Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1888, Page 4

S " THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, AUGUST % 1888 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, . WASHINGTON OFFIC NTH STREET. CORRESPOND ANl communications relating to torial matteratiould be addres dto e HeE, sy BUSINESS LETTERS, Al business letters and remittances should be addres-ed to THE BEE PUBLISUING CONPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and po-tof ors 10 De made payable to the order of the company. The Bce‘PnblisnlnE Compeny, Proprietos. SEWATER, Editor. and edi- 16 KDITOR Sworn Statement of Circulation. ftate of Nebraska, 1 County of Douglas, | % prge I3, Tzsennck, being first duly sworn, ‘and says that he is secrotary of ‘Ihe blishiug company, that the actual aver daily circiilation of the Daily Bee for month of August, 187, was 14,151 coples; Eeptember, 187, ' 1LH9 2 47, pios. Bworn 1o el presece this 1st iy of A TiE coming county convention will not be a cut-and-dried affair with thir- ty-seven gagged und tagged dummies, advertised as delegates to the republi- can state convention SINCE the retirement of ‘‘General” Colby from the congressional race, the state of Beatrice is in hourly ex- pectation of an epic poem on congres- sional pacers by their poet lariat, Griggs. It does not take long for our citizens to go wild over a base ball game, but when it comes to building a million dollar hotel or a railroad to the north- west their enthusiasm ovzes out at their finger ends. —_— MELVILLE W. FULLER is in Wash- ington house hunting. There are even more serious duties for a chief justice of the United States who has eight lovely daughters than the interpretation of knotty points of law. EVERYBODY ought to heave a sigh of relief. The Regan Bros.’ contracts bave been compromised for the present at least, and the Regans have now an opportunity to redeem themselves by pushing along the paving. THE most comical sight at next win- ter’s session of the legislature will be the crowd that tore out sections of the city charter which were offensive to ‘We, Us & Co., doing their utmost to have those torn-out patches restored. It is alittle too early to make pre- dictions, but we believe we are safe in signaling the nomination of Pat Ford on the democratic legislative ticket. Pat wants an ‘‘honorable” jug handle to his name. He'll have the jug, but the handle will break off wheu the returns are all in, —— DENVER is getting ready to entertain the delegates to the Deep-Water con- vention the latter part of this month. This is not to be a prohibition conven- tion as the name may imply, but it is to wvoice more strongly the steps taken at Fort Worth, Texas, a few weeks ago to establish a deep-water harbor on the ‘coast of Texas. Bl to say thal e Rock Islond and Santa Fe were frightened from extending their lines into Ne- braska this summer on account of the stand taken by the state board of trans- portation. The truth of the matter is tbat very little extension of new roads 18 now under way on any lines of rail- roads east of the Rocky Mountains. The large amount of railroad building last year has made & drain on the re- sources of these railroad comvanies, and it may be a season or two before projected lines can be built. For all that both the Rock Jsland and Santa Fe are heading toward Nebraska. Both lines terminate at the southern boundary line,and even a blind man must see that they are anxious for a share of the heavy grain and freight traffic of ‘which they are now deprived. —— THE BEE pays more money for tele- graphic news than all the dailies in Ne- ‘braska, Iowa, Kansas and Colorado com- bined. Only five other dailies in Amer- doa are on equal footing with it in the matter of the New York Herald cabies. In the face of this, an afterncen sheet, which steals nine-tenths of its “*special” dispatches out of the columus of the morning edition of Tue BEE, has the sublime impudence’ to chal- lenge comparison of its news columns with those of THE BEE. This 18 about on a par with the alleged mar- velous growth of circulation of papers that consume less paper in a week than Tue BEE does on any one day,and have their ciroulation inflated chiefly by throwing papers into tront and back yards of people who do not want them, and never inteund to pay for them. A PROMINENT member of the South Omaha Land Syndicate makes bold to assert that grading, paving, curbing, sewering and all public works, can be done much cheaper in South Omaha by responsible contractors than in Omaha, If this be true there must be something rotten in ourmunicipal Den- mark. South Omaha begins just where Omaha ends. The two corporations are divided only by an 1magivary line, which is called » boundary. The credit of Omaha is certainly better than that of her su- burban neighbor. Contractors in Omaha are paid just as promptly as those in South Omahn. Why, then, should there be any material difference in prices, unless there are combinations %o prevent fair competition in col- lusion with public officials? While there has been undue partiality shown by the council to eertain contractors, thore is no proof as yet thatall the contractors have formed trust. The ; * matter will, howaver, bear investiga- Those Delayed Liotters, The long delay of the presidential candidates in giving the public their letters of acceptance is said to be un- precedented. It is within a few days of two months since Mr. Cleveland was nominated and about six weeks since the nomination of General Harrison. What is the reason for the delay? It ghould not require from either candi- date the application of more than five or six hours to write the necessary letter. It need not be claborate. The country knows the prodomiuant issue in the campaign, and it is not re- quired that either candidate shall di cuss it at great Jength. Their spoctive parties expect an expression of opinion from them, something of the nature of a “keynote,” but this can be given in fifty lines or less. And the shorter the letters are the more certain will it be that they will receive careful and thoughtful perusal. Mr. Cleveland has not been so greatly overworked since his nomination that he could not have found leisure to write a letter of acceptance. Possibly he utilized a part of the time of his fishing excursion for this purpose. General Harrison has roally had very little time to himself since his nomination, and he is to be pardoned if he used that for a needed rest. There have been several reasons suggested for the delay. As to Mr. Cleveland, it has been intimated that he was waiting to see what decision the republicans of the senate would come to regarding a tarifl measure as a substitute for the Mills bill, and the probable character of such a measure. It is not apparent why this should par- ticularly concern the democratic candi- date, who, in any event, must adhere to the policy indicated in the tarift bill that passed the house. If he should deem it proper and expedient to discuss this subject, there would seem to be abundant material already at hand to suggest argument without waiting for any furtherdevelopments. A more prob- able rcason is the desire of the presi dent to get the fullest possible informa- tion regarding the drift of public senti- ment on the leading issue, so that he may discreetly guard his utterances. There will be no more important con- tribution to the campaign than this let- ter of acceptance. Upon it the people will make up and render their judgment on Mr. Cleveland and his party. After it has been given to the country it must stand for just what it is. Its defects and errors, if any there be, will then admit of neither modification nor explanation. Hence the importance of great care in its preparation with reference to the course of public sentiment on the matter with which it will chiefly deal. As to General Harrison’s lotter, it has been assumed that he is holding it back until the appearance of Mr. Cleveland’s. He may do this with entire propriety in view of the fact that his nomination was preceded by that of the democratic candidate, though obvi- ously he can have nothing to gain by so doing. A campaign is not regularly opened until the candidates have signified their acceptance in writing, and doubt- less the true solution of the delay is the desire to putoff starting the active work of the campaign until a more propitious. season for such work. The probability is that both lesters are so nearly ready, if not com- pleted, that they can be given to the public at any time when their authors and those in their counsel think proper. Meanwhile, both caudidates having orally signified their acceptance of the nominations their candidacy is just as secure and well-attested as it will be when they have complied with the for- mality of publishing their written ac- ceptance. e — Important, Though Not an Issue. In the course of his speech toa dele- gation last Tuesday General Harrison said that the American people do uot mean to be contented with their own market. ‘““We should seek,” he said “to promote closer and more friendly commercial relations with the Central aund South American States.” In the opinion of General Harrison one of the great needs of the country 1s the estab- lishment of steamship lines between our ports and the ports of the countries in the southern half of the hemisphere. He thinks one way to accomplish this is for the government toadopt a reason- ably liberal policy in the paying for a mail service to those countries. It is not possible to make this ques- tfon of increasing our commercial rela- tions with the Central and South American states an issue 1n the pres- ent campaign, but it is not therefore the less important. We are now at a humiliating disadvantage in compari- son with other nations, and particu- larly Great Britain, in our trade with the states to the south of us. We buy of them very largely, but we sell them only a very small part of their pur- chases. England, Germany and France enjoy almost the entire trade of Cen- tral and South America, and every year increases their hold upon the com- merce of those states, several of which are exhibiting great enterprise and making wonderful progress. Recent statistics of the Argentine Republic show that no country is pushing for- ward more vigorously in material pros- perity, while the good effects of eman- cipation in Brazil are being shown in a general industrisl improvement that promises for that empire great progress. Venezuela and Chili are also pushing forward and pursuing a policy that as- sures future prosperity. All this is well known and shrewdly taken advantage of by the European natives that have established a vast and profitable trade with Central and South America. They.do not withhold any en- couragement necessary to maintain and enlarge this trade. But the United States, which by reason both of pro- pinquity and mutual interests should have a larger share of this trade than any other country, gets but a very small part of it, and for that must de- pend almest wholly upon the transpor- tation facilities of rival nations. Nine- tenths, atleast, of all the commerce be- tween the United States and the states of - Central and South America is carried in - foreign ~vessels,” thus ufacturers wholly at the mercy of alien vessel owners, both as to carriage and the charges therefor, The commission authorized by con- gress which visited Central and South America two years ago reported that the essential thing for increasing our commerce in that quarter waa rapid and adequate transportation faecilitios. Doubtless our tariff systom is an imped- iment, but if this did not exist we should male little progress without the transportation facilities. How these shall be secured, without requiring the government to adopt the repugnant sub- sidy policy, is the perplexing question. A Consistent Champlon, Mr. Frye is the champion of the Outh- waite bill in the senate. This will sur- prise nobody who knows Mr. Frye's record. When he was u member of the house he was always on his feet cham- pioning every bill in which the Union Pacific was interested, and opposing every measure looking toward the re- straint of its vapacity, Mr. Frye opposed every bill to compel the Union Pacific to take out its patents for subsidy lands which were untaxed and untaxable so long as the patents were not taken out. Mr. Frye fought and defeated the Crounse land tax bill which had been indorsed by the republicans of Ne- braska in one of the planks of their platform and had the indorse- ment of the Nebraska legislature. Mr. Frye was chiefly instrumental in defeating in the house bills to reduce Uunion Pacific bridge tolls, and the nat- ural inference is that he must have re- ceived a retainer from the road. In sthnding up for the Outhwaite bill Sena- tor I'rye is at least not inconsistent. I1 18 probable that the president will approve the bill passed by congress to prevent “squaw” men from acquiring title or right to any tribal property ov interest in Indian Territory, such legislation having been first suggested by Mr. Lamar when he was secretary of the interior. It is weil understood that white men who marry Indian women are almost without exception worthless adventurers or reckless desperadoes, and they have been toa very large ex- tent responsible for the deviltry and the depredations of the Indians. Stripping them of .all property rights or inte ests will have the effect of depriv: them of influence, though doubtless with such a law in force squaw men would in time become very scarce, since the sole object generally of white men in marrying Indian women is to acquire proporty. The proposed law is just and necessary, and will doubtless receive executive approval. ———— Buyi¥a wheat from Russia and India has a new terror for England. Cargoes of this ‘‘pauper” grain have introduced on British farms several species of Russian weevils and other pests, and the Royal Agricultural society has taken action to protect English agriculture from this imported infliction. The best preventative is for John Bull to buy his wheat and grain of his old reliable cousin Uncle Sam who sells him cereals and breadstuffs of the first quality only, and at rock-bottom prices. Judged by Their Sports. Philadelphia Press. Our friends the enemy are criticising Gea- eral Harrison because he goes to ball games. Mr. Cleveland never does anything so ple- beian. Cricket, good old English cricket, is what pleases him. pran e A Thoughtful Wife. Globe Democrat. Mrs, Cleveland has gone to visit the editor of the Century Magazine—probably with a view to inducing him to discontinue the publication of those articles about the war, which are annoying to her husbaud. —————— OCheap at the Price. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Boston statistician estimates that the expenses of the present political campaign ‘will amount to not less than $20,000,000. That is & pretty large sum, but the country can well afford to pay it for the blessing of de- liverance from democratic rule, —_— A Gooi Country. Providence Journal. If the ancient statesman who remarked that he did not care who made the laws of a nation if he could make its songs were now lving and could read the poetry of the pres- ent campaign he would retract, and prefer even the privilege of taking the ‘“straw vote.” — Protect Us From Pauper Hens. T. H. B. Miller, of Cambria, Ia., has senta humorous petition to congress on the tariff question. It was presented in the house to- day. He says that 16,000,000 dozen of eggs were imported into this country last year and demands that a tariff onthat article of diet be levied high enough to protect Ameri- can poultry from competition with the pau- per hens of Europe. Lltze S He s Smaller Than Bismarck. Chieago Netvs. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew has been having a great time in London. He has met any number of celebrities, and wo doubt has told them all the latest gossip from the states. Mr. Depew as a teller of gossip has few equals and no superior. As a statesman he is several sizes smaller than Bismarck or Gladstone. If this be tzeason, make the most of it. ' ki A Good Country, Chicagn Tribune. “I tell yuh,” said the man with the som- brero, “‘there is no country like Texas fur a live young man. I went thar ten years ago ‘thout a cent in my pocket, an’ I know what I'm talkin' about.” “Pretty well fixed now, are you!" inquired a bystander. ““Well tixed? T'vegot the golwhoppmest pack o' hounds that ever chawed & horse- thief.” —_—— The Lund of Liberty. Tunes. Qur country, 'tis of thee, BSweet land of pov—libert: of we si—Lum; Land where our shirts are stayed, ‘Where girls can learn a trade, live on—gum. pereia—— STATE JOTTINGS. Nebraska. The enroliment of the Columbus schools for the past year was 217 male and 213 fe- male pupils. Three Tecumseh gentlemen were present, by invitation, at the lynching of the mur- derer Emmons, at h:nul’c'!;y'. {‘Iw'll 8 very select mns and on elite were (svznd with “bids.” pubting Amwrican meérchauts and man- | could secure, only man in the United States who was ever buried alive for nine days and finally rescued, A young English preacher named Rodwell occupied the Pulpit of the M. E. church at Ulysses last Sungay. He is described as one of our homaspun, everyday feliows, who 10 look at doesuM abpear to kuow any more than the rest of'8s, but a dandy just the same. It was almost as hot as hades iu the lit- tle church, and the preacher, getting warm under the collar, stripped off his cout, threw it on the floor, and rolling up_the flannel shirt sleeve of his right arm, ko caused a smile to wreatha the faces of the mwsthetio young ladies. Fhen he waded in and gave the congregation some good old orthordox doctrine, dovetailing in apt_scriptural quo- tations and clen8hipg his points in a work- manlike manner. . He made a great hit, even if he did preach for two hours, and the Ulysses people want, to hear hun again, An interesting history of Chase county is given in connection with the premium Tist Just iseued by the county agricultural society. The first homestoaders pitched their tents in the county in the spring of 1:85. season the tide of immigration flowed on and by autumn all the best laud in the county on taken, Tho actual settlement did ur, however, until the spring of 1386, Every homesteader spread wide the fame of the land he had located in, and his friends and neighbors followed him, June 1, 1885, saw probably one hundred white settlers in the county. June 1 one year later there were between three and four thousand. In the nortnern part of the county is the starting point of the Stinking Water creek, It is formed wholly by springs. The name of this stream is dorived wholly from the fact that formerly large numbers of buffalo, and in latter times cattle, perished each spring by becoming mired in the pouds formed by beaver along its course. No purer, better water can be found on the continent than the waters of this atream. Although the county has been settled but a little over two years it contains about fifty school districts and nearly as many school houses. There are fine church buildings in some of its towns and with bright prospects of new ones being built this fall. lowa, William A. Fox, an old-time landlord at Sioux City, died of paralysis Wednesday. An oat thief caught in Dubuque the other night proved to be an old and respected citi- zen. One thousand members have been added to the Knights of Pythias in the state dur- ing the last nine month The contract for the erection of the new corn palace at Sioux City has been let, and work will commence Monday. Last Sunday Father Spring, of LaMars, attained the advanced age of eighty-eight years, and in _rememberance thero of pre- sented to the Presbyterian Sunday school a sum of money equal to his age, The oldest voter in Iowa is said to be Micah French, of Nev: Story county, who is 97 years old. He voted for Monroe in 1515, and carries a British bullet in his body which he received in the war of 1512, He expects to vote for Harrison in November. A schoolhouse in Preston township, Ply- mouth county. was struck by lightning last week while school was in sossion, The bolt broke every paneof glass and otherwise damaged the building. “Several of the pupils were stunned and the teacher received a slight scorch on the hand. e The Number of the Stars. Century. The total number of stars one can see will depend very largely upon the clearness of the atmosphere and the keenness of the eye. There are in the whole celestial sphere about 6000 stars visible to an ordinarily good eye. Of these, however, we can never see more than n fraction at any one time, hecause a half of the sphere is always below the horizon If we could see a star in the ha 1 a8 easily as in the zenith, a half of the whole number, or 3000, would be visible on anyjclear night. Butstars near the horizen are seen through so great a thickness of atmosphere as greatly to obscure their light, and only the brightest ones can there be seen. As a vesult of this obscuration, it is not likely that more than 2000 stars can ever be taken in at a single view by an ordi- nary eye. About 2000 other stars are so near the South Pole that they never rise in ourlatitudes. Hence, outof 6000 supposed to be visible, only 4000 ever come within the range of our vision,un- less we make a journey towards the equator. As telescopic power is increased, we still find stars of fainter and fainter light. But the number cannot go on increasing forever in the same ratio as with the brighter magnitudes, because, if it did, the whole sky would be a blaze of starlight. f’( tele- scopes with powers far exceeding our present ones were made, they would no doubt show new stars of the twentieth and twenty-first, ete., mani- nitudes. But it is highly probable that the number of such successive orders of stars would not increase in the same ratio as is observed in the eighth, ninth and tenth magnitudes for example. The enormous labor of estimating the num- berof stars of such clusses will long prevent the accumulation of statistics on this question, but this much is cer- tain, that in special regions of the sky, which have been searchingly examined by various telescopes of successively in- creasing apertures, the number of new stars found is by no means in propor- tion to the increased instrumental power. If this is found to be true else- where, the conclusion may be that,after all the stellar system can be experi- mentally shown to be of finite extent and to contain only a_finite number of stars. In the whole sky an eye of aver- age power will see about 6,000 stars as I have justsaid. With a telescope this number is greatly inercased, and the most powerful telescopes of modern times will show more than 60,000,000 stars. Of this number not one out of one hundred has ever been catalogued at all, * * * in all 814,926 stars, from the first to the 93 magnitudes, are contained in the northern sky; or about 600,000 in both hemispheres. All of these can be seen with three inch ob- ject glass. ——— Materialism in America. Century. I do not ask that men of wealth shall give more mongy to the church, which is often stronger when it 18 poor than when it is rich;jnor to the poor and thriftless, whom unearned money only keeps in poverty. T urge that the power to make money, like any other power, is a trust bestowed on the possessor for humanity. Thepreacher who preaches for his salary, vot for the spiritual well- being of his parishoners, is a mercen- avy; the physician' who practices for his fees, not to cure the sick, is a mercen- ary; the lawyen who pleads for his hon- oranium, not forgustice, is a mercen- ary; the politican’who enacts laws for what he can make, not for the commun- ity, is a mercenary; no less the manu- facturer, the merchant, the trader, the man on ’change, who transacts his busi- ness to make money, not to give the community its meat in due season, is a mercenary. In the history of the nine- teenth century, the doctrine that wealth is & trust must stand by the side of the doctrine that labor is an honor and lib- erty is an obedience. The materialism that threatens the American church is not the materialismof Herbert Spencer. It is the materialism of the railroad, the h(‘\or{, the shop; the materialism that uts thinghood above manhood; that 0es not know that things were made for man, not man for things—that God gives us, not Irishmen to build our rail- roads, but railroads to build Irishmen; not Hungarians to dig our mines, bu it mines to develop manhood in Hungar- | isns. 3 All the | THE SHERIFF UNDER FIRE. His Reasons for the Things Oriticised by Expert Points, The financial committee of the county com- ners 18 discussing the findings of ner Points it the reports of the county officers. The latter reported that the sherift had uncollected fees on his books to the amount of $2,500,and suggested that he be ro quired to colloct foos in advance. The com- mittee are considering a proposition of that kind, Sheriff Coburn assorts dilligent effort has been made to collect the delinguent fees, He is, to a certain extent, powerless. The court issues orders which he must obey, foe or no fee. For example, 1f a writ of atia meat were issued, and the vroperty in que tion wore sold while he was waiting to collect the foe for serving the pro there_would be a claim against him for dw an illustration of the imprac lecting fees in advan i doubts tho authority of county commissioners to require him to do 80, 'The law says he “may” collect his in advance, but in no way makes it comp: sory Mr. Points calls attention to the fact that the shoriff has charged ten cents per mile for taking 1nsane persons to Lincola, and in- timatos that ho is entitled to but five cents. The law governing the matter is vague. It s the charges shall bo same as for other like services, Mr. Points calls atten- tion to the fuct that the mileage for other county business is fivecents, Sneriff Coburn retorts by citing the ten cont mileage for tak- ing prisoners to the penitentiary and to the roform schionl, He Firthormars sys ho con. sulted Chairman O'Keefe and_other former commissioners and they agreed with him_in the interpretation of tho law. Hey still fur, thier assorts that he obtaincd the! unofiicia opinion of one of the judges, which was also for the ten cent mileage, Mr. Points notes that the sheriff has also charged ten cents per milo for his assistants when sent in_charge of an_insane person. Mr. Coburn insists that this comes under the same head as the preceding matter, “The county commissioners will mect Satur- day morning to act on the sheriff’s reports, and, at presont_there 1s a disposition anong some members to approve of the suggestions of Examiner Points. Sherifft Coburn talks fight rather than submission. gt e SLEEPS HIS LAST SI P, Funeral of the Late Colonel Lorin Miller. The remains of Colonel Lorin Milier, one of the oldest citizens and masons in this city, lay in state during yesterday in Masonic hall. The casket stood in the middie of the room, surrounded by beautiful floral designs. During the day, a large number of the friends of the colonel 'and his brother members in the Masonic order called to take thoir last look at the venerable and placid features of the deceased. The funeral exerciscs at this place was_conducted by the membors of Capital lodgo of which the colonol was member,assisted by a number of the broth- ers from the other local lodges. The Knights of Mount Calvary commandery acted us a body guard, and at 1:30 conducted the pro- cossion following the remains to the B:45 train for shipment to Cardiff, N, Y., whero funeral services in accordence with the ritual of the Masonie srder will be conducted. As spon 43 the friends of the deceased had arrived and were seated, the members of the order of Knights 'vemplar marched into the room and formed a body guard around the casket. Mr. Georgo W. Lininger acted ns master of monies and 0 of theceremonics The ex bogun at 1:30 with music by Dr. Sa ohn Williams, rector of St. Barn: -ead the scripture and offered pr Mr. Lininger then gave 2 btiel history of Mz, Miller’s life, an futroduced W. R. Bowen, Who #0ke in a general way of Mr. Miller as a man and @ mason. Mr. Williams Clebourne culogized him as a member of the Nebraska Veteran Free Masons, J, J. Points, from the Royal Arch masons, 8poke in a very pleasant and touching manner of their de- ceased brother. Rev. Mr. House, of the Meth- odist church, spoke of the deccased a8 a mem- bor of the Khights Templar. Tho addressos were all brief and very interosting. ‘The funeral was attended by a lurge number of the prominent people of the city, who were friends of the deceased. The remains were sent to Cardiff, New York, for interment. RAILROAD EXTENSIONS. The Eikhorn's Creighton Branch Nearing Completion—Other Items. The Creighton branch of the Elkhorn & Missouri Valley,from Creighton to Niobrara, 18 already completed, and trains will run from the latter point to this city August 10. The time table will be so arranged that the Niobraraian can leave his home at 3 a.m. and breakfast in Omaha, returning in time for his supper at honie. 'The oitizens of Nio- brara are jubilant over the prospect. The Formal Opening. OnSunday, August 12, the Chioago, Bur- lington & Quincy ammounces that the formal opening of its new steel bridge across the Missouri river at Nebraska City will take place. As the bridge serves as the gateway to southern Nebraska, some changes in the time of passenyer trains may be anticipated. The Omaha, Dodge City & Southern, C. E. Gallagher, superintendent of the construction corps of the Omaha, Dodge City & Southern, with a large corps of surveyors, is at present in Mankota, Kan., having latoly completed their Line from Dodge City, Kan., to Mankato. From that point they come in anortheasterly directlon to Omaha. They have nothing to overcome heavier than a 1 per cent grade on _the entire line and expoct to begin work on the line in Jewell county. Kansas, inside of six weeks. Ratcs on Missouri Coal. Tho St. Joseph, St. Louls & Sauta Fe (the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe) and the St. Joseph & Grand Island have fixed a reduced rate on Richmond, Missouri coal, which took effect Wednesday,by which shippers 159 miles west of Omaha can have the same delivered 100 15 eants per ton cheaper than in Omaha Another Engineers' Meeting. On August 9, the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers hold another meeting in St Louis. Delegations from every division in the United States and Canada will be in at- tendance. It is believed that Arthur, whose motto has always been, “No entangling al- liances with other trades!” is determined to contest the proposed amalgamation of firemen, workmen and conductors. How- ever, the sentiment is strongly in_that direc- tion, and it is possible that_for once Arthur may bo overruled. The “Q" strike will also receive attention. Fast Fruit Trains. ‘The Union Pacific management are prid- ing themselveson the fast fruit train time during the past thirty days and contend that ithas never been equalled on any road in thie country considering distance. From Ogden to Omaha the distance s 1,035 miles. Twenty trains have made the trip in the last thirty days and the fastest time has been thirty-two hours aud forty minutes, while the slowest run made was forty-ono hours and forty minutes, which is only five hours and ten miuutes 1¢ss than the “Hyer's” time. Belt Line Fares. Tk B few days ago,contained a commu- nication from a prominent mtizen regarding the fares charged on the Belt line’s suburban trains which, among other things, stated that the rates asked were nearly equal to those on rogular trains, and that the com- pany were doubtless glll!ln! prices up to this figure in the hope that the lack of pat- ronage would offer them a sufficient excuse for laying off the trains. The matter has been brought to the atten- tion of General Passenger and Ticket Agent Townsend through Agent Godfrey who has ascertained the wants of the people in this Tespect, aud u decision in the matter may be lnt":lcplwd in a few da; Mr. Phillipi said he had not yet looked up the matter and probably would not for the reason above given. Headlight FI-"I;::." ‘ Geo! W. Bull, general v agent of the Ez‘dl:zwh. with headquarters at Chi- eago, is in the city. H, Young, traveling agent of the Oregon Ratlway & Na n company, i8 in the city, on his way souf The July report of earnings for the Chi- cago,Burlington & Quincy shows an increase of 63 per cent over the same month fn 1887, The Burlington announces a rate of $60 for the round trip to the sovereign grand lodge, 1. 0. O. F\. at Los Angeles, Septomber 17, withi choice of return - routo. - Tickets good for thirty days. Tickets for the G. A. R. reunion at Hold- rodge and the reunion at Norfolk are to bo sold at the rate of one fare for the round trip, the latter August 27 to 2 T, W. Adams, assistant general passengor agent of tho Pennsylvania, arrived in the city yesterday to establish an office for his With him came G. V. Teedrick, songer agent, whose head- quarters will be at Omaha; also T, H. ‘Thorpe, traveling pasenger agent with head- quarters at Des Momos, Tho gentlemen came through from the east. Superintendent . A. Cosgrove, of tho Chicago, Milwaukeo & St. Paul is assigned tothe Iowa and Dakota division; Assis- tant Superintendent W, Collins is appointed superintendent and is _as- signed to the Prairle du Chien and Min- eral Point divisions and Assistant Supcrin- tendent B, D. Wright is appointed superin- tendent of the Racino and Southwestern di- vision with headquartors at Racine, These are among the first appointments of the su- perintendent, Mr. Earling. DAN IS IN TOWN, The Standard’s Left Hand Bower Under Omaha’s Roof. Dan O'Day, the general manager and vice- president of the Standard Ol company, with headquarters at Buffalo, N. Y., and M. Geary, of tho National Tube works of Pitts- burg, Pa., are in the city under the directing wing of Dr. J. T\ Kinslor. A Ber reprosentative met Mr. O'Day last night, and in the courso of a conversation he 1y maiden visit to Omana, and T s that I am_groatly impressed with the city. The beauty of the plant, the push of the peoplo 1 have come in con- tact with, and tho general enterprise visible on all sides induces me to come to the conclusion that I will invest in Omaha real- ity. In my opinion Omaha is destined to be- come a great city, and my pocket book will Do the confidence I have in it.” “How long do you expect to remain in the city?” was asked of Mr. O'Day. Mr, Geary and myseif have intorests here in the bridge now being built, and as soon s they aro settled I may look around for future rosiilts,” *In the intercstsof tho Standard oil com- pany?’ put in the reporter expecting to catch him_unawares. “No sir, As I've said before I'm looking around.” As Mr. O'Day did not wish to be further communicative the reporter bade him good night. el L, A POCKETBOOK MISSING. Also $70 in Cash and a Note For $2,000. A stockman named C. D. Lacy stepped into Frank Crawford’s saloon on South Tenth street to get a glass of beer. He took out his pocketbook and abstracted §5 from a roll of §70; but finding a loose dime, he returned the oney to his purse and shoved the latter into his pocket. Within a few minutes of drink- ing the beer and leaving the saloon ho dis- covered that his poc! addition to the cash i $2,600 payable to Morris Selier of Chicago. ‘Dhere were several men in the saloon at the time ho drank, and his natural conclusion was that his pocket has been picked. Sus- picion fell on a colored man, a brakeman on the Union Pacific dummy train, but there is no evidence agaiust himl further than his preseuce in tlie saloon, —— M FLORENCE CITY MARSHAL. A Great Breezo is Raised Over His Oonduct With Two Oyprians: s Harry Freeland, tho stalwart city marshal of Florence, is said to have gotten intoa scrape that has temporarily taken oft his official head. It is alleged that he had chargo of two prostitutes who were candi- dates for the county jail and drove to Omaha with them and on tho way_things occurrea which_it would be immodest to mention. The affair reached the ears of the good po ple of Florence and raised o great breeze. here was a clamor for his dismissal and temporarily he has been suspended until the matter is investigated. J. Buraham has been retainod as his counsel and will appear in his behalf during the investigation of the matter by the city council of Ilorence this ovening, Freeland is a half ‘brother of Ofticer Ward of the Omaha police force and is a man of good reputation and standing. His alleged indiscretion is & sur prise to his friends, — LOCAL POLITIUS, Sixth Ward Democrats, The democratic club of this ‘ward has called & meoting for tonight, at 1403 Saunders street. Fourth \v-mpnbllonns. On Friday night next at Judge Anderson’s office a very important mee'.lns of the repub- licans of this ward will be held. Eighth Ward Republicans. Avagathering which 18 to take place at Twenty-fourth and Cuming streets on next Saturday night, spoeches will be delivered by General Cowin, John L. Webstor, W. J. Connell, John M. Thurston and others. Sixth Ward Republicans. Thero will be a meeting of the Sixth Ward republican club at 8 o'clock p. m. on next Saturday evening, at the corner of Twenty- sixth and Lake, for the election of officers under the reorganized constitution and by- laws, and for the transaction of other im- portant business. Every republican who re- igards the interests of nis ward, or tho repu- tation of his party, is earnestly invited to be present. e HE LASSOED THE BEAR. Oalifornia Cowboys Give an English- n Points in Handling Big Game. San Franeisco Chronicle: As the hot sun began to pour down we wended our way back to the ranch and whiled the time away listening to the yarns reeled off by the colonel whose experience had been rich and racy. “Talking about sport,” he said, ‘“‘re- minds.ne of a little experience I had with an Englishman, some years ago,up in the main range. He came down from 'Frisco with a letter of introduc- tion to me, and wanted to get into the heart of the big game country. It so happened that [ had 400 or 500 head of cattle up a valley and a camp there; so Itook him up and introduced him to half a dozon cowboys—regular old- timers—and they guaranteed to show him all the bear he wanted. They got it into his head that it was unsportsman- like to shoot a bear, and that it should be taken with alariat, so he practiced with a rope at steers, dogs, stumps and men until he was a fair hand at it, and finally one day they went off on a regu- lar bear hunt. ‘Tt so happened that the boys knew where there was a large patch of wild grapes that black bears are fond of, and they made for rly sure_to find one or more, and s enough they did. Coming down a little side canon, the came out intoa level spot, with a patc! of trees covered with vines in the cen- ter. Some of the dogs were put in, and in a few minutes out came an old brown bear, snarling and showing her teeth in a terrible fashion. ‘Now’s your chance,’ Yolled the boys, and they all stood bac 1o give my new friend a chance. I tell you he was no slouch; he g\n his horse up as near the critter as he would go, and, riding around, dropped his rope over the bear’s_shoulders the minute she reared up. When she felt the rove she grabbed at it, but the pony settled back; then down she went, and began Lnu what the boys expected, the rolling usiness, Over and over she went, winding the rope about her, gettin, snarled up, but coming mnearer an nearer the pony all the time. The Tho former occurs August 13 to 15and | pony was the first one to tumble to it, ¢ tho boys saw, and bogan to snort and buck; but it was no use, the old bear kept coming getting more and more en- tangled every moment, and finally the pony turned iail and bogan to drag her, sheyelling and whimpering and scrateh= ing gravel, the horse crazed; and in this shape they came to the side of the hill. Over the horse went, bueking,the glishman cussing things until they were blue. When half way down tho ropo broke, and, fearing the bear would get away, some of the boys, who were laughing themselves sick, put her out of her misery. The boys got kind of left trying to fool the fellow as he showed so much pluck trying to stop the bear that they never tried any games on him again. Aftera while they asked him what he proposed to do with the bear after he got the rope around him— aund then he saw the joke, and rather thought the hear was catching him.” — Bad for Posterity. ner's for August: Weo have at falls a tolerably hard layor of helonging to a division of n age, which has indivectly received its name from this groat catar- Ningara limestono is under- by a considerable thickness of softer shaly rocks known as the Clinton roup. The ors of the Niagara river plunge over the hard rim afforded by the limestone and descend about & a’hundred and seventy feet, acquiring in this movement a very groat velocity. At the base of the fall,the water strikes against o mass of hard fragments,which in succession have tumbled down from the resisting upper layer. These frag- ments, set violently in motion, cut out the soft material, the erosion of which is also aidod by the violent whirls of water and of spray driven against the shaly beds in the space behind the ~ fall. From this wearing action, the soft materials are constantly working backward more rapid than the hard upper layer is worn away, and so, from time to time, tho projecting shelf over the waterfall is de- prived of support and tumbles to the base in fragments, which, in turn, are used for the further erosion of the soft deposits. In Niagara, as_in all other waterfalls of this description, the bor- der of rock over which the plunge takes place is constantly and pretty rapidly working up stream. The fall is pro- gressively decreasing decreasing in height, as is shown in the diagram, and in the end, when the hard layer has deo- sconded to the general lovel of the stream bed, especially when the soft- ened limestone rocks have passed alto- gether helow that level,the fall will dis- appear; first passing into the stage of a cataract and afterward vanishing alto- gether. In the case of Niagara falls the rate of retreat is about three feet in a century; this rate is very variable. It was proba- bly more rapid in the past than at pres- eut. Although the retreat of the fall is slow, it will in 4 very brief time, in the geological sense of that word, lead to rtain - momentous conses auences. When the hard layer of Ningara limestone passes below the bed of the river, the stream will then cut upon rocks of another constitution, making for a time certain smail falls at a higher geological level; but in the course of agos 'h less long than those which have elapsed since the birth of this waterfall, the gorge of the river will extend up into the basin of Lake Evie, draining away a considerable por- tion of that fresh water sea. We shall then, if the continent retaing its pres- ent hoight over the level of the sea, have another system of cataracts, in the passage between Lake Erie and Lake Huron, which will also in time be worn away. Other cataracts will then form at the exit of Lake Michigan; and thus the lower lakes of our great Amer- ican system would be diminished in area, or perhaps even disnfipr-nr. At a yet later stage, we may look for diminu- tion in the size of Lake Superior, though that basin, owing to the strong wall which separates it from the lower lakes, is destined to endure long after the last-nameod basins have been dimin- ished or entirely drained away. Z b Western Pailways. San Francisco Examiner: The Cceeur a’Alene country is this year the seat of reat railroad rivalry,and the Northern *acific and Oregon Railway and Navi- gation companies, respectively, are putting Jorth their best efforts to get control of that section. The Oregon Railway and Navigation company has let the contract for a branch from Farmington to Mullan, and are pushing the work with all possible rapidity. The Northern Pacific is pushin lmlinu into the mines, and thus war between these two mighty railroad corporations is in progress. One thousand five hundred men are at work on the two roads between Coeur d’Alene and Mullan, and as a result much excitement prevails. Additional forces are being sent b{, the carload,and soon the country will be flooded with railroad men. There is no longer any doubt as to the intention of the Northern Pacific peo- ple; the original survey of the line was through Coeur d’Alene. This is the road that is now being built, and it is generally believed that the main line east of Helena will be abandoned some day for n route through Caeur d’Alene. Work on the grade is being pushed with vigor,and it is a race to a finish between this company and the Oregon Railwa, and Navigation company as to which will be the first to run trains out of Coeur d’Alene. As fast as men aro brought in by the contractors onone road they are bought up and placed to work on the compoti- tive lino. Iach company has been do- ing its best to harmonize conflicting in- terests, and the probability is that an agreement will soon be made dividing up the territory and assuring each road a share of the carrying trade of the mines. ke ‘What a Dreadful Oritter a Woman Is Ramabal, in her book, “The High Caste Hindoo Woman,” makes some quotations from a catechism which may astonish her free, imperious sisters of Q—"What is cruel?” A—**The heart of a viper.” Q—**What is more cruel than that?” A—**The heart of a woman,” Q—'*What is the cruelest of all?” A—**The_ heart of a soulless, penni- less widow.” And again, from another, a Hindoo gentlemen of hign literary reputation: Q—"*What is the chief gate to hell?” A—+A woman.” ; Q—"‘What bewitches like wing?” A—“A woman.” Q—**What are fetters to man?” A—'*Women."” Q—“What is that which cannot be trusted?” A—"*Woman,” Q—**What poiton is that which ap- pears like nectar?” A—*“Woman."” These pretty compliments are wound up by a few proverbs: ‘*Never put your trust in women.” “Women'’s counsel leads to destruc- tion.” “Woman is a great whirlpool of sus- icion, a dwelling place of vices, full of eceits, a hindrance in the way heaven, the gate of hell.” ———— Drink-Malto it is plensant,