, strong, voice: “The grangers' friend be——! Who kept up the grain rates between Buffalo and New York, and kept the farmers from getting a fai price for their wheat? Chauncey Depew. Who gets 12 cents for grain from Buffalo to New York to-day, while the rate from St. Paul to New York is only 25 cents! Chaun- ¢ey Depew. Who hired laborers on his own railroad at $0 cents a day! Chauncey De- pew. The wage-carners’ choice? And here another snort: “That’s about the worst I ever heard in all my life.” And the stalwart old granger walk off in high dungeon,while the friends of Mr. Depew silently wondered if they had not made some sort of a mistake about that placard. o Aot dliey The Divine Poet. Chartes J. O Maltey in the Boston Pilot. Whatever lacks purpose is evil, a pool with- out pebbles breeds slimes; Not any one step hath chance fashioned on the infinite stairway of time: Nor ever came good without labor, in toil, or in science, or art; It must be wrought out through the muscles, born out of the couland the heart. Why plow in_the stubble with plow: why winnow the chaft from the ¢ h, since allof His @ifts must be toiled for, since truth is not born without pain! Ho giveth not to tho unworthy; the wealk or the foolish in deeds ; Who giveth but chaff at the seed-time shall reap but a barvest of weeds. As the fiyramid builded of vapor is blown by His whirlwinds to naught, So the song without truth is forgotten; poem is man to man’s thought. Whatever is strong with a_purpose, in hum- bleness woven, soul pure, Is known to tha, Master of Singers. toutcheth it, saying: * Endure!” —_————— ROYALYY. The crown prince of Germauy paints—not the town, but landscapes. Prince Henry of Russia was the first Ger- mau prince who ever sailed round the world. Elizabeth, of Austria, has developed an unfortunate skin discase and wears a veil continually. The Crown Princess of Sweden has made a bustof her brother, the late Prince Lud- wig, which is highly praised. Princess Beatrice, of Battenburg, expects to present her mother, Queen Victorta, with another grandehild in October. His He The ameer of Afghanistan is said to be meditating u journcy to England to call on the empress of India this summed Isabella, ex-queen of the Sp s, when she appears abroad wears a costume very much the same as that of a nun. The duke of Wellington, Henry Wellesley, is also prince of Waterloo in Belgium, anc grandec of the first class in Spain. Olga, of Greece, is the most beautiful queen of Europe, and is sister-in-law of the empress of Russia and princess of Wales, The kings of Cambodia find Assam will visit Paris next year and will receive distin- guished honors at the hands of the French government, The Grand Duke Alexis, brothe czar, 15 said to be able to drink mc pague than any other European even in Russia. of the e cham- prince, In the grand court of the Kremlin, at Mos- cow, there is about to be erected a mouu- ment in the memory of the czar, at an ex pense of 350,000, The duchess of Edinburgh was robbed of her jewels recently somewhere between Granada and Cordova. Can it be that she contemplates a stage career Queen Natalic is said to have been found out in & conspiracy to dethrone her husband, King Milan of Servia, and place Prince Karageorgevics on the throne, A London journal asserts that tho em- veror of China has a warm affection for his aunt. He resembles the king of Hawuii in this, who is extremely fond of his ante, , the daughter of the. empres: , is about ta marry Prince Rupre cavia, who is, according to loyal Jacobites, the heir appurent to the English throune. William 1., thenew emperor of Germany, spent two years in learning to set type and ayearin the press room. It may be thut a fairly good printer was spoiled to make a bad emperor. The king of Holland's heiress, the Prin- coss Wilhelmina, aged seven years, has been betrothed to the twelveyear-old prince of Saxe-Weimar. The marriage will unite Saxe- Weimar and Holland, The queen of Spain recently, after the performance, called Sarah Bernhardt futo the box and gave her a bouquet tied i rib bon and secured by & splendid sapphire mounted with diamonds. Nawab Zaighom-ud-Dowlah, brother-in-law to the late king of Oudh; s in London spec- ially engaged to teach the prince of Wales and Prince Albert Victor Hindostanee. The Nawab bas the degree of *‘Learned Pundt.” Queen Christing, that model mother, has been making an extensive tour through he: kingdom with the king ou her lap. At Bar celonu the biggest floet ever assembled iu a time of peace was in the harbor to greet his infantile majesty. Princess lrone, of Hesse, received among her wedding presents, sent to her by & pri vate gentleman of Darmstadt, a fine linen table cloth and six napkius, stampad with the Prussian coats of arms. The father-in law of this gentlemen bought them from the heirs of a Fronch gorioral. Most likely | they formed part of the booty taken from | one of the fogal Prussian castles in the time of Napoleon, ROMINENT P retary Fairchild's grandfather was the printer and publisher of a newspaper, and his father was a law; Robert Browning racontly refused §1,000 from & Boston publisher for a short poem. Tn spiteof carpers Browning is evidentiy a poet. Joseph Palitzor, of the New York World, still suffers greatly from an affection of the eyes, and is going to Europe to consult an oculist. Sam Randall’'s health appears to bo sor ously shattered, and his friends aro bocom ing alarmed. Some days he s0es 1o one ex copt his physician, Allen (. Thurman was born November 13, 1813. There are 13 letters in his name, 13 in “the red bandang,” and, therefore, he will iy be elected if figures don't lie. Daniel Dougherty, “the silver-tonguoed or ator” who made the speech nominating Cleveland at St. Louis, began 1ifo as a stable- Doy in a Philadelphia livery stable. RSONS, Senator Hiscock is a reader of current fie tion. He was recontly soen in a comfortable position in a drawing room car apparently deeply absorbed in *The Quick or the Dead, by Amelie Rives, Whitelawy Reid, Benjamin Harrison and Calvin 8. Brice, the new party leader and millionaire, are all graduates of Miami uni- versity, at Oxford, Ohio, and were students there within a few years of each other— graduating betwoen 1852 and 1856, E. P. Roe ivites parties up from New York to his place at Cornwall-on-t he-Hud- son, pays their traveling expenses, seats them ata well-equipped dinner-table, and then procecds to read to his enraptured guests chapters from his fortheoming novel. William A. Smith, who died a few days ago in Richmond, enjoyed a umgque distine tion. He resigned a seat in congross because he did not think he had sense enough to properly represent his constituents. This is the first and probably the last instance of the kind. Colonel John Arkins, proprietor and editor of the Rocky Mountain News, enjoy world-wide reputation for the lavish hospi- tality he displays o all visitors from the east to Denver. Heisa man of great informa- tion and an indignant repudiator of Donnel- 1y's eryptogram. i ciong e THIS AND THA’ The two last German emperors died on’ Friday, No doubt both would have been willing to avoid an unlucky day by post- ponjng the event. 5 The Atlanta Constitution “Seratch o modern dude and you will find an original barbarian under the varnish,” which remark is a rather tough slander on the original harbarian. John Brown's bible is the property of a citizen of Harper's Ferry, and the timber from the gallows upon which o was hung is still in town. Large sums are asked for these velics. Meantime the light of his ex- ample is the fherltance of mankind and “his soul goes marching on.” The song, “Do They Miss Mo at was written by Miss Caroline A. Briggs about forty years She is now Mrs. Mason, of Fitchburg. Mass., and is said to be such a model old lady that many loving hearts will miss her when she's gone. Captain Andrews of Boston sailed for Queenstown lgst Friday in a sail-bout only twelve feet long. If he succeeds in reaching the other side, instead of *Davy Jones' locker,” science and humanity will not be much benefitted, but the truth of the old adage, “a fool for luck,” will be firmly established. Women are said to lack inventive genius. Miss Phelps, of Boston, has recently tried Tier hand on a combination shopping bag and lunch box, and the papers in that burg are loud in their assertions that the alleged de- ficiency has been disproved. As a careful reading of the description of the patent fails toshow any place for carrying a powder hox andan old stocking leg, to dab the powder on with, it seems that the original charge will have to stand. The “dressing mantle” has been super- seded by the pmbing cloth.” These things are both concerns to put over the shoulders while the hair is being combed. How the world does move. It hasn’t been many years since the Indiana mothers used to pull the boys' heads down into their laps and chase the varments 1nto a_gingham apron with a fine tooth comb. The editor of a ( aletter from a dis demands a reason remarks, Home," sived guished subscriber who for the appeorance of “The robbers of Tunsltul forest” on the front paze of every issue. The correspond- ent says: I don't think the authers got a bit of cencenohow for its the nighest nothin’ of any tale T ever seen.” If Robert Louis Stevenson gets to hear of this scathing critieism it is presumed that he will throw rorgin | some (MARGES DECLARED FALSE. The City Council Investigates Mayor Proatch’s Message. TESTIMONY IS TAKEN. Members W of the Board of Public ks Swear They Were N v Influenced to Pay nning & Co. A Very Lively Meoting, Councilman Hascall was the chief toad in the puddie of councilmanic investigation who | assombled at the council chamber last night to investigate the charges made by Mayor Broatch against certain members of the board of public works and officials in the of tho municipality. “‘Undue in s were the words that had roiled the blood of the councilmen, and when the pro. ceedingg were opened by President Bechel, a half dozen volces demanded that the mayor should bo brought in and mado to disclose what ie knew about “undue influences.” Clerk Southard asked soveral timos to r communication from the mayor, which wa finally conceded and-he read as follows: OxAuA, Neb., June 22, 1885,—To the Hon- orable, the City Council of the City of Omaha, Gentlemen: [ have the honor to acknowledge the reecipt of a communication from the city clerk stating that he was di rected to request my presence at an ad d meeting to bo held in the council mber Saturday June 23, at 8 o'clock. object of the meeting is not stated, but 1 learn through the report of the proceedings of the last meeting of the council as pub lished in the public press, that L am to bo callod upon to offer an_explanation of my letter vetoing the item in the appropriation ordinance m favor of C. E. Fanning & Co., for sweeping and cleaning the streets, and this being the case 1 prefer that my com- munications upon this subject shall be in writing. By a species of adroitness it scoms to have been supposed that my communication charges bribery upon members of the board of public works, Permit me to suggest that you have my communication carcfully re read. Had I intended to prefer a ¢ of bribery against any member of the city gov- ernment, 1 would not have employed the language 1 did. 1 do, however, reiterate the statement as made in _ that veto message. Section 136 of th charter says in referring to thes mayor, “‘He shall the superintending control of all the oftices and affairs of the city unless when otherwise specially provided, ete.” It is well known by the public that 'in the matter of the sweeping contract that the work hus not been satisfactorily done, The chairman of the board of public works made an effort to protect the city's intorests and punish the contractors for their delinquencies in - whic! he was not supported by the other members of the bourd. The question is as to whether the council will sustain public ofiicials in enforcing a compliance with contracts made with the city. It cannot be questioned that as in- dividuals every member of the city govern- ment would exact a strict fulgllment of any contract entered mto betwSen themselves, and the parties with whom they contract. As a public officer I carry into my oficial duties the same principles upon which I con duct my personal business, Contractor should make bids for public work based upon prices suficiently remunerative with the pectation of giving the city valne received, and not in such.a manner that to prevent Joss poor work mustbe donc. It does mot necessarily follow that a man who occupics a public position is a thief. The eyes of the public are always upon an official, and he should ever remeniber that ‘a public ofice is a public trust.” Respect- fully, W. J. Buoaten, Mayor, When the reading had been concluded the sergeant-at-nrms was ordered to prance to the mayor's ofice and bring him in. In a twinkling his honor was in the urena, and in loud tones aske “What do you want of me here?” “To be sworn,” replied Haseall, “Swear to what “You have made serious charges against the board of public works and the coun, You agrecd in_your commiinication to take the stand and give your testimony, and now we propose to give you u chunce.' Il not bo swogn here. I've made no , and if youread my communication tly you'll find none are made.” *Phere are charges just the same, and we want them proven,” said H Li, “Please point them out,” repiied mayor, who was gettng exeited and very wriith, udding, “If 1 made eharges I can them I only came here outof v to you gentlemen, I am mayor of il will not be brow-beaten or gged. 1 wish to state furtber that 1 would not be sworn here, before an in- fevior body to me. I'm the mayor.” “Inferior to who—a peznut,” asked Has- call, and his eye glasses fell with a dull and siclening thud on his desi. At this juncture the mayor took his do- arture, amid a howl from Hascall, who claimed that the mayor would subject him- self to the pains and _penalty of perjury did he g0 on the stand. uintained that tl 1 that his com- munication to the council tast Tuesday night could not be otherwise construcd than meaniug that cortain members of the board of public works being bribed and unduly influenced by members of the council and city government. They were direct, and Hascall insisted that the mayor and the rd of public works should be put on the stand and under oath tell wi cha <ol the view of 5 first communication, and demanded that it should be 4, claiming that the wayor had dire o perjury. Councilman Ford called for the reading of his pen into the deop blue sca and jump in after it. One of our regular army warriors has heen raising a racket with the treasury deparment because the ofticials refused to allow him the price of street car tickets used in riding from his home in fashionable Boston to South Boston where he is on duty. Second Comp- troller Butler wiped the item out of the bill, The most remarkable fact about this affair is the extreme modesty of the warrior. Why he did not draw on the government jor u coach and four is inconcievablo, @ The reasonably fair, remarkably fat and extremely schrewd Miss Diss Debars and her pal, “General” Diss Debars, were son- tenced to six months' imprisonment by Judge Gildersieeve, in New York last weel. Their crime was obtuining moncy by false pretense from Millionaire Marsh, and their game, “spirituglism.” The madam claimed that under her modiumshin the “old masters” materialized and painted pictures, At th trial, court and jury united in requesting an appearance of her ghosts, but they failed to respond, and she had to go to juil, Judge Durhum, first comptroller of the treasury, gaye a reception at his residence in Washington ou the 15th, Report suys that the featurg of the affair was the dana. Bandanas were used for napkins one was prescnted to each guest on leaving As most of the guests were government o ployes, it is supposed that the judge was thus providing them with something to pack their duds in divectly after the 4th of next Macch He ought to have given them a stick anda mapof & good walking route home to have made the outfit complete. Frod May was arrested in New York last week for pulling a pistol on a pol Fred is a son of Dr. May, of New York Washington, aud s the youngster who achieved so much notoricty some years ago ou account of a supposed duel between him self and Jumes Gordon HBennett. 1t will be remembered that Hennett was said to have beenengaged to May's sister, and that the accusation of unfair treatment was wmade Accounts of a duel were widely published but with all the comment little was reull known about the affair. As a matter of fact 1o duel was foughf, but May attacked Hen nett on the street, and roceived a blow that catae near breaking his 4 That was the beginning and ending of the fight the communication of Tuesday pight, which the clerk complied with. On motion of Councilman Ford, Mr. Bal combe, chairman of the board of public works, was sworn, He suid: Am o member of the board of public ke Co.'s last bill was §2,255 mount of the bill th Slavin vresented no bitl at all; Panning & Co. presented a bill for 52,615,653 1 sanc tioned their bill sent to {he council minus $116.47; that deduction was for not carrying the dirt off St. Mary's avenue uand other strects as stipuliited in my communication to the mayor; the other t the deduction against my vote; the other members of the board thonght there ought to be something allowed to IFanning & Slivin one-third at’least of £325.16 which I wanted to deduct from their claim; where it is rked on the margin of *no the claim not allowed: if 1 knew of any bribery 1 ould have wade it known to the council black aud white BBy Councilman Van stors must, aceording move all_dirt from o'clock every morni Louis Heimrod next testified ber of the board of public works; combe truly stated the items in the Fauning Dill that were deduc the majority of the bourd gave them #116 over the voice of the chairman; we allowed five- items over the wishes of® the chairman; when 1 first became & member of the board several bills came in _ for extras; 1 could not understand them, and made a motion that no extras be allowed: in April our streets were in a terrible condition, and I ning & Co. did good work; I will admit that they did not live up to their contract, for th reason that it was impossible then to do so in the specified time; the streets we allowed m pay for were it bad shape; I made personal inspection of them; never allowod @ cont for streots that dirt was not carried off from; the amouats wo allowed were fair and no city ofticial « ap proached me to vote for allowing claims, r, Ford— Wi puched by a member of the council to vote for the allow- lowing of claims or tism In public im provements; the mayor, though, has ssked me to vote for favorite inspectors of his Mr. Balcombe, recalled—On St. Mary's avenue the contriactors had charged for the swoeping of str they had simply run their sweeptes over the streot, and left the dirt in piles in the gutters. Heimrod, resuming-Mr. Fanning to me several timos and objected 10 1y ng down bis claims; 1told him my acts ¢ regulated by contract 3y Councilman Burnhaw bave from time to time b tract; they have not swept Chicago, Cass Camp—The con to their contract, streets before 10 I am a mem- Mr. Bal The contractors oken their con 0 niembers allowed | claims off; thore were other streots for which they'put in claims but did net carry the dirt off. : C. F. Mayne mext took the stand: Am a member of the board of public works; . heird M. Heimrod's testimony ; in roference to tho five items Mr. Heimrod did not state them fully; thoro were many strects swept from which the contractors did not remove the dirt; found that it was impossible for the contractors to do 8o, and only allowed them for the sweeping; was_never influenced, ap- proached or spoken to by ontside influence to vote for the claim of Faming & Co, By Councilman Burnham: 1 allowed the claim according to my judgment and not i strict accord with tho requirements of the contract; thought it was impossiblo for the contractors to comply with the contraet; the chairman wanted the contractors to live up to the contract, 1 believe; however, he al- lowed claims i the bill that were not done accordipg to contract, At this point in the tract existing hotwe d. ombe, recalled and auestionod by Councily Ford: The contract provides that the contractors must sweop streots aved at timo of contract, and other stroots paved therafter undor direction of the board and order of cowneil; the contractors, how- ever, have refussd to abide by tho orders, C.'I%. Faming, the contractor, upon tak ing the stand, said that the dirt was removed from tho 'streets which the chair- man of the board of public works objected to, He also defended the work they were doing, claiming that Omaha _mud was hard to carry away aftor a rain und that it had to be loft standing for the water to drain out of it. Councilman Haseall concludod tho investis gation by saying that it was a good thing, as it made the council bettor acquainted with the sweeping_contractors and _the actions of the board, Furthermore that the charges of Mayor Broatch were unfounded, and that the membors of the board were free from the insinuations of the mayor that they had been unduly influenced. Next ho criticised the conduct of the mayor in refusing to bo sworn, and read from the city charter to sus- tain him. He sad that the mayor had in- sulted the council and sltould roceive censuro ut their hands. The speaker moved that when the council arisc that they roport the charges groundless, that the meinbers of the board of public works arc acquitted from any wrong doing, and that Mayor Broatch is subject to the censure of the council. Tho motion was seconded by Councilman Ford and Bechel, and was carried, Councilman Burnham voting in the negative, Councilman Kuaspar thought it wasn't right to censure the mayor, s he had come before the council and said that he had made no charges, . Councilman Ford retaliated by saying that the mayor had acted more like a baby~ thau a man, and favored a yote of consu Councilman Hascall Jater withdrew his censure of the mayor. Councilman Burnham at this late hour in the proceedings discovered that thero was nothing to investizate. He couldn’t discover in the mayor's letter that any charges had been made. Then Mr. Ha ing, as follows: Whereas, The city council have fully and fairly investigated the charges made by Mayor Broatch against a majority of the board of public works and other “city ofil- cials charging corruption and official Wrong doing, and after taking the evidence finc the charges are false and without any foundation whatever. we, therefore, cxon- ecrate the members of the board of public works {rom any blame in the matter and rec- ommend that the claim for street sweeping be allowed. Upon the ri proceodings the cons 1 the eity and Fanning coll put his motion in writ ing of the committee the Has- coll motion was adopted, but the allowing of Ianning & Co.’s claim over the veto of the mayor was defeated by the lack of a two- thirds vote, Councilmen 'Burnham, Couns- man aud Kitelien casting the negative bale ots. A PECULIAR FOREST. One of Arizona's Wonders—A Region Strewn with Agatized Wood. Passadena Lette On the way hither through Avizona I stopped at the petri- fied forest. I left the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at Holbrook, engaged a cow- boy and horses and started at 8:30 a. m. After riding about thirty or thirty-five miles we reached a canyon, and follow- ing thisamile or so found ourselves among the most wonderful works of naturc T have ever seen. At this point the canyon is wide and rocky, yet every rock, lurge or small, is a ‘picce of agutized or petrificd 'wood. On onc side” the transformation secems to have been of the ordinary kind, and we find porfect specimens of petrified wood, showing the bark and in some instances even the rings of growth. In some places protruding from the earth may be seen the trunks of trees, branches and even roots, so complete has been the change. In some places sections of fossil trees have from exposure at last [ been brolcen up by the action of the ele- ments. Often the fragments of stone resemble perfectly, both in color and in structure, the natural wood, showing the grain, sap and knots of the original tree. At first T picked up two splinte a foot long and not more than three- eighths of an inch in thickness, and struck them together to b sure they were not real but they flew 1o picces and 1 was convinced, But by far the most interesting side of the ¢anyon is the side where the agatized wood found. or at loust is most abundant (it is found for miles in every direction, and to the south as far as the eye can reach the country dotted here and there with what ap- pear to be short saw logs). On that side the trees must have grown closer, for the ground is covered with trunks of trees ranging from three to ten feet and in dinmeter from one to seven feet (mostly about two and one-half to thre teet in dinmeter), The agatized wood s by its process of transformation to have lost its grain ns well as its nat- ural color, and the only apparent like ness which I think these rocks bhear to a tree of this age (besides their eyline cal shape) that in all distances the sup is of & darker color, showing that decomposition probubly aficeted it while the heart or wood of the tree remained sound., Also in many instances the rings of growth, boing very thick, are marked by lines of clenvage, you would think if strange if at every step you were treading on picces of beuutifully=colored ngate, but in this canyon, if you are not stepping on pieces, it is e you are on one picce; it is all ngate, I did not go pre- pared to bring back specimens, In facy I found a Winchester rvitle and six- shooter were enough to earry, but it was® impossible to come away without. bringing somothing, so we took the sack that had held oats and that oat sack is now in my satehel inclosing about filty pounds of Avizona. I have picces of the voots, bark, sap, branches, pitch, knots and, best of B prove that these trees were closely ale jod to, if not the identieal eucalyptus tree of the day. In one place a fossil trunk spans a vivine thirty feet ahove a vunning steeam., The bridge thus formed is twenty-five feet long. tree trunk is exposed for over fifty This tree was the longest unbrokén so tion and yaried from three and-one-half feet in dinmeter at the base to two and one-hall feet where the top disap- pearcd in the ground. There was noth- ing to show that branches had been broken off, and but one knot was visible, The tre wis perfectly steaight, and compared with the rest was scarcely as large ns an average sized troe. Would not this have been a paradise for a lumber camp before nature got o claim on the limit? But I suppose some enterprising fellow citizen of ours will ere s tract and begin averything from a tables topto & cull button. In fact, before :hing Holbrook I was informed that a firm of New York jewelers had bought up the entire tract (thus getting & cor- 150 other streets for which they handed in and the board of public works cut these | ner on agatized wood) aud were about tg develop it. RS L —