Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1888, Page 4

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Averag: to before me and sul ot Ayt Wotary Pubite. Bworn presence this ith ¢ Btate of being I oses and bublishiug dally circilatio month of August, for | Eeptember, 18 ()(lnber 187, first duly sworn,de- vetary of 'Iho Beo 2 coples fn A 80 copie Ao Tk copies: for May, 18 et for June, 1658, 19 Or Iy, 116, 18,065 coples. CHUCK Sworn to z co this 18t day of August, A. D., 188, N.P.FEIL, Notary Public. prese THE at the several ward meetings, and all caucus egg was boiled hurd that is necessary is to crack the shell at the county convention. Tur governor of Kansas has issued a proclamation peremptorilly ordering all liquor places in Stevens county to be closed. But come to think of it, is'nt such an order out of date when Kansas has been a prohibition stato more than five years? Tt is strange that the law requiring the signing of a death certificate by the attending physician and the signing of & burial permit by the secretary of the board of health should have been al- lowed to lapse. There is not a metro- politan city in the country that does notenforce a strict observance of the rule. ———— TiuE country is safe. The North At- Jantic squadron under command of Rear Admiral Luce has been sent to the fishing grounds in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to protect our fishermen. Hereafter we may eat our codfish and salt mackerel with the satisfaction of knowing they were caught under Uncle Sam’s big right arm. Mns. CHASKA is reported to be earn- estly trying to influence her husband’s numerous red relatives to accept the new treaty. If the government had been wise and made up the commission of eastern school ma’ams, there would'ut have been any trouble in getting the Sioux Indians to sign the agreement for the sale of their reservation. THE season of G. A. R. encampments is now approaching all over the country ‘when the old soldiers can meet again to revive the memories of days gone by. The preparations made for the state G. A. R. reunion at Norfolk on the 27th inst. are said to be complete and made on a scale calculated to draw thousands of veterans around the camp fire. There is but little doubt thata large attend- ance will be present. THE misfortune which overwhelmad the sixty-five families of Cherry and Keya Paha counties in the total de- struction of their crops appeals directly to the sympathies of the people of Ne- braska. Assistance should be sent to these sufferers immediately, either through the local committee at Norden, Keya Paha county, or through such channels as Governor Thayer may di- rect. These pioneers in the new coun- ties deserve the help of the state n this trying hour of need. The bur- san of aesisting these sixty-five families {n order that they may be able to return to their farms, will be comparatively lightif the people of Nebraska come forward individually to contribute each oune his mite. It is morcover a matter for congratulation that the scene of de- struction was conflned to so small an area. Other states, east and west, have been heavily stricken this season by cy- clones, floods and storms, doing damage amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nebraska has been fortunate in this respect. Blessed with a bounti- ful crop, let us not forget our brethren in their afiction. Tug dispute which has been going on some time between Fort Omaha and, the watdrworks company has finally been taken to the United States courts for settlement. In some respects the contest is unique and the legal contro- versy will be watched with interest. There will be knotty points of law to untangle. The facts in the case appear 10 be that a contract was entered into in June, 1888, by the waterworks company for a period of five years to supply Fort Omaha with water at a price of about $300 per month. Accordingly mains were laid and connections made to the fort. At the expiration of the contract this year, the water works company insisted ona renewal of the contract at the old terms. To this proposition the quarter- master at Fort Omaha objected and claimed that as the fortis now within the city limits the water rates should be at the city’s rate of fifteen cents per thousand gallons, But the water works company would not agree to these terms * and began breaking the water conne: tions when enjoined by the courtsin ‘behalf of the government, At the new rates, the fort would pay no more than one hundred dollars per month for which it had been taxed three hundred The Doubtful States. The republican party will eloot its presidential candidates if in addition 1o the states that went republican four 0, having a total electoral vote 1 this year y Indiana icut, whose combined is 21, The democratic party, in arder to be succossful, must have in addition 1o the 153 votes of the southern and Connec toral vote states those of New York and Indiaua, or of New York, New Jersey and Con- necticut. The present nspect of the situation in the doubtful stutes is inter- esting. As to Tndiana, it is probable that the majority of intelligeat dem- | & ocrats do not regard it 8 | doubtful, must unde stand that nces in that very largely agninst them, not w because of the state pride which wi duce a considerable number of demo- ats to vote for their fellow-citizen, l.ul for the reason also that the Tudiana democracy is not organized to win, and is not likely to be owing to strong fac- tional differences. There is no enthu- siasm among Indiana democrats for Me, Cleveland, and there probably will bo none. The recent specch of Senator Voorhees did not help their situation, and the efforts they have made to win over the colored vote and the labor vote have not been encouragingly suc- cessful, The independent vote has de- serted them, the soldier vote will be sol- »d against them, and it is suid that m.m\ farmers who have al- ways voted the democratic ticket will cast their votes for the republican can- didates in November. The republicans of Indiana are already well organized, and so far as appears harmonious. There was an excellent spirit shown a the late state convention, and the nomi- nation of General Hovey, who resenting the Pirst district in congress, is regarded as the wisest choice that could have been made. He ought to have no difficulty in defeating the demagogue Matson, the democratic can- didate for governor. Four yeursago Cleveland’s plurality in Indiana was o little over six thousand, but two years ago the state was carried by the republicans under the leadership of Hurrison. It s therefore obvious that all the present conditions are such as to warrant great confidence in republican success in In- diana. The situation in Connecticut is most reassuring to republicans. The lead- ing democratic paper of that state warns its party of the danger, and assuves it that extraordinary efforts will be neces- sary to carry thestate for the democratic candidates. The workingmen who have hitherto acted with the democracy are manifesting a very earnest disposition to abandon that allegiance, and it would not require a very large defection from this element to give the six electoral votes of Conneeticut to the repub- licans. The state gave a plu- rality for Cleveland of 1,284, and the present democratic governor was elected by a plurality of 1,808, A change of a thousand votes will the fore be sufficient to give the state to the republicans, and the present indications are that the change will be much greater than this. The republican outlook in New Jersey is also far from unfavorable, though the situation in that state is a good deal complicated. The fact that General Fisk, the prohibition candidate for president, is a New Jersey man and very populardn the state, is the strong- est circumstance adverse to the republi- cans. 1n 1886 Fisk received as the pro- hibition candiaate for governor nearly twenty thousand votes, the demo- cratic candidate being elected by a plurality of eight thousand. The democrats estimate that this year Fisk’s vote will befrom fifteen to twenty-five thousand, three-fourths of it drawn from the republicans. In a presidential year, however, voters are under different influences than those which effect them in other years,and it is quite possible and even very probable, that the prohibition vote in New Jersey will not be more than half this year what it was two years ago. In that event the transfer of votes would be largely in favor of the republicans, and a small defoction from the demo- crats, altogether likely on the tariff is- sue, would give the state to the repub- lican candidates. On the whole. how- ever, the chances as they appear at present are most largely in favor of the democracy carrying New Jersoy, which in 1880 gave Hancock a plurality notwithstanling the fact that he de- clared the tariff question to be simply a local issue, and continued steadily demo- cratic until last year, when the repunli- cans carried the legislative election, having a plurality of less than three thousand votes. Itis by no means necessary to con- code New York to the democracy, but discussion of the probabilities in that state can be had more judiciously after the democrats have nominated their candidate for governor. Meanwhile the outlook for republican success in Indi- ana and Connecticut is most favorable, and with these two states the party can win the presidency. In the Interest of Moonshiners, A provision of the Mills tariff.bill pro- poses to allow distilleries which mash only twenty-five bushels of grain a duy 10 pay tax simply on their capacity., It was charged in the course of the debate on the bill that this would work favor- ably to the ‘‘moonshiners,” but the al- legation had no effect upon the authors of the provision, and it was retained in the bill. On the last day of the whisky trust investigation by the house committee on manufactures, the president of the combination for regulating the product and price of whisky was asked what effect the provision in the Mills ll would have upon the whisky trade. The reply of the trust president was direct and explicit. He had not a doubt that the large and legitimate distillers would be driven out of business, and that the result would be the eseape of move than oune-half the whisky product from in- ternal revenue taxation, He said there would be a little distillery on almost every farm throughout the grain dis- trict, and that these distilleries would become as numerous in the north as the fruit distilleries are in the south. little dis The illeries would pay a tax on a capacity of fiftoen hushels a any. There would be no g ment officers 1o watch them, and by forcing their mash ‘they could run- through four five times as many bushels of grain as their measured capacity, In this way the government would be defrauded of millions of dol- lars of revenue. garding the fruit distilleries of the south, the trust president said that all of the small ones use more or less grain, fruit distillation being confined (u o few days in the year. The use of grain in these fruit distilleries is illicit \ <iuess, but the effect of the provision of the Mills bill, allowing small distil- s topay tax on eapacity and frecing ‘m from government supervision, would be to render legitimate what is now illicit, and whether so intended or not, would bo a direct und very great advantage to the moonshiners, Some allowance must perhaps be mado for the apprehensions of the president of the whisky trust. The distillation of whisky would doubtless not become so general as he suggests, even under the encourag policy which the Mills bill propos Supply and demand would in time assert thewranthority asacheck upon univer: production. But it is none the less ob- vious that the proposition of the Mills bill is not wise nor desivable, and it is certainly ive of a purpose to serve a sectional interest that is of very considerable proportions, and wh has become a source of very gr trouble and expense to the government. Perhaps the representatives of the moonshiners will be less disposed to insist upon the provision since they have learned that 1t may conduce to northern competighon. A Costly Experiment. South Omaha has been incorporated less than eighteen months. In that brief period her town councils have in- curred liabilitios to the tune of thirty five thousand dollars over and ahov their receipts from local taxes. For this little deficit they have nothing more to show than the fact that they are a free and independent corporation, capable of making debts. It is pro- posed in the very near future to convert this deficit into a permunent debt and to load up with one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars more of bonds which are to be used for needed public improvements. If these bonds are voted the honded debt of South Omaha will be about one- sixth of the bonded debt of Omaha. It does not take # prophet or the son of a prophet to foresee what the final out- come of five years more of suburban city government would be to the prop- erty owners of South Omaha, Without a fire department worthy the name; with their gas and water supply dependent on Omaha; without an efficient and well-paid police force; without sys- tematie public works; without the ad- vantages of a metropolitan board of ed- ucation, and without a high school for branches above the grammar class, the resident property owners of South Omuha will presently find themselves burdened down with a debt that will seriously impuir the value of their real estate. Tt wa suggos an outrage on both Omaka and South Omaha that the char- ter was tampered with through the influence of corporate sharks and speculators, so as to prevent the ex- tension of our city limits over the te tory covered by South Omaha. This will be more manifest as South Omaha keeps on growing, and the lines that divide the two cities are obliterated. The only advantage of the double- barrelled city governments so far has been derived by the saloonkeerers, whose license at South Omaha is only five hundred dollars a year against one thousand in the city proper. But even the saloonkeepers will cease to reap any benefit from the duplex system within the next year. The state law regulating the liquor trafic makes the license one thousand dollars a year in every city of ten thous- and population or over. It is safe to say that South Omaha will have more than ten thousand population within twelve months. By that time nobody excent tax-shirking land speculators will be interested in keeping up a separ- ate city government within two miles and a half of the Omaha court house. THosE people who are unwilling to believe there is any restriction upon free speech 1n the south are advised to read a dispatch elsewhere from New Orleans, reciting the experience ata public meeting of a republican who had been twenty-five years a resident of Louisiana. He is represented to be a most reputable and worthy citizen, who has done his share for the material prosperity of the locality in which he resides. Yet, when he veutured to as- sert that his political rights as a citizen had been outraged, he was yelled and hissed into silence, and had he per- sisted in going on would very likely have been subjected to harsher and more summary treatment. The specific complaint of this gentleman was that, having voted at the last election for the republican can- didate for governor his vote was counted for the democratic candidate. Very likely this was not his first experience of this kind, but the opportunity was favorable fora protest, and he attempted to make it, as he had a perfect right to do. He will be fortunate if his cour- ageous effort does not bring him further trouble, The returns of the last Loui- siana election indicate that several thousand republican votes were used in the same way the Madison parish citi- zen asserts his was used, and although protests against such outrages are somewhat dangerous in that country, and perhaps of no great consequence, it is still to be regretted that more of the republicans there and elsewhere in the south have not some of the courage of General Frank Morey, of Madison par- ish, Louisiana. ————— NuMgEROUS complaints are made by citizens of the impassable condition of streets. The pavers and water works people are largely responsible for such a condition of the city’s thoroughfures. When ounce a street is ordered to be paved, the whole length of it is taken of and blocked for at least 0 the exclusion of travel possession six ‘month and traff reggulntions of -~ the board of pablic works prohibit the blocking up of more than three blocks at a time, but this regulation remnins dead letter. If the board cannot en- force the ordinance and rules regarding the tearing up of cts, the council should make it the business of the street coumssioner to raise the blockade. ™™ the raee between Connell and Webster, Mri Counell appears several lengths 1. His Belief, Dretroit Free Pre As to Mr Harrison's belief, Lic scems to bo a Shaler Just now. — A Combination Not in Fashion, Chicago News. The anagram mania is raging with ter- rific violence, We find symptoms of it in nearly every paper we pick up. There is nothing more pleasing to the vanity than to be in fashion, even though that fashion be, merely literary imbeeility. Sohere is an ana- gram for the ¢ ation and the benefit of our friends, the pronibitionists: ThuRman, ClevelAnd, Mor'Ton, ikl Brightening I Chicago T Theprospects before the publican par improving steadily, and is now much bette than at any time sinco the meoting of the Chicago convention. Where a month ago many republicans talked of bolting the ticket or refusing to vote because of dissatisfaction with part of the platform few—practically none—now make such declarations. The de- termination of the republican senators to bring in a tariff reduction bill and take posi- tive action with a view to reduce the surplus and modify excessive tarvift taxation has tended to allay dissatisfaction and convince hesitating republicans that despite MeKin- leyism in the platform the real doctrine of the party is its work in congress, and that it can be depended upon to meet the present exigency inar able and proper manner, The (I Washington (ritic, “Oh, let us have a clean campaign,” ampion, lo party leaders shout; Which sccins to mean that either ono Must clean_the other out. And it will be so. sy STATE AND T IKIl_lTO“\'. Nebraska Jottings. The Columbus State bank has increased its capital to #100,000. Norden’s contribution to the hail suffercrs i that vicinity cousisted of 325 bushels of corn, 25 bushels of oats, 35 bushels of pota- toes aud 3 tons of hay Judge Lewis, of Scotia, has wagered a team of ponics and $50 cash against the team, harness and bus Valentine Gardner that Harrison will be elected. Bartlett is rejoicing over the completion and opening of the new court house which was built by subseription and donuted to the county by enterprising citizens, A rancher in the western part of the statc has a calf with two heads, two tongues and three horns, It was born about two weeks ago and is still alive and doing well. A just complaint arises from ladies of Te- cumsch concerning weeds growing along the Jalks, The moruing dew, scttling the dust into mud, is said to be very detrimental to the beauty and dofeacy of tholr clewn lawns and dainty muslins. Joseph Tubbs, a wiper on a B, & M. swi engine at Plattsmouth, fell from the br Wednesday morning into the water struck his head on several timbers in the fall of twenty-five foot, but did not break any bones and was not seriously injured. A little son of Frank Walker, of Norden, came very near climbing the golden stairs the other day by failing down. He was on a hay rack and slipped between the boards, wiiere he was suspended by the neck for somo time. When found by his father the boy was unconscious, but was restored to life by skillful treatment. The Seventh Day Adventists are making great preparations for their camp meeting, which is to be held at Grand Tsland_Scptem: ber 11 to 19. 1t will not be a local affair, but is desizned for a general convocation of the believers of that faith in Nebraska. The state conference, Tract and Missionary soci- ety, Sabbath School association, Heaith and Temperance “association, etc., all have ses- sions during the time appointed for the continuance of the camp meeting, The sheriff of Thayer county offers $50 re- ward for the arrest of Tom 13. Lamar, who broke jail at Hebron on_the morning of Au- gust 8. Tom is thirty-two years old, 5 feet, 9 inches tall, dark brown eyes, swarthy complexion; had rather heavy dark mus- tache, is nearly bald, hair rathier long. Had ou heavy boots, greyish jean pants which he kept up with a leather belt, grey coat, check- ered shirt; had two hats, one light ‘colored the other black, both'soft, He took with him an old razor and he may have shaved his mustache off. There was a little thunder shower at Sco- tia the other day, and a local paper describes it as follows: “Lightning began to_play athwart the murky sky, and increased in in- tensity until the heavens were literally filled with electricity. Great balls of the fluid passed here and there, and the air was filled with sparks which fell all over Seotin, One could feel the very heat of the thunderbolts as they flashed out. Then came great peals of rolling thunder, which shook the doors and windows of the houses and sent terror 10 the hearts of the_storm-timid, and not a few of these hunted their cellars. Then fol- lowed the rush and roar of a terrific wind, accompanicd by torreuts of rain, which, lit up by the almost constant lightning’s flash, seemed to fall to the scorched and thirsty earth in immense sheets,” Towa. The Sunday schools of Des Moines will hold a convention August 19. The mayor of Dubuque thinks the city's expenses ought to be reduced. Henry county’s old settlers will hold their aunual reunion at Sulem, August 15 O. F. Main, of Marion, accidentally took an overdose of morphine last Satarday night and he is not expeeted to live. He 18 an old man and wanted rest and s| The Burlington Gazette believes on a ques- tion of local option there would be five votes to one, in Des Momes county, in favor of a high license for the lager beer {rafiic, There are nine counties in Towa each hay- ing over 10,000 children of school age. The counties are Clayton, Clinton, DesMoins, Dubuque, Lee, Liun, Polk, Pottawattamie and Scott. The Dubuque Herald has a great big inter- rogation point. “On_ Saturday last, suys the Herald, a well dressea young woman with an_umbrella was seen sianding on the banks of Lako Poosta. She attracted the at- tention of one or two of the employes in_the shops who saw her commence 1o disrobe,sand fua short time she was the obsorved of il observers—every man in the shop was look- ing at her as shé sallied forth into the water —uvude, with the umbrella over her head. She floundered about in the waters for an hour and then came out, dressed herself and dissappered over the sand pile. Dakota. Sioux Falls is moving for a soap factory. Yankton has decreased the dog tax from #2 10 §1 for male canines, and from §5 w0 $2 for females, Miss F. J, Wheat is theonly female banker in the territory, having purchased the Bank of Getrysburg, The slaughter of praire chickens has al- ready beguu, and the helpl young birds are being knocked down with clubs by “sportsmen. An effort is being made to introduce the matrimonial feature at some of the county fairs this fall. The premium is not stated, but it will not be on products, in S, Burge, an prospector, has been d in jail at Rap Ciy He i3 insane and procceded at once to break all the windows in that institution, claiming that he ‘was with Morgan on his raid. He will be sent to the wsylum at Yankton, THE DAY OF THE PRIMARIES. How Connell and Webster Fared at Last Night's Meetings. WHERE TO CAST YOUR VOTES. And Your Attention Called to the Duty of Appearing at the Polling Places to Cast Them — The School Board Combine. The Fourth Ward Mecting. The Fourth ward republican caucus last night was short, sharp and decisive, Hon, W. F. Bechiol was nominated for chairman, Mr. R. W. Breckenridge objected, and nom- inated Mr. D. H. Wheeler, a move that was seconded by Mr. Moses P. O'Brien. Mr. Bechel, howover, was chosen by an over- whelming vote. Messrs, Rrockenrid O'Brien, who represented the int Candidate Webster, withdrow from caucus and watched the further p m the opposite sido of the street. to havea ticket in the field this The following resolution, offered by Fred was adopted unanimous! ftosolved, That tho ropublicans of the Fourth ward in caucus assembled join with the First and Second wards of Omaha in de- claving in favor of Hon. W. J. Connell as gatos from this ward are instructed to use & honorable means to sccurc a solid delegation in his favor to the congressional convention. The cammittee to select delegates and al- ates reported the following, aud their action was ratified without dissca . Millard, F. W, Bec . Moores, Gray, E. R. S, Hall, W, y, . ! R. McCounell. nites —L. S, Reed, Elijah Dunn, Tzschuck, E. Whitehorn, Poter oy, P. H. Green, B. D. Duncan, Gus- tav Anderson., The I h Ward, About forty r ns gathered at the engine house at Sixteenth and Izard strects last night for the puppose of electing dele- frates to the convention. A committee of five was appointed to select the names of the del- and alternates and reported as fol- ates—Henry Bolln, Joseph Redmond, Cheney, “John "Wallace, Joseph Mille B. Bruner, Deunis Keelcher and Joseph Shille Alternates—John A. Smiley, J. W. Phillips, J. M. Counsman, Henry Dunn, Dr. Scott, J. S. Jenkins, Dave Mercer and John McDon- ala. Messrs, Counsman, Mercer and Cheney were selected as the choice of the caucus congressional delegates from the Fifth w 3 When this action had been taken a young man named Knight moved they be instructed to vote for Webster. This brought forth a motion to adjourn, which was lost. Then the question was argued pro and con and finally Knight withdrew his motion, after which the caucus adjourned. The Seventh Ward, The caucus of the Seventh ward republicans was held at the park house and was an ex- citing one. 'The representation was over- whelmingly Connell men, but the Webster faction, with Attorneys Bartlett and Breen as mouthpicces, made a desperate fight, As 8001 as the object of the meeting was stated by Mr. A. L. Wiggins, Messrs, Lee and Breen jumped almost simultancously to their feet. Mr. Lee being the quicker prosented the name of Mr. Charles R. Woolley as chair- man, while Mr. Breen urged that of A. Churchill. Mr. Woolley was chosen by a ity, but the opposition meanwhile vand died hard. ing the Webster men showed their nger over their defea Mr. Lee presented the following resolution, which was adopted. Resolved, By the republicans of lh(‘ Seventh ward, that we Ler v Connell to represent the First congression 1 district of Nebraska in congress, and we hereby instruct our delegates to use all honorable means to procure a united delega- tion in Mr. Conuell's interest to the congres- sional convention, and we also recommend the same action in behalf of Mr. Yost for state treasurer The following delegates and alternates were presented by the committee appointed forthe purpose: Delegates—Paul Vandervoort, D. V. Sholes. Michael Lee, P. J. Quealey, J. E. Watt, C. L. Chaffee, C. R. Woolley, Louis Peterson, Alternates—I. E. Troily J. P. Piper, M. D. Hyde, C. Inskeep, A. L. Wiggins, C. B. Ciancy. Charles C.'Thomas, M. D. Peterson, Mr. Breen moved to amend by substituting the names of Mr, Vandervoort, Churchill, Willlam Farr, Ed Sartlett, Inskeep, Charles Dotler and Dan Shull, but got no second. The report of the committee was adopted. The Ninth Ward. The committee appointod at the last meet- ing of the Ninth ward republicans, to report a primary ticket, submitted the following: Delogates—M. S. Lindsay, Charles Unitt, H. L. Scward, Charles J. Johnson, F. M. Eilis, G. F. Brown, D. L. McGuckin, Charles Djurecn. ‘Alternatos—R. S. Ervin, Hugh McCaffery, W. J. Kierstead, William H. Lurimer, Henry Beckert, C. J. Ryan, J. C. Carr, C. P. Necd- ham. The tickot is a mixed one, comprising both Connell and Webster men. Robert Livescy said it was n cut and primed affair and_another ticket would be put up against it to-day “Yos, and \\'elllwlp 10 elect it, too,” said a couple of yoic “The ticket was finally elected but only a few votes in the majority. Judge Brown introduced a_ resolution in- strueting the delegates to s 't men to the state _convention who would support C. E. Yost for state treasurel The Sixth Ward. The republican club of the Sixth ward selected the following ticket at its meeting last night: Delegates—J. H. McCulloch, M. D. Houck, ¥. Hawblin, W. A. Messick, W, A. Grant, Louis Littlefield, P, Bell, T, C. Smith, Alternates—B. P, Leggett, H. J. Miller, Thomas Golden, W. G. Henshaw, A. Cornish, R. P. Hammond, P. Straight, P K. Branch, ‘The following is an opposition ticket which will also make its appearance at the polls Charles John McCoy, Frank Kammer, 6o Rowles, M. Patrick, Sandy Knight and Joe The Third Ward nnell vicket in the Third ward is as The follows: M. O. Ricketts, Charles Branch, Lee Hels. ‘Walter Bennett, Seth Cole, J. Hubbard, nk Bellamy and John Campbell, South Omaha. At the caucus last night the following ticket was selected : Delegates—Dr, J, Glasgow, Fred M. Smith, C. 0. Mayfield, L. Carpenter, C. F. Elliott, Joe Bohner, Jerry Howard and D, K. Wells. YOU SHOULD GO, The importance of the primaries to-day is great. Bvery eloctor should vote. The result to-day will determine the selection of thirty-seven delogates to the state conven tion, at which all state officers will be nom- inated, together with five presidential elect- ors. ‘The primaries willj also settle the mat- ter of the selection of thirty-seven delegates to the congressional convention which nom- inates a candidate for congress in the First district Don't lnrun the prlmurlc. THE l'l!lM\Rllu& The Deep Interest Mnllllo.lud—whel‘e to go and Vote. Yesterday was a busy one with the con- gressional aspirants. Each of them has been working studiously in the doubtful wards, leaving the othegs to the care of trusted frieuds. Mr., Webster has been in the out- side precincts, vhile Connell has confined himself mainly to interior points, There seews o be uo doubt that Counell bas se- cured the- greater number of the caucuscs. This fact_is conceded evon by Wobstor's friends, Nevertheless, it is very dificult to determine which wards may tutn to the sup port of Wobster. 1t is stated thit he is strongly supported in the Fifth and Ninth, and some people think he will good fight in . the onrth wupporters say that Connell will ne cgate in the third. -'This is pa owing to the fact that there has been united opposition to him in that part of the v, mainly occasioned by the leadership of Miko Maul. Yesterday —however, Con mbled in Loo Frost's room ates which the to-day at the polls. The wiil be fought in the Third, Tho republican primaries for Douglas county will be held at the follow- ing places: First Ward—Southoast cornor h a Tis will SUPPOTt. battle of the da, oventh ank Kasper's hall. Third Ward—Twel{th stroct and Capitol avenue, irth Ward County court house, “ifth Ward ngine house, Sixteenth and Tanad streets, Sixth - Ward—Twenty sixth and Lake streets, Seventh \\ & Nichols' barn, 103 Cuming street. ~Twenty niuth and Farnam inth (Johnson's store). W xlrd South house. Valley Precinct—School house. net—Harry Thomas rnet—City hall of —School house, uct—G. Johnson's oMce. rt—School house, Omaha—Old First ward school Waterloo Pre rdle Pre . I Chi . A Elkhorn Cit as Precinct ~School house, West Omaha—De Witt Reado's residenco, The polls will bo open in Omaha and ()umlm from noon until ¥ o'clock in the g¢. In the county precinct n between the ' hours of 6 ceveniug, At these primarics each Omaha shall elect eight delogates to the county convention, which is to be held on ay |\ xt in_ the council chamber, A will also bo entitled to eight dolegates. — All other precincts. in the county shall be entitied to three de ‘I'his couvention shall e delegates to the state convention, which meets in Lincoln August ¢ dele th ic in September 20, [ person who sh qualified voter at_the national Novomber, and who shall declare his inten- tion of voting the publican ticket at that election shall be eligible to voto at these pri- maries. Nolte's office, iz YOU SHOULD GO. The importance of the primaries to-day is great. Every eloctor should vote. o result fto-day will determine the sclection of thirty-seven delegates to thestate conven- tion, at which all state oficers will be nom- inated, together with five presidential elect- ors. The primaries will also settlo the mat- ter of the selection of thirty-seven delegates to the congressional convention which nom- mates a candidate for congress in the First district. Don’t forget the primaries. ANOTHER COMBINE, chemes of Certain Members of the School Board. For some time past there has not been harmeny in the board of education. The handful of members who sought tho place ©s a means of preferment are con- tinually scheming to work some political favorite into a contract or position. Ouly a few weeks since the secretary of the board rtised for bids to furnish single desks ool rooms that will soon be com- nts for the manufacturers led with bids and sample rivalry was between two cer fain Kinds of dosks, the agont of one of which was a gifted talker, and soon obtained promises of support in behalf of his desk m_some members of the hoard. The uof making:a choice r in an arnest_squabble, and the deluy of several days effected no ge. At two or three mectings the evenings were very warm and the attendance small, and neithor party car- ried his point. The’ time had come when somothing decisive must be effected, or the desks —nearly three thousand—could not be ordered and ‘shipped in time to be placed in the rooms at the beginning of the scholastic yen one of those whose support the talkative agent obtained had ever given attention to the requisites of an approved desk. But they could vote, and made a stubborn stand in favor of purchasing desks that had never been tried in the school-rooms of the city. Most of the members of old board,the super- intendent of school buildings, his foreman, all of the jauitors who saw the desk, and some of the teachers, favored the desk that had been used iu several of the schools, and proved to be good, and in the construction of which the most healthy attitude of the pupil, when seated and at study, is maintained! This favorite and tried desk 18 a little less expensive, and 1ts mechanism superior to the other, But no argument would avail anything as against the new and ioferior desk with the close combination. They called to their help one Marrow, a man who is in the employ of the board as a plasterer, and whose knowl- edge of the points of a good desk is equiva- lent to naught. W. A. Kelly summoned Marrow from the work he was hired to do, and set him at doing the bidding of the little end of the board of education, and intensify- ing the disagreement among the members of the board as to the merits of the desks of the competing manufacturers. At the end ot July,Marrow presented a bill to the board for alleged service as pla Tu this bill he had charged the of education with twenty-four work at §.00 per day, and for a boy g The charges were for 2d lauling, about §10, making 1 the to! The superintendent refused to m'u*| bill as correct, and sent it to the commitiee on claims with the following note appended, in substanc Tothe committee on claims: Accompan ing this claim is the bill of Williamn Marrow. Heas the man who does the patching of plastering in the school buildings and makes out Potter blackboards on the all not O, K. this bill, except directed n,\ you to do so, for the reasons given below {He informs me the per_diem he charges u.{nu was itemized by the board long sinc T notice he charges for twenty- days work during the month; but I am nearly sure he worked nine hours any and parts of days he h board at all. Aud 1 am that the same amount of work for ) can be perfo which he 1for f that sum.” ow ineluded in s bill the time he was acting a8 Kelley’s mouthpiece in trying to get the model desk on the market. His game wouldn't work, howey the bill cut down to cover the time Marrow put in as plaster and tual YOu il"l)lfl.ll GO, The importance of the primaries to-day is great, Eve elector should vote. The result to-day will determine the selection of thirty-seven delegates to the state conven- tion, at which all state officers will be nom- inated, togetner with five presidential elect ors. The primaries will also settle the mat- ter of the election of thirty-seven delegates to the congressional convention which nom- inates a candidate for congress in the First district. Don't forget the primaries, THEY MUST HAVE WATER. The Court Orders the Water Works Company to Supply Fort Omaha. An application has been fited in the United States court on behalf of the United States against the American Waterworks company, asking that its oficers he enjoined from de- stroying the water connection at Fort Owalia with the water main running in front of the fort. The connection was made with the main in 1883 to supply the water for the fort, aud at that time all the wells and cisterns were abandoned, or virtually so. The amount used was about 20,000 gallons per day and this was supplied under a contract. The 10th of last July the waterworks company ordered that the forts conuectious b the “main .bo. broken and that connécting pipes. -bo: . taken up, ‘This order was obeyed as to the breaking of the connections and the Femoving of purt of the pipe when the above cited application was filed oo t. 'Iho’ court ruled that, under the proscnt ‘ordinunge in ard to conngetions with the maing wlong the public str , the waterwiprks con; Dipes through the. grounds at‘Fort Omaha to bo | connectod with the main in the street in { nd that the officers of thia ed to re forence with the mak- train from aby inte of the connection of the pipes in and bout Fort Omaha with the main in the stroot and that the water supply for the fort \ bo drawn from the pipos connecting \\l h the main pipe o pany at that point The transeript from the district filed in the case of Charles Rogers the American waterworks which the plaintiff sues for £5.000 du on account of injuries sustained whil inge in a trench at the corner of Pic Eighteenth streots, Judee Dundy banded down his d the petition for a relicaring in t Peckacainst Butler county and Col the same defendant, Thosuit was to ¢ m the county on bonds they issued r the building of the Lincoln & The case was heard last term the waterworks com- court was inst bonds v S0 Was areue according to ng the e petition to re-open the o in chance and Dundy’s opinion was Wais concurred in- by Judigment is made absolut ‘froni the cou THE DEAD ACTORR, Remains of Willlam Davidge Pass Through Omaha. The body of William Davidge, the actor who died so suddenly at Cheyenne on Tues day last while en route for Francisco, passed through thecity Wednesday afternoon on the B. & M. en route for Brooklyn, where they will bo interred. Davidge's death, ac The rding to tho best ac- counts, was a result of a cossation of the heart's functions, caused by ove lation on accouut of the altitude, P mise, not exceeding the space of thirty min utes, hie had been telling stories and 8ingi songs, When stricken with death in his berth, his companions carried him to the smoking room whore, after gasping a few moments, he exclaimed “Great God, am 1 #0ing o dio wway out in this 7 Gen orul A of the Burlington, sent for o physician, but he had hardly closed the door on the messenger when U.l\lwlpl gasped out, “God blesss us all,” and ex- pired.. Mr. Davidge was in his seventy-fifth year and was onc of the most noted in the prof sion, ~ Ho has been connected with Palmor Madison Square company and two yoars azo played the part of the sot in * an alphabetical record, Thoy ombrace ovory dogree of comody char: chey. Scutchey, a fine-looking man of bly thi ears of age, diea at St. Joseph’s hospital, and his_embalmed body now lies in Drexe | & Maul's establishment awaiting shipment to Liverpool, Eng. From papers found in his posscssion’ it is evident that he was o man of good position, Among the paners was an_affectionato letter from his brothe : hant in Lower Jamies street, Golden Square, London, enclosing u postal order for £50, tolling hinj to take the trip home by easy stages, and that he would be met at ool Drexel ablogran of cived instructions to forward the body, which will be done at once. e POLITICAL POINTS, Two of Mr. Blaine's sons—Walker and James G., jr.—will take ‘the stump for pro. tection early in the fall. Mrs, J. Ellen Foster, who_wrote the tem- peranco resolubion wdopted at the repub- lican convention, will take the stump for the party during tie campaizn. General #isk will make no prohibition speeches in Kentucky during the campaign, that state being hopelessly give overto politi- cal and spiritual bourbonism, Mayor Pitler's Jittle bobm in_the Chicago convention is said to have cost that umbitious gentleman 810,00, spent in sending forward everal carloads of shouters from the Quuker city, who scem never to have arrived. Mr. C, H. J. Taylor, the colored represent- ative of the administration at the recent Indianapolis convention, carrics cards con- taining this modest announcoment: H. J. Taylor, member of the United State: supreme court. Late United States ministe to Liberia.” Mr. J. F. J. Tresch will soon start in New York a republican paper i the interest of deaf mutes. Itis estimated that there aro 44,000 deaf mute voters in this_ country, and it is on record that 31,000 deaf mutes voted for Blaine and Logan. The paper will be called the National Deaf-Muto Advocate. In the log-cabin and hard-cider campaign of the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, eight Hazen brothers formed o brass band and blew their way through this state, and helped elect old Tippecanoe, The eight are all alive yet, their ages ranging from 60 to 80. They live in Wisconsin, and they propose whooping it up for the gratdson of his grand- father. Chairman F. M. Clark, of thestate central committee of the American labor part Colorado, has resigned becanse he d think the modern know-nothing organization has even a fighting chance. “I shall devote my encrgies and give my undivided support and labor to assist the election to the ofiico of president of the United States that genu ine representative of true American prinei ples, Benjamin Harrison of Ilinoi says. THE REALTY ]\l.-\lll(l"l‘. Instruments Placed on Record Dur- ing Yesterday, 8 Lursen to A M Pheips, lot 5 Wohler's $ 300 -u.nm and wife to ¢ W Hays, 30, Plainview, w d 600 N A Kubn, trastee, o A'Tinis, i0t5 i and 18, DIk § S 2, D, Croigh- ton heights, w A 2,200 N A Kulin, ¢ L MeCoy, 1o DIk 8; i relghton Helghts wd 1,100 N A Kubn, trastee, to 1L Metoy, Tot & Dk B, Credghton Helghts, wd. .. 500 Joliu 1k to ) T Dilion, part 1 c 151514 €, W' . 3,000 v, 1ot 10, ) 1ot i, Bik 2,600 Sse 08 yion, 10ty 1, 14 and 3,00 i, s ndd, w 1,400 u Closter to A It Rilvy, 1ot 4, Vik Yiahscom place, w d 6,000 D L' Thomas and wife to 15" Cannon, 16ty 11 and 12, Mayne's add to Orchard ' Hill, W d 2,000 uic M A wife to 1‘ iund, Tot 6, ik rand View, w % W Griftith, e Neuman, i 16, ik 5, Baker place, wd. . 250 2 8 Tood and wite to I Neuman, Tot 2 Dlk 6, and lot 2, bIk 11, Albright's ans wa =0 88 Price 1o Wl Thonias, 1ot 16, bl 6, Potier & Cobbs add to South Omuha, wd.. 0 Seventeen transfer 25,058 aggrogating Building Permits. The following permits to build sued yesterday Spencer Otls, two-story residence, Twen- ty-first and Spencer, Borun C. Johason, cotfage, Sixt Canton, D. . Bai W Farn Mutuial Investn; company, cottage, Lowe, near Davenport, b, A.'W. Edminston, t were s 4,600 600 0 ry frame realden 80D, § Jm- ¥ uhm, lmmu\umnnln. k welfik, Gear Pierce. seesnessene Seven permits, aggregatin Van Etten's Last Hope. David Van Etten, the attornoy who w: sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for embezzloment, has completed his brief for the prescntation of his case to the supreme court, and submitted it to County Attorney Simeral. The brief 1s quite lengthy and is rich in venom heaped upou the county at ney, in which he cheekily chargos him with having suppressed the picadings in the case, and cven bribing witnesses as well as other irregularities in the trial, The briel will te sent Lo Lhe sUpIeme SoUrl Luxl wevk, o~