Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 5, 1888, Page 5

P THE HOM.AHA' DAILY BEE: SUNDAY AUGUST 5. 1888.~TWELVE PAGES. - “INVEST YOUR MONEY IN GROWING PROPERTY.” DUNDEE PLACE The m ost desirable and beautifully situated residence property in the city of Omaha, the ground having natural drainage and located on the The grading of all streets in the addition without cost to the purchasers of lots, the system of paving and sidewalks will be on the Detroit plan, making every street a minature park, and giving shade for all houses, duplicating the best portion of Detroit residence property. Parties purchasing lots in this addition must examine thoroughly the following restrictions inserted in all deeds to PROTECT THE PURCHASERS OF PROPERTY First—The said premises shall be occupiedand use d for residence purnoses exclusively fora period of at least fifteen years from the date hereof, and for no other purposes whatever. ‘Western Highlands. Second—No residence or dwelling house shall at any time within said period of fifteen years be erected or kept on any lot hereby conveyed, wholly or partly within twenty-five feet of the street line in front of said residence or dwelling. Third—No residenc or dwellin§ than twentv-flve hundred $2,500 do imnrovements on said lots. house built on said lot shall at any time within said period of fifteen years be erected on auy lot hereby conveyed costing less lars exclusive of other buildings an . Fourth—The premises hereby conyeyed shall never during said period of fifteen years be used for anv immoral or illezal business or occupation; nor shall any spirituous or malt liquors be sold or bartered away on said premises during said period ot fifteen years, Blocks or half blocks will be sold to those wishing ample grounds; average lots sold, 200 feet front; smallest lots sold, 100 teet front. Parties purchasing will not be required to build at once, but can secure choice sites for future homes. PRICK OFX LLOTS $20 PKR FRRONT KFOOT. ‘We offer the lots at this low price for the present. Terms: ; ing the first payment. We invite homeseekers to carefully investigate our proposition and terms for first-class residences. for further particulars, building loans, payments on lots, etc. ‘W. H. CRAIG, SIATE LEVY BY COUNTIES. Nebraska's Board of Equalization Completes Its Labors. YOTAL ASSESSED VALUATION. fiolaroge Refuses to Protest Against a Froight Rate Reduction—A New Bank Incorporated — Su- preme Court Notes. 1020 P STREET, LaNcOLN. August 4. The state board of equalization have just Npished their labors, and the state levy for 1890 is complete. In conjunction with this the taxable valuation of the state by coun- ties has been compared, aggregating $175,815,- 855.45, the levy upon which is 7 mills, dis- tributed by counties as follows: Valuation. Adams. ntelope, 1INCOLN BUREAU OF THE OMATIA BEE, } Levg. 8 1 2,07 1,51 1,874, 1161742 17011 0, Gage. Garficia Gosper, Grant. . Greoley Hall. Hamlton Harlan. Hayes Hitcheock. Holt. Howard., Jefferson. 1,403,606 60 1,167,120.00 Madison, Merick, Nanc SR 32 LF b i Richardson | Saline, Sarpy Suunders Boward, Sheridan Slierman Sioux. ., 00 O Ot =2 =1~ =) One-third cash; balance 1, 2, 8 years. Every purchaser receiving deed on mak- Call at our office Our salesmen are always ready to show the property at all times. The Patrick I.and Company, SOLE OWNERS OF DUNDEE PLACE, Room 25, Board of Trade Building, Omaha, Neb. President, N.D. ALLEN, Vice-President and Treasurer, W. K. KURTZ, General Manager Wheeler . . York . . 8,148323.95 DECLINED TO CAJOLE. There are wheels within wheels, and the railroads of Nebraska are trying to turn them all. It is very evident that the railway corporations of the state don’t like the order of the state board of transportation reducing freight tariffs. Successful efforts huve been made to induce some of the boards of trade of a few towns to remonstrate against the order, and recommend its appeal. But ail like efforts have not been crowned with suc- cess. An effort of this kind was made upon the board of trade of Holdrege by a railrond company recently, but it would not work, as the following letter from the editor of the Semi-Weekly Progress, addressed to the attorney general, will fully evidence: HoLDREDGE, Neb., August 2, 1888, —Ho, W. M. Leese—Dear Sir. Mr. Griffin, of Omaha, who in the interest of Omaha and the railroads appeared before our board of trade last night, hoping to cajole them into passing a resolution requesting the state oard of transportation to rescind its order of reducing freight rates, contended that the voluntary reduction of the roads lust Novem- ber averaged 33% per cent reduction the state over. We have failed to notice any such reduction at this station. Did it affect different parts of the state differently? He went away quite crestfallen, Holdredge did not surrender. ERic Jonxsox, FAILED AND RECORDED. Articles incorporating the Farmers and Traders bank were filed with the sccretary of state this morning. The bank's principal place of doing business is Wakefield, Dixon and the incorporators are John D. and D. Mathewson. Business com- menced on the 1st day of August with an authorized capital of £50,000 and 50 per cent. of it was paid in on that date. The bank is incorporated for ten years and will continue tbus long unless otherwise decided by a ma- Jority of the stock holders. FILED IN SUPREME COURT. The following cases were filed in the su- preme court this morning : Willis G. and Harry Durrell vs John Lart; ervor from Lancaster county. J. M. Carlisle & Co. vs. H. B. Dauchey; error from Otoe county. CITY NEWS AND NOTES. Governor Thayer returned from a trip to Hardy, Nuckolls county, this afternoon, where he attended a grand army reunion. The pavers will soon lay down the “shov 1 and hoe’ ou P street. But it is well nixh time. Work commenced on the street nearly two months ago. The builders will not try to finish the new Christian church until next May, The out- side work, however, will be finished before cold weather, The wood work on the struc ture will be done durig cold weather. The wind storm last might affected the Burlington wires and made them work slug- gishly. But aside from blowing down a few shade trees the storm did no material dam- age. It was the heaviest of the season for this locality. 1t is stated thag 103 new drive wells will be put in operation as soon as the pumpiog machinery can be put in position. 1t seoms now that the water pressure is to be raised to the needed standard by working a count- less number of wells. This will probably do. But anything for pure water and a sufiicient supply to meet all fire dangers. LN ‘What is Nebraska Land Really Worth? Has Nebraska land any value aside from a speculative one, i. €., the iutention of laying it all out in town lots? If it has a real value, what is it! Surely not the mere ability to produce crops, for to-day in Nebraska land that needs but to be combed with a harrow, to shed an abundant crop, averaging in wheat twenty-five bushels and in corn sixty bushels, can be bought on the easiest terias for § per acre. o ets and railroads, , therefore, determine the value of land. Not at all; for this land is withie a few wmiles of a great trunk railroad, near a flourishing town and with 8 market S0 much superior to that of eastern Nebraska, that the average price of produce is jun‘kouble what it is in the Missouri valley, Then the reopln must be outlaws and desperados and ife unsafe, Again a false guess, for school houses abound, churches are built and the people are as pleasant and cultivated as any- where else. There is no such land as you describe some will say. Let us sce. On August 3 1,500 acres of land were sold at Auetion du.quarter section lots at Madrid, in b pecial_exeursion was run _from eastern Ncbrasku. of land was good and lovel and of it was under cultivation showing the righest and most promising crops, Tae whole town of Muadrid was decorated with hedges of green and and wuving corn, most of it twelve feet high, Festoons of golden shocks of small grain swelled like the Oran- nthian columns, and cabbages andvines formed angements of un agricultural display. _All these things were grown withi ight of Madrid, and for miles in v di- tion the broad Helds strotched, and yet this land was sold at auction in_quarter seos tion lots at $5.0) to 86.00 per acre, only one- tenth down and 6 per cent interest on balance. A double crop and a double price awaits overy careful farmer in Perkins county, which does not have a poor quarter section in 8,600 farms, What then braska land ! The answer is paradoxical. and nothing else. determines the value of Ne- Ignorance ! Land n France is worth §250 per acre, and is cut up into five acre tracts, but the French peasants do not kuow that free homes for the millions await them in America. Land in Ohio and_Tilinois and Michigan, land that costs a life time of lubor to form timber or t o drain, sells at350 to $100 per acre because the mummies do not know that better land is to be had for nearly noth- ing in Nebraska. Land in castorn Nebraska sells for $20 to $50 per acre, because the peo ple are too lazy to find out that land equally good in every respect and in most better, land blessed with the high priced western market, can be had for one-tenth of Wwhat it costs to buy near the Missouri valley. Land in castern Nebraska is now too high, but d in western Nebraska is scandalously reap, and those who fail now to secure a slice will rue it when too late, when tho crowd has found out, when this difference, due only to ignorance, has been wiped out, and that day is close at hand. ONE Wito Kxows. THE TRAVELING MEN'S DAY, A Meeting to Arrange For it Largely Attended. A meeting of the committees having the arrangements for a traveling mens’ day, Thursday of the fair week, was held last night at the Arcade hotel to further perfect the arrangements for their day. Lanius presided. The committee on réecep- tion reported m favor of holding the recep- tion at the board of trade rooms. Partial reports were made by the committees on music und decorations. A cominittee consisting of Joseph Garneaw, G. H. Gates. Mr. Wright, H. H, Meda W. H. McCord and W.T, Giliespie, was appointed to call upon the jobbers of the city and invite them to join the procession with a trades display. ‘The committee on parade reported the fol- lowing gentlemen as oficers for the day: John 8. Brad chief marshal, Robert Easson, G H. Wilcox and C. H. Coe, aids. The parade will take place in the morning and will be through the principal streets of the city. The commitee on uniform reported in favor of wearing silk hats, light colored flanael shirts and cach man is to carry a Japanese parasol. The afternoon will be spent at the fair grounds, where a number of foot races and other amusements will be induleed in, The officers for the day are W. B. Lainus, president; W.J. Broatch, Robert Simons of coln, John A. Fleming, Frank Buchheit, W. B. Sheldon of Hastings, Joseph May of Fremont, Eugene Bradley of Nebraska City, Frank Martin of Lincoln, O. E. Livingston of Norfolk, L. C. Dunn of Council Bluffs Mauly Riley, Frank Daniels, Charles Han and W, I, Manning, vice presidents L Eastman was elected secretary, and C. O. Lobeck treasurer, Another meeting will be held two weelss from last night to complete arrangements and hear the final reports of the committees for the day. A Double Wedding. Judge Shields, of the county court, offici- ated at a double wedding yesterday after- noon. The event was unusval, and was sur- rounded with all the pomp and dignity in the capacity of the office, while . Clerk Moria) smiled benign approval. Miss Luecy Winn, of Plattsmouth, was made the wite of Charles J. Poper, of this city. Mr. William M. and Miss Fannio V, Shutt, both of this city, Were made one. NO ROOM FOR COLORED MEN. Where the Negro Standa in the Eyes of the Administration. ECCENTRIC FRANK LAWLER. Congressional Dudes and the Clothes They Wear—An Irish Domocrat's Revolt—Distribution of M. MeKinley's Great Speech. Treatment of the Colored Men, WASHINGTON, August 4.—[Special to Tir Bek.]--“T am surprised,” saida prominont colored republican from North Caroling, this afternoon, “that the colored people of this country should be such fools as to be in- veigled into thisattempt to injure the repub- lican party, and thereby md Mr, Cleveland's re-election, All this talk about love for the colored brother is the most absurd nonsense that ever was uttercd. What has Cleveland dene for the negro that he should 1 cither directly or indivectly in the re-elect man who now occupies the white bouse! Nearly every colored man who filled any of- fice of trust or cmolument when Cleveland came in has been dismissed from the service, and white men have been found to fill their places. It is true that Clevelund appointed Mr. Trotter recorder of deeds for the Dis- trict of Columbia; it is true, also, that he se- lected a colored man to r nt this coun- try in Hayti, and another as the representa- tive of the United States in Liberia, but these latter appointments were made because no white men would care to fill these places. There are left in the departments i Wash ington a few colored employes among the laborers, watchmen and spittoon cleancrs, but in many instances even these men have made way for southern white men who have forgotten their blue blood for the time being, and are willing to accept places on the most insigniticant teat on the political udder. s mail service was one rouds open to young colored men du previous administrations, but the ser been almost entirely reliéved from the pros- ence of our people, I don't believe there are a dozen left in the United States, and I don't recall the appointment of a single colored man to a place in this service since the pres- ent administyatipn came in. Then, too, if we look over thelist of postmasters ap- pointed we will find that even in black com- munities white men have invariably been found to fill the places. White men, in fact, ave given a preference in every respect over the colored man, and the patronage which hus been doled out to the race is of the most insignificant’ character. This Indiavapolis convention Is paid for by the democratic managers. Fhey are trying to aliona colored vote from the republican part made the colored men voters, and th succeeded in finding a few tools who could be purchased to do their bidding. I do not believe that this movement will pay back to the democratic party the money it has cost, for colored people are not the fools they are sometimes b?lie\‘od to ‘h\n » f the ng the ce has There is no man in congress who has been more extensively written about than the Hon. Frank Lawler of Clucago. Mr. Law- ler has been the hero of some of the best stories that have ever been circulated about congressmen, He became famous when he first came to Washington through the circulation of several yarns in which fiu appeared in the most ridiculous light. One of the best of them was & story to the effect that after having eaten, with a great deal of enjoyment, his first dish of soft shell crabs in company with a friend, he triad to sccure @ fresh supply when alone next day. The story goes that Mr., Lawler entered a res- taurant, and, baving forgotten the name of the article 'for which he was looking, and seeing lobsters on the bill of fare thought that must be what he wanted, and at once ordered a dozen. The waiter in astonish- ment_exclaimed, “A dozen, sir!” Mr, Law- ler then saw that he had made a mistake, but it is reported in telling the story after- ‘wards that he said he wasn't going to let any aiter to tell him what he wanted, persisted o his order. ~Two tables were spread, and the lob- sters wore produced. Mr. Lawler tried to eat them in the way he had the crabs, but found the shclls wer2 somewhat harder. After having found how to get at the edible portion of the toothsome shell- fish, he piteched in and managed to get rid of one and a half, when he said: ** ter, T am not as hungry as [ thought I was. Bring me a glass of brandy and the bill.” The bill 31450, and Mr. wler simply re- “Is that all? You may keep the change,” as he had handed him a twenty. Some of Mr. Lawier's friends in Chicago who read tio story said thev would not be- lieve it until they read the last part, when they were convinced by that that Mr. Law- ler must have done just what he was said to have done, < The latest one on the Hon. Frank 1s that some years ago he determined to buy one of his boys a drum for a Christmas present. He is not well up on musical instruments, but mnquired the price of a drum and was in- formed that the one which he was looking at was worth . *“That's rather more than I want to pay. You can give me one of them half ones for "and he poiuted to atam- bourine which was 0||.|.he shelf. nagger and The varieties of costumes worn by mem- bers of congress in both houses has been par- ticularly narked this summer. The convei tional black suit is almost as much of a rarety us was an unconventional light one in the old days, when legislators were punctilious in the matter of dress. Secrsuckers, pongees, alpacas, mohairs, and linens ure scattered among the tweeds, and cassimeres of all shades and varietios. Flannel shirts and silk garments of the same class are found morecommon than white ones. The craze for cool garments is at its heighth, and some of the gentlemen who are epicures in the matter of dress astonish their associates by the great taste which they display in sel- ecting their summer garments. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, wears a neat cream-tinte it of thin material, on the order of moh: which has been one of the most attractiv the senate, but Senator Blackbura, of K has just come out @ suit which is more nnticeable than any because of its novelty. It is made entirely of flax of a coarse quality grown on the hills of Kentucky. The flax was cut, hacked, spun and woven by hand, and is of that peculiar color between nd white which is only found in fibrous al in its raw state. Senator Blackburn had the cloth sent to him from home and employed one of the best tailors in town to make it up. The result is that he has a suit of clothes which cannot be ily dupli- cated, and which is luxurious in its coolness. It is & garment purely of home manufacture, in which no foreign labor or material ha; tered, and several of his senatorial associ have asked the gentleman from Kentucky to secure for them asupply of the cloth from which the suit is made, in order that they too may demonstrate their devotion to home products. It is not likely, however, that many suits of this kind will be seen in Wash- ington this year. with e Everyone who paid any attention to the congressional debate of the Forty-eighth congresses will remember reading the denun- iatious of Great Britain which were utterea by an Irish-American member, who always mmmgudwna'up{ a front seat near the speaker’s desk, ‘This member was “Riche- lieu” Robinson, who represented one of the Brooklyn districts for three terms. Robin- s0n is an old man,with a smooth-shaven face, and a mane of white hair, which made him a prominent figure in the house whenever he rose to his feet. He never missed an tunity to twist the British lion's tail, persistently and consistently opposed every attempt at legis'ation which might be con- strued us giving the British any advantage whatever in the United States. Mr. Robinson was in the city this wecl, and was, nawrally, subjected to a number of nteryiews as to his political preferences. e has always been a democrat, yet he isnot a supporterof the administration by any means. He is oélpolud to Mr. Cleveland’s policy to- wards Great Britain, both from a | g and diplomatic standpoint, and his {riends assert that he has about made up his mind to oppose the re-election of the man whose ad- ministration is noted for its truckling.policy towards the British foreign office, Mr, Robiuson 15 at )wlenw in writing a. work on the Irish in e is an old- time journalist. huvlunn the Washington correspon” re the war and o | writer of prominence in. the old days for the Tribune and other great papers. Robinson comes out for the repub- lot, us he is oxpected to do, as ho can command at least 2,000 followers who will be likely to step with him from the free trade plank in the democratic platform to that republican plank which means so much reign born zens who come to Amer- ica to better their condition, and not to aid in the establishment of British commercial theories in the n‘oullno: of the United States stimated that 500,000 copies of Major 's speech have already been printed in Washington. On Monday 25,000 copies were sent to Indianapolis. It isone of the oldest arguments in favor of the doctrine of ction which was ever delivered on the 58 and it is 80 convineing in its logic that democrats who have read- it have, in several instances, admitted that they can not longer support the free trade idea of the Mills elique. The speech is bewng translated into German, and the gentle man who is en- gaged in the work said to me to-nigh ‘I have always been a democrat. When I read the speech I was convinced of the folly of longer training with & party which advocates free trade, however, that central idea may be disguised in misleading phrases. I have read the speech all through and I have never before read an argument waich is 50 forceful in every point it discusscs.” *a It begins to look as though at least t f the great New York newsvapers had cancer cranks employed. The recent an- nouncement that Mr. Randall was doomed to death and that his fatal malady was cancer in the stomach has recalled the fact that during the last two years about twenty of the leading men of the country have been reported by these papers as having cancers in the stomach, and being on the rapid road to eternity. 1t was only five or six months ago that one of the New York papers gave prominence to a special from . this city stating that Senator Joseph Blackburn of Kentucky, had cancer of the stomach, and that he had gone home to die. Blackburn returned to Washington a few d: ater looking as tough as a knot, and convinced his friends that the report was pure fabrication. it developed that the statement was based upon a jesting observa- tion made by the senator to a woman friend one day. They were talking about the news- papers having u panic of cancers in the stomach among prominent men when the senator from Kentucky replied that he suffering from one himself. The woman seemed tothink it was a very serious mat- ter aud conveved the secret fo a friend who as 4 newspaper correspondent, and so the report went several times boen announced that Jarlisle had a cancer in his stom- and Senator Ingalls and three or four 2 0ld members of the house, as well as Secretary Bayard and the president, have had a whole bushel of cancers in the stom- ach, according to the newspaper reports dur- ing the last twelve or fifteen months, [t is said that cancers of the stomach are some- times superinduced by excessive stimulation, and whenever a statesman gets “under the weather” he is fmmediately reported in ‘Washington to have one of these troubles guawing at his vitals, »“u It was a very casual observation—a thought which originated in the mind of a single in- dividual—that led to the nomination of Allen G. Thurman for the vice-presidency. About the the Ist of May four or five gentlemen were taling lunch in one of the leading cafes of this city, During the conversation the question of who would be nominated with Mr, Cleveland at St. Louis was discuss After ull those prosent had expressed the! views, and a majority had predicted the mination of Governor Gray, 6f Indiana, Nick Bell, superintendent of the foreign mail service, said: “If the democrats are as wise as they should be they will make their ticket read Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman. We need @ man wno will give character 1o the ticket and whose name will be a shibo- leth in the campaign. The red bandana would be i war ery worth the rally.” There were some grunts and comments made on the suggestion, but no one took it with any seriousn The next day Mr. 13ell met Jules Gutheridge, correspondent of the New York Herald, and told him that he o “rln him & goo‘tl ;;Auw lo( news, Nic:( scruples against cnlarging on a mat- ter of this Elnd, and he told Jules that there was & conference on the night before at- which were several prominent federal offi- cers, and_that the name of Thurman was suggested as a candidate for the vice presi- dency, and_that he was the favorite of the administration. He told the correspondent to take the clue and make an item with proper embellishments. Gutheridge did so, and duplicated the dispatch to the San Francisco Examiner. Thurman’s name was familiar on the Pacific slope, owing to his prominence in creating tho present laws af- fecting the debt of the Pac other interests located in the far ‘west. The San Francisco paper published the dispatch with great promin- ence, and made comments upon it which spread throughout the Pacific slope, and jm« mediately there was an agnnt)on and a Thurman organization. The New York Herald was taken up by the press associa- tions and sent over tho country, and from that little spark there grow a great flame, In less than a week the matter was spoken of at a cabinet meeting, and Scoretary Whitn told about it in a very serious mauner, z was asked to look into the suggestion and re- port upon the advisability of invil 3 Thurman to take the nomination, Repre- sentative Outhwaite,who lives at Thurman's home, saw the reports in the news, and wrote a letter to Mr. Thurman. asl him if he would accept the nomination, Be- fore a rugly was received the Thurmrn boom grew so heavily that it was beyond the com- trol of the Old Roman. The Pacific slope was organized, and the result is very well known, There have been many men nom: inated for positions of about the same proms inence upon quite as slight provocation, how. ever, PERRY S. HEATR, c railrouds and What Might be Called Hot Weather, ‘‘Is it ever hot on the lake?” queried a Detroit reporter yesterday of an old captain who was fanning himself in the shade of a coal pile. “Hot! is it? ~Well, you are fresh, Why, younF man, if T should tell you how high have seen the mercury ge ?«“w’?, on Lake Erie you'd call mea iar! The reporter hinted that no man of sense would ever think of questioning a mariner’s word, and the captain con- tinued: “I reme mber the summor of 1858, T ailed the Orphan Girl that season. On the 18th of July we were becalmed with a fleet about midlake. Hot! Oh, nol By 10 o’clock in the morning the mers cury marked 125° in the shade, and we were londed with ice at that!” Is it possible?” “By noon we had put out seven or eight spontaneous fires,and the anchors g B were then so hot we had to drop 'em over to cool ’em. There were eight vessels of us, and we dropped about the same time,” WY asd “Well, sir, the result was boiling hot water all around us for half an We captured over one hundred fish which were nicely boiled, It was i lucky for us, as the heat of the sun h melted our cook stove, and we should have gone hungry. Is it hot out on the lake? Well you just stay on land dur- ing a hot spell if you know what’s good for you? Did you suy lemonade for two?' What Became of the Pipped Chicken, We went to spend a day in the coun= try, and had a fine treat of fried chicken for dinner. Then we took & walk with the children, who led the way to the chicken coop. " “*All our best chickens are dead,”sald one of the children, sadly. 5 “Why, what killed them?” “Papa did, but they were going to die any way, ’causo they had the » /hat became of them?” (this with s heavy heartand squeamish stomach. ‘“We fried ’em for dinner,” answer the child, sorrowfully, Another Day Begun, ‘‘Hush,” he whispered with a warns ing gesture. ‘“Isn’t that the nights watchman’s rattle?” i **No, Mr. Sampson,” ‘replied the a supprossing o yawn, ‘‘that is the grinding the coffee for breakfast.™ 1 our,