Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 2, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. R TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Morning Edition) including Sunday Une Year. . #10 00 14 AN FAnRN ROOM 14 AND 15 JTON OFFICE, BUILDIN No. b1} v FOURTEENTH BTRE DENCE. ing to news and edi- ssed to the KDITOI All communieations rels rial matter should be addre 3 ", ek BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be addresied to THE Bre PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1 OMAnA. Dratts, checks and postofiice orders to 1 be made payable to the order of the company. E he Bes Publshing Compeny, Proprictors, F. ROSEWATER, Editor. 3 3 THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, { & 8 eorgn B, Tzsenuck, being fivst duly sworn,de- seg and says that he is secretary of The Beo Bohbite compaty. that the nitual averago daily errculation of the Dails for _the month of August, 1887, w o8 § h for Reptember, 1887, ' 14 for 5 October, 137, 1455 _cople mber, 7, 15,426 copies; for Decemby des:'tor January, 188, ; fo 1848, 16,2 coples; for March, 1885, or April, 1%, 1 : oples; for Juxie, 1865, 3 tor $6.05 coples. GEO. B, 173CHUCK. Bworn to ‘before me gnd subscribed in my A. D, 1888 Notary Public. ‘presence this 1st day of Angust, 5 N. P.FEIL, ;. WHEN it comes to o ] & braska is not far behind Dakota. : Tt MUST not be imagined that because Grover isatsea he is not angling for votes as well as fishes. THe Georgia congressman was alto- gether too crisp and tart in his oppo- sition to the Omaha building bill. WiLLIAM 1T will have his arms full when he gets home from his imperial junket. There’s a new baby at his house to be kissed. ‘WHEN the stones are falling from the top of Chicago’s court house from sheer weakness, it is time to let up being - scared by dynamiters. G — 5 EVEN a congressional committee on P! immigration must consider it a hard job when it is obliged to cross-examine an Italian with the hand-organ name of Antonio Sqranibiglia. JUDGE GASLIN will doubtless tender his heartfelt congratulations to Judge Lynch, of Pawnee county, for his prompt despatch of business. Judge Gaslin knows what it is to hold court and pronounce sentence at midnight. “IF the contractors are to run the city, then each department should be turned over to them,” said Mayor Broatch to the council. And the coun- cil took him at his word and promptly turned the street sweeping over to Fanning & Co. DR. NORVIN GREEN, the president of Gould’s Western Union Telegraph com- pany, was a prominent visitor at the democratic national headquarters at New York one day last week. The query arises, how much ‘“stock” have Jay Gould and the Western Union sub- scribed to the treasury of the democratic executive committoe? THE statutes of the United States prohibit the importation of foreign con- victs, the immigration of alien paupers and the coming into this country of for- eign laborers under contract. The tes- -~ timony before the congressional investi- gating committtee shows that the im- migration laws have been repcatedly violated. The question arises, what is - theuse of more rigid legislation so long as the present laws remain a dead letter? Z CE———— 5 % ‘WHERE is the board of health? The B dumping of garbage comes under its 3 inspection, and it should call the coun- i cil’s attention to the unsatisfactory 3 mothod now in use of disposing of the city’s refuse. The practice of the garbagemaster in ‘dumping filth on the streets at the levee ought to be severely condemned. It is criminal to « invite contagious sickness in that man- ner, and the beard of health should recommend to the council the necessity ,; .~ of disposing of the garbage by burning b - or by other sanitary methods, E———— THE city clerk, under the charter, 4s required to make out the tax list. “This is a duty which he is expected to merform without extra pay. It is now 3 proposed to let the work out by eontract 3 . to private parties. Mr. Auch Moedy ] proposes to take this job for two thou- eand dollars; Mr, W, J. Hahn is willing todo it for eighteen hundred dollars. The question is, why should the tax payers ot Omaha pay eighteen 3 hundred dollars for work which 3 the olerk is required to do. “« fhe city is already paying two H[h-pflued deputies and an extra 1 Jlerk to do Mr. Southard’s work. The g salarvios dvawn by the clerk and his as- A sistants amount to five hundred and - sixty-five dollars per month, or six thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars a year. Isn't it piling on the 9 agony to vote eighteen hundred dollars, more for extra clerical help? m———— THE announcement that General Roger A. Pryor, of New York, had ‘been appointed special counsel for the eivil prosecution of the trust cerpora- sions is a gratifying assuvance thatan 3 effort is really to be made to asceriain L in the courts whether thess corpora- & . tlons have a right to exist. It is pro- . posed tobring neticas in the courtsof the . . county of NewYork, and the appoint- _“ment by-the attorney-general of special “_godiisel is to be-nccepted ns indicating ~ 7 that he is about ready to move upon the works of the monopolistic ‘‘combines.” An effort was made to get u law for the su) of trusts passed by the # - legisiature at its last session, but the 4 ‘politicians of that body did not have - the cournge to respend to the popular © demand. It is belleved, . how- ‘ever, that the existing laws . of New York w'll bu found suficient for .+ suppressing the combinations. The e of the movement 1o tost the scope and gows.rs of the laws relating to _ corporations will be watched with great The Situation in Indiana. The democrats express greater confi- dence in their ability to carry Indiana since General Porter has decided to be the republican candidate for governor. They profess to have feared that with Porfer at the head of the republican state ticket the democracy would have a very small chance of carrying Indiana, but that possibility being removed they affect to believe that the state is cer- tain to go democratic. It is not questionable that General Porter as a candidate would strengthen the repub- lican cause in Indiana. Ho is especially popular with the soldier element, and he is strong with the whole people. His record as a public man is perfectly clean and his fellow-citizens of all parties respect him and are rather proud of him. He is, perhaps, the only republi- can in the state, with the exception of General Harrison, who could draw votes from the democracy. He will work hard for the success of the national ticket, though perhaps less effectively than if he were a candidate. But democrats may very easily over- estimate the effect of General Porter’s declination. It would obviously be much more serious were the national candidate not an Indiana man. There ought to be no doubt of the republicans of the state casting their full vote for General Harrison, and the only ques tion is whether they will be to any extent reinforced from the demo- crats and the independents—the latter a not very numerous body. State pride will certainly exert an influence, and it does not appear unreasonable to estimate its value at several thousand votes drawn from the democracy. As to the independents, Lucius B. Swift, their acknowledged leader, is authority for the statement that they will almost unanimously support the republican candidates. This element is very much dissatisfied with the civil service policy of the administration as exemplified in Indiana, and not having had any success in impressing its dissatisfaction at Washington, though it has made several attempts to do so, it intends to administer through the ballot box a rebuke for the failure of re- form promises. Another very important fact favorable to the republican cause in Indiana is the increasing interest which the workingmen are taking in the cause. The delegation of twenty-five hundred miners which visited General Harrison the other day contained many democrats who after the interview de- clared that they would support the re- publican ticket solely on the tariff issue. Contemplating these facts of the situ- ation carefully and fairly, and remem- bering that two years ago Indiana was carried by the republicans, we do not see how it is possible to reach any other conclusion than that the chances are largely in favor of the state giving its electoral vote to the republican candi- dates. Pauper Labor in Chicago. The Chicago Times is printing the personal inyestigations and experiences of **Nell Nelson” in the factories of that city where girls are employed. The writer is evidently a very bright woman, well qualified for the service she is performing. Her plan has been to apply for work at various establish- ments and to remain long enough where work was given her to fully inform her- self regarding the wages paid, the amount that girls were enabled to earn, the treatment of émployes, and other relevant and interesting facts. The story so far as she has told it is a very cheerless one. There are thousands of girls working in the factories of Chicago, or doing work for these factories at their homes, who cannot earn ‘enough for a proper subsistence. Those who earn three dol- lars a week are especially fortunate, much the larger mtumber earning mot more than half that amount, while Nell Nelson found some whose weekly earn- ings fell below a dollar. As to treat- ment, in most of the establishment, not the slightest attention is given to the comfort of employes. Generally the supply of girls seeking work greatly ex- ceeds the demand, so that there is no reason, except that of humanity, why the factory owner should trouble him- self or tax his pocket for the welfare of employes, and the averago man of this class is mot overflowing with humane feelings. The girls in these fac- tories pags their days of drudgery in unhealthful surroundings, many of ‘them receiving less for the results of their long hours of toil each week than their extremely plain food costs them for that time. It is a very pitiful dis- closure which the 7¥mes is making, and unfortunately it could be duplhicated in every large city of the country. Perhaps the practical sermons of Nell Nelson will do some good, but the chances are that they will accomplish next to nothing for ameliorating the condition of the thousands of factory girls of Chicago. They will furnish material for reflection to the social phi- losopher and reformer, they will help to confirm the conviction of those who believe that there is something radically wrong in the in- dustrial and social systems, and they will very likely stimulate philan- thropic interest and effort in behalf of the overworked and ill-paid girls. But the hard and relentless manufacturers will doubtless continue on in the poliey they have found to be profitable. justify- ing themselves with the plegthatactive competition on the ong hand and on the othor hand the gverabundance of labor do not warfant them in being more generous, or less ungenerous, to em- ployes. When girls crowd and jostle each other for a chance to earn twenty or thirty cents a day, it is idle to expect that the average factory owner will not take the fullest advantage of his oppor- tunity. It is an unfortunate fact that so many girls are unfitted to be anything better than factory employes, or prefer that kind of employment to do- mestic duties. There is no excess of girlsqualified to do housework properly, while there is a vory large and steadily growing demand for such. But this sort of work 1s repugnant to most girls, or rathev the iden of being regarded as servant i{ repugnans, and therefore | scasickness is purely a mental disorder and may beé prévented by the exercise of - " intorrupted the president, sternly, girls will go to the ill-paid drudgery of a factory rather than perform domestic duties, whioh besides a reasonable pe- cuniary reward would enable them to have the comforts of a home and a share in the interests and care of an em- ployer. The consequence is that the factory labor market is overcrowded and those who enter it are compelled to take what grasping and heartless mann- isposed to gl ampaign poet of the Springhield Ropublican breaks loose: Stand Hast for Ha Scarce hus 80 rare s with his pen, Sto '} Moncy, ‘br saber, or Tong for the laborer Time and again o . The ’rl’oc‘lt.)l?;:l“ o, STATE AND TERRITORY, AW v struck A e ! he new postoffice hill has c Ndbraska Jottings. snag. The snap judgment taken by the opponents of the bill has for the time being given the measure aset back. The mishap is chiefly due to the e. treme weather, w 1 caused the ab- sence of nearly one-half the members of the house. There was a bare quorum present, and on the division only one hundred and seventy-three out of the three hundred and nineteen members, were in their seats. As it was, a change of six votes would have carried the bill 1t is predictad khat 200 students will attend the fall term of Hastings colle, Kearney's electric lights arve visible at Minden, a distance of twenty miies.| One of Minden's best carpenters has struck quite a_snap, making stilts for the farmers to pick corn with, The mayor of Superior has issued an order to the chief of police to close up ail the houses of prostitution in the city and to drive out the roomers, Rulo citizens have organized a coal pros- pecting and mining company for the purpose of discovering the exteut of the recent find made in that section. through. Mr, McShane will doubt- The advent of Barnum's circus into Hast- less be able to secure a friendly | ingson thesumeday that the county fair had conference committee, and with | been fixed for has caused the fair managers to change the dute to September 25 to 25, in- clusive, The Now York life insurance company offers to build a 0,000 opera house at Kearney for $100,000 worth of insuravce, and id of five years they will present it a long pull and a strong pull the bill will go through just as soon as it can be reached. The only question now is whether the new conference commit- tee’s report can be sandwiched in be- tween pending legislation that has preference, so as to secure a vote before the adjournment. At the very worst if the bill goes over until Decem- ber, it is safe to predict its passage be- fore the holidays. That will be time enough to formulate state legislation which must be had before the govern- ment can acquire title and secure juris- diction that has to be ceded to every government building. crent of the Missouri has suddenly changed at Nebraska City, leaving tho Nebrrska side and striking about the center of the island. The railroad compauy is busy protecting the shore with rock and brush. ‘The premium list of the annual fair of the Chase county agricultural society has just been issued and is an extensive little book. The fair will be held at Imperial September 4,5, 6and 7, Premiums to the amount of $1,717 are offered. Peter Johnson, a farm hand living near York, died recently of perforation of the stomach. A post mortem examination re- vealed the fact that the liver, bladder, stomach and intestines were involved in one cancerous mass, and it was aluwost a miracle that the man had lived so long. Several farmers living near Paxton have told the editor of the Pilot that they thought ‘“their wheat would make twenty bushels per acre, 'This, at the present market price in Omaha, would amount to $12.20. Land lying adjoining these farms can be bought for from $6 to 85 per acre. The wheat on 100 acres would almost pay for 200 acres of equally as good land and yet thousands of people in eastern states are renters. Why don’t they come to Nebraska and be as in- dependent as kings?? A Pioneer Nebraskan Dead. Another of the pioneors of Nebraska, and one of the founders of Omaha, has departed to that bourne from which no traveler returns. Colonel Lorin Miller, whose death at the advanced age of eighty-eight we chronicle, was among the most respected and venerable men of this state. Identified with the great west for nearly thirty-five years, he contributed largely towards the settle- ment and development of the state and city of his adoption. He was one of the Towa. Church members at Hartly have forgotten four surveyors who laid out 'fllehEUOd o}]dh Pur;ull]u customs of :,lmirr fiure- the metropolis of Nebraska and | fathers and have fallen into the habit of buy- fixed the boundaries of her g'fnd‘,,';f" S broad thoroughfares. He saw Omaha grow from an Indian camp to a city of over one hundred thousand population. Honored with the office of mayor at a period momentous in the history of this city, he helped to welcome the first lo- comotive that reached the banks of the Missouri by rail from Chicago. During the years of his retirement from all polit- ical and business activity he enjoyed the esteem of his fellow citizéns, and felt just pride in the marvelous growth of Omaha. THERE is likely to be some trouble among the Sioux Indians who have met the commission at Standing Rock agency which may finally bring about a signing of the treaty. Many of the chiefs are disgruntled because they were omitted from the list of orators who addressed the commission. They have learned that they have the right to speak, and speak they will before the conference isended. Out of spite, there- fore, to the chiefs who preceded them they may oppose them and urge the Indians to sign the treaty. A division in the camp, it is thought, would soon influence the necessary number to sign the treaty. Shrewd old Sitting Bull, who has not yet ap- peared on the scene, is reported to fear just such a result, and is said to be dis- gusted with the Indians for remaining to talk so long with the commissioners. He is coming to Standing Rock to add his influence in opposing any conces- sions. The astute old fox has spread the report that he will not speak so long as the Indians refuse to sign the treaty. But if they waver in their pur- pose he will step into the arena and cause trouble. With this wily politician a8 the chief mugwump, the Indian con- terence will be as exciting as & political convention, . Governor Larabee has reccived from_the governor of Colorado a request to send dele- gates to o convention to be held at Denver, August 20, in the interest of sccuring an- other deep-sca part on the coast of Texas. Fred Wood of ¥nion, as assignee of the O. B. Chapin hose team, Nas brought suit_for 1,000 against the A. H. Smith team of Clin- ton, to recover prize money claimed to be un- law'ully awarded at the late firemen’s tour- nament., A ox-confoderate soldier who was relieved of his necessities by Grand Army veterans of Dubuque, told a Herald roporter that he had nover yet seen & man who woro a G. A. R. button who would “go back” on & man who wore the gray. The night watchman of the lumber yards of Knapp, Stout & Co., Dubuque, found a man trying to fixup a bunk in the lumber piles. "Tho my, did not want to, ko to fail and on the wayitried to cscape. The watch- man shot him through the abdomen and he is in @ critical condision. Dakota. The election on the question of incorporat- ing the town of Hermosa will occur August The W. C. T. U. of Bismarck will incor- porate and obtain a building to be used for permanent headquarters. Mitchell citizens guarantee $3,000 for the proposed Methodist university at that city. !J‘I:;! new building will be commenced this all. An enterprising resident of Yankton who is golng to the national G. A, R. encampment at Columbus, O., proposes to take along a corn palace car for exhibition. Five delegates favoring the nomination of Hugh J. Campbell for aelegate to congress were electod at_the Faulk county republican convention. The delegates were not in- structed. #Hon. M. H. Dunnell, the republican can- didate in the first Minnesota district, 1s the resident of the bank of New Rockford, ak., and the principal owner of the New Rockford townsite. B The guests of a Yankton hotel have been kept awake nights for a week past by pecu- liar noises in the walls, A search made re- vealed a family of infant king birds in a chimney, and the noises which have made strong men nervous wero found to issue from the tiny throats of those fledglings. ‘Wyoming. A forry costing $6,200 has been established at Fairbanks, on the:North Platte. The jury in the Patterson murder case at Cheyenne has returned a verdict of not guilty. Electric light for Evanston is now an as- sured fact. The plant will be erected with- out delay. A Cheyenne man has just found aun old county warrant among his papers which was issued in 1569, Judge Corn has refused to grant u change of venue in_the Jewell murder case at Lan- der. This is the now noted Indian murder. Some dissatisfaction is expressed in Chey- enne over the appointment of a Coloraao pre- siding elder to the superintendency of the Wyoming M. E. mission, and hones are ex- pressed of soon having a Cheyenne man at the head of it. A dispatch from Lander says the citizens of that vicinity have wired Delegate Carey to interpose a vigorous remonstrance against the withdrawal of troops from Fort Wash: kie for the summer camp, as the settlers fear trouble from the restless Indiana. A large number of Utah mutton sheep are being driven through near Evanscon on their ‘way to Nebraska, where they will be fed duriug the coming winter and placed on the early spring market. Thirteen thousand head were purchased in Utah, at $2 per head, and five thousand at Hillard at $2.75, The grocers of Laramie, without & single exception, have entered into a contract, with a forfeit of §100 to be paid by the first one who breaks the oblizatton, to close their re- spective places of Husiness' av 7:30 p. m. dur- ing the months of June, July, August and September, and at 7 o'clock p. m. the remain- ing efght months of the year, The Michigan Copper mining company in Muskrat Canon, near Rawhide Buttes, in CONGRESS appears to have determined that Mr. Cleveland should pay for his brief fishing excursion. When he got back to Washington on Tuesday he was confronted by a mass of legislation awaiting his perusal and action. Among these bills were more than one hundred private pension bills. 1If there is one thing more certain than all others to ruffle the spirits and upset the equanimity of the president it is a pri- vate pension bill, and it is safe to say that when Mr. Cleveland had these hundred evidences of the government’s generosity thrust under his nose his mental observations on congress were of a kind not suitable for family read- ing. The next three months will be a very busy period for the president, but both his industry and his powers of en- durance are equal to the task, E— IF THE reports from New York be true there ave to be some stupid dem- onstrations when the campaign formally opens in that city. The democrats are said to beorganizingaband of Chinamen to parade and carry Harrison and Mor- ton banners for the purpose of having photographs faken of the procession and 1 scattering them on the Pacific coast. 3 : e county, have contracted to fur- The republicans, it is ®eid, will re- smelter ab Fairbanks with fifty tons talliate by getting -ap parade of | of ore per day. The mining company have also sold a very large quantity of ore in bulk to the smelter. The smelter is to haul tha ore from the infnes, a distance ol twent, five miles, andthis hauling confract b been let and the ‘téaming bezun last Satur- day. 4 British tars dressed in suits made of the Englisk Jack and carrying Cleve- land and Thurman portraits. All such horse-play is not only foolish but a use- less waste of campaiga funds. The campaign ought not be made a circus. A Chance for Civil Service. Globe-Democrat, Ason has just been added to theroyal household of Germany—another evidence of Prosident Cleveland's disposition to let for- eign nations get the advantages of this country, v gt i *A Condition Not a Theory." COhicago Trihune. The yacht danced merrily over the blue waves, The president leaned over the side ‘of the vessel, looking with g1az6d eye at the water, and at intervals briefly yet frantic- ally apostrophizing the mighty deep in Vol- k. “Dan,” said he, ‘‘ugh—wow~—is there no cure for this sort of miscry? A _*“I'hiere is & thieofy, sir,” réplied Dan, ‘that r——— FOR THE PEOPLE. Anti-Monopoly and Settlers’' Rights Association of Csiorado. To the presidentof the United States, the secretary of the interior, the attorney gen- eral, the commissioner of the general land office, and the honorable senators and rep- resentatives in the congress of the United States, greeting : The nnderniined, on behalf of the members of this association and all good faith home-seekers in Colorado, and in behalf of iuslica and right and common decency in the administration of public affairs, respectfully represent: 1. That the Union Pacific ilway company has in the past been permitted to steal thousands of acres of the public domain in Colorado, 2. That this land was never in any shape, manner or form granted to said company or any of its associate com{,m- nies, and neither legally nor ‘equitably has spid company any more or groater claim to the same than to the capitol grounds at Washington. 3. That this land in large measure consists of th ed by the famous Dunmeyer decisi nd that lying be- yond and without the original grants and embraced within what is known as the “Triangle” adjacent to Denver. 4. That large portionsof this land has by said company been ostensibly sold at nominal figures to Denver and Colorado speculators, who never purchased the same for establishing homes, but simpl and solely for the purp of specu tion; that these tracts range in arcs from 160 to 10,000 acres, and in nine cuses out of ten, have never been & tually settled upon by the speculative purchasers. 5. That, not content with recovering from the company on their warranty deeds, these Denver speculators and said company have devoted their vast means and energy to influencing the land department at Washington, ana securing congressional legislation for the purpose of curing, quicting, perfect- ing and patching up these fraudulent and stolen titles, and that for this pur- vose, they have for over two years, through the ablest lawyers and most astute lobbyists, importuned the United States land department at Washington for favorable rulings and orders, and that these same lawyers and_ lobbyists have been in constant attendance dur- ing this and the preceding congress, and, besides arguing before committees and lobbying geueraliy, they have per- sonally or by proxy button-holed%very individual member of congress and every department official time and again. These facts you personally know to be true. 6. That, relying upon the United States land laws and the decisions of the supreme court of the United States and not for one moment questioning integrity or manhood of the legislative and administrative officials of the government, a great many needy and good faith home-seekers filed upon tracts of this land and actually settled upon and improved the same. That these filers and settlers are universally and proverbially poor and in need of homes and have no means nor resources to enable them to employ law- yers or lobbyists to constantly wait upon the department and congress at ‘Washington, and 1f their rightsand in- terests are to be taken away from them and the decisions of the supreme court of the United States and the land laws of the United States are to be ignored, st aside or overruled by procured ruls ings and lobbied legislation, then are they helpless; but 8. If you desire fair play and are in- clined to put a stop to the legislative legerdemain that are always called into requisition where the interests of an American citizen are to be subverted to the greed of a railway corporation, if you have confidence in the supreme court of the United States and are de- sirous of having its adjudications en- forced according to their letter and spirit—in short, if you are on the side of the Hm)pla and against the methods an influences that have corrupted our legislation for many years; in the name of justice, in the name of American citizenship, in the name of common decency we beg and pray that you will raise your voice against” this despicable monopolistic manceuvre that is about to be consum- matea in the sole interest of the Union ¢ railway company and several Denver millionaires, and against not only poor settlers, but against the ited States land lawe and the de- cisions of the highest court in our land. 9. We have heretofore forwarded to one of the senators from this state a petition, with several thousand signa- tures appended, upon thissubject. Suit has been commenced by the govern- ment to sot aside these void titles: but the bill now before you which has been drawn with consummate skill and un- scrupulous astuteness will, if passed, render these court proceedings of no avail to the people, but will enable the said speculators to perfect their titles, Dwianr H. HEYWO0O0D, President. JAMES H. KNIGHT. Secretary. DENVER, Col., July 25, 1888, mestla s o= The Vote in Towa. CuArMAN, Neb,, July 31.—To the Editor of the Bee: What was the official vote in Towa in 18847 Please answer through the columns of the BEE. CHARLES R, CAUGIHLAN, Blaine received 197,089 votes, Cleveland ,316 votes, and St. John 1,472 votes. There was a fusion of the democratic and green- back parties, so that the other presidential candidate, Butler, did not receive any votes. | et Al A Strange Language. At the last meeting of the Berlin An- thropological society, Lieutenant Que- denfeldt, a German officer who has lived on Gomero island, one of the Canary group, described a whistling language which is used by the inhabitants. The language does not consist of any arbi- trary series of signals or sounds. It is described as ordinary speech translated into articulate whistling, each syllable having its own appropriate tone. The Gomero uses both lingers and lips when whistling, and Lieutenant Quedenfeldt asserts that he can carry on a conversa- tion with a neighbor a mile off, who erfectly understands all he is saying. R‘hc practice is confined to Gomero island, and is quite unknown to the other islands of the archipelago. The adoption of the whistling language is said to be due to the peculiar geograph- ical construction of Gomero island, It is traversed by mumevous gullies and deep ravines, runnmg out in all divec- tions from the central plateau. As they are not bridged they can only be crossed with great difficulty; hence a mun liv- ing within a stone’s throw of anotherin a straight line has often to go many miles when he wishes to sce and speak to his neighbor. This, it is conjectured, led to the adoption of whistling as a useful means of communication, which has gradually assumed the proportions f a true substitute for speech. ——— Cheap Whisky and Dear Whisky. Amerie The newspapers of Phila- delphia are agreed in the statement that since the unew high license law went into eflect in that city,a few woeks ago, the number of saloons has been re- duced to a mere fraction of the previous total, while in some wards they have peen wiped out altogether; that the ar- rests for intoxication and disorderly conduct are not one-third as numerous as in former years; and that tradesmen report an increased demand for food, clothing, and family supplies, whicir are now made available owing to the decrensed expenditure for ligor. might be argled that licensing crime is immoral, but high license is the only practical manner of regulating the greatest evil of the day. Free whisky will not do it, but dear whisky will take the liquor out of the reach of the poor man, and he is the one most injured. - Telegram to Tue Bee]—In a difl Pittsborough, Calhoun county, betwegn Bob Regan, who was assaulted by Jim and E. W. Enochs and Charles Calhoun, Rugan re- treated into a blackswith shop, but was fol- lowed by his assailants, who continued the attack on him, He fiually drew a knifc and cut Cathoun, who fell dead. The Enochs ‘were both severely cut and may not recover, o TRYING TO 8QUARE HIMSE! General Black the Schemer Who Man« ipulated the Colored Convention, Wasmixatoy, August 1.—[Special to Tie Ber.]—A gentleman who has business at the pension offico says he has run against J, Mitton Turner, the colored man who was sent by the administration to Indianapolis to lead the colored men’s convention for a di- vision of the colored vote, almost every time o has gone to the ponsion building during the past six woeks, and that many of the plans carried out in the Indianapolis conven- tion were originated by Commissionor Black. “General Black,” says‘this gentleman, ‘‘is extremely anxious to make himself solid with President Cleveland, and he conceived tne idea of turning his abilities toward an organ- ization of the colored men with a view to dividing the colored vote at the polls in No vember, The president is very much in- censed at some of the ucts of General Black during the past six or cight months, aud has marked him for decapitation. To begin with, the president was groatly pro- voked at Black's persistency in runuing for Ly ntial nomination, and then Black has misled the chief executive in furnishing pension vetoes, You know ncarly every one of the pension vetoes were written in the pension oflice by clerks designated for the purpose, and the instructions of the president were to the effect that the facts pointed out in the vetoes should indeed be facts without any possible speculation, and that the reasons given in the vetoes for dis- approval should be entirely different from d when the cases were origin- rejected by the pension oflice. The president has found that these instructions, in many instances, were disregarded, and that falso information and prejudice have largely governed the clerks who have written the vetoes, and that in_many instances the identical languago used when the cases were rejected lias boen employed in the vetoes, This put the president inan em- barrassing situation, and will leaa him to further condemnation when this peusion veto business is thoroughly looked into. “In_the first place,” continued the gentle- man, Ythe president thinks General Black is 100 ambitious; and in the second plice he says ho is too reckless and partisan. Gen eral Black has beon running a regular politi- cal bureau for two or thre rs and has made no secret of the fac Nearly all of the civil service scandals which have come out against the present administration can be laid at the door of the commissioner of pensions, whom_the president holds blame- worthy for nearly all of his political evils. It may not be true that the president has, as reported, requested General Black's resigna- tion, but I think the president may just as well have asked for the commissioner's res- ignation as to have sat down upon him as hard as he has upon four or five occasions recently." gt After a Military Pl WAsHINGTON, August 1.— [Special Telegram toTueBee.|—It was rumored at the war department yesterday that Captain Lawton of the Sixth cavalry will be tendered the pro- motion to the forthcoming vacancy in the adjutant general’s department on the 20th of this month. There has been a v.gorous struggle for this army plum in which Cap- tain John G. Bourke, of the Third cavalry, Captain J. B. Babceock, of the Fifth cavalry and Captain Lawton have been competitors, Captain Bourke has had the warm endorse- ment of General Crook and the active work of the entire Neobraska delogation. For some weeks past it has been known that the appointment lay between him and Captain Lawton. Lawton was, however, more early on the grounds and has had the strong sup- port of the Indiana delegation, in which state he was a colonel of volunteers durin the late war, LF, —~——— aska and lowa Patents. N WasniNeroN, August 1.—[Special Tele- gram to Tug BEeg]--Patents were grant- ©d to the following Nebrasia and Iowa invent ors: Frank A. Bagley, assignor to himself and T. McCulla, Cherokee, Ia.,, feed gauge for plate printing presses; fdward P. Lynch, Davenport, Ta., horso hay rake; William G, MacLaughlin, Omaha, assignor to Mac- Laughlin Chemical Motor and Heating company, Seward, Neb,, generating steam and heating air apparatus for chem- ically heating water to produce steam and apparatus for automatically producing heat; James Mahedy, Sperry, In., regulating dam- per for cooking-stoves; C. Nathaniel and J. Ritchie Miller, What Choer, Ia., rock drill; Henry C. Plambeck, Davenport, Ia,, cigar mold; John A. Roberts, Clarinda, Ia., wire fence machine; Frank P. Stanloy, Spencer, In., post-hole auger; Harvey N. Simms, Des Moines, Ia,, pole and shafts for vehicles; Henry M. Wheth, Council Bluffs, Ia., pump. —— Trying to Hedge. ‘WasHINGTON, August 1.—|Special to Tur Bee.|—Since the publication of the fact that the democrats were using the Grand Army badge with a picture of Clevelana in the center of the star,there has been a great deal of com- ment among the democratic leaders here, be- cause they see that the scheme is likely towork to their detriment. All sorts of plans have been suggested to offset the evident opposi- tion which this badee has created in Grand Army circles, and it seems now that they have hit upon one which is likely to prove successful. ~ Within the past twenty-four hours dealers who have had a stock of the Grand Army badges with Cleveland's picture as an adornment have been supplied with a stock of similar badges in which a picture of Harrison {s used. Thisisa nicelittle scheme to make 1t appear that the Cleveland badge was not a political trick to steal the G. A. R. thunder, but Inasmuch as it was offered for sale several weeks before the Harrison badge of similar design, it will hardly have the desired effect. A FIRST-CLASS FRIGATE. Touched Even Water. New York Times: As the work of the new cruisers progresses the besom of do- struetion 1s making a clean sweep of all that remains of the last of our wooden vessels, designed during the civil war and never launched, and a visitor at the navy yards cannot fail to notice the wonderful change that haslately passed over the frames of what was at one time intended to be a fivst-class steam frigate of a tonaage slightly vger than the Chicago, and which, when launched, it was intended to christen the New Yor! This vessel, whose frame has for a qu tor of a century filled the large ship- house to the left of the main avenue of the yard, has for the past few week been growing gradually smallerund b fore the three months of the contract limit expire theve will be very little of this much-discussed vessel remaining. Her keel was laid during the civil war, and, unlike numerous other vessels con- structed during that busy period of wood that was actually growing in the forest when the contract for building them was drawn up, the timber used the New York is of selected seasone ok, ps hard as iron, as the %ols used by the workmen in tearing her to pieces afford ample testimony. Popular opinien was very much in fa- vor of (‘ompfizllng the ship,even though she was only used us a transport, a class of vessel, by the way, of which our 2vy seems strangely delicient, ard one whose services would alwiys be in de- mand to keep up thesupplies of our for- eign stalisng@nd to transport men and mmrorial to and from the isthmug when occasion required, The only strong argument uscd against the New York, and the one which proved sufficient] tent to decide her fate, was that this s an age of steel shipbuilding, and the fact that this vessel was to be built en- tirely of wood was quite sufficient in the eyes of the powers that be to con- demn her. Hed she heen completed she might have made a formidable cruiser, with of course more or less do- purture from her original design, which would have sceyred for her fore-and- aft firc and other eqaally important ad- vantages so absolutely necessary to the modern cruiser. The propnrations for her completion were even far enough, advanced to inelude the finishing ofher That Never the boilers and engines, which were all ready to be shipped on hers and set us in the vessel, as at one time the min of the navy department was made up to complete her, ’nr opposite her name in some of the old navy registers we find New York under the h ing of vessely of the first rate that require extensive re« pairs, with this remark as to her condi- tion: ““On the stocks to bo completed.” This, however, was before much had actually been accomplished toward the construction of the steel vessels, When fully committed to this material, and with largé contracts entered into, which will eventually give us a navy of which wo can once again be proud, the fate of the New York was effoctually sealed and she was again ordored to be appraised, but the value placed upon her was altogether too high to attract any bidders, and the appraisement was onsidered and very much reduced. enatthe low figure at which this esti- mate of her value was placed nobody came forward to invest, and she was sold to the present contractor for $10, with which the government, after ex- vending a quarter of a million dollars, had to content itself, The secret of all this lies in the f: of its being a vory hard and oxy ? job to break up so stanch a craft and that the material recovered hasno vory - high ma value. The vessel, ns a vessel, is of course utterly useless, and the question simply resolved itself into one of wages to be paia in pulling her to pieces, against whatever sum she will bring as firewood and junk, with a possible bid from mechanics who work in hard timber of short length pieces, such perhaps, as wagon and wheel makers. The prospect of the demoli- tion being finished within the svecitied time are from present indi- cations in favor of the econtractor, as the immense frames which rose fifty feet or more from the ground are visibly crumbling until now the flooring alono remains, and has the appearance of an immense sandal. The cutting away of the upper timbers, itself no easy task, is simple enough when compared with the almost solid mass of floor timbers which remain to be disposed of, as they are bolted through and through with the idea of securing a structure strong enough to resist the shock of the mighty waves and to bear the heavy weights of engines and battery. Itis this systom of bolting that makes it so very difficult to wrench the timbers a as the bolts pass in every direction in which the greateststrainsare expected; conse- quently the saws used in breaking up the frames are frequently rendere almost useless, as they bring up against an unexpected bolt, when the slower process of wedging has to be resorted to. As a rule the breaking up of the old vessels is very much simplified by burn- ing them. They are towed to the flats at top high water so as to get them as far above low water mark as possible, and are then thoroughly fired in nu- merous places and allowed to burn until all inflammable material has been con- sumed. The metal is then recovered at low water and sold for old junk. In the case of the New York, however, this plan was obviously not feasible, as the ship was only in frame without any planking = what- ever, and although this state of construction adds greatly to the ease of pulling her apart it renders it impossi- ble to launch the vessel without goin, to the great expense of planking an calking or whatever else is nocessary to make her fit for transportation to some convenient burning place. The im- mensely valuable property in the imme- diate neighborhood of the shiphouse, both government and private, naturall prevents any other plans being fullo\mx than the one at present being carried out. Some idea of the time and amount of work required may be formed when one considers that the vessel is about 3385 long and forty-five feet beam—n very respectable ’xpilc of kindling wood and old junk. The bolts so far taken from her are mostly of iron, but those bind- ing the keel and floor timbers together will bring much more in the market, as they are copper. When 1t has been as- certained how much material there will be to dispose of, proposals from outside parties will be invited, and the success- ul bidders will then take charge and remove their purchases from the ship- house, which will then be thororghly cleaned and possibly made ready for a new battleship. Let us hope that it will be the finest and most successful yet &'opnsud, the prototype of others yet come, and that she to may be christenod the New York —_— Gures by IN EVERY ONE A ? g o B THE @iiAs-A-VoceLeR Co-BALTo-Mp- DRUNKENNESS Or tho Liquor Habit, Positively Cured by Administering Dr. Halnes’ Golden Specifie. 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