Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1888, Page 4

" tain the illusty R e R—— 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. JULY 21, 1888 — : ; THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, it TERME OF S8UBSCRIPTION, Dajly Morning Edition) including Sunday, HEE, One Ye¢ . . ”'f’" Six Months nm For Three Months 2w Tho Omaha Sunday ek, mutled to any ad- dress, One Year 200 OMANA OFFICE NOSSTEAND 016 FARNAM STRERT, New YORK OFFicE, ROoM 14 AND 15 TiinuNE DUILDING. W ARHINGTON OPFICE, No. b3 FOURTEENTH STRERT CORRBEP( communications fews and edi- torial ma:ter should be addressed to the Epito OF THE DR, & BUSINESS LETTERS, All business lottors and remitinnces should be Al addresse to Tk WEE PUBLISIING COMPANY, OMANA be made p Dratt yabié and postofice orders to 0 thoorder of tie sompany. g Compeny, Proprictors THE DALLY BE £worn Statement of Circulation, Efate of Nebraska, “ounty of Dougls, ool Toteiniek, "secretary of The Tles Pub- Mshing conpany, dos car that the actual efreulation of for the week ending July 7, 1484, was a8 £0 ows® L NE0 e Tuesduy 2 Weanesda Thursday, Friday, Averags Eworn to Lefore me and subacribed in my resence this ith day of July, A, D, 2 N. . FUIL Notary Public, Btate of ounty of Douglas, 8.8 Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, says that he 1= secretary of The Bee i comnpany, that the sctual average duily circulation of ' the Daily Bee for the motith of July, 18, was coples; for August, 187, 1151 coples optomber, 1857, 5 cople; for for Decemb ', 1888, 17 r.u,].. opies: for March, 184, 18,744 coples, 1 coplus; for June, 1585, 10,24) GEO. B, TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this J0th day of June, A. D. 188, N."P. FEIL'Notary Public. COUNCTLMAN BEDFORD'S chamn-gang ordinance should be passed without a dissonting vote. ® is & broad smile on the face of the realty market as the totals of the daily transfers foot up into the hundrea thousands, elraska, NEBRASKA farmers are seriously talk- ing of laying in a stock of stump-pull- ers. That appears to be the only way to gather in the big cars of corn this fall. Tris in Towa that the railroads are learning that they are subordinate to the people, but in Nebraska the rail- ronds imagine that they can run the stute. NErTHER the Mayne muddle nor the city hall question or anything else to rile the city dads came up before the council. How beautiful it is for breth- ern to dwell in peace. JAY Ge that he cannot not so sick ake nourishment. THe is said to have just absorbed the Bennett- Mackay cable, What a voracious ap- petite that man has anyhow! Blaiv and appeal to weapons to settlo their difli- Ir Senators Butle must culty, let them pit Ingalls against Voorhoes. The tongue lashing will cut deeper and smart longer than a duello with bare bodkins. A Jom lot of tran for rent at reduced rates to demcratic clubs only. Apply at side door of the white house. The following legends will be put on free of charge: “Publ office is a public trust.” *‘Innocuous desuctude.” *“It is a condition which confronts us, not a theory.” *‘Offensive partisanship.” parencies are now TF any one is skeptical about the ac- tivity in building operations let him take a drive about the suburbs of the city. On every hand substantial and palatial residences can be counted by the dozen. Such evidences indicate that the bulk of our people do not con- sist of o floating population, but come here to stay. ——— WneN will the council get through playving shuttle-cock with the Regan Bros.’ contract? At onc of the last meetings of the council, the paving contracts made with Regan Bros. in 1887 were cancellea. At the session of the council Thursday eyening, the question was veconsideved. Tn the language of Mayor Broatch, what induced this chauge of front? ——— Te 11 be true that the Nemaha eounty poor farm costs the taxpayers nearly three thousand dollars & year for the care and food of nine paupers, it is high time that an official investigation be made of the management of that insti tution. When inmates of a poor house ave living at the rate of nearly a dollar a day, it is either a case of extravagunt luxury, or of downright robbory by somoebody connected with the eatablish- ment. And it looks very wuch as if the latter was the cas THE much ado about nothing because some insurance agentsef the city are willing to cut their commissions has stirred up considerable talk in insur- ance circles. The truth is, however, there is nothing illegitimate in an agent willing to accept a commission less than the average. There is no authorit why insurance men should form a trust to keop up their fifteen to twenty per cent commissions. If a man is willing to accept ten per cent as his shave of commission he is doing no more wrong than a merchant who cuts his profit below his competitor in selling his wares. We are ferninst trusts. ——— TiE senate yesterday, by a vote of forty-one to twenty, confirmed the ap- pointment of Melville W. Fuller as chief justice of the supreme court of the United States. There has never been any serious doubt that he would be con- firmed, but republican senators deemed it proper to give some attention and de- liberation to statements regarding the fitness of the candidate for this great office, and they wore entirely justified in doing this. Mr. Fuller baving been confirmaed, men of all parties will hope . that he will show a wisdom, integrity and mu‘lotlom;hu& will worthily main- ious characterof the most eminent judicial ofMice in the world. The Union Pacific Still Deflant. The nssurances given several weeks ago in the letter of Judge Dillon, the chief attorney of the Union Pacific, to Attorne neral Leese, implicd a promise that the corporation would not further insist upon the claim it had set up of independence of all state control or authority. The comprehensive | sentation of the situation made by the attorney general, the conclusive ¢ ter of his arguments, and the firmness with which he expressed the determi tion of the state to go to the farthest ex- treme in ass ¢ and maintaining its authority over the Union Pacific road in Nebraska, scemed to have con- vinced the attorney of the cor- poration that it was treading upon dangerous ground, from which it would be expedient to promptly recede. Possibly there was no sincerity in the assurances given by Judge Dillon, and it may be that he was unablo to satisfy the company that the poliey he indi- cated was the wise one to pursue. At all events it transpirves that the cory ation determined to adhere to its ori inal arrogant assumption of independ- ence so far as relates to the authority of the state of Nebraska. The evidence of this appears in the answer of the Union Pacific to the order of the state board of transportation, of July 5, concerning rates, which went into effect on the 20th. This order the Union Pacific re- fuses to comply with., Numerous rea- sons are presented in justification of this refusal, some of which may have force, but it is not necessary to d them here in detail. They will time be considered and passed upon by the board of transportation. The para- mount reason, which is of the highest interest and importance to the wholo people of Nebraska, is embodied in the following from the Union Pacific’s an- swer: “The Union Pacific was con- structed under an act of congress through Nebraska before the organiza- tion of Nebraska as a state, and hence the Union Pacific franchises and rights thus created are not subject to the control of the state. The respond- ents, therefore, maintain that the bonrd of transportation has no jurisdic tion as to rates, such power and jurs diction being vested in congress.” It is further elaimed that by the provisions of the Thurman act the Union Pa was authorized to fix its own rates sub- ject only tothe power reserved by the act itself. This renewed assumption of superior rights removes all doubt respecting the attitude of the Union Pacific toward the state of Nebraska, and places that im- perious corporation unmistakably in conflict with the authority of Nebraska. Whatever may be the value of any or all of the other reasons for the refusal to comply with the ovder of the hoard of transportation, acting by and under the authority of the state, it is obvious that the Union Pacific relies chicfly upon the arvogant claim set forth in the ove quotation from its answer. It will stand and make the fight on that in the event of all the other grounds of refusal being swopt away, aund it is therefore virtually a challenge to the state to o trial of its authority. It re- mains to be seen how the board will meet the issue, but the people of Ne- braska will expect it to make no con- cession or compromise that will be in the least degree a surrender of the authority of the state. It should use firmly and fearlessly every power con- scuss in due ferred upon it by the law to enforce compliance with its order, to the end that the con- flict invited by the Union Pacific shall be pushed to the earliest practicable settlement in the courts. Thero is nothing to be gained by paltering with this question. If the assumption of almost imperial prerogatives by the Union Pacific is warranted, let the fact be determined, so that the people will know how to deal with that corporation hereafter; if it is not warranted, the sooncer that is established the better it will be for the people of the state, and of every state penetrated by the lines of this arrogunt corporation. There is in- volved in this issue a principle so grave and vital that no conceiyable consid- cration would justify the represen- tetives of the people and of thelr sovereign authorify in ignor- ing it, or in failing to press it to a final determination. There can be little ult if the state authori- ies shall act with tho vigor, firmness and courage which the situation demands. Ohancellor Manatt's Oase. The action of the board of regents of the university of Nebraska, in the case of Chancellor Manatt, will doubtless be very generally approved as in the in- tevest of the institution. It cannot fairly be questioned that the board con- sidered the case without prejudice. Of the eight chavges against the chan- cellor it found but three to be sustained by the evidence, but these were the most serious. It was clenrly shown that his temper was such as to militate very greatly against his uscfuluess, It d prived him of the respect which a man in his position should enjoy, and was the source of [ greay deal of irritation and trouble that was nocessarily dam- aging to the university, Mr. Manatt was given an opportunity to resign, which he mistakenly declined to do, whereupon the board promptly passed a resolution dispensing with his services after the first of next January and re- lieving him immediately of any further duty. The chaneellor would have been wiser not to have forced this action, but a diffevent course than that he pur- sued would not have becn consistent with his habit of mind. His course was an unfortunate confession of his most conspicueus weaknes: 1f this shall be the end of controver- sies and diffeuities damaging to the usefulness and welfare of the university the people of Nebraska can be heartily congratulated upon the ac- tion of the board of regents, It isproba- ble, however, that the board can find other demands for chauge and reform which must be met before the univer- sity can be pronounced i1n an entirely satisfactory eondition, Having boegun in a wayto win approval the board should goon wutil it is sure of Lay | and o s S iy AL 5 R ST SIS A D A 0 A A accomplished all that is required to place the university on the highest plane of usefulness. Paradise of the Vag. Not many years ago, when Omaha’s pretensions to greatness were modest her wisdom not of the best, she made use of a stock joke on Council Blu It ran to the effect that bloom- ing sunflowers brightened the principal streets of our sister city, and were cul- tivated there. It would not do for Omaha to erack that joke to-day, in all her glory and metropolitan airs, Many unpaved streets within the one-mile radius are skirted and almost lost in a rank growth of cocklebur and sunflower plants. Web- ster st through which the motor track W its weary way, is all but abandoned to weeds, Twenty-firststreet, right under the shadow of the high school tower and within hearing of the merry voices of the eity trysting-place, is one ng mass of smart-weed and jimson. 1t is not necessary to speak of other localities which ave legally under the city’s care. Nor will it avail much to say that there is a statute condemn- ing the sunflower. nds There a thriving little towns throughout Nebraska which afford Omaha o striking example in the care of streets, The idea is & simple one. They mus- ter oceupants of the lock-up and com- pel them to clean the thoroughfares. Our city and county authoritic ample authority in law to compel oners to work upon our highway recently invented bugbear that to com- pel vagrants to pound rock would chent poor and honest lubor cannot certainly prevent these lazy paupers paying some- thing toward their support by needed work on the strects of Omaha, where “the harvest is great and laborers are fow.” The ordinance introduced last by Councilman Bedford is most oppor- tune, Itsprovisions are wise and prs ticable. Upon its enforcemont Omaha will soon find herself purged of the tramyp plague, to say nothing of the benofit aceruing from clean and well- keptstreets. The vagabonds should be put to work, and kept atit,untilthey are made to feel that life in Omaha me: work, that theirv only option i or go hence. As itis, Omaha paradise of the indolent v night 0! is the A HARRISON AND just been or d in Birmingham, Ala., and'a few republicans have shown bravery enough to announce their can- didacy for office. Commenting on the latter, the Birmingham Age eries out: “It will not do to set up o man and call him respectable and fit to hold oftice MonrroN club has when he is the candidate of neg roes and the scum of creation.’ JUDGE G ROFF, rge to the last grand ju sterized the ramblers as o elass of leeches that prey upon respectable, wage-carning citi- zens; asa blot on the body politic, and as a pestilence from which the city should cleanse hersell. What he said of the gamblec is equally truae of the tramp and vagabond. Let them all be put to worl, or driven out of the city. Other Lands Than Ours, The topic of foremost inte urope at this time is the meeting of the czar and the emperor of Germany, which took place Thursday, and was in all its features appar- ently of the most cordial and friendly nature. The two emperors embraced ana repeatedly kissed each other, and so faras outward appearances could determine never were two men more happy in meeting each other. The royal magnific and the social splendor of this notoble event have been graphically set forth in our dispatches, but the astute cor- respondents have been able only to conjec- ture regarding the poli ficance of the meeting of the emperors, and this is the matter thut most intensely interests What the two cousins will do when the their heads together nobody appears aintly to know. Germany thinks it a friendly visit. Russian opinion is that it concerns Bulgaria, France fears that it means the last possibility of any Russian alli- ance, and Austria and Italy are ill at 0. The most amusing and deplorable feeling exists at Constantinople, however. The un- spe; ble Turk, who has that faculty of get ting things wrong end foremost character- istic of barburic peoples, has come to the conclusion that it is to be a renewal of the three emperors’ league, and that Germ: and Austrin propose to sacrifice Turkey to the czar, while En id @8 unable to render any assistance, having enough to do to take care of herself. The one possibility which has not apparently occurred to anybody is that the interview may set Kurope on a perma- nent peace footng, William is desirous of distinction and has declared for peace, and his very early call on RRussia may be his first wmove in this direction. But whether the meeting shall be a pledge of peace or a chal- lenge to battle yet remains to be seen. There are indications that if Russia shall consent to a withdrawai of her force from the Galician frontier it will be upon the condition of being allowed greater influence in the B: . That Germany will be meclined to accede to this is probable, when it is remembered that Bismarck in his speech to the reichstag said that the settlement of the Bulgarian question was only a sccondary consideration with the government at Berlin, It is not so, however, with Austria, and any act which might run contrary to the terms of thetriple alliance would undoubtedly be resented by her. It is evident that Germany holds the key to the situation, and that upon the action of the young ruler who has come into power de- pends a pacific solution of the questions which are agitating Central Europe and causing even the lazycand semi-moribund Turk to prepare for action, - ' If there is anything at all in the boasted British fair play it will revolt at the perse- cution of Parnell. - The government proposes to investigate charges against one of its most formidable oppenents by means of a commission named by itself, and it demands that Parnell shall assent to its cholce in ad- vance, without knowing what it is, on pain of getting no investigation at all. This may be British fair play, but it would be the height of unfair play in any other country. Of course the men who have framed this weusure desire that the result of it shall be the ruin annd disgrace of Mr. Parnell, That would help them more than anything else that could happen in Irish politics, Of course they have framed the measure with that view and they demand that he shall accept this measure blindfold or they will give him nothing. 1If the house of com- mons and the British public will stand that, they will stand anything. There never was a more flagrant proposition for the trial of a in adva to rendera verdiet to suit the sid. that appointed them, than this so-called *‘com- mission of inquiry.” Mr. Parnell puts the question with exnotness when he says tnat. it the god letters are genuine he is not en titled to be cailed an “honorable member of parliament.” _Tge question of the genuine ness of these @ocuments is the only one to be determined in $h$ matter, and it should be settled by a fajedribunal, The abolition (%nh ery in Bra to have been apempanied by a aition of th new industrial conditions on the part of the planters, while at the same time the freedmen hav dently been evine ing work checrfully for oxpectations of those 1 appears general strong desire to moderate wages. The who thought they foresaw in the passagoe of an emancipation measure u new fature for Brazil scem abont to be realized. 1t was for- tunate, in one sense, that the law went 1nto effect atatims when the planters were obliged to mect the freedmen half way and to offer fair wages and good treatment at once. The coffee erop had to be gathered, and tho neces sities of the moment fo od hoth sides into # arrangement that has afforded a ood star ing point for the future, and that has served to preclude, in a trouble naturally loc great measure, the 1 for in th montof the relations between plant laborers, There has also beon a large influx into the cultivated districts of poor whites from the mining regions in search of employ- ment. Therc were no opportunities for them in the days of slavery, when wages were not paid for labor, and so they miserably poor and idle; wagoes must be paid for ov they arc among the first to seck employment. Another fact which must largely conduce to incrensed industrial prosperity is that younsg men who formerly held aloof from mdustrial occupatious, becwuse of their objections to the system on which they were conducted, are I plantations from the old owners, the latter findiug themselves unable to fall into line with the new conditions, remained but vow, when man's labor, "o rebuffs rinistered to Por tugal in her offorts to extend her possessions and privileges on the borders of Zuambur not checked her enterprise in that ai- The region north of the Zambesi, h she is now about to send an ex- pedition under Governor Guilimani, is one which England is hardly likely to see pass under Portuguese control without opposi- tion. She b Iy had oceasion to pre- vent Portugal frcm makin inl restrictions which would not only give the commer latter the entire control of the Zambesi valley, but completely keep out Iritish goods. It would be task of great difliculty, however, for Portugal to establish herself in the country north of the Zambesi and southwest of Luke The natives throughout Jiast Africa hold the interior, and while Portugal, Germany and Great Britain control the consts, under the fire of their war vessels and their forts, and also the baniks of the rivers with their gunboats, us soon as they venture inland the effort really to oc cupy the country against the will of the natives costs more than it comes 1o, Still, the pe gencrally friendly enou asmueh as the Buropeans are: customers for their ivory and other gaods, K The fact that Africa—or at least the white men there—would welcome the Chinese with open arms to that woistand malarial conntry is rather noteworthy at a time s0 many parts of the wo Ten the peo- 1 feel un- ple in comfortably crowded if the Chinese ¢ Jong them. Kmin Pasha wrote a while that it was “ong of his dearest projects” to introduce a few fhundred Chinese mto his province, and he be d that the results of such an enterprise would repay its rost a thousand fold. He wanted them to build good ronds between his setticments, which wouid give a great impetus, he thought, to The sur- have now and the authori- that John is just nt to build the rond. 8, however, that the Chinese gov- s for some y manife interost in its sons who have ¢ d, has sont at least one: commission on nd tour of the Pacific to inquire into welfare, und it is doubtful 1f the authoritics at Pekin have sufficient faith in Africa to encourage emigration. Marquis Pseng remarked on this question two years ago that he did not think his countrymen would care to incur the risks of the African climate. Over seven hundred colonists from Tee- Jand will armve in Manitoba this month, driven from their northern homes by the cx- hard conditions of life in north Tee We are apt to think of Iccland as a all and unimportant island, thouzh three-fourths the L and a considerable the de sprment of the provi veys for the Congo rails entered upon the ties are fosterin the sort of a It happ ernment | much abrc their ther the fact is that it is o size of New York stat part of the northwest coast is still im- perfectly kunown, having never yet been explored by o scientific traveler. Mr. Thoroddsen, the geologist, who visited northwest Iccland last year, says the farms lie high above sen lovel, and that as there are no highwa through the terrible rough country to the southern scttlements, the inhabitants are al- most completely cut off from the world, ex- copt during the two or three months when the ice may move off the coast, giving pas ageway to ships, These farmers, who have often had little, in their larders except the birds they have caught, will probably imag- ine they have found an Elysium at last when they see the wheat fields of Manitoba. * The French are finding trouble in extend- mg their sway in Tehiti, and having been unable to carry their point by amcable ne- gotiations, have now resorted to the process of shelling the native villages., It is said that this course was taken as a punishment for an attack upon a launch belonging to a French war ship, but it is pr tically a part of the exccution of the pu: pose to reduce the whole group to the sway of the ruler who is the French repre- sentative. The protectorate of France at Tahiti was long ago acknowledged, and the station is one of the most important that she has in the Pacific; but a portion of the islands have always insisted that they had stipulations for an independent government, and have declared that they would fight for this right. Of course they will quickly be reduced to subjeation by the French, having no means of resisting the attacks of a war vessel. STATE ANb THRRITORY. Nebrigka Jottings. The Fairmont district fair will be held August 28 to 83, The burned district of Weeping Water is rapidly rising from its ashes. Three Gothenburg women have signed a petition for a saloon at that place, Work on sgreets is proving effectual in keeping tramps away from Weeping Water, Dr. Edward Thomson, formerly president of Yorkcollege, has recently marriedia young lady at Los Angelos, Cala. The Polk County Democrat is a new paper which made its first appearance at Osccola this week, E. A. Walrath, publisher, Bishop O'Connor, assisted by six priests, will dedicate the new Catholic church in Broken Bow the last Sunday of the month, ‘I'he editor of the Creighton News helps to make both ends meet by selling butter, cash n advance, with no reduction for the cam- paign, A dozen flags wave proudly in the breezo at Sehuyler for Harrison and Morton, one & | cause by u paciked und prejudiced jury, baund] streamer flutters for Fisk mud Mrooks, put not a single Clevelana and Thurman banner is to be found. ‘The republican club of Pawnee City has established a reading room and invites every- body t ne wnd study the issucs of the campaign The vigilantes at North Bend are getting out their ropes and halters for the members f A gang of thieves who are committing numerous depredations in that vicinity, A Wood River drugeist has a tame mouse, which he has taught to catch flies, The nimble littie rodent keeps thestore froe from the insect posts, and saves the proprie of fly paper. The Ulysses Dispateh w “against one William Search, a swindling lightoing-rod peddler who is searching for victins in this part of the Lovd's vineyard, He is a short, rather heavy set, grayish look: inge sinner, with lots of gall, and he” will rod a sod shanty ora n spinal column if he is griven haif a chance.” ph Huntsberge a youth living at Lyons, captured a frog the other day, and while gazing av it with open-mouthed won der, the unimal made a leap and landed in the lad's stomach. The boy says he didn't want to swallow the nasty thing, bat it pushed so hard with its hind legs that he couldn’t help it. He now holds his mouth open ull the time in fhe hope that the frog will become tared of its new home and leap out again. 1owa. Ex-slaves residing in Clinton + Harrison and Morton clut he Brotherhood of Raflway ns its readers have organ- Conductors holds its convention at Boone Sunday. Daniel . Earps, seut from Montgomery yoaa three years' sentence for s note, was pardoned by Gove He had served more than seutence. His purdon took him by sur- Colonel F. H. Tmpey, once of the Daven- weretary to the vernor s put in jail in Denver ding books from the public library ling them. He is a talented man, but Whisky has made bim o tramp and a vaga- ond. racie Enfleld, aged cleven; Myrtic Chand ler, aged thirteen, and Cornie’ Bartlett, aged thirteen, daughte sspectively of Dr Charles Bafield, W. D. iler and Prof. drowned in the Raccoon M. L. river noar Jefferson Wednosday evening. although an anti-prohibi- tionist in fait upholds the law forbidding the sale of intoxicants, He decided the ¢ avainst Henry Schlapp, brewerin Fort M i, by imposing a fine’ of &0 in addition to payment of the costs in the case and Prank Leindecker, in Keokuk, was fined $500, or $30 each in fourteen scparate counts. Judge Cuse The Coast and Northwest, The shipments of bar silver from Butte last week amounted to 11,243, Helena is_experiencing much trouble in finding a suitable site for a new cemetery. Six tramps w strung up ut Rock Springs to make them ¢ to robbery, but they all Ssuffered in si Miss povinten and pr of & At Iron Mountain, Shasta county, Ca a gonuine silver mine has been develope On'the ith inst. the company shipped teen bars of silver, worth $16,000. Owiug_to the smallpox s in Deer Lodge, Marshal Keiley has quarantined the penitentiary. visitors are admitted, and Warden McTazue und his dozen deputies keep within the enclosur Two men, Ryan, a miner mine, and Nicholson, an azent of the express compi Hildroth, Cala, have been rested artred With robbing the st from (he McNully mine, near Hildreth, about 1o weeks ago. There is ereat exc s heen clected city su- the Portland, Ore., scliool in the McNally ural Aua was of w when the gas burst forth with such force that the flow ulternately with u loud . A prospecting compuny is being ¢ 1 “'he Montana Live Stock Journal says that stockmen ort the condition of o stock and the ranges in roseate colors, Hay can boe cater quantities than usual and put up than ever before durin soason. ‘The year bids fair 1o be one t prosperity to tock interests of itory It hias just been learned that Colonel Smith, commanding Port Maginnis, 0 for thirty W been an officer of s United States army, drawing the pay and uments of his varions grades, and who be retired with the pay aud rank of o Unitod States army next May, nataralized. He has Licutenant eu will coloncl in the 1580, has never been just’ made application for naturalization Dapers. John B lent of the Elmira (1daho) cou sted last week on e of eriminal ¢ ness sworn out by Ed. Maloney, partne Mike McCul- lough, one of the men who perished in the fire at Banner last month. It was alleged that the stove in the boarding house that was Aftera full examing t burned was not safe. tion there was fo be no case against Brown and he wi Two or three scandals are raising Cain in u Colo. On the North side is the elopement of a man, who until recently has been in business on Main strect, with a 1y who has been employed He leaves a wife and two outh side affair_concerns »of a well known “wife and there is a third dom dis a Union ave children. the sin and s moti; y Right of the State Board to Fix Rates Denied. y July 20, he answer the Union Pacific and Omaha & Republ lley railroads to the order of the state ard of transportation regarding rates, was filed yesterday. ‘Pie answer is very vol- uminous, A general denial of the board's jurisdiction is made, and the respondents al- It there was no complaint filed with the board rding freizht rates since Novem: ber, 1587, and deny that the board had any finding that the respondents had in any w. failed to comply with the law. If there was any examination or hearing the respondents had no notice of it. The local dist in forca since November 1, 1887, able and proper schedule, and no objection or complaint has beel de. This schedule amounted to 331 nt reduction. This local distance t; been in operation only eight months, a length of time insufi- cient for it to be determined or found that a reduction can justly be made in the rates of freight therein fixed. During the greater part of 1887 the tariff on the Omaha & Republican Valley road was higher than that which was put in force No- vember 1, 1857, During the first four months of 1888 the business would be about £57,000 less than the operating expenses of said road during the viod, if the proposed schedule W to the business then, the volume of business being than the corresponding months in 1557, 1t is impossible to state the result of the purely local Nebraska business upon the Union_ Pacific lines, but the respondents be- licve that the Nebraska local business during 1887 was not more than the operating ex- penses. The order of July 5 will result in a net loss of about 15 per cent of the gross ¢; ings of the respondents in Nebraska. Union Pacific stockholders have received no divi end for five years, and the Omaha & Repub- lican Valley road has never paid a dividend. The order would work irreparable damage, and therefore ought not to be enforced. The respondents deny that the present rates are unreasonable, and are as low as can be made with reference to operating ex- penses. The present tariff 18 not in any par- ticular discriminative. A large part of the forritory is as yet sparsely settled and largely undeveloped. The Union Pacific was organ- ized and constructed and operated under an act of congress. Subsequent legislation, known as the *Thurman act,”” has made pro Vvision for the repayment of subsidy bonds and interest, and that when the net earuings of the entire road and telegraph, inciuding the amount allowed for services dervd the United States, after deducting all expendi- tures, including repairs and the expimse of furnishing, running and managing said road, shall excoed 10 per cent. per annum, exclus ive of the 5 per centum to be paid the United States, congress may reduce the rates of fare thercon if unreasonable, By the provisions of this'act the Union Pacific was suthorized LINCOLN, ater to fix its own rates subject only to the power reserved by the act itsel In Janu 1880, the Union Pacifie, the Kansas Paciflo and the Deaver. Pacific' were consolidated, as rized by the act of congret y us acts amendatory ther n being known as the “Union Pacific Rail y com- pany,” the respondent Nerein. This co pany owns the majority of the stock and bonds of the Omala & Republican Valley rond, and the same are hypothecated. A r | duction of the rates as proposed would ren | der the payment of interest on the bonds im- possible, in that event the Union Pacific would 1ose said bonds, thus destroying a part of its asscts, and woull also lose the use und benefit of the Omaha & Republican Valley road as a feeder. The Union Pactfic was construct an act of congress through Neb the organization of Nebraska as hence the Union Pacific fianchiscs and rights thus created are not subject to tie control of the state. ‘The respoudents, there- fore, maintain that the board of transporta tion has no jurisdiction as to rates, such power and jurisdiction being vested m eon gross, The proposed order would nocessitate mod- ifications of tariffs on interstate business. The board has no right to interfere with id terstate commerce, The order of July 5 wi the respondents as r respondents elaim it law to enforce said orde be impossible to comply with the order with out violating the luws of this state, as the or- der was not brought to t S=.otice of the re- spondents until July 11, and sinco the order, if enforced, will resnlt in raising cortain of the rates now charged upon the lines of the respondents, these respondents cannot com- ply with the same by putting the rates in question in forcoon or before the 20th of July, 1883, without violating the laws of this state in that behalf made and provided. A Correction WiLsek, Neb,, July 18.—To the Editor of Tur Bre: 1find it too often the case with some people, and especially with lawyers who can write slush when things do not go to suit them, to send ar to the daily papers for no other purpose than to injure the characters of toeir fellow men. A lettor from this place, published in the Omaba Hor ald of the 17th inst., s}y mg of the a and acquittal of Mr. R. P, arrestod on Suturday last, ¢ sault and intent to commit rape, was false in part nd the writer, who at this time is out of town with a woman toher than his wite, was nev pwn to tell the truth, and is branded wh kuown as being thé rd under i before state, and quired by law. The would be_contrary to and that it would arged with as champion of Saline county. Mr. Buck is much respected by all the bett ssof Wilber's citizens, and his arvest by Fisher is known to be a blackmailing scheme, i'he case was tried before County Judize Rhine, who is noted for his fairness i such matters, and the fact that Mr. Buck was discharged by the court is sufficient evidence that he was not guilty as char o was prosccuted b, Alley s & MeGintee appear ing fo lie woman in the case is the wife of when the job and_he was at work as put up by the woman to rob Mr. Buck of % which she demanded, W orry the Herald has becs s0 small as to publisii such a personal article about a od citizen of the state when written by a fraud as the author of the Wilber let- ter of July 16, Mr. Buck has resided in Wilber for twelv ars and has a host of friends who to stand by him when the liars of the town undertake to make a stake by misreprosentations *ew The Cyelone Was “All Wind." Brxkieyay, Nob, July 13.—To the Editor : well known spirit of fairness warrants us in asking space to cor- rect the statoments of your eorrespondent at this place in reference to our “‘cyclone” of Sunday last. The are these: About 7 o'clock Sunday evening we had an unusually heavy rainfall accompanied by a strong wind from the northwest. The Presbyterian church, a detached frame building, was thirds of the way off its ) as seriously damaged. O blucksmith shop had part of the front blown out, damaging it to the extent of & or . Aside frow this uo business house was dam aged a doilar’s worth, One small dwelling unfinished and unocetpied, was blown down, involving a loss of about £30, and a new un asoned stove-fluo was blown off_another - dwelling was damaged. leged to have been dozen chickens and A never been anything like a tornado nor a eyclone in this cotinty since the oldest settlers came, rr, Riverside cand loans; Lihan, not alof €chools; public publict H. R Edwards, princi A. B. Starkey, blacksmit H. Leslic, hardware; Campbell & Williams, real es! agents; os Curry, farmer: L. Morse, county treasurer; James West, county judge: W. O. Turner, merchant: Frank Pay, postmaster: W, H. Porter, istant post- master: . W, Dawsos or Howard Lumber company; P. Marshall, bookkeepe: Howard Lumber company; J. L. Remaley proprictor feed and sale stables; D. 0. Be wen, real estate; 1. K. Miller, hotel. D 'S FOLLOWERS. SAMOS. A Meeting of the New Omaha Demo- cratic Club. Thursday ~ cvening there was a very important meeting of 1 Swmosot club held in its rooms, on Fourteenth near Farnam. Thore was a lavge attendance, Amended articles of incorpora tion and by-laws were adopted, and the tal stock was p! at #,000. Hel business meetings of the organization will bo secret, though at ed intervals there will be mectings to which the public will be ad mitted and at which political t will be discussed by both home and foreign talent. This organization is not intended us a paign club, but rather an sociation w is desyzned to last for years, for the purpose ot taking such part 1 political agitations as may to it seem advisable. 1t is fashioned on the plan of the celebrated T New Yorlk, and will be managed in the sime style as that organization has been for many ¥y The ofticers, s they are now are president, Charles Ogden; treasurcr ohn Dougher secretary, William Mo mong trustees are Alfred Schrof rlos Metz, 4. 1. Philbin, C, V. Gallagher} . Fanning and oth The membership comprises the leading democrats of all na- tionalities in the city. The initiation fee has been placed at # Thursday nigh streets yesterd patriotio membe: ization took o« announced on the one of the of the organ fon to find fault with the democracy of Postmaster Gallagher be cause that gentleman retains on his jist of carviers and in other ways among the em ployes of the postoffice a number of gentle men who are supporters of Harvison and Morton. The postwaster's critic was not sustained This afternoon at 2 be a prohibition mass liams' hall, Fifteenth and Dodge streots Delegates will be selected to the congres- sional convention of the First district, whic is to be hald in Nebraska City on July 2, also to choose delegates to tho state conven it was o'clock there will convention in Wil tion to be held in this city on the 15th and 16th of next month, This afternoon _at 2 o'clock there will be a meeting of the Douglas county re publican central committee in the council chamber. Anot The proprietor of a Tenth street auction house named Colonel Toner is ostensibl hard luck. A day or two ago a lady left with him for repairs a 5 gold watch which was 1o be called for, Just afterwards a native of La Bel ance deposited an I15-karat brass chronometer for @ similar object. The “Monsieur” was the first to call and the auction man inadvertently, as he claims, handed over the gold article, whereupon Frenchy vanished—into thin air, it is sup- posed, The auction man now claims to b after him with a elub. His stary is consid- ered gauzy and the lady is likely to continue 10 mourn the loss of her time picee. vaporates, solid matte: vins, ‘The bombast and false pepresentation about bogus dentrifices which have: frequently boen let off, have usclessly evanesced; buy SOZODONT, be it isareal re-!| storer of dental health ahd beauly, ud- ‘ vertises itself permanently, ‘THE SUIGIDE CLUB, The Poisons a}m Suicidal Appurten- ances Used. - ive An Omaha Man's Attempt at Pa Suicide—tis Story Graphically Told—-No Mor uicide for Him, There lives tn Omaha to-day & man who twenty years ago was what fs termed on board | woman ot wur, n powder monkey. The duties Of & powder monkey, us we understand it, is to supply ammunition’ from the magazine and turrets to the nners while in action. The man reforred Lo went i United States | nayy when but a boy beir A at_that time only 13y and in” his ships be travele ocoan wnd has b d wnd his expori sized volume aud muke vel Tvice on the soveral ousands of miles of overy port in the would #ll & good interesting read- ing. o goutleman referrad to ts NI ED WATTIEWS, HATTER, whose place of business is in room 18, Herald building, To the writer Mr. Matthew Tating some of his experio qnainted for some time with asked him to tell him_now it lost the hearing of I “Wiy, don't you k my he Agnin? was that he t' 1 huve regained v it 80 1 must tell you, but | must first tell you how 1lostit.” The two 1t thelr clgars and sat down for a o 1S good chat, and Me. Mutthews contint L navy us narrative, ousee, While I was in th @ powdormonkey my dutlesofton requirod tht 1down at th whil own thery every dischar an makes au awiul concussion and to us Poor Monkeys in those turrets it was strong enough to knock ns down sometin I noticed that my ears were be. coming affected by the discharge of the gu nory and [ went to the surgeon on hoard, Who told me that he could do nothing for me excopt thut 1 had better use cotton in my ears, 1 did 50 and to that, 1think, | owo the hearing of 1wy right ¢ After my retirement from the navy my left oar continued to grow. worse und I lost the hearing of it entivel M my business 1 travel constderably and have had an oppor- tunity to consult some of the finest wurlss i the country and 1 did consult them oo, i I presume that 1 have had two dozon of them working on my ears, but_they told me one and all that the drum_was cutively destroyed and | would nover be able to hear again, | got accus- tomed to hearing with only the one ear, und had wbout made up iy mind that | never - would hear —agam with my left enr. I became acquainted with a young man who {8 connected with Dr. M in tho Rumge Block, and ho became’ tived. le satd, of havine to repeat his conversation to me and told me to come up and huve the doctor examine ny ear and see what he could do for it, 1 only langhed at him and did not go, but u few weeks Ago tho ear commenced dischivging again 1 went to Dr. McCoy's office to have 1t atten to; he exumined my oar and sald that the drunm was nlniost entirely destroyed, and ihat e did not know as he'coild do anything for it, but that he would do what e could for it; he the ear up, and then made an apparatus to put into the ear which he placed there and 1 could henratonce, | heard & watch tick held one foot from the lof{ ear, something 1 had not doue for twenty yeats. | thought perhaps it was with the raght ear 1 heard it and closed that ear up; and 1 was very ngreeably surprised to hear it very plainly with the left enr. OF course it will take some fittle time until 1 become acenstomed to wearing the apparatus inmy ear, bat I wiil 5001 overcome that. it is Very neat nnd ns you cun tell cannot be seen atall. You would not Kuow there was anyrhing in my ear unless 1 would pull it out, but if I pull it out I eannot ar, 50 1 kept 1t i, and 1hear now as well us 1 Qi 1 am very glad ook my friend's Vice and went to sée the doctor for he hns ¢ s what many another has tried ta do and [ am tfiore than smtixfied with tho way o tronted mo and feel satisfiod that any per- that places him or herself under histreat ment will never hnve canse to r it."” The writer thanked Mr. Matthews for hiskind- ness and asked him whether he wonld object to having fon published fn the form testimon Not nt all,’ ntleman, “you enn publish it and w L and fust ndd for me that if there 1s anyone who doubts the truth of it they ma all on me m 18 Herald build- ing, and 1ean convin n that 1t 18 true, v word of it. V'hy | could not hear & word not on the left side of hiim A 1t idistin y, but now 1 it no matter what side I am M. ws s above stated 1« engaged in b ahatter in_ the Herald the corner of 1ith and Harney willing to coroborate the above to anyone, A Few Symptoms of Disease That May Prove Serious to You. Do you have frequent fits of mental depros- sion Do you experfence ringing or buzzing nolses in your ears? Do you feel as though when lying down? Are you troubled with a hacking cough and general debility? Are your eyes gerferally weak and watery and frequentiy mfiamed? Does your voice have a husk, thick sound and A nasal sort of twang? 1s your breath frequently offensive from some unaccountable cause? Haveyou n dgll, oppressive headache, genor- ally located over the eyes? Do you have to hawk and cough frequently in the eftect to clear your throat? Are you losing your sense of & sense of taste bucoming dulled? Does your nose ulways feel stopped up, fores ing you to breathe through your mouth? Do you frequently feel dizzy, pact when stooping to pick anything off ¢ Tittle draft of wr and ive yoil . you must suffocate ur nne ¥ i const e an endless quantity of ph Do you rise from bed &5 tiredand weak as you were the night before and feel as though you wanted to 1o there for Ts your throat fillo which ean only 1 r? ith phlegm In the morn. lischarged after violent and spitting? v wake trom a troubled i tocl as 1t you had just Do yon_ oceasi D Wwith a sta escaped ahorrible death by choking? Iave y in your calling busine res, nll ambition gon it whetlier to-morrow nick, stlcking to tonches, imes bloody, und 5 putrid and cifensiv are som the many symptoms of he beginning of Ling (Foubles, Not 1 of thiem, hut or mamy of OUS YOUR Sy - adition. Ihils stully by ns of the dufly papers sach ~tatement publishi s sub- Iy vits given by the patient curved, oy and his a<:0cites 156 o Kocret nos: trums, biit curo by thelr skillful combi- eatarrh and case in a hundred will hay y onw affected will have them, 1 toms, the m class of dis 1 S the b les, npplied fi the most approved manuer, aud Dy usiug tho Tatest and most h nded appliatices thus produce re- known to the professton. S du the many pi- Sults that speak for thel tlemts cured, and we nesure oure readers that the.o emineat physic achfeved o suceess i curing disease which fow or no other doctord can duplicats. DOCTOR J. CRESAP McCOY, Late of Belleyne Hospital New Yark, HAS OFPICES No. 310 and 311 Ramge Building Cormer Fiftcenth and Harney ts., Omaha, Neb, Wliere all curable cases arc treated with success, Medlcal diseases treatod skilifully, Congup. tion, Bright's disease, Dyspepsia, ithe ism, and sl NERVOUS DISEASES. Al discascs culiar to the sexes u specialty, CATARRH r by mail, 91, CURED. CONSULTATION at oftice > 11 i, 2104 p.n., 1108 W6 101 P 1, rompt aitention. euted suceessfully Ly Di and it 1s thu: McCoy througl for thiose SUCCH wered unlass necompanied by fo hotll be advres-ed to Dr MeCoy, 1ooias 310 suG Ouiiatisy N J. Cresap 11, Namge Luilding,